I saw a comparison of the S9 and S10e the S10e is smaller. The S10e was put on top of the S9. They both have the same screen size, but the S10e has considerably less bezel so it saves a bit on height.
The folding phone seems ridiculous to me.
Why would anyone want to use the phone in folded mode, where half the screen is bezel.
You can get a 1000 dollar phone and an IPAD pro for that price if you really wanted to go all out. If you want to go budget you can get an Amazon tablet.
It's not like Samsung is known for their tablets. Android tablets are a dime a dozen and don't operate that great. With that said my 30 dollar Kindle Fire tablet 7 inch does everything I need it to do.
When I saw the guy sitting down present the folding phone he looked so nervous, his hands were shaking. Because of that I could only focus on how tall the phone is. and how much of the front the screen was actually using.
While you can fit it in your pocket it is probably taller than a Note.
I don't believe the actual dimensions of the product were released.
I disabled it a long time ago, so nothing happens when I press the button. With three buttons on the left side of the phone though, I always press the wrong button when trying to turn volume up or down. It's a minor annoyance, but just so unnecessary. Bixby is awful.
The case on my phone probably makes it worse, but these things are impossibly fragile without the case. I had went a week without a case when I first got the phone, but a couple days later, I noticed the glass on the back had cracked. I never even dropped the phone: no idea when it cracked. Having a glass back to the phone is another dumb design decision. Did they fix that with the S10?
I don't like bulky cases (or any case, really). But I also don't like a broken glass back. I got a carbon fiber dbrand skin for my S8, and will do the same for whatever I get next (https://dbrand.com/samsung-galaxy-skins).
PP, the Pixel 3 might be a good size for you. It's a little more narrow than the OnePlus phones I've had in recent years.
I think the s10e might be smaller. I have an S8 and my wife used to have an S7 before she got an S9. The S7 is roughly the same size as the S8. The S10e is considerably smaller than the S8/S9.
I'm not sure if I'd call the S10e considerably smaller than the 8/9. It's slightly wider and only 0.2 inches shorter. To me none of this size differences seem to be big enough that they are deal breakers when choosing one over the other. I'd make the decision based on the specs I wanted.
Your right, thanks for the dimensions. Those are very helpful.
I didn't realize the s9 is taller than the s8. I will need to take a look at that. You probably can't actually tell the difference.
Yes, I really liked the size of the Pixel 3. If it had a phone jack, I would probably have bought it, despite my current phone being fairly new and working perfectly well.
The Moto X4 is a little larger than I like, and doesn't do wireless charging, and has a worse screen and a worse camera than my last phone (the Blackberry Priv) but it does everything well enough, and the battery life is terrific. I still miss the Priv, and I would still be using it if I'd been able to find a new battery to install. grumble grumble planned obsolescence grumble grumble. But I do like some of the features of Android v9.
I have a Samsung S3 9.7" tablet (was about £800 so $1,100) and the screen resolution and battery life are way better than an Ipad.


I've been home from work roughly eight months now and I am still struggling with this not-so-new role of stay-at-home mom. My son is back to school five mornings a week, which is good for all of us, but something doesn't feel right. I'm excited about taking a few mommy-and-me classes with my daughter since I never had the chance to spend much one-on-one time with her as I did with my infant son, but I still don't really identify with the other women who are full-time mommies.
They seem to thrive in their roles, ever-organized and prepared. I feel frazzled and discombobulated most days. Getting showered, cooking and tidying up the house have always been easy to do with kids, but extending myself beyond the four walls of my world just doesn't seem to happen. I didn't volunteer to bake or shop for my son's school Halloween party. I rarely have time to buy small gifts for my good friends' kids when we are going to be seeing them even though they've done so for my kids. Even this weekend, I waited till the last-minute to buy snacks for our guests and when I finally got around to doing so, my son insisted on joining me and only allowed me to go to the nearby Stop and Shop. Yes, some how I have allowed my life to be dictated by an almost-four-year old.
And being home is isolating. I don't arrange many playdates because of my son's current phase. Basically, he is fine telling children that he doesn't like them, doesn't want them to come to our house ever again, and has gone as far as to push or grab them. While most moms have been in similar positions, and the moms who have witnessed my son's behavior have been more than patient and understanding, I don't like it. It makes me uncomfortable and makes me feel like this is just one more area in which I've failed at being a mom.
My husband has told me I need to be less hard on myself when it comes to doing things in the home and for the kids. A therapist also noted that I have extremely high expectations of myself when it comes to being a mom. Over the past year I'd started practicing yoga again and find it particularly useful for breath work as well as focus. Yet, even when I take a yoga class at the town YMCA and use the Tot Drop for my daughter or son, I feel guilty. The time I am giving myself, I am taking from my children.
In the past five years I have got married, moved out of New York City and into the suburbs, have had two children and quit my job. All of that change is enough to make anyone lose their minds as well as sense of self.
Today I've given myself permission to sit and write while my daughter naps and my son is still at school for another 15 minutes. I will do the laundry tomorrow and cook dinner later. The toys aren't picked up. Instead, I took a step toward putting "me" into who I am today: a mom.


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What Every Movie Lover Should Know About the Latest Movies in Theaters by Alfred Mears
What Every Movie Lover Should Know About the Latest Movies in Theaters
If you consider yourself a movie lover, movie buff, or movie aficionado (maybe a combination of all three), you probably know quite a bit more about movies than the casual fan. That said, when it comes to the latest movies in theaters, even the most movie-centric person might need a little help knowing what's waiting for them in their local theater.
Then again, maybe not. Over the years, technology has been developed so that if you're good with the internet, you can find nearly all of the information you could ever want about new movies set to be coming to a theater near you. Moreover, with the rapid development of mobile technology & applications, film nerds the world over can actually have movie info sent right to their phone or mobile device at any point. That's wild, right? There's room for enough custom settings and personalization that a consumer can get the skinny on the info they need to set-up a night out on the town without having to do much except put in their phone's security code.
But we're talking super movie lovers who need to really be on the cusp of it all. What about movie lovers that just love movies and want to know what's going on in their local theater? What can they expect? Are they going to be pleasantly surprised or kind of disappointed? As it turns out, today's current movie offerings are a pretty good reflection of society.
Here's a basic breakdown regarding the latest movies in theaters:
Empowering — Current movies are taking characters from the fringes and giving them more power. Whether it's otherworldly power or just more confidence, the protagonists are standing on their own two feet with a sense of confidence that may not have been there before.
Humor — A bit of a laugh finds its way into just about every movie showing right now. Whether the comedy is dark or lighthearted, the idea of humor is bring a sense of humanity when it sometimes feels as though there's none to be had.
Belief in Yourself — Whether you have a problem with the idea that everyone loves themselves a bit more than in the past, more characters are taking charge and seeing that they have more to offer than meets the eye. Sure, it can be a little cheesy at times, but it does strike a chord.
All Ages Represented — There's a movie for everyone, and that's something that you were hard-pressed to find in years past. Adults and kiddos alike all have something they can watch. Moreover, there's a lot more that they can both enjoy, and who doesn't like a fun family night once in a while?
The latest movies in theaters tend to say a lot about the world around us. Then again, this isn't too surprising as this has usually been the case. Movies and other artistic expressions are usually a product of their time, so it's no surprise to see more inclusivity, acceptance, tolerance, and introspection in the current crop of celluloid. It sort of makes you wonder what tomorrow's movies might say about society, but one can only hope it's complimentary.
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No, we're not trying to make your apartment look like the Starship Enterprise (although that'd be pretty cool). Placing mirrors, metallic objects and home decor throughout your apartment for rent will reflect the light in the room. This not only illuminates the space, but it also gives the illusion of a larger room.
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Party or no party, the Finger Food app rules. Choose from soups, salads, appetizers, main courses, side lines (gotta love the name), and desserts. Once you click on a meal, get 10 to 20 delicious recipes with easy to follow directions for each. And these aren't just any recipes either. The meals range from basic to exotic with dishes.
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My Cocktail Bar has your back when it comes to serving your guests a summery cocktail that will get them into the party mood, all you have to do is tell the app what alcohol and mixers you have available and it will show you a list of all the possible cocktails you could make with a step-by-step guide for each one. This is perfect for parties as you can add all the different drinks that your guests bring and have fun sampling different cocktails and combinations. You can also save lists of your favorite cocktails ready to show guests the different options available when they arrive.


Plants are having a moment right now. In my neighborhood in Northwest DC, it may be harder to find a millennial apartment without a snake plant than someone with a car who can help you drive out to the suburbs to pick one up. But come this Saturday, heading out of town will be a little less necessary. Joining leafy stalwarts such as Logan Hardware and Little Leaf is plant studio Rewild, which plans to add a hands-on dimension to the traditional flower shop experience.
The founders of Rewild include Joseph Ressler, a professional poker player and current MBA student at Georgetown, Kyle Cannon, a professional daily fantasy sports bettor, Melissa Drew, a master gardener, and Lily Cox, a partner at the much-beloved Lemon Collective, an artist workshop and collaborative space in Columbia Heights.
So what exactly does an "experiential plant shop" entail? The 900-square foot storefront, which is located at the Shay (the entrance is actually on Ninth Street, next to Warby Parker), will feature a garden's worth of plant-related workshops, including a build-your-own terrarium bar. You'll also have the opportunity to pick out and pot your plants in-store, as well as to make bouquets. Of course, all of these elements are optional: Cox insists shopkeepers will be on-hand to assist, instruct, or create the goods. There will be no pressure for customers to make anything themselves.
And yes, you'll still be able to just buy houseplants.
A sneak peek of the store under construction. Photography by Hayley Garrison Phillips.
Cox was involved in the store's branding, coordination, and design, as well as developing a roster of plant-related events and activities. It was ultimately the building's roomy new space and abundant natural light—not to mention constant pedestrian traffic—that sold them on the Shay, despite its rocky retail history.
Cox was already in the plant game with her freelance company, A Strange Flower, which offered plant styling services to the DMV area. One project of hers included a huge plant installation at recently opened Gravitas restaurant in Ivy City, which required her to spend hours gluing moss onto the walls.
Rewild opens Saturday. Regular business hours are still TBD (they may run as late as 10 PM). The storefront, a saturated palette of terra-cotta oranges accented by deep greens and blues, was developed in collaboration with Composite Co., which did the space's branding. Other local companies were involved, too, including sculpture artist and fabricator Jordan Sanders, who made the the stunning live-edge worktable that serves as the store's centerpiece. Lemon Collective co-founder Linny Giffin will also showcase several large-scale weaving pieces on the walls. One of the main draws of the space is the workshops it offers, with tutorials for making everything from kokedama to mounted staghorns, macrame plant holders, flower crowns, and even minimalist wreaths during the coming holidays. Rewild will also sell candles, beauty products, and some stationery, and plans to stock crystals and books. Needless to say, it's all going to be very Instagrammable.
Rewild; 1924 8th St NW Suite #100; rewilddc.com; 202-981-6552. Current store hours: Monday to Friday, 10 AM-7 PM; Saturday, 11 AM-7 PM; Sunday, 11 AM-5 PM.


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Coronavirus: UK dropped WHO guidance on alcohol-based hand sanitisers before lockdown
Alcohol-free sanitisers used in some of England's schools could take up to six times as long to kill the virus.
By Gerard Tubb, news correspondent
Wednesday 26 August 2020 20:36, UK
Image: The WHO says hand sanitisers should contain at least 60% alcohol
Official advice on what hand sanitiser to use against coronavirus was watered down by the government 10 days before lockdown and no longer matches World Health Organisation (WHO) standards.
WHO says hand sanitiser should contain at least 60% alcohol to be effective against COVID-19 and has published tests showing it takes 20 to 30 seconds to kill the virus on hands.
A Sky News investigation has found hundreds of thousands of bottles of alcohol-free hand sanitiser, which take up to two minutes to kill coronavirus, are being used in schools, homes and businesses.
Image: Alcohol-free hand sanitiser is made by several UK companies
The alcohol-free products are manufactured to European and British standard BS EN 14476, which certifies hand sanitiser as effective against coronavirus if it kills a certain proportion of a similar virus after being mixed with it in a test tube, but is not tested on anyone's hands.
At the start of the pandemic UK government advice followed the WHO guidance, stating: "Use an alcohol-based hand sanitiser that contains at least 60% alcohol if soap and water are not available."
But on 13 March that advice was quietly withdrawn, nine days after Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he was "making sure the public knows exactly what they should be doing to keep themselves and others safe".
Since then, advice from Mr Hancock's department and Public Health England has made no mention of what hand sanitiser should contain.
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Dr Katie Maddock, head of Keele University's School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering, said the government should not have withdrawn its initial advice.
"I think it is very confusing for people," she said.
"I think if we just choose a track and stick to it, and the alcohol has got the evidence base, that's where we should be."
Professor Sally Bloomfield, Chair of the International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene, an industry-funded NGO, agreed.
"I think we should be sticking to [alcohol hand sanitisers] that have been tested over the years under use conditions and been shown to be effective," she said.
"I don't see why we should be prepared to settle for something which has not been tested under use conditions, and I think that is a failing."
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Professor Bloomfield said it was not realistic to expect people to keep wet sanitiser on their hands for two minutes.
"If you're going into a supermarket you want to make sure your hands are free of any viruses.
"You don't want to stand outside that supermarket for two minutes waiting for that product to work."
Confusion about hand sanitisers being sold in the UK left Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, inadvertently using a product that does not meet her own government's requirements.
In a photo opportunity at a West Lothian school to persuade parents it was safe for children to return to school, she was twice filmed using alcohol-free hand sanitiser.
Unlike Westminster, the Scottish government says it has kept to the WHO guidance, and its schools should have "hand washing facilities that are adequately stocked or have alcohol-based hand rub at key areas".
Alcohol-free hand sanitiser is made by several UK companies, including Cleenol in Oxfordshire, which is producing 75,000 litres every month for sale to schools, businesses and wholesalers.
The company's 'Senses' hand sanitiser passed a BS EN 14476 test that shows it takes two minutes to kill coronavirus.
Managing director Sam Greaves told Sky News: "We have tried to follow as much of the regulations that are available to us, the British standard that we follow, we provided the schools with the relevant information.
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Is the Old Testament based on Bronze-Age myths?
Lately I have been reading a lot about the origins biblical stories, and I have noticed that a lot of people mock the bible and the christians by telling them that they follow bronze age myths/beliefs.
It is a melange of Bronze Age ravings
(My first google result)
My question is, are Old Testament stories actually bronze age myths?
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Welcome to Skeptics! According to the FAQ, Skeptics.SE is for researching the evidence behind the claims you hear or read. This question doesn't appear to have any doubtful claims to investigate. Please edit it to reference a notable claim and flag for moderator attention to re-open (or get 5 re-open votes). – Sklivvz♦ Jun 11 '12 at 0:33
I know Larian refers to the bible as a bronze age myth all the time. Well, the old testament part at least. I would be interested in knowing more about the origins of the bible. – JasonR Jun 11 '12 at 11:17
Just to add to Larian's answer, it's also farily clear that several of the stories, notably Genesis, are at least partly based on earlier mythology like Babylonian and Sumerian, and are demonstrably "evolved" from those. So, essentially, based on early Bronze age, modified in late Bronze age, written in Iron age. Also, the versions of 1st Testament that most people are used to was translated from the Jewish books sometime between the 1400s and the 1700s. – user10432 Nov 25 '12 at 6:01
Well, yes and no.
No: According to the Quartz Hill School of Theology (I will give leeway to the obvious bias in the site, however the dates seem to align with other scholarly sites in my emphasis):
Though some scholars would claim a composite authorship for these books starting around 950 BC with them reaching their final form during the time of Ezra around 500 BC, I would take a more conservative position and argue for a unitary authorship within fifty years of the Exodus (which would date from either around 1290 BC or 1440 BC; that is another whole area of controversy), with much of the material coming from Moses himself
Ignoring the whole problem of there being no evidence for the exodus story, we can say that given a range of anywhere from 950BCE to 500BCE actually places the writing of the stories in the Iron Age.
However: These are the dates of the stories being written down! That means that the timing of these stories is such that they are a supposed narrative of events that took place as the author of the theological site claims, in the 1290BCE to 1440BCE time-frame. That actually places it in the Bronze Age. Now that is generally accepted as the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Joshua is another ancient story, and as the theological site claims:
The book would thus date to either the 15th or 13th century BC, depending, again, upon exactly when the Exodus from Egypt occured (sic).
Again, ignoring the problem of the historicalness of the exodus... it is squarely in the Bronze Age.
If you don't want to accept what theologians who accept the default position of the bible as the ground truth, this page from the University of Minnesota gives the following dates for supposed authorship (again, note that this is when the books were authored, not the time-frame of the sorties they are telling):
B.C.E. Old Testament
c. 2166 to c. 1876 Job
c. 1446 to c. 1406 Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
c. 1406 to c. 1050 Joshua, Judges
With the remaining books being written later and later in history. Again, you see that some were written in the bronze age, while others were written in the iron age. Of course, the time-line of the events are somewhat argued, but for the sake of simplicity, we can go with Usher's time-line which places everything up to Exodus in the Bronze Age:
Ussher's chronology provides the following dates for key events in the Biblical history of the world:
4004 BC - Creation
2349-2348 BC - Noah's Flood
1921 BC - God's call to Abraham
1491 BC - The Exodus from Egypt
1012 BC - Founding of the Temple in Jerusalem
588 BC - Destruction of Jerusalem by Babylon and the beginning of the Babylonian Captivity
4 BC - Birth of Jesus
So, while the writing of the stories may not be bronze age, I think it is still a fair characterization based on when the events are alleged to have taken place.
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I suppose that would make your answer related to this question: skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/3529/… – JasonR Jun 12 '12 at 11:59
I think it is interesting that you are basically saying that they are/aren't bronze age myths because they are/aren't from the bronze age, not because they aren't myths, when I suspect that the OP was asking more about the "myth" part of the claim – Kevin Wells Oct 18 '16 at 18:28
@KevinWells the answer got accepted. But I agree, it's hard to tell if the question is focusing on the "Bronze Age" part or the "Myth" part. Although, one could argue that it is intuitively obvious to the most casual observer that they are myths, and the characterization of them being bronze aged was in question. – JasonR Oct 18 '16 at 19:25
@JasonR I agree with you, though I bet there are more people in the world that would debate the myth part than the bronze age part. No one is offended when someone tells them that a story they believe from a specific period in history, but a lot of people are offended when you tell them that a story they believe in is a fantastical legend. Even if it seems "intuitively obvious" to you and me, that doesn't mean that people who grew up with it being taught as the absolute truth will see it that way – Kevin Wells Oct 18 '16 at 20:27
@JasonR Weird, I guess I don't see why people would be offended by the factual claim that an idea came from a specific period in history. It is really no different than if I said that Plato's ideas were Hellenistic, or that Bach's sonata's are Baroque. Those are just true facts – Kevin Wells Oct 19 '16 at 16:18
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Road Trip! I was originally convinced that the Gadget Station would call for knife hinges. But just for fun I decided to take a trip to my local Woodcraft to see what they might suggest. Well, surprise surprise! I discovered a hinge that I had never noticed before. The Soss Invisible Hinge. I actually like this hinge better and I think it will suit this application perfectly. I hope you enjoy this little review of common hinges with our friend, Frank Galloway, at the Chandler, AZ Woodcraft Store.
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Wow The inside of your woodcraft looks just like the one near me. Even down to the shirt worn by the owner. Funny how franchise branding goes all the way to the panelling on the walls. Nice job as always Marc. It would have been great if you could have gotten Lexi to growl at the camera too.
Hello – another good episode! I think there's a lot of value there in comparing hinges for a variety of projects.
I've used the Soss Invisible Hinges before, and agree that they're a good choice. They were very easy to install, but if your holes are even a tiny bit off (or a tiny bit non-perpendicular to the surface) it's very hard to make fine adjustments. I like Frank's idea of a jig – I just relied on accurate measurements while installing mine. At least with the small sized invisible hinges I used, there's a tiny bit of slop in the mechanism – i.e. you can wiggle the door up and down just a bit if you try. It doesn't feel sloppy in use, but it's something to be aware of – yet another recommendation for mock-ups and test pieces!
Also, I'd just like to highlight your mention of a magnetic catch. That's my only regret on the project I made with these hinges – the door doesn't quite stay closed all the time. It only hangs open by a quarter inch or less, and only some of the time, but it's just enough to bug me. I guess I could still add a magnetic or ball/bullet catch, but I just haven't gotten a round tuit, and that cabinet is now in use at my parent's house. So good idea to work the catch in during initial construction/installation!
Wow…I knew about SOSS hinges and you didn't!
SOSS hinges are great. I purchased some from Hafele for my Cooper closet project. At 4 1/4″ long, they were like SOSS hinges on steroids. I think the weight rating was about 130lbs. for 3 hinges. I used 4 over an 8′ high door that weighed 113lbs.
They had a full 1mm range of adjustment for up-down, left-right, and in-out. With shipping they came to $40 each.
Hi Marc thanks again for another entertaining and informative episode, i keep coming back to your site looking for more :)!, im just wondering using those types of hinges and the way youre going to fix the doors to the frame, inset door, are the doors going to be able to open wider then 90 degs?
And thanks TJ. As for the door opening more than 90 degrees, you are right. Most likely they will not. But I don't know if that's really a necessary feature anyway. Its a pretty small cabinet and small things will go in it, so I don't anticipate that being a problem. But good catch!
Even though in this project you want to conceal the hinge on some projects the hinge is an important part of the overall look. I made a secretary with antique brass hinges on the dropdown door and they really pop when looking at it. Without them the entire piece would change.
Good choice using the soss hindes. Lets get this project done.
lol you trying to rush me Ed?
Go with your first instinct: real (crafts)men use those Brusso knife hinges. They send the girlieman sissies running away in fear. ;) Yea, they dictate you use a 1/32″ gap around the door, so each door must be finely custom-fit in its openning, but the elegant look is worth it.
Personally, I think the Soss hingees are too heavy-duty looking for doors that size.
— You can afford to be a bit sloppy with the mortise on the bottom of the door, since it can't be seen (or only the part that cuts through the front to make room for the offset is seen). So do that one last, and put all of your adjustability there.
— You can use brass shim stock if the mortises are cut a ilttle too deep, and the doors rattle a bit vertically.
— Throw away the brass wood screws and use #5-40 brass flathead machine screws in tapped holes instead. Since you many need to take the hinges on and off several times for trial fitting, this makes it easy to do.
lol. Well put me in a dress and call me Shirley, cause I'm sticking with the Soss hinges! I have installed knife hinges on several occasions so I no longer feel the need to flaunt my masculinity, :).
To be honest, the back of this unit was offering some unexpected challenges and switching to the SOSS hinges actually freed up a little space in my brain for those other details. I too think the hinges I purchased are a little heavy and I probably should have gone with a size smaller. But these are rated for 3/4″ stock so I thought it would be ok. Well, it is ok, but if I did it again, I would use a smaller size. Anyway, for me, woodworking is about experiencing lots of different techniques, styles, and pieces of hardware. I was intrigued by the Soss hinges, so there ya go.
Thanks for the tips on the knife hinge installation though. I will keep them in mind on my next install.
Leo's piece is coming along quite nicely! If I right, you aren't going to even see the heft of the hinge except a bit when the door is open, right? They look like a very cool alternative.
Three weeks after the last episode of the series you come up with 13 minutes of hinges. Those of us that have been with you since your first episode expect a little more than that.
Hey Jorge. Of course you are always entitled to your opinion.
That being said, one of the joys of this medium is that I can go into painful detail about any particular topic I want. Now 13 minutes of hinges may not be very interesting to you, but for thousands of others, it will serve as a good review/introduction to some hinges they may not be familiar with. Furthermore, it was a good opportunity to get out of the shop, have a change of scenery, and have someone else do the talking for a while. I do like to change things up now and then.
One of my frustrations with woodworking television shows is the fact they never go into any detail about anything, due to time constraints. I plan on continuing to take full advantage of the fact that I CAN go into detail. And there will probably be other times when those details don't interest you.
I am very sorry that this didn't meet your expectations. But that makes me wonder exactly what your expectations are?!?!
Sorry Marc, I didn't meant to say that it was not valuable information. What I meant to say is that for us TWW addicts 13 minutes of only hindges in three weeks its just to little. An additional 10 minutes on another topic would have completed it for me. Anyway, sorry for the misuderstanding and looking forward to Lexi's stare-down.
LOL, thanks for good-natured comments. BTW, the Soss catelog has alot of good info about their hinges. It includes a chart to aid in chossing them based on door size: http://www.soss.com/pdf/SossCa.....df#page=15 Maybe this can be a some use to others looking into using them.
Agree with BarryO… how can anyone complain about free stuff? Marc has to be busy with multitude of ventures he's involved with… look what he's done in the past year alone with creating the WoodWhisperer Network in addition to everything else he has going on with Powermatic/Festool. He's probably been working on increasing his media empire… wouldn't be surprised to see Tuner Broadcasting being bought out soon. There's no stopping him!!! Run people, run!!!
So again no complaining about podcasts!! Begging is probably ok though… I would do so but am too proud for that… but seriously Marc any scraps of content is always welcome… even some edited out content of Lexi… please, Marc, pleeeeeease I need more Lexi!!
I have a similar application for a nightstand where there's a reveal/setback from the face of the leg to the face of the door. As I understand with the SOSS hinges (#101 in my case), the only critical dimension for the door to open to 90 degrees is the offset from the face of the door to the start of the hinge mortise, which is 3/32″ for the #101. In other words, the setback distance from the face of the leg to the face of the door can be whatever you choose. Did you find this to be true in your case with the gadget station?
This is my first time using the SOSS hinges and I'm concerned about how thin the wall of the mortise will be with the 3/32″ offset. Instead, I planned to use a 5/32″ offset, plane the face of the door down by 1/32″, and then chamfer the hinge side of the door if the door cannot open to a full 90 degrees. Does that seem reasonable?


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Шимон Пруський Т. І. (; бл. 1578, Мазовія — 29 листопада 1642, Вільно) — церковний діяч Речі Посполитої, священник-єзуїт, педагог.

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10 серпня 1598 року вступив до Товариства Ісуса на новіціят у Ризі. У ході польсько-московської війни, як священник-місіонер брав участь у виправі польського війська на Московщину в 1612—1613 роках . У 1613—1615 роках був префектом студій в єзуїтській колегії у Браунсбергу.

У 1615 році у Битенському монастирі на Білорусі василіяни відкрили новіціят і попросили генерала ордену єзуїтів, щоб призначив двох своїх священиків на виховників. Тож упродовж 1616—1618 років о. Шимон Пруський разом із о. Анджеєм Косинським Т. І. працював над вихованням василіянських ченців у Битені. Шимон Пруський був настоятелем цієї «Битенської місії між ченцями св. Василія Великого».

Потім був префектом шкіл у Пултуську (1618—1620), ректором у Ломжі (1620—1623) і Смоленську (1626—1630) та сповідником Плоцького єпископа Станіслава Лубенського (1630—1639). Помер у Вільно 29 листопада 1642 року.

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Cody Linley
Highest Rated: 73% My Dog Skip (2000)
Lowest Rated: 0% Echoes of Innocence (2005)
Birthday: Nov 20, 1989
Birthplace: Lewisville, Texas, USA
With his easygoing demeanor and schoolboy charm, actor Cody Linley was certainly many a school girl's crush during the early period of his career. The preteen, who came from a family of actors, made his first appearances with small parts in such feature films as "My Dog Skip" (2000), "Miss Congeniality" (2000) and "Cheaper by the Dozen" (2003). Linley soon attracted the attention of Disney casting directors with guest work in an episode of "That's So Raven" (Disney Channel, 2003-07) and a supporting turn in the family feature "Hoot" (2006). That same year, the young actor instantly became a heartthrob to millions of teenage girls when he was cast as Jake Ryan, the on-again, off-again love interest of Miley Cyrus on the immensely popular kiddie sitcom "Hannah Montana" (Disney Channel, 2006-2011). In 2008, Linley danced his way to an even larger audience when he cut a rug on "Dancing with the Stars" (ABC, 2005- ) with the aid of two-time professional champion Julianne Hough. After "Hannah Montana," he turned up in a similar recurring role on the family sitcom "Melissa & Joey" (ABC Family, 2010-15). An accomplished comedic actor with a keen interest in music as well, Linley's options were many as he eyed the next step in his still young career.
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30% 38% Sharknado 5: Global Swarming Matt Shepard (Character) - 2017
14% 24% Sharknado: The 4th Awakens Matt (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet 63% Hoovey Hoovey (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet 83% My Dog the Champion Eli (Character) - 2013
54% 55% The Playroom Ryan (Character) $3.9K 2012
No Score Yet 26% Forget Me Not Eli Channing (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet 73% The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It Sean (Character) - 2007
26% 55% Hoot Mullet Fingers (Character) $8.1M 2006
0% 62% Echoes of Innocence Christopher (Character) - 2005
No Score Yet 36% When Zachary Beaver Came to Town Cal (Character) - 2003
73% 68% My Dog Skip Spit McGee (Character) $34.1M 2000
No Score Yet 100% Still Holding On: The Legend of Cadillac Jack Younger Tommy (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 75% Melissa & Joey Unknown (Guest Star) 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hannah Montana Jake Ryan (Guest Star) 2006-2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Wendy Williams Show Guest 2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dancing With the Stars Contestant 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet Walker, Texas Ranger Unknown (Guest Star) 2001 1999
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The most recent Turkey Investment Climate Assessment completed by the World Bank in 2010 revealed wide variation in the quality of the business environment across regions and how firms operating in different regions tend to be affected by various aspects of the investment climate. The Regional Investment Climate Assessment Project will help identify bottlenecks to doing business at regional level across the country. Identification of these bottlenecks is the first step in removing them and promoting private sector development at the regional level in Turkey. The World Bank and Turkish Ministry of Development are co-hosting a meeting to present two projects aimed at boosting Turkey's investment climate. They will help build regional and central government institutional capacity for promoting continuous investment climate improvements.


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Mum 'murders boy, 2, and jumps from 11th-storey window with son, 1, killing him'
The woman, aged in her 30s, is in a critical condition after she survived the plunge just moments after stabbing her 70-year-old father at a flat in the US city of Chicago
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A mum murdered a two-year-old boy and then jumped from an 11th-storey flat with her one-year-old son in her arms, killing him, in a bid to take her own life, it is claimed.
The woman, aged in her 30s, survived the fall from the high-rise block of flats, but was in a critical condition in hospital as police probed the children's deaths as a double murder.
She allegedly stabbed her 70-year-old father, who was also left fighting for his life following the incident, before leaping from a window at the 22-storey building.
The incident happened in the US city of Chicago, Illinois, where there were almost 500 murders in 2019.
Police found the mum and the one-year-old boy on the ground outside and the two-year-old dead in a bathtub inside the flat when they were called to the scene just before 2am local time on Thursday.
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Officers were met by a security guard, who directed them to a flat on one of the upper floors, said police.
They went upstairs and discovered the 70-year-old man, who had cuts to his face and body, and the two-year-old, who was unresponsive in the bathtub.
The man told police that his daughter had stabbed him and then jumped with her one-year-old son.
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The boys were rushed to a children's hospital, where they were pronounced dead.
With the investigation still in its early stages, police were unable to immediately confirm whether the two-year-old found in the tub was the woman's son, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
The woman and her father were both taken to hospital in a critical condition following the incident in Chicago's South Shore neighbourhood.
Officers taped off the building and launched a murder probe.
The mum jumped from a flat with her one-year-old son, say police
Police have not yet revealed a motive for the attack.
Home to about 2.7million people, Chicago is one of the most violent cities in the US.
Crime rates fell last year, when it recorded 492 murders, down from 567 in 2018, 670 in 2017 and almost 800 in 2016.
However, arrests were made in just 101 of the almost 500 murder cases in 2019, according to police figures.
A violence reduction strategy and increased efforts to seize guns have been credited for the decline in the city's murder rate.
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I hope you all had a great week! I feel like the mood for everyone in general has been a little bit more cheerful these days…Christmas time is the BEST. And, as someone who works in social media, creating content that is holiday-themed is way more fun than not-holiday-themed content, y'know? Anyway, here are some interesting posts and articles I've come across this week. What have you been reading?
8 Things All Successful Women Do on a Sunday – I need to get on their level.
How to Bounce Back After a Bad Night's Sleep – PLEASE.
7 Mental Habits of the Happiest Women I Know – Love ALL of these.
20 Recipes for Your Christmas Cookie Exchange – Or just for me on a casual Tuesday?
11 Holiday Movies for a Romantic Date Night In – Alone. With the Christmas Cookies. And Wine.
No-Bake Pumpkin Pie Cookie Dough Bites.
How did the Brussels sprout pizza with goat cheese work out?


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Home The Latest Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist Junot Diaz
Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist Junot Diaz
After catapulting to literary stardom with his brilliant short-story collection, Drown, more than ten years ago, Junot Díaz is back with his first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
by Matthew Rothschild
We first met Oscar de León, Díaz's protagonist, in a 1996 short story in The New Yorker. He was everything all of Díaz's male characters in Drown were not—bookish, grotesquely overweight, and utterly delusional about the mysteries of romantic love. He was the anti-macho. In the novel, not much has changed about him, except that we now revisit the history that forged him. And he—along with his clan—is cursed. To be exact, upon them has been unleashed a fukú, the mightiest of all spells that can be cast on the island first rampaged by Columbus. In an immigrant Dominican household led by a belligerent and dictatorial mother and in a New Jersey ghetto populated by every character the diaspora has begotten, Oscar is an artist and dreamer who can scarcely maneuver his way through the social labyrinth called college. Written in Díaz's elevated street-slang vernacular, the novel reads like an intimate and animated conversation with a friend. When we sat down for this interview in June, Díaz was upbeat about the impending publication of the novel. But he still displayed a certain intellectual moroseness when discussing the long-lasting effects of diaspora, the complex relationships among generations of immigrants, and the indelible mark the dictator Rafaél Trujillo left on Dominican Republic, a place that both perplexes and beguiles Díaz.
Q:It's been eleven years since Drown. Where you been?
Junot Díaz: I've been trying to write. I also spent a lot of time on different campuses, in conversation, helping other writers. That's what I do: I teach them writing. I'm having so much trouble with writing, you know. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me.
Q: You had to give up on the novel you initially were working on. Why?
Díaz: I was writing a novel about a slightly futuristic American version of what we're living now. In '94, I started writing a novel about an enormous terrorist act that destroyed the United States. The novel takes place twenty years after this destruction, with all the stuff that we're dealing with now—a dirty war, the disappeared, the concept of terrorism. Anyway, 9/11 happened some years into the process, and I was like, OK, I don't have a novel. The U.S. that I had imagined was nowhere near as crazy and as incredibly damaging and brutal and indifferent as the U.S. that we're currently living in. I thought I was being transgressive, apocalyptic, an out-there person. And then reality lapped me, it just lapped me.
So what happened was: a) one novel died, which I hope to resuscitate, and b) I became a writer who does conferences and panels.
Q: Let's talk a little bit about immigration. From the vantage point of your writing desk, what do you see?
Díaz: This country has such little sense of itself sometimes, I'm astonished. America is one of the biggest myth-making countries, whether we're talking about how many books are published, how many movies we make. But the greatest myth of all is what America is. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration. We fundamentally have been a culture that's been put together from the explosions of other cultures. But it's hard for us to see. We have blinded ourselves to the reality of what our country is.
Q: After Hurricane Katrina, people were saying, "Wait, parts of the United States are a Third World country." And all the immigrants were sitting around going, "Yeah, we knew that."
Díaz: Katrina was one of those things that rips the clothes off of the guy who keeps saying he's a saint, and underneath you see that he's a monster. And the dude just ran and got new clothes, and said, "No, I'm not a monster," and everybody's like, "Yes, you're not a monster." People just couldn't wait to get back to sleep.
Q: What about our monster, Trujillo? I have heard you say that we're all Trujillo's kids—illegitimately and legitimately—even second-, third-generation Dominicans, and hyphenated Dominicans.
Díaz: The evil of the father lasts. The consequences of those kinds of patriarchal traumas last to the point where the person no longer has contact with the origins of that evil. I had no concept that I was Trujillo's son. I had no concept until I was reading, got older, went traveling, and I was like, OK, my dad was a total copy of Trujillo. I mean he grew up in the military, during the Trujillato. He thought Trujillo was a great fucking man, and we had in my family—and this is very common in many Third World families—a dictatorship in the house. La dictadura de la casa. And everyone has different dictaduras, but the one that I lived under was a dictadura that would've made Trujillo very, very comfortable, because he helped design it.
Q: How did the idea for the novel evolve?
Díaz: I was surrounded by a lot of male writers of color who have this incredibly bizarre relationship to masculinity. It's like we were all mega-nerds but you would never know that if you listened to the way they talk about themselves.
Q: Were they just posing as macho?
Díaz: I would not say posing, I would say just passing for. I think men spend so much time passing for being men. There's a sense among many writers of color that the most invisible figure that was sitting between all of us was the nerd. But it was the thing we weren't saying, that people were afraid to say, like, "Yo, what we do is nerdy by definition." You can be from a crazy, fucked up background, but I like to read at night. So that was the first part, the identification of a silence.
Later I was in Mexico City for a year living with my friend, the amazing writer Francisco Goldman. He saw that I was losing my mind, not able to write, lost my one novel, going crazy. One day, we were hanging out and we were having drinks with some idiots. And the concept of Oscar, the concept of this poor nerd, the concept of the real version of everything that we're performing against—at least as a Dominican man of color—suddenly came into my mind. This was the pariguayo (loser); this was the figure who shadows all of us in our attempts to live out this excessive masculinity. So he came to mind, and the little fucker wouldn't let go.
Q: Oscar could be considered a "ghetto nerd."
Díaz: He's part of the generation of young people that were sacrificed. They were ostracized to produce the identity that we see now, an identity where kids are into the Internet, into MySpace, into texting. To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs. The '80s was where this was all brought up. So we have people who were frontrunners of what we call the contemporary, wired young person.
But these people were ostracized and loathed, and they're the ones that were the test betas.
Q: So was Oscar among those who absorbed and processed today's youth culture?
Díaz: These kids created a matrix to survive. Capitalism seized it and was like, "This is awesome! We could use this to capture young imaginations and entertain them." It's this crazy victory, but it's completely tragic. If you were a nerd computer geek in 1982, the amount of isolation you felt—at least what I experienced, or the kids I knew, the isolation they felt—was almost total. They were not part of society; no one thought they were cool.
Q: It seems like Oscar's family loves him but doesn't accept him and is constantly correcting him and trying to redefine him. In a way, he accepts the social ostracizing.
Díaz: You're 100 percent right. There's nothing more true in being a child of a diaspora, a child of immigrants. We're completely new to our parents. We're not something they can ever understand. And it's not as if we are ever going to be accepted.
We're accepted as long as we conform to what we are expected to be, and I'm sure that's not any different for anyone else. For us there's this cultural component: You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree and if you don't, people will scorn you for it.
Q: Tell me about the women in the book. How did you approach writing them?
Díaz: I was really drawn to thinking about the women in my life. Thinking about my mother, who's a very powerful force on me. And I have these two very strong sisters who took up a lot of imaginary space in my life.
People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong. I guess the best way of saying it is that no one could have survived what we survived—whether it was first extermination and slavery, then abandonment and erasure, then the series of gunboat two-bit dictatorships, followed by the final apotheosis of dictatorships, the Trujillato. You couldn't survive it without the resistance of this kind of woman. And the final thing is diaspora: We all got held together.
I was very clear growing up the only reason this shit worked—what we called the Dominican diaspora—is because of these crazy women characters, women like my mom, and their collective knowledge of survival.
Q: It looked to me like the relationships between the women are the hardest ones, the most relentless ones, the most unforgiving ones.
Díaz: When you're the ones in the life raft and you have four or five women in the life raft who put it together, by the end of it your nerves are blown. The people you're going to attack are the people who are helping you, who you are holding it together with. I always thought that my mom and my sisters, without knowing it, were shackled together by history, by survival, and by this desire to be free of all those things—to be a person, to be an individual. They were all shackled together in ways that I wasn't.
As a Dominican man, you're socialized to be a playboy. You spend a lot of time being taught that women are important, but without the really positive framework of why. You figure out quickly it's because of culo (ass). But there is a sense that it's not that simple.
When people are always telling you that you have to have a lot of women, women are very important, there's a chance that you might actually begin to observe them on a more fundamental level. Then you get so much focus that one day you might actually see. Dominican men are told to look at women all the time, but they're definitely not told to see them.
The act of looking is a very violent act. You're saying, I'm gonna map my shit over you—but to see is to actually receive information, to be engaged. And I think what happened to me was that I was always being taught to look, but one day I started to see. And it was because a lot of women in my life were refusing just to be looked at, to be this passive figure. That taught me that you can't be a human without seeing.
When I was thinking about these women characters, no matter how bad a person I am—a bad writer, my limitations, my sexism, you know—the thought was, it would be useful as a writer to try to create a template for all the male writers, especially Dominican male writers, especially males of color, of how a writer can use seeing to create more nuanced representations of women.
Q: Love is very potent, but love also renders you very weak in this book.
Díaz: That sounds exactly like life. My religious friends would disagree, but I always feel like this world we live in is so incredibly difficult. And it doesn't give a shit. Yet, despite its mechanical uncaringness, it's a gift—we didn't do anything to get this life. I have no sense of anything beyond this, so that's the hardest thing to wrestle with. Love is the only thing—I don't want to say that "makes it bearable"—but I feel like without the possibility of love, this place would just devour us. Honestly, connecting once at the deepest level with someone, you know, once you've done that, even if your life goes to hell, man, it was really worth living.
Q: What about the actual writing process, because this is long form for you. How was it for you to tackle a novel?
Díaz: This thing almost killed me. I wrote at least, no exaggeration, 2,000 pages to get a decent 350 pages. It was a day-in-day-out fucking massacre. And a lot of it had to do with me suffering from depression like most people do, artists do, not any big deal. But then you're knocking your head against the wall all day long.
This book required me to look into an abyss and be joyful, because the fact that I'm looking in it meant something, meant that there is life. I want people to read this book and be like "Yo, this shit is terrible but my God, what a fucking smooch, what a kiss."
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Matthew Rothschild
Prior to joining the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign at the start of 2015, Matt worked at The Progressive magazine for thirty-two years. For most of those, he was the editor and publisher of The Progressive.
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