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Hey everybody, so my fathers pc finally started heading south so we decided to 'refurbish' it. I purchased a new HDD and motherboard for it. I was hoping to run Ubuntu on it but I didn't realize till after I purchased it that the board didn't support linux so I will just have to transfer the xp license.
When I flip the power switch on the power supply the MoBo lights come on and the fans run on full blast, but it wont do anything else. I know everything is connected correctly and I tested my power supply in another pc and it checks out. I tried it with 2 sticks of ram(pc4200), tried each one individually, I even turned it on with the processor heat sink off to see if the processor would warm up but it didn't. (oh and yes I know I'm putting the ram in the correct slots)
Here are the components in the pc:
HP Pavilion A1523w (only the case and cd drives remain)
Power supply: Thermaltake TR2 430W
Processor: Pentium D 820
MoBo: Intel DG33TL (purchased from here: )
HDD: Seagate barracuda 500GB
Ram: PC4200 (generic sticks) One of which is original
GPU: ATI 4650 and onboard
I've tried using the onboard graphics and an external card, the only thing I haven't tried is another processor(because I don't have one). Everything I've read and researched says this combination should work, anybody have any ideas?
Make sure you have connected the CPU power connection. Its the small 4 pin plug near the CPU, then verify the bios reset jumper is not in reset mode.
If that doesn't work reply here or message me directly.
Some motherboards for reasons unknown to me are in BIOS protect mode from the factory, so try resetting CMOS.
Also like dale said make sure the 4 pin CPU suplimental power is plugged in.
If it still doesnt work then you have a defective mobo from the factory you will need to exchange it for a new one, it happens.
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Thanks for the reply's guys. Unfortunately resetting the CMOS did nothing. Just to ensure that I wasn't crazy I took it over to my local pc store guy and he had a couple different 775 socket processors we threw into it and none of them helped the situation. After trying a few random things he came up with the same conclusion I did; "The MoBo is not transferring the 12volts from the connector to the processor". So therefore we are calling the board a DOA. | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/314402-31-combo-post-fans-full-blast | dclm-gs1-177020002 | false | false | {
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For the past several seasons CSRP biologists have intensively and meticulously tracked female pallid sturgeon to their spawning locations. All this attention on females is because biologists can easily tell when a female spawns by the presence or absence of eggs. When the female is tagged with eggs, migrates, then stops, and is recaptured without any eggs it is easy to conclude that she must have spawned. Knowing where these spawning sites are is critical to understanding why there are so few young pallid sturgeon being added to the population each year. But finding the “spot” on the map where spawning happens is only part of the story. What are the males doing while females are migrating upstream and what part do males play in when and where females stop to spawn? Spawning locations are defined by where a female deposits her eggs, but which sex really chooses the spot on the map, and why?
For the first time in the Lower Missouri River, CSRP biologists documented a small aggregation of reproductive male pallid sturgeon this spring. On May 22, 2013 CSRP biologists set out to recapture telemetered male pallid sturgeon PLS08-048, near the Platte River, Nebraska at rivermile 594.7. Biologists were curious to know if the male was reproductive and ready to spawn with nearby females. A trammel net was drifted over the tagged fish several times, but the targeted fish was not captured on that day. Instead, four different male pallid sturgeon without telemetry tags were caught. Three out of these four males were in reproductive condition at the time of capture. The following day, May 23rd, a fourth reproductive male pallid was captured just upstream of the male aggregation recorded the previous day.
CSRP researchers have previously documented loose aggregations of males in the Yellowstone River, North Dakota a few miles upstream of the confluence with the Missouri River (see previous post Just One of the Guys). These aggregations of males in the Yellowstone have occurred near suspected spawning locations. Biologists are hoping to learn if male pallid sturgeon are selecting spawning locations early in the season before females with eggs arrive. They want to know the factors that male sturgeon use to select spawning sites and whether or not females are selecting spawning sites using the same factors or if they are relying on the judgment of the males who have already arrived. If biologists can determine which sex is selecting spawning sites, and what factors are preferred as “good” spawning habitat, then it is possible to determine how much spawning habitat is available and maybe predict spawning success.
CSRP Biologist Sabrina Davenport with a reproductive male pallid sturgeon. Two additional reproductive male pallid sturgeon were caught during the recapture effort near the confluence of the Platte and Missouri Rivers early in the spring of 2013.
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Most people have that one friend who constantly brags, here's some helpful tips on how to deal with that certain friend and prevent them from bragging so much!
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When your friend brags only a little, listen to them. If you don't listen, they will get angry at you.
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When they brag a lot, bring up some topics you would like to brag about, too.
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If they are bragging about something they just received, say something like "Oh! Those are so cool!" or "Nah, I find those boring!".
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Don't let your friend get all the words in. Say some things, too.
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Support your bragging friend. It may be hard, but do it. If your friend got an iPod, say something like "Awesome! You're so lucky!"
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If they brag when you are saying something, say something like "Excuse me? Can I please finish? Thank you!"
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If the bragging gets out of hand, just tell them that they are bragging way too much and it is making you envy them. But this sometimes can cause a fight because the person may think that you're wrong and that she/he does not brag.
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If your friend brags a lot, just don't pay attention. Mess up your locker combo, dig in your bag for a pencil, read a book, turn up your iPod.
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Try to get someplace else quick. If you are going to class, walk fast. Better yet, say you saw your friend. But don't lie to the extreme. "OH! I saw Britney Spears!" is not going to work.
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Bring up different topics. If they said, "I am getting a red sports car for my birthday!" you could say "My dad works at a place where they sell sports cars! Where does your dad work?"
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Cope with it for a while. Just know that the day you want to brag, they better listen up!
• Remember that you can only measure your self-worth, you shouldn't let other people's actions or words affect your mood or esteem.
• Ditch the friend if she/he's not a true friend.
• If she/he keeps on saying that shes everything ignore her for a while instead tell him or her how you feel but speak politely and listen to your friend's opinions too.
• Make sure you have other friends and backup.
• If you meet her again boasting about herself you know, how wonderful she is tell her/him quietly that you're annoyed and that it's obvious that she is boasting make her understand.
• Don't gang up on her/him so out of the blue.
• If they continue bragging it's okay to let them know.
• Don't yell at him/her you might get mistaken.
• If you say to her/him that you have something good and want to tell her/him about it, and then she/he says they have that and something better, say that you doubt it and walk off to other friends.
• Don't let it be easy to know that you are ignoring them.
• Expect rumors.
• Don't be mean to the friend that brags.
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Here is a list of backward-incompatible changes that were introduced while Her is pre-1.0. After reaching 1.0, it will follow the Semantic Versioning system.
• Her no longer includes default middleware when making HTTP requests. The user has now to define all the needed middleware. Before:
Her::API.setup :url => "" do |connection|
connection.insert(0, FaradayMiddle::OAuth)
connection.use FaradayMiddle::OAuth
connection.use Her::Middleware::FirstLevelParseJSON
connection.use Faraday::Request::UrlEncoded
connection.use Faraday::Adapter::NetHttp
• The default parser middleware has been replaced to treat first-level JSON data as the resource or collection data. Before it expected this:
{ "data": { "id": 1, "name": "Foo" }, "errors": [] }
Now it expects this (the errors key is not treated as resource data):
{ "id": 1, "name": "Foo", "errors": [] }
If you still want to get the old behavior, you can use Her::Middleware::SecondLevelParseJSON instead of Her::Middleware::FirstLevelParseJSON in your middleware stack.
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I have a Cyborg R.A.T 9 mouse and when ever I plug it into my computer, I can't left click. Strangely enough, the mouse works fine at the login screen, but not after I log in. I'm also not able to alt+tab to other programs.
I've looked through the other questions for the R.A.T. 3, 5, and 7 mouses, but none of them have solutions that work.
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.1 on a Lenovo ThinkPad T520.
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Does this help? (note that after you press the first key combination your desktop disappears, so read ahead and know what the second one is since that brings it back) – Tom Brossman Dec 21 '12 at 21:54
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2. 5 Important things my great grandmother has taught me
1. NOBODY should ever know ALL your business.
2. Words are words and they only hold the power you give them.
3. It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.
4. It’s okay to be cheap but, you get what you pay for.
5. Keep your credit straight, it’s more important than money.
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I’ve been thinking about this ask for a while and here’s what I’ve come up with;
Australia is pronounced “uh-STRAY-lee-ah” rather than “AWW-stray-lee-ah”
Melbourne is pronounced “MEL-bin”, not “mel-BORN”
Brisbane is “BRIS-bin”, not “BRIS-bay-n”
Canberra is “CAN-brah”, not “can-BER-rah”
"Yeah nah" means no
"Nah yeah" means yes
"Fanny" means vagina, not butt
No-one under the age of 60 actually says “G’day mate”
Pies are full of meat
This is fairy bread and everyone should experience it’s magic at children’s birthday parties
These are thongs
These are biscuits
Male kangaroos obviously don’t have pouches because males DON’T HAVE BABIES
Kangaroos don’t just hang around people’s houses they’re wild anim- Oh wait this is my driveway;
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5. "
You thought it would be poetic
to fuck the girl who’d write about you?
Alright, let’s give it a go then -
You’re the boy who’s used to having
girls being handed to you on a silver platter.
You think it’s fun to have me eating
out of the palm of your hand, well
I think that’s funny coming from someone who says
they hate the game, but God do you play it well.
You pick your teeth
with the loneliness you smelled
from my bones and every girl you’ve ever undone
but joke’s on you, love,
you need us more than we need you.
Without our blood staining your tongue
all you’d taste is
how empty you’ve become
and how so hard you’re trying to be you.
You called me a coward, and maybe I am but
at least I admit it. You think you’re brave
the way you blaze through life with closed wrists?
It takes more guts to be gentle and kind.
It takes more guts to let the darkness swallow you whole than
to hold a torch screaming how indestructible you are.
One day you’ll look in the mirror and for the first time
it won’t be vanity staring back -
it will be our ghosts and your former self,
whoever the hell it was, and it will sting your throat like
Jaegermeister hidden in snow. You’ll expect me
to be awkward weak knees and all, and that’s sad
because I could save you, but I won’t.
Instead I’ll smoke my cigarette
and watch you crash and burn.
You read my writing and it
told you not to fuck with me.
I warned you not to play with fire.
Tell me, now -
how does it feel to be a poem?
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Many also were stung by the allowing to let Kerry Wood walk and the trade for Kevin Gregg. I think it is fair to say that Gregg has been the most consistent pitcher in the Cubs bullpen this year.
The piece that was missing wasn't traded or allowed to leave in free agency. It was on the DL after a freak injury. Losing Aramis Ramirez for the majority of the first half dismantled this team in many ways.
First, with the way the lineup was structured, there was no protection after the four-hole (Milton Bradley).
Two, a good number of players couldn't pinpoint where they would be playing from day to day.
Mike Fontenot didn't know if he was playing second or third. Fukudome didn't know if he was playing center or the dreaded right-field. Micah Hoffpauir, Bobby Scales, Reed Johnson, Andres Blanco, and Jake Fox didn't know whether they would be starting or coming off the bench.
This made it hard on everyone. Yes, you prepare to play everyday, but when you are a bench player you have to have a different mindset. How do you stay prepared for eight innings before you play. The flux in playing time and the uncertainty put extra stress on the players, impairing their ability to get the job done.
Now, I understand the most people are saying that this is an excuse that players do not deserve. They are paid to play and they should be able to handle it.
True, to a certain extent. These guys aren't programmed like a computer. You can't just turn them on and off or move them from one desk to another and expect them to play the same way every day.
The absence of Ramirez led to a slow start and a great deal of adjustments for Lee and Bradley. It took them both about a third of the season to get acclimated to the new found revolving lineup that was forced upon them.
At that point, the Cubs began to get a little more consistent, but were still in need of that protection.
Now, most people thought it would take Aramis Ramirez a while to get back to form. His success so far in his return just proves how valuable he is to this lineup.
Another big move, was Soriano to the six-hole, adding more protection and power to the middle of the line-up. Since July 5th, about the same time Ramirez returned, Soriano has hit much better, but he isn't the only one.
Stats since July 5:
Alfonso Soriano - .377 with a .434 OBP, 4 HR, 13 RBI and 9 runs.
Kosuke Fukudome - .308 with a .392 OBP, 1 HR, 7 RBI and 9 runs.
Milton Bradley - .235 with a .426 OBP, 1 HR, 5 RBI and 6 runs.
Derrek Lee - .324 with a .410 OBP, 6 HR, 15 RBI and 15 runs.
Plus, you have to add Aramis Ramirez into that line since they were getting nothing from him.
Aramis Ramirez - .309 with a .382 OBP, 4 HR, 12 RBI and 11 runs.
Despite the season long average that Bradley has continued to sport, the average and on-base percentages have gone up.
Bradley has almost been a second lead-off hitter from the sixth hole which has proved successful in front of the hot Alfonso Soriano.
I understand it is still a short sample size, but these are all guys that can hit, and have proved it, even though most think Fukudome is a bust. I believe he is where he belongs, leading off that is.
If this offense can stay healthy and get Geovany Soto back, I believe they can once again be one of the top in the National League.
If the starting pitching can come close to being as good in the second half as the first this team can still run away from the division.
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Cholesterol, produced in the liver from saturated fats, is actually an essential part of the body, allowing Vitamin D to be produced, cell membranes to be repaired, hormones to be synthesised and fats to be digested.
Unfortunately, the modern lifestyle, including dietary and exercising habits, has led to the female body producing an excess of cholesterol. This excess cholesterol builds up on the walls of the arteries, which slows down and impedes the blood flowing to and from the heart. This can directly cause heart attacks and other related symptoms.
Now, while changing your lifestyle and eating habits will have a beneficial effect, there does exist a herbal remedy which has been proven to be effective at lowering cholesterol levels within the body.
That herb is called Curcuma Comosa, a completely natural herb with no negative side effects, which functions in the following manner:
1) Curcuma Comosa lowers Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, which is the “bad” cholesterol.
2) Curcuma Comosa increases High Density Lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, which is the “good” cholesterol.
So , by dissolving excess fat in the blood, Curcuma Comosa maintains balanced levels of HDL and LDL cholesterol, allowing your heart to work more efficiently and with less strain, thus greatly reducing the risk of heart disease.
If you are looking to improve your cardiovascular health, and make positive lifestyle changes….Curcuma Comosa is the herbal remedy for you!
Curcuma Comosa is most effective when taken as a supplement along with a healthy diet and regular exercise.
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Bonny Lee Bakley
Bonnie Lee Bakley
Bonnie Lee Bakley
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Bonny Lee Bakley:
Bonny Lee Bakley was not a good girl. She was a con artist who used sex and deception to bilk men -- many of them rich and famous -- out of their money and their children out of their inheritance. When she was shot to death in May 2001, her current husband, Robert Blake, was charged with the crime, but there was a long list of those with a motive.
Bakley's Childhood:
Bonny Lee Bakley was born in Morristown, New Jersey on June 7, 1956. As a young girl her dreams were similar to others her age, to one day become rich and famous. Perhaps her rather impoverished home helped to drive these dreams. Or perhaps the desire to leave her hometown and begin her road to stardom grew deeper after she suffered through sexual abuse by her father. Whatever it was that did it - one thing is certain - her "wants" turned into "needs" and manifested into a blind obsession.
Marriage for Profit:
Bakley, who felt ostracized as a child for being poor, grew to be an attractive teen. She decided to try modeling and she signed on with a nearby agency. Through there she met an immigrant named Evangelos Paulakis, who was desperate to stay in the U.S. but needed to marry in order to do so. Bonny agreed to marry him for a price, but not long after the two shared "I do's" Bonny, with the money safely tucked away, ended the marriage and Paulakis was picked by the authorities and deported.
Bakley Dreams of Stardom:
After high school Bonny headed to New York to begin her climb to stardom. She managed to get various small modeling jobs and donning the name "Lee Bonny" she became an extra in a few movies. But her goal of becoming a star did not happen and she set her attention on other ways to achieve, if not stardom, the fortune that came with it. Her focus switched from becoming a star to marrying one and regardless of where she was in life this obsession remained intact.
Bakley's Sex Scam Business:
During her mid-twenties Bonny married her cousin Paul Gawron, a laborer who was street tough and prone to violent behavior. They had two children which Paul mainly cared for while Bonny worked toward her new endeavor -- a mail-order business that focused on scamming lonely men out of money. Had Bonny not chosen such a sleazy career direction, her entreaupanuer tenacity mixed with her ability to market, organize, and profit in a highly competitive industry could have been admirable.
Great Balls of Fire:
Paul and Bonny had a twisted and volatile marriage. Bonny, who was busy scamming money from men, sometimes in the couple's bedroom, was satisfied to let Paul stay home and he seemed to enjoy not having to work. But by 1982 the marriage ended. Bonny's obsession to be in the inner circles of the famous mixed with the fact that she was not getting any younger motivated her decision to leave her kids in Paul's care and head to Memphis, Tennessee to the door of musical artist, Jerry Lee Lewis.
Bakley Stalks Jerry Lee Lewis:
It would be a few years and several 'hit and run' marriages later before Bonny actually made it to Lewis's door. Her money-making sex schemes coupled with her use of stolen credit cards and identification kept her mobile and she was able to fly to locations where Jerry Lee Lewis was performing. Bordering stalking, Bonny would often crash parties and show up at performances just to get in closer to Lewis. Finally the two met around 1982, and a friendship developed.
Baby Jerry Lee:
Jerry Lee Lewis and Bakley remained friends until Bakley became pregnant and told everyone that the child's father was Jerry Lee Lewis and that he was leaving his wife to marry her. When the child was born, Bakley named her, Jerry Lee and put on the birth certificate, 'father undetermined.' The friendship between Lewis and Bakley ended and baby Jerry Lee was sent to live with Bonny's ex-husband and her other children. Later it was discovered that Bonny made death threats against Lewis's wife.
Bakley's "Anything Goes" Policy:
Bakley's address book filled up with names, some famous and some just rich. Names such as Robert DeNiro, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Jimmy Swaggart were found among the list. Bakley's sex business became bolder and she advertised in the sex magazines that she was a tri-sexual, meaning she would try anything once and her preference was sadomasochism, couple's sex, and bisexuality. She swindled men to tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars with her "anything goes" claims.
Bakley's Criminal Record:
Bakley was arrested for trying to write bad checks in the tune of $200,000 and was sentenced to report to a penal farm on weekends for three years. In Arkansas she was arrested for carrying over 30 fake identifications and was placed on probabtion. When she completed her sentence in Tennessee, and her friendship with Lewis was over, she decided it was time to leave the south and she headed to the land of fame and stardom -- Hollywood.
Bakley and Blake: Bonny continued running her sex scams in magazines plus dating a few stars, one being Christian Brando. How she and Robert Blake actually met, depends on who you ask. Bonny's sister said they met at a jazz club and bonded from across the room. Blake's attorney said Robert Blake did not even know her name and they had sex in the back of a truck, never in his home. Whatever is the truth, one thing was for certain, it wasn't the match made in heaven.
Shortly after the affair began Bonny told Blake that she was pregnant. Sources say Bonny was taking fertility pills as a way to trap her star into her web. When the baby was born, she named her, Christian Shannon Brando and listed Brando as the father although a paternity test later proved the father to be Blake.
Bonny Lee and Robert Blake married in November 2000 and Bonny moved into a guest house on the property. In May 2001, Robert Blake and Bonny went to dinner at Vitello's Italian Restaurant, where Blake was a regular customer. After dinner the two walked to their car and according to Blake he realized he left his revolver at the restaurant and left to retrieve it. When he returned to the car he found Bonny Lee with a gunshot wound to her head, dying in the front seat. Blake ran for help but Bonny Lee soon died.
After a year of investigations, Robert Blake was arrested and charged with the murder of Bonny Lee Bakley. On March 15, 2005, a jury of seven women and five men deliberated for more than 36 hours before returning a verdict of not guilty in the murder of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley and not guilty on one count of soliciting someone to murder her.
The Robert Blake Case - Trial News and Updates Murder in Hollywood by Gary C. King
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Clara Harris and Bonny Bakley
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The Killing Blow For The ManBearPiggers
THIS IS MUST READING for those who have to contend with the sad, insane, religious fanatics who hysterically run around screaming that ManBearPig is gonna kill us all unless we make Al Gore a billionaire or something.
The reason I'm so brutally harsh with these tragic lunatics is because they are ruining the world economy based on absolute bullsh*t draped in the misnomer "science." If you've seen my posts about this stuff, you know I always use the term "REAL SCIENCE" to differentiate from the pseudo-religious garbage the enviro-crazies peddle. This guy - a REAL SCIENTIST by the way; not a member of the MBP cult priesthood - absolutely nails in short order the differences:
Science deals with facts, experiments and numerical representations of the natural world around us. Science does not deal with emotions, beliefs or politics, but rather strives to analyse matters dispassionately and in an objective way, such that in consideration of a given set of facts two different practitioners might come to the same interpretation; and, yes, I am aware of the irony of that statement in the present context.
That last sentence is key because it reveals the fundamental dirty trick the ManBearPiggers play by insistent that their zealotry is the standard that all others must yield to and anyone who differs is a liar, a "denier", a "shill for Big Oil" or just plain stupid. The problem with the desperate shrieks of the MBPers is that when you put their bullsh*t under the microscope and test their preaching REAL SCIENCE STYLE, the FAIL epically every single f*cking time!!! There is no REAL SCIENTIFIC basis for their garbage, yet we're told to sacrifice light bulbs and safe cars and transfer billions to government cronies because they say so. FTS!!!
I saw an item yesterday that a scientist has a theory that could upend centuries of thought about how gravity works. If proven, it would require rethinking the mechanics of everything, but that's how REAL SCIENCE works; it's always being challenged and tested, forced to prove itself. Compare that to how ManBearPiggers react when you point out their books are cooked and more study is needed - they literally sh*t themselves in rage and reach into their loaded Underoos and start flinging their poo at you for your heresy.
REAL SCIENCE is science. The global warming hoax is a RELIGION, nothing more. If the Pope told us to use CFLs because God commanded it, we'd tell him go pound sand, but we're supposed to take Al Gore's word that we're doomed because he has a Powerpoint slide with a fraudulent "hockey stick" graph? Get real. And get sane. Knowledge is power and it's up to you to speak the true knowledge that REAL SCIENCE provides to the madness that the Apocalyptic death cult ManbearPiggers are peddling.
ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS (from my Facebook link to this story): These kooks claim that sane people who believe in REAL SCIENCE are "anti-science" when they're the ones doing immeasurable violence to the cause of science with their wolf-crying and overt lying. We should worry about minimizing air pollution, protecting our waters, making sure our food supply is sound and not burning our food in our cars because of the demands of a cabal of religious fanatics leveraging their cult's teachings for massive profit.
Every second and dollar wasted on the total fraud of global warming/climate change/ManBearPig is time and money not being spent on things that could actually provide benefit to the people of the world, not the connected cronies and scammers who inhabit the temples of junk religion calling itself "science."
Thursday, January 17, 2013
CFE: Saving Money The DIRK® Way
The Backstory: Lifehacker had a silly item about saving money by imagining things cost 10 times as much. Many people in the comments remarked how dumb an idea this is in practice, so I chimed in with this:
As others have noted, this is stupid advice because it asks you to imagine spending something no one without a royal title would consider paying.
What I do is view money not as a number but in terms of what it buys and what not spending on one thing allows me to purchase somewhere else. For example, I was considering getting a Galaxy S3 on AT&T. Amazon did a sale last year where all non-iPhones were a penny, so I decided to wait a couple of months for the time they'd done the sale to save the $200, which is like 20 Blu-rays on sale.. While waiting, the Nexus 4 was released and I'm using it with Straight Talk. Over the term of what the AT&T contract would've been, I'm saving over $900 going this route which is a new laptop or most of an HDTV or rent and gasoline for a month.
The reason people don't realize how the little things add up. Going to the cafeteria for lunch costs $7 a day, that's not so bad, right? Sure, unless you realize that it's $35 per week or $1750 per year! What aren't you able to buy with that $1750? How about buying some lunch meats, cheese and bread for $10 per week, brown-bagging it, and having $1250 more in your pocket to spend on something else? Don't buy the new game the day it comes out for $60; wait 6 months or a year and get it for $10 - the entertainment value doesn't evaporate.
With a little patience and some deferred gratification, you can save tons of money. Instead of imagining something costing 10X as much, just multiply what something costs over time and then see how much other stuff you could buy (or SAVE!) instead. I'm able to live a lifestyle of someone making twice as much by just being smart about spending. While my friends are subsisting one paycheck to the next or are buried with credit card debt, I've got no debt, just pay my monthly bills/rent/car lease without interest, and have the ability to splurge on whatever I want on the rare occasions some deal comes along because I've saved.
Another tip is taking drinks with you when going to the bar. Since you have to go outside to smoke, it doesn't look weird to be going to the parking lot in between bands. Two tall boy cans of Labatt Max Ice are $3 (plus tax and deposit - $3.38 at the party store and have the liquid quantity of four beers and the alcohol content of eight beers. Depending on the bar, brand, and tipping, eight beers would cost you around $30! Save $26 bucks by getting your drink on in the car or buy one in the bar and still save a Jackson.
If you drink pop (soda, Coke, soft drinks, whatever your locality calls it) and aren't buying 2-liter bottles, you're throwing money away. People laugh at my giant bottles of pop at work, but I paid $1 for over 64 ounces - don't tell Nanny Doomberg! - while they paid at least $1.20 for the 20 oz. bottle they have. I've got three times the pop for less than a third the price. When there's a sale, I stock up. I drink about a liter a day, so $2.50 takes care of me for a week. Co-workers are paying at least that much per DAY for their consumption - five times as much. Chug!
Friday, December 28, 2012
CFE: The One Where The Atheist Has Irony Expained To Him
The Background: io9.com had the usual masturbatory Gawker network anti-religious screed using a Harvard report about how American students are falling behind as a launch pad to bash some silly Christian textbooks. (Because crappy teachers unions and the government indoctrination system has no effect, right?) I don't even know if the example shown was referred to in the report or some extreme example to illustrate how crazy them Sky Man Jeebus freaks are because them snake handlers is crazy, amirite?
Anyhoo, one of the unevolved chimps in the comments section chittered:
Eventually those kids will grow up and realize they've been lied to, right?
To which I replied:
The irony of your anti-religious sneer is that the real rude awakening is when the poor victims of our pass-along, everyone gets a participant ribbon, therapeutic, feelings-based, outcomes-based government indoctrination programs run into the real world and discover that they're not prepared for reality and their entire birthright has been mortgaged in order to buy the votes of moochers and socialist government cronies. We're seeing it now as all the chumps who voted for Obama now can't find jobs, but are so ill-informed that they re-elected him because they've been programmed to slobber and pull the lever next to the picture of a donkey. Wait until you try and collect on all that free stuff you were promised. Suckers.
Doubly funny is how the atheistic jackwagons who sneer at "Creationism" or "intelligent design" or "Sky Man" beclown themselves as they initially chin-stroke and murmur about the second law of thermodynamics only to solve the serious problem of where the matter of the Universe initially came from by saying, "Oh, it just appeared." Anyone who takes Steven Hawking seriously after that brain fart is a fool. How do you bash people for believing God created everything when you believe the seed matter for the Universe just materialized from nothing.
The truth is that neither of the Coke or Pepsi stories explaining how everything is here holds much water. Sorry, but it's true. We can't explain where God came from and we can't explain where the matter for the closed system of Big Bang and then billions of years of random occurrences leading to Earth, grass, birds, fish, trees, and Anne Hathaway came from. We are simply here despite the evidence and thus choose which story feels better. The difference between overtly religions people and atheist assholes is that the former understand that they are engaged in a faith whereas the latter are hardcore religionists using "science" as a cudgel with which to beat people into worshiping their belief system.
Atheist assholes believe that faith is the enemy of reason. The fact there are many scientists who are expressly in their fields because they wish to understand God's design of nature is unknown to them or a novelty like a conservative in Hollyweird.
As I commented, we are here despite the evidence, but of the two choices available, the idea that an Almighty created everything is far more plausible than the whole "lucky random series of events" proposal. At least I know there's no "proof" for my beliefs. The atheist jerks don't, yet they pretend they're not engaged in their own religious practices. Just because you've removed a central deity doesn't make what they're doing any less a religion; see the global warming/ManBearPig cultists for a perfect example.
Friday, August 03, 2012
I Bought That For A Dollar!
Monday, April 30, 2012
Why Royal Oak Ford Can Eat A Dick!
Or so I thought.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
The commercial success or failure of the film is going to be spun by each side. If it flops, liberals will crow that it's because it was a terrible movie and if it succeeds, they'll dismiss it as being red meat for Red State bubbas who are terrible people. Conservatives will say....aw, who cares what THOSE PEOPLE think, right?
Monday, February 20, 2012
Death To Coupon Printers!
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Comcast's Packaging Stupidity Goes To Xfinity and Beyond!
I cut it open and this is what was inside:
• The modem.
• Wall wart power adapter.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Dirk's Three Laws (and One Strong Suggestion) of Band Naming
Let's see how the Stupids have done:
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FC Vityaz Podolsk
Vityaz logo
Full name Football Club Vityaz Podolsk
Nickname(s) Vityazi (Knights)
Founded 1996; 18 years ago (1996)
Ground Trud Stadium
Ground Capacity 11,962
Chairman Sergei Lalakin
Manager Vladislav Ternavsky
League Russian Second Division
Zone Center
2012–13 8th
Home colours
Away colours
FC Vityaz Podolsk is a Russian football club based in Podolsk that played in the Russian First Division in 2009.
The club was founded in 1996 as a non-professional team. The current team was formed in 2000 and in 2001 it turned professional. The uniforms are all black for home and away games. The club was promoted from the "Center" Zone of the Russian Second Division as champions in the 2007 season.
On December 23, 2009 they gave up their spot in the Russian First Division due to financial difficulties. They play in the Russian Second Division in 2010.[1]
In December 2010 Vityaz merged with FC Avangard Podolsk, the united club is named Vityaz.
Current squad[edit]
As of February 27, 2014, according to the official RFU website.
No. Position Player
Russia GK Pavel Dronov
Russia GK Artyom Nazarov
Russia GK Sergei Panov
Russia GK Roman Shevchenko
Russia DF Nikolay Ivanov
Russia DF Aleksei Khrapov
Russia DF Mikhail Kuleshov
Russia DF Yuri Nedashkovskiy
Russia DF Anton Novikov
Russia DF Nikita Sarkisov
Russia DF Sergei Shubin
Russia MF Pavel Bochkaryov
Russia MF Roman Bykov
No. Position Player
Russia MF Oleg Chernyshov
Russia MF Vladimir Khorev
Russia MF Anton Kireyev
Russia MF Vladimir Kuzmichyov
Russia MF Yevgeni Kuritsyn
Russia MF Aleksei Merkulov
Russia MF Aidyn Mirzoyev
Russia MF Aleksandr Podymov
Russia MF Ivan Rodin
Russia MF Ivan Yenin
Russia FW Igor Boyarov
Russia FW Ruslan Shoniya
Russia FW Anton Yepikhin
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Daft Punk — Random Access Memories
The critics said: “For RAM, Daft Punk recorded in the best studios, they used the best musicians, they added choirs and orchestras when they felt like it, and they almost completely avoided samples, which had been central to most of their biggest songs. Most of all, they wanted to create an album-album, a series of songs that could take the listener on a trip, the way LPs were supposedly experienced in another time.” (Pitchfork)
All this is true. It’s also exactly the problem: all the big-budget self-indulgence of Random Access Memories doesn’t change the fact that the songs are fundamentally dull. It’s also weirdly conservative, with its focus on “real” instrumentation and making a “real” album. The whole thing is a demonstration that sometimes less is more, and also serves as a fine example as to why navel-gazing electroprog went out of fashion in the first place: it has nothing to say. Nothing at all.
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0.027721 | <urn:uuid:36df8990-ac90-4adc-9a61-06a0fc09f107> | en | 0.970075 | The standard on So You Think You Can Dance is skinny ballerinas, smoldering salsa dancers, and buff b-boys. But screw that. This chubby contemporary dancer brought it with her audition and blew everyone away. Video of her incredible performance inside.
Her surprising technique and control over her body sure made new full-time judge Adam Shankman feel like a real dick for stigmatizing fat chicks with dancing dreams. That's probably why he cried like a little bitch. Mia Michaels (yay she's back!), however, was brought to tears because Megan Carter reminded her of her own struggles as a larger dancer.
Even though 18-year-old Megan didn't get a ticket to Vegas, on account of her less than stellar choreography round, there's no denying that she can move better than 90% of the people I know... myself included.
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MongoDB, Geospatial Indexing, and Advanced Queries….
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As a staff writer at AllGreenBayPackers.com, I did my own 53 man roster prediction and as I said at the beginning of that article, I am wondering what the hell I was thinking now.
I thought Chastin West and Tori Gurley had too good of a preseason and one of them would make it onto the team as the 6th wide receiver; neither made the team (but both were signed to the practice squad). I thought Caleb Schlauderaff would make the team based on his draft status and the lack of depth of the interior offensive line; he was traded to the Jets, but not before being informed that he was going to get cut anyways. Finally I thought Graham Harrell would definitely make the team.
With West, Gurley, Schlauderaff, I wasn’t all that surprised that thing hadn’t turned out the way I predicted; but with Harrell it just didn’t make any sense. Harrell was supposed to be the insurance policy for an Aaron Rodgers concussion and a Matt Flynn trade. He had a memorable win against the Colts in week 3 of the preseason and had a good enough training camp that many (including myself) assumed he was good enough to be a backup with the majority of teams.
So when Graham Harrell was first cut by the Packers, then cleared waivers and then re-signed to their practice squad, I met each event with a little disbelief. How could someone who looked so good at football’s toughest position in the preseason not only get cut, but also not even get claimed? I would look at the San Francisco 49ers depth chart and wonder, how could Alex Smith and Colin Kaepernick be so bad during the preseason and still be on the team, but why no love for Graham Harrell? What had happened?
My only conclusion was that every other fan, the media and myself had got overzealous. During the Ted Thompson era, we’ve come to expect a ridiculous amount of depth at all positions. One prime example was that last year 5 players, an inordinate amount, were signed to 53 man rosters after getting cut by the Packers. (ironically this year no players were claimed by other teams after being cut by the Packers) Fans and the media a like love to tell stories of how unheralded backups up stepped up and helped win Super Bowl XLV. But really, in the free agency era, it simply isn’t possible to stockpile good players; there simply isn’t enough money. | http://jerseyal.com/GBP/tag/san-francisco-49ers-tori-gurley/ | dclm-gs1-178700002 | false | false | {
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4 steps to ensure your credit info is safe
That's because debit and credit cards are treated differently by consumer protection laws. Under federal law, your personal liability for fraudulent charges on a credit card can't exceed $50. But if a fraudster uses your debit card, you could be liable for $500 or more, depending on how quickly you report it.
"I know people love their debit cards. But man oh man, they are loaded with holes when it comes to fraud," said John Ulzheimer, credit expert at, a credit management website.
Plus, if someone uses your credit card, the charge is often credited back to your account immediately after it's reported, Ulzheimer said.
Yet, if a crook uses your debit card, not only can they drain your bank account, but it can take up to two weeks for the bank to investigate the fraud and reimburse your account.
"In the meantime, you might have to pay your rent, your utilities and other bills," said Beth Givens, director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. The organization recommends that consumers stick to credit cards as much as possible.
Related: How not to get hacked
Be vigilant with your accounts: The Target (TGT, Fortune 500) hack is just the latest in a long history of data breaches, and it likely won't be the last.
As a result, you should check your debit and credit account activity at least every few days and keep an eye out for any unfamiliar transactions. If you notice anything fishy, notify your bank or credit card company immediately.
"Waiting until the end of the month to check out [your] credit card statement for fraudulent use is a relic of the past," Ulzheimer said. "Fraud is a real-time crime, and we as consumers have to be constantly engaged."
Related: Biggest credit card hacks
"We believe that consumers are going to know best as to how to protect their account," he said. "They know their own behaviors.
Hackers' next target: Your pacemaker
Gas stations and ATM machines are hotspots for so-called "skimmers," machines that scammers install to capture your card information. Watch out for ATM parts that look unusual and always cover your hand when typing your PIN in case a camera is watching, said Shirley Inscoe, a senior analyst with the Aite Group.
Don't let your guard down: If you think your information has been compromised, don't assume everything's fine after a few months. Stolen card information is often sold to a variety of groups on the black market who may hold onto it for months or even years.
"Many times these fraud rings will wait until the news dies down and people have forgotten about it before they use that data," Inscoe said. "It may not be used until next winter, so it really is a good idea for people to monitor their activity." To top of page
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Besides 9-1-1, are any other numbers answered at the Communication Center?
Yes. The 9-1-1 Center answers not only 9-1-1 calls, but several other 7-digit numbers listed in the phone book as "non-emergency" for the Montgomery Police and Fire Departments. For instance, the Police Department listings in the phone book read: "Emergency Calls --9-1-1" "Non-Emergency or Police Service --241-2651 or "Fire Department After Hours -241-2400" All of those numbers ring to and are answered by the same 9-1-1 call-taker.
Then what difference does it make whether I call 9-1-1 or the 7 digit number?
The City of Montgomery has an "Enhanced" 9-1-1 system. This means that when you dial 9-1-1 our call-takers will have your name, address and phone number displayed when they answer the phone. This will assist in making your call quicker and easier to process. This location display is also extremely important in cases where the caller does not know where they are, or cannot speak or give their location due to a medical problem or a variety of other reasons. Our call-takers do not receive this display when the 7-digit numbers are dialed. In addition, priority is always given to 9-1-1 calls.
Should I only dial 9-1-1 in a "life or death" emergency? What if I need the police for a more routine reason like a simple automobile accident?
You should dial 9-1-1 for any incident or event that has just occurred or is still in progress or that could be life threatening. A medical emergency which needs an ambulance, a fire, or any incident which has injuries or unknown injuries would certainly justify a call to 9-1-1. If you just have a question or need information please try to find the proper number in the telephone book. For instance, to find out if someone has been arrested and may be in jail, please look up the number for the City or County Jail.
You already know my address and phone number, so why do you ask me anyway?
Computers are a valuable tool we use in emergency communications but are not infallible. We must ask just to make sure as a life could be in jeopardy. Another possibility is that many people call from another number and location, so we don't want to send help to the wrong place and waste precious time.
Why do you ask so many questions that seem irrelevant when I call 9-1-1?
We ask questions pertaining to the location of an incident and descriptions of vehicles and people involved. Often we ask for descriptions of the victim's clothing as well as the suspect's clothing. This is to make sure that the officers who respond know which people are which. At times we also need to now if a crime is still occurring, or if it has occurred some time ago in order to judge if the suspects are still near the crime scene.
What if I do not speak English?
When necessary, the operator can immediately conference in an interpreter in more than 140 different languages. A non-English speaking caller may hear a short conversation in English and some clicking sounds as an interpreter is added to the call.
What happens when I call 9-1-1 accidentally and hang up?
The emergency communications operator will try to call you back. If the operator is unable to reach anyone then a police unit will be dispatched to investigate. If a caller accidentally dials 9-1-1 they should remain on the line and explain the accident to the operator who answers.
Why do you talk in "codes" and "signals" on the radio?
It is a myth that the use of 10 codes is to create a veil of secrecy. Instead, it is a method of communicating to avoid confusion and be brief. For example, it is much easier to say "25A" than to say "Traffic Collision with Injuries". A radio code sheet is available at the Police Department web site,
Why does it take the operators so long to answer 9-1-1?
Insurance Services Office requires public safety communication centers to answer 95% of 9-1-1 calls in 15 seconds or less and 99% of 9-1-1 calls in 40 seconds or less. However, if a serious incident occurs, many people dial 9-1-1 at the same time and it slows down our ability to answer each call. It is important to remember to not hang up and redial 9-1-1 as it will delay your call being answered. 9-1-1 calls are answered in the order in which we receive them so the longest ringing call gets answered first.
What should I do if I am unhappy with the service I received from dialing 9-1-1?
If a caller is not satisfied with the services provided by 9-1-1, they should ask to speak with the shift supervisor. If they have already disconnected, they can call back the same number they originally dialed and ask for the supervisor. The caller should explain to the supervisor the circumstances of the call and why they are not satisfied with the service they received. The shift supervisor is responsible to investigate the complaint, determine if 9-1-1 personnel acted properly or not, and if not to take whatever action they deem appropriate to address the issue. The caller may ask the supervisor to call them back with the results of the investigation. Supervisors cannot, however, send a written resolution of the incident. Callers requesting a reply in writing should call (334) 240-4111 during administrative office hours. Complaints can also be made on line by completing the DOC Complaint Form.
What happens should I dial 911 by mistake?
Accidentally calling 911 occasionally happens by hitting the wrong button or when a child plays with the phone. First of all, DON'T HANG-UP! Stay on the line and tell the emergency operator that it was a mistake, otherwise they will attempt to call back. If they receive no answer, a police officer will be sent to your home to verify everything is all right.
Should I set 9-1-1 to auto dial or speed dial on my home or business phone?
Do not program 9-1-1 into your home or cellular phones and be sure to lock cellular phones. Experience has proven this to be the cause of unintended calls which unnecessarily burden the 9-1-1 system. There is also no significant time saved from programming the number into your autodial. In fact, there is greater potential for dialing error.
Should I be concerned about reaching 9-1-1 if I have a Internet based phone service (VoIP)?
Internet-based phone calls made to the 9-1-1 system can delay emergency services from responding quickly. Internet-based phone calls, also known as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), may endanger lives because 9-1-1 calls can potentially be routed to the wrong emergency call center or not routed at all. Subscribers to Internet-based phone services should make sure their Internet provider gives access to local 9-1-1 emergency communicators and that the service can display their address information to the local 9-1-1 emergency call center. Otherwise, emergency communicators will have trouble locating you during an emergency and be delayed from providing the help you need.
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Global and Local Functions
The global and local functions are supported for porting from 16-bit code, or for maintaining source code compatibility with 16-bit Windows. Starting with 32-bit Windows, the global and local functions are implemented as wrapper functions that call the corresponding heap functions using a handle to the process's default heap. Therefore, the global and local functions have greater overhead than other memory management functions.
The heap functions provide more features and control than the global and local functions. New applications should use the heap functions unless documentation specifically states that a global or local function should be used. For example, some Windows functions allocate memory that must be freed with LocalFree, and the global functions are still used with Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE), the clipboard functions, and OLE data objects. For a complete list of global and local functions, see the table in Memory Management Functions.
Windows memory management does not provide a separate local heap and global heap, as 16-bit Windows does. As a result, the global and local families of functions are equivalent and choosing between them is a matter of personal preference. Note that the change from a 16-bit segmented memory model to a 32-bit virtual memory model has made some of the related global and local functions and their options unnecessary or meaningless. For example, there are no longer near and far pointers, because both local and global allocations return 32-bit virtual addresses.
Memory objects allocated by GlobalAlloc and LocalAlloc are in private, committed pages with read/write access that cannot be accessed by other processes. Memory allocated by using GlobalAlloc with GMEM_DDESHARE is not actually shared globally as it is in 16-bit Windows. This value has no effect and is available only for compatibility. Applications requiring shared memory for other purposes must use file-mapping objects. Multiple processes can map a view of the same file-mapping object to provide named shared memory. For more information, see File Mapping.
Memory allocations are limited only by the available physical memory, including storage in the paging file on disk. When you allocate fixed memory, GlobalAlloc and LocalAlloc return a pointer that the calling process can immediately use to access the memory. When you allocate moveable memory, the return value is a handle. To get a pointer to a movable memory object, use the GlobalLock and LocalLock functions.
The actual size of the memory allocated can be larger than the requested size. To determine the actual number of bytes allocated, use the GlobalSize or LocalSize function. If the amount allocated is greater than the amount requested, the process can use the entire amount.
The GlobalReAlloc and LocalReAlloc functions change the size or the attributes of a memory object allocated by GlobalAlloc and LocalAlloc. The size can increase or decrease.
The GlobalFree and LocalFree functions release memory allocated by GlobalAlloc, LocalAlloc, GlobalReAlloc, or LocalReAlloc. To discard the specified memory object without invalidating the handle, use the GlobalDiscard or LocalDiscard function. The handle can be used later by GlobalReAlloc or LocalReAlloc to allocate a new block of memory associated with the same handle.
To return information about a specified memory object, use the GlobalFlags or LocalFlags function. The information includes the object's lock count and indicates whether the object is discardable or has already been discarded. To return a handle to the memory object associated with a specified pointer, use the GlobalHandle or LocalHandle function.
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A World Diabetes Day program will be held in the rotunda of the Oklahoma Capitol on Nov. 14. Attendees can take part in diabetes screenings, obtain referrals and learn more about the causes and warning signs of the disease.
By Ken Raymond Published: November 6, 2012
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Cuban: Nowitzki opting out a good thing for Mavericks
May 25, 2010, 10:05 AM EDT
Oh, some teams likely will come a courting, but Nowitzki and the Mavericks are already working on a max extension to his existing contract. If he left he’d have to take a pay cut. And if you think Mark Cuban is going to take pennies on the dollar back in a sign-and-trade for Nowitzki, then you don’t know how he got to be a billionaire. That would be a hard deal to strike.
In fact, Cuban told he is happy Nowitzki may opt out.
1. “Dirk is actually helping the team by opting out,” Cuban said.
2. An opt-out “gives us the ability to create financial room to add players,” he said.
3. That “financial room” is “not cap room, just dollars we save in a new, but longer deal,” Cuban said.
Nowitzki has not taken action on this yet; he has until June 30 to officially decide to opt out of his final $21.5-million year to become a Summer of 2010 free agent. If he does so, once that window opens, he is a free agent on July 1.
The Mavericks could get burned — remember when Steve Nash left via free agency, something the Mavericks did not expect. There are risks because at this point in his career Dirk wants to win and he may be tempted by other teams that can offer that chance, even if he makes less money.
But ideally Nowitzki wants to win in Dallas. To do that means bringing in more players, and if opting out frees up some cap space to do that, then this will have played out just like Cuban had planned.
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Chinking between the logs can be part of a log building’s design, both for practical purposes and for aesthetics. For other buildings, chinking becomes necessary over time. Logs can shrink and shift creating gaps that allow air and water to leak in between the logs.
The purpose of chink is:
• To fill the gaps between the logs
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• To prevent air and water from making its way into the log building or cabin
• To prevent critters (bats, bees and mice) from making your log home their home
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Both rely on latex polymers for adhesion. Chink has fine sand particles added to it where caulk doesn’t. The sand gives the chink a dull or “flat” appearance. Just like aggregate adds strength to a concrete slab - the sand adds strength to the chinking material.
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Chinking is installed with either a bulk loading caulk gun or an electric powered chink pump. Once a line of chinking is laid, trowels are used, along with other methods, to push the chinking in and make a seal between the log surfaces – top and bottom. It takes experience and the right tools to smooth the lines so they look uniform.
Foam backer rod may be necessary before laying down the line of chinking. This insulates the line as well as breaks the bond in the center of the line, allowing for more flexibility of the chinking material.
Chinking comes in about eight different colors – from white to a rich grey (like mortar) and from light tan to dark brown. The choice of color is mainly a personal choice of the homeowner. In general, if the logs are small and there will be many chink lines in between them, it is best to stick to a color of chinking that best matches the stain color on the logs.
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Comment: Re:Hilarious (Score 1) 792
by Solandri (#46466717) Attached to: How Do You Backup 20TB of Data?
You don't even need to duplicate the array hardware. 20 TB is still within the range of a RAID enclosure. Basically a box where you plug in drives, and it gloms them together into a RAID 0/1/5/10. You then plug it into your computer with eSATA or USB 3, and your computer sees it as a single drive up to 32 TB in size (8x4TB with current drives). Do your backup, then unplug it and turn it off until your next scheduled backup.
Incidentally, TFS is a perfect example of why RAID is not a backup. Yes RAID is kinda like storing two copies. But the "two copies" are linked both virtually and physically. If you accidentally delete one copy, the other gets deleted simultaneously. If you physically damage the array, you lose both copies.
RAID is not a backup. RAID is for redundancy. If your business will lose hundreds of dollars per hour or more while the file server is down, you put the file server on a RAID array so it will continue to operate even if there's a single (or double) drive failure. i.e. It only protects against your file server going offline. You still need a separate backup.
Comment: Re:"Tell the families"? Really? (Score 1) 442
by Solandri (#46461281) Attached to: The $100,000 Device That Could Have Solved Missing Plane Mystery
Now, if you want to justify real-time transmission, check out the amount of (incidentally not paid for by the airline) search gear that has been diverted from Malaysian, Chinese, and other sources to looking for the debris. Whole bunch of ships, airplane and helicopter overflights, diversion of what, 10 satellites? That starts to make the $100k look like savings.
Well, the cost is $100k if you know ahead of time exactly which plane is going to go missing and outfit the device on just that single plane.
Obviously the real world doesn't work like that. You don't know ahead of time which plane will go missing, so you have to outfit all of them with this device. The best estimates I could find on Google were that there are about 15,000 commercial airliners in operation globally, so you're looking at a total cost of $1.5 billion.
Suddenly all the ships, airplane and helicopter overflight, diversion of 10 satellites seems like an absolute bargain. For reference, the multi-year search for AF447 and recovery cost about $40 million.
Comment: Double, triple, quadruple charging (Score 5, Informative) 74
I have a phone. It has a 4G LTE plan. It is always with me.
I have a tablet. I cannot use it simultaneously with my phone (in the sense that I'm actively doing something that consumes data with one device).
I have a laptop. I cannot use it simultaneously with my tablet and phone.
I have a car. I cannot use it simultaneously with my laptop, tablet, and phone.
Clearly the proper metric that used here is to charge for LTE data use per individual (or even per GB). Not per device. The "correct" solution here is to get your cellular data plan with your phone, and have your phone operate as a hotspot to share that data with your tablet, laptop, and car. Attempts to charge for service on a per-device basis is just double-, triple-, or quadruple-dipping by the carriers. If service is being metered per GB, this shouldn't even be an issue. Pay a nominal fee for an LTE SIM card, link it to your phone account, and add the data it uses to your monthly usage. There is absolutely no need for the device to have its own separate plan.
Comment: Re:Lessee, where's my dictionary? (Score 1) 611
by Solandri (#46458375) Attached to: 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals
mandatory (adj): Obligatory; required or commanded by authority.
As the article points out, most of this is going to mandatory programs, which would be the same even if it were Romney or McCain or Sarah Fucking Palin in office.
That's the dictionary definition.
The government definition is that a mandatory program continues in perpetuity until the legislature decides to stop (or modify) it. A discretionary program must have its budget approved every year or it dies.
The government modifies spending and revenue in mandatory programs all the time. The Social Security tax rate was decreased from 13.3% (where it had been since the 1990s) to 12.3% in 2011 to try to lower the tax burden during the recession. And SS gets a cost of living allowance approved each year (usually) which increases the disbursement to recipients in response to inflation. The spending of those programs could very well have been different if a conservative had been in office.
When we hear a serious discussion of how to cut benefits (something other than "the poor should die" and "let's give it all to Wall Street, because they're so freaking responsible"), we can have an actual conversation.
Yes those are ridiculous stances to take when debating the budget. But so are "mandatory programs cannot be touched" and "the retirement age must not be increased."
Social Security isn't like a pension or 401k - where you pay money in, it goes into some account in your name earning interest, then you get the money back when you retire. Instead, your payments get disbursed to current recipients (there's about a 2-3 year buffer which is the SS fund). That means the amount you pay into it isn't the only factor. The retirement age, average lifespan, and population growth rate (ratio of workers to retirees) all become factors. The program has been run for ~70 years now in denial that these are factors, which is what's caused it to balloon to a quarter of the budget. Any realistic attempt to contain its growth (I'm not even asking to reduce it) needs to acknowledge these other factors, and modify how the program operates to zero out their effect in the long-term.
And don't even get me started on Medicare. When certain programs show consistent growth over the last several decades, you have to stop and ask yourself why those programs are growing, and what we can do to stop it to keep the budget reasonable. You don't plug your fingers into your ears and say "nah nah nah I can't hear you" any time someone tries to discuss options to contain the growth.
Comment: Re:And that's my problem with Snowden... (Score 1) 76
by ScentCone (#46452097) Attached to: The NSA Has an Advice Columnist
No, you deliberately answered the wrong aspect of the question in order to avoid addressing the fact that you can't run a society that is plagued by a small but toxic fringe of awful people and groups without telling them everything you're doing to stop them, minute by minute. You know this, but you're pretending you're too dumb to grasp it. Why, I can't imagine. You're a transparency puritan troll, I guess.
Comment: Re:Thoughts (Score 5, Informative) 141
It did NOT break up at altitude. Something rendered the aircraft uncontrollable. A loss of hydraulic pressure or power does this for a 777.
A loss of hydraulic pressure or power does not do this for a 777. It has a RAT (ram air turbine) which pops out in such cases. Basically a big propeller which gets turned by the wind as the plane glides at 500 mph and generates enough power rudimentary electronics (including radio) and hydraulic pressure. That's what happened with the Gimli Glider - a 767 mistakenly loaded with insufficient fuel (the original boneheaded imperial vs metric conversion foul-up before the Mars Climate Orbiter). which basically turned into a 100 ton glider when it ran out of fuel mid-flight. The RAT popped out and allowed the crew to control the plane to a safe landing. (Which of course means if this did happen on MH370, the search area needs to be much larger than where they're currently looking).
Hydraulic failure usually involves structural damage which compromises all the hydraulic lines. Most commercial aircraft have 3 independent hydraulic systems; some have 4. If there's damage which severs lines in all of those systems, the plane can "bleed" hydraulic fluid until there's not enough left to control the flight surfaces. I believe the 777 used a hybrid fly-by-wire + hydraulic system though, where pilot commands are transmitted to the flight surfaces by wire, and a hydraulic pump there moves the flight surface. So severing the hydraulic lines may have killed one control surface, but not all. (Severing the wires OTOH...)
Anyway, I'm skeptical that it broke up at altitude too. That usually generates a lot of floating debris (papers, luggage, clothing, bodies, etc.) scattered over a wide enough area that the crash area is quickly located. The pingers should be firing away so it's just a matter of one of the search boats traveling within a few miles from the plane's resting location. (KAL007 wasn't located because the Soviets knew from their radar tracks where it went down, and set up decoy pingers far away to get the U.S. and South Korea to search the wrong location).
Comment: Re:Why not nukes? (Score 3, Insightful) 107
by Solandri (#46450581) Attached to: How Engineers Are Building a Power Station At the South Pole
The overhead associated with operating a commercial nuclear power plant (maintenance, safety requirements, fuel transport and storage, etc) means they don't become economically viable until you're servicing a population of about a half million. That's what Honolulu doesn't have a nuclear plant even though it'd be almost ideal for their remote location. Currently they get most of their electricity from burning fuel oil, and consequently have the highest electricity prices in the U.S. - about $0.30/kWh vs the national average of $0.12/kWh. Cost on the islands other than Oahu is even higher (about $0.45/kWh) because they have less access to oil and have to rely more on renewables.
With a population of just under 400,000, you couldn't run a small commercial reactor full-power 24/7 as they like to be run. You'd have to ramp it up and down throughout the day, which greatly increases operational costs. In the rest of the country, nuclear provides 24/7 baseline power. Coal plants can ramp up/down more quickly, but it still takes a while so they also provide baseline power. Fluctuations in power use through the day are handled by oil and gas plants (which can ramp up/down almost instantly) and hydro (which can ramp up/down instantly).
A RTG (generates heat through nuclear decay, not an induced nuclear reaction) could work. The Soviets used to power many of their remote lighthouses with them. But the wind in Antarctica is very strong and very consistent, and would seem to be the obvious go-to energy source given the scale and remote location (minimal maintenance crew).
by ScentCone (#46444875) Attached to: The NSA Has an Advice Columnist
Play stupid? I thought I answered the question adequately. If all this information is public, how the hell wouldn't they find out? Looks like cops will have to find another way of enforcing the law, which may be less effective, but that would be for the best.
Ah, you really are that dim. Is that physically painful?
Comment: Re:Summary (Score 2) 147
by Solandri (#46443407) Attached to: 3 Years Later: A Fukushima Worker's Eyewitness Story
I'm an engineer by training. My natural inclination is to assume the worst and seek evidence showing that things aren't quite that bad.
Reading TFA, I was struck by how the manager seemed to assume the best and sought evidence showing things were worse. When workers told him they couldn't read the coolant water levels anymore, rather than assume the worst (the cooling water had all evaporated) and order seawater to be dumped in (killing the commercial life of the reactor), he repeatedly asked the workers if they were sure. They told him they couldn't be sure there was no water because they couldn't read the levels, and he took that to mean the water levels might be ok so he wouldn't have to make the hard decision to dump in seawater.
Comment: Re:Good luck (Score 1) 167
I would actually go even further than that. This Yik Yak app isn't causing the problem. The problem already existed - some kids think belittling and harassing other kids is ok. Yik Yak just gave them a means to carry out what they were thinking of doing without fear of consequences. It's like if you were to survey a thousand people if they thought Blacks were lazy, almost nobody would say yes. But if you asked them anonymously, a significantly larger percentage would say yes. The former survey may make you feel better about society, but the latter is a more accurate measure of what people really think. In what way does banning the latter type of survey make any sense?
So banning Yik Yak just hides the problem out of sight, it doesn't make it go away. To really fix the problem, you (schools, parents, whomever) have to drive it into kids' heads that this sort of behavior is just wrong. Everyone knows it goes on it school (e.g. the jocks vs nerds stereotype), but nobody seems to ever try to stop it. The problem goes away when the kids stop thinking the harassment posted in Yik Yak is funny or true, and start thinking the person who anonymously posted such things is an idiot.
Comment: Re:Give It Ten Years (Score 2) 109
by Solandri (#46443369) Attached to: Up To 1000 NIH Investigators Dropped Out Last Year
That would be nice if that were the way SS and Medicare actually worked. What really happens is the money you paid during your 40 years of working went to pay people who were retired while you were working (people who were retired when the SS program first started got a free ride). And in the future you'll be receiving money from the people who are working while you are retired.
Basically, it's the Asian cultural model where when the parents retire, their kids pay for their living expenses. Except on a national scale. The "entitlements" are not something you are entitled to. It's just an arbitrary allocation of a percentage of the kids' current income (currently 12.4% for SS, 2.9% for Medicare).
There's a token attempt by the accountants to make sure the numbers balance out long-term, but it's subject to things completely out of the accountants' control - like people's lifespans increasing, or couples having fewer babies. At a minimum, the retirement age needs to be scaled to keep pace with average lifespan for the numbers to balance out. But it's been stuck at 65 since the 1940s when life expectancy at birth was about 62, and life expectancy for a 50-year old was about 70. Currently the life expectancy for those ages are 78 and 81 respectively. So we have fewer people paying into SS (couples having fewer babies remember), and the people who qualify for SS collecting 3x as much money (living 3x longer in retirement) as when the program was first started. That's what's killing the budget and SS/Medicare.
Comment: Re:Austerity (Score 1) 109
by Solandri (#46443309) Attached to: Up To 1000 NIH Investigators Dropped Out Last Year
Austerity driven stupidity intentionally trying to destabilize this country. It's too bad we can't be strict constitutionalists and call up the militia to put down the insurrection or the far right fanatics, anti-science, anti-education, anti-Christian right. It really is simple: stupidity doesn't lead to innovation.
Take a good look at the graph in TFA. The biggest increase in investigators was during Clinton's second term (peak of the tech bubble) and Bush's first term (onset of recession). i.e. Bush increased science spending despite the country dropping into recession. A look at historical budgets bears this out. The biggest increase in federal funding for non-defense R&D happened during Bush's two terms.
Obama tried to continue that upward trend during his first term, but reality has set in and he's been scaling it back. We are still above the funding levels when he took office though.
by ScentCone (#46442263) Attached to: The NSA Has an Advice Columnist
If it's available to someone like me, don't you think it would also be available to the general public? What a pointless question.
You can't really be that dim, which means you're just being disingenuous in the extreme.
But I'll play along.
So in exchange for total transparency, you're willing to let gangs, child traffickers, massive scam operations, and much worse simply carry on? People we now lock up for really evil crap, based on the hard work of undercover cops ... you're cool with them doing business as usual, unmolested by law enforcement because you'd like the child-pimping slime to get updates from the Bureau Of Openness on all government activity?
And don't play stupid. Address the issue.
Comment: Re:Prosecutors too busy to catch the real criminal (Score 1) 90
by Solandri (#46440687) Attached to: A Dispatch From Outside the Prison Holding Barrett Brown
Not that amazing. The US government has been sold off to the highest bidders.
Not saying the government hasn't been bought. But by Occam's razor, a simpler explanation is that little fish like Brown and Swartz don't have the funds to mount a persistent and comprehensive legal defense. Prosecutors see them as a way to score a quick and easy victory, compared to bringing charges against Corzine and being tied up in court for a decade or more with a questionable outcome. I'd even go so far as to say there are probably lots of Browns and Swartzes you've never heard about who are in prison. Their case didn't generate enough publicity for organizations like the EFF to catch wind and offer legal counsel.
In other words, the problem is that the legal system is too expensive. The same thing likely would have happened even if the government wasn't/isn't bought.
by ScentCone (#46440509) Attached to: The NSA Has an Advice Columnist
I feel I have every right to know what my lovely little government thugs are doing.
Does everyone else also have that right? How about someone who is engaged in a securities scam or human trafficking? Should they be informed about the under cover officer who is working to see them put away for stealing people's money or prostituting teenage girls? How would you like that information delivered to you and to those criminals? Do you prefer an RSS feed, or perhaps a PDF emailed weekly?
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Traditional row crop production is not a natural system, notes Chris Lawrence, NRCS agronomist in Richmond, Va., The way to grow crops in a more natural system is to imitate nature, the Virginia agronomist says.
The first step he says is to make a commitment to long-term, no-till farming and to building nitrogen in the soil. A key to that commitment it always have something growing in the field. In a naturally occurring system, there is always something growing to keep nitrogen production in balance. Over time, he says, keeping something growing in the field all the time will have environmental, agronomic and economic benefits.
It is critical in this long-term investment to have a legume in the rotation. Lawrence points out the obvious, that N has to come from somewhere and legumes are nitrogen-fixing plants.
“Asking grain farmers to make this kind of commitment is difficult,” the Virginia agronomist admits. “It does add an extra cost, and it doesn't provide much return on investment for the first few years,” he says. Long-term, he explains, the benefits are well worth the investment. “We have growers who have been building N by using some of these practices for over 10 years, and some of these farmers have grown 95 bushels of wheat per acre with little or no fertilizer,” he explains.
The ultimate mimicking of nature is to grow a lot of residue for the sole purpose of putting it back down into the soil. This is critical to organic, no-till farming and may be a way to speed up the nitrogen building capability of grain farm soils. The key, Lawrence contends is to grow a high volume, high biomass cover crop. In some cases rolling and crimping may be a way to fully utilize the cover crop.
The cover crop's main function is to reproduce. Once it fulfills that function, it is ready to die. If a cover crop is caught at the right stage of growth, when it is ready to die, it can be rolled and crimped, which doesn't kill it, but prevents it from growing upright. This allows farmers to plant directly into the cover crop and to get maximum benefit from its nitrogen potential.
If cover crops are rolled and crimped too late, it has already produced viable seeds, which creates unwanted competition for the following crop. If the cover crop is rolled and crimped too early, the full benefit of the crop residue won't be available to the soil, plus the roller will miss some of the plants, leaving them to grow and produce seed.
Rolling and crimping opens the door to no-till organic farming. If the system is used correctly, it eliminates the need for a burn down herbicide to kill the cover crop. And, if a cash crop is established there will be a definite mulch benefit for weed control. With good systems and plants, plowing can be eliminated, making for a true organic system, Lawrence contends.
The drums on most roller/crimpers are designed to be filled with water to add enough weight to avoid bounces, which could create skips in a rolled field. Another design feature is to sweep the roller bars back at less than a 90 degree angle to the roller drum. Otherwise, plants can be ripped from the ground, leaving bare soil. In organic farming, there are no herbicides, and bare ground produces weeds.
It is critical to plant behind the roller/crimper in the same direction. Otherwise, the planter will tend to push the cover crop back up. The planter used by Lawrence's research team was attached and matched to the roller/crimper.
“The key is to have high biomass, and to get high biomass from any cover crop, it is critical to time rolling and crimping properly,” Lawrence stresses. Conventional growers, with late planted soybeans, planting into a cover crop may save a burn down herbicide and may eliminate the need for weed control, the Virginia agronomist stresses.
“Spoon feeding crops nitrogen with high tech equipment is great, and we need to be as efficient as we can. However, we are always going to have some nitrogen coming out the bottom.
“From an agronomist's perspective, we can utilize the lost nitrogen and prevent it from escaping into the atmosphere by using plants and plant systems. These systems can produce enough income for the grower and have perennial nitrogen uptake — but it takes time and commitment,” Lawrence explains.
In some cases in which grain crop land is rented, it may take a long-term commitment from both the farmer and the landowner, Lawrence contends. Most grain farms operate on large acreages with low profit margins, so it is particularly difficult for the farmers who would benefit the most from a long-term nitrogen saving system to invest in the system, the Virginia agronomist explains.
“It all comes back to a quality soil building system, Lawrence contends. In a natural system the soil is only disturbed by roots and microorganisms that open up a soil and give it a natural structure. Tillage also opens up the soil, but in an unnatural way, according to the Virginia agronomist.
In long-term no-tillage systems residue from year after year of crops becomes a part of the soil. Keeping cover crops on the field year-round not only prevents leaching of nitrogen, but takes carbon that would be released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, and instead, this carbon is going back into the soil.
When synthetic liquid nitrogen is put on crops, no carbon is being put into the soil. By building organic matter with cover crops, soils with high organic matter hold nitrogen, which releases slowly over time. As farmers get further and further along in continuous no-till farming and nitrogen building the benefits of reduced fertilizer get larger and larger.
“A few years ago, I would never have thought like an organic agronomist, but I agree with many of the concepts of organic farming. In our area of eastern Virginia, long-term no-till farmers are using less nitrogen fertilizer — that is documented.”
Mark Alley, a professor of agronomy at Virginia Tech University is conducting a series of tests in eastern Virginia to determine more precisely how much nitrogen is available from long-term no-till systems. Because continuous no-till farming has caught on in eastern Virginia, it is easier for farmers there to make additional steps in soil nitrogen building, Lawrence points out
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I may have overcomplicated things.
I have two views. The first view generates a bunch of temporary data based on the user's input from the form. Each of the generated data contains a name and misc data. I want to pass only the names to the template to be rendered as a list of hyperlinks. If the user clicks on one of them, the second view should be given the specific name the user clicked on so that the view can manipulate it. The only problem is, I don't know how to get the misc data associated with the name.
The misc data generated could contain random characters that's not a standard character in URLs, so I can't turn misc into a hyperlink like I can with just the name.
I have something like this:
# Displays the temp data names
def display(request):
return render_to_response('display.html',{},context_instance=RequestContext(request))
# User provides input, generate temp data to be displayed as hyperlinks
def search(request):
form = SearchForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
usr_input = form.cleaned_data['input']
data = generate_data(usr_input) # generates a list of (name, misc) data.
request.session['hyperlinks'] = get_list_names(data) # returns only names in data
return HttpResponseRedirect('views.display')
# User has clicked on a hyperlink, we must process specific data given its name.
def process_data(request, name):
# How to get associated misc data created from search()?
I haven't written the template yet, but the idea is:
{% for name_link in request.session.hyperlinks %}
<a href={% url process name_link %}>
{% endfor %}
One solution could be creating a bunch of session variables:
for name in get_list_names(data):
request.session[name] = // associated misc data
But this seems like a waste. Plus I'd have to manage deleting the session variable later on since this is only temporary data generated based on user input. A new input from the user would create another huge horde of session variables!
Another solution could be to store it temporarily in the database, but that also seems like a bad idea.
EDIT - Trying out suggestion by christophe31: I'm not quite sure if I understand your suggestion, but is it something like this?
data_dict = {name1:misc1, name2:misc2, etc...}
encoded = urllib.urlencode(data_dict) # encoded = 'name1=misc1&name2:misc2...etc'
request.session['hyperlinks'] = encoded
A few questions on this though:
1) Wouldn't encoding it using urllib defeat the purpose of having a dictionary? It returns a string rather than a dictionary
2) To expand on (1), what if the misc data had '&' and '=' in it? It would screw up parsing which is the key and value by the second view. Also, misc data may have unusual characters, so allowing that to be part of the url to be displayed may be bad.
3) Does Django protect from allowing the user to maliciously modify the session misc data so that the misc data generated from the first view may be different than the one passed to the second view? That would be a problem!
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You may want to put a dictionary as a session variable, set a cookie, or pass as get argument throught the link your data.
For me you have to put all these data in a dictionary before export it as get parameters (with urllib2) or store it in your user's session.
Ask me if you want more info on a suggested way.
They are 2 ways I see, by session:
request.session['hyperlinks'] = data_dict
Or passing to the template the data if no session backend:
encoded = urllib.urlencode(data_dict)
return render(request, "my_template.html", {"url_params":encoded,}
<a href="{% url my_view %}?{{ url_params }}">Go to results</a>
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Hi, I edited my post based on your suggestion. Could you clarify a bit? Thank you! – sharkfin Apr 23 '12 at 14:29
sorry, I meant they are more than one way, let me explain – christophe31 Apr 24 '12 at 9:14
Thanks, I also looked at reverse(). I think that may be a better way to go for my particular case. – sharkfin Apr 25 '12 at 22:07
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I am learning c++ inheritance and I come from Java. To train, I made a small java example and tried to convert it to c++ but my c++ implementations has many problems.
This is my interface IShape.java. It represents the abstraction of a Shape.
public interface IShape {
public void draw();
And this is my Triangle.java that implements Shape.
public class Triangle implements IShape{
public void draw() {
//draw code
And now the Main.java:
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
IShape someShape = new Triangle();
Everything works nice and dandy in java, but my c++ version is doesn't even compile :S This is my IShape.h c++ file. It is supposed to be like the IShape.java interface.
#ifndef ISHAPE_H_
#define ISHAPE_H_
class IShape{
virtual void draw() = 0;
//must have this because of compiler
virtual ~IShape();
//an awesome thing in c++ is that I can also define private methods for my children to implement!
virtual int compute_point() = 0;
And now my Triangle.cpp file:
#include "IShape.h"
class Triangle: public IShape {
int max_size;
max_size = 255;//This triangle has a limited max size!
void draw() {
//implementation code here
int compute_point() {
//implementation code here
And now to finish, my c++ main:
#include <iostream>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include "IShape.h"
#include "Triangle.cpp"
using namespace std;
IShape myShape = Triangle();
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
How ever I have errors in my c++ main. Because I have several problems, I will try to enumerate them:
1. It tells me that "mySHape" is abstract, when it is not because I implemented it in triangle class!
2. I cannot call "myShape.draw()" even if I fix the first error
3. My friend says I should never include a cpp file. But if I do not include triangle, how will my Main.cpp know it exists?
4. Is there a better way to port this example in C++? Or am I being too much "java-ed"?
I have read several links and tutorials about c++, and each one teaches me something in a different way, thus I end up with many definitions and a little bit confused. I also searched StackOverflow but the posts I found didn't help me, they usually refer to more complex questions.
What am I doing wrong and what tips can you provide to improve my code style? Also, sorry for the wall of text, I am trying hard to explain myself and not get down-voted.
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In C++, in order to achieve polymorphism you have to use pointers or references. Objects with automatic storage would get sliced, and in your case, not even instantiated. In fact, this instruction:
IShape myShape = Triangle();
Will try to instantiate an object of type IShape and assign a temporary Triangle object to it. Definitely not what you want. This, on the other hand, does the work:
IShape* myShape = new Triangle(); // Using
// ...
delete myShape;
However, in Modern C++, it is usually a good idea to use smart pointers. Try rewriting your main() function this way:
#include <memory> // For std::shared_ptr<>
int main( int argc, char *argv[])
std::shared_ptr<IShape> myShape = std::make_shared<Triangle>();
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
Also notice, that you have virtual a destructor for which you provide no definition:
virtual ~IShape();
You should provide one. The simplest way is to inline an empty body this way:
virtual ~IShape() { }
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When I use pointers, my c++ IShape has a compile error of "undefined reference to vtable". What does it mean? – Flame_Phoenix Mar 15 '13 at 17:55
"In C++, in order to achieve polymorphism you have to use pointers". *pointers or references. – Jefffrey Mar 15 '13 at 17:56
@Flame_Phoenix: That's because you have a virtual constructor without a body (see the last part of my answer) – Andy Prowl Mar 15 '13 at 17:56
@Jueecy: Correct. Edited, thank you. – Andy Prowl Mar 15 '13 at 17:57
virtual de-structor... constructors are NEVER virtual. – Ben Voigt Mar 15 '13 at 17:57
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This line is your problem:
IShape myShape = Triangle();
It creates a temporary Triangle object, and then tries to create an IShape object by copying the temporary triangle. But IShape is abstract, you can't create such an object.
What you want is to have a handle to the Triangle object. In C++, handles come in three kinds: references, pointers, and smart pointers. Most of the time you should use a smart pointer.
Try this:
unique_ptr<IShape> myShape = new Triangle();
In Java, every variable with non-primitive type was automagically a handle to an object. In C++, you can have both handles and actual objects stored in variables, so you need to tell the compiler when you intended to have a handle and which kind to use.
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IShape myShape = Triangle(); This is attempting to create an IShape instance and assigning it to a Triangle. IShape is abstract as you know, so we can't do this.
What you want is a pointer.
IShape* myShape = new Triangle();
Also replace:
virtual ~IShape(); with virtual ~IShape() {}
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You have two error. compute_point() should be protected just like in java, not private. – andre Mar 15 '13 at 17:55
@Flame: It's probably because you have not defined IShape::~IShape anywhere. – Ben Voigt Mar 15 '13 at 17:56
@BenVoigt Yes your right. my bad. – andre Mar 15 '13 at 17:57
@Flame_Phoenix No, there is no need for compute_point() to be protected. In fact, I think it should be private. On the other hand, you have to implement the destructor. You should at least give your base class a n empty destructor body. – juanchopanza Mar 15 '13 at 17:58
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1) It tells you so because you are declaring a real object, not a pointer to an object. Dynamic binding applies only to pointers to objects.
Let's see this:
IShape cShape = IShape();
Triangle cTriangle = Triangle();
Boths are syntactically correct, you are declaring objects with correct types. But you can't istantiate IShape because it's abstract.
IShape pShape = Triangle();
Syntactically correct but since pShape is concrete, the space for it is already reserved on stack, this means that everything in addition to what a IShape already is will be discarded and this ends up in object slicing. You can't use polymorphism with this situation.
IShape* pTriangle = new Triangle();
delete pTriangle;
Correct, you are declaring a pointer to a shape and initialize it with a dynamically allocated triangle instance. This is how it should be done and this is how it works in Java (when you just have references to objects).
3) You should never include a .cpp file indeed. You should move your Triangle class declaration from the .cpp to the .h file. Then it's your choice if to implement the body methods in the header file or create a .cpp file in which you implement Triangle draw method.
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"a concrete object can't be initialized with a subtype"... false. It usually shouldn't, because it causes slicing, but it can be done. – Ben Voigt Mar 15 '13 at 17:59
@BenVoigt: I specified what happens better. – Jack Mar 15 '13 at 18:02
@Jack: SO, you suggest that I move my Triangle.cpp inside IShape.h? I don't follow. – Flame_Phoenix Mar 15 '13 at 18:06
@Flame_Phoenix: Absolutely, but you can choose to keep your implementation in your .cpp file and just declare the class in the header file. You need to remove your Java kind of thinking. In C++ usually you have this redundancy just because you have separated compilation units. – Jack Mar 15 '13 at 18:12
@Jack: Don't take me wrong but I really think that is a terrible idea. Imagine that tomorrow I want to create an IShape that is a Circle, and then a Sqaure or something else. If I keep moving everything inside the IShape.h file I will end with a huge, monolithic beast ! – Flame_Phoenix Mar 15 '13 at 18:13
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It all stems from the fact that you are trying to instantiate an IShape object here:
IShape myShape = ...;
This is independent of whatever is on the RHS. The compiler tells you why you cannot do it. You need an IShape pointer (or smart pointer if you are using dynamic allocation). In this example, we use automatic storage allocation for simplicity, but that is just a detail:
Triangle t; // default construct a Triangle object
IShape* myShape = &t; // IShape pointer points to a Triangle instance.
myShape->draw(); // calls Triangle::draw()
An example with dynamic allocation would be
std::unique_ptr<IShape> myShape(new Triangle());
Other issues:
1. Missing destructor implementation. Give ~IShape() an empty body so derived classes aren't forced to implement a destructor when they don't need one.
2. Protected data can lead to confusing code. You should consider making max_size private.
3. Use the constructor initialization list to initialize data members rather than assign values to them in the constructor body: Triangle() : max_size(255) {}.
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What's the difference of using constructor list or assigning a value inside? – Flame_Phoenix Mar 15 '13 at 18:09
@Flame_Phoenix In this case, the difference is only semantic because we're dealing with an int, so it doesn't matter too much. But when dealing with non built-in types, the semantic difference is important: when you assign a value, the object has to be default constructed first, then you perform an assignment, i.e. you change its value. When you initialize it in the initialization list, it gets constructed to have that value from the outset. – juanchopanza Mar 15 '13 at 18:12
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I'm trying to send a list of IPs from a Postgres query via e-mail.
I found MIME::Lite::TT and now have that installed and working. I'd like to pass 20-30 IPs out in each e-mail in a line feed delimited list. I could do it by generating a new .txt template for each e-mail I need to send, but that seems inefficient. I found Template on cpan, and I think the @list part is what I need, but I don't have any idea how to implement it.
Passing $params{ips} = "\n2.3.4.5\n3.4.5.6\n" didn't work either.
Thanks for your thoughts.
This code sends a single IP successfully:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use MIME::Lite::TT;
# SendTo email id
my $email = 'tester@mydomain.org';
my %params;
$params{ips} = "";
# create a new MIME Lite based email
my $msg = MIME::Lite::TT->new
Subject => "HTML email test",
From => 'admin@mydomain.org',
To => $email,
Type => 'text/html',
Template => 'test.txt',
TmplParams => \%params
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Ah. Yeah.
Without knowing what your template looks like, it's difficult to come up with a specific suggestion. However, if you set this up as:
$params{ips} = [ qw{ } ];
and your template had a region that looked like:
[% FOREACH address IN ips %]
[% address %]
[% END %]
your problem would be solved, I think. I leave the splitting up of the array into 20–30 element lists as an exercise. :)
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Your answer was exactly what I needed. Thank you! – McLuvin Apr 21 '11 at 0:21
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Although GraphicsMagick is a fork of ImageMagick, there are dissimilarities between the two, namely in the support of image stacking in ImageMagick, but not in GraphicsMagick. Taken from the ImageMagick documentation:
convert wand.gif \( wizard.gif -rotate 30 \) +append images.gif
In this example, the rotate command is applied only to the wizard.gif resource. My question is: Is there an equivalent to image stacking in GraphicsMagick?
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No, there is nothing like this in GraphicsMagick. If you are willing to write a script using one of the scripting extensions, or write a C/C++ program using the GraphicsMagick library, then anything becomes possible.
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Taken by Erin Bowman
Taken #1
They call it the Heist.
In Claysoot boys are forced to grow up at a very young age. They become leaders at the age of 15 and must father children as young as possible for their time is very limited. Each one, on the night of their 18th birthday is Heisted, and disappears forever. There's no escaping the heist as a wall encircles the town and anyone who tries to escape doen't come back alive. It's a fact of life, one most of the residents of Claysoot have accepted. But Gray is different. He questions everything, so when he finds a mysterious letter from his mother claiming that he isn't what he thought he was, he goes in search of answers. What he finds is shocking, and only leaves more questions than answers. He'll have to decide what's worse, the wall and the secrets beyond it, or the unknown of the Heist.
When this book took off on a whirlwind and was pulling at my heartstrings in the very first chapter, I thought to myself, "This is going to be an awesome book!" And it was for the first part. TAKEN is split into four parts, and I have to say that things just seemed to go steadily downhill after the first one. I mean in the beginning there's all this mystery going on and you could really feel the incredibly harsh situations that have been forced upon the people of Claysoot. Boys are forced to become men long before they are of age as they have to pass on their genes before they are taken away at 18. There is no monogamy, only "slatings" with a different girl each month. Children never remember their fathers as they are heisted long before the child is old enough. As much as they hate the hand they've been dealt, they've come to accept it. Anyone who tries to escape over the wall surrounding claysoot comes back a charred husk. So for the first part of the book I was so wrapped up in figuring out what was going, that I was completely enthralled in the book. Then part two happens, and honestly it really let me down. The revelations given were so obviously false, I just couldn't comprehend how these characters were so naive. It really seemed out of character for them to just instantly accept things as truth when they questioned things so much before. I mean what happened to their rebellious nature? I won't get into part three and four to avoid spoiling anything, but to me it just felt like a cookie cutter dystopian rebellion.
Now onto the romance. In the first part of TAKEN, I felt it was handled pretty well. Gray has loved Emma for as long as he can remember, even though love isn't something that happens in Claysoot. Emma of course doesn't want anything to do with him as she sees his brash nature as a flaw. But she does come around when he makes an honest offer to pretend to complete the "slatings" with her to get others off her back. Neither wants a child, so she's pretty impressed and changes her opinion of him. I did feel like it happened a little too quickly, but then again in their situation, time isn't something they have a lot of, so it would make sense to quickly let go of past perceptions. Of course by part two they are madly in LOVE and practically desperate for one another, even if nothing has really happened. Then hijinks occur and they get separated, possibly for good. And of course, now another girl must enter the picture, which frustrated me to no end. Don't get me wrong I actually really like the new girl, but I just didn't care for the way the triangle progressed. I just don't think it was really fair to her, especially when you consider some of Gray's later actions. I know I shouldn't expect Gray to know how to really handle relationship turmoil considering he's never seen it nor experienced it, but I still was pretty frustrated with him by the end. Love triangles are very hit or miss for me, and this time around it's definitely a miss.
I have to say that TAKEN wasn't a terrible book, just more frustrating than anything. Most of those frustrations stem from the fact that the last 3/4 did not even remotely live up to the incredible opening. I just felt really let down after those high expectations were set. When it comes down to it, for a book to be really good, the revelations have to be as strong as the mystery itself, otherwise I'm just left wondering what was the point. And TAKEN unfortunately is one of those cases.
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Yes and no. My mom is super supportive and loves that I have found something for ME as being a stay at home mother did get rather lonely at times before I found something I could do to interact with other ADULTS. She's also joined in the fun and reads a lot things along with me, so it's fun to have someone to share reading with. In fact, my hubby joined as well in his own way, with audiobooks on his drive. My poor dad is left in confusion when the three of us have debates over characters or book events, etc. It's rather amusing.
However, me being on the computer all the time does bother the hubby. He likes me to watch the TV with him, so it feels like I'm directly spending time with him, even though I can't stand TV. But I've gotten really good at using my subconscious to pay attention to his shows while I'm on my laptop so that when he laughs or makes a comment, I have a general idea of what is going on, so I can "fake" it. Lol. I will say that he has gotten much better at not griping at me for computer time since I started with Entangled, as he realizes that I'm gonna have to be on the computer. That being said I don't think he will ever understand my panics when I'm pressed for time to get a review done. I realize my "deadlines" are self-imposed, but they are important to me. He just looks at it like it isn't a job, and doesn't pay me, so don't worry about it. While that is true, I like having things planned out and sticking to my schedule. Also, blogging is what led me to working for Entangled, so in the long run you could really say that blogging did wind up "paying" me. ;)
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Vampire Miami by Phil Tucker
The Human Revolt #1
Vampire Miami by Phil Tucker is a little different, no matter what the title would lead readers to believe. Yes, it’s a novel with vampires, and those are fairly common, but it doesn’t take the standard ‘vampires live among us, but in secret’ trope and stake it to something. Instead, in this world, vampires and humans have clashed, and the government decided that the best way to come out ahead was to give them a city of their own. The unlucky winner was, as the title suggests, Miami.
Readers should be aware that this isn’t a self-contained story, and that there will be further installments in the series, so there may be some outcry when they get to the end, but only the good kind.
Tucker’s premise gives the audience a Miami, and indeed a world that is fundamentally changed, and even broken by what’s happened. Anybody who wants to side with the vampires can live ‘the good life,’ but if you want to stay human, survival is no easy feat.
The book's protagonist is Selah, who sets off to find her father after he goes missing, and really has no idea what she’s getting into. As far as plans go, she doesn’t have one, and so readers can enjoy her impulsive nature, the way that she has her world turned completely upside down, and the fact that sometimes doing something without thinking it through is exactly what’s needed to shake things up.
These aren’t vampires that woo girls by rescuing them, or give interviews. They’re vicious, tangled in power struggles, and no less petty than the humans they feed on. If the vampires of popular culture have been tamed, then Tucker’s undead are a reminder that it takes intelligence, and sometimes sheer dumb luck to come out ahead of the bloodsuckers.
Selah finds friends, some more loyal than others, and a few have agendas that will surprise her. Not only that, but she finds herself involved in the underground resistance movement. But despite how tough things are, the conclusion readers can draw is that vampires may have Miami, but humans haven’t stopped fighting the war, and the next book in the series promises more bloodthirsty adventures, and a whole new city to do battle in.
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It took decades in some cases and autopsies in others. Even so, you could always count on the International Olympic Committee getting Olympic medals into the hands of their rightful owners.
Most of the time, the swells who run the organization get lambasted for having too few medals on hand. If it isn't a figure-skating pair from Canada demanding the IOC mint an extra set of golds on the spot because of crooked judges, it's a gymnast from Korea demanding the same because of incompetent ones.
But the latest twist in the continuing Marion Jones saga marks the first time in the 113-year history of the modern Games that the IOC has found it impossible to give one away. The question is whether it also marks the last.
"It's a unique set of circumstances, but what this decision says is that when you're between a rock and a hard place, you do the right thing," U.S. Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart said Thursday. "It says you'd rather that no one have it than let the cheater keep it."
In the past, the gold medal that Jones won in the women's 100 meters at Sydney in 2000 automatically would have been turned over to the silver medalist.
In this case, that would be Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou, who finished second behind Jones in the women's 100 meters at the 2000 Sydney Games. The problem is she has a decidedly checkered past on doping matters, too.
Thanou developed a sort of allergic reaction to IOC drug testers. She would tell them she was training in Crete, but by the time they arrived, she'd moved on to Qatar. She'd promise to be in Chicago for a makeup, then phone them from Germany.
On the eve of the 2004 Athens Games, IOC drug testers dropped into the athletes village to try to test her. She missed that one, too, blaming her absence on being injured in a motorcycle accident.
Thanou pulled out of the Athens Olympics, accepted a two-year suspension from the international track federation, and was barred from competing in Beijing. On top of that, she and the driver of the motorcycle, fellow Greek sprinter and training partner Kostas Kenteris (nickname: "White Lightning"), are awaiting trial on misdemeanor charges of staging the crash.
For all that, Thanou never actually failed a test.
And it hasn't stopped her lawyers from talking about a lawsuit, or appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. It also hasn't scared the IOC.
"The actual awarding of a gold medal is not a right," IOC spokesman Mark Adams said earlier this week. "Therefore, in this case it will not happen. It's felt that by her conduct she didn't deserve to be honored with this recognition."
The rules in place since 2004, when the Olympics adopted the World Anti-Doping Agency protocol, make it less likely the IOC will get stuck in this situation again. Put simply, those rules require the medals be handed over to the 'next clean athlete' in every event, even if it means going all the way back to the semifinal heats to come up with three clean ones.
The way things are going, someday it might. But at least credit the IOC for trying. If this were major league baseball a half-dozen years ago, you could have been halfway through Double-A ball before you found even one clean athlete. You still might.
If anybody has a gripe here, it's probably Tanya Lawrence, a Jamaican who finished third in the 100 in Sydney. Everyone else who got swept up in Jones' drug-fueled charge across the Australian landscape in 2000 moved up one spot, but that only got Lawrence a tie for second.
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Fugitive Redoine Faid still at large after taking several wardens hostage and using explosives to escape Sequedin jail.
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Faid used explosives to blast through five prison doors and break free in the northern town of Sequedin [AFP]
Police are in search of a notorious French fugitive who broke out of prison in an organised escape after briefly taking several wardens hostage, officials have said.
Redoine Faid, who was serving time for a series of armed robberies and the death of a policewoman, used explosives to blast through five prison doors and break free in the northern town of Sequedin on Saturday.
Christiane Taubira, France's justice minister, said interpol has been called into the investigation and that a continent-wide warrant had been issued against Faid.
"The hunt will initially focus on Belgium, of course, because we share a border but also extend to the entire Schengen area and beyond," she added.
Four hostages
Frederic Fevre, the state prosecutor, said Faid was a "particularly dangerous prisoner" and was still armed and in possession of explosives.
Police and helicopters are in search of the 40-year-old, who set fire to his getaway car near the city of Lille before getting into a second vehicle.
Fevre added that Faid had held four hostages with him during the jailbreak, releasing them individually as he got further away from the prison.
Wardens unions described the prison break as "an act of war" and also argued that the Sequedin jail was inadequate for such dangerous convicts.
"This escape and hostage-taking were methodically prepared," the CGT union said, complaining that searches on detainees were not thorough enough.
Taubira denied that there had been any "fault" on the part of the wardens in the dramatic episode.
'Extremely intelligent'
A witness to the incident described the chaos caused by Faid's sprint to freedom.
"I thought my last hour had come. Suddenly, everything started blowing up. The walls started shaking, as did the windows and the doors. I was really scared," Rose Lafont, who was visiting her son, said.
Etienne Dobremetz, the prison union leader, said Faid had received a visit from his wife earlier on Saturday morning.
Her lawyer denied any suspicion of involvement in her husband's escape, the AFP news agency reported.
"It happened very quickly. It was clearly very well organised. We are still busy putting the facts together," a local administrative official said.
The Sequedin prison is designed for 638 inmates and currently houses some 800 detainees with 220 guards, according to the Ufap-Unsa union.
Faid, who has co-authored two books about his life as a criminal, was described as his lawyer as an extremely intelligent and well-connected person.
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The toppled control tower of the port of Genoa, northern Italy, is lit by rescuers after a cargo ship slammed into it (AP/Francesco Pecoraro)
Italian prosecutors have placed the captain of the Jolly Nero cargo ship under investigation for alleged manslaughter after his vessel slammed into the dock at Genoa's busy port and toppled the control tower into the harbour, killing at least seven people.
The crash occurred at around 11pm as the Jolly Nero was backing out of Genoa's port accompanied by two tugboats and with a harbour pilot on its bridge. At the same time, a shift change was taking place among employees at the control tower, meaning more people were in the building than usual.
Transport minister Maurizio Lupi told parliament that given the "perfect" weather conditions, possible causes of the crash could include an engine malfunction or problems with the cables between the container ship and the tugs guiding it.
He said investigators - both criminal and from his own ministry - were also looking into possible mistakes with the manoeuvre itself or with the speed in which the ship backed out of its berth and turned around to leave the port.
The Jolly Nero's captain, Roberto Paoloni, and the harbour pilot on board were placed under investigation for alleged manslaughter, Genoa prosecutor Michele di Lecce told reporters. He said other accusations were possible.
Such an investigation is par for the course in Italy.
Mr Lecce said backing out of the port was a frequently used manoeuvre to get away from the dock.
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Tim Hasselbeck at White House State Dinner
Tim Hasselbeck is a former quarterback who played one game for the Arizona Cardinals last year. His only other NFL action was in 2003. The 30 year old works as a television sports analyst for the SportsNet New York network, ESPN and as a radio personality for Sirius NFL Radio.
He is the son of former NFL tight end Don Hasselbeck and the younger brother of Matt Hassebeck, starting quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks. He is married to The View co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
Elisabeth is rumored to be considering a move to FOX News. She is a staunch Republican and a vocal George W. Bush supporter who got an invite to the White House for the state dinner for Queen Elizabeth. The blonde beauty has been butting heads with outspoken Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar over her political views. Things have turned decidedly ugly lately with the two double teaming Hasselbeck. Word has it that Barbara Walters has pulled everyone together to discuss the latest round of brawls.
Apparently her little spiel didn’t carry much weight. The very next morning the women were involved in a knockdown, dragout brawl of words. Check out the video here.
Hasselbeck got into some hot water at a luncheon on September 8th when she contrasted previous guests Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama. She said the main difference was that Obama brought a list of topics that were off limits and McCain did not. Hasselbeck angered her working partners by suggesting that based on her observation, Cindy McCain was the one with nothing to hide.
The Hasselbeck’s have two children, a daughter Grace, 3, and a son Taylor who is 10 months old. He was born during their short stint in Arizona.
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12 Responses to “Tim Hasselbeck and Elisabeth Hasselbeck (Photos)”
1. God Help Us! What did ABC see? or is there something in the dark?
2. Elizsbeth should not be so hateful,every thing that the president do is not bad.she complains what could she do better,it makes her come off as a racists.
3. I find Elizabeth very rude and ill mannered. She could win more listeners to her opinion if she was more mannerly. On a lot of her view points she is over the top. There doesnt seem to be any respect from her for Barbara or anyone else. Her opinion is the only one that counts.
4. Dear Elisabeth, Your positive statements about the
family values and the bad things going on in the gov.
are good. We need more conservative, sincere ladies
like Sara Pallin.
You must stop wearing clevage showing, sleevless
and knee showing cloths. That is so cheap!!
PLEASE be a new, high class example and wear
clothing that covers your CHEST, UPPER ARMS
and KNEES !!!!! Many thank yous from the women
and daughters of America!! As YOU make the fashion
back to respectful cloths!!!
5. Hope she leaves soon for fox can’t happen soon enough. I will then start watching the View.
6. Elisabeth is my hero! She’s smart, well-spoken, and beautiful.
7. I agree with Ryan. It’s pretty funny to listen to you people talking about change and lying. Look at the mess BO administration is making right now. Where is the great change? It’s still the same crap with a different platform. EH owes no one an apology and if you’ve watched the women get heated, but get over it and get along pretty well. I noticed one of the people said “There is nothing more frustrating than watching a female in a position where she could do good have the exact opposite effect. ” The same could be said of Joy Behar. She sounds like a frustrated angry crazy idiot when it comes to her politics, so lets not single out Elizabeth.
8. While very well put together, your argument is propped up solely by an uber liberal perspective. Liberals have a deep hate for George W Bush; Mrs. Hasselbeck tries to bring another viewpoint to the table and all she gets is ridicule. While telling you from their mouths that they are diverse and tolerant, liberals really only subscribe to a singular mindset of “believe what you want, so long as it’s exactly like the rest of us.” Following that, they pour on the vile ridicule of those who oppose them, with dare I say “hate speech.” I believe I saw some of that exact language in one of the responses above. You’re a great example of tolerating people who are not like you. So caring.
9. We must understand that people like EH have a fundamental inability to except change and responsibility. Deep in her heart she knows Former Pres. Bush was wrong and inexcusibly foolish in his policies and under the table deals(arms and monetary), but to admit this would require her to also admit that she was mistaken in her trust and theories in the republican beliefs that the rich come first, and u get yours because I have mine already. The lady is truly misinformed and misguided.
10. She is actually to be pitied more than anything. There is nothing more frustrating than watching a female in a position where she could do good have the exact opposite effect. She is the poster child for the dumb blond…apologies to all real blondes.
11. Elisabeth Hasselbeck is not hot. Her dreadful personality makes her one of the ugliest people on earth.
12. I am still upset that BW didnt make EH apologise on air. She lied on Michelle. If any1 has something to hide it is Cindy McCain.
Cindy had an affair with a married man
Cindy abused drugs
Cindy filled prescriptions in other ppl’s names
Cindy got 2 dr stripped of their medical licences for life
Cindy misued her nonprofit’s miedications.
It is clear that Cindy has much 2 hide.
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Technology and jobs
Host Mary Walden asks if we are going through another workplace revolution related to the development and use of information technology. Economist Mike Walden responds to the question, “Do we know how this revolution will impact jobs?”
Is cheap clothing going away?
Unemployment benefits and unemployment
Unemployment benefits were recently reduced for many people, both in North Carolina and the country. Some say this will motivate those without jobs to look harder for work and eventually get hired. N.C. State University economist Mike Walden explains the economic evidence that suggests this happens.
Marriage and inequality
Disappearing banks
Host Mary Walden fondly remembers opening her first bank account. She asks about the issue of disappearing banks – why are there fewer banks today? Her husband, N.C. State University economist Mike Walden, says there are reasons why there are fewer brick-and-mortar banks today.
The two Es of investing
Host Mary Walden thinks of understanding investing and investment markets as a lifetime endeavor, and that’s why she’s attracted to investment ideas that make sense and are clear. Her husband, N.C. State University economist Mike Walden, says that one such idea is called the two Es of investing.
Does uncertainty hurt the economy?
Often if business investment is down and consumers aren’t spending enough, one of reasons given is uncertainty. But what exactly is economic uncertainty? And do we have any hard evidence on how it affects the economy? N.C. State University economist Mike Walden responds.
New estimates of teacher impacts
What’s behind the export boom?
When President Barack Obama was in North Carolina recently to announce a new innovation lab at N.C. State University, he mentioned the importance of exports to a prospering economy. N.C. State University economist Mike Walden outlines how are we doing in this aspect of international trade.
Rising consumer confidence
As N.C. State University economist Mike Walden says, the major keys to the economy are jobs, household income and spending. His wife, Mary, who studied psychology at college, asks how people’s feelings about the economy play in their economic decisions.
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We hadn’t seen our daughter for a while, she lives in San Francisco, so we thought we would take a trip over there to visit. Â We wanted to take the trailer so the options were limited. Â The RV park in Pacifica might be in the ocean currently as they were suffering a large erosion of the cliff they are perched on. Â There is an RV/mobilehome park in South San Francisco that we have never stayed at. Â There is also an RV park right next to Candlestick park but it is near a pretty seedy neighborhood. Â What to do? Â We called upon a site from our history. Â Anthony Chabot campground in the East Bay hills north of Castro Valley.
The campground has a few negatives but the positives are pretty nice. Â One negative is you have to be back to the campground at 10PM or you are locked out. Â Another is the road to the campground is really long and curvy. Â However, you ARE close to the populous cities but it does not feel like it. Â You are up in the hills in a eucalyptus grove. Â There are only 12 full hookup sites and it is very hilly. Â That is where one of the other negatives came into play. Â But more about that later.
We were happy to get out of the central valley and the heat. Â The previous days were over 100 and pushing 110. Â The forecast for Castro Valley was high 60′s to low 70′s. Â As we started out all was going good but the truck seemed a bit sluggish with the trailer attached. Â Usually the truck will get going pretty good from a stop but not so now. Â We pulled off of I5 around the Westley area. Â When I got back on the onramp was uphill. Â The truck had an issue doing so and was belching out a goodly amount of black smoke. Â This is not normal. Â It also started huffing when you would hear a thump under the hood and then a large puff of exhaust. Â Needless to say I did not like this but I had seen it before.
Now that I know what it is I can rest a bit, well sort of. Â We still had a few hills to get over before we made it there. Â One was the Altamont pass and the other was between Dublin and Castro Valley. Â The Altamont went pretty good. Â I found that if I did not go higher than 2000RPM I would do OK. Â I was able to do so on this pass and we made it over. Â However the next pass was different. Â I could not get a running start on this one and near the top I had to downshift out of overdrive which started the huffing. Â Luckily we didn’t have to go too far huffing along.
Once we got to the campground we found the hills. Â I reserved this spot specifically but I could not tell the terrain. Â The spot was on a downhill road and at a 90 degree to the road. Â Here is a picture that does NOT show the grade:
Chabot 01
Pretty nice spot. Â Let’s look at the other side:
Chabot 02
Ah, there’s the slope. Â Still doesn’t look too bad. Â Next shot:
Chabot 03
This is taken down the hill where I had to back in from. Â I started backing in and my rear wheel started spinning on the asphalt and my other was on the dirt. Â I was not getting anywhere. Â It might have been because of the engine running rough also. Â Anyway I put the truck in 4wd and tried again. Â I had to get up some speed and crank the angle pretty tight but I got it in. Â We hooked up the hookups, Roxie is getting very good at this, disconnected the truck and met our daughter at the BART station (two days earlier BART had agreed to stop the strike for 30 days). Â She spent the night with us in the trailer. Â It has been a LONG time since she did that last.
The next day I had a mission. Â I needed to get my diesel filter replaced. Â I started out at a JiffyLube (why not, it worked before) after dropping off Roxie and Hannah at a shopping mall. Â The guy flatly said they don’t do it here. Â I called a SpeedeeLube and they said, “Sure we do it!”. Â When I got there the tech said they did not and the management did not know what they were saying. Â However they recommended me to a tire/service location. Â I was able to get it replaced there and 2-3 hours later the truck was running good again.
I picked up Roxie and Hannah and we did some errands then headed into the city. Â Driving my truck in San Francisco is a real experience. Â If you just take it slow and deliberate you are good. Â However, people usually give you room if you start moving into their lane. Â The rest of the days were filled with driving places, parking, shopping, eating, all the fun boring stuff.
Wednesday eventually came and it was time to go home. Â I was a bit concerned about the road out of the camp area. Â It was curvy and steep. Â I have a video that I took. Â I have kept the commentary in it also so enjoy:
On the way home we stopped at Toscano’s RV to get the hinge on our stove covered fixed under warranty. Â Then the long drive home.
We wanted to take a short trip before we are off on our long one to Alumafandango in early August.
Casini Days 6 & 7
Golden Gate Bridge:
Roxie had Shrimp Fried Rice:
Hannah had some plate that I don't remember:
And from above:
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Posted at Monday, June 13, 2005
The Partitioning option of the Oracle RDBMS is heralded as important by many, but understood - in practice - by relatively few. The general rule of thumb is that partitioning should be employed in cases where table and/or index segments are 2GB+ in size. Partitioning can be used to solve a variety of problems, beyond its inherent strength in breaking entities' contents into smaller, more manageable pieces. The subject of this post is just such a case.
A customer has a large transaction auditing table, which is used in Customer Support operations. There are many transactions and the data is only useful going back 30 days in the past. Due to the amount of data and the fact that internal customers only use this data for an ephemeral period of time, we need to prune unnecessary data from the table on a regular basis; in essence, maintaining a rolling set of data, representing the last 30 days of activity.
Normally, the aforementioned requirement is easy to satisfy using simple DML - namely the DELETE statement. However, when dealing with large amounts of data (VLDB) within a database in ARCHIVELOG mode, problems can occur due to insufficient amounts of available undo space and/or insufficient disk space to house the potentially staggering amount of archive logs generated during the transaction. Applying the NOLOGGING attribute to the segments in question offers no reprieve. Here is where my example that uses partitioning comes in handy. Instead of daily performing a delete of created < TRUNC(SYSDATE) - 30 (or something similar) against the transaction archive table, we use a partitioned table with a partition for each day, which we truncate and add partitions to as appropriate.
In Test Case 1, I created an example that satisfies our requirement, using the 'Traditional' method of maintaining the rolling data set
(Note: Right-click 'Save Target As'):
Test Case 1 - Traditional DML | Log of Test Case 1
In Test Case 2, I created an example that satisfies our requirement, using the Partitioning method, in which partitions are dynamically created and truncated each day to retain only partitions, representing data from the last 30 days
Test Case 2 - Partitioning Method | Log of Test Case 2
The Traditional DML Test case (Test Case 1), deletes 250,000 rows from a small table in 14.63 seconds and generates a lot of logging in the process. This technique will only scale so far, due to limited host resources.
The Partitioning Technique (Test Case 2), truncates 250,000 rows worth of data from a small table in 4.42 seconds with virtually no logging. This technique is quite scalable. In cases, in which the data needs to be rolled out of the table, but kept for posterity, you could use the ALTER TABLE ...EXCHANGE PARTITION statement. Partitioning, in this case, is the way to go!
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Yellow woodsorrel (Oxalis stricta) is a perennial weed related to ornamental garden plants that have pink leaves. Newer hybrids have white or gold flowers. Typically a low, spreading plant, woodsorrel has three heart-shaped leaflets like clover, often with a purple cast. When ripe, seeds are ejected from capsules and can travel 12 feet.
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no surprise
I'm not at all surprised.
This isn't really drastic, though they could stand to increase the caps on this level of service (if they're even enforcing them??)
I had 6Mbps service at a promo rate for about 6 months ($25/mo.), and being literally right next to a distribution facility (bigger than a VRAD, more like a little closet), service was perfect. They almost got me to be forced into uVerse, but I moved before they forced this.
In any case, it beats the pants off of any form of cellular connection. Not so much for a stable and consistent cable connection, but getting that "perfect" cable connection is probably less common than with DSL.
My parents are still totally screwed - neither cable, nor AT&T want to wire their stretch of road, which is serviced by both within less than half a mile. Literally a dead zone of "we don't care" even with a boatload of fiber less than 100 yards away. The caps on cellular data plans are still completely geared towards "oops, you owe us a lot more than the 5GB, haha" at their current caps.
Let's also not forget the entrenched business accounts that AT&T has. Even if the service is through a reseller, chances are good that tons of fiber is still being pumped through AT&T facilities.
The simple fact is that every ISP, no matter how big, simply must connect with AT&T. Everyone knows this. There is nothing that the home user can do either. Whether it's Verizon, AT&T, or some local outfit (that is likely MORE expensive).
Cable may be faster in lots of places, but there are still vast chunks where the service might be less stable than 6Mbps DSL. In any case, the price increase kind of sucks, but is not unexpected.
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i was setting up an office in an industrial zone in central NJ that was a few hundred yards from Comcast. they wanted $16,000 to light up our street, so i approached the neighbors and shared half the cost with them - contact your parent's local provisioning department, while they survey which effected neighbors may like to pony up for better service. it often pays for itself by increasing the property value as people today actively look for properties served by good ISP's.
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Maksim on Next Week's Dancing: "It's Really Unfair"
Brandy, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, DWTS ABC/ADAM LARKEY
As if the celeb contestants on Dancing with the Stars didn't have enough to worry about these days, things are about to get even tougher.
What's going on—and why isn't our pal Maksim Chmerkovskiy happy about it? Read on to find out...
READ: Episode Recap
What dance are you and Brandy working on for next week?
We're doing the waltz as our main dance and then there's this new crazy thing where they're going to give us the dance after the show tonight but they won't give us the music. So we're going to have to prepare a dance without the music and get the music next Monday [during the show] and...we'll have 20 minutes to prepare our dance.
It seems like the producers are trying to make it really hard on everyone.
I'm not really sure if I think it'll make for great TV. I just think it's absolutely unnecessary pressure on celebrities that are already under pressure. But I'm not the producer. It's not my show. What the production doesn't realize is that it doesn't make it any easier or harder on the celebrities. It makes it harder for the professionals. It's really unfair to us because we are doing way too much.
Last night, Kyle Massey did a paso doble inspired by the one you did with Mel B. How do you think he did?
Mel and I had a phenomenal paso. I think they did a great job. I think Kyle really embraced it and he's a funny guy and this was the one time that he wasn't funny. He was really serious about the whole thing and he looked great doing it...I think he nailed it.
Everyone is still talking about Tony and Audrina's surprising elimination last week. Were you shocked?
Last week was definitely, like, in the top three most shocking eliminations. It was not supposed to happen and I feel really bad for Tony. I know how much he loved working with Audrina. They both had a lot of fun this season. She might not be the loudest person in the room, but she's very sweet and she really liked to dance and she really embraced this competition. I just find it really weird. I'm not really sure how to phrase this, [but] that is what makes our show, that eliminations are so absurd sometimes.
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Q&A (1990) By now, you'd think Sidney Lumet wouldn't have it in him to make another police-corruption drama. This is, after all, the director who gave us… R Drama Mystery and Thriller Timothy Hutton Sidney Lumet Nick Nolte
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Q&A (1990)
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Details Rated: R; Genres: Drama, Mystery and Thriller; With: Timothy Hutton, Sidney Lumet and Nick Nolte
By now, you'd think Sidney Lumet wouldn't have it in him to make another police-corruption drama. This is, after all, the director who gave us Serpico and Prince of the City. The latter, made in 1981, was such a densely packed maze it seemed that Lumet had all but exhausted the dramatic possibilities of coverup and betrayal.
At first, his superb new movie, Q≈A, seems like more of the same. Set mostly in Manhattan — or, more precisely, Lumet's Manhattan, that harshly mesmerizing, fluorescent — lit urban purgatory — the film is about a dedicated young assistant DA, Al Reilly (Timothy Hutton), who is called on to investigate a case of ''justifiable'' homicide. The figure under investigation is Lt. Mike Brennan (Nick Nolte), a veteran cop who's a legend throughout the NYPD, both for his kick-ass bravado and his fanatic loyalty.
It seems that during a (supposedly) routine investigation Brennan blew out the brains of a Hispanic drug dealer. He claims it was self-defense, but we're shown otherwise. The murder is the film's opening scene, and it's made clear Brennan executed the guy in cold blood.
By revealing Brennan's guilt from the get-go, Lumet both dampens and heightens our suspenseful expectations. Q&A isn't merely about the mechanics of a cover-up (which it pretty much takes for granted). It's a tale of overlapping conspiracies in which personal and professional corruption have merged in subtle, sometimes shocking ways. Having dug through this terrain twice before, Lumet has reached a new, visionary pitch of despair and searing cynicism. Q&A is his darkest, most labyrinthine drama yet. The movie is an epic portrait of an urban-bureaucratic nightmare — it's about a criminal-justice system so saturated with cronyism and rancor it's beginning to strangle itself.
Eager to wrap up his first big case, Reilly begins to interview witnesses, and a few of them poke holes in Brennan's story. Still, the most suspicious person in the case is Brennananimself. A bluff, towering Irish-American, this cop's cop is a self-appointed king of the streets, a racist and ''fag killer'' who leers with pleasure when he talks of beating the crap out of some poor black or Hispanic ''animal.'' More than just arrogant, he's a monster — a proudly hateful, street-punk megalomaniac. Though he claims to have killed the drug dealer in self-defense, his grin tells you he would just as soon have done it for fun.
Slowly, Reilly's investigation unearths a rat's nest of disreputable goings-on. I don't want to reveal too much (part of the pleasure is seeing the connections slowly lock into place), but the story takes Lumet into bracing new areas of corruption and underworld camaraderie. There are scenes with a newly businesslike Mob elite, in which the order to execute someone is handed down with a chillingly offhand, almost corporate hauteur. And there are excursions into the glamorously morose New York demimonde of transsexuals and drag queens. The principal witness in the case is a sultry homosexual stage performer (played by the terrific Paul Calderon) with mysterious connections to Brennan.
Stylistically, the movie is pure Lumet: two-and-a-quarter hours of gritty, in-your-face realism. Still, Q&A doesn't have the muckraking drive that marked Serpico and, to a lesser extent, Prince of the City. The movie is steady, deliberate, and a little detached. It's a meta-mystery, like Chinatown, with a narrative so intricate the cop movie as chess game — it suggests a Kafka-esque vision.
Following the plot takes a bit of work (the key is paying attention to the names), yet it all adds up, and Lumet, adapting a novel by onetime New York assistant DA (and now justice) Edwin Torres, has a bold new theme. Q&A is about the disastrously entrenched tribal racism of New York cops, criminals, prosecutors, judges-an ethnic hyper-awareness that has become a rotting spiral of violence, complacency, and dread.
Never in a movie have the racial epithets flown as thickly and ripely as they do here. Lumet did the script himself, and the dialogue often sounds like a David Mamet play without the comic preciousness. For these cops, racial divisions aren't a matter of prejudice but a primal reality — the ultimate test of whom you can trust. An open bigot is considered far more honorable than a bogus liberal. Lumet pushes the moral ugliness as far as he can. His vision may be something of an exaggeration, yet we can't hide from the essential truth of it, any more than we could hide from the truths of Do the Right Thing.
The acting is superb throughout. Armand Assante, who till now has seemed something of a lightweight, comes through with a major performance as Bobby Texador, a strutting Hispanic drug kingpin fighting to go straight. Assante holds the screen with his hypnotic vocal rhythms (he alternates angry staccato bursts with seductive silences), and his hand gestures are poetry; he's both magnetic and moving. And Nolte simply outdoes himself. As the treacherous Brennan, a man of many more layers than he lets on, he gives a performance of venomous brilliance — it's the most daring, lived-in portrait of human evil since Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet.
Q&A has its flaws. As a hero, Timothy Hutton's Reilly lacks resonance, and a subplot in which he struggles to reconcile with his former fiancee (played by the director's daughter, Jenny Lumet) feels schematic and phony. The movie is trying too hard to show us that the metaphysical seed of racism exists even within this idealistic fellow. And during the last third of the picture, when the action moves to San Juan, the pace needs to build more than it does; Lumet just keeps spinning out scenes in his earnest, determined way. Still, Q&A is a major film by one of our finest mainstream directors. As both a portrait of modern-day corruption and an act of sheer storytelling bravura, it is not to be missed.
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Seriously, PM me if there is because I saw a different intro to Shippuuden a few episodes back that looked like a movie. Anyway:
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#11YOSHI475Posted 7/19/2013 6:52:56 PM
I wouldn't mind the lake trio being part fairy in fact it would make sense. All the the mew equivalents though would be stupid as some of the (to me at least) don't fit what I think a Fairy should look like.
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#12CM_PLUNGEPosted 7/19/2013 6:53:25 PM
AuroraSonicBeam posted...
and I don't care if this topic has been made already.
No real reaction besides /clap because it makes sense.
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#13AuroraSonicBeam(Topic Creator)Posted 7/19/2013 6:55:27 PM
X_Ayumi_X posted...
Sid_Starkiller posted...
AuroraSonicBeam posted...
Just realized that 2 of them will have one of their types changed if that were to happen.
That post f***ed me up, until I realized: You meant the Mew equivalents, not the lake trio as I originally thought. I guess I still wouldn't mind, though.
What other lake trio?
I dun get this post
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#14mada7Posted 7/19/2013 7:10:18 PM
They'll go from being useless, virtually identical, and the least interesting legendary trio to being useless, virtually identical, the least interesting legendary trio, and fairies. Id be fine with that
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#15AccrovideogamesPosted 7/19/2013 7:32:30 PM
Celebi and Jirachi could be retconned to Fairy/Grass and Steel/Fairy respectively. The lake guardians could be retconned to Psychic/Fairy. They're all based on pixies, the most known type of fairy in modern day; Celebi even looks like Tinker Bell, the most well known pixie. As for my reaction, I'm not only expecting it but hoping for it.
On an unrelated note, I hope that we'll get badass looking Fairy types. Oorotto seems to fit the role and I hope that I won't be disappointed when they reveal its type, which I hope is Grass/Fairy.
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#16Ubergeneral3Posted 7/19/2013 7:56:37 PM
im counting on it to happen. It will change the metagame quite a bit
#17gamester_12345Posted 7/19/2013 8:30:21 PM
To be fair, i was sick of most of the cute legends being Psychic/Whatever....
Mew Psychic/Fairy, or possibly just Psychic on it's own...assuming Mew doesn't gain it's own new forme like Mewtwo did.
Celebi to Grass/Fairy.
Jirachi into Steel/Fairy.
Manaphy Water/Fairy.
Victini Fire/Fairy.
Some legends such as Meloetta and Shaymin should probably stay as is, because they can change forme and thus is actually different than the other usual "cute" legends, same thing goes for Keldeo.
Seems unusal that they're slowly adding more archetypes to legends over the years with every generation of releases, i mean originally Cute Legends wasn't even a thing until G/S, then they started to add multiple Cute legends in later generations either by the general 100 spread to every stat, or having a gimmick like changing forme.
I'm personally surprised that Meloetta could change forme in BW before Keldeo even got a forme change in BW2, makes you wonder what gamefreak was originally going to plan for Meloetta had they had this generation progress at normal speeds and if it wasn't for the Tsunami disrupting the Meteorite/Team Plasma Plot, just for GF to hastily cram it near the end just to stretch the anime with Charizard's return during Da!, presumably for the movie.
Movie Spoilers!!
he doesn't do anything, even Sableye does nothing, think the audience was just going crazy for Orotto just because he wasn't revealed yet, plus the Mewtwo in the movie isn't the same as the Team Rocket Mewtwo, to the extent that what the trailers doesn't show is that Ash saying "Mewtwo" doesn't mean he still remembers after not being mindwiped during The Return of Mewtwo, but because Mewtwo itself told Ash it's name, Ash was just shouting in shock, oh and Mewtwo being a girl isn't real, using words like "Watashi" is just a pronoun, it's probably to emphasize that he has no discernible gender, but due to birth being the common thing of all species, is the closest thing to a gender he has.
So, the Pikachu short, guessing it's not important or something? Would've thought they'd shove Orotto in there, just because the way people made it sound out, that Orotto was just in the background or something.
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Publication numberUS6085492 A
Publication typeGrant
Application numberUS 09/117,651
PCT numberPCT/SE1997/000182
Publication dateJul 11, 2000
Filing dateFeb 7, 1997
Priority dateFeb 28, 1996
Fee statusLapsed
Also published asCA2246295A1, DE69714010D1, EP0876279A1, EP0876279B1, WO1997031826A1
Publication number09117651, 117651, PCT/1997/182, PCT/SE/1997/000182, PCT/SE/1997/00182, PCT/SE/97/000182, PCT/SE/97/00182, PCT/SE1997/000182, PCT/SE1997/00182, PCT/SE1997000182, PCT/SE199700182, PCT/SE97/000182, PCT/SE97/00182, PCT/SE97000182, PCT/SE9700182, US 6085492 A, US 6085492A, US-A-6085492, US6085492 A, US6085492A
InventorsMichael Brandstrom, H Moller
Original AssigneeTetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
Method for sterilizing closed containers
US 6085492 A
The invention relates to a method for sterilising a closed container (1) which is ready to be filled. The container is substantially in the form of a homogenous flat first sheet (2A) and a non-homogenous second sheet (2B) with susbtantially plane insides and with a space (14) between the first and the second sheet. A sterilisation of the insides of the container and the space (14) is achieved by means of electron exposure of the outside of the first sheet (2A).
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What is claimed is:
1. Method for sterilizing a preformed closed container (1) prior to filling said container with a food product wherein said container is made of folded sheet material comprising a homogenous flat first sheet (2A) and a non-homogenous second sheet (2B) with substantially planar inside walls and having a space (14) between the first and the second sheet, wherein interior surfaces of the container and the space (14) are sterilized by exposing outside surfaces of the first sheet (2A) of the container to electron radiation.
2. Method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the container is predesigned such that the space (14) is as small as possible.
3. Method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second sheet (2B) is provided with means for the further treatment of the container.
4. Method as claimed in claim 3, wherein said means is a neck (11) for filling food product into the container.
The method according to the invention can emanate from a package material which in order to form a packaging laminate can be based on fiber or plastic, laminated with different types of plastic and, if necessary, a light and/or oxygen gas barrier. In FIG. 1 an example is shown of a plane sealed container 1 constructed of two packaging halves of one and the same packaging laminate 2 which in the figure is shown as 2A and 2B. From the outside and inwards the laminate is preferably constructed of an outer layer 3 in the form of a polyethylene layer which typically is extruded onto a base layer 4 in an amount of 13 g/m.sup.2. The base layer can be a fiber base, preferably of paper, or a plastic based layer. Inside the base layer 4 a barrier layer 5, e.g. a layer of aluminum foil, is arranged. An inner layer 6 is applied on the barrier layer 5 towards the contemplated inside of the container either in the form of two layers of extruded polyethylene or as a polyethylene film blown onto the barrier layer.
In order to be incorporated into the existing production the package material is arranged as whole rolls in the form of a flexible sheet or web material as is usual when liquid impermeable packaging containers with good dimensional rigidity are produced. Such packaging containers can for example be produced according to the following (FIG. 2). A package material is provided with a specific pattern of crease lines 7A, 7B in order to facilitate the conversion to packaging containers. The crease lines facilitate the folding of the material and run parallel with, perpendicular to, and transverse the longitudinal direction of the material, respectively. (Only a few lines are shown in the figure for the sake of simplicity). The demarcation surfaces of the container are defined by means of these crease lines.
In the fully laminated and pre-creased package material holes 8 are punched at suitable places for the intended use of the container, the material then being cut in pieces of suitable and intended size along the lines 9. A means 10 are put into each of these holes 8, this means 10 is preferably based on plastic and consists of a neck 11 (FIG. 1) provided with a flange 12 threaded onto the outside (not shown) in such a way that the flange 12 closely engages the inside of the container contemplated, i.e. the packaging laminate 2B. In this connection the neck 11 is constructed in such a way that the hole 8 is completely filled up. Then the package material is folded along the crease line 7B, and the flange 12 is sealed to the inner layers 6 of the corresponding two container halves of the packaging laminate 2, i.e. to the packaging laminate 2A as well. The inner layers 6 are completely pressed together in such a way that they almost entirely are engaged with each other. The three remaining longitudinal edges are then joined by means of longitudinal and transversal sealings 13. By this construction of the container no unprotected cut edges will be directed towards the inside of the container, and no paper fibers can thus be torn off and contact the inside of the container later on in the process.
With this procedure the distance between the inner layers will locally at the most correspond to a thickness of up to that of the flange 12 which is about 0.5 mm thick. Thus, the container is now so flat that very little or practically no air at all remains in the space 14 formed between the container halves by this procedure. This means that only a small amount of ozone can be formed and have an effect on the package material.
Thus, non-sterile folded and absolutely tight containers are obtained in this way, into which air with present microorganisms or viruses--if any--can not penetrate. One container half will be substantially homogenous while the other half is provided with the neck 11 which on this side thus will protrude from the container. If the container is supposed to be provided with further elements these are according to the invention placed on the same side as the means 6, i.e. on or in the packaging laminate 2B. Such elements for the further usage of the container can be gripping devices for the handling of the container, relief prints, etc.
An example of how containers are sterilized according to the invention is shown in FIG. 3. Closed containers 1, pre-manufactured as above, are placed on a bed conveyer 15 or the like which via a radiation protected tunnel 16 moves them one by one beneath an electron gun 17 which via a window 18 from the outside exposes each container, preferably continuously straight through the package material to the opposite inside of the container. The electron gun is during this passage arranged above the one substantially half of the container with that side directed downwards which is provided with a neck. Thus, a sterilization is obtained from the top side of a homogenous and flat package material over its entire surface. This means that an absolutely even dose can be achieved through the same. The radiation dose absorbed at different points of the inner laminate of the container will thus be the same since the container is uniformly shaped until the radiation reaches the inner laminate. The radiation dose received by each container can in that respect be adjusted by controlling the process parameters. Thus, the penetration depth can be optimized for different types of containers.
The acceleration of the electrons in the electron gun is adapted in such a way that a sufficient radiation dose for sterilization is received on the inner laminates. That container half which is directed towards the electron gun is sterilized on the outside as well as on the inside while the other container half only absorbs a small radiation dose.
The penetration depth of the radiation dose mainly depends on its energy and the mass of the radiated material. In this connection the penetration depth is adjusted in such a way that an optimal dose for killing microorganisms is achieved in the space 14 and on the adjacent inner layers 6 of the two container halves 2A and 2B of the package laminate. Accordingly, a certain overdose is received in the upper half of the package material 2A while the underneath side of the laminate 2B provided with a neck hardly will receive any dose at all since the energy will decrease during the passage of the electrons through the package material. Thus, this container half receives a comparatively small radiation dose, which results in the mechanical properties not being effected in this container half with one or several elements for the further treatment of the container. This in turn can make a better what is called "package integrity" possible.
During the irradiation the energy of the electron gun is adapted to the grammage of the material for each type of container. The grammage of the package material can be very small and up to what is determined by the electron gun. A frequent occurring grammage for rigid package material is 250-750 g/m.sup.2. The acceleration voltage of the electron gun can vary from 100 kV up to 500 kV in dependence of the package material.
A thicker base layer of for example paper can thus be used instead of what is commonly adopted within the art. This results in that larger container volumes can be obtained than with standard procedures when filling material is added. Preferably, containers are used with a volume of about 0.5 l up to about 4.5 l.
Internally sterile sealed containers can in a production unit advantageously be manufactured so that they later on can be distributed to different places in the world for filling in filling machines, in which the containers are opened, filled and sealed.
In a filling machine the neck 11 is sterilized with a chemical suitable for the purpose, preferably with hydrogen peroxide, UV light, or with combinations thereof. Remaining hydrogen peroxide--if any--is dried up, and the container is opened by cutting off the flange 12 by means of a punching operation through the neck 11. Since this middle piece of the flange is sealed to the opposite inside of the container it will not fall down into the product but remain on the container.
The punching operation can advantageously be accomplished by connecting a filling tube to the neck 11, the space 14 in the container then being operatively accessible, and the container is filled with a suitable aseptic or sterile product. The filling material in question is above all a liquid product such as milk, juice and tea, but the filling material can also contain particles. In connection with the filling the container forms itself by means of the filling pressure and with the assistance of the previously arranged crease lines in such a way that it preferably obtains a substantially rectangular bottom with substantially parallel sides. However, other embodiments are of course also possible.
By the flat design of the container and thus the small space 14 of the container none or very little ozone has been formed which can result in a residual flavor in the filled product. Nor is it necessary to ventilate any air from the container in connection with the filling. This considerably minimizes the risk of reinfection.
By the containers already being sterilized when filled the use is avoided of a what is called "an aseptic house", in which the containers enter via a sluice and which has to be completely sterile. This results in that a simpler machine design can be utilized, which in turn reduces the investment costs.
In order to explain the invention in more detail reference is made to the accompanying drawings in which
FIG. 1 schematically shows a cross section through a container which is intended to be treated according to the method of the invention,
FIG. 2 schematically shows the manufacture of such a container, and
FIG. 3 according to one embodiment of the invention schematically shows a cross section through an electron accelerator and a conveyor with containers.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a method for sterilizing a container which is ready to be filled. More specifically, the invention relates to a method for sterilizing a closed container which is ready to be filled, the container being in the form of a homogenous flat first board and a non-homogenous second board with substantially plane insides and having a space between the first and the second board.
2. Description of the Related Art
It has for a long time within the industry for packaging of foods been a need for a fast method for sterilizing a package material without using chemicals. Furthermore, it would often be of great importance if a sterilizing equipment could be avoided in the actual filling machines, i.e. that the containers could be sterilized in advance in connection with the manufacturing of the material. If premanufactured containers were accessible in large numbers at different places for filling of foods in filling machines, these machines could then be manufactured at a lower price and the investment costs would be lower since certain precautions for aseptic filling probably could be minimized. In addition, such machines can result in lower operational costs which by itself is not a minor advantage.
Package materials are presently sterilized by a treatment with steam, steam/condensation or hydrogen peroxide. Depending on the type of package material the inside of a container can be sterilized with hydrogen peroxide, in liquid or gaseous phase, with ultraviolet light, if necessary in combination with hydrogen peroxide, or with ultraviolet, infrared and visible light in the form of what is called "Pulsed Light". However, completely sealed containers can not be sterilized in this way. Thus, when sterilizing package materials trials have recently been performed in order to utilize beta or gamma radiation for the deactivation and/or killing of microorganisms and viruses. Usually beta radiation (exposure to electrons) is preferred since this type of sterilization is less hazardous and not that costly to produce.
However, air (oxygen) is converted to ozone when exposed to electrons. Ozone is a strong oxidant for organic substances, and ozone present in containers in turn reacts with the inside of the package material, an undesired residual flavor being obtained from such reaction products. The formation of ozone thus results in a product limitation, i.e. it will be more difficult to pack sensitive products. Such products are in principle all those which contain water; the more water in the product the more off taste producing compounds are solubilized from the plastic material. The presence of a residual flavor in the product might be avoided by improving the quality of the plastic in the material. However, materials with good ozone resistance, such as for example polyurethane materials, are expensive and furthermore not always applicable as a package material for specific purposes.
It is known to irradiate the inside as well as the outside of a not yet sealed package material with an electron gun (electron accelerator). It is also known to sterilize a container which is ready to be filled by means of exposure to electrons, the package under rotation being exposed to an electron beam from a window of said electron gun. The energy of the electron beam is adapted in such a way that the electron beam all the time penetrates that wall of the container which is facing said window and reaches the opposite inside wall of the container. However, with this type of sterilizing completed containers the energy of the electron beam must at all times be adapted to the geometry of the container as well as the thickness of the package material, i.e. unless the container is not completely symmetric a uniform radiation dose will not be received on the inside of the container. This means that during the irradiation the energy either must be increased or varied, which in turn results in a more costly procedure and/or an altogether abundant use of energy. At the same time it is important that an overdose is not achieved which can result in impaired packaging properties and what is called "off-flavor".
The purpose of the invention is to provide a method of the kind mentioned above, which in a cost-efficient way by means of exposure to electrons admits the sterilization of containers which are ready to be filled.
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U.S. Classification53/426, 422/22
International ClassificationB65B55/08, B65B, A61L2/08
Cooperative ClassificationB65B55/08
European ClassificationB65B55/08
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Fly Birdie - Flappy Bird Flyer
Fly Birdie Flappy Bird Flyer
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Flappy Wings - not Flappy Bird
Flappy Wings
"Not Flappy Wings." At least this game's title notifies gamers that it's not exactly the game you're looking for. Your bird has a shade of blue and red around it, plus there's a pretty little rainbow present on the title screen. The mechanics are pretty darn identical to Flappy Bird, though.
Fluffy vs. Flappy Birds
Fluffy vs Flappy Birds
There's tapping, flying and crashing with a blue bird. That's all there it too it, actually. It's a copycat and it's a blatant clone that's not afraid to be showcased as such.
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It's about time there were more mobile games that gave bees more attention. Buzzing across the screen with this cute yellow bee is just as addictive as flapping across the screen as a bird.
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Five years for enforcer 'who shot himself to avoid jail'
A FEARED gangland enforcer who is suspected of shooting himself in the leg and claiming it was a punishment shooting to avoid going to jail over Christmas has been sentenced to five years.
PATRICK 'Pajo' Hanlon (32), who has strong links to the INLA terror group, was given a six-year jail sentence, with the final year suspended, for kidnapping a man in Coolock on the night of January 12, 2010.
The Tallaght man had been originally charged with threatening to kill the kidnap victim, but these charges were dropped after he pleaded guilty to false imprisonment.
The kidnap happened at the Glin Stores in the north Dublin suburb when shopkeeper Sean Cummins was held hostage in Clondalkin by an armed gang for almost four hours.
Mr Cummins managed to break free and ran into a house on the Woodford Estate, seeking refuge while gardai were alerted.
Hanlon was due to appear before a sentencing hearing at Dublin Circuit Court when he suffered minor leg injuries in a bizarre shooting incident on the evening of November 21, two days before his court date.
No one has ever been arrested in relation to the incident, which led to Hanlon's case being adjourned.
Sources say gardai are working on the theory that he shot himself to avoid going to prison.
A source said: "This fella is capable of pretty much anything."
In the past, Hanlon has been the victim of a pipe bomb attack, a savage assault and was pepper-sprayed in a nightclub incident.
He has numerous previous convictions and has been arrested for offences such as blackmail, extortion, threats to kill, assault and burglary.
He was regularly spotted in the company of terror chief Declan 'Whacker' Duffy before the latter was extradited to the UK to serve a sentence for murdering a British soldier.
'Whacker' Duffy and his associates were involved in a gangland war against 'Fat' Freddie Thompson's drugs mob in 2007 and 2008.
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Revealed: spy agencies target phone apps: GCHQ and NSA able to harvest data through games such as Angry Birds: Agencies use phone apps to spy on owners
January 28, 2014
James Ball
GCHQ and the US National Security Agency have been developing capabilities to take advantage of "leaky" smartphone apps, such as the wildly popular Angry Birds game, which transmit users' private information across the internet, according to top secret documents.
The data pouring on to communication networks from the new generation of iPhone and Android apps ranges from phone model and screen size to personal details such as age, gender and location. Some apps, the documents state, can share users' most sensitive information, such as sexual orientation - and one app recorded in the material even sends specific sexual preferences such as whether the user may be a swinger.
Many smartphone owners will be unaware of the full extent to which this information is being shared across the internet, and even the most sophisticated would be unlikely to realise that all of it is available for the spy agencies to collect.
Dozens of classified documents, provided to the Guardian by the whistleblower Edward Snowden and reported in partnership with the New York Times and ProPublica, detail the NSA and GCHQ efforts to piggyback on this commercial data collection for their own purposes.
Scooping up information the apps are sending about their users allows the agencies to collect large quantities of mobile phone data from their existing mass surveillance tools - such as cable taps, or from international mobile networks - rather than solely from hacking into individual mobile handsets.
Exploiting phone information and location is a high-priority effort for the intelligence agencies, as terrorists and other intelligence targets make substantial use of phones in planning and carrying out their activities, for example by using phones as triggering devices in conflict zones. The NSA has spent more than $1bn (pounds 600m) on phone targeting.
The disclosures also reveal how much the shift towards smartphone browsing could benefit spy agencies' collection efforts. One slide from a May 2010 NSA presentation on getting data from smartphones - breathlessly entitled Golden Nugget! - sets out the agency's "perfect scenario": "Target uploading photo to a social media site taken with a mobile device. What can we get?" The question is answered in the notes to the slide: from that event alone, the agency said it could obtain a "possible image", email selector, phone, buddy lists, and "a host of other social working data as well as location".
Depending on what profile information a user had supplied, the documents suggested, the agency would be able to collect almost every important detail of a user's life including home country, current location (through geolocation), age, gender, postcode, martial status - options included "single", "married", "divorced", "swinger" and more - income, ethnicity, sexual orientation, education level, and number of children.
The agencies also collected location information in bulk from Google and other mapping apps. One basic effort by GCHQ and the NSA was to build a database locating every mobile phone mast in the world, meaning that just by taking tower ID from a handset, location information could be gleaned.
A more sophisticated effort relied on intercepting Google Maps queries made on smartphones and using them to collect large volumes of location information. So successful was this effort that one 2008 document noted that "[i]t effectively means that anyone using Google Maps on a smartphone is working in support of a GCHQ system".
The information generated by each app is chosen by its developers, or by the company that delivers an app's adverts. The documents do not detail whether the agencies actually collect the potentially sensitive details some apps are capable of storing or transmitting, but any such information would probably qualify as content rather than metadata.
Data collected from smartphone apps is subject to the same laws and minimisation procedures as all other NSA activity - procedures which Barack Obama suggested may be subject to reform in a speech this month. But the US president focused largely on the NSA's collection of the metadata from US phone calls and made no mention in his address of the large amounts of data the agency collects from smartphone apps. The documents do not make it clear how much of the information that can be taken from apps is routinely collected, stored or searched, nor how many users may be affected. But they set out in great detail exactly how much information can be collected from widely popular apps.
One document held on GCHQ's internal Wikipedia-style guide for staff details what can be collected from different apps. Though it uses Android apps for most of its examples, it suggests much of the same data could be taken from equivalent apps on the iPhone or other platforms.
The GCHQ documents set out examples of what information can be extracted from different ad platforms, using perhaps the most popular mobile phone game of all time, Angry Birds - which has reportedly been downloaded more than 1.7bn times - as a case study.
From some app platforms, relatively limited, but identifying, information such as exact handset model, the unique ID of the handset, software version, and similar details is all that is transmitted. Other apps choose to transmit much more data, meaning the agency could potentially net far more. One mobile ad platform, Millennial Media, appeared to offer rich information. Millennial Media's website states it has partnered with Rovio, the maker of Angry Birds, on a special edition of the game; with Farmville maker Zynga; with Call of Duty developer Activision; and many other major franchises.
"Rovio doesn't have any previous knowledge of this matter, and have not been aware of such activity in third-party advertising networks," said Saara Bergstrom, Rovio's vice-president of marketing and communications. "Nor do we have any involvement with the organisations you mentioned [NSA and GCHQ]." Millennial Media did not comment.
Almost every major website uses cookies to serve targeted advertising and content, as well as streamline the experience for the user, for example by managing logins. One GCHQ document from 2010 notes that cookie data - which generally qualifies as metadata - has become just as important to the spies. In fact, the agencies were sweeping it up in such high volumes that they were struggling to store it. "They are gathered in bulk, and are currently our single largest type of events," the document stated.
GCHQ's targeted tools used against individual smartphones are named after characters in the TV series The Smurfs. An ability to make the phone's microphone "hot", to listen in to conversations, is named Nosey Smurf. High-precision geolocation is called Tracker Smurf, power management - an ability to stealthily activate a phone which is apparently turned off - is Dreamy Smurf, and the spyware's self-hiding capabilities are codenamed Paranoid Smurf.
The NSA said its phone interception techniques were only used against valid targets, and were subject to stringent legal safeguards. "The communications of people who are not valid foreign intelligence targets are not of interest to the National Security Agency," a spokeswoman said.
GCHQ declined to comment on any of its specific programmes, but stressed all of its activities were proportional and complied with UK law. "It is a longstanding policy that we do not comment on intelligence matters," said a spokesman. "All of GCHQ's work is carried out in accordance with a strict legal and policy framework which ensures that our activities are authorised, necessary and proportionate, and that there is rigorous oversight."
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GCHQ documents use the wildly popular Angry Birds as a case study to illustrate the information that can be extracted
Source: Guardian (UK)
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'Last Resort' falls, but not as much as 'Charlie's Angels'
<p>Amy Acker and Michael Emerson of "Person of Interest"</p>
Amy Acker and Michael Emerson of "Person of Interest"
Credit: CBS
Fast National ratings for Thursday, October 4, 2012.
The second week of ratings on Thursday delivered a mixed bag of news, with the constant being that "The Big Bang Theory" and "Person of Interest" carried CBS to wins in most measures, even if freshman drama "Elementary" took a dip.
"Elementary" wasn't the only show going down on Thursday, with "Last Resort" and "Grey's Anatomy" also falling, while "30 Rock" delivered a low premiere for NBC.
However, "Glee" and "Parks and Recreation" posted small gains, as did the early portion of CBS' night, while the drop for "The X Factor" was barely noticeable.
See? Mixed news.
[Note that at least a touch of CBS' solid night may be a product of a Thursday NFL game airing on the CBS affiliate in Phoenix.]
On to the numbers...
Among adults 18-49, CBS averaged a 3.3 rating for Thursday night, tops in the key demographic. FOX was second with a 2.9 rating, followed by ABC's 2.5 key demo rating. NBC was far back in fourth with a 1.5 rating, while The CW averaged a 0.3 key demo rating.
Overall, CBS averaged an estimated 13.29 million viewers and an 8.3 rating/13 share for Thursday primetime, far ahead of the 5.5/9 and 8.42 million viewers for ABC. FOX's 4.8/8 and 7.67 million viewers followed in third, way ahead of the 2.4/4 and 3.48 million viewers for NBC. The CW averaged 902,000 viewers and a 0.6/1.
8 p.m. - "The Big Bang Theory" (15.38 million and 4.9 key demo) and "Two and a Half Men" (12.67 million and a 3.7 key demo) dominated the 8 p.m. hour for CBS. FOX's "The X Factor" was second with 9.14 million viewers and a 3.1 rating among adults 18-49. ABC's "The Last Resort" slipped to 7.87 million viewers and a 1.8 key demo rating, but an optimist would observe that the drops were less severe than for "Charlie's Angels" or "Missing" last season. NBC was fourth with "30 Rock" (3.4 million and a 1.3 key demo) and "Up All Night" (3.085 million and a 1.4 key demo). The CW's "The Next" finale averaged 803,000 viewers and a 0.2 key demo rating in its first hour.
9 p.m. - "Person of Interest" averaged 14.62 million viewers to win the 9 p.m. hour for CBS and finished second with a 3.1 rating among adults 18-49. ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" averaged 10.56 million viewers and an hour-winning 3.7 key demo rating. FOX's "Glee" averaged 6.21 million viewers and a 2.6 key demo rating in third. NBC was fourth with "The Office" (4.11 million and a 2.1 key demo) and "Parks and Recreation" (3.53 million and a 1.9 key demo). The CW's "The Next" finale averaged just over a million viewers and a 0.3 key demo rating.
10 p.m. - Despite losing roughly two million viewers and half a demo ratings point, CBS' "Elementary" won the 10 p.m. hour easily with 11.22 million viewers and a 2.6 rating among adults 18-49. ABC's "Scandal" averaged 6.82 million viewers and a 2.1 key demo rating, dropping, but not as much as its lead-in. NBC's "Rock Center" averaged 3.39 million viewers and a 1.1 key demo rating.
Daniel Fienberg
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His spinning-backheel-lob of an indirect free-kick, as you will have seen, is up there with the great indoor football goal of that scissor kick bloke.
Falcão, whose real name is Alessandro Rosa Vieira, played professionally for Corinthians but appears to have adapted better to the indoor format.
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Preparation Time5 MinCooking Time35 Min
Ready In40 MinDifficulty LevelMedium
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Sweet cherries1 Tablespoon, pitted
Quick-cooking tapioca - 1 tablespoon, uncooked
Almond extract3/4 Teaspoon
Vegetable cooking spray
All-purpose flour - 1/2 cup
Whole wheat flour1/4 Cup (16 tbs)
Sugar1 Tablespoon
Salt1/4 Teaspoon
Cinnamon - 1/8 teaspoon, grounded
Shortening2 Tablespoon
Skim milk2 Tablespoon
Egg white1
1) Take the custard cups and coat them with cooking spray. Keep the cups aside.
2) Combine sweet cherries, tapioca, sugar and almond extract in a bowl. Mix them well.
3) Take flours along with 1 tablespoon of sugar, salt and cinnamon in a bowl. Add the shortening. Knead the flour.
4) Gradually add milk and other dry ingredients.
5) Take the dough and divide into 6 equal balls.
6) Roll each balls into the shape of a circle.
7) Keep the circle over each custard cup.
8) Seal the edges of the cup.
9) Brush them with egg whites. Make a small cut at top in order to allow steam to escape.
10) Bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees F until golden brown on top.
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June 28, 2012
Am injected microparticle (yellow) can hand off oxygen molecules to red blood cells (red) to carry throughout the body (credit: D. Kunkel/Dennis Kunkel Microscopy Inc., D. Bell/Harvard University, J. Kheir/Boston Children’s Hospital, C. Porter/Chris Porter Illustration)
Oxygenating the blood by bypassing the lungs in this way could save the lives of people with impaired breathing or obstructed airways, says John Kheir, a cardiologist at the Children’s Hospital Boston in Massachusetts, who led the team.
In the past, doctors have tried to treat low levels of oxygen in the blood, or hypoxaemia, and related conditions such as cyanosis, by injecting free oxygen gas directly into the bloodstream. They had varying degrees of success, says Kheir.
Injected rabbits survived for up to 15 minutes without breathing, and had normal blood pressure and heart rate. They showed no indication of heart, lung or liver damage caused by oxygen deprivation, or of pulmonary embolisms.
The microcapsules are easy and cheap to make, says Kheir. They effectively self-assemble when the lipid components are exposed to intense sound waves in an oxygen environment — a process known as sonication.
If it works in large animal trials that are currently underway and moves to human clinical trials, the therapy could eventually be used on anyone with a lung infection, asthma attack, or blocked airway. | http://www.kurzweilai.net/rabbits-kept-alive-by-oxygen-injections | dclm-gs1-181170002 | false | false | {
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When a company, like Apple, makes a bold move, like giving away OS X and productivity apps, it's typically seen as a torpedo intended to sink an enemy ship. So then people argue; that bold move is no torpedo. And they're right. In fact, single, bold actions are more like cannon fire that whittles away at the superstructure of an enemy ship, slowly reducing its ability to function.
We should all know by now that no single action by Apple can take down a competing company. (Although some articles would have you believe that.) I think what happens is that well read observers take in the entirety of the industry and form a subconscious model of what's going on. Then, when we see a single move by Apple, like giving away Mavericks and iWork, it's like a jigsaw puzzle. The pieces fall into place, and there's an "aha!" moment. We see the dominoes falling in that model in our heads.
But if you ask us to explain why this single cannon shot will contribute to the desired, long term effect, we may be at a loss to articulate the whole mental model we've formed. So I'll try. Here it is.
Cascade Failure
The Surface tablet family has been a miserable failure for Microsoft, and there's no sign that the Redmond giant is getting a clue. As Tim Cook said during the October 22 event about the competition, "They're confused...they chased after netbooks. They tried to make tablets into PCs and PCs into tablets." There is no doubt, Mr. Cook was taking a shot at Microsoft.
As I've written before, after a 2.5 year delay producing its own tablet, Microsoft hasn't created a proper stepping stone to the future with the Surface. The reason is that Apple's iPads (and other tablets) are in the process of dismantling and demoralizing the PC industry. If few companies are eager to build PCs, or can't make any money on the low to moderate end (with Apple seizing the high end with the Mac Pro) then there's an ever dwindling market for Windows. Then, Microsoft Office suffers collateral damage.
Next. What Microsoft doesn't want to admit is that the modern tablet is designed for lightweight apps. It's part of the tablet concept, the cultural meme that we tap, drag and create. Keyboards are destined to go the way of the typewriter. Putting MS Office on a tablet is like mounting a Patriot missile launcher on four meter sailboat.
In a case of bizarre self-rationalization, Microsoft sees a two-position kickstand and USB ports as a decisive advantage -- or they wouldn't tout those features in its TV ads. It sees the complexity of MS Office, in a Post-PC era as a critical, necessary feature, much the way RIM/Blackberry saw email security for business as its unassailable, killer feature. How did that work out?
And so, as Apple's lightweight -- and free -- productivity apps, perfectly designed for a modern tablet get better and better, the market for PCs that utilize Windows and MS Office gets smaller and smaller. Eventually, there will be an inflection point. There always is.
On the other side of the coin, Apple has an interest in carving a bigger and bigger piece out of the PC marketplace with Macs. To be sure, there has been some cannibalization going on with its own iPads, but the way to slow that down is to lower the price of MacBooks and give away OS X and OS X upgrades. That's exactly what Apple did on October 22nd. No more periodic fees.
Consider the mentality of IT managers in a few years. Everything their employees need to do can be done on a BYOD tablet. Faced with the prospect that standard desktop PCs are in less demand, and the ever present frustration as they deal with new Windows versions, they won't be eager to continue the expensive licensing fees -- which Microsoft may have to raise to maintain its revenue stream.
It would be investing in a future that isn't.
Over on the other side of the building, the Mac users in the graphics, engineering and accounting departments are happily upgrading their Macs for ... free. It's just more cannon fire on the other ship's superstructure.
All these shrewd Apple moves have placed Microsoft into yet another bind.
Thanks to Microsoft's crucial tardiness in entering the tablet market, customers have figured out that they don't need MS Office to get routine work done. And that's why Microsoft is in a coffin corner, to use another military term, with Surface. If Microsoft ships Office for iPad, they remove incentive to buy a Surface. If they decline, as they have so far, more and more people using improved, free and compatible iWorks apps realize they can get by without MS Office. Lightweight or not.
When the market for PCs inflects, that is when more tablets are sold than PCs in 2015, and Windows begins its collapse, so will MS Office. The Surface tablet goes down with the ship.
With RIM/BlackBerry disposed of and the weakly positioned Microsoft on the ropes, Apple will be able to focus all of its attention on the rest of the competition.
Now that's a model one can munch on.
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Will there come a time when we carry on conversations with an intelligent agent in our smartphones -- or something we wear? I think so. And so I believe this next article bears on everything Apple and everything mobile. "The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think." This is Particle Debris must reading.
If you love beautiful wallpapers, especially astronomy, there are some good ones hidden away in the Mavericks screen saver. I've already copied some of these into my pictures library. They're awesome. See: "Uncover Mavericks' 43 Secret Wallpapers."
There have been several great reviews of Mavericks. I liked mine because it wasn't a user manual. Rather, it was a tour that introduced you to what's important and why you should upgrade. However, if you're of a mind to read something akin to Mavericks, the missing manual, by some formidable and talented writers, here are the great ones I know of.
In the preamble above, I discussed market forces, but I didn't go into the specific issues with Windows 8.x. Indeed, that's another part of the model.
Brian S. Hall, however, does have some pointed observations, taking some serious shots at major players, but dramatically so at Microsoft. So I'll finish this week with his poetic quote from "The Simple Shocking Failures of Microsoft Google Facebook Apple And Silicon Valley."
Takes my breath away. Maybe Microsoft has torpedoed themselves.
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{quote} Cascade Failure {/quote} An odd coincidence that you would use that term. I’ve used it for over a decade for when Windows gets balled up and is unrecoverable.
I find it interesting that Microsoft is touting USB when much of the rest of the world has moved to wireless for file transfer, via the cloud or otherwise.
Exactly! For many years I’ve been telling those, including my superiors, that Office was overkill for, well, the office because we didn’t need pivot tables or legal footnotes, or Ribbons. Finally I see people are starting to grasp this.
as they deal with new Windows versions, they won’t be eager to continue the expensive licensing fees
Example. My company is using an inexpensive external service for web hosting and e-mail. The powers that be around here thought it would be nice to host our own Exchange server. Internal messaging, shared calendars and all that. Then we looked at the cost. For our little office (~50 staff plus another 20 or so functional addresses) it was going to cost around $40,000 of which only $2000 was the actual hardware. The rest was license fees. We then tried Office365 and found it to be kludgy, unstable and unreliable. They have decided to abandon the project altogether. Maybe down the road they will look at it again but it’s almost a guarantee that it won’t be a solution from MS.
The quote from Brian S Hall is wonderful. Another story from where I work. (I’ve used this before so if it seems familiar my apologies).
Where I work the head of IT is a top down died in the wool bleeds MS blue, Microsoft fan. As far as he’s concerned they can do no wrong and that includes the Outlook, the Ribbon, Surface (brilliant in his words), even Clippy was great in his mind. He’s the one who pushed Exchange until he was shot down by those at the top. He announced last month that Windows 8 was a total loss. The company will NOT be upgrading. Period. He’s bought a pile of licenses for Windows 7 and we will keep using them for the time being. Also Office2013 is not to be used. It’s too insecure with the cloud integration and breaks too many of our legacy apps and hardware. He’s also laid in a supply of Office 2010 licenses.
If MS can’t keep people like him on their side what hope is there for the house that Gates built?
“Maybe Microsoft has torpedoed themselves.”
You mean “…has torpedoed ITSELF.”
“Maybe Microsoft has torpedoed themselves.”
“You mean “…has torpedoed ITSELF.””
Both are wrong.
Microsoft have torpedoed themselves. (In British English).
Maybe we should ask Bill Gates: “Hi Bill, when you released Windows 8, has Microsoft torpedoed itself, or has Microsoft torpedoed themselves, or have Microsoft torpedoed themselves?”
I don’t believe we’re talking British English here. This is U.S. English and torpedoed ITSELF is correct (Microsoft is a singular organization).
John Martellaro
Agreed on the itself/themselves. That’s standard usage for us, and you’ve seen me do it before. In this case, it just didn’t feel right. So I took some license.
Perhaps the strategy also has something to do with the fact that Google has been giving away its productivity software for a long time. I’m finding it hard to justify purchases of Macs for employees who do basics when they could and do use Google Docs. I think Google’s approach may be much more significant.
I concur completely with your analysis. Indeed, I’ve argued before that Apple are like a fast attack submarine, whose plans and manoeuvres operate in stealth mode, hidden beneath the surface, until they are prepared to strike. Time and again, that strike, while not lethal to competitor as an entity, is often enough, lethal to one of their products or services, and as you and geoduck argue above, sets off a cascade effect that, over time, can sink an enemy vessel (competitor) unless they take corrective measures.
MS, as you’ve pointed out, are in a coffin corner, at least insofar as their mobile strategy is concerned. Indeed, they unknowingly walked their entire core business - Windows and Office specifically - into a kill zone the moment they a) laughed to scorn the iPhone (and later said ‘meh’ to the iPad) and b) opted to withhold Office from the iPad. That strategic blunder had but one origin, tying their future to Windows, a decision that left them disoriented and straying into the kill zone - a place that they still seem slow to appreciate.
It has allowed Apple, amongst their other volleys, to pummel MS’s software business model, which currently defines their lifeline, by giving away OS X and Apple’s suite of productivity and iLife apps. As organisations’ senior leadership (not the dyed in the wool, true blue MS believer IT wonks that geoduck describes - they’re still capable of redefining reality in a way that supports MS) look at the larger landscape of interoperability of hardware assets, security, and both direct and indirect costs (in lost time particularly) of various platform solutions, the value proposition from MS becomes progressively unattractive over time.
Meanwhile, Apple, like to the two proverbial men on the savannah faced with a lion, in which the survivor need not outrun the lion, only his less fortunate mate, Apple need not cheapen any one or another of their products and services, but rather make their overall integrated platform a greater value proposition than that of MS. With this latest OS rollout, combined with their arsenal of hardware and supportive services, they’ve done that. MS can only counter, at this stage, with promises of as yet non-existent products and services that will truly compete, on performance and price, with Apple’s bristling and fully functioning weapons cache. This is a kill zone. MS have got clear out of it, and fast. ‘Kill’ BTW is a relative term. It connotes, in this case, the decline of MS from titan to Lilliputian player in the tech space. For MS, the erstwhile lord of the tech jungle, this fate is akin to death.
I suspect, though I have no inside knowledge of such, that many in Redmond’s leadership look at their current PC marketshare and the penetration of those PCs into the enterprise space, breathe a sigh of relief and assure themselves that their position is relatively secure - at least for now, not unlike the Spanish admirals and royalty who once surveyed their vast armada and, too, thought themselves secure, if not invincible. Security, however, is not a state function, but a system in dynamic flux whose balance can simultaneously destabilise and buttress one or another contending parties’ positions.
Finally, if MS are to have a future as a major player in the post-PC era, they will require more than a simple leadership change, by which is meant not simply a change of CEO, but the core leadership team. They will require a cultural transformation such as they have not seen, perhaps even contemplated; and one so radical that the transformation itself might prove as great a threat to MS’s survival as the combined menace of her rivals, most notably, Apple.
William Murphy
While I laud Apple for making their office apps available for free, they are not as simple to use or necessarily as capable as MS Office. I use Excel on both Macs and PCs, I use Numbers on Macs and iPad. Numbers is nice, but difficult to use when it comes to editing formulae. I have a spreadsheet or two that I made for a class that I teach. Numbers was fine for entering and logging the data, but when it came down to analyzing the results, I could write the Excel formulae in a fraction of the time that iPad required. In my opinion, Numbers has a long ways to go to improve its interface.
Lee Dronick
Define basics.
Macs, come with TextEdit which probably meets most users basic word processing needs.
And if Textedit won’t do it, Macs (and iPads) now come with iWorks, including the more capable word-processor, Pages.
Philip Littlewood
You seem to be, conveniently, overlooking the fact that Windows 8.1 ,which is of a similar scale of update to Mavericks, is also a free upgrade and MS Office is also free on Windows Arm devices.
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An argument in a Regis College dormitory spurred a fight in a parking lot that left a Waltham teen standing nearby the brawl fatally stabbed.
The man authorities said is responsible for the stabbing, Robenson Daniel, 20, of Boston, was ordered held without bail during his murder arraignment Thursday.
Both Daniel and the murder victim, Elhadji Ndiaye, 18, of Waltham, were on the college’s Weston campus visiting friends.
Words were exchanged between people in a dorm, and that argument spilled out in to a parking lot where a fight broke out between the two groups. Daniel became involved in a fight with a 22-year-old Waltham man and stabbed him multiple times before a witness was able to separate them, authorities said.
Daniel allegedly then stabbed Ndiaye in the chest as he stood near by.
Daniel was arrested Thursday morning.
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B)Backslapping, Bandanna, Barrage, Behavior, Blacksmith, Bloodthirsty, Boldness, Braggart, Brave, Britches, Brutality, Buckboard, Bully, Bunkhouse, Burr, Bushwhacker, Buzzards
C)Cahoots, Campfires, Cattle(drive), Cheat, Churlish, Civility, Commitment, Common-sense, Contemptible, Control, Cooperation, Courage, Courageous, Cowboy, Curt
D)Dadgumit!, Decent, Dependable, Desolate, Determination, Driving cattle, Drought, Dust
E)Energetic, Epic, Exhaustion, Experience
F)Face-to-face, Failure, Faith, Faithful, Feud, Foothills, Fortitude, Fortune, Frenzy, Frontiersman, Furor, Fury
G)Gait, Gallop. gauntlet, Giddy-up!, Gold fever, Graze, Greasewood, Gullies, Gun-wielding, Gunfire
H)Half-hitch, Hard work, Hardhearted, Hazardous, Herd, Hitch, Hogtie, Holster, Horseshoes, Hostile, Howdy!
J)Jail, Jealousy, Joy, Judgment, Justice
L)Lariat, Leather, Livery, Livestock, Loco, Longhorns
M)Maverick, Mercantile, Mount
O)Obedient, Observant, Opinionated, Opportunist
Q)Quarrelsome, Querulous, Quest, Questions, Quick
R)Ranching, Range, Rawhide, Reasonable, Rebellious, Recognition, Resolute, Resourcefulness, Ricochet, Rustlers, Ruthless
S)Saddlebags, Saloon, Salve, Savvy, Schemer, Sheriff, Slaughter, Sober, Solemn, Solitary, Sorrow, Spurs, Stallion, Stampede, Staunchness, Stirrups, Stockade, Surly, Suspicion
T)Tack, Talent, Tallow, Teamwork, Temperament, Tenacious, Tendency, Terrain, Territories, Threats, Thundering, Toil, Travois, Treacherous, Treaty
V)Valiant, Vamoose!, Varmint, Vendetta, Vengeful, Venison, Vicious, Vigilant, Vile, Villainous, Visible, Vocal, Vulnerable, Vultures
W)Wary, Whinny, Wicker, Wild
Y)Yearling, Yearning, Yee-haw!, Yoke, Young
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Definition: Processes wherein the material being processed is other
No. of patents: 314
Last issue date: 08/30/2011
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5882565Barrier material comprising a thermoplastic and a compatible cyclodextrin derivative
A barrier film composition can comprise a thermoplastic web comprising a thermoplastic polymer and a dispersed cyclodextrin composition having substituents that compatibilize the cyclodextrin in the film. The thermoplastic/cyclodextrin film obtains substa...
5851469Process for making a wood-thermoplastic composite
The invention relates to a method for making a dimensionally stable wood-thermoplastic composite material composed of a wood component and a thermoplastic component comprising the steps of forming a wood-thermoplastic mass at a temperature above the melti...
5849233Method of extruding starch under low moisture conditions using feed starch having coarse particle size
A method of extruding starch under low moisture conditions of 25% or less by weight to form an expanded product is provided and includes feeding inlet starch to an extruder, the starch having a particle size distribution such that 30% or more by weight ha...
5820802Tile making machine and method
A roof tile making machine and its method of operation. The reinforcement ribs on the underside of a concrete roofing tile are formed during their manufacture by directing mortar into recesses in a pallet on which the tile is made, with a compactor means ...
5814146MDF cement compositions with improved impact strength
The invention concerns a MDF cement material showing better impact strength meant as an increase in the breaking total energy, by fibers addition....
5814253Process for making a lightweight, cementitious, three dimensional structure
The invention relates to a process of making a light weight, cementitious, three dimensional structure such as a building panel which includes the steps of measuring a quantity of water, measuring about 425 kilograms of cement, and between approximately 4...
5810961Methods for manufacturing molded sheets having a high starch content
Compositions and methods for manufacturing sheets having a starch-bound matrix reinforced with fibers and optionally including an inorganic mineral filler. Suitable mixtures for forming the sheets are prepared by mixing together water, unmodified and unge...
5811048Process of and apparatus for homogenizing a flow stream
A method and apparatus for homogenizing a flow stream of plasticized material supplied from an extruder, to reduce viscosity gradients causing defects in extruded products, wherein a flow inverting homogenizer positioned in the flow stream and incorporati...
5811376Method for making superconducting fibers
A process for making a superconducting fiber or wire (10) is provided. The superconducting fiber or wire (10) has a superconducting core (12) and a glass cladding outer layer (14). The process comprises melting a superconducting composition (16) and a gla...
5779960Algal plastics
This invention pertains to foamed and solid algal plastics and products made therefrom, and methods for making algal plastics. The invention also pertains to algal plastic resin precursors for generating the foamed and solid algal plastics and algal plast...
5779957Article, in particular a building covering plate, and process for manufacturing said article
An article comprising a hydrated matrix containing 100 parts by weight of cement and around 80-120 and preferably around 100 parts by weight of sand with a grain size of less than 1 mm, and alkali-resistant reinforcing glass fibres in a proportion of arou...
5766523Blow spinning die and process for spinning carbon fibers from solvated pitches
The present invention provides a blow spinning die particularly suited for spinning solvated pitch into fibers having a random cross-sectional structure. Additionally, the present invention provides a process for blow spinning fibers from solvated pitches...
5766529Resilient biodegradable packaging materials
High resiliency biodegradable starch-based extruded products and methods of manufacturing those products are provided. In particular, extruded starch products processed by rolling provide excellent resiliency, abrasion resistance and other properties attr...
5766540Cellulose food casing manufacturing method
The tubular extrusion of a thermoplastic nonderivatized cellulose solution about a mandrel and through a long air gap in excess of 304 mm is facilitated by use of a mandrel which is extensible from the extrusion die. On extrusion start-up, the mandrel ext...
5759478Mandrel structure for use in manufacture of cellulose food casing
5753308Methods for manufacturing food and beverage containers from inorganic aggregates and polysaccharide, protein, or synthetic organic binders
Containers use in the storing, dispensing, packaging, and/or portioning of food and beverage products. The disposable and nondisposable food and beverage containers are manufactured from aggregates held together by organic binders in order to be lightweig...
5750061Halohydantoin forms produced by melt extrusion and method for making
The present invention is a method for producing solid halogenated hydantoin products using the process of melt extrusion. The form of the products which can be produced includes tablets, briquettes, pucks, dispensers, "designer" forms such as Christmas or...
5728331Method of preparing a battery separator
A battery assembly comprising a separator, spaced metal/metal oxide electrodes and a liquid electrolyte, the improvement comprising a rigid, porous, ceramic separator that is wettable by the liquid electrolyte, that has a porosity of 40-90 volume %, an av...
5725822Extrusion of electrode material by liquid injection into extruder barrel
An electrode sheet product is formed using an extruder having a feed throat and a downstream section by separately mixing an active electrode material and a solid polymer electrolyte composition that contains lithium salt. The active electrode material is...
5725939Synthetic wood meal, method and apparatus for manufacturing the same; synthetic wood board including the synthetic wood meal, method and apparatus of extrusion molding therefor
A synthetic wood meal in which a thermoplastic resin material of 25 to 80 wt % is mixed with a cellulose crushed material of 20 to 75 wt % that lies in the moisture content of within 15 wt % and the mean particle diameter of 20 mesh or less, the mixed mat...
5702659Honeycomb extrusion die and methods
A honeycomb extrusion die including a feed section having a plurality of feedholes for the input of an extrudable material, a discharge section including a discharge opening for discharging the extrudable material as a channeled honeycomb body, and a mult...
5700410Method of manufacturing wax matrices
A method of producing a wax matrix for controlled release of a pharmaceutically active ingredient is provided. The method includes the steps of feeding a wax and a pharmaceutically active ingredient into a multi-screw extruder and thoroughly mixing the wa...
5693279Starch acetate and blends thereof with metal chelates
Filaments characterized by enhanced tensile strength, which are composed of starch acetate or a blend of starch acetate and cellulose acetate and metal chelates, are provided. Also provided are methods for varying the viscosity of a starch acetate solutio...
5688455Process for making a cellulose triacetate photographic film base
A method of making a cellulose triacetate photographic film support by forming a dope solution of cellulose triacetate in a first solvent, passing the dope solution under pressure through a sheet forming die zone having an upper and lower surface and two ...
5686036Process for making a cellulose triacetate photographic film base
The invention provides a method of making a cellulose triacetate photographic film base which comprises providing a casting composition of cellulose triacetate, plasticizer, and solvent having a cellulose triacetate and plasticizer concentration of from 3...
5681517Method of producing casein film
A method of producing a casein film, in the form of a planar film or a film tube, by mixing an aqueous solution containing at least one partly volatile carboxylic acid, at least one plasticizer and deionized water, with casein, and causing the mixture to ...
5670103Method for making ceramic fibers from a water soluble pre-ceramic polymer solution
A method of making ceramic fibers from a water soluble pre-ceramic polymer solution by forming fibers from a water soluble pre-ceramic polymer solution, drying the formed fibers at a first temperature ranging between 600° C.-750° C. at a temperature hea...
5650116Method of making a medical device from ironically crosslinked polymer
The present invention provides a method for making medical devices, especially stents, catheters, cannulas, plugs and constrictors, by treatment of ionically crosslinkable polymer compositions with crosslinking ions....
5650111Process of making cellulose products from straw
A dispersion of cellulose based fibers in straw is produced by the aid of alkali and strong mechanical agitation. This solubilizes the pentosane in the straw, and turns the mixture into a high viscosity paste, so that the forces from the agitation tear th...
5648041Process and apparatus for collecting fibers blow spun from solvated mesophase pitch
The present invention provides a process and apparatus for collecting relatively straight blow spun fibers in a two dimensional configuration. The process utilizes a venturi to preclude the kinking and bending of the fibers until the fibers have substanti...
5622660Process for producing carbon fiber fabrics
A process for producing a process for producing a two- or three-dimensional carbon fabric, which process includes melt-spinning (a) an optically anisotropic carbonaceous pitch having an optically anisotropic phase content of 60 to 100%, subjecting the thu...
5618476Process for slip form production of prestressed concrete railroad ties
Pre-stressed concrete railroad ties are manufactured by the slip form process in the absence of mold members, other than the slip form itself. Tie casting occurs on portable casting soffits between portable soffit anchored deadmen supporting the pre-stres...
5614132Method for manufacturing a mineral fiber product
A method for manufacturing a mineral fiber product includes centrifuging mineral fibers with a spinner, forming a veil of the mineral fibers moving in the direction of the axis of the spinner, directing toward the veil, from a position within the veil, or...
5609817Extrusion-blown films from graft polymers prepared from cereal flour
Moisture-shrinkable films can be extrusion blown from flour-poly(methyl acrylate) graft copolymers. The films shrink when exposed at room temperature to relative humidities approaching 100%. The films have potential application in shrink-wrapping irregula...
5609807Production of ceramic structural bodies
A process for producing a ceramic structural body, including the steps of formulating a ceramic body by incorporating 0.2 to 3 wt % of emulsified wax and 2 to 7 wt % of methyl cellulose and plasticizing the resulting mixture for extrusion, and extruding t...
5595700Non-baked color pencil leads and method for preparing same
Non-baked color pencil leads are obtained by forming a blend composition from a filler, a coloring agent, a binder without any wax, and a water/oil repellant substance, kneading the mixture with a solvent and/or plasticizer, extruding the kneaded material...
5595698Method of making multi-color concrete tiles
A method of making the tile dispenses wet concrete having two different colors into a partitioned pug box for disposition onto opposite sides of a pallet, so that, the two different colors reside on opposite sides of the pallet in side-by-side relation. T...
5589203Vacuum kneading and extruding apparatus
A vacuum kneading and extruding method includes the steps of separately and continuously measuring plural types of material and continuously feeding the material into a kneading and degassing tank; kneading the plural types of material fed, and degassing ...
5585060Process for preparing biodegradable water-resistant film
A process for preparing a biodegradable water-resistant film. The process includes the steps of dispersing zein in an aqueous solution comprising acetone in an amount of from 65 to 75% by volume to form a zein dispersion, forming the resulting zein disper...
5580409Methods for manufacturing articles of manufacture from hydraulically settable sheets
Compositions and methods for manufacturing containers from sheets having a hydraulically settable matrix. Suitable compositions are prepared by mixing together a hydraulic binder, water, and appropriate additives (such as aggregates, fibers, and rheology-...
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Definition: Subject matter under cross-reference art collection 10 containing
No. of patents: 62
Last issue date: 10/31/2006
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7129329Heme proteins hemAT-Hs and hemAT-Bs and their use in medicine and microsensors
The present invention provides an isolated archael and bacterial heme binding protein which reversibly binds oxygen with a low affinity. The heme binding protein may be utilized as a blood substitute. The invention also provides a method for controlled storage of ox...
6846667Virulence genes and proteins, and their use
The present invention is based on the identification of a series of virulence genes in E. coli K1, the products of which may be implicated in the pathogenicity of the organisms. The identification of the genes allows them, or their expressed products, to be u...
6733997Isolated nucleic acids encoding a secretory signal for expression and secretion of heterologous recombinant proteins
A universal secretory signal originally derived from a piscine vitellogenin (Vtg) gene is inserted into various expression vectors for driving the secretion of the recombinant protein into the culture medium. This enhances the detection, quantification and downstrea...
Oligopeptides which comprise amino acid sequences that are recognized and proteolytically cleaved by free prostate specific antigen (PSA) are described. Also described are assays which comprise such oligopeptides useful for determining free PSA protease a...
5543497Genes encoding and method of expressing a novel enzyme: phthalyl amidase
Phthalyl amidase is an enzyme previously unknown in the art that catalyzes removal of the phthalyl moiety from phthalyl-containing amides. The current invention provides DNA compounds encoding the phthalyl amidase enzyme and methods for expressing such co...
4873190Heterodimeric T lymphocyte receptor
Disclosed is a heterodimeric T lymphocyte receptor comprising an alpha and a beta subunit. Each subunit consists of a signal peptide, variable, joining, constant, transmembrane, and cytoplasmic regions. The two subunits are connected by a disulfide bond b...
4871670Molecular cloning and characterization of a gene sequence coding for human relaxin
Genes and DNA transfer vectors for the expression of human preprorelaxin; sub-units thereof, including genes and transfer vectors for expression of human prorelaxin and the individual A, B and C peptide chains thereof; and equivalents of all such genes. M...
4868112Novel procoagulant proteins
Novel procoagulant proteins are disclosed which comprise the amino acid sequence: wherein region A represents the polypeptide sequence Ala-20 through Arg-759 substantially as shown in Table 1; region B represents the polypeptide sequence Ser-1709 through ...
4865974Bacterial methionine N-terminal peptidase
Methods for obtaining N-terminal methionine-free proteins involve a novel E. coli methionine amino peptidase. The method is capable of in vitro or in vivo application. For in vivo application, a plasmid-borne DNA encoding the peptide is expressed in a bac...
4865982Cloned streptomycete gene
A DNA fragment from Streptomyces sp. which contains the XP55 gene expression unit....
4859600Recombinant procaryotic cell containing correctly processed human growth hormone
The production of mature hGH in E coli and Pseudomonas strains transformed by a plasmid which encodes pre hGH (comprising the signal polypeptide and the hormone itself) is described. These prokaryotes process the pre-hGH to cleave the signal sequence and,...
4857637Methods and compositions for immunologically modulating growth hormone receptor activity
The activity of growth-associated receptors is modulated in vivo in a controlled and reproducible fashion by immunizing animals against target growth-associated receptors. This is accomplished by the use of immunogens predetermined to induce primarily ago...
4855238Recombinant gamma interferons having enhanced stability and methods therefor
The present invention relates to novel, stable recombinant gamma interferons exhibiting in greater or less degree the antiviral and antiproliferative activity in humans and pH 2 labile properties characteristic of native human gamma interferon. The amino ...
4851341Immunoaffinity purification system
A process is disclosed for purifying a recombinant fusion protein having an N-terminal identification sequence comprising multiple anionic amino acid residues, comprising forming a complex of the protein with a divalent cation dependent monoclonal antibod...
4849351Multiple reading frame Escherichia coli expression vectors
Vector plasmids are constructed to provide sites for insertion of a structural gene in phase with three reading frames downstream from the promoter of alkaline phosphatase gene of Escherichia coli....
4847325Conjugation of polymer to colony stimulating factor-1
A biologically active CSF-1 protein is selectively conjugated via certain amino acid residues or carbohydrate moieties to a water-soluble polymer selected from polyethylene glycol or polypropylene glycol homopolymers, polyoxyethylated polyols, or polyviny...
4839293DNA encoding streptavidin, streptavidin produced therefrom, fused polypeptides which include amino acid sequences present in streptavidin and uses thereof
DNA which encodes the polypeptide streptavidin has been isolated as a fragment 2 kb in length derived from a restriction endonuclease digestion of the chromosomal DNA of Streptomyces avidinii. The nucleic acid sequence of the gene and the amino acid seque...
4839283Method of expressing alpha-1-antitrypsin in yeast
A method is provided for expressing human alpha-1-antitrypsin in yeast utilizing a wild-type strain and a hyperproduction mutant, GK100....
4826763Process for preparing glucagon or fragments or derivatives thereof in yeast
Glucagon or fragments or derivatives thereof are prepared by cultivation of a yeat strain transformed with a replicable expression vehicle comprising a gene encoding the expression of such products. Synthetic genes encoding glucagon or derivatives thereof...
4816567Recombinant immunoglobin preparations
Altered and native immunoglobulins, including constant-variable region chimeras, are prepared in recombinant cell culture. The immunoglobulins contain variable regions which are immunologically capable of binding predetermined antigens. Methods are provid...
4816396Method and vector organism for controlled accumulation of heterologous gene products in bacillus subtilis
The invention discloses a method and cloning vectors useful for the production of cloned heterologous gene products in B. subtilis. Use of the method and vector allows the host to produce the heterologous gene product as a single unfused peptide having no...
4816565Interleukin 2 receptor and a method for production thereof
Interleukin 2 receptor protein having the following properties: (a) molecular weight: 40 to 43 kd, (b) pI of 5.2 to 4.4, (c) amino acid sequence (N-terminal): ##STR1##...
4810645Microbial production of mature human leukocyte interferon K and L
This invention relates to the microbial production, via recombinant DNA technology, of new human leukocyte interferons, Le IF-K and Le IF-L for use in the treatment of viral and neoplastic diseases, and to the means and end products of such production....
4801537Vector for expression of polypeptides in bacilli
A replicable plasmidic expression vector, capable of high levels of expression and secretion of polypeptides in a bacillus is disclosed. The vector contains a DNA sequence comprising the promoter and regulatory regions which control expression and secreti...
4789702Feline leukemia virus vaccine
Polypeptides that are synthesized or expressed directly in microorganisms, include an amino acid sequence that is homologous to at least a portion of gp70 envelope protein of FELV, and are immunogens that elicit or prime a humoral response in cats and imm...
4783415Gene coding for signal peptides and utilization thereof
A DNA segment of a gene coding for a signal peptide is disclosed the segment is to be used in a host-vector system employing a bacterium belonging to the genus Streptomyces as a host by incorporation in the vector DNA. The segment comprises a DNA having a...
4782139Selective chemical removal of a protein amino-terminal residue
The invention relates to a process and compounds useful therein for producing a compound having an amino acid sequence defining a biologically active peptide or protein from a compound of the formula in which X is the residue of a naturally occurring amino aci...
4775622Expression, processing and secretion of heterologous protein by yeast
Yeast organisms are caused to express, process, and secrete protein that is normally heterologous to yeast and not required for its viability by transforming yeast with an expression vector containing a gene encoding heterologous protein and a signal sequ...
4772557DNA clone of human skin fibroblast collagenase enzyme
A cDNA having a base sequence for human skin fibroblast collagenase has been cloned and characterized and the amino acid sequence of the human skin fibroblast protein has been determined....
4769327Secretion vector
A vector including a DNA sequence encoding a secretory signal sequence substantially identical to the secretory signal encoding sequence of the Bacillus licheniformis -amylase gene; upstream from the signal-encoding sequence, a promoter sequence an...
4767709Growth-related hormones
Proliferin, a growth-related hormone of the prolactin-growth hormone family is provided, as well as DNA molecules encoding proliferin and methods of expressing the DNA molecules in vivo. Methods of probing for proliferin encoding DNA are also provided....
4764593Manufacture and expression of genes for urogastrone and polypeptide analogs thereof
Disclosed are DNA sequences comprising structural genes coding for (1) a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence and properties of urogastrone and for (2) polypeptide analogs thereof which differ in terms of the identity and/or location of one or more ...
4762791Human immune interferon
Disclosed is a complete discription of the preparation of novel, recombinant human immune interferon via recombinant DNA techniques utilizing any of an assortment of expression vectors and host cultures. The recombinant human immune (gamma) interferon (IF...
4761375Human interleukin-2 cDNA sequence
The mRNA of a distinct human Interleukin-2 concentrated from a plasma source lead to the production and cloning of its cDNA and the elucidation of its sequence and that of the mature protein. Transfer vectors for production of such Interleukin-2 are discl...
4758656Novel human interferon-gamma polypeptide derivative
Disclosed is a novel derivative of human interferon-γ polypeptide, a recombinant plasmid wherein a DNA fragment coding for said polypeptide is incorporated and a process for producing the derivative of human interferon-γ polypeptide using a microorganis...
4758655Synthetic polypeptide corresponding to a portion of the heat-labile enterotoxin of escherichia coli, compositions and methods of therewith
Synthetic polypeptides containing about 10 to about 35 amino acid residues corresponding in sequence to the amino acid residue sequence of about position 35 to about position 95 from the amino-terminus of the B-subunit of the heat-labile enterotoxin of Es...
4755465Secretion of correctly processed human growth hormone in E. coli and Pseudomonas
The production of mature hGH In E. coli and Pseudomonas strains transformed by a plasmid which encodes pre hGH (comprising the signal polypeptide and the hormone itself) is described. These prokaryotes process the pre-hGH to cleave the signal sequence and...
4753873Peptides for the diagnosis of HTLV-III antibodies, their preparation and use
Certain peptide fragments of the human T-cell leukemia (lymphotropic) virus (HTLV-III) are particularly immunoreactive to HTLV-III antibodies, and can therefore be applied to immunodiagnostic tests for the detection of antibodies to HTLV-III....
4745056Streptomyces secretion vector
Cloning vectors are disclosed to obtain secretion of a desired protein from a host Streptomyces when a structural gene coding for the protein is inserted into the vector. The vector has: (1) regulatory DNA that includes a promoter sequence effective to st...
4743679Process for producing human epidermal growth factor and analogs thereof
Disclosed is a process for producing a fusion protein comprising epidermal growth factor (EGF) attached through a Glu-residue to a leader. Treatment of the fusion protein with a Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease specific for cleaving peptides at a Glu-lin...
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1. Thomas
Awesome image. The angle of the shot indicates you must be standing on a sund dune higher than this one that you photograhed. How high were you !!
2. grant
sounds like quite a trip! i'm looking forward to the pics. this image is stunning, has a sense of movement in the still landscape.
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0.174677 | <urn:uuid:d9e8f97d-d10f-478e-8092-3b84994eedd1> | en | 0.875136 | The Genetics of Brain Wiring: From Molecule to Mind
• Kevin J Mitchell
• Published: April 17, 2007
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050113
• Published in PLOS Biology
There is compelling evidence that many psychiatric disorders have their origins in disturbed neurodevelopment, resulting in altered connectivity [1,2]. Similarly, many behavioural or cognitive traits are both heritable, at least moderately [3], and correlated with functional connectivity differences in various circuits [2]. The study of the genetics of behavioural or psychiatric traits may thus be directly informed by an understanding of the genetic architecture of the developmental processes underlying brain wiring. This essay presents a systems-level overview of these processes, highlighting several important properties that can have large effects on how genotype is mapped to phenotype: epistasis (meaning non-additive gene–gene interactions in this context), compensation, and stochastic developmental variation.
Wiring the Brain
No Gene Is an Island
The Winds of Chance
Figure 1. Waddington's “Epigenetic Landscape”
Putting It All Together
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32. 32. Kendler KS, Greenspan RJ (2006) The nature of genetic influences on behavior: Lessons from “simpler” organisms. Am J Psychiatry 163: 1683–1694. | http://www.ploscollections.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050113 | dclm-gs1-182040002 | false | true | {
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Military regimes the world over rely on their wealth of natural resources to finance military expenditures and subsequently sustain their hold on power. Be it tropical forests, gold, copper and diamonds, or oil and gas, without production and extraction deals with multinational corporations, most military regimes could not stay in power.
The demand for Burma’s natural gas, and its strategic position to trade markets in China and Southeast Asia, has encouraged neighbouring countries, such as India, Bangladesh* and Thailand, to recognise and make deals with the Burmese military.
Possibly more important is Burma’s geopolitical position between India and China, with warming yet distrustful relations between the two Asian giants. Burma has for many years been considered under strong economic influence of China, but India’s recent policy shift to engagement with the regime has put the Burmese junta (State Peace and Development Council, or SPDC) into a highly beneficial bargaining position between the two foes. The Burmese generals do not appear shy in playing one against the other. Since August 2004, the regime has sold two concessions for oil and gas exploration in Arakan State alone to Chinese companies (see news*). An additional plan to build a pipeline to transport oil from the Sittwe port in the Indian Ocean to Yunnan Provice remains high on the Chinese agenda. [a]
Within only weeks of the October 2004 purge of former Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt and his followers (see news) Gen Than Shwe, head of the SPDC, and Soe Win, Burma’s new Prime Minister, each visited India and China respectively. They traveled to provide assurances of stability and further economic agreements between their nations.
As part of the negotiations to produce and import natural gas, the Burmese regime is demanding political concessions from these trading partners, such as the expulsion of Burmese refugees and crackdowns on the pro-democracy opposition.
Although all details regarding the contractual arrangement have been shrouded in secrecy, it is believed that the Burma regime will sell the gas to India and China at similar price level as the current sale of gas from the Yadana/Yetagun fields into Thailand, US$3.70/mmbtu (million British Thermal Units). The total revenue of current estimated recoverable gas (10-14 trillion cubic feet (tcf) for the military regime would then total US$12-17 billion over a twenty-year period, the largest ever injection of foreign currency to the regime.
Considerable signing bonuses and all local profits from any Exploration & Production/E&P projects in Burma go directly to the Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise/MOGE,* which is 100% owned by the Burmese military. The regime’s military expenditures account for over 40% of the country’s national budget. [b] UNDP’s 2003 statistics state that Burma’s health and education spending is 0.4% and 0.5% of GDP respectively, each of which rank the lowest of the world. [c]
These gas profits will only strengthen the position of the ruling military and cause further sufferings and hardship for the common people of Burma. The peoples of Burma need your help in preventing this environmental, human, and political catastrophe from going forth.
We, the SHWE Gas Movement, demand that this project be postponed until above four issues receive adequate airing. Until the people of Burma have a say in the dealings of their government, it is up to you to help stop this project.
[a] http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/nts43358.htm
[b] Andrew Selth, Burma’s Armed Forces: Power Without Glory
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0.035415 | <urn:uuid:6505adc7-3c54-4a25-9566-ab2e9487d6d0> | en | 0.948695 | Does an Older Population Spell the End for Innovation?
What's to come?
Nov. 8 2013 8:33 AM
Can Old Dogs Learn New Tricks?
How China, Japan, and the U.S. can promote innovation in an age of longer lifespans.
Respect for the Aged Day
People work out with wooden dumbbells at a Tokyo temple in 2004 to celebrate Japan's Respect for the Aged Day.
Photo by Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images
It doesn’t take long to figure out where most dog owners and trainers stand on the age-old canine question. Do a quick Internet search, and you’ll find their hackles raised and example after example of old dogs learning new tricks, perhaps even faster than their puppy descendants.
But what about people? Brad Allenby in his Slate article explores a scenario where radical life extension will make an older generation “obsolete” by virtue of simply living too long and being unable to keep up with the rapid pace of technological innovation. But it may also be true that new technologies could in fact mitigate these differences. In any event, I suspect that many teachers of older adults—and older adults themselves—would relish the opportunity to learn new tricks.
But the even bigger question might better be aimed at societies, not individuals. That is, can older societies learn new tricks? As the world begins to experience the full force of plummeting fertility rates and rapid population aging, we have to ask whether aging societies will lose their entrepreneurial and innovation mojo.
To get a sense of the answer to that question, let’s look at three very different societies—Japan, China, and the United States.
Japan by any measure is now the world’s oldest country—whether it is average life expectancy, number of centenarians, or number of individuals over the age of 75. In addition, Japan has felt the additional pinch of a sharply declining birth rate such that it has experienced an absolute population decline of 2 million people in the past several years. (Large percentages of young people aren’t interested in sex at all.) The population drop has reduced demand for everything from cars to home mortgages.
For Japan, these demographic forces and their impact on Japan’s ability to innovate represent an existential threat. Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, was swept into office late last year with a mandate to shake things up. That he has done. In a recent interview with Foreign Affairs magazine, Abe said, “Japan is facing an extremely rapid decline in birthrates, and Japan’s national income has lost as much as 50 trillion yen due to prolonged deflation. … That is why we are facing a very difficult financial situation, and that was the core concern that led my government to launch the ‘three arrow’ recovery plan.”
Abe’s first arrow was expansion of government spending to stimulate economic growth. The second arrow was implementation of positive monetary policy. Both of those have been shot. But Abe’s “third arrow” for Japan’s vitality takes a longer view: It aims to use structural change to foster innovation and entrepreneurial zeal.
One response is to increase the consumption tax to sustain Japan’s social security services. But the even bigger gamble was to start up the presses and begin printing money—enough money to re-inflate an economy that has been deflationary for two decades—in order to produce an annual goal of 2 percent inflation. The Wall Street Journal captured Japan’s dilemma and its bold response in an excellent article last April titled “Stagnant Japan Rolls Dice on New Era of Easy Money.” | http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/11/graying_populations_in_china_japan_u_s_look_to_promote_innovation.html | dclm-gs1-182330002 | false | false | {
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Samantha Lane THEY were designed to break world records, the key element of a ''revolutionary racing system'' that would deliver gold medals.
If suit comes up short, dump it: AOC
Libby Trickett and Leisel Jones.
Samantha Lane Australian Olympic Committee offers athletes unprecedented rights to ditch the team sponsor and wear something else.
Swimmers can ditch their Speedos: AOC
Swimming Speedo to unveil fastskin suit at North Sydney Pool Libby Trickett Thursday December 1st 2011.Pictures Steve Christo SMH Sport/News
Samantha Lane Intent on protecting swimmers from wearing "substandard" Speedo suits at the London Olympics, the Australian Olympic Committee is giving athletes unprecedented rights to ditch the team sponsor and...
Olympic swimmers in battle over swimsuits
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A thresher maw is an enormous subterranean worm native to the planet Tuchanka in Mass Effect.
Thresher maws were somehow distributed to other planets when the krogan race was given interstellar spaceflight technology to fight in the Rachni War. They have since become dangerous pests on many worlds.
Thresher maws can grow to hundreds of meters in length, and their thick carapaces are difficult to damage. They are fast burrowers, and they can spit acidic slime.
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In order to form a better understanding of military law in this time of increased military activity, the UST Military Law Society will be formed to educate and illuminate the UST students and faculty to the intricacies and workings of military law. This non partisan look at the application, procedures, and impact of military law will imbue the UST community with a clear understanding of the events that take place every day in the military. The UST Military Law Society strives to encourage all view points to discuss, analyze, and understand the legal forces at work in the United States Military.
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0.041365 | <urn:uuid:56dadfaa-fc40-42bf-9de0-12bacae05889> | en | 0.970894 | Florida Struggles to Craft Juvenile Sentencing Policy
By: Margie Menzel News Service of Florida | Posted: October 16, 2013 3:55 AM
As state legislators have tried and failed to craft a juvenile-sentencing law that conforms to landmark U.S. Supreme Court rulings, a national advocacy group is calling Florida a "clear outlier" among states for its hard-line approach to trying juveniles as adults.
"These tough-on-crime laws are ineffective at keeping kids from reoffending," said the group's policy director, Carmen Daugherty. "Florida needs to take additional steps to reform its juvenile justice system."
"We're chipping away,'' Walters said. "We've seen almost a quarter-reduction in arrests. We're seeing fewer and fewer kids get direct-filed (as adults), fewer and fewer kids getting sent away, fewer and fewer kids landing in the deep end (of the juvenile justice system)."
According to DJJ figures, Florida's commitment of low- and moderate-risk youth has decreased by 62 percent during Walters' two-and-a-half-year tenure at the agency.
The group's report comes as lawmakers prepare to take up juvenile sentencing proposals during the spring legislative session -- including the use of risk-assessment tools and diversion programs to keep all but the worst offenders out of the deep end of the juvenile justice system, where the likelihood of recidivism is greatest.
Three years ago, in Graham v. Florida, the high court banned life sentences for juveniles convicted of nonhomicide crimes. And last year, in Miller v. Alabama, the high court found that juveniles convicted of murder can still face life sentences, but the judges must weigh criteria such as the offenders' maturity and the nature of the crimes before imposing that sentence.
"The legislators in all the states like to point their fingers at the judiciary and say they're being proactive," said state Rep. Dave Kerner, D-Lake Worth, who has both law enforcement and prosecutorial experience. "But how can we blame them if we're not willing to step up to the plate and pass a bill and have it signed into law?"
"We of the Legislature have a duty to provide clarity to the courts," said state Sen. Rob Bradley, a Fleming Island Republican and former prosecutor. "I understand why the Florida Supreme Court is discussing how to deal with this issue in the recent cases that they heard. I understand their frustration, and I look forward to participating with my colleagues this session in providing some clear guidance to the courts going forward."
Bradley, whose 2013 proposal (SB 1350) died on the last day of session, said he hasn't decided whether to try again next year.
Both he and Kerner make a sharp distinction between juveniles convicted of homicide and nonhomicide crimes.
He added that he's more flexible in the cases of defendants who did not commit murder.
In the House, Kerner said, "Everybody seems to be at the table."
"No one wants to be soft on crime," Kerner said. "But we also don't want to miss out on an opportunity to have meaningful participation and meaningful rehabilitation of the juveniles in our society who have done wrong. And we need to craft a bill that finds that balance."
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flexible laws
3:44PM OCT 16TH 2013
They don't really want to pass any laws that are binding upon them and their friends. Look at the way they handle all laws. Every time they have a high profile child involved crime they write a new law and name the law after the deceased child. Megans' law; The Jimmy 'rice Law, Jessica's law; The amber alert; The Adam Walsh law and on and on.
But they don't really enforce any of them and especially if the offender is a really close friend of the powerful.
In 2012 after the Penn State (Sandusky Sex Abuse Scandal) It was only a scandal because because it finally leaked to the public so fast and furious and they could no longer continue to cover it up so they were forced to do something.
So, monkey see monkey do the State of Florida passed another law making it mandatory that anyone who is aware of child abuse or child sex abuse will be guilty of a crime for failing to report.
Less than six months after this law was enacted a family reported directly to Lake County Florida sheriff Gary Borders that there child was being sexually abused by an older step-child in the family. If they had failed to report these crimes they could have been charged under the new law. What did Sheriff Borders do? NOT ONE THING. He had his Detectives talk to the State Attorney and they conspired to make it go away.
When the Perriwinkle child was recently abducted in Jacksonville by the career sex offender that should never have seen the light of day they started talking about making another new law named for her.
These so called law makers make a mockery out of the criminal justice system by continually and repeatedly passing laws after laws after laws that those who are charged by the constitution of enforcing those laws turn they heads too every day. Even when those laws are grossly broken by their friends.
Would a normal person not believe that if and when FIVE little boys between the ages of 12-15 report to their school administrator that they have been brutally raped by an older student using a foreign object into their body cavities over a period of time and that school administrator calls the local sheriff and reports these crimes - would a prudent person not believe this rapist (who was immediately identified) should and would have been immediately arrested? Well he was not! In fact he was not arrested until new house parents got breaking news that some of the victims had attempted suicide because nothing had been done for them.
Then all of a sudden everyone finds out that the sheriff has been running this boys ranch for over 20 years. The grapevine says a bunch of rapes have happen there over the years and no one has ever been charged.
They the people find a flyer with the rapist and the sheriff's pictured right on the front at the same time the rapes started to occur.
The sheriff and his friends in the JUST US system faked up an arrest, prosecution and probation sentencing of the rapist but other court documents prove he was never on probation and was in fact out committing other acts of violence on other persons at the time.
Google The Green Isle Boys Ranch, Sheriff Gary Borders. Read the 44 page summary and the 77 page summary as well.
Then tell your law makers we do not need another stupid law named for yet another innocent victim. We have more than enough laws. We need to start policing our criminals within the system who protect the friends and fail to enforce the laws we already have.
At the very least Lake County Sheriff Gary Borders committed OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE for failing to immediately arrest his little friend the Green Isle Rapist. Many people believe a true honest investigation would disclose many more crimes of a heinous nature as well.
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0.043926 | <urn:uuid:1c497386-dc73-4fde-9009-deef06bfe957> | en | 0.923347 | The R-Link infotainment system is currently available in the new Captur and all-electric Zoe, but will soon be rolled out across Renault’s entire range.
Renault calls it a tablet, which is a bit misleading: the 7in touchscreen is pretty much the equivalent of having a 3G-equipped Google Nexus 7 built into your dashboard and connected to the car’s sound system and steering wheel controls. But, like all other infotainment systems, it stays bolted to your dashboard.
See also: Ford Sync review
Renault R-Link - Captur
R-Link main menu
R-Link covers satnav, radio, a Bluetooth connection to your phone, weather forecasts and even measures air quality. Plus, it also has a reversing camera and an Eco section where it monitors and reports on your driving style, with a view to helping you save fuel (and reduce emissions) or optimising battery life if you have a Zoe.
Like a normal tablet, there’s also an app store where you can buy 50 or so apps covering everything from local fuel prices to Sudoku and other games. Email, Twitter, weather and Renault Assistance apps are pre-loaded. There are no free apps which is likely because, just like a 3G Amazon Kindle you don’t have to pay for R-Link’s data connection and selling pricey apps is one way for Renault to claw those data costs back.
R-Link is standard on some models, on others it’s a £450 option which comes with maps for your country. Upgrading to full maps of Western Europe costs a further £110.
Renault R-Link review: Satnav
We’re fans of TomTom, so it’s great to see this polished navigation system in R-Link. You get all the features of a high-end TomTom including HD Traffic and IQ Routes, both of which help you get where you’re going as quickly as possible.
You also get other TomTom Live services including weather, safety camera alerts and Local Search, so you can find points of interest anywhere: not just major tourist attractions, shops, hotels or restaurants but real local information such as the range of nearby curry houses.
R-Link satnav destination
In addition to TomTom’s safety camera warnings, there’s a separate Coyote app which warns you of fixed speed cameras, danger hotspots and accidents. As well as its radar-like interface, full-screen warning countdowns appear over TomTom’s route guidance as you approach.
Captur - backDisappointingly, there’s no real integration with your Bluetooth phone as you get with standalone TomTom satnavs. When choosing a destination, you can’t scroll through your contacts list (or use voice recognition as you can with Siri on the iPhone) to find an address. Your options are limited to the traditional city/postcode manual entry, points of interest, a point on the map or Latitude and Longitude (and we can’t see anyone using that option).
You get a three-month trial period of LIVE services and after that they can be purchased for £55 for a year or £150 for a three-year subscription through the R-Link Store.
Renault R-Link review: Radio
Strangely, there’s no DAB radio: you get standard FM and the well-past-its-best-before-date AM. Alternatively, you can stream music from a compatible Bluetooth phone, from a USB drive or using a normal aux input. There’s an SD slot, but this is already used by a card containing the TomTom maps.
Renault R-Link review: Apps
Apps are called Services in R-Link and they include TomTom services as well as more traditional apps.
R-Link services
For any service in R-Link which requires a network connection to work, a 'Pack' is required. It comes with the ‘Discovery Pack’ which lasts 12 months. It includes Email, Weather, Euronews, and R-Link Tweet. The Digital Pack gives access to more applications such as Google Calendar, Google Tasks, Fuel Prices, TV Guide and more and can be purchased for £50 for 12 months or £125 for 36 months.
Once your subscription has ended, internet connected apps will cease to be useful, but any that don’t require a connection, such as R-Effect, will still work. Bear in mind that the system doesn’t support roaming, so internet services will work only in the country where you buy the car.
R-Link Digital Pack app store
In the Discovery Pack, Email is one of the most useful, especially as incoming emails can be read out by the computer voice while you’re driving. Up to six user profiles can be created in R-Link, each with their own Bluetooth phone and email. You can set up a PIN code to prevent other users accessing your email, which is handy.
It’s easy to set up as long as you have a Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail (Outlook) account, but emails aren’t displayed in HTML, and reading the plain text versions is painful these days. You’ll know if there’s an attachment, but you won’t be able to open or view it.
R-Link plain text email
The Twitter app shows your feed and lets you re-tweet and reply to tweets. Unfortunately it works only when stationary and doesn’t work with the text-to-speech feature so incoming tweets aren’t read aloud when you’re driving. Given that, it’s hard to see the point if you already have a smartphone.
Another omission is that there’s no text message support when using a Bluetooth phone, so not only do they not appear on screen, but they’re not read out either.
Renault R-Link review: Voice recognition
We’ve seen a fair few in-car voice recognition systems, but none are wonderful. R-Link allows you to speak a destination, make a phone call or launch applications. What you say is very limited, and we found that even when parked with no ambient noise, it wasn't great at understanding our commands. It's useful for firing up the email app when driving, or calling a number from your phonebook, but trying to read out an address is more trouble than it's worth: you're better off tapping on the keyboard to enter a postcode.
Renault R-Link review: Multimedia
Using the USB port or SD slot, you can use R-Link to play videos, photos or music. As you’d expect you can stream music from a Bluetooth phone. The bad news, if you were planning on using the screen as a DVD player replacement, is that it works only when the car is stationary. Plus, we couldn’t find a video format from our mixed bag of files that it would play. The only ones that appeared were those with MP4 extensions, but none would actually play.
Renault R-Link review: Eco mode
After each journey you get a Trip Report which scores you on your driving style for gear selection, braking and anticipation. This is either something you’ll turn off after the first drive or use it to help you get more miles per gallon.
R-Link trip report
If you have a Renault Zoe, the TomTom Live Z.E. system will show you the current range on the remaining charge, help you find the best route to optimise that charge and also warn you when there isn’t enough juice left to reach your chosen destination.
Plus, if you have a compatible smartphone, you’ll even be able to download an app to check on your Zoe’s remaining battery charge, estimated range, time until fully charged and the nearest charging stations.
R-Link: bottom line
Although you have to pay fairly steep prices for apps and app packs, R-Link is a decent system that will help you get where you’re going quickly, safely and using the least fuel. It’s a shame there’s no DAB radio and that some obvious features such as entering a destination from your smartphone contacts list are missing, though. Given the problems that even Microsoft has persuading developers to make apps for Windows Phone, it’s unlikely you’ll see big-name apps coming to R-Link, but if it has the features you’re after already, then it’s well worth specifying when your order a Captur or Clio. | http://www.techadvisor.co.uk/features/gadget/renault-r-link-review/ | dclm-gs1-182530002 | false | false | {
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08-27-2008, 02:43 PM
I'm looking for a tub/shower to add to a half-bath and make it a full bath. I'd been looking mainly at acrylic units but had a hard time finding any I liked that met my criteria and my budget. My plumber asked me what I have against fiberglass and I didn't have a concrete answer for him. I'm under the impressions that fiberglass is less durable and prone to stain, and that acrylic is more durable and longer-lasting, and since the color goes all the way through, small scratches aren't a problem. He told me he's installed lots of tub/showers from Lasco and not had any problems with them and that their Lascoat gelcoat coating does a good job protecting it from scratches and stains.
So I ask you, how does fiberglass in general, and Lascoat in particular, rate in terms of:
- overall durability
- resistance to scratches
- resistance to stains
- maintainability
- repairability
Any comments are appreciated. Thanks.
08-27-2008, 06:45 PM
The issue with fiberglass is flex. If it is installed with a firm base so it doesn't flex, it will last for a fair amount of time. You need to be careful and only use non-abrasive cleaners. If you lean on the wall, it also may flex. Flex will cause crazing (small surface cracks). Once those start, staining and discoloration will start to occur. The glass fibers only flex so far before they break.
08-28-2008, 11:10 AM
"Acrylic tub" means fiberglas structure under an acrylic topping, if I'm not mistaken. So you and he may be talking about the same thing with different words. I don't have time to go look at that company (its web site) you mentioned above. Other tub manufacturers mention how thick the acrylic is on top of their fiberglass tub body.
08-28-2008, 11:22 AM
The gell coat on fiberglass isn't as thick as the acrylic, nor does it provide any structural strength where the acrylic at least provides some (and isn't as likely to craze). | http://www.terrylove.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-23052.html | dclm-gs1-182580002 | false | false | {
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Hone your female intuition
"You've come a long way, baby," wasn't just an ad for Virginia Slims cigarettes during the late 1960s - it was also a dubious signifier for the gains women had made in society.
"As women, we have spent so much time and effort living up to the standards of a patriarchal society that we've almost completely disconnected from our own deepest, authentic truth," says Leela Francis, author of "Woman's Way Home: Navigating Your Path to Embodied Power," (, which includes techniques and tools from her Vividly Woman Embodied Leader Tools and Training.
" 'What do women want?' Sadly, many women today aren't even sure; but by tapping the power of her inner wisdom, a woman can have the life of her dreams."
* Recognize when ego and intuition are pulling you in different directions. "Having witnessed the outcome of choosing ego over intuition enough times, I've seen how counterproductive ignoring intuitive wisdom can be," Francis says. "I can't help but notice that I sense the most friction when my ego is winning that inner tug of war." The ego is a perpetually hungry creature, never satisfied, whereas higher intuition has a contented nature that aligns with your personal integrity. Wisdom's signals are palpable, but we've become so masterful at ignoring them that we don't recognize them when they occur. Both the ego's plea and intuition's nudging are able to be sensed in one's body as distinctive body sensations. Listen inwardly for these sensations, for example, when someone is trying to sell you something questionable.
* Be available for those intuitive moments in which you can witness yourself, objectively, on every level. Intuitive power gives us a profound ability to see ourselves from a bird's eye view on every level - sensually, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. These intuitive moments don't have to be random; you can cultivate your mind to be more on the look out for sensations that are taking place in your body in each moment, and especially in situations that require you to make a difficult decision or choice. Be aware of your body as it goes through its daily activities and, at the same time, consider all levels of your self when doing so. This higher awareness enables women to have all aspects of their selves peacefully coexist and work together for a more whole and happy life.
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whether you like this guy or not, isn't the issue. What he is saying is ! And he is right, like it or not. Many men do spread AIDS because they are ashamed to admit they are gay, so they have sex with women and they do spread AIDS, to unsuspecting women and then they spread to others. Your all so caught up in protecting the gays, why. Don't you care about the fact they do spread aids. And in Africa where the Aids is so prevalent, is because men have sex with both men and women and spread Aids all over the place. And it's the truth.
917 days ago
I agree with The Game because I don't believe that he's trying to say that all gay men have AIDS because that can't be further from the truth. However, I've read many memoirs and journal pieces which have all agreed that down low men are less likely to use protection than those who are open about their sexuality. These men (according to what I've read) believe that by going the extra step of using protection that they are admitting to themselves that they are gay, which a lot of them believe that they are not regardless of the fact that they have sex with males. AIDS also disproportionately affects gay males as well, so having sex without protection nor being tested for AIDS has an affect on all partners. His message should probably be encouraging people to know their status, use protection, and being totally honest with all partners about their sexual history. The more we know, the less likely people are to spread this preventable disease!
917 days ago
What an ignorant motherfuçker.
917 days ago
Nasious Cordova
So, basically by making homophobic statements, he's setting up his excuse for how he got AIDS for when the facts are leaked to the press. "See, I didn't get it by spreading for a dude, it was one of them there women sleeping with them there closeted gay dudes." Listen, Game, there's nothing wrong with being gay. Just embrace the rainbow and admit how much you love the ****.
917 days ago
These socially relevant stories really bring out all the middle of the country inbreds.
917 days ago
Lauren Ashley
The person who wrote this article must be pressed. He said that the closeted gay rappers need to come clean because they are lying to the women they are sleeping with and could be causing the spread of aids. He has a point!
917 days ago
Actually, there was an entire article on this in a 1986 issue of Rolling Stone. Men who were afraid to leave the closet, got married, had kids, yet still went trolling for men on their lunch hours from work. Their wives never knew. Rolling Stone interviewed dozens of them. I went to grad school with one here in sunny So. Cal. He was HIV positive, had gay lovers, but still dated women. He never told them about his HIV positive status. We argued about the moral implications of it continually. I finally gave up and cut all ties to him. The notion of "honesty" just wasn't in his play book.
917 days ago
Every time this guy opens his mouth, a whole new level of stupid comes out.
917 days ago
Is he really that stupid?
917 days ago
I believe he's talking about what is referred to as the 'down low'. Google it and you'll see that even though his message is crudely delivered, it is timely. I don't even like the guy, but I understand what he's saying. No need to shoot the messenger.
917 days ago
kraz 318
Im wit Game. Quit acting like u like girls and go play with the boys if thats what u do.Aids can come from anybody but the lying and sneaking around doesnt help.
917 days ago
He is talking about men on the "DL." this is a huge issue in the african american community which is why the rise in HIV infection in black women is so high. In the black community, it is extremely frowned upon to be gay so guys have wives/girlfriends/etc. AND have sex with men...oftentimes, unprotected sex with men on the "outskirts" of society so that they are sure they sex partners and mates will never meet. Anyone who is familiar with the African American community today knows that The Game is speaking the truth!
917 days ago
You have to be fair. When he's right, he's right. Gays are notoriously irresponsible.
917 days ago
John G.
Say's the guy who had to cover up a butterfly tattoo in his cheek, Wonder how many people he's infected ??
917 days ago
Did I get what that clown said right?, people should be sleeping with either sexes but not both?. What about bisexual men and women. I think it is everyone's responsibility to protect him/herself and ask their sex partners to put a condom on before requiring their casual sex partners to protect them.
917 days ago
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‘The Man’s Book’ teaches you how to make a potato gun, tie a bow-tie, mix a martini and start a fire with a coke can; or learn about relationships, including how to break up and when to get married.
There are a lot of things in The Man’s Book that may seem pointless to women, but are definite essentials for men. | http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/manly-manuscripts-thomas-finks-the-mans-book-provides-the-essentials | dclm-gs1-182750002 | false | false | {
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0.155377 | <urn:uuid:fcf98ba2-bf97-4886-906d-1a74b88e4e4c> | en | 0.962433 | 6 Secrets to Giving a Memorable Convention Speech
Convention speakers can learn a lot from these historic orations.
Political conventions have provided a few enduring moments of rhetoric, from William Jennings Bryan's 1896 "cross of gold" speech to Sarah Palin's lipstick-on-a-pit bull acceptance address in 2008. (And if that sentence isn't an illustration of the decline of political discourse I don't know what is.) Here is my list of lessons from the most memorable convention speeches:
[See a slide show of the 11 most memorable convention speeches.]
Have a flair for the dramatic. Upon securing the 1932 Democratic nomination, Franklin Roosevelt announced that he would fly from Albany to Chicago to accept the honor in person, breaking with a long tradition. The move entranced the nation because air travel was still a novelty and because it vividly demonstrated both the vigor he would use to tackle the Great Depression and that he was not an invalid. Inaugurating the tradition of the acceptance speech, he said that while his appearance "is unprecedented and unusual…these are unprecedented and unusual times," and went on to pledge "a new deal for the American people."
Harry Truman, too, had a sense of drama. When he addressed a 1948 convention enshrouded with what one aide called "the depressing feeling of coming defeat," he immediately fired up his dispirited party. "Senator Barkley and I will win this election and make these Republicans like it—don't you forget that!" he said, referring to his running mate, Alben Barkley of Kentucky. He galvanized the crowd by announcing that he was calling the GOP Congress back into session to vote on the various planks of the platform it had just endorsed but had refused to act on.
National spotlight. Convention speeches can provide an unparalleled national introduction for rising politicians. Hubert H. Humphrey was mayor of Minneapolis in 1948 when he spoke on behalf of the Democratic Party adopting a strong civil rights plank in its platform. "He spoke," biographer Albert Eisele later wrote, "with a fervor that brought sweat pouring from his face and spattering on the pages of his speech." His exhortation for the "Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights" moved the convention to adopt the plank, prompting the entire delegation from Mississippi and half the group from Alabama to walk out of the convention. It made him an instant national figure.
And while Mario Cuomo was a national figure in 1984 as governor of New York, his "Tale of Two Cities" keynote address to the Democratic convention elevated him to iconic status in the party. Palin's 2008 speech—"You know, they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick."—was her political high point, electrifying a GOP which had soured on George W. Bush and never loved John McCain. But the classic example was the 2004 Democratic keynote address by little-known Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama, which started his rise to the White House. "There's not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America," he told a thrilled nation.
Beware frenemies. The spotlight has a dark side: Sometimes undercard speakers can overshadow nominees. After he had accepted the 1976 Republican nomination, incumbent President Gerald Ford invited primary challenger Ronald Reagan to say a few words. Speaking off the cuff and without endorsing Ford, Reagan gave what biographer Craig Shirley calls "a battle cry for conservatives" that electrified the crowd while "utterly and completely overshadowing Ford." In 1980, Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy's eloquence—"the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die"—overshadowed incumbent President Jimmy Carter, whom he didn't endorse in his speech.
[See a collection of political cartoons on Sarah Palin.]
In 1992, President George H. W. Bush had the opposite problem when Pat Buchanan embraced him too tightly. "There is a religious war going on in this country," Buchanan said. "It is a cultural war…[a war] for the soul of America." Buchanan, not Bush, became the enduring face of what is remembered as an angry, divisive convention. (The speech, columnist Molly Ivins said, "probably sounded better in the original German.") | http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2012/08/24/6-secrets-to-giving-a-memorable-convention-speech?s_cid=related-links:TOP | dclm-gs1-182930002 | false | false | {
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Dennis Lee Bieber 09-18-2012 03:28 AM
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:08:32 -0400, David Smith <>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
> How do I "indent" if I have something like:
> if (sR=='Cope'): sys.exit(1) elif (sR=='Perform') sys.exit(2) else
> sys.exit(3)
If the sole purpose of the BAT file is to set return codes, I
wouldn't bother using Python... Python is /not/ a shell language
substitute (On an IBM or Amiga, (A)Rexx is a closer match for a shell
language replacement -- since any "statement" that is not recognized as
a Rexx instruction would be passed the "current" command processor
Invoking the whole Python interpreter to run a "one-liner" argument
is highly inefficient, and in the end, rather futile.
Either convert the entire BAT file into a single multi-line Python
script, or don't bother.
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0.024768 | <urn:uuid:5ce97f3f-6934-4738-bd02-5b5bb3f5c9c0> | en | 0.937534 | 30 bizarre vintage classroom posters
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See Johnny. Johnny always tells it like it is. Johnny is an O.G.
Ever wonder why your parents were so screwed up? These bizarre school posters from the 60s and 70s should help explain it. From bad acid trips to dead-eyed children spewing obtuse platitudes ("What is the purpose?"), you won't find educational posters like these in classrooms anymore.
Published on September 26, 2013
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0.029397 | <urn:uuid:6cff9d21-d94e-4538-a9f9-13b6b6e85af7> | en | 0.967901 | Wandy Rodriguez gets a platelet-rich plasma injection
Written by Pat Lackey on .
This comes straight from the Pirates themselves, as everyone that covers the team tweeted out something along these lines almost simultaneously:
PRP stands for platelet-rich plasma. To roll it back a bit further, plasma is the liquid part of your blood (that is, the liquid that carries your blood cells all over your body) and platelets are blood cells that are rich in growth factors. Basically, PRP injections are intended to speed healing in situations involving tissue damage, which you might find in, say, a pitcher's ulnar collateral ligament.
Recently, there's been a pretty well-established pattern of pitchers who've had elbow or forearm problems followed by rest, then PRP-injections, then Tommy John surgery. Ben Lindbergh at Baseball Prospectus investigated just that over the weekend with the news of Dylan Bundy's upcoming surgery. The second paragraph, describing the Bundy's road to the surgical table, should sound awfully familiar to Pirate fans:
Of course, there's no actual evidence that indicates that this is where Rodriguez's injury is headed; all we know now is that his MRI was negative for structural damage and there's nothing to contradict that to this point even though he doesn't feel well enough to pitch. Lindbegh's piece linked above is interesting and I'd recommend you read all of it; at this point a lot of people view PRP injections as time-wasting witchcraft that ends up having no positive impact on the health of the paper, but there's some evidence that partial UCL tears have positively responded to the injections.
All of that being said: there is very little good news to find here for the Pirates. In the study Lindbergh's post discusses, it took an average of 12 weeks after the PRP injections to get back into games, though, again, those pitchers had partial ligament tears and that hasn't been confirmed for Rodriguez at this point. That could theoretically point to a quicker recovery for him, especially given the three-week timeline that the Pirates have apparently mapped out. I'm assuming that that three-week timeline doesn't include a minor league rehab stint, though, so best-case scenario for him is probably still something like six weeks from today. Still, six weeks from today takes us well into August and twelve weeks from today takes us into November. Even if Rodriguez responds to the injection well and avoids surgery, I don't think it's a certainty that he'll pitch for the Pirates again in 2013.
Apparently, Mr. Cole will not be going anywhere soon. I hope the Pirates do a better job managing his innings than the Nats did with Strasburg last year.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A Democratic bill enhancing health care, education and job-training benefits for veterans faces an uphill climb as the Senate approaches a showdown vote on the $21 billion legislation.
Both political parties generally favor helping the nation's 22 million veterans and their families, especially in a congressional election year. But Republicans consider the wide-ranging legislation too expensive, and they also want to add a provision imposing new sanctions on Iran for its nuclear program.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has blocked a vote on a GOP alternative eliminating some of the improvements and slapping the sanctions on Iran. Citing Reid's move, Republicans were expected to rally behind a procedural effort Thursday to derail the veterans bill - and each party accused the other of seeking partisan gain.
President Barack Obama strongly opposes the additional sanctions, saying international talks on Iran's nuclear program must be given more time. Similar, bipartisan Iran legislation drew 59 Senate co-sponsors, and a vote potentially could embarrass the White House.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, said it would be "extremely disrespectful to the men and women who have put their lives on the line" to block the massive measure because of the dispute over Iran.
"The American people don't want to see serious legislation sabotaged because of political partisanship," Sanders said.
Republicans accused Reid of blocking them from shaping bills and said he was shielding Democratic senators from a difficult vote.
"What Reid would like to do is take all the votes and push them past the November election," said North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, top Republican on the Veterans panel.
It will take 60 votes to keep the bill alive - more than the 53 Democrats and two Democratic-leaning independents are likely to garner.
The bill would make many veterans without service-connected injuries eligible for treatment at VA medical facilities. It would expand the dental, chiropractic and fertility treatments the VA provides, bolster programs for veterans who suffered sexual abuse and increase the use of alternative medicine such as yoga for stress.
More veterans would be eligible for in-state tuition at public universities. Some benefits for spouses of deceased veterans would improve, and aid to relatives caring for a wounded veteran would be expanded to include those who served before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The Veterans Affairs Department would be required to publicly report more data on its handling of veterans' benefit claims. That and other steps are designed to eat into the VA's backlog of 390,000 claims that have been awaiting action for more than 125 days.
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NC Highway Patrol releases Labor Day crackdown numbers
Highway Patrol:
Driving While Impaired: 298
Provisional License Violation: 24
Other Implied Consent Violation: 73
Drug Violations: 38
Drug Paraphernalia: 16
Seatbelt Violations: 1,382
Child Restraint Violations: 204
Equipment Violations: 649
Driver License Violation: 1,212
Registration Violation: 1,105
Other Violations: 3,730
Total: 8,731
half or more will get off by
half or more will get off by a lawyer and do it again and again. cops crack down and lawyers make money. no one stops the cycle.
I wish they would have been
I wish they would have been at Trails End Park on Monday afternoon and caught our fellow boater who damaged my white truck. I believe they pulled their trailer under the front end of my vehicle which not only damaged the bumper, but also the engine. Great people we have here.
This has been reported to the HP and if I am blessed maybe someone who saw it happened will contact me.
Those numbers are probably
Those numbers are probably just for Wilmington! :-o
Where does all this money go?
Where does all this money go?
If my memory of the state constitution is correct all fines, fees, and levies go to the county in which that fine fee or levy was assessed. So a DWI ticket issued in NH County results in NH County getting the fine. The fine monies are then used to fund school department budgets. Same hold true for NC OSHA penalties and DEHNR penalties.
Vehicle taxes, along with other property taxes fund the general county budget.
I believe I am right on that, but it's been awhile.........
same place where the state
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1. Begin in a standing position.
5. Stand up from the squat position (count 4)
See how to do a basic burpee.
Burpee push up
The athlete performs one push-up after assuming the plank position.
Eight-count push up [1] or Double burpee
The athlete performs two push-ups after assuming the plank position. This cancels the drive from landing after the jump and makes the next jump harder. Each part of the burpee might be repeated to make it even harder.
Knee push-up burpee
The athlete bends their knees and rests them on the ground before performing the push up.
Jump up burpee
The athlete jumps up as high as they can in at the end of the movement and before beginning the next Burpee.
Long-jump burpee
The athlete jumps forward, not upward.
Tuck-jump burpee
The athlete pulls their knees to their chest (tucks) at the peak of the jump.
Jump-over burpee
The athlete jumps over an obstacle between burpees.
Box-jump burpee
The athlete jumps onto a box, rather than straight up and down.
One-armed burpee
The athlete uses only one arm for the whole exercise including the pushup.
Dumbbell burpee
The athlete holds a pair of dumbbells while performing the exercise.
Parkour burpee
Following one burpee on the ground, the athlete jumps upon a table and performs the second burpee on the table, then jumps back to the initial position.
Hindu push up burpee
Instead of a regular push up, do a Hindu push up.
Pull-up burpee
Combine a pull-up with the jump or do a pull-up instead of the jump.
Muscle-up burpee
Combine a muscle-up (a variation of a pull-up) with the jump or do a muscle-up instead of the jump.
One leg burpee
The athlete stands on one leg, bends at the waist and puts hands on ground so they are aligned with shoulders. Next jump back with the standing leg to plank position. Jump forward with the one leg that was extended, and do a one-leg jump. Repeat on opposite side.
Side burpee
The athlete bends at waist and places hand shoulder-width apart to the side of right or left foot. Jump both legs out to side and land on the outer and inner sides of your feet. Jump back in, jump up, and repeat on opposite side.
Starting in plank position perform a push-up, then with hands maintaining position on the floor quickly bring feet forward so that the toes are even with the hands, then return to plank position.
Other variants[edit]
8 count body builder, a burpee with a jumping jack on the ground. The 8 counts are
1. Squat with your hands on the ground,
2. Kick your feet back,
3. Kick your feet out to form a Y shape,
4. Bring your feet back together,
5. Down into a push-up,
6. Up part of the push-up,
7. Bring your feet back under you,
8. Jump in the air.
Military 8 count bodybuilder
1. Squat with hands on the ground,
2. Kick back your feet,
3. Down for push up,
4. Up for Push up,
5. Kick feet back in,
6. Stand up,
7. Motion one of a jumping jack,
8. Motion two of a jumping jack.
Wall / incline / air burpee
the athlete kicks his feet up against a wall / up on a table / up in the air, instead of back. Usually, these variants are performed without a pushup.
Extreme variants[edit]
Burpee Mile
The athlete performs the burpee exercise, then performs a standing long jump. This sequence is repeated until the athlete has traveled one mile. Start with a shorter distance and set goals for yourself.
Burpee Pull and Push Up
The athlete performs a push up when in the plank position of the burpee, then jumps and finishes with a pull-up, and repeats.
1. ^ Can we make our soldiers tough enough? from Popular Science, 1944. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
2. ^ "Reference extract from Columbia Teachers College archive". Teachers College, Columbia University. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
3. ^ "Definition of burpee from Oxford Dictionaries Online". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
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Typically, presidential elections are about, well, hope and change. The candidates make lots of promises about all the policies they’ll change, then they hope that they can get those promises through Congress. Usually, they fail.
President Obama’s reelection, ironically, isn’t about hope and change. The hope is largely gone, but the changes -- in the form of Obamacare, Wall Street reform, and tax increases -- are already happening. Obama's reelection is a guarantee of change.
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don't worry Obama you goner win again
No hope here, socialism is not a good change for America. My last word.... For 4 years.
Simon T
Again with the socialism talk? That's so 2012. The problem Republicans face is that their message slipped out.
Neither Republican, Democrat, Tea Party, Green Party, nor Cocktail Party...I normally steer away from politics, but I bet the reason why Obama won his second term is that Romney greatly under-estimated the voter's sense of reality. His entire campaign was focused on Obama's massive spending didn't fix all of the problems. Tom Brokaw once compared Obama's situation to Roosevelt's situation. I think that the voters realized that our country's problems would take longer than 4 years. I do know that it was a very nasty and hard fought campaign on both sides but Romney's complaints had little support to back up his claims.
FDR's massive spending DID help the economy. If we had dusted off the WPA, CCC, or CWA in Obama's first year, I don't think we'd still be in the jobs mess we are. But you can't tell a Republican that. They opposed it 75 years ago, too.
Yeah, but he spent 6x the nation's GDP to generate well, not nearly as much return. Many economists and historians have since decided that he probably did more harm to the economy than good with his constant shifting of policies and frequent mixing of programs to try to jump start something that was already working itself out by the time he stuck his fingers into it. The only thing that is certain is that the war hurt economic recovery and that we had to spend a ton to save Germany and Japan from falling into another economic collapse similar to what happened after WWI thanks to someone's ill-advised harsh concession requirements.
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"August marks the 43rd month in a row that unemployment has been above 8 percent. This is unacceptable, and a far cry from the economic recovery the president believes to be underway. We are not "doing fine.'
"The workforce has now dropped to its lowest level in 31 years because people have stopped looking for work, yet the president continues to ask for patience and insists we are on the right path. If the workforce were as large as it was when President Obama took office, the unemployment rate would be 11.2%. Simply put, we shouldn't celebrate lower unemployment numbers because people stop looking for work, and we shouldn't continue to settle for the status quo when it clearly isn't working.
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