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Rob Stafford is back with another report on the popular social networking site, MySpace.com, which has made headlines recently since several sex crimes have been connected to the site. In the multi-part report, "Dateline" follows a police officer who assumes a fake identity, engages in online conversations with young teens, and then shares with their parents what he has found. Airs April 9, 7 p.m. on NBC. The report, below, aired Dateline Friday, Jan. 27, 9 p.m.
You may never have heard of MySpace.com, but it's a safe bet, your kids have.
It's a social networking sites — sort of a cyber combination of a yearbook, personal diary and social club. The biggest of them is MySpace.com. With more than 50 million members, its one of the fastest growing Web sites in the country.
Shannon Sullivan, teenager: Everyone has a MySpace and everyone wants a My Space.
It's free, easy to join, and easy to message its members. Kids chat about everything from school, to sports, to fundraisers for Katrina victims. It all seems like innocent fun, and it can be. But many parents and teens are unaware there are hidden dangers.
Shannon Sullivan: I honestly just thought it was my friends looking at it
Which is why Shannon disclosed so much on her space. She put her name, her address, and where she went to school— everything about how to find Shannon was on that site.
Rob Stafford, Dateline correspondent: Were you worried about doing that?
Shannon Sullivan: I didn't think twice about it.
Shannon did think twice about something else: The rules on my space say you're supposed to be at least 14 years old.
Stafford: How old did you say you were?
Shannon Sullivan: I think it was 18.
Stafford: You think it was 18?
Sullivan: I was 13 at the time.
Shannon's mother Margaret happens to run the computer system at a private grammar school. She has parental controls on her home computer, and several months ago, MySpace popped up on one of the reports Margaret gets on the Web sites Shannon has visited.
Margaret Sullivan: I was just very upset. Somebody looking for a kid could find a kid very easily.
Stafford: Had you ever heard of it?
Margaret Sullivan: No.
She was stunned by what Shannon revealed and found the sites of other kids far more revealing.
Margaret Sullivan: I found all kinds of pictures of kids in revealing positions, and pictures of kids scantily dressed.
It's a cyber secret teenagers keep from tech-challenged parents who are not as savvy as Margaret. It's a world where the kids next door can play any role they want. They may not realize everyone with Internet access, including sexual predators, may see the pictures and personal information they post.
When "Dateline" surfed MySpace, we found scenes of binge drinking, apparent drug use, teens posing in underwear, and other members simulating sex, and in some cases even having it. We also found less provocative pages like Shannon's was, but potentially even more dangerous. Teens listed not only their names, and addresses, but even cell phone numbers and after school schedules.
Parry Aftab, Internet lawyer and safety expert: [It's] one stop shopping for sexual predators, and they can shop by catalogue.
Internet lawyer Parry Aftab started the Web site wiredsafety.org, and her safety tips appear on MySpace.com.
Stafford: Do parents have any idea what some kids are posting on these sites?
Aftab: Parents are clueless. They're caught like deer in the headlights.
Aftab educates parents and kids about the dangers lurking on the Web.
Aftab: Pedophiles are using all of the social networking sites. And every other anonymous Internet technology to find kids. The social networking sites are where kids are.
Aftab says even kids who don't list their name and address can provide enough personal information— such as the kinds of bands and boys they love— for a pedophile to use to con their way into their lives.
Aftab: If someone knows you "like pina coladas and walks in the rain," it's very easy online to be exactly what it is you're looking for— to be your "soul mate."
Stafford: Who might happen to be a 40 year old predator?
Aftab: Absolutely. The teens just don't get it. To them, they're talking to a computer monitor.They're playing in an area where they don't recognize the consequences.
In the last month, authorities have charged at least three men with sexually assaulting teenagers they found through MySpace.com and just this week police found a missing 15-year-old girl who investigators say was sexually assaulted by a 26-year-old man she met through the site. MySpace members are now warning each other about the danger of sharing information online.
Aftab says parents need to find out what their kids are sharing.
Aftab: Say to your kids, "I'd like to see your profile page tomorrow." It's important that you give them a day to clean up their page. That will be the last time you give them warning.
Then Aftab says look at their site: Are the pictures provocative? Their profiles too detailed? Who are they talking to? And perhaps most important— have they kept their profiles private, protected by a password, to keep strangers out?
MySpace.com would not agree to an on-camera interview but did tell "Dateline" via e-mail that it prohibits posting personal information and has a team that searches for and removes both underage users and offensive material. MySpace said it does not pre-screen the content of its more than 50 million members, but encourages all of them to exercise caution.
Shannon Sullivan's safety lesson came from her mom who grounded her from the Internet for two weeks.
Stafford: And six months ago you had no idea this was a danger?
Shannon Sullivan: Six months ago, I thought it was just another place you can to on the computer.
Stafford: And you were 18 back then?
Shannon Sullivan: Yes. (laughs)
Her mother, Margaret, did something Aftab says too many parents are afraid to do: take control of their child's computer.
Aftab: They're afraid of their kids. They somehow think because technology is involved, they're no longer the parent. Get real. You're the parent. If you don't like it, unplug the computer. If they don't follow your rules, no Internet at all. If you're not the parent and if you're not going to step in, no Web site on earth is going to be able to help your child be safe.
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An old house at the corner of Grady Avenue and 10 1/2 Street stands gutted in preparation for a rebuild by Sowell Construction, the company whose owner was once portrayed as a "Girl Gone Green" in a Hook story. Sowell says she hopes to finish the rebuild–- which includes replacing the siding and reusing it for ceilings–- in November.
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These are all the News & Announcements posted on Wednesday, 4 April, 2012.
Staff Reading Pick
Here is another reading pick from the Logan Library Staff.
Book: Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer by David Roberts
Recommended by: Joseph, Nonfiction Librarian
When Everett Ruess was still in his teens in the early 1930s, he began taking long solo journeys across California and the desert Southwest. Drawn by a love of nature and an obsession with beauty, the young poet and painter led his burros up rocky mountain trails and across scorching deserts. But on one such journey that had taken him into southern Utah, Ruess disappeared forever, leaving only cryptic clues as to his fate. Author David Roberts takes us along Ruess' journeys, eventually becoming part of the continuing search for what happened to the young explorer. Recommended if you enjoyed Krakauer's Into the Wild.
Note: If you like the book or think you might, you may also be interested in seeing some of Everett Ruess' Block Prints on display at the Merrill-Cazier Library on the Utah State University Logan campus until April 29th. The exhibit includes a selection of block prints created by artist and writer Everett Ruess, depicting his travels throughout the western United States in the early 20th century.
Want more reading suggestions? View previous staff picks.
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Robert Redford and Diane Keaton are looking to team up for a holiday family comedy called The Most Wonderful Time. Deadline reports that Redford and Keaton are circling the project, which "focuses on the chaos of a family around Christmastime, featuring storylines with multiple characters that intersect." The script was written by Steven Rogers (P.S. I Love You, Kate & Leopold) and Jessie Nelson (I Am Sam) is onboard to direct. Rogers describes the film as "an Amelie-esque story about people who live for the future or hang onto the past, which prevents them from living in the moment, and not appreciating what is right in front of them."
I'm a fan of holiday family comedies when they're done right (Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Home Alone), but this project gives me pause. The prospect of Redford and Keaton teaming up is intriguing, but Nelson and Rogers's filmography doesn't inspire a lot of hope that The Most Wonderful Time will rise above your average holiday comedy fare. Redford's latest directorial effort is the star-studded adaptation of The Company You Keep, and he's also set to star in Margin Call director J.C. Chandor's film All Is Lost. Keaton has two films coming out this year, the drama Darling Companion and the comedy The Wedding.


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Attachment, burnout, and civility in hospital co-workers at Two Time points
Leiter, Michael
Acadia University
Master of Science
Clinical Psychology
This thesis probes the existence of a moderating relationship of attachment anxiety on the paths between incivility/civility and burnout. 77 employees of a Western Canadian hospital completed a questionnaire (Maslach Burnout Inventory – General Scale, Straightforward Incivility Scale, Civility Scale, Short Work Attachment Measure) at two time points, approximately six months apart. Analyses tested whether paths from the independent variables of co-worker and/or supervisor incivility at Time One to dependent variables of cynicism, exhaustion, and/or professional efficacy at Time Two were moderated by attachment anxiety. Analyses failed to demonstrate the majority of expected associations. However, they revealed the relationship of exhaustion and cynicism with civility was negative for those lower in attachment anxiety and positive for those higher in attachment anxiety. They also revealed that the relationships between cynicism and exhaustion and attachment anxiety were negative for those lower in attachment anxiety and slightly positive for those higher in attachment anxiety
The author grants permission to the University Librarian at Acadia University to reproduce, loan or distribute copies of my thesis in microform, paper or electronic formats on a non-profit basis. The author retains the copyright of the thesis.


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LANDOVER, Md. (AP) This, of course, is the sort of thing everyone associated with - and rooting for - the Washington Redskins worries about: Robert Griffin III limping to the sideline after a knee-spraining hit.
With the Redskins driving while trailing the Baltimore Ravens late in the fourth quarter of a game Washington would wind up winning 31-28 in overtime Sunday, Griffin was slow to rise after being tackled at the end of a 13-yard scramble.
``I screamed. Like a man, of course,'' Griffin said with a laugh, before acknowledging: ``It hurt really bad.''
He left for one play, then returned for four more. But by then, the No. 2 overall pick in this year's NFL draft was hopping on his left leg, keeping all weight off his injured right one. Eventually, Griffin knelt on the turf, unable to continue.
``I knew I needed to get out at that point,'' said last year's Heisman Trophy winner, who had an MRI exam later Sunday that didn't show significant ligament damage. ``I couldn't move. At some point, you have to do what's right for the team. And if I'm playing the rest of that game, I probably would have hurt myself even more.''
Said Redskins coach Mike Shanahan: ``I could see that he was hurting the second time he came out. You could see his face.''
So whatever euphoria the Redskins (7-6) and their fans might have been feeling following a fourth consecutive victory was mixed with concern about the sight of the man they call RG3 hobbling around on the sideline with a thick, black brace on his right knee as Kai Forbath kicked a 34-yard field goal to end the game.
``We're happy that we won, obviously,'' left tackle Trent Williams said. ``But that is concerning, knowing he went down. Everyone wants to know how he's doing.''
About three hours after the game, an answer arrived: Team spokesman Tony Wyllie said the MRI showed that while Griffin sprained his knee, ``everything is clear'' in terms of a major knee injury. Wyllie specifically ruled out a season-ending ACL tear, such as the one Griffin had on the same knee while playing in college at Baylor in 2009.
Still, because a sprained knee, by definition, means at least one of the several ligaments is damaged in some way, it's not clear what Griffin's status for next week at the Cleveland Browns will be.
``Everybody's praying for me. I feel pretty good right now about the whole situation,'' said Griffin, who left a game earlier this season because of a concussion.
With Griffin done for the day, and Baltimore - now 9-4 after its first consecutive losses since early in the 2009 season - leading 28-20, fellow rookie QB Kirk Cousins stepped in. Cousins, a fourth-round pick who only played in one other game this season, threw an 11-yard touchdown pass to Pierre Garcon with 29 seconds remaining in regulation, then ran a quarterback draw for the tying 2-point conversion.
``He's ice. Like they used to say about Larry Bird, he got ice water in his veins. That's the best thing you can say about Kirk,'' receiver Joshua Morgan said.
Griffin heard the call for Cousin's draw through his headphones while getting treatment on the sideline.
``It was awesome,'' said Griffin, who was 15 for 26 for 246 yards and a touchdown pass, along with 34 yards on seven carries, adding to his single-season record for rushing by a rookie quarterback.
Ravens safety Ed Reed said his defense was ready for that 2-point play, actually, but ``we didn't execute.''
The Ravens got the ball first in overtime but went three-and-out. Yet another Redskins rookie, Richard Crawford, returned the punt 64 yards to set up Forbath, who is now 14 for 14 to start his NFL career; each got a game ball from Shanahan.
While Washington remained one game behind the New York Giants (8-5) in the race for the NFC East title, the Ravens wasted a chance to clinch the AFC North - and even missed out on an opportunity to assure themselves of a playoff berth.
Joe Flacco completed 16 of 21 passes for 182 yards and three first-half TD passes that built a 21-14 lead. But Baltimore's first four drives of the second ended with Flacco's fumble, his interception deep in Washington's territory, and two three-and-outs.
``As a leader on this team I like to finish teams out,'' said Ray Rice, who finished with 121 yards on 20 carries but picked up a left hip pointer. ``I don't want to be known as, `Yeah, we get them close in the fourth quarter, and the Ravens are going to give it away.' That's never been us. That's not going to be us.''
Rice's 7-yard touchdown run with 4:47 to play in the fourth quarter put the Ravens up by eight points, before Griffin started the trying drive - and Cousins finished it.
Forbath's winning kick prompted a wild on-field celebration by many Redskins. Not Griffin, though. He gingerly walked toward the locker room, a brace on his knee, and flashed a thumb's up to raucous spectators in the stands.
Later, around the Redskins announced the results of his good-news MRI, Griffin tweeted: ``Your positive vibes and prayers worked people!!!!''
NOTES: Cousins completed both passes he threw. ... Ravens RG Marshal Yanda sprained his right ankle and was wearing a black walking boot on that foot in the locker room. Other injuries for Baltimore: LB Jameel McClain had a neck injury, but X-rays were negative. ... Washington's 186 yards were the most by any NFL team in the first quarter this season and the most by the franchise in that quarter since 1997. ... The Redskins hadn't won four games in a row since 2008.
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can't see farther than (one's) nose(redirected from can not see farther than somebody's nose)
can't see farther than (one's) nose
1. Lacks the ability to foresee problems, issues, or obligations beyond the present or immediate future. Our boss is ambitious, but she can't see farther than her nose when it comes to scheduling projects with realistic deadlines.
2. Is so preoccupied with oneself or one's own problems as to be unaware of or indifferent to larger issues or other people. My ex-husband was always so wrapped up in work that he couldn't see farther than his nose, hardly ever making any time for me or the kids.


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required rest
The best programming for rest days: For STRENGTH
if you're looking to get that total up as fast as possible you need to consider the aspect of your programming that doesn't involve training, your REST days! Not to say that just focusing on rest days will solve all the problems, not at all, you need to address your diet and training always. And when it comes to your diet there's no better solution that I've found for keeping the quality up and the time involved down, than with Quick Paleo Meal Prep, this book goes over all the need to knows and things you need to know but don't want to hear about eating for performance and ease. But for now let's address the rest.
I lose count every time I think about the number of times people say " I function better on 4-6 hours of sleep", what they meant to say was "I've adjusted to how crappy I feel when I only get 4-6 hours of sleep". If your attempting to be competitive in any sport then sleep needs the main priority! 8-10 hours per night EVERY NIGHT, and if you can manage, put black out shades in your room as well as invest in a noise canceler. This will improve your quality of sleep dramatically, check out this episode of barbell shrugged when they interviewed a sleep doctor who studies athletes and sleep patterns and I'm sure you'll agree.
The main reason people who train for strength don't take time off is because they don't want to lose all that they've worked for right? So don't do it! Active rest is simply staying active while giving your mind and body a chance to re build and catch up. So instead of sitting on the couch meditating about cucumber water and zen world peace, go to the gym with some lightly playing headphones (keep all stimulus low), warm up and mobilize for a little longer and then go through some reps with 50-60% of your max. This will not only keep your body active and awake but you'll possibly make some gains on your rest period! Who'd of thunk it.
I used to be in the camp of those who looked at a rest period as a time to do as much carb loading and artery clogging as possible! But like I'm sure most of you know, that this will end in disaster when you're back in the gym. You'll lose any fitness that was there and you'll look like hammered poo. So instead do a juice cleanse for 2-3 days and keep a strict Paleo diet for 80% of the day, let's not get carried away here cause we all need that fix at least once per day ;). So focus on rest on the inside as well, your body works hard to keep you moving forward so show it some love once in a while.
On your next rest period apply these principals to your rest and note which helped and which you could toss out. Let's face it, what works for some won't work for all, so tweak the system as needed to fit your situation.
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So few people cook that if you do they will think you are a rock star.
They will talk about how good your cooking is.
Especially if it's a pot luck.
Rex's school said they were doing a community night. Now, none of us parents really understood what that was. I had been cajoling the room parent ( a dad, thankfully who gets acerbic humor) that we needed a wine night for the parents to bond. I've been down this road and after pre school the parents aren't as much fun. Let's hang out while we still like each other. But, this community night threw off our planned wine-o night. Well, that's okay, I'm sure it's a chance for them to tell us how genius our kids are when they finger paint or some profound reflection about blocks. Don't we all want to hear that stuff? So we all trekked into the teeny, tiny classroom per instructed and brought something to eat or drink, per instructions. I made a savory tart.
However, it was really a wine-o night in a teeny, tiny preschool room with teeny tiny seats. One of the teachers was there, but there was no slide show about development or where they were going to go to college. The parents are a great bunch and we did all enjoy the gab, but it would have BETTER to have been in full sized chairs. Also, there were only a few bottles of red wine brought ( my kingdom for a dry white) and when one latecomer brought in a bottle after all the others had been drained, the opener had vanished. I snuck into another group of captive parents to grab theirs.
I hurt for them. They were in the teeny tiny chairs IN A CIRCLE. No chance for sex jokes in that set up. They looked glum. I ran back to my room. "Ha, ha, the Dolphin room ( names changed to protect the innocent) is in a circle"
"suckers" jeered one dad. As I tore into the last remaining bottle. Back off I yelled, in my head, it's all for me!
So, the other issue is the FOOD. One other mom made meatballs, good choice. There was a cheese plate on a dish that wasn't level, so when you went to the cut the cheese (no fart joke intended) it kept flopping over. There was a couple of other things in PACKAGES. In some cases, not out of their packages. How appetizing. No one touched them.
I made an inadequate savory tart. Ricotta cheese, some spices, carmelized onions on puff pastry. I had high hopes for it, but it was a bit on the dry side. I have done better in the past. But, people like it, because so few people cook. People don't even know what home made food looks like anymore.
I could get evangelical, but instead I'm going back to the drawing board for my savory tart.
The morale of the story is: cook for people, they appreciate it and drinking is more fun in an area where your kids don't nap.


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I love the Olympics.
I love the athleticism, competition, the drama, & how for 2 weeks every 2 years (we're thinking winter too) everyone becomes an expert. I love watching people from all over the world come together in the spirit of sportsmanship. And I love that this year I get to pass it on to The Munchkin.
Why are the Olympics so important? Why bother giving Olympic Fever to the rising generation? My friend Kalani wrote a fantastic essay answering that question. There are so many important lessons that athletic competition can teach kids: patriotism, the importance of working hard, how to be a good sport, & — perhaps most importantly in this age of rising childhood obesity — that moving is fun.
So I encourage you to let your Munchkins watch a competition or two with you this year to help them catch The Fever. Here's how we're starting with ours.
We've decided to let her stay up late to watch some of the Opening Ceremonies Friday, & have started getting her into the spirit by introducing her to the logo & the colors this week by decorating the apartment a little at Munchkin height. We made our own Olympic Rings into a paper chain, with The Munchkin telling me which color strip came next. After just one sheet of construction paper of each color, she had those colors down!
Next she drew her own Olympic Rings. Not a bad first attempt!
Finally, to help her learn a little more about the sports & the competition, I made up a quick medal count chart using clip art to illustrate each category. I had no idea there were so many! If you want one of your own, download it here. Get the medals here — you may need to add extra paper on the side for the swimming category, if it's anything like 2008 was!
We have a couple other ideas too that I'll be posting soon. How are you introducing your kids to the Olympics?


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Amãna Takaful PLC (ATL) was ...
ATL (Amãna Takaful PLC) shone at the National Sales Congress 2016 as Mohamed Niyaz Mohamed Shafraz was bestowed with the Executive/Supervisor GOLD AWARD in the Life Insurance category.
ATL (Amãna Takaful PLC ) organized a highly successful training programme on road safety in partnership with the Traffic Police Branch of Eravur recently at the Vantharumul Madhya Maha Vidyalaya, Sittandy.
Amana Takaful Life Limited (ATLL) has announced the appointment of Gehan Rajapakse, a respected insurance professional with over two decades of experience in the industry, as its new CEO – to provide leadership to the company as it seeks to further consolidate its position following its recent successful Initial Public Offering (IPO).
The concept provides a more ethical option for risk mitigation but lacks awareness in the country and is misconceived to be religion-based.
Amana Takaful Life Limited (ATLL), a fully-owned subsidiary of Amana Takaful PLC, has announced an Initial Public Offering (IPO),via an Offer for Sale of LKR 75 million.
ATL now provides individuals and families added peace of mind, through its 'Hale & Hearty' hospitalization insurance plan.
ATL Life spearheaded innovation in the insurance industry once again, by launching the first-ever Shari'ah compliant retirement plan - DeergaYou.
Staying true to the spirit of Takaful, ATL announced a payment of SURPLUS to its General Insurance Policy-holders for the third consecutive year.
ATL (Amâna Takaful) continued to be featured on the podium at the recently concluded Sri Lanka Islamic Banking and Finance Industry (SLIBFI) awards ceremony.
ATL (Amâna Takaful) recently hosted the "ATL Speed Rave 2015", a pro-karting event for the company's loyal customers and their families.
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Bianca White, Indigo
Blue and Black Series 2 Rallye's
It was quite clear from the
development of the Rallye that Peugeot intended this car for the true
driving enthusiast. Based on
the fundamentals of the 106 GTi, the Rallye as of course had the frills
replaced with the thrills. Just like the 106 Rallye Series 1 before it,
the Series 2 version has little use for luxuries - just
the bare essentials!
It provides immense power and effective torque up
to 7,000 rpm - giving endless acceleration through the gears. Although
the S2 engine is not as high
revving as the one used in the S1 Rallye, it is much more flexible and
produces raw performance characteristics that none of its rivals can
match. A high power to weight ratio of 119bhp/tonne helps
give a top speed of 121mph, 8.5 sec 0-60mph, and fantastic mid range
The Rallye is fitted with a MA 5-speed gearbox, the
same as the one used in the 1.6 XSi. It shares the same gear ratio's as
the S1 Rallye gearbox but
different crown and pinion wheels give the S2 a final drive ratio of
4.06. The gearing specification allows the Rallye to reach 62mph in 2nd
gear and 116mph in 4th when standard size wheels and tyres
are fitted.
'It could teach expensive
sports cars a trick or ten about handling'
Auto Express, 1998
Suspension & Brakes
The highly successful suspension layout of the S1 Rallye has been
tweaked by Peugeot for use on the S2 Rallye. The front design is very
similar using the same size 22mm anti-roll bar, the only
difference being a new drop link upper fixing point on the strut
casing. The Rallye and GTi have identical front and rear suspension.
Rallyes with the power steering option have slightly different drive
shafts, hubs and top mount position.
The rear suspension has been uprated by fitting a larger 24mm anti-roll
bar whilst the torsion bar size stays the same as the S1 at 19mm.
The front braking system has changed from the Bendix
calipers used on the S1 to ATE calipers on the S2.
The calipers are very similar and still use 247mm ventilated discs.
The major change on the rear is the disc brakes fitted to the S2
Rallye. It is fitted with the same rear disc set up as a lot of other
Peugeot and Citroen performance models such as the 205 GTi, 306
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100 K's in 67 Games–No Kidding
Talk all you want about Phil Humber walking former White Sox-farmhand-turned-slugger Mike Morse and surrendering the game-winning two-run homer to Danny Espinosa in today's 2-1 Sox loss to the Nationals. Humber was brilliant today, as he has been all season, and deserved better.
It was same old story. The offense that was supposed to be a sure thing is anything but. That'll happen when you've got at least four decent to outstanding major league hitters–Adam Dunn, Alex Rios, Gordon Beckham and Juan Pierre–all underachieving. Although I'm happy to say that Rios has recently shown some signs of life.
I feel like a broken record when I mention those names. I wish I had a dollar for every time I've written them in the context of poor offensive production.
When it comes to Dunn, underachieving doesn't come close to describing his performance in a Sox uniform. It's an historical collapse the likes of which we–at least I–can't remember seeing before. Get this:
- He now has an even 100 strikeouts in 67 games. Amazing.
- He whiffed a total of seven times–four today and three Saturday–in the last two games.
- He is hitting .173 overall. Hard to believe.
- His batting average at home is .126. Not exactly a fan-friendly formula.
- He is now 1 for 53 against lefties. Can you say platoon?
And this is the guy who has hit 38 homers and 100 RBIs-plus the past two seasons. Not to mention he has the most home runs in the majors this decade, behind only Albert Pujols.
So what can be done? It seems nothing for now. The truth is that as tempting as it is to bench him and bring up Dayan Viciedo for some DH duty, it's not going to happen. The club, because of the financial commitment and the need for his potentially-potent big bat, seems like they are going to live and die with the slugger.
And once we solve Dunn's problems, there's the matter of the others. Our work is never done.


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17 Years
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- Community Regional Medical Center 2006
- Community Regional Medical Center 2010
- UC San Francisco 2012
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Dr. Cyrus Buhari, DO's Experience
Interventional Cardiology
Board Certifications
- Internal Medicine American Board of Medical Specialties
Procedures Performed
- Angioplasty
- Angioplasty With Stent Placement
- Aortic Valve Surgery
- Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) Implantation
- Cardiac Angiography
- Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
- Cardiac Electrophysiology
- Cardiac Imaging
- Cardiac Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
- Cardiovascular Stress Test
- Cardioversion
- Cardioversion, Elective
- Cardioverter-Defibrillator or Pacemaker Insertion, Removal or Repair
- Chest CT (incl. Heart and Lungs)
- Coronary Angiogram
- Coronary Angioplasty, Atherectomy and Stent
- Echocardiography
- Electrocardiogram (EKG)
- Impella Device
- Non-Coronary Angioplasty, Atherectomy, and Stenting
- Nuclear Stress Testing
- Pacemaker Insertion or Replacement
- Peripheral Artery Catheterization
- Radiofrequency Ablation
- Removal or Revision of Pacemaker or Cardioverter and-or Defibrillator
- Stress Echocardiogram
- Thoracentesis
- Thrombolysis
- Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE)
- Valve Repair or Replacement (Aortic, Mitral, Tricuspid, and Pulmonary)
- Vascular Duplex Ultrasonography and Plethysmography
- Vascular Surgical Procedure
Conditions Treated
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- Angina and Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Aortic Dissection
- Aortic Ectasia
- Aortic Embolism and Thrombosis
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- Atrial Fibrillation
- Atrial Flutter
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- Benign Tumor
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- Hypertensive Chronic Kidney Disease
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Pirate Coder
I find myself multitasking again with my little one.
Today I'm testing some HA scenarios with replication while simultaneously being a pirate.
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The Juice Box
I had a very typical conversation with my 2yr old yesterday. It went something like this…
The Juice Box
Benji: More juice daddy.
me: Ok, go throw the box away and bring me another one.
so he goes and throws it away then looks at me.
me: Ok baby, now bring me another box.
about a minute later he shows up with a brown box that some books came in.
me: No baby, bring me a juice box. The small one.
so then he shows up with a smaller shipping box.
me: No baby, a juice box. Bring me a juice box. A juice box.
(Benji looking around all over)
me: it's in the cabinet right there honey.
(keeps looking around)
me: open the cabinet door and take out a juice box.
(looks at the fridge door.)
me: No baby, the cabinet door. Right there by the broom.
(goes to the other side of the fridge and looks at the wrong broom instead of the one right in front of him)
me: no sweetie, the other broom. Open the door by the other broom.
(opens the fridge door)
me: no sugar, the cabinet door. close the fridge.
(looks all around)
me: the green door right in front of you.
(Looks at fridge again)
me: no no, the green door by the broom.
(goes to the other side of the fridge again and looks at the wrong broom)
me: honey, bring me a juice box.
(looks at ceiling, floor, dog food, etc. everything but the door right in front of him)
me: sweetie, bring me some juice and I'll open it for you.
(opens right door and brings the juice box.)
Now I ask you, how many of us have had conversations very similar to that with our end users or even our devs? I know some of the devs I've worked with have been exactly like that.
So it really got me thinking about the skills a good DBA needs. So as it turns out if you're looking to make a switch to being a DBA, here's what you should do. If you really wanna be successful as a DBA, then while you're studying SQL and learning your job, open up a daycare and run it for about 5yrs. Don't only open it and run it, but actually get in there and work with the kids. I'd say a good mix of 2 and 4yr olds should do it. I've got 3 kids myself and I did it in reverse. I became a DBA first and then had my kids, but I'm convinced that having kids has made me a better DBA because I honestly do have a lot of very similar conversations with my kids and my devs.
And this may piss of some devs, but any DBA out there who's had to deal with a group of devs who thinks they know what they're doing when you're trying to show them how to do something, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
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Job Security
Job security is a really big concern for most DBAs because we tend to automate ourselves out of a job. It doesn't have to be though.
First I'd like to talk about the worst way possible to ensure you keep your job. I'm talking about those guys who write impossible processes that nobody else can support. They think that if they're the only ones who can support it then the company will keep them around. And unfortunately that's not the case. A company is gonna do what they're gonna do no matter how much you hold their processes hostage.
Then there are the guys who do something similar. They just refuse to document anything and they hold all of the tribal knowledge and keep it to themselves. This isn't exactly the same as the guy above because this guy could just have info that nobody else does and refuses to show anyone. And again, while it seems like holding information hostage in exchange for your job would be effective, it's not. Companies are gonna do what they're gonna do no matter what you do to prevent it. So if they're looking to get rid of someone, you may be safe for a while, but not for long. Your boss may recognize that you're the keeper of the processes, but if they get rid of him then the next guy in charge of you may not see your brilliance.
So ok, taking hostages isn't the way to go, so what is? That's not a really easy question to answer because the specifics change from company to company. However, the overall method goes something like this. Be a knowledge expert. Don't just be a DBA. DBAs can be automated. What you have to do is be more than that. Be a data expert. Be a process expert. Be a troubleshooting expert. You have to actually prove to everyone that you're the one who's solving problems, or preventing them. It's not enough to just be a DBA anymore. Buck Woody is fond of telling people to not be DBAs. He wants them to be DB professionals. And while he's right to a degree, he's splitting hairs. Instead of changing the name of the position, we should work on changing the meaning of the position. Show the world what DBA really means.
And it's not just about being an expert. It's about solving problems that nobody even knows are problems.Talk to users and find out what they do every day, or every month. Find out what their pain points are. Not only that, but also look at existing processes and try to find out where you can improve things. And by improve, I mean greatly improve. Don't just take a single SSIS package and improve its performance by a few mins. What you need to do is something major. Really increase the performance or the reliability of something. Make something easier for your group like building a management portal. Put your mind to it and be useful. But don't just manage backups and automated processes.
Unfortunately, all this is just fodder. Again, companies are gonna do what they're gonna do. So there's really no way to save your job if it's really in peril. Layoffs are unfortunately a part of being in the workforce. And it always seems that no matter what you do or how good you are, or how useful and incredible you are, the lazy, stupid guy in your group is the one your company keeps instead of you. That's another fact of being in the workforce. Companies have no concept of who their best people are. I could almost guarantee you that if you poled 50 companies who their best people were, and then had the ability to magically look into the workings themselves and see who's actually making things happen, the two lists would be completely different. Or better yet, ask the big bosses at any company who their best people are and then ask the employees themselves. Again, the lists will be different. All of this is just a windy way of saying that companies have no idea who their key people are and sometimes no matter what you do you can't secure your position. Sometimes companies just insist on being blind and there's nothing you can do about it.
But if you're going to have any chance at all, then follow my (and Buck's) advice.
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Have you ever heard something so stupid or been asked such a stupid question that it actually made your brain flatline? And I mean truly flatline in the way that you actually can't form a complete thought well enough to respond. I suppose to a large degree you have to decide whether they're being serious or not.
One of the things I used to get flatlined on all the time was baselines. In a gig I had a few years ago I was constantly being asked why the CPU was so high on the server, or why there were so many active connections in the DB. Here's how the scenario typically went… I would get a call from someone saying that the CPU was at 87% and why is it so high. I would then ask what it normally is and to that they would reply, I don't know. That's when my brain would just flatline. I couldn't think of anything to say.
Another one that used to kill me is when someone would call me very concerned because they were in perfmon and noticed that the disk queue was 15%. I literally went blank and couldn't think of any way to respond. For those of you who aren't up on perfmon, disk queues aren't measured in %.
Of course I've been flatlined enough over the years that I'm better equipped to handle the extreme stupidity that falls on DBAs sometimes… or so I thought.
It was actually earlier this year when one of my devs came up to me and said that he had a problem with one of his SQL boxes. He then handed me a stack of papers like an inch thick. This is the problem he says. What he had given me was a bunch of printouts he'd taken from various websites that came up in his google search. Now, these weren't really a fix for a single issue. No no… what these were, were a bunch of different possible issues to the problem he was seeing. So he had gone into google and typed something like "SQL Server running slow", and then printed out the top 50 results or so. He didn't read any of them; he just handed them to me as a collective solution to his specific problem.
And I, the experienced DBA and MVP… flatlined.
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Common Sense
The longer I stay in IT, the more I realize I just don't know what's common sense and what isn't. I used to think all kinds of things were common sense but I'm having to change my opinion on them. Keeping in mind that common sense changes with each industry, but there are some large overlaps.
For instance, I used to think it was common sense to actually test code before you put it into prod. I no longer think that. Apparently it's something that has to be taught, drilled, practiced, and re-taught. I'm just awed at how hard it is to get devs to test code, and quite often, how much harder it is to get companies to see the value of testing.
As well, I used to think that it was common sense to test the same scenario that you want to go into prod. This sounds like the same one above but it's not. Here, the testing is happening, but they're testing something different than is going to be in prod. I saw this last year actually. A company was testing a repl scenario to send their prod data to their reporting server. They tested 25 tables and latency was excellent so they pushed forward with putting it into prod. And of course the scenario crashed and burned in prod because they published over 200 tables in that DB, and the same number in like 10 other DBs. So evidently it's not common sense to test exactly what you're going to put into prod. And there are so many more examples of this one I could fill a book.
I used to also think that it was common sense to troubleshoot the same scenario you're having trouble with, but again, I'm wrong. I recently saw a scenario where a tech was troubleshooting a data load. The load process was put on a different server than the one it usually runs on and it took about 4x longer than normal. And of course that's cause for alarm especially since both source and destination servers are in the same data center. At least it would be alarming if he were comparing the same processes. In prod he was running an incremental process and on his test box he was running a full load process. So let me see if I've got this straight, you went from an incremental process to a full load and you're surprised it's taking longer. I'm actually speechless. Hopefully you at least now know why we have the incremental to begin with.
Again, I could go on forever, but I think you get the point. Common sense isn't so common anymore. I'm not sure we can say that about anything anymore, much less IT stuff.
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More Questionable Code
A couple pieces of code came across my desk yesterday and they're definitely the kind of thing you read about… if nowhere else, then here for sure. This was code that a dev sent me that is to be deployed next week.
The first one could actually cause a problem so I'll talk about it first.
I'll write the pseudo-code because I don't have the actual code in front of me right now. It goes like this:
1. Check if the Whale schema exists.
2. If it does exist then drop it.
3. Create the Whale schema.
Ok, so that's exactly what the script does. Here, I'll go ahead and attempt the code. I didn't look it up so it may have a slight error in it, but you get the idea.
If exists (select name from sys.schemas where name = 'Whale')
drop schema Whale
Create schema Whale with authorization = 'dbo';
So what's wrong with this code you ask? It's simple, here's the logic.
First, if it exists and you drop it then why just turn around and recreate it in the next step? What's the point of that? So if your goal is to create the schema then everything above the 'create' line is useless. And I know what you're thinking… so what? What's the big deal if a tiny query gets run during a deployment? It's not like it's going to drag the system down. Well, you're right about that, but it could kill the deployment. If that schema did exist and it actually contained objects, then the drop statement would fail until you put those objects somewhere else. So with there being no code to check that objects exist inside, you could be dooming the deployment to an unnecessary error. You could also say that you know that the schema doesn't exist so there's nothing to worry about. That's fine, then take out the check and the drop. If you know it's not there, then take it out. It's called having concise code and it's something that we lack in this industry these days. Let me illustrate this with something completely ridiculous that also doesn't really effect performance.
Create table #t1 (col1 int)
truncate table #t1
truncate table #t1
truncate table #t1
truncate table #t1
truncate table #t1
Insert #t1 Select 1
Ok, so look at that code above. I created a temp table and then truncated it 5x. That's not going to effect performance at all because there's no data in it since it was just created and there are no pages. Then I go ahead and insert a row. I can't think of anyone who would let this kind of thing go on in an SP, or in deployment code, but we're expected to let useless checks stay in our scripts.
This code was clearly scripted in the wizard so it's not like the dev went out of his way to do this by hand, but it's the mark of a fairly inexperience coder to let the wizard create scripts and not inspect what it's giving you.
The other piece of code doesn't really do any damage as much as it's just annoying. In fact, it's really 2 different scripts. They're create view scripts and the first one reads something like this:
create view MyView
Select MyFavoriteTable.col1,
from MyFavoriteTable as MyFavoriteTable
Ok, so even typing this in the blog pisses me off. And again, it's just a style thing, but this just drives me crazy. What drives me crazy the most is that this dev doesn't understand what aliases are for. To alias a table with the same name as the table itself defeats the purpose of having the alias in the first place. Here a much better alias would have been mft or mt or m. Hell, you could even go as far as MyFT or something like that. Here, I'll play one of those out for you and you tell me which one you'd rather read.
Select mft.col1,
from MyFavoriteTable as mft
Forget reading, which one of those would you rather type? It's just more concise and easier to read. I happen to know the dev who wrote this and his opinion is that the full table name makes it easier to read when you've got larger joins. Personally, I've never known anyone to complain about short aliases before, and again, I honestly think this boils down to inexperience. When I first started coding well over a decade ago, I used to need things to be presented to me in very specific ways too. It was the only way I could read the code. That kind of thing is much less important to me now that I have been doing it for a long time. Why? Because I know how to code.
So the second thing about this script that bugs me is the fact that he saw the need to alias a query with a single table in it. Now you're just being obstinate for no reason. I know the argument though. He probably would say that he did it for consistency. The only problem with that is the other create view script he submitted didn't have the same stupid aliasing structure, so where's the argument now?
Ok, so this code was clearly brought to us as part of a code review so the next logical question is why don't we just reject the code if it bothers us so badly? Well, the answer is simple. Like so many places, our code reviews are merely perfunctory process placeholders. Our lead dev has made it very clear that he's going to do whatever he likes no matter what we say. We've rejected code plenty of times for really valid process or performance reasons and he always thumbs his nose up at us and pushes it into prod anyway. I really don't understand how he's gotten such a superior attitude towards the DBAs, but it's completely unwarranted. He acts like we're in this just to piss on his parade and make him look bad, but we're really only trying to help. But we don't even bother anymore. What's the point? He knows more than the rest of us put together so we don't even bring stuff up anymore.
So that's my rant for tonight. Remember, use aliases wisely and be as consistent as you can. And for everyone's sake listen to what your DBAs are telling you for a change. They're really only trying to help.
Sick of LiteSpeed
I'm just getting sick of dealing with LIteSpeed problems. My big DW was using a lower version of LS and it was fine for a long time. Then I upgraded to the new version and my backups went from 30mins to like 10hrs. So I went back to the previous version. Then I upgraded my DB from yukon to katmai and i upgraded LS at the same time hoping that the even newer version would work better with katmai on my big DW system. That hasn't happened. It's been ridiculous trying to get backups to even complete.
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Under the Radar
So I'm sitting here at the blogger table at the 2nd PASS keynote by Tom Casey and he brings up a good point. Now this is something I've blogged about in the past, but it's about that guy in your org who goes off and does his own thing and puts a small DB on his desktop and starts doing data loads, and crunching things on his own. That can be a problem because IT isn't involved and IT doesn't even know it exists. That's why slammer was so devastating because of all those "unauthorized" DBs out there. And everyone should be going through IT for these types of projects… or should they?
Tom actually brings up a good point that every piece of data, or every query doesn't have to go through IT. Some things aren't big enough or are only for short-lived times and there's no reason for it to be spun up as a project. And again this is a fine line because as a DBA I really do have to know where my data's going and if I let everyone just pull whatever they wanted, then server performance would be crap. So it's a tough line to walk because while we need to have some kind of decent control over where our server resources are going, we also don't need to be involved in every little thing that crosses someone's mind.
IT quite often also isn't very responsive because we do have to plan things better than the users do and I think they lose sight of that. The trick is for us to make it a real project while at the same time not slowing them down too much.
So I'm gonna go ahead and say that office users are free to keep things under our radar, but know that comes at a price. If you lose the data or the code or it starts performing badly, then don't come crying to us. These are the things that IT brings to the table. We bring recoverability, stability, accountability, etc. And it's quite possible that you start something on your own and then get IT involved when it gets too big or too important for you to manage yourself. I really like this scenario because it's often times easier for us to take over a project than it is to build it from scratch. Sometimes it's not because you have to re-write it to actually make it stable, but even that's often times easier because you've already got the business logic and the GUI defined for you.
So anyway, I like what I see in the demos on their new excel plugin (PowerPivot), but personally I'm waiting to see if it'll actually work as well as they expect. Because the data they're using is highly specialized and I have to wonder how well my data will work with the product. PowerPivot is a new BI plugin for excel 2010 but I really expect that it won't really take hold for a couple yrs because the requirements to duplicate the scenario they outlined in the keynote are office 2010, sql server R2, and sharepoint 2010, and I just don't see many people converting all of these that fast.
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Bloggers' Table
I'm sitting here at the bloggers' table here at PASS listening to the announcements. So far it's just housecleaning, but Wayne is a good speaker.
There's been a lot of twitting this year and it really changes the face of the summit because you can find people and events just by pinging the group. I didn't think I'd like something like that, but it actually is pretty cool.
I'm horrible at this live social blogging thing though so I'll shut up now.
1st Night at PASS
Ok we arrived in Seattle for PASS only I found out tonight that I'm not supposed to call it PASS. Apparently the PC name for PASS is the PASS Summit. Oh well…
So we started at the Tap House wtih Allen White and his wife and then went to the convention center (I can still call it that, right?) to register. There we met up with tons of other MVPs and a few people that Jen follows on twitter. Would that be her fellow twits?
I was talking to Allen about how things appear to be getting better because there are a lot more MVPs here than there have been the past couple yrs. I think this is going to be a good week.
We also did our first DBAs@Midnight with Allen. It was really fun. We got to talk about Oracle and making mistakes, and powershell, etc. It was a fun talk. I'll upload it soon so check back and I'll let you know when it's up.
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About Me
- Sean McCown
- I am a Contributing Editor for InfoWorld Magazine, and a frequent contributor to SQLServerCentral.com as well as SSWUG.org. I live with my wife and 3 kids, and have practiced and taught Kenpo for 22yrs now.
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Daymond John Goes Beyond the 'Shark Tank' [INTERVIEW]
Daymond John is a modern renaissance man. The founder, president and CEO of FUBU is an accomplished motivational speaker, business mentor, entrepreneur, fashion icon, television personality, best-selling author and an investor on the hit ABC reality show 'Shark Tank', where he's emerged as a fan favorite.
When he's not circling the waters around potential business investments, John has been busy expanding his relationship with the sports world (something 'Shark Tank' co-star Mark Cuban might know a thing or two about). John now oversees the global branding and awareness for Fuse Science, Inc., boosted by relationships with athletes including Tiger Woods, Tyson Chandler, David Ortiz, Jose Bautista, Arian Foster and Paul Pierce. He's also managing the branding for up-and-coming NASCAR driver Alex Bowman.
The "Godfather of Urban Fashion" took time out of his busy schedule to talk with GuySpeed about his transition into the sports world, business lessons learned and to share some behind the scenes scoop from 'Shark Tank', which wraps up its fourth season this Friday night on ABC (9/8 central).
You work with Mark Cuban on 'Shark Tank' who is of course one of the best known and successful owners and personalities in all of sports. What advice did he give you about venturing into the business of sports?
I'm not a big sports fan in regards to watching sports -- I love to play it. But Mark said something to me one day that, for all my entire life thinking about sports, I may not have understood why fans watch it instead of playing it. He said you have to look at sports as entertainment. Games you go to and fans will go to, some of them will remember the game, some of them won't remember the game, but they'll all remember that they collectively got together and they shared a passion with somebody next to them that they did not know. They hung out with them, they hugged them, they kissed them, they slapped hands with them and they had a great time with an absolute stranger. And it brings families together and it brings people together that normally would never ever be together, all ages, all genders and all races. When he said it I looked at it as a unity of people when I always looked at it as something that wasn't a unity, and it was actually people against each other but I'd never thought of it like that. I think that's the most enlightening thing he said about sports.
On 'Shark Tank', what value do you give to pitches that already have a well-known celebrity or athlete endorsement attached?
It's a few things like baking a perfect cake. A celebrity endorser can hurt the product just as much as they can help it. The way they can hurt is if they go out and get arrested or something crazy happens to them. Number two, do they not believe in the product -- they're getting paid by Pepsi but they're drinking Coca-Cola. Number three is did you bet the whole farm on acquiring this athlete and the athlete doesn't do anything besides a great press release and all of a sudden you've spent a large chunk of your advertising and marketing on a person that's not doing anything and your company doesn't have the resources if they've bet on one horse. I have to look at it and say, "Is this true?" because a celebrity can be detrimental. On the flip side, when you look at a product like Fuse and why I became a part of Fuse, the easiest thing to sell is the truth. Tiger Woods doesn't need any money. He decided to be a part of this company due to its amazing science. If the athlete is part of something because the product is king, then the easiest thing to sell is the truth.
You've recently joined up with Fuse Science to help expand their "Powered by Fuse" message. What is it about the products that appeals to the high level athletes who are part of its stable, including Tiger Woods, Arian Foster and Tyson Chandler?
They're part of a movement where it transcends many boundaries besides sports. The technology of Fuse Science, which is to be able to apply this method quickly -- it hits your system in 15 seconds, the only thing faster is a needle -- could be used for everything from helping to work with people who have malaria to hopefully one day be able to deploy these medicines with insulin [for diabetics] without a needle so you can put it on your skin. They see the effect of it with the current product Enerjel -- when it soaks into their muscles, they feel it. When they get the electrolytes and they have a cramp and it goes away immediately -- not taking 45 minutes for them to drink a Gatorade -- they see the benefit. When they need energy, that's the obvious reason they're part of it.
You're working with NASCAR driver Alex Bowman. What opportunities do you see for marketing NASCAR to a new, younger audience?
I met Alex Bowman quite some time ago and kept my eye on him and his career and the kid is amazing. He is an amazing driver and the kid is doing well in the circuit. Again, I can't do much with Alex Bowman unless he provides these great wins and/or placements because I can't put lipstick on a pig. What I see with Alex -- I see this is a new day and age. I see this is a young kid who is hitting a new market of kids, he is social media savvy, he loves the things that other kids like the generational things such as electronic dance music (deadmau5, Afrojack). I think that he can be great. He can bring NASCAR into living rooms where people didn't traditionally see NASCAR or NASCAR-like people and they can understand and gravitate back towards NASCAR when they see this young amazing kid winning races that are hanging out with the types of people and celebrities that you wouldn't traditionally see. The great thing about Alex and working with him now is there's 20 years to go. It's a long time and I think the kid's amazing.
If you had to launch FUBU all over again, but in 2013, what would you do differently?
I'd have to do so many things differently. When I launched it, there wasn't social media so I had to get up in everybody's face with a shirt. I would have to learn social media and be so entrenched in social media. And the good thing and the bad thing about social media is first of all you get such pure analytics from your customer base. But second of all I always say when I got out there with those shirts, nobody would get up there before me and nobody would go to sleep after me. Now there's a billion other people easily online selling the goods and getting the goods in everybody's faces so how do you separate yourself from the noise.
What I'd do the same is I would find very very strong ambassadors in really niche markets. I would have to find certain amount of kids in certain places -- like certain dance groups in the middle of Manhattan and kids doing really strange and bizarre things that everybody is just kind of looking at from afar because that's where it all starts. It all sparks from the energy of really young kids doing things that are avant-garde.
Can you share any stories behind the scenes about what happens during due diligence once the deal is struck on the show?
That process is extremely colorful. You have everything from lawyers to wives to best friends coming in there saying "This deal is not good. I can do a better deal." Several deals have fallen apart because as soon as it airs on TV, their cousin's friend's brother's sister tells them "Oh why didn't you tell me, I've got a million dollars for you." Some of those deals have fallen apart and I'll see the guy or girl two years later and they'll say, "Oh boy I sure should have listened to you." It's like any other negotiation but for the most part both parties have the best intent to get things done and a lot of the entrepreneurs are really really grateful and really happy to do the deals and they're as smooth as can be, but it's a learning process.
Which Shark would you not want to see across from you at a negotiation table?
That's a tough one because I have the same amount of respect for every single one of them and I'm not saying that to kiss their butts. They're all incredibly great negotiators and on the other side I think they're all bozos. I don't have any favorite or least favorite.
Looking back, is there a product or opportunity from the show you're sorry you didn't invest in?
No, I'm not. Here's an example why. Lori [Greiner] invested in some guy that had a magnetic eyeglass holder in case you'd fall and I thought it was the stupidest idea. Lori goes out and sells $3 million worth of that thing. I wouldn't have done the same thing with that product. I can't regret things I haven't done because it may not have ended up where the entrepreneur intended it to be.


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The Photoshop CC 2014.1 update has now been released. This post will walk you through the enhancements that have been made in this release.
Most of the enhancements to the 2014.1 release of Photoshop CC are in the 3D module, and mostly address workflow, 3D printer support and better navigation for 3D painting.
The move tool (accessed using the V key), allows you to navigate and work with a 3D model/layer. You have been always been able to use the navigation tools on the top tool bar, but the new navigation tools (marked red) are more intuative and easier to move the model around, especially when using the paint brush.
When the brush tool (B key), is selected the navigation tools were not available, therefore when the model needed to be moved around you needed to goto the move tool, then move the model with the navigation tools in the tool bar (as defined above), then back to the brush mode.
In this version of Photoshop CC, you can now move the model directly within the brush tool by using the navigation tools (marked red).
I have taken a video of the above to explain how this works, you can watch it here.
PLYPLY is a computer file format known as the Polygon File Format or the Stanford Triangle Format
The format was principally designed to store three-dimensional data from 3D scanners. It supports a relatively simple description of a single object as a list of nominally flat polygons. A variety of properties can be stored including: color and transparency, surface normals, texture coordinates and data confidence values. The format permits one to have different properties for the front and back of a polygon.VRML
VRML is a format where, for example, vertices and edges for a 3D polygon can be specified along with the surface colour, UV mapped textures, shininess and transparency.
The U3D format was defined by a special consortium called 3D Industry Forum that brought together companies including Intel, Boeing, HP, Adobe Systems, Bentley Systems, Right Hemisphere and others whose main focus had been the promotional development of 3D graphics for use in various industries, specifically at this time manufacturing as well as construction and industrial plant design. The format was later standardized by Ecma International in August 2005 as ECMA-363.
The format is natively supported by the PDF format and 3D objects in U3D format can be inserted into PDF documents and interactively visualized by Acrobat Reader (since version 7).
(Formats defined from Wikipedia).


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You are passing by a girl and you keep trying to see what kind of IEMs she's wearing. Once you realize they're crap (or not), then you realize she's actually a very attractive girl.
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AAPT Video Share-a-Thon Documents
Main Document
AAPT Video Share-a-Thon
edited by
Bruce Mason
This is the list of videos and video collections presented at the 2013 AAPT Video Share-a-thon. These videos are all created and/or used for physics teaching.
This file is available in multiple formats: .xlsx, .pdf
- Download AAPT-VidShare-S2013.xlsx - 14kb Excel Document
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Published July 31, 2013
Last Modified August 13, 2013
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Kipnis happy with April 2014 results at plate
CLEVELAND -- The way Jason Kipnis sees it, things could not get any worse this April than they did in April 2013. In order for the second baseman to add a trip to the All-Star Game to his career resume last summer, first he had to dig out of a deep first-month hole.
Kipnis' early-season slump this year hardly seemed like a setback in comparison.
"The way I put it is, I set the bar so low last April that it's kind of gravy here on out," Kipnis said with a laugh. "Even with my average not being that high, I'm having good at-bats, swinging at the right pitches, not chasing too many."
During Wednesday's 5-3 win over the Royals, Kipnis delivered the decisive blow with a two-out RBI double in the seventh inning. Heading into Thursday's tilt against Kansas City, the second baseman had a .279 average and an .881 OPS over his past 12 games.
On the young season, Kipnis was batting .243 with three home runs, five doubles, 10 RBIs, 11 runs scored and three stolen bases through 21 games as the No. 3 hitter. Prior to his recent 12-game turnaround, though, he opened the year with a .194 average and .688 OPS in his first nine games.
While going through the initial struggles, Kipnis focused on the success that was hard to see in the box score. The second baseman said he has improved a lot in that regard, finding positives in some at-bats that ultimately turned into outs.
"Absolutely," Kipnis said. "Before, I would rather take a swinging bunt [single] than a line-drive out, but you're starting to learn there are quality [at-bats] and there's a right way to go at the situational hitting. The three-hole comes with some responsibility and I think I'm handling it well so far."
Kipnis also knows now not to worry too much about a gradual start.
Last season, Kipnis hit .200 in April and saw his average drop to .189 in early May. The second baseman then hit .340 to pull his season average as high as .301 by the beginning of July. That extremely strong offensive push convinced former Tigers manager Jim Leyland to add Kipnis to the AL All-Star team.
"He has less far to climb this year," Indians manager Terry Francona said. "He really dug himself a hole last year and he climbed all the way out of it. He's always a threat. Every time. Whether it's left-handed or right-handed, because he can hit the ball all over the field, he can hit the ball out of the ballpark, he can beat you with his legs.
"I don't really look up and see what Kip's batting average is, because we want him hitting all the time."


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Doctors Google their patients to see their past accomplishments and even past mugshots, according to reports.
One doctor, Haider Javed Warraich, wrote about his propensity to Google patients in a column for the New York Times. From the piece:
Doctors do "Google" their patients. In fact, the vast majority of physicians I know have done so. To my generation, using a search engine like Google comes as naturally as sharing pictures of our children or a recent vacation on a social networking site like Facebook.
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However, Warraich does have a caveat, saying that it's probably not a great way to build trust in a doctor-patient relationship, especially when you see a patient's mugshot or other wrongdoing that may have nothing to do with their condition. Instead, he says the only reason to Google a patient is when it's about a patient's safety, but that may not stop many physicians.
Another doctor, Kate Adams, a UK physician writing in the Guardian, also admits to looking up patients on Google. From the article:
Curiosity often gets the better of me but I feel it helps me build a rapport and a better understanding of the person.
Both doctors say that knowing more about patients helps build empathy and understanding for the patient, but it's only Warraich that suggests that asking your patient questions may yield just as much information.


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MABO wrote:Characterful figure. Which scale?
Peter wrote:This is marked as 25 mm on their webpage:
Susofrick wrote:Hmm, am I naughty if I say that I would like to see that lantern painted by you?
Susofrick wrote:And Dali, what are you waiting for?
Peter wrote:Postage has climbed all over Europe Paul! I had one in the UK with free postage, now he asks 4.95 pound.
Now I'm looking for cheaper solutions!


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Nearly 600 miles from Oscar Pistorios' courtroom drama in Pretoria, Reeva Steenkamp's family and friends mourned her at a tearful, private funeral.
Her wooden coffin was draped in a white cloth and carried by six pallbearers holding its gold handles at a ceremony under gray skies in the Steenkamp family's hometown of Port Elizabeth, on South Africa's windswept southern coast.
"We are here as a family, and there's only one thing missing and that's Reeva," said her sobbing uncle, Mike Steenkamp. "We've got together but we miss one."
Reeva's parents, Barry and June Steenkamp, hugged mourners after the ceremony, which was held beyond a "Strictly Private" sign at the Victoria Park Crematorium.
They didn't speak to reporters outside — but Mrs. Steenkamp earlier told a local newspaper she desperately wanted an explanation of why her daughter's life was taken.
"All we have is this horrendous death to deal with," she said. "All we want are answers . . . answers as to why this had to happen, why our beautiful daughter had to die like this."
"Why my little girl?" she asked.
Mourners were given a funeral program that was just titled "Reeva." It bore the dates of her birth and death, and a black-and-white portrait of Steenkamp with the words "God's Gift, A Child" written on the back.
Among the mourners was Gavin Venter, a former jockey who worked for Barry Steenkamp.
Venter said Pistorius should remain behind bars.
"I'm disgusted with what he did. He must be dealt with harshly," Venter said.
"She was an angel," Venter said of Steenkamp. "She was so soft, so innocent, such a lovely person. It's just sad that this could happen to somebody so good."
Also at the ceremony was South African rugby star Francois Hoagaard, who previously dated Steenkamp and reportedly had upset Pistorius by sending her texts.
Reeva's brother Adam read a brief statement to television cameras near the driveway to the crematorium.
"I won't say very much," said Adam, who wore jeans, a white shirt and a black suit jacket.
"There's a space missing inside all the people she knew that can't be filled again. We're going to keep all the positive things that we remember and know about my sister. And we will try and continue with the things that she tried to make better. We will miss her. And that's it."
Her relatives were well aware that Steenkamp had campaigned against domestic violence. She had written on Twitter that she planned to join a "Black Friday" protest by wearing black in honor of a 17-year-old girl who was gang-raped and killed in South Africa two weeks ago.
"[What] she stood for, and the abuse against women, unfortunately it's gone right around and I think the Lord knows that statement is more powerful now," Mike Steenkamp said yesterday.


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2.5 years in Hong Kong and been learning Cantonese a couple of months after we got here. With my wife, who can speak Chinese, having an afternoon nap and my son and I hungry, and me unable to walk due to a football injury we had no other option than to call our favourite place and order food in Chinese. Bit nervous but we had some success!
First time ordering food on the phone in Cantonese
Discussions on the Cantonese language.
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Mexico Peso Declines as U.S. Earnings Crimp Outlook for Exports
Mexico says Nestle to sell Pfizer baby food business
MEXICO CITY – Swiss food giant Nestle will sell the assets of U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer's baby food business in Mexico, a business it acquired globally in an $11.85 billion deal last year, Mexico's competition watchdog said on Monday.
Analysis: Mexico's smaller homebuilders set to gain as top three struggle
MEXICO CITY – Mexico's top three homebuilders, facing heavy debt burdens and holding land where Mexicans no longer want to live, will sell fewer homes this year, leaving a market wide open for smaller rivals or even private equity funds to snap up business.
Mexican manufacturing: from sweatshops to high-tech motors
SILAO, Mexico – Made in Mexico is increasingly more likely to mean cars than clothes as the country's manufacturing sector moves away from the low-skill, high-volume production lines of the past toward more sophisticated products.
VIP Interview: Enrique Peña Nieto, forging the future
Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico, on a new spirit of democracy and cooperation, and the economic future of Mexico.
Itau Bet on Stocks Outside Brazil Leads Latin America Funds
QItau Unibanco Holding SA has found a winning strategy for the Itau Latam Pacific mutual fund: avoiding shares from the bank's home country, Brazil.
Brazil's Votorantim Cimentos files for $5.4 billion IPO
Votorantim Cimentos S.A., Brazil's biggest cement producer, on Wednesday filed with regulators to raise up to $5.4 billion in an initial public offering of its units.
Brazil clears Pão de Açúcar's appliance stores deal
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO – Grupo Pão de Açúcar SA , Brazil's biggest retailer, won regulatory approval on Wednesday for its 2009 purchase of the Casas Bahia and Ponto Frio appliance chains in exchange for selling less than 8 percent of their store fronts.
Brazil Indian-farmer standoff intensifies, tribes storm Congress
BRASILIA – Brazilian Indians are trying to derail a congressional proposal to change the way indigenous lands are recognized, intensifying a standoff between the powerful farm sector and a carefully protected minority by literally storming the floor of Congress.
Special Report: Rough justice as Brazil tries to right past wrongs to Indians
MARAIWATSEDE, Brazil – Damião Paridzané was nine years old in 1966 when the Brazilian Air Force loaded him and hundreds of other Xavante Indians onto a cargo plane. | Video
UK-based TMO Renewables building cellulosic fuel plant in Brazil
SAO PAULO – UK-based TMO Renewables said on Friday it plans to build Brazil's first commercially viable second-generation ethanol plant, betting on the South American country's need for non-food-based biofuels.
Brazil's Embraer looks to shock Lockheed with price of cargo jet
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA is looking to shock rivals with the price of its KC-390 military transport plane when it starts booking firm orders within the next 12 months, according to a senior executive.
Higher volumes and more investment for Brazilian railfreight
INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY JOURNAL – Despite a slowdown in economic growth, Brazil's freight railways invested nearly Reais 4.9bn ($US 2.4bn) in new infrastructure and equipment last year, a 6.6% increase over 2011,
British Firms Explore Trade Opportunities in Mexico and Colombia
A four-day trade mission to Mexico and Colombia by medium-sized British businesses took place in March, focusing on high value opportunities in key sectors.
Jamaica's decades of debt are damaging its future
The latest IMF loan does not 'rescue' Jamaica, whose debt must be written off if its people are to take control of their economy
The Logistics Hub Project and Jamaica's Development
An ideal location midway between North and South America, in close proximity to the Panama Canal contributes to this advantage. The Panama Canal will be widened by 2015 to accommodate wider ships and Jamaica hopes to capitalise on this by expanding its port facility and affiliated infrastructure spread over four south coast parishes: namely Kingston, St Catherine, Clarendon and St Thomas. An IDB (2010) study on the productivity of the LAC region concluded that "ports and airports are grossly inefficient.
Latin America's top port faces logistical woes
Santos' cargo handling volumes made a strong start to 2013, with the port hitting a record high of 7.9 MM tons, up 27 percent year-on-year, according to Santos' Port Authority CODESP. If the trend continues, the port is expected to close 2013 with total cargo traffic of 109 MM tons, up from 104 MM last year and 97 MM in 2011. But a record soybean harvest this year has clearly overwhelmed its storage and loading capacity. "It seems that our infrastructure can't cope with the growth in grain production," said Sergio Mendes, executive director of the Brazilian Cereal Exporters Association (ANEC). Last month, the logistical nightmare reached epic proportions, with a 64-kilometer traffic jam of trucks waiting to unload their soybean cargo outside Santos port. And the port congestion and resulting shipment delays led Sunrise Group, China's largest soybean importer, to cancel an order to buy 2 MM metric tons of Brazilian soybean.
Latin America's Largest PV Projects
As of April 1, 2013, 9.8 gigawatts of large-scale PV projects had been announced in Latin America and the Caribbean. Currently, the generating capacity of projects in operation is just 114 megawatts. Of the 9.8 gigawatts' worth of announced projects, 731 megawatts have signed off-take agreements of some sort (power purchase agreements, feed-in tariff contracts, etc.) and a further 168 megawatts are under construction. These large numbers have generated a lot of hype for various Latin American markets, in particular, for Chile, Mexico, and Brazil.
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Gmail just got better -- again. So did Google Docs.
There's a new preview pane, for quick scrolling and indexing of incoming mail, sort of like batch-deleting and -sorting. Users can, in labs, choose vertical or horizontal display. (Horizontal is more like the iPad interface, but to each her own.)
And now there's a higher-resolution interface on mobile devices, so a lot less squinting while staring at that iPhone 4. The pull-down refresh (like Facebook and others) is a sure way to obsessively check for new mail, too.
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As for Google Docs, the streamlining initiative continues across the application board. First, new keyboard shortcuts. Sweet, right? But how to enable them? Yeah ... just a ? to see the cheat sheet.
Charts are easier, too, with hover-tips enabled, as well as something called spreadsheet function snippets.
And finally, the help documentation, according to Google's Official Blog, has been completely rebuilt.
These are all available in English, with other languages rolling out soon. So the whole world can, indeed, become a "spreadsheet ninja."


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Liberty News
Law students volunteer tax-return services
For the third year, Liberty University School of Law students will be reaching out to the community by offering the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, a free service that assists qualifying taxpayers in the preparation of income tax returns. The program begins Jan. 31.
"Our faculty and students are committed to providing pro bono legal services to those who need assistance with preparing their tax returns," said Mathew D. Staver, Dean of Liberty University School of Law. "The program has been very successful because of the commitment of our students. I am very proud of them for using their legal skills to help those in need."
Students must receive certification from the IRS to participate. In past years, Liberty law students have prepared more than 100 income tax returns and volunteered close to 200 hours.
The VITA program is available to low-to-middle-income taxpayers, generally defined as taxpayers earning $49,000 or less per year. Assistance will be available at Liberty University from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Jan. 31, Feb.1-4, and Feb. 7-11, as well as from noon until 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 5, and Saturday, Feb. 12, in the law school's Mountain View Room. No appointment is needed during these hours, but a limited number of appointments outside these hours are available by request.
- For more information about VITA, visit the IRS website. For more information about the Liberty University School of Law VITA program, including the documents that are required for tax preparation, visit www.law.liberty.edu, or call Christopher Pitera, (804) 678-8285.


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