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The new Cayenne Turbo S, hey? What's actually new?
Aside from some slimmer, easier-on-the-eyes headlights and tail-lights, and some other minor restyling, power is up 15kW and torque 50Nm, with fuel economy unchanged at 11.5 litres/100km. Importantly, with its 4.8-litre twin-turbo V8 now belting 419kW and, from a silly 2500rpm, 800Nm, the Cayenne Turbo S is the most powerful Porsche you can buy today. Of course, having to shift 2235kg means it's not the fastest, but it's not hanging about with a 0-100 time of 4.1 seconds. On bitumen, not snow, of course.
Wait, so why are you driving it on snow, then?
Good question. Volkswagen Audi Group seems to have developed a fetish for launching new cars in arctic conditions where it's all-but impossible to tell what the car is truly like to drive. But after a day throwing the new Cayenne Turbo S around on snow, we can confirm it'll happily turn all that power into laugh-out-loud, football-field-sized drifts - all, day, long.
Really? But isn't it four-wheel drive?
Yep, but in the snow, turn ESP off and you'll look like a drift god. Load up the big, heavy Cayenne Turbo S on its outside tyre and boot it, the thing will slew sideways gently, and slowly enough that you have all day to wind on the oppy-lock, at which point you can trim the angle with the throttle for as long as your talent will permit. Or you get bored. Generally the former happens before the latter.
Isn't this the car that did some crazy lap time around the Nordschleife?
Yep, 7:59. If you cast your eye over the Nordschleife lap records you'll see the Cayenne Turbo S blasts into the weeds all manner of fast cars. It's as quick as a 996 911 Carrera S, five seconds quicker than a Cayman S, and utterly destroys things like the Lotus Exige S, Audi R8 V8 and Alfa Romeo 4C. Remember, this is a car that would handle an IKEA trip without fuss. Importantly, the Cayenne Turbo S crushes the new Range Rover Sport SVR which, with its paltry 8:14 lap, could claim only for a short while to be the fastest-ever SUV around the 'Ring.
I read this thing has 10-piston front brake calipers. Is that right?
Yep, tucked inside monster monobloc calipers clamping 420mm front ceramic discs. Four-potters bite 370mm discs at the rear. Clearly you enjoy nerding out on spec sheets so you won't mind us pointing out, interestingly, the Cayenne Turbo S's 10-inch wide wheels at each corner wrapped in 295 rubber. Not that it matters much in snow.
So what else can you say about it, then?
It's impossible to deliver a verdict on a car driving it solely on snow, but during our icy blat we noticed something important: a feeling of solid engineering. Here's a car that weighs 2.2 tonnes you can throw about like a Toyota 86. It takes time to calibrate your brain to the extra weight, particularly so high in the car, but once there, you can powerslide the thing all day. It's terrific fun. But understeer and oversteer balance? Ride? Road noise? We'll have to wait for a bitumen blast, unfortunately.
Does it sound any good?
There's a mean V8 burble at idle but we were disappointed, and bewildered to notice it just doesn't translate to a high rpm, menacing roar. We wish as you wound the tacho needle clockwise, it was louder. Its newly-V6 sibling, the GTS, gets an active exhaust button. The Turbo S could use one too, perhaps, to angry it up a bit.
Anything else you didn't fancy?
There's bugger all steering feel which can affect your confidence driving fast, particularly on snow. When the thing starts understeering you notice primarily because your steering input no longer matches the car's trajectory. Derr, you're probably thinking, but many cars you'll feel the understeer through the wheel first. Not the Cayenne, unfortunately. We wished, too, the PDK down-changed with a crisp, swift throttle blip, like its sports car siblings, but is instead a little too leisurely for our liking. But, look, we're picking knits. The thing feels solid as a rock and while we'll reserve our final verdict until we actually get to drive it on a real road, early signs are good. Very good.
What was the GTS like? Please tell me they haven't ruined THAT noise.
It's not good news - Porsche has tried hard but the new, twin-turbo V6 in the GTS sounds fairly vanilla compared to the old, antisocial nat-atmo V8. On the plus side, the GTS, while with 324kW and 600Nm packs less punch than the Turbo S, you definitely notice it's 100kg lighter. Weight transfer is less aggro in the GTS, traction is better, and the whole shebang, on snow, is generally friendler and more manoeuvrable. Impressive particularly when you consider the GTS is $130,100 cheaper than the Turbo S.
Wait, what?
Yep, there's a fair price gap. Porsche says the GTS is more the volume seller. And on Turbo S, when it comes time to tick a few options, you might just struggle, given how plump with goodies it really is. Given the dent it'll put in your bank balance, you'd bloody well want it to be.
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The Cayenne Turbo S will cost $284,700 in Australia so yes, you'll need to drain the piggybank. But good news is, it doesn't arrive until Q2 so you've got some time to get saving and pick one up before the Aussie winter. You'll want to head to the alps and find a patch of snow to play in. Trust us.
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Loving: Prepare yourself...this is slightly (okay very) embarrassing to admit, but while I was sick I got into watching a new television series on Netflix. It's called Make It Or Break It, and it's basically a teen-geared gymnastics drama centered around a group of elite, Olympic bound gymnasts in Boulder, Colorado. It's an ABC Family show and I absolutely LOVE it. It's terribly cheesy and pretty ridiculous at times, but I can't stop watching it and have really gotten into all of the characters. I love Payson, adore Damon, and really think Summer and Sasha should be together! I haven't met one person who has ever even seen it though, so if you have, say hello! I feel so alone out here on my bad-television branch...even though I really don't think this show is bad at all. I'm finishing up Season 2 in preparation for Season 3 to begin next week and any free chance I get I'm trying to fit in yet another episode.
Thinking about: my Dad. He drove me home from the airport on Sunday night because he didn't want Hank and Henry coming down the mountain in the snow. We spent close to two hours together alone, which is unfortunately pretty rare, and it was so wonderful to have all that time to talk. I learned some things about my Dad I had no idea about (like the fact he lived in a beach bungalow for a year in Florida!) and it made me so happy to spend that time with him. I feel like it's one of those instances I'll always look back on and smile. I sure love him.
Anticipating: my wisdom teeth removal...tomorrow! AH! I've been putting this off forever and actually rescheduled this appointment about three times, but finally, the day has come. All four of mine are impacted and all four are coming out. So at 8:50am on Friday think of me as I'm getting teeth ripped out of my head. Yuck.
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Wishing: that I could fly all of my Hunger Games-loving friends here so we could all watch the premiere together. Due to my wisdom teeth surgery I'll probably have to wait until next week and I don't know if I can make it. I'm so excited about it and I am crossing my fingers the movie does the book justice.
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The Google engineer who was fired last week over his memo wrote that most women were biologically unsuited to working in tech because they were more focused on "feelings and aesthetics than ideas" and had "a stronger interest in people rather than things."
Many scientists have said he got the biology wrong. But the job requirements of today's programmers show he was also wrong about working in tech.
In fact, interpersonal skills like collaboration, communication, empathy and emotional intelligence are essential to the job. The myth that programming is done by loner men who think only rationally and communicate only with their computers harms the tech industry in ways that cut straight to the bottom line.
The loner stereotype can deter talented people from the industry — not just women, but anyone who thinks that sounds like an unattractive job description. It can also result in dysfunctional teams and poorly performing products. Empathy, after all, is crucial to understanding consumers' desires, and its absence leads to product mistakes.
Take digital assistants, like Google Home or Amazon Echo. Their programmers need to be able to imagine a huge variety of home situations, whether households with roommates or abusive spouses or children — as made clear when a child ordered a $160 dollhouse and four pounds of sugar cookies on the Echo.
"Basically every step is very collaborative," said Tracy Chou, who was an engineer at Pinterest and Quora and is now working on start-ups. "Building a big software system, you could have dozens or hundreds or thousands of engineers working on the same code base, and everything still has to work together."
She added, "But not everyone is the same, and that's where empathy and broader diversity really help."
The memo distinguished between empathizing with other people's feelings and analyzing and constructing systems, and said coding is about the latter. But it requires both, as do most of the jobs that are growing in number and in wages, according to economic research. Jobs that require a combination of math and social skills — like computer science, financial management and nursing — have fared best in the modern economy, found David Deming, a professor at Harvard.
It's true that programming can be a solitary activity in college computer science classes or entry-level positions. But soon after, it's impossible to avoid teamwork — with the business or legal departments, but also with other engineers.
There's a joke in computer science that one of the hardest tasks is naming things in code. It's funny because it's a nontechnical task. But it involves something that can be even harder than technical work: communicating with other people and intuiting what they might need and understand.
Computer programming was originally considered a woman's job. They were programmers of the Eniac during World War II and at NASA, as shown in the film "Hidden Figures." That began to change when programming professionalized in the 1960s. The stereotype of an eccentric genius who would rather work with machines than people was born, according to Nathan Ensmenger, a historian at Indiana University who studies the cultural history of the software industry.
Yet that was never an accurate description of the job. It was social from the beginning, in university computer labs and, later, Silicon Valley garages, he said. The social circle just didn't include women.
"For a lot of these young men, a certain computer culture becomes an expression of masculinity," he said. "These are people who aren't doing physical labor, aren't playing professional sports. But they can express their masculinity by intense competition, playing pranks on one another, demonstrating their technical prowess, in ways that don't translate well to mixed-gender environments."
The mythology of the antisocial programmer is self-perpetuating, said Yonatan Zunger, a senior engineering leader at Google until this month, when he joined Humu, a start-up.
Early on, children who are less comfortable with social interaction — particularly boys, who are more likely to be socialized that way — are channeled toward science and engineering, he said. Teachers generally focus on the technical aspects and not the interpersonal ones. The result is a field filled with people who dislike social interactions and have been rewarded for it.
Silicon Valley culture encourages it. Google calls engineers who aren't managers "individual contributors." Technical skills are valued above soft skills or business skills. "Anyone who deals with a human being is considered less intelligent," said Ellen Ullman, a software programmer and author of a new book, "Life in Code." "You would think it would be the other way around, but the more your work is just talking to the machine, the more valuable it is."
One example is the distinction between front-end engineers, who build the parts of a product that users interact with, and back-end engineers, who work on behind-the-scenes systems, like data storage or scaling. There is a bias that front-end engineering, which generally pays less and has more women, is less technically difficult. People who have done both say the skills are different, but equally challenging and valuable.
Problems arise when engineers get to a point in their careers when they're required to demonstrate social skills, Mr. Zunger said, like understanding diverse points of view, building consensus and reading people's subtle cues. "Suddenly they're told that these skills that are their weak point might be really important," he said. "Their own value is in question."
In the tech industry, the lack of interpersonal skills has become a weakness and a liability.
Edmond Lau runs an engineering coaching business with many clients like Google and Facebook called The Effective Engineer. His work can sound like touchy-feely therapy sessions.
For example, he said, a senior engineer spots a bug and fixes the code, trying to be helpful. But the person who wrote it thinks the person overstepped onto his territory, or was sending a passive-aggressive message. At Quip, a workplace productivity company where Mr. Lau is an engineering leader, he leads circles in which engineers talk about how to work together or ask for help.
"You might have ideas in your head, but unless you communicate them, no one's going to understand," he said.
Technical skills without empathy have resulted in products that have bombed in the market, because a vital step to building a product is the ability to imagine how someone else might think and feel. "The failure rate in software development is enormous, but it almost never means the code doesn't work," Mr. Ensmenger said. "It doesn't solve the problem that actually exists, or it imagines a user completely different from actual users."
With Google Glass, for example, it was a technical feat to make a tiny computer you could wear as a pair of glasses. But the product wasn't one that typical people needed, or wanted.
When Apple introduced its Health app, it tracked sleep, exercise, food, medications and heart rate, but not menstrual cycle. Yet period trackers are one of the most used health tools for women. (The app now includes it.)
Google Plus, the company's social network, initially required that users make public their name, photo and gender. There was a technical argument for including gender — to construct sentences like "She shared a photo with you" — but it also exposed women to online harassment.
"The team that made this decision was entirely male," said Mr. Zunger, who was the chief architect of social networking at Google at the time. "It was a really clear case of getting things wrong, for the simple reason that the people in the room weren't diverse enough to notice an obvious problem."
Less visible, but highly influential, are the judgments that go into building algorithms that determine the news you read, the loans you get or the people you date. Facebook has been criticized for showing people only news stories that align with their political views, for example. Research has found that ads for arrest records are more likely to show up on searches for black fraternities.
Empathy also affects which products are built in the first place — why, for example, Silicon Valley has spent more time building apps for expensive food delivery than for decreasing hunger.
Some people in the industry say computer science students would benefit from more liberal arts courses. "We need future adults to be able to discern what it makes sense for machines to make decisions about, and is the code base fair and equal, and do they have a basis to even judge that," said Amy Webb, founder of the Future Today Institute, a technology forecasting firm. "There's no cool technology toy that teaches that there are different religions around the world and it's O.K. to be tolerant."
When engineers build products with empathy, it can seem like magic: Technology seems to predict what people want before they know they want it. That was part of Steve Jobs's genius. Just look at the number of people connected to their phones, or a child using an iPhone for the first time.
One way to develop empathy at companies is by hiring diverse teams, because people bring different perspectives and life experiences. But the more widespread the stereotypes like those in the Google memo, the harder it becomes.
When people hear negative stereotypes about the skills of a group to which they belong, they are less likely to pursue those skills, according to a variety of research. In a study by Shelley Correll, a sociologist at Stanford, when participants were told that men had a higher ability to complete a task, women said they were less competent at the task and less likely to enter a field that required it. When they were told that men and women were equally good at it, those differences disappeared.
"That nerd identity is really damaging to women," Mr. Ensmenger said, "but it's also damaging to minorities and to a lot of men who don't want to subsume their identity in that."
That's why the consequences of the Google memo could reach far beyond the particular case, influencing which young people choose to go into technology, and which products they make that affect every aspect of our lives.


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Another dark dismal snowy day. Inspection this morning with packs, and drill this after noon with full pack helmits and gass masks. Tomorrow, Sun a lecture at 10 oclock. This drilling Saturday and lectures Sunday is something new in the American Army, but then every thing is new now. Its work Em hard work from the time you get up in the morning until you hit the cootie nest at night, and then its work to sleep. I just drew two more siuts of under wear an O.D. uniform, two pairs of #11 trench shoes and another blanket this morning.
In this pack that I carry around at drill is 1 shelter half (or half a tent), 1 tent pole, 5 metal pins, two heavy blankets, a siut of heavy underwear, two very heavy pairs of socks, one towel, 1 cake of soap, 1 tooth brush, and paste. 1 bacon can filled with bull durham makings, a condiment can filled with matches and perfections (thanks to you folks at home), a can of shaving soap and three O.D. hankercheifs. Add a gass mask bag one on each hip, slung from the shoulder, a round about, canteen first aid pouch cartridge clip carrier, and pistol, and beleive me Em I must be a picture of war days proper.
I had my picture taken as Ive told you, and the (Frog) asked me if I wanted my whole picture taken. For fear that the rest of me would be hidden by two #11 trench shoes I said no, half of me is plenty, the rest of me is too much. Im going to wear two probably three pairs of heavy socks inside these #11 when we go up aways, so you see it was partly to be well prepared that I drew these Bunker Hill Shoes. Fill the leather of said #11-EEs with oil (we grease them every day) and they are some heavy load to carry around with you. But then Im not so heavy yet but that a slight breeze might bowl me over and see the job Ill have getting up with all this truck on me. Of coarse Ive still got the two pair of barrack shoes and two pair of those nice clean canvas leggings that I keep clean and which I wear every night when I lead my bunch of musicians about the town at Retreat.
Ive got to wear this steel hat and gass helmits though, besides a suit of heavy under wear, an o.d. shirt, an o.d. uniform, a pair of heavy socks, a pair of #11 well soked hob nailed trench boots, a Red Cross sweter, an over coat cut to within two inches of the knees and a belt around it, a pair of wristers, a pair of heavy gloves, a round about first aid packet and pouch a canteen filled with water (poison the French call it) pistol, an indentifycation tag around the left wrist (with name, rank company and regiment on it), one around my neck, with the same history on it, a baton and a gun. I guess it's the same grin, unless one of the kids get in my way and then its my usual scowl.
Well Em it won't be long before Ill be getting to the end of this letter so I might as well start closing now. Ive got a half hour before afternoon drill, and Im thinking of going out. Its funny to see the pioneers marching out to drill with a shovel or pick (each man carries one or the other except the corporals or sergeants) besides their packs, masks and other parifanalier (excuse mispelling please). The pioneers are the fellows that dig the trenches and make the dug outs. Then the Bombers & Sappers who carry their own trench mortars. One fellow carries the barrell, another carries the tripod, another carries the base plate, the others carry amunition. I wish you could see the American Army as it is in France today. We look like a bunch of foreigners. The signal Platoon has its wireless, and telegraphic implements and is getting along pretty well with it.
I saw Emma's husband the other day and he said he had heard from her. Get Little Mary to send us a line. Did she get my post card? A Line from Henry would be welcomly received. I haven't heard that Bert or Lena have lost their right arms either. Tell Pa to give my regards to Old Bill, Bert, and all the boys at the shop. Tell the Studley's I was asking for them? How is the gang up Winter Hill ways these cold days. The Home Gaurd, Boy Scouts. Say whats going on back there any way. How is Pa's bacon holding out? Has Uncle Al been around latly? Well Em I guess Ill throw my over coat and pack on now and join the crowd.
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Nokia may have teams beavering away on its first batch of Windows Phone 7 handsets, but it looks as though it may have a couple of Windows tablet devices in the works as well.
A patent for "autostereoscopic rendering and display apparatus" was published in late April, showing a dual-screen device with 3D imaging complete with an eye-level tracking camera.
It should create an experience not a million miles from that of the Nintendo 3DS, given the absence of 3D specs and the dual-screen set up.
Tablet time
As far as the Windows 8 tablet rumour goes, it comes from noted mobile phone commentator Eldar Murtazin, who writes on the Mobile Review forum that Nokia will launch one tablet in 2012, possibly pushed back to 2013.
Whether these two devices will turn out to be one and the same remains to be seen.
Murtazin also says that 'most tablets will go with Win 8 2012', which ties in with Microsoft's apparent plans to launch a tablet-focused Windows 8 OS, but not until next year.
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop recently confirmed that the company was "right now assessing what's the right tablet strategy for Nokia." It looks as though those assessments could now be complete.
From Mobile Review and Tom's Guide


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Schneiderman Asking Questions About Local Fracking Votes
Jon Campbell
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office has written letters to at least three towns in the Southern Tier, inquiring about their ethics rules and how they relate to votes concerning hydrofracking.
From the Press & Sun-Bulletin's Steve Reilly
In single-page letters sent in October, Assistant Attorney General Judith Malkin indicated that drilling-related action by town boards earlier in the year raised questions about potential conflicts of interest. "We have been alerted to concerns about Windsor Town Board members with signed gas leases voting on issues related to hydrofracking," one of the letters states. "This concern raises possible conflict of interest issues." "In that regard," the letter adds, "would you please send us a copy of the town's ethics code." Michelle Hook, a spokeswoman for the state Attorney General's Office, declined to disclose the number or a full list of the municipalities that are involved in the inquiry, or discuss the status of the inquiries. Following requests under the state Freedom of Information Law to a sample of municipalities, the Press & Sun-Bulletin received correspondence between the AG's Office and the towns of Colesville, Sanford and Windsor. The boards of those three towns are among more than 40 across the state that passed a similarly-worded resolution stating that it would be an "irresponsible and premature misallocation of town resources" to pass a ban or moratorium on natural gas drilling until the state Department of Environmental Conservation completes its review of hydraulic fracturing. At least one member of the each of the Colesville, Sanford and Windsor town boards has an active natural gas lease a review of records in the Broome County Clerk's Office shows.
In June, a plan was floated that would allow high-volume hydrofracking only in towns that have passed resolutions in support of shale-gas drilling. It led some to question
whether it would pose a conflict for land-owning board members who vote on various fracking-related issues.
Via the Press & Sun, here are the three letters the paper obtained:


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Don't let fear postpone colonoscopy screening
March is colon cancer awareness month and this year marks the 100th anniversary of the American Cancer Society.
As it celebrates its anniversary, the society is emphasizing the importance of age-appropriate colorectal cancer screenings. Colorectal cancer is most commonly known as colon cancer. The prediction is that 9 percent of deaths from cancer in California will be from colon cancer. More than 5,000 Californians will die this year of this disease.
We can begin reducing our personal risk by first adhering to the oft-repeated rules of eating properly, exercising regularly and limiting alcohol intake. We know the litany well. Add to that the need for regular screenings starting at age 50. Those at high risk are folks who have a family history of colon cancer. They should start checking sooner.
When I reached 78, I had had only one screening. During a routine exam, I casually mentioned that my Dad had survived seven years after surgery for colon cancer. I was shipped off for a colonoscopy immediately. I lucked out that time. Everything was fine. Preparing for the procedure was a nightmare of drinking cold distasteful fluid until I felt there was no more room inside. This was interrupted only by steady runs to the bathroom.
Ten years later, when I was due for another screening, I argued with the doctor. I read that in the late 80s, people are more fragile and so are their intestinal and rectal tissues. I knew I was too old to risk the procedure. The wise doctor told me to take some time and think it over. He did not feel I was fragile. Of course, he was right and I felt better after receiving good news.
By that time, I had also learned that by spending some extra dollars for the screening, I could drink half as much liquid and it was half as distasteful. It is, however, worth considering donating two uncomfortable days to avoid a life-threatening disease. The day of preparation and the day of the procedure are quickly history. We never remember the procedure, the day before provides only discomfort, not pain.
After my second colonoscopy, the doctor told me that he had removed a large polyp that had a trace of cancer. He believed that he snared it all. The follow-up proved that he did. I am told that it is best to clean out those polyps while they are small. If allowed to grow, they can enable the cancer to spread to the rest of the body.
According to the American Cancer Society, colon cancer is treatable if uncovered early in the disease. My Dad had seven extra years after his surgery in the early 1950s. Early detection diminishes our personal risk of death from colon cancer.
Hope is what colon cancer awareness is all about. Hope is why we have regular screenings. We can also participate in a historic study the Cancer Society will launch this spring. Women and men ages 30 to 65 who have never been diagnosed with cancer are needed to enroll in the American Cancer Society's Cancer Prevention Study-3 (CPS-3)." There are 10 locations in San Diego County open for registration through March 23. Visit
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It usually takes more than one year to have your name become a household name in Hollywood. Clearly Rock & Reilly's is doing something right as they have become a hit and the place to be seen on Sunset Strip and they will be celebrating their First Anniversary on Tuesday, November 13th with plenty of booze, food and drink specials.
Join the leader of the Black Eye Society in a Reilly's Mother's Milk Private Label Whiskey toast and enjoy half-price drinks all day and make sure you are at Rock & Reilly's from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. as they will be serving free food to help celebrate the occasion. Make sure to enjoy one or more of the over 57 hand-selected Irish whiskey's or try a Magner's Irish Cider on tap, as Rock & Reilly's became the first destination in Los Angeles to offer this cider on tap.
In one year Rock & Reilly's has quickly become known for festive celebrations for nearly every event on the calendar, a place to take in celebrity sightings and just a fantastic hang out spot whether it is with a group of friends or to catch a Lakers game or watch the NFL on Sunday with endless bloody mary's, this has become the place to be on Sunset Strip.
This will be one can't miss event as Rock & Reilly's has proven over their first year they know how to throw a party. From their unmatched St. Patrick's Day party to their huge block party that featured celebrity DJ Danny Masterson, Rock & Reilly's is quickly becoming the place to be for every occasion so you can just imagine what an over-the-top event it will be as they celebrate their first anniversary.
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Developer Reading List, August 20, 2013 New books on Windows internals, JavaScript, Groovy, Python, and P=NP
The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible
by Lance Fortnow
We don't often present books that are aimed at more of the mass market in our reading lists, but this title is an entertaining discussion of the
P versus
NP problem. If your path to programming did not take you through computer science, the problem might appear obscure: How do you find the solution to a problem that allows many, many solutions and know it to be optimal. The canonical example is the traveling salesman problem: Given a journey that requires, say, stops at 30 customers, what is the shortest route to take? These problems, which involve examining more possibilities than the fastest computer could solve in centuries, are the
NP group. The central question is whether there is some as yet unknown solution to them that will allow them to be approached and solved in shorter time frames as we do with other, conventional (
P) problems.
Fortnow explains (in non-technical terms) how very different technology would be if it can be shown that
P = NP, meaning that all
NP problems are tractable within a reasonable time period. He demonstrates that even if
P != NP, related problems can be solved with "good enough" solutions. To wit, GPS systems will often find the shortest routes between two points. He also points out that the intractability of
NP problems is what allows us to do many forms of encryption. Finally, he gives an overview of the various research paths into the problem.
The book is an easy read and, to a technical eye, will seem longer than necessary. It also has some embarrassingly sloppy moments ("…a typical laptop can process about a trillion operations a second…"), but, in the main, it presents the problem and possible solutions clearly and entertainingly. It's good, light, vacation reading.


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Bronx Eats: Standout Pan Dulce from Santa Cruz Panaderia, Mott Haven
I was introduced to Santa Cruz Panaderia by Neo of the nearby Tamales Ebenezer, who shared with me his fondness for their pan dulce when I dug up a special order of atole de tamarindo earlier this year. In my time, I haven't found much at Bronx panaderias that's worth reporting about (although in college, the 50 cent conches sold by my neighborhood's panaderia served me well in a pinch). But Neo spoke with such admiration of Santa Cruz that I felt compelled to check it out.
Unlike the other Bronx panaderias that I've visited, Santa Cruz bakes their pan dulce throughout the day. There's only one baker's shelf worth of bread, so as customers pick at the pan dulce with tongs, trays get consolidated and replenished. Since Neo's recommendation, I've tried several varieties of their breads ($1), including some I have not seen elsewhere in the borough.
My favorite thus far has been this hard-shelled, crepe-shaped variety filled with arroz con leche. The filling is milky and spiked with a serious dose of cinnamon, the broken-but-not-mushy rice surprisingly light. The shell is more like a cracker than a crepe, shatter-crisp but not dry. It's a good sweet analogue to nearby Ebenezeer's tamales, provided you spring for a cup of champurrado to bridge the gap. Not all the pan dulce here as as well done, but this is more than worth the pocket change it costs.
I would have sincerely appreciated this domed pan dulce (photographed above) during my college days, when I would make a breakfast of dipping the conches in coffee. The outer shell is on the bland side, but the center, lightly soaked with syrup, is moist, even airy, and only barely sweet in a surprising display of restraint.
If you've got a hankering for something sweeter, their orejones ("ears"), puff pastry coated in sugar, will serve you well. There's no cinnamon, as called for in such recipes as Fany Gerson's, but the sugary crunch does enough to distract from its absence.
Panaderia Santa Cruz
245 Willis Avenue, The Bronx, NY 10454 (map) 718-993-3101
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To promote a new documentary about solitary confinement, three either masochistic or fame-seeking folks are voluntarily spending a week in the hole, with video cameras streaming their every move or non-move.
They're allowed to tweet, The New York Times notes, but can't have any other contact with the outside world until Friday as part of the stunt for the National Geographic Channel, where explorations of earth's wonders apparently have given way to the study of human nature.
The trio should consider themselves lucky: at least they're being spared this week's latest ugly head-rearing of the Reality TV hydra that is the Gosselins.
Kate, who can't dance much, apparently has helped propel "Dancing With the Stars" to No. 1 in the ratings, beating "American Idol" for the first time.
Meanwhile, Jon, who can't do much of anything, is reportedly planning to seek custody of the divorced couple's eight children (their initial Reality TV meal ticket, via the now-canceled "Jon and Kate Plus 8"), suggesting Kate's too busy kicking up her heels to raise the kids. (He's also said to be seeking spousal support.)
In TV season that's brought some strong new shows, the refusal of the Gosselins to gracefully dance off the stage is a reminder of the worst of Reality TV and of a public seemingly drawn to a web of Gosselin-related dramas playing out on and off the small screen.
Michael Lohan, the 49-year-old ex-con father of Lindsay, announced this week he's marrying the 27-year-old ex-tabloid scribe who Jon Gosselin reportedly stepped out with when he separated from Kate. Michael Lohan, of course, knows Jon Gosselin – he reportedly tried to entice him to fight on a celebrity boxing show and join him on a divorced dads program.
This would all be laughable, except that children seem to be victims here – pity the Gosselin brood. Lindsay Lohan, a talented actress who has battled demons, certain doesn't need any new burdens.
Some might say that dredging up all this garbage here is part of the problem. Fair enough. But the litany of nonsense is worth noting as examples of a segment of the entertainment world where bad behavior and a lack of any perceptible talent are unfairly rewarded.
It's also easy to forget that we've been treated to some fine, new shows this season: "The Good Wife" and "Men of a Certain Age" quickly have established themselves as strong, well-written dramas. "Modern Family" and "Community" are standout comedies. "Glee," part musical, part comedy, part melodrama, is set to return on Tuesday – perhaps giving the folks in solitary something to look forward to next week (other than trying to capitalize on their own brush with fame).
Quality shows are refreshing reminders that we don't have to be prisoners of Reality TV.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, Miltie-media NY City News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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How Earth Made Us – The untold story of history.
This is part 2 in Professor Iain Stewart's series, "How Earth Made Us". I highly recommend you take an hour to watch it as it is superlative!!!
Our planet has amazing power, and yet that's rarely mentioned in our history books. This series tells the story of how the Earth has influenced human history, from the dawn of civilisation to the modern industrial age. It reveals for the first time on television how geology, geography and climate have been a far more powerful influence on the human story than has previously been acknowledged. A combination of epic story telling, visually stunning camerawork, extraordinary locations and passionate presenting combine to form a highly original version of human history.
Youtube video, "How Earth Made Us – Water", uploaded on May 16, 2011 – Of all our planet's forces perhaps none has greater power over us than water. For me water is the most magical force on earth. The presence of water shapes, renews and nourishes our planet. It's our planet's life blood, that pumps through it continuously…
Discover why societies have succeeded or failed, and how the environment has influenced every aspect of our history from art to industry, religion to war, world domination or collapse. Visiting some of the most iconic places on Earth, How Earth Made Us overturns preconceptions about our civilisations and our cultures to offer a new perspective on who we are today.
~Youtube video presented by Professor Iain Stewart ~
Link to ~ How Earth Made Us—a masterly BBC documentary
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4 tablespoons butter
3/4 pound smoked bacon
1 cup green peppers
1 cup yellow peppers
1 cup of red peppers
Hot pepper to garnish or for added heat
1 cup mushrooms
1 cup yellow onions
3 cups corn
2 cups cream
1 cup milk
1 cup sour cream
2 cups chicken (2 breasts)
4 cups smoked cheddar or shredded cheese
2 tablespoons chili pepper paste = 2 peppers
1 tablespoon liquid hickory smoke
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
Cracked pepper and salt to taste
In a large skillet, saute 1/4 cup of finely chopped (1/4 inch) of green, yellow, red peppers, onion, and mushroom with 2 tablespoons of butter. Add 1 cup of corn at the end and set aside.
Heat oven to 400 degrees and cook all the bacon on a cookie sheet (about 15 minutes) and set aside to be used later.
In a large skillet cook the chicken. Dice the chicken breasts into 1 inch cubes and salt and pepper lightly. Cook them in some bacon fat leftover.
Take the remainder of vegetables (peppers, onion and mushrooms), chop in chunks and brown in a skillet with 2 tablespoons of butter.
In a saucepan take the finely chopped vegetables, add 2 cups of cream and 1 cup of milk with 1/4 teaspoon of garlic and onion. Add a few pieces of bacon chopped into small pieces. Salt and pepper lightly and simmer over medium high heat.
In a large saucepan take the cooked chicken, 1 cup of bacon, larger chunk vegetables and 2 cups of corn and heat over medium heat. Stir in 2 tablespoons of chili pepper paste or (fresh chilies according to your heat tolerance) and 1 tablespoon of hickory smoke.
In a clear soup bowl take the heated chicken/vegetable mixture and fill the bowl halfway, then top the entire mixture with smoked/shredded cheese to make a seal (if not hot enough to melt cheese place in microwave for 1 minute).
Once the cheese is melted add the finely chopped vegetable cream mixture to the bowl and top off with leftover bacon bits.
Use hot peppers to garnish bowl or use for extra heat and small dollop of sour cream to take away some of the heat.
Preparation time: 20 minutes; Cook time: 40 minutes
Kevin Towle's Heaven and Hell Chowder


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Sara M. Bartosz, the lead attorney for Children's Rights representing foster children in a federal class action lawsuit filed years ago against the state, said the Patrick administration was well aware of changes needed within Department of Children and Families to ensure youngsters are cared for long before 5-year-old Jeremiah Oliver of Leominster disappeared.
However, officials did not follow through with making those changes, she said.
"Certainly it was well documented within DCF files going back for years," Ms. Bartosz said. "Basic child care visitation was not happening pursuant to policy because caseloads were beyond what were agreed on in a bargaining unit."
Jeremiah's social worker, her supervisor and the area program manager from the Leominster office were subsequently fired, after it was discovered the Oliver family was only visited a few times last year.
As problems within the state's child welfare system continue to unfold, Ms. Bartosz is outraged over the state's duplicity, and wonders why a child protection agency charged with coming up with a plan to address the issues more than five years ago is not complying with the law.
It has been four years since Children's Rights � counsel for one of the plaintiffs � filed the suit against defendants Gov. Deval L. Patrick; John Polanowicz, secretary of the state Executive Office of Health and Human Services; and Olga I. Roche, commissioner of Department of Children and Families, on behalf of foster children in the care of DCF.
The suit in Massachusetts is referred to as the Connor B. case after one of the half dozen foster children named in it, acting on behalf of around 8,500 other foster children in the state's care who, after being removed from their family homes because of abuse or neglect, allegedly suffered harm or were exposed to harm while in DCF custody.
But it has been even longer since the Office of the Child Advocate was ordered by the state Legislature to come up with a comprehensive plan to address well-documented deficiencies in DCF.
Ms. Bartosz said there is a "sad cycle" that occurs when there are the kinds of systemic failings that put kids in harm's way in a child welfare system.
Mr. Patrick created the Office of the Child Advocate by executive order in 2007 to scrutinize cases of what was then called the Department of Social Services. The office was to report its findings publicly and recommend policy changes in response to a series of tragedies and legislative oversight hearings, Ms. Bartosz said.
Several high-profile tragedies had occurred, including in 2005 when 4-year-old Dontel Jeffers died at the hands of his foster mother. Also in 2005, Haleigh Poutre was left comatose after a beating by her adoptive mother, who was under DSS supervision.
"There was a lot of attention in the media and public dismay over the tragic circumstances those kids were in," Ms. Bartosz said, including legislative action in 2008 to have the Office of the Child Advocate formulate a comprehensive plan by June 2010, addressing needs in the child welfare system.
According to state law, the plan was to include periodic benchmarks and cost estimates, and recommend a coordinated, systemwide response to child abuse and neglect, including related mental health, substance abuse and domestic violence issues.
The comprehensive plan was to look forward five years or more, and was to be updated annually to plan for the ensuing five-year period, assess previous efforts and, if appropriate, include legislative and regulatory recommendations.
The Office of the Child Advocate is required by law to file the plan annually with the governor, the clerks of the Senate and the House, the Senate and House committees on ways and means, and the joint committee on children, families and persons with disabilities.
However, Gail Garinger, child advocate for the OCA, who testified in the Connor B. case about caseloads, training and teaming, also testified there was no such comprehensive plan completed by June 2010 or anytime thereafter, Ms. Bartosz said, because the resources were not provided to get it done. "That was a legislative action and plan to take action that was not implemented," Ms. Bartosz said.
"Hopefully that kind of history in Massachusetts and in other states, hopefully, that will not be played out repeatedly. That cycle has to be broken. It is not about winning or losing a court case. It is about fixing a system and making a system right for kids who are not in a position to speak for themselves as well as adults could. They are in foster care separated from their parents and are the most vulnerable, muted voices. Those kids' voices need to have some amplification and need to be front and center."
Ms. Garinger said she has no date when her office will complete the comprehensive plan. There are only four full-time employees at the Office of the Child Advocate � not enough to complete the plan while carrying out other mandates, she said.
Ms. Garinger said she is still optimistic the office will receive the resources it needs to complete the comprehensive plan.
"However, our ability to formulate a comprehensive plan is restricted by our current fiscal and staffing resources," Ms. Garinger said.
While that plan is still in limbo, officials are once again reacting to one of the most recent DCF tragedies � 5-year-old Jeremiah Oliver, who disappeared in September. The boy is feared dead and the Worcester district attorney is investigating the case as a homicide. In December, police arrested the boy's mother and her boyfriend on assault and battery charges in connection with his disappearance.
In light of the Oliver case, the governor has asked the Child Welfare League of America to conduct an independent investigation of DCF, and to review how the department works, including "written and unwritten" policies, caseload standards, and social workers' licensing and qualifications.
Yet, Ms. Bartosz said, state lawyers have fought against making any substantive changes recommended in the Connor B. suit that addresses those very issues.
Children's Rights, headquartered in New York City, has secured settlements with more than a dozen other states in similar foster care management disputes and those states have made recommended changes to their child welfare system, she said.
The Connor B. case was ruled on in November by U.S. federal Judge William G. Young for the District of Massachusetts. Though the judge agreed there were serious issues within DCF, he ordered in favor of the defendants' motion for a judgment on the record that stopped the trial before all evidence was presented.
Ms. Bartosz said Children's Rights is appealing and is in the midst of preparing its brief for appeal.
"We were seeking an injunction that would order DCF to repair parts of its system that is broke so kids aren't harmed by the very system that is supposed to provide a safe haven," she said.
"It would require the state to mend deficient structures and practices within the department."
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Canadian Hindu Leader Pundit Jankie Persad Sharma Passes Away
By Karishma Patel
Mississauga, Canada (CHAKRA) – An important leader and pioneer of the Hindu religion, Pundit Jankie Persad Sharma has died. He was a prominent leader for Hindus in both Trinidad an Tabago and Canada. He was the one to start celebrating Diwali in Trinidad in addition to building temples, performing wedding ceremonies as well as taking trips to India.
He was 80 years old and settled in Canada in 1989 after many Trinidadians requested for him to live there. He lived in Mississauga and passed away on Thursday, March 1. A funeral with many attendees was held for him a few days later.
Sharma's father, originally from the state of Madhya Pradesh, came to Trinidad in 1910 with his 12 year old son. Once in Trinidad, Sharma's father became a certified priest and conducted many religious ceremonies. He had eight children of whom Sharma was the eldest. Sharma along with two of his younger brothers followed his dad's footsteps and also pursued becoming priests.
Sharma was conducting his own public prayers and rituals by 1944. He married a woman named Badewattee Persad in 1962 and they had six children altogether.
He had begun to create temples by 1971 in Matilda, Princes Town, Barrackpore and Rio Claro of which one is the well known Moruga temple in Matilda.
Boodram Ramoutar, a close friend of Sharma said, "His family fully understood and supported his role as a pundit and community leader with little time for all else. One special aspect was that he was not driven by material rewards, and treated rich, poor, man, woman, child, young and old with empathy and respect. In Trinidad alone, he had officiated at 4,000 weddings and become the guru of over 5,000 godchildren after baptising them as Hindus. It is fair to say that Trinidad has become richer in Hindu traditions, culture, and spirituality by the presence and teachings of Pundit Jankie Persad Sharma."
For the diaspora, Sharma organized the first tour to India in 1983 because many Trinidadians were more interested in their roots and where they came from due to listening to radio programmes as well as from watching movies associated with their cultural past.
His initiatives such as his visits to India increased the demand of people wanting to learn more about their ancestors, their religious leaders and temples. The Sathya Sai Baba following was one such example. He became so respected by crowds as well as a charismatic leader that Sathya Sai Baba himself requested to meet him and talk privately as well as give blessings to all Trinidadians that he represented.
Sharma was asked to address the opening at the first Diwali Nagar celebration in 1986 in Chaguanas. Hindu awareness was growing and thus this event since then became an annual function which not only drew Hindus but also people of other faiths who just wished to experience the auspicious occasion of Diwali.
Thereafter, on the island, every Hindu celebration began to be celebrated with high respect and grandeur.
Most Trinidadians who moved to Canada, Britain and the United States starting in the 1970's and onwards all called Sharma to perform their religious ceremonies such as weddings, house warming's and other related religious events that required blessings from a respected elder. Due to this increase and demand for him, Sharma and his family moved to Canada thereafter to settle in the province of Ontario.
In Canada, he started the Satya Jyoti Cultural Sabha while becoming more prevalent to Canadian Hindus at the same time, marking a presence of Hinduism in the Canadian society.
All levels of government in Canada praised and honoured him with certificates and recommendations for his service to the Mississauga and Canadian community as a whole. Pundit Jankie Persad Sharma had become Canada's first swami and was also known as Swami Atmananda Maharaj Ji.
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Using Subversion
From GNUstepWiki
←Older revision | Newer revision→
Setting up Subversion for Developer Use
The first thing you will want to do is setup the ssh access to svn.gna.org. If you cannot type
svn list svn+ssh://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/devmodules
without having to type a password or in some way change the above command, you will need to visit the Svn SSH Setup page (this includes if you have to specify a different user).
Some background on repository layout
To familiarize yourself with the layout, I would recommend looking at the web-access to svn for GNUstep. You will notice that every project is in its own portion of the repository. For example:
/libs /libs/gui /libs/gui/trunk /libs/gui/branches /libs/gui/branches/dawn /libs/gui/branches/... /libs/gui/tags /libs/gui/tags/alex_last_semistable /libs/gui/tags/...
This layout is very handy for having a per-project repository. I can easily branch or tag just /libs/gui and it all stays in its own namespace. However, what this DOES mean is that you cannot simply checkout /libs/gui or you will end up with several copies of the source. To get around this, we are using a nifty feature of Subversion called externals. Externals are metadata on a directory that basically tell the svn client to checkout some other url into a subdirectory when it is checked out. So if I type:
svn proplist -v svn+ssh://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/devmodules/core
It will tell me that the svn:externals property contains:
gui svn+ssh://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/gui/trunk back svn+ssh://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/back/trunk base svn+ssh://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/base/trunk make svn+ssh://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/tools/make/trunk
So everytime I checkout /devmodules/core the svn client will automatically go to these URLs and check them out into subdirectories. When I make changes in gui/ and commit them, it will really commit to /libs/gui/trunk. For the most part if you checkout /devmodules, the externals have already been setup such that it will checkout something similar to checking out the whole repository before.
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- Version Control with Subversion
- Appendix A: Subversion for CVS Users
- GCC's SVN Setup page - Look especially at the section on ssh connection caching.
- Subversion_Migration - Some initial notes on the layout of the repository.
- ZSH svn tab completion - On this page is a tab completion module that can tab complete into subversion repositories. Very handy for ZSH users.


text: GKC gets numerous questions about what wine to pair with various dishes. So we asked our friends and wine experts at Royal Wines to help us. Here it is in full chart format, the GKC wine pairing list. Use it as a gift guide or in choosing your own wines. And don't forget to tell us what you like.


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2017-18 Illinois Walleye Trail Team of the Year
Brian Mazur & Mark Mazur
The Illinois Walleye Trail is a professionally run tournament circuit dedicated to providing a fun, yet very competitive atmosphere for all. The Trail is primarily based on the Illinois River and Mississippi Rivers and consists of four qualifying events and a year end championship.
Since the inception of the Illinois Walleye Trail in 2001, I have had the privilege to compete on the trail with my father and have made many friendships and memories along the way. My passion for the sport and tournament fishing has inspired me to take on the new challenge of operating the tournament circuit rather than fishing. I have also competed on a professional team circuit for nineteen years and I feel the knowledge gained from this experience has provided me with the tools necessary to offer the best tournament circuit possible.
In April of 2011, I purchased the Illinois Walleye Trail from Bob and Linda Kidd, who had a longtime reputation of operating one of the finest one day walleye tournament circuits known. It was a privilege and an honor to have this opportunity and I look forward to continuing the tradition of the trail.


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Jennifer Lawrence & Quvenzhane Wallis celebrate an amazing Thursday at Critics' Choice Awards
After becoming the youngest ever Academy Awards Best Actress nominee in history, nine-year-old Wallis grabbed the Critics Choice Best Young Actor/Actress trophy.
The gadget-savvy Beasts of the Southern Wild star read out her acceptance speech from her iPhone.
Lawrence was named Best Actress in an Action Movie for her turn as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games and joined her Silver Linings Playbook castmates in collecting the Best Acting Ensemble trophy. She also picked up the Best Actress in a Comedy award for the film and co-star Bradley Cooper took home the Best Actor in a Comedy trophy.
Meanwhile, Daniel Craig scored a Best Actor in an Action Movie honour for his portrayal of James Bond in Skyfall, which stunned the experts by beating both The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers for the Best Action Movie title.
Oscar nominees Philip Seymour Hoffman and Anne Hathaway claimed the Critics Choice Best Supporting Actor and Actress gongs for their roles in The Master and Les Miserables, and Michael Haneke's celebrated Amour, which landed a Best Picture Oscar nomination earlier in the day, took home the Best Foreign Language Film.
Meanwhile, the acclaimed adaptations of novels Anna Karenina and Life of Pi doubled up in the early technical awards – Keira Knightley's film picked up Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design trophies, while director Ang Lee's Life of Pi landed the Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects awards.
There were also wins for Zero Dark Thirty (Best Editing) and Cloud Atlas (Best Make-Up), while Wreck-It Ralph was named Best Animated Movie and Quentin Tarantino, who is in London launching Django Unchained, picked up the Best Original Screenplay award for the western. Tony Kushner claimed the Best Adapted Screenplay award for Lincoln.
Les Miserables leads the Critics Choice nominations with 11 and filmmaker Judd Apatow was previously announced as the awards show's Genius Award recipient.


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Weekend Box Office: 'Dolphin Tale' Swims to the Top of the Chart
It was neck-and-neck for a while, but in the end, the family-friendly 'Dolphin Tale' bested the Brad Pitt baseball-saga, 'Moneyball,' to take the top-earning spot at the box office this weekend.
In the second week of release for both movies, 'Dolphin Tale' took in $14.2 million, while 'Moneyball' earned $12.5 million — but still has a $1 million edge in total overall revenue.
'The Lion King 3D,' which held the number one slot for the past two weeks, made $11 million and moved down to third, and new releases '50/50′ and 'Courageous' each sold $8.8 million in tickets to round out the top five.
Here's a list of the top 10 movies at the box office Friday through Sunday with estimated grosses, along with how much each movie has made since its release:
1. 'Dolphin Tale' – $14.2 million, $37.5 million total
2. 'Moneyball' – $12.5 million, $38.4 million total
3. 'The Lion King 3D' – $11 million, $79.6 million total
4. '50/50′ – $8.8 million, new release
5. 'Courageous' – $8.8 million, new release
6. 'Dream House' – $8.2 million, new release
7. 'Abduction' – $5.6 million, $19.1 million total
8. 'What's Your Number?' – $5.6 million, new release
9. 'Contagion' – $5 million, $64.7 million total
10. 'Killer Elite' – $4.8 million, $17.4 million total


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Struggling cattle feeders and beef packers need an expansion of the U.S. herd, but cattle numbers aren't expected to reach pre-drought levels until 2018, according to new U.S. Department of Agriculture's 10-year projections.
Luckily, the USDA's long-term forecast, released Monday morning, wasn't an all-doomsday outlook for the many local feeding and packing operations – the cornerstone of an agriculture industry in Weld County that's worth $1.5 billion.
Corn prices, "normal weather" permitting, are expected to drop below $5 per bushel within two years and stay there through the next decade, helping with feed costs.
And – although U.S. beef consumption is expected to drop due to high prices at the grocery store, and beef exports are expected to decline during the next couple years – total red meat and poultry consumption is expected to increase throughout the next decade, with customers expected to purchase more chicken and pork.
The latter will help JBS USA – a Greeley-headquartered subsidiary of JBS S.A. in Brazil, with beef-, chicken-, pork- and lamb-packing operations – weather the storm of tight cattle supplies, according to industry experts.
The Texas drought of 2011 and the dryspell across the U.S. in 2012 caused feed shortages and forced ranchers and dairymen to liquidate some of their herds.
The U.S. beef cattle herd – having dropped from 92.7 million head in 2011 to 90.8 million in 2012 – is now at its smallest in 61 years, 89.7 million head this year, according to the USDA.
That tightened cattle supply has increased competition and the prices feedlots are paying for cattle, while the drought also has increased their feed costs.
And because of the small cattle herd, there's less cattle going from the feedyards to slaughter at packing plants.
Packing plants are now over capacity; production isn't keeping up with operating costs.
The tight cattle supply has caused red ink for feeders and packers for several months, and in January, it led to the decision to close a Cargill Inc. beef-packing plant in Texas.
The need for a larger U.S. cattle herd is huge for many in Weld County, where some of the nation's largest feedlots and one of the largest U.S. beef packers operate.
"It's certainly our most pressing issue," said Cameron Bruett, a spokesman for JBS USA, adding that, while times will be tough, "JBS does not foresee the closing of any of its packing or feeding operations."
"We're going to look closely at what we can control … our efficiency, our production expenses, strengthening our relationships with buyers," Bruett added. "Just doing the day-to-day things to make us the most-efficient operation possible."
While more cattle are needed to help the situation, cattle numbers aren't expected to get back to 2011 levels until 2018 – dropping to a low of 89 million in 2014, then gradually increasing to nearly 93.5 million in 2018.
In 2022, the U.S. cattle herd is expected to reach 94.8 million head.
Those projections are based on "normal" weather conditions.
If drought persists, it would take longer to get cattle numbers back up – although, herd rebuilding could take place faster than expected with above-average moisture.
In the meantime, the tight cattle supply is helping ranchers get high prices for their cattle – although, they, too, are paying a pretty penny for feed, with pastures across the country dry and offering little to eat.
For feedyards and beef packers, there are only two things that will get them back to making a profit – one of them being more rain, noted Steve Kay, editor and publisher of Cattle Buyers Weekly, who has followed North America's beef-processing industry for 25 years.
Moisture is needed to improve pastures and give ranchers confidence to expand the U.S. cattle herd.
Precipitation would also increase crop production and decrease feed prices for feed yards.
If normal weather patterns return, corn prices are expected to drop from about $7.60 per bushel in recent times to $5.40 next year, $4.10 the following year, and staying under $5 through 2022, according to the USDA's projections.
Aside from rain, the other solution to make packing plants profitable is shutting down more beef-packing plants and feedyards and consolidating operations.
However, Kay, like Bruett, said he doesn't expect JBS operations to be the ones that close.


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Roll over content from previous D2L course to recent D2L course
categories: Desire2Learn (D2L), roll over content
Can you please share directions on how to import D2L items from a course last year into this fall's D2L course.
Login into your recent D2L course (the one you would to roll over content TO)
Click Edit Course
Click on Import/Export/Copy Components
Leave default Copy radiobutton selected and press Start
Scroll down to "Copy the selected course components from"
and scroll down the list of available D2L courses from your past (Select Offering)
From the selected course, taught in the past, choose the components, which you like to copy to your recent course. You can select all or only specific components. scroll down and click Continue when done
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OM in Sanskrit Sterling Silver and Coral Drop EarringsDesigner: Adiprana - Celuk
This lovely pair of earrings represents the tradition of Balinese silver smithing expertise. It has been master crafted in the village of Celuk which is world renowned for both its silver and gold smithing. Enjoy this special piece of wearable art created by some of the best on the planet at this craft. Perfect for the yogi!
- The design is the word "OM" written in Sanskrit
- .925 Silver, Coral
- Handcrafted by master silversmiths is Celuk, Bali, Indonesia
Like most of my curating expeditions, I knew only generally about the artisan talents that I would likely find in this Hindu dominated island. Bali is known for its exceptional silver and gold work, but I didn't know where on the island or if once I had landed I would have the opportunity to find the best that Bali had to provide. Shortly after arriving multiple locals told me I must visit the silver/gold smith town of Celuk to find the heart of the jewelry artisan tradition on the island. Almost all the families have members who are skilled as well as have an artful soul to develop the wearable art accessories famous to this village.
**The additional pics show one of Celuk's master silver smiths working on the details of a piece of jewelry. The women are noted for their detail work and the men for creating the basics of the pattern. The second is of the lovely owner of the workshop where I found this piece. Her name is Ni and she is posing with her husband (who was less enthusiastic about a pic). Ni has around 15 silver smiths that work for her medium sized shop. The final image is of a Balinese sunset in the beach town of Seminyak. I just added this so you start planning your trip there or back there.


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Are you zoned out, or turning over a new leaf? Time was, these were mutually exclusive propositions, but not anymore!
Yesterday, the USDA in conjunction with Oregon State University's Prism Research Group, released a new Plant Zone Hardiness Map that divides the U.S. into 26 zones of average, annual, extreme, minimum temperatures, each zone varying five degrees from the next. In addition to being 100% web interactive and searchable via zipcode, many things have changed since the last map was configured in 1990. New data used to compile the 2012 map includes the prevailing winds, bodies of water and slope of land in each of the 26 regions. The urban heat island effect was also taken into consideration, which may explain why 18 of 34 cities mentioned in the 1990 mapkey have higher designations.
So with most areas measuring 5° F warmer than before, yours may have zoned out, like mine did. Yesterday, Vero Beach was located in 9b…today the USDA is calling it 10, which raises some all important questions:
Can you risk a zone 7-11 Agapanthus if you live in 5b Binghamton, NY,? Will that zone 10-11 Duranta Erecta Cuban Gold really grow in the formerly 9b Ranchero?
Who among us has the courage to turn over a new leaf? 😉
For the time being, I think I'll stick to what I know works best, which are plants like these::
and this:
Alamandas, Mirabilis, and Siam Tulips are three of my favorite choices, but NOT because I lack courage or a spirit of adventure! They're sure bets in my garden; they come back every year; they make gardening fun and relaxing, and that's what this hobby is most about for me.
The USDA can call the Ranchero any zone it likes, but for me? I'm sticking with Comfort Zone. 🙂 🙂
Until next time……
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Barron's Buzz: Michael Dell's Offer Is Too Cheap
Dell Shareholders should demand a new takeover offer from the company's founder. And, golf makes a comeback. Barron's Magazine Senior Editor Jack Hough previews the latest issue of Barron's Magazine. Photo: AP.
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