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Lloyds Banking Group is to axe more than 940 jobs, bringing job loss announcements to 1,300 in the past few days, according to unions.
Unite expressed "fury" at the latest cuts, adding that a quarter of Lloyds' workforce has now been cut since 2009.
The Accord union said almost 200 posts were being moved offshore to India. Unions said it was the third job loss announcement from Lloyds in the past few days.
Unite national officer Dominic Hook said: "Since 2009 Lloyds have slashed a quarter of the workforce. It is a complete disgrace that the bank, which is 41%-owned by the taxpayer, continues to cut jobs in such a cavalier manner. In the middle of an economic crisis, a bank part-owned by the public should be keeping jobs in the UK, not exporting them abroad.
"Unite has warned Lloyds Banking Group that if they are looking for a period of stability and growth to return it to profitability, this cannot and will not be achieved by continuous and damaging job loss announcements. Unite opposes these cuts and will be doing everything possible to stop compulsory redundancies."
Lloyds said in a statement: "Lloyds Banking Group is today announcing 940 role reductions within the group operations, insurance, retail, wealth and international and commercial divisions. These form part of the reductions previously announced in the group's strategic review.
"Lloyds Banking Group is committed to working through these changes with employees in a careful and sensitive way. All affected employees have been briefed by their line manager today. The group's recognised unions, Accord, Unite and LTU, were consulted prior to this announcement and will continue to be consulted
"The group's policy is always to use natural turnover and to redeploy people wherever possible to retain their expertise and knowledge within the group. Where it is necessary for employees to leave the company, it will look to achieve this by offering voluntary redundancy. Compulsory redundancies will always be a last resort. In fact, during 2009 and 2010, slightly less than 50% of the role reductions made as part of integration have led to people leaving the group through redundancy."
Ged Nichols, general secretary of Accord, said: "This is a bleak start to the year for hard-working employees and is bad news for the UK economy on a day when the small fall in the numbers unemployed was supposed to be good news. The fact that nearly 200 of the jobs are to be outsourced to India is particularly unwelcome. Accord is certain that this is not what UK taxpayers would want from a bank in which they are the largest shareholder. Accord believes that Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) executives have a duty to think of the public interest before they offshore any more jobs."
Unite said Lloyds has cut more than 31,000 jobs since its creation in 2009, pointing out that on Monday the bank announced it was cutting nearly 200 human resources jobs and last week the company cut a further 175 jobs in the Halifax branch network.


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Prince William & Kate to Spend Christmas in Bucklebury with Her Family
After celebrating in Bucklebury, William and Kate will meet up with his family in Sandringham
After suffering from extreme morning sickness in the first weeks of her pregnancy, Kate will spend Christmas in the comfort of her family, a St. James Palace spokesman told PEOPLE on Saturday.
In a major break from tradition, which was cleared after consultation with Queen Elizabeth, she and husband William will visit her hometown, Bucklebury to celebrate the holiday "privately with the Middleton family," according to the Palace.
Since his marriage to Kate, William has made no secret of the fact that things will not always be done in the same traditional way. In some ways they are acting like any other couple, moving between both families during the holiday season.
Moreover, William is also very close to his in-laws, and this is a signal he wants to involve them as much as possible in his married life with Kate.
A Palace source says the couple will be heading to Sandringham, Norfolk, where the Queen and her husband Prince Philip and the rest of the royals are gathering at some point over the Christmas period.

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The good news is that breast milk has been proven to make your baby more intelligent. The bad news is the establishment's response: baby food manufacturers are working overtime to develop an "IQ factor" to overcome bottle feeding's natural limitations.
* Certain types of condoms and rubber gloves might not be protecting against infection with the HIV and other viruses.
Researchers from the Marposa Education and Research Foundation in California found evidence that some latex condoms and vinyl gloves can allow the passage of the HIV virus.
Polyurethane condoms were put through an assault course designed to simulate coitus. The conclusion: PU is the plastic of choice for safe sex.
* A Birmingham hospital studied the white coats of 100 doctors and found that more than a quarter carried staphylococcus aureus infection, particularly on the cuffs and pockets. The study recommended that doctors wash their hands between patients (!) and put on a plastic apron before examining wounds. Just so long as it isn't latex. . .
* And speaking of sexually transmitted diseases, a source of false readings of the human papillomavirus (HPV, or genital warts) could be imperfectly sterilized instruments, according to researchers at the University of Sydney.


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Litchfield schools to weigh taking on Thomaston students
LITCHFIELD >> The Board of Education has authorized Superintendent Dr. Deborah Wheeler to begin discussions with Thomaston officials about the possibility of Thomaston students attending high school in Litchfield on a tuition basis in future years.
"We are not the only district that they are talking to, but I was approached and asked if we would be interested," Dr. Wheeler told the school board in a meeting Wednesday. "My response to Superintendent [Lynda] Mitchell was that we would like to have a conversation with them based on the feeling of the board."
According to Ms. Mitchell, Thomaston has approached the Litchfield and Terryville school districts. She said a consolidation committee is studying the pros and cons of no longer having a local high school--a discussion prompted largely by Thomaston's declining public school enrollment.
The discussions began roughly two months ago, and the consolidation committee has met a couple of times after the Board of Education and Board of Finance decided to research the town's options.
"We are doing the research [necessary] if we would be going with other districts ... ," said Ms. Mitchell. "Certainly ... across the state we have seen the schools in other districts have had similar discussions."
The Litchfield school board, meanwhile, agreed to have Dr. Wheeler, Director of Business Operations Jason Lathrop and board chairman Frank Simone engage in an initial conversation with the Thomaston officials.
"They were looking at several different options, and we would have to review those and decide whether or not any would be of interest to us," said Dr. Wheeler.
During Dr. Wheeler's report at Wednesday's board meeting, she discussed the Finance, Facilities and Technology Committee's meeting Tuesday and whether the district would like to conduct a building utilization study as part of its strategic plan.
"We have the option on an annual basis to re-visit that--whether or not the community would like that to happen or not," said Dr. Wheeler.
Vice-Chairman Wayne Shuhi said that when the strategic plan was begun, there was talk of taking a look annually to see if it made sense to move grades around.
More drastic measure, Mr. Shuhi said, would involve the closing of a building or part of a building, as Litchfield is also dealing with enrollment declines.
According to Mr. Shuhi, given the discussion with Thomaston, the district would need to have a building utilization study done to gather information and have questions answered.
"I thought it would be a good idea to take a look at it at least at a basic level and see where we want to go," said Mr. Shuhi.


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Blooms of algae created by pumping nutrients into the ocean can suck up at least ten times more carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere than was previously thought. But the findings lend no support to controversial schemes to encourage such blooms in order to reduce global warming, the authors warn.
Blooms of algae created by pumping nutrients into the ocean can suck up at least ten times more carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere than was previously thought. But the findings lend no support to controversial schemes to encourage such blooms in order to reduce global warming, the authors warn.
The conclusion comes from a survey of a large, annually recurring natural algal bloom near Kerguelen, an archipelago halfway between South Africa and Australia. Natural vertical mixing of the ocean there steadily supplies iron and other nutrients from sediments at the ocean floor to the surface waters, encouraging phytoplankton growth. This growth converts carbon in the air (as CO2) to organic matter, thus reducing the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere and alleviating climate warming.
Stephane Blain, a chemical oceanographer at the Oceanography and Biogeochemistry Laboratory in Marseille, France, led a 47-strong international team to investigate this bloom in detail in early 2005. Their results show that the ability of such blooms to suck up CO2, and to carry that carbon to the ocean floor when the organisms die, is much greater than previous field studies had suggested.
Each atom of iron supplied from below pulled more than 100,000 atoms of carbon out of the atmosphere by stimulating plankton growth during the seasonal bloom, they report in Nature.
In 12 previous experiments carried out since 1993, during which scientists had artificially 'fertilized' small patches of ocean with iron nutrient, the observed amount of carbon exported to the deep ocean per amount of iron supplied had been around one magnitude lower.
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Lack of iron limits biological productivity and CO2 uptake in one-third of the world ocean, and particularly so in the Southern Ocean.
Scientists have long proposed that 'seeding' such oceans with extra iron could provide an eco-friendly means of reducing CO2 in the atmosphere; this notion spurred the many experiments in which researchers tried adding iron to small patches of sea.
Aside from the worries associated with 'geo-engineering' and the knock-on effects this might have on the ecosystem, these experiments were plagued with logistical problems.
Often iron isn't the only nutrient missing from the water, and much of the iron dumped into the sea oxidizes before it can be used by phytoplankton. An estimated 80-95% of the iron in these experiments has been 'lost', often because it simply drifts away or sinks to the deep ocean before organisms near the surface are able to make use of it. Researchers estimate that dumping huge amounts of iron into large swaths of the sea would absorb no more than 3% of annual CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel burning.
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Apple: Samsung Galaxy S4 & Google Now Violate Siri Patents
Apple: Samsung Galaxy S4 & Google Now Violate Siri Patents
Recently, Apple has told the U.S. District Court in California that it plans to add the new flagship Galaxy S4 to its patent lawsuit against Samsung. Apple has detailed five patents that the S4 allegedly infringes on.
Two of the patents specifically relate to Apple's voice-driven Siri personal assistant, as noted on Wednesday by Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents. They are U.S. Patent No. 8,086,604, and U.S. Patent No. 6,846,959, both of which are entitled "Universal interface for retrieval of information in a computer system."
Beyond Siri, the filing also alleges the infringement of three other Apple-owned patents:
U.S. Patent No. 5,666,502: "Graphical user interface using historical lists with field classes"
U.S. Patent No. 5,946,647: "System and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data"
U.S. Patent No. 7,761,414: "Asynchronous data synchronization amongst devices"
Apple filed the motion to amend its infringement complaint this Tuesday and a hearing to discuss this new motion is scheduled for June 25. However, Apple is said to be also examining Google Play Movies and TV, and the Google Play Store and Android Market.
It looks like this legal battle won't be ending any time soon.
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Syrian regime boosts troops in Damascus suburbs
Syrian activists say regime forces are firing rockets and mortars at suburbs around the capital, Damascus, amid heavy clashes with rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad.
The activists say troops backed by tanks are heading to Daraya and Moadamiyeh - two key suburbs southwest of the capital from where rebels have been edging closer to the city.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the military is massing troops and will likely try to storm the two suburbs. Both areas have been subjected in the past to repeated government assaults.
The Local Coordination Committees network confirmed the shelling and clashes.
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text: Lameness Worthy of Increased Emphasis as Health Issue in Beef Cattle Kansas State, Nebraska Professors Call for Increased Attention to the Issue Eden Prairie, Minn. (March 19, 2014) – When animal health issues are considered, lameness has gained increased attention in the beef cattle industry in recent years. There are a number of factors driving this shift in emphasis, but tops among the reasons are animal performance, health and well-being, said beef specialists with universities in Nebraska and Kansas. "I don't know that lameness, in general, has increased, but there definitely is an increased emphasis," said Dan Thomson, DVM, and Director of the Beef Cattle Institute at Kansas State University. "It's one of those things we can grab a hold on, prevent through nutrition, prevent through proper cattle handling and proper facility design, and treat once it happens and do some good for the animals and the industry." Dee Griffin, DVM, University of Nebraska, Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center, echoed Thomson's sentiment. "It's moved up in relevance not because there's more of it, but because we are better understanding how to deal with it." Addressing lameness in the beef cattle industry will take a deeper understanding of the issue at the producer level, so that prevention programs can be established. Zinpro Corporation recently released the Step-Up™ Management Program. Developed in conjunction with the Beef Cattle Institute and Kansas State University, the program provides a systematic approach to identify and manage beef cattle lameness. Connie Larson, Ph.D., Ruminant Research and Nutritional Services Manager, Zinpro Corporation, said that Step-Up begins with locomotion scoring and is designed to be used in multiple segments within the beef industry. "One of the goals of the Step-Up program is to not only diagnose and treat lameness, but to prevent lameness from happening from the beginning," she said. "If we can visually assess locomotion in order to detect lameness in cattle, that provides the avenue to measure, manage and address the issue." While lameness is viewed as a nuisance issue, Griffin said lameness can drive profitability much more than producers realize. "If an animal has a sore foot, the data says its gain may drop as much as one- third during that time period. It may be a nuisance, but it darn well hurts, and it affects the way the animal behaves all day. It affects the ability to get the best genetic potential out of that animal, and that costs money." Thomson added that addressing lameness is doing the right thing for the animals, "and doing the right thing for the animals generally correlates well with performance and profitability. Whether it's nutrition, vaccination, pen conditions, all those different types of things, I think we have to be able to communicate - educate - not only the producer, but what a great story to tell to the consumer too." Thomson believes the development and usage of the Step-Up system will serve the industry well. "I think that over the next five years we'll see a decrease in lameness because of Step-Up, and we see that as money coming back into the pocketbook of the ranchers and farmers," he concluded. To learn more about locomotion scoring beef cattle, contact your Zinpro representative and visit the Step-Up video library on zinpro.com. Educational posters for beef cattle locomotion scoring and lesion identification are available for request from Zinpro Corporation. Pictured from left to right: Dr. Dan Thomson, Dr. Dee Griffin and Dr. Connie Larson Previous Article Experts Talk Video Series Devoted to Multi-species Lameness Prevention to Debut in April Next Article Dr. Bill Weiss Announced as Speaker for May Hoard's Dairyman Webinar Sponsored by Zinpro Corporation


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Elton Pope was a transport manager who did retail logistics for a "modest little haulage company" in London. He was a fan of Jeff Lynne and the Electric Light Orchestra.
Elton encountered the Tenth Doctor several times, first at the age of three or four, when he was awoken by the sound of the Doctor's TARDIS materialising. He went downstairs to find his mother dead in the corner of his lounge and the Doctor standing in the middle of the room. The Doctor said that his mother had been killed. He later explained to Elton that she had been killed by an Elemental Shade which had escaped from the Howling Halls.
After the series of alien invasions and other similar events leading up to 2007, Elton co-founded a group called LINDA with four others who were interested in the Doctor. He began recording a video diary in which he recalled his life up to that point and his subsequent, LINDA-related adventures. The group eventually got distracted from their original purpose and did things including novel readings, forming a band and "blubbing". In March of 2007, Victor Kennedy infiltrated LINDA so that, unknown to the rest of LINDA, he could absorb the Doctor. Elton tried reaching the Doctor through Jackie Tyler, the mother of the Doctor's companion, Rose Tyler. After meeting Jackie, she continually invited Elton over to her flat, ostensibly to do odd jobs like fixing fuses, but actually so that she could seduce him. When Rose rang her, Jackie came to her senses and realised what she was doing. Elton tried making up with Jackie by ordering a pizza, but Jackie discovered a photo of Rose in his jacket. Jackie was severely upset that he was initially using her and forced Elton to leave.
Realising that he had feelings for the LINDA member Ursula Blake, he stormed off from Kennedy, not caring about "step 5" in finding the Doctor, but was forced to return when Ursula realised she forgot her mobile phone. There, he discovered Kennedy's true form, a green alien from Clom Elton dubbed "Abzorbaloff". Kennedy had absorbed all the other members, and then did the same to Ursula. After being cornered by Kennedy, the TARDIS arrived, distracting Kennedy. Rose told off Elton for upsetting her mum.
Kennedy tried threatening Elton's life so he could take over the TARDIS, but the Doctor refused. He told Kennedy that the members of LINDA who had been absorbed would have had something to say about absorbing Elton. They pulled at Kennedy's stomach, causing him to drop his cane. Elton broke the cane's limitation field that was preventing the ground from absorbing him. Though he couldn't save the others' lives, the Doctor brought the consciousness of Ursula back, but stuck as a face on piece of concrete. Elton became Ursula's caregiver, with the two subsequently engaging in an unusual relationship. (TV: Love & Monsters)
Behind the scenes
- According to Russell T Davies' The Writer's Tale, in the original pitch for The Stolen Earth, Elton would have featured in the story. As well as that, as recorded in The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter, Russell T Davies briefly considered including Elton and Ursula among those visited by the Tenth Doctor during his farewell tour in The End of Time.
- In a deleted scene from Love & Monsters, it was said that Elton was born in 1973.
- Elton serves a similar function to Marc Cory in Mission to the Unknown and Sally Sparrow in Blink, in that he's a one-off guest character who serves as the protagonist of the story.


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HTC has just announced two budget based Ice Cream Sandwich running handsets, the Desire V and Desire VC. The Desire V and Desire VC are identical to each other, except for the difference in their baseband. While the Desire V has SIM-card slots for two GSM based networks, the VC supports one primary CDMA network along with a secondary GSM based network.
Both the handsets pack a 4-inch screen with WVGa )480*800) resolution, a 1GHz Cortex-A5 based processor from Qualcomm, Adreno 200 GPU, 512MB of RAM, a 5MP snapper aided by an LED flash that is capable of recording videos in VGA resolution along with the connectivity features like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS with A-GPS, FM radio, 4GB internal memory, and a microSD card slot.
As stated earlier, the handsets run on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with Sense on top of it. The handsets wil also carry HTC's Beats Audio logo and feature, which in practical usage is nothing but a marketing gimmick. The Desire V will launch in Asia sometime in July, while the Desire VC will launch only in China around the same time only.


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Over on H3rald.com today, there's their look at a new player in the PHP "inspired by Rails" framework category - and they're pretty impressed.
Someone recently added a comment to my article about Rails-inspired PHP frameworks pointing out that I forgot another Rails-like framework, in my round-up. He obviously posted a link to this rather mysterious Rails port in PHP and spam or not, I'd like to thank this guy for letting me know of the existance of Akelos, a new PHP framework which seems simply too good to be true.
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Last summer, the extent of Arctic sea ice shrank to more than 30 percent below average, its smallest extent in the satellite record.
Each year, the Arctic Ocean experiences the formation and then melting of vast amounts of ice that floats on the sea surface. An area of ice the size of Europe melts away every summer reaching a minimum in September.
Because the extent of ice cover is usually at its lowest about mid-September, this year's minimum could still fall to set another record low, American and European scientists say.
The extent of Arctic sea ice on August 27, 2008. The orange line shows the normal ice edge. (Map courtesy National Snow and Ice Data Center)
The latest satellite observations suggest that the Arctic could be mainly ice-free before 2040, Professor Heinrich Miller from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany said today.
In 2005, at its minimum point, Arctic sea ice extended over 2.05 million square miles (5.32 million square kilometers).
By comparison, Arctic sea ice extent on August 26 was smaller, measuring 2.03 million square miles.
Arctic sea ice reflects sunlight, keeping the polar regions cool and moderating the global climate. According to scientific measurements, Arctic sea ice has declined over at least the past 30 years, with the most extreme decline seen during the summer melt season.
These conclusions are confirmed by observations from the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite. The ESA said today in a statement, "Envisat observations from mid-August depict that a new record of low sea-ice coverage could be reached in a matter of weeks."
Scientists on the Wegener Institute's ice-breaking research vessel Polarstern also are studying Arctic sea ice by sailing from Iceland through the most direct route - the Northwest Passage, which is currently almost free of ice.
This is the second year in a row that the most direct route through the Northwest Passage has opened up. The indirect route, called the Amundsen Northwest Passage, has been passable for almost a month, Miller said..
"Polarstern will circumnavigate the whole Arctic Ocean and exit through the Northeast Passage," Miller said. Polarstern is expected to reach Bremerhaven again on October 19.
"The polar regions, especially the Arctic, are very sensitive indicators of climate change," Miller said. "The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has shown that these regions are highly vulnerable to rising temperatures and predicted that the Arctic would be virtually ice-free in the summer months by 2070.
"Other scientists claim it could become ice-free as early as 2040," he said. "Latest satellite observations suggest that the Arctic could be mainly ice-free even earlier."
Polar bear survival is threatened by melting Arctic sea ice. (Photo courtesy U.S. House of Representatives)
In 2009, ESA plans to launch another satellite, CryoSat-2, that will orbit the Earth for three years, gathering further evidence on the rates at which ice thickness and cover are diminishing.
The rate of climate warming over the land masses of northern Alaska, Canada, and Russia could more than triple during periods of rapid sea ice loss, according to a study by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
The findings, released in June, raise concerns about the thawing of permafrost, or permanently frozen soil.
"Our study suggests that, if sea-ice continues to contract rapidly over the next several years, Arctic land warming and permafrost thaw are likely to accelerate," said lead author David Lawrence of NCAR.
Arctic soils are believed to hold 30 percent or more of all the carbon stored in soils worldwide, and thawing permafrost may release additional greenhouse gases that would further accelerate global warming.
Lawrence noted that from August to October last year, air temperatures over land in the western Arctic were unusually warm, reaching more than four degrees Fahrenheit (two degrees Celsius) above the 1978-2006 average, and he wondered whether this warming was related to the loss of sea ice.
David Lawrence (Photo by Carlye Calvin, ©UCAR)
Using sophisticated climate change simulations, Lawrence and his team found that during episodes of rapid sea ice loss, the rate of Arctic land warming is 3.5 times greater than the average 21st century warming rates predicted in global climate models.
While this warming is greatest over the ocean, the simulations suggest that it can penetrate as far as 900 miles inland, especially in autumn.
Lawrence and his team concluded that a decade of rapid sea ice loss could see autumn temperatures warm by as much as nine degrees F (five degrees C) along the Arctic coasts of Russia, Alaska, and Canada.
The study sheds light on how interconnected the Arctic system is, says co-author Andrew Slater, a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. "The loss of sea ice can trigger widespread changes that would be felt across the region."
Recent warming has degraded large sections of permafrost, with pockets of soil collapsing as the ice within it melts. The results include buckled highways, destabilized houses, and "drunken forests" of trees that lean at wild angles, Lawrence said.
The polar bear population is expected to decline by 30 percent in the next 35 to 50 years due to disappearing habitat induced by global warming. Warming induced changes in tundra vegetation and plant life threaten caribou, reindeer and migratory bird populations. Loss of sea ice and wildlife also makes indigenous life in the Arctic increasingly difficult, endangering an entire way of life.
"An important unresolved question is how the delicate balance of life in the Arctic will respond to such a rapid warming," he said. "Will we see, for example, accelerated coastal erosion, or increased methane emissions, or faster shrub encroachment into tundra regions if sea ice continues to retreat rapidly?"
Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 2008. All rights reserved.


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Working a High-Hydration Sourdough
What I'm working with:
I just did the first fold. I don't have a long enough container, with a lid, that I can turn this out into so I'm keeping it in the mixing bowl (Which, like a dork, I forgot to oil - it's always something, isn't it?!) Anyway, I just gave it 2-3 good folds at the 50 minute mark and have to do the next fold in 100 minutes. I'm assuming that the dough is going to stiffen up some as it goes. It's very, very wet right now. Not sticky per se, but it's a bit like playing with that 'goo' stuff that we got out of the vending machines as kids.
This has all been hand mixed, no KA or other electric mixer. I assure you, you DEFINITELY know when things are 'just mixed' when mixing nearly 4 pounds of dough by hand. Holy moley, I'm going to need a sling :) Anyway, as I said, I just did the first fold. I grabbed as much as I could and gave it a slow tug vertically until it looked like it was about to tear (in one case it did, oops) and then folded it over, turned the bowl one-quarter turn and repeated. I made 2 1/2 turns of the bowl. It's practically running through my hands like the aforementioned 'goo.'
What should I look for when I do the next set of folds? What texture am I looking for to know that it's 'done' and ready for shaping, or if I need to give it a few more folds? I haven't worked with such a wet, stretchy dough before! I'm going to divide out half and immediately refrigerate to use for pizza dough. The rest I'm going to -attempt- to shape into two batards on my pastry cloth.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated. (Videos that show a good close-up of the proper texture of a completed folded dough would be a blessing)


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In 1942 Leonard Baskin founded the Gehenna Press while at Yale (the name coming from a line in Milton's Paradise Lost: "And black Gehenna call'd, the type of Hell."). Inspired by William Blake's example of being both a poet and an artist and bookmaker, Baskin's first printed book, On a Pyre of Withered Roses, was a selection of his own poems. Due to the war (World War II, in which Baskin served in the Navy) and five years of dedicated artistic study, much of it in Europe, Baskin's second book, A Little Book of Natural History, was published nine years after the first.
The Press' books in the early 1950s have an almost naive charm. Either printed on different second-hand printing presses or commercially printed, they show Baskin developing his wood engraving and bookmaking skills. By 1959 Baskin felt that he had begun to "invent typographic structures of originality and sensitivity."
Around the same time Baskin relinquished his role as the sole printer. Starting with the book Thirteen Poems by Wilfred Owen Baskin partnered with Richard Warren of The Metcalf Printing and Publishing Company, and for Horned Beetles and Other Insects, Baskin began using Harold McGrath as the Gehenna Press pressman. This led to a new level of superb workmanship in the Gehenna Press books, complemented by an increasingly sophisticated and elegant choice of typeface.
Throughout the 1960s Baskin published both books devoted to his woodcuts and to literary works illustrated with his, or other artists, engravings. The 1960s output of the Gehenna Press is diverse, including such stunning achievements as Flosculi Sententiarum and Euripides Hippolytos. In the mid-1960s, due to rising costs, Baskin occasionally designed and/or printed books for other publishers.
In 1974 Baskin and his family moved to Devon, England after selling the Press equipment to Harold McGrath for $1. One of the reasons for the move was to be closer to the poet Ted Hughes. Baskin and Hughes collaborated on a broadside of the Hughes poem Pike but had never done a Gehenna Press book together. After several years of Baskin devoting himself to other artistic endeavors, he and Hughes collaborated on their first Gehenna Press book A Primer of Birds.
In 1983 the Baskins returned to America and settled in Leeds, Massachusetts. Baskin began publishing under the imprint of Eremite Press though by 1989 he had switched back to using the Gehenna Press designation. Arthur Larson of Hadley, Massachusetts was a frequent printer of Gehenna Press books at the time, and woodcuts were often printed by Daniel Keleher of Wild Carrot Press, also in Hadley. The Gehenna Press bindings at this time also acheived a new level of elegance, with many of the books now being bound by Gray Parrot of Easthampton, Massachusetts.
The 1990s saw Baskin continuing his close collaboration with Ted Hughes, publishing Capricco and Howls and Whispers. The Gehenna Press printed a variety of books throughout the decade, with Baskin continuing to develop and grow as an engraver, including the incorporation of more color into prints.
In 2000 Leonard Baskin died, as did both Ted Hughes and Harold McGrath. Currently the Gehenna Press is printing what was the last book in production by Baskin.
After over 100 books and 50 years, the Gehenna Press can be
called the most successful private press of all time, for no other private
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Beyond Cottage Food Products: What's pH have to do with it?
Florida's Cottage Food Law allows food entrepreneurs to use their home kitchen to produce food products that are considered not potentially hazardous. Gross sales for a cottage food operation must not exceed $50,000 annually, require no license or… Read More


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As I finish up the plans for Monday's database design precon, I am getting pretty excited for the day. This is the third time I have done this precon, and where the base slides are very similar, I have a few new twists in mind. One of my big ideas for my Database Design Workshop precon has always been to give people to do some design. So I am even now trying to go through and whittle down the slides and make sure that we have the time for design.
If you are attending, be prepared to be a team player. I have 3 team exercise that you will do in teams. When we reach the first exercise, we will break up into 8 individual teams. Don't try to figure out who to sit by, because I am going to randomly choose how to split up into teams when I see how the tables are (and I know that there will be at least one person there that I would want on my team :). The teams will be slightly important because the most enthusiastic teams will get the first crack at the pile of swag, of which I have a lot. I have 20 physical and 15 ebooks of my new database design book, 15 8GB SD cards with the PowerPoint and code on them, 3 Joe Celko books, the Apress Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals book and a very nice Lego set and if this blog entices more people to show up than I have giveaways, well, then I will pick up some gift cards to even out the swag.
While the lecture will take up a lot of time, the exercises will be most fun part of the day. The exercises I have planned are of the following genre:
1. Modeling from requirements: Taking a set of written requirements and producing the initial database design (20 minutes)
2. Normalizing a set: Taking a flat file and normalizing it into a set (~20 minutes)
3. Applying what we have discussed: Taking a set of requirements and producing a normalized database design (45 minutes)
The first two exercises, every team will have the same requirements, but the third will see me having 4 separate designs. So we will have 4 different designs to to discuss and review. I am bringing my camera along to use to display to the team's work on the screen. After I print the requirement packs for the teams, I plan to go through and do my own design for comparison. It will be interesting to see how different each team's design is, and to see what I might miss when I do the design. I am going to encourage people to go beyond the specific requirements and build the system they think will be awesome while meeting the requirements.
If all works out, my hope is to do a series of blogs next year using the requirements and designs that we produce as a result. I also (finally remembered to) put a request on the slide that students could do one of a couple of design ideas and I would review them (yes, with plans to turn that into a blog someday too.)
So hope to see you Monday… And if I don't see you in the class Monday, see you Tuesday night when we do our annual Quiz Bowl. Tim has come up with a slew of interesting questions including another round of Before and After questions to blow the mind of several SQL Server professionals…
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Which is greener: shopping online or in a store? Find out which one leaves the smallest carbon footprint.
Purchasing a book, swimsuit or even a box of light bulbs with a few clicks online saves time and often money. But for consumers interested in reducing their carbon footprint, this convenience option is a mixed environmental bag that is compared to taking public transit to a shopping center or bunching errands into a single car trip.
As with many eco-conscious decisions, there are a host of variables, like your driving patterns and where you live, says Kyo Suh, Ph.D. and research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment. Suh researches the carbon footprint of package delivery.
"Basically, the conclusion is that online shopping is better than personal shopping trips, but it can be changed by so many factors," Suh said.
Here are a few things to consider as you formulate a shopping plan:
Fuel: Combining purchases into a single car trip is a major variable, says Suh. The more deliveries a truck makes per mile, the smaller the items' carbon footprint. This means ordering online is generally more efficient in an urban area than a rural one.
Glenn Croston, who runs the green business website www.startingupgreen.com and is the author of the books "75 Green Businesses" and "Shopping Green," notes that delivery companies invest tremendous resources in making sure their routes are as fuel-efficient as possible. UPS made headlines several years ago for its strategy of designing routes to use as many right-hand turns as possible to reduce time spent idling in left turn lanes, which burns up fuel.
"With your own car you can say, 'It's just another buck or two, gas-wise," Croston said. "But for UPS, that's their bread and butter; they've studied eco-efficiency exhaustively."
Packaging: Items shipped to your door generally come in a cardboard box filled with additional layers of padding and wrapping. Reusing and recycling these materials takes dedication, while a trip to the store, especially with a reusable shopping bag in tow, eliminates all this extra material.
What you're buying: Online retailers also offer access to a wider variety of sustainable and environmentally friendly products, says Croston. Shopping online can also help you source products made in your region, rather than running down to your local store to buy a version that was trucked in from far away.
Did you know
According to the U.S. Postal Service, an organization with an interest in promoting online shopping, replacing two trips to the mall each year with online shopping could reduce the amount Americans drive by 3.3 billion miles, and it can keep 3 billion pounds of carbon emissions out of the air.
A number of studies, including one in 2009 out of Carnegie Mellon University's Green Design Institute and a United Kingdom-based study from early 2010, also suggest online shopping has the edge on eco-shopping.
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YANKEES: Alex Rodriguez says he wants to be in the lineup on Friday
NEW YORK >> Alex Rodriguez says he's ready to rejoin the New York Yankees.
A day after a doctor retained by A-Rod contradicted the team's diagnosis of a strained quadriceps, Rodriguez pushed for the Yankees to activate him from the disabled list for Friday's homestand opener against Tampa Bay.
"I think the Yanks and I crossed signals," the three-time AL MVP said in a statement issued by spokesman Ron Berkowitz. "I don't want any more mixups. I'm excited and ready to play and help this team win a championship. I feel great and I'm ready and want to be in the lineup Friday night. Enough doctors, let's play"
Rodriguez, who turns 38 Saturday, has been sidelined since hip surgery in January. He earns $153,005 each day during the season, and while he remains on the disabled list much of his salary is covered by insurance.
He is among the dozen or so players under investigation by Major League Baseball for alleged links to a now-closed clinic accused in media reports of distributing banned performance-enhancing drugs. Rodriguez has said in the past that he used PEDs from 2001-03 while with Texas but maintained he has not since.
Rodriguez hit .250 (8 for 40) with two homers and eight RBIs in 13 minor league games before the leg injury and had agitated for the Yankees to activate him.
If Rodriguez is healthy, New York could use his bat. Yankees third basemen are hitting .217, ahead of only Cleveland, according to STATS LLC. Their four homers are more than only Miami and their 29 RBIs are 28th in the majors.
New York says team physician Dr. Christopher Ahmad at New York-Presbyterian Hospital diagnosed Rodriguez with the quadriceps injury Sunday, when an MRI was taken.
At the behest of Rodriguez, Dr. Michael Gross examined an MRI -- but not Rodriguez personally -- and said on WFAN radio Wednesday that he could detect no injury.
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman then said Rodriguez had sought the second opinion in violation of baseball's labor contract, which requires a player to first notify his team in writing.
Gross, an orthopedist, was reprimanded this year by New Jersey's board of medical examiners over steroid prescriptions, fined $30,000 and ordered to pay $10,000 in costs. He is the chief of the Division of Sports Medicine and the orthopedic director of The Sports Medicine Institute at Hackensack University Medical Center.


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MTV has been active in encouraging younger voters to get to the polls for well over 20 years. In 1992 they brought the "Choose or Lose" campaign to the airwaves, and in the decades since they have frequently partnered with nonprofit Rock the Vote to air initiatives encouraging 18-24 year-old voters to get to the polls and engage with the democratic process.
But your average college-aged voter doesn't sit around watching MTV in his or her spare hours anymore, and hasn't in quite some time. So MTV is going to where they think their audience is: social and mobile gaming.
Fantasy Election '12 will make a literal game of the civic process in two ways. The first is by giving players points for being engaged. Like many a social game, players can gain points for using social media tools to get their friends playing. The game will also use Foursquare and GetGlue to give players points for attending town hall events. watching debates, and showing up at polling places.
The other half of the game is where the candidates for office and their real-world behavior come into play. Players will assemble "fantasy teams" of their own, not unlike fantasy sports games. As CNN describes it:
Players can "draft" any candidate running for the U.S. presidency, the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives.
To encourage players to select honest, inspiring politicians, the most valuable candidates will have measurable integrity as well as strong poll numbers. Each candidate's "value" will be an aggregation of several key data points from specific partners.
The data forming each candidate's integrity scores will be pulled in from sources like RealClearPolitics, PolitiFact, and the Wesleyan Media Project. Players and candidates will also gain points from engaging on Facebook and Twitter.
Meanwhile, there are real-life prizes on the line for the most engaged, highest-performing players. Tickets to MTV's Video Music Awards as well as to the next Inaugural Ball are expected to be the top-tier rewards, as well as smaller items of merchandise and digital downloads.
The entire political process often finds itself treated as a game both by the people running for office and by those who cover the races, so somehow making a literal game of it for young voters doesn't seem entirely misplaced. And yet it seems questionable whether disengaged young voters can or will become engaged voters simply because of a game. Those who are most likely to play and remain playing are likely to be those who already care about the political process.
MTV exec Jason Rzepka said in a statement about the game that, "Our audience grew up gaming, and Fantasy Election '12 will give them a fun new way to participate in the electoral process, while also holding candidates accountable." He's certainly right about the audience having grown up gaming (a voter who turns 18 in 2012 was born in 1994). If he's also right about being able to convince his audience into engaging with the political process, then Fantasy Election '12 may have a powerful real-world impact indeed.
MTV hopes online game can energize 2012 youth vote [CNN]
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Pope's Inauguration Reflects a New Style
Pope Francis eschewed the usual bullet-proof papal motorcade en route to his inauguration. WSJ's Stacy Meichtry said the Mass, in which the new pope talked about St. Francis of Assisi and the environment, reflected his distinct view of the world.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Peyton and Eli Manning, Jim and John Harbaugh, Pau and Marc Gassol, Venus and Serena Williams. When you ask someone to think of siblings in sports, these are likely some of the names that come to mind. However, ask anyone who knows anything about Utah State [University] volleyball, and the name they'll give you? Neves.
First there was Chelsi. Coming off an All-American junior college career as a setter at Sheridan College, she came to Utah State in 2000 and quickly made herself known. That season, she set a then-school record of assists in a single season with 1,441, posting the number two mark in 2001 with 1,368 assists. She ended her Aggie career with 2,809 assists, securing her a spot among the best in USU history at the No. 3 spot on the Aggies' career assists list, as well as one of the best two-year marks in program history. She is the only USU player with two marks on the top five single-season list and only one of two players among the top 10.
Next came Taubi. She played for the Aggies for two years in 2002 and 2003 as a defensive specialist. Following her successful start at Northwest Community College, she came to Logan to keep the Neves name well-represented. She set a new single-season digs record as a senior with 362 digs. While her then-school record has slid to No. 10 this season, she is now in her seventh season as an assistant coach for the Utah State program.
"Growing up watching Chelsi, she was amazing, and I always wanted to be just like her," Taubi said. "She was so good. She dominated in high school and went on to be good at Sheridan and here."
Ten years from the time Chelsi started playing at Utah State, Paige walked through the doors of the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum at Chelsi's same position as setter. After a redshirt season, she jumped right in, anxious to carry on the legacy left by her sisters. While sharing a last name with her sisters, she has made her own name for herself, recently passing sister Chelsi for the No. 4 spot on the Aggies' all-time assists list. Paige enters this weekend's action with 2,892 assists.
"Growing up I would always come to games here and play up on the concourse and watch my older sisters play volleyball," Paige said. "It was just always my dream to come and play here. They set the standard for what I could do, and I really looked up to them for that. I just wanted to be like them and do what they did."
Just three of nine Neves siblings, the family hails from Otto, Wyo., an unincorporated town with a population of just 50 people.
"Otto is a farm town," Paige said. "My grandpa is my closest neighbor, and he lives a half-mile away. There are a lot of animals, land and tractors. We have one stop sign and a park."
Going to high school in nearby Burlington, the opportunities to advance an athletic career were slim. Without club ball or a big high school name, the Neves girls had to work that much harder to stand out and get their start.
"We come from such a small town and a small high school, that this is the dream you shoot for," Chelsi said. "For all three of us to be able to live that dream is pretty neat."
As Chelsi wrapped up her Utah State career, Taubi was just starting. The two lived together for a semester as Chelsi finished her degree. Now with Taubi still in Logan, Paige has moved in and they have extended the relationship to roommates.
"When I came here, it was fun because I got to live with Chelsi for one semester while she finished her degree" Taubi said. "She cooked for me. Paige lives with me now, but I don't cook for her as much as Chelsi did. She kind of has to fend for herself. It"s really fun to have family around here."
Though she was done playing by the time Taubi moved to Logan, Chelsi loved having her around and living with her.
"Of course you fight with your sisters, but you're best friends," Chelsi said. "To grow up and live with your best friend and support her while she's playing was great. It was neat to see her grow and struggle and try to help her out. It's an automatic support system."
While there can be drawbacks to living with your sister and spending so much time together, around each other at practice and matches, Paige said there are more positives than anything.
"I can't get away with anything," Paige said. "She knows everything. The best part is just having part of my family right there and living with my best friend. Coming here I didn't really know Taubi that well. She's fun and outgoing and super easy to get along with. It makes it super easy to be so close."
A challenging part of the nature of Paige and Taubi's relationship has been finding the lines that need to be drawn between being a coach and player or just sisters.
"Sometimes I'm her sister, sometimes I'm her coach and sometimes I'm in between," Taubi said. "It can get a little complicated. It's fun watching her improve and be on this team. Grayson has done a good job of helping with that. He and Jeremiah mostly work with her and keep me out of the equation. That makes it a lot easier on me to keep it separate."
The Aggie coaching staff of head coach Grayson DuBose and associate coach Jeremiah Larson, along with Taubi, has done its best to make those lines easy to find and easy to separate.
"That dynamic between Paige and Taubi was hard at first," said DuBose. "It's tough to find that line and where you need to draw it as a sister and as a coach. Taubi found that line really fast, and they're able to be competitive in the gym and close at home. Taubi knew where she could coach her and where she just needed to put her arm around her and tell her she loves her."
DuBose has gotten to know the Neves family, both as players and coaches, in addition to as people, in his capacities at Utah State. He was an assistant on the Aggies'' staff when Chelsi played and got to know Taubi through her and the family. Upon his return at the helm of the program in 2007, he brought Taubi on as an assistant. When Paige neared the end of her high school career, he knew it was a safe bet to bring her on.
"I remember Paige as a little kid, running around following her older sisters," DuBose said. "It's a wonderful family who I've known a long time. They're good, hard-working kids and who they are as people really makes a difference. They're similar players who are athletic, hard-working and dynamic. They're strong leaders who don't give into peer pressure, and they just do their thing. They have a nice core value system that they hold on to."
Though Paige had to scrape her way to the top, she has put in countless hours and endless work to get to the point she's at today.
"Since her redshirt year, she's been in my office at least an hour a week trying to figure out how to be a setter," DuBose said. "Her town and high school were so small that she didn't have the experience other kids have. Her volleyball IQ needed to be raised and we found that was a good way to do it. It's definitely an effort on her part."
There have been definite benefits to Paige following her sisters and taking the opportunity to learn from them.
"Hopefully we've been a good example for her," Chelsi said. "All three of us have so much in common that the age difference isn't really there. We've gone through what she's gone through before so we can give her a little bit of a head's up. We can tell her so much, but she has to experience it for herself."
With her sister's spot in the record book broken, Paige is only seeking to grow more, something neither of her sisters are worried about her doing.
"I should have raised the bar a little bit higher for her. I made it too easy if she's already breaking it," Chelsi said. "She was born with a lot of talent. She was good in high school, but she still had to work at it. We were all rooting for her. She had to work harder and struggle to find out who she was and how good she could be. I think she's awesome already, but I also think she has a lot more potential and she's reaching it. It's fun to come and watch her and see how much she's improved."
As she finishes her junior season, Paige has one more year to leave the impact of the Neves name that she wants to.
"My sisters left a good legacy behind," Paige said. "They worked hard to set the mark for our name. That's a huge reason why I got here. They put our name out there. I want people to remember that I was hard-working and dedicated. I want them to remember me as a good teammate."
Paige and her teammates open a two-match homestand this weekend hosting San José State Thursday, Nov. 14, and Fresno State Saturday, Nov. 16, both in 7 p.m. start times at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum.
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Fans who can't make the match can follow along with "Watch Live" and "GameTracker" links at www.UtahStateAggies.com.
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Yeah, I got a feelin' nigga, really that my money be the root
Look up at the stars, she like, "Honey, where the roof?"
Pull up, hear the dogs, Canaries, they gon' woof
Even once had a job pourin' tar up on a roof
That boy had it hard, no facade, it's the truth
So now when I menage and get massaged it's the proof
Proof's in the pudding and that baking soda cakin'
Paper that I'm makin' got her takin' photos naked
Listenin' to niggas like whistlin' at Wendy Williams
I flip my middle finger, I'm chillin' on twenty million
The rumors turn me on, I'm masturbatin' at the top
These hoes so excited, so they catchin' every drop
I'm dodgin' debacles like potholes in Jamaica
We cut down the weed, bury the paper on the 'maicas
Martin had a dream, Bob got high
I still do both but somehow I got by
Creflo prayed, Mike Vick paid
Bobby Brown straight, Whitney lost weight
Kimbo Slice on the pad when I write
That Mayweather money lookin' funny in the light
But who really cares? We just throw it in the air
Celebratin' wealth, pourin' Moet in her hair
Excuse me, her weave, the bluest of weed
Trunk full of white, car smell like blue cheese
That boy get salad, beef bowel movements
BMWs on them big thangs lookin' foolish
Shawty sitting low, big thangs popping
Tip on the Glock from a Crip up in Compton
Shootin' at the cops, fuck one-time
I gave her to the block, I fucked one time
We Boyz N the Hood, and nigga, you lil' Tre
Suppress ya appetite, we takin' ya lil' tray
Love my handgun, but my choppa still the shit
Banned in 1994, but I'm "2 Legit 2 Quit"
1996, kilos was the shit
But that was better than roofin', that shit be bad fo' ya skin
Niggas was ruthless, Lord knows that I sin
But I thought about my future and the loops I could pin
Walked out on the gig and I turned to the streets
Kept my name low-key, I ain't heard from in weeks
I came up wit a strategy to come up mathematically
I did it for the city but now everybody mad at me
Motherfuck 'em all, they sweat from my balls
If I drop another album, I did that for my dawgs
Ten Maybachs everybody ridin' big
I just sit back like, "Look what I did"
Then I bow my head and beg for forgiveness
Once I said my prayer, everybody back to business
Smokin' on a blunt in my own restaurant
People lookin' from a distance think I'm Big Daddy Conch
Reincarnated, spirit of a G
Beef I'll make you thinner, take a seat so we can eat
A Farrakhan aura, pause on the pork
You eat from the bowl, while your dog need a fork
Niggas ain't loyal, snakes slithered in they coil
I'm laughin' at you cuz, kill you niggas when I'm bored (yeah!)
We steppin' on you crew 'til them motherfuckers crush
And makin' sweet love to every women that ya lust
I love to pay ya bills, can't wait to pay ya rent
Curtis Jackson baby mama, I ain't askin' for a cent
Burn the house down nigga, you gotta buy another
Don't forget the gas can, jealous stupid motherfucker
To another chapter, paper that I captured
Caught up in the rapture off gunshots and laughter
Homicide is humor and nigga you lookin' funny
Women love to stare cause they know they see the money
I open up her mind by openin' bank accounts
Deposit a hundred stacks, break-up, won't take it out
Baby that's a gift, maybe you could live
I knew it wouldn't work but, I just like to give
Used to run the street, young nigga bare feet
Now I'm in the suites and I'm eatin' crab meats
Ice so right, other rappers envy
They callin' all my jewelers up, askin what he spendin' (whaaat?)
Thinkin' 'bout Boss, not thinkin' 'bout them
This a letter to my enemies, one I won't send
One of the many stand out tracks and the intro track from his third LP, Deeper Than Rap.
Ross talks of his come up in the rap game, his boisterous cocaine empire, and his large amounts of wealth he has accumulated through drug trafficking and rapping. This was the song that truly began the 50 Cent/Rick Ross beef.
Amidst all of the controversies against Rozay at the time, this song seemed to be a rebirth for him of sorts. Anyone who says "Ross can't rap" has clearly never heard this song, as Ross goes in to say the least.