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The UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Forbidden City has one of the best-preserved collections of ancient monuments and buildings across the globe. Be sure to visit the Palace, which is the largest palace complex in the world, as well as the impressive Three Great Halls. Learn more about the country's recent history by heading to Tiananmen Square, which is enclosed by 1950s structures, where you can watch the People's Liberation Army soldiers performing daily sunrise drills. For some fantastically unique souvenirs head to Panjiayuan Market.
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The broadcast networks haven't been feeling the love from viewers this fall, and it won't be getting any easier. Here are some big challenges they face as they try to sway hearts, minds and remotes in the second half of the season.
Will high-flying NBC falter when Sunday Night Football ends and Revolution and The Voice take a break?
"It's going to be different," admits NBC's scheduling guru Jeff Bader. "But we have faith in The Biggest Loser on Monday." He also believes Deception, a serialized murder mystery that will replace Revolution starting Jan. 7 and follow Loser, will appeal to the weight-loss competition's audience. NBC will test the returning Smash on Tuesdays; it will have to find viewers without the strong lead-in it had from The Voice last season. "The feeling with Smash is that it's a unique show," says Bader. "We'll give it a lot of attention. But it has to make it on its own." Competitors believe NBC will be counting the days until The Voice and Revolution return on March 25. "They will be in fourth place when they don't have The Voice," predicts an executive at a rival network.
Can Fox succeed with the dark drama The Following?
After a disastrous fall season, Fox is looking to jump-start its lineup with The Following, which debuts Jan. 21. In this psychological thriller, created by Kevin Williamson (The Vampire Diaries), Kevin Bacon stars as a former FBI agent called back into action to track down a serial killer (James Purefoy). Fox execs admit that The Following's content — including ultra-violence more reminiscent of Dexter than CSI — may be a tough sell for advertisers and makes marketing the series a bit of a challenge. (Ads have reportedly been nixed on billboards located near Los Angeles schools.) But in a season that found cable making big inroads in prime time, The Following could bring some much-needed buzz back to broadcast TV.
How will CBS fix its Monday comedy lineup?
The network just cancelled the ratings-challenged freshmen sitcom Partners, but finding a replacement will be tricky. CBS was counting on another new comedy, Friend Me, as a midseason backup for Mondays. That show's future is now looking doubtful due to the recent death of exec producer Alan Kirschenbaum. Expect repeats of CBS' other hits, such as Two and Half Men and 2 Broke Girls, to fill Mondays at 8:30pm for a while, with another round of Rules of Engagement taking over later in the season.
Wll Sex and the City fans flock to The CW's Carrie Diaries?
The CW is on target with Arrow and ordered a full season of Beauty and the Beast, but the quirky Emily Owens M.D. hasn't offered a prescription for success. Still, the network appears to do best with familiar franchises, and The Carrie Diaries (debuting Jan. 14) takes a popular character — Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw — and puts her in the middle of a stylish coming-of-age tale. Setting the show in 1984, before many of The CW's viewers were even born, is risky but may also attract a broader audience than the network's core young viewers.
Will Jimmy Kimmel beat Jay Leno and David Letterman at 11:35pm?
"I don't expect we're going to win out of the gate," Kimmel told TV Guide Magazine earlier this year about his Jan. 8 move. "But we're going to have a bigger audience. You put yourself in a position to be the next dynasty." Kimmel has one thing going for him: a younger audience. ABC is playing the long game. Both Leno and Letterman will likely retire before the decade is over. When they do, Kimmel (whose deal lasts through 2015) will be the incumbent host in the slot — and no Jimmy-come-lately.
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The City Public Works and Utilities Department invites the public to review and comment on a draft Access Management Policy being proposed for adoption later this year. Access management is the process of making streets as safe and efficient as possible by regulating how and where streets and driveways are connected. Residents are encouraged to read the draft policy and submit feedback at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: access) by the end of April.
Assistant City Engineer Randy Hoskins said the policy is very important for overall traffic flow on major streets in the City. "As we look to the future, Lincoln will continue to be challenged by the limited resources we have to build the streets we need," said Hoskins. "Good access management will help us make the best use of our existing and new streets."
Hoskins said an example is the way traffic slows on streets lined with many driveways. He said traffic flow can be improved by combining or limiting the number of driveways, installing turn lanes and carefully designing parking lots.
Scott Opfer, Street Operations and Maintenance Manager, said it also helps to install median breaks in locations where traffic lights are likely to be installed in the future. "Most of the complaints we receive on signal timing come from streets where the signals are not well spaced," said Opfer. "By planning ahead for possible signal locations, we will be able to move traffic more smoothly with fewer red lights."
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Some important information about sunscreens came my way this morning and I thought I'll share them, even though this is my third post about them this week! The one that got my attention most is that it is misleading to state that mineral sunscreens are physical sunblocks which block UV by scattering and reflecting UV radiation. *GASP* If this is true, then our understanding of the differentiation between physical sunblock and chemical suncreens as seen below in the box have all along been inaccurate!
Mineral sunscreens absorb more UV radiation
But according to Soapwire, mineral sunscreens perform similarly to the chemical sunscreens in that they absorb UV radiation, but with a much broader effective range. They look white only because these minerals do reflect and scatter light in the visible spectrum, which we can see.
"Manufacturers, dermatologists, and the media, regularly perpetuate this myth because they don't understand the physical chemistry associated with these minerals and make the easy yet incorrect assumption that they perform the same in the UV as in the visible spectrum."
You can look up the article for more information to understand the technicalities but how I interprete this if it is true is that, mineral sunscreens containing zinc oxide and/or titanium dioxide are more superior. So what has been said all along that the larger particles in such sunscreens not reflecting every UV rays for full protection may not hold water afterall because they actually protect on two levels; they reflect and absorb UV radiation!
Zinc Oxide is a better sunscreen active ingredient
I have always preferred zinc oxide in mineral sunscreens because I believe it is the most superior sunscreen active ingredient as reflected in the following ratings I've obtained from the Environmental Protection Agency. The article in Soapwire confirms it.
When compared to titanium dixode, 1) zinc oxide has a broader UVA spectral absorbance; 2) zinc oxide is safer from oxidative free radical production and chemical damage; 3) zinc oxide is not made from a toxic heavy metal and 4) zinc oxide is the safest sunscreen ingredient that is FDA-approved for use on babies younger than 6 months of age.
So if the information from Soapwire is correct, then my quest for the best mineral-based sunscreen with zinc oxide for truly broad spectrum UVA and UVB protection is on track!


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We created digital rain that falls around mannequins wearing product using LED lighting. An engineering challenge was to hide wires and electronics from customer view while maintaining the high-end look and feel. This structure and concept was flexible, as it had to accommodate many different window display sizes and configurations.
Task: Introducing motorized movement into a your project will transform the space from a "display" to an "experience. When the ultimate goal is consumer engagement, the ultimate engagement is sleek, motorized movement.
Task: Larger-than-life presents are "ripped open" to reveal product in a retail space, maximizing seasonal themes and creativity.
Task: Campaigns may includes, rigid in-store graphics, hanging banners, window clings and/or cardstock graphics, ship to multiple locations.
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Task: Custom-built modular mannequin platforms, and vibrantly colored in-store graphics, highlight diversity in athletics.
Task: Expanding what's possible with Elevated Executions, the adidas Superstar Tonal initiative included custom-engineered and manufactured LED lighting and acrylic displays. Retail windows became museum-quality displays.
Task: Larger-than-life initiative for Nike and University of Oregon Athletics that exceeded expectations for the nation's most-innovative collegiate athletic department.
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Never mind that Microsoft has seen fit to reorganize its vast, mainly free, online resources for developers. The new msdn.microsoft.com promises to offer a useful portal for developers, one that developer sites from Oracle (technet.oracle.com), Sybase (www.sybase.com/sdn), and IBM (www.developer.ibm.com) will be hard-pressed to emulate. It's worth your time to register for these sites. Oracle has detailed white papers on migrating to Oracle from almost any database. Also, see Microsoft's white papers on migrating Oracle, Sybase, Access, and Btrieve databases to SQL Server at www.microsoft.com/sql. Also, you can access legacy versions of similar documents written for migrations to SQL 6.5 in the MSDN library under Technical Articles, Databases and Messaging, and SQL Server. And you can find T-SQL code snippets on Sybase's site on topics such as generating sample data that works with SQL Server. IBM posts scads of information, so look at www.redbooks.ibm.com and www.software.ibm.com/data/db2.
Consolidation Fever
For years, analysts have been predicting a shakeout and consolidation that's finally happening in the crowded business intelligence/reporting/querying/ OLAP client market. Thanks to a series of acquisitions (PC DOCS/Fulcrum, Leonard's Logic, Andyne, and Angoss), Canadian-based Hummingbird is emerging as a major business intelligence (BI) player. Elsewhere, Brio Technology acquired SQRIBE Technology, and Information Advantage acquired IQ Software. And don't forget the giant acquisition of Platinum Technology by Computer Associates. The SQL Server community will want to monitor the effect on Platinum's Enterprise DBA and Platinum's collaboration with Microsoft on the Microsoft Repository.
Many DBAs are weighing the pros and cons of getting certified. As of the end of March, Microsoft reported that more than 53,500 people had passed various SQL Server exams to date (no breakdown by exam available). Oracle claims that as of April, more than 10,000 Oracle DBAs have been certified since it started counting in September 1997. As of late March, IBM reported more than 3000 DBAs certified on DB2 universal database (UDB) who are joining the ranks of more than 10,000 DBAs certified on the mainframe version of DB2. Speaking of DB2, the newest version of the AS/400 operating system, OS/400 4.4, includes DB2 UDB.
Office 2000 and Windows CE
Developments in Microsoft's Office 2000 and Windows CE will affect the SQL Server community. Microsoft is promoting Office 2000 as a serious development platform that not only comes with built-in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA, essentially VB), but also holds the keys to the new Extensible Markup Language (XML).
Read the Fine Print
Michael Otey's editorial comments about benchmarks ("The Oracle Challenge," April 1999) are right on the money. But remember that the Transaction Council's TPC benchmarks aren't the only ones in town. OLAP Council has its Analytical Processing Benchmark-1 (APB-1) OLAP benchmark, which you can review at www.olapcouncil.org.
Both Microsoft and Oracle forbid you to disclose any benchmark results without the firms' prior consent. Your SQL Server End-User License Agreement reads in part, "Performance of Benchmark Testing. You may not disclose the results of any benchmark test of either the Server Software or Client Software for Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, or Microsoft Proxy Server to any third party without Microsoft's prior written approval." In fact, in early 1998, Microsoft more or less forced IBM to unpost a research report prepared by UK-based Bloor Research that compared DB2 and SQL Server 6.5 performance. As Jeff Jones, senior program manager for IBM's data management marketing, says, "We don't place any kind of restriction on anyone when it comes to publishing benchmark results with DB2. We are unlike Oracle and Microsoft in this regard, and we plan to stay this way. We remain the only 1TB TPC-D result on Windows NT."


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This year, 2015 marks the 20th anniversary of LEADER in Westmeath. Since 1995 the LEADER Programme administered by WCD has provided vital assistance and finance for communities and individuals to undertake a wide range of projects; thus playing a key role in improving the Quality of Life of people living in rural Westmeath.
As part of its 20 year celebrations, Westmeath Community Development will be holding a series of meetings outlining the work of LEADER to date around the county. The venues for these meetings are as follows:
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A twin who makes a journey into space in a high-speed rocket will return home to find he has aged less than his identical twin who stayed on Earth.
I'm not very good at physics (neither english) but i think that every matter travels in/thru time (spacetime) and If you could travel faster then light, you could fly out of the universe and watch its birth. But, if you go back, time and all universe will be in different state compared with the state when you left... if time goes slower when you move thru the space, and if you move faster time goes slower, then basically if you reach c, time should stop, and... time could became negative if you are travelling faster.
It should be imposible to reach c. As far as i understand mass becomes infinity at c, so does the energy required to reach it. Anything with a mass can't reach speed of light.


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Morenci Area High School students have a Spanish teacher in place with the hiring of long-term substitute Andrea Berry.
The Blissfield native earned a teaching certificate from Adrian College more than a decade ago, but stayed home to raise her children who are now 10 and 8 years old.
Andrea has worked as a substitute teacher in the Monroe Jefferson district and she's worked with migrant families in Blissfield.
She's also taking post-graduate classes in Siena Heights University's Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages program.
There's something new with the Berry family: roller skating. Andrea said after her husband's physician prescribed exercise, they decided the skating rink would be a good place to follow the doctor's orders.
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Former CCSU baseball standout Evan Scribner has returned to the Major Leagues, this time as a member of the Oakland Athletics. Scribner, who made his Major League Debut last summer with the San Diego Padres, was called up on June 6, and pitched his first game with the A's on Sunday, pitching 1.1 innings without allowing a hit or a run. He struck out two.
Scribner was called up after pitching 32.3 innings for Triple A Sacramento this season, posting an ERA of 3.31 and striking out 35 batters. He posted a record of 3-0.
Scribner was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks following his senior season with the Blue Devils in 2007.
A native of Washington Depot, CT, Scribner made 74 appearances, including 33 starts, during his four-year career in New Britain. He compiled a 23-16 record and collected a Blue Devil-record 14 saves. Additionally, Scribner, who is among the all-time wins leaders in school history, recorded 20 complete games, five shutouts and a combined shutout. He totaled 288.0 innings on the mound, striking out 224 while walking just 57. He had a 3.34 earned run average.
In his senior season in 2007, Scribner went 6-6 with a team-low 2.78 ERA. He made 21 appearances, starting nine games. He had seven complete games and one shutout while also notching seven saves. Scribner led the Blue Devils and tied for the NEC lead with 84 strikeouts in a team-high 77.2 innings.
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DESSERT OF THE WEEK – Fudgy Salty Peanut Butter Brownies
- Level: Intermediate
- Total: 2 hr 25 min
- Prep: 30 min
- Inactive: 1 hr 15 min
- Cook: 40 min
- Yield: 12 to 16 servings
Decadent Brownies:
1 1/4 sticks unsalted butter, plus more, softened, for pan
1 cup unsweetened natural cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
1 1/3 cups sugar
1 1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 eggs, at room temperature
2/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
Peanut Butter Buttercream Layer:
1 cup creamy peanut butter (don't use old-fashioned or natural)
1/2 stick unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 cup powdered sugar
1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
1 1/4 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups salted cocktail peanuts
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
7 tablespoons unsalted butter
WATCHWatch how to make this recipe.
- Preheat your oven to 325 degrees F.
- For your brownie batter: Melt your butter in a medium (or large) heatproof bowl over a pot of simmering water.
- While the butter is melting, whisk the cocoa powder, sea salt and sugar in a separate bowl. (The sugar and salt will work as abrasive agents to get any lumps out of the cocoa.) Whisk the cocoa/sugar/salt combo into the melted butter until the sugar has dissolved fully. The mixture should look like fudge and pull away from the bowl into a ball. Take off the stove and set the pan on a dishtowel on your counter. Allow the fudgy mixture to cool down until it's warm, but not hot anymore.
- While that is cooling, line the bottom and sides of your 9 by 13-inch baking pan with parchment paper or foil. You want to leave about 4 inches of overhang on the 2 opposite sides. These serve as your handles to remove the brownies from the pan in 1 piece, so make sure that there is enough of the overhang for you to have a solid grip. Grease the parchment or foil well.
- Stir in the vanilla into the cooled fudge mixture to loosen it up. Add the eggs into the mixture 1 at a time, adding the second egg after the first egg is fully incorporated. The batter should look shiny and well blended. Add in your flour and stir it until it's fully incorporated. Once it looks fully blended, beat the batter vigorously for at least 45 strokes. This'll not only get out any pent up stress, but it will make the brownies chewy. Fold in your chocolate chips. Spread the very thick and fudgy brownie batter evenly in the lined pan with an offset spatula or your greased hands.
- Pop the brownies in the oven and bake until they get a nice crust and your house smells like brownies, 30 to 35 minutes. Let them cool completely on a rack or a dishtowel on your counter.
- While the brownies are cooling make the buttercream and ganache.
- For the buttercream: Mix your peanut butter and butter together in a stand mixer until they are totally blended. Turn your mixer down and slowly add your powdered sugar and fine sea salt. Stop the mixer and scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl. Turn your mixer back to medium, add your milk and vanilla and keep mixing until it's fully blended. Dollop the peanut butter buttercream in heaping spoonfuls on top of the cooled brownies. Evenly spread it with the back of a butter knife the over the surface. Scatter the peanuts evenly over the buttercream, pressing into the buttercream so that the ganache has something to hold on to and the peanuts are all covered.
- For the ganache: Melt the chocolate chips and butter together in a small saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly. Allow the ganache to cool down slightly for 10 minutes or so, then pour it evenly over the peanut butter buttercream layer. Smooth the ganache out with the back of a butter knife, making sure to cover the buttercream and peanuts completely. Chill the brownies in the refrigerator until the toppings are set, 1 1/2 hours or so.
- Remove these delicious guys from the refrigerator. Lift up the ends of the foil liner and place the Fudgy Salty Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownies on a cutting board. Cut into squares.
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People are buying tablets to replace old PCs, which explains why PC sales were so dismal over the holidays, according to Gartner.
Small, portable, capable, inexpensive, touchscreen tablets grab sales from low-end PCs and mean that old PCs will not be replaced with new ones, says Mikako Kitagawa, a Gartner principal analyst, and that is a significant change in how PC sales work.
"Whereas as once we imagined a world in which individual users would have both a PC and a tablet as personal devices, we increasingly suspect that most individuals will shift consumption activity to a personal tablet, and perform creative and administrative tasks on a shared PC," Kitagawa says.
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"This transformation was triggered by the availability of compelling low-cost tablets in 2012, and will continue until the installed base of PCs declines to accommodate tablets as the primary consumption device."
That is the battle Windows 8 is fighting, Gartner says, although the scarcity of Windows 8 touch devices may so far have hampered sales. With new touch machines being promised for later this year, that may help Windows 8 grab a larger share of PC sales but not help the overall number of PCs sold, Gartner says.
Sales were down 4.9% in Q4 2012 vs. Q4 2011, Gartner says, which goes along with IDC numbers from last week, although IDC's number, 6.4%, is larger. "During the holiday season, consumers no longer viewed PCs as the number one gift item," Gartner says in a press release.
PC purchases by businesses went against the general trend, Kitagawa says, which is typical because businesses often make year-end purchases for tax reasons. "Our early research indicates that there was good growth in professional PC sales," Kitagawa says.
The upside for PC vendors is that as customers walk away from low-end models sales of high-end devices will persist, giving vendors a higher average selling price, Kitagawa says.
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For those of you who didn't know, today is TMC's second birthday, being the second anniversary of the first-ever posting after site construction was complete.
In those days TMC was still making the transition from being an online place for the four founder members (myself, Raf, Sunnyfield (Eward) and Steve) to chat and into a pukka online forum and information resource. This shows a bit in a few of the earliest posts - as (embarrasingly) Danny McNulty was forced to remind us earlier this year. Hey Danny, where are you - I do hope you didn't just join to tell us off?
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You know Melvin Manhoef (24-8-1 MMA, 0-1 SF), right? The guy with dynamite fists who's always on one end or the other of a knockout?
That's not the real guy any more, according to the owner of that name.
Manhoef, who fights one-time middleweight contender Tim Kennedy (12-3 MMA, 3-1 SF) tomorrow, said he's dusted off a copy of "1,000 Submissions" and other books of the like in advance of a bout that's likely to go to the mat.
"I had a little bit of time where I didn't train, but then I got myself together," Manhoef told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). "Now I'm only focusing on the [Brazilian jiu-jitsu], the wrestling (and) the grappling. It should be a little better than before, but I'm still learning a lot. I'll combine it a little bit, you will see.
The Dutch terror meets Kennedy at "Strikeforce: Feijao vs. Henderson," which takes place Saturday at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. The event's main card, including the middleweight tilt, airs live on Showtime.
Grappling and Manhoef have not been close friends in the fighter's 16 years of professional MMA competition. He's been on the mat plenty of times, of course, but usually been a prelude to a submission loss. Kickboxing has been far more charitable, and with 23 wins by knockout, he's never failed to attract the interest of promoters who want to see him stand and bang, or swing and fall.
Included on that list of promoters is Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker, who long pined to put together a match between Manhoef and former EliteXC champion Robbie Lawler when he bought a heap of fighter contracts from Lawler's defunct promotion.
Manhoef delivered the goods in full in January 2010 when he knocked Lawler around the cage for three-and-a-half minutes until he left his guard open for a split second and allowed Lawler to knock him out cold in the first round.
He most recently fought this past July and got submitted in the first round by Japanese journeyman Tatsuya Mizuno. But when Kennedy's second scheduled opponent, Luke Rockhold, was forced to withdraw due to injury, Coker knew just who he wanted as a replacement.
Of course, most observers believe Kennedy vs. Manhoef can't be any simpler when it comes forecasting the fight. Manhoef will swing for the fences, and Kennedy will try to take the fight down.
But Kennedy has said he's not afraid to trade with his short-notice opponent.
"By no means do I have an aversion to stepping in and punching with [Melvin]," Kennedy recently told MMAjunkie.com Radio. "But on the flip side, if the opportunity is there for me to pick him up and slam him, I'm going to do that, too. But I'm definitely coming to put on a show, and I want to knock him out."
Both agree it will be an action-packed fight, wherever it ends up going.
"He's an aggressive fighter and he's a good all-around fighter," Manhoef said. "I think it's going to be a heck of a fight. I cannot predict how I'm going to fight, or what I'm going to do, but I think the fight will be so hard that everyone will talk about it.
"I think it's going to be the fight of the night or the year."
For the latest on "Strikeforce: Feijao vs. Henderson," stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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Richard Carrier blogged this today:
Scientists prove Beowulf and the Iliad are true stories! Not. Sometimes scientists can be so clueless, you just want to pat them on the head and go "Aw, that's so sad."
Overall, I agree with him on the initial point that Scientists are not historians or theologians and don't generally have a grasp on the function of our texts. We run into this problem on occasion when Scientists claim they can pinpoint the date of the crucifixion through tracking earthquakes because one of the Gospels mentions an earthquake, or we can determine how the Reed Sea was crossed because a gust of wind can sustain itself for a long time and permit the waters to part.
Read the whole thing. It is worth your time. And woe to anyone who really thought this scientist was on to something…
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Out Former Marine Announces Bid for House Seat in Alabama
An openly gay former Marine took to Facebook Sunday to announce his bid for a seat in the Alabama State House in District 54.
Over a week ago, Neil Rafferty, from Birmingham, Ala., said that he decided to run after a "dear friend" asked him to consider the bid.
"In the past week, I've spent many hours in conversation with family and friends, but more importantly, I've asked myself how can I best serve my community," he wrote on Facebook Sunday. "On Friday, I traveled to Montgomery to complete qualifying paperwork to run. I look forward to expanding my lifetime of service as I announce my candidacy for State House of Representatives District 54."
Rafferty is vying for the seat being vacated by Democrat Patricia Todd, who is Alabama's first openly gay legislator. She announced last mont she would not seek a reelection.
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Dial Up modem's days are long gone but Land line still exists either in the form of home pbx or PSTN, An Arduino based Dial Up modem shield can be used for a lot of fun projects. I'm no electronics expert but modem chips are already available with AT Command support http://www.conexant.com/Product/modems/embmodems/CX93040/Pages/default.aspx I think Arduino can produce this shield in no time what do you think? :~
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On the PPC, there are addressing modes that make it easy to deal with 16-bit constants and 16-bit absolute addresses. CCL exploits this: things like NIL and T are 16-bit constants (and the addresses of things that are mapped into low memory); conditional calls to runtime support routines can use "branch absolute" instructions to call those routines (which are also mapped into the low 16 bits of the address space). Apple uses a similar scheme to reference critical library routines in Mac OS X (since the addressing mode generally involved signed 16-bit addresses, Apple's scheme uses addresses in the high 16 bits of the address space). That sort of thing is what the addressing modes are for, after all.
The Linux kernel provides a feature that can prevent a process from mapping addresses below a certain base address. The idea, apparently, is that this will prevent exploitation of undiscovered null pointer dereference bugs in the kernel.
The parameter in question is called mmap_min_addr; one can cat the file /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr to see what the current setting is.
Some recent Linux distributions (including Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8) ship with this value set to 65536. This has the effect of preventing processes from accessing the low 64K of their address spaces. Whether this makes sense or not on other architectures is debatable; on the PPC, it means that applications that want to exploit 16-bit PPC addressing are prohibited from doing so. We don't know if anyone involved in this decision thought about this issue or what they concluded if so. It's a little hard to believe that much thought went into that decision.
Fortunately, there are a few workarounds.
Processes running as root are not subject to the restriction. However, it's not reasonable to require rootly powers just to run CCL.
The value of mmap_min_addr can be changed by writing a new value to the file /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr like so:
# echo 4096 >/proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr
This will persist only until the system is rebooted.
It should be possible to make a permanent fix by adding the line
to the file /etc/sysctl.conf. (This change will take effect on the next and subsequent reboots.)
The 4K value mentioned above will protect against certain (yet-to-be-discovered) NULL pointer deference bugs in the kernel, but will still allow applications to use low-memory addresses.
On some newer systems (Ubuntu 8.10, for instance, at least in the PS3 distribution), the 4K value doesn't work, although
# echo 0 >/proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr
will permit the lisp to run. (Setting this value to 0 doesn't necessarily make your system insecure. It might, however, make it possible or easier to exploit yet-to-be-discovered bugs in the Linux kernel.)
On the x86 platform, there's no architectural advantage to using 16-bit addresses (when it's even possible to do so). Version 1.1 of CCL/OpenMCL happened to use very similar/very low addresses (there was no reason not to); 1.2 and later use addresses above 64K (mostly because Windows restricts access to the low 64K for other reasons.)
It might be possible to rearchitect PPC CCL not to exploit this architectural feature, but the thought of doing so is not particularly attractive.
FreeBSD (i386,amd64)
The distributed versions of Clozure CL are built on a FreeBSD 6.4 system; they should run unmodified on any 6.x system. (In general, the 64-bit version requires a 64-bit ("amd64") FreeBSD release; the 32-bit version of CCL should run on a 32-bit FreeBSD release or on a 64-bit release if the "lib32" 32-bit libraries are installed.)
FreeBSD changes library versions on major releases and executable files refer to the libraries that they depend on via versioned names, so the distributed CCL kernel (built on a 6.x system) won't run on a 7.x FreeBSD system (because the 6.x versions of the libraries it depends on aren't installed.) There are two ways to work around this:
- Install the "compat6x" package, which provides the 6.x libraries on a 7.x system. This can be done via the FreeBSD ports system:
$ cd /usr/ports/misc/compat6x $ sudo make install
- Build the kernel yourself on the 7.x system
$ cd ccl/lisp-kernel/freebsdx8632 # or freebsdx8664 $ make
FreeBSD doesn't provide the same level of support for multi-arch development (e.g., compiling 32-bit C code on 64-bit systems and vice versa) that Darwin, most Linux distributions, and Solaris offer; it's not generally possible to compile a 32-bit FreeBSD kernel on a 64-bit FreeBSD system. And vice versa.
It should be possible to run a 32-bit FreeBSD CCL on a 64-bit FreeBSD system and it generally is. Unfortunately, CCL triggers a bug that was introduced in the 7.1 release version of the 64-bit FreeBSD kernel (7.0 and 6.x are not affected.) See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=130526
if you're interested in the gory details; the source patch in the responses to the bug report seems to work, so recompiling the 64-bit FreeBSD 7.1 kernel should enable 32-bit CCL to run on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.1. A bug that prevented 32-bit CCL from running on FreeBSD 7.1/amd64 systems has been fixed in FreeBSD 7.2
Solaris (x86)
The GNU m4 included with Open Solaris has bugs that prevent it from being usable for the build of the lisp kernel. It's probably easiest to retrieve the latest GNU m4 sources from someplace (http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/ is one possibility), and build them locally. The lisp kernel makefiles expect a working GNU m4 to be installed as /usr/local/bin/m4, so it will be necessary to edit ccl/lisp-kernel/solarisx{86,64}/Makefile if you install the m4 binary elsewhere.


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An Iranian news agency is reporting the country has begun to stockpile a three-month supply of foodstuffs for its population.
The Friday report by semi-official Mehr quotes deputy industry minister Hasan Radmard as saying the country has been buying wheat, cooking oil, sugar and rice for the food reserve.
Radmard said the decision came based on a decree by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in recent weeks. Part of the purchased foodstuffs has already been imported, he added.
Iran's trade with other countries has been hindered since the United States and the European Union imposed a banking and insurance embargo on Tehran over its disputed nuclear program.
The West suspects Iran is pursuing nuclear weapon, a charge Iran denies.


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By mikeinaz on Saturday, December 22, 2018I want to love this vehicle, I really do but GM's lack of customer service is going to make me get rid of it and because of their overall service, I will never buy another GM car again. Overall, the vehicle checks the boxes if you are looking for a large SUV that has good room inside, is styled nicely inside and out and can tow a decent amount. I purchased the Platinum trim level new in 17. As soon as I drove it alone w/ nobody in the passenger front seat I noticed a ticking noise coming from that seat. Think of someone pressing a computer key as rapidly as possible. Long story short, vehicle has been into two different dealers almost twenty times for the same issue (among others), the seat has had numerous parts replaced, engineers from corporate have come by to try to diagnose it, I opened up a claim with corporate GM. All I want is a new seat since they cannot fix the problem. They refuse to do it and told me the noise is 'normal'. No its not! I have driven a few others of the same year and none make the noise. They have closed my case and refuse to help me or fix the seat and I cannot keep a vehicle that taps and rattles all the time. Especially a vehicle I paid $60k for. Shame on GM for not doing what is right and taking care of a customer. No way a vehicle should be back close to twenty times for the same issue and then told to deal with it basically. I will be trading this vehicle in on another brand SUV and I will never come back to GM again.
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Long trip without moving anywhere
Romain writes in his diary about this important milestone: "This unusual and extraordinary adventure begun on 3 June 2010. With my crewmates, Diego Urbina, Alexey Sitev, Sukhrob Kamolov, Alexander Smoleevskiy and Wang Yue, we embarked for a long duration motionless trip."
A lot of focus was put on this exceptional experiment before our entry and my family amongst a lot of other people was there to wish us a safe journey. They gave me a lot of energy and, for the first weeks of our isolation, I was quite excited discovering this new life. I walked back and forth in all our modules to understand better and own our new territory. It didn't take a lot of time for us to feel like at home.
Also, for a couple of months, we went through all our 100 experiments to make sure that we could realize them to the satisfaction of the hundreds of scientists behind them.
Soon enough we found a nice and smooth routine for our days' work and for our free time. The dark side of this routine is that every day for the past year we woke up at the same time to do the same medical controls with the same devices: no week-end or holiday breaks for a year!
To avoid to be drowning in an ocean of monotony we organized or we were surprised by some special events. You may have read about them in our previous diaries: Halloween, the power failure's simulation or New Year's Eve.
Today, as we reach our 365th day, I would like to talk about another kind of events which always gave us a lot of pleasure: visits. Since 25 July 2010, the (virtual) distance between our spaceship and the Earth makes it impossible to have any direct communication with other persons than the six of us.
To have a good and efficient way of sharing information with Mission Control we use written messages - "Radiograms" - and video-messages. We are now used to receive videos from the duty teams who are monitoring our modules from the outside and it's always a good surprise when an unexpected face is shown on our computer screen. I would divide those special visits (i.e: video-messages) into 3 different categories: groups of students, family members & friends and groups of officials.
I remember that the first students who came here were from the Lycée Français of Moscow. It was totally unexpected for me and I smiled a lot watching them telling jokes together or struggling to find their words in front of an impersonal webcam. Later we received videos from Spanish, French and Russian teenagers visiting us during their school trips. The bravest ones are even singing to cheer us up and it works!
Even if Moscow is quite far from France, I had the chance to see some relatives and friends here. For these persons, the "conversation" that we can have is always frustrating and pleasant at the same time. Due to the delay in communications, the video messages take so much time to come and go that the waiting is really frustrating. However, the excitement to have them here and to see them with the usual mission control background is worth the waiting. it's a real pleasure almost feel their presence close by and to talk casually about their trip like we would do at home.
A lot of officials from the main Space Agencies were in Moscow for the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first flight in space and some of them took this opportunity to visit us. For example, the new director of the "Human Spaceflight and Operations" at ESA, Thomas Reiter, came on 11 April. We also had the pleasure to see the president of the French Space Agency (CNES), Yannick d'Escatha, on this day.
With our crew mates we developed a protocol for the official visits. The main persons involved (for example Diego and me for the visit of ESA officials) prepare a message welcoming our visitors and explaining in more detail our situation here. Soon after, the whole crew gathers in the control room for a quick "welcome" video. Doing so, our official visitors will be able to watch our message as soon as they arrive. With their busy schedule and the delays in communications we were never able to exchange more than 2 videos with the outside but their kind words were always well perceived by the whole crew.
The highlight of our year of isolation weren't the special events that we had or all the visits that we received. The real highlight of our 365 days was definitively Mars. The Red Planet was our target from the start and reaching it was a great moment. Our month of February stands apart in my memories. The opening of the Martian lander, the three EVAs made by Diego, Wang Yue and Alexander and the reunification in the end were the greatest episode of our trip.
We are now in our way back with our usual monotonous routine. Looking back at all the moments that we shared together as a crew makes me a little bit nostalgic especially for the Mars period. However we still have five months ahead of us a lot of opportunities to make this trip to Mars even more special.
We have a great crew and although our backgrounds are significantly different, we never had any conflicts between us. That's why I'm full of optimism for our last days in the Mars 500 modules. We'll see you on 5 November when we'll land on Earth after our 520 day's journey to the Red Planet, not before!
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Valentin was inspired by the work of Valentin Haüy, creator of the first books for the blind. His comprehensive plan, as outlined in Essay on the Education of the Blind, included instruction in both reading raised print and writing longhand with an iron stylus to create indentations; for this dual purpose a cursive style was used.
Although it may now seem a complicated design for first teaching the blind to read, it's also a beautiful but rather eccentric version of what is called a vertical French script. Working from a facsimile of the copy of l'Essai sur l'éducation des aveugles presented to Louis XVI on Christmas 1786 I completely redrew the font. I kept the basic form of the letters while smoothing, regularizing, and re-spacing them for better legibility by eye. Also works well italicized for more of a script feel.
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Computer in Fashion IV - Create a Collection
Spring Session 4: March 28, 2020 - April 25, 2020
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Create an eight look collection using all learned techniques from the previous three workshops. We will also create a professional looking portfolio for presentation. This is a hands on course.
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By Ashley Pratte
Executive Director
Conservatives were kicked in the knees by November's election results, and now we are facing legislation that should strike fear in the hearts of those who believe in life, families, and free markets.
The first battle we will face is over expanded gambling here in the Granite State. New Hampshire is known for its tourism and hospitality and all of its natural beauty from the White Mountain to the Great Lakes to the Seacoast. This healthy, family-friendly image and New Hampshire's well-earned reputation for being a great state to raise a family are now at risk.
As the Executive Director of Cornerstone Policy Research, I ardently defend the legislature's desire to balance our state's budget and recognize that this is a budget year for the New Hampshire Legislature. But it is imperative that we seek to balance our budget through cutting spending and not through morally questionable activities that will actually cost us more money in the long run.
In order to avoid difficult budget choices, some legislators are backing bills to rush through approval of expanding gambling and believe that they will receive revenue from licensing from one or more casinos. It is unrealistic to expect that a casino will be built in time for revenue to arrive in 2014. These same legislators are also factoring this license revenue into the FY 2014 budget, knowing that this is not realistic. This desperate move would be a grave error — even for those who want casinos here — because this license revenue would not become available until late 2015 at the earliest. For those concerned about keeping New Hampshire family-friendly, all angles of building a casino here in the Granite State need to be researched and not be rushed to put a temporary Band-Aid on our budget.
It is important to note that other states have grappled with the issue of expanded gambling. States such as Arizona have accepted the arguments of out-of-state gambling interests, believing that new casinos lead to higher revenue and lower taxes. They soon came to realize that quite the opposite is true and that gambling ultimately leads to expanded taxes, increased crime rate, and broken families.
Studies and research have shown that gambling often hurts, not helps, existing businesses by siphoning away discretionary dollars that might otherwise have been spent at local shops, which are at the heart of our economy here in New Hampshire. Also, the economic costs associated with gambling such as losses due to crime, additional law enforcement costs, as well as gambling addiction treatment costs are staggering, often far exceeding a state or community's total revenue from gambling.
So the question becomes, is building a casino here in New Hampshire really an idea that stems from innovation or is it more an act of desperation in a search to find new revenue opportunities? Responsible governing is critical and making rash decisions that could have a lasting impact on our state would be harmful to Granite Staters.
From the author: Cornerstone-Action and Cornerstone Policy Research are non-partisan, nonprofit organizations dedicated to preserving New Hampshire's traditional values, limited government, and free markets through education, information and advocacy. Our vision is to create an environment in which strong families — the foundation of our society — can lead New Hampshire into a new era of prosperity and strength. For more information, please visit nhcornerstone.org.


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I have a Java game that connects to a C/C++ server.
When I send the packets all at once, they don't get through.
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Beat the Streak Report: Monday, August 23
We start this week with "warriorclub" atop the leaderboard with a
30-game streak. 30-game streaks are always attention worthy. There's
some attention.
But this edition of the Beat the Streak Report is dedicated to our
season leader, Dick George. Oh, Dick George, how angelic of a human you
Forget for a second that Mr. George is currently riding a 17-game streak
merely weeks after watching his 43-gamer evaporate — come on, we know
with Dick that it's not and it never was about the money.
No, what makes Dick George a first-ballot Beat the Streak Hall of Famer
can be reflected in the e-mail he sent me over the weekend paying homage
and respect to Geoff Croke and his 43-gamer. I sic'd the daylights out
of this out of respect to my favorite hit oracle:
Naturally I have been following your recent streak closely along with
about 20-30 friends. I felt sure you would take the lead Thursday
night and I was ready to be 100% behind you as you went for the $3M. I
just want to congratulate you for your accomplishment. I know how hard
it is to get to 43 and I know it gets a little more nerve racking each
day when you get that high. My daughter lives in Brooklyn, I would love
to catch a Mets game with you sometime. Maybe when they play the
Giants, my favorite team.
Finished crying yet?
Good, now let's try to make this little rendezvous a reality.
Time for Monday's picks
Oh, hello there …
? Miguel Cabrera: .625 AVG (5-for-8) lifetime vs. Royals starter Bruce Chen
? Ichiro Suzuki: .321 AVG (18-for-56) since '05 vs. Red Sox starter John Lackey
? Johnny Damon: .529 AVG (10-for-19) career vs. Royals starter Bruce Chen
? Howard Kendrick: .583 AVG (7-for-12) lifetime vs. Rays starter James Shields
Feeling kinda spicy?
? Yuniesky Betancourt: .476 AVG (10-for-21) lifetime vs. Tigers starter Jeremy Bonderman
You'll thank me later …
? Alberto Callaspo: .100 AVG (1-for-10) lifetime vs. Rays starter James Shields
? Joe Mauer: .182 AVG (2-for-11) lifetime vs. Rangers starter Rich Harden
? Albert Pujols: .167 AVG (1-for-6) lifetime vs. Pirates starter Ross Ohlendorf
Leaderboard time!
As mentioned earlier, "warriorclub" is riding high with a 30-game streak. Not far behind is "sunhudson" with a 29-gamer.
In Home Run Beat the Streak news, "kendo1961" is setting the pace with
an eight-game streak. Eight is currently the season high, so if
"kendo1961" can press his luck for another day, a sole leader atop the
… leaderboard will emerge.
And on that note, my ill-advised HR BTS pick of the day is: Jose Bautista vs. Ivan Nova and the Yankees!
Do with that as you may.
Or not, your choice.
Top MLB streakers
? Elvis Andrus: 12 games
? Omar Infante: 11 games
? Austin Kearns: 11 games
? Juan Pierre: 11 games
? Vladimir Guerrero: 10 games
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Entering today: 42 game days remaining. Minimum current streak required to win the prizes outright (assuming season ends Oct 3rd)…
(*) Playing for a tie? add 1 to DL and minus 1 from CS & TS
Abbreviations: DL=Active Streak Deadline, CS=Current Streak Needed, TS=Target
BTS Countdown Resets now eliminate you from cash prizes
Top Prize ($3M): CS:15, TS:57, DL:Aug 8th
*Consolation ($10K): CS:2, TS:44, DL:Aug 21st (pending)
Survivor Countdown {tickets are for 2011 All-Star Game & Homerun Derby}
Top Prize (2 tickets+travel+hotel+$10K): CS:0, TS:37, DL:Aug 28th
*Consolation (2 tickets only): CS:0, TS:30, DL:Sept 4th (pending)
"Resets now eliminate you from cash prizes
Expanding on that comment. After tonite's games, only 41 game days remaining. Need 43 to tie the high mark this year. Well even if an Oct 4th game were played, that would be 42 games left after today, instead of 41. But you need 43 minimum. I can not foresee any chance of an Oct 5th game.
^^ And 1 more final comment. I guess one could argue, "what if both leaders were disqualified, then…" I guess there is always hope no matter how unlikely.
Looks like Dave is saying the leader, George, has more tie breaker hits than GCroke.
BTS – Starlin Castro (Was 4 for 5 yesterday v. Braves)
HR – Hamilton v. Harden who was with Cubs a few years ago and can be great or terrible. Gives up the long ball alot.
Game in TX and Hamilton is hot – like my chances here.
Survivor – RSox
Wednesday Aug 25 – Rockies in a day game and Tulowitzki has hit in all the day games he has played in this year.
Mig is a solid choice but I'm sticking with Hamilton. He's 7-for-14 over the last three days and Blackburn is a nightmare. Good luck to all!!
"Looks like Dave is saying the leader, George, has more tie breaker hits than GCroke."
Don't know, depends on how you read between the lines. One may read it as: "Though Dick lost the tiebreaker, this is what a good sport the guy is…" Though I doubt Dave was hinting one way or the other & may be prevented from telling us which won the tiebreaker.
Flip flopping between Miguel and Josh. Miguel on the road would get possibly extra bat and hits chen well, or Josh who is hotttt and kills at home. I don't know. Good luck to all tonight. I think they both get hits.
I'm still going to blog. I was thinking about it and I figured why the hell not and I just read the comments from last night and I still stand by what I said. I want to know how you can even get to 15 yet alone 30 or 40. Anybody care to help me out? 10 long years and not even a 15 game streak and the worst part is half of the ones who blog this year will not be back next year. It always happens like I said. My picks for tonight.
BTS-Ortiz, he has hits in 12 of his last 13 games and they are facing the Mariners at home so it looks like a good pick.
HR BTS-Cabrera
Survivor-Giants, Cain is pitching and look at his numbers at home and you will see why I chose them to win.
From the rules page, I was under the impression that it was whoever gets there first, which would make Dick George the winner. It sounded like the tiebreaker was only if both of the highest streaks ended on the same day. But I could be way off….
– Tiffany
@bronxbmbr: Miguel on the road? As in M.Cabrerra? Not on the road, it's a home game for them.
@Tiffany: The "first come, first served" rule is for the 57 game top prize, not the consolation prize.
@bronxbmbr both players (Miguel Cabrera and Josh Hamilton) are at home and I'm deciding between them too.
HR: Miguel Cabrera
Survivor: Rangers (I've been struggling in survivor lately alternating wins and losses. I'm at 1 and hope to break that pattern tonight.)
BTW it's 108� in Arlington tonight is that good or bad if I take Josh Hamilton?
Joe Mauer is a pick of the day who's 2 for 11 against Rich Harden. lol
Actually considerd Damon. But he's been claimed off waivers by Boston & doesn't seem to like it. Will his mind be on the game? An average hitter, too risky for me today with that on his mind. Looking for Bobby Abreu (hopefully not a DNP) to move me along tonight.
Then again, not Abreu. Waffling like this makes me nuts!!!
Good luck to the rest of you.
Overthinking this game can kill you. Damon gets 1 AB hit 😉
Lots of 1 AB hits: Cano, Pujols, Holliday, Cabrerra, Butler, Zimmerman, Beltre…. Shaping up to be a great BTS day unless Ichiro/Hamilton go 0-fer
Thanks guys I don't know why I thought he was on the road anyways he got his hit and I'm now waiting to see if Josh(my pick) comes throught for me or not to get me to a season high of 7. Good luck to the rest of ya still waiting.
Hey guys I'm back and ready to rock, Miggy already moved me along for tonight. Yahhh up to 3.
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Monday's Top Picks of the current Top2500, 112 Batters picked overall. 10 games tonight.
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage
Miguel Cabrera 538 21.52(3RD, 3RD & 5TH)(GOOD)
Josh Hamilton 373 14.92(1RST)
Ichiro Suzuki 289 11.56(2ND, 5TH & 5TH)
Albert Pujols 166 6.64(GOOD)
Carl Crawford 109 4.36
Joe Mauer 101 4.04
Martin Prado 76 3.04
Ryan Zimmerman 65 2.6(GOOD)
Robinson Cano 61 2.44(GOOD)
Evan Longoria 61 2.44
No Selection 41 1.64
Johnny Damon 40 1.6(GOOD)
Adrian Beltre 37 1.48(GOOD)
Highest "No Selection":Pg# 6 with a streak of 16 back to zero.
Bloggers Group Top2500
UserName, Streak, Page#, Rank, Pick
forcook, 22, pg 1, 15, I. Suzuki
baseballgirlie13, 18, 75, pg 4, J. Hamilton
GL to all
Wel Dave, your HR pick o the day just launched a 2-run shot.
and Kendo went with Jose as well to move into 1rst place all by his lonesome @ 9 straight days with a HR. but hot on his heels Eric also had Jose to go to 7 and keep the pressure on. ( not that there's not enough pressure as is)
Congratulations to Kendo1961 for getting to 9.
I don't want to be selfish but I need to bend the don't pick against my team rule…. at least for home runs. I was ready to pick Batista if anyone besides my Yankees were the opponent. Pujols homered but I did not take him. I took Miguel Cabrera and KC has intentionally walked him twice with the 2nd coming after an error on a Damon single. However I also have Miguel on the more important game and he singled in his first AB so I'm at 9.
Wow. Kendo1961 moves on to 9 HR hits!
A tip of my Cub hat to Kendo1961 – 9 HR's. In my best month this year I had 10 HR's.
Starlin Castro (no relation to Fidel) singles. I like this kid more and more each day. He has alot of poise for a 20 year old and is super fast too.
What a BTS day. Couple of later games with Mauer, Crawford & Longoria among most picked yet to get a hit, else a vast majority of BTS players move on today with very little resets it appears.
Tough luck for those that picked Jeter with an 0-fer pinch & Pence going 0-3. For me, my game hasn't started yet.
On the lighter side: Cubs Win, Cubs Win under new manager
Highest No selection on survivor on page 1 with a streak of 9. Back to 0.
NO HITTER ALERT. Could it be, another one, in this, the year of the pitcher? TEX no-hitting MIN, 6 outs to go… check that D.Young grounds out, 5 outs to go.
No-hitter update… 3 outs to go, 3 pitchers used so far.
No-hit broken up on an 0-2 pitch to Mauer, one of Dave's "you'll thank me later" selections 😉
Based on what I said above anyone who took Mauer (mainly long streaks) must me having the celebration of a decade. Breaks up the Texas no hitter with 1 out in the 9th. The Rangers 1 hit the Twins. I had the Rangers on survivor.
If the no-hitter took place that would've been one each month this season. Wonder if that ever happened before. Still have some time, but August is running out of days.
@vinny1979: "I want to know how you can even get to 15 yet alone 30 or 40. Anybody care to help me out?"
My 2nd year playing. 1st year got a streak of 17. This year high is 20. Next year?
1st year: I simply did what most do. Looked at worse pitchers for the day & opposing hitters. Picked who I felt was best suited to get a hit. Hardly any research.
2nd year: Lots of research. Tried many strategies. End result wasn't much better than 1st year.
I do think favoring good/great batters with high averages against a poor pitcher is sound. There's probably 3-5 such matchups a day. Honestly, trick is to not pick the one(s) that fail; that's where the luck factor comes in. Not much help I know.
I didn't pick on the top 15, but Omar Infante went 2 for 5 to bring my streak to 7 games!
I didn't pick from the top 15 either. However, H.Kendrick fit the profile I was trying to describe above: batting well over 400 against Shields at 9 ABs, he went 2 for 3 last night (now over 500 with 12 ABs). But I'd prefer to have higher ABs. For example picking Pujols or Theriot Tuesday with 34 & 27 ABs respectively, each batting over 400 against opposing pitchers.
When I said 3-5 such matchups in my last post, I was focusing on "great" matchups with double-digit ABs. Some research needed. Example. Geoff (last leader) made 2 bad picks IMO within a couple days apart, Hanley & Loney, both with great numbers against the lefty pitchers haven't seen yet this year. But both were hitting lefties horrible this year. Leader skirted by with Hanley but not with Loney. A little research would have shown that.
What I don't get are those that pick hitters against pitchers never seen before. That is just blind faith; there's always better picks. Then again, this game has a high luck factor.
^^^ Some stat error corrections, just for completeness:
Hendrick was 583 with 12 ABs when picked, now 733 at 15 ABs vs Shields. Tuesday: Pujols has 27 ABs vs pitcher & Theriot has 34
"What I don't get are those that pick hitters against pitchers never seen before. That is just blind faith; there's always better picks. Then again, this game has a high luck factor."
I have not found that stat to correlate all that strongly with getting a hit.


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NOTE from DearMYRTLE: The following was just received from our friends at NGS, the National Genealogical Society. Please address all inquiries to NGS at email@example.com.
Arlington, VA. 28 March 2008
The National Genealogical Society (NGS) appoints Pamela K. Boyer Education and Publications Director.
Janet A. Alpert, president of the National Genealogical Society is pleased to announce the appointment of Pamela K. Boyer, CG, CGL, Education and Publications Director, effective 31 March 2008. Boyer will work at the NGS headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.
During a strategic planning session in 2007, the Board of Directors decided to establish the position of Education and Publications Director, which is necessary if we are to deliver on our mission statement "to serve and grow the genealogical community by providing education and training, fostering increased quality standards, and promoting access to and preservation of genealogical records."
We are pleased to have someone with Pamela K. Boyer's background as a professional trainer and genealogical researcher, writer and lecturer.
Boyer has been a self-employed professional genealogist for the last 14 years. She earned Certified Genealogist credentials in 1998 and Certified Genealogical Lecturer credentials in 2001. She has been the editor of the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly and copy editor of OnBoard, newsletter of the Board for Certification of Genealogists. She also co-wrote Online Roots: How to Discover Your Family's History and Heritage with the Power of the Internet (Rutledge Hill Press, Nashville, 2003) and Research in The States-Missouri (National Genealogical Society, Arlington, Virginia, 1999 and 2007). Prior to becoming a professional genealogist Boyer was a technical writer and trainer in several different industries. She has a Bachelor of University Studies degree from Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, New Mexico, and has pursued courses towards an MBA from Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts.
As Education and Publications Director, Boyer will develop a three-year plan of courses and publications that will enhance the educational benefits for our NGS members. She will work closely with Connie Lenzen, CG, chair of the NGS Education Committee. She will work with other members of the staff in redesigning the NGS Web site www.ngsgenealogy.org so we can deliver more educational courses and publications electronically.
Pamela K. Boyer is pleased to be joining the National Genealogical Society and is excited about the opportunity to continue to fulfill its 105-year legacy as the premier national society in the United States through the tangible membership benefits of education and publications.
In a recent interview, Boyer expressed her thoughts about her new role as Education and Publications Director:
"Most Americans hunger to know more about their ancestors, and learning how to effectively research your roots is a proven way to meet them face to face in historical sources that come alive if you know how to interpret them.
NGS offers the opportunity for anyone in the world to learn about American genealogical research by availing themselves of online courses and publications. I plan to work closely with NGS's Education Committee, board, and volunteers to analyze our currently available courses and NGS-published instruction guides and produce some new and innovative methods of instruction.
The success of the Research in the States series, which has been offered as downloadable electronic documents and traditional print versions, suggests that members are ready and eager for newer methods of learning. I plan to identify topics of vital interest to our members and assist in planning and developing new courses at an affordable price and in a convenient format.
This may be accomplished through interactive on-line courses that incorporate such features as audio, video, and self-grading, in addition to guidance from experts in the field.
Our NGS top-notch publications, NGSQ, NGS NewsMagazine, the Research in the States series, and the e-zine UpFront with NGS offer genealogical methodology instruction, practical how-to information, useful articles, and news of immediate value. These forums will be augmented by new publications or timely revisions of old favorites such as Numbering Your Genealogy. A complete revision of the NGS guide for beginners is under way, which will bring back a favorite of classroom genealogy teachers.
I'll also be working closely with a graphic artist and Gayathri Kehr, our NGS Information Technology specialist, to give the NGS Web site a facelift for easier navigation, and we'll be adding more content.
The National Genealogical Society belongs to its members, and I want to help ensure that they receive quality products and continuing expanded membership benefits."
The National Genealogical Society was founded in 1903, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia and has over 10,500 individual and organizational members across the United States and the world.
Janet A. Alpert, President
National Genealogical Society
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Snapshots from Colombia: Tropical Fruit in Cartagena
Stroll through the streets of the colonial city of Cartagena, Colombia, and you'll see locals wiping watermelon juice off their chins, slurping down slices of mangoes, and popping small, round exotic fruits like candy and sucking on the pits. Even kids drain cups of freshly squeezed juice with the fervor normally associated with ice cream.
The heat and sun and air in Cartagena brings on a particular thirst. Not just for water or beer or mojitos; but for something rich in color, satisfying in texture, and with a surprising punch of flavor.
When a Colombian friend heard I was traveling to Cartagena, his enthusiastic reply was a list of unfamiliar words: uchuva, lulo, guanabana. These are the exotic fruits of Cartagena, the bright pop of color in already color-saturated streets, where vendors sell everything from pre-cut ready-to-eat fruit to tiny, flavor-packed mini bananas. The stands are community centers, with locals sauntering between tables to see who has the ripest mangoes or the best price on limes.
Produce this bold in color seemed to inspire a friendly competition between the stands. To draw the eye, some vendors chose to stock their stand entirely in one color, allowing different hues of red or densely packed green to lure in the customers. One stand focused on red fruits had mangoes piled high with fire-engine red skins. When I asked about the mangoes, the vendor blushed, hesitating before revealing that the mangoes are called "gringo cheeks," in reference to the often-sunburned visitors exploring the streets of Cartagena.
I started my days with a tall glass of lulo juice—a citrusy fruit, sometimes described as a combination of lime and rhubarb—and began my nights with mojitos spiked with the tartness of uchuva, a small yellow fruit related to the tomatillo. I began to look for ripe uchuva as an afternoon snack, mimicking the local children and popping them in my mouth like candy. I began to learn that fruits that look scary on the outside often have serious rewards within. Guanabana resembles a thorny apple or pear, but its white, creamy interior contained unexpected hints of strawberry, pineapple, and even coconut.
The fruit in Cartagena evokes childhood-like wonder in even the skeptical traveler. To pick up a ripe piece of fruit, smell it, feel its weight, break open its skin, and have no idea what lay inside was a delicious discovery each time.
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The long-awaited new Mac Pro has now been available since the beginning of the year, and since then several 4K monitors have emerged as ideal companions for Apple's powerhouse.
The Mac Pro has support for up to three of the Ultra HD resolution 4K displays (that's four times the resolution of Full HD), so Mac Pro customers are likely to be contemplating which display to choose.
We've seen no sign of an Apple-made 4K display, something many have been expecting in the form of an update to its Thunderbolt display. The first beta version of the upcoming OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 update hints that Apple could be working on a 4K display, though, as non-Retina Mac users will be able to natively set their 4K monitors to run OS X at "Retina" resolution.
Apple has also added support for driving 4K screens at 60Hz in OS X 10.9.3, another hint at an upcoming 4K monitor from the company.
Apple may decide to launch a new display at some point, but in the mean time, there are several to choose from from third-party display makers as listed below. In addition to the new Mac Pro, the Retina MacBook Pro also supports 4K displays.
Read next: How to connect two screens to a Mac | How to rotate the screen on a Mac | Best screens for Mac
4K monitor for Mac Pro: Samsung UD590 4K display
At the end of March, Samsung revealed the pricing and release schedule for a new line of consumer monitors including its first 4K display designed for desktop use. It sports a 3840 by 2160 resolution, and measures 28 inches diagonally. The exciting news is that Samsung's 4K monitor carries a price tag of just $700 (around £420), which is significantly lower than some of the competition.
The displays are currently available to preorder in the US and are set to begin shipping later this year. We'll update this article with UK information as soon as we get it.
4K monitor for Mac Pro: Dell UltraSharp 4K monitors
Dell unveiled 24in and 32in Ultra HD 4K monitors (above) with 3840 x 2160 resolution at the beginning of December, both available to buy now at £1,059 and £2,375 respectively.
A more affordable option from Dell is the 28in Ultra HD 4K monitor which costs just $699, though it doesn't seem to be available in the UK yet.
We used the Dell UltraSharp 24 Ultra HD monitor with out Mac Pro to create a 24in Retina display. Here's how.
4K monitor for Mac Pro: LG Real 4K 31MU95 4K monitor
LG's first 4K monitor, called the Real 4K 31MU95, was launched in January at CES in Las Vegas. It's a 31in monitor with a widescreen 19:10 ratio, with a 4096 by 2160 pixel resolution. LG will also be offering 34in and 29in UM95 models with 3440 by 1440 resolution at a ratio of 21:9. LG hasn't announced pricing yet, though.
4K monitor for Mac Pro: Asus PQ321Q & Asus PB287Q 4K monitors
Asus's PQ321Q is a 31.5in 4K monitor has a resolution of 3,840 by 2,160 pixels. It's super-thin, at just 35mm, and has an ant-glare finish perfect for designers. It's £2,999, but you can save more than £100 if you shop around.
If that's a bit above your budget, Asus is also offering a 28in 4K monitor with the same resolution as the PQ321Q. The PB287Q, which will be available in the second quarter of 2014, has a smaller and cheaper chassis to the more expensive model mentioned above, bringing the cost down to just $800 (around £500).
4K monitor Mac Pro: Lenovo ThinkVision Pro2840m 4K monitor
Also more affordable at around £500 is Lenovo's ThinkVision Pro2840m 4K monitor (above), which is expected to arrive in April 2014. It has a 3840 by 2160 resolution display at 28in.
4K monitor Mac Pro: Sharp PN-K321 4K monitor
Apple sells a 31.5in Sharp 4K monitor on its online store, for £3,499. The Sharp PN-K321 4K Ultra HD LED monitor has a resolution of 3840 by 2160 pixels.
4K monitor Mac Pro: Sony PVM-X300 4K monitor
Sony has a 4K monitor, the PVM-X300 (above) – which was unveiled at the IBC 2013 trade show. Targetted at professional video editors, this broadcast and feature-film quality model has a 10-bit colour depth and a wider range of inputs than the other models we've featured here – but comes with a price tag of around £20,000.
You don't have to just focus on displays. Seiki offers a 50in 4K TV with 3 HDMI ports that can be used as a monitor. The best part is that it's cheap, at around £1,000. 50in may be a tad too big, though, so there's a 39in version that's even cheaper, at around £500. We haven't seen the Seiki TVs in the UK yet, though.


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Mount Sinai Invents Gene Signature to Identify Individuals with Cirrhosis at High-Risk for Liver CancerApril 17, 2013
April 17, 2013 – Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed the first-ever gene test that could be used to identify patients with cirrhosis who are at highest risk of developing the most common type of liver cancer, hepatocelluar carcinoma (HCC). The test will also help determine whether a patient diagnosed with HCC is likely to have a recurrence of cancer after the tumor is removed. NanoString Technologies, Inc. has secured the option to an exclusive worldwide license.
HCC is the third leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide and the fastest growing cause of cancer death in the U.S. The disease is prone to recurrence and often diagnosed in advanced stages, resulting in a five-year survival rate of less than 12 percent. HCC develops from cirrhosis—advanced fibrosis of the liver—which is estimated to affect one to two percent of the world's population.
Josep M. Llovet, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director of the HCC Program, Liver Diseases, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a co-inventor of the HCC gene signature, commented: "By identifying those liver cancer patients who are at the greatest risk of recurrence, doctors may monitor these patients more regularly to identify recurrent tumors while they are still treatable. The signature may also help us learn which patients with cirrhosis are at high risk for developing liver cancer, and implement treatment protocols like preventive chemotherapy to stop disease progression to cancer."
A paper in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2008 led by Yujin Hoshida, MD, PhD, who is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Liver Diseases) at Mount Sinai, described a method for extracting high quality RNA from liver tumor tissue to conduct a gene expression analysis. Using this method, the authors discovered a 186-gene expression signature which identifies those HCC patients who have a higher risk of recurrence. This gene signature was highly correlated with survival in a training set of 82 Japanese patients and was validated in an independent set of 225 patients from the United States and Europe. This same gene signature has been tested in a large European cohort of 280 cirrhotic patients, and found that 20 percent of them were at high risk of developing HCC and had shorter survival that those without the poor prognosis signature. The results were published in January in the journal Gastroenterology..
"In addition to helping establish treatment protocols, the gene signature will allow clinicians to identify high risk patients who are good candidates for entry into clinical trials of new agents in both the adjuvant and chemopreventive settings," said Dr. Llovet.
NanoString Technologies, Inc. secured the option to an exclusive worldwide license from The Broad Institute, a leading non-profit molecular medicine institute in Cambridge, Mass., acting on behalf of the inventors' institutions. The HCC gene signature was invented by researchers from the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, and Massachusetts General Hospital. During the period in which the option can be exercised, NanoString plans to assess the feasibility of developing an in vitro diagnostic assay based on the HCC signature.
As co-inventors of the HCC gene signature, Drs. Llovet and Hoshida would be entitled to a portion of future royalty payments from NanoString.
About The Mount Sinai Medical Center
The Mount Sinai Medical Center encompasses both The Mount Sinai Hospital and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Established in 1968, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is one of the leading medical schools in the United States. The Icahn School of Medicine is noted for innovation in education, biomedical research, clinical care delivery, and local and global community service. It has more than 3,400 faculty members in 32 departments and 14 research institutes, and ranks among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and by U.S. News & World Report.
The Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is a 1,171-bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility and one of the nation's oldest, largest and most-respected voluntary hospitals. In 2012, U.S. News & World Report ranked The Mount Sinai Hospital 14th on its elite Honor Roll of the nation's top hospitals based on reputation, safety, and other patient-care factors. Mount Sinai is one of just 12 integrated academic medical centers whose medical school ranks among the top 20 in NIH funding and by U.S. News & World Report and whose hospital is on the U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll. Nearly 60,000 people were treated at Mount Sinai as inpatients last year, and approximately 560,000 outpatient visits took place.
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The Pacific Northwest Smalltalk crew would like to invite you to Camp Smalltalk PDX this summer. Come join us August 21-23 in beautiful Portland, Oregon!
We all know coding is a lot of fun, and that the best coding is done with the delete key. Accordingly, Camp Smalltalk PDX will be at Portland's CTRL-H hackerspace, www.ctrlh.org.
There is no set schedule, but of course we all have strong interests. Some of the areas that will surely be covered include:
If you are curious about Smalltalk, feel free to drop by and give Smalltalk a try.
And yes, there are also the well known regulars --- we all know who you are :). It's time to catch up and plot inventing our future. Feel free to contact us directly if you have questions regarding travel or accommodations. Also, if you know you will be coming and you haven't completed our survey yet, doing so will help us coordinate the infrastructure around the event: *http://goo.gl/forms/XVLOLRe8OF*. For event information, see *here: >http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/811* See you in Portland!


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It all went down yesterday.
A few hours before we were leaving for the Lady Gaga concert. I came home early, change of clothes in tow, so that Meg and I could go for a run together. And that's what we did - cranked out seven miles while singing and executing silly dance moves.
When we came home, Dad was there. He'd been at work. And, suddenly, it struck me that he probably wasn't at work. That his office was probably closed due to the holiday weekend.
And I was suspitious.
So, when he sat down on the couch and was playing with the dogs and talking to my mom and my sister, I went to the drawer where he generally throws his wallet and cell phone when he gets home. The phone was there. I slipped into the next room and opened up his text messages.
And there it was. A text message sent late on Friday night. Something along the lines of "I'm going to go to bed now so that tomorrow morning comes faster and I can be in your arms."
I scrolled up to earlier text messages. From her: "about that sword swallowing comment that you made earlier, that is ABSOLUTELY nothing that I have ever done before."
I wanted evidence, yes. What I didn't want was to read about some old hag sucking my dad off.
I closed his phone. I put it back. And I felt like I was going to vomit.
A few minutes later, I looked at it again. I was in the kitchen. My mom was right there. I considered showing her the text messages. Just getting it over with.
I put the phone back.
I went to my bedroom and I paced around. I needed to get ready for the concert. I needed to shower. I was robotic, pulling out my clothes and racing to the bathroom. I turned the shower on. "Just get in the shower," I told myself. "Just get in the shower."
I didn't. I pulled Meg into the bathroom with me.
"Would you tell Mom if you thought that Dad was cheating on her?"
"You think Dad is cheating on Mom?!"
"I'm sure of it."
Sunday, September 05, 2010
2 comments:
- Susan said...
Oh man. I am so so so sorry to hear this, A.
- Mrs. Architect said...
Just catching up on all this.
I feel like I'M going to vomit.
SO SO SO sorry sweetie.
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