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Barack Obama Breaks Reddit
See? Further proof that this guy destroys businesses…
President Obama participated in a surprise open question-and-answer session this afternoon on the Web community Reddit, as the subject of one of the site's regular "Ask Me Anything" threads. Reddit's site experienced some outages immediately following the announcement, due to increased traffic.
Damn. I was excited to learn what wisdom would come from the President of the United States' interaction with people like SharkGirl and GoldenGraham12.
This may haunt me.
Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images News/Getty Images
Tags: Barack Obama, Reddit
From the Pork Barrel: Jogging for President
* Rick Perry is hoping to outrun his ineptitude. I don't know, have you seen the muscle mass on his ineptitude?
* Two Democratic state representatives are trying to ban cheerfulness in South Carolina. (To be honest, I didn't even think they had that there. Like cable.)
* Barack Obama is hoping to beat George Bush in Iowa next week.
* Mitt Romney asks the question with which wise men the world over have been wrestling for years: What's up with Newt Gingrich being so miserable?
* 650+ rabbis agree: President Mitt Romney will turn us all into a bunch of faygalas!
* Reddit sets its sights on keeping Sen. Lindsey Graham from re-winning his seat in 2012. Which shouldn't be hard, since he's not up for reelection till 2014.
Photo by Michael Nagle/Getty Images News/Getty Images
Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Health, Internet, Iowa Caucus, Jewish, LGBT, Lindsey Graham, Mitt Romney, National Organization for Marriage, Nikki Haley, Pork Barrel, Primaries, Reddit, Religion, Republicans, Rick Perry, Senate, South Carolina, State Legislature
From the Pork Barrel: Victoria Jackson Reports
* Does Victoria Jackson understand that the purpose of these viral propaganda citizen-journalist interview pieces is not to make you look stupider than the people you're interviewing? "I made myself look really idiotic that time! That means we won!"
* Gary Johnson is on Reddit answering questions from regular people. I'm a little surprised to see that he qualified for that.
* Topeka, Kansas is lifting its ban on beating the living hell out of your spouse for burning the meatloaf. How did these archaic old laws ever get on the books in the first place?
* Bill O'Reilly has been accused of behaving like Bill O'Reilly. That's gonna really hurt him with anti-Bill O'Reilly fans.
Tags: Bill O'Reilly, Fox, Gary Johnson, Kansas, Occupy Wall Street, Pork Barrel, Primaries, Protesters, Reddit, Republicans, Victoria Jackson
Quote Unquote: Corporate Decency
CNN commentator and former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin, on Anderson Cooper 360 last night, in response to Reddit exercising its First Amendment rights and not shutting down some user-generated "potentially illegal" (read as: "legal") corners of its website — such as r/jailbait and r/asianjailbait — that many may deem as being in poor taste…
"Even if they aren't [technically in violation of any actual laws], don't we want them to be good corporate citizens? What happened to decency? What happened to corporations doing the right thing?"
I should point out that she was not saying that in jest.
Also, time spent on Anderson Cooper's show last night wringing hands over "the possibility that somebody somewhere might be looking at sexually suggestive photos of your teenage child" on the Internet: 8 minutes.
Time spent on Anderson Cooper's show all told covering the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations – protesting "negative corporate influence over U.S. politics" — that have been happening 5 miles from the CNN studios in New York City for the past two weeks: 0 minutes.
Tags: Anderson Cooper, Bill of Rights, CNN, Constitution, Occupy Wall Street, Porn, Quote Unquote, Reddit, Sex, Wall Street
Reddit Is Not Mad at Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, Reddit Says
Alright, America! Calm down! Just calm the eff down! I said CALM DOWN!!!
I know we're all on edge about this apparent huge dust-up in which Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, according to Fark's Drew Curtis, apparently dissing Reddit — the online community that helped spread the word about the rally for lo these many months — in their press post-conference conference on Saturday. (I know! My heart is being downvoted right to the pit of my stomach.)
And look! Fox News is reporting it in this post called "Jon Stewart Slaps the Internet in the Face." This must be an incredibly real issue…
Fark.com founder Drew Curtis is incensed that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert haven't given the online community due credit for the success of the Rally to Restore Sanity.
The rally, co-hosted by the Comedy Central comedians, drew a crowd estimated at 250,000 this past Saturday on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. — a crowd inspired and fueled by community activism on Fark.com and online bookmarking site Reddit. Yet when Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian asked Stewart what role the Internet played in convincing him to hold the rally, the response was clear: "it didn't hurt."
Oh, my! Reddit must simply be in a tizzy! They must have gotten a fainting couch for their fainting couch over this!
If only there were somebody from Reddit to explain exactly how red hot their anger is over this slight. Like, maybe Reddit admin Mike "Raldi" Schiraldi…
I appreciate Drew Curtis' looking out for us, but honestly, we had a great time and don't really care about who gets the credit.
At "best", we convinced Comedy Central to pull the trigger on something they were kicking around indecisively and might have otherwise not done.
At "worst", they were totally committed to doing it anyway and we "just" pulled off an incredible donation movement for a really good cause, beefed up attendance numbers, and got to meet hundreds of redditors in person.
I think I speak for all the staff when I say that we love Jon and Stephen, regret nothing, and don't feel anyone owes us an apology.
Edit: That said, Fark is cool and we like Drew. : )
Wow! That is some real explosive anger right there! I'm not sure what that symbol at the end means, but I think it's some kind of a bow and a couple grenades. Like, a grenade-shooting bow, I think. I'm pretty sure. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few grenade-shooting bows in my time.
Tags: Fox, Internet, Jon Stewart, Rally to Restore Sanity, Reddit, Stephen Colbert


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Stephen Harner, Contributor
'Whither Japan'
On Sunday, September 23, NHK news broadcast a video of U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta seated next to and speaking with Chinese Vice Chairman and soon-to-
be supreme leader Xi Jinping on September 19 in Beijing. During that meeting, reported NHK, Panetta told Xi that U.S. policy is that the Senkaku islands (claimed as Chinese territory by Beijing) are covered by the U.S.-Japan security alliance. If there is military conflict, the U.S. is obliged under the alliance to intervene.
The September 21st Yomiuri Shimbun, cited testimony of Assistant Secretary of State for Asian Affairs Kurt Campbell to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the day before confirming that the Senkakus come under Article 5 of the U.S.-Japan Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security. Campbell said that U.S. policy on this has been clear since 1997.
Watching and listening carefully to what the Chinese side has made of the Panetta visit, my sense is very different to what may seem to be the meaning and implications of the above.
First, I have seen no mention in the state-controlled Chinese media of Panetta's comment on the U.S. obligation under the U.S.-Japan treaty. What the media has prominently reported has been Panetta's affirmation to Xi that U.S. policy 'takes no sides' on territorial disputes in Asia, including that over the Senkakus/Diaoyudao. This is also long-standing U.S. policy.
Partly owing to the almost unimaginable power of the weapons and men his department commands, but also his relative gravitas, Panetta has the most credibility in China of any U.S. government official. It was noteworthy that Chinese official media accentuated Panetta's upbeat appraisal of U.S.-China relations and plans for stepping up exchanges and joint exercises between U.S. and Chinese military forces.
So which is it? Is U.S. policy that we are ready to go to war with China to defend the Senkakus? Didn't we say we "take no position" on the matter? The answer–in the subtle and often paradoxical and contradictory realm of foreign relations–is both, or, more likely, neither. But we should not think that the subtlety and ambiguity of these positions leaves all sides with the same comfort, options, and risks.
What does Article 5 of the U.S.-Japan Treaty actually say though? Here it is:
Each Party recognizes that an armed attack against either Party in the territories under the administration of Japan would be dangerous to its own peace and safety and declares that it would act to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional provisions and processes. Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall be immediately reported to the Security Council of the United Nations in accordance with the provisions of Article 51 of the Charter. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.
I am reminded of an interview given about two years ago by Japan's last genuinely successful prime minister, Nakasone Yasuhiro, whose tenure roughly matched Reagan's. Advising how Japan should conduct its foreign policy, and particularly the pivotal relationship with the U.S., Nakasone was trenchantly realistic: Japan should endeavor to procure (in the legal sense of "cause to do") U.S. power to serve Japan's interests and objectives.
In the case of the Senkakus, this seems to have happened. Or at least, when the Noda government felt compelled to respond to the force majeure situation created by Tokyo governor Ishihara's bid to buy the islands, and decided upon nationalization, the U.S.-Japan treaty was available as perhaps the decisive element that gave the decision makers the confidence they needed to make the decision.
"If–as is implied by the NHK report–Japan thinks that Article 5 can be immediately invoked in dealing with the Senkaku crisis, and that it is thereby standing "shoulder-to-shoulder" with the U.S. against China, I think it is engaging in wishful thinking."
Japanese "leaders" have a two-decade-long list of policies based on "wishful thinking." What makes this particular issue different? Noda is about to reshuffle his Cabinet again, following a tradition of prime ministers who seem to think leadership is a calculation rather than a personal attribute. Sadly, as corrupt and unaccountable as the bureaucracy is, Japan might be better off if it just did away with the pretense of political leadership and resign itself to being administered by this group.
The US -Japan Defense Treaty has been in place since 1960.
The failure of the United States to "take sides" on the sovereignty issue may avoid direct confrontation with China in the short term, but as with most short term solutions, it may result in a larger conflict at a later time. In reality there is little argument that China's claim to the Senkakus is part of China's current military and territorial expansion in the East and South China Seas. It is also aimed at potential oil and gas in the region as China only made a claim in 1970, after the discovery of such resources in the 1960s. China's arguments that it has owned these islands for centuries is questionable as the Washnmgton Times publized a PRC map from the 1960s showing the islands as Japanese territory and clearly on the Japanese side of the border line. Perhaps more intriguing is the fact that the United States has used the islands as a live fire/bombing training ground from 1945 to 1978. Are we to assume that we have been bombing Chinese territory for decades and Chinas never complained?
The real question is not whether the U.S. would engage in a conflict with China over some uninhabited rocks. The question is whether the U.S. is prepared to lost it's credibility on a global scale, not just Japan but all of the ASEAN nations that
are relying on the U.S. for support in the face of Chinese territorial aggression,
in Europe, in the Middle East.
The United States needs to unequivocably make it clear to China that we m,ost certainly are taking sdes on the sovereinty issue and will stand by our defense treaties. To do otherwise is merely inviting further aggressive actions from China
who has already openly declared their intent to replace the United States as the dominant strategic power in the region.
As I commented in other articles, Japan played the wrong card. Although there is a security treaty for the U.S to protect Japan, there is no way the U.S will get involve. China have around 400 warheads and anti-air craft carrier systems that fire from the earth's atmosphere-vertically straight down to the center of the carrier. The U.S is tied up in Middle East-Iran (1 year to Nuclear bomb success mfg). 80% of Costco products are from China. Apple Iphone is from China. If U.S get involve, China just take over U.S company assets, IP, etc….Russia, South Korea, North Korea will unite to fight Japan because U.S get involve. So, I think Japan played the wrong card for stupid young political candidates in Japan.
Japan has not played the wrong card. If anything, it has been playing the wrong card for far too many decades. And it's hardly just Japan. The U.S. is guilty of supporting China's economic growth while not paying attention to it's military growth while busy watcjhing the middleast and conducting the "war on terror". There are many pro-China supporters who declare that "U.S. will not get involved". This is exactly what China would like the U.S. to do with regard to not oinly Japan but the Phillipines, Malaysia, Vietnam, every country that China's is "bullying" to take their territory.
The U.S. is in the midst of shifting 60% of it's naval forces to the Pacirfic to counter China's expansion and aggression. To claim that hte U.S, "won't do anything" in this context is rather absurd. Discussions of China's nuclear capability are really irrelevant as China has no intent of
starting WWIII to fulfill it's expansion plans.
I don't see the confusion. The US does not take a position on the ultimate ownership of the islands. We do have a treaty obligation to defend Japan if areas under Japanese administration comes under attack. The islands are currently under Japanese administration, hence we are obligated to defend Japan against Chinese aggression. If China can through non-violent means coerce Japan into surrendering the islands, America is not obligated to defend Japan.
Additionally, according to American news reports (as opposed to Chinese state media) we did inform China that we see these islands as protected under Article 5, and our Ambassador to Japan has communicated the same thing to Japan.
We of course are pushing Japan not to escalate the situation, which near as I can tell Japan has not. Rather China continues to escalate.
Either China thinks he can win despite US opposition, or it believes the US will not honor her treaty commitments, or the Chinese leadership has decided that losing the war is less dangerous then not fighting, or (most likely) this is all an attempt to divert Chinese popular opinion away from the domestic failures of current Chinese leadership- in which case China probably does not plan a war at all.
I'm sure Obama will, in accordance with our treaty, send a sternly worded letter to China.
He might even give a speech if they really start to attack Japanese territory.
But more than that? Not a chance, certainly not during election season.
Stephen – this is an interesting post and I enjoy reading your analysis of Japan's security sitution in North East Asia. I think you make a pretty sanguine point here – Japan should not feel that it has "umbrella protection" provided by Washington on the Senkaku Islands dispute. I think the nuance of the Treaty is important here. But it is not just nuance on the Japanese side. China knows very well its limitations in pushing the US towards a military response. Beijing knows that there is a limit to what it can do to achieve its geostrategic goals in the region. The US will indeed – in my opinion – back Japan if there is a serious military attack on the Senkaku Islands by China. They have no other choice – legally or politically (perhaps the latter holding more sway). But China will be ever so careful as to not let this happen. Skirmishes are one thing – but China will be careful to draw a line in the sand so as not to force the issue. I think Japan recognizes this too and thus, while relying on Article 5, enjoys more the deterrent threat than the implementation.
Thanks Stephen. I agree with you that Hugh White is a great source of knowledge on this area, and I have read excerpts from his book.
I think you identify an important question here – what is a vital "core" interest to the US? In other words, what would they go to war over? I tend to agree with you that the Senkakus are not a core interest to the US – but it all depends on the nature of how China deals with it and how Japan responds. If China were to do something bold – such as sending the PLAN into the East China Sea and looking to occupy the Senkakus, the US has strategic pressure. It is not Munich or Vietnam, but the Senkaku issue also needs to be viewed under the lens of the US-China strategic relationship (which you correctly alluded to), and not just the US-JPN relationship.
I we are almost in full agreement – although I do differ with you on the nature of the US-China relationship. I do not see Japan as the odd man out at all; it is not 1950, 1972 anymore, that is a given. China's emergence has "changed the game" in Asia, but Japan's importance in the strategic topography of the region should not be overlooked. US engagement in the Asia-Pacific is centered around this pillar (with Australia being the other). There is little incentive to isolate Japan and actually there are significant disincentives to do so. I am not fully sold on the US-China relationship evolving in the way that Hugh White describes.

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ClinQuiz: Implementing the American Animal Hospital Association's Anesthesia Guidelines (Sponsored by Abbott Animal Health)
Click here to view a two-minute video that features Dr. Ralph Harvey introducing the benefits of the AAHA Anesthesia Guidelines.
You need to anesthetize a 14-year-old mixed-breed dog for a dental examination and cleaning, with the expectation that it will require dental extractions.
Your patient is bright, alert, and sedentary; has a calm temperament; and is in good body condition at an appropriate body weight. The dog has a grade 3/6 left apical holosystolic heart murmur. The dog has no signs of heart failure, has no other known medical conditions, and is receiving routine parasite preventives.
The results of a preoperative complete blood count and a serum chemistry profile are within normal limits. The client declines thoracic radiography and further cardiac evaluation.
What are the chief anesthetic management concerns (if any) for this dog?
A. Advanced age, cardiac disease, and analgesia
C. This patient is of advanced age and at high risk for many anesthetic complications. Anesthesia should be avoided in this patient because the anesthetic risk outweighs the need for the dental procedure.
Which anesthetic plan would be the best option for this patient?
Which pain management strategy would be the best choice for this dog?
A. Premedication with a moderate dose of a strong opioid (pure agonist) and an alpha-2 agonist; postoperative NSAID treatment for several days on a tapering dose schedule
C. High doses of a strong (pure agonist) opioid given as a preanesthetic and repeated postoperatively
The procedure went well, and regular monitoring and recording of the dog's anesthetic depth, oxygenation, ventilation, temperature, and cardiovascular function revealed no clinically relevant abnormalities. The patient required extraction of two maxillary incisors, one maxillary canine tooth, and one mandibular canine tooth. The dog is recovering from anesthesia and receiving supplementary oxygen, with the endotracheal tube in place. The dog's blood pressure and pulse oximetry measurements are within normal limits. After 30 minutes, however, the patient is still deeply asleep and intubated. What are the possible explanations for this delayed recovery, and what should you do for this patient?
A. Residual opioid sedation is likely contributing, and delayed recovery is acceptable for this older patient. Discontinue the supplementary oxygen, and physically stimulate the dog by changing its body position.
C. Residual opioid sedation is likely contributing to the delayed recovery, thus an opioid antagonist should be administered intravenously. If an alpha-2 agonist was included in the original protocol to complement the preanesthetic action of the opioid, reversal of both the alpha-2 and opioid agonists would allow a rapid and complete recovery from anesthesia and prompt discharge of this patient to the client.
Anesthesia is intended to be a benign process, but anesthetic morbidity and mortality are real problems. The incidence of anesthetic deaths in dogs and cats is greatest during which phase of care?
A. Preanesthetic restraint and sedation
C. Maintenance of anesthesia with inhalant agents
D. Postoperative anesthetic recovery
For additional details, see the AAHA Anesthesia Guidelines for Dogs and Cats, the AAHA Anesthesia Guidelines Toolkit, a Toolkit supplement, a brief video,"Best Practices for Pet Anesthesia," and a webcast seminar, "The AAHA Anesthesia Guidelines in Practice."
Dr. Ralph Harvey is an associate professor of anesthesiology in the Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1985. He served as the Director of Surgical Services from 1993 through 2000. He is certified as a specialist by the American College of Veterinary Anesthesiologists and has served as the ACVA's Executive Secretary and as a member of the ACVA Board of Directors.


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"We recognize the commitment and investment that Iowa farmers have made to protect the soil and improve water quality and these awards are an opportunity to highlight their good work," Branstad said. "These farmers are leading the way in environmental stewardship."
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Dawn Burleigh
The Orange Leader
The Orange County Sheriff's Office received a call in reference to a human body found in the Neches River near the Purple Heart Bridge at approximately 6 p.m., Sunday.
The Neches River separates Jefferson County and Orange County. The body was found on the Orange County side of the river.
Orange County Sheriff's Office and officers from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office responded to the call.
Orange County Justice of the Peace Precinct 2 Judge Dunn is conducting the death inquiry and ordered an autopsy. The body was transferred to the Jefferson County Forensic Medical Facility where an autopsy was performed.
According to Dr. Wayne, Forensic Pathologist the cause and manner of death was not able to be determined at the time of the autopsy due to the decomposed condition of the victim.
Wayne advised that toxicology and other further testing is going to be done to try to determine cause and manner and also to try and determine the identity of the deceased.
Wayne advised that the victim is a white male but has not been able to determine possible age.
The victim was possibly wearing a white rubber bracelet with the following writing on the bracelet "I'm sexy and I know it! LMFAO" The victim was also wearing a pair of white Adidas tennis shoes size 12.
People riding Jet Skis on the Neches River discovered a body in the water
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Cheaper Prices—More Than Tax Credit—Motivating Home Buyers
Only 6 percent of first-time buyers said the tax credit was the main reason for their decision.
As the deadline approached, the National Association of Realtors urged lawmakers to extend the $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit, insisting that the perk had played such a vital role in the housing market's recent stability that its expiration was too risky. "Without congressional action now, the market and our national economy may freeze again—possibly as soon as this month," Ron Phipps, NAR's first vice president, told a Senate panel on October 20.
Congress complied, passing bills to generously extend and expand the credit. The legislation—which President Obama signed on November 6—means $10.8 billion in lost revenue for Uncle Sam on top of the more than $10 billion that first-time home buyer tax credits have already cost.
[Check out Expanded First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit Becomes Law.]
But in a recent NAR survey, only 6 percent of first-time home buyers—who made their purchase during the 12 months ending last June—cited the tax credit as the primary reason behind their decision. The results suggest that other factors, such as attractive interest rates and falling home prices, deserve more of the credit for the market's recent uptick, says Keith Gumbinger of HSH.com. "The most powerful force at work is the desirability of buying a home and the market conditions—that's your mortgage rates and your prices," Gumbinger says.
After peaking in 2006, average home prices have plummeted back to 2003 levels, according to the most recent Case-Shiller home price report. Meanwhile, rates on 30-year fixed mortgages fell to 4.93 percent yesterday, according to HSH.com. That's down sharply from 6.20 percent a year earlier, before a Federal Reserve asset purchase program began driving down rates.
[See Home Price Declines Becoming Less Jarring.]
The backlog of unsold existing homes dropped to a 7.8-month supply in September from a 10.6-month supply in August 2008. And home prices, while still falling, have eased off the precipitous rates of declines from earlier months. But Mike Larson of Weiss Research says that the first-time home buyer tax credit—originally enacted in February—has played only a marginal role in the development. "The tax credit is a little bit of sugar on top to get somebody to go ahead and take that bite," Larson says. "But the reality is they were hungry anyway."
The run-up in home values during the first half of the decade priced many buyers out of the market, Larson says. The national housing crash, however, has made many of these properties affordable again. "People do fundamentally, generally, want to own homes," he says. "What the falling home prices have allowed people to do is to afford homes that they hadn't been able to previously."
The tax credit was the fourth-leading "primary" reason first-time buyers made their purchase, according to NAR's 2009 profile of home buyers and sellers. At 62 percent, the desire to own a home was the leading reason, followed by the affordability of homes (10 percent) and a change in family situation (8 percent).
Paul Bishop, NAR's vice president of research, said that while only a small percentage of respondents identified the first-time home buyer tax credit as the "primary" reason for their purchase, its impact on buyer confidence—and therefore the market—has been profound. "For a number of first-time buyers, [the tax credit] does make the difference in terms of whether they want to purchase today or wait six months," Bishop said in an interview.
The $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit was included in President Obama's massive stimulus package. But with the fiscal 2009 budget deficit swelling to $1.4 trillion, some have questioned whether additional real estate subsidies are the most effective use of government cash. For example, the financial blog Calculated Risk has estimated that the government pays about $43,000 for every home sale it triggers through first-time home buyer tax credits.
The first-time home buyer tax credit expansion passed earlier this month is even more generous. It makes most current homeowners eligible and lets married couples making as much as $225,000 a year claim the credit. In addition, the new legislation pushes the tax credit's closing deadline back to the end of June.
NAR's own survey makes it increasingly apparent that the credit rewards people for a choice they would have made anyway, Gumbinger says. "Based upon [NAR's] numbers there, only 6 percent say this [first-time home buyer tax credit is] the reason [buyers are] coming in," Gumbinger said. "That says 94 percent would have done it anyway."


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Raspberry-Rhubarb Slab Pie Recipe
- 3-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter
- 3/4 cup plus 1 to 2 tablespoons 2% milk
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 cups sugar
- 1/3 cup cornstarch
- 5 cups fresh or frozen unsweetened raspberries, thawed and drained
- 3 cups sliced fresh or frozen rhubarb, thawed and drained
- 1-1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 5 to 6 teaspoons 2% milk
- In a large bowl, combine flour and salt; cut in butter until crumbly. Whisk 3/4 cup milk and egg yolk; gradually add to flour mixture, tossing with a fork until dough forms a ball. Add additional milk, 1 tablespoon at a time, if necessary.
- Divide dough in two portions so that one is slightly larger than the other; wrap each in plastic wrap. Refrigerate 1 hour or until easy to handle.
- Preheat oven to 375°. Roll out larger portion of dough between two large sheets of lightly floured waxed paper into an 18x13-in. rectangle. Transfer to an ungreased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Press onto the bottom and up sides of pan; trim pastry to edges of pan.
- In a large bowl, combine sugar and cornstarch. Add raspberries and rhubarb; toss to coat. Spoon into pastry.
- Roll out remaining dough; place over filling. Fold bottom pastry over edge of top pastry; seal with a fork. Prick top with a fork.
- Bake 45-55 minutes or until golden brown. Cool completely on a wire rack.
- For icing, combine confectioners' sugar, vanilla and enough milk to achieve a drizzling consistency; drizzle over pie. Cut pie into squares. Yield: 2 dozen.
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I would like to try this but with different fruit...any suggestions?
Followed recipe as written and it turned out great!
This was delicious. I only had about 3 cups of raspberries, so I did 5 cups of rhubarb and the combination was perfect. The icing on top was a really nice touch.
I really liked this after it had been refrigerated. My husband was impressed. The downside for me was handling the dough. I actually had to put it in the freezer then I could get it to roll better. Probably will make again.
I didn't have raspberries so substituted thawed frozen strawberries, big mistake. They were too juicy for this recipe and the crust stayed soggy. But the flavor was outstanding! Next time I'll follow the recipe using raspberries.
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Yes, I have seriously never had it happen on the 360. Updates on there are generally just faster.
I hate when I have an evening to play and I spend half of it downloading updates too. Is the Xbox 360 much better than the PS3 with this type of problem?
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Posted 30 June 2011 - 08:59 PM
They're much smaller on XBL so the servers aren't pushing out big updates, which is why they're faster. I've had it happen on Xbox 360 in Bad Company 2, as I had to spend the better part of an hour downloading a multiplayer update in-game before I could play it for the first time. The same thing happened in Fable 2, where I was forced to download one of the compatability packs to play the game for the first time in about two years.
Yes, I have seriously never had it happen on the 360. Updates on there are generally just faster.
Posted 30 June 2011 - 09:53 PM
Replying only because you guys should leave the book talk alone! Digital books are a real thing (e-books) and I wrote one! It's on Kindle and Nook (e-readers) and anything you can download a Kindle App on (everything).
For this grave error you should plug my book (Love Loss Translated) on your next show! I'm an aspiring writer and would greatly appreciate it...and if you guys want to read it and respond that would be awesome too, just don't forget to rate it on Amazon.
Thanks, even though you won't do any of that, and keep up the good work!
Posted 30 June 2011 - 09:57 PM
I liked the quick- what are you listening to segment. Shippy- I bought that Buddy Holly cover songs. I really wanted it to be better. The Pat Dinizio (lead singer of the Smithereens) Cover CD is quite good
Posted 30 June 2011 - 09:58 PM
It's almost unnoticeable. Game updates in less than a minute in most cases. On a few rare occassions it's been longer. System updates are rarer (twice a year) and usually take 5-10 minutes. Not bashing the PS3 but this aspect was definitely better designed.
I hate when I have an evening to play and I spend half of it downloading updates too. Is the Xbox 360 much better than the PS3 with this type of problem?
Posted 30 June 2011 - 10:01 PM
Posted 30 June 2011 - 10:16 PM
WTF is up with background downloading something and then still having to manually install it. Why would I download something and not want to have it ready to play? It should be installed as soon as its done downloading. Drives me nuts.
Posted 30 June 2011 - 11:09 PM
I'm not a fan of the Backbreaker games on iOS since they're more enjoyable with buttons and analog sticks instead of virtual buttons. Plus, these modes originated from the retail game, so this game takes out the best parts of that game for a quicker, easier to access XBLA game.
I think Automatic Update doesn't install firmware updates for you because you have to authorize it, because they'd probably get in legal trouble if you didn't have the option to not update. Imagine the shit Sony would get in if the Linux removal update was mandatory for everybody.
People have mentioned before that the Automatic Download creates a list of the games you've played, so you should start up all of the games you own that you want it to keep updated. You could've easily started it up for a second and quit out so that it's on the list to be updated and your problem's solved. It could be better, but I don't think it's a terrible feature/idea.
Decent show.
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Posted 01 July 2011 - 02:21 AM
This was a few months before Vietnam, so it was a normal MP update for Bad Company 2.
Great show this week guys. Wombat, having another kid has brought your game up a notch. Pussyface for the win! Friski, the BFBC2 update that took so long, was the Vietnam update and was over a 1gig. That is a rare large update, and is game specific, would be the same for all systems. The PS3 update system definitely needs to be improved for their next console.
Edit: Just looked it up, that 468 MB update I downloaded was on 8/5/2010 and Vietnam wasn't until December 2010. That made me download a 1.7 GB update in February 2011. Unless I missed them, these cannot be downloaded, like in the background, from the marketplace, so that's more of an issue than the huge updates themselves. At least the Burnout Paradise updates were released as DLC that you could get beforehand, but MS hasn't allowed in-game DLC purchases to be downloaded in the background to solve the instances where that's an annoyance.
Posted 01 July 2011 - 03:44 AM
cheapy you say you are tired of having capcom cash in on street fighter with the new arcade edition, but both the re-releases of street fighter 4 have been $40, not $60 like you said. Also, you can buy the super street fighter 4 arcade edition content as dlc for ssf4. The disc version is really only for people who don't own street fighter 4 yet and want to get all the content
$40 + $40 + $20 (or $40) + whatever the final cost of DLC = an approximate shitton. They are really milking it for more than its worth.
Posted 01 July 2011 - 04:04 AM
The fans support them by continuing to buy them and all of the overpriced costumes, so they're just getting what they want from Capcom. I don't have any problems with developers and publishers giving their fans what they want.
$40 + $40 + $20 (or $40) + whatever the final cost of DLC = an approximate shitton. They are really milking it for more than its worth.
Posted 01 July 2011 - 05:36 AM
$40 + $40 + $20 (or $40) + whatever the final cost of DLC = an approximate shitton.
ssf4 ($20 on amazon) + the arcade edition dlc ($15) = full game - costumes. i did not know $35 is a shitton for a great fighting game.
Posted 01 July 2011 - 09:14 AM
BTW, there is a time trial mode, but time has nothing to do with the actual game.
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Posted 01 July 2011 - 12:18 PM
Thanks for the mention. You can see the game here and perhaps buy it: http://www.gamersgat...CLASTLE/clastle
BTW, there is a time trial mode, but time has nothing to do with the actual game.
Definitely looks like something I would dig if I had something to play it on.
Posted 01 July 2011 - 05:13 PM
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Posted 01 July 2011 - 05:52 PM
Anyway, I'd like to see more "top analyst" predictions (i.e. What do you think the metacritic score will be for both SKYRIM and MW3? NPD sales figures. Over/Under for units sold on various games, etc.).
Here are some other recommendations and/or requests:
Cheapy - Need more Tai soundbites and/or updates (i.e. Rodney Dangerfield impersonations, poop smearing stories, etc.)
Wombat - Need more random impersonations of Bill Cosby
Shipwreck - (VERY IMPORTANT) From this day forward, your videogame review section shall be titled "The Vagina Monoblog!" in honor of the new Vagina scar on your face.
. . . Again, Great Show fellas!!!
Posted 01 July 2011 - 08:36 PM
Posted 02 July 2011 - 02:44 AM
Great show as always.
Posted 02 July 2011 - 08:07 PM
I seriously can't imagine listening to the Joystiq podcast, whether they're being serious or funny. Joystiq has the absolute WORST attempts at humor in their blog posts. Who is laughing at these jokes? People talk about the offensive humor in Duke Nukem Forever, but I think those terrible Joystiq jokes are more offensive. I guess it's to cover up their crappy reporting. If I had to listen to an hour of those guys desperately trying to be funny I'd probably kill myself. No thanks. I'll stick to the CAGcast.
The thing with Children of Eden is that for game reviewers, it's another SEE GAMES ARE ART YOU BETTER RESPECT THEM RIGHT NOW title. I didn't even bother reading a lot of the reviews because I already knew it was going to get perfect scores and glowing praise regardless of any of its failings. It's another game like Limbo where the "games are art" dorks can furiously masturbate to as they write up their reviews. The fact that you have to replay the same level to get to the next one is incredibly lame. How about adding real levels to a game you're charging full price for?
I always laugh when I hear Microsoft continuously push how YOU ARE NOW THE CONTROLLER WITH KINECT when it plainly sucks and isn't as effective as pressing a button on my controller. I still say Cheapy sold out by buying a Kinect though.
The PS3 download times are just a killer. I'm sick and tired of them. By the time the patch is done downloading, you don't even feel like playing anymore. I agree with Cheapy. When I got the free PS Plus trial, I thought it downloaded all the patches for new games you downloaded. After it took me hours and hours to download Dead Nation, I had to download a freakin' patch on top of it. PS Plus only seems to download patches for recent games you played. I was under the impression it downloaded any updates for games installed to your HD in the Game Data Utility folder.
With developers being lazy and not finishing their games before shipping them, gamers are stuck downloading patches the day they buy the game and the following weeks after release. I don't think it's someting that could be changed, regardless if the PS3 came out a year after the 360. It was just a dumb decision on Sony's part.
It really doesn't matter if some guy dresses up like Mario at E3 because he fits right in with the unprofessionalism with the rest of game "journalists." They're always cheering at every announcement, especially the Nintendo stuff and games like Ico/Shadow of Colossus HD. Last year they even accepted free Xbox 360s from Microsoft without question. It's really embarrassing.
Posted 02 July 2011 - 10:43 PM
You can say whatever you want about the PS3 download/install/update situation, but the fact is, it's seriously inferior to their competitor which released their system a year earlier. I still don't understand how this happened.
MS knows software. Sony doesn't.
Although they flip spots for hardware. Sony is much better at hardware than MS.
Japanese companies aren't strong in software in general. Just look at any Japanese electronic product.
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Posted 02 July 2011 - 11:43 PM
btw, isn't the problem with Capcom more of a cultural divide than incompetency? Shit we think is stupid makes perfect sense to them? Seems like that's at least part of it or no?
Hell MvC3 doesn't even have all the features that street fighter 4 has. Look I love capcom, but this is getting ridiculous.
Posted 03 July 2011 - 02:22 AM
Take a moment and Google Apple and Samsung. They aren't exactly getting along very well currently. In fact, Samsung makes one of the premiere Android phone sets and Android tablets. Do you really think Samsung is going to work with Apple to ensure it's own demise?
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The Resident Evil franchise is back with its fifth movie. There is plenty of action and plenty of zombies, all in 3-D. Simply put, it may be the best one yet.
Milla Jovovich jumps back into her role as Alice. This time she is trapped inside a compound, making this a great rescue mission as she tries to escape the land of zombies in "Resident Evil: Retribution."
Fans of the franchise will love the resurrection of some familiar actors from other Resident Evil movies, along with some new ones. This film feels more like a video game than previous films because Alice has to go through different levels to escape.
The acting, overall, is not that great, but really, fans of the franchise aren't there for that. It's all about the action, and there is plenty of it. The Moscow scene involving a Rolls Royce car chase and Russian zombies was perhaps my favorite, but I digress.
Die-hard fans of the franchise should love this film and people unfamiliar with the franchise...well, there isn't much for you here. Sorry.
The Flick-0-meter gives "Resident Evil: Retribution" a three out of five. I happen to like Milla Jovovich. I love zombie movies too, but, honestly, this series is about played out.
You don't really have to see any of the other Resident Evil movies to understand this one. There is a big prologue that tells you all about what has happened so far, so give it a shot.
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Please join us for a screening of the HBO documentary 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus. Produced in association with the Museum, this film chronicles the efforts of Gilbert Kraus and his wife, Eleanor--two Americans who carried out the successful rescue of 50 Jewish children from Vienna in the late spring of 1939. The Krauses undertook these efforts at the same time as the failure of the Wagner-Rogers Bill in Congress, which would have admitted 20,000 endangered Jewish children to the United States, and the fateful voyage of the St. Louis.
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Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Animal and all the rest are back together again in "The Muppets."
Jason Segel co-wrote and stars in the film as Gary. He and girlfriend Mary (Amy Adams) head to Hollywood on a dream trip. Tagging along is Gary's brother Walter, a cute little puppet who is the world's biggest Muppets fan. Upon arriving in Hollywood, they find out the Muppets' studio has fallen into disrepair. Kermit and his gang of friends have long since parted company, but reunite just in time to put on a telethon to raise cash to buy back the studio.
An all-star cast of Muppets and live actors make this a pretty good movie for young and old. Listen, I know the the Muppets are not for everyone -- they have always been in a world of their own. But I'm happy to say that with time, CGI and the new 3D, the Muppets are even better than ever. There are plenty of pop-culture references and catchy tunes to keep the movie relevant in today's world.
The flick-o-meter gives "The Muppets" a five out of five. In my opinion, this vaudeville gang does a great job of entertaining and I'm a big fan of family films during the holidays. The movie will simply leave a smile on your face. My favorite part was the Muppets doing a Cee Lo Green cover that more than plays chicken with the movie's PG rating.
The film is showing at in Austell.
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Mercury Marine presents service award to authorized dealerships
Jan 11, 2012
Mercury Marine is proud to present the prestigious Customer Satisfaction Index award winners of 2011 to 87 U.S. and Canadian dealers that maintained the highest levels of customer satisfaction.
As part of Mercury Marine's commitment to ensuring the highest level of customer service in the marine industry, the company measures the satisfaction of consumers after having service work performed on their Mercury outboard or MerCruiser sterndrive and inboard products.
Recipients of this award established an ongoing commitment to provide exemplary customer service.
"In today's challenging environment these dealers have maintained standards that all customers expect and deserve" said Rob Schrage, director of field service development and operations for Mercury Marine. "The industry must continue improving service excellence to meet consumers' expectations. The CSI awards provide a scoreboard that lets winning dealers know they are the best of the best."
The CSI score for each dealership is measured and monitored by Mercury Marine. After warranty work has been completed, Mercury sends to the consumer a Service CSI survey related to the quality of service received. Consumers are asked to rate their overall service satisfaction with the dealership, rate their satisfaction with the service advisor at the dealership, and also indicate if they would re-visit the dealership again in the future. Tracking Service CSI scores is a way Mercury evaluates the effectiveness of its individual dealers and of its own policies and training programs. Dealerships that score high in Mercury's Service CSI surveys are recognized through the awards program.


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The Health & Humanitarian Aid Foundation is 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing medical & humanitarian aid to those whose lives have been affected by famine, poverty and disaster in Ghana.
With our team of highly specialized doctors, nurses and humanitarian workers, HHAF provides medical, surgical, nutritional and educational programs to improve the lives of underprivileged people around the world.
Many Parts of the world lack proper medicine, medical facilities, food, shelter and schools. Through HHAF's medical and humanitarian programs we hope to make a difference by evaluating the medical, nutritional and educational needs of a particular region and providing sustainable solutions.
Our organization is a collaborative effort, comprised of two distinct teams: Health & Humanitarian. These two teams work symbiotically to establish a better quality of life for Ghanaians.
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HHAF's Humanitarian and Medical team are currenlty on our 2013 Mission to Ghana! HHAF is happy to announce that the opening ceremony for our first school in Abura Odwumasi was a great success!


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Don Cherry might have been buying Gary Bettmans act last week, but Colin Wilson isnt.
Wilson, the U.S.-born, Winnipeg-raised member of the Nashville Predators, wasnt shy about sharing his disdain for the NHL commissioner after skating with a few Jets at the Iceplex, Thursday.
Wilson says the apparent emotion Bettman showed before the TV cameras last Thursday didnt fool him for a New York minute, as Bettman doesnt care about the game, doesnt care about the fans.
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The system toolbox provides the Capon algorithm, a common adaptive beamformer for suppressing interference, and the linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV) beamformer, for avoiding situations where self-nulling can occur. For broadband signals, the system toolbox offers adaptive algorithms such as the Frost and time delay LCMV beamformers. You can also use subband processing as an alternative to time delays for broadband signals.
The system toolbox supports the following digital beamforming techniques:
Estimating the direction of arrival (DOA) of incident signals is a fundamental spatial signal processing operation. For various array geometries, the system toolbox provides several processing techniques for estimating DOA.
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When using high-resolution DOA techniques, you can use either the Akaike information criterion (AIC) or the minimum description length (MDL) criterion to estimate the number of signals.


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Knoxville — According to unofficial election results, Brian Hatch has defeated incumbent Don Zoutte in Knoxville's mayoral election and Dawn Allspach-Kline was elected to the city council, defeating incumbent Elsie Kemp.
"I look forward to working with everyone," Hatch said after learning of the results. The County Auditor's report indicates that Hatch received 785 to Zoutte's 501. Zoutte was also at the courthouse and immediately congraulated Hatch when the results were revealed. He said he hopes Hatch will keep up the good work that has begun in Knoxville, and that Zoutte has run in his last city election.
Hatch thanked Zoutte for the work he has done and his years of service. Zoutte has served as mayor for two terms. Hatch hopes Zoutte will continue to stay active within the community.
Allspach-Kline received 583 votes to claim one of the city council seats up for election. Incumbent Dave Roozeboom was the top vote-getter with 601 and will serve another term.
Allpsach-Kline said she is excited about the outcome. She is hopeful for the future of Knoxville, its businesses and the community overall. Both Allspach-Kline and Hatch were relieved that the campaign is over.
Elsie Kemp received 550 votes, 33 fewer than Allspach-Kline. She made a brief appearance at the courthouse, but we were unable to catch up with her for a comment. Kemp has served two terms on the council.
Mike Roberts received 395 votes and was also at the courthouse. Roberts said he and his campaign had done all that they could. He intends to remain active in Knoxville and supportive of the community, and he wishes the winners the best of luck.
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Another new name has joined the race for District 14 in the Texas House.
Aggieland Bookstore founder John Raney announced his candidacy Wednesday to replace the resigning Fred Brown. He claimed his business acumen puts him in front in the race.
"We have to make sure that small business, in particular, has the freedom to grow," Raney said. "Taxation on business just stifles the economy."
Raney is the former chairman of the Brazos County Republican Party.
"I don't have any political baggage," he said. "I'm here to do the work of the people as best I can with the citizens' advice and consent."
Raney joins Neutral Posture CEO Rebecca Boenigk and former Brazos County Tax Assessor-Collector Buddy Winn in the District 14 race.
Former Aggie football star Seth McKinney dropped out of the race after being among the first to enter it.
Brown announced his resignation in order to pursue business interests in Temple.
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You know, this whole Richie Incognito-Jonathan Martin thing really upsets me. I'm upset that this type of harassment still goes on in lockerrooms around the country. I'm upset that the Miami Dolphins lockerroom seems to have sided with Incognito. And I'm upset that, even though he has a long list of behavioral problems, Incognito is still getting sympathy.
For those unfamiliar with the incident I'm referring to, Incognito has been suspended for his alleged role in harassment of Martin, a teammate of his on the Dolphins. It seems that Incognito sent threatening and racially charged messages to Martin, including one voicemail where he called Martin a "half-n-word piece of s***." He also threatened to slap Martin's mother across the face and even uttered a death threat against Martin. It got so bad that Martin left the team to receive help for emotional issues.
Reports surfaced that multiple sources said Incognito may have taken orders from Dolphins coaches to "toughen up" Martin, and that he might have taken it too far.
Had this been the first incident that Incognito had been involved in you might thing, "yeah, he probably just did take things too far." But it's not.
In 2009, NFL players voted Incognito as the dirtiest player in the league, according to a Sporting News poll.
During the Dolphins' annual celebrity golf tournament in 2012, a drunken Incognito harassed a female volunteer at the club. He was waived from the St. Louis Rams in 2009 after drawing two 15-yard penalties for headbutting Tennessee Titans players, which caused coach Steve Spagnuolo to bench him for the second half and the two got into a heated confrontation on the sidelines.
In college, while at Nebraska, he got into several fights, both during games and at practices. He was sent to a clinic for anger management treatment. In 2004 he was involved in a fight at a party and charged with three counts of assault, of which he was found guilty on one charge. He got into a fight in the lockerroom which was the last straw as he withdrew from Nebraska and transferred to Oregon, only to be dismissed a week later.
So you see, trouble and Incognito go arm-in-arm.
And yet it seems that many of his Miami teammates are siding with him in this recent ugly event involving Martin.
While Incognito has some good traits, he clearly has problems, most of which seem to stem from anger issues.
Incognito is a dangerous man, a volcano waiting to erupt. His career with Miami is more than likely over. The organization will want to distance itself from Incognito. But chances are good that he will land with some other NFL team because he is an All-Pro player.
And that's the sad thing. I'm all for giving someone a second chance, but it seems to me that Incognito has been given that second chance, along with a third, fourth and fifth.
It's time that the NFL cuts ties with people like Richie Incognito. Bullies like him have no place in the sport or in society for that matter.


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Debian developers want first of all to implement an event-based boot system replacement in Debian 6.0 ("Squeeze") for /sbin/init, considering that the kernel is becoming more event-based. The sysvinit Debian boot system is sequentially based with the consequence that it's becoming increasingly unreliable, according to the Debian boot team. Examples are the fsck and mount tools that can't find device files in /dev, or the Network File System that can't start its service because the network interfaces aren't yet initialized.
Like Fedora and Ubuntu, Debian is settling on upstart, an init process replacement and extension project that recently reported on its status at the FOSDEM 2009. According to the debian.devel.announce entry, "the plan is to change upstart to actually use /etc/inittab, to ease the switch between sysvinit and upstart." Debian will also treat upstart jobs as init.d scripts in case a system can't handle upstart, thereby complying with the Linux Standard Base (LSB) that specifies that distros must handle packages with init.d scripts. In this way Debian is developing a boot system that will be event-based "for the early boot, and which also calls init.d scripts at the appropriate time."
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Sokolich said that because of the traffic backup, emergency calls that average a two- or four-minute response time took up to 16 minutes.
"To me it's appalling and I got to tell you, somebody owes a lot of people a lot of apologies," he said. "Somebody ought to contact families waiting two, three, four times the response times when their loved ones had chest pains. Someone has to apologize to the thousands of families who couldn't get their kids to the first day of school on time."
Fort Lee Councilwoman Ila Kasofsky said she knows of one woman who couldn't get over the bridge to be with her husband, who was undergoing a stem cell transplant, and another who couldn't get to New York to be with her son as he went through kidney dialysis.
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In Chicago, the City Council passed a "Neighborhood Protection Plan" ordinance that governs on-site and remote parking for Wrigley Field, shuttle bus service, and residential parking permits for neighborhoods near the stadium. The New Jersey State Legislature enacted a "Special Event Parking Surcharge" to discourage patrons of Newark's Prudential Center from driving to events.
In Brooklyn, we get Forest City Ratner's Transportation Demand Management Plan (known as the TDM), by the developer's traffic consultant "Gridlock" Sam Schwartz.
Mr. Schwartz is one of the most respected traffic engineers in the country. He was the NYC Commissioner of Transportation in the Koch administration. But at his presentation to the community last night, Mr. Schwartz seemed a little like the Wizard of Oz.
His TDM presentation emphasized two strategies. The first is a . The logic is that less parking will lead to fewer cars coming to the arena. While the theory is sound, it's more than a stretch for Mr. Schwartz to present it as part of his demand management plan. Why? The original Atlantic Yards plan envisioned arena patrons parking in multiple locations at the site, but a modification to the plan hurried through in September 2009 attempted to consolidate all parking on one single block bounded by Vanderbilt Avenue, Carlton Avenue, Dean Street and Pacific Street, apparently without considering the feasibility of such a move. As reported by Atlantic Yards Report, FCR and the Empire State Development Corporation realized in October of 2011 that the only way 1,100 cars could fit onto one block was to use stackers, and the required would have led to enormous queues of arena patrons waiting to get in and out of the lot. The on-site parking reduction was therefore necessary to correct an oversight in the 2009 plan. Mr. Schwartz is simply taking lemons and making lemonade. (In July of 2011, a State Supreme Court found Atlantic Yards' 2009 modification was approved illegally. ESDC and FCR have continued to fight a court order to perform additional environmental analysis and amend the project plan.)
The second thrust of Mr. Schwartz' presentation was a marketing plan intended to promote the availability of mass transit near Barclays Center, which is of course plentiful. Again, there is nothing wrong with the theory that providing more information about subway, bus and rail options to arena patrons might influence behavior, but Mr. Schwartz is a traffic engineer, not an advertising executive. After a six-month delay in the promised release of the TDM, it was strange to hear him talk about the Barclays Center website and use of social media, instead of the tactical and policy initiatives the community was led to expect.
Mr. Schwartz' efforts to sell both the unavoidable reduction in parking and a common-sense marketing campaign as cornerstones of the plan inevitably shifted focus away from what is not in the TDM. Missing are several measures described in the 2009 Memorandum of Environmental Commitments agreed between FCR and ESDC, including plans to provide free round trip subway fare with a Nets ticket, and free charter buses from park-and-ride facilities on Staten Island. Also missing is any funding from Forest City Ratner to support the additional MTA and LIRR capacity planned to handle post-event crowds. Mr. Schwartz suggested that the service enhancements would be funded through increased ridership by arena patrons, not remembering that he and his client had justified dropping the free subway fare by claiming prospective patrons surveyed already owned unlimited ride Metrocards. Since he can't have it both ways, it appears the public may be on the hook for additional transit expenses necessary to support the arena.
But what's really lacking from Atlantic Yards' TDM is any meaningful involvement by City and State government in the plan's execution. The results of the TDM are to be reviewed only once, six months after its implementation, and there are no remedies if its goals are not achieved.
Effective, government-mandated disincentives like residential parking permits and parking surcharges require executive sponsorship and legislative action. Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Cuomo have continued to express strong support for Atlantic Yards, even in light of the project's quickly evaporating public benefits. With permit parking legislation bottlenecked in Albany, it would be more than appropriate for each of them to push hard for the types of demand management techniques that have worked in cities like Chicago and Newark.
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I didn't manage to make it to yesterday's opening day of the Cloud Expo Europe – customer/work stuff takes precedence :) – but I managed to get to the second day. These events are always a bit of a mixed bag – it feels like I could attend cloud computing conferences every week, although it'll be big data (or is that BigData?!?!?) conferences soon as the vendor hype machines whirr into life…
First I attended the opening keynote as Dr Werner Vogels from AWS was presenting – as Smart421 is an AWS solution provider I just kinda felt I should be there and hear what he had to say. The noise from the exhibition floor was pretty grim in all the conference rooms so it wasn't exactly a perfect environment for him or us, but I got a few useful tidbits about how Amazon.com are using AWS (which has been an evolving story over 2010 and 2011). AWS didn't have a stand at the event and were not a sponsor etc, and yet AWS and their CTO are such a draw that they gave him the opening keynote on day 2 – which tells you a lot about where AWS's competitors are in the the marketplace really.
I then listened to a presentation from Joan Miller – Head of Parliamentary ICT for the UK Parliament. I didn't quite catch the end due to having to do a customer call, but whilst I found it interesting to hear what the UK Parliament are up to relating to cloud computing (especially the BYOD – "bring your own device" – trend and how strong a driver it is for them), I disagreed with the black & white conclusion that cloud computing was the answer to their challenges. It's certainly part of the answer, but many of the implications of making information available electronically to mobile BYOD devices anywhere are still just as nasty "in the cloud" as they are on-premise, e.g. authentication, security of data, coping with different presentation devices etc. I accept that scaling is certainly easier (or at least at a price point that doesn't keep you awake at night), and the use of SaaS offerings makes deployment of functionality much easier and cheaper for less critical datasets. To be fair to Joan, I missed the end of her presentation, and also the presentation slots were so short that there wasn't really enough time to get the subtleties of the message over.
I also caught a session from Chris Hinkle from Firehost on the subject of secure cloud hosting – I thought he might talk about data encryption at rest and in transit, key management etc, but he started with some interesting material from Version analysing the nature of security breaches, e.g. they are no more prevalent in public cloud deployments than private data centres, and no hypervisor based attacks have taken place, so the whole public cloud multi-tenancy concern is a red herring really. After some content about the role of web application firewalls, and I was also glad to see that he called out the security elephant in the cloudy corner of the room, i.e. guess what – your SDLC (software development lifecycle) needs to include secure development processes such as code reviews, vulnerability testing, penetration testing (and for every change, not just the first release!) etc. Shocker – insecure code is insecure wherever you run it.
Frank Jennings from law firm DMH Stallard covered some cloud legal contract points, based upon the Cloud Industry Forum white paper #3 (downloadable here) to which he was a contributor. He made some interesting points:
Cloud contracts are more about "getting out" than "getting in", i.e. access to data in the event of a failure, lock-in periods etc.
Negotiation with public cloud vendors just isn't typically going to happen – they operate at low margins and use a business model that just doesn't support custom negotiations and terms for each customer – and this means living with the legal jurisdiction that the vendor
Even in the most custom of contracts, the provider's financial liability (if you can even get them to sign up for consequential loss etc!) is typically capped at 100-150% of the fees you are paying them. Bottom line – service credits and the like are pretty pointless in a cloud or a non-cloud world and virtually insignificant compared with the potential disruption to your business (as discussed in a previous post)
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The last point I wanted to mention was something I picked up in a presentation about cloud adoption trends by William Fellows from the 451 Group. He observed that their research has shown that whilst security is a key concern when organisations are selecting a cloud-base solution, once they start implementing it falls away to being the fourth largest consideration. This backs up what we see in the market – cloud security is more of a fear issue than a real issue (well – it's no more real a concern than for any deployment anyway).


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The Pacific Legal Foundation has started the Rapanos Blog to offer news and views on the Supreme Court's upcoming opinion on the Rapans vs. United States wetlands regulation case. It's got a wealth of information on the case, including amicus briefs, oral arguments, related articles, and more.
Rapanos is one of two cases being considered by the Supreme Court challenging the Feds' overly expansive interpretation of the Clean Water Act. At the heart of the issue lies the question of whether the Fed's power to regulate "navigable waters" extends to wetlands and small streams. The broad interpretation of "wetland" has effectively allowed the Feds exercise significant power in the traditionally state and local domain of land use and development regulation.
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WASHINGTON — A large drop in the nation's jobless rate gave President Obama an unexpected boost Friday in his increasingly competitive contest with Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
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