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This week on Channel 9, Brian and guest host Martin Woodward (www.woodwardweb.com) discuss the week's top developer news including:
Picks of the Week!
Thanks again to Martin for guest hosting this week...
Programming Note: Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday in the US next week, there will be no TWC9 next week, the week of 11/25. See you on, or about, 12/2. Thanks and have a great holiday!
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The video that they refer to regarding Kinect and Eclipse IDE can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJHR45u0wmo
@Ralph Mueller: Sorry, yeah, in hindsight I should have made that show note item clearer. I can see that just labeling it "YouTube" would make it easy to miss... Thanks
Original: Martin's Pick of the Week! [25:45] KINECT with your Eclipse IDE, YouTube (Jonas Helming)
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Tweaked: Martin's Pick of the Week! [25:45] KINECT with your Eclipse IDE, YouTube Video of Presentation (Jonas Helming)
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W.Va. launches public education overhaul proposal
February 26, 2013
CHARLESTON — Student achievement, the school calendar, and teacher hiring and development are the key topics of Gov....
If the teachers' union opposes the bill, it must be a good thing. The comment regarding student-focused learning is right on the money.Heretofore, despite the 'for the children' tripe, the teachers' unions foremost interest has been the teachers. And that's fine because that's why the unions exist. Hale says that the teachers and students are inundated with tests. Translation: The teachers are forced to work too hard preparing students for tests. Tough.
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Attractive girls that do yoga. (Most guys fantasy g/f).
Did you check out those bendy girls coming out of the yoga class...
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In guitars, a slang word meaning bending the string so as to produce a frequency higher than the fret your finger is on.
Can be heard in "One Note Song."
Can be heard in "One Note Song."
Yeah, but I put the bendy in it!
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Being in-between straight and bisexual. Bendy people identify as straight but really they have slight bisexual tendencies.
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Girl 2: Are you bi?
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A high school party often involving a lot of stupid drunk teenagers doing stupid, drunk things... but it's fun!
Man, I got invited to this bendy tonight, wanna go?
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Pinkies that are naturally bent/crooked that give you the ability to preform amazingly well on drums.
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Unfortunate timing and backwards planning have combined to undercut the image of a new tool for law enforcement in Ohio.
The Cincinnati Enquirer first reported local and state law enforcement now can use facial recognition software to match images of possible suspects and victims to pictures on Ohio drivers' licenses.
Last summer, or even last spring - before Edward Snowden revealed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court let the National Security Agency snoop into cellphone records, emails and Facebook postings - this wouldn't have been so disconcerting.
The system itself is just a more efficient way of doing what investigators already could do - try to match photos of suspects or victims with faces and names on file. The electronic method is faster, and can be more accurate. Anyone who has watched crime solvers on TV shows has seen a representation of this.
But Attorney General Mike DeWine didn't help by allowing the facial recognition program to launch before conducting a public debate about privacy concerns and ironing out security protocols.
Again, the timing was tough; the system went into use June 6, about the time Americans were learning details about federal surveillance efforts. But if the public had been apprised of plans for the facial recognition system - and of rules for how it could be used - well before its launch, DeWine could have avoided handing his opponent an issue to use against him.


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ALLPATHS is a whole genome shotgun assembler that can generate high quality assemblies from short reads.
AmosCmp16Spipeline uses the AMOScmp software to assemble multiple, potentially overlapping 16S rRNA sequencing reads based on read mappings to a reference 16S rRNA gene.
Arachne is a tool for assembling genome sequences from whole genome shotgun reads, mostly in forward-reverse pairs obtained by sequencing clone ends.
AssembleViral454 is a new assembler, based on the ARACHNE package, designed for small and non-repetitive genomes sequenced at high depth. It was specifically designed to assemble read data generated from a mixed population of viral genomes. Reads need not be paired, and it is assumed that no sequence repeat in the genome would be large enough to fully contain an average read. The assembly process consists of two steps: First, a pre-processing stage is run, the output of which is an initial read layout. This is identical to the process employed in the published ARACHNE algorithm. This stage generally results in a fragmented assembly. Second, we employ an iterative procedure that incrementally merges contigs and improves read placement.
DISCOVARDISCOVAR is a variant caller and genome assembler that uses the latest low cost sequencing data. It can generate highly accurate variant calls for individual humans, or assemble genomes de novo.
Inchworm assembles the RNA-Seq data into the unique sequences of transcripts, often generating full-length transcripts for a dominant isoform, but then reports just the unique portions of alternatively spliced transcripts.
Pilon uses read alignment analysis to diagnose, report, and automatically improve genome assemblies, and it can also be used to make variant calls among similar haploid strains.
RC454 is a program that takes a set of 454 read and quality files as well as a consensus assembly for those reads and corrects for known 454 error modes such as homopolymer indels and carry forward/incomplete extension (CAFIE). It will also correct for any indel that breaks the reading frame, unless it occurs in more than 25% of the reads. Since the algorithm is aggressive in correcting for errors, it is important to align the reads to their own assembly rather than to an external reference to prevent misalignments as much as possible. RC454 uses Mosaik to align the corrected reads between each step, and as such it is required to run the script.
VICUNA is a de novo assembly program targeting populations with high mutation rates. It creates a single linear representation of the mixed population on which intra-host variants can be mapped. For clinical samples rich in contamination (e.g., >95%), VICUNA can leverage existing genomes, if available, to assemble only target-alike reads. After initial assembly, it can also use existing genomes to perform guided merging of contigs. For each data set (e.g., Illumina paired read, 454), VICUNA outputs consensus sequence(s) and the corresponding multiple sequence alignment of constituent reads. VICUNA efficiently handles ultra-deep sequence data with tens of thousands fold coverage.


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The name "Alan" is a common name used for males, The last name "Gi" is said to be german but can also be used as an asian last name. It's most commonly pronounced "Gee" like "gee you seem sleepy"
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Many might have seen how the stock market has declined since the election. Have you seen any reports of massive layoffs that have begun? Many of those who voted to re-elect President Barack Obama very well might have voted themselves out of a job.
I bookmarked in my computer the daily job cuts page - www.dailyjobcuts.com - to follow the job losses.
Obamacare has the potential to be the death to the prosperity of America. If you thought we have lost jobs in the past, there will be many more to come as we get closer to 2014.
Some restaurants currently employ workers full time but do not provide health care. This works for many Americans because their spouses already receive benefits covering the family. Those restaurant jobs are being cut to part time, and people will now struggle to find multiple part-time jobs to make ends meet.
You will also see many companies that employ 50 to 75 striving to cut the number of employees to under 50. Obamacare won't require companies with fewer than 50 employees to offer health insurance starting in 2014.
These layoffs are just the first wave as many other companies wrestle with how to keep their businesses cost-effective under the so-called Affordable Care Act.
Job losses are inevitably coming to our area, especially with additional Environmental Protection Agency regulations to hit the power and coal industry. Norfolk Southern Railway announced a layoff of 200 workers due to the coal decline in October, and more are on the horizon seeing that about 40 percent of its car loadings derive from the coal industry.
McLanahan Corp. manufactures equipment for the coal industry, and this will put a strain on its business. Keystone Bolt manufacturers mine bolts used for shoring mine roofs. Its plants in Australia, China and Canada will survive but what about the nine plants in the U.S. including the three in Cresson?
The power plants are now susceptible to closure, and they hire the services of many contractors and trucking companies. These are just a few businesses to name in our area that will be placed in shackles due to this regime's war on coal.
I wonder how the next unemployment figures will be manipulated and spun to hide the real unemployment numbers. I would not be surprised if the unemployment numbers will be lower because there will be more people working part time instead of full time.
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Join us this Tuesday, September 12, after the 7:30 pm business meeting, when member Mike Horwath leads an introductory talk and discussion on 3D design for 3D printing. He'll cover topics such as which 3D software is best for what kinds of designs and how to stage your design for best printing. He may even explain what a gyrovoronoid is.
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Hive13 runs Learn 2 Solder at the Clermont Public Library Maker Festival on June 18
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A team from Hive13 ran our Learn 2 Solder activity at the Clermont County Public Library's Maker Festival this past June 18. Several hundred area kids and their parents soldered up their own Hive13 battery-powered, blinky LED, magnetic circuit board badges. With all the molten metal excitement, it was hard to tell what lit up brighter, the blinky LEDs or the kids' or the parents' eyes. We planted some seeds, all had a good time, and no one got hurt.
Volunteer members from Hive13 have been running this program as one of our community outreach activities since forever. The activity project page is on our wiki.
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Above: Dustin Bruce instructs kids at the Blue Ash Branch Library making bouncy-balls with safe household ingredients.
Volunteers from Hive13 successfully led eight workshops with local Cincinnati Libraries, teaching kids the basics of chemistry and biology. The program, DIY Polymers, was presented at Cincinnati Public Library branches as part of their Summer Learning 2016 education series. The hands-on course taught young scientists and makers about polymers through exciting activities. Children made colorful bouncy-balls and extracted DNA from strawberries using common, safe household chemicals and reagents like school glue, dish soap, and borax laundry booster.
As many as 40 to 60 kids attended each of the eight events, and each left with their own DIY bouncy-ball and a sample jar of strawberry DNA they extracted. This course is just one of many educational programs Hive13 offers the community to engage interest in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, & math) and making.
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The BCS Standings for Week 11 will be announced in 25 minutes, and we'll have all the thoughts, observations and predictions right here.
Good evening everybody, Rich Thomaselli, Deputy Editor for College Football on Bleacher Report here. I'll take you through the next 45 minutes as we learn the fourth week of BCS Standings when the announcement begins shortly.
Did much change? Not at the top, I'm sure. But after Oregon and Auburn it's going to get awfully interesting.


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Police work to identify cellphone shop robbers
Men rob T-Mobile store in Kissimmee
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Police officers in Kissimmee hope the public can help them find a robbery suspect.
Officers said a man robbed a T-Mobile store on Nov. 21 and that two men robbed the same store again on Nov. 29.
In the first incident at the East Osceola Parkway store, a suspect shattered the front door of the business and fled with several display phones. He left in a sing-cab pickup.
In the second incident two men again broke the front door and entered the business.
The men removed a box of used and returned cellphones and fled the scene with them.
Anyone with information about these thefts should call Crimeline at 1-800-423-TIPS.


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Systemwide Events Calendar
Convergence "Happenings" & Class ScheduleOctober 24, 3:00pm - 6:00pm
Manoa Campus, Art Building, University of Hawai'i Art Gallery
The University of Hawai'i Art Gallery announces a schedule of "happenings" and studio classes being held in conjunction with its exhibition "Convergence: Glitch_Click_Thunk, Featuring Mark Amerika" that is on view through December 6. The public is invited to observe the processes and active convergence of new, old, and hybrid technologies.
Within the exhibition space, students and faculty from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM) will be actively manipulating and printing images on litho- and letter-presses and digital printers, and operating the Computer Numeric Control (CNC) router, 3D printing and fabrication equipment. All studio areas and equipment will be simultaneously engaged and interactive during the scheduled "happenings". Connected to the printing presses, audio equipment will amplify and augment sounds of the moving machinery. Outside of scheduled "happenings", faculty and students will work in the gallery on an unscheduled basis throughout the exhibition.
All "happenings" and classes will be held in the UH Art Gallery.
"Happenings" (all studio areas at work):
Tues., Oct. 15, 2:00–3:00 during public reception
Thurs., Oct. 24, 3:00–6:00 during Ka Leo Arts Festival
Sun., Nov. 3, 1:00–2:00 prior to film screening of Immobilité (2:00–3:30, Art Auditorium)
Fri., Dec. 6, 2:00–4:00 prior to closing; Mark Amerika's image-exchange from Paris, France culminates on 12/06/13.
Scheduled Classes:
Wed., Oct. 23, 1:00–3:00 lithography class, CNC router, 3D printing and fabrication
Thurs., Oct. 24, 3:00–5:00 digital imaging class, CNC router, 3D printing and fabrication
Wed., Nov. 13, 1:00–3:00 lithography class, CNC router, 3D printing and fabrication
Thurs., Nov. 14, 3:00–5:00 digital imaging class
Image: LRC member Scott Groeniger checking printer output, courtesy Carena Philliips, University of Hawai'i Art Gallery
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Admission is free. Donations are appreciated. Parking fees may apply. Gallery hours: Monday - Friday 10:00-4:00; Sunday 12:00-4:00. Closed Saturdays, Veterans Day, Nov. 11, Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 24, and non-instructional day, Nov. 25.
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West Oahu Campus, E-127 (Lab)
|Checking On Your Progress: How To Use STAR
Maui Campus, The Learning Center
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Manoa Campus, Center for Korean Studies Auditorium
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Manoa Campus, SPALDING 155
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- Waikiki Parc Features Nicole Naone
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- Red Hat System Administration I
- EWC Arts Exhibition: Bollywood & Beyond: Costume in Indian Film
- Kalaupapa -- A Source of Light, Constant and Never-Fading
- Trip Around the Island
- Convergence: Glitch_Click_Thunk, Featuring Mark Amerika
- Trip Around the Island exhibit
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5 Ways to Actually Steal Christmas
#2. Blackmailing the President
Editor's note: Nope. We're not even going to joke about this.
#1. Hacking Every Calendar Factory in the World
After I'd finally shaken the Predator drone, I disappeared for a few weeks into the Los Angeles underground, the President's parting advice echoing in my mind: Hallmark controls everything.
Two days later, I stopped outside the fence of the Hallmark Central Plant, underneath the blood red skies.
An unearthly wail from within, as the furnaces were fed with the bodies of the damned.
Cutting the fence, I ducked inside the perimeter, sprinting across the apron and clambered up a drain pipe to the roof. There, as I pried off the cover to the roof vent, I heard the sound of footsteps behind me. I spun around, flourishing the Jefferson Nunchuks I'd recovered from the vault of the Founding Fathers.
"Be at peace my son," said the Pope, stepping out of the shadows.
"The Pope!" I said to the Pope.
"It is I," the Pope confirmed. "I've read your Tumblr, Chris. And, although I do not approve of some of the language you've employed, your points are sound. Commercialism is one of the great challenges of our modern age, and for it to have perverted a celebration of the birth of Christ saddens me greatly. I shall develop a new way -- a better way -- to celebrate His birth. But to do that, we first have to destroy the beast." The Pope threw back his Pope cape, revealing a leather suit, strapped with knives. "Now let's kick some ass."
Just then two Hallmark guards burst out of a door, armed with submachine guns. Before I could react, the Pope closed the distance between them, unleashing a spinning kick that sent one guard flying through a plate-glass window. Sidestepping around a burst of fire, the Pope launched a vicious salvo of punches into the other guard's neck, sending him through a different plate-glass window.
"OHHHHH SHHHHIIIIIIIT THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING!" I yelled.
The Pope gave me a look which said that he still wasn't impressed by my language.
Inside the Hallmark factory, the Pope and I kicked rich amounts of ass, fighting our way to the central computer core, where all the world's calendars were programmed. After subduing the sinister Hallmark calendar technicians, with their lidless, unblinking eyes, we stood before the central core.
"Do it!" The Pope said.
"You got it Your Holiness," I said. "Let's see if this ... dates ... something ... pun. Goddamnit."
Before I could earn another rebuke for blasphemy, the sound of bells and hoof steps was heard from the roof above. Down, down, down the smokestack came the sound of rollicking laughter, followed moments later by Santa Claus, my nemesis in red velvet.
"Chris Bucholz. The Pope," he said, addressing us warmly. "I understand what you're trying to do here. The tradition of gift-giving has gone too far; conspicuous consumption pains me as much as it does you two."
I set the Jefferson nunchuks a-twirl, ready to silence this prince of lies for the last time, before a Pope-ish hand rested on my shoulder, staying me.
"But there is still good here," Santa continued. "Christmas is still a time spent with friends and family. Laughing. Sharing stories. Just being there for each other. This is mankind at its best, not its worst. Surely, you can appreciate that, Pope."
The Pope nodded. He appreciated the hell out of this.
Santa nodded and turned to me. "Chris Bucholz, you are awful. No reasoning -- no logical argument, no call to your better nature -- will ever make you accept Christmas. Your heart of tarnished tin will not permit it."
"All true, Nemesis."
"You leave me no option. To save Christmas, I will have to blackmail you." He held up a scroll of paper. "On this list are all of the naughty acts you have committed this year."
I licked my lips. Even the Pope looked surprised, and I think a bit jealous. "You couldn't have seen everything," I said. "I did a lot of that when it was dark out."
Santa coughed, and put on his reading glasses. "January 1st," he said, reading from the note. "Fouled the dishwasher."
"It was a New Year's party, and the bathroom was busy for like ten minutes," I said.
"January 1st," he continued. "Fouled the dishwasher."
"You did that one already."
"You did it twice."
"So you don't see everything. I did it three times."
Santa put the note away and looked at me sadly.
I sighed, seeing his threat to its inevitable conclusion. "If I destroy Christmas, you'll release this naughty list to my various enemies, who will use it to tear me down from my perch atop society."
Santa and the Pope shared a look. "Sure," Santa said.
"Cracked is very well-respected these days," I said, feeling the need to defend my perch. "And I'm like ... the sixth best guy they've got."
"Sure, sure," Santa said, that condescending bastard.
As we walked out of the factory, I leaned in to Santa. "So, this probably means no presents again this year, right?"
Santa nodded, padding the pocket with the list in it.
"Actually," the Pope said, "You can have this back." From out of his Pope Mobile he withdrew this:
"Oh, Pope," Santa said, punching his shoulder affectionately. We shared a three-way high five.
Chris Bucholz is a Cracked columnist and came pretty close to dying from the flu while writing this, so if it gets weird towards the end, it's not entirely his fault. You can check on his condition on Facebook or Twitter.


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AUSTIN, Texas - Jessica Harris tallied a double-double and Tiffin slowed down the St. Edward's offense in the second half Saturday as the Dragons rallied for an 81-74 win.
TU coach Pam Oswald said it was a nice bounce back from a disappointing start to the season Friday.
"I think the biggest thing was our kids came back with more of a fire than we did yesterday," she said.
Tiffin (1-1) trailed 44-39 at the break after St. Edward's shot 15 of 29 overall and 8 of 13 on 3-pointers in the first half, but the Hilltoppers went only 12 of 29 after that, making just one of their remaining eight 3-point tries.
"I felt our kids did well," Oswald said. "First half, down 15, I felt our kids stayed the course and weathered the storm."
Harrison keyed the TU charge with 13 points and 12 rebounds.
Karli Mast backed her with a game-high 19 points for the Dragons, with Melissa Gilliland (15), Jordan Fraley (11) and Stephanie Miller (10) also scoring in double digits.
Oswald said Mast was a little tentative in Friday's loss, but came on strong against St. Edward's.
"She had that 'Karli Mast fire' in her eye," Oswald said.
Dawn Kiel's 15 points topped St. Edward's (1-1). Maddie Wheeler netted 13 points, and Kelsee Barr dished six assists.
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ST. LOUIS - Tiffin took a double-digit lead midway through the first half and rolled from there Saturday in a season-opening 72-52 thumping of McKendree.
The Dragons never trailed, were only tied twice - both times in the first three minutes - and maintained their double-digit lead after Kahleal McCormick's layup at the 10:55 mark gave them a 24-13 lead.
Joe Graessle popped in 15 points and dished five assists for TU, and Mike Boan registered 17 points and nine rebounds. Eric Roby chipped in 10 points and nine boards and McCormick ended with eight points.
McCormick's five steals also figured into Tiffin's 19 steals and McKendree's 32 turnovers.
Clinton Happe's 17 points led the Bearcats and David Ruckman netted 15 points and grabbed eight rebounds.
Walsh turns back TU volleyball in finale
NORTH ROYALTON - Tiffin battled to a win in the opener but Walsh pulled away from there Saturday in Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference volleyball action.
The Dragons (9-20, 2-16 GLIAC) held off Walsh 25-23 in the first game before falling 25-23, 25-14, 25-11 after that.
Danielle McQuade's 15 kills and 18 digs paced TU. Seniors Maggie Betz and Maureen Kurtz, a Mohawk graduate, both belted 10 kills.
Jordan Jenkins had 20 digs, giving her 20 double-digit digs in a row this year and 23 overall for the season. Columbian graduate Rachel Reamer chipped in 11 digs.
The Cavaliers (11-15, 8-10) got 18 kills and 16 digs from Julianne O'Donnell. Krissy Sokol hammered 17 kills and Emilee Muzechuk had 22 digs.


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It was a very big year for Britney Spears, who's been named one of PEOPLE's 25 Most Intriguing People of 2012.
For starters, Forbes put the pop star at the top of its list of the top-earning female musicians (with $58 million), and her new single with will.i.am, "Scream & Shout," went to No. 1 in 17 countries.
She even took on Simon Cowell, along with the contestants – and any critics – as a judge on The X Factor.
After settling into the Fox reality show – whose two-hour finale airs Thursday night – she developed her own signature sound bite: "Amazing."
Now, Spears, 31, tells PEOPLE the top three things that made her 2012 "amazing."
1. Her career
"It's no secret I'm a shy person," Spears tells PEOPLE. "I feel doing this show over the past year has allowed me to come out of my shell a lot more. Everyone on the show has been amazing and made me feel really comfortable."
2. Her sons Preston, 7 and Jayden, 6
"It's really amazing to see how quickly my boys are growing up," she says. "It seems like yesterday I was reading books to them at night. Now I sit and listen to them read me books!"
3. Her fiancé Jason Trawick, 41
"It amazes me that no matter what situation I'm in," says Spears, "Jason has the ability to always make me feel protected and loved."
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Buffalo native Ron Irwin has written a crafty inside joke into his new novel, "Flat Water Tuesday."
The main character, Rob Carrey, who comes from a working-class home, parlays his talent as a rower into a scholarship at an upper-crust boarding school and a chance at an Ivy League education.
Carrey developed that talent sculling on the channels and rivers of his hometown, Niccalsetti.
Say that out loud: Niccalsetti. Nickel City.
Although Irwin has taken some liberties with geography and other minor details, Nickel City is unmistakably Buffalo, and the Black Rock Rowing Club is the place he learned to row in the mid-1980s, the West Side Rowing Club.
Why not just call Carrey's hometown Buffalo? Irwin, in an interview during a visit to Buffalo from his home in South Africa, said he has a good reason. "Some bad things happen to the main character, and I didn't want people to think that I was busting on Buffalo, that I was just one more person saying mean things about the city, because I love Buffalo. And the main character learns enough in Buffalo to prevail, and to hold on to his integrity."
Also, said Irwin, "The actual geography of my city is a little bit different from Buffalo, and I didn't want people writing to my editor and saying, 'He doesn't know Buffalo, there's no River Road.' It was just easier from a fictional perspective to change a few things."
But he changed the name of Carrey's hometown to a reference that any Western New Yorker would get. "Anyone in Buffalo would know Niccalsetti is Nickel City and get the joke," he said. "But anyone outside of Buffalo wouldn't."
"Flat Water Tuesday," Irwin's first novel, published last month, is the July selection of The Buffalo News Book Club.
The textured, evocative novel starts in the present, when Carrey, a documentary filmmaker, receives a letter from a man who rowed with him in the four-oared scull at their boarding school 15 years earlier.
Carrey is living through an excruciating week. His relationship with the love of his life, Carolyn Smythe, a tall, cool blond video editor who is also his business partner, is ending. The book swivels smoothly from the present, in which Carrey fights to hold on to Carolyn, to 15 years earlier, when Carrey begins a year of rowing at The Fenton School that will culminate in a vital race against the school's rival.
Irwin, who went to teach in Soweto after graduating from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., in 1992, is from a family with deep Buffalo roots. His grandfather, Robert Irwin, was a doctor at Children's Hospital. He is the son of Robert J.A. Irwin, a banker with Niagara Share who was also on the board of M&T, and Donna Irwin, who died in February. Irwin has been married to Jacqueline for 13 years. He is the father of Sarah, 10; Emma, 9; and Tyler, 15, who lives in Buffalo with his mother.
Irwin started high school at Nichols, but clashed with the school administration in his freshman year when he became immersed in rowing at the West Side Rowing Club. He visited the club after seeing rowers on the Niagara River near the Peace Bridge. There he met coach Jerry Jacobi and saw two boys his age row. "It absolutely hooked me," Irwin said. "I could not believe the speed and the grace and the elegance of it, being out there on the water in the early morning."
To clear time for rowing, which he did "mornings, after school, weekends," Irwin quit the sports he was playing at Nichols, which at the time had no rowing program and did not support his involvement.
"I was getting into a lot of trouble," he said. "I wasn't doing well academically, the school wanted me to come back onto its teams, and rowing was the one anchor of my life. I probably would have had a great time rowing at West Side if Nichols had supported it. But it was too much work to constantly be negotiating about it. It was easier to go to boarding school, where rowing was a recognized sport."
The family settled on Kent School in Connecticut, whose physical layout resembles Irwin's fictional school of Fenton. At Kent, Irwin was surprised to learn that rowing was the top sport. "They had 100 years of tradition, the rowers were treated like gods," he said. "Because I could row, I was immediately taken in by the tribe of rowers, and my grades shot up. I loved it, and I knew I would write a novel about it."
In 1992, he wrote that novel, about "a kid from a tough town learning how to navigate the world of rowing and boarding school." He found a literary agent who shopped the book around and received 27 rejections from publishers. He rewrote the book, adding a love story, and it was sent around again. "Sure enough, 27 more rejections," he said. Irwin then put the work aside, focusing on graduate school, building a house and teaching at the University of Cape Town, where he has worked since 1999.
The book lay dormant until 2011, when, shaken by the death of his friend and colleague, poet Stephen Watson, at age 57, Irwin opened up the old file. This time he didn't say anything to anyone, including his wife.
He was driving to work one day when he realized that what he thought was a second novel, "about a man trying to hold on to the love of his life, who is leaving him due to an error he's made" was actually part of what would become "Flat Water Tuesday."
"So I began the story of Carolyn and Rob, and it becomes this intense love story and a story about one week in the life of a man when the past has suddenly come crowding into his very tumultuous present."
This time, the stars aligned for Irwin. To his surprise, as he was finishing the rewrite, a few of his crew teammates, back at Kent for their old coach's funeral, called him to ask about the novel they had heard he'd been writing. And an editor for St. Martin's Press, with whom he had worked on some projects, contacted him to say she was coming to Cape Town. The two had lunch together, and soon he had a contract.
"It's been interesting to work on a novel in the dark for so long, and when it finally sees the light it gets such a great reception," said Irwin. The book received a starred review in Kirkus Reviews, which called it "an elegy to love and loss and reconciliation," and praise from novelist J.M. Coetzee, who wrote that Irwin's hero "is not only a prodigious oarsman but the lover of two memorably realized women."
A copy of the book has been passed around at the West Side Rowing Club and enjoyed by everyone who has read it. "I think it's a very interesting story, very readable," said Paul Kolkmeyer, president of the club. "If an individual has any ties to rowing, that makes it that much more interesting. You don't want to put it down."
Flat Water Tuesday
by Ron Irwin
St. Martin's Press
353 pages, $24.99.
St. Martin's Press has provided The Buffalo News Book Club with several copies of "Flat Water Tuesday," which Ron Irwin signed, to be given away to readers. To be considered for a copy, please send a letter to Book Club, The Buffalo News, One News Plaza, Buffalo, N.Y., 14240, or an email to firstname.lastname@example.com and explain why you would like a copy. Include your mailing address.
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- Dominican authorities confirmed yesterday, Monday 23 April, the death of six people affected by cholera in Tamboril, where as of yesterday 523 patients have been treated for symptoms of the disease, as reported in Diario Libre. A further two adults with cholera symptoms have died in the town after being hospitalized. The latest victim is Hilda Mercedes, 82, who passed away in the municipal district of Canca la Piedra on Saturday, 21 April. The Deputy Minister for Public Health based in Santiago, Dr. Yadira Perez, said that 36 patients have tested positive for cholera. Nevertheless, she stated that the situation was under the control of the ministry brigades that are carrying out preventive campaigns in several areas of Tamboril. At 10am yesterday, Monday 23 April, 19 patients were being treated in the hospital in Tamboril, of whom three were women, four children and 12 men, who presented fever, stomach pains and diarrhea. Dr. Perez said that the patients who were hydrated and with fewer bowel movements are being discharged so that they can continue recovering at home. The official said that Public Health is treating any patient with vomiting and diarrhea as a suspect cholera case. Over the past four days, four tanks of chlorinated water were installed in sectors like Canca La Piedra and El Arenazo, where the greatest numbers of cases have been reported. In the meantime, most residents in Tamboril are refusing to drink water directly from the normal water supply for fear of cholera. Read original at
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So, apparently November is now called Movember - where men are encouraged to start the month clean shaven and grow & groom a wicked awesome 'stache while raising awareness and funds for prostate cancer and other male cancers. I bear no affiliation with Movember but do share the love of a fun moustache. I picked up a pack of four at Lifestyles downtown in case we were in need of a last minute costume idea and forgot about them until yesterday!
I'm so frustrated that my camera was on the wrong setting and I didn't realize it until later, but ah well. These photos make me LAUGH.


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Nice. Could not follow all that. But have a few questions:
1) Can all that js be replaced with c#?
2) Do you actually need a streaming server? Can the client just download the video and play it while it is being downloaded?
Tim Sneath wrote:Hi Stacey,
The JavaScript that's included as a remotely-based script is really to instantiate the Silverlight runtime on multiple platforms, as well as to download Silverlight if it's not present on a machine; the one-line of JavaScript that's in CreateSilverlight.js is purely for activating and invoking the runtime. So there's not much point in replacing those lines with C# - it's everything that comes after that which you would write in C#.
You're right - you don't need a streaming server; you could use HTTP progressive download. But the streaming server reduces bandwidth costs because you don't have to host it yourself with Silverlight Streaming; (b) even if you were hosting it, streaming only downloads what you actually watch, as opposed to progressive download which will keep downloading ahead of what you actually need even if you stop viewing the video halfway through. The other advantage of Silverlight Streaming is that it's cached in multiple geographic locations around the world, so viewers in the US, Europe or the Far East will each have a local, responsive solution. This kind of content distribution usually costs a fair amount of money, and we're making it available for free here.
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Shizzle Dizzle Magic at Central Elementary SchoolThursday, May 3rd, 2012
We were pleasantly surprised to find this article about our recent presentation of Character All Stars!
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The Parent Teacher Central at Central Elementary continues to magically change the lives of area students.
The group regularly holds events to help involve families in the activities of the children who attend Central Elementary.
On April 4, the PTC hosted a Family Fun Night and Appreciation Raffle. The event featured a Shizzle Dizzle Magic Show for students and their family members to enjoy.


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Monday, April 29, 2013
DuBose Middle School recently received a donation to their food pantry from South Carolina Bank and Trust. SCB&T collected food and raised money during their "Souper Bowl of Caring" to support the DMS food pantry. Pictured from left to right are: DuBose Middle School Principal, Christie O'Rear, Lauren Bailey, VP/Branch Manager of SCB&T and Laura Coggins, Assistant Branch Manager of SCB&T.
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The two were spotted visiting a local park and appeared to be in deep conversation – all while cameras, presumably for her VH1 reality show, Fantasia for Real, captured the conversation.
The outing comes two days after the American Idol season 3 winner, 26, was released from the hospital after overdosing on aspirin and a sleep aid.
Court documents filed last week by Cook's wife, Paula, allege that her husband and Barrino had been having an affair since August 2009 and that the two also made a sex tape. She has also threatened to sue the singer for alienation of affection and criminal conversation.
Barrino's manager has said Barrino believed the Cooks had separated and is now "heartbroken and is sorry for any pain she may have caused."
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Just How Much Did Green Day Do For 'Green Day: Rock Band'?
Since the guys in Green Day aren't huge gamers, it makes you wonder just how much involvement they had in the making of "Green Day: Rock Band." According to Chris Foster, the project lead on the game, quite a lot. We spoke to Foster recently about what the band brought to the table.
"The band was involved throughout the project," Foster explained. "At the beginning we would brainstorm ideas for venues with them, talk about the set list and then we proposed our set list and they gave us tweaks on that.


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U.S. Representative Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) today announced that he has been appointed to five subcommittees with a strong impact on the North State, particularly in the areas of water supply, forest management and agriculture.
"I am pleased and excited to be appointed to these five subcommittees, which I believe are an excellent fit and very important to California's First Congressional District," LaMalfa said. "Water supply, forest management and agriculture are primary economic factors in the district and I am eager to utilize my experience and background as a member of these subcommittees."


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COLUMBIANA - Leetonia's Luke Janci had a summer on the links he will never forget.
Now he's following that up with a pretty good autumn.
The senior booked his spot in the Division III state tournament with a strong performance at the district tournament at Seven Hills Country Club in Hartville last week. He'll open play in the state tournament at 9:40 a.m. Friday at Northstar Golf Resort in Sunbury.
This run to the state tournament might not have been possible, though, if a stroke of incredible luck in the summer didn't go Janci's way.
In June, the Northern Ohio PGA notified Janci that it had selected him to attend an all-expenses paid trip to the Ryder Cup Junior Academy at the beginning of July in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
"When I got that it was crazy," Janci said. "I think it's like hitting the lottery."
The seven-day trip saw Janci being put up at a top-rate hotel at the PGA Village resort. He said all of the accommodations were great including the food.
"We would get up at 6:45 a.m. every morning and head down to breakfast," Janci said. "After breakfast, we went across the street to the huge PGA practice facility. They have tons of greens and sand traps. They'd let you warm up for about an hour on the range. After that they separated us into groups where we would do different exercises."
Janci said everyone at the academy was examined and graded by a point system the first day. He said the scoring determined where one was placed in the program.
The last three days the golfers were separated into teams to play a Stars vs. Stripes version of the Ryder Cup using the famous international competition's rules and format.
"I still talk to people I played with," Janci said. "They were from all over. My partner was from Texas. We ended up winning."
In addition to all of the quality competition, Janci got instruction from some veteran professional golfers including former Ryder Cup captains Billy Casper and Dow Finsterwald. Casper had 51 PGA Tour victories in his career.
"I got a private putting lesson from (Casper)," Janci said. "He's the reason I have a new grip on my putter. He hit the same shot with my putter and missed on the same side of the hole as I did like three times in a row. He looked at me and showed me the putter. He said 'Your grip is off.' I said 'Is it?' and then he told me to get a new grip."
After coming back home from such a special experience, Janci said his confidence was boosted and he felt like a good senior golf season was possible.
"I feel at the beginning of my career I set my standards low," Janci said. "I didn't think I could compete with everybody. This year I felt like I had to gain confidence because it was my last year. I had to try my hardest. If I didn't make it to state it would have been unsatisfying."
Janci, who averages around 80 or 81 for 18 holes, said he's due to play some good golf because his putts have not been falling.
South Range graduate Brandon Pluchinsky, who is now a member of the Youngstown State golf team, qualified for the state tournament the past two years at the same course Janci will play this weekend.
Janci said his mother and Pluchinsky's mother know each other. He's been told to call Brandon to pick his brain about how how the Northstar course plays.
"We know each other pretty well from playing tournaments together," Janci said. "I'll be definitely taking notes."
Leetonia golf coach Jim DeJane said that Janci has come a long way in his quest for a state berth - the first of its kind for a Leetonia golfer since Dan Goodman did it in 1994.
"I've had him for four years and he's a great player," DeJane said. "As a freshman, he was a good player, but he was a little erratic and was playing little boy golf. A couple of times I told him in practice, 'If you try that in a match, I would go ballistic on you.' And I went ballistic on him. Last summer, he went down to (Florida) and worked on his game. Now I told him, 'You're playing big boy golf.'"
Janci plans to major in either civil engineering or nursing when he attends college next fall. He hopes to be playing golf at whatever institution he chooses, but hasn't made up his mind yet.
In the meantime, his eyes are on the state prize.
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Janci is the only player in Leetonia history to shoot in the 30s in every regular season match, which he did 15 times this season.
Janci said his pre-round strategy for just about tournament or match he plays is to look up the course layout on Google Maps.
"I'll go on there and take notes to see how many yards I have to hit the ball," Janci said. "It's good for figuring out how to deal with the blind shots."
Janci's favorite pro golfer is Luke Donald
"He's such a consistent player," Janci said. "He's what I want to be."
Janci's favorite local course to play is the Kennsington Golf Club in Canfield.
"For being a public course, it's the closest thing to a country club you can get," he said.
Janci also plays basketball and baseball at Leetonia. Golf is by far his favorite though and he's not scared of baseball ruining his golf swing.
"A lot of people say that baseball affects your golf swing and it does to an extent," Janci said. "But, I think it can only make it better because you're doing close to the same motion. That builds muscles."
Janci's local swing coach is Mike Shulas of the Salem Golf Club.


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In honor of the holiday, here are five drink recipes to ensure your celebration is muy bueno.
Skinnygirl Mexican Margarita
Handful of frozen grapes
Skinnygirl Sweet 'n Tart Grapefruit Margarita
Sugar or Splenda for rim
Lime garnish (optional)
Coat the rim of a margarita glass with sugar. Pour the grapefruit margarita mixture over the frozen grapes. Garnish with a lime (optional).
Pineapple Serrano Margarita
2 oz. tequila (recipe recommends Herradura Silver)
3 cubic inches of diced pineapple
¾ oz. lime juice
½ oz. simple syrup
3 slices of serrano pepper with seeds
Crush the pineapple and chili slices in the base of a shaker with a muddler. Add the cubed ice and the remaining ingredients. Shake hard and strain over ice in an old-fashioned glass. Garnish with a chili and a star anise pod.
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4 parts red wine (recipe recommends Clos du Bois Red Blend 2009)
1 part blood orange liqeur (recipe recommends Solerno Blood Orange Liqueur)
1 part rum (recipe recommends Bacardi Superior)
1 part pineapple juice
1 part freshly squeezed lime
1 part freshly squeezed lemon
1 orange slice squeezed into each glass
Freshly grated nutmeg in each glass
Pour the wine into your pitcher, and squeeze the juice wedges from the lemon and lime into the wine. Add the blood orange liquor and rum. Chill overnight. Add the orange and nutmeg before serving over ice.
Blood Orange Margarita
1½ parts tequila (recipe recommends Tequila Avión)
¾ part orange liqueur (recipe recommends Cointreau)
1 part blood orange juice
½ part fresh sour mix
In a cocktail shaker, add all ingredients with ice. Shake and strain. This margarita is best served over fresh ice and garnished with an orange twist.
Rita Rioja
¾ oz. fresh-squeezed lime juice
¾ oz. simple syrup (equal parts sugar and water)
1½ oz. reposado tequila (recipe recommends Avión Reposado)
Fresh red pepper
Rub the rim of your glass with a wedge of fresh lime, and dip into some salt. Add some spice to your margarita by muddling a piece of red pepper and a little bit of cilantro to bring out their natural flavors. Add the tequila, lime juice and simple syrup, and then fill your mixing glass with ice. Give your cocktail a good shake to chill, and strain it into your salted glass. Garnish with a piece of red pepper and cilantro.


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After removing six tons of sand and plugging the leaks, the student team spent four more days refilling the sand.
Published March 21, 2013
The work wasn't glamorous, but it had to be done.
Last November, UB master's student Ethan Mamer removed 6 tons of sand—by hand—from a 10-meter-long (33-foot-long) artificial river he was using to study how water cycles through streams. He needed to empty the river to repair leaks in silicone caulking that were affecting experimental results.
"It took some thought as to how I was going to get all the sand out and where I would put it," Mamer says. "We toyed with the idea of getting a giant moving dolly, a complicated pulley system and another couple of plans that were all a little crazy."
In the end, he settled on simpler tools: shovels, 55-gallon barrels and a lot of muscle. The job took five days. Several students in Mamer's department, geology, took pity on him and volunteered to help. Then, in January, after plugging the leaks, the team spent four more days refilling the sand.
Mamer ran another series of experiments. They worked. He was euphoric.
Welcome to the world of river restoration research.
Though scientists in the field spend countless hours studying real-life streams, scale models made from lumber and PVC pipes also play an important role in helping investigators understand rivers.
At UB, scientists are using such devices to test techniques for strengthening riverbanks and to simulate groundwater discharge in streams—a process that plays a role in removing nitrogen pollution and supporting wildlife.
These model waterways, called flumes, are awesome apparatuses that feature flowing water and elements customized to meet the needs of research projects. They require maintenance—as Mamer discovered—but the science they support is important.
Mamer and Chris Lowry, assistant professor of geology, are working with a flume in the basement of the Natural Sciences Complex, North Campus.
This flume pipes water into a thick bed of sand to simulate how groundwater bubbles up to the surface of streams. Heat-sensing fiber-optic cables run through the flume, providing Mamer with temperature measurements that he uses to determine how groundwater, which is cool, is rising and mixing with warmer surface water.
The body of the flume is a 5-meter-long rectangular box, but a divider runs lengthwise down the center, doubling the length of the artificial river to 10 meters.
Mamer and Lowry recently completed a series of experiments using the flume to model how groundwater and surface water interact. This work enables the scientists to verify their field results and improve techniques for locating groundwater hotspots in real rivers—important information for stream restoration.
"In zones where groundwater is discharging, you have more invertebrates, which are a food source for fish like trout," says Lowry, Mamer's faculty adviser. In addition, the cycling of water from the surface of a river into the ground and back can help remove nitrogen pollution, which enters streams as agricultural fertilizer runoff.
Another research team of Donghua Cai, an MS student in geography; Michael Gallisdorfer, a PhD student in geography; Seyed Mohammad Ghaneeizad, a PhD student in civil, structural and environmental engineering; Sean Bennett, professor of geography; and Joseph Atkinson, professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering, is working with a flume in Statler Commissary on the North Campus.
This flume is a 7-meter-long and 2-meter-wide scale model of the Big Sioux River in South Dakota. Using a battery of instruments that slide along movable guiderails, the scientists can measure the volume and speed of water flowing through the flume, along with the forces that the water exerts on structures placed inside the flume.
The "river" drains into a large plastic basin where it's then recycled—pumped through white PVC pipes back to the top of the apparatus. On a recent afternoon, water was moving through the flume at a rate of 425 gallons per minute.
Placing formations of engineered log jams into rivers can protect stream banks from the erosive forces of flow, and Bennett and his team are studying which formations work best: "What should they look like, where should they be placed and what should be their frequency in space?" he says.
To test different stabilization structures, the researchers place models of the structures into the flume and track how their presence affects turbulent flow, fluid forces and bed topography.
The team's findings will help scientists working with the city of Sioux Falls and the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources make decisions on how to stabilize the real Big Sioux River, Bennett says.
Ghaneeizad says one of the most exciting parts about the flume work is that it will yield real-world results. "This is a project that will be used somewhere in the United States. The results will help someone—it's not just a library project," he says.
Both flumes were built by the Instrument Machine Shop in the College of Arts and Sciences.


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5. Jimmy Kimmel's Short & Sweet Opener
Awards show openers aren't usually known for their brevity, but Kimmel kept his monologue short and sweet. "Let's not forget, in a way, all of you are winners tonight, but in a much more literal way, most of you will be losers," he joked. "The important thing is we get out of here and you can put on your fat pants." He kept up the laughs later on as well, quipping, "If you ever wondered what happens during the commercial breaks backstage, try to imagine all your favorite TV stars all in one room, checking their phones and ignoring each other."
4. Seth McFarlane's Stewie Screw-Up
The Family Guy creator took to the microphone to announce the reality show host winner. Too bad it was the wrong one. "This is what happens when you don't come to rehearsal," he said in the voice of Family Guy's baby Stewie once he'd found the correct mic a few paces away. "That's gonna be on YouTube."
3. The Acceptance Speech Gaffe
When Julia Louis-Dreyfus won best lead actress in a comedy series, she hugged fellow nominee Amy Poehler on her way to the stage. "Thank you so much, I am a bit overwhelmed," she said before looking down at the acceptance speech – that was soon revealed to actually belong to Poehler. "First of all, I'd like to thank NBC, Parks and Rec, my beautiful boys Archie and Abel." The actresses had fun with their planned goof, swapping notes with one another. "One last thing written here," Louis-Dreyfus continued. "Isn't it a shame Amy Poehler didn't win ... what?"
2. Aziz Ansari's British Moment
Before presenting the award for outstanding writing for a variety, music or comedy special, Parks and Recreation's Ansari had another mouthful to get through. "On behalf of myself and all the other British actors here, thank you, Hollywood, for welcoming us," he joked. "It is bloody amazing to go from doing theater in London to presenting here at the Emmys. It's brilliant. Bloody brilliant, fish 'n chips, cheers." His co-presenter, Jane Levy then chimed in, asking, "I thought you were from North Carolina?" To which Ansari replied, "Yeah, but I feel like people take your acting more seriously when you're British." (For the record, he's actually from South Carolina.)
1. Jon Stewart's F-Bomb
Play-wrestling with Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon after the announcement of his tenth consecutive variety series win resulted in a very winded Stewart taking the stage. "I'm not in the kind of shape I should be in to do a bit with Jimmy Fallon!" he said. And to conclude a delightful acceptance speech, Stewart cracked, "Years from now, when the Earth is just a burning husk and aliens visit, they will find a box of these and they will know just how predictable these f---ing [awards shows] are!"
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Wall Street success still not felt locally
May 4, 2013
Editor: Recent headlines have trumpeted good news on Wall Street with the stock market reaching record highs....
THere is NO success at Wall Street. Obama is spending money PROPPING IT UP "TEMPORARILY." In just a short while.....it will be dropping and dropping and once again this IDIOT in the WH will cause massive losses of people's retirement funds!!!
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Obama is "propping" up Wall Street temporarily. He doesn't want citizens to know just how bad the country is right now, thanks to his incompetence!
But give it a little more time and it's going to fall and fall hard. People think they're going through hard times now? Just wait; the worst has not even begun yet.
THIS is the reason he's attempting to grab our guns. These liberal socialists KNOW that when grocery stores are empty; major power outages/brownouts and disability/food stamps/social security/medicare checks stop coming the people will storm DC and their elected officials holding them accountable for what's been done to them and these cowardly little inept corrupt crooks on the left, are just trying to stop millions of angry leftiest who voted for them from coming at them with their weapons. The gullible lazy folks who truly believed the lies from Obama/dems that they'd get everything for 'free' will act criminally, as usual.
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Intelligent folks whom the democrats and Obama could NOT deceive with lies are not all that worried; they've "prepared" because they are smart enough to "see the writing on the wall." The past PROVES to smart folks what happens when ignorant people like Obama/dems do the same thing expecting a different result. Pass 'socialist' policies; you'll be living like any socialist citizen anywhere in the world. These folks are undernourished, live in poverty, have nothing, own nothing and have no rights or protection against their socialist dictators.
On the other hand; those 'deceived' by stupidity, believing they could have anything they wanted without "earning" it; well, they will suffer the most. Not hard to see why or which ones they are. Stupid folks never succeed. Obama is proving this one yet again. Failure is typical liberal policy outcomes. They are clueless. They can't even understand the bills THEY pass. Can't get more stupid than that!
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Notice how What and libs attack you personally every time YOU prove their wrong??? They have nothing to come back with as it's all lies.
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Click View > Gantt Chart.
Click Format, and then select the Critical Tasks check box.
Tasks on the critical path now have red Gantt bars.
Show the critical path in other task views
You can see the critical path in any task view by highlighting it.
Click the View tab, and then pick a view from the Task Views group.
Staying on the View tab, select Critical from the Highlight list.
The critical path shows up in yellow.
To see only the tasks on the critical path, click the Filter arrow, then pick Critical.
Tip: In a Network Diagram, tasks on the critical path automatically show up in red. No highlighting is needed.
View the critical path in a master project
When you're managing a master project, whole subprojects can be on the critical path. You can see if this is true by telling Project to treat the subprojects like they are summary tasks.
Click File > Options.
Click Schedule and then scroll down to the Calculation options for this project area.
Make sure the Inserted projects are calculated like summary tasks box is selected.
Tip: This setting does not affect other projects. That is, it only applies to the master project you're working on.
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Source: The Detroit News
quote: Ugh. It's rough. It feels even worse on election night when your ideas are reject by 98-99% of the other voters.
quote: Make sure if you wrote in, that at least one write in vote was recorded; if not, you have a legitimate case to b--ch about.
quote: consider your topics. what the hell is this, and most, political, non-technology related articles doing on Daily Tech
quote: one of the greatest Presidents of all time
quote: Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
quote: The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
quote: I'll let that statement speak for itself.
quote: How's that for Democracy?
quote: how can you get excited whichever party get elected?
quote: The last few recessions we've had, or as you would put it politely, a bubble burst. None have been blamed on the middle class, just the wall street gang, bankers, fund managers, just the group in the 1%.
quote: I'd blame the last few bubbles on the middle class
quote: Feels good because I wasn't born with an entitlement spoon in my mouth.
quote: Hey America how does it feel to be Lackeys for the 1%.


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5 Secret Criminal Uses for Stuff They Sell in Gas Stations
You've undoubtedly at one time or another found yourself standing next to a convenience store point-of-sale bong display and smirked at the absurd "For Tobacco Use Only!" signs that generally accompany this blatant skirting of your community's drug laws. You know what those glass pipes are really for, because you know the streets.
Except not really. Obvious marijuana-smoking devices are just the tip of the drug paraphernalia iceberg floating around the shady aisles of your local convenience store. You know what those are for, but you might be surprised to know the real reason that every sketchy bodega and market in America sells ...
#5. Roses in Glass Tubes
Have you ever wondered what kind of awful husband buys his wife one of those cheesy fake roses in a glass tube? They're such lame gifts, but you see them everywhere. If stores keep stocking them, someone must be buying them, right? What kind of relationship transgression can be fixed with a $1 gas station purchase? Failure to DVR the right television show usually requires more apology effort than that.
If you've had suspicions similar to those just expressed, which I highly doubt you have until now, I'm glad to report that they are not unfounded. There is in fact only one occasion when buying your woman a rose in a glass tube is appropriate, and that, of course, is if you're going to smoke crack together, which, in turn, means you're probably dating Courtney Love.
Full disclosure: This was in response to something Marion Gladstone wrote on the Cracked Twitter.
That's the only reason anyone buys those otherwise useless trinkets.
It's at this point that some especially observant types will point out that you can also smoke meth, heroin, and any number of other drugs with those rose pipes. Those people know way too much. Do not trust them around your medicine cabinet.
The manufacturer isn't always subtle about the real reason the product exists, either. Check out this batch of glass roses, which are available online at wholesale savings!
Without the roses, those are nothing but standard-issue drug pipes. The added fanciness of the flower allows shady manufacturers to market them as novelty gifts and less scrupulous shop owners to sell them freely as such in areas where drug paraphernalia laws are particularly strict. It's the exact same reason "bath salts" are called "bath salts" and labeled "not for human consumption" when what they really are is some kind of monster synthetic hybrid of cocaine and methamphetamine that is completely useless unless it's being consumed by humans (who then consume other humans).
On the bright side, if some lunkhead fella does buy one of you lucky ladies one of these someday and genuinely doesn't realize what they're used for, rest easy knowing that he's probably never smoked crack before. That's as close to a keeper as you're liable to get these days.
#4. Athletic Socks
Here is a tip you can actually use: If you're ever out on the town and, for whatever reason, find yourself in need of a fresh pair of socks in a pinch, set your sights on the nearest sketchy-looking convenience store you can find. There's a strong chance that, for reasons that will be completely lost on you, they will indeed have a display of socks. Like at this place, for example:
Your one-stop shop for terrible life choices!
That picture was taken at a convenience store not far from the Cracked office. If a better photographer (meaning not me) had taken it, you'd see the upper shelves of that display case and, as a result, pretty much all of the items on this list. For the purposes of this entry, though, just direct your attention to the lower left-hand corner, where you'll see stacks of white socks. While a pair or two are probably sold to tourists with aching feet throughout the year, the terrifying real reason those socks are there is because people use them to huff spray paint. In lieu of anything resembling an official source to back up that statement, just enjoy this screenshot of Charlie from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia putting a convenience store sock to its intended use.
It looks about this terrifying in real life, too.
Basically, desperate druggies empty the contents of a spray paint can into the sock, then inhale the fumes by placing their mouth and nose inside. That's why people who get arrested for huffing paint always have those embarrassing silver or gold faces (for the record, those colors are thought to have more solvent, which makes for a "better" high -- they aren't just being fancy). Like this guy!
Am I insane, or did he kind of look worse before he started huffing paint? Whatever the case, it's a safe bet that he's done a fair amount of his paint huffing through a sock, just like those you see for absolutely no other reason at your local convenience store. And they aren't the only footwear-related item that you'll find there for less than legal reasons.
#3. Shoelaces
Here's a fun thing to try. Walk out your door right now, with no prior planning, and go find somewhere other than a shoe store that will sell you a pair of shoelaces. It's going to be harder than you think, as this firsthand account of someone who unexpectedly had to do it in the Washington, D.C., area will confirm. That makes sense though, right? It's not like a shoelace emergency is a common thing. When was the last time you wore a pair of shoes long enough to snap a shoelace? Still, you'd think plenty of stores would just stock them and keep them around in the event that someone ever needed to buy a pair. What's the harm in that?
The problem with that logic is that it fails to take into account that the primary market for replacement shoelaces is, sadly, intravenous drug users. Shooting drugs into your veins requires you to tie off your arm, which makes veins bulge and therefore easier to find. Using a belt or some sort of elastic band is obviously an option, but lacking any of that, a shoelace is usually the method of choice. That's why so many parent resource type sites point to loose shoestrings in pockets as one of the less obvious warning signs that a kid might be hitting the hard stuff.
Just like dreadlocks are a sure sign that your kid is an asshole.
This presents a problem for retailers because, unless you're in a popular band, chances are you hit rock bottom right around the time you decided that injecting drugs directly into your bloodstream was the only way you could still get high. And hitting rock bottom is usually accompanied by a severe lack of available cash. If you've spent all of your money on heroin, but still have no way to tie your arm off, stealing a pair of shoelaces to finish the job is not a huge risk. Remember that display case picture from the previous entry? Here it is again, this time with the shoelaces highlighted.
If you're curious, the stuff in the little red canisters is synthetic weed, which I wrote about a long time ago.
If you doubt that laces are a highly shoplifted item, tell me why they're kept in a locked case with all of the other covert drug paraphernalia. That's hard to explain away once you accept that the only people actively shopping for shoelaces anymore are those with severe drug problems.
So, if you're ever out late one night and find yourself in need of a fresh pair of shoelaces, don't overreact and drive 75 miles to your nearest 24-hour Foot Locker. Instead, just head to the neighborhood where you normally purchase your heroin and locate a convenience store.


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Best of '12: Steady milk production growth continued in 2011
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Best of '12: Steady milk production growth continued in 2011
Date:Thu, 12/27/2012
Over the holidays, we will be sharing some of our most-viewed blogs of 2012. If you missed them earlier, we've got them ready to close out 2012.
For back-to-back years, U.S. milk output rose by a remarkably uniform 1.8 percent.
by Corey Geiger, Assistant Managing Editor
The twin combo of more milk per cow and a larger dairy herd pushed up milk production last year. When looking at the year-end statistics released by USDA, cow numbers went up 75,000-head or 0.8 percent while milk per cow rose 196 pounds or 0.9 percent. This is a sharp contrast to 2010 when national gains in milk production fell solely on improved milk per cow.


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HYATT REGENCY MAUI RESORT HOTEL & SPA 200 Nohea Kai Drive, 661-1234
Torch-lighting ceremony at 6:15 nightly followed by live music entertainment, 6:30 to 9:30 nightly in the Weeping Banyon Lounge. Call concierge for performance times.
KA'ANAPALI BEACH HOTEL 2525 Kaanapali Parkway, 661-0011
Music by Lanui, 6 to 9 nightly in the Tiki Courtyard, with a free hula show from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Ka'anapali Champagne Brunch with Hawaiian music, Sundays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. "Kupanaha: Maui Magic for All Ages" dinner show, Tuesday through Saturday. Cost is $40, $69, $79 for ages 13 to 20, $29 for ages 6 to 12, children 5 and younger free.
KAANAPALI BEACH CLUB 104 Kaanapali Shores, Lahaina, 661-2000
Ohana Bar & Grill: Hawaiian and contemporary acoustic music, 5:30 to 9:30 nightly.
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Solo guitarists and sunset hula dancers, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.:?Deason Babayan, Thursday (tonight) and Tuesday. Demond Yap, Wednesday. Jazz with Miles Ahead Duo, 8 to 11 a.m. Sunday.
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Hawaiian music with Albert Kaina and Kincaid Basques, 6:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday (tonight). Kincaid Basques, 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. Andrew Kaina, 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the Sea House Restaurant. Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Concert series, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Napili Kai Foundation Polynesian Show, 5 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Cost is $10 for adults, $5 for children 6 to 12, children 5 or younger free.
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Alaloa Lounge: Live entertainment, 8 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday. Banyan Tree Restaurant: World-fusion duo Ranga Pae, 6:15 to 9:45 p.m. Thursday (tonight) and Wednesday.
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Lagoon Bar entertainment with light jazz and contemporary music, 6 to 9 nightly. Torch-lighting and cliff-diving ceremony at sunset.
SUGAR CANE TRAIN 975 Limahana Place, Lahaina, 661-0080
Historic train travels between Lahaina and Kaanapali carrying passengers in open-air coaches along the scenic railway. Tickets are $21.95 for adults, $14.95 for children.
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Tropica Restaurant: Benny Uyetake, Thursday and Friday. Mitch Kepa, Saturday. Steve Sargenti, Sunday. Mitch Kepa, Monday. Steve Sargenti, Tuesday. Benny Uytake, Wednesday. Music from 6 to 9 p.m. 'Ono Bar & Grill: Ras Shaffai, Thursday. Larry Golis, Friday. Ras Shaggai, Saturday. Margie Hart, Sunday. Pam Petersen, Monday. Brian Haia, Tuesday. Pam Petersen, Wednesday. Music from 6 to 9 p.m.
' 'ULALENA' AT MAUI THEATRE Old Lahaina Center, 661-9913
" 'Ulalena" shows at 6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Tickets are $59.50 to $99.50 for adults; children 3 to 15, $39.50 to $69.50. Kamaaina rates available.
WARREN & ANNABELLE'S 900 Front St., Lahaina Center, 667-6244
A four-hour magical experience begins at 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Must be 21 or older to attend. Show cost is $56, show/food/cocktail/gratuity package is $94.50. Kamaaina discount is 50 percent off admission price. Reservations are required by calling 667-MAGIC.
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Lobby Bar: Music From the Islands, 6 to 8 nightly.
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Lobby Lounge: Hawaiian music, 5:30 to 8:30 nightly. Hula performance, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Contemporary music with Anastasia, 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. Monday and Saturday. Dr. Nat with live Latino romantic music, 8 to 11:30 p.m. Sunday. Jazz duo with Sal Godinez and Marcus Johnson, 8 to 11:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Ferraro's: violin and guitar, 5:30 to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
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Hawaiian music at Botero Bar, 5 to 9:30 nightly.
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Live music, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. for Sunday brunch at Prince Court.
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Reds' Latos Has Been Pitching Injured Since June
Mat Latos revealed to Enquirer reporter Shannon Russell that he has been dealing with an abdominal strain since late June.
Shannon is working on the story on about Latos? wife Dallas and Twitter. Fans criticized Mat to Dallas via Twitter during his start in Pittsburgh Friday.
?It was Pirates fans and Cincinnati Reds fans,? Mat said. ?Let?s be honest. I pitched real well all year and I hear nothing but good things. But I pitched against the Pirates and I have a bad start. (With) certain Reds fans ? I?m not allowed to have that. Let alone, no fan knows that I?ve been dealing with an injury since the Texas Rangers game. And I?ve been pitching with it. So I?ve been pitching the way I?ve been pitching, but I?ve been pitching hurt.?
Source: John Fray, Cincinnati.com


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The 2013 National Public Works Week theme is about the quality of life brought to communities around the world. We are able to have clean water, safe streets and neighborhoods, efficient traffic and safe clean communities, "Because of Public Works..."
About the artist: Jannie Ho
Jannie Ho shows the many facets of public works in a whimsical and bright illustration. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Philadelphia, Jannie studied at Parsons School of Design in New York.
Her work appears in children's books, magazines, toys, crafts and digital media.
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Bump up your profit potential with amino acids
Bump up your profit potential with amino acids
Recent popular press articles have been touting the benefits of amino acid balancing in lactating cows. The industry consensus is that if a farm isn't correctly balancing for amino acids, money could be left on the table.
Research conducted at the Purina Animal Nutrition Center has repeatedly shown improvements in milk production of 6 to 7 pounds[1] <#_ftn1> when balancing rations for metabolizable protein, lysine and methionine. Component yields of 0.3 pounds of fat and protein accompany this production improvement.
"This notable increase in lactation performance costs 36 cents per cow per day on average, lending itself to a potential 3 to 1 return on investment (ROI)," says Dr. Jamie Jarrett, dairy marketing nutritionist with Purina Animal Nutrition. "There is potentially an even greater ROI if the herd is located in a market that pays based on components."
Results from the Purina Animal Nutrition Center have shown to be repeatable on-farm. Five field trials have shown that herds who balanced for amino acids had an average milk production increase of 6.7 pounds per cow per day. Lysine and methionine supply was increased by around 14 grams and 8.5 grams per cow per day, respectively. "With these changes, the lysine to methionine ratio was refined and animal performance improved," explains Jarrett. "The bump in production provides a potential 3.5 to 1 ROI."
Both the studies conducted at the Purina Animal Nutrition Center and the five on-farm demonstrations showed that balancing for amino acids can be a sound economic decision.* "Although markets are volatile, there has never been a better time to focus on fine-tuning what goes in and optimizing what comes out," says Jarrett.
For more information on how amino acid balancing could impact your farm's profit potential, contact Jamie Jarrett at (651) 375-5579 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Purina Animal Nutrition LLC (www.purinamills.com) is a national organization serving producers, animal owners and their families through more than 4,700 local cooperatives, independent dealers and other large retailers across the United States. Driven by an uncompromising commitment to animal excellence, Purina Animal Nutrition is an industry innovator, offering America's leading brands of complete feeds, supplements, premixes, ingredients and specialty technologies for the livestock and lifestyle animal markets. Headquartered in Shoreview, Minn., Purina Animal Nutrition LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Land O'Lakes, Inc.
*Results to be obtained, including but not limited to yields, financial performance or profits, cannot be predicted or guaranteed by Purina Animal Nutrition. Actual results may vary.
[1] Based on Purina Animal Nutrition research studies (2011) and the average results of 5 field studies (2012).