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I hate that my husband has to work at night since i miss him so much and for some reason my anxiety goes up when he leaves for work. �I know everything will be OK but don't know why I have this problem. �Any other moms with husbands/significant others who work the night shift? How do you deal? �
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hubby works 4p-12a and i actually kind of like it. oldest goes to bed at 8. baby is asleep by 9, 10 at latest. so from 9 or 10 til 12 i have me time. watch shows only i like, long soaking bath. when he has his days off it throws me for a loop lol
SO works afternoons so we have a lot of alone time. He doesn't have set days either so every week is different. It's nice because he gets the kids up and going in the morning and then runs errands and does the grocery shopping and cleaning after he drops the kids off at daycare. He'll usually take a little nap before leaving for work around 1pm. Then I pick up the kids around 4 and do the evening routine with them. Once they're in bed I usually have time to watch a show I like but he doesn't. Then when he gets home we try to spend a little time with each other before going to bed and starting all over again. Having a little alone time can be nice after the chaos of dealing with the kids.
My hubby doesn't work nights, but he does work very long hours, and for the next few months, 6 days a week. It's tough when he stays really late and I get worried about him driving 30 minutes home in the middle of the night when I know how tired he is... To help control the anxiety, sit down and try to think if there is anything specific that is causing the anxiety. Is it being home alone at night? Is it something about the job he's doing, or being out of touch since you are asleep when he's gone? Talk to him about it. Hopefully with time and some creative measures you can ease your anxiety levels back down. My husband calls me when he leaves, even if I'm asleep, so I know he's left and if he's tired I stay on the phone with him to help keep him awake. That helps me not worry about it. Good luck!
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DH works 7p to 7a. Honestly I love it. He works 2 on, 2 off, 3 on. It flips back and forth every week. The days he does have off we really really really enjoy, and because he doens't get to spend a lot of day time with LO, he likes when I leave/or he just takes the baby on his own.
I enjoy my reading/wine time in the evenings.
I think for those just getting into that schedule it may pose for a ruff adjustment. Think of things to do for yourself that you may not get to when he's home. Put LO to bed and paint your nails... relax. For the most part I do a few chores, then it's me time.
You will get through it, it could be worse (like not being employed). DH was laid off for 2+ months. Now THAT was stressful.
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thanks ladies! I think I'm anxious because I worry that I'll be by myself and something might happen but he only works 5 to 10 minutes away so I need to suck it up! And kudos to those of you with your husbands away. I don't know how you do it.
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My DH works from 6 pm to 630 am. But the upside for us is that he only works 3 days and then is off 3 days. So I get to enjoy just "mommy and baby" time the days he works, if I don't have to work. I work 4 ten hour days and sometimes overtime on Fridays so most of the time we overlap each other.
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Clint, many said later, would have been happy. He would have got a kick out of the many wearing the family's request of bright colors. He would have loved the music, and the laughter and understood the tears. And he would have been thrilled at so many in attendance as anyone would whose chosen craft is performing.
First Baptist Church of Amarillo was full Friday afternoon. The large sanctuary with its horseshoe-shaped balcony was filled for the memorial service of Clint Diaz, 20, one of five members of the "Texas" cast and crew killed Aug. 13 in a wreck north of Dumas.
So many whose too-short life he touched were there -- classmates and teachers from Paramount Terrace Elementary, Austin Middle School and Tascosa, those from Abilene Christian and West Texas A&M, and from the many theatrical, musical and dance groups of which he showed his talents, including the last one, the cast from "Texas." There were those there too, I suspect who were just to honor him and his family. They did not know Clint, but later wished they had.
Craig Hutchinson, director of the Amarillo area Young Life chapter and a longtime Diaz family friend, officiated the service. He said from the outset he would be "no rock of Gibraltar." His struggling with emotions at times, particularly near the end of the 75-minute service, just made him and the moment all the more real, human and sincere. He struck the appropriate chord of humor, of sad reality, the zest for life that Clint lived, and the spiritual hope found in Jesus that Clint claimed.
The loudest sustained laugh I've ever heard at a memorial service came when Hutchinson relayed Clint's mother Julie's first remembrance of her middle son.
"Julie said she delivered Clint without an epidural," Hutchinson said, "and Clint had been a pain in the ass ever since."
While all were still roaring at the clever line, Hutchinson said, "I think I need to apologize to First Baptist Church." While surely a first in the church's pulpit, no, Craig, no apology necessary.
In a remarkable display of poise and strength, Eric Diaz, Clint's older brother by four years, shared two letters the two had written each other when Clint left for college two years ago. It was one of those rare times when two brothers, who kept true feelings tucked inside as brothers often do, poured out their honest emotions of love and admiration for each other in a milestone moment in Clint's life.
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Private family services and public memorial services will be at a later date. Arrangements are by Ertel Funeral Home of Cortez.
Mr. Lowrie was born June 19, 1930, in Amarillo, Texas, to John Judson and Alice Florene Reeves Lowrie. He married Beulah "Bea" May Gouge on Oct. 25, 1953, in Milton-Freewater, Ore.
Survivors include his wife; three sons, Leroy Lowrie of Amarillo, Al Lowrie and wife Susan of Durango and Earl Lowrie of Cameron, Wis.; a daughter, Linda Muscato of Moxee, Wash.; a brother, Leroy Lowrie of Milton-Freewater; 12 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.
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Dr. Elizabeth Secord, MD is board certified in Allergy & Immunology and Pediatrics.
- She has special expertise in 14 areas:
- AIDS/HIV (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome)
- Asthma
- Colposcopy
- Contraception
- Gynecology
- Hay Fever (Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis)
- Hysterectomy (Uterus)
- Inflammation of the Vulva and Vagina (Vulvovaginitis)
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- Osteoporosis
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- Urodynamics
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Dr. Secord graduated from State University of New York Downstate, Brooklyn. She has 1 awards.
Dr. Secord has 5 hospital affiliations:
- Harper University Hospital
- Detroit Receiving Hospital & University Health Center
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The most accurate clock created by mankind is located at the U.S. Naval Observatory. The timekeeper gives a tour.
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Biden Aide Denies Vice President Leaked Classified Location of Cheney Bunker
With friends like this, who need enemies?.... ----------- An aide to Vice President Joe Biden says he was merely describing a guest room in the Naval Observatory when he told dinner guests about w
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IS soldiers kill 26 syrian naval commandos around palmyra despite aircampaign
Middle East : IS soldiers killed 26 Syrian soldiers on Monday west of Palmyra, after days of advances by government forces backed by Syrian and Russian air cover. Russian President Vladimir Putin
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Marwan Kabalan, political analyst at the Doha Institute. The recent U.S.-backed coup that toppled the former government in Ukraine has been couched in the noble rhetoric of democ
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Carr: How about Nantucket? Plenty of prime real estate for huddled Syrian masses
So, Mr. Secretary Kerry, how many Syrian refugees can I put you down for? In case you missed it, earlier this week, Liveshot journeyed to Germany, which is near France. There he proclaimed tha
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The Globalists' New World Order: Soft and Hard Kill Methods. An Unknown and Uncertain Future
What We Can Do to Counter. We're living in some exciting yet scary times now. An unknown and uncertain future awaits us as today's events and developments unravel revealing a myriad of warning
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The Lady ant the Sea (1945)
Aircraft carrier USS Yorktown during WWII. This film is a military documentary told from the point of view of the crew of the aircraft carrier the Fighting Lady -- a pseudonym for the Yorktown. Sc
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Most "super" supermoon of 2013 on June 22-23
Most "super" supermoon of 2013 on June 22-23 Tonight is Jun 23, 2013 Courtesy U.S. Naval Observatory Full moon
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V838 Monocerotis briefly becomes the brightest star in the sky
What does the echo of light look like? Nasa image shows the aftermath of the moment one star shone brighter than any other in the sky In 2002 a previously unknown star stunned stargazers when it s
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The transit of Venus surprised Ending
Trying to get a closer LOOK and this happened !! - 05-05-2012 Should poor weather hinder or completely obscure your view of the Venus transit, the next opportunity will not come until Dec. 10, 2117.
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NASA's Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moonorbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite –temporarily designated P4 -- was uncovered in a Hubble survey searc
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Space rock plunges through atmosphere and crashes in Ireland
Space rock plunges through atmosphere and crashes in Ireland A meteorite traveling with the force of a small nuclear weapon blazed across the sky in Ireland Wednesday and crashed inland. Astrono
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IN THE SPRING of 1967, I received my first and only Western Union telegram. It was a momentous event for me, being as I was only 5. The message was, "Congratulations on your graduation day, honey. Love, Daddy." And it almost made up for the fact that he was missing my kindergarten commencement.
At the time, I had no idea why Dad wasn't going to be in the auditorium to cheer me on. I just knew that he was "down South" (wherever that was), doing important things for work. It was only years later that I learned the full story: Ted Flowers was in Mississippi registering African-Americans to vote during one of the most volatile periods of the civil-rights movement. And about the same time that I was standing on a stage at St. Mary's, he was risking his life for strangers.


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Jez Cope: Tools for collaborative markdown editing
I really love Markdown1. I love its simplicity; its readability; its plain-text nature. I love that it can be written and read with nothing more complicated than a text-editor. I love how nicely it plays with version control systems. I love how easy it is to convert to different formats with Pandoc and how it's become effectively the native text format for a wide range of blogging platforms.
One frustration I've had recently, then, is that it's surprisingly difficult to collaborate on a Markdown document. There are various solutions that almost work but at best feel somehow inelegant, especially when compared with rock solid products like Google Docs. Finally, though, we're starting to see some real possibilities. Here are some of the things I've tried, but I'd be keen to hear about other options.1. Just suck it up
To be honest, Google Docs isn't that bad. In fact it works really well, and has almost no learning curve for anyone who's ever used Word (i.e. practically anyone who's used a computer since the 90s). When I'm working with non-technical colleagues there's nothing I'd rather use.
It still feels a bit uncomfortable though, especially the vendor lock-in. You can export a Google Doc to Word, ODT or PDF, but you need to use Google Docs to do that. Plus as soon as I start working in a word processor I get tempted to muck around with formatting.2. Git(hub)
The obvious solution to most techies is to set up a GitHub repo, commit the document and go from there. This works very well for bigger documents written over a longer time, but seems a bit heavyweight for a simple one-page proposal, especially over short timescales.
Who wants to muck around with pull requests and merging changes for a document that's going to take 2 days to write tops? This type of project doesn't need a bug tracker or a wiki or a public homepage anyway. Even without GitHub in the equation, using git for such a trivial use case seems clunky.3. Markdown in Etherpad/Google Docs
Etherpad is great tool for collaborative editing, but suffers from two key problems: no syntax highlighting or preview for markdown (it's just treated as simple text); and you need to find a server to host it or do it yourself.
However, there's nothing to stop you editing markdown with it. You can do the same thing in Google Docs, in fact, and I have. Editing a fundamentally plain-text format in a word processor just feels weird though.4. Overleaf/Authorea
Overleaf and Authorea are two products developed to support academic editing. Authorea has built-in markdown support but lacks proper simultaneous editing. Overleaf has great simultaneous editing but only supports markdown by wrapping a bunch of LaTeX boilerplate around it. Both OK but unsatisfactory.5. StackEdit
Now we're starting to get somewhere. StackEdit has both Markdown syntax highlighting and near-realtime preview, as well as integrating with Google Drive and Dropbox for file synchronisation.6. HackMD
HackMD is one that I only came across recently, but it looks like it does exactly what I'm after: a simple markdown-aware editor with live preview that also permits simultaneous editing. I'm a little circumspect simply because I know simultaneous editing is difficult to get right, but it certainly shows promise.7. Classeur
I discovered Classeur literally today: it's developed by the same team as StackEdit (which is now apparently no longer in development), and is currently in beta, but it looks to offer two killer features: real-time collaboration, including commenting, and pandoc-powered export to loads of different formats.Anything else?
Those are the options I've come up with so far, but they can't be the only ones. Is there anything I've missed?
District Dispatch: Ellen Satterwhite joins ALA telecom policy team
I'm pleased to announce that ALA has bolstered its telecommunications policy team with the addition of Ellen Satterwhite. As a new Fellow of ALA's Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP), Ellen will provide leadership, counsel and representation on the full array of telecommunications issues that affect libraries and the general public, as well as those that intersect with information policy more broadly.
Ellen is a Director at the policy communications firm Glen Echo Group, where she helps clients formulate policy positions and tell their stories within the rubric of information policy. WifiForward is one of several coalitions managed by Ellen and Glen Echo, and ALA was a founding member of the group, which advocates for abundant Wi-fi and balanced spectrum policy.
As a co-author of the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) National Broadband Plan, Consumer Policy Advisor to the FCC and freelance consultant, Ellen's work has been written about in the Huffington Post, AllThingsD, CNet, Geekwire, GigaOm, and CivSource. Previously, Ellen also served as Program Director for Gig.U, supporting communities seeking gigabit speeds. She earned a master's degree in Public Affairs from University of Texas at Austin and completed her undergraduate degree at Grinnell College.
OITP Deputy Director Larra Clark will continue to contribute to our telecommunications policy work, with OITP Associate Director Marijke Visser, OITP Senior Fellow Robert Bocher, and me, working in coordination on legislative matters with Kevin Maher of ALA's Office of Government Relations, and telecommunications counsel John Windhausen.
Please welcome Ellen in her new role, as you see her inside the beltway or in libraryland.
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Islandora: Islandoracon 2017 Call for Proposals now open
The Islandoracon Planning Committee invites you to submit your proposals to present at the second Islandoracon, May 15 - 19, 2017 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
This year's conference theme is Beyond the Island. Since its creation at the University of Prince Edward Island in 2006, Islandora has spread around the world. It has grown to include diverse institutions, collections, and strategies for digital repository management that add to the richness of the Islandora community. The 2017 Islandoracon will celebrate these multifaceted visions of Islandora that are continually emerging, inspiring constant revision in the concept of a digital repository.
Regular Sessions:
A 20-minute talk (plus 10 minute for questions) with accompanying A/V.
Poster/Island Getaways:
A conference poster to be displayed during a poster session, accompanied by a five-minute 'lightning talk' style presentation of that poster, which will be known as "Island Getaways." Conference attendees will be invited to vote on your favourite "Island Getaway" to award prizes for the most inspirational posters and talks.
Post-Conference Sessions:
A free-form day for Islandora gatherings. The last day of Islandoracon is open for sessions, workshops, working groups, training, meetings, or whatever events you care to propose. Please let us know what kind of event you'd like to hold, the expected audience, and the space/time needed.
Speakers will have access to a discounted Speakers Rate for registration. Submissions will be accepted until December 16th, 2016.Submission Form
DPLA: Job Opportunity: Director of Technology
The DPLA has an opening for the position of Director of Technology.
The Digital Public Library of America seeks a Director of Technology to lead its staff of developers and technologists, and to further DPLA's mission to bring together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and make them freely available to all. A belief in this mission and the drive to accomplish it over time in a collaborative spirit both within and beyond the organization is essential.
The Director of Technology will be responsible for the overall technology vision for the DPLA, and in consultation with the DPLA senior staff, will develop of new initiatives and cross-institutional partnerships. The Director of Technology will report to the Executive Director.
The Director of Technology will:
- Orchestrate the design, implementation, and improvement of DPLA's core infrastructure, user-facing applications, and back-end systems.
- Oversee and a manage a team of four developers, and work with external contractors as necessary.
- Act as the primary technical contact for outside organizations, partners, and developers.
- Cultivate and develop the culture and values of the DPLA Technology Team and the larger organization.
- Support the philosophy of open source, shared, and community-built software, frameworks, and technologies.
- Be conversant and comfortable with a broad range of technologies used by the cultural heritage sector, and engage with cultural heritage communities and consortial efforts.
- Experience with managing developers and technologists in the cultural heritage or non-profit sectors, with a demonstrated capacity of building an environment for success for technical teams.
- Demonstrated experience working effectively in a team environment and the ability to interact effectively with stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience contributing to or managing collaborative open source software projects.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent analytical and organizational skills.
- A high degree of emotional intelligence and empathy.
- Experience with architectures, standards, and protocols to support interoperability and reuse within and beyond the cultural heritage sector.
- Demonstrated experience with technical project management, grant writing and administration, and/or development and oversight of RFP processes.
- Demonstrated desire to learn new technologies or programming languages.
This position is full-time. DPLA is a geographically distributed organization, with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts. Ideally, this position would be situated in the Northeast Corridor between Washington and Boston (with a preference for Boston), but remote work based in other locations will also be considered. While not a requirement, a history of working effectively in a distributed organization is helpful.
Like its collection, DPLA is strongly committed to diversity in all of its forms. We provide a full set of benefits, including health care, life and disability insurance, and a retirement plan. Starting salary is commensurate with experience.
About DPLA
The Digital Public Library of America strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America's heritage, to the efforts and data of science. Since launching in April 2013, it has aggregated more than 14 million items from over 2,000 institutions. DPLA is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit.
To apply, send a letter of interest detailing your qualifications, resume and a list of 3 references in a single PDF to email@example.com. First preference will be given to applications received by September 30, 2016, and review will continue until the position is filled.
David Rosenthal: Nature's DNA storage clickbait
Our news reporters are constantly searching the globe for issues and events of interest to the research and nonscience communities.Follow me below the fold for an analysis of why no-one should be paying Nature to publish this kind of stuff.
Extance's article is entitled How DNA could store all the world's data, and starts with this scary thought:
The latest experiment signals that interest in using DNA as a storage medium is surging far beyond genomics: the whole world is facing a data crunch. Counting everything from astronomical images and journal articles to YouTube videos, the global digital archive will hit an estimated 44 trillion gigabytes (GB) by 2020, a tenfold increase over 2013. By 2040, if everything were stored for instant access in, say, the flash memory chips used in memory sticks, the archive would consume 10–100 times the expected supply of microchip-grade silicon3.He then claims a solution to this problem is at hand:
If information could be packaged as densely as it is in the genes of the bacterium Escherichia coli, the world's storage needs could be met by about a kilogram of DNA.The article is based on research at Microsoft that involved storing 151KB in DNA. The research is technically interesting, starting to look at fundamental DNA storage system design issues. But it concludes (my emphasis):
DNA-based storage has the potential to be the ultimate archival storage solution: it is extremely dense and durable. While this is not practical yet due to the current state of DNA synthesis and sequencing, both technologies are improving at an exponential rate with advances in the biotechnology industry[4].SourceThe paper doesn't claim that the solution is at hand any time soon. Reference 4 is a two year old post to Rob Carlson's blog. A more recent post to the same blog puts the claim that:
both technologies are improving at an exponential ratein a somewhat less optimistic light. It is (or may be, Carlson believes the last two data points are not representative) true that DNA sequencing is getting cheaper very rapidly. But already the cost of sequencing (read) was insignificant in the total cost of DNA storage. What matters is the synthesis (write) cost. Lower down the article Extance writes:
A closely related factor is the cost of synthesizing DNA. It accounted for 98% of the expense of the $12,660 EBI experiment. Sequencing accounted for only 2%, thanks to a two-millionfold cost reduction since the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003.The rapid decrease in the read cost is irrelevant to the economics of DNA storage; if it was free it would make no difference. Carlson's graph shows that the write cost, the short DNA synthesis cost (red line) is falling more slowly than the gene synthesis cost (yellow line). He notes:
But the price of genes is now falling by 15% every 3-4 years (or only about 5% annually).A little reference checking, that should have been well within the capability of one of Nature's expert news reporters, reveals that the Microsoft paper's claim that:
both technologies are improving at an exponential ratewhile strictly true is deeply misleading. The relevant technology is currently getting cheaper slower than hard disk or flash memory! And since this has been true for around two decades, making the necessary 3-4 fold improvement just to keep up with the competition is going to be hard.
I actually believe that, decades from now, DNA will be an important archival medium. But I've been criticizing the level of hype around the cost of DNA storage for years. Extance's article admits that cost is a big problem, yet it finishes by quoting Goldman, lead author of a 2013 paper in Nature whose massively over-optimistic cost projections I debunked here. Goldman's quote is possibly true but again definitely deeply misleading:
"Our estimate is that we need 100,000-fold improvements to make the technology sing, and we think that's very credible," he says. "While past performance is no guarantee, there are new reading technologies coming onstream every year or two. Six orders of magnitude is no big deal in genomics. You just wait a bit."Yet again the DNA enthusiasts are waving the irrelevant absolute cost decrease in reading to divert attention from the relevant lack of relative cost decrease in writing. They need an improvement in relative write cost of at least 6 orders of magnitude. To do that in a decade means halving the relative cost every year, not increasing the relative cost by 10-15% every year.
Extance's article doesn't simply regurgitate the hype in the paper he's reporting on by failing to scrutinize its claims, he amplifies it by headlining claims the paper is careful not to make, and giving it prominence in Nature's news section. This kind of clickbaiting is a classic example of problem #6 in The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists by Julia Belluz, Brad Plumer, and Brian Resnick. I blogged about their article here:
Science journalism is often full of exaggerated, conflicting, or outright misleading claims. If you ever want to see a perfect example of this, check out "Kill or Cure," a site where Paul Battley meticulously documents all the times the Daily Mail reported that various items — from antacids to yogurt — either cause cancer, prevent cancer, or sometimes do both.My problem with the oligopoly of academic publishers isn't that they are incredibly expensive, but that they are incredibly poor value for money, as shown by the fact that it took me about an hour to show how misleading Extance's article is.
Open Knowledge Foundation: Why civil society organisations are using OpenSpending to share fiscal data with the public
OpenSpending is one of Open Knowledge International's current projects. It is a free and open platform for citizens looking to track and analyse public fiscal information globally.
While the OpenSpending team was busy revamping the platform over the last year we have been fortunate to have a community of users actively involved in testing the new tools. Here we highlight the experiences of three partner civil society organisations collecting and structuring budget and spending data and using OpenSpending tools to present this data to the public. It also gives an insight into the challenges these organisations faced in data collection and solutions they employed to reduce data barriers.Public Domain icons by David Merfield Sinar Project in Malaysia: Open Spending Data in Constrained Environments
Sinar Project is an initiative that uses open source technology and applications to make important information accessible to the Malaysian people. Sinar has been working to engage disenfranchised communities in the budget process, in order to hold the government accountable for budgets that respond to the needs of citizens.
Over the course of 2016, the team at Sinar has been working to obtain and to prepare over 100 datasets for upload on OpenSpending. So far, they uploaded over 40 datasets on the platform. Amongst others, the team published the 2014 allocated budgets for public housing maintenance in Kota Damansara township. Data uploaded and visualized on OpenSpending was shared with the community's leaders for review. This gave the community the opportunity to compare and contrast how planned budget allocation matched up with how funds were actually spent. The community leaders identified potential misuse of funds in some budgets lines and are continuing to conduct investigations and collect evidence to expose poor management of public finances in Kota Damansara. Data and visualizations are available on OpenSpending Viewer.
It wasn't easy for the team to obtain such data. First, they had to file a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the state owned Selangor Housing and Property Agency. They also went into meetings with the authorities to get an indepth understanding of the data. Sinar continuously faces challenges in data collection of budgets at all levels of government. For example, for previous years, budgets for the federal government are not publicly available and there is no FOI law applicable to the federal government. There are roadblocks in data collection for state governments and for city councils as well."…to engage disenfranchised communities in the budget process…"
In spite of the roadblocks and reluctance of authorities to collaborate, the team at Sinar have filed FOI requests to the Selangor state government and Petaling Jaya city council to get access to fiscal budgets. They have also filed FOI requests to the management company responsible for the Kota Damansara public housing, obtaining access to data on how MYR 5 million (USD 1.2 million) were allocated to repair railings for all housing blocks and data on allocated budgets for public housing maintenance in 2014 and 2015.
Moving forward, Sinar Project is planning to continue using OpenSpending to:
- Address budget priorities at all levels of government
- Visualize allocated budgets and compare to official government policies and implementation of government programmes
- Make use of evidence based budget data and various survey results to hold the decision makers at all levels accountable
- Advocate for transparency in open data, promote better access to government budgets data, and push for better open data policies.
Metamorphosis Foundation is a civil society organization from Macedonia, having been active for more than 15 years. Several years ago they started collaborating with Open Knowledge International to implement the "Open Data Civil Society network" project, with the aim of improving the capacity of civil society organizations in the country. Moreover, they established School of Data Macedonia in order to promote an open agenda.
In 2012, Metamorphosis Project in Macedonia developed their Follow the Money website to familiarise citizens with the fiscal policies of local authorities. However, while budget information was presented on the site, over time it has lost its popularity. In 2015, the School of Data fellow conducted in-depth user research to better understand why the site wasn't being used and how it could be improved to better serve its potential user communities. Ultimately, the team at Metamorphosis decided to revamp the website."…improving the capacity of civil society organizations in the country."
They focused on collecting, cleaning and preparing budget data from all 80 municipalities as well as the country's central budget. Take a look at the planned Central Budget for 2016 made available on OpenSpending:For the above visualization, click this link. Explore years 2010 to 2016 at this link.
Like with the Sinar project, data collection was incredibly challenging. Budget data for most municipalities was "locked" in PDFs or not published at all. Instead of trying to get the data from the source, Metamorphosis partnered with other CSOs in the country that work closely with the municipalities who were willing to share the data that they had already collected.
Another issue they are facing is the lack of granularity of the published data and official institutions unwilling to provide more detailed data. Finally, while the central government budget was made available in machine readable format, it only included the economic budget classification, which identifies the type of budget and expenditure incurred, for example, salaries, goods and services, transfers and interest payments, or capital spending. Since the team needed the functional classification (expenditure according to the purposes and objectives for which they are intended) for the website, they had to scrape it from the website of the Ministry of Finance. The website includes functional classification data, since this is how the team found most useful to display data to users.
In the next few months, the team is working to identify funds to launch the revamped version of Macedonian Follow the Money website with embedded visualizations created on OpenSpending, and continue updating their data on the platform.AfroLeadership in Cameroon: Open Local Budgets
AfroLeadership is a civil society organization in Cameroon, founded in 2007 and committed to the promotion of open data and civic technologies for governance, transparency and citizen participation. For several years, AfroLeadership has been promoting the use of a financial management information system in local governments, in order to improve budget transparency, accountability and public participation to budgeting. The adoption of the Financial Management Information System by several councils aims at improving budget reliability, budget execution and the ratio of budget reports to supreme audit institutions (SAI)."…to bring budget information to citizens and CSOs in an accessible and open way…"
The Cameroon Open Local Budgets (COLB) project, launched in 2016, seeks to fight corruption, improve local accountability and ensure effective service delivery by collecting and publishing all 374 (the number of councils in Cameroon) approved budgets and accounts for all local authorities in Cameroon on OpenSpending. This project is a continuation of the organisation's effort to bring budget information to citizens and CSOs in an accessible and open way, and engage them in public and local affairs.
The goal of the current OpenSpending Cameroon pilot phase is to upload 50 data sets for 2015 budget reports. For example, uploaded data on Cameroon's Dschang council looks at functional expenses versus investment expenses, while a drill down into these categories lets users explore the expenses for each budget category.
The AfroLeadership team also faces challenges in data collection. Even if the deadline for 2015 budget reports and account production was at the end of May of this year, collection of these accounts has been more difficult than expected. Audit Bench of the Supreme Court of Cameroon has stressed the fact that less than 10% of budgets reports are received at their desk each year.
To address data collection challenges, AfroLeadership has organized information workshops to present to diverse stakeholders (Mayors, Supreme Audit Institutions, Civil Society Organisations, Journalists, etc.) the necessity of involving citizens in the budget cycle. Also, AfroLeadership has invited its institutional partner on this project, the national community driven development program (PNDP), to help collect approved 2015 budgets reports and accounts. AfroLeadership is currently in touch with the Ministry of Finance to explore opportunities in improving budget report collection in local governments.
All these organizations have been involved in upload training sessions on OpenSpending and now that the platform is available in Alpha, they are working to publish the data to the larger public through OpenSpending.
To browse existing datasets and to upload your data, visit OpenSpending. For questions, OpenSpending team is available via OpenSpending discussion forum, on Gitter.im in the OpenSpending chat room, or on the OpenSpending issue tracker.


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What are the folks who didn't make the cut at Irrational Games doing now?
Subject: General Tech | October 8, 2014 - 01:14 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Day For Night Games, The Black Glove, irrational, gaming
Watch the Kickstarter video from Day For Night Games and you will see a lot of Bioshock DNA in The Blck Glove, but not a lot of bloodshed. Instead of hordes of Splicers to take down in a variety of ways there are three artists whose creations you can improve by changing their past Muse, Medium or Message and instead of Big Daddy there is a ... Space Minotaur? You take the role of curator for The Equinox, a rather surreal 1920's theatre with three exhibits, the artist Marisol, the filmmaker Avery Arnault, and musical act Many Embers. By overcoming the Space Minotaur in a variety of minigames you can change the past of these three artists to completely change and hopefully improve their creations in the games present. The focus will be on the amount of times you can replay the game as each of the three categories will have three sub-categories which leads to many possible outcomes for the three artists creations. Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN offers their thoughts on this project here.
This may not end up being as much of a hit as Bioshock multiplayer did with the Fragging Frogs but there will likely be a few members who do end up picking it up. In the meantime BF4, ARMA2 and 3, UT2K4 and a wide variety of other games remain popular and more importantly, populated with players. Check out what they will be up to tonight!
"The Black Glove is a new project from a selection of the developers who worked on Bioshock, from the first game right up until Burial at Sea and the winding down of Irrational. It has instantly become one of the games I'm most looking forward to seeing more of, although that's partly because there's not quite enough on show right now."
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- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare @ The Inquirer
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- Latest Far Cry 4 trailer gives an in-depth look at game weaponry @ HEXUS
- Wot I Think Now I've Finished Shadow Of Mordor @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
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A little over a year ago, we posted our review of the Lenovo Y500, which was a gaming notebook that leveraged not one, but two discrete video adapters (2 x NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M in SLI, to be exact) to achieve respectable gaming performance at a reasonable price point (around $1,200 at the time of the review).
Well—take away nearly a pound of weight (to 5.7 lbs), slim the case down to around an inch thick, update the chipset, and remove one video card, and you've got the Lenovo Y50 Touch, which ought to be able to improve upon the Y500 in nearly every area if the specifications add up to typical results. Here's the full list of what our review unit includes:
While the GTX 860M (2 GB) is a far cry from, say, the GTX 880M (8 GB) we had the pleasure of testing in MSI's GT70 2PE, it's still a very capable card that should provide satisfactory results without breaking the bank (or the back). The rest of the spec sheet is conventional fare for a budget gaming notebook, with the only other surprise being the inclusion of a touchscreen—an option which replaces the traditional matte LCD panel in the standard Y50.
The configuration we received has already been slightly updated to include a CPU that's a nudge better than the i7-4700HQ: the i7-4710HQ (which gains it 100 MHz in Turbo Boost clock rate). Otherwise, the specs are identical, and the street price is very close to that of the Y500 we originally reviewed: $1,139. Currently, an extra 10 bucks will also score you an external DVD+/-RW drive, and just 90 bucks more will boost your GTX 860M's VRAM to 4 GB (from 2 GB) and your system RAM to 16 GB from 8 GB. That's really not a bad deal at all.
Continue reading our review of the Lenovo Y50 Touch Gaming Notebook!!
Fan-made 2D Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (PC)
Subject: General Tech | October 1, 2014 - 05:32 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: zelda, 2d, fan-made, gaming
Hopefully this project will neither become abandoned, like a couple of attempts before it, nor shut down by Nintendo. The Legend of Zelda: OoT2D is an unofficial, fan-made game for the PC that takes the story and design of Ocarina of Time and builds it around A Link to the Past's artistic design. The most interesting part, for me, is how they will redesign the puzzles and dungeons into a different basis. I would like to compare all three games, Ocarina of Time, A Link to the Past, and the fan-made 2D OoT remake.
The team built their own engine for this game. To preserve the pixelation, you can use the escape key to select from one of four sizes that prevent art pixels from being spilled between physical ones, creating a blur. The UX is a bit counter-intuitive, but they offer a lot of the customization that PC gamers would love.
The game is not done yet, but a demo is provided. I tried it. It works.
Ancient Space doesn't uncover much that is new
Subject: General Tech | October 1, 2014 - 02:26 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: gaming, ancient space, letdown
It seems that Ancient Space is not quite living up to the hype surrounding the cast of Sci-Fi stars and Homeworld like appearance. From what Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN found the story was lacklustre even with recognizable voices and while the gameplay was enjoyable it was lacking that brilliance which made Homeworld so memorable. It is a beautiful game and it does actually have some new features like Captains which can be swapped to give different buffs to your ships but overall they were a bit let down. You can grab it on Steam but you might want to consider some of the Homeworld and Homeworld 2 mods to tide you over until the remastered versions are released.
If you do find a mod you like you might be able to talk one or more of the Fragging Frogs into playing a game with you, otherwise keep an eye on their Forum for the games they will be playing this week.
"That's not to say Ancient Space is a terrible game: it's actually not ever bad in any dramatic sense, it just doesn't do anything particularly exciting. It's disappointing. Beautiful, but disappointing. There's your three word summary."
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Oculus Rift Crescent Bay, hinting at what the consumer model will look like
Subject: General Tech | September 24, 2014 - 01:51 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Oculus, oculus connect, crescent bay, gaming
If you haven't had a chance to listen to it, Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN has linked to the Keynote Panel of John Carmack, Palmer Luckey and several others presented during the Oculus Connect event. They also give you a few insights into their experience with the new Crescent Bay prototype which features "new display technology, 360° head tracking, expanded positional tracking volume, dramatically improved weight and ergonomics, and high-quality integrated audio." They were not the only ones who were playing with the new device, Polygon has both a video and a write up on their chance to use the new model, which is likely to be the last one revealed before the final consumer release. Unfortunately there is not yet a date as to when that will happen so for now try to make friends with someone who has a Dev Kit 2 model.
The Fragging Frogs are still working towards the next major gamign event but that doesn't mean you can't play with them, there are still official pick up games every Monday, Wednesday and Friday and you can find members online almost all the time.
"The new kit was available to play at Oculus Connect, with a new set of demos designed to show off the increased sense of "presence" provided by the device. If that word sounds familiar, that's because that's what Valve called it when they worked on their own VR prototype. Michael Abrash, now at Oculus, headed that team at Valve."
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- Play With The Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Skill Trees @ [H]ard|OCP
- Have You Played… MINERVA: Metastasis? @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Have You Played… BioShock 2: Minerva's Den? @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Divinity Original Sin and Wasteland 2 reviews: Turn-based gaming's NOT DEAD YET! @ The Register
- Diablo 1 HD Mod Adds Support For Modern Machines @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
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Can't wait for Homeworld? Ancient Space drops in a week!
Subject: General Tech | September 17, 2014 - 02:29 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: gaming, ancient space, space sim, rts
On September 23rd a new space strategy game by the name of Ancient Space will drop, giving those of us impatiently awaiting the Homeworld Remasters release something to tide us over. One particularly interesting feature of the game is the voice acting which will include Ron Glass from Firefly, Dina Meyer from Starship Troopers and other series, Aaron Douglas from Battlestar Galactica and several other names immediately recognizable to Sci-Fi fans. The trailer below shows off some of the gameplay which also looks to be as impressive as the cast. Hopefully this will be as enjoyable for the story as it is for the gameplay. You can follow the links from Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN for more information.
The Fragging Frogs have been up to quite a bit lately, which you would have completely missed had you not the wisdom to have already joined the best gaming group on the web. For those few who have yet to join up, once you've checked out the previous link there is a new thread to help introduce yourself and your collection of games to the group. Try it, you just might like it!
"I feel like I've written about quite a few space RTSs in recent times, but none of them are releasing quite as soon or look quite as promising as Ancient Space. The latest trailer thankfully does more than show up Adam's lack of sci-fi TV knowledge with its voice cast. It's actual game footage, UI and all, and interspersed with comments from the developers about how the ship customisation and campaign systems will work."
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- Commander Keen: Keen Dreams Source Code Released @ Slashdot
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Lenovo Shows Off New Y70 Touch Notebook and ERAZER Desktop Gaming PCs
Subject: Systems | September 4, 2014 - 03:42 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: y70 touch, Lenovo, haswell, gaming notebook, gaming, Erazer
Yesterday, Lenovo unveiled two new gaming systems at IFA in Berlin. The new Y70 Touch is a 17-inch gaming notebook while the Erazer X310 and Erazer X315 are mid-tower desktops. All three systems will be available later this month.
The Y70 Touch is Lenovo's first desktop replacement notebook with a touchscreen. The 25.9mm thick notebook features a 17.3" 1080p display, backlit keyboard, and JBL-powered stereo speakers (with subwoofer). It can be configured with up to an Intel Haswell i7 processor, NVIDIA GTX 860M GPU with 4GB RAM, 16GB of DDR3 system memory, and 1TB solid state drive (SSD). (Storage options include 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB SSD options.) Lenovo is including an external disc drive with the gaming PC which was left out of the chassis itself to maintain its slim form factor and to reduce weight.
The Y70 Touch gaming notebook starts at $1,299 and will be available in the US later this month.
If desktops are more your style, Lenovo is now offering up the Erazer X310 and X315 mid-tower PCs. The X310 and X315 will share the same black mid-tower chassis but will use different internal hardware. the X310 with Intel Haswell CPUs will be available worldwide while the AMD APU-powered X315 will be exclusive to North America.
The ERAZER X310/X315 case is all black with a stealthy angular front panel design that hosts two 5.25" bays and a blue LED-backlit power button. The X310 can be configured with up to an Intel Haswell i7 CPU while the X315 supports AMD "Kaveri" APUs up to the A10 series (e.g. A10 7850K). Users can choose up to a NVIDIA GTX 760 (2GB) or AMD Radeon R9 255 (2GB) graphics card. The mid-tower has four PCI slots and in theory could support further DIY upgrades but GPU length would be limited and the power supply may need to be upgraded as well. Further, both systems feature up to 32GB system memory and a maximum of 4TB mechanical hard drive, 2TB hybrid hard drive or 256GB solid state storage.
The new ERAZER X310 and X315 desktops will be available shortly starting at $599.
For those interested in the APU-powered desktop, the following articles might be of interest.
- AMD A8-7600 Kaveri APU and R7 250 Dual Graphics Testing - Pacing is Fixed!
- Fully Enabling the A10-7850K while Utilizing a Standalone GPU
Puget Systems Offering X99-Based Deluge XL Gaming PCs
Subject: Systems | September 3, 2014 - 02:39 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: X99, puget systems, Puget, pre-built, Intel, Haswell-E, gaming
Puget Systems has joined the X99 fray with its Deluge XL gaming PC. The new system joins the existing Deluge which is based around Haswell and the Z97 chipset. This high end, liquid cooled, PC starts at $3,920.67 and is available now.
The Deluge XL features a Fractal Design Define XL R2 chassis, ASUS X99 Deluxe motherboard, up to an Intel Core i7 5960X processor, 16GB DDR4-2133 memory, single and multi-GPU options from NVIDIA and AMD, multiple storage options that include SSDs and mechanical drives, and a bottom mounted EVGA SuperNOVA P2 1,000W power supply to drive it all. Both the CPU and graphics card(s) are liquid cooled in a custom water loop comprised of a Koolance PMP-400 pump, 3/8" clear tubing (with an in-line flow meter), Koolance CPU-380 processor waterblock, and Koolance GPU waterblock(s). Users can further elect to upgrade the thermal paste to Arctic Cooling MX-2 and upgrade and/or add additional case fans. A blue LED lighting kit is available as an optional add-on along with other accessories. The Deluge XL can be configured with the Ubuntu Linux 14.04, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7 operating system.
The base model comes with a GTX 780 graphics card and 500GB mechanical hard drive which does leave something to be desired. The motherboard is one of the highest end Haswell-E models out there and the PSU is up to the task of running almost any hardware, however. Switching out the above mentioned GPU and HDD for an AMD Radeon R9 290 and a 250GB Samsung 840 EVO respectively brings the price up to $4,087.10.
It's not cheap, but it is powerful and for some enthusiasts the simplified support along with not needing to spend time researching and building (and doing good cable management!) makes a pre-built system worth it. Puget is not the only game in town though, and other boutique system builders are rolling out their own X99-based PCs as well. Keep an eye on PC Perspective for more news!
AMD Never Settle Space Edition
Subject: General Tech | August 27, 2014 - 02:12 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: star citizen, never settle, gaming, fragging frogs, amd, alien isolation
With the release of the new GPUs from AMD comes an addition to the Never Settle bundle, aptly named Never Settle Space Edition. In addition to the games already available on the Never Settle Forever those who buy the new R9 285 will be able to choose from Alien: Isolation, Star Citizen, Space Run and Habit. You can see a model of the ship that seems to come with Star Citizen at HEXUS.
The Fragging Frogs will be logging in tonight to get in some gaming action after the Podcast, you can see what is planned and make suggestions in this thread on our Forums.
"To coincide with the launch of the AMD Radeon R9 285 graphics cards AMD will augment the Never Settle choices and re-name the bundle as the 'Never Settle Space Edition'. With the newly announced additional quartet of space games AMD graphics card purchasers will have a choice of 31 games to pick though, depending upon what GPUs they buy."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Giving Voice To The Void: Ancient Space @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Death To Middlemen: Dirty Dozen Sale Direct From Devs @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Dragon Age: Inquisition multiplayer trailer has four times the upgrade trees @ Polygon
- Enemy Starfighter: Homeworld from inside a fighter @ Polygon
- FMV Without The Clicking: GOG Starts Selling Movies @ Rock Paper SHOTGUN
- Shadowrun: Dragonfall Now Has Standalone Director's Cut @ Rock Paper SHOTGUN
Subject: General Tech | August 20, 2014 - 01:52 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: gaming, watch_dogs, 4k
After three months, two patches, driver updates and many a flamewar, [H]ard|OCP has posted their complete performance review of Watch_Dogs. From the mighty Titan to the much more reasonably priced R9 270 almost a dozen cards performance is tested on this much hyped game. The high end cards were paired and tested in 4k resolution with the R9 290X CrossFire setup coming out on top and holding that lead when tested in single GPU configurations at 2560x1600. Indeed even at 1080p AMD was able to provide higher quality settings with an acceptable price in performance. Read the full review to see the visual effects of the various graphics settings as well as the preferred cards at the various resolutions.
After the podcast tonight, or indeed just about any night, you can find some of the Fragging Frogs online playing a variety of games. If you haven't checked them out yet you can learn all you need to know about joining up with one of the most fun group of gamers online right here.
"We published a preview of Watch Dogs performance when it was released back in May this year. We have given this game time to mature. Now that a couple of game patches have been released, along with newer drivers from NVIDIA and AMD, it is time for our full performance and image quality comparison review."
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- Presenting Exhibit A In The Witcher 3 Trial @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
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What are the pros? Beautiful and unusual
What are the cons? Challenging harvest
I planted six of these guys in mid-May. It's now July, and they have enormous orange heads so heavy that the plants bend towards the ground if you don't stake them! The golden seed heads don't just appear at the top, but rather all along the stems (at least for me). I think they're very pretty plants and are more than worth the space simply for their aesthetic virtues.
I'm less sold on them as food. The greens are edible and I've used them much as you might use chard, but they're not especially delicious. As for the seeds, it's early in the season and the birds have already come poking about, taking their share. The harvest process is involved. The multiple seed heads will have to be cut off from the stalks, the seeds shaken from their hulls, the chaff blown off... it's just a lot of work for a home gardener without special equipment.
Bottom line, I think of them as flowers first, food second, and by that measure they're awesome.
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What are the pros? easy to grow, self seeds
What are the cons? time consuming to harvest
Most amazing plant in my 2016 garden. Some plants grew 9 feet high. The bronze color of the seed heads are striking. Knew they were ready for harvest when all the birds came around. The King Parrots especially loved them.
Harvesting and winnowing them is a job, though. Took me days to do, but I managed 2 quarts of seed from the 15 plants that I made room for. I don't know if that's good or not, but it was good enough for me.
I did try to pop them, but have yet to do so successfully.
A lot of seed was blown into a nearby raised bed and they readily germinated giving me plenty of new leaves to enjoy before a light frost wiped them out.
This is a magical plant to grow and everyone should try it, even once, just for the thrill of it.
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What are the pros? puts on the head way faster
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This puts on its seed head way way faster than any other varity, its a good month and half faster than any other varity, so about 45 plants should fill up a 5 gallon bucket full of seed, i could be wrong but that sounds about right , if you get a pound of seed per plant. Have fun and God bless
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What are the pros? easy, massive, show stopper
Even though I started a little on the late side this year, after installing the raised beds, these suckers grew quickly and like Jack & the Beanstalk fast! Can't wait for them to produce the seeds. Definitely planting more and different varieties next year!


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The nation's economic growth rate may be slow, but the U.S. housing and stock markets are soaring.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed at its highest level in five years Tuesday, nearly hitting the 14,000 mark and only 200 points away from its all-time high.
The ongoing surge in the stock market is good news for American investors. The average 401k retirement account is up about 20 percent over the last year.
"These worst case scenarios that people were looking at in 2008, they can start to say, 'Alright, we're not going to go there,'" Jon Hilsenrath, chief economics correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, said.
The housing market is also pushing forward. Home prices rose 5.5 percent in November compared to a year ago.
"This is a miracle in motion," business consultant Barbara Corcoran said. "We haven't seen this in probably seven years."
Housing prices have been going up for 10 months in a row. Experts credit the progress to historically low interest rates.
"The mortgage rate's so low. It was just the best time. It was a steal," one Michigan homeowner said.
But while the economy continues its slow recovery, both the Federal Reserve and economists warn that what happens in Washington over the next several months could dramatically change things.
Federal spending cuts are looming, and some say they could throw the economy back into a recession.
Meanwhile, consumer confidence just dropped 8.1 points.
The reason: When lawmakers reached a deal to avoid tax increases for most Americans they did not extend the temporary cut on Social Security taxes. That means Americans are bringing home less money in their paychecks.
Employers have added an average of about 150,000 jobs a month for the past two years. That's not enough to lower the unemployment rate, which remains stuck just below 8 percent.
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MS has had a partnership with Great Plaines for years. They have a small application suite that will enable processing of ERP (HR, Financials, etc.) Is the new Mini going to cut into Mercedes S Class sales? Great Plaines is for the general business market and can be purchased for under $50k. Anyone going with a Brio or SAP has a budget over $100k with a $400k average.Brio is a query/reporting tool that plugs into the Applicaiton layer. To answer your question, this is no real news. Companies recycle the same press releases over and over to make it look like things are changes.As for Brio, I am going to wait it out until mid summer when software may bottom. I love this stock and hate to see it go down but fundementals are fundementals.I am afraid to touch software right now because I know people on the inside who are struggling to make sales. Also, CNBC and all the analysts are just loving retail and consumer products. I hope we get a tech ralley by end of the year. I learned a long time ago to only buy what you know!
you probably mean: fundamentals are fundamentalsnot: fundementals are fundementalsof course, brio probably means to produce software that sells. unfortunately they have the same problem. they cant get it right.mostly because they have the most ignorantset of executives possible in the BI space -and they dont know diddly-squat about their respective roles. Unless you like stocking Safeway shelves I suggest you take your losses or wait until $1, which should do nicely for someone to buy them out.i remember a prediction that Craig had that he was going to drive sales from the $150M level last year to $250M (it was suppose to be a secret - shhhh dont tell anyone). But as Craig usually does, he has given it to the company in the a*s, and sales are roughly $100M and dropping.Oh Jorgen, Katherine, Arun, John et al. where are you now when we actually need someone who knows something (I hope some of them read this).