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Old School - New School
Thoughts on Flyfishing Today
I recall some years ago a controversy regarding the use of new technologies in the Olympic pole vault wherein a team was disqualified for using a new material for the construction of their poles. After a meeting of minds the material was later allowed which set the stage for further changes within the Olympic events. Now it's body suits to reduce friction/drag and composites everywhere, to name just a few.
Possibly this is a poor analogy to today's flyfishing, but it seems at least to me, to be a starting point for discussing the perceived differences within our sport.
Generally, there are two schools of thought regarding what is and what isn't flyfishing. On the one hand there are those who espouse the traditional ways while lamenting the loss of values of the new practitioners with their newer technologies and philosophy. The new kids are quick to argue that even the traditionalists are not true to the old ways and need to evolve theirs ways and thinking for our new times. In a sense, they are both right (though it need not be a right or wrong scenario). The point of this post is to bring forth a discussion wherein both sides can be understood and accepted while cementing our common bonds.
Old School-
The practitioners of old used various natural materials to create their tools-of-sport. Like today's flyfisher, they were quick to adapt what was at hand to facilitate their pursuits. Note that this in itself suggests an evolutionary process not unlike the current scene.
It is my belief that the traditional way is still valid today; new materials used in the old ways hasn't really changed a thing. The key here is "used in the old ways". The lines used, whether silk and catgut or the newer nylons and such are still just lines. A fly formerly dressed with natural material is still a fly when dressed with synthetics.
New School-
In the same sense, new tools/thinking that clearly deviates from the basic tenets of old, though valid in their own respect, creates a new way and, as a result, are no longer considered traditional. Indicators, plug heads, coneheads - the list is long. Understanding this, has anything really changed?
Old School vs. New School-
The old school could have used indicators but chose not to. They could have whittled out a plug head, not unlike today's epoxy heads. Again, they chose not to. The early traditionalists were very familiar with molding lead (musket shot, etc.) and could have easily fashioned coneheads had they so desired. They did not. So...
Well, so what!
While I won't go into similarities, which are great, I will state that neither the traditional way nor the new way changes much, philosophically. We still fish with a fly, arguably the most difficult form of angling. Our enthusiasm drives us to create our own tools-of-sport (flies, sinktips, rods, etc.) to a degree seen nowhere else in the sporting world. We hold to a conservation ethic unparalleled in any other recreational activity. Yes, the similarities in style and philosophy are there. As to the differences, I celebrate the few differences because they bring added choice to the table. The similarities, combined with our differences, add strength to our bond, our sport. It also adds great life to our dialog!
I don't use coneheads or indicators. I don't eat sushi or caviar (too much like bait, to me). This is my personal preference. You do? Great, I find no fault there (nor should I).
Now, as to sleds and fish finders on the rivers - no way. They are in another realm, and that's another story.
Marblemount, WA
Last edited by watersprite; 04-28-2002 at 08:18 PM.
I know that this discussion is best left for january, but since it snowed the day befor yesterday...
"In the old school they chose not to": fish jigs, use indicators and fashion flys from plastic materials(or wood in their case)... I 'm not sure that we're are on the right track with this.
In the "old school", they didn't have choices. It was fish with a fly, or use bait.
They didn't use indicators, not because it offended their sensibilities, but because they didn't fish dead drifted flys. I think that "wet flys" were streamers fished on the swing.
They didn't fish with casting jigs, because no one cast jigs.
And most importantly, they made flys out of feathers and fur because that was the best materials available to them. Light, and colorful with lots of action. They are still hard to beat. I'm not sure they could have cast a Rapala if they wanted to.
Anglers make the rules and choose the terms as to how they catch fish. The "Old School" chose not to use bait and nets. Perhaps this is the introduction to "sport fishing" We have more choices, we just don't have as many fish.
I hope some one with a better knowedge of history will straighten out my assumptions, but...
One cast can change your day...maybe your life.
Since when have flyfishers limited the thinking process to January?
Seems to be an incredibly narrow view on the ability and ingenuity of our forefathers. Yes they indeed fished what was at hand. And very few published their findings, unlike today. Remember, those times often required great innovation just to survive. I'm not an angling historian, but really now, cut your great, great grandpa some slack.
As far as not being able to cast jig heads - May I suggest that you try it before speaking out against it. Although I don't fish them, I have tried casting them in an effort to study their sinking properties. They cast less than ideal, but if one was working fast water about 35 - 40 ft. away, they aren't too bad.
Finally, the initial post was an invitation to discuss the subjective nature of flyfishing. Frankly Eddie, your all or nothing response was unexpected and tainted with attitude. As you point out, maybe this should be left for the winter when you regain the ability to think and can bring a better attitude to the discussion.
...and if no one wants to discuss this matter - Okay, it won't hurt my feelings any.
I especially like the "So What" part of your post.
I was thinking about this the other day. To me, too many people worry abut what is & isn't fly fishing. Like you, I don't really care how or where you fish or if you kill fish (in moderation) as long as you respect and protect the resource.
Trying to exclude people because they don't adhere to one's own personal beliefs only hurts the resources by possibly ostracizing a potential proponent of the sport.
After all, I like clousers.
I think the term "old school" applies to modern practitioners of old techniques. Old timers aren't "old school" by choice. Pole vaulters and Olympic atheletes use the best and newest techniques available to them. I believe that our fore fathers did too. They were pioneers in fishing with artificial lures. When tackle evolved that allowed them to cast heavy lures it was eventually adopted by most anglers.
For many situations, a fly is still the deadliest artificial lure. For the situations where it is at a disadvantage, we relish the challenge that we have imposed on ourselves. Like us, the earliest anglers fished for sport rather than survival. But they they didn't become "fly fishermen" until the advent of hard tackle.
As for the January comment, WS, I was kidding. If you check back in the archives, the "what's the nature of flyfishing?" threads are usually posted during the darkest and most desparate times of the year. As I watch rain turn to sleet, I thought I might add my thoughts to yours. I am not trying to discourage thought(the opposite is true I hope).
One cast can change your day...maybe your life.
In general, I am an old timer who fishes old school by choice.
As for your position that fishers of old fished for sport and not survival, please explain the carved bone hooks found at numerous archeological digs (some shaped very similar to the increasingly popular circle hooks). Sounds like subsistence bait fishing to me. Was early man a sportsman?
Sorry for the "bite" of my second post - I didn't recognize your remarks as humor, not that I am humorless you know.
As Kush eluded to in an earlier post, we often take it for granted that others see our remarks in the same manner as we post, sometimes with grievous consequences. Although I do not wear my emotions on my sleeves I must admit that I am quick to take up any perceived challenge. Seems to reinforce the idea that smilies are our friends.
Last edited by watersprite; 04-29-2002 at 05:07 AM.
I'm a Quasi Old Timer
Having started fly fishing in my early teens on the Catskill region rivers where serious traditional fly fishing was practiced (only dry fly, floating lines, bamboo rods, etc) the traditions of the sport's ethics were firmly based. Can remember the dry fly guys looking down on the wet fly guys and in the 1960s there was really no nymph fishing that I can remember. That started in the 1970s as the sport evolved.
I say I am a quasi old school since I like to take advantage of the new technology (graphite rods, sink tip specialized lines. etc., new fly tying materials, etc.). I don't use indicators, does not seem like true fly fishing to me. A good wet fly and nymph fisherman can feel the strike once they get experienced.
So I like some of the new tecnology but do not apply all to try and stay close to the traditions of the sport.
I do believer strongly in C+R to protect wild stocks of trout and salmon which I have now seen applied successfully to my two favorite rivers The Beaverkill - NYS and The Pere Marquette - Michigan. It works and the fisheries are better now then they were before even with increased fishing pressure.
That is my point. Those bone hooks were used with bait, and as much fun as the Polynesians had catching fish, fishing with bait is desperate. They were not fishing for sport.
Now, if they dressed those hooks up with feathers and fur, gave those lures a funny names like "Stimulators" or "Sluggos", and fished with a rod, they would be "anglers " of old. And that sounds like fun(as opposed to survival).
I am going to try circle hooks this year.
One cast can change your day...maybe your life.
Okay, now if you tie up a furry fly on your bone hook and haven't removed all the fleshy parts, is this bait fishing? What about tying a chicken fly using the same hook with large parts of bird left on, bait again? What's the rule, if you leave on too much flesh and it stinks then it's no longer flyfishing but bait fishing?
You can't reach over the bushes with your new bone fly contraption so you dangle it from a long stick - presto, angling?
...and the bone hooks I was referring to predates the Islanders South Pacific tour.
As a bio, I started flyfishing dries in the summer of '65 on the Salt-Verde River near Phoenix, AZ. I had just turned 15. It wasn't until 1970 that I really got hooked on flyfishing when I moved to New Jersey after completing my military obligations. I fished strictly dries in the Catskills and Adirondacks. It was about 1974 or '75 that I got a copy of the book "Nymphs" by Ernie S. and I slowly started the change to including wet techniques and haven't regretted making the change in style and thinking.
As you can see, my journey leaves no room for snobbishness and I believe, firmly, to each their own. I do have personal preferences and stop short of indicators, coneheads, whirlythingamajigs, and assorted plastic accouterments.
P.S. I erred on the initial post and used the wrong term for an item - coneheads. I mistakingly called them jig heads. I don't use either.
Cool another former Catskill FF. Fished their from 63 to 79.
Was wondering about the jig head reference. Do you use bead heads ? I do use them, whats the difference in weighting the hook and using them I asked my self.
I am not into coneheads yet though, I have to draw the line somewheres.
I have a couple plastic beadhead flies and some of those dumbbell ones, but I didn't buy them. I have my wife, during her usual shopping trips, pick up tying materials for me and she is always bringing something new home. Last year she brought me home a Sage 9140 with Tioga reel and Windcutter, totally out of the blue - bless her soul!
Yeah, I'm going to try trout fishing again this year and beadhead nymphs seem to be the rule. See, I can adapt. I've warned her, though, NO whirlythingamajigs.
How to tie and fish a "Whirlythingamajigs": Tie up a furry fly on your bone hook and don't remove all the fleshy parts. Add chicken feathers with large parts of bird left on. Leave on too much flesh so that it it stinks. So you can reach over the bushes with your new bone fly contraption, dangle it from a long stick.
No need for an idicator with this rig! The brutal strikes this fly arouses are hard to miss. Works on all species or fish and most carnivorouse mamals as well.
One cast can change your day...maybe your life.
...and make sure to bring a priest to bonk the nasty fish or protect you from the nasties.
..and if the priest wears robes, be sure to give him a wide berth because he might be the nasty. (Sure hope this passes the censors). TIC
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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 351, October 27, 2006
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Other staff, including co-editor, Don Bahls, will be there, hoping to meet readers of This Newsletter. To locate ARSC folks: 1) Follow the smell of sunburn cream -- we burn easily; and, 2) look for people shivering pathetically in the air-conditioning -- Hey! Alaskans in Florida do NOT wear sweaters!
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As announced in issue 345, ARSC is installing a new 9.88 TFLOP Sun Linux system. We can report that hardware delivery is expected late next week. After that, we commence the rigorous process of setup, acceptance testing, etc...
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Java for Fortran Programmers: Part V
[[ Thanks to Lee Higbie of ARSC for this tutorial. ]]
In the beginning of this tutorial, I said that how far and deep I take this tutorial depends on your feedback. Thanks again to those who responded initially. At this juncture, I again need to know your interest. It will help to ensure and guide future chapters.
The topic today is:
- Interfacing Java and Fortran Programs
Java has a syntactic and semantic affinity for C, so calling between Java and C programs is common and accommodated by JNI, the Java native interface. The tool javah generates C include (.h) files. Thus, one way to call between Java and Fortran is to pass the call through a trivial C program. This is of less interest and more of a kludge than I want to discuss. I will discuss how to create GUIs for setting up and running Fortran programs.
One of the ongoing hassles that HPC users have is compiling their programs. There must be at least half a dozen different Fortran compilers, each with scores to hundreds of options. Though diddling with compiler options may interest a few, most HPC users have work they want to do and the compiler is a tool that cannot be avoided. My plan over the next few chapters is to create a GUI for generating compile statements. The target of this exercise will be a table-driven compile-statement generator that will present all the options that should interest most users in an intuitive way and create syntactically correct strings that a user can paste into his makefile or compile script.
For this Chapter I will create a user interface--a GUI. This could be done with one of the many GUI creators, but I will do it from scratch because I think it is more instructive and the code I write will be easier to understand than machine-generated code. Because the program for just the GUI is about 150 lines, I will only present snippets of the code here. The full code can be found as CompilerGUIa.java at: http://people.arsc.edu/~higbie/JavaForFortran/ . In outline, I took the HelloBill code and added some widgets for the new Compiler Controller.
HelloBill is not very exciting--one widget, the exit Button, filling the Frame. When there are many widgets there, the situation become much more exciting, especially when windows are resized. Java has a group of classes that organize the visual objects in a container, all of which directly or indirectly implement the LayoutManager interface. Most of these will completely automate putting your widgets in a Frame or Window. At least for now, I will use the most structurally complex layout manager, but the only one that allows me to specify the layout with precision, the GridBagLayout.
If you want to place widgets in a grid on the screen, the GridLayout and GridBagLayout are the two obvious choices. GridLayout places the widgets in the frame with equal vertical spacing and equal horizontal spacing. GridBagLayout is a grid layout with the capability of having components span several columns and/or rows. This makes a much more pleasing layout when the components differ in size. First the declarations,
GridBagLayout gbl = new GridBagLayout(); GridBagConstraints gbc = new GridBagConstraints();
The GridBagLayout object, gbl, will use the GridBagConstraints object, gbc, for each object in the Frame. As the Frame changes size, it will move the widgets around but keep them placed and their relative sizes as designed. The first statements of the constructor will use these objects and sets values used throughout the layout.
setLayout(gbl); gbc.anchor = GridBagConstraints.CENTER;
Because the CompilerGUIa class extends Frame, it has a setLayout method and the first line above applies to the objects of this class. It is short for
which specifies the layout manager for this object. GridBagConstraints objects have a number of field variables that determine layout parameters, such as:
anchor, which determines where to place an object relative to its space. It is an integer value, whose default value is the class constant CENTER, whose numerical value is unimportant. gridheight, which specifies the number of rows the object will occupy. It is used below. 1 gbc.gridy = rowNo++; 2 gbc.gridx = 0; 3 gbc.gridwidth = 1; 4 gbc.gridheight = 2; 5 gbl.setConstraints(compilerChoice, gbc); 6 add(compilerChoice); 7 int wid = 0; 8 for (int i = 0; i < compilers.length; i++) { 9 compilerChoice.add(compilers[i]); 10 wid = Math.max(wid, compilers[i].length()); 11 } // end for i loop: 12 compilerChoice.setBounds(0,0,wid*15, 40);
rowNo is an integer that was initialized to zero. It counts down the table and specifies the vertical position of objects. gbc.gridx specifies the horizontal position. In all the first five lines specify that the object compilerChoice will be double height, single width, in the upper (because rowNo is zero) left corner of the Frame. Notice that I can add the object to the Frame before I know how big it is, which is determined by the five lines and set in the last line. The List object compilerChoice is a Component, which has a setBounds method specifying the location, (0,0), in its space for compilerChoice as well as how wide and tall it is.
The last row of the Frame is added by:
1 // last row 2 gbc.gridy = rowNo++; 3 // gbc.gridx = 0; // done above 4 // gbc.gridwidth = 1; // done above 5 // gbc.gridheight = 1; // done above 6 gbl.setConstraints(compileBtn, gbc); 7 add(compileBtn); 7 gbc.gridx = 1; 8 gbl.setConstraints(updateBtn, gbc); 9 add(updateBtn); 10 gbc.gridx = 2; 11 gbl.setConstraints(disposeBtn, gbc); 12 add(disposeBtn); 13 setVisible(true); 14 disposeBtn.addActionListener(this); 15 addWindowListener(this); 16 this.pack(); 17 setSize(new Dimension(width, height));
The three commented values, lines 3 to 5, are set earlier in the program and are repeated here so you can see the values. Except for the horizontal or x position, all three buttons are added (lines 7, 9, 12) with the same constraints. Line 13 makes this, the implied object for the method, visible so you can see the Frame. The mouse click and window click listeners are added and all the components are packed into the Frame by this.pack(). In line 16, "this" is not necessary, but is added here and could be added in all the other places where it is implicitly present. Finally, in line 17, the size of the Frame is set. Container's setSize method takes an argument of type Dimension, which is created just for passing to the method in the parameter field of setSize in line 17.
As with the earlier examples, you can download them from the people.arsc.edu/~higbie web page. Once downloaded, open a terminal window and type,
javac *.java
which will try to compile all your Java files. To run the application above, type,
java CompilerGUIa <your name>
The print and debug statements will generate output to the terminal window where you ran java CompilerGUIa.
BLACS Point-to-Point Communication
The BLACS (Basic Linear Algebra Communications Subprograms), http://www.netlib.org/blacs/ is a library of message passing subroutines designed specifically to support the development of parallel linear algebra routines. ScaLAPACK is built on the BLACS, and certain BLACS initialization routines must be used by anyone using ScaLAPACK.
Given its purpose, the BLACS doesn't need or want the huge variety of low- and high-level message passing functionality available in MPI.
However, the BLACS does offer point-to-point send and receive, broadcast, and barrier. Reflecting on the quick-tip question of last week, it seems reasonable that if you've already set up the BLACS communication environment, you might as well build the occasional reduction or other specialized operation on that base.
If you anticipated a lot of "BLACS coding," you'd probably be better off adding MPI to your BLACS/ScaLAPACK program.
It's common to mix MPI and BLACS/ScaLAPACK in the same program to get the strengths of both. You initialize them separately, and they exist in happy isolation from one another. You do a little MPI, do some BLACS/ScaLAPACK, do some more MPI, all the while operating on the same data. Just don't do anything silly like substitute a BLACS "context" for an MPI "communicator" or try to match an "MPI_SEND" with the receive function from BLACS, "xGERV2D"!
Back to the problem, here's one way to add a global minimum function using BLACS communication routines.This example adds a function to the sample program, slv_part5.f90, in ARSC's ScaLAPACK Tutorial, which was published in issues 304, 305, 306, 308 , and 309 of this newsletter.
Here's the BLACS initialization from that Tutorial:
! ! ----- Initialize the blacs. Note: processors are counted starting at 0. ! call blacs_pinfo( iam, nprocs ) ! ! ----- Set the dimension of the 2d processors grid. ! call gridsetup(nprocs,nprow,npcol) ! ! ----- Initialize a single blacs context. Determine which processor I ! am in the 2D process or grid. ! call blacs_get( -1, 0, context ) call blacs_gridinit( context, 'r', nprow, npcol )
For our new global_min function, we'll use the BLACS send and receive routines:
BLACS Send: call DGESD2D (context, 1, 1, mymin, 1, 0, 0) BLACS Receive: call DGERV2D (context, 1, 1, tmpmin, 1, prowN, pcolN) - In both DGESD2D and DGERV2D, the fourth argument is the 2D array or array section to be sent/received. We're only sending one value, so the array in this example is 1x1. - The last two arguments are processor row and column numbers. In MPI, we usually think of processor numbers ranging from 0 to NPROCS-1 (i.e., a 1-D virtual array of processors). In the BLACS, we always think in terms of a 2-D array of processors, and, thus each processor is always identified by two numbers, processor row and processor column.Here's the function:
! !----------------------------------------------------------------------- ! real(kind=8) function global_min (context,nprow,npcol,myrow,mycol,arr) ! ! Accumulates global minimum of arr on processor (0,0). On (0,0), returns ! it. On other procs, returns huge. All processors must call this at same ! time. ! implicit none integer :: context,nprow,npcol,myrow,mycol,prowN,pcolN real(kind=8) :: arr(:,:), mymin(1,1), tmpmin(1,1) global_min = huge (global_min) mymin = minval (arr); if (myrow.eq.0 .and. mycol.eq.0) then global_min = mymin(1,1) do prowN = 0, nprow - 1 do pcolN = 0, npcol - 1 if (.not. (prowN.eq.myrow .and. pcolN.eq.mycol)) then ! ! proc (0,0) receives local minimum from other processor ! call DGERV2D (context, 1, 1, tmpmin(1,1) , 1, prowN, pcolN) if (tmpmin(1,1) .lt. global_min) then global_min = tmpmin(1,1) endif endif enddo enddo else ! ! each proc sends its local minimum to (0,0) ! call DGESD2D (context, 1, 1, mymin(1,1), 1, 0, 0) endif end function global_min ! !----------------------------------------------------------------------- !
You may download the tar file for the previously mentioned ARSC ScaLAPACK Tutorial:
add this routine to the code for Part V of the tutorial, and play with it as you wish. Makefiles and batch submission scripts are ready go for both the IBM systems and the dearly departed Cray X1.
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A:[[ I use ScaLAPACK, therefore I use BLACS. I'm on AIX, therefore I use [[ ESSL/PESSL. I don't use MPI. Here's my question: [[ [[ I need the global minimum value of a distributed matrix. SHMEM provides [[ a routine to determine this: [[ [[ shmem_double_min_to_all : [[ "Performs a minimum reduction on array of doubles" [[ [[ I don't see anything in ScaLAPACK and the routine provided in the [[ BLACS library is no help: [[ [[ DGAMN2D: [[ "Perform an elementwise absolute value max/min." ... "Remember, ... [[ The absolute value is used to determine the max/min." [[ [[ Suggestions? [[ # # No one replied, so we'll just go with the example given above. # Q: I'd like the ESC key on my keyboard to be larger. What can I do?
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We've got a long holiday weekend ahead of us to enjoy, and we figured that while you're in the shopping mood picking up some charcoal to fire up the grill, we'd give you some extra stuff to add to your list. There are a bunch of sales on gadgets, computers, HDTVs, video games, and more, and we've got a whole list of great tech deals for you to perous after the break. Some things that stand out to us are the 23" HP 231x Ultra-slim monitor for $115, Battlefriend: Bad Company 2 for $5, and the 39" TCL 1080p plasma HDTV for $350. Be sure to check out our Newegg promo code thread as well for even more deals.
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Amazon brings hundreds of Paramount movies to Prime Instant Video
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Amazon continues to make its Amazon Prime service more enticing today with the announcement that it's added hundreds more movies to its Instant Video streaming video catalog thanks to an agreement with Paramount. Starting today, you can watch movies like Mission Impossible III, Nacho Libre, Star Trek, The Italian Job, and more if you're a Prime member.
Watch this: The Dark Knight Rises trailer #3
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The Dark Knight Rises is set to be unleashed upon us on July 20, less than three months from now, and Warner Bros. just hit us with a new trailer. The two-minute spot is better than the first two that were released, and makes us salivate a bit more for the finale of Christopher Nolan's Batman saga. Check it out.
Acura NSX Roadster featured in 'The Avengers' before production
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If you're planning on seeing Marvel's next blockbuster hit, The Avengers, get ready to see some movie magic. No, we're not talking about the fight scenes and endless CGI effects, we're talking about the cars featured in the movie—the Acura NSX to be exact.
Like any lead-footed gear-head, we were stoked that Acura was planning on bring the car back into production. The NSX is due to arrive somewhere around 2015, but if you've looked at any calendar lately, it reads 2012. So how could Marvel get its hands on a car that's not out yet, or no where near production ready? We'll, let's just say it took some work and creativity. Check out the video to see how it all came to be.
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Netflix updates Xbox 360 app with contrast controls, better episode navigation
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For all those that use their Xbox 360 to stream Netflix, an update has been issued today to solve some (but definitely not all!) annoying issues and improve user experience.
You're now able to skip forward and backwards during play, allowing users to quickly change between movies and TV episodes. Users now will be able to zoom during play, turning letterboxed displays into full screen, and there are now contrast settings that allow you to tweak things to make colors more vivid, and blacks purer. For users outside the States, you'll now have expanded and improved Facebook functionality connected via Facebook. The social functionality allows others to see what you watched and how you rated the shows.
If you're wondering how to get the update, signing into your Xbox Live account and fire up your current Netflix app. You should get a notification that an update is available right away. If you're not a Netflix user, when you decide the time is right to try Netflix, the most up-to-date software will be downloaded when you sign-up. Keep in mind in order to access Netflix through the Xbox 360, you need an Xbox Live Gold Account, broadband Internet, and an active Netflix membership.
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Diamond discusses lessons of ancient societies for today, Oct. 9
Posted October 7, 2002; 11:17 a.m.
Diamond, winner of a 1999 National Medal of Science and a 1985 MacArthur Fellowship, will present a lecture at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, in McCosh 50.
Diamond, a professor of physiology in the School of Medicine at the University of California-Los Angeles, is known for his breakthrough discoveries in evolutionary biology and landmark research in applying Darwinian theory to such diverse fields as physiology and ecology.
He will discuss "Collapses of Ancient Societies and Their Lessons for Today." Diamond won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for his book "Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies," which explores the complex reasons why Eurasian societies evolved more rapidly than societies living on other continents during the same era.
Widely recognized as a founder of conservation biology, he also has contributed to the preservation of endangered species by identifying what makes some animal populations more vulnerable to extinction than others. He has done extensive field research on the ecology and evolution of birds in New Guinea and neighboring islands.
Diamond's talk is designated as the Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture and is part of the University's Public Lectures Series . It will be Webcast; for viewing information, visit WebMedia .
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With the Sneak Preview wave and Bo Shek assortment hitting stores across the US, collectors are reporting all kinds of experiences, some lucky and others not. But one thing a lot of fans have in common is that they are posting in the forums and chat sites their positions on different strategies, experiences, and ethics in collecting. They range from new people just coming into the hobby, to seasoned veterans of the 12-back era. With the issues being brought up right now amounting to some very hot topics, SirStevesGuide brings you part 1 of our polls in the Collector Etiquette Series to see how naughty or nice you think you ought to be when it comes to the big bounty hunt!
With that in mind, our first question is:
Why don't you get your toys at 7 or 8 am in the morning?
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Each week during Boardwalk Empire, hunched over our laptops and hazy with HBO schwag wine, there comes a point when we look up and exclaim "Wait, is that Leighton Meester?" Or "What's Robert Pattinson doing on HBO" After four episodes, we've basically come to the conclusion that everyone on Boardwalk is the poor man's version of somebody else. And that's without even getting into the Steve Buscemi/Christopher Walken thing.
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Engel 15 Qt. Portable Fridge-Freezer
The new Engel 16 Qt. Portable Fridge/Freezer (MD14F) replaces the older MRFD-015 model. It features a new quieter, more efficient and longer life compressor with a new taller lid. The lid has a convenient top opening access door and is an ideal, compact and portable freezing unit capable of freezing almost anything. This unit can be taken anywhere over your shoulder! - all you need is 12 Volt power. With a converter it can also run off household 110 Volt supply. As a refrigerator it can hold a steady interior temperature. They are great for people on the move - all you need is a 12 Volt power supply from your vehicles battery as it simply plugs into the accessory socket. Great for boaters, campers, medical personnel or for someone who needs to keep their medication refrigerated.
- Model: MD14FEngel Portable Fridge/Freezer - 15 Qt.
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By Tiernan Ray
Shares of Equinix (EQIX) are down $27.12, or 12.5%, at $189.26, after the company this afternoon reported Q1 revenue and earnings per share that missed analysts' expectations, offered a Q2 revenue view below consensus, and projected revenue for the full year in line with expectations.
Revenue in the three months ended in March rose 17%, year over year, to $519.5 million, yielding EPS of 71 cents.
Analysts had been modeling $521.7 million and 78 cents per share.
Equinix generated $84.2 million in cash from operations, and spent $75.7 million on capital investments, it said. Cash and investments at quarter's end rose to $1.2 billion from $546.5 million, in part because of issuance of $1.5 billion in senior notes during the quarter.
Gross margin in the quarter was 50%, down from 51% in the prior quarter and the year-earlier quarter.
CEO Steve Smith remarked, "This quarter we saw record bookings in Cloud as service providers expand their services to meet the changing needs of enterprises who are deploying hybrid cloud architectures across Platform Equinix."
For the current quarter, the company sees revenue in a range of $530 million to $534 million, below the Street consensus of $543 million.
For the full year, Equinix sees revenue above $2.2 billion, in line with the average estimate of analysts.


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Spoleto has had Charleston buzzing with excitement for weeks, and those who attended the packed opening performance of the much anticipated Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo or the gorgeous Opening Night Fete will agree that this year's festival is off to a spectacular start.
Internationally renown all-male dance troupe Les Ballets Trockadero was founded in 1974 to present a comical perspective on traditional, classical ballet. The dance parody has taken audiences around the globe by storm, in large part because the humor and tongue-in-cheek performance is executed by inspired, devoted dancers at the pinnacle of their craft. Charleston was no exception, and the TROCKS received a standing ovation for their stunning performance.
After the final curtain call, the party-goers made their way to the Opening Night Fete in the gardens of the Spoleto Festival USA headquarters to celebrate under the stars. Guests were directed into the beautiful space by guides in ballet costumes, where they were welcomed with refreshing cocktails, decadent morsels, and live music.
The beautiful interlocking gardens had been transformed into a truly magical space, but it was the dance floor drew the most attention by the end of the night. Trockadero dancers, including Charleston native Robert Carter, joined the party and everyone hit the dance floor. Charlestonians and the TROCKS twirled, spun, and busted a move side by side in the warm Lowcountry night, making the Fete truly a sight to be seen and - more importantly - a night to be remembered.


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Raspberry Pi, episode 1
I got a Raspberry Pi for Christmas. I've been meaning to get one for some time, because I wanted to play with home automation (x10) stuff again. So here we go.
I'd rather not mess with getting usb/serial stuff working again. That was a pain. So I'm going to get a CM19a instead and see if I can get that working.
Should be fun.
So far, I have the Rasberry Pi booted, and I've got some basic stuff installed on it. It's running Debian 6 (Raspbian) and I've got a 4G card in it, which, so far, looks like it's going to be plenty.


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6.1: Fraction Rounding to the Nearest Half
Have you ever measured something? Was the measurement perfect or was it too small?
Well, if you were working on a construction site, you would be doing a lot of measuring so rounding up or down if things weren't perfect would be very important. These part measurements are also fractions, just like you have learned about in other Concepts.
Think about how you would round: three - fourths, one - sixth or five - tenths as you work through this Concept.
In this Concept, you will learn how to round a fraction to the nearest half.
We use fractions in everyday life all the time. Remember that when we talk about a fraction, we are talking about a part of a whole. Often times, we need to use an exact fraction, but sometimes, we can use an estimate. If you think back to our earlier work on estimation, you will remember that an estimate is an approximate value that makes sense or is reasonable given the problem.
What fraction does this picture represent?
If we wanted to be exact about this fraction, we could say that there are shaded boxes. However, it might be simpler to say that about half of the boxes are shaded.
We call this rounding to the nearest half.
How do we round to the nearest half?
To round a fraction to the nearest half, we need to think in terms of halves. We often think in terms of wholes, so this is definitely a change in our thinking. There are three main values to round to when we round a fraction to the nearest half.
The first is zero. We can think of 0 as , or zero halves. The second value is , or one half. The third value is 1, which can be thought of as , or two halves. When rounding to the nearest half, we round the fraction to whichever half the fraction is closest to on the number line 0, , or 1. If a fraction is equally close to two different halves, we round the fraction up.
To figure out which value five-sixths is closest to, we must first think in terms of sixths. Since the denominator is six, that means that the whole is divided into six parts. The fraction would be the value of zero, would be the value of , and is the same as 1. The fraction is closest to , so rounding to the nearest half would be rounding to 1.
Our answer is 1.
Try a few of these on your own. Round each fraction to the nearest half.
Example A
Solution: 0
Example B
Example C
Now let's go back and think about those measurements from the very beginning of the Concept.
Think about how you would round: three - fourths, one - sixth or five - tenths as you work through this Concept. We can round three - fourths to 1. We can round one - sixth down to 0. We can round five - tenths to one - half.
Here are the vocabulary words in this Concept.
- Fraction
- a part of a whole written with a fraction bar, a numerator and a denominator.
- Estimate
- to find an approximate answer that is reasonable and makes sense given the problem.
Guided Practice
Here is one for you to try on your own.
Jessica discovered that of a pan of brownies had been eaten. Is the amount of brownies left closer to one - half or one whole?
If of the pan had been eaten, then that means that of the pan had not been eaten. This is closer to one - half of the pan of brownies.
Video Review
Here are videos for review.
Estimating with fractions - This video is a secondary skill to rounding fractions. It involves estimating with fractions.
Directions: Round each fraction to the nearest half.
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I finally fixxed the plotter issue that I mentioned a while back. It turned out that the files missing were made by Microsoft, so the company that bought out CalComp (CalGraph I believe) is not allowed to re-distribute the drivers required for the files. PSCRIPT.DLL PSCRIPT.HLP PSCRPTUI.DLL were the files needed. Luckily I found a place on the web (via google search) that had those files and I was able to download them. It's said that these files are on a NT4 install cd however being tha tI only have 2K & XP, those files are not on that cd. I sent an email to CalGraph, but got a bounceback... I do not know if they are out of buisness as well. I'm somewhat dissappointed that this was that much hassle.
I just now realized I haven't type anything here in a few days. I remember thinking about it yesterday, but shortly thereafter went unconcious due to lack of sleep. My birthday is in a few days (01/22)... It seems this year that it came by much quicker than the years before. I still kinda feel like a kid, thinking "What am I gunna get?" and a 19?!?! It's 4:00PM, I gotta find an hours worth of work to do... I guess I'm gonna mozy on over somewhere and fix something.


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The NWTF has challenged any/all custom call makers to build a Vibrating Tongue Call and enter it in the 2014 Call Makers Competition at Nationals this year. The vibrating tongue call is a wood surface friction call that is run just like a pot call, you chalk the wood surface and use a striker to operate it, it has a 3 sided cut out tongue that you play on, and about 5" long, 2" wide, and an 1" deep. They are a simple, plain call, and discribed as a working man's or mountain man's call. The NWTF has challenged all call makers to test your woodworking skills and see what you can come up with?
I've never made a vibrating tongue call before, but have made a few wood surface pot calls, so I may have to give this challenge a try?


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beyondbrics wonders why Brazilian businesses produce so few leaders. The Bovespa stock index fell 1.1% today.
Mexico has no plans to limit the peso's strength, Bloomberg reported. Mexico's IPC stock index fell 1.3.
Chile will seed more clouds as the country enters the fourth year of a drought. The Santiago Stock Exchange IPSA Index rose 0.6%.
Russia said a tax on bank accounts in Cyprus would not threaten its banking system. Russia's Micex stock index dropped 0.3%
A weakening rand is adding to South Africa's problems, beyondbrics says. The FTSE/JSE Africa Top40 Tradeable Index fell 0.4%.
Emerging Market Stocks on the Move
Suntech Power Holdings (STP) appointed two new directors to its board, the company said after the close. Its shares fell 8.6% to 59 cents today, as it continues its slide following Friday's default.
Tata Motors (TTM) fell 3.1% to $26.08, a day after it said it would try to boost Africa sales by 30%.
Vipshop Holdings (VIPS) gained 5.8% to $28.69 two days after pricing 7.2 million American depository shares for offer.
Petrobras (PBR) said it would try to sell its Argentine assets as part of its divestment plan. Its shares fell 1.35% to $17.55.


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All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has added fuel to talk of his fiery relationship with Wallabies rival Robbie Deans, questioning whether Deans actually wanted the All Blacks job after the 2007 World Cup and claiming he wanted to be portrayed as "the martyr'' when he didn't get it.
Hansen and Deans, both former Crusaders coaches, have endured a difficult relationship which isn't likely to improve in the short term after the former's comments on The Weight of a Nation, a two-hour Sky documentary on the story behind the 2011 World Cup which screened last night.
"If you want my honest opinion, I don't think Robbie wanted it [the All Blacks job] anyway,'' Hansen said. "I think Robbie had already signed for Australia.
"I think he just went through the motions and wanted to be the martyr if he didn't get it, so he wins on both sides of the table. That's how I felt about it because you don't go to a [New Zealand Rugby Union] selection meeting and when asked, `Who are going to be your running mates?' - knowing that the opposition [Sir Graham Henry] has got two pretty good candidates [Hansen and Wayne Smith] behind him - with a wishy washy answer.
He did.
"And that's why he lost the job, from my understanding. So, did he really want the job?''


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The intention of this map is to give a quick overview for decision makers on national or sub-national level about the risk exposure of the road network to the inundation hazard zones 'high' and 'very high'.
The classification used here runs from yellow (few kilometers exposed) to red (many kilometers exposed). The class width of the yellow-to-red division has been chosen to facilitate the visual representation of the variability of values obtained in the assessment. White colored Municipios don't have surveyed roads exposed to flood prone zones 'high' or 'very high' or the inundation hazard is not relevant, either.
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Ruby L. Thomas
Black Earth/Cross Plains-Ruby L. Thomas, age 89, passed away on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. She was born on Aug. 3, 1923 in Beulah, N.D. the third child of Arvid and Clara (Johnson) Sevallius. Ruby was employed at Grabers until moving to LaCrosse in 1966 where she began working for LaCrosse Rubber Mills until her retirement. She enjoyed reading mysteries and loved the time spent with her family.
Survivors include 2 daughters; Sandra Wood and Darlene Holler; 6 grandchildren; Debbie (Gary) Danz, Scott (Kathy) Holler; Kimberly (John) Crook, Kurt (Tara) Holler, Brett (Kim) Holler, Jennifer (Troy) Smith; 13 great grandchildren.She was preceded in death by her daughter, Karen Wood, her grandson, James Holler, her sister, Sally Menunchow and 2 brothers, Herb Sevallius and Duane "Bud" Sevallius.
In honor of Ruby's wishes, no services will be held.
The family would like to extend a special thank you to the staffs at Heartland Country Village in Black Earth, Sylvan Crossing in Waunakee, and Agrace HospiceCare, Inc. for their loving care and also to Ruby's nieces and nephews for their kindness, time and laughter they shared with her. Memorials may be made to donor's choice.
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Studying in the US is... different from Germany. Then again, part of what confuses me could be a particular property of this university; I haven't had classes that lasted only 50 minutes but were scheduled three times a week since, well, the rough equivalent to high school (although, from what I've been told, high school doesn't quite cover the German Oberstufe, but that's only slightly related).
In many ways it could be argued that the United States are weird. Then again, I'm pretty sure that many people from here think the same of Europe, so let's change that to 'different' (think "bread", "butter", "coffee", "washing machines" and "stoves"; then again, they do have things like peanut butter and bottomless cups, so there are upsides as well as downsides). Getting used to people running around with weapons and the government being entitled to kill people is a bit strange, too, but at least they have recycling, bike lanes and a working bus system here (which doesn't really make up for that strange feeling, as I'll admit, but turns out to be more relevant to everyday life).
I'm still not sure what I'll do next, though. There are a couple of Ph.D. positions open here, and students from Darmstadt are rumored to have a pretty good chance at getting them. There are also one or two places I could go to back at home to do a similar program-- although what I'd really like to do would be to go to Edinburgh (to the semantics department), but I guess my chances there would be too close to zero to even deserve logarithmizing. Still, one can try...
pizza did some more work on the sound system recently; unfortunately, my laptop doesn't really do much in the way of sound (except for beeping... hmm... is there an ALSA driver for the PC beeper or something like that?), so I cannot comment on how much the situation has improved.
Meanwhile, I got two projects approved at university-- one to document and bugfix the FreeSCI parser, and one to get extended VM support up and running, for SCI01/SCI1/SCI1.1 and perhaps even SCI32 support (thanks to Prof. Gary Nutt). This should be fun-- working on my favorite FS project and getting graded for it...
People have argued that the academic world is a major contributor to the Free Software world, which I believe there is little doubt about. It's good to experience this first-hand.
Sister's 40th birthday today, and I can't be there (one ocean away). I guess I'll miss a lot of birthdays while I'm here, though.
Programming Languages
A course in programming languages reminded me of how horrible the favorite languages of choice of our oh-so-advanced Free Software community are. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that C, Perl, Python, and perhaps also C++ (and, to a lesser extent, Java) are the most popular picks out there; I've recommended some of them in the past and have come to the conclusion that the quality of these recommendations is debatable.
Sure, it can be (reasonably) argued that the size of the set of modules/libraries/classes available for a particular language (and the maturity of its elements) gives some indication regarding its practical usefulness, but ignoring key weaknesses in a language (such as a lack of type parameters aka parametric polymorphism (which is closely related to "generics" and "templates), static typing, limitation of side effects ("pure" programming style), data hiding or modularity) means that, even though lots of libraries may be available, they may be of poor inherent quality-- a great example for this is Java's lack of type parameters, which means that using container classes requires typecasts (most of the languages given above don't even have static typechecking), or the limited amount of optimizations possible in impure programming languages (since side effects can rarely be estimated in their entirety). Now I'm well aware that many of these things are difficult problems, and that (which is probably a much worse problem) UNIX and Linux are based around C, a C core set of libraries, a C-style dynamic linking mechanism etc., requiring other languages either to scale down (and thus raise the question of whether they do anything but add overhead in the first place) or to re-implement major parts of the library (which people will, in general, be even less enthusiastic about, since it would add even more overhead, unless these other people stop using C programs, which won't happen).
I guess the only alternative would be to make C the language using the wrappers. Although it would be preferrable to have a decent language to build on top of first...
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Library relaunches its Web site
Posted January 31, 2002; 12:02 a.m.
On Monday, Jan. 28, the University's library launched a redesigned version of its Web site .
The goal of this redesign project was a more intuitive, flexible, and attractive home page which would provide easier access to heavily used library resources (e-journals, databases, e-books) and services (request forms, interlibrary loans, librarian specialists). In addition, the tiered navigation across the site makes it easier to move from section to section efficiently.
The project took approximately eight months to develop and design, according to Marvin Bielawski, deputy university librarian. Bielawski co-chaired the effort along with Jane Bryan, the library's head of public services and collection development.
"The previous design was in place since 1997, so it was beginning to look a little dated," Bielawski said. "Also, with the old design, it was very difficult to change anything on the home page. We wanted a design that would allow us to make quick changes, since the electronic resources world is very dynamic."
For more information or to send feedback, contact Jane Bryan .
Contact: Marilyn Marks (609) 258-3601


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Colonel Glenn D. Frazier
"I grew up in South Alabama in the 1930′s. Looking at the world through the cotton and corn fields of Lowndes County, I could never have imagined that in just a few short years the entire world would be engulfed in war and that I would be caught in the middle of it. Where I lived, events in Europe and Asia, as menacing as they were, seemed light years away. I would soon discover that they were not so far away after all…"
So begins this powerful memoir by an Alabama boy who ran away to join the army at the age of 16 and six months later found himself in the doomed struggle to save Bataan from the Japanese advance. He was captured, marched north in the infamous Bataan Death march and spent the next three years struggling for his life in Japanese POW camps. Glenn Frazier is an American above all else, who catches us all up in his story and teaches the one lesson we all need to learn and relearn: our liberty is out most precious possession and worth the price we must pay to preserve it.
To buy the book Colonel Frazier's book, Hell's Guest, please visit the online store.


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Its not about if Sean Smith is worth it or overrated, as I agree he is not worth it and is overated. I dont like Sean Smith, but he is no doubt the best corner on our roster, with nobody able to step in and perform anywhere near to his level.
I love Randy Starks, but we have a player in Odrick who is a no.1 draft pick, playing out of position, who could slide in and replace immediately.
As i said, I would prefer Randy Starks over Sean Smith, but for the upcoming season, IMO, we will miss Sean Smith more than we would have Randy Starks.


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I heard that premiums in WI will possibly go up 80% next year. so much for prices going down. Just might have to start bartering for health care.
I heard that premiums in WI will possibly go up 80% next year. so much for prices going down. Just might have to start bartering for health care.
Is there anyone that believes that the "Affordable Healthcare Act" benefits anyone??
Is there any way to STOP this insanity??
Stan b & Elvis
This article is a pretty good overview of what problems there are with the ACA. I still wonder who the heck wrote this law. Whoever it was surely didn't know much about the healthcare business.
"Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none ever happened." -Libby Fudim
I don't use the PM feature, so just email me direct at the address shown above.
The medical device tax will also impact veterinary care ...
Earlier in the article, it was disputed whether many of the device mfrs would actually have increased usage ... when it comes to a lot of devices, they are provided for a large number of people already receiving Medicare, so there would be no appreciable increase in usage in the largest portion of their market.The tax will even be applied to sutures used on pets that Theragenics developed for the veterinary market.
She sought FDA approval to demonstrate the quality of her products. But now she said "it's hard for me not to get frosted on this one" -- she explained that whoever wrote the regulations said "if you have FDA approval, you will be taxed."
President Obama has vowed to veto any repeal of the tax, but Bayh notes that 79 votes in the Senate would be more than enough to override any veto.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...#ixzz2PQi5z93P
On that score, I begin to wonder, if those devices used heavily by Medicare participants, and with over $500 billion removed from Medicare to go to Obamacare, if Medicare will not increase their disbursement fee for those devices, that should definitely decrease the companies' profits. Obviously, the device tax was put in there to help offset the costs involved with Obamacare. If the smaller companies close, then there might be a scarcity of those devices for those who need them? Can those companies who survive choose to devote more of their products to ones that do not have to rely on Medicare's more restrictive reimbursement schedule? If so, would that also result in fewer of these devises, more often needed by the elderly, to become more and more scarce?
I'm sure there's quite a generous mark-up on these devices, but if it does cause companies to reduce their R&D budgets to compensate, then the end result could also be a negative one.
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More to be 'concerned' about, but then how could anyone not know this was going to be a scam? UB
The ObamaCare tax credit trap
By: John Hayward | April 2nd, 2013
Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi encouraged us to pass ObamaCare to find out what was in it. Here's the latest grisly surprise, courtesy of the Associated Press:
Millions of people who take advantage of government subsidies to help buy health insurance next year could get stung by surprise tax bills if they don't accurately project their income.
President Barack Obama's new health care law will offer subsidies to help people buy private health insurance on state-based exchanges, if they don't already get coverage through their employers. The subsidies are based on income. The lower your income, the bigger the subsidy.
But the government doesn't know how much money you're going to make next year. And when you apply for the subsidy, this fall, it won't even know how much you're making this year. So, unless you tell the government otherwise, it will rely on the best information it has: your 2012 tax return, filed this spring.
What happens if you or your spouse gets a raise and your family income goes up in 2014? You could end up with a bigger subsidy than you are entitled to. If that happens, the law says you have to pay back at least part of the money when you file your tax return in the spring of 2015.
That could result in smaller tax refunds or surprise tax bills for millions of middle-income families.
Funny, I seem to recall Barack Obama swearing that he'd never raise taxes on the Sainted Middle Class. Just wait until they get their surprise tax bills in 2015! I'm sure everyone will have a good laugh about the whole crazy situation.
Let's see if I've got this straight: when you fill out the 15-page form to apply for the subsidy needed to buy Barack Obama's ridiculously expensive health insurance, you've got to estimate what you're going to make in the coming year, and hope to God you don't get a raise, or find a more lucrative job. No, sorry, back up: you've got to estimate what you and your spouse will be making. If you get it wrong, or leave the ObamaCare commissars to estimate your subsidy based on last year's tax returns, you may well end up with a "surprise tax bill" to recover the subsidies you didn't deserve for the health insurance you can't really afford.
And you'll be spending those tax subsidies in "state exchanges" that most likely won't be ready when you need them, because the data processing infrastructure isn't there, and the Department of Health and Human Services is still frantically scribbling new regulations.
The 15-page ObamaCare form drafted by the IRS does not warn of the tax credit trap, but fear not, the Administration and its allies will be launching "a multi-million dollar campaign using social media, paid advertising, and grass-roots organizing" to educate us. Great! More millions wasted on this pile of ObamaCare garbage.
And none of the tax-hungry, regulation-happy Big Government geniuses who dreamed up ObamaCare saw this coming. Nobody saw this coming.
"That's scary," says Joan Baird of Springfield, Va. "I had no idea, and I work in health care."
Baird, a health care information management worker, is far from alone. Health care providers, advocates and tax experts say the vast majority of Americans know very little about the new health care law, let alone the kind of detailed information many will need to navigate its system of subsidies and penalties.
"They know it's out there," said Mark Cummings, who manages the H&R Block office where Baird was getting her own taxes done. "But in general, they don't know anything about it."
[...] "It's potentially going to come as a shock to individuals who meet that criteria where their income hits a point where they owe money back," said Rep. Charles Boustany, R-La., chairman of the House Ways and Means oversight subcommittee. "The fact is, with variations in income, people could end up owing money back and that will create consternation and problems for them."
How much money are we talking about? Of course, none of the clowns running the ObamaCare circus can answer that question with authority, but the AP tells us Congress has already raised the repayment caps by a cool $40 billion over the next decade.
$4 billion a year, taken straight from the hides of what used to be known as the "middle class." Congratulations, America. Bet you can't wait until the next "surprise" lunges from this fetid swamp of legislative failure and sinks its teeth into your throat.
When the one you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.
One of the most worrisome aspects is, I think, that people who have employer-health insurance available, will not be entitled to ANY subsidy at all. If they cannot afford the extra amount for their family coverage, millions of children will be without health insurance. And I really don't know if those children would qualify for the state CHIP programs either.
There may be a net increase in the numbers insured, but there will be others who are not insured. The irony may be that those who become insured will be heavily subsidized, while those who lose their coverage will be many who were intended to help support the overall program of subsidies.
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Hmm ... so the advisory board that has been the subject of some controversy, is unlikely to be in place when it's supposed to be. Then the job of approving or denying treatments will rest with Ms. Sebelius. That should be interesting. This was the entity that Palin called a "death panel".
Evidently, the members of this board have to be approved by Congress. The author of the piece seems to feel that the Ds aren't ready to start this conversation too close to the 2014 mid-term elections. He thinks it might even be kind of hard for them to find 15 people who want to be on such a board.
We may not get to find out if this law can work after all, since the Ds can't seem to even get it up and running to begin with. You may recall, they've also missed the deadline on the state exchanges; and the Federal exchange that is supposed to be set up if the states don't do so.
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Ran across this today- pretty scary stuff.
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OOh lazy day yesterday, involving hacking DP code to use externally linked CSS not style="" in tags.
Today, played with Xinit servers and php and had fun in #brits as usual, playing Banzai.
Updated anjuta packages entered sid today and also i got advocated.
Spent evening setting up new testnet for OPN and usual IRCOP style admin.


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Deeplinks Blog posts about Coders' Rights Project
This summer EFF unveiled the sixth limited edition member's t-shirt for the 23rd annual DEF CON, the premier world hacker conference in Las Vegas. This year's design, like the shirts we produced in 2013 and 2014, includes a puzzle that involves the use of encryption.
The front of this year's shirt features a long cipher text, displayed in a 1940s typeface:
Here's the string for those following along at home:
Each summer the Electronic Frontier Foundation joins tens of thousands of computer security professionals, academic researchers, tech tinkerers, and curious onlookers at a series of bleeding-edge hacker conferences in Las Vegas. EFF has been a proud supporter of these communities since our founding twenty-five years ago, and we make a concerted effort to ensure that con-goers know that there is an active movement to protect digital freedom around the world. We renewed this commitment during the 2008 summer hacker events by launching the Coders' Rights Project to help programmers and developers navigate the murky laws* surrounding security research.
UPDATE: Judging will take place in the Contests and Events main hall at Bally's at 5 PM on Saturday, August 8, 2015.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is proud to present the DEF CON 23 Badge Hack Pageant (1337 skills required, swimsuit optional). Now is the time to bring out your sweetest hacks and sickest mods in a no-holds-barred battle for hardware supremacy. You are free to excel in practicality, absurdity, devastating good looks, or all three. Break out your hacker con badge collection and have at it. Our esteemed celebrity judges—badge legends 1057 and Joe "Kingpin" Grand—will decide the fate of contestants.
The path to victory is simple...
Noted eagle eye and EFF Investigative Researcher Dave Maass happened on an interesting item from earlier this week on FedBizOpps, the site for government agencies to post contracting opportunities. The Navy put up a solicitation explaining that the government wants "access to vulnerability intelligence, exploit reports and operational exploit binaries affecting widely used and relied upon commercial software," including Microsoft, Adobe, Android, Apple, "and all others." If that weren't clear enough, the solicitation explains that "the vendor shall provide the government with a proposed list of available vulnerabilities, 0-day or N-day (no older than 6 months old). . . .The government will select from the supplied list and direct development of exploit binaries."
On May 20, 2015, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published its proposed implementation of the December 2013 changes to the Wassenaar Arrangement. What follows is a long post, as we're quite troubled by the BIS proposal. In short, we're going to be submitting formal comments in response, and you should too.
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CLEARANCE - Alekhine in Europe and AsiaProduct Code: CB0006XX
This book features 619 non-tournament games of the legendary world champion, Alexander Alekhine. These games come from a variety of events, including simultaneous displays, exhibitions, blindfold play, blitz events, and correspondence games that Alekhine played between 1905-1945 in Europe and Asia. The games are very instructive and many of them have been deeply annotated by Alekhine himself, as well as Averbakh, Bogolyubov, Donaldson, Kmoch, Minev, Seirawan, Tartakover and others!
This book includes much more information that just games - It also includes rare photos, tournament results and historical information about the events.
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Mehilli receives St. Gallen Wings award
Posted June 19, 2006; 04:47 p.m.
Elidor Mehilli, a graduate student in history at Princeton, has received a St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award, which recognizes the top entries in an international essay competition on global issues.
The annual award is given by the International Students' Committee at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Mehilli was one of four winners from more than 1,000 entrants in this year's contest, which carried the theme of "Inspiring Europe." The winners shared the prize of 20,000 euros (approximately $25,000).
Mehilli was honored for his essay, "Europe, the Difficult Dream," which focuses on the European Union and the Balkans. He delivered a talk on his essay at the May 18-20 St. Gallen Symposium, an annual forum for debating issues of global concern.
Mehilli, a native of Tirana, Albania, is focusing on modern European history in his graduate studies at Princeton. His speech and essay are available on the symposium's Web site.


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The Cumberland hotel - Father's Day
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Genre: Fantasy
Number of pages: 375
What's the basic story line?
The Bliss family owns a magical bakery that uses an ancient Cookery Book full of secret family recipes. When the parents are called away, they leave the children in charge of the bakery. Only Rose, the 12-year-old daughter, is entrusted with the key to the book's hiding place, but her parents forbid her to use the magical recipes. During the parents' absence, an unexpected guest shows up. She is a glamorous and mysterious woman who tells the children she is their Aunt Lily. Rose and her siblings cannot resist the urge to impress Aunt Lily by trying out the magical recipes. When the children distribute Love Muffins and Cookies of Truth to the bakery customers, there are chaotic and hilarious results.
Are the characters believable?
The main characters, the four Bliss children, are portrayed realistically, particularly the main character, Rose. She is insecure about her looks, her abilities and whether or not her parents and siblings love her. In the course of the adventures during her parents' absence, Rose learns how special she is and how much her family loves her and depends upon her. Aunt Lily is also believable. She uses her charm, good looks and the right words to persuade people to do what she wants them to do. The other characters in the book are not as believable. They are like cartoons; their characters are quirky and exaggerated in humorous ways to make the book more entertaining.
On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being best), how would you rate this book?
I would rate this book a 9. The first two chapters before the parents leave are long and drawn out. The plot is clever and original. The children learn valuable lessons about family togetherness and secret-keeping. The book is laugh-out-loud funny and would make a great movie or chapter-by-chapter bedtime story.


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Medical Crisis Management in the Dental Office: A Hands-On Human Patient Simulation Model
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Shyam Prasad Aravindaksha, BDS, MDS, PGDMLS
Course Overview
As the population continues to age and the burden of chronic disease continues to increase, one important goal of dental education must be to sup- port a safe environment of care. Ultimately, this will result in decreased anxiety for dentists and better outcomes for patients.
Realistic simulation training in the management of medical emergencies for dental practitioners is an effective adjunct to traditional lecture style teaching and a favored method of learning. Human patient simulators are computer-driven, life-sized mannequins, programmed to respond to medical situations and procedures, giving health care professionals a chance to perform and learn in close-to-real-life scenarios. Simulators provide a risk-free environment that can be standardized and reviewed. Patient safety is one of the driving forces behind the use of human patient simulation. Given the importance of this subject, this mode of training has shown to benefit health care professional's immensely in managing medical emergencies and has shown to improve their confidence in managing crisis situations.
Having well-trained dental professionals in all aspects of patient management further improves the quality of care and safety of patients.
Course Objectives
At the completion of the course participants will be able to:
• Recognize the importance of an accurate medical history in preventing emergencies.
• Know basic interventive measures that can be taken for dental office emergency situations.
• Assemble an appropriate and complete medical emergency kit for the dental office.
• Correctly use the various items found in the medical emergency kit.
• Competently participate in mock emergency drills in your dental office.
• Recognize and appropriately render initial intervention for all acute medical emergencies.
• Understand basic treatment of the most likely medical emergencies.
• Simulate the diagnosis and treatment of emergencies on Human Patient Simulation Model (Sim Man)
University of Detroit Mercy Dental Corktown Campus, Detroit, MI
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM; Registration table opens a half hour before the course begins.
CDE Credits
7 hours (Lecture and Hands-On )
This is a limited attended course, so register early to reserve your seat.
Includes continental breakfast and lunch
Dentist - $275; Allied - $150
UDM Alumni: Dentists - $247.50; Allied -$135
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For your convenience you may register up until 3:00pm on the day prior to the start of the course with no additional charge. An additional non-refundable fee of $20 dollars per person, per course will be assessed to any registrations received after 3:00pm the day prior to a course or to any same day or walk in registrations.
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A full refund less $25 will be granted if notification of cancellation is received by the Institute for Advanced Continuing Dental Education office two weeks (14 or more days) prior to the start of the course. If a cancellation is received less than two weeks (13 or less days) prior to the start of this course, no refund will be granted. Refunds cannot be given for same day cancellations or no-shows.
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By Avi Salzman
For investors who have watched helplessly as homebuilder stocks climbed steadily over the past year, and stood by as Home Depot (HD) jumped 80%, there's still a way to buy into the housing recovery, says Goldman Sachs analyst Ryan Nash.
"Banks have significantly underperformed other sectors with leverage to housing, despite similar earnings upside. This makes bank stocks the last inexpensive way to play an improvement in the housing market."
Of course, saying banks have significantly underperformed other stocks ignores the fact that they've vastly outperformed most sectors of the economy this year. The KBW Bank Index (BKX) is up 30% this year, versus 16% for the S&P 500, and Nash acknowledges that the banks that are most dependent on housing are up 72%. Nash argues, however, that looking back to the start of 2011, banks with large exposure to housing have trailed the market, falling 7% versus 15% upside for the S&P 500.
Improvements in housing will lower banks' charge-offs and credit expenses, giving a "large" boost to EPS: "We conducted a scenario analysis where house prices increase 5% more than our current forecast of 2%. The historical relationship suggests this could result in a 50% reduction in residential charge-offs and credit expense along with a 5% increase in residential loan growth." Banks like Wells Fargo (WFC) will also benefit as residential loans pick up.
Of course, not every bank would get the same boost — the median bank would see a 12% boost to 2013 EPS if house prices increase 5% more than Nash's estimates of 2% growth.
"[W]e see the potential for +10% upside to 2013 EPS estimates, with the most leverage at Regions Financial (RF), Citigroup (C), Bank of America (BAC), Wells Fargo, SunTrust (STI) and Everbank Financial (EVER)."


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"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke
Iowa State, obviously. Great winters and great tradition
Genesis 27:3 Now then, get your weapons--your quiver and bow--and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me.
TAMU will be good, but it'll take a few years to get a solid recruiting base there. We get a lot of those prospects at LSU, and we're gonna lose a lot now since TAMU can coerce them to stay in state and still play in the SEC.
GO Cocks! Go Cocks!
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We get a frighteningly large amount of athletes (in all sports) from Texas at LSU. I'm a first year at LSU Law now, and was here all through undergrad as well. The requirements that UT Austin puts on its incoming freshmen are insane. It's something crazy...like only the top 10% of graduating seniors are even considered to admission into UT Austin. So, a lot of those athletes that can't get into UT Austin come over here to LSU. Now, TAMU has an awesome recruiting pitch. "Come to TAMU, where you can stay in state and still play in the SEC!" = mucho prospects. They're gonna leech from Oklahoma and Oklahoma State too. This will also free up a lot of their endowment used for athletic scholarships, because they're not having to cover the cost of out of state tuition. I think TAMU is gonna be pretty scary in 5-6 years. Until then though, God help them hah. Especially with LSU being their "rivalry game."
"This is for everybody in this city who's had homes that used to be wet," he said after receiving the NFC championship trophy. "This is for the city of New Orleans." -Sean Payton
I'm still questionable on how good the teams will do in the SEC. I mean Arkansas moved into the SEC in the early 90's and still have yet to win a sec championship. They have been competitive every few years or so.
If TAMU or Mizz. want to be competitive they better embrace that it's a defensive league and focus on tightening up that aspect of their game. I do look forward to watching them play, it's always good to get new members with different style play. I think is was good moves for the teams and the SEC.


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