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2/19/08 – The ZT Systems Affinity 7402Ti is probably one of the least expensive desktop PCs on the market to feature the Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 quad core processor. This is a very good CPU choice for those looking to use their system with multithreaded applications such as Adobe's products or for those who just multitask heavily. The 2GB of PC2-5300 DDR2 memory should let it run without much issue even with the Vista operating system.
The Affinity 7402Ti is fairly unique for a mainstream system with its storage. The system uses two hard drives which would normally be used for extra capacity. Instead, ZT Systems has taken the two 320GB hard drives and put them into a RAID 1 array that mirrors that data between drives. This decreases the storage capacity down to a 320GB, but provides data security in case a drive fails. This is great for those who don't necessarily need extra storage space but what a level of protection from data loss. A standard dual layer DVD burner handles CD and DVD recording and playback.
Graphics wise, the Affinity 7402Ti is on par with most systems in this category. It comes equipped with an NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT graphics card with a fairly large 512MB memory. This lets it perform 3D graphics alright, but it lacks much of the performance that those looking to use the system for gaming might want.
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Tennessee students made great gains on test scores this past year, indicating that somebody is doing something right in education reform in the state. But the gains cannot be attributed to the Common Core curriculum, which is still in the process of being implemented.
Anyone who suggests that Common Core is responsible is either misinformed or lying.
To what, then, can we attribute the improvement?
I was an early advocate of value-added testing. I went over to the University of Tennessee campus and spent time with Bill Sanders, the architect of the state testing program. This was before he took the program to Nashville and convinced Gov. Ned McWherter to implement it.
Up until that time, you might look at ACT scores at a suburban school and then at a rural school and assume that the suburban school had better teachers. But Sanders argued that you couldn't judge teachers on factors over which they had no control. If you teach in a school with upper-income kids with educated parents and access to technology, your students may outscore students in an inner-city school or a rural school where students don't have those advantages.
With value-added testing, you discover how much a student learned from one year to the next. Teachers were measured on their ability to improve student learning. You might have a teacher in an upper-income school whose students score fairly well on an ACT test, but you might discover that the students could have done even better if the teacher were better. You might also discover a teacher in a low-income school who has students making great gains because of his dedication and ability.
The basic flaw in the testing program Tennessee implemented over 20 years ago is that the scores could not be used to evaluate teachers. Administrators theoretically could identify teachers whose scores were consistently low and then encourage them to improve.
It was finally under Gov. Phil Bredesen that things changed. The scores became up to one-third of a teacher's evaluation. Since then the scores in Tennessee have climbed steadily.
But the basis of the program, and what makes it work, is that it has to be fair. Evaluations have to be done with scores of students that a teacher actually teaches.
What I hear from teachers is that they are being evaluated on criteria over which they have no control—the scores for the entire school, for instance. Or they teach courses that are not tested. Or they are evaluated by people who come to their class to rate them but who do not teach their subject.
No one can tell you exactly what makes a good teacher. If someone could, education would be simple. To the casual observer, you might have a classroom that appears to be total chaos, but learning is taking place. You might observe a classroom where students are so quiet you can hear a pin drop, but they might be bored out of their skulls.
Value-added testing gives you objective numbers about whether students are learning. Make sure you look at scores over at least a three-year period to be fair. But you get a good indication of whether they are doing their job effectively.
I'm told that, under the new regime, a value-added component will remain. I certainly hope so. I am also told that the Legislature is going to take a hard look at the evaluation process and make sure that evaluations are fair and that they are based on things that teachers can control. Who can be against that?
There are people on both sides of the Common Core argument whom I respect. I haven't made up my mind. But I do know that what we are doing now is working. We should keep that in mind going forward.
In the meantime, we should tell Michelle Rhee's group, which gave us a "C" rating for our schools, to take her rating and stick it where the sun don't shine.
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Comment: Re:Illegal? (Score 1) 192
It is wonderful that someone took the time to have him recognized. So many times people don't take the time to do things like this.
Regarding contracting out:
I was a boom operator in the Air Force (inflight refueling specialist). In my free time, I wrote an aircraft weight and balance calculation application in basic that ran on desktop PCs (which were brand spanking new at the time). We had been filling a form out (called a Form-F) by hand using numbers looked up in charts. It took about 20 minutes to fill this form out. The Air Force had contracted out the creation of an app that ran in an HP programmable calculator to do this same task. It took about 5 minutes to fill the form out using the calculator. My program could generate this form in about 2 minutes. And my program was also more accurate (and it printed on a full page instead of 2" wide thermal paper). After I wrote my app, nobody used the calculator to generate the Form-F unless they filling it out on the airplane.
I was already out of the Air Force at the time. But a buddy of mine who took on maintaining the program I wrote said it was used to 'load plan' every KC-135 flight in the first gulf war. Not bad for a program that I could not even get certified (if you used it on a check ride you would have actually failed the check ride, even though the result was actually more accurate).
I certainly never got a medal for my app. It did get me Airman of the Quarter at our base. But, the real reward was that it worked and that people loved it. The fact that it worked better than the contracted solution was icing on the cake. I think this guy's story is great.
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You'd be in a pickle.
Comment: Re:How would it infringe? (Score 1) 264
Defending is typically more expensive then brining a suit
Brining a suit would actually be pretty cheap.
A bucket of water, a few cups of salt, a few cups of sugar. I'd probably leave it overnight.
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Comment: Re:We aren't stupid... (Score 4, Funny) 105
We have heard your concerns and being the responsible and responsive agency that we are, we have revised our proposal. Companies like Netflix can now pay companies like Comcast to degrade data delivery for everyone else. See, we've completely reversed course. Thank you for expressing your concern. See what a difference you can make when you stay informed and involved?
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Wife's car
Two teenage drivers share a car.
3 cars. Not atypical here.
(Plus, I never thought I was speaking for the majority of car owners)
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Every time I get in the car with the key it goes something like this:
Sit down
Reach for start button
Curse under my breath
Dig through pocket for key
Start vehicle with key.
I'd love to be done with mechanical keys.
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The kayak's multi-colored patchwork design looks like it would appeal to Colin Baker's version of "Doctor Who." The boat consists of 28 parts printed using ABS plastic. The materials to produce the nearly 17-foot-long kayak with a 6mm-thick hull cost around $500, according to Smith. The whole contraption weighs nearly 65 pounds, which is pretty much in line with the weight of a regular kayak.
The individual sections are held together with metal bolts and sealed with silicone so it won't go all Titanic and sink. The internal structure features a series of ribs to help strengthen the design. The unusual creation is water-worthy, with photographic and video evidence to prove it.
The 3D printer that spit out the kayak is as impressive as the vessel itself. The custom-built gadget builds parts on a large scale and uses a heated chamber to prevent warping and cracking. Smith has been fine-tuning the printer, based on his own design, since 2008.
One of the advantages of printing your own kayak, besides owning a one-of-kind piece of floating art, is that it can be customized to your height and weight. Smith did exactly that. It was a time-consuming project, but it's also a sneak peek at the possible future of 3D printers in the home. It might not be too long before we're all churning out custom kayaks, or even 3D-printed cars."
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Are jihadists dying for a fiction? Everything you thought you knew about Islam is about to change.
It is a question that few have thought—or dared—to ask. Virtually everyone, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, takes for granted that the prophet of Islam lived and led in seventh-century Arabia.
But this widely accepted story begins to crumble on close examination, as Robert Spencer shows in his eye-opening new book.
In his blockbuster bestseller The Truth about Muhammad, Spencer revealed the shocking contents of the earliest Islamic biographical material about the prophet of Islam. Now, in Did Muhammad Exist?, he uncovers that material's surprisingly shaky historical foundations. Spencer meticulously examines historical records, archaeological findings, and pioneering new scholarship to reconstruct what we can know about Muhammad, the Qur'an, and the early days of Islam. The evidence he presents challenges the most fundamental assumptions about Islam's origins.
Did Muhammad Exist? reveals:
- How the earliest biographical material about Muhammad dates from at least 125 years after his reported death
- How six decades passed before the Arabian conquerors—or the people they conquered—even mentioned Muhammad, the Qur'an, or Islam
- The startling evidence that the Qur'an was constructed from existing materials—including pre-Islamic Christian texts
- How even Muslim scholars acknowledge that countless reports of Muhammad's deeds were fabricated
- Why a famous mosque inscription may refer not to Muhammad but, astonishingly, to Jesus
- How the oldest records referring to a man named Muhammad bear little resemblance to the now-standard Islamic account of the life of the prophet
- The many indications that Arabian leaders fashioned Islam for political reasons
Far from an anti-Islamic polemic, Did Muhammad Exist? is a sober but unflinching look at the origins of one of the world's major religions. While Judaism and Christianity have been subjected to searching historical criticism for more than two centuries, Islam has never received the same treatment on any significant scale.
The real story of Muhammad and early Islam has long remained in the shadows. Robert Spencer brings it into the light at long last.
Democrats have gotten too clever for themselves in battling voter ID. Requiring people to show the same ID to vote that they must show to buy cigarettes or beer somehow disenfranchises them according to those great super-duper thinkers on the Left. It's comical. And the
British Canadian business wire service, Reuters, bought into the liberal line so much that it inadvertently makes Barack Obama seem like one big crook.
From Reuters: "The new laws – many of which include measures requiring voters to show a photo ID at the polls — could carve into Obama's potential support in Florida, Ohio and a few other politically divided states likely to be crucial in the November 6 election, analysts say. The analysts note that massive registration drives in 2008 helped put millions of people aged 18 to 29 on voting rolls, and that age group — which makes up roughly one-quarter of the U.S. electorate — helped propel Obama to victory, voting 2-to-1 for him. Rock the Vote, a nationwide organization that mobilizes young voters, said the new laws would make it more difficult for the group to educate people on how to sign up to vote."
Might I suggest that if you are too ignorant to figure out how to sign up to vote, you really are not intelligent enough to vote? Getting a driver's license is much more difficult.
Cheat Sheet: To Wal-Mart's Mexican bribery scandal
Finally: Instagram joins the fight against thinspo
When Roosevelt was adopted from a rescue shelter, he had limited mobility due to two deformed front legs. New owner Stephanie didn't want her Border Collie's herding instincts to go unfulfilled, so she jury-rigged a wheelchair that lets Roosevelt run everywhere.
"The only difference between Roosevelt and other dogs is that instead of a collar I snap on his wheels to take him out. … People think he should have been put down because they think he's suffering," she said. "But he wakes up happy every day. If you had a child with a disability you'd try to enrich them, give them opportunities. So why not do the same with a dog?"
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This is just freaking devastating to Al 'Fat Ass' Gore and the global warming fear mongers.
(MSNBC) — James Lovelock, the maverick scientist who became a guru to the environmental movement with his "Gaia" theory of the Earth as a single organism, has admitted to being "alarmist" about climate change and says other environmental commentators, such as Al Gore, were too.
Lovelock, 92, is writing a new book in which he will say climate change is still happening, but not as quickly as he once feared.
He previously painted some of the direst visions of the effects of climate change. In 2006, in an article in the U.K.'s Independent newspaper, he wrote that "before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable."
However, the professor admitted in a telephone interview with msnbc.com that he now thinks he had been "extrapolating too far."
The new book, due to be published next year, will be the third in a trilogy, following his earlier works, "Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back — and How We Can Still Save Humanity," and "The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning: Enjoy It While You Can." [...]
"The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now," he said.
"The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time. . . it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising — carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that," he added.
He pointed to Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" and Tim Flannery's "The Weather Makers" as other examples of "alarmist" forecasts of the future.
This is another asshole that needs to be removed from office toot suite!
Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich comments on House floor:
"CAIR is a nationwide, nonprofit organization whose mission is to "enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding." For the past ten years, CAIR Ohio has played an instrumental role in helping to bridge the divides between Greater Cleveland's diverse communities.
CAIR Ohio's Tenth Annual Banquet will provide a platform for vibrant discourse led by this year's distinguished speakers: Mr. Faisal Kutty, of Valparaiso University School of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University and KSM Law and Imam Abu Farah of the American Muslim Youth Leadership Council and CAIR-Tampa. I commend these speakers for their efforts to promote civil liberties and social justice.
Mr. Speaker and colleagues, please join me in recognizing the Council on American-Islamic Relations Ohio Chapter for their tenth years of outstanding achievement. May their efforts to promote dialogue and create a more inclusive world continue to endure."
Stupid aint it? Union boss making so damn much, but mad at CEOs for making so damn much.I can actually almost agree with him!
In an email announcing the new AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch website, the leader of the nation's largest union organization encourages members to fight excessive executive salaries. But in doing so, he risks training fire on his own impressive pay package.
In a recent email to union "e-Activists," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka encourages union members to visit the site, calling it "your one-stop shop for the most recent information on out-of-control CEO pay and what you can do to stop it."
Trying to stir union members into protesting the disparity between the wages of CEO's and the worker's they manage, Trumka's email said, "Runaway CEO pay isn't just bad for our economy, it's bad for the morale of working families, too. [...]
As President of the union, Trumka makes over eight times as much as the average American worker.
In 2011, Trumka earned $293,750.
According to the recent email from Trumka's desk, the average American worker makes about $34,000 a year.
These aerial pics are works of art.
Paul Cadden's pencil drawings are so good you can't tell they're not photos.
The House begins debate on CISPA on Tuesday.
KONY2012?s inspired weekend activists defaced a monument to the Boston Massacre. Find this bastards and send them to North Korea at once!
The EPA used to battle pollution, but now it's just playing politics.
State Dept. refuses to support Israeli participation in NATO summit
Ehud Barak: We're not playing games when we prepare for a possible strike at Iran
Why was this idiot ever elected?
The Hill reports:
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) waded into an old partisan debate Monday when he wrote that skeptics of the 2010 healthcare law might simply not have the right facts. ??"I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit," the first-term senator wrote in The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead.
A study by Medicare trustee and conservative economist Charles Blahous reignited the debate over the law's total cost in early April when it concluded that the law would add at least $340 billion to the deficit.
The study by [Blahous] contradicted estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which estimated initially that the law would cut the deficit by about $132 billion.
Curiously, there is no mention in the Hill article about the CBO's recently revised numbers (see link above) from last month that increased the projected 10-year cost of Obamacare from $900 billion to $1.76 trillion and had it adding $7.6 trillion to the deficit over that period of time.
College Students Sign Petition To "Redistribute" GPAs, But Some Are Too "Greedy" To Lower Their Grades For Others… Would you?
Via Young America's Foundation
First day of trial, John Edwards called "master manipulator"
How bad is the economy? — More Mexicans returning home, fewer coming to U.S.
Obamas Grew Concerned About Personal Finances: "their lifestyle had grown fearsomely expensive"
And yet Obama and the Democrats use any GOP attempt at reforming both Medicare and Social Security as opportunities to kick the fear mongering into overdrive.
Via Philip Klein:
Medicare and Social Security, the nation's two largest programs, have long-term deficits of $63.3 trillion, according to annual reports from the programs' trustees released today. The reports underscore the dire need to reform the programs if the nation wants to avert a fiscal crisis.
Though most news reports will focus on the trust fund exhaustion date (2024 for Medicare and 2033 for Social Security) the reality is that the trust fund is a farce. The Social Security program is financed primarily by payroll taxes. When the amount of tax revenue collected exceeds benefits, the surplus is theoretically put in the trust fund. But in reality, the federal government uses that surplus to finance ongoing government operations, and puts a stack of bonds — or IOUs — in the funds instead. Ultimately, the money to fund Social Security and Medicare has to come from American taxpayers one way or another, regardless of whether there's a paper "surplus" in the trust funds. A better way to assess the actual budgetary impact of the programs is to look at the deficits they are projected to run. And according to the trustees' reports, they're going to run deficits as far as the eye can see.
Ted Nugent, the Motor City Madman, engaged in hyperbole when discussing President Obama. Eminem and Common said some horrible things about President Bush. So why did the Nuge get a visit from the Secret Service, but not Eminem or Common? Hear what Zo thinks as he explains the double standard that allows liberals to engage in aggressive speech, but not conservatives.
What does Canadian electronics retailer Future Shop have to do with the Best Buy-CAIR funding controversy?
Perhaps there's more 'Islam' than meets the eye in Best Buy's recent decision to become a Platinum Supporter of Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated, Hamas-linked CAIR? Not to mention its refusal to address angry customer complaints about it.
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I'm coninced Amy flies to Seattle Washington and get spookafied. I went through this during daylight, just before dusk with my kids and I was scared. They use portable bed tables, and props from their lab classes. Well at least from what I recall. Info below: HauntedTrailsBU.org.
Bastyr University's annual "Haunted Trails" event is returning for another year of spooky fun! Hosted in the forest behind Bastyr University's Kenmore campus for two consecutive Fridays and Saturdays (Oct. 18-19 and 25-26), the event, now in its 15th year, is one of the Eastside's longest-running and biggest fright fests. It includes enjoyable activities for teenagers and adults, as well as trick-or-treating and a carnival for younger children – and is all for a good cause, as proceeds benefit student study-abroad programs.
Events for ages 8 and older (7-11 p.m.):
Haunted Trails: Complete with ghosts, ghouls and goblins, the Haunted Trails tour through the forest offers frights and delights around every corner. Enter if you dare!
Hades Labyrinth: With ghouls and monsters haunting all who enter, participants must find their way through a 2,400-square-foot maze of misty tunnels or be lost forever in the underworld.
Cemetery Hill: Is there anything creepier than a foggy cemetery at night? Yes — a foggy cemetery at night, filled with the living dead!
Circus of Horrors: Evil clowns make for a nightmarish experience under the big top.
Mummy's Tomb: It's cool to see mummies of the past…until they arise.
Cost: $20 per person for all five events. Major credit cards accepted. Tickets are available for purchase at the event or at HauntedTrailsBU.org. Ticket sales and check-in begin at 6:30 pm. The event is rain or shine and all ticket sales are final.
Please note: A limited number of tickets are sold each night.
Amy should come to Dark Stalkers in Austin, TX ~ held at the House of Torment haunted house.
The pitch-black walk-through attraction takes daring souls through a terrifying journey to find their way out of more than 20,000 square feet of total darkness with only a single glow stick. Daunting monsters equipped with night vision technology lurk in every dark corner to take guests through a mind-blowing, psychological and emotional spiral as these characters of the shadows chase their unwelcomed visitors in endless circles and even steal their glow stick.
I think Amy needs to come to Houston, Texas to get SCARED at the most scariest haunted woods/house EVER! Phobia! She was so halarious Friday 10th.


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Niagara Gazette — Today, I begin my 28th season in this space. It's hard to believe really. I recall my very first column, written long before the home computer. I composed an 800-word text on pages of yellow lined legal paper with no spell-check support. If I didn't like the way something that I wrote translated, I'd start all over again. It was tedious and when I finally completed a copy that I felt worthy of turning into my editor, I had to get into my car to hand-deliver my work downtown and hope that the typist could read my writing.
Thankfully, the writing process is so much easier today. I have all of the factual information that I require at my fingertips via the internet. I have a word processor to assist with grammar and spelling mishaps. And when I finalize my weekly composition, I can get it into my editor's hands in seconds via email.
For those unfamiliar with this weekly column, it is devoted to the great game of golf. I give tips on improving all aspects of your game, candid opinions about controversial topics, and I shed light on the rules of the game. I like to hear from my readers and I often do. If you have a question or comment about this splendid sport, please feel free to drop me an email at the address given below. I promise to answer every question that I receive.
I look forward to spending the summer with you.
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Tianlang Guan, 14-years old, did something on the PGA tour this season that Graeme McDowell, Webb Simpson, Louie Oosthuizen, Paddy Harrington, Tom Watson, Hunter Mahan, Ian Woosnam, and Ben Crenshaw could not do.
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Eagles QB Michael Vick misses Wednesday's practice, Week 11 status uncertain
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Eagles quarterback Michael Vick did not practice [2] on Wednesday but has not been officially ruled out of Sunday's game against the Redskins.
Vick suffered a concussion in the second quarter of a 38-23 loss to Cowboys this past Sunday and his availability this week is uncertain.
ESPN reports [3] that a source has said backup Nick Foles will, in fact, make the start on Sunday, but the team has not confirmed.
Foles, a rookie, took first-team snaps at Wednesday's practice and would make his first career start if Vick has to miss the game.
Foles was 22-of-32 for 219 yards with a touchdown and an interception after replacing Vick. The Eagles couldn't muster a win, though, and dropped their fifth straight game.
Eagles coach Andy Reid offered little insight into Vick's condition but said he was resting.
"Michael's in a good place," Reid said. "He's hurting a little bit from the concussion, but he's in a good place. I haven't tried to overburden him right now."
The Eagles and Redskins are tied for last place in the NFC East.
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Spring and summer are great times of year to explore a wide variety of fresh greens. Salads are popular any time, but how about being adventurous and trying some leafy greens you might not be as familiar with?
Leafy green vegetables are nutrient rich because leaves contain the light-catching, energy-converting machinery of plants. Salad greens contain Vitamin A, Vitamin C, beta-carotene, calcium, folate, fiber and phytonutrients. Leafy vegetables are a good choice for a healthy diet because they do not contain cholesterol and are naturally low in calories and sodium. Many of the health benefits come from phytonutrients, unique compounds that protects the plants. These compounds are recognized as part of a nutritious diet that promotes long-term health. The phytonutrients act as antioxidants, which can help prevent chronic diseases such as cancer and heart disease.
Iceberg lettuce is still the most widely available and most popular type of lettuce. It tends to last longer in the refrigerator than other types of lettuce and adds a good crunch to your salad bowl. But iceberg has fewer nutrients compared to other types of lettuce and leafy greens, so your body will thank you for adding darker greens to the mix. A darker color indicates a more nutritious choice.
Here are some tasty greens that you might want to try on your next salad or sandwich:
• Watercress has a spicy flavor and is good in salads and on sandwiches. Choose green leaves without any yellow areas or slippery stems.
• Radicchio has maroon or purple leaves with white veins that form into a loosely wrapped cabbage-like head. Its flavor is bittersweet.
• Baby bok choy has a crunchy, celery-like texture and a milk flavor.
• Arugula has a peppery flavor. Choose young, fresh leaves.
• Red leaf lettuce is similar to romaine lettuce, but is higher in antioxidants and offers color and interest to a salad.


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Get Involved: Beck's Green Box Projectby Hannah Van Den Bergh
at Cardiff University 20th October 2011 23:35:31
Ever picked up a Beck's beer and caught yourself mid-thought wondering aghast at the artistic creativity behind the signature green glass bottle? Ever sloshed back the remnants of Beck's nectar and reminisced the art heritage of the brand that's shaped many an unexpected student soiree?
Well now's your chance to do more than just push back in your recliner with a cold beer from the fridge and delve into the brand's unique packaging, for the culture ambassadors with 25 years of art history under their belt have launched their biggest project yet: The 2011 Beck's Green Box Project.
This sensory spectacle juxtaposes the digital world with reality, pushing technology to new boundaries in the namesake of art. Taking full advantage of the developments of smart phones and tablets, Beck's, with the help of an ever-expanding collection of artists, have used their technology and portability to layer an augmented reality on top of the world we inhabit. And it's currently residing in thirty cities across the globe.
By simply downloading the free 'Beck's Key' Application from iTunes or Android Market means you can start your global inspection of the sights simply waiting to be discovered by an appreciative art lover like yourself.
Upon finding a green box, you can launch the app and lock-in your screen, be it smart phone or tablet, onto the pin code displayed. Within each box is kept an artist's imagination. Snapping the pin code sets that creativity free, leaking image and sound into your conceptual reality and projecting a work of art, design, music or fashion onto the screen, except this new technology means that it's in living time.
You can even take a photo to show your mum.
Two "real life Willy Wonkas," blurring the "lines between the culinary and art worlds in a brilliant sense of English wonderment," Bombas & Parr's imagination has been captured in a green box somewhere, waiting for you to find it. After studying the works of Antonin Careme, the "King of chefs and chef to the Kings," these surrealist jelly connoisseurs have taken their food art from the stages of London Fashion Week and the Barbican art gallery, to architectural new heights.
Bompas & Parr_US from Beck's Green Box Project on Vimeo.
The selection of works waiting to be found spans genres and tastes. A second piece commissioned is by musicians The Horrors, whose "dark psychedelic 60s-inspired garage rock" has been combined with the graphic successes of Ciaran O'Shea to create an other-worldly sensation. A tribute to the Whitney brothers, who are often "considered the forefathers of computer animation" were a big inspiration in the creation of this organic visual object accompanied by a five minute immersion of "woozy" guitar waves and "kaleidoscopic harmonies".
The Horrors_US from Beck's Green Box Project on Vimeo.
The Horrors mention that they "wanted the piece to be something you could explore. We encourage people to wear headphones and to really lose themselves in this alternate world".
And commissioning 1000 projects over the next three years, Beck's Green Box's Keyholders are looking for your unique creative vision and independent talents in art, design, music and fashion to display to the visual public.
With submissions from the likes of Arne Quinze, Bijules and Widows, your name could be next on the list in the city of your hometown.
The application form for submissions requires you to fill out a form and write a short description of your proposal. You can attach up to five additional pieces to "bring your idea to life," be it sketches or demos. Lastly, the Keyholders, who have the final decision on all projects commissioned, want you to create a short video at Vimeo describing your idea and why you'd like Green Box's funding.
"Selected projects are brought to life as per the artist's original vision, unfiltered and unedited."
The Keyholders, Nick Knight and Sam Spiegel represent total opposites.
Nick Knight, a fashion photographer with award winning visuals and campaigns for the likes of Vogue, Alexander McQueen, Calvin Klein and Lady Gaga has recently founded SHOWstudio.com. Knight endorses Green Box, saying "anything that gives people a voice and allows them to speak - which is really what art is - is a good thing" and that this dreadful period economically is causing everyone to suffer, let alone stifling the way that artists express themselves.
Sam Spiegel, aka. Squeak E. Clean, is a grammy nominated producer, DJ an composer, who produced the Yeah Yeah Yeah's sophomore record and is embarking on his own music project, Nasa, with DJ Zegon. After finding joy in the freedom to make exactly what he wants to make, Spiegel hopes the Green Box project will help create a network and form a community of artists evoking an evolution in the way we experience reality.
"I really like bringing pieces together that people wouldn't expect," Spiegel mentions. And his individual style and sound, that have made him known in the industry is enough to give this man's voice resonance. "It's going to be a new medium and people are going to have really crazy ideas."
So the next time you relax with a Beck's beer, let your creativity take hold and think of where in the world your imagination could be unleashed.
"It's always refreshing to do something different. Even just playing music for someone else," The Horrors.
"Beck's Green Box Project" from Beck's Green Box Project on Vimeo.


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Joe Simon
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Ken Locke is coming home.
Well, technically, he never left — but he's really back now.
Locke was hired as the Laurel High boys basketball coach last night by the Laurel School Board. The vote was 9-0 for Locke, who takes over after nine-year coach and current Laurel athletic director Mike Tinstman was not retained after the 2011-12 season. He will be paid $4,500.
Locke, an assistant coach at Neshannock High for the past 12 years, is a 1995 Laurel graduate who still lives in the Laurel district. He hopes to rebuild the Spartans, who are coming off seasons of 2-20 in 2011-2012 and 5-16 in 2010-11.
The position is the only one that could pull Locke, 35, away from Neshannock, he said.
"I was always very happy where I was at," Locke said. "The coaching staff, the administration, the teachers, everything was great at Neshannock, and it was a very tough decision to leave. But, I'm from Laurel. I live in Laurel, and I've always wanted to be a head coach, and to have a chance to go back to your alma mater was hard to pass up. I wouldn't have left for any other place."
Now that he's back, he has his work cut out for him. Laurel only has reached the playoffs twice in the past decade and didn't record a win in WPIAL Section 2-AA last season.
Locke said he's up for the challenge, partly because of the passion he has to coach at his alma mater and also because of the experience and knowledge he acquired at Neshannock, where he worked under former Lancers coach Jim Smiley, who's now at Sharpsville, for eight years and current Neshannock coach John Corey during the past four seasons.
"(Smiley) showed me some different fundamentals and a lot about preparation — the way he prepared for teams and the way he broke down game film, he really picked them apart," Locke said. "(Corey) always had a great relationship with the kids. The way he interacts with them and the way he presents himself as a figure, he does a great job with that. He went over a lot of fundamentals and I just continued to learn from him. After learning from those two, I feel like I'm ready for today."
Now comes the hard part: Changing the culture of a team with recent struggles.
Locke is confident the Spartans can turn things around, mainly because of the talent in the school. He's heard about the football and baseball teams competing for WPIAL titles, and he's seen the athleticism of their basketball team firsthand, so he knows the physical skills are there. It's his job to make sure they believe a basketball revival is possible.
"The main thing is getting them excited for basketball," he said. "I watched some of their game film — I wanted to see what I was getting into and what I might have coming back — and they have good athletes playing basketball, but they weren't necessarily good basketball players. So we need to get them in the gym and show them some more fundamentals. We need to get them excited about basketball. I don't know if that's easy, but I'm up for the challenge."
Locke, an account executive at Medical Source, got a taste of what it's like to be a head coach this year when Corey suffered a stroke and was out nearly a month. Locke took over and went 3-1 during Corey's absence. The experience gave Locke some reassurance.
"This year helped me prepare more as a head coach because I kind of got thrown into the fire," he said. "I had an opportunity, not under the greatest circumstances with John getting sick, but those three weeks of preparing and running the team, it was a great experience. That gave me a little extra confidence."
Hopefully his confidence is contagious because it's one of the key ingredients his Spartans need, he said.
"I don't know if they had the confidence level they needed at times (last year)," Locke said. "Winning breeds confidence. We're going to have to learn how to win."
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This update will only be available for T-MOBILE HTC One S customers and will be sent to the device over the air. You can check for this update by going to All Apps > Settings > About > Software updates > Check Now
Note: You must be connected to WiFi in order to download this update.
As an alternative solution, the system update can be downloaded to a PC and manually applied to the device. See the section titled "Manual system upgrade instructions" at the bottom of the page for more information.
This system update includes:
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Ashley joined the Ole Miss Athletics Foundation in February of 2013 as Assistant Director of Development for Annual Giving. Winning is responsible for supporting the annual giving program and assisting in the Forward Together campaign.
Winning joined Ole Miss from Southeastern Louisiana University where she served as the Director of Development, Athletics. In that role, she oversaw annual gifts, major gifts, priority seating and donor relations.
A native of Austin, Texas, Winning earned her Bachelor of Arts and Master's in Sports Management from LSU and served as a Graduate Assistant in Game/Event Management in the LSU Athletics Department until she was promoted to Special Events and Community Relations Coordinator. In that role, Winning oversaw the LSU National L Club and coordinated athletic alumni relations and athletic department functions.


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Delmar Baptist Church is hosting a one-mile Walk for Water to raise money to build a deepwater well for a village in Malawi, Africa. To demonstrate the effort the people of Malawi must take to access water daily, walkers will carry gallon jugs of water as they complete a one-mile loop from the church property at 1001 Municipal Center Drive in Town & Country, MO to Clayton Road and back. The founder of Watering Malawi, Colleen Burroughs will be leading the walk and will be the guest speaker in worship at 10:45 a.m. that morning.
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A year ago, St. James native Brian Christiansen ran the Mankato Marathon 10K race and finished second. On Sunday he ran again and finished first going away.
"I wanted to come back and try to win it this year," Christiansen said. "I've been doing some shorter races like some 4 and 5Ks and I was pretty confident coming in."
Most of Sunday's race was competed with temperatures in the 45 to 50-degree range amid partly cloudy but dry weather. It made for excellent running conditions.
"The 10K is a nice distance for me; I really like it," Christiansen said. "The temperature was perfect today."
Christiansen, 22, also ran competitively at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa. His goal Sunday was to better his time from last year and to stay with the lead pack at the start of the race.
"I clocked myself at 33:37, which is about a minute-and-a-half faster than I ran last year," said the distance man, who was sporting his old school St. James running tank top. "I was trying to run faster as the race progressed."
Christiansen said he started getting some separation between the 2 and 3-mile mark and then just let it out down the stretch.
He still lives in Storm Lake where he is finishing up his degree in elementary education. He knows exactly what he wants to do upon graduation.
"I want to be a teacher and a coach," he said. "That would be my dream job.
Former Mankato East cross country standout Ryan Erdman, 19, was the second overall finisher with a time of 34:45. Morcelli Kombo, 18, of St. Cloud finished third among men in 35:27.
Tom Woo, 53, of Rochester finished fourth (37:29) and former Mankatoan Dave Lyon, 50, of Schofield, Wis., was fifth (37:51).
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Nearly 5,000 runners competed in Sunday's Mankato Marathon, half marathon and 10K races.
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From the Publisher"A stimulating evaluation of Montessori philosophy and practice, exploring some of the basic principles in relation to modern scientific research. . . . In particular, anyone wanting to take a detailed and critical look at Montessori education would surely benefit from reading this book."— Montessori International
"Angeline Lillard may have changed the rules of engagement for debates on educational reform."— Dennis Schapiro, Editor, The Public Montessorian
"Dr. Angeline Stoll Lillard has clearly summarized the research that explains why, after 100 years, the Montessori approach to education continues to be a phenomenal worldwide success."— Tim Seldin, President, The Montessori Foundation, and Chair, The International Montessori Council
"Lillard provides a visionary framework for those currently working to advance Montessori education and those committed to furthering school reform initiatives. This is an illuminating, thoughtful, and extremely important book. "— Richard A. Ungerer, Executive Director, American Montessori Society
"This is a great book. It is beautifully written, and expertly uses the psychological research literature to evaluate Montessori theory and practice. What an original and important contribution."— Carol Dweck, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University and author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
"Lillard has masterfully explored the basic tenets of Montessori education and how they are validated with todays scientific findings. The result is a long-awaited and important contribution that contrasts with traditional education and offers evidence in support of a method that works. A stunning achievement!"—Virginia McHugh Goodwin, Executive Director, Association Montessori Internationale, USA


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The Network Block Device
Steps in Setting Up an NBD-Based File System
The five steps required to create a file system mounted on a network remote device are outlined in Figure 4. For example, the following sequence of commands creates an approximately 160MB file on a local file system on the server, then launches the server to serve from it on port 1077. Steps 1 and 2 are
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/remote bs=1024 count 16000 nbd-server 1077 /mnt/remote
On the client side, the driver module must be loaded into the kernel, and the client daemon started. The client daemon needs the server machine address (192.168.1.2), port number and the name of the special device file that will be the NBD. In the original driver, this is called /dev/nd0. Step 3 is
insmod nbd.o nbd=client 192.168.1.2 1077 /dev/nd0A file system can then be created on the NBD, and the system mounted locally with Steps 4 and 5:
mke2fs /dev/nd0 mount -text2 /dev/nd0 /mntIn our current drivers, multiple ports and addresses are allowed, causing redundant connections to be initiated. Here, the server offers several ports instead of one:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/remote bs=1024 count=16000 nbd-server 1077 1078 1079 1080 /mnt/remoteThe current client can use all these ports to the server, and here we direct two of them to a second IP (192.168.2.2) on the server so that we can route through a second network card on both machines and thus double the available bandwidth through our switched network.
insmod nbd.o nbd-client 192.168.1.2 1077 1078 192.168.2.2 1079 1080 /dev/ndaIn the current drivers, the NBD presents itself as a partitioned block device nda, although the "partitions" are not used in a standard way. Their device files nda1, nda2 and so on are used as kernel communication channels by the subordinate client daemons. They provide the redundancy and increased bandwidth in the device. The whole-device file nda is the only one that accepts the standard block-device operations.
On insertion of the kernel module, the driver registers with the kernel. As the client daemon connects for the first time to its server counterpart, the original driver hands the file descriptor of the socket to the kernel . Kernel traces the descriptor back to the internal kernel socket structure and registers the memory address in its own internal structures for subsequent use. Our current drivers keep the networking in user space and do not register the socket.
The client daemons and server daemons then perform a handshake routine. No other setup is required, but the handshake may establish an SSL channel in the current generation of drivers, which requires SSL certificates and requests to be set up beforehand.
Pavel's original driver code comprised two major threads within the kernel. The "client" thread belongs to the client daemon. The daemon's job is to initiate the network connection with the server daemon on the remote machine, and hand down to the kernel via an ioctl call the socket it has opened. The client daemon then sits blocked user-side in an ioctl call while its thread of execution continues forevermore within the kernel. It loops continuously transferring data across the network socket from within the kernel. Terminating the daemon requires terminating the socket too, or the client daemon will remain stuck in the loop inside the kernel ioctl.
A "kernel" thread enters the driver sporadically as a result of pressures on the local machine. Imagine that echo hello >! /dev/nd0 is executed (the block-device names for the original driver are nd0-127, and they take major number 43). The echo process will enter the kernel through the block device layers, culminating in a call to the registered block-device request handler for a write to the device. The kernel handler for NBD is the function nbd_request. Like all block-device request handlers, nbd_request performs a continuous loop while(req = CURRENT), CURRENT being the kernel macro that expands to the address of the write request struct. After treating the request, the driver moves the pointer on with CURRENT = CURRENT->next and loops.
The kernel thread's task is to do the following:
Link the request req = CURRENT to the front of the pending transfer list.
Embed a unique identifier and emit a copy across the network to the server daemon at the other side of the network socket.
The unique identifier is the memory address of the request req. It is unique only while the request has not yet been serviced, but that is good enough. (When the driver used to crash through the mysterious corruption we were never able to pin down, the crash was often associated with duplicated entries and a consequently circular list, which may be a clue.)
On the other side of the network, the server daemon receives a write request, writes "hello" to its local resource, and transmits an acknowledgement to the client containing the unique identifier of the request.
The client daemon thread on the local machine is in its loop, blocked inside the kernel on a read from the socket, waiting for data to appear. Its task is now to do the following:
Recognize the unique identifier in the acknowledgement, comparing it with the oldest (last) element req in the linked list of partially completed requests.
Unlink the request req from the list of incompletes, and tell the block layers to discard the structure via a call to end_request.
This protocol requires that the acknowledgement received be for the request pending on the tail of the driver's internal list, while new requests from the kernel are added to the head. TCP can guarantee this because of the sequential nature of the TCP stream. Even a single missed packet will break the current driver, but it will also mean the TCP socket is broken. The socket will return an error in this situation. That error message allows the driver to disengage gracefully.
Kernel networking vs. user-space networking in an NBD. User-space networking requires an extra copy and other overheads, but affords much greater flexibility. The overhead can be offset by transferring multiple requests at a time.
The client-side control flow in the original kernel driver is shown schematically on the left side of Figure 4. The black rectangle represents a request. It is linked into the device's request queue by a kernel thread and is then swept up in the client daemon's perpetual loop within the kernel. The client thread performs networking within the kernel. In the drivers we have subsequently developed, we have come to favour user-side networking, in which the client thread deals user-side with a copy of the request transferred from within the kernel. It dives repeatedly into the kernel to copy across the data, then transmits it in standard network code. The overheads are much greater, but the flexibility is also much greater. The overhead can be ameliorated by transferring multiple requests across at a time, and our current drivers do this. Normally, 10 to 20 requests of one block each will be transferred in each visit to the kernel. The cost of copying between kernel and user space cannot, however, be avoided. Multiple client daemons contend for the kernel requests as the clients become free, transferring them across the network through possibly distinct routes and physical devices. The situation is depicted in Figure 4. Each client daemon handles one channel, but will mediate any request. The channels provide redundancy, resilience and bandwidth.
Multiple client daemons capture kernel requests in the current NBD drivers, providing redundancy and load balancing through demand multiplexing across several distinct network channels.
The complete data protocol sequence "on the wire" is shown in Table 3. Note that the unique ID is 64-bit, so it may use the request's memory address as the identifier on a 64-bit architecture. Curiously, the requested data offset and length are 32-bit byte offsets in the original driver, although they are calculated from sector numbers (sectors are 512 bits each) which might well have been used instead. This is a hidden 32-bit limitation in the original NBD. Our versions implement 64-bit limits on a 32-bit file system or machine architecture. The server daemon has been modified to multiplex requests beyond 32 bits among several distinct resource files or devices.
throughput and availability
Sorry, got thrown off by those dd 's. Reading the summary, it is clear: you actually mount /mnt/remote, it doesn't matter whatever it is. But then, loks like you need to know the filesystem, when you mount it on /nd0 on the client!
throughput and availability
"so that we can route through a second network card on both machines and thus double the available bandwidth through our switched network."
Only if you are limited by the throughput of your NIC (say your network card is an old 10MBit/sec and your network can do 100MBit or better; otherwise "switched" means switched: you wait on one another, and what you gain is just this synchronization overhead.
The other thing that may be missing: how do you "publish" a partition you already have? I did not get it: the "remote" resource has to be dedicated only to the NBD, or can it be still available locally on the server? In other words, say, can I "publish" the /home directory ? Does it have to be a standalone partition then? or may I just publish some part of it, like through NFS or samba?
hi!!!I hope i can learn more
hi!!!I hope i can learn more about operating system..
The NBD document is really
The NBD document is really good.
But I have some doubts. Can you help me in understanding ,how NBD is different from iSCSI device?
Which will be better for performance NBD or iSCSI?
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Rising Star Games has announced that they will be releasing Deadly Premonition as a downloadable title on Xbox Live's Games on Demand service.
The curious psychological horror title has courted a lot of controversy by dividing critical opinion essentially becoming the 'Marmite' of the games industry, with reviewers either lavishing it with praise and perfect review scores or panning it as one of the worst games of the current generation.
Rising Star's Martin Defries said: "Deadly Premonition is a quirky and unique title we are proud to have published. We knew there was an audience for the title and we delivered them the game they wanted. Now Deadly Premonition is on Games on Demand it will give even more people a chance to marvel at this completely individual title and decide for themselves what they think of the most controversial title of 2010."
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Fresno County sheriff's deputies are searching for a pickup truck with the rear window shot out after a homeowner confronted a vehicle thief southwest of Fresno Wednesday morning. The thief, a wanted parolee, might be wounded.
The confrontation happened about 7 a.m. at Valentine and Central avenues, sheriff's spokesman Chris Curtice said. Authorities later identified the suspect as Randy Lee Grill, 28, of Fresno. Grill should be armed and dangerous, Curtice said. There is a felony warrant on Grill for vehicle theft.
Curtice said the homeowner interrupted the theft of a white Chevrolet Silverado Z-71. The suspect pointed a handgun at the homeowner, who then got his own weapon and fired at least one round as the crook fled in the truck, shattering the window.
Curtice said it's believed that Grill earlier burglarized a business in the 3000 block of West Kearney Boulevard, then collided on Valentine Avenue with the driver of another pickup truck, who followed the suspect.
Grill then drove south to Beran Way, where he jumped out of a stolen Dodge pickup truck and may have fired several gunshots before running south on Valentine Avenue and stealing the Silverado, Curtice said.
The sheriff's office is also investigating a hit-and-run crash in central Fresno on Wednesday afternoon that they believe could have been caused by Grill. The hit-and-run was reported around 12:35 p.m. on the McKinley Avenue on-ramp to northbound Highway 41, said California Highway Patrol spokesman Axel Reyes. No more details were available Wednesday afternoon.
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"We are digging out of a hole," said Mavs coach Rick Carlisle, a truth as Dallas entered Sunday, and the second half of the NBA schedule, with a 17-24 record. But the Mavs exited Orlando with a 111-105 victory, a win that suggests that while this team remains flawed, it is at least armed with a shovel and a pickax. A few days ago, the Mavericks were 10 games below .500 for the first time since the 1999-2000 season. The outlook was dismal enough to fuel speculation as to whether it might be advantageous for the team to "tank" -- to play not to win, but to find away to increase its lottery position in this summer's NBA Draft. That's an easy approach for fans and media to take ... but a difficult one to spring on the actual partipants, who see themselves as a team that is 1-8 this season in OT games, a team that in all 10 January games leading up to Sunday owned a lead in the fourth quarter but won just half of those games. And now, after a fifth win in six outings? "It's been tough the first 41 (games)," said Carlisle, breaking his usual one-game-at-a-time mantra. "We're three back, we're in the hunt for the playoffs. That's going to be our motivation." This game did not follow the blueprint -- except for the fact that it marks Dallas' seventh straight win at Orlando. Shawn Marion was required to be a scorer; he had 20 points. Elton Brand's hot streak continued with his 14 points. O.J. Mayo and Vince Carter scored 15 apiece and Dirk Nowitzki did a little bit of everything (12 points, seven rebounds, four assists, three blocks and critical late free throws) to seal the deal. And maybe most importantly, Darren Collison was allowed to be a finisher; the starting point guard remained in the game late and hit a key 3-pointer with 31 seconds remaining. "That was the biggest play in the game," Carlisle said. In this seesaw affair, the Mavericks trailed at the start of the game by 14 and led in the fourth quarter by 13. That's notable because this is a team that this year has struggled to finish. Dallas is 1-8 in OT games and has led in the fourth quarter in all 11 January games but is just 6-5 in those games. Glen Davis led Orlando (14-26) with 24 points. Jameer Nelson had 20 and J. J. Reddick -- who Dallas too frequently lost while on defense -- scored 18. It was a late Reddick 3 that kept Orlando alive, and then Nelson snuck behind Carter to force a jumpball to keep it close. Oddly, Carter -- who towers over Nelson -- was not really contested on the jump but nevertheless tipped it backwards, towards the Orlando end of the floor. Fortunately it was Nowitzki on the receiving end. He was fouled and made the two free throws to ice it. The Mavericks now have a four-day break from game action before hosting division-leader San Antonio on Friday. The team is taking Monday off. "It's going to be good," Marion said, "to sit on this win for four days." And then it'll be back to digging out of that hole, back to swinging those shovels and those pickaxes.
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Students from around the globe visit Milpitas each year through the Lions Club International Youth Exchange Program.
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Tindall family: We thought it would be a great experience as a family to host a student from another country. Shelby's classmate's mom, Marie Leon, mentioned the program to us last year and we immediately signed up to host. We would love to host again, but it all depends on what's going on at the time.
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If baseball tested everyone evenly, and throughout the season instead of "random" LOL testing and only at the beginning, then you could say to only exclude those who test positive. For instance, if you're HUGE, and the Yankees scoop you up just to smack HRs for them, I think that could be evidence of PEDs.
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What huge player did the Red Sox acquire to hit homeruns for them? I bet anyone on this board can name plenty for the Yankees.
U mean like Vaughn, Garciaparra, Manny, Ortiz, Stanley, Wily Mo, Hinske, Jeremi Giambi, Javy Lopez, Kapler, Lowell, AGon, Ross, & Napoli?
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