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Chevrolet who created the SUV class, today announced that its global vehicle portfolio, a brand-new small SUV (sport-terrain vehicle) model announced Trax'ı added. SUV on the world-class SUV, which has an important place in the market by means of an expert Chevrolet Trax Chevrolet's new small SUV model will take place in Paris Motor Show in September 2012 and will be showcased for the first time officially introduced around the world. Chevrolet Trax with a five-passenger capacity and large luggage space, will appeal to customers in more than 140 markets.
Chevrolet Trax, completely renovated Cruze Chevrolet Malibu and the long-awaited family car (station wagon) goes on sale in 2012 and then in Europe, Chevrolet dealers will be sold at the spring of 2013. Exhibited new Chevrolet models for sale in showrooms in Europe in the coming years represent exciting opportunities for the further growth of the company.
GM's Vice President of Product Development Mary Barra in relation to the new model said; "Trax, Chevrolet offers the opportunity for the input of growing small SUV category. Trax, cities around the world crawlers flexibility, excellent fuel economy and car-like user experience. 2011 reached record levels in sales and record the results obtained in the first quarter, Chevrolet consumers by adding new models to meet the needs and strong product portfolio continues to expand. "
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This is for those of you NOT going. I actually MIGHT have a corporate trip lined up in a luxury box, but baring those circumstances, I will be breaking in my new gameroom. Almost completed, by the way. We will probably have a big cookout, beer - of course - and a lot of friends over. As much as I love going to the game, this will be the first season in my house, and I want to do it up right.
So what are you doing for the game?

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We all know you've had ample basketball coverage this weekend, but you can only read so much about Penn's basketball struggles at Princeton. So what about the members of the Red and Blue? For recaps of Penn's other squads, look no further than this week's edition of Weekend Wrap.
Women's squash
The women's squash team hadn't seen live action for six weeks before taking the court this weekend. Matched up against the top-ranked Harvard Crimson squad, the Quakers fell 6-3. On Sunday, the ladies defeated Dartmouth, 9-0, and were led in large part by freshman Yan Xin.
Penn women's squash splits weekend slate
Men's squash Hosting Harvard on Saturday, the Quakers struggled mightily and ultimately were swept by the Crimson. After falling 9-0 the day before, the Red and Blue managed to win only once on Sunday, and fell to Dartmouth 8-1. Though the long holiday layoff may be to blame, Penn will need better performances from its No.1 and No. 2 positions if it hopes to improve its Ivy League record.
Penn men's squash falls twice to Ivy foes
Ranked No. 20, the Quakers hoped to begin 2013 on a high note. Against Iowa State, though, Penn fell for the second time this season, 23-9. The Quakers had won four consecutive matches, and senior Mark Rappo helped the team take an early lead against the Cyclones. Nevertheless, Rappo's teammates couldn't sustain the momentum, and now sit at 4-2 on the season.
No. 20 Quakers outwrestled by underrated Cyclones
At the Lindsey Ferris Invitational at George Washington University in Washington D.C., the Quakers posted the team's highest score ever at the tournament. With a score of 189.575, Penn passed its previous record point total at the invitational, a score of 189.025 set last year. Still, the Quakers finished a disappointing fourth at the Invitational, even after a strong performance by senior Dana Bonincontri. The team will head to Rutgers University next weekend to take on the Scarlet Knights, Bridgeport and Ursinus.
Penn's gymnasts inconsistent in season debut
Track & Field
At the New York Road Runners' College Night at the Armory in New York on Saturday, the Quakers track and field team continued its momentum from the early season. Aided by strong performances from sophomore sprinter Tom Timmins, freshman Tim Hamlett and senior Allante Keels, Penn finished second out of 14 teams. Timmins, Hamlett and Keels all qualified for for the IC4A Championships. The trio, along with freshman Brandon Senior, won the 4 X 400m relay to conclude the night.
Penn track & field picks up the pace
Women's basketball
Against Princeton in its Ivy League opener, the women's basketball team was demolished by the Tigers, falling 77-47. While the Tigers are favorites to win the conference title this season, Penn failed to challenge its opponent from the opening tip. After falling behind 17-2, the Quakers could not mount a comeback, and eventually dropped to 7-6 overall, 0-1 in the Ivy League.
Princeton blows out Penn women's basketball, 77-47
Both of Penn's swimming teams dove into Sheerr pool this weekend to face a pair of Ivy League opponents. While the women were able to take down Dartmouth on Saturday, the team fell to Yale 176-121. The men, on the other hand, dropped both matchups this weekend, losing to Dartmouth 124-176 and Yale 139-161. Both teams will travel to Providence next weekend to compete against Brown and Harvard in a tri-meet on Saturday.
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As we've worked our way through Brandon Knight's rookie season, the more hopeful among us have pointed to his promise, his much-ballyhooed intelligence and work ethic, and his youth and inexperience as reason to hope that he will show steady progress over the next few years and perhaps emerge at 25 at or near all-star level.
But do one-and-done players regularly exhibit this sort of growth? I found a way to create waaaayyyy too much time for what I had to spare and compiled stats for the 24 one-and-dones who entered the NBA from 2006 - 2009. Trying to upload a goddamned thing on Google Docs from Burma can (and, in this case, did) take hours, so y'all better appreciate the effort, however irrelevant and flawed it may be.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PWip7s19kTJlrA0XQVK7lef2rRW05sQD2lrTqeJFt9g/edit?pli=1As I sifted through the data, I created six categories of one-and-done players. They are as follows:
Born All-Stars--these guys hit the league at near the top and have only gotten better
They Blossomed--good players as rookies, who have become stars
Creepin' Up--these players haven't exploded, but the stats suggest that they've gotten better since their rookie seasons
What We Saw Is What We Got--these dudes aren't looking much different than they did during their first seasons. Sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes that's a bad thing
Slippery Slopin'--at least based on my limited understanding of the stats, these guys seem to be less effective players a few years down the road
Stagnant Non-Factors--They weren't good then; they ain't good now.
Before placing these 24 in their categories a couple of caveats:
1. I don't watch a lot of basketball and about 85% of my Pistons and NBA information comes from this site. I include stats like PER, Win Shares, and Offensive and Defensive Ratings without having any personal sense as to how valid or revealing they are.
2. My ratings are largely a reflection of the development of these players over times, as opposed to their inherent value. In other words, a one poor player who has become serviceable, like BJ Mullens, s Creepin' Up, while Tyreke Evans is Slippery Slopin'. This doesn't necessarily mean that Mullens is a better player than Evans. They key here is to look at to what degree one-and-doners tend to improve over time.
With that out of the way:
Born All-Stars (2)
Kevin Durant (2007)
Derick Rose (2008)
Not much to talk about here. Both were top picks who had really good rookie seasons. One has one an MVP and the other is in most top ten player lists. About the only thing worth mentioning is that I discovered that a quarter century ago, there was evidently an NBA player named Devin Durrant. I find that funny.
They He Blossomed (1)
Kevin Love (2008)
Sadly for those of us hoping to see BK add an assist a game and two percentage points of shooting accuracy while dramatically cutting his turnover rate, Love is the only example of a decent rookie who transformed himself into a star. His rebounding per 36 has remained stable, but he seems to do everything else much better. I don't know how valid the Defensive Rating stat is, but he's at a career best this year.
Creepin' Up (6)
Mike Conley (2007)
Spencer Hawes (2007)
DeAndre Jordan (2008)
Eric Gordon (2008)
Kosta Koufas (2008)
B.J. Mullens (2009)
Modest improvement over the next three to five seasons would seem to be the most that we would realistically hope for. Mullens didn't play much for two years (and was awful when he did), but seems to be useful this year. Jordan has probably shown the biggest jump here, but can't yet be called a blossomer. Hawes was essentially the same player for the first four years, but took a major jump this year until he was injured. Koufas had a surprisingly poor sophomore year, but has rebounded (figuratively) since.
Most relevant to our dreams of developing a good guard would be Gordon and Conley. Gordon has been hurt all year. Statistically, his first three seasons were similar enough, but there is a rise in PER and assists. If BK ends up not being a point guard, this might be his role model for growth.
Conley is a true point guard who has shown a consistent ability to improve. This is maybe how we might hope that BK can develop. He's not an All-Star, but a good point guard, it would seem. His assists are up, his FG% remarkably steady, and he gets to the line more than in his early years. He is the clear example of a point guard who has improved enough to have some hope for BK's future development.
What We Saw Is What We Got (8)
Thaddeus Young (2007)
Brandon Wright (2007)
Daequan Cook (2007)
Jarryd Bayless (2008)
Donte Greene (2008)
Anthony Randolph (2008)
Jrue Holiday (2009)
DeMar DeRozan (2009)
Remember, this isn't necessarily a bad category to be in. Thaddeus Young and Jrue Holiday are major parts of a division-leading Sixers team. Both could possibly be bumped up to Creepin' Up, but neither seems to have shown enough statistical improvement to quite warrant that. Holiday's stats are actually down across the board this year. Young suffered a dip in season three, but the past two have been much stronger. If he finishes this year like he's started it, he'd probably be Creepin'. Otherwise, none of these guys shows any signs of being significantly better than they ever were.
Slippery Slopin' (4)
Michael Beasley (2008)
O.J. Mayo (2008)
J.J. Hickson (2008)
Tyreke Evans (2009)
Evans went from Rookie of the Year to a disappointing second season; he's rebounded some, but still looks to be less than he was when he first arrived. Mayo is shooting more poorly and appears to be more of a mere rotation player. Hickson has gone from promising to terrible in Sacramento. Beasley...man, that has been one steep and greasy slope.
Stagnant Non-Factors (3)
Shawne Williams (2006)
Greg Oden (2007)
Javaris Crittendon (2007)
Williams is very bad. Oden is very injured. Crittendon was pretty bad and has had, um, some "issues".
Looking over these numbers, it would seem that those of us holding out for Brandon Knight to blossom into a star are likely to be disappointed. Out of the 22 players who weren't immediately elite NBA players, only Kevin Love has blossomed into one. More sobering is that of the 9 guards (not including immediate sensation Rose) on this list, seven are at best the same players they were as rookies, and Mike Conley is the only one to develop into an above-average point guard.
But, of course, Brandon Knight isn't a collection of comparisons or statistics. He may be one of the rare ones to truly break out. It may well be that missing his first pre-season camp has had a genuine effect on his play and that there is reason to hope for more growth. And perhaps his intelligence and work ethic will set him apart. But Brandon Knight ever getting anywhere near an All-Star game would be surprising, based on others who've been in his situation.
In the end, I'm surprised by these numbers. I had an instinctive sense that good, very young players would generally get better--often a lot better--with a little more experience. But this seems not to be the case. Over 60% of the One-and-Dones from these years are about what they were or worse and only one made a huge and unexpected jump.


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On Wednesday, when it came to light that the Peanut Corporation of America knowingly shipped salmonella-contaminated product, I wrote:
It's going to be interesting to see what criminal charges, if any, will be filed against company officials.
Today, an FDA official announced that the agency and the Justice Department have begun a criminal investigation. Link.


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English-language site doesn't want to compete with Twitter for U.S. users, but to capture ad dollars.
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China's Tencent, a multi-pronged Internet company, is trying to stay ahead of its rivals by moving into the U.S. market and offering new opportunities to overseas marketers. The Beijing-based company is rolling out an English-language version of its two-year-old Twitter-like Weibo service and is hiring a team in Silicon Valley to launch new games on Facebook.
Experts say the English-language Tencent Weibo isn't interested in competing with Twitter for U.S. users. Rather it wants to sell U.S. brands new avenues to tap the growing Chinese consumer base. "There is a far greater opportunity for Tencent in providing Western brands with access to the Chinese market than them investing heavily in Western adoption of their solutions," says Rick Williams, AKQA creative development director, based in London. The Tencent microblog has already signed up a sizable number of international brands, says Leo Chu, managing director of Tribal DDB Shanghai. Among the companies that advertise on Tencent's network of messaging, gaming, social media and web portals are Nike, Coca-Cola, KFC and Ford.
What exactly does the Tencent microblog have to offer Western marketers? Tencent claimed 50 million active Weibo users in Nov. 2011. Most are in China's fast-growing Tier 2 and 3 cities - large and mid-sized urban areas outside of major metropolitan areas. "To the majority of China's Internet users in second and third tier cities, Tencent IS the Internet," according to Chinese tech blog Techrice. Researchers at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, contend that lower tier cities in China are fertile territory for Western retailers.
But brands need to be wary. "Digital advertisers see less engagement on this platform [than other Chinese sites] because the majority of users have been transplanted from Tencent's QQ services," says Patrick Searle, former digital strategist at Wieden + Kennedy Shanghai. Indeed, Tencent "synchronizes" its Weibo members with its QQ messaging service, which has 700 million active users.
The Tencent Weibo also is limited in its ability to translate U.S. content into Chinese for brands wanting to converse with their Chinese audiences, says Williams. "The English version is only translating the site furniture and navigation," he says.
In addition, Chinese microblogs "have been known to incentive brands to join their platforms in return for more media space in the 'to follow' section," which is shown to users when they are signing on or do searches, says Searle. "It makes a lot of sense to promote your brand on these platforms but it's worth scrutinizing the numbers the media sites send your way," he warns. And finally, the Chinese government censors all China-based social media.
The Tencent Facebook games will probably be a mixed bag for ambitious U.S. marketers, since Facebook - like Twitter - is blocked in China. In China, brands are attracted to Tencent's games by its massive number of users and ability to drive participation, says Chu. He points to Clear Dandruff shampoo, which built a successful game incorporating product benefits and education. "Others have gone the route of placement in environments that make sense, such as a milk brand in a Farmville type game, " he says. Perhaps Facebook games will be just the beginning. By opening up an office in the U.S., "Tencent can now work on truly global games titles and deals which even Facebook can't compete against in terms of reach," says Williams.
In the meantime, Tencent's archrival Sina Weibo is waiting in the wings. Sina Weibo has an English language mobile app and partnerships with Flipboard and Instagram. It has promised to launch an English website this year. Already it has about 450,000 users in the U.S., most of whom use it to communicate with residents of China. Users include Ed Lee, the mayor of San Francisco with about 50,000 followers, and U.S. basketball sensation Jeremy Lin, with about 875,000 followers.
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The 6-1, 245-pound Franklin appeared in the final three contests of the 2012 regular season for Chicago, recording two special teams tackles. He spent the first six weeks of the 2013 season on the Bears practice squad.
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Amid a sea of blue police uniforms, the flag-draped coffin of Lt. Michael Pigott was carried out of the United Methodist Church of Islip Monday.
Bagpipers from the Emerald Society accompanied the scene, as an NYPD helicopter swooped low over Main Street.
The lieutenant from Sayville killed himself on his 46th birthday last
week, eight days after ordering an officer to use a Taser on a man who
wound up falling to his death.
The suicide stunned fellow cops, more than 2,000 of whom came to the church Monday to pay their respects.
During a Sept. 24 police standoff with a naked, emotionally disturbed
man, Pigott, a 21-year veteran officer serving with the elite Emergency
Service Unit, ordered the man be subdued with a Taser. The man, Iman
Morales, 35, fell from the ledge he was standing on 10 feet to the
ground -- striking his head on the pavement and dying.
Following the incident, Pigott was reassigned to NYPD Fleet Services in
Queens. Citing his failure to follow procedure, the NYPD stripped
Pigott of his gun and badge.
A few days later, Pigott told Newsday in an exclusive interview: "I am
truly sorry for what happened to Mr. Morales. I feel terrible about
what happened to the man." He added: "I've been a police officer for 21
years. And I loved being with the Emergency Service Unit."
On Thursday morning, Pigott, a father of three, broke into a locker at
the ESU facility at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, took another
officer's handgun and shot himself in the head.
"It's a horrible, horrible thing," NYPD Officer Kerryann Douglass said
before Monday's funeral. ""He was a great man. He was a cop's cop."
An hour before the funeral, two fire trucks were parked on each side of
Main Street, ladders extended about 40 feet into the air and meeting
halfway across.
A large American flag hung from the ladders in preparation for the funeral procession.
At his wake over the weekend, friends praised Pigott as a good cop, a good man, who made a decision that haunted him.
"It's a gut-wrenching situation," a New York City highway patrol
officer who declined to identify himself said down the block from the
church Monday morning. "I feel compelled to come out and show respect
for the family."
On Monday morning, many mourners agreed with the sentiment.
The reverend, in recalling Pigott, told those gathered:
"Michael has been a gift from God. But, unfortunately, we have to give
that gift back today." Later, the reverend said: "There is a voice
inside us that continues to say this just isn't happening."
Pigott is to be buried Monday afternoon in Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore.
Before the burial, funeral officials said the hearse carrying the late
officer would make on last drive past his home in Sayville.


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text: Yes, folks, this is an exact re-release of Young Lust. That one was released only 5 years before this and was remastered, so the sound quality is the same. The reason that only the Geffen stuff is on here is that Young Lust was put out by Geffen. If you have that, skip this. If you don't have that, buy this! This makes a great companion to Pandora's Box, as that set is a 3-CD box covering only their original Columbia years.


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Flashback technology was first introduced in 10g and is used to undo any accidental or unwanted logical change made to the database. The Flashback feature provides a convenient method to undo these mistakes, including reverting DML or dropping of a table. This allows recovering from the loss, a lot quicker without having to go through the lengthy process of an RMAN recovery.
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Flashback a CDB Database
Much of flashback technology features remains the same in the new multitenant architecture (in 12c), except for one specific scenario. In this article we will look at this Flashback feature for a CDB database where the workaround is required.
For flashback database to work you must have off course enabled Flashback.
Flashback for a CDB
Typically, you can flashback the whole CDB database. If you Flashback the CDB to a previous point in time then this flashes back all the PDB's as well.
In the multitentant world however, when trying to Flashback a CDB, you should make sure that the time for the Flashback is not beyond the time to when a particular PDB was recovered previously using point in time recovery. So for example, for a PDB database named pdb1 which was recovered previously to an SCN 12289, the CDB can now only be flashed back to a point where the SCN is greater than 12289 and not prior to it. If you try to do so you will receive the following error message.
$ sqlplus / as sysdba
ORA-39866: Data files for pluggable database pdb1 must be offline to flashback across a PDB point-in-time recovery
Here you can see that the error message hints to the solution! You can actually workaround this by to taking the datafiles for that particular pdb1 database offline! Follow the steps below to Flashback a CDB to a point in the past which is prior to the point in time to which a PDB was recovered.
1. Connect to Root with SYSDBA or SYSBACKUP privilege.
$ rman connect target /
2. Determine the target time/SCN to which CDB needs to be rewind. In our case it can be SCN anything less than 12289. Lets say it is 12200.
3. Take the datafiles of pdb1 offline using the following command.
ALTER PLUGGABLE DATABASE pdb1 DATAFILE ALL OFFLINE;
4. Shutdown the CDB and bring it to mount state.
Although most of the other flashback features like version query and before drop are available for individual PDBs. Flashback database is not yet supported for individual PDBs. You can only flashback the entire CDB and cannot do it for individual PDBs. You will get the following error message if you try to do so.
5. Flashback the CDB to desired SCN.
6. Open the CDB database and all PDB databases, except the pdb1.
ALTER PLUGGABLE DATABASE ALL EXCEPT pdb1 OPEN;
7. The pdb1 is now inconsistent with CDB. You will have to restore the PDB and recover it fully.
RESTORE PLUGGABLE DATABASE pdb1;
ALTER PLUGGABLE DATABASE pdb1 DATAFILE ALL ONLINE;
RECOVER PLUGGABLE DATABASE pdb1;
ALTER PLUGGABLE DATABASE pdb1 OPEN;
Flashback for a PDB
SQL> alter session set container=pdb1;
Although most of the other flashback features like version query and before drop are available for individual PDBs. Flashback database is not yet supported for individual PDBs. You can only flashback the entire CDB and cannot do it for individual PDBs. You will get the following error message if you try to do so.
Session altered.
SQL> flashback database to scn 2155326;
flashback database to scn 2155326
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-65040: operation not allowed from within a pluggable database
Alternatively you can use the point in time recovery if you want to revert individual PDB to a previous state.
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News: Lupe Fiasco Blasts Pete Rock, "You Let All These Other Dudes Rap On It, But You Sh*t On Me?" [Audio]
Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:13PM
Grammy-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco is letting the world know things are still tense between him and producer Pete Rock, admitting the hip-hop veteran stepped out of line going at him publicly this week.
Fiasco made sure to let fans know on "Sway in the Morning" earlier today that things have not simmered down, despite Rock claiming they are on good terms.
"We wasn't on the phone like, 'Oh, I love you, Pete.' At the end of the day, I was hot. My crew was hot, the people who put it together was hot, my record company was hot ... [The truce tweet?] He wasn't supposed to say that. He was supposed to say the same sh-- he said on the phone, 'Yo man it was my bad, that was wack, it was f---ed up for me to say that, it was disrespectful, I was 100 percent in the wrong, I apologize.' That's what he was supposed to say." ("Sway in the Morning")
After revealing he got his "Around My Way" sample from a 1967 jazz record called "Today," much like Rock did in the 1990's for "T.R.O.Y.," Fiasco then questioned the producer's true issues with him.
"You let all these other dudes rap on it, but you sh-- on me? It's like damn, it's me, kid," Fiasco added, "I don't know how to respect that. Part of me comes from the streets, straight from the streets and part of me don't know how to respect that." ("Sway in the Morning")
Yesterday, Rock said he hashed things out with Fiasco following the week-long feud.
"I just got off da phone lupe, we worked out our differences and we bout to get it in. Gonna be epic and we gonna give Troy and hev the," he tweeted May 23rd.
"Proper respect they deserve and make history with lupe." (Pete Rock's Twitter)
Before the phone conversation, Fiasco addressed Rock's accusations.
"That was a little unexpected, seeing as we already reached out to him to get his blessing and all that. We went and did it," Fiasco said in an interview. "Especially because of what it means to him and what it represents to him and how deep, how personal the record is for him. At the same time, too, with Heavy D passing and all that stuff, we tried to be as sensitive as possible with it and make sure that we represent it correctly. But there are so many remakes of 'T.R.O.Y.' out there. That's what was surprising." ("The Morning Riot")
A few days ago, Pete went on a Twitter tirade over Fiasco's new "Freedom Ain't Free" track.
"Who ever Re-created that didn't do a good job @ all. #nohate," he tweeted May 21st.
"This business can be so lame, sometimes I make beats blindfolded with one hand tied behind my back and still these cats can't be original to"
"So untalented and unoriginal. Makes me feel like I'm truly the best that ever did it. Yo hev and t-Roy I love and miss da shit outta y'all" (Pete Rock's Twitter)
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Andy's '90210' Afterthoughts: Mr. Cannon Terrifies Me, Naomi Annoys Me & Silver Looks Like Katie Couric
Hard-nosed journalist Silver suspects Naomi is always lying — so she doesn't believe her when she confides that Mr. Cannon really did rape her.
What's worse is that Mr. Cannon (Hal Ozsan) has set his hungry eyes on Silver (Jessica Stroup) and she won't even see it coming. That's pretty much the gist of 90210's Sept. 20 episode, which found Naomi (AnnaLynne McCord) lying to everyone and throwing a ridiculously lavish 18th birthday complete with panthers… PANTHERS! This isn't True Blood, Naomi. Some things are too ridiculous!
Speaking of ridiculous, here's a clip of West Bev's resident perv Mr. Cannon in action:
I guess some other stuff happened as well, including Ivy's (Gillian Zinser) possibly fake-British friend Oscar (Blair Redford) tricking Dixon (Tristan Wilds) into letting some girl do a body shot off of him. This pissed Ivy off and now Oscar's going in for the kill. If you think this whole mother-daughter threesome is a bizarre storyline, you should know that Blair (who plays Oscar) was on the NBC DirecTV soap opera Passions. His last character's storyline literally included being abducted and trapped in hell.
Also, Naomi sort of gave Annie (Shenae Grimes) and Liam (Matt Lanter) her blessing, but Annie's flirting with a new guy too — and Liam's going to have to do more than just brood from a distance if he wants to keep him away.
A few scattered thoughts:
- Where's Jasper (Zachary Ray Sherman) at? He's the only person walking the halls of West Beverly who could out-psycho Mr. Cannon … except maybe Naomi.
- Also, a Lindsay Lohan reference, 90210? That's awfully current of you.
- And just as a final note: They sure are taking a long time getting to Teddy's storyline — it's the one people actually care about.
- Oh, one more thing — Silver totally looks like Katie Couric and I know I am not wrong.


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Crews called to shop fire last night
An investigation is underway following a shop fire in Swindon last night.
Crews were called after smoke was seen issuing from the first floor of a property in Lagos Street, New Town, just before 10pm.
Firefighters found a shop on fire and requested assistance from five other fire crews in the area before the blaze could be put out.
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Walking slowly not only burns more calories per mile, it may also save wear and tear on the joints of those who are obese. With increasing interest in slow walking with a treadmill desk, walkers want to know whether they are getting any benefit.
Burn More Calories per Mile at 2 MPH
Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder confirmed that people burn more calories per mile walking a very leisurely 2 miles per hour than walking a moderate to brisk 3 to 4 miles per hour. Researcher Ray Browning also noted a surprise finding, that obese people have modified their body movement so that they are energy-efficient walkers. While they burn more calories per mile due to moving more weight over that distance, the calories burned per pound of body weight was similar to lean people.
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Slower Walking is Easier on the Joints
More good news is that strolling slower also reduces the loads on the knee joints by 25%. This can be an important factor as obese people take up an exercise program to burn calories while reducing the risk of injury. "The message is that by walking more slowly, obese individuals can burn more calories per mile and may reduce the risk of arthritis or joint injury," said Ray Browning in a press release. Walking with fitness poles has a similar effect, burning more calories per mile while taking pressure off of the knees and joints.
Walking With Fitness Walking Poles: Nordic Walking
Add Low-Impact Cardio ExerciseSlower walking has one drawback, it doesn't give the aerobic training effect produced by walking fast enough to raise the heart rate. Browning recommends adding other vigorous lower-impact activities like swimming, cycling, step routines and elliptical training workouts.
Why Do You Burn More Calories at Low Speed?At low speeds, you lose the efficiency of already being in motion - momentum, as one step is the springboard to the next step. This makes your muscles work a little harder with each step.
Browning, R. "Energetic cost and preferred speed of walking in obese vs. normal weight women." Obesity Research, May 2005; vol 13: pp 891-899. News release, University of Colorado.


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Lady Miners' C-USA Lead Extends to Two Games
I'm sure the Lady Miners were enjoying their Thursday night off last night, but after watching Memphis lose they could enjoy it a little more. The Tigers fell to Southern Miss on Thursday allowing the Miners to gain some extra cushion in the conference chase. UTEP sits at 8-0 in conference, while Memphis and UAB are two back at 6-2 in C-USA action. The Lady Miners will be back in action on Sunday, trying to do what the Miners men couldn't only two nights ago. That is, win in Houston.


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I believe next year's starting rotation should be made up of Chris Tillman, Brian Matusz, Jeremy Guthrie, and Brad Bergesen. That's what I would think most people believe makes up 4/5th's of the rotation. Here's my question: Who do you think takes that last spot?...
Do we take the free agent route?.. If so, who would you target?
Or do we go with some more home grown talent?.. If that's the way we go, who do you have in mind?
If we look the free agents route, my 1st option would be to get a young veteran that can come in and be a #1 or #2 type pitcher and maybe not cost that much, since I don't MacPhail's gonna break the bank for a pitcher. A couple of names that have caught my eye are : Brandon Webb, Jason Jennings, Shawn Hill, and Jon Garland. A couple others that I would keep my eye on, would be : Erik Bedard, Ben Sheets, Rich Harden, and Mark Prior, if these guys have gotten / can get over their injuries, they could be cheap pieces to plug in. My 2nd option would be to get an older veteran, who can be thrown into the middle / back end of the rotation, to serve as mentor and eat up some innings until the next wave of young arms get called up. Guys like Jason Schmidt, Josh Fogg, Tim Hudson, and John Smoltz.
I really like the idea of signing Smoltz, because he could be the closer or a starter, and provide some leardership to the young staff.
If we go the home grown route, I'd like to see Troy Patton win the spot. His arm should be back to form from surgery and he hope he has spent the whole year in AAA ironing out the kinks.
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4. Mix it up.
Don't be afraid to try different genres. This may
mean throwing in the unexpected song with the
mandatory hit you know is a crowd pleaser. In some
cases, you can use the same artist here and there
to encourage the flow of familiar sounds.
3. "How Deep Is Your Love?" — Bee Gees cover,
performed by The Bird and the Bee
An attention-grabber. Most people are familiar with
the Bee Gees' original, so they're probably going to
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Make sure there's a good flow to the music you've
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Toward the end of a good party, there should be
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Gets right to the point: why are we all here gathered
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NOTE: No live tracks! Live music is suited for one place
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It's a simple choice: my husband and I love Sia and
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You would somersault in sand with me." (As a
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The mix is clearly telling a story ... have you figured
it out yet? This slow, soulful vocal shows how this
day has come happily, and not a day too soon.
Below is a sample playlist (the short version)
I created for my recent wedding reception. My
goals were to set the mood, create a theme, and Pump Up the Jams
do it in a fresh, unexpected way with music not So we've got the love thing down, now let's get the
everyone had heard before. The trick was to make it groove on and entice the dancers to move. The
comfortable for every guest, young and old, while not theme's still there, but the tempo is faster, the
resorting to the clichéd wedding songs we all know beat is funkier, and the mood is fun.
and loathe.
Easy, Breezy, Meaningful
The first six songs are slower ballads, a bit moody,
but with a quirky sense of humor thrown in to keep
things light and interesting for the close listener.
The theme of each song is obvious, and tells us why
we're all gathered together — to celebrate love.
1. "I Wish U Heaven" — Prince cover, performed
by Bugge Wesseltoft and Anneli Drecker
A great starter for the occasion — a peaceful track
with a powerful buildup, but simple lyrics that
won't distract. The twist: it's sung by a woman,
and not Prince.
2. "We've Only Just Begun" — The Carpenters
A true classic, and quite literally the beginning of
what's to come.
7. "You're My Flame" (Justus Kohncke Vox Mix) —
Zero 7, featuring Sia
We got the beat, and here it is: the moment the
mood will change. Welcome to Uptempoville, otherwise known as "damn, that's my jam!" This is when
the hips start moving and the party livens up. It's
also a cool remix by the same musicians in songs
5 and 6, so it makes for an easy sonic transition.
8. "Beautiful Days" — Fantastic Plastic Machine
The colorful vocals on this track are surprisingly
beautiful and the lyrics drive it home. A good
mid-set track, upbeat with lots of highs and lows.
9. "You Sexy Thing" — Hot Chocolate cover,performed by Deee-LiteAnother unexpected twist to a classic hit. We allknow the 1975 classic, but watch people perk up
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NFL Forbids Chiefs From Creating Their Own Schedule Again Next Season
"We felt it wasn't in the best interests of the league to invite Kansas City's upper management back to the NFL front office next April to choose their opponents, the order in which they play those opponents, each week's kickoff time, and the location of every game. Letting the Chiefs select the absolute easiest schedule possible ultimately reflects poorly on the NFL as a whole, and was clearly an abuse of the privilege." Goodell also noted that the league may allow the Jacksonville Jaguars to choose their schedule next season, but admitted to reporters "it probably won't make a difference anyway."


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VMware Labs also breaks down a list of Top Flings, sorted for your convenience into either the latest or the most popular. Currently the site offers a total of 19 interesting and useful flings.
This week the VMware Labs site quietly launched the first fling of 2011, called IOBlazer. It's described as a multiplatform storage stack micro-benchmark tool. The software is released under the MIT License, and it comes from Davide Bergamasco, who works in the VMware performance group.
VMware Labs describes the new fling:
IOBlazer runs on Linux, Windows and OSX and it is capable of generating a highly customizable workload. Parameters like IO size and pattern, burstiness (number of outstanding IOs), burst interarrival time, read vs. write mix, buffered vs. direct IO, etc., can be configured independently.
IOBlazer is said to have evolved from a minimalist Microsoft SQL Server emulator, which focused solely on the I/O component of the workload. The original tool had limited capabilities and generated a very specific workload based on the SQL Server I/O model. But IOBlazer has been created with a far more generic I/O model in mind, and comes with a very useful new feature -- the capability to play back VSCSI traces captured on VMware ESX through the vscsiStats utility. This allows IOBlazer to generate a synthetic workload that is absolutely identical to the disk activity of a virtual machine, which ensures 100 percent experiment repeatability.
If you want to get your hands on this latest fling or any of the other 18 experimental flings that are "meant to be played with and explored," check out the VMware Labs website and start downloading them now. And don't forget to vote for your favorite or leave feedback and comments for the author and other would-be downloaders.
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Categories > Celebrities > My Chemical Romance > I'm not afraid to keep on living the way I want.
Chapter Three~4 Reviews
Gerard and Frankie get caught by Mikey.
~Frankie's P.O.V.~
We ended up outside, by a tool shed or something.
We both sat down next to each other and for some reason, we were both laughing.
Then when we calmed down, I realized he was leaning on me. And we were totally alone.
I smiled at him.
"So what do you like to do in your spare time, Frankie?" Gerard asked, looking at me curiously.
"Uhm I like to play guitar.." I answered and looked down.
"Oh wow. I tried to and kinda failed..." Gerard said and shyly looked away.
I smiled more, then asked "Then what do you do?"
"Uhhm I like to sing..." he answered.
"Awesome. Let me hear you?"
"N-no. I don't really let people hear me sing.." Oh wow did he blush?
I was just starting to beg, but we were suddenly interrupted by a dude that had mousy brown hair and glasses.
Gerard looked at him and smiled.
"Hey, bro. This is Frankie." Gerard said and poked my cheek. I blushed and Gerard laughed.
"Hey, I'm Mikey." said the dude.
"So why are you ditching, baby bro? I thought I told you not to." Gerard said and frowned.
"Well..." Mikey said and sat down on the other side of Gerard, "I could say the same thing to you."
Gerard rolled his eyes and said "Yeah whatever."
There was silence then, "Hey Frank, you're new here, I'm guessing?" Mikey asked as he looked over at me.
I was looking down as I said "Yup, first day today, why?"
Mikey laughed quietly then stopped when he got elbowed by Gerard. "Uh just wondering, cause I haven't seen you around before." he answered.
"Uhm okay?" I got curious about those two..
~Gerard's P.O.V~
"Awsome, let me hear you?"
My eyes widened and I looked down, my face getting kinda hot.
"N-no. I don't really let people hear me sing.." I answered.
"B-" Frankie started to say, then Mikey came in and looked at the two of us.
"Hey bro. This is Frankie." I told him before he could ask as I poked Frankie's cheek and laughed.
He's so cute.. I thought as Mikey introduced himself.
He probably not gay, don't think things like that, I thought to myself then looked at Mikey.
"So why are you ditching, baby bro? I thought I told you not to." I said to him.
"Well, I could say the same thing to you." he said as he sat down next to me.
"Yeah whatever." I said as I rolled my eyes.
Frankie looked down, so Mikey looked at me curiously, then at Frankie, then at me again.
"Hey Frank, you're new here, I'm guessing?" Mikey asked, still looking at me.
Still looking down, he answered "Yup, first day, why?"
I knew what Mikey was thinking. He knows I'm gay, and almost everyone at school just guessed it. I turned down every girl that asked me out and I never asked any girls out myself. So it was kinda obvious.
That's why I was a loner. Nobody would hang out with me except Ray, and Mikey.
Mikey laughed a bit then I elbowed him and gave him a look that meant "Shut. Up."
Then Mikey said "Uh just wondering, cause I haven't seem you around before."
"Uhm okay?" Frankie said then looked at me and Mikey curiously.
I checked my watch.
"Aw shit we gotta go, the next class is about to start. I got geography, what about you, Frankie?" I asked.
"Uh.." He checked his schedule. "No I got... Music!" he smiled. His smile is so cute... I thought.
"Oh that's too bad" I said as we got up and started walking.
"Yeah, bye." Frankie said as he waved then walked faster to his class excited, leaving me with Mikey. Oh great..
"So... You like him right?" Mikey asked me.
"Ugh, why do you wanna know?" I asked, slightly annoyed.
Mikey had ruined my last relationship. He told Matt that I liked him, and now he beats me up every once in a while. Nice.
"Cause you're my brother?"
"Not a good enough answer. Don't ruin this please?"
"Okay fine..." he said, and walked to his class, leaving me to my thoughts.
Ugh, should I tell him? I just don't know.. He might ruin this for me again.. Ugh.. I thought.
I started thinking about Frankie. I couldn't help it. His beautiful hair, brown eyes, perfect lips with the silver ring in it..
I thought about him all through geography, and I was glad that the teacher didn't ask me anything, cause I wasn't listening. I was drawing him actually.
When the bell rang, I put the drawing away and walked out of the room, looking for Frankie.
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Teachers Taking Lessons in Political Navigation This SummerBy Annie Gilbertson | Published 08 Jun 2011 06:50pm |
Many Mississippi teachers become students in the summer. MPB's education reporter, Annie Gilbertson, reports how this year, many are learning a lesson in navigating politics.
Budget cuts left close to one thousand Mississippi educators out of work last year and those that still hold their jobs will come under a new system of evaluation this fall.
Joyce Helmick is an advanced placement English teacher at Olive Branch High School in Desoto County. She said teachers should communicate more effectively with policymakers, and she offered her peers the same advice she gives students studying parallel structure.
"Martin Luther King uses parallel structure in his "I Have a Dream" speech. It is repetition. Repetition is good to get people to understand what you want them to understand."
At a conference held this Wednesday by the Mississippi Association of Educators, teachers were given the tools needed to help influence policy.
"Many people don't believe teachers should be involved in politics, but we beg to differ. We think that as long as educators and politicians are molding and shaping the education system in the State of Mississippi, we as educators deserve to have a right at the table."
Teachers do have a history of affecting policy change in the state. State Representative Cecil Brown, Chairman of the House Education Committee, said he talks with educators about a multitude of issues from the age of school readiness to whether or not twins should be in the same classroom.
But this year it may be critical for teachers to get involved with politics.
"We lost about 800 teachers this year as a result of budget cuts. So I think in some districts, where they've got severe budget crises, teachers are afraid for their jobs and with good reason."
The conference ends this week, and the teachers in attendance will be headed to their home districts to engage more educators in the political conversation.
From the Education Desk, for MPB news, I'm Annie Gilbertson.
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The Battle of Fredericksburg Commemoration Committee hosts Fire on the Rappahannock this weekend, a commemoration of the Battle of Fredericksburg on its 150th Anniversary.
The events from Friday through Sunday (Dec. 7 - 9) will affect traffic and parking. "Travel by shuttle is advised, especially for Saturday events," the city's Public Works Department said in a press release.
Street closure and shuttle maps are attached to this article, and are also on the City's website.
On Dec. 8, detours and street closures will run from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. from Sophia to Marye Heights, the Public Works department said. These will accommodate two City of Fredericksburg sponsored battle reenactments.
"At 10 a.m., cannon posted at Ferry Farm will fire toward the city, as they did a century and a half earlier when Union soldiers attempted to cross the river," Donald Pfanz of the National Park Service said.
Shortly thereafter, reenactors will recreate fighting that occurred in the streets of the town, Pfanz said.
At 3 p.m., the fighting will move to Trench Hill behind the University of Mary Washington's Jepson Center, where living historians will reenact the assaults on Marye's Heights.
Street closures and detours are scheduled as follows:
Morning Battle 8 a.m. - Noon
- Sophia Street will be closed from the 200 block to the 800 block.
- The 200 and 300 blocks of Caroline Street will be closed.
- The 100 blocks of George Street, Hanover Street, Charlotte Street, Lafayette Blvd. and Frederick Street will be closed.
Between Noon and 3 p.m.
There will be rolling closures on Hanover Street — from the 100 block of Hanover St. to Sunken Road, and on the 800 and 900 blocks of Kenmore Avenue -- as reenactors proceed to the battle of Marye's Heights.
Afternoon Battle 1pm-5pm
- The 800 and 900 blocks of Brompton and Marye Streets will be closed.
- The 800 and 900 blocks of Sunken Road will be closed.
- The 900 and 1000 blocks of Hanover Street will be closed.
There will be a large amount of pedestrian and vehicle traffic in the downtown area for the events. Residents are warned there will be artillery and gunfire sounds accompanying the events.
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The flu is beginning to spread in Texas, but the Dallas County Health Department says the demand for flu vaccines is still low.
Dallas County is seeing a 10 percent increase in flu cases because people aren't getting vaccinated.
The Dallas County Health Director says he's surprised, because there are still thousands of free flu shots to give out, and people aren't taking them. He's uneasy heading into the peak of flu season, which is January and February.
Last season, the deaths of two children led to a rush to get the vaccine and long lines.
"People started coming in, they wanted to get the flu vaccine... at that point in January, we had a low supply of flu vaccine," said Zach Thompson, the health director.
It was so bad last year, Doughtery's Pharmacy in Dallas was handing out ticket numbers because there was such high demand.
This year, there haven't been any deaths in our region, and Thompson says that's probably why people are simply not concerned.
But according to the Center for Disease Control, Texas is already seeing more flu cases than last year at this time, and most other states are not seeing such a spike.
"That's amazing," said Thompson. "We've got 3,000 doses left, and it's been free. I would have thought it would be gone right now."
For those who are coming in to get vaccinated, since there are no crowds right now, they're getting in and out quickly and are usually vaccinated in less than 15 minutes.
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Manatee seeks new leaders
Date: May 11, 2009
by: The Observer Staff
The deadline for Leadership Manatee applications is May 22.
Leadership Manatee, now in its 27th year, is designed to give business and community leaders an in-depth look at Manatee County and its challenges and opportunities.
The program has more than 850 graduates and utilizes a competitive selection process. Class participants experience a broad and rigorous curriculum over the course of the six-month program during which they hone their leadership skills and gain insight into Manatee through exposure to diverse segments of our economy, structure and community.
Program information and the 2009-2010 application may be viewed at www.ManateeChamber.com/leadershipmanatee.asp.
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MySQL AB :: MySQL: The World's Most Popular Open Source Database
The cool thing is I wasn't the one who noticed it. A holler goes out to Timmeah!
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The cool thing is I wasn't the one who noticed it. A holler goes out to Timmeah!
The Australian System Administrator's Conference 2006
It's interesting that the online registration doesn't have an SSL certificate that matches. I now have to find a printer to produce dead tree to mail.
Considering that I don't actually own a printer, this is getting interesting…
P.S. come to my tutorial on MySQL Cluster!
Today my TV told me to be scared, I had a good (late) sandwich for lunch. Some nice local beer (no big brewery), a salad and the most scary looking pasta for dinner. Also hung with people. Now sleep.
Beat Vontobel blogs about "fuþark: The silence of futhark and the state of the dolphin" which is basically about how he's found that the 5.0.20 release of MySQL (http://www.mysql.com) is when the 5.0 release is really starting to shine.
This confirms my theory (that I've had for quite a while now… like years) that a software release is never really mature until it hits about .20 (that's dot twenty, not dot two).
When something reaches .10 (dot ten) it's no longer going to be annoying for most uses, but .20 means that you're going to be happy. Don't ask me really why this is the case, but it is.
Think about the 2.6 kernel (yes,[Read more...]
At the recent MySQL DevConf in Sorrento, Italy, I decided to take a photo out the window of my hotel room. Here it is. I've stayed at worse places, just :)
It also looked really similar to this from the breakfast and lunch room.
Pity we were then stuck in the basement working for most of the day. But it rocked. Got through lots of stuff, which is good.
adnarim_abroad: I know it's controversial to say, but i'
I now want to be bumming around Melbourne city during the games. My house is 2mins walk from a train station that's less than 30mins to the middle of town. But never spend enough time there.
It'll be good to get home.
Although i think the tired and hungover thing isn't helping.
I'm currently getting hard crashes about five times a day.
I thought it was the sound driver, as i got a crash during dist-upgrade (again) while on console and saw the backtrace. Basically looked like something bad happenned when the sound was muted.
So, running without sound muted - just turned down.
Well, today, just crashed again. Since running X, no backtrace. ARRRGHHH.
Also crashed when waking up too. ACPI stuff in the backtrace.
Not a happy camper at the moment. I have work to do, not futzing around with trying to find out what the fuck is wrong with my laptop (probably software) when I should be running a stable system.
I've already have to re-add all my liferea RSS feeds as liferea obviously isn't doing the right thing (at least the version shipping with Ubuntu) regards writing the feeds file to disk.
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(almost) enough said. Good to see people again. Now just a talk to prepare for tomorrow.
Okay, not totally prepare - but a bit of it.
The one I'm giving today - on Cluster Replication is pretty much done. Would like to run through beforehand - but not sure how that plan is going to go.
AUSTRALIA PRESS: Telstra To Charge More For Fixed Lines
great - I get to pay more for a service I DON'T WANT! I just want internet, not a phone line (which I aparrently have to have to get ADSL).
On an internal list, a thread switched over to breifly mentioning the film Munich which incidently, I saw a few weeks ago just after linux.conf.au and really enjoyed.
I thought it was really well done and a good film. I really recommend going to see it - it's a good cinematic experience. Possibly don't see it if you're feeling really sad though - not exactly a happy film. Eric Bana and Geoffrey Rush are superb in this film (both Aussies too!).
I found it to be more about his journey than anything else and enjoyed it as it was a personal story.
Oh, and why haven't Margaret and David reviewed it yet? I would love to know what they thought. It's not often I see a film before I've seen them review it :)
On the MySQL Cluster Forum, there was a thread "any production clusters yet?" to which this was a reply
I'm using NDB in production with a high-traffic web site. We have about 500,000 members and lots of surge activity at specific times. What I'm finding is that the web server goes but the cluster doesn't break a sweat.
ticketmaster.com.au - The White Stripes
Damn, damn, damn, damn damn. Only January 28th - and I'm in NZ.
Note to future organisers: make sure dates don't overlap BDO or any really cool band tour dates.
Of course, the real disaster would be if Tool were touring at the same time as a work thing. How will people take it if i leave a company event for however long is needed to see Tool live. as many times as possible. I am dearly hoping that travel co-ordinates itself to see them in different cities, countries. Heck, even another planet if we can do that by the time the new album is ready :)
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that is all.
err… okay, a bit more. Breakfast this morning consisted of doing the dishes (good first step), some toast with jam and vegemite and a mango. Yum. All the time listening to the recording of the company-wide conf call from the other day (2am was just a little bit late that night).
These conf calls are really good actually - being able to throw questions directly at the top (and have them answered) is a great thing. Also getting to know what is going on from a higher perspective is really valuable.
At AUUG2005 last week, Arjen, myself and others were discussing the idea of trying to assemble some sort of common resources that multiple projects can use to contribute and find out about portability issues they stumble across.
The idea being that we can all then learn from each other and write better, more portable software.
So, I've set something up.
I present, the incredibly bare (okay, not quite completely bare) PortaWiki.
Please add whatever stuff you find, you know or anything. No idea how this is going to work - I plan to let it evolve.
(Arjen tells me that Peter Gutmann should receive credit as he thinks he came up with the idea. Kudos to him).
I can now give presentations from my laptop - yay.
It requires running the ATI binary drivers instead of the open source ones.
Then VGA out works without being squiggly. (that's on my Asus V6V laptop with a Radeon X600 running Ubuntu Breezy) - there' that should be enough google juice.
However, as if being binary only wasn't crappy enough - suspend doesn't work. So it's open source drivers for all other times! I don't use GL, so that doesn't worry me. Of course, it may start to worry me what with all the neat cairo stuff and other accelleration coming… but not yet.
This should come in handy for the Melbourne MySQL Users Group meeting tomorrow night!
Microsoft loses in Eolas patent ruling | CNET News.com
Come on Microsoft - join us in the fight against software patents. This clearly hurts the entire industry - be it big vendors like yourself or small ones.
Let's not all get royally screwed.
When a comment above a function says "returns -1 on error" and the code does the exact oposite (returns -1 anyway except if there was out of memory error, which may be #defined to -1 anyway) it's a bit annoying when you first look at it.
Remember kids, comments in code are evil. They are wrong - or misleading at best. They only ever say what one person at some point in the past thought they beleived the code did. The definitive record is the code itself.
(there are possible exceptions to this rule… maybe… internals can be good to document - but arguably it should be *away* from the code so that you don't start thinking the documentation is accurate and up to date - because it's not).
Well, this review over at ZDnet seems to say that the Bose Quiet Comfort 2 Acoustic Noice Cancelling headphones have leather. The suck. Well, that strikes them off my list.
In case you didn't know, I don't do the leather thing.
There's also a disturbing review over at Amazon from a guy who seems to know what he's talking about (Grado make great 'phones - mine are supurb).
So, the sound quality may not be all that great (although people rave about the noise reduction - and[Read more...]
Well, I can now sit down and do my tax. Urgh. Not looking forward to it.
Although… I wonder if eTax will work under qemu and wine…. sounds like a lot of trouble, maybe I'll just do it the paper way until they come to their senses and have an eTax that works on more than win32.
So, aparrently our 7 year heater is really old and we shouldn't expect much from it.
No, really.
A switch had broken. Again. The same one that was replaced less than two years ago.
So, I ask our Northern European friends - what's a good brand and model for a natural gas central heater that's not going to require fixing every year?
Every year our heating breaks. Every darn year. Aparrently the way to get a reliable central heating system is to have one that's 15 years old. Ours is a bit newer and part of the series of heaters (aparrently all of them) that suffer from the Ministry of Crap Design getting involved (meaning they break every year).
It's bloody freezing in here. maybe 12 degrees. It's 10 outside.
Bloody miserable cold winter.
I almost feel like getting in my car where the heater works and working from there (wireless signal should be strong enough).
okay, when it's family you can't really say no. But it does seem a bit strange when you have no idea.
Problems getting new printer to work. My advice is reinstall driver, remove device, reboot. Some random stuff. Remove from device manager, plug in again, see if it changes.
That's the total of my windows troubleshooting knowledge (hey, apart from all that stuff i know about 3.1 from back in the day).
I've done dev work here and there on the platform - inside more unixy areas (software that interfaces with unix, or has been ported from). In other words, no, I don't speak Hungarian (nor have any wish to).
That said, I'm fully supportive of efforts to make sure our software runs well on the platform. If, for whatever reason (lack of enlightnment or lack of enlightenment further up the chain), someone has to use it, then darn well, our stuff[Read more...]
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Taking a half day or a full day excursion on holiday or between conferences is always a wonderful introduction into a new destination, whether to a City like Jakarta to see its landmarks, learn about its history and culture or enjoy its natural surroundings. A day trip around Bali is an experience not to be forgotten, where one begins to understand what makes Bali such an unforgettable destination. Or get away from your five star hotels in Bintan Resort to see the simple fishing villages and visit historic Penyengat island across Tanjung Pinang. Take a seat in a coach offered by travel agents, hire your own car or bike through the country side. There is much to see and experience in Indonesia.
Wonosobo's Stunning Mountain panorama, cool fresh air and tea plantations
A unique combination of ancient temples, history, traditions, culture and amazing natural beauty make Wonosobo a very worthwhile place to visit. Sight-seeing here includes hot springs, a multi-colored lake, ancient temples and some impressive grand panoramic scenery from the peaks. The fresh air, beautiful greenery and serenity will help relieve your stress . So just relax and enjoy the experience of the many interesting spots around Wonosobo...
Location: Java » Central Java » Kab. Wonosobo
Yogyakarta, together with its twin city Surakarta (Solo), is the cradle of civilization on Java. This city was the seat of power that produced the magnificent temples of Borobudur and Prambanan in the 8th and 9th century and the new powerful Mataram kingdom of the 16th and 17th century. Until today this city continues to produce philosophers, thinkers, master painters and master craftsmen. Whilst steeped in rich tradition and history,...
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Kane Ballard
warminster, United Kingdom
- Age
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- Years in Magic
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Hey! i'm Kane and i like to focus on cardistry and small but powerful illusions with cards. I also spend some time with coin magic and gambling slights but not much. If you want to be wowed , entertained or learn some free magic ; cardistry you can check out my youtube channel ::
I hope you enjoy my videos!
How did you first get started in magic?
I was watching dynamo magician impossible when i saw his magic and flourishing. I was amazed and i wanted to learn the secrets of magic.
Which artists have inspired you the most in your work thus far?
The artist i think inspired me are :: Dynamo,Pen and Teller,Eric Jones,Andrei Jikh,Rick Lax and i am sure their is many more!
How often do you practice - how do you keep your skills (and mind) sharp?
I practice ALL the time. I never leave without a deck of cards or some magic! I constantly think " what if this could do that" or "how could i do this" and i figure out some ways to make it work and look effective.