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LAKE SUCCESS, New York – April 17, 2012 – With the first SEC deadline for private fund (Form PF) reporting currently less than a few months away for many large hedge funds and managed account platforms, Paladyne Systems, a Broadridge Company (NYSE:BR) and leading provider of next generation investment management solutions, has teamed up with Advise Technologies LLC, a regulatory reporting solutions provider, to specifically support the Form PF requirements.
Paladyne Systems has integrated the Advise Technologies solution with the Paladyne® Suite of data collection and data management products to enable fund managers and service providers to streamline their Form PF processes. The combined solution is hosted in Paladyne's SAS-70 certified data centers to provide a seamless enterprise-wide platform and comprehensive toolset for collecting, normalizing and aggregating data from all internal and external sources required to complete Form PF. This integration allows for a rapid on-boarding process to support the imminent filing deadline. Paladyne will provide this product to hedge funds directly as well as a bundled software solution for service providers, including fund administrators and prime brokers to utilize for their clients, as a hosted "ASP" or locally deployed solution.
"For funds and their service providers to meet this reporting deadline, capturing the necessary data is unprecedented. This is an entirely new process," said Doug Schwenk, President & CEO, Advise Technologies. "The complex reporting requires aggregating, normalizing and tagging data from multiple sources, including portfolio, risk, collateral, and performance data. By integrating our software with the Paladyne data warehouse and security master, we can address the complex data aggregation needs of these funds and allow service providers to complete the reporting requirements."
"Our clients have been laser-focused on addressing Form PF reporting requirements and have reached out to Paladyne for help," said Sameer Shalaby, President, Paladyne Systems. "Our partnership with Advise creates a comprehensive and innovative enterprise technology platform for Form PF and for future regulatory requirements, capable of compiling and handling the necessary data in a timely and cost effective manner. We are delighted to work with Advise to support our clients in addressing the burden of regulatory reporting and compliance."
Paladyne has integrated Paladyne Analytics Master™ and Paladyne Security Master™ with Advise Enterprise server and Form PF Workbook to provide an interactive web-based Form PF interface for clients to enrich data, approve calculated data and electronically file with the SEC. Data storage, calculations, historical auditing and reporting is handled by Paladyne Analytics Master warehouse, which is integrated with Advent's Geneva®, SunGard VPM, RiskMetrics®, and all major prime brokers and fund administrators. Paladyne Security Master is integrated with all leading data vendors to manage securities terms and conditions and corporate actions. The combined solution is hosted at Paladyne's global data centers in the US, Europe and Asia.
Paladyne and Advise are working together to deploy the combined solution at several large US-based hedge funds and several of the world's largest fund administrators.
About Advise Technologies
Advise Technologies, LLC, is a premier provider of compliance solutions for private funds, including hedge fund and private equity fund managers. Started by a core group of private fund and technology professionals in 2010, Advise Technologies has been at the forefront of solutions to challenges posed to managers by the changing global regulatory environment. The Advise Technologies product line includes solutions for Forms PF, CPO-PQR, and CTA-PR. The firm is headquartered in New York. For more information, please visit www.AdviseTechnologies.com.
About Paladyne Systems®
Paladyne Systems®, a Broadridge Company, is the leading provider of next generation investment management solutions. Paladyne offers its integrated front-, middle- and back-office platform, known as the Paladyne Suite, to hedge funds, asset managers, fund administrators and prime brokers. The modular Paladyne Suite includes order management, portfolio management, reference data management, data warehouse and custom reporting and reconciliation, and is complemented by the Paladyne Network™, an integrated network of leading 3rd-party software and market data firms. The solution can be delivered onsite or via Paladyne's industry-leading application service provider solution, SAS 70 Level II-certified Paladyne ASP™. Paladyne was established in 2005 and acquired by Broadridge (NYSE:BR) in 2011, and now serves over 200 clients worldwide. The firm has approximately 190 employees, and is headquartered in New York, with regional offices in New Jersey, London, Russia and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit www.paladyne.com.
About Broadridge
Broadridge is a technology services company focused on global capital markets. Broadridge is the market leader enabling secure and accurate processing of information for communications and securities transactions among issuers, investors and financial intermediaries. Broadridge builds the infrastructure that underpins proxy services for over 90% of public companies and mutual funds in North America; processes more than $4 trillion in fixed income and equity trades per day; and saves companies billions annually through its technology solutions. For more information about Broadridge, please visit www.broadridge.com.


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My uncle has been really tearing into me about these losses to crappy teams. I include ND is my list of crappy teams, and that is why I was wondering if it makes sense to cut Austin Freeman slack because of his illness. The conversation went like this:
Uncle: Where's the "We Lost to RU" banner
Me: next to the "we beat nova" banner
Uncle: Is that above or below the "We lost to the Irish without Luke" one?
Me: next to the "we lost to the irish when austin freeman was sick as anything and was getting IV's" sign
Uncle: If you lace them up there are no excuses
I also talked with my friend who said that football players play through all kinds of shit to win each game. He said players will play hard and well no matter what the conditions. I don't think the case can be made that he was trying to rest up for future games, because he suited up and went in the game.
Do we give Austin a freebie for playing sick? or does that not matter?

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How Durable is Your Camera? A Canon 7D is Tested to the Extreme
We've been testing cameras for performance in ideal conditions, and also in not-so-ideal conditions, but this is just ridiculous. Kai Wong and the guys over at DigitalRev were kindly donated a Canon 7D to see how much punishment that little camera could take. The 7D has a magnesium alloy body, so it's much more capable of handling inclement weather — but what if it were frozen in a block of ice, or set on fire? Could it still take photos? Check out the video below to find out.
Kai Wong and DigitalRev destroy a Canon 7D:
Don't try this at home with any camera you have, but if you've got a Canon 7D or any DSLR with a metal body, there's a good chance it will survive a heck of a lot of impact and stress. There are a few simple things that can be replaced on these DSLRs without too much difficulty, one of them being the plastic cover over the LCD on the back of the camera. I've done this multiple times with cameras and there are plenty of good tutorials out there to show you how to do it. It's remarkable that after the lengthy beating this camera was given, that it was still able to take a photo, and the autofocus and mirror were both still working.
Anyone have any camera horror stories like the one above?
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We're all here for the same reason: to better ourselves as writers, directors, cinematographers, producers, photographers... whatever our creative pursuit. Criticism is valuable as long as it is constructive, but personal attacks are grounds for deletion; you don't have to agree with us to learn something. We're all here to help each other, so thank you for adding to the conversation!
Quite impressive. These gents must have great luck, or rather I have poor luck. My 7D was recently in a checked camera bag on a flight with other gear. When the bag arrived, the 7D would not turn on – not one scratch on the body…but I'm guessing somehow in transit it got knocked hard…and well it's done for – but the rest of the gear was perfectly fine.
john jeffreys on 05.14.12 @ 11:20PM
oh my god i cant watch this i barely made it past the first "truck test" scene without cringing and shivering like 20 times
what a perfectly good camera this is so disgusting and wasteful
it's just a camera homeboy
Jason on 05.15.12 @ 2:00AM
To some, though, its hours and hours and HOURS of working hard and saving up for something they really want. I mean, of course, its nothing compared to say 'how durable is this baby?' but i imagine itd still be pretty shattering for some people who see this.
Wayne on 05.15.12 @ 8:02PM
Hahaha! Awesome.
john jeffreys on 05.15.12 @ 11:47AM
No, no its not.
A camera is way, way more than a simple machine, its the closest thing we have right now to materializing our thoughts and inner feelings (film, photography). I work with student filmmakers from rough socioeconomic backgrounds and most of them can barely afford a t2i and would jump at the chance to even shoot once with a *fairly* high end camera like a 7D, and then to see one just destroyed for the sake of page views and ad revenue on youtube really makes me rage.
"A camera is way, way more than a simple machine, its the closest thing we have right now to materializing our thoughts and inner feelings (film, photography). "
If you can't do drawings or music, try poetry, it's cheaper. :)
john jeffreys on 05.15.12 @ 1:11PM
poetry is nowhere near as immersive as a giant screen and speakers in your face
Aaron on 05.15.12 @ 1:51PM
I shoot with a t2i and a 7d everyday and they have the same quality in the end, the 7D just has more buttons.
We can romanticize gear and equipment all day long, but in 2 years it'll be old news and in 10 it'll be gone. The 7D has been out for around 2 years so by lighting this camera on fire it probably got more airtime than it ever would have without it.
"the camera is closest thing we have to materializing our thoughts and inner feelings"
What about the people have been creating art for thousands of years before this relatively recent invention?
john jeffreys on 05.15.12 @ 2:33PM
actually the 7D outputs an HD signal to an external monitor during recording so your focus puller can work more comfortably. it also has a better built body, and an 8fps stills drive mode if you want to do add a choppy/stop motion-esque look to your shots.
enough gear talk, youre right
anyway, those artists of the past thousands of years don't know what they are missing. digital media gives you near-freedom in image making.
Aaron on 05.15.12 @ 3:21PM
I was generalizing when I said "more buttons", I meant it has more features. The bottom line is that someone who has a little bit of patience can achieve the same quality with a t2i as one can get with a 7d.
Freedom is great and all but limits are possibilities. I'm in awe of the past and excited for the future but let's not get too carried away hahaha
Daniel Mimura on 05.19.12 @ 6:35AM
These are material things. Destroying the tool means nothing. (Now if they were destroying the only copy of a beautiful film or photograph made with that camera, that would be a tragedy.)
If someone did that to *my* 7D (as much as I sometimes fantasize about destroying it occasionally)…I'd be mad. But it's not my 7D. Kill away. (Burning plasic is bad for the environment though…)
It kind of reminds me of that great Top Gear story where they (try to) destroy a Toyota truck.
Yeah, Bro… chill.
Peter on 05.15.12 @ 1:54AM
Wake me up when it's as durable as a cheap microphone:
Aaron on 05.15.12 @ 2:53AM
I mean that's impressive as well, but a camera has multiple moving parts, an internal processor, a battery, and is an all around more complicated piece of machinery hahaha
what a perfectly good bottle of Heineken, this is so disgusting and wasteful…
impressive… but the Rebel didn't do a lot worse than this either: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1tTBncIsm8
Cassidy on 05.15.12 @ 6:55PM
Should have shot the fire out.
Yes, but WILL IT BLEND?!
NSFW: http://youtu.be/3zcdoa0XCFo
Daniel Mimura on 05.19.12 @ 6:37AM
Hah, these guys are nuts! In a good way obviously :)
Geoff Longford on 05.17.12 @ 10:52PM
Being disabled is so funny.
This is a great blog and really enjoyed trawley
So the worst part of a Canon 7D is the stupid CF card's pinhole technology that ruined a day of shooting for me. lol
Heiko on 05.21.12 @ 7:16AM
I love DigitalRevTV – these guys do great reviews and tutorials.
Look at their recent D800 vs. 5D MkIII test, it is so funny yet still packed with information.
Rachael Dakoda on 05.22.12 @ 1:04PM
I own a 7D that I use for stills and I feel a great deal better about my choice after viewing this video.


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REM: Spring Sprong Hair Remover is a hand held spring-shaped tool that grabs those pesky facial hairs, pulling them out by the root. No wax, no cream, no preparation, just the simple tool.
REM: Spring Sprong - Description
The REM: Spring Sprong hair remover is a small, light-weight, portable tool for women that effectively removes the hair on your face without the aid of any other cream, wax or product.
REM: Spring Sprong - How Does it Work?
I purchased this product myself and when looking into it, I found other options that cost less than this one did, but this one seemed to get the best reviews and seemed to be the one best manufactured, so I went for it. When it arrived, I was surprised at just how small and unimpressive it was. It simply looked like a spring with little handles.
According to the directions, you are to bend the tool into an upside down U and rub it on your face, twisting the handles. (Watch the cheesy video on REM's website to get a better view.)
I bought mine off of Amazon and didn't know about the video before I tried the Spring Sprong, so I was doing it all wrong. I thought that I was supposed to take the upside down U and twist it into a right side up U. It worked a bit that way, but it wasn't even and it didn't feel right.
There are more than 200 reviews on Amazon and I read a bunch of them. One reviewer said to "...bend it and twirl back and forth - both fingers in, both fingers out fast as you can, pushing the device firmly against your skin, against the hair follicle." Another said to "twirl the right hand fingers clockwise and the left hand fingers counter-clockwise. If you twirl them the opposite way, no hairs get grabbed."
Completely confusing! I realized what I needed to do is just play with the Spring Sprong - experiment a bit. Once I took the pressure off of doing it the right way, it was, dare I say, fun!
REM: Spring Sprong - Review
Things We Loved:
- No Wax: I know there are many options when it comes to facial hair removal. I am a waxer. (I was an electrolysis-er, but it was much too painful. I go by electrolysis quitter these days.) And while I can wax my brows with limited pain, my upper lip is so painful to wax. And then it turns red and gets inflamed and is just such a hassle. With this, there is no tugging, no wax, no product, just a spin and pull out. So much better. (waxing tips from a pro.)
- No Redness: And when you're done, there's hardly any redness. I did have some redness for a little while, but it went away very quickly.
- No Breakouts: Again, with waxing, it's common to have small breakouts after your waxing treatment. I did not have any breakouts with this tool.
- Portable: The Spring Sprong comes in a little black pouch and you can take it with you anywhere.
What About the Pain?:
- Did it Hurt? Of course it did. You're pulling hair from the root. That's not pain-free. Reviewers say that the pain diminishes, but I'll be honest and say I doubt that is truthful. You may get used to the pain, but I do not think it goes away, ever. If you have tweezed out an individual hair, you know that it hurt. This does, too. What's the old saying, "No pain, no gain"? (I don't really believe that, but this does hurt. But so does tweezing and that is simply one hair at a time. This goes so much faster.)
REM: Spring Sprong - Final Thoughts
I'm so glad I bought the Spring Sprong. I'm not a fan of the pain of facial hair removal, but I've been cursed with having to deal with it. Waxing for me is no fun. I do love that it is a quick pull for an abundance of pesky little hairs, but it really does take my skin almost a full day to get rid of the redness and inflammation. This little tool is quick, effective and after the initial learning curve, pretty easy to use.
Read About.com: Hair Removal's review of REM: Spring Sprong. Also, find many more Skin Care Product Reviews listed by brand name.


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and the ATF's resources could be better spent trying to take out the criminal networks on the receiving end of these purchases.Ah yes, that whole "run the government like a business" so as to maximize efficiency or someshit. Who doesn't like a good omelette?
...If you don't think this is fun you're in the wrong line of work - period!I think that this combined with the operation name "Fast and Furious" reveals these agents to be douchbags who thought they were in an episode of Fastlane.
A handgun kept under a pillow would be expensive to ensure, whereas an antique flintlock kept in a safe would be cheap.But how would you know how a gun is stored?
Sounds like a great way to ensure that only criminals and the wealthy are armed.What this country needs is guns for the poor! No welfare or food stamps or home heating oil, but all the guns you could want!
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Save the date for the 2014 event on June 20. "A Collective Voice for Hope."
"On World Refugee Day, let us reaffirm the importance of solidarity and burden-sharing by the international community. Refugees have been deprived of their homes, but they must not be deprived of their futures."
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World Refugee Day is celebrated to honour and raise awareness of the plight of those who have been forced to flee their country and seek a safe haven. For those who hope for a brighter future for themselves and their children and a place they can once again call home. The committee includes members from Canadian Red Cross, Calgary Catholic Immigration Society, Calgary Public Library, Immigrant Services Calgary, Citizens for Social Justice, and the YMCA Calgary.


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- Igarashi to have MRI on hamstring
- Bay presented with Tip O'Neill Award
- Family makes trip to see Mets' Davis
- This date in Mets history -- April 20
- Worthy of note
NEW YORK -- The Mets announced Tuesday that Carlos Beltran was "making progress" in rehabbing his surgically repaired right knee. Whatever that vague declaration suggested, it hardly prompted rejoicing in the organization. Beltran remains unfit for baseball activities -- i.e., running.
At one point, Beltran believed he'd resume running by mid-April.
"That's kind of unfortunate," Mets manager Jerry Manuel said. "What we have to do is we have to continue to play the way we have in the last three or four games and hope that Carlos begins to recover quickly. I mean, he's obviously an integral part."
Beltran was examined in Vail, Colo., on Tuesday by the doctor who performed his surgery in January. His return by mid-May, once considered likely by the club, now seems less likely.
Igarashi to have MRI on hamstring
NEW YORK -- Mets reliever Ryota Igarashi is to be examined via MRI Wednesday. The right-hander strained his left hamstring in the eighth inning of Tuesday night's 4-0 victory over the Cubs when he squatted to field a bunt.
Igarashi faced two additional batters after hurting himself, but he was then removed after a visit to the mound by the trainer.
Bay presented with Tip O'Neill Award
NEW YORK -- Jason Bay received his 2009 Tip O'Neill Award before the Mets' game against the Cubs on Tuesday night. The Mets' left fielder has been recognized for the third time as the Canadian-born player who has excelled in individual achievement and team contribution while adhering to baseball's highest ideals. Larry Walker received the award nine times. Justin Morneau and Eric Gagné have won it twice each. Bay had won the award in '04 and '05.
A native of Trail, British Columbia, Bay won his first Silver Slugger Award and played in the All-Star Game for the third time in 2009. His 36 home runs and 119 RBIs led the Red Sox to the playoffs. He scored 103 runs and had 142 hits, including 29 doubles, and stole 13 bases. Bay batted. .267, compiling an on-base percentage of .384 and a .537 slugging percentage. He made no errors and had 15 assists in his 150 games, finishing seventh in American League MVP Award voting.
The award is named after Woodstock, Ontario, native James "Tip" O'Neill, who was one of baseball's first legitimate stars with the St. Louis Browns. In 1887, O'Neill batted .435, with 225 hits, 52 doubles, 19 triples 14 home runs, 123 RBIs and 167 runs.
Winners of "Tip" O'Neill Award: 1984 -- Terry Puhl, 1985 -- Dave Shipanoff, 1986 -- Rob Ducey, 1987 -- Larry Walker, 1988 - Kevin Reimer, 1989 -- Steve Wilson, 1990 -- Walker, 1991 -- Daniel Brabant, 1992 -- Walker, 1993 -- Rob Butler, 1994-95 -- Walker, 1996 - Jason Dickson, 1997-98 -- Walker, 1999 -- Jeff Zimmerman, 2000 -- Ryan Dempster, 2001 -- Corey Koskie and Walker, 2002 -- Gagné and Walker, 2003 -- Gagné, 2004-05 -- Bay, 2006 -- Morneau, 2007 -- Russell Martin, 2008 -- Morneau and 2009 -- Bay.
Family makes trip to see Mets' Davis
NEW YORK -- Among those who witnessed Ike Davis' second big league game Tuesday night were his father, Ron, the former Yankees and Twins reliever, and Ron's second wife, Kendall. They had flown in from Arizona, arriving mid-afternoon after their flight had been delayed for 90 minutes because of a flat tire. Davis' mother, Millie, is to arrive Wednesday.
Ron wasn't the only late-arriving family member.
"I told Ike, 'You were two days late,' Ron said. 'If they'd called [you] up Saturday, [you] could have pitched in that 20-inning game they played."
When the Mets made Davis the 18th player selected in the 2008 First-Year Player Draft, according to his father, the club said, "We like you as a pitcher and a hitter. We'll take you either way." Ike Davis had been an unbeaten scholastic pitcher and a successful starter and closer at Arizona State.
"He can throw 93-94 [mph]," the proud papa said.
The elder Davis said he had thoughts of flying in Sunday night after he learned the Mets had designated Mike Jacobs for assignment and that they were likely to eliminate a relief pitcher before the homestand. He had a sense a promotion was pending, but his son didn't the call until after 9 a.m. Arizona time, Monday. He estimated he would miss his son's first three at-bats if he traveled.
"I decided I'd stay, enjoy the game at home and have a party."
The elder Davis likened his son to former Blue Jays and Mets first baseman John Olerud.
"A doubles hitter, tall lanky guy with some power."
Olerud also had been a collegiate pitcher and seemingly had the best arm of any Mets first baseman.
Keith Hernandez likens Davis to Adam LaRoche, the former Braves and Pirates first baseman now with the D-backs. But the Mets expect more power from Davis long-term than LaRoche has produced in his six-plus seasons.
This date in Mets history -- April 20
NEW YORK -- The great Warren Spahn made his second start for a team other than the Braves and gained his first victory with the Mets, beating the Dodgers in Los Angeles on this date in 1965. Spahnie, three days shy of his 44th birthday, pitched a complete game in the Mets' 3-2 victory, allowing two runs, one earned, in the ninth inning. ... Two years later, another future Hall of Famer earned his first big league victory. Tom Seaver pitched 7 1/3 innings in the Mets' 6-1 victory against the Cubs at Shea Stadium. Seaver hadn't been involved in the decision in his first start.
On this date in 1986, Sid Fernandez and Roger McDowell, a combination manager Davey Johnson liked -- a left-handed fly-ball starter followed by a right-handed ground-ball reliever -- combined to limit the Phillies to two singles in the Mets' 8-0 victory at Shea. ... With the bottom of the batting order responsible for four runs -- Dwight Gooden and Kevin Elster drove in two each -- the Mets defeated the Phillies, 6-2, at Shea Stadium on this date in 1988. Gooden struck out 10 in a complete game.
A complete game by Bobby Jones, a two-run home run by John Olerud and a grand slam by Carl Everett produced an 8-2 Mets victory against the Cubs in the first game of a doubleheader at Shea on this date in 1997. The Mets lost the second game, 4-3. ... Melvin Mora hit a home run in the 10th inning to provide the winning margin in the Mets' 5-4 victory against the Brewers at Shea on this date in 2000. ... Five days after he had pitched a one-hit shutout against the Marlins at Shea, Aaron Heilman allowed 11 hits and seven runs in four innings against the Fish in Miami on this date in 2005. Juan Encarnacion, who went hitless with three strikeouts in the one-hitter, had a single and a home run in three at-bats before Heilman was removed after four innings in the 9-2 Mets loss.
Worthy of note
At one point before the game Tuesday, Jerry Manuel said he would allow the game to dictate how deep in the game he would allow starter Mike Pelfrey to pitch. He was quite aware Pelfrey had pitched an inning Saturday after pitching seven Thursday. Manuel also said he thought he might have to "give back the [Saturday] inning" against the Cubs.Pelfrey ended up going seven against the Cubs, yielding just three hits without allowing a run. Pelfrey had worked quite effectively with Henry Blanco, who was behind the plate Tuesday night, as his catcher Thursday and again Saturday. But Manuel was quick to point out his choice of catcher had more to do with Rod Barajas needing a day off than Blanco's effect on Pelfrey. The manager said he had wanted to rest Barajas Monday but didn't want to have a lineup without Barajas and Jose Reyes. Manuel said he considered Barajas the primary tough-luck hitter among the Mets through their first 13 games and suggested fatigue may have contributed to the catcher's swinging at pitches out of the strike zone. ... Apropos of nothing in particular, Manuel said he and the Mets' coaches thought Jon Niese was throwing better in Spring Training than any of the other four starters, Johan Santana included. That was why, he said, the club didn't hesitate to move Niese from the No. 5 spot to the No. 3 in the rotation. But the genesis of the change was to separate John Maine and Oliver Perez. They were considered the least likely of the five to pitch into the late innings. So having them as the Nos. 4 and 5 starters was more likely to strain the bullpen resources.
Marty Noble is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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On October 19th, the Poway City Council tried to follow the rules by initiating a General Plan Amendment that would actually permit lights to be placed at the Arbolitos Sports Fields. While the council's attempt to actually follow the law is laudable, what is striking is the implicit threat of a lawsuit required to get them to take this course. Sadly, the fight to insure that the city council represents the interests of all Poway citizen is not over yet, and will continue so long as a council is in place that chooses not to adhere to the standards and ideals of Poway, as codified in the General Plan.
The level of effort required by the citizenry to get this council to follow the rules, or at the very least listen to their concerns, is far too high. The people composing the current city council are not bad people, they are just not appropriate leaders for Poway, if it is to move forward as the city it was envisioned to be.
Mullin is ethically horribly compromised and has insurmountable conflicts of interest. Higginson long ago lost touch with anyone outside of his base, and Kruse lacks any form of independence, choosing simply to vote with whomever appointed him. Never has the choice been more clear or serious.
A vote for the incumbents is a vote to change the city into Box Stores in the South and McMansions in the North.
A vote for Babich, Grosch, and Stavros, is a vote for better city governance that will maintain Poway as the City we know. Choose wisely, Poway.
If you want to get involved, download the Poway Voter Guide and print some out for yourself and give the rest to your neighbors. Only if you get out the vote will you be able to maintain your quality of life.


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— Don't delay fiscal cliff
(New Castle, Pa., News)
There are two obvious possibilities regarding Washington's struggle with the fiscal cliff.
First, Republicans and Democrats could engage in tough negotiations that reach a compromise to spread some very real — and very unpopular — pain.
Second, efforts to negotiate a fiscal deal between the two parties collapse, resulting in harsh budget cuts and tax increases across the board. Many economists say the impact of this drastic move would force the nation's economy back into recession.
Neither of these options is the sort of thing a politician typically wants to be associated with. That's why we're worried about a third alternative, one that could look increasingly attractive to the nation's lawmakers as they near that fiscal cliff.
We refer to a temporary extension of existing taxation and spending figures, the proverbial kicking the budget can down the road. It's a variation of what got America into this position in the first place.
The fiscal cliff that everyone's talking about is the penalty placed on the nation after last year's budget negotiations failed. Congress and President Obama agreed to create the cliff. The intent was to present an alternative so ugly and so politically unpopular that Washington's politicians would be forced to compromise.
Unfortunately, that idea didn't work very well. Amid election-year posturing, the two parties failed to resolve their differences. And now the nation is dealing with the cliff.
We hear lots of accusations and see lots of finger pointing from Washington as Republicans and Democrats argue the other side is taking an extreme position and unwilling to budge. Some of this undoubtedly is the sort of maneuvering the parties typically engage in ahead of any negotiated agreement.
In fact, plenty of political observers believe what's happening now is merely for show. Ultimately, a deal will be struck to avoid the fiscal cliff.


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The fighting Norse Vanir and the Aesir gods decided to make a truce, so each side spat in a vat to seal their peace. The gods removed the spittle from the vat to keep the compact safe, then shaped the spittle into the form of a man, whom they named Kvasir. Kvasir was the wisest man on earth. He spent his days instructing humans and answering every question posed to him. In one particularly brilliant display of his intellect Kvasir helped the gods, who were hunting Loki, because he could even read ash residue.
One day, Kvasir received an invitation from Fjalar and Galarr, a couple of dwarves, so he visited them. Being evil dwarves, they, of course, killed Kvasir, but being practical dwarves, they then preserved his precious blood in two vats (Són and Bodn) and a kettle (Ódrerir). Then they mixed honey with the blood and so produced mead, which would keep better than plain blood.
Not yet finished with their mischief, the dwarves invited over the giant Gillingr and his wife. They took Gillingr out in a boat, deliberately capsized it, and then left Gillingr to drown, which he could easily do since he didn't know how to swim. The two dwarves straightened their boat, rowed back home, and reported to the giantess widow. She wailed until they offered to take her to see where her husband had drowned. On her way out, Fjalar let a millstone fall and crush the poor widow.
The dwarves were not to get away scot-free. The giant pair had a grown son named Suttungr who heard what had happened. He lifted and carried the dwarves out to sea and set them on a reef where they frantically begged for their lives. They offered the giant the poetic mead as a price for his father's death.
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Win Win vs. Everything Must Go
It's another edition of Watch This, Not That. I'll compare "Win Win" and "Everything Must Go."
Usually when I do Watch This, Not That, I'll compare movies that have something in common, like actor, genre or new release. This week, I decided to review two new indie films.
Indies aren't usually overly exciting, but movie fans of character relationships and drama tend to enjoy these films more than others.
"Win Win" stars Paul Giamatti and Amy Ryan (Holly from The Office). It's the story of Mike (Giamatti) and his struggles to keep his law firm open, while still coaching the high school wrestling team and supporting his family.
Things take a turn for the better when the grandson of one of his clients shows up. Mike decides to take him in and allows him to wrestle on his team.
It turns out that the kid is an amazing wrestler and, in the end, helps bring out the best in Mike.
I wasn't sure what to expect here, but I was pretty happy with "Win Win." I thought Giamatti did a great job and the story was strong.
"Everything Must Go" stars Will Ferrell and Rebecca Hall.
It's the story of Nick (Ferrell) and an unfortunate turn of events. On the same day that he's fired from his long-time job, his wife changes the locks and puts all of Nick's belongings out on the front lawn.
Nick hires a kid to help him set up a yard sale in exchange for minimum wage and teaching the kid how to play baseball.
Nick has a strong drinking problem and must overcome that and several other personality defects to move on.
I liked Rebecca Hall in "The Town" and was excited to see her in this.
I also like that Ferrell can still have a serious role in a movie.
Overall, I was really excited to see "Everything Must Go" and was slightly let down.
"Win Win" was a solid movie from start to finish, and it kept me interested throughout.
"Everything Must Go" has an interesting story and had a few laughs with it as well.
At the end of the day, I would recommend that you watch "Win Win" (8.0/10) and not "Everything Must Go" (7.4/10).
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The Wildcats and the Mountaineers will meet for the fifth time on Saturday including the fourth time in the last four seasons.
You might recall that Bob Huggins laid the foundation for the Wildcat's success coaching them in 2006-2007 to a 23-win season.
Kansas State (13-4, 3-1 in conference play) just came off a win over Oklahoma on Tuesday night 72-66. The Wildcat's have impressive wins over TCU and Oklahoma State and their only conference loss was a 23-point blowout to Kansas.
The Wildcats had five players score in double digits en route to defeating No. 25 Oklahoma. Marcus Foster scored 18 points and Shane Southwell added 16 to rally the Wildcats back from a 62-56 deficit, with just over 5 minutes left to play. Nino Williams clinched the victory in the closing seconds, sinking four very important free throws.
Ryan Spangler had a career high 21 points and 14 rebounds and Buddy Heild scored 12 points for Oklahoma (13-4, 2-2 in conference play) but it wasn't enough to offset a lousy night by Cameron Clark, the Big 12's leading scorer.
The Mountaineers (10-7, 2-2 in conference play) lost to Texas Monday night (80-69) and were only 4 of 25 from behind the arc, missing 15 straight at one point. This was the Mountaineers worst performance of the season, and their first double-digit loss following a heartbreaking loss to Oklahoma State two days prior.
Juwan Staten has scored at least 20 points in each of his last three games, is averaging better then 20 points per game in Big 12 play so far this year and he ranks near the top of every statistical category, including assists per game. (6.1)
Staten has certainly caught the attention of teams and coaches around the league, especially Kansas State. In the loss to Texas, State had 23 points, 3 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals.
"Staten can get by anybody," said Kansas State head coach Bruce Weber. "His numbers against Oklahoma State were phenomenal and those are some of the better guards in the country defending him."
Guard play will be extremely important as both team's offense is mostly outside shooting. "West Virginia has three very good guards," said Brue Weber. "We must get back in transition."
"The team that usually gets the most easy baskets wins," said Bob Huggins. Hitting open shots against the Wildcats will be critical to the Mountaineers success Saturday and in the Big 12 conference the rest of the season.
The Wildcats host the Mountaineers at the Bramlage Coliseum
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PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Public Works officials said they have learned plenty of lessons from previous snow storms and that preparation is key.
It is hard to predict when that first heavy blanket of snow will fall here in the Midwest. Public Works crews said they began planning in August and September for snowstorms that could hit anytime.
Public Works Manager David Haste said early planning helps them stay ready for severe winter weather.
"Our routings, our mapping process we go over, we add any new streets that we may have gotten through some kind of construction," Haste said.
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In few days is Mother's Day. I had been thinking what to give my mother for this very special day. As you all know, she lives with my aunt in Chicago and I don't see her very often. I wished that she can stay with me, but with her medical issues, she has to stay there. I thought of giving her some sterling silver jewelry which I know will be perfect. She is not a jewelry person, but if it's from me, I don't think she will mind. She's been wanting a pair of watch, hmmm…
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Non-intuitive UIs
May 30, 2011
Have a look at this page:
OMG, it includes the word "participle", WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!?
Well, what you have no way of knowing is that you can double-click this or any other word and go to the entry for that word. Not a bad feature at all, but not very obvious either :-)
RAID trouble
August 20, 2010
I had heard about software RAID and hardware RAID, but I had not heard about fakeRAID. And how typical it is that I learn about this on the Ubuntu wiki after an evening spent on:
1) Squeezing myself into the tight space under our staircase to install a cheap SATA/RAID controller in my server
2) Setting up keyboard and monitor to get into the BIOS of that controller
3) Creating a RAID0 set and discovering that this did not "just work" under Ubuntu. Ubuntu still sees two distinct drives…WTF?
4) Lots of Googling and reading through forum threads
5) Getting uncomfortable again to uninstall the cheap controller card that I now hate!
It turns out that some controller chip vendors, Silicon Image included, produce some inexpensive "RAID" controllers that are really just SATA controllers with a BIOS on them to assist in setting up the RAID arrays. I'll admit that I don't understand (or care about) the details of this, but these controllers seem to offer better performance than pure software RAID, plus they allow most OSs to boot from the RAID array.
However, not being a real HW RAID means some OS interaction is required. The array is not presented to the OS as a single, large drive. So the advantages of fakeRAID are uninteresting to me, because what I wanted was easier setup.
So I have decided to go with an ordinary Linux SW RAID, which by all accounts is very reliable and relatively easy to set up. If I run into any interesting "learning opportunities", I'll blog about it.
By the way, the controller in question here is a DeLock branded 4-port SATA controller. The chipset on it is a SiI3114. Here it is on the website of my local parts shop.
January 13, 2010
I don't usually care much about Internet memes, but this one is pretty funny.
Via Mentalized.
It was started by Tim van Damme:
A simple game: Go to the address bar in your favorite browser, and
type one letter. Start with "a", end with "z".
Here goes:
- A: http://aarhusrb.dk/
- B: http://bit.ly/
- C: http://chopmo.dk/
- D: http://docs.google.com/
- E: (Internal VMware site)
- F: http://www.facebook.com/
- G: http://gmail.com/
- H: http://heroku.com/
- I: http://www.ikea.com/
- J: http://java.sun.com/
- K: http://kristinept.blogspot.com/
- L: http://localhost:3000/
- M: http://mail.google.com/
- N: http://nomachine.com/
- O: http://overblikket.blogspot.com/
- P: http://pclager.dk/
- Q: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cq?d=v1&s=TRIFOR.CO,+VMW
- R: http://reader.google.com/
- S: (Staging site)
- T: http://twitter.com/
- U: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
- V: http://version2.dk/
- X: http://www.newartisans.com/blog_files/too.much.good.stuff.php#unique-entry-id-72
- Y: http://www.youtube.com/
- Z: http://www.zimbra.com/
Chromium without the spellchecker on OSX
January 5, 2010
I really, really like the Chrome/Chromium browser, and I've become more or less addicted to it. The ability to search directly from the address bar (or whatever it's called) is a small but extremely useful feature. Also, in my experience it is both faster and less resource hungry than the alternatives, Safari and Firefox.
On Linux and Windows, I use it all the time without problems. But on OSX, one issue has just been too annoying to allow me to use Chrome exclusively: The spellchecker can't be disabled. The issue it tracked here and here, they just haven't gotten around to fixing it yet. And since I write a lot of email in Danish, all the red underlining it very distracting (I know that it can be disabled for one text field at a time, but that's not very cool either).
So I decided to roll a custom build. As you would expect, disabling the spellchecker (permanently) is trivial:
Index: chrome/browser/spellchecker_mac.mm =================================================================== --- chrome/browser/spellchecker_mac.mm (revision 35439) +++ chrome/browser/spellchecker_mac.mm (working copy) @@ -145,24 +145,25 @@ static int last_seen_tag_; bool CheckSpelling(const string16& word_to_check, int tag) { - last_seen_tag_ = tag; +// last_seen_tag_ = tag; - // [[NSSpellChecker sharedSpellChecker] checkSpellingOfString] returns an - // NSRange that we can look at to determine if a word is misspelled. - NSRange spell_range = {0,0}; +// // [[NSSpellChecker sharedSpellChecker] checkSpellingOfString] returns an +// // NSRange that we can look at to determine if a word is misspelled. +// NSRange spell_range = {0,0}; - // Convert the word to an NSString. - NSString* NS_word_to_check = base::SysUTF16ToNSString(word_to_check); - // Check the spelling, starting at the beginning of the word. - spell_range = [[NSSpellChecker sharedSpellChecker] - checkSpellingOfString:NS_word_to_check startingAt:0 - language:nil wrap:NO inSpellDocumentWithTag:tag - wordCount:NULL]; +// // Convert the word to an NSString. +// NSString* NS_word_to_check = base::SysUTF16ToNSString(word_to_check); +// // Check the spelling, starting at the beginning of the word. +// spell_range = [[NSSpellChecker sharedSpellChecker] +// checkSpellingOfString:NS_word_to_check startingAt:0 +// language:nil wrap:NO inSpellDocumentWithTag:tag +// wordCount:NULL]; // If the length of the misspelled word == 0, // then there is no misspelled word. - bool word_correct = (spell_range.length == 0); - return word_correct; +// bool word_correct = (spell_range.length == 0); + // return word_correct; + return true; } void FillSuggestionList(const string16& wrong_word,
The diff is a bit messy, but I just commented out the entire body of the CheckSpelling method and replaced it with "return true". As in "Sure, that word is correct" :-)
If you want it, you can download it from here.
Of course, this means that I now use Chromium instead of Google Chrome, but so far I haven't noticed any adverse effects from making that switch.
November 25, 2009
This blog may look like it is dying, but that is in fact not the case.
What you're looking at is the technical, english-language content from my personal weblog, on which these entries will soon be removed, of course. I recently realized that mixing personal and techical stuff on one blog is probably not a good idea. Neither is mixing languages (danish and english).
Thankfully, the solution is pretty easy with WordPress' export/import feature: Split the blog into two. This is the technical half of that split.
So on this blog I will write about all kinds of technical stuff, mostly programming- or Emacs-related. I'll probably spend some words on tips and tricks for the efficient use of Emacs. Emacs has been one of the great revalations for me, and it pains me to think about how many years I made do with all kinds of inferior text editors. However, I'll try not to write annoying things like that on the blog. :-)
I won't limit the scope to Emacs, though. Basically, I'll write about anything where I feel that I may be able to help others. Also, I'll often use the blog as a notepad for configuration snippets, gotchas etc. that I tend to forget. Chances are that others forget them as well. The post about changing text encoding in Emacs is a perfect example of this.
This post is really just a marker, because there's already some content on the blog. I just wanted to explain the change of address, the huge temporal gaps (clearly I have some catching up to do) as well as stating my intentions for the future of the blog. I'm really looking forward to putting a lot more stuff up here. On my personal wiki, I have a long list of topics to write about, so it's time to get cracking.
Comments are always very welcome!
New Clojure entry on dcug blog
September 10, 2009
For those interested in Clojure programming (and yes Thomas, I know that's not you :)), I have posted an entry on the blog of the Danish Clojure Users Group:
Discovering Project Euler
December 14, 2008
A colleague of mine recently introduced me to Project Euler, and I am slowly becoming hooked.
Project Euler is a collection of mathematical challenges that usually require some programming to be solved. Some are relatively simple (eg. "Find the 10001st prime") while others are complex ("Using up to one million tiles how many different "hollow" square laminae can be formed?").
Since I did not study mathematics, most of these problems seem intimidating to me at first. However, a lot of them can be solved with programming skills, simply by doing a more or less brute force search for the answer.
Solving the problems in order, they become progressively harder. But the beauty of it is that a problem often builds on the skills acquired while working on a previous problem.
So if you're a programmer and you like puzzles involving maths, I highly recommend that you check it out. You can use any programming language you like, only the answer matters, always expressed as some big number.
Moving my blog here from Blogger
October 21, 2008
I had been blogging on blogger.com for a while, but the last few months, I have been increasingly annoyed with the service. Little things, mostly, like the way the editor works and how the Preview mode is very far from the appearance of the published entry.
However, the main reason for the switch was the fact that I simply could not get Emacs support working. g-client took me some of the way, but it wasn't nearly good enough in its current state.
Just one example: To create a new blog entry, I needed to specify a "post URL". And to obtain that, I needed to invoke some method (forgot the name) which created a temporary webpage on my harddisk and launched Safari to show it to me! On that webpage, I could then see an overview of the blogs I had on Blogger (a list with 1 element), copy the link to the "post URL" of the blog and paste it back into Emacs.
Also, to save my new entry as a draft, I had to modify the template used for new entries to include some XML snippet that I had to look up in the Google API. And after saving or publishing an entry, the buffer was completely garbled for some reason.
OK, that was a few more examples ;-)
I'm not sure if it was just me who completely misunderstood how to use this library, but it seemed extremely rough around the edges.
As I have described in another entry, blogging from Emacs works beautifully with WordPress. And Emacs is where I want to spend my time, also when blogging. I like it here, it's comfy.
Actually, I was planning on doing a thorough comparison between Blogger and WordPress, but I have realized that this would be pointless, because hundreds of others have done just that. So just google for it if you're considering which to choose.
Cat faucet, crude edition
July 22, 2008
If you're a cat owner, you know that cats love to drink from the faucet!
Being a cat owner myself, I was pretty excited to learn about this Cat Faucet project by Sixerdoodle Electronics. I have often thought about building something similar myself, but I had never gotten around to it.
However, even though the design of the Sixerdoodle Cat Faucet is very elegant, I find it more complicated than necessary (mainly because they wanted to keep it low voltage, it turns out).
So I started wondering how to build the simplest possible cat faucet. This is what I came up with:
(Open above image, with notes, in a new window)
(Diva enjoying the running water)
The complete list of components:
- a solenoid from an old dishwasher
- a movement sensor (the kind usually used to light up a driveway)
- a few bits of plumbing
- a piece of gaffer tape to limit the area monitored by the sensor
(Solenoid from an old dishwasher)
(The movement sensor, pointed straight down)
That's it. The flow of water is controlled simply by adjusting the position of the red valve that lets water into the system. The sensitivity and timeout of the sensor can be controlled with small knobs on the underside.
My wife put a little bowl underneath the faucet to allow the cats to drink from a surface of water as well as from the running water. Excess water simply spills down the drain below.
Contrary to the Sixerdoodle design, my cat faucet is not low voltage (it runs on 230V, our mains voltage in Denmark). However, because both components were designed to be safe and withstand pretty rough conditions, this does not worry me at all.
(The finished setup, tucked away under a small shelving unit)
(Obviously, it takes a little practice!)
February 9, 2008
Hello, and welcome.
This blog will be mostly about Emacs. For now, anyway. I have a feeling that, along the way, I will probably start blogging about other subjects as well. But for now, I'm writing about Emacs.
Note that my blog will not be for the Emacs newbie. Although I certaintly recommend investing the time needed to learn the basics of this wonderful editor, there are already a lot of great resources out there to get you started. For an excellent starting point, check out the Emacs wiki.
I hope that others will be able to make use of my experiences on my way to becoming an expert Emacs user. Feel free to comment away!


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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Tribesmen tied a Pakistani soldier to the hood of a car and stoned him to death in the country's restive northwest for allegedly having a romantic relationship with a local woman, government officials and a tribal elder said Wednesday.
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Karen Heywood of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, will visit Old Dominion University's Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography on Monday, Nov. 7, to discuss her studies of the major currents and other water flows off Antarctica that affect the distribution of krill.
Her presentation, "Go with the Flow: Physical Processes in the Northwest Weddell Sea and Some Implications for Krill," will begin at 3:30 p.m. in Room 3200 of the Innovation Research Park Building 1. The seminar and a reception that begins at 3 p.m. are free and open to the public.
Krill are tiny, shrimplike crustaceans that are an important food source for whales and other sea creatures. Heywood's recent research into pathways taken by water masses helps to explain variations in the krill populations found at different times in various locations.
Her research focuses on large-scale observational oceanography. The work addresses the circulation, processes and dynamics of the polar oceans, the most critical part of the global climate system.
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I believe you need to put yourself in Cleveland's shoes (as well as the Texans) when thinking about trading back. The deal has to work for both sides, otherwise it won't happen. If I was Cleveland, I might rather trade with the Rams than the Texans. At second spot, two of the top 3 QB's (Teddy, Bortles, Manziel) will still be there. The trade charts only show a difference of 800 pts between 4 and 2, rather than 1200 between the 4th spot and the 1st pick. So Cleveland stands to give up a lot less by moving to the 2nd spot.
The Rams would probably be a willing trade partner, since they would be picking 4th, and the top 3 teams (Texans, Cleve, Jax) figure to pick a QB, while the Rams are probably more interested in an OT (Mathews). That would leave Mathews still available to them at 4, and probably Clowney as well. So the Rams basically lose nothing they want and acquire picks.
So if the Texans want to trade back, I think they have to compete with the kind of offer the Rams would take. In other words, I don't think we can realistically expect Cleveland to offer full trade value for the pick. In fact, the Rams have so little to lose, they might offer them a good deal. Going by the trade charts, a fair deal between Cleveland and the Rams would be to swap 2 and 4, and for Cleveland to throw in their 2nd and 3rd round picks (35 and 71), worth 550 and 240 pts, or 790 pts...close enough to 800 to be fair. A little better deal for Cleveland, and one the Rams might go for, is to swap 2 and 4, and Cleveland gives the Rams their other first round pick at 26, worth 700 pts.
The Texans would have to compete with that. The question, therefore, is how little would you take in exchange for the top pick in order to move down?


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Let there be no mistake: College football is the most insane sport league out there. People might be fans of other leagues, because of the higher level of play. They might like other leagues, because of the fairness and parity. But for fans of college football, they don't care about fairness. What is most important is the unique insanity of it all.
ManBearCal: I was born in Houston, Texas. My grandfather went to Texas for medical school. My dad went to Texas. My uncle went to Texas. My aunt went to Texas. One of my cousins went to Texas. Thus, I was raised a Texas fan. My folks were pretty close to naming me Earl, after the great Texas and then Houston Oiler running back Earl Campbell. That would have actually been pretty sweet if not for that Jason Lee show that would have made my late adolescence a series of cliche and lame jokes. My dad owns numerous books and gametapes chroncling the many great years of Texas football, many gifted to him by my brother and I. For his 60th birthday, we flew him out to Austin and we all went to a UT game. He also owns a metallic burnt orange Texas starter jacket that i covet to this day. Yeah, it's ugly. But it's a COOL ugly.
[Twist Note: I'm only posting this here to make ManBearCal happy]
My family moved to Northern California when I was almost three. We lived in the shadow of Berkeley for most of my life, yet Cal was never a school I had a major rooting interest in. My college team was Texas. It wasn't until I got my acceptance to Cal and took a lengthy tour of the campus that I really fell in love. My time at Cal obviously led to my fan allegiance changing, but not that drastically. Cal was now my school and my team and I loved it dearly, but I still followed and rooted for Texas. Texas was my fandom mistress. We'd been flirting for my entire life...even after my union with Cal. And it seemed fine. Different conferences, different opponents, completely free of conflict. Cal never even had to KNOW I'd been seeing Texas. And it wasn't really cheating, because they were in different zip codes. It was a very clean arrangement until 2004.
2004. Meh. While I was massively disappointed for my Bears, I could never muster up the kind of vitriol and bitterness towards Texas that so many other Cal fans had in some such a hefty supply. How could I? Had it been ANY other team, I would have been fine going along with the hate and indignation. How about Notre Dame? I've always disliked them. That would have been a cinch. Hell, I would have been leading the charge, pitchfork in hand. But this was my OTHER team. I watched the 2005 Rose Bowl. It was a great game. And I was glad Texas won. I also watched the 2004 Holiday Bowl. It was a shitty game. And I was BEYOND pissed that Cal lost. I vaguely recall some heavy hate drinking...which involved various brown liquids of 80 or higher proof, repeatedly cursing Mike Leach, and ultimately having to walk home after pissing off my future wife for just generally acting like a bitter, drunken dickhead. Luckily, she's gotten used to it since then.
And you know what? I also watched the 2006 Rose Bowl (BCS National Championship game) between SC and Texas. And I absolutely rooted for Texas, conference allegiance be damned. I watched with my family, and when Vince Young scored the winning touchdown on 4th and 5 with 19 seconds left, we all rejoiced. Well, except for my brother's rather douchey USC friend who was watching with us. We screamed, we cheered, we high-fived. And when the game clock hit zero, everyone outside of douchey SC guy toasted the great victory and drank cheap champagne out of red plastic keg cups. Yep, that's how we rolled in the childhood house of MBC. We spent the hours following the game calling and taking calls from friends and family about the awesome win, just basking in it. And it was awesome. I was happy for my my dad, happy for my family and friends. And I didn't feel guilty. At all. Still don't.
[ManBearCal, you have to own the McConaughey thing. Also, the Heisman thing is ironically funny now.]
I make no apologies for my conflicting fan interests. I understand the bitterness of my fellow Cal fans towards Texas, and I understand why most Texas fans don't give a shit about Cal. I tow the line between both sides, but seldom participate in the discussions that inevitably devolve into tired geographic stereotypes...something both sides are often guilty of. But let's face it, if Cal's program were able to sustain any kind of success over the years (something Texas never had a problem with until recently), we wouldn't be so raw about 2004. It's not Texas' fault that we haven't sniffed a BCS Bowl since then. It makes me sad that under Tedford, Cal is most known for spectacular faceplants on national TV and almost going to the Rose Bowl 7 years ago. But I think Cal will have its time in the sun soon. New facilities and great recruiting classes may signal the rise of Cal as a legitimate national power. At least, that's what I believe. And I want it so badly. Texas will always be Texas. Mediocrity is an aberration for them. They'll be fine too.
I'm really looking forward to the Holiday Bowl, and I'm also looking forward to our home and home series with Texas in 2015 and 2016. While I won't make the Holiday Bowl this month, I'll be watching it very closely. I know a lot about this Texas team, having followed them all year...because I'm an unapologetic Texas fan. My family is already planning get-togethers centered around the future series between our two teams. But make no mistake, I'll be rooting for Cal in every game, Holiday Bowl and beyond. I was born and raised a Texas fan, but I was bathed in blue and gold and BORN AGAIN as a Cal fan. Go Bears.


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Looming Regulatory Wave Vexes Industry
Securitization professionals are getting worried that the inauguration of President Barack Obama in January will usher in an onslaught of regulatory constraints that they've been able to beat back in the past.
The start of the Obama Administration, coupled with larger Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate, will likely lead to a revival of proposals that could make it more difficult, expensive or risky to issue and buy structured-finance products.
Indeed, overhauling the U.S. financial system "is one of the first missions of the new Congress," Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), said Monday in an address at a SIFMA conference at the Marriott Marquis hotel in New York. Schumer is a member of the Senate Banking Committee.
The prospect of a radical new regulatory regime has especially riled the market for private-label mortgage-backed securities, contributing to a recent lack of liquidity and plummeting bond values.
"The markets are very skittish, and I think rightfully so, about that transition," said Greg Peters, head of U.S. credit strategy at Morgan Stanley. He spoke during a panel discussion at the SIFMA conference, which focused on the U.S. Treasury Department's financial-system bailout.
Securitization professionals are particularly concerned that the idea of applying "assignee liability" to MBS issues will get a new lease on life, even though they previously succeeded in pushing back that threat several times over the years. Such a measure would permit mortgage borrowers who feel they were wronged by the original lenders to pursue civil or criminal complaints against parties that assume interests in the credits down the line, such as whole-loan buyers, MBS investors and underwriters.
A bill along those lines passed the House last year, but languished in the Senate. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has promised to reintroduce the measure in 2009.
"That kind of broad, sweeping extension of risk could seriously impede the securitization of any loan," one attorney said in an interview. It's widely believed that many investors and underwriters would avoid securitized products if they could be held liable for moves and decisions made by lenders and other shops involved in the deals.
Market players are also concerned that the federal government could adopt a more borrower-friendly approach to bankruptcies and loan modifications. Amending the terms of securitized mortgages could disrupt deal cashflows, causing pain for bondholders (see article on Page 3).
Buyers of future MBS offerings would also be forced to compensate for that risk by demanding more credit protection and fatter returns. That, in turn, would drive up the overall cost of credit in the U.S. "Those are huge potential issues for the mortgage-backed securities market," the lawyer said.
However, lawmakers are mulling some regulatory reforms that many agree would be good for the industry. For example, a government guarantee on modified mortgages would make the credits more palatable to investors.
The American Securitization Forum and Mortgage Bankers Association have been successful in the past in lobbying lawmakers to reject legislation that would stifle securitization. But the trade groups aren't saying how they plan to approach the looming wave of regulatory changes.
Meanwhile, the Financial Accounting Standards Board is finalizing a long-developing rule change that would eliminate the longstanding practice of using qualified special purpose entities to issue asset- and mortgage-backed securities. FASB's proposal would make it more difficult for issuers to move the underlying assets off their balance sheets.
Without that advantage, securitization may cease to be an economical funding route for many lenders - especially credit-card companies. The overall pool of receivables available for securitization could be further diminished if Congress and the Federal Reserve follow through on plans to stiffen rules that card lenders must follow when charging fees, changing customers' interest rates and allocating payments.
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In order to find the coffins, somebody needs to undagger Elijah, then Elijah will tell either elena or damon were their located.
There's only one problem: Only Stefan & Klaus know where Elijah's coffin is. And remember, he was "united with his family" so he already IS with the other original's coffins.
Ok, I'm guilty. I just caught up on dvr and missed the debate. Maybe you could also tell me the outcome of the "if they deed the house to Elena to give her a safe house, why throw a party and invite 200 people over?" debate? :)
Because it is irrelevant. Caroline invited everyone. Elena's invite is the only one that will grant a vampire entrance. If a vampire got invited on Caroline's watch, she/he just wouldn't be able to enter.


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By Eugene Hernandez | Indiewire December 21, 2009 at 4:53AM
December 21, 2009, New York, NY -- "Doing it the old way really doesn't work," according to film producer Thomas Woodrow, "So few films actually succeed that way." It's a sentiment that's been shared in countless panel discussions and private conversations in 2009. Now, with a new year and another cycle of the annual film festival circuit nearly upon us, Woodrow is forging ahead with a plan aimed at changing the way that smaller independent films find an audience. Namely, he's taking his 2010 Sundance Film Festival production -- Linas Philips' "Bass Ackwards" -- directly from the festival into national distribution the day after the Park City event ends.
If you make, market, or simply care about the future of indie movies, keep an eye on Woodrow's approach. This is a first for a Sundance Film Festival movie. Will it be a defining moment for a new decade of film distribution and give emerging and established filmmakers new models to explore outside the system?
Dec. 14, 2009: The Future of Festivals?
"Rather than going into Sundance hoping to sell the film, we've put together a couple of key partnerships so that we'll actually be able to release it nationwide on February 1st," Woodrow said, in a YouTube video that he posted this weekend to tease his emerging alternative distribution approach. He's working with digital and DVD distributor New Video and veteran marketer Marian Koltai-Levine's Zipline Entertainment on this new model. "If you hear about the film in the press at Sundance, you can actually go see it the next day," said Woodrow, who also produced "True Adolescents" at SXSW earlier this year.
Screening in Sundance's new NEXT section for lower-budget movies, "Bass Ackwards" is the sort of film -- essentially a quirky and lyrical road movie without name actors -- that can find a nearly impossible time in the marketplace today. The new festival section could become a central place for exploring new models of distribution. Expect this emerging digital market strategy at Sundance, and the experiments being developed, to be an important part of the upcoming festival.
"Because our film cost only $30,000, we feel we can take the risk of doing something totally idiotic that goes against the way things have normally been done," Woodrow said in the YouTube video this weekend.
Some of the specifics of his plan are still coming together and he's not ready to announce the scope of the "Bass Ackwards" distribution strategy until early in the new year, but in recent conversations, Woodrow assured me that the model for generating revenue will make the movie available to tens of millions of people digitally and perhaps also include a theatrical component.
"We are going to go as big as we possibly can," Woodrow told me in an email message this morning, reiterating that he has to keep the specifics close to the vest for the time being. He's aiming to have a teaser trailer on the film's website by the end of this week.
Numerous filmmakers and producers are talking about these sorts of alternative approaches right now, from a recent creative Summit hosted by MoMA, indieWIRE and Zipline earlier this month that we'll report on extensively in the new year, to coalitions and initiatives being developed by others at this very moment. There is a lot going on and I find it reassuring that months of talking about and experimenting with new models in 2009 will lead to more direct action among even bigger players in 2010.
During a round of conversations and meetings in the wake of a recent weekly column on these topics, I've learned a lot about the next wave of movie distribution from individuals and institutions alike.
More films will pursue a path like Woodrow's in 2010, taking films directly from festivals into immediate distribution, either driven by individual producers and filmmakers or working directly with the fests themselves. As I said last week, keep an eye on the upcoming Sundance, SXSW and Tribeca festivals.
"Basically it's an experiment to see what will happen," Woodrow said, "Rather than using Sundance as a market and being part of that old dream, we just make it available immediately in as many ways as we can."
Eugene Hernandez is the Editor-in-Chief & Co-Founder of indieWIRE and can be reached on his blog, through Facebook or via Twitter: @eug.
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Albany - A popular place for 4-wheel enthusiasts is not only dangerous, but legally off limits. Hundreds of people are ignoring no trespassing signs while riding at the sand dunes near the sight of the planned Albany Stadium.
On Saturday, 41 year-old Ted Odom of Colquitt County was backing up a slope when he fell off, and his 4-wheeler rolled over him. He died a day later of internal injuries.
"The 4-wheelers aren't made to handle these steep hills," said Billy Brown of Albany Tractor Company, a Polaris ATV dealer. "ATV's shouldn't be driven up slopes of more than 25 degrees. The sand dune's hills are more extreme."
Polaris requires customers to take a safety course in hopes of curbing accidents. "We teach them how to handle the machine, including maneuvers such as driving up slopes, figure eights and ovals," said Brown.
But, the sand dunes are off limits. A wall of no trespassing signs surround the area, some of which is owned by Oxford Construction. The company also put up a fence to deter riders. Albany police often tell riders to leave. But, their patrol cars can't drive into the interior of the dunes, making it nearly impossible to enforce no trespassing.
Rider Billy Webb, of Albany, says riders must use common sense when riding no matter what course their on. "Some of the drivers don't understand the power of these machines. I teach my sons to use common sense and respect the speed and power of the 4-wheeler," said Webb.
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WE came from Bromley in Kent six months ago to live in Salisbury and we truly love it here.
But the day after we arrived, we went to Sainsbury's for our first shopping trip.
We were not only shocked at the appalling condition of the car park itself but also by the extortionate charges. No wonder Salisbury has a disproportionate number of empty shops.
Very soon parking charges will seriously affect the attitude of visitors as well as shoppers. Just where does the money go that should be spent on the local infrastructure?
The general condition of both roads and footpaths in Salisbury is disgraceful and, in many cases, dangerous.
Why not introduce an annual parking permit for local people similar to that which is already very successful in Fordingbridge?
Incidentally, parking in Bromley is approximately 50 per cent cheaper than it is in Salisbury.
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Man flees after being caught mounting a goat (bestiality)
Bestiality: A man was forced to flee naked after he was caught in the act with a neighbour's goat in Timboywo village in Baringo County.
The owner heard a commotion in the goats den and went to investigate but the suspect ran away.
"It was around midnight when I heard the goat bleat severally and I went out but did not see anybody but I found a pair of trousers, underwear, shoes and a knife," said Peninah Kiptoo.
She said she woke up her husband and they took the clothes and called the area chief and a search was mounted for the suspect.
The villagers found the suspect naked in a bush and beat him up before marching him to Kabarnet police station.
Area OCPD Omondi Musewe confirmed the incident saying that the incident was embarrassing and the suspect will be arraigned in court.
Bestiality acts in Baringo County have been on the rise.
Recently, a man was caught in the act with a donkeyin Koibatek while another was arrested for engaging inbestiality act with a sheep in Kapsoo village in BaringoCentral.


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October 16, 2009 at 9:46 am , by Lisa M. Gerry
Yesterday, a friend of mine sent me a link to this New York Times article about the show 30 Rock. As a devotee to the show, and comedy in particular, she was curious to know what I thought of the harsh criticism of Tina Fey's acting ability. While I find Tina Fey hilarious, I am all for people critiquing performances—I might not agree with your opinion, but I appreciate you expressing it. I do, however, take major issue that in an effort to knock Fey's performance, she was pitted against another comedienne, Amy Poehler. Here is an excerpt from the article:
"…The other striking thing about the new season [of 30 Rock], especially when seen in the same Thursday night lineup as "Parks and Recreation," is the acting limitations of its star and creator, Tina Fey. Ms. Fey is one of the funniest comedy writers on television and a gifted mimic (Sarah Palin), and she is at her worst playing a comic version of herself…That disconnect is all the more obvious this season because Amy Poehler, Ms. Fey's former co-star on "Saturday Night Live," is so deliciously believable as a rural version of Liz: Leslie Knope… Ms. Poehler is not as distinguished a writer as Ms. Fey, but she is a more supple comedian, and she is thoroughly at ease in the role of an adorably deluded and ridiculous single woman…"
I am a huge fan of Amy Poehler, but even the compliments given to her feel demeaned by having them come at the expense of another woman, and a friend no less. I think you'd be hard pressed to find an example where the strengths and weaknesses of two male actors are directly compared like this. And then there's Britney Spears v. Christina Aguilera, Team Aniston and Team Jolie, and celeb weeklies' "Who Wore it Best?" Bottom line: This tired "lady vs. lady" is good for no one. If there is an argument to be made about a person's abilities, it can surely be made without conjuring up the archaic catfight.
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True Stories of 'The Underground Railroad' will be celebrated at a dramatic reading for Black History Month to be held on Saturday, February 11 at 1 PM at Southside Hub of Production (SHoP), 5638 S. Woodlawn.
Written by Hyde Parker Osa Buchner, the Underground Railroad, tells the true stories of the heroic people who helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom. Featured characters include Harriet Tubman, Thomas Garrett and Henry Box Brown. The parts will be read by Hyde Park residents Richard Buchner, Marcus-David Brown, Judith Heineman, Brian Phillips and Brenda and Rod Sawyer; and by South Sider Alma Washington.
We need to support this local playwright as she works to inspire and enlighten audiences with stories about the people "who helped in the struggle for freedom." Be sure to put The Underground Railroad on your event list for Saturday.
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Another bad day at the office for the Whitecaps then. I haven't felt this disappointed since I found out that the "tripadvisor" website reviewed hotels and not high grade narcotics.
Anyway, on to this week's poll which, just to give us all a break from months of unrelenting misery ignores the Whitecaps and takes a look forward to the upcoming Gold Cup tournament (which will probably just be weeks of unrelenting misery instead).
What does the Gold Cup mean to you? Is it a fascinating opportunity to see how the Canadian team is progressing in it's bid to qualify for (and ultimately win) the 2014 World Cup, or are you as interested in the tournament as Camilo is in defending?
The answers below cover the full gamut of emotions ( "gamut" by the way is a contraction of gamma ut, equivalent to gamma, used to represent the first or lowest tone (G) in the medieval musical scale).
Yeah, suck on that Sounders fans! Your team may have way more points than ours but we can still kick your asses at the etymology of late Middle English/Medieval Latin words!
Last weeks's poll was a complete blowout with nearly 60% of responders not wanting to lose parity from the MLS (thank God the 'Caps have parity!) and "maverick owners" coming in second (thank God the 'Caps don't have maverick owners!).
Now just tell the world what you think about the Gold Cup..