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Just like they play sports, most people play video games for fun. But also just like they play sports, some people play video games competitively, both professionally and in organized amateur leagues. Yes, really. All over the world, big-money tournaments take place constantly, offering the top gamers a chance to prove their skills for fame and fortune, and several organizations exist for registering top scores, regulating high-level tournaments and promoting video games as a virtual sport. Right here in Denver, the Colorado Cutthroat Connection is sponsoring a multi-game tournament this weekend at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, offering local gamers a chance to test their mettle. To shed some light on this burgeoning field of competitive endeavor, we've compiled a list of noteworthy moments in the history of organized competitive gaming. After reading it, don't be surprised if you're struck with the desire to polish up those long neglected Pac-Man skills for a run at the world record.
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1982: Twin Galaxies becomes the scorekeeper of record
You want to know who has the best score ever in Galaga? Twin Galaxies knows (it's some dude named Stephen Krogman, by the way). The Twin Galaxies arcade opened in 1981 and made history on February 9, 1982, when owner Walter Day made public his database of video-game high scores, compiled over months of traveling to every arcade he could find. If you're going to be competitive about something, someone's got to keep track of who's the best, and Twin Galaxies is still filling that role thirty years later. Even Guinness World Records recognizes Twin Galaxies as the official supplier of verified video- game records.
1982: Starcade brings competitive gaming to TV
When Starcade hit the airwaves in December 1982, it validated an entire generation's dream that playing video games competitively was a real thing. How it could not be? It was on TV! It had to be real! Sure, it was just a cheesy game show whose primary purpose was no doubt to market new video games to those impressionable youngsters, but every kid who ever saw it wanted nothing more than to get a shot to show their skills on TV, winning valuable prizes (your very own arcade game, what could be more valuable?) and proving to their parents for once and for all that video games were not a waste of time and money. Take that, dad!
1984: The first billion-point game
The early days of video-game history were all about achieving arbitrarily high scores in various single-player games, and in 1984 the arbitrarily really high threshold of 1 billion (with a B) points was achieved in the game Nibbler (a game remarkably similar to the Snake game found on millions of old cell phones). The feat was achieved at Twin Galaxies (naturally) by Tim McVey, over an almost 45-hour-long marathon game. He was recognized for his achievement by having a day named in his honor, having a feature article written about him in one of the top gaming magazines of the day, and getting a free Nibbler game of his very own.
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and so it begins. year 1.
More than anything I hope to succeed at, my first year homeschooling, I hope to be successful in this:
I want to approach schooling my child, as a child would.
In many areas, but especially in my approach to others and their choices.
Sadly, I have already noticed what a lightning rod the choice to homeschool can be. People won't ask about it, will roll their eyes or be passive aggressive about how it's a great choice, but certainly not one for them. It's clear they are already on the defensive. And perhaps it's because people have made them feel they had to be. I have felt that way, in the past. Unless you did ___________ someone would give you the smile that clearly meant, "That's nice for you, but definitely not for us, so let's just not address it". I'm sure there have been times that I have made someone feel that way, much to my chagrin. It makes people feel horrible. Small. Marginalized.
My daughter has many friends that are homeschooled and many that aren't. We know people who send their children to private school and public. Charter, Montessori and unschooling. She knows all of these kids and approaches each interaction the exact same.
Someone: "I bet you are starting school soon!"
Kensington: "Yes, I go to school in my house, downstairs. My mom is teaching me. What do you do?"
Someone: "I go ___________".
Kensington: "Cool. Want to play?"
Each time I see Kensington embrace someone else, no matter what, it reminds me that I too, need to embrace. Just like I yearn for the embrace of others, in what we have chosen to do. This could be a lesson in so many areas of our lives, but I'm finding that I need to focus on the oppurtunity to exercise a childlike spirit of acceptance, kindness and selflessness, in regards to schooling. I have a choice to recognize that if God leads someone to do something, even if it isn't what our family chooses, I need to shut up and mind my own darn business. Put it out of my mind. Pray for their lives like I hope they pray for ours....because the Lord directs us all differently.
I have found that schooling is rarely polarizing amongst children-my daughter will play with anyone at anytime, regardless of what they look like, are wearing or where they learn.
The choice to school is polarizing amongst adults and it makes me sad, has often hurt my feelings and causes me to wish we had the simple and pure love, of a child.
My sincere hope is that Kensington learns this year. Sure, I want her to gain a passion to learn about letters, numbers and different people, all around the world.
But mostly, I want her to continue to learn the love of the Father.
The love of the Father that would not be unkind or condescending to anyone, no matter where they sent their child to learn.
I hope I am a prepared enough teacher and example, but I fear I fall short.
So, here begins our first school year together.
Send up a prayer for us.
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I praying for you just after I type this. I hope your experience is a blessing. I have my kids in Christian school and get all kinds of crazy looks about why how and what but really, it's no one's business. I think it's sad when Christians do anything other than seek to understand each other and LOVE because He first loved us. Honestly, I am I'm sure I have been guilty of this and a lot of it stems from my own doubts about myself as a mom...Anyway, that's a different story. I know you are going to do wonderfully. I am doing some home preschool with my 4 year old and I love it. I love when he asks me questions about what we're reading and seeing his face light up when he writes his name. Mostly I love learning with him and that experience is priceless!
ReplyDeleteThis is the day that the Lord has made! Rejoice...and don't worry about the comparisons. You were born to be her mother...and her teacher!
ReplyDeletepraying for you in this first year! I'm sure it will be an adventure and K's love for learning will grow by leaps and bounds.
We home-schooled Cam for about a year and a half prior to kinder and she flourished! My mother-in-law did an excellent job in creating a fun learning environment and encouraged her to seek out knowledge and ask questions.
Everyone is going to raise their kids how they see fit and how a child learns or where they go to school is not anything that should ever be judged!
have a great year!I think it's going to be wonderful! You are already so thoughtful, compassionate and interesting..imagine what you can teach your little one!
I always find it sad and disheartening how weird people get about their kids. I know it's hard, but let it roll off of your back. I have a neighbor who continually used to tell me "You're so odd and just CHILL...and you and Brad have really weird schedules!" as if I were doing something wrong or offensive somehow! He's a RN, I'm an artist who works at home.
Not weird, just different.
I think you are going to have a blast!
Rock it, Sister!Oh, friend! One day and one year at a time! With that, I take a deep breath and start my day. We all have such crazy experiences that mold and shape us to have the opinions that we have about which kind of schooling is best. I do think it's important for everyone to have people supporting them in those decisions. I am soooooo thankful for my homeschooling mom friends because they fill me up to be able to encourage the single moms who have no choice but to send their kids to public school. Likewise, moms with kids in public, private, or charter need people around them who are making the same choices. Together, each with our support teams, we should be able to encourage each other in our different choices. I learned this the hard way when my daughter was in private school for K. NO SUPPORT SYSTEM! A lot happened in a year with a change of church and a switch to homeschooling and BAM! SUPPORT! God knew I needed these women to encourage me so that I could turn around and give the best hug ever to my other friend who doesn't homeschool. She needed that love, but I'm not sure I could have offered it if my life wasn't being filled too. Community is so incredibly important and I hope you find that, sweet friend!


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Add edibles to your planting mix, for goodness sake!
Rosalind Creasy, the godmother of edible gardening, says integrating flowers and vegetables keeps your garden healthy by attracting beneficial insects. "It's just good horticulture," she says.
To get started
Starts vs. Seeds: Rosalind Creasy advises growing from starts, not from seed. Keeping an eye on tiny seedlings can be a nightmare, and nurseries are full of healthy starts.
Herbs: Try planting cilantro, parsley and dill in the fall to keep them going longer; they tend to bolt when the weather warms up. Creasy recommends Aussie sweet basil.
Greens: Lettuce, rainbow chard, kale and mustards are nutritious, pretty and easy to grow. Creasy buys beautiful mustards at the Kitazawa Seed Co. (www.kitazawaseed.com/), thought to be the oldest Asian seed company in North America.
Tomatoes: In our cool climate, Creasy suggests growing cherry tomatoes and skipping heirlooms because they need so much warmth to ripen. She trains her current favorite, the dwarf 'Sweet Baby Girl,' up a red trellis. 'Early Girl,' 'Green Zebra' and 'Stupice' are good full-sized bets.
WHEN ROSALIND Creasy, the godmother of edible gardening, judged the Northwest Flower & Garden Show this past winter, she had lots to say about the vegetables in the display gardens.
"Why can't we get past isolating vegetables in raised boxes?" she asked, disappointed not to see more food growing alongside shrubs and flowers.
In the late 1970s, Creasy dug up her front lawn in Los Altos, Calif., and planted strawberries, lettuces, kale and cabbages. It's quaint now to think how revolutionary this seemed when one manicured lawn flowed into another, and vegetables, if grown at all, were banished to the backyard.
In 1982, Creasy wrote "The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping," and we never saw our gardens in quite the same way again. She liberated vegetables from their tidy rows, and advocated trimming beds with lettuces, hedging with blueberries, and planting pots of herbs. We probably owe the breeding of colored cauliflowers and rainbow chard to her belief that edibles had the potential to be as ornamental as any other plant.
Besides, Creasy says, integrating flowers and vegetables keeps your garden healthy by attracting beneficial insects. "It's just good horticulture," she says.
Creasy recommends kiwis, grapes and blueberries for those new to growing food. "Blueberries are full of nutrients; they have year-round interest, and very few pests bother them," she says. Herbs perk up your garden and your cooking; she recommends easy-to-cultivate thyme, oregano, rosemary, sage, parsley and chives.
Lately, Creasy has turned her energies to garden design with an ecological emphasis. Her current project is creating edible gardens for Adobe's corporate headquarters in San Jose. Some of the garden area will be devoted to P-Patches, with master gardeners enlisted to teach employees how to grow food for their families and local food banks.
While Creasy is gratified at the renaissance of young people eager to grow fresh food, she differs from urban-farming advocates. She thinks about color, texture, shape and form as much as productivity. "If it doesn't look pretty, it'll just be a phase," she says. "People seek out beauty in their lives."
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We have no TV reception at all. Best investment I never made.
As Gallagher said: "There's a control of some Televisions marked 'Brightness', but it doesn't seem to work!"
I'm in the same situation as 282, NO television reception out here in the woods in southern Kentucky. I could get satellite if I wanted, but I don't want, need, desire, or even miss it!
I hear about these inane shows like Honey Boo-Boo, and The Kardashians, and I am SO thankful that I have at least enough basic intelligence left to realize that they are nothing but brain-rotting mush, for people with the I.Q. of a kumquat!
If I want to watch a television show, I get the DVD collection, and watch what I want, when I want.
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Honey Boo Boo is not worth watching on tv. What a rip off she is. Correct when said we have not perfected smart tv.
There was an article on Yahoo news today about HBB's mom and how she's just a normal person. This was supposed to change the minds of HBB haters. Didn't work. I don't even watch the commercials for this mindless show about a spoiled brat.
Glad I haven't owned a TV in 20 years.
Depends on what channel you are on. Plenty of them with brighter shows on. It is up to you to find them.
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At CES 2015, USB Implementers Forum demoed USB Type-C, while MSI announces its first gaming laptop and motherboard that support this new connection standard.
The Seagate subsidiary moves its 2big and 5big storage systems to the faster Thunderbolt 2 data-transfer technology -- but adds USB 3 support, too. The new 8big rack-mount system is for those who need even more speed and capacity.
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If Disney's Austin & Ally has got you saying, "Please don't stop the music," then you're in luck, because the duo will return to the small screen this fall. Get ready Ross Lynch and Laura Marano fans.
The show's 2nd season aired it's finale last October, but this week TV Line announced Austin & Ally's comeback.
Adam Bonnett, senior vice president of original programming for Disney Channels Worldwide said the new season "promises excitement for 'Auslly' fans as Austin's music career kicks into full gear and Ally's begins to take flight. This ensemble cast — Ross Lynch, Laura Marano, Raini Rodriguez and Calum Worthy — has incredible comedic chemistry and charm that continues to win audiences over."
Production for season 3 will begin this July in preparation of an October premiere date. When it finally kicks off, you can expect the show to air on Sundays only on Disney.
This year at the 2013 Kids' Choice Awards Austin & Ally's Ross Lynch, who plays lead, Austin Moon won in the category of Favorite TV Actor. That's not bad to have on one's blossoming resume! The show is seen around the world, airing everywhere from Disney Channel Japan to Disney Channel Bulgaria.
The series was created by Kevin Kopelow and Heath Seifert who were also the writers and producers of the Disney Channel sitcoms Sonny with a Chance and Jonas. Musically themed shows are always a hit on Disney. Just consider Hannah Montana, Jonas L.A., I'm in the Band, Phineas and Ferb and Shake it Up. Newly announced series for Disney include Wander Over Yonder, Liv & Maddie and of course Girl Meets World.
Set in Miami, Austin & Ally is a funny series centering on two musicians who are very mismatched. Austin Moon is over the top and always looking for fun, while Ally is a quiet songwriter who keeps to herself. At the end of season 1, Austin gets signed to Jimmy Starr's record label and in season 2, Austin and Ally become a romantic couple.


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- In the past year, they've grown from 1 million users per month, to 6 million+ users per month
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After looking through WAY TO MANY kitchens on Houzz and still not finding something that seems right, I thought I'd come here for feedback.
There definitely is a trend to finish cabinets to the ceiling. Though I think it gives the kitchen a much more finished look to the cabinets overall, it comes across a tad heavy to me (especially since we're looking into black cabinets). I also don't have a lot to display (minimalist). Has anyone ever seen a unique way of finishing off those last 15" for a 9' ceilings? |
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- Posted by live_wire_oak (My Page) on Sun, Nov 18, 12 at 13:14
You can always do a soffit. Those can actually be cool in a modern setting. Or clerestory windows on top of the cabinets. 39" with 15"s would take things to the ceiling if you prefer to have the space for lesser used storage. Use the Ikea aluminum framed ones for interest if you're doing Ikea, which I think you are. You can also use the negative space as a portion of the design. Deliberately use short cabinets instead of taking them close to the ceiling. 24" high ones are often done, so as to get a more horizontal line happening. It's especially effective with horizontal grained woods. Or you can stack two 15" tall cabinets instead of using a 30" cabinet. |
Live Wire, those are great ideas! In your pictures like I've seen in the majority of modern kitchens, there are no windows intermixed with the windows. We considered not having windows just to get over this hurdle but having the natural light throughout this new kitchen is VERY important to us. I'm thinking that having 9' ceilings with new windows and trying to get that to not only look good in the kitchen but also the adjacent kitchen dining area, is a MAJOR struggle. |
- Posted by hollysprings (My Page) on Sun, Nov 18, 12 at 15:35
If light is important to you, then do the clerestory windows and have the backsplash also be windows or glass block. Heck, do the whole wall in glass block! |
I also like the look of cabinets to the ceiling. One thing I've noticed in my time looking at Houzz.com is that some people do the very top cabinet with a glass door. I find it really lightens the look. If you don't have stuff that you want to display behind clear glass, I would assume you could find glass with some kind of pattern or finish so that you'd get the light effect of glass without having to look at stuff that's not so pretty. |
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text: Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company (Secaucus, NJ, U.S.) designed its top-of-the-line Pro-Curve® shaver, model ES8092, with a new Pivot Action Shaving System. The shaver is designed to offer the sharpest blades and the fastest linear motor of any electric shaver on the market while incorporating the adjustable pivoting head for movement around face contours. |


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- Posted by luna_llena_feliz (My Page) on Wed, Jun 8, 11 at 22:11
Cute! Do you plan to grow water plants or put fish in it? It looks like the tub is in really nice shape. I saw your close up picture too and I like the signs and potty paraphernalia. I bet it sounds great too! I know I always like listening to the water while I take a shower. Always thought of doing something like this. |
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That's really cute, lots of fun. The closeup is fun too. |
I love the whole setup. I'll bet it sounds great. |
- Posted by marlene_2008 7 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 9, 11 at 11:52
Such a great setup you have there! |
I just got a tub like that a couple of weeks ago. It was full of dirt and had been planted in. Not sure what I will do. I would have to build a wall to make it look like yours tho'. I absolutely KNOW that I posted before---Not only am I having to sign in about every 10 days, but some of my posts are not appearing. |
- Posted by jeannespines 4 (My Page) on Sun, Jun 12, 11 at 22:04
Very 'refreshing' & 'clean!' Nice recycling ... will be cool w/plants in it also! I had one planted for many yrs & I put a bunch of empty gallon milk jugs in it to save on dirt ... plus they are so darn heavy already! So glad you picked a spot you like! (cause it will stay there) LOL! signage & enamelware cute, too! TFS! Jeanne S. |
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Q. What is the Housing and Community Facilities Programs?
A. The Housing and Community Facilities Programs is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Located within the Department's Rural Development mission area, HCFP operates a broad range of programs to provide:
HCFP administers direct loans, loan guarantees and grants. Direct loans are made and serviced by USDA staff; loan guarantees are made to banks or other private lenders, and grants are made directly to a person or organization.
Q. Does HCFP work with other local and state organizations to provide its services to the community?
A. HCFP works with other Federal agencies, and a number of both nonprofit and private organizations nationally, in order to pool resources to help America's rural residents most effectively.
Q. Where are HCFP offices located?
A. The HCFP National Office is located in Washington, D.C., and is responsible for setting policy, developing regulations, and performing oversight. HCFP operations are carried out through the USDA's state and local Rural Development offices and service centers. (Four multistate offices exist in addition to local offices within the states -- Vermont/New Hampshire; Massachusetts/Connecticut/Rhode Island; Maryland/Delaware; and Florida/Virgin Islands.) Use our Locater Site to find a Rural Development office in your area.
The Centralized Servicing Center, located in St. Louis, Missouri, provides loan origination and servicing directly to HCFP Single-Family Housing borrowers. The CSC's toll-free phone number is 1-800-414-1226. Press "1" for English, and "2" for Spanish (marque "2" para Espanol). TDD: 1-800-438-1832. The address is:
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Q. What is the HCFP service area?
A. HCFP programs are available to eligible applicants in rural areas, typically defined as open country or rural towns with no more 20,000 in population.
An exception to the rural eligibility requirements is the Farm Labor Housing Program (Section 514/516), which is the only Federal program available for development of housing for farm workers. This program is available in both rural and urban areas.
A. Yes. You can call 1-800-414-1226 toll free, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to obtain basic information about the status of your account through our automated voice response system. By using a touch-tone phone and our simple menu selection, you can check your account balance, date of last payment, amount of payment assistance, and year-to-date interest and taxes paid without waiting for a customer service representative to assist you.
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My thoughts on the Kreg K5
I've had an opportunity over the years to tryout a few versions of the Kreg pocket hole jig and I've always been impressed with their ease of use, repeatability and accuracy.
It's not that Kreg radically redesigns the jigs each time, but instead they make small improvements to their look and feel that make them more user friendly while still working exactly the same way.
A little while ago Kreg sent us a new K5 Pocket-Hole Jig to use in the basement workshop. Considering I've always been happy with the K4 I was a little skeptical that I would see any significant difference between them.
As I suspected, the results were the same when it came to accuracy and repeatability but the big difference, as far as I'm concerned, is in its easier to use clamping system and its support wings. Both a very nice touch!
Considering purchasing a Kreg pocket hole joinery system? The K5 is a very nice model to add to your shop.
To expand the range of materials you can use it on, you can eventually add both the Micro Drill Guide System and the new HD Jig for 2x lumber.
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Great review! Very comprehensive and thorough! The K5 is now at the top of my Christmas list!
Thanks Rick! If you receive it for Christmas, don't let your family get mad if you head out to the shop immediately to start building with it LOL!
Some pretty nice improvements.
When my K4 eventually wears out, I may have to pick one up.-
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I am already neutered and up to date with shots.
"Well, hello there. I am Hank. I am a hound blend, with probably some shepherd in me or something somewhere. I may not be the most confident dog, but I sure am sweet! I haven't been given the best chance in the world. My previous owners weren't able to take care of me. I want a family to love me, give me healthy food, and give me a warm place to sleep. If you have a kind heart and patient hand, we can grow to be the best of friends. Visit with me and consider adopting me today!"
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Hi there! I'm still oohing and ahhing over your kitchen reveal and I LOVE how you did the trim around the baseboards and would love to know what trim to tell my cabinetmaker to use. I'm looking online at a trim catalog and there are two that similar to yours but are different heights. Could you tell me how tall the piece you used instead of quarter round is? Thanks so much....I'll be eternally grateful :) |
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Hey stacy- It is an inch high. : ) |
Thanks!! |
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Current active searches associated with the cluster are in Biological Sciences, Education, Psychological Sciences, and Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences (http://www.purdue.edu/hhs/psy/autismclusterhires.php )The Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level in the area of ASD broadly defined. Primary criteria are excellence in research and teaching. Essential duties include teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Ph.D. in communication sciences or a related field is required for this appointment beginning Fall, 2014.
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences is a collegial and highly interdisciplinary department with 22 research/tenure track and 15 clinical faculty. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to capitalize on extraordinarily productive networks of collaborators and resources that provide strong support for basic and translational research. Office and laboratory will be provided in our newly constructed Lyles-Porter Hall with a superb infrastructure for research (http://www.purdue.edu/hhs/slhs/research/index.html).Purdue has top-ranked clinical programs in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology with strong ties to the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, and ASD service providers in the local community. There are outstanding collaborative opportunities and access to pediatric and adult ASD populations.
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Why Eminem is winning his latest feud
It was only a matter of time.
Since he first introduced himself to America with ''My Name Is...,'' Eminem has been scorned by everyone from GLAAD to my dad, but he was always accepted by the hip-hop community, for one reason: He's a great rapper. But now that Slim Shady has cleaned up his act, stepped to the silver screen, and earned mainstream acceptance, some hip-hop heads have finally noticed that he's white. And they're not happy about it.
Recently, Benzino, a rapper who co-owns The Source magazine, has made it his mission to take down Eminem. In two songs, ''Pull Your Skirt Up'' and ''Die Another Day,'' he attacked Eminem, calling him ''the rap David Duke, the rap Hitler, the culture-stealer.'' The Source recently published a foldout poster of Benzino holding Eminem's bloody, decapitated head, and an essay by longtime hip-hop writer Harry Allen, which describes the Eminem phenomenon as ''the power of hip-hop fused with the power of white supremacy.''
Thankfully, it seems that most of the hip-hop world has dismissed Benzino's attacks as a clear attempt to bolster his own rap career. All the hubbub comes as Benzino is desperate to sell copies of his lackluster major-label solo debut, ''Redemption,'' shamefully using the once-great magazine he co-owns as a platform: The same issue that includes the poster and Eminem essay includes a five-page feature on Benzino, including a laughably sparse ''Benzino timeline.''
Eminem -- though he could be excused for not reacting to attacks from a third-tier rapper with a first-tier platform -- responded to Benzino's dis tracks with two of his own, ''The Sauce'' and ''Nail in the Coffin,'' which clearly show who the senior lyricist is: ''No more Source with street cred, them days is dead.... Will somebody please tell whoever braids his head/That I am not afraid, he's just a f---in' waste of lead/On my pencil, for me to write some s--- this simple/So listen closely, as I break it down and proceed/This old G's bout to get smoked like raw weed.''
Rival hip-hop magazine XXL rounded up quotes about the Eminem question from hip-hop heavyweights like Jay-Z and Nas, the latter claiming, ''[Eminem] brings together white and black people, and he does it while representing rap music in its truest form. The larger he gets, the larger hip-hop gets, no matter what anybody says. This dude lives, breathes, eats, and s---s hip-hop.'' It appears that Benzino and The Source are underestimating the hip-hop nation's intelligence, and one can only hope that their hypocrisy will be punished with disinterest.
It's true that Eminem's race helped make him a star, that some white people buy his records because they identify with him more than with black rappers. That's a reality in America. In one of his few salient arguments, Benzino claims that if Eminem were black, ''No one would care about [his] complicated rhyme style/Another backpack rapper out of style.''
And it's true that there are talented MCs in the underground who are having trouble getting noticed because they're black. But it's also true that Eminem is a true talent -- one of the best around, white or black -- and a living embodiment of hip-hop in 2003. To deny his credibility is to shortchange the art of hip-hop.


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Jacuzzi Brands, Inc. announced that it plans to close its spa manufacturing facility located in Plant City, FL, U.S. The plant is expected to cease operations by late November 2003. The facility, which produces less than 10 percent of the spa volume for the company, will be absorbed by the company's new manufacturing facility in Chino, CA, U.S., without need for additional staffing. Jacuzzi also announced that it will be eliminating its North American sanitary bath wholesale sales force, which is being replaced with independent manufacturers representatives to market its Eljer® brand products to the wholesale channel on a commission basis. The company also said its North American Bath Operations will also be consolidating a number of administrative functions presently being performed in multiple locations by its North American whirlpool bath, spa, and sanitary bath divisions into a shared services operations center to be located in Dallas, TX, U.S. The shared services operations center, which is expected to be fully operational by the third quarter of fiscal 2004, will be located in office space that has remained vacant since the closing of the Zurn, Inc. corporate office in Dallas, TX, and is adjacent to the company's Eljer location. Jacuzzi announced that it will record pre-tax one-time charges of approximately U.S. $2.6 million, or $0.02 per share, related to these actions in its fiscal 2003 fourth quarter ending Sept. 30, 2003. Approximately $1.5 million of these charges are associated with cash expenditures for severance and other costs expected to be incurred in fiscal 2004, net of recoveries from asset sales. The remaining, non-cash charges relate primarily to the write off of plant and equipment net of the reversal of reserves previously established for the vacant office space in Dallas, TX. As a result of these changes, the company expects annualized pre-tax savings of $ 2.5 million. Jacuzzi is still reviewing its remaining operations, principally Eljer, for cost saving initiatives to restore profitability. As a result of this review, it anticipates further one-time charges in fiscal 2003 and 2004 to achieve its objectives of increased margins and growth. "We are continuing to review every aspect of the North American Bath Products business, particularly Eljer, to reduce this segment's cost structure, expand margins and improve profitability," commented Donald C. Devine, president and chief operating officer. "These actions reflect management's ongoing commitment to effectively leverage the anticipated, significant growth in sales and market share at the Bath Products business beginning in fiscal 2004. Bath Products sales are expected to increase by approximately 14 percent for fiscal 2003, outperforming the industry." David H. Clarke, chairman and CEO of Jacuzzi Brands, Inc., said the company stands by its previously announced financial expectations. "As we are close to our year end, we can confirm our previous sales guidance of approximately $1.18 billion," he said. "While additional costs and charges are being realized in the current fourth quarter, we believe that the actions which produced them are necessary as we rebuild the profitability and growth prospects of the Company. We expect to give a complete break down of these costs and charges and our plans for Eljer when we give our fiscal 2003 results in early December." Mr. Clarke continued, "Aside from the potential charges mentioned above, we are comfortable with current analyst earnings estimates for fiscal 2004 of $0.50 per share."
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X factor 'rip off' protest
THE X Factor live tour has been blasted as a money-spinning exercise to get cash out of young kids.
Parents who stumped up £37.50 for a ticket are angry youngsters were also encouraged to text in entries to a competition displayed on giant screens – racking up mobile phone bills. Prizes were the opportunity to meet the stars backstage.


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I had the chance to visit with Bob Carey at length only once, and that time in late 2007 was well after his retirement from PMA in 1996.
When people favorably describe a person, they sometimes say, "He was a prince of a man."
That's the feeling I had about Bob Carey. He had a light, easy-going manner and didn't take himself too seriously. His reflections about the early days of PMA directed much credit to the group's strong volunteer leaders.
The Packer's coverage of Bob Carey's passing is found here
The PMA and Bryan Silbermann have constructed a "tribute" page to Bob Carey and that link is in our coverage.
Also, check out this article in The Cape Gazette about Bob's passing.
One former editor of The Packer was much more familiar with the work of Bob Carey. Paul Campbell wrote the following piece after the retirement of The Packer's Bill Coon and PMA's Bob Carey. It was published on June 24, 1996:
Bob Carey's retirement signals end of an era
Two months ago, Bill Coon retired from THE PACKER, and on July 1, Bob Carey will retire from the Produce Marketing Association. Thus, an era has ended.
It's out with the old, and in with the new, a natural occurrence. But don't forget the contributions these two men made to the produce industry. And don't forget the unique relationship that has existed between PMA and THE PACKER over the years.
PMA and THE PACKER grew up together -- the parallels in their progress and growth are remarkable. I joined THE PACKER in September 1966 and planned to work there a couple of years to ``get some journalistic experience.'' I stayed 18 years. I had worked only a month before attending my first convention -- the Produce Packaging Association meeting at the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago. Knowing nothing about the produce industry, conventions, airplanes or Chicago, it was quite a learning experience for me. I remember the exhibit hall was very small, and one could walk through the exhibits in a couple of minutes. At this time, both PMA and THE PACKER were searching for the keys to their future. Both knew they needed to change their approach, and they knew it had to do with retailing and marketing, but they hadn't quite put it all together yet.


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Your liver called. It wants to get in on this whole "locally-sourced" thing your stomach keeps raving about.
Thankfully, there's a place where imbibing local spirits is as cool as a bearded hipster on a Divvy bike. Yep, it's Logan Square's newest micro-distillery, Chicago Distilling Co.
This family-owned booze factory is the place to go when you want to get up close and personal with your drink. Above you: exposed wood rafters. Below you: one of the red bar stools. Between you: A glass wall separating the silver still, bottling line, and barrel-aging room from the bar.
All around you: a wood bar and communal high-tops perfect for your introduction to the grain-to-glass drinking experience.
Right now, the spirits only come in two flavors: the smooth Ceres Vodka and the 90-proof Shorty's White Whiskey. Sip 'em straight, by the bottle or in a house cocktail.
You can't go wrong with an Old Fashioned with whiskey and rich demerrera sugar, or a gimlet with vodka and fresh lime juice. More seasonal sippers include the Just In Thyme, a hot or cold concoction made with vodka, baking spices, pear and thyme.
Get even more intimate with these fine spirits via one of the distillery tours. The Saturday and Sunday sessions are filling fast, so be sure to check in online. By the time you get behind the scenes, the distillery might have added its forthcoming house gin, amaro, or absinthe to the lineup.
Whiskey: Made in Chicago. We like the sound of that.
Price: 2 (out of 4)
Noise: 3 (out of 4)
Subway: Blue Line to California
Scene: This drinking-only establishment is the desination for those on their way to a long night in the Square.
Best bets: Shorty's White Whiskey or Ceres Vodka
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1 "At that time, declares the LORD, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs. | 1 " 'At that time, declares the LORD, the bones of the kings and officials of Judah, the bones of the priests and prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves. |
2 And they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped. And they shall not be gathered or buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. | 2 They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped. They will not be gathered up or buried, but will be like refuse lying on the ground. |
3 Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them, declares the LORD of hosts. | 3 Wherever I banish them, all the survivors of this evil nation will prefer death to life, declares the LORD Almighty.' |
4 "You shall say to them, Thus says the LORD: When men fall, do they not rise again? If one turns away, does he not return? | 4 "Say to them, 'This is what the LORD says: " 'When men fall down, do they not get up? When a man turns away, does he not return? |
5 Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return. | 5 Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return. |
6 I have paid attention and listened, but they have not spoken rightly; no man relents of his evil, saying, 'What have I done?' Everyone turns to his own course, like a horse plunging headlong into battle. | 6 I have listened attentively, but they do not say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, "What have I done?" Each pursues his own course like a horse charging into battle. |
7 Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the rules of the LORD. | 7 Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, and the dove, the swift and the thrush observe the time of their migration. But my people do not know the requirements of the LORD. |
8 "How can you say, 'We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us'? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie. | 8 " 'How can you say, "We are wise, for we have the law of the LORD," when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely? |
9 The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them? | 9 The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what kind of wisdom do they have? |
10 Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to conquerors, because from the least to the greatest everyone is greedy for unjust gain; from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely. | 10 Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit. |
11 They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace. | 11 They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. "Peace, peace," they say, when there is no peace. |
12 Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the LORD. | 12 Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when they are punished, says the LORD. |
13 When I would gather them, declares the LORD, there are no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree; even the leaves are withered, and what I gave them has passed away from them." | 13 " 'I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine. There will be no figs on the tree, and their leaves will wither. What I have given them will be taken from them. ' " |
14 Why do we sit still? Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us to perish and has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD. | 14 "Why are we sitting here? Gather together! Let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there! For the LORD our God has doomed us to perish and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against him. |
15 We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror. | 15 We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there was only terror. |
16 "The snorting of their horses is heard from Dan; at the sound of the neighing of their stallions the whole land quakes. They come and devour the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it. | 16 The snorting of the enemy's horses is heard from Dan; at the neighing of their stallions the whole land trembles. They have come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who live there." |
17 For behold, I am sending among you serpents, adders that cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you," declares the LORD. | 17 "See, I will send venomous snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you," declares the LORD. |
18 My joy is gone; grief is upon me; my heart is sick within me. | 18 O my Comforter in sorrow, my heart is faint within me. |
19 Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people from the length and breadth of the land: "Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King not in her?" "Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images and with their foreign idols?" | 19 Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: "Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?" "Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?" |
20 "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved." | 20 "The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we are not saved." |
21 For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded; I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me. | 21 Since my people are crushed, I am crushed; I mourn, and horror grips me. |
22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored? | 22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people? |
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Either the Gnome or the KDE edition. Not the free version, of which many features have been excluded, because of their non-free nature."To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow."
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Everything looks so delish! I need to get on the ball and start cooking more, I did good last week but fail most of the time :(
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Mmmmm! Pulled pork! One of my favorites!
I'm right there with you on not creating recipes. Some people are good at it...not me! I'd much rather use someone else's recipe.
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I'm might impressed with your meal-planning skills!! I need to get better about planning, I've been SO lazy lately.
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I love picky palate too! I originally found her bc I was looking for dessert recipes, she has some great ones! Another great recipe blog is www.ourbestbites.com their recipes are tasty and easy to make too! Thanks for the recipe ideas!
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Mmmmm...those ribs looks delicious! I'm loving crock-pot meals when I have to work!
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"Practically speaking, it was a convenient staircase for filming," Ivory says. "Because of the way it branches out into two sides, we could put lamps on one side to light the other. Those stone steps are so wide and strong, the crew could move up and down without endangering the house."
Lady Victoria Leatham, a descendant of William Cecil and the current chatelaine of Burghley, was astonished by the size of the 100-plus crew. "You hear terrible stories about boom mikes crashing into chandeliers," she says. "But everyone was very careful, and we were thrilled with how it all turned out." She does admit to being peeved at not landing a cameo. "All the extras had been chosen before they got to us," Leatham says wistfully. "But by the time you had been squashed into one of those corsets, you probably wouldn't have been able to breathe."
IVORY CHOSE HELMINGHAM HALL TO STAND IN AS Matcham, the moated country house where the clandestine lovers attend a weekend party. He remembered Helmingham from when he scouted locations for The Remains of the Day. Its current inhabitant is the genial and unflappable Lord Tollemache, whose family has lived there for some 600 years.
"If it had been my house and they'd said, 'You're going to have people sliding down the stairs on silver trays,' I'd have been a little nervous," Ivory recalls, referring to a scene of country-house high jinks. "But Tollemache said, 'It's happened so many times, I'm not worried at all.' "
During the first few weeks of shooting, the stars of The Golden Bowl stayed at Hintlesham Hall, a country hotel near Ipswich, in Suffolk. Hintlesham has both superb cuisine and a strict dress code. "The hotel didn't allow the actors in the dining room, because we couldn't be depended on to dress properly for dinner," Huston recalls wryly. (Much to Ivory's surprise, even he was turned away for failing to wear a jacket.) Instead, the cast was assigned a separate "show folks" room, which always filled up quickly. "So one was told that one couldn't have dinner at all," Huston says. "That was very bad news after a fourteen-hour workday, grand homes or no grand homes."
To everyone's amusement, the hotel also seemed incapable of distinguishing among the film's famous names. Huston was tickled to receive a phone message from Ethan Hawke in which the young actor declared his love. (The note was actually intended for Thurman, Hawke's wife.)
After the comedy of errors at Hintlesham Hall, the traveling players moved on to Stapleford Park hotel, a luxurious country house near Belvoir Castle (pronounced "beaver"). Its legendary picture gallery, with its Holbein portrait of Henry VIII, was used as an interior for Fawns. When they arrived, the Bombay-born Merchant, 64, appeared to exert his famously persuasive charm to ensure that feathers would remain unruffled. And in a traditional act of Merchant Ivory diplomacy, he also cooked up one of his celebrated curries for the troupe. "Ismail's curries are always part of his pitches to the actors, to help persuade us to do the movie," says Nick Nolte, who previously starred in the team's Jefferson in Paris. "We all buy into it," he says with a chuckle, "because James and Ismail are tremendous to work with."
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Makes 20 servings
- 1 cup chopped stemmed dried Calimyrna figs
- 1/3 cup water
- 1/3 cup chopped pitted Kalamata olives or other brine-cured black olives
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- 1 tablespoon drained capers, chopped
- 1 1/2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme
- 2 5.5-ounce logs soft fresh goat cheese (such as Montrachet), each cut crosswise into 1/2-inch-thick rounds
- 1/2 cup chopped toasted walnuts
- 1/4 cup toasted walnut halves
- Fresh thyme sprigs (optional)
- Assorted breads and/or crackers
Combine chopped figs and 1/3 cup water in heavy medium saucepan. Cook over medium-high heat until liquid evaporates and figs are soft, about 7 minutes. Transfer to medium bowl. Mix in olives, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, capers, and chopped thyme. Season tapenade to taste with salt and pepper. (Can be made 3 days ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Bring to room temperature before serving.)
Arrange overlapping cheese rounds in circle in center of medium platter. Stir chopped walnuts into tapenade; spoon into center of cheese circle. Garnish with walnut halves and thyme sprigs, if desired. Serve with breads and/or crackers.
my notes
- Calories99
- Carbohydrates8 g (3%)
- Fat6 g (9%)
- Protein4 g (9%)
- Saturated Fat3 g (13%)
- Sodium143 mg (6%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat1 g
- Fiber1 g (3%)
- Monounsaturated Fat2 g
- Cholesterol7 mg (2%)
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Down Under's most historic city offers European cuisine, world-renowned art, and Aussie spirit
By Raul Barreneche
Paul Keating, prime minister of Australia in the early 1990s, once quipped, "If you're not living in Sydney, you're just camping out." That boast surely raised the hackles of the nearly four million inhabitants of Melbourne, further stoking a long-running urban rivalry. Of course Sydney has beaches packed with beautiful people and a breathtaking harborside opera house. But Melbourne—once the second-largest city in the British Empire, Australia's first capital, and now capital of the state of Victoria—has more than a few major jewels in its crown. The Commonwealth's top theaters, museums, concert halls, and prestigious sporting events provide plenty of buzz, most prominently Melbourne Cup Day, where thoroughbred racing and designer décolletage meet, and the Australian Open tennis tournament. Plus, hallowed universities draw one of the world's largest international student populations.
Sydney might be the sexy mistress, but Melbourne is the grande dame. Says Aussie-born, New York–based lighting designer Nathan Orsman, "Melbourne is different from Sydney. It feels more cultured." Local public-relations queen Sonia Rendigs agrees, joking, "Melburnians think Sydneysiders are just interested in celebrities and tans." That being said, more than a few international stars were born or reared in this Down Under metropolis on Australia's southeastern flank. Actors Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana, and Portia de Rossi have roots here. So do pop sirens Kylie Minogue and Olivia Newton-John, comedian Barry Humphries and his alter ego, Dame Edna Everage, feminist writer Germaine Greer, and media mogul Rupert Murdoch.


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F.o.b.s for Florida beans were not established by late October. By early December last season they sold at $6-6.85 for machine-picked bushel crates and $8.85 for handpicked crates.
Snap bean plantings are up sharply this fall in Florida, according to the statistics service. Growers have planted 11,000 acres for harvest by the end of the year, compared to 9,000 acres last year and 10,000 acres in fall 2000.
One crop that was already coming on strong by late October in Florida was squash, Wilson said. Between Oct. 21 and Oct. 25 the market for zucchini dropped from $16 to $8 per case, he said, noting cooler weather would slow volume through the state's coolers and bring stability to the market.
Among the state's other vegetable crops are radishes, leafy items and celery grown in the Belle Glade area.
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Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 09:26 +0200, Mikko Husari wrote: > >> hi! >> >> i was wonderin (also tried my luck on perfomance-gentoo, >> but no one home), what kind of partition + fs table would >> be optimal on server and/or desktop. afaik, /usr/portage >> would be on its own partition, and perhaps reiserfs and raid0. >> distfiles should be on a different partition, so it would >> not be in the way of portage itself... but, what about other >> parts of gentoo/linux. and is journaling filesystem over >> striping raid just asking for trouble? >> >> > > In general, reiserfs is considered dead by the linux kernel guys, and by > it's last remaining maintainer in particular (see > http://linux.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/suse-102-ditching-reiserfs-as-it-default-fs/ for his email...) So, you probably want ext3 at this point. There will be an upgrade path from ext3 to ext4, when ext4 is stable. > > Running a journaled filesystem is completely orthogonal to the > underlying storage. You always want a journal on large filesystems, > because otherwise you will have huge (linear with the size of the > filesystem) fsck times. In addition, a journaled FS is safer than a > non-journaled one, w.r.t. data loss. > > Putting /usr/portage on it's own filesystem shouldn't make a huge > difference in performance, especially if it's on the same spindles as > other filesystems. /usr/portage is a high access file tree, with the > sole exception of syncing. Other than that, it's relatively low access. > Things like "emerge -auvDN world" hit the metadata cache fairly hard, > but that cache is designed to be fairly quick. So, putting /usr/portage > on it's own filesystem will generally only make your system less > flexible (even if you use LVM2, which you *definitely* should do). > > Personally, I run RAID5 on my system, rather than striping. It's almost > as fast as striping on all modern systems, and has the huge advantage of > being able to recover from disk failure (of which I've had 2 on that > system over time). With striping, if a disk goes, you lose everything. > > Personally, my partition table looks like this: > > /boot - 100M (or 100M + 2 * memory, if I use a swapfile) > swap - 2 * memory (if I don't use a swapfile) > / - 10G > /home - The rest > > Except my file server, which has > /home - 10G > /storage - the rest > > I do put PORTAGE_TMPDIR in /home/portage, tho, because that can take > large amounts of disk over time. > > Daniel > > hmm, im really new to all that lvm stuff but i think i have a general idea about it, does it reduce performance at all? -- firstname.lastname@example.com mailing list
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US crude oil prices slipped below the $80 a barrel level, surrendering gains made in Wednesday session following the latest US inventories data.
Nymex December West Texas Intermediate lost 58 cents at $79.82 a barrel, while ICE December Brent slipped 64 cents to $78.25 a barrel.
US crude stocks fell 4m barrels last week, confounding the consensus market forecast for an increase of 1.4m barrels.
Although the drop in crude stocks was viewed as positive, the impact was offset by weak demand from refiners. Refinery utilisation fell 1.3 percentage points to 80.6 per cent of capacity.
Some traders expressed disappointment that the fall in refinery activity did not translate into more substantial decreases in petrol and heating oil stocks.
Petrol inventories fell 300,000 barrels, contrary to the consensus forecast for a rise of 300,000 barrels.
Distillate inventories (including heating oil) fell 400,000 barrels, below the consensus forecast for a drop of 1m barrels.
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NAGPUR: State assembly speaker Dilip Walse-Patil has said that community forest rights (CFRs) to be granted to the tribals under the Forest Rights Act 2006 will be put on fast-track.
CFR claims are pending in over 1,000 villages in Vidarbha and Khandesh, which need to be expedited, Walse-Patil told a delegation of Vidarbha Livelihood Forum (VLF), a joint platform of NGOs and community-based organizations (CBOs) dedicated to tribal rights and sustainable livelihoods.
The tribal rights have to be protected by implementing FRA, enacted by the parliament in 2006 and Rules in 2008 in true spirit and especially safeguard tribals concern with bamboo, mahua flowers, tendu leaves and other non-timber forest produce (NTFPs).
The meeting was convened by Walse-Patil in Vidhan Bhavan at the initiative of MLA Dr Neelimatai Gorhe. It was attended by tribal development minister Babanrao Pachpute, chief secretary Jayant Banthia, secretary of Vidarbha Nature Conservation Society (VNCS) Dilip Gode, principal secretary (forests) Praveen Pardeshi and representatives of NGOs and CBOs.
The meet focused on non-compliance of FRA in the context of CFRs, non-availability and supply of documents required as proof, role of gram sabha, improper rates offered by Maharashtra Tribal Development Corporation (MTDC) to forest produce leading to exploitation by traders, declaring bamboo and tendu as minor forest produce (MFP) by amending Maharashtra MFP Act and regularization of tendu trade in Maharashtra etc.
Gode told TOI that CFR claims are pending in more than 1,000 villages in Vidarbha and Khandesh. Of these, 108 villages are from Gondia, Bhandara, Buldhana, Amravati and Nagpur districts. The VLF will facilitate these claims.
"It was also decided to amend MFP Act by inclusion of bamboo and tendu leaves and empower gram sabhas to collect and trade tendu, granting support price to NTFPs," Gode said.
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