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Floral patterned smocked bike shorts. Bottom hem is raw edge.
FP One is a collection made with love from India. The collection has been curated from the fine details that India has to offer; embroideries, prints, embellishments, rich colors and fine gauze fabrics. The collection brings a modern twist to old world techniques and creates a line that has a cultured feel with special attention to detail.
FP One is a collection made with love from India. The collection has been curated from the fine details that India has to offer; embroideries, prints, embellishments, rich colors and fine gauze fabrics. The collection brings a modern twist to old world techniques and creates a line that has a cultured feel with special attention to detail.
*100% Cotton
*Hand Wash Cold
*Hand Wash Cold
Measurements for Small:Waist (all around - relaxed): 20 in = 50 cm
Rise: 7 1/2 in = 19 cm
Inseam: 3 1/2 in= 8 3/4 cm
Rated 4.3 out of 5Â by 62 reviewers.
Rated 3 out of 5Â by rileythecoyote extremely noisy -__- I was totally excited for these because I can think of so many ways to wear them. BUT I received them today and put them on and took a few steps and they make a pretty loud noise when I walk. I am on the thinner side and even my thin-ish thighs brushing together is enough to make the sound. I was afraid I'd start a fire if I had to run for any reason. Oh well. For sizing, I ordered a small but probably could have used a medium. Too tight in the crotch region. I am 5'8" and 135 lbs. My bust, waist, hip is 34-27-38. 1.16.2014
Rated 5 out of 5Â by katieh Nice! I am a girl with voluptuous hips, butt, and thighs, so I had my doubts when I tried these on. I was pleasantly surprised when they fit and even looked cute! I tried the red in a large and I really liked them! These look very cute peeking out from under a pair of jean shorts or a slip. The length hit around mid-thigh at 5'9". 4.25.2012
Rated 4 out of 5Â by JesseV Almost perfect These would be completely perfect for me if the rise wasn't so high. On me, because it comes up so high, it actually emphasizes my little tummy (and does not hold it in since it is very soft and stretchy) by adding that layer of smocked fabric over it (which isn't very thin). They are still very nice layering shorts to wear under a short dress. I love the olive and red combos which I got. 9.26.2013
Rated 3 out of 5Â by sugarsugar Gorgeous shorts, but one leg already stretched I put these on over the weekend and they were super comfy, very pretty to wear.. in fact I was planning on ordering more in other colours. But I noticed after a couple of hours that one of the legs has stretched and doesn't look like the other side. Is it supposed to be this way? 9.29.2013
Rated 5 out of 5Â by caterinaisland Very easy A lot of the Free People aesthetic is easily pulling together versatile, unique, and comfortable pieces and this is definitely one of them. I love wearing the rust colored pair in contrast with a striped sweater and boots/flats when I'm just at home and doing errands/walking the dog. You can easily wear tights underneath them and it won't look bulky or strange if you were to wear the shorts under slips and dresses like the voile trapeze slip. They also look great with slightly oversized tee shirts or high-low tees. Just beware that the ivory and lighter shaded ones can be see through, so that's why I got the rust. You can always wear jean/cord shorts over them if you do get the lighter ones if the shirt is too short to cover your butt! 12.29.2012
Rated 5 out of 5Â by tesshall23 LOVED so much, I bought it twice Yes, I bought the exact same outfit (these bottoms in ivory with the matching top) twice. Let's just say they were not kidding about the lay flat to dry bit; I accidentally put mine in the dryer, and they are now tiny. But I love the outfit so much that I have reordered both pieces in both the ivory as well as the red. As for fit, I am 5'3" 108, and I bought both in a small. XS fit as well, but the small adds a couple of inches in length and this gave me the option to wear them as shorts as well as under dresses. 9.6.2012
Rated 5 out of 5Â by FPKaraK Perfect layering short!!... First let me say these are BIKE SHORTS and are an intimates item. If you are expecting full on shorts to wear alone, these prob are not for you. I am not sure what happened to the previous reviewer. She must have gotten a mis marked pair.... These shorts are GREAT! I am pleasantly surprised by these and am glad I got to try them on in stores! Size: Normally I am an XS/S. I am an XS waist and a Small/Medium butt. I am glad I got to try these on in the store because I would have wound up exchanging them for a smaller size. I am actually shocked because usually FP Intimate shorts I need a Small at least. The small fit but were way too bunchy. These are BIKER SHORTS so they should fit smooth and form clinging. I tried on the XS and they fit much better. They are a fairly high rise and depending on your torso/belly button ratio they fall either just below the belly button or over your belly button. i kinda wish they had different models for each pair so you could see on the different bodies. Material: Even though they are bike shorts they are very light and comfy. Do not assume that because the pattern is similar on the pants that it feels the same. These are cotton. These shorts are somewhat of a light almost gauzy version of the material used in the Palace Pant. They are very light and allow your skin to breathe since they are cotton. The black is the exact pattern as the Natural except they are not cut at the same point in the fabric. I def recommend these. They are a great layer piece, but do not size up too big. I think the material on these are def going to "give" when you wear them. I am going to pair these with the Nightcap Open back dress! These are a great way to layer under tops or dresses such as that for the summer. 4.15.2012
Rated 3 out of 5Â by ciliaviktoria Sporty russian doll. Me: 5.1 tall. Petite and curvy. Good: - The red ones look so cute, like a russian doll. - Comfortable and cool. Perfect for festivals! Not so good: -If you have juicy thighs and a curvy body these might make you look bigger. This might not be a bad thing though. I did not purchase these just because of this, but they will for sure look great on a skinny body longing for some more curves. - I really liked the pattern, but the fact that they look sporty was not really my thing. I would probably have purchased these if the model was a bit more chic. Picture of me wearing it is to be found at my blog, if you're interested. Search for Cecilia rosell blog + free people. Hope that helps! 8.28.2012
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If you want to remove or change your CBR (captive bead ring) body jewelry, it's not quite as simple as it sounds. In fact, if you ask someone how to remove it, chances are they'll tell you to go see your piercer. Including me. I know, I know – you don't want a lecture, you just want to change your jewelry. But do me a favor and oblige me for just a minute and I'll explain the reason for the lecture.
[Lecture] To any professional, your safety is the most important thing. People have gotten infections and ripped their skin open trying to do these things themselves. And the simple fact of the matter is – your piercer will do it for you for free. A quick trip to the studio and you're in and out at no charge, so what's the big deal?
All right, now let's be real. There comes a time that almost all of us have to change our own jewelry and a trip to the piercing studio is just not realistic. The key is to know what you're doing so you don't end up hurting yourself.
How to Remove a CBR
If you have a lot of piercings and plan on changing your jewelry often, I strongly suggest that you invest in a pair of ring opening pliers and a pair of ring closing pliers. They are exactly as they sound – special tools designed for the removal and closing of CBRs.
If you don't have a pair of ring opening pliers, a pair of needle-nosed pliers will do the trick. Note: This is where people end up hurting themselves or ruining their jewelry. Needle-nosed pliers are not made for body jewelry. They can make scratches in the metal, which is a breeding ground for bacteria. It is absolutely essential that the surface of the ring is not scratched! Therefore, what you need to do is wrap the needle-nose with some kind of soft tape such as electrical or masking. Make sure the tape is clean, but keep in mind that this is far from the sterile treatment your piercing would get at a studio.
Now, place the wrapped needle-nosed end into the center of the CBR and slowly pry the ring open. Be prepared for the bead/ball to fall out by holding your other hand under the ring to catch it. After the bead has fallen out, there will be a space in the CBR. If the space does not look large enough, you can pry it open a little more with your pliers, being careful not to warp the ring shape.
Once you have a large enough space, you can remove the CBR. Slowly turn the ring – don't pull it. As you rotate the CBR, the space will reach a point where it can be carefully pulled away from the skin. If the space still isn't big enough, turn it back and open it more and try again. You don't want to force it out.
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Biomarkers in Bone Marrow and Blood Samples From Patients With Prostate Cancer Treated With Ketoconazole
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RATIONALE: Studying samples of bone marrow and blood from patients with cancer in the laboratory may help doctors learn more about changes that occur in DNA and identify biomarkers related to cancer.
PURPOSE: This laboratory study is studying biomarkers in bone marrow and blood samples from patients with prostate cancer treated with ketoconazole.
Prostate Cancer
Genetic: gene expression analysis
Genetic: microarray analysis
Genetic: protein analysis
Genetic: reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction
Other: immunohistochemistry staining method
Other: laboratory biomarker analysis
Other: mass spectrometry
|Study Type:
|Official Title:
|Androgen Receptor (AR) Activity in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (CRPC) and Response to Ketoconazole
- Progression-free survival (PFS) of men treated with ketoconazole [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- At least 30% decline in PSA from baseline [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Overall survival [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|December 2010
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|June 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
- To determine whether pre-treatment androgen receptor (AR) activity correlates with progression-free survival (PFS) of men with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) treated with ketoconazole.
- To determine whether expression of androgen transport/synthesis/metabolism genes (including CYP17A1, AKR1C3, HSD3B2, HSD17B3, HSD17B6, AKR1C2, AKR1C1, UGTB15, UGTB17, SRD5A1, SRD5A2, SRD5A3, and SLCO2B1) correlate with detected AR activity, time to progression, and overall survival (OS) following treatment with ketoconazole.
- To determine whether semi-quantitative immunohistochemical analysis of AR and AKR1C3 protein levels correlate with PFS following treatment with ketoconazole.
- To determine whether specific AR splice variations correlate with PFS in response to ketoconazole.
- To determine whether detected activity of signaling pathways that interact with AR pathway activity (e.g., PI3K and downstream effectors, SRC, others) correlate with detected AR activity, PFS, and OS.
- To determine whether AR gene amplification correlates with detected AR activity and PFS on ketoconazole.
- To determine whether levels of testosterone and dihydrotestosterone from tumor tissue correlate with AR activity and PFS on ketoconazole.
- To determine the presence of specific prostate cancer-associated gene translocations in each sample of CRPC.
- To provide an unbiased data set of gene expression in CRPC that will markedly expand the currently available public domain data.
- To provide a library of amplified RNA and cDNA for further analysis by other investigators.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.
Archived bone marrow tissue and blood samples are analyzed for androgen receptor (AR), AR splice variations, expression of androgen transport/synthesis/metabolism genes, AKR1C3 protein levels, and testosterone and dihydrotestosterone levels by RT-PCR, SNP microarrays, IHC, gene expression analysis, and mass spectrometry methods.
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- Diagnosis of prostate cancer
Registered on clinical trials CLB-9583 and CALGB 9663
- Cohort of castration-resistant prostate cancer patients annotated with clinical response to ketoconazole
- Adequate tissue samples available
- Not specified
- See Disease Characteristics
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01275651
|Principal Investigator:
|Mary-Ellen Taplin, MD
|Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Additional Information:
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|Monica M. Bertagnolli, Cancer and Leukemia Group B
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01275651 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|January 11, 2011
|Last Updated:
|January 11, 2011
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Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):
adenocarcinoma of the prostate
recurrent prostate cancer
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Prostatic Neoplasms
Genital Diseases, Male
Genital Neoplasms, Male
Neoplasms by Site
Prostatic Diseases
Urogenital Neoplasms
14-alpha Demethylase Inhibitors
Anti-Infective Agents
Antifungal Agents
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Pharmacologic Actions
Therapeutic Uses
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Some forced-induction guys swear by the stuff, and it's of the few things that both hot rodders and tree huggers can embrace. Farmers love how it fattens up their piggybanks, and lobbyists are working hard to spread its popularity by bribing lawmakers. We're talking about ethanol, E85 fuel to be exact, and few topics are as polarizing in both consumer and enthusiast circles. We're all about performance, so we'll focus on the benefits of E85 instead. There are lots of them, but E85 comes with plenty of drawbacks as well.
If there's one universal truth when it comes to E85, it's that there are a ton of misconceptions and urban mythology floating around out there. For example, E85 is said to have a much higher octane rating than regular pumps' gas, but did you know that the octane number for all ethanol fuel is pure bunk? Likewise, in instances where E85 does produce more power than gasoline, its higher octane number is rarely the reason why. What's more, depending on the time of year when you fill up with E85, it might actually be E70. On the flip side of the equation, E85 and boost are often a match made in horsepower heaven, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than gasoline. To help us sort through all the mythology, we sought the expertise of Tim Wusz at Rockett Brand Racing Fuel. The company offers both high-octane gasoline and E85, so it has a good handle on the pros and cons of corn juice. Additionally, for advice on how to convert a gasoline fuel system and carb over for E85 use, we chatted with Marvin Benoit of Quick Fuel Technology. Here's the scoop:
Octane Number
Tim Wusz: There is a lot of misinformation floating around regarding the virtues of ethanol and ethanol blends like E85 when compared to gasoline. Many hot rodders feel that E85 has a significant octane advantage over gasoline, but the truth isn't so clear cut. In reality, it's difficult to directly measure the octane rating of E85 because ethanol vaporizes at 172 degrees F. On the other hand, gasoline typically has a boiling range of 100 to 430 degrees F. The Motor Octane Number (MON) test method was originally designed for testing gasoline, and requires that the air/fuel mixture be at 300 degrees F when passing through an engine's air intake system. Ethanol is completely vaporized at that temperature and cools the inlet charge significantly, which makes testing it very inconsistent. As a result, ethanol is normally tested in a 50/50 blend of a known-octane gasoline and ethanol. The octane number of that blend is then used in an algebraic calculation to determine the octane number of the ethanol. Results vary because of the known octane product used, and also because the test engine provides less consistent results when high volatility fuels like the aforementioned 50/50 mix are used in an engine not designed for this type of fuel. To make a long story short, ethanol octane numbers are calculated from results gathered in less than ideal operating conditions. That is why there are ranges for ethanol octane numbers posted in the E85 fuels that we offer.
Horsepower Advantage?
Tim Wusz: In instances where E85 does indeed produce more horsepower in an engine than gasoline, the common assumption is that it is due to E85's higher octane number. However, when the air/fuel ratios are correct for both fuels, E85 and normal street gasoline will usually make about the same amount of power. Sometimes E85 will have a slight horsepower advantage, but that's due to E85's superior cooling effect over gasoline as the fuel evaporates, not its higher octane number. Since E85 absorbs more heat than gasoline as it vaporizes, this effect cools the intake system and improves volumetric efficiency, which improves cylinder pressure and also improves power.


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House Passes Resolution to Recognize Cystic Fibrosis
July 15, 2008
The U.S. House of Representatives today passed a resolution to encourage public awareness and understanding of cystic fibrosis, and support research to find a cure for the disease. The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation applauds the House for this important achievement.
Introduced by co-chairs of the Congressional Cystic Fibrosis Caucus, Representatives Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Cliff Stearns (R-Fl.), this legislation recognizes the unique challenges that face people with cystic fibrosis.
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When Culture Eclipses Class
America is where class struggle gets derailed by culture wars. It's happened throughout our history. It happened again last week in Chattanooga.
For more than a decade, the ability of the United Auto Workers to win good contracts for its members—clustered in GM, Ford, Chrysler, and various auto parts factories across the industrial Midwest—has been undercut by its failure to unionize the lower-wage factories that European and Japanese car makers have opened in the South. Daimler, BMW, Nissan, Toyota, Volkswagen—all of them ventured to the non-union South to make cars on the cheap for the American market. All these companies have good relations with the unions in their homeland, but by going south, they signaled they had little to no intention of going union in the U.S.
It wasn't just that Southern states had those wonderfully misnamed "right-to-work" laws that meant that even if the unions won collective bargaining rights, workers didn't have to pay dues to the union for raising the wages. In much of the white South, particularly among the Scotch-Irish descendants of Appalachia, the very logic of collective bargaining runs counter to the individualist ethos. It was no great challenge for UAW opponents to depict the union as the latest in a long line of Northern invaders, which is precisely what one anti-union activist did during the UAW's campaign to unionize Volkswagen's Chattanooga plant. In an op-ed in the Chattanooga Times Free Press that ran several weeks before last week's vote at Volkswagen, Matt Patterson of the Center for Worker Freedom (a spin-off of Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform), compared the UAW's campaign to the Union Army's occupation of Eastern Tennessee during the Civil War and urged workers to repel it as Confederates forces had done to that Union army at the battle of Chickamauga. Clearly, this was not an argument Patterson would have made had the plant employed more than a handful of African-Americans, but Chattanooga remains one of the whiter bastions of the New South. (The website established by the Center for Worker Freedom is emblazoned with a logo reading "Liberating Labor, One Worker at a Time"—quite the slogan for a group that equated its anti-union struggle with a battle to defeat the army that actually freed Chattanooga's slaves in 1863.)
For all of labor's troubles organizing in the white South, Volkswagen was the one campaign that labor thought it could win. Under the leadership of Bob King, the union had won the support of the German auto-and-steel workers union, IG Metall, which, under the terms of Germany's "co-determination" law, controls half the seats on Volkswagen's corporate board. Indeed, due to Volkswagen's Nazi roots, the American authorities in postwar Germany made the company go one step further, requiring a two-thirds majority from board members for any significant policy decision—in effect, giving the union veto power over Volkswagen's various projects. Many of the workers who opposed the very idea of a union at Chattanooga argued, rightly, that Volkswagen was a good employer that paid them well and respected their rights. They failed to realize that the company's conduct had been largely shaped by influence that IG Metall wields over VW's labor relations.
Working with his German union counterparts, King persuaded Volkswagen to establish a works council—a consultative labor-management council mandated by German law to meet regularly to shape company practices on work shifts, overtime and kindred issues—at Chattanooga. The Chattanooga works council would be the first on American soil, but under the terms of U.S. labor law, it could only be established if workers authorized a union to represent them. The very idea of a works council bolstered King's argument that the UAW sought a less adversarial relationship with its employers. There was precedent for such a relationship. Indeed, Walter Reuther, the UAW's legendary president from 1947 to 1970, had proposed a form of co-determination in his negotiations with General Motors in the mid-1940s, but GM would have none of it. Ironically, Reuther—of German-American descent—had close relations with the postwar founders of IG Metall, and encouraged the American authorities in post-war Germany to promote the kind of partnership labor relations that that nation enjoys to this day. With an employer like Volkswagen, King saw an opportunity to rebrand his union in a similarly non-adversarial way.
From a political standpoint, it was a necessary re-branding. The UAW had taken a terrific beating during the auto bailouts of 2009, receiving much of the blame for the near bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler. The fact that Ford, operating under the same UAW contract as the two other car makers, was nowhere near bankruptcy should have raised serious questions about the union's culpability for Detroit's demise, but King's predecessor as UAW president, still in office at the time, was almost criminally incapable of mounting a public defense of the union. None was mounted, and the UAW entered popular imagination as the most inflexible of labor organizations.
Still, the UAW had a lot going for it as it sought to organize the Chattanooga plant. For once, an employer actually supported a drive to unionize its workers. And because Tennessee is a right-to-work state, anti-union workers wouldn't have to pay dues to the union even if it won the right to represent them and won them a good contract. What could go wrong?
As has happened so many times in American history, the South could go wrong. Republican officials, led by Senator and former Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker, warned that other companies wouldn't locate in the South if there were unions there. A Republican state senator from Chattanooga threatened to deny any state assistance to the plant if its workers voted for the union. Anti-union activists repeatedly attacked the UAW as a nest of thugs and a den of liberals. They got half of that right.
In fact, no institution played a larger role in the construction of postwar American liberalism than the UAW. Under Reuther's leadership, the union provided funds to civil rights activists who conducted the Montgomery bus boycott, paid for the buses and sound system at the 1963 March on Washington, detailed staff and dollars to the efforts to build municipal employee unions and Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers, donated resources to the fledgling efforts of Students for a Democratic Society and the National Organization for Women, and helped fund the first Earth Day. It lobbied for every liberal initiative on Capitol Hill and volunteered its considerable expertise to the development of many Great Society programs. It led the opposition within the AFL-CIO against the federation's uber-hawkish Cold War policies. It campaigned, then and now, for Democratic candidates, which is the primary reason why Tennessee's Republican pols opposed it so vehemently.
None of this was particularly helpful, however, in winning the vote in Chattanooga. Since its founding in 1936, many UAW members have been Appalachian whites come north to the factories of Midwestern cities. Some became union leaders and supporters while others co-existed uneasily with the growing numbers of African-Americans in the union's ranks. During World War II, the union was stretched to the limits by its efforts to forestall nearly daily racial violence on factory floors. In the plants of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, there was often a white backlash to the union's aggressive promotion of civil rights, but it came from a minority of workers. This was the legacy that the union brought South, and it was this—not its fictitious reputation for thuggishness—that made the union so hard a sell to some of Chattanooga's workers. The union's more recent support for President Obama—hardly a popular figure in Eastern Tennessee—epitomized the politics that repelled a number of the union's opponents. So did the UAW's backing of Democratic candidates who, its opponents alleged, threatened to take away the workers' guns (though the UAW, like most unions with blue-collar members, has largely steered clear of gun control issues).
By the same token, however, the UAW's liberalism doubtless was one factor that helped it win a landmark representation election late last year among a very different group of workers—the grad student/teaching assistants at NYU. At first glance, this might not seem an election the UAW could win. Though the UAW had organized the university's grad students more than a decade ago, the National Labor Relations Board during the George W. Bush administration (when Bush's appointees comprised a majority on the board) ruled that grad students couldn't form a union under the National Labor Relations Act, and the students' contract with the university was nullified. Unlike Volkswagen management, the NYU administration then opposed the union's and the students' efforts to win representation outside the NLRB's jurisdiction. For eight years, NYU refused to let the students vote, but the UAW continued to build support for a vote not only among the T.A.s but among the city's Democratic elected officials, who were as predisposed to the effort as Tennessee's Republicans were appalled at the thought of a UAW victory in their state. Last year, the university agreed to let the students vote and to stay neutral in the election. By a margin of 620 to 10, the students voted to have the UAW represent them.
Of the 390,000 or so UAW members, fully 45,000 are employed at universities (until the NYU election, all of them public universities, which are not subject to the NLRB's jurisdiction). The union's commitment not just to its workers but to progressive causes is a clear asset in organizing T.A.s and other university employees, just as it was a obstacle in organizing auto workers in the South.
Thus the UAW of 2014—able to win overwhelming support from Greenwich Village grad students, but unable to win a majority of Chattanooga auto workers, who rejected the union's bid by a 712-to-626 margin. If America broke neatly along class lines, the UAW should have won Chattanooga in a romp and floundered at NYU. But as many unions have discovered, generally to their woe, the politics of race and culture often eclipse those of class in the United States. That's one big part of American exceptionalism. That's just—alas—the American way.
David in Nashville
Mon, 2014-02-17 14:55
You say, "In much of the white South, particularly among the Scotch-Irish descendants of Appalachia, the very logic of collective bargaining runs counter to the individualist ethos."
Whoa. That's a stereotype; in another time those Scots-Irish individualists were the backbone of the UMW in Central Appalachia. They've never been "individualists"; as a former colleague of mine (himself an Appalachian white) once said, "They're as clannish as all getout." You really need to dig deeper, into the problematic history of unions in the South, to understand what's going on. If people have never seen a union that's been effective in protecting them, it's a lot easier to scare them off.
Tue, 2014-02-18 08:04
Yeah right- thats why unions have been on the decline for decades and Yankees have been flocking to the South in droves, because we just dont get it. We rubes just dont know what is good for us!
The one fact that has been repeated to me by all the Yankees I actually hire is that the union system is inherently UNFAIR. It rewards seniority above all, and allows unproductive workers to stay in place despite their sometimes brazen laziness. I recently spoke to a formerly unionized brick mason that it was not unusual for he and his peers to lay 15-20 bricks A DAY!!! And the "rust belt" wonders why no one builds anything there anymore.
Tue, 2014-02-18 08:39
I'm not sure its worth noting that the author struggles so hard to find something to blame for the UAW failure other than the unions themselves. Praising the union movement of 50-100 years ago is nice and perhaps Democrats were nice back then as well. Not so today for either. Let's put it simply. Unions spend the vast bulk of their dues income supporting left wing politicians. So, why should any worker who is not a Democrat want to pay dues? Especially, one would think, if conservatives believe the Democrats are ruining the economy if not the republic itself? The author begrudgingly admits that VW treats its workers well, but finds some cultural element that is essentially some code word for racist southerners combined with hillbilly rednecks to blame. Blame is what this author and so many liberals are all about. However, its become increasingly clear that liberals are not, well, liberal any more in the classic sense of the word. They are certainly not tolerant, as any reader of the comments sections of any website will tell you. It is not the conservatives who use the words pathetic, racist, delusional, obstructionist, or my favorite sexual aberrant appellation, tea baggers. Now, that's such an interesting insult or label that a majority of liberal commenters use daily. The Democrats support gay everything, yet their biggest insulting name-calling is to accuse the right of sucking someone's testicles. Really, really odd. Not exactly the tolerance that liberals used to actually have, is it? Liberals everywhere from the streets to the schools to the workplace have put in rules that prevent speech they do not like. Not an example of tolerance. Not any more than this author in such thinly veiled disguise suggests is the real reason for the UAW failing. It failed, according to the author, because the workers were stupid, redneck southerners and, what do you expect. from such ignorant, low class people, but the wrong decision.
Sat, 2014-02-22 15:11
Unions CANNOT spend the majority of dues money "supporting left wing politicians." Both the labor laws and the values of union members prohibit the use of ANY dues money for political purposes, not that there are any funds left over after performing the union's legitimate bargaining and grievance fighting functions. I was a member of a CWA local in Florida for three years, so I speak from experience, not hearsay or Fox. The union used NONE of our dues money for political purposes. Instead, we were allowed to make additional cash contributions at union meetings to the political education fund, either as outright donations or by buying chances in a drawing.
Another lie about unions is the designation of "bosses" for elected officers. The fact is that officers are often forced to pay expenses out of pocket on union business travel, because actual shortage of funds combined with the natural stinginess of members who work very hard for their wages often results in less money voted for these purposes than necessary. These hard working volunteers can hardly be called "bosses." But the people who run the companies, who actually ARE bosses by definition (and many of them ACT "bossy" as well), are never referred to by that derogatory term by conservatives. This is a glaring double standard.
Another lie is that unions encourage and protect laziness. This may once have been true in some industries (and in the classie "cost-plus" defense contracts, MANAGEMENT encouraged inefficiency because it got a bigger payment from the military, which I witnessed on a summer job in the 1960s!), but today, unions know that their contracts do not exempt workers from being judged on productivity, and so they take up the mantle that parents and schools have often dropped, teaching the millennial generation the work ethic needed to prevent company discipline. Unions do take up grievances when a worker is being UNJUSTLY disciplined, but every meeting has several reiterations of the "sermon" to stay off cell phones, keep taking calls, be polite but efficient, read scripts exactly, etc. etc. Incidentally, in this particular local in the right-to-work-for-less South, with African Americans in the majority (but white people treated with equal respect), invocations at the start of meetings included prayers to protect the hard working people in the union and inspire the members to work hard and take their jobs seriously.
The reason seniority is emphasized in many contract employment situations is to avoid either positive or negative favoritism by managers, who would otherwise give raises and promotions to those whose actual work does not merit it, or withhold them from employees who have earned them, on the basis of personal feelings. This does not mean that quality and productivity are not rewarded; unions try as hard as possible to ensure that ALL members meet standards high enough to produce value for the customers. And union job environments do not involve jobs where "outstanding" merit is significant, only those where the minimum requirements are high, but "excess" skill is redundant. Therefore, the only truly fair way to pay workers who are all producing identical products is to reward time spent contributing good performance, measured objectively.
Tue, 2014-02-18 08:59
I work in a unionized shop, and from my direct experience the union serves no other purpose but to pander to the lowest common denominator. People who long ago should have been fired walk around our shop and flout their consistently sub par work ethos with impunity. A unionized shop is a breeding ground for the lazy and the corrupt. Much in the same way that our failed prison system creates better criminals, unionized shops create lazier employees with a victim mentality and a understanding how to play politics rather than work. Anyone that knows the history of the unions knows that UAW was most certainly the cause of the failure of the big three. When all the profit from the product a company makes goes into paying the pension plan of the union, how can a company hope to stay competitive on a world market? Anyone who is intellectually honest knows that unions once served a great purpose in our society when the deck was stacked steeply against the worker. But times have changed radically and the pendulum has swung too far in the opposite direction. Most of the victories won by the unions have been codified into law anyhow. And, as was recently evidenced in Wisconsin, most American workers (not just those horribly ignorant southern "whites" to whom that the racist author refers), when given a chance, will opt out of a union. Nice try Meyerson, but unions have proven to be more of a hindrance than a help when it comes to the American economy. Southern workers are doing just fine.
Tue, 2014-02-18 09:11
Aside from the absurd stereotyping of the South (as one has already noted - hillbillies in the UMW were individualists?), there is the nonsense about the UAW's liberalism. Walter Reuther was liberal, in the old-fashioned anti-communist sense that many conservatives today would be happy to work with. However, in the South, the UAW units were quite often as bigoted and pro-segregation as anyone and departed from Reuther's liberalism with all the gusto of Bull Connor and sometimes every bit as violently. Please, spare us these morality tale excuses. Despite pressures from BOTH union and employer, you want us to believe these workers were tricked into bowing to a bunch of pols writing editorials about Civil War battles? It might just be, though so hard for people on the left to imagine, the workers thought for themselves that they did not like what they knew about the UAW and wanted no part of it. Occam's razor, friend. Stop looking past your own eyes for answers.
Tue, 2014-02-18 09:19
Retiring West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller also commented recently about the fatalism of the Scots-Irish in his remarks about the water pollution in his state which many citizens refused to lay at the feet of energy interests. It's so much a part of Southern Appalachian culture that its roots are almost undetectable. (No accident that Darwin was voted down here.) I thought the anti-union sentiment in the South would disappear once jobs could no longer be racially segregated, but that hasn't happened. Workers in the mountain south are still loathe to defy their employers, and Corker knew right where to apply the pressure.
Tue, 2014-02-18 09:56
What about the anti-union sentiment in Wisconsin? Since the option to freely decide for themselves, those (apparently fatalistic) Scandinavians have been leaving the unions in droves. http://watchdog.org/95888/public-union-membership-plummets-two-years-after-wi-act-10/ I daresay your causality is a bit mixed up. It's not some visceral genetic adherence to the power paradigm that prevents people in the south from openly embracing Jimmy Hoffa's little club of corruption. It's common sense and an ability process empirical evidence. Anyone paying attention can see that unions = the death of an industry. Unions no longer serve the interests of the working individual, but rather their own perpetuation. There may be some place for unions in American industry, but things need to change radically. Starting with giving people the OPTION to unionize. By forcing it down their throats, its obvious exactly what is the objective. THAT union needs to go away and never come back.
Tue, 2014-02-18 11:06
Why everybody hates unions:
youtube (dot) com/watch?v=Y33Tyj2s6Oo
(Watch WDIV-TV follow around Ford union g00ns loafing on the job. Funny as hell.)
Bottom line: Workers want good paying jobs, they don't want to bleed their company dry. That's why they told the union to pound salt.
Tue, 2014-02-18 11:46
So, basically, Meyerson's analysis is that the culture of the South is just "wrong" (with an implication of racist), while the culture of NYU grad students and TAs is ever so correct. (BTW, why is the UAW representing university employees? I guess it's an indication of how desperate it has become for members.)
Tue, 2014-02-18 12:30
Good insight into the culture not only in the south, but with Republicans since Reagan. The young worked and voted for President Obama, but are discouraged not only from being a "lost" generation without a working future, but the President's corporate appointments and general actions favoring both multi-national corporations and big banks with questionable reputations. Democrats are often Republican-lite. Until we have someone in politics with commitments to workers, jobs, the environment and an honest financial system, we will be consumed by the Kochs and their friends on the Supreme Court and in the gerrymandered House. Republicans made their bed when they grabbed the south after Democrats supported integration and civil rights. None of what they support is sustainable beyond cheap labor, regulate nothing, give everyone a gun and allow the crazies unlimited speech. Republicans bow to billionaire power over the country. We are sold out, but perhaps there is hope. The massive unregulated pollution, earthquakes from fracking and numbers of poor in the red states will cause them trouble. Fortunately Germany is advanced in their apprentice programs, open to elective unions and treat their workers better than the average US company. VW may be a good model for those who go crazy when the word "union" or workers' rights are mentioned.
Tue, 2014-02-18 14:22
"we will be consumed by the Kochs and their friends on the Supreme Court and in the gerrymandered House."
This boilerplate leftism is really laughable. Koch Industries actually has a lot of fairly well-paid union workers in its plants in the South. Yet somehow we have to drag the Kochs in to explain why workers in Tennessee chose to go against both company and union in a VW plant the Kochs have nothing to do with? How could you come up with anything more non-sequitor than this notion? By the way, LillithMc, on the latest OpenSecrets.org list, Koch Industries is 59th among top donors to candidates and parties 1989-2012, Among the top fifteen donors are TEN unions (UAW is number 8), every one of which gave nearly all its money to Democrats (and what was left to those further to the left than Democrats). UAW alone gave $41 million compared to the Kochs' $18 million - to say nothing of the unpaid donations it provides in the form of picketers, poll workers, etc., etc. You mean to tell me somehow the Kochs still prevailed with 700 workers in down there in Chattanooga? My, my, how do they do it?
Tue, 2014-02-18 23:24
Koch is a general name for the billionaires who own Republicans, their fans and those who are brainwashed to work cheap for them without the ability to organize for their own benefit. Cheap labor is the goal of the Kochs and all their friends. They have no respect for workers. Look at Scott Walker who is a true Koch-owned robot.
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Tue, 2014-02-18 17:14
Among us southerners, and especially among us certified East Tennessee hillbillies, politeness and respectful behavior are still expected, especially toward those with whom we disagree. But the ignorance, cultural arrogance and general cluelessness about southerners, and especially about us descendants of Scottish, Irish and English peasants, displayed by the author of this worthless piece of junk journalism make it very, very difficult to withhold the insults it deserves. Mr. Meyerson, before making even more of an ass of yourself, come on down and live among us for a while, put aside your sadly mistaken preconceived notions and open that hermetically-sealed mind or yours, and perhaps you will discover why the good people of Chattanooga aren't foolish enough to listen to the siren song of the misguided ideology to which you are in thrall. Or maybe not. Someone who still believes in Marxist class struggle isn't likely to be able to understand.
Tue, 2014-02-18 21:19
Culture matters, class and race do not. From culture comes what is productive. Or not. Neither race nor class divide in that fashion: about what matters not who matters.
THAT is America - what matter matters and who matters does not.
KUDOS to UAW for opening doors. Brickbats for destroying firms and jobs.
Wed, 2014-02-19 13:42
"failed to realize that the company's conduct had been largely shaped by influence that IG Metall"
Maybe IG M... should have tried to Unionize us.....because we see Detroit-UAW connection. In our shop we have voted the union down 3 times in 20 years, they somehow get our cards "signed" every few years and start asking for another election.....
Wed, 2014-02-19 16:07
Volkswagen wanted this and continue to advocate for workers' councils.
Wed, 2014-02-19 18:18
There is a body of law governing the German concept of the works council:
This summary doesn't state that labor MUST be represented by a labor union. At first reading, it appears that such a council could be organized like a condominium board, with legal rights and obligations but with volunteer leadership. I appreciate that from the German worldview this requires the UAW, but on the ground in Chattanooga it may be a lot easier to execute without them.
Wed, 2014-02-19 18:09
Sorry to get in on this late. I live in Atlanta, I was born here, and I've always lived in the south. Where is this White South you are talking about? Do you mean white like Minnesota and Wisconsin are white? The census says that those states are 82 and 83% white, while my native Georgia is 55%. Tennessee has 17% black population, as opposed to a national average of 13%. Are there secret places - maybe you find them using racist code words - that are white, and they're called the White South?
The article refers to a "handful" of black employees. How much is that exactly? If 17% of the plant were black, that would be 256. Are you privy to the employment records at VW, and you can tell us whether they have more or less than proportional employment?
Other than as fodder for your disdain and a source of cheap labor for your Passats, what good is this part of the country to you? I mean, we're just dragging you down! Our ACA signups are way off, our acceptance of gay marriage 20 years behind the civilised world, it's too hot and the people talk funny. Why don't you just cut your losses and break up with us? It's clear things aren't working out. It was great when we started out, and we managed to get through our separation period, but really, now that we're both mature, shouldn't we face facts? We won't blame you. It's the sensible thing to do, really. We have just grown too far apart.
If it helps, you can keep Florida. It was always more close to you anyway.
Sat, 2014-02-22 02:05
I disagree. The real class war, middle vs. the poor, continues in full force, with the support of the Dem Congress. This is the class war that lib media won't touch since Dems and media are dependent on middle class consumers and campaign donors. This isn't the first time in our history when the richest few took control, to the harm of the country. Each time, the poor and middle class, workers and the jobless, united to push back, to everyone's benefit. That can't happen this time, since we were deeply pitted against each other. Workfare labor continues to replace other workers, at a fraction of the wages. In America today, class determines everything.
Tue, 2014-02-25 18:27
I was a union member for my working career, and I saw the good and the bad of union representation. From my observation and service, because I did function as a representative for a short period the good out weighed the bad. True unions from that era sometimes protected the lazy and advanced the incompetent. That may have been the biggest flaw in the union I belonged to. Still the union won the forty hour week, health care, paid vacation, and a couple of times most likely saved me my job when I told supervisors they were stupid and assholes. So now the pendulum is swing back the other way, and as long as capital is benevolent and shares the wealth there is no need for any union. As to the big three, actually on two of the three went bankrupt, the onus should be shared with managers who failed to fund overly generous retirement plans. Much the same goes for government that has been too generous, and failed to fund retirement and health plans. Unions are not blameless, but poor management must shoulder part of the blame too. I followed the link to the editorial, and could only wonder why the author did not rebut the op-ed as to why Volkswagen abandoned it's U.S. operations in the 80's. Seems to me that Volkswagen was struggling everywhere, poor products poor management during that era. Regardless of how you feel about unions the fact is that when unions were strongest the middle class was prosperous, now with the decline of unions the middle class is disappearing, income inequality is approaching 1920's levels and capital is ascendant. Capital has done a good job of painting unions as evil, and it is evident in the comments I read that they continue to spread their vitriol, but as I said earlier Union have done their part to sully themselves.
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Hey all, TNA blog for you all today. As I'm sure most of you know, the Bound for Glory series 2012 officially started last night. I've been putting some thought in to what chance each wrestler has of winning it all. As always tear it apart and form your own opinion in the comments.
#1 - James Storm (9/10)
Unquestioned favourite. BFG seems set up for a Roode v Storm WHC match. Gauntlet win just solidified his status top of the pile.
#2 - Jeff Hardy (8/10)
Biggest draw and biggest merch seller in TNA and has yet to win the title as a face. Could the young and female fans favourite main event the biggest show of the year for TNA? Quite possibly.
#3 - Kurt Angle (8/10)
Been on a bit of a role since turning face. Is always in or around the world title scene, could we see a rematch of last years main event? Probably not but it is possible.
#4 - Samoa Joe (7/10)
Hasn't been relevant for a long time but this might be to his benefit, some people are still very high on him backstage and his match against Aries would have helped him. He is my outside tip.
#5 - Bully Ray (7/10)
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#6 - Rob Van Dam (6/10)
A big name who TNA likes to promote but has had a recent title shot and TNA won't need to build him up so a win is unlikely.
#7 - Mr Anderson (6/10)
Interchangeable with RVD, both unlikely for the same reason and are both unlikely to be the guy the company looks to build around.
#8 - AJ Styles (5/10)
TNA's poster boy so he always has a chance but with at least 3 title shot loses to Roode already he won't be getting another. Add to this his leading role in a major storyline and AJ will probably lose many more matches than people expect him to.
#9 - Daniels (4/10)
The other major participant in the AJ Styles storyline, hasn't been considered for the world title ever. His build, his age and being a heel all go against him so he won't be making the final 4.
#10 - Magnus (3/10)
A young guy who is a potential future champion but it seems unlikely to be his time yet. TNA may well use this series to build him up and project him into or around the title picture so he is an outside shot to get into the last 4.
#11 - D'angelo Dinero (3/10)
Another one who is in the series seemingly from nowhere, has been pushed before but doesn't seem like his time to be pushed again. Will likely be used to build up other guys in the series but remains a bit of a wildcard.
#12 - Robbie E (1/10)
Every tournament needs a whipping boy, stands zero chance unless everyone else gets injured.
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His self-reliance followed him to summer camp, where as a counselor he canoed and hiked, and into young adulthood, where he took up deer hunting. …
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I can see it now, a promo for a TV movie: a shot of Paul Ryan standing atop a mountain with a deer flung across his back dissolves into footage of him in a college dorm room, enraptured by Atlas Shrugged while through the window unruly women's rights protesters burn bras. We see a young Ryan working at McDonald's as a teenager, then cut to him running up the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, sweat dripping from his brow. The Star-Spangled Banner crescendos as he reaches the apex. Text flashes across the screen: Paul Ryan, Self-Made Man.
You see, while the rest of us welfare recipients sit at home eating Doritos we bought with food stamps, Paul Ryan has been out there catching fish with his bare hands. Faced with the death of a family member, Paul Ryan "took the path of individual responsibility and maturity"—unlike the rest of us, whom grief would have pushed into the arms of the government.
Did anyone at the Times or the Post stop and say, Wait a minute, are we writing a profile or a fairy tale? Like countless kids across America, Ryan had a fast-food job in high school. He went to college. Surprisingly, when he took an internship on Capitol Hill, they didn't let him start out as a legislator, so he had to deliver mail. Sucking up to big wigs helped him make connections (he was voted "Biggest Brown Noser" in high school), which helped out his political career. He works out and hunts. He loves Ayn Rand. Nothing about these traits or accomplishments indicates that he is any more independent than, say, Barack Obama. But in an attempt to draw a connection between Ryan's ideology and his biography, journalists and politicians cite them as evidence of his extraordinary self-reliance.
But if you wipe the stardust from your eyes, you'll be forced to admit that for all his talk about the free market, Ryan has spent precious little time in it and in fact has benefited from government help more than most. When his father died, Ryan received Social Security payments that helped pay for his college tuition. He attended Miami University, a public institution that receives millions of dollars in federal and state money every year. Since then, Ryan has spent most of his life—15 years, to be exact—on the government's payroll. And as opposed to Mitt Romney, who earned his money in private equity, Ryan married into his fortune. Finally, one shouldn't forget that Ryan took home $20 million in stimulus money for energy efficiency in Wisconsin while protesting the stimulus, and $5.4 million in earmarks in 2008 while protesting earmarks—accomplishments that might have pleased his constituents but don't square with his small-government image. In short, Ryan is only around to warn about the evils of government because of government.
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So you'll disparage both Ryan and Romney's reputation and motives by resorting to name calling and character assisination is not surprising. What is surprising is that you'll let Obama off the hook for free! Amazing! Obama has failed to reveal his college records and the people whom he closely associated
with along this path to the presidency. His policies have been a disaster of historic proportions and yet you predict a landslide victory ? Why don't you just admit your hatred and racism and get it over with? You're not fooling anyone.
Tue, 2012-08-14 22:23
Failed to reveal college records! Gee and you used the word 'disparage'! Firstly, college records are private and secondly, he got into Harvard Law after graduating from Columbia - what sort of student do you think he might have been? I think the charge of racism might be misdirected.
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This year we had four guys that I think people would agree are in the discussion for being high up on the list of best college wrestlers. That's a pretty good year.
I'd still rank Sanderson first and Gable second. I realize that Gable took second one year and Dake won all 4, but Dake has a lot more losses throughout his career and even though they were not in the tournament, they still count. But my point is not to have that discussion.
Let's start by assuming that Taylor and Ruth go undefeated next year (not unrealistic in my opinion).
- Obviously, Dake is going to have to go very high on the list. 4 for for (making him one of three). A career record of 137-4,
- Taylor would finish 2,1,2,1, with his only losses coming to NCs. Roughly 125-3.
- Ruth would finish 3,1,1,1. Undefeated for the final three years, roughly 125-2 (those losses coming in his first year as a starter, one in his second week to an AA, the other when he tore cartilage in his knee at NCAA Quarterfinals).
- And going into the season, I thought McD was going to have a career of 1,2,1,1. But we know that didn't happen
Where would you put these guys? I don't mean for you to complete a list, since I'm too lazy to do that (maybe that is something to do during the slow summer months). But where do you rank them relative to each other and roughly in history?
Obviously (and for me unfortunately) I have to put Dake at the top of this group, and he is going to be top 5 or 6 ever.
I think I have to put Ruth second, and Taylor right behind him. Ruth having 3 undefeated seasons and his worst finish at 3rd with an injury gives him the slight nod. Both will probably go in the 5-15 range
Had McD done what I thought he would, I'd have him right there as well. But sadly, this year changed that. Not only does he easily sit in 4th on this list, but he slides way down the list. He now has a 1,2,1 DNP, and that is a really tough ending to an otherwise great career. I think he is going to be around 20-25. I realize he was injured, but that won't be remembered.


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"I want to have a great E3 this year," says Phil Spencer
Posted on Monday 20-Jan-2014 10:29 AM GMT By Aoife Wilson, Staff Writer for OXM
Hands up who fancies a couple more Xbox One exclusive announcements in 2014. You? And you? Rejoice; Microsoft's Phil Spencer has confirmed via his Twitter feed that they're coming, and strongly hinted that this coming E3 will be a good one for Xbox fans.
@Ryuu179961 We will have announces in 2014, already working on the plan. I want to have a great E3 this year.— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) January 20, 2014
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Microsoft's Phil Spencer has responded to a fan query about Xbox One exclusives by promising that Microsoft will have Xbox One exclusives to announce in 2014.
"We will have announces [sic] in 2014, already working on the plan. I want to have a great E3 this year," said Spencer on Twitter, as spotted by OXM.
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Spencer also replied to a question regarding release dates for Halo, Quantum Break and Sunset Overdrive, saying, "Most of those will be clear to fans by the end of our E3 briefing."
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Hong Kong (CNN) -- Eight years ago, Leanne Rowe was in a serious car crash that resulted in a broken back and jaw. But when the former bus driver and Australian Army Reserve member recovered, she was left with something completely unexpected: a French accent.
Rowe, who is now unable to speak with her original Aussie accent, said she has become a "recluse," and often has her daughter speak for her in public.
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He's one of the reasons why after 12 years, XP still has ~40% market share. The scary thing is that there are many, many systems admins that think like this, and mistake their own stubbornness, and unwillingness to adapt, as maintaining high standards.
scared for whom? srsly
More to the point, there are lots of people with not very much money >.<
Enabling PAE on XP will only enable access to 4GB of RAM >.>
pae is automatically enabled on xp sp3 + x86_64 processors... this thread is about going beyond 4gb... where is the vast array of expertise when after 5 pages the subject of the thread is not even grasped.?


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April 8th, 2003
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Major Jackson
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|Asset Recovery Services
Asset Recovery Services offers safe and environmentally appropriate disposal solutions for outdated or end-of-life IT assets. This service includes transportation, flexible logistics, equipment processing, detailed data security and environmental reports at an affordable price.
Dell offers comprehensive training services, which include hardware and software training, as well as PC skills and professional development classes. Our flexible approach allows you to tailor classes to the needs and busy schedules of your employees with instructor-led classrooms or virtual courses, and even self-directed online options. Dell training can help improve system reliability, maximize productivity, and reduce end-user requests and downtime.