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You're welcome to interpret things any way you choose but I have to wonder why you stay; your long running theme has been one of discontent and unhappiness with just about every aspect of our community.
Do you mean that I am one of a couple of folks that bother with legitimate criticism of the site, as opposed to posting "OMG snowforum suxx goat azz"?
This isn't a democracy and as a privately owned business, we reserve the right to run things as we see fit and what is in the best interests of of the site. If you or anyone else has a problem with that, no one is holding anyone hostage here and they are free to seek greener pastures. The facts don't support your position though and TGR and Epic Ski aren't nearly as lenient in their moderating and newbies are treated far better here. If you seriously think they don't have the good ole boy club aspect, you are delusional. The difference here is we are more up front and honest about it so people are more aware of the environment from the start.
Since you ask... I am still here, but less and less so. Besides the gripes I have already voiced, this site is starting to get as bad as myspace with all of the rollover popups and ads.
Regarding TGR and Epic... I really don't think there is much of a comparison between the content on TGR and the content here, or the general attitude on Epic and the general attitude here. Neither site is perfect, but this forum routinely combines the worse aspects of the other two. Go ahead and glance at first page of threads on either site and then come back here and do the same.
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›› Live coverage: UTEP vs. Houston men's basketball game
Only a few, only a very, very few, leave the mark of greatness behind ... leave it with such an indelible imprint that a jersey will be retired and a career will become part of the lore of a program.
Tim Hardaway left that mark at UTEP, and Saturday night, when the Miners take on Houston in their Conference USA home opener, his jersey No. 10 will be hung from the rafters of the arena named for the man who coached him. His will be the fourth jersey in program history retired -- joining Jim Barnes' No. 45, Nate Archibald's No. 14 and Nolan Richardson's No. 42.
"I don't care if it is the first jersey retired or the last," Hardaway said Thursday from Bloomington, Ind., there to watch his son Tim Hardaway Jr. play for Michigan against Indiana. "Just to have your jersey retired shows that you must have brought some joy to people. Without UTEP, without Coach (Don) Haskins, without all the people in the athletic department, all the professors, all the fans, I wouldn't be where I am today. They taught me how to be a man, how to be a grownup. I want to thank them, but I can't say thank you enough."
Hardaway, of course, had an amazing NBA career, drafted in the first round, 14th overall, by the Golden State Warriors. He was selected to the NBA All-Rookie team, was a five-time NBA All-Star.
But his career really began at UTEP, as a skinny freshman in 1985. He still remembers his first meeting with Haskins ... his first impressions.
"He came out to see me (at Carver Area High School in Chicago) one time," said Hardaway, now 45. "He saw us practice, play some pick-up games. My first impression was, 'Wow, he really does look like a bear.' Rus (Bradburd, the assistant who recruited Hardaway) told me not to get intimidated. But he was kind of frightening. I'd heard so many stories about the '66 team, about Nate Archibald, about him. I was almost intimidated.
"We talked about school, getting grades, the atmosphere at UTEP, how I liked to play, how he liked to play," Hardaway recalled. "He told me El Paso was not a big city, but that I would love it ... that it was a family affair. I remember my first practice. Coach just wanted you to be up to par, ready to learn, keep your mouth shut and go out and play. I had great guys in front of me, guys like Jeep (Jackson), Lem (Clanton), Soup (Wayne Campbell), Q (Quintan Gates). They taught me, mentored me."
Haskins always marveled at how much better Hardaway got each year.
"I had the best back in Chicago," he said of his summers. "I played with and against NBA players, played with and against European players, played with and against college players. Every pick-up game was intense, like a real game. You wanted to be the guy talked about, the guy looked up to, the guy picked first for the teams, the guy people came to see play."
Current UTEP coach Tim Floyd said, "I was here when Tim got here. Rus recruited him and I'm glad he did. I've watched UTEP basketball for nearly four decades now and I've never seen a guy get better every year like Tim. He did it through hard work and perseverance. He didn't start his freshman year, but he didn't transfer. He just kept working. I remember him as a guy who stayed after practice for a minimum of an hour every day, working on his cross-over dribble, working on his 15-18-foot jump shot."
Hardaway certainly became that guy at UTEP, winning the Naismith Award as a senior as the best player 6-foot and under in the nation. He helped UTEP get into four NCAA tournaments and left as the school's all-time leader in scoring, assists and steals. He remains the school's fifth all-time leading scorer, his assist record was just broken last year by Julyan Stone, and he remains UTEP's all-time leader in steals.
"And, of course, Coach Haskins taught me the game and he taught me life," Hardaway said. "He taught me what I needed to do for my team, to lead a team. None of us got to know Coach Haskins until after we finished playing. While we were playing, he was the coach, the father, the mentor. He walked in the building and it was like the Admiral coming in. After I finished, I got to sit down with him and become a friend. He was a beautiful person, a beautiful man."
UTEP basketball has a proud and impressive hoop history and Tim Hardaway has been part of that history since the mid-1980s.
Saturday night his jersey will hang from the rafters in the Don Haskins Center, officially and forever marking the indelible imprint he made on UTEP basketball.
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I have a stupid confusion, when we override the parent class method then does this derived overridden method still hold the code of parent class method, or it is a new fresh method which we can define?
Read this article to get concept clear. http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/IandI/override.html
Generally we do when we want to extend the method of super class or to want to change the complete logic.
For ex: Super class have sorting method which use bubble sort.
In Derived class you want to take same method but want to implement quick sort. Then we do overriding.
If you want to execute super class method first then your sub class overriden method logic then we use
Last to point of your question If you override the method and not called super class method like
what happens is exactly what's written in the annotation.
you override the method and instead of running the parent code for the method, it runs the current class's code


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I work with a company that has a headquarters and IT location that are 160 miles from a field location. We travel often from the HQ location to the field location - I would guess at least once a week a person of group of people do the trip. Sometimes a day trip, sometimes overnight.
I would like to encourage the company to put in EV chargers at each location, and buy a MS85 as a "green initiative". I think it makes sense for the company and for me - I'm getting a MS85 and want a charger at the field location!
I was thinking of this:
1. Put in EV charger at field location. Work with landlord and other tenants to fund it.
2. Demonstrate the MS85 travel to the location. I could take the CEO, CFO, and others a few times in my car and show them the benefits.
3. Put in EV charger at HQ location and buy an MS. Employees could schedule it like they schedule a conference room in Microsoft Outlook.
4. Let employees take the car on the weekend!
The chargers should not be too difficult; I think between the company, other tenants, and the landlord at each location we should be able to get enough interest and funding. I was thinking of 4 J1772 30-amp chargers.
For the financing of the MS, I figure it would cost roughly $95K in capital (probably just the battery option). Operating the vehicle would be paid for through reduced travel cost to the field location. At $.50 reimbursement per mile they are currenly paying, that would be $8,000 per year assuming one trip per week. That should pay for insurance, tires, maintenance - everything except depreciation. At 3 trips per year, it might even have a financial ROI. But the real selling point is going electric for the repeated trips.
If anyone has tried something similar, or has some suggestions, please let me know.
Have you made any progress on this idea?
Sounds like a great idea. Keep us posted on how it works out.
If it is a company vehicle, they can factor in depreciation, tax credits, they can write off the miles used by the employees (for work) at .556/mile. (well they can do all the above for a gas car too).
The only thing about this is that it is greener. They could buy a 30-mpg highway car and just about do all of the above without charging costs. In California, peak daytime electricity is somewhat expensive and is almost on-par with gasoline per mile costs.
Pass it by the CIO and see if the green-cred can be budgeted. Most likely they will not find it to "work on paper".
They cannot write off the car legally if employees use it on weekends.
Here's an interesting item. GE (General Electric) has had a green initiative. They made new company car drivers get either a Chevy Volt or Ford C-Max Energi. Sounds good so far... Then they give them a friggin GAS CARD. Guess how many of them plug in their cars? None. Ridiculous when green initiatives go bad, eh?
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Judgment day has arrived for Arizona's restrictive immigration law, as the U.S Supreme Court hears arguments on April 25. The court will decide how much authority states can have when it comes to immigration enforcement. María Hinojosa speaks to NCLR's Immigration Legislative Analyst, Laura Vasquez and Mark Krikorian, executive director at the Center for Immigration Studies, about what's at stake in the hearings that begin April 25.
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Laura Vasquez is the Immigration Legislative Analyst at the National Council of La Raza in Washington, DC. Prior to joining NCLR, she was a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Fellow and also a Constituent Caseworker for Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton.
Mark Krikorian has been the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, DC. since 1995. Before joining CIS, he held several editorial and writing positions. Krikorian has a master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He authored "The New Case Against Immigration, Both Legal and Illegal."
about overburdening state poicle will be the end result. Even if they DO have a law to apprehend the illegals, they cannot deport them. Thats federal juristiction and so if the feds don't want them to go, they can let them stay. Sometimes its cheaper and easier to give a green card than to do the legal hasstle of deportation- Especially if they have children born here.Every illegal allowed to stay will be a strain on the state forces, and a waste of time for the feds who would have to just let them go. There is a positive end to this though. A lot of illegals will get their green cards and be no longer breaking the law. I am sure this is the intended consequence you want, right AZ, Honcho?
Well I'm white and live in an area primarily cniossting of recent Mexican immigrants and Mexican-Americans that are first, second or third generation. They were here first and the actual history was nothing more than a greedy land grab by the U.S. government. I am not anti-American at all but history is history. The Texas Rangers went all the way down to Mexico City raping, killing and desecrating Catholic churches along the way. People in America aren't taught the full history of how it all went down. Most people from Mexico are not criminals and they certainly aren't lazy trying to live off of the system. They are willing to do jobs that most Americans would refuse to do and this is for the sake of their families having a better life.All the anti-Mexican propaganda is part of a big conspiracy to create a new scapegoat and rekindle old prejudices. It is all bullsh*t. Most people never get to actually know the Mexican population because of their own fears and prejudices.
We don't need reform, we need our laws eecrofnd. Stop giving them everything and they will stop coming. Illegals are hurting every single tax paying citizen regardless of their race/ethnicity. Amnesty is a free pass to the law breakers and it was tried in the 80 s. It was a complete failure and now millions more are wanting another free pass.To the people that say our ancestors were illegal immigrants that is not true because there were no immigration laws. Even the the native Americans came from Asia. Give all these illegals citizenship, they will have to be paid the same as citizens, employers will be cheap and encourage more illegals to come. The cycle will never end without enforcing our laws.


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Read the Rules for application page and then fill out both the Application and Hold Harmless release form (available on the Forms page) and return with the appropriate fee. This can be mailed to Chatham Chamber c/o 134 North Hillside Ave, Chatham, NJ 07928. (Any questions can be emailed to email@example.com.)
1. You will be assigned your location the week prior to the festival. Space is limited and will be assigned at the discretion of the Committee.
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The 5-foot-10 guard averaged 16.5 points, 3.5 assists and 2.0 steals as the Mount split a pair of Northeast Conference games last week.
Scoring in double figures seven times with three games of 20 or more points, Wiggins has started each of the past eight games for the Mount. He is averaging a team-best 14.9 points per game over that stretch while hitting 52.5 percent from the field.
For the season, Wiggins is averaging 8.3 points while shooting 53.1 percent from 3-point range and 81.5 percent at the foul line.
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The Gettysburg Girls Area Fastpitch Softball League is seeking players aged 12-and-under to fill the roster for the 2013 season.
The program is open to girls aged 11 or 12 as of Dec. 31, 2012 and who have parents or guardians living in the Gettysburg Area School District.
Games will be played between May 11 and July 12.
The registration fee is $65 per person. There is no mandatory fundraiser.
More information is available from Max Laing at 717-253-3678 or at email@example.com.
Chocolate Town tourneys scheduled
The Chocolate Town USA Boys Basketball Tournaments will be held over the next month at Hershey High School.
The brackets for school and community teams in grades 4, 6, and 8 will be played Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 23-24. The brackets in grades 5, 7 and 9 will be contested on Saturday and Sunday, March 2-3.
Each team is guaranteed three games. The entry fee is $200 per team.
More information is available from Paul Blackburn at email@example.com or at 717-364-2358.
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The South Hills 4-Man Golf League at South Hills Golf Club has openings available for both Tuesday and Thursday divisions.
The league will re-organize for the 2013 season at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 5, aty the Hanover course's clubhouse.
More information is available from South Hills at 717-637-7500 or from Kim DeGroft at 717-309-4948.
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The Maven Bentley Association and Ground Breaking Wrestling will conduct a professional wrestling show at 8 p.m. Saturday at the National Guard Armory, 51 West Clearview Road, Hanover.
Admission costs $12 per adult and $6 per child aged 10-and-under.
Slowpitch softball players needed
Senior slowpitch softball teams are being formed to participate in tournaments this summer.
Teams of players aged 50-, 55-, 60-, 65- and 70-and-up are being developed. The teams, which practice at Linfield, will play in weekend tournaments in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida.
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Several hiking trails are accessible from the Seward Highway, including the steep paths up Falls Creek and Bird Ridge. Both offer spectacular views of Turnagain Arm, where explorer Captain Cook searched for the Northwest Passage. Local lore has it that the arm is so named because Cook entered it repeatedly, only to be forced to turn back by the huge tide. The Arm has impressive tides, and notably, the second largest bore tide in North America. These bore tides can reach up to 40 feet, and move at an impressive 30 miles per hour (an average tide flows at 10 to 15 miles an hour). An increasingly popular, yet somewhat dangerous, sport is windsurfing the tidal bore. To view the bore tide, station yourself at one of the turnoffs along the arm about 2½ hours after low tide in Anchorage—tide books are available at sporting goods shops, grocery stores, and bookstores, or you can find tide information on the Web.
During the summer, beluga whales are frequent visitors to the arm as they
patrol the muddy waters in search of salmon and hooligan, a variety of smelt. The whales travel in pods of adult and juvenile animals, the adults distinguishable by their bright white color. Belugas are smaller than other whales that frequent Alaska's coastal waters, reaching only 15 feet in length and weighing up to a ton. During high tide from July to August, when the surface of the water is calm, belugas are often spotted from the highway, frequently causing traffic jams as tourists and residents pull off the road for a chance to take in this increasingly rare sight. For reasons that are still unclear to scientists, Southcentral's beluga population has declined from 1,300 in 1980 to fewer than 325 in 2013.
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Panasonic HD camcorders
Moving beyond the home theater sphere at CES, Panasonic has announced two new camcorders, the HDC-HS9 and SD9. Both are capable of recording AVCHD video at 1080p and 24fps, and are also equipped with 3CCD sensors and optical image stabilization. Onboard software detects faces automatically, and also analyzes situations for shooting problems; should it find any, it suggests corrections like better lighting or slower panning. Sound is recorded in 5.1 channels using five separate microphones, and output can be displayed on HDTVs using an HDMI cable.
The HS9 is a dual-format camera, able to store video on either its 60GB built-in hard drive, or SD/SDHC cards up to 16GB in size. The hard drive alone should allow for approximately 23 hours of 1080p video, creating a maximum capacity of 29 hours.
The SD9 is claimed to be the "world's smallest and lightest" HD camcorder made for SD/SDHC cards. Panasonic will not say what the largest card the camera can accept is, but assuming equivalence with the HS9, it should be able to fit 16GB cards capable of six hours of 1080p content. Both cameras will be released in March, the SD9 costing $800, and the HS9 going for $1,100.


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I always find it interesting how, as a society, we tend to complicate things. Here are two good reminders that when you find yourself in a dilemma or under time restraints to just "kiss" (keep it simple, silly).
When NASA began launching astronauts into space, they found out that the pens they tool would not work in zero gravity because ink wouldn't flow down to the writing surface. It took them one decade and $12 million to solve this problem. They developed a pen that worked in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, in practically any surface including crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.
What did the Russians do?
They used a pencil.
One of Japan 's biggest cosmetics companies received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soap box that was empty. Immediately management isolated the problem to the assembly line, which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department. They found that one soap box had gone through the assembly line completely empty. Management looked to its engineers to solve the problem from happening again. Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch to make sure all the soap boxes that passed through the line were full. They worked hard and they worked fast but they spent an extensive amount of time and money to find a solution.
But when an employee in a small company was posed with the same problem, he did not get into complications of X-rays, etc., but instead came out with another solution. He bought a strong industrial fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soap box passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.
Remember to always look for the simplest possible solution that solves the problem.
Do you ever find yourself focusing too much on the problem and not on the solution?
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Saturn's Rings to Disappear Tuesday
Saturn's Rings to Disappear Tuesday, article.
Only ten meters thick! Astonishing.
Notes on life, art, photography and technology, by a Danish Internationally admired Dropout Bohemian.
Saturn's Rings to Disappear Tuesday, article.
Given the size of the planet, and the typical astronomical scales, yes, it IS pretty amazing.
Then again, maybe it's this thin precisely because it's a big planet. Maybe the strong gravitational field doesn't allow much straying from the equilibrium orbit plane.
Saturn also has another incredible feature: two of its moons actually keep swapping their orbits. Check Wikipedia for details.
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The Old Man was ten and six last week and I'm blaming the replacement refs. Hey, why not? It's as good an excuse as any! Just ask New England. How else do you explain their loss to the Cardinals at home? Wait a minute, Denny Green is calling me. What's that Denny, the Pat's aren't who we thought they were? Well there you have it.
I promise to do better in week three. I better, Jimmy Two Times has been hanging around my front door and….oh yeah, the picks, as always, are for fun. No gambling here sir. Games are predicted straight up, points are only for reference. Let's get to it.
New York Giants (-1) at Carolina Panthers – Thursday Night
It's another Thursday night game and only two things were worse than Eli Manning's first half performance last Sunday, and both happened last Thursday night. One was Jay Cutler's nightmare of a game (thankfully we won't see that again this Thursday) and the other was C Lo Greens Thursday Night Football intro (gotta find the mute button on the remote). The Giants are very lucky to have won last weekend. The Bucs gave them all they could handle and I expect the Panthers to do the same. As of this writing, it looks like Ahmad Bradshaw is out as well as Hixon and Diehl. Add to this their defensive back woes and you have all the makings of an upset, albeit not a big one. The Giants will end up 1 and 2 after Thursday night. Take the Panthers at home.
St. Louis Rams (+7.5) at Chicago Bears
Outside of the replacement refs, my Chicago Bears were the worse thing to happen in the NFL last week. Jay Cutler went down more than a two dollar hook…wait, I'll keep it clean. The Rams have been impressive this season, giving the Lions all they could handle and pulling off the win against the Redskins. I think the Bears will win this game, and big. The Bears came into this season as new and improved. So many players and coaches said this is the best Bears team in years. Time to start showing it. Cutler bounces back in a big way as the Bears win by two touchdowns.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (+7) at Dallas Cowboys
The Bucs should have two wins under their belts, but they're young and still learning how to win games. The Cowboys? Who knows! This is the biggest Jekyll and Hyde team in recent years. They have all the weapons, but just can't seem to get it done. Which team shows? The one that beat the Giants or the one that was manhandled by the Seahawks? I'm going with the team that beat the Giants and taking Dallas at home.
San Francisco 49ers (-7) at Minnesota Vikings
The 49ers are far and away the best team in the NFL at this point in time. Question is, good thing or bad? One thing I've learned over the years is that you don't want to peak too early, and that's the issue they face. Who would have thought at last seasons mid-way point that the Giants would end up Super Bowl champs? Not many. Can the 49ers keep the intensity for the remainder of the season? I'm not sure, but I am sure that they'll keep it going this week. 49ers whoop up on the Vikings in the Metrodome.
Detroit Lions (-3) at Tennessee Titans
Look for the Lions to finally put together one of those games where the offense and defense play their best. I look for Stafford and Johnson (Calvin, not Chris) to have big days as the Lions will roar. As for the Chris Johnson, I don't think he'll get past 30 total yards in this one. Lions win easy.
Cincinnati Bengals (+3) at Washington Redskins
If it weren't for a bonehead play by Redskins wide receiver Joshua Morgan, the Redskins might be undefeated. They've played some pretty good football this season. On the other side, the Bengals had a terrible outing in week one but bounced back against the Browns last week. They were my lock of the week, but not this week. I think the Redskins win this one as they continue to be one of the surprise teams of this young NFL season.
New York Jets (-3) at Miami Dolphins
In all honesty, I thought the Dolphins had a very good chance of not winning a game this season. I was wrong. Reggie Bush played like Reggie Bush can play against the Raiders. However, the Jets D is not the same and look for Reggie to get a lot of attention. I look for the Jets to make Tannehill beat them and I don't think he can. The Jets won't need a lot of offense as their D will give them a short field to work with. Take the Jets on the road.
Kansas City Chiefs (+8.5) at New Orleans Saints
If you still think that Sean Payton's absence is not big deal, then you're not following the NFL. The Saints just don't look like the Saints of old and it's due to Payton. I really don't think they'll make the playoffs as they continue to find their way. Lucky for them the Chiefs are coming to town. I know it's not Mardi Gras, but Saints fans can party like it is celebrating a Saints victory this Sunday.
Buffalo Bills (-3.5) at Cleveland Browns
Last Sunday, the Bills looked like the team I thought they'd be in week one! Another Jekyll and Hyde team. I think the Bills will go into Cleveland and put the wood to the Browns. Here' s a fun fact. Brandon Wheeden has more rushing yards this season than the Titan's Chris Johnson. Take the Bills on the road.
Jacksonville Jaguars (+3) at Indianapolis Colts
For the first time in years Indy fans are facing a home game blackout. This will be the last season that happens. I really like this young Colts team. Jim Irsay has done a masterful job of putting together a team that will be back in the playoffs as early as next year. As for this season, I look for the Colts to finish near .500. They should split their games with the AFC South, outside of Houston, and this is one they'll win. Take the Colts at home although I think Maurice Jones-Drew will have a good game.
Philadelphia Eagles (-4) at Arizona Cardinals
What? The Cardinals have a better record than the Patriots, Giants, and the Packers? What gives? I know, they're actually playing team football. In what was a major upset last weekend, the Cards went into Foxboro and took it to the Patriots. This week, they face the undefeated Eagles who, in my opinion, have lucked out with their two victories. Someone has to lose and I think the Cardinals show their true colors. Take the Eagles on the road.
Atlanta Falcons (+3) at San Diego Chargers
Another battle of undefeated teams. The Falcons go on the road and play outdoors, where they're just not as good, and it's unclear if they'll have Michael Turner. As you know, Turner had a bit too much to drink and got behind the wheel of a car last Monday. This is a tough game to call because I'm just not sold on the Chargers and I think the Falcons can be one of the best in the NFL. Based on past history of performing poorly in an outdoor environment, I'm going with the Chargers at home. This will be a close one.
Houston Texans (-2) at Denver Broncos
I really like and admire Peyton Manning. However, on Monday night, I saw a Manning that I was unfamiliar with. If you watch the game film, you'll see his passes were wobbly and had very little zip. You'll also see several receivers who were open, but they were 35 yards or so down field. I don't think Peyton could get the ball to them if he wanted to. I think this will be Manning's last year. His head and heart are there, his arm just isn't. Look for the Texans to cover the short and middle routes and take the win on the road.
Pittsburgh Steelers (-4.5) at Oakland Raiders
The Steelers and the Raiders. Images of Jack Lambert, Lyle Alzado, Franco Harris, and Kenny Stabler come to mind. Forget the records, forget the streaks, this will be a hard hitting, smash mouth football game. Call me crazy, but I think the Raiders will come to play this Sunday and in an upset they win over the Steelers.
New England Patriots (+3) at Baltimore Ravens – Sunday Night
It's hard to believe that one of these teams will be under .500 three weeks into the season. The Old Man has pointed out that the Patriots offensive line is its weak point and this week it doesn't get any easier. The Ravens are coming off a game that they should have won. They feel like they let the Eagles get away with one, and I agree. This is the Sunday prime time game and the Ravens will shine. Brady and the Pats drop to 1 and 2.
Green Bay Packers (-3.5) at Seattle Seahawks
The Packers had an easy time of it against the Bears in their last outing. The Seahawks? They're coming off a big home win against the Dallas Cowboys. I really like Russell Wilson and I think he'll do great things, but not this week. The Packers D showed what they're capable of against the Bears and I think it will be enough to bait and trap young Mr. Wilson as the Pack rolls to a 2 and 1 record.
One final note. I'd like to acknowledge the passing of Steve Sabol and thank him for his contributions to the NFL over the years. Steve was a good one and will be missed.
That's it for week two. Take it to the bank!


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Leah Murray, 18, left, and Olivia Lofgren, 19, both graduates of Iowa City West High School, speak to reporters Thursday after urging an Iowa Senate subcommittee to adopt a mandatory helmet law for mo-ped riders under age 18. They were friends of Caroline Found, 17, who died at the scene of an Iowa City mo-ped crash in August 2011 while not wearing a helmet. / William Petroski/The Register
Mo-ped operators under age 18 would be required to wear safety helmets under a bill that cleared an Iowa Senate subcommittee Thursday following testimony from friends of a young woman who died in an Iowa City mo-ped crash in 2011.
Senate File 37 is strongly opposed by ABATE of Iowa, an influential motorcycle rider advocacy group which has long fought any effort to require motorcyclists to wear protective helmets. The groups unwavering stance is a key reason why Iowa is one of only three states without a motorcycle helmet law.
The bill was sent to the Iowa Senate Transportation Committee, where Chairman Tod Bowman, D-Maquoketa, said it faces an uncertain future. My gut feeling right now is that it is shy of votes to win approval from the full committee, he said.
The legislation is being sought by friends of Caroline Found, 17, of Iowa City, who was killed in August 2011 after she lost control of her mo-ped and it struck a tree in a median. She was not wearing a helmet and died at the scene.
Olivia Lofgren, 19, and Leah Murray, 18, both graduates of Iowa City West High School, returned Thursday to the Iowa Legislature after failing last year to see their helmet proposal advance. But this time they said they have obtained almost 1,500 signatures in support of a youth helmet law for mo-ped riders. Supporters said the legislation is needed now even more than in the past amid an increasing number of young people riding mo-peds because of high gasoline costs and the difficulty of parking in college towns.
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Lofgren and Murray, both now college students, described their late friend in loving terms. They said Found had an infectious personality and her death took a toll on her friends, their families and the community.
Geoffrey Lauer, executive director of the Brain Injury Alliance of Iowa, spoke in support of the bill. He said helmets reduce the risk of brain injury by 69 percent and reduce the likelihood of death by 37 percent. He described brain injuries to youth mo-ped operators, which could be prevented by wearing protective helmets, as a societal problem. He added that the financial and emotional costs of such injuries is significant.
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The renowned Moscow Festival Ballet returns to Harris Center for the Arts, Feb. 4 to 6, to perform one of the most popular classical ballets of all time, "Swan Lake."
"Swan Lake," a ballet composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875, is fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse.
"Swan Lake" is one of the most technically and emotionally challenging classical ballets. Its music far exceeded its time — many of its early performers claimed it was too difficult and complex to dance to. Little is known of its original production but its revised production by the famous choreographers Petipa and Ivanov is the base of the many versions performed today.
Artistic Director Sergei Radchenko, the former principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet, has fused the highest classical elements of the great Bolshoi and Kirov Ballet companies into the Moscow Festival Ballet.
Leading dancers from across Russia have come together to forge this exciting new company under Radchenko's direction, staging new productions of timeless classics such as "Giselle," "Don Quixote," "Paquita" and "Carmen" with great success.
The Moscow Festival Ballet has also performed with great success in Turkey at the Istanbul Festival and in Greece at the Athens Festival and recently completed a two-month tour of Japan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong.
In addition to commissioning new works from within Russia and abroad, the company specializes in 20th century full-length ballets such as "Cinderella," "Romeo and Juliet," "Legend of Love," "Stone Flower" and "The Golden Age."
Born in 1944, Sergei Radchenko graduated from the Moscow School of Dance in 1964 and then joined the Bolshoi Ballet, where he worked for 25 years.
He danced the entire repertoire at the Bolshoi but enjoyed a special reputation for Spanish dance, particularly the role of the bullfighter in the Bizet-Schedrin "Carmen Suite."
He is the founder and artistic director of the Moscow Festival Ballet and has achieved a remarkable feat in the establishment and development of this young-but-great Russian ballet company.
Radchenko presents a large number of master-classes, inviting leading teachers from the Bolshoi and Maryinsky theaters to ensure the continuation of the rich traditions of the Russian classical school.
The "Moscow Festival Ballet: Swan Lake" will be presented on Tuesday, Feb. 4 at 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday, Feb. 5 at 2 p.m.; and Thursday, Feb. 6 at 7:30 p.m. Performances will be at the Harris Center, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.
Tickets are $29 to $49 and premium tickets are $59, children and students with ID are $25. Tickets are available online at harriscenter.net or from the Harris Center ticket office at 916-608-6888 from 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and two hours before show time. Parking is included in the price of the ticket.


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This is my 1920's English banjo. I don't know who the maker is, but I recently discovered (with the use of a small mirror) some writing on the inside of the head, which is, to my eyes, illegible. Hopefully I can uncover the mystery soon.
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365 Project - Week 10
March 18th, 2013 at 12:56 pm (365 project, everybody needs a Wren)
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Our theme this week was "memories." This was a tough week for me. It would have been simple enough for me to post some old pictures in our group like most other people were doing. But MY challenge is to take a self-portrait each day. So I'm insisting for myself that a part of me be in each photo, even if it's just my hand or my foot or something. That made this theme a little more challenging for me but it was fun to play around with different ideas. However, what REALLY made this week hard for me is that the theme required me to go through a lot of old pictures. And old pictures make me sad. The memories are nice but sometimes I don't like being reminded of all that I've lost.
Anyway, on to my pictures for this week:
065/365 - March 10, 2013. As a teenager, I called myself a "Flower Child." My room was covered in peace signs and I constantly wished I had been alive back in the 60's. Today I told Wren I was going to dress like a hippy in honor of my childhood. And he informed me that, apparently, I still AM a hippy.
066/365 - March 11, 2013. There are a lot of memories on this shelf. This is my "Dad Shelf." The bookshelf is full of his Louis L'amour books and his picture hangs above it. The kids put some of his other books on the top by his bronzed baby shoes, his Dad coffee cup, his Seahawks mug and a framed photo of my dad and my 2 brothers.
067/365 - March 12, 2013. I've been dying my hair since I was 12 years old. I'm pretty sure my natural hair color is dark brown now, although I'm also sure if I let it grow out natural it would probably lighten up (and be full of gray). Not that I'll ever do that; I like the change too much. Here's a sampling of all the colors my hair has been over the last 5 years, with a pic from today in the center.
068/365 - March 13, 2013. When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with France. I had a giant map of France hanging on my bedroom wall, and I used to lay in bed and look at it and plan out where I would go. I always wanted to see pictures of France, and in high school I could talk for hours to my French teacher about the experiences she had there. For the record, though, I never really cared that much about going to Paris. I wanted to go there for like a day, just to say I had been. But then I always wanted to go down south to Cannes and Nice and then travel over into Italy.
069/365 - March 14, 2013. It seems that I am always playing in this fountain at Manito Park. The picture on the right is me at 16 years old. The picture on the left is from today. The left picture was obviously taken during the summer when it was hot out and the cool fountain was refreshing. Today, though, it had a few inches of murky, cold water in the bottom. So my feet ended up soaked and cold. Ah well.
Oh, also, today was Pi Day!!!!
I made mini-pies for everyone!!!
070/365 - March 15, 2013. We're just a few weeks shy of 10 years together and I can't imagine my life over the past decade without him in it. Been going through my pics and pulled out a few of my favorites over the last 10 years. Those first 2, top left, were actually taken before we were even together. Back when he was my best friend.
Also, my picture is in a book!!
We participated in GISHWHES (The Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen) last fall and the book we ordered arrived in the mail. It has so many pictures from other teams and was a lot of fun to look at. But it was exciting seeing a full-page picture of me and of course, Katie is thrilled because she did my hair that day AND took the pic.
071/365 - March 16, 2013. I still look the same, right? Right!?!
Ok, that's the end of my week of memories.


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The Magazine
Speaking of Islam
Liberty and grievance in Canada.
Feb 11, 2008, Vol. 13, No. 21 • By LEE HARRIS
The English-speaking peoples are justifiably proud of their tradition of free speech. When Thomas Macaulay reviewed the achievements of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, he observed that the victorious English Whigs had shown how "the authority of law and the security of property" could be reconciled with "a liberty of discussion and of individual action never before known."
Since Macaulay's day, many of the other nations of the world have also figured out how to reconcile liberty of discussion with the general welfare, until a point has been reached where we in the West have completely forgotten what a remarkable achievement our ancestors bequeathed to us. Even a devout Whig like Macaulay, writing midway between us and the Glorious Revolution, recalled a time when unrestricted liberty of discussion could not be made compatible with domestic tranquility. Today, on the other hand, most of us have lost any awareness of the painful fact that, under certain conditions, a society might be forced to make a tragic choice between two incompatible goods, namely, free speech and the public welfare. Yet the events of the last several years should have awakened us from our dogmatic slumber, for when it comes to speaking of Islam, there is troubling evidence that our cherished liberty of discussion may not be compatible with security of life and limb, not to mention the security of property.
It is only by keeping these sobering facts in mind that we can hope to put into perspective the strange drama unfolding in Canada--a drama that contains elements that might have been borrowed from the theater of the absurd, making it uncertain whether we are dealing with a surreal farce or an all too real tragedy.
On January 11, 2008, in a small drab government office in Alberta, a hearing was held to investigate a complaint brought against Ezra Levant, a Canadian publisher, author, and libertarian activist. The case, in truth, had its origins two years earlier in Denmark, where the daily news-paper Jyllands-Posten commissioned and published a set of cartoons lampooning the prophet known to Muslims as Muhammad. As most of us remember, after a delay of several months, and with an assist from a road-show to the Middle East organized by unhappy Danish imams, the so-called Danish cartoons set off havoc in various corners of the Muslim world, leaving a death toll of around 100 people, many of whom were shot by police in their attempt to quell the riots. In the aftermath, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen stated that the cartoon controversy was the worst international crisis for his country since World War II, when Denmark was invaded by the Nazis.
Ezra Levant had nothing to do with the original cartoon debacle. His magazine, the now defunct Western Standard, decided to reprint the cartoons in order to let its readers see and judge the drawings for themselves. When the cartoons appeared on February 14, 2006, there were no riots, deaths, or international crises. But, not long afterwards, Levant found himself in hot water. Syed Soharwardy, representing the self-proclaimed Islamic Supreme Council of Canada, filed a complaint with the Calgary police, alleging that Levant was inciting hatred against him--a crime in Canada. These criminal charges, according to the Calgary police, are still under investigation. In addition, Soharwardy lodged a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights and Citizen Commission.
In a related case, four Muslim law students affiliated with the Canadian Islamic Congress have filed complaints against author Mark Steyn for publishing an excerpt from his bestselling book, America Alone, in the Canadian newsweekly Maclean's. These complaints, filed in December 2007, will be heard by the British Columbian Human Rights Tribunal and by the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
There has been remarkably little interest shown in these cases by the American media, usually so alert to perceived violations of the right to free speech, and it is perhaps too easy to speculate why the editorial boards of our leading newspapers and magazines have not gotten up in arms over these attacks on their Canadian colleagues. Could it be that they are not as keen on defending our right to speak ill of Islam as they are to defend our right to speak ill of virtually everything else? On the other hand, the Canadian cases have caught the attention of the blogosphere, especially but not exclusively among those to the right of center. After Levant made the videotape of his appearance before the Alberta Human Rights Commission available on YouTube, it was inundated with viewers, most of them enthusiastically sympathetic with his defiant response to the order to appear before the commission. There is also a Free Mark Steyn! website dedicated to information about his pending case and to defending other "Canadians from the thought police and 'human rights' commissars."


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Plan for the FUTURE
There will always be short-term needs you'll have to address with the coming of your new baby. You should also consider long-term needs. Balancing the two will help you make the best decisions for your family. Here are some long-term needs to consider:
Providing for Your Family
It's hard to think about how your child will be taken care of if something happens to you. At the same time, it's something you don't want to leave to chance. Life Insurance and a will are two very important things to consider as early as possible in your child's life.
Life insurance can ensure that your child's guardian has the appropriate financial resources to raise your child in your absence.
A will is your assurance that your child will be raised by guardians you choose, instead of being raised according to the wishes of the court.
Each year, the cost of college tuition rises by 5% to 10%. You don't even have to do the math to figure out that college will be extremely expensive by the time your child gets there. If you start now by saving just $50 a month or less in the appropriate type of account, you'll be surprised at how much you have by the time your child reaches college age.
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Is there any way to verify/authenticate checkins in Mercurial? I'd like to roll out HG across our organisation (60+ developers) and I'd like a way to ensure everyone's checkins are from the correct user and that they are all in the correct format.
During trials we found that some users checked in under completely different usernames (copied someone else's .hgrc file) and others checked in under a number of different versions of their name (first name, full name, email address, etc) using different clients.
We could add a hook to enforce the format of the username but it still doesn't guarantee that it's the correct user. Does Mercurial have anything to manage this or am I just stuck in a CVS/SVN way of thinking?
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In response to the ongoing contest, here are the standings and next questions:
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Extra Secret Bonus Points today go to forty-two for the off the cuff Tommy Boy shoutout.
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This contest ends next Friday, so that puts us at the halfway point right now. I'm only gonna put up one set of pictures this weekend, so make your guesses count!
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On Aug. 19, 1966, George Mueller, NASA associate administrator for Manned Space Flight, sketched an idea for a simple space station built from a spent Saturn S-IVB stage designed for the Apollo moon landing program.
On the drawing he listed key aspects: "1. Long duration. 2. Reusability of Expt Mod (experiment module) 3. Logistic Resupply. 19 Aug 1966 1905 CST"
Muller had sketched the first blueprint for what would become Skylab, launched 40 years ago, May 14, 1973.
The basic idea was not new. For years space engineers had envisioned converting expended rocket tanks into space stations. After all, the two items contain a pressurized fluid, either rocket fuel or crew air.
Wernher von Braun, the German rocket engineer who would later direct NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., in the late 1950s had outlined Project Horizon, a then-classified U.S. Army concept for a large manned moon base. In 1958, Krafft Ehricke at General Dynamics designed Outpost, an Atlas ballistic missile converted in orbit into a space station. In either case the rocket stage was just 10 feet wide, making for cozy accommodations.
Earth-orbit space stations lost priority on May 25, 1961, when President Kennedy challenged the nation to put a man on the moon "before this decade is out." That refocused everyone's efforts and, ironically, improved options for a space station.
Going to the moon required an immense rocket.
What started as the Apollo Extension System soon became the Apollo Applications Program, or AAP. The Huntsville team envisioned a "wet workshop," using the smaller Saturn IB rocket to orbit its second stage, virtually identical to the Saturn V's S-IVB third stage, with a docking adapter and other gear attached. An astronaut crew would be launched next to outfit the stage's roomy liquid hydrogen tank almost 22 feet wide as an orbital workshop. Later flights would add a Lunar Module outfitted with an array of telescopes to study the sun.
But problems with early spacewalks on the Gemini missions showed that working in space was more challenging than expected. What if the astronauts couldn't get things assembled and working? Some engineers started promoting the idea of a "dry workshop" that would be assembled on the ground and open for business hours after arriving in space.
The turning point came in 1969 when Mueller discovered a bit of bootleg engineering. Von Braun and his team had built an immense swimming pool, 80 feet wide and 40 feet deep, where spacecraft mockups could be submerged for space-suited engineers to test spacewalk procedures. Despite not being formally approved, Mueller liked it and took a turn.
He came out realizing that outfitting the wet workshop was impractical.
"Once I tried even the simple task of closing the valves between the tanks," Mueller recalled in Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story, "it convinced me that we wouldn't rebuild and refurbish the tank in orbit, so that led me to the decision to go with the dry workshop."
It would be a turn-key operation: Launch the "dry workshop" the fully converted S-IVB and the Apollo Telescope Mount with solar telescopes atop a two-stage Saturn V, activate remotely, launch the crew the next week on a Saturn IB, and go to work in what was now called Skylab.
But to paraphrase Rick in Casablanca, "It seems that destiny has taken a hand." A major mishaps that almost destroyed the station forced NASA to contrive repairs that involved spacewalks more complex and daring than what they had tried to avoid by switching to the dry workshop.
Skylab's original design included a micrometeoroid shield that would expand outward by a few inches from the pressure vessel. It was retained as the solar shield even after new data showed that the micrometeoroid hazard was not as great as once feared.
But Skylab engineers made a crucial error. The stowed shield was not attached tightly to the stage, and 63 seconds after liftoff, aerodynamic effects ripped the shield from the workshop, and damaged a solar array enough that it later pulled away. Some of the debris struck the interstage, the cylinder joining first and second stages. Film of this cleanly falling away in the first Saturn V launch, Apollo 4, is one of the most-used space movie clips. On this last flight, the damage from the falling shield held it in place.
Now came one of the weirdest coincidences in space history. The interstage was a massive structure, weighing almost five tons. Lugging that along would have placed Skylab in a lower orbit than planned, perhaps too low to be safely manned.
But the interstage also increased the thrust of the second stage just enough to make up the difference. Even though a rocket's exhaust is directed downward, in the upper reaches of the atmosphere a small amount will recirculate around the base of the rocket. On Skylab, the stuck interstage acted like a large nozzle extension, trapping some of that recirculating exhaust so it pushed upward instead of outward in all directions.
Skylab safely reached orbit and NASA soon was grappling with how to repair it in orbit. In the end, NASA managers would declare that Skylab was more successful broken than if everything had worked as planned because they were able to demonstrate the utility to humans in space.
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|Incidence and significance of chronotropic incompetence in patients with indications for primary pacemaker implantation or pacemaker replacement.
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|PMID: 10527009 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|This prospective study was undertaken to evaluate the incidence and significance of chronotropic incompetence in 211 patients [age 71.1 6 10.6 years (mean 6 SD)] by means of maximum exercise test in order to determine the indication for rate-responsive pacing before primary pacemaker implantation (147 patients) or pacemaker replacement (64 patients). There were 112 (53%) patients with second- or third-degree AV block, 63 (30%) with sick sinus syndrome, and 36 (17%) with chronic atrial fibrillation. Chronotropic incompetence was defined as maximum heart rate lower than age-adjusted norm calculated by the formula: 0.7x(220 - age) and its significance as the difference between the two rates. The overall incidence of chronotropic incompetence was 42%. The incidence was significantly higher in patients with atrial fibrillation (67%, P<0.0005) and sick sinus syndrome (49%, P<0.012) than in those with AV block (30%). The mean difference between maximum heart rate and the age-adjusted norm was 18% (range 2%-63%). The mean difference was significantly higher in patients with atrial fibrillation (27%, range 8-63%) than in those with sick sinus syndrome (19%, range 2%-45%, P<0.01), or with AV block (12%, range 6%-26%, P<0.000001). The rate-responsive pacemakers were implanted in 44% of 211 patients studied and in 43% of 196 patients excluded from the study due to the apparent (contra)indication of rate-responsive pacing (NS). Thus, chronotropic incompetence seems to be common in the pacemaker patient population. The highest incidence and significance was found in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation. Systematic evaluation of chronotropic competence can double the rate of implantation of rate-responsive pacemakers; however, further studies are needed to clarify relation between the significance of chronotropic incompetence and functional benefit of rate-responsive pacing.
|J Lukl; V Doupal; E Sovová; L Lubena
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|Type: Journal Article
Journal Detail:
|Title: Pacing and clinical electrophysiology : PACE Volume: 22 ISSN: 0147-8389 ISO Abbreviation: Pacing Clin Electrophysiol Publication Date: 1999 Sep
Date Detail:
|Created Date: 1999-11-15 Completed Date: 1999-11-15 Revised Date: 2004-11-17
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|Nlm Unique ID: 7803944 Medline TA: Pacing Clin Electrophysiol Country: UNITED STATES
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|Languages: eng Pagination: 1284-91 Citation Subset: IM
|1st Medical Department, University Hospital, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
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|MeSH Terms
Atrial Fibrillation / physiopathology, therapy
Exercise Test
Heart Block / physiopathology, therapy
Heart Rate
Pacemaker, Artificial*
Prospective Studies
Sick Sinus Syndrome / physiopathology, therapy
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