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Master Class: Design Thinking
IE US Club 21 de mayo 2012
We would like to invite you to the workshop "Design Thinking Day" which Professor Max Oliva, Director of Social Impact Management at IE Business School, is giving to alumni.
Design Thinking Day is a methodology that inspires the full spectrum of innovation activities with a human-centered design ethos. It's framed on the capacity to combine empathy, creativity and rationality in order to satisfy your user needs. During this workshop, you will learn the key concepts of Design Thinking, experiment with collective creativity, and leave with three key tools to apply in future creative challenges. Design thinking you can learn at a workshop; it takes a lifetime to master it.
About Max Oliva: During his management, IE has been distinguished by the Aspen Institute as the 1st business school in Europe and 3rd worldwide in integrating social and environmental impact into their MBA programs. He is also co-founder of Hub Association, Hub Madrid and TeamLabs, and serves as Director of Hub Madrid, a habitat for social innovators to work, meet, learn, connect and realize progressive ideas for a radically better world. Max is an apprentice of design thinking, a social entrepreneur on the making and a firm believer that together, ordinary people can do extraordinary things.


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Lubbock, TX (Sports Network) - Billy Gillispie has resigned as the men's
head basketball coach at Texas Tech because of heath reasons.
"Billy has decided to focus on his health and we wish him a full recovery,"
Texas Tech athletics director Kirby Hocutt said. "We are proud of the young
men that he has brought to this campus. Billy's decision allows him to
concentrate on his well-being and allows us to turn our attention to
preparations for the upcoming season."
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Keith Dorton Interview - EnginologyWritten by on July 1, 2011 Advice and perspectives from an industry legend
Keith Dorton is no stranger to the readers of this magazine and in numerous categories of motorsports. For 46 years, his Automotive Specialists has been a reliable and leading source for both engines and components applicable to racing. His store of experience and knowledge is both extensive and practical, so this month we'll treat you to a recent discussion with him on engine building and his perspective on how many young racers may become active on circle tracks.
Circle Track: Let's talk about specific areas in the building of what we'll call a reliable and competitive "weekend racing" engine, as you've discovered over time addressing a wide variety of these type applications. Are there certain components or systems you consider more critical than others?
Keith Dorton: The first consideration is to identify the specific application and environment in which the engine will be operated. For example, if the application is a heat race and 30-lap main event situation, how you view the requirements will be different than if it's a qualifying, practice, and 250-lap main. And actually, it's much easier today to fashion an engine for just about any application because of the broader availability of quality parts than in years past. It hasn't been very long ago when you either had a basically stock piece or a very expensive piece, but now we have a broader range of good, quality parts.
More to your question, the rotating assembly is a critical system. I think the way you should choose these parts is best accomplished by talking directly to parts manufacturers. Many of these companies have active technical services, either by phone or Internet, that can and do provide good information during the parts selection process. Once a potential customer has outlined the intended use of an engine, it's possible to get helpful advice. These are not parts you can skimp on, and there are some quality rotating assembly parts that today can be bought very reasonably.
CT: Valvetrain?
KD: These are additional parts you don't want to skimp on. The place to start here is to identify and take advantage of the parts you're allowed to run, according to the rules. I mean, if you're able to run a good, used shaft rocker arm assembly, I'd definitely favor that instead of a new set of "floppies." Skimping in the area of the valvetrain can definitely bite you in the long run. Again, based on allowances within the rules, choosing these components can be helped considerably by talking to your choice of parts manufacturer.
CT: Turning to the topic of assembling parts, are there any particular aspects of this that need to be considered and discussed?
KD: Two things come to mind. The first is that it's critical to take all the proper measurements. Clearances, concentricity, piston-to-valve, piston-to-head are among the more important areas to consider. And I'd recommend going through these measurements more than once and writing down all the information.
It's somewhat like the "measure twice and cut once" approach, except in engine building I'd consider measuring twice to be the minimum. It's pretty tough to correct a measurement mistake once the engine is running. Once again, I'd use the parts manufacturer as a source of information because it's reasonable to think he knows more than the builder, at this point. Beyond asking about clearances, I'd also inquire about coatings, oil, and things like that.
Over time, at least in our business, we've had customers that do ask these types of questions, but they do it too late, and that can be expensive. I don't know exactly why they didn't ask sooner. Maybe they were ashamed or too proud or thought the question was too simple. But from our perspective, that shouldn't be the case. I mean, no matter how simple or crazy a customer may think his question is, that's just his opinion. Any question at all deserves a straight answer, and that's how we've always operated. Put another way, there really aren't any dumb questions.
In terms of what should be avoided during assembly, here're some things to think about. Even if parts are new, we recommend checking everything for fractures or cracks by Magnafluxing or a comparable method. Sometimes parts slip by with undetected defects, so performing these tests is just good insurance against potential damage later on. In fact, if you look at the upper-level race shops, everything is treated the same and checked to make certain a defect doesn't accidentally remain, even in a new part. It's just one quality control check after another.
Of course, there are things that you really need to make certain are acceptable. Like piston-to-valve clearance. Don't take this for granted. I recommend it be checked, by various means, more than once, as I previously mentioned.
Valve stem clearance is also critical. Especially with exhaust valve clearance, you can stick a valve and "launch" an engine real quick. Rod-to-camshaft clearance on some of the stroker-type engines falls into this category, along with crankshaft-to-oil pan clearance.
Piston-to-head clearance is another area of checking that can be done quickly and simply but also easy to overlook. In particular when we're using a domed piston, but other times as well, we check piston-to-head clearance without a head gasket.
CT: Let's step back from all this for a moment and focus on what you see in the near- and long-term future for these types of engines, particularly regarding induction systems, fuels, and that sort of thing. It's pretty clear there's a technology gap between what the OEM community is building for on-road use and where circle track racing appears to be today. And maybe beyond this, how do you view the use of renewable fuels in racing?
KD: You know, Jim, think back to when you and I first got into racing. Few of us had much money but we wanted to race. Where did we go to get our first parts? Remember? The wrecking yards. And you know what we found? Engines and parts that we could afford, or maybe trade for—that became how we built a racing engine. This was OEM equipment that we adapted to our needs. Sometimes we tried our own modifications to the cylinder heads or valve jobs, and it was all part of the learning process.
My guess right now is that this is the same landscape that young, potential circle track racers will include investigating today. As a result, they'll likely use electronic fuel injection, where rules permit, recognizing the convenience and familiarity of "tuning" these engines with a lap-top computer. I don't know how to do this and you probably don't either, but the fact remains that it's where we are today.
I also believe that these same young racers-to-become are more environmentally aware than we were back then. In fact, we're all more environmentally concerned now than then. Whether it's racetrack noise, on-track emissions, or simply the amount of fuel we use, it all seems related to the environmental impact on racing. NASCAR is addressing the issue, and I know the Circle Track G.R.E.E.N. project is going down a similar path.
Eventually, all this is probably going to happen. But I think it's a matter of what's cost effective, especially for those who don't have unlimited resources. Still, the carburetor is going to be around for a long time yet. EFI is like other electronics in that the price for using it is coming down.
CT: On the fuels issue?
KD: If we're going to get any public respect going forward, I think we ought to be considering the alternatives. Circle track racing should be thinking about changes that not only need to be made to this part of our sport but what can get it back on a track of growth.


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Use this command to see logs update in real time
I think this is the cleanest way of getting the current working directory of a script. It also works on osx, Linux, and probably bsd as well..
Probably posted previously, I use this all the time to find and kill a process for "APP". Simply replace "APP" with the name of the process you're looking to kill.
This is like `cd -` but doesn't echo the new directory name, which is preferable (to me) for an alias, e.g.
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To only search on the process name don't use the argument -f, pkill foo
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The for loop is useful when we have to do it on a number of files.
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hello to
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2d6 dice:
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3 + 6 = 9
Doesn't need to be run as root.
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Function that searchs for process by its name:
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Balloon crash deepens pall on tourism-dry Luxor
LUXOR, Egypt The fiery crash of a sightseeing balloon that killed 19 tourists has cast a further pall over this city of ancient temples and tombs, already perhaps the hardest hit by Egypt's two-year drop in tourism, which has left hotels here empty and residents desperate for income.
Some connected to the tourist trade in Luxor, a city utterly dependent on foreign visitors to survive, were seething with anger Wednesday at the country's Islamist president for his silence over the crash.
Mohammed Morsi has yet to publicly speak about the tragedy - and some here took that not just as insensitivity to the victims' families but as indifference to the vital tourism trade.
"Morsi should have taken a plane and come here," Salah Zaky, one of the owners of the five-star Steigenberger Hotel in Luxor , 510 kilometers (320 miles) south of Cairo . "The whole world is watching and he is asleep. It's as if there is no government."
Morsi spoke by telephone to Luxor's governor to discuss the balloon disaster, according to state media. Hours after the crash, he spoke live on TV at a meeting with political leaders - but only about upcoming parliamentary elections, without mentioning the crash.
"They don't care if this hotel closes. They only care about the ballot box," Zaky said, referring to the Muslim Brotherhood, the fundamentalist group from which Morsi hails and which has dominated all elections held since Mubarak's ouster.
Nine of those who died in Tuesday's crash were in a tour group from Hong Kong that was staying at the Steigenberger. The husband of one of the victims had chosen not to go on the balloon ride and watched from the ground as it burst into flame and plummeted to the earth, with his wife, daughter, sister and brother-in-law on board, hotel staffers said. The man flew out of the country Tuesday evening.
Investigators were still gathering evidence about the cause of the crash, the head of the probe Walid el-Moqadem told The Associated Press, refusing to give details. He said investigators had not yet questioned the balloon's pilot, who survived the crash with severe burns.
"He could barely open his eyes," el-Moqadem said.
The hot air balloon was carrying 20 tourists from Hong Kong, Japan, Britain, Belgium and France on a sunrise flight over Luxor's dramatic pharaonic sites and desert landscape.
The disaster occurred when it was trying to land, just after 7 a.m. Tuesday. Initial investigations suggested that the fire broke out when a landing cable tore one of the balloon's fuel tubes, used to fire the burner that heats the air in the balloon. Investigators said it appeared the pilot jumped out of the balloon's gondola when the fire first broke out, still relatively close to the ground. The investigators spoke on condition of anonymity because the probe was not complete.
The balloon then rose back up, to some 300 meters (1,000 feet), the fire spread to the balloon itself, which burst. Amateur video taken from another balloon flying nearby shows it crashing it back to the earth like a fireball.
The only other survivor was a tourist from Britain, who may have gotten out at the same time as the pilot. He and the pilot were being treated in military hospitals in Cairo, as families of some of the victims arrived in the country to identify their loved ones.
For residents of Luxor, the main city in a province of around 1 million people, the tragedy only further added to their worries over the tourism trade on which they rely. Tourism is the main employer in the area - and practically the only industry besides farming and a sole sugar factory processing the region's sugar cane crops.


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Los Angeles, CA—Resolving a case dating back to 2010, a federal administrative judge has ruled that POM Wonderful, maker of pomegranate juice drinks, used some deceptive practices in advertisements placed in national print media. Specifically, advertisements claiming that the company's juice products could treat, prevent or reduce the risk of heart disease, prostate cancer and erectile dysfunction were deemed illegal under Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulations.
Rockville, MD—Maybe you should think twice before passing on your morning coffee.
Already a leader in the nutritional lipids industry, DSM supplemented its market hold by acquiring omega-3 fatty acid leader in Ocean Nutrition, the company announced on May 18th.
DSM's acquisition capitalizes on a market already well-established by strong scientific backing of nutritional lipids, while also offering significant growth opportunity for the foreseeable future. Ocean Nutrition Canada is the world's largest supplier of fish-derived Omega-3 fatty acids to the dietary supplement and food and beverage markets.
New York, NY—Krill oil supplier Neptune Technologies & Bioressources Inc., based in Quebec, Canada, brought out a new secret weapon during a media lunch at SupplySide Marketplace in May.
Vancouver, WA—Methylsulfonylmethane (MSM) is a natural sulfur well known in the joint health arena. Now, a patented form (OptiMSM from Bergstrom Nutrition) may have a unique new application: helping to keep personal care products fresh and efficacious.
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This year marks the extraordinary 100th anniversary of Bragg Live Foods, located in Santa Barbara, CA. In those 100 years, Bragg has dominated even the smallest of health food stores' shelves with their books and food products and is still continuing to develop new ways to keep its place on those shelves for many more years to come.
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Unexpected dip couldn't spoil return to trout stream
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The rocks under my boots felt familiar enough - not too large, not too small, and as slick as greased bowling balls.
More on that later.
It had been far too many months since I'd last waded a trout stream, and my first few steps convinced me of two things: One, I'm getting old and unsteady; and two, I need to invest in some carbide-studded wading shoes.
Fortunately, the stream was not that large and the current, though swift, didn't have enough volume to push me around.
So I took a few steps forward, made a couple of false casts and dropped the little yellow dry fly into a seam between two current tongues. It floated downstream a couple of feet and disappeared in a sudden swirl.
"Well, that was easy," I said as the rod tip bent and 10 inches of wild brown trout pitched a fit at the business end of the line. After a brief tussle, I slid my hand under the fat-bellied fish, unhooked it and let it slip back into the pool.
Five minutes of fishing, one trout landed; not bad. Maybe the rust on my angling skills wasn't as heavy as I'd feared.
Twenty feet farther upstream, an 8-inch brown shot to the surface to intercept my fly.
"Dang! This is starting to look promising," I mused as I released the fish.
And then I fell in.
One of the greased bowling balls was a little larger than it appeared. My foot slid down its front side, and the toe of my boot wedged between two greased softballs. The other boot slipped from its once-secure perch on a greased basketball, and I went down like a sack of wet cement.
"Can't stand prosperity, can you?" I grumbled as I rose to assess the damage.
My side was soaked, from just under my right armpit to my crotch. A quart of trout stream sloshed about in the hip boot on that side.
I thought about walking back to the car for a change of clothing, but then I realized that I'd forgotten to bring along my trusty "falling-in kit."
"You're out of practice, man," I observed with a wry smile.
With the air temperature hovering near 90 degrees, the fall into the 62-degree water actually hadn't felt all that bad. Besides, my nylon shirt and pants would dry within minutes.
Fishing days don't come frequently for me nowadays, so I soldiered on despite the mini-aquarium in my boot. I squelched upstream, flicking the little yellow dry fly from pocket to pocket and hoping the rest of the trout hadn't killed themselves laughing at my impromptu ballet.
They hadn't. A hundred yards on upstream, another 8-incher nailed the high-floating fly. After I released it, I noticed that one of my casts had put an overhand knot in the tippet section about a foot up from the fly.
"No big deal," I thought. "The fish in this section of creek tend to be small; and besides, there's only 100 yards of water left before I get back to the car."
Famous last words.
Ten minutes later, almost within sight of the car, a brown poked its nose through the surface and slurped down my offering. I set the hook - a little too hard. The tippet snapped exactly where the casting knot had been. I tied on another fly, but no trout rose to it by the time I reached the car.
Soggy sock aside, I can think of few more pleasant ways to spend 2 1/2 hours. And if I ever learn how to walk on greased bowling balls, I'll be golden.


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Hilton is hoppin...here's to a Cyclone victory!
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Whats the crowd look like?
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."
Originally Posted by Clones21
Whats the crowd look like?
Not a bad crowd at all for an exhibition.
These instant replays on CZ are annoying.
I like that the clone zone has a score, time, shot clock on it now
A pair of threes already from Craig...
Brackins is going to be great again this year
Craig is going off. 8 points with 15:55 to go.
ISU leads 13-6.
Replays during live action are annoying as hell!
Buckley looking good so far. Smoother/more confident than last year, IMO.
Buckley is looking very good so far, also.
Originally Posted by Cydkar
Replays during live action are annoying as hell!
Never seen a game on Clone Zone...I take it this is a new feature?
Originally Posted by cyismydog
These instant replays on CZ are annoying.
It is really annoying and they are REALLY slow.
Originally Posted by isucyfan
Buckley looking good so far. Smoother/more confident than last year, IMO.
Originally Posted by cyismydog
Buckley is looking very good so far, also.
how's Buckley doing?
Don't confuse hope for a plan.
Gilstrap is a little slow defensively. The CloneZone replays are freaking ANNOYING. We don't need a replay of every basket!
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(WXIA) -- In the aftermath of last week's disaster, many organizations are continuing their efforts to reach out, support, and provide relief for communities in North Georgia.
11Alive's Help Desk has found several ways for residents in these areas to find assistance.
According to the Red Cross, more than 250 homes were either destroyed or suffered severe damage, most in Bartow and Gordon counties.
HELP DESK | Additional tornado help and needs resource page
This week, Red Cross disaster shelters are also serving as casework centers for families with emergency needs. Families with significant storm damage to their homes are encouraged to make an appointment with a caseworker to develop a recovery plan.
To reach a service center, you can contact the Red Cross Call Center at (404)-870-4440. There hours of operation are from noon until 8:00 pm daily until further notice.
As of now, the Red Cross has established two shelter/casework centers in Bartow and Gordon counties. The Bartow County center is located at the Manning Mill Youth Center in Adairsville. The other is at Sonoraville Recreation Center in Gordon County.
Caseworkers can also provide immediate help for things like food, clothing, prescription replacement, relocation, emotional support, and referrals for more resources.
The shelters continue to offer a safe haven with cots, blankets, meals, personal hygiene kits, and health and emotional support.
In addition, Red Cross Emergency Response Vehicles (ERVs) are also providing food in hard-hit areas.
As a result of the tornado, many without homes are also without jobs.
The Georgia Department of Labor's Cartersville Career Center is hosting two temporary assistance centers in Adairsville where people can file claims for unemployment insurance benefits and get help finding new jobs.
Those affected by the storm can visit the United Community Bank on Tuesday, Feb. 5 and Thursday, Feb. 7 from 9:00 am until noon and again on Tuesday, Feb. 12 and Thursday, Feb. 14 from 1:00-4:00 pm.
Employees of the Daiki Corporation, which was heavily damaged by the tornado, will also be helped at the North Pointe Church on Wednesday, Feb. 6 from 9:00 am until noon and 1-3:00 pm. For more information, you can contact the Cartersville Career Center at (770)-387-3760.
United Way is also helping residents in need of relief and emergency assistance. United Way of Gordon County is specifically helping its residents with relocation expenses. If you live or have an Adairsville address in Gordon County, contact the United Way of Gordon County at (706)-602-5548.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS 19) -- The FBI has found the cell phone of missing Nelson County teen Alexis Murphy.
The location of where the phone was found is not being released to the public.
Over the weekend, investigators spent time searching the Rockfish River and other bodies of water.
The Daily Progress reports that a searcher found a red sweater in the river. Investigators have not said whether it belonged to Murphy.
FBI Media Coordinator Dee Rybiski released a statement saying, "Through community support and the media's engagement law enforcement have received several hundred calls with potential leads; which investigators diligently continue to work through."
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (WUSA) --- Alexandria city officials say crews are doing balloon testing for the next several weeks to get a sense of "the visual impacts of the proposed three Potomac Yard Metrorail Station location alternatives."
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
FASHION FIX: Maria Sharapova goes deep purple for New York night time
Here's the Nike dress Maria Sharapova will be wearing for her night matches at this year's US Open to go along with her Betty Draper-style day dress. She talked a little bit about it at the evian event yesterday and, true to her word, it is a deep purple.
The updated collars are similar but the buttons on front and at the hem are gone, the front features more of a bustier versus the flap-over, and the skirt isn't as billowy - a sleeker more body conscious look for those matches under the bright lights of New York.
I definitely prefer this dress over the day version in fit, style and color. But again, we'll wait and see what it looks like on the Russian glamazon.
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I agree - this is much bettter than the day dress. But will it look good on anyone besides Maria? In other words - will I find a bunch of these on the sale rack at Tennis Express in 6 weeks?ReplyDelete
Most likely. But in all honesty, relative to their core products Nike doesn't produce many of these special products. It's just about branding and saying their innovative and relevant. They really don't think they'll sell these out even in limited quantities, though that would be great.ReplyDelete
Plus, these partnerships (Maria getting to be a "designer" with her own "collection") help to solidify their relationships with the ballers, sell sponsorships, etc.
Nope, not liking this one at all. The colour is too bold for her colouring. It would look better on someone like Cirstea or any of the players with a darker hue but not quite so dark, i.e. olive skinned players. Maria needs a tan and how.ReplyDelete
Is it just me or does most of the designs have a same-ness about them? I am sure I have seen the collar and skirt before.
The reveal happened -- she wore it to the Nike promoReplyDelete
The fit is hideous -- I just don't get how Nike could get it this wrong repeatedly with her??? The straps were bulging out in back and that upward puckering around the waste is not doing anything for her figure. Does she have too much input, not enough designers/seamstresses on hand??? It has just been one disaster after another.
I actually can't stand Shrieka, but I would kill for her body (well, perhaps it would only be worth murder with a bit more of an endowment ;). And, if I did have her figure, I certainly wouldn't let it go to waste in these fugly outfits...
Oh Shrieka, a fine for waste is going to be added to all your fashion crime fines.
At least it looks hopeful with that year end championship outfit. Of course, there is still plenty of time for her to find a way to screw that up....
She may have a great body but for some reason she does not wear clothes very well. She has really wide shoulders and no hips. She also has these bulging lumps of fat under her armpits so anything she wears tends to emphasise these little foibles that we all have on our bodies.ReplyDelete
The bottom part of the dress is just fugly. She should either go to school and learn how to design or at least have some idea as to what fits her body type. I suggest a trip to one of those upscale department store ladies' department where they will fit you and show you what your body type truly is.


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A couple of pieces of toasted sausage bread spread with a goat cheese mixed with Italian herbs served with an antipasto salad is my idea of a great summer lunch or supper.
This is a recipe that I developed years ago.
1 # Italian sausage (sweet to hot)
3/4 c. chopped red pepper
1 c. shredded mozzarella cheese
5½ c. flour (plus or minus)
2 tbsp. sugar
2 eggs (beaten)
1½ tsp. salt
¼ c. soft margarine
1¼ c. warm water
Brown sausage (remove casing from sausage) and pepper.
Combine warm water, yeast, sugar, salt, margarine, 1 egg and 2 c. flour. Beat until smooth. Add 1 c. flour or enough flour to make a thick batter. Add enough additional flour to make a soft dough. Turn out onto lightly floured board; knead until smooth and elastic, about 8 to 10 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning to grease top. Cover; let rise in warm place free from draft, until doubled in bulk, about 1 hour.
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Now that we've had the credit feature going for about a month I wanted to get some feedback on what everybody likes and dislikes about it. Obviously the betting board has been getting a work-out and I know a lot of people are running on very few credits right now, myself included, so I wanted to see what we could do to keep people involved.
Here are a couple quick ideas I have...
- Change weekly credit paycheck to a daily paycheck. If you were active in the past 24 hours, you get a paycheck - currently setup at every 7 days.
- Make it so members can donate credits and/or take out loans on credits with interest.
- Members get credits for donating.
Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
ISU MBB: Bigger than a single person, player, or coach.
Loans on credits? Wow, you are teaching us dirty tricks. =)
Is there an ultimate goal of being able to use the credits for anything in real life?
Hold a class on Cycredit betting discipline.
I love the system, great way to have fun on message board other than posting and reading. I agree with all your new ideas... go for them
I think the ticket give away was a good idea, but giving the credits with them was bad.
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- Members get credits for donating.
Definitely. 100000 for every $1
Credits as an award for a site donation sounds like a good one. 1000to1 ratio? Donate $50 get 50K?
i could definetely use a loan, every time i get at 50000 i loose the next bet. You can count me for taking out the biggest loan possible
Have interest earned on banked credits. Right now, correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no reason for banking credits is there?
Wow, this is getting way too real.
Exaggeration is a BILLION times worse than understating.
I think the daily credit idea is a good one, and I think you should definitely get credits for donating.
Not so sure about the loan process. Lots of people will have to declare bankruptcy. Can the banking application be applied? Where you can put X credits into the bank at a certain interest rate.
- Change weekly credit paycheck to a daily paycheck. If you were active in the past 24 hours, you get a paycheck...currently setup at every 7 days.
I think the current format is good. If you want, maybe give a bigger weekly paycheck to those with more activity.
- Make it so members can donate credits and/or take out loans on credits with interest.
I would not be in favor of this...could be somewhat ugly. I also think you could just get rid of the credit banking/interest thing. Keep it simple, makes it easier to use and more fun for all.
- Members get credits for donating.
Definitely. I thought this already existed.
How about a minimum?
How do you collect on loans?
I know people who know people. I'm just saying. My mom has some cousins in California that live pretty well for owning a stereo store.
What ever happened to truth, justice and the American Way?
Since we're already gambling, I'd like to use my CyCredits to play the stock market...
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Re: Is TARP disappearing from Washington's memory?
TARP is especially difficult for Chris Hayes or anyone from the NBC/MSNBC/CNBC complex, General Electric is a TARP recipient.
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A brief moment on a weekend show illustrates the way the notorious 2008 bailout is increasingly not acknowledged.
Cross posted from Pruning Shears.
On last Sunday's "Up With Chris Hayes" there was a discussion about political calculations for Republicans. The question was whether to work with Democrats or go with straight obstructionism. At one point Hayes said:
Bob Bennett was a fairly conservative senator from Utah, right, of long standing, he was not some super lefty heterodox guy, right? And his huge heterodoxy was that he had cosponsored a health care bill with Ron Wyden. It was not the health care bill that actually got passed. It was called the Wyden-Bennett, and in fact, a lot of Republicans later said, well, we really like Wyden-Bennett, right? But what happened to Bob Bennett just for cosponsoring this health care bill? He went back to Utah and got booted out in that state's Republican convention after serving, what, two or three terms, OK.
Something really big is missing from Hayes' observation: TARP. Granted, he was talking about Republican political strategy and not giving an overview of Bennett's career. The exact details of the unhappiness of Utah's GOP base is not central to his point, and their unhappiness over Bennett's partnering with Wyden serves Hayes' point adequately. Hayes could probably say (with good reason) that it would have sidetracked the discussion to go into details about Bennett's defeat when it was merely being used to give a brief illustration of a larger point. Fair enough.
Still, I notice when a national-level analyst fails to mention TARP when the opportunity arises. TARP is unique in our recent history: A moment when activists on both the left and the right united in furious opposition to something happening in Washington. Over the last generation or so, the issues that have drawn the most passionate responses - protests in the run up to the Iraq war, opposition to immigration reform, Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party movement (the latter two in part a response to the corruption represented by TARP), etc - all of them were predominantly driven by either the left or the right. With one exception.
Everyone hated TARP. It was not left versus right, but outsider versus establishment. Democrats and Republicans in the capitol supported it. DC-based reporters and analysts assured audiences that it was distasteful but necessary. (This was typically accompanied with a false choice of doing nothing or letting civilization collapse.) All the players inside the Beltway were heavily invested in it, but outside the hothouse it was loathed and reviled. It was unpopular across the political spectrum. On what other issue has that been true?
TARP was unpopular in part because it was terrible policy (see below) but also because it was symbolic. It stood as the tip of the iceberg, the visible part of a much vaster body of sketchy deals. Few knew the details, in part because much of it was done behind the scenes, but in part because of obfuscation. Those who weren't experts in high finance (i.e. almost everyone) were left with a sense that something wasn't right, but we couldn't keep our eye on the queen of hearts.
This 2011 exchange (PDF) between Congressman Sean Duffy and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is a great illustration - a classic of the "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance" genre:
Mr. DUFFY. ...Let me move on to a different question. We had talked about the QE2 with Dr. Paul. When you buy assets, where does that money come from?
Mr. BERNANKE. We create reserves in the banking system which are just held with the Fed. It does not go out into the public.
Mr. DUFFY. Does it come from tax dollars, though, to buy those assets?
Mr. BERNANKE. It does not.
Mr. DUFFY. Are you basically printing money to buy those assets?
Mr. BERNANKE. We are not printing money, we are creating reserves in the banking system.
Mr. DUFFY. In your testimony - I only have 20 seconds left - you talked about a potential additional stimulus....
What jumps out at me is not that, as some have noted, Bernanke repudiates our central political myth that government can only spend money it raises through taxes. (Government, unlike households, can print more money when it wants to.) Nor is it that Bernanke's "we are not printing money" line directly contradicts his recent position on the matter.
Instead, note the ease with which Bernanke shoos Duffy away from an inconvenient line of discussion. Duffy could have shot back, "'creating reserves' being 21st century bankerspeak for printing money, right?" He could have stayed on that and gotten Bernanke to admit that adding zeroes to balance sheets is just a high tech way of printing money, then excoriated Bernanke for his weaselly parsing of language. But Duffy, like most of his fellow citizens, doesn't understand finance well enough to pounce on Bernanke's evasive euphemism. Instead he just says, well I'm almost out of time so on to other topics.1
Yet even without the follow up, the exchange leaves the impression, just like TARP did, that something was hinky about it, that we didn't know all the details but that it didn't pass the smell test. That vague distrust of high level banking officials is one of TARP's legacies - as is the codifying of impunity for financial elites. TARP formalized government support of big banks, which meant the people running them had to remain in place, which meant they could not be held liable for any kind of criminality. Too big to fail for institutions has led to too big to jail for executives. The moral hazard recriminations from TARP have been absolutely catastrophic. Defenders of TARP rarely try to account for that cost (or for the institutional value of a government guarantee).
The extraordinary actions taken by officials are also part of the public's concept of TARP. This includes so-called Structured Investment Vehicles like the odious Maiden Lane II (with its 100 cents on the dollar payout to AIG counterparties), for example.2 It encompasses regulatory forbearance, banks being allowed to print money (oops - create reserves), and the now-certain government promise of solvency. As are the promises made at the time that have come to nothing, the regulatory paralysis, and general descent into banana republic-style institutions. All of that is TARP in the popular imagination, and for good reason: it's all of a piece.
There have been quite a few attempts to reframe it as good policy, none of them rigorous or convincing. The most notable on my reading list came from Steve Benen; here is one example. The key in this formulation is to look at TARP in isolation, and to only account for the dollars sent out and repaid. And also ignoring that the dollars sent out were considerably more robust than the ones repaid. Those talking points got batted down pretty quickly though, and for the most part no one is trying to sell TARP as good policy anymore. (The exception is the unconquerable wankery of Matt Yglesias, who writes with the smooth assurance of one who never considers an idea he does not find congenial.)
So being linked to TARP has been toxic for politicians of all stripes, and for good reason. In the first election cycle after it, Republicans paid a particularly heavy price (it haunted them in 2012 as well). When TARP wasn't mentioned as the main cause of primary losses it was still described as the catalyst. And while Bennett told Hayes that health care reform had as much to do with his loss as TARP:
Look at the interview he gave NPR immediately after his loss. He mentions TARP first, last and multiple times in between. Yes he mentions other factors as well, but he clearly characterizes TARP as the albatross around his neck.
TARP was an enormously consequential program, it was terrible policy, and it became verbal shorthand among the non-wonkish general public for a whole raft of opaque and tricky bailout schemes for the criminals who looted the economy. That sort of thing tends to linger in the memory. Political and media elites of all ideological stripes would prefer not to talk about it because it is such an obvious indictment of their established institutions, but that doesn't mean the rest of us have to look away.
I tend to have a heightened awareness for curious omissions of TARP. I don't think individual examples can have motives assigned, and in Hayes' case it just seemed like a tangential point that didn't get touched on. I might have felt better if I thought there was some nefarious intent though. At least then there would be an implicit acknowledgement that something big was being ignored. Instead we have a situation where the powers that be would rather not talk about it. The best way to not talk about it is to not think about it. The best way to not think about it is to forget it ever happened.
1. Like many of his Republican colleagues, he has confused cantankerous badgering with tenacious pursuit (and semi-random, blunderbuss criticism with knowledgeably drilling down on a particular point).
2. This report (PDF) from the TARP inspector is worth looking at, too. If nothing else try to read the paragraph beginning "Despite this initial Government assistance" - it gives a nice illustration of the "TARP as tip of the iceberg" dynamic.
TARP is especially difficult for Chris Hayes or anyone from the NBC/MSNBC/CNBC complex, General Electric is a TARP recipient.
This is a key function of the blogosphere. Obama, of course, whipped for TARP; it would not have passed without him, and it would not have passed without Pelosi, Frank, and the House Democrats. So it is natural that Hayes would wish to conveniently airbrush that history as well.
It's rather like a defense in depth:
1. $14 trillion worth of bailouts from the Treasure and the Fed, largely out of the public eye (through Maiden Lane and other instruments like that).
2. $700 billion dolllars for TARP, but since this is the first time the bailouts reach public awareness, the $700 billion becomes via metonomy the proxy figure for all bailouts, helpfully concealing the $14 trillions.
3. Now conceal the $700 billion that conceals the $14 trillion.
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WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) -- DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier told a WTOP radio audience Thursday she thinks automated vending machines that offer instant cash for used cell phones are contributing to the problem of cell phone theft. "Many of the phones are stolen," she said.
ecoATM has installed the machines in area malls, although has none in the District of Columbia. The automated machines require a government-issued ID, which will be checked by a human being watching images of the person using the machine, and requires a thumb print as well. Phones are compared to a stolen phone data base.
ecoATM Director of Marketing Ryan Kuder told WUSA 9 that it sees only one stolen phone in every four or five thousand transactions, nationwide.
Since the company began service in the DC area last September,Kuder says it has seen only four or five stolen phones among the moire than seven thousand transactions it has made in the area.
"In fact, three of which we've been able to return to their rightful owners within three weeks, and a fourth which is still pending," he said.
Nationwide Kuder says there are 300 million used cell phones that are not in service. When purchasing unused phones, the company is able to recycle about 60 percent of the parts for use in new phones, and harvests the precious metals in the remaining phones, keeping the hazardous materials out of landfills.
"I am working with the company and they have been cooperative but I think this is not a good system. I'm sure it's increasing the problem," Lanier is quoted as saying on WTOP.


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Finnish Folk Music Concert: Ameriikan Poijat
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Free Finnish Folk Music Concerts July 12, 13, and 14
HANCOCK, MI - In conjunction with the Copper Country's first-ever Finnish Folk Music Camp, three free traditional Finnish music concerts will take place July 12, 13, and 14.
The Music Camp and the concerts will take place at Camp Lahti on Lake Superior's Rabbit Bay, near Lake Linden. They are sponsored by Finlandia University and the university's Finnish Council in America.
Tuesday, July 12, at 6:30 p.m., a collage of traditional musicians will perform, all of them especially well-known to those in the Copper Country and the northern Midwest. The musicians, all teaching classes at the Music Camp, are Oren Tikkanen, Tanya Stanaway, Randy Seppälä, Arne Salli, Kay Seppälä, White Water (Bette and Dean Premo and family), Carl Rahkonen, Red Tail Ring (Michael Beauchamp and Laurel Premo), and Kaivama (Sara Pajunen and Jonathan Rundman).
On Wednesday, July 13, at 6:30 p.m., the Finnish-American brass septet Ameriikan Poijat will share old-time and contemporary Finnish brass band music. Their repertoire includes waltzes, schottisches, polkas, mazurkas, polonaises, and other social dances, as well as the distinctly Finnish dances the jenkka, humppa, and the Finnish version of "tango."
On Thursday, July 14, at 7:30 p.m., under the leadership of master Finnish folk musician Arto Järvelä, the Music Camp faculty and their student ensembles will play a stunning array of instruments and traditional Finnish music.
Each of the three concerts is free and open to the public. Call 906-487-7505 for additional information and directions to Camp Lahti, or visit www.finlandia.edu/music-camp.


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I'd like to know what others have experienced with these. I used the 7MM 139gr SST 2 years ago and they were super accurate (1.5" group at 300 yards). I eneded up taking a mule deer at 200 yards (dropped in his tracks, minimal damage) and an antelope at 460yards. The antelope I hit a little high and it put a hole the size of my fist through the spine and upper chest.
Is excessive damage the norm with these bullets or was the huge hole from hitting the spine? Any rounds I should try?
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|Canadian group takes stage in Holyoke
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Phillips County Arts Council will kick off its 2009-10 season on Saturday, Oct. 3 at the Holyoke High School auditorium with "Everything Fitz."
The Fitzgerald family presents a high-energy fiddling and percussive step dancing of four of Canada's finest young musicians. With roots in the Canadian old-time fiddle tradition, their unique stage show combines a variety of musical styles. Everything from Celtic, bluegrass and western swing to entertaining novelty tunes and choreographed step dance routines will be presented.
Julie, Kerry and Tom are all champion fiddlers and provide intricate three-part fiddle harmonies as well as solo improvisations on fiddle and mandolin. Additional instrumentation includes Pat on percussion along with parents Pam and Paddy providing accompaniment on piano and bass guitar. An audience favorite is the award winning step dancing routines performed by all four siblings.
The band has toured across Canada and the United States performing in theaters, on festival stages, at fairs and exhibitions as well as corporate and fund raising events plus outreach programs in schools.
The family has recorded two CD's as well as a DVD of one of their live shows. These spirited young performers are noted for their polished performances and provide wholesome, captivating entertainment for all ages, but particularly for families.
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i've got other services using port 80, 443 on my server, with nginx proxying between many different services using virtual hosts
however, for zimbra i've got it running on port 81 and port 444 so as to not conflict with my other services.
i'ld like to explore a way to get zimbra running on the default ports along with my other services.
i've tried configuring my personal nginx to proxy a virtual host at 80 to 81 (443 to 444), but this falls short of my goals because the zimbra web client during login will forward physically to 81/444 after login. i'ld have to manually retype the URL after login.
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Name Index to Photograph Collection
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Name Index to Photograph Collection
What follows is a name index only to the Finnish American Historical Archives' Historic Photograph Collection (Old Topical File). See Archival Finding Aids for a complete listing of this collection.
When more than one surname was indicated concerning one photo, the entry with the first surname lists all of the individuals, while each additional surname is also listed individually.
The metadata concerning each photograph is limited to whatever information is available on the object, often revealing limitations to the information about each object (for example, a mounted card photo that simply states "Mrs. Maki," or an group photo that only includes surnames). Another limitation is the legibility and clarity of the handwriting.
This name index was created by Larissa Poyhonen in the summer of 2010, while performing preservation work on this collection. Megan Ott transcribed the Knights of Kaleva Convention Photograph in November, 2010. The index was edited and prepared for the Internet by Kent Randell.
This index also includes the Knights of Kaleva Convention Photograph, August, 1910
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My dad is a geophycisist (sp?) at GNS, Geological and Nuclear Sciences and my mom's a lecturer at Victoria University, the uni in Wellington. Have no idea what they make though.
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My dad is a geophycisist (sp?) at GNS, Geological and Nuclear Sciences and my mom's a lecturer at Victoria University, the uni in Wellington. Have no idea what they make though.
A lot.
::) Maybe. Despite having a teacher for a mom I still expect all my teachers to have no sort of life outside of school whatsoever.
But they still refuse to buy me the new laptop I've been watching for months.
boo hoo
my mom makes 70k and my dad's a real estate agent. I guess I'm not poor?
God do you will have plans to become prez?
I think you should atleast be able to be a rep.
my parents pull in about a 100k combined. we dont pay taxes here, shits relatively cheap and we dont spend extravagantly so we've never had to worry about money. i certainly am not 'rich' though, especially compared to people like eve, mex and pichubro.
How does your country work without taxes...
is there some sort of sale of offices deal your parents have?
country's oil business is operated solely by the government
So what happens when the wells dry up... I highly doubt you will continue without taxes.
real estate, tourism, fines, tolls, public transport, etc, etc
I highly doubt those alone will support your government Rayne, espeically since your economy is going down the toilet once the oil industry leaves.
it isnt 'my' government and im outta here in a couple of months so i really couldnt care less
and btw there is corporate tax and sales tax on things like cigarettes and alcohol. there is just no personal/income tax. they'll probably introduce it some point down the line but i doubt it will be a high % because the government basically owns all the major sources of revenue and has hordes of ways to generate more money.
If only your government was a democracy.
It would be pretty cool.
On the main UAE page it has "Constitutional federation of absolute monarchies with an executive president elected by Emir Council amongst themselves"
why is wikipedia aparenly contradictory, or am I missing something
youre just stupid
I don't understand how absolute monarchies can be part of a republic.
it isnt a republic. the fnc is a council with half of its body elected by citizens who handle legislative duties while the sheikhs go on desert safaris in their land cruisers and have dozens of children with their multiple wives.
so its like Great Britian in the 1700s
Whoo! 9.6k a year!
qoorl you would seriously have more money if you went to college full time with financial aid


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A quick add-on to that would be to get a land/sea mask and apply a different gradient to the ocean to play up land/sea. Or even cut out the land and give it a stroke effect.
I know it's been done before, but here it is again with a well-known example image (credit to NASA). Although it would be nicer if the resolution were higher (and the oceans not strangely pixelated because of it). These basic steps are one way to bring relief and a bit of color to a flat, greyscale height map. Yes, it's upside down. Start at the bottom.
Image 6: Final result.
Image 5: Apply colors to different altitudes.
Duplicate the original layer, drag to top of layers panel, set style to color, apply gradient map.
(Image > Adjustments > Gradient Map > Double click the colorful box to edit the gradient)
Click the bottom arrows along the color bar to change the colors in the area below.
Drag the bottom arrows along the color bar to adjust the altitude range affected by each color.
Fiddle to your hearts content.
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Image 3: Make it look bumpy. You can duplicate the levels-adjusted layer (like I did) or work with it directly.
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Youll want Directional light type. (drag the black dot in the preview box to change the light direction)
Change the Texture Channel to the channel that you created.
And despite all evidence to the contrary, White is NOT high. Not this time.
Other than those, play with it and see what happens.
When you find something you like, Save... it for later.
Image 2: Duplicate the original layer and adjust output levels from 0 to 128.
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A quick add-on to that would be to get a land/sea mask and apply a different gradient to the ocean to play up land/sea. Or even cut out the land and give it a stroke effect.
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WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Endometrial cancer is a very serious condition that affects tens of thousands of women and their families in the US. New analysis shows a drastic lifestyle change can help prevent the development of this disease, also known as uterine cancer.
A new report projects 3 out of 5 cases of endometrial cancer can be prevented. The American Institute for Cancer Research and The World Cancer Research Fund International published the report.
Diets high in sugary foods, sugary drinks, and porcessed foods loaded with carbohydrates will increase the risk of endometrial cancer.
Alice Bender, MS, RDN of the American Institute for Cancer Research says, "So what we want to do is get an overall healthy diet that helps keep your blood sugars and your insulin levels low. And those are foods that are low in sugar, low in processed and refined grains."
"So we want whole grains, we want whole fruits, whole vegetables, nuts, legumes," adds Bender.
Excess body fat can cause endometrial cancer, so regular exercise is a powerful protector. The repot also shows that coffee, both decaf and regular, can also reduce the risk of endometrial cancer. Although the specific amount of coffee consumption to prevent the condition is not yet clear.
Endometrial cancer starts in the lining of the uterus, and is often detected in the early stages. Nearly 50 thousand cases are diagnosed every year in the US, more than ovarian and cervical cancer combined.


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53 eggs and counting !!!
I fell asleep with my lap top !
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