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I've never considered myself a 'large frame' runner. I weigh 218 pounds and am 6'0 tall. I've been running (regularly) for about 3 years. Done a marathon, a bunch of halfs, and some smaller races. I'm currently running in GT-2130s from Asics. I'd like to run in something similar but with some more cushioning. Any suggestions from any big fellas out there.
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When authorities arrived, they found a male motorcyclist suffering from severe injuries, Garcia said. The motorcycle rider was taken to a hospital, where he was listed in critical condition, Garcia said.
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Back in 2007, I handed out turkeys on Thanksgiving to the biggest dumb-a$$es in education I had encountered that year. Ah, but I was so much younger then; I'm older than that now. As I woke up this morning, I had this conversation with myself:
Tenured Radical: (slams a cup of coffee down on the bedside table) Yo, dude. Time for us to give out some of those good ol' TR Thanksgiving Turkeys! You remember, that round-up of people who have made fools of themselves in some way? What better year than this one?
Claire Potter: (not yet fully awake) Are you sure? After everything that has happened in the past couple weeks, do we have to be vengeful? It's been kind of unpleasant around here and I think we need to change the mood. I mean, we've ended up on some turkey lists ourselves. I don't know about you, but I've got a book to write, and would like to retire from some enemies lists. You should what has been coming through on my Twitter and Facebook accounts. There's been some good stuff, sure, but I don't show you the hate mail, the death threats or the nasty comments (starts to wake up and get pi$$ed off.) I mean, HERE'S ANOTHER FINE MESS YOU'VE GOTTEN ME INTO, OLIVER!
(Now we are glaring at each other, and we shout in unison:)
CP: White Moderate!
TR: Zionist!
(For these are a few of the things we have been called lately, even though we are puzzled about what is inherently wrong with being white and moderate, and we are quite sure we do not have the book-larnin' or political background to be a Zionist. It seems we are thinking with our lizard brains now, a common problem IRL and in virtual reality. The silence is eventually broken, because, of course, we are the same person. Something has to change, and I break the ice.)
CP: OK! Enough.
TR: I'm sorry. I get a little excited sometimes, and this split personality thing is confusing. Can we just figure out something we agree on?
CP: It's what I've been trying to do for a week and a half. What do you suggest?
TR: What about a post totally full of positive energy? Instead of giving out turkeys we could recognize people we like, admire and appreciate? So let's choose a few people who deserve special thanks for their efforts to engage, teach and push difficult conversations forward.
CP: I think that's a great idea, even though I have to take the time to write it and find all the links because you are a fictional character. See, I'm not as dumb as I look.
So here is the list of people we are giving thanks for in 2013:
- Eric Grollman of the University of Richmond and Sonya Satinsky of the University of Kansas, who are the editors and chief bloggers at Conditionally Accepted: A Space for Scholars on the Margins of Academia. They are young academics who think it's important to speak out and not shut up. I really admire that. Nobody describes their blog better than they do: "By creating this site, we hope to provide a space for academics who exists at the margins of academia. We will provide news, information, personal stories, and resources for scholars who are, at best, conditionally accepted in the academy. Conditionally Accepted is an anti-racist, pro-feminist, pro-queer, anti-transphobic, anti-fatphobic, anti-ableist, anti-ageist, anti-classist, and anti-xenophobic web community." It's wicked smart, and addresses a lot of the hottest topics in academia. I'm adding it to the links in 2014.
- Another thank you, and link addition, goes to Suey Park of Critical Spontaneity. Suey is a graduate student in Ethnic Studies at Colorado State University and an amazing, powerful writer interested in hard questions. I discovered her blog last week via Twitter and was happily distracted for over an hour while I combed through her posts (as an aside, the design is beautiful too.) Intersectionality is at the heart of Park's critical practice, and I think she's going to be one of the hot blogs of 2014. You can read an interview by Arturo R. García, where Park talks about her work, at Racialicious (September 11, 2013).
- Siva Vaidhyanathan, Robertson Chair of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, who we at Tenured Radical first met when he was finishing his dissertation in American Studies at the University of Texas. Well, we weren't surprised when his book, The Googlization of Everything — And Why We Should Worry (University of California Press, 2011) pioneered early critiques of the Internet utopia. Siva continues to be one of the kindest, sanest, smartest and funniest voices on and off the web. And he has a really cute puppy too.
- Chiwetl Ejiofor, Lupita N'yongo, and the entire cast of actors who played enslaved African-Americans in 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013). As you are celebrating today, remember that by the time of the first Thanksgiving in 1621, slavery was well established in the Americas. The first African slave in an English colony had arrived in Virginia in 1619; the Puritans, having pushed those indigenous inhabitants of coastal Massachusetts who survived European diseases and guns into what was then the western frontier, would write slavery into their own laws by 1641. Thanksgiving was established as a national holiday in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln, as African-American men, women and children were crossing into Union lines in increasing numbers to aid the war effort that would make their emancipation legal. You are going to see it all over academic Facebooks that 12 Years a Slave may be the best film about American slavery ever made, and I think it is. But what I would like to honor these actors for is the courage it took to inhabit these roles, which required them to feel a level of trauma and emotional conflict that I have rarely seen on the big screen and that took my understanding of the past to a new level. This movie was a bigger project for everyone involved than just a normal Hollywood money-maker, with crisp and nuanced attention to important historical questions about what it meant for blacks to survive, and whites to prosper, under a slave regime.
- Historiann. Words do not describe. Jim Grossman, executive director of the American Historical Association, is a pillar of sanity and a great addition to the friends roster. Finally, while we are thanking friends whose counsel, righteousness and sanity are without peer? I am not naming you, but my Downtown Sister who called last week at exactly the right moment? You know who you are. I am paying for lunch, okay?
- What is it with these cool, bloggy westerners? Jonathan Rees of Colorado State University-Pueblo, blogging at More or Less Bunk, has been kicking it lately on MOOCs (you have to love a man who illustrates a blog post with Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch.) But this is only the latest in a stream of Rees's great pedagogical interventions. Rees's Teaching History with YouTube (Perspectives on History, May 2008) anticipated what would become common sense only a few years later: that there are wonderful primary sources all over the Internet, and that they can transform our teaching.
- A shout-out to one of the leading lights of the Left Coast: David Delgado Shorter, a brilliant Native American Studies and film scholar at UCLA, who has contributed smart, ethically engaged counterpoints and provocations on this blog about hot topics. It has been amazing to watch David develop his career, and I have come to rely on his counsel, friendship and interventions to push my own thinking forward on things we agree, and disagree, about.
- And speaking of people I learn from and would kill to meet: Adeline Koh, Director of DH@Stockton, assistant professor of literature at Richard Stockton College, in New Jersey, and currently on a visiting fellowship at Duke. She is a contributor at the CHE's ProfHacker, the creator of the historical role playing game, Trading Races, and one of the best young activist minds working in digital humanities today.
- Cathy Davidson, a scholar of the history of technology at Duke University, and appointed by President Obama to the National Humanities Council. You probably know her as the dean who gave iPods to Duke University first-years in 2003. She is also a great answer to the question: "What happens to little girls with ADD when they grow up?" They become path-breaking DH scholars, that's what they do. Whether you care about digital humanities or not, her book, Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21st Century (2011) should blow your mind.
- Last but not least: to those commenters at Tenured Radical who know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em. Part of what it means to be a blogger is to put up with a lot of $hit. It's part of my job. Sometimes I learn from it, sometimes it helps me think about something I thought I understood from a new perspective. That for me, is what scholarship is about: when people keep talking, and really listen, things change. To those of you who listen, who respond and who prefer shades of grey to black and white: I salute you, and I hope you see that, over time, I am becoming more like you and this blog is better for it.


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The Identity Project, a nine-month season of activity from the Wellcome Trust, is currently underway in London and elsewhere. The Trust supports a large amount of research into genetics (including the Human Genome Project), and the season is intended to explore 'scientific and social perspectives of identity – historic and contemporary – to encourage debate and discussion and to ask how well we will ever be able to know ourselves'. The season includes an exhibition entitled Identity: Eight Rooms, Nine Lives, as well as several other events throughout the UK, including a workshop on 23 January 2010 on Secret Lives, which will feature a contribution from IdentiNet lead investigator Professor Edward Higgs (University of Essex). For further details, see The Identity Project website.
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The '1st International Conference on Villains and Villainy' will be held at Mansfield College, Oxford on 19-21 September 2009. Papers are requested on 'all aspects of villains and villainy', and the proposed theme on 'incarnations of the villainous' would surely be incomplete without a liberal sprinkling of tricksters, impostors and identity thieves, in particular new readings of cause célébres such as the affair of the Tichborne Claimant (pictured). The deadline for 300-word abstracts is 17 April 2009; for full details and submission instructions see H-Net or the conference website. Picture: Public Domain
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Paul Griffiths' eagerly anticipated study of petty crime in early modern London – Lost Londons: Change, Crime and Control in the Capital City, 1550-1660 – has recently been published by Cambridge University Press, and is teeming with identification angles. It discloses a metropolis 'flooded… with false papers', in particular the counterfeit vagrant travel permits and forged beggars' licenses around which a booming cottage industry developed. It also discusses the compulsory badging of fishwives, the false identities created by suspects and the use of bodily branding to signal dubious pasts ('Like paper, bodies had spaces to put data that might come back to haunt a recidivist'), and devotes an innovative concluding chapter to the systematic recording of suspects' names and offences in the Bridewell courtbooks. These 'active archives', carefully alphabeticised and often equipped with additional finding aids such as calendars, tables and indexes, were used by magistrates to piece together criminal biographies, and participated in a larger project of 'numbering Londoners' manifested elsewhere in parish registers, tax lists and censuses of vagrants, aliens, alehouse-keepers and street-sellers.


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By Bill Sheets Herald Writer
GRANITE FALLS — A plan by a gravel mining company to nearly triple the size of its pit, and potentially the number of its truck trips, is facing opposition in Granite Falls.
Menzel Lake Gravel, a couple of miles southeast of town on Menzel Lake Road, has applied to Snohomish County to increase the size of its operation by 91 acres.
The pit would grow to 142 acres from 51. Another 141 acres around the perimeter would be set aside for wetland protection.
The operation is not located within city limits, meaning Snohomish County, not Granite Falls, will decide on the request for expansion. Most of the trucks that will take rock and sand from the pit, however, travel through Granite Falls.
The proposal would raise the truck trips allowed in and out of the pit over the course of a year to an average of 200 a day from the current 68 a day.
"The intersection at Alder Avenue and Menzel Lake Road does not have the capacity to handle an increase in truck traffic or the increased size of modern trucks," city officials wrote earlier this month in a letter to the county opposing the plan.
Mayor Haroon Saleem and four of the city's five council members signed the letter, which also listed pedestrian safety, street capacity, past history and public opposition as reasons for fighting the plan.
At a City Council public hearing last month, 16 people spoke against the plan with none speaking in favor. About 100 people attended the meeting.
Rob Hild, owner-manager of Menzel Lake Gravel, says that while the size of the pit would grow, the operation will not.
It's a family operation with six employees, including himself, and Hild said he has no plans to add to that total.
He's asking for more space to reach more sand and gravel, and is asking for more potential trips in the event of a larger than typical job, as he told the City Council in a workshop in January.
Most of the time, the number of trips will stay as it is, he said Friday.
"I don't go after the big volume jobs because I can't handle the big volume," he said.
Because the pit is south of town, trucks would have to go a couple of miles out of their way and past two schools to use the bypass route under construction around the north end of Granite Falls. The primary reason for building the $28.7 million road, due to be finished this fall, was to reduce truck traffic through the city.
If the expansion is approved, Saleem said officials would like the trucks to use the bypass. Though the trucks would have to go past the schools, officials see that as having less effect than going through town.
Hild believes otherwise.
"I'd like to go through town so we don't have to pass any schools," he said.
The operation sells rock of varying size, sand and mixes, mostly to contractors for developments, roads and shopping centers, Hild said. Other customers include homeowners doing landscape work, as well as cities and groups building ballfields.
The operation also accepts dirt excavated from construction sites, which is inspected before it's dumped, Hild said. Reclaimed concrete is crushed into gravel and shipped out again for road beds.
Opponents have criticized Menzel Lake for exceeding its number of truck trips allowed by the county. Hild admits to exceeding the limits of 68 trips per day in the summer of 2008, when he had a number of big jobs. He said that was the busiest time in the company's history and that the operation was still below its allowed trips over the course of the whole year.
Hild says he was never contacted or reprimanded by Snohomish County for exceeding the truck-trip limit.
Paul Winter, who lives near the gravel pit in the upscale Pilchuck East neighborhood, is a leading opponent of the expansion plan. He has sent letters to the county pointing out the extra truck trips.
County officials are investigating the complaints, county spokesman Christopher Schwarzen said. No further information was available Friday.
When Menzel Lake Gravel began operating in 1997, it was granted a permit that had a sunset clause in 2012. The company agreed to pay fees to Granite Falls for driving on city streets, which it has done, city officials say. Menzel Lake also agreed to build ballfields on reclaimed land when the pit concludes its operations.
The application for expansion would extend the pit's operation without a sunset date, Hild said.
"It's got to be open ended because you have no control over the economy," he said.
The county now is telling Menzel Lake that laws have changed and it won't be able to put ballfields on the reclaimed land, Hild said. He says now the plan is to reforest the area when the pit is mined out.
The city and Winter both say they were misled.
"My entire community moved in when the public record said we were going to get ballfields and the pit was going to be out of business in 2012," Winter said.
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Most of the investment for drinking water and sanitation projects comes from the state governments. From Rs 1,688 crore in FY99, this increased to Rs 3,242 crore in FY02, according to CMIE. The total planned capex by the state governments for FY04 was Rs 4,975 crore, a threefold jump in five years.


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BERNIE - Jackie Lee Hughes, 67, died Oct. 8, 2003, at his home.
Born April 23, 1936, at Ann Arbor, Mich., son of the late Vernon and Mary Perry Hughes, he served with the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He worked in transportation and maintenance for Bernie Public Schools for 25 years before retiring Dec. 20, 2002, and was a member of Northside Baptist Church in Bernie.
On March 19, 1960, in Pontiac, Mich., he married Nelda Sudbury who survives of the home.
Other survivors include: two sons and daughters-in-law, Allen Lee and Karen Hughes of Bloomfield and Robert Edgar and Brenda Hughes of Flint, Mich.; and four grandchildren, Jessica DeAnne Hughes and Kaycee Lee Hughes of Bernie and Christen Stepp and Candice Stepp of Bloomfield.
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Pacifica Hires Notorious Union-Busters Jackson Lewis
KPFA's parent organization, the Pacifica Foundation, has hired Jackson Lewis, a notorious anti-union law firm which the AFL-CIO calls "America's number one union-buster." The multimillion-dollar corporate firm specializes in what it calls "preventative practices" — that is, advising managers how to obstruct workers from successfully forming unions and undermining existing unions. "Under its polished veneer lies a for-profit union-buster," writes the nonprofit American Rights at Work, "one of the oldest and largest" such firms in the nation.
Last week, the union representing KPFA's workers, Communications Workers of America Local 9415, became aware of Jackson Lewis' hire by Pacifica at all five stations in the network – KPFA in the San Francisco Bay Area, KPFK in Los Angeles, KPFT in Houston, WPFW in Washington D.C., and WBAI in New York. At a meeting of KPFA's bargaining unit, the station's union workers voted to demand that the Pacifica National Board immediately terminate its arrangement with Jackson Lewis, and sent a letter to all members of Pacifica's board to that effect. The board met Wednesday, March 7, but chose not to take action to reverse its employment of the union-buster.
KPFA's union stewards wrote:
We see the entry of Jackson Lewis as a declaration of war on the unions that represent Pacifica workers. We fear it will lead to unnecessary legal expenses the network can ill afford, sour Pacifica's already dismal relationship with its union workers, and alienate many listener-supporters who do not want their donations to be handed over to one of organized labor's greatest enemies in the United States.
Jackson Lewis, which has 48 offices around the country, holds seminars for employers on how to maintain a "union free environment." One such seminar was profiled in In These Times. Jackson Lewis also advises employers on mastering corporate "concerns" with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including targeting workers who take medical leave.
The letter from KPFA's union stewards cited a New York Times investigation into anti-union practices of the company EnerSys, which followed the advice of Jackson Lewis. EnerSys eventually sued Jackson Lewis for malpractice and advising the company to violate the law. Under Jackson Lewis' direction, EnerSys illegally fired union leaders, spied on workers, and finally closed the plant as an act of retribution against the union.
KPFA's union stewards:
The modus operandi of firms like Jackson Lewis is to counsel their clients to take hard-line stances against unions — reject all bargaining demands, reject even the most basic grievances — and then rack up billable hours representing those clients in the ensuing arbitrations and National Labor Relations Board hearings.
The company boasts of the accolades it has received from a survey of Fortune 1000 companies as "the single highest-ranked firm clients want by their side in employment battles." Jackson Lewis expanded during the economic crisis, its gross revenue increasing by 15% in 2010 to more than $295 million (and by 10% in 2009 and 20% in 2008).
For many KPFA listeners and staff, Pacifica's latest move brings back memories of their struggle against Pacifica management over a decade ago, in which Pacifica hired an anti-union consultant and then installed armed guards, eventually locking out its entire staff and shutting down the station. The new agreement with Jackson Lewis comes on top of over $100,000 KPFA has already spent on other anti-union legal consultants.
If you are a member of a union, we ask that you get your local union or labor council to pass a resolution condemning Pacifica's hire of one of the country's top union-busters. As an individual, please sign this petition demanding that Pacifica drop Jackson Lewis immediately. And please take a moment to ask your friends on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere to do the same. Stay tuned for updates!
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I won't be sending Pacifica any of my money, and that includes KPFK 90.7 fm in Los Angeles. What they are doing is reckless and shows a disregard for the goals and mission of Pacifica. What is needed is a new Board of Directors with a working class outlook on life.
As one of the earliest subscribers to KPFA, a KPFA commentator for 20 years, a current commentator on KPFT, I'm appalled at what seems to be happening. The employees and volunteers at Pacifica stations provide a unique and valuable service that's especially needed in broadcasting, as a counter to the reactionary, profit-lusting corporations who dominatel the media.
I am against anyone who puts corprate greed before humanism,its cold too keep poeple poor & supressed,there's more than enough too go around
As an early KPFA subscriber and commentator there for 20 years and current commentator on KPFT, I'm appalled at Pacifica's hiring of a union buster. It's an action one could expect from the commercial media corporations that dominate broadcast but absolutely counter to the interests of Paciifiica's employees, volunteers and subscribers and anyone else who believes in genuine free speech.
Coporations who engage in the tactic of deliberatley attempting to thwart the democratic process of worker's exercising thier collective civil rights, are bottom feeders plain and simple.
As one who has personally witnessed this in my own workplace, I can say that the campaign of lies, disnformation, intimidation and injecting fear constitutes the intentional infliction of emotional duress by a croporation. It absolutely will create a hostile work environment with the sole purpose of defeating a workplace democracy.
Support the exercise of free choice and oppose this at every level. Let the workers decide.
You got the story all wrong. Jackson-Lewis is not handling contract negotiations, labor grievances or any union issues with the CWA, NABET or AFTRA. They were hired by Pacificas officer and directors insurance policy (in 2009!) to handle sexual harassment and wrongful discharge claims filed against Pacifica. Exclusively. Insurance companies tend to like skarky law firms that win and when you get sued frivolously as many times as Pacifica does, the insurance company wants the best.
I understand why the CWA is nervous, but they are being paranoid. Pacifica was using Jackson-Lewis during the LAST negotiation in 2010(and JL never got near the bargaining table and the CWA got an unremarkable contract. It will not be any different this time.
Call off the dogs, as they say. There is no story here.
It is well-documented that Pacifica is using Jackson Lewis on at least four cases that are not under the control of Pacifica's insurance carrier—in other words, Pacifica has chosen to use the firm, not had the firm imposed on it.
We also understand that Pacifica recently put Jackson Lewis on a general retainer.
What does it matter whether it was Pacifica's insurance carrier that initially hired Jackson Lewis? Pacifica has repeatedly chosen to expand its use of the nation's top union-busting firm. It's a gross misuse of listener dollars and a threat to Pacifica's unions.
And, just so readers know, the person above is posting deceptively as "KPFA Worker" using our name and email address. It is probably the same person who has squatted several internet sites that mimic KPFAWorker and SaveKPFA.
The real KPFA Worker is a coalition of unpaid and paid staff, along with union and community supporters. We invite you to visit us at www.KPFAWorker.org to sign up for our newsletter, or send a message of solidarity.
I'm not surprised to read about union busters joining union friendly websites and posing as our friends. It's easy to do. What better way to spread mis-information and demoralize the workers. Stay strong brothers and sisters. We are with you. I'm not a lawyer, but I can see what is going on. If a simple guy like me can figure it out, thousands of our brothers and sisters can too! We see through the friendly smiles and the "want a cup of coffee?" talk. First they try that. Then the subtle threats begin. Pacifica is ours. Let's throw out these imposters!


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Definition of unco in English:
Unusual or remarkable.
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- I was so excited I tripped and twisted my ankle (although not, of course, in an unco way).
- So he mounted the blocks in his resplendent blue Speedos and did a massive unco belly flop on the starters gun.
- A straight right, an upper cut, a right hook or some unco combination of all three?
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Remarkably; very: it's got an unco fine taste
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- Colours mingled unco fine.
noun (plural uncos)
1A stranger.
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- Best of all, even a total unco like me can complete the tasks with a bit of practice.
1.1 (uncos) News.
Example sentences
- Each tells the uncos that he sees or hears.
Late Middle English (in the sense 'unknown, strange'): alteration of uncouth.
Words that rhyme with uncobunco, junco
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Alex BreslowComputer Science PhD Student
Advisor: Dean Tullsen
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
My paper on memory bandwidth conserving, high-performance hash tables has been accepted at USENIX ATC'16.
I am working on a DOE FF2 project at AMD Research. We are exploring architectural and software tradeoffs for a future processor in memory architecture.
For my citation counts, metrics and those of my co-authors, check out my Google Scholar profile.
Alex D. Breslow, Dong Ping Zhang, Joseph L. Greathouse, Nuwan Jayasena, and Dean M. Tullsen. Horton Tables: Fast Hash Tables for In-Memory Data-Intensive Computing. In the Proceedings of USENIX ATC'16. [pdf | slides | bib | ATC'16 talk audio]
Alex D. Breslow, Ananta Tiwari, Martin Schulz, Laura Carrington, Lingjia Tang, and Jason Mars. Enabling Fair Pricing on HPC Systems with Node Sharing. In the Proceedings of SC'13. Best Paper Finalist and Best Student Paper Finalist[pdf | bib]
Hailong Yang, Alex Breslow, Jason Mars, and Lingjia Tang. Bubble-Flux: Precise Online QoS Management for Increased Utilization in Warehouse Scale Computers. In the Proceedings of ISCA'13. [pdf | bib]
Alex D. Breslow, Leo Porter, Ananta Tiwari, Michael A. Laurenzano, Laura Carrington, Dean M. Tullsen, and Allan E. Snavely. The Case for Colocation of HPC Workloads. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Special issue on the Analysis of Performance and Power for Highly Parallel Systems (CCPE 2013). [pdf | bib]
Andrew Danner, Jake Baskin, Alexander Breslow, and David Wilikofsky. Hybrid MPI/GPU Interpolation for Grid DEM Construction. In Proc. ACM Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, pages 299-308, 2012. [pdf | bib]
I primarily work in the areas of parallel and distributed computing, computer architecture, and computer systems. Most of my work has focused on improving the performance, energy efficiency, and utilization of data centers and supercomputers.My advisor is Dean Tullsen.


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Is invisible in every way.
Not seeing your reflection in a mirror is like being transported immediately into a dumb M. Night Shyamalan plot.
This amazing video footage reveals the octopus' insane ability to blend seamlessly with its surroundings.
A classic bit from Rowan Atkinson's stand-up routine reminds us all stand-up can be great in spite of what Dane Cook has done to the art.
"I have such a busy day ahead of me, I have to get these groceries home before they thaw out"
Sigh...a series of unfortunate (and hilarious!) incidents. Wonder what she did to make her car hate her so much?!
Suck My News Weekly is a slanderous look at the week's news, hosted by the cranky and awesome Philip Norris.


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If you're ever looking for a good blow-out in Paris, you'll have to know this phrase: le brushing. It's the French way to say "a blow dry" and it's especially useful if you want your mane to resemble Virginie Courtin-Clarins's long, shiny locks.
(Also, Virginie swears by Leonor Greyl Huile de Palm -- she uses it as a hair masque -- plus this little trick: Seal the ends of your tresses with Blue Orchid Face Treatment Oil to prevent split ends and help encourage shine. You can also use a few drops to moisturize your scalp.)


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To be locked up in the system, to be in jail, the beast being the justice system.
Person 2: you ain't heard, he in the belly of the beast
Person 2: you ain't heard, he in the belly of the beast
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travelling through (or arriving "in") the heart of a bad or dangerous area in the context of having no other alternative, such as on the front lines of a war, or in the general area of the war-torn area. In another similar context, one could think of it to mean being in the most dangerous and critical of situations, such as being a cop working undercover infiltrating a mob family -- being in that crucual position of having gained the mob's trust and being a key part of its operations, would be considered being "in the belly of the beast."
JJ is going undercover, it could be dangerous. He's in the belly of the beast.
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The intersection of rt.924 and Redpump rd. in the town of Rock Spring (Forest Hill) Maryland. This consists of a McDonald's, BP Gas Station, Sunoco Gas Station, and C-Mart. It is a popular hangout for little punks that ride their skateboard or little wiggers that go get papers to roll their joints. The Belly has been growing at a moderate place until the boom of 2009. After this, the rate of the Belly has been steadily increasing in size. In time, this will be belair west, and will be getting even shittier.
me(calling on phone) : yo frank whats up
Frank : just getting a double cheese with big mac sauce no lettuce.
me : Oh, where at?
Frank: The Belly of the Beast.
Frank : just getting a double cheese with big mac sauce no lettuce.
me : Oh, where at?
Frank: The Belly of the Beast.
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a stressful and difficult, or sometimes, harsh environment
Working on a job you don't like is like being in the belly of the beast.
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The city of Chicago.
The belly of the beast, you know I'm from it.: Lupe Fiasco.
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The Plague
by Albert Camus
The Plague Freedom and Confinement Quotes
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph). We used Stuart Gilbert's translation.
Quote #1
Everyone agreed that, considering their somewhat extraordinary character, they were out of place there. For its ordinariness is what first strikes one about the town of Oran. (1.1.1)
The ordinariness of Oran stands in direct conflict with the unique situation and isolation that the plague brings to the town.
Quote #2
The telegram informed Rieux that his mother would be arriving the next day. She was going to keep house for her son during his wife's absence. When the doctor entered his apartment he found the nurse already there. He looked at his wife. She was in a tailor-made suit, and he noticed she had used rouge. He smiled at her. (1.2.19)
There are all kinds of exile in The Plague, among them the personal exile Rieux is preparing for (from his wife) and his apparent emotional exile (also from his wife. Seriously, could he be more distant from her?).
Quote #3
Meanwhile, however, he informed the doctor that he really knew very little about Cottard, but believed him to have private means in a small way. Cottard was a queer bird. For a long while their relations went no further than wishing each other good-day when they met on the stairs. (1.4.11)
Cottard lives in exile even before the plague. He is truly a man alone in the world, lacking the intimacy of normal human interaction.


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A security conundrum in Between Silk and Cyanide
Along with the book came a cryptic note that there was an unsolved mystery in the book. Later I asked him about the mystery which turns out to be this passage:
Any clever thoughts?
PS The only thing I got reminded of was this paper: Passwords you'll never forget, but can't recall. Perhaps PANDARUS took a photograph (or many photograph) and showed it (them) to MANELAUS. One would have meaning to MANELAUS but not the others, to PANDARUS none would have meaning.
Labels: security
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Rivalry brings friendly fire between Grammy-winning musicians
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh have always been rivals, especially in sports. It extends to music to which is the idea behind Saturday night's match-up at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture. The Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra will assume a neutral position as the back-up band to a pair of jazz musicians extraordinaire. JEFF 'TAIN' WATTS


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Definition of in-off in English:
nounBilliards & Snooker
The pocketing of the cue ball (a scoring stroke in billiards, a foul in snooker) by bouncing it off another ball: he attempted a very difficult in-off [as adverb]: going in-off on the penultimate red
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- It was played like English Billiards by aiming to pocket balls, go in-off or by making canons which were called 'caroms'.
- He should have finished the match but missed an in-off when the balls double kissed.
- It looked like it was all over for Andy when he fouled with an in-off granting Chang the two shots he needed to secure the game.
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Which Survival Guide for Your Game?
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Play a few holes with Christina to help you better navigate your way around the course. Plus, we dive deep into the mental side of the game with self-evaluations!
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Meet Christina! She chats about her introduction to the game and how she dropped to a 5 handicap from a new golfer in 5 years. Today she is an LPGA Member, Titliest Performance Institute Golf Level 3 hosting golf trips and custom clinics and schools.
In the year 2000, my mom and I were introduced to the game with a series of five lessons. Five years later, I was a five handicap and authoring a book about my journey. Today, golf is my life. My passion is helping you get more pars for more fun. My Golf Survival Guides have become a women's staple and are considered the best golf instructional books written for women golfers.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is sponsoring a motorcycle meet downtown ahead of the Red Bull Indianapolis GP.
The seventh annual Indianapolis Motor Speedway's Motorcycles on Meridian will feature custom choppers, sportbikes, vintage Harleys and any other steel horse imaginable. The event is free and open to everyone with or without bikes. The event will be emceed by Allan Lane, publisher and editor-in-chief of Sportbikes Inc.
The street festival runs from 7 p.m. to midnight Aug. 8, and 4 p.m. to midnight Aug. 9. Riders will park their machines along Meridian Street from Monument Circle to South Street, near the convention center.
A parking lot at 125 S. Meridian will be converted to a fan hangout, with a beer garden, food, Red Bull D.J., and more, open to guests 21 and older. IMS will also have a ticket trailer downtown on the corner of South Meridian Street and East Chesapeake Street, where fans can buy a commemorative Motorcycles on Meridian T-shirt as well as tickets and paddock passes to the Red Bull Indianapolis GP on Sunday.
To buy reserved and general admission tickets for the Red Bull Indianapolis GP, see www.ims.com/tickets, call the Indianapolis Motor Speedway ticket office at 317-492-6700 or 800-822-INDY, or visit the ticket office on the first floor of the IMS Administration Building at 4790 W. 16th St. in Indianapolis. Ticket office hours are 8 a.m.-5 p.m. ET Monday-Friday. Tickets for groups of 20 or more also are available. Contact the IMS Group Sales Department at 866-221-8775 for more information.
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Cab Driver in Midtown Crash Facing License Suspension
By Pervaiz Shallwani and Ted Mann
The city's Taxi and Limousine Commission plans to suspend the license of the yellow cab driver who on Tuesday veered off Sixth Avenue onto a busy Midtown sidewalk and injured three people, including a 23-year-old tourist who lost part of her left leg, officials said Wednesday.
Sian Green, who was visiting New York City from England, also sustained injuries to her right leg, a law enforcement official said.
She remained in stable condition Wednesday at Bellevue Hospital. Two other people suffered minor injuries, New York Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
The woman's immediate family was en route to New York from Leicester, England, while distant family members who live in the region were at her bedside, Mr. Kelly said.
Police investigators are working to reconstruct Tuesday's crash, which will determine if criminal charges need to be filed in the case, Mr. Kelly said.
The cabbie, M.D. Himon, was issued a summons because he wasn't the authorized driver for the
taxi, but the case "certainly is not closed as of yet," Mr. Kelly said.
"The investigation is going forward," Mr. Kelly said. "These collisions and accidents take some time to reconstruct."
A cyclist who was also hit in the accident told police he tapped on the cab, which was turning left from Sixth Avenue onto West 49th Street, to tell the driver to slow down, at which point the cab accelerated and jumped the curb, a law-enforcement official said.
As part of the accident reconstruction, technicians will examine any street markings that will help pinpoint the trajectory of the cab as it left the road, coming to rest on a granite bollard outside 1251 Avenue of the Americas. Investigators will conduct interviews with victims and witnesses and search for helpful surveillance video, Mr. Kelly said.
The TLC has begun proceedings to suspend Mr. Himon's license to operate a cab in New York City because of a pattern of moving violations that predated Tuesday's crash, agency spokesman
Allan Fromberg said.
Mr. Himon has nine points on his driving record, according to the state Department of Motor Vehicles, and was involved in a previous accident that caused injury in October 2010.
Mr. Himon was convicted of three separate moving violations in 2011, the DMV records show: running a red light in Manhattan, speeding in Queens, and making an improper turn in Manhattan. Those three violations and a fourth summons for improper use of a bus lane cost Mr. Himon $415 in fines, the DMV said.
The owner of the cab Mr. Himon was driving was also issued a summons following the crash, for failure to list him as an authorized driver of the vehicle with the TLC, Mr. Fromberg said.
Paul Steely White, the director of Transportation Alternatives, called on the TLC to revoke Mr. Himon's license, and said the city should redesign that stretch of Sixth Avenue.
"There are solutions that we know work. Street redesigns on similar avenues, that include more space for biking and walking, have contributed to on average, a 45% percent drop in traffic injuries for pedestrians, motorists and bicyclists alike," Mr. White said in a news release.
And City Council Member Dan Garodnick, who is running for reelection this year, said Wednesday that he planned to investigate improvements to pedestrian safety in the wake of the accident. The district he currently represents will expand to include sections of Sixth Avenue in Midtown after Election Day.
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Five-day Weather Forecast for Kansas City, MO
Stargazers will want to dig out their binoculars and telescopes this weekend as Venus and Jupiter shine so close that they appear as one large, bright star in the evening sky.
Extended Weather forecast overview for the South Central United States
A tropical disturbance, moving just north of the large islands of the Caribbean, will take aim at Cuba, the Bahamas and southern Florida into this weekend.
United States travel weather forecast
Regions dealing with Zika-carrying mosquitoes could have another threat to monitor as tropical activity picks up this season.
Following a tropical storm threat in the Bahamas and Florida into this weekend, an uptick in tropical systems will continue for the next six to eight weeks.
Short-Range Weather forecast overview for the South Central United States
Multiple tornadoes touched down across Indiana and Ohio on Wednesday, one of which flattened a Starbucks in the town of Kokomo, Indiana.Read Story >
The star closest to the sun hosts a planet that may be very much like Earth, a new study reports.Read Story >


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April 6
One King, One LORD
"And the LORD shall be King over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and His Name one" (Zechariah 14:9).
Blessed prospect! This is no dream of an enthusiast but the declaration of the infallible Word. Jehovah shall be known among all people, and His gracious sway shall be acknowledged by every tribe of man. Today, it is far from being so. Where do any bow before the great King? How much there is of rebellion! What lords many and gods many there are on the earth! Even among professed Christians what diversities of ideas there are about Him and His gospel! One day there shall be one King, one Jehovah, and one name for the living God. O LORD, hasten it! We daily cry, "Thy kingdom come."
We will not discuss the question as to when this shall be lest we lose the comfort of the certainty that it shall be. So surely as the Holy Ghost spake by His prophets, so surely shall the whole earth be filled with the glory of the LORD. Jesus did not die in vain. The Spirit of God worketh not in vain. The Father's eternal purposes shall not be frustrated, Here, where Satan triumphed, Jesus shall be crowned, and the LORD God Omnipotent shall reign. Let us go our way to our daily work and warfare made strong in faith.
by Charles H. Spurgeon
For thousands of Christians over the last century, Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning and Evening has been a daily devotional guide through life's ups and downs. New generations can once again enjoy Spurgeon's beautiful prose and elegant command of the English language in this completely revised edition. Morning and Evening offers readers the best of Spurgeon's insight and wise counsel on themes that are as relevant to our day as they were in his day. In this updated version, Spurgeon's work is returned to its former brilliance while retaining the beautiful language of the original King James Version.


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Decisions Decisions
So after being frustrated with the performance of me old bored, I am considering buying a new one. I am a 5'8" and 165lb powder keg (sarcasm) and am currently riding a Ride Concept 161. I am on the East coast with mostly groomed or packed powder and ice and go out to chase the fresh as often as I can out west. As a matter of fact, I'm in Big Sky right now! Anyways, I find myself in the trees as much as possible in the East and on the tops of chutes and bowls in the West. I am looking for a board that is going to get me through those really tight turns in the trees and have amazing response when carving. I'm never in the park either. I've been looking at the Arbors and Lib Techs and am really interested in the Travis Rice boards. What do you guys think and what size should I get? Also, what model do you recommend? I'm def going smaller but is a 156 too small? Thanks for your input.
i find myself riding the exact same terrain as you and have fallen in love with my never summer premier f1-r. you're going to notice this crowd is pretty bias towards never summer, but that's because they are very high quality high performance boards. i have about 15 days on mine so far. the rc tech is super smooth and floaty with really easy edge-to-edge control. super stable at speed, but has enough flex to still be lots of fun. i'm 5'10" 175 and was previously riding a 159, the rc tech makes the board ride a little shorter so i went with the 159, but feel it rides more like a 156 which is awesome in the trees. 3 year warranty doesn't hurt either.
I am nearly the same size as you and I have a Bataleon Goliath 154 for the same type of riding. I personally think I should be riding the 157, but they were sold out when I bought my 154.
Alright, I think I'm gonna buy the Never Summer. 30% off, a three year warrantee and pretty much similar, makes it a no brainer. Thanks for all your input, can't wait to make the first run. By the way, World Boards in Bozeman Montana and Paragon Sports were very helpful in helping me make a decision.
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Parenty wins eighth annual Bat Blast
#Seawolves host annual fundraiser; sophomore outfielder wins.
2009: Went 1-1 in 20 relief appearances ... hurled 27.0 innings ... pitched a perfect inning against Florida Atlantic (3/1) ... tossed 2.2 scoreless innings of relief against LeMoyne (3/22) ... earned victory with 1.0 innings of relief in 2-0 win over Marist (5/6) ... hurled 2.0 scoreless innings against Maine (5/16).
2008: Led America East with 29 appearances, all but one in relief ... went 3-3 with a team-best 4.03 ERA in 44.2 innings pitched ... second in America East with seven saves ... an All-America East second team selection ... picked up first career save with 2.0 scoreless innings against Marist (4/9) ... hurled two scoreless innings to earn save against Vermont (4/18) ... picked up save with 2.0 perfect innings against Lafayette (5/3) ... pitched a perfect ninth inning to earn save in 1-0 America East Tournament victory over Binghamton (5/23).
2007: Went 1-0 with a 2.82 ERA in 22.1 innings ... made six appearances including two starts ... hurled a scoreless inning in first career appearance against Hofstra (4/5) ... pitched complete game in first career start, a 14-2 victory over Marist (4/26), allowing only an earned run and nine hits ... gave up just an earned run in 3.1 innings of relief work against Hofstra (5/8) ... struck out two in scoreless inning of relief work against Vermont (5/11).
2006: Redshirted.
High School: Earned four letters pitching for the Westbrook High School Blue Blazes in Westbrook, Maine...named to the SMAA all-rookie team as a freshman...earned all-state honorable mention as a senior...named SMAA first-team all-star as a senior...also earned four letters in basketball.
Personal: Jordan Joseph Purington...born May 9, 1987, in Portland, Maine...son of Gail and Joseph Purington...likes to listen to music and play poker...lists Matt Clement as his favorite athlete.


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SIKESTON - Three Missourians were among 35 Army men who were granted the Legion of Merit, the War Department announced today. One was from Benton. He is Cpl. Emory Caldwell, who devised special equipment to strengthen cargo trucks battered by rough terrain in New Guinea from Dec. 18, 1942, to Oct. 18, 1943, "greatly aiding in keeping the trucks in operation."
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SIKESTON - Byrum Lucy has joined the armed forces and sold the Band Box Cleaners to James R. Ralph and J.W. Stone.
SIKESTON - Fire at 411 Lee St. Friday night almost destroyed the interior of the house. The residence is occupied by the Cleon McAnally family, but there was nobody home during the fire.
SIKESTON - The certification of Sikeston as a five-star community was announced at the Sikeston Area Chamber of Commerce 34th Annual Banquet Tuesday evening.
EAST PRAIRIE - A new ISO rating has city officials elated and brings a promise of reduction in insurance costs to residents and business owners in the city. "We expected or rather hoped the ISO rating would go down, possibly from an 8 to a 7 rating. But, when the evaluation came with a 6 rating, WOW!," remarked a jubilant Fire Chief Danny Lafferty.
CHARLESTON - Chosen in the 3 and 4-year-old category for Charleston's Dogwood-Azalea Festival Little Prince and Princess pageant were Tyler McCann and Caitlin Lankheit. The youngsters rode in Saturday's parade. Sharing their "carriage" with runners-up in the 5- and 6-year-old pageant Little Princess Katie Luehmann and Little Prince Daniel White.


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Income, Excise, and Estate and Gift Taxes; Effective Dates and Other Issues Arising Under the Employee Benefit Provisions of the Tax Reform Act of 1984; Correction
Correcting Amendment.
This document contains a correction to temporary regulations (TD 8073) that were published in the Federal Register on Tuesday, February 4, 1986 (51 FR 4312) relating to effective dates and certain other issues arising under sections 91, 223, and 511-561 of the Tax Reform Act of 1984. This action is necessary because of changes to the applicable tax law made by the Tax Reform Act of 1984. The temporary regulations will affect qualified employee benefit plans, welfare benefit funds and employees receiving benefits through such plans.
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This correction is effective October 9, 2008, and is applicable after December 31, 1985.
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Melissa A. D'Ambrose, (202) 622-6080 (not a toll-free number).
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The temporary regulations that are the subject of this document are under sections 72, 79, 125, 133, 402, 404, 419, 461, 463, 505, 512, and 1042 of the Internal Revenue Code.
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As published, temporary regulations (TD 8073) contain an error that may prove to be misleading and is in need of clarification.
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Accordingly, 26 CFR part 1 is corrected by making the following correcting amendment:
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Paragraph 1. The authority citation for part 1 continues to read, in part, as follows:
Par. 2. Section 1.512(a)-5T A-3: (b) is amended by revising the second sentence to read as follows:
§ 1.512(a)-5T Questions and answers relating to the unrelated business taxable income of organizations described in paragraphs (9), (17) or (20) of section 501(c) (temporary).
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WRUF Profiles
Author Archives: Rachel Whetstone
Marissa King still contributing to gymnastics as student coach
Former University of Florida gymnast Marissa King has a brand new role with the team this year. She is a student coach. King, a dual-major in Geography and Telecommunications, is finishing up her degree and graduates in August 2014. However, … Continue reading
Florida Gymnastics Looks to Defend Title
The top-ranked, defending national champion Florida Gator gymnastics team has now embarked on their postseason competition after an impressive regular season. So far this year, multiple University of Florida records have been broken, and UF's athletes are ranked among the … Continue reading
UF was the Right Choice for Rachel Spicer
Rachel Spicer didn't grow up as a Gator, but the minute she stepped on campus, she knew the University of Florida was where she wanted to be. Spicer, a junior from Highland Village, Texas, said there are no Division I … Continue reading


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COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA -- I ordered a new phone and the representative said I would receive it today. I was very pleased to hear this. Now I find that the phone was shipped 3-day delivery. I was told today that it would have cost an additional $24.95 to get the phone today. Do not believe what the T-Mobile people tell you.
GEORGIA -- The first bill from T-Mobile was $25 a month higher than the quoted total price when I switched from AT&T. T-Mobile would not stand behind the quoted pricing and all they would do is drop the insurance from both lines to reduce the monthly total to close to what the quoted 2 lines with insurance, phones fees and taxes price I was given at the store. Also their coverage map is tricky to read and leads you to think their coverage is greater than what it actually is.
One day this sales person ** comes to my office and says he is working for T-mobile and he offered us a good deal on five lines. We were hesitant at first and we asked him a lot of questions, but he gave us answers we wanted to hear (later I found out he was lying). He said we would have 14 days to try the phones and service and if we didn't like it, we could return them at no charge. He also promised to have out cancellation fees from AT&T waved. So we signed up. And that is when the nightmare started.
** said we would receive the phones in 2 day and we got them in 10 days. Then it took them one week to port our old numbers to these lines, and by the time we could actually use the phones, we were already beyond that 14 day risk-free period. He also lied to us that we can use wi-fi calling with this phones, but it turned out the Iphone5 didn't have that feature.
So one of the people decided to cancel his line and called the customer service (we were given a specific phone number to call with questions and concerns and were told not to call T-mobile directly). They said it will be a fee of $600 dollars. We asked them if we could avoid the fee if we ported that number back to AT&T and get a replacement number for that line from T-mobile. They said we wouldn't get a fee. A week later I got a bill for $400 dollars for Breach of contract.
When I called them, I was transferred to the collection department manager David **. He was very rude and unhelpful and he asked me to give him specific details like the name of the person I spoke to last time and the date. I didn't remember that and he said if I was calling with accusations then I should have known that information. Not to mention he was raising his voice to me. I asked him if he could listen to the recorded conversations and he said: "I will not do that, because they are a lot of conversations".
The other problem we had was with the cancellation fees with AT&T. As I mentioned before we were promised to be reimbursed for them, so I sent them by AT&T bill that showed fees for $750 dollars. Then I called customer service to make sure I will be credited for that amount. They told me they have a limit, so I'll only get $600 dollars but I have to wait 4 months for that.
Then I spent like 45 min arguing with an agent about that and then he transferred me to a manager. He was pretending that he was checking something on my account, so another 50 minutes later he said "we can't do anything, call T-mobile". And that is when I realized that they were not T-mobile. They are an independent company that only finds customers for T-mobile and they don't know what customer service is. They don't care if you will cancel the service, because they will charge you $600 dollars.
TEXAS -- I have been a T-mobile customer for about 15 years which will end tomorrow. I expect a certain amount of poor service from mobile phone carriers just given the way the industry is run, but what I have experienced the last month is outrageous. My Iphone 5s was stolen which I reported on 8/3. It had 1,000 pictures of my 11 year old daughter on our first trip to europe together. We had returned a few days earlier before the phone was stolen. In a last ditch effort to locate the phone, T-mobile told me I could go through my account, which for some inexplicable reason I was locked out of. IT gave up after trying to fix it for 5 days. Tech failure #1.
Although the phone was still live when I reported the theft, for an additional 2 days or so, t-mobile told me there was no way to backup my pics, unless the auto backup feature was on, which it was not. This was false. A few days later, a friend suggested I check with apple and was told that if t-mobile had given me the correct information the pictures could have been backed up as long as the phone was still on which it was when I spoke with them. Tech failure #2.
When I reported the phone stolen, and before t-mobile transferred me to technical support, I asked for and was told I would get a call back for phone replacement as I carried insurance. This never happened. Customer service failure #1.
I called on 8/23 to inquire about my phone replacement and was told I would not be transferred because the account was a few days late. I disputed the charge, given that I had no phone for 3 weeks but was given no choice to pay it. CS even refused to transfer me to complaints and the insurance dept. Customer service failure #2.
When I paid the bill, I was told that I had not reported the theft to the "insurance department." I was told there was no record of CS promising to have some call me, and I learned for the first time that no effort had been put into replacing my phone. Customer service failure #3.
When I was transferred to the insurance department, I learned that in fact it is a separate company that is not part of T-mobile. Customer service failure #4. The woman I spoke with was helpful, but was unable to confirm there would be a callback number on the email she said she would send me in regard to replacement.
After going through all this, I called and filed complaints against customer service and tech support. That was yesterday. I was told these issues would "be escalated" and an executive from Albuquerque would contact me by 5pm cst today. That didn't happen. Customer service failure #5.
Today, I chatted online with a representative who made it clear to me that no action had been taken on my complaints, although she confirmed I been promised a call by 5pm, which had already passed. Customer service failure #6.
In fairness, the woman I was chatting with told me she would have a supervisor call me. I objected because that was not what I was promised, and I knew this would be more of the same. The supervisor did call a few moments later but told me she had no knowledge of my complaints and would need to get up to speed. I told her to get up to speed on the file and call me back. She agreed, but did not do so. Customer service failure #7. I insisted the woman I was chatting with online give me the name of T-mobile's counsel. I was given the corporate address with a phone number for customer service. Customer service failure #8.
I called the number given and waited the typical time to get through voice mail. I voiced my complaint that I had not been contacted by the Albuquerque executive and the information regarding counsel was clearly a smoke screen. She gave me a proper address but refused to give me a phone number. Customer service failure #9.
When taking these issues in the aggregate, it is clear that T-mobile is set up to avoid giving internal departments even the most basic authority to resolve anything. I was perpetually directed to other departments and put on hold for hours over days trying to resolve this. The executives allegedly running this company should focus more on by actually running it and less time trying to sell it in order to obtain their golden parachutes which they clearly have not earned!!!
ACROSS AMERICA, WASHINGTON -- I have been a loyal customer with T-Mobile for just short of a decade. Recently, I had a problem and T-Mobile followed up with a phone call to review their service and to garner feedback if it was satisfactory. My biggest mistake was participating.
The representative took the opportunity to pull a fast one. When I mentioned that I had never got anything from T-Mobile, not so much as a free phone during my contract time and I was fed up with the service. She said she would arrange a loyalty reward of a discounted phone as they would hate to lose me. HA HA. It ended up with one of T-Mobile reps calling a secondary phone I pay for a family member, and leaving a voice mail which compromised my personal information. Did T-Mobile care, NO!!
My account was to be adjusted to lower my payments on a newer and better plan and I added another line. I was offered a 25% discount on a new phone as well. At the end of three separate 1 hour conversations, only then was I told that she needed my email address in order to finalize the changes. Now in more than 10 years I have not given T-Mobile an email address, all changes were always done over the phone. However, this time she insisted that she had to have an email address to make any transaction to my account. I knew this was not true.
As a senior citizen who has had a major problem with identity theft, and been the victim of scams, I told her I did not use the internet, and I would prefer to go into one of her outlets, provide my ID and that way give confirmation that I authorized the changes. She said it could not work that way. I said that it was sad T-Mobile is forcing senior citizens (I am almost 80 years old), to compromise their security. I had already told her of some of the problems I suffered with identity theft, even before she asked for my email address.
Now T-Mobile will say that they have one of the most secure systems, so did the bank that screwed up causing the identity theft and thousands of stolen dollars. I explained that though T-Mobile may be secure, my computer and email would be the weak link, and I was not willing to risk that. She said she could not help me.
But then a few days later I got a text saying the changes had been made to my account. So I called, curious to know how that could occur. I was told that only part of the changes had been made, my plan had been partially changed, but nothing had been done about sending out the new phone, or switching the line. Mind you, all of this was done simply by my word over the telephone.
My question was, if you can do part of the changes how come you could not do all of them? I felt bamboozled and said so. No one could give me a good answer why T-Mobile was insisting that they could change my account partly but not do the entire deal. The representative then hung up on me after talking down to me as if old age makes me an idiot. Her name is ** and she works in T-Mobile's loyalty department, and need I say she is the worse patronizing motor mouth one could ever have the misfortune to encounter. She was hollering through anything I tried to say, impolite, rude and far too full of her own crud.
My older son called on my behalf (he has permission to make changes to the account), however, this time he was not allowed. They insisted I had to call in with the last four digits of my social and everything would be done as it was already set up. However, once I called in, it was a different story.
The representative ** had added $27 dollars to the phone, and still insisted that I had to give an email address. She spoke to me as if I was begging them and that she was doing me a favor. I told her, I was not the one who raised the subject of the new phone, it was offered to me as a loyalty reward. She insisted the price had gone up (within 5 days). That T-Mobile was doing me a favor and she did not have to honor the discounted phone. In addition she also tried to sell me insurance on the phone.
I told her I was not interested in insurance, realizing she was looking to squeeze as much more money as she could out of me. She then returned to needing an email address to complete the deal, though she had said earlier in the conversation that she would waive it. That is when she hung up. I thought she would call back, but it was the next day, I got a call from my relative telling me about the message she had left on his phone with compromising details of my account.
Of course, no one would put me through to a manager or supervisor to file a complaint, and from what was read to me in the notes ** wrote, she made it sound as if I was a crazy old woman trying to make T-Mobile give me a discounted phone. That I'd asked for a discounted phone'. Not even bothering to mention it was offered to me. Though the representative who read **'s notes to me said it was against company policy for any representative to contact anyone but the primary party on the account, or leave messages that could compromise financial and private information, I still never got to speak with a manager or supervisor to make this report directly.
T-Mobile no longer calls me since then to check on the quality of service either, effectively wiping out any change I could make a complaint. My account is still extra high as they reverted it back to the original plan where I pay for any pictures or images sent per item. My blood pressure rose so high from all of this stress, that I could not manage the switch I had planned, to rid myself of T-Mobile. So I wound up paying for another month.
It has been the most stressful and nasty experience. T-Mobile has no respect for senior citizens and makes no provision or allowances for their needs. Rather, the rude ** females like ** are allowed to jeopardize our safety and violate our privacy with no consequences. If someone like this ** could be in T-Mobile's loyalty department and get away with treating a loyal customer and senior citizen so poorly, this company needs to be out of business.
This country really needs more competition in the mobile department. Legally, senior citizens should not be forced to conduct business via the internet. There are a million reasons why. If T-Mobile really wanted to improve its service it should seriously look into feedback like mine and provide proper choices to seniors.
I called to try to upgrade a phone line to the Galaxy S 4g phone for my daughter's phone for free. A representative informed me that there would be a cost of over $150 on an upgrade of that line but that I had another phone line they could upgrade without the fee and that they could get me an rebate of a month's service if I went ahead and agreed to 2 years contract on all 5 of my phone lines. I made the representatives know that this phone would be used on my daughter's line not on the line that they were actually upgrading.
Then I also ordered a new line again telling the representative how the phone (another Galaxy S 4g) would be used on a different line as the new line would be for my elderly Mother that wouldn't have a need for the technology this phone had to offer. They were very friendly on this call. Two days later I called to see about transferring the web on my line to my son's line. I was informed the price would increase as my line was grandfathered in and so even though it was the same account they were not able to allow the same service to a different line on my account.
Today when the phones were to arrive I called to have the web services transferred to the lines I needed them on for the new phones and I was informed that those services would have to be on the lines for which the new phones were ordered, which were lines that were not going to be using the services.
So I then told them that I would cancel my daughter's line and transfer her number to the one upgraded as she would like to keep the number she has had since we started with T-mobile over 5 years ago, the representative stated that I had agreed to a 2 year lock on all 5 of my lines by a rebate of the amount of less than one month's service and so I wouldn't be able to switch the phones and services as needed but offered to add web to my daughter's existing line.
Meaning that 4 of 5 of my lines would all have web with only 2 using the service as well as the cost adding a minimum of an additional $15 per line as only old phones support the $10 a month web and for the $15 you only got 2 mb of usage and if you went over there were steep charges so I would need to monitor her usage or pay the price.
I ended up telling her I wanted to cancel everything and I would send back the phones in which again I was informed that until they receive the phones I was still under contract and billings remain in place. I will be rejecting the delivery today when they arrive at my home and will be cancelling all my lines as soon as they are up by contract by the end of this year.
Be careful as they are sneaking in the 2 year contract by giving you a reduction in your bill by $5 a month or as a rebate when there is a cost associated with a new phone. I believe this is to bring as many T-mobile customers over to AT&T when they sell out in December. VERIZON HERE I COME!!!
I have been dealing with T-Mobile for months now regarding two tablets that were defective and returned to them. Back in October T-Mobile said to return the 2nd defective tablet, and once they received it, all the charges would be removed. At the time, the representative credited 3 charges having to do with the tablet. She also said that from that point on, we would no longer be charged. They did not stop charging. But I kept paying. I finally got tired of paying what I did not owe, and waiting for them to credit my account and stop the charges. Last month I paid the portion of my bill that I did owe.
I subtracted everything regarding the tablet from my balance owed. I have just spent my entire lunch hour speaking with four different people, and all of them kept saying the same thing, that the charges are legitimate. T-Mobile had also been calling from a number I did not recognize, and not leaving a voicemail. I finally had to search the number to found out it was T-Mobile. I have been with T-Mobile for over 10 years. Two years ago I got a bill with over $400 of text charges. I have unlimited texts. It took over an hour with one representative putting me on hold and coming back with a reduced amount I can pay for the text charges.
After I told her that I was tired of sounding like a broken record, I finally was able to speak with someone who took care of everything in just 3 minutes. Now, why couldn't that happen today? I even told them my past experience being given the run around by them. I said again to two people that I was tired of sounding like a broken record, and was tired of hearing them sound like a broken record. I finally had to hang up because my lunch hour was over. I will have to try again tomorrow.
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA -- My iPhone5 was purchased on 08/05/13 by my husband as a birthday present for me. Ever since I started using this phone I got nothing but problems. Calls would drop while talking to someone, most of time it would show "no internet connection". It would show "no service" therefore I am unable to make or receive any calls. The voice quality of the phone is so bad that every time I talk to any family or friend, they would ask if I was sick or I had them on speaker phone (no to both). Phone would get very hot itself, and internet (if there was a connection) would be very slow for a so called iPhone5!
On 09/04/13 the 29th day of the purchase we decided to take this phone back to the store as we could do that within 30 days. The Manager at the store just heard my complaint and said they will exchange this phone with another one but it will be on mail order as there was none available in store. I agreed to this and thought it will just take them a few minutes to place this order.
Two sales reps started working on one computer and took them almost an hour to get to us to their counter. The reps named ** and ** were very playful and acting like kids while handling customers. We did not appreciate this while we were trying to get some help. They both were teasing each other, joking, tagging and just giggling and this was just annoying.
When our paperwork/mail order was all done in their system we were told the new iPhone5 will arrive within 3 days. It will be 9 days tomorrow and still no sign of the new iPhone5. We are very disappointed with T-mobile's delivery service and most of all their staff's customer service. Their sales representative should be going into more training and also act matured when dealing with their customers!! This store inside the Arden Fair Mall, Sacramento, CA. I am a one unhappy new customer of T-mobile!!
FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA -- We signed up with T-Mobile for a cell phone. In the first contract, we were offered a base plan contract for $20 dollars unlimited calls in the States, plus $10 amount to make unlimited call to Germany. We were told the first three months we would be overcharged, but after the fourth month we would see the credits and we would be paying a total of $30.
After four months we did not see the credits and returned to the center. The individual selling us the plan had left and the young sales assistant informed us the plan we signed does not exists. Our plan would be $49.99. I said cancel the contract as you cannot deliver the service, but I was told as it is four month into the contract I would have to pay $200 penalty to leave. I signed the $49.99 contract and after a few month I realized I am charged for minutes to Germany.
I contacted customer service and was told the plan does not exist. We had to pay $79.99 for the plan we were using. As soon as the contract was over I returned to the T-mobile store and canceled the contract. I decided to sign up for a two year contract for $40 month. I returned and asked to terminated the contract, and was told anytime after the 15 March 2015 to return and it would be canceled.
Today I returned to the store and was told we can terminate on the 24 April and I should have read their business rule. All I can recommend is to stay away from T-Mobil. You are being interrogated by their customer service and have to repeat the same information over and over.
MISSION, TEXAS -- So my husband and I had Verizon for about 5 years and we saw the promotional that T-Mobile had about switching to T-Mobile and they would pay your contract for Verizon. We eventually switched to T-Mobile, the sales representative told us that there was no contract, the phone cost was going to be included on the bill, and we paid a little over 100 for each phone for a deposit.
My husband had to give them his brand new Galaxy Note 2 in order for them to pay off the account for Verizon. To make the story short we had to send a paper with our information from Verizon after the first month. So I did. It's been over two months and I have not received any Visa card with the amount that he said that they were going to pay. I called the company and they told me that we did not meet the requirements that they were asking. And now we're stuck with them until we pay off our phones and on top of that my husband is already on collections and we have to pay Verizon and his Galaxy Note is lost. Worst customer service and worst company.


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Call of Duty: Ghosts Announced As Next Game in Franchise
The newest game in the Call of Duty franchise has been announced and it's titled Call of Duty: Ghosts.
Published by Activision Publishing and developed by Infinity Ward, a press release for the latest installment of the war-simulation video game series says it promises "an entirely new story, redefines the series with all-new gameplay and a new setting and cast of characters."
We'll see about that!
Call of Duty: Ghosts is set to come out on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC on November 5.
Last November Activision Blizzard said sales of Call of Duty: Black Ops II, topped $500 million in retail sales during its first day on the market.
Watch the trailer for Ghosts. What do you think? Does it look like it will live up to past installments? Leave your thoughts in the comments.


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I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.
Paulo Coelho
Source: The Zahir
Contributed by: ~Matthew
Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
Mignon McLaughlin (1915 -)
Contributed by: Siona
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
Source: The Impossible Dream
Contributed by: CC
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
Angela Carter (1940 - 1992)
Contributed by: PiALOGUE
Copyright © 2016 Gaiam, Inc.


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When it comes to parenting, most women think they'll wind up to be a lot like their moms. But sometimes, it's smarter to steal a trick or two from dad's tool belt.
We asked Peggy Drexler, Ph.D., author of the new book Our Fathers, Ourselves: Daughters, Fathers, and the Changing American Family, what dad has to offer in the parenting arena, especially when it comes to raising girls. And no, we're not talking about kicking a soccer ball or changing the oil in your car (though those skills come in handy, too).
There's a reason why dads are often the ones appointed to remove the training wheels.
"Fathers show more perseverance with their daughters than mothers do, and have been found to encourage their children with words and their company to finish a task and bear the frustration that goes along with learning anything new," Drexler says.
So Tiger Mom had it right after all. Don't let the kiddies give up so easily!
For her book, Drexler interviewed women about their experiences with their dads, good and bad, and confirmed what we suspected: Dads play a big role in building their daughters' self-esteem.
"The daughters of dads who got it right said their fathers' tendency to involve them in conversation and seek their opinions made them feel appreciated for their minds long before their bodies began to attract attention," Drexler says.
Drexler says there's evidence that daughters who have shared closeness with their fathers over their lives tend to be more successful in school and later in their work. But certainly, moms should make sure to strike up an intellectual conversation with their girls now and then, too!
Most of the moms we know value education above just about anything else. But some of the women Drexler interviewed said the message really got across when it came from dad.
"[Other daughters] praised their fathers' insistence on the importance of getting an education and improving their minds. Overall, the dads who got it right instilled in their daughters a sense that they mattered and were worth listening to," Drexler says.
What's the best parenting lesson you learned from your dad?
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