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My IPhone and laptop. But I use my iPhone much more because it is more convenient Also my laptop loads quicker, however certain times both my phone and laptop speeds are on par.
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I only use my laptop
I use my laptop, PC and my iPhone all using Chrome as my internet browser.
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NEW YORK — A financial company specializing in asset acquisition sued Michael Jackson on Monday, saying it is owed $48 million in fees for rescuing the singer's stake in the publishing rights to songs by the Beatles.
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Charles Lloyd @ JVC Jazz
June 29, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.Add new comment | Filed under: charles lloyd quartet, charles simic, club midnight, dead stars, emily dickinson, empty tables, hall acoustics, humane environment, jason moran, jazz fans, Live Music, miss emily, neon lights, Notes, office upstairs, poet laureate, reuben rogers, russian thinkers, silent partners, sneaky suspicion, sole customer, white films
On the final evening of the JVC-New York Festival, I sauntered down to the
Charles Lloyd Quartet performance at The Society for Ethical Culture. This
seems like the perfect place to see Lloyd perform, on principle alone. His
unabashed jazz ethos and spiritual bent create an immediate and humane
environment. The hall acoustics, however, are a total non-starter for the
sound of live jazz. A massive wash of drums and indistinct piano notes.
The opening act was our nation's poet laureate, Charles Simic.
"Club Midnight" is some pretty powerful verse:
Are you the sole owner of a seedy night club?
Are you its sole customer, sole bartender,
Sole waiter prowling around the empty tables?
Do you put on wee-hour girlie shows
With dead stars of black and white films?
Is your office upstairs over the neon lights,
Or down deep in the dank rat cellar?
Are bearded Russian thinkers your silent partners?
Do you have a doorman by the name of Dostoyevsky?
Is Fu Manchu coming tonight? Is Miss Emily Dickinson?
Do you happen to have an immortal soul?
Do you have a sneaky suspicion that you have none?...
The quartet started behind Simic, and proceeded to play with the musicality
that jazz fans have come to expect from Lloyd's ensembles. Jason Moran is
the pianist, Reuben Rogers the bassist, and Eric Harland the drummer. Their
trip through Lloyd classics like "Requiem" and "Monk's Dance" were well
received, as was the newer material from the quartet's recent release, Rabo
de Nube. I had to really work hard to hear the music, but the payoff was
rewarding nonetheless.
IAJE Day 1 - Heritage for Tomorrow
January 9, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.Add new comment | Filed under: aaron goldberg, bob brookmeyer, clifford brown, conservatoire national superieur, conservatoire national superieur de musique, erik satie, french composer, harland, IAJE 2008, ingrid jensen, jerome kern, lionel loueke, new york voices, paquito d rivera, paris conservatory, pianist erik, reuben rogers, special session, stan getz, three songs, young musicians
Heritage for Tomorrow is a quartet from the Paris Conservatory (or, officially, the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris...ahh, the French...). They are led by the bassist Riccardo del Fra.
The quartet performed three songs during the IAJE Special Session earlier today. I had not heard of the three young musicians who joined del Fra onstage, but I was impressed.
Here's the first song they played together.
Heritage for Tomorrow - Song One
They also played a Bob Brookmeyer composition, a nod to the French composer and pianist, Erik Satie.
Heritage for Tomorrow - Erik Satie
Finally, the quartet performed a thoroughly modern reading of "I'm Old Fashioned." I'm not sure Jerome Kern would recognize it. I barely could.
Heritage for Tomorrow - I'm Old Fashioned
That's it for today's early events. Tonight, I'm checking out shows from the Aaron Goldberg Trio with Reuben Rogers and Eric Harland, the Clifford Brown/Stan Getz All-Stars, New York Voices with Paquito D'Rivera, Lionel Loueke, and Ingrid Jensen's band, Nordic Connect. Come back soon for that. - Josh


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Samsung has a stellar range of netbooks and according to Digitimes, they've actually shipped more netbooks than ASUS in the first few months of 2010. The Samsung X120 looks to fill the gap between underpowered netbooks and not so portable laptops, featuring a CULV (Consumer Ultra Low Voltage) processor, 3GB of RAM and the Intel GMA 4500M HD graphics chipset. And weighing in at only 3lbs. This is a space that we think is going to get a whole lot more populated very soon. A machine like this would have cost you over a thousand dollars before ASUS started selling netbooks. The X120 is only available in the UK right now and it costs between 400 and 500 pounds depending on the processor. There are three options – the SU2700, SU4100 & dual-core SU7300.
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Skip to comments.President Obama's Easter Address
Posted on 04/07/2012 3:19:14 PM PDT by garjog
President Obama's Easter Address. White House April 7, 2012
Good afternoon. This Sunday marks a holiday for a major religion in our nation. Easter is a time for families to come together to enjoy a nice meal and perhaps go on an "egg hunt". Thousands of years ago the people of Europe seeking to invite their god to return after a long an cold winter lit fires and painted eggs as a sign of fertility.
Today we also express our hope for a new dawning in America when prosperity returns after the winter of flawed economic policies that forced so many of our people into a dark night of want and despair.
Now we are seeing hope return! Just like the budding of trees and the blooming of spring time flowers, thanks to the hard work of so many in Washington and in my Administration we see that America is beginning to work again.
Our baskets are being filled -- not with candied eggs and treats -- but with thousands of green energy jobs and health care for everyone.
Easter time holds special meaning for Christians. But all of us, no matter what faith or philosophy -- or even if we choose not to believe in cultural myths at all -- can identify with elements of the sacred rabbit story: no matter how cold the winter, spring always triumphs!
So, let us celebrate the triumph of hope over despair. Of faith over doubt. Of equality over wealth hording.
Let us take hold of the notion that there is something out there that is bigger than ourselves! So while we may put our trust in ancient cultural beliefs, we are even more comforted with the knowledge that something truly bigger than our selves is working in Washington providing the benefits and programs that are helping Americans find their way in life's journey.
Just like the Easter Bunny brings treats to satisfy our sweet tooth, our policies are ensuring that the middle class will not be left with empty baskets.
That is why we ask that the top one percenters in our nation to give just a small part of their wealth to share with the vast majority who just want to get by with some dignity. Then our land will be like a lawn spread with colored eggs, ready to be found!
This faith helps unite Americans of all backgrounds, income levels, ethnicities, sports teams and parties. It reminds us what can happen when the rich are generous! It gives us strength to endure difficult times caused by the flawed policies of the past. It is this faith that lavishes upon us hope as we look for the coming of that Bunny of Recovery in the near future.
Happy Easter. And good egg hunting for us all!
9 mention of rabbit and egg.
1 mention of Christianity.
Does anyone really believe Obama is a Christian?
For more see my blog the Obama Clarifier: http://obamaclarifier.blogspot.com/
Obozo has become a parody of a real President.
"A holiday for a major religion"
One among many I guess....
I keep looking for some mention of this being satire
This is satire ....right ?
....thats the meaning of easter...
dopey me, I shoulda known it.
thank you my holy messiah.
The Sarc is strong in this one
Face palm !!!
...thanks to the hard work of so many in Washington and in my Administration we see that America is beginning to work again."
Is this a joke or satire. It has to be. Even if we choose not to believe in myths we can believe in the sacred rabbit story???? It is a joke right?
"This is satire ....right ?"
Now, why would you think that?
Looks like I fooled some here, hee, hee.
Yes, I just made this up. But, it is based on the real message. I think my version is actually better.
"...something truly bigger than our selves is working in Washington providing the benefits and programs that are helping Americans find their way in life's journey."
This is a joke. Right?
He can't seriously have said this stuff. America is on life support BECAUSE of the economic disaster he's orchestrated.
Any signs of life are IN SPITE of his work, NOT because of it.
Your "White House" LINK is to your blog.
Please clarify if this dreck was written by YOU? If so, you need to fix the link to your blog please?
satire - but it does sound like him -
here's his short, 'nothing' easter speach
That clarified - is that photo with the dogs nose in his - ahmmm - crotch, photoshopped?
Very good one :-)
...sacred rabbit story? O, boy!!! What a putdown on Christianity!
Nothing would surprise me coming out of this white house....
Your version is within the realm of possible
Good job !
Please tell me that this is satire? But on 2nd thought, I know that this is a real political re-election speech to come from Obama and his speech writers.
The man is so shallow and lacking in true roots in this nation that he is only capable of speaking self-centered political tripe.
When discussing Christians: "...believe in cultural myths..."
When talking about the Easter Bunny: "...the sacred rabbit..."
Good. Very Good. Parody at its best!
What a DooFus!!!
satire - but it does sound like him -
here's his short, 'nothing' easter spreech
That clarified - is that photo with the dogs nose in his - ahmmm - crotch, photoshopped?
These pics are from last year - don't see that one here, but the Monitor would'nt have published it - but it could have been on 'the roll"?
To clear the record, here is the real meaning of Easter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd437S0pvzU&feature=related
the dog is looking for the eggs LOL
thousands of green energy jobs
Looks like he never watches the news
"That clarified - is that photo with the dogs nose in his - ahmmm - crotch, photoshopped?"
That photo is one of my favorites. It was Easter in 2009 I think. Why the WH posted it I can't imagine. Bo is sniffing the President's crotch as he reads to kids.
I had to check twice to make sure this was not from that Semi-News site! Did he REALLY say this??? Incredible, just incredible. What a sorry excuse for a President. He is truly a disgrace.
"That clarified - is that photo with the dogs nose in his - ahmmm - crotch, Photoshopped?"
No, this is a real photo published on the WH web page. I am not kidding this time. It's not Photoshopped. Haven't you seen it before? Hilarious.
Yes, and the link goes to some blog that doesn't even mention this.
omitted was mention of the African equinoctial holiday celebrated in the old and ancient kingdoms called Yasayamam.
The kings are long dead but several princes were enslaved and shipped to America where the memory is still celebrated. Since the ubiquitous presence of cell phones, the tribal remnants can show their colors and assemble on demand in large numbers in a Walgreens or a 7-11 where sacrifices are made by the store manager and the reduced inventory after the gathering is written off as cultural appeasement expense.
Some cultural scholars believe that Yasayamam has a relation to a similar solsticial holiday Kwansa but that is not proven. Yasayamam seems to have originated in oasial Sahara and moved south and west whereas Kwansa can be traced to Harlem although some think east Atlanta. It was formerly thought Kwansa originated in North Charleston but that theory was shown to be in error by the ASCP AA society study.
I was about ready to watch my head explode, I thought this was real, it is to true to life.
I was surprised to learn this is satire.
Please put satire or blog in the title.
This is not the actual address Obama gave.
Thank you blog pimp.
"Looks like I fooled some here, hee, hee."
It's deceptive that's what it is.
Anyone got a big enough sack for this excrement?
Remember back in 2009 when Obama told people not to go to Las Vegas. Seems this might get to be a great campaign issue for the king Obama. Here is a link to a 2010 story.
"You can't go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer's dime." Barak Hussein Obama 2009..
I read his actual address. I think I like the satire better.
A major religion !?????
Gee, I thought he would have compared himself to Jesus again.
"Yes, and the link goes to some blog that doesnt even mention this."
Consider this a belated April Fools joke. Looks like about half the posters were fooled. Hee, hee. We can all image Obama saying stuff like this.
Is this from The Onion?
Please tell me this is from the Onion. I cannot bear the thought that this nation is being "lead" by such a dunce.
"Please tell me this is from the Onion"
It isn't the Onion. I wrote it based on what Obama said.
Just for fun.
True it links to my blog, but if you go there you will see that I get no income from ads or anything.
The Obama Clarifier is an educational tool I created after a student asked: Why do people dislike Obama so much?" http://obamaclarifier.blogspot.com/
My goal wasn't to up traffic to my blog, really. I was just trying to be funny and make fun of Obama who is always spewing blather in these holiday addresses.
Hopefully it lightened up our day with some humor.
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With most any game genre, you cannot underestimate how a rivalry between two game series helps push one another, where the consumer becomes the ultimate winner. It was an especially exciting time when we had both the Colin McRae and Rallisport games pushing the all-terrain envelope in the early 2000's. Yet Rallisport developer DICE has long since devoted themselves to EA's Battlefield series, making our rally racing buying decisions all the more easier. So it is somewhat surprising that Codemasters has managed to belt out quality sequels every other year without the need of bona fide competition.
The since-retitled Colin McRae series Dirt is just weeks away from its third installment, and I'm about as excited as any racing fan. So leave it to Codemasters to tease us with a preview build containing the first season of Dirt 3 as well as a few other extra features including the much hyped Gymkhana.
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Not much has to be done to unlock other cars and liveries, outside of performing well in races. This first season (as well as the different races offered in Single Player and Time Trial) present the games various disciplines: Rally, Rallycross, Trailblazer, Gymkhana, Landrush, and Head 2 Head. I was especially addicted to the Drift Showcase, a medal-based race against time where I had to pull off as many drifts as possible.
I was also impressed with how every car handled compared to the already-superb car performance in Dirt 2. There's a much better sense of weight distribution during turns, and the way the car body shifts and tilts adds to the believability. There's also a wealth of control and difficulty options; nothing intimidatingly deep like in Gran Turismo 5, but enough to give you a sense of personalization. I particularly enjoyed seeing the immediate results of tweaking my downforce, suspension, and break bias. For assists, beginners who don't want their hand held entirely can toggle ABS, the racing line, and corner breaking to name a few options. And the Prince of Persia-inspired rewind option makes a return, pleasing those who want an instant do-over without having to restart the entire race (although you will not get the maximum amount of points).
With over 10 years of well-lit tracks and sandy settings that bring out the vibrancy of sunlight, I shouldn't be surprised that my favorite courses in Dirt 3 are the overcast and gloomy ones. The overall grayness, brick buildings, and spotty dilapidation in the Smelter, Houghton stage (based in Michigan) looks like something straight out of Alan Wake. I was also impressed with the frosty downpour at the Buttermilk resort in Aspen, where the path of the falling snow realistically shifts based on the camera movements. With its steep climbs and challenging turns, Buttermilk made me wonder why there aren't more inclined ski resort tracks in rally games.
It takes about 12 race wins to unlock the first of the Gymkhana sections, which happens to also round out this 20-race first season. I'll be interested to see how rally newcomers take to Gymkhana. Although the first five missions are presented as "Tutorials," there really isn't much teaching going on, at least not until the later missions when Ken Block briefly extols on Spin and Donut tips. So don't expect to get the platinum medals in this section at your first few attempts.
Although this build kept the second season locked, beating the first year did give me access to the Battersea Compound. Here is where I really got to hone my Gymkhana skills, motivated by 80 missions, 23 in the first area called the Parking Lot. I found it had a solid difficulty mix of assignments. Easy ones included smashing blocks and weaving between a series of lamp posts. Harder ones, at least for me, involved drifting through narrow pipes and pulling off double donuts around certain structures.
I also recently attended a Dirt 3 hands-on event that focused on the Gymkhana multiplayer. It's the game's way of featuring a party mode without having the "casual" stigma that is often associated with party modes in other games. Seeing many of your friends driving frantically throughout the compound felt like the most stylish form of bumper cars ever designed. Two of the modes, the zombie-inspired Outbreak and the capture-the-flag style Transporter actually require hitting other cars in order to win. If you want to worry less about hitting others (or getting hit) and really want to make the most of your Gymkhana skills, you'll want to check out Invasion. Here, you'll have to run over a series of pop-up giant robot standees while avoiding the pop-up buildings.
Dirt 2 was undoubtedly a bold statement and direction for the rally racing genre. The menus themselves were some of the best user interfaces of 2009 (and would have been recognized as such if game news outlets actually handed out awards for menus). It was built around a glossy, well-produced X-Games motif where even the thick plastic of your profile lanyard looked gorgeous. As impressive as it was, this one-directional Americanized presentation was an understandable turn-off to some non-U.S. gamers. The great news is that Dirt 3 doesn't go with the return-to-roots approach so much as it looks to be a fine blend of its European and African pedigree while still including some X-Games sponsored tracks and aesthetics.
After these five hours of engrossing drifting, smearing donuts, and general scenery enjoyment, I came away with a seemingly trivial but lasting thought. This in-depth glance at Dirt 3 called to mind how the futuristic Wipeout series chose to follow up their blockbuster Wipeout XL with Wipeout 3 back in 1998. Like Wipeout 3, Dirt 3 impressively scales down the menus and presentation and instead focuses on an improved gameplay experience and a solid selection of modes. That said, I'm highly doubtful that Dirt 3 will replicate the poor sales performance of Wipeout 3, not if Gymkhana can help it.
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AWESOME!!!Posted: May 15, 2011 9:22 PM
do i have to get dirt 2 in order to get dirt 3???????Posted: May 11, 2011 12:37 PM
Hm.. was researching pre-order bonuses, doesn't seem to be any that add anything substantial to content, more less just unlocks that makes progress easier and faster.
But I did find an EBgames promotion that will give you a free copy of Grid if you preorder, only where available and while supplies last though :(
There is also a bundle that comes with an RC car, for a whopping $299.99!! (insanity)Posted: May 11, 2011 10:10 AM
Yeah I overly enjoyed DiRT 1 and then enjoyed DiRT 2 so I'm looking forward to DiRT 3 and rally races, with snow even!Posted: May 11, 2011 7:55 AM
The only thing I wish Dirt would adapt is total car customization, atleast custom paint and decal options (like in Shift for example), I don't see why we aren't able to create our own "liveries" at this point.
I'm still a little one fence of picking up Dirt3 later this month though, just finally found a copy of Dirt2 last month.
What ever the case, I hope they give the honor of the upcoming review to the person doing this preview.
They seem to legitimately understand the genre and respect the racing genre as a whole, and also the fact that they state "the already-superb car performance in Dirt 2"(truth) and all I remember from the last review them cautioning you on how often you'll be spinning out (lie).Posted: May 11, 2011 5:42 AM
i never tried dirt but I guess this is one game I should check out :DPosted: May 10, 2011 4:13 PM
I loved Dirt 2 I'm pretty sure this will be more fun and love the new look of the hud and the gymkhana mode looks cool definite buy for me.Posted: May 9, 2011 4:46 PM
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It was between this and Brink and I'm pretty pleased with going with this one.Posted: May 9, 2011 3:24 PM
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- We investigate the effects of potential sources of systematic error on the angular and photometric redshift, zphot, distributions of a sample of redshift 0.4 < z < 0.7 massive galaxies whose selection matches that of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) constant-mass sample. Utilizing over 112 778 BOSS spectra as a training sample, we produce a photometric redshift catalogue for the galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey eight data release imaging area that, after masking, covers nearly one quarter of the sky (9913 deg^2). We investigate fluctuations in the number density of objects in this sample as a function of Galactic extinction, seeing, stellar density, sky background, airmass, photometric offset and North/South Galactic hemisphere. We find that the presence of stars of comparable magnitudes to our galaxies (which are not traditionally masked) effectively removes area. Failing to correct for such stars can produce systematic errors on the measured angular autocorrelation function, w(θ), that are larger than its statistical uncertainty. We describe how one can effectively mask for the presence of the stars, without removing any galaxies from the sample, and minimize the systematic error. Additionally, we apply two separate methods that can be used to correct for the systematic errors imparted by any parameter that can be turned into a map on the sky. We find that failing to properly account for varying sky background introduces a systematic error on w(θ). We measure w(θ), in four zphot slices of width 0.05 between 0.45 < zphot < 0.65, and find that the measurements, after correcting for the systematic effects of stars and sky background, are generally consistent with a generic Λ cold dark matter model, at scales up to 60°. At scales greater than 3° and zphot > 0.5, the magnitude of the corrections we apply is greater than the statistical uncertainty in w(θ).
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Alice off to Patti's house in Spokane
I traveled with Bob and Carol Mulholland to Wenatchee, WA. Johnny and Lydia Preston handed me to them in California while visiting the Salton Sea RV Park and SPA Resort. We all enjoyed a nice visit at the Salton Sea with three other square dance couples. But, soon it was time to return to their home in Washington state. Their cat Buddy checked me out–that was scary, but I passed the test and we became buddies!
Bob and Connie are inviting all of you to visit Spokane, Washington, in 2012 for the 61st National Square Dance Convention. (I'm even hoping I get back to Spokane for that big party!)
At the club dance on Saturday, January 22, 2011, they gave me to a fellow club member, Patti Schroeder, who also lives in Spokane. And can you believe this? She thanked them for giving her the bird! Oh my! Can't wait to see what happens in her square dance world! Talk soon!
Alice travels with the Prestons
Alice here, checking in again. I have been traveling with Lydia & Johnny Preston for the past month. I met a fellow friend, Daisy Duck, at the Preston's home in Fultondale, Alabama. Daisy invited me to swim in their pool; much to our surprise, it was closed so we surfed the waves in their hot tub!
I went to a couple more square dance classes at the Wheel Arounds and club dances. November 1, Lydia and Johnny started their drive to Niland, California, for the winter with me chilling in their back seat. I watched the miles go by munching on Goldfish crackers & sipping on juices while we drove through Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, and on to Oklahoma. We stopped to visit relatives and spend the night in Chocktaw, OK . On we went the next morning through Texas and stopped in Gallop, New Mexico, for the night. We stopped and saw the meteor crater in Arizona. That was really something to see.
Johnny did not have any square dances to call on our cross- country drive. We arrived in Temecula, California, and visited with Johnny's mother and sister for a few days. We had a day at the Temecula Park with the relatives, and we ran into a thousand of my duckie cousins. That was great to see them again. We drove out to the desert where the Prestons have their winter haven at the Fountain of Youth Resort. Johnny is the resident caller and Lydia is the resident nurse. We set up housekeeping for a day and took a walk around the park. It was very nice. I tried to hide from Lydia in one of the palm trees, but she found me.
I went to the FOY dance lessons and club night a couple of times. At my last dance with them, Johnny asked me to do a singing call at our Hobo dance.
See me? I'm a caller!!!
That was on November 17, and I also met the nice couple, Bob and Connie Mulholland, from Wenatchee, WA.
They are the Secretary for 2012 Registration & Housing Committee for the 61st National Square Dance Convention; I'll be traveling with them to Washington. It was a fun cross-country-sightseeing trip I took with Lydia and Johnny. Now I will be a back-seat traveler (not driver!) with the Mulhollands.
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Alice reporting in!
I've had such fun in the Birmingham area. On 10-14 Debra Stewart, wife of Jamie Stewart (caller for the Krazy 8's, the Covered Bridge Squares and the Dixie Square Thru's square dance clubs) passed me to Sandra Hawkins at the Regions Bank in Birmingham, AL. While at the bank, I was treated to a tour of the safe-deposit box area. I sat patiently on Sandra's boss's chair waiting to surprise her with a Happy Boss' day balloon. She was delighted!
On 10-14 I was treated with a trip to the country where I enjoyed riding on a 4-wheeler. I was hoping to find some of my Loon cousins, but unfortunately, no one answered my call. I enjoyed riding in the basket on the front of the 4-wheeler the best. I must have caught a cold because I didn't feel so well for a couple of days. I'm happy to report that on 10-19 I woke up feeling back to my old self again. I enjoyed a cup of coffee with George Hawkins while we read the newspaper.
I went to the Wheel Arounds Square Dance club on 10-19 and helped Connie Dutton teach 17 new dancers. I must say, this group has a lot of potential. Connie's really nice also …. she greeted me with a kiss! I was also introduced to Lydia Preston who is taking me to California. Lydia surprised me by taking me back to the Wheel Arounds on 10-23 where we enjoyed a "Wear Your Favorite Team Colors" dance with Larry Belcher calling and David Holladay cueing. The Wheel Arounds are really a fun bunch that meets in Fultondale, AL, at the Birmingham Square Dance Friendship Hall on the 2nd and 4th Friday nights, and I hope to visit them again real soon.
I'm anxiously anticipating my trip across the country to California. I'm going to enjoy dancing all the way to California! I'll be traveling with Johnny and Lydia Preston.
More updates to follow ….. Alice
Visiting Krazy 8s
Visiting the Dancing Pirates
We're off to dance!
Hi, Alice here
Well, tomorrow, September 29, is the big day; we fly to Jackson, MS. From there we will travel to Louisiana and Alabama. Somewhere along the way, we hope to find a new guardian for me, one that likes to travel as much as Bob & Betty do. B & B will come home the 5th of October so stay tuned and find out where I am then.


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Well, I was just curious, cus' I never put three of them in a deck.
You'll see many of these in Tourneys. People going for low star decks.
It depends how many 2*s you have in deck if you have 5 the odds are really high
I meant, if ur deck contains three 2* how often do those three appear in matches? Because having three 2* in a match isn't good.. that's why I dont put three 2* in a deck.
Having three 2*s is winnable. This is my usual type of deck actually, and you still have a good chance to win. The cards don't make the player.
If you have trhee 2* in 8 cards deck, then probablity of drawing them all equals barely over 7%


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Samsung, the Korean consumer electronics juggernaut, has decided to drop its injunction charges against Apple in Europe. These injunction charges were put against Apple after the Cupertino corporation declared that Samsung was abusing their wireless patents to make the wireless industry more difficult to compete in. Both the EU and the Korean court system are in the midst of investigating these allegations.
Samsung released the following press release:
Samsung remains committed to licensing our technologies on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, and we strongly believe it is better when companies compete fairly in the marketplace, rather than in court. In this spirit, Samsung has decided to withdraw our injunction requests against Apple on the basis of our standard essential patents pending in European courts, in the interest of protecting consumer choice.
Obviously, the statement is very pro-Samsung, though it is nice to see the company acting more maturely with its legal arm. Both Apple and Samsung have been more cool-headed with their legal actions against each other since Apple's victory over Samsung in the US.
Of course, some attribute to this apparent makeup to Tim Cook being in charge of Apple. Tim Cook is famous for being cool-headed, which flies in the face of the image of Steve Jobs as impulsive and easily offended.


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Presidents Cup blog: Fred Couples
The Columbus Dispatch - April 25, 2013 04:24 PM
Besides turning back the clock for a couple of days at the Masters, Fred Couples got a chance to play with and see some of the players who will be, and might be, on his United States team in the Presidents Cup at Muirfield Village Golf Club in October. The matches are Oct.3-6.
Couples filed his
latest captain's blog after leaving Augusta.


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AppSecEU08 NTLM Relay Attacks
NTLM Relay Attacks
NTLM relay attacks have been around for years. Since 2001, in fact. Until now, every implementation of this attack has been SMB-based, using it to access the victim's hidden c$ file share.
But NTLM relay attacks can be launched against any protocol that uses NTLM authentication. Besides SMB, that includes more or less every Microsoft enterprise software product, and more or less every third-party app ever to leverage Windows Integrated Auth.
In the simplest scenario, whenever an Active Directory domain user authenticates to a web server in a Windows enterprise environment, that web server's operator can then access arbitrary network resources as the victim.
Although people have been exploiting this problem for seven years, nobody has paid much attention to the fact that it can also be used to access HTTP-based resources until now.
In this talk, Eric Rachner will demonstrate Scurvy, a new tool for launching NTLM relay attacks. The underlying mechanics of NTLM relay attacks will also be discussed, along with mitigation options.
About the Speaker: Eric Rachner is an independent security consultant, researcher, and enthusiast specializing in security analysis, vulnerability assessment, and penetration testing of network applications and systems. He began his career at Microsoft in 1994, where in 2002 he helped Microsoft start the Application Consulting Engineering (ACE) team. As a senior member of the ACE team, he led efforts such as application penetration testing, code reviews, design reviews and security awareness training for internal application teams throughout Microsoft's global IT organization. Also during this time, he wrote the feature article for the August 2004 issue of asp.net PRO Magazine on the subject of the attack technique that has since become known as Cross-Site Request Forgery.
In 2005, Eric left Microsoft to pursue an independent career as a security consultant providing services to large global enterprises in North America and Europe. Outside of the office, his hobbies include motorsports and yet still more IT security activity; he was also a core member of the hacking team that won the prestigious "Capture the Flag" contest at Def Con in 1999, 2000, and 2001.


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Lynn Moncus, Comments from the Canyons
Last week, we wandered a few miles down Memory Lane in order to give us a little practice for Rattler Reunion and to help us recall some of our favorite events and pastimes.
Since then, several people have commented on some of their special memories and suggested that we continue our visit so that returning Rattlers can do a little reading.
We talked about the snake dances we used to have before the first football game, and some of us recalled that we never had a chance to join in as we were too busy following Mr. Stephenson while we marched down the street playing real fight songs between the cheerleaders' yells. The whole town knew that great excitement was afoot, and many citizens participated in the evening's fun.
Some Golden Rattlers recalled the dances we attended in the courtroom of the old courthouse. We had a record player that didn't deafen us but allowed us to hear the music and to perform our interpretations of the current dance steps. As I recall, we wavered among popular, folk, and western music, thus providing something for everyone to enjoy.
We also spent many hours at the skating rink while watching Harold Jacobs perform just as gracefully there as he did on the football field. Because many of us had learned to skate on the sidewalks, we really enjoyed skating inside, especially during the summer. Sometimes we would have parties at the rink for special occasions and would spend the evening trying to learn some of the fancy tricks that we had seen others perform.
Now and then we would have a major train wreck and would land in a pile as we tripped over each other. When the rink wasn't too crowded, we would also have our own version of a snake dance and would always try to be anywhere except at the end of the line because that person really needed to be both agile and nimble in order to avoid injury.
We also recalled the many basketball tournaments we had in the old gym. The county and district tournaments were the highlights of the end of the season and drew crowds from all over the area because we had a number of schools throughout the county and district in those days. When the new gym was built, we hosted the state basketball tournament here and spent a week eating, sleeping, and thinking basketball because that was one big tournament with numerous teams from throughout the state.
No team was ranked in those days; thus, teams from all sizes of schools had the opportunity to participate. The Rattlers won that year as had some of the county teams in the preceding years.
Of course, we had to do a little talking about the trip to Dawson on the Polly to play a football game on the coldest day of the year and to recall the games we played against Clovis on Thanksgiving Day, often in the snow.
Whether Rattlers were on the team, in the band, or in the Pep Squad, we attended all home games and as many away games as possible. Parents loaded their cars with students and headed long distances so we could keep the Rattler Spirit alive.
Just drop by the Rattler Reunion this weekend and listen to more stories about our school days and the great times we had at THS.


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Thou my best thought by day and
by night,
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence
my light.
Be Thou my wisdom, Thou my true
I ever with Thee, Thou with
me, Lord.
Thou my great father, I Thy dear
Thou in me dwelling, I with
Thee one.
Be Thou my battle-shield, sword
for the fight,
Be Thou my dignity, Thou my
Thou my soul's shelter, Thou
my high tower;
Raise Thou me heavenward, power
of my power.
Riches I heed not, not man's
empty praise,
Thou mine inheritance now and
Thou, and Thou only, first in
my heart,
High King of heaven, my treasure
Thou art.
King of the seven heavens, grant
me for dole,
Thy love in my heart, Thy light
in my soul.
Thy light from my soul, Thy love
from my heart,
King of the seven heavens, may
they never depart.
With the high king of heaven,
after victory won,
May I reach heaven's joys, O
bright heaven's sun!
Heart of my own heart, whatever
Still be my vision, O Ruler
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well when you take f'(a) you get the slope of f(x) at that the point a.
On the other hand, you also are getting the slope of the tangent line at a.
So if you know f'(-3), f'(0), f'(3) you would know the slopes of the tangent lines at x = -3, x=0 and x=3.
However that doesn't guarantee that all the tangent lines are the same. If you had some extra information you could possibly do something, but unless the derivative is constant, you're looking at 3 different tangent lines.
(think about the tangent lines along a sine or cosine for example)


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Our Distillers
We are proud that production at our facilities is climate neutral today. Thanks to extensive recycling of heat, change to district heating and renewable hydropower, we have reduced energy consumption by 45 percent and carbon emissions by 80 percent per liter of vodka over the last 10 years.
Globally, we have the lowest energy consumption per unit among large distilleries. We offset the limited emissions we have not yet eliminated by supporting a reforestation project, where small-scale farmers in Mexico plant new trees with their crops. This is a long-term project that has been certified according to Plan Vivo, a framework that helps communities manage their natural resources more sustainably.
Our production process creates by-products that some see as waste, but that we see as resources. The stillage left over from wheat fermentation is sold as fodder for 40,000 cows and 250,000 pigs – every day. Some of the CO2 emissions from fermentation are sold to other industries, which use it for things like producing carbonated beverages. Reusing and recycling is about attitude – we even separate food scraps at our staff canteen to be used for biogas.
Innovative improvements are just one part. Our day-to-day work is equally important. We keep track of all our resource consumption, emissions, and waste and shipping, and find creative ways to improve our environmental performance. This daily check is known as "management systems," and our operations are certified to meet the ISO 14001 (Environmental Management Systems) and ISO 50001 (Energy Management Systems) standards.
Over the last decade, we have consistently reduced our water use per liter of vodka, and we are always looking for ways to recycle even more water in the production process. Every year, we contribute 25,000m3 of production water to a nearby pond, which is used by local farmers for crop irrigation, saving precious groundwater.