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BISMARCK, N.D. – Gov. Jack Dalrymple today attended a send-off ceremony for members of the North Dakota National Guard's 818th Engineer Company (Sapper) that are deploying on a yearlong mission to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
About 100 soldiers with the Williston and Hazen-based Company and their families were honored by Dalrymple, the state's congressional delegation, military leaders, veterans and members of the community.
BISMARCK, ND. – Governor Jack Dalrymple congratulated former Governor and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer who was honored today during the unveiling of his official portrait at the U.S. Department of Agriculture headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Schafer's portrait was unveiled during an afternoon ceremony at the Jamie L. Whitten Building, USDA's headquarters. Schafer was sworn in as the 29th Secretary of Agriculture on Jan. 28, 2008, serving during the last year of the George W. Bush Administration. Schafer also served as North Dakota's governor from 1992 to 2000.
BISMARCK, N.D. – Gov. Jack Dalrymple and other members of the state Board of University and School Lands unanimously voted today to provide an additional $2 million in matching grants to five school districts in North Dakota's Oil Patch. With the funding, the schools will purchase or lease portable classrooms to help meet their growing student enrollments.
BISMARCK, N.D. – Gov. Jack Dalrymple and other members of the state Board of University and School Lands (state Land Board) unanimously voted today to award $25.6 million in state flood impact grants to help cities, counties and other political subdivisions cover the costs of repairing flood-related damages to public infrastructure.
BISMARCK, ND. – Gov. Jack Dalrymple today appointed Don Morton of Fargo to serve on the state Board of Higher Education.
"At Microsoft's Fargo campus, Don recruits and works with college graduates from across North Dakota, giving him a unique perspective on the critical role that higher education plays in supporting high-value jobs throughout our state," Dalrymple said. "Don's leadership and his deep commitment to academics will be a tremendous asset on the state Board of Higher Education."
BISMARCK, N.D. – Gov. Jack Dalrymple today congratulated four North Dakota Regional Education Associations (REAs) awarded the first Succeed 2020 education grants. The grants are part of Succeed 2020, a statewide program aimed at helping North Dakota students become better prepared for college and careers. Last year, the Hess Corporation, a global energy company, donated more than $25 million to implement Succeed 2020.
The first REAs to be awarded Succeed 2020 grants are:
BISMARCK, ND. – Gov. Jack Dalrymple today said he is pleased that Bobcat Company has chosen North Dakota for a major business expansion.
Bobcat Company officials plan to create about 50 new positions for engineers and other professionals who will perform product research and development from a new Innovation Center in Bismarck. Through its strategic logistics partner, Menlo Worldwide Logistics, Bobcat Company also plans to add as many as 150 additional jobs at its Bismarck Manufacturing Support Center to expand production of the company's compact attachments.
BISMARCK, N.D. - Gov. Jack Dalrymple today issued to state government agencies his budget guidelines for the 2013-2015 biennium, calling on agency leaders to use a balanced approach that will hold the line on spending while meeting the state's pressing needs. The Governor announced his budget guidelines during a meeting of agency heads and fiscal officers at the State Capitol Building. Highlights of the address follow:
BISMARCK, N.D. - Gov. Jack Dalrymple today joined the Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, and local and federal officials in celebrating the commissioning of a revolutionary new energy technology that supports the high-efficiency, low-emission gasification of solid fuels such as coal and biomass.
BISMARCK, ND. – Gov. Jack Dalrymple today celebrated the ground breaking for a Bisek Hall expansion project that will enable North Dakota State College of Science to grow and enhance its Diesel Technology program.
"By expanding Bisek Hall and incorporating state-of-the-art equipment, NDSCS will be able to enhance its curriculum offerings and produce more knowledgeable and skilled technicians," Dalrymple said. "The expansion also will build on one of the nation's leading diesel tech programs and help us meet our current and emerging workforce needs."
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I am an avid poker player and a big studier of poker theory for NL Hold Em. You have constructed an interesting analogy of poker being a weighted coin, but unfortunately you have made some assumptions that very much restrict the ability of a poker player to win the most money playing ideally.
I want for now just to say that the fundamental money making concept in poker is the expected value of betting.
E.V. = (% of winning the total pot) * (total pot size - your bets)
You can see that we want both our percentage of winning the pot to be very large and the total pot size as well to be as large as possible.
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Moving jobs 'could cost you a quarter of your pension pot' as workers face lottery
Pensions danger: Plans to automatically move pension pots with workers could cost them dearly in old age.
A pensions lottery triggered by plans to stop workers losing track of small pensions could cost some who move jobs up to a quarter of their retirement pot's value, senior figures have warned.
A strongly-worded warning has been sounded against the Department of Work and Pensions plan to automatically move people's pensions with them when they change jobs.
While the government believes its 'pot-follows-member' scheme will help solve the growing problem of small pension sat uncared for after workers have moved on, the National Association of Pension Funds, Age UK, Which? and the TUC claim it could plunge investments into worse schemes.
They say that the arrival of pensions auto-enrolment, which will mean all employers must put their workers into pension schemes unless they opt out, will increase the problem and leave 'millions of small pension pots.'
There are concerns that automatically shifting pots with workers could see funds transferred from good schemes with low fees, or better benefits, to poor schemes with high fees and less protection.
Of course, the opposite effect could see some workers moved automatically to better schemes but in many instances transfer charges could still harm investments.
Rather than subject existing pensions savings to such a lottery, the critics say new low-cost collective aggregator schemes should be set up into which all dormant pension pots can be moved.
The groups argue that their figures show a person on half-average earnings who saves for 45 years in a low-cost aggregator scheme could achieve a pension pot of £81,000, but under the 'pot-follows-member' scenario extra fees could take this down to £61,000 - a 25 per cent drop.
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The long-term effect of higher fees can be
A £10,000 lump sum sat in a pension with 1 per cent charges that manages to grow at 7 per cent a year would reach £31,680, if charges rose to 2 per cent it would only grow to £25.930.
The 1 per cent increase in annual charges would wipe 18 per cent of the final value of the pension.
Any charges levied for transferring a pot would also eat further into the returns.
In their joint letter to the Daily Telegraph Joanne
Segars, the chief executive of the National Association of Pension
Funds; Michelle Mitchell, the charity director general at Age UK; Peter
Vicary-Smith, the chief executive of consumer group Which?; and Brendan
Barber, the general secretary of the TUC, warned against the plans.
They said: 'We agree with the Government that a system to automatically transfer these small pots is necessary. It is vital that savers are able to get maximum value from even small amounts of savings.
'However, the Government's solution, where the pot follows an employee who moves job, is impractical and risks reducing individuals' retirement income. Pots could be transferred into poorly managed schemes, with high charges and low investment returns.'
Why are small pensions a problem?
The growing problem of small pension pots has emerged as people move jobs more often and final salary schemes close down.
Many pension savers end up with a number of small pots – pension savings with different employers, worth relatively low amounts of money - mostly less than £5,000.
Typically this happens when a worker moves to a new job and leaves behind the pension savings they built up at their previous firm.
Under the previously widespread final salary pensions system this was of less concern, as workers were entitled to what is known as a defined benefit - their employer had promised them a percentage of their earnings to be paid in retirement.
Pensions plan: Steve Webb is concerned that the problem of small pension pots will grow substantially in the future.
While this was only accrued over the years that they worked there and were a member of the pension scheme, when they left the company still had a responsibility to meet its retirement income pledge, maintain the pot and increase it with inflation.
The axe has fallen over the past decade on almost all final salary schemes, as companies hit by tax changes, poor investment returns and low investment returns have found them too expensive.
Now most offer defined contribution schemes in which the employee - and typically employer - contribute, but all of the investment risk lies with the worker and their is no promised level of income in retirement.
At retirement the worker must then use their accumulated investment pot to buy an annuity, which gives them an income for life.
This has made it far more important to keep tabs on old pensions and make sure they are not being hit by poor investment returns and high fees.
But under the current system people have to take active steps to consolidate their savings, but because many are put off form-filling, high transfer charges, or simply forget to move their pension savings, they end up with a number of small pots stranded.
The government estimates that unless the current system is changed some 50 million pension pots will be sitting dormant by 2050 and more than 12 million of these will be worth less than £2,000.
Many people simply forget about these smaller pots altogether, and estimates have put the current total value of unclaimed pensions at around £3 billion.
Figures from the Department of Work and Pensions reveal that as many as one in six people are thought to have no idea where their pension is saved, and moving jobs has been put as the biggest reason for this.
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This is my first post to this list. I have been running backups using rsnapshot for the last 6 years and encountered my first problem last week. When recovering files from a snapshot, we noticed a few cases of data corruption. The affected files were fairly old (several years), and we have not been able to locate the source of the error. It could possibly have happened during a raid disk failure a few years ago on the volume where the snapshots are stored.
The reason the corrupt files have been able stay all this time on is the default rsync -a strategy of only comparing file modification dates. Temporarily changing the rsync flags to -ac, meaning rsync will checksum files, turned up several other cases of corrupt files. Unfortunately rsync -ac made the entire sync process for take >5 hours instead of ~10 minutes.
I would suggest running a checksummed sync more seldom (such as once a month) to verify the integrity of the snapshot. It would be nice if rsnapshot could be extended to take a flag to use an alternate rsync method without having to resort to keeping two different configuration files up to date.
On another note, on a new setup, I recently tried the rather poorly documented "sync_first". It seems the suggested method of using this is to run by crontab:
rsnapshot sync && rsnapshot hourly
However, this resulted in the unfortunate consequence that the snapshot failed to rotate in the event of any (out of several dozen) clients failed to respond. It would be nice to be able to discriminate between the two error conditions of having an inconsistent snapshot, due to a synchronization failing in the middle of its operation, and a consistent but possibly outdated snapshot, where one or several backup locations failed to be contacted. The snapshot rotation should be performed in the latter case, but not in the former.
This leads me to a more general problem of handling a multitude of clients under the same snapshot tree. If, for example, one client dies permanently in the middle of a sync operation, then its latest snapshot will be inconsistent(1). An inconsistent snapshot should never be rotated, however, good snapshots should. Unfortunately, since all different backup locations are stored under the same tree, it is hard to execute one such behavior. The inconsistent snapshot of the dead client could prevent a rotation indefinitely.
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Richard Hughes was cut to 4/9 (from 4/5) for the jockeys' title by Sky Bet and William Hill after riding a four-timer at Bath on Tuesday afternoon.
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The title-hunting jockey was seven behind Ryan Moore (90) on 83 winners at the start of the day but he cut the deficit to just three after winning four races in succession.
Hughes finished last in the first race on Lady Calantha but wasn't beaten by another rival in his next four as he won aboard Waspy (11/8 favourite), Dynastic (7/2), Griffin Point (13/8 favourite) and Cockney Fire (8/1).
Ladbrokes go 4/7 about Hughes, bet365 and Bet Victor go 1/2 and Stan James are 2/5.
Moore, not riding again until August 9, remains three clear but was eased to 7/4 by Sky Bet such was the momentum behind Hughes.
That's a top-price about Moore with Ladbrokes as short as 5/4.
David Williams of Ladbrokes said: "Hughes is closing in on Moore and all the money has been for the man of the moment at Bath.
"He was well-backed at 6/1 when the season started and Hughes seems hungrier than ever to fill the gap on his CV with a jockeys' championship."


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I'm a movie fanatic and I love the holiday season especially Thanksgiving due to the slew of classic movies that air on the tube. One of my absolute favorites is the Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory. Not the recently updated version but the classic, with Gene Wilder. Such a great story, beautifully acted and filled with classic scenes that are burned into my memory. One that stands out is the all the grandparents sharing the bed. At our home even though we have plenty of bedrooms to go around we all seem to end up in bed together, just like Charlie's family.
It's the perfect movie for the Thanksgiving holiday, a family that sticks together through thick and thin, making every penny count and loving and nurturing each other.
The holiday season can be brutal. There never seems to be enough time do everything we need or want to do with family and friends. Then of course there is the meal, the feast. If that task falls on you I can feel your excitement and feel your pain!
I'm not about to tell to how to make your family's meal. So many of the dishes you will be enjoying are no doubt family heirlooms passed down over generations – the way it should be. However I do though want to offer you a simple holiday treat. Something you can have out on the kitchen counter for all the hungry family and guests that I'm sure will be steaming in your door. These Apple Walnut Bars are delicious, economical and downright easy. They may not be WonkaBars but I'm sure Charlie and his family would enjoy them all snuggled up in their bed!
16 servings
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 medium tart apple, peeled and chopped
3/4 cup chopped walnuts
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat
in egg. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon;
gradually add to the creamed mixture, just until combined. Stir in
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Pour into a greased 8-in. square baking dish. Bake at 350° for
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White Cheddar and Truffle Quiche
- 1 unbaked pie shell, in a fluted pan
- 1 cup grated White Cheddar cheese, plus one tablespoon
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 4 eggs
- 1 tablespoon white truffle oil
- 1 small truffle
- Salt and white pepper
- Drizzle of truffle oil
- 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
- 1 tablespoon brunoise red pepper
- 1 tablespoon brunoise yellow pepper
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Cover the bottom of the pie shell with cheese. In a mixing bowl, whisk the cream and eggs together. Whisk in the truffle oil. Shave the truffle paper-thin. Fold the truffle shavings into the egg mixture. Season the mixture with salt and white pepper and pour it into the pie crust.
Place the pie pan on a baking sheet and bake for 55 minutes at 350 degrees or until the center is set and golden. Remove from the oven and let it rest for 5 minutes before slicing. Slice the quiche and place one slice in the center of a plate. Drizzle with truffle oil. Garnish with remaining cheese, parsley, and peppers.
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Rab's proprietary Hydrophobic treatment protects the 650-fill duck down in the Ascent 700 Sleeping Bag from moisture to keep you warm through rainy trips, and the windproof Pertex Microlight shell is surprisingly durable for how light it is. The bag's semi-rectangular shape is roomier than standard mummy bags, and an angled footbox offers extra room so your feet don't feel squished. The Ascent also features an internal collar and a drawcord at the hood to seal out any cold drafts, and a zippered stash pocket that's perfect for headlamps. It comes with a full-length zipper on either the right or left side, and a compression stuff sack for backpacking and a cotton storage sack to keep the bag prime for years.
- 28°F EN comfort rating
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- Two pounds, thirteen ounces: lightweight
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- Compression stuff and cotton storage sacks included
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- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
It was hard for me to spend this much money on a sleeping bag, but advice from wise friends prompted me to finally invest in something I'll actually be comfortable in. This bag had the right balance of low weight, warmth, and loft for what I wanted, and I'm really impressed with how roomy it is for a bag that packs down so well. The ability to cinch the neck down to retain heat is a really nice touch, and from what I've seen so far this bag seems versatile and very easy to pack up.
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Sleeping bags are firmly where we started and they remain a core part of our range to this day. Back in the 1970's when Rab Carrington was making sleeping bags in Patagonia, he probably didn't imagine that 40 years later sleeping bags with his name on them would be used all over the world in some of the most beautiful yet hostile environments.
To this day, we hand-fill our down insulated sleeping bags at our factory in Derbyshire, UK. This allows us to know for definite that, by the time our bags reach our customers, they have never been compressed or stored in a way which could be harmful for the down inside. By filling the bags in house, we can be completely sure that every down sleeping bag that leaves our factory will arrive to our customers in the best possible condition.
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Super warm, comfy, and the stuff and storage sacks are great
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Has been a great bag after multiple uses, used first time in 20 degree F. and was not cold at all. I am 6'3" and bought the extra long. I fill the extra space at the bottom of my bag with a jacket to fill up the extra space. There is enough room to sleep on my side, bit of restless sleeper. Packs down small. Unfortunately I lost the compression bag early on, but took a sack from another bag that is small with cinch top. I would recommend to a friend.
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In the early days, Rab Carrington built his brand around down insulation, and we still see down manufacturing as a core part of the Rab brand today.
All of our down insulated products are filled with the highest quality Hydrophobic Down, developed in conjunction with Nikwax. The hydrophobic treatment is applied at source and is seen as the next step in our progression in down manufacturing.
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BBC Introducing at Reading & Leeds - A response to your questions
I wanted to add a bit more detail to the booking process for our stage at Reading & Leeds and indeed our other festival stages. It's obvious from some of your comments on this blog that a lot of our selection processes and policies aren't clear enough on our website. We will aim to improve these sections over time, to cover all the opportunities we offer new musicians; from how artists get a play on local radio, or a slot on the Radio 1 playlist, an invite to the BBC Introducing Masterclass or the opportunity to play a stage.
But today I want to focus on The Reading & Leeds Stage. We have had a stage at Reading & Leeds since 2008 and it has been a place for some really great early performances from the likes of Joy Formidable, Don Broco and Pulled Apart by Horses. We have always programmed the stage in the same way, and always given artists the opportunity to play both sites. The two sites and the movement of the same artists between the two is key to the festival and we feel it's right to treat the BBC Introducing stage like all the others.
In terms of the programming, as you can see in our FAQ section of the site we state that "at some events, we also take suggestions for bands from the festival promoters and local organisations". At Reading & Leeds and the other festivals we go to, we feel it's important to work with the promoters and give them the opportunity to place a few artists on the stage at their festival. Historically at Leeds Festival there has always been a 'new local bands stage' and when we started the BBC Introducing stage there we wanted to acknowledge this tradition, so decided to continue working with local promoter Futuresound, via Festival Republic. This is why there is a bigger representation of Leeds and North West bands on this particular line up.
Holding relationships with other organisations who also support new musicians is important to us and you can see it across our work, be it working with local Hackney organisations at this year's Radio 1 & 1Xtra Academy, or with PRS last year when we took four new artists to LA to perform at Musexpo. However, it is worth explaining that when we work with a third party to select acts for our stages, those acts don't get the same degree of exposure as the artists we select ourselves. We are happy to allow the third party promoters to use our stage as a platform for new bands they support, but we don't film or record them as BBC content.
So, onto how we select these artists. We ask all of the BBC Introducing shows across the UK to send us suggestions of the artists they would like to put forward for the opportunity of playing the festivals. All of this music (over 160 tracks) is then sent to our Reading & Leeds Panel. The panels, which consist of 6-8 well respected music specialists only get the music, not information on which area they are from. This is to ensure the music is judged purely on the music; we want to make sure the quality acts come through. This year's panel included Huw Stephens, Steve Lamacq and the Head of Music for Radio 1. (Just as an aside, we change the panel for each festival we programme, so we get a range of people listening to the music.) The panel then send us their top choices from the selection and based on this we draw up the majority of our line up. I as Executive Producer of BBC Introducing then work with the Editor to agree the final elements of the programming, resulting in the final line up you see.
BBC Introducing has always supported unsigned, undiscovered and under the radar musicians via our local BBC Introducing shows and the Uploader. Artists that engage with BBC Introducing are often at different stages in their journey, and at a local level may have been known to the shows long before they go on to suggest them for a BBC Introducing stage. This means that some acts do have agents, have perhaps played a festival before, or may even be signed to a label, but the key is that in terms of wider exposure they are under the radar - their experience or inexperience (to a point) is not what the selection criteria is about, it's about the quality of the music our panel hear.
As I touched on earlier, for the BBC Introducing stages we just send the music to our panels and they make an editorial judgement on what they hear and then ultimately the Editor of BBC Introducing has the final say as to which artists play on the BBC Introducing stages. I hope this gives you a clearer picture of our selection process and as I said at the beginning of this post we will look at ensuring this is made clearer to you all via the site. Our purpose is to support new musicians across the UK and we will work hard to continue to offer meaningful opportunities to as many talented new artists as we can across the BBC.
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Comment number 1.At 13:32 31st Jul 2012, Ironskullll wrote:
As a licence payer I do not find this acceptable. How many of the acts selected this year for the BBC Introducing stages at Reading and Leeds were actually selected via the Reading and Leeds panel? And which ones were they? There needs to be utter transparency in this respect.
It is not reasonable to suggest that an artist which shares an agent with Paramore, The Black Keys or The Vaccines, to name but three festival headliners this year is under the radar. Nor it is acceptable to suggest that artists who have previously played, for example, Download or T-in-the-Park are under the radar. They are not, and it is ludicrous to suggest they are.
The argument that a tradition unique to the Leeds festival should be allowed to impact on 33% of the lineup for the BBC Introducing stage at Reading is tenuous at best. You refer to "working with Futuresound, via Festival Republic". There is in fact a Festival Republic stage, and that is where I would expect such a tradition to be honoured, not on the main BBC Introducing stage. There is no justification at all for allowing such bands to appear on the Introducing stage at either Reading or Leeds when Festival Republic already have their own stage.
Suggesting somehow that acts not selected by the BBC will not benefit from BBC coverage is disingenuous. Clearly they are already benefiting from the BBC brand name, as a quick look at facebook will establish. For every act chosen by means of the unsatisfactory non-BBC methods and by virtue of the questionable criteria involved, as highlighted in your blog, one act that might have benefited via the BBC Introducing scheme has been betrayed, which is why it is essential that utter clarity is allowed to prevail.
Your comment that it is important to treat the scheduling of the Introducing stage the same way as the rest of the festival does not hold water. There must be a balance between your desire for homogeneity and the needs of the artists enrolled in the Introducing scheme. Clearly, the marketing and promotion of Leeds and Reading festivals identify the festivals as having the same lineups, and it is the expectation of the paying public that this should be the case. This expectation would certainly not extend to the Introducing stages. Quite the opposite, in fact, and I would suggest that the vast majority of the paying public would endorse a policy whereby the number of bands given the opportunity of playing these stages was maximised. This would also be a fairer and more correct allocation of licence fee money.
My final comment pertains to the light you have shed upon the function of the BBC panel. I find it absurd that slots at festivals are allocated to bands with no reference at all to their ability to perform live. It might be OK to allocate radio play according to the recorded sound, but where we are talking about live slots, the entire entertainment value of the artist must surely be considered, and I am very surprised indeed to hear from you that this is not the case.
Comment number 2.At 15:43 31st Jul 2012, So-Sue-Me wrote:
The BBC Intro stages at the major festivals are the big attraction for acts to interact with the Introducing scheme and are promoted as being the main incentive to take part. However it's clear that in recent years these stages have been hijacked by the festival organisers - and the chances of bands from elsewhere in the country (who've gone through the Intro scheme locally) have been much reduced.
What about the USA or Eire bands - how on earth did they get into the '160 tracks' sent to the R/L panel?
If the tradition is for acts to appear at both venues why the imbalance towards Leeds (why not 11 Reading acts also then?) - it beggars belief to think that the 'panel' had no knowledge of the artists' location!!
The above reply does not address the competitions which were part of the 'selection procedure' or the money issues (£1000 minimum for CentreStage - was there an entry fee for Futuresound?) - note that the prizes were appearances on the 'BBC Introducing Stages' - not merely at Reading/Leeds...
And this is the problem - how is it possible to promote the Intro scheme to musicians 'across the country' when the premium rewards of a Festival appearance rely on a postcode lottery???
Perhaps it's also time to forget the 'unsigned, undiscovered and under-the-radar' criteria as well - as it's obvious that this is no longer the case...


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|Dec 20 2012, 08:28 PM Post #21
|I command chad for his decision to make not just Nicole happy but Sydney too, whether she will know the gift is from Nicole or not, it doesn't matter. I am not a fan of chad but this act alone shows how much of a man he actually has become and not the whiny boy seeking revenge for the muddiest of reasons. He doesn't trust Nicole, he knew all along why she was talking to him but he put both her needs and Sydney's (whether you agree or not) ahead of what could he seen as right according to a bitter EJ or a negligent Sami or how he himself felt about Nicole. It's clear they aren't the best of friends or anything like, not even after this encounter. I will enjoy Sydole for what it is. Nicole missing her even if she may never see her ever again, I rather love thefact that Nicole's love for Sydney will never go away no matter her situation. It's not enough for her to do something stupid but visible enough for me to he satisfied whatever the outcome.
|Dec 20 2012, 08:36 PM Post #22
|How is Nicole still obsessed with Sydney?She isn't kidnapping her out of her house.She loves Sydney and wanted her to have a gift.Chad was kind enough to see it.Nicole didn't blackmail Chad or twist his arm.Nicole is more of a mother then Sami will ever be with all her men.
|Dec 20 2012, 08:42 PM Post #23
I don't find it any differnt than say marlenas realtionships with carrie and brady or rafes with johnny/sydney/allie
|Dec 20 2012, 08:59 PM Post #24
:wub2: Sydole, please!!! You know you want to, writers!! :wub2:
Chad and Nicole, huh? I think they might make a good team.
WTF is going on with Nick? Who IS this dude?
I'm already bored about Eric's nightmare storyline...mostly because HE'S A PRIEST!!! What were they thinking?
|Dec 20 2012, 09:05 PM Post #25
I think it's completely different from those. I don't have a problem with Nicole having lingering feelings and I actually think that's pretty normal, but I absolutely think Sydney's family members, especially Chad, should have a problem with it.
|Dec 20 2012, 09:22 PM Post #26
I was about to ask why Chad should have a problem with it he didn't even know Ej then....but never mind.... #ignoredhistorygettingthebetterofme
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|Dec 20 2012, 09:31 PM Post #27
Chad should show EJ the same loyalty he showed him when he promised him he'd help him get Melanie back and then stab him in the back to use the information to get Rafe out of Sami's life.
|Dec 20 2012, 09:49 PM Post #28
|If I didn't already like Chad I love him now. It was good to see someone other than Eric being nice to Nicole. I kinda laughed when Chad said they never gave a crap about each other. It was kinda rude but true.
|Dec 20 2012, 09:55 PM Post #29
While I don't care for Nick's comment it's not as bad as I thought it would be. Was it the most sensitive , tactful, PC thing to say? No but he's sorta right. Would anyone in town suspect the father of Gabi's baby is her ex who happens to be gay especially this happen after he came out. No most people likely wouldn't. It could have been alot worst.
Edited by guessgirl, Dec 20 2012, 10:30 PM.
|Dec 20 2012, 10:46 PM Post #30
Poor John. First Kristen and now Nick. That's twice now they're making him appear dense and easily fooled.
|Dec 20 2012, 10:57 PM Post #31
|This Nick thing is weird. I love Nabi and I liked Nick, but why is he being written as a homophobic nosy ass? Heck, he isn't even religious, only when it comes to LGBT amd abortions. Gabi is growing on me too, but the storyline sucks for them.
|Dec 20 2012, 11:41 PM Post #32
|How in the hell did this show manage to create an episode without Sami, EJ, Rafe, Kristen, Brady, Jennifer and Daniel being in it? Talk about your Christmas miracles!
|Dec 21 2012, 12:05 AM Post #33
|Nicole has long stopped obsessing over Sydney. She stopped the moment she gave her back.
|Dec 21 2012, 12:46 AM Post #34
I really do believe that Gary T has a soft spot in his heart for Sydole, like so many of us do. I don't care how he does it, I will buy any senario, just give us back SYDOLE!
Chad did the decent and right thing. Nicole just lost her second Dimera child and for Chad to kick her while she's down, would have been horrible...something his big brother or father would have done. Chad showed us he can be a better man.
Edited by Vicky4Mimi, Dec 21 2012, 08:27 PM.
|Dec 21 2012, 01:08 AM Post #35
I cannot believe I am posting these words but I am looking forward to seeing Chad's scenes with Nicole and Abigail.He is snarky but nice with Nicole and funny but extremely supportive of Abby dealing with the loss of her father,more so than her own mother.Chad really sounds good in these scenes.
Edited by BeeBee, Dec 21 2012, 01:09 AM.
|Dec 21 2012, 01:00 PM Post #36
|Nice vest, Caroline.
|Dec 21 2012, 01:01 PM Post #37
|LOL @ Chad. "I'd say it's great to see you but we don't really give a crap about each other." That's how I feel about almost every person I encounter. I AM A JOY.
|Dec 21 2012, 01:02 PM Post #38
|Hey, look. Someone did get a pic of Sydney with Santa!
|Dec 21 2012, 01:04 PM Post #39
|Apparently Marlena doesn't think Gabi knows how to not make a baby. It's not that difficult. I'm not making a baby right this second.
|Dec 21 2012, 01:05 PM Post #40
|Why is Nick sitting there cupping his right breast?
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Well, the summer of coffee actually began 42 weeks ago with the below package;
From here out came the AeroPress, which soon found it's way into the office and good coffee was everywhere.
This spawned the investigation of coffee over summer. A Kone and V60 were purchased
Soon a trip to Mecca's roastworks was in order to get back to the source.
This inspired a Buono to help with spout control, and somewhere getting I was. Arrived I did.
Next up came cafes, tasting and sipping their methods of brew
Sample Coffee
Brother Baba Budan
Blue Bottle Coffee Co
Throughout the world, the summer continued
outside Paul Bassett, in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
After months of watching and sampling, and my final additions, I was keen to try many different beans and much much coffee.
To close out the summer, another roaster trip and more cafes to pay homage and compare.
I've learnt a lot, enjoyed a bucket load more, and am greatly pleased I undertook the investigation known as #thesummerofcoffee.


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I don't take vitamins. I make every effort to meet my nutritional needs through eating a wide variety of whole foods. I do my best to make sure those foods are organic or biodynamic and grown in a way that maximizes their nutrient content (25-50% more than conventional foods in many cases). Recently I did an analysis of my diet with a nutrition software program and I found out I am doing pretty well on my quest. There was one glaring vitamin deficiency in my diet analysis: vitamin D. It happened to be a day when I didn't take my cod liver oil. I ate some butter, and some cream in my decaf, and I got 2.6% of my RDA for vitamin D. Say what? Remember the RDA is the minimum intake to prevent disease, in this case rickets. Recall that vitamin D is essential for the body's absorption and utilization of calcium. Research keeps turning up demonstrating its importance to every organ system in the body, playing a role in immune enhancement, cancer protection, protection against heart disease, diabetes, obesity, depression and more.
A really cool thing about vitamin D is that you can make it yourself, out of the cholesterol in your skin when it is exposed to sunlight. Most researchers think that you can make enough just from exposing your hands, arms and face or your back to the sun for 10-15 minutes a day 2-7x a week, without sunscreen. I thought I was doing myself a favor a while back by putting on sunscreen every day….Digging around in the scientific literature, I was surprised to find that there is by no means a consensus on sun exposure as the primary cause of skin cancer! North of San Luis Obispo or so, however, you can't make vitamin D in your skin in the winter months. It's so important that your body can store it for winter use, if you have enough.
Low vitamin D status is widespread. I've had two vegetarian and vegan friends break bones in the past couple of years, and, when their healing went slowly, they were tested and found out they had low vitamin D. Commercial milk is fortified with vitamin D, and so are other processed foods like breakfast cereal and breakfast bars, not generally foods I recommend. I don't drink fortified milk, I drink raw milk, which still contains natural vitamin D but not a lot. Vitamin D is not well supplied in most diets. It is found in oily fish like sardines, salmon, mackerel, herring and tuna, shellfish, liver and other organ meats, butter, eggs, cheese, raw milk and fortified foods. While I try to include sustainable sources of these foods in my diet frequently, it is hard to meet even the RDA with food alone. Vitamin D2 is found in some mushrooms and small amounts in dark leafy greens, but this form is not easily used by the body.
Many of the vitamin D-rich foods also have cholesterol which has been demonized for so long that a lot of folks habitually avoid them. As I have stated elsewhere at length, cholesterol is not bad, fat is not bad, and indeed, for most people, dietary cholesterol has little effect on blood cholesterol, which is a poor indicator of heart disease risk anyway. The vitamin D foods have been considered sacred foods in many cultures around the world. In many places, landlocked peoples have traditionally gone to great lengths to obtain foods from the sea, rich in nutrients and rich in vitamin D.
For disease prevention and general health, the only supplement I take is high vitamin cod liver oil. I mail order it from a very conscientious company. Cod fisheries, as far as I have been able to find out, are abundant and well managed. From a Chinese medicine perspective, cod liver oil is a powerful kidney and liver yin tonic. It also contains those wonderful omega 3 fatty acids. Watch out, there is a lot of lesser quality cod and fish liver oil on the market, for example, the stuff sold at your average drug store. Look for a good balance of vitamins A and D, which work synergistically, while each protects against the toxicity of the other. Most important, I give it to my 5 year old. There is good reason why this is a traditional supplement for kids. A 2004 study found that daily cod liver oil and a multivitamin significantly reduced upper respiratory-related doctor's office visits by urban kids. Read the abstract here:
You can supplement with vitamin D in other ways, as well. D3 always comes from animal sources, but there are supplements made from lanolin, which might be OK with vegetarians. D2 can come from non-animal sources, but you'll need to take 3 times as much. The RDA for D is just 400 IU for adults, but many scientists believe that is far too low. In 2008, a group of prominent researchers on vitamin D founded a grassroots campaign to improve vitamin D status nationwide and thereby decrease rates of cancer and other diseases associated with low vitamin D. They recommend universal intake for adults of 2000 IU/day. You can join the campaign and enroll in a 5 year study on vitamin D and test your vitamin D status at home with their test kits. Visit http://grassrootshealth.net/ for all the details. You can also ask your doctor to test your vitamin D levels. Meanwhile, I'll be taking my cod liver oil.


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|Kristen Gipson
I am wanting a play a grappler. I'm unsure whether I'm wanting to play the character as a barbarian or a monk.
I would love any suggestions on class, race, feats, traits, etc.
What I have so far for monk-dwarf
Str 16
dex 14
con 14
int 10
wis 16
Cha 8
Feats-improved unarmed, improved grapple
Str 18
Con 14
Int 10
Wis 12
Cha 10
Feats-improved unarmed, improved grapple
|Deadbeat Doom
|Kristen Gipson
|Danny Kessler
The problem with using combat maneuvers of any kind as a PC is that monster STR scores frequently outclass anything your PC can get by a big margin, and combined with the size bonuses involved, that makes it a very uphill battle even if you have every grapple feat ever. If I was going to try to grapple as a PC I would try a STR-based druid build to wild shape into something as big (or bigger) as whatever I'm trying to grapple. Need to grapple a giant? Be a giant snake.
Druid works too, I just liked Synthesist for the greater flexibility of being still humanoid-shaped and all the various evolution options.
Definitely a caster type with decent BAB that can turn into something very big and strong, though, not a martial class. It's not just about the bonus; being medium limits the amount of creatures you can attempt to grapple in the first place. Size and strength (and reach, which comes with size, doesn't hurt either) are king.
From what I can tell, a grapple build benefits a lot from 1 of - Tetori 4, Unarmed Fighter 7, or Brutal Pugilist 5(think it's 5)
Maybe not technically necessary, but I'm partial to reducing penalties
Tetori is a great archetype for getting a bunch of grapple related feats, Grab(8th, costs ki), and constrict(15). They get some other good stuff too.
A dip into Unarmed Fighter will get you a Style feat if you're interested in that.
Otherwise, a dip into Lore Warden(fighter) can net you a boost to CMB/CMD.
Haven't really looked at barb in terms of grapple, but Body Bludgeon(rage power) seems amusing.
Um, feats...
a few should be pretty straight forward, like Imp Grapple->Greater->Rapid
others, there's a couple of feats with "pinning" in the title that do interesting things.
Body Shield is fun
Ki Throw(and successors) isn't out of the question, but then you build around that
Jawbreaker chain has uses (tetori get the last feat in the chain for free at 18)
look at Snapping Turtle Style early though, specifically Turtle Clutch, it gives you an immediate grapple attempt whenever a melee opponent misses you; I'm a fan of the last feat as well, but it's easily excluded if you want to fit in others.
Final Embrace is nice, especially if you can finish the chain (but it has a feat tax - Ability Focus(constrict))
Tetori can qualify(at 15) or Synthesist(serpentine + grab/constrict evolutions)
It's usefulness also depends on how many grapple checks you can get per round. (synthesist clearly wins here -- BUT being serpentine, you give up pounce and rake, and eidolon rake is just broken)
best grappler in the game is a tetori, only problem is that you get feats the dont exsist. seeing asthough its been almost a year and they still havent fixed it, i think you should go barbarian/fighter. they get pretty nasty pretty quick.
The problem with using combat maneuvers of any kind as a PC is that monster STR scores frequently outclass anything your PC can get by a big margin, and combined with the size bonuses involved, that makes it a very uphill battle even if you have every grapple feat ever. If I was going to try to grapple as a PC I would try a STR-based druid build to wild shape into something as big (or bigger) as whatever I'm trying to grapple. Need to grapple a giant? Be a giant snake.
there is a feat that makes dex your primary grapple stat, strength is not necessary for a grappler like it was in 3.5.
and thank you Archaeik for showing me that eratta now i can play my tetori in my PFS game.
ok after a quick look at potential feats i thik this would be the character i would play
dwarf tetori(or if PFS i would choose a vanara)
str 10
dex 16
con 15
int 10
wis 18
cha 5
feats (including monk feats) :
(Lv1)agile manuvers,improved grapple,(Lv2)stunning pin,(Lv3)weapon finesse,(Lv5)havent picked this one yet , (Lv6)greater grapple,(Lv7) jaw breaker
i would use cestus or brass knuckles with agile weapon enchants on both, stack my dex as high as i can then by 8th level your CMB would be as high as 20.
not game breakingly broken like some builds, but it would be more then enough to grapple the biggest thing in the book thats a cr 10 or lower with a large sucess rate
I'd just make an Unarmed Fighter. It's an archetype in Ultimate Combat; the Reference Doc page is here:
UC Fighter Archetypes
Basically, it's a fighter, but trade most of the weapon and armor stuff for a bunch of grapple and trip abilities. Like others have said, though, the size/str bonuses are your biggest problem, literally. Still, Enlarge Person can help, and you'd be the bane of spellcasters everywhere.
Yep. No size limit on grapple. It just gets infeasible through CMB/CMD bonuses as you get further apart in size. The size bonus given by Brutal Pugilist doesn't do anything as written. I'd probably rule it as giving the +1 size bonus to CMB/CMD that you get from going from medium to large.
|Riku Riekkinen
Barbarian (Brutal Pugilist+Urban Barbarian) is probably the "easiest" and doesn't fall to one trick pony trap even when going heavily to grappling. The key Rage Powers are Strength Surge and Reckless Abandon. The Strenght Surge obviously makes you much, much better at key grapple rolls (but if time calls any manouver roll, just take the opportinity attack). With human trait Heart of the Fields you can use the Strength Surge twice in a key encounter (not totally necesary I think). The Reckless Abandon momentarily raises the CMB at the cost of CMD, which is great especially against casters (as the concentration checks depend on CMB). Its also of course better to succeed in the grapple in the first place than hold onto it as enemy is forced to take action anyway to break it.
I would probably change Dex & Con in you human barbarian build (dwarf is also good, but your dwarf is 22 point buy :D), since this is meant to be more striker than tank.
Lets see at level 8 (without items):
Str: 20
Dex: 14
Con: 13
Int: 10
Wis: 12
Cha: 10
CMB = 8 (Bab) + 5 (str) + 2 (rage) + 4 (Greater Grapple) + 1 (Brutal Pugilist) + 3 (Reckless abandon)= 23 which becomes 31 is you use Strength Surge and 32 if you get Urban Barbarian bonus. And actually goes another 1 up, if you loose armor.
What I mean not one trick pony? It means that if enemy can't be grappled the attack bonus & damage is still respectable:
Melee: 8 (bab) + 5 (Str) + 2 (rage) +3 (Reckless abandon) = 18
Ranged: 8(bab) + 2 (dex) +2 (rage) +3 (Reckless abandon)=15 ... yes the Urban Ranger Rage & Reckless Abandon work here too. And the damage is gonna be good, because of strength.
That was all without any magic. From magic department (in addition to normal things) I would strongly suggest you to buy a LOT of potions of Enlarge Self. That is what makes STR builds so great.
The tactics would be shoot first, then reach weapon, then grapple. AC isn't gonna be great , so I would prefer reach to get past it. Of course the high HP count kind of lowers that weakness.
On totally unrelated thing: Magus can also be built as an awesome grappler, but it takes a bit more (and multiclassing)
...Huh. I think that may be an oversight. In 3E, Bull Rush, Grapple, Overrun, and Trip could all only be used on a creature up to one size larger than you. PF kept the restriction on the other 3 maneuvers, but left it out for grapple. I really don't know if that was an intentional change or not.
"You can only overrun an opponent who is no more than one size category larger than you."
"You can only trip an opponent who is no more than one size category larger than you."
As a standard action, you can attempt to grapple a foe, hindering his combat options. If you do not have Improved Grapple, grab, or a similar ability, attempting to grapple a foe provokes an attack of opportunity from the target of your maneuver. Humanoid creatures without two free hands attempting to grapple a foe take a –4 penalty on the combat maneuver roll. If successful, both you and the target gain the grappled condition (see the Appendices). If you successfully grapple a creature that is not adjacent to you, move that creature to an adjacent open space (if no space is available, your grapple fails). Although both creatures have the grappled condition, you can, as the creature that initiated the grapple, release the grapple as a free action, removing the condition from both you and the target. If you do not release the grapple, you must continue to make a check each round, as a standard action, to maintain the hold. If your target does not break the grapple, you get a +5 circumstance bonus on grapple checks made against the same target in subsequent rounds. Once you are grappling an opponent, a successful check allows you to continue grappling the foe, and also allows you to perform one of the following actions (as part of the standard action spent to maintain the grapple).
Move: You can move both yourself and your target up to half your speed. At the end of your movement, you can place your target in any square adjacent to you. If you attempt to place your foe in a hazardous location, such as in a wall of fire or over a pit, the target receives a free attempt to break your grapple with a +4 bonus.
Damage: You can inflict damage to your target equal to your unarmed strike, a natural attack, or an attack made with armor spikes or a light or one-handed weapon. This damage can be either lethal or nonlethal.
Pin: You can give your opponent the pinned condition (see Conditions). Despite pinning your opponent, you still only have the grappled condition, but you lose your Dexterity bonus to AC.
Tie Up: If you have your target pinned, otherwise restrained, or unconscious, you can use rope to tie him up. This works like a pin effect, but the DC to escape the bonds is equal to 20 + your Combat Maneuver Bonus (instead of your CMD). The ropes do not need to make a check every round to maintain the pin. If you are grappling the target, you can attempt to tie him up in ropes, but doing so requires a combat maneuver check at a –10 penalty. If the DC to escape from these bindings is higher than 20 + the target's CMB, the target cannot escape from the bonds, even with a natural 20 on the check.
If You Are Grappled: If you are grappled, you can attempt to break the grapple as a standard action by making a combat maneuver check (DC equal to your opponent's CMD; this does not provoke an attack of opportunity) or Escape Artist check (with a DC equal to your opponent's CMD). If you succeed, you break the grapple and can act normally. Alternatively, if you succeed, you can become the grappler, grappling the other creature (meaning that the other creature cannot freely release the grapple without making a combat maneuver check, while you can). Instead of attempting to break or reverse the grapple, you can take any action that doesn't require two hands to perform, such as cast a spell or make an attack or full attack with a light or one-handed weapon against any creature within your reach, including the creature that is grappling you. See the grappled condition for additional details. If you are pinned, your actions are very limited. See the pinned condition in Conditions for additional details.
Multiple Creatures: Multiple creatures can attempt to grapple one target. The creature that first initiates the grapple is the only one that makes a check, with a +2 bonus for each creature that assists in the grapple (using the Aid Another action). Multiple creatures can also assist another creature in breaking free from a grapple, with each creature that assists (using the Aid Another action) granting a +2 bonus on the grappled creature's combat maneuver check."


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Hey aplrt.
Consider pythagoras' theorem and a vector sum interpretation of the individual component gradients.
Thank you for the reply, but I'm still confused. So with pythagoras' theorem I would have Y=(x1,x2,x3,x4)? I know that for Y(s)=(sqrt(1-s^2),s) the gradient is (-s/sqrt(1-s^2),s) and the magnitude of the gradient is 1/sqrt(1-s^2), and I'm supposed to get an expression similar to this, but I'm not sure how I can rewrite the original equation. If I put r=(x2,x3,x4) then it would be Y(r)=(sqrt(1-r.r),r), and this is where I'm confused, how do I find the gradient of this?
Consider ||gradY|| with the gradient defined by:
Gradient - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Talking Points
Bill Cosby vs. Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Eric Dyson takes Bill Cosby on head-to-head with each issue that he brings up in his now infamous NAACP speech from May 17, 2004. Here are some highlights:
Cosby: "Just forget telling your child to join the Peace Corps. It's right around the corner. (laughter) It's standing on the corner. It can't speak English. It doesn't want to learn English. I can't even talk the way these people talk."
Dyson: "Cosby's poisonous view of young folks who speak a language he can barely parse [Ebonics] simmers with hostility and resentment." And "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, Cosby's lauded '70s television cartoon series, won greater acceptance for a new cast of black identities and vernacular language styles. Cosby has made money and gained further influence from using forms of black English he now violently detests."
Cosby: "People with their hat on backwards, pants down around the crack. Isn't that a sign of something, or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up (laughter and clapping)."
Dyson: "Baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean 'P. Diddy' Colms and Russell Simmons have made millions from their clothing lines."
Cosby: "Those people are not Africans, they don't know a damned thing about Africa. With names like Shaniqua, Shaligua, Mohammed and all that crap and all of them are in jail."
Dyson: "Names like Shaniqua and Taliqua are meaningful cultural expressions of self-determination.I think that it does have something to do with African roots of black identity, and perhaps with Cosby's ignorance and discomfort with those roots.Cosby's ornery, ill-informed diatribe against black-naming is a snapshot of his assault on poor black identity." And "Given the vicious way blacks have been targeted for incarceration, Cosby's comments about poor blacks who end up in jail are dangerously naïve and empirically wrong."
Cosby: "The city and all these people have to pick up the tab on them [poor African Americans] because they don't want to accept that they have to study to get an education."
Dyson: "If the rigidly segregated education system continues to fail poor blacks by failing to prepare their children for the world of work, then admonitions to 'stay in school' may ring hollow.In suburban neighborhoods, there are $60-million schools with state-of-the-art technology, while inner city schools desperately fight for funding for their students."
Cosby: "I'm talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was two? (clapping) Where were you when he was twelve? (clapping) Where were you when he was eighteen, and how come you don't know he had a pistol? (clapping)"
Dyson: "And then there are the problems of the working poor: folk who rise up early every day and often work more than forty hours a week, and yet barely, if ever, make it above the poverty level. We must acknowledge the plight of both poor black (single) mothers and poor black fathers, and the lack of social support they confront. Hence, it is incredibly difficult to spend as much time with children as poor black parents might like, especially since they will be demonized if they fail to provide for their children's basic needs."
Cosby: "All this child knows is 'gimme, gimme, gimme.' These people want to buy the friendship of a child.and the child couldn't care less.and these people are not parenting. They're buying things for the kid. $500 sneakers, for what? And they won't spend $250 on Hooked on Phonics. (clapping)"
Dyson: "And yet, some of the engaged critique he [Cosby] seeks to make of black folkof their materialism, their consumptive desires, their personal choices their moral aspirations, their social conscienceis broadcast with much more imagination and insight in certain quarters of hip-hop culture. (Think of Kanye West's track, "All Falls Down," which displays a self-critical approach to the link between consumption and the effort to ward off racial degradation.)"
Cosby: "I don't know who these people [poor African Americans] are."
Dyson: "The poor folk Cosby has hit the hardest are most vulnerable to the decisions of the powerful groups of which he has demanded the least: public policy makers, the business and social elite and political activists. Poor black folk cannot gain asylum from the potentially negative effects of Cosby's words on public policy makers and politicians who decide to put into play measures that support Cosby's narrow beliefs."
Cosby: "They're [poor African Americans] just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you're just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out."
Dyson: "Cosby completely ignores shifts in the economy that give value to some work while other work, in the words of William Julius Wilson 'disappears.' In our high-tech, high-skilled economy where low-skilled work is being scaled back, phased out, exported, or severely under-compensated, all the right behavior in the world won't create better jobs with more pay."
Cosby: "God is tired of you."
Dyson: "No matter how you judge Cosby's comments, you can't help but believe that a great deal of his consternation with the poor stems from his desire to remove the shame he feels in their presence and about their activity in the world. There's nothing like a formerly poor black multimillionaire bashing poor blacks to lend credence to the ancient assaults they've endured from the dominant culture."
Cosby: "You can't land a plane with 'why you ain't.' You Can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.where did these people get the idea that they're moving ahead on this."
Dyson: "Cosby's overemphasis on personal responsibility, not structural features, wrongly locates the source of poor black sufferingand by implication its remedyin the lives of the poor."
Listen to audio excerpts from Bill Cosby's speech on Monday, May 17, 2004, at the NAACP's gala to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision.


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I think Tak meant patents, not copyrights and trademarks.
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My niece, Marili, was telling me and my other niece, Mireya, how challenging her college geology class has been. I was like, "geology?" And my eyes lit up.
Of course, when I was Marili's age, I couldn't care less about the sciences. I guess I'm trying to make up for lost years now. I've become a research buff on history, media, religion, literature, and I'm even open to the earth sciences, and so I thought I was clever when I blurted out, "geology rocks!"
Marili and Mireya burst out laughing. Marili thought it was cute. But Mireya, who is not as science-challenged as us, rolled her eyes and said, "Helen, I expected something more intelligent than that from you!"
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But the 2013 Texas Legislature is staring at a commodity that is going to require its undivided attention: water.
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There can be zero partisan divide on this matter. State Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, noted the current drought, which he said "ought to get our attention."
The 2011 Legislature did refer a proposed amendment to the Texas Constitution to voters. Proposition 2 — to be voted on Nov. 6 — would allow the issuance of a maximum of $6 billion in bonds to improve our state's water infrastructure. That is only a start.
The rest of the state's strategy in preserving and using wisely the water yet to be developed. Price and other legislators, however, are saying that the state cannot shove this issue aside.
"We need to build a worse-than-worst-case assumption into our future water plans and planning strategies," said state Rep. Bill Callegari, R-Katy, a leader on this issue.
Water planners have identified a water plan that will cost $53 billion, with roughly half the money coming from the state.
As Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, told the Globe-News' Enrique Rangel, "Here is the news flash, it is going to cost money."
And yet the 2011 Legislature became consumed this year by the need to cut spending while balancing the state budget.
One cannot overstate water's value to virtually everything we hold dear in Texas. Our ranchers and farmers depend on it. City dwellers need it for their homes. Businesses need it to function.
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