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Ah, McClure
Sun Jul 04, 2010 11:33 am
Yes, this is a true story. Happened to me a year and a half ago. I finally grew the balls to post the story.
My first visit to McClure was a mortifying fiasco that still makes me chuckle. The local hang glider pilots and their sweeties were fabulous. They are like a family and they invite you to join them. Im looking forward to flying with those lunatics again.
I was horrified, however, when they witnessed my instructor and I have a major disagreement. Its obvious, of course, that since Im a woman & hes a man that I was in the right. Right? I think he was pmsing anyway.
I was so ticked off that I went for a walk so I could find a nice tree to sit next to while I worked at overcoming my mad-on. I found an inviting tree off the beaten path & sat there for an hour meditating & fuming before I headed back. Perhaps more fuming than meditating, but I was trying.
Unfortunately, my instructor and I drove the 2 hours together to get to McClure the day before, so driving home together that evening was fun about as pleasant as someone dragging their fingernails across a chalkboard for 2 hours straight. He was probably just as relieved when he dropped me off as I was. Probably wanted to throw me out into oncoming traffic if were being honest.
About a day and a half later I started to get suspicious By day 2, I was certain yep, I had a MAJOR case of poison oak! My ass was COVERED with it!! I mustve been so pissed, that when I was sitting under that tree thinking I was sitting on pine needles, I was actually sitting on poison oak.
When I fly in warm weather I tend to only wear spandex bottoms and a bra. Makes me more comfortable in the heat and provides entertainment for everyone else. The poison oak mustve gone right through my spandex to provide poetic justice for my having lost my temper. I got a spiritual spanking. In fact, because I had only been wearing a bra, as well, not only was my bottom covered, but so was one bicep and an underarm. How I managed that, I have no idea.
Ive had lots of poison oak experiences in my time, but none this bad. All over my bum?? When you sit, your bum gets warmer, which makes you itch THAT much more! Like I wasnt itching badly enough.
A well meaning new friend from McClure suggested a remedy he heard of from someone else forget the technu what you do is scratch the affected area hard, then put bleach on it. Repeat this procedure regularly. I have a high tolerance for pain, but when you scratch the top layer of skin off and put bleach on it, let me tell you, its like pouring alcohol on a wound. Mother of gawd, IT HURTS!!! And to think, some women pay good money to have their asses bleached. At least I was doing it for free.
I begged my McClure friend not to tell my instructor about my embarrassing bout with poison oak. I was stubborn enough that I couldnt let him have the satisfaction of knowing my fate.
A complication to my problem arose having scratched the top layer off the infected portions caused them to ooze for 3 or 4 days. My rump was constantly wet. I had to wear dark pants and underwear, which I normally never wear (underwear, that is), to attempt to make it so others wouldnt notice that my bottom was wet.
Each time I got from my chair at work, there would be a big wet spot. It was like leaving a snail trail everywhere I sat. A few of us had dinner over at a friends house one night. I was worried about juicing up their chair. I was sweatin it while I was sitting there at dinner. I was already wearing pants and underwear. Putting on a third layer would suffocate someone who hates to wear two! What would the chair look like when I got up, though? Would they notice? Was I leaving poison oak everywhere I sat and would they end up getting it?
After dinner I non-chalantly looked at the chair when I got up. Yep, it was covered in ooze. Blonde colored suede. Waaahh. When no one was looking I scratched the suede with my finger nails trying to make the dark spot look like part of the suede was just going a different direction than the other part, thus making it a darker color, then I slid the chair as far under the table as I could.
We sat on the couch for a while. Was I spreading my disease everywhere? Did I tell them? Heck no! Maybe I shouldnt be trusted as a friend.
Well, let me tell you the worst part you should think twice about using this scratch & bleach method because what happens when you scratch poison oak?? IT SPREADS!!! Within another day or two half my arm was covered and sweet jesus, the poison oak on my bum spread forward. Are you following me here? I had been diligently scratching and applying incredibly painful bleach on my ass, but then it moved forward and covered my crotch!! I never DREAMED that would happen.
Much as I can take pain and hate going to see the doctor, when the poison oak covered my lower female region I was ready to cry MEDIC!!!! I will say one thing for the bleaching method, it does noticeably reduce the itching as compared to your run of the mill over the counter treatment. I was so desperate that, now brace yourself, I scratched and applied bleach to my crotch!! Dire circumstances call for drastic measures. I cannot adequately relay to you how painful it is to apply bleach to your crotch when youve just scratched the top layer of skin off!!! Tears were running down my face, but I was in such a mess that I applied that treatment every few hours. OH MY GAWD!!
It was late afternoon on the day I noticed that it had spread forward. I figured if I just made it through to the next day and then if it was bad enough, I would break down and call a doctor. How would you feel about telling a doctor you have crotch rot? Plus, you know they are going to want to examine it, touch it, maybe even take photos! Okay, maybe not the photos, but you know that will be a story they will tell all theyre co-workers and friends while having a good laugh.
Son of a beagle the next day my rot seemed worse, so I broke down and called the doctors office and begged them to get me in. Thank gawd there was a woman available. She was balsy enough to laugh about it to my face, but at least she confided that she was laughing because she too had once had the same problem. What a mortifying situation.
She prescribed steroids, but they would take 24 hours to give me any relief. Waaaahhhh! Think positive, think positive, I told myself. 24 hours. I can do this.
She asked me what Id been doing to treat it. When I told her the bleach method she looked at me like I was a complete moron, which, maybe I was. She advised that applying bleach could give 2nd degree burns and to stop immediately. Would the ground just swallow me up now, please? At least she gave me comfort by letting me know that I was not Typhoid Mary and my ooze was not contagious.
Thank goodness for the meds because true to her word, the next day I was getting some relief. It took a couple of weeks for it to fully go away. I was soooo glad to be done with it. You cant have intercourse when your nether regions are covered in poison oak. Ok, so I didnt have anyone in my life then to have sex with, but thats beside the point.
I thought back on everything that had happened, so I could do what I always like to do think about my circumstances and determine how I can learn from them. What would I do differently next time? Simple...If I ever get into a brawl with my instructor again, Ill try my best to talk HIM into going for a walk and sit under a tree!!
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Oh, man, that's horrible.
First, not having a good experience at McClure, then the poison oak.
CVS has stuff called "CVS poison ivy scrub." It's half the price of the name brand stuff right next to it. Even then, it's $20 for an ounce and a half. You rub an inch of it into your hands then rub the affected areas until the itch goes away. Best done in the shower. Works for about 4-6 hours of relief. Almost all the other stuff is useless. Tecnu might help if you wash with it right away.
I've had poison oak 4 times, all in the last two years, all related to hang gliding. The first time I got it in the fun zone, tried OTC stuff for weeks, then went to the doc. I still had it there (and on my eye) when I went to an 8 hour traffic school.
The other prescription is: get a couple of good flights in to make up for it. Let us know about those!
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Actually, I still came away with a great feeling about McClure and the local nuts. I went back to McClure for the Coyote Howl this year. Had a great time.
Thanks for the suggestion about CVS. I'll have to try that next time, but lets hope there isn't a next time.
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Glad you recovered. There is poison oak at McClure but it is very easy to spot and avoid.
Google up some pics and burn them into your memory.
Here is a worse poison oak story. I was on the Coulterville vol fire dept. The dept holds a barbecue every summer. They have a special deep pit bbq and it requires fresh live oak for fuel. A live oak was located and we were sent to cut it down. The live oak was surrounded by a large thicket of poison oak. I refused to go in. They gave me some Technu and told me it would counteract the urushiol making it harmless. I believed them
and waded into it. It took an afternoon to cut and remove the live oak. I was advised to shower using Tide so I did. That night I felt like I was on fire. Only a hot shower would relieve the agony. I ended up getting a corticosteroid injection and taking steroid pills for a while.
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Here is a worse poison oak story.
I'm sorry but I am going to have to give the trophy to Ladyhawk. Having your junk all covered with that stuff is by far the worst scenario I could think of asside from an internal or serious eye break out.
I am sure yours was painful, but reading her story was making me dance in my seat. YIKES!!!
I am not sure if I am lucky or what, but I have never had poison oak, ivy or sumac ever. I have unknowingly been in areas where it has been in shorts and a tank top and while others have gotten it, I have not.
(Watch me get it now)
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He will perform new FREE PROGRAM in DOI ice show, held on 28th,29th,30th June, only one week left. The new FS music choice is still a secret but the characteristic of new FS music as containing a strong storyline which could make him easily to put his emotion in has been confirmed. About SHORT PROGRAM, it's just lack of time to complete it.
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text: At least Darko didn't embarrass himself. He also has 2 (count em yes all of two rebounds) and ZERO assists. It can't get any worse or can it? If he is too young to cut the mustard he should have stayed in school. This is only the summer league where the competition is a lot weaker than the regular season, will Durant have the guts to show up come November or find himself conveniently on medical leave? How many millions is he getting? At least Darko was smart enough to be out of condition his first year, knowing that if he were in condition Brown would have played him and Darko would have come up smelling like gunk. (I don't believe that for a minute but it sounded good. LOL) I think it is only a matter of time before Durant brings a doctor's note to practice. The hysterical part of the whole thing is that Stern can't help Durant shoot straight or get rebounds, only foul shots which Durant has had plenty of the first two games. (At least he is making those). ESPN - Sheridan: Carlesimo not panicking over Durant duds - NBA Even Oden gets a medical leave to have his tonsils taken out, after two games in the summer league. ESPN - Tonsillectomy means summer ends early for Oden - NBA I am sure glad that we have got Hod Rod. This kid is a baller.


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The 2013 Northeast Oklahoma Beekeepers Association Big Bee Buzz is scheculed for March 22-23, 2013 at the Eastside Christian Church, located at 1438 South Indianapolis Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74112. We will meet from approximately 6:00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. Friday evening and from 9:00 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. on Saturday.
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Nearly all of the presentations, whether or not strictly about chemical-free methods, will focus on practical aspects of beekeeping, such as hive management. Our speakers will focus on beekeeping without the use of chemicals. Even if you are a beekeeper who treats his bees (like me), there will be plenty of information that will apply to you. We will probably have Ed Levi give us an update on his work with beekeepers overseas, including recent travels in North Africa.
Equipment and other items will be sold by Ozark Bee Supply, and I will follow up with details on placing orders. Michael Bush has been invited to bring copies of his book. Also, I think that you will also have an opportunity to buy a Ultrabreeze bee suit.
The cost is the ridiculously low sum of $30.00, which includes an evening meal on Friday and lunch on Saturday, and all the coffee and soda you can drink. NEOBA presents this seminar every year as part of our mission to educate folks in this region about beekeeping. We always have visitors from other states, and we present speakers who are worth traveling to see. You can also meet some other Beesourcers in the flesh.
It is not required that you register or pay in advance. However, pre-registration will soon be available through the neoba.org website, and it greatly helps us to plan and determine how much food to buy.
I will post the actual schedule when it is finalized.
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With the Supreme Court likely to render judgment on President Obama's health care law this week, the White House and Congress find themselves in a position that many advocates of the legislation once considered almost unimaginable.
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Some prominent legal scholars say a series of tactical decisions by President Obama's legal team may have hurt the chances of saving his landmark health-care legislation from being gutted by Supreme Court conservatives…
Obama, a former constitutional law instructor, and White House lawyers helped shape a legal strategy essentially portraying health care as a unique marketplace that Congress, under the Constitution's interstate commerce clause, could regulate by imposing the requirement that consumers buy insurance before receiving treatment or pay a penalty…
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If he loses both his law and re-election, many will conclude "that he bet on his major reform, and the Supreme Court defeated it, and he lost his hold on the presidency," Robert Dallek, the presidential historian, said in an interview…
As the brutal fight continued, the president sacrificed more and more in its name: an overhaul of energy and environmental laws, greater focus on economic issues, some of his own popularity and that of House Democrats, who eventually lost their hard-won majority. "Michelle and I are perfectly comfortable if we're only here one term if we feel like we really accomplished something," he told aides…
If the court strikes down the mandate and Mr. Obama wins in November, he could face one last version of his perpetual choice on health care: would he settle, learning to live with a sharply edited law? (Given that Republicans see the bill as a signature piece of big-government overreach, he might have no choice.) Or would he expend yet more precious capital on health care?
But the fact is that if the mandate falls next week, nothing will happen. Then the next week, nothing will happen. Nothing again the week after that, and nothing will continue to happen for the next 70 weeks, which is roughly when the bulk of the law takes effect. In the meantime, Congress can do something, or it can do nothing, Democratically controlled states can step in, or not. If lawmakers move aggressively and fix it in advance, great. If they don't and then in 2014 the reforms start to wobble, Congress will do something, or a lot of states will pass their own laws to broaden the risk pools, and things will settle down. That's my hunch at least — that if the policy becomes unsustainable, then the politics of not fixing it will be unsustainable too.
Presumably that's why President Obama's telling his supporters he might have to "revisit" health care in his second term, rather than, say, in the middle of the campaign, when he'll probably want to avoid using the word "mandate" altogether. If he loses, then of course the mandate's probably dead. But in that case, it stands to reason that the mandate and much of the rest of the law will vanish anyway, regardless of what the Court does. Which I guess is a long way of saying there's an appeal to both approaches but it's the sort of problem that, perhaps inelegantly, will eventually solve itself.
I expect, as I think most of us do, an unfriendly decision (from the Democratic point of view) on the health-care law. Can't yet say how unfriendly; at the very least, an overturning of the individual mandate, and maybe more. Assuming that's correct, the question immediately becomes how the president and the Democrats should respond. There's very little they can do legislatively. But I'll be watching for rhetoric, tone, even body language. And on those counts, they had damn well better dispense with the usual liberal woe-is-me hand-wringing and shoulder slumping and come out swinging. They had better communicate to their base that they stand for something, it's important to them, and they're pissed. And if they do it the right way, they can make the Supreme Court an issue this fall in a way that might even persuade some swing voters that the court overstepped its bounds. I'd go so far as to say that an aggressive response can reset and reframe the whole health-care debate, once Americans have had their minds focused on this by a blatantly partisan court…
[Obama] needs to stand up there and get mad. The law may be unpopular, but he and the Democrats are stuck with it, and being stuck with it, they need to stick by it. Almost never before in American history has a Supreme Court taken a law duly passed by the people's representatives and in just two years' time invalidated it. If that isn't legislating from the bench, what is? Mr. Cool needs to get Hot. Against unanimous and ferocious opposition, and in the face of blatant lies about what this bill would and would not do, he and the Democrats came up with a way for people with cancer and diabetes and what have you to get the treatment they need and not be either turned away or gouged. He's proud of that, he ought to say, and by God, he's going to fight for it. That provision of the law is wildly popular—85 percent supported that, in a late-March New York Times survey. If you can't play offense with 85 percent of the people behind you, I give up.
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I own a major airport, three retirement village operators, a chain of petrol stations, two power companies, two insurance companies, two banks and an iconic fast food operator. I don't own a house and never have. I have no desire to because it doesn't suit the way I live my life. I hate mowing lawns and the thought of interior decorating ranks below a visit to the dentist. I am partially sighted and need to live near my work so I can walk because the train times in Auckland seem to be based on yearly averages with large standard deviations.
When I walk through my airport I marvel at the numerous shops that pay me rent and hundreds of taxis that pay a fee to pick up customers. I observe my fellow travellers who generate revenue for me whenever they come and go. I feel comfortable with my investment property.
Okay, so I am a very partial owner of these assets but when I hear people talk of houses as the "safest" investment because you can touch them, I feel a sense of puzzlement.
Admittedly it is difficult and dangerous to hug a runway, particularly for a fuller-figured blind man.
Many of my companies pay annual dividends of 6-7 per cent. They are monopolies or near monopolies in very strong cash flow businesses.
If another global financial crisis was to come along my investments would likely plummet in value as they did in 2007/8. I would probably buy more as I did last time because these businesses sell stuff that people buy even in hard times. If the economy turned to custard and unemployment rose to 30 per cent as it did during the Great Depression then my dividend returns and share prices would head southward. But in the same circumstances house prices would also plummet along with most other asset classes.
I am not a rich man and nor do I particularly want to be. I want financial security and to me this means having investments that generate sufficient income to cover living costs. Maybe this attitude comes from being a blind economist. Disabilities can shape perspectives.
Shares appeal to me because of flexibility, intellectual curiosity and a desire for liquidity. I want to own key parts of the economy, preferably the most profitable bits. But learning the art of share investment has been a long road littered with stupid errors. The learning process was self directed and this is a reason many Kiwis shun this form of investment. It takes effort and risk to learn how to go about it. Many of those who are willing to teach beginners are sharks. Only about 8 per cent of New Zealanders are direct owners of shares. So a big chunk of our most profitable businesses are owned by overseas shareholders.
This year, I had the opportunity to establish a long-term share fund with a group of students. It has been one of the more rewarding experiences in my undistinguished teaching career. The students researched and presented on various companies from which we selected a diversified portfolio. The discussions were lively because actual money was on the table.
The main lesson that I wanted these students to learn was that investing in shares is not gambling. I wanted them to learn that they own real businesses that have concrete assets and produce actual goods and services. This necessitated several visits to KFC to emphasise the point. By investing in these businesses they share the profits that these businesses make. I wanted them to see that this is not a "get rich quick" scheme but rather the application of common sense and practical research skills. It is also more fun than mowing lawns. Let's teach our kids some options.
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Discussion in 'TV ALERTS' started by Sylvia, Jan 10, 2013.
This will be her first appearance and she's scheduled for 8:50 a.m. Eastern time.
Thank you for letting us know.
Thanks Sylvia, I will be home in the morning so I will try to watch. Good for her!
After her interview she skated to "This girl is on fire" by Alicia Keyes. I'm sure it will be up on their website in due course if you missed it.
I'm glad to see that's she's putting a lot more emotion into her skating as well as musicality but IMO, she is still a work in progress. She widely downgraded her triple lutz to a double or else she would have killed herself on that small rink.
Gracie was cute.
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Gracie has star power and a great presence on TV. She is gorgeous. Still needs work on the grace factor....if she could stop pumping her back and keep it straight and pulled up she would be there. I hope she can work with a new choreographer next year. She just needs refinement.
Maybe we can get her to study Sasha Cohen vids!!!
Something a tad juvenile and rough about her skating (still). I'm sure that she'll gain flow, musicality and finesse in time. She has the jumps, for sure. Wishing she does well in Omaha!
I think it's the choreography that's not doing her any favor. Gracie is a fluid performer, but there were so much meaningless constant arm-wavings in that exhibition that it became annoying. I wonder if the same guy that did her LP also gave her this exhibition piece?
Don't know about that, but while she does skate fast, she certainly does not have nice, secure, deep edges.
I also think Gracie has star power. And musicality, as well. And grace, and nice line. There is something that bothers me a little that I cannot quite put my finger on- I'll have to study Gracie's videos to be sure exactly what it is. Something about coordinating arm movements and lower body. But it's nothing that cannot be overcome in a year or two. She is quite wonderful.
I say it's the Kimmie Meissner arms.
what a boring performance..
Just a friendly reminder, the rink at Rockefeller Center has been known to bring many experienced pro skaters to tears. It is virtually impossible to skate anything like your best show program there, although it is a wonderful set up with the Today Show and a fabulous site. Sometimes, the ice is not Zammed prior to the guest skater doing his/her program; they just step out after a brutal public session. Certainly Gracie can make improvements but I wouldn't judge anything by her Rock Center program.


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WASHINGTON Democratic lawmakers and independent Sen. Joe Lieberman said Sunday that military-style assault weapons should be banned They already are, we can't buy assault weapons and that a national commission should be established to examine mass shootings in the United States.
The proposals were among the first to come from Congress in the wake of Friday's school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
"Assault weapons were developed for the U.S. military, not commercial gun manufacturers," Lieberman said before a vigil Sunday night in Newtown.
And as mentioned, we can't buy assault weapons, they are not telling the truth for this agenda
"This is a moment to start a very serious national conversation about violence in our society, particularly about these acts of mass violence," said the Connecticut senator, who is retiring next month.
Gun rights activists remained largely quiet on the issue, all but one declining to appear on the Sunday talk shows. Meanwhile, Democrats vowed action and said it was time to hear from voters not gun lobbyists on how to prevent the next shooting.
The time for "saying that we can't talk about the policy implications of tragedies like this is over," said Rep. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who won a Senate seat in the November elections.
Speaking Sunday night at a vigil in Newtown, President Barack Obama did not specifically address gun control. But he vowed, "In the coming weeks I'll use whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens, from law enforcement to mental health professionals to parents and educators in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this."
He added: "Are we really prepared to say that we're powerless in the face of such carnage, that the politics are too hard? Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom?"
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I to received a bankruptcy notice. The filing states that "there does not appear to be any property available to the trustee to pay creditors." Well that was a surprise... lol. He didn't say that on the website. I am sorry to all members as I had presented my experience (which was not as bad as others, such as free replacements) as apparently it was atypical. He has taken from so many, even apparently ripped off Ted Kretshmann (there is another post from Ted on this). As PT Barnum said, "there is a sucker born every minute"
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Seagate has been busy trying to find some footing in the emerging Software-led Infrastructure (SLI) market. Their spinning disk product or "spinning rust", as David Flynn CEO of Fusion-io calls it, is not positioned for the rapid growth of the new server/storage paradigm that our research team at Wikibon.org defined as SLI – see link
Software-led Infrastructure (SLI) is a new era of datacenter infrastructure is emerging that will result in operational and application changes on a scale that we have not experienced in more than 15 years. At the core of this change is a shift to increasingly software-centric IT operations with the virtualization of the majority of hardware devices across the IT value chain. Pervasive virtualization across compute, storage, and networking technologies means that the point of control for the datacenter will exist in software, not hardware components.
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"We are extremely pleased to have Seagate as a strategic partner and investor," said Mike Gustafson, chief executive officer of Virident. "This partnership validates Virident's vision of pervasive flash in the performance tier and accelerates our shared vision by bringing next-generation SCM solutions to the enterprise and web datacenters worldwide. The agreement also expands Virident's routes to market today by making our best-in-class PCIe flash products available to Seagate's world-class channels."
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Seagate's high end disk drive business (i.e. the high performance spinning disk business) is basically dead meat.
In order to get high performance from spinning disks you a) spin them faster and b) "short stroke them" meaning that you only use a small portion of the media and limit the movement of the actuator over a smaller physical space (to minimize the mechanical distance a head has to move).
Flash renders this basically useless.
Why? Why Virident and $40m?
Because the advantage of spinning disk is you can jam loads of capacity onto the platters to take advantage of lower costs, but if you're "short-stroking" drives you defeat the cost angle. So it's expensive. More importantly, it's not that fast because it's still mechanical.
Flash is electron speeds and with stuff like compression and de-duplication, prices for high end spinning disks and flash drives are colliding– meaning high performance spinning disks are becoming a total oxymoron. So Seagate's moves are to try to protect the high end by delivering hybrid drives comprising SSD and spinning disk:
Link: http://www.seagate.com/
This is a move that will prolong the life of hard drives and offer 3X better performance than spinning disk alone but ultimately flash will rule because it's 10X+ faster. Costs just have to get closer not equal for flash to really pressure spinning disks. The same thing that's happened in laptops will eventually happen in servers – it will just take longer.
The other insight from this deal is complete validation of the trend of SLI (Software-led Infrastructure).
For years the storage systems vendors have been marking up seagate disk drives 4-5X or sometimes more. The world is moving to SLI. Seagate has to to start bundling certain types of software services into its stack to add value. Not sure they want to wake the giant that is EMC.
The hard drive manufacturer reported earnings per share of $1.38, more than the $1.28 consensus estimate; revenue came in at $3.67 billion, higher than the anticipated $3.58 billion.
Lets see how that goes now that they have a flash angle with Virident.


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When out-of-tolerance bores started relegating valuable parts to the scrap heap, personnel at N.C. Engineering naturally faulted the one thing in the process that had changed: the machine tool. Even more frustrating than the scrapped parts was the fact that a new machine representing and investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars had to be relegated to low-tolerance parts, which wasn't exactly what the company had in mind.
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Nepal's army said yesterday it had found the bodies of 40 soldiers killed fighting Maoist rebels while 76 other troops were still missing two days after a fierce gun battle in the west of the country.
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The bodies were found after hundreds of troops were rushed in teeming monsoon rain to hunt for soldiers missing after the fighting in the remote Kalikot district, 600 kilometres from Kathmandu.
"Forty of our men have achieved martyrdom," an army officer said.
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The rebels said on Monday that they had killed 159 troops and captured another 50 in the firefight that began late on Sunday. The army rejected the claim.
No independent verification was possible because the fighting took place in a remote village with poor communication links. Both sides routinely overstate enemy casualties and under-report their own losses.
The fighting began after hundreds of guerillas attacked an army camp set up to construct a road linking Surkhet town with the backward region of Karnali that borders Tibet.
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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- It was not the kind of day Head Coach J.J. Clark envisioned for his University of Tennessee women's cross country team. While the Lady Vols improved three spots over last year's national result, their 21st-place team performance at the NCAA Championship meet on Monday morning was not in line with the goals he had set for a squad that otherwise will go down as one of the best in school history.
Ranked 14th heading into the 31-team national meet at the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course, the NCAA South Region and Southeastern Conference champion Big Orange women were unable to live up to that ranking and their coach's expectations despite NCAA career-best efforts from sophomores Felicia Guliford and Katie Flaute, and senior Elizabeth McCalley. The Lady Vols, in their 11th overall and third-straight visit to the national meet, were hard-pressed to overcome the loss of junior Megan Cauble early in the race and a difficult day for senior Brooke Novak.
Running on a 6,000-meter course softened by overnight and early-morning rains, Guliford led the UT charge for the fourth time this season, covering the distance in 21 minutes, 45.5 seconds to cross the line in 81st position (53rd in terms of team scoring). The Gallup, N.M., product, who redshirted last year, made a huge 165-spot improvement over her 246th-place finish as a freshman in 2002.
Flaute was the next orange-clad runner to hit the chute, checking in 97th (68th) with a time of 21:53.7. The Dayton, Ohio, native registered an impressive 81-position advancement from her 178th-place finish of a year ago. McCalley also produced her best-ever national meet finish, notching a 125th-place (93rd) run of 22:13.3. That topped her 2002 result of 155th and last year's 250th outcome.
Running in her first NCAA Championship meet, junior Carly Matthews was the next Lady Vol to finish the race, doing so in 22:34.4 to take 169th (134th). It marked the fourth time she had counted toward the team's tally in 2004, and she matched her fourth-place role on the squad at the SEC Championships.
Novak, meanwhile, concluded her collegiate cross country career in different fashion than she had hoped. The Kaukauna, Wis., native rounded out the scoring five for Tennessee with a 175th-place (140th) performance of 22:38.8, marking the second meet in her last three where she was unable to fill her customary spot at the front of the Lady Vol pack.
Junior Mindy Sullivan and Cauble did not factor into the team scoring. The squad's sixth finisher, Sullivan had her best NCAA result with a 192nd-place (156th) outing of 22:53.8, while Cauble dropped out of the competition only 300 yards into the race. Clark did not elaborate on the reason.
Tennessee, which finished 28th and 24th at the 2002 and 2003 NCAA meets, respectively, wraps up its 2004 campaign with a school-record win total of 121 vs. 25 losses. That tally bested the 2003 victory total of 99 and gave Clark a three-year record of 279-90-1 at Tennessee. He now ranks second in UT cross country history behind only 10-year coach and Lady Vol Hall of Famer Terry Crawford (303-76-1).
Lady Vol NCAA Finishes: 81. (53.) Felicia Guliford (21:45.5), 97. (68.) Katie Flaute (21:53.7), 125. (93.) Elizabeth McCalley (22:12.3), 169. (134.) Carly Matthews (22:34.4), 175. (140.) Brooke Novak (22:38.8), 192. (156.) Mindy Sullivan (22:53.8), DNF Megan Cauble. (team scoring point total in parentheses)
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Australian rock's poet laureate, Paul Kelly is returning in March for two church shows in New Zealand.
The singer-songwriter, who last played in New Zealand with his four night A to Z season at the Auckland Arts Festival in 2011, is performing at the appropriately monikered Old St Paul's in Wellington on Friday March 22 and Auckland's Holy Trinity Cathedral the night after.
The shows come a few days after Kelly finishes a joint 17-date Australian theatre tour with Neil Finn which has the two veterans swapping songs while backed by a band of musicians with family connections including Dan Kelly (nephew and longtime guitarist sideman) and drummer Elroy Finn.
Dan Kelly will be joining his uncle on the short New Zealand excursion.
The local dates come on the back of Kelly snr's first studio set in five years, Spring and Fall, his 19th album and one which is framed as a song cycle telling of the bloom and subsequent demise of a single love affair.
The album is Kelly's first new material since a heavily retrospective period in his career. The A to Z shows he's been playing since 2004 of more than 100 songs from his songbook also led to an acclaimed memoir How to Make Gravy, which started out as liner notes to a box set of the concerts. Kelly's life and career has also featured in a documentary, Stories of Me, which was recently released locally on DVD after its cinematic run in Australia last year.
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Hef's Movie Notes: This Gun For Hire
Hef provides commentary on the 1942 drama starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake.
Tonight: Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, with Robert Preston and Laird Cregar in the crime drama This Gun for Hire.
Alan Ladd was an unlikely candidate for screen stardom.
A radio actor with a compelling voice, but slight in stature.
Ladd had been on the fringes of film since 1932 and was resigned to a career in radio.
"I've tried pictures," Ladd said. "Producers tell me I'm too blonde, too short, too this, too that." He was tired of so much rejection.
But actress turned agent Sue Carol thought otherwise. She believed in Ladd. She thought he had a future in film.
She got him small parts in Beasts of Berlin (1939), A Hal Roach programmer, Captain Caution (1940); and then nothing less than Citizen Kane (1941), as a pipe-smoking newsman, standing mostly in the shadows, with three lines, one of which was, "Or Rosebud?"
But that same year, he also appeared in Cadet Girl, Petticoat Politics and The Reluctant Dragon.
Alan Ladd's big break came when Sue Carol learned that a director at Paramount was looking for an actor who could play a cold-blooded killer and still come off sympathetically.
In 1936, distinguished British novelist Graham Greene (whose credits included Ministry of Fear, The Fugitive and The Third Man) penned A Gun for Sale. In America, the title was changed to This Gun for Hire.
Paramount paid $12,000 to adapt the story for the screen.
The studio saw it as an Alfred Hitchcock-type thriller and announced, in mid-1936, that screenwriter, and future MGM production chief, Dore Schary, was writing a film to star Hungarian-born bug eyed Peter Lorre as "Raven," the book's lead character—a cold blooded, professional killer.
Initial attempts to adapt the book failed and the property was shelved until 1939 when director Frank Tuttle asked the studio if they owned anything which they had never made because of "some problem in the story that no one had been able to solve."
The problem was Raven's harelip, which played okay on the printed page, but not on the screen.
A facial scar was considered as an alternative, but Tuttle decided against it, because Joan Crawford had been similarly disfigured in A Woman's Face (1941).
Tuttle had to find some way to shock and repulse people who met Raven, as a way of explaining why he was so mean, and hated everyone—especially women.
The solution was a back-story. It was filmed as a dream sequence, later deleted following a preview audience's negative reaction. Our Gang's Dickie Jones (also the voice of Walt Disney's "Pinocchio") played Raven as an orphaned boy who was mistreated by a hateful aunt who beat him. One day she savagely crushed his wrist with a flatiron for stealing a piece of chocolate. In response, the youngster killed her. His wrist was left misshapen and marked him for life.
As of April 1940, actor Anthony Quinn was one of the writers working with Tuttle on the screenplay.
It was not until June, 1941, that the film's credited writing team began their story outline: Heavyweights W.R. Burnett, whose credits included Little Caesar, Scarface and High Sierra, along with Alfred Maltz.
Like Tuttle, Maltz was a Yale grad. They also shared another affiliation—the Communist Party. But while Maltz would become one of the infamous, black listed Hollywood 10, Tuttle would testify as a star witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee, concerning his Hollywood Communist affiliations—both ultimately damaging their careers.
By October 27, 1941, Paramount had finally approved the project, with the working title, The Redemption of Raven with a budget of $449,000. (The average cost of a production in Hollywood that year was $336,000.)
The real impetus for finally moving forward on the production had been the studio's pressing need to find a suitable vehicle for their hot new property, Veronica Lake. She had just hit it big as the sex siren in Sullivan's Travels directed by Preston Sturges.
"She's one of the little people," Sturges enthused. "Like Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Freddie Bartholomew (before he grew up), who take hold immediately with their audiences.
"She's nothing much in real life—a quiet, rather timid little thing. But the screen transforms her, electrifies her, and brings her to life. She is, I think, the biggest bet in the business."
High praise from one of the hottest directors in Hollywood.
Veronica Lake's trademark was her shoulder-length, blonde, half-curtain hairstyle, falling over one eye. Many other actresses would later imitate Lake's peek-a-boo locks, most notably Lauren Bacall, Ella Raines and Lizabeth Scott.
During World War II, the miniature blonde would become, in the words of film historian David Thomson, "a face in the dreams of American soldiers."
On the home front, their girlfriends, working in defense plants, copied Lake's long locks, at the cost of having their hair caught in machinery.
The government officially asked Paramount to have Lake shorten, or pull back her eye-obscuring coiffure, in order to help the war effort. It is all there in the Congressional Record.
As a teenager, the sensuous Lake was diagnosed as schizophrenic. Cited later as an explanation for her heavy drinking and promiscuity. But on the screen she was something to behold.
Her sultry, little-girl-lost style caused a sensation, although she was burdened, as one Paramount exec put it, "with more bosom than brains."
Lake herself said, "You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision."
It was her ambitious stage mother who made Lake enter movies, then later sued her own daughter for non-support.
Alan Ladd got the role of Raven because he was a perfect match for Veronica Lake. Together, they were a phenomenon. These two little people—she at 5'1", and he under 5'6". Her voice husky. His reassuring. She at 22. He, 28. Both blonde, unsmiling, inexpressive and insolent. Both were raised fatherless, and Catholic. Perhaps they had too much in common. Off screen, there was nothing between them.
They made an unusual, but hugely popular team—this angelic anti-hero and delectable doll—starring in four films together between 1942 and 1948—plus cameos in two all-star vehicles—all for Paramount.
Right before the release of This Gun for Hire, Ladd asked his agent, Sue Carol, to marry him. Paramount discouraged this as a "disastrous" move.
"To hell with them," he told her. "To hell with the career. We're getting married." He meant it too. Ladd regularly informed Carol that every film he was making would be his last.
Incidentally, they lived nearby in Holmby Hills at 323 North Mapleton Drive. Bogart was closer, at 232 South Mapleton.
The supposed leading man in tonight's film—completely overshadowed by the smaller Ladd—was Robert Preston, star of a number of routine films, who gained fame later for his dynamic performance on Broadway in The Music Man made into a film in 1961.
For a short time, before Frank Tuttle decided on an unknown, Robert Preston was actually slated to portray Raven.
Veronica Lake was an actress of limited range so audiences didn't believe for a moment that she had any real interest in Preston, whose undeserving character was seemingly outwitted in every scene he played.
Originally, his character had the last line in the picture, speaking of Raven, saying, "He did all right by all of us." (Which the Production Code demanded be cut.) So the line was given to Raven, who asked Lake, "Did I do all right for you?"
For one scene, Lake was called upon to sing, dance, act and perform magic, all at the same time. She could hardly do any of those three things individually, much less at the same time.
Her singing was dubbed by Martha Spears.
The ponderous Laird Cregar nearly steals the film as the fussy, florid, double-dealing, jumbo-sized, 6'3" heavy.
Cregar was just 26. His hairline was shaved back and a mustache added to make him look older as the film's squeamish saboteur and chief menace.
Tragically, Cregar died of a heart attack at the age of 28, after a crash diet in the hope of earning roles as a leading man.
Lake, Preston and Cregar are all laughably billed above Ladd in the closing credits.
At the start of the film, a card reads: "Introducing Alan Ladd," even though he had already appeared in at least 30 films, including one with Laurel & Hardy, and a western made at Lone Pine.
But in a sense, this film did "introduce" Alan Ladd to audiences for the first time, because they had never before seen him portray the kind of cool character that would become his defining persona thereafter.
Also seen in bit parts in the film, stars Yvonne De Carlo and Richard Webb.
Shooting on the picture concluded on December 16—nine days after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
This Gun for Hire opened at the Paramount Theater in New York on May 13, 1942.
Woody Herman and the Ink Spots were on hand for the stage show.
In its review of the film, for once Variety got it wrong, concluding, "It's a vehicle of little importance and limited appeal… This Gun for Hire has difficulties ahead."
How wrong they were. Audiences flocked to see the film—over and over again. Men loved Veronica and the ladies loved Ladd and vice versa.
Bosley Crowther, in The New York Times, exclaimed: "Mr. Ladd is really an actor to watch… It is no exaggeration to say that he is the hottest new actor to hit pictures since Clark Gable."
Paramount promptly raised Ladd's salary from $300 a week to $750, and gave him a $5,000 bonus.
As a contract player, Veronica Lake was earning $350.
In its review, The Hollywood Reporter cited Ladd as an "important discovery…certain to be much talked about for his brilliant portrayal," and declared moviegoers would have to search long and hard "to find more tense and gripping melodrama than This Gun for Hire.
The Harvard Lampoon had just voted Veronica Lake "The Worst new Actress of the Year."
But Archer Winsten, writing in the N.Y. Post, was content to review, and fondly, Lake's "truly splendid bosom."
And The New York Daily News hailed Lake as "a woman of destiny. She combines a wink with rigor mortis. When she smiles, as she does twice in the film, hearts can be heard to break—smack—throughout the loges, and the tougher element upstairs have to shout their ecstasy."
As time passed, film noir's new hero and heroine lived out lives that paralleled the dark themes of their pictures. Ladd appeared in The Great Gatsby (1949), but did not make anything to surpass This Gun for Hire until George Stevens classic Shane (1953).
Ladd turned down the James Dean role in Stevens Giant, with Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson in 1956.
Like Lake, Ladd had a drinking problem that grew worse with time.
"Alan always held much of himself back," Sue Carol reflected in 1975. "He felt rejected, insecure." In 1963 Ladd shot himself. "While searching for a suspected prowler," was the explanation offered.
Ladd's mother had committed suicide in 1937. Hollywood insiders felt that Ladd did the same in 1964, using "a high level of alcohol combined with sleeping pills."
Ladd was 50. Among his survivors, son Alan Ladd, Jr., who wound up a major producer and studio head.
After Veronica Lake cut her hair, she was dismissed as a novelty and Paramount dropped her.
In 1962, Chuck McCann dropped by the lounge in the Martha Washington Hotel on Manhattan's East 29th Street and ordered a cup of coffee.
The voice of the waitress behind the counter sounded familiar, but when he looked up all he saw were unfamiliar wrinkles.
"You know," he said. "If I didn't know better, I'd say you look like Veronica Lake."
The waitress leaned forward and said, "I am Veronica Lake."
She returned to Hollywood in 1971 and told a reporter, "If I had stayed in Hollywood I would have ended up like Alan Ladd and Gail Russell—dead and buried by now."
Veronica Lake died two years later of acute hepatitis, at the age of 53.
Seven years ago, her ashes were found in the inventory of a New York antique store.
So now–from 1942— The film noir classic
This Gun for Hire.


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Morning Football Update: WRs Johnson, Nicks improving
Here's a quick Thursday night recap:
- Raiders WR Denarius Moore (five receptions, 123 yards, two TD) had a huge night in the wake of Jacoby Ford's first-quarter foot sprain. Moore is a nice free-agent target if you can get him, but if Ford somehow makes a rapid recovery, temper your expectations. I think Ford would have been Carson Palmer's prime target if he had stayed in the game.
- Speaking of Palmer, he looked pretty good again, but note that he threw only 20 times. The Raiders are a run-first team, and that will limit his upside. Palmer is a matchup fantasy starter, not an every-week play.
- Most people thought Raiders RB Michael Bush would have a good game, but 242 yards from scrimmage? I'm speechless. Congratulations if you started him.
- WR Vincent Brown looks like a force to be reckoned with for the Chargers after catching five passes for 97 yards and a score. Philip Rivers seemed to like throwing to Brown, and he probably hates Vincent Jackson after V-Jax quit on a fourth-quarter interception. And "quit" is being nice.
- And speaking of Rivers, here's an in-game tweet from San Diego Union-Tribune Chargers' beat writer Kevin Acee: "I believe Philip Rivers was not hurt before this game. I don't know if I will believe it after this game."
Here's the normal Friday rundown on where you can find fantasy football assistance over the weekend:
- Tweet the FOXSports.com fantasy team. I'm at @jhalpin37, and you can also contact Ryan Fowler (@FOXSportsFowler), Joel Beall (@FOXSportsBeall) and Mike Harmon (@SwollenDome).
- Post a message on the Facebook pages for Harmon, Fowler and me.
- Listen to FOX Fantasy Freaks Harmon, Peter Burns and Nate Lundy, on FOX Sports Radio Sunday from 9 a.m. until noon ET. You can also tweet those guys (@FantasyFreaks).
- Chat with Fowler, Beall and me on FOXSports.com Sunday from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. I'll be in my regular noon slot this week.
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- Texans WR Andre Johnson didn't practice Thursday, but his hamstring is reportedly improving, and the Texans are likely to make a decision after Johnson runs again today. Johnson doesn't feel a pull in the back of his hamstring anymore, so he might actually play this week. Stay tuned.
- The Giants won't get RB Ahmad Bradshaw back this week, but they might have WR Hakeem Nicks (hamstring), who practiced Thursday. Would you start Brandon Jacobs against the 49ers' league-best rum defense? That's a tough one, and depends on who else you have.
- Cardinals QB Kevin Kolb (foot) will probably miss another game Sunday. If you're desperate in a two-QB league, pick up John Skelton. Skelton isn't good, but he threw for 222 yards last week.
- Falcons WR Julio Jones was limited in Thursday's practice due to a hamstring issue. It doesn't sound serious, but let's keep an eye on this.
- Ravens S Ed Reed (shoulder) and LB Terrell Suggs (knee) didn't practice Thursday, and they're uncertain for Sunday's game at Seattle. Watch their progress, especially if you're itching to bench Seahawks RB Marshawn Lynch or WR Sidney Rice due to a bad matchup. Rice was limited in Thursday's practice due to a foot injury, but is expected to play.
- Cowboys RB DeMarco Murray thinks that Felix Jones - who will probably miss another game due to his sprained ankle - is still the team's starting tailback. Murray is too nice, and very, very wrong.
- Bengals TE Jermaine Gresham (hamstring) was limited in Thursday's practice after sitting out Wednesday. Gresham is getting closer to a return, but might not be ready yet.
- Hey. Dwayne Bowe owners: Your guy might be shadowed by Broncos CB Champ Bailey on Sunday. Don't bench Bowe, but keep it in mind if he doesn't have a big day.
- Speaking of the Broncos, I don't know how long they'll use their read-option offense, but as long as they do, start Tim Tebow unless you have another elite QB. The guy has thrown for 457 yards and five TDs in three starts while running for 240 yards in that span, including a 118-yard day last week. I don't care if he's got the worst throwing mechanics in NFL history - he's fantasy gold.
- It sounds like Joseph Addai's hamstring will make him miss another game for the Colts. You might remember that rookie Delone Carter started in Addai's place last week, but got yanked early after a fumble, giving way to Donald Brown (16 carries, 70 yards). I'd prefer Carter to Brown this week, but both are risky.
- Patriots' RBs BenJarvus Green-Ellis (toe) and Kevin Faulk (knee) were both limited in Thursday's practice. I'm worried about the Law Firm for this week.
- Saints WR Lance Moore missed Thursday's practice due to hamstring tightness, and his status for Sunday is TBD. RB Mark Ingram (heel) practiced on a limited basis, and might return. That would give the Saints a four-headed running back monster, and the only one I'd start is Darren Sproles.
- This week's guest on Revis Island will be Wes Welker, and it sounds like Welker is in for a bit of a beating. You have to start him, though.
- Rams QB Sam Bradford (ankle) was limited in Thursday's practice, but appears to be tracking toward another start.
- Titans QB Matt Hasselbeck (knee) was limited in Thursday's practice, but should play on Sunday.
- It sounds like RB Tashard Choice will make his Redskins' debut against the Dolphins. I'm a Roy Helu owner, and while I'm still starting him in one league, I'm terrified that Mike Shanahan will screw me. If you were going to play Helu, stick with the plan, and cross your fingers.
- Finally, thanks to every one of our country's veterans. Your bravery and sacrifice can never be appreciated enough.
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