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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by BG*CV*STUCK, Jul 11, 2009.
yea those dumb GM's need to consult us brilliant fans more... what are they thinking :p
We can understand what the players do on the court, perhaps not in as sophisticated a manner as the experts, but we know who has a jumper, who has range, who can crossover, who plays hard etc. We can observe action. But there are a lot of fans who judge intent. Something that we have no means of knowing. Certainly, GMs have much more access to the personalities and disposition of the players, both their positives and negatives, than any fan could hope to have. So when people sometimes say, "player X was feeling Y, and if he would have felt Z then he would have done W" is mostly just a projection of our own actions had we been in their position, as we perceive them (very limited due to our lack of intimacy). Joe may have no plans. He might be absolutely clueless. I don't know. I know if he makes a move, it means he had some plan, because all action is purposeful. The absence of a trade, (to me) does not signify that there are no plans to trade. As I understand it, GMs are on the phone all the time, talking about trades and player movements, nearly 365 days of the year.
of course, Roscoe. I am not trying to tell JoeD what he has to do; but from what I have seen, he was eager to sign CV and BG as soon as possible. I understand the CV signing but I still don't get the BG thing - as I said, a team that has NO real PG and NO real C but already 4 SG (Bynum is probably more of a SG than a PG, plus RIP, Afflalo and Stuckey who also isn't a real PG yet) shouldn't sign a SG, unless there is something fixed to get a C in exchange for one of the too many SG's - especially a team that already knows (or should know) that the situation with 2 SG's doesn't work out too well. Now every team knows (or should know) that JoeD really needs to get rid of RIP, who is overpaid (that's another thing, JoeD obviously intended to keep the CB/RIP combo for longer than he actually did) and plays a position at which there are lots of good players in this league for a position that is thin with almost every team in the league. If he gets Boozer for RIP, everything makes sense. If he really keeps RIP because there are no alternatives I'm officially off the JoeD bandwagon on which I have spend alot of years.
And the moral is . . . I'm just mess with you. Good morning everyone.
Morning Bro!
Charlie V will start. I don't believe Joe is pursuing Boozer. Bynum is not more of a SG than a PG. He is as much a PG as Jameer Nelson and Chauncey Billups circa 2003. I have a feeling Gordon will start. The odd man out may be Stuckey, who is not in Vegas, and whom the newspapers neglect to even mention anymore. It's only July. The magic show is still in the first act.
Yeah yeah, otherwise, how could we survive such a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnng a$$ summer ?
i have a feeling you are right here. Third year players can play in the summer league right and I believe Stuc should be their. This dude still has some learning to do.
I don't think Dumars has a problem with Gordon and Rip both being here. Somewhere along the way Joe has become consumed with finding the next Vinnie Johnson.
Hoping BG7 comes to D like CB7 did and learns how to be a real pg and become the next pure pg :D
Maybe and then again, maybe not. It use to be that crowds where never organized and deep perceptions went to the "in-crowd". As closeness becomes evermore linked, you have unique opportunities to combine a unified voice that dances to the tune of a refined cultural perception. Do not underestimate it and this will become stronger. A very good example of this was the Stockholm tribute to Michael Jackson. Notice the beginning and ending (disorganization/dispersement) and then the collective core of it's statement...a very powerful statement. In a sense, it turned the collective consciousness on it's head. YouTube - Michael Jackson Tribute - Stockholm. July 8, 2009
Brilliant stuff. One of my dad's favorite quotes: The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
I believe CV and BG will start. Stuckey is fortunate to be a dependency factor for JD. It will be an important year for him. All this silliness about 3 gurard rotation and BG as a PG is a non-factor. It simply won't happen unless JD has thrown out the season. The Pistons desperately need some leadership. Can you trade for it? It is a very big question. I generally think not, but opportunities do arise. Andre Miller is the person the Pistons need for PG. Talented and a very heavy IQ for floor leadership. Unbelievable that this guy is still around and this no doubt is because of his (or his agent's) high perception of his abilities. When he comes down to financial realities, some team is going to get a top-five PG. He is only 33 and healthy. I would pick him over the most recent signings of any major PG. Only Nash is to his equal to one who is not wrapped-up by a long contract. I could list the positives (at least a dozen) about this guy, but why bore the lumpish administrators of this organization.
Without a doubt. But there are known unknowns, and while it's fun to fantasize, we rush to every newspaper article and quote, because we really don't know what the players are thinking, or how they feel. We're constantly seeking to be informed. This is why CV31's Twitter channel is so exciting to follow. It fills in gaps as a speech by Neil deGrasse Tyson declared, The God of the Gaps. We mystify that which we do not understand, and always have as a species. There has been a big move away from the game on the court, to being empathic with the celebrity of the players. I think it is a product of our fast paced, up close and personal, multimedia culture. I'm not judging it, but like reality TV shows, it's not my cup of tea. I like the business and on court strategizing. What they wear, or how many houses they built for the united way is irrelevant to me. So when we talk about what Joe has and has not done, I don't view it through the lens of collecting and removing individual personalities, but assembling enough pieces to be able to play a proper and respectably competitive chess match come Nov 1 without compromising the 3 year plan.
I agree with you . . . which is why it's funny to read about Joe's big plaaaans.
Assuming that the big trick at the end of the magic show is a championship, we are barely at the beginning. We aren't getting one of those this year if we trade rip for dwight howard because our team has no identity, a new coach and are not in a position to compete with the big spending teams of the east or west. The second act won't start until we can get some depth at every position, and, sadly, that won't come this season. Next season, regardless of how much cap space we get, we'll be adding new players to the team with our MLE and probably our Biannual exemption. What Joe is setting us up so we can finesse the cap rules to get right up to the tax line so we can have a deep roster a few seasons from now. Hopefully by then, Q will have taught our team how to run and play D, shaq will have retired, the Magic will have gone bankrupt, and the celtics will have imploded. This draft and these signings will be part of creating the initial nucleus, but what the final core of the team will look like is definitely going to be different from what it is now, and what it is when the season starts. Since the big moves aren't really needed for right now, (for us to survive this season and still make the playoffs without injuring people) I think Joe is going to take his time with these trades. I think he especially wants to see if any of these summer league players can fill in some spot time at PF/C so that he doesn't have to do anything rash. Given that we are barely into Act I of the show, I am glad thats what he is doing.
Great post! I am laughing so hard.
To gain your confidence (or some sort of futuristic justification level), you are whistling as you walk past the cemetery. Unless you do limited nothings (which is my take on your direction), then you have quiet questions on who the starting five will be come November 1. Obviously we don't know and many agree that we are only half way there. Let us take care of business that now faces us. Leave the planetary excursions of bench strength, as the holy grail, for those that don't have a 3 year plan or think stability on five (by body placement value), is a good projection for another Star Wars movie. If JD's 3 year plan involves the solidification (as recently shown) of leadership levels sans coaching abilities; then we are looking toward the 1930's (five year plans) of Russian wheat fields collectives.
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Arezzo is a city famous for frescoes in its churches. It is relatively small for a city of 90,000, but it is an easy walk around the cobblestone streets.
I'll admit I didn't see the best of the frescoes. At $10 a visit, I did the maths and decided that seeing another frescoe wouldn't change my life, but an extra tenner in my pocket might. So instead I waited outside and peeked into the Chiesa di San Francesco when someone opened the door. I did however see the second best frescoes that Arezzo has to offer, as they are free, at the Chiesa di San Domenico
Sometimes you have to make these sort of decisions when you are travelling on a budget. Hmmm, frescoes, or more Italian food.
As there was still a couple of hours light left in the day, I jumped back on the train and headed to nearby Camucia, followed by a short bus ride up into the hills, where the town of Cortona lies perched on top of the Tuscan hills. Benigni also had a go here for his film. It is your quintessential cute Tuscan town.
There are olive groves in the surrounds, red roofed buildings, old Cathedrals in the valley below, Piazzas to amble, coffees to drink, and a few frescoed churches to finish it off.
Those of you seeking the perfect little town to invest in an Italian villa should look no further than Cortona. It is what you are looking for. Diane Lane is around here, somewhere....

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Takashi Shuji was born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. He currently lives in the town of Nishinomiya. After finishing his education in a specialist school at the age of eighteen, Takashi Shuji attended the Suzukake Institution, an establishment providing work for the mentally handicapped in Kôbé. Every month he goes to the art workshop connected to this institution.
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Am arriving in New York on November 1st, just in time for the Indianapolis game on the Monday night, I was wondering, are there any tours available for the training facility?
Would love to see that. I am also going to the game in Seattle the week after.
Any way of meeting players for photos etc?
1st time I am watching the Giants after being a fan for over 20 years now. Dream come true really.


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By Kris Rodriguez
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(April 10, 2008)--The San Antonio Association of Hispanic Journalists will host the second annual Latino Issues Forum, "Hispanic Research for You and Your Family," at 1 p.m., Saturday, April 12 in the Providence West Social Room at Our Lady of the Lake University, 411 S.W. 24th St.
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Free and open to the public, the forum will showcase some of the top Hispanic researchers in South Texas from San Antonio, San Marcos and Austin. Research topics will include education, elections, history, medicine and media.
The master of ceremonies will be Ernie Zuniga, morning anchor of KABB TV's "Fox News First." Following brief presentations, research panelists will participate in a question-and-answer session with the audience.
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Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, associate director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, spearheaded the national "Defend the Honor" campaign, which led to the inclusion of 14 minutes of interviews with Hispanic veterans in Ken Burns' PBS documentary on World War II. Over the last decade, her U.S. Latino and Latina World War II oral history project has collected interviews with more than 600 Hispanics across the country.
Karl Eschbach, Texas State Data Center interim director and UTSA associate professor in the Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research, has provided demographic information on racial and ethnic populations, neighborhoods and health populations in Texas.
Rodolfo Rosales is a UTSA associate professor of political science. His articles, "The Impact of Immigration on Citizenship" and "Citizen to the Community: The Dialectics of a Collective Citizenship," were presented in Montreal and San Diego. He is working on a third paper, "The Epistemology of Culture and Agency," to present in Rio de Janeiro in 2009 and a fourth paper to present in Vancouver. His research focuses on open theoretical and political investigation of citizenship and community in a global economy.
Federico Subervi is director of the Latinos and Media Project and a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Texas State University in San Marcos. His research projects include the National Association of Hispanic Journalists' "Network Brownout in 2005: The Portrayal of Latinos in Network Television News." Subervi also wrote and edited the book, "The Mass Media and Latino Politics."
Dr. Liliana Oakes serves as the fellowship geriatric coordinator for curriculum development in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She is principal investigator for the research program, "Cuidando Con Respeto," which addresses the needs in the Latino community of caregivers of patients with dementia. Her research interests include geriatric education in primary care and multidisciplinary care of the elderly, ethics and end-of-life issues.
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Like many of you, some of us at 4-Wheel & Off-Road have more than one 4x4 at home. So when we thought up this story, we set out with a mission to show an easily buildable prerunner suspension that you could drive on every day, go out and shoot through the desert in, carry toys with, and cruise comfortably across the state in. In other words, build ourselves a work truck (our definition of work truck might be different than yours). Instead, we got a lesson in reality. And though this truck has earned its name, it's not really the truck's fault. We tend to be a bit abusive to it, and three engines, seven trannies, and four rear axles later, this truck was in need of some new suspension (for the third time). But do not feel bad for our 86,000-mile Dodge. It has been loved dearly and will be rebuilt again and again, no matter how badly we break it.
The parameters we wanted to go by were going to make this suspension buildup a bit more difficult than a purpose-built truck. Plus, for reader duplication purposes we wanted to use nothing more than the average fabricating tools any semi-skilled welder has. Keeping our Dodge in a multi-use configuration turned into much more of a hassle than originally intended and we started to wish that we had just left that bolt-on lift kit alone. But when all is said and done, life will be sweet, and so will this truck. This month we'll cover the concerns we had and the first part of the suspension buildup. Next month, we'll cover the installation of the front coilovers, the airbumps, an antisway bar, and a new track bar to coincide with the crossover steering.


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You gotta understand the mentality of the rest of the NFL fanbase when it comes to our team beating their so called much superior teams.
1- You only won cuz so & so was injured
2- You only won cuz we beat ourselves
3- you only won cuz the refs gave you the game
4- you only won cuz our team is having an off yr (Most Saints fans are using this one today)
I just hope they keep using all 4 excuses the rest of the yr all the way thru Feb!
You people sure are ****y for some odd reason. We just destroyed the texans and we will spank you the same way if your team can make it to the superbowl. I was joking about being scared of the giants ..........no one can be scared of your team.................
I could not be more proud to be a patriots fan.
No emoticons because i was serious no one .......and i mean no one..... is scared of your team at least not on the patriots. Defending SB champs? LOL look at you barely staying atop of your division. A lot of people were saying they have never seen a worse SB champs and have never seen such inconsistency on a team. why did you think every time giants win they ask why somebody messed up on the pats?
Think about it.......no freaking respects your inconsistent bull****!
No offense.
look at your schedule . omg falcons are on the decline now of all times? I have never seen a team get so much luck and breaks like yours! Truly that's the only thing about giants that suprises me.........
where was your arrogant face during redskins? cowboys? eagles?
man...... don't make me laugh.......
yet you thought you were the humble guys huh? outside NY you guys are not much. I forgot some owner actually said he hates you LOL
For someone who says he's not afraid of the Giants, you sure do talk to absolutely nobody alot...
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- BSE, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University 1984
- MSE, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University 1985
- PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University 1991
Research Interests
Dynamics and controls; nonlinear estimation; mobile robots; active noise control; damage detection in smart structures; mechatronics
Current Research Projects
- Acoustics and signal processing
- Cooperative control of multi-robot systems
- Robot design and smart navigation
- Terrain identification
- ENGS 26: Control Theory
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- L.R. Ray, D. Brande, J.H. Lever, Estimation of Net Traction for Differential-Steered Wheeled Robots, J. Terramechanics Special Issue on Robotics, in press.
- A. Ramasubramanian and L. Ray, On the Applications of Extended Kalman-Bucy Filtering to Friction Cancellation, ASME J. Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, 129(2), pp. 236-242, March 2007
- L. Ray, A. Streeter, J. Lever, A. Price, Design and Power Management for a Solar-Powered 'Cool Robot' for Polar Instrument Networks, J. Field Robotics, 24(7), pp. 581-599, July 2007
- L. Ray, J. Solbeck, A. Streeter, and R. Collier, Hybrid Active Noise Reduction for Hearing Protection and Communication, J. Acoustical Society America, 120(4), 2026-2036, Oct 2006
- J.A. Solbeck and L.R. Ray, Damage Identification Using Sensitivity-Enhancing Control and Identified Models, ASME J. Vibration and Acoustics, 128(2), 210-220, April 2006
- L.R. Ray, A. Price, A. Streeter, D. Denton, J. Lever, Cool Robots: Scalable Mobile Robots for Instrument Network Deployment in Polar Climates, The Bridge, National Academy of Engineering, 34(4), 5-12, Winter 2004
- J.H. Lever, L.R. Ray, A. Streeter, and A. Price, Solar Power for an Antarctic Rover, Hydrological Processes, 20(4), 629-644, March 2006
- L.R. Ray, Nonlinear Tire Force Estimation and Road Friction Identification: Simulation and Experiments. Automatica, 33(10), 1819-1833, 1997
- American Society for Non-destructive Testing Fellowship (2001)
- SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award (1997)
Selected Patents
- In-ear digital electronic noise cancelling and communication device (8,385,560)
- Tuned feedforward LMS filter with feedback control (6,996,241)
- Method for tuning an adaptive leaky LMS filter (6,741,707)
- Sound Innovations, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer
- Clarisond, Co-founder
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is there any chance of a 27 year old being taken on as an apprentice. I have read that the cut off age is 24, but i was just wondering if there any other schemes that you yourself do or anywhere else in london undertakes
many thanks
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Re: apprenticeships
At least in Germany there is something like that, if you cannot do your job anymore or don't have chance to get a job, you can change profession by learning something new and doing something like an apprenticeship.
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Sorry - you are right, the maximum age is 24 - more info for you here:
http://www.jamieoliver.com/the-fifteen- … _programme
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Film & Discussion: Lives Worth Living
A film by Eric Neudel
It's been 23 years since passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. Today, we take for granted the curb cuts that allow wheelchairs to roll, buses that lower to bring on the disabled, and wheelchair-accessible bathrooms, among many other changes. The Act mandated all these accommodations-because before this, the disabled were on their own.
Lives Worth Living shows us the struggle for visibility and access by disabled people in the United States. The movement started here in Berkeley and spread across the country.
The film features Fred Fay, a quadriplegic who refused to live on the sidelines just because he couldn't walk, and Ed Roberts, who fought for access to UC Berkeley and started the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley-and the Ed Roberts Campus now commemorates his life's work.
Lives Worth Living is told as an oral history, using archival footage. We see protesters climb from wheelchairs and drag themselves courageously up courthouse steps; we watch as quadriplegic activists maneuver their chairs in front of public buses that are not equipped to accommodate them. The film ends with the dramatic battle for the Americans with Disabilities Act, one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in America's history. The thousands of individuals who came together to change attitudes and laws demonstrated the power of humanity, cooperation, and self-determination, and what can be accomplished against seemingly insurmountable obstacles.


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Container data centers lead to a module design revolution
In 2006, Sun Microsystems unveiled the first container data center. Project Blackbox, an energy-efficient, water-cooled turnkey data center housed in an International Standards Organization (ISO) intermodal shipping container, was heralded as a cutting-edge solution for low-cost, rapid deployment of remote and rugged environments. It was adopted for select applications and locations, such as at oil rigs for seismic modeling, windmills in underdeveloped rural areas, and U.S. military posts. "The military used container data centers for rapid deployment and rugged environments," says Rich Hering, technical director mission critical facilities at the Phoenix office of M+W Group, a leading global engineering and construction partner for technology-based clients.
Not long afterward, a few high-tech companies began their own experiments with containerized data centers. Google parked one in an underground parking garage and also proposed a floating data center, located on a cargo ship. In 2008, Microsoft revealed a configuration of 220 shipping containers for a data center in Chicago. "For us, containers have been used more in high-performance data centers," says Hering ."They're used in the cloud environment or if a company needs to expand space without wanting to build a whole brand new data center. They use containers as additional space."
Still others, attracted by the scalability, efficiency, and economics, looked into using a containerized design. Containers became a hot topic for data center operators wanting to increase capacity without waiting for clients to sign on. "It dovetailed into the data center industry, because it was trying to create white space as fast as possible without having to make large investments," says Hering. "They wanted to build the right-sized solution so that they could maximize their dollars-to-square-foot delivery. It was their answer to just-in-time."
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However, when planning a container data center for enterprise applications, drawbacks to the container design became evident. "The belief was that there's a huge market, and that many [end-users] would start using these containers," said Rakesh Kumar, VP of Gartner Research, Stamford, Conn.-based information technology research and advisory company, speaking at a data center forum in March 2011. "What we have found is that the market is nowhere near as big as the vendors thought it was going to be, because of fundamental problems with [the containerized] design."
Surprisingly, the problems pointed to by Kumar include a reversal of the reasons an organization would go with a container design in the first place. First, the promise of a lower cost data center hasn't always come true, especially in comparison with small, early phase traditional data centers. In fact, the cost of the container data centers often reaches the price of a Tier 4-classified center but without the elements offered by that level of data center. Although industry analysts are expecting the price of data center construction to go down in the next few years, few attribute it directly to container design (Data Center Construction Costs).
In addition, the speed of deployment, described as plug-and-play, is oversimplified. Container designs still require a chilled water supply and a secure site, and, in some cases, applications for building permits could delay deployment for months. "That may take many months in many cases to get that," added Kumar, who also said that some clients of data centers may not like the idea of a remote location for their data either. "You can't just position this [container] in a car park and not put any security around it. It still contains mission-critical data, and you may have compliance issues with the industry that you're in."
Reliability is also an issue. "Your tech-savvy companies, like Microsoft or Google, are doing things in a cloud where equipment failure rates are not as big of an impact," says Scott T. Scheibner, P.E., associate senior electrical engineer at the Cambridge, Mass.-based office of KlingStubbins, an internationally recognized design firm with more than 60 years of experience on a wide range of projects. "But companies that have definitely shied away from that type of thing are the financial industry, where each individual component tends to perform its own task, so a single failure may be very impactful to what they're doing."
Furthermore, because vendors provide the container data center as a whole, the equipment inside the container is proprietary from that vendor. This leads to a vendor lock-in for container designs. "A lot of clients have experienced that major manufacturers that make the boxes put their own computers inside of them," says Hering. "They want to sell the entire compute offering, and a lot of companies don't standardize on one particular brand of computers or servers. There's a lack of standardization between container offerings, which has hurt the market. You can't use one container across many different compute platforms.
In addition, because the industry is new and evolving, the equipment expires fairly quickly. "I've pushed the market, for probably the last two years, to try to develop standards for containers, thinking that the container solution is going to be the PC box of the '80s," continues Hering. "It's going to become a box of delivered components, so it has to somehow standardize how it's hooked up — the power and the cooling technologies — so that when a container comes to a site, you have the same docking station, as I refer to them, for each type of container. Right now, the container that you ordered six months earlier has a different connection point than the one you're ordering now. So if I've built my facility to house the ones that I ordered six months ago, now I have to reconfigure my facility to fit the new ones."
Standards could help improve reliability, which is always a key aspect of data centers, according to Scheibner. "Being able to break it down into a standard process and fabricating the systems in a controlled environment will help that reliability," he says. "I think that will have a high level of interest to a lot of clients."
Finally, the very nature of container data centers — the actual container — imposes size restrictions, which, as a result, offer less space for setup and maintenance. "You really have to want to use containers because they're not the easiest environment to build," says Hering, who cites a lack of traditional data center niceties, such as a raised floor, computer room space, and the distances in front and back of the racks. "They're not easy to move servers in and out of," he continues. "They're just not built the same way. So you either have to have a need for a 20-ft container fully loaded and populated, or you have to be able to put up with the downside of operating a data center in a container. So in that case, most of our clients have looked at them as temporary space."
Out of the Box
Notwithstanding minor changes to data center design (Be Cool), the container buzz highlighted the change in design as the first major innovation of the basic physical infrastructure of the data center since the mainframe era. Furthermore, lessons learned from the design of container data center have led to a potential revolution in overall data center design. "The things that are being attempted with some of the containerized solutions now are helping to push a change," says Scheibner.
According to Scheibner, designers are now considering issues such as how to achieve more processing with less infrastructure, and at what point does less reliability outweigh the up-front costs for a more robust infrastructure. "The thinking needs to shift a little bit for a fair number of engineers who still design in the traditional way," says Scheibner. "If you start looking at it more as the data center itself is a piece of equipment rather than the end-user's equipment within the data center, then it would help to change that thinking. It's something that is going to take a little bit of getting used to from an engineering standpoint."
A natural progression in this new way of thinking about data center design is from container to modular, which permits customized components to be prefabricated and commissioned off-site. While modular design draws on these important aspects of containerized design, it is more suitable for enterprise applications (Major Differences Between Modular and Container Data Centers). "In mostly colocation environments, or smaller data centers, the modular environments are the things they kind of lean toward because they're a little more flexible," says Hering.
The most significant data center design trend of the decade, according to The Uptime Institute (the self-described data center authority) is modular and phased. "Certainly, every company building a data center today is using phased, modular design to take advantage of the capital expense savings," said Vince Renaud, VP and managing principal at The Uptime Institute Professional Services, speaking during a panel featuring globally recognized data center design experts at the institute's sixth annual symposium in Santa Clara, Calif., in May 2011. According to Uptime Institute's spring 2011 survey, almost 50% of large data center operators interviewed are considering "going modular."
Additionally, a number of experts in the mission critical field predict dramatic growth in the use of modular data centers in the next five years. IDC, the Framingham, Mass.-based provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets is predicting modular units will increase from 144 units in 2011 to about 220 units this year, although both these numbers may be conservative due to the covert nature of some of the industries, such as the military. However, in August 2011, Data Center Knowledge surveyed its readers and found that 35% were either using modular products or evaluating them with an eye toward adopting the technology in the next 12 to 24 months.
Results of a survey of 90 mission critical professionals conducted by Mortenson Construction, a U.S. data center contractor, and released in February, revealed that 83% of colocation provider respondents and 60% of corporate and public entity respondents will likely make mission-critical investments in the next 12 to 24 months. Although only 23% of respondents indicated their current data center operations include containerized or modular data centers as a major part of operations, 23% marked them as a minor part of their operations, and 54% said they are not part of current operations, 43% are predicting they will be a major future trend in the future — and 52% are claiming it will be at least a minor future trend.
"Today's data center is obsolete when taking modularity and the fast maturation of this market into consideration," says Jason Schafer, research manager at Tier1 Research, researcher of enterprise IT innovation within emerging technology segments. "If data center owners and operators are not at least exploring and considering modular components as a means for data center expansions and new builds, they are putting themselves at a significant disadvantage from a scalability, cost, and possibly maintenance standpoint."


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Movie Review: Jobs

Let's get the obvious out of the way. Ashton Kutcher is not the biggest problem with Jobs.

Director: Joshua Michael Stern
Rating: PG-13
Studio: Endgame Entertainment / Five Star Feature Films
Stars: Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad
Let's get the obvious out of the way. Ashton Kutcher is not the biggest problem with Jobs, a Matt Whiteley–scripted, Joshua Michael Stern–directed dramatization of a slice of the life of Apple computer cofounder, super entrepreneur and difficult human being, Steve Jobs.
Kutcher comes on all purse-lipped, wire-rimmed, eyebrow-scrunching, eyes darting, shuffling along like a hunch-shouldered puppet. By the looks and sounds of his version of Jobs, the shrewd Kutcher has certainly punched the time clock studying footage of the emotionally remote, quirky computer visionary. He gives it more than a shot and he's often compelling and dead-on in tackling such a spiky, controversial public figure. But all his effort just doesn't electrify. Neither does the movie, which, in its most successful and entertaining section, gives us a barefoot, hygiene-challenged, socially conscious but directionless college dropout who hooks up with a computer geek and true brains of the outfit, Steve Wozniak (Broadway's Book of Norman star Josh Gad in an instantly likable performance in an undernourished role). Working out of his parents' garage, Jobs supervises (and exploits) Wozniak and other tech-savvy young guns and, finally, they launch the early incarnation of the soon-to-be-world-changing Apple. The movie—and Kutcher along with it—doesn't shy away from exposing Jobs' shucking his idealism (or was that only a pose?) and becoming, as he ascends, godlike, from Silicon Valley, a thieving, opportunistic user, a betrayer of friends and lovers, a chronic screamer, a father who abandons his daughter, a man utterly deaf to fairness and decency.
By the time the movie shows us Jobs becoming known as an innovator and visionary, along with ruthless cutthroat capitalist, thanks to introducing the iPod and struggling to launch other Apple products, we get mired in a series of boardroom betrayals and manipulations. It would probably be too much to ask that Jobs might satirize, or at least allude to, the cultlike devotion Apple inspires in so many users, let alone the $500-a-share company's reliance on cheap labor from a Beijing plant in which 16 workers have reportedly committed suicide in the past three years. It's also probably too much to ask that the movie, although clearly lovingly made and well-intentioned, might come anywhere near the quality of The Social Network. We have the distinct feeling that the driven, relentlessly perfectionistic Jobs, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2011, might have screamed this one all the way back to the drawing board—soupy, "inspiring" music and all.


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I have a long drive to pick up my nucs. I was looking for ideas on keeping the bees in the proper place. Im anxious to get them, just not inside my truck while Im driving.
I have a long drive to pick up my nucs. I was looking for ideas on keeping the bees in the proper place. Im anxious to get them, just not inside my truck while Im driving.
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Gas up then load up as the sun goes down. No nets needed just make sure the hives are secure from tipping over and the lids wont blow off. Set them off early the next morning before they begin flying. Beekeepers can be nocturnal bees arent.
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Sheer curtains from your front window.... or from Goodwill... (and duct tape) in a pinch. Bees will come out of the hive if it's warm enough and they are being jostled around, even in the dark.
Disclaimer: I've never been a bee.
Our local 99cent store has laundry bags made of netting. I have used then to transport nucs inside my vehicle. The netting looks a bit course, but it is enough to keep the bees in. They are a little short so I use two-one over each end, overlapping in the middle. The ones I bought have a drawstring closure.
Another hint if your nucs are cardboard or plastic with ventilation holes is to use easily removable 2" blue painters tape around where the lid meets the box to reduce escapees.
I bought some ? kind of meshed bag at walmart last year, only cost a couple of dollars each and the jester nuc fits in it just fine.
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I only wrap nucs up in the car if my wife is with me because she complains about them buzzing around and pooping on the windows. Otherwise I just let them buzz and wash the poop off when I get where I am going. My Beagle goes with me on the GA trip every year and she is always a neurotic mess on the way back because the bees start flying around the truck. When they bump the side windows I just let them out. Power windows are great for that.
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If you are in a truck why are you worried about them coming into the truck?
I haul bees all the time on my flatbed with windows rolled down. My A/C is 3 60. Three open windows and 60 MPH. I never get bees in the truck with me. Just secure them well (preferably on the bed of your truck) and haul back home at night as Jim suggested.
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Agribon low cost crop cover for keeping insects out. lets light and air pass through. disposable. The shade netting is expensive but would be tougher for hives in the back of a truck. I use it to protect tobacco from cross pollinating. It withstands outdoor conditions for several months. Would be similar to tule.
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Thanks to all of you.I should be able fix the problem. The reason I was going to haul the bees up front with me was weather related. Maybe to cold or rain .
actually cold rainy weather is perfect bee moving weather. It ensures they will NOT overheat and die on you. I pray for those days when hauling. It also helps keep them in the box on the truck.


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Prude And Ross
On the WNST Casey report:
Casey mentioned that Billick named Prude and Ross by name as two UDFAs that are making noise in camp. Of course, Billick did not say that these two have made the team, but you have to think that at this point, Prude and Ross will have to play their way off the team.
Casey also mentioned that Cory Ross is really pushing BJ Sams for the PR/KR job. Could Ross be the KR while Sams remains as PR?
As for Ronnie Prude, Casey mentioned how Prude has an advantage for playing in an NFL style defense with Nick Saban. At this point, it looks like Derrick Martin will go to PS. As for David Pittman, he'll probably make the team, but be an inactive. They could sneak Pittman onto the "IR."
Looks like our CBs will be CMAC, Rolle, Ivy, Prude, and Pittman. Our safeies will be Reed, Sapp, and Landry. I think BJ Ward will somehow get stashed on the IR. Seems like Jermaine Winborne is fighting his way onto the team as a safety.
I have to admit that I was the one saying that Prude had to show me what he could do in a game. Well, he has, but my only criticism is that Prude learns to finish all of his plays.
Just my two cents.It's a new season! It's a new day!
Re: Prude And RossI think BJ Ward will somehow get stashed on the IR.
I still think Sams is the better punt returner. Ross and Sams are about equal in KO returns. So I say Sams stays.
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Some other news from Aaron Wilson via WNST:
David Pittman was taped to the goalpost on today.
Players were really griping about being at the training camp and it probably was taking a toll on them. Not a reflection of how they feel about Carroll County, but the players are ready to return home, "the Palace", etc.
Players that stood out greater than expected to Aaron Wilson:
- Corey Ivy.
- Ronnie Prude and Cory Ross.
- Quinn Synewski.
- Dan Cody. Love his attitude towards his recovery.
Players that Aaron Wilson believe are not quite meeting expectations:
- Trevor Pryce still trying to adjust to his role here.
- Thought Jason Brown would push Flynn a little more.
- Sam Koch.
Aaron says that Kyle Boller just needs to relax and be himself. Thinks Boller is being too hard on himself.
Says that Billick is much more calm than in the past.
McNair will play more snaps. (I thought I heard him say that McNair would play the entire half, but not sure. Tyring to type as he talks).
Talked about JO condition and how he probably gained that 30lbs. while going through the hospitalization and loss of his father.It's a new season! It's a new day!


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#1 is warmer to me. I would choose it.
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#1 is warmer to me. I would choose it.
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Here is another one for the cool blue number 2. It makes the pattern pop. I do not like the yellowness of one, the pattern and how blended it is with the other fabrics.
By the way both are good options. It all depends what you are trying to achieve.
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I like quilts that pop. That being said I like #2 the blue. The first block is very muted. I guess you will have to decide if you want the batiks to pop or just melt into each other
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I'd go with #1. For me, #2 is too icey for the tropical looking batiks.
I do like both fabrics, but the white makes your batiks stand out.
Another vote for 2!
I like the yellow because it is warm and goes with the other fabrics.
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i like #1 best
I like #2 best. It looks so refreshing, and maybe cuz my favorite color is blue?
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Hey wow I may become an AR builder if I can shoot with any upper.
Let me guess.... California, New York, New Jersey,.....
I would like to know what states require this still. and does it apply to other types of weapons????
I can't remember the name of the manufacturer, but a friend has a modular lower reciever that has an extra pin with interchangeable sections. It will take either AK magazines with a 7.62x39 upper or AR mags with the .556 upper. Unusual looking AR but it functions great with either combination. Just wondered if this was what they may have been refering to?
think of all the mauser and remington 700,s out there with different barrels. this is such a stupid law an is no way inforcable. I suspose once you burn up a barrel they expect you not to rebarrel it. also 5.56 0r 223 wont mean any thing if i swith it to aay 22 ppc or 22 bench rest it still is the same calibure on my reciver.1biggun I believe its the same states that have or had the shell casing trace evidence law where you had to supply a fired case with your gun when you register it. Thats how the multi caliber ar15 was explained to me by a dealer at a gunshow. I thought that law was only for handguns. Luckily for me Illinois doesn't have that law yet, but they have enough other goofy laws that only restrict law abiding people and not the people the laws are directed at.
Are striped recivers banned in those states??? how would you supply a fired round???
Not only that but over the functional lifetime of a firearm the companets wear and can leave a different marking on the fired case. Not to mention as you pointed out the ease of changing a barrel or firing pin. Its another case of some over zealous a-hole who thinks they will stop crime with this one more new law.


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John Baird Calls For Tougher Sanctions From Canada and UN Against Syrian Regime Following Houla Massacre
OTTAWA - Canada is calling for tougher sanctions against Syria following an attack on the town of Houla that killed more than 100 men, women and children.
The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on Sunday and called for those responsible for the slaughter to be held accountable.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says the attack on Friday — one of the deadliest of the country's 14-month-old uprising — shows the Syrian regime's appalling disregard for human life.
Baird says stronger action is needed, including economic sanctions, to ensure the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad "immediately stops the senseless slaughter of its own people."
The Syrian government has denied responsibility for the Houla massacre, blaming it on "hundreds of heavily armed gunmen" who also attacked soldiers in the area.
The brutality of the killings is made clear in amateur videos posted online that show scores of bodies, many of them young children, in neat rows and covered with blood and deep wounds.


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When it comes to war, novelists are like carpetbaggers. Carpetbaggers, as readers of Gone With The Wind will know, was a pejorative nickname Scarlett O'Hara and her compatriots gave to fortune-seeking Yankees who "came south like buzzards" following the American Civil War, "swarming in trying to pick our bones a little barer than they already are".
Novelists too are war profiteers, capitalising on one of the most dramatic events in the human experience, albeit often for the higher goal of enlightenment.
It being Anzac Day tomorrow we thought it was timely to declare our Fiction Addiction list of the five best war novels. (A declaration: I haven't read For Whom the Bells Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, or War and Peace, so they are glaring omissions in both my literary education and this list.)
1. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Hilarious in its horror, and horrifying in its hilarity, Catch-22 follows American Captain Joseph Yossarian's attempts to evade duty as a bombardier while stationed on a Mediterranean island during World War II. The Catch-22 is that if a crew member asks to be excused from a dangerous mission on the grounds he is crazy, he will be judged to be sane and denied a reprieve, because only a crazy person would willingly go. The story was originally titled Catch-18, but Heller was advised to change it to avoid confusion with Leon Uris's war novel Mila 18. So he agreed to Catch-11, but that was rejected because of the impending release of the original Ocean's Eleven movie. Catch-14 was also rejected because the publisher thought it was an "unfunny" number.
2. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
In this uproarious satire of war reporting, the gardening correspondent of a London newspaper is sent to cover an impending civil war in a fictional African country, in place of the paper's foreign correspondent, who has the same name. It was inspired by Waugh's stint covering Mussolini's expected invasion of Abyssinia for the Daily Mail. When Waugh got what he thought was the scoop on the invasion, he filed his story in Latin in case his lesser-educated competition got wind of it. But his editor didn't know Latin either and binned it, thinking it was a prank.
3. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
It might be a stretch to call this a war novel but, for a novelist, a revolution is the next best thing. It's a sweeping, dramatic epic that tells the story of half a dozen English and French people caught up in the French Revolution. In this novel, Dickens gave the world one of the most famous opening lines in literature: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair..."
4. Tu by Patricia Grace
An intimate portrayal of World War II told through the eyes of a young soldier in the Maori Battalion who follows his two older brothers to battle, and is the only one who returns. Its strength is in its depictions of the ordinary Kiwi soldier's war in Italy - including the Battle of Monte Cassino. Grace drew inspiration from the experience of her father and other relatives. (Maurice Shadbolt's Season of the Jew trilogy is another notable war novel by a New Zealand author, but I'm struggling to think of others.)
5. The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
Forget the cheesy musical version and the unfaithful Spielberg/Cruise movie. The original 1898 novel The War of The Worlds is a slim book that pioneered the man-versus-alien sub-genre of science fiction and was eerily prophetic, given the mechanised killing that laid waste to Europe less than two decades later. It tells the story of an invasion of England by machine-like Martians, and one man's bid for survival. In 1938 an Orson Welles radio adaptation of the book sparked mass hysteria across America. (One woman in New Jersey rang the police to ask if she would be safe from the aliens if she closed her windows.) If you've been subjected to the Jeff Wayne musical version you'll understand that it's hard to read the original without hearing the cry "ooooollllaaa" continuously reverberating through your head. But do try.
What are your favourite war novels?


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The big picture here is Randel is two years away from learning the system, had one big game against a horrible defense where they called a play that required no read adjustments. As far a Barden goes, he will always just be a good receiver waiting in the wings, don't see him ever reaching the caliber of Cruz or Nicks.
Big question, when do we just cut bait with Jernigan?


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Re: st: A layman question on model building
James Bernard <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: A layman question on model building
Fri, 8 Mar 2013 17:21:01 +0800
Thanks Maarten
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Maarten Buis <email@example.com> wrote:
> --- On 07.03.2013 08:07, James Bernard wrote:
>>> We often add control variables that turn out to be insignificant. Does
>>> that mean that I can remove that variable form my model without being
>>> concerned with omitted variable bias?
> --- On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:22 AM, John Antonakis wrote:
>> If you have a sufficiently large sample size and the regressors of interest
>> are significant predictors, then it is best to leave in the controls; they
>> do not harm but help consistency (even if only a tad). <snip> I would
>> (mostly) always err on the side of caution and include the controls.
> I agree with John if the predictor belonged in the model. However,
> many predictors don't belong in the model to begin with. I often see
> researcher including variables only because they think it influences
> the explained/dependent/response/left-hand-side/y variable. This is a
> necessary but _not_ a sufficient condition. The researcher also needs
> to think about the relationship between the control variable and the
> predictor of interest. This leads to two common mistakes:
> Say you have a response which is influenced by someones social status
> and you approximate social status with someones occupation. Should you
> than control for someones education? If you think that someones
> education is also a approximation of someones social status, and that
> that is the mechanism through which education influences your response
> than the answer should be no. If you do than you measure the impact of
> one measure of social status while adjusting for another measure of
> that same social status. What you could do is either chose one of the
> two measures of social status or combine the two measures into a
> single status measure, for instance using -sheafcoef- and -propcnsreg-
> (both from SSC) or -sem-. Maybe you need to rethink your theory, it
> could be that it is really just possibilities and constraints
> associated with the occupation and knowledge and socialization
> received from eduction that influences your response, in which case
> both might (see below) belong in your model .
> Say you want to know the impact of someones education on a response,
> should you control for that persons occupation? In most cases I would
> say no, as that way you would filter out one of the important
> mechanisms through which education influences the response. In most
> cases it is reasonable to assume that someones education influences
> someones occupation and not the other way around. So if occupation
> influences a response, than that represents a causal pathway through
> which education influences that response: education influences
> someones occupation which in turn influences the response. This is not
> a spurious effect that you want to filter out. If anything the causal
> claim for this part of the effect of education is stronger than the
> residual effect you would obtain if you controlled for occupation,
> since we know why that effect is there and how it works. It could be
> meaningful to use -sem- in combination with -estat teffects- to
> decompose the total effect of education into effects that can be
> explained by intervening variables (occupation) and a
> residual/unexplained effect of education
> So, once I decided that a variable belongs in my model I would agree
> with John and almost always leave it in, but many variables do not
> belong in the model to begin with.
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
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I love it.
the game has just started
Death, taxes, and romo choking....and Giants starting 6-2 and suffering a late season swoon.....and Brady and Peyton leading their teams to the playoffs...The NFL is sooo predictable
Yet these lucky losers are still tied.
I hate the Cowgirls, but at least their future is in their hands at this point. Say what you want about Romo, but he sure outplayed Eli this year.


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1:20 PM Thursday Dec 20, 2012
Women from around the world have taken the cultural dress category to the extreme, donning some of the most colourful, creative costumes ever seen on the pageant stage. Neck-snapping headpieces, flamboyant tail features and itty bitty sequenced swatches were among the trends. A new Miss Universe will soon be crowned in Las Vegas, replacing the 2012 title holder from Angola, Leila Lopes.


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Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Thanks so much for sharing the measurements.
Thank you so much after watching Jenny's tute I had a few questions and you answered all of then. Happy Quilting
Judy in Phx, AZ
I'm making one of these too! I'm supposed to be working on another project, but I'm mad at it right now, so I started the big star. Here's the first:
Omg. I made one block yesterday. Took almost 3 hours. Mostly un-sewing.. Seems I could not pick up the pieces from the design board, carry them to my machine and sew down the right side... Then wondering just how I scouts have sewn the wrong sides of the strips together. Next one has to be so much easier. Just could not make a second one yesterday . . Wondering if anyone has days like this.
Judy in Phx, AZ
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I just finished one for our oldest son's 42nd birthday. Made it with University of GA fabric along with red & black . Came out really nice & super quick
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Here's the one I just finished- going to son today. Its only 2 stars ?
& I used 10" squares
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I made one of these Big Star quilts and it turned out great. It was fun and came together quickly.
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Why? Because we only have 1 GOOD cb on the team....that's why....Webster is on his way out....Ross just isn't good....T2 has the odds stacked against him....Hosley, we have no clue what were getting....
so let's assume there's a good chance we go into 2014 with only Prince & Hosley.....
Maybe because they only have one reliable CB on the team. Webster was bad last year and only getting older. Ross was not that good two years ago and he was cut from a horrible team after just one year. Even if TT plays this year he will probably be a Safety. Maybe Hosely will be better this year.
Ross only shows up in the play-offs, but he should be refreshed after his long vacation.
Webster-had a bad year probably wont be back next season.
Ross- is what he is depth probably here 1 year
Hosley- Here for the next 3 years but not proven and looked terrible at times.Not convinced he is anything more then depth
TT- Seriously I wouldnt even bank on him playing. He shouldnt be penciled in at all in a spot
There was easily a back end roster spot for another high end corner as carrying 6 even if Thomas makes it is common.Next season the Giants will most likely be forced into grabbing 1 high in the draft. U could say the same thing about DT and they took 1 of them


text: Actually, 2nd assignments for Josh and Jason are still provisional. Last year they moved them around as necessary depending on the fields. We didn't know last year where Josh's second JPG would be until a couple weeks before. I wouldn't assume that they are "set in stone" until they appear on the USFSA site. http://www.usfsa.org/Athletes.asp?id=216 (And even then, they have been known to change those listings before too.) So Josh may not face Yan after all, they may shift him later.


text: Saw this article in one of the free daily newspapers here: Last native Javan rhino found dead Vietnam's Javan rhinos poached into oblivion The article later states: I know there are articles about species being eliminated by humans on a too-common basis, but this article really affected me. First, an endangered species is hunted to (almost) extinction. And the reason? For something that has no scientific validity. It's like acting on an old wive's tales...just because... Ignorance is not bliss.


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I know, a chateau can hardly be called a hideaway but that is how it felt staying at this 1892 mansion in the sixteenth arrondissement: the Saint James Paris. Tucked away behind old stone walls that seemed to hug you as you walked through the grand entrance, it was like a childhood dream to stay in a place so whimsical and Parisian. A porthole to the city, a Alice and Wonderland seeming staircase, a glowing aura of magical things to come. From the roaring fireplace when you walk through the doors to the resident cat who will paw at the window until you let him in, this place floats in my mind as a safe haven tucked away in a corner of Paris…
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- Alaska photographer set out to document the frigid interior of the state in winter
- The most remote highway in United States and tallest mountain in North America were on his itinerary
- Subjects included a captive herd of reindeer on the campus of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks
In a few months, temperatures in the Alaskan interior near the town of Fairbanks will rise into the 70s and 80s Fahrenheit (mid- to high-20s Celsius).
Hundreds of thousands of visitors will arrive to take in the epic wildlife and scenic grandeur of Denali National Park and Preserve, six million acres of unspoiled wilderness bisected by a single road.
Though in winter the area remains encased in snow, ice and freezing temperatures, the land is no less glorious for it.
Alaska photographer Pat Costello has spent the waning days of the harsh Alaska winter exploring in and around Fairbanks, the heart of the 49th state.
The most remote highway in United States, the tallest mountain in North America (Mount McKinley at 20,237 feet/6,168 meters) and the dreamlike northern lights were all on his itinerary.
A selection of his work is featured in the gallery above.


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