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Tokina AT-X 16-28 F2.8 PRO FX Nikon
Further readings for the Tokina AT-X 16-28 F2.8 PRO FX Nikon
To provide photographers with a broader perspective about mobiles, lenses and cameras, here are links to articles, reviews, and analyses of photographic equipment produced by DxOMark, renown websites, magazines or blogs.
The Nikon D750 is an affordable 24.3Mp full-frame DSLR with attractive-looking specs for both the enthusiast and the professional photographer. It's capable of producing outstanding pictures, but the quality of the lens used has a bearing on image quality. We've analyzed the performance of 105 lenses on the Nikon D750, and in part one we bring you an analysis of the top three zoom lenses in six different categories.
In this second installment of lens recommendations for the Nikon D810, we've been analyzing the best performing models for landscape and wildlife photography. Admittedly when it comes to fast-paced photography there are better choices in Nikon's range but there's always a case for high-resolution imagery but the Nikon D810 also serves to highlight the best performing models, and particularly in the longer focal lengths where it's more common (and often more practical) to use cameras with lower pixel densities.
Following on from the lens recommendations for the earlier full-frame Nikon D600, we've now had the opportunity to assess a wide range lenses with that model's replacement, the 24-Mpix D610. We've analyzed a total of 95 Nikkor and third-party prime and zoom models with the D610 to assess image quality, and we've come across some unexpected results. Read on to find out more about that and which lenses perform best when paired with the camera.
Nikon's update to the film era AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5D IF-ED boasts an enviable spec, including built-in silent wave AF motor and re-designed optical construction with two ED glass elements. Read on to see how well it performs on the 36-Mpix Nikon D800.
Following on from our series of selecting the best lenses for the Nikon D800 with its potential for massively detailed images from the 36Mpix sensor, we've now turned our attention to that camera's younger sibling, the 24Mpix D600.
Nikon Nikkor AF-S 14-24mm f/2.8G ED review: A very impressive ultra-wide performer on the Nikon D800?
Introduced in 2007 alongside the AF-S Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED and Nikon's first full-frame DSLR – the 12-megapixel Nikon D3 – this lens was a first of its kind and set new standards for image quality for ultra-wide angle lenses. How does this lens perform on demanding high-resolution bodies, such as the 36-MPix Nikon D800? DxOMark has the answer.
Here are the first results for Tokina's wide-angle lens. This lens was launched last year and works on Nikon cameras (Tokina AT-X 16-28 F2.8 PRO FX Nikon) and on Canon cameras (Tokina AT-X 16-28 F2.8 PRO FX Canon).
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Tokina AT-X 16-28 F2.8 PRO FX Nikon
After reviewing interior and exterior architectural/real estate images taken with this lens. I am looking for the Raw lens Correction profiles for the Tokina AT-X 16-28 F2.8 PRO FX Nikon to help speedup my workflow.
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D800E with the Tokina 16-28 2.8
The lens metric scores will not show when I select the d800e for this lens. Please help.
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Warehousing and Fulfillment Solutions Are Changing Due to E-commerce
October 25, 2012
The warehousing and fulfillment markets are undergoing significant changes as companies incorporate e-commerce into their overall strategy.
Decisions such as physical locations of warehousing and whether to fulfill e-commerce orders from separate facilities, in-store, from existing warehouses or a combination of all three are among the strategic decisions brick and mortar companies are facing as they compete against the likes of Amazon, eBay and Newegg.
While much of this change differs from one company to the next, speed to fulfill and options in the final delivery location are similar for most companies. Not only that, but the need for visibility over the entire process is in demand as companies' supply chains are further complicated.
The issue is explored in greater detail in a paper written by Cathy Roberson, of the London-based think tank, Transport Intelligence.
The higher volume of e-commerce orders is affecting this need for speed to fulfill; with the layout of warehouses of great importance. For some companies, the use of high-bay racking, product placement and an effective alignment of rack storage are necessary. Also, there is an increasing use of automation within such facilities. The use of robotics is also on the increase, as noted by the acquisition of Kiva Systems by Amazon. The acquisition was questioned by some, but physical order fulfillment reportedly costs the company nearly 9% of its global revenues, thus, reducing this cost will likely improve Amazon's profits.
Managing the delivery process is also an increasingly difficult task as delivery locations from warehousing/fulfillment centers are no longer confined to physical stores. Now, these facilities are shipping either directly to the customer, a neutral site (such as a lockbox location, FedEx/UPS store or other retailer) or to the physical store for pickup.
As such, IT companies such as High Jump, Red Prairie, Oracle and others have expanded their traditional warehouse management systems (WMS), transportation management systems (TMS) and other IT solutions to meet this need for flexibility, for not only changing transportation needs, but also for order/inventory management and visibility.
As IT providers offer more innovative solutions for brick and mortar companies to compete with dotcoms, inventive startups are springing up. For example, Shipwire offers global order fulfillment capabilities and warehouse network via its cloud logistics network. According to the company, customers are able to outsource their entire global fulfillment, warehousing and shipping needs to Shipwire. Although not a startup, but just as inventive, Amazon also offers fulfillment services for customers. The company's 'Fulfillment by Amazon' service ships goods from its own warehouses on behalf of its marketplace sellers.
E-commerce has spurred, not only new concepts and ideas within the supply chain, but also new companies are popping up to address logistical challenges resulting from the rise of e-commerce.
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THE CALCULUS OF SELFISHNESS. Karl Sigmund. x + 173 pp. Princeton University Press, 2010. $35.
Since the 1970s, a loose community of theoretical biologists, economists, political scientists, mathematicians and philosophers has been using the tools of evolutionary game theory to try to understand how purely selfish agents can come to cooperate, follow norms and even behave altruistically—to understand when honesty is the best policy. Karl Sigmund has been a leading figure in these efforts, and The Calculus of Selfishness is his latest attempt at an introduction to the field. In its exposition, the book focuses on reciprocity between self-interested individuals in certain elementary types of interactions.
Game theory (as laid out in chapter 1) models agents interacting with each other, in pairs or in larger groups, with a fixed set of moves available to them. (Sigmund mostly deals with two-player games, but this is just for simplicity.) An agent—Alice, say—has a "strategy" that tells her what move to make at each step in the game, in response to another agent's moves and to the state of the external world (if the model admits that the latter exists). Alice's coplayer—Bob, say—also has a strategy, and together the two strategies determine the outcome of the game. At its end, Alice and Bob each get a payoff, according to a function that depends on the moves both have made. Their strategies are in equilibrium if neither of them could increase their payoff by changing their moves unilaterally.
Basic economics courses lead one to expect that there will be only one equilibrium and that it will be optimal for everyone. The games of relevance to the evolution of cooperation, however, are social dilemmas, where this expectation fails. Sometimes the problem is that the equilibrium is optimal for no one. Imagine that Alice and Bob are two bandits, who can either cooperate in robbing villages and caravans, or defect by turning on each other. If they both cooperate, each will take $1,000; if they both defect, neither can steal effectively and they'll get $0. But suppose that if Alice cooperates and Bob defects by turning on her, he will get $2,000 and she will lose $500—and vice versa. Then regardless of what Alice does, Bob will be better off defecting. So by symmetry, the only way to achieve equilibrium is for both of them to defect—even though they'd both be better off, in purely selfish terms, if they both cooperated. When this type of problem was first posed at the RAND Corporation in the early 1950s, it was framed as prisoners being offered the chance to turn state's witness, so it is still called the prisoner's dilemma, and it is the archetype of many cooperation problems. A multiperson version of it is the public goods game, in which something like an open park is shared equally among all participants, no matter how much each of them has contributed to its creation or upkeep.
In other social dilemmas, there are many equilibria, some more favorable to one player than to another. If Alice and Bob can agree to cooperate as bandits, how should they split the loot—the extra loot, that is, beyond what they would each get on their own? If Alice can convince Bob that she won't cooperate unless she gets, say, 75 percent of the gains, it is in Bob's interest to agree to her demand, since 25 percent extra is better than 0 percent. Thus there is an Alice-favoring equilibrium; but, symmetrically, there is also a Bob-favoring one. However, agreeing to a 50-50 split is not an equilibrium at all. This is called the snowdrift game, after another fable, and is the archetypal depiction of the inevitable struggle over how to divide the gains from cooperation.
In evolutionary game theory (introduced in chapter 2), we imagine a population of agents, all with their own strategies, who are randomly paired up to play a given game. The replicator dynamic means that strategies whose players do better than average will increase their share of the population, at the expense of strategies that have worse-than-average results. Whether this works by agents imitating the more successful among them, or by actual natural selection, is not (at this level of abstraction) mathematically relevant. What matters is that the performance of each strategy depends on what other strategies are available in the population and how common they are. The population-level dynamics of strategies are stochastic processes, which in the large-population limit (where Sigmund mostly works) smooth out into differential equations.
When are cooperative strategies able to survive or even dominate the population? Chapters 3, 4 and 5 consider mechanisms that can achieve this. Chapter 3 is about direct reciprocity: If Alice and Bob play the same game with each other repeatedly, and each can remember what the other player did earlier, they can pay each other back in kind. In games of the prisoner's dilemma type, a strategy of cooperating if and only if the other player cooperated last time does not do well against a fixed strategy of noncooperation, but it does do well against another player with the same strategy. It can thus invade a population of noncooperators, although once it becomes dominant, a strategy of unconditional cooperation can invade in turn. These strategies require only very basic sorts of memory; more complex strategies, relying on more sophisticated memories, can be more robust to noise, avoiding costly cycles of retaliation provoked by error and misunderstanding.
Chapter 4 extends these ideas to indirect reciprocity, in two forms. In both, Alice's decision to cooperate with Bob today leads to cooperation tomorrow. In one form, today's cooperation leads Charlie to cooperate with Alice tomorrow; in the other, it leads Bob to cooperate with Charlie.
Chapter 5 looks at norms of fairness and the effects of having a reputation for refusing to violate norms. In the split-the-loot game above, if Alice has established a reputation for refusing to cooperate at all rather than accept unfair divisions, Bob will not bother to offer her a bad deal in the first place. Both indirect reciprocity and reputation require not just memory but also fairly accurate information about what third parties have done—information acquired by perception or communication.
Chapter 6 looks in detail at a particular model of the provision of public goods, and at whether voluntary or compulsory participation in providing public goods works better. This chapter is exemplary as an analysis of a model, but the conclusions seem to rest heavily on the assumption that each agent's reward from the public good goes down in proportion to the population size, which is not true of many public goods, such as roads free of bandits.
Up to this point, the book has assumed that players meet randomly, which is of course unrealistic. The final chapter looks briefly at what happens when some internal structure is added to the populations, by spreading them out in space and limiting agents to playing with their immediate neighbors, or by dividing the population into subgroups that mix internally and periodically re-form. This chapter feels less complete than the rest, because it offers just a glimpse of a vast, largely unmapped territory.
Sigmund's mathematical exposition is exemplary. He starts with the presumption that the reader has only rudimentary linear algebra (multiplying vectors by matrices) and some notion of what a differential equation is, and he builds up from there, introducing more advanced concepts and results as needed. He avoids formal proofs and bookkeeping in favor of careful explanations of key points and illustrative calculations. As he teaches evolutionary game theory, Sigmund is also demonstrating how to write about applied mathematics.
Of course this is not just a mathematical book. That Sigmund calls his two forms of indirect reciprocity vicarious and misguided, rather than, for instance, admiring and grateful, doesn't change his models, but it probably does shape how readers interpret the models and their properties, and the interpretations are what give the models their interest. (Would anyone study these equations for their own sake?) Since Sigmund, like everyone else in the field, is trying to explain how ethics could arise from selfishness, I suspect that morally charged language is unavoidable, and even desirable, if taken with a grain of salt. These are not matters that mathematics could ever settle, but it is important, and surprising, that mathematics can illuminate them. And Sigmund's book casts a very bright light.
Cosma Shalizi is an assistant professor in the statistics department at Carnegie Mellon University and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is writing a book on the statistical analysis of complex systems models. His blog, Three-Toed Sloth, can be found at http://bactra.org/weblog/.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/honor-among-thieves
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In 5 minutes on foot guests can reach the metro, allowing them to travel to the Île de la Cité (Notre Dame Cathedral) in 20 minutes, and Montmartre in 15 minutes. The lovely Canal Saint-Martin is a 15-minute walk away.
Famous Père Lachaise Cemetery is just 5 minutes' walk away. The local area is well-serviced by plenty of restaurants and shops, as well as supermarkets, banks, and pharmacies.
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Discussion in 'Off-topic Zone' started by Sam I Am, Oct 19, 2011.
Hey, no religious symbols.
That is a good one
Discworld by Terry Pratchett
Full Service to boot! I'd be more excited over paying a buck oh 9 for gas then the 1 dollar sex show.
lol, damn straight!!!
Amazing it was only $1.45 four years ago....The good old days.
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Not here in in Ca it wasn't we have some of the highest gas prices anywhere. I was in San Antonio back in mid June and gas was averaging 50 cents a gallon lower than in the LA area.
Except it wasn't.
Photoshop troll
Man that is a funny website.
Here is another one that cracked me up.
Windex! :laugh2:
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CHICAGO – February 16, 2005 – Conspiracy theorists rejoice! Midway Games Inc. (NYSE: MWY), a leading interactive entertainment industry publisher and developer, today announced that AREA 51 is currently in development for the PC and is scheduled to ship in April 2005 alongside its console counterparts. Developed internally by Midway Studios Austin, the game features intense first-person shooting action, a secret alien base on earth, government cover-ups and a blockbuster Hollywood cast, proving AREA 51 is a must-have game for players of any system.
"Midway is committed to expanding the breadth of its product line to encompass the PC games sector," said Steve Allison, chief marketing officer, Midway. "Simultaneously introducing all three SKUs will enable us to effectively maximize our marketing efforts and create a high-level of consumer awareness at launch."
Cast in the lead role is David Duchovny, star of the ultimate conspiracy-theory television show, The X-Files , who lends his instantly recognizable voice to AREA 51's lead character, Specialist Ethan Cole, a special forces soldier specializing in hazardous materials investigations. Powers Boothe, who currently appears in the HBO mini-series Deadwood , provides the voice of Major Bridges, while shock rocker Marilyn Manson delivers an unforgettable performance as Edgar, the gray alien.
AREA 51 boasts a rich online experience of up to 16 players for the PC, PlayStation ® 2 computer entertainment system and the Xbox ® video game system. Players' online experiences will be enhanced with game modes such as Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, and Humans vs. Alien Mutant Team Deathmatch.
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The U.S. Army has received a distress signal from Area 51 where a viral outbreak has just shut down the research facility and the automated quarantine procedures have locked all scientific and military personnel inside. A small Special Forces unit including Specialist Ethan Cole of the HAZMAT (hazardous materials) Division is sent to investigate.
As Cole, players delve into the massive levels within the confines of Area 51, only to discover a deadly mutagenic side effect of the virus that controls the minds of those infected, as well as an ancient alien colony buried beneath the facility. Players will uncover the truth behind chilling conspiracies as they come across the remnants of the extraterrestrial crash at Roswell , alien autopsies, and the faked lunar landing. Cole must solve the enigma of Area 51 before the viral mutagen is released and irrevocably mutates all life on Earth.


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You're gonna love the guy Bush just nominated for World Bank president.
Original post made by Talk About Credentials, Duveneck/St. Francis, on May 30, 2007
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Oh but wait, my darlings, here's the best part: After the obliteration of Fallujah, Zoellick went there to preach about "self-reliance"!! That's in the middle of a city of refugees with half the houses destroyed, the infrastructure torn to shreds, sewage everywhere, filthy water, corpses, the still-smoking rubble, kids living on charity in tents. And this guy goes and meets some greasy little marionettes who absolutely abase themselves in front of him, and he says: "People like you will be the key to Iraq's future, not the US. It's your country. We can help but you have to make it happen."
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a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on May 30, 2007 at 9:58 am
The story is even more revolting: Zoellick was also one of the Vulcans:
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The Vulcans is a nickname used to refer to Republican Presidential candidate George W. Bush's foreign policy advisory team assembled to brief him prior to the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election. The Vulcans were led by Condoleezza Rice and included Richard Armitage, Robert Blackwill, Stephen Hadley, Richard Perle, Dov Zakheim, Robert Zoellick and Paul Wolfowitz. Other key campaign figures including Dick Cheney, George Shultz and Colin Powell were also closely associated with the group but were never actually members. During the campaign, Bush sought to deflect questions about his own lack of foreign policy experience by pointing to this group of experienced advisers. After the election, all the members of the team received key positions within the new Bush administration.
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on May 30, 2007 at 1:11 pm
As he always does, the bumbler-in-chief has made the worst possible choice. Zoellick has no significant experience in economic development in poor countries.
He has been a close friend to the brand-name pharmaceutical industry, and the bilateral trade agreements he has negotiated effectively block access to generic medication for millions of people. Corporate America has used the world bank to exploit the dire need of poor nations for capital and translated it into fabulous bargains for the corporations, t stripping desperately poor countries of natural resources, local utilities, etc, enriching the corporations and making the life of the local population even harder. Zoelick will just continue the exploitation and will be much more profecient at it than the bumbling, highly incompetent Wolfowitz.


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And what output are you feeding into these headphone amps?
One thing a few people have mentioned in passing, but which hasn't been stated explicitly, is that some studio devices, such as mixing boards especially, but also some DA converters, often have very good headphone preamps built in.
I was watching a video on one of the portable amps designed for use with mobile devices, the guy said on an Apple, rather than feeding the headphone Out into it, you can get a connector that uses the proprietary apple socket to feed the amp and that this bypasses the not so good amp in the Apple so you start with a cleaner signal.


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Pulaski Tech's Fine Arts and Humanities will host a Musical Showcase at 7 p.m. Feb. 27 at Argenta Community Theater.
The one-hour performance will include music by Pulaski Tech's 27-member choir, under the direction of Michael Ekbladh, adjunct music instructor, and piano and vocal solos. The show is free and open to the public.
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Actors from the London Stage
Top (from left): Brigid Zengeni, Chris Donnelly
Bottom: Dan Winter, Charlotte Allam, Will Ashcroft
Actors from the London Stage to perform 'Macbeth'
By Lesli Hicks
Special Projects Writer, M.A., '07
(Oct. 9, 2007)--The UTSA Friends of Shakespeare and the Department of English, Classics and Philosophy will host a return of Actors from the London Stage performing Shakespeare's "Macbeth" at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 10; Friday, Oct. 12; and Saturday, Oct. 13 in the Arts Building Recital Hall on the UTSA 1604 Campus.
The touring ensemble of five British actors from such prestigious companies as the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre of Great Britain and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre features Charlotte Allam, Will Ashcroft, Chris Donnelly, Dan Winter and Brigid Zengeni. The performers play multiple roles in a production that utilizes simple costumes and minimal scenery with an emphasis on the richness of Shakespeare's language.
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As part of the residency, Charlotte Allam will present a lecture/recital featuring Robert Burns' "Tam 'o Shanter" from 11 a.m. to noon, Thursday, Oct. 11 in the Business Building University Room (2.06.04). 1604 Campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Written in 1606, William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" is considered one of the best tragedies ever written. The play tells the story of a man, urged by his wife and the prophecy of three witches, who murders the king to gain power. Themes in the play are the temptation of evil and the deceptiveness of appearances. An integral part of the thematic web is the play's most memorable character, Lady Macbeth, whose ambition for power leads her to madness and suicide.
Housed at the University of Notre Dame, Actors from the London Stage (AFTLS) is an educational and theatrical program that brings a troupe of five classically trained actors from major English theaters to U.S. college campuses to perform and conduct classes and workshops in weeklong residencies. Begun in 1975 by Professor Homer Swander of the University of California, Santa Barbara and British actor Patrick Stewart, AFTLS's unique program of performance and education has visited 150 campuses to bring Shakespeare to life all over America.
In the company's 21st visit to UTSA and San Antonio, the residency is funded by The residency is supported by UTSA Friends of Shakespeare and and a grant from the Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts.
Tickets for "Macbeth" are $18, $10 for students with ID, and are available at the University Center information desk on the UTSA 1604 Campus (cash or check). Tickets also will be available at the door (cash or check).
Free parking for performances is available in lot 8, south of the Arts Building. (Download a UTSA 1604 Campus map.)
For more information or group bookings, call (210) 458-5358.
About the actors
CHARLOTTE ALLAM (Malcolm, Cathness, Wife of Macduff, First Witch, Murderer) trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Recent theater credits include the West End production of "The 39 Steps" and The Royal Shakespeare Company's production of "Hecuba," starring Vanessa Redgrave. She also has performed on radio and television and made several short films. Allam has written a number of stage and radio plays, two of which are currently in development for production. Before attending the Guildhall, she trained professionally as a dancer.
WILL ASHCROFT (Banquo, Lennox, Seyward, Son of Macduff, Scottish Doctor, Porter) is from a theater family and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Recent theater credits include Oberon in the English Shakespeare Company's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Jack Worthing in "The Importance of Being Earnest" (Oxford Theatre Company), Mr. Fag in "The Rivals" (English Touring Company) and Bill in P.G. Woodhouse's "Good Morning Bill." His TV work includes Ted Heath in "Suez: A Very British Crisis," Mayor of "London in Flood" and the lead in "The Day Britain Stopped." Other programs include "Love Soup," "Eastenders," "Footballers' Wives," "Casualty," "Wire in the Blood," "My Dad's the PM," "NY-LON" and "Absolute Power." Ashcroft lives on board a boat moored in London.
CHRIS DONNELLY (Macbeth, Bloody Captain, Old Man, English Doctor, Murderer) studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and returns to Actors from the London Stage after first appearing with the group in the 2005 production of "Twelfth Night." His extensive credits span television, radio and theater. He was in the original cast of the award winning Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory Company, for whom he played various Shakespearian roles, the most recent of which being his critically acclaimed portrayal of Iago in "Othello." He also performed the role of Horst in an award winning production of the play, "Bent." He has appeared in such popular television favorites as "Silent Witness," "Eastenders," "Drop the Dead Donkey," "Vital Signs," "Fat Friends" and "Casualty." On BBC Radio 3 and 4, Donnelly was recently heard as Phil Reece in "Call Waiting," Bill White in "De'ath Bredon" and Josek in "If Not Now, When."
DAN WINTER (Duncan - King of Scotland, Macduff, Angus, Second Witch, Murderer) studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Recent theater credits include Trinculo in "The Tempest," Ben Gunn in "Treasure Island" (The Tobacco Factory), and Torvald Helmer in "A Doll's House" (Swan Productions). He also is active in radio drama, starring in many BBC Radio productions over the past few years and was the runner-up for the prestigious Carlton Hobbes BBC Radio Drama Award. He has experience and training in stage combat, shooting and sailing.
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I disagree with this statement in its entirety. Great music is more than just something you enjoy, it becomes a part of you. It says something about the human condition or expresses emotions or thoughts that words cannot express.
I find it hard to believe you can "hate every note" of anything. Play a note in isolation and, well, it's just a note. It's what you do with that note.
But this analysis essentially means that you are the ultimate arbiter of the quality of anything. Which I guess is fine from a personal standpoint, but why bother discussing music on a forum? This viewpoint is completely antithetical to having an analytical discussion on music. "I like it. Discussion over." There's nowhere to go.
It's hard to keep up with his voluminous babble.
If you swapped Chevelle's discography with Nickelback's I wouldn't notice the difference.
I think objectively we can all agree that Chevelle is for tone deaf loonies.
But even more obscure songs can have deeply held personal reactions by people. I used the Beatles because you've made it clear you hate them and therefore they are not a part of your experience. I'd argue the opposite. Your hatred of the music has now become a personal identifier (which, guh, means KISS is a similar identifier for me). The music you don't like says as much about you as the music you do like. It's not just negative space.
Why are ya'll even arguing with Bobbyray?
Because I find his theory of the audience as being a collection of independent gods to be fascinating. He's arguing that music exists for his own personal enjoyment. That is a remarkably self-obsessed and narcissistic ideal. That doesn't mean it's wrong, but he's arguing that the audience is more important than the artist or the art itself, and that art doesn't exist until he subjectively perceives it. That's not a unique theory, but it's one I don't really subscribe to, but it's interesting to hear someone who truly believes it to defend it.
Yup. I think if you're attempting to evaluate music on any basis other than subjective perception, you're basically just being dishonest.
Why do you find this shocking? Of course I am the ultimate arbiter. How else am I to evaluate music if it isn't purely on the basis of how it sounds to me?
Should I do a survey instead? Should I ask pitchfork.com what they think? Should I ask my 4 year old niece what she thinks? Well perhaps I will...but their opinion will have no bearing on my own. Does this make sense?
Music is to be listened to and enjoyed. I either like something or I don't. If I'm asking questions about why I like something, or whether I should like something, that makes me a hipster, and I better go buy some skinny jeans and an ironic t-shirt or eight.
The above doesn't make discussing music less interesting. Sure, I'm interested in hearing why people liked Dirty Projectors when I hated it. Will their opinion make me un-dislike it? Nope. But it's still interesting to talk about.
That doesn't mean that I believe that people that like Nickelback are terrible human beings, or that I don't value their opinions. It's just that their opinions are wrong.
But how can it be wrong? They heard it. They enjoyed it. By your definition, it is quality to them. Unless you deny the possibility of each person to have their own ability to gauge quality. You are the Only One who can.
Jester, do you play any instruments? Not trying to flame or anything, just curious. I play the guitar myself. Just got this baby recently:
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As a band, Calexico is perfectly named: their music is a road trip to the cinematic imagination. It takes us to Calexico, a sun-bleached crossroads where a fleapit theatre plays Sergio Leone and John Ford westerns on permanent loop. Where the panoramic horizon stares back, sometimes with dread, but mostly with hope. But Calexico's music isn't restricted to the familiar, like an indie-rock version of Ennio Morricone. It takes any route that looks promising.
From Tucson, Arizona, and almost constantly on the road, Calexico get back to where they once belonged, in their dreams. To Mexican weddings, border crossings, town squares where grandparents oversee untamed children. Then there will be a sudden, unexpected detour, and that low-stringed electric guitar switches stations from El Paso to indie rock FM. Whereas Los Lobos never forget their R&B roots, Calexico reveal a student band's cerebral self-consciousness.
A seven-piece, the band is still dominated by the two men who founded the group in 1990. Joey Burns takes the stage first, opening delicately with 'Bisbee Blue': just his Spanish nylon-stringed guitar, supported by Paul Niehaus's unshowy pedal steel.
While Burns is the earnest frontman, as the evening progresses it's apparent that the backbone of the group is its drummer and co-founder, John Convertino. He is that rarity, a discreet drummer and expert backseat driver, controlling the shifts from festive dances to moody epics, never overplaying his hand.
Calexico's point-of-difference is its celebration of Mexican-American flavours, in particular the mariachi trumpets from Martin Wenk and Jacob Valenzuela. Especially effective in syncopation with Convertino, the shrill horns emphasise the Latin rhythms, and create a party atmosphere hampered by the tiered, cramped seating of the makeshift Pacific Blue "club". For the band is playing to the converted, and it is their instrumentals that get the best reaction. Guitar twangs and big-echo whistling, whip-cracks and rodeo yelps: so many cultural touchstones, conjured by musical triggers.
The more Calexico select from their Mexican musical menu, the richer the rewards. They almost transport us from our straightjacket seats, on a bleak Wellington evening, to a public party in the noonday sun.


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Taking a fresh approach to fighting cancer forced me and a number of other researchers to look beyond the traditional world of oncology. The understanding of cancer growth dynamics, the mechanisms by which it diversifies, and its preferential adaptation of biological barriers and transport modes are generally the province of cancer biologists. Such researchers are used to working with pharmaceutical scientists in the development of suitable therapeutic agents. But expertise on the topic of mass transport generally resides within very different fields: physics, chemistry, mathematics, and engineering. Researchers in those fields also harbor the skills required to design, manufacture, and test synthetic vectors that could deliver therapeutic payloads to a diversity of cancers inside their protective barriers. That cross-disciplinary approach is known as transport oncophysics.
There is a great opportunity for progress against cancer by redrawing the boundaries of science—which are most generally detrimental to breakthrough thinking anyway—and forming interdisciplinary teams, at the service of the clinician in the fight against cancer. Cancer is a disease of physics as much as it is a disease of biology. We need to counter it with a matched array of synergistic weapons.
One of the most important of these new weapons is nanotechnology, which involves devices at a scale much smaller than even the vesicles on cells. At the nanoscale, the distinctions among scientific disciplines are blurred; chemical and physical properties are related in ways not found at larger scales. This is also the scale at which the most basic mass-transport processes operate. Conceptually, then, nanotechnology is a promising domain in which to search for solutions in the delivery of agents to cancers.
Actually, the first nanodrugs entered the clinic about 20 years ago, long before the words cancer and nanotechnology were explicitly uttered in the same sentence. Those early nanodrugs were not identified as such by their creators, but they were based exactly on the notion that biological barriers protecting Kaposi's sarcoma and metastastic breast and ovarian cancers are altered as the disease progresses.
In particular, the walls of the blood vessels feeding these tumors become more leaky, by way of the presence of gaps (or fenestrations) in vascular tissue. Several pioneering laboratories manufactured lipid-based nanoparticles (called liposomes) to exploit these vascular wall alterations. The liposomes were shown to deliver drugs preferentially to tumors in their angiogenic growth phase, while reducing the adverse action of the payload drug on healthy tissues. Liposomal formulations of drugs such as doxorubicin have since been used to treat thousands of cancer patients worldwide, based on this precursor principle to transport oncophysics, and have become one of the first mass-produced nanotechnologies.
Several other types of nanodrugs have since entered the cancer clinic—including nanoparticles made from the protein albumin and loaded with one of the current principal cancer drugs, paclitaxel—for the treatment of breast, ovarian, and pancreatic cancers. In 2001, German researcher Andreas Jordan of the Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin developed a new type of nanoparticle made from iron oxide, which does not carry a drug but is itself used as a heat source to cook away certain brain cancers. The iron nanoparticle binds to a specific cancer tissue, then an external magnetic field selectively heats them to kill the tissue. They are the first clinical example of a completely physics-based nanotherapy.
Despite their intriguing potential, none of the nanodrugs approved for clinical use to date possesses any means of molecularly recognizing cancer cells. Their ability to concentrate at cancer sites depends entirely on the mechanisms of preferential transport. There has been great interest in adding cancer-recognizing molecules to the surface of barrier-busting nanoparticles, to give them a targeting specificity. These efforts have featured antibodies, aptamers (nucleotides or peptides that bind to a specific molecule), and various biomolecular ligands (a type of chemical group), attached to the surface of many different nanoparticle types. But despite more than 20 years of work by many laboratories, no biomolecularly targeted nanoparticle has been approved for clinical use.
One fundamental reason for these failures is that the addition of surface modifiers generally renders the nanoparticles less likely to penetrate the cancer bunker—again a matter of transport across biological barriers. The development of effective new therapies requires a deep understanding of biobarriers, because they are the mechanisms that determine how drugs distribute in the body, much more so than the biological recognition afforded by cancer-recognizing molecules.
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A good lawn makes a good garden, so it's worth a bit of hard yakka, says Justin Newcombe.
Preparing and sowing a lawn, nurturing a good lawn, feeding, cutting and maintaining a good lawn is a lot of hard work. Keeping it in perfect nick requires cast iron resolution and the dedication of a devotee. That's how it feels to me, anyhow.
My front lawn has been done and redone so many times, that I reckon if I joined all my attempts together I would have enough grass to drive a golf ball around. So why am I even bothering to go through it all again? Well it's a fact as undeniable as gravity that a great lawn makes an average garden look great. So here I go again.
My first step is to clear the surface of the lawn. My ongoing scientific research experiment has concluded lawns don't grow under big stacks of timber or bags of concrete. Quite the opposite. Which is actually good news for you organic-only readers. Stacking things on grass provides the perfect solution for you if you are going to completely re-do your lawn and you don't want to spray to kill it. You can cover it with cardboard, polythene or carpet.
A quick assessment of my not-so-green sward reveals some pretty big bare patches, some yellow and thinning areas of grass plants with a burgeoning weed population. The biggest single thing you can do to improve your lawn is address the soil structure. Grass, like most plants, enjoys a deep friable loam with great drainage. If your soil is poor and your results are poor, it might be time to completely redo the lawn by first improving the drainage and tilth of the soil. The best way to treat heavy soil is by introducing gypsum, which will help break down the tightly packed finer particles that make up a heavy soil. You can also introduce a specialty lawn mix soil which is approximately 30 per cent sand. The more sand you introduce, the more your drainage will improve. However this will also mean the lawn's watering and feeding requirements increase.
I know my soil structure is fine so instead of ripping the entire lawn out (again) I'm going to repair what I have. My first task is to mow it to about an inch long, then have a tidy up using a plastic leaf rake. This is a great way to remove thatch and unwanted moss. This material can contain fungal spores which can take hold when you combine warm weather with watering.
I want to thicken the lawn up and I can do this by either feeding the lawn with a lawn fertiliser like ammonium sulphate or I can introduce more seed. If I do both at once I may burn the germinating seed with the fertiliser. My solution is to introduce more seed through the lawn and fertilise with a light fertiliser like seaweed extract, a light dusting of blood and bone or even urine mixed five to one with water.
To introduce the seed I rake 50 per cent sand and 50 per cent soil through the existing grass. This extra soil will only be about a centimetre thick. I rake the seed through this. You can get specialised seed packs for shade or drought conditions, but for a good all-round grass I use a rye fescue blend.
From there, it's about ongoing maintenance. Most healthy lawn needs regular watering, so a sprinkler on a timer is a good investment.
My other ongoing maintenance task is mowing. Mow often, but leave grass long during summer. A two-inch lawn mown every week to 10 days will give you healthy strong grass plants and a great looking lawn. Wish me luck.


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Tom grew up in Milwaukee, bartended in Wauwatosa in the '70s and moved here in 1984.
Commentary, observations and musings about the outdoors, life in general and maybe Tosa politics and personalities will be the order of the day. He savors a lively debate as much as terrific cooking.
The Trouble With Labs
And I'm not talking about scary lab results you receive after a doctor visit. No siree. I'm talking about Labrador retrievers and the people that own them. Especially if the people are crazy enough to have more than one Lab dog.
In fact, I think that in the veterinary profession Lab owners occupy a revered status as clients. Welcome to book appointments at a moment's notice we Lab owners are treated with deference and respect. This is because over and above our routine veterinary care we're bound to show-up, unannounced, at any time of year with a sprain, strain, laceration, dangerous ingestion, parasitic infestation, ear infection, or the simple diarrhea as a consequence of some disgusting thing the dog found in the woods and gleefully scarfed. Throw-in an auto-immune disorder or a canine angular limb deformity you will quickly get the idea that Lab owners have likely floated many a clinic and possibly a few boats. We are insufferable lovers of the breed and our credit is good. We are the frequent fliers of veterinary practices.
Take my situation as an example. I have a family practitioner. Jill has a family practitioner. Right here in Tosa. But our Labs have veterinarians on call both here and up north. When you think about it they have a pretty good healthcare gig going for them. While we humans have to grapple with pre-authorizations, out-of-network providers, a humongous annual deductible on our health insurance plan along with a Health Savings Account the canines have no such worries. The owner simply whips-out the MasterCard and all is well. No accounting, no insurance intermediary, no claims paperwork, no-nothing. Fee for service. Cash on the barrel head, After-which the pooch wounds your heart with an appreciative gaze from those intelligent brown eyes.
Oh, brother.
So last weekend was my weekend for quality time with the girls while Jill was curling with her girlfriends from the Wauwatosa Curling Club. This was the perfect set-up. I was going to get the dogs out of town to our place up north and do some deer hunting with my bow and Jill got a girl's weekend away. Like I said...perfect.
You know what they say about the best-laid of plans don't you?
I got the girls out late Friday morning for a walk while we fetched the SD cards from the trail cameras. I figured I could wear them out and gain a couple or three hours of sitting on a deer stand before sundown. The nice weather wasn't going to last forever after-all.
On the last half-mile of our walk Sister decided to climb atop an ancient rock pile adjacent to the trail. And she got herself into trouble almost immediately.
Old rock piles on the peninsula are more than piles of dolostone rubble that generations of farmers and farm families tediously picked from the fields each spring. They are trash heaps too. If you sift through them in the methodical fashion of an archaeologist combing through a trash midden you are bound to find some cool stuff. Jill has a collection of ancient and antique bottles she's retrieved. But not without the occasional cut or scrape. The rock piles are full of broken implements, sharp household objects, rusted barbed wire, tools, nails and glass. Back in the day everyone threw their junk on the rock pile. As a consequence they are hazardous.
And Sister lacerated her rear paw on some busted glass. It was a big gash too. We left a bloody trail all the way home. Followed by bloody paw prints all over the garage, kitchen and bathroom floors. And blood all over me before I could staunch the flow with some surgical sponges and stretchy tape that is kept on-hand in the dog duffel specifically for this contingency.
Bundling the pooch in the truck it was off to Sturgeon Bay for an emergency visit to the vet. I phoned-in the details on the drive.
Here is the blonde bomber.
Unimproved as of yesterday, a follow-up visit to the vet here resulted in sutures.
So much for that perfect weekend.
Obviously, I still don't have my deer...
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SnippetsA _config.php Cheatsheet
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If your anything like me, you've probably found yourself going through your previous sites looking for that line of code to put in your _config.php file. Well, now you nolonger need to, simply bookmark this page and return to it any time you need to add a line to your config! And if I've missed out anything leave a comment and I'll make sure it gets added :)Continue reading...
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Most search results I have seen with Silverstripe just return the Summary of the page or the FirstSentence. I have knocked up a quick way to show a sentence from the page that contains the search term and even highlights it for you.Continue reading...
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The Password Validator allows you to set particular criteria for your members passwords. For example if you wanted to have a minimum length of 8 characters and contain lowercase and uppercase characters, well that's a simple case of adding a couple of lines to your _config.php file!Continue reading...
SnippetsSet the Redirect after a successful Member Login
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The Member system that comes with SilverStripe offers substantial control over your site's authentication capabilities. It often requires the developer to build out or extend most common functionality to websites. This is great in that you are never "stuck" with the out-of-the-box offerings, but as any SS dev knows you end up with a little bag of Member tricks that gets used across many projects. Presented here is one that I use often.Continue reading...
SnippetsClearing the Search field on click with jQuery
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As with everything, it's attention to detail that makes great sites. One thing that really bugs me is when a site has a search box with the word 'search' inside it but which does not clear it self when clicked, meaning I have to clear it before I can search. Given it can be achieved with a few lines of jQuery, it's a real surprise how many sites fail to implement this, or that still use the 'onclick' inline javascript event.Continue reading...
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By Default, SilverStripe uses the <input type="submit"> tag for it's form actions. However, sometimes you may want to use the <button> tag to give you a little more control over styling. This snippet shows you how, as well as giving you code to achieve the same thing in UserForms!Continue reading...


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A manager who continually texted and called a young female employee asking her to go to his house, even after she rejected his advances, was rightly fired, the Employment Relations Authority says.
In its decision, the authority suppressed the names of all people involved as well as the company they worked for because of the "risk to the reputations of entirely innocent people".
The manager complained to the authority that his dismissal from the company was unjustified.
Authority member James Crichton said the man, in his late 30s, had a senior role at the company when he sent a string of texts to a junior employee, in her early 20s, asking her for dinner at his house on April 29 this year.
His texts started at 6.36pm and finished at 10.54pm - more than two hours after she told him she would not be taking him up on the offer.
The man also called her three times during the evening.
Mr Crichton said there was a reference in the texts that if she did go to the man's house, he would give her a day off work. He also made a reference that could be sexual to an "admin whore", Mr Crichton said.
After the young woman complained about the man's behaviour to the company's principal, representatives of the company visited the man's house.
There was a dispute as to whether the man knew the representatives would be visiting.
Evidence was given to the authority by the company that the man was "anything but rational", red-eyed, shirtless and aggressive.
"In particular, [the company's] representatives maintain that at the end of the discussion...[the man] slammed the sliding door in the faces of [the company's] representatives," Mr Crichton said.
Because of the man's behaviour and demeanour, he was immediately suspended on full pay.
The principal told the authority: "it immediately struck me that it was wrong for somebody in [the man's] position to ask a junior office girl out to his house in such a persistent way, particularly since he seemed to be offering her a day off work if she did so."
At a disciplinary hearing, the man described the young woman as "his friend" and referred to the offer of a day off in lieu as "a joke".
His position was that he had done nothing wrong and was simply engaging in banter with a friend outside the workplace.
However, the woman told the company she was friends with the man's former partner and she had always felt uncomfortable around him.
Mr Crichton preferred the company's evidence and said the man was guilty of serious misconduct and was thus liable to dismissal.
He dismissed the man's claim.


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Sundown in San Diego can bring out the best of Comic-Con and we caught it all on camera at the Playboy True Blood party.
So many people think Comic-Con is all just fun and nerd games, but when the sun goes down, things can get a little crazy.
In the finale of her Comic-Con 2012 coverage, Chloe Miranda takes you inside the Playboy True Blood party, a no-holds-barred tribute to the hit HBO show complete with full recreations of the set, some of Comic-Con's hottest celebrities and of course, Playmates decked out in their finest bunny suits.
To see how we got from clowning around with comic book nerds to the hottest party in town, click here.


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Get to know your food with 'Pick Tennessee Products'
GREENE COUNTY, Tenn. - Alright, here's a quick quiz for you. What is the number one industry in Tennessee?
If you said agriculture you would be right, and now what's number two?
If you said tourism you're right again; if you combine the two, you've satisfied the public's need to know where their food comes from and who grew it.
Phil Ottinger proudly shows off the fruits of his labor, literally, as he tours his family farm.
His family has returned to farm to create Buffalo Trail Orchard. Apples and berries are getting ripe for the picking and you can do just that -- come on out and pick your own. "When they come out and pick it straight off the vine and the tree, they don't have to worry, 'did that come from California or Mexico'. So they're seeing exactly where this food comes from," Ottinger says.
And exactly who grew it and how. It's more than a trend that people want to know where their food comes from; it's fresher, healthier and just plain fun to get out and meet our local farmers. "People are now wanting to know who grew their food. The best way to do that is to come out to a local farm and to meet the farmer who actually grows and produces your food," Pamela Bartholomew with the Tennessee Agriculture Department said.
"We see a lot of young people coming out and my generation is getting involved. So it shows me that my generation is interested and that they are prepared to learn and not just believe that their food comes from the grocery store and that it's just there. It's actually grown by people like us," Phil's daughter Grace Ottinger says.
"Here in Tennessee we have about 83,000 farms and those are family farms across the state from West Tennessee to here in East Tennessee. There are tons of family farmers," Bartholomew adds.
The agriculture department can help you find that local farmer through a web site, Pick Tennessee Products. To link to the site click here.
For more information about Buffalo Trail Orchard go to buffalotrailorchard.com.


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Miley...seriously GIRL; have you NOT embarrased yourself enough? For once, can't you think of your family first???? They are involved by proxy. IE; I'm sure they were great parents, soooo, WHAT HAPPENED?
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. is known for having some of the most polarizing figures in the entertainment business accompany him to the ring before fights. Whether you love her or despise her, there is really no arguing that Miley Cyrus has perfected the art of creating a buzz. That's why she makes perfect sense for The […]
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Miley has good handlers and I'm doubtful she will merge her brand to the brand of a convicted person.
Cyndi Lauper was a person with 10 times the talent and she linked herself to Capt. Lou Albano in pro wrestling.....her career nosedived. The good news is her talent ruled and MANY years later she showed the world she had immense talent
Miley has no talent...this could be a career killer
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Event honors OH woman whose body found in Indiana
A community event honored a southwest Ohio woman whose body was found in Indiana 20 months after she went missing.
The Saturday event at Harbin park in Fairfield was billed as a celebration of Katelyn Markham's life. About 100 people attended.
The director of the Ohio chapter of Texas Equusearch says the event was planned especially for those who helped search for the 21-year-old Fairfield woman after she disappeared from her home in August 2011.
Texas Equusearch members were among hundreds of people who searched for Markham.
Her skeletal remains were found April 7 along a creek bed in Cedar Grove, Ind., about 30 miles from the Cincinnati suburb of Fairfield.
No one has been charged in the case.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Experts say this time the driving while stoned bill will likely become law. Marijuana proponents wanted it treated like alcohol, but it's not as comparable as you might think.
Driving drunk is illegal, but people might have one or two drinks and still drive home. For marijuana, smoking once could, or could not put you over the five nanograms of THC.
Experts say people need to know their limits.
"The chronic marijuana user could have a very high amount in their system from use two or three times a day, like, for instance, using it for glaucoma," says Mike Moran a criminal defense attorney.
The proposed law allows for a way out.
If you get stopped and have too much THC in your blood, you can fight it in court. You can't do that if you're caught drunk driving.
"You could effectively say, even though I have marijuana in my system, I am not high from that particular medicine," says Moran.
Jill McGuire works at Conspire!, a drug testing company. She is helping the Governor's task force on the implementation of Amendment 64. McGuire understands some people think five nanograms is too low, but Conspire! has found there is impairment at that level.
"People can have different tolerances by what they take in because they consume for alcohol or their body metabolizes faster. However the standard is the standard," says McGuire.
Just like with drinking, if you are new to smoking plan not to drive.
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Last time I was there, I specifically asked for "no ******" because I am allergic. My food comes, half covered in something that can literally kill me. When I explained this to the server, she took it back to the kitchen and returned within 2 minutes with the same order, with the portion that was covered in ****** now covered in sour cream. The server explained that the kitchen staff refused to make another one and that I should just eat it. My parents, wife, and 2 daughters were with me and the lunch bill was over $100. Their lack of caring, and willingness to get sued is very disconcerting. I'm just glad that I noticed that they covered what I am allergic to before I took a bite...
Bad experience ordered the enchiladas de la case huge portion but no sauce. I mean no sauce when I asked for sour cream the waiter started they didn't serve sour cream. So what's up the sauce for the dish is mostly sour cream. Just saying if your out of something don't serve it have assed.
Wow, I'm shocked at the bad reviews on here. There's 0% chance that a anyone had an experience like that-- and those users only ever gave one review....hmmmm. They are always kind to everyone and have some of the best tasting food in Tucson. I hope people see past the negativity and give it a shot. It's my go-to for lunch dates with friends I meet up with downtown. The only bummer is they only accept cash-- but I go at least twice a month so obviously it's not a deal breaker lol. They have like 4(?) kinds of fresh juice and their combination plate is always an enjoyable surprise. I highly recommend their chicken mole and their vegetarian tamale :)
We love the LIttle Poca Cosa. The food fresh and delicious, and the service warm and friendly. In fact, we are heading out with our family in about 5 minutes to enjoy another thoroughly enjoyable lunch at our favorite little corner restaurant in Tucson ..
Has it reopened?
Will never patronize this restaurant ever again!. They wouldn't accept a $100 gift certificate. We received it as a gift from some grateful friends, but management wouldn't honor it. WHY NOT? It's equivalent to us having paid for our meal in advance. Definitely not a sound business approach for endearing themselves to their customers.
Terrible food and the owner is incredibly rude. I've seen him harass cyclists and customers. Perhaps if he spent as much time working on his business as he does bothering customers it'd be worth eating here. As it stands, better to run the other way.
The negative comments are TOTAL BS. In fact, as one could easily figure out: one is written by a competitor and the other by a person who had taste bud lobotomy '
I could cry. Yes its that bad, the service, is deplorable, small portions, of not very good food, horrible chairs,
and the only thing that i can say was good, was the nice waiter, the bus boy, ect. I have never seen anything like this. the only good thing was the refried beans. Go to Mi Nidito (520) 622-5081 - 1813 S 4th Ave, Tucson, AZ , that is where I am going to from now on. Trust me this place is a disaster , and even with a reservation you are greeted with the most unfriendly hostess.
Mosaic is not the same restaurant I remember. Went there for New Year Eve lunch 12/31/14. Asked for a window seat,(there were plenty) and got seated in a plastic bush in the center of the room. Across the way,a tablecloth was draped over a table that had the top glass over its contents broken,that was left there next a to the window....where some of us would have liked to sit.The waitress warned us about the new waiter that would be taking our order,and mentioned that she would make sure he got it right.Which he did,but then we never were checked on after that,until he brought the check.Our table had only forks on a napkin,as did most of the tables with diners and without. As I pondered whether it was a new Mexican tradition to eat with only forks,I noticed that 4 recently seated diners had knives and forks. Okay....dishwasher problem,not enough utensils,who knows....But I will not be returning to Mosaic any time soon.Shoddy shoddy shoddy without the dialed down drink or menu prices.
Exquisite food and presentation, one of the best barbacoa burrito tacos etc. I've tasted in any Mexican/ American restaurants available in the Tucson n surrounding areas but don't just go by what your reading please feel free to explore the menu for your self many amazing dishes here n friendly services
We have been eating at Little Poca Cosa now The Little One for 13 years. We ate there yesterday. When I saw the name change I was concerned that the ownership changed. What a relief to see Sandra! When you decide on The Little One for lunch you get the loud music and a joyous owner. It rocks. Our group ordered 3 Chicken Moles and 1 Tamale, Ginger Basil Lemonade and 2, "you can get those anywhere drinks".
This is lunch and a love fest. If you don't want to pay cash, go with the flow and give hugs, there are plenty of other places in downtown that are less colorful and cost more. For those who think this freshly prepared, locally sourced, original menu items are pricey, this isn't McDonald's! It is very good value for the price.
Not sure what is up with the negative comments. . . I have never had anything but PHENOMENAL meals at The Little One; there isn't a bad choice on the menu. My personal favorites are the Cochinito en Chipotle, and the Mole; also unbelievable Chile Rellenos and Tamales, AND AMAZING limonadas and fresh fruit drinks that will KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF!!! (try the beet-mandarin limonada if she has it). Incredibly fresh food made with love, and, yes, hugs (and generally kisses too) are mandatory. Service is fast and friendly. SO, if you are uptight you might not like the vibe (loud music and an owner who loves her patrons), but only a fool or a philistine would not love the food!
We ordered the cheese crisp. We forgot to order chiles on it. When she brought it back it had green peppers on it. I said these are green peppers, and she told the cook and he said no, those are green chiles. Ok. Bottom line is I was born in Tucson and raised on sonoran style Mexican food. I KNOW the difference between the two. Don't insult me by telling me different. And, and, the beans I ordered maybe were four tablespoons full. If the young man who came to the table to sooth us is the owner, oh, my, god. Good luck in the future little boy, were gone and won't be back. Barry A Malone
Teresa's is not the same. It used to be terrific and we ate there all the time and brought friends and visitors with us. Now the food is terrible. The service was always bad but with bad food I will not be going there anymore and not recommending it to my friends and family. Sonny, you need to wise up and run like your father did.
horrible service, horrible food, long wait time, staff could care less!
Salsa is made at your table FRESH. Many tasty dishes and vege choices. Mariachi band can be a bit loud. Best Mexican restaurant on the east side, by far.
It's been a favorite of mine for many years. I've been going there since they took over the place from its previous owners. Great for breakfast and lunch. Get there early for lunch because the crowd from D-M fills it up.
When did Lupita's close, the building space is vacant with the sign gone??
The Metzger is excellent. It was my favorite of the 3 specialty tacos. Served with au jus? Creative. Although it was plain as day, I had to ask what it was because it was a surprise to see it accompany a taco. Don't dip it, just dump it on top.
Time your visit for 645pm on a Sunday. Sit on the patio and you'll get an eyeful when Hi Fi across the street raises those massive sunscreens. It's a PG13 glass fishbowl. What a party! Video wall, DJ on stage and Go Go Girls dancing in silhouette on the bar.
Say what you want to about the spotty "service" but I see the General Manager humping it the whole time. That's good enough for me.
As for people constantly wanting to F I L L themselves: those who live in fat asses should not throw stones. Ya Taco Bell pig out monkeys. Stay out of our way if it's possible to move your fat ass aside far enough for others to pass.


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In an essay in 1984—at the dawn of the personal computer era—the novelist Thomas Pynchon wondered if it was "O.K. to be a Luddite," meaning someone who opposes technological progress. A better question today is whether it's even possible. Technology is everywhere, and a recent headline at an Internet hu-mor site perfectly captured how difficult it is to resist: "Luddite invents machine to destroy technology quicker."
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Like all good satire, the mock headline comes perilously close to the truth. Modern Luddites do indeed invent "machines"—in the form of computer viruses, cyberworms and other malware—to disrupt the technologies that trouble them. (Recent targets of suspected sabotage include the London Stock Exchange and a nuclear power plant in Iran.) Even off-the-grid extremists find technology irresistible. The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, attacked what he called the "industrial-technological system" with increasingly sophisticated mail bombs. Likewise, the cave-dwelling terrorist sometimes derided as "Osama bin Luddite" hijacked aviation technology to bring down skyscrapers.
For the rest of us, our uneasy protests against technology almost inevitably take technological form. We worry about whether violent computer games are warping our children, then decry them by tweet, text or Facebook post. We try to simplify our lives by shopping at the local farmers market—then haul our organic arugula home in a Prius. College students take out their earbuds to discuss how technology dominates their lives. But when a class ends, Loyola University of Chicago professor Steven E. Jones notes, their cellphones all come to life, screens glowing in front of their faces, "and they migrate across the lawns like giant schools of cyborg jellyfish."
That's when he turns on his phone, too.
The word "Luddite," handed down from a British industrial protest that began 200 years ago this month, turns up in our daily language in ways that suggest we're confused not just about technology, but also about who the original Luddites were and what being a modern one actually means.
Blogger Amanda Cobra, for instance, worries about being "a drinking Luddite" because she hasn't yet mastered "infused" drinks. (Sorry, Amanda, real Luddites were clueless when it came to steeping vanilla beans in vodka. They drank—and sang about—"good ale that's brown.") And on Twitter, Wolfwhistle Amy thinks she's a Luddite because she "cannot deal with heel heights" given in centimeters instead of inches. (Hmm. Some of the original Luddites were cross-dressers—more about that later—so maybe they would empathize.) People use the word now even to describe someone who is merely clumsy or forgetful about technology. (A British woman locked outside her house tweets her husband: "You stupid Luddite, turn on your bloody phone, i can't get in!")
The word "Luddite" is simultaneously a declaration of ineptitude and a badge of honor. So you can hurl Luddite curses at your cellphone or your spouse, but you can also sip a wine named Luddite (which has its own Web site: www.luddite.co.za). You can buy a guitar named the Super Luddite, which is electric and costs $7,400. Meanwhile, back at Twitter, SupermanHotMale Tim is understandably puzzled; he grunts to ninatypewriter, "What is Luddite?"
Almost certainly not what you think, Tim.
Despite their modern reputation, the original Luddites were neither opposed to technology nor inept at using it. Many were highly skilled machine operators in the textile industry. Nor was the technology they attacked particularly new. Moreover, the idea of smashing machines as a form of industrial protest did not begin or end with them. In truth, the secret of their enduring reputation depends less on what they did than on the name under which they did it. You could say they were good at branding.


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text: North Carolina stripper/author accused of stabbing boyfriend in the chest I'm not sure how this piece-of-sh*t escaped jail time for extreme purjury/attempting to ruin the lives of several young men on that Duke lacrosse team. I'm not sure how she was able to "write" a book about said debacle and I guess make money. I'm not sure how she escaped jail time for [cough allegedly cough] setting fire to her house (with her children inside) to kill off a prior boyfriend. Given all the above, one has to think that Miss Mangum has a chance to wiggle out of this one too ... claim self-defense for stabbing her current boyfriend in the chest. But, c'mon, lady justice ... when is something going to stick to this wretched woman?!


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This page is an English summary; please note that the official version is the Spanish one.Welcome to Wiki Loves Monuments Argentina!
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Gravity on the Moon is about 1/6th that on the Earth. A
pole-vaulter 2 metres tall can clear a 5 metres pole on the Earth.
How high a pole could he clear on the Moon?
Whirl a conker around in a horizontal circle on a piece of string.
What is the smallest angular speed with which it can whirl?
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A cannon ball is fired vertically upwards into the air. How fast would it have to be fired to take 1 second to land?
How fast would it have to be fired to take 10, 100, 1,000 or 1,000,000 seconds to land?
What would be the highest point of the ball in each case?
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People saying it could never happen... It's entirely possible almost every team has removed him from their draft board
People saying it could never happen... It's entirely possible almost every team has removed him from their draft board
or pick up a LB that's great and somehow fell lower to the 2nd round, who do you see us picking up in the free agency? I'm sorry but Rivers isn't the answer and Blackburn is old.
It's amazing how we got rid of all these people, yet have so many more issues to address. For years I've wanted us to pick up a linebacker in the draft. I understand how we went for pass rushers and had success but keep in mind this was when we had Strahan on our team. We then had JPP who was a rookie that no one really seen as a threat, but they grew to respect him this past season.
We've never had a sure LB since Armstead, even Pierce was above average and couldn't play sideline to sideline. Rememeber when we got Michael Barrow, then Nick Garnett (I think that was his name from the Lions)? Nick didn't even play a snap, he was always injured. Sooner or later, you have to address the issue and I really hope us addressing it isn't by means of the Free Agency, because we don't even have enough money to pay the studs on our team, and the only players being released (that are good) are being released because they want more money.
How many Linebacker threads u gonna make? We got the point the first time
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Discussion in 'Member Introductions' started by BlueDevil, Nov 2, 2012.
I know im new and i know some of you guys wanted to see my truck so here it is!
Welcome to the club, it's good to have you aboard. Wow, what a sharp looking crew cab. :glasses:
Welcome from North of the Border! I must agree with [MENTION=33253]donyms[/MENTION], sharp!
Great looking truck. What rims/tires are you running? I'm due for tires and like the aggressive tread.
Thanks glad to be in the club, it aint nothin huge but its enough for me! im runnin on 33x12.50x17 goodyear wrangler duratracs and moto metal MO955's, there good tires they ride like a caddy and there not overly load but they still roar
Welcome to the G M T C ! Good looking truck, reminds me of my '04 I traded in on my Colorado.
Those are the same rims i had on my last truck...
Nice truck and welcome to the Club!
Nice I like those years....
welcome to the club, good looking truck!
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