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Just three bakers remain competing for the Great British Bake Off title, after a semi-final battle in which Danny – an exceptional baker who largely slipped under the radar despite well thought out bakes with interesting flavours – was eliminated. I'm disappointed she won't be baking in the final, but which of the three finalists looks likely to take the crown? As a finalist in 2011, here's my take on how Brendan, James and John might get on.
He impressed the judges with both the design and flavour of his upside-down cake way back in the first round of this year's competition and has never let his standards drop. There were a couple of minor wobbles early on – his rum baba dough got stuck to a proving cloth and his tarte tatin suffered from slightly underdone apples – but these were mere blips against a remarkably consistent overall performance. It wasn't until halfway through the semi-final, with the demanding Frasier pushing the remaining bakers to their limits, that we saw him get even slightly flustered. Understandable, because it was in this episode that we heard him admit to his goal of securing a place in the final.
Of all the bakes from this year's competition, it is Brendan's that come to mind most easily. They have all had a wow-factor, his semi-final tray of petits fours and gâteau St Honoré being simply amazing. Despite being repeatedly accused by Paul Hollywood of being stuck in the 70s (even though it Hollywood who set the rum baba challenge), Brendan has produced a string of highly impressive bakes of deliciously interesting flavours, that have all been impeccably finished.
Bake I wish I'd made: salmon coulibiac in quark pastry
Technical challenge I was most in awe of: queen of puddings
Most inspiring flavour combination: plum, sour cherry, walnut
Biggest baking mess: tea towel stuck to the baba dough
Likelihood of winning: good. Being firmly of a mind that the result should be decided by the bakes themselves, I would dearly love to see a win for Brendan. His talent is undeniable.
John has demonstrated his love of patisserie throughout the competition, but it has been a bit of a rollercoaster ride. At times he has seemed to doubt himself – sighing heavily over flatbreads the judges would go on to praise – but becoming Star Baker when his plaited loaf and bagels completed a hat-trick of successful week two challenges. Other impressive bakes have been his showstopper fruit tart and American pie. His salty rum babas and breeze-block torte, however, proved memorable for all the wrong reasons, while pies and puddings almost put him in the relegation zone.
But the gingerbread coliseum was a huge marvel of engineering – with a little more self-belief, I think he could give Brendan a real run for his money.
Bake I wish I'd made: fig, walnut and gruyère bagels
Technical challenge I was most in awe of: plaited loaf
Most inspiring flavour combination: cherry, almond and saffron
Biggest baking mess: stodgy stollen
Likelihood of winning: the unknown quantity. On a good day, John can out-bake all opposition, but will Tuesday be his day?
When James whisked his parsnip-and-pear upside-down cake out of the oven with less than a minute left on the clock, he demonstrated the risky, seat-of-the-pants baking style that would become a feature of his bake-off experience. James has been most successful in the technical challenges, where the constraints of the set recipes have succeeded in focusing his energies. His own bakes, however, haven't always succeeded, which has been disappointing when he has tried to showcase his own regional recipes such as tattie scones and clootie dumpling.
Too many fruit flavours worked against his meringue tower and the four pig wellington was let down by soggy pastry. In contrast, he has risked making both sourdough bread and puff pastry, each notoriously time-consuming, and succeeded. Enthusiasm and a willingness to experiment are all well and good, but he will need to plan carefully and bake with focus if he is to be in with a chance in the final.
Bake I wish I'd made: rose, lychee and raspberry tart
Technical challenge I was most in awe of: marshmallow tea cakes
Most inspiring flavour combination: banana and clove
Biggest baking mess: the barn
Likelihood of winning: strong, provided he can reign in the off-the-cuff experimentation and take care with his presentation.
The final
Taking all 27 bakes into account, it is difficult to see how Brendan can be challenged – he has been the stand-out baker this season in terms of both quality and consistency. James has been a risk-taker, improvising as he bakes and pushing himself against the clock right down to the last few seconds a reckless approach that many would like to succeed. John, however, is the only finalist for whom the Bake Off might be more than just a competition – in the semi-final he spoke of his desire to make baking a career – could passion provide the spur in the final stages of the competition?
Brendan and James are certainly opposites in terms of their baking style and approach to the challenges. Steady, measured, methodical and precise v spur-of-the-moment inventiveness and experimentation. The popular opinion seems to be that either of them could take out the competition. But with Brendan on one side and James on the other, it leaves a very big gap in the middle for John to potentially come storming through. If he can harness his emotions and bring his presentation up to scratch, John might just surprise us all.
For six of the previous nine weeks, the winner of the technical bake has gone on to be crowned Star Baker, suggesting that it might be the key round in terms of deciding a winner, and indeed both Ed and Jo won their final technical bakes. If everything comes down to the showstopper round – and the efforts of the previous nine weeks count for little – then the competition might well be more open than it currently appears.
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I was hoping some of you could weigh in on my 20L tank. Community setup with a variety of plants. There are a few flat stones that I placed in hoping they would give some horizontal lines. I am very open to suggestions. My sincere apologies for the poor cell phone camera. Thanks for taking a look.
Certainly has potential. How old is the tank and what are your goals? Perhaps a few more details about your setup would be handy too.
I think you could move a few things and get a better look. But it depends what you want to do.
IDK, looks like you have done a good job. I am not a huge fan of having too many types of plants though, but that is just me.
ive been using that same mindset for my setups, for the smaller tanks, 2-3 species of plants and for a bit larger tank 4-6ish
some consistency and some diversity all at the same time
Like Farmer said what are your goals for this tank?
Defstatic and hambone touched on having only a few species of plants which I agree on somewhat.
To me your tank seems to busy. Do you have another tank to put some of the plants in? What I would suggest is to come up with what plants you really want in this tank, such as background plants, shorter plants for the front and then plant them and slowly add in more plants.
The tank has some age to it. It has been going for about 2 years but the current setup is about a month old. I can understand what many of you are saying about having less species. I'm trying to get something along the lines of a 'Dutch' setup as my fiance likes some color in the tank.
I know I'll get some feedback for saying this but I'm running over 50w of t5HO over this tank with no CO2. I'm using the PPS dosing method and have not seen any algae issues yet. Dosing excel at the recommended rate but only every couple days. I am hoping to move to pressurized before too long but for not this is a bit of an experiment.
For plants I do like the Limnophila indica in the back and would like to keep the lotus along with a crypt species or two but I'm pretty open after that. The left side seems very jammed and while I like the balance of the red Ludwigia peruensis on the left I think it is too much. The current list of species is as follows:
Ludwigia peruensis
Lotus sp.
Cryptocoryne wendtii 'Bronze'
Cryptocoryne wendtii 'Green'
Limnophila indica
Anubia nana
Parviflorus parviflorus 'Tropica'
Limnophila hippuroides
Echinodorus 'Oriental'
I guess I got a little carried away with the species but I'm also in the process of figuring out what will live in this tank so that I can know better once I get the 75+ gallon that I would like in the next year or two.
Thank you all for your replies.
Unfortunately the first on I would remove is the lotus. Not because I don't like it. I love them but it doesn't do anything for your tank as it is. Maybe you could grow a stem plant below/in front of it so you can only see the leaves.
I'd get rid of the swords. They don't fit the dutch style IMO. The crypts don't really either but maybe with the other dense stem plants it will work.
The more I look at the Dutch style the more I like the color but the less I like the fact that it is all stem plants. I was wondering if anyone could point out some examples where color is used but where it isn't so strict as to only use stem plants. I have an affinity for the lotus and crypts, mostly because they are extremely easy.
Does anyone have much experience with color under non-CO2 conditions? As I stated earlier I would like to move to CO2 when I get a bigger tank but for now am trying to get by without as I will be moving, etc this summer.
I have a crypt only with a few stems tank check my sig. The last couple pictures have a couple pots in it that I'm farming out but you can get the gist of the idea. I went for a rocky slope with lots of crypts as my foreground, background, and mid ground. Type in Cryptocoryne only tank and you can get some ideas of what to do with it. (Even if you don't go all crypts it will help to arrange them.) with your current set up I think putting the lotus farther to the right and then rearranging your stems to get the taller ones in either corner with a slope down towards the middle would look cool. Then use your crypts as more of a midgroundish. It might be worth your while to look into getting a few more smaller crypt varieties and a few less stems. But it's up to you. My suggestions would be C. Nevillii and then make your wood a more central focal point. It's kinda being drowned out by the plant mass.
Good luck my friend!
Here is a thread I am looking at now. It's a very low tech tank but one of the best I've seen. The coloured plants are amazing.
Here too. Love some of those.
While I prefer regional Bio-Types Aquascapes for my own tanks, I feel the Dutch style is the true test of one's Aquatic gardening skills. Here's a decent link on the Dutch style: http://www.aqcenter.net/topic/1619-dutch-aquarium/
I remember reading there were some 'rules' for setting up the Dutch tank. There is a proper number of sp. of plants per size of the tank. No hard scape. 3 sp. of fish Max. High, Mid & Low level swimmers. The plants most often seen in the best tanks are CO2 dependent. I think if one like the style they should go for it making the total commitment.
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Malcolmology 101, #15: Bayard Rustin Debate
Tue, 2011/03/08 - 3:31pm — Editor
Despite some trepidation from Elijah Muhammad, who viewed forays into the public intellectual sphere with skepticism, Malcolm X undertook a series of college debates in the early 1960s with significant figures in the Civil Rights Movement. One of these was a debate with a longtime civil rights activist Bayard Rustin at the prominent black college, Howard University, in Washington D.C. The events leading up to the debate, however, illustrated the divisive position that Malcolm and the NOI held within the black community. After inviting him to speak as part of Negro History Week in February 1961 by the campus chapter of the NAACP, the group could not secure approval from the Student Activities Office. The students then rescheduled at New Bethel Baptist Church, but the church later balked, saying that the expected audience was too large for the venue.
How the lecture came to fruition in October as a debate with Bayard Rustin is still mysterious. It is possible that E. Franklin Frazier, who had been associated with the University since the mid-1930s, intervened by convincing the school that an integrationist voice like Rustin's be present to counterbalance Malcolm X's separatism. According to Rustin, though, Malcolm had broached the subject of the canceled lecture and Rustin replied that he could convince Howard if he agreed to his terms: "You'll present your view, and I'll present a view which says that you're a fraud. You have no political, no social, no economic program for dealing with the black community and its problem." Malcolm allegedly took the challenge and Rustin wrote to the Howard University president, who supported the debate. Rustin claimed that the University was reluctant to have Malcolm alone because it could jeopardize its federal funding.
The debate took place before a capacity crowd of fifteen hundred with five hundred left outside of Cramden Auditorium. Eager to avenge a debate against Rustin the year before on WBAI radio in which he had been clearly outwitted, Malcolm rallied the crowd by speaking not as "a Republican, Democrat, Christian or Jew, and certainly not as an American" but as a "BLACK MAN!" Although Rustin pressed against the NOI's weak point, the unlikelihood of a separate state, Malcolm had captured the support of the more radical student audience and left the old-guard of Howard University teetering. A professor left the auditorium saying: "Howard will never be the same. I feel a reluctance to face my class tomorrow." Malcolm X and Rustin continued to cross paths over the next several years in debates and at the 1963 March on Washington - Rustin as a chief architect and Malcolm as an observer and critic.
Citation: "1500 Hear Integration - Non-Segregation Debate," Chicago Defender, November 11, 1961.


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May 11, 2014
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Michigan is now 36-14 all-time at the Big Ten Tournament (17 years).
U-M is now 6-3 vs. Minnesota and 2-1 vs. Wisconsin in Big Ten Tournament games.
Sierra Romero extended her reached-base streak to 36 games by reaching in both sides of the doubleheader.
Nicole Sappingfield had four hits on the day, moving her into eighth on U-M's career list with 262.
Caitlin Blanchard, Lindsay Montemarano and Sierra Romero were named to the all-tournament team.
Game One
Michigan completed its second seventh-inning comeback of the season. The Maize and Blue scored four runs against Boston College (Feb. 16) after trailing 4-2 going into the inning. The Wolverines downed the Eagles 6-5.
Sierra Romero walked for the 54th time this season, giving her the second-most walks in one season by a Wolverine (Dorian Shaw, 67 in 2011).
Romero extended her hit streak to 12 games, tying her career high that she set in 2013.
Romero tallied her 19th multi-RBI game of the season, tops on the team.
Nicole Sappingfield tallied her 21st multi-hit game of the season.
Sappingfield scored two runs, moving her into sixth on U-M's career list with 184.
Caitlin Blanchard collected her 15th multi-hit game of the season.
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Not Everyone Loves the Gates Foundation
As construction begins today on the first step of NBBJ's new Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation headquarters in Seattle, concerns are growing over how this massive development will impact the city's already gridlocked streets.
Officially known as 500 Fifth Avenue North, the foundation's campus encompasses 12 acres adjacent to the Seattle Center, once home to the 1962 World's Fair. Work begins today on a 1,010-car parking garage, which will make up for a public lot that the rest of the campus will displace. The 420,000-square-foot structure contains a learning center—the campus's only indoor public space—and features a green roof. Although the foundation is also paying the city $1.68 million for traffic improvements, many observers believe more is needed.
Peter Steinbrueck, who heads the Seattle City Council's urban development and planning committee, describes the neighborhood's street conditions as "blighted"—and fears that with new hotels and restaurants already in the works, the infrastructure could be pushed beyond its limit. Seattle has plans to build a $5 billion tunnel just south of the campus, but this structure only replaces an existing viaduct. Planners say another $500 million of improvements are necessary to create a functioning street grid for cars and pedestrians. But funding sources for additional projects are unclear, particularly in light of a fierce political battle over the tunnel.
Many observers contend that the city will lose its chance to improve the long-neglected neighborhood if it cannot fund changes before the Gates Foundation enters its final stages. When private development takes over, planners worry, the city could lose crucial rights of way.
Last November, the city approved NBBJ's full campus design, which calls for 1 million square feet of office space, distributed in three L-shaped buildings around a central courtyard. Construction is planned in phases over 15 years, with the first and largest phase expected to finish in 2010.


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- 2 cups uncooked whole wheat penne pasta
- 1 pound Italian turkey sausage links, casings removed
- 1-3/4 cups sliced fresh mushrooms
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) fire-roasted diced tomatoes with garlic, undrained
- 1 package (6 ounces) fresh baby spinach
- 1/4 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
- Cook penne according to package directions.
- Meanwhile, in a Dutch oven, cook sausage and mushrooms over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain. Stir in tomatoes; bring to a boil. Add spinach; cook and stir until spinach is wilted.
- Drain pasta; stir into turkey mixture. Sprinkle with cheese; remove from the heat. Cover and let stand until cheese is melted. Yield: 4 servings.
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"Mmmm-definitely use the cheese! Omitted the mushrooms & used Trader Joe's Italian chicken sausage w/red & green peppers with about 10 spinach leaves-fussy hubby. He put sriracha sauce on his."
"Made with Sweet Italian Turkey sausage but I bet would be tasty with Hot Sausage as well. Very yummy, light and great with a salad."
"Made this tonight using a sweet Italian turkey sausage and my husband and I really enjoyed it very much. Next time we might try using a spicy turkey sausage just to add a bit of kick. We also didn't think the cheese really added much to the dish so will leave out next time. This will be made again and again. Super simple, quick and great flavor!"


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Tennis Cats Fall To Vols in NCAA Quarterfinals
May 19, 2002
College Station, Texas - The ninth-ranked University of Kentucky men's tennis team fell short on its bid for an NCAA title with a loss to the second-seeded Tennessee Volunteers in the Round of Eight on Sunday, May 19. Earlier this season, Kentucky had defeated the Volunteers twice but could not find the way to a third victory with the 4-1 loss.
"I am very proud of this team," Head Coach Dennis Emery said. " They played great tennis today. Tennessee was very prepared and today's match shows how much they have developed through the year. We beat them twice earlier this year, but they have continued to get better and played strongly today with a mission and a purpose."
Kentucky grabbed an 8-5 victory on the third court of doubles with its duo of Rahim Esmail and Jesse Witten, while dropping the doubles match on the first court. With the opening point divided, it came down to the No. 2 spot but Kentucky could not find a way past Tennessee's tandem of Adam Carey and Peter Handoyo.
Tennessee continued its lead taking the first two victories in singles action. Sixth-ranked Witten fell to UT's No. 7 Peter Handoyo in straight sets at No. 1, while UK's Evan Austin dropped to No. 77 Carey on the third court. Down 3-0, Kentucky started to rally back.
Karim Benmansour, ranked 61st in the country, grabbed a straight-set victory over UT's No. 18 Mario Toledo. He secured the 6-1,7-6 victory with a 10-8 tiebreak win in the second set. Splitting sets on the final three courts, the match came down to third set action with Kentucky playing its best. At No. 4, Johan Grunditz fought back from an early third set deficit to even the score, 4-4, before Tennessee's Mark Dietrich grabbed two consecutive games for the set victory and the clinching match point. Action at No. 5 and No. 6 was suspended with the Cats leading the third sets on both courts.
The Cats end their season with one of the best teams in the Dennis Emery era. They tallied a 23-10 overall record, which is the best for a UK team since 1992 when they finished at 24-5. Kentucky's advancement to the NCAA quarterfinals marks only its third appearance under Emery.
"I have seen three teams in the quarterfinals now and it is always a thrill to play in such a match," Emery said, "It's just a bonus to win it."
Freshman Jesse Witten will continue his stay in COllege Station, Texas to represent the Wildcats in the NCAA Singles Championship to take place, May 22-27.
No. 1#7 Peter Handoyo (UT) def. #6 Jesse Witten (UK)6-3,6-1
No. 2#61 Karim Benmansour (UK) def. #18 Mario Toledo6-1,7-6
No. 3#77 Adam Carey (UT) def. Evan Austin (UK)6-3,6-1
No. 4#82 Mark Dietrich (UT) def. Johan Grunditz (UK)3-6,6-4,6-4
No. 5Gustav Pousette (UK) vs. Simon Rea (UT)SUS.
No. 6Rahim Esmail (UK) vs. Wade Orr (UT)SUS.
No. 1#22 Rea/Toledo (UT) def. #49 Austin/Benmansour (UK)8-1
No. 2Carey/Handoyo (UT) def. Grunditz/Pousette (UK)8-6
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While some view data science as a logical extension of traditional business intelligence (BI), the professionals that populate the two fields are startlingly different, according to the results of a new survey.
The survey, which was conducted by EMC and polled nearly 500 data scientists and BI professionals, found that computer science and engineering were the two most popular undergraduate majors for data scientists, while business dominates as the top field of study among BI pros. Data scientists are also 2.5 times more likely to have earned a master's degree and nine times more likely to have a doctoral degree than their BI counterparts.
The tools the two groups use to do their jobs also diverge, according to the survey. While BI pros largely rely on Excel, Data Scientists more often use advanced statistical packages like R, emerging platforms like Hadoop and NoSQL databases, and visualization tools such as Tableau.
The survey also found that most people that consider themselves Data Scientists don't actually hold that title. Common titles associated with the Data Scientist role are business analyst, analytic manager, and research scientists. One respondent was actually a fisheries biologist.
The upshot of these survey results, according to an accompanying report, is that a successful Data Scientist requires "rigorous scientific training" in order to apply "advanced analytical tools and algorithms to generate predictive insights and new product innovations" from large and varied data sets.
The only problem is that there aren't enough educational and training resources to prepare the next generation of Data Scientists, according to Data Scientists themselves. Close to two-thirds of respondents said they expect a significant shortfall in the number of Data Scientists over the next five years due to a lack of training and education opportunities.
"Making sense of Big Data is a combination of organizations having the tools, skills and more importantly, the mindset to see data as the new 'oil' fueling a company," said respondent Dr. Andreas Weigend, Head of the Social Data Lab at Stanford University and former Chief Scientist at Amazon.com. "Unfortunately, the technology has evolved faster than the workforce skills to make sense of it and organizations across sectors must adapt to this new reality or perish."
The survey also asked about the conditions needed for Data Scientists to be successful in their jobs. Among the top responses was a willingness on the part of enterprises to allow Data Scientists free reign to explore data as they chose. Data Science, the survey found, is a highly collaborative discipline, which enterprises must embrace in order to make the most of Big Data Analytics:
That means building high-performing, cross-functional teams that include a variety of roles, including programmers, statisticians, and graphic designers, and aligning them to directly support interested business decision makers. They should also loosen restrictions on data in the enterprise, allowing employees to more freely run data-driven experiments. Finally, data scientists should be given free access to run experiments on data, without bureaucratic obstacles, so that they can rapidly translate their own intellectual curiosity into business results.
The EMC Data Scientist survey highlights the need for more Big Data Analytics training and education opportunities for both new entrants to the job market and to help existing BI pros transition to the role of Data Scientist. It also makes clear that enterprises, particularly non-Web companies with strict corporate cultures like legal and financial services firms, must give Data Scientists the freedom they need to do their jobs.


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Source: Clintons 'livid' with Weiner personally
There are 26 comments on the WGAL-TV Lancaster story from Jul 29, 2013, titled Source: Clintons 'livid' with Weiner personally. In it, WGAL-TV Lancaster reports that:
Bill and Hillary Clinton are "livid" with New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, a source close to the couple said Monday in response to a report in The New York Post.
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#9 Jul 30, 2013
Anthony Weiner's wife is a nice looking lady, and she seems to either love him a lot or at least she's extremely loyal to him. It really is sad he can't get his head screwed on straight and see the value of what he has.
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#12 Jul 30, 2013
Is the pot calling the kettle black?
#13 Jul 30, 2013
You guys with your sexual perverts and fantasies and fetishes and the comments have as much intelligence as a cigar, a kettle and any other silly fantasized comments.
Watching Weiner five or so years ago, he seemed smart, articulate, informed and knowledgeable.
He has blown all that - and more - with his reckless behavior. The Clintons and others should be "livid?
#14 Jul 30, 2013
There is a list but one good thing he did around election time was win a second term and show Romney (and whomever was his running mate) that Romney and the Party of NO is not "one good thing" and did not deserve to win.
#15 Jul 30, 2013
of course slick willy the 'now where did I put that cigar' is livid some pantywaist novice like weiner is trying to steal his legacy.
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#16 Jul 30, 2013
The party of no as you refer are leading states into economic success...
The party of yes, spend it,(democrats) are leading cities and states into bankruptcy filings.
Obama is taking Romney's advice on Detroit:
For all of the invective launched by President Obama and his campaign against challenger Mitt Romney last year for having argued for structured bankruptcy for the citys Big Three automakers, in the end, the most liberal, most pro-union president since LBJ opted to take Romneys advice when it came to the city itself.
Romney is taking Marriot Hotels to new expansions.
2008 to 2012...obama kept Bush's policies intact that he campained against...his only successes
Now he's using Rommey's advice......
Yawn..you voted for this one term senator/community orgainzer. And now he's using his opponents tactics...LMAO
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#18 Jul 30, 2013
I don't see how the Clintons can complain as CERTAINLY Bill Clinton was FAR WORSE than Weiner with his ILLEGAL Sexual Escapades.
Did Weiner break the law like Bill----did Weiner endanger women like Bill??? Noooo! Hillary is a Hypocrite if she is mad at Weiner.
#19 Jul 30, 2013
For a draft dodger, Bill sure is arrogant.
Maybe someone ought to remind him that 6 to7 better men died in his place in Vietnam.
#20 Jul 30, 2013
#21 Jul 30, 2013
Why all the missing posts? I have contacted Topix about it now. Lets find out who the control freak moderator is.
You don't mind domestic spying yet? Wait till the government starts using your stollen private info to blackmail YOU into comitting crimes on their behalf. Welcome to modern day tyranny -high tech style.
Merger of state and corporation always = fascism/tyranny. Remember, we Americans will only recieve what we are willing put up with. They are testing us righ now. Let's push back.
Mainstream media leaves you depressed, dumbed down, empty and hopeless. What kind of crap will they focus on next to distract us from what's really important?
Truth based media gives you a heads up and broadens your horizons. It protects your family, health, and life savings. It's your decision...
Once you have a taste of truthful reporting you never go back to mainstream contrived corporate media.
These hosts bash Republicans and Democrats equally because they know both sides are illuminati bought puppets out to screw us.
Give alternative news sources a chance before you knock them. Download these shows to your MP3 players and listen on your way to work or whatever. All you need from mainstream media is breaking news and traffic/weather. You can listen to all these shows on your smart phone as well.
Exposes US Gov Corruption and Global Wide Illuminati Plots
Exposes Wallstreet and absolutely teaches you how to protect your money from the crooked banksters
Exposes Secret/Ancient Knowledge Suppressed In Modern History Books and suppressed medical cures/prevention for diseases like cancer, etc. This guy is a medical doctor.
Often Exposes NASA Disinformation and Possible Offworld Intelligence -Search "Coast to Coast 2012 Shows" on Youtube and listen or use downloader -This is one way /Or get a CC Witness radio and record AM from your local affiliate. There is CIA disinfo injected from some of the guests but you learn how to identify it after a while by researching the guests' backgrounds. The hosts are simply great.
Connects Bible Predictions/Prophecy to Modern Day Events -How Illuminati uses bible prophecy to plan false flag disasters eg. earthquakes, etc. There could also be some CIA brainwashing here as well from some of the guest lecturers but they give a heads up of what to look out for/predict down the road. The host does a good job of teaching about the bible and does not fear political correctness.
These radio hosts should do a show together or at least make guest appearences on each others shows. They all value truth and liberty in their own way.
Here's my take on it. Don't be afraid to speak out as we are all on some type of list by now:
You have to understand that free speech on the net is about to be clamped down on in America.-mainland China style.
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#23 Jul 30, 2013
Some of these Topix moderators need to be removed. They are destroying Topix's credability by removing posts that violate no TOS. They have no right to pick and choose based on political biases. Topix needs to shape up or else they will end up like MSNBC -dead with no viewers or advertisers. Shame on some of these moderators.
People assume Nazis were right wing conservatives. The media bashes Libertarians every day with this kind of stuff.
Not true, the Nazi party -National Socialist German Workers' Party- were radical leftist socialists engaging in eugenics like the corrupt criminals we have running the foreign banker owned federal government today.
They believed anyone that was not genetic perfection should be terminated. If you were old, had medical problems, or were a little slow at childhood you were not fit to live or get any medical help when needed. And yes,they had end of life death pannels for elderly and many others.
That sounds like Obamacare to me.
Ask Canadians or Brits how they like their radical socialist health care. That's why they often came to the US for medical treatments.
States need to opt out. Looking now how broad it is, Obamacare was a covert dismantling and re-write of our constitution.
It opens the door to pure tyranny.
#24 Jul 30, 2013
Obama had 4 years to change the country for the better.
Seriously, can anyone name one good thing this guy's done for America?
I need not explain how he and his corrupt guttertrash Chicago mafia handlers have made everything worse. Simply look around with your own lying eyes for proof.
In some aspects Obama is right when he says ((("you didn't build/create that, government did.")))
Let's look at what this administration has created in 4 short years:
-Socialist eugenics based health care (((Obamacare)))
-NDAA (((National Defense Authorization Act))) where Americans can be disappeared without a jury
-Out of control (((Crony Capitalism)))-government picks winners and losers based on payouts -not free market eg. Solyndra, GM, GE, MF Global, Numerous Bank Bailouts, Cancelling Keystone Pipleline, No Prosecution of criminal Banksters
-(((Skyrocketing Unemployment and Outsourcing)))-The idea that welfare checks/EBT cards are paychecks
-(((Fast and Furious))) and other suspected domestic false flags like Aurora CO to argue for abolishing the 2nd ammendmant
-Massive (((TSA expansion))) onto America's streets and armed (((survellance drones/now blimps))) operating over US territory.
-(((UN control of U.S. military troops to invade))) Egypt, Syria, parts of Africa, etc. for offshore bankers aka Nazism
-(((Trickle Down Government))) The idea that nothing can be built without (((more government bureaucrats and global warming regulations/taxes))) getting in the way
-(((Throwing Israel -an important ally- under the bus))) by destabalizing all the county's around it but not offering them any assurances of protection
-A(((continuation of Bush's failed policies))), like not getting out of Iraq, Afghanastan, and no closing of Guantanamo torture camps
-(((Polaraized race relations))) eg. Disrespectful hadling of the Treyvon Martin family after his murder -opportunistic my son would have looked like Treyvon soundbite- and media staged racial infighting between Americans
-(((No Proof Obama supposedly got Osama)))) America was never really allowed to see the body/proof ; -)
-(((Defunding of NASA))) No exploration of the stars for the U.S., leave that to countries that are exceptional
-(((No Plan/ or Budget to Fix Anything if he is re-elected )))-always says what you want to hear, then does the exact opposite hoping you''ll forget by the next speech -(((Sociopathic Liar)))
-(((Obamaphone)))-Massive expansion of this program for his dependant voting base
-(((Unlimited QE3 leading to hyperinflation/ monopoly money))) Dollar is rapidly losing purchasing power resulting in skyrocketing food and GAS PRICES (especially for "green gas" in CA)
-(((Needed a tainted Creepy Crawley moderator to hold his hand during the 2nd debate))) weak affirmative action President
- My favorite (((Legalizing the illegals))) temporarily until the election is over but not offering true immigration reform
Obama's 2nd Term
(((BenghaziGate))) Obama lied, our troops died -bigger than Watergate, this is outright treason -funny how Obama threw Clinton under the bus
(((IRS Gate))) Uses IRS storm troopers to go after political enemies by targeting foes for audits and leaking classified tax information -both felonies
(((Mediagate-Boston CIA Gate))) Trying to chill journalists by tapping their phone conversations -even spying on Associated Press and other old liberal allies
(((NSA/PRISM Spy Gate))) Persecuting whistleblowers like Snowden and now bumping off journalists who expose illegal phone/net wiretapping on public
(((Holdergate))) Is Holder is supposed to supervise all these hearings? He should be in jail over Oklahoma city, Fast and Furious, and Wall Street corruption. Laws without enforcement are useless.
What the hell does it take to get impeached or is Obama now a bonafide dictator?
#25 Jul 30, 2013
Funny, the only stuff they censored was in here. Looks like the Clinton people may be deleting posts, not necessarily Topix.
No more Clintons, no more Bush's. These cockroach bloodlines are not royalty -they are royal crown scum.
Bring in Rand Paul and take back America.
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#27 Jul 30, 2013
When will liberals start respecting women?
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#28 Jul 30, 2013
Man Obama is really missing out on an asset in you.
Get yourself down to DC and wise them up; when they make you the Tax Czar you can set things right.
For every dollar a state sends to DC, they get one dollar back.
Then everything will be evie-stevie and fair and your genius will have saved America.
#29 Jul 31, 2013
Of course Hillary is running. TV is helping
to make her nice, honest and capable of doing the
job....NOW, what I would like to know, how many
have lost their memory and will vote for her? Like
NY, I think we can do better, and she is not in that
race. The Clintons can not stand to be out of
the lime light, I hope we show them, we can make
them history. New blood, a good honest man who knows how to get us back to being the country we
once were.
I want to be number one again and be proud. I'm
tired of being taken over by idiots.
#30 Jul 31, 2013
The Clintons are known for their censorship of information. They are consummate LIARS and the Main-Stream Media is under orders to go along with the SHAM.
Sadly, for Hillary, The MSM, the mouthpiece of the GLOBALIST OLIGARCHY, does not have a monopoly on information flow like they did when the the BANKSTER puppet, BC was in the WH.
"i hope we can change this!"
Since: Aug 08
#31 Jul 31, 2013
wow...the left wing loons are frikkin idiots!
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#33 Jul 31, 2013
Very true
#34 Jul 31, 2013
But he didn't win by honesty!
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by Slippy, Jul 9, 2007.
After today, J. McCoy looks like the stud. Roscoe, would you put Samb on the team over Dale Davis?
Yes. And this is why. Samb is cheaper. And he's the future. If Flip is not going to play someone, I would rather he not play Samb, so he can go to the Mad Ants and cost us little to nothing, than Davis who will occupy a non-DLeague spot that might end up excluding Samb from the roster at a greater payroll hit. Who can help us this year? Davis. Maybe next year too. But will Flip play either of these guys? That remains to be seen.
Roscoe, I don't believe Samb can hang with NBA players today. But he needs to spend an entire season at NBDL. There he'll face competition that will alow him to develop his game. As much as I love DD, I don't think we need to bring him back.
Great article. I think this part is probably the thing to talk about the most: ...if the Pistons or another NBA team are fixated on developing him, they should bring him over to get used to the NBA banging sooner rather than later -- he's unlikely to develop that in Europe. I'm all for using the last roster spot on him. Put him in the NBDL and at least get him close to the coaching and training staff - Have him play against strong players (not necessarily good, but strong).
Aren't there unsigned players in the DLeage? I don't know, I just don't see him panning out. Too lanky. I have to agree that if Flip refuses to play Davis, then I would not want him on the team. But without CWebb, then he may actually play Davis over Naz.
Didn't you post earlier that if a player works at something hard enough that they can succeed? In fact I think that was by far the majority of opinion on this forum in opposition to my theory. Therefore it seems to me that almost everyone this board should be trying to figure out how to get Cheikh to work hard enough to be a successful NBA player and see that the Pistons follow that plan. Simple enough if you believe that hard work can overcome lack innate skills in all circumstances.
Your theory... which can pretty much be summed up by: People are exactly the same as they were when they were "very young". Experiences don't change people.
You don't believe that Samb has enough skills to play in the NBA? Just curious. I am very open on this subject since I haven't seen enough of him to come to any conclusion.
That is totally incorrect. That might be your interpretation. My position is that every person is born with their own unique DNA (This is a medical fact). That DNA determines a persons base mental and physical capabilities and potential defects, such height, inherited susceptibility to certain diseases, such as alcoholism, etc What a person does with his/her DNA is then up to that person, influenced but not controlled by their environment. But someone who is born with what is classified as a "imbecile mentality" in medical terms (and I do not use the term in a derogatory manner whatsoever) will never become a Physics PhD no matter how hard they try.
I think that he has the "potential" to play in the NBA, and if he becomes a NBA player, then he could be good. He's not ready right now. If they think that he'll be better served in the D-league than Europe, then yes, bring him over, but he's not a rotation player right now. No way in hell.
I don't have a position one way or another on whether he will ever play successfully in the NBA for an extended number of years. From what I have seen of his game and what I have read about him so far I have drawn the following opinions at this point about his game. 1. He has certain basketball talents that would be helpful to his game in the NBA 2. His game has improved over the last 12 months. 3. He has gained the weight the JMax lost. - LOL 4. To play effectively in the NBA with his back to the basket on offense he will need to get stronger. 5. To play an effective low post defense in the NBA he will have to get stronger. 6. He can probably work better on developing his strength by playing in the D league vs Europe, unless he can go to a team in Europe with a top rate strength and conditioning coach or avail himself of the same when he is in Europe. In that case it might be better for him and the Pistons that he play in Europe this coming year if the Pistons can find another player to fill Cheikh's spot on the roster who could actually contribute to the Pistons this year. Those are my observations about CS at this point.
and Stephen Hawking will not be able to run a marathon within the next 12 months except in cyberspace, no matter how hard he tries and it equally improbable that he could complete one in a non motorized wheel chair. A brilliant individual who continues daily to fight his dreadful disease and the whole world is better for his daily battle and his contributions that he continues to make to the human race Stephen Hawking - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
My bad This link is in English Stephen Hawking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samb is better than I thought he was. He has some very good basketball instincts and coordination and a really nice looking mid range J. He rebounds above the rim and keeps the ball high, and always dunks with two hands. The only drawback right now is strength and conditioning, which is fixable, especially with Arnie Kander. I see no problem bringing him over for some d-league development. Samb is the epitome of a low-risk high-reward type of investment.
He is weak, but he fights. Our other choice of who to play in the rotation is Mohammed right now. Mohammed is just as weak, and does not even give effort to stay near the basket. The slightest push, and Mohammed comes flying far from the basket and any chance of a rebound. Since we have to have some center in the rotation, I say play Samb. This does not mean he has to play a whole lot. Maybe 7 to 10 minutes a game. Just enough to make the other team think we have a tall center they have to worry about when they shoot. Keep them looking over their shoulder a bit.
I agree 100%.
Samb is slow. His decision making lags behind. He is late to react on defense. He really can't score unless he's open. He's got no post up game. He has no offense outside 6 feet unless there's no opponent within 20 ft of him. He's plain not ready. He needs to go play in NBDL.
right. Talk of him in the rotation is premature but on the roster...its not a stretch seeing as our other option is to buy him out of his next contract.
its part of the reason for the 15 man roster so you could carry players that were projects. only 12 can be active for any game anyways.
He's not looking as good as he did last year, but the summer league is a gurads league. Big men aren't generally the focus, however, I will say the Pistons do a better job than most keeping it distributed pretty good.
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Cash aid to India will stop in 2015, heralding an end to British taxpayers giving money to boom nations, Justine Greening announced today.
Britain will instead switch help to schemes where Britain shares expertise in fields from healthcare to economic growth.
The move was welcomed by critics of the traditional aid programme who asked why the UK was sending £280 million this year to a nation rich enough to have its own space programme yet where millions live in poverty.
Payments already in the pipeline will continue until 2015 so that existing schemes are not scrapped overnight. Officials say the new form of non-financial aid will cost around a tenth as much and may in some cases generate economic returns.
The decision follows a trip by Ms Greening to India this week where local politicians said they valued British expertise more than cash handouts.
"It's time to recognise India's changing place in the world," said Ms Greening. "I have seen first hand the tremendous progress being made. India is successfully developing, and our own bilateral relationship has to keep up with 21st Century India."
British aid to India rose as high as £421 million under Labour. But that seems farcical to critics who pointed out the country has its own overseas aid programme worth £328 million a year.
The controversy fuelled discontent among Tory MPs with the Prime Minister's commitment to increase aid spending rapidly to around £12.6 billion by 2014, which is more than is spent on policing.
In February the then Indian finance minister Pranab Mukherjee embarrassed ministers by saying UK aid was "a peanut in our total development expenditure".
The Indian economy is booming by eight per cent a year and exports from the UK surged by 37 per cent in 2010.
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Ghana goalie Dauda to join SA side Orlando Pirates for pre-season on Friday
Ghana World Cup goalkeeper Fatau Dauda is expected to join his side Orlando Pirates on Friday.
Dauda will be returning to the Buccaneers shoulders high after his impressive displays in Brazil despite Ghana's early exit.
He started two out of his country's three group matches in Brazil – a 2-2 draw with Germany and 2-1 defeat to Portugal.
Dauda will be hoping his performances will earn him playing time at Pirates.
He was signed last August and managed only three appearances for the ABSA Premiership side.
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banger says:July 18, 2014 02:04 amGUYS HONESTLY WE SHOULD GIVE DAUDA A BREAK. HE WAS VERY IMPRESSSIV AT THE WCUP BUT HE FUCKED UP WITH THAT BLUNDER HE MADE.ALL HE HAD TO DO WAS RELAX N CATCH THE BALL.BUT BESIDE THAT HE WAS OK.
Rasheed says:July 18, 2014 02:26 am@banger,Dauda conceded 4 goals in two matches,and worsened his case with that blunder against Portugal.
Rasheed says:July 17, 2014 11:45 pmIt is that man with a flat face called Saanie Diarra,who is doing this propaganda for some peanuts from Dauda.Saanie knows very well that Kwarasey will not give him a dime.
ALHAJI MOHAMMED GERMANY says:July 17, 2014 10:24 pmxoxoksxoxo you are right..no need to insult him ..ghanasoccernet are to be blame for any attack against Dauda..the article is a disgrace...i know dauda is still suffering from this world cup..and he is paying for it....And ghanasoccernet are helping him in digging his own grave
xoxoKSxoxo says:July 17, 2014 05:20 pmWho Cares? I will not attack Dauda on this article. He is minding his business in South Africa where he belongs but GhanaSoccernet is setting him up for people to attack and degrade him once again. This short article about him is nothing but propaganda. Phrases like "his impressive displays in Brazil" and "Dauda will be hoping his performances will earn him playing time at Pirates" are evidence of propaganda. Please leave him to be, he has suffered enough, I hope.
YesSir says:July 17, 2014 05:46 pmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXoqXm7x5fs Kojo Asamoah asks Dauda Why. He replied, I was speaking twi with Boye and didnt see the ball coming until it was too late so I had to tap it down for CR7. check out the video on the link above.
YesSir says:July 17, 2014 06:20 pmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXoqXm7x5fs Dauda busy speaking Twi with Boye. Forgets to grab the ball. Kojo Asamoah asks why?? check out youtube video. ghanasoccernet do not remove as you have with the previous, else take out the comments section. I have the freedom of speech.
dj says:July 17, 2014 06:33 pmIdiotic statement. Was passing the ball to Ronaldo impressive.
nas says:July 17, 2014 08:23 pmHahaha I can't believe he was impressive in Brazil


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Nuclear power plants are expensive to build but relatively cheap to run. Current estimates for the capital costs of a nuclear plant run in the range of $5,000 to $6,000 per electrical kilowatt. By comparison, coal plant capital costs are about $2,000 per electrical kilowatt. High-efficiency, gas turbine combined cycle plant costs are in the $600 to $1,000 per electrical kilowatt range. Simple cycle gas turbine plant capital costs are as low as $300 to $700 per electrical kilowatt.
The Energy Information Administration's Annual Energy Outlook for 2014 report provides more meaningful estimates of the averaged levelized costs for generating technologies to be brought online in 2018. (Levelized cost represents the per-kilowatt hour cost of building and operating a generating plant over an assumed financial life and duty cycle). The projected levelized cost for an advanced coal plant is 12.3 cents per kilowatt-hour, whereas that of advanced combined cycle gas turbine plant is 6.6 cents per kilowatt-hour. An advanced nuclear plant, such as the ones under construction at Vogtle, comes in between, at 10.8 cents per kilowatt-hour. Nuclear is competitive, then, and a future carbon tax on technologies that produce carbon dioxide pollution could make it even more so.
One major controversy with nuclear power is what happens to spent fuel when a plant is retired. A good example of a cradle-to-grave story of a nuclear power plant is the Connecticut Yankee plant, located along the Connecticut River. It went online in 1968, and over its service life of 28 years it produced over 110 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity from its uranium fuel. The plant was decommissioned from 1998 to 2007, with all structures removed from three to four feet below ground level. The site is now a fairly flat field, with a low mound where the reactor building sat.
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Proofreading is the final step before sending a resume to the recruiter. There are many aspects to take into account during the proofreading, here you will find very useful information about proofreading your resume.
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Even though nowadays is more common to send your resume online, hard copy resumes are still in use. You can also use a hard copy of your resume for a job interview. We give you some advice for you to obtain the best results in your physical resume's quality and appearance.
Sending your resume
Sending your resume has also some tricks that can help you or not. First, you have to know that email is not the only option you have to send your resume; you can still send it by traditional mail or by fax, if you do so you can increase your possibilities to get noticed.
How to proofread
Some recruiters receive a big number of resumes, so they decide to scan and place them into a database. If you want to succeed in this kind of evaluation you should highlight your keywords in order to appear in the results when the recruiter makes the research.
Keyword / ASCII resumes
You can send your resume to a specific recruiter but you can also have it online, available for any other recruiter that may want to review it. To do this, is important to write your resume not only for people but also for the www robots. See how to do it here.
Cover letter strategies
A cover letter, even it may not be used every time, is a very helpful document if you know how to write it. A cover letter sometimes is the only document recruiters have time to read, so make it right in order to get a job interview. Some cover letter tips here.


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By: Terri Virnig, IBM Vice President Systems and Technology Group, Business Line Executive, Cloud & Gerrit Huizenga, IBM Cloud, Emerging Solutions and Technical Solutions Architect
Did you know that the average IT project takes 6-9 months to get started? My team and I constantly interact with customers who are looking to improve their "Time to Value" for investments in projects and products. Many of them struggle with the fact that setting up a new project includes a cycle that includes some or many of: requests for capital funding for new hardware, an operating system selection process for an environment and a dozen of other tasks that can span months.
Virtualization has helped a bit with that process over the years. Today, companies are occasionally able to find a machine with spare cycles on which they can create a new virtual server which can take weeks or months out of that development cycle. However, most workloads still tend to expand to use all available cycles. Or, worse, many workloads at peak utilization may need every cycle on a machine and the machine owner may not want to share their machine because of a fear that they may not have the capacity that the need at their peak workload. So, while virtualization has helped many organizations make more efficient use of their existing hardware, it hasn't dramatically reduced the amount of time for new projects to get off the ground.
Cloud computing directly reduces that "Time To Value" for new projects. And, for those skeptics who aren't convinced that they should restructure their entire enterprise yet for Cloud Computing, there are now entry-level private cloud options to enable people to kick the tires and verify for themselves that Cloud Computing can really improve their overall "Time to Value" metrics. These entry-level solutions allow you to deploy cloud computing on a smaller scale at a smaller price point and still validate the potential of cloud computing for yourself. This approach to Cloud also allows you to evaluate the simplified, single-pane of glass management solution, which covers physical server, network and storage management, as well as virtual server management, virtual machine (VM) management and workload management.
This set of Cloud components helps end users eliminate many of those steps in capital acquisition, hardware management, software selection and configuration, security management, etc. With a well crafted Cloud environment, an end user can simply select a pre-approved, pre-configured development environment from the catalog, deploy that workload, log into that workload and immediately begin their development, sometimes within minutes or hours of deciding to develop a new project.
When investigating private cloud solutions for your IT infrastructure (especially entry-level offerings), it is critical to focus on simplified administration, management of virtual machine (VM) images, and the optimized use of IT resources.
Simplified Administration
Simplified administration can help ease the operation of the cloud infrastructure and control the deployment of images in the cloud. A well-defined administration interface can be used for managing projects and users; providing an approval flow; and defining basic billing and metering capabilities. Using roles such as owner, user and viewer allows for the delegation of provisioning while maintaining oversight and security for the use of resources in the cloud.
The introduction of an end-user portal also helps formalize and standardize the requests from the development or end user community, such that key questions are well formed when they reach the Cloud administrator. Historically IT shops provide anything from web tools to sheets of paper on which their internal users provide requests for hardware platforms, software versions, user configurations, etc. which need to be integrated. The IT shop often has to determine compatible versions for the myriad of software applications the end-user requests and often has to modify versions of the requested software to ensure each software component is compatible with all other software components (and hardware components!) in the stack. Before Cloud, deployment is heavily focused on integrating components which ultimately don't provide direct value to the business; with Cloud, end-users select from a pre-configured set of workloads, be it an Eclipse or WebSphere based development environment, a database centric development environment, or even a Ruby or python based development environment, without worrying about the underlying details.
Within IBM, we gathered an enormous amount of experience from our interactions with our clients to ensure that our entry level cloud solution, IBM SmartCloud Entry(tm), provided these basic capabilities as part of an entry level solution. But we have already seen that clients are thrilled with the basics and looking to add additional capabilities to their cloud, usually through the addition of other products and services. Because of that, we have explicitly used standardized REST APIs to enable our SmartCloud Entry product to be a building block in a larger solution for those clients who desire greater functionality and capability. We have also drawn on and helped drive development of open standards such as the Open Virtualization Format for encapsulating workloads in a standardized format, including key configuration information to simplify and automate deployment of that workload.
Management of Virtual Machine
Another capability of Clouds is to provide a mechanism for handling increasing workloads. Many in IT have referred to the "slashdot" effect, although those outside of IT have seen a similar effect such as when Oprah featured Zappos Shoes on her television show. In both cases, the extreme visibility of a site such as slashdot.org or Oprah's show could bring in a record setting amount of web traffic to a site. Prior to cloud computing, most web sites had no mechanism to bring on capacity fast enough to handle the additional load.
However, Cloud Computing provides mechanisms for recognizing increasing load and deploying additional web servers within the Cloud to handle that load. Cloud Management software also provides a way to consolidate through migration to other physical servers and eliminate extra web servers or workloads when the demand spike has diminished. Workloads can also be re-balanced within the Cloud to ensure that performance and throughput reach your desired goals.
Our Entry Cloud offerings are not exactly "bare bones" offerings, despite their modularity. Some common problems encountered in Virtualization are challenges like dealing with Service Level Objectives (goals for performance and availability). Our Cloud entry solutions help with event monitoring, usage metering, workload migration from one server to another, and automated updates of the underlying virtualization platform, BIOS, or other platform software. Our Cloud management software also allows you to monitor the usage of your workloads by workload, by end user, or by machine within the Cloud, with an overall view of Cloud utilization. This helps you to plan for when you need to expand your cloud, but also enables you to identify primary users, obsolete workloads, and otherwise manage your Cloud with the goal of optimal utilization of your capital investment.
Optimized Use of IT Resources
An example of realizing productivity with a cloud infrastructure is our own IBM Systems Director team, a large, distributed team which builds a key component of our cloud management portfolio. Using standardized images for testing has dramatically reduced human error. Often in a development environment, each developer is responsible for updating individual components of the software stack and ensuring that their particular combination all runs together. Unfortunately, in development it is rare that all of the moving parts continuously integrate and run seamlessly. So, the Systems Director team began doing nightly builds of all components within the cloud, flagging problems back to the development team for immediate correction, and ultimately leads to a good build and a complete image every night. This good build is made available as an image which can be instantiated within the Cloud for any developer to access. Thus every developer does not have to worry about their own product integration but can use a snapshot of any build from the image catalog as part of their test and development environment. Also, it takes just minutes to request and provision a new test environment, and when there is a problem with a VM in testing, the VM can be turned over to another person for debug, and the developer can spin up another image in the cloud and continue their work.
As the industry shifts towards cloud computing, IBM's SmartCloud Entry offerings are a great way to get started. Understanding the dynamics and benefits of these offerings will best equip organizations to utilize all of the components of an entry cloud solution and will take an organization from cloud-ready to cloud computing.
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Washington Talk: Briefing; Sockless Strategist
By STUART TAYLOR Jr. & DAVID BINDER
Published: August 11, 1988
Roger Stone, the political strategist behind many Republican campaigns who otherwise has a reputation of sartorial elegance, frequently eschews wearing socks. In Ronald Reagan's 1980 Presidential campaign, Nancy Reagan fastidiously brought this to her husband's attention.
Mr. Reagan then asked his otherwise impeccably clad consultant why he was not wearing socks. ''I told him, 'I'm not wearing socks until the Soviets are out of Afghanistan,' '' Mr. Stone recalled. ''I had to say something, and that answer seemed acceptable to Governor Reagan.''
Soviet troops are leaving Afghanistan now, and this prompted someone attending a recent fund-raising event for Pete Dawkins, the Republican hoping to unseat Senator Frank R. Lautenberg of New Jersey, to ask Mr. Stone again about his lack of socks.
After a reflective pause, he replied, ''I'm not wearing socks until every Soviet leaves Afghanistan.''


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Fox 10 News Covers WWE Appearance (Video), Brodus Clay, Naomi & Cameron Appearance
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The UART HAL module guide is targeted for SSP 1.2.0 and the SK-S7G2 Kit.
The UART HAL module guide describes what the UART HAL module does, how to add it to your project, how to configure it, the associated APIs and provides an application project with a code walk through so you can quickly learn how to use the UART HAL module in your own design. We recommend that you have the SSP ISDE open and inspect the module stack, configuration information and code while reading over the application project description.
The most recent versions of the UART HAL module guide application note, application project and import guide will soon be available from the Synergy Gallery: here
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More than half of American adults believe that social media harm young people's social development, according to a nationwide poll of registered voters conducted this week.
As you might expect, younger adults had a more favorable view of social media. Less than half of those age 18 to 29 said young people's social media activities on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere are harmful; all other age groups had a majority with negative views on the question.
But here's what surprised me in the poll data: There's also a large opinion schism on this by political affiliation. A whopping 65% of Republicans said social networking was harmful; only 40% of Democrats thought it negatively affected social development. (Independents, not surprisingly, came down somewhere in between.)
Overall, 19.9% of those polled said social media activity is helpful for young people's social skills, 52.5% said it's harmful, 17% saw no difference and 10.6% had no opinion. The margin of error is unknown for the age and political demographic slices; it's +/- 3% for those overall totals (I assume at the common 95% confidence level, but the poll resultbreakdown doesn't say).
Of course, this says nothing about whether social media actually is harmful, just what adults believe in this snapshot of time. (A poll in 2007 showed Hillary Clinton leading Barack Obama 59%-36%. Doesn't take long for opinions by political affiliation to shift....)
Sharon Machlis is online managing editor at Computerworld. Her e-mail address is email@example.com. You can follow her on Twitter @sharon000, on Facebook, on Google+ or by subscribing to her RSS feeds:
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Welcome to the Terracotta half-life web site, where time and space cease to exist. Travel through the fabric of existence to find information about the band, photos, audio clips, video clips and more. Casually stroll through our equations, algorithms and isotopes.
Be sure to watch the events calendar for a listing of upcoming performances. Would you like to be in control of your destiny? Become a Terracotta Warrior! You can stay informed by signing up on our mailing list.
August 23rd, 2011
Thursday Night Grooves
We'd like to thank Dennis Harold from Great Lakes Radio News for his excellent write-up about our gig at the Thursday Night Concert Series in Ishpeming, and also for taking such nice photos of us as we performed.
February 16th, 2011
Serving Up the Funk at Marquette Seafood Fest
Last summer, Terracotta half-life played the Marquette Seafood Fest. Since we were rained out the year before, we were very excited to have a beautiful sunny day. Thanks to our friends who came out, took photos, shot video, and danced to our music.
July 16th, 2010
Terracotta half-life Supports the Zaagkii Project
For the third year in a row, Terracotta half-life entertained for the Cedar Tree Institute's Mid Summer Celebration. During the last two years, we had perfect weather for the event.
July 16th, 2010
Terracotta Travels
Terracotta half-life played for the Menominee Summer Concert Series on Tuesday, although it actually took place on Stephenson Island, which is a beautiful park just over the bridge in Marinette, Wisconsin. Read the rest of this entry »
April 5th, 2010
Mining Journal features Terracotta half-life
The Mining Journal, Marquette's daily newspaper, featured Terracotta half-life in an article last Saturday (April 3, 2010). It was written by Renee Prusi after she interviewed us and took some pictures of us on stage at the Upfront on March 24th.


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State Answers Adult Home Lawsuit
State officials filed a remedial plan for how to insure that 1,700 residents of Rockaway's adult homes have the opportunity to live in settings that are more integrated into the community, including 1,000 new community housing units over the next five years.
The remedial plan was filed in U.S. District Court on November 6 in response to a ruling by Judge Nicholas Garaufis in September. The ruling states that the residents, all with mental illness, were not getting adequate care in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act, which mandate that the mentally ill live in the least restrictive environment possible.
Under the plan, the state would fund 200 new units of supported housing per year over the next five years. The housing, and the other elements of the plan, which include educating adult home residents about the supportive housing option, are contingent on the state legislature's funding for the plan.
If implemented, the plan would not require an adult home resident to move to supported housing if he or she does not want to move, and a resident would not be offered supported housing if he or she is not clinically appropriate for such an environment, a decision that would be made by a "qualified clinician."
A spokesperson for the governor said that the safeguards put in place should protect the community from dealing with those who cannot handle the supported housing option.
"Supported housing units funded by the Office of Mental Health are occupied by individuals with mental illness who are able to prepare meals, clean, budget and manage medication with minimal assistance," the spokesperson said.
Shortly after the judge's decision was made public, a clinician who works for the state but who declined to be identified said that upwards of 90 percent of the mentally ill residents of Rockaway adult homes would not be eligible for supported housing because they cannot adequately care for themselves.
He sees that as one safeguard that would keep large numbers of mentally ill men and women from being distributed throughout the peninsula.
The safeguards aside, many locals remain worried that the mentally ill moved into community homes and apartments would negatively impact the peninsula - especially with such a large number of adult home residents living on the peninsula.
"Placing mentally ill people into a stable community will only serve to destabilize it," one real estate broker, who asked not to be identified, said. "There are so many vacant rental units in Rockaway, I am afraid that the state will use the peninsula as a dumping ground for as many mentally ill as they can cram in."
Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer calls the plan "troubling."
Community Board 14 District Manager Jonathan Gaska said that moving the mentally ill into the community will "have a major impact on housing on the peninsula."
The adult homes impacted by the lawsuit are the Belle Harbor Manor, New Gloria's Manor Home for Adults, New Haven Manor, Park Inn Home for Adults, Rockaway Manor Home for Adults, Surfside Home for Adults, Central Assisted Living, LLC, Long Island Hebrew Living Center, Seaview Manor and Wavecrest Home for Adults.
The plan has to be accepted by the court in order for it to be implemented. The court has set no date for rendering a decision on the state plan.


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T'was the 24th of May,
Hoping god would smile on them,
Upon the sabbath day.
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Cream of the geordie nation
Ganning along to Villa Park,
To see the relegation.
Ohh me lads,
You should have seen them crying,
Watching the shambles on the pitch,
Premier dreams a'dying.
All the lads and lasses there,
All had gloomy faces.
Ganning down to the championship,
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|Guy Fawkes; Guy Fawkes; Guy Fawkes
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|"Nan A. Talese."
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|xxxv, 347 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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|pt. 1. Before the fruit was ripe --
pt. 2. Horse of St George --
pt. 3. That furious and fiery course --
pt. 4. Discovery: by God or the devil --
pt. 5. Shadow of death.
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"In England, November 5 is Guy Fawkes Day, when fireworks displays commemorate the shocking moment in 1605 when government authorities uncovered a secret plan to blow up the House of Parliament - and King James I along with it. A group of English Catholics, seeking to unseat the king and reintroduce Catholicism as the state religion, daringly placed in position thirty-six barrels of gunpowder in a cellar under the Palace of Westminster. Their aim was to ignite the gunpowder at the opening of the parliamentary session. Though the charismatic Catholic Robert Catesby was the group's leader, it was the devout Guy Fawkes who emerged as its most famous member, as he was the one who was captured and who revealed under torture the names of his fellow plotters. In the aftermath of their arrests, conditions grew worse for English Catholics, as legal penalties against them were stiffened and public sentiment became rabidly intolerant." "In a narrative that reads like a gripping detective story. Antonia Fraser has untangled the web of religion, politics, and personalities that surrounded that fateful night of November 5. And in examining the lengths to which individuals will go for their faith, she finds in this long-ago event a reflection of the religion-inspired terrorism that has produced gunpowder plots of our own time."--Jacket.
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And offers 40 pieces of wisdom.
My first foray into blogging was as a graduate intern at the Institute for Emerging Issues. I didn't even know what blogs were but my boss Roland Stephen was convinced that they were the future and so insisted that I contribute to Institute's blog. I contributed a bit, but I read more and in the early days I mostly read Bryan.
Everyone should.
If you find his point of view shocking and distasteful, all the better. Bryan's writing is not a place where you get to hear a clever person weave together elegant rhetoric defending things you already thought were true.
It's a place where your most basic notions are repeatedly challenged and where your intellectual sacred cows are gleefully dined upon before your very eyes.
Ultimately you may find some of his arguments compelling. You may find some of them thought provoking and you may find some of them flat out wrong. But, in all cases you will find argument, which if you take seriously will stretch your understanding of your own beliefs. If you do nothing but carefully convince yourself why Bryan is – as you suspected – out of his mind, you will have done yourself a favor.
So today, read Bryan's 40 points and tell the world, in grave detail, why at least one of them is absolutely wrong.