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Journal, Day Three
On Writing Programs and the Profession
I attended two writing programs: the poetry program at the University of California at Davis, where I worked with Sandra McPherson, Francisco X. Alarcón, and Clarence Major; and the fiction program at Arizona State University, where I worked with Jewell Parker Rhodes, Alberto Ríos, and Melissa Pritchard. I have always championed the idea that a serious writer should attend a writing program for the following reasons: it provides a writer with a diverse audience (i.e. the professors and the other students with other histories and in other disciplines), it provides a writer with a community of other writers, and it provides a writer with time (and an incentive) to write. I also know that a person can write and grow as a writer without a writing program. But I also know that to enter the profession nowadays, a writer needs those credentials—the MFA degree, the teaching experience, and those connections made within the networking walls of academia. That will not change no matter how much we all hem and haw. So I encourage young people to think seriously about enrolling in a writing program, either as students or as professionals in training. And yet I offer a warning: take your time. And that's what a writer has in a writing program: time. In the post-graduate world there is no such thing as the luxury of time because there are so many other responsibilities that are not writing poetry. I can say all this from experience.
And I can also say this from experience: being an academic poet is not for everyone. This statement is rather obvious for people who live in communities like New York City, where academic positions are so few that artists have to thrive while holding jobs in banks, offices, museums, department stores, etc. or while advancing their careers in other professions. But for those in other territories (or willing to relocate to them), academic jobs are ideal because of the access to resources or flexible working schedules, and the possibility of becoming mentors and shaping the next generation of writers. But it also has its other expectations, like administrative responsibilities and committee work, which are not as sexy but are necessary. And for many, a first job, tenure track if they're lucky, is an overwhelming step into a heavy teaching load. No matter what, it's time-consuming work, but with the pleasant reality of school holidays and summer breaks. Some can do it, others can't. I didn't think I could.
After graduating from ASU I was at a loss about my future. But I did know one thing: I didn't want to leap right back into academia as a professional. Yet that was the world I knew and liked, so I enrolled in a PhD program at the University of New Mexico. I loved Albuquerque, but I wasn't feeling the scholar's calling, so I dropped out after a year—the same year my first book was selected for the National Poetry Series. I was encouraged by peers and mentors to compete for a job now that I had a book, but I wasn't feeling that either. So instead I worked at a dance studio and at a daycare center for a summer. I fell in love with another writer and moved to New York City (where I have lived off-and-on since 1998). I worked as a document translator for St. Vincent's Hospital, as a teacher of Spanish in an adult education center, and as a literacy specialist for an after school program. Three years later, I broke up with this other writer and moved out of New York City, traveling the world under the dime of the Guggenheim—Spain, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, Costa Rica, Scotland. I invested every last dollar in travel and in time to write. And when the funds ran out, I admitted to myself that academia was a better fit for my itinerant nature via visiting professorships: The New School University, two years; the University of Toledo, one year; and currently, Queens College.
Interestingly enough, I've had nice offers for more permanent positions but I either turned them down or determined, after a brief stay, that we were not a good match. Such was the case with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I had three wonderful colleagues there: Tayari Jones, LeAnne Howe, and Tyehimba Jess. And the program was promising enough, with its generous resources, but, well . . . let's just say I moved on.
Can I stay away from academia? It's difficult. I do like being around extremely literate people and I do enjoy guiding thought and discussion in a classroom setting. And every once in a while I come across a piece of writing that knocks me off my chair. I believe that's why writers teach. Or rather, what makes teaching writers worth it.
And much concern has been expressed about the proliferation of writing programs. Too many programs. Too many writers. My response is that the world cannot have too many artists and thinkers. In fact we need more, especially during war time, when the language of governments aims to deceive and conceal. Poetry seeks truths. But developing more programs should be done with the understanding that students of writing be informed about the realities of an MFA: that the degree offers no guarantees except the guarantee of space and time and guidance. I believe faculty in writing programs have a responsibility to speak honestly about the post-MFA life before students leave the university and to show them other avenues for employing those writing skills since not every writing student aims to become a writing teacher. And not everyone will become a published writer. What I'm advocating is for students of writing to be clear about what they want and for writing programs to be clear about what they can provide. Only then will proper matches be made.
The good news is that students can gauge these issues by asking the following questions (among many others): Who teaches there? How often do they actually teach classes? Are these professors writing or did they used to write? Why would you want to work with those professors? Who graduated from this program? What was their experience like? Do they recommend the program? What resources are available? What types of funding do they provide? What are the advantages of the location, tuition fees, and curriculum? Will these professors be good mentors for budding writers and/or budding professionals? (Good mentors also have good reputations.)
So potential students, start your inquiries. Invest in your art, invest in yourself. Different places will be different fits, so conduct your research widely and wisely. And I must add that there are two new writing programs on the horizon you might take a look at. One is at Queens College and the other is at Rutgers University in Newark, where my former colleague and fabulous novelist, Tayari Jones, now teaches.
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Whether you're unemployed or supported by a regular paycheck, job hunting and blindly sending out résumés can be a tiring and frustrating experience. So when the career gods smile in your direction and provide your dream position at a company where you know an employee, it can feel as though your professional traffic jam just opened onto the six-lane new-job freeway. But before you fire off that "Will you refer me?" email, consider some of these important factors that can make or break your chances at an interview.

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Oh, that sucks. I hate it when they turn your skills, knowledge, intelligence, etc, into a liability. The one that really bugs me is the old "you're over qualified for the job", I mean what is that all about? I'm pretty sure most of us could dumb ourselves down and be happy with a job to keep food on the table. Sure there's the possibility that we will jump ship if a better job comes along, but in today's career climate someone that has been at the same job more that 5 years is a seasoned veteran, and longer that 10 years at the same job is becoming very uncommon. Companies are cutting people loose like never before. Saying someone is over qualified or wouldn't be challenged enough is bullhooey, especially when the employers are the ones initiating the terminations so much more often.
Hang in there. Even though this job didn't pan out, you can at least come away from it knowing they knew you were too good for them and the job.
I'm stuck in the same program for 15 years. Now they are talking about ISS lasting until 2020.
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Cincinnati prepares for the long-awaited major non-conference home game at Fifth Third Arena as undefeated Alabama comes to town.
By Ashley Davis/Special to GoBearcats.com
CINCINNATI -- If fans had wished for the Bearcats to play a major non-conference home game this season after not playing any last year, their wish is about to come true. The Bearcats will host Alabama at 3 p.m. Saturday at Fifth Third Arena, as part of the Big East/SEC Challenge.
Sean Kilpatrick called Alabama the best team they've faced this season in terms of speed and shooting capability. The Tide (6-0) are undefeated with wins against Villanova (77-55) and Oregon State (65-62).
"We know that they're a tough team and they're going to come in here trying to beat us, so we got to actually come with our A-game as well," Kilpatrick said.
Mick Cronin wasn't as quick to call them the best team they've faced, but had nothing but praise. The two teams have a similar style, in that they both thrive on excellent guard play.
That begins with Trevor Releford. The junior averages 18.6 points per game and can fill it up from deep. He's hit 55 percent from long range this year. Releford ranks No. 18 nationally in offensive rating by KenPom.
Also, Trevor Lacey and Levi Randolph both connect better than 45 percent of the time from 3-point range.
"Their main scorers are their guards," Cronin said. "They like to spread it out on offense."
Alabama also has the ability to play strong defense. Cronin made note of the fact they beat Villanova by 22 points earlier this season at Madison Square Garden, a place where Villanova is comfortable playing.
"Villanova's a team that scraps and they just out scrapped them," Cronin said. "And they really shut down Villanova defensively. That was probably something that surprised people, the way they were able to defend Villanova."
Although his team matches up well with Alabama, Cronin still wants to avoid the "Las Vegas hangover." His goal, he says, is to help his players keep their focus and try to keep them from becoming complacent in their success winning the Global Sports Challenge. He saw the mentality and excitement needed to win in Las Vegas, even when the team played in front of crowds as small as 2,000 people.
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Kilpatrick also took away learning experiences from Vegas that the team can use down the road and certainly against Alabama.
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Google had an interesting day yesterday with two bits of news that may or may not be tangentially related. The first was the announcement that they've stopped development on Google Wave. The announcement has all the details, but the gist of the story is that not many people were using the tool. Google's engineers learned a lot in building Wave, and it's safe to say parts of the code will make their way into other Google products.
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So strike one Google "social networking tool" (though to be fair Wave was never really pitched in that way). We've still got Google Buzz, right? Snark if you will but I actually use Buzz quite a bit, mostly as a supplement to Twitter (when conversations get too intense for 140 characters, we move to Buzz). But what about Google Me, the rumored social network that Google is building to rival Facebook? Last month I talked a little about this mythical service after a rumor cropped up saying Google was investing in social game publisher Zynga. We haven't heard anything new on that front since, but yesterday word broke that Google was buying Slide (for $182 or $228 million, depending on who you ask). What does Slide make? Facebook games. Actually, let's decouple the games from the service and just call them social games. TechCrunch says the deal will be made official on Friday (and that this isn't the last gaming related move Google will be making). According to a Nielsen report released earlier this week, in June Americans spent 10.2% of their time online playing games. The only activity that absorbed more time were social networks at 22.7% and it's a pretty sure bet that some of that time was actually game-related, between the viral spam these social games post to Facebook Walls and folks asking friends to grow some eggplants so they can finish a quest in Frontierville. (Not that I would know anything about that.) The point is that online games are a huge pie and one that Google seems serious in getting a piece of. Wave wasn't getting any traction but some of the parts of Wave would work really well in a game-focused social network (I know people who were already experimenting with using Wave as a collaborative gaming tool). I'm thinking mostly of the real-time updating and sharing of files between users. What if Google is moving the Wave engineers over to an unannounced Google Me, (or maybe it's just called Google Games), project? Could the death of Wave be part of the birth of Google Games? Does Google have any chance of making headway in the social gaming space at this point?


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The Funk Parade began, as the quirkiest ideas always do, in a dream.
Justin Rood woke up one day a few years ago -- in a rowhouse at 13th and U streets NW, he notes, that reportedly once belonged to Duke Ellington -- with a vision of drummers, dancers and revelers streaming across the thoroughfare outside his door.
This procession "came down U Street, and people came out of their houses and brought their kids out, and joined in this musical parade," Rood, a District native, recalls. "I thought it was an amazing vision, and I didn't understand why it didn't exist already."
Adams Morgan and H Street NE have festivals, he points out. But U Street, arguably the heart of Washington's culture and musical traditions, has no such tradition that lures neighbors out into the streets and fills the air with music. This weekend, Rood will see his dream come to life.
He teamed with Chris Naoum of Listen Local First to launch the neighborhood's first Funk Parade, a daylong affair that celebrates not just funk music, he says, but "whatever makes you want to dance, be around other people and makes you feel like the world is all right." Bring your own djembe or tambourine, don a spangly outfit, play a flute and prepare to get sweaty: The participatory affair will be as free-form as the Meridian Hill Park drum circle.
The parade will step off on Vermont Avenue NW on Saturday at 5 p.m., but it's preceded by a day of events on U Street and followed at night by a free music festival, for which a dozen U Street venues will open their doors for free concerts from popular local bands. Below, find everything you need to know, including a map of the parade route, and a schedule of events.
The Funk Parade day fair: Noon- 5 p.m.
The family-friendly part of the day will features performances by Funk Ark, Yamomanem Jazz, workshops and more across U Street. Highlights from the schedule include the M.A. Winter Performance area presented by Capital Bop (1436 U St. NW. Noon-5 p.m.) and the African American Civil War Memorial Museum Performance Area (10th and U streets NW, Noon-5 p.m.), where you can find bands such as Funk Ark and street performers lined up by the Kennedy Center. But the festival will also take over neighborhood institutions such as the U Street flea market and the District Flea (945 Florida Ave. NW), where flea-goers can hear live music and also recharge with food and beers.
U Street NW between Ninth and 16th Streets NW.
The Funk Parade: 5-7 p.m.
Only one thing didn't quite match up with Rood's original vision, not that he's complaining: The request for the Funk Parade to shut down U Street was declined by the city. So the U Street procession will instead bang and holler its way across V Street before winding down for the night at Ben's Chili Bowl - in some ways, the neighborhood's de facto capital. Bring your own instruments and join in. Download a map of the route below.
The parade steps off at Vermont Avenue NW and U Street at 5 p.m.
The music festival: 7-10 p.m.
U Street Music Hall, Patty Boom Boom, DC9, Liv and several other venues will open their doors for free for Funk Paraders to catch bands including including Black Masala, Elikeh and the city's most successful go-go act, E.U.
The full lineup:
U Street Music Hall: Sugar Bear & EU, Nappy Riddem, DJs Fort Knox Five & Q Dup
Tropicalia: Cheick Hamala Diabate, Backbeat Underground, Joe Keyes "The Late Bloomer" and The Late Bloomer Band
Solly's: Flashband Project
DC9 Nightclub: Elikeh, Black Masala, and Sol Powered All Stars
Patty Boom Boom: Lucky Dub, Kickoman
Liv: Clones of Funk
The Brixton: Aztec Sun, Beyond Modern
Jojo Restaurant and Bar: The Good Thing
Busboys and Poets: Live! From Busboys: Women of Funk, with performances by B. Steady with DJ Pinstriped Rebel.


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5 Dating Resolutions for 2011
Long before The Secret, I had a boyfriend who made me a "vision board" by pasting photos, words and magazine clippings on a big piece of construction paper. It represented who I was and where I wanted to go in life. While this man never supported me financially (in fact, it was the other way around), he got bonus points for being emotionally supportive of my career. Without him, I would have never become a writer nor would I have moved to the United States.
He was the little voice that said "you can do this" as I wrote magazine articles for 50 cents a word and copy for medical brochures (yawn) and real estate brochures (more yawns). I would come home after a long day at my 'paying gig' of producing commercials, and he would have music playing, champagne to toast the sunset together, and a bubble bath drawn and lined with candles for me to unwind in while he prepared a gourmet dinner. For years I had the vision board on my wall, probably right until The Secret became popular. Then I tucked it away somewhere, a little embarrassed that it was now the thing to do.
After retiring the vision board, I started making a list each year of the top ten things I wanted to accomplish. I would post it on the bulletin board above my desk and regard it as a kind of a wish list. Some things were material, some were less tangible, but they were all landmarks in my life, such as owning a home, writing a novel, and selling a screenplay. I stopped doing the list a few years ago and recently came across the last list I had made. I had accomplished eight of the ten items. Call them resolutions, call them goals, they had almost all come true. Maybe there is something to committing one's visions to paper. This got me thinking. New Year's resolutions tend to be things like losing weight, quitting smoking, or getting out of debt. Where's the fun in that?
Allow me to suggest 5 dating resolutions for 2011:
Join A Dating Service And Go On A Date A Week: That's 52 dates in a year. Finding a partner is a numbers game. Need I remind you from my Pardon Me For Sticking My Tongue Down Your Throat blog, there are roughly 310 million people in the United States, approximately 155 million of each sex, so fifty-two dates is a mere drop in the bucket – but at least a good start. It doesn't matter if the dates are 5 minutes long or 5 hours long. The point is to get out there and date.
Go To Every Social Event You Are Invited To: How many times do you say 'no' or 'maybe' or not even respond to an invitation to a party or a dinner? And how in God's name are you going to find someone if you don't leave the house? Socialize, socialize, socialize. You never know where you're going to meet someone.
Make New Friends: Facebook is great, but most of those are virtual friends or people who you never see, because they live far away. Go out of your way to talk to people, whether you chit-chat in the elevator or make nice with the people at the table next to you when you're out for dinner. People know people. If you make new friends, your new friends may know someone just perfect for you. Treat your dating life, like it's a business. It's all about networking.
If Someone Sets You Up On A Blind Date, Say Yes: Sure, it may be agony (like one I recently went on) and it may cause some temporary awkwardness between you and your friend who set you up, but it's better than sitting at home watching Hawaii Five-O and dreaming of dating Scott Caan (yum!) or Alex O'Loughlin (double yum!). Your friend meant well and may be confused at how his/her matchmaking skills failed, but may get it right the next time.
Go To Restaurants Alone and Sit At The Bar: Restaurants with bar dining trump conventional bars for meeting quality guys. Some great places in Los Angeles for this kind of dining, where you won't feel like a loser eating alone and are likely to strike up a conversation with the person next to you who is also likely eating alone, or there with a friend of the same sex (thereby increasing your odds) are Cecconi's, Bouchon Bistro, Osteria Mozza, Pizzeria Mozza, and XIV. I have met interesting men at all of these places.


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Like many carpenters, I enjoy listening to music at work. When I was starting out, there were only a couple of options: Leave the truck radio on with the door open (and risk having to jump the battery later on) or listen to a bad-sounding boombox that was held together with duct tape and had a wire hanger for an antenna. That changed about 10 years ago, when manufacturers began to produce radios designed to stand up to the rigors of the job site. Since then, I've owned a number of job-site radios and have noticed steady improvement in their features, design, and durability. With the recent introduction of several new models, we thought it would be a good time to take a look at what's available.
For this article I took the following radios onto job sites and tried them out: Bosch's Power Box PB360D, DeWalt's DC012, Makita's BMR100W, Milwaukee's 2790-20 and 2590-20, Porter-Cable's PC18JR, and Ridgid's R84082. Here's what we learned about them over a several-month period.
A job-site radio is a boombox that's been "ruggedized" in some manner. Most have weather-resistant speakers and very sturdy roll cages. To prove how tough their radios are, manufacturers show them being thrown off roofs, run over by trucks, and hurled into the air with catapults. Realistically, the most that has ever happened to a radio on one of our sites is that it was smacked by a board or fell off a bench. Nevertheless, we performed some "crash testing" of our own, throwing the radios several feet into the air and letting them land on the subfloor, then dropping them from the second-floor deck. None suffered any permanent damage. The battery popped out of the Ridgid, a knob came off the DeWalt, and the battery cover came off the Makita; we put the parts back and everything worked fine. As far as I'm concerned, these radios are all sufficiently sturdy to be used on construction sites.
Job-site radios can be run on 110-volt household current and cordless tool batteries from their respective manufacturers. The Bosch and DeWalt models also function as chargers, running off the batteries when not plugged in and charging batteries when they are. The ability to charge batteries with a radio is not a big plus to me; we own enough different brands of cordless tools that we always have chargers on site anyway.
Power Receptacles
A number of radios have built-in power receptacles. I really like this feature because there are never enough places to plug things in. The Porter-Cable has two and the DeWalt three standard receptacles; the Bosch has four GFCI receptacles with spring-loaded covers. The Bosch and the Milwaukee 2790-20 have 12-volt DC jacks (like the ones in the dashboard of a vehicle) that can be used to charge or power cellphones and MP3 players.
Auxiliary Inputs
Today's job-site radios have auxiliary inputs – usually 3.5-mm jacks – so you can use the speakers to play streaming audio or recorded music from such input devices as MP3 players, smartphones, and satellite radios. Each radio comes with a short cord to connect its input jack to the output (headphone) jack of the input device. The Makita has two 3.5-mm jacks, and the Ridgid has a 3.5-mm jack and an iPod dock. The Bosch has even more: two 3.5 mm jacks, a Sirius radio connector, a USB port, and an SD card slot. The card slot and port connect to an internal MP3 player so you can put music on a thumb drive or SD card and play it in the radio.
Media Compartment
Several radios have media compartments, where an MP3 player or phone can be protected from damage while being used as an input device. The compartment contains the input jacks and is covered by a door that latches over a gasket. There's usually some kind of strap or wrap to prevent the device from banging around inside. Media compartments are a great idea – they're good insurance against dust, rain, and falls.
The doors on the Ridgid and the smaller Milwaukee (2590-20) swing down from the front of the radio. The compartments on these two models are just big enough to hold an MP3 player or a smartphone – though you may need to take the case off to get it to fit. Ridgid's compartment is basically an iPod dock with an added jack for non-Apple devices. The Milwaukee 2790-20 has a large compartment on top, with space for both the battery and an input device. The Makita's compartment is similar, only it's on the back of the radio. Bosch's media bay contains a 3.5-mm jack, a Sirius connector, an SD card slot, and a USB port; its second 3.5-mm jack is on the outside so you can play devices that won't fit in the bay.
Sound Quality
Although we normally listen to MP3s or streaming music, we tried out the tuners to see how they work. The tuners are digital and get better reception than the analog tuners in earlier job-site radios. We did notice that the reception was not as good on the models with built-in receptacles when chargers were plugged into them.
For the most part, the sound quality is good on all of these radios, but some are louder and better at high volume (the speakers don't distort) than others. Volume won't be an issue if you work indoors, but we're spread out over a framing site, and – depending on the time of day and how close the neighbors are – we sometimes want to play music loud. The small Milwaukee does not have the power to be used on a large framing site, and the Makita distorts when you turn it up high. The others sounded good at high volume, especially the Bosch, which has a subwoofer and speakers on all four sides.
The Bottom Line
Of these radios, we like the Bosch the best. It's powerful, sounds great, and has almost every feature that exists for a radio of this type: GFCI outlets, a 12-volt DC jack, and multiple input options for phones, MP3 players, and the like.
Tied for second and third are the Ridgid and the Milwaukee 2790-20. They're loud, sound good at low and high volume, and have weather-resistant compartments for input devices. The 12-volt jack on the Milwaukee is handy for charging phones; and for the owners of Apple devices, the Ridgid's iPhone dock is very cool.
Tim Uhler is a lead framer for Pioneer Builders in Port Orchard, Wash., and a Tools of the Trade contributing editor.


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In case you haven't noticed, there's an election coming up.
It's yet another special election for the at-large seat vacated by D.C. City Council Chairman Phil Mendelson when he became chairman. The election is April 23, the field is large, the turnout is expected to be low, which it shouldn't be, but probably will be, given the track records of past elections.
This particular election, though, has the potential to be a bellwether election for what is a city in a state of flux and change, and surprisingly—given the economies surrounding jurisdictions and across the country—with a robust economy and a substantial budget surplus. It occurs at a time when the major issue still seems to be ethics—past infringements by the likes of former Chairman Kwame Brown and Ward 5 Councilman Harry Thomas Jr., the latter languishing in prison, as well as the recent reprimand of Ward One Councilman Jim Graham, and the continued cloud of the District Attorney Office's ongoing investigation of Mayor Vincent Gray's 2010 mayoral campaign. Mayor Gray, with a rousing State of the District address, is sounding confident these days, while some challengers are lining up to shoot for his job, notably among them Ward 4 Councilwoman Muriel Bowser, who officially announced that she will run. Others—Ward 6 Councilman Tommy Wells and Ward 2 Council Jack Evans—are said to be exploring (Wells) or not saying no (Evans).
The race could be an indication how thing will go in the 2014 mayoral race, and may have a lot to say about where the power is in a shifting and changing city population on issues such as schools, the homeless, what to do with the surplus, statehood, relationships with congress, and affordable housing, as well as crime.
The race has attracted some predictable folks—Michael Brown, for instance, after being ousted from his at-large seat in the last special election in which he ran as an independent, is back again, this time as a Democrat, his true calling, we presume, since he started out that way. Anita Bonds, a familiar face and figure as a government official and adviser, for years, working with Mayors Barry and Williams, is holding down the seat as an interim council member and has drawn some advantage of name recognition for that. And back again is Patrick Mara, a Republican and a school board member who was narrowly defeated by Vincent Orange in a previous election.★
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There's a few other species that Rough-toothed Dolphins have unlike any other dolphin species that allow us to identify this particular individual as a Rough-toothed Dolphin.
Rough-toothed Dolphins are interesting because they are generally poorly known worldwide and especially poorly know in Australia and barely known in Victoria. This is only the second in Victoria of a Rough-toothed Dolphin ever recorded from Victoria.
So we can see that the Rough-toothed Dolphin has many many teeth in its jaws and that's kind of interesting. That shows us one of the key differences between these marine mammals and us land-living mammals. Dolphins have many many many more teeth in their jaws than any mammal that lives on land.
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We'll have a look at things. It has interesting skin lesions on here and we'll have a look at histopathology with what they could potentially be. It might be that it's just a fungal or a bacterial infection or it could indicate some kind of pathological disease. Interestingly they had whale lice in them so that might also impact on why they look the way they do.
Generally dolphins and whales strand for a reason. This animal was tried to be refloated but it came back in and it was swimming in circles. So that would indicate to me that there is some kind of compromised aspect to it, again whether that's because it was not in subtropical or tropical waters, it was in much colder waters down here in Victoria. But equally we're interested in having a look at markings around the head, in that there is what could be an entanglement around the head, which could have it compromise the animal. But again, it's at the base of the head and it might also indicate a crease of where there has been some, you know, the articulation point between the skull and the rest of the body. So we'll have a look at, do cross-sections in those areas and see if it's just impacted just on the skin region or if it's actually gone a little bit further down.
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We are trying to update the kitchen of our new house. The cabinets are original (1956). We are planning to keep most (if not all of them), and have seen enough HGTV/Bob Villa/etc. that we'd like to try to simply paint them white.
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- Overacrhing Question: How do we paint them so they will have a hard, high-gloss finish (a contemporary-urban look and feel)?
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So trying to get that look and feel...
- - paints:
* Do we use a waterborne enamel or a latex enamel? If so, which one works best with a 4-6 inch foam roller? I've seen SW Pro-Classic, BM AquaVelet and Impervo, and Zinsser Perma-White all recommended, as well as "any enamels or epoxies in gloss, semi-gloss or satin finish especially those that are recommended for use on furniture."
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* Is B.I.N any better than 1-2-3? and are they that much better than other waterborne/latex primers?
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* How do we best ensure we smooth out/masque wood grains?
* How do we best ensure a glossy and smooth finish overall?
And finally: What's the number 1 mistake made by people painting their kitchen cabinets?
PS: please forgive, I'm posting this her and in the carpentry forum.
So I went to the paint store and they said:
1) do NOT use poly acrylic topcoat over an enamel. AND...
2) do NOT use waterborne enamel NOR latex at all. USE:
a) acrylic enamel OR
b) acrylic epoxy
Does this make more sense to anyone? :eek: I know I'm a total newbie so I'd appreciate hearing what's worked for others.
Which acrylic do you think will really produce the polished / slick look we want? ...enamel or epoxy?
3) all my other questions about masking wood grain, glossy top coat, etc. means i need a professional or the examples I've seen were not very professional.
Geez, thanks. Not very DIY advice from the shop.:no:
How have others taken care of these possible pitfalls? Again, I'd appreciate hearing anything about what's worked for you.
Well, you don't say what the finish is now
So here's the general instructions for cabinet repaints:
I don't care for the foam rollers either, they don't work particualry fast or well, nor do they look good IMO
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Our frameworks make certain things easier. They don't provide tools to help us with other things. For some other set of activities, they may actually prohibit. The problem here is a combination. Django makes it easy to query your database and wrap functionality up into re-usable template tags. While I'm thankful for that, I am also realizing that ease of one thing can prohibit another. When one path is made easier it creates the perception of greater difficulty in other paths. I think this is why, when our web frameworks give us all these tools to response to a web request, we completely lack in everything we could do aside from that request.
How can we make it easier to work outside the web request?
We need some idea of what working outside the web request means. We also need to define these in terms that are useful when we do get around to that request handling we've already got.
Going back to the tag cloud example, we look at the resources created when we generate one. Aside the HTML snippet of the tag cloud itself, we build the data used in the cloud, consisting of all the unique tags and their counts. This is the kind of data that makes sense to store in your cache, but this fails the normal cache use case. We don't want to loose these generated resources when caches reset, so we need something less ephemeral. Any decent key-value store would be a good solution here.
Unfortunately basic Django signals are lacking. Another means of triggering the resource generation at the right times, with the right parameters, has to be found. It makes sense to actually use existing signals, which would add to a job queue.
The few remaining parts to give us easy mechanisms for inserting snippets into templates or grabbing generated datasets in views are all very simple. Together, the three layers come together to give us what our frameworks are leaving out today. Resources, to store non-cheap data. Jobs, to generate resources. Finally, Tools to acquire and use those resources. If I were an egotistical man, I might try to coin my own acronym and name this RJT.
I know this is nothing new. Rather than make the situation better, that actually makes it worse. As any project grows and matures, the cut corners need to be filled in. Everything here is eventually built, to different variations and with probably a lot more forethought (or a lot less, depending on the pressure.) The only difference is that large scale applications need to divert more resources to pushing, instead of pulling, whereas smaller scale applications simply should, because the benefits exists in either case. We won't all need to grow at exponential rates, but we should be doing better with whatever resources and whatever work load our application is given, small or large.


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The annual banquet, featuring the USF Softball and Baseball teams, will take place on Thursday, February 18 starting at 7 p.m. at the Embassy Suites USF/near Busch Gardens located at 3705 Spectrum Blvd.
The banquet will feature a number of celebrity guests, including Olympian Jennie Finch and New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi.
Finch is arguably the most recognizable player in all of softball and the most famous softball player of all time. Finch is a member of the USA National Softball Team. The team won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Although she is listed on the roster as a pitcher, Finch sometimes plays first base. Finch, who played collegiately at the University of Arizona, where she was a three-time All-American pitcher and first-baseman and "Honda Award" winner for the Player of the Year as a member of the Wildcat softball team.
This past fall, Girardi led the New York Yankees to the American League pennant as well as their 27th World Series title. Girardi was a former Major League catcher for the Chicago Cubs, the Colorado Rockies, the New York Yankees, and St. Louis Cardinals. He was also manager of the Florida Marlins in 2006, where he was named National League Manager of the Year.
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Can my nine year old take Coricidin cough and cold ?
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I am addicted to Coricidin cough and cold hbp. I take 16 pills a day. Everyday. What is this doing to my body? How can I stop?
Red flag red flag: Any addiction must be addressed. Now with appropriate treatment you won't have to worry about the fate of your body or any other fear. Discuss this with your doctor tomorrow. Why? This is serious, no more time to kill. And i really am on your side.. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
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Risk of overdose: Use only one drug. It is likely that both drugs have acetaminophen (Tylenol) and by mixing the two you run the risk of acetaminophen overdose and may of other ingredients as well. ...Read more
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I was depressed and took 11 Coricidin cough and cold pills at once and ever since then i've been having awful migranes every day. It's been a month?
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Safe medication: For a young healthy person a short course of over the counter medication is unlikely to be harmful. The other side of that, though, is that most OTC meds aren't very effective. For a serious cough a prescription medication might be best, but if the cough is minor you're better off to try home remedies. Look here for ideas: http://commonsensehome.com/home-remedies-for-coughs/ ...Read more
Is the Coricidin cough & cold being recalled, there is none in town?
Go online: Coricidin cough and cold is still available. Unfortunately, there are individuals who abuse it for getting "high." i was able to find it in many stores on line. I was not able to find a recall announcement. Check with your local pharmacist-he/she can order it for you. ...Read more
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Q. What is the cap on soul income you can earn from dominion site(s)?
A.It should be back to a storage cap of 5,000, and an income cap of 1,000 per hour at 10 souls per site.
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Q. What is the cap on soul income you can earn from dominion site(s)?
A.It should be back to a storage cap of 5,000, and an income cap of 1,000 per hour at 10 souls per site.
Played on XBL, truthfully it's easily pay to win as acquiring souls through money method makes things much easier. Being on the light side really give you a good boost in speed. I kicked some ass because they try to take my territory. I was slicing them so fast, I killed him in less than a minute, added that I had extra points left over I spent it on getting purple and gold equipment. This is a very simple hack and slash game no real thought is actually needed besides knowing when to stun the opponent. Though I never got very far I'm only level 15 and the max level I've seen was around 50 or so. Ascending is where you really choose your path as you can switch to any god and earn the bonus effect each time you ascend. Though I really enjoy sending enemies through the portal to players who chose opposite gods it really screws them up having extra full health mobs.
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After getting to level ninteen, it's basically impossible to continue forward with the ungodly and constant repair costs :/
Every time i get some 6k souls together, scraping them out of the corpses of the monsters who bashed down that equipment in the first place. Maybe every once in a while you'll manage to pull together enough to repair multiple items at once, but after level ten you'll never purchase ANYTHING from the shop without spending money, even if you hit the endless dungeon and somehow make it deeper than the first five levels.
On the topic of the Endless Dungeon, the fact that all creatures scale with you makes it consistently very hard to push deep into the dungeon, i've only managed to get to the fourth floor before dying...
It was fun at the start but the prices are just crazy , lvl 12 weapon for almost 20.000 souls while the repairs cost 2.000+ for each armor part and weapon , you only make 15.000+ per hour and you waste it all on repairs never on buying new equipment . Good game consumed by greed -.- . Most likely will end exactly like the console version , dead in a few weeks .
i hit the same ceiling at lvl 20.... ascended but without a proper weapon <.< since every enemy is the same lvl as you (no way to find lower lvl enemies and using a lvl 1 sword gives you 1dmg per hit) had to run around opening boxes just to find something to kill with.
bought a mask for 40k souls...repairs cost 25k so cant even repair it. Loosing my dominion to 2-3 guys with OP equipment (eltsoldeir was the most annyoing player to go p against as he got max lvl spells and 3magic dmg rune weapon >.<) so basically im cut to 1/3rd of my dominion...no chests to open and cant kill 3rd boss as my spells are too low lvl to kite anything (cant make enough souls to upgrade them eighter as repair costs take up atleast half the souls i get)
Lolz, dont buy anything. Unless you spend real money. You find legacy gear all the time. And since you levelup all the time too. Its a waste to buy stuff in the store. Only use your souls for spells and repairs. You can also upgrade your gear, the 1st time its only a little more then repairing. That being said im sitting on 128k souls right now. Its getting pretty repetative now tho. Finding gold tier gear is kinda interesting. But I can imagine if you waste souls, you can seriously gimp yourself. And even get stuck lol. Google some farming methods for souls. There are many.
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Weapons lose durability far too quickly. The repair costs ruin the game. I've started running through dungeons without fighting just so I can loot the chests.
Found an amazing new sword... That costs 10k to repair at 20% durability.
I think is a fun game. Unique too, but the repair cost, and overpowered monsters ruined the game. I rather pay 20 bucks for it, and have a more decent game than being F2P. But oh well. Is there a way to unequipped items?. All my armor is at 1% when I left logged off for hours.
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Meehh, I'll agree with the repair cost being a problem. granted I got good at keeping up combos on mini-bosses and bosses and stuff for awesome souls (never did any soul farming so far), my weapon still burns out about every 30-45 min. with a 7.5k bill on top of my armor (armor's not that bad, 2-3k on all the parts when I rep my sword). This is a lvl 26 purple 1h sword btw.
Monsters being overpowered, only feel that the bear is really OP. the fact that bleed penetrates guard and that vacuum grab of his (yes, I've been mysteriously TP'd into his mouth from clearly out of range), just turns the fight into one big kite match while trying to hit-confirm a stunlock. the rest is more block what can be blocked, dash away from unblockables, use guard cancel often for maximum combos and protection, and know which spells stun/knockback for interrupts.
AFAIK there's no straight up way to unequip stuff. Either switch to something else, or just zip through dungeons and sell chest loot along with breaking skull cairns/towers (those things that give souls when you break them) for the repair cost.
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Loving the game and the challenge. No carebare crap here.
i find the game to be quite a blast, at first i thought it was so large but i ended up finishing the storyline in 3days. Also it seems the devs are watching the signalstudios forum quite a bit, the last 2 hotfixes have been using user feedback so i guess its going to improve rapidly


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Iron Mountain Digital – Today's companies are challenged not only with managing rapidly growing volumes of information that are spread across many technologies and geographies, but also with heightened regulatory and legal oversight on their information management – not to mention how to manage all of this amongst tightening IT budgets in a tough economy. Given this complex environment, how do companies ensure that their data can easily be recovered in the event of a disaster, but also quickly accessible and retrievable to satisfy regulation and litigation needs? How do companies determine which records they should destroy, backup, or archive – and how do they manage these storage costs? Does having an efficient backup solution in place effectively meet both these demands?
The short answer is no. Backup solutions alone do not prevent regulatory trouble. In today's world of increasing record retention regulations and demands for improved corporate governance, backup alone cannot replace the need for a true digital archiving solution. Even though backup solutions meet requirements for duplicate, tamper-free and secure records, they are not sufficient for a fully Compliant Records Management program. Destruction, for example, which is a major component of any records management program – is just not possible to perform on data that has been backed up on numerous backup tapes.
Simply put, backup solutions provide for data protection and recovery, while archiving provides data retention and retrieval, as well as proof of chain-of-custody against every record. While both solutions are part of electronic storage, they address different needs. In today's world of shrinking backup windows and regulatory requirements, enterprises need to implement both backup and digital archiving for complete digital data protection.
From document management to digital records management – an integrated approach
In the past true digital archiving solutions simply didn't exist – regulatory and compliance pressures were slim to none with archiving viewed solely as a records management function and the preservation of documents for historical reasons. Moreover, the speed of drop in cost for gigabytes allowed people to ignore storage management and just keep buying more storage as it filled up.
With the onset of heightened compliance and litigation, the huge increase in electronic records, combined with rising storage costs, companies were forced to realize the importance of consistently retaining – and destroying their documents via automated and unbiased policies. Yet how could companies go about doing this? Document management systems tried to step in as digital records management systems – but it didn't work – IT was missing. Companies were forced then to reassess their document and records management policies – once solely under the umbrella of legal and knowledge management alone, and implement IT. Just as backup had been fully integrated into an IT and records management function, so too was archiving.
This change – of records management from being a corporate historical mechanism to being the main mechanism for legal compliance – further demanded the blending of the practice of IT and records management, and the need for organizations to implement distinct digital archiving solutions separate from backup.
Backup versus archiving
As seen in the past and all too often still today, IT departments have used insufficient backup solutions to suffice as digital archiving systems. There is often confusion regarding the difference between backup and archiving. To clarify, if you are storing data with the expectation that you may need to use it or access it in the future for business purposes, then you are archiving. In other words, if you put the record away and it is your only copy, then it's an archive. On the other hand, if you are storing data for the purpose of recovering from a disaster, a system crash, data corruption, or other event, then you are performing backup – you're putting the record away and there is still an online copy available to ensure disaster recovery and business continuity. Archived data is indexed data for search purposes and backup data is raw data for data recovery purposes.
There are a number of digital archiving requirements that backup cannot adequately fulfill, including the classification and categorization of information – the actual organization of information rather than just storing it, and/or access to documents according to a company's retention policy. Backup also cannot perform information destruction – which is an essential component of any digital records management system. Furthermore, backup does not provide the necessary management to ensure long-term future readability of documents as formats, applications, hardware, and operating systems change. Lastly, backup alone cannot fulfill compliance with regulatory archiving storage and access requirements.
The underlying truth is that tape backup solutions alone simply cannot provide easy retrieval and audit trails. Using backed-up records as official legal documents for compliance and litigation leads to spending considerable time and money to restore backup tapes, search for legally relevant material, and subject enterprises to the legal difficulties of attempting to prove that records remain unchanged – all of which can create legal risk exposure. Additionally, keeping several generations of backup tapes as archives opens up the possibility of someone requesting that data for litigation purposes. Many enterprises today still keep several generations of backup tapes as archives to meet the challenges of compliance and eDiscovery, despite the escalating costs of data storage. Having hundreds of copies of the same file on hundreds of tapes makes it impossible to ever destroy information and guarantee that it cannot be "discovered†at a later date, or even begin to understand which version was used for which application. This drives up the cost of discovery, increases legal risks such as fines and lawsuits, while at the same time making it impossible to execute a policy in an unbiased and consistent manner. Simply stated – backup is an inefficient mechanism to archive with and creates compliance risk exposure.
The importance of backup
So what then, can backup systems be used for?
Backups are for user error recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity. They are used to recover data loss resulting from data corruption, server failure, and site failures, as they contain a snapshot of the system to restore it to its last known business state. Backup systems are critical for enabling IT to quickly recover data in the event of a site failure, whether it's a power outage, or a catastrophic natural event like a hurricane. Backup solutions also reduce the risks and costs of data loss and minimize recovery time for distributed PCs and laptops - even when a laptop is stolen or damaged from a remote employee, which is even more critical given today's on-the-go work and lifestyle. Despite disasters being closely associated with data recovery, over 70% of the data recovery performed is due to user error and data corruption.
A backup and data protection program is built based on Recovery Point Objectives and Recovery Time Objectives to ensure there are no gaps in your records management history. The goal is to rely on backups to recover lost data to the most current point in time possible. It's simply not acceptable in today's business climate to incur large data loss. Therefore it's wise for every organization to have a disaster recovery and business continuity plan that is documented and regularly tested. It is also good practice for electronic data to be backed up and protected off-line and off-site.
When backup just isn't enough
The massive amount of digital data present today has taken away the ability of backup to work efficiently and correctly without a digital archiving solution in place as well. Without an efficient data protection and compliant records solution in place businesses expose themselves to more disaster recovery and business continuity risks, not to mention legal and business risks such as revenue loss.
While backup systems can provide for wholesale data recovery from the closest point in time if the computing environment suffers failure or disaster, as indicated previously, they are not suitable for quickly searching data and retrieving individual items of data needed for compliance. Backup data is not indexed, and, consequently, is not easy to search. The most efficient and effective way to respond to litigation requests involving backup data is with a complete data restoration and digital archiving solution. Additionally, most traditional backup processes do not provide an audit trail of actions on a backed-up record, as required for compliance and legal discovery. When companies save the last full backup of the month and/or year as archives they are losing that trail of actions, and a lot of information, and transitions of that information is lost, exposing companies to even more legal risk.
It is much too hard and expensive to fulfill the needs of compliance and regulations with backup tapes, after-the-fact when intent of information has been lost. Unfortunately this is all too often the start of the market today. Once litigation strikes many companies are forced to recall backup tapes from a time period involving thousands upon thousands of tapes – and then restore them one by one with a large team of specialists hired to review all the information and determine (after the fact) what it was for and if it was important. The cost of eDiscovery is directly related to the number of documents that must be reviewed, so without the correct solution in place, this can clearly become very expensive. Proactive management, including implementing both an efficient backup and digital archiving solution, not only lowers costs by not having to do this reactive digging and analysis, it becomes an advantage – because if you are prepared, once litigation strikes or a disaster hits, your information is protected and easily retrievable, in a cost-efficient way.
Backup alone does not protect your business – in fact backup alone can actually increase business risk – making a copy of all your data and ignoring whether it is active or inactive puts your company at legal risk. By separating inactive data from the data set and storing it once in an archive can remove 65 percent or more of the amount of data that needs to managed day-to-day. This not only shrinks the backup/restore windows, it also lowers the total overall cost of running the infrastructure.
Digital archiving
Whereas backup is for disaster recovery purposes, the archiving process is part of a records management program. Digital archiving helps companies meet their long-term need for storing data with a searchable index for easy retrieval, if the need arises. To clearly understand digital archiving, industry analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group defines archiving as the longer term retention of historical data that is no longer needed for current business operations, in order to satisfy regulatory compliance, corporate governance, litigation support, records management or other information management requirements.
Many enterprises must comply with an increasing number of regulatory requirements affecting their business — or face stiff penalties for non-compliance. The new requirements include a long list of mandates such as HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and FACTA, which protect a range of business, financial, patient, employee, and customer data - regardless of its format or medium. Other regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), SEC Rule 17a-3 and 17a-4, and Rule 26 of the Federal Rules demand that organizations disclose corporate information to the government during compliance audits and for the courts during litigation. For all of these different regulations, enterprises must follow different retention rules for different types of archived data.
When implementing a digital archiving solution companies need to assess this and many issues, including a comprehensive evaluation of what specific data is governed by which specific record retention regulation. IT also needs to determine which technology can actually retain that data type, whether it's an e-mail, x-ray, or a financial document. Companies can then create a retention period, and store the data where it can still be easily accessed, for as long as legally required.
How do companies begin to manage what information needs to be retained for how long, and what needs to be destroyed?
True digital archiving, retention systems, and services ensure that enterprises can find and access any given record, whenever and wherever required. Solutions today offer secure, compliant, cost-effective, and long- term archiving of electronic records. These solutions and services consolidate electronic records – e-mail, images, statements, and more – into a unified, browser-accessible archive for fast and easy search, retrieval, and management. They also record any action taken on archived records, providing a secure audit trail to prove that the records are free from tampering. This trail is essential in compliance audits and in cases where records appear as legal evidence.


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