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Research Papers in Mathematics: Free Topics and Recommendations
Posted On December 28th, 2009 | Research Paper Writing
Before you start panicking because of the necessity to write a research paper in Mathematics, read this article. The point is that your task is not that tricky as it seems at a glance and you have chances to create a good Mathematics research paper.
Let us first explain you the gist of research papers in Mathematics. Actually, what you will have to deal with is a typical research paper that is just devoted to some mathematical issue.
Therefore, one of the factors that will influence the effectiveness of your research paper in Mathematics is the way you organize your project. Here are a couple of useful recommendations for you.
Plan everything
This refers not only to the outline of your Mathematics research paper. It should be understood that all your ideas should be organized into a logical piece of writing.
To prepare an excellent Mathematics research paper, you should also organize your research. What materials are you going to use? Where are you going to get them? Which materials will be helpful and which will be useless? Think about each of these points.
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NEW YORK -- Former USC outfielder Lucas Duda (Riverside/Arlington HS) was called up today by the New York Mets, becoming the 97th Trojan in the program's history to play in the major leagues. Duda was hitting .314 with 17 home runs in 70 games for Buffalo (AAA) after beginning the season with Binghamton (AA).
In his three-year career at USC (2005-07), Duda batted .275 in 143 games (125-for-454) with 11 home runs and 81 RBI. His best season was in 2007 when he batted .280 and led the Trojans with seven home runs, including March 25 when he had two home runs and six RBI against No. 17 Arizona State. In the game against the Sun Devils, Duda hit a grand slam in the sixth inning and a two-run walkoff homer in the ninth for the 14-13 victory.
He has batted .304 in the minors since he was selected in the seventh round of the 2007 draft by the Mets.

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Hills, Heat, Hardtail, Happiness -- pick any three.
So Pat's Peak was going to be the race where I followed the lead of my sensei Thom and rocked it pro-style, that is, ditching the usual camelback and heavy dualie for a hardtail and a single water bottle. We're talking about probably 4 pounds in weight savings here, which I ordinarily would scoff at, but I did have to climb 3500 feet during the course of the race. Maybe Hill Junkie could tell me how many seconds 4 lbs is worth over 3500 feet of climbing when you're putting out, like, 150 watts, but I think it's a lot.
Last year Pat's Peak was a mudfest. I remember the downhill was smooth and slimy. Who needs dual suspension for that, I asked? Well, this year it was bone dry, rutted into washboard by the 24 hour race and sport/beginner classes. I needed dual suspension for that, it turns out.
Last year Pat's Peak was a thunderstormfest, so climbing in the open on ski slopes wasn't super hot. This year -- sunny. I'm crawling uphill at 4 mph, the breeze is coming up the hill with me (also at 4 mph), it might only be 74 degrees but the sun is pointed directly at my head and I feel like an ant to God's magnifying glass. Surely, this is what hell is like, I think to myself.
This is commonly known as "adversity," a situation that requires "mental toughness," and often leads to me "doing shitty."
So yeah, this was not one of my best performances on a bike. Despite my light weight, I cannot climb sustained grades to save my life. Pat's Peak has 3 major climbs per lap -- I was getting killed. My bike and body were nice and light, but instead of getting whisked uphill by angels I was getting grilled. Even angels like to barbecue sometimes, I guess.
The actual race followed the typical pattern of fast first lap, horrible gut check 2nd lap, meltdown on the 3rd lap, slight recovery on the 4th lap. Highlights included my patended DFL start, followed by riding straight into a ditch while screaming "ahhh I suck" as I tried to move up by cutting the inside of a loose turn. Somehow I got it together (maybe by riding too hard) on the first lap to get all the way up to 5th by the end, and I was within striking distance of Timmy D, the series leader, only 15 seconds back. You're set, I told myself, because you generally speed up in races. Just keep doing your thing and you'll undoubtedly overtake him, take the series lead, and get podium girls. You're the man now, dog!
On the second lap he appeared to gain a bit on me. That's odd, I thought, you are supposed to catch him and beat him. Well, no matter, I can still see him, so it's only a matter of time before I speed up and defeat him. No reason to worry.
By the end of that lap, however, it had gotten to the point where I could occasionally see him on the longest straightaways. This is generally not a sign that you are within "striking distance."
At this point I was so hot, and my stomach was so distraught, that I was ready to stop worrying about doing well and start worrying about finishing. In my melting-down state it took me until the end of the third lap to realize that I had a full zip jersey on, and there was no reason to hide my chest hair from the world. As I passed a cheering Yash I unzipped in the most flamboyant, er, Euro manner possible. In addition to making him the happiest man on the course I also noticed an immediate reduction in discomfort. In the future I will try to remember I can unzip before 75% of the race is over.
I also managed to pull my back wheel out of the dropout on the 3rd lap, with my massive torque. That's what I get for doing the full-bike-disassembly car-packing and not paying enough attention when putting it back together. I was hoping that re-seating the wheel would make me feel super good (because maybe my discs had been dragging for a long time!) but alas, nothing except the sweet release of death could make me feel super good at this point.
On lap 4 the legendary Hupster PVB passed me, and I got to listen to him "shift," which is when I realized why he breaks chains a lot. It seems to involve random amounts of torque and lever-pressing until the bike ends up in a different gear, that may or may not be the gear you wanted. We had a little chat where I said pathetic things about how I was sucking and he didn't rub in the fact that he was crushing me. It was nice. Then he rode away.
Fittingly, I got lapped by the leading pro/semipro with a minute left to ride, confirming that I am so much slower than them it boggles the mind. Maybe not your mind... but my mind, anyway.
Uhhhh... see you next week?
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Honestly, who writes the Politico headlines?
And is the stated purpose there to be as misleading as possible? Because it's become something of an epidemic.
Here's the latest [1]: "Latinos unhappy with Obama picks."
Now, if you're a Politico novice, you might see that headline and think the article, written by Gebe Martinez, will detail how Obama's early key picks for his new administration have angered Latinos and that the article will include relevant quotes to back up the headline's crystal-clear claim.
But if you're a Politico veteran, you understand that headlines often have little to do with the article's content and that specifically in recent days/weeks headline that try way too hard [2] to gin up conflict regarding the new Obama team usually fall flat [3].
Well, add this "Latinos unhappy with Obama picks" article to that pile because there is virtually nothing in the piece to justify the headline. Zero.
No joke, this is as close as the article comes to substantiating the "unhappy" headline [emphasis added]:
But at this early stage in the appointments process, there is a trickle of disappointment running through the Latino community.
We understand that in the click-through world headlines can make or break a story. But is maintaining some semblance of journalistic guidelines when hyping stories asking too much?
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German Shepherd Dog Forums (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/)
- Health Issues (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/health-issues/)
- - 7 month old - no weight gain in 6 weeks (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/health-issues/464177-7-month-old-no-weight-gain-6-weeks.html)
7 month old - no weight gain in 6 weeks
I'm reaching out to see if anyone has any ideas or similiar experience. I've been doing this 30 years and have not had this issue come up.
I have a 7.5 month old that has not put on an ounce in 6 weeks. He is VERY thin. He gets raw in the am kibble (Earthborn/Fromm) in the pm. He is on probiotics, prozyme, fish oil, vit c, glucosamine. Active, alert, eats fine, normal puppy except he has had loose stool the last 2.5 weeks.
Fecal parasite/coccidia/giardia negative. I did a 10 cycle on metronidazole, no improvement. Xrays showed fair amount of gas, no claring blockage but a possible small area of something...intestines inflamed. Question being is the loose stool causing the inflamtion or the inflmation causing the loose stool.
Full gut blood panel, all negative (no IBD, EPI, pancreatitis). B12 and folate both in range. Next step is fecal occult which I will take in tomorrow. If it's inconclusive, intestinal scope will follow.
Anyone have any ideas???
I'm really sorry but I don't know what to say. I've never experienced that before. I say you should go to the vet and ask.
Pretty useless I know but I did not want to read and ignore your post... I am not educated enough to offer any advice but i will pray for the best for you and your pup... :confused:
He has been to the vet. :) That is where all the tests have been run. We go back tomorrow for more tests. I was just hoping someone might have a shared experience.
For as many dogs as I have had and as long as I've been doing this, this is one I have not encountered before.
How much does he eat per day?
Is there anything you can think of that you added to his diet in the last 2 weeks?
His diet has not changed. I am very experienced and this is not a case of diet change/worms/parasites/etc or any typical puppy gut issue. If the occult doesn't show anything, we will scope him for partial blockage, xray was inconclusive.
Perhaps he has developed a sensitivity to something. Between raw, kibble, and supplements he is eating a lot of different things during the day. It could be that one of those no longer works for him.
If it were me and the vet ruled everything medical out, I would cut everything out. No supplements. And just pick raw or kibble and stick to it for a week or two, that way you can pin point exactly where the problem lies.
I wouldn't be so quick to brush off the simpler possibility. Dogs can be very sensitive, what works one day may not work the next.
I have stopped the supplements (except probiotics and enzymes) and eliminated everything but a single source diet. This isn't my first rodeo.
I have 5 other gsd's and they are not having any issues. As I've stated twice we have done several tests and have more to go. The vet has not ruled everything medical out yet. I've been doing this over 30 years, I am looking for anyone that has a similiar experience.
can you give more information -
what exactly is the "raw"
when did this problem become evident
what are his genetics
He gets raw in the mornings from Texas Tripe Texas Tripe - Raw Foods for Dogs and Cats in North Texas, usually the bully blend or chicken blend (organ/muscle/fat/bone are mixed in) along with a raw chicken neck. All other dogs are on same diet, no issues.
In the evening he gets kibble (I do not mix kibble and raw into one meal). A mix of earthborn and fromm. He's been on this diet for months with no issue. Problem started 2.5 weeks ago when the loose stool began. He has been thin all along so I didn't think too much of it as he is tall and lanky which is nothing like his parents (both healthy no gut issues).
I took him in after I couldn't get his stool issue resolved. Vet commented first thing about how thin he is and we ran the tests listed above. He has also become cow hocked which he was not until the this last month. I started thinking he wasn't absorbing nutrients. I'm at a loss at this point. I will obviously learn more with the occult and then scope if we do that (pending the occult results).
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Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > > Paul Russell wrote: > > > > > See? no need for legal troubles. > > > > In the nicest possible way, I don't see this. How many other > > libraries are we going to miss out on long term becase of this? > > A *lot* of code is, (and will continue to be) released under > > the LGPL. > > > > Also, I'm not entirely sure that we can entirely ignore regexps > > for sitemap use - people *are* going to want to use them; > > personally, I speak fluent regexp and it's surprising how useful > > it can be. > > I'm _strongly_ -1 to regexp in the sitemap. Agreed. Pattern matching is a parsing _component_, not some sort of utility package (in regards to XML applications). It also is part of the W3C XML Schema Recommendation, and therefore will show up in Apache Xerces before you know it, as they plan to catch up to the latest XML Schema specification. So there are two (non-legal) reasons to avoid writing regexp for Cocoon. Additionally, I'm +1 (btw, Stefano, how's my commit status coming?) behind avoiding LGPL (and of course GPL). Yes, a lot of code is released under LGPL. There's a lot of code released under Microsoft that people choose not to use as well, because *it locks them into a paradigm that they want to avoid.* Just as Microsoft forces you to not only choose them once, but over and over and over again (as compatibility spirals), LGPL forces you to choose LGPL over and over and over again. You are assuming that a choice like using this or that library from LGPL is a /single, isolated/ choice, when in fact, it forces choices long down the line. My honest opinion is that as soon as LGPL enters Cocoon, we are going to have problems that will only grow. Does this mean that we'll miss out on some good code? Yes. Does it mean we'll have to work harder, sometimes seeing fewer results? Yes. Is that worth being able to have our user base use our software with impunity? Absolutely. Guys, we are, ultimately, shoe salesmen. We don't exist without a user base, and that user base needs solutions that do not limit them, but in fact expand them. Why would we sell anyone a pair of shoes with the laces of the two shoes knotted together? They may get out of the store admiring the pair, but sooner or later will be tripped up; probably when they are in a hurry. Do you see how the analagy applies? Let's stay BSD as long as possible, because it's the right thing to do, not because it's the easiest. -Brett > > And this is not for legal issues at all. > > -- > Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be > able to give birth to a dancing star. > <firstname.lastname@example.com> Friedrich Nietzsche > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Missed us in Orlando? Make it up with ApacheCON Europe in London! > ------------------------- http://ApacheCon.Com ---------------------
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Pluto Has Moons
That distant world called Pluto has surprised astronomers again, yielding up yet another moon. Pluto's largest moon is Charon and was discovered in 1978. Two more — Nix and Hydra — were found in 2005. The new one, called P4 (for now), is quite small, somewhere between 13 to 34 kilometers across, and small enough that it was probably missed in earlier images of the system taken by Hubble Space Telescope. This latest HST image was taken as part of a search for ring material around the distant dwarf planet, in support of the New Horizons mission, which is en route to Pluto.
So, how would Pluto, itself a small world like many others in the outer solar system, get moons? The current thinking is that a collision between Pluto and another world early in the history of the solar system would have flung material out into orbit. Eventually, the pieces and parts would have coalesced back together, forming the family of moons we see today.
When I read this story, the first things I wondered were "Why search for rings around Pluto?" and "Where would the material for Plutonian ringlets come from?" A long-ago collision would have provided material for rings, but by now, that material would have been cleared away or coalesced into moons, such as Nix, Hydra, P4 (and maybe even Charon?). To maintain a ring system, you need a constant source of material being tossed out to space. At Pluto, that source may well be material "chipped away" from the icy surface by the impacts of tiny micrometeoroids. That would provide chips of ice to form a faint, thin ring. If it exists, it hasn't yet been detected. But, HST would be the best instrument we have at this time to find the ring. Once New Horizons gets there, it may well "see" the ring, if it exists.
I like it when HST finds things like this. It's a continuing reminder that the venerable telescope has a lot of life in it yet; and will keep surprising astronomers with new finds.


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Toward a better understanding of uncommon loyalty
Neale, Larry (2007) Toward a better understanding of uncommon loyalty. PhD thesis, University of Western Australia.
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Some brands seem to garner uncommon levels of loyalty from their customers. These brands can weather economic downturns, long-term competitive disadvantage and continual performance failures to emerge with a core of dedicated, committed, and loyal consumers. Good examples of this phenomenon come from sports. Some sports teams have fans who proudly proclaim their loyalty as well as financially support their team through attendance, yet live their entire life without witnessing their team win a championship. Why would they do this, when switching brands is possible?
This study used the sports industry to explore the minds and analyse the behaviours of sports fans in order to learn more about their uncommon loyalty towards their favourite team. A comprehensive review of loyalty and sports literature revealed researchers were better defining and measuring the dimensions of loyalty, while sports marketers were able to explain more of the variability in attendance. There was still a gap, however, that needed filling to explain this uncommon loyalty.
One of the features of the sporting industry is the ritualised way in which it is consumed across the world. Fans of every sport have rituals and superstitions to help them enjoy the spectacle, socialise with other like-minded fans, and reduce some of the anxiety of watching their team play. Although some sports researchers have touched on the topic of ritual, none has defined, measured or applied it to desirable outcomes such as commitment and attendance.
This study uses a sample of 651 attendees at an Australian Football League game to explore ritual behaviour, define the game-day rituals observed, and design a scale to measure sports fan ritual in order to investigate the link between ritual, and attitudinal and behavioural loyalty. Fan ritual was found to be two-dimensional with personal and social rituals. The associations between social ritual and commitment, and social ritual and attendance are positive and significant, while personal ritual does not significantly influence commitment or attendance. The findings support previous research that found a significant and positive relationship between identification and attendance, and extend previous research by finding a significant and positive relationship between social rituals and attendance.
For academic researchers, the findings are important to establish the role of ritual in consumption and loyalty, while opening future research opportunities in other product categories. For sports marketers, the results indicate the importance of developing and facilitating consumption rituals tied to game day attendance, with a view to generating uncommon loyalty.
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Monsanto on Monday over an Indiana farmer accused of having pirated the genetically modified crops developed by the agribusiness giant.
The high court's unanimous decision focuses specifically on seed production, but experts say it may also have implications on intellectual property law in medicine, biotechnology and software.
The nine justices ruled that laws limiting patents do "not permit a farmer to reproduce patented seeds through planting and harvesting without the patent holder's permission."
The crux of the argument was over "patent exhaustion," which states that, after a patented item has been sold, the purchaser has "a right to use or resell that article," Justice Elena Kagan explained in the court's 10-page decision. "Such a sale, however, does not allow the purchaser to make new copies of the patented invention," she added.
In a lawsuit filed in 2007, Monsanto had accused Vernon Hugh Bowman, a farmer, of infringing on its intellectual property rights by replanting, cultivating and selling herbicide-resistant soybean seeds it spent more than a decade developing.


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That's my name, don't wear it out
Katherine Noyes put together a brief piece for PC World today about Linux release names which, overall, she seems to consider "silly." In the process, she omits a great bit of detail on the "what" and "why" aspect of distro communities and how they come up with these "silly" names.
Digitally speaking, from a purely anthropological standpoint it is far from silly, and actually it's quite an interesting topic, though Noyes seems to race through it without giving much detail.
So let me help out here.
Debian: Release names come from "Toy Story." As humorous as it is simple, this naming convention is one of the best. An interesting corollary to this is the Debian-based CrunchBang naming convention mirrors the first letter of the current Debian release, but matches it with a character from "The Muppet Show." So Debian "Squeeze" is translated in CrunchBang to "Statler. "Wheezy" begets "Waldorf." Statler and Waldorf, of course, are the two old guys in the balcony in "The Muppet Show."
Linux Mint: I particularly like the naming convention Clement Lefevbre has come up with for Linux Mint. It's alphabetically a woman's name ending in "a." We're at Julia now. I asked Clement once what he'd do when he got to "Zelda" (or whatever the "Z" name will be for Linux Mint when they get that far . . . and they will), and he said that it was simple: Start with a name beginning with "A" and end the name in "e."
Ubuntu: We all know the drill here — SABDFL* Mark Shuttleworth comes up with an adjective and an animal with the same first letter and hands it down to a waiting community. Which is in complete contrast to . . .
Fedora: There is a formula here that the Fedora Project adheres to before all hell breaks loose and fistfights break out in the Fedora community while they vote on the release name. The formula is simple: "$CURRENT_RELEASE_NAME is a (whatever it is — i.e., city, body of water, person, thing) and so is $NEXT_RELEASE_NAME." Looking at Fedora 15 "Lovelock" to the current Fedora 16 "Verne," it goes like this: James Lovelock was a futurologist, and so was Jules Verne. Now how they got from Verne to Fedora 17's "Beefy Miracle" is a mystery for the ages.
OpenSUSE: OpenSUSE's naming convention . . . does OpenSUSE even have a naming convention for releases?
Got a distro that has a naming convention worthy of mentioning? Let me know.
*Self-appointed benevolent dictator for life, for those of you keeping score at home.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started developing software in his new home office.)
Meanwhile, back at El Ranchito . . . .
Whew. Now that that's over . . . the second "that" being what's nebulously called "the holiday" and all its trimmings, we can now get back to serious discussions on FOSS.
Or not.
But first things first: SCALE 10X. The Southern California Linux Expo SCALE 10X will be held less than a month from now — on Jan. 20-22 — at the beautiful Hilton Los Angeles Airport hotel. In its 10th year, this first-of-the-year show in North America is shaping up to be one for the ages, and since it's a month earlier this year — taking advantage of the Martin Luther King holiday weekend — I have the sneaking suspicion that it's being obscured on people's radar because of the holiday season and, heck, SCALE is not for another couple of months anyway, right? Well, not this year. Again, it's January 20-22 — mark your calendars — and get yourself over to the registration page to sign up. Also, the $109/night deal for SCALE attendees at the Hilton still stands as well.
Now, how could you resist a weekend in L.A. with nearly 2,000 of your best friends?
Meanwhile, if you — for whatever misguided reason — have your domain registered on GoDaddy, today is the day to move it from the SOPA-supporting, arguably sexist domain registrant to another one that is more along the lines of your policies (unless, of course, you support SOPA and juvenile ads. Which of course begs the question: What are you doing reading this blog?). Here's a story about it from ReadWriteWeb outlining that Namecheap will donate a dollar for every transfer to the Elecronic Frontier Foundation. Go to it, folks.
Also, the rumors are true: I'm now using CrunchBang GNU/Linux as my primary distro and I'm getting more involved with that community as well. While I might be saying, "So long, and thanks for all the fish" to Fedora, my experience with the Fedora Project has been overall both pleasant and an education, and I like to think that all the connections and friendships made during that time weather this transition. I bring that up because people are saying "goodbye" when they really don't have to — I'll be around in a FOSS sense and, regardless of what distro you might use, bear in mind we're still essentially working for the same goal, albeit taking different paths.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started developing software in his new home office.)
A Week in Limbo, Epilogue: An outstanding machine
Before I start, there is only one thing glaringly wrong with the ZaReason Limbo 5440: having to give back the review model to ZaReason in Berkeley (it's on its way back to you, Earl).
The ZaReason Limbo 5440 is, in three words, an outstanding machine; a simply outstanding machine that can easily handle any work load ranging from that of the average household user who's just surfing the Web to the constant tinkering and tweaking by the most restless Linux user (to the latter, I plead guilty). Ruggedly built and with a clean design, the desktop fits in nearly any location in the home — it spent a day or two in the "lab" (a.k.a, "The Jungle Room," where all our computers live in the house and where I do my best work) but spent the rest of the week in the living room in an unobtrusive manner.
But enough of the interior decor talk: The attention to design, both internally and externally, is completely as functional as it is stylish. But perhaps its best physical feature — expandability — makes this model an exceptional one for those who may have an overwhelming desire to add the latest and greatest hardware features to an already exceptional desktop. (A side note: In conversation with ZaReason CTO Earl Malmrose, I was given a green light to add software and hardware to my liking. But I passed on the latter — why spoil a good thing?)
As far as performance goes, everything I threw at the desktop during the course of the week, the Limbo 5440 handled without breaking a proverbial sweat. The only time I could get any of the processors to peak at 100 percent was running folding@home on a regular basis: Using the system monitor, CPU1 (which I would assume is processor 0 in the quad-core scheme of things) ran at 100 percent while using folding@home while any of the other CPUs displayed on the program barely passed 20 percent at any time during program use. The rest of the time, even running multiple programs, I got the sense that reading the graphs on the system monitor, the lines were gentle smiles laughing at me at my attempts in vain to make the desktop work hard.
The price tag for the Limbo 5440 as tested — $969, which is up from the base price of $499 thanks to a variety of upgrades (specs are below) — might seem a little steep to some. But ZaReason's advantage, one that clearly benefits the consumer, is the issue of value, and how the value of this outstanding machine eclipses the issue of cost. Yes, you could by a cheap box from an OEM that has Windows presinstalled, but then there are a plethora of issues around that — buying a cheaper box at a big box allows Redmond to chalk up another user and the hardware in some of the cheaper desktops are — how can I put this tactfully? — not up to par.
So buying hardware from a company dedicated to Linux has its advantages. To his credit and that of the company, Earl Malmrose and the engineering staff at ZaReason sends out 100 percent high-quality Linux-supported hardware.
Quality and value are ZaReason hallmarks,and the Limbo 5440 lives up to them. This desktop would be a keeper, if I didn't have to give this review desktop back, and given the opportunity to purchase this machine in the (near) future, I would easily jump on the opportunity to do so.
Now to find a spare $969 . . . .
Specs as tested (the standard Limbo 5440 specs can be found here):
2nd Generation Intel Core i5 3.3 GHz
Fedora 16 GNOME with shell extensions (changed to Fedora 16 KDE at mid-week)
3 500GB Hard Drives, 7,200 RPM, RAID-5 array
One year warranty
Size of case: 7″ x 14.6″ x 13.8″ / 17.8 x 37.1 x 35.1 cm
Internal Slots: 2x PCI, 1x PCI-Express x16
Rear Ports: 4x USB 2.0 Ports; 1x PS/2 Ports (for that old keyboard/mouse); 1x VGA Port; 1x 10/100 Ethernet Port; Audio I/O Jacks
Front Ports: 2x USB Ports; Headphone Jack; Mic Jack
"A Week in Limbo Series" (for those of you keeping track)
A Week in Limbo, Day 0
A Week in Limbo, Day 1: Under the hood
A Week in Limbo, Day 2: Fedora 16
A Week in Limbo, Day 3: Fedora 16 KDE
A Week in Limbo, Day 4: On second thought . . .
A Week in Limbo, Days 5 and 6: Get with the program
A Week in Limbo, Epilogue: An oustanding machine
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started testing and developing software in his new home office, which is the development side of Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, United States.)
A Week in Limbo, Days 5 and 6: Get with the program
Forgive me, folks: Blame the holidays for the delay. What normally would have been a simple and easy week leading up to Christmas — the end of the week leading up to Sunday, actually — became somewhat complicated, as only the end of the week leading up to Christmas can. And we'll leave it at that, except with an apology to anyone who was at the edge of their seat waiting for this next installment (thanks, Mom), which should have immediately followed Day 4 on, well, the actual Day 5.
During those opportunities over the last few days when I wasn't doubling and tripling up on my work shift thanks to vacations and when I was not taking care of holiday business at home — you know, I move that next year no one buy any gifts until after New Year's Day — I remained transfixed behind the monitor connected to the ZaReason Limbo 5440 while putting it through its paces. Before I outline what I used, I should mention that I worked on my SCALE 10X presentation as well as the SCALE 10X UpSCALE talk that I will be doing with darling daughter Mimi (hint: It involves music and lab coats — and that's all I'm going to say about that). So the primarly lineup involved GIMP, LibreOffice Impress and Audacity.
[As an aside on the latter, author Carla Schroder and I conspired to give Mimi a great Christmas gift: a signed copy of "The Book of Audacity." Thank you, Carla!]
In short (which will become "in long" in later pargraphs), all three programs ran flawlessly and quickly on the desktop box that, had I enough money, would stay in the household. There's nothing yet that I've thrown at this hardware that it hasn't handled without breaking a sweat, and to be honest, after a few days I've truly given up on trying to trip it up.
Meanwhile, LibreOffice's suite of software ran with aplomb — with as much aplomb as an inanimate object can run, for the nit-pickers out there — on this hardware. Switching back and forth from the LibreOffice Draw to LibreOffice Impress to LibreOffice Writer was a breeze, and the benefit of having a larger monitor to move windows around was a treat (how I made all those presentations on a laptop is a mystery).
Audacity? I'm the quintessential newb at it, though the far more Audacity-adept (does that make her Audacious?) Mimi zoomed her way around it quickly and can show the old man a thing or two. Audacity 1.3.13 beta ran and sounded perfect, though I think there could be a lot less bass in this presentation — an easy fix.
Finally, processing photos on GIMP was also a snap. Before I start, let me stike a Tebow-like pose and pray to all diety that will listen to my begging for the the single-window GIMP (2.7, I think) to come soon. Amen. With the multiple windows, using GIMP 2.6 was also a breeze and with the larger screen on the desktop monitor, multitasking was a lot easier than the same exercise — performed by yours truly for years on this old ThinkPad T30 — has been.
Note to self: Do more stuff on the desktops you have.
Before we go off to the next installment which wraps up this series, I should say that for the entire week, I have never had a negative "aha!" moment, nor have I uttered a brow-furrowing "hmmm" over the ZaReason Limbo 5440's performance. Some software hiccups which were clearly the result of PEBCAK errors ocurred, but these were few and far between (of course) and were not a reflection on the machine's abilities or performance. But we'll leave the rest of that for the next installment, coming to you tomorrow.
Tomorrow wraps up the series with A Week in Limbo, Epilogue: The final review
"A Week in Limbo Series" (for those of you keeping track)
A Week in Limbo, Day 0
A Week in Limbo, Day 1: Under the hood
A Week in Limbo, Day 2: Fedora 16
A Week in Limbo, Day 3: Fedora 16 KDE
A Week in Limbo, Day 4: On second thought . . .
A Week in Limbo, Days 5 and 6: Get with the program
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started testing and developing software in his new home office, which is the development side of Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, United States.)
A Week in Limbo, Day 4: On second thought . . .
The proverbial laundry list of things I want to do while I have this ZaReason Limbo 5440 is somewhat long, but alas, my time is limited. Originally I had planned to run a couple of other distros on the machine before returning it, but I'm currently hung up doing other things.
For example, I got hung up on the RAID-5 array, for starters. Not ever having more than one hard drive in one machine at one time left me with a significant amount of curiosity about how this works: Google, research, tweak. Neat stuff. Then there's audio/video items since, now that I have four processors instead of the one I'm usually stuck with, I now can probably do a lot of really neat things.
More googling, more research, more tweaking. Check the clock. I have a little more time: Google, research, and tweak some more.
[Holiday shopping? Oh, right. I knew I was forgetting something.]
So rather than leave Fedora and go off to other distros, we're going to stick around in the Red Hat neighborhood, running programs and reporting back for the next three days. We have audio coming up, and some interesting discoveries to report.
But for now, it's time for holiday shopping (doesn't everyone start on the 22nd?).
Tomorrow we'll have A Week in Limbo, Day 5: Can you hear me now?
"A Week in Limbo Series" (for those of you keeping track)
A Week in Limbo, Day 0
A Week in Limbo, Day 1: Under the hood
A Week in Limbo, Day 2: Fedora 16
A Week in Limbo, Day 3: Fedora 16 KDE
A Week in Limbo, Day 4: On second thought . . .
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started testing and developing software in his new home office, which is the development side of Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, United States.)
A Week in Limbo, Day 3: Fedora 16 KDE
There's a trick to getting the best of both worlds on Fedora — and I would imagine this works with any other distro under the same circumstances — and this is how you do it. You download the latest release as the "Desktop" version (again, that's GNOME, as we outlined yesterday) and then download the KDE desktop with all the trimmings.
Then you choose your desktop from the switchdesktop from the command line and off you go. This way, you have all the GNOME and KDE bits needed to run each dessktop environment and, while it may be a bit tedious and may be time- and disk-consuming, it is quite handy when testing software to go back and forth between desktops to see how they perform.
Or maybe there's a 12-step program for such behavior. Your guess is as good as mine.
In any case, using Fedora 16 KDE on the ZaReason Limbo 5440 reflects much of the experience of using Fedora 16 "Desktop" (GNOME) as outlined in yesterday's blog item. Downloads are quick, response times even quicker. The Fedora 16 KDE spin comes with the KDE 4.7 version of the desktop — speaking as solely a post-KDE 4 user, I've always been impressed with the changes KDE makes under the hood. On the exterior things may not change much, but behind the curtain there are a lot of commendable things going on. Plus, the fact that KDE is not racing off to become a tablet desktop is a huge plus.
But I digress.
To make a long story short, the Limbo 5440 with Fedora 16 KDE is a remarkable pairing. I'm not that well-versed in the K Desktop Environment history, but my observation over the years has been that KDE has tried to be all things to all Linux users. As a result, there are a lot of KDE-based programs that come along with the desktop environment. That's a good thing, and programs like Amarok and K3b are a testament to this.
Tomorrow we'll have A Week in Limbo, Day 4: Off the reservation
"A Week in Limbo Series" (for those of you keeping track)
A Week in Limbo, Day 0
A Week in Limbo, Day 1: Under the hood
A Week in Limbo, Day 2: Fedora 16
A Week in Limbo, Day 3: Fedora 16 KDE
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started testing and developing software in his new home office, which is the development side of Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, United States.)
A Week in Limbo, Day 2: Fedora 16
As the ZaReason Limbo 5440 runs folding@home in the background, allow me to continue with the series and talk about the operating system currently running it.
Before I start, though, it should be noted that one of the things — one of several things, actually — that sets ZaReason apart from its competition is that they offer a variety of distros on their hardware. Other Linux hardware providers will give you any distro you want, as long as it's Ubuntu. ZaReason has your back on the distro front, though, offering the *buntu family as well as Debian, Fedora, and Linux Mint (not to mention "no operating system," if that's you're pleasure).
So it comes as no surprise that when ZaReason sent me the Limbo 5440 to put through its paces, they knew of my reputation as a Fedora guy. Since this reputation precedes me (for better or worse), I was given the latest Fedora 16 "Desktop" — for those of you scoring at home, "Desktop" in Fedora parlance means GNOME 3, the default desktop for Fedora (why they just don't call it "Fedora 16 GNOME" is one of those mysteries, like how gravity works or like the end of "2001: A Space Odyssey"). Fedora 16, code name Verne, is the latest and greatest of Fedora's semi-annual releases. Native to Fedora releases since Fedora 15 is the somewhat controversial GNOME 3 desktop environment which, of course, is currently running on this machine.
Now, those of you outside my family who regularly read this blog know that I've had some — how can I put this tactfully? — problems with GNOME 3, most notably not being able to run it on my hardware. GNOME's fallback mode made for an inadequate "consolation prize" too, so I switched to Xfce with Fedora 16 on a laptop I regularly use. So this is the first chance I've had to actually put GNOME 3 to the test.
If you'll pass the salt, I'll just eat some crow here before I continue. Now that I've used it, I was wrong about GNOME 3 being a spawn of the Prince of Darkness. With the GNOME Shell Extensions under the GNOME 3.2 desktop, the desktop environment hums along and works a lot like the GNOME 2.x that I missed dearly in the last Fedora release. In fact, for those of you who, like me, did not like what GNOME 3 had to offer, this setup — with the extensions — brings together the best of both worlds: The improvements (yes, there are many) of GNOME 3 with the functionality that we're used to in GNOME 2.6. The desktop's tweakability, which many felt was lacking in the later GNOME,
Note to developers: Four desktops. How hard is it to make that a default, as it's been in days past?
This is not to say I'm going back to GNOME — on the laptop, I'm going to keep Xfce because I have to — but GNOME 3 with the GNOME Shell Extensions is much better than the pitchfork- and torch-bearing naysayers lead on, and I'll go out on a limb and say it's a pretty remarkable desktop environment. Also, in comparison to the default desktop environment on Ubuntu — I dare not speak its name, lest I fly into a homicidal rage — GNOME 3 is head and shoulders above it and, by comparison, is heavenly.
Meanwhile, back at the hardware, putting Fedora 16 — installations, updates, etc. — through its paces on the ZaReason hardware went without a hitch. GIMP flies on the hardware, as does much of the LibreOffice suite — two things I used specifically today because my SCALE presentation needed tweaking. One comment that I hope will echo throughout this series with the use of other distros on this machine (you knew that was coming) is that the Limbo 5440 will handle all that's thrown at it with agility, ease and grace. I can't say that for some of the other hardware I've owned, and at the risk of being redundant, it's a breath of fresh air to have a machine that does what I ask without breaking a sweat.
Coming tomorrow: A Week in Limbo, Day 3: Shifting gears
"A Week in Limbo Series" (for those of you keeping track)
A Week in Limbo, Day 0
A Week in Limbo, Day 1: Under the hood
A Week in Limbo, Day 2: Fedora 16
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started testing and developing software in his new home office, which is the development side of Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, United States.)


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After seeing this recipe for White Bean Burgers I altered it to my taste buds (as in more veggies and extra spices) to create a White Bean & Feta Burger with home made taziki + Grilled Cougette. On the side, Baked Sweet Potato Fries with Honey Lime dipping sauce!
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Los Angeles Angels vs Chicago White Sox 2012 MLB Point Spreads
The Los Angeles Angels and Chicago White Sox will square off in a game three rubber match this afternoon at U.S. Cellular Field. The series finale between the two American League squads is scheduled to get underway at 2:10pm ET; the game will be broadcast live on TBS. MLB Point Spreads at offshore bookmaker SBG Global have the hosting White Sox listed as a slight -108 moneyline favorite. Today's game total is set at 10 runs; the Under is favored at -115 odds.
The Angels snapped a three game skid and gave themselves an opportunity to steal their series with the White Sox by scoring a 6-5 extra innings win last night. Los Angeles got what has become a rare quality start from veteran hurler Ervin Santana, who gave up just five hits and two earned runs over six innings, while its offense tagged Chicago's Gavin Floyd for eight hits and five earned runs over 6 1/3 innings. Albert Pujols and Howie Kendrick starred in the win as they combined for four hits and four RBI in the one run victory.
Dan Haren will hope for the same sort of offensive support this afternoon as he makes his 20th start of the season. Haren has had an up and down campaign thus far, compiling an 8-8 record and 4.59 ERA; however, his last two appearances were both impressive. The 31 year old right hander allowed just eight hits and three earned runs over 12 innings in wins against the Rangers and Rays.
Haren, who is 1-1 with a 4.18 ERA in four career appearances against the White Sox, owns a 5.25 ERA and .300 batting average against in his eight road starts this season.
The White Sox, who saw their AL Central lead over the Tigers slip to 1.5 games with last night's loss, will counter Haren with the recently acquired Francisco Liriano. Liriano, while still pitching for the Twins, got blasted for seven hits and seven earned runs by the White Sox on July 23rd, but he led Chicago to victory on the 31st, holding Minnesota to four hits and two earned runs over six innings in a 4-3 win.
Liriano, as evidenced by his 3-10 record and 5.18 ERA, has endured his share of rough outings this season, and, unfortunately for Sox fans, a number of those have come in daytime starts. The 28 year old southpaw is 1-2 with a 5.86 ERA in six day appearances this year. Liriano has also experienced little success against the Angels, piecing together a 1-4 record to go along with a lofty 7.44 ERA in seven outings opposite Los Angeles.
MLB Point Spreads Betting Trend: The Over is 10-0 in the White Sox last 10 games as a home favorite with a moneyline spread between 100 and 120 (Chicago went 2-8 in those same 10 games).
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Los Angeles Angels vs Chicago White Sox 2012 MLB Point Spreads: SBG Global
Los Angeles Angels +1.5 (-210), Over 10 (-105), -102 (Moneyline)
Chicago White Sox -1.5 (+175), Under 10 (-115), -108 (Moneyline)


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A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor
Fram! Fram!
This week on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, while our crew readjusts to Central Time and prepares for our season opener, one final summer repeat — a show originally from November 2011 at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. The St. Olaf Orchestra and St. Olaf Choir team up for "Fields of Gold," Garrison and Philip Brunelle highlight a few lesser-known Choir pianists, and Heather Masse sings "A Distant Melody." In Lake Wobegon, exiles return home for Thanksgiving.
- Is available as a free podcast. Download the MP3 file here.
Audio available Sundays at noon.
Segment 1
- 00:00:00 APM Logo
- 00:00:12 Tishomingo Blues (studio open)
- 00:00:56 G.K. Intro V.O.
- 00:01:44 Varen Monologue - GK, St. Olaf Orchestra and St. Olaf Choir
- 00:04:10 Tishomingo Blues - GK, RD, PD, St. Olaf Orchestra and St. Olaf Choir
- 00:08:08 Norge, mitt Norge - St. Olaf Choir
- 00:10:20 The Turtle Dove - St. Olaf Orchestra
- 00:12:47 Catchup Script
- 00:16:51 I'm a Lutheran - GK, Heather Masse, Richard Dworsky and Pat Donohue
- 00:20:34 G.K. Sustainability talk
- 00:21:59 How Can I Keep From Singing? - H.M., G.K., St. Olaf Orchestra, R.D., P.D.
- 00:26:08 St. Olaf Choir Monologue - G.K. and Philip Brunelle
- 00:32:53 Powdermilk Biscuit Break - G.K., Richard Dworsky and Pat Donohue
Segment 2
- 00:34:23 G.K. intros St. Olaf Choir
- 00:36:58 Psalm 50, mvt. III - St. Olaf Choir
- 00:39:59 Children of the Heavenly Father - St. Olaf Choir and live audience
- 00:42:24 Guy Noir Script
- 00:57:33 Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5, mvt. II - St. Olaf Orchestra (G.K. intros)
- 01:03:15 Exactly Like You - Intermission
Segment 3
- 01:06:05 WELCOME BACK - G.K. Greetings
- 01:08:41 It Is So Beautiful - G.K. and Richard Dworsky
- 01:12:45 Fields of Gold - St. Olaf Choir and St. Olaf Orchestra with RD/Pat Donohue
- 01:17:16 In the Gloaming - G.K., Heather Masse and Pat Donohue
- 01:19:39 Beautiful Savior - St. Olaf Choir
- 01:24:02 When Love Is Lost - G.K., St. Olaf Orchestra, R.D., P.D.
- 01:28:29 A Distant Melody - Heather Masse with Richard Dworsky, Pat D.
Segment 4
- 01:31:50 News From Lake Wobegon
Segment 5
- 01:40:18 Ripple - G.K., Heather Masse, St. Olaf Orchestra, R.D. / P.D.
- 01:44:33 Rhubarb Script
- 01:49:30 Mambo - St. Olaf Orchestra
- 01:52:03 G.K. Credits
- 01:55:31 My Minnesota Home - G.K., St. Olaf Choir, St. Olaf Orchestra, R.D. / P.D.
- 01:58:32 G.K. Outro V.O.
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Old Sweet Songs: A Prairie Home Companion 1974-1976
Lovingly selected from the earliest archives of A Prairie Home Companion, this heirloom collection represents the music from earliest years of the now legendary show: 1974–1976. With songs and tunes from jazz pianist Butch Thompson, mandolin maestro Peter Ostroushko, Dakota Dave Hull and the first house band, The Powdermilk Biscuit Band (Adam Granger, Bob Douglas and Mary DuShane).


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Ninth American Renaissance Conference (2010)
Defending the West
February 19–21, 2010, Herndon, Virginia, near Dulles International Airport
Ours is an era of fear and self-censorship. Virtually no whites anywhere are willing to break taboos about racial differences in IQ, the costs of "diversity," or the challenges of non-white immigration.
We are different. We believe these are vital questions.
At this conference you will hear some of the most courageous academics, journalists, and political figures of our time discuss the forces that will determine our future. This will be a remarkable group of speakers and guests — undeceived, outspoken, and committed to the defense of Western Civilization.
Please join us for what is sure to be an extraordinary weekend. Register today on-line for the 9th biennial American Renaissance Conference, to be held February 19 through February 21 in Herndon, Virginia (near Washington, D.C.).
Speakers and Topics
Nick Griffin — "Victory Against All Odds." Mr. Griffin is chairman of the British National Party. In June 2009 he stunned the political establishment by winning a seat in the European Parliament, representing North West England. He is widely recognized as one of Britain's most colorful and dynamic young politicians.
Dan Roodt — "The White Man's Burden: How the Colonial Mentality Brought Down European Civilization." Mr. Roodt is a prominent Afrikaner novelist and commentator, and one of the leaders of the Pro-Afrikaans Action Group (PRAAG). His essay, "Afrikaner Survival Under Black Rule," appeared in the May and June 2004 issues of American Renaissance.
Craig Bodeker — "A Conversation About Race: a One-Year Retrospective." Mr. Bodeker is a filmmaker, whose A Conversation About Race has created a sensation among both race realists and the general public. A review of the film appeared in the February 2009 issue of American Renaissance.
Raymond Wolters — "Closing the Gaps: Education Reform Since the 1950s." Dr. Wolters is Thomas Muncy Keith Professor of History at the University of Delaware. No fewer than four of his books have been enthusiastically reviewed in American Renaissance.
Jared Taylor — "What is at Stake for Our People?" Mr. Taylor is editor of American Renaissance. He is the author of Paved With Good Intentions, and the primary contributor to the collection, A Race Against Time.
Hugh Kennedy — "No More 'Freedom for the Thought We Hate:' How Censorship Could Come to the US." Mr. Kennedy is an attorney with a background in regulation of speech on the Internet. He will explain how "hate speech" attacks on the First Amendment could succeed and how to fight them.
Wayne Lutton — "The Real Case Against Immigration." Dr. Lutton is editor of The Social Contract. He will distill the best of more than 25 years of writing about immigration control.
Sam G. Dickson, Esq. — "Knowing Who You Are." Mr. Dickson is an attorney and long-time racial advocate. He will be addressing his ninth AR conference.
David A. Yeagley — "A Comanche View of White America." Dr. Yeagley, the great-great-grandson of Comanche leader Bad Eagle, calls himself "the sole voice of conservatism among Indian Intellectuals." His writing can be found at BadEagle.com.
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The conference will begin on Friday, Feb. 19, 2010, with registration from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. The American Renaissance staff will give opening remarks followed by a reception. Latecomer registration is at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 20, and the program will begin promptly at 9:00 a.m.
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A jail inmate planned to copy his gangster hero by breaking out of prison – armed only with soap.
Inspired by 1930s US outlaw John Dillinger, he got his hands on several bars and moulded them to look like a real gun.
But unlike the legendary bank robber, who used his fake weapon to make a clean getaway, the inmate at Bedford prison is still inside.
Instead of using the "gun" he handed it in – and was punished by being put on report and moved to a special unit of the jail.
A source said: "The soap gun had been lovingly crafted and was the right shape and size.
"Painted black, it would have been impossible to distinguish from a proper pistol.
"The fear is it would have been used to take a prison officer hostage to aid an escape.
"It is believed the inmate panicked and decided to give up the weapon."
The incident is being investigated and has been reported to the police.
An official document says: "A prisoner handed over a lifelike replica gun made of soap to staff. The item was confiscated and the prisoner put in the Care and Separation unit."
Dillinger was involved in several violent prison breaks. His most famous was in 1934 when used a fake wooden gun painted black to force his way out of Lake County Jail, Indiana, stole the sheriff's car and fled.
A Prison Service spokesman said: "A fake weapon was handed to officers earlier this year at HMP Bristol - it had not been used, and no prisoners had been injured.
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This report profiles the British Jewish population in the London metropolis. The report finds that school and care for the elderly and infirm are the main issues affecting the future of the Jewish voluntary sector and both are closely related to where Jews live. The study also identifies Jews in London as being high on the socio-economic scale. The study specifically notes that Londonâ??s relatively affluent Jews have the time and disposable income to participate in a variety of leisure pursuits. The study also finds that most British Jews were found to have donated money to charity in small amounts.
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Lil Wayne Assistant Tells Judge Of Rapper's Pot Usage
Lil Wayne has been snapped in multiple pictures with his omnipresent Styrofoam cup, the ingredients, of course, include a mixture of codeine.
But on Monday in New York, the rapper's assistant put his boss's pot usage on blast in a court room. According to TMZ, the hearing was in regards to a weapons case. Wayne was busted last year after his performance at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan. (Ja Rule was also arrested on separate charges the same night after appearing on stage with Wayne.)
The Cash Money star's assistant, Terry Bourgeois, explained to the judge that marijuana is "something we always have" on Lil Wayne's tour bus. He went on to reveal the rapper only smokes "dro" and then explained what the name is short for, ie "hydroponically grown" pot. Weezy, all the while, sat with his head in his hands as his assistant dished the news, TMZ reports.
Bourgeois, however, testified she did not see Wayne with a gun on the night in question. According to the Associated Press, Weezy's legal rep Stacey Richman wants the case dismissed. Richman claims police falsely stated they smelled marijuana in order to board the bus with just cause.
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With the so-called 'fiscal cliff' looming, where innocent kittens will drown and the Zombie Apocalypse will begin, our politicians are not actually negotiating. The ubiquitous word 'no' is resounding in our ears as we face the edge of the cliff. Soul searching Republicans are unwavering to raising taxes on high-earners, but in a recent poll even 61 percent of Republicans surveyed said they would accept raising taxes on the wealthy to avoid going over the cliff.
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A Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll released late on Wednesday …held the potential to shake up the stalemate. Three-quarters of those surveyed, including 61 percent of Republicans, said they would accept raising taxes on the wealthy to avoid the so-called cliff, as Democratic President Barack Obama is demanding.
"With Republicans in Congress already divided, that rejection by their own supporters of the core demand of Republican House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner could further weaken his position.
"Both sides refused to give any ground in public, one day after what Boehner described as a "frank" conversation with President Barack Obama about the remaining hurdles to a deal."
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The people have spoken not only in polling time and time again but also in the reelection of President Barack Obama.
The juvenility in Congress must end. And we can be more juvenile than they are if pushed to the brink, after all, we do not work for them. They work for us. What better way to solve two problems at once, then to hold a Congressional monkey knife fight on the edge of a real cliff? Our dysfunctional Congress would be 'taken care of' and so would our economy. It's a two-for-one special. And it would be far more entertaining.
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It is difficult to be in two places at the same time, but somehow I manage. I go and run and do, then some. While beating up language poets at the AWP (actually, I was gesticulating to them about syntax and extolling the virtues of Arno Schmidt), I was talking to David the High Desert transmission specialist about getting my 1995 Chevy Lumina seaworthy again. Lately, I have redoubled my efforts to make myself omnipresent. There are witnesses who swear that I zoomed past them in the Conference Center corridors. How could they possibly miss my Cherokee-tinged darkness, my dreads like tangled fiber cables, my towering hips? Another spotted me as I sat silently smiling, taking notes as I listened to the hissies on various urgent issues confronting contemporary poets. That was me exchanging contact information and passing out business cards near the reception desk, while I sat at the monitor preparing my latest blog entry. As I descended to the mattress, I registered on the Richter Scale. There was even that delicious one who offered me a drink which I refused, excusing myself as being on medications as I flashed my wedding ring—all the while I was preparing ratatouille over a hot stove. This is a tremendous power—this ability to be present yet absent at the same time, reappearing and disappearing at the mere mention of my name. It makes me feel almost Godlike, immensely fierce. If only I could package it and sell it.
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Arsène Wenger has dropped a heavy hint that Carlos Vela will spearhead Arsenal's Champions League attack this evening.
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I couldn't have said it any better myself!!Originally Posted by AirForceShooter
This is a discussion on Prepare to use what you have within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Late to the thread but some excellent points raised and covered. Threat identification and its level is paramount but mindset will determine what follows....
Late to the thread but some excellent points raised and covered.
Threat identification and its level is paramount but mindset will determine what follows.
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I couldn't have said it any better myself!!Originally Posted by AirForceShooter
I think can agree somewhat with the sentiment, but not completely ...I can't say that I would have shot in that instance...as others have point out in other threads, my firearm is there to protect myself, my wife, and my son...everyone else comes in (very distantly) after them...my number one priority would be to grab my son and get out of there...if I had to put down a threat on the way out then so be it but if the gunman was not between myself and an exit (and wasnt aiming a gun in my direction) then I would make sure my family was getting to safety...but this all depends on the circumstances too...depending on how many people were in the mall, where the people were located in relation to the shooter, whether or not I was alone, etc, etc, etc. I think it's too easy for to say with 100% certainty what one would or would not do in a situation as extreme as that one and I think there are too many factors that contribute to a shoot/no shoot decision. Sure good training helps, as does being prepared mentally, but I think theres just more to it than that. All in all I just dont know that we can fault someone after the fact for not shooting without knowing all of the facts.Originally Posted by AirForceShooter
As an aside, I am aware that a lot of facts came out about one of the people that was armed (and was wounded) and he stated his reasons for not pulling the trigger in a media report. Cant say that I agree with his decision but I respect that it was his decision not to shoot even if his decision could have saved himself from being shot.
Ya know, when I first started reading the original post here, I was thinking about what I might have done. First of all, I just don't do malls but that isn't the issue. (It could be anywhere.) If I am at the mall I am probably out with my wife on some errand. My first thought would be for her protection, getting her to a safe place while keeping tabs on the BG's location and actions. Part of that protection would be to pull my gun and be prepared to fire while getting her to safety. I just can't (personally) comprehend pulling your gun in a situation like that and then re-holstering.
Now what I am thinking about the whole time is this; how many guys like me (or you) are also there at the mall, and maybe have not yet located the BG in all the confusion. If I am standing there holding a pistol, will one of you highly trained instinct driven people shoot me, mistaking me for the real BG?
As I think this I will probably not be drawing a lot of attention to myself, and if I do take a shot, it will be from a more defensive place (like from behind one of those concrete planters.) This is the hunter in me talking, and reacting more from my hunting training than anything else. Stay concealed, don't let the "target" spot you. You get the idea.
I'm hoping your tactical training will prevent you mistaking me for the BG. And my hunting training will keep me from shooting one of you, if I at first mistake you for the BG.
Know what I mean?
Reading this, I really want to get some proper tactical training as you have spoken of here. Until then, I gotta think about what my instincts might lead me to do in a situation like this.
Anyway, it's a great conversation.
Its so much easier now days, to "Love and honor" my wife, when she is armed, and shoots a better group than I do. (Till death do us part, eh?)
The way you get shot by a concealed weapons permit holder is, you point a gun at him, the Sheriff said.
Maybe we should look at this using the OODA loop:
Observe: Here's where we figure out who the heck is shooting at us, who's running, and who's taking active defensive action. If you get shot then it's by someone who has not properly observed. But, friendly fire happens with some of the best trained men on earth. Why would it be any different here?
Orient: Get in a position to shoot.
Decide: This is where it gets dicey. I can't imagine deciding to reholster in the face of danger, but hey, that's me.
Act: This is where you go to autopilot, letting your body move while your brain works as the disinterested observer.
As for your concern however, reference that tower shooting in Texas years back. Texans returned fire but I've not been able to find a source stating that any were harmed by friendly fire, only by the sniper's bullets.
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Some people step aside...others step up.
"Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it."
I have read this thread with great interest and see some real thought going into the replys. My question about the whole sequence is why did the people draw? Were they close enough to observe the BG and develop an immediate understanding of the situation? If not why was the gun out of the holster? Are these people so poorly disciplined as to draw a firearm at he sound of what in reality might be a TV program, a car backfire, a gas main, a piece of fireworks, a negligent discharge by a policeman, or someone in a sporting goods store looking at a rifle that was supposed to be unloaded? Being prepared to draw is one thing, but actually pulling out a firearm is something else. What you don't know can hurt you. I realize that you have only seconds to make a decision, but as mentioned earlier there are several steps in the OODA loop. If in this case one is not close enough to take action immediately the weapon should stay concealed until you reach the D. When you have observed-determined what the threat is and where and oriented-gotten into position the firearm should be out and ready. If you haven't determined that there is a threat you should not have the firearm in your hand.
Again I know this sounds unrealistic, but we as concealed carriers cannot be drawing at every situation that might or might not be a threat. We hear what might be a shot, we pull a handgun, only to get charged with brandishing because the "shot" was not a threat. For all we know it could have been a SWAT sniper taking out a BG in a hostage siutation outside the branch bank at the other end of the Mall. Part of the responsibility we bear as permit holders is to act responsibly with our firearms.
Off the soap box now.
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Well. It seems it is pretty easy to come up with reasons not to shoot. And this time, we are not talking about a "what if" scenario, but a real event, where innocent people really died, and two people could have made a difference, but failed to act.
I'm not sure exactly what to make of all this.
For now, I'll keep my thoughts to myself until I've had some time to organize them. But in general, all I can say is that I was very glad to read AirForceShooter's post. And now I'm going to spend some time thinking of some nicer ways to say what I'm thinking.
Political Correctness has now "evolved" into Political Cowardice.
While it's true that the actual act of pulling and firing, no matter how much you've trained for it, is fundamentally profound in its implications, if there is a crazy man that needs to be stopped and you're in a position to do something, you are at least morally obligated to try.
Restraining from doing something necessary just because it's dangerous is the doman of children.
However I can see many ways that these guys might not have had a shot, or a way to manuever themselves into a shot. You also have to accept that you're only human and sometimes you might not be able to do anything.
But if Roland could do it... :D
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I think deciding to get involved in third party scenarios is a very personal decision. We've already had our thread on getting involved: "me and mine" only, "I will not stand idly by" and "it depends on the situation."
I also think that when you take that big step and choose to carry, you should have the mindset to be able and willing to use your handgun - otherwise that gun is just a useless piece of metal on you. Two men drew on the shooter. The first gave no explanation, so the reasons could have been anything from not having a clear, safe shot to having the same reason as the second guy, who didn't shoot because he didn't know if he could take a life. They have to live with their decisions for the rest of their lives. They chose not to be involved in a third-party scenario. That scenario could very well have been a first party situation had the shooter turned his sights on them. And if the second permitholder still chose not to shoot because he didn't know if he could take a life, he'd be dead or wounded, because the shooter didn't have to wrestle with his conscience.
If I had a clear shot - and this is easy to say while I'm sitting comfortably at my desk - I would not have allowed innocent men, women and children get murdered by that madman. I don't like idly standing by when I have the means and ability to do something about it.
As I get older, my feelings on how directly and deeply I would get involved may change. Now that I'm married, I don't make decisions solely for me - everything I do effects my husband. Starting to think about having a family may change my feelings even more.
"Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power." - Yoshimi Ishikawa
I agree w/ Betty and others. It is a personal decision to engage someone to defend a 3 persons life. taking on a BG who has a rifle is a risky move, especially with only a pistol.
I think each one of us doesn't know what we will do in a situation ,until we are there. training and mindset go long way toward positive defensive reaction. I have experienced this in hand to hand encounters. Gien the time to assess and formulate a plan in some ways can and will cause hesitation. Hearing shots, I would most likely draw my gun as well. Taking on a rifle holding BG? Not unless I had a strong advantage over em.
Hind sight is nice and examining fights is an excellent way to think what if? and plan in case. But do not judge others actions too harshly, as we were not there.
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." Thomas Jefferson
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The last few post have taken some of the pressure off me to produce a rather long rant filled with my efforts to tone myself down, so as not to cast aside that which I happen to love about this Forum.
Translation: I was too ticked off to have made any sense.
In any event, I guess I'll fall back on the thread Betty referred to. In that one, many gave their opinions on intervention and even those who usually maintain they would "never intervene" qualified their positions by saying there was room for exceptions, generally based on circumstance. This I understand and accept with no problem.
I'm going to assume those opinions are still valid.
If there are those who would stand down and let innocent people die when they have the means and opportunity to save them, well, frankly I do not want to know about it.
If you are of the opinion that the fear of a lawsuit justifies doing nothing, I do respect your right to have and express that opinion. But I am under no obligation to respect that opinion and I most certainly do not. You have been conquered, without even a fight.
Seems I did go on a bit of a rant after all. Well, it least it was a short one. . .
Political Correctness has now "evolved" into Political Cowardice.
That was a rant???
You took your Meds didn't you?
Gun control is hitting what you aim at
Man, you should have seen the first version!
If the mods didn't ban me for it, I probably would have banned myself. I do have rather strong feelings on some things, and when I do, I have a hard time containing myself.
That's why quite happily, I'm not in charge of anything, anywhere!
Besides, I have to remember that I'm "talking" here with people I like. As I have said before, we don't all walk in lock-step, but we do all walk together.
Political Correctness has now "evolved" into Political Cowardice.


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This is why I'm glad I live in Maine. I'm not saying it can't happen in the little city I live in but the chances of it happening are very slim. Public transportation stops running at a certain hour where I live so getting a very large group of people together would take a lot of transportation or they would all have to walk downtown and that large of a group would get noticed very quickly before they ever reached downtown.
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a place for zinesters - writers and readers
ZineWiki is an open-source encyclopedia devoted to zines and independent media. It covers the history, production, distribution and culture of the small press. ZineWiki is the largest resource on the Web related to zines, but it still needs your help!
Is there an article on your zine on ZineWiki?
Does it feature it's cover?
Do your favorite zines of all time have an article on them?
Or is there…
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