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Well, I just finished my 4th batch of 1k rounds (.40 S&W). As usual, before I get started on reloading what I have, I double check the published reload data, do a little online searching for info, go over my notes from the last batch, and spend an hour or so verifying everything on my progressive press like primer seat, powder charge, COL, and crimp.
This round I found some info on reloading my .40 about what powder (burn rate) is best. The first & second time I went economical (lowest charge) to stretch my powder out, the third time I used what I could get (during the component shortage crisis - #5 IIRC), and this last time I went cheap again since it seemed to work.
The article I found stated that a slower burn powder requiring a bit more of a charge is better (wish I had found that before I bought my powder).
This and the last batch were Accurate #2 @ 5.28gr, Wolf Primers, Precision Delta FMJ RN 180gr bullets, 1.135 COL. No chrono so I have no idea what velocity I am getting. Planning on buying one in the next few months.
I have been having accuracy issues that I thought were me (lack of sufficient range time) but may actually be my reloads.
I know I know how to be accurate (been able to keep 8" group @ 100m bench shooting, and 6" @ 30yd freestyle), and I know my gun is accurate. These were using my reloads but not sure of the powder at the time. Might have been #2 or #5
At what point/distance does the powder charge & burn rate start to significantly impact handgun accuracy?
If you are reloading .40 with FMJ 180gr in an effort to match your SD carry rounds as far as felt recoil, I would really love to hear your recipe. I know a lot of people load cheap and light but carry hot and heavy (READ - practice and compete using low gr. bullets/loads, carry high gr. SD rounds)
NOTE- The bolded items are the answers I am seeking, the rest is my usual dribble that I spew when posting.

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Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/02/making_it_in_city_tech/
A short, sharp tool kit to get you to the top in financial IT
Battling the
bullshit artists biz analysts with a Black Swan
Posted in Business, 2nd July 2013 13:02 GMT
Congratulations, you've started moving up the food chain. But there is still a long way to go. Having been an occasionally competent head of IT at a midsize City firm after working my way up, I'd like to share with you things I should have known then. These are the lessons I've learned at some cost to both my employers and myself as well as things senior IT leaders tell me in the pub. A chunk of this applies to IT management wherever you work.
Go away
Get yourself off the critical path. Do it now. Hello? Why are you still reading this? Go away and make sure no time-critical task is on your shoulders and come back here when this is done. The first and most stupid mistake I made when I first started bossing people around was to think that I could do my tech work and manage others at the same time.
Like me you may have been promoted because you could do the job well, but you will get torn apart trying both to do and to manage the do-ers and it will look awful to those above and below. It also means you get seen as favouring the people who share your skill-set and even though your superior ability actually means you are harder on them because you know the tricks, that's not how it seems when you make technical or personnel decisions.
By all means be the wise old bird (yes I know you're 28, "old" is relative) who has argued C++ closures with Bjarne and risk with Wilmott and has written scads of mission-critical code. But remember you are now the tactical reserve when fans are hit, not the turbocharged engine of progress you once were.
Your technical skills are there to give you credibility with your team and the business and although you can do some programing to keep them in the working set, know now that the LRU cache in your brain will flush arcane tech out as surely as the "plot" of So Long and Thanks For All the Fish, which leads nicely to your new reading list.
Among the decision-makers you must now please Nassim Taleb is a prophet. To be sure a good number want to stone him for his blasphemy - and feel free to join that evangelical horde - but the key is not whether or not you agree with him, because no one really cares about your views on skewness, fat tails etc.
The key here is to build your credibility as someone who "gets it" and that means talking within the same culture as the key decision-makers, so even if his Dynamic Hedging is beyond your maths, you need to read Fooled by Randomness, the Black Swan and especially Antifragility. The latter, since he sent me a draft for review, has formed a major component of the way I express my career counselling for bankers.
That's partly because for me - as for you - credibility is the thing that pays my children's the school fees these days. If you persist in talking like a code monkey, AVP is the sticky boundary of your random walk up the food chain. To keep yourself looking credible, you need to keep an eye on market news via Bloomberg and Reuters just to stay inside the conversation.
Business analysts
That doesn't mean you should start talking like a BA. There's a reason there are more former OS/2 developers in senior IT management than ex-BAs: it's that some business managers regard biz analysts as a "fucking waste of space" whose ignorance of IT is matched only by their pompous conceit that they have a clue about the business.
Others aren't nearly so kind and in many large banks they serve as a sort of PR for the IT department - and the business guys aren't impressed with their bonuses being reduced to pay for people to bullshit them. Although, I really do hope by now that in no way is it news that traders regard everything that they can't see as parasitical impediments to their personal wealth creation.
One of the great myths is that hardcore techies aren't interested in how their firms make money. This is fuelled by BAs and insecure management types who want to be the only information conduit for their group. In my experience almost all IT pros are deeply interested in the commercial reasons for what they are doing and often come up with ideas for making more money.
OK these ideas aren't always good and I've been in enough conversations floating ideas whose implementation would actually lead to jail time to know that they can't always be used, but it shows a clear motivation. This gives you a key to motivating your team, that you control rather more than their bonus.
When you catch one of your team doing something right, or at least trying hard, or (and most importantly) making you look good, you can reward them with better work.
Carrots and er, carrots
Of course what constitutes "better" is highly subjective and not even constant, which means that upon getting a team, you need to ask what they want to learn, what they enjoy and what they hate. Do not promise anything at this stage, but be clear that the information flows both ways. since the message they must get is that successful delivery is rewarded by assignments where they can get into a tech skill they desire or a business area they see as useful.
This game has a third gripping hand, since you have to manage the politics of assigning a less-than-ideal person to a project, while keeping the business manager happy. You sell this as "Joe has done a good job in delivering that CVA module and I'd like him to understand what you guys need". This simple sentence all by itself sums what I'm saying in this article. First and foremost, you are being honest. When the Reg's glorious leadership assigned me this article to write, they explicitly expected back-stabbing, politicking and financial nihilism in a cross between The Borgias and The Apprentice. Sorry.
Any good book or course on leadership has "integrity" as a key virtue, being trusted and trustworthy. I'm not so naïve as to say you should never lie, because I see integrity as a capital asset. But to have value, your lies must be surprises rather than what people expect of you. [This certainly surprises me - Ed.]
BAs are a symptom of the quaint way that tech in banks is managed in a silo that is separate and by design as impenetrable as an actual hardened missile silo. Unlike other types of business or even hedge funds, the large investment banks experience sluggish response and political blocking that would shock someone from a modern business. Not only can you not do anything about this as a junior manager, but any attempt to change this is fraught with peril.
Be clear that the head of IT at a major bank is there because he is world class at internal politics and no other reason at all. Taking a poke at him is like throwing a punch at a professional boxer: your only hope of survival is that it is beneath his dignity to swat you like a bug. That counsel of despair does have some loopholes if you create some tactical reserve, people in your team who can respond quickly to minor requests from users, which makes you friends, scores you points and as a side-effect makes the IT at your firm less of a liability.
Praising God
'All the deliverables you could want, by delivered by a team
that delivers. Quote me on that.'
Praise everyone except God, Lady Luck, or yourself. By saying one of your team delivered the goods, you make yourself look good for driving that team. Word then gets back to them that they are valued and more good people will want to join your gang. Saying in one week that five different members of your job did well makes you look good. Saying it about yourself make you an arse.
Business correctness
Hopefully you've noticed I've used the word "delivered" far more often than good writing style might dictate. OK, I'm no Terry Pratchett, but I am making a point here. You need to reprogram your speech for the business buzzwords that currently prevail in your firm and in 2013 "delivery" is the big word. When you warn of potential issues, use faux-Taleb language like "tail risk", "black swan" and an important synonym for "flexibility" is that you are "buying options", referring to a direction change as "swapping fixed for floating" is the ideal here. Try harder to use and abuse finance terms to express tech ideas. They get the message across better and make you look good.
This is both important and insufficient. What I can't tell you is the local business correctness at your bank or hedge fund. At one firm I worked at the BC was "we are a Tier one Bank". This was hilariously false to me until I discovered I could win arguments simply by saying "as a T1, we should…" which left my opposition faced with the equivalent of a BBC reporter being sceptical of global warming. At your firm at this time, the BC may be "reducing costs", "expansion", "China" or "making sure the regulators don't find out", but a gentle seasoning of your speech with BC will help your cause at least as much as actually doing anything useful.
Visible productivity
One of the biggest threats to your empire building is too much of IT is invisible, with the worst case being to prevent some problem which consumes money without delivering anything (that word again). MS Project makes this worse by helping you structure projects based upon dependencies, resources, costs etc, whereas your advancement is achieved by orienting your work by observables, not functionality.
Following my doctrine of open-handed integrity, share this with your users. Don't say "using the Azul JVM will kill the jitter in the CVA valuation engine", but "you'll see the valuation adjustment in real time". Yes I know you can't do real time in Java, but part of your role is to use words in the way that users understand.
Risk and compliance
Part of the new political reality at banks is that risk and compliance are now taken a bit more seriously. You should be angling to pick up more of the risk projects because for the next few years that is where much of the growth in headcount and budget is going to come from, even though we both know that being part of the process that makes money is always going to be a better place to be than if you are stopping a bigger sum from being lost through poor risk management. For the avoidance of doubt, sticking the word "risk" on proposals and deliverables as much as possible won't hurt, the idea of course being a project funded as part of risk but wanted by the front office.
As you can read in "How City IT is under attack from politicians, diesel bugs, HR", compliance is feared more these days, but it will never be loved. The less you get involved with them, the better. The tech reasons are the most obvious, since the monitoring and analysis experience you and your team will get aren't highly portable. Also, you will find that you have mastered tools and techniques that are used in few other places and are "one-off", the worst sort of skill to have.
Today there is work running these projects because all the banks and HFs are upgrading, but it will stop dead when they've got them going and then just require care and maintenance. You will then find yourself in a glut and that you will "have your expectations reset" on projects that follow on from this. Although I push integrity hard here as good for you, don't expect it when being offered a "great opportunity to run a strategic project" of any kind - unless you have some visibility on what you will do next. A low-level manager whose reputation is managing something the bank doesn't want is a dead man walking.
It may feel cool to be on the inside of some compliance issue and I really enjoy my expert witness work when tech and law clash. But I have the luxury that I walk away when it is over with a gentle but firm reminder from corporate counsel that I'm not even allowed to say that I have a non-disclosure agreement with that bank. I'm no longer there to remind anyone that I know their dirty secrets, nor do I really care all that much about which particular individuals get wounded. The people who lose their jobs are not your problem, but those you hurt either by choice or by the side you find yourself on will remember. Like HR, the job of compliance is to protect the senior staff and the firm in that order, not you.
Don't trust vendors
When you were a junior cog you typically only got to choose between suppliers chosen by others and your spend was pitiful, but you're now increasingly playing for big money when you start to make major decisions. Do not think for a femtosecond that a vendor who loses out will take it on the chin; if it is a strategic vendor with its claws deep into your firm expect them to go over your head and they're playing to win.
You need to have prepared your position both financially and politically. So when Oracle wanted a truly outrageous amount of money in my biggest project and tried going over my head big-time, I was able to point out to the CEO (did I say they were hard?) that despite their view that I was going to destroy the bank with my "reckless" choice of Sybase, this was saving a big pile of money. A more senior manager who hadn't hardened his position against Oracle left the bank shortly after under a bit of a cloud after he tried standing up to their pressure but then buckled. Changing your bank's database is the corporate equivalent of an organ transplant. Keeping them sweet is often more important to the firm than some junior IT manager.
When the fan is hit
Your role in a clusterfuck has changed and there are two sorts of managers: victims and bounders. If you've got to top level management, you will have seen the dark side of IT, be not easily surprised and crave two things: a clear upper bound on how bad it can get then a plausible plan to move out of the shit.
Do not waste time blaming people. Perfection in this political arena is letting others blame each other for a while then grasp the nettle when all about you are losing their heads. Say "I don't care whose fault it is, the way out is by X", repeated quietly but firmly, where X has been supplied by the people whose job it is to make you look good. No, not business analysts. Your team must understand that their success and even survival in these tough times for banks is to make you look good so that you can get stuff for them.
One way I established this with my own gangs has been as a lightning rod, when traders or other self-important types start having a go them when they're trying to deal with something that has gone titsup. It is absolutely necessary for you to defend your people when this happens and not by "having a quiet word" but saying "Joe is sorting this out, you do not shout at him, you shout at me, that's what I'm paid for", regardless of whether it's Joe's fault in the first place. Especially if it's his fault.
That gets you credibility from the big swinging dicks - who may shout at you but in a more respectful tone - and loyalty, because when a problem hits you want your team at your back and feeding you ammo because we both know that everyone outside IT treats its chain of command with contempt and the scapegoat-hunters will be talking to them.
As a cross between a headhunter and tech journalist I get to meet highly successful people, some of whom have earned reputations for nastiness. We've all had bosses who seemed to take pleasure in being rude to juniors. Yet when I meet leaders, some of whom you've read about or seen on TV, they are unfailingly polite even before they recognise me from The Register with the respect that commands. That's not coincidence, you need to save sarcasm and snide questions for when they will have most effect; the contrast with standard politeness then has more effect. ®
Dominic Connor is a City Headhunter whose misspent youth includes being a head of IT, C++ programmer, quant developer and Excel hacker, you can connect to him here.


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Kenny Chesney is the Hottest Man in Country Music, According to People Magazine
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Other hotties who made the cut: Jake Owen (holy crap, I don't remember his abs looking like that!), Blake Shelton, Keith Urban, Tim McGraw, Luke Bryan & Gary Allan. Is there anyone you think should have made the list but didn't?


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GREEN DAY Announce 2013 Tour Dates!
In 2009, Green Day released 21st Century Breakdown, which won the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. It spawned two hit singles: the gold "Know Your Enemy," which was the first song ever to top Billboard's Rock, Alternative, and Mainstream Rock charts simultaneously, and the double-platinum "21 Guns," which earned them three 2009 MTV Video Music Awards including Best Rock Video. Green Day also took home an American Music Award for Favorite Alternative Rock Music Artist. Later that year, Green Day collaborated with Tony Award winning director of Spring Awakening, Michael Mayer, for the stage musical of American Idiot. The play bowed at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in September 2009 and set attendance records during its limited engagement.
The play went on to Broadway and ran for a year at the St. James Theatre and won two Tony Awards. It is currently touring the United Kingdom and Ireland before returning to the United States in early 2013. Green Day's highly anticipated album Green Day ¡Uno!, the first in a trilogy of new releases, was released on September 25, 2012, followed by Green Day ¡Dos! on November 13th and Green Day ¡Tré! on December 11th. For more about the band, visit www.greenday.com.


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Re: Catalina 27 Keel stub and bolts
Thanks. I initially missed the drawing recommendation of running 6" up the stub and onto the bilge sides. I may go up a little higher for some added strength. This repair is done from the inside by cutting into the bottom of the bilge around to keel bolts, removing the top layers glass and then the rotted plywood in the stub. The outside repair of the stub-keel joint (Catalina smile) is completely different than what I am referring to.
Re: Catalina 27 Keel stub and bolts
This image:
suggests running the glass 6" up the stub. Presumably the hull/stub transition is sufficiently strong from the beginning so this repair/change shouldn't change that structural requirement, there may not be a lot gained by glassing up onto the hull proper.
I'm a little surprised that Catalina recommends glassing around/across the keel/stub joint on the outside.. anyone done this? It's a relatively light layup that I'd think would be prone to cracking when this area inevitably flexes over time...
Catalina 27 Keel stub and bolts
Hello everyone. While in the boat yard, I'm looking to perform the keel stub fix for my 1974 C27 and remove the plywood from the keel stub, rebuild with glass, then sister/window in some new 316 SS keel bolts (not lag screws) as prescribed by Catalina. I have found numerous other threads dealing with this issue, but my question specifically refers to where to attach the new fiberglass in the stub. After you remove the top layer of fiberglass in the bilge and remove the plywood filler in the stub then several layers of new glass must be placed. In order to provide a secure hold for the new keel bolts does the glass need to be run up onto the sides of the bilge or maybe beyond? My concern is that if you only fill in the stub with glass there would not seem to be enough strength to hold the new keel bolts. The diagram Catalina provided and mentioned in other threads doesn't really detail how far up into the bilge sides the glass should be run from the stub floor in order to provide a secure hold for the keel bolts. Any ideas from those that have performed this repair? I also plan to glass in some G-10 in the bilge as a backing plate for the keel bolts.
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"Writing workshops be damned," writes The Kingdom of Zydeco author Michael Tisserand in the liner notes to Darryl Purpose's 2001 album A Crooked Line. "Storytelling seems to mainly be something that involves a 'knack.' Purpose is one of the best, and he found his knack out of necessity."
At least, that's what Tisserand says Purpose says about his knack. It's true that Purpose can spin an interesting yarn out of unlikely anecdotal materials. "California (Rutherford Hayes in the Morning)," which leads off A Crooked Line, combines biographical details ("He was a Union General/President till eighteen eighty one/He was married to Lucy Webb/Who had a heart as golden as the/Sunlight on the curtain lace") with an account of the first presidential visit to the Golden State ("A President on a pilgrimage/With Chester Arthur and the Holy Ghost/To sail through the new canal/and disembark on the California Coast into a new century"). "Late for Dinner" recounts the experiences of an emotionally shattered but still tender veteran from the point of view of the woman who married him: "Sometimes when he held me tight, he'd look like he was blind/Or starin' at a graveyard far away." The marriage lasts for 13 years, and then one day he disappears. "And if he blew in through that doorway today," Purpose sings for this woman scorned, "Like a long-forgotten echo of winter/I don't know if I'd shoot him in the face/Or tell him that he's late for dinner."
Purpose's press kit includes a blurb from an in-flight magazine in which the writer gushes, "Purpose has the voice of James Taylor, the brains of Bob Dylan, and the soul of Willie Nelson." One might add "the inflection of Peter Lorre" to that list—at times, as much as half of Purpose's distinctive baritone escapes through his nose. And he's a walking catalogue of folkie vocal mannerisms, like singing "time" the way the Dutch supervillain in the last Austin Powers movie says "tight"(like "tuyt"), and those weird throat-clearing uvular R's I've never much liked in folk singers. You don't realize how many English words have R's in them until you hear Purpose sing a couple lines.
But the storytelling, now—Purpose is an ace, and no surprise there from a performer with such a checkered and colorful past. He's a onetime blackjack champion, proud participant in the coast-to-coast Great Peace March for Nuclear Sanity in 1985, and an early perestroika-era musical ambassador to the Soviet Union with his old band, Collective Vision. The guy's got some amazing tales to tell, and they glide right over the Peter Lorre impersonation.


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Snowboarding Forum - Snowboard Enthusiast Forums (http://www.snowboardingforum.com/forum.php)
- Boots (http://www.snowboardingforum.com/boots/)
- - Was the K2 Maysis a bad choice? (http://www.snowboardingforum.com/boots/46795-k2-maysis-bad-choice.html)
Was the K2 Maysis a bad choice?
I haven't been on them 15 times this year and I am already seeing some kinda serious wear and tear. Still ride and fit just fine, but has anyone else noticed this? Stitches coming apart, toecap coming apart, heel and toe of the sole getting worn down. Nothing major yet, but this could determine whether I buy boots from K2 again I don't want to have get new boots every 2 years because they keep falling apart.
2 seasons on a pair of boots is pretty good going. They do take a lot of abuse especially if you rest your board on your boot whilst on the chair.
My last pair of K2's were good for three, I'm just curious if anyone here who has or has had K2's can tell me how long they typically last.
I rest my board on my boot like a boss on the lift and I still get a shit ton of use out of my Salomon F22s.
IMO, if a boot isn't good for at least 75-100 days on the hill, it's a piece of shit. But then again, I always buy a boot that's on the stiffer side to get more life out of it. As it starts to loose it's stiffness, I'll shift it over to a park/fucking around boot to extend it's life. I still wear some 4 year old F22s as my park boot.
Milk was a bad choice.
Boots are like cars. If they were built to last a lifetime, they would cost 100 times more and the companies would lose money in the end.
I feel like companies build boots to last 3 to 4 years for the "average" snowboarder... someone who rides about 20 to 25 times a season (and probably isn't putting in full 8 to 4 PM days every time).
Also if the boots aren't meshing with the bindings well, I would expect some ware in specific areas, especially if you aren't someone who straps in really tight. After only 15 days though... something is missing from this story...
I have Maysis been on them for 10 days and they look brand new minus the mud lol. I posted on here a couple days ago with an issue with my bindings falling apart that no one else ecperinced with Union Forces. So maybe it's just the luck of the draw. Are your boots are draging at all? Post pics if you can would like to see.
I generally get a couple years out of a pair, then another year as a backup. Current boots are last years K2T1DB, bought on clearance last fall. 28 trips, no issues yet. Like invillegorge, when they start to soften up, they become backups.
I have K2 Maysis boots as well and I love em. The only real wear and tear I have is from resting my board on em but other than that they have held up real well. I've probably ridden with them 25+ times so far as well.
and a 2012 Ride Berzerker 161/2012 Flow NXT-ATSE's and the boot seems to like both setups. I figured the Flow's would scuff the heel a little bit, and the El Hefe is a damn solid binding, and I ride them both as tight as I can. Like I said though nothing major yet, but I definitely see myself buying new boots after next season.
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This post was written by IL reporter Rebecca Berfanger.
Every spring or summer since I started working here – almost four years ago – I've spent a day on the road to and from southwest Indiana to have lunch with the Evansville Bar Association executive director and leadership. I made my fourth trip earlier this week.
If I had the time to travel more often I would, as it is always a great opportunity to meet sources and readers face-to-face. While IL reporters strive to reach out to all areas of Indiana by phone and e-mail when we can't physically get somewhere for various reasons, nothing beats a day out of the office and an informal lunch to learn more about one of the state's many vibrant legal communities.
Here's what I learned from EBA executive director Susan Vollmer and executive assistant Cathy Martin, president-elect Todd Glass, and co-administrator of the Volunteer Lawyer Program of Southwestern Indiana Scott Wylie:
- The Randall T. Shepard Courtroom, named for the chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court and Evansville native, will be star of a hard hat reception in October, and will officially be renovated in time for the EBA's 100th anniversary to be celebrated at the EBA's Law Day event in April 2011. Chief Justice Shepard was also instrumental in encouraging EBA members to support the renovations. Vollmer added she had some conflicts when trying to schedule the EBA receptions due to other organizations and individuals who have already booked the courthouse, which is partially renovated already. The courtroom, which originally housed the Vanderburgh Superior Court, will likely be used for some court hearings, as well as teen court, memorial events, and other special events for the Evansville legal community.
- Another way the organization will celebrate the 100th anniversary is an oral history project. Retired former executive director Susan Helfrich continues to work on these interviews that will ultimately be available to the public. The history of the Evansville legal community – and how various trials and legal events have shaped the community at large – will also be included in a display at the historic courthouse and online for classrooms to use when completed.
- Similar to court-appointed special advocates, members of Evansville's legal community have been organizing a program for adults with disabilities or mental illness who need an advocate to look out for their best interests. That program, Guardianship Services of Southwest Indiana Inc. is led by a full-time attorney who works with trained volunteers. The organization recently received approval for 501c3 status. The only similar program Wylie and the others were aware of in Indiana is in northwest Indiana.
- While other communities have closed, moved, or shortened the number of hours of their law libraries are open, Evansville continues to have a law library and librarian. Wylie and others praised the work of Helen Reed, particularly her patience and care that she exudes while working with pro se litigants who can't afford to hire counsel.
- Chief Justice Shepard will be recognized in another way this fall – a new high school program. The Randall T. Shepard Academy for Law and Social Justice will start at the beginning of the 2010-11 school year. The program will take place at Harrison High School, part of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation.
The above updates and others will likely be reported in future editions of Indiana Lawyer. Do you have updates about your legal community? Regardless of where you are located in Indiana, I'd like to hear about them. Please post here or feel free to e-mail me directly, email@example.com.


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Bruce Bodaken, CEO, Blue Shield of CA: A Health Insurance CEO's Commitment to Affordability (6/7/11)
A Commitment to Health Insurance Affordability
Bruce Bodaken, CEO, Blue Shield of California
Sarah Varney, Health Reporter, KQED Radio - Moderator
The rising cost of health care looms large over the state and the nation. The CEO of Blue Shield of California, one of the state's largest health-plan providers, will discuss new initiatives to address rising health-care costs in the context of national health reform. A native of Iowa, Bodaken doesn't fit the typical profile of a health-plan CEO. He earned a masters degree and taught philosophy at the college level before embarking on a career in health care. He has been at the helm of Blue Shield of California for 11 years.
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Wed. January 8, 2014 | Bob Putnam | Email
Gibbs' Daniel Davis injured his knuckle three weeks ago. He figured it was just a bruise or a sprain, so he played in the Gladiators' biggest win of the season, a 46-41 win over Oldsmar Christian.
A day later he found out it was broken.
"It's tough to lose a guy like that because he was one of our leaders," Gladiators coach Larry Murphy said.
Davis was the team's leader in assists (4.6 per game) and third-leading scorer (9.5 points per game) at the time. During his absence, the Gladiators have gone 3-1, including Tuesday's comeback win over district rival Lakewood.
Murphy said he expects Davis to return by Jan. 16 for a series of shootouts Gibbs is participating in out of county.
The Gladiators are not alone in dealing with the injury bug. Many playoff-contending teams in the county have not been able to get by the past month without someone twisting an ankle, straining a hamstring or damaging some other appendage.
Calvary Christian, led by an impressive group of freshmen, started the season 8-1. That was before the Warriors' top post player, Tyler Knight, had surgery for a torn labrum and was lost for the season. Since then, Calvary Christian has gone 4-4.
Shorecrest's leading scorer, Brady Grimm, was sidelined through most of the winter break with a strained hamstring. He returned and played sparingly in a loss two weeks ago to Tampa Prep in the championship game of the Chargers' tournament.
Grimm is healthy again, but still working his way back into playing shape. But Shorecrest has two other players who have since been injured, Aundre Fredericks (shoulder) and sharp-shooter Kenny DeVaul (back). Chargers coach Daryl Blume is holding both out this week.
"We want to be as healthy as possible in the next few weeks for that stretch run," Blume said.
Largo has been dealing with an ankle and knee injury to star Donavan Hale, who led the team to the region finals last year. Hale is slowly recovering and played well in a win against Port Charlotte at a shootout last week. But the Packers will be without guard Andrew Murphy, who had his appendix removed and will likely miss the next three weeks.
Surging Spongers: The Florida Association of Basketball Coaches released its latest state rankings. Most of the county's elite teams remained near the top. St. Petersburg (8A) and Largo (6A) were each ranked fourth in their respective classifications. Gibbs was fifth in 5A and Shorecrest 10th in 3A.
But the biggest surprise was previously unranked Tarpon Springs, which was No. 7 in 5A. The Spongers struggled the past two years, but have turned things around with seven straight wins, including an upset of Nature Coast in the championship game of the Sharks tournament. Tarpon Springs (17-2) has been led by Scottie James and Trai Halton, who both rank among the team's leading scorers.
Behori at his best: Marco Behori was among the players Seminole was counting on to fill the leadership void created with the departure of eight seniors. Behori, who saw limited playing last year, has obliged, averaging nearly 20 points per game and helping Seminole start 13-2.
On Tuesday, Behori scored a career-high 33 points, including five 3-pointers, in an 80-55 win over Pinellas Park.
"We knew we were going to have to lean on Marco more this year," Warhawks coach Josh Walker said. "He's done everything we've asked and more."
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The Focusrite iTrack Dock is an easy to use, studio-quality iPad recording interface. The iPad Dock features two legendary Focusrite mic preamps and a USB port for MIDI instruments and controllers.
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The Focusrite iTrack Dock is at the heart of your Lightning iPad recording studio. Comprehensive but simple to use, the iTrack Dock features two line inputs and an instrument DI with plenty of headroom and stereo monitor outputs with 105dB of dynamic range.
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Made for your iPad, iTrack Dock carries Apple™-certified status. Compatible with any Lightning iPad (4th Generation, Air, mini and mini with retina display), the sleek, modular design allows you to slide the Lightning connector up and down to accomodate any sized iPad.
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iTrack Dock works with all Core Audio apps, from Garageband to Cubasis and beyond. Tape by Focusrite is included, offering instant recording, mastering and sharing without the complexities of traditional music-making software. You can input guitar with plenty of clean, clear headroom, capturing both loud and quiet guitars with stunning clarity.
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As I wrote last week, Joe Posnanski has moved to NBC, where among his duties, he will write a "Big Read" column on Fridays for NBCSports.com. His latest effort was a nice piece on Steve Sabol.
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Steve Sabol never hid his intentions or his motivations. He saw it as his life's goal to make everyone see pro football the way he saw it — as the greatest thing in the entire world. Of this, he had no doubts, no uncertainty, no hesitation. This is what it means to be a true believer.
His first big effort for NFL Films was the seminal film, "They Call It Pro Football," made in 1966. "It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun," John Facenda said at the beginning of that movie, which changed everything and is now listed in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress.
"It was our Citizen Kane," Steve Sabol said. He was 24 years old and ready to spill everything he loved about football, everything he believed about football, everything he cherished about football onto the screen. It would be big, it would be bold, it would be over the top — that was how Sabol did things.


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Montauban, town, Tarn-et-Garonne département, Midi-Pyrénées région, southwestern France, located about 30 miles (50 km) by road north of Toulouse. Built at the confluence of the Tarn and its tributary the Tescou, the town has spread over a wide area. The early 14th-century Pont-Vieux still bridges the Tarn. Next to it on the right bank stands the 17th-century episcopal palace that, in the mid-19th century, became the Musée Ingres, housing 4,000 drawings and several paintings of the 18th–19th-century French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, born at Montauban in 1780, as well as other contemporary works. The "Vow of Louis XIII," by Ingres, hangs in the cathedral. The church of Saint-Jacques, a fortified church dating from the 14th and 15th centuries, dominates the town. Montauban, deriving its name from the Latin Mons Albanus, was founded by the counts of Toulouse in the 12th century and was a principal bastion of Protestantism in southwest France during the 16th and 17th centuries. It is a commercial and administrative centre as well as an industrial town (electrical, aeronautical, and lighting equipment, furniture, and food processing, especially dairy goods). Montauban is also a distribution centre (with related transport and packaging industries) for the fruit and vegetable production of the surrounding region. Pop. (1999) 51,855; (2005 est.) 53,200.
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As stars continue to get in the spooky spirit, Vanessa Hudgens decided it was her turn to show off her sexy ensemble.
The 23-year-old actress posted a photo on her website showing off her hot vampire costume and posing with little sister Stella.
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Admiral Mike Mullen, former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reflected on his four years heading the armed forces and his comments reflected a sense of accomplishment as well as a realization so much yet to do. He felt proud that most US forces will be out of Iraq by the end of next year, and there was a sense of frustration concerning Afghanistan which daily reflects failure of the United States to create conditions for long term peace.
Mullen expressed pride in working to end the ban against gays serving in the armed forces, but also expressed sadness that tonight an estimated 76,000 veterans will lack a home in which to sleep. Over two million have served in Iraq or Afghanistan and thousands remain daily confronting death. Ten years in Afghanistan and eight years in Iraq.
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When word spreads that Google has changed its revered-and-feared search algorithm, you can bank on a big reaction. Google, an essential driver of web traffic for many small businesses, continues to dominate online search, with more than 70 percent of total visits. Its closest competition, Microsoft's Bing, gets about 9.5 percent.
So the internet was abuzz after Google announced it had rolled out "Hummingbird," the newest version of its search algorithm. (If you need a crash course, Search Engine Land offers this thorough FAQ.) Now that the dust has settled on the news, let's take a look at some of the possible effects on your website traffic.
Details Still Unfolding
First, take a deep breath. Google has been using Hummingbird for at least four to six weeks already. And anyone who claims to know exactly what effect the algorithm will have on how people find your business online is probably selling you snake oil.
"The truth is that we don't know a lot about Hummingbird right now, beyond Google's official announcement," says Pete Meyers, marketing scientist at Moz. "They're telling us it happened about a month ago, and we and other industry folks saw what looked like an algorithm update around Aug. 20 or 21. But detecting these changes is an inexact science at best."
Meyers tells the Intuit Small Business Blog that Hummingbird is more likely to have a greater impact on search results in the future than today. By no means, however, does that mean you shouldn't pay attention now. Hummingbird may lay the groundwork for how people will find information — and find your business — via Google in the future.
Highlights of Google's Announcement
In its announcement, for example, Google highlighted an improved ability to handle natural-language queries, or phrases that better reflect how people communicate instead of strings of keywords: "Tell me about Impressionist artists" vs. "impressionist artists." Meyers notes that Google's Knowledge Graph underpinned much of the Hummingbird announcement, especially new features, such as comparison charts.
"To me, this suggests that Hummingbird is more than just a different way of processing searches — it's an underlying structure to drive high-powered semantic search. We're also seeing hints that Google is starting to extract answers in Knowledge Graph from more than just data partners. They're essentially mining websites for specific information. I strongly suspect that Hummingbird will power more of this, and we may not understand the impact for months to come."
Going Forward, Act Like a Brand
Is your head spinning yet? Take another deep breath. As Meyers says, search engine optimization is an inexact science. Although Hummingbird appears to be a major update, Google makes hundreds of smaller tweaks a year, some of which have a significant effect on search results and some of which barely register in the public eye.
The bottom line, according to Meyers: "Going forward, all of Google is headed, in my opinion, in one clear direction: Google wants to model the real world and build a web of answers and entities, not just pages," he says. Hummingbird is a step in that direction. Although the algorithm update may not have a major impact on your business today, the bigger picture Meyers paints is one to prepare for.
"It's not going to be enough just to build a web page. You're going to have to act like a brand," Meyers says. "That means attracting an audience, getting both links and social mentions, building credibility, getting actual traffic, [and so forth]. If you can't back up your presence on the web with a presence in the real world and the signals to back that up, then I suspect that Hummingbird is eventually going to bite you."
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SpoolCast: Ajax Then and Now with Jeremy Keith
June 16th, 2008
SpoolCast: Ajax: Then and Now with Jeremy Keith
Recorded: June 6th, 2008.
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This week, Ajax design expert Jeremy Keith joins us from Brighton, England. Jeremy is the technical lead at Clearleft, a leading design consultancy in the UK. He's the author of the popular books, "DOM scripting" and "Bulletproof Ajax."
Ajax has really evolved since the term was coined. The technologies that we use to make responsive web pages and applications continue to evolve as well. Jeremy has his fingers on the pulse of these changes, and has a lot to tell us about the when, the where, and the why of using Ajax.
Talking with Jeremy was fascinating and, during the interview, he offered several juicy nuggets about using Ajax effectively. For example, he suggested that we think twice about if our business logic should be in the client-side environment. He proposed the server should be doing the heavy lifting, since this is a controlled environment. The interactivity should appear within the browser, so the interactions appear quick and seamless.
Of course, you'll want to listen to the rest of the podcast to hear the other wisdom that Jeremy has about using Ajax in production environments.
[For even more wisdom, you'll want to attend Jeremy's full-day seminar, Bulletproof Ajax: Designing Interactive and Usable Ajax Solutions, at our User Interface 13 conference that will take place this October 13-16, 2008 in historic Cambridge, Massachusetts.]
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'''Clay:''' You... waited?\\
'''Dojo:''' For fifteen hundred years?\\
'''Kimiko:''' But you don't have wrinkles or liver spots!\\
'''Jack:''' Or that "old person" smell.
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->''"The first ten million years were the worst; and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline."''
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'''ComicBook/VandalSavage:''' The old-fashioned way. I'm immortal.
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'''Church:''' I've been standing in this hallway thinking for a thousand years. I've had time.
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While reminiscing about intimate hometown parties filled with great crowds and non-stop dance floors, NYC DJ's VDRK and Free Magic set out to bring that vibe, while drawing from a classic collection of disco house to the best in funk and filter house. With an "everyone's invited" attitude, Discovery is set to be a fun filled and feel good dance night for the masses!
This week they're bringing in some rad DJs, and they're also celebrating the release of VDRK and OCD Automatic's first original track release Tell My Love. Let's give you some details.Saturday, January 16th Santos Party House Doors 11pm Free before Midnight w/ RSVP or $5 at door
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Moderncat reader Sari is at it again! Last time she showed us her awesome DIY cat tower, that was based on Colin's Kitty Catsle. This time she used her signature green and white to create a stylish and functional litter box hider with a good old IKEA Besta shelf unit. By cutting two holes in the shelf — one in the side and another in the divider panel — Sari created a little runway for her two Egyptian Maus, Mauno and Eppu, to enter and exit the litter box. Some carpeting on the walkway shelf helps trap the litter and a motion actived LED light over the box sheds some light on the subject. There's even room to store a few bags of clean litter. With a sleek wall mural and coordinating sculpture by Eero Aarnio, this is a Moderncat-worthy litter center!
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Hauraki Last to First 2016 Epsom Handicap Winner
In an incredible Epsom Handicap 2016 result that will go down in the history books, the Godolphin-raced Hauraki came from last to first with incredible late speed to take out the mile classic by a nose.
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McDonald Rides 2015 The Metropolitan Winner Magic Hurricane
Flying Sydney-based hoop James McDonald capped off a very memorable Epsom Handicap Day with his fifth win for John O'Shea and the Godolphin stable taking out the card closer in The Metropolitan 2015 with race favourite Magic Hurricane.
Waterhouse Wins 8th Flight Stakes with Speak Fondly
Sydney's leading lady of racing Gai Waterhouse celebrated her record eighth Flight Stakes victory on Epsom Handicap Day at Randwick Racecourse this weekend with the punters' pick Speak Fondly continuing the ace run of favourites at the meeting.
Winx Wins 2015 Epsom Handicap for Waller
Sydney's best trainer Chris Waller enjoyed his third consecutive Epsom Handicap with his impressive mare Winx overcoming a troubled run with her powerful finishing burst getting her the win for the punters in 2015.
Waller took out the major ...
2015 Caulfield Cup Next for Craven Plate Winner Complacent
After a thrilling battle down the Randwick straight between the John O'Shea-trained stablemates Complacent and Hauraki to win the Craven Plate quinella for Godolphin, both the winner and runner-up are set for a Melbourne raid targeting the Caulfield Cup 2015.
Melbourne Next for 2015 Premiere Stakes Winner Terravista
Terravista looks right on track to defend his Darley Crown title at Flemington during the Melbourne Cup Carnival after a nice first-up Sydney win in the Premiere Stakes 2015 at Royal Randwick on Epsom Handicap Day.
Exosphere Wins 2015 Roman Consul Stakes
Superstar three-year-old Exosphere continued a top Epsom Handicap Day full of winning results for trainer John O'Shea and jockey James McDonald who combined for a third time in as many races to take out the Roman Consul Stakes 2015 with exciting stud prospect Exosphere.
2015 Dulcify Quality Winner Ambience On To Wakeful Stakes
Godolphin's head trainer John O'Shea confirmed plans to continue to step up the distance for this weekend's impressive Dulcify Quality 2015 winning filly Ambience who beat home the boys with ease at Royal Randwick on Epsom Handicap Day.
Calliope Misses Kick but Wins 2015 Gimcrack Stakes
The John O'Shea-trained filly Calliope pulled off the impossible at Royal Randwick on Epsom Handicap Day giving away a four length start missing the kick in the Gimcrack Stakes 2015 before coming back to blitz her race debut.
Capitalist Scores Easy 2015 Breeders' Plate Win
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Utah State's deep linebacking group was supposed to be one of the team's strengths. But just one game into the season, that depth is being tested.
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Following the Aggies' 38-7 loss to Tennessee, coach Matt Wells called the loss of Fackrell the team's 'first piece of adversity this year.'
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|K2 Fastplant, Flow Era, Salomon Assassin, Burton Superhero 154, Signal Park Camber, Yes Jackpot, Bataleon Boss, or a Nitro Swindle. All around that 156-58w (except the Flow, the 58 reg is plenty wide enough).
|What was wrong about your Evil Twin?
the biggest drawback to a wide board is that it is slower edge to edge. the rule of thumb is: don't ride a wide if u dont have to. caveat: park riding not so critical for this issue.
for a dedicated park stick I think you can err on either side with little consequence. Ride a reg width board with size 12 boots and some "generous" overhang that won't really matter cuz you arent deep carving....OR.....ride a wide with size 11's and lose some edge to edge response, again not the biggest deal for park riding.
reasoning for deck insults
-hated my ET
-no interest in sk8nanner
-ride/rome have yet to interest me in the last 5 years.
Those boards mentioned are pretty popular over here, so they came to my mind at first. There are so many boards out there, you have to start with some.
I will get some information about the boards you mentioned.
Wide or not? It looks like I made a mistake. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ult-de.svg.png My european size is between 45-46, my nike free are an Us 12 but anyway, I have to buy some new boots as well, so I will see with which boots/size I will end up.
Lots of boards are on sale, especially the wide ones. For example Skate tech banana for $255 instead of the regular $356. But those shops only have one or two of those boards left. So in generally, are there any disadvantages picking a wide one?
At your weight I think you are looking at the right size and type of board...instead of a pure park noodle, u are gonna want a more "all-mountain" flex for your weight...and those sizes...156ish sounds perfect for a little park skate deck for you.
I don't love any of your selections but not sure what is available to you. Nothing wrong with your picks, I think they are on the right track, I'm just not attracted to any of those boards, and I've only owned the EvilTwin.
some options I do like:
Arbor Blacklist (midwide board perfect for your semi-large feets)
k2 Happy Hour
NS Proto
Salomon Assassin
Jones Mountain Twin
with 11.5 u probably don't need a wide for a park deck (no deep carves) but if you are wearing 12.5s...probably look at wides.....
Park Board for Heavy Rider
Hey there,
I hope you can help me, because I didnt get any advice in german boarding forums. I am an advanced rider when it comes too courses, but a newbi in the park. This winter I spent 2 days in the park so far, but I think that is the place I want to spent my time in the future.
As a teenager I was really into skateboarding and I always prefered flatlandtricks and rails. The 2 days in the park I ended up with some board, tail- and noseslides and 360° from really small kickers, to be honest I am really afraid of the big ones.
So actually I am looking for an softflex, easy to turn board which I can use on tables, rails, small kickers. I also want to learn those awesome flatland tricks ( buttering etc). I spent some time on the courses as well, but not going fast. I am looking for some spots at the side for some 180° and so on.
Weight: approximately 220 pounds
Height: 183cm/6 Feet
boot size: uk 11/12 us 11,5/12,5
The boards which came to my mind where the following:
skate banana 156wide/159wide
ride Crook 157 161 wide
Rome garage rocker 160wide
or one of the bataleons, maybe
Bataleon evil twin 156wide
Bataleon Boss 156wide
Bataleon Whatever 157 wide
I am not sure if these boards fit my needs, whether which is the right size according to my weight. The sizes mentioned are those which are available in my country and on sale.
Thanks in advance!
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90th day after my rhinoplasty. After 30 days, I was thrilled with the results. Then I noticed small bumps on the bony part of my nose and only on one... READ MORE
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I had Rhinoplasty 11 months ago. As the swelling at the tip went down, I started to notice a pea size bump on the right side at the fleshy part of the... READ MORE
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I just got Septoplasty and Rhinoplasty done about a week ago. Yesterday, I accidentally hit my nose cast twice with my hand. It wasn't too... READ MORE
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Mrs. Carrie Espelind
Formerly of Verndale,
Passes at Montevideo
Mrs. Carrie Espelin, former
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ed away of heart ailhent at 7:10
Thursday morning at her home
at Montevideo. She was 80 years
and 2 months of age.
Funeral services were conduct-
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at Montevideo with the Rev. Si-
las Erickson and Rev. Knudson
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Willmar beside the remains of
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The Winnipeg Jets play in the Central division of the Western conference. They finished last year with the record of 24-21-3, pretty average, which doesn't cut it with the fans. Hopes were high for this off season that some trade, the draft, and signings might bring a glimmer of hope for the Winnipeg Jets this season.
The big loss was Kyle Wellwood, the center to free agency. They were hit big by the free agency and lost a number of veteran players, which leaves them lacking in the depth department at a number of positions. This could be trouble for the Winnipeg Jets this year, especially with other teams bulking up in the depth department this off season. They will once again rely on the skills of goalie Ondrej Pavelec.
The Winnipeg Jets were able to make some good additions this off season, most notable, right wing Devin Setoguchi. They were also able to re-sign another right wing, Blake Wheeler to a six year contract and then re-sign defensemen, Zach Bogosian to seven year contract,; which will give them some stability. They have shored up the right quite well, and hopefully that will be what they need to turn the corner and make a run for the playoffs this year.
The Winnipeg Jets will start the preseason at home with a game against Washington on September 14th. That's only next week, so we don't have long to wait to see if the trades and pick-ups are going to make the difference they are hoping they will make. Looking forward to another great year of hockey.
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The most astounding thing revealed by Congress' consideration of gun control laws is how unrepresentative our representatives are. With a whopping 92 percent of the public favoring universal background checks, such a bill should be a no-brainer when it comes to representative government.
Not so. It's been questionable whether 60 percent of senators would even allow debate on the bill, let alone vote for it.
Why? Senators are more afraid of the gun lobby, which donates to their campaigns and viciously opposes politicians who cross it, than they are of voters.
Representatives should be beholden to the people, not to campaign-donating special interests. And they would be if the need for a campaign chest weren't so essential in this age of nonstop fund raising.
If ever there were a compelling reason for publicly funded congressional campaigns, this is it. Money is warping our democracy to the extent that it is no longer representative of the people.
It's not just the gun lobby. It's the pharmaceutical, health insurance and defense industries, plus Wall Street and Big Oil.
We'd have much more rational lawmaking, where lobbyists persuade by argument rather than the checkbook, if money weren't part of the equation.
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When I copy a movie from the server to the laptop via ethernet, its very slow at 3.5MB/s. Before anyone asks, that is Megabytes because the "M" and "B" are capitalized. I don't remember ever having this problem but I'm not sure... Here are the things I've tried with no success
- Reset TCP IP stack
- Reinstall Ethernet drivers and installed an older version
- netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled
- Set speed to 100mbps Full Duplex
- and some other random stuff which was a waste of my time
I have a gaming pc that can copy from the server at over 100MB/s so its definitely not the router or server. I created a shared folder on the laptop and when I copied the file onto my desktop, its was copying at 10-12MB/s which is fine! So I know the laptop is capable of 100Mbps but for some reason it won't receive 100Mbps.
If I use wireless its a bit faster at 6.5MB/s...
Any help?
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Music streaming services have been around for some time. With the arrival of Spotify and Google Play Music in the US, the average user is able to listen to a huge amount of music on the go. There is an overlooked segment of users that these services do not cater to however, those with vast music collections stored on their hard drives. True, Google Play Music allows you to upload your tunes to their servers for streaming purposes, but that is not the best option when you're dealing with 100GB+ of music.
Enter Subsonic
Subsonic is a free media streamer that makes your music collection available from anywhere you can get an internet connection. Once you set up the Subsonic server on the computer where all your music lives, you get immediate access to your entire library on the go. You can connect using any web browser, no installation required (perfect for at work etc.), or using apps for just about every platform and mobile OS.
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Installing the Server
To begin, download the proper Subsonic server for the operating system where you store all of your music from the download page.
Next, follow the installation instructions for your operating system to get up and running.
With the server installed, the first thing you should do is sign into the web interface by visiting http://localhost:4040 using the default credentials:
username: admin
password: admin
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Setting up your music folders
With the server running you'll want to add some music to the system so you can start streaming it. To do so, you need to tell Subsonic where your music is stored.
Log into the Subsonic web page again and navigate to Settings -> Music folders. Add one or more folders of music that you want to be accessible. If you add more than one music folder, a list will appear on the left side of the screen where you can select the active folder.
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What good is all this streaming if you can't get at it from outside your house? There are a couple things that need to take place for remote access to your server. First you'll need to direct the traffic from your home router to the subsonic server properly using port forwarding. Then you'll need to give your server an easy to remember domain name. If your router supports the UPnP or NAT-PMP protocol (and most do) this is very easy. Detailed instructions for configuring automatic or manual port forwarding and setting up your personal subsonic.org address can be found here.
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The easiest way to confirm that everything is working is to open up a web browser on your phone and type in the URL of the personal subsonic.org address that you've configured above. If you reach the login screen, you're all set! If you don't, take a look at the troubleshooting tips or this extremely thorough guide for PC installation from Shane Monroe.
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While most of the features of this software are free, there are some significant ones that expire after 30 days, most importantly mobile streaming. Mobile streaming is probably the single most useful component of Subsonic, you're definitely going to want access to it. To register your copy of the Subsonic server, log into the web interface and click the Donate button. The minimum donation is only 10 Euro (~$14) which is extremely reasonable for a lifetime subscription to a tool that will free your complete music collection. You'll get your registration key via e-mail which you can then paste into the donate screen on the web interface.
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Below is a link to the DIY in audizine. The DIY is great from what I have seen.
Below is a link to the DIY in audizine. The DIY is great from what I have seen.
I think I will just giveup and buy a complete key fob with uncut key off ebay, and start there. Should have done that the first time
Lol!!! I see we are both feeling the same pain here. Although I will still attempt this DIY on my spare key. Only other issue is if we with the '02 a4 need to swap our ccm with the '03 and newer ones. As far as using same immobilizer from b7 I don't think its possible but I can be wrong. I have seen and read many threads attempting this sampling but great mod and all have said that it would need to be swapped for the b6 immo or a new one that would need to be programmed by ur local stealership.
Here is the link to a site that sells blank key blades. They say they have b7 blanks. The key blade in this link the say is a B7 blank.
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I did this, and I had a virgin uncut ebay key. Some things I learned,
1. You need to get a new "megamos48" (what the b6 fob uses) rfid chip for any b7 key fob, the b7 uses a different rfid chip, I ordered 3 from China for something like 20$. Rfid chips can only be programed once. Remote portion can be paired/programmed a million times. Any used key will need blade and new rfid chip, not worth it.
2. You can not use VCSD/ross tech for program the immobilizer, unless u have the key code. Even then theres a lot that can go wrong. vw/audi will not/can not give it out any more.
3. In my area there was only one guy who could cut sidewinder keys, make some calls first.
Hope that helps.
uncut fob
I think I offered him 2 for 40$
2) you need the 4-digit pin (aka SKC), which is the same for the ECU and cluster if they are the originals to the car, and the ECU's pin is easy to extract with any generic OBD-II USB cable and the right software.
Also here is a link for info on the ccm mod.
Only draw back would be the loss of independent fog lights. Now i have to look in to that.
Last edited by VRNY1; 01-04-2012 at 12:45 PM.
Thanks for the info on the rfid reprogramming, I'm aware that you can use Vag commander or other programs to get the SKC, but for the 99.9% of people on here looking to do this thats WAY above there head. I think this is a great little mod that can be done for less than the cost of a new key from the dealer. Just trying to help.
I see, so you still have the b6 fob just in new condition. Cool. I guess I'm going to have to do the same. I mean what's the worst that can happen if we ('02 A4's) swap to the b7 fob w-o the ccm, we can't use the keyless entry. Back in the day there wasn't any keyless entry. So what if you have to go all the way up to ur car door to unlock it. Lol then again that could just be me thinking crazy.
I just got a virgin B7 key fob off of ebay... blank key, new chip, never program, etc. So I will need to either swap the chip from an old remote over to this key, have it cut, and then program it to the car, or I will replace the chip with the one listed about, have the key cut, and program it to the car. Correct?
Anyone in San Diego who has a vag-com that would help me program a chip??
It depends on what year model you have. If its 03 and up just switch the immobilizer to the new fob and program it. That is if I'm not mistaken...


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Dell already announced the Mini 12 but only now is the 12.1in system available to buy.
Specs sit as such then:
- 12.1in 1,280 x 800 screen
- 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530 CPU
- 80GB hard drive
- Windows Vista Home Basic Edition
- 25.5mm thick, 1.25Kg
- 3-cell 24WHr battery
The Mini 12 costs £429 which is a bit steep for a netbook especially with this spec. However, I'm inclined to agree with Asus President and CEO Jerry Shen and limit the netbook classification to sub-10.2in systems.
If considered as a small, low-powered and above all portable notebook, then, the Mini 12 could be a lot more attractive. I wouldn't want one myself, but I can definitely see the appeal and I don't doubt Dell will shift a fair few systems.


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Falcons Finish at Ram Masters Invite
Sept. 18, 2012
Junior Kyle Westmoreland was the Falcons' top finisher, ending in a tie for 11th place after a third-round 74 gave him a three-round total of six-over par 216, six shots behind tournament champion Jordan Wetsch of host Colorado State. Senior Andrew Hoops finished in a tie for 52nd with a total of 226, while junior Philip Colwell tied for 61st at 228.
Wichita State won the team title with a three-round total of 859, one shot better than Colorado State and two better than Nevada.
The Falcons will play in the Mark Simpson Colorado Invitational beginning next Monday, Sept. 24 in Erie, Colo.