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Start Playing Then Negotiate
by Paul on 11/19/12 at 02:02 PM ET
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from Jesse Spector of The Sporting News,
Get back on the ice, start collecting ticket revenue again, start selling merchandise again, and put the game front and center instead of posturing, browbeating, and greed. It's not only the best way to set about repairing the NHL's image, which believe it or not still has not hit rock bottom, it is the best way to make a deal.
Every observer agrees that the best chance to make progress on a collective bargaining agreement is to take negotiations out of the public eye. What better way to do that than to bring back hockey and move the CBA backstage?
The obvious question about how to start a new season is how to make the financial system work, but the NHL already has a mechanism to handle this: the escrow system of the last CBA. It's pretty simple, really. Pay all players according to their current contracts, which already are tied to the NHLPA's share of hockey-related revenue, and put everything into escrow above the 50 percent threshold of HRR that is the NHL's baseline in negotiations. Once a new deal is negotiated, pay the players what they are owed, including "make-whole" shares, out of that escrow pool.
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The argument is that if they play while negotiating, it puts the NHL in a corner when the players strike when the playoffs start - just like they did in '92.
That's the reason why Bettman and the BOG refuse to play games while negotiations take place.
And the NHLPA would do it too. Because they don't get paid for playoff games, there's nothing stopping them from striking at the most important time of the year.
Posted by Hank1974 on 11/19/12 at 02:38 PM ET
Sounds like LAX airport employees getting ready to walkout during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
Common denominator? Unions.
Posted by TheFreak on 11/19/12 at 05:47 PM ET
Playing while negotiating doesn't necessarily mean playing without a CBA.
There could have been an extension of the previous CBA with No strike/No lockout provisions.
There could also be an agreement on some terms now, with the rest going back to the previous cba for whats left of a season, while both sides continue to negotiate.
The agreement could have provisions where they players would forfeit all escrow payments if they strike during the agreement, and Owners would sacrifice a percentage of HRR if they locked out payers.
Posted by jwad on 11/19/12 at 05:53 PM ET
Some nice points iwad.
But both sides have so far thrown out hundreds of millions at this point, so both sides would probably have no problem losing money (escrow or % of HRR) by striking or locking out prior to the playoffs.
Posted by Hank1974 on 11/19/12 at 09:10 PM ET
The current CBA has a no strike provision so that could have been in force if they extended the CBA. Why this plan will never work is because it was an option from the start and the owners went nuclear. There is no point going backwards and admitting you made a very costly mistake when all that revenue is already lost.
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KISBUCSA, HUNGARY – It is raining hard and almost dark as Walter Rienzner, perched on a raised shooting platform, drops the bombshell in a whisper: Women might be better hunters than men.
"They have respect for the animal," said the grizzled 48-year-old, part of a group of mainly Austrian, mostly female hunters on a recent weekend over the border in Hungary.
"They make sure that the meat, the fur and the fat are not wasted. . . . And when it comes to shooting, they are much more precise. They don't just start blasting away."
More and more women in Austria are choosing to spend their free time in undergrowth or stalking through forests, gun in hand and dog at side, hunting for food, fun and companionship.
In doing so, Austria's 11,000 registered female hunters are helping to improve the traditionally male-dominated hobby's image.
They are also keeping some old huntsmen's traditions alive and — perhaps — making the men better behaved.
"I think women have improved hunting, made it more elegant," said Joerg Deutschmann, 49, who has driven from Germany, rifle in the boot of his Audi, to bag some of Hungary's plentiful red deer and boar with the group. "Things are less boisterous afterward. Not all hunters like it though, particularly some old ones."
One example is Petra Schneeweiss, 48. Her passion is such that together with her daughter Elia, 28, she launched a magazine called Die Jaegerin (The Huntress).
Women are less interested in hunting just for "trophies" to hang on the wall, she said. Instead, they primarily hunt for food, camaraderie and because of their love for nature.
"After I have shot something I do need a few moments of peace," she said, puffing on a cigarette in her baggy green hunting clothes.
"I have respect for these animals. When it's just bang, bang, one here, one there, I don't like it."
And she is passionate about maintaining old hunting customs such as the "last bite," the practice of placing a sprig of vegetation in an animal's mouth after it has been shot.
"The hunter also puts a piece in his hat, on the right," Schneeweiss earnestly explains. "When it's worn on the left it's for ceremonies, for example at a hunter's funeral."
Such rites are something that Evelin Grubelnig, 38, tip-toeing down a muddy track at dawn the next day, gun in hand, had to learn when she got her hunting license two years ago.
"It took a year. You learn about the animals, forestry, ecology, the different hunting dogs, ballistics, the regulations," the schoolteacher mother-of-two recalled. "I have done a lot of exams but this was the hardest."
The hobby also requires money — her rifle alone cost €5,000 ($7,000) — time and patience. More often than not, as was the case this weekend, all the hunters get is wet and muddy.
But Grubelnig says it is worth it. Meat tastes better, she says, when you have shot it yourself, and it is a lot healthier — and less cruel to the animals — than the supermarket stuff.
"It's the excitement, the experience, the switching off, forgetting all about the daily grind," said Grubelnig, whose tally of four animals in two years is about par for the course. "Your main concern is shooting the animal cleanly; you don't want it to suffer," she said. "I don't feel sorry for the animal, really. You learn in the course about why you are shooting things."
Her husband, 40-year-old master builder Herbert, says that unlike in the past, when his father used to go away hunting for several days, hunting is something that couples nowadays can do together.

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Boxer Ken Norton Dies at age 70
Former heavyweight champion Ken Norton has died at the age of 70. A friend of the fighter says Norton had been in poor health for the last several years after suffering a series of strokes. Norton had three memorable fights against Muhammad Ali, winning the first while breaking his jaw in 1973. Ali won the rematch months later, then took the third in a controversial split decision in 1976. Norton finished with a record of 42-7-1 and 33 knockouts.
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Did you Know?
That there are 2,339,986 vehicles registered in Nebraska.
History of Nebraska Passenger Vehicle License Plates
Motor vehicles were first registered in June 1905. Individuals made their own plates, and registrations were recorded with the Secretary of State. The plates were made of leather with metal numbers. This practice continued until 1915 when the Department of Motor Vehicles began issuing the plates. The Department assigned numbers to the plates, which were then made of metal. From 1915 to 1939 the plates were two colors, which changed every year. In 1922, the state established the practice of using prefix numbers to identify the counties in which vehicles were registered. Each county was assigned a number based on the number of registered vehicles in the county at that time. The county with the most vehicles, Douglas, was assigned the number 1; the county with the second highest number of vehicles, Lancaster, was assigned number 2; and so forth. From 1903 to 1920 only a single plate was issued for each vehicle. In 1921 two plates were issued for each vehicle.
Except for 1920, plates were issued annually until 1943. In 1942 the plates returned to two colors, changing annually. A metal revalidation tab was issued in the years 1920, 1943, 1944, 1947, 1953 and 1959, but after 1960 the tabs became a decal-type material. In 1952 to 1955 the Goldenrod was added to the plates. In 1966, special reflective sheeting was used while numbers were stamped and painted on the plates.
In 1940 - 1941 the Statehouse Emblem was added. Beginning with the 1956 license plates, a slogan The Beef State was embossed on the plates and remained until 1965. In 1966, the word Centennial was embossed on the plates in honor or the States Centennial Celebration in 1967 for the license plate series expiring in 1968. In 1969, the slogan Cornhusker State was embossed on the plate until 1975.
In 1976 a bicentennial plate honoring the United States Bicentennial was issued to all passenger vehicles. It had the word Nebraska on a red banner at the top and the slogan 1776 Bicentennial 1976 on a blue banner at the bottom. In the upper left and corner was a blue sketch of a covered wagon and in the upper right-hand corner was a blue sketch of a Native American Chief.
Beginning with the 1984 blue on white license plate with no slogan or graphic design, plates were to be reissued every three years.
In January of 2002 the State began with issuance of the Alpha/Numeric License Plates. These plates are issued to residents of the three largest counties, Lancaster, Sarpy and Douglas.
From 1962 through 2004, with the exception of the United States Bicentennial License plate series utilized from 1976 through 1983, new distinctive license plates were issued every three years. Starting with issuance of the 2005 plate series, issuance of new license plates changed from every three years to every six years. The reason for the long use of the Bicentennial plates series was the result of budgetary considerations. License plate production had been state general fund expenditure and to save funds, the then Governor and Legislators delayed that expenditure to save money.
A new method of funding the license plate production began with the 1984 plate series. At that time, Highway Trust Funding was used to provide the upfront cost of materials and license plate production. The Legislature established a fee to cover the cost of each license plate and its validation decals. The individual then paid that fee at the time a new plate(s) were issued. The fees collected were then provided to the Highway Trust Fund to replenish those funds. This process of plate funding continues to the present.
Issuance of flat digital license plates began in November 2003.
Beginning with the 2005 issuance of license plates, reissuance will occur every six years. Issuance of full size trailer plates also began in 2005.
1903 - 1914 Made with metal numbers by the individual and recorded with the Secretary of State.
1915 - Black on White
1916 - White on Dark Blue
1917 - Black on Cream
1918 - Olive Green on Black
1919 - Black on Light Green
1920 - Black on Light Green
1921 - White on Black
1922 - Black on White
1923 - Green on Black
1924 - White on Black
1925 - Black on Orange
1926 - White on Green
1927 - White on Maroon
1928 - White on Dark Blue
1929 - White on Black
1930 -Yellow on Dark Blue
1931 - Maroon on Light Gray
1932 - White on Dark Blue
1933 - Dark Blue on Orange
1934 - White on Dark Green
1935 - Black on Gray
1936 - Silver on Black
1937 - Black on Gray
1938 - Silver on Black
1939 - Black on Gray
1940 - Orange on Blue
(Statehouse emblem)
1941 - Dark Blue on Orange
(Statehouse emblem)
1942 - Red on White
1943 - 1944 - Red on White
1945 - White on Black
1946 - White on Rusty Red
1947 - White on Rusty Red (Metal tabs)
1948 - Dark Blue on Silver
1949 Rust Red on Silver
1950 - Dark Blue on White
1951 - White on Black
1952 - Black on Goldenrod Yellow Goldenrod flower added (Passenger Vehicles). White on Black (Farm Vehicles)
1953 - Black on Goldenrod Yellow Goldenrod flower added. (Metal Tabs)
1954 - Goldenrod on Black
1955 - Black on Goldenrod Yellow
1956 - White on Black
(The Beef State)
1957 - Green on White
(The Beef State)
1958 - Black on Yellow
(The Beef State)
1959 - Black on Yellow (Metal Tabs)
(The Beef State)
1960 - Yellow on Black
(The Beef State)
1961 - Yellow on Black
(The Beef State)
1962 - Green on White
(The Beef State)
1963 - 1964 Green on White
(The Beef State)
1965 - Black on White
(The Beef State)
1966 Outline of Nebraska; Red on Cream
1967 - 1968 - Red on Cream
1969 - Black on Silver
(Cornhusker State)
1970 - 1971 Black on Silver
(Cornhusker State)
1972 - Outline of Nebraska; Red on White (Cornhusker State)
1973 - 1975 - Red on White
(Cornhusker State)
1976 - Red & Blue on White
1977 - 1979 -Red & Blue on White
1980 - 1983 - Red & Blue on White (Bicentennial)
1984 - 1986 - Blue on White
1987 - 1989 - Red on White with Multi--color graphics, sunset
1990 - 1992 - Black on White with Windmill
1993 - 1995 Nebraska rural and urban landscape Yellow/Gold; Blue on White
1996 - 1998 Nebraska rural and urban landscape Orange/red; Black on White
1997 1999 Husker Spirit Plate Huskers in italics with Iron N Red/White.
1999 - 2001 - Nebraska landscape Chimney Rock/city; Red on Rust and Blue Multicolor.
1999 2001 - Husker Spirit Plate Huskers in italics with Iron N Red/White.
2002 - 2004 - Sunset; Sandhill cranes and wetlands; Black on Yellow, Orange & Red
2002 2004 Husker Spirit Plate Outline of State with image of Memorial Stadium Red/White.
2005 - 2010 Outline of State in Red; Covered Wagon in bottom center, Blue on Light Blue and White
2005 2010 Husker Spirit Plate - Red across top, Nebraska in White, Black on White with Gray N.
2011 - 2016 - Meadowlark and Goldenrod/forest green letters & numbers.
2011 - 2016 - Husker Spirit Plate - Red banner at top and bottom/white center, black letters & numbers, white N on left & right at bottom, words GO BIG RED! across the bottom.
2017 - 2022 - Navy Blue and Gold with Sower/black letters & numbers.
In 1972 the Nebraska Legislature authorized the State of Nebraska to issue Message plates.
The State of Nebraska began issuing special Husker Spirit Plates in January of 1997 on behalf of the University of Nebraska. Plates were numbered in consecutive number order and issued in order as applications were received. In January of 2000 Husker Spirit Plate were issued with messages.


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National Hardware Show expands outdoor living area
January 20, 2010,
The National Hardware Show started 2010 on strong footing with 90% of the show floor sold out with less than five months to go until the show opens May 4-6 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas.
"We are quite pleased to report these numbers in these challenging times," said Ed Several, group vice president and National Hardware Show manager. "We continue to work hard to shape this year's event to serve the home improvement retail marketplace. We are rolling out never-before-revealed consumer insight and knowledge and new electronic tools enabling retailers to efficiently shop the show. We are especially pleased with the fact that the show has returned many big brands and expanded the show's depth of manufacturers in seven key product categories."
Additional brands and companies representing the seven major product categories exhibiting at the National Hardware Show include: Stanley Hardware, CharBroil, DiversiTech, First Alert, The Scotts Company, Gladiator GarageWorks, Audiovox, CE North America, Bayer Advanced, Fiskars, Leatherman Tool Group, Suncast, Worthington Cylinders, Landmann USA, Jordan Manufacturing, Bond Manufacturing, The HammockSource, Pawleys Island/Hatteras Hammocks, MacSports, Brinkmann, Eastman Outdoors, Lifetime Products, Alpan, Corona Clipper, Rio Brands, RL Flomaster, Cinco Plastics, Plumb Pak, Slant Fin, Little Giant, MSA Safety, Seville Classic and Telebrands.
The National Hardware Show celebrates a history spanning 65 years of serving the home improvement marketplace. From its beginnings in New York during the post-World War II housing boom and its move to Chicago in the 1970s-'90s to today's current Las Vegas location, the National Hardware Show continually evolves through the industry's involvement, commitment and passion to improving America's quality of life through their homes.
Today, the National Hardware Show is the place for global manufacturers, associations and organizations to unveil their new products, ideas and insights to a broad spectrum of home improvement resellers. The National Hardware Show is organized into seven major product focus areas including: Hardware & Tools; Homewares; Lawn, Garden & Outdoor Living; Paint & Accessories; Plumbing & Electrical; Storage & Organization and an international sourcing area.
Contributing associations and partners include:
• North American Retail Hardware Association hosting their second Industry Summit & Village;
• Paint & Decorating Retailers Association presenting Future Fair and Top of the Line Retailer Awards;
• The Worldwide DIY Council, comprised of some 130 exporting manufacturers from the U.S. and Canada holding annual board of directors meetings, general meetings, seminars and a reception sponsored by the NRHA;
• Handyman Club of America and Handy magazine presenting Power Tool Alley where Handyman Club members will conduct at-show testing of products;
• Presidents Council conducting a Buying Days event between manufacturers and retailers, wholesalers and distributors. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the City of Hope.
• Home Channel News' 26th Golden Hammer Awards;
• HomeWorld Business magazine's third annual Innovations Awards;
• The Money Pit, nationally syndicated radio show, will conduct its annual National Hardware Show media tour.
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As a child, he reached for the French-language TV dial only to have his bigger, older brother change the knob to English. Hockey, in the Lepage home in Quebec City, was more often a game watched en anglais.
For celebrated man of the theatre Robert Lepage, his childhood home was a place where the deux solitudes co-existed under one roof. Two of his siblings, both adopted, were English-educated in Nova Scotia, he said, but when his parents moved to Quebec and "had better luck" conceiving, they had two children they sent to French school.
"Our family was a kind of bicultural experience," said Lepage, sitting in a regal, powder-blue armchair flanked by a cultural power couple.
For two of the three conversing in the large drawing room at Rideau Hall, the governor-general's official residence was once home. For the third, Lepage, it was a grand place that evening to receive an award he was "shocked" to have won.
Hours before the Glenn Gould Prize for a "unique lifetime contribution" to the arts was presented on Monday evening, the trio – Lepage, former governor-general Adrienne Clarkson and her husband, essayist and novelist John Ralston Saul – held a wide-ranging conversation, exclusive to The Globe and Mail, touching on creativity, technology, art and culture.
"There's this sort of illusion that Canadian culture was about Montreal or Toronto speaking to the rest of the country, but it's never been like that," Saul said. "Culturally, this country has always been deeply decentralized, deeply complicated and deeply contradictory. And those are all good things."
The trio's connections are myriad, reaching back more than two decades when then-CBC journalist Clarkson interviewed Lepage, to more recently, with Saul a member of the Glenn Gould jury that selected Lepage as winner of the $50,000 prize in honour of his edginess – his ability to show where art could go next in theatre, film and opera.
The conversation this day, however, was also about where Lepage had been: around the world, at centre stage, in the wings, across Canada, behind the lens, bridging divides.
From 1989 to 1993, he was artistic director of Théatre français at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, a period he described as an "interesting playground" in which he forged relationships with talented Canadian anglophone directors. "It was still in the days where you could try things, which is kind of nice," he recalled. "You were less obsessed by programming and selling tickets … Before me, I don't think anybody had really reached out to do bilingual ventures."
Even in the bilingual capital – within walking distance of Quebec – there is a French theatre community and an English theatre community, he noted, adding that while he enjoyed his time in Ottawa, he "of course" had to return to Quebec City.
"Of course you did," Clarkson agreed. "That's always the pull isn't it, for you?"
At this point, Lepage tapped into his memory of 1960s Quebec, and the jockeying for control of the language dial during hockey games. When Toronto played in Montreal, or vice versa, "it was a way to play out the drama, the tension."
The drama and tension are today being played out in the Quebec provincial election, though all three agreed that Canada's bicultural experiment is not under imminent threat.
"The debate about [Quebec's proposed] Charter of Values was an interesting debate," Lepage said. "It provided a way of knowing how people in your community think and stand … That was what supposedly triggered the election, but nobody talked about it."
And few people, they all agreed, talk about Canada's ties to the North – one of Clarkson and Saul's greatest emphases during their tenure at Rideau Hall. "We shouldn't reject it because nature will always come back and tell us – this winter told us – that 'You are a northern country' … I think we're deeply afraid of nature, and nature, at its cruellest is cold and snow," Clark-son said."
Lepage said that when he works in northern countries such as Norway, Sweden and Russia, he can feel a certain connection – "there is a such thing as the culture of the North." He even suggested to an artistic director in Stockholm that they create a Theatre of the North Alliance, but the woman said, "Not a good idea," he recounted, then joked, "She had enough of the North."
When Saul asked Lepage whether he feels there's a difference in the way people receive his work depending on geography, the playwright said that he isn't sure, but that there seems to be something more "easy going" in his conversations with artists in northern countries.
Lepage returned in December from Russia, where, Saul and Clarkson noted, Glenn Gould launched a celebrated tour in 1957. But Lepage needed no reminding: the historic moment was to be featured in his acceptance speech that night.
Saul said the award is not a "reward for past services," and Lepage shows no sign of slowing. He's working on another one-man show, for example, slated to be a meditation on memory.
Lepage exited the conversation in the drawing room stage left, off to pre-award interviews before later accepting the Tenth Glenn Gould Prize. Clarkson and Saul stayed behind and renewed their discussion of creative experimentation. "The leaders will always experiment," Saul said. "The arts are supremely uncontrollable."
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TORONTO, March 24 (Reuters) - Canada's benchmark stock index rose for a third straight session on Tuesday as gains in shares of energy producers and financial companies helped offset sluggish economic data from China.
The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index unofficially closed up 124.05 points, or 0.83 percent, at 15,081.26. Nine of the 10 main sectors on the index were higher. (Reporting by John Tilak, editing by G Crosse)
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So get your mates together for a ride out to the stunning Kapiti Coast, or even take the family (there's plenty to keep youngsters occupied). The day will include a riding display by the NZ Police team, music, food and coffee stalls, discounted museum entry, plus a whole lot more.
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So you've finally done it. You're enrolled in a long overdue course or qualification and you're chomping at the bit to get back into the wonderful world of study. How long has it been, years, decades, millennia since you last used a textbook for anything besides propping up a shelf? Have you still got what it takes? Did you ever have it?


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Rental properties can be great investments and offer ways to shelter your taxable income. However, there are several tax related issues during the purchase, management and sale of your rental property. The proper handling, coordination and reporting of taxable events such as closing costs, repairs versus improvements, depreciation, seemingly innocent HOA dues and mileage can improve your tax consequence. While incorrect tax reporting can start the slow brewing of future problems.
Please see our Rental Property FAQs to review several tax issues including rental deductions and rental depreciation.
Rental Depreciation
One of the most frequent questions from taxpayers is regarding rental property depreciation. Should you do it or no? Well, the IRS says it doesn't matter because of little rule called allowed versus allowable. I painted the inside and out. Do I depreciate that? I put carpet in the whole place. Do I expense that? I put carpet in just one room. Now what? Deducting expenses and capitalizing improvements must be handled properly. Let us help! For now, read our Repairs Versus Improvements KB article.
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The principals at the Watson CPA Group have been rental property owners since 1996, and can offer comprehensive tax advice coupled with real-life rental property business consultation. Whether you have one rental or several, single family or multi-unit, own them personally, in a self directed IRA or in an LLC with your partners, we have the practical experience to accurately prepare your rental property tax returns. More importantly, we have the expertise to help you plan for the future!
Other questions come up, such as moving back into your rental. How do you handle rental depreciation recapture? Should I put my rentals into an LLC? What about Hold Harmless Agreements with my tenants? How is the current gain on personal residence sale of $250,000 and $500,000 handled with part years being a rental? Common questions- but each answer must be customized to your unique situation.
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To be a real estate professional, an individual must spend the majority of his or her time in real property businesses which include development or redevelopment, construction or reconstruction, acquisition or conversion, rental, management or operation, leasing and / or brokerage.
In addition, more than half of the personal services performed in all businesses during the year must be performed in real estate businesses. So, if you have garden variety W2 job working 2000 hours a year, you need to spend 2001 hours in real estate activities. Wait! There's more. Second, your hours worked in the real estate activity must be more than 750 hours. Steep thresholds.
If you own multiple rental properties each will be considered a separate entity and you must satisfy the above requirements on each property independently unless an election is made to treat all those interests as a single activity. This election is simply a statement that is attached to your tax return. And under Revenue Procedure 2010-13, you can make the election retroactively (typically requires amending a tax return just for the election).
Once you qualify as a real estate professional, you must materially participate in the operation of your rental property business. This is where it gets tricky, and this is where most rental property owners get into trouble. If you cannot prove material participation in your rental activities, you will be subjected to passive loss limitations (currently $25,000).
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Rifles & shotguns will never be illegal in the USA.
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The Selfie that Broke Twitter During the Oscars
Ellen hosted the Academy Awards last night and made them anything but dull.
The talk show host brought personality and life to the award show that some usually call stiff and boring.
Ellen, a prolific tweeter wanted to break a record…get the most retweets on a picture. The photo which started off as just her and Meryl Streep soon expanded to include Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Spacey and Bradley Cooper.
It did in fact break a record, oh and twitter.
With 1,076,971 retweets in less than a hour and ultimately caused twitter to crash for a few minutes.
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Just looking for some advice on Pascuales. I have 3 months off as of November and would like to head to Pascuales, Mexico in November. I went to Puerto Escondido last November and it was the sickest trip! But I hear that Pascuales is a similar wave but much less crowded? So here are some questions:
Is November a good time to go? If not then when is a good time?
The best way to get there from The UK?
A good place to stay?
What is the vibe like? Friendly locals?
Any other waves near by?
Anyone want to come?


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NEW ORLEANS - The University of Pittsburgh volleyball team (8-2) claimed its second-consecutive tournament title with a 3-1 victory (25-23, 25-21, 18-25, 25-19) against Mississippi State (4-5) in the championship match of the Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Classic inside the Hertz Center at Tulane University on Saturday.
The Panthers have now won seven matches in a row, their longest winning-streak since the 2009 campaign. Pitt defeated Sam Houston State, Tulane and MSU all by scores of 3-1 this weekend. Lindsey Zitzke was named Tournament MVP, while Margy Acton and Alexa Campbell were also named to the all-tournament team.
"I was really pleased on how we executed our game plan throughout the weekend," head coach Toby Rens said. "I was equally as pleased with some of the adjustments we made during the matches and how several people stepped up and provided something off the bench."
Monica Wignot had 14 kills to lead the Panthers against MSU while Jessica Boddy recorded her second-straight 12 kill performance. Zitzke had a double-double in every contest this weekend, and concluded her tournament with 46 assists and 10 digs against the Bulldogs. Acton and Delaney Clesen had 21 and 13 digs, respectively. The two reached double-digit digs in all three matches.
With the first set locked up at eight apiece, a block assist by Jasmine Dittrich and Zitzke sparked an 8-4 run which forced MSU into its first timeout of the frame. The Panthers played with the lead for the remainder of the set, and had set point up 24-20. A 3-0 MSU run ensued, but a kill by Boddy ended the set 25-23 in favor of the Panthers.
The Panthers hit a .436 in the set (17K - 0E - 39TA), led by the middles, Boddy and Dittrich, with five kills apiece.
MSU jumped out to an early 6-3 advantage in set two, but a kill by Zitzke gave Pitt its first lead at 9-8, which was followed by a kill from Monica Wignot which forced the Bulldogs into a timeout. Mississippi State climbed within one at 11-10, but Pitt scored four unanswered, including two aces by Zitzke, as MSU took its second and final timeout of the set with Pitt leading 15-10.
MSU would only be able to climb within two for the remainder of the set, and back-to-back kills by Dittrich and Alexa Campbell secured the 25-21 second victory. Dittrich had all nine of her kills in the first two sets.
The Bulldogs used a 4-0 spurt to take a 9-5 lead to open the third frame. MSU continued to control the set and a Pitt hitting error forced the Panthers to burn their second timeout of the stanza with the Bulldogs up 15-9. MSU stretched its largest lead to 10 at 24-14, but four straight Pitt points narrowed the gap. However, a kill by Lainey Wyman gave the Bulldogs the set (25-18) and forced a fourth set.
The Bulldogs held an early advantage in the fourth frame, but a 5-1 Pitt run evened the score at 11-11. The set would be tied five more times from that point on, but a kill from Wignot gave Pitt an 18-17 advantage and Pitt did not relinquish the lead. Pitt outscored MSU 8-2 down the stretch and went out for a 25-19 fourth set victory and secured the tournament championship.
For the match, Pitt had a hitting percentage of .230 and tallied eight total blocks. MSU was led by Lainey Wyman with 17 kills and Sarah Nielsen with 13.
The Panthers look to continue their momentum next weekend at the Ball State Invitational in Muncie, Ind. Pitt will take on the host Cardinals, Wright State and Wyoming.
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Make Your Next Fest the Best.
I don't know about you, but festivals are my favorite time of the year, almost like Christmas, 4th of July and my birthday all rolled into one. I get giddy just thinking about the 2-3 days of non-stop live music, dancing, and reuniting with my best festie friends. As the Eventbrite team is prepping for Governor's Ball here in NYC this weekend, and for Vans Warped Tour in San Francisco, I've laid out some tips on how to prepare for the epic weekend ahead:
- Buy tickets: Seems like an obvious answer, but you are not getting in without one of these bad boys. I'm a fan of the pre-sale myself, not knowing who is going to play yet brings a certain kind of thrill. Lucky for you, there are a few single day passes left for Governor's Ball and Vans Warped Tour. Pro tip: download the Eventbrite app so you don't have to print out your tickets.
- Find friends to go with you: This might also seem like a given, but it's important that your festival 'goals' align with your friends. If you LOVE music, tag along with buddies who feel the same. If you're more in it for the experience, get friendly with some folks who are also just around for the ride. Otherwise, things can get messy.
- Make a Schedule: Since my friends and I go to a couple of festivals a year, we have to be strategic on who we see. Obviously seeing the most bands is key. Governors Ball takes care of all the planning for you since there are NO overlapping sets. At Warped Tour, you'll have to be a bit more strategic in picking which bands you'll be checking out.
- Research: I have found a lot of my favorite new bands by looking up those I didn't know on the festival line-ups and listening online prior to the festival. My online music vessel of choice is Spotify.com because you can listen to the full songs for free online and are able to make and share playlists. Pro tip: search for the name of the festival on Spotify, there are usually some awesome pre-made playlists for the occasion.
- Meeting Place: Once you are at the festival's location your team should quickly locate a meeting place. There is a high possibility of dead phones and lost friends. You should always have a place and a time to find each other.
- Stay hydrated: It's summertime. It's probably hot out and you'll be outside for hours on end, perhaps dancing like a maniac. Drink a lot of water. Some festivals will let you bring in an empty water bottle to fill up once inside the gates, others will let you bring in two factory sealed bottles. Pro tip: check the festival's website beforehand so you know what you'll be allowed in with.
- Other essentials you need for a festival: sunscreen, blanket, camera, phone charger (this device has literally saved my life several times), cash, rain boots (flip flops + mud = nightmare), and after party invites (if you are still standing).
If you're headed to Governor's Ball or Warped Tour this weekend, or any other festival, this list should set you up for your much-anticipated weekend of musical delight. Hope to see you out there!
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1 Introduction
This page collects together information about the optimisations that GHC does and does not perform.
- GHC experts: Please check that the info in this page is correct.
- Everybody else: Feel free to add questions!
2 General optimisations
2.1 Common subexpression elimination
First of all, common subexpression elemination (CSE) means that if an expression appears in several places, the code is rearranged so that the value of that expression is computed only once. For example:
foo x = (bar x) * (bar x)
might be transformed into
foo x = let x' = bar x in x' * x'
GHC doesn't actually perform CSE as often as you might expect. The trouble is, performing CSE can affect the strictness/lazyness of the program. So GHC does do CSE, but only in specific circumstances --- see the GHC manual. (Section??)
Long story short: "If you care about CSE, do it by hand."
2.2 InliningInlining is where a function call is replaced by that function's definition. For example, the standard
map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b] map f [] = [] map f (x:xs) = f x : map f xs
Now if you write something like
foo = map bar
foo [] = [] foo (x:xs) = bar x : foo xs
So, that's what inlining is. By default, GHC will inline things if they are 'small enough'. Every time you inline a function, you are in a sense making a (customised) copy of that function. Do too much of this and the compiled program will be enormous. So it's only worth it for 'small' functions.
(How does GHC determine 'small'? Isn't there a switch that adjusts this?)
3 Execution Model
In order to understand how to write efficient code, and what GHC does with your code to optimise it, it helps to know a bit about what your compiled code looks like and how it works.
3.1 Graph reduction
To a first approximation, at any moment your program is a 'graph' of objects in memory. ('Graph' in the graph theory sense --- nodes connected by arcs.) Some of the objects are 'data' --- booleans, integers, strings, lists, etc. Some of those objects are functions (because Haskell lets you pass functions around like data). And some of these are thunks --- unevaluated expressions (because Haskell only evaluates expressions 'as needed').The program starts off with a single node representing the unevaluated call to
3.2 About STG
GHC compiles to the spineless tagness G-machine (STG). (Finish me!)


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GLASGOW — Zero goals didn't mean Jurgen Klinsmann saw nothing good out of his U.S. squad.
Instead, in the second half of a 0-0 draw with Scotland in an exhibition game Friday in Glasgow, Klinsmann liked much of what he saw.
The Americans had several strong scoring chances in the final minutes, thanks to substitutes Aron Johansson and Brek Shea.
"The first half I didn't like, too slow, not determined enough, not pushing enough," the U.S. coach said. "We kind of corrected some things in the second half and we looked much better.
"In the second half, players came on and they want to prove a point. Brek brought a lot of energy to the field, he can surprise some people. He can create something out of nothing."
And Johansson?
"He is still kind of fresh to our team, getting more comfortable and in the groove," Klinsmann said, "and I think you see his qualities that he has. It is just important to see he has the confidence, the qualities to step it up. It is nice to watch."
This was the first game for the U.S. since completing qualifying for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The U.S. team, ranked 13th in the world after winning CONCACAF qualifying, finishes its 2013 schedule Tuesday at Austria. Scotland, ranked 35th, did not qualify for Brazil 2014.
Johansson, whose goal beat Panama in the last match of qualifying, was part of two late threats. In the 83rd, with Jozy Altidore keeping the ball alive in front of the Scotland net, Johansson pounced on the left side. Goalkeeper David Marshall made a diving stop. Two minutes later, Shea broke down left wing and fed Johansson, whose left-footed shot went just wide.
"Sometimes late in games it starts to open up," he said, "and I think I took advantage of that and got a few chances."
Beyond that and several misses by Altidore, there wasn't much to the American attack. Still, Tim Howard got his 34th career shutout for the national team.
"I think away from home, we were resilient and got a draw," Howard said. "It's still a good result for us. "
The Americans are 16-3-3 under Klinsmann this year and 29-9-7 overall with Klinsmann as coach.
The Americans were sloppy throughout the first half, which Scotland controlled until the final minutes. Even when the U.S. was presented with a scoring chance in the 43rd minute, Altidore misplayed a pass in the box and never got off a shot.
Scotland, which twice beat Croatia in World Cup qualifying — the Croatians are in a playoff with Iceland for a spot at Brazil 2014 — established a slow tempo.
Craig Conway had the best chance in the 36th from close range on a setup by Steven Fletcher. But Conway's right-footed shot went wide of Howard's net.
The Americans looked smoother early in the second half as the paced picked up. Altidore's right-footed shot off a nice passing combination was caught by Marshall. Altidore also missed wide from close range in the 59th. When Scotland went back on attack, Howard was forced to make a spectacular save on Robert Snodgrass. Marshall matched it with his sprawling stop on Johansson.
Midfielder Michael Bradley returned for the U.S. after missing four qualifiers with an ankle sprain. He played the entire match. The Americans were missing two key injured players — Landon Donovan and Clint Dempsey.


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So much pain. So much death. One by one, they all fell. All of his friends died in one single war against the monster that destroyed his world. He watched his world burn, just as he watched his friends fight and get slaughtered. He was alone now. The only one left
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Don't think I need to go into detail on what these are capable of as most will know. Full DSP built in that is adjustable from a laptop running the software or a separate DRC.
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Amp is used with very minor blemishes. I've tried to get shots of them in the 2 photo's. It does come with a Zapco box but isn't the original one and is in pretty poor condition. I will double box it as well.
I will include a 18' symbilink cable as well as a converter. The cable is covered in white and black techflex. I can e-mail the software to the buyer as well as the required drivers to run it on Windows 7.
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As you can see in the photo's I changed out the hardware on top to stainless steel. As you can also see the bolts aren't flush and here's the reason. When I got the amp 2 of the original bolts had the threads stripped which required me to re-thread them up a size up to a M5 bolt. No harm or damage was done to the amp as I'm very careful with everything I do.
The side's of the amp has also been re threaded to M4x.70 instead of using the original screws.
I also have brackets that will allow you to stack 2 DC reference amp that I got from Kirk Proffitt that I would also be willing to sell. I have a 750.2 that I need to sell but I want to wait until Kirk sells his first as I don't want to step on his toes.
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Is it possible to get my USB drive plugged into my Time Capsule (aka Airdisk/Airport Disk) to be added as a share in XBMC (Eden RC2) running on ATV2?
I browse for new share and select Zeroconf Browser and then see:
Time Capsule (AFP)
but clicking on it doesn't do anything.
When I go into Airport Utility under Disks tab, I can select the USB drive and can see that I have "Enable file sharing" checked. And next to "Secure Shared Disks", the options are:
With accounts
With a disk password
With device password
and none of the options seems to work, even after I restart the ATV2 after selecting each option.
Am I missing something? Is there a manual way to point to the disk as a share?
Well, I got a little further. I figured out how to manually type in the path and I'm pretty sure I figured out the right path by mounting the USB drive on my Mac and then going to Get Info to find the url path which looked like:
so I typed in the path including the Movies folder like this:
and then I was able to set the password but when I tried to connect to the Movies folder, it just seems to show a blank directory ... and doesn't do anything.
Adding Airdisk (Airport Disk) as a share via AFP?
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When you are first adding a source you will not see the files. This is normal. (If this is what you mean) Once the source is added and shows up as an option on your file list, you'll be able to see all the files.
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The syntax is afp://user:password@ipaddr/path
Then try posting a logfile
As Ned says, you won't see files until after you have created the source.
HOW-TO post about a XBMC for iOS problem (AKA YOU MUST POST XBMC.LOG SO WE CAN HELP)
I bet you can't read the FAQ
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(2012-03-13 13:28)g-off Wrote: The syntax is afp://user:password@ipaddr/pathThanks! Finally got it to work. It was the syntax.
I used:
afp://username:diskpassword(i have it set to disk password in Airport Utilities now instead of device password or Account password, in order to have the airdisk automount as a login item)@IPaddressOfTheTimeCapsule/NameOfAirDiskVolume/Movies/
I don't know how important the slash at the end is but this worked for me right away.
Now I just gotta figure out why it's only listing some of all the movies in that directory. Granted, it's not organized very well at all...
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Just wondering, in this afp://username:diskpassword@IPaddressOfTheTimeCapsule/NameOfAirDiskVolume/Movies/ what is the username?
Is it the username of the computer (ubuntu box) I'm using?
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IIRC, it's the name of the AirPort Base Station
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I used the name of my account on my computer.
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- KC Sangakkara 50
- DPMD Jayawardene 92
- TT Samaraweera 143
- CK Kapugedera 35
- HAPW Jayawardene 17
- KTGD Prasad 6
- HMRKB Herath 0
- M Muralitharan 17*
- T Thushara 0
- CS Martin 1/81
- IE O'Brien 2/73
- DL Vettori 3/104
- JDP Oram 0/56
- JS Patel 4/78
- JD Ryder 0/17
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- Overs 101-150
Vettori to Paranavitana, OUT, Vettori, the captain cum selector, has struck with his second ball. It landed around the off stump and sort of held its line, Paranavitana stabbed it gently to first slip. It turned in a touch but not much and Paranavitana pushed inside the line. Gone! Sanga strides out.
NT Paranavitana c Taylor b Vettori 19 (53m 38b 2x4 0x6) SR: 50.00
O'Brien to Dilshan, OUT, Would you believe it folks? Dilshan, dropped by the bowler, sends another one his way! It was short in length and it sat up on Dilshan who tried to turn it to the on side but the ball held up, stopped a touch, on him on this slow track and he got a leading edge back to O'Brien who ever so slowly lunged forward to take the simple catch. Got to read the blogger later tonight.
TM Dilshan c & b O'Brien 29 (101m 58b 1x4 0x6) SR: 50.00
Vettori to Sangakkara, OUT, No 300 for Dan! Congrats. Sangakkara loses out on the patience game. He had just hit a boundary but couldn't resist another big hit. It was flighted delivery, tempting him to go for another big hit from outside off, and Sanga took up the challenge. Down he went on his knee to play the big slog sweep but hit it straight to deep midwicket. He is the first left-arm spinner to take 300.
KC Sangakkara c Oram b Vettori 50 (115m 96b 9x4 0x6) SR: 52.08
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DPMD Jayawardene c †McCullum b O'Brien 92 (312m 234b 8x4 0x6) SR: 39.31
Patel to Kapugedera, OUT, Kapu crashes his bat on the ground as he storms off in disgust. He ran down the track and tried to loft it over long-on but was beaten in the flight and ended up slicing it to Dan at mid-off.
CK Kapugedera c Vettori b Patel 35 (76m 63b 3x4 1x6) SR: 55.55
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HAPW Jayawardene c O'Brien b Martin 17 (22m 18b 3x4 0x6) SR: 94.44
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KTGD Prasad c Taylor b Patel 6 (13m 12b 1x4 0x6) SR: 50.00
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HMRKB Herath lbw b Patel 0 (1m 1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00
Patel to Samaraweera, OUT, Samaraweera has given Patel a free wicket. He went for the reverse sweep and ended up gloving a dolly to McCullum who took couple of steps to his left to take it. Fine innings from Samaraweera comes to an end.
TT Samaraweera c †McCullum b Patel 143 (377m 240b 17x4 1x6) SR: 59.58
Vettori to Thushara, OUT, Dan picks up the last wicket. Tossed up outside off and Thushara went for a big swing but sliced it to the off side and Patel back-pedaled from mid-off to take the catch
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Oregon Attorney General Files Agreement With Texas-Based Yellow Pages Directories To End Misleading And Deceptive Solicitations Of Oregon Small Businesses
Attorney General Hardy Myers today announced the filing of a settlement agreement with a Texas "yellow pages" operation that deceptively solicited Oregon small businesses by offering free listings in an online "yellow pages directory."
Named in an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance (AVC) filed in Marion County Circuit Court are Ad TelAmerica, Inc. of Dallas, Texas, and its president, Barbara Sommer. Sommer operates Yellow Pages Directories (YPD) in Carrollton, Texas. Oregon Department of Justice (DOJ) investigators found that Sommer lead consumers and businesses to believe YPD is the same Internet-based directory service as "onlineyellowpages.com," which it is not. Onlineyellowpages.com is a division of Yellow Pages Online, Inc., a Nevada corporation. The AVC admits no law violation.
Seven Oregon businesses filed complaints in 2007 with DOJ after receiving phony invoices and solicitations from YPD. The solicitation, complete with the familiar "yellow pages walking fingers" logo, appeared to be a final listing notice for advertisements placed in an online yellow pages publication. The form falsely intimated that the businesses had pre-existing relationships with YPD when they did not and also contained numerous misleading references to offers for free directory listings which disguised the overall cost of the offering. Barely discernable type at the bottom of each solicitation, which businesses were likely to not have discovered, stated that in order to obtain the "free" listings online a semi-annual payment of $298.00 was due for print or compact disc (CD) editions of the directory.
Investigators found that the print and CD editions of the directory were not distributed to consumers and, if actually published, were only sent to other similarly-scammed advertisers on a regional or national level. Oregon consumers apparently never received copies of either edition. Investigators requested copies of the directories from YPD but never received them.
Businesses that replied to the free solicitation and refused to pay bogus invoices after realizing they were misled, were turned over to collection agencies.
"This is not the first company we have stopped from using phony solicitations when selling yellow page advertising," Myers explained. "The method of operation is similar in several cases: the solicitation contains hidden costs and falsely implies a pre-existing relationship. In addition, if the worthless books or CDs were distributed, it was on a limited basis and only to other advertisers, not to the intended consumer audience."
"It is imperative that Oregon small businesses protect their bank accounts by verifying that advertising offers they accept are from trusted sources," Myers added.
DOJ has taken enforcement actions against YPD in the recent past. In January 2007, investigators issued a letter warning the company of possible violation of Oregon's Simulated Invoice law and in September 2007, DOJ filed suit in Yamhill County Circuit Court. As part of today's settlement agreement, DOJ requested that the lawsuit be dismissed with prejudice.
Under the agreement, the business complainants who paid money to YPD will receive refunds and billings will be canceled for the businesses that did not pay for the directory or CD. YPD paid $4,500 to the DOJ Consumer Protection and Education Fund and agreed to stop its misleading business solicitation practices by clearly stating when materials are solicitations and not invoices and describing the actual costs of services. In addition, YPD cannot imply in its solicitations that a pre-existing business relationship exists.
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The 13 rules of gunfighting everyone should know
The rest of the rules are quite right and good, but the quote at the end is probably wrong.
There's no evidence that Jefferson ever wrote the "reload" quote, and it's not consistent with his writing habits ( http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/peace-brief-glorious-moment-historyquotation ). Even if Jefferson would have liked it, and I suspect that he would have, we shouldn't use it unless we know he said it.
Sounds like a plan!
Rules to live by.
The company I took my training from said many of the 'rules' above. They also did something interesting. There is a unique thing that happens in a gun fight. They wanted all the students to feel it so in the event we were in one we wouldn't freeze up. They had all of us move an arms lenght from our targets which placed us inside the mountain of tires and dirt that made up the shooting range. We then all at the same time fired all our rounds fast as possible into the targets. The sound waves resonated around us and felt like being in a swimming pool with lots of kids jumping in.
It was a good thing they did this; if I didn't know about it and was in a gun fight, I probably would have froze thinking something was wrong. God forbid I'm ever faced with it but that last bit of training was worth the cost of the entire class.
What type of training and where?
These rules should be practiced until they are a part of our nature. As soon as a threat is recognized it must be delt with, if you want to live.
Except when it is your kid coming through the garage door because you locked the front door for the first time in the whole time you lived in the house. I believe a "Halt! Who goes there?" as you chamber a 12 gauge shotgun shell goes a long way in saving innocent lives.
I think that is why she said "as soon as a threat is recognized"
I would never fire on a target that I could not clearly discern – unless I had no other choice.
But Judy brings up a good point. All the family needs to be on the same page so no one is surprised in the middle of the night.
In our family, a dog goes a long way toward helping in that regard. My old bitch will greet you as a friend all hours of the day or night – if she knows you. She will bark her fool head off if she doesn't. If you know a dog well, you can pretty much tell from the bark what's going on – if it's a threat, another dog etc. I can pretty much tell if I need to get up and check just from her bark. A dog is a great threat analyst.
A little story to illustrate the power of a dog. I had a family friend (rest in peace) who was a K9 handler at our local police department. One night he was called to an intruder alarm call in the warehouse of one of the large furniture stores. They police sent him and the dog in the do a quick check.
The dog alerted the handler that there was a person hiding inside a large shipping container. My friend gave loud instruction for the person to come out of the box or he would send the dog. When no one came out, he gave the command for the dog to go in and bite the person.
The dog promptly ignored the command. My friend gave the command again. The dog ignored again. So my friend was forced to go into the box himself – only to find a young kid – too scared to speak or move.
My friend was the father of a big family. The dog lived in the home with all the kids. He refused to bite a child, even on the orders of his master. (which – by the way – is a big big no no for a K9 dog according to my friend. They are supposed to bite whoever they are told to) Had he listened to his master, there is no telling how badly the child may have been hurt.
My friend was so upset by this incident, that he retired a few weeks later. And, they washed out the dog – he was considered unreliable in the field because he refused to bite!
Sorry if this story is a little off topic, but I really believe that a good dog can be the best intruder alarm, best bad guy deterrent and often the best friend a guy can have. I know my dog is often a better judge of people than I am!
Sent this on to dh and both sons. Thanks!
I agree with the posting.
Judy: I have 2l grandsons (ages 10 & 12). Both knock at the door, even when they are expected, and wait for an answer before coming in. They know the reason and what could happen if they don't. My children were trained the same way. THAT is what prevents unintended shootings of family members. IMHO.
well I use the old fashion way to detect who comes through the door it's called a lock and every family member has a key. ALSO if they forget their key and knock I'll ask for the password we have two one is for your OK and want in and the other is your being used as a shield so the door will be opened and the bad guys get in. Never leave your house unlocked and as for a dog Dogs never bothered me and should be used as your last defense they are not as reliable as you might think
The first rule I learned about a gunfight was,
"The only way to win a gunfight is to not get into one."
Once the shooting starts, it's only about minimizing your losses.
The #1 rule of gunfighting is to bring a gun.
I agree with KC in BC… Rule #1 in a gun fight is to have a gun!
BK in KC, I'd like to modify your post – "The #1 rule of gunfighting is to bring a gun" to "The #1 rule of gunfighting is to bring a loaded gun". An unloaded gun is a club.
BUT the biggest problem for most of you is you don't carry a gun 24/7 it's when you don't have it on you you will need it. Most of you don't realize how long it takes for your body to adapt to carrying. I never have a gun less then 1 foot away and that's when i'm sleeping all other times it's either in my pocket back for large cal. front pocket for the smaller ones or on my hip.
+1 to that.
I disagree with the "arms length" rule. A bad guy can cover 20 feet in the length of time it takes to make the decision and pull the trigger. If a stranger is closer than 21 feet, he's too close and you should already be doing something.
agreed. Every LEO is taught the 21 foot rule.
Credit should be given to the author of most of those quotes, Mr. Clint Smith of Thunder Ranch.
I'm late but I have another rule. After TEOTWAWKI the continuum of force rules do not apply with the attendant criminal and civil charges.
Use greater force than your attackers and apply greater and greater levels of force before they do. May not seem fair but the object is to prevail.
I saw a Western years ago that was a great example of this. A fellow called our protagonist out for a 'fair' gunfight in the middle of the street. The challenger waited with holstered gun in the street. The protagonist walked as far as his horse drew his lever action rifle and leaning on the saddle, killed the startled challenger.
Greater force, applied sooner and with cover/concealment.


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The San Francisco 49ers have agreed to trade quarterback Alex Smith to the Kansas City Chiefs for a 2nd round pick in this coming April's draft as well as a similar pick in the 2014 draft, said 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh while wearing a bandit's mask.
"This is a deal that will surely be beneficial to all parties," Harbaugh explained, while adjusting the criminal eyewear. "Alex gets a fresh start, and the Chiefs add stability at the quarterback position. In exchange, we get the first pick of the draft's 2nd round this year, as well as the Chiefs' 2nd rounder in 2014."
"Yes, seriously," Harbaugh added in response to persistent questioning from reporters.
Smith, the number one overall choice in the 2005 draft, was largely disappointing during his 49ers tenure, and found himself benched in favor of second year player Colin Kaepernick during last season's Super Bowl run. Wednesday's transaction surpassed what many perceived as Smith's limited trade value.
"We wanted to do whatever it took to make Alex a Chief, and we feel we're adding a heck of a player," said Kansas City coach Andy Reid, while wearing a dunce cap. "We couldn't be happier with the terms of the deal."
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Man Leaves Home to Check on Business, Then Finds Home on Fire
(Hamilton) When a Hamilton business owner briefly left his home to check on his business, he returned and found his house on fire early Monday morning.
The business owner told fire crews he left his home after an alarm was activated for his business located on the East side of town. When he returned, he saw his house on fire around 4 a.m. on Millvale Avenue.
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Of the leading Jewish thinkers of the 1890s, the Copenhagen rabbi and scion of a notable Rabbinic family, Hirsch Goitein (1863-1903) rebranded Judaism as a true pessimistic religion, the Schopenhauerian religion par excellence.
In 1890, Hirsch Goitein wrote that the Jewish philosophy of religion combines a pessimist view of life with a transcendental theological optimism allowing for understanding the evil in this world as part of the divine plan. For him, even with the impact of various readings of pessimism within Jewish thought from the Bible through the early modern era and Spinoza, Judaism showed that pessimism could exist within religious belief (Goitein 1890: 109). "Such pessimism does not lead to a dismissal and negation of this life but to a transcendence of the world (Weltuberwindung) and a domination over life." (Lebensbeherrschung) (Goitein 1890: 111) But for Goitein "action" is the one necessity for a truly pessimistic religion. For Goitein, happiness is never to be imagined in terms of actual lived experience, but, following the views of the philosopher Eduard yon Hartmann (1842-1906) that an individual's happiness is indeed unattainable either here and now or in the future, Goitein imagines the eventual release of the Unconscious from its sufferings by a collective social effort and not through Schopenhauer's individualistic asceticism. Goitein's happiness is always to be understood as a transcendental optimism. He sees this as identical to the Jewish view that discourages any individualistic asceticism in favor of the correct manner of controlling life through action. The Jews demand action in the world as the corollary to a pessimistic, illusory universe. Acting means dealing with the pessimism of illusion. Thus Jewish philosophy (and Goitein) focuses on action (often through unhappiness) instead of happiness. This is a very abstract notion but it reappears in the most extraordinary place.


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Posted by Richard Fichera on the Infrastructure & Operations Professionals Blog on January 21, 2013
I was part of a Forrester Team that recently completed a multi-country rollout tour with Emerson Network Power as they formally released their Trellis DCIM product, a comprehensive DCIM environment many years in the building. One of the key takeaways was both an affirmation of our fundamental assertions about DCIM, plus hints about its popularity and attraction for potential customers that in some ways expand on the original value proposition we envisioned. Our audiences were in total approximately 500 selected data center users, most current Emerson customers of some sort, plus various partners.
The audiences uniformly supported the fundamental thesis around DCIM – there exists a strong underlying demand for integrated DCIM products, with a strong proximal emphasis on optimizing power and cooling to save opex and avoid the major disruption and capex of new data center capacity. Additionally, the composition of the audiences supported our contention that these tools would have multiple stakeholders in the enterprise. As expected, the groups were heavy with core Infrastructure & Operations types – the people who have to plan, provision and operate the data center infrastructure to deliver the services needed for their company's operations. What was heartening was the strong minority presence of facilities people, ranging from 10% to 30% of the attendees, along with a sprinkling of corporate finance and real-estate executives. Informal conversations with a number of these people gave us consistent input that they understood the need, and in some cases were formerly tasked by their executives, to work more closely with the I&O group. All expressed the desire for an integrated tool to help with this.
Posted by Richard Fichera on the Infrastructure & Operations Professionals Blog on February 13, 2012
Data centers, like any other aspect of real estate, follow the age-old adage of "location, location, location," and if you want to build one that is really efficient in terms of energy consumption as well as possessing all the basics of reliability, you have to be really picky about ambient temperatures, power availability and, if your business is hosting for others rather than just needing one for yourself, potential expansion. If you want to achieve a seeming impossibility – a zero carbon footprint to satisfy increasingly draconian regulatory pressures – you need to be even pickier. In the end, what you need is:
Posted by Chris Mines on the CIOs Blog on January 4, 2012
There is still another quiet day or two on the fresh page of my calendar, before the new year really gets going. Schools are still playing Bowl games, and the tree is still up (if brown-ish), so it must still be the holiday season.
And I have three topics I want to discuss before the 2012 agenda kicks into gear. These aren't really on the mainline IT-for-sustainability topic, but rather observations on changes underway in the IT industry, which may have some implications for companies' or individuals' sustainability efforts downstream.
Have you heard of Kickstarter? This is social media meets venture capital meets (very) early-stage entrepreneurs, tech and otherwise. Pretty much accidentally, I was pinged by and ended up contributing to two different projects which I will mention below. But check out the overall story at Kickstarter; it looks to me like a revolution-in-the making in terms of how new ideas will get funding and build community (increasingly those are one in the same).
The first project that found its way to my inbox is called Twine. It's . . . how to describe it? It's a little box that connects things to the Internet. Along with some software rules, the Twine box links internal or external sensors (temperature, moisture, motion, open/close, and the like) to the Internet via an email, text, or tweet.
Posted by Chris Mines on the CIOs Blog on November 4, 2011
My fellow keynoters hailed from Germany, Brazil, China, Switzerland, and the US. And one of the topics over dinner was the coming round of sustainability conferences, COP 17 in Durban, South Africa, next month; the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi in January; and Rio+20 in Brazil next June, all part of what the UN has dubbed its "Sustainable energy for all" initiative.
Which got me to thinking: Is it sustainable for all these experts to be flying around the world attending sustainability conferences? The "industry" of creating more sustainable business, home, and public environments should be a role model.
All of us involved in improving sustainability should take a look at our travel schedules and see if cutting one or more of those long-haul flights can be part of our "carbon diet" for the coming year.
And we should pay attention to technology-enabled alternatives, like the VERGE virtual conference run a few months ago by my friends at GreenBiz. Videoconferencing, webcasting, and other technologies can help habitual conference-goers like myself to separate participation in an event from travel to the event.
Posted by Chris Mines on the CIOs Blog on January 26, 2011
Last week, Forrester gathered its 1,200 worldwide employees together for an offsite meeting in Boston to kick off our agenda and plans for 2011 and beyond. It was the first time we had gotten the whole company together under one roof in 4 years; the company has grown by roughly 50 percent since the beginning of 2007.
Part of our offsite was devoted to research agenda planning around the big themes that we have identified for the technology industry in the coming year. And we have quite a strong research agenda in the sustainability arena, focusing on how large companies are using IT systems, software, and services to help meet their sustainability goals.
Our research agenda starts with our big-picture point of view on the state of the technology industry. And that is a good place to be! The global technology industry is at the beginning of a multi-year up-cycle of industry innovation and growth, during which investment in tech products and services will grow considerably faster than the overall economy. This was true in 2010 and will again hold true in 2011 and 2012 (see Figure 1).


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The injured plagued Twins could be two players closer to being back to full strength when they arrive at the ballpark in Milwaukee tomorrow. Joe Nathan and Jim Thome could both return from the DL by the start of play on Friday.
The Twins activated Joe Nathan following their 2-1 loss to San Francisco today. To make room for him on the 25-man roster, the Twins optioned Jim Hoey to the Rochester Red Wings. Nathan has made multiple appearances over the last week with the Red Wings. Those outing have gone very well and he seems to have recovered decently from the right flexor muscle strain that put him on the shelf since May 24.
Jim Thome has yet to be activated from the DL with a strained left quad and sore back. The Twins trainers will evaluate him at the stadium before the game on Friday to see if he is prepared for a return. He has been rehabbing in Florida and took part in a simulated game yesterday. Since Mauer returned, the Twins have been carrying three catchers on the roster. One of those catchers will be making a trip to AAA with the return of Thome.
It will be interesting to see if the Twins activate Thome for the Milwaukee series since he would only be used as a pinch hitter in late inning situations. Mauer was a little sore on Wednesday so it could be beneficial for the Twins to keep the extra catcher until Monday when the Twins return home. That way Thome can fit back into the line-up as the DH but he would be a welcomed addition off the bench against the Brewers.