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Almost Human, the developers behind the first-person PC dungeon crawler, Legend of Grimrock, recently announced that their game will be making its way to the iOS platform. iOS development for the game was first mentioned in a tweet back in 2012 and nothing had been mentioned since, until now. The company mentioned that a friend of the studio, Juha Pinola, stepped up to the plate and worked on a port. According to the developers:
The game isnt just a direct port from the PC version of Legend of Grimrock. We have always felt that the game wouldn't work on touch screens straight out of the box but needed a few custom mechanics to get the benefits of the touch interface.
For those of you who didnt know, Legend of Grimrock plays a lot like the Atari ST classic Dungeon Master game. Users can control a party of four adventurers as one unit and move in real time across a 3D grid-based dungeon. Youll end up coming across puzzles to solve, deadly traps to avoid and as one might expect, several enemies to fight.
Those of you looking for more information on the game can find it on the official website.
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Sheridan's movie seeks to engage and enrage. It's not, however, a film with an ideological axe to sharpen, but one which unfolds, with a sense of passionate conviction, a story of injustice - that of the four people wrongly convicted of the IRA's Guildford pub bombings in October 1974. Tracing back to Belfast in the early '70s to uncover the roots of the tragedy, the narrative goes on to chronicle the British judicial system's wilful imprisonment of the Guildford Four - Gerry Conlon (Day-Lewis), fellow tearaway Paul Hill (Lynch), and their London acquaintances Carole Richardson and Paddy Armstrong - plus their alleged accomplices, Conlon's father (Postlethwaite) and relatives in the Maguire family. It then follows events leading to the highly publicised release of the Four in 1989. Sheridan and co-writer Terry George make some minor factual alterations in order to underscore the emotional pain of the long fight for legal reappraisal.
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Erick Erickson is never one to pull a punch and in a recent post at RedState he essentially calls Reps. Paul Ryan, Jim Jordan, Tom Price, Jen Hensarling, Steve Scalise and every other conservative House leader "naive fools." Their crime? They all refused to shutdown the federal government over immediately defunding all of Obamacare. He writes:
There are many naive fools who think Obamacare will crumble under its own weight.
History shows us that government entitlements never crumble under their own weight. Rather, countries crumble under the weight of those entitlements.
Democrats were willing to lose their congressional majority to pass Obamacare. They lost the House. They came close to losing the Senate. Republicans have shown no such willingness to correct the Democrats' wrong.
What is Erickson's point here? That Republicans should be willing to lose their majority in the House, like Democrats did, in order to defund Obamacare implementation this year?
What would that accomplish exactly?
If Republicans acted like petulant two-year-olds who throw an epic tantrum every time they don't get 100 percent of what they want, Obama would get back control of the House in 2014 and secure a stronger majority in the Senate. In 2015, he would then immediately refund Obamacare, fast track it's implementation, grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants, fast track their conversion to become Democratic voters, and raise taxes by at least another trillion dollars.
It probably feels very therapeutic to write sentences like, "Now is the time to have the fight. Now is the time to shut down the government." But that is venting, not thinking. Ryan, Jordan, Hensarling, et al have taken a longer more strategic view. I doubt calling them "naive fools" is going to change their minds either.


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Glow-in-the-dark pigment has been trapped inside a real light bulb, then encased in a solid block of acrylic resin. The optical effect is caused by light diffracting in the tiny space between the light bulb and the resin (during the production process the resin shrinks slightly and a space is created). When you turn out the lights at night, the Glow Brick emits a subtle, tranquil light from inside the lamp.
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I'm sure everyone is still there, on their way back or sleeping by now. I'll kick off the pics and everyone can add theirs in this thread.
I thought the venue nice, but a bit boring compared with years past.
Three complaints are:
$40 entry before 9AM, without ANY priority on parking
ALL cars are ALL over the place, there is NO organization between Series and if you're looking for a particular car or model, you can wander for an hour aimlessly to no avail.
I heard the food sucked, but I couldn't attest to that. I went to get a hot dog for $4.50 at 11:30AM and they were already out, and hocking beef sandwiches for $8.00. No thanks.
It seems as though it is turning into more of a money grubbing cult than a car meet, since all they seem to be worried about is if they can collect $20, $40, or $60 from you as you enter. If you want to leave with your car and come back, good luck getting your same spot, as someone who paid half what you paid and showed up 2 hours later has taken your spot.
It's always a fun gig with lots of beautiful cars, women and nice people to chat with. I've definitely seen better, and I hope they clean up their act for years to come.
Anyone spot my car? I saw southpaw, and a few others but didn't recognize many faces. I've had better luck with that in previous years as well.
Enough ranting, the show was great and I have pics to prove it. Hope you all had a fun time, and a safe trip home.
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Kids and Business: Nurturing Young Entrepreneurs. "My daughter has decided that she wants to open a candy store. Does this plan, out of the mind of a six-year-old, indicate an entrepreneurial streak? Perhaps." (The Wall Street Journal)
Do Startups Really Need to be Disruptive? "Within the startup world, the most popular world these days is "disruptive". If a start-up wants to make a splash and resonate with lots of users, it needs to be disruptive." (Forbes)
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The Lakers played unselfish basketball throughout the game, posting 29 assists on 41 made field goals. The bench had a significant effect on the game, adding 33 points to the point total. Pau Gasol who came off the bench had 16 points, 4 rebounds, and 4 assists. Antawn Jamison had 12 points off 4-of-6 shooting.
Steve Nash had 17 points and 5 assists, Earl Clark had 11 points and 4 rebounds, and Metta World Peace had 15 points and 10 rebounds. Dwight Howard had a slow game, with 8 points and 10 rebounds, shooting 2-of-10 from the free throw line.
The Thunder were led by Kevin Durant, who had 35 points and 4 assists. Durant and Westbrook both had off nights, with Durant going 10-of-26 and Westbrook going 6-of-22 from the field.
Los Angeles has now won two straight and are off until Tuesday when they welcome the New Orleans Hornets to Staples Center. The Lakers have now jumped up to the 10th spot in the Western Conference. The Lakers played complete basketball on Sunday, and if the Lakers make a run to the playoffs, Sunday's game could be the game the team looks back to as the game that changed the season.Tags: Antawn Jamison, Basketball, Dwight Howard, Earl Clark, Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Lakers, Metta World Peace, NBA, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City Thunder, Pau Gasol, Staples Center, Steve Nash


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BERLIN: The town where the Protestant Reformation was launched 500 years ago has come under sharp criticism from churchgoers over its nomination of the Russian punk rock band Pussy Riot for a freedom of speech prize.
The town council of Lutherstadt Wittenberg recommended Pussy Riot for the national prize named in honour of Martin Luther, who nailed his 95 theses to a church door in 1517 and was excommunicated by the Catholic church when he refused to retract them.
Town authorities said the moral courage shown by Pussy Riot was similar to that of Luther, but the decision has angered many Germans who say they cannot support the decision to fete a band that protested in a church.
Three members of Pussy Riot were convicted this summer of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred after staging a "punk prayer" in Moscow's Christ the Saviour church, where they urged the Virgin Mary to banish Vladimir Putin from Russia. One of the three was freed on appeal on Wednesday. The two others are serving two-year prison sentences.
The theologian Friedrich Schorlemmer accused the band of blasphemy. "It would send a horrendous signal if Pussy Riot won this prize," he said. "If that kind of performance had taken place in the cathedrals of Magdeburg or Cologne, imagine what the response would have been."
Heiner Friedrich List, one of the Wittenberg town council members who opposed the nomination, said he would fight for it to be quashed. He described the band members as "chaotic shrews" who, after breaking into the church wearing masks, "made bigoted and insulting statements".
But a local historian, Volkmar Joestel, said the band's stand was very much in the spirit of Luther. "That alone deserves every honour," he said.
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Hi all,
Whenever I attempt to save changes to the "Restrict Visibility" settings of some menu item, whenever I return to the menu item, I find that those settings haven't been saved. Was there some intermediary step I missed, or otherwise am I doing something wrong?
It also doesn't spout any errors when I save changes.
Comment #1AlexisWilke CreditAttribution: AlexisWilke commented
You may want to try with a newer version of Menu per Role?
Also... What version of Drupal do you have? If you have a version before 6.10 then you need to install the patch provided in the tarball.
Thank you.
Comment #3AlexisWilke CreditAttribution: AlexisWilke commented
Okay... did you just upgrade to 6.20? I still just have 6.19 and it works just fine for me... Or did you upgrade from 1.7 to 1.8 of Menu per Role recently?
Thank you.
Comment #5AlexisWilke CreditAttribution: AlexisWilke commented
Some people say they have problems with 1.8 display, but not the saving of flags...
But I did not yet try with Drupal 6.20... I don't see why 6.20 would be a problem, but you never know. After all, before 6.10, the Core had a problem with this module! I should upgrade soon anyway so I'll have to remember to check this then.
Thank you for the feedback.
Comment #6AlexisWilke CreditAttribution: AlexisWilke commented
Okay, you were right, saving of a new node would ignore the flags you'd set for menu per roles.
I applied a patch, and this is the same problem as in #948158: Use of "hidden from role" menu items in 6.x-1.8 causes Menu per Role to stop working (fixed) so I will mark this very issue as a duplicate of the other since more people are part of the other. Please, test with the dev version to see whether you still have a problem. I did not make any other changes since Oct 19 (i.e. version 1.8).
Thank you.
Alexis Wilke
Comment #7izmeez CreditAttribution: izmeez commented
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I have tested the new dev version and used it to create a new menu item.
I had previously found there was some issue with the restrict menu visibility setting(s) not being saved consistently on the creation of a node that was also used as a menu item. I am not sure if that was happening all the time because it was not the real focus of my testing and concerns.
The new dev version seems to works fine on the test I have done.
However, this is not a duplicate of http://drupal.org/node/948158 which I will elaborate on in that thread. I am changing the status of this issue to needs review. I hope that is ok. It may be helpful if someone else can also test this so I did not change status to RTBC.
Comment #9AlexisWilke CreditAttribution: AlexisWilke commented
Okay, got it! 8-)
An empty string generates an array of 1 item.
I wonder why I could not replicate the problem, but I will have a fix here soon.
Sorry for the trouble.
Comment #10AlexisWilke CreditAttribution: AlexisWilke commented
Okay, a fix for that problem was checked in. I also attached a patch here.
Let me know how that works for you! I'm pretty sure that's the problem.
Thank you.
Comment #11izmeez CreditAttribution: izmeez commented
Is the patch in #10 to be applied to 6.x-1.8 or to the latest dev ?
Comment #12AlexisWilke CreditAttribution: AlexisWilke commented
You cannot change a version once it was generated... It will be in the -dev version although it should apply against 1.8 too. So if you just wait for -dev you'll be all good. Both patches will be included in that latest version.
Thank you.
Comment #14AlexisWilke CreditAttribution: AlexisWilke commented
Did you verify that the selection was indeed there? I would imagine so, but I just want to make sure. In some cases, the flags would not get saved.
Thank you.
Comment #16AlexisWilke CreditAttribution: AlexisWilke commented
From what I read, the Menu Access Items would do something similar to the Menu per Role.
Couldn't you just remove the Menu per Role and use the other module only (since it is broader)?
Or is the other module not working at all for you?
Also, a good way to work (not like I 100% follow it either...) is to have a backup of your database before you upgrade. That way, if you have a problem with an upgrade, you "should" be able to go back without much problem (i.e. simply by restoring the database you also remove the latest installed modules since that information is saved in the system table.)
The code of the Menu Access Items is not supported well though, but it comes from a University so you'd expect it to work right?!
Thank you.
Comment #17AlexisWilke CreditAttribution: AlexisWilke commented
Another thing I just thought about. By name, menu_access should be before menu_per_roles, in other words, whatever menu_access changes should be changed before the menu_per_roles module applies its own changes.
However, if they change the weight of the module to 1 or more, then it would be executed after. This means it could be stepping over the menu_per_roles changes and "restore" the "default" behavior.
To make sure, you should look at the current weight of the menu_access module (in the system table, search for the module and look at the weight column, there are some modules that give you access to that data if you want to.)
And either way, you could try to set the menu_per_roles weight to a number higher than menu_access (+1 is enough.)
This being said, it could also be that the callback that menu_per_role expects is somehow annihilated. To test that theory, you'd have to change the code as follow in menu_per_roles.module:
function menu_per_role_translated_menu_link_alter(&$item, $map)
drupal_set_message('Menu per role callback called.', 'error');
// avoid checking the role if the item access is already false
if ($item['access'] && _menu_per_role_access($item['mlid']) === FALSE) {
$item['access'] = FALSE;
By adding the drupal_set_message() you'll know whether our function is called or not. If not, then obviously it cannot have any effect on the menu visibility.
Thank you.
Comment #18izmeez CreditAttribution: izmeez commented
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|» Needs work
I am using the latest 6.x-1.x-dev release dated 2011-01-03 and the changes to menu role visibility are not being saved consistently.
This has failed on existing nodes one which was converted to a menu item and the other which already was a menu item to which role visibility settings were added.
Usually the first save is failing and editing the node again the role visibility setting are still empty. The second save seems to always work.
Comment #20AlexisWilke CreditAttribution: AlexisWilke commented
Indeed. The problem is not whether the node exists, but the menu item. The item identifier (mlid) is known in the hook_nodeapi(), but not when the menu item callback is called.
So this means we do not need to have the callback for the node form, but we want to have the 'update' as well in the hook_nodeapi() function.
Now, as I was at it I checked the Preview and that fails. Grrr...
Thank you.
Alexis Wilke
Comment #21AlexisWilke CreditAttribution: AlexisWilke commented
The newer version will be available within 12h. But I don't think that will help you yet.
Did you try to disable the Menu Access module? Just disabling it should prevent it from being loaded and thus from interfering. I guess that may not work if it plugged something in the system that causes problems if not removed when being disabled.
As long as you have direct access to your Database, you can fix the problem of WSOD, etc. by setting the status flag in the system table back to 1 (I'd suggest you back up your entire database first anyway, then just restore the system table if you have problems and cannot use Drupal anymore.)
Thank you.
Alexis Wilke
Comment #22AlexisWilke CreditAttribution: AlexisWilke commented
|Needs work
|» Needs review
Switching back to needs review 8-)
See #20
Comment #24AlexisWilke CreditAttribution: AlexisWilke commented
|Needs review
|» Fixed
Okay, the first problem (changes to visibility not being saved) should be 100% resolved in version 6.x-1.9.
Feel free to reopen the issue if you still have problems.
Thank you.
Alexis Wilke


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PIX 515E unable to ping outside from inside
Dear all,
I' d like to have some support for a very-basic PIX firewall configuration.
I 'm dealing with PIX 515E.
Inside hosts can ping inside interface , outside hosts outside interface and so on...
Simply i cannot ping outside interface from inside hosts,
Inside host-192.168.1.0
Outside - any host like google.com, or to check my isp link's dns ip.
I have attached the pix configuration text file to test and please suggest what i did wrong.


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Luongo Gone, Playoffs Too?
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from Cam Cole of the Vancouver Sun,
So having the Panthers take Luongo on Tuesday in exchange for what might be a little something or a lot of nothing was at best a mixed blessing.
On the one hand, the albatross of a contract is gone, or all but $800,000 or so a year. The public relations nightmare that Luongo was becoming, through no fault of his own, is gone. And the ever-present doubt about what would become of the Canucks, with Luongo in net again once the playoffs started, is gone.
On the other hand, though, the playoffs might be gone, too, and not just this year.
That is the upshot of one of the most grievously mishandled talent surpluses hockey has ever seen: it is now rebuilding time in Vancouver. The days of contending for championships are in the past, and whether they'll return in the middle-to-distant future depends on whether this organization has the savvy to assemble the right pieces to forestall a steep decline.
It has not shown anything like that ability since the nucleus players from previous administrations began to tumble down the far side of the hill.
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Generating Memories plus Blowing Pockets in Lombok
Lebaran had been over and the crowds had delivered home in order that it was an excellent time to get from Jakarta stay of chilling out also to celebrate my own better half's birthday.
While my wife and I usually are not so keen on Bali and wanted to you should find an alternative. Both these styles us usually are avid scuba and prefer to waste less on lodging together with nightlife and we could save money on our DIVING habits.
Many of us searched Lombok Day Trip for a location that is inexpensive, relatively easy to get to, clean/comfortable services, nice seashores, good playing ball and of course excellent diving. We have lucky on this search and found an ideal spot for a long weekend break. South Lombok.
South West Sekotong's Gili Asahan to be exact. Often the dive internet sites exceeded each of our expectations but it was the holiday resort where many of us stayed the fact that made often the trip excellent. We travelled Lion Air flow to Mataram and fulfilled up with the driving force for a relaxed hour car ride on the southwest coast of Lombok, and these individuals we took a short 45 second boat ride through the stunning island loaded coast series to Memo Asahan.
Idiota Asahan is a tiny area that has a person small local village and a small functional pearl farmville farm. The only different facility on the island is the Resort. There are just 4 bungalows and is been able by a amazing Belgium lady named Martine, and her husband, George, manages this diving surgical procedures.
The bungalows were completed earlier come early july and still experienced that "new" smell directly to them. They offer big accommodations offering an in-suite garden toilet for great popular showers after having a day involving diving. In the evening, one can open the glass windows on each area of the bedroom and enjoy a calming sleep for the soft princess or queen size bed. There is no air-con but the roof fan as well as the ocean snap usually preserve it cool enough to enjoy a superb night's relaxation.
Rising beginning, one can catch a spectacular dawn over the closeby islands and after that in the evening, require a short hike to the best of a tiny hill and catch a great equally spectacular sunset.
Typically the diving realized our expectations. Prior to going, I put heard many horror testimonies about Lombok diving but I am very happy to say there was no indications of coral reefs bleaching in addition to happily simply no signs of injuries caused by dynamiting or cyanide fishing. The many reefs most of us visited had been healthy plus thriving.
We all did dokuz dives above 4 days and it looked each dive was much better than the previous one particular. We were fortuitous to have a couple of British PADI Dive Instructors as our "dive masters" that knew the sites well. The marine life was fine as we did find a variety of bright colored nudibranchs, turtles on every dive along with the typical selection of coral reef fish. However it was the measurement and great quantity of corals that will get us again.


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Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Space Science Division (SSD) scientist Dr. George Carruthers has received the 2012 Medal of Technology National and Innovation. This is the nation's highest honor for technology achievement, and it is bestowed by the president of the United States upon America's leading innovators. The award ceremony was held at the White House on February 1, 2013.
Dr. Carruthers grew up during the space race and was intrigued with space science. While still a boy, he began building telescopes and model rockets and was an enthusiastic reader at the local libraries. His love for space science extended through his youth and eventually led him to pursue degrees in Aeronautical, Nuclear, and Astronomical Engineering from the University of Illinois.
Following his graduate studies, he accepted a position at NRL in 1964, after receiving a fellowship in Rocket Astronomy from the National Science Foundation. Throughout his tenure in the NRL SSD, Dr. Carruthers has focused his attention on far ultraviolet observations of the earth's upper atmosphere and of astronomical phenomena. In 1969 he received a patent for his pioneering instrumentation, "Image Converter for Detecting Electromagnetic Radiation Especially in Short Wave Lengths," which detected electromagnetic radiation in short wave lengths.
In 1972, Dr. Carruthers' Far Ultraviolet Camera Spectrograph, the first moon-based space observatory, was sent to the moon with the Apollo 16 mission. This 50-lb., gold-plated camera system allowed researchers to take readings of and understand objects and elements in space that are unrecognizable to the naked eye and gave them views of stars and the solar systems thousands of miles away. His NRL camera still sits on the surface of the moon. A second version of this camera was sent on the 1974 Skylab space flight to study comets and was used to observe Halley's Comet, among others.
He has been the principal investigator for numerous NASA and DoD sponsored space instruments including a 1986 rocket instrument that obtained ultraviolet images of Comet Halley. His experiment on the DoD Space Test Program Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite (ARGOS) captured an image of a Leonid shower meteor entering the earth's atmosphere, the first time a meteor has been imaged in the far ultraviolet from a space-borne camera.
In announcing the National Medal recipients, President Barack Obama said, "I am proud to honor these inspiring American innovators. They represent the ingenuity and imagination that has long made this Nation great—and they remind us of the enormous impact a few good ideas can have when these creative qualities are unleashed in an entrepreneurial environment."
The National Medal of Science was created by statute in 1959 and is administered for the White House by the National Science Foundation. Awarded annually, the Medal recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to science and engineering. A committee of Presidential appointees selects nominees on the basis of their extraordinary knowledge in and contributions to chemistry, engineering, computing, mathematics, or the biological, behavioral/social, and physical sciences.
Then the National Medal of Technology and Innovation was created by statute in 1980 and is administered for the White House by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Patent and Trademark Office. The award recognizes those who have made lasting contributions to America's competitiveness and quality of life and helped strengthen the Nation's technological workforce. National Medal of Technology and Innovation nominees are selected by a distinguished independent committee representing the private and public sectors.
Geospace research led by George Carruthers, which this award celebrates, is contributing outstandingly to improving our ability to understand and forecast space weather at Earth that can affect military and civilian space and communication systems.
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Gerald Henig, CSUEB professor emeritus of history, will discuss 'Lincoln, Slavery and Disunion' on May 15.
Remembering Lincoln on the 150th anniversary of his death May 15
- May 8, 2012 5:00am
Gerald Henig, Cal State East Bay professor emeritus of history, will present "Lincoln, Slavery and Disunion" on May 15.
As the country commemorates the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's death, our 16th president remains an enigmatic figure shrouded in myth and legend. Many questions still surround this well loved but perplexing man. Lincoln was commander-in-chief with no military training or experience: Was he effective? He opposed the abolitionist movement: How did he become the great emancipator? By focusing on Lincoln as military leader, emancipator, orator, politician, and family man, Henig will separate fact from fiction.
This event is provided as part of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) program and will take place at the Danville Senior Center located at 400 Hartz Ave. in Danville. Professor Henig's presentation will be free for Danville residents and OLLI members / $5 for non-members. Visit the OLLI Web site to register for the lecture.
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California State University, East Bay is the San Francisco East Bay Area's high-access public university of choice. CSUEB serves the region with campuses in Hayward and Concord, a professional development center in Oakland, and an innovative online campus. With an enrollment of more than 14,000, the University offers a nationally recognized freshman year experience, award-winning curriculum, personalized instruction, and expert faculty. Students choose from among more than 100 professionally focused fields of study for which the University confers bachelor's and master's degrees, as well as an Ed.D. in education. Named a "Best in the West" college, as well as a Best Business School, by the influential Princeton Review, Cal State East Bay is among the region's foremost producers of teachers, business professionals and entrepreneurs, public administrators, health professionals, literary and performing artists, and science and math graduates.


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You download an ISO image for some awesome free software you found and want to install it. You find you either don't have any CDs to which you can burn the image or you don't have access to a CD writer. Virtual CDRom can solve your problem.
Virtual CDRom is a virtual CD ROM driver utility created by Microsoft. The utility enables you to mount an ISO image and use an emulated CD ROM drive to run it as if you had put a CD in a CD ROM drive.
Download Virtual CDROM from http://www.pendriveapps.com/virtual-cd-rom/.
Installing Virtual CDRom
Virtual CDRom is not installed like a regular software program. To "install" it, unzip the zip file you downloaded and copy the VCdRom.sys file to the C:\%systemroot%\system32\drivers folder, where %systemroot% is the main installation directory for your version of Windows.
Installing the Driver
The first step when running Virtual CDRom for the first time is to install the driver. You placed the driver file in the drivers folder, but you have to install the driver inside the Virtual CDROM program.
Run the VCdControlTool.exe file. The Virtual CDRom Control Panel dialog box displays. Click Driver Control.
The Virtual CD-ROM Driver Control dialog box displays. Click Install Driver.
The Open dialog box displays. Navigate to the drivers directory in the Windows installation directory mentioned earlier and select the VCdRom.sys file. Click Open.
Click Start and then click OK.
Now we need to add a drive to the list. Back on the Virtual CDRom main window, click Add Drive.
A new drive is added to the list ready for an ISO image to be mounted into it.
NOTE: Make sure the drive added to the list does not have a drive letter used by a local hard drive, such as C:. If it does, continue to click Add Drive until a letter displays in the Drive column that is not used by a local drive.
Select the each drive you added that you will not use and click Remove Drive to remove them from the list. You can only select and remove one drive at a time.
Mounting the ISO Image File
Select the drive you are going to use in the list and click Mount.
The Open dialog box displays. Navigate to the location of the desired ISO file, select it and click Open.
The Special Mount Options dialog displays. Do not select any of the options. Just click OK.
Click OK on the Virtual CDRom main window to close it. Your ISO file should display as a drive in Windows Explorer.
Unmounting an ISO Image File
When you are finished using the ISO file, run the VCdControlTool.exe file again. Select the drive in the list and click Eject.
In the Mapped Image column, Virtual CDRom tells you that no image is mounted.
Stopping the Driver
To stop the driver, click the Driver Control button on the main window. Click Stop on the Virtual CD-ROM Driver Control dialog box.
If you want to remove the driver from memory, click Remove Driver. You don't have to do this if you think you might need to use Virtual CDRom again before you shut down your computer.
NOTE: You may have to reboot your computer to be able to install the driver again to mount an image.
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Fact Check
"Fact: It is demonstrably untrue to assert that Barack Obama wants to confiscate firearms, a blatant lie.How about another fact....... The American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA) is a shill organization involved in advocacy for gun control. The AHSA is a front geared towards dividing second amendment advocates by pointing to AHSA members' bias against private ownership of many popular modern firearms. AHSA leaders have donated money to gun control groups and have ties to individuals and organizations who advocate gun control. Possibly the most damning evidence of the ASHA's collusion with gun control advocates is the statements of Paul Helmke, the President of the Brady Campaign, who says of the AHSA, "I see our issues as complementary to theirs". The AHSA exists only to supply apparent pro-gun credibility to anti-gun policies and legislation........ and anti-gun politicians.
Fact: Obama, who received the endorsement of the American Hunters and Shooters Association, a non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting hunting and common-sense gun policy, is on record as affirming gun ownership rights."
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Going for Gold: An Interactive Look at Goldman's Current Partners
Congratulations to the 70 new partners at Goldman Sachs. You have won one of the business world's most lucrative and secret sweepstakes and are now part of one of Wall Street's most exclusive clubs.
The 2012 list is the shortest since 1998, when just 57 entered into the partnership. Today's announcement is also a 36% fall from the 110 partners announced in the Class of 2010.
Click the image to the right see an interactive graphic breaking Goldman's current partnership


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Table Of Contents
Data Sheet
Cisco WAN Manager
Cisco® WAN Manager is a high-performance carrier-class element and network management product for the Cisco MGX®, Cisco BPX®, and Cisco IGX series multiservice switches and the Cisco MGX 8880 Media Gateway products. Deployed worldwide in some of the largest service provider networks, the Cisco WAN Manager can operate as a standalone network management system or can be integrated as an element manager using its northbound interfaces for highly efficient flow-through operations.
The complexity of today's multiservice and packet voice networks requires robust, scalable, and easy-to-use management tools. Cisco WAN Manager addresses this need by providing extensive, reliable, and scalable element management capabilities to rapidly deploy and manage services (refer to Figure 1).
Cisco WAN Manager Release 15 further enhances operator workflow and usability to make configuration, fault monitoring, and troubleshooting operations simple and easy to use. This translates to rapid service deployment, network health monitoring, and real-time fault detection and isolation.
Figure 1
Cisco WAN Manager Release 15 Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Key Features and Benefits
•Scalability—The distributed architecture of Cisco WAN Manager provides the ability to provision and manage a large number of network elements supporting millions of connections with high-performance network synchronization rates. More than 100 GUI clients can be supported with redundant Cisco WAN Manager servers, allowing service providers to cost-effectively manage their growing networks.
•High availability and reliability—Multiple Cisco WAN Manager servers can be used for disaster recovery and to take turns for any maintenance and upgrade activities. Cisco WAN Manager synchronizes with the network status changes to maintain an accurate view of the network inventory and connections.
•Open northbound interfaces—Cisco WAN Manager provides a range of northbound interfaces, including Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Transaction Language One (TL-1), and APIs for flow-through provisioning and network monitoring, allowing easy integration with existing operations support systems (OSSs).
•Workflow-optimized GUI—The Cisco WAN Manager Release 15 GUI introduces an enhanced GUI designed to optimize daily operations for equipment and connection provisioning to accelerate time to revenue. The workflow-optimized GUI provides several powerful advantages:
–Consolidates network monitoring tasks into a single GUI to provide alarm browsing and filtering capabilities
–Offers ability to invoke equipment diagnostics and connection tests from the configuration or network monitoring GUI using menu shortcuts
–Maintains data context and provides drag-and-drop and template-based operations, minimizing operator time for data entry and object selection.
The enhanced GUI design consists of the Network Monitor, Configuration Center, Diagnostics Center, Chassis View, Statistics Reporting Tools, and Object Finder.
–Network Monitor—Details of network alarm and configuration status can be retrieved by a single click in the network monitor GUI. Alarm filtering can be enabled with a single click to view a specific class of alarms such as node, card, port, Cisco WAN Manager, critical, major, or minor.
–Configuration Center—The Cisco WAN Manager Configuration Center builds on the powerful connection management application and the equipment provisioning functions of earlier Cisco WAN Manager releases, by providing intuitive drag-and-drop and template capabilities. The configuration center provides capabilities to provision end-to-end ATM, Frame Relay, Frame Relay-to-ATM interworking, circuit emulation, voice, and low-speed data connections.
–Diagnostics Center—The Cisco WAN Manager Diagnostics Center provides access to all diagnostic functions based on the context of the selected managed entity. The diagnostics center provides access to all the available real-time statistics and test tools in one place, easing the task of diagnostics and troubleshooting.
–Chassis View—The Cisco WAN Manager Chassis View allows status monitoring of the equipment to be performed within seconds. Chassis view has up-to-date graphical displays of the front and back panels of the individual node. The alarm LED status for the service modules and physical ports are updated automatically to reflect the current node alarm status.
–Statistics Reporting Tool—All historical statistics collected by the Cisco WAN Manager Statistics Collection Manager in the database can be retrieved into a report format for trend analysis. Using this tool, the operator can systematically select a report type such as port level, line level, or connection level, and time period for the report to span. The result can be exported into a file for further use in other applications.
–Object Finder—The Cisco WAN Manager Object Finder provides extensive searching, sorting, and filtering capability to query the managed entities and alarm history in the embedded database.
•Performance and accounting management—The Cisco WAN Manager Statistics Collection Manager (SCM) collects network statistics that are useful for applications such as performance reporting, capacity planning, and billing. For large-scale networks, the statistics collection tasks can be distributed and offloaded to multiple Standalone Statistics Collector (SSC) servers and remotely controlled by the SCM. To enhance reliability for statistics collection, each Standalone Statistics Collector can act as a backup for another standalone SSC server.
•System administration—Cisco WAN Manager supports software upgrades by loading new software from a Cisco WAN Manager workstation. Background loading of new software allows simultaneous upgrades to multiple devices. Configuration save-and-restore features save a snapshot of the entire network configuration. For network disaster recovery, operators can selectively restore configurations for a single node or the entire network.
•Security management—Cisco WAN Manager provides GUI-based security, where user login IDs are mapped to UNIX security access profiles. These profiles are created in Cisco WAN Manager and contain read, create, delete, and modify privileges for each of the functional areas such as topology, connection manager, and performance reporting. Cisco WAN Manager logs read and write operations of all GUI users in a security log file and provides a powerful administrative GUI for viewing and filtering the audit log records.
•AutoRoute to Private Network-Network Interface (PNNI) network migration—Cisco WAN Manager Connection Management can provision and manage ATM and Frame Relay connections across Cisco BPX 8600 Series AutoRoute networks and Cisco MGX 8000 Series PNNI networks. This capability enables service providers to use their existing networks with Cisco BPX 8600 Series switches together with PNNI-controlled Cisco MGX 8850 PXM-45 systems for service expansion. Furthermore, Cisco WAN Manager can provision connections with Cisco IGX endpoints when the IGX switch is used as a feeder to a Cisco MGX PXM-45 or Cisco MGX PXM-1E node. This allows network operators to add PNNI-based Cisco MGX switches to the IGX network for network expansion.
Related Applications
Cisco Network Modeling Tool
Cisco WAN Manager works with the Cisco Network Modeling Tool (NMT) to provide network design and modeling capabilities for multiservice IP and ATM networks. With the Cisco NMT software, optimized network topology can be designed based on network configuration data retrieved from the Cisco WAN Manager. The Cisco NMT allows for "what-if" scenario planning based on predefined parameters to analyze user traffic patterns, optimize for least cost, and determine required network availability to meet service-level agreements (SLAs). The exporter feature provides an interface to third-party design tools such as WANDL and spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel.
Cisco Information Center
Cisco WAN Manager provides fault information to the Cisco Information Center—a real-time, high-performance service-level monitoring and diagnostic tool that simplifies fault management by providing an end-to-end view of multitechnology and multivendor networks. Cisco Info Center offers a combination of filtering, alarm reduction rules, flexible alarm viewing, and partitioning.
Cisco Provisioning Center
The Cisco Provisioning Center is an integrated, automated provisioning solution for network service providers. It takes advantage of the capabilities of the Cisco WAN Manager to provision Layer 2 and Layer 3 services across Cisco end-to-end networking technologies. By automating the process, Cisco Provisioning Center reduces the complexity and expense associated with today's manually configured services.
System Requirements
Cisco WAN Manager system requirements can be obtained at:
Cisco WAN Manager products can be searched by keyword CWM and ordered at:
Cisco Service and Support
Service and support options for Cisco WAN Manager are available on a one-time or annual contract basis. Support ranges from help desk assistance to proactive, onsite consultation and upgrade support. A software service contract gives companies complete access rights to Cisco.com and 24-hour technical assistance.
Contact your local sales office for further information.
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Mental Health
Have Mental Health Questions? Ask a Psychiatrist Online
I believe I can help you with your concern
I am so sorry that your parent exhibited this behavior towards you, I can imagine how distressing that must have been for you
May I ask, how long has this parent being behaving this way towards you?
since high school
or rather this behavior has intensified since then
its gotten worse over the years
I also notice that she tries to be controlling
and manipulative
seems to get an enjoyment from putting me down and saying all the things
that get in me in tears in seconds
May I ask does she have any low self-esteem at all or has she been under incredible stress?
she has been under stress for a long time
and she puts herself through more
by giving advice to her friends
she just became the leader of a prayer group
and she goes to a club
where people do public speeches
she has just been diagnosed with depression
but she manages to make me miserable also
she has been seeing outside professional help
but I honestly see no improvement
its difficult trying to communicate with her
its frustrating and I lose all patience
That is why I asked about the low self-esteem and stress, most likely her depression causes the low self-esteem and she seeks to put you down to make her feel better, which does not last very long and then she tries to seek validation by doing so much with increases her stress and this causes her more issues.
I have tried reasoning and apologizing
what bothers me
is when I try to have a normal conversation with her
I can understand why you are frustrated and I do not blame you. I think she needs a better therapists if it is not helping with her symptoms and possibly the use of an anti-depressant.
its like she doesnt care and she will even say
that she doesnt care what is it is I have to say
Can you go to a psychological therapy session with her and voice your concerns to her therapist?
I can find out where it is and go there alone and speak with the therapist
its a local agency and they have been treating my mom free of charge
but i have seen no changes
or a lift in her spirits
nearly every night I hear her crying
i have sincerely XXXXX XXXXX in with a friend
i cant stand it anymore
No you actually cannot go alone and speak to the therapist because of medical privacy laws, but I was wondering if you can request a joint session with the therapist because your mom may not be realizing that she is acting this way and I think her therapist would need to know in order to help her
oh I see I will try to ask, i dunno how my mom will react or if she will approve
that I come along to the therapy
but I will insist anyway so I know what is going on
I understand, but it may be worth a try, although I do think that moving out would be best for your psyche as you cannot take this emotional and verbal abuse much longer.
Her depression can cause irritability which is what you are seeing
I have put up with it when it all began in high school
im a college graduate now
i work parttime and thankfully i have my own car
i only have peace of mind when im away from home
or when my mom is not home
Well here is a technique that you can use to vent your frustration in a more assertive and appropriate manner towards your mother. It may not make a difference with her, but at least you will get a chance to vent and express your anger/frustration
or when Im out with friends
thank you
however there is another problem that concerns me
I understand, it probably may be time to at least think about and plan on moving out because this abuse is getting too much
lately ive noticed my mom gets offended because of my friends
she even told they are worthless
she has an unrealistic standard for who I can befreiend
its hurt my social life considerable
I have gone weeks without visitng my friends
much less calling them
and when i am talking to them or when my mom knows that I am socializing with them
I am so sorry to hear this
she criticizes me for seeing them
its because of this town we live in
we onced owned a house
but we had to move into temporary residences
my mom and i live in a one bedroom one bathroom house
she sleeps in the living room
while i stay in the one room
the house is small
so its the perfect set up for volatile things to occur
i try to leave this small place whenever i get the chance
my mom has deeply scarred my emotions
i honestly dont know what to make of reality
or what I am supposed to feel
i dont even feel remotely alive
i feel like im moving a through a mirage
days back i went to a party and on my way over there
i was on this train
the people on the train did not feel real to me
they all seemed like illusions
its almost like im disconnected from the world
Well it sounds like you are in a traumatic situation and constantly exposed to this situation. This sounds like you are going through Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
the sad part is
These are all classic symptoms of PTSD. The first thing you have to do is escape the situation, which means moving out
thats awful
anyway that night when i went to the party,
i saw all sorts of people, but I had no courage to go and mingle with them
no confidence
all i did was wander around and dance the night away
in the past, my mom would accompany me
but her presence takes away from the experience.
she would always insist on coming
i would even go so far as to ditch her
and she would still catch up
luckily my friends and I managed to go to alot of places on our own
now that I have a car finally
i can go wherever i wish
so long as I text my parent where I am
i feel like my mom suffocates me though
with her constant chaperoning
and all that
ive come to resent her for it
i see my friends and there parents
and some of them
dont seem to care what their kids are doing
And well she is lonely, that is a part of the depression, but when she is with you she emotionally and verbally abuses you too. It sounds like your mom is very attached too you and may have attachment issues. Attachment issues, depression, anxiety, anger, and mood swings are all symptoms of a disorder called Borderline Personality Disorder, which may be what your mother has
It is a very severe disorder and requires a special type of therapy to treat it
yeah I notice that my mother seems more composed and so unlike herself
when she is with friends or doing a public speech
what I find disturbing is that
she seems open
to resolving other peoples problems and issue
rather than hours
she is great at giving advice
from what Ive heard her say on the phone to her friends
it upsets me that she takes the time to help her friends with their problems
and whenever I try to bring up a concern or problem i have
she says she doesnt want to listen
or accuses me that i am bringing my problems home with me (well that is what she says)
she will even blame me and say that its my fault
my mom is a religious lady
but all the offensive things she has ever said to me were all completely ungodly
even for a christian woman
I am sorry that you are being treated in this way by your mother, but it will not get better for her unless she receives the right treatment or if she gains insight that she is treating you in this way, which so far she has no insight on this
the horrible thing about it is that she always justifies
what she says
You are right that she is treating you in an un-ChristXXXXX XXXXXke way, but you cannot control her behavior, you can only control your actions and behavior. You can try going to a therapy session with her and contribute, but I really think that you have to move out for the sake of your own mental health
now that you have told me that i have ptsd
things make much more sense
i have been waking in the middle of the night
in cold sweets
with my heart pounding
Well PTSD can be treated very successfully and most likely it is a response to your mother's emotional and verbal abuse towards you.
in the past
lately not so much
i cant even remember any of the nightmares
Well I would like to recommend some good books that can help you with your symptoms
i considered seeking group therapy and outside help
yes please
And also this book may help you understand your mother's behavior more too
still this all very surprising and horrifying for me
there are so many unresolved
things that bothers me about my mom
my mom is always so unpredictable
I am so sorry to hear that, maybe you joining her therapy sessions can be a regular thing to help resolve those things that bother you
she can be happy for one moment
then the next she becomes volatile like a raging volcano
That is classic BPD right there
her emotions change
so she is also bi polar
she doesnt even take medication for that.
that is why i am so upset with that agency she goes to
they seem to have perpetuated the problem
No Borderline Personality Disorder is BPD
from what it was before
Her moods change too rapidly for it to be Bipolar Disorder
my friend said he would help me
and would let me stay with him
but since he has to pay for housing
i need to help out by paying 400 a month
however my retail job pays me 200- 300 every two weeks
sometimes lower than I would like
as additional info
my mom took my credit card and payed the house rent for one month
i have been harrased by the bank collectors because of her
i currently owe about 1000
but luckily i had spoken with a banker and i explained what my mom did without my knowlegde
they said they would drop it to 600
i have considered taking legal action
but i dunno what the repercussions will be
if i do that
im scared that if i stay any longer
my mom will hurt my credit
I am sorry that your mom did this, the stealing your credit card and making these purchases without your knowledge is associated with BPD too. If you do take legal action you will have to do so after you move out, but first I suggest finding a way to move out because it is obvious that it is not healthy for you to live there
i even went to so far as to confront her about it
my biggest issue with moving out
is that my job is faraway from my friends house
i have tried transfering to a closer branch
but my manager is not letting me do that
giving me different excuses each time
i found out our staff is limited
i dunno if I should go to the head manager
and tell her why its urgent that I transfer
and if she will accept my petition
I am sorry, I can imagine that the job situation is tough out there and makes your choices limited, but I am just letting you know that you will not get better until you escape her abuse.
i guess i will have to either resign or secure another job before i do
I think that may be best, XXXXX XXXXX not to delay or at least try to spend as little time in that house with your mom
i actually did consider
running away with my car
and heading to my friends house
at night
Well do not do anything impulsive, make a plan that makes sense and that you would not be sacrificing too much financially
my mom has been saying that she wants me to leave and she even threatens to kick me out
but she never does
is that part of her personality disorder?
I dont want my mother to know I am moving out
Yes it is very much a part of BPD, the attachment issues and the "I hate you, I love you" back and forth
i notice she always tries to alter or change my mind
on things
with success
Well try not to let her manipulate you like that now that you are cognizant of it
Just plan to move out by yourself and then one day when she is not there just move out
also i have one last problem
i put up with her abuse
of my pets
my pet cat and dog
i love those two very much
my mom threatened to put them up for adoption if i tried to run away or leave
my friend has her pet cat and i dunno if mine will get along with hers
if i cant bring my dog
i will leave him with my mother
so he keeps her company
but i want my cat with me
i also considered
visiting my mother after i move out
so there is no ill will between us
but based on what youve just told me
is that even a good course of action?
I would only visit her if it was in a public place for lunch, dinner, or coffee for example. That way the public space may quell her abuse towards you
Now with the animals, you can try to bring your cat with you that is a good idea and if you truly think that she will not put the dog up for adoption then I guess you can leave the dog with her
Or you can give the dog to a friend that will take care of him/her
the bizarre thing about this is that things will seem alright for days on end
then an incident like this morning will just occur
And they will continue to occur in an unpredictable fashion, that is what happens with individuals that have a diagnosis of BPD.
i can see if my godparents can take care of my dog
and since my friend loves cats i guess he wont mind
so long as we keep our cats apart
just in case
they dont get along
sometimes though when my mom do go to a public place
That is true, you can also try bringing your cat over once or twice as a test run to see if they get along
and I*
and i do just about anything to set her off
she will even try putting me down in public
so far she has done that 3 times
once when i was 11
at a themepark
2nd time in front of my friends
Well if she does that, then just get up and leave and tell her when she starts treating you like an adult you will meet her again
i feel really bad talking of my mother in this way
but sincerely XXXXX XXXXX all the negative things that have taken place
on both our accounts
has affected my outlook towards friendships
and trying to be sociable
my confidence has been battered
i havent even bothered entering the dating scene
i felt like wasnt worthy
my mom even went to so far as to discourage me from seeing certain friends
when i was 11 and i came home from school
I understand and this is why this living situation is not healthy for you and you should leave for you
my mom told me out of the blue
that all my friends every single one of theme
did not care about me
and that they dont love me
like i love and care about them
i dunno if she told me that to isolate me
or to keep me from getting hurt
but it has made me more distrustful of people
since then
She told you that to bring you down and isolate you, remember she has attachment issues
when i look back on it
i resent her for it
You need to escape this situation before it gets worse for you
i spent all of 6th grade
based on what she said
Well you cannot change the past, you can only change your present so try to focus on the here and now
it wasnt until 7th grade that I finally made more friends to make up for it
i just explaining the extent of the damage she has done
and I realize now
that what she did was purely
wether intentional or not
to be completely evil
I know it was and I am sorry you had to experience this, but now you have a plan on how to escape this and live your life the way you want to
i will have to take a chance and leave my dog with my mom until i find someone who is willing to take care of him
I think that is a good plan
i plan to leave when she isnt home
and try to find a stable retail job to help me pay rent
or i can just keep my old job and tell my friend if he is ok with it
until i can find a higher paying job
my old plan was to stay until i had saved up enough money
but in this case
i cant really stay if I want to get better
I understand, and it may be tough for a little while, but the sooner you can leave the better for your psychological health
and lead a happier life
im going to tell my friend about it tommorrow over the phone when my mom isnt there
and see if he and i can figure out a date for when i can leave and move in
im worried my friend will change his mind
I think that is a good plan for you
i have had difficulty saying it to him out in the open that iwant to move in with him
im worried he will change his mind
he said at the beginning that he would gladly let me stay at his place
the reason why i am so apprehensive about
asking directly
Well if he does than you will have to come up with a good backup plan, but do not worry about that unless it happens.
Ask him first and then take it from there
i used to go to my godparents for help whenever my mom was too much
though they never seemed to believe me
or why it was urgent for me to leave home
they even offered to let me stay with them once
but when i finally did have the courage to run awau
they said i couldnt stay
unless i had a car
it made me lose all faith in people altogether
i just want my friend to keep his promise
im hellbent to leave
i dont want what happened with my godparents to repeat again with my friend
but i will discuss with him tomorrow
Well trust your friend and ask him tomorrow, you cannot think negatively about this.
thank you for your time and patience
i will talk to him about this
and hope for the best
i appreciate all the insight
and based on what youve said
now i can finally make sense of it all
but once i move out? i still want to seek outside help
but im worried i wont be able to afford it
but based on what i have told you
Well try the books I gave you, they are very helpful and will provide you with techniques for treatment
to what extent do i need the the treatment though?
will these books help me to treat it myself?
or will i need intensified help?
The books should give you some guidance and escaping the situation will help too. If after 2-3 months of not living there and you still feel bad then you may need more extensive treatment, but right now lets use the books to help you as that is a more affordable route
alright i will try the books
and go from there
based on the urgency
i will have to leave sooner than planned
it was wrong for me to put up with it
and delay moving out
i realize it not worth waiting
I wish you the best of luck and I truly hope that you feel better soon and that your mom gets the treatment that she needs. My goal is to provide you with excellent service, so if you ever have any further questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact me at anytime.
could you please resend me the links on ptsd
before we go?
When you finish rating me, this chat will be sent as a link to your email, if it has not already, so you can always use it for future reference. In addition, this chat will be saved in your JA account under My Questions so you can always go back to it when you need to
So all the links should still be there for you
thank you for your help, it all makes so much more sense now.
i will do as you advised
goodnight and thanks again


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Also see: Introducing BUBBA, Part One
Before I jump into specifics on BUBBA, I wanted to get the origin story of the name out of the way. I'm a little tired of the "forced acronym for any new metric" convention and wanted to go in the other direction. I thought that given my recent past and current jobs being primarily scouting, along with BUBBA itself being heavily influenced by scouting information, that I should pick a name that fits more in that world that the statistical research world. Also, given that my family is from and currently resides in Georgia/Alabama and I was looking for a name that would be more comfortable for a southern scout than a stat nerd, BUBBA was a natural fit.
So what does BUBBA stand for? It stands for BUBBA. Why is it capitalized? Because I said it is. You're welcome.
|Asset Value
|1. Mike Trout
|1+ Pre-Arb
|2. Bryce Harper
|0+ Pre-Arb
|3. Miguel Cabrera
|3 Yrs x 22M
|4. Oscar Taveras
|Rookie Elg
|5. Jurickson Profar
|Rookie Elg
|6. Wil Myers
|Rookie Elg
|7. Dylan Bundy
|Rookie Elg
|8. Justin Verlander
|2 Yrs x 20M
|9. Mike Olt
|Rookie Elg
Trade Machine
Here's the players I'll use today to demonstrate BUBBA in action. The big takeaway number here is the "Asset Value" that's the one catch-all number that encompasses all the objective and some of the subjective information I've gathered on the player.
The first and most obvious use here is to judge trade proposals and I've worked up some guidelines for those purposes. There's a roughly 5% margin for error in the numbers, so if two players are within that range of each other (Taveras and Profar barely are), they can be considered of essentially equal value.
The more difficult guideline to establish is a rough benchmark for the discount rate on multiplayer trades. The only way to do this is to 1) run historical asset values and evaluate historical trades or 2) make hypothetical trades and ask industry friends to evaluate them. There's a lot of 20/20 hindsight in running historical asset values for young players, so I opted to primarily use option two.
What we came up with was 35-40% in a 2-for-1 deal and 50-60% in a 3-for-1 deal. In practice, that means that fairly trading a player with an $80 million asset value for two other players should yield two notable assets ($10 million or more each) that add up to 35-40% above the single players' ($80 million original guy) value, or about $110 million.
To use a concrete example, this would suggest that, if the teams were motivated to consider such a deal (farfetched in this situation) that Miguel Cabrera ($79.5 million) could equate to a package of Jurickson Profar ($68.1 million) and Mike Olt ($38.6 million). After talking to some scouts and execs about this particular hypothetical, they said it was about correct. Some suggested the Rangers would have to kick in a third notable player but admitted that impulse may be due to the Tigers having no reason to move Cabrera (which, for the sake of this example, we're assuming they have some motivation to trade him). The important part was this dry run says these numbers pass the smell test, regardless of the fact that this deal would never happen.
How The Sausage Is Made
There are four inputs that drive these values beyond the obvious elements covered in yesterday's article: age relative to level, pitcher/hitter projection differences, long-term contract extension opportunities and elite player scarcity.
The impact of age relative to level is pretty easy to understand. Put up huge numbers when you're younger than everyone else you're facing and that's a good indicator of future production. For those wanting more concrete proof of this fact, check out Rany Jazayerli's groundbreaking study on the impact of draft day age for high school hitters. If Mike Olt were putting up the same numbers but instead was 20-22 years old like the hitters ranked ahead of him, BUBBA would add an eight figure sum to his current asset value. Note: I will take any chance I get to anthropomorphize BUBBA.
Every one of the previous studies of prospects lists referenced in yesterday's article marvels at the stark contrast between the success rates of hitting prospects relative to pitching prospects. There is some nuance to the issue, but essentially every prospect list overrates pitchers as a whole, though the best pitchers in the game tend to come from high spots on prospect lists.
Since I converted some of the wisdom of these studies to the 20-80 scale, I can shed some more light on this issue. Every reputable prospect list I've seen has Profar, Taveras and Bundy in some order as their top three prospects and Myers a clear fourth, but I have Myers third and Bundy fourth. My projections agree with the consensus: I have Profar, Taveras and Bundy as 70s on the 20-80 scale and Myers as a 65, essentially exactly like everyone else does.
Why the difference in output? The track record of scouts over the last few decades tells us that when they put a 70 on a pitcher, all else being equal, he ends up, on average, being as valuable as a 60 or 65 hitter. Since Myers is a solid 65 and is ready to contribute at the big league level, he's on the high end of that range and is ranked high enough above Bundy to be out of the 5% margin for error.
Prospect lists and scouts have been using the 20-80 scale as gospel for decades and one of its big blind spots is the scale doesn't acknowledge that a 70 pitching prospect doesn't hit his ceiling as often as a 70 hitting prospect, so they aren't of equivalent value, even when all else is equal.
This relationship between success rates of hitting and pitching prospects isn't linear, consistent or easy to explain. Depending on the quality of the player, their age, their minor league level and a few other factors, the success rates may be the same or even wider than this Bundy/Myers example.
Extending A Hand
One factor that I think has been largely ignored in previous studies is accounting for the value of the opportunity to sign a top prospect to a long-term extension; call it the Evan Longoria effect. After accounting for inflation, time value of money and other factors, Longoria's initial six-year deal with three options will save the Rays $25-30 million. While not every player would've accepted that deal then and almost no player would now, Longoria admitted that it being his set-for-life first big payday heavily influenced his decision.
Having access to a top player during this time of his career (hopefully without Scott Boras in his ear) is undoubtedly worth millions to a club. The problem with trying to quantify this is how subjective it is to attempt to project the potential savings to the club and the chance the player accepts it.
After going through various extensions that have been signed and evaluating the money saved by the club, I made two matrices. One has some objective underpinnings: it projects the savings a club would glean from the average extension they would offer to a player based on his position, skill level and service time. The other is more subjective: the odds a player would sign such an extension, based on the same three criteria.
For top shelf prospects just entering the majors like Taveras, Profar, Bundy and Myers, my calculation of the value of this opportunity approaches $10 million. Obviously this amount changes as (service) time wears on and potential savings dwindle while free agency approaches. As I gather player/agent specific information about willingness to sign such a deal, I can move away from a generic value.
I calculated these extension bonus values for post-control players such as Cabrera and Verlander but I decided to omit them, as they are heavily player specific. These extension bonus figures are often in the low six figures as you're basically valuing an exclusive window to sign the player to a market deal with the player having heavy incentives to become a free agent.
Miguel Cabrera, The Exception
Another reason why I don't think anyone has tried this comprehensive of an asset value system before is the unrealistic values the objective systems spit out for superstars. Take Miguel Cabrera for example: he's a 5-7 win player for the remaining three years on his contract that will pay him a total of $65 million. With a win being valued by the league as a whole at a little over $5 million right now, the math is simple: roughly 30-something million in performance minus 20-something million in salary per year, times three years equals roughly $30 million in asset value.
If that Cabrera asset value were accurate, that would mean the Rangers could easily acquire the best player in baseball on a three year, below-market deal in exchange for Mike Olt. That's obviously ridiculous but using the existing framework, it's hard to argue that either value should change significantly. The only conclusions to make are that the entire baseball industry is wrong or these frameworks have limitations in extreme circumstances.
The reason the framework breaks down is because it's made to apply to average teams and average situations. A team could be valuing a win as high as $10 million right now based on their payroll, team quality, revenues, market size, ballpark situation, farm system strength, etc. but won't have to pay more than $5 million per win on the market for a free agent for a number of reasons that general economic theory can explain better than I can.
The roughly $5 million per win figure is the league average and it works for most situations. Most teams value a win right now within 20% of that value and that market drives player values. However, that all gets blown up when the best players in baseball are on the market.
Linear, Shminear
Every study I've seen on player valuation says the evidence points to linear player valuation. This means that a 1 win player and an 8 win player both sign for the same $5 million per win market rate as free agents. There are two reasons why I think the evidence shows this: limited sample size of elite players (by nature) and clubs choose which players get to free agency.
Matt Swartz has done work showing that the players that become free agents perform markedly worse than the ones teams sign to extensions to keep them off the market. This would explain why the data doesn't show that truly elite players are paid non-linear rates as free agents: so few of them become free agents (coming from an already small group of elite players to begin with) that it can't be seen. Along the same logical lines, Bill James famously compared finding clutch hitting in the data to finding a carcass in a dark forest:
"The forest is dark and deep, and there are many places for a body to decay without being found. We don't need that kind of evidence. We don't need to see statistics on them. We live in the forest with them; we know that they exist."
So, do I just smell a whiff of non-linear valuation and can't find it in the forest because it's too dark? Nope. At some point, a player is worth what the other 29 teams say he is worth in trade talks and actual trades, frameworks be damned. BUBBA is a system based on trade value and having an equal footing between different types of players, so what good would it be if the best players in baseball had BUBBA values that didn't make any sense in the real world?
Only some teams can afford to pay elite players a market rate and when these large market teams are competing for an elite player, they start paying at their specific, higher dollar per win rate rather than sticking to the league average rate. With free agents and lesser players, there are warts and alternatives and they keep things from getting out of hand price-wise. With elite players under contract that haven't been allowed to hit the market, there aren't alternatives and prices get exorbitant. The Giants trading top prospect Zach Wheeler for a few months of vintage Carlos Beltran to try to make the playoffs in 2011 is a great example of this dynamic in action.
In the cases of the top MLB assets according to BUBBA, many of them have never been available in trade talks or only when a team has no choice but to trade them for non-baseball reasons. For the same reason that executives have trouble nailing down what current day Miguel Cabrera would fetch in trade is the reason his asset value should be closer to $80 million than $30 million; guys like this almost never are available.
Rubber Meets The Road
Luckily for me, I have friends in the industry that are still privy to the conversations I was privy to when I was with clubs. When they tell me the Rangers would do backflips and send multiple first born to be named later to trade Olt for Cabrera, it's one data point among many that reaffirms my suspicions. When another handful of elite players under contract are proven to be obviously more valuable that any academic framework can justify, my suspicions were confirmed.
Cabrera's trade value, as detailed above, is perceived to be and thus in actuality is in line with the $79.5 million asset value I put on him. So how did I justify getting to that value with something in the 30's seems to be more correct?
Without making this even longer than it has to be, I took a cross-section of elite and sub-elite players in baseball, made up a bunch of fake trades, surveyed people in the industry and found which players are valued higher on the trade market than with the conventional framework. Essentially, I found the boundaries where a sound valuation system breaks and poked around enough to make rules to adjust it.
While the adjustments are more sophisticated than this, in practice you can see what my research yielded. When you're dealing with Miguel Cabrera, a thirty year old third baseman that's below average defensively but arguably the best hitter in the game on a three year deal slightly below market value, you can increase his conventional asset value by 2-3 times to account for the scarcity of his eliteness.
You could say I'm just reverse-engineering what mistaken executives think players are worth but, intellectually, I think it's sound to adjust in this fashion. The existing framework can be successfully applied to 95%-plus of players is based on an assumption (an invisible hand pushing player to sign for the league average dollar per win rate) that doesn't hold up for 100% of players. Figuring out anecdotally when it doesn't apply is the only way to adjust for that phenomenon when concrete data doesn't exist.
You can argue that the framework isn't flawed, I shouldn't adjust it and that all players should be paid on a linear, fixed dollar per win basis and I can't tell you that you're wrong. Sticking completely to the framework is safe: it's more academic, more in line with previous research methods and a generally cleaner and easier to look at process that can be universally applied to all players. That said, it isn't always right to take the cleaner-looking and less challenging option: we aren't selling jeans here.


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I'm Francesca Hill. Today's the day I'm attending BaidenBridge College with my best friend Viloletta and getting away from my family. At last ! I thought everything was going to be perfect , but that's until I got re-assigned a NEW English , science , drama , P.E and Photography partner ... And he would like to be known as Mr.BADBOY.
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John Aizlewood
CDO - Pizza Hut
John started his professional life with Deloitte and Touche, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, and working in their Forensic Accounting division. Soon after qualifying John joined PepsiCo Restaurants in Finance. He progressed through various Finance positions before moving into Operations with KFC. From KFC he moved to look after the Central European and Russian markets for KFC and Pizza Hut, returning to KFC a few years later where he moved back into an Operations role, quickly followed by moves into Franchise and Development. From KFC he moved across to Pizza Hut, where he has held Operations, Franchise and Development roles, and is currently the Chief Development Officer.
Insight from a Global Brand - The Importance of Customer Retention
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Sports business grows at top B-schools Sports snapshots at business schools How to feed an appetite for more Taste of the Broncos becomes hot ticket Q&A with Chef Ming Tsai Sports sponsors in Atlanta 5 Questions with Jeff Genthner Embracing United Georgia State raising its visibility Sports council president looks ahead
Upcoming Conferences and Events
SBJ/May 30 - June 6, 2011/In Depth
The Gatekeepers: Jeff Dubiel
Vice president of sports marketing, PepsiCo
Published May 30, 2011, Page 18
"We get about 50 strange ones a week," Dubiel said.
Jeff Dubiel
Dubiel applies the "right fit for the brand" sniff test to potential partners. An attractive sports partner provides Pepsi ample opportunities to connect directly to fans. In fact, the National Rock, Paper, Scissors College Competition passed that test and landed a deal with Pepsi's AMP brand.
"I'm always asking myself 'How does this fuel a social connection between fans that gives them something they can't get from other brands in the sport?'" Dubiel said.
And while it's been 27 years since Pepsi launched its "New Generation" campaign,
Pepsi brings its on-site experiential marketing campaign to major partnership events, and rounds out its partnerships with media buys and in-arena signage. The brand also reaches out directly to fans with its Pepsi Refresh program, which provides grants to community initiatives and organizations.
In March, Pepsi slipped to No. 3 in the U.S. soda market, behind Coke and Diet Coke. Dubiel, however, said the primary challenge facing Pepsi now is the flat market for all carbonated soft drinks. "I'm optimistic," Dubiel said, "that it's an opportunity to reinvigorate the entire category, not just Pepsi."
■ Where brands could do better: "Growing the overall soda category."
■ The onset of social media means they can: "Create reach and affinity in Gen X and millennials like never before. But nobody really knows how to control it yet."


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|Web-based Courses for the MA in Urban Studies
|Submitting Dean
|Submitting College
|Arts & Sciences -- Charles Monroe x8033
|Departments Generating the Proposal
|Objection Deadline
|Proposal Status
|Proposal Withdrawn
|Proposal Last Updated
|April 22, 2005 by AS dean's ofc Christy Adams
|Effective Date
|Fall 2005
|Brief Summary of Proposal
|Creating an alternative delivery mode for courses in the MA in Urban Studies. The following courses will be available as web based courses: 3980:602, 3980:612, 3980:618, 3980:641; 3980:650, 3980:620, 3980:622, 3980:626, 3980:662, 3980:663, 3980:671.
|Type of Proposal
|Course changes only
|Graduate School Endorsement Status
|To be reviewed
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|Institutional Research Status
|To be reviewed
|IR Status Updated
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Behind the scenes with Neil Patrick Harris on The Price is Right. His episode airs today and is part of Celebrity Charity Week.
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