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Thin Ice
Run time 94 minutes.
OK for children.
Greg Kinnear gives a sparkling performance as a devious insurance salesman, aided by equally wonderful performances by Billy Crudup and Alan Arkin.
Directed and written (with her sister, Karen Sprecher) by Jill Sprecher, this is a black comedy of the highest order. All three of the principals give award–quality performances. Included in the cast is Bob Balaban, a character actor who generally adds more to a film than one would expect from his generally relatively minor characters. He is as good in this film as he always is.
This script is finely honed as Kinnear stumbles his way from one disaster to another, always making everything worse. His character, Mickey Prohaska, is such a sleazebag that I found myself actually rooting for him to get into constantly deeper trouble.
This is a fine, entertaining black comedy that is so well written and directed that one never anticipates what is going to happen next, except that it's probably not going to turn out too well for Mickey.
Although Alan Arkin has given many fine performances in his career, I always think of him as the well-meaning submarine captain in Carl Reiner's The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming (1966). Here he plays a kind of doddering old man, and he does it beautifully.
The other performance that stands out, and it could be the best performance in the movie, is the one by Crudup as a volatile, violent security system installer. Even though the movie is terrific throughout, it really picks up whenever Crudup is on-screen. His erratic, tumultuous outbursts are rollicking good fun.
This movie is so good, and so full of twists, that it's much better if you know nothing about the plot and if you see it straight out of the box, so to speak, as did I.
This Means War
Run time 98 minutes.
Not for children.
Back in the day, entertaining movies could be made about two men pursuing one woman like, for instance, Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy going after Myrna Loy or Claudette Colbert. They would have interesting stories and good directors and fine scripts and the audiences would believe them. Gable and Tracy were men's men who actually had chemistry between them as well as between them and the woman they pursued.
Today, however, when a movie about two men pursuing one woman is made, what results is drivel like this with two guys, Chris Pine and Tom Hardy, going after Reese Witherspoon, who is no stranger to films that lack romantic chemistry. One of the many problems with this is that Pine and Hardy are hardly Gable and Tracy. But the problems don't stop with inept casting. The film has an absurd story (Timothy Dowling and Simon Kinberg with story credits to Dowling and Marcus Gautesen, although why anybody would want a story credit for this is beyond me; I would think that they'd be fighting to keep their names off of it) that is based on the idea that Pine and Hardy are brutal CIA agents using every spy technique they possess to try to figure out how to win Witherspoon's heart.
What doesn't occur to them is honesty, and that's another huge problem. There isn't an iota of a reason why Witherspoon would be attracted to these two duds. They ply her with dishonesty and playacting, pretending to be things they are not. Apparently, she's dumb enough to fall for it.
She's not helped by having a best friend, Chelsea Handler, who is a foul-talking woman whose advice consists of encouraging Witherspoon to jump in bed with them as fast as possible, and even offers to do it for her, even though she's a mother with a young child. Her only raison d'être appears to be to make crude jokes about sex and male body parts. She's certainly not there to make thoughtful suggestions.
One of the scenes is an inane fight between Pine and Hardy that makes absolutely no sense. It occurs in a restaurant when Reese tries to get away from them by going to the bathroom. When she's gone suddenly they get in a knock-down, drag-out fight in which they look as if they're trying to kill one another. When Witherspoon returns the restaurant is deserted. There's not one person left, including staff. There are no police. Nothing. It's not funny; it's idiotic.
Director McG has tried action comedies before. He directed two Charlie's Angels films that were as bad as this, if not worse, if that's possible. Frankly, I'm sick of films that don't have a clue about what's funny and what's not, that substitute crudity for humor, and appear to be thrown together without a thought given to intelligence and verisimilitude.


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On 11/21/06, Matt <migman1970 at sbcglobal dot net> wrote:
> Hi all,
> New subscriber here. I am planning on setting up a VMware based
> m0n0wall firewall on one of my machines at home. The machine will have
> a Ubuntu linux host OS. This machine will function as a firewall, web
> server (via another VM), and fileserver for my internal network
> (residing on host OS). It will have 3 physical NICs installed, lets
> call them eth0(from DSL modem bridged to WAN virtual nic on m0n0),
> eth1(bridged to m0n0 LAN virtual nic) connected to physical Gb switch,
> and eth2(connected to the physical Gb switch to isolate the fileserver
> residing on host OS). The OPT inteface on the m0n0 VM will be hooked to
> another virtual nic on a web server VM at a later time once I get the
> other connections running. Does this setup sound viable? I have never
> set up m0n0wall before and am still fairly new with VMware. I am doing
> this for fun and education, but at the same time I want to make sure I
> don't expose my fileserver to the outside.
Will it work? Yeah, it should. Is it a great idea? Probably not. I
wouldn't recommend putting your firewall on the same box as everything
else. One small configuration mistake and you'd have your entire
network open to the world. I would use a separate box for the
firewall, and then everything you describe with the other servers is
low enough risk that I'd be comfortable doing it as you described.

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I've lived in Alaska since 1969. I love this wild land. The extremes of the far north shape and affect every living thing. Extremes of weather, elevation, daylight hours, isolation, flora and fauna, nothing in Nature is insignificant.I have a Davis Vantage Pro weather station, uploading to Wunderground, (Turks on the Tundra) the National Weather Service, the Citizen Weather Observation Program and MADIS (Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System). "May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart." ~ Indigenous Arctic Proverb
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Jumpsuits cropped up often in the Spring 09 shows, and, in the wake of an era dominated by onesy-s of all manifestations, some parameters are in order. On the one hand, you can take your jumpsuit to an androgynous place with the flight suit looks. It's relatively subdued and rather nice when paired with heels. On the other side of the spectrum come unabashed, seventies-inspired jumpsuits. Whether bejeweled, or a-symmetrical, these suits are always wide legged and silk. We're all about a trend that has a silhouette for every type of person--we just hope they don't proliferate the market the way the shorts-version did a few seasons back. Anyway, the full jumpsuit has always been the more sophisticated option. Here's to one-stop shopping of a different kind.


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We stayed in this apartment for 10 days. The location is amazing. The view is fantassstic. I loved the little balcony. The Hotel Staff (Conrad staff) were great. This is suitable for young couples without children or singles, but for people with young children or older couples I would not recommend. Few things not so great are:
a) The clothes dryer is awful!! Hardly works.
b) Not enough kitchenware for heavy cooking, so plan for light cooking and a lot of eating out.
c) Parking in the Hotel complex is very expensive ($26 per night for self parking) and is not very inconvenient as it is in a different building.
All said we did enjoy our stay in spite of these drawbacks. I would probably stay again if my stay were to be shorter.


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Ryan North's 'To Be Or Not To Be' Sets New Kickstarter Record
Just how much of a good idea was Ryan North's To Be Or Not To Be, a book that will turn Shakespeare's Hamlet into a Choose Your Own Adventure-style interactive narrative? Only enough of one to set a new record for publishing projects funded through Kickstarter.At time of writing, there are less than 17 hours to go until North's Kickstarter ends, but with $502,000 raised so far, it has not only raised more than 25 times its original goal of $20,000, but also obliterated the record for Publishing projects crowd funded through the service previously held by Seth Godin's The Icarus Deception, which raised $287,342 in July of this year.
Just this morning, North updated the campaign by asking "Will we reach the $500k threshold at which I explode?" before mentioning that, thanks to the amount of money raised, he would be donated 400 books to schools, universities and libraries across the globe who had requested copies of the finished product. In an interview on Wired.com, he explained the reasoning behind doing so:
If you've ever struggled with people's motivations in the play, I think everything becomes a lot more clear when you're the person making those choices. So in that way, yes, it's educational! But you can also decide just to cut off people's faces and throw them into the ocean, so in that way, probably you're better off just reading Wikipedia.
17 hours to go before the campaign finishes, and it's already reached the point where North has exploded. Just how much more money will the project raise before the end, and will North's ghost be able to meet his deadlines without having corporeal fingers with which to type? Stay tuned.


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The TaxProf Blog has this headline today:
TIGTA: Only 14% of Eligible Small Businesses Claim ObamaCare Tax Credit
The IRS is just baffled as to why employers might be passing up this tax break:
According to the IRS, as of mid-May 2011, just more than 228,000 taxpayers had claimed the Credit for a total amount of more than $278 million. Among reasons given by industry groups and professional organizations for the low volume was the time and effort required to claim the Credit. The IRS plans to conduct focus groups to determine why the claim rate was so low.
Hey IRS, focus on this:
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This should give pause to Congresscritters and experts who think that they can nudge us all into optimal behavior (whatever that means) by carefully-calibrated and phased-out targeted tax benefits. But it won't.


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The National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) formulates Open Learning (OL) as "A flexible, learner-centred approach to education, seeking to increase access to educational opportunities by removing all unnecessary barriers to learning. This involves using the full spectrum of available resources to ensure quality and cost effectiveness in meeting diverse educational needs, including preparation of the widest possible range of learners for the process of lifelong learning" (NCHE, 1996: [online]. As such the philosophy of OL was used to construct the National Plan for Higher Education in South Africa (Morrow, 1996:4 ).
OL is rather an approach than a method that is aimed at open access to Higher Education to remove all unnecessary barriers to learning. Furthermore, it also aims to provide learners with a reasonable chance of success in Higher Education. Therefore the focus of OL is also on learners' specific needs and is located within the many areas of learning and training in an Higher Education system (SAIDE, 1997:4).
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|The philosophy and practices of open learning: a case study for the Central University of Technology, Free State
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On 13 May 2006, at 10:46 PM, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> m0n0wall can't do this currently, and I don't know if it ever will. Do
> you have managed switches in the appropriate locations? Most managed
> switches will let you set up spanned or mirrored ports just for things
> like this. If you don't have managed switches, I know a Cisco 2900XL
> will do it, and those are can be purchased very cheaply.
Hi, Phil,
We do have a couple of Cisco Catalyst 2924 switches. I'll take a
look at the config on those. Thanks for the tip!
Graham Freeman
Cernio Technology Cooperative
graham dot freeman at cernio dot com


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text: Our Verdict Powerful and impressive handset that covers all angles. For Easy to set up and use highly effective useful RF operation means you can control kit in other rooms, or in cabinets Against A tad expensive Reviewed on 21st August 2006 The 895 gives you a lot of capability for the money. It can not only control up to 15 devices, it can also operate equipment with no need for infra-red 'line-of-sight', meaning you can control kit in the next room, or inside a cabinet, or even upstairs. The 895's key trick is its RF extender, complete with wired infra-red emitters. This sits next to your kit rack and receives RF code from the remote handset, then converts the data into infra-red data your kit can understand. Is that worth £230? Let's put it this way: with an 895 in your life, you can get an invisible system and one-touch control at a relatively affordable price. Up to you... Sponsored link - buy this product from Amazon Related News Logitech Harmony Elite wants to remote control your home Wed, 16 Sep 2015, 01:44pm Logitech changes mind on remote control pull-out Fri, 21 Jun 2013, 01:08pm Logitech launches two new Harmony remotes Tue, 16 Apr 2013, 09:00am Logitech getting out of the remote control business Fri, 25 Jan 2013, 04:16pm Logitech introduces the Harmony Touch universal remote for £149 Wed, 03 Oct 2012, 11:00am Accessories Harmony 895 Logitech Remote controls


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A Labour MP should lose the £65,000 resettlement grant he is due to get when he retires at the next election after a "serious" breach of the rules on expenses, a Commons committee said today.
The standards and privileges committee found Harry Cohen had broken the rules on second home claims by claiming £70,000 for a property in his Leyton and Wanstead constituency while charging rent on his main home in Colchester.
The report concluded that as an MP with a constituency in outer London he should have instead claimed the £9,000 London supplement, and so had claimed more than £60,000 in public money "to which he was not entitled".
The decision about whether to act on the recommendation of the committee will be decided by MPs. The committee has ordered Cohen to apologise.
Cohen is to stand down at the election, when he would normally be given a resettlement grant which all MPs receive – a sum based on length of service.
Explaining its decision, the committee said: "Withholding of the resettlement grant is a severe sanction which will effectively recover from Mr Cohen a similarly large sum of public money."
Cohen is the first MP to have a penalty proposed for evidence of expenses wrongdoing since the scandal broke in May last year. The committee's findings today are the first implementation of ideas proposed by Sir Christopher Kelly, the chair of the committee on standards in public life, who reported in November on ways to reorder MPs' expenses and allowances. Kelly recommended the docking of a resettlement grant be used in the most serious cases.
Cohen may also be part of the last generation of MPs to receive a resettlement grant. Kelly's recommendations are now being considered by the head of the independent parliamentary standards authority, Sir Ian Kennedy, who will devise the new rules. He has already suggested he may go further on the reform of the resettlement grant than Kelly and scrap it altogether.
The report by the parliamentary standards commissioner, John Lyon, found that Cohen's Colchester property "could not be regarded as his home for the purposes of claiming parliamentary allowances" as he was not living there. It said it had "sympathy" for the MP because his wife had a serious illness after a stroke in 2004.
An investigation by Lyon found Cohen had designated the one-bedroom property in Colchester as his main home since 1998 but from 2004 to 2008 the Cohens spent most of their time living in the constituency and letting out the Colchester house.
In his defence before the committee, Cohen said there had been periods when the Colchester property had not been let and he had lived there. However, over time his wife's illness had required them to spend more time in the constituency.


text: Hope someone can help me shed some light? on my problems. here is my set up qiestion at the bottom. I have a constant 6.5MB connection through BT and am using their Hub v.3. I have 2 Lacie Network Space 2 drives connected to a BT hub (1TB and a 2TB) via ethernet and then a PS3 and a Apple TV (v3) about 4m from the router. I use different apps to stream videos from my NAS drives to the PS3 or the Apple TV with varying degrees of success. VUZE plays well with my PS3 but you have to swap out the TOSC cable from the Apple TV to the PS3 to get audio (I have to reinvest in a new amp or a audio switcher) Apple TV only works with Airparrot and stutters playing video most of the time and doesn't fill a 1080p 32" TV. SOOOOOO With my current router all the above traffic plus 2 iphones and 2 MBPs am I overloading the wifi and thus causing the NAS disks not to mount or produce a slow connection speed? Thanks


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does not end in the winter just
because it's cold and snowy.
Ice forms quickly on the Bays
de Noc, making it one of the
best ice fishing spots on the
Great Lakes.
towns appear overnight on the
ice as winter anglers try for
Walleye, Perch, Northern Pike,
Splake or Smelt.
and Northern Pike can be taken
with a Swedish pimple and minnow
on tip ups or Pike can be speared.
Perch are caught on minnows
or wrigglers and minnows are
used in the Escanaba yacht harbor
for Crappies.
of the more popular fish during
the winter is Splake a cross
between the Lake Trout and Brook
Trout. Splake appear to look
like either the Lake or Brook
Trout or have a combination
of characteristics. They can
reach sizes of up to five to
ten pounds. Splake are more
active during the winter but
can be taken in the spring and
summer, usually incidental to
fishing for Salmon and Brown
Trout. They can be caught more
readily than Salmon or Brown
Trout and are typically found
in shallower water about 30
feet or less.
the winter, Splake are commonly
found in 20 to 50 feet of water
and are quite often caught incidental
to Perch fishing.
An outstanding year class
should help make this winter
a good ice fishing season in
Delta County.
Madison, Department of Natural
Resources fisheries biologist
in Escanaba, says that a large
amount of yellow perch were
hatched in 1994 and are now
at ideal size for catching and
eating. Walleye hatched in 94
should also make for a good
winter walleye season this year
in Little Bay de Noc.
theres more good news for ice
fishers: The DNR also stocks
the bay with splake (a brook
trout-lake trout hybrid) and
brown trout. Wintertime is the
better time to catch them,
Madison said. The ice provides
shade for them, and they are
actually easier to catch than
in the summer.
Bay de Noc is an excellent place
to ice fish, Madison said, but
there are areas to stay away
from for safety reasons. The
people that dont frequent the
bay often seem to be the ones
who get in bad areas
The real
obvious ones are the river mouths
the White fish River, Days
River and Escanaba River, Madison
narrows through Gladstone and
the shipping channel from the
Escanaba ore docks are two other
bad ice spots to stay away from.
What we see typically on big
bodies of water are shoves
patches of ice that get broken
up and then grind against each
other due to wine, he said.
Shoves produce unstable and
weak ice conditions that should
be avoided, he said.
additional spot to avoid is
the north end of Butlers Island
near Kipling, Madison said.
There is a shove there-weak
ice is always present off the
north end. Though the water
is shallow enough there to avoid
the danger of drowning, having
a vehicle drop through the ice
can lead to a very expensive
towing and repair bill, he said.
recommends that anglers stay
on established trails to ensure
safe ice. But if using new ice,
he gives two pieces of advice:
Test the ice every 20 feet,
and use the buddy system. Never
go out on the ice alone even
when using ice believed to be
methods in the winter are much
more limited than on warm water.
Madison said there are three
popular methods for fishing
the bay: hook and bobber, jigging
(mainly using jigging Rapalas
or Swedish Pimples) and minnow
on a hook.
the top two fish anglers prefer
when fishing the bay yellow
perch and walleye. Madison said
perch are easier to catch and
better suited for families seeking
an ice fishing outing. Walleye
are a fish that takes a little
more finesse to catch, he said.
Madison said early weather forecasts
for the winter are much more favorable
than last year, when El Nino kept
temperatures unusually mild. This,
coupled with the good stock of
perch and walleye in the bay,
should keep the ice fishing action
hot this season, no matter how
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A Call for Mandatory Math
An Australian report says the disappearance of prerequisites in science and mathematics fields has many students entering universities unprepared, and urges they be reintroduced.
A University of Sydney report says that prerequisites should be reintroduced for some postsecondary degrees to help reverse the decline in high school math and science.
It says the disappearance of prerequisites has seen students entering science and health degree programs with no background in math subjects. "Although bridging courses are offered [they] are often not equivalent to upper secondary education," it says.
Echoing a recent call from the Australian Council of Learned Academies, the authors want New South Wales higher school certificate students to be compelled to study math, science or both, and advocate a publicity campaign, particularly for girls.
A co-author of the report, Rachel Wilson, said math and science were victims of the "high-stakes nature" of the Higher School Certificate (the main credential for secondary school students in the region) and a trend toward greater choice. "If there's no requirement for maths and science, and students (want) to strategize and minimize workload, they tend to avoid curriculum-heavy subjects."
Her study tracked 10 years of subject choice at Year 8 level, and how these choices panned out at Year 12. It found that the number of Higher School Certificate students taking combinations of math and science had fallen by 1,000, while overall student numbers had risen by 4,000. Although girls' participation rates were plummeting, the study found "complete stagnation" among boys as well.
Wilson said math and science had given way to "new subjects" such as family, community, legal, business and vocational studies. "We are losing what's conceived to be an educational core when we talk about liberal arts education. That has always included maths and science."
This had forced academics to play catch-up at university. "In most universities there's not one maths 101 (course) for first year -- there's a range of courses to deal with students' different backgrounds," Wilson said. "There are proposals to create university units which cover the basic high-school curriculum, because (students) need it to move on."
Wilson said a doctrine of "increased choice" had seen prerequisites all but disappear from undergraduate courses in the past 15 years. She acknowledged reintroducing them could deter students who might drift back into science or math at the university level, and said schools must change their rules.
Other developed economies required senior high-school students to take at least some math, with "a very large proportion" insisting on science as well.
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Get It Done
Get It Done
In his State of the Union address, President Obama laid out an ambitious agendaand, frankly, a bipartisan one, if only Republicans would admit where some of the ideas come from. And a few things might even stand a chance.
By Todd S. Purdum
by Charles Dharapak-Pool/Getty Images.
Was it his last best chance? The only moment before his second term is consumed by the jockeying over whoever will succeed him? Was it the first time since 1997 that a presidents State of the Union message had been covered in a semi-split-screen way with a police story in California? Was it a speech that took a splintered Republican opposition not one but two speakers to oppose? Was it all those thingsdignified and not sothat the pundits predicted it might be?
Or was it merely the moment when the re-elected Barack Obama said, Lets get it done, whether or not he actually can?
Id vote for the last. The presidents speech was strong and stirring and, yes, partisan, in the sense that Joe Biden often shot to his feet while John Boehner, seated together with the vice president behind Obama, usually sat on his hands.
But Obama, again and again, embraced ideas that were, at least once, bipartisan. These ranged from finding a path to comprehensive (read: sane) immigration reform,with more boots on the Southern border than at any time in our history, and reducing illegal crossings to their lowest levels in 40 years, to stepping up the governments cyber-security measures, to proclaiming that on his visit to the Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyilast year a man had said, There is justice and law in the United States. I want our country to be like that.
The presidents tone was sharp and focusedas it had been in his second inaugural address last monthbut he softened his message as well, with grace notes to the political realities facing him. It did not go unnoticed that he made a point of warmly shaking the hand of his bitter rival, John McCain, as he walked down the aisle, or made an equal point of praising McCains past work with former Senator Joe Lieberman on climate change.
Obama may not get it done. But he is certainly trying.
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1. This seems to be the consensus on the SOTU.
Except for the partisan Republicans. But, the public seems to be on-board with it, and maybe that's all that matters.
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babylonsister (154,354 posts)
2. I just wish, as usual, the 'media' would make this a big
issue, and demonstrate the differences, because they're so blatant to me. And the clueless who aren't paying attention won't know.
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A really delicious dinner–especially one prepared by someone else–goes a long way toward soothing the pain of a crushing defeat.
Sunday night was the biweekly Amazing Race dinner party. And at first, things were really going my way. My pick for overall winning team, Justin & Zev were on a roll. They were the first team to complete this leg of the race…I could already see the cash pot in my hands at the end of the season…but wait! Zev had lost his passport. They couldn't find it before the last team checked in, and Justin & Zev were eliminated from the race. My hopes of rolling around in a pile of money pretty much went with them.
It's a good thing that there was plenty of comfort food for consolation.
Lindsey, Janna, and Stephanie showed up with food, pots, and pans, and took over the kitchen in a whirlwind of activity. The three of them moved like a well-choreographed dance team as they finished the dinner they had started at home, maneuvering around each other flawlessly with knives, hot pans, and boiling water as the rest of us drank a bottle of Blue Fin California Pinot from the sidelines.
The centerpiece of this satisfying dinner was the fragrant, steaming Pasta e Fagioli. Pasta, beans, and beef in a tomato-based sauce, this savory dish was deceptively simple, perfectly warm and filling. Add a square of freshly baked corn bread and dinner was very nearly complete.
Chock full of fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, the green salad was the perfect foil for the steamy Fagioli.
And if this richness weren't enough, Rob contributed Crème Brulee for dessert. So creamy, the sugar topping so perfectly crackly, that I ate mine and had already started on another by the time Rob announced that there were extras if anyone wanted seconds. Rob had also created a tiny Crème Brulee in an Asian soup spoon for Kwame, because, as he explained, Kwame always asks for only a spoonful of dessert. This had involved some ingenuity, as Rob had to devise a way to prop the porcelain spoon to the right height in the bain-marie while the desserts cooked.
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(CNSNews.com) - Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Bradley has escalated his attacks against Vice President Al Gore, by inserting Monica Lewinsky into the race.
Referring to Gore's assertion in the 1980s, that life begins at conception and that abortion is "arguably the taking of human life," during a weekend appearing in Seattle, Bradley accused Gore of "artfully dodging" the truth, much as President Clinton did during the year long Lewinsky scandal.
"Arguably' means different things to different people and it sounds familiar. The parsing of words is not what women need," Bradley told his audience. The reference was to Clinton's defining the word "is" while under questioning by special prosecutors, as he gave a deposition concerning his sexual relationship with the one-time White House intern.
Bradley has repeatedly criticized Gore for switching his position on the issue of federal funding for abortions. However, the former New Jersey Senator has never before invoked, either directly or indirectly, Clinton's problem with Lewinsky.
Meanwhile Gore, campaigning in California, shot back, "I don't need a lecture from Sen. Bradley about how to protect a woman's right to choose."
Addressing a California fund-raiser, Gore added, "Early in my career, I did wrestle with the issue of Medicaid funding for abortion. But since then, I have come to believe that poor women deserve the same constitutional right to safe, legal abortions, that more affluent women have."
In response to the vice president's statement. Bradley insisted, "Leaders should not have to wait until you are having your teeth pulled," before offering an explanation of their past votes.
Meanwhile, the Bradley camp also expressed annoyance at the decision by Connecticut Democratic Party officials to invite Gore to be the keynote speaker at next Saturday's annual fund-raiser, while Bradley was not invited to the event, expected to be attended by as many as 1,200 party faithful. State Party Chairman Ed Marcus, who is also a Gore supporter, said he extended the invitation more than a year ago.


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CLEARWATER — Locals think it's a little chilly for the beach, but it's all a matter of perspective. When you're from the Northeast and your state is buried under a blizzard, a beach party is just the thing to lift your spirits.
That's why hordes of Penn State football fans showed up Thursday in Clearwater for Outback Bowl Beach Day. They joined Florida Gators fans for an afternoon of live music, skydivers, a cheerleaders' tug-of-war and a key lime pie-eating contest — not to mention appearances by the football teams.
The annual Beach Day is what you might get if you cross a pep rally with spring break. College marching bands performed on the sugary sand. Northern college kids and their parents waded into the Gulf of Mexico and tossed footballs in the surf. Locals did the Gator chomp and made muscle poses in front of a giant sand sculpture.
They basked in the sun whenever it peeked out from behind the clouds. The afternoon was overcast, with temperatures in the mid 60s — positively balmy by Pennsylvania standards.
"There's a foot of snow on the ground back home. This is nicer," said Jessica Boonin of Philadelphia, who whipped out her cell phone and showed a picture of her snowbound yard. She sat with her bare toes in the sand.
"We got out a day before the blizzard," said Donna Martin of Reading, Pa.
"The worst part is the black ice. It makes the roads really slippery," said Bernie Breiner, who drove a motor home down from Tamaqua, Pa. "We're not going home until the crows go home."
News camera crews from up North were there to capture it all, filming scenes like Penn State's cheerleaders doing backflips at the water's edge — and that's part of the point of Beach Day in the first place. It always draws tons of media coverage from the states that send college teams to the New Year's Day bowl game in Tampa.
"All the media covering the event pumps those images back up to their marketplace at a time when those markets are under 3 feet of snow," said Outback Bowl spokesman Mike Schulze.
That's why the Clearwater Regional Chamber of Commerce, various local sponsors and the city of Clearwater join forces to make Beach Day happen. They made it bigger this year, expanding a sunset festival at Pier 60 and adding a nighttime showing of the movie The Blind Side on the beach.
Frustrated officials want to show the rest of the country that there's no BP oil on Clearwater Beach.
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Administration of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory agents is an effective strategy for preventing ultraviolet (UV) irradiation-induced skin damage.
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Eight-week-old male hairless mice (Balb/c Nude), weighing 25–30 g, were purchased from the National Laboratory Animal Center, Taiwan. All animals were housed four per cage in an air-conditioned room with temperature maintained at 25 ± 1 °C and humidity at 55% ± 5% under a regular 12:12 h light/dark cycle during this experiment. All animals were fed the standard rodent chow and water
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We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of a grant from the National Science Council of Taiwan (99-2313-B-037-001-MY3). We also thank the Tainan district agricultural research and extension station, Council of Agriculture, Taiwan, for the material supplement of
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Ni Hao China! Nets to Play Two Preseason Games in Shanghai and Beijing
The Brooklyn Nets continue to be in "Go Global" mode.
The NBA announced Thursday morning that the Nets would play two preseason games in China next season as part of the NBA Global Games 2014.
Time to learn how to say, "Hello Brooklyn!" in Mandarin Chinese. Ni Hao China!
The Nets will face the Sacramento Kings on Oct. 12 at Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai. The teams will meet again on Oct. 15 at MasterCard Center in Beijing.
"There's a huge interest in basketball in China,'' said Nets forward Andrei Kirilenko. "We went there in 2008 in Beijing for Olympics; it was crazy. Every NBA player is treated like a god."
The Nets, with Russian owner Mikhail Prokhorov and international players Kirilenko, Mirza Teletovic and Jorge Gutierrez, are a popular draw outside the U.S.A.
When the Nets beat the Atlanta Hawks, 127-110, on Jan. 16 in a regular season game in London, they did so before an overwhelming pro-Brooklyn crowd. It was their third trip to the United Kingdom.
"Our games in China not only allow us to bring our brand to such an important global market, but from a business standpoint it gives us a chance to be in front of Chinese companies who have expressed an interest in the Nets and Brooklyn," Brooklyn Nets and Barclays Center CEO Brett Yormark said.
"We will be very active during our trip in seeking to create strategic partnerships by demonstrating the powerful benefits of growing their business through the Nets in the U.S.'s No. 1 media market."
This will be the Nets' second trip to China for preseason games. They played two preseason games in Beijing and Guangzhou in 2010.
"China is big for the NBA,'' said Kevin Garnett. "They have some of the most exuberant, enthusiastic fans. I think it's important to play there.''
Nets coach Jason Kidd, who recently said winning two gold medals playing for the U.S. Olympic team was among his most treasured accomplishments, has always been a fan of bringing the game overseas.
"It's an honor for us to represent Brooklyn and the League in China," Kidd said. "The borough and the Nets have connections to fans all over the world and it's a great opportunity to play on a major international stage in China."
When the Nets beat the Houston Rockets, 105-96, on April 1, a large contingent of fans of Chinese descent came to Barclays Center to support point guard Jeremy Lin.
KG has had a longstanding business association with the Chinese sportswear company ANTA Sports. Garnett has made many trips to China where he enjoys enormous popularity.
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Indonesia's departing military commander in Aceh has denied his soldiers have deliberately killed unarmed civilians during the Government's latest campaign in the province which has left more than a 1000 dead.
Major General Bambang Darmono, who trained for 11 months in Australia, rejected international media and human rights groups' reports that documented numerous cases of soldiers killing villagers.
"Never," he said when asked if his troops had executed any civilians in this campaign.
He described as "bullshit" reports in Indonesian and the Western media detailing how soldiers shot a group of seven villagers, including two boys aged about 12, in the first days of martial law.
In an interview before his replacement this week by General George Toisuta, General Darmono gave a spirited defence of Indonesia's biggest military operation since it invaded East Timor, rejecting criticisms by the West and insisting most foreigners remain barred.
Dismissing allegations of human rights abuses, he said his strategy had always been to win villagers' support and he had never tolerated any abuse by his troops.
"Don't compare us with Americans. Their soldiers are like cowboys. My soldiers are more responsible," he said.
Although his troops had never deliberately killed unarmed civilians, he admitted there had been incidents of assault and robbery and they had been punished accordingly. "We have to conduct ourselves with a good attitude towards the people; we have to kill only GAM members and not the civilians. And I'm strict on that, that's why there was a military court martial. We did it to make the people believe in us."
General Darmono claimed that in the six months since martial law was declared, up to half of GAM's forces, which he put at about 6000, had been killed or captured and a quarter of their weapons seized.
He said it was now important to consolidate this success, which would mean the army would have to remain in Aceh for "years", though not necessarily under martial law.
In the meantime he could see no reason to allow foreign aid agencies to return following their forced departures after martial law was introduced. "Westerners can't be trusted. They give a little and they talk a lot," he said.
Although Western governments have largely ignored the war in Aceh, the US, Japanese and European Union criticised Indonesia's decision this month to extend martial law by six months and urged Jakarta to lift the ban on humanitarian organisations to give some transparency to the military operation.
General Darmono bluntly rejected their criticism: "They don't understand Aceh."
Since the collapse of the peace agreement in May, life in Aceh was "much, much better now", despite the increase in the number of deaths.
"Yes, but I think people die everywhere. People die anywhere, anytime. But the question is whether the general public is happy or not. Who is dead? GAM, not civilians."
General Darmono said he studied for 11 months in Australia, learning English and aspects of military campaigns.
"Give my regards to the 55 joint service staff in Australia," he said. "They are responsible for my attitude . . . only joking, only joking!"
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Stones for the second Stonehenge, much of which still stands, were brought from up to 175 miles (280 kilometers) away. Construction continued for centuries, and the site may have been a temple for Druid worship, a giant astronomical calendar or a place of healing.
Evidence suggests large crowds gathered at Stonehenge for the summer and winter solstices, a tradition that continues today. Thousands of self-styled Druids, pagans and New Age revelers are due to gather for the winter solstice on Saturday, the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere.
Senior curator Sara Lunt said there are still major discoveries to be made — more than half the site remains unexcavated. But the original purpose of Stonehenge may remain a mystery.


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We have recently published a new xml schema and associated xml reader for FloTHERM that offers some exciting new possibilities. Unlicensed and freely available it's well worth checking out. Introducing my first guest blogger, my colleague Byron Blackmore explains more…
Byron is also a product manager for the electronics cooling line of business in the mechanical analysis division based in Canada. I've worked with him for the last 10 years and look forward to the next 10!
I've been working with application specific simulation tools for a long time now and I've gained a strong appreciation for how much productivity one can gain by having access to application specific 'widgets' within the software. The FloTHERM users reading this know these widgets as SmartParts. For FloTHERM these SmartParts come in many different flavours (heat sinks, PCBs, fans, etc) and support the majority of electronics cooling objects you'll need to use.
However, due to the wide range of electronics cooling applications that could be modeled with FloTHERM, it is entirely possible that you will need to build a part that falls outside the intended scope of the available SmartParts. The FloTHERM community has traditionally handled this by sketching the part manually in FloTHERM with simpler objects (with many small solid blocks to create a customized heat sink for example) or by importing a solid model from an MCAD tool. Fine for a one-off calculation, but not so efficient when having to follow this path a dozen times for a dozen variants of the object in question. A common request then is to provide some capability to automate the geometry creation for those non-SmartPart objects that arise periodically, but not with enough frequency to justify adding a new SmartPart to FloTHERM.
To address this, the ability to read XML files has been added to FloTHERM via the recently announced Productivity Toolkit (http://supportnet.mentor.com/downloads/related/flotherm-productivity-tools.cfm). For the uninitiated, XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language, and the format is described by a variety of tags (very similar to HTML) and expected inputs. The collection of tags and inputs is formally known as an XML schema. When you're whipping up an XML schema the tags can be whatever you'd like, meaning there's literally thousands of different, but valid, XML formats out there. For FloTHERM, we've defined tags to match the inputs the user would see when working directly in the software. A simple example of an aluminum block is shown below to give you an idea of what it looks like.
A user can now create these XML files, and as long as they adhere to the published FloTHERM XML schema, they can be imported either into the model directly or into the library for future use. The simplicity of the FloTHERM XML schema, as well as the prevalence of XML authoring tools today, means it's an enjoyable coding experience (basic scripting experience required however) to get from idea to functioning script/macro/widget. My personal favorite way to work is to use Microsoft Excel macro scripting as you can use spreadsheet data to form the macro inputs…keeps things neat. Here's an example [http://supportnet.mentor.com/reference/technotes/assets/public/files/MG501244/folded_fin_heat_sink.xls] of a spreadsheet that will output a FloTHERM friendly XML file of a folded fin heat sink. My stopwatch tells me I get my heat sinks ready ~100x faster this way (compared to manual creation in FloTHERM). The hour required to write the macro was time well spent in my book!
What's really exciting is the range of applications that are now possible; building up customized heat sinks, cold plates, detailed venting, data center layouts, rack or card cage auto-population, fan trays, and more. I'm looking forward to hearing about how our community leverages this new capability in their work!
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Posted January 8th, 2010, by Robin Bornoff
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Views and insights into the concepts behind electronics cooling with a specific focus on the application of FloTHERM to the thermal simulation of electronic systems. Investigations into the application of FloVENT to HVAC simulation. Plus the odd foray into CFD, non-linear dynamic systems and cider making. Robin Bornoff's blog
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Commented on January 19, 2010 at 9:05 am
By Eric Monier-Vinard
The xml files are really very powerful and in Thales we use them for capitalize our thermal models since 2001. I would like to know if you have you done extended tests or dedicated spreadsheet to export into flotherm some smartpart components or better the new assembly networks? Many thanks. Eric.
Commented on January 19, 2010 at 9:11 am
By Robin Bornoff
Hi Eric, we have extensively tested the import of xml into FloTHERM. It is important to note however that not all pdml objects are supported with this 1st release of the xml schema and reader. Unfortunately this 1st release does not support Network Assemblies. Please refer to the pdf document that is included inside the xml productivity toolkit for a complete description of supported pdml objects. We fully intend to extend the list of supported objects incrementally in future releases.
Commented on January 26, 2010 at 2:38 am
By Eric Monier-Vinard
Hi Robin,
could you please be kind enough to send me directly the pdf file about the object that can be export into flotherm from xml neutral file form.
Many thanks. Eric.
Commented on April 17, 2012 at 4:36 am
By More Than Two Decades and Still Going Strong; FloTHERM and FloVENT V9.3 Now Released « Robin Bornoff's blog
[…] XML strategy, whereby geometry data can be automatically created outside of the FloTHERM/FloVENT gui, has also […]
Commented on April 21, 2013 at 11:37 am
By max lai
What's the difference between Geometry type XML and Project type XML?
What is the tag used to define a Project type XML?
According to the snapshot of the XML file, the content inside tags , and looks like a Geometry type XML, right? Thanks!
Commented on April 22, 2013 at 1:36 am
By Robin Bornoff
The existence of a XML element makes it a project XML file. Without it becomes assembly XML. Hope this helps, this and more info is in the FloTHERM Help system, search for XML, locate the XML FAQ.
Commented on April 30, 2013 at 11:34 pm
By max lai
Can tag makes it a project XML? because it seems that is only for Assembly XML
Commented on April 30, 2013 at 11:35 pm
By max lai
Can "xml_case" tag makes it a project XML? because it seems that is only for Assembly XML
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A project XML file will have a element, and an assembly XML file will not. This is only difference in structure between the two.
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Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Only a risk-taker with the guts of a cat burglar, or someone with lots of money to burn, would bet the ranch on this year's close U.S. presidential race.
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I just did what you directed.
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It came back. The mail icon still has 37 there.
I am sure the mails are there. It will not show 37 if it were not. Open the mail app and Click on the half arrow in the bottom left corner
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It seems to have been working now.
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How do I get the Version 5.0?
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The told me the same thing this morning in the store, but I tried and getting nowhere.
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Istvan "Steve" Javorek enters his 24th season as JCCC's head strength and conditioning coach. He supervises the strength and conditioning program for JCCC's 18 sports and serves as a professor of fitness in the physical education department. In 1990 and 1991, Javorek was a nominee for the JCCC Burlington Northern outstanding teacher award.
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An ethnic Hungarian from Romania, Javorek came to the United States in 1983. He was hired as the assistant coach of strength and conditioning at Texas A&M and his duties included coaching track and field and working with women's athletics. His efforts at A&M helped runner Floyd Heard defeat Carl Lewis in the 200-meter dash and he played a key role in the development of Randy Barnes into world record holder and Olympic champion in the shot put. Javorek's services also helped the Aggies women's softball team win the College World Series. He also served as A&M's weightlifting coach.
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