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Do it once. Do it right.
Pitfalls of the ship & iterate mentality that can fail your work, team, and product.
Almost four years ago I started my first product design job at Virb. I was fresh out of a web agency position and enthralled with the idea of product design and agile software development. I was ready for a fresh start, and I had memorized all the mantras. If I was proud of something I'd waited too long to ship it. The beauty of the web was how malleable and it was—how easily things could be improved and changed and iterated on. Regardless of what was communicated to me, I knew what product designers were expected to do: ship things, fast, and then iterate on them to make them better.
Four years later, after moving from design to direction and now product management, I look back on those years with awe and regret. Awe that I was able to design and build so much in so short a period of time, keeping pace with competitors almost 25x our size, and regret that I didn't realize the longer-term impact of some of my decisions.
Turning in my membership
The other day, while talking to Andy, our lead engineer, about an upcoming feature rollout, I typed into Slack, "Do it once. Do it right." And I looked at that line in the chat room with wide eyes—did I really just say that? Do I have to give my product designer membership card back? Is Jeffrey Zeldman in a dentist chair feeling strangely and inexplicably disappointed right now?
I had written the words, and after a few days of reflection I can honestly say they represent how I (and my team) now approach our work at Virb. Now at this point I could wax on about theoretical pros and cons and discuss iterative development in a vacuum, but that's been done enough times. Instead, I wanted to share how we got here—how my thinking failed me, what the results were, and what we're doing to fix it.
Iteration as an excuse
During the late stages of product testing, I get a challenge from my Product Manager, Rubin. He brings up a great point, a use-case I hadn't thought of. Do I scrap the launch to go back and evaluate things or press on with this much-needed feature?
This situation happened more than I would have liked, and usually I would tell myself "That's ok, we'll launch it as is, and I can deal with this new wrinkle as an iteration." Occasionally I'd have the time to "fix it in post," but features would launch without every use-case or user scenario being fully thought out, tested, and accounted for. Sometimes we'd realize there wasn't an issue, and sometimes we'd have to scramble to toss up hot-fixes that dealt with issues we'd inadvertently launched. Was it catastrophic? No. Lazy? Most definitely.
Iteration is not an excuse to ignore issues, however late they may present themselves in your product cycle. Take the time to examine a launch from every angle, otherwise you end up shipping half-baked ideas that need more thought put into them.
Iteration that never happens
The idea of shipping and iterating is sound in theory. Most times, my iteration stage simply never happened, becoming something more like "Ship it and forget it." Usually another task presented itself as a higher priority—I did just launch a functioning feature after all. With a team of six people, babysitting a functioning feature to gather insights on its use or effectiveness seemed like a luxury I didn't have. Instead I'd move to the next thing on the list, like a good list-maker who loves to check things off, and come back to iterate only if the need trumped what was next on our roadmap.
Iteration needs to be built into your product timelines. Don't jump from one task right into another. Take the time to analyze the effectiveness of a feature before assuming it's complete. And then you can check that task off the list (and it will feel really good, I promise).
Iteration without long-term planning
The idea of iterating led me to produce things that did exactly what they needed to do when I meant to ship them. Now that might not sound terrible, but over the course of years it leads to a codebase, UI, and general product thats more like—shoutout to Jay-Z and Yeezus—hacks on hacks on hacks. What we did was add technical debt with everything we launched, morphing features and processes from their original purpose, or finding that we didn't build things in a way we could easily iterate on without a full re-write. Building an MVP is a great idea, but after four years of iteration on a minimally viable product sometimes you have sections of your product and codebase more worthy of being pulled off life support completely.
Have a long term plan for how your feature and product can be developed in stages, with each one being a fully functioning whole. Planning for future iterations allows you to build all the scaffolding for future features into the foundation of your product. This will save you from having to pay back tons of technical debt, rewriting key components or revisiting UIs down the road.
Iteration itself is a magical thing. It's a tool that allows us to take ideas, sculpt them, and hone them as we grow as designers and developers. Our products mature along with us. But used improperly as an excuse, without being given due time, omitting a long-term plan, it can lead to sloppy launches, half-baked implementations, and a product that has Fort-Knox-sized technical debt. These are all the things I'm doing today to help make Virb the best product it can possibly be, and it feels good to do things once, and do them right.


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Who would have known you can make green pasta sauce from blended kale and spinach. thanks to 101 cookbooks - Winter Pasta Recipe, I feel super healthy and inspired. I was so eager to prepare this dish, I forgot the follow the recipe. I glanced at the photo and got excited, using what i had. (kale and spinach, whole wheat spaghetti, ricotta instead of goat cheese, and slivered almonds for fun). I ate the pasta on day one, and then sauteed some mushrooms to change up the leftovers. mmmm. green winter pasta. (101 cookbooks recipe here)
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Herman Cain Tops Mitt Romney In Latest CBS/NYT Poll
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CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.
Businessman Herman Cain is now atop the field of Republican White House hopefuls, squeaking past former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the latest CBS News/New York Times poll.
Cain garnered 25 percent support of Republican primary voters in the poll released on Tuesday, compared to Romney's 21 percent.


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To be a great hitter, using the entire field is essential. If we only hit the ball to 2 of the 3 fields (left, center, right) we are not only minimizing valuable space for balls to drop in, but we have, or we are creating, a major swing flaw which will lower our productivity. We take the same consistent swing every time, it is how deep in the hitting zone we let the ball travel that will dictate where we hit the ball. It takes a lot of patience to hit the outside pitch. You must learn to be patient and let the ball travel deeper into your strike zone to drive the ball to the opposite field.
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The Plateau of Gorgoroth was a plateau in north-western Mordor in the midst of which stood Mount Doom. To the east of Mount Doom upon a spur of the Ered Lithui, Sauron constructed his fortress of Barad-dûr. During the War of the Ring, Gorgoroth was the location for the mines and forges that produced Mordor's arms and armour.
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At The Citadel in Quebec City. His noodley appendages spread pasta goodness to the Québécois.
Congratulations everyone – Kiva Team FSM reached One Million in loans today. Huge thanks to everyone who joined our team.
As of right now our team is at $970k – please consider joining us if you haven't already. We can use all the help we can get.
For those who don't know, Kiva is a nonprofit micro-lending organization that allows us to lend money to entrepreneurs in developing countries.
Please check it out and consider joining our team (there are now over 3000 of us). We're getting *very* close to the $1million mark.
This is a picture about the celebration for the new year with my daughter, teaching her about the great miracles and love monesvol is willing to give to whoever wants to believe in him.
-Esteban. Bogota, Colombia
I'm happy to see that our religion continues to spread around the world. Welcome to our friends in Colombia.
Nice work everyone. Current stats:
Number of Team Members: 2,608
Number of Loans: 27,208
Total Amount Loaned: $801,475 (as of 11/29/2011).
Pretty awesome. I'll just mention that Team FSM is above the Mormons by a hefty $80k, or about 4000 sets of magic underwear. Not that it's a competition.
Please join Team FSM on Kiva if you haven't already. It's a good cause and our team messages are highly entertaining.


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Is Shia LaBeouf A "Bad Boy" Or Just Screwed Up?
If nothing else, the train wreck that is young "Indiana Jones" star Shia LaBeouf has been refreshing for its candor.
We, the public, are used to a celebrity-publicist-consumers trifecta that downplays, obfuscates and outright lies when it comes to their naughty behavior. Exhibit A: Britney. Exhibit B: Lindsay. Exhibit C: Chris Brown. Exhibit D: Paris. Exhibit E: Jeremy Piven. I could go on, but you get the point.
But 23-year-old Shia LaBeouf—not through a publicist, not through a stage parent demon from hell—has been straight up when talking to the press about his troubles. Most recently, he confessed to Parade that he is an alcoholic, that he sometimes feels his life is meaningless and his insecurity is a "God-sized hole." Certainly, not every celebrity is required to open up about their personal lives this way, but we appreciated his honesty, rather than the same-old-same-old BS. Recently, Kim Masters at The Daily Beast spoke with Hollywood insiders about whether LeBeouf might want to put a cork in it. The Hollywood bigwigs Masters spoke with said he could use some "media training," i.e. a lecture on discretion, but as long as the young actor shows up at work on time, they don't care what he does after-hours.
But interestingly, one unnamed studio chief actually said he thinks the young actor just might be exaggerating his bad-ass lifestyle to look cool:
"Part of it is that rebellious youthful swagger. It's appealing to his generation, his fanbase. To girls, that's like, 'Oh, he's the bad boy.' To guys, they're like, 'That looks cool.'"
I'm not a Shia LeBeouf-ologist, yet I don't think he's exaggerating for the girls at all. His f**ked-up-ness appears pretty sincere.
There was the time he was arrested for trespassing in a Chicago Walgreens and he later admitted he was "pretty messed up." Then there was the car crash and DUI arrest. Then a YouTube video appeared of him engaging in a "slapfest" with a friend and calling the friend a f*ggot. Then there were all the weird, weird things he said about watching his parents have sex and how he thinks his mom is sexy.
That ain't posturing; this ain't a schtick. You just can't make alllll this s**t up. But if he says and does all this stuff because he's trying to look like a bad-ass, he's backfiring. Actually, the fact that at least one studio chief thinks young people admire anything more than LeBeouf's candor about his screw-ups is pretty insulting to our generation.
But it just goes to show how there can be a double standard for what behavior is appropriate for boys and what behavior is appropriate for girls. We read the same tabloid papers you do and the paps are NOT trailing Shia LeBeouf, just waiting for the next screwup, like they do with Lindsay or Britney. We point you towards Wendy McClure at Bust, who has written eloquently about how the public wrings our hands about how "out of control" these women have gotten.
We're glad you 'fess up to being a real person who makes stupid mistakes, Shia. But it's still really annoying that the girls whose stiletto-ed footsteps you are following are tragic "girls in peril," while you just get to be the "bad boy."


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SYRACUSE, NY – After defeating Southern New Hampshire 1-0
in the Northeast-10 first round Wednesday, the Merrimack softball
team battles Le Moyne Saturday at 9 a.m. in game one of the double
elimination Northeast-10 tournament.
The Warriors are the fourth seed in the tournament, with Le Moyne, the Northeast-10 regular season champion, the top seed. If Merrimack defeats Le Moyne, they will play at 3 p.m. on Saturday against the winner of #2 New Haven and #3 Southern Connecticut. If the Warriors lose, they play the loser of UNH and SCSU at 1 p.m. in an elimination game.
The tournament concludes on Sunday.
Senior Jill Gagnon not only threw her second straight no hitter on Wednesday in Merrimack's first round 1-0 win against Southern New Hampshire, but she scored the game-winning run after pinch hitter Casey Conetta lined a two-out single to left.
Gagnon did not allow a hit in seven innings, striking out ten Penmen. She picked up her 13th win of the season and second straight no-hitter with the shutout. Southern New Hampshire pitcher Kelsey Griffin fought a hard battle as well, allowing only three hits from the Warriors, while striking out five.
The Warriors are 2-4 against the three teams remaining in the tournament.
Not ranked in the top-10 in the region, Merrimack needs to win
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Double Elimination
Host: Le Moyne College
May 2
Game 5 (9:00 a.m.): #1 Le Moyne vs. #4 Merrimack
Game 6 (11:00 a.m.): #2 New Haven vs. #3 So. Connecticut
Game 7 (1:00 p.m.): Game 5 loser vs. Game 6 loser
Game 8 (3:00 p.m.): Game 5 winner vs. Game 6 winner
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Game 9 (10:00 a.m.): Game 7 winner vs. Game 8 loser
Game 10 (12:00 p.m.): Game 8 winner vs. Game 9 winner
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text: Hello James, Geert Lovink, media theorist and one of our teachers/ researchers at the University of Amsterdam, has written an article about MySpace: Geert Lovink. Escaping the Control Loops. Understanding MySpace. http://www.nomad-tv.net/kontrol/lovink.htm In this article Geert has the following references: Danah Boyd. Friend, Friendsters, Top 8: Writing Community into being on social network sites. http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_12/boyd/index.html Anne Galloway. Myspace, Control and Users. http://www.spaceandculture.org/2006/05/myspace-control-and-users.php Fred Scharmen. Myspace and Control. http://www.sevensixfive.net/myspace/myspacetwopointoh.html Hopefully this is what you where looking for? kind regards, Heleen van der Klink http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl 2007/1/15, James W Craine <james.w.craine at csun.edu>: > > I am teaching a Geography of Media class this semester and want to include > a discussion of MySpace - can anyone recommend any foundational readings > that I might use - the readings do not have to be of a geographical nature - > I just need something that discusses MySpace as a social and cultural > construct - I'm hoping that there might be a few articles that are just > basic required reading for any class discussing MySpace - many thanks > > > James Craine > Department of Geography > California State University, Northridge > APCG Yearbook Editor > _______________________________________________ > The air-l at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ >


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Baby's Lion Costume
This is the cutest costume I have ever seen for a toddler!
I'm picturing three triplets dressed as piglets and a big bad mama wolf.... I wish I knew someone with multiples at Halloween-time. Merely for the entertainment value.
Yay! Supergirl! They even make this costume in plus size as well, which is cool!Tags: costumes, women, superhero, Halloween, Super GirlAdded 9 Years Ago from Makesparties
Did grave diggers really used to look like this? And do they still? I've never met one....Tags: mens, costumes, black, Halloween, halloween costumes, adult costumes, men's costumes, gravedigger, Men's Halloween CostumesAdded 9 Years Ago from Makesparties
For your little witch on halloween
This would be lovely for a school nativity play or some kind of holiday party.
A lovely butterfly costume for babies so they can join in dress up fun this Halloween!
no need to leave out newborns from the festivities now they make this costume!
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District-based SocialRadar, the creators of an application that helps identify the people around you in social settings, has raised $12.75 million from a bevy of local investors, executives announced today.
The months-old company, which was founded by former Blackboard chief executive Michael Chasen, pairs the location technology built into smartphones and other portable devices with the information in online profiles to identify people around you and your possible connections to them.
A beta version of the application will be available for the iPhone later this summer, Chasen said, followed by applications for Android devices and Glass, Google's computerized eyewear.
SocialRadar counts 10 full-time employees to date in the same 19th Street NW building where Chasen said, coincidentally, Blackboard had its first official office space more than a decade ago.
Chasen co-founded Blackboard in a D.C. rowhouse in 1997 and took the firm public seven years later. He left the education technology company late last year after selling it to Providence Equity Partners in 2011 for $1.64 billion
SocialRadar's inaugural funding comes from a slate of the region's most prominent investors, led by New Enterprise Associates, Grotech Ventures and SWaN & Legend Ventures.
An extensive list of local angel investors also contributed to the round, including Steve Case and Ted Leonsis of Revolution, Venturehouse Group chief executive Mark Ein, Novak Biddle Venture Partners co-founders Roger Novak and Jack Biddle and EverFi chief executive Tom Davidson, among others.
Chasen spoke with Capital Business about the impetus for the new venture and its initial investment. Below are excerpts from that conversation.
How did the idea for SocialRadar come about?
"I always found it weird you have so many people walking around with location beacons, have all their user profile information online, and yet I walk into a restaurant or a meeting or conference and don't know anything about the people around me.
"This is technology we want everybody to have. I believe this technology is going to be commonplace [and] built into your smartphone 10 years into the future, the way that map navigation systems are common for a car to have."
Why shift from an enterprise software company like Blackboard to a consumer-oriented upstart?
"Even though we were an enterprise software company, we sort of considered ourselves to be a consumer play [at Blackboard]. Even though we were selling it to the school, we had 30 million students and teachers using our technology."
How will SocialRadar make money?
"We think there's a lot of different ways for us to turn this into a pretty sizeable and significant business. Obviously if people are sharing location information there's a lot of commerce opportunities we can pursue, but the goal now is to get the technology into as many hands as possible."
Most first-round fundings aren't this large. Why raise so much money?
"A few years ago people weren't sharing their location information like they are today. Even now we're not at the tipping point, but we're almost there. It's becoming more and more common and accepted and it's growing at an exponential rate.
"We think this a huge opportunity and big technical problem to solve and we wanted to make sure we were funded to be able to go after it in the right way and for the long haul."
What's it like for you to be back at the earliest stage of a company?
"One of the things I didn't enjoy as Blackboard got bigger is I got further away from the people developing the product and the people selling the product. Those were the things I used to love. I was always a hands-on founder/CEO. But as the company got bigger my priorities had to change and evolve.
"I'm getting an unusually high degree of pleasure being hands on with the product again and speaking with consumers who are helping us design it.. . . [People asked me,] 'Why didn't you go into entrepreneur-in-residence or join VC firms or private equity firms?' I could never imagine anything else other than building a company. I knew I wanted to do it again if I had the opportunity."
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SYDNEY — If deep-water oil exploration in an area off Nova Scotia results in discoveries on the scale of four geologically similar areas around the world, it would be a game-changer for the province, the owner of Superport Marine Services says.
At Ports Day on Thursday, Les MacIntyre, who owns the Port Hawkesbury-based company and McGregor GeoScience in Halifax, explained the potential of deep-water oil development off Nova Scotia.
In his work, he has mapped ocean floors around the world and determined what is underneath.
He explained that the North American and South American and Afro-Europe plates separated many millions of years ago.
"It was all kind of squished together and slowly the plates started to separate, 220-odd million years ago, continents became more pronounced," MacIntyre said.
Continental rift resulted in five primary pre-salt domains that have been identified worldwide, including the area off of Nova Scotia. It is the only one that has not yet seen exploratory drilling.
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"We could not get at this until technology allowed us to do it, in the last 18 years, and it's only now that we're getting at it in Nova Scotia," MacIntyre said.
"It hasn't been drilled yet, Shell and BP both put a billion dollars on the table to go out and look at these structures that we're talking about here. Shell will drill it next summer, BP probably the summer after."
The other pre-salt domains are in the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, West Africa, and off of Madagascar. Huge oilfields have been discovered at the first three, while there was a major gas discovery off Madagascar, he said.
Exploration in these areas is not an easy task. They are normally in deep water, requiring drill ships that can operate in depths of up to 3.5 kilometres. They then must penetrate one to two kilometres of mud, sand and rocks before arriving at the salt, which can be up to two kilometres thick, then another kilometre of sediment.
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"They are game-changers."
Supporting that type on deep-water development requires massive amounts of onshore fabrication, repair and technology, he noted, saying he believes it would forever change the province if there are discoveries of the same magnitude found in the other pre-salt areas.
"There's no reason to believe right now that we're not going to be successful," he said.
Another deep-water area is about to be put up for bids by the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board.
"It's attracting a lot of interest. Only the big players can play because of the expense," MacIntyre said.
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Situated in Marysville, this hotel is within 20 mi (32 km) of Golf Club of Dublin, Ohio Wesleyan University, and Shamrock Golf Club. Safari Golf Club and Scioto Park are also within 20 mi (32 km).
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In addition to an indoor pool, Hampton Inn Marysville provides a spa tub and a fitness center. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access. This hotel offers access to a business center. A complimentary breakfast is offered. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
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We are considering creating our own InputFormat for hadoop and running the tasktrackers on every 3rd node(ie. RF=3) such that we cover all ranges. Our M/R overhead appears to be 13 days vs. 12.5 hours on just reading SSTAbles directly on our current data set. I personally don't think parsing SSTables(using the hadoop M/R framework) is a big deal from us since we run task trackers on the cassandra nodes we need it on. Ie. We don't need to copy to DFS to do this I believe(at least not in our situation). I already wrote a client on the SSTableReader parsing out sstables to take a look at some of our data while our 13 day M/R job is running(we are 4 days in already with no failures and no performance degradation). later, Dean From: java8964 java8964 <firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>> Reply-To: "email@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>" <email@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>> Date: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 12:06 PM To: "email@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>" <email@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>> Subject: RE: map/reduce performance time and sstable readerŠ. I am trying to do the same thing, as in our project, we want to load the data from Cassandra into Hadoop cluster, and SSTable is one obvious option, as you can get the changed data since last batch loading directly from the SSTable incremental backup files. But, based on so far my research (I maybe wrong, as I just did limited research about the SSTable, I hope someone in this forum can tell me that I am wrong), it maybe is NOT a good option: 1) sstable2json looks like NOT a scalable solution to get the data out from the Cassandra, and it needs the access to "data" directory to get some meta data from system keyspace for the column family data dumped, which maybe is not an option in your MR environment. 2) So far I am thinking reuse the same API as being used in the sstable2json, but I have to provide these metadata in the API, like validator types/partitioner etc. I am surprised that as a backup, the column family SSTable dump files DOESN't contain these information by itself. Shouldn't it find out this from the SSTable files(ONLY) by itself? 3) The big trouble comes this if you want to parse the SSTables in your MR code. The API internal will load the Index/Compression_Info information from the Index/Compression files, which it assumes located in the same place as the data file, but it will use the FileSteam internal. So if these data files are in the DFS (Distributed File System), so far, I didn't find a way to tell the API to use the stream from the DFS, instead of Local File Input stream. So basically you have 2 options: a) Copy these files from DSF to local file system (Same as what Knewton guys did at https://github.com/Knewton/KassandraMRHelper) b) Develop your own API to access the SStable files directly ( My guess is that Netflix guys probably did this way. They have a project called "Aegisthus<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra#History>" (See here: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/02/aegisthus-bulk-data-pipeline-out-of.html), but it is not open source. 4) About the performance, I am not sure, as SSTable2Json underline is using the same Cassandra API, but running in MR give us some support in scalability, as we can reuse the Hadoop framework for a lot of benefits it can bring. Yong > From: email@example.com<mailto:email@example.com> > To: email@example.com<mailto:email@example.com> > Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:25:09 -0600 > Subject: map/reduce performance time and sstable readerŠ. > > Has anyone done performance tests on sstable reading vs. M/R? I did a quick test on reading all SSTAbles in a LCS column family on 23 tables and took the average time it took sstable2json(to /dev/null to make it faster) which was 7 seconds per table. (reading to stdout took 16 seconds per table). This then worked out to an estimation of 12.5 hours up to 27 hours(from to stdout calculation). I am suspecting the map/reduce time may be much worse since there are not as many repeated rows in LCS???? > > Ie. I am wondering if I should just read from SSTAbles directly instead of map/reduce? I am about to dig around in the code of M/R and sstable2json to see what each is doing specifically. > > Thanks, > Dean
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Patheos went live in 2009 to meet the growing demand for credible, engaging information on religion and spirituality. Husband-and-wife entrepreneurs, parents, and 20-year internet technology veterans, Leo and Cathie Brunnick were inspired to develop Patheos in 2008. "Our goal was to be the premier online destination for engaging in the global dialogue about religion and spirituality, and to provide a place for people to explore and experience the world's beliefs. We are thrilled with the amazing growth of Patheos and its ability to reach so many people in the U.S. and around the world," said Cathie Brunnick, Patheos COO and Founder.
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Yup, that's the only time when she actually said anything. I wouldn't be surprised to see her say something sometime in the future. Hopefully we get some Kuchinashi backstory like how she met Setsuna and Mio and formed their Girl Squad. Maybe it'd be when Blade goes to St. Rose Academy lol...
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If looking like a girl would score me some points with Kuchinashi, I wouldn't mind. =P
I'm kinda wondering if Yamada has more than one set of Killer Girl clothes and Setsuna's panties. Hopefully he's not just wearing the same pair of clothes everyday... but then so is everyone else.
Ah, speaking out pairs of clothes, I wonder if Setsuna, Mio, and Kuchinashi will ever wear their Iron Mountain outfits again.
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Would be nice to have a short story about how Mio, Kuchinashi and Setsuna met. I'm sure it could be very funny.
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^ Interesting. Now that you've told me, I recognise it(kuchi-nashi). I didn't recognise Setsuna or Mio's name so I looked them up and Setsuna has "moment; instant" as a meaning which seems logical to me when taking her speed(she moves in an instant) in consideration. Can't find anything on Mio though. Do you know anything more about that, or is she simply the only one with a name without extra meaning?
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Maybe it has to deal with her fragment, when we breath out of our mouths we produce smells in our breath and her fragment deals with chemicals she releases from her body. So maybe to not mess up her fragrances she does not speak.
Or she holds back in order to surprise her enemies like she did with Blade and gang to force them to breath in the fragrance
Mio is like Moe in that it has 3 letters an M and a O? >.>
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Actually, I think Mio means "beautiful cherry" which explains her red theme (mainly hair). Not sure what explains her fragment or her rabbit/bear theme or when she becomes a cat (that bow of hers sure looks a lot like nekomimi) but maybe she just loves animals.
I kinda think it's funny how Kuchinashi's most powerful attack is "Lilith Temptation". We haven't had many biblical discussions lately but I thought we might wanna look back at the Bible to see if there are any clues we can find. Lilith is believed (according to Jewish folklore) to be the first wife of Adam (who was created alongside Adam) but refused to be subservient to him (she wanted to be treated as an equal). She left the Garden of Eden and became evil.
Anyway, I always thought there'd be a Lilith somewhere in Needless. The story of Adam, Lilith, and Eve would be interesting, I think. Furthermore, Lilith plays on the theme in Needless that women are bad/evil. Not sure why Kuchinashi has her most powerful attack as Lilith Temptation though.
|2010-08-13, 17:04
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Maybe I'm the only one who thinks Riru is that Lilith, the evil wife. Afterall, Arclight calls her "his Eve".
As for why Kuchinashi's most powerful ability is named like that, I have the answer. Lilith also makes reference to the snake that tempted Eve to eat the Apple of Eden.
There's no way another Lilith exists, only Neuchwanstein was the only successful Eve. Remember Imai adapts each biblical reference the way he had planned, not as it's described in the Bible.
|2010-08-13, 17:10
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Yeah, I knew that. What I was wondering is what is Kuchinashi's connection to Lilith. She isn't one of the story-heavy characters in the series and is one of the funniest (if not the most) characters, so it's strange to see her with a connection to the Bible which has been shown to be very important to the overall Needless storyline.
|2010-08-14, 10:33
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Spain/España
I just see Chapters 80 and 81 thanks to the web link YNOT has put us and I did not expect to see Eve, well ... what's left of Eve's body except his brain, because I was shocked, now just need to see more pass on, and it appears that Cruz knows who is this strange scientist who seems to know Gido time ago since he had a vision when he was in an operating room with Aruka (which she reneged on Cruz as a sister for not having fragment) and the strange scientist who had the open palm with a strange arrow turning 360 degrees.
|2010-08-14, 10:40
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Moe Land
Age: 36
Cruz is not gay. He's gar for Blade.
|2010-08-16, 21:39
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2009
Seems Kefit is alright. He posted chapter 79 just now!
|2010-08-17, 00:06
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Senior Member
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I find it interesting that Blade not only memorizes fragments but everything about people. That was shown on the 3rd page (in the thought bubble), plus the stuff about Kafka liking horror movies (as we saw in Needless Zero II). I guess that's why Blade knows everything about Strom and maybe Voras and Mengroze. I couldn't help but try to imagine what Eve's memory world would be like...
As for the miracle Strom is talking about, I think it maybe something like the Second? Seems like Overlord would be against having the Second around.
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Killeen Daily Herald
Just one day following the announcement that District 55 state Rep. Dianne White Delisi will not finish out her ninth term in the Texas House of Representatives, a candidate up for the seat in November has stated his intent to run in a special election to fill the unexpired term on a two-month interim basis.
Republican nominee Ralph Sheffield of Temple plans on winning two elections.
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The early retirement of Delisi, an 18-year veteran of the House of Representatives, throws a kink into the race for the open District 55 seat among Sheffield, Democrat Sam Murphey and Libertarian Chris Lane.
According to the secretary of state's election code, the governor must announce a special election to cover the term between the general election and Jan. 13, when freshman representatives are sworn in.
Sheffield said Delisi's resignation is sure to trigger the special election that will most likely be held on the same day and same ballot as the general election this Nov. 4.
While Sheffield made his bid known promptly, Murphey says he prefers waiting until the governor actually calls the special election.
Murphey, of Harker Heights, said he will evaluate his options once an announcement is made.
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Like Sheffield, Bell County Republican Party Chair Nancy Boston said she feels certain that the special election will occur Nov. 4.
The secretary of state's guidelines say the governor must set a date within 20 days.
Murphey said he'll give the governor 20 days or however long it takes before he decides whether he will run for the short term.
Sheffield said that running for the special election will not deter his mission to win the seat for the full term.
"I am running for a full two-year term as your next state representative and the focus of my campaign will not be diluted by this special election," Sheffield said. "The bottom line is, nothing has changed. I want to be your representative when votes count and legislation that affects our lives is passed in January."
Murphey said he is not as concerned about the special election but rather that District 55 deserves an independent voice.
"The general election is what's important to District 55," Murphey said.
Sheffield told the Herald that while his general election mission has not changed, he chose to make his announcement Friday in order to reach out to his supporters and let them know what's going on since special elections seem to cause confusion.
On Thursday, Murphey said he was concerned about the special election confusing the public.
"I have an inclination that it might cause a little confusion," Murphey said.
Sheffield said Friday that the only difference will be the District 55 state representative race will appear twice on November's ballot – once for the general election and later for the special. The winner of this special election will take office immediately after the election is certified.
"This special election will only determine who will be a state representative for two months, at a time when there will be no committee hearings and no laws passed," Sheffield said. "I'm not going to change the way I'm campaigning. I'm campaigning for the general election. It does open the door; the special election does give me seniority when I go to Austin. It gives me a little head start."
In a statement released Thursday afternoon, Delisi said she submitted to the governor her letter of resignation, effective immediately.
Though she announced this would be her final term more than a year ago, the Temple Republican said her abrupt resignation lies in her decision to "begin a new chapter in my life. I am eager to pursue new civic, professional and personal goals."
Delisi said in her statement she has made all the appropriate arrangements to ensure the requirements of her office will be properly attended to during the remainder of her term.
Herald reporter Justin Cox contributed to this story.


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Guillermo, we hardly knew ye.
The Mets pulled off a very tidy trade Tuesday, sending Mota to the Brewers for catcher Johnny Estrada.
Mota was a chapter in the Minaya memoir that our GM would like to forget. Guillermo was lights out when we got him mid-season 2006. But that's because he was lit up on steroids, or horse tranquilizers or something.
Mota did own up to the discretion…after he was caught. And so we rewarded him with a two-year, $5M contract.
A drug-free Mota was not a pretty sight in 2007. Now he's someone else's problem.
Johnny Estrada is a nice upgrade offensively, although his bulk suggests he is not unfamiliar with the same substances that grounded Guillermo.
There's also some question about Johnny's clubhouse demeanor. Met fans will remember Estrada's in-dugout altercation with his manager during a Brewers/Mets game in August.
Our new catcher had some parting shots for brewers management last night. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
"I heard they wished I worked better with the pitching staff," said Estrada, who will be playing for his fourth team in four years. "That (ticks) me off. I think sometimes, as a general manager or an owner, or even a manager, you don't have the pulse of the team. (General manager Doug Melvin) is not in the clubhouse.
"The pitchers that carried us down the stretch, I got along great with. We had a great bunch of young players that I got along fine with. I'm going to miss playing with those guys.
"I didn't see this coming until I heard last week they were shopping me around. I don't want to point fingers. I'm not going down that road yet. The way I look at it, it's a great opportunity to go to New York, a great team that's all about winning."
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Some families think it is bad luck to take down the tree before New Year's Day. My family has always practiced the opposite. We think it's bad luck to leave the tree up until New Year's Eve. I'm pretty sure that's because the mother will go crazy and impart bad luck on all who live in the house with her.
Yesterday, when the gifts were opened, it was all I could do to relax and not start urging everyone to take their new belongings to their rooms. The belongings are still in my family room. They are on the desk. They are on the floor. They are on the couch. They are on the love seat. They are spilling over into the kitchen and are on the table and on the counters. They are in my bedroom and bathroom. I'm pretty sure the only place the new belongings aren't is in the kids' bedrooms where they now live. We have too much stuff. I'm losing it.
It's not that I'm a neat freak. Really, I'm not. Trust me on that one. It would take just one glance at my house on a regular day to realize that I am not neat in the least bit. However, when four people live in 900 square feet, we can't afford to let the stuff gain control. I've been fighting against the Clutter Coup d'Etat for two years, and the coup is winning. I'm pretty sure I won't be ruling this home for much longer. Unfortunately, the coup, the dust bunnies and the guinea pigs have realized that if they work together, I don't stand a chance. Maybe I should just wave the white flag and become a hoarder. (It looks like I already am, so if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.)
I don't want to be a bad mother. I don't want to force my kids to put their stuff in their rooms when they are still obviously enjoying looking at all of it spread all over the house. I'm biting my tongue, but it's starting to bleed. I think I'll set a clock for a count down. It's not the count down until the New Year. It's the count down until the stuff can go away.
As for the tree, I'm pretty sure it will be leaving us today. The Beetle gave me a sad look when I said that earlier, but he doesn't understand. That tree is vicious. It keeps attacking me every time I squeeze by it to get to the laundry room. (I say this in jest. It's actually a laundry closet, but room sounds so much better.) I have scrapes on my arms from that wicked tree. It must die or go back in storage; whatever comes first.
I enjoyed Christmas. I love Christmas. I will love Christmas more when I am not living in a shoe box. I used to decorate and make the house look so pretty. Now, if it doesn't serve a purpose, it must go. Christmas decorations have no place in my home. Unless they learn how to sweep, mop or do dishes, they can't stay. (I keep saying the same thing to my kids, but they aren't leaving.)
I would go take a nap, but there is stuff on my bed. I'd take a bath, but I'm pretty sure there are toys in there. The stuff is surrounding me. It's closing in. I can't breathe. Someone come help me. Save me from the clutter. Come quickly before it's too late. Bring your snow shovel. You're going to need it. -Al


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What an interesting suggestion about paper aging, that it starts from the date you open it rather than the date of manufacture.
It is just an observation. I do a lot of quasi-sensitometric testing of paper for the Darkroom Automation paper speed charts. When opened the papers from different emulsion lots can have the same speed within 0.1 stops*. However paper opened six months ago is always ~ 0.5 stops slower and ~1/4 grade softer than it was when opened. This is not, however, sufficient proof.Notes *: For Ilford, best case. Other brands have greater variation. Forte papers have varied by a 1/2 stop of speed within the same box.
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Switches can be used with anything electronic, including devices
that work with batteries. However, the electronic device will need
an interface to use a switch; a place the switch can be plugged
in. Switches can control the flow of power to turn things on and
off, such as a battery-operated toy or a radio or fan. Items that
run on batteries use direct current (DC) while those with plugs
use alternate current (AC). Both types can be adapted for switch
use with different interfaces. With other interfaces, the same switches
can also control complex electronics such as computers and telephones.
We have also provided a useful handout
explaining switch interfaces in detail.
For optimal switch use, several things must be considered:
1. The child should be in a comfortable position.
Wherever the child is positioned, in a chair, at a table, or on
the floor, the child should be secure so that she can expend energy
on participation. She should not be putting effort into balancing
or maintaining a particular position. Watch for signs of fatigue.
2. Place the switch near the child's preferred, most reliable
access site. Reflexive or abnormal movement patterns should
not be considered appropriate sites. Switch placement should not
interfere with stable body positioning. Accidental "hits"
are natural consequences!
3. Place the device that the child is activating in close
proximity to the switch itself. The closer the switch is
to the reacting device, the more concrete the cause/effect relationship
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are available or items such as suction cups, Dycem (a non-slip material)
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adhered to the switch, will stabilize the switch.
5. As children should be repositioned frequently throughout the
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positions. The stamina of the child, the environments and activity
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Recent Water Resource and Drought Activities in Colorado
October 9, 2008
It was a busy two weeks for researcher partners from NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), and the Western Water Assessment (WWA). NIDIS and ESRL hosted the Colorado River Pilot Scoping Workshop, Oct 1-2, 2008 at NOAA Boulder. The aim of the workshop was to discuss the design and implementation of a drought early warning system for the Upper Colorado River Basin. By including a broad range of relevant stakeholders, the workshop built upon existing activities to identify partnerships and teams needed for a successful pilot and a sustained early warning information system.
ESRL, CIRES, and WWA researchers participated in the Governor's Conference on Managing Drought and Climate Risk, October 8-10, 2008 in Denver, CO. This conference aimed to help water providers, planners, managers, and agency and local government officials assess drought risk, impacts, and preparedness in Colorado and the improvements that may be needed for management under different conditions such as climate change. Conference goals were to share information and experience on drought preparedness and planning strategies, to announce plans for a comprehensive State Drought Plan, and to identify pathways for adaptation to the impacts of climate change and demands on water resources in the State.
In conjunction with the Governor's drought conference, the Colorado Water Conservation Board released a report on October 6, 2008 entitled, Colorado Climate Change: A Synthesis To Support Water Resource Management and Adaptation. This report was created by PSD, WWA, and Colorado State University researchers on behalf of the Board, and assesses the most reliable data available on temperature, precipitation, snowmelt, and runoff for Colorado and its rivers. The report indicates that Colorado's temperature rose 2°F over the past 30 years. Over the entire western United States, about 1°F of observed warming has likely been caused by the buildup of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. Computer models project Colorado could warm another 4°F by mid-century.
With growing changes in demands on limited water resources, state and local governments must try to assess and understand a wide spectrum of information in order to make water management decisions.
By providing scientific information and resources on drought and climate change, NOAA helps inform decision-makers in order to reduce damaging environmental, societal, and economic impacts of drought.
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UK's Starting Five Headed to the NBA
Well, you could have knocked me over with a feather. Wheels are actually round?!?!? Fire is actually hot?!?!? And the national champion Kentucky Wildcats will have a whole new look in 2012-2013. Oh, that…yeah.
The 'Cats' starting five–Davis, Kidd-Gilchrist, Teague, Jones, and Lamb–all declared for the NBA draft on Tuesday evening while sitting next to a very proud and beaming Coach John Calipari.
Why does he seem to be prouder, seem to be beaming brighter than in years past? Well, it might have something to do with the knowledge that when he goes out on the recruiting trail from this point forward, he can add, "Oh, and we can win national titles with freshmen at UK" to his portfolio of magic.
But, hold the phone. UK wasn't just freshmen in 2011-2012. We have no way of knowing, but I'd bet that championship banner would be hanging somewhere else if a couple of sophomores named Terrence Jones and Doron Lamb hadn't stuck around for year two.
Yes, it was one of the youngest starting line-ups to ever win the title, and there's no one better at getting young guys to buy into a system than Coach Cal. But, next year, instead of 60 percent freshmen, the starting five will likely be 80 percent freshmen (Nerlens Noel, Willie Cauley, Archie Goodwin, Alex Poythress) plus either Kyle Wiltjer, the lone returnee, or–more likely since he's a point guard–N.C. State transfer Ryan Harrow. Wiltjer and Harrow will be sophomores.
So age-wise, it's about the same make-up. But Harrow and Wiltjer aren't at the talent level of Jones and Lamb. So, it's wait and see. Oh, wait a minute, for Big Blue Nation, it's "can't wait to see." If it were anyone but John Calipari coaching teenagers year in and year out, I would say there's no shot at repeated appearances in the Final Four.
But next season appears–at least at this early juncture–to be a free-for-all. ESPN's resident Bracketologist and tournament guru Joe Lunardi has some sort of metric he's devised–there's a job for everyone–that predicts how strong a team SHOULD be based on the talent that will be available. Based on this figure, his top four for next season are Indiana, Kansas, Louisville, and Kentucky–in that order.
But he also believes that there are roughly 18 teams that could jockey for a #1 seed in next season's tournament. It's incredibly–INCREDIBLY–difficult to win back-to-back titles. But if next season really does wind up being that wide open, why not look for another championship run from a coach who clearly knows how to mold young talent in short order?


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Astros win season finale, lead league in attendance 9th straight year
Blasik named Most Valuable Player, Monzon recipient of Oscar Padron Award
By Hunter Reed / Greeneville Astros | August 28, 2012 7:48 PM ET
Prior to the game, Astros' second baseman Brian Blasik, who was named to the Appalachian League All Star team last week, was named the team's Most Valuable Player. Blasik finished among the league leaders with a .318 batting average, 69 hits and 43 RBI on the season.
Meanwhile, outfielder Jose Monzon was named the recipient of the Oscar Padron Award. Each year, the award is given to an Astros player who not only excelled on the field, but is considered to be a leader in the clubhouse and an outstanding all-around person with great character off the field.
Once the game began, the Astros came out ready to play. Blasik showed why he was named team MVP when he gave the Astros a 1-0 lead with a RBI-single. Then, Michael Martinez hit a sacrifice fly to score Angel Ibanez and put Greeneville up 2-0 at the end of the first inning.
The Astros kept it going in the second inning when Ibanez hit a RBI-single. Then, in the third inning, Rio Ruiz hit a RBI-triple and Ernesto Genoves followed with a RBI-single to give the Astros a 5-0 lead.
Bluefield scored a couple of runs in the eighth inning on a Jordan Leyland RBI-double and a ground out, but the Astros maintained their lead to win their final game of the season, 5-2.
Greeneville's Michael Feliz gave up no runs on three hits over five innings with five strikeouts as he earned the win. Jordan Jankowski pitched 1.1 hitless innings with three strikeouts as he earned his fourth save of the season.
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A first look at photos and data collected during a US spacecraft's encounter with a comet last week suggests that astronomy textbooks may have to be rewritten to reflect new discoveries about the streaking masses of rock and ice, scientists said today.
The Stardust spacecraft now begins its two-year, 1.1 billion km trek back to Earth, where it will drop off a capsule containing particles that could hold clues to how the solar system, and even life on Earth, began.
Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, spent the weekend poring over telemetry data and 72 photos snapped by Stardust's camera during its buffeting ride inside a plume of space dust in the wake of the Wild 2 comet.
"These are the best images ever taken of a comet and there is a remarkable amount of information in those 72 pictures," Ray Newburn, the spacecraft's imaging team leader, said. "Not only did we image jets of material spewing out from the comet but for the first time in history we can actually see the location of their origin on the surface of the comet."
The photos of the comet's 5km-wide nucleus also showed an unexpected variety of formations - from craters to flat-bottomed depressions lined by sheer cliffs to mountains - that scientists will study to learn how comets are formed, Don Brownlee, Stardust's principal investigator, said.
"Scientists all over the world are desperately waiting for these samples to arrive," Brownlee said, adding that tests to analyse the composition of the particles were still being developed.
Telemetry data gathered during Stardust's 12-minute flight through a storm of cometary particles travelling at six times the speed of a bullet indicated that the spacecraft encountered several high-speed jets of particles rather than a cloud of evenly distributed dust, the scientists said.
"We thought we would see a uniform increase in the number of particles the closer we came to the comet's nucleus and then a reduction," Brownlee said. "Instead, our data indicates we flew through a veritable swarm of particles and then there would be almost nothing and then we would fly through another swarm."
The spacecraft's main mission was to trap stardust from the comet's "tail," or coma, in an extended collector mechanism with a grid-like pattern similar to that of a tennis racket.
The stardust, or particles from the comet, were trapped in a porous, sponge-like substance called aerogel in the collector mechanism's grid. The grid will return to Earth in 2006 inside a capsule and will be opened in a clean room to prevent contamination.
The first images sent back from Stardust showed five gas columns that appeared to emanate from deep pits in Wild 2's deeply pockmarked surface. The pits themselves could be impact craters or sinkholes created by sublimation, when sunlight converts the comet's nucleus to gas.
Brownlee said scientists believed the pits discharged gas and dust at supersonic speed when exposed to the sun but went dormant when dark.
Tom Duxbury, JPL project manager, said the Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft, which featured bulletproof shields to protect it from the speeding particles, performed flawlessly during the historic "fly-by" 390 million km from Earth and just 240km from Wild 2's nucleus.
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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jan 12, 2012 at 8:57 am
What's the purpose of "Mothers with a Purpose"?
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Jan 12, 2012 at 9:13 am
"Mission Statement
To raise awareness of the epidemic use of prescription and illicit drugs in our community and to involve various members of the Bay Area in our fight. Our goal is to educate and provide resources to afflicted families and to ultimately address the root cause of addiction, so we can prevent other children from falling victim to drug and alcohol use, abuse, and addiction."
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on Jan 12, 2012 at 9:22 am
One of the proven tactics is reducing bad, addictive behaviors is to substitute good, even addictive style behaviors, like physical activities. Doesn't have to be sports, just something that employs, satisfactorily, most of the senses. Best of luck for our childrens' futures.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jan 12, 2012 at 10:11 am
Stacey is a registered user.
Like Dungeons & Dragons or World of Warcraft?
a resident of Livermore
on Jan 12, 2012 at 11:02 am
Drugs 'n young folks can be difficult. Anything that helps kids is worth a try.
Good luck with your program.
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on Jan 12, 2012 at 6:21 pm
Good parenting starts at birth. Mothers with a Purpose should be at the Grammar school level first and carried on to higher schools. Starting at the highschool level probably doesn't give the best results. But, better late than never.
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Commonwealth Bank has issued the most positive account so far by an Australian broker of contractor
The chairman resigned, as did two directors – but CBA's "overweight" rating remains along with its target price of $26.55.
The broker says Friday's dip – the sharpest in 10 months – was an "overreaction to existing governance concerns".
Other brokers have expressed worries about a conflict of interest with majority shareholder Hochtief, which itself is controlled by Spanish construction company ACS.
CBA analysts say they do not think ACS poses a significant risk to the contractor's strategy. "We believe these developments do not change the turnaround story playing out at Leighton or its ability to continue to generate returns."
The broker forecasts earnings per share of $1.746 in fiscal 2013 and $1.962 in fiscal 2014. Leighton achieved EPS of $1.334 in fiscal 2013.
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Husk sifter
The bodhran (pronounced "bow-rawn") is a popular Irish frame drum that, for most of its history, served as a lowly husk sifter: that is, a pan used to shake the husks off grains. Gaelic peasants first converted the sifter to a musical instrument by replacing its wire mesh head with stretched goat skin.The heart of traditional Irish music
Although the bodhran is the heart of traditional Irish music performed today, it was only as recent as the 1960's that it could be found outside southwestern Ireland. A bodhran is played by tucking the drum between the left arm and the chest, as the right hand beats the skin with a double-headed stick called a beater, tipper, or cipin (the Gaelic word for kindling).
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JERUSALEM (Sep. 26)
This week's successful — and unusually warm — encounter between Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat has paved the way for what could become the real moment of truth in Israeli-Palestinian relations.
After meeting for more than an hour Sunday at an Israeli army post near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, the two leaders agreed to launch negotiations next week in Cairo for the next phase of their ongoing peace initiative: the timing of Palestinian elections and the withdrawal of the Israel Defense Force from the West Bank.
Some analysts in Israel — among them government officials — predict months of tough, perhaps fruitless negotiations. Israeli officials maintain they are in favor of the elections. The more difficult issue is the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the West Bank, which according to the Declaration of Principles signed by Israel and the PLO in Washington last September, must be accomplished before the elections are held.
The problem of providing security for the approximately 100,000 Jewish settlers currently living in the West Bank following an IDF redeployment is virtually unsolvable, according to many observers.
Because of the difficulties that lie ahead, some believe that Rabin is planning to sign a full peace treaty with Jordan, and make significant progress with Syria, before searching for an accommodation with the PLO.
Indeed, according to Israeli media reports, Israeli and Jordanian negotiators have already begun drafting a peace accord. The two sides have reportedly been making significant progress in their talks on border issues and water rights since Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a non-belligerency pact in July.
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Jordan's Crown Prince Hassan are scheduled to meet with President Clinton in Washington on Monday, in a meeting analysts have suggested could hasten the completion of an Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty.
According to this theory of Jordan and Syria first, Israel, when it decides to refocus its full attention on the Palestinians, will be in a stronger position to address some of the thornier issues.
At the same time, Arafat may be in a weaker position and, consequently, will be more amenable to Israeli pressure.
In effect, the PLO leader could be forced to accept an interim autonomy agreement — and perhaps a permanent-status agreement as well — that leaves the Jewish settlements, or most of them, in place and under continued Israeli sovereignty and protection.
With the notoriously secretive Rabin playing his cards even closer to his vest than usual, no one can say authoritatively whether this indeed is his long-term strategy.
But whatever Rabin's ideal preferences, some differences — even discord — among top Israeli leaders have become evident as Jerusalem prepares for its next phase of negotiations with the Palestinians.
The more hard-line approach, focusing on the settlers and their security, is demanding that there be no significant redeployment by the IDF unless and until an adequate alternative security system can be put in place.
Few in Jerusalem believe adequate security can be provided by a "strong Palestinian police force," as envisioned in the Declaration of Principles.
Given the Palestinian police's spotty security record in Gaza and Jericho since autonomy went into effect in May, there is widespread skepticism that the Palestinians would be able to monitor security on all major road arteries throughout the West Bank.
Police Minister Moshe Shahal disclosed midweek that he has proposed to Rabin that Israeli police and border police be deployed at strategic locations in the West Bank even after IDF forces are withdrawn.
But such a proposal is not likely to sit well with the Palestinians.
A more flexible school, represented by Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, is proposing a piecemeal approach to redeployment. According to this proposal, the IDF would withdraw from towns such as Nablus and Ramallah, where Jewish traffic is minimal and could be channeled through one main highway.
IDF withdrawal from Hebron, on the other hand, is seen as potentially disastrous, given the small Jewish settlement within the city as well as the often explosive center of Kiryat Arba on Hebron's outskirts.
According to this approach, the Palestinian Authority would continue to extend its power incrementally throughout the West Bank. The "early empowerment" agreement signed in August, under which Israel transferred authority over civilian areas such as education to the Palestinians, marked one such step in the incremental approach.
This school of thought also proposes that if no agreement on elections is reached for all of Gaza and the West Bank, then Palestinian elections could be held incrementally, beginning in individual areas or towns where the IDF redeployment has been satisfactorily completed.
Above all, in this view, the momentum of the Israel-Palestinian track must be maintained.
For the Palestinians, the elections — which Arafat aides confidently expect will be won by Arafat and his mainstream Al Fatah movement — are a vital stage toward domestic and international legitimacy, and also to independence.
Arafat, in remarks to reporters Sunday, continued to voice confidence that the elections could be held by Nov. 1. But hardly anyone, on either side, seems to believe that date is realistic.
Arafat and Rabin agreed to meet again in a month. By then, their negotiators will doubtless be in the thick of the issues and doubtless at loggerheads as well.
If, despite the problems up ahead, the atmosphere at the next summit meeting is as cordial as it was Sunday, that in itself will be a major success for the Israel-Palestinian track.


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Company's Growth Is Latest Sign that Christie Administration's Pro-Business Policies are Continuing the New Jersey Comeback
The Christie Administration's New Jersey Partnership for Action, which is led by Lt. Governor Guadagno, is a three-pronged public-private approach to economic development and the starting point for all initiatives, policies and efforts to grow New Jersey's economy and create quality, sustainable jobs in our communities. The three elements of the Partnership for Action includes the Business Action Center, which reports directly to the Lt. Governor and provides the business community with a single point of contact, applying a proactive, customer-service approach to businesses' interactions with State government; the EDA, serving as the state's "bank for business"; and Choose New Jersey, an independently funded and operated 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation created to encourage and nurture economic growth throughout New Jersey;
To learn more about New Jersey's expertise and incentives to attract and support business growth, call the Business Action Center at (866) 534-7789 or visit the State's Business Portal at www.newjerseybusiness.gov.
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4800 West 92nd Avenue Westminster, CO 80031
Home | Explore Westminster | Arts | Public Art | Summer Series
Location: East of DeSpain School at the northeast corner of 72nd Avenue and Lowell Boulevard.
Artist: Dennis Smith - Alpine, Utah (website).
Year Installed: 2003.
How Acquired: Funded by the City of Westminster and the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District.
Comments: The sculpture of five children running epitomizes the exuberance of youth!