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Amazing garage find - had urgent problem and they bent over backwards to fit me in today, Saturday - fixed my car and rat a easonable cost - will be taking my car back for all future servicng etc as excellent service and Boss and staff great, thank you so much for finding this garage for me . - highly recommend .
Quick and good value. I would go back!
was very happy with the service
good work, great people, good quality
Very good service! Robert replied to all messages within minutes, the repairs and MOT were done within 1 day for a very fair price. Would definately go to C and R again.
I was very happy with the level of customer service and care and attention they paid to my BMW and to explaining the issues to me. They were very thorough and have a great family feel about them. The price was fair and I would most certainly recommend them to others. I will definitely be doing business with them again.
Efficient service, got booked in straight away
Robert provided great communication throughout. The final price reflects additional work required to replace the air con unit, as well as an interim service I requested. Would be happy to recommend, very professional service.
Pros: good documentation of the service Cons: they don't work with customer's parts and i would have expected them to use Castrol Edge, not Magnatec, which was quite expensive (49gbp for 4.5 l)...agree customers can fail bringing the correct parts but don't think it's a valid reason. Also, gbp 120 plus vat for an oil change, i think that's too much and the oil is not even the best one. They should inform the customer amd agree on the spare parts/ oil. Using after market spare parts should be an option. Next time I will go for a service where i can use my own spare parts and oil/ cooling liquid. However, if you agree with their way of car service, you should go for it.
Friendly and easy service... Having dropped off my car Tuesday morning to have a replacement clutch, it was all sorted and ready to go by 14:30. Very easy. Thanks!
Auto plaza was AWESOME 100% would use again.
Rob waited back for me so that I could drop my car to him after 6pm (close). He is extremely friendly. knowledgeable and helpful. He dropped me back to the bus stop near Tesco's. He updated me by midday that the car was ready for collection. When I turned up he showed me old part with numerous cracks. He had washed my engine as he said it had soot deposits due to the exhaust manifold leaks. I was very happy with the work and service and will reach out to Rob for future work. He also has professional facilities to carry out body work.
The job was done efficiently and at a competitive price.
I had a dent in my car and it was professionally done and it looks like nothing happened to it before( like brand new). I highly recommend Auto Plaza Ltd for the job weel done. Thank you
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Great experience, nice people, will definitely use again
was very happy with the service
Very good service
Not only did they do the work on the same day, very quickly, charging reasonable prices, they were also top guys. Would recommend without hesitation.
I am very very pleased, they did a great job. The car was picked up and dropped off when the work was done.
Fast, friendly, reliable, and very knowledgeable. Conveniently carried out repairs at my home and did a thorough check, advising on all potential issues with vehicle. Very pleased with the work.
akash is a cool guy arrived promptly worked in rain job done in an hour excellent he is now my mechanic and my daughters highly recommended and a good price aswell
These guys were brilliant and I was left absolutely satisfied. They had a great price and efficient service and they came out quite late - didn't finish until 20:30 working in the cold. The car felt tuned up and the mechanics were very knowledgeable. Can't recommend these guys enough. Thanks J
Clutch went right before Easter Weekend! The guys came and worked until the late hours to keep my Fiesta on the road for Easter. Highly recommended and will use their service again.
fantastic job
Did a good job, no problems
Good job!
Great quality and quick job, everything as described.
Good service, happy with the result.


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Frequenty Asked Questions
Do I need to make an appointment?
We can only guarantee an efficient visit with one of our providers if you have scheduled an appointment in advance. Walk-in appointments for SXU students are accepted; however, there might be a slight wait before seeing a provider. Please note that SXU students are our first priority. To schedule an appointment, please call 773-298-3712.
Can only SXU personnel become patients at the Health Center?
No. The Center extends its services to include the residents of the surrounding Chicago community.
Which insurances do you accept?
We accept all insurance, including the SXU Health Insurance. We are currently preferred providers with Aetna, Associated Insurance Plans and Blue Cross/Blue Shield PPO. We also offer services for uninsured adults and children. Please call the Health Center at 773-298-3712 for current pricing.
We are actively working with many other health insurances to gain preferred provider status. Please check this website or call the Health Center for updates.
What are the payment options of a Health Center visit?
Payments of cash, personal check or credit cards are accepted from community members and SXU students, staff and faculty.
How do I request my records?
Patient records can be picked up by the patient or another designated person. Records can also be mailed or faxed upon the patient's request. A Patient Record Release form (PDF) needs to be completed and submitted to the Health Center at least 24 hours before records are ready to be picked up or sent out. The Patient Record Release can be downloaded from this Web page or picked up in person. There is no charge for this service.
Are there doctors on staff at the Health Center?
The Health Center has Family Nurse Practitioners and a Registered Nurse. The Center has a collaborative relationship with a local Family Practice Physician.
Where is the Health Center located?
The Health Center is located in the Northwest corner of Parking Lot 4, behind Regina Hall. There is a large radio tower directly behind us. We are in a beige modular unit. For directions, please take a look at our campus map.

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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
A friend/grad school colleague has agreed to train me at the gym for free, since he's working to get his certification and wanted me as a guinea pig. Ugh. I told him my "goal" (other than being less of a fatty) is to pass the fitness test for super awesome federal agency that investigates stuff. Not that I'm 100% for certain I'd like to be a super awesome agent that investigates stuff, but I know 100% for certain that I don't want to not do it solely because I'm a fatty. So that means a lot of arm and chest work, so that I can eventually do those awful pushups. When I took the written exam, I was great on situps and sprinting, but needed to shave 1 minute off of my 1.5 mile run time, and needed to be able to do twice as many pushups (14 minimum). Since then, I've gained 10 pounds and spawned another human. Let's just say, I'm starting from scratch again.
Anyway, I'm supposed to be doing the full workout every other day. I did it once last week, with my friend. I've done it once this week, without him (we're meeting every two weeks). I just can't seem to find the time to go to the gym. The problem being I have to go when there is childcare there for Vee, and the Y has odd hours, and I'm competing with Cora's activities too. I got a ballet conditioning DVD, so I really need to do that on those nights I couldn't make it to the gym. And don't even get me started about eating a shitload of sugar cookies. Sigh. My pants are tight. It makes me sad. I'm sad so I eat more cookies. Okay, so being sad doesn't make me eat more cookies, I just like cookies. But it sounds better than saying I just have no self-control.
On the cookie front, I made these ridiculous Wilton heart-shaped cookies on a motherfuckin stick. It took me like 3 hours last night. Seriously, domestic goddess, I am not. Maybe some sort of domestic lesser spirit being. Domestic sprite? Domestic daemon? Oh well, at least they tasted good, the ones that ended up in my belly.
5 comments:
- CP said...
Sounds like you have a good goal! I HATE doing things like situps and pushups. I have no discipline to do reps and stuff like that (way too much counting!).
Good luck with your new workout plan.
Omg, is it Lent already? Ooops, my fail!
- February 15, 2012 at 12:44 AM
- Tree Hugging (Almost) Attorney said...
I am impressed by the MF stick achievement.
I hope to accomplish that one day. :)
- February 15, 2012 at 10:29 AM
- J said...
This is a terrible idea. No human being should go without cheese for even one day, much less 40!
The workout thing sounds good, though :) Kick ass.
- February 15, 2012 at 10:30 AM
- Flaim said...
No cheese? Are you sure he'll be LESS grumpy? :)
Good luck with your workouts with D. I am exited for you!
- February 15, 2012 at 12:52 PM
- Michael said...
Best of luck with your goal.
Sadly, there's no way I could give up cheese atm - I'm loving my brie, Wensleydale with cranberries and Stilton with apricot far too much.
- February 23, 2012 at 12:58 PM


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Vice President of Product Development jobs in Dothan, AL
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- Ozark, AL and 6 other locations
Quality and Continuous Improvement Engineer$63K - $73KMonitors production quality results to ensure 1st grade quality production, proactively monitors production and follows up to prevent reoccurrences.
Less than 5 years experience|
Consumer Goods / Miscellaneous
- L3 Communications | Fort Rucker, AL
Circuit Card Assembly Manufacturing / Process EngineerDesign and setup manufacturing processes, procedures, and production layouts for circuit card assemblies, equipment installation, and lean processing.
5 - 7 years experience|
Aerospace / Defense
- Dothan, AL and 30 other locations
Sales / Market Development Manager - Industrial - Southeast - 27036263$90K - $110KTrain company associates on the technical aspects and working characteristics of cement board and attend area sales meetings to discuss market issues and potential.
5 - 7 years experience|
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- Solenis | Dothan, AL and 4 other locations
Business Development Manager - Pulp and PaperThey will lead the creation and implementation of sales initiatives aligned with the Corporate Accounts team growth strategy to expand our market share.
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Business Services
- System Studies & Simulation | Fort Rucker, AL
Utility Helicopter Senior AnalystAnalyze, assess and provide recommended adjustments for future doctrine, and employment concepts related to Utility and Cargo aircraft.
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- System Studies & Simulation | Fort Rucker, AL
Fixed Wing Aviation AnalystConduct requirements analysis to accurately document military capabilities in the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS), Joint/Urgent Operational Needs Statements (JUONS).
15+ years experience|
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- CHS (Community Health Systems) | Dothan, AL
Dir Surgical ServicesIdentifies specific needs of specific customers and assures they are addressed to include but not limited to employees, patients and physicians.
5 - 7 years experience|
Patient Care
- JELD WEN | Ozark, AL
Production SupervisorResponsible for providing direct leadership to some �Lead� employees and their subordinates in their assigned areas of production in support of plant operations, goals and objectives.
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- Koch Supply & Trading | Cedar Springs, GA
Manager of Analysis (Containerboard)This role is a key business support function for the facility; the role creates value for the business by supplying expertise in economic and critical thinking in order to make sound business decisions.
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Alexander Wang (Unofficially) Confirmed at Balenciaga
Reports WWD.
We reported on rumours earlier today that Alexander Wang was set to fill Nicolas Ghesquière's position at Balenciaga. Nicolas announced his departure from the French fashion house this month after holding post as Creative Director since 1997. Now WWD says that Sir Wang will indeed become the label's successor, despite there not yet being an official announcement.
Alexander's own label has become synonymous with New York cool, carving out a niche for his no-bullshit sleek athleticism and gaining a name for himself through cult bags like the omnipresent Brenda, Diego and Rocco. Balenciaga, on the other hand, has taken on a more baroque quality, so it will be interesting to see how this pairing unfolds if it eventuates. It will also be interesting to see how Alexander (a veritable spring chicken at under 30) would manage heading up one of the best label's in the world as well as his own label. That said, Nicolas himself was 25 when he began his tenure at Balenciaga.
UPDATE [3 December 2012]: Alexander Wang is now officially confirmed as the new Creative Director of Balenciaga.


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Know Your Beatles?Trivia brain teasers have some element of trivia in them, but they are not just pure trivia questions.
Below are four verses that sound like they could come from a famous Beatles song, if the title were taken literally. For example, a song about a calendar that's all messed up would fit nicely with the title "Eight Days a Week". Can you determine what titles these verses are referring to?
Yup, there she was
Not doing very much.
Not sitting or lying
Or anything of the such.
You pulled the ball from Charlie's kick.
You flew up in the air.
You hoarded all my jewelry, girl
And that just isn't fair.
I walk just fine, just fine I do,
When underneath the moon.
But when the sun comes out, my friend,
I stumble like a goon.
Boy, it's getting hot out here
And awfully bright as well.
I think I'll move to Mars before
The Earth resembles Hell.
Answer1) I Saw Her Standing There
2) Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
3) Day Tripper
4) Here Comes the Sun
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created 2006 · complexity basic · author Robert Stovall · version 7.0
Vim has a very powerful built-in sort utility, or it can interface with an external one. In order to keep only unique lines in Vim, you would:
:{range}sort u
Yes, it's that simple.
You could create a range in advance, such as
'a,. (from mark 'a' to the current line) or you could create one on-the-fly using visual selection by pressing ':' in visual mode, after selecting the text you wish to sort, to get a range of
'<,'> on the command line.
If you like using an external sort utility instead, you can do it just as easily. For example, Unix sort, removing duplicate lines:
:{range}!sort -u
Many other systems also have an external sort utility, but the options and capabilities will differ. It is probably better to use the built-in Vim sort unless you are looking for a specific feature of the external sort (or using an old Vim without the
:sort command).
Sort in reverseEdit
Sort, removing duplicate linesEdit
:%sort u
Sort using the external Unix sort utility, respecting month-name orderEdit
:%!sort -M
("respecting month-name order" means January < February < ... < December)
Numeric sortEdit
:sort n
(this way, 100 doesn't precede 20 in the sort)
Sort subsections independently, in this example sort numbers between "start" and "end" markersEdit
:g/start/+1,/end/-1 sort n
Sort only specific lines using ranges Edit
sort lines 296 to 349, inclusive
See alsoEdit
- 374 Use filter commands to process text
- 588 How to sort using visual blocks
- 758 Search and sort by selection
- 800 Sorting lines in a file based on the number of words in each line
- 923 Sort lines by a specified word number
- 667 Working with CSV files sort by CSV field
- 128 Use Unix command-line tools in Windows links to download GNU sort for Windows
- 648 Uniq - Removing duplicate lines techniques to remove duplicate lines
- Probably need some general
:sortcommand info.
- Give examples of numeric sort and using regex sort.
- Clean up my "see also" list. It's useful now for a comprehensive list of related tips, some of which need work. At least should add a note on point of tip.
- If we're going to mention an external sort tool, we may as well include the following with a brief explanation. Vim could do this, but only with a complex regex. Or perhaps better, mention it in VimTip374 or VimTip923 in "see also".
-k2sorts on the second field (word by default).
:!sort -k2
This misguided snippet was added recently:
- delimit the column using some char here I have | symbol as delimiter, once did with that you can use below command to sort specific column use -n if u want to sort numeric and its working on some version of vi and not on ubuntu vi :(
/|.*|/ | sort
- used to match a patern |.*| used to match words delimited between || and | as piping commend and sort to sort
This is wrong and should never work. Here's what it is actually doing:
/|.*|/: jump to the next line that has two '|' characters in it, anywhere
|: command separator, this lets you start a new command on the current line
sort: do a default sort of the entire buffer
Basically this is the equivalent of typing
Now, what you CAN do, is provide a pattern that the
:sort command will skip over and ignore at the start of every line while sorting. For example, to sort based only on text after the last '|' character on the line (what I think was intended by the example), you'd do this:
:sort /^.*|/


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Coin Lithium Battery – Discounted Lithium Coin Cells
Coin lithium battery, also referred to as a lithium coin cells, have several uses. Whether you are looking for a CR2032 lithium battery, a lithium battery CR2025, or a CR 2450 lithium battery, Medic Batteries has the coin lithium battery that you need. The lithium battery CR2025, CR2032 3V coin lithium battery, and CR 2450 coin lithium battery are generally used with computers. Besides computers, lithium coin cells are used in a variety of objects. For example, a CR2450 coin lithium battery is used in LED lights and calorie counters amongst other things. Lithium coin cells are commonly used in calculators and PDAs
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STEEPLE Ashton cricket ace James Vince enhanced his prospects of full England selection with a career-best 240 and became the first player this season to reach 1,000 first-class runs as Hampshire completed a crushing 470-run County Championship Division Two win over Essex with a day to spare at the Ageas Bowl today.
Essex - set an unlikely 605 for victory - were dismissed for 135 in their second innings after Hampshire piled up a massive 440 for three before declaring at lunch..
Hampshire equalled the second highest victory margin of all time in County Championship cricket as they recorded their fourth win of the Division Two season.
Former Chippenham and Warminster player Vince shared a third-wicket partnership of 387 with Will Smith, whose unbeaten 150 was his first century since joining Hampshire from Durham.
Essex, shot out for a meagre 121 in their first innings, crumbled again, losing their last six wickets for 14 runs.
Hampshire, 264 for two overnight and with a daunting lead of 429 already, ruthlessly carved the Essex bowling to pieces.
They greedily added another 176 runs in two hours, leaving themselves five sessions to bowl Essex out for a second time. The improbable 605-run target theoretically left Essex having to surpass by some distance the highest all-time Championship second-innings winning score, 502 by Middlesex against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge in 1925.
Vince, 154 not out at the start of play, passed his previous best 180 (against Yorkshire at Scarborough in 2010) in the 70th over and Smith then celebrated three figures.
The pair moved remorselessly on, Vince bringing up his double-century off exactly 200 balls with a delightful straight on-drive, one of the 33 fours he hit.
The 23-year-old was eventually caught at deep extra-cover for 240, one run short of the highest individual county score made this season by Australia's Chris Rogers for Middlesex against Yorkshire in April. He batted 247 minutes and faced 222 balls.
The departure of Vince at 411 for three enabled Smith to take centre stage, the former Durham captain going on to score an unbeaten 151 including 13 fours before Hampshire declared at 440 for three.
Essex promptly lost Tom Westley (three) caught at slip by Vince off James Tomlinson (one for 16), but progressed to 66 before Nick Browne (25) was trapped lbw by David Balcombe, who had Ravi Bopara (39) picked up by Sean Ervine at third slip to leave the visitors 85 for three.
Two runs later, Jesse Ryder (14) perished to an indifferent shot and, though James Foster (25) and Ben Foakes (10) did their best to steady the ship, Essex's task was always futile.
The dismissal of Foakes - a victim of Vince, who could not be kept out of the game - triggered the second collapse of the match by Essex, who had lost seven wickets for 23 runs at one stage of their first innings.
South Africa pace bowler Kyle Abbott (three for 28) wreaked havoc as Essex capitulated again, the last six wickets falling for a dismal 14 runs.
They were dismissed for 135 in 39.1 overs with Tymal Mills the last man out, appropriately caught by Vince off Smith.


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L'Oreal Bare Naturale Gentle Mineral Eyeliner Review
Doing Drugstore: L'Oreal Bare Naturale Gentle Mineral Eyeliner
Eyeliners come in so many forms. You've got your gels, your creamy pencils, your liquid types — and then there are the ones that are composed entirely of powder. Last week, I was at the drugstore and I came upon the latter. I'm such a sucker for unusual packaging, and this Bare Naturale Eyeliner ($8.99) from L'Oreal caught my eye.
My office buddy and I took a field trip to the ladies' room to try out this new liner. So, we both knew how we are supposed to "swirl and tap" before applying mineral types of makeup, but we got a little frustrated with the powdery mess that was created. While we liked the fact that the angled brush is included (how could you lose this one?), it was awkward to twist open without causing major spillage.
Speaking of that brush: I'm a fan, but my pal felt it was difficult to hold. Soft and angled, the line we created was precise, but not heavy. (Unfortunately, it was hard to control, hence the errant powder you see below.) While the line is sharp, if you're looking for longevity and stay-put power, this powder doesn't do the job. By the end of the day we had rings under our eyes, and we both agreed to leave this one in the, er, dust.
Check out my photo gallery below to see what went down.


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Topic: Joanne's Vanderbilt Visit
Hello I just wanted to update everyone on Joanne's visit to Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville. After meeting with Dr. Laura Goff she reassured her that the path that Dr. Johnson has her is the right one. So right now she is on chemo. Tarceva 150mg everyday and cisplatin and gemzar every two weeks. She will have a scan in a couple of weeks to see if it is working.
Dr. Goff did discuss with her about going back to her original tumor (that they removed in her resection)and test it for PIK3CA alteration status. Also there where about 11 or 12 other things that they wanted to test it for. If it comes back positive for the PIK3CA alteration status then she would qualify for the CBYL719X2101 clinical trial that they have going on right now. They have this drug BYL719 that keeps a protein called PI3K from working. The PI3K protein belongs to the PI3K pathway. This PI3K pathway is a series of chemical reactions between proteins inside a cell. The PI3K pathway is involved in cell growth and cell death. In many cancers a gene related to the PI3K pathway, called PIK3CA has changed amplified or mutated. These chnges in genes are thought to cause the growth of tumors.
There are 4 centers in the US that are currently doing this trail. I think there are some centers in Spain, and other European countries. The 4 in the US are Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer center in Nashville,Sarah Cannon Cancer Center in Nashville, M.D. Anderson in Houston, and a cancer center in Boston can't remember the name off the top of my head. It will be a couple of weeks before we get the test results.
Basically from what I understand is that this drug BYL719 is suppose to cut the switch off that generates the tumors.
I will update when we get the test results back. In the mean time she will continue chemo. Hopefully the chemo will work in shrinking the tumors. It worked the last time in shrinking the tumor. If this doesn't work I think Dr. Johnson is going to try Folfox.
Stay Strong Survivors and be your own Advocate!!!!


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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 9/5/2013 (1565 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
It's almost Mother's Day, and you young people know what that means, don't you?
It means it's time for you to show your mom how special she is and how much you care by sending her a lovely gift you stumbled on while surfing the Internet looking for amusing videos of cats.
I am just kidding, of course, young people. Your mom doesn't need a present to let her know how much you -- the person she sat up with all night when you had a fever, the person whose hand she held when you were scared out of your wits by those (bad word) flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz -- feel about her deep in your heart.
The only thing your mom cares about is that you are healthy and happy, that you are eating three square meals a day, maybe going outside once in a while to get some fresh air, and not playing your "music" so loud that you go deaf. And would you please stop crossing your eyes or they're going to be stuck that way forever. You can't spend the rest of your life watching Game of Thrones on cable and if you think the Laundry Fairy is going to pick those smelly socks up off the floor in your room, well, you have another thing coming.
The truth is, young people, times have changed dramatically since Uncle Doug was a kid and moms have changed right along with them. There are countless differences between hip modern moms and the old-school moms that used to rule my neighbourhood with an iron fist clutching a wooden spoon.
The main historical difference would be in terms of sheer volume. I'm not talking here about the actual number of moms; no, I'm talking about the ability of any single mom, using only her vocal chords, to produce a wall of sound at a decibel level so powerful it could shatter windows in apartment buildings halfway around the world.
Modern moms don't need to raise their voices when they want to contact their children. If you, a modern young social-media-adoring person, are out and about, your tech-savvy mom can simply send you a gentle and silent text message, such as: "R U COMING HOME FOR MEAT LOAF? LOL!"
In my era, mothers developed leather-lined lungs because the only way they could get their kids to come home for any reason at all was by opening the front door, sticking their heads out and shrieking their children's names at the volume of a heavy metal concert so that, even if the child in question was playing touch football several time zones away, the shock waves alone would immediately cause their ears to begin bleeding.
That's the way it was back in the good old days. We did not have awesome video games or smartphones or personal music devices the size of a single grape. No, tragically, we had to go "outside" and play, in person, with the other kids in our neighbourhood, as opposed to meeting them in cyberspace for a game of Killer Alien Zombies from Hell.
If our 1960s-style moms wanted us to come home, they couldn't just call us up on a mobile phone. It was a simpler time when the only way to transmit your voice from one place to another was by yelling into an empty soup can, which was connected to another empty soup can via an extremely long piece of vibrating string.
But that is not today's parental point, young people. Today's point is Mother's Day is right around the corner and you need to drop whatever you are doing and do something to make your mother proud.
It's probably a little too late for you to get into medical school, but there are options.
For instance, since the dawn of time, mothers around the world have had a soft spot for things their children have made, especially things that can be stuck on fridges with tiny magnets or have been created via the ancient system of gluing pieces of elbow macaroni onto other things.
You could also send her flowers or a lovely greeting card proclaiming her "The World's Best Mom," but I recommend you go for the personal touch this year. Grab a couple of empty soup cans and some string and let mom know how the apple of her eye is making out in the real world.
Because she just wants you to be happy.


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Blog Cabin 2014: Delving Into Shelving
I'm not sure I have the words to describe how excited I was to design the Blog Cabin 2014 laundry room. Who wouldn't love to work with project manager Dylan Eastman and construct custom pieces to make laundry more manageable for the lucky winners? We also had a ridiculously good time styling that open shelving above the washer and dryer. I can geek out over that stuff for days. While the practical purpose of a shelf is to provide storage, it can be a great opportunity to express yourself as well.
One of my favorite ways to spice up some shelving is to line its back with gorgeous fabric. This stunning striped cloth is from HGTV HOME's fabric line and works beautifully with the custom cabinetry in this room. We knew we wanted the room to be citrus inspired, but instead of heading straight for Florida orange, I was really taken with these fresh yellows and greens. Add that cool grey into the mix and I was in love. This cloth (which Made & Remade's Michelle Reynolds also used to cover the ironing board) kicked that shelving up a notch instantly and set the tone for the space.In a laundry room, function is equally, if not more important than form. That doesn't mean, however, that useful, everyday items can't be attractive. A charming glass beverage dispenser and vintage glass jar become beautiful containers for detergents and cleaners. Whether you make your own or buy them at the store, you're the one who gets to decide how they'll look in the end.One thing I like to do in any space I'm working on is to plan for plants. Blog Cabin 2014 is home to many gorgeous botanical plants and I didn't want the laundry room to feel left out. Whether it's a low maintenance succulent, cacti or a fussier flower, adding greenery to any space can help you to relax and to breathe easier.And my last trick to ensure that the laundry room's open shelves will remain stylish was to create a hiding places for stuff. We can't always choose what colors or designs our products will come in, but we still need to keep them around. This closed storage bench is the perfect place to play hide and seek with the stuff that doesn't complement your palette. This citrus workstation is officially ready for its close-up! Just add new homeowners to this space for some instantly good, clean fun.Take a tour of the laundry room and tell me what you think.


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How do you enable automatic versioning for DAM assets? The basic answer is, you can't in CQ, as is. Pages can have automatic versioning when they are activated. DAM assets, on the other hand, don't have the same capability without customization to CQ.
In CQ a DAM asset version must be explicitly created by a user in the DAM asset editor. The instructions on how to do this can be found in Versioning in CQ5 DAM.
Automating versioning of CQ DAM assets is more problematic.
One strategy would be to use packages to contain versions. Whole groups of DAM assets could be versioned at the same time using this method. To create a snapshot, make a new package containing the assets, give it a version, and build it. To make a snapshot of a new version of the assets, create a new version of the package and build it. This can be automated by creating scripts that periodically use curl or wget to build the packages with Package Manager.
Another option is to either a listener for change events within the DAM folder or by adding a versioning step to an existing workflow.
This is sample code that shows how to create a version within a workflow step (from Henry Saginor and David Collie):
@Reference private ResourceResolverFactory resolverFactory; private ResourceResolver getResourceResolver(Session session) throws LoginException { Map authInfo = new HashMap(); authInfo.put(JcrResourceConstants.AUTHENTICATION_INFO_SESSION, session); return resolverFactory.getResourceResolver(authInfo); }
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Nearly every game has a protagonist, but which ones are the most badass?
Many games these days have a antoganist, a villain that pushes the protagonist, the hero, to defeat him or her. Some of them are so detailed and believable that you would think they existed in real life, while others just have a goal that they want to achieve, no matter what the consequences are. This top 10 list is dedicated to the most badass antagonists in gaming.
10. The Combine (Half-Life series)
The Combine are the main antagonists in the Half-Life series. Defeating the human race in a seven-hour war and later enslaving them makes them real badasses.
9. The Boss
The Boss is the main antagonist of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. A legendary soldier and the mother of Revolver Ocelot, she particpated in WWII and a variety of operations during the early stages of the Cold War before defecting from the U.S. to the U.S.S.R. Her protege, Naked Snake, was to assassinate her. After defeating her unit, the Cobra Unit, and defeating Colonel Volgin, Naked Snake fights and defeats her, killing her with a shot to her head with her gun, The Patriot. With a unit of elite soldiers under her command and a legendary fighter and being one of the greatest boss fights ever, The Boss is a true badass.
8. Mother Brain (Metroid series)
One of the main antagonists of the Metroid series, Mother Brain is definately a badass. The leader of the Space Pirates and inhabiting the planet Zebes, Samus defeats her on her first visit to the planet. She fights her again when she revisits it, this time rebuilt by the Space Pirates, though is ultimately defeated. With a massive army of Space Pirates under her command (along with the space dragon Ridley), she's definitely badass!
7. Darth Vader (Star Wars series)
Darth Vader is one of the main antagonists in the Star Wars universe and has appeared in a number of games. A master of the Force and a Sith, and the father of Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader is one tough badass guy. Having control over almost all of the Empire and commanding an incredible army, all the while being a Sith, Dath Vader is just one seriously bad guy.
6. Doctor Eggman (Sonic the Hedgehog series)
The main antagonist of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, Doctor Eggman is a mad scientist with an IQ of 300 bent on conquering the world and creating his ultimate utopia, Eggmanland, and on obtaining all the Chaos Emeralds. However, Sonic has always beaten the scientist, and yet he still keeps asking for more, always wanting more power! What a badass!
5. Bowser (Mario series)
Ahh Bowser. Always trying to take Princess Peach for himself, and yet always being defeated by Mario. He'll do whatever it takes to take control of Mushroom and kidnap Princess Peach. This badass bad guy just doesn't give up, no matter how many times he has been beaten by Mario.
4. Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda series)
The main villain in the majority of games in The Legend of Zelda series, he just keeps coming back for more. In almost every Zelda game, Ganondorf is the main villain, despite being defeated by Link in every game he appears in. You just can't stop the guy! A Gerudo who excels in magic and in possession of the Triforce of Power, Ganondorf wants control over the land of Hyrule, though he can't quite get there thanks to Link and Princess Zelda. What a badass!
3. Liquid Ocelot (Metal Gear Solid 2 & 4)
One of the main antagonists in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Liquid Ocelot is the result of two bad guys merging into one. After Liquid Snake's death on Shadow Moses Island, Revolver Ocelot took his arm to replace the one he lost by Gray Fox. Eventually, Liquid's "spirit" became part of Ocelot. In 2007, Liquid Ocelot stole Metal Gear RAY and eventually planned on destroying the Patriots, an organization that secretly runs the United States of America. In 2014, Liquid Ocelot resurfaces, and in a complex turn of events, has a final fight with Solid Snake, where it is revealed that he had removed Liquid's arm and had transplanted Liquid's persona onto himself via nanomachines and psychotherapy in order to keep the Patriots from discovering that Snake was going to wipe out GW, the main AI behind the Patriots, as a part of the real way Ocelot intended to have the AIs destroyed. Simply put, badass!
2. Seymour Guado (Final Fantasy X)
One of the main antagonists of Final Fantasy X, Seymour is one badass bad guy. Half human, half Guado, the son of former Maester Jyscal Guado, and with the intention of saving Spira by destroying it, there aren't many like Seymour. Originally believed to be an ally to Yuna and co., Yuna realizes the exact opposite when she learns he killed his own father. Intending on stopping Seymour, she and her guardians fight him, though he survives and plans on marrying Yuna. However, her guardians stop this from happening and stop the wedding ceremony. They later fight Seymour yet again, who is now "unsent" and plans to destroy all living beings on Spira, thus freeing them of their worries. They defeat him yet again, and fight a third time with the same outcome. Later, as their journey is reaching its climax, they meet Seymour for the final time, defeating him this time once and for all, with his last words being, "But even after I am gone, Spira's sorrow will prevail."
1. Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII)
The main antagonist of Final Fantasy VII, there isn't a more badass villain that Sephiroth. A prototype SOLDIER and the strongest alive, Sephiroth is initially praised for his strength and hailed as a hero, until he learns and misinterprets his origins. Believing himself as the last of the Ancients, Sephiroth plans to eradicate mankind, with the ultimate goal of becoming a god and controlling the planet with his "mother", Jenova. Burning an entire village; killing the last survivor of the Cetra, Aeris Gainsborough; being killed by Cloud and co. and then resurrected, always with the intent on destroying the world and everything in it, there is nobody more villainous than Sephiroth. The guy even has his own theme song, "One Winged Angel"; you can't top that!


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OCZ'z Vertex 3 Pro Demo: World's First SandForce SF-2000by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/5/2011 9:37 PM EST
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jrocks84 - Wednesday, January 05, 2011 - linkIs the 25nm NAND from IMFT going to be DDR NAND? Reply
Chinoman - Wednesday, January 05, 2011 - linkWouldn't anyone else like to see RAID 0 with TRIM support? Reply
CharonPDX - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkIf the drive has good garbage collection in its own firmware, it doesn't need TRIM support. Reply
crimson117 - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkGarbage Collection is better than nothing, but never quite as good as TRIM. Reply
kb9fcc - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkNot needing either would be best. Reply
Taft12 - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkCitation?
I'd be especially interested in seeing your statement backed up with regards to this hardware that isn't even released yet! Reply
sprockkets - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkGarbage collection works better when it knows what garbage to collect, hence TRIM. Reply
GullLars - Saturday, January 08, 2011 - linkGarbage Collection and TRIM are not mutualy exclusive, and are both ways of maintaining write performance. If you don't have any GC at all working with write placement algorithms, you end up with something like early JMicron devices.
TRIM simply allows the drive to not have false-valid data, meaning it can mark blocks as dirty and have them included in the GC instead of moved around.
This can significantly lower write amplification, and is more important the less unpartitioned space you have, as it allowes a second pool of dynamic freespace for GC to work with.
BTW, i'm running 4R0 C300 and get about 1150MB/s read on SB850 with ATTO, and about 100k random IOPS. I don't think Z-drive R3 can beat that, compressible data or not.
I also found 4x was overkill, 3x will get you past 1GB/s and 100k IOPS. Reply
glugglug - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkGarbage collection and TRIM are totally unrelated. No matter how good your garbage collection is, it absolutely does not overlap with or remove the benefit of TRIM. Reply
bcronce - Thursday, January 13, 2011 - linkI wouldn't say "totally unrelated". TRIM augments the GC.
TRIM does nothing more than flag blocks for the GC to clean up which reduces the amount of "guessing" the GC has to do.
Less guessing = better Reply
goozira - Wednesday, January 05, 2011 - linkWith the IBIS XL 5.25" drive, what connection ports are on the back and is the box completely enclosed? I'm wondering if OCZ made the unit upgradeable with slide-out PCB slots or would you have to buy different levels of storage like the Z-Drive. Reply
ckryan - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkI wonder if the next gen SF drives will be the next step in performance. Moving from an Agility or Vertex to a Agility 2/Vertex 2 isn't that big a step... certainly not the giant leap moving from a mechanical drive to a SSD was. I wonder if moving from a 2g Intel or Idilinx drive to a nextgen SF drive will seem like that large of a leap in tangible performance. Getting that kind of performance leap is addictive, and why I replaced the drives in my desktop and laptop with SSDs to begin with. Upgrading from SSD to a marginally faster SSD doesn't make much sense, but it certainly seems like the next generation of SF's may have the leap in performance to make the upgrade worth while. Reply
cactusdog - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkNo doubt these are going to be much more expensive too but unless you move around a lot of 4GB+ files it probably wont be very noticeable with normal computer use over a fast sata 2 ssd. Reply
vol7ron - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - link- "No doubt these are going to be much more expensive too"
Maybe market prices. The NAND should be cheaper, it's the controller that's driving the price. I'm not sure if the SF-2K controllers will be all that much more than the 1500s were when they were released. If what the article posted is true, this is the best controller, so it certainly will be expensive. I'm curious how the lower (cheaper) SF-2K controllers fair in performance.
- "it probably wont be very noticeable with normal computer use over a fast sata 2 ssd."
Maybe, maybe not. I still notice a slowdown with Intel G2 during startup, just because of the massive amounts of startup apps and widgets that now exist.
With more screen real estate (those that have large/multiple monitors), you have more space to want to fill, and thus a larger demand on your hardware resources.
Though, I still have my anti-virus/games on a mechanical drive to increase the longevity of the SSD. I'm waiting for that $/GiB ratio to go down before thinking about putting them on SSDs. Reply
Out of Box Experience - Saturday, January 08, 2011 - linkCan a single Vertex 3 copy and paste 4GB files faster than a modern 7200 RPM Western Digital?
This could be interesting..
A modern Western Digital desktop drive is 3 times faster than a Vertex 2 at copying and pasting data but a vertex 3 isnt 3 X faster than a Vertex 2 so its still probably slower than a Western Digital at copy/paste functions..
You know, REALWORLD functions! Reply
MrSpadge - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkThe faster storage becomes, the more of a bottleneck the rest becomes. If your CPU is already at 100% there's only so much an even faster SSD can do. So don't expect another huge jump, but rather solid improvements.
MrS Reply
RussianSensation - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkLooks like SATA 3.0 is going to be obsolete by the time Vertex 4 rolls around. Unbelievable. I might just have to bite the bullet and finally grab an SSD drive, which of course means I have to dump my 1.5 year old S1156 platform with its by now archaic SATA 2.0 interface ! Reply
probedb - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkJust buy a SATA 3.0 PCIe card :) Reply
therealnickdanger - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkOr avoid the whole mess and buy a Revo and get superior IO. Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkCan you boot off a SATA 3 PCIe card? I mean without jumping through 17 hoops. Reply
juhatus - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkof course you can.
Requires you to goto all the way to bios thou.. think server's all booting from the of pcie-cards as long as there's been pcie. Reply
vol7ron - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkLet's stop using the word/acronym "BIOS" and start using the term "UEFI" :) Reply
UNHchabo - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkThere's a problem with that though: phonetics.
It's easy to say BIOS: buy-ose. How are you supposed to pronounce "UEFI"?
I suppose "you-fee" may work, but that "E" complicates things. Maybe we could try ü-fee? Reply
Spivonious - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkHa, I like üfee. Best spoken with an Ahnold voice. Reply
Taft12 - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkNot a very good option on S1156. Fail chipset from Intel FTL :( Reply
IanWorthington - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkI assume that 1GB/s is sequential i/o? Would love to see the 4kb random speed. Reply
ajp_anton - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkIt's all there in the graph. 4kB is about 200MB/s both directions. Reply
ZippoMan - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkReally? Q2? Damn. It will be interesting to see the C400/M4 face off with the Vertex 3. Reply
cactusdog - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkThe C400 is crapola. Comes no where near the vertex3 Reply
vol7ron - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkRemember the V3 is using an enterprise SSD controller. More expensioso Reply
DoktorSleepless - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - link"50-400gb usable"
Well, that's really disappointing. I was hoping for the 60-480 scheme from the current drives. Reply
vol7ron - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkI think you touched on something I wanted to bring up.
I care less about how much manufacturers are using to make their drives work/perform and more about what can actually be used. The 50-400 is the important number and the one I urge companies to start using, uniformly. The other number should just be left in the specs for enthusiasts consideration. Reply
strikeback03 - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkMaybe with 25nm NAND they will go back to more spare area, but I wouldn't be surprised if the first drives out are more enterprise focused and have more spare area, like the SF-1200/1500 launch. Then maybe drives with less spare area would come later. Reply
iwodo - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkOnce again we have Raw performance numbers.
Tell me how an Toshiba SSD with lower Seq / Random Read Write numbers manage to beat an Sandforce or Intel SSD then we will start talking.
Impressive as they may sound, i would like to see some real Anand benchmark before i make the judgement. Reply
probedb - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkDid you miss the "very, *very* early silicon and hardware"? Reply
BugblatterIII - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkWe've seen before that the larger drives have far better performance due to their greater number of banks. Was it the 512GB drive you tested? Reply
semo - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkInterested about that too. The C400 for example seems still a mediocre SSD by today's standards at 64GB.
"both Micron and Intel beating it to the punch" -- We know that the Micron/Crucials are coming out soon from your previous article but not sure what's the latest on the Intels
"OCZ also demonstrated a new, slimmer chassis for its 3.5" SSDs like the Vertex 2 and Agility 2" -- Did you mean 2.5"? I guess they would be 7mm high?
"Obviously to hit these speeds you obviously need a 6Gbps controller" -- obviously :) Reply
jonup - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkNo, Anand meant 3.5" SSDs. These have been available for a while now. They are slimmer than 3.5" but fit in the normal 3.5" holes. I have the suspicion that you can fit two of these in a single 3.5" bay because of how thin they are, but I have not tested it since I have played around with only one. Reply
semo - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkThanks didn't know that. I thought only the IBIS and colossus were available in 3.5" Reply
vol7ron - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - link"I have the suspicion that you can fit two of these in a single 3.5" bay because of how thin they are"
I'm sure you could, but are there any heat concerns? Reply
evilspoons - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkThe Vertex 2 / Agility 2 dissipate like ONE WATT while being tortured (http://www.anandtech.com/show/3681/oczs-vertex-2-s...
I hardly think it's a problem. Reply
ppokorny - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkI recently had a chance to use those new 3.5" drives, and they mix plastic and metal mounting holes in a way that makes the mechanical fit not be flush on the sides.
That caused problems when I had to mount the drives in a hot-swap drive tray of a server. Reply
marraco - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkOf course, the Vertex 3 should saturate SATA 2 on sequential speed, but I wish to know how much slower performs on 4 Kb tests when connected to SATA 2. Reply
Marc HFR - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkDear Anand,
4K Random read is more than 3 times faster than SF-1200 one.
Are you sure you 8GB LBA space restriction on this test ? Reply
H8ff0000 - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkA lot of us want to know this. I know there's probably no info on this, but some sort of ballpark figures would help OCZ's business. If people heard a ballpark figure that didn't scare the piss out of them, they very well might actually wait for this to come to market instead of buying a C400. If I remember correctly, they said somewhere around $200 for a 120GB C400. If this were $250ish ballpark I'd wait. Reply
strikeback03 - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkProblem is that if they threw out a number now for a product they are hoping to launch in 4-5 months, even saying it is "ballpark" people will complain if they don't hit it. Say they said $250 right now, and you wait, and they launch in June at $300 for 120GB. Some users would be extremely upset by the wait and the "price increase". Reply
tjoynt - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkWhy the heck did Intel decide to name their "some % random" IOMeter write strategy "pseudo random"? "pseudo random" already means something and it is not that. :( Reply
vol7ron - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkPage 1:
"I get 518MB/s sequential write speed and nearly 500MB/s for sequential read"
- Are you sure that's accurate, or is it natural to have sequential write faster than sequential read?
Page 2:
'5.25" drive by'
- Probably meant drive bay Reply
glugglug - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkOn normally HDDs, random write is almost always faster than random read because the buffer cache used by the controller has a far more significant impact on writes.
On an SSD maybe this applies to even sequential I/O as the wear leveling algorithm/ logical-to-physical block mapping may make your sequential operations not really 100% sequential. Reply
FilipK959 - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkWell, my old Pentium 3 PC the PC 100 sdram had a transfer rate 420Mb per second according to SiSoft Sandra if I remember correctly so this is just amazing that a mass storage device can pull this off. :)) Reply
B3an - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkCan anyone tell me how i could RAID these drives with 6Gb/s on a motherboard with no SATA 6Gb/s?
Are there any PCI-E RAID controllers for this that dont cost a ton? Reply
tipoo - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkWhen a startup can compete with a giant. Right now it looks as if Sandforce, with limited funds and only a relative handful of employees, is the only company that can put up a fight against the mighty Intel controller. Reply
bobbozzo - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkPlease explain the compression comments and tables... is the drive compressing all data?
Bob Reply
dertechie - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkThat's part of the Sandforce secret sauce. The control ASIC has some amount of (probably fixed function) compression/decompression hardware. This is what gets them their low write amplification and their fast speeds. As you can see, the controller is still fast if it can't compress the data, but not as fast as it is when you feed it something highly compressible. Reply
janon123 - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkWhat is the total 4KB random writes that can be done to each drive type in its lifespan?
Intel X25-E (G3) 25nm eMLC 100GB is rated at 900TB-1PB total 4KB random writes. Reply
janon123 - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkand are any of these Vertex 3 drives capacitor-backed? Reply
DarkRogue - Thursday, January 06, 2011 - linkI would assume the slide that reads "Power loss data protection" would mean it includes a cap to flush data to NAND in the event of a power loss. Reply
AbRASiON - Friday, January 07, 2011 - linkOver 180mb/s 4k READS is what I've been waiting for.
This SSD, coupled with an absoloute meaty CPU and lots of ram will be awesome.
Forget sequential read and writes, they are mostly meaningless rubbish once they get over 200mb/s - this baby is going to load games and applications exceedingly quick. Damn glad I skipped the C300.
I am eager I tell you. Reply
qax - Saturday, January 08, 2011 - linkI would like to see 2 of these controllers on af PCI-E PCB. Reply
amjustice - Friday, January 14, 2011 - linkI was holding off on getting a new SSD to put in my Macbook Pro until this next gen of drives comes out. Since I do not have the proper controller on my MBP to do 6GBPS is it worth it to wait still? Will I be able to see some of the benefits of speed in these drives? Reply
grandnexus - Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - linkSo I'm reading about this Sandforce SF-2000 controller for SSD hardrives, and it's apparently the hottest shit ever. I'm planning on doing a rebuild soon, within a week or two and I was going to get an SSD hardrive.
After reading this, it sounds like I should wait until this comes out. So, what is the release date of SF-2000? And are there any other comparable SSD hardrives that are out or will be out in a few weeks? Reply
grdh20 - Friday, February 04, 2011 - linkI heard from OCZ earliest end of this quarter or earl 2nd quarter. I say worth the wait. Reply


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I first started making this recipe many, many years ago, round about the time when dinosaurs still walked the face of the earth. This is a sweet and savory recipe and makes for an unforgettable dining experience. So, I got a whole chicken, cut it up, and slapped it on the grill. Don't need no seasoning at this point.
And just like magic, it changes color
Time to get serious and bring out the heavy artillery-- the cast iron skillet, an old Griswolds that's been in my family... well, since the Iron Age.
Okay, now to season the birdie. Just like with chili, I imagine there are countless recipe variations for this. I am hooked on this one. Check out the ingredients-- dark corn syrup, butter, lemon juice and lemon rind, seasoned salt, oregano, pepper, and always a splash of white wine, in this case, Sauvignon blanc.
Let it simmer a spell. And there you have it, ready to plate up, nice and sweet with a fresh lemony twist. How I wish I could do that, but I have to hold it for several hours as my company has been delayed. As soon as I can I will post the pic. I plan to plate it with rice (goes very well with this meal), and green beans that are imported from France. Meanwhile, good eats to all!
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At last! Sorry about the delay. First, in case anyone is interested in the imported French green beans, here is what they look like in the package. You'll notice I got mine from my local Trader Joe's, so perhaps they are in your area too.
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NEEPAWA -- The matchups for this afternoon's B-side playoff qualifying games here at the Manitoba men's curling championship are now set.
With a berth into this evening's eight-team playoff round on the line, the following four games will take place at 4 p.m.: Scott Madams versus David Bohn, David Kraichy versus Rob Fowler, William Lyburn versus Steen Sigurdson and Scott Ramsay versus Dave Elias.
Madams, Kraichy, Lyburn and Ramsay all advanced with victories on Friday's 12:15 p.m. draw: Madams beat Jared Kolomaya 6-1; Kraichy beat Jerry Chudley 9-4; Lyburn beat Kelly Robertson 7-6; and Ramsay beat Mark Lukowich 8-2.
The losers on the 4 p.m. draw will be eliminated, while the winners will join Jeff Stoughton, Mike McEwen, Sean Grassie and Terry McNamee on the first playoff draw tonight at 7:45 p.m.. Stoughton, McEwen, Grassie and McNamee all advanced with victories in A-side qualifiers on Friday's 8:30 a.m. draw.


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She's alive! And the butt of a Tim Tebow penis joke because we're 11. Stick around.
Welcome to Friday's The Crap We Missed featuring Nicole Scherzinger on a horse, Matt Lauer thinking all black guys look like Kanye hence this defensive stance, Jessica Alba's unfortunate jeans selection and the first photo of Katy Perry post-divorce and possibly post-Tebow Teabagging. "As the Lord rests his blessing upon my touchdowns, so do I rest my balls upon your chin. Amen."
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"This isnt stats vs scouts - this is stats and scouts working together, building an organization that blends the best of both worlds. This is the blueprint for how a baseball organization should be run. And, whether the baseball men of the 20th century like it or not, this is where baseball is going."---Dave Cameron, U.S.S. Mariner
What players will be forced out because of graduating minor leaguers? Oscar Taveras takes Beltran's Job through free agency. Greg Garcia may take Kozma's job or get traded. David Freese's injury history and age will force him out. Westbrook is gone after this season to make way for Wacha or Martinez.The only "vet" that they will have to make an impactful decision on is Freese. Thats the whole reason they drafted 3 third basemen in the first five rounds last year.
You are trying to say having a top system is going to get in the way of itself more than help which is preposterous.
Ill give you that the cards FO has a tough call to make in terms of Adams. Honestly, the cards should hope that the NL starts using the DH.
This post of yours actually makes my point for me, they're going to lose the good BP arms and established players they have now and replace them with young guys who aren't all going to jump right in and be as good if they do ever pan out and many of the players you list will not all make it at all.
So with that they aren't actually improving they are keeping a Status quo at best unless the package them for a position of real need like SS, and keeping the Status quo isn't going to be good enough when Wainwright, Molina and Holliday all start to fade due to age while making a premium price.
Cards fans have a massive, MASSIVE delusion that every player they draft will make it when it just doesn't work that way for anyone even the best of the best in the Top-100. Which is funny to me because they have had a ton that flopped but they still live with their heads in the same on the success rate of minor league players.
This is a good write up on actually success rates...
We have 75th overall prospect Cozart now in parts of his 3rd year with a .245/.282/.401/.682 career line we also have 14th overall Mesoraco with a line of .202/.278/.345/.624 also now in year three so to expect these guys to replace productive players and do just as well is comical since in baseball some make it, some make it big but most don't make it at all.
When you have all these players all playing the same position they do get in the way of each other, once some make the show and the others are blocked they lose their prospect shine or will get moved for MLB need and that top system drops to the middle of the pack quick, and if one of those guys don't pan out and they are forced to use several of the others to go out and trade for a cheap player like the Reds did with Latos it hurts the depth even more.
This is why the organization rankings are cyclical. In 2011 the Cardinals were 24th, then went to 10th then to 1st on the back of not making and big moves and getting some extra picks. KC was #1 in 2011 then went to 2nd and now are at 18th. When the Cards were 24th the Reds were 6th we graduated some guys and traded some for our big league holes and now are 15th its just how baseball works.
2011 Royals Top-10 prospects as MLB Top System and where they are now.
1. Eric Hosmer, 1b
MLB with KC .729 OPS
2. Wil Myers, c
TRADED and in AAA still has big hype
3. Mike Moustakas, 3b
MLB with KC .690 OPS
4. John Lamb, lhp
18th overall prospect to TJ with poor performance, now in Hi-A ball trying to work his way back, no longer in their Top-10 list.
5. Mike Montgomery, lhp
TRADED 19th overall prospect to no longer Top-10 organizational prospect ERA of 5.32 and 6.07 the last two years.
6. Christian Colon, ss
From 51st overall to stalled in the minors currently at AAA no longer a Top-10 prospect.
7. Danny Duffy, lhp
MLB with KC but injured with TJ, 6-10 with a 5.28 ERA in 26 career starts
8. Chris Dwyer, lhp
83rd best prospect to 5.60 and 5.89 the last two years stuck in AAA no longer Top-10
9. Aaron Crow, rhp
Failed SP turned All-Star set up man
10. Brett Eibner, of
In AA no longer a Top-10 organizational prospect and currently 0-for-20 to start the year and a .197 MiLB hitter with more K's than he has hits, Runs and SB combined as a CF, doubtful he will pull the Pete Kozma.
This should give you a good example why you can't count on all these guys to be in the same uniform or to pan out, and even if the make it expect them to preform right away at a high level or to be in the same projected roles.
You also say, "cardinals fans think...." What an overarching generalization for which you have 0 proof of. There are probably 10 million cardinal fans in America and the number who pay any sort of attention to the minor leagues is probably a fraction of that. That being said, I'll still respond. Some card's fans may be delusional. That is created because right now, the cards farm is almost invincable. In the last three years or so they have brought up Freese, Craig, Descalso, M. Carpenter, LAnce Lynn and Jay. None of the six were ever highly touted prospects, yet all of them have become starters and four have become All-Star quality starters. And now, the organization is loaded with highly touted prospects and people are excited to see just how good they can be if the one's who weren't even ranked have become so good. So there is probably a little over confidence in the farm i'll give you that.
You also bring up Cozart and Mesoraco. The reason they haven't blossomed like many would hope has a name, and that name is Dusty. Dusty Baker is a great coach of veterans, but there isn't anyone i'd want less to coach young players than Dusty Baker. His track record has proven that he is awful at dealing with young players, IMO because he just doesn't want too. He wants to treat them like rookies their whole career. The Cardinals don't do that at all. John Kruk said it in the post-season when the Kozma was playing WAY over his head. Kruk said (and i paraphrase), "The cardinals don't make rookies feel like rookies. From the players up to the owners, the second you walk into that clubhouse youre a cardinal." Kozma was treated the same way the organization would have treated Derek Jeter, and because of that he didn't feel like he had to prove himself. He just had to play.
Also, you say the cards had a bunch that flopped. Who? Rasmus is one. The cards should have known he would flop because he had a piss-poor attitude and tried to get the cards to hire his dad to be his personal hitting coach. Two years later its looking like one of the best trades in the card's recent history. Who else flopped? Anthony reyes? that was six seasons ago now. Brendan Ryan? He can't hit but he might be the best defensive short stop in baseball. Can you please fill me in on the flops the cards have had? This should be supremely difficult for you because until Mozeliak took over they almost never had ranked players in their farm system. If a prospect never even is ranked, then he can't flop.
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Since we are on the topic though, lets talk about the reds. How are they going to replace Phillips in a couple of years? Didi is gone. How will they replace ludwick? How will they replace Choo? How are they going to pay for Bruce, Bailey, Latos, and Cueto? How will they replace Arroyo? Do you see how this could be done for every single MLB team with the exception of maybe the Astros?
That was one of the more loaded systems in recent years and they aren't getting the production from the hype, few come in and do good from the get go, most of them that make it have major growing pains and a majority of prospects don't even make it at all.
Did you not read the link I gave you before?
You clearly have the standard delusional mindset of the typical Cards fan. You somehow think Its Dusty's fault a player like Cozart has hit .243 over 633 AB, Dusty doesn't make him have low BABIP just like the Cards vets aren't magically letting their players see BABIP spikes. Just what Vet is helping Kozma with those swinging bunt hits?
The main reason the Cardinals are hated by other teams so much s their ignorant and audacious fans, Cards fans are so unbelievably stupid and or cocky they think they can beat how baseball works and feel they will somehow hit on all the prospects and beat the history of the game.
Those problems you say are future problems are this year problems, all of the top guys are at the top of the system and will be just w
The Cards have had tons of guys bust in recent years and over the last ten years other than the several names you listed. Zack Cox just got a MLB deal form then a couple years back and they gave him to get Mujica and then he got DFA's by Miami of all teams, Wallace is a bust but they at least sold high on him, Tyler Greene was a bust hell even Kozma was a bust and ever so close to getting cut before finding that Cardinals Pixy Dust once in St Louis. Bryan Anderson was a Top-100 prospect they just let walk as a minor league FA after he busted. Eduardo Sanchez prospect star is fading by the day after being stuck in Memphis. Daryl Jones at one point was suppose to be the next big thing for the Cards was a Top-5 prospect and has never playing in the majors, Jess Todd was once projected as the Cards future #2 now is a bad failed BP arm the Cards traded picked back up and cut again.
I could keep going if need be, so yes not even those magic vets can save all the prospects.
The Reds don't have to worry replacing BP until 2018 they have several years to pray someone pans out, they need someone to replace Ludwick now as real teams who aren't lucky actually have holes when players get hurt. When Choo leaves they are going to hope Billy Hamilton fills the void but its a crap shoot as if he will or not because once again here in the real world prospect flop if he does the Reds will have some issues unless someone else pans out of they can get someone on the cheap we are going to hope one of Cingrani or Corcino can replace Arroyo and the one who can't will go into the open hole we have in the BP.
We have a young core and have our top talent evenly spread over the system so we are going to get 5 more drafts before we have to honestly start worrying about the next wave of impact players. The Cardinals have most of the top prospects ready now or over the course of this year and most all of them play positions where good players are at now so their position isn't like most teams, their organization rating is going to fall and the improvement at the big league level is going to be the same as the new guys are replacing good players.
Soon our system will pass the Cards due to it being cyclical and it will be our turn not to graduate key players, not trade prospects and see some FA leave and bring us a few more picks. Just like it was when we rated in top tier and the Cards were lower just a couple years back.
The moral of the story is no matter how great you think your system is or how awesome you feel the player development is or how magical the veterans are or whatever else things foolish Cards fans buy in on there is only sure bet in baseball and that is prospects are going to fail at a big clip and most of the ones who don't fail aren't going to live up to the hype they had coming up.
If prospects panned out like Cards fans apparently think then baseball would be the most popular sport in America and the bottom half of MLB rosters wouldn't be filled with so many scrubs and mediocre players and it would be impossible for teams to lose as much as Houston has the last two years.
What a surreal, tortured way to attack another fan base. Your farm system is currently one th best in baseball. That you'd count that as a positive rather than see it for the dire negative that it truly is is just further proof of your delusional, mentally handicapped state!
Say what?!?!?
"This isnt stats vs scouts - this is stats and scouts working together, building an organization that blends the best of both worlds. This is the blueprint for how a baseball organization should be run. And, whether the baseball men of the 20th century like it or not, this is where baseball is going."---Dave Cameron, U.S.S. Mariner
Wow Jojo you are unbelievably butthurt over me using the term mentally handicapped, its retarded how bad its eating at you. Being rated high doesn't win games the two years the Cardinals won the World Series they had a system ranked 21st and 24th, the years before they won it they were even lower.
As anyone can be #1 for a bit if they don't trade anyone and land a bunch of extra picks, like I said it was 24th two years ago and will be back towards the bottom in another two years. We were dead last in 2006 and had a MVP already in the system, also an All-Star RF, one of our SP and 2 of our BP arms, another MLB SP we traded for another piece of our BP and had the prospect we traded to get Brandon Phillips just 8 days after we were rated dead last.
The Royals had one of the better systems in recent years and out of those in the Top-10 they have a failed SP turned good BP arm, 2 under preforming position players both about to hit arbitration the next two years and traded two of those in the Top-5 that year plus two more prospects to get a strong innings eater and a failed SP turned good BP piece now back to a SP because the starters they had high hopes on didn't pan out.
The best thing to do with hyped system is to trade for proven players since no matter what a good number of the prospects aren't going to make it, and others aren't going to match the hype if they do become big league players. Then if your prospects aren't matching your holes you get into a spot like the Cardinals are in. They either have to let proven players go to replace them with gambles, let them rot in the minors and risk injury and poor performance or hope to stash them on the bench an burn their prospect tag and start the clock both lowering the value and hurting the ranking.
No matter how they work it they have 3 spots for Jay, Beltran, Craig, Adams and Taveras. They will no doubt drop Beltran and he has 33 HR and 105 RBI in 161 games with the Cardinals and hit .357/.440/.714/1.154 in the playoffs that will be a lot to ask a rookie to match. If Oscar fills that role they still don't have a home for Adams unless that dump Jay and he has gave them .297/.355 at the top of the order and nice defense in CF. Then to fit Wong in everyday they either have to dump Freese who is a hometown hero himself winning the NLCS and WS MVP with some help for Nelly Cruz' misplay in RF or move Carpenter off 2B and his bat plays much better at 2nd.
So they have 2 prospects ready for the show by the All-Star beak and one there now without a position and have Miller and Rosenthal taking the spot of Lohse and basically Motte who looks likely out for the year and when he comes back sometime next year will just fill the void of Mujica who will be forced out due to money. So that's 5 of the top 7 prospects making the majors without actually filling a spot of a weak link and all replacing or forcing out key players which will be hard to match in first year or so and you still have one of them without a position unless the NL changes its rules.
It's one of the stranger arguments I've seen on the ORG and I've been around long enough to have seen just about all of them.
"This isnt stats vs scouts - this is stats and scouts working together, building an organization that blends the best of both worlds. This is the blueprint for how a baseball organization should be run. And, whether the baseball men of the 20th century like it or not, this is where baseball is going."---Dave Cameron, U.S.S. Mariner
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Since the introduction of the undergraduate business minor in the fall of 2007, the Jones School has significantly broadened the university's curriculum. By offering students the opportunity to complement their major fields of study with an education in the basic functional areas of business, the program is helping to develop leaders with a critical understanding of business concepts and decision-making frameworks as well as fine-tuned, practical skills in communications, teamwork, and organizational effectiveness.
The six courses that comprise the undergraduate business minor provide a strong foundation in the essential disciplines of business. They are: business communications, financial accounting, financial management, leading people in organizations, marketing, and strategic management.The Jones School faculty maintains an important balance between teaching and research. In every undergraduate business minor course, students have the opportunity to work one-on-one with an accessible, involved, and energetic member of the faculty, who teaches in both the MBA programs and undergraduate business minor.In addition to an outstanding classroom experience, students in the undergraduate business minor have the opportunity to participate in a broad range of Jones School events, such as:
BUSI 296 Business Communications (3)
Provides an introduction to business, focusing on the strategy and practice of effective communications in business situations. The course includes individual communication skills assessment and development as well as team-based oral and written communication instruction. Pre-requisite(s): none
BUSI 305 Financial Accounting (3)
Covers the preparation, analysis, and use of corporate financial statements; asset and liability valuation and income determination; receivables, inventories, present values, tangible and intangible fixed assets, bonds, leases, shareholder equity, inter-corporate investments, consolidations and cash flow accounting. Pre¬requisite(s): none
BUSI 310 Leading People in Organizations (3)
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BUSI 343 Financial Management (3)
Develops the basic concepts of corporate financial management and introduces a set of analytical tools to evaluate financial decisions. Employs concepts of time value of money, risk and return, and market efficiency are to examine how capital market investors value risky assets. Develops a framework for evaluating corporate investment and financing decisions.
Pre-requisite(s): STAT 280, BUSI 305, and ECON 100 OR ECON 201 OR ECON 301
BUSI 380 Marketing (3)
Introduces the role of marketing in organizations and the principal marketing decisions facing management. Topics include marketing planning and strategy; buyer behavior; development and management of products and services; branding; channels of distribution; sales, advertising and promotional methods; pricing strategy; and the development of integrated marketing strategies and programs. Pre-requisite(s): STAT 280 and ECON 100 OR ECON 201 OR ECON 301
BUSI 390 Strategic Management (3)
Examines the strategic management of businesses in market and non-market environments. Key topics include competitive and industry analysis, strategy formulation and implementation, and strategic planning. Case discussions of real companies are combined with readings concerning the key topics. Pre-requisite(s): ECON 100 OR ECON 201 OR ECON 301. Students must also have completed at least three (3) of the courses required for the Business Minor to enroll.
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The Business Minor complements and adds diversity to the outstanding courses available to Rice undergraduates. Students who are following their passions in the sciences, engineering, or the humanities can also acquire a basic understanding of the fundamentals of business. Moreover, through the Business Minor they can develop their critical thinking and communications skills, both of which will provide value whatever their future education or career goals may be.
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