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Classmates Cheer On Matt Tifft
Posted by: newsla on Jul 14, 2014 - 06:57 PM
Classmates Cheer On Matt Tifft; Ohio ARCA Driver Returns To Seat Of Schrader's Federated Chevy For Chicagoland
It took two busloads to get them to the track...all to cheer on their classmate Matt Tifft. As it turned out, Tifft gave them plenty to cheer about.
Tifft celebrated his high school graduation at Toledo Speedway in late May, driving for Ken Schrader Racing. The Hinckley, Ohio teenager (17 at the time) finished a career-best third with his car owner Schrader right behind in fourth.
"That's one of the coolest things about my school," said Tifft, who graduated from Highland High School in Medina, Ohio on May 23.
"My friends follow me and care about what's going on with my racing. The first year we ran Toledo (2013), we had about 60 kids come for the race, and probably two out of the 60 had been to a race before. One hundred and twenty people came this year, and about 40 of them had already been to a race, so I know we're making new race fans."
Following Tifft's stellar performance in the ARCA race at Toledo, his high school chums hoisted him up onto their shoulders as part of the celebration.
"I got a lot of positive feedback. Having my friends and family there to cheer me on was definitely pretty cool. The biggest thing they learned was how intense racing is."
And Tifft's racing schedule is about to get even more intense when the 18-year-old driver rolls off the grid at Chicagoland Speedway for the Ansell ActivArmr 150 Saturday, July 19.
Tifft will not get the opportunity to test on the 1.5-mile speedway in Joliet, Illinois beforehand.
"I'll just watch a lot of old video. Whether it's a previous Cup race, or an ARCA race, I learn quite a bit by just watching video. Some guys do iRacing (online), but I'm horrible at it, and I usually end up hitting the wall, and that doesn't work in real life.
"There'll be some big learning curves. You have to learn the limits pretty quickly. I know at Pocono in the test, I stabbed the gas too early coming out of (turn) one, and it jumped broadside on me, and that was only five laps into the session, so I definitely learned something. I picked it up in the wrong place on the track. I'm going to have to learn quickly at Chicagoland."
Tifft is not afraid to seek the advice of some of the veterans on tour.
"Don't be afraid to ask questions, or get behind someone to see what they're doing right and what you're doing wrong. I talked with Frank Kimmel before Pocono, and got a lot of great advice from him. I mean, he's definitely a whole book of knowledge; I'd be crazy not to talk with him. Between him and Schrader, you can definitely soak in a lot of knowledge."
Tifft also knows that there is no substitute for on-track experience.
"It helps to hear from the veterans for sure, but none of it really matters until you apply it on the track. I learned in my one and only superspeedway race at Pocono that you can't overwhelm yourself with too much information. Everything is so sensitive on the speedways. The slightest turn of the wheel will affect your direction. If you have one brain lapse, it can be pretty big at those tracks."
No doubt Tifft feels pretty darn lucky to be driving for an icon like Schrader.
"It's so cool (driving for Schrader); it's definitely entertaining. He's a great guy. As the owner of a race team he wants to win, so there's a little pressure there. It's not any pressure that he (Schrader) puts on me; it's pressure I create for myself. Mr. Schrader is really patient and that helps so much, especially for me...being that I have such a huge learning curve. That can be challenging for a team when they're working with a driver that's still getting up to speed."
Tifft had some serious challenges at Pocono. In his first superspeedway start, he had driven up to third late in the race, and was challenging front-runners Kyle Larson (eventual winner) and Mason Mitchell when he was part of three-car crash in turn one.
"We restarted third and the 88 (Justin Allison) was stuck in fourth gear. It got all jumbled up for everyone. By the time it fanned out, here comes turn one, and we all found ourselves trying to buy the same space that was there, and we wrecked. It was just a racing deal."
In true Tifft form, he replayed the video when he got home to see if he could learn from the experience.
"I watched the recording to help put the pieces together. I wanted to see if I could have done anything different. After watching it over and over, I decided that it really was one of those racing deals and that I didn't do anything wrong. I learned that everything is situational, and what might be applied here will not necessarily work there."
Tifft is planning to attend UNC Charlotte in the fall, majoring in business management, while continuing to study the fine art of auto racing.
Schedule/Media Coverage
The Ansell ActivArmr 150, live on FOX Sports 2 at 5:00 p.m. central, will precede the same-night NASCAR Nationwide Series EnjoyIllinois.com 300. Menards Pole Qualifying presented by Ansell will accompany raceday activities at 1:30. Practice for the Ansell ActivArmr 150 will take place Friday from 3:30 - 5:20. ARCAracing.com will provide live timing and scoring of all on-track activities Friday and Saturday.
Discount Tickets on Sale Now at Menards
Discount tickets, on sale for $20 each, for the Ansell ActivArmr 150 at Chicagoland Speedway are on sale now at more than 60 Midwest Menards stores up through Friday, July 18.
The stores selling the discounted tickets include Antioch, Batavia, Bolingbrook, Bradley Bridgeview, Carpentersville, Cicero, Clybourn, Crest Hill, Crestwood, Crystal Lake, Dolton, Elgin, Evergreen Park, Fox Lake, Glendale Heights, Griffith, Gurnee, Hammond, Hanover Park, Hodgkins, Homer Glen, Homewood, Joliet, Long Grove, Matteson, Melrose Park, Merrillville, Michigan City, Montgomery, Morris, Morton Grove, Mount Prospect, Naperville, North & Kostner, Peru, Plainfield, Portage, Schererville, Sycamore, Tinley Park, Valparaiso, West Chicago, Woodstock and Yorkville.
The race will be stop No. 11 of 20 on the 2014 ARCA Racing Series schedule. For the complete series schedule, visit ARCAracing.com.
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I like to be a beach bum.
If I am not on the beach or at a concert you can probably find me at home with Charlie watching sports.
I do have tattoos - included are two half sleeves.
I am random....
Hiking. Beach. Surfing. Craft beer. Sushi.
Enjoy spontaneous adventures, and car rides to places with good food.
People watching
Sitting on the beach
Making corny jokes
Like all kinds of movies, my guilty pleasure is romantic comedies and I will admit that now. My dog likes them. Some favorites movies, I would say Star Wars (any of them), LoTRs, Da Vinici Code and Angels and Demons, Princess Bride, Labyrinth, Back to the Future 1-3 etc....
Music: like all kinds. Favorites, mentioned above, plus really any alternative, punk, emo, screamo, singer/songwriters etc. I'm a big 90's alternative guy. No too much I won't listen to and it depends on what I'm doing.
Beach (with my surfboard)
A gym
My dog

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Data Normalization & Cleansing
Populate CMDBs with clean & normalized hardware & software data
"Through 2018, 75% of IT organizations will fail in their configuration management efforts due to lack of standardization." Gartner*
ITSM Configuration Management Databases (CMDB) are important to organizations that want to a) provide users with the services and software they need b) introduce automated processes and c) to streamline their IT processes.
The challenge is in not only building the CMDB but ensuring the repository of IT assets – software and hardware assets and the relationships between them – is standardized, usable and always up to date. Changing configuration and infrastructure can quickly render it inaccurate.
Data Normalization
Data can be extracted from many different sources which of course means it will not be consistent. The process of normalization makes sense of the data collected and presents it in a friendly and easily recognizable format. It removes ambiguity and duplicates to present just one clear view of information about each software asset.
By tying your ITSM processes to your SAM process will greatly enhance the productivity, effectiveness and ROI of the ITSM implementation by importing cleansed and normalized software inventory and usage information together with accurate and granular hardware configuration data from all devices in use across the network.
- Accelerate problem resolution times
- Increase scope of ServiceNow implementation
- Reduce new software costs
Snow SAM platform
Snow's unique Software Recognition Service aggregates, cleanses and normalizes all software identified on the network – including vendor name, application name and version – before it is imported into the CMDB.
Software Recognition Service:
- Recognizes more than 455,000 applications from more than 73,000 software publishers
- Cleanses data from any third-party inventory or discovery solution.
This gives organizations the ability to build a complete and accurate CMDB to cover all platforms (mobile to desktop, server to cloud).
A clean CMDB accelerates problem resolution times, as well as driving better decision-making on software and licensing requirements across the organization.
As well as populating clean data into the CMDB, SAM professionals can benefit from ITSM data in the Snow SAM platform, including information on where devices reside (e.g. test, development, production) so that the most appropriate licenses can be assigned, and support agreement and ticket information, that can be used to enable smarter renegotiation of agreements.
Although many ITSM solutions offer limited Software Asset Management functionality, in reality this is too simplistic for most organizations' SAM requirements, especially with IT environments that include datacenters, virtualization, mobile devices and enterprise software from the likes of Microsoft, SAP, IBM and Oracle. Snow's platform is designed specifically to capture the right SAM information.
- Faster resolution time on software issues
- Standardization of supported versions
- Clearer visibility of license availability & suitability
For more information on populating your CMDB with the best quality hardware and software information available, learn more about Snow's Software Recognition Service or our range of Snow Integration Connectors, including Snow for ServiceNow.
* Four Steps to Optimize Configuration Management Process and Tools 31 October 2013 G00258557 Analyst(s): Ronni J. Colville


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A commuter emailed me a photo of this lengthy letter left for riders on Metro-North trains this evening.
Michael Kingsley of Hartsdale had this to say: "MNR communication is excellent. This is a little unnecessary but still nice. Or are they being extra nice because they're asking for fare increases?"
The railroad gives a detailed explanation of why trains ran late this morning: Crushed fallen leaves get extra "slimy after it rains," causing the rails to get slippery. As a result, trains had to reduce their speeds.
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Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College (LTMMC) & Sion Hospital
Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College (LTMMC), Sion is widely regarded as the second most preferred option to do medical in Mumbai, right behind KEM (Seth GS Medical College).
In a word, convenient. All of Sion (central), GTB Nagar (harbour) and Kings Circle (harbour) railway stations are within walking distance of Lokmanya Tilak Medical College, although none of them are extremely close. It takes about 10-15 minutes to get to each of them. Sion hospital is located right off the eastern express highway, so the connectivity by buses is fantastic.
LTMMC is a government college, so it would be silly to expect out-of-the-world amenities and whatnot. But the infrastructure is certainly improving. Most classes are conducted in the new building. The laboratories are quite clean and well maintained, and the equipment in them actually works. The air conditioned library is quite big, and has enough books for the students. The college also has a tiny ground for sports, but you'll hardly ever find anyone there.
As far as the hostels are concerned, the previously abject situation is getting better. There's still no hostel facility for first year students, who have to make their own arrangements. After this, the girls hostel is in TB Hospital in Sewri, while the boys hostel is near the Urban Health Centre in Dharavi. However, the new senior hostel is in the campus itself. The rooms are quite tiny and are on a twin sharing basis.
The fees for all Government medical colleges is standard, which means at LTMMC it is roughly Rs.30,000 per year.
In spite of being doctors and not teachers by vocation, the professors are quite good, and actually interested in teaching. They share a good rapport with the students. Communication in the class is mainly in English, though professors are willing to explain in Marathi/Hindi if the students need them to.
LTMMC is also really good for MD, and one specialisation that it's very popular for is burns.
Hospitals affiliated:
Students are sent to the following hospitals:
- Sion Hospital
- Urban Health Centre, Dharavi
- Kasturba Hospital
Since all of these are government hospitals, you'll likely get more patients than you could ever have bargained for.
The crowd is like what you'll find in any other government medical college. Most of these are students who've done extremely well in their CET, and some who have come through reservations (who have also done pretty well in their CET, of course). All in all, they're quite friendly and very approachable. As put by one of the students, "KEM (rank1) is all about studying, JJ Medical (rank3) is all about fun. Sion (rank2) is a mix of both".
The canteen is really, really good. It's cheap (even cheaper if you're a student) and hygienic, and the food is tasty as well. Normally it's not too crowded, but between 12.30 and 1.00, it becomes impossible to even stand here in peace.
There really isn't much around Sion Hospital, except for Cinemax and Sion Fort, where you can go once in your life and decide never to go back again. Apart from these, students are forced to go all the way to Bandra or Phoenix Mills.
The college is really strict about attendance. As per the university rule, you're expected to maintain a minimum of 75% attendance in theory lectures and 80% in practicals. At LTMMC, they pretty much ensure that you do it, because if you don't, then there's a very real possibility that they'll stop you from writing the exams. Which isn't a good thing, by the way.
LTMMC hosts its cultural festival, Ashvamedh in March. They also have a medical symposium called Trinity.
Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College (LTMMC)
Sion Hospital,
Sion, Mumbai—400022
Tel : 91-22-24076381
Website : www.ltmgh.com
Quite certainly the second best medical college in Mumbai, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College is a place where any MBBS student would likely enjoy studying at.


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BlackRock Latin America Investors
While many investors seek growth across the Pacific, Latin America is another potential source of bountiful returns. Pro-capitalist policies continue to be favored, and there's also the benefits from rich natural resources.
A way to play the region is with the BlackRock Latin America Investors (MUTF:MDLTX) fund. Granted, MDLTX has suffered single-digit losses in the past year, but in the long term, its 22% returns crush the previously mentioned funds.
MDLTX's portfolio manager, Will Landers, has been investing in Latin America since 1991, though he tends to focus mostly on Brazil, Mexico and Chile. Some of his top holdings include Vale (NYSE:VALE), Petroleo Brasileiro and Grupo Televisa (NYSE:TV).
However, MDLTX is on the pricier side with a 1.55% expense ratio and a 5.25% load charge.
Tom Taulli runs the InvestorPlace blog IPOPlaybook, a site dedicated to the hottest news and rumors about initial public offerings. He also is the author of "All About Short Selling" and "All About Commodities." Follow him on Twitter at @ttaulli. As of this writing, he did not own a position in any of the aforementioned securities.


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Joan & David Flipp
I love this shoe because it is so fashionable AND comfortable. All reviewers cannot believe how comfortable this stiletto heel is. Cuteness and comfort are a rarity with heels, and that's why these are great.
Hello Yellow!Tags: yellow, high heels, patent, pumpAdded 6 Years Ago from Shoebuy
Another pair of vintage inspired shoes. These are very '40s, plus I love the python print!
Pretty mint heels peep toe heels! They kind of remind me of something Barbie would wear.
This is the coolest, most stylish rain boot I have seen. Sperry is notorious for having great, long lasting waterproof shoes. Plus, yellow is my favorite color.Tags: shoes, boots, heels, waterproof, yellow, patent, rain boots, tall, knee highAdded 7 Years Ago from Shoebuy
Coral is a great color right now- reminds me of Spring!
Neutral heels are the greatest- they go with so much! These are especially gorgeous.
What a cool pattern!
I love the different color cross staps, they work well together. This shoe is really adorable and can be dressed up or down.
So many options with a red patent boot (with white racer stripe)- superhero, racer, gogo girl, ms. claus- oh the possibilities!
A classic off-white pump from BCBG- great for work or evening.
Look fierce wearing this attractive patent or canvas pump with alluring heel and platform.Tags: fashion, shoes, lace, black, high heels, patent, peep toe, vince camutoAdded 7 Years Ago from Shoebuy
I think red shoes can change a whole outfit, for the better. Wear them with black, white, grey, and they will stand out!
I love the elegant look of these heels. It is such a nice red color. I think it would be cute for a date night.Tags: shoes, heels, red, patent, peep toe, chilis, Jessica Simpson, straps, crisscrossAdded 8 Years Ago from Shoebuy
These have a darling shape and a pretty, quiet color, described as blush iridescent patent. You could wear these wedges to work or out with your girlfriends.
I love this shoe because its color is described as "Cornflake patent", which is dead on. I never knew cereal could be this fashionable. They are simple yet sharp looking shoes.


text: Growing up I lived in a small rural town. I knew I was different and had a hard time socializing with my peers, until I went to collage. As I made the move to the metropolitan arena it became obvious that this is where I belonged. This new urban lifestyle and the social networks that I came into contact with, has made the most dramatic change in my life. I now know who I am and what my goals are. Now here comes my beef with todays babyboomer left over conservative "policy makers" who at night take there new flashy hunter green oldsmobiles '98s back to there suburbanite safety of home at 5:00 p.m.. How is it that these people (established planners) feel that they can make an accurate decision as to the future lives of the people of the urban environment that they work for,but dont have contact with or even live near. Tell me, how many working planners has ever had the experience of having an assault shotgun put to there forehead and held hostage for an hour and a half while trying to make ends meet while working at a convenience store, how many established planners have spent a year of there life cleaning office building at night so that there educational needs are taken care of, and how many established planners go to work every night with only there house keys and a dollar because while cleaning these office buildings at night they are roaming in and out of the dark alleys of the down town urban fabric. Everyday I experience these thing and everyday I take my education(BA in environmental design) and apply it to the REAL street experiences of my everyday life. Although this might sound like a bitch session I do enjoy experiencing true underground street life. I organize musical events that celebrate this new aesthetic of the underground street life, these musical events start at 12:00am and last until 8:00am and are held in old downtown abandoned warehouses. Do you know what it feel like to listen to completely electronic music in a collapsing ,almost gothic degradation of the urban fabric of life. Well I have and I have also paid my way through collage to only now be sitting in front of a computer wondering why people dont understand my way of life and why I am looked down on and why my environment becomes more and more violent everyday with more building vacancies and business window signs that all read going out of business. What I dont understand is how the people and I of the urban street life can survive. And how is it that our voice is never heard only glamorized by the 6 O'clock news a war zone for higher ratings. And as these trends continue the separation grows further and further distant between those with the excess money who make the decisions (suburbanites) and those who need to be invested in. Why is it that my voice and the hundreds of intelligent people like me are not heard I have seen with the eyes of the street the continuing polarization of our society and with those "policy makers" continuing there trek to the suburbs every night, blinding themselves from the true reality of the urban fabric, I can personally assure that this future will bring the next revolution.


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Prisoners denied access to justice
Prisoners denied access to justice
It is lamentable but perhaps understandable that when New Zealand is facing mass migration to Australia, growing inequality and some 270,000 children living in poverty that the Minister of Corrections should be involving herself in a smokescreen of being seen to be hard on prison inmates over smoking, when there are demonstrably more pressing issues that need the Government's urgent attention.
The newly minted Supplementary Order Paper presented to the House of Representatives by Minister Tolley which will have the effect of blocking recourse to Courts in relation to the smoking ban in prisons is offensive to human rights norms and amounts to bullying by a Government obviously embarrassed by its recent loss in the High Court.
Under international law as reflected in our Corrections Act, prison sentences must not be administered more restrictively than is reasonably necessary to ensure the maintenance of the law and the safety of the public, prison staff and the inmates. The Court correctly found that the Government's blanket ban on smoking did not meet the aims of the Corrections Act, which is to ensure that prison sentences are administered in a safe, secure, humane and effective manner. Neither was it shown that the ban was reasonably necessary to ensure the maintenance of the law or the safety of the public, corrections staff of other prisoners.
It is ironic that many inmates are serving sentences because they "took the law into their own hands", rather than turning to the Courts to seek relief. Now when inmates do just that and legitimately challenge the Government on its breaches of their fundamental rights, the Government shows a high handed disregard for its obligations and has no hesitation in blocking access to justice.


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Reviewed by Girlcreeture
Staring Catriona MacColl (Lucy Boyle), Paolo Malco (Dr. Norman Boyle), Giovanni Freza (Bob Boyle), Silvia Collatina (Mae), Ania Pieroni (Ann)
Directed by Lucio Fulci
***Editor's note: This review originally appeared on our old site. Enjoy!***
Ahhh, Fulci. He seems to be popping up in my VCR quite often as of late. My last foray into the man's collection didn't turn out to be as fun as I'd hoped, but this one makes it worth it.
And now I have returned, sashayed if you will, unafraid and undaunted back to the man who brought us The Beyond, Zombie, and The Gates of Hell. Did he redeem himself (in my eyes) with this story about an unsuspecting family and their subsequent terrorization at a seemingly charming and harmless New England home? Hell yeah he did! And happy are the girlcreetures who spend 3 bucks on a good horror flick! Cuz 3 bucks is 3 bucks you know.
So getting back to our scheduled programming, we've got a family of three. The Boyle's: Lucy, Norman, and their unusually large-headed seedling Bob. They hail from N.Y.C, but must move to New England when Dad gets a job placement there, taking over the research of a recently deceased colleague, Dr. Peterson. Amidst the preparations of moving, Bob is quietly staring at a photograph of a house (it'll be familiar soon). There seems to a young girl standing in its window, but only when Bob is looking at it, of course. She's been warning Bob not to go to that house, to stay away from it at all costs. Quite a spooky looking photo of her in that house too. Bob of course tells his Mum about this and she brushes it off as childhood imagination. She's a BAD mother! So the Boyle's move on to New England, New Whitby, MA to be precise, and start getting themselves settled into their new home. And coincidences of coincidences! Their new home is just like the one in Bob's hallucinatory photograph! Sans the creepy kid in the window. She actually just wanders around town being weird, as we'll soon find out. Bob encounters this girl throughout the film. Her name is Mae, and she's a little off, so to speak. Things progress and we get to know the Boyles and their new babysitter Ann, who's also a tad on the weirdly side. Things start getting wacky and we find that the house the Boyle's inhabit is pretty damned odd, and something of a town secret too. The real estate agent who rented it to the Boyles insists on calling it Oak Mansion, while the slightly brain damaged clerk (the guy's just a freak OK?) at her office insists it'll always be The Freudstein House.
The movie is well filmed and acted throughout. The plot itself is pretty decent and, in my opinion, very reminiscent of a video game plotline. Things unfold at a good pace for the Boyle family and the viewer, never really entering the realm of the boring. There are a few other characters to keep track of but not so many that you would get confused or forget who was doing what or what happened to who. Each character has a purpose devoted to helping uncover the mystery surrounding Oak Mansion and giving up clues to either Dr. Boyle or to young Bob. Lucy on the other hand isn't fortunate enough to be fed any clues by anyone. Sucks to be her. She really only inhabits the house and becomes more and more threatened and wacky because of it and it's odd traits. As for the circumstances by which Dr. Boyle got his new job being so sketchy, he begins looking into it on his own, thus discovering the nasty secrets of a Dr. Freudstein, former owner the house (by the cemetery).
As I said, the movie doesn't get boring, and there are many nicely filmed scenes and some very creepy and suspenseful sequences. Most of these involve the basement, that old tried and true place of evil. The basement is accessed through a door in the kitchen. When the Boyles first move into their new home, it's got wooden boards over it keeping nicely closed off. Of course it doesn't stay that way and when the boards come off is when things really begin to happen.
Thus ends my summary of House by the Cemetery, a mystery, albeit, not a particularly difficult to figure out mystery. Fulci has effectively put together a great little flick here and it's worthy of any horror fan's time and money. The acting is good, not at all cheesy, although the dub is pretty terrible (isn't that almost always the case though?). I also had to watch this on VHS, which is pretty damned stinky, but I take what I can get. There's the typical Casio keyboard-esque soundtrack, but it's fitting and works well. The pay-offs in this movie are the sequences filmed around the basement, the heart of the house (Oak Mansion or Freudstein House, or just the house), and the story. I was reminded of when I was a kid and how much I hated standing at the top of the cellar stairs, looking down and knowing I had to go down those stairs. And coming back up the stairs, not knowing if there was something creeping up me. Shiver.
The gore factor is pretty lively too. In an estimated 2 minutes and 56 seconds into the movie there's a nicely done murder scene where a lovely young lady gets to taste steel butcher knife by way of entry from the back of head and exit through the mouth. A wonderful shot of her lying on the ground with gleamy steel protruding out of her lips. She is the only object lit, while everything else is in shadow. It's a great start for this movie. And House by the Cemetery continues this great start through to the end, with plenty of other great bits of gore and grue.
So check this movie out, and know that you won't be disappointed. If you are, I'll personally reenact the "what happens when you play with rabid bats" scene ok?
And now for a quote! This quote demonstrates the old adage of don't believe everything you hear:
"Most of the old houses in the area (New England) have tombs in them."
That, my friends, is bullshit. We keep the tombs in backyard, in order to have proper altar space for all those late night ramblings to the Great Old Ones, under a beautiful bone white moon…
4 out of 5
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Created attachment 270537 [details] pic of squares at very high resolution, showing fuzziness on left square I am running on a 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo with 10.4.9 and 2 GB memory. This difference is a bit subtle, but it is obviously there. See the attachment, which is a snap of a Pixie window that shows the problem at a high resolution. Load the page from the URL above. There are two squares. On 184.108.40.206, these look very different. The left one has an empty center. On a trunk build, the squares look the same. The squares do have a difference, though. The edges of the right-side square are very sharp and clear. The left-side box has a rim, 1 pixel wide, on the top, left and right side. Is there a reason the edges of these squares should be different?
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10 years ago
On the left, the square is painted as a character (text anti-aliassing/shading), on the right the test is using the border-property. I see the same fuzziness in all browsers (WebKit, Opera, iCab, Minefield,...) fwiw.
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10 years ago
The testcase requires the Ahem font.
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10 years ago
Yes, I know that (and I have that one installed). But that doesn't change anything. Even with the Ahem font, the OS level font-smoothing technology comes into action.
What philippe said. The glyph is getting FuzzyTyped(tm).


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At the Family Court level, there is no known limitation, but you're best advised to check with the part Clerk. The Judge/Magistrate has the discretion of rejecting overly-voluminous papers. A good rule of thumb is not to exceed 14,000 words (borrowed from the Appellate Division's rules) between the affirmation, affidavit an any accompanying memorandum of law.
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What happens when Game of Thrones and the Renaissance Faire have a mash-up? Throw in a few chicken legs and a grog of beer, and you have… Medieval Times! (Insert trumpet blasts here.) Aero teamed up with Concussion out of Fort Worth to bring this dinner theatre and tournament to the big (or littlish) screen.
"360 production" seems to be a new buzz phrase that people like to toss around, and we here at Aero aren't tossers. (Wait… that came out wrong…) When we say we have a production pipeline to do it all, we can back it up. That's exactly what we did with Medieval Times.
Austin Smithard was the director and editor with Sam O'Hare of Aero Studios overseeing the VFX. The music was composed by Aero friend, Nick Wood of Syn in Japan. From having the creative all under one umbrella, we were able to stretch the budget within an inch of its life and create a piece with impeccable production value… as well as a director on top of every layer of detail and storytelling from day 1 to shipping. Austin's vision for this spot was way out of the scope of what the agency and client thought was possible for their budget and timing…. But we did it! And we're all really thrilled with the final piece.
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The spot was shot at the Medieval Times Castle in Anaheim CA. 90% the backgrounds were created in CG, as well as the snow and mist. Many scenes were layers of composited elements shot on green screen.
To see how these still started out, click HERE to view the side by side of what was shot compared to the final spot. And WATCH some of the more complex scenes broken down step by step.
Austin and Sam were a natural team. The key to having Aero Studios work under the Aero Film umbrella is that we can pair up the VFX team with any director. So if the board is comedy with VFX, Jason Farrand or Gary McKendry pair up with Sam. If it's grand visual storytelling with a lot of action scenes, Klaus Obermeyer and Sam get together… We can mix and match to create the best team for the job… on either coast. No fighting egos. No battles for budgets… which is good because as you can see we've become rather adept at jousting.


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An Open Letter To Tori Spelling And The Chicken That Sleeps In Her Bed
Dear Tori Spelling,
I try to ignore it whenever I see gossip stories about you. Why? Because you're doin' you and I'm doin' me and what you do when you're doin' you is none of my biz. Usually this arrangement works just fine for you and me. But then yesterday, I got curious and watched a Vine video you posted on Twitter titled "This is how we sleep."
It was a clever caption. It would engage even the most disinterested web surfer such as myself. I wish I never clicked on it. It made me feel deeply uncomfie, first and foremost, because I don't want to see your husband naked in bed making sexy eyes at you. Ick. Weird. Then it pans to your sleeping dog and kids. Ok. Whatever. A lot of peeps sleep with their dogs and kids. I'm not judging.
The thing that made me regret watching your vid was the FUCKING CHICKEN IN YOUR BED. Tori, No. I know that you've been a celebrity your whole life, and you grew up with a warped sense of reality, but you must know that having a chicken in your bed is FUCKING GROSS.
I know that you're an animal lover and have had pigs and goats and stuff as pets. I know that Coco, the silkie bantam chicken seen bawking in your bed, gets treated like a princess.
"They know her by name at our local Michael's craft store … I make her outfits to mimic my vintage dresses. She also has little capelets! I turn vintage brooches into fascinators for her," you've been quoted as saying.
Tori, that's also weird, bordering on crazy chicken lady. Coco might be a designer chicken (I'll admit, she's really cute), but she's still a chicken and she doesn't belong in your bed. I think even Honey Boo Boo's mom June knows that. I don't think Chicken Nugget sleeps in Alana's bed although I could be wrong. Don't quote me on that.
A quick online search of chicken hygiene informed me that there are very few pathogens that can be transmitted from chicken to human with the practice of hand washing and good animal husbandry. But I don't think it's good animal husbandry to bring the chicken into your bed. It can't be can it? But even if it's not dangerous to sleep with a chicken, per se, it's strange. I draw the line of good judgement at a chicken in the bed. So just don't do it. Or if you do it, don't make me watch Vine videos of it.
Also, there's no way you're having sex with all those beings in your bed. That's just an observation, not a judgement. Again, your biz.
And now we can go back to ignoring each other as usual.
With concern,
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Families in and around Cranbrook are invited to enjoy a day of affordable family fun this B.C. Family Day at Western Financial Place for a day of family-friendly activities.
The province officially celebrates the first B.C. Family Day on Monday, Feb. 11, 2013, with a celebration at the Western Financial Place with free swimming and family-friendly activities from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
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text: Culture 19 July 1999 Where's the rub? Design by Hugh Aldersey-Williams Sign up for our weekly email * Nicholson Baker famously built an entire book around the breaking of a shoelace. The result was The Mezzanine, one of the best books ever written about things. In Baker's case his left and right laces broke within a day of one another after two years of use. Noticing this was sufficient to bring on a state of near ecstasy in the writer. "The near simultaneity was very exciting - it made the variables of private life seem suddenly graspable and law- abiding." For most of the time, those variables remain slippery. Unless they have life-threatening consequences, the ways in which things fail is seldom discussed. Yet behind the doors of companies' engineering departments, the science of breaking down and wearing out has its own special vocabulary. The former more than the latter, in fact. Breaking down supplies an event, a point in time, something that may be measured. In a rare hyperbole, engineers use the term "catastrophic failure" to describe such a sudden occurrence, even if it applies only to the snapping of a rubber band. The crucial variable for such things as shoelaces or a rubber bands, which can fail in really only a single way, is its mean time between failures (MTBF) - the "between" is a bit of self-deception, implying that somebody might bother to repair a shoelace or a rubber band and start again as new, which we, in the real world, know never happens. In order to gauge the MTBF, the product may - with equal melodramatic gusto - be tested "to destruction". What really induces Baker's rapture is not the simple fact that his laces broke so nearly synchronously, but the suggestion - quite misleading - not only that the MTBF of these particular shoelaces is known, but that what statisticians call the standard deviation from this average is negligible. In other words, we are led to believe that we can predict not only when one lace will break but that any other laces tested in the same way are extremely likely to break around the same time. (The near-coincidence is remarkable only if Baker replaced both shoelaces simultaneously on the former occasion, which is itself unlikely. In the book, Baker unaccountably fails to close this loophole.) This in turn raises the thought that if this figure really were known, you could plan ahead and enter the likely breakage date in your diary and so buy replacements before the originals broke. You can't, of course. You buy them and store them against the eventuality. Or, more likely, you are entirely unprepared when the Mezzanine moment strikes. One domestic product does occasionally state a lifetime - the light bulb. It does so with an entirely spurious scientific accuracy that stems perhaps from its also having precise electrical ratings (240V, 100W and, think of a nice round number, let's say 1,000 hours). But even light bulbs don't blow with any meaningful predictability. Most products keep quiet about the fact that they will fail sooner or later, whether catastrophically or merely by erosion. Small items cost too little for people to care; large ones are too complex to provide estimates, because failure in one part can lead to failure of the whole. (What is the MTBF of a space shuttle?) For other products, it can be hard to say when failure comes. Decline is gradual. There are soulless quantitative reckonings in the insurer's "fair wear and tear" and the taxman's "depreciation", but no satisfactory qualitative way of describing these processes. This matters because the graph of a good product's life should not be simply one of exponential decay from a starting high when the object leaves the factory in its shiny wrapping. Balancing the upward and the decay curve requires great judgement and skill in the choice of materials, the means of assembly and the finishes of a product. This is not about durability, which every manufacturer purports to understand anyway - durability is just a level graph. This is about maturing with age, acquiring a patina and understanding that, before a thing is worn out, it must be worn in. Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 19 July 1999 issue of the New Statesman, The transport row: who is to blame? More


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Survey Reveals Unusual Reasons for Taking a Personal Day
MENLO PARK, CA -- People never seem to run out of creative reasons for being out of the office, a new survey shows. Executives were asked to describe the most imaginative explanations they've heard from employees requesting time off. Among them: "I just got a new tattoo and need a few days to recover."
The survey was developed by Accountemps, the world's first and largest specialized staffing service for temporary accounting, finance and bookkeeping professionals. It was conducted by an independent research firm and includes responses from 150 executives -- including those from human resources, finance and marketing departments -- with the nation's 1,000 largest companies.
Executives were asked, "What are the most unusual reasons you have heard for why employees request time off?" The responses included the following:
- "I need time to find myself."
- "I need a day off because it's supposed to snow."
- "My cat has hairballs."
- "The pool is broken."
- "I have plastic surgery scheduled."
- "I'm going to jail."
- "My garage door is broken."
- "I need three weeks off to travel Europe. Starting tomorrow."
Personal hobbies are another popular reason for missing work:
- "I'm taking three days off to sing in the opera!"
- "I'm going to be in a kick-boxing contest."
- "Our church is having a bus trip."
- "My partner and I need to practice for the square-dancing contest in town today."
There are some explanations employees should use only if they're accompanied by a letter of resignation:
- "I'm taking a few days off to start my own business."
- "I'll be out this afternoon on job interviews."
- "I need a leave of absence to try another job. But if it doesn't work out I'd like to come back."
"Employees often offer elaborate -- and sometimes creative -- explanations when asking for days off," said Max Messmer, chairman of Accountemps and author of Motivating Employees For Dummies® (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.). "But everyone needs personal time to recharge or to handle unexpected situations, and managers understand this."
Messmer encourages employees to focus instead on addressing their supervisors' chief concern, which is how the work will be handled while they're out. "Follow up your request for time off with a meeting to discuss pending projects and assign a point person while you're away."
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Final report, phase II, restoration of Porter Lake within Forest Park, Springfield, Massachusetts : a program funded and administered Clean Lakes Program (U.S.); Massachusetts. Division of Water Pollution Control.; Springfield (Mass.). Parks and Recreation Dept.; Baystate Environmental Consultants. (Baystate Environmental Consultants, 1994-07)


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Live each day instead of counting the years !
Outgoing, sensitive, traveller, welcome the existence of chance. Like meeting new people and experiencing their cultures, sharing travel stories !
Music, photography, art, old motorcycles, birdwatching, local food, sunsets ......
The Mediterranean, South East Asia, small town U.S.A.........
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BALTIMORE (AP) – David Wright hit two homers, Chris Carter and Jason Bay also connected, and the New York Mets beat the Baltimore Orioles 11-4 Sunday for a three-game sweep. It was Carter's second three-run home run of the series while batting as the designated hitter.
Bay entered in an 0-for-16 skid before going 4 for 4 with four runs scored. Wright and Alex Cora each had three of New York's season-high 18 hits.
Mike Pelfrey (9-1) gave up three runs, nine hits and three walks in six rocky innings but received enough offensive support to win his fifth straight decision.
The Mets outscored Baltimore 19-6 during their first three-game sweep on the road since September 2008, in Milwaukee. New York has won eight of nine to move a season-high seven games over .500 (35-28).


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Soundscape Mix #10: Halloween
28 Oct 2010 // 5:00 PM
With tracks ranging from indie psychedelia and lo-fi, to instrumental hip-hop and industrial drum & bass, I took a chance, here. Some of these tracks will likely be outside of your boundaries of taste. Listen... if you dare.
The Herbaliser: Herbal Tonic
5 Jan 2011 // 4:00 PM
Career-spanning collection of hip-hop, jazz, funk, and more from one of the charter Ninja Tune acts.
The Herbaliser Band: Session 2
4 Aug 2009 // 5:00 PM
The Herbaliser bids adieu to its feted cinematic groove with a polished retrospective.
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Twilight Render TM is a fully integrated rendering solution for Google SketchUp Free and Pro**.With Twilight, it's now possible to render photo-realistic images inside Google SketchUp! Render with biased and unbiased methods on an unlimited number of processors. And while Twilight is rendering in the background, continue working in and saving your SketchUp models.Twilight offers physically accurate materials, photometric (IES) lights, image based (HDR) lighting, a long list of easy-to-choose optimized preset render settings, animation with SketchyPhysics and ProperAnimation, and more!
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DesignInc's Adelaide Entertainment Centre project recently took out three Awards in South Australia.
At the Australian Steel Institute (SA) Steel Awards held in Adelaide on Wednesday night, the Entertainment Centre project was awarded both the Architectural Steel Design Award [DesignInc], and the Structural Engineering Steel Design Award [Samaras Structural Engineers]. The project will now go on to vie in the National Awards to be held in September.(more)....
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Hands on With EVGA's GeForce GT 640by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/8/2012 4:35 AM EST
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ganeshts - Friday, June 08, 2012 - linkFor a HTPC card, dual slot is a no-no, and gamers are going to go for non-GK 107 Keplers anyway.. Reply
Ryan Smith - Friday, June 08, 2012 - linkEh, it depends on the size of the HTPC. For an HTPC with the clearance for 2 slots it could make sense if the card is significantly quieter than single-slot competitors. The dual slot GTS 450 was incredibly quiet, and GT 640 is significantly lower powered. Reply
ImSpartacus - Saturday, June 09, 2012 - linkWriter fight?
Writer fight! Writer fight! Writer fight!
Nah, but seriously though. I think dual slot HTPC cards have a home in HTPCs where quietness is valued more than size. Like everything, there's always a trade off. Reply
Taft12 - Friday, June 08, 2012 - linkEVGA's got you covered there!
384 CUDA cores compared to 96 in the GT 440 in this form factor?! Hang on while I count the number of PCI-E x16 slots in my motherboard and I'll tell you how many I'm ordering!
Now who'll be the first OEM with a DDR5 version? Reply
Oxford Guy - Saturday, June 09, 2012 - linkquiet trumps size Reply
CeriseCogburn - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkIf you can hear all the viewing company in the room breathing, passing gas, snorting, smacking their gums, sucking their teeth, and rustling their feet over the "silence" of the room with no fan sound then you've got a problem.
Of course who could deny the two seconds in the lifetime of the clearly insane self admiring no sound fan freak who tilts his noggin up against the case trying to hear a whisper, smiles and turns blue holding their breath in the effort. (that must be what caused the brain damage to begin with) Reply
CeriseCogburn - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkForget double wide, by the talk of those here over the last ten years half height or forget it.
Then don't forget they all have the most sensitive girly eardrums, as perfectionists always do, so after the fan sound is scrutinized like it's a baby crying, they crank the surround sound on their videos to the moon or jam on noise cancelling headsets where you couldn't hear a mack truck crashing through the wall into the room. Reply
cdube - Friday, June 08, 2012 - linkAwwwwwwwww cute Reply
themossie - Friday, June 08, 2012 - linkThis really reminds me of the old removable drive bays laptops used to have...
Wouldn't it be nice to have a swappable GPU bay? Not on the ultra-thins, of course. Reply
mobutu - Friday, June 08, 2012 - linkThis SHOULD have been passive cooled.
it screams for it.
what a shame. Reply
Mr Perfect - Friday, June 08, 2012 - linkTwo DVI ports? Is this card targeted at people with old displays? Where are all the modern connections? I see one port on the end from this decade, can anyone tell if it's HDMI or DP? Reply
juancferrer - Friday, June 08, 2012 - linkIt's DP Reply
Mr Perfect - Saturday, June 09, 2012 - linkAh, ok. That's not so bad then, assuming it lets you daisychain a couple DP 1.2 screens off of it. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkYou know anyone in the entire world that daisy chains dp monitors ?
What a joke Reply


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LAUREN'S SO GREEN SOUP. 14 Jun 2013
I love cold, summer soups. I've been making this one for years and was planning to save the recipe for Lithe's book, but I think it's time to share it! It's delicious, super-filling and keeps you energized post-Lithe. Whether I'm prepping for a photo-shoot, need energy, or just want to re-set my eating/cooking habits, I make this soup part of my everyday diet. Make this on Sunday and it will last you until Wednesday.
- bunch raw asparagus (trim ends a bit)
- 1 ripe avocado
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup raw cashews
- 1/4 c fresh dill
- 1 lemon squeezed
- 1 tablespoon Braggs Liquid Aminos
- 1 clove garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 2-4 lemon balm leaves (calming, anti-anxiety)
- 1/4 teaspoon spirulina (mood enhancer)
- 1/4 teaspoon hemp powder (helps build muscle)
- 1/4 teaspoon organic chlorella powder (energy enhancer)
- 1/4 teaspoon organic chia seeds (balances blood sugar and protects joints)
Place all ingredients in a high speed blender or Vitamix and blend until smooth. Add a bit more water if it's too thick for your liking. Don't have superfood powder? Make it without them!
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Jacksonville man is teaming up with a local church to deliver much-needed supplies to Sandy victims in New Jersey.
Hill Robertson said he doesn't want to be called a hero, but rather a good role model to his little girl.
"She said, 'Daddy can you help these people?' and I said I would do everything I could," said Robertson.
Robertson said he decided to help those affected by Sandy because it was the right thing to do. He called in a favor to a buddy with a trucking company and plans to fill a semi truck with supplies, then deliver it himself to those who need it up north.
"I wanted to do something that I knew something was getting done instead of sending my money somewhere and not knowing that it's getting done," said Robertson.
Robertson also reached out to Mike Hudson, the associate pastor at Ortega United Methodist Church. Mike Hudson then went online and found a church in Bloomfield, New Jersey that is acting as a shelter and needs anything they can get for the victims of the storm.
"I said, 'If we send you a truck of food and blankets and clothes and stuff, could you use that?' and he said in his best New Jersey accent, 'Yes,'" said Hudson.
Hudson and Robertson said they are hoping to fill the truck over the weekend with things like blankets, sleeping bags, clothes, non-perishable food and baby supplies.
"Whatever they can get, we're hoping to have everything packed up Sunday night, Monday morning and have it up there as soon as we can," said Robertson."I've been watching it for days and felt like, I finally needed to do something. It's the worst thing I've ever seen."
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- Before Fry and Leela are mugged, the Pi-KEA trailer is just behind them. But in the next shots when they are mugged, suddenly it has dissapeared behind them.
- The miracle cream is said to work "on humans". However, Leela isn't technically a human. She is a mutant, which are deformed humans. Evidently she is human enough to allow the cream to work on her though.
- On the πkea box is an ø. However, this character is not used in the Swedish alphabet. It is only used commonly in the Danish, Faroese and Norwegian alphabet. More correct would have been an ö. However, the same 'mistake' is made in the subtitles for the opening credits of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. As such, it may be an allusion rather than a goof.
- When announcing on the Planet Express tower about the new super heroes Leela's gloves are visible. But when she whispers "A new era of justice has begun" her gloves have disappeared.


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All the SQL world should take database modeling classes, and thrive in the light of well-designed data structures. Back in the real world, though, an awful lot of folk who model DBs – or just add new database objects – miss, forget, or ignore basic normalization principles. For your consideration, Ground Zero Database Design guidelines:
Order # Company Name Order Date Item # Ordered Quantity 42804 Billco 10/10/2010 432 4 42804 Billco 10/10/2010 672 1 42804 Billco 10/10/2010 197 1 42804 Billco 10/10/2010 224 10 42804 Billco 10/10/2010 976 2
The problem with this is that we have repeating data: the order # is necessary to link the item ordered with the order, but Company name and order date are repeats. The better solution is an OrderDetail table linked to the Order table via a foreign key.
These are the bare bones basics. For more on database design that will save you space, time, money, love, and heartache, read any or all of the Database Design articles on SQLServerCentral.com, especially the Stairway to Database Design series by Joe Celko. And of course, there are a number of good database design books out there (I'll find you a recommendation when I'm in front of my library…)
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Need evidence that Barack Obama has been working harder than John McCain to stir up energy and excitement in the Sunshine State? Consider the emissaries that the campaigns have dispatched for Florida campaign events over the last couple of weeks.
McCain-Palin surrogates in Florida: Lt. Col. Orson Swindle, former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer and retired Air Force Col. Tom Moe participated in a three day veterans bus tour for McCain two weeks ago.
Obama-Biden surrogates (partial list): Bill Clinton; Michelle Obama and Jill Biden; former New York Mayor Ed Koch; actor Forest Whitaker; actor Cynthia Nixon; retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Scott Gration; former White House antiterrorism adviser Richard Clarke; Miami Heat basketball player Alonzo Mourning; NBA Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing; actor Tyler Perry; Bronx borough president Adolfo Carrion; Grammy winner Olga Tanon.
Today and Monday Jay-Z and Wyclef Jean will hold "Last Chance for Change" concerts in Miami for Obama to push people to register to vote by Monday's deadline, while the McCain campaign sends its biggest gun — Sarah Palin — for a two-day campaign swing starting in Clearwater Monday.
Senior McCain adviser Mike DuHaime last week seemed to tacitly acknowledge they have not worked as hard in Florida as they did for President Bush, who "won it with a very aggressive campaign."
Responding to a series of new polls showing Obama leading in Florida, DuHaime noted that Florida has more registered Democrats than Republicans.
"Any state like that, of course, you have to wage an aggressive campaign to be successful. We feel confident about Florida," DuHaime said. "Sen. Obama has spent an incredible amount of money in Florida over time, and throughout the summer we were not on the air. We've just been aggressively on the air for three to four weeks at this point."
Palin will vacuum up cash
When Alaska Gov. Palin makes her two-day campaign swing through Florida, what will get most of the media attention will be her public events, beginning with a rally in Clearwater, followed by visits to Fort Myers, Pensacola and Jacksonville. But Palin also has a series of fundraisers Monday and Tuesday with a goal of collecting $3-million in Florida.
The fundraisers are Monday at the Boca Raton Resort and Club, the Naples home of Republican donor Jack Donahue, reportedly at $10,000 per person, and Tuesday at the Jacksonville Jaguars' football stadium. In addition, Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut is also expected to join Palin in Florida.
Poll gives McCain an edge
A poll released Friday by the Florida Chamber of Commerce shows 45 percent of likely Florida voters surveyed by the Kitchens Group Sept. 30-Oct. 1 backed McCain and 42 percent Obama. The margin of error was plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Sporting Obama support
Spotted at the Tampa Bay Rays' rally in St. Petersburg last week: underneath two-time All-Star Carl Crawford's jersey was a Barack Obama T-shirt.
Dem candidate interviewed
Check out Doug Tudor , the Democrat running to unseat U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam of Bartow, today on Political Connections on Bay News 9. The show airs at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m.
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DETROIT - Elaine Bonner says she can't believe.
"I feel violated by it," she said.
Bonner was driving westbound on Interstate 94 near Addison going into Dearborn at about 1 a.m. when she saw the sign.
An MDOT highway message board was lit up for all to see: "Trayvon A N*****."
Bonner called 911.
She wanted the hate message to come down and come down fast as Monday rush hour was approaching.
MDOT spokesperson Rob Morosi says its clear someone broke into the sign's operating system and had enough knowledge to be able to delete the traffic message and put up their own offensive message about the Florida teen shot who was killed by a neighborhood watch captain. The Trayvon Martin case has inflamed feelings of racial discrimination nationwide.
"The knew what they were doing," Morosi said.
He doesn't think it was anyone with the sign company or an MDOT subcontractor called "Poco."
He says a person with enough computer knowledge would be able to change the sign. There are instructions on changing highway signs on-line.
"I don't think we really understood how accessible these signs were," said the Rev. Wendell Anthony, Detroit NAACP president.
A metal box on the back on the sign had been broken into and its keyboard was torn out and stolen.
Michigan State Police said it was flooded by calls from drivers outraged by the sign.
MSP called MDOT overnight and an employee came out to the sign to take the message down.
State troopers drove area freeways all morning to check to make sure other message boards hadn't been tampered with.
MDOT and the MSP are now investigating and asking anyone who may have seen a person at the sign or a car parked on the side of I-94 near the sign to call them.
"Whoever it is needs to be found. They changed the message, now find the messenger," Anthony said.
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PALM HARBOR — The first time Samantha Peterson's lungs failed, Sam Peterson prayed harder than at any time in his 57 years. He had just lost his wife. He couldn't bear losing his "baby girl.''
Early Thursday morning, this 285-pound bear of a man gently brushed his hand against Samantha's hair as she lay in a Suncoast Hospice bed. This time there would be no transplant. The 19-year-old beauty who had shriveled to less than 80 pounds labored to breathe, unconscious in a morphine fog.
Sam talked to God again, but this time it was different. "Please,'' he whispered, "let her go.''
The gasping stopped. At 4 a.m., the St. Petersburg woman whose courageous fight with cystic fibrosis could make a Hollywood movie slipped away.
Just two years ago, Samantha found romance for the first time, in an unlikely place — cyberspace. She began chatting with Brian Jenkins on a website for people who suffer the chronic disease that clogs lungs with sticky mucus.
At 25, he had lived for eight years with transplanted lungs. They both had spent so much of their lives in hospitals, they hadn't been able to even think about a relationship. But for now, at least, they felt great.
Then in November 2008, Brian's lungs betrayed him. He went on the transplant list in St. Louis, where he had received the first pair. Samantha and Sam drove up to visit him around Thanksgiving, and when they returned home, Samantha fell ill. Her kidneys and liver shut down and she lay in a coma at Tampa General Hospital.
Her mother, Eileen, a nurse, kept a constant vigil. On Jan. 2, Eileen went to her home in St. Petersburg, exhausted and upset. She stretched out on a couch — and died. Heart disease had gone undetected. She was 52.
Sam left his job as a turbine operator at the Progress Energy nuclear plant in Crystal River and took over the vigil as the youngest of his three daughters hovered near death. He slept in a chair in her room and in the back of his truck in the parking lot. Then, just before Eileen's funeral on Jan. 10, Samantha awoke. Her dad had to break the news.
On Jan. 12, Samantha finally was considered well enough to make the transplant list. Doctors replaced her lungs on Feb. 1. According to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, 900 patients receive lung transplants each year and as many as 90 percent are alive a year later — 50 percent after five years. Doctors warned that the first year is critical because of rejection and infection.
Samantha seemed to thrive with her new lungs, gobbling ice cream and gaining weight. In September, she celebrated Brian's successful double lung transplant at Tampa General. He had transferred from St. Louis, in part to be closer to Samantha, but she concluded they had moved too fast in their relationship. They would be just friends.
Meanwhile, Ye Loyal Krewe of Grace O'Malley, which includes 250 women dedicated to community service in the Tampa Bay area, adopted Samantha as its poster child to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Samantha danced with her dad at the gala ball at MacDill Air Force Base in January and was thrilled to learn the krewe had raised $10,000.
But she knew something was wrong. Her body began rejecting her lungs. By spring, Samantha had no intention of seeking another transplant. On March 12, she wrote this on Facebook:
"I have fought … I kept on fighting. I will always be strong, and I will always be a fighter, but I think it's time I just lay my head on a pillow, and fall asleep with no struggles, no pain, and no sorrow. This was just my temporary home, a home I don't think I'm strong enough to live in anymore."
Her friends responded, urging her to keep fighting. But on Tuesday, Sam delivered his daughter to the hospice in Palm Harbor. Her sisters, Meaghan, 24, and Chelsea, 21, joined her there, along with other transplant patients who had followed Samantha's situation.
"We had a roomful," said Sam. "Sammie was special to so many people."
Anderson-McQueen Funeral Home in St. Petersburg will handle funeral arrangements. Samantha will be cremated, her ashes mixed with her mom's.
"It's what Sammie wanted," her father said. "They'll be together again."
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|From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Sun Aug 2 15:06:05 EDT 2009
Let me quickly respond with a few comments and a snippet of code. 1. Functional programming is something you can do in every programming language: assembly, c, c++, java, python, you name it. I bet I could do it in cobol. 2. When you do program functionally, it is not about translating some snippet of code from one language to another. In case you know a foreign language, doing so is like translating English sentences into say German word by word. In all likelihood, it makes no sense whatsoever. 3. If your task is to sieve through __all__ natural numbers so that you get all prime numbers, you program with the object that comprises __all__ naturals and get the object of __all__ primes. Picking the first n is boring and it is only done because the typical Python programmer isn't trained to think of the full range of possibilities. (See 1 -- functional programming can be done in pyton). Here is the code for that: #lang lazy ; this is the lazy scheme dialect available with plt scheme, both in drscheme and in mzscheme ;; all natural numbers (define nats$ (cons 0 (map add1 nats$))) ;; all primes ;; Stream[Number] -> Stream[Number] ;; generative: eliminate all first elements from the rest of the stream, then recur (define (sieve s$) (define fst (first s$)) (cons fst (sieve (filter (lambda (m) (not (= (remainder m fst) 0))) s$)))) (define primes$ (sieve (rest (rest nats$)))) ;; --- for you only --- ;; print the first n primes (define (print-primes n) (for-each (lambda (x) (display x) (newline)) (!list (take n primes $)))) (print-primes 1000) Here is how this runs: [home] $ mzscheme sieve.ss 1.827u 0.205s 0:02.18 92.6% 0+0k 0+1io 0pf+0w 4. Now if you want to learn Scheme programming, you're right in that Scheme programmers think functionally a lot of the time. But you also need ot know that they throw in assignment statements, exceptions, continuations, and other effects when needed. Scheme is a full- spectrum language. I'll take a closer look at your code now. -- Matthias On Aug 1, 2009, at 1:35 PM, SiWi wrote: > Hello PLT Scheme community, > this is my first post here, so please excuse any mistakes. > I'm 16 years old and so far my programming experience has mainly been > in Python. > To learn about functional programming, I just started with Scheme. > For training I tried to convert some prime number generator code from > Python to Scheme. > It's using a sieve algorithm. > The problem is that my Scheme code is about 1000-10000 times slower > than my Python code. > I would greatly appreciate it if you could give me some hints on how > to improve my code. > > Python code: > > def primes(n): > sieve=[True for x in range(3,n+1,2)] > root=n**0.5 > length=len(sieve) > for i in range(len(sieve)): > x=2*i+3 > if x>root: > break > if sieve[i]: > for j in range((x*x-x)/2+i,length,x): > sieve[j]=False > return [2]+[x*2+3 for x in range(length) if sieve[x]] > > > Scheme code: > > (define (primes n) > (letrec ((primes-go (lambda (n lst i x nroot) (if (> x nroot) > lst > (let ((temp-lst > (lst- > remove lst 0 (+ (/ (- (* x x) x) 2) i) x))) > (primes-go n temp- > lst (+ i 1) (+ (* 2 i) 3) nroot))))) > (lst-remove (lambda (lst i goal step) (if (null? lst) > '() > (if (= goal i) > (cons #f > (lst-remove (cdr lst) (+ i 1) (+ goal step) step)) > (cons (car > lst) (lst-remove (cdr lst) (+ i 1) goal step)))))) > (list-bool (lambda (n i) (if (>= i n) > '() > (cons #t (list-bool n (+ i > 2)))))) > (filter (lambda (lst final i length) (if (>= i length) > final > (if (list-ref lst i) > (filter lst (append final > (list (+ (* 2 i) 3))) (+ i 1) length) > (filter lst final (+ i 1) > length)))))) > (filter (primes-go n (list-bool (+ n 1) 3) 0 3 (sqrt n)) (list 2) > 0 (length (list-bool (+ n 1) 3))))) > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme
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Motorcycle crash proves fatal for pair in western Bexar County
Published 2:05 pm, Saturday, June 7, 2014
SAN ANTONIO — A middle-aged man and woman died early Saturday after the motorcycle they were riding on was hit by a sedan at an intersection in west Bexar County.
Sheriff's deputies responded to the crash at about 12:30 a.m., spokeswoman Rosanne Hughes said. By the time deputies got to the scene, the woman was dead. And before an helicopter could reach the crash site to take him to a hospital, the man also had died, Hughes said.
Hughes added that the man, who was operating the motorcycle, turned in front of the sedan onto U.S. Route 90 from Mechler Lane, north of the highway.
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The car was driven by a woman, who wasn't cited for any infraction, except for not having a valid Texas driver's license on hand, according to reports.
More details - including the identity of the crash victims - were not available early Saturday afternoon.


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Mumbai: Public sector lender IDBI Bank is hopeful of closing the fiscal with a net interest margin (NIM), the core profitability gauge, at over 2% on the back of a 41 basis points (bps) improvement in December quarter. The bank is also hoping to close the merger of Stock Holding Corporation of India Ltd (SHCIL) shortly as it is expecting the regulatory and government permissions soon.
"We hope to close the merger of Stock Holding Corporation with the bank very shortly. We have already appointed investment bankers for the deal also as we are awaiting regulatory nod," IDBI Bank chairman and managing director R.M. Malla told PTI. This will jack up the customer base of the bank by many lakhs, as the corporation has 7 lakh demat account holders, he said.
On the NIM, Malla said, "We hope to close the fiscal with a NIM of over 2%, despite the 25 bps cut in base rate, as we have also reduced our deposit rates by a similar quantum. Also the 25 bps cut in the cash reserve ratio (CRR) will release Rs500 crore of our dud funds, which will result into Rs60 crore in interest income. Another positive is the overall improvement in the bad assets."
The city-headquartered lender has one of the lowest NIMs in the industry as its assets are project and corporate finances. This is despite the fact that it has the lowest cost per employee as well as cost-to-income ratios amongst the state-run lenders. The bank registered a 41 bps improvement in the NIM in the December quarter at 2.30% from 1.89% in the year-ago period. However, the bank's net profit was almost flat at Rs417 crore in the December quarter against Rs410 crore in the year-ago period.
On 1 November last year, IDBI had said its board approved the merger of Stock Holding Corporation of India, which is the country's first and one of the largest security custodians to financial institutions, with itself.
As a custodian, SHCIL holds securities on behalf of banks, mutual funds, corporates, FIIs, venture capital funds and other institutional entities. IDBI owns 18.9% equity in SHCIL, with the other shareholders being IFCI (33%), GIC (14%) and SU-UTI and LIC with 17% each.
The merger will give IDBI Bank access to 227 branches and 7 lakh customers of SHCIL. IDBI's interest lies in cross-selling opportunities to the 7 lakh SHCIL customers and converting the custodian's offices into bank branches with the Reserve Bank of India's approval.
Meanwhile, Malla also said IDBI touched Rs1.08 trillion in central tax collection as of 31 January and is hopeful of collecting around Rs40,000 crore more in the remaining period of the fiscal. At the end of 31 January, the bank surpassed the total tax collection of Rs1.20 lakh crore, including state taxes against Rs1.24 lakh crore collected in the entire previous year. IDBI has a strong focus on government business and has been engaged in collecting various direct and indirect taxes for the centre and various state governments.


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A love-pair on silver screen should look so promising that they are made for each other. If there is anything wrong in casting, then the whole movie will go for a toss. We have seen many failed movies due to wrong casting despite a stunning story.
There are reports that cute beauty Nitya Menon is playing the role of Gona Gannareddy's lady love in the movie 'Rudramadevi'. Though there is no clarity, people say Mahesh Babu is playing this role on request of director Gunasekhar. In that case, apparently Mahesh is over six feet in height and we all know where Nitya stands. No doubt, if the pair has to walk by each other, they don't complement each other well. in the past, short actresses like Bhumika have worked with Mahesh, but Nitya is shorter than even such old hotties. So, if Mahesh and Nitya are going to be paired then how Gunasekhar is going to handle the height issue is something to be seen.
Else, there is also news for a while that Raviteja agreed to play this character in Gunasekhar's movie, but for now there is no sound from 'Rudramadevi' team about Gona Gannareddy. Also, as Nitya Menon's work in the movie is confirmed, we have to see what role she is actually playing.


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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 11/12/2013 (1348 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Heartless comments
Re: Street scraping begins tonight (Dec. 10). Coun. Russ Wyatt should resign and he should take Coun. Grant Nordman with him. They both display a shocking disregard for the safety and well-being of the people of this city. I can only call their comments cold and heartless.
More than 1,000 people put in claims to Autopac on Dec. 9, the Free Press reported. Each one of those people probably had, at the very least, a scary experience and some probably had serious accidents or narrowly escaped life-threatening injuries.
But I guess it is all about the budget. After all, the province pays for claims, so why should the city worry? And anyway, it's the driver's fault, right? Or so says Wyatt.
As for me, I wish someone would run for mayor promising to raise my taxes and deliver more services -- like roads and sidewalks that are cleared as soon as there is snow, and maybe some beautifying thrown in.
And let the mean-spirited find other jobs since they are so disappointed with the people they represent here. Maybe in Waco, Texas. I hear taxes there are very low.
I don't pay taxes to luge down my rut-filled streets, fearful that regardless of the speed I travel or what tires are on my vehicle, I might easily spin out of control, to the detriment of anything or anyone within proximity of my car.
To suggest we adjust our driving behaviour to suit the road conditions is a no-brainer. But, then again, it helps when what we're travelling along resembles a street to begin with. It's a bit like advising more people to take public transit while cutting back on the number of options available to them.
In 2011, the city extended the end of the snow-route parking ban from 6 a.m to 7 a.m. Many hard-working taxpayers start their day between 6 and 7. Their first hour is often spent dropping other family members off at work or stopping for a morning coffee.
These people should not have to worry about getting a ticket if they briefly leave their vehicle. If city council wants to lessen the anger about increasing property taxes, they can end this parking ban at 6 a.m.
Neil needs cold shower
Neil Young is giving concerts to raise funds to slow the development of the oilsands under the eco-veil of treaty rights (Alberta First Nation believes in Neil Young's Heart of Gold, Dec. 10).
We need these resources to survive. How are we supposed to stay warm in the winter -- with a wind turbine and a solar panel?
It is dark from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 a.m. The wind is calm and the temperature is -33 C. Do the math. Go back to California, Neil.
Distorting the truth
Ken Reddig apparently couldn't resist the opportunity to chant the Conservative mantra of the superiority of private enterprise over public service (Suspicious of efficiency, Letters, Dec. 9). Unfortunately, in this case, he had to seriously distort the truth to make his case.
The STARS system was not suspended because Premier Selinger dislikes private enterprise but because two people died, unnecessarily, due to their poor service. These people apparently should have been given oxygen, but were not, because it was either not available or wrongly deemed unnecessary.
As to the hundreds of lives that have been saved due to the extra speed, this is a gross exaggeration. When I was a volunteer firefighter and first responder, I learned that speed was very rarely an important aspect of transporting patients. In the case of a heart attack, once the patient is made comfortable and encouraged to relax, there is no urgency.
There will not be a team of surgeons waiting in the emergency room to tear open his chest and massage his heart. He will be assigned a bed and, in due course, a cardiologist will examine him and schedule him for surgery at the next reasonable opportunity.
Similarly with broken legs and even broken backs, once the patient is stabilized, there is no rush. Severe internal bleeding is the only case in which speed is really essential.
Important dialogue
The conversations regarding resource extraction in the North and relationships with First Nations communities are of critical importance, especially given the Idle No More movement and news stories regarding mineral exploration (Mega agreement signed for northern Manitoba gold mine, Dec. 6).
The conflicts between First Nations, governments and resource-exploration companies are rooted in deep and complex relationships spanning generations. Talks often break down because of profound disagreements and misunderstandings that often stem from complex historical dynamics.
It is usually ineffective for stakeholders to engage in negotiations or problem-solving without also exploring and engaging in dialogue about the relationships and how history affects the present. When the roots of the conflict are attended to, stakeholder negotiations will always bear more fruit.
Birds of a feather
Re: Ford insinuates writer a pedophile (Dec. 11). It is paradoxically bizarre to witness, on Vision TV's Zoomer program, disgraced media baron Conrad Black interviewing disgraced Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.
I can only conclude this is a weird example of the crackpot calling the jailbird black.


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I have the Verizon family plan 700 min and my question is do i get free mobile to mobile calling with other Verizon mobile customers ? I haven't been able to fine any thing that said i get free mobile to mobile calling with other Verizon customers.
I have a Nationwide 700 Talk Share Plan and I also have mobile to mobile calling on it. I can't say if the plans are uniform or if there is any difference between what I have and what you have. If you log into My Verizon, then go to "View Bill", you can click "View Printable Bill" and see the PDF file of the statement copy. Here is what mine shows (bottom row):


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Olatz is a luxury apparel and linens company based in New York, Madeira, and Milan. After decades of creating made to order designs, the Olatz brand became available to the public in 2003.
For Olatz's new platform, Social Ink created a web interface and e-commerce website. It is run by the open-source, user-friendly WordPress CMS with an integrated shop and sales. The site's responsive design ensures the layout adapts for tablets, phones, and larger monitors.
Social Ink is thrilled to continue work with small businesses and congratulates Olatz on it's new e-commerce platform!


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50 Tyson: 'The Rhythm Of Autism', In Stores Soon [VIDEO]
According to reports, Minneapolis, Minnesota rapper 50 Tyson will be releasing his debut album, titled 50 Tyson Presents the Rhythm of Autism. Tyson is an 18-year-old autistic rapper that intends to donate 20% of the sales from his debut release to help fund research for the disorder, which impacts 1 in 110 children and 1 in 70 boys in the United States. 50 Tyson's album will be released on Hudson Records which is a Minneapolis-based independent record label, owned by former NBA star Troy Hudson. Tyson said in an recent interview, "Releasing my debut album is a dream come true and I hope to provide inspiration to children and their families impacted by Autism that you too can achieve your goals. The support I've received so far has been great and I hope everyone who watched my videos will help my cause to raise money for Autism research and awareness." 50 Tyson has received over 40 million YouTube views and His 10-track debut will feature tracks like "Icey," "Don't Know How to Dougie," and several other of his Internet hits that have made him famous. Click below to peep my man's skills.
50 Tyson's debut album Rhythm of Autism is due in stores on April 15th.
The track list for the album is below:
1. I'm a Champion
2. Everybody Know Me
3. Icy
4. Tippy Toes
5. Can I be the One to Hold You Down?
6. Don't Know How to Dougie
7. Turning Up
8. Girls Call me 50, Boys Call me Tyson
9. Put it on You Tube
10. I Ain't Gonna Lie
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