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Hall County commissioners voted Thursday in favor of extending a request for proposal for private companies to manage the county's garbage.
If a few residents of Clarkesville have their way, some of the city's cold-blooded residents may not be welcome within Clarkesville limits.
Counselor Jen Sorrell believes adults can learn a lot about grief from children. She certainly has.
Rickey Tumlin, a longtime veteran of Hall County law enforcement, is running for sheriff against two other candidates.
The Gainesville Planning and Appeals Board voted unanimously to approve an exception to the city's stream buffer mandates.
As temperatures creep to their highest point for the summer, most should seek refuge indoors with a cool drink and plenty of air conditioning.
A growing heap of garbage was at the bottom of a discussion Monday at the Hall County Board of Commissioners work session.
At a special meeting Monday night, Lula City Council and Hall County agreed to a 25-year lease agreement to keep Rafe Banks Park open.
Gainesville planning officials on Tuesday will recommend the city make an exception to a buffer rule that is designed to prevent wetland erosion and keep city water clean.
The search for a Hall County administrator is stretching deep into summer, as commissioners scour Hall and surrounding counties for qualified candidates. And they're less than a month away from when the interim administrator is set to leave.
Plans for Don Carter State Park are moving along slowly but are on track to be advertised to contractors by the end of the month.
The Main Street Advisory Board's newest members plan to bring high energy, enthusiasm and progressive ideas to downtown Gainesville to draw crowds and keep business buzzing.
Downtown Gainesville business owner Debra Harkrider has resigned as chairman of the Main Street Advisory Board to run for City Council, offering the first source of opposition to Ward 2 Councilman Bob Hamrick in years.
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JAZ Ellington and Ruth Brown have emerged as frontrunners to win the first
series of BBC's The Voice.
Bookies have made the pair joint favourites at 5/2 to win the competition
following their stellar performances on tonight's show.
Black Eyed Peas star Will.i.am, who mentors the hopeful, compared Jaz to
megastar Michael Jackson – and claimed he is just as good.
Ahead of his slot on tonight's live show, coach Will.i.am said: "I would
dare to compare Jaz to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder."
Ellington wowed the judges at his first audition when he sang The A Team,
bringing Jessie J and Will.i.am to tears.
Suited and booted and wearing a bowler hat, the talented singer impressed the
judges for a third time after singing Etta James' At Last.
After dazzling the panel with his performance, legendary Welsh crooner Tom
Jones called the star 'perfect' and admitted he wanted him on his team.
Will.i.am said: "His name is Jaz, ladies and gentleman, that is all."
Danny O'Donoghue added: "You're an incredibly gifted vocalist."
After his rave reviews from the judges, Jaz said it was "really humbling
to hear comments from legends like that."
Ruth, who nearly failed to make the grade during her blind audition, brought
the show to a standstill after she sang Oleta Adams' hit Get Here.
The singer, who has never had any professional training, impressed the
audience with her vocal range – with Tom Jones failing to get a word in
edgeways after her performance.
Coach Tom said: "There is so much applause. if it was judged on applause,
she would win, wouldn't she? I've heard a lot of singers but she comes from
somewhere else. She has something I've never heard before. She's wonderful."
Jessie J added: "I was crying. I remember when I was 15 and I sang that
song on TV. I'm so proud. Your voice is so natural. You did your father
Danny called her "mesmerising" while Will.i.am said he was "proud
to even be here".
Earlier in the night, the judges joined forces to sing U2's A Beautiful Day
before first act Joelle Moses started the show with a bang.
The soul singer was a tangerine dream in a chic orange-coloured dress as she
gave a powerful rendition of Mary J Blige's I'm Going Down.
Will.i.am's star act hit the right note with the judges.
Her mentor said: "You nailed it. You have set the bar high."
Meanwhile fellow coaches Jessie and Tom told the singer that she had a bright
future ahead of her after her impressive performance.
Jessie said: "That was so good. Thank you for letting us watch such an
incredible performance."
Tom added: "We will be paying a lot of money for this."
The Script frontman Danny O'Donoghue warned his team to up their game, telling
the star: "You really did Mary J Blige proud. My team over there, take
Bubbly Sam Buttery brought an Eighties vibe to the stage after he sang Erasure
hit A Little Respect. He proved to be a deadly threat to his rivals in the
competition – wearing a skull and crossbones shirt for his set.
Tom Jones's act got top marks for his vocals but Jessie J hit out at his
decision to sing alongside dancers.
The Price Tag singer said: "Vocal is great, range is great but I would
have preferred to see just you on stage. This show is about the voice, I
want to see that. The dancers distracted from you."
Next up, Frances Wood stepped out to the stage in skin-tight jeans, teamed
with a white shirt and denim jacket for her performance of Ain't Nobody by
Chaka Khan.
The 18-year-old singer turned up the heat as she gyrated with sexy male
dancers for her racy performance.
Tom Jones, who has performed with Khan, told the Voice star: "You did it
your own way with as much intensity as Chaka does."
Tom's guitarist Adam Isaac unleashed his inner rock god to sing All My Life by
the Foo Fighters.
Adam, who was rushed this week to hospital after falling off stage, battled
through his pain to win the support of the judges.
Will.i.am said: "If you are rocking like that with a chip bone, my hat
goes off to you."
Shy Leanne Mitchell got Tom Jones' approval rating after her 'perfect'
rendition of Pink's Who Knew. The singer, who wore a black and white
illusion dress, wowed the judges despite battling bout of nerves.
Tom Jones said: "She proved she can sing anything she wants to. Jaz was
perfect, here's another perfect."
Meanwhile Sophie Griffin, the youngest singer in the competition, showed age
was just a number as she sang current hit David Guetta's Titanium.
The 17-year-old from Northern Ireland shimmered in a glittery minidress with
fellow Irish singer Danny telling her she "did everyone back home proud."
Partner duo Matt and Sueleen were next to face the viewers with their version
of Fleetwood Mac song Go Your Own Way.
The singers showed they had chemistry both on and off screen with their
tuneful duet.
Danny said "you warmed my heart" while Will.i.am saw their potential
in the charts.
Amy Winehouse's best friend Tyler James paid respect to his tragic pal as he
sang James McMorrow's Higher Love.
He earlier told the show how his world had collapsed when the Back To Black
singer died last year.
The judges were impressed by the strength of his voice.
Will.i.am said: "Amazing version of that song. Your falsetto is
unbelievable. You're an artist."
Tomorrow, Tom Jones and Will.i.am will have to make the tough decision on who
they want to leave the competition.
Viewers tonight voted for their favourite acts, with the top three of each
team staying in the competition. But Tom and Will will have to choose which
act they will be sending home in tomorrow's results show.

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Remember that frantic couple in our Dec. 12 End of Days issue? Clearly they must be running away from impending Armageddon, right? Perhaps a nuclear meltdown or the second coming of Quetzalcoatl?
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Yes, it's been a whirlwind year for our favorite Republican—from her purported hairstylist quitting over her stance on gay marriage to her star-turning role in the RNC, saving babies outside convenience stores and yes, her amazing shopping spree (not just for pantsuits!).
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Say what you will about Rihanna's fashion sense, it certainly doesn't lack a sense of color.
The "Rude Boy" singer was out with her Los Angeles Dodgers boyfriend Matt Kemp in New York City on Monday night, rocking a green dress that, combined with her bright-red locks, was a definite traffic-stopper.
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Labia piercing
Labia piercings are a type of female genital piercing. This piercing can be placed either through the labia minora or the labia majora. They are one of the simpler and more common genital piercings performed on women, and are often pierced in symmetrical pairs. Like all genital piercings, depending on jewelery and placement, they may provide additional stimulation to one or both partners during sexual intercourse.
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Labia majora piercings heal more slowly than labia minora piercings, depending on the anatomy of the individual. They also tend to be more painful as there is more tissue to pierce through. Stretching of labia minora piercing may occur on its own, but more likely would have to be a manual process.
Almost any type of jewelry can be found in labia piercings, although rings are the most commonly used jewelry, both as initial jewelry, and on a long-term basis. Both types of labia piercings can be stretched to accommodate large jewelry; the wearing of heavy jewelry in these piercings may be a form of ongoing or temporary sexual stimulation. Both types can also be stretched to accommodate flesh tunnel or plug style jewelry.
Jewelry worn in labia piercings may have a fetish purpose. Rings or other specialised jewelry may be worn to occlude access to the vagina, as a form of short-term or long-term non-surgical infibulation. Other chastity devices might also be worn that make use of the piercing, sometimes incorporating locks.
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There is little direct evidence of pre-contemporary practice of labia piercings, outside of anecdotal reports of the use of these piercings as chastity devices. Like many genital piercings, the contemporary origin of labia piercing resides in the BDSM culture that gave rise to the resurgence of body piercing in contemporary society. In contemporary practice, these piercings often simply fill a decorative role, rather than a purely sexual one.
This piercing plays a prominent role in the French erotic novel, "The Story of O". The heroine, O, has a hole pierced through a labium, through which a stainless-steel ring is inserted. Another ring is linked to it, and to that, a metal disk with identifying information on it, including the name of her Master, the mysterious Sir Stephen. In a scene at the end of the book, a leash is attached to the rings, which is held by a young girl when O is presented to the guests at the Commodore's party, for so that they can examine, admire, and have sex with her.
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Ms. HIRONO. Mr. Speaker, I am voting for this legislation because, like the rest of my colleagues, I want to see an end to the illegal manufacture, sale, and use of synthetic drugs that mimic the properties of illegal drugs. Many of these drugs are extremely dangerous and warrant control. In fact, some 30 states, including Hawaii, have laws that address the manufacture, sale, and use of synthetic drugs.
I am concerned, however, that we may be moving too fast. I would prefer to see a bill that is as important as this considered under regular order, with members having an opportunity to offer amendments. I am hoping that the Senate will take a more measured approach in considering this legislation.
I am especially concerned about the application of mandatory minimum sentences and Schedule I penalties that are included in this bill. I support judicial discretion, especially when the lives and futures of young people are involved.
I know too that there are concerns that this could impede legitimate scientific research of chemical compounds listed in this bill. Adjustments to this legislation may be needed to ensure that we don't hinder development of future biomedical breakthroughs.
We need to make sure the legislation targets those most responsible for widespread distribution of these drugs. Most important, we need to find ways to keep our young people from using synthetic drugs. Education of parents and young people is badly needed as is market regulation to reduce the availability and misuse of certain household and industrial aerosol products. Adding to our already crowded prisons is not a real solution to the very real problem of synthetic drugs.
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AIESEC is a global platform for a bunch of young bandit students who want to take over the world. They claim the term AIESEC stands for some funky French acronym that is academically and intellectually inclined. They claim not to use it any more, but it actually stands for Alcohol In Excess, Sex at Every Conference. Any resemblance with Free-masonry is only coincidential. In their mission to take over the world AIESEC members are presenting themselves as »future leaders«, »top talents«, or »change agents« and some other preposterously hilarious names. AIESEC members are called AIESECERS. They form a nation that is spread all over the world, just like gypsies, except that AIESECERS don't steal. They have even higher level of mobility throughout the world than gypsies. This mobility the consequence of »exchange«, »MC abroad« or »CEED« opportunities. Official religion in AIESEC is called 'AIESEC Culture'
Recruitment of members
The members are recruited on the most prestigious universities all over the world. They are firstly invited to the seemingly innocent information meetings, where the new members are inspired to attend what the aiesecers innocently call »a motivational conferences«. The first conference usually takes place somewhere high in the mountains or as far away as possible from civilization in order to discourage new members to escape and to prevent them from the contact with non-AIESEC-ers. On the conferences, the leaders of the platform use the most advanced techniques of brainwashing to make the potential new members believe that they are leaders too, and that they themselves can literaly move mountains if they only dare to believe so.
Brainwashing Techniques
As stated above, the leaders of the AIESEC use the most advanced ways of brainwashing techniques to make new members change their old mindsets into a new »change agent« mindset. These techniques include:
- Dances (internaly called »rollcalls«),
- Shouts
- Inspiring false beliefs in person's ability to change the world,
- Discouraging negative thoughts and publicity about AIESEC,
- Intolerance of jokes or parodies about AIESEC,
- Demonstrating any kind of torture as an opportunity,
- Direct brainwashing by opening the scull in case where individuals prove resiliant to more humane techniques of brainwashing.
Frequent Disorders
The members are infected with various diseases and have all sorts of addictions. The most prevalent include PCS and Workaholism.
PCS (Post Conference Syndrome)
- Ecstacy
- Enormous energy to continue their slavery while believing they are the future leaders – Most of AIESECERS work their asses off for free, just like slaves. But not only that they are happy about it, they are addicted to their work, and they get even more addicted by every conference they attend. (See: workaholism)
- Suspending or questioning their previous beliefs
Treatment: There is no known medical treatment, no pills, but time is quite an efficient way of PCS treatment. PCS is an acute desease.
Addiction to working for free is present in large majority of AIESECERS. The addiction is increasing by every conference that they attend. Since AIESECERS are mostly not paid for their work in AIESEC, it has been argued by some, that the addiction to work is not the same as addiction to slavery, therefore the type of addiction that AIESECERS have should be called »slaverdiction« rather than »workaholism«.
Treatment: Most AIESECERS never get one.
Aiesexually Transmittable Diseases
See the AIESEX Chapter for more information about AIESEX.
Treatment: Denial is the most prevalent treatment, although only little success has been recorded using this method.
Most members attend AIESEC conferences just to get laid with other members of as different race as possible. Sexual intercourse among AIESECERS is usually called AIESEX. Unlike in other cult-like organizations, AIESEX is never organized in form of sexual seances, but rather happens just by accident in the bushes, dormitories, hotel rooms, or even classrooms (when others are not present of course). AIESEX is an excellent opportunity for latebloomer AIESECERS from more conservative countries (India, Middle East) to loose their virginity with AIESECERS from more sexually opened countries (Latinas and Venezuelans are a popular choice). Usually the information about who got laid with whom spreads globaly within organization with a light speed, while really important information usually travels with a speed of a snail.
AIESEX usually doesn't involve condoms, because it is defined as sex betwen 2 AIESEC members and not between an AIESEC member and a piece of rubber. Therefore AIESEC has the power of spreading sexually transmitive deseases throughout the world faster than any other organization in the world by practicing AIESEX on their conferences. "You invent it, we spread it!" is the concept of its product that AIESEC is selling to its partners.
Leadershit Positions
When a person goes to his first conference, he starts believing that he is a future leader. After time he starts to question this belief and finds out that he is not a leader yet, but in order to be a leader, he has to apply for a leadershit position. The highest leadershit positions include:
- PAI – Pope of AIESEC International
- MCP – Master Controlling the Paperboys
- LCP - Local Committe Paperboy
- OCP – Organizing Commite Puppet
Every leadershit structure also has subleadershit structure comprised of vice presidents of various functional areas, most frequent of which are:
- VP TM (vice president terribly mad), last year called VP PD (vice president permanently disabled), last year called VP HR (vice president honorably retarded). The name of this position only has 1 year mandate. Noone knows yet what this position will be called next year.
- VP ER (vice president early retarded)
- VP F (vice president fucked)
- VP X (vice president for existance)
- VP IM (vice president impossibly mad) and VP UR (vice president ultimately retarded)
AIESEC Alumni
Once you are an AIESECer, you are AIESECer all of your life. After you stop your active slavery in AIESEC, you become AIESEC Alumni. When a AIESECER goes on Alumni status, he gets a lot of help from other AIESECERS to get them to a high profile jobs, which again is a strategy to take over the world. Any resemblence to Free-masonry or Scull & Bones is - again - only coincidential. Amongst AIESEC Alumni are Mick Jagger, Janez Drnovsek and Junichiro Koizumi. Some prominent people such as John F. Kennedy and Coffe Annan are often stated as alumni members just because their names sound nice, but actually they have never probably heard of AIESEC. Coffe Annan supposedly once said something about AIESEC, but he was told what to say by his advisor whose daughter was involved in AIESEC at that time.


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Gilbert Arriola describes himself as a "people-oriented person" who likes to "enhance people's lives."
So when Arriola, now 39 and a lifelong sports lover, was asked – while still in high school – if he would like to work for the Brea's athletic programs, it seems like a perfect fit.
More than two decades later, Arriola is still working for the city, overseeing a variety of youth and adult sports programs.
The nearly lifelong Brea resident, who graduated in 1997 from Cal Poly Pomona, thought he'd be a teacher one day, but kept moving through the ranks of the city's Community Services Department. He stayed with the city all these years, he said, because he loves what he does and the people he works with – and coaching kids to play sports is, in a way, teaching.
Q. How did you get involved with the city's sports programs and why have you stayed so long?
A. In 1990, I was playing basketball and football at Brea Olinda High School and one of my coaches, (current Community Services Director) Chris Emeterio, asked if I'd like to work for the city. So I started volunteering with the sports programs and then interviewed for an entry-level position and was hired in December of that year. And since then I've had different responsibilities, from overseeing afterschool programs to the aquatics programs.
Q. What does your job entail?
A. I oversee the entire operation at the Plunge, which is the No. 1 provider in the county of swim programs. During the summer months, we jam pack the schedule with swim lessons and other aquatic activities. I also oversee the adult and youth sports programs: adult soccer, adult basketball, adult softball, youth soccer, youth baseball.
Q. What is the main difference between working with adults and working with kids?
A. The main difference is that the kids really look up to the coaches and you have such an impact on their lives and their views of sports. You need the right people to supervise the kids. Our staff's philosophy is about being positive and energetic and we try to bring that to the programs. With adults, they are choosing to spend their recreation time participating in these sports, so they want to be active and have fun and we have to make sure that they, the customer, has a good time.
Q. Could you speak to the importance of these youth sports programs?
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CUSTER (AP) -- Rain helped firefighters gain full containment of the Grizzly Fire in South Dakota's Black Hills.
Hell Canyon District Ranger Scott Haas says lightning started the fire Wednesday in the Black Elk Wilderness, but two separate rains helped firefighters control the blaze Friday afternoon.
Haas says horses and mules also helped fire crews by packing tools and supplies in the steep, rugged terrain.
The fire covered 2.6 acres. Officials say 20 firefighters remained on the site Friday to extinguish burning materials near control lines.


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The 'Mad Men' actor did not understand why 'stupidity is certainly celebrated' and 'the idea of being 'elite' is somehow considered a negative'.
"Mad Men" star Jon Hamm has publicly slammed reality stars Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton for contributing to the "stupidity" culture. To the new issue of Elle U.K., the actor said such culture is honored and "the idea of being 'elite' is somehow considered a negative."
He continued, "Whether it's Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian or whoever, stupidity is certainly celebrated. Being a f***ing idiot is a valuable commodity in this culture because you're rewarded significantly." He added, "Incuriousness has become cool ... It's celebrated. It doesn't make sense to me."
Hamm also did not understand why being skinny and blonde are set as the standards of beauty in the modern society, saying curvy women like his "Mad Men" co-star Christina Hendricks are more interesting. Speaking of his often-praised look, Hamm said, "I don't even consider myself handsome. When I look in the mirror I see my goofy-assed self from when I was a kid."


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Sun City is a place of cleanliness and friendliness, a wide variety of interests and activities, an ideal adult community where all residents can be as active as they wish. Located in Sun City's Quail Run you'll be close to the 101 Loop, and a short 10 minutes from Arrowhead Mall, theaters, dining, and the Peoria Sports Complex, which is the Cactus League spring training home of the San Diego Padres and Seattle Mariners. A short distance beyond is the University of Phoenix Stadium, the home of our hometown Phoenix Cardinals and the recently chosen location of the 2015 Super Bowl.
Twenty minutes west is Surprise Stadium, spring training home of the Kansas City Royals and Texas Rangers. Phoenix International Raceway, the home of Phoenix's NASCAR races, is thirty minutes to the south, while Scottsdale with its great shopping, golf, classic car auctions, art galleries and the renowned Mayo Clinic is thirty minutes to our east.
For a small additional fee, guests can purchase a Sun City Recreation Centers Privilege Card that will provide you with discounted play at Sun City's eight golf courses (5 regulation and 3 executive courses), as well as our two bowling alleys. With the card you also get unlimited access to all seven of Sun City's Recreation Centers, swimming pools (one of them indoors) and hot tubs, fitness centers, tennis, racquet ball, ))d ball, table tennis, shuffle board, miniature golf, boating and fishing, lawn bowl and more.
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I rented this house for a week while visiting family in the sun city area and was very impressed. The house is located on the golf course and is a very peaceful setting. The house was spotless and the kitchen is nothing short of amazing. All the appliances are new and the recent remodel really make this kitchen shine. Cable tv and wi-fi also included. Beds slept perfect. I will rent this unit on return trips without a second thought. The owners were easy to work with and very nice.
My husband, my Golden Retriever, and I thoroughly enjoyed our three month AZ getaway. The home was gorgeous, clean, and comfortable. Well furnished with adequate dishes, towels, cuddle throws for TV . The golf course was quiet and tranquil with desert landscaping, and the pleasures of orange and grapefruit trees for your personal enjoyment. The neighborhood is quiet and safe, and great for dog walking, but the home is also within easy driving distance to grocery stores, and the Sun City Recreation Centers and golf courses and the AZ I-101. I would highly recommend this vacation property for your next vacation getaway.People were easy and a pleasure to work with, Vir and a lovely housekeeper. The place was ideal for me: Superb location, clean, roomy, comfortable bed with plenty of toasty blankets, thick towels and good shower, kitchen with fridge for snacks and light cooking, coffee and tea, and a good work table/desk and wifi. Exactly what I was looking for. I hope to be a regular here when I come to NY
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Release Notes: An active TCP socket is now kept for each rnode, making it possible to send them TCP packets without the need to establish a new connection each time. Since UDP is no longer used for ntk packets, the UDP daemon has been removed and the 271/udp port has been deprecated. When there are multiple interfaces which reach the same rnode, the QSPN packets are now sent from a random device each time. GCC 4 compilation warnings were fixed. SNSD recursion has been fixed in ntk-resolv.
Release Notes: The main new feature of the this release is the implementation of the Scattered Name Service Disgregation.The SNSD is the ANDNA equivalent of the SRV Record of the Internet Domain Name System. For its complete description read the NTK_RFC 0009. Since the SNSD is the generalization of the basic structure of a Domain Name System, the core of the ANDNA database has been completely rewritten. This release fixes many bugs from the previous versions.
Release Notes: The Netsukuku nodes will now automatically use multiple inet-gateways to connect to the Internet, so their Internet connection will be effectively load-balanced. The nodes which share their Internet connection will also automatically use the shared connection of the other nodes. These nodes can now shape their Internet connection in order to prioritize their local outgoing traffic and traffic that requires low-latency (such as SSH). The low-latency TOS is now set in the ANDNA resolve requests.
Release Notes: The NTK_RFC 0008 has been implemented. The NTK_RFC 0007 has been implemented. It fixes an exploitable bug in the ANDNA protocol. NetsukukuD has been tested on big endian machines. A lot of endianness bugs have been fixed during the tests, and now it seems to work gracefully. NetsukukuD is now able to set correct default routes for PPP Internet connections. A possible memory overrun in the RSA packing functions has been fixed.
Release Notes: The IGS was implemented. A node can now share its Internet connection among the other nodes. The main part of the NTK_RFC 0001 was written and the (g)nodes now have the ability to rehook to avoid IP collision. ANDNS was implemented. It is a new specification of the DNS protocol for Netsukuku. It is compatible with the actual DNS protocol. If it is possible to reach an rnode trough multiple interfaces, they are now all used with a multipath route. The dns_wrapper code is no longer dependent on Boost. The internal map format was optimized. The code was heavily cleaned.
Release Notes: The multi-interface support was added, so now it is possible to use multiple network interfaces without the need of the bridge. The multipath support has been enabled for the external map, which means that more than one route will be used to reach a gnode. In other words, the load balancing has been fully enabled. Endianness fixes were made, so now the packets can be sent between two machines with different endianness. The Make/configure support was added. Now you can use either SCons or Make to compile and install Netsukuku.
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On paper, San Diego State, Creighton and Colorado State should all be better than last season. They should be a bigger threat to go deep in March. And yet they could have an equivalent or slightly worse win total than last season. These teams all deserve some hype, but perhaps not quite as much as they are getting. Read more »
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- Material: ABS
- Size: 102*35mm (with Base)
- Power Source: 9V Block Battery/PP3
- Sensor Life Time: 10 Years
- Trademark: PEASWAY
- Origin: China Ningbo
- Type: Smoke Alarm
- Working Mode: Active
- Application: Indoor
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- Weight: 105g(with Battery)
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- Peaway stand alone smoke alarm designed for residential and institutional applications including sleeping rooms of hospitals, hotels, motels, dormitories, and other multifamily dwellings.
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BYU football coach Bronco Mendenhall is in New York City this week, attending the NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on Thursday where star defensive end Ezekiel "Ziggy" Ansah is expected to be picked early in the first round. But it is another draft, which will take place June 6-8, that could also draw a lot of Mendenhall's attention. That's when the 2013 Major League Baseball draft will be held, and when Mendenhall could lose a potential starting cornerback. Here's the story: BYU's Jacob Hannemann, the two-sport star from nearby Lone Peak High, is currently shining for the BYU baseball team, after redshirting for the football team last fall and becoming a vital scout team player. Hannemann homered and doubled in BYU's 9-3 win over Utah on Tuesday night, and you can read more about that performance here. After the game, Hannemann said there is a good chance that he will turn professional in June if he goes high enough in the MLB Draft. "I would love to play football. I love both football and baseball," he said. "I will just have to make that decision when the time comes this year, going around to the draft.I have kind of a little number in my head, and stuff like that, so we will see what happens, what the opportunity is, and we will go from there and pray about it, probably." In other words, if a pro baseball team drafts him and offers a big enough signing bonus, Hannemann is gone. I asked Hannemann to talk more about that "number" he has in mind. "Just how much they are interested in me, and stuff. Will I progress far, and fast? You know, I love it here at BYU. I had a great time playing football with my brother [Micah, last fall]. That will be a great opportunity, too, when he comes back off his mission, to play with him." Technically, Hannemann is on scholarship to play football, so baseball coach Mike Littlewood is getting the leadoff hitter and speedy center fielder for free, as it were. Hannemann originally signed in the fall of 2009 to play baseball for BYU. But after a great senior season of football, he signed a football Letter of Intent because that meant a full ride, rather than a partial ride that most baseball players get. "Yeah, they agreed to that before I left on my mission," he said. "I had the baseball scholarship first, and then I had a great senior year in football, and I love football. I still love baseball, so I asked if I could do both, and it happened. So I was blessed." In June of 2010, Hannemann was drafted out of high school by the Kansas City Royals in the 48th round of the draft. He didn't sign, obviously, and went on a church mission to Little Rock, Ark., almost immediately after graduating from high school. He has taken college baseball by storm this season, hitting .338 with four home runs and 19 RBIs, all while playing spectacularly in center field. He also has nine doubles, second on the team, and five triples, which leads the team. "He is a kid who, whatever you say to him, he takes it in, and he will try to put it right into play, and it is fun to watch Jacob play," BYU baseball coach Mike Littlewood said. " It is a joy to watch him, and we may not have him much longer, so let's all enjoy it while we can."
That doesn't go for Mendenhall, though, because Bronco barely was able to enjoy him at all. And the football team is already thin at the cornerback position, with juco transfer Trenton Trammell going down the first week of spring camp with a major knee injury that will force him to sit out an entire year.


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May 8, 2013
The Aquarium of the Pacific staff is celebrating the birth of the first male harbor seal to be born at the institution. The Aquarium's harbor seals Shelby and Troy are the parents of the seal pup, which was born on May 1, 2013, and weighed approximately 30 pounds at birth. The pup will remain behind the scenes with his mother until he is ready to be moved to his home in the Seal & Sea Lion Habitat.
Shelby came to the Aquarium in 1998. Troy, the Aquarium's only male harbor seal, came to the Aquarium in 2007. Most seals give birth to young starting at four to five years of age. Shelby is seventeen years old and is considered a mature mom. The male harbor seal is her second pup. Shelby gave birth to her first pup, a female named Bixby, in April last year.
The public has the chance to help name the pup through the Aquarium's Adopt an Animal program by adopting a seal at the $25 level or higher before June 30, 2013. Aquarium staff members will then choose one of the suggested names. "Parents" at the $25 level will receive an adoption certificate, photo, fact sheet about the animal, invitation to a special event, a subscription to the Adopt an Animal e-updates, and more. Those at the $50 level also receive a seal plush toy. For a full list of levels and benefits, please visit aquariumofpacific.org/adopt. The person whose suggested name is selected will have the opportunity to go behind the scenes to see the pup.


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Grilled Ratatouille Pasta
Here's a new summer staple: a quick, healthy take on a French classic. Try it and enjoy the bounty.
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Photography: JOHNNY MILER
Source: Everyday Food, June 2012
- Salt and pepper
- 1/2 pound curly pasta, such as cavatappi
- 1/4 cup olive oil, divided, plus more for grilling
- 1 medium zucchini, cut lengthwise into thick slices
- 1 bell pepper, halved, stemmed, and seeded
- 1 small red onion, halved
- 1 small eggplant, cut lengthwise into thick slices
- 4 large tomatoes, cut crosswise into thick slices
- 3 to 4 tablespoons balsamic vinegar (preferably white)
- 1/4 cup roughly chopped fresh parsley
In a medium pot of boiling salted water, cook pasta according to package instructions. Reserve 1 cup pasta water, then drain and return to pot.
Heat a grill or grill pan to medium-high; clean and lightly oil hot grill. Working in batches if necessary, lightly brush vegetables with 2 tablespoons oil, season with salt and pepper, and grill, turning occasionally, until browned and tender. Transfer vegetables to a cutting board and let cool slightly.
Roughly chop vegetables, then add to pasta, along with 2 tablespoons oil and vinegar to taste. If necessary, add pasta water to create a light sauce that coats pasta. Season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with parsley, and serve.
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Meatless Meal
The hearty veggies and big smoky flavor in this pasta dish are so satisfying, you won't miss a thing.
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AndreaMarieDwyer28 JUN, 2013This was really delicious. Combined the best idea from this recipe and Spaghetti with Grilled Ratatouille at Fine Cooking and loved the results. Grilled veggies with olive oil 1++ tsp herbes de Provence and salt/pepper. Used 3 Tbsp white balsamic - might do less next time. Roasted 2 heads garlic to serve/ mix in with it. Topped with generous amount chopped parsley and julienned basil as well as marinated feta and salad blend cheeses (shaved parmesan asiago romano). Sprinkle with salt.Reply
AndieAnd12311 SEP, 2012You use the grill a lot. Do you think you could mention how to use the oven as an alternative for those of us who don't have a grill? That way we can try the recipe also! Looks delicious!Reply
Koda Fratello Orso11 SEP, 2012Instead of adding vinegar to the already cooked pasta keep the vegetables in a marinade with it, oil and a couple of chilies at least for an hour before grilling, so you'll taste the vinegar without a bunch of liquid at the bottom of the bowl (last people served would receive a lot of vinegar in their dishes).. and in the mixing bowl where you serve pasta just add oil, salt and cubes of italian primosale or greek feta.. you'll taste Mediterranean sun!Reply
HurricaneKT10 SEP, 2012This looks so easy & delish- I don't even have to write the recipe down! Consider this one mentally-filed :)Reply
Cnayka10 SEP, 2012Look forward to your recipes every day. Will be making this one for dinner tonight. And by the way, you are hilarious, Sarah....love your sense of humour when you're cooking. You make your recipes fun!Reply
evalynnrobinson21 JUL, 2012This is a wonderful rustic dish that is easy to make and is suprisingly hearty. Will make again. Real crowd pleaser!Reply


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Let the Google+ Party Begin!
About 60 of us gathered at the Ferry Building for an evening photowalk in San Francisco. The idea was to celebrate the 2 year anniversary of Google Plus. This particular social network is fabulous for photographers and most of us have all but left Facebook to claim our space and establish a presence in G+.
Photowalks are really great fun. I get to re-acquaint myself with those I've met on prior walks and meet new people too. Along the way we laugh and enjoy our pursuit of taking pictures. Some use big professional cameras while others tote only an iPhone. We all get along in the name of photography and afterwards post some of our best photos online, on Google Plus, of course!. On this walk I particularly liked meeting a couple of engineers from Google wearing their Google Glass! I even got my picture taken by one of them!
These photowalks happen fairly often and they are always free. So, if you have any interest in joining in, you can add me to a circle on G+ and I'll usually say something about photowalks I hear of that are happening in Northern California, where I live. Those of you who live elsewhere, just get on G+ and if you poke around just a little, you should be able to find them near you too. This perticular potowalk was one of the larger ones and had participating photowalks in cities around the world.
On this page are my best shots from this G+ photowalk. All were processed in Lightroom using the Perfect HDR Workflow. The shot of the San Francisco skyline at the top of the page seems to be the most popular one judging from the +1's it gets, although it's not my favorite:
I like HDR.
I was flicking through some blog posts and came accross this one, the photo's are stunning. The twisty sculpture and the coke machines are my personal favourites.
The idea of a photowalk is such a good one. We sometimes forget the beauty in the things we see everyday. Thanks
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Still no sign of Opotiki man one week on
Still no sign of Opotiki man one week on
It's now a week since 54-year-old Opotiki man Alan Grant Young, known as Grant, was last seen and various searches and enquiries have provided no clue to his whereabouts.
On Tuesday, 22 April, Mr Young's car, which is a green and silver Toyota Carib registration YQ1688, was located on Maraenui Hill, State Highway 35, Opotiki.
The car had been parked on the side of the road facing in a northerly direction.
A search in the vicinity of the car has been conducted utilising Whakatane Land SAR volunteers, the Trust Power Tech Helicopter from Tauranga, and Police SAR dog and has drawn a negative conclusion at this stage.
Police have received information from the public in relation to the location of the car and also various sightings of a man in the vicinity of the car. Further information is sought from anyone who knows the whereabouts of Mr Young or has seen or spoken to him recently.
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Earlier this year, the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), the world's leading kidney organization, joined other groups in a campaign to help health care professionals and patients avoid wasteful and sometimes harmful medical interventions. A new article in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN) outlines the ASN's top five recommendations for the campaign and the rationale behind them. Following these recommendations would lower costs and lead to better care for patients with kidney disease.
Unnecessary or redundant tests and procedures account for nearly one third of the medical care delivered in the United States. As part of the Choosing Wisely® campaign, nine leading national medical specialty societies each created lists of five common, but not always necessary, tests or procedures in their fields that patients and physicians should question and discuss, taking into consideration patients' preferences, needs, and overall health goals as well as the potential benefits and harms of different options.
In their CJASN article, Amy Williams, MD (Mayo Clinic) and her colleagues reveal how ASN identified its five recommendations and describe the background evidence supporting them. Each of the ASN's 10 Advisory Groups submitted recommendations, and the ASN Quality and Patient Safety Task Force, chaired by Dr. Williams, selected five based on relevance and importance to individuals with kidney disease. The ASN public policy board and council unanimously approved the final list, which includes the following: 1. Do not perform routine cancer screening for dialysis patients with limited life expectancies without signs or symptoms; 2. Do not administer erythropoiesis stimulating agents - drugs that are commonly used to treat anemia - to chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients with hemoglobin levels ≥10 g/dL without symptoms of anemia; 3. Avoid nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in individuals with hypertension, heart failure, or CKD; 4. Do not place peripherally inserted central catheters - which allows access to the blood for prolonged treatments such as long chemotherapy regimens and extended antibiotic therapy - in stage 3-5 CKD patients without consulting a kidney specialist; 5. Do not initiate long-term dialysis without ensuring a shared decision-making process between patients, their families, and their physicians.
"The goals of the Choosing Wisely campaign are aligned with the ASN's goals: to deliver safe evidence-based individualized care to all patients with kidney disease. By improving the value of the care we deliver to people with kidney disease, we will improve outcomes and decrease unnecessary healthcare costs and potentially decrease harm," said Williams.
Kidney Society Describes Ways To Eliminate Wasteful Tests And Procedures
Earlier this year, the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), the world's leading kidney organization, joined other groups in a campaign to help health care professionals and patients avoid wasteful and sometimes harmful medical interventions. A new article in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN) outlines the ASN's top five recommendations for the campaign and the rationale behind them. Following these recommendations would lower costs and lead to better care for patients with kidney disease.
Study co-authors include Amy Dwyer, MD (University of Louisville); Allison Eddy, MD (British Columbia Children's Hospital); Jeffrey Fink, MD (University of Maryland); Bertrand Jaber, MD (St. Elizabeth's Medical Center); Stuart Linas, MD (University of Colorado); Beckie Michael, DO (Marlton Nephrology and Hypertension); Ann O'Hare, MD (VA Puget Sound Health Care); Heidi Schaefer, MD (Vanderbilt University); Rachel Shaffer (American Society of Nephrology); Howard Trachtman, MD (NYU Langone Medical Center); Daniel Weiner, MD (Tufts Medical Center); and Ronald Falk, MD (UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine).
The article, entitled "Critical and Honest Conversations: The Evidence Behind the "Choosing Wisely Campaign" Recommendations by the American Society of Nephrology," will appear online at http://cjasn.asnjournals.org/ on September 13, 2012, doi: 10.2215/CJN.04970512.
Amy Williams, MD Research Funding: Aksys, NxStage
Ronald Falk, MD Research Funding: SQI Diagnostics
Jeffrey Fink, MD Consultancy: Amgen, Sandoz Honoraria: Amgen, Sandoz Research Funding: Amgen
Bertrand Jaber, MD Research Funding: Argutus, Sekisui Scientific Advisory Board: NxStage Medical, Inc
Stuart Linas, MD Honoraria: Astra Zeneca, Gilead, Pfizer
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Minnesota spent the fall of 2013 as the Big Ten's darling and a national storyline. As head coach Jerry Kill took a leave of absence due to recurring seizures, defensive coordinator Tracy Claeys guided the Golden Gophers on a journey fit for a Hollywood script.
There was much anticipation for the season in Minneapolis. Ohio State routinely attracts 60,000-plus to its spring games, but that's not the case for perpetually downtrodden – and cold – Minnesota. When more than 8,000 people showed up for last year's spring game, Kill and Co. knew the fans were brimming with excitement.
Kill's health issues have been well documented, and the unfortunate reality struck again last October. He had another seizure during a game in September didn't travel with Minnesota for a game at Michigan, ultimately taking a leave of absence. After starting the year 4-0, consecutive losses had many believing the Gophers spoiled a notable start. Instead, Kill's troubles galvanized the team.
A four-game win streak, including victories over a ranked Nebraska team and Penn State, thrust Minnesota into the top 25 for the first time since 2008. It lost a heartbreaker to Syracuse in the Texas Bowl, but an 8-5 record – Minnesota's best in a decade – stirred more excitement around the program.
And 2014 sets up for continued success. Fourteen starters return – seven on both sides of the ball – and a defense that only allowed 22.2 points per game could be improved.
"I think any time you come off a good year — we didn't finish exactly the way you want to — but we had a good year and kept moving the program forward," Kill said this spring. "I think the biggest thing is the kids gained some confidence throughout the year. They were certainly disappointed, but that's a situation where we all were. We came right back, watched the film and got to work."
Then the offseason happened.
First, defensive end Ra'Shede Hageman graduated. The surprise came when quarterback Philip Nelson, who'd engineered so much enthusiasm the previous season, transferred to Rutgers. (He's since been kicked off the team and is facing assault charges.) Even after producing 2,727 yards of offense and 23 touchdowns the past two seasons, Nelson wanted an offense that better suited his skills.
Now the job belongs to Mitch Leidner. The spring game only saw one touchdown and Leider was just 7-of-15 passing for 74 yards. But it was he who resuscitated the Minnesota offense in the Texas Bowl after going over three games without an offensive touchdown. In the spring, he took on another responsibility: team leader.
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"They just want me to step up, become more of a leader and really take this team by the reigns, really push the guys throughout this offseason and into the season," Leidner said of the coaches.
A positive bowl game experience presented the beginning stages of confidence for Leidner. It has been elevated more in the offseason. His work ethic will never be questioned and setting an upbeat tone added credibility in the locker room. Another spark comes from Kill, who continues working despite health concerns.
Minnesota's upward tick – its been to bowl games the past two seasons – led to Kill's contract being extended through 2018 and his salary was bumped up to $2.1 million. Leidner said Kill's offered loads of inspiration to the team. Kill downplays his role.
"Everybody has a struggle or two, but you bounce back," he said. "I still believe it determines what kind of person you are with how you handle adversity. Anybody can handle things good when everything's going good."
The Gophers' offense was not always going good a year ago. They ranked 11th in the Big Ten and had one of the worst passing attacks in the country. The running game was solid, thanks to Nelson and running back David Cobb. He rushed for 1,200 yards and is eager to back up his total. Berkley Edwards, Rodrick Williams and Donnell Kirkwood make tailback perhaps the deepest position on the field.
Helping the backfield is an offensive line that returns almost fully intact. The quarterback-receiver connection must improve, and it could begin with tight end Maxx Williams. The freshman had 417 yards receiving and five touchdowns last season. Wideouts remain a huge concern, where Derrick Engel graduated and Drew Wolitarsky, Donovahn Jones and K.J. Maye remain. A group of talented freshmen may be the answer in upping Minnesota's meager 148 yards passing average from 2013.
Hageman and Brock Vereen's losses will be felt on defense. The line should still be imposing, though. Theiren Cockran, who led the team with 7.5 sacks last season, is back. He'll need his line mates to better their mark of 18 sacks in 2013.
A linebacker corps that lost Cody Poock to a torn ACL shouldn't have a tremendous drop off, because Jack Lynn and De'Vondre Campbell provide stability. The real strength is in the secondary, where Damarius Travis, Briean Boddy-Calhoun, Eric Murray, Jalen Myric and Derrick Wells roam the land.
Residents of the Twin Cities – Kill included – were delighted after winning eight games last year. But they don't believe the voyage ends here. Kill believes it's only beginning, a starting point for a grand excursion.
Minnesota hasn't won a Big Ten championship since 1967. Ending that streak of futility is Kill's top objective.
"Our kids have been enthusiastic all spring. They're eager," he said. "I don't like going back in the past. But after that bowl game, I said: 'You better be starving because that ain't going to happen anymore.' So they've been back on a mission."


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Brother and sister Chloe and Nathan Basson are keeping winning in the family – taking it in turns to carry off prizes in an annual art competition.
This year ten-year-old Chloe was a winner in the charity calendar competition and nine-year-old Nathan was a runner-up – a mirror reflection of last year when Nathan was a winner and Chloe a runner-up.
The brother and sister also picked up prizes in 2009 when Nathan was a winner and Chloe was a runner-up.
The youngsters, who are both pupils at Yeadon Westfield Junior School, keep notching up successes in the competition run by law firm Walker Morris to raise money for Martin House Hospice.
A spokeswoman for the company said all the judging was done anonymously and was entirely down to merit.
The 13 winners, one for each month of the year, plus the front page, were all presented with a hamper full of artists' materials worth £50, plus a cheque for their school.
The 26 runners-up, including Yeadon Westfield pupils Yasmine Lee, nine, and Annie Palmer, ten, also received a prize each.
The three judges including Yorkshire artist Ashley Jackson, had the tough job of choosing the winning paintings from more than 1,700 entries across 100 schools in the Yorkshire, Humber and North East Lincolnshire regions.
All the proceeds from the sales of the calendar go to Martin House Hospice. Since the competition started 18 years ago it has raised more than £55,000 for the hospice, Walker Morris Partner David Smedley said: "Every year we are astounded by the superb quality of art. It is testament to the tremendous creativity of the children, their teachers and the schools."
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YORK'S Community Stadium is likely to have a maximum capacity of 8,000, it has emerged.
The final bidders to construct the new home of York City and York City Knights are being "encouraged" to put forward a design that realises that figure, City of York Council bosses have revealed.
But Coun Sonja Crisp, the authority's leisure chief, said whether that would be achieved depended on the ability to secure Football Foundation (FSIF) funding, which would mean the ground would be all-seater.
If that grant isn't forthcoming, terracing would probably be used as part of the design to boost capacity.
The Press reported on Tuesday how the council's original criteria for the £19 million Monks Cross venue stated that an initial 6,000 seats should have the potential to be doubled.
That requirement was removed following an update to the authority's Labour cabinet earlier this week after a report said it would not be possible without "significant compromise to the appearance and design of the stadium".
The two bidders will now be asked to design a stadium that could also be increased to a 10,000 all-seat bowl in the future.
Outline planning consent, though, was only granted for a 6,000 stadium. Any increase in that would require a new planning application to be submitted to the council.
Work is scheduled to get under way in February next year – after the scheme was beset by delays – and the new ground is expected to be completed about a year later.
Crisp said: "Changes to the design criteria for the stadium are being proposed to encourage the final two bidders to come forward with an attractive design that increases the base capacity up to a maximum of 8,000.
"This follows discussions with the bidders' design teams and the sports clubs.
"However the extent and means to which this is achievable is reliant on our ability to secure the FSIF funding prior to the final submission stage.
"If the funding is not secured, the option of some terracing as part of the overall design could be explored as a means to increase the base capacity.
"The future expansion option of up to 10,000 is also a design requirement."
Sophie Hicks, York City's communications and community director, added: "The football club have been in lengthy discussions with City of York Council and have met with the two final bidders.
"We understand the council's position regarding the issue of further expansion and York City's main priority is to work with the council to ensure the initial base capacity of the stadium is 8,000 as this fulfils our short to medium term requirements and meets our ambitions."
Knights chairman John Guildford remained keen to see a mix of seating and standing in the stadium design.
"I hope they listen to the fans and the design comes back with some standing," he said.


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Archive for February, 2009
The Ghost of Narratives Past
In the midst of discussing a classic ridiculous Clinton Derangement non-story — could Hillary Clinton possibly like the Beatles and the Stones? — Jamison Foser points us to this absolutely remarkable Jacob Wiesberg joint about the crucial issue of the iPods of political leaders from 2006. You will be shocked to know that — however cool if would be if someone would have pointed out that "Respect" is maybe the seventh-best song on I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You — the playlists of public officials consist of interchangeable bog-standard middlebrow airplay favorites.
Except, of course, that this trivia must somehow be slotted into existing political narratives. So Hillary Clinton's playlist "suggests premeditation, if not actual poll-testing," while "Radio Condi is a lot more fun than Radio Hillary" and — of course! — "Bush doesn't worry about being politically correct or care what other people think of him." (I mean, "My Sharona," "Brown-Eyed Girl"… truly, the man was our Rebel-In-Chief.)
But wait — it gets much worse, or at least much more surreal. This being 2006, no such article could be written without reference to the conventional wisdom that losing the popular vote once in four elections had reduced the Democrats to a more-or-less permanent rump party. This may not seem terribly relevant to the article at hand, but:
[Pandora] can be a bit uncanny. One of its first recommendations on the Hillary station I created was "Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do," by Betty Wright, a feminist-minded '70s soul artist. This was followed by Barbra Streisand's rendition of David Bowie's "Life on Mars," a deeply unfortunate recording, but one somehow indicative of the present predicament of the Democratic Party.
If you have any idea how this could possibly be indicative of anything except that Pandora needs slightly better quality controls, please do not explain it to anyone.
Michael Steele's lyrics are bottomless
Awesome. I hope that Michael Steele will soon announce his plans for the GOP to "get jiggy with it." Perhaps he might gain some traction for the party by urging young voters to "drop that zero and get with the hero."
Dear Governor Jindal,
Please, please, please reject federal stimulus funding; we'll get to find out if someone who rejects federal money can get elected dogcatcher in Baton Rouge.
Yours truly,
Jindal is far too smart to actually reject the funding (like Alaska and so many other red states, Louisiana is utterly dependent on the federal government its leaders purport to despise), but I suspect he'll pay a local political price even if the legislature overrides. What this nonsense reveals is a pretty straightforward list of the Republican governors who have Presidential ambition; any governor who supported the stimulus would come under severe attack during the 2012 primary.
Effort and Merit
…the key is that these two statements are very different:
Jason Greenwood, a senior kinesiology major at the University of Maryland echoed that view.
"I think putting in a lot of effort should merit a high grade," Mr. Greenwood said. "What else is there really than the effort that you put in?"
"If you put in all the effort you have and get a C, what is the point?" he added. "If someone goes to every class and reads every chapter in the book and does everything the teacher asks of them and more, then they should be getting an A like their effort deserves. If your maximum effort can only be average in a teacher's mind, then something is wrong."
Sarah Kinn, a junior English major at the University of Vermont, agreed, saying, "I feel that if I do all of the readings and attend class regularly that I should be able to achieve a grade of at least a B."
"Putting in a lot of effort should merit a high grade" is different than saying "I feel that if I do all the readings and attend class regularly that I should be able to achieve a grade of at least a B." The latter isn't really "entitlement"; it's a description of reality at any major college campus. Most students, in most courses, will get Bs if they attend class, and do all the work. This is as it should be; it's not as if a campus-wide B average is somehow vile and unnatural.
The Greenwood quote is different. Mere effort never merits a high grade; while I appreciate hard work, it has to result in actual achievement. Even if effort did merit high marks, grading "effort" is, in practice, impossible; how am I to know how hard student X worked on his or her paper? College isn't third grade, where direct monitoring of student process is at least conceptually possible. I do appreciate the frustration of students who do a lot of work and receive a bad grade, but it's not a problem for which there's a satisfactory solution.
Poetic Justice as Fairness etc.
….if laughing at the misfortune of Christopher Hitchens is wrong, I don't want to be right.
They write letters
Academic freedom is a powerful and important principle. But I do not believe it provides a shield for weathervanes. I do not believe it shields those whose work is not the grueling intellectual labor of the scholar and the scientist but instead hackwork that is crafted to be convenient and pleasing to their political master of the day.
I am not an international law professor. I am not a moral philosophy professor. I am just an economics professor. I am aware that my conclusions may be wrong. It is the fact that my conclusions may be wrong has led me to dither about this matter up till now.
But with the OPR report I see no choice: so I ask you, out of a concern for justice, a concern for humanity, and a concern for our reputation as a university, to dismiss Professor John Yoo from membership in our university.
The Glories Of American Veto Points
Although Krugman is of course right to blame a "fanatical, irrational minority" for the current crisis in California, it can't be emphasized enough that what really matters is the incredibly stupid institutional rules that empower this minority: namely, the idiotic super-majority for tax increases and an initiative system that both created that supermajority requirement and provides incentives to vote for every tax cut while mandating certain kinds of spending because the issues are isolated. Fortunately, the federal level (while it has too many veto points) is not quite at this level yet, and at least the stupid filibuster rule doesn't apply to budgets.
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Right Adopts Tactics That Stopped Iraq War From Happening
But I have to agree, if they're going to stop the stimulus bill they're going to need some big puppets. I would also suggest an Uncle Sam on stilts.
…oh, and I hope we see more of this highly effective line of protest:
Verrrrrry Scarrrry! [/Count Floyd]
A Bunch of Stuff Happened…
So, lot's of interesting defense news; read Spencer on the Afghanistan buildup and David Axe on the F-22. If you read the latter, please compare and contrast Axe's case for purchasing more F-22s with Bowden's; the former dispenses with myths, while the latter reinforces them; the former has a handle on the economic and strategic tradeoffs, while the latter ignores them; and the former rejects panicky arguments about the dwindling air superiority "gap" while the latter uncritically accepts them. In short, the former knows what he's talking about and the latter is content to write agitprop for Lockheed.
Off to the ISA conference for the day; will blog more on both of these questions later.
The single dumbest independent clause you'll read all day
Golf claps all around to Amar Bhide:
The depressions and panics of the 19th century ended without any fiscal stimulus to speak of…
Right. And I suppose we could note that the Spanish influenza pandemic "ended without any major vaccination efforts to speak of."
Forget the panics of 1819, 1837, and 1857. As everyone knows, the US — to say nothing of the rest of the industrialized world — was in one phase or another of a major depression in roughly half of the twenty-four years between 1873-1897. The contraction that began in October 1873, for example, lasted 65 consecutive months and had near-universally corrosive results. Labor unions were annihilated; the Republican party officially threw up its hands on the question of Reconstruction; mass unemployment immiserated the land, and by the end of it all, striking railroad workers from Baltimore to St. Louis were being fired upon by federal troops. The economic catastrophe of the 1870s intensified racial animosity toward Chinese workers on the West Coast, leading to the passage of one exclusionary law after another; the depression of the 1890s spurred on lynch mobs in the rural South; and all of them roused otherwise sane people to spastic fits of worry over the menace of the foreign-born. In the US, the downturns of the 1880s and 1890s helped rejuvenate the principles of manifest destiny, leading to grossly dishonest efforts, public and private, to secure resources and compliant markets in Asia and Latin America. And throughout industrialized Europe, the Long Depression lent greater urgency to the project of colonialism, whose bloody results — if initially unremarkable to all but their immediate victims — were perfectly evident to everyone else by the late summer of 1914.
But remember: a few public works programs, the eight-hour day, and unemployment insurance would have been too awful to comprehend.
A Final Note Against Temperance Society Moralism
While he's wrong about the filibuster, I should note today that Brien Jackson (at 10:40 A.M.) is completely right about PEDs. As I've said before, I have no problem if a majority of players agree to have enforceable bans on substances because they believe the health risks are unacceptable and they don't want a race to the bottom, or because they want other concessions in collective bargaining, or whatever. What I'm opposed to is 1)calling people who violated nominal but completely unenforced rules as "cheaters" and 2)engaging in empty moralism about how Athletic Purity has been violated because some particular chemical means of enhancing performance has been used.
To follow-up on Brien a bit, both variants of this moralism are plainly unserious arguments. If the argument is about health, well, if it was unacceptable to take any risks that might produce suboptimal health outcomes, you know what would be banned? Throwing baseballs overhand and hard a hundred times every five days. (We won't even start on football.) Unless you support banning all professional sports altogether, to focus on the health risks of steroids in particular is ludicrously arbitrary. (And the fact that virtually nobody cares about steroid use in football — where the health effects are compounded — just underlies the point.)
But of course, this isn't about health; this is about the Sanctity of the Record Book, and especially the records Back From When It Was A Game And the Players Proved Their Loyalty and Pride By Playing For A Fraction Of Their Market Value. But this also makes no sense. As Brien says, all records are contingent. If Hank Aaron had played for 15 years at Griffith Stadium, he wouldn't have owned the home run record. If there hadn't been two new bandboxes added to the league in 1961, Roger Maris probably wouldn't have had a record to be broken by History's Greatest Monster Except For Barry Bonds. If Greg Luzinksi had come up with the Rockies in 1994 who knows what records he would have set. Maybe Ty Cobb would have hit 900 homers if he had played in another era. And so on and so on. There's no such thing as a statistic that purely reflects a player's performance. In addition, people like to assert that steroids were the dominant factor in the increase in power numbers that started in the early 90s, but this is very, very questionable. There are a lot of other factors: smaller ballparks, much improved bats, aluminum bats in amateur ball teaching hitters to hit for power to the opposite field, Lasik surgery, improving training and nutrition, etc. etc. etc. My guess would be that steroids rank well down that list; certainly, it's much easier to document the effect of ballparks on home run totals. But at any rate, all records are a product of their time, and Bonds's records are no more and no less "legitimate" than Henry Aaron's or Roger Maris's (and Bonds, pre- or post- steroids, was a greater player than either.)


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The list of 26 semifinalists for the Tewaaraton Award has been pared down to five, and the names of those finalists were announced Wednesday morning by the Greater Washington Sports Alliance and the University Club of Washington, DC.
In alphabetical order, those players are Virginia senior defenseman Ken Clausen, Duke fifth-year senior attackman Ned Crotty, Stony Brook junior midfielder Kevin Crowley, Delaware senior attackman Curtis Dickson and Syracuse junior long-stick midfielder Joel White.
Clausen leads the top-seeded Cavaliers in caused turnovers with 34 and ranks third in groundballs with 43. He ranks fourth among Division I defensemen with an average of 2.3 caused turnovers per game.
Crotty ranks second among the No. 5 seed Blue Devils in points (68). Nationally, he leads all Division I players in assists (51) and assists per game (3.2), and he ranks sixth in points per game (4.3).
Crowley leads the No. 8 seed Seawolves in points (71) and ranks second in both goals (46) and assists (25). He leads the country in points per game (5.0) and ranks fourth in goals per game (3.1).
Dickson leads the unseeded Blue Hens and the nation in goals (62) and hat tricks (12), and he tops the country in goals per game (3.9). With 162 career goals, he overtook Randy Powers as the school's all-time leader.
While, who leads the 11-time reigning national champion Orange in groundballs with 71 this season, has collected at least five groundballs in 10 of the team's 14 contests this season and has scooped up 193 loose balls in his career. He ranks second among Division I defenders in both goals (six) and points (nine).