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My Makerbot was having a hard time printing out thin walls with water-tight settings, so I made this simple hollow cube to calibrate again from scratch. The walls of the cube are 1.5mm because that is the minimum thickness I would ever use. (See the OpenSCAD files if you\'d like to change dimensions)
While going through the calibration process, I strategically changed one Skeinforge parameter at a time no matter how mundane or obvious the change seemed to be. The process is documented with expected vs. actual results, notes, build times, high res pictures, and download-able gcode files for those interested in SkeinView-ing.
You can find it on the Wiki: http://wiki.makerbot.com/skeinforge-calibration-logs
2 Hollow Cubes.stl is for optimizing oozebane or extruder controlling for multi-part prints. (I haven\'t gotten that far, yet.)
If you are new user and/or intimidated by the process of calibrating your Makerbot, I encourage you to document your entire process so that it will be easier for others to have a clear perspective of what you\\'ve done in case you encounter problems.
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What is the size of this cube supposed to be when printed?
Looks like 24mm when I imported but I want to make sure. I've used this calibration cube to help me tweak my Printrbot Simple. Thanks!
I'm honestly not sure, sorry. This was originally intended for Skeinforge 6 to optimize thin wall toolpaths, while also being able to calibrate oozbane and bridging. Things have certainly come a long way since then. You can change the SCAD file or use another calibration file for accuracy calibration.
Cool, but I can't click "I made one!" since all rights are reserved. :( That is, if I did make one, which I'm not admitting. ;) P
That was unintentional, now its public domain.
What settings do I change if it's making a bunch of tiny jog prints in between the outer and inner layers in the walls? I've had this problem with other walled boxes I tried to print. it fills the out wall and inner wall but then stutters violently trying to fill the wall.
change fill
gt; infill permimeter overlap (down) and infill width over thickness (up) as well as carve
gt; layer height (up) until the Skeinlayer view only has straight lines in the layers with only walls (you don't even need to print it to check). Also, you can shrink the hollow cube down until it's only a few layers so that you g-code generation goes a lot quicker. After the gcode generates with only straight lines, tweak your flow rate until your printer is actually producing liens that have that width over thickness ratio.
I dont think the jogging is necessarily a bad thing, its just not the most time efficient method of filling the walls. I think it has to do with tweaking layer height and feed-rate so your optimal result would be 3 straight passes at 0.5mm a piece. This would be a good question to bring up in the Makerbot Operators google group, as someone might know for certain.
Damn, you are guilting me into documenting my calibration process. Well making a google spread sheet would be helpful for me my self too.
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Fresh install of 14.0 64-bit to new machine: frozen gui at startx
1. chose kde
2. entered startx from command line
3. got blue screen, then blacked out, then after 2 seconds, blue screen again,
with first icon (a disk I think), a cursor frozen mid-screen
4. no keyboard
5. no mouse action
here is the output of:
lspci -vnn:
lebec@DarkDuck ~ $ lspci -vnn
Any suggestions guys/gals?
1. Rinse and repeat. I have had occasions that I have had to try starting KDE a few times before it would come up successfully.
2. Try another window manager e.g xfce
3. Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log for errors.
thanks allend; i just noticed you are from my old home "town"
(i love the "argo": "rinse and repeat"... had a chuckle)
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So, you are telling me to re-install right? (run through the "cycle" again?)
I don't think allend meant that you need to reinstall anything.
If you start at runlevel 3 (console mode), type 'xwmconfig' to chose another DE or WM (than KDE) before running 'startx'.
If you start in runlevel 4, choose another DE or WM clicking the arrow (IIRC).
No, not reinstall, just try starting KDE a few times. KDE does autodetection at startup and stores information in configuration files. This may not always be a smooth process.
If you are still having problems, then try a different window manager, to test whether it is just KDE or a more fundamental problem with X.
If an alternative window manager works, then try starting KDE with compositing disabled. From CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT
Regardless of your chipset (though it seems more common with intel), if KDE
Aside- This 'Mexican' says to watch out for banana benders!
I think I might cut my losses with this bootable version 14 64-bit and
go for a clean install of current.
(when i moved up here to northern rivers i was told by a casual acquaintance to change the plates on my bike so people would stop aiming for me on the road ...
they are strange drivers up here: more conservative somehow and far less tolerant of "bad" behaviour (aka "creative transits") by bikers: ie: lane-splitting, for example, which is charmingly overlooked by melbourne drivers and ruthlessly persecuted by their new south welshperson equivalents)
After repeated attempts using various DEnvironments, I gave up and re-installed.
Now, in ALL DE, the gui is fragmented: parts of screen unreadable, terminal output patchy.
I'm going to capture the log report but here is something else which might be diagnostic: when I tried to run install in VirtualBox, I got an error message on startup saying that VM was seeing my machine as 32-bit and that as such it wouldn't be able to run the inserted software in VM (nameley, my 64-bit version of slackware)
output of /var/log/Xorg.O.log (part 1) ... it was too long to do in 1 go
[ 17.785]
part2 of /var/log/Xorg.O.log
[ 18.558] (II) intel(0): Supported established timings:
[ 18.292] (II) intel(0): EDID for output VGA1
[ 18.558] (II) intel(0): EDID for output HDMI2
Not much, except:
the web cam now works,
my grub menu has been fixed (it was skipping two menu items per click),
and I hope, that when I re-install slack, it will recognize just one output
and install correctly, because, currently, it is still displaying fragmented.
THANK YOU most mostly!
For your time and kindness in getting back to me.
This is truly a classic example of gross violation of good old RTFM principle,
and for that, I owe you an apology, sincerely offered, for having wasted your time.
No wuckers.
GUI fragmenting on bootup
Actually, despite having solved a number of problems, the unplugging of one or the other of the second outputs for the monitor still has not solved my difficulties getting slackware to run in a gui, regardless of DE.
Anyone got any idea what this might indicate?
I have a perfect gui in both archbang and mint but regardless of which DE I try when i run slacware, I cannot get a clean gui:
all menus and their items have letters missing, to the point where after a few clicks and selections, it becomes all but unreadable.
Thanks for any ideas.
If the other distributions work on your hardware, then so will Slackware. The problems you describe suggest a corrupted Slackware install or missing libraries.
Are you running a full Slackware 14.0 install or did you skip some packages series?
Are you confident that the install media is OK?
Have you tried to upgrade to Slackware-current?
1. I have downloaded a fresh iso but the md5sum number doesn't match the iso!
2. Ever since my penultimate install attempt, during which I managed to get installer to wrongly "see" the contents of cdrom as a "swap-file", I now have a memtest in my grub menu (???!!!!)
I guess it is time to bite down and go for ANOTHER 2.4GB d.load of slack 14....
4 hous later: I dloaded Slack14 64-bit, again, burned it slower this time (just in case) went to boot up and noticed this time an error message flash by as first item after booting:
"error: no device ..." followed by what looks like a md5sum number, but i can't be sure and it goes by too quick to read
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Haley Smithwick is two seconds older than her twin sister, Cameron.
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|02 Jun 2012
SLI Really Worth It?
I am trying to figure out if picking up another GPU to run in SLI is really going to be worth my time and/or money.
While playing video games I usually run capturing software in the background. I usually switch between Fraps and Bandicam. When I start to record in game footage my FPS will usually drop down to the low 20's. When I am not recording I average 35-55 fps. My question is, if I decide to run another card in SLI will I notice FPS improvements during normal gaming sessions and/or when I'm capturing footage.
By the way I am running at 1920x1080p resolution.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition Thuban 3.3GHz, 3.7GHz Turbo Socket AM3
CPU Cooler: ZALMAN CNPS11X Extreme V-Shaped Dual Heatpipe Design w/120mm Long Life Bearing
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 2048 MB GDDR5
PSU: Antec High Current Gamer Series HCG-900 900W
MEMORY: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 186
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|02 Jun 2012
8 Pro x64
Depending on the game/SLI profile driver support - yes, you will notice a definite improvement.
There will be a few games here and there that won't benefit that much, or will cause glitches due to lack of game engine/driver support - but for those that are supported your framerate will increase and allow you to potentially run at even higher settings.
SLI (or multiple cards in general) are not glitch free and can cause headaches of their own; but when it works - it works well. If you've already got a 550ti, it would be worthwhile grabbing another one.
As for recording, you should see some improvements in certain titles. Fraps pretty much halves your framerate when recoding as is (as you've noticed) so an increased framerate will also result in smoother recording.
|My System Specs
|02 Jun 2012
Thank you very much. I will most likely be picking up another 550ti now. I just hope that I notice a improvement concerning the heavy FPS drop I experience while capturing footage.
|My System Specs
|04 Jun 2012
Windows 7 Enterprise X64/Windows 10 Enterprise X64/Windows 10 Pro X64/Linux Mint
Perhaps you can find another capture program instead of FRAPS. Fraps will really drag down performance while recording. There may be better options.
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|04 Jun 2012
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|04 Jun 2012
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
i suggest that you upgrade in steed i had a gtx 550ti just like you butt i have upgrade to a gtx670. it is cheaper in the long therm..
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|04 Jun 2012
Win7 Pro x64
Yeah, the tech moves too fast for SLI to be an effective solution for long (let alone a cost-effective one). Your specs are pretty good already btw, normally fraps recording shouldn't lag much - then I noticed your resolution; stepping it down a bit may help, if it's an option.
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|04 Jun 2012
Yeah, the tech moves too fast for SLI to be an effective solution for long (let alone a cost-effective one). Your specs are pretty good already btw, normally fraps recording shouldn't lag much - then I noticed your resolution; stepping it down a bit may help, if it's an option.
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|04 Jun 2012
Windows 10 Home Premium 64bit sp1
your good for a while if you SLI two 550 TI's you will see a good jump in frame rate and performance
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|05 Jul 2012
I will be getting my 2nd GTX 550ti in the mail today. I will run it in SLI with my current one and share my results. I had another question though. I have a old 9800 GTX that I don't use anymore and I was wondering if it would be a waste of time to SLI my two GTX 550's while also using my old 9800 as a disignated PhyXs card. Your thoughts?
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Thought I'd share my 'Draw my Life' video with you on my birthday. I hope you enjoy :)
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2013-04-20 04:35:51
Happy Birthday!
You share a birthday with Hitler.
2013-04-20 04:45:16
wow this is good man, i wish you a great future
2013-04-20 04:49:48
Happy Birthday and have a nice day :D
And man, this video was awesome !
realy nice quick drawings and and teller voice
enjoyed it very much =)
2013-04-20 04:54:27
that was seriously amazing.
happy birthday dude!
2013-04-20 05:24:16
Happy birthday, man!
Have a nice day :))
2013-04-20 05:29:48
Happy birthday man
2013-04-20 05:33:59
Very touching, Happy birthday!
2013-04-20 05:40:11
Amazing video, really very touching, Happy birthday Jazza!
2013-04-20 07:11:09
Happy birthday! Great video man!
2013-04-20 07:11:11
Happy birthday! Great video man!
2013-04-20 07:11:15
Happy birthday! Great video man!
2013-04-20 07:38:31
I'm amazed by how long that pen lasted.
Btw. happy birthday.
2013-04-20 07:40:11
Happy B-day, mate. I hope you stay as productive as always.
2013-04-20 07:52:30
Well that explains everything. Keep it up, i wish you touched on your intent to help people now that youre a professional, i was curious what changed, or what inspired you to take a more active role in that or im just nosy.
I'd never looked at anything having 'changed', I think circumstances just allow me to do so in a better way now. I made drawing tutorials years ago, hell, when I was 14 I was designing my first how to draw book. I think It's always been something I've wanted to do and felt I'd be good at, and there are so many better animators than me around here, but so few people teaching, and I enjoy it so much, that I guess in the last year I've grabbed the bull by the horns and really enjoyed it, if that makes sense..
2013-04-20 08:15:49
Jazza, it was just amazing !! Drawings are visualy simple and your is like a story-teller one !! At the end, it makes me cry, seriously !! This is art: it makes you feel emotions felt by the autor, in fact you :) and this is greatly done !!*
By the way Happy Birthday, Jazza :D
2013-04-20 08:44:18
U almost made my cry. I give 5/5 for your life. Happy birthday.
2013-04-20 09:33:13
Happy B-Day, dude.
2013-04-20 10:11:53
2013-04-20 10:15:20
That was really awesome! Happy Birthday! :D
2013-04-20 11:05:17
2013-04-20 11:08:16
Happy Birthday! b(^_^)d
2013-04-20 14:02:13
Happy birthday. :) That video was absolutely terrific. All the best.
2013-04-20 14:41:34
That was touching. In a sense I feel like you, but at an earlier stage. I'm 17 and still in high school, I'm that chubby kid with some bad bathing habits but I know I need to improve but lately I have no motivation to do so in those things. Which is sad. I like to draw and sing but I'm pretty mediocre at both. I to was raised in and still am In a mormon household. However, I started doubting the truth of this church and turned to atheism. I informed my parents and they constantly are nagging about some man in the sky being angry and concerned for me. And my sister which has been one of my biggest supporter of my dreams, which provided me a laptop and a good quality mic to voice act with revoked her support and love from me. I am now stuck with using the computers at school to animate and a very slow home desktop, (which I'm not supposed to be on but I get on it anyways), to check my newgrounds and my views and such. But now I'm kinda stuck with two projects and limited resources to do it. So life is pretty hard right now but perhaps if I stay optimistic I can pull through. Thank you for the video. It has brightened my life a little in this time of darkness.
Thanks man, I'm glad you connected to the story in that way. The only thing I'll say, is be optimistic. It's what turns the grey sky into one with silver lining and allows you to pull yourself out of crappy situations.
2013-04-20 15:31:21
Best Draw my Life i've seen yet
2013-04-20 18:49:26
Wow. Happy birthday, and that was a very good video.
2013-04-20 19:09:01
That was very adorable.
When I was in primary school I used to wet myself, which meant I had no friends and was a huge joke, snowballing into a spineless, introverted personality type who's afraid of girls. I can relate to looking in the mirror and wanting to be a different person; I did the same thing when I made a change to stop wearing glasses. Nobody ever died though, and I wasn't a mormon.
Congratulations on not having been a mormon. haha. Nah man, kids can be cruel, and we're all different, in good and strange ways. The key I feel, is accepting ourselves before we look to others for acceptance.
2013-04-20 20:12:32
Happy happy birthday and that was an awesome inspiring YouTube. Best wishes.
2013-04-20 20:57:59
That was extremely beautiful man.
Best of luck to you.
2013-04-21 06:38:52
Beautiful story, not corny at all.. not at all.
2013-04-21 10:17:42
THERES NO EXCUSE FOR NOT BATHING. CHRIST. I can understand if youre chubby, or really ugly, but for the love of allah bathe. Its totally attainable and there's no reason you should be smelly kid, RogueRobot. Also good on you jazzie, for passing things on. I do feel as the site has aged more people are in the interest of sharing their knowledge, be it with i-smels dumb production updates, or artists doing livestreams or all out tutorials. Its a good thing. The flash scene used to be very siloed when i was in my prime. hurr
I KNOW!! It's cool bro, I'm over it now. I bathe minimum once a day, and deoderant and cologne are a regular asset to my getup, so I'm a changed man. And you're still in your prime Luis. remember that. You're like a fine wine. You get better with age. But you're a fucking badass wine. With a sombrero.
2013-04-21 20:17:10
This is awesome. I've always kinda looked up to you for how great your animations and art are, and this is the perfect thing for you to do. You are an animation god with an incredibly interesting, and sometimes sad, story to tell. Totally awesome =)
By the way, I heard about your artist showcase idea, and I was wondering, Do minecraft skins on Skincraft count? I have a few good ones on my page that I put a lot of effort into, but nobody really bothers to check them out, and I was wondering if you could at least check them out, even if you don't showcase them, if you just, like, commented on them, that would be really cool. =)
Thanks for the kind words
Unfortunately I'm keeping the showcase exclusively to art on the portal that is unique and varies.
2013-04-22 16:47:32
Hey dude. Thanks for sharing that with us. It's good to know that I wasn't the only weird kid that drew all the time and didn't have a whole lot of friends in high school. I wasn't chubby or smelly but I was really skinny and clumsy and I was also bullied. But now I know that there were other kids like me in the world and I don't have to feel so alone. Thanks man! :)
2013-04-22 20:51:58
I am 14, and I get no allowance. I would like a lcd tablet, but cannot afford one and my parents won't get one. any Ideas? I'm not allowed to even mow lawns.
2013-04-24 18:55:12
Okay, now I've gone and joined this site. I'll have to figure out how to use it. I love your work and maybe one day I'll get to share mine. I took flash in college and have not been using it until I found you. I've been using Anime Studio. I'll be watching and I really liked your draw my life vid, Cheers
2013-04-25 16:42:58
Happy Birthday!


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Growing into and out of Social Conflict
We present a model of growth and distributional conflict that implies a non-monotonic relationship between average wealth and the likelihood of radical redistribution; while the net benefits of redistribution for members of the poor class are small at low stages of development, a shift towards egalitarianism considerably improves agents' income prospects once an intermediate level of per-capita wealth is reached. As the economy grows further, the incentive to challange the existing social order decreases again and eventually vanishes. This nonmonotonicity captures the observation that historical shifts to radically redistributive policies frequently took place after extended periods of economic growth.
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Neuromancer isn't a digestible novel. If you pick up William Gibson's book and only read the first ten pages of it, you'll already find yourself lost in its futuristic, cyberpunk narrative. That's a part of the book's charm, and it may have ended up causing troubles for its long-awaited cinematic adaptation. A few writers and directors have tried making the project work, but, for one reason or another, it has never come together. Neuormancer isn't an easy sell, so it's long road to the big screen makes sense.
Director , who picked up the high-profile project around the release of Splice, says he may have done the impossible and made Neuromancer accessible, while also preserving the novel's edge:
What's funny is, if you read my draft of Neuormancer, it's quite accessible. There's complexity to it, because that's the nature of the material, but it's not esoteric. It's edgy, but it's not NC-17 or something like that. Basically, it's hard to make something dystopian at that budget level. I believe it'll happen, though. The reason it takes so long is because you must have the right cast, and it takes forever to find the right actors.
To finally make his dystopian movie come to life, one of those right actors would be responsible for it:
It's an ongoing process [finding the right actor]. It's never stopped [Laughs], and nor has it for High Rise. The scripts for those movies are done, and so is some of the concept work and so on. It's just about finding the right people. You have to fulfill both the creative component and cast someone who can get the movie made. It's not so hard to get one of those, but it's hard to get both of those in one person, which is what makes it difficult.
That sounds about right. Besides finding an actor who has artist and commerce written all over them, you need to find a performer brave enough to jump into material as daring as Neuromancer.


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Strange sights in Dewey Beach are not uncommon, but a zombie walking the streets in the middle of the day?
A zombie was using the crosswalk in front of the Starboard Restaurant July 26 as part of a pedestrian safety checkpoint sponsored by the state Office of Highway Safety, Dewey Beach police, Delaware Department of Transportation and Delaware State Police.
The safety campaign, "Don't Join The Walking Dead," a take off on the hit TV show, started in New Castle County over Memorial Day weekend. The significance of the campaign has been unfortunately spotlighted by 13 pedestrian deaths on the state's roads so far this year with five of those deaths in Sussex County, all at night.
During the checkpoint, staff from the state agencies and police stopped and spoke with pedestrians walking along and crossing Route 1 near the Starboard Restaurant. Many were stopped for crossing the road illegally, but no tickets were issued; the checkpoint was not an enforcement stop.
Dewey Beach Police Lt. J. William Hocker said it's hard to educate people when there is such a high turnover rate of vacationers. He says he frequently issues warnings. "I try not to ticket, if possible, but if people are warned and don't obey, noncompliance can be deadly, as we have seen in the tragic events this summer."
Alison Kirk, Office of Highway Safety spokeswoman, said some people are shocked by the "Walking Dead" campaign, but that's the campaign's aim. "Shock value gets you to pay attention and to talk about it," Kirk says, "that is the point of the campaign."
Right-of-way for pedestrians
Kirk said the main reason for the campaign is to educate the public about traffic laws pertaining to pedestrians. Under state law, pedestrians have the right of way in designated crosswalks, but only when it does not present a hazard. Crossing at signalized intersections is one thing; crossing without signals is another.
Drivers are required to yield by slowing down or stopping to allow pedestrians to cross the street when pedestrians are in a crosswalk.
However, in heavy traffic situations – such as Route 1 in Dewey Beach – pedestrians crossing at intersections or streets without traffic signals must wait for breaks in traffic to cross the street, Kirk said. Once a pedestrian steps out into a crosswalk during a break in traffic, motorists are required to yield or stop. She said the safest way to cross busy roads and streets is to cross using a designated crosswalk with a traffic signal.
Adding to the confusion, some towns have stricter laws. For example, in Lewes vehicles must stop for pedestrians in all crosswalks regardless of traffic.
The Delaware law:
• When traffic-control signals are not in place or not in operation or when the operator of a vehicle is making a turn at an intersection, the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way, slowing down or stopping if need be to so yield, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a crosswalk when the pedestrian is upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling, or when the pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half of the roadway as to be in danger.
• No pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle which is so close as to constitute an immediate hazard.
• Whenever any vehicle is stopped at a marked crosswalk or at any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway, the driver of any other vehicle approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass such stopped vehicle.
Starboard works to promote safety
Part of the reason the Starboard was chosen as a location was for visibility as well as for owner Steve "Monty" Montgomery's dedication to safety. Montgomery is active in the HERO campaign, designed to support designated drivers. "We, as an establishment, share everyone's concerns about our beach towns being safe. We realize this is a state highway," Montgomery said. "We want pedestrians to realize that drivers might be in a hurry to get to other beach towns, and to be careful when crossing and obey the laws – use the crosswalks."
For their part, the Starboard Restaurant tries to put as much distance between pedestrians and vehicles as they can; restaurant staff puts out barriers on sidewalks and streets outside the establishment to provide walkways for pedestrians.
Another checkpoint is scheduled for 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, on Second Street in Lewes. For more information on the campaign as well as pedestrian safety tips go to ohs.delaware.gov/PedestrianSafety.
Sussex County pedestrian fatal crashes:
• Four crashes that killed five pedestrians happened between June 8 and July 11; all were males ages 37 to 79, in the areas of Route 1 and Route 54 between 8:51 p.m. and 11:03 p.m.
• Alcohol involved on part of at least three pedestrians and one driver – one crash is still under investigation.
• State police note the following contributing factors: Pedestrian stepping into the lane of traffic; pedestrian attempting to cross the road and entering a lane in front of traffic; pedestrian stepping from median into the travel lane in front of traffic; and pedestrian walking in the wrong direction (back to traffic) in a turn lane.
• None of the crashes happened at crosswalks, signaled or marked intersections.
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Barelos is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano and composition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She earned degrees in history and music from
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Specializing in new music, Barelos works mostly with 20th and 21st century pieces. All works to be played at the recital are from the 21st century.
The recital will consist of six pieces. Eadem Mutato Resurgo, written by Joseph Dangerfield, continues into Tryglyph, forming one piece. Hommage à W.A., written by David Gompper, will be followed by Downward Courses, written by Dr. Luke Dahn, who joined Northwestern's faculty this fall. Free and Unticketed, composed by Barelos, will also be played, followed by Quiet Music, written by John Allemeier. The final piece for the evening will be


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[AWARDS] The Pali Blues, who will be seeking their third league title this weekend after claiming the Western Conference championship, led all teams with four
players chosen to the 2012 W-League All-League Team.
Blues goalkeeper Anna Maria Picarelli, defender Sasha Andrews, midfielder Sarah Huffman and forward Lynn Williams were among the selections.
The league's leading scorer, Grace Hawkins (17 goals for the Long Island Rough Riders) and Williams (10 goals) were joined by the Quebec City Amiral's Imen Trodi on the front line.
Other selections included a pair of U.S. internationals: defender Stephanie Cox of the Seattle Sounders Women and midfielder Yael Averbuch of the New Jersey Wildcats.
2012 W-League All-League Team
GK – Anna Maria Picarelli, Pali Blues
D – Sasha Andrews, Pali Blues
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D – Stephanie Cox, Seattle Sounders Women
D – Cindy Walsh, Laval Comets
MF – Yael Averbuch, New Jersey Wildcats
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Andrew Baxter Sr. is a distribution manager for a computer warehouse, and his wife, Angela, is a travel agent; theirs is a happy, healthy home in the middle of middle-class suburbia, deep in the heart of Carrollton. They are parents of two clean-cut kids any parent would proudly claim: 14-year-old Morgan and 11-year-old Andrew Jr., boys who are the picture of fresh-scrubbed adolescence. Andrew, for instance, adores Nintendo and basketball, and a trip to his bedroom reveals shelves filled with Beanie Babies, Legos, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Donald Duck dolls, and a picture of his girlfriend; among his favorite TV shows are such kiddie fare as Family Matters, Step by Step, and Hangin' With Mr. Cooper. He's suburban-normal, right down to the guitar his parents bought for him awhile back; Junior's just another kid whiling away the hours by making a little music and waking up the neighborhood.
But he's also much more than that: At age 11, Andrew Baxter Jr. is a guitar-picker whose control, timing, and taste make him an impressive blues musician. The fact that he just turned 11 is what gets people to watch; the fact that he can play all hell out of his instrument is what makes them listen.
Already, the fifth-grader, not yet five feet tall, has been regularly showcasing at blues festivals and weekly jams. Once a month, he shows up at the Blue Mule in the West End and plays with the Hash Brown Band--it's a paying gig--and only a few days ago, he was on stage at the Hole in the Wall on Harry Hines, fronting his own band for the first time. He's a pint-sized star: In order to accommodate nightly requests for autographs, Andrew Sr.--father, roadie--ordered a hundred 8-by-10s, which he sells for $5; the proceeds funnel into Andrew Jr's. music fund. (Only five are left at the moment.) The music fund defrays maintenance costs for five stage guitars, two blues amps, strings, repairs, and customized picks bearing the Andrew Baxter Jr. name.
Andrew Sr. says he's in no particular rush to see his boy turn pro, but already music-gear industry sharks are circling, and would like his endorsement early. A Nashville guitar company is building him an instrument from scratch. D'Aquisto Strings, in New York, sent a dozen sets and a letter saying they'd love to have Andrew "join our team of endorsers." The kid has yet to write his first song. But the American public's obsession with baseball-card celebrities strikes nightly when the Baxters visit clubs.
Drunks plunge napkins or matchbooks before him, requesting an autograph with today's date, so they can prove they knew him when. "Sometimes they spit when they talk," complains Andrew of such late-night demands, in the wee hours before he must be in school.
It would be easy to dismiss Andrew as just another kiddie musical sensation, the blues version of LeAnn Rimes or Radish's Ben Kweller--kids who get on stage before their voices even break, who make music without yet knowing how all the pieces fit together. His parents avoid using the term "child prodigy" when referring to Andrew; they don't want to burden him with such expectations. Besides, can there even be such a thing as a child prodigy of the blues?
Dallas-based blues artist Lucky Peterson, with whom Andrew recently played at Blue Cat Blues, was once such a "prodigy," appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show when he was Andrew's age; still, it took years before Peterson escaped the novelty tag. Little Stevie Wonder was a child prodigy, of course. But is Andrew one? Brian "Hash Brown" Calway, who worked for Andrew Sr. a decade ago, thinks so. "He plays as well as guys in their 20s, with tons of room to grow," says Calway. "He's a hard worker. I've given him a couple of lessons. Then he goes home and woodsheds."
Andrew Jr. clears his plate at the family dinner table; it's all so Leave It to Beaver. He plays solitaire, shuffling cards. He's a picker, not a talker, and looks to his father as his spokesman. Andrew Sr. fetches their 1998 Charley's Guitar Shop calendar, which serves as a personal diary. During a "Young Gun Shoot-Out" at the Tandy Center in Fort Worth, Andrew "took the cake," his father says, handily gunning down fellow adolescent guitarists. Other boys fell silent after their solos; Andrew was the only kid who could also play rhythm.
Other highlights read like an education in the blues: Blues impresario and ex-pro-wrestling champ Armand Hussein invited him to attend the East Texas Pinetop Blues Festival, where he sat in with Tutu Jones. Hussein drove Junior around in a golf cart and introduced him to the likes of Bobby Blue Bland and the guys who hang out at R.L. Griffin's, the South Dallas blues institution where only the strong survive. "They invited us to their club," dad says.
Andrew met Lou Ann Barton at the Texas Independence Day Festival at Sons of Hermann Hall last year, and Antone's house guitarist Derrick O'Brien gave him his number; Lou Ann requested he learn "It's Raining" before coming to Austin to sit in. He met Buddy Miles last year at the Robert Ealey Blues Festival in Fort Worth and now sits in with Ealey every three months. The Baxters also attended the First Annual Blind Lemon Jefferson Festival in Wortham, Texas, where Andrew sat in with family friends Jim Suhler and Monkey Beat, then played a local juke joint that night. "They turned it up to eight and just blew that little shack down," recalls Andrew Sr., never a guitar player himself.
"He's so young, it's a novelty," marvels Jim Suhler. "His hands are so tiny, people think, 'Isn't that cute?' But he can really play, and he seems to be in it for the long haul. He never gets rattled, never a bead of sweat, always real poised."
Observing Andrew at home and onstage proves that his precocious love of the blues is generated from within. Andrew sets his own pace, and his parents merely accommodate; his folks insist they're not star parents, pushing their kid toward something he doesn't want. He keeps his musical equipment out of his bedroom and stashes it in a separate "blues room," and his clothes closet indicates a budding show-biz career: There are pairs of pointed cowboy boots adorned with musical notes. Andrew wants tips for all his boots.
This is where he dresses to the nines in blues regalia before hitting the clubs. His style is modeled on Jimmie Vaughan's retro R&B threads--the wardrobe of Mississippi sharecroppers who moved to Chicago in the 1940s, went electric, and dressed up Delta blues. It's a million miles from today's fifth-graders, who get tattoos and piercings and experiment with drugs. But the kids at school make fun of Andrew's hair, which he models equally on "Jimmie Vaughan and Ricky Ricardo." Every day, he slicks gel in his hair (favorite brand: Dippity Do).
Andrew's life of blues seems more about his natural feel for guitar, rather than suffering the thoughts of a Percy Mayfield or Howlin' Wolf. But the kid is not just into style; he's got substance. His music room is serious business: The walls are covered with Texas blues festival posters, most of which Andrew has attended. The first guitar he used for live performance is a three-quarter scale, child's-size Fender Duosonic; his first tube amp was a tweed Fender Blues Jr. Then his folks purchased a full-sized Silvertone hollow body for a hundred bucks; then came a blond Vibrolux amp, now fueled by his No. 1 ax, a man-sized '60s reissue Strat.
I grab the Strat, while Andrew takes his Guild X-170 hollow body. I start off the rhythm on Freddie King's "Side Tracked," letting Andrew play lead. He doesn't hit a wrong note or lose a moment's rhythm, even when I do. He doesn't add any flash or rock licks to his blues, he keeps it country--unlike anyone remotely his age. He plays behind his head for a moment, but does this only as a concession to showmanship.
"One night at Muddy Waters, [local bluesman] Shawn Pittman got me up there and said I could use anything [effects pedals]," Andrew recalls. "OK, we're doin' like a funk song in D, and I just pressed the wah-wah pedal and heard it snap on." According to reports, the kid was born to wah, and his dad got him a Vox wah-wah for his 11th birthday.
"Do some 'Soul Sister,'" dad says, and Andrew obliges.
"I don't wanna take a whole buncha time with the lead, because that would be rude," explains Andrew about playing tastefully behind vocalists. He begins his solos softly, when cued by a singer, then builds from the vocals.
When I ask him what his favorite records are, Andrew is unsure of what the obsolete word--record--means. "Tell him your favorite CDs," says his father. He lists Johnny Moeller's Return of the Funky Worm, released on the Dallas Blues Society label in 1996, along with anything by Mike Morgan and the Crawl. Morgan, whom his parents knew before Andrew was born, happens to be Andrew Baxter Jr.'s role model.
"Poor kid," Morgan says when told of this. "But he's a great little kid. I wish I woulda been born with talent and a work ethic like that. If he keeps goin'..." Morgan's voice tails off, hinting at the obvious.
I first saw Andrew play when he was ushered onstage at Poor David's with Anson and the Rockets. Weeks later, he sat in with Little Charlie and the Nightcats. How did a little boy manage to land onstage with Charlie Baty, a 45-year-old California-based guitarist on Alligator Records who had never heard--or heard of--him?
"I played Little Charlie's guitar during break," explains Andrew matter-of-factly.
"They were talking shop, and Charlie Baty saw those little fingers working," says his father. "He could tell Andrew was good."
The Baxters have attended the last four Greater Southwest Guitar Shows, and event producer Mark Pollock booked Andrew as a feature attraction for next year. This year, the Southwest Blues newspaper invited him to sit at their booth and play. Andrew brought his little tweed amp, and blues senior Joe Jonas accompanied him on harmonica. Andrew Sr. recalls: "This guy comes over, and goes, 'Hey, your kid is good; he's got good timing. C'mere, you need to talk to me.'"
Jimmy Triggs, a Nashville luthier, approached the Baxters about custom-building a guitar for the kid. "I go, 'How much is this gonna cost us?'" dad says. "He goes, 'No, I wanna build you one.'" The only thing Andrew's asked for specifically was a fat neck. He also wants a Tele, a good slide guitar, and a red Brian Setzer 6120 model Gretsch with the dice volume knobs (the size of which would dwarf him). He keeps a poster of it in his music room.
Andrew Sr. worked at the original Stubbs Barbecue in Lubbock in the 1970s, the region's premiere blues club. The Baxters have a photo of 3-year-old Andrew onstage with guitar at the short-lived Dallas Stubbs on Greenville Avenue ("I had 40 percent of nothin' of that," says Andrew Sr.). He's onstage with Jim Suhler, Mike Morgan, Lee McBee, and Doyle Bramhall Sr. Andrew holds a real guitar, but was playing air guitar. "Picking up the rhythms and the grooves," his dad says. His maternal grandfather taught Andrew the riff from "Secret Agent Man," the first lick for millions of kids.
A collection of Andrew Sr.'s LPs sits on a top shelf in the music room, and it includes albums by the likes of the Palladins (with whom Andrew recently posed for pictures backstage at the Sons of Hermann), the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Freddie King, George Thorogood, Anson Funderburgh, Marcia Ball, Angela Strehli, and Roomful of Blues. "All the blacks are down there," Andrew Jr. points out, and sure enough, segregated on the bottom shelf is the deep stuff: Willie Dixon, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, T-Bone Walker, Albert King, Junior Wells, Albert Collins. The kid practices against these records, and next wants to learn "Okie Dokie Stomp" from a Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown album.
"Play some 'Snatch It Back and Hold It,'" says Andrew Sr., not unlike father goading his high school football-star son. "How 'bout some 'My Babe Don't Stand No Cheatin?'" Andrew obliges with each of these blues motifs. He's played two talent shows at Polser Elementary School, his Carrollton school, and one "pancake breakfast." He performed "Johnny B. Goode" and "Kansas City" with the school principal, Mr. Wagner, on rhythm guitar, and another fifth-grader on drums. The parents loved it. But not one friend or peer in Andrew's fifth-grade class shares his interest in blues. They prefer Marilyn Manson.
"[Manson] sucks," Andrew says with a laugh. "I think he's stupid. Some people at school say I show off, playing guitar." He shrugs, but this doesn't give him any pause. He can think of only one girl who likes his playing. Andrew will be joining the school orchestra next year, tackling upright bass.
Angela Baxter tells of a time 10 years ago, when her son was three weeks old. They were in Little Rock, Arkansas, visiting her family, and the Stevie Ray Vaughan bus was in town. Since the Baxters knew Double Trouble bassist Tommy Shannon from their days at Stubbs, they were invited in. Angela recalls Vaughan holding little Andrew and giving him a small kiss on the cheek. To her, it was an omen.
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Andrew's first album is not even a dream, considering he's yet to write a whole song. Once, his big brother was in the hospital for a few days, and his father suggested he go to his room and write something to express how bad he felt about seeing his brother lying in bed. But Andrew wasn't ready, and he won't be for a while. So father and son continue to hit the clubs every so often, at least two or three a night. The clubs never charge cover.
"We don't go out for beers," Andrew Sr. says, but of course. "He goes to hear music, that's the sole purpose. All the guitarists in town give him a chance. They know he's not gonna hog the stage or his head's not gonna pop. I was his caretaker first, now I'm his roadie. I'll make sure his amp is on, he's tuned up. But it's between him and the folks onstage. A lot of people at the jams request Andrew. If he likes who's playin', if he's comfortable, he'll say yeah, and if he doesn't, he'll tell ya, 'I don't wanna play with 'em."
"There's this bass player who looks like a bulldog," Junior explains. "He smells...But it doesn't bother me, except when they spit in my face," he says, talking about the drunken fans who can't believe a sound so big comes out of a child so small. "They ask, 'Are you gonna be the next Jimmie Ray Vaughan?'"
"There ain't no rush," his father insists. Indeed, Andrew Baxter Jr. is one bluesman--one blueschild--who has all the time in the world.


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Fourth Buffalo worker admits stealing meter quarters
About 1.2 million quarters.
In a nutshell, that is what four city workers stole from Buffalo's parking meters over the past 10 years.
The final tally of more than $300,000 became evident Tuesday when the last of the four pleaded guilty in federal court.
Franklin Lopez Jr., a former coin collector in the Parking Enforcement Department, admitted stealing $69,000 in quarters as part of a plea deal that could send him to prison for 16 months.
"He always had large amounts of cash with him," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Maura K. O'Donnell. "He appeared to live beyond his means."
Arrested as part of a two-year investigation by the FBI, Lopez, 34, is the fourth and final city employee to admit he stole quarters from meters he was supposed to service.
Prosecutors claim Lopez used his stolen loot to finance a lavish lifestyle that included trips to Las Vegas and New York City.
Court papers detail a series of unexplained deposits and payments in his eight years at City Hall to suggest he was supplementing his part-time income with stolen quarters.
"It's something I'll always live with," Lopez told U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. "I always knew there were consequences."
His guilty plea follows similar admissions by three other parking enforcement workers.
James Bagarozzo, a former parking meter mechanic, was sentenced to 2½ years in prison for his role in a separate parking meter scam. By his own admission, Bagarozzo stole $210,000 over an eight-year period.
Lawrence Charles, a meter mechanic who admitted stealing $15,000 in quarters, was sentenced last October to six months in prison.
The third employee, Francis Tronolone, a parking meter mechanic, admitted stealing $9,000 over a 10-year period as part of a plea deal in December.
The thefts were uncovered by the Brown administration and investigated by the FBI.
The allegations against Lopez were different because of his job and how it gave him access to quarters in the meters.
His job, according to investigators, was to empty parking meters filled with quarters into a portable vault he transported to and from City Hall.
The allegation is that he used a second, unauthorized vault to steal from the meters.
City Parking Commissioner Kevin Helfer, the man credited with uncovering the thefts, said Lopez's plea concludes the parking meter investigation.
"From my knowledge, yes, this is the end," Helfer said Tuesday. He thinks the city is better equipped now to identify and deal with employee thefts.
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Congress needs to weigh crack's risks in reforming drug sentencing
IN THE 1980s, entire communities were devastated by the addiction and violence that accompanied crack, a smokable form of cocaine. Congress reacted by passing extraordinarily tough laws, including one that mandated a minimum prison sentence of five years for those in possession of as little as five grams of crack. Those arrested with 50 grams were automatically slapped with a 10-year sentence.
This supposed solution, backed at the time by many in the Congressional Black Caucus, turned out to be destructive also. Tens of thousands of black men -- many of them first-time offenders with no history of violent crime -- found themselves behind bars for inordinately long periods. White and Hispanic offenders -- those most often collared for powder cocaine violations -- had to be caught with 100 times the amount of powder to trigger the same mandatory minimum sentences.
Congress and the Obama administration seem poised to make a serious effort to correct this gross injustice, and they deserve credit for doing so. But the debate must not ignore evidence of the heightened dangers of addiction and violence posed by crack.
The Justice Department has announced its support for reducing crack penalties to mirror exactly those for powder. A bill recently introduced by Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) would codify this 1-to-1 ratio into law. Supporters of such a move point to the racial disparities between arrests for crack and powder, and argue that anything less than parity would be viewed by African Americans as a decision to continue targeting black men for tougher sentences. They also note that studies have shown that the addictive nature of crack has been significantly exaggerated and that no other drug carries with it different penalties depending on how it is consumed.
But appearances alone cannot justify the move contemplated by the Justice Department and the Durbin bill. A 2007 report from the U.S. Sentencing Commission shows that smoking crack delivers a faster, more intense high than snorting powder and that this high is more short-lived, thus compelling most crack users to seek additional doses of the drug. The differences in addiction rates between crack and powder are not enormous, but they are real, and the study also notes that crack users often experience faster rates of physical deterioration than do those who consume powder. The report notes that roughly one-fourth of crack offenders are associated with violence, and that this rate exceeds that for powder cocaine offenders. As in the 1980s, predominantly African American communities continue to bear the brunt of the crime and addiction brought on by this awful drug.
These facts suggest that there should be some difference in the penalties for crack and powder cocaine, but how much? This is a difficult question to answer with precision, so perhaps the best solution would be to eliminate the mandatory minimums for both crack and powder and build into the sentencing guidelines tougher penalty ranges for crack that judges could apply on a case-by-case basis.


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This is a fine and rare 1960s Paco Rabanne belt that is in very good condition and a huge statement piece. The disc at the front is made of a stainless steel and is huge. I love how it hooks to close with a hidden hook so that once on it presents as this fabulous circle. The leather belt part is wide and thick so really cinches you in. It adjusts to size but the row of three snaps you see on either side of the metal disks. Considering the age of the piece I doubt it was worn much if at all since there are no crease marks showing from multiple wears and adjustments of the size that you would see on a heavily worn piece. Besides some natural patina it is like getting a piece of history from a time capsule. Excellent condition.
The leather shows minimal natural patina and the metal has normal light scratches and some slight oxidation - all natural and age appropriate and nothing I would consider a true flaw. Both sides of the metal plate have the Paco Rabanne sticker.
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by James Brumley | August 16, 2013 8:24 am
You've got to give the World Gold Council a lot of credit. It was handed lemons, but made a valiant effort to turn them into lemonade. The introduction to its second-quarter trend update (published Thursday) read quite palatably:
"Q2 gold demand totaled 856.3 tonnes, worth US$39bn. Lower prices generated another surge in quarterly jewelry demand, most notably in India and China. Record quarterly investment in gold bars and coins was countered by sizeable outflows from ETFs as western investors reacted to a seemingly more positive outlook for the US economy and an eventual tapering of quantitative easing."
Just another ho-hum quarter, right? Ehhh … no.
Just as a reminder, Q2 of this year was the worst quarter ever for gold, in terms of its price. Ever. The world's favorite precious metal lost nearly 23% of its value between the beginning of April and the end of June, with demand falling to a four-year low.
We just didn't know exactly why until we got the specific numbers.
As far as the commercial and consumer uses of it go, gold's usual buyers took advantage of its plunging price. Jewelry makers — the industry that uses more gold than any other industry — bought up 575 tonnes of the stuff last quarter, vs. only 421 tonnes in the second quarter of 2012. That's the most that jewelers have snatched up since the 694 tonnes they bought in the third quarter of 2008, when gold prices averaged only $919 per ounce.
And that wasn't even the most amazing source of increase in demand.
The amount of gold that was sold in the form of bars and coins soared from Q2 2012's 286 tonnes and Q1 2013's 378 tonnes to a hefty 575 tonnes in the second quarter of this year — a record level of usage.
It's also an unusual shift in ownership preferences.
Whereas ETFs, gold funds and futures were the trade of choice accompanying gold's meteoric rise through late 2011, the gold bugs now prefer to hold the stuff in its raw physical form. Perhaps these owners fear the risk of mere promissory ownership, and would rather hold something they can keep in a safe-deposit box. Maybe these are the buyers who missed gold mania a few years ago, and have since been convinced by the resurgence of TV commercials touting the value of physical gold to "get in now while prices are low." Maybe Q2's buyers are the folks who want to (and this isn't entirely a joke) keep it safely tucked away in an apocalypse bunker.
Whatever the case, those buyers helped stave off what could have otherwise been a disastrous quarter for gold.
While the consumption of gold for jewelry, bars, coins and technology was solid in Q2, it didn't offset the stunning amount of gold that was liquidated by ETFs like the SPDR Gold Shares (GLD[1]) or the iShares Gold Trust (IAU[2]).
Remember in the first quarter how we were lamenting the fact the ETF industry was forced to sell 177 tonnes of gold[3] to cover redemptions and liquidations? Well, that was nothing compared to the second quarter's ETF outflow. Last quarter, fund managers sold (on a net basis) 400 tonnes of it to cover liquidations and redemptions.
Government and central banks dialed down their purchases to only 50 tonnes of gold in the second quarter. That was less than half the amount they bought in the first quarter of the year, and about a third the amount the world's government banks were buying every quarter when their interest was all the buzz in 2012.
Fans and supporters of gold — as well as owners of it — will be quick to argue that things could have been worse in Q2, and that the interest in physical ownership of gold is a sign of demand still being strong. But that's a desperate argument.
While the data doesn't exist to verify the idea, the shift in favor of owning physical gold is likely largely being spurred by fairly unsophisticated retail investors … perhaps newcomers to any type of investment market. When it's all said and done, though, actually holding gold in your hand is impractical as well as illiquid. Not many large and experienced investors would be willing to bother.
On the other hand, there's plenty of evidence that institutional money is getting out of gold, possibly for the long haul. John Paulson, for instance, cut his fund's SPDR Gold Shares position in half last quarter, down to about 10 million shares. Given that he's been a staunch gold bull since the fourth quarter of 2011, his exit speaks volumes, and might well be an indication of how other professionals are thinking about gold now.
Central banks seemed to agree, whittling their interest down considerably last quarter.
Even if retail investors were able to offset waning institutional sales of gold and weak demand from government banks, the looming end to the Fed's QE program will quell inflationary pressures before they were ever allowed to materialize; there's no need to own gold in a non-inflationary environment. Strong demand from the jewelry industry can't last forever, either.
Point being, the last of the little guys appear to be wading in while the smart money seems to be wading out. That doesn't bode well for gold's foreseeable future.
As of this writing, James Brumley did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
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With the growing need to distribute applications across multiple networks and the availability of high capacity, high-performance intermediate switching nodes and networks, an efficient routing mechanism has become the core requirement. This paper compares the performance of intra-domain routing protocols such as Enhanced Interior Gateway Protocol (EIGRP) and Interior Gateway Protocol (IGRP) of IEEE 802.3 LAN by evaluating various parameters including Network convergence time, End to End Delay, Delay Variation, Throughput, Utilization, Queuing Delay and IP Processing Delay. In addition to these metrics, the authors also compared the performance of video- and voice-data on the entire network under various constraints managed by routing protocols.


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"the amount of reviews this is getting is what I expected for gybe"
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I understand what you mean, don't worry. I just had to make a funny.
Digging: 21 Savage, Offset and Metro Boomin - Without Warning
Album Rating: 1.0Its not interesting its completely predictable
If you didnt see this coming youve never spent more than 1 second on sputnikmusic.COM
sorry let me rephrase that fucking statement for you then
of course this was gonna get them. I thoughe gybe and converge would too. but I guess prog wins out cos twiddle diddle diddle
Album Rating: 2.0with your 5s u r in no place to insult prog
Album Rating: 1.0What 5s?
Prog is gay
Fyi i dont listen to animal collective anymore those ratings are from 2009
I know what you mean Anarchist. I feel the staffers on this site will discuss Godspeed more than the users, whereas the staffers here don't care for BTBAM but the users do.
great comment
edit: that was aimed at progwanker
Album Rating: 1.0Yes so insightful
Anarchist, you also have to consider the fact the Godspeed album came out of nowhere, whereas this album was planned and anticipated
does that really make a difference? how long does it take people to write reviews?
Album Rating: 1.0Months
I planned this one out for a couple weeks, since I knew about when it'd be released. Yeah, it has more of an impact than you'd think - people don't really fancy writing knee-jerk reviews.
yeah true i forget that people on this site start writing their reviews a few weeks before they've
heard the album
people don't really fancy writing knee-jerk reviews.
lol sorry that first part of the comment sounded so condescending after your comment but it was aimed sarcastically at what kitsch said
stop interrupting me >_>
Anarchist, I just mean that people that review often prefer having time to prepare. I've written knee-jerk reviews, but much prefer having time to think about what's most important for me to say.
And no worries =]
Yeah Michael, same here. I just always have to think about what I need to emphasize in my review, which means taking time to listen to the album a decent bit. That is, if I care about the album a lot / if there's a decent amount to absorb.
Sometimes I get them done in ten minutes.
Album Rating: 4.0the fuck lol
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Album Rating: 2.0i'm so bad at writing
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- Convener: Councillor Ron McKail
- Vice Convener:
Councillor Fraser Forsyth
Vice Convener: Councillor Ron Shepherd
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|Aberdeen City
|Councillor Marie Boulton
|Councillor Alison Evison
|Councillor Douglas Ross
|Councillor Jackie Dunbar
|Councillor Allan Hendry
|Councillor Ron Shepherd
|Councillor Fraser Forsyth
|Councillor Fergie Hood
|Councillor Chris Tuke
|Councillor Martin Greig
|Councillor Ron McKail
|Councillor Angela Taylor
|Councillor Ian Tait
|Councillor Willie Young
|Councillor Iris Walker
|Aberdeen City
|Councillor Andy Finlayson
|Councillor Wendy Agnew
|Councillor Graham Leadbitter
|Councillor Graeme Lawrence
|Councillor Charles Buchan
|Councillor Gordon McDonald
|Councillor M Tauqeer Malik
|Councillor Raymond Christie
|Councillor Eric McGillivray
|Councillor Ross Thomson
|Councillor Nan Cullinane
|Councillor Gordon Townson
|Councillor Tom Malone
|Councillor Ian Yuill
|Councillor Cryle Shand
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