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As my faithful readers know, I'm a bit of a technology geek, especially with apps and social media such as Facebook. One of my favorite aspects about having the Augusta Coupon Lady Facebook page is that I can address real people's coupon questions and answer them here in my column.
Ashley asks: "(I am) unemployed, how can I save my husband's hard-earned money with using coupons and still pay bills?"
Ashley, first of all it is important that your family make a budget for the month and stick with it. If you are facing a financial crisis from a reduction in income, you need to start figuring out the costs of your basic needs first. Start with food, water, lights and shelter. Those payments are critical and get first priority.
If your husband is still working, then you can add his costs from the car payment, insurance and fuel needs. Once you get those basic needs covered, then you move on to cable, cellphones, Internet and credit card bills. Sure, these things are nice to have and make our lives more convenient, but in an emergency situation you have to think about conserving your money in every possible way. You can use a Roku and stream TV on Hulu Plus for $8 a month (with high-speed Internet service), and even use an Internet phone service for about a $1.50 a month. With a standard high-speed Internet connection, you should be able to spend less than $50 a month for home phone, streaming television and Internet.
If a cellphone is needed for work, then you can transfer your number to a pay-as-you-go service. Clark Howard, a popular financial radio and television host, has long recommended pay-as-you-go services. In the Augusta area, I recommend Straight Talk because you have two advantages. It uses other carriers' cell towers, so make sure you get a phone that uses the best carrier in your area. In some parts of Columbia County, cell service can be spotty unless you use specific carriers, so ask around and find out who has the best service in your area. Because the phones are carried by a large retailer, the phone selection is better than most pay-as-you-go services. You should be able to get an unlimited talk, text and data plan for $50 a month. I should note that the Roku, Internet phone and pay-as-you-go phones require special equipment that has to be purchased up front, but after that the service becomes much cheaper month to month.
Even though this might seem like common sense, you would be surprised at the high number of people who have let their house go into foreclosure but are still current on credit card payments or still have large cable packages. One reason is fear. Most consumers fear ruining their credit scores and are afraid of collection agencies, but in truth, credit card companies can't take away your assets. Missing mortgage payments can make you lose your home.
Now, let's talk about your food budget. If you are the average American family of four, the USDA's Thrifty level of spending is between $126 to $144 a week on food, depending on the ages of your children. Since this is a national average and food prices are generally lower in the South, you should aim for about $150 a week, including cleaners and personal care items.
Couponing can lower those expenses even further, to about $80 to $100 a week on average, including extras. I spend about $25 a month with a four copy Sunday-only subscription to The Augusta Chronicle and two subscriptions of All You magazine.
So when you first start couponing, allow yourself the full amount plus expenses for a total of $625 for food. Once your couponing has gone through a full sales cycle, you should be able to easily take your spending down to $425-$475 a month.
Good luck!


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Don't sign away US sovereignty with bad treaties, says Prof. Carafano
Four weeks after D-Day, having fought fiercely for 28 consecutive days, American troops were still within eyeshot of the Normandy coast.
They were already short of artillery rounds, but Gen. Omar Bradley didn't care. The commander of U.S. ground forces was determined to send the enemy a message.
And so, to mark U.S. independence on July 4, 1944, Bradley ordered every artillery piece in the American sector to fire one round at noon - in the enemy's direction. The 1,600-gun salute sent German defenders ducking for cover along the front.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of that campaign. For many, the "great crusade" still stands in modern memory as the greatest testimony that Americans stand willing to shed their blood to protect their liberty.
Fighting to secure and preserve our sovereignty is a defining characteristic of the American people. Unfortunately, in recent years, Washington elites have become increasingly disposed to sign away that blood-bought sovereignty with a pen.

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If you do a triple class toon it's usually a good idea to build them 12/6/2. The reason is that you can then get the tier 2 prestige class of your main class and tier 1 prestige class of your second class and some abilities of your third class.
You could e. g. have barbarian 12 / cleric 6 / rogue 2.
With cleric 6 you can pick radiant burst. That is decent burst group healing. Level 6 cleric means you get level 1-3 spells so you get remove disease, remove curse, resist energy and 3 separate curing spells. 2 levels of rogue is good for evasion and skills.
If you build it well you can do some traps as well.
It's usually a good idea to be pure arcanes or divines or max 2 splash levels. That means you get all spell levels.
I'm not sure what 2 levels of cleric can give you besides cure light wounds. A better choice could have been to e. g. be a half elf with favored soul (charisma) or cleric (wisdom) dilettante. If you take 3 dilettante levels you can use scrolls as a level 10. That means you have 95% chance to cast heal scrolls or use heal wands.
A good build could be to have 18 level of barbarian and 2 levels of monk (for evasion) and use the wisdom needed for monk to be a cleric dilettante. Then you get the healing ability you want.
Azraelck is much better than me to see how you can make good half-elf builds so maybe he can suggest something.
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ChessBrain: a Linux-Based Distributed Computing Experiment
The SuperNode server has a Bot called Shannon (implemented as a thread) that connects to on-line game servers and maintains a presence. Members of the game server type commands to challenge ChessBrain or to watch the current game being played. It has been fun programming Shannon, which now understands a variety of commands. There is a great deal of potential in on-line bots that can be instructed to perform actions on behalf of their hosts.
During the development of ChessBrain, I downloaded the source code to a Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) and compiled it on an old Pentium 200 MMX Toshiba laptop running Linux. FICS is written in C, and it compiled using GCC without incident. The game server allows users to telnet to port 5000 and sign in with a user name and password. After a few months the traffic increased, and we moved the FICS server to another ChessBrain machine at our secondary domain at distributedchess.net. Users now have several options for watching ChessBrain play on-line. They can telnet directly to the game server where ChessBrain is playing or use one of our viewer programs.
After ChessBrain could play on an on-line game server, I wrote a Java game viewer to allow people to watch live games. As an alternative to the Java viewer, I also wrote viewers based in PHP and Macromedia Flash (www.chessbrain.net/viewers.html). ChessBrain contributor Anthony Bravo wrote a Java-based network viewer to show the active PeerNodes throughout the world. Users can click on nodes to see how many machines are active in a given country. All of the viewers on the ChessBrain site use SOAP to communicate with the SuperNode.
As a security precaution, browser plugins such as Java and Macromedia's Flash ActionScript don't allow the program to connect to a server other than the one from which the applet was downloaded. To work around this issue, I wrote a simple XML proxy script that accepts an HTTP GET request on one server and connects to the SuperNode server on behalf of the client. For example, if you wanted to query the SuperNode server for the current game position, you could enter the following URL into your browser: http://www.chessbrain.net/xmlproxy.php?command=CBSGetPos. The server would respond with a SOAP package like the one in Figure 4. On Mozilla you can view the page source to see the actual SOAP document.
Listing 1. A ChessBrain XML Response Package
<?xml version="1.0" ?> <env:Envelope xmlns:env= http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope xmlns:enc= "http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-encoding"> <env:Body> <cbs:CBSGetPosResponse > <return> rn1qk2r/p2p1ppp/bb2pn2/1p6/1P6/ P2Q1NP1/1BP1PP1P/RN2KB1R b KQkq - </return> </cbs:CBSGetPosResponse> </env:Body> </env:Envelope>
Monitoring a server's health is an important part of system administration. Fortunately for developers, Linux offers many ways to tackle server monitoring. The Linux /proc virtual filesystem contains a goldmine of valuable system data, offering developers an easy way to profile and monitor system behavior. /proc/net/dev offers device data such as the number of bytes and packets sent and received on a network interface, and /proc/meminfo offers loads of memory statistics. If data mining the /proc isn't your thing, sysinfo() offers a quick and easy way to fill a structure with system statistics, such as system load, freeram and the total number of processes.
The SuperNode server offers a SOAP request that returns system information similar to what is shown in Listing 2. ChessBrain member Greg Davis wrote the first SuperNode monitor in Perl, which issues the SOAP request and displays a screen similar to the top command.
Listing 2. An XML Server Status Message
<?xml version="1.0" ?> <env:Envelope > <env:Body> <cbs:CBSSysInfoResponse > <Uptime days="1" hours="14" minutes="43" seconds="18" /> <System proccnt="546" totmem="250.13" freemem="4.38" memu="98" cpustates="3627078,0,2151891,8160852" loadavg="0.50,0.30,0.33" /> <Recv Bytes="2301480887.000000" Packets="16652816.000000" Errors="0.000000" Drop="0.000000" /> <Send Bytes="2443488824.000000" Packets="12142245.000000" Errors="0.000000" Drop="0.000000" /> </cbs:CBSSysInfoResponse> </env:Body> </env:Envelope>
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Reading that article today is like watching some old star trek series :D
Nice Script :P
I hope it will bring the Thing further.
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Jaymes Young's sound has proven difficult to categorize. His first offering "Dark Star" embodied a melancholy, electro r&b-esque vibe. His next, "Wondering," possessed an equally gloomy lyrical content but with a much poppier production. Now, we get his latest "Hold You Down" and Young has again switched it up on us. Noticeably faster paced, the track seems to abandon some of his previous emotive electronic nuances in favor of a sweeping, infectious chorus.
It's an interesting choice of progression for such a new artist. At a point in his career when you'd think he'd aim to have audiences associate a particular sound with his name he's in fact succeeded at the exact opposite, and perhaps in doing so has caught our attention in an entirely new way. Take a listen to "Hold You Down" below:


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Thanks, Suzy. It sure is.
Your world by the river is always full of color and wonder.
Thanks, Pat.
Thank you, EF & Graciela. :)
Beautiful, amazing colors!
Stunning colors! Nice shot!
Wow, thank you all so much for your sweet comments!
(The snow has started. Many tiny flakes. As the old saying goes, "Little snow, big snow.)
Stunning photo, PLG! I love the golden light right before sundown. Thanks! :)
Then let's hope the storm is not severe. Or even a non-event. Thanks for sharing this view with us. You do have a good eye for composition, Patti. The colours are glorious!
Great Picture PLG :)
Fantastic picture!! Everything is that incredible gold colour! Thanks PLG.
This is absolutely breathtaking, you have captured the atmosphere, so well, I feel like I'm there, under the tree, amazing Patti, Thank you.
Nicely captured!
Great photo!!!!!
Thank you, Roseheather and Nellies. :) I appreciate your comments!
Gorgeous!! PLG the lighting is beautiful...Nice Shot.
Interesting color in the late afternoon. It could almost look like a fall picture, well, it is still technically fall, but you know what I mean? ; ) I'll look forward to "your" snow. ; ) Saw the weather report at 6 and it is coming across from the upper plains. It will fade a bit as it travels over Lake Michigan, this time of year.
Thank you, Lyndee, Chickie, and Snooker. It was so calm late this afternoon, but we have a winter storm watch for tonight and tomorrow.
Great light!
I'm at a loss for words, it is so beautiful!


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Issue No. 06 - November (1995 vol. 15)
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Building physical models of natural objects such as parts of the human skeleton is essentially a reverse engineering process, starting with large volumes of 3D data acquired with medical imaging technologies. Regarding the considerable complexity of natural objects, interactive pre-processing of 3D data prior to production of hard copies is of central significance. Two applications demonstrate how graphics tools can help to exploit fully the potential of producing stereolithographic models in biosciences.
3D object representation, biosciences, computer-assisted anthropology, computer-assisted surgery, computed tomography, fossil reconstruction, graphics tools, laser stereolithography, rapid prototyping, surgical planning, surgical rehearsal.
Marcia S. Ponce de León, Christoph P.E. Zollikofer, "Tools for Rapid Prototyping in the Biosciences", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 15, no. , pp. 48-55, November 1995, doi:10.1109/38.469515


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Thursday, January 14, 2010
AHA Special Bulletin: A Special Message from Rich Umbdenstock Regarding the Haitian Earthquake
We have all watched with great sorrow the devastation wrought by the January 12 earthquake in Haiti. Many of you have contacted the AHA to ask how you can help. Instead of launching a separate relief effort, I would like to encourage hospitals to consider donating via the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) or another well-established, private-sector relief organization. To donate time, money, supplies or equipment via USAID, please visit http://www.usaid.gov/locations/latin_america_caribbean/country/haiti/eq/. Inquiries related to donations should be e-mailed to firstname.lastname@example.com.
The compassion and generosity of America's hospitals continue to humble and inspire. Thank you for the work you do every day … for your patients, your communities and your neighbors in great times of need.


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Here's What Warren Buffet Has To say
I was reading an interesting post by Brian Buffini who sits on several senior real estate advisory councils and is a thoroughly successful entrepreneur. Here he is talking about what Warren Buffet has been up to in the current economy:
Posted October 29th, 2008 By Brian Buffini of Buffini and Company"
Lately people have been sending me a lot of emails and notes asking me if I think there's another Great Depression coming, whether or not real estate will lose another huge portion of its value and where do I think all of this is going to stop.
Well I've never shied away from giving my perspective on such matters and I think something we should all note is the attitude of the man who is considered the greatest investor of all time – Warren Buffet. As I mentioned before he has purchased $8B in preferred stock. Even more dramatic is that $5B of it went to a financial company (Goldman Sachs).
Not only is he not running scared, he's running strong with this market – taking ground and improving his position. We all know there are some tough times ahead, and so does Warren. But he demonstrated his ultimate faith in the economy, in the markets and in the fact that now is the time to gain ground and not pull back.
Well done, Mr. Buffet, you're a good role model for all of us.
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The Georgia Education Articulation Committee's (GEAC) Fall 2011 PROBE College Fair will be held from 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Classic Center.
The fair is free and open to high school students and their families.
The PROBE tour travels to dozens of cities to provide local high school students a chance to speak one-on-one with representatives from colleges and universities in one central location.
"For many families, finding the time and resources, especially with the price of gas, to visit colleges and universities is tough," said Bill Smith, executive director of PROBE. "By bringing the PROBE college fair to the students, they are able to be exposed to schools they might not otherwise have a chance to experience."
For more information and to view the entire fair schedule, visit www.gaprobe.org.
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A few questions before I consider TTC #3
Back story: My first pregnancy I saw an OB, ate whatever I want - not organic and hardly healthy and took whatever prenatal they gave me. Induced at 40w3d, hospital birth with epidural. With my second pregnancy, ate healthy organic whole foods diet rich in protein, took a vegetable based pregnatal, saw my chiropractor 1-2 times a week (he even helped her to go back to head down at 38 weeks), and had a beautiful and amazing home water birth at 41w1d.
I've always had sinus problems and twice a year my allergies act up and I deal with the stuff for weeks. I don't do medications, just homeopathics. Also, I have an issue with low blood pressure and a high thyroid number that I'm seeing a holistic practitioner for. Also, I can't do a detox because I'm still breastfeeding.
I would love to TTC #3 but want to get the sinus and thyroid issues taken care of. Has anyone dealth with these issues, esp. a thyroid condition, and if so, has it become an issue during pregnancy and/or birth?
Mom to Jesse (09/13/08) and Marie (01/20/2011). Loving wife and attached parent.


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Amazon said it would open a staffed pickup store at the University of Texas at Austin, one of the nation's largest campuses and a key stronghold in Amazon's bid to get shoppers while they're young.
Amazon.com plans to open a staffed pickup store at the University of Texas at Austin, one of the nation's largest campuses and a key stronghold in Amazon's battle to get shoppers while they're young.
The 2,500-square-foot UT store, located in Gregory Gymnasium on the campus, is set to open in the summer. It follows the recent opening of similar locations at Purdue University; the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; the University of California at Berkeley; the University of California, Santa Barbara; and the University of Cincinnati.
Amazon also has struck deals to open locations this year at the University of Pennsylvania and with the University of California at Davis.
But the home of the Longhorns and the distinctive burnt-orange school color is the largest campus Amazon has staked so far.
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The company seems to be banking big on what it calls its "Amazon Campus" initiative. It is hiring dozens of business managers, project managers and software engineers for the effort. In one of the job postings the program is described as "focused on engaging and acquiring college-student customers through physical locations at or near universities."
Amazon also has a pitch page on its website for universities, in which it describes how students can save money and time by having pickup locations nearby from which to buy and send back books. The pitch also discusses how universities can get revenue by partnering with the company.
The campus initiative builds on Amazon Student, a program the company launched in 2010 to establish connections with college students.
It hires brand ambassadors in colleges, and offers students discounts and a half-price membership for Prime, a loyalty program that includes two-day shipping, video-streaming and other perks.
Amazon has already made a big mark in the business of college retail. Average annual spending on required course materials has fallen to $563 per student in 2014 and 2015 from $701 per student in 2007 and 2008, according to data posted by the National Association of College Stores. Some observers say the decrease is a result of money going to Amazon.
"On the college bookstores, I think clearly you've got to take into account the Amazon effect," John Fallon, the CEO of education-products company Pearson, said in a conference call last month when asked about the drop in college-store spending. "Because clearly what you're seeing is a lot of students switching from buying through college bookstores to buying through Amazon."
Amazon's presence on college campuses also has had an unexpected impact on the smooth running of these institutions. The Daily Campus, the college paper of the University of Connecticut, reported late last year that Amazon orders were causing massive backups in the school's mailrooms, which weren't designed to handle the flood of packages. So pickup locations would help avert that problem.
"This partnership with Amazon is one more way that the university is providing value to our campus community," said Gage Paine, vice president for student affairs at the University of Texas, in a statement. "With the pickup location in the heart of the UT Austin campus, this enhanced service will benefit our students, offering them a convenient and secure place to pick up their merchandise. Faculty and staff will also be able to take advantage of the service."


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Neil Lennon will send his side out in pursuit of his 100th win since taking over as manager of Celtic in March, 2010 this evening.
If Celtic are successful in defeating Benfica, the 41-year-old veteran of numerous European campaigns as a player insists it would be the most important victory of his tenure since it would secure a place in the last 16 of the Champions League and a qualification bonus of £3,167,000. Almost as importantly for Lennon, it would bring recognition that his Celtic team has more to it than the ugly side reportedly described by the Benfica goalkeeper, Artur.
The 31-year-old Brazilian had earlier said: "Each coach chooses a style of game for teams but from what I have seen Celtic play negative football and only seek to profit from their chances without too much effort in the field."
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Lennon was irked by that assessment and with Joe Ledley, Gary Hooper, Kris Commons and Georgios Samaras all fit and in contention for starting places, and captain Scott Brown expected to join them, intends to ignore the fact a score draw will be good enough to see Celtic over the line, provided Spartak don't beat Barcelona in Moscow earlier in the day.
Instead, he intends to go all out for the three points that would secure the club's third appearance in the last 16 after successive qualifications under Gordon Strachan in 2006 and 2007.
"It wouldn't get any better if we could win and go through. Listen, I don't want to say too much because I don't want to get ahead of myself. I say that because I think this game is so hard, I really do. But, if we win, it will be the best thing I've done in my career."
Lennon is attempting to temper expectation while at the same time nullify any negativity which may envelope his players, most of whom are encountering Champions League football for the first time. He says they have risen to the challenge with aplomb, and are undeserving of the comments attributed to Artur that were later rebutted by his club.
"If we're negative, why would I bring on a centre forward [Tony Watt] for a defender [Mikael Lustig] with 15 minutes to go against Barcelona. In both games against Barcelona, I started with two strikers. So we haven't played negatively at all. We scored three goals in two games against Barca and three in Moscow, so we've done okay."


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Thursday, November 13, 2014
Congratulations to Stephen Brookes on earning his Life Membership with the Lower Southampton Fire Department. To attain Life Membership a Member must server in the Department for 15 active years. This means that they must respond to a percentage of the Emergency calls, attend drills, attend work details, and be active in several other Department activities. This distinction is a great milestone and deserves great respect. Check out the Membership section for the other Life Members of the... [ more ]
The importance of Fire Prevention is a topic that can seem like Fire Fighters push hard on to a point where you become tired of hearing it. October is National Fire Prevention Month but it should not just be a focus for four weeks. We need to be conscious of fire prevention 365 - 24/7. With daylight savings time coming up be sure to check your batteries on your smoke detectors but also consider changing your detectors out for new, 10 year warranty smoke detectors; and better yet, smoke detect... [ more ]
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Halloween is a time for the kids to have fun, dress up, knock on their neighbors' doors and see who gets the most candy. Sounds like fun to any child; sounds risky to a parent or adult. Children may not understand the dangers or risks that are involved during tick or treating, such as is their costume reflective for traffic to see them? Are they carrying flashlights to help see where they are walking and also help traffic see them? Are they traveling in groups with a chaperone? more ]
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October is around the corner. Yes, October, the beginning of Fall, the holiday of Halloween, colder weather, leaves changing, the days getting shorter.... But most importantly, October is Fire Prevention and Safety month. If you haven't already, October is your reminder to check/change your smoke detector and batteries. Consider (if you haven't already) purchasing wireless interconnected smoke detectors at your local home improvement store. Check your household fire extinguisher. Is it out of... [ more ]
Monday, September 15, 2014
Some of the Members of the LSFD went to Ivyland Fire Department to partake in some training on the Vehicle Fire Simulator from the Bucks County Public Safety Training Center. This simulator provides a safe environment to train on how to handle a vehicle fire. The video here shows Seniz Warner, Kevin Jurgelewicz, and Greg Spector "putting out" the fire. This simulator works off of propane and while it is controlled can still push fire from under the hood and trunk lids. Watch as they wor... [ more ]
Come on out and join the LSFD for a Pancake breakfast on 28 Sep at the Neshaminy Activity Center on Brownsville Road. Hope to see you there!.
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Getting up in the morning and going out to get the paper may be a little chilling now-a-days. Yes the temperatures are starting to drop. The mornings are coming with that familiar chill in the air. And yes, it is Labor Day tomorrow, the official "End of Summer". Many of you are going to be grilling, partying, and just hanging out trying to get that last fun day in before the summer really goes away. Remember that there are some things that will be happening soon that ne... [ more ]
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Yes it is that time of year again. The schools are open and our children are taking the bus; and yes some of them are driving to school every day. Please take a little extra time while you are out and about to keep an eye out for "our" (meaning ALL) children. They can do unexpected movements and often do not think about what that action may result in. This also means that our morning and afternoon commutes will include buses that are going to be stopping at every street (or so it seems)... [ more ]
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Every Fire Fighter is required to attend "Fire School" to learn how to safely fight fires. That school is held locally at the Bucks County Public Safety Training Center (either in Doylestown or Bristol) and includes around 200 hours of training and practical exercises. Those that join the Fire Department attend that class, which can be taken in several different scheduling options. There is a "straight through" format where the student attends Monday through Friday all day every day for... [ more ]
Thursday, July 31, 2014
The LSFD would like to thank JeffSTAT 1 for coming out this evening to assist in our training. The Members had a classroom presentation on the do's and don'ts of setting up a landing zone for a medevac chopper. After that, they all went out, set up the landing zone and used radios to land the chopper. Many good lessons were learned today and some that were unexpected. To share in those lessons; when you see a medivac chopper coming in, never run to it. That is a key for the pi... [ more ]
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i purchased an lcd logik LCX27WN2 tv from currys in 2005. i now have no picture, only sound. other sites have confirmed that this is a known problem by currys on models made since 2004. i am not covered for any repairs .'. out of pocket for a t.v that cost me over £650. i will be taking this further so fingers crossed !!!


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WHILE the US and the UK have reduced their military spending, under pressure from the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system, the new Japanese Liberal Democratic government has just announced that Japanese imperialism is back by pledging to increase its military spending by $2.1 bn this New Year.
Japans defence ministry says it is seeking more funds for military spending, a day after news the government would boost the defence budget for the first time in 10 years, to be spent on missile interceptors and fighter jets.
This is not bad going for a state that signed a surrender agreement to US and UK imperialism in 1945, and a treaty which stipulated that Japan would not have any military forces at all ever again.
The US dictated constitution of 1947 reads in Article 9: Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognised.
The US and the UK ruling classes were determined that Japanese militarism would never rise again, it seemed.
However, the victory of the Chinese revolution in 1948, the Korean war and the emergence of North Korea, changed all that, with the US and the UK deciding that, not the end, but the rebirth of Japanese militarism was what was required, in the face of the communist menace.
Japan has re-built its massive modern industries and although in a slump, has now powerful military forces on land, sea and the air, and the capacity to produce nuclear weapons as it likes.
It is now also the main ally of US imperialism in Asia and perhaps the world. The US has tens of thousands of troops, on the land, in the air and on the seas of Japan, much of it nuclear armed, as a result of the 1960-Japan-US security agreement. Japan has become a giant base and aircraft carrier for the United States.
In the wake of the announcement by President Obama that the US major military forces are being shifted to the seas and the countries around China, the announcement that Japan has a stimulus package for its armed forces has great importance.
This new funding is in addition to news, on Tuesday, that the new government, which won elections in December, would increase the defence budget request by more than 100bn yen. The defence budget for the year ending in March 2012 stood at 4.65 trillion yen.
The resurgent Japanese ruling class is using claims on islands in the China Seas, believed to be floating on oil fields to stoke up tensions with China.
In return, China has pushed to claim the East China Sea islands as its own. Japan controls the islands but its purchase of three of them from their private Japanese owner in September sparked a renewed row.
Since then Chinese ships have been sailing in and out of what Japan says are its territorial waters around the islands, prompting warnings from Tokyo.
New Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pledged a strong stance on the territorial issue, while announcing that he intends to visit the Yasukune cemetery, where General Tojo is buried along with other Japanese military leaders from the second world war, who were executed by the US and UK as war criminals.
Besides being a war memorial, Yasukune is dedicated to the Shinto code of bushido, with its absolute obedience to the emperor. This state Shintoism was at the heart of Japans fiery nationalism, the antecedent of its incursions into Asia, and, ultimately, its attack on Pearl Harbour.
Abe summoned the Chinese ambassador to protest against the presence of Chinese government ships in waters around the disputed islands, while there were anti-Japanese riots in China on the anniversary of the rape of Nanking, when many thousands of Chinese were massacred by the Japanese military using the bayonet as the weapon of choice.
The pot is now well and truly boiling, with the US considering whether a testing out of Chinas defence capacity by Japanese military forces would not be too bad an idea in the period ahead, at the same time as it is heaping pressure onto Iran.
However the peoples of China, and south east Asia, having overthrown the rule of imperialist puppets will not allow the revival of Japanese militarism, even arm in arm with the USA.
Nor only that but the Japanese working class and the youth want no part in any revival of the vision of the Japanese ruling class that it will dominate the Asia Pacific, whether with the agreement of the US or not.
The only way out of this crisis is for the working class of Asia, of China, Japan, and Indo-China to unite to smash US and Japanese imperialism so as to go forward to socialism and then communism.
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I'm a Singularitarian (without the religious implications) who believes that part of evolution will eventually see technology transcend biology. In fact, there's really no clear cut difference between them.
In that mindset, I watched IBM's Watson play Jeopardy tonight against two top former human contestants. It was amazing how well the machine did. That led to a discussion about the eventual merger of human and machine. Some people are horrified by the idea. I find it cool as hell. We're already cyborgs anyway, what with artificial limbs and organs. But there is the question of what will be lost in the transition from minerals and goo to plastics and silicon and will it be worth the gain?
I've been thinking about the the merger of human and machines since Robbie the Robot was on screen in "Forbidden Planet"...at the ripe age of 7 yrs old. And almost all of the baby boomers remember Robbie's later "Lost In Space" iconic warning "Danger, Will Robinson, danger!" Robbie was like a super cool pet or a playmate you didn't have to feed or clean up after. That would change.
Robbie's helpfulness would eventually take a sinister turn. By 1968 there was "Space Odyssey" with the cyclopian but warmly engaging artificial intelligence of HAL, who by all accounts was not just super fast and smart, but sentient. With that miracle of self-awareness came danger to humans. The 70's saw battle Star Galactica and the wars with rebellious robots. Then came "The Terminator" and the concept of Skynet, the evil intelligence that wanted to eliminate humans because they were an impediment and disease and even later followed by "The Matrix" amplifying the same premise.
It's notable that ll through the various incarnations of Star Trek the computers were never given full reign of the ship or decision making except in the most dire of situations. Even though the series was set in centuries in the future computers were portrayed more or less as highly sophisticated tools tethered to the service of human needs, the exception being Mr Data, who at times proved dangerous to the humans around him as well.
issac Assimov's famous three laws of robotics from the late 1940's (later changed to 4) and which attempted to mitigate for these sorts of fantasied dangers, are:
- A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
- A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
- A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
- A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
People have been thinking about this robots vs humans thing for a long time and many of the ethical questions remain.
For example, say there was a sentient machine owned by a business that wanted to upgrade and part of that process would mean turning the sentient machine off. The machine realizing their intent fires off emails to top lawyers to take the company to court to prevent its demise. Does the company own the "life" that the machine senses it has or is the machine simply a slave with no rights?
In my opinion, the machine has every right to live. But others might argue otherwise.
The time to really put our shoulders to the wheel on these matters is right now. Because as science fiction like it sounds the reality of a conscious artificial intelligence is closer than you think.
Check out the Time article below.
2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal
By Lev Grossman
On Feb. 15, 1965, a diffident but self-possessed high school student named Raymond Kurzweil appeared as a guest on a game show called I've Got a Secret. He was introduced by the host, Steve Allen, then he played a short musical composition on a piano. The idea was that Kurzweil was hiding an unusual fact and the panelists -- they included a comedian and a former Miss America -- had to guess what it was.
On the show, the beauty queen did a good job of grilling Kurzweil, but the comedian got the win: the music was composed by a computer. Kurzweil got $200.
Kurzweil then demonstrated the computer, which he built himself -- a desk-size affair with loudly clacking relays, hooked up to a typewriter. The panelists were pretty blasé about it; they were more impressed by Kurzweil's age than by anything he'd actually done. They were ready to move on to Mrs. Chester Loney of Rough and Ready, Calif., whose secret was that she'd been President Lyndon Johnson's first-grade teacher.
But Kurzweil would spend much of the rest of his career working out what his demonstration meant. Creating a work of art is one of those activities we reserve for humans and humans only. It's an act of self-expression; you're not supposed to be able to do it if you don't have a self. To see creativity, the exclusive domain of humans, usurped by a computer built by a 17-year-old is to watch a line blur that cannot be unblurred, the line between organic intelligence and artificial intelligence.
That was Kurzweil's real secret, and back in 1965 nobody guessed it. Maybe not even him, not yet. But now, 46 years later, Kurzweil believes that we're approaching a moment when computers will become intelligent, and not just intelligent but more intelligent than humans. When that happens, humanity -- our bodies, our minds, our civilization -- will be completely and irreversibly transformed. He believes that this moment is not only inevitable but imminent. According to his calculations, the end of human civilization as we know it is about 35 years away.
Computers are getting faster. Everybody knows that. Also, computers are getting faster faster -- that is, the rate at which they're getting faster is increasing.
True? True.
So if computers are getting so much faster, so incredibly fast, there might conceivably come a moment when they are capable of something comparable to human intelligence. Artificial intelligence. All that horsepower could be put in the service of emulating whatever it is our brains are doing when they create consciousness -- not just doing arithmetic very quickly or composing piano music but also driving cars, writing books, making ethical decisions, appreciating fancy paintings, making witty observations at cocktail parties.
If you can swallow that idea, and Kurzweil and a lot of other very smart people can, then all bets are off. From that point on, there's no reason to think computers would stop getting more powerful. They would keep on developing until they were far more intelligent than we are. Their rate of development would also continue to increase, because they would take over their own development from their slower-thinking human creators. Imagine a computer scientist that was itself a super-intelligent computer. It would work incredibly quickly. It could draw on huge amounts of data effortlessly. It wouldn't even take breaks to play Farmville.
Probably. It's impossible to predict the behavior of these smarter-than-human intelligences with which (with whom?) we might one day share the planet, because if you could, you'd be as smart as they would be. But there are a lot of theories about it. Maybe we'll merge with them to become super-intelligent cyborgs, using computers to extend our intellectual abilities the same way that cars and planes extend our physical abilities. Maybe the artificial intelligences will help us treat the effects of old age and prolong our life spans indefinitely. Maybe we'll scan our consciousnesses into computers and live inside them as software, forever, virtually. Maybe the computers will turn on humanity and annihilate us. The one thing all these theories have in common is the transformation of our species into something that is no longer recognizable as such to humanity circa 2011. This transformation has a name: the Singularity.
The difficult thing to keep sight of when you're talking about the Singularity is that even though it sounds like science fiction, it isn't, no more than a weather forecast is science fiction. It's not a fringe idea; it's a serious hypothesis about the future of life on Earth. There's an intellectual gag reflex that kicks in anytime you try to swallow an idea that involves super-intelligent immortal cyborgs, but suppress it if you can, because while the Singularity appears to be, on the face of it, preposterous, it's an idea that rewards sober, careful evaluation.
People are spending a lot of money trying to understand it. The three-year-old Singularity University, which offers inter-disciplinary courses of study for graduate students and executives, is hosted by NASA. Google was a founding sponsor; its CEO and co-founder Larry Page spoke there last year. People are attracted to the Singularity for the shock value, like an intellectual freak show, but they stay because there's more to it than they expected. And of course, in the event that it turns out to be real, it will be the most important thing to happen to human beings since the invention of language.
The Singularity isn't a wholly new idea, just newish. In 1965 the British mathematician I.J. Good described something he called an "intelligence explosion":
Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an "intelligence explosion," and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.
The word singularity is borrowed from astrophysics: it refers to a point in space-time -- for example, inside a black hole -- at which the rules of ordinary physics do not apply. In the 1980s the science-fiction novelist Vernor Vinge attached it to Good's intelligence-explosion scenario. At a NASA symposium in 1993, Vinge announced that "within 30 years, we will have the technological means to create super-human intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended."
By that time Kurzweil was thinking about the Singularity too. He'd been busy since his appearance on I've Got a Secret. He'd made several fortunes as an engineer and inventor; he founded and then sold his first software company while he was still at MIT. He went on to build the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind -- Stevie Wonder was customer No. 1 -- and made innovations in a range of technical fields, including music synthesizers and speech recognition. He holds 39 patents and 19 honorary doctorates. In 1999 President Bill Clinton awarded him the National Medal of Technology.
But Kurzweil was also pursuing a parallel career as a futurist: he has been publishing his thoughts about the future of human and machine-kind for 20 years, most recently in The Singularity Is Near, which was a best seller when it came out in 2005. A documentary by the same name, starring Kurzweil, Tony Robbins and Alan Dershowitz, among others, was released in January. (Kurzweil is actually the subject of two current documentaries. The other one, less authorized but more informative, is called The Transcendent Man.) Bill Gates has called him "the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence."
In real life, the transcendent man is an unimposing figure who could pass for Woody Allen's even nerdier younger brother. Kurzweil grew up in Queens, N.Y., and you can still hear a trace of it in his voice. Now 62, he speaks with the soft, almost hypnotic calm of someone who gives 60 public lectures a year. As the Singularity's most visible champion, he has heard all the questions and faced down the incredulity many, many times before. He's good-natured about it. His manner is almost apologetic: I wish I could bring you less exciting news of the future, but I've looked at the numbers, and this is what they say, so what else can I tell you?
Kurzweil's interest in humanity's cyborganic destiny began about 1980 largely as a practical matter. He needed ways to measure and track the pace of technological progress. Even great inventions can fail if they arrive before their time, and he wanted to make sure that when he released his, the timing was right. "Even at that time, technology was moving quickly enough that the world was going to be different by the time you finished a project," he says. "So it's like skeet shooting -- you can't shoot at the target." He knew about Moore's law, of course, which states that the number of transistors you can put on a microchip doubles about every two years. It's a surprisingly reliable rule of thumb. Kurzweil tried plotting a slightly different curve: the change over time in the amount of computing power, measured in MIPS (millions of instructions per second), that you can buy for $1,000.
As it turned out, Kurzweil's numbers looked a lot like Moore's. They doubled every couple of years. Drawn as graphs, they both made exponential curves, with their value increasing by multiples of two instead of by regular increments in a straight line. The curves held eerily steady, even when Kurzweil extended his backward through the decades of pretransistor computing technologies like relays and vacuum tubes, all the way back to 1900.
Kurzweil then ran the numbers on a whole bunch of other key technological indexes -- the falling cost of manufacturing transistors, the rising clock speed of microprocessors, the plummeting price of dynamic RAM. He looked even further afield at trends in biotech and beyond -- the falling cost of sequencing DNA and of wireless data service and the rising numbers of Internet hosts and nanotechnology patents. He kept finding the same thing: exponentially accelerating progress. "It's really amazing how smooth these trajectories are," he says. "Through thick and thin, war and peace, boom times and recessions." Kurzweil calls it the law of accelerating returns: technological progress happens exponentially, not linearly.


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With the financial scars from last winter's record-breaking natural gas price peaks still fresh in mind, many growers are looking to get smarter about buying fuel instead of getting burned again this winter.
But how to do this? Trading gas futures is a difficult enterprise, like picking a winner in stocks but without some of the clues (such as earnings, history, management etc.) that allow stock market investors to calculate a company's true investment potential.
Even the big energy traders, staffed with meteorologists and political scientists, really know no more than the little guy. It makes for a playing field full of potential dangers.
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"I could show you the NYMEX (New York Mercantile Exchange) numbers for the last 15 years, and I defy you to make any sort of sense out of them," says Bob Bordone, a 32-year veteran of the natural gas industry. Bordone has spent the last decade as a consultant and third-party gas broker at New Jersey-based Woodruff Energy advising growers like Bill Swanekamp of Kube-Pak Greenhouses.
He explains that the deregulated utility system is both simple and complex, and begins with a simple premise. "When you deal with a broker, you can go out and buy your expected volume over a period of time, whether it's one month or one year. At a time when you perceive the price to be at a relative low, you buy and lock in that low price for that time period," he says. "This gives you price certainty. In these days of unstable and fluctuating prices, my customers perceive that as important."
The further out you can buy, the better deal you can get. However, locking down a price is always a gamble. "Hopefully, we're giving the customer a price that beats the utility price as it rolls up and down over the course of that year, but there's no certainty to that," cautions Bordone. "You're not guaranteeing savings, but you are guaranteeing your budget."
Obviously, usage of natural gas will vary based upon the weather, but that's a comparatively small variable, one that Bordone marks as "usually less than a ten percent swing at the end of the year."
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Not surprisingly, the utility companies plan for extreme weather, adding more complexity (and more dollars) to the equation. "There's a premium attached to the price of gas in winter months, and a fear factor that has gotten worse since last year," notes Bordone. If nothing happens either weather-wise or geopolitically by fall, the winter premium could evaporate and leave those who purchased their winter fuel contracts earlier paying more for their gas than those paying month-to-month at the utility.
These days, however, such stability seems a remote possibility, and even if the premium evaporates, third party brokers can offer an average price between existing and future contracts. "If November comes around and there's been no hurricanes, the Middle East is stable and the price is in the toilet, what I can do is look out at 2008-2009 and add next year's price in," Bordone says. "My customer can then buy next year's gas at this low price. I'll blend it with the higher price from this year and bring the overall price down." Bordone points out that, unlike the utilities, his livelihood depends on the success of his customers, and that, also unlike the utilities, energy brokers like Woodruff operate lean enough to survive on what he terms "razor thin" margins.
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To add further complexity to the matter, there are two separate components to natural gas pricing. The NYMEX price (the cost of the gas itself) is the same price across the country. However, a second component to pricing is transportation – in the Northeast it's highest, while in the Southwest it's the lowest. Utilities "bundle" these prices together, while third-party brokers are looking to save for themselves and their customers, whenever possible.
When the purchase is made, and when it is made for are both critical variables. Swanekamp, for example, made a purchase in February and set his price for the year and through 2007. Bordone observes that Kube-Pak's dual-firing boilers and significant oil storage capability put Swanekamp in a different and better position than many business owners, who are "over a barrel" where fuel options are concerned. Because of this capability, Swanekamp decided to only buy gas from March through December, and skipped the two most expensive months of January and February (when those transportation costs are highest).
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In deregulated states, growers can call their local utility and get a printout of their gas usage over the past 12 months. Armed with that information (and the Wall Street Journal's futures page), a third-party broker can give an initial price projection. "That's what was so critical to Bill (Swanekamp)," says Bordone, "This fuel futures purchase is now a part of his operating costs that he can plan for and not be exposed to fluctuating prices." Although they've been doing business for a number of years, and Swanekamp is a recognized green industry authority on energy issues, even he got burned last year, relates Bordone. "Last May and June, we didn't fix the price for the gas, we just fixed the price for the transportation. Then Bill got clobbered on the gas price after the the hurricanes."
Maybe it's due to his long association with Swanekamp, or those razor thin margins he spoke of, but Bordone sounds positively grower-like when he breaks down the greenhouse situation as it stands today. "Dirt is big, seed is big and labor is the biggest, but energy costs are growing all the time."
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After listening to testimony from family members of homicide victims, State Rep. Thomas O'Dea (R-125) expressed his opposition to giving early release (good time) credits for violent criminals.
Legislators in the Judiciary Committee are conducting a public hearing on proposed legislation to repeal the program allowing Connecticut inmates to earn credit toward early release for good behavior.
"After hearing today's public hearing testimony, it is clear to me this program is putting our public safety at risk," O'Dea, a practicing attorney in the state, said. "Our duty as legislators is to safeguard and protect the public and although having inmates serve their full sentence may not prevent them from hurting someone again, it does send the right message that Connecticut is about preventing crime,"
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The 1994 World Cup was the launching point for the modern era of American soccer. Few had faith in this country's ability to produce the world's most popular sports event.
They were wrong.
Nearly 3.6 million fans across nine cities attended the 52 games -- reaching 96 percent capacity -- including a record 92,000 for the Brazil-Italy final at the Rose Bowl -- demonstrating our nation's growing appetite for the passion and excitement of the world's game.
The attendance records set by the 1994 World Cup USA remain to this day, smashing the previous World Cup in Italy by three times.
The '94 World Cup also proved to the world that Americans can play this game. Our World Cup team -- the group that we are honoring tomorrow -- advanced to the final 16, a first for a U.S. squad since 1930.
On July 4, our young team went toe-to-toe with the eventual world champion, Brazil, and truly earned the respect of the soccer world. Despite the loss to the eventual champions, Soccer had become a national sensation, and the USA embraced its soccer icons.
As you know, the World Cup left behind a legacy to grow the sport here for generations. The profits from the tournament helped create the U.S. Soccer Foundation and provided funding for many important initiatives for the sport, including Major League Soccer.
The tournament's Chairman, Alan Rothenberg, founded MLS along with key staff members Sunil Gulati, the league's first Deputy Commissioner; Mark Abbott, our current Chief Operating Officer and our current Deputy Commissioner, Ivan Gazidis. Current US Soccer Secretary General Dan Flynn was a venue director in Chicago, just one of dozens of people currently in key positions throughout the Federation, MLS teams, CONCACAF, FIFA, and a variety of soccer entities who worked for the '94 World Cup Organizing Committee.
In short, FIFA granted the 1994 World Cup to the United States to help grow the sport in this country. And without doubt, Joao Havelange's and Sepp Blatter's vision was fulfilled.
In the decade that has followed we've seen the launch of two professional soccer leagues, the construction of three -- and soon to be six -- soccer specific stadiums, increased media and broadcast coverage nationally and locally, a 25% explosion of participation at all levels and an exponential rise in the number of games domestically and internationally that are available on broadcast and cable television.
So to recognize the historical significance of the '94 World Cup to soccer in the United States, we are bringing together a few of the guys who played on the '94 World Cup squad -- a group that was playing in college or in Europe and came together to represent our country in the world's biggest sports event.
But they did more than just play for the red, white and blue. They stayed home and helped launch Major League Soccer. Their actions will be written in the annals of the history of our sport. Two players, Eric Wynalda and Paul Caligiuri, have just been elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta, N.Y. Alexi Lalas, Tab Ramos and Marcelo Balboa enjoyed standout careers in MLS and have retired. Tony Meola, Cobi Jones and Earnie Stewart are more than just still playing; they are guiding their MLS squads to this year's playoffs.
Tomorrow, members of the '94 World Cup team will play against a team of international players whose contributions to Major League Soccer helped establish the viability, credibility and popularity of our league at the most important time in our history.
What would Major League Soccer be today without Carlos Valderrama, Marco Etcheverry, Mauricio Cienfuegos, Raul Diaz Arce and Peter Nowak?
When these guys stepped on the field, you knew something magical could happen, and it often did. They weren't just great players, they were leaders on the field. They had a special relationship with our fans and they will be forever remembered as the first group of international players since the NASL, that fans would truly pay to see.
We greatly appreciate all they have done to help grow the sport in the United States and they will forever be written into the history books for their contributions to Major League Soccer. On behalf of all of us involved with MLS -- from our fans, to our owners to our partners, I want to thank them for their contributions to the sport in America.
Before I share with you the customary "State of the League" address, I want to take a step back and reflect on how far this sport has come since the 1994 World Cup and since MLS was launched in 1996.
Thanks to the young men (maybe not so young!) here today, to our committed investors, sponsors, and media partners, we have truly become A SOCCER NATION. When the critics and skeptics ask about world-class players, passionate fans, hallowed homes and the like, we answer "IT'S RIGHT HERE."
It's in our stadiums. It's on our fields. It's on our broadcasts and most importantly, it's through our passionate fans who care about our players, our teams and the sport.
Next season we will recognize the 25 millionth fan who will pass through our turnstiles. We have hundreds of games on national television. We have active and involved corporate partners. We have game coverage, television highlights, beat writers and columns in newspapers nationwide. We have our own soccer facilities, with many more to come.
So, what kind of year has it been for Major League Soccer?
Well, in the last 364 days, we've doubled the size of our investor group, we have stadium projects at various stages in four current MLS markets, we've finalized agreements to add two new teams to MLS in 2005, and we've accelerated the development of several young American players and have become the league of choice for the top talent in Central America and the Caribbean.
Through our marketing company, Soccer United Marketing, we helped host the 2003 Women's World Cup. We created and managed the prestigious InterLiga Copa Libertadores qualifying tournament for Mexican Club teams. We have secured the marketing rights to the U.S. national teams and promoted dozens of international soccer matches, included several near sell-outs with the Mexican national team, Argentina, Columbia and Peru.
Only three weeks ago, we welcomed our latest investor group, Sports Capital Partners to the MLS family. Led by distinguished sports executive David W. Checketts, Salt Lake City emerged from a number of potential expansion cities as the 12th MLS team. We are very excited about expanding further in the Mountain States and are bringing pro soccer to a city known for it's loyal and committed fan base, large youth soccer market and rapidly growing ethnic community.
On Monday we will unveil the details surrounding the Los Angeles-based expansion team owned by Jorge Vergara, the owner of legendary Mexican club Chivas as well as Costa Rican power Saprissa.
I know the addition of a second team to an existing market took many by surprise, especially as we remain aggressive on expanding Major League Soccer's footprint across this country, but the power of the Chivas concept combined with a jewel of a stadium in The Home Depot Center allows us to create the league's first true "derby," a rivalry that will quickly create unparalleled excitement in the largest Hispanic market in the United States.
We are committed to adding at least two additional teams to MLS in the near future. As I've said many times before, we will only expand at the right time, under the right circumstances and with the key elements of ownership, stadium plans, fan base and local sponsorship in place.
Speaking of stadiums, when the founders of MLS created the original plan, it included teams playing in their own soccer specific stadiums. It took three years for the first -- when Lamar Hunt built Columbus Crew Stadium -- and four more years until AEG built The Home Depot Center.
Next year, we will open our first youth and professional soccer complex in Frisco, Texas, the new home for the Dallas Burn, North Texas Soccer and the United States Youth Soccer Association.
Earlier this year, we announced public-private partnership deals for the Chicago Fire in Bridgeview, Ill., and for the MetroStars in Harrison, N.J. This past Tuesday, we announced a $135 million public-private partnership between the Kroenke Sports Group and the Denver suburb of Commerce City for a new home for the Colorado Rapids, with as many as 20 youth soccer fields.
In total, by 2007, our 12th season, we will have built a minimum of six soccer-specific stadiums that truly celebrate our sport. Stadiums that provide a soccer friendly environment for our players and fans. Complexes that provide our owners with the ability to have a more viable business.
As we build the infrastructure for the sport in America, and a league that is providing opportunities for players, coaches, administrators and referees we are also building new sports tradition on this side of the world. This year our teams continued their efforts to connect with the soccer community. Season ticket sales have increased for the second straight year. Year-to-date attendance is up 5%.
Our teams are rapidly becoming soccer "clubs" with youth and soccer player development programs. Next year, we hope to announce a partnership with US Soccer creating a Youth Development League.
It's Major League Soccer's goal to serve as the inspiration for soccer fans -- young and old -- from all ethnic groups and genders throughout America.
That process starts with our players, involves our teams and their staffs and includes committed corporate and media partners.
When you see the faces of the young players on this afternoon's Sierra Mist Youth Soccer Shocker tour of the D.C. area, and their adulation of and appreciation for our players, you will see an example of how a local team can bring inspiration and aspiration to life.
When you go to a grocery store this fall, you will see our teams and players come to life on millions of Post Cereal boxes, thanks to a nationwide Kraft Foods promotion.
And if you are one of the millions of viewers of MLS games on ABC, ESPN2, Fox Sports World, HDNet and a wide variety of local television stations, you can watch our games come to life. By the way, our national household ratings are up nearly 40% this season.
In addition to visionary ownership and continued groundbreaking of stadiums, it's about the product on the field and how the product translates off the field.
We are proud of the 18 players here this weekend who are first-time All-Stars, players we expect to be watching in the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. While many of our stars have shone in Bruce Arena's U.S. men's national team player pool, we do have 31 players in MLS who kicked off World Cup qualifying this year for no less than 17 countries OUTSIDE the United States.
This is evidence of our rapidly accelerating profile on the world stage.
In addition to being the League of choice for top CONCACAF performers such as Carlos Ruiz, Amado Guevara, Cornell Glen and Andy Williams, MLS continues to secure and develop exquisite young American talent such as Freddy Adu, Eddie Gaven, Danny Szetela and Clint Dempsey. Those players come together in a melting pot on our fields each week, and they will again in tomorrow's All-Star Game.
We continue to work closely with the MLS Players Union on finalizing a long-term Collective Bargaining Agreement. I want to commend the Union leadership -- particularly executive director, Bob Foose and lead counsel, Jon Newman, for their efforts in building this, our inaugural CBA, one which will serve as the foundation of future labor agreements for Major League Soccer.
Our players deeply care about and revere their position as responsible role models. Our players and teams are deeply engaged in the communities we serve, and work tirelessly with local youth coaches and administrators to make a difference in the lives of young kids of all ethnicities in our country.
Tomorrow we celebrate the Past, Present and Future of American soccer, the pioneering spirit of so many who work tirelessly and have sacrificed much for the opportunity we live every day. We pay tribute to the stars of our League and those who made it possible.
I speak with confidence on behalf of our investors, our team administrators, and our players and coaches when I say that each of us believes deeply in the future of our sport, in the future of our league and in the tremendous opportunity that exists for the sport in our country. I want to thank everyone for their role and commitment to our sport and for providing us all the ability to live our dreams.
Enjoy tomorrow's game, and thank you for your participation in the 2004 Sierra Mist MLS All-Star Weekend.


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I have this persistant argument with my manager (dont they tend to be really *****) , to store audit related data completeley when an event has occured (since my project uses determing specific attributes of a object via a hirerchy, there can be thousands of rows to be stored in database) or to store enough information so that we can recreate these thousands of rows on the fly when a audit report is asked to be generated (my approch) which ever method is taken this audit records needs to be written in a transaction. Any comments on which is better, my take is storing thousands of records for 2 reasons is bad. 1. I cannot efficiently say how many records will be stored (there is a variable depending on data, can be 10 can be 10 thousand) and not knowing the size of transaction does bother me. 2. Ran into hibernate problems before in memory management... but I think if I use a StatelessSession this should go away (Now I am on hibernate 2.x version need to upgrade to 3.x, which is another battle with my brainless manager....).
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TASCAM's DR-05 brings high-quality stereo recording to an easy-to-use portable powerhouse with a size and price that anyone can handle. The DR-05 records in MP3 or WAV format - including 96kHz/24-bit high-resolution audio ? to microSD or microSDHC media. A pair of all-new microphones handles up to 125dB SPL with the sensitivity to capture every detail. With new recording features like Peak Reduction and Quick Menu, the DR-05 puts album-quality recording in the palm of your hand. This bundle also includes the Tascam AK-DR11G accessory pack and 2GB micro SD card.
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