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Album Rating: 4.0I didn't "tell you" to do anything. I just aimed to give you an idea of context.
I'm laughing at more the idea that twitter matters than you recommending it.
Twitter can die in a hole.
Album Rating: 4.0okay then
This girl is banging.
Digging: Ne Obliviscaris - Urn
Ya might wanna fix up the tracklist.
always enjoy your reviews.
so are most of these songs old b sides/bonus tracks or are they new songs?
Album Rating: 4.0I think it's a mixture of b-sides and remixes from the Maya era. Some of the free songs she posted on Twitter appear here.
I'm laughing at more the idea that twitter matters than you recommending it.
Twitter can die in a hole.
This good guys?
conrad, you're a fucking G, get fucking contributor dog
Album Rating: 4.0@spec: yes.
ugh m.i.a.
Album Rating: 3.0interesting. didn't know this was coming out. Will have to check it soon.
man i loved maya, favorite release that year
lol gyro thinks twitter is a good thing
funny dude
Album Rating: 4.0twitter is arguably the epitome of self-absorption, but it's also a fascinating way of looking at how contemporary pop culture is developing
and now defeater replies saying "oh god"
you should be a college professor conradtao
you're so good at making unimportant shit sound really relevant
Album Rating: 4.0yeah sue me for trying to find something interesting in everything
Thanks for a clear eyed assessment of her work this year. Will check this out.
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I am here to share with you a sneak peak of the hard work & dedication my dear hubs has to refinishing Abby's big girl bed! & of course with the help from the BIG GIRL herself!
a little background...this bed was found in the old barn on the Kelsey farm which belonged to Justin's Great-Grandmother. Surprisingly, it's still in great condition, just needs some touch ups! It is a beautiful bed! I looove it. We decided we would sand it down, redo it, (I think we've decided to go with an antique white look) & give it to Abby! We should have taken a few before photos, but we didn't, so here is a little of the process:
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Apparently no one told Conor Oberst that reports of irony's death have been greatly exaggerated. Achingly sincere and awkwardly melodramatic as only a twenty-two-year-old can be, Oberst has managed the neat trick of translating ponderous self-obsession and soul-killing misery into a growing cottage industry, and with the new Lifted or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground, the fourth album he's released under the Bright Eyes aegis, the Omaha native has even cracked the Billboard Top 200.
Concentrating primarily on material from that CD, Bright Eyes' sold-out appearance on September 13th at Chicago's intimate Old Town School of Folk Music opened with the woozy, waltz-like "False Advertising," and from the outset the thirteen-piece band achieved live a vibrancy that is merely suggested on record. Anchored by no fewer than three percussionists, the songs marched forward with a militaristic purpose that brought welcome structure to Oberst's sprawling lyrics, quavering vocals and ragged, folky melodies. Although all of Oberst's songs seem explicitly autobiographical, the show's climactic number, Lifted's "Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and Be Loved)," proved particularly telling -- "I do not read the reviews, no I am not singing for you," he cried, and the predominantly twenty-something crowd responded with the reverential applause of true believers, bringing to mind a pep rally at a school for disaffected youth.
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Prescription drug abuse is an emerging problem in our country, and one that
is showing an increasing trend. What is most disturbing about this trend is that
teenagers and young adults are counted among those who use these drugs
nonmedically-which include prescription pain relievers, stimulants, sedatives,
and tranquilizers.
According to the National Institute on
Drug Abuse's (NIDA's) 2004 Monitoring
the Future survey, 9.3 percent of
12th-graders reported using Vicodin without a prescription in the past year, and
5.0 percent reported using OxyContin. Another recent survey reports that approximately
48 million people-about 20 percent of the U.S. population-aged 12 or
older had used prescription drugs for nonmedical reasons in their lifetimes.
Elderly persons are particularly vulnerable to prescription drug abuse and misuse;
as a group, they are prescribed more medications than their younger counterparts,
placing them at higher risk for misuse, dependence, and addiction.
Accessibility to the drugs is likely a contributing factor to this growing trend.
More people are being prescribed medications today, for a variety of health
reasons. This increase in prescriptions means more pills in our medicine cabinets.
To add to this supply, many people also are obtaining medications illegally
through Web sites that do not require a physician's prescription. While most
online pharmacies are lawful businesses providing an important healthcare
service, others, however, are not. In fact, some sites provide medications without
proper identity verification.
Prescription drugs can have great medical benefits when taken under the supervision
of a physician. However, their inappropriate use can lead to addiction.
As a physician, I want to raise awareness in the healthcare community about the
potential for prescription drug abuse. I also want to ask caretakers to safeguard
their prescribed medications so that young people in their households do not have
easy access to them.
NIDA is continuing to invest resources in researching this topic. We currently
are testing medications for the treatment of prescription opioid abuse through our
Clinical Trials Network. For more information on prescription drug abuse, as well
as other drugs of abuse, please visit the NIDA Web site, www.drugabuse.gov,
or call the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information at
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Although most people take prescription medications responsibly,
there has been an increase in the nonmedical use or, as
NIDA refers to it in this report, abuse of prescription drugs
in the United States.
A number of published reports indicate that prescription drug
abuse is on the rise in the United States. According to the
2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 6.3 million
Americans aged 12 and older have used prescription medications
for nonmedical purposes in the prior 30 days.
An estimated -
The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), which
monitors drug mentions (medications and drugs of abuse)
from emergency departments (EDs) across the Nation,
recently reported that two of the most frequently mentioned
prescription medications in drug abuse-related cases are
benzodiazepines (e.g., Valium, Xanax, Klonopin, and
Ativan) and opioid pain relievers (e.g., oxycodone, hydrocodone,
morphine, methadone, and combinations that
include these drugs). In 2002, benzodiazepines accounted
for 100,784 ED visits categorized as drug abuse-related
cases and opioid pain relievers accounted for more than
119,000. Between 1994 and 2002, ED reports of hydrocodone
and oxycodone overdoses increased by 170 percent
and 450 percent, respectively. While ED visits attributed to
drug addiction have been increasing, suicide-related visits
have remained stable since 1995.
Several classes of medications that are commonly abused
include opioids, central nervous system (CNS) depressants,
and stimulants. Certain over-the-counter (OTC) medicines
can also be abused when not taken as directed. It is important
to note that many prescription drugs or OTC medications
can produce dangerous health effects when taken concurrently
or taken with alcohol.
Who is most vulnerable?
Healthcare providers, primary care physicians, pharmacists,
and patients themselves, can all play a role in identifying
and preventing prescription drug abuse.
Physicians. Because most people visit their primary care
physician at least once every 2 years, primary care physicians
are in a unique position?not only to prescribe medications,
but to identify prescription drug abuse and help the patient
find treatment. Screening for prescription drug abuse should
be incorporated into every routine medical visit. Doctors
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current prescription and OTC use, and reasons for use.
Further, doctors should also be aware of other potential
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medication the patient reportedly needs, or refill requests
before the refill date.
Pharmacists. It is a pharmacist's responsibility to provide
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The pharmacist also can be part of the first line of
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Patients. There are also steps a patient can take to ensure
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any dietary or herbal supplements they might be taking.
Years of research have shown that addiction to any drug,
illicit or prescribed, like other chronic diseases, can be
treated effectively. However, no single type of treatment
is appropriate for all individuals with addictions. To be
successful, treatment must take into account the type of
drug used as well as the needs of the user. Treatment may
incorporate several behavioral and pharmacological components,
as well as detoxification. Because drug abuse is a
chronic and relapsing disease, multiple courses of treatment
may be needed for patients to make a full recovery.
There are two main categories of drug addiction treatment-
behavioral and pharmacological.
Behavioral Treatment
Behavioral drug abuse treatments?such as individual
counseling, group or family counseling, contingency management,
and cognitive-behavioral therapy-teach patients
how to stop using drugs, how to handle cravings, how to
prevent a relapse, and how to handle a relapse if one should
occur. When delivered effectively, behavioral treatments
also can help patients improve their personal relationships
and ability to function at work and within the community.
Pharmacological Treatment
Some addictions, such as opioid addiction, can be treated
with medications. Methadone and buprenorphine currently
are used to treat heroin addiction, but they also may prove
useful in treating addiction to pain relievers. Further research
is needed to determine whether these medications will
provide an effective treatment for prescription drug abuse.
Research shows that a combination of both behavioral and pharmacological treatments is the
most effective strategy, especially for treating opioid addiction.
There is a fine balance between under-prescribing and over-prescribing pain relievers,
particularly opioids.
The data available to us so far suggests that the risk of becoming addicted to prescription pain
medication is minimal in those who are treated on a short-term basis. The risk for patients with
chronic pain is less well understood. Some studies have shown that those most vulnerable to
becoming addicted to prescription pain medications have a history of psychological disorders,
prior substance abuse problems, or a family history of these disorders.
Pain management for patients who have substance abuse disorders is particularly challenging
for the medical profession. However, these patients still can be successfully treated with opioid
pain medications; they may need to be admitted to a treatment or recovery program and
monitored closely if prescribed controlled substances for pain.
Developing effective treatments for addiction and pain medications that are less likely to be
abused is a priority for NIDA. For example, the medication buprenorphine/naloxone (marketed
as Suboxone), developed by NIDA in collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry for the
treatment of opioid addiction, may provide an alternative treatment for pain that has less potential
for abuse than other pain medications. However, further research is needed before this practice can
be recommended.
* This does not apply only to opioids. Changes in routes of administration also contribute
to the abuse of other prescription medications, and this practice can lead to serious medical
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The River Street Market Place is the southernmost of the three marinas along Savannah's historic waterfront and is adjacent to the Savannah City Docks. The downstream current here can be swift, but the floating face docks allow manageable tie-ups.
I agree with Pascal. If you want to be in downtown Savannah, this is a good place to be. We walked by the city dock and the power pedestals were covered with trash bags. Somehow, you're supposed to pay at the parking garage. Also, they don't take reservations, The River Street Market Place Dock does. It should be noted that this is a "dockâ€, little more. There are no showers and the restrooms are shared with customers of the River Street Market Place and are locked at night. You do have power and water at no extra charge. No ice either although Chaz volunteered to go get us some. The wakes from ships are not bad, but an occasional private boat or the ferry may produce a wake bigger than you might like. If we return to Savannah, this is where we'll stay.
Captain Ron
The River Street docks are the place to be and Chaz is ultra helpful. There is a lot of shipping traffic (it's the second busiest port on the east coast) and we enjoyed watching the big ships go by. You can go to the marinetraffic.com website and see the ships moving up and down the Savannah River and get terrific information about each ship. You can also turn the radio to channels 16 and 13 and listen to the ships and tugs. Savannah is a great city to visit.
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Lawrence city commissioners had a wide-ranging discussion Tuesday night of the Lawrence Municipal Airport.
They talked about aggressive plans for a railroad spur and a relocation of U.S. Highway 24-40 as well as basic items like flushing toilets and surveying the property, something that has never been done.
The latter are "baby steps" that need to be done before real growth can happen at the airport, said Rick Bryant, chairman of the Lawrence Aviation Advisory Board.
"We're a little bit behind the curve," Bryant said.
"Through some hard work and diligence we've got the ball rolling forward. I want to keep it rolling forward."
Tuesday, commissioners:
Agreed to pay $33,800 to Black & Veatch for an engineering study of different ways to process sewage from the airport.
Agreed to pay $59,350 to Bucher, Willis & Ratliff to survey and plat the airport property and to put together a stormwater management plan.
Heard a recommendation from Chris Stewart, city water systems engineer, that a new well be dug to serve the airport when more water for fire protection is needed.
Heard a report from Bryant on his efforts to land federal or state grants for airport improvements, as well as the ongoing effort to relocate a Union Pacific rail line around the north end of the airport.
Bryant said Union Pacific is interested in moving the rail line to bypass North Lawrence. But doing so would require the permission of Federal Aviation Administration officials, who have said the rail line would be too near the end of the runway.
"If we can figure out a way to satisfy FAA safety requirements we are in pretty good shape on this project's potential to go through," Bryant said.
Bryant said a rail spur at the airport and possibly an Amtrak station would be an asset.
"You'd have planes, trains and automobiles all in one location," Bryant said.
Bryant also said railroad officials may go to bat for moving U.S. Highway 24-40 to the south to allow a longer runway.
Bryant said he would like to see a much different airport in three years.
Mayor Jim Henry said it could be done if Bryant and others stay committed to the airport cause. "It will be 10 years if we don't talk about it today and get something moving," Henry said.
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Stu wrote: "I challenge anyone to really see the value of a piece of paper being in the thousands of pounds because someone wrote took a few *seconds* to scribble their name on it. "
I have items with the signatures and/or inscriptions of Tolkien and several of his family, friends and colleagues. I never paid thousands for 'em, because I don't have that sort of money to chuck around. I know the story behind the items I've bought; they bring me a little closer to the people involved. I enjoy making connections between those who moved in Tolkien's (and Lewis') circles.
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... I skipped Sonic Youth. I think they were a victim of my Great 1990s Musical Blackout (of which I'm slowly trying to rectify.)
The Ranaldo single sounds interesting. I just paid for the LP (only $1 more than the CD!) straight from Matador.
It was around noon on Sunday, October 16th, 2011, and I was in the lobby of the Denver Marriott Tech Center. Jennifer Atocha broke the news. Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore had separated after 27 years of marriage and 16 awesome full-length albums with their band, Sonic Youth:
Honestly, I was more surprised to learn that Kim and Thurston were splitting up. But maybe that says more about me and my views on marriage. I had done my share of wondering about the band. How many more albums like The Eternal could they possibly have in them? What did they have left to accomplish after 30 years as Sonic Youth? And the saddest question of all: How much longer could the fun last?
I'm not the fan who stopped listening after Daydream Nation or who only enjoyed Dirty and Goo. I got in at Dirty and Goo, went backwards from there, devoured Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, fell for one album after the next. Washing Machine, A Thousand Leaves, the strange and dark NYC Ghosts and Flowers, Murray Street, Sonic Nurse, Rather Ripped: Each new album surpassed my expectations, took its place as my absolute favorite. I loved Sonic Youth, unconditionally. I still do, of course. During those times when I saw them perform live, I felt they were the only band that mattered. If Sonic Youth was the last band in the world, the world would still be full.
While Kim and Thurston shared the bulk of the vocal duties, it was always Lee Ranaldo's songs that hit me hardest. "In the Kingdom #19," "Pipeline/Kill Time," "Eric's Trip," "Hey Joni," "Mote," "Wish Fulfillment," "Karen Coltrane." These songs shot straight to my heart. They were somehow gentler, more human, bigger than anything else.
On November 28, 2011, in an interesting discussion with Matthew Perpetua of Rolling Stone, Lee Ranaldo explained that Sonic Youth would be taking time off, but expressed his optimism for the future.
We've been together way longer than any of us ever imagined would happen and it's been for the most part an incredibly pleasurable ride. There's still a lot of stuff we're going to continue to do. There's tons and tons of archival projects and things like that that are still going on, so there are so many ways in which we are tied to each other for the future both musically and in other ways. I'm just happy right now to let the future take its course and I guess I'm kind of thankful that I've got this other project that kind of came about on its own.
Lee Ranaldo's album, Between the Times and the Tides, will be released by Matador Records on March 20, and will include contributions from Nels Cline, John Medeski, Alan Licht, Steve Shelley, Jim O'Rourke, and Bob Bert. I've listened to the album's first single, "Off the Wall," about 23 times in a row now. The band will open for M. Ward at Webster Hall on May 11. I'll be there.
... I skipped Sonic Youth. I think they were a victim of my Great 1990s Musical Blackout (of which I'm slowly trying to rectify.)
The Ranaldo single sounds interesting. I just paid for the LP (only $1 more than the CD!) straight from Matador.


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Wynn Wynn Ong pays homage to the Filipino
A fastidiously hand-chiseled neckpiece emulating the intricacy of Spanish lace, highlighted by a baroque pearl pendant, commanded £10,000 pounds (close to P600,000) at an open auction in London. Rendered by jewelry designer Wynn Wynn Ong, it garnered the highest bid among the other luxury pieces donated by other Filipinos.
The occasion was the London-Philippine Fashion Show, organized by Prospero World, a UK-based philanthropy group that promotes nongovernment organizations. The Center of Excellence in Public Elementary Education (Centex), a program of the Ayala Foundation, was its first Asian partner. The event was attended by London society with VIP tickets that cost £1,000. Top Filipino designers participated in this fund-raising event to help Centex's beneficiaries.
Ayala Corporation CEO Fernando Zobel de Ayala had invited Ong to be a part of this show. "It clicked with me because Hands-On Manila has a longstanding relationship with Centex," she said. Ong is a former chair of Hands-On, a foundation that promotes volunteerism and community service.
Ong's "Las Islas Filipinas, Pearl of the Orient" neckpiece was one of the 36 pieces of her latest collection. While other local designers presented clothes and accessories with modern sensibilities, Ong, in her characteristic individualism, took a different route. It was ironic that Ong, a Burmese, had produced a visual profile of Philippine history and culture.
Ong was mostly educated in the Philippines and is married to a Filipino. She could not acquire a Philippine passport since the Burmese government did not allow dual citizenship. Nonetheless, the collection was an homage to her adopted country.
"I wanted to capture its essence—the biodiversity, the richness of our pre-Hispanic history, the individuals that enriched it as the 'spirits of the Philippine revolution,' and the portraits of the Filipina," she said. "It's important to celebrate what we have instead of just trying to appeal to the rest of the world. For as long as we have international standards, people are willing to collect because there's a story behind each design."
Spirit boat
Constantly pushing the envelope, she introduced a new style, miniature oil painting, for the pendants and upped the ante of the classic metalworking techniques rarely done today such as repoussage and embossing, both of which lend a three-dimensional quality. Her other methods involve texturing on silver and etching. The collection underscored the Wynn Wynn Ong brand's forte—"elaborate and painstaking metal work," she said.
"Every one of the 36 pieces were meticulously researched—from the old archival photographs to the research on old embroidery techniques. It took us quite a while to create techniques to make silver come alive and look like intricate embroidery, particularly callado, French Laid embroidery and back-stitch embroidery," said Ong.
The pre-colonial era was depicted by minaudieres, made of 24k gold on alloys of copper, brass, gold and silver, that symbolized the country's major islands. Suggesting the agricultural economy of Luzon, a purse was sculpted to mimic the ridges of the rice terraces. For a whimsical touch, a tiny rice-field egret was perched on the carabao clasp. Their eyes shone with tiny diamonds and the horn was encrusted with recycled carabao horn, naturally.
To illustrate the Visayas, the designer drew inspiration from the Manunggul burial jar found in the Tabon Caves in Palawan. The scroll patterns, characteristic of the jar, adorned the body of the minaudiere while the clasp was an accurate sculptural representation of the lid—a boatman ferrying the dead. The design conveyed the artistry of the early Filipinos who created this jar.
Mindanao was depicted through a minaudiere with the alibata, the Tagalog alphabet and a silver sarimanok clasp, of which its feathers were meticulously chiseled. "Imagine toting a representation of your ancient alphabet," said Ong.
The Philippine formal wear, a vestige of Spanish influence, was interpreted through a necklace imitating the needlepoint callado design taken from a portrait of an illustrado.
This long silver necklace boasted of its flawless repoussage, a technique that shapes metal from the backside to form a relief or a raised design on the front. Ong brought out the Old-World craftsmanship and elegance that defined the barong but gave it a modern touch through her medium.
"Our Burda Barong took six weeks to make and involved eight people at times," she said. "It's made of 18 individual pieces. To make each piece, you trace the design on metal sheet, cut out, create a repoussé, cut and etch with the filligree parts such as the flowers and the vines. You polish it so that the edges don't hurt. They have to be buffed by hand and linked together."
Likewise, the minaudieres took 125 hours to sculpt and cast.
The country's critical moment, the turn of the 20th century was interpreted through belts and pendants with miniature oil-on-canvas paintings of revolutionary heroes, the dalagang Filipina and the maritime empire with images of the vinta, banca, balangay and the galleon.
The emancipation of the Philippines from colonialism was illustrated by portraits of Filipinas in that era. Ong fancied a photograph of a feisty mestiza from Sangley Point and a T'Boli maiden which were captured in pendants, of which the fine details including the shadows, can stand up to close inspection. The designer not only wanted to show the various facets of Filipina beauty. A sculpted honeybee on top of the T'Boli maiden was made to symbolize the Filipino woman, the real worker of the family.
These portraits were set in frames rendered in repoussé, topped with Philippine animals and strung with little gemstones. An allusion to the art of the santos, a pendant frame had a motif of rays emanating from religious icons.
Test of time
The other pieces illustrating Philippine flora and animals lent a playful touch. A pair of earrings were composed of miniature paintings that paid tribute to Fr. Francisco Manuel Blanco's "Flora de Filipinas" prints. They were mounted on sculpted flowers and adorned with pink tourmalines and citrine droplets. The Philippine owl earring was decorated with smoky quartz.
Another minaudiere collection was made of metal that imitated the tree bark, a secret technique produced in Ong's workshop. The gecko (tuko) and varieties of hornbills such as the kalaw, tariktik and the writhed hornbill sat atop the clasp. The meshlike minaudieres is composite of fiberglass, resin and paper pulp depicted the marine life such as the octopus in Mindoro. A ring that simulated stingray leather was crowned with mabe and blister pearls.
"I want to keep on creating pieces that would withstand the test of time and push Filipino craftsmanship to its limits. I want to continue to create legacy-building' collector's items," said Ong. "My standard of judging myself is: Can this go to a museum? I don't like to call my jewelry 'accessory.' Its function is not to accessorize. It has evolved into an art piece that you can wear."
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Looking to buy a charger? Look here before you ask for suggestions.
This thread should be self explainatory.
If you ask for charger recommendations in this thread, I can not guarantee your safety. Castigating the offenders is not only allowed, its encouraged.
12/17/10 LiPo Charger Suggestion?
12/16/10 Help! Need a charger!
12/05/10 What is a good lipo charger
12/12/10 This charger, or this one
12/04/10 Which battery charger?
12/10/10 Need help on figuring size of chrager
12/08/10 What do I need to chare Hyperion batteries in 10-12 min. ?
11/26/10 Suggestions for charging 6-cell 5000mAh Lipos?
12/07/10 Charging 2, 3 Cell Lipos at the same time
12/01/10 What charger should I buy for my heli?
The list so far is just for this month. The list will be updated as needed. If I miss a new thread, please send me a PM and I'll update the list.
11/30/10 Multi Port Balance Chargers
11/30/10 mAh logging on modern chargers
11/30/10 Need a charger for my nitro heli batteries
11/24/10 Whats the poop on Turnagy Chargers?
11/24/10 Imax b8
11/18/10 200 watt Lipo Chargers? any good ones out there?
11/23/10 I need a recommended charger for LiPo
10/28/10 Looking for a Good Charger for 6S 5000mah
11/19/10 Which Charger?
11/19/10 Question on chargers
11/19/10 Simple, Cheap LIPO Balancing Charger
11/19/10 I would like a charger that...
10/23/10 Recommended Balancing Charger?
11/19/10 best balancing charger...
11/07/10 Best charger for 3c to 6c lipo
11/07/10 Best charger?
10/28/10 Charger - Just starting out flexibility
11/06/10 DC Lipo charger choosing
11/03/10 A good charger for my 6S packs?
11/05/10 Need 4s and a charger
10/31/10 Nice 1st charger?
Ok, that's it for the "which charger should I get" type threads for the last 2 months.
After checking the above threads, if you still feel the need to start a new thread, please do so, but PLEASE, use the search function first.
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Is there any site/magazine which does independent reviews of chargers?
OK...after spending a few days, and countless hours reading, and re-reading all but a few of the threads on this "list of shame"...I have to ask...
How is belittling someone asking for help useful to a noob, and how does it promote the R/C community? How will "Castigating the offenders..." foster a positive learning environment, and enrich a newcomer's R/C experience?
As stated, I read through virtually every one of them, and multiple times. Granted, the responses were generally helpful, with the exception of a few chest-pounding veterans who felt it necessary to stroke their own ego(s) by posting vague replies, implying that they know this, and you should too. However, there are a ton of options out there, and most noobs (like me) don't even know what we don't know...that is, we are so new to this, we don't even know what questions to ask, or what to research.
Being a teacher, I can tell you it is a dangerous thing to have someone trying to learn, yet bottling up questions for fear of embarrassment. It is also very damaging to that learning process to humiliate, or "castigate" someone seeking help, or with valid questions that they don't even have a clue where to begin seeking the answers. On top of that, you are opening the door to a noob making errors, getting frustrated, and leaving the hobby behind, when a little help could have made all the difference.
This is a 'public' forum for R/C enthusiasts, and hobbyists to come together and help each other out. 99% of the R/C pilots I've met are eager to pour their aquired knowledge out to help a newcomer, and will literally stand there for hours on end answer questions, and offering advice. Some folks don't have any other community resources than what can be found online...places like this forum right here. Some people don't have a LHS that they can walk into, and say, "Hey, I'm looking for a charger...I have these planes, and these batteries...what would you recommend, and what all do I need?"
So, you can either help out, or ignore, roll your eyes, lash out, etc., and turn a frustrated newcomer off to a hobby that has its own frustrations.
How you respond to anyone's post for help (or even this post) is up to you.
We'll mostly help out, occasionally ignore each other, roll our eyes and even lash out at each other when provoked. Welcome to an interesting area of our society which is no different than anywhere else...just online and we fly toy airplanes. Kindly lighten up. I found the OP amusing in the manner it was intended.
Good work, KC. You efforts will hopefully help more new and old modelers that haven't a clue what a search engine is for.
I like the idea of pre-seached thread reference, but is there a way you could post a brief synopsis of each thread's contents? the titles can be somewhat vague, and most people are not going to systematicaly go through all of them to find the answer to their question when they can just post it themselves. Isn't that what this thread is trying to prevent?
I've read that hobbyist chargers should only be expected to be accurate to within about 5% or so. Well, I'd like to know which chargers are less accurate than that, which ones are in that ballpark, and which ones are superior and are accurate to within 1% or so. I don't get any of that information here.
So it appears that there is no professional group, website, magazine, etc. which does this type of testing. It appears that we hobbyists are being left to our own devices, forced to rely upon fellow hobbyists feelings and opinions.
You were certainly correct about something...MOST members here are typical of toy airplane pilots in general...gracious, and helpful.
Nice to have the list above. Thank you KC. It works for the new guys and the old guys too!
I agree with " The Hog Pen". RC Groups proves there are many here that will help the new guy every time they can...no matter what. We value them all. It makes me proud, to see the length they go to help, and they do it often.
There's also the many experienced, savy, and smart that will read a new post...and are bothered by it just being there. Yeah! It was discussed some time ago. They just don't need to comment at all, please pass on by, if they can only be critical of the poster. Yeah, give them a re-direct to the earlier post, with discussion on their question. It's not fun to read the smart remarks, that don't help the guy, asking the question.
Make yourself proud.
People that take the mick out of dumb questions want to think back to the time they were asking dumb questions .
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Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho is confident he can build on the success he previously brought to the club.
Mourinho had no fears about returning to Stamford Bridge after successful spells at Inter Milan and Real Madrid.
He told The Sun: "No I don't think I'm risking my legacy here.
"What you did, you did. No one can delete it, no one can take away my history at Chelsea.
"And I know the Chelsea mentality. They will never forget what I did before. They will never forget that I gave everything to this club.
"I want to be seen as a new manager of Chelsea, I want to be analysed for what I do now.
"I want to work here and be loved for what I do now.
"My career is very rich. I have won lots of things in different places. Every competition I wanted to win, I did it.
"So I don't feel that pressure that a manager without a big CV would feel. The only pressure I feel is the pressure of fighting for my own club.
"Because being the manager of Chelsea means more than being the manager of any other club.
"Not because of what I did, not because of the pressure to succeed again. But because I always want Chelsea to win - even in the last five years with 10 different managers. Now I'm here, I can do something I couldn't do for the last five years - help Chelsea win. That's the only pressure I feel."
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Sharing is caring — but don't tell that to the Bonita Vista High School girls volleyball team. Last season the Barons went 9-1 in Mesa League play, but had to settle for a co-championship with arch rival Eastlake.
This year, the tall and talented Barons do not plan on sharing the league banner with anyone. Having already played and defeated many of the top teams in the county, veteran coach Woodie Taeatafa believes a Division II CIF banner is within reach.
"At the Fall Classic tournament we shocked so many teams," Taeatafa said. "We defeated Mt. Carmel, Poway, La Jolla Country Day, West Hills and Poway (which went on to beat perennial powerhouse La Costa Canyon). These are all very good teams."
The Barons are led by 2010 Mesa League Player of the Year and team co-captain Janelle Hudson. Coming from a volleyball family, Hudson has a deep understanding of the game and displays excellent skills as both a setter and an outside hitter.
Hudson shares the team leadership with senior Heather Gearhart. Gearhart also sets and plays outside hitter. She is currently leading the team in digs with an average of nearly five per game.
Upfront, six-foot-two sophomore Allie Loitz is a force at middle blocker and at opposite. Loitz is second on the team in kills behind Hudson and leads Bonita Vista in blocks. Like Hudson, six-footer Meagan Wright is a returning All-Mesa League star. Wright excelled across the front line last season and hopes to pick up in 2011 where she left off.
Loitz and Wright aren't the only two Barons who use their height to great advantage. The Barons have sophomore middle blockers Andrea Ortiz (6-3) and Alyssa Cortez (6-0). Cortez plays opposite as well.
Junior front line player Kelsey Ferko and sophomore Allie Gonzalez are just a shade under six feet tall. Senior Ashley McIlwain, at 5-9, would be considered tall on many teams, but she and the five-foot-eight Hudson are the shortest front line players on the Barons roster.
Bonita Vista offers a solid back row with players such as sophomore Megan Riley, the aforementioned Gearhart, junior Hannah Flippen and Taimane Napoleon.
With lots of strengths and very few weaknesses, this Bonita Vista team has the talent to take it a long way. Whether this team can come close to duplicating the feats of the magical 2000 undefeated Bonita Vista state championship team remains to be seen. At the very least, they should be interesting to watch.
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New Population of Rare Lemurs Discovered in Madagascar
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Spread throughout Madagascar's most isolated forests, the rare Coquerel's giant mouse lemur is a poorly understood species hovering near the edge of the endangered species list.
Once thought to be a single species, Coquerel's lemur was divided into two distinct species in 2005. Now, following the discovery of a new population of giant mouse lemurs, it may be split again.The giant mouse lemur. Credit: Louise JasperWhile conducting research in the Ranobe forest in western Madagascar, Charlie Gardner and Louise Jasper spotted the Coquerel's lemur—the first time the species had been seen outside of its typical home in the forests of the southwest. However, as Gardener explained:
The specimen that we observed appears to have a lighter dorsal coloration than is noted for M. coquereli, and has conspicuous reddish or rusty patches on the dorsal surface of the distal ends of both fore- and hind-limbs. The ventral pelage is also conspicuously light in color, and the animal possesses a strikingly red tail, also becoming darker at the end.
To him, this suggests that the lemur population may represent the discovery of a new species. He continued:
This is to suggest that it may not only be a new population, but a new species or subspecies.
The lemur sighting highlights the importance of this area, WWF—which funded Gardner and Jasper's research—commented, and makes a compelling argument for extending the borders of the reserve protecting the forest.
Malika Virah-Sawmy, WWF's Terrestrial Programme Coordinator in Madagascar, said of the Ranobe forest:
It is a hotspot of biodiversity clamped on almost all sides by mining concessions. WWF is currently applying for the extension of the [protected area] to include more key habitats within the decree of definitive protection.
Without such protections, this rare and largely unstudied group of lemurs may be pushed to the brink of extinction.
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Megastar Amitabh Bachchan is in complete awe of the latest film Ram Leela which stars Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh in the lead, so much that he has gone ahead and watched the film 3 times in 24 hours and is still craving for more. He believes that the young actors are the "brightest future of cinema in India".
"There is a certain joy in acknowledging the accomplishments of another. I did so today for 'Ram-leela', the film and its glorious cast and crew…All that have made this film a most memorable experience for me," Amitabh posted on his blog.
It is heard that sent a bouquet of flowers and also congratulated the entire team personally over the phone.
"I am in awe of their accomplishments in such a short period. The sincerity and the absolute correct note in their early performances is incredible. How they are able to get the tone balance and graph of the characters they play to perfection is a mystery to me, and I shall always laud them for it."
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Thanks to Joseph Brown for putting this together
Get Git
You only have to do this once and you only need to do this if, when you go to the command line and type git you get
bash: git: command not found
If you do not have git (needed for both BitBucket and GutHub) installed, you can get it from here.
If this is your first time using git, you will need to configure it. In a Terminal, type:
git config --global user.name "first last" git config --global user.email email@example.com
Set Up A Public SSH Key
You only have to do this once as well and if you have done it for another task you don't need to do it again for git. This is to make it so you don't have to type passwords. Pushing code is to Bitbucket/GitHub is very easy and with this setup, you don't need to type passwords, it will just accept things from your computer. To do this, we will create and upload a public ssh key.
You can see if you already have one by looking at what you have in the directory ~/.ssh/. If you have the files id_rsa id_rsa.pub then you don't need to do this step. You can just go to setup bitbucket or github below.
If you don't have those files and you need to do this step, in the terminal type
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "email@example.com"
Use the email associated with your Bitbucket/Github account. It will ask you for a passphrase. Just hit Enter (for empty passphrase). Your public key will be saved in ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
Setup Bitbucket
Go to bitbucket.org and sign up if need be. Make sure to use an academic email address, as this entails free unlimited space.
Select "Manage Account" from your user menu. Then, select "SSH keys", and click on "Add key". It is important that the key is formatted exactly (e.g. does not contain spaces), so we need a dependable way to copy/paste. We'll use the clipboard.
For mac:
For linux:
sudo apt-get install xclip xclip -sel clip
In the Key window, paste in the key and click "Add key". You can now test this in Terminal
ssh -T firstname.lastname@example.com
You only need to do the steps above once. Any new repositories will use this key.
Setup Github
Setting up a GitHub account is similar to Bitbucket.
Creating a repository
You can always setup repositories without linking them to bitbucket or github. Those sites just manage ways for collaboration and code communication. If you setup a new repository on those sites, they will often give you instructions for how to start them on your machine or if you already have one and want to link it online, it will also give you instructions for that.
The basic instructions are as such. In bitbucket, click on "Repositories" at the top, and select "Create repository". Configure name, description, private/public, language, etc. Use Git as Repository type.
Done on the web. Switch over to a Terminal. cd into the folder containing your code. Type:
git init git remote add origin ssh://firstname.lastname@example.com/YOUR_USER_NAME/YOUR_REPO_NAME.git
Committing changes
1. Add files to be pushed:
git add .
"." adds everything that differs from the repository. To restrict it to file "foo.txt":
git add foo.txt
2. Commit files:
git commit -m "some message about the commit"
3. Push already:
git push origin master
There are, of course, a lot of other commands, but these are the ones you will use often. There are tons of git cheatsheets online.
Sometimes when cloning a repository, git is configured to use https rather than ssh URLs. This means that it will not use your public ssh key, and so you will need to type in your password every time you push. To remedy this, go to the .git directory in your code folder "foo":
cd foo/.git vi config
You will see something like:
[remote "origin"] url = https://email@example.com/YOUR_USER_NAME/YOUR_REPO_NAME.git
Edit this to:
[remote "origin"] # url = https://email@example.com/YOUR_USER_NAME/YOUR_REPO_NAME.git url = firstname.lastname@example.com:YOUR_USER_NAME/YOUR_REPO_NAME.git
Pushing will now not require a password.


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John despised the Neanderthal clones for their close-knit families and feral lifestyle. The final straw came when he slipped on a Neander chip in front of his building during his first Christmas Eve alone. It's time, John told himself. The new law prohibiting Neander hunting would kick in on New Year's. Besides, a trophy Neander head would help fill the empty space in his new studio apartment.
Too anxious to eat dinner, John cleaned and loaded his .44 Magnum and waited for darkness to come. After parking under the overpass separating the Neander camping grounds from the human neighborhoods, he jogged towards the dancing glow of a bonfire and dropped down on his hands to crawl the final fifty feet.
Two Neanders, an adult and a little girl, both barefoot and wrapped in dirty human coats, sat on the curb by on open bonfire roasting rat-size chunks of meat on long metallic rods. The Neanders watched their meat burn. Ribbons of yellow, orange and shadow danced off their faces. The scene reminded John of a happier time, when he watched TV with his own six-year old Sarah.
A gust of wind blew smoke into John's face. He retched and jumped up, crouching in a police-shooting stance. He aimed the Magnum at the adult's chest with both hands. "I don't want to hurt your little girl," he shouted. "She must leave. Now!"
"Magup?" The adult did not seem to understand. He shoved a rod with a chunk of meat towards John, who let it fall to the concrete. The little girl reached over and clutched the adult's arm.
John pulled the trigger three times. The Neander flopped onto his back. He grabbed his chest, then his throat and flapped both bare feet into the air. The girl let go of his arm and screamed. Less than a minute later, the adult stopped kicking and lay motionless.
John sprinted back to his car and returned with a hunting knife and a plastic grocery bag. He found the girl slapping at the carcass's left arm trying to wake it up.
"Par," she cried, "Parpar."
John barked in his huskiest voice. "Scram! Beat it!"
"Aiaaaaaaah! Aiaaaaaah!" The girl clasped Parpar's left arm with both hands and waved it up and down, causing the hand to flap against the carcass's chest.
As he watched the scene, John felt deja vu. A week before the fire, his Sarah had run to his bedside and flapped his arm up and down to wake him following one of her nightmares. He wondered if this little girl believed she could wake Parpar. John knelt beside her and put his hand behind her head. She buried her wet cheek into his shoulder. She smelled metallic, not the way he remembered Sarah, but for a few seconds he felt as if he had gone back in time, in time to pull his little girl out of that fire.
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Ontario Election 2014: All three parties failing workers: Unions need to prepare to fight Austerity
For the last 11 years, Liberal governments have ruled Ontario. While Ontario has not been hit as hard as Europe and the US by the recession of 2008, it has had a major impact on jobs and living standards. Even prior to the recession, Ontario's private manufacturing sector had started to decline and since the 2008 crisis, the rate of factory closures in Ontario has only worsened. Close to 200,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost since 1990. The recession hit the revenue of the Ontario government, driving up the deficit. The mounting deficit has been made worse by tax cuts to big business and tax changes (introduction of HST), which combined have benefited Ontario corporations, and cut government revenue, by some $7 billion a year. The Liberals, using the excuse of the public sector budget deficit of $12 billion and $270 billion of accumulated debt (40% of the economy), moved to austerity and attacks on union workers, especially those in the public sector. They tore up the collective agreements for teachers and education workers and temporarily legislated away their right to strike. In 2011 the Liberals scraped back into government – but as a minority.
Faced with mounting scandal, Dalton McQuinty resigned as Premier in 2013. Kathleen Wynne was elected the new leader by the Liberal party with a reputation as a 'reformer'. However, like her predecessor, Wynne has been mired in scandal and allegations of corruption. After just over a year as Premier, and facing defeat as a minority government the Premier jumped before she was pushed and called a provincial election for June 12, 2014.
Liberal Corruption
The Ontario Power Plant scandal cost the province over $1 billion. The Ontario Liberals proposed in 2009 to build two new gas-fired electricity plants in Oakville and Mississauga. There was public opposition and in 2010 the Liberals cancelled the Oakville plant, followed in 2011 by the cancellation of the Mississauga plant. Oakville is a Liberal riding and most of the Mississauga ridings are also Liberal held, and it is widely believed the cancellations were due to political concern over losing seats rather than environmental issues. The cancellation has caused a stir among voters in Ontario, fitting in with the image of the Liberal Party as a corrupt, vote buying party. Allegations include covers ups, destruction of evidence (e-mail deletions) and over $1 billion in wasted government funds.
In times of austerity, it would be impossible for allegations of corruption to go unnoticed. Unfortunately, the hard-right Ontario 'Progressive' Conservatives (PC) have led the charge on the gas plant issue, which has included the nearly unprecedented action of a sitting premier suing the leader of the opposition for defamation. The official labour movement unfortunately has been slow to campaign against Liberal corruption and wasteful spending. This has fed the false perception that unions, particularly those in the public sector, are only interested in protecting their own members' jobs and conditions and that they are out of touch with ordinary workers in the private sector who are facing harsh economic realities. Tim Hudak, the right wing leader of the PC, is exploiting this with attacks on public sector workers and claims of wasteful government spending as the core of his election campaign. The PC hope to win power in Ontario on the disgust at Liberal corruption and claims of a feather-bedded public sector.
New Democratic Party's Missed Opportunities
The New Democratic Party (NDP) had allowed the previous austerity budgets of the minority Liberal government to be passed. However, the NDP leadership was facing an increasingly restless membership, both in the party and in the unions, for keeping the Liberals afloat for two and a half years. This included abstaining from the first budget vote in 2012 and then forcing some mild concessions; a pledge to keep auto insurance rates down (long a rallying cry for the NDP rank and file that historically favours outright public ownership of Auto Insurance).
The NDP caused a major upset by winning the long-time PC seat of Kitchener Waterloo in a by-election in September 2012. This was called when the Liberals used their patronage to appoint the sitting "red Tory" MPP, Elizabeth Witmar, to head the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. The Liberals had hoped to win the seat and so gain the one seat they needed for a majority in the legislature. A significant aspect of the NDP's victory in the Kitchener-Waterloo by-election was a mobilization by the teacher unions getting boots on the ground to work for the NDP candidate (the timing of the by-election coincided with the Liberals enacting Bill 115 to curtail collective bargaining in the education sector). The NDP's victory split the Liberal supporting Working Families Coalition, which played a key role in sweeping the Liberals to power in 2003 and keeping them in power in subsequent elections. This organization was established by some Ontario unions (mainly in the private sector) in 2003 to attack the Conservatives and since then has spent $millions, in practice supporting the Liberals.
Since the victory in Kitchener-Waterloo, the unions and community organizations have opposed austerity by rallying behind the Ontario NDP, even with its right wing leaning leader, Andrea Horwath. This successful coalition has continued unabated with the NDP scoring impressive victories from the Liberals in London West and Windsor Tecumseh in August 2013 and Niagara Falls in February 2014.
It would, however, be uncharacteristic for the Ontario NDP leaders to not waste the opportunities before them: the growing support in the unions; widespread protests against Bill 115 which targeted the teachers and other education unions; a general mood against austerity and corporate greed; and the historic Achilles heel of the Liberal Party: corruption and arrogance.
Liberal "Progressive" Budget or Private Sector Handouts?
The Ontario New Democrats allowed Kathleen Wynne to play her cards well in the run up to this election. The Ontario Liberals, facing growing opposition and electoral defeats, brought forward a budget in May of this year which included: a Youth Jobs Strategy, reduction of auto insurance rates, investment to boost home care for seniors, modest improvement in earnings exemption for those on welfare, cancelled tax cuts for big businesses, a proposal to create an Ontario Retirement Pension Plan to make up for the deficiencies in CPP and an increase in Child Benefits. The Liberals aimed the budget at a likely election campaign, rather than expecting it to be carried.
A section of big business in Ontario around Bay Street (Canada's Wall Street finance district) and the Liberals are presenting this as a progressive budget, trying to win support for a further term in government. They are concerned that a victory for the PC under Hudak will result in a return to the massive conflicts of the last PC government of Mike Harris in the 1990s. The conflicts included: rotating city wide general strikes; big public sector battles; a two week long political protest strike in 1997 by 125,000 teachers against the government's attacks on education; students strikes and battles between police and protesters.
They are claiming that this 'progressive' budget was defeated by the NDP for cynical reasons. Yet this budget is an insult to the poor and working class. The increase in welfare payments is only a measly 1% and the budget contracts out public works from unionized public sector to the non-union private sector.
According to the Ontario Public Service Employees Union:
"Once inflation is taken into account, the proposed real change in overall spending and revenue was very small indeed. The Ministry of Finance estimates that inflation will be 1.5 per cent in 2014 and 1.9 per cent in 2015. That put the proposed overall increase in both spending and revenues in real terms (after inflation) at just over 1 per cent. Overall spending was barely changed at all."
Ontario NDP leader, Andrea Horwath, was outsmarted by Wynne and fell into the Liberal's trap – the traditional Liberal move of governing on the right and campaigning on the left. The NDP should have clearly explained why the NDP could not support the Liberal's austerity budget, and instead argued for a genuinely progressive budget. Instead, Horwarth swallowed the claim it was a progressive budget and, doubting that the Liberals would deliver, said that Ontario can't afford anymore broken Liberal promises. This has opened the NDP up to attacks for not offering a clear alternative to the austerity Liberals. Some union leaders like the leader of the Ontario Federation of Labour, Sid Ryan, has publicly attacked the NDP and even posed the question of supporting the very Austerity Liberal government that attacked labour.
Ontario Conservative Sharks Smell Blood
The Ontario Conservative leader, Tim Hudak, has faced internal dissent from the more moderate wing of his party, including resignations, prominent public splits, and threats to his actual leadership, as he took his party in a hard-right direction. He uses populist rhetoric, like his disgraced Conservative ally Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, to gain support. Hudak has pledged to cut 100,000 Ontario public sector jobs and cut corporate taxes another 30%. He will clearly take from workers to give to the rich. But amazingly he claims that this policy will lead to one million new private sector jobs. It is much more likely to throw Ontario back into recession. How such jobs would be created, or the quality of pay and working conditions has not been specified; Hudak, using Tea Party rhetoric, hides behind catch phrases like cutting "government waste". It is striking that right wing parties across Canada campaign on grandiose claims to create jobs: the BC Liberals, Harper's federal Conservatives, the Quebec Liberals and Hudak in Ontario. In fact they all have policies that create unemployment or precarious employment, but their jobs claims are not effectively challenged by the NDP.
Hudak has backtracked from his commitment to an extreme anti-union policy, similar to what is falsely called in the US a 'right to work'. However although he has retracted this policy, it shows what he thinks and it lingers in the consciousness of many trade unionists and socialists as a real threat.
Even though Hudak's policies are out of sync with the interests of the mass of Ontario workers, the impact of Liberal corruption scandals and an ineffective NDP could improve their electoral standing. The possibility of a "Tea Party North" government should not be ruled out. But whoever wins, one thing is certain: more austerity and attacks on workers' living standards.
NDP Continues to Shift Right
The NDP has said it would raise corporate taxes a little, though they are against increasing personal income taxes on the wealthy. The NDP has advocated abolishing the HST (sales tax) on Hydro bills and a $100 rebate to each household, policies that would be welcome by most working class people. However, their main thrust is to cut 'waste' in government by $600 million a year. Other election policies include cutting Ontario's small business tax to 3 per cent; giving companies a wage subsidy to hire new workers; raise the minimum wage to $12 (from $11) by 2016 and balance the budget by 2017-18.
Their refusal to campaign for a decisive increase of taxes on corporations and the super-rich, has opened up the NDP to attack for being "anti-tax", as opposed to "anti-regressive tax", clearly a big difference.
The NDP has moved further to the right making claims it will cut government spending, opening it to the charge that it is echoing the PC's Hudak and Rob Ford's election claim in Toronto to 'stop the gravy train'. Commentators have pointed to the odd state of affairs of the NDP's campaign being to the right of the Liberals, "campaigning as wannabe Tories — promising tax cuts to small business and an end to government waste".
It is clear that the NDP leaders are not willing to shift the campaign landscape. If the campaign continues on its present path it will result in a government, whether Liberal 'red' or Conservative 'blue', that cuts jobs and pay in both the private and public sector combined with the slashing of public services. With just under a month remaining in the election campaign there is still time for labour and social justice groups to pose an alternative to a continuation of austerity.
Socialist Alternative urges unions, community groups and others on the left to mobilize to challenge the austerity agenda of the both Hudak and Wynne. If the unions and others were to campaign on two parallel fronts – one, exposing the corruption and austerity of the Liberals and, two, alerting people to the real dangers of the Hudak's PC program – it could have the effect of getting more New Democrats elected which would create a sense of confidence among Ontario's working class. More importantly, a determined campaign would help to build the movement that will be needed to challenge Liberal/Tory Austerity when the legislature returns following the election.
'Strategic Voting' Again?
The labour leadership has an ambivalent attitude towards this election. On the one hand is their successful tactic over the last 20 months of mobilizing to elect NDP candidates and using such a mobilization to pressure the NDP to enact reforms. On the other hand, is the 15 year old tactic of "strategic" voting; supporting the Working Families Coalition and supporting the candidate who has the "best chance" of defeating a Tory. Such a policy is devoid of principle and is based on the view that all organized labour can do is slow down its retreat in the face of the constant attacks on union membership, workers' pay and conditions, and public services.
In the election campaign, they seem to be leaning towards the strategy of anything but the Conservatives (ABC). Sid Ryan is touring the province campaigning to 'Stop Hudak', avoiding calling for a vote for the NDP, and instead leaving it open to vote either Liberal or NDP.
Both the leaders of the NDP and most unions seem to have low ambitions, not offering a clear alternative, or even a minor one, and for only pledging miniscule reforms. In general, they seem to argue that the NDP will be better managers than the capitalists themselves!
The NDP, both federally and provincially, over the last two decades, have moved inexorably rightwards, modelling themselves on the Tony Blair's version of New Labour in Britain. Although, in this election, they have said they will freeze university tuition, give money to cities to provide bike lanes and raise corporation tax by 1%, their main thrust is pro businees as evidenced by their "promise" to balance the budget by 2017-18, the same year as the Liberals plan to do it. In the current economic climate, any Party that plans to balance the budget within 4 years is inevitably going to find itself making cuts to public services, limiting workers' wages in the public sector and generally heading on a collision course with the organized labour movement.
The lack of an inspiring platform from the NDP and the ABC strategy of some union leaders mean that many less politically involved workers will vote for the Liberals. Calling on workers to vote ABC accepts at face value the Liberals claim to be progressives – in fact, they fight elections on the left and then rule from the right. This strategy does not warn workers of the likely right shift if the Liberals are re-elected.
Most lefts and active workers will probably vote NDP, as they recognize the real nature of the Liberals. Understandably, some activists dismayed by the NDP's failure will vote for the Greens or small left parties. Socialist Alternative believes the most important issue is that unions and progressives organize in preparation for the inevitable battles against austerity that lie ahead.
Seattle Shows the Way
The growing movement for a $15 an hour minimum wage in the US, a movement that Socialist Alternative in the US has helped kick start and lead, has had ripple affects across the world including here in Ontario. With unions and community groups calling for $14 an hour, this has forced the Liberals to announce a slight increase in the minimum wage and the NDP committing to a slightly better, $12 an hour, minimum wage.
Many socialists and trade unionists have cheered the election of Socialist Alternative councillor Kshama Sawant in Seattle. Moreover, it raises questions as to what the unions could accomplish with resources of the 700,000 strong Ontario Federation of Labour.
The reluctance of the NDP to put forward radical policies and to campaign for a majority government poses the need for a different electoral option for working people, who clearly need a fighting, democratic party of their own. The Ontario Federation of Labour needs immediately to put their resources towards community meetings to prepare a fight against Liberal/Tory austerity.
Anti-Austerity committees could build opposition to both the Tories and Liberals. It will also build public support to reject austerity. This will be needed after the election to resist the attacks and apply pressure on NDP to fight for the needs of workers and communities. If there is a minority government, NDP will need to be pressurized to resist giving support to a 'lesser evil' version of austerity.
Neo-liberalism dominates the political landscape. It means accepting the rule of the market, giving tax cuts to the rich and corporations and inevitably means attacks on the quality of life for working people. The NDP has supported this view, rather than supporting the transfer wealth and power from the rich and the corporations to working people. In a future election, labour should look at standing candidates of their own in strongholds like Sudbury, Windsor, Hamilton, northern Ontario and parts of Toronto where Conservatives are an endangered species. The recent victory by union activists against the US Democrats in Lorain County, Ohio show what can be achieved.
The Ontario working class and the labour movement face mounting attacks. Workers only have to look to Europe and the US to see what the ruling class have planned. The need to build fighting unions and a political alternative to capitalism – to counter its cuts in jobs, services, and living standards and environmental damage – has never been greater.
Glossary of Ontario Parties and Politicians (need 54 seats for a majority)
- Ontario Liberals: leader Kathleen Wynne, traditional centre party moving right, 48 seats
- Ontario Progressive Conservatives (PC): leader Tim Hudak, right wing, anti-union party which has moved further right, 37 seats
- Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP): leader Andrea Horwath, traditional social democratic party moving rightward to a more populist stance, 21 seats


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New thermometer in town
…HA used the same household thermometer until the silver stuff was so thinned all the way up the tube, she appeared to have a temp of 106 unless she held it at the correct angle.
…It had been a faithful tool, but finally had to go to the Medical Waste Dump in the sky.
…Sad and bereft, HA haunted the thermometer counter. They were WIDE, they were weird, they were…just not Old Faithful.
…Then Vicks offered HA a test-drive of a snappy little number called the SpeedRead.
…It's cute! Like a lollipop (don't you always feel child-like when you're sick?).
…You press a button and it runs through a reassuring little LED test and then is ready for action.
…It only takes 8 seconds! Then Beep—you can see the answer.
…It's flexible, so it's OK for all…orifices (HA meant underarm, what were you thinking).
…Vicks also has a hospital-style model, with the tube going over to the tongue probe thingie.
…If you have to be sick, at least be kicky! That's what HA always says.
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Unless I can turn the brightness all the way to the max, I can't play the game.
Default brightness settings make the game way contrasty and makes my eyes bleed out in matter of seconds.
Problem #1:
Each time I run the game, my brightness and Vsync settings are reset. Now, okay, I'll just change the settings each time I run the game, a minor inconvenience.
Problem #2:
Now since the Invoker update came out, my brightness and Vsync settings are reset each friggin time I start a new match. Now, okay, I'll just change the settings each time a play a new match. This is super annoying, but I can still live with that.
Problem #3:
Now since the Invoker update came out, game crashes when I change my graphics settings (the part i care about really is the brightness)
So the scenario plays out like this: I start a new match, brightness settings are reset, I chose the hero, I go into options and set brightness to max, game crashes.
A side problem #4:
Game also sometimes (way to often really) crashes when I alt-tab. This is kinda annoying, but I can just not alt-tab when playing. So I can with live with that sorta.
But I can't live with default brightness settings, my eyes just give out, they just pop out and bleed and I just can't play.
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�This is a book about an extraordinary man.�
So begins the preface to a book I never knew existed until Thursday. It�s the first biography written about Dean Smith, the legendary basketball coach who took over a University of North Carolina program when it was engulfed in flames of corruption and scandal and led it into the light of greatness. The book is called �The Dean Smith Story: More than a Coach.�
And it was written in 1980 � before a Smith-coached Tar Heel team had captured even one NCAA championship. Think of that. Thad Mumau, a sportswriter from Fayetteville, took on the job before Smith had accomplished what most in his profession consider the most important thing.
That is the point, I suspect.
I�ve been thinking a lot about Dean Smith lately so when I saw this book on a shelf at the Friends of the Library Book Sale in Burlington on Thursday there was no doubt I would buy it. For $3 I also bought a book by Frank Leahy, a famed Notre Dame football coach from the 1940s. The moral here is, it�s wise to go to the book sale with very little on your mind.
Dean Smith has been in my thoughts because of the troubling news that continues to trickle out of Chapel Hill and what he might think of it. The sordid tale began with the UNC football team, where academic and other abuses have already landed the Tar Heels on the NCAA sanctions list and forced the ouster of coach Butch Davis.
And, as is often true in such instances, once one scandal is revealed, others seep through previously sealed crevices. Outstanding reporting by the News & Observer of Raleigh uncovered instances of academic fraud in the African American Studies program, largely involving athletes � including some in the basketball program. Over the past week or more the N&O also reported that Matt Kupec � a UNC quarterback from the 1970s who, until his resignation under fire, was the university�s chief fund-raiser � took unnecessary trips and often with the mother of former UNC basketball player Tyler Hansbrough. Kupec also helped Tami Hansbrough get a $95,000-a-year job in his office. She was his girlfriend.
Yes, a lot of things here really stink to high heaven, as my Carolina-grad mom would say. In fact, it smells so bad that UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp commissioned an independent probe of the situation. The State Bureau of Investigation is on the case, too.
But one thing is certain. This is not the Carolina Way. In fact, it would seem by all appearances that Carolina has lost its way.
That�s why Smith, architect of the Carolina Way, jumps to mind.
Under Smith�s watch, the UNC basketball program was a model for others to follow. He was teacher, coach, innovator, mentor, leader, social activist, integration pioneer and on-campus father-confessor. The vast majority of his players not only earned degrees, they became doctors, lawyers, government leaders and teachers. In the main, his teams conducted themselves with an air of professionalism. Nothing smelled bad in the basketball program for nearly 40 years.
Smith�s vision was that of a program that would endure and succeed without shortcuts. If it meant fewer national titles, well, that was OK. If it meant less attention on him, even better.
�I�m not trying to sell a championship short, but often it�s a one-shot thing,� Smith told Mumau in 1979. �There have been several times when a team was on probation just before or just after winning the national championship.�
Smith was just 49 years old when he sat down with Mumau to work on this book. He would coach for another 17 years, win two NCAA titles and be named national coach of the year two more times. He would pile up ACC championships like ordinary folks stack wood and graduate successful student-athletes at a rate of 96.6 percent. He retired with the most wins ever, a figure since eclipsed in an era where teams play 30-plus games a season.
Since his retirement, the program he lovingly constructed has had some wince-worthy moments. A Final Four player meltdown under his longtime assistant Bill Guthridge and the player revolt under coach Matt Doherty along with an embarrassing stretch of defeats. While Smith prot�g� Roy Williams righted the ship in terms of championships, changing times and early departures by players have altered the collegiate landscape for all.
Today, Smith is 82 and his family says he suffers from a �progressive neurocognitive disorder.� He has good days and bad in terms of memory. He may be only marginally aware of the scandals that have rocked the university he served so well. That�s both a blessing and a shame.
Because now more than ever, UNC needs to ask itself �What would Dean Smith do� and search for another extraordinary man to help them find the answers.
Madison Taylor is editor of the Times-News. Contact him by email at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @tnmadisontaylor


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Music today…Quadron is a group from Denmark and while on tour in Vienna they decided to take a shot at covering the great [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Lauryn Hill[/lastfm]'s "Ex-Factor." It's good!
And in case you're interested, here's the original version by [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Lauryn Hill[/lastfm]:
Check out Lauryn at the Hollywood Palladium on February 14th as she performs music from one of my favorite albums, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
Released in 1998, the album would help Hill enter the record books. At the 1999 Grammy Awards, Hill became both the first woman ever to be nominated in 10 categories in a single year and the first woman to win five times in one night.
Hill won the awards for Album of the Year, Best R&B Album, Best R&B Song, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, and Best New Artist.


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I've been asked this question a lot. Most recently by James who's an active Online Ground School member. "How and why do we lean the mixture?"
Ask that question around an airport and you might find a lot of answers. Someone once taught me… "Lean it out until the engine quits then screw it back in 3 times!" … I think they were serious is the scary part 🙂
In the video below I'm going to share with you why we lean and some different scenarios when you should be full rich or lean. I'll also present to you two performance areas of leaning "lean of peak" and "rich of peak"
Check out the video below and let me know what you think… Enjoy! – Jason
REMEMBER: Every performance chart you read is based on you properly leaning the aircraft. Everything from gallons per hour to RPM and true airspeed. I encourage you to get more comfortable with the leaning procedures for your airplane as it will help you to fly more efficiently just as the engineers designed it.
Still have a question on how to lean your airplane? Or maybe you have a comment about something I said?
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Consider these stats: More than one-fourth of civil lawsuits filed last year were employment related, and the average jury award in employment cases is approaching a half-million dollars.
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Hillside Middle School
Hillside Middle School's mission is to prepare all students for high school and beyond through inspiring self-motivation, maximizing student growth, and ensuring quality instruction in every class, every day. MUSH! Mighty United Students of Hillside! Our students enjoy the following opportunities.
- Hillside teachers, staff, and administration know our students and want them to succeed.
- Each year over half of our student body have a GPA of 3.5 or higher.
- Hillside offers both magnet and neighborhood Extended Learning Programs (ELP), which challenge our students both academically and socially.
- Our award-winning science fair programs and teachers are recognized as some of the best and most comprehensive.
- Hillside boasts an award-winning music program that offers orchestra, band, and choir.
- We have the first middle school marching band/percussion ensemble drum line in the Salt Lake Valley.
- Our schoolwide recycling program is very active in the Three Rs: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle and boasts a Silver LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified building.
- Students, parents, and our community look forward to participating in and supporting our annual school musical.
- Our after school program offers intramural sports (volleyball, basketball, soccer), Polynesian dance, homework hall (access to U of U tutors), Math Counts, and a school newspaper.
- Hillside's Peer Tutoring Program offers general education students the opportunity to work one-on-one with students with disabilities at our school.
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After releasing earlier this season in bordeaux and navy canvas versions, Nike presents another two canvas colorways of the iconic running sneaker. Clean black and white canvas uppers are accented with dark grey canvas stripes below the laces. Together with the white outer soles the outcome are two very solid looking sneakers, both available now from Proper.
Nike Air Max 1 Fall 2011 – Black & White Canvas
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From rock 'n' roll to rap, Memphis, Tennessee is brought to you by Budweiser Made in America.
Budweiser Made in America is getting closer all the time as we explore the nation's most musically cultured cities. Now we hit Memphis, whose famous faces include everyone from Elvis Presley to Justin Timberlake.
Memphis, Tennessee has been a massive influence on musical culture since music charts began, with a range of artists frequently mentioning the great city within their own song lyrics; think Marc Cohn's 'Walking In Memphis', Chuck Berry's 'Memphis', Paul Simon's 'Graceland' and of course Alannah Myles' 'Black Velvet'. Thus, it's only right that Budweiser Made In America bring their documentary series to the great city to explore what Memphis is all about nowadays.
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Barbara Orbison, Ringo Starr and Roy Orbison - Barbara Orbison and Roy Orbison Jr Hollywood, California - Former Beatle, Ringo Starr receives a star at the 50th Anniversary Celebration of The Walk Of Fame Monday 8th February 2010
Roy Orbison - Barbara Orbison (2nd R), wife of late singer Roy Orbison, and his sons Wesley Orbison (L), Alex Orbison (2nd L) and Roy Orbison Jr (R), with freinds T-Bone Burnett, Dan Aykroyd Los Angeles, California - Rock and Roll legend Roy Orbison is honoured posthumous with the 2400th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Friday 29th January 2010


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Efficacy and Satisfaction Comparing Two Braces in the Treatment of Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip (DDH) in Infants
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Here Is a Video of Landon Donovan Missing a Penalty Kick Against FC Dallas
I've put it after the jump, because it's a Vine video, and you don't need that noise every single time you pull up FrontBurner. Before we get there, a few things:
1) With Saturday night's win, FC Dallas is comfortably atop the table in MLS' Western Conference, with a 5-1-1 record and 16 points. Winning is fun.
2) I can't recommend the FC Dallas experience enough. I've been to two matches so far this season, both wins, and it's a great (and pretty cheap) time. Except for the parking situation which, while free, is an insane riddle of unparalleled horribleness, or maybe I just parked in the wrong spot.
3) Seriously. Go see FC Dallas play. OK, now the missed PK.


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BP claims that cheaper technologycosts brighten solar power's future
(MEBG) – BP Solar Arabia expects solar power to become cheaper as a result of new technology and the falling cost of materials, reported the Gulf News.
According to the report, Dubai would serve as an ideal place to show how solar buildings can look and prove solar power's economic viability.
According to the company, costs are dropping as new materials and processes are developed. In particular, thin film technology holds great promise for bringing solar into contention as a viable alternative for large-scale general applications.
Thus far the restrictive cost of solar power has restricted solar power's use in the Gulf to remote telecommunication sites and unmanned oil and gas platforms and wellheads.
BP Solar Arabia is a Riyadh-based joint venture between BP and Olayan and Al Gosaibi of Saudi Arabia. Its currently produces solar panels for the regional market. The plant's capacity is up to three megawatts a year and its list of regular clients includes Aramco, Saudi Telecom, Etisalat and Petroleum Development Oman.
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Legal Question in Entertainment Law in Iowa
I won a prize package worth $13,999 from a local readio contest. I have not received any of the prizes. I have signed a W-9 form and a "release of liabilities form". Can I tell the radio station that I don't want the prize? Is there a way I can get out of this??
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You can refuse it.
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Jose Mourinho says Chelsea midfielder Oscar is suffering from fatigue
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has attributed Oscar's mid-season lull to the winter weather and fatigue.
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The 22-year-old's form in the early part of the season was so impressive Chelsea decided to sell fellow playmaker, and the club's player of the year in the past two seasons, Juan Mata to Manchester United.
But the Brazil international has struggled in recent weeks, with Eden Hazard the standout performer for Chelsea.
Mourinho insists Oscar has been producing solid displays, but concedes the players has lost some of his sparkle on the heavy pitches.
"Maybe in the last couple of matches he was not the same, because in the beginning of the season he was the best player in the team," Mourinho said.
"He was the player that was really making the difference in the first three, four months of competition.
"In this moment he's not being a match-winner, he's not scoring goals, but he's not playing bad. Not real problems.
"The talent is there all the time, but the physical top condition to express the quality he has is not always there.
"We have to take care of him. He's a young boy. He's not a natural physically strong man, suffers with the accumulation of matches, suffers with the difficult weather we had."