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By Michael Mumper
Last fall, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the City of Atlanta has the highest Income Inequality of all metropolitan cities in the United States.
Really? How is that measured? And how bad are we? And is it actually a bad thing?
The "Gini Coefficient" measure
In the 1920's an Italian economist and statistician named Corrado Gini developed a measure of "statistical dispersion" that is used to measure how wide differences are in income and wealth, though the measure has also proven helpful in other fields. This measure is now known as the Gini coefficient.
Using the Gini coefficient to measure income differences, a score of 0 means everyone has the same income, while 100 represents the maximum disparity (as in one person earning all the income). Of 134 countries whose income disparities have been measured, Sweden's is lowest at 23 (Sweden is "the" socialist country, right?), while Namibia is highest at 71. (In the chart referenced in the previous link, you can click on the up/down arrows at the top of the chart to sort that column. In this article I am referencing the CIA numbers.)
You'll notice that most European countries have a measure between 23 and 35. The highest scores tend to be in Africa, with many countries scoring between 60 and 71.
United States' Income Inequality
Different organizations have different measures, though they tell a similar story. The World Bank scores the US at 41, while the Central Intelligence Agency scores us at 48.6. The US Census Bureau scores the US at 46, noting that this income inequality has increased from 40 since 1967. This would put us as the 94th least equal county out of the 134.
Referencing the same list of country-by-country Gini coefficients as earlier, this puts income inequality in US higher than Iran, Nigeria and Nicaragua.
Closer to home, in Georgia and Atlanta
Again, according to the US Census Bureau (page 4 of this link), Georgia is slightly higher than the US average, at 46.5.
Metro Atlanta is at 45.2 (page 7).
The City of Atlanta at 57.1 (page 12). This puts our city's income inequality a little better than Honduras (57.7), Columbia (58.5) and Haiti (59.2), but not quite as "equal" as Guatemala (55.1) and Brazil (53.9).
More studying to do – any ideas?
I don't know exactly what to make of this analysis. I'm sure income equality like Sweden's is not what we're after. But I am a little concerned by inequality approaching Haiti's. And the fact that the income inequality is getting worse is doubly troubling. It's going to take a bit more learning for me to understand how we got here, how "good" or "bad" this is, and what risks we have being there. And, if necessary, how we get this number to a better place.
If anyone has any thoughts about where I find this kind of analysis, please send me a comment or email with direction.
See Michael Mumper's bio in the About Us section above.


text: I was pleasantly surprised yesterday in a CVS Pharmacy here in Naples, Florida, picking up some cold medicine for my son, when I stopped by the photo section just to take a look and saw they sell Kodak Tri-X 400-135! Granted, it was pricey ($5.99 for 24 exposures), but that's the price of 24-hour convenience, I guess. Until now I've seen only color films and Kodak's C-41 B&W film in CVS and other pharmacies, and wonder if this is a new development? I did notice that the expiration dates on these Tri-X rolls were actually later (12/2013) than the expiration dates on the Tri-X rolls I just received from Adorama (12/2012), so I don't think this is a case of the rolls sitting around collecting dust.

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Thu 14th Nov 2013 1:00pmJim Hurt's Tamarindo Surf Report
Surfed Pico on the falling tide, sunny, small crowd and around 3 foot, with a steady SW breeze and bumpy surface. Caught a few but not much to work with. Photo of Pico earlier, on the rising tide, about 10:00 AM,..anyway, not flat.
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The electronic waitlist feature replaces instructor-signed add slips and allows students from an established waitlist to be moved into a class when seats are available. It is a true first-come, first serve system.
Students trying to register for classes that are closed will be able to select waitlist. During the weeks prior to the start of classes, when vacancies occur in classes, the first student(s) on the waitlist will be moved into the class.
Students who are on a waitlist should check their registration regularly on InsideBC.
They will have ten (10) days to pay for the class once they have moved into registered class. Students will not be charged enrollment fees for waitlist classes until they are actually enrolled in the class.
Students should use the waitlist to ensure themselves a chance of getting into the classes they want.
Students on waitlists must still attend the first meeting of the class or they may be dropped from the waitlist.
The prerequisite, basic skills, time conflict and repeat checks will prevent ineligible students from moving into the classes.
Students should drop themselves from a waitlist for any class that they no longer wish to take.
If a new section of a class is opened at the same day and time as a section with a waitlist, students on the waitlist will be automatically enrolled in the new section.
A visual guide to the waitlist process is available here: http://www2.bakersfieldcollege.edu/nstrobel/banner/waitlist/


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Aaron Parker and Rory Monaghan scoured the internet for AppV 5.X and AppV 4.X recipes and compiled a great list on GitHub. Be sure to check them out.
View Rory's article here.
An update to my Sequence Like a Boss presentation from BriForum 2015 Denver.
I attended Tim & Patrick's session titled "5,4, 3, 2, 1, LIFTOFF! How Processes Become Virtualized" and learned that Acrobat DC is officially supported with App-V! In my session I mentioned that Adobe did not support Acrobat being sequenced in App-V. While that was true when I made my slides, it turns out they started supporting App-V 5 SP3 around a week ago. I do not believe they officially support older versions of Acrobat, but starting with DC is a big step.
Admin Guide/Recipe and more here: App-V Deployment: Acrobat DC
The Admin guide also mentions they have a separate MSI to enable "all" features of Acrobat.
To leverage all of Acrobat's features, a supplementary App-V MSI must be installed on the user's machine. The MSI should be available as a part of the downloaded .zip file. It contains Adobe Acrobat's integration points for various applications such as:
MS Office Integration – Context Menu and In-App Acrobat Ribbons.
Mails Integration – MS Outlook and Lotus Notes will start showing Acrobat Features.
Adobe PDF Printer – Allows the user to print any file to Adobe PDF.
Web Capture – Allows the user to be able to convert a webpage to Adobe PDF inside the Browser.
Registers necessary fonts on the client which will be used by the virtual application.
I haven't had time to go through the guide, but this is great news in the App-V community. Big thanks to Tim for mentioning that in his presentation.
I have the honor to be presenting at BriForum again this year! On top of that I will be presenting in two sessions:
Sequence Like a Boss – Presented by myself and co-presentor Drew Walz
In a continuation of the popular Sequencing for Success series, learn how to Sequence like a Boss. Just because an application doesn't work at first pass doesn't mean it can't be virtualized. In this session, you will discover how shims and symbolic links can improve application compatibility. Learn how to identify the files and folders that need them. Find out how to use the same tools to troubleshoot application errors once an application has been virtualized.
Can't Fix Your Application Issue? Try to Break it Instead! – Presented by Drew Walz and me as the co-presentor.
Sometimes knowing how to break a Windows application can be the best way to determine how to fix it. "Break-it" triage can help you quickly identify the general category of what's causing the problem with an app, and suggest acceptable short term workarounds. Deep-dive application troubleshooting tools and practices are great, but they require time, effort, and focus to use. In a customer outage situation, you'll typically need to find a fix more rapidly. We'll cover quick application troubleshooting triage tactics and workflows that will help you zero in on the source of the problem.
Register for BriForum Denver and find other great sessions at http://briforum.com/US/
The BriForum 2014 videos are now publicly available! Catch the presentation that Rory and I did here: http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/videos/archive/2014/08/05/briforum-2014-boston-rory-monaghan-amp-ryan-will-sequencing-for-success.aspx
Also, I will be presenting at Briforum 2015 twice this year! Be sure to catch my session 'Sequence like a boss' and I'll be co-presenting with Drew Walz in 'Can't fix your application issue? Try to break it instead!'
I promised a while back to post some examples of creating and using shims. These are a little later than I wanted them to be, but here we are (finally). Since it took so long I added a bonus that I wasn't able to include in my BriForum 2014 presentation, a video demonstration of the VIrtualRegistry shim.
For a more detailed explanation on these, visit my previous post on shims.
"original path";"newpath"
Example:"C:\Programdata\Application X";"Z:\ApplicationStore\Application X"
This will redirect the application call from the Programdata location to the Z drive. The Z could be a user mapped drive or any location you would prefer it go to. Keeping in mind that only the EXE(s) that you specify will only be redirected.
If you want to use environment variables such as %appdata%, I found that putting them at the begging of the parameter did not work. So I had to use "c:\users\%username%\appdata\roaming".
Video Example:
Example: ADDREDIRECT(HKLM\Software\Application\Database^HKCU\Software\Application\Database)
This will redirect the application whenever it calls the above HKLM key to the HKCU specified in the example.
Video example:
Download the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) here
Creating a ConfigurationFile.ini for SQL Standard or Enterprise is easy. The installer automatically creates one for you and gives you the path at the 'Ready to Install' step. For some reason this default functionality for Express was removed starting with SQL 2008 R2 and continues to SQL 2012. I haven't messed with SQL 2014 Express, but one might assume it's gone there as well.
Anyways, getting the installer to generate a ConfigurationFile.ini is pretty easy. Open a command prompt and add the following parameters to the .exe:
/ACTION=INSTALL /UIMODE=Normal
Note that /Action is a required parameter. Also, setting /UImode to Normal will present every dialog box that exists in the installer (even ones that do not apply to Express). Normal is the default value for non-express editions.
A few things to know for your ConfigurationFile.ini
Source: Installing SQL Server from the Command Prompt
Update 10/26/16: In the comments, Stephan states that his SQL 2014 install would not accept TRUE/FALSE for the IACCEPTSQLSERVERLICENSETERMS. Try using 1 instead of TRUE if you experience the same error. I recently created a config file for 2014 and was able to use TRUE. FYI in case you do though!
I recently ran into an issue sequencing an application that uses the Crystal Reports runtime 13. The application worked properly when natively installed on a machine, but thew errors when it was virtualized with App-V 5. It complained about a particular GUID and not being able to locate some DLLs.
I found a similar issue on the TechNet forums where an application that used Crystal runtime 13 worked properly in App-V 5.0 RTM, but not with SP2+. It appears Microsoft fixed some issues with buffering in the updated Service Pack. Which in turn 'broke' crystal integration with the application. I checked out the installation path for the Crystal runtime and it sure has some long paths!
C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\Crystal Reports for .NET Framework 4.0\Common\Crystal Reports 2011\crystalreportviewers
C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\Crystal Reports for .NET Framework 4.0\Common\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\win32_x86
The OP of that issue was able to resolve it by creating an MST to shorten the file and registry paths. I was curious if I could fix this issue without creating an MST. I couldn't find any install parameters for the runtime, but found ones for full-blown Crystal. The one I wanted was this:
After confirming the same parameter worked with the runtime installer, I set installdir to – C:\Program Files (x86)\1\
This changed the installation directory to: C:\Program Files (x86)\1\Crystal Reports for .NET Framework 4.0\Common\..
It only saved 18 characters, but it might just do the trick…. And it did! Now the application is able to run reports without error.
The underlying issue here is that installation path is too long when you sequence it. Maybe the next verison of the Crystal runtime will have shorter paths…. If not, we should at least have a work around.
Here's a bonus! – I hard a hard time locating a download page for the runtime, but I found it here.
As promised in my BriForum 2014 session, I will start a small series on Application fixes using shims and symbolic links. The first installment is on shims:
Shims can be really useful in just about any environment and I wish there were some better resources explaining how to use them. This is why I wrote this article explaining my two favorite shims.
As Microsoft releases new versions of their OS, folder structures and other key areas are bound to change. Or some applications may store personal user settings in a shared location or has a registry key that is best lived in HKCU instead of HKLM. This is where shimming or "Compatibility Fixes" come to the rescue.
A shim is installed at the system level and will essentially intercept an application call and change the default behavior of the application. The two main flavors of shims that I find extremely useful are CorrectFilePaths and VirtualRegistry. There are several hundred types of shims, but these two are the ones I find myself using a lot.
This shim is particularly useful when an application stores a file or folder in a directory that you want stored somewhere else. For example, say you install an application on an RDS server that stores a configuration file in ProgramData. This is not a good location if each user writes settings to it and get overwritten by other users. The CorrectFilePaths shim allows you to redirect the file call from the original path (e.g. C:\ProgramData\ABC Inc\UserConfig.ini) and replace it with a path that is user specific (e.g. %appdata%\ABC Inc\UserConfig.ini).
During shim creation you specify what process will be intercepted and redirected. This way when a user launches the process you specified and calls the file, it will be redirected to the new location. Now every user will have their own configuration file instead that doesn't conflict with other users.
Much like CorrectFilePaths, the VirtualRegistry shim allows you to redirect a registry call to a different location. An example where this would be useful is when an application stores a database server value in HKLM. This value may tell the application what server to establish a connection to. Now, say you have two groups of users – Group A & Group B. Group A connects to database server 1 and Group B connects to database server 2. Normally you would build a separate RDS server for each group to accommodate the multiple database values, but what if you wanted to have both user groups use the same server? How would you be able to accommodate that?
Create a new VirtualRegistry shim! You can redirect the HKLM values to HKCU and set those values with a logon script. This way Group A gets its registry key for database server 1 and Group B gets theirs for database server 2.
Shims sound great and they really are, but they can be a pain in the rear to get configured. I'll post an article on both shims with examples in a few days.
If you want to get started Shimming, download the Application Compatibility toolkit from Microsoft here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=205020
About to deploy Acrobat and find there are a lot of updates to install? Good luck trying to find an updated installer higher than version XX.0. Not only is it a pain to download and run every applicable update, trying to figure out the upgrade path can be like doing super math.
To make your life a little easier when deploying Acrobat, follow these steps:
1 .Determine the upgrade path
There is an Acrobat and Reader release notes page that can help you determine the upgrade path. Click on the version numbers to determine what version is required before that update can be applied. The patching got a little easier in 10.X and 11.X with more cumulative updates, but 9.x is still a PITA. For version 9, I suggest you obtain the upgrade path from here.
2. Download the update(s)
You can download all updates from this page.
3. Modify the Acrobat setup.ini
Next, grab your xx.0 installer and extract it with an archive utility such as WinRAR.
Open setup.ini with notepad and look for the [Product] section. Start a new line here line that begins with "Patch=" and list the MSPs in order from oldest to newest separated by a semi-colon.
Here are some examples of what your Patch line would be at the time of this writing:
Acrobat 11:
Acrobat 10:
Acrobat 9:
4. Copy in your patches
Place all of the MSPs into the root of the installation folder. This is the same folder that contains setup.ini.
5. Install
Run the Acrobat install and let it run all of the updates for you. The final version to be installed should be displayed in the installation menus. This can help you verify the latest version will be ready when the install is complete.
Use the Adobe customization wizard to generate a custom install. You can insert your license key, change the install directory, set default PDF viewers, disable the EULA, and many other useful settings. You can grab Adobe customization wizard 9 here, X here, and XI here.
Hopefully these steps can keep you from going crazy when deploying Adobe Acrobat (especially version 9).
If you've ever tried to push out a silent QuickBooks installation to a computer, you probably know its not supported by Intuit. Nor can you just extract the MSI and add parameters for licensing and install directory. It's darn near impossible to do without some sort of automation script such as AutoIT Script. I've tried using an MSI editor in the past and didn't get very far because there were some missing properties.
Today I found a post on a fairly new blog called VirtualAppPack. The article has good step-by-step instructions how to create a transform file and adding the missing licensing properties. The only thing I would add to his post is not to expect an installation to complete if you add the '/qb' parameter to your MSIEXEC command. For some reason or another, it doesn't do a full install of QuickBooks with that command. But if you use '/qn', it will perform a full install.


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God Save The Queens
The English FA Cup isn't the only cup competition to have provided its fair share of shocks. The Scottish Cup has also been full of surprises, with Celtic having already been knocked out at home by Aberdeen, and it was the Dons' turn to be on the receiving end of a bloody nose yesterday, when they were on the receiving end of a beating after an extraordinary match against First Division side Queen Of The South at Hampden Park yesterday afternoon. Everything seemed to be proceeding very much as per normal with the scores level at 1-1 at half-time, before five goals in eleven minutes at the start of the second half left The Doonhamers as the 4-3 winners, and with a place booked in their first ever Scottish Cup final. They also stand an excellent chance of being Scotland's representatives in the UEFA Cup next season. Rangers' 2-0 win at Partick Thistle set up a semi-final match for them against St Johnstone – should they win, their place is already guaranteed in the Champions League next season, leaving Queen Of The South in the UEFA Cup as the Scottish Cup finalists – an exceptional achievement for a club that has not played in the top division of Scottish football since 1964. Queen Of The South were formed in 1919, taking their unique name from a nickname for their...Read More


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The Most Interesting Y Combinator Winter 2012 Startups
The signs that Y Combinator's winter 2012 demo day yesterday was going to be packed began with the traffic jam on the Highway 101 offramp in Mountain View. Simply turning left to cross the Shoreline Avenue overpass to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View took me about 25 minutes. By the time I arrived (late) at the museum, the parking lots were full, and the nearest on-street spot I could find was a couple of blocks down the street. Inside the museum, staff had to cart out extra chairs to accommodate the standing-room-only crowd of angel investors and venture partners. It was a good thing I had brought my own power strip, because there were enough MacBook Airs in the room to heat a small city.
By now it's a cliché for Silicon Valley tech reporters to write that "this Y Combinator Demo Day was the biggest and craziest ever," but it was true once again yesterday. The famed startup accelerator program has more than doubled in size over the last couple of years, both in terms of the number of entrepreneurs admitted and the number of investors who want to jostle with each other for the right to back the companies it hatches. YC bowed to reality this time by holding its semiannual beauty pageant outside of its cramped Mountain View facility, but founder Paul Graham and his crew might want to seek an even larger venue next time around. (I'm thinking Hangar One at nearby NASA Ames Research Center.)
In past reports on YC Demo Day I've given a rundown of all presenting companies—but there were just too many this time, and you can check out blogs such as TechCrunch if you want summaries of all the public presentations. (The pitches came from 39 on-the-record companies and another 26 companies with plans to de-stealth at a future date.) Instead, I want to talk about the companies that seemed most interesting and impressive, whether in terms of the cleverness and originality of their business concepts, the scale of the market opportunity open to them, or the importance of the problems they're taking on.
Graham wrote recently that he'd like to see more startups pursuing frighteningly ambitious ideas—challenges such as building a better search engine, replacing e-mail, or fixing universities. It seemed to me yesterday that Y Combinator has begun to put more of its money where Graham's mouth is, by selecting teams working on some pretty big problems. Previous batches have seemed too full of hackers building tools that only help other hackers—and there were still a few companies like that in this batch. But the group also included many companies whose technologies promise to make a lot of average peoples' lives easier or more fun. Below are my picks for the YC W12 "most interesting" list. (Note: I would have included several of the off-the-record companies if they'd been willing to talk publicly.)
Patrick Riley, Yiming Liu, founders
Google and Facebook are at war. That's too bad for consumers, because it means Facebook will never open up its profiles to Google searches, and Google will never show Facebook profiles in its results. Ark says it's building a search engine "completely reimagined for people." The company indexes profiles across social networks like Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Foursquare, MySpace, Orkut, Meetup, and even China's RenRen and Russia's Kontakte, and lets users search the index using filters such as name, location, gender, language, hometown, employer, college, relationship status, and interests. In the company's example at Demo Day, a woman from Kathmandu, Nepal, used Ark to find the profiles of people in her adopted city of Boston who speak Nepali.
Navneet Dalal, Mehul Nariayawala, founders
Flutter is building gesture-recognition software that turns every webcam into the equivalent of a Kinect motion sensor. Microsoft has sold 18 million of these devices to go with its Xbox 360 game consoles—but according to Flutter, there are 5 billion devices with embedded video cameras, every one of which could be equipped for gesture control instead of old-fashioned mousing and clicking. In its alpha version, Flutter is Mac-only, and can only be used to control iTunes and Spotify. But software like this could obviously help boost all computer users into the long-promised era of gesture control, without forcing anyone to buy special 3D scanners like the Kinect.
Jason Freedman, James R. Bracy, Jonathan Bracy, David Woodworth, Ben Ehmke, founders
42Floors isn't going to change the world, but it may help a lot of companies. The founders say they want to do for commercial real estate what Trulia did for homes and rental properties—that is, make it easier to find listings online. "It's as if an entire industry was never introduced to the Internet—all the websites look like they came from 1995, which they did," the founders say of the commercial real estate business. Their own site gathers office-space listings from brokerages, landlords, Craigslist, and other sources, and displays them using maps and high-quality photos. The company, which keeps a 20 percent commission on deals completed through the site, is also creating a marketplace for office furniture and the other products and services companies need when they're moving. It's all such a no-brainer idea that the company seems sure to succeed—or to get bought by Trulia.
Adam Forsythe, Anthony Martin, founders
In a world with hundreds of millions of mobile devices with glass touchscreens, what are we going to need? Lots of Windex and chamois cloth, yes, but also someone to repair our cracked screens after we accidentally drop or sit on them. iCracked says that with "iTechs" in 130 locations around the country who can travel to customer's home or office and repair a cracked screen in under 30 minutes, it's already the nation's largest repair service for iPhones, iPods, and iPads and is set to earn $180,000 in the second quarter of this year. The company also offers a mail-in repair service and do-it-yourself kits. Given that 20 percent of all iDevices will suffer a broken screen or water damage at some point in their lifetimes, the company is entering a market that's unlikely to dry up. And it's developing a very clever side business: buying back broken devices, exporting them as junk to countries with high tariffs on U.S. electronics, then repairing and selling them.
Matt Bell, David Gausebeck, Michael Beebe, founders
These days, architects remodeling buildings often start by building a high-resolution 3D computer model—but making these models requires expensive laser-scanning equipment. MatterPort is developing a system that anyone can use to create a 3D model of an interior space just by walking around with an inexpensive, handheld scanner (it looks a lot like a Kinect, actually—watch their video here.) The company says its system is "20 times faster and 18 times cheaper than any other tool" for building 3D models of interiors, and aims to sell it first to users in the construction, entertainment, and real estate industries. Look for this company to either disrupt or be acquired by giants like Autodesk.
Nikki Durkin, Peter Delahunty, Dan Walker, founders
Not to be confused with 99Designs (I guess you can't trademark a number), 99Dresses pledges to given women access to an "infinite closet" by making it easier for them to buy and sell their used clothing. Users upload photos of their unwanted dresses to the 99Designs site, where other users can buy them using a virtual currency called Buttons. They can then spend their buttons for other clothes. 20-year-old founder Nikki Durkin, who piloted the business in her native Australia, says she's sure the service will appeal to "every college girl on a tight budget, every high school girl who wants to dress cool, every working woman in need of an ever-changing wardrobe."
Spenser Skates, Curtis Liu, founders
Siri, the voice-activated assistant in Apple's iPhone 4S, only works when you hold down the home button or put the phone up to your ear. But what if Siri were listening to you all the time, ready to respond to whatever you said? That's the direction Sonalight is exploring. The startup makes an Android app called Text By Voice that can be left running in the background all the time. Whenever you say "text by voice," the program wakes up and uses speech recognition algorithms to let you dictate a text message. It also lets you reply by voice to incoming text messages. Sonalight pitches Text By Voice as a way to avoid texting manually while driving, but to me it looks like the vanguard in a new era of what might be called ambient software, ready to spring into action upon any verbal cue.
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With each new release of Apple's operating system, several older Mac models get left out in the cold when it comes to support. The just-announced Mountain Lion OS is no exception, and thanks to TUAW we now we have a list of several machines that won't run it when it comes out late Summer 2012.
Much like the jump from Leopard to Snow Leopard, the upgrade to the new Mountain Lion OS will act as a minor update to last year's Lion OS. The Mountain Lion update will mostly look just like Lion, except it will add in iOS-like features. It will offer deeper integration with iCloud (even though iCloud is still mostly a failure), and it will offer a Notification Center and Game Center for staying better connected. It will also add in iMessage, Reminders, and Notes from iOS.
TUAW dug into the system requirements to find out which Mac models will be to run Mountain Lion. According to TUAW's list, the following models will support the new OS:
• iMac (mid 2007 or newer)
• MacBook aluminum edition: (13 inch 2008 or newer)
• MacBook plastic edition: (early 2009 or newer)
• Macbook Pro (2009, or late 2007 if you had a 17-inch version or newer)
• MacBook Air (2008 or newer)
• Mac Mini (early 2009 or newer)
• Mac Pro (early 2008 or newer)
• Xserve (early 2009 or newer)
And of course, this means that the following older models will not run Mountain Lion:
• Late 2006 iMacs (iMac5,1, iMac5,2, iMac6,1)
• All plastic MacBooks that pre-date the aluminum unibody redesign (MacBook2,1, MacBook3,1, MacBook4,1)
• MacBook Pros released prior to June 2007 (MacBookPro2,1, MacBookPro2,2)
• The original MacBook Air (MacBookAir1,1)
• The Mid-2007 Mac mini (Macmini2,1)
• The original Mac Pro and its 8-core 2007 refresh (MacPro1,1, MacPro2,1)
• Late 2006 and Early 2008 Xserves (Xserve1,1, Xserve2,1)
Did your machine make the cut or will you stuck with Lion?
Mountain lion photo: Mountains Recreation & Conservation Authority


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Metal Night feat. Godless and Primitiv at Hard Rock Cafe Hyderabad
"Godless: A 5 piece Thrash/Death metal band formed in mid 2015. Although a new band, it features members who have been a part of the metal scene since quite a few years with their bands (Skrypt, Shock Therapy & Eccentric Pendulum). Godless in currently working on their debut EP and are aiming at releasing it around January 2016.
Primitiv: Primitiv was conceived when Riju Dasgupta and Rajarshi Bhattacharyya (formerly bandmates in Albatross and Workshop) wanted to start a new project together; which was so extremely old school that it was 'primitive'. What started out as a joke has today become an explosive live act that has gigged across India and has garnered a loyal fanbase in a small amount of time. The current lineup includes Nitin Rajan (Sledge, Morticide), Kiron Kumar (Hellwind, Colossus) and Pushkar Joshi (Blood Meridian), in addition to Dasgupta and Bhattacharyya."
"Regular: 500 Cover
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Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 8:00pm to 11:30pm
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- 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm
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What a man needs to know or otherwise life is not worth living.
According to the UK's Sun the number one reason why women have sex is because you managed to take the bins out and keep the house looking clean.
Other reasons include 'to get over a head ache' and third in place 'been taken out to dinner.'
That said we decided to compile our own list of why women really have sex, you may or may not agree with it, that said if you care about us getting laid (it'll keep the writing less cynical) you might wan t to let us also know what you think.
From bottom to top.
10/ Because we beg, and ultimately a woman can't stand a crying man.
9/ Because Oprah Winfrey said it's a good idea.
8/ Because Perez Hilton will threaten to call you a 'bitch' and a 'whore' if you don't (of course that doesn't make sense but since when did the hand bag bimbo ever make sense?).
7/ Because he reminds you of Brad Pitt if you close your eyes long enough.
6/ Because you made an effort to be romantic and for a moment she fell for it.
5/ Because she loves you, but we already know that's just the wine talking.
4/ Because you promised to take her on a nice holiday.
3/ Because you promised to buy her a new pair of Jimmy Choos.
2/ Because you actually make her feel good but only after you take the rubbish out.
1/ Because once in a while a woman has got to get off too.


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I have no idea if my city's water is hard or soft. I can tell you it comes directly from a lake, with minimal treatment. The City might up the chlorine in summer, but otherwise my tap water tastes very clean: a bit reedy, with some faint mineral notes. So far, it's never let me down when making tea, so I don't bother with expensive and, frankly, bothersome 18.l L jugs pf springwater.
So I can't say if Scottish Blend is any good for hard or soft water.
I can say it's a very acceptable black tea blend, lighter than I expected, and one I would serve to my late Geordie grandmother without fear. I got a 250g package of it from a friend in Edinburgh, along with some Scottish sweets. Am I spoilt, or what? Scottish Blend smells malty and a bready, but the liquor is a medium reddish brown and quite clear. It's more confident than assertive, and not bitter, even with a long steep. The body is light, which surprised me. There is a malty pucker at the end of a sip, but I'm thinking this is more Kenyan tea than Assam. The leaves are tiny, little CTC pinheads,and they don't expand much. This tea would totally stand up to milk. I like it much more than I thought I would. Scottish Blend 1, Tea Snob 0.


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Food choices : the ultimate teen guide
Summary: This book discusses numerous topics related to food and eating, including the biological and chemical reasons we prefer certain foods and the eating habits that are unique to teens today. Throughout, teens are presented with the best tips on how to develop healthy eating habits for a lifetime of enjoying food.
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AL's two elite teams have history
Dynamic Red Sox, more traditional Angels no strangers
By Matthew Leach / MLB.com
The Los Angeles Angels sport baseball's best record and have known they were October-bound since roughly Memorial Day. They absolutely steamrolled the American League West, though a formerly tough division did turn out to be one of the game's worst this year.
The Boston Red Sox, meanwhile, enter the postseason as the Wild Card and the AL East runner-up. However, they have the AL's best run differential, they emerge from one of the toughest divisions since the advent of divisional play, and by some statistical measures, they were actually baseball's best team.
In a period of Yankees decline, these are the American League's top two franchises. And they love facing off.
Of course, it's not a rivalry if one side wins all the time. So you might say that Red Sox-Angels finally turned into a rivalry this year. The two clubs met in the Division Series in 2004 and 2007, and the Red Sox won all six games -- four by blowout, two by heartbreaker. This year, though, the Halos turned it around in the regular season, winning eight out of nine meetings.
"They're a tough club, but we feel fortunate we played this well and got away with three wins," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said after a late-July sweep at Fenway Park. "You've got to play well to beat them, there's no doubting that."
You can cherry-pick the history and the numbers to favor either team, and that's part of what's so much fun about it. Maybe this year's matchups tell the truth. Maybe past October meetings are the real story. Maybe the Angels' dominant record indicates the better ballclub. Maybe the Red Sox's superb run differential is the better indicator.
It comes down to how you look at it, which is appropriate since the two front offices take decidedly different viewpoints in building a team -- especially on offense.
The Angels' way is the traditionalist's way. Put the ball in play. Run the bases aggressively. Bunt, hit-and-run, move runners over. Make 'em sweat.
The Red Sox's way is the new-school way. Take your walks and only swing at strikes. Don't give away outs on the bases. Wait for the three-run homer. Make 'em work.
Except that for once, the contrast isn't that clear. The Angels executed just four more sacrifices than the Sox. The Sox stole over 100 bases for the first time since 1974. The approach may be different, but the results aren't that drastically dissimilar. Neither Scioscia nor Boston manager Terry Francona is a dogmatist.
If the steal is there, you take it. If the bunt makes sense, you do it.
Likewise, the differences in philosophy between the two clubs' front offices diminished a little this year. L.A. has long been known as a conservative team, rarely making major in-season moves. But the Angels pulled the trigger on one of the biggest trades this season, acquiring Mark Teixeira before the non-waiver Trade Deadline.
"We're in it to win a [World Series] championship, and I think this speaks volumes to that," general manager Tony Reagins said when he made the deal.
Boston, meanwhile, has long had a reputation for valuing production above all else. But clubhouse considerations won out when the Red Sox dealt Manny Ramirez, though they acquired an elite-level slugger in return in Jason Bay.
"I feel it's the best, not only for him, but for us as a team," infielder Alex Cora said when Ramirez was dealt. "Compare it with the Mets' situation earlier in the season [with then-manager Willie Randolph]. Like Manny said, 'Let's turn the page and move on.' We are a good team and we are still capable of winning, and we know what it takes to bring another ring for the city."
And that's the biggest thing these two franchises have in common: One goal dwarfs all the others. In some cities, a division title or a series win equals a good season. In Boston and Anaheim, any season that doesn't end with a champagne shower is not a success.
It's fitting that one will have to beat the other just to have that chance.
Matthew Leach is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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OOOOHHH! That's a great idea, Edie! Thanks for the new inspiration! LOL
Do you have access to a high powered microscope. Just wondering if you're getting your inspiration from looking at slides. LOL Thanks Jan, fun one
I'm glad you did, Kirsten! thanks!
I like your whateveritis too Jan! Thanks!! :)))
And, I see you are, too! LOL. It is fun to play, isn't it! Thanks, Jan!
I see you are having fun with special effects.
Thank you so much, Willy! It is hard to find time to solve during the summer, isn't it!!Rosie - you are so very welcome! I'm glad you liked the whateveritis!! :D
Fantastic and fun. Thanky mam for this colorful what-ever!!!!!
I don't know the name, for me it is art, 1:57, I am happy because you post little puzzles, so I can visited you and solve one, thank you Jan,Willy. :-)
ROFL - Thanks so much, my friend!!
Subtle is good; subtle is fine; subtle has its place. But POW-ZIP-BAM has its place, too, and this is it!!!
JC - I think that is even more appropriate! Love it!!Ardy - I've noticed that the laundry never does itself and Maggie refuses to do it......something about not having opposable thumbs I would guess! Pat - I wasn't going for subtle, was I? Thanks so much!!
Bird or fish, it's gorgeous! Love the wild colors! :-)))
I think it's a bird but I'm not sure. But it is lovely and colorful. Thank you, Jan. For some reason I am extra sleepy this afternoon. I've got a load of clothes in the washer so can't go take a nap.
A fun puzzle, Jan.Looks like a tapir to me.


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A NEW report says health boards in South Wales have made progress in developing specialist services for people with obesity problems. The Welsh Government launched the All-Wales Obesity Pathway in 2010 and set out a four phase approach to manage and treat obesity in Wales.
The 2014 progress report evaluates how each health board across Wales is delivering the four levels with all health boards, working with their partners, providing level one and two services.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford said: "Obesity is a major issue for Wales. It can result in serious, life-threatening harm to people's health while at the same time costing the NHS millions of pounds a year to treat. This report shows the progress we have made, however, there is more to be done and in some areas the provision of services remains inconsistent."


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Letter: Some fans need lessons in sportsmanship
This is an open letter to the Luverne Cardinals football fans.
First, let me state a few facts. Luverne's head coach, Todd Oye -- a class act. Luverne football team -- tough competitors, good sportsmanship. Luverne football fans -- a large section of these fans do not deserve to watch paint dry.
The No. 1 rule in sportsmanship: When there is a player down, you do not cheer, whether this is for your own team or the competition. You show respect and let the trainers, coaches and EMTs (if necessary) do their jobs; you do not stand and cheer. I was astonished at your lack of character.
I had the privilege of sitting on the 50-yard line of the game on Friday night. To my left were four 10-year-old boys from Luverne. The words that came out of one boys mouth were some I don't think I have heard come out of someone so young. They were disrespectful. They had no idea you don't cheer when injured players are down, that you don't swear or spit into the wind. When myself and the gentleman in front of me ask the vulgar boy to stop the swearing his reply was, "I'm sorry, I learned to talk this way from my dad." And the pride that family must feel.
However, in the span of time it takes to play a football game, myself and the gentleman in front of me taught these boys a few things about having good sportsmanship. Did they still cheer for Luverne? Absolutely! They should be proud. But, they learned to be respectful. Now, I'm thinking that some of the Luverne fans need to track down those boys and learn something useful. It only takes a few minutes to teach right from wrong. Proof positive with those boys.
Now, to be fair, there were many Luverne fans that were respectful, and we thank you. To those that were not -- shame on you. I hope that when you have a child playing in an athletic event and he or she becomes injured, you will not hear opposing fans cheering. It will break your heart.
To Todd Oye and the Luverne football team, I wish you luck in the rest of your season. To your respectful fans, I hope you enjoy the rest of the ride. To the disrespectful fans, the paint-drying quarterfinals start in a week.


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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington lawmakers are hoping to give final approval today to legislation that monitor repeat drunk drivers. The Senate yesterday approved a revised proposal that would require interlock devices in vehicles of people with a second DUI offense. The state would also begin a pilot program to conduct daily alcohol monitoring on a person convicted twice under the DUI law.


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I understand what you mean when you talk about making something that does not have to understandable. I do some abstract, and it is definitely more relaxing than trying to draw something that will be; a dragon, a girl, an elf - when it is done. I do enjoy the fact that there are no real rules and no-one can tell you that it was done wrong. All of that appeals to me. I am not sure if I will ever do too much abstract; but I will probably fiddle with it when the mood is right.
Your work draws me in. I am not able to explain why, or how. That to me is real art. Something that grabs you and hold you for a moment. I am not at that level; not even with photography. I may never get to that level; but I still love to draw. Great work, and thank you for writing back.


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On my laptop's hard drive resides a very special spreadsheet, aptly named "Best Wedding Playlist Ever.xls." Ok, the file name might be a bit presumptuous, but Mr. Wallaby took our playlist-creating task very seriously.
We love music. I wouldn't say that we listen to the hippest, most underground/indie music out there. But we both listen to a lot of music from a fairly wide variety of genres, and we love to have impromptu dance-offs in the kitchen while dinner's cooking, in the car on long road trips, or anywhere we just are in the mood to dance. My favorite music is folksy music from the 70s (Van Morrison, Neil Young) and 80s rock (I would be so.happy. if the cast of Rock of Ages could've performed at our wedding). I also have never gotten over 90s pop and rap. My iPod is full of Biz Markie, Britney, Shaggy, and Will Smith.
And we've been to a lot of weddings already in the last year, so we've grown a little tired of some of the standard wedding tunes (see "Do Not Play List" below). I do think it's important to play some classic songs everyone's heard of, but I do not want to hear "We Are Family" ever again, for the rest of my life. Some of you will probably think we're crazy or obnoxious for our extensive playlists. But we put a lot of thought into which songs would appeal to our guests, our DJ was cool with it, and it worked out—our dance floor was packed all night.
Without further ado, the Wallaby Playlist (songs in no particular order):
Dinner Playlist:
|Song Title
|Edith Piaf
|Toujours Aimer
|Dean Martin
|That's Amore
|Michael Buble
|Come Fly With Me
|Harry Connick Jr.
|Come By Me
|Louis Armstrong
|As Time Goes By
|Sam Cooke
|Wonderful World
|Billie Holiday
|All of Me
|Frank Sinatra
|You Do Something to Me
|Nina Simone
|Do I Move You (version II)
|Louis Armstrong
|A Kiss to Build a Dream On
|Madeleine Peyroux
|Dance Me to the End of Love
|Frank Sinatra
|I Get a Kick Out of You
|She & Him
|Sweet Darling
|Cole Porter
|You're the Top
|Otis Redding
|Sittin' on the Docks of the Bay
|Otis Redding
|Try a Little Tenderness
|Diana Ross & the Supremes
|I'm Gonna Make You Love me
|Etta James
|My Dearest Darling
|The Beach Boys
|Don't Worry Baby
|Jackie Wilson
|Higher and Higher
|Hall & Oates
|You Make My Dreams
|Sam Cooke
|That's Where It's At
|Fats Domino
|My Blue Heaven
|The Marvelows
|I Do
|Amy Stroup
|With Wings
|Amy Herzig
|Sweeter Than This
|Rosi Golan
|Gene Chandler
|Groovy Situation
|Louis Armstrong
|As Time Goes By
|Sam Cooke
|Wonderful World
|Frank Sinatra
|You Do Something to Me
|Nina Simone
|Do I Move You?
|Frank Sinatra
|I Get a Kick Out of You
|Madeleine Peyroux
|Dance Me To The End Of Love
|Louis Armstrong
|A Kiss to Build a Dream On
Good ole Louis / Photo via Wikipedia
Special songs:
- First dance: Van Morrison—Crazy Love
- Father/daughter dance: Tim McGraw—My Baby Girl
- Mother/son dance: Backstreet Boys—The Perfect Fan
- Cake cutting: Chris Young—You
- Last dance: Michael Buble—Save the Last Dance for Me
Image via AllMusic
Dancing Playlist:
|Song Title
|Calvin Harris
|Feel So Close
|Dead Mau5
|Ghosts N Stuff
|Neon Trees
|Everybody Talks
|Brett Dennen
|She's Mine
|A ha
|Take on Me
|The Jackson 5
|Little Bitty Pretty One
|Al Green
|Let's Stay Together
|Barry White
|Can't Get Enough of Your Love
|Bohemian Rhapsody
|Frank Sinatra
|The Way You Look Tonight
|The Jackson 5
|Rockin' Robin
|The Doobie Brothers
|Oh What A Night
|Bobby Darin
|Run Around Sue
|King Floyd
|Groove Me
|Let's Go Crazy
|Violent Femmes
|Blister in the Sun
|Joan Jett
|I Love Rock 'n Roll
|Elton Jon
|Benny and the Jets
|Bell Biv Divoe
|Marvin Gaye
|Let's Get It On
|Jackson 5
|I Want You Back
|Salt n Peppa
|Spice Girls
|No Diggity
|Frank Sinatra
|I Get a Kick Out of You
|Van Morrison
|The Rascals
|Good Lovin'
|Biz Markie
|Just a Friend
|Knockin' Boots
|Chris Young
|Getting' You Home
|Indigo Swing
|My Baby Just Cares for Me
|Easton Corbin
|A Little More Country Than That
|James Otto
|Just Got Started Lovin' You
|Darius Rucker
|History in the Making
|The Promise
|When In Rome
|Will Smith
|Gettin' Jiggy With It
|The Bangles
|Walk Like An Egyptian
|Take Me Home Tonight
|Lauryn Hill
|Doo Wop (That Thing)
|The Temptations
|My Girl
|Kanye West
|Good Life
|Kanye West
|Run This Town
|Salt n Peppa
|Push It
|Carly Rae Jepsen
|Call Me Maybe
|Britney Spears
|Til the World Ends
|Britney Spears
|Gimme More
|Gangnam Style
|California Love
|The Beatles
|Day Tripper
|The Beatles
|A Hard Day's Night
|Izzo (H-O-V-A)
|Taylor Swift
|We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
|Flo Rida
|Maroon 5
|One More Night
|Cupid Shuffle
|Blake Shelton
|Honey Bee
|Blake Shelton
|Drink On It
|Billy Currington
|Must Be Doing Somethin' Right
|Love On Top
|Bill Withers
|Just the Two of Us
|Brad Paisley
|Brad Paisley
|Little Moments
|Brett Dennen
|Closer To You
|The Buggles
|Video Killed the Radio Star
|Elton Jon
|Can You Feel the Love Tonight
|Boyz II Men
|Can I Make Love To You
|Boyz II Men
|Water Runs Dry
|Justin Timberlake
|Summer Love
|R. Kelly
|Make It Rain (remix)
|California Love
|John Legend
|Stay With You
|John Legend
|Save Room
|Kanye West
|Justin Timberlake
|Love Song
|Michael Jackson
|Michael Jackson
|Billy Jean
|Mariah Carey
|Always Be My Baby
|Neil Diamond
|Sweet Caroline
|Neil Diamond
|Tennessee Moon
|The Outfield
|Your Love
|The Band Perry
|All Your Life
|Fine Young Cannibals
|She Drives Me Crazy
|James Brown
|Twist & Shout
Prince: the jam for dance parties everywhere / Image via Stereogum
Do not play list:
|Song Title
|Chicken Dance
|Cha Cha Slide
|Electric Slide
|Hokey Pokey
|Barbie Girl
|Love Shack
|Baha Men
|Who Let The Dogs Out
|Bee Gees
|Stayin Alive
|Billy Idol
|Mony Mony
|Bonnie Tyler
|Total Eclipse of the Heart
|Brick House
|DJ Darude
|Kool & The Gang
|Lynard Skynard
|Sweet Home Alabama
|Hey Ya
|The Police
|Every Breath You Take
|Quad City DJs
|C'mon 'N Ride It
|Cotton Eyed Joe
|Sir Mix A lot
|Baby Got Back
|Sister Sledge
|We Are Family
|Village People
|Young M.C.
|Bust a Move
|Katy Perry
|Last Friday Night
|Anything by The Black Eyed Peas
|Anything by Lady Gaga
|Anything by U2
|Katy Perry – Last Friday night
|Anything by Pink
Baha Men, I love you, but not for my wedding / Image via Wikipedia
This was the list we emailed our DJ a week before the wedding, and we also gave him a couple CDs with Persian music. (I don't have a playlist for the Persian music—not sure those song names are even translated to English.) I'm sure Bill deviated from this list and mixed in some other songs, but these set the tone for our mega dance party. And now that the wedding is over, they make for a prettttty good workout playlist.
P.S. If you're working on your wedding playlist and need more ideas, past bees have had some pretty superb playlists. I'd check out these posts from Mrs. Dragon (I love her choices in classic rock!!), Mrs. Cheese, Mrs. Penguin, Mrs. Cowboy Boot, and Mrs. Ostrich (pretty sure her playlist is the soundtrack to my life).
What are we missing that's on your must-play list? What type of music did you (or will you) play at your wedding? Am I the only one who still loves Will Smith?
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A whole lot of dog-eared pages and little hot pink sticky notes litter the pages of my library copy of then-Senator Obama's second book. Comprised of nine chapters, a prologue, and an epilogue, The Audacity of Hope is two parts political/social commentary and one part personal reflection over his time in the political arena — from a failed run for Illinois state senator to the U.S. Senate.
"Whether we're from red states or blue states, we feel in our gut the lack of honesty, rigor, and common sense in our policy debates, and dislike what appears to be a continuous menu of false or cramped choices. Religious or secular, black white, or brown, we sense — correctly — that the nation's most significant challenges are being ignored, and that if we don't change course soon, we may be the first generation in a very long time that leaves behind a weaker and more fractured America than the one we inherited." (pg. 9)
The prologue, written with a sort of in-your-face and plainly stated manner, details what my AP Government class and those of my peers across America will tell you: the political arena in America has divided us, pitted us against one another, and then routinely forgotten us. And we, the products of "no child left behind," are facing a future of being at odds with one another and a staggering, ever-growing debt toll.
One of the passages I flagged with my bright pink sticky note was Obama's portrayal of how "in the world's greatest deliberative body, no one is listening" (pg. 15). It's a harsh and upsetting reality that Obama says with very little pause before moving on to his views of the two dominating parties — the Republicans and Democrats. True to bipartisan portrayal –however true or false this may be – Obama throws a bone to the GOP, saying that not all Republicans subscribe to the Bush Doctrine.
"In both the House and the Senate, and in state capitals across the country, there are those who cling to more traditional conservative virtues of temperance and restraint — men and women who recognize that piling up debt to finance tax cuts for the wealthy is irresponsible, that deficit reeducation can't take place on the backs on the poor, that the separation of church and state protects the church as well as the state, that conservation and conservatism don't have to conflict, and that foreign policy should be based on facts and not wishful thinking.
But these Republicans are not the ones who have driven the debate over the past six years. Instead of the "compassionate conservatism" that George Bush promised in his 2000 campaign, what has characterized the ideological core of today's GOP is absolutism, not conservatism. There is the absolutism of the free market, an ideology of no taxes, no regulation, no safety net — indeed, no government beyond what's required to protect private property and provide for the national defense."(pg. 37)
But he quickly slips back into bashing Bush — which I'm fully in favor of — but after awhile, it started to grate on my nerves and I wished he would stop playing good cop, bad cop. True, he does point out how "the Democratic Party has become the party of reaction" because "we lose elections and hope for the courts to foil Republican plans. We lose the courts and wait for a White House scandal." (pg. 39) But, overall, the chapter on Republicans and Democrats reads like a whining schoolchild who settles for everyone's wrong when he doesn't get his way.
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Don't fit my feet well. Selling mine for $170.
La Sportiva makes solid boots, but unfortunately they don't fit by foot shape well. I'm selling mine for $170 with sof sole insoles. They're practically unused. Check out KSL classifieds if you're interested.


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Planning a hog hunt this summer but not sure which rifle to bring. I was hoping either my 45 colt lever action or my savage .223 would work but i just dont know if either could take down a full grown hog:confused:. Just wondering if you guys had any suggestions.


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Senator John Bonacic Invites Nominees for "Women of Distinction"
Annual Program Honors Women's Outstanding Contributions to Our Community
State Senator John J. Bonacic (R/I/C - Mount Hope) today invited local residents from the 42nd Senate District to nominate friends, colleagues and neighborhood leaders whose outstanding work on behalf of their communities make them deserving of a special recognition by the State Senate as a New York "Woman of Distinction."
A distinguished woman from each Senate District will be honored at a ceremony held on May 7th in Albany. Previous honorees in this annual program have included business leaders, community advocates, educators, everyday heroes, innovators, and volunteers. As we celebrate Women's History in March, it is befitting to begin the nomination process of remarkable women this month.
"There are extraordinary women in New York State who devote a significant amount of time and energy to making our communities stronger. The Women of Distinction Program not only recognizes women for their tremendous achievement at a local level, but celebrates their accomplishments statewide. It provides a special opportunity to recognize and thank women whose accomplishments have made a notable impact on the lives of others," said Senator Bonacic.
"I look forward to receiving nominations of outstanding women who have made a difference and bring pride to our communities," said Senator Bonacic. If you would like to nominate a woman who lives in the 42nd Senate District, which includes the Counties of Delaware, Orange, Sullivan and Ulster, please send an email to Senator Bonacic's Office at email@example.com. Nominations must include a brief biography of approximately 300 words detailing why you think your nominee should be selected as this year's Woman of Distinction. Nominations should also include the town or city of residence and phone number of the nominee. Those making nominations should also include their own name and contact information. Nominations must be received by April 5, 2013.


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Ahoj, Praha!
That's hello in Czech, by the way! Well where do I begin? My trip to Prague was a dream come true. It was full of fun, memories, Christmas, cold (that's putting it lightly), friends and even a castle. My last … Continue reading
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text: Horton Foote's beautiful family drama The Trip to Bountiful is back on Broadway in a star-studded production led by Cicely Tyson, Vanessa Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Condola Rashad. The play centers on Carrie Watts (Tyson), an elderly matriarch who wants nothing more than to journey from Houston to her hometown of Bountiful, Texas, one final time. We've got First Look photos of Michael Wilson's Broadway production, which is set to open on April 23. Click on for a preview, then head to the Stephen Sondheim Theatre for an evening of heartwarming theater.


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William Ernest Henley
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.
(What a thoroughly brave statement! Yes, life is hard. But I am a stoic! I will not choose to give in! Invictus means unconquered. What makes this poem even more powerful is that the author lived it! He is not just telling YOU how to live, he is telling himself as well. During the 1880s and 1890s Henley was the editor of the "National Observer" and other London periodicals and he was very well regarded in literary circles. He courageously confronted his crippling physical pain caused by tuberculosis of the bone. When someone who disagrees with you also admires you, then you know that the admiration is doubly significant. Yeats said of Henley: "I disagreed with him about everything, but I admired him beyond words.")


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"The one thing that remains the same is the ever-changing nature of the business," says Ellis Ng, learning and development manager, City Telecom (HK) Limited (CTI). "When our company first started up in Hong Kong 15 years ago, we made a remarkable breakthrough in the IDD market. But the growing popularity of the Internet had far reaching financial consequences."
Rather than accepting the decline in business, CTI adjusted its business focus. Eyeing the mounting network service demand, the company formed a wholly owned subsidiary, Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited (HKBN) in 1999. Through investing billions in its own infrastructure and advanced technology, HKBN successfully established the world's largest Metro Ethernet network in 2002. It continues to expand coverage from the existing 1,300,000 homes to the targeted 2,000,000, which will mean reaching 95 per cent of Hong Kong's population.
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Mr Ng points out that the shift in business focus is an example of inevitable transformations. "We foresaw that when people started to communicate via the Internet free, traditional long-distance call services would have lost their position," he says. "Faced with such changes in customer behaviour, we shifted our business focus and developed a set of sales and marketing strategies. Today, our broadband service has become a flagship product in the group."
HKBN is now the largest alternative end-to-end network in Hong Kong. It provides ultra-fast broadband Internet access, telephony and corporate data services, and IPTV. "As a forward-thinking telecommunications service provider, we keep upgrading our systems and emphasising the quality of our services," Mr Ng says. Customers nowadays want speedy and reliable Internet access at a reasonable price. To exceed expectation, the group focuses on enhancing customer experience. "We provide creative analogies to introduce our advanced products along the selling process," he explains. To cater for customer needs, a selection of up to six different bandwidths from symmetric 10Mbps to 1000Mbps at different subscription fees are currently on offer. "It is the variety of choice plus our ground-breaking approach that make us a market leader," Mr Ng notes.
To provide the best quality service, HKBN requires its employees to be innovative and constantly ready for challenge. Mr Ng says, "Our sales and marketing staff need to be adept at assisting customers as new technologies emerge. For instance, they should be able to maintain good customer interaction, in particular, make creative analogies that puts hi-tech jargon into laymen's language so that customers can understand more about our products."
The increasing number of customer accounts and needs for value-added service enhancement call for an even stronger arm of marketing professionals. Depending on the different functions of the teams, marketing staff are expected to contribute in the design of strategic plans for customer acquisition and retention, improve the group's corporate brand image, and enrich the already extensive product portfolio.
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To encourage personal development, staff undertaking external education programmes can claim a subsidy of up to 30 per cent of their monthly salary. If needed, they can also apply for a maximum of one year's sabbatical leave without having their employment benefits cut. "We've received many positive feedbacks on our learning policy. Many of our sales and marketing colleagues are taking MBA or degree programmes," Mr Ng says.
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The matter is being taken up with the Finance Ministry and Reserve Bank of India and a favourable decision is likely to be announced in the coming Budget session, said a senior Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) official today.
Besides, the ministry is also trying to provide income tax and service tax benefit to the sector, the official said.
Infrastructure status will boost the housing sector by providing easy access to funds and consequently increasing the availability of houses.
According to a recent report of the technical group on urban housing shortage, in 2012, there was a shortage of 18.78 million units and major shortfall of supply was in the economically weaker section (10.55 million units), followed by lower income group (7.41 million).
While the government cannot overcome the shortage of supply of its own, private developers are not finding it viable due to high cost of land and high interest rates.
Infrastructure status for the housing is a long pending demand of HUPA Ministry.
The official maintained infrastructure status for housing will increase the flow of funds to the sector which would encourage developers to come up with more affordable housing projects in India, therefore creating a balance in the demand and supply for housing.
Besides, the ministry is bringing the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2013, in Parliament. Once the Bill is passed it will pave the way for the setting up of the Real Estate Regulatory Authority, an industry watchdog that will keep a lease on land sharks and fly-by-night operators.
"There are certain changes in the draft of the Bill and it will be sent to Cabinet for its approval before introducing it in Parliament," said HUPA Minister Ajay Maken.
Ministry has received the suggestions from the real estate developers for certain changes in the draft.
According to the provision of the Bill, builders have to set up a separate escrow account to compulsorily deposit 70 per cent of the funds received from buyers and to ensure that these funds are used for that real estate project only.
Our aim is to bring transparency and accountability in the real estate sector, Maken said.
Once the regulatory authority is established the registration of real estate developers will be mandatory.
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Someone should put this in a mix asap.
Almost finished writing my lyrics
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As you probably already know, the brass is my favorite part of this. But I also really like those drums. This is a nice, soothing beat, perfect for my mood right now :)
Yes, I knew before posting that you'd like the brass Jack. I was saying to myself "jack's gonna like this part" hahaha thanks for listening!
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Dope... not really much else i can say...
was wondering if i could write to this and use it for a project i was working on?
I've got a song written for it myself, but there's no reason you can't do one too. lemme see it when you're done! and thanks for listening.
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Hell yeah!
And I bet a certain Mr Page will be impressed.
The UK is borrowing heavily on French nuclear energy know-how in a pact signed today. France and the UK will extend co-operation to R&D and training in several areas, but the most interesting is the commitment to develop 4th Generation (Gen IV) nuclear reactors on the French ASTRID prototype. ASTRID Advanced Sodium …
And I bet a certain Mr Page will be impressed.
By 2050 we'll meet our energy needs with solar, and wind... and gumdrops and fairy dust!
Don't forget the hamsters!
Ah, Minsc and Boo. Who can forget them!
In all seriousness, by that time I would like to think ITER and DEMO had succeeded and PROTO was operational - so we should all be moving to lovely fusion power!
Action. From the Government. On nuclear power.
I appear to be traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of my imagination. My next stop...the
Twilight Coalition Zone.
"My next stop...the Coalition Zone."
Why do you expect those reactors to be "all options are on the table"-ed?
"four of those are due to be closed in the next four years"
Get rid of the Magnox designs (one of them is 'only' 500MW anyway), but there's no reason why the AGRs shouldn't have their lives extended by a further 5 years. There are plenty of reactors in operation that are older than them (though they're not AGRs - but that's probably a positive factor).
Sounds good, but I'm not holding my breath. WWF and Greenpeace and sundry other greenies will fight this tooth and nail, and I still expect national grid to be scheduling power cuts before one of these ever goes on line.
It will be interesting to see where they decide to place the stations. Given that the SNP is dead against this sort of thing I'm assuming that the sites will all be in England and Wales... This is going to be very interesting.
Finally, what an admission of failure in having to go to the French to ask for help because we're no-longer capable of doing this sort of thing for ourselves.
I disagree that it's an admission of failure to have the recognised world leaders in Nuclear power generation to supply your reactors, besides a lot of the supply chain will be British. Why should we re-design the wheel, at great expense, just for a bit of national pride?
It's an admission of failure because we used to be the recognised world leaders in this field (fast reactors). Nevertheless, it was perhaps rather silly not to have been collaborating with the French even back then, since it was a shared national interest and (whatever else you might say about the French) we've been on the same side in nearly every armed conflict for over a century so we ought to be friends by now.
Furthermore, it would be even *more* embarrassing to enter the next decade with a permanent nationwide rota of power cuts, which is the alternative.
I'm not griping about the fact we're 'collaborating' with the French, just that if we want a nuclear program we have *no choice* but to collaborate. That weak position will mean that we will have to pay top dollar for the expertise and, if the French have anything like their usual guile about these sort of things, they'll also make sure that we continue to be dependant on them for the technology for decades to come.
I was trying to make the point (admittedly in a roundabout way) that this is another example of the inability of the UK to nurture technical excellence.
Tritium detonators have a limited shelf life.
Boom boom! As it were.
And why shouldn't we get help from the French? I'm as happy to gently mock our oniony neighbours as anyone else but in truth they have some great atom-boffins as well as a bumper crop of number-mekons and there's absolutely nothing wrong with good old collaberation on a worthwhile project.
The world is not like i used to be, so just wake up. This sort of co-operation is very needed in the EU. Besides the French never stopped building nuclear plants.
Perhaps you could help them building cars and fast trains instead.
Cars & Fast Trains
Well they did buy GEC and BTH so they did have it
err. I think you may have replied to the wrong comment.
Um... you DID read the comment you just replied to, didn't you?
"And why shouldn't we get help from the French?"
I suspect that the issue is that with our 'great' education system we shouldn't have to? Where has all our own expertise gone? Isn't this sort of thing where we should be putting our efforts?
I would much prefer if our politicians concentrated on actually teaching the next generation(s) real, useful skills & getting the brightest of the bright into Industry, than waste time, money, and effort in pointless 'equality' drives which mean nothing. We *should* be designing & building our own stuff with pointers from other countries.
After all, we are a *1st world* country, arn't we??
EDF Energy have been geared up for building of one of two power stations at Hinkley Point for the last 2 years at least - why are the Gov only saying they approve of the site now?
A planning application for the site preparation works was approved by West Somerset Council in July 2011!
It's the old tactic of reannouncing things to try and get a better headline for a particular story (the anglo-French co-operation agreement). The first official announcement of the nuclear sites I think was when the first draft of the nuclear national policy statement was published back end of 2010?
Seems very optimistic to design, prototype and build a new reactor design by 2020. Especially one with sodium cooling which has never been trouble-free in the past. Good luck to them, but I wouldn't be putting money on seeing the big red switch (there is a big red switch isn't there?) being pressed in eight years' time.
"The new reactors currently under consideration are Generation III+ designs."
Plonk their power stations on that crappy landmass floating out across La Manche, plug it in via underwater cables provided by EDF Energy and syphen off the goodies. Feign ignorance when UK electricity prices increase!
You do know that they've got 59 nuclear plants on their own soil and export surplus power to the UK? Nearly 80% of French electricity comes from nuclear.
And about the same from the Netherlands.
- At the time of posting this, UK demand was 44GW, with 1% being met by France (482MW), and 2% by the Netherlands (892MW).*
Wouldn't it be brilliant if we didn't have to buy all that power from the continent?
*This is instantaneous, but the France > UK interconnect is almost always importing from France.
There is very limited capacity for generation of energy that does not harvest it from sun derived sources. Too much of anything else will due to the inescapable laws of thermodynamics heat the earth up. The guesstimate is 5000TWhrs of none sun derived energy generation for the entire earth per year.
Sun delivers ~1,316W/m2 to the surface of the Earth, multiplying by the effective cross-sectional area (pi.r2 where r=6,400,000m) gives 170,000TW of solar energy delivered to Earth's surface. Multiplying by 8,750 hrs per year gives a total annual insolation ~1.5 billion TWhrs. 5,000 TWhrs is a rounding error on a rounding error ...
Space is pretty good at sucking heat out of the planet.. the only thing keeping it from going all supercold on us is aparently the life-giving greenhouse gasses we have. Without them life as we know it could not exist :)
I've heard rumours that too much of them can also be bad though, aparently if we add too many of them the temperature goes up because the loss of heat to space is made less effective.
However as long as you don't pad the planet in more insulating greenhouse gasses you can add heat with gay abandon and the inescapable laws of thermodynamics will ensure that the extra heat will happily transfer itself into space (2nd law of thermodynamics, the system being the universe, and the earth much hotter than the space/universe around it)
Which means we should probably look to burn less oil and coal, but fissioning away is honky dory :)
ok... admittedly some of this is sourced from wikipedia (so take it with a pinch of "bloke down the pub said"), the earth's inventory of nuclear fuel is supposedly worth 2.5 YJ of energy, that's 2.5 x 10^24 J. Which if I've got my maths right is ~700 million TWh; or at a rate of 5000TWh/year is 138 thousand years worth. I think we can consume it a tad faster than that. ;-)
NB: Thorium is much more abundant than Uranium, and could (again *supposedly*, it's a wiki fact) last hundreds of years (or more). Giving plenty of time to sort out fusion.
Then there's geothermal. That isn't sun derived either. This is already producing 67TWh every year, and that's just the low hanging fruit (like Iceland and the other hot spots).
I'm willing to concede that even geothermal & nuclear are at least partially "sun derived" if you count the supernova that formed all the nuclei heavier than Iron in the first place, and geothermal heat is a mixture radioactive decay heat from early in the earth's history and gravitational potential converted to heat from the earth's formation.
Given the UK's recent record of armed hostility against a number of sovereign states, how can we be sure this technology will be used for peaceful purposes? Shouldn't the UN impose sanctions, until this rogue state abandons its nuclear programme?
It's a much more reasonable question than the downvoters might imagine.
Iran is in big trouble because of its 'cvil' nuclear centrifuges.
Well, guess what, the UK has got remarkably similar 'civil' nuclear centrifuges too.
And AWE Aldermaston and AWE Burghfield and such.
But best not tell anyone, one Stuxnet is enough thank you.
Since the UN has approved every such instance except for Tony's Iraqi venture, I think you are appealing to the wrong body. Perhaps China will back you. They seem nice.
Number of times the leader of our country has said that another sovereign nation should be wiped off the map of the world = 0
Number of times the leader of Iran has said that another sovereign nation should be wiped off the map of the world = Many.
The UK is working to gradually get rid of all our nukes, the US and Russia are working to reduce their nukes and maybe even rid themselfs of them eventually. There are no countries currently proliferating nukes, who already have them. Iran is working to get nukes.
You do realise we've heard the "WMD" story before in the UK, and the inevitable consequence of Blair's lies is that it's so much harder for anyone else playing the same game. Even if the WMD stories are true. Allegedly.
Some of us are even old enough to remember Matrix Churchill. Go read about it.
How about getting the nuclear power stations, rather than heating up water to produce steam, to drive enormous "fans" sited in front of wind-turbine farms? Then you have all the kudos of green wind-driven energy and the reliability of nuclear generation together in one package.
Nurse, we have two sense-of-humour bypasses on the comments page. Get an ECT team over here at once!
I've long envied France's relative energy independence and Britain aiming for something similar is long overdue.
It's sad that whenever subjects like this come up half of the comments a slagging off the French to one degree or another from a point of total ignorance.
I suspect it's a form of envy, the french after all never *lost* their expertise in the name of spurious green projects; we have!
Ah, vous l'anglais, nous allons vous aider avec votre enegy, et peut-être baisser le prix pour les pauvres gens français.
Voici les chiffres, en temps réel, pour la consommation française et la génération.
Ah you english, we will help you with your enegy, and perhaps lower the price for the poor french people.
Here are the figures, in real time, for the French consumption and generation.
Thank you Aimee, that is very useful, I hadn't seen it before (although a variety of sites offer similar info for the UK).
I note that the graph of total demand is relatively flat yesterday , perhaps because it's le weekend. So I looked at the graph for earlier in the week (randomly chose Feb 16).
Nuclear power often has a reputation for being inflexible - it's either on or it's off, but rarely is it flexible somewhere in between. Contributors here and elsewhere often quote France as a country whose operational experience disproves that reputation, a statement I've never seen backed up with facts.
The figures on your chart show that the 'nuclear'component of generation varies only between ~53GW and ~55GW on the two days I chose. IE to all intents and purposes there is no significant flexibility from the nuclear input.
The biggest contribution to 'flexibility' in France comes, according to my reading of the charts, from hydro electricity, which varies between 0 and 10GW depending on time of day.
The interconnect(s) are probably the 2nd biggest contributor to flexibility, varying between an import of ~1GW and an export of ~1GW on the day I picked. Fossil fuels aren't far behind.
In the UK, the peaks and troughs in our demand graph are further apart.
So what goes on in France that allows demand to match output, in particular what goes on that we don't (yet) do in the UK? 10GW of hydroelectricity is one big difference, especially if some of it is pumped storage. What else?
Again, thanks for the chart.
There are significant differences in the way that domestic electricity is marketed in France, which may affect the demand curves. Much home heating is fully or partially electric, as simple radiators rather than off-peak night storage, which I would expect to provide some levelling with industrial use, when people turn off radiators when they go to work.
Also the monthly "standing charge" is based on a sliding scale of allowed peak. You sign up for 3, 6, 9 or 12kW tariffs at increasing fixed monthly costs, and if you exceed that then the main breaker trips. It's fairly common to see small apartments signed up for 3 or 6kW, with high-current items like washing machines connected via a load-sensitive device that switches them off if the main demand gets close to the cut-off point. That again wil level-out demand, on a per-home basis.
Do remember that the period Feb 13th to March 11th is the winter vacation period, so graphs may not be typical. If you want to see interesting numbers, look at Feb 7th, when France broke historical demand records with over 100GW demanded (temperatures were 8-10C below the average for the season across the whole country). There were calls on the TV and radio for people in parts of Brittany to reduce consumption, since that area has little local generation and the grid interconnect into the region was on the edge of overload.
Perhaps the nuclear power plants will need some really big fans for cooling something or other. We have lots of expertise in really big fans on poles, so that'll put us in a strong position. Perhaps we'll even be able to export the technology around the world in future.
Thank goodness we have strategic thinkers in this country.
or the lights will start going out.» Couldn't they just put A O on a bicycle/treadmill - or preferably, have him read his stuff aloud in front of a turbine fan ? That should produce all the leccy any country, including the UK could reasonably need. Might even be able to export to the French....
Indeed. I think he means 'England and Wales' rather than the UK. Countless polls have shown that those living North of the Border are dead-set against it, and unless there's a tectonic shift in power at Holyrood not one single nuclear power plant will be built in Scotland.
Sloppy reporting, Andrew - for a moment I thought this was the BBC, not El Reg.
> not one single nuclear power plant will be built in Scotland.
So, an indepedent Scotland with no nuclear, just as N. Sea oil & gas runs out. Nice one Alex, better get those big woolly kilts ready...


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Fish 'n chips
Are they really as tasty as they say?
They can be, I've had some good fissh-n-chips in the states but the ones I had in the UK were tasteless. I actually prefer catfish and hush puppies to the fish-n-chips cod.
yes nuff said!
I've had fish 'n chips in the U.S. and the U.K. and the U.K. has the better taste-test results for sure. Plus, in the U.K. you always get them with mushy peas, whereas in the U.S. never (or at least not that I've seen). And, you get vinegar with your chips in the U.K. whereas only occasionally in the U.S.
Going back to the U.K. in a couple of weeks; should be a good time!
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Used to do a 100 miler and the only place to eat was around the 50 mile mark and it was at a fish and chip shop. The organisers even allowed time out of 1 hour if you had Lunch there.
But Fish and chips at a Local shop. Look for the one that has a queue outside if there are more than two and Never go to one of the Chain shops like "Harry Ramsden".Only been in one and they served Fish and chips--No choice of fish--It was Fish and chips. I asked the question "What Fish"? only to be told it was Pollock or Whiting. I won't even give that to the cat.
Cod- Skate or Plaice are my choice and in that order. Or if not feeling fishy then a saveloy or Cod Roe.
Fish and chips is variable. In and around our local area (by the coast), we have four year-round fish and chip shops (some are summer season only, and not worth bothering with). I've had good in all of them, and bad in all of them. Out of season, they cook the fish to order, which makes a difference, IMO
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Well things are moving right along! Retro Ruffles And Rust has been open for just a few days shy of one month and as of this morning I've made 5 sales. Three of the five sales have occurred over the last three days. From everything I've read that seems to be a pretty good start for a brand new Etsy shop.
I will tell you I have put in work though! Besides working on crafting my items which in itself is time consuming I am also on this laptop several hours a day trying to make an internet presence for myself. From Etsy's Team sights to Twitter I am making contact and trying to get known in every aspect.
As I've told you before I live on a farm, I have nearly 25 animals to care for each day. No matter what I have going on they always come first, especially my horses. Horses are not like dogs and cats.You can't just feed them each day and leave them to their own devises like a cat and they wont be content following you around as your companion like a dog would be. A well cared for horse requires at least one to two hours of exercise each day. On top of that they are smart and need stimulation, a bored horse means trouble!
Needless to say with my time dedicated to my animals and since I've started dedicating so much time to Etsy my house is falling apart! OK, not literally but it's a mess! I am kind of a neat freak. When I was a kid my room was a mess like every other kid but I was weird I didn't like to live in a mess so I would sleep out on the couch because I couldn't stand to be in my messy room. I would clean my room and start sleeping in it again and then as it started to become a mess I would move back out to the couch. Well right now I have that feeling again but now my living room is a mess too so I'm contemplating sleeping out on the lawn. OK I'm joking plus it's raining outside so I guess I need to put the computer down today and clean house.
As for my blog, for those of you following I'm sure you've noticed I'm a little all over the place still. One post will be talking about my kids, the next will be updating you on the progress of my Etsy shop and then the next will be a deep look into myself and a very telling historical family story. Well I like to write about all of those things and as you get to know me better you'll see what a major roll each of them play in my life. I ask you to bear with me please? I am trying to figure out how to seamlessly write about all of those things. The purpose of me starting this blog was to share my experience starting Retro Ruffles and Rust and give you a peak into my home life with my family. I'll get it figured out.


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Venn Sampling: A Novel Prediction Technique for Moving Objects
Tao, Y.
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Li, Q.
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|Given a region qR and a future timestamp qT, a "range aggregate" query estimates the number of objects expected to appear in qR at time qT. Currently the only methods for processing such queries are based on spatio-temporal histograms, which have several serious problems. First, they consume considerable space in order to provide accurate estimation. Second, they incur high evaluation cost. Third, their efficiency continuously deteriorates with time. Fourth, their maintenance requires significant update overhead. Motivated by this, we develop Venn sampling (VS), a novel estimation method optimized for a set of "pivot queries" that reflect the distribution of actual ones. In particular, given m pivot queries, VS achieves perfect estimation with only O(m) samples, as opposed to O(2m) required by the current state of the art in workload-aware sampling. Compared with histograms, our technique is much more accurate (given the same space), produces estimates with negligible cost, and does not deteriorate with time. Furthermore, it permits the development of a novel "query-driven" update policy, which reduces the update cost of conventional policies significantly. © 2005 IEEE.
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