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Chiefs wary of Italian upset
Exeter will aim to accomplish a successful Italian job on Saturday - and set up an Amlin Challenge Cup showdown with French heavyweights Perpignan.
The Chiefs should encounter few problems against Cavalieri Prato, opponents they crushed 68-0 at Sandy Park two months ago, and if Perpignan defeat Newport Gwent Dragons in France on Saturday, they will head to Devon next week with a quarter-final place available for the victors.
Exeter assistant coach Ali Hepher said: "Perpignan will be a big game, but if we get too far ahead of ourselves then that is when we are going to fall over."
Exeter show 12 changes from the side that won away against Aviva Premiership relegation favourites Newcastle last weekend, with only forward trio Hoani Tui, Aly Muldowney and James Phillips remaining in a team captained by fly-half Gareth Steenson.
Premiership strugglers Wasps can regain control of Pool Three if they defeat Italian hosts Rovigo on Saturday, having relinquished top spot to Bayonne who were 12-6 conquerors of Bordeaux-Begles on Thursday night.
Wasps, despite their domestic woe, will secure a last-eight berth by beating Rovigo and then Adams Park visitors Bordeaux on Sunday week.
"We have worked hard to get ourselves into a strong position in the table, and it is important now we get what we need to get us into the quarter-finals over the next two weekends," said rugby director David Young.
Former England scrum-half Shaun Perry will captain Worcester on Saturday when they look to remain on the tail of Pool One favourites Stade Francais by defeating Italian side Crociati at Sixways.
Wing Miles Benjamin is switched to outside centre, while fly-half Andy Goode gains the number 10 shirt following his match-winning exploits as a substitute against Gloucester last Saturday.
And in Pool Five, Sale Sharks head to Spain, where an anticipated bonus-point win against La Vila would see them meet Brive in a winner-takes-all encounter at Edgeley Park next Thursday night.


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April 1, 2005[From SearchEnterpriseLinux.com]
If Oracle has its way, the vast majority of database management functions will soon be fully automated. To find out more about those plans, SearchEnterpriseLinux.com recently spoke with Willie Hardie, Oracle senior director of database product marketing, and Monica Kumar, Oracle senior manager of Linux product marketing. We also talked about what Oracle is doing in the area of grid computing and Oracle's attitudes toward its open source competitors.
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Ryan coach Bryce Overstreet wasn't going to let his final timeout go to waste in Friday's nondistrict game against McKinney.
Late in the fourth quarter, with his team far, far behind, the Raiders took their seats on the bench and listened to a head coach who was displeased with their effort in the final minutes of the contest, as the Lions opened up a 30-point lead.
With District 5-5A play starting next week, Overstreet wasn't going to squander a teaching lesson for an inexperienced team. After leading early, Ryan struggled and lost to McKinney 64-37 at Billy Ryan Gym.
"Score doesn't dictate how we play," Overstreet said. "We've lived by that as long as we've been here, and I feel like we lacked in effort, lacked in communication. We've got a lack of experience, and you have to continue to get better at the end of games, just like you do at the beginning of games."
McKinney (8-10) scored 25 points in the final frame, and like it had the whole contest, the visiting team found long-range success.
The Lions were led by Preston Smith's 18 points, all coming on 3-pointers.
Ryan junior guard Ibrahim Logan led the Raiders with 13 points. He was the only Raider to score in double figures, as Logan and the rest of the Raiders (6-9) struggled with McKinney's full-court press in the second half.
Early in the first quarter, McKinney couldn't get its press established because it couldn't hit a field goal. The Lions couldn't score, and the Raiders scored six straight points to open the contest.
"I thought we executed offensively and we took care of the basketball," Overstreet said. "That possession where we went up 6-0, we ran just over two minutes off the clock before we shot a back-door layup."
But when the buzzer for the first quarter sounded, Ryan no longer had the lead. McKinney closed the quarter with nine consecutive points.
McKinney took advantage of Ryan's 2-1-2 defensive zone and used long-range shots to widen the gap in the second quarter. The Lions went 4-for-6 from behind the 3-point arc to take a 24-15 lead into halftime.
"We knew coming into the year that we were going to live and die by being a team that shoots a lot of 3s," McKinney coach Wes Watson said. "We know that, and that's what we practice it a lot. But there's other things that we can do to continue to improve."
Watson's team was in full control of the contest when Overstreet called his final timeout in the fourth quarter. Senior guard Xavier Gray said Overstreet was displeased with his team's lack of execution and upset that they weren't running the called plays.
Gray said that the team's effort was lacking, and if that continues its chances for success won't be very good.
"We're going to have to eventually pick it up, especially when district comes," Gray said.
McKinney 64, Ryan 37
McKinney — E.J Clark 2, Remington Edwards 9, Trae Witmer 6, Preston Smith 18, Marcus Cross 4, Starr Kleinheskel 4, Jontrell Rocquemore 2, Leland Biscoe 6, Drew Hammons 6, Micky Mead 7.
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Merely a Theory
|February 21, 2008
|Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Science
Evolutionists continue to be much exercised about evolution being treated as "merely a theory," arguing that to identify it as such is as disreputable as treating gravity or the second law as "merely a theory." But consider, as a close colleague recently reminded me:
The late Ernst Mayr, a Harvard professor called "the Dean of American Evolutionists " wrote in his 1976 book Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays:
"When I lectured in the mid-1950's to a small audience in Copenhagen, the great physicist Niels Bohr stated in the discussion that he could not conceive how accidental mutations could account for the immense diversity of the organic world and its remarkable adaptations. As far as he was concerned, the period of 3 billion years since life had originated was too short by several orders of magnitude to achieve all of this." (Quoted from page 53; the book is online at Google Books.)
Stanislaw Ulam, with Edward Teller the inventor of the thermonuclear bomb (the Teller-Ulam mechanism) wrote in his paper given at the Wistar Conference on Mathematical Challenges to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution in 1966:
"[Darwinism] seems to require many thousands, perhaps millions, of successive mutations to produce even the easiest complexity we see in life now. It appears, naively at least, that no matter how large the probability of a single mutation is, should it be even as great as one-half, you would get this probability raised to a millionth power, which is so very close to zero that the chances of such a chain seem to be practically non-existent." (Ulam's remark on page 21 of the Wistar conference Proceedings.)
In other words, Bohr and Ulam both believed that Darwinism was a false theory. If Darwinism is false, then it cannot be a fact. It can only be a theory.
Do evolutionists think that Bohr and Ulam were anti-science crackpots? Did they doubt the validity of the law of gravity or the second law of thermodynamics? Were they ignorant of these laws?
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chuckhumphry: But are there scientists like Dr. Dembski that combat the teachings of Einstein, Bohr, Planck, or Schrödinger?
Bias and crackpottery (Darwinism is unmitigated crackpottery, in my opinion) in science is not limited to biology. Any physicist who dares say anything against the teachings of Einstein and relativity is immediately ostracized and would subsequently have a hard time getting published and being funded.
Both Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyarabend were right about science. The so-called scientific method that supposedly filters out nonsense and politics out of science is a myth perpetuated by scientists themselves. It takes frequent periodic revolutions to unseat inadequate and erroneous scientific paradigms and the most Kuhnian scientific revolutions are yet to come. It's human nature to be biased.
Obviously you have no understanding of the hierarchy in science. Biology is explained by chemistry. Chemistry is explained by physics. Physics is explained by law and statistical mechanics. If a physicist tells a biologist that something doesn't make sense in the light of physical law and statistical mechanics you'd better pay attention to it rather than ignorantly accuse the physicist of speaking outside his field of expertise. This is why engineers are more likely than anyone else to scoff at creative evolution by pure chance and necessity. We (speaking for myself and the other engineer/authors on UD) are employers of law and mechanics for purposeful, practical ends. We don't need to see a designer to recognize a design. Design is what we do for a living so who would know more about it? Not a biologist, that's for certain. Any biologist who claims it a fact, or even likely, that the origin and diversity of life is pure chance and necessity is so contradicting physical law and statistical mechanics that, if they weren't so arrogantly wrong, it would be a pathetic display of either ignorance or gullibility to to group-think among their peers.
your GPS, phone, automatic guidance systems, and the automatic door at the supermarket are all demonstrable results of physics
The demonstrable results of employing what the physicists tell the engineers what to expect in the way of precise, predictable behavior of matter and energy is more apt.
By the way, it's a bit amusing that you'd point out to Professor Dembski what Karl Popper wrote. Dembski holds a PhD in the philosophy of science. He's not just studied Popper, he's in Popper's peer group if you don't exclude the fact that Dembski also holds a PhD in statistical probability along with a master's in divinity which arguably elevates him beyond Popper's peer group. It's like Doctor Doctor Reverend Dembski although I'm never sure which order that should go in. 🙂 This is why I also find it amusing when practioners of science pretend to tell Dembski what science is and is not. They are in fact speaking outside their field of expertise.
Sure, I have plenty of understanding–I have a PhD in history and philosophy of science.
You sure fooled me! When someone anonymous makes an unsubstantiated claim to credentials to add weight to his argument I require some kind of proof of it to allow them to continue here. Fair warning about what your next comment has to include.
But your statement that
"Biology is explained by chemistry. Chemistry is explained by physics. Physics is explained by law and statistical mechanics."
totally overlooks the effects of contingency on biological systems."
Not at all. Contingency planning is part and parcel of engineering – anticipation of possibilities which may or may not happen and putting mechanisms in place to work with or around contingency. Chance and necessity can't deal with contingency. It is 100% reactive and 0% proactive when it comes to contingency.
You also seem to have unintentionally undercut a major premise of ID: Are you really arguing that physics alone explains biology?
That's one contingency that must be considered. It's not the only possibility which is why it's a contingency and not a certainty.
It sounds like you're arguing biology can be explained in purely materialistic terms.
It's contingency I favor so long as we acknowledge that intelligence can be a naturally occuring material quantity in the universe. I don't consider myself supernatural or immaterial but the mere fact that you and I are both manipulating matter and energy into patterns as we communicate, patterns virtually impossible for chance alone to generate, means we're both (more or less) intelligent agencies. I understand there are agencies like us who can push nucleotides around to alter the genetic composition of living things to suit their purposes. I don't consider them doing anything supernatural either. Intelligent agency has already altered the natural course of evolution. If it happened once (with us as the agents) it could have happened twice or even many times. In any case we know for sure it's a possibility. Do you consider intelligent agency to be supernatural or immaterial? If so, what justification can you offer me for it?
Isn't that what you've been spending so much energy trying to disprove?
No. Life on earth could very possibly be the result, or even the partial result, of an evolved or unevolved material intelligence. I just consider it practically impossible to not have intelligence in the process somewhere. It's a matter of likely explanations, some being more likely than others. No one was around to observe life getting started and diversifying so all reasonably possible explanations must be considered and ranked by likelyhood based upon indirect observations and analogous processes which can be observed. Pure chance and necessity, especially at the origin of life where Darwinian processes don't have a mechanism yet, is particularly unlikely and no one has even come close to finding any natural process with the demonstrated capacity. That such a process exists is sheer and utter speculation without substance of any kind. Intelligent agents however routinely push matter and energy around to form patterns which otherwise have a probability approximating zero of happening otherwise.
>You might want to think about that a bit. And you might also want to note that while I disagree with much of what is said on this blog, my posts have been polite.
Polite isn't good enough for critics. You have to have done your homework about what ID is and is not (you haven't) and you have to argue intelligently without bringing up all the trite arguments we've heard a million times and don't care to dispute for the millionth time (you aren't off to a good start there either) and if you make any claims of having relevant credentials while remaining totally anonymous you're out the door (you will have to substantiate your claim, retract it along with having it edited out of your comment, or say good-bye). The choice on that is yours. If you earned a degree I'm willing to let you fall back on it if you feel the merits of your arguments can't support themselves but you at least have to prove you earned that shingle.
You know the thing I like the least about chance & necessity theory? It's that it's a science stopper. It makes absolutely no predictions about the future course of evolution. It's throwing in the towel and saying everything is dependent on a process we can't predict in advance. The capabilities and limitations of chance and necessity are unbounded. All it can do is explain *everything* after it already happened:
– some things evolve and adapt, except when they don't evolve and adapt.
– some species spawn new species and some go extinct without spawning anything except their own demise.
– natural selection modulates random change except when it drifts free without selection
– molecular clocks agree with each except when they don't
– evolution has no trajectory and is not repeatable except when it converges on the same result and does repeat itself
What use is that? ID at least attempts to place some bounds on what chance & necessity can and cannot do with reasonable certainty and by bounding the process it enables some predictions to be made about the future instead of throwing in the towel and saying we can't predict anything because it's all a matter of inscrutable chance. Behe had the courage to drive some stakes in the ground that bound what chance and necessity can and cannot accomplish in given circumstances. HIS theory can be falsified by observation. What predictions about the future can be made by the chance & necessity theory that could potentially falsify it?
This is what happens when scientific theories become scientific dogma immune to contrary evidence and criticism by virtue of being uncontestable fact. It happened to Sigmund Freud's theory, it happened to Karl Marx's theory, and the last holdout of post-modern enlightenment is Darwin's theory. Two down, one to go. It shouldn't be much longer now until it's just a theory again and a rather poor one that can't reliably predict anything in the future at that. It's a failed hypothesis which is now really no more than a narrative reconstruction of history resting on the momentum built up by a century of ad populum fallacy.
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A BUS company has announced more regular services linking Wolvercote and Oxford after parking restrictions were introduced in the village.
Oxford Bus Company had raised concerns that large numbers of parked cars were hampering its City6 service via Marston Ferry Road and Woodstock Road.
In response Oxfordshire County Council has said it will extend double yellow lines to parts of Elmthorpe Road and Rowland Close and near Jacob's Inn, close to junctions.
As a result, the bus company has said its buses will service the route every 10 minutes instead of every quarter of an hour during weekdays from 9.30am to 3.30pm.
Operations director Phil Southall said: "We are grateful for the support we've been given in sorting out the parking issues.
"We've decided to say thank you by putting on these extra buses.
"We have spare resources available during the day and we want to see if this will encourage more people to travel by bus."
The changes were welcomed by county councillor for Wolvercote Jean Fooks, who campaigned to have the yellow lines extended.
They followed months of wrangling, with the original planned length of some lines cut at Elm-thorpe Road and near Wolvercote Common after residents feared they would affect their parking.
Mrs Fooks said: "It's very good news for Wolvercote and also people living near Woodstock Road, which is not well served by buses.
"People will be pleased to have one that is more frequent.
"I hope the county council will get the new yellow lines in place as soon as possible so cars do not continue to hold the buses up.
"The bus drivers are very good, but sometimes even for them the roads are simply impossible.
"With the new Northern Gateway development to come it is vital that we keep the bus running at a frequency which will encourage people to use it."
Following the approval of the changes in July by county council cabinet member for transport David Nimmo Smith, the authority is also set to take a closer look at parking near Jacobs Inn.
Concerns remain that yellow lines have been placed on a side of the road with no pavement, leading to cars parking on the other side which has a pavement.
The council pledged in July to look at the issue.
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Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins last week filed a motion indicating he plans to appeal the dismissal of mortgage fraud cases against oil family heir Al Hill III.
State District Judge Lena Levario dismissed the charges March 7 at a hearing where Hill had accused Watkins of prosecutorial misconduct. Hill alleged Watkins filed the charges as a favor to Watkins' friend and political benefactor Lisa Blue.
State District Judge Lena Levario dismissed the charges March 7 at a hearing where Hill had accused Watkins of prosecutorial misconduct. Hill alleged Watkins filed the charges as a favor to Watkins' friend and political benefactor Lisa Blue.
Watkins refused to testify at the hearing and Levario held Watkins in contempt of court. Blue invoked her Fifth Amendment right not incriminate herself and did not testify. Levario cited Watkins' refusal to testify as part of the reason she dismissed the charges.
Watkins' staff has not yet filed the actual appeal. The DA's office has only filed a motion saying they intend to appeal with the Fifth Court of Appeals in Dallas.
Blue and other attorneys were suing Hill for attorneys fees. Hill said that the pending criminal charges prevented him from taking the stand in the fee dispute case. The attorneys were awarded an amount later reduced to $22 million.
Hill was accused of taking out the $500,000 loan using the Highland Park home where he lived as collateral. But public records show he owned only 20 percent of the home, with the remainder owned by a trust that benefited his father, Al Hill Jr. The percentage of ownership in the home is a matter of dispute.
The loan was paid back before criminal charges were filed.
At the hearing looking into allegations of misconduct against Watkins, Levario dismissed the charges against Hill, partially because of Watkins' refusal to testify.
Attorneys involved in the case say the FBI is looking into dealings between Blue and Watkins. Watkins' office said that he has not been informed that he is the target of a federal investigation.
Watkins said he was refusing to testify because how prosecutors do their jobs should not be questioned in court. Legal experts said he had a good argument but gutted it by allowing other prosecutors to testify.
State Disrict Judge Bob Brotherton was appointed to the case because all officers of the court, like attorneys, are given a hearing when they are held in contempt. This extra step before a second judge to determine whether a contempt order should be withheld is a check on the power given to judges.
If Brotherton upholds Levario's contempt citation, the case will be sent back to Levario to decide whether Watkins is fined, jailed or faces no sanction.
The DA's office has said it is considering whether to refile charges against Hill.
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Blackbird Bike's Jim Black with Ed Begley, Jr., actor & environmentalist, at InterBike Las Vegas
Each year we're at InterBike, the industry's premier trade event in North America. In Las Vegas.
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Blackbird Bikes was at Inter Bike again in 2005 with EZ Quadribent side-by-side recumbents.
We enjoyed talking with people who stopped by the booth.
What is InterBike?
"Fuse 1,000+ brands with 10,000+ buyers from 60+ countries and you have Interbike - the ultimate blend of industry leaders with innovative products in the bicycle business. Interbike is North America's largest bicycle trade event, and one of the most important stops in the international trade show calendar. ... three packed days of exhibits, product launches, meetings and celebrations at Interbike 2005." (See InterBike site for more - link opens in a new browser.)
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Gardner Martin sitting on one of our EZ Quadribents at InterBike in Las Vegas a few years ago.
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Gardner Martin on Quadribent at InterBike 2003.
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Farmer attacked, left for dead in Zim
Cape Town – A white Zimbabwean farmer and his wife are reportedly fighting for their lives after they sustained broken bones during an attack which was thought to be politically motivated.
News Day reported on Thursday that David Passapoorts and his wife Anne were allegedly attacked and left for dead at their farm in Darwendale .
The attack, according to sources, came shortly after top Zanu-PF officials in Mashonaland West province threatened to evict the remaining white farmers in the province.
The incident comes just a month after President Robert Mugabe vowed that whites will never be allowed to own land in Zimbabwe, saying the few remaining white farmers must go.
Land ownership imbalances
Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party launched the land reforms in 2000, taking over white-owned farms to resettle landless blacks.
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At least 4 000 white commercial farmers were evicted from their farms.
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Retailers, whether online or brick-and-mortar, will increasingly support in-home trials of high-end gear.
What is the future of high-end audio retailing?
Audiophiles often prefer to listen for themselves before committing to a purchase. But brick-and-mortar retailers are succumbing right and left, partly a result of the economy and partly owing to the trend to online sales. What is the future of high-end audio retailing?
True high-end buyers, as in high prices, want to feel nurtured at auditon. Not have to stand in line at the cash register. So retailers need to really pamper high-end buyers. Who wants to buy Krell and Wilson online?
As long as the manufacturers still support the dealers, then there will still be a place for high-end retailers to attach their value-added services. If they are only interested in moving boxes with no education of the product, then the brick-and-mortar shop is doomed. The future lies with the manufacturers. The retailers still need to carve out a value-added niche rather than just offering boxes that Best Buy does not.
Brick-and-mortar will go to the true high-end, and no longer carry things like recievers. In-home demos will become common, as well as installation services. But no one will buy their first system there. Which is a shame because some things are meant to be heard.
People shop price. If a brick-and-mortar outlet adds value, it can survive. If it doesn't it won't. Few people will choose to pay more locally if it adds nothing. For instance, if I can adequately mount a phono cartridge and can buy on line for 60% the cost of a local shop, where will I spend my money? Were I a brick-and-mortar retailer I would be awfully worried about the used market as well. A decade ago used sales were tough. Now, with Audiogon, it's a snap and the world is your marketplace
Online sales will continue to soar, but this will lead to a newly refreshed growing market for brick-and-mortar two-channel stereo shops. As the younger generation gets older, curiosity for analog playback will rise. The goal here ultimately is to share how brilliant the art of listening is through high-fidelity playback, and to get people to shut their TVs off and go purchase a new home stereo system and give them a chance to discover the beauty of music listening.
At least for the very high end, there will be retailers with physical locations because most prospective buyers will not purchase without hearing the component first and having it delivered and set up by the retailer. I cannot image purchasing a new as opposed to used component without listening to it first.
Actually, the trend in online sales is mostly being driven by the used market. Savvy audiophiles are pre-listening to equipment at dealers and then buying on the used market (Audiogon/eBay)at a fraction of retail prices. Why buy new when you can get a component that's 1-2 years old at less then 50% the price of retail? I've compiled an awesome little system for $2K (all components under two years old) that would have cost close to $5K new + taxes.
Retailers are hindered by ridiculously expensive products in a product-driven industry. Vendor policies prevent price flexibility and sufficient brand selection. The Internet has little to do with the problem. Consumers with MP3 budgets and audiophile taste already have nowhere to go. When a Stereophile review incites me to want to hear and possibly buy a product, I invariably find no local dealers. Retailers might be able to overcome those problems in a healthy economy, but not the one we have.
Many audio dealers also specialize in home theater installations and this may save some of them in the long run. I have also heard many tales of dealers that think they are clairvoyant and mistreat prospective buyers because they believe that the person is not really interested in making a purchase or that they will run out of the store after the audition any buy it on the Internet. I just read a thread on audiogon where a dealer stated to a buyer that if he wanted to audition more than one piece of gear, he would have to cough up $500. He was told by the dealer that the $500 would be applied to the purchase. Dealers like that don't deserve to be in business!
The future of high-end audio retailing lies within the actual existance of a youthful high-end audio market. If high-end audio equipment manufacturers and quality-minded music producers truly want to survive and prosper, they must aggressively market their best wares to the younger music fan, at affordable prices. I'd suggest focusing on a universal ambient surround technique with true high-fidelity sound—that is, sound that is faithful to the original performance in every way (including a realistic soundstage and ambient surround) and leave it to the brick-and-mortar retailers to effectively promote it to the masses.
Retail is still vital—for product awareness and trial. However, there is an increasing trend to purchase online after viewing at retail. This is unfortunate, as brick-and-mortar retailers have to compete with online retailers with very different cost structures. Lessons can be learnt from Dell—limit inventory at retail, whose role is to build awareness and encourage trial. Ordering process is online.
There have always been discount mail-order audio retailers. What's different now is the huge amount of quality, comparative product information available online. Most buyers don't need (or want) an audio salesman's opinion when that info is available on-line in spades. I hope the audio salons can stay afloat, but it will be tough.
It will segment further to resemble the interior design world—the high-end >$15-20k total value (including contractors) will always be hands-on. Anyone remotely price sensistive will turn to the Internet.
Economies tend to perform in waves. Tthey go up, down, way up, and way down. I predict significant problems for brick-and-mortar retailers in the short to intermediate term because of the job situation and prevalent economic headwinds. Looking ahead a few years, I see a recovery on the horizon, which should bring relief to small businesses (ie, brick-and-mortar retailers). Life goes in circles, but continues to go. Many who will be forced out of business will eventually be able to restructure and start anew. There will also be opportunities for more people to start their own businesses as well. All is not doom and gloom. We must inject a dose of optimism into the mix because I've seen times like this before.


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The main decoding algorithms for Reed-Solomon codes are based on a bivariate interpolation step, which is expensive in time complexity. Lot of interpolation methods were proposed in order to decrease the complexity of this procedure but stay expensive. Then Koetter, Ma and Vardy proposed in 2010 a technique, called re-encoding, which permits to reduce the running time. However this trick is devoted for the Koetter interpolation algorithm. The authors propose a reformulation of the re-encoding for any interpolation methods. Finally, they apply it to the Welch-Berlekamp algorithm.
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BUFFALO, N.Y., Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Mark Hamister and Todd Berman introduced themselves to staff members Thursday as the hopeful owners of the troubled Buffalo Sabres.
The reported price tag of $65 million includes the Sabres, Buffalo Bandits of the National Lacrosse League and the rights to HSBC Arena.
Hamister and Berman will need a final nod from the NHL's Board of Governors and likely approval from Bankruptcy Court. The closing should take place in the first quarter of 2003.
The Sabres, who joined the league in 1970, have been run by the NHL since June, after John Rigas and two sons were indicted on fraud charges following the collapse of Adelphia Communications.
On Thursday, Rigas called Hamister to congratulate him. The former owner is expected to have a role in bankruptcy proceedings, according to NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, who characterized Rigas' involvement as "cooperative."
Rigas has been accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from Adelphia, leaving the team in financial ruin and despair. That began to change Thursday, when Hamister explained why he and Berman were there.
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Eva Longoria has Cinco de Mayo plans with a very in-demand guy this Thursday.
The newly single actress divulged her VIP date this morning in NYC, and this isn't their first time getting together.
She spent time with the high-profile guy last week as well.
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"I'll be at the White House," she told reporters this morning at the Tassimo Brewbot Cafe grand opening in NYC.
Not too shabby, huh?
But she's not there to party and toss back margs with Barack and Michelle. She's there on business, and she actually met with him last week, already.
"It was a very small group of us that got to speak to him about issues concerning the Latino community, which are American issues: economy, healthcare, education, and of course immigration. The people who were in that room have a very strong presence in media so we have to help reshape the immigration talk and rhetoric about it being about xenophobia or anti-immigration. It's really an economic decision," she explained.
Other famous faces involved in last week's Latino brain trust meeting included America Ferrera and Rosario Dawson
Come Thursday, she'll be there for another cause.
"I'm pm a commission for President Obama for the National Latino museum, and we're presenting him with our commission report," she told me.
Eva's one busy babe these days. She says she's got no upcoming leisure travel plans and is even skipping the Cannes film fest to shoot.
"I don't think I am this year because I'm shooting a movie in Louisiana," she told me of why she'd be MIA from the south of France, "Work, work, work!"


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What do you get when you put a heavyweight boxer, a full-blooded Apache, an itinerant preacher, a movie stuntman, and a bunch of other colorful misfits together in the jungles of Guadalcanal behind a grizzled old sergeant on a mission to take out a Japanese observational post? You get the Rat Bastards and a whole mess of blood and guts. Ray Porter performs this audiobook as if between puffs of a cigar in the back of a helicopter, dripping blood and sweat. This WWII adventure story is a violent and gritty ride where you'll hear glorified heroics next to real gritty, problems - from jock itch to Dear John letters - that soldiers have to deal with.
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A 51-year-old man presents with iron deficiency anemia and occasional blood
in his stool. He has no abdominal pain, no change in appetite, no diarrhea or
constipation, no melena, and no loss of weight. The patient denies any nausea
and vomiting.
Past medical history is positive for asthma. He is on no medication. There
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would not usually be associated with iron deficiency. Although the patient has
little symptomatology to suggest malabsorption, selective malabsorption of iron
can occur. For example, some patients with celiac sprue present with isolated
iron deficiency anemia.
The correct answer to question 2 is d. The endoscopic photograph reveals a worm-like
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This nematode, also known as whipworm, is one of the most common human
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By your logic we should eliminate our nuclear arsenal too. Abolishing the FED is tantamount to unilateral disarmament. Foreign central banks will easily exploit this. Also, checks and balances seem to be more feasible than just abolishing it. I'd very much like to hear your other reasons for advocating the abolishment. Thanks.
Yea, but transparency isn't good enough for me. If we knew what they were doing on paper half the country would die from shock. They just need to go period.
none of the articles mentioned the current fed established in the 20th century. Assuming all claims are factual, the most I can take away from that is the Fed is not constitutional and should be regulated. A rather tenuous case for abolishing it.
Yeah, I have plenty of good reasons to abolish it. For one, power corrupts. The only way to mitigate corruption is to eliminate power to as great an extent as possible. No institution should play god over the economy. For the love of god, just understand how internal politics works. It's like an auction for a politician's soul – you can't beat it, you can only keep them in a confined space (limited government). But for now, if we could just make the FED transparent, I'd be fine with that.
Lending to non financial institutions is clearly illegal. So are you saying that because an institution acts illegally it should be abolished? Instead of prosecuting those responsible we should take down the entire central bank? Do you understand the vital role of a central bank or do you have any good reason to abolish it?
Those links I showed you shows why the FED should be abolished, its an illegal institution according to the Constitution. Most of the taxes and debt you pay is because of the FED. To understand it you have to know the history of the FED. I gave you links.
"You do realize that the fed can only make loans to banks right?" You almost had me thinking you were a reasonably informed person until that statement. On the other hand, the fact that you have a lot to learn means you probably aren't completely lost. The Federal Reserve has lended to the following non – bank entities (and this is just a few): Verizon, Toyota, GE, McDonalds. The $700 B. bailout was nothing compared to the backdoor bailouts that reach $9 trillion.I want you reading news, now
I know full well how the monetary system works. I can concisely explain it to you in under 400 characters easily. I'm disappointed that you can't do the same. It's not that I don't want to read the article, it's simply that the fallacies of the first few paragraphs are difficult to get through.
Look, the information your seeking goes way beyond, trying to fit it all in a 200 character response. I can give you links the choice on weather to read and educate yourself is up to you. You have a long way to go and youtube is not a place to learn. Do Google searches on how the monetary system works Read man, READ.
You're wrong, the FED does not own any bank. A central bank is a regulator of commercial banks. Also, under the federal reserve act, the federal reserve cannot directly lend to the government. The government obtains revenue for the bailouts by issuing bonds.
Hold my hand? It's a simple question, you stated that the federal reserve ought to be abolished. Any proponent of an idea should at least be able to concisely state their reasons. You're not able to. If your stance is not tenable then it's hard to take you seriously.
They don't, all banks are owned by the FED, hence why the FED is a Central Bank. And no the FED also makes loans to the government and bails out failing corporations with loans all of which you are debted and taxed for on the interest. Which goes to the FED.
You do realize that the fed can only make loans to banks right? Your use of corporatism makes it sound like the bank bails out non-depository institutions. How exactly does the FED favor one bank over another?
It's not a conspiracy article, it's real history the is left out of the books, their very short pages and all the info your looking for is there. It should take you 10 min to read it all. You ask for info and when it's presented to you you call it a conspiracy? I don't have time to hold your hand, read or don't the info is there.
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." When the FED favors certain more influential corporations/foreign banks over others for either loans or bailouts, that is corporatism – and the Jekyll Island affair is hardly conspiracy theory. You don't get to be at the grand meeting for establishing the central bank of the U.S. without taking blame for it.
Do just simply state a few reasons why the FED is abolished, I do not have time to read conspiracy articles.
A central bank's relationship with commercial banks is how they control the size of the money supply, everyone who has taken a class in economics knows that. Your claim of how the fed supports corporatism eludes me. Lastly, you do not know the nature or the extent of the involvement of the financiers in Jekyll Island, therefore your conspiracy theories hold no weight.
Could you try to be more articulate in the future? Or were you drunk when you posted this.
Why does everyone bring up this idea of "isn't the race over"? Stop bringing it up & it goes away! It's FACT that he is still there?!?
They are looking at him, talking to him. They might as well be saying "You are a girl, yes?" …
The Federal Reserve lends money to banks at a low interest rate. Those banks lend money to people at a higher interest rate. The FED exists in its current capacity to allow corporations to profit off of government based bias. That's called corporatism…and as far as the banks creating the FED – it's called the monster of Jekyll Island for that very reason. Google "Federal Reserve Jekyll Island".


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Is this idea full of hot air?
Word out of Texas is that they're flying huge cargo carrying lighter than air craft right now and have been doing so for some time.
They will save loads of money if they base them out of Washington, DC and fill them with all the freaking hot air coming from the White house and Congress!
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This past Friday marked the launch of the fourth annual marine show in Lewisporte, Newfoundland. The two-day event was held in Lewisporte Stadium and hosted some of Newfoundland's biggest marine vendors, supporters and educators. Recreational boaters and outdoors types were salivating over the selection of watercraft on display and people young and old were checking out the latest gear. Those thinking of careers in the marine field could visit the Marine Institute and CNA's booths, the latter letting people sample marine cuisine from their culinary program.
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It would seem that people who make a living on the sea are getting back to their roots and spending more leisure time on the water. Scott Kenny of Thruway Recreation described the recreational boating industry in Newfoundland as a "young industry", but one that is seeing tremendous growth – especially in the past decade. He attributes this growth to to Newfoundland's close ties to the sea along with the present strength of our dollar.
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A proposed state constitutional amendment that would prohibit same-sex marriages and civil unions was buried under other bills awaiting action as the Wisconsin senate wrapped up work for the current legislative session.
The senate recessed just after 1 a.m. Thursday after plodding through a handful of bills, with lawmakers planning to return to the floor at 10 a.m. More than 30 bills remained on the calendar before senators could take up the amendment. The amendment was the last of about 30 bills remaining on the senate calendar after lawmakers met for about five hours beginning Wednesday night.
Wisconsin statutes already define marriage as a contract between a husband and a wife and do not recognize gay marriage. But the amendment's supporters fear a judge could overrule the statute and force the state to recognize gay marriages. The state assembly voted 68-27 last week to approve the amendment after an all-night session in which opponents decried the proposal as mean-spirited, bigoted, and shameful.
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The Clouds (Free Style Quatrain) - Poem by Dorian Petersen Potter
All the time I see them
As they go by one by one every single day
And when they pass me by
I can only dream Good Lord when looking at Your sky.
They go far beyond my telescope
They just play hide 'n seek and in my mind I can only hope
As they go changing in all kind of forms and sorts of shapes
And I can relate for some look just like angels wearing white long radiant capes.
Some pass me by so very gentle and slow
But some pass me by so very fast
And I know with certainty that their
Thrilling antics for too long they won't last.
So I try to enjoy what in front of me I'm so happy to see
'Cause clouds are just so beautiful for me to miss
So I behold them very dear with my eyes
Before they dissolve again and drift away without me.
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Teddy Opundo (7/18/2013 1:37:00 PM)
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BURNABY, British Columbia, June 19 (UPI) -- An elderly man in British Columbia said he is hoping for the recovery of a bicycle, stolen this month, that he used for a trip across Canada in 1985.
Cor Dykstra, 85, was 57 when he biked from his home in Burnaby to visit relatives in Ontario, The Province reported. He told the newspaper he still hopes to get it back.
"It was about freedom. I did it for the joy of it," he said of his trip.
Cpl. Rick Skolrood, a spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said Tuesday Dykstra mounted the bicycle on the wall of his detached garage, where it gave him great happiness, The Vancouver Sun reported.
"Every time he entered his garage and looked at his bicycle proudly mounted on his wall and lovingly kept in pristine condition, he would recall the trip in vivid detail," Skolrood said.
The bicycle was stolen from the garage June 8. A few days later, a police officer in New Westminster saw a bike matching its description but the man on it pedaled away quickly.


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Compared to the healthy subjects, the men with compulsive sexual behavior had higher activity in three regions of the brain when exposed to explicit stimuli. And a greater activation in these regions is linked to reward processing, which has been associated with addiction, says study co-author Marc N. Potenza, Ph.D., M.D. This may explain why hypersexual men showed brain activity that mirrored the way a drug addict's brain responds to drug stimuli.
Researchers also found that hypersexual men reported greater sexual arousal to the explicit visuals but did not necessarily rate them high on the "liking" score. "Something that may be initially more pleasure-driven may over time become more habit-driven and compulsive," explains Potenza. As with other addictions, at a certain point, just because you want something doesn't mean you like it.
Although these new findings help bring us a step closer to understanding sex addiction, they are far from conclusive and do not prove that sex or pornography are addictive in the same way that drugs are. Potenza confirms that many more studies need to be done. After all, it's hard to measure the actual behavioral implications of something like this—it's much easier to monitor brain activity while participants watch a video than it is while they're actually having sex.
And while this study only included male subjects, recent research has found that hypersexuality is just as likely to be a female problem, and the signs are far more similar to hypersexual male behavior than we previously thought. If you suspect you have a problem, here are a few ways to find a good therapist.


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