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In the random department: Check this nasty little thing that surprised my wife last night after opening up a BBQ oyster. After some interneting, we found that they're oyster crabs and are pretty rare and in fact a delicacy... We threw ours away. Nasty lil' bugger.
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Lisa M. Maciolek engaged to Steven L. Bailey
James and Phyllis Bailey of Warwick announce the engagment of their son, Steven Larsen Bailey, to Lisa Marie Maciolek, daughter of John Maciolek of Manahawkin, N.J. and Carol Maciolek of Iselin, N.J.
The bride-to-be is a graduate of Keiser University. She is an occupational therapist.
The groom-to-be is a graduate of Pilgrim High School and Johnson & Wales University. He is a special events manager.
The couple is planning a May 11, 2013 wedding and reception in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. aboard the Floridian Princess yacht.
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The title character of Wreck-It Ralph likes to destroy things, with his catchphrase being "I'm gonna wreck it!" Actor John C. Reilly couldn't be more opposite – his voice performance of Ralph, full of humanity and conflict, builds the movie around him into something even greater than the sum of its many, many video game in-jokes. We caught up with Reilly at a hotel suite that had been decked out like Litwak's Arcade, with free-standing Wreck-It Ralph consoles and a massive, fully edible Sugar Rush diorama based on the movie's primary locale inside a candy-themed racing game.
Nerdist: So this now makes two of my favorite movies of the year that you've been in.
John C. Reilly: Wow!
N: Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie obviously being the other one.
JCR: The two very similar, of course.
N: Both deconstructionist in their ways.
JCR: I suppose so, yeah.
N: Now, it struck me that all the principals in this movie are basically doing really sincere takes on the sort of characters they normally do an ironic twist on. When you were doing it, did you ever feel yourself going in an ironic way and checking yourself?
JCR: Have I played this character in an ironic way before? I don't think so. I feel like, in some ways, this character is really similar to my own personality, more than any other characters, in some ways. Well, there's an innocence to the characters that keeps you from being too knowing, or too smart-assed or whatever you want to call it, because one of the things I think is really attractive thing about all the characters in the whole movie is that – other than Jane Lynch's character, she seems to have a sense of how all the other games work – but my guy has been in this one very limited world for 30 years, and it gives him kind of an innocent quality. So that kind of kept things – the rules of that universe kind of dictated to you from straying too far off of that path, you know.
N: One thing the movie kind of touches on very briefly, but I think could almost go further, is the idea that the villain would be the guy to break free, because heroes don't have free will in video games, they're the ones controlled by the player, but the villains can do what they want.
JCR: Huh, that's a good point!
N: Did that work into your thinking at all?
JCR: Well, I was thinking of it really in a more personal way than so much about the rules of the game. That didn't occur to me that if you're controlled by the player… of course, Felix does leave the game, and then there's just nothing to do at all in the game because the character that you manipulate is not there. But I don't know, I think it would get to be boring to be the hero of the game after a while too, you know. Of course, the hero only really succeeds in a video game if the player plays well, right?
N: Especially in those older '80s games. I was just playing the one in the lobby, and Ralph kills me every time. It seems like in real life Ralph would actually win a whole lot more.
JCR: Yeah, but they wouldn't like him any better.
N: No.
JCR: The Nicelanders would hate him even more.
N: Are you much of a gamer yourself, or are have you ever been?
JCR: This whole term "gamer" is a whole foreign thing to me; we used to call it "Player 1" and "Player 2" when I played video games. (laughs) I don't have a lot of time to play games now; I've got a family and stuff, so I don't do it too much, although I have a few things on the iPad that I occasionally will become distracted by, like Touch Tanks. But it's funny, even the games that I'm drawn to now are really similar in their primitive style as the early games that I played when I was a kid, like Tank Battle on Atari. Simpler looking, but in terms of what the objectives of the game are, it's not all that different than the tank game that I play on the iPad.
N: I've noticed that; The simple games are coming back because you can play them by social media and mobile devices a lot more.
JCR: Yeah, in some ways it requires more imagination or something; you're reading more into it. I mean, some of these games are so complete and so complicated to interact with – there are so many option menus and all these different accessories and stuff that you almost have to… I don't know, as I get older, I'm getting less and less interested in learning entire new rule sets for things that I use.
N: Are your kids at the right age to really appreciate you doing Disney movies, or are they like "Oh, dad, cartoons are lame!"?
JCR: I don't really talk about them. But I will say this about the movie, that it has really broad appeal.
N: Yeah.
JCR: There were a bunch of kids at the movie last night, and it's like a lame kind of press-tour thing to say, but it really is appealing to all different age groups. Because if you're older, you can appreciate the kind of mid-life crisis that the character is going through. If you're younger, you can identify with this little girl character played by Sarah Silverman. Or if you're just kind of into the kinetic world of video games, you find that interesting – I don't know, it seems to be appealing to everybody right now.
N: Also, to get things like the classic Nintendo cheat code, you have to be of a certain age to have known what it was.
JCR: Exactly!
N: In Ralph's self-pursuit of the medal, does that connect in any way to how you felt when you were pursuing the Oscar a few years back?
JCR: (laughs) No. Honestly, I was really honored to be nominated for an Oscar. I know it's a cliché, but I was really honored to be nominated, and I found the whole campaigning part of the thing really uncomfortable. That's one of the reasons I became an actor, because I just didn't have the stomach for the competition of sports. It's just too intense. And I don't believe in turning art into a competitive field. I think first of all, you can't, really. It's like, putting things in categories and having them compete against each other, it is such a subjective kind of decision between things. Yeah, so to answer your question, no, I didn't feel like Ralph chasing the medal when I was nominated for an Oscar, and in fact I don't, I haven't pursued prizes in my life in that kind of way. I think of my biggest competition as myself. I'm trying to get better at what I do and challenging myself. As soon as you start focusing too much on other people, and whether other people are better than you, or you're better than them, you're taking your thoughts out of what you should be focusing on in your work.
N: You've gotten to do so many different things, is there any one thing that you haven't gotten to do yet as an actor that you'd really like to do?
JCR: I don't know, I guess the thing I haven't done yet, whatever that is (laughs). I had a really good time doing Gangs of New York. I think I'm really suited to doing period work; I wish I got more of that. Of course, there isn't all that much period stuff being made these days; It's kind of an expensive, adult-audience kind of movie to make right now, I think. I'd like to do more musicals; that's something I get a lot of satisfaction from. I thought Chicago was great and I thought it was going to usher in a whole new age of movie musicals. Still waiting on those! I don't know what else. Honestly, I said to Rich Moore, the director of this movie (NOTE: check out his Nerdist interview right here), last night, if I could make a living doing just voice over, if I got enough work doing voice over, if it was as collaborative as this process has been for this movie, I would be perfectly happy doing this, just being behind a microphone and doing things, stuff with my voice. Who knows? Maybe if they make a sequel or something, maybe it will be a way to make a living.
N: I'd be amazed if there's not a sequel, frankly.
JCR: Ya think?
N:Everyone I speak to loves this movie, and there's no way Disney's not going to pay attention to that.
JCR: I guess so, yeah. It's funny, I was thinking about it last night, and I watched the movie and I think the movie is great and works really well, but it wasn't one of those movies where I felt like "Oh! And this would be the next chapter in the story!" It seemed like the story kind of settles at the end. I don't know, that's just my first impression.
N: You could also say that about Toy Story, but they made two great sequels to that.
JCR: Yeah, true.
N: So was it a really easy segue for you to just go into a booth and not interact with other actors, or did they record you guys together?
JCR: No, we did it together. That was one of the things I was pushing for hard at the beginning with Rich. You know, I was unsure about even doing the movie at first, because I've been offered other animated stuff, but it just seemed…I don't know, the way other studios do it and stuff, sometimes you don't even see the whole script, they just give you a scene, "Go in and read this page of dialogue, and we'll call you when we need more dialogue." You know, all these other great actors in the movie but you never even meet them until the press junket. It just seemed to me like it didn't sound that fun, it didn't sound fulfilling. But then Rich was like "No, we can do this however we want to do it. Just because that's how other people have done it doesn't mean we that's how we have to do it." So I was like "We should have everyone – if you're talking to someone in a room, you should be able to do that!" You get so much more detail in the communication when you're actually talking to someone, than as opposed to when you're pretending to talk to someone. I mean, you can always tell when you watch a movie, and someone's on a telephone, and you can tell when there's no one on the phone, and the actor's pretending to talk to someone on the phone, because that's a really hard thing to fake, all of the little subtle things you do when you're communicating with someone, especially face-to-face, even more than on the phone. So Rich agreed and we set it up in a way – mostly the reason people don't do it more is because then the voices bleed on top of each other, and you can't isolate takes. You can't say "Oh, I like the way you said that!" But all we did was make these kind of isolation things and adjust the microphones in a certain way, and it worked for us! I hope it catches on, because I think it's a much more fun way to work for actors.
N: It does seem like when I talk to people who do voice over, that that's more and more the way. But another thing I've also heard people say is when you're doing a part of the script where there's a physical action, and obviously with Ralph there's a lot of that, you can't really do the big movements, you have to restrain yourself, so it doesn't make noise in the chair. Was that the case on this, or were you able to move around?
JCR: I moved around a lot, but I'm also, I've been doing it for a while. I've done a lot of ADR, and looping and stuff for movies, so I'm aware – it's no good if you're jostling against the music stand, or whatever. But I did, and even some of the sound effects, I was manipulating my face, and I was putting gum drops in my mouth, or hard candies in my mouth for that scene when I'm interrogating Sour Bill. So I was using all kinds of physical aids to make the sound happen. You can't walk away from the microphone, for instance. If you're running or something, you have to kind of run in place. It's like doing a radio play or something, you can get some of the feeling, if you get hit you go "Ugh!" You can do stuff to your body that will give you that effect.
N: Was it a very different process than when you did 9?
JCR: We did some recording in the room together on 9, but it's funny, it also depends on how interactive the dialogue is. Some of the dialogue in the story of 9 was people talking in kind of soliloquy or interior monologues, or reactions to action happening with no one else around, like "Oh, look out!" You don't necessarily need the other actor there for that. So anyway, it was a much smaller part on that one too, so I remember doing some recording on the same day as Elijah Wood, but it was a different kind of movie.
N: How much of the pre-vis was done when you came in? Obviously Ralph has a similar kind of hairdo to you; it seems like they may have taken some cues. Was he fully formed already?
JCR: No, that was one of the kind of amazing things that I got to experience thanks to Rich allowing me to be part of coming to the studio and I did motion studies for them. I would come in and act out the character and do all these gestures, because the way his physicality is kind of reminded me of some of my uncles and stuff, guys that used to play football that now had big guts. But that was one of the amazing things, was watching the development of the character from the beginning. He went from a one-horned monster at one point, because they were kind of riffing on that gorilla from Donkey Kong, this idea that he could just be this monster that's destroying things. And then it was like a monster with my hair crudely Photoshopped on top of it. And then it took on – there were a lot of different sketches. I really love that about the animation process; it's kind of no-holds barred, it's completely free at the beginning, and they really encourage each other to just go with the wildest ideas they can come up with. But then at a certain point, I had to say, "Rich, I kind of need to know whether I'm playing a human or not." It helps me understand what the character is about if I can understand what his point of view on the world is. It's different if you're a one-horned monster than it is if you're just a big guy.
So there were sketches, and then they got more and more detailed, then they got more consistent, and then eventually, pretty much half-way through the process you start seeing short, crudely animated little sequences. But for the most part, the sessions would start, I'd come in, and Rich would have storyboards printed out on these big pieces of paper, and he would go through and say "And then this happens, and then this happens, and then we open up to this." All beforehand, so that we knew when we were doing the dialogue, we were like "All right, this is that part."
N: Last question: Step Brothers was so good. Can we persuade you to do any more writing?
JCR: Well, I did get kind of a writing credit on this movie. I mean, they gave me "Additional Story Material By" because I was doing all of this improvising and coming in and giving them my thoughts about the story. I'd love to do more writing! That was one of the funnest times I've ever had, working on Step Brothers, getting to toss around all those stories. Yeah, we'll see. There was talk of a sequel to that one at one point. We'll see.
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BROWNS VALLEY, Calif. — When it comes to managing cattle and rangelands in severe drought, timing is everything.
When to wean the calves and trim the herd, when to irrigate and when to pull cattle off the range are all crucial considerations as ranchers try to weather the dry conditions, University of California experts said during a Jan. 29 workshop here.
Supplemental feed alone won't sustain an operation in the long run, so ranchers should be planning now for how they manage their grasslands for next fall and winter, the UC Cooperative Extension advisors explained.
"Number one, never try to feed yourself out of a drought," said Roger Ingram, a farm advisor in Placer and Nevada counties. "It can bankrupt you financially and … it can bankrupt you ecologically.
"Right now you might be in emergency and triage mode, but at a different time of year when it's raining, it's time to sit down and come up with a drought plan," he said.
Younger cow-calf operators should seek advice from those who made it through the last catastrophic drought in the mid-1970s, said Glenn Nader, who works with growers in Yuba, Sutter and Butte counties.
"I've got ranchers I've been talking to for 10 years … (saying) 'I can't afford to make a mistake,'" Nader said.
Hundreds of ranchers attended the day-long workshop at the UC's Sierra Foothill Research and Extension Center, which was streamed online and shown at remote venues in Mariposa, Hopland, San Luis Obispo, Bakersfield and Ventura.
The workshop came as a recent statewide UC survey found that more than one-third of California ranchers expect devastating impacts to their operations if drought conditions persist. One rancher in Mariposa County has already sold off half his cow herd to afford feeding the rest, and sheep producers are concerned that lambs won't have enough green grass to attain spring market weight, according to UC news releases.
A light rain fell outside as speakers at the research center discussed supplementing with alternative protein and roughage, managing animal health, making culling decisions and other measures to help ranchers stay in business through what is becoming one of the worst droughts in the state's history.
Among their advice to ranchers:
• Consider weaning early to boost cows' efficiency. A cow that stops feeding sees a spike in energy to prepare for the next calving season, explained Red Bluff livestock advisor Josh Davy.
• Producers with limited water should remember that irrigated pasture is thirstiest during the summer and not as much in the fall, Redding advisor Larry Forero said. He noted that one irrigation district plans to forgo October irrigation this year and send the water in April and May instead.
"Don't try to half-irrigate 100 acres — fully irrigate 50," he said. "And if you get to the point where you have to have some dry ground, leave a little stubble because it'll help you in the fall."
• Know when to trim the herd. The earlier you do, the more feed is available for the rest of the herd, Ingram said. Ranchers may be selling into a better market than when everyone else is culling, and the money may prevent the need for a further reduction, he said.
"If you're raising breeding animals, there's going to be a general reluctance to get rid of that genetic base," he said. "But that's something to think about."
• Don't let the animals over-graze whatever grass is available. Growth of grass is slow in drought, so the range will need more rest between feedings, Ingram said. And keeping some dry matter on the hillside will prevent erosion, maintain soil health and enable the range to gather water when it does rain, he said.
UC Sierra Foothill Research and Extension Center: http://ucanr.edu/sites/sfrec/


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Project H (2009)
The International Relations Round Table (IRRT) is planning to celebrate the 60th anniversary of its founding in 1949 with many special programs and activities during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago 2009. Central to this celebration will be a commemorative booklet with the IRRT history, photos from various programs and activities, special messages from past chairs and notable international librarians and sponsorship ads to raise funds to support an IRRT endowment, scholarships, and international speakers fro the programs. This booklet will be distributed at the Chairs program and International Reception at ALA Annual in Chicago.
1. Nadejda Iotova 2. Rachael Duffin DiEleuterio 3. Zola Maddison 4. Sara Thompson
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Lincoln – University of Nebraska men's basketball coach Tim Miles announced Tuesday afternoon that senior forward Leslee Smith has suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his left knee. The injury was discovered during an MRI examination earlier today in Lincoln.
Smith will be out indefinitely, as Miles, men's basketball athletic trainer R.J. Pietig and the Husker medical staff are currently in the process of developing a timeframe for his surgery and rehabilitation. This is the second time that Smith as torn an ACL, as he tore the ACL in his right knee in March of 2011 when he played at SMU.
Smith, a 6-foot-8 forward from Longlook, British Virgin Islands, suffered the injury on July 3 playing for the British Virgin Islands at the FIBA Caribbean Basketball Championships in Tortola, British Virgin Islands. The injury occurred in the first half of an 89-60 loss to the Virgin Islands.
Smith, who averaged 7.6 points and 4.3 rebounds per game despite playing just eight minutes in Thursday's loss before the injury. Prior to the injury, the British Virgin Islands was 2-0 in tournament action, but went winless after Smith's injury and placed fourth.
As a junior, Smith played in all 32 games for the Huskers, averaging 5.4 points on 52 percent shooting and 4.8 rebounds per game as the Huskers' first post player off the bench. He was third on the team in rebounding and second in both steals (29) and blocked shots (20). Smith led the Huskers with three double-doubles and had five games with at least 10 rebounds in his first season at Nebraska, as the Huskers went 19-13 on the season and reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1998.


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Our readers respond to Saletan's changes of heart.
Ballot Box has been especially busy keeping up with Bush's major policy statements: the NYT op-ed, the speech on Ellis Island, and the address to the U.N. Put all that into the Ballot Box Fray, where it runs into the boisterous background of party-bashing, political news flashes and polls (Q: Will there be a vote in the Senate on war with Iraq?), and it can be hard Fraying. As usual, a time-constrained reader can simply View Fray Editor's Picks (there are a passel) or go to any of the selections below. ...
I. More government by op-ed: The Bell started perhaps the best Op-Ed thread here. Arrow read the piece as legitimate strategic thinking here:
Saletan is probably correct that the one thing of importance in "Bush"'s essay is the addition of delivery capability to the criteria for pre-emptive military action. It suggests that the suitcase theory enunciated by Cheney and company is being given a well-deserved burial.
In contrast, Lee saw Bush becoming Clinton here:
Slowly, the president is expanding the appeal of his desire to invade Iraq. He's trying to push everybody's buttons by telling them Saddam threatens something they cherish. Shades of Bill Clinton!
So, is he reaching out, or grasping at straws? Will he resort to humanistic, liberal ideas to justify toppling Saddam? Keep in mind that he snubbed his conservative/free market/libertarian friends with his action on steel tariffs. He could just as easily get all weepy & liberal if he thinks it would gain him the support he needs to whack Saddam.
Matt continued the rights discussion here.
II. Islands of influence: Walt was one of the few to single out the Ellis Island speech for scrutiny here:
Saletan has a very curious take:"Bin Laden won't get the showdown he sought between Islam and Christianity." Let's hope not. But the Bush administration, by pounding the invade-Iraq war drum, seems to be attempting to precipitate exactly that. If we invade Iraq over the objections of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, etc. won't we be instigating such a showdown?
Of course, this was before the UN speech, and Bush's newfound multilateralism.
III. U.N.-expected: After Bush's speech to the U.N., Saletan made essentially John's argument below (see Tuesday's Fraywatch). The Slasher made it, too, but with the rhetoric ratcheted up here:
The Bush administration has developed what might be termed a "mad dog" approach to governance. Its initial approach to everything is so extreme that it horrifies everyone, but it digs in and defends it until it's obvious that nobody is buying this, so then it scales back to a more reasonable position and acts as if it were "working with" those who called its bluff. My grandson, who is 6, does this too. However, we do not let him run the country just yet.
(Contrast this with Doubter's thread on "manufacturing consent" here or Lee's point above.)
More U.N.-expected was the chorus of support for Bush's speech from both sides of the aisle in Ballot Box. Loran explained how he and Saletan had reached the same conclusion here:
Like Saletan, I keep asking why Iraq, why now, though? But I know the answer and so does he. While compared to historical precedent, a pre-emptive attack does seem to beg more motivation, it is clear that we can't do business with Saddam. It's not the terrorist nuclear threat supplied by him that worries us, it's the theatre nuclear threat that would stymie large troop concentrations in an area of vital oil supply.
Still More UN-expected was the chorus of support forClinton's appearance on Letterman. You can find pieces of it in Ballot Box (here) or Television (here) or you can go to the best discussion, the one begun by Adam Masin in the Best of The Fray Fray here …
Haole rollers: The post-Blue Crush sociologizing turned into tourists vs. locals after Ender started this thread. His upshot?
Sorry if I don't buy into the idea that life is somehow harder in paradise. The problem as I see it, paradise is not hard enough on the locals.
K House spoke for those trapped in paradise here:
You appear to have this idea of all of Hawaii being paradise, and paradise being too good to the locals, and the money obviously flowing in to the economy because you spent some cash. But, just like the movie and all other movies about Hawaii, you have a false impression about the place. There's an interior to the island that's hidden from the tourists that would stun you. ...
Common law and order: The Dear Prudence letter that generated the most response by far was In a Quandary's. (She wondered what to call hersignificant other.) Prudie had no definitive answer, so Gamebird offered one here.
What I sometimes do, rude though it is, is simply call them husband and wife. After all, they are living together, they are having sex in a committed and exclusive relationship, they are common law married in many states.
It annoys the heck out of the people involved though and I tend not to do it if I care about their feelings. However, I tend not to care about their feelings if they are unwilling to commit to the person they are shagging. After all, I'm lower on the totem pole than their sex buddy. ...
(If you think that's harsh, try this one or this.) Doodahman, in his weekly "two cents" noted sagely that "the words 'common law' have the same effect on the word 'wife' that 'special' has on the word 'Olympics.'
DP always has several sui-generis threads at least as rewarding as the letters in the column. Stunned's boyfriendforgot her name here. ...
Discussting: After several eminently sensible complaints, the Discuss button at the top of the Slate home page has been re-linked to the general Fray Topics page ... 12:45 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002
Nice threads: In the Politics Fray's discussion of the Brookings fellows' proposed ultimatum to Saddam, Cato the Censor started an excellent discussion here. His basic point?
The administration has purposely engaged in sending out mixed messages, as the hawks and doves have seemingly been battling out their differences in public. I think that the administration long ago decided that we would go to war with Iraq. They are also smart enough to know that there would be an almost universal outcry against a perceived pre-emptive strike. Therefore, they began ratcheting up the pressure with ever-increasing hints of war, as well as obvious preparation for war. However, wishing to appear flexible and responsive to domestic and international concerns, the administration first backed off its decision that it was unnecessary to consult Congress. Next, it will give Iraq and the UN one last chance to avoid war.
This is a brilliant tactic. We will wage war, yet the administration will have looked like it grudgingly gave peace one last effort.
John, on the other hand, saw the call for inspections as the surest way to war and the current administration warmongering as the best way to avoid it here:
If you want to start a war, one that might be legitimized by a vote at the U.N., the United States should issue the ultimatum that these authors have in mind. But what if what you really want are truly unfettered U.N. inspections? Here's what you do:
1. Put the evil and arrogant U.S. on a war footing
2. Have the evil and arrogant U.S. declare that further inspections would be meaningless (but reveal some apparent internal dissension on the point to keep the idea of inspections alive)
3. Have the U.N. negotiate with Hussein to allow inspections to resume, with the understanding that the U.S. is chomping at the bit to attack and will do so at the first sign that the inspections are being hampered in any way.
Hussein might actually agree to such inspections because he wouldn't look to the Arab world like he is fearfully caving in to the Great Satan (and he knows that the U.S. would never attack if the inspectors are given a chance to do their jobs) … 10:50 a.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2002
The Anti-Chatterbox?: The Dismal Science Fray is teeny tiny, but usually smart. In the great deflation debate (following Robert Shapiro's piece), Reasonable Rick asks a good question (and I don't know that the answers he's gotten are right): What about the money supply?
Baltimore Aureole may not be as interested in technical questions as Phil from California (all I can say about his post is "Huh?"), but offers the following nugget:
Dell has been, and still appears to be, successful. but if you actually examine their PC offerings, on a product by product basis, you invariably find them priced $200 more than the competition for similar features. How long can this consumer knowledge deficit last? I would have expected this to have run its course already, so obviously I don't have the answer. however, I do have a Sony PC which has better features and a lower price than Dell. Maybe the next Dell commercial should feature that teenager telling us: "Hey Dude, you're getting hosed!" 7:35 p.m.
Quick Checks: The Chatterbox Fray is legendarily unreadable. This is a shame when the article is meaty and contentious. People who wish to discuss the "moral equivalent of the war on terror" should look for my checks (click here to select View Fray Editor's Picks). They may soon be well off the front page, but the dozen or so checked posts should provide anyone with a way into serious discussion. Lee's post here is one of the best posts I have ever read in the Chatterbox Fray.
Piney's post here explained the Explainer; it's another place to debate the administration's conduct of the war on terrorism … 6:40 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 9, 2002
Chain ganging up: The Food Fray responded to Sara Dickerman's review of upscale chain restaurants with Loved it!/Hated it! posts. Hordes of dissatisfiedchain customers weighed in with their disses. Godels-Yodel pronounced Olive Garden "crapitaliano," Stacy called chain proliferation "Irvine-a-sation," and Jerry snarked that it is appropriate that chains rule the Zagat in largely Republican Orange County. The chains "are quite representative of Republican taste—insipid and full of empty calories." Is this all part of mindless suburbanization, as Dragonfly laments?:
Municipal planners pay a lot of lip service to creating vibrant, exciting towns and then they just give us the same blah shopping and eating choices the that next suburb has. Why should our food be any different?
Things always become more interesting when Fraysters offer unprovable speculations like this. (Or when they discuss blubber.) European Amateur Gourmet Chef bashed the American palate here:
The problem, ultimately, is that the clientele has no taste. For the most part, Americans systematically and willfully suppress their ability to taste food.
How the hell can people not taste the difference between margarine and butter? How can they not even notice the noxious flavors of artificial food colorings? I have no answers, but the fact remains that most people here do not really taste these things.
Unfortunately it all boils down to supply and demand. If you demand crap that's what will be supplied to you.
Rick offered a gendered theory of chain enjoyment, that Real Men Don't Eat Cheesecake, here.
Fragat? Many Fraysters offered helpful dining guides as a way to avoid the chains if you find yourself on the road: Bunny for Dickerman's own Seattle, Chismo for Lancaster, Pa., babelle for the Gulf Coast, Joe for Westchester County, N.Y., In defense for Raleigh, N.C.; linda offered an escape from Orange County.
Instead of pointing us toward independent restaurants, Rachel turned Dickerman's review to the Dark Side, which happens to be pro-labor:
[M]ost restaurants that pay any attention to reviews will be all over their servers after reading this—it was how good the servers were that affected her enjoyment of each restaurant, regardless of how good/bad the food was. My note to those managers—treat your waitstaff well and they won't fail you.
A Fray Mystery: Dickerman was roundly criticized for preferring Olive Garden cheesecake to Cheesecake Factory cheesecake, because, as The Fray pointed out here, here, here, and here, the Cheesecake Factory makes Olive Garden's cheesecakes. How does the Fray Editor know? Because last month the Cheesecake Factory supplied some listeria-laced cakes to the Olive Garden before recalling them. Darden, the company that owns Olive Garden, subsequently stopped selling Cheesecake Factory products (for a while?). So, did Dickerman eat a Cheesecake Factory cheesecake or not? Stop back. (Not that this much matters—Olive Garden may stipulate that Cheesecake Factory use a different, better recipe for its cakes.)
More Fray Intelligence: There were pseudo-reliable reports of OG canned sauces here, here, here—each one with the plausibility of an urban legend, like the reports that Sara Lee or Little Debbie (twice) makes Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes [we know CF has its own Calabasas, Calif. plant because that's where the recalled cakes came from] or that Chun King makes their Asian-style foods. Don't stop back for more on this shadow outsourcing.
Bigger, Fatter, Deader: Evil Reviewers Must Die is upset (to say the least) that DavidEdelsteinspilled the beans about "the fat partner's" death in City by the Sea:
Why do reviewers do this? My only explanation is that they think their review of the movie is more important than the movie itself. Well guess what—it's NOT!
But in The Fray, no good whine goes unpunished. Fenfen kicked back, hard:
Ah, so please tell me why this bothers you … Sure, a movie like "The Crying Game" involves a sudden plot twist, revelation of which would spoil something the moviemaker is explicitly using to achieve one of the movie's objectives. But whether someone dies along the way in a Terminator movie, or a movie about a murderer, hardly seems to be connected to the overall success either of the movie or of one's enjoyment in watching it. Besides, who in god's name watches a movie to watch a PLOT unfold? Only teenagers could possibly fail to notice that movie plot novelties are nearly as rare as a visit from Halley's Comet.
I hope more Fraysters take sides in the narrative vs. spectacle debate here. What are you watching movies for?
(One point to ponder: was the movie made to be watched at all? It is a Franchise Picture [Warner Bros. distributed], and the skinny on that shingle's production slate is that by preselling foreign rights, a movie that nobody likes but its star [Battlefield Earth, anyone?] can be profitable—for Franchise honcho Elie Samaha.)
Also check out AdamMorgan's cavil about Edelstein riding the big, fat, summer sleeper bandwagon. 12:30 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 7, 2002
Weekend Bar-b-que: In the Television Fray, Elbo Ruum expected to get flamed for "not giving a s---" about 9/11, but got only support (so far).
In her blog on 9/11 televisionVirginiaHeffernan noted early on that "I haven't met anyone with full-blown Viewer Dread, however, and I suspect the dread actually belongs more to programmers than to viewers." Well, several Fraysters have it, and plan to turn off and tune out (or play golf). Not even going to work as usual can help Kendra:
Full-blown viewer dread? I have it. I am also very, very angry at the hyping and hawking of everything from 9/11/01 superimposed over an American flag pin (my office which has seven offices here and in Europe has paid some jeweler to make these pins for distribution throughout the firm, accompanied by a "message" from the chairman of the firm reminding us what the REAL 9/11 was all about and instructing us to wear our pins in solidarity on the great day). My office in D.C. has planned an action packed day of festivities urging all employees to wear red, white and blue for the day. A special breakfast will be served featuring red, white and blue bagels. There will be moments of silence, a trip to an Episcopal church within walking distance of our office and two TV sets will carry all of our fondest memories brought to us by courtesy of ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and C-Span. Our managing partner will also explain to us what the REAL meaning of 9/11 is.
I can't bear to think about the bagels. On to the TV. Demi Moaned questioned the facile theodicy of PBS's "Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero":
The subtext that God's existence is entirely compatible with the abject poverty, disease and crime that are the ordinary living conditions of more than a billion people, but somehow comes into doubt when a few thousand Americans die a relatively quick death after lives of comparative comfort is too childishly self-centered to be of the slightest interest intellectually or spiritually.
But is this an attack on the theology or the psychology of trauma, which grants victims the reality of their experiences in order to help them move on? Or is it an attack on theology for becoming an extended arm of psychology? See the whole post and decide ...
Rudy boys update: The Assessment Fray is heating up now that Suellentrop's look at Rudy Giuliani out of office is featured on MSN ... 8:20 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 6, 2002
Rudy can't fail: Chris Suellentrop's Assessmentlamented Rudy Giuliani's absence from the political stage. The Fray is small (thus far) but the early posts are very good, claiming Giuliani either has no expertise to contribute to public debate, has no obligation to contribute it, or both. (Find a selection at the bottom of the article.) Geoff's offered a sarcastic Invocation to St. Rudy:
Blessed Saint Rudy, Patron of Disasters, please, rain your wisdom down upon the United States of America, in this, our hour of darkness and shield us with your stoic benevolence.
I have another hypothesis, which I prefer to Suellentrop's ideal of the recalcitrant Messiah … Giuliani might be silent on burning political issues out of deference to the old maxim, "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent", and we'll hear from him if and when he feels like he has something to say.
Where's that old maxim come from, you ask? Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Tractatus. And now you know … the rest … of the story… 8:30 p.m.
Update: A guy named Joe (see below): Joe isjoe. Different computers, same poster. Thanks for letting me know, Joe. Beverly Mann thinks he deserves a star. I think she's right! He should bring both computers to the Best of the Fray Fray for adornment.
Gridlock Update: No Hedges in Culturebox today. Still, it will be confusing in The Fray this weekend. 4:22 p.m.
Gridlock Alert: Culturebox is a general department and it will be quite busy over the weekend. Expect to see posters discussing at least three different articles in The Fray, in addition to their own topics. We have The Complete Idiot's Guide to Iraq, 9/11 poetry and Chris Hedges' War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning.
Nice Threads—Pinstripes? With Steve Chapman's free-market prescription for baseball on MSN.com, it may become harder to find good sports Fray for a while (as happened yesterday with Prudie). But there are excellent posts to be read and answered (look for my picks). Joe started a great discussion of Yankee greed vs. Yankee ingenuity with this:
[T]his is a national pastime, right? Bunching all the teams around a few major hubs isn't exactly an ideal solution … How fun is a game in which a few locations always win and don't have challenging opponents? The current solution, though flawed (money is after all not guaranteed to be spent on players, etc.), helps ... [T]eams like the Yanks are encouraged not to be greedy and smaller market teams get that little bit of money that some need to get over the hump.
Five teams in NYC doesn't seem to be a great alternative in my eyes.
Tim Lowell argued the real economic issue wasn't Socialism vs. Capitalism, but anti-trust protected owners. Then again, Herb Garcia finds the laissez-jouer alternative is no great shakes:
This article is a cry for the bad old future where teams blackmail communities for stadium welfare. "Build us a stadium with a retractable roof, short-term lease and control of all revenue streams or we will move to Newark. No one can stop us!" 12:15 p.m.
Liberty vs. Security: Dahlia Lithwick's effort to find a new calculus to solve the problem of civil liberties in the war on terror brought out the usual Jurisprudence Fray suspects and their usually fine responses. joe (not to be confused with Joe above) took issue with "Lithwick's solution": "Civil liberties may not be suspended unless some principled government objective is articulated and the proposed measure is carefully tailed to meet that objective."
What does this mean exactly? Let's say Ashcroft says the gov't objective is to stop another attack on U.S. soil, and that they have evidence of a "dirty bomber." This is a "principled gov't objective, no?" Carefully tailored? …
We might hate Ashcroft's principles, but he has them ... it is the principles, not just narrowly tailoring (whatever that means in this case) that is at the heart of the matter.
While I am not a big fan of posting articles in The Fray, Beverly Mann has shown a real touch for following up Lithwick's Jurisprudence articles with subsequent news pieces (e.g., the FISA courts). Here she asks a constitutionality question that turns into a terrific thread (but gets no answer), and here she is being trenchant:
Neither Lincoln nor Franklin Roosevelt, the two presidents whose names are invoked in defense of Ashcroft's (and by rubber-stamp, Bush's) designs, was an anti-libertarian opportunistically seizing upon a national security threat to impose his skewed personal vision of an ordered society. Ashcroft and Bush both are … 10:50 a.m.
Op-Ed Ops: Michael Kinsley's Readme always brings out strong posts. His discussion of Colin Powell's loyalty was no exception. In one thread, Ex-fed accusedKinsley of succumbing to what Slate's Jack Shafer has called "the fog of journalism."
I have ceased to be amazed at how journalists' standards and tradecraft abandon them when the subject touches upon journalism itself. So you speculate that Colin Powell is leaking to "small audiences of reliably discreet journalists"? And you, a well-connected journalist, are content to leave it at that? …
Why the lack of curiosity here? Powell has bought himself immunity by leaking. Journalists are co-opted and bought off by receiving "privileged" information …
Zathras repliedthat Powell may be playing other, more important games—like doing his job.
Powell could be talking to State Department subordinates who then talk to the press on background. He could be talking to his opposite numbers in foreign governments, who then talk to American reporters, normally also on background. He could also be talking to Scowcroft, Eagleburger, and one or more members of Congress, who can use information thus obtained to support views they already hold.
Powell also can and has been quoted directly in public fora saying things that can be interpreted in more than one way. Is he a "closet dove," to use the old Vietnam-era phrase, or is he merely projecting that image to help him better do his job of relating to foreign governments put off by President Bush's conduct of foreign policy? Or, are reporters and commentators interpreting Powell's remarks in the context of what they would like to think he believes?
All three of these possibilities could be true at once …
Both posts are longer and worth reading in full. Other good posts (excerpted at the end of the article) seek to divine the intentions of "the holy rock."
Readme again: Ender, who is often (usually?) right about these things, claims that this is Kinsley's "first anti-war with Iraq" piece here.
Workflow: Thursday and Friday this week are loaded with new Slatecontent, guaranteed to exercise The Fray. Stop back for more snapshots ... 8:55 a.m.
Thursday, Sept. 5, 2002
Fat or Phat?: Today's Dear Prudence column—specifically the letter from "Up In Arms," the friend of the "portly" woman in tight clothes—went on msn.com. The Fray became unreadable—filled with vulgar spamming and then irrelevant political invective. I cleaned out the worst on more than one occasion, but things may get bad again …
Readers(new ones or regulars) who want to see the Prudie Fray in its more usual form should try clicking back to a solid early thread here or select "View Fray Editor's Picks." Julia offered this advice from the how-to-lose-friends-and-alienate-people school: "Up [the letter writer—J.D.] needs to tell these mutual 'friends' to shut up. I would never allow someone to ridicule my friend like that. If they say, 'Why don't you tell her how terrible she looks?,' I'd say, 'For the same reason I never told you what a snotty person you are sometimes.'" You go girl!!!! (Can I say that?)
Common thread: tell your friend by taking her shopping (not, say, over lunch).
Whatever thoughtful posters thought about telling the hefty friend, they were of one mind that the real problem is the recent triple-digit weight gain. GimmeCoffee: "It really takes hard work to gain 130 pounds and keep it on. Is she desperately unhappy? What's going on with her?"
(Before the Prudie deluge, there was an actual adult discussion [for adults] here.) ... 9:45 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2002
There goes the blogosphere: With Andrew Sullivan's and KurtAndersen's discussion of blogging now on MSN.com, expect oodles of "will these guys please get a life?" posts (here is a good version of that). New readers can click on "View Fray Editor's Picks" from the main Webhead Fray page to get a more filtered view if things look out of hand.
When a Fray gets several hundred posts in a day (as this one still might), good ones sometimes get lost. I'm glad I caught Stigmata's piercing entry here, which ends:
Most blogs I have read are train wrecks. Who knew that there were about 300,000 Anna Nicole Smiths on the Internet long before her tragic show?
There is a reason those little diaries had locks on them.
Can a Frayster get some help?The International Papers Fray is usually a smallish and manageable discussion of a particular event with a little "other international stuff" thrown in (like a junior varsity Today's Papers Fray). Here is a typical instance: Deej was confused by the furor over the Israeli policy that forced a suicide bomber's relatives to move to Gaza. "Isn't helping criminals illegal? It obviously is in our society and I bet it is there as well, to some degree. If this is true, then why is the deportation an issue?" Ruf Ruf then offered a political reason not to "relocate": "Those who aid and abet terrorists should be punished. So lock them in jail. Don't send them to Gaza where, as cramped and awful as it may be, they will be treated as heroes." (The last graf of the longer post is even better.) But there is still no definitive answer as to why sewing explosive belts doesn't fall under the law of accomplices but needs a new juridical regime. Anyone?
(Even though International Papers' author June Thomas is simply summarizing coverage, Jamie concluded that she is "not pro-Israel;" Echoes reached the opposite conclusion.)
Coin of the realm: In contrast to International Papers, the Moneybox Fray can be very hard to read, especially when there are several articles in quick succession. Discussions pile into one another, and there is no real "feel" to the board. Little of that has happened with Daniel Gross' article on Warren Buffett's "vulture capitalism"—mainly because The Fray doesn't seem surprised. Both pumper's post here and Jim J.O'Brien's here note that Buffett's investing bible, Graham & Dodd's classic Security Analysis, is a "vulture" capitalist's how-to. In a new take on old news, though, Todd Childers offers an numismatical artist's perspective on why the Ohio state quarter is so bad here.
Nice threads: White Rabbit was kind enough to group all the 9/11 anniversary poems together here, per Tempo's request. 11:35 p.m.
The Long Knives: As expected, longtime Fraysters are after Robert Wright, although several have taken a vow to wait and see. The Earthling Fray is very busy, and I will strive to keep it navigable.
Yesterday, JTF cannily predicted that "Wright will argue that the technology of Bio warfare is THE PROBLEM and he will argue that this warfare can ONLY be addressed through a rigorous inspections regime applied to all nations, gutting thereby our national sovereignty." He then quoted Wright:
"My concern was—and is—about what may be the scariest trend in the world: Thanks to technological evolution, man-in-the-street rage, even if it doesn't assume regime-toppling form, is increasingly lethal. Very small groups of people—including groups of one—can take a real toll on the national psyche."
Compared with Wright's pithier formulation in today's entry, is this, as JTF says, a rehash? Or is it someone with a big idea, trying to make the case for it? And just because it's old news to JTF, it isn't old news to everyone (yet).
John McG struck a blow for the Enlightenment when he argued that communications technologies moderate passions as they free individuals:
I disagree with Wright's assertion that advances in telecommunications can only serve to help terrorism.
Part of the reasons why the bin Laden video is so effective is that it's the only show in town. If the only picture disgruntled Islams get of Americans or Jews is what bin Laden shows them, then it's going to be quite powerful.
If, on the other hand, they see other pictures of Americans, even through silly pop culture like Britney Spears and "Friends," they'll have a different picture of us, and probably be less likely to blow us up.
Think of American attitudes towards Muslims, and how they've evolved as we've been exposed towards more and more representatives of Muslim countries. We are moved by the suffering of Iraqi children, and identify with the plight of the Palestinians. This doesn't mean we want to keep Hussein around or get rid of Israel, but we're not anxious to hurt a large number of Middle Eastern civilians either.
Wright might answer that the personalization of the modern media makes it less likely that it will be a moderating influence. I think that was the point of his Fox News paragraph— people will continue to watch the bin Laden videos even when alternatives are available. Thus, they will not be exposed to more moderate pictures of Americans.
Our experience here hasn't show that to be the case here in the US. Even those who are completely for a war against Iraq have been exposed to arguments against it. When there are alternatives available, the echo chamber gets boring rather quickly, and people take a peak at what else is out there. And there's quite a lot out there.
I think this is one of the reasons we're attacked. The spread of American culture will make it ever more difficult to demonize us, or any population. The totalitarian regimes are losing their grip, and they know it. 1:10 p.m.
Retraction Retracted: The Webhead Fray, in which I promised blog-induced fireworks, was no Grucci extravaganza. I was prepared to resort to anecdotes about my mother (who likes Andrew Sullivan enough that she wishes he were her neighbor). But Sarvis came along like a Roman candle:
What's Kaus going to do if the NY Times cleans up its act? He has defined himself as neither smart nor interesting and has become simply another smarmy obsessed cherry-picker.
This reveals the biggest danger of blogs—and the biggest bore—is that they become narrow little personal vendetta-graphs where the writer crawls up his own b------- to send daily personalized nasty-grams out into the ether.
At some point, the blog stops being about the writer's reflections or breaking news and simply becomes a venue for David wannabees to hurl stones at the Goliath du jour; which is exactly what the Fray is for us who lack the structure or name recognition to get our own blogs.
Which raises the central paradox: when a blog like Kaus gets big enough to get noticed by the Goliath in question, it comes under the same pressures and standards as its intended target. So, ironically, the only good blog is a irrelevant one.
Of course, I disagree about "neither smart nor interesting," but the last graf, with its intimations of Mannheim's free-floating intellectuals, is so nifty (too nifty?) I had to grab it.


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…each hemisphere of the brain exercises free will independently when surgeons cut the corpus callosum. Gazzaniga discovered this with a simple experiment. When he flashed the word "WALK" in the right hemisphere of split-brain patients they walked out of the room. But when he asked them why they walked out all responded with a trivial remark such as, "To go to the bathroom" or "To get a Coke." Here's where things got weird. When he flashed a chicken in patients' left hemisphere in the right visual field and a wintry scene in their right hemisphere in the left visual field, and asked them to select a picture that goes with what they saw, he found that their left hand correctly pointed to a snow shovel and their right hand correctly pointed to a chicken. However, when the patients were asked to explain why they pointed at the pictures they responded with something like, "That's easy. The shovel is for cleaning up the chicken."
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The adage "time is money" is painfully true when you are watching the dollars tick by as you rebuild a vital desktop or server. The fastest way to resurrect a PC after a virus infection, botched software upgrade or hard-drive failure is to use system back-up and recovery software that takes a snapshot of an entire partition and which can be restored in minutes.
The ability to make back-ups of the operating system partition without restarting Windows is a key advantage of PowerQuest's drive imaging technology over competitor Symantec. An acquisition saw PowerQuest's drive imaging technology incorporated into Symantec's Norton Ghost - i.e. PowerQuest's Drive Image 7 was rebadged as Norton Ghost 9.0.
Just to confuse things, Ghost 9.0 is a consumer product replacing Ghost 2003 (not Ghost 8.0, Symantec's enterprise application). Features have been lost as well as gained. Like 2003, 9.0 supports all FAT, NTFS and Linux EXT2/3 file systems and it can compress a partition to a single or multiple files on local and network drives and removable media. It can also restore from Ghost 2003 and Drive Image 7 back-ups.
The key advantages of 9.0 over 2003 are hot back-ups, incremental back-ups, the ability to mount back-ups as readonly drives and the ability to restore to a different-sized partition. Creating a back-up while still in Windows results in a significant performance hit, which users may not appreciate during peak times, but 9.0 can be scheduled to run at a more opportune time.
It can also make incremental backups based on a full back-up base line, meaning shorter back-up times and saving significant disk space for institutions such as the Upgrade Research Lab that keeps several previous versions. Users can choose to restore the entire system or specific files or folders.
Symantec's Norton Ghost 9.0 sells for $149.95. For details call 1800 680 026 or visit symantec.com.au
On the case
The Targus Citygear TCG417 notebook case is designed to protect notebooks sporting up to 17-inch screens. It is made of hard-wearing ballistic nylon and has extra protection around heavy wear areas. All pockets are zippered for easy access and there is a water-bottle pocket plus removable pouches for ancillaries such as mobile phones and a removable eight-disc CD/DVD sleeve.
Apart from the cushioned notebook compartment, the Citygear TCG417 also has a compartment that includes two divided file sections, a front workstation to organise accessories and valuables and a front zippered pocket for access to airline tickets, passports and the like.
Targus Citygear TCG417 notebook case sells for $119.95. For details call 1800 641 645 or visit targus.com/au
Time to ACT
ACT! 7.0 contact management software allows small businesses and corporate workgroups to track, manage and control their customer contacts.
ACT! 7.0 has been designed for teams of up to nine people and allows users to manage up to 50,000 contacts at a time. ACT! 7.0 for Workgroups has been designed for teams of multiple users that need to share customer data and manage sales opportunities in a secure networked environment. It allows workgroups to collectively manage up to 100,000 contacts at a time.
ACT! 7.0 has been rewritten on Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 database to support the collaboration and network security requirements of larger workgroups. The move from a flat-file to a relational database has also enhanced ACT!'s synchronisation capabilities and users no longer have to stop working to synchronise their files.
ACT! 7.0 is $299 and ACT! 7.0 for Workgroups is $499. For details visit actsoftware.com.au
Blue skies
The BlueSecure Server platform is a wireless LAN monitoring and intrusion protection system providing administrators with a management interface for 24x7 tracking of their wireless network. Blue- Secure Server is vendor-independent and can monitor and respond to events including all user activities, neighbouring wireless LANs and congested, rogue or unauthorised access points. It can also spot outside threats posed by "war driving" and use advanced correlation to detect wireless attacks.
BlueSecure Server works with the BlueSecure RF Sensor, a purpose-built radio frequency device to monitor devices using 802.11 b/a/g. One sensor monitors an area covered by six access points.
BlueSecure Server is $5555 and BlueSecure RF Sensors, $1361. For details call distributor Integrity Data Systems on 1300 131 000 or visit www.bluesocket.com
Nothing but net
NetSuite is a group of application service provider products built for small to medium businesses, hosted in a Telstra datacentre and accessed via the internet. It incorporates NetCRM, NetERP and NetCommerce.
NetSuite Small Business is also available for organisations with up to five employees; it includes integrated accounting, sales, website and inventory management applications and runs on a single Oracle database.
Users can also turn their website into a direct sales channel with the included secure credit card gateway.
NetSuite Small Business includes a data migration wizard for companies outgrowing accounting packages.
NetSuite Small Business sells for $169 a month. For details call 1300 738 879 or visit netsuite.com.au


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A downloadable PDF file of the groundwater productivity map (Adobe Acrobat PDF 4.05 MB)
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Sterapred DS: Oral tablet
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How This Drug Works
Corticosteroids provide anti-inflammatory relief by helping the body make proteins that decrease inflammatory chemical messengers and reduce symptoms like swelling, redness, pain and others.
"Corticosteroids provide anti-inflammatory relief for many different conditions and come in drug forms such as tablets, inhalers, eye-drops, and others.

 The body normally responds to inflammation or cell damage by producing white blood cells and chemical messengers to fight an infection or repair damage. However, in some cases, the surge of all of these substances to a localized area of the body can cause symptoms of inflammation and damage to the body��"s tissues.

 Corticosteroids bind to steroid receptors inside cells and form a tightly joined group. When the steroid-receptor "group" is activated, it moves inside the cell's nucleus where it is able to control the cell��"s ability to make proteins. The proteins that are made decrease inflammatory chemical messengers and reduce symptoms of inflammation like swelling, redness, pain and others."
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on Sterapred DS: Oral tablet
What is this medicine?
PREDNISONE (PRED ni sone) is a corticosteroid. It is commonly used to treat inflammation of the skin, joints, lungs, and other organs. Common conditions treated include asthma, allergies, and arthritis. It is also used for other conditions, such as blood disorders and diseases of the adrenal glands.
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Internship Forum
Internship Forum is held every Spring semester and allows students to learn about the various opportunities available to them by our internship employers who recruit at Lehman College. This event allows employers to present information to students in attendance regarding their organization's mission, goals and opportunities while increasing awareness of their organization in the local community. Students learn about the multitude of experiences which are available and relevant to their field of study for them to get the hands on experiences needed to achieve their ultimate career goals.


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Remember that guy who wrote that book that Oprah thought she loved but then decided she hated when she learned that The Smoking Gun was on to the fact that all of what he wrote was not entirely true? Yeah?
Remember that guy who called himself a criminal on day time television and then retracted that statement, in part, in a sit down heart-to-heart in which he revealed that like the rest of us, he was mostly insecure and broken? Yeah. That book called a million little pieces by James Frey.
I bought it from the Thrift store this weekend for $.25. $.25!! The cover was ripped, likely, I assumed in holding it in my hands, because someone who owned it watched the interview and was outraged at the deception!! Or, not. Yeah. Likely that's not why the cover was ripped and it smelled of cigarettes and bad cologne.
I picked it up and bought it because I wanted to see what the hype was about and why he (Frey) moved Oprah and millions of, mostly women, Americans.
I started reading it and am not finished with it, but I can't say that I get what the big deal was (is). You know how when someone tells you something is really good and then you try it and then you, assuming that "it" is a cupcake, keep eating it waiting for it to get good. Because the first, second, and third bites aren't that good. But you keep eating, waiting for that moment that you kept hearing about? That's what this book is like for me.
It's like a highly acclaimed cupcake that doesn't really taste that great but that you keep eating because you are unwilling to trust yourself that the greats who said it would be good could be wrong.
It's odd to me that it was picked up by Oprah at all. It's odd that Oprah and so many other women were drawn to a story of an addict who was, in a sense, broken and unable to love and be loved. Wait. That's actually not strange.
I get the whiff of romantic tragedy in reading A million little pieces. I get that it is gruesome, but beneath all that it's a story of a guy who just wants to be loved, it seems, by himself and women. This tale need not be told as a true story, so why did it need to be a true story? Or does this just have to do with truth and the responsibility of writers in the age of "truthiness" to be truthful?
Have you read "a million little pieces" by James Frey? What did you think of the book?


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Spiritual Life, Service & Heritage
Spiritual, Service & Heritage: Why It Matters
The University's slogan may be "Bring a Spark, Light a fire," but John Wesley, the founder of Methodism (and namesake of our school), emphasized that that fire represents not the end, but a beginning. Wesley wrote, "Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come from miles to watch your burn."
Enthusiasm refers to ultimate meaning in our lives. What is the broader meaning of our life? That is the most significant question each of us faces. Spiritual life on campus addresses that question in many ways.
Special all-campus worship each semester brings together musicians, poets, speakers, and readers of all faiths into a common time of meaningful worship. Weekly Bible studies, traditional worship, and student-led worship all are helpful opportunities to join together in fellowship, to meet with others, and to get perspective on one's studies. There are a number of churches immediately around campus, and many churches in the community that are very open to, and appreciative of, students joining in their life and worship.
Students can be a part of a "living and learning" community, in which they live in the same residence hall, take 1-2 religion courses together, and have the opportunity to discuss faith differences and spiritual growth in a safe zone.
The University's Department of Religious Studies is nationally known and offers engaging courses from a variety of different approaches. VWU's Center for Sacred Music is ranked in the top five programs in the United States, and students have the opportunity to study church music, to meet key figures from across the United States, and to help in a variety of musical venues. Through the Center for the Study of Religious Freedom, students can attend lectures or debates on campus where speakers from across the country and from throughout Hampton Roads come together to discuss intense issues.
In addition, students have the opportunity to enact their faith--or their concern for others--in very concrete ways. The Office of Community Service offers students both the opportunity to serve and to lead in programs that help children, the elderly, the poor, the hungry, and the homeless. The University's Portfolio Program also brings together education in the classroom and concrete experiences in the community, in ways which grow out of Wesleyan concern for bringing together the academic and the pragmatic, the theoretical and the applied.
Virginia Wesleyan aspires to be a supportive community that is "committed to social responsibility, ethical conduct, higher learning and religious freedom." In short, our Wesleyan values remind us both that the world does not revolve around us and that our lives are best understood in service to others.


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A South Carolina psychiatrist and his wife, a nurse, have taken an uncommon, controversial approach to helping war veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder by treating them with MDMA, a pure form of the party drug known as Ecstasy.
Their studies have found that the psychoactive stimulant decreases fear and defensiveness while increasing trust in those who take it as part of a therapy program, say Dr. Michael Mithoefer and Ann Mithoefer.
The MDMA-assisted therapy could eventually provide relief for thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who suffer from combat trauma, the Mithoefers say, noting that nearly 300 military personnel from around the country have contacted them seeking help.
Though concerns may arise about creating drug dependence or abuse by administering a tightly controlled substance, Dr. Mithoefer said he hasn't seen that problem. The couple's use of MDMA in studies has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, he said.
MDMA "does cause some euphoria. But for people with PTSD, it can be pretty intense anxiety as well," he said. "You need to have the support there. This is not a take-home medicine."
Not everyone is convinced the benefits outweigh the potential dangers.
Ron Acierno, director of the PTSD clinical team at the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in Charleston, said the Mithoefers' results were interesting, but he remains skeptical of the treatment.
"I don't think any VA is going to touch this with a 10-foot pole because of the type of drug it is," Acierno said. "It's hard to switch conceptual gears that it might actually be very useful for a relatively common emotional disorder."
"Because the abuse potential is high, we have to be very careful about it," he said.
Shifting consciousness
Dr. Mithoefer, an assistant professor in the Medical University of South Carolina's neuroscience department, said he has long been interested in experiential techniques that help patients shift their consciousness to revisit their traumas.
He developed the protocol for MDMA-assisted therapy in 2001 and published the first completed study of its effect on patients with trauma in 2010. He found that after two months of treatment, more than 80 percent of the patients, including rape victims and a veteran, no longer qualified for a PTSD diagnosis.
A follow-up review of those patients, published last month in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, showed more than 80 percent of them still had lasting benefits 3-1/2 years after treatment.
The Mithoefers currently are treating 24 veterans, firefighters, police officers or victims of military sexual trauma who have chronic PTSD that hasn't been helped by other kinds of treatment. This three-year study will be completed in 2014.
The participants travel to Dr. Mithoefer's private practice in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, for treatment over a period of five to eight months. After being screened to eliminate anyone with cardiovascular problems or a psychotic disorder, patients are given a series of doses of MDMA.
The Mithoefers are both present for the eight-hour drug-assisted sessions, which include therapy and support. The patients also participate in therapy before, in-between and after the medication sessions, they said.
Those who suffer from PTSD often can't sleep, have nightmares, isolate themselves emotionally and avoid "anything that reminds them of Iraq," including crowds, fireworks or overpasses, Ann Mithoefer said.
The use of MDMA seems to help the brain learn to process traumatic memories without becoming overwhelmed by emotion or fear, Dr. Mithoefer said.
"People have said things like, 'It's changed my relationship to my emotions,'" he said. "They realize, 'I don't have to be so afraid of the fear anymore.'"
Other studies that might include veterans are pending in Colorado and Canada and are being planned in the United Kingdom, Israel and Australia, said Brad Burge, a spokesman for the nonprofit Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, which funds the research efforts.
The Santa Cruz, California-based organization said the pure MDMA used in treatment is different from Ecstasy, which often contains other harmful substances. Ecstasy's recreational use has caused deaths from heat exhaustion or over-hydration, Dr. Mithoefer said.
Medical use of recreational drugs has been taboo since the 1960s, but the nonprofit is investing $10 million over 15 years in an effort to win FDA approval for MDMA as a prescription medicine in the United States.
"The taboos are lifting, and people are getting practical about science," Dr. Mithoefer said. "If we took away everything in medicine that is being abused outside of medicine, we wouldn't have too much left."
Roland Griffiths, a professor in the psychiatry and neuroscience departments at Johns Hopkins University, called the Mithoefers' research "groundbreaking."
"It's a potentially important, new application of use for a set of compounds that have not been available for clinical research for decades now," Griffiths said. "PTSD is an awful, awful disease ... I don't think we should stick our heads in the sand."


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The quick clean orifice gate, a sanitary gravity valve, now offers improved sealing performance, higher durability, easier maintenance, and fewer replacement parts. The Vortex Quick Clean gate is designed to handle dry bulk ingredients in the food, dairy, pharmaceutical, chemical, and other industries that require frequent or daily sanitation of equipment. The blade and seal design allows the valve to "self-clean" on the opening stroke, even on a flowing column of material, preventing material from packing on the valve's internal seals. The gate has been redesigned to have no dead pockets or hidden areas that can lead to material spoilage or cross contamination.
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Florida made it official Friday, confirming that New Mexico's Coleman Hutzler has joined Will Muschamp's coaching staff.
Florida made it official Friday, confirming that New Mexico's Coleman Hutzler has joined Will Muschamp's coaching staff. Hutzler replaces special teams coordinator and outside linebackers coach Jeff Choate, who leaves after one season to join Chris Petersen at Washington.
"Coleman is a young coach with a very bright future," Muschamp said. "He has a great work ethic and obviously is very familiar with our special teams schemes. It will be a seamless transition for our players." Hutzler worked on the UF staff in 2010-11 and is returning to Florida after spending the past two seasons as New Mexico's special teams coordinator and outside linebackers coach (the same job Choate held for the Gators). In one year under Urban Meyer and one under Muschamp at UF, Hutzler assisted with the defense and special teams.
Hutzler has worked with UF defensive coordinator (and former special teams coordinator) D.J. Durkin at Stanford and Florida.
"I'm excited to be returning to Gainesville and be a part of the Gator family again," Hutzler said. "I enjoyed my time there and have the utmost respect for Coach Muschamp and the administrative team in place at Florida.
"I understand the value placed on special teams under Coach Muschamp, and look forward to getting to work."
Muschamp did not reveal whether Hutzler also will be coaching the outside linebackers, something he also did at New Mexico.
Under Hutzler, the New Mexico special teams showed tremendous improvement. Last season, New Mexico was 16th in the nation in kickoff returns, averaging 24.0 yards per return.
Sophomore Carlos Wiggins was named the 2013 Mountain West special teams player of the year after leading the nation with 1,303 total kick return yards. He ranked fifth nationally with a 29.6-yard kickoff return average. He was the only player in the nation to return three kickoffs for touchdowns in 2013.
Muschamp also announced the hiring of Drew Hughes as the Gators director of player personnel. He comes to UF from North Carolina State, where he held the same job.
"Drew will be a great asset to our program," Muschamp said. "He is extremely organized, and based on his experience he has a very good understanding of how we operate and should fit right in."
Hughes oversaw all aspects of recruiting at North Carolina State.
"I'm very excited to have the opportunity to work for Coach Muschamp and the University of Florida," Hughes said. "It will be great to get back to the state of Florida and the SEC -- the best conference in the nation. I'm very much looking forward to helping the Florida coaching staff attract student athletes who will be champions both on and off the field."
Hughes joined the North Carolina State a year ago, after being Central Florida's director of player personnel. Before that, he spent five seasons in the recruiting office at Alabama, working under Ed Marynowitz, who is now the assistant director of pro scouting for the Philadelphia Eagles.