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JetBrains, a company known for its flagship, Jolt award-winning IntelliJ IDEA, has taken key aspects of that product and infused it into custom development environments optimized for Python and Ruby developers. With its initial release, PyCharm enables Python programmers the ability to skate through Python code with ease. And RubyMine, now in its more mature third release, brings Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3 compatibility to its already established feature set. Let's take a look at both of these IDEs in further detail.
PyCharm 1.0
While not yet having the longevity of RubyMine, PyCharm has the advantage of taking the latest technical innovations evolved over the lifespans of IntelliJ and RubyMine, and folding these into PyCharm as "best of" features. Code assistance, analysis, navigation and refactoring all work identically to and as quick as that of IntelliJ and RubyMine. Additionally, PyCharm has been optimized not only for Python projects, but for Django web development and Google App Engine as well. Thus, any Python developers currently working on such web properties who are also flummoxed by the limitations of a simple text editor and the DVCS command line dances will appreciate PyCharm's seamless integration of not only SVN and Git, but also Mercurial, Perforce, and CVS.
PyCharm's integrated graphical debugger makes the location of trouble areas much easier. And since the debugger supports both Django consoles and REPL, it covers the gamut of today's Python-based applications.
Django support in PyCharm is superb, including not only full support for code completion of Django template variables, parameters, tags and filters, but also code insight for Django fields and models. PyCharm also knows how to handle Django settings.py and urls.py configuration files. Combined with PyCharm's build-in HTML/CSS and JavaScript editor, developing Django apps couldn't be easier. In fact, since using PyCharm for my Django projects, I rarely leave the IDE once it's been launched. Check out this video to see just how easy it is to create and debug Django web apps using PyCharm.
The same degree of assistance and simplicity is true when creating Google App Engine (GAE) applications, since PyCharm has the ability to deploy GAE apps to the cloud. Google Query Language (GQL) code completion further accelerates GAE app development. If you're a GAE developer, PyCharm could easily become your GAE IDE of choice.
For a 1.0 release, PyCharm certainly has plenty to offer Python coders. And with prices ranging from $99 and $199 for Personal and Corporate licenses, to Free for educators, students, and open source projects, PyCharm is a very affordable and easily justifiable investment.
RubyMine 3.0
Ruby (and especially Rails) developers have made TextMate on the Mac the preeminent visual editor. There's no denying that TextMate is an excellent product, but given that it runs exclusively on the Mac platform makes it a tool that excludes itself from markets that are Windows or Linux-based. This is where a product like RubyMine can gain a foothold in the increasingly popular commercial Ruby tools market. Once the momentum builds, developers will find that they can be as productive and, in cases involving visual modeling, refactoring, and class traversals, even more efficient than the established incumbents.
Like the PyCharm IDE, RubyMine 3.0 has the rich code editing features courtesy of IntelliJ, plus Ruby-specific feature support (Gems, Rake, Rails, Ruby debugging, RSpec and Cucumber testing, etc.). Those developers who already use previous releases of RubyMine may be interested to know that RubyMine 3.0 fully supports Ruby on Rails 3.0 (including Bundler and RVM), the sweet RCov code coverage tool, improved code editing for Ruby, Leaner CSS (LESS), rdoc and other source files, a Firefox plug-in that allows Javascript debugging within the RubyMine IDE, CSS and HTML code snippets and Mercurial support. Other minor tweaks in the user interface (especially for the Mac version) have further beautified the app, making it look more like a native Mac application versus a generic Java-based program.
And even though RubyMine is a more mature, feature-rich product compared to PyCharm, a RubyMine 3.0 personal license is actually thirty dollars less expensive than PyCharm. Considering all the features bundled into the IDE, this is a remarkable value. Whether priced to aggressively compete with tools like TextMate or banking on the broader, more rapidly growing market of Rails developers, JetBrains has priced this IDE to move.
Almost Perfect
While JetBrains has assembled two extremely competent IDE's, there is one briefly annoying drawback I encountered with both PyCharm and RubyMine. Both are Java-based applications and take a bit longer to start up than native binaries. For those developers used to Emacs and Vim or GUI editors like Notepad++ or TextMate, this start-up delay can seem intolerably long (though not nearly as long as waiting for Eclipse to load up along with its related Python or Ruby plug-ins). The trick is to open it once and leave it open throughout the programming day. Once loaded, however, responsiveness is surprisingly snappy. Mostly it's the convenience of having everything organized just right for the discerning Python or Ruby developer. It took me a few days to get used to the layout and orient myself around the keyboard accelerators, but once muscle-memory sunk in, navigating around both IDE's proved to be fast and intuitive. If JetBrains could figure out a way to get me to the editor as soon as possible so I can start writing code, and then spin up the other facilities in the background (or give me the ability to tweak the start-up priorities), that would go a long way toward relieving the wait.
Dedicated Pythonistas or Rubyists who are not interested in a generic IDE that has their favorite language bolted on via an add-on or plug-in will appreciate the finely tuned precision that PyCharm and RubyMine have to offer. I especially appreciated the forethought about developer comfort level put into each product (especially in the more mature RubyMine), making me more productive compared to IDE's like Eclipse that feel sluggish when working with third-party feature enhancements. Rails developers who have reached the limits of what TextMate or Vim have to offer and are looking to bring a bigger boost to their productivity should definitely give RubyMine a go. JetBrains offers 30-day free trials of both PyCharm and RubyMine. I suggest test driving either (or both if you're comfortable working in both languages) to see if you spend less time navigating around the interface and more time writing code, and getting things done faster with less hassles. The price is right for both products, and the efficiency gains pay for the license costs almost immediately. Both PyCharm and RubyMine receive my enthusiastic recommendation.


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I (Ryan J Carman) would like to thank you all so very much for supporting Golden City Fine Art. It was (has (and still is)) been the most amazing experience. What was an experiment and humbly an art project became a life for me. I need now to focus on my own work. I thank you all who have supported my gallery, especially the artists that chose to work with me. See you all in the future... Thank you again.......... My Love.... R.J.C.

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The start of school while wonderful and smooth for many children and bring great anxiety to some. New classrooms and routines after a summer off is a recipe for School Anxiety. Some children have a harder time with transitions then others. Those that have a hard time are more prone to anxiety in general with new situations.
There are many things parents can do to help their child transition more smoothly into school and help stop school anxiety. It can take time and patience, but it can be done. Depending on the age and personality of your child, different techniques might work or not. The key is getting the child into school. The longer they are out the more anxiety producing reentry is. For specific techniques on how to cope with School Anxiety check out the post on Toddler Crafts.


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The Warner Stage Company's JOSEPH... Continues Through 2/10
The Warner Stage Company will present Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat February 8,9 & 10 at the Warner Theatre.Based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Bible's Book of Genesis, Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat was Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice's first musical to be performed publicly.In this retelling of the Biblical story, Joseph (played by Moses Beckett) is a handsome young man who is his father's favorite child, able to interpret dreams, and the bearer of an amazing coat. When he is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers and taken to Egypt, Joseph endures a series of adventures in which his spirit and humanity are continually challenged.Its family-friendly storyline, universal themes and engaging soundtrack that includes musical genres ranging from country-western and calypso to bubble-gum pop and rock 'n' roll, this Old Testament tale emerges both timely and timeless.The Warner Stage Company production is directed by Foster Evans Reese with musical director Dan Porri. The cast includes: Alyssa Fontana as the narrator, John Chenkus as Jacob and John Quinn, Marcelo Sousa, Richard Damaso, Michael Dikegoros, Michael Eck, Peter Hannon, Bret Bisaillon, James Barber, Joel Orelup, Jean-Paul Henares and Kyrell Clemons as Joseph's jealous brothers. To go along with this family friendly story, the Warner Theatre has announced Family Friendly Pricing for this production. Children 14 and under get 50% off their ticket price in select seats!Tickets are $20 / $26 / $33.50 and can be purchased by calling the Warner box office at 860-489-7180 or online at www.warnertheatre.org.


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Colin Kaepernick's second career start will come Sunday at the Superdome. All he has to do is out-gun Drew Brees to get a victory.
NFL.com's Albert Breer confirmed that Kaepernick will start at quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers against the New Orleans Saints, per a source with knowledge of the situation.
Niners coach Jim Harbaugh remained mum all week on who would start after Kaepernick's breakout game on "Monday Night Football" against the Chicago Bears, but all signs have pointed to the second-year pro ever since. Niners safety Donte Whitner said Friday that Kaepernick would start.
It's a bold move, but we believe it's the right one. It's a move that makes more sense in the long-term than this week, but the 49ers should see what Kaepernick can do. They always can go back to Smith before the playoffs. Two solid options at quarterback is the good type of problem the 49ers haven't had in a long, long time.
UPDATE: Smith has been cleared from his concussion, a league source told Matt Barrows of The Sacramento Bee. NFL.com's Albert Breer later reported that Smith is active for the game and will serve as Kaepernick's backup. Breer also reports that 49ers running back Brandon Jacobs is active.
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Flu is here and it's ahead of schedule according to the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Lab tests confirmed influenza B in Douglas County.
"Flu showed up a little early this season," said Dr. Joann Schaefer, Nebraska's Chief Medical Officer and Director of Public Health for DHHS. "Make sure getting vaccinated is at the top of your to-do list. Flu vaccine not only protects you, but your family, friends and coworkers too."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends flu vaccine for everyone 6 months and older. After you're vaccinated, it takes about two weeks for your body to build immunity.
• While flu can make anyone sick, certain people are at greater risk for serious complications, and it's extremely important they receive vaccine: young children, older people, people with chronic lung disease (like asthma and COPD), diabetes (type 1 and 2), heart disease, neurologic conditions and certain other long-term health conditions, and pregnant women.
Flu vaccine is safe, effective and rigorously tested. Remember, it's a myth that you can get flu from the shot. The most common reaction is soreness and redness at the injection site. If you don't like needles, FluMist is a nasal spray available for healthy people 2-49 years old.
DHHS officially started flu surveillance Sept. 30. Surveillance shows where the flu is and how fast it's spreading across the state.
DHHS uses multiple surveillance systems to track flu viruses, including sentinel physicians who report the number of people with flu-like illness weekly, lab tests, school surveillance, hospital data, emergency department data and death reporting.
Citizens Advised to Get Flu Shots Soon
Flu is here and it's ahead of schedule according to the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Lab tests confirmed influenza B in Douglas County.


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Dear Abby: I�m a 27-year-old woman who still lives at home. I do it so I can help my mom with my five nieces and nephews. Their mother passed away suddenly in 2009 at the age of 30. My mom and stepdad kept them rather than scatter them to fathers who don�t appear very interested in them.
Since my sister�s death I have earned two degrees, entered the health care field and have lost almost 140 pounds. Despite what I have accomplished, I feel I have nothing to show for myself. When I point my accomplishments out to myself, they don�t seem like a heck of a lot. What can I do so I can stop feeling like a loser?
� Lost in the Northeast
Dear Lost: A loser? From where I sit, you appear to be not only a caring daughter, but also an intellectually accomplished young woman who is being very hard on herself. If you feel you haven�t accomplished a lot, I have to question the yardstick you�re using.
It�s time you discussed your feelings with a licensed mental health professional who can help you understand what is causing your low self-esteem. If you do, it may help you be kinder to yourself, because what�s currently going on in your head is unfair to you and destructive.
Dear Abby: I work in a buffet restaurant. I wish you would alert your readers to how waste increases the costs at restaurants like this one. And then people complain because the cost of the food goes up!
I have seen customers stick their fingers or used utensils into pans of food to taste it before serving themselves. And instead of the tongs we provide, they use their hands to help themselves to chicken, bread, etc.
The fact is that once anyone touches the food with his or her hands or eating utensil, the restaurant is required by the health code to dispose of the entire pan of food. This causes tremendous waste. Customers also overfill their plates only to throw half the food away. It makes me sad because so many people in this world are hungry.
I have seen children run around, making a mess of the dessert bar, and especially the ice cream and drink stations. Their parents seem to think it�s �cute.�
I wish you would remind your readers to use common sense when dining out and to please control their children. The parents should serve food to their little ones who don�t know better.
� Frustrated Buffet Worker, Pueblo, Colo.
Dear Frustrated: Children can�t practice behavior they haven�t been taught, and parents who don�t take the time to explain proper behavior to their little ones are shirking their responsibility.
As to adults who have so little understanding of hygiene � or consideration for others � that they put their hands or used utensils into food that is meant for others, well � perhaps after being reminded that it raises the prices they have to pay, they�ll think twice about it. But don�t bet on it.
Dear Abby: I was wondering what is the appropriate level of give and take in a friendship? I notice that in some relationships I am always giving and never receiving, where in others I am always receiving. How do you know when a balance is reached?
� Jake in Albany, Ga.
Dear Jake: There is give and take in all healthy relationships. A �balance is reached� when you can give without feeling used, and take without feeling guilty that you�re being given too much.


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Mathematical Scarves
You've got pi on you
- Mathematical symbols you can wear
- Choose The Golden Ratio, Infinity, or Pi
- Function equally whether you call it "math" or "maths"
Despite what our Algebra 2 teacher tried to turn it into, mathematics can be beautiful. The first time you graph a parabola in geometry. The recognition of the Fibonacci sequence in a fern. The moment you get to the Q.E.D. bit in a particularly vexing proof. There's beauty in symmetry and simplicity, and there's beauty in Chaos Theory. This collection of scarves celebrates the beauty of math in all its forms. Choose from:
- Golden Ratio - The diagram of the golden ratio, repeated four times
- Infinity - The infinity symbol printed over and over in an organic-feeling pattern
- Pi - The pi symbol repeated evenly across the field of the fabric
Each scarf is made from feather-weight, black cotton gauze for a light and airy feel. Makes a great beach wrap. They measure 22" by 67". Fringed ends. 100% cotton. Hand wash cold. Hang to dry. Imported.


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Emergency crews responded to a report of a shooting at Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania Monday evening, but investigators discovered no gunman, but instead say bubble wrap may be to blame.
"The situation appears to be one where a female student in the dorms of Eastern University heard what she thought were shots fired. She diligently called 9-1-1," Jamie Bilella, Vice President Enrollment Management and Marketing Valley Forge Military Academy & College told NBC10.
Delaware County officials said officers responded to the school after receiving a call reporting a possible shooting about 6 p.m. Police put the school on lockdown while they searched buildings, but found no victims or evidence of the shooting and released the lockdown about 7 p.m.
Police could be seen at the school, some with guns drawn, going building to building as SkyForce10 hovered overhead at 6:20 p.m. Monday.
Valley Forge Military Academy and College is a boarding school with students of middle, high school and college age. Eastern University is a Christian university located less than a mile away from the academy.
"Further investigation indicated that it was more than likely bubble wrap," Bilella said. "There is no indication of any threat, of any weapon, of shots fired or any injury."
A statement released by Bilella later clarified that the student may have heard bubble wrap.
Valley Forge Military Academy held its opening ceremony last week, and was back to its normal routine by Monday evening.


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For Immediate Release:
Audience favorite Kimberly Richards reprises her role as "Sister" in this merry, yuletide hit
Featuring choirs from around the Pittsburgh region
"A gift-wrapped holiday treat, this 'Catechism' should be opened early." – Los Angeles Times
November 23 – December 16, 2012
PITTSBURGH, PA (November 13, 2012)—City Theatre celebrates the season with the return of Sister's Christmas Catechism: The Mystery of the Magi's Gold, a hilarious holiday comedy featuring audience favorite Kimberly Richards. A City Events special presentation, Sister's Christmas Catechism runs on City Theatre's Mainstage from November 23 to December 16, 2012.
Get ready to sit up straight and participate because Sister is back in town, and she'll find out if you've been good. Complete with witty audience interaction, musical highlights from Pittsburgh area choirs, prizes, and the irrepressible Kimberly Richards, Sister's Christmas Catechism is a must-see holiday show. Whether you're a loyal fan or it's your very first lesson, now is the time to pick up Pittsburgh's favorite holiday habit.
Kimberly Richards is a native of Pittsburgh. She has been performing on stage for over 40 years, the first 15 as a professional dancer, illusionist, choreographer, aerialist, and comedienne, based in Las Vegas during its heyday in the '70s and '80s. She also did a Far East tour for the Department of Defense, and hung from a rope at 60 feet without a net for two years at CIRCUS CIRCUS in Reno. She has won two Drama-Logue awards and three Dean Goodman Choice awards for her acting and choreography, and has appeared in two of San Francisco's longest running hits, Bar None and Beyond Therapy. Also in the San Francisco Bay Area, she has acted in a number of plays produced by Genesius Theatre Company, which she co-founded. The company is named after Saint Genesius, the patron Saint of Actors. Kim performed in Encore Theatre's critically acclaimed world premiere of Adam Rapp's Dreams of the Salt Horse (recipient, Outstanding Performance Award). She has also directed dozens of plays, including the 2009 world premiere of Pulp Scripture by William Bivins, which swept the San Francisco Fringe Festival, winning eight awards including Best New Comedy. She choreographed Abe Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party by Aaron Loeb, which won Best New Play in the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival, and the sold-out run of My Fair Lady at the SF Playhouse. Kim is pleased that her life has come full circle from 12 years of Catholic school, to dancing the showrooms of Las Vegas, to playing a nun.
in collaboration with Entertainment Events, Inc.
Sister's Christmas Catechism: The Mystery of the Magi's Gold
By Maripat Donovan with Marc Silvia and Jane Morris
Directed by Marc Silvia
Featuring Kimberly Richards
When: November 23 – December 16, 2012
Performance Schedule:
Thursdays at 8pm
Fridays at 8pm
Saturdays at 5:30 and 9pm
Sundays at 2pm
Blackhawk High School
Grove City College's GCC Singers
Pittsburgh Savoyards
Pittsburgh's Summer Singers
Saltworks Theater Co.
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Contemporary Choir
More to be announced!
Where: City Theatre, 1300 Bingham Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203 (South Side)
Tickets price: $40 each
Box Office: 412.431.CITY (2489) or citytheatrecompany.org
Groups of 10 or more are eligible for discounts.
Contact Kari Shaffer at 412.431.4400 x286 or firstname.lastname@example.com
City Events is City Theatre's annual series of limited engagement special presentations.
City Theatreis now in its 38th season. Located on Pittsburgh's historic South Side, City Theatre specializes in contemporary and new plays and has brought to Pittsburgh playwrights such as Adam Rapp, Christopher Durang, Eric Simonson, and Jeffrey Hatcher. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Tracy Brigden, Managing Director Mark R. Power, and a 45-member Board of Directors, City Theatre's mission is to provide an artistic home for the development and production of contemporary plays of substance and ideas that engage and challenge a diverse audience.


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There is a lot of talk in the news, etc., about Metzitzah B'peh that employs direct oral contact being dangerous.
First: If it is dangerous, shouldn't pikuach nefesh push it off?
Second: How important is it to a Bris in the first place?
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There is a lot of talk in the news, etc., about Metzitzah B'peh that employs direct oral contact being dangerous.
First: If it is dangerous, shouldn't pikuach nefesh push it off?
Second: How important is it to a Bris in the first place?
The gemara strongly implies that metzitzah is done for health reasons. Nowadays, we can follow that tradition safely by doing it with a tube. It seems ironic to to follow the gemara's health-suggestions in a way (b'peh) that we know to cause health-risks. However, some groups feel that there are other reasons for doing Metzitzah and that it should still be done since the health risks are small. If so, they should make strong safeguards to lessen the risk of transmitting disease.
Hakirah has an article from 2006 available online about metzitzah b'peh (pdf), which I summarize below (from my previous summary).
In the article he explains the historical medical background to metzitzah. In ancient times, people didn't know that blood circulated or that pathoegns cause disease. The hellenic system of medicine thought blood was attracted to cuts and could decay and form pus, so it was necessary to get the blood to flow from a cut to prevent disease. (The author cites R' Nachum Rabinovitch who compares the Rambam's requirement for metzitzah to the Rambam's suggestion to suck the blood out after a snake bite). He discusses some modern-day rationals for doing MBP, but then refutes them.
The next part shows that metzitzah b'peh is a danger and many cases are cited where it has unfortunately caused harm to infants. He also tells the the history of MBP, and quotes some of the discussions about it from the 19th century. He then discusses the p'sak of the chasam sofer who didn't even consider metzitzah b'peh to be a minhag. He concludes that if most of the litvishe gedolim accepted that MBP was a danger, surely now, when we know much more about transmission of diseases, we should not risk it.
The Tshuvos Venanhagos says that while R' Chaim Brisker allowed Mohelim to do a Metzitza with a short pipette when there was a tuberculosis epidemic, the Tshuvos Vehanhagos says that one should avoid relying on this heter.
Moreover, he quotes the Levush Mordechai writes that Metzitza is not just for health reasons but is actually part of the Mitzvah.
The Tshuvos VeHanhagos continues and answers the original question: Can a Mohel refuse to do Metzitza BePeh if he is scared that the child is sick (R"L) with AIDS? He answered that as there have not been many cases of Mohelim getting sick from babies, one must rely on Shomer Mitzva lo Yodeya Davar Ra. Moreover, as he says that if one must be choshesh for (suspect) such risks as pikuach Nefesh, then one would not be allowed to do a bris, ever. However, he says that if a mohel refuses to do metzitza bepeh due to fear of AIDS, he is not called a sinner, but one should try to find a different mohel who will.
Moreover, he says (amazingly IMHO) that doctors said that doing Metzitza Bepeh on a baby with AIDS is not dangerous if one washes his mouth out.
Back in September (2012) there was well written article by Rabbi Moshe Zuriel (from Bnei Brak) posted on the Parsha Blog about this topic. Much of the mareh makomos that are brought in the article have already been mentioned here. However I'd like to contribute the article as it answers the question and I find it to be well-written and posing very good points
See here: PROPER PERFORMANCE OF MITZVAS BRIS MILAH
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Mazda has come to the L.A. Auto Show with an updated, upmarket version of its top-selling crossover. The company says its four-door, five-passenger 2017 CX-5 will boast better handling, improved interior, a sportier look and the sort of premium paint found on top European cars.
When Jessica Chou drove her 2003 Volkswagen Jetta into the Los Angeles Auto Show, the people checking her in seemed confused.
"All the guys were like, 'Are you sure you belong in here?' And I was like, 'Yeah, I know, she's a real beauty,' " Chou said with a laugh.
She may not customize Ferraris with candy-red rims or rear-hinged doors, but the 26-year-old YouTuber from Culver City, known online as "Jessicann," pitched something perhaps even more novel: Girls' Garage, which she said is the first female-centric booth in the auto show's 109-year history.
A subcompact crossover with stand-out-from-the-crowd looks. The CH-R inexplicably stands for Coupe High-Rider, although it rides low and actually has four doors — you can see the rear door handles up near the roof.
The "hottest" car at this year's L.A. Auto Show might just be Lexus' Sriracha IS, a one-off custom creation designed to attract a young market.
Lexus and Huy Fong Foods, both based in Southern California, teamed up to launch the 2017 model of its IS sports sedan, the Lexus' "entry-level" car, which retails for $37,325.
"It just seemed like a really good fit,"said Laura Conrad, a Lexus spokesperson. "Sriracha has this cult-like following that we were really excited to tap into."
Despite considerable advances in safety equipment and driver assistance systems, traffic deaths in the U.S. are rising. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported recently that road fatalities rose 10% in the first half of 2016 – after an increase in 2015 that was the sharpest in 50 years, when 38,300 people died on U.S. roads, according to the National Safety Council.
Why? NHTSA reported that a 3.3% increase in U.S. miles traveled in the first half of this year – the result of lower gas prices, healthy new car sales and a stronger economy – could not account for the higher number of deaths.
Auto executives at AutoMobility L.A., the industry-only portion of the L.A. Auto Show, believe the rise in deaths is a direct result of distracted driving – namely, texting.
The year is 2050: Two-thirds of the world's population live in cities, and urban sprawl is rampant. What will our transportation system and cars look like?
This question helped form the basis of the Automobility L.A. Design and Developer Challenge, which invited creative and unexpected collaborations to conceptualize autonomous cars of the future.
Over the last year, teams including Crayola and Qoros; Fandango and Jaunt VR; and Honda, Lego and Trigger designed concept vehicles to showcase at Wednesday's event.
It's a concept car. The concept? Big. "Subaru is demonstrating its thinking about how big a future Subaru SUV can be," the company said. At 204.7 x 79.9 x 72 inches, it's larger than a Ford Flex, and almost as big as Ford's Expedition monster-mobile. It's got three rows of seats.
It seems like every other car company at the L.A. Auto Show has a new on-demand app to publicize. Most involve small-scale pilot programs.
The latest is Volvo, which Thursday announced Volvo Concierge Services. In San Francisco, 300 Volvo drivers will be invited to join the program, where a tap of the app orders up a car wash, a valet to take the car to the dealer for repair and maintenance, and, to avoid a trip to the gas station, fuel delivery.
Volvo claims the service as "the first expandable digital ecosystem that connects car owners with convenience services via a smartphone app."
This is Volkswagen's entry into the midsize sport utility market, and the long-awaited, seven-passenger 2018 Atlas is set to go on sale next year. Volkswagen has not yet announced pricing for the Atlas but it's reportedly expected to be in the $30,000 range.


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Gear Ties
They're twisted!
- Tie, secure, wrap, or organize EVERYTHING
- Can be used indoors or outdoors
- Won't scratch or mark
Y'know those little black twist ties that come wrapped around most things electronic? Or the little yellow ones you might tie around the open end of your frozen bag of peas or sliced bread? Imagine those on steroids and you have Gear Ties.
Gear Ties take the disposable twist tie, a good idea itself, and make them stronger, better, faster. (Or stronger, more durable and reusable.) The possibilities are endless once you get your hands on Gear Ties. Cord organization behind your TV, tying up your yoga mat at the end of a workout, creating a stand for your smartphone, tethering a gallon of paint to a ladder, tying up your kids (KIDDING! ...just seeing if you were still paying attention!). Unlike bungee cords, which rely on tension, these rubber ties provide easy on/easy off access, anywhere you use them!
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- Reusable, durable rubber ties with a metal core
- Bend and twist for whatever you need
- Thousands of uses make them a great gift for anyone
- A few of the many places you will find them handy:
- Home theater wiring
- Laptop bags, purses, carry on luggage
- Auto and cycle workshops
- Office organization
- Camping, fishing, hunting, survival
- PC building/cable management
- Home improvement
- Materials: Tough rubber shell with strong wire inside
- Waterproof and UV resistant
- Dimensions: 3", 6", 12", 24"
- "Tie all the things pack": 8 x 3", 6 x 6", 4 x 12", 2 x 24"


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Gadget Nerds Can't Discuss Ethics Without Devolving into Schoolyard Taunts
Tech commentator Leo LaPorte and TechCrunch's Michael Arrington were doing yesterday's Gillmor Gang show when Arrington provoked LaPorte over free-product disclosures. LaPorte freaked out and shut down the show, but not before spewing colorful invective at Arrington first.
Yesterday's Gillmor Gang topic: the Palm Pre. Things started out nice enough when LaPorte - who owns and operates netcast network TWiT.tv, on which the show is featured - was discussing how much he enjoyed his new toy. Arrington, sounding a little bitter about not having one, asks LaPorte whether or not he got his for free. LaPorte notes that yeah, he did, but that he wasn't the only one! Arrington notes it to be on the record, and that's when LaPorte really gets pissed, especially over the implication that the fact that he got the thing for free would ever influence his review over a highly coveted tech product! Arrington chuckles back: "What're you gonna do about it?" That's when LaPorte lets loose, and promptly shuts the show down:
Glorious, no? The program, as you can tell, actually did get shut down. Arrington later went on TechCrunch to issue an apology to LaPorte, explaining that he didn't at all intend to provoke him, and that he was just joshin' him:
I've had a lot of interactions with [LaPorte] and they've always been positive. Or at least I thought so. I wasn't watching the video live during the show and I really thought Leo was joking until the very end (as did Steve Gillmor and Loren Feldman, who were chuckling in the video). My "what are you going to do about it" comment doesn't sound so great in hindsight. But I really did just think he was joking around.
It gets better, though: Arrington noted at the end of his apology post on TechCrunch that comments were going to be moderated. LaPorte kindly comments on Arrington's post with a mutual apology for the snapping:
Thanks for the post, Mike. Apology accepted. Now that I know what was going on in your mind, I apologize to you.
There seems to be something about the Gillmor Gang that just engenders over the top passion. I'm embarrassed by my overreaction. Peace.
But it ain't over, yet, because the commenters are pissed about being moderated by Arrington! Arrington, who has received numerous death threats before over his site, responds thusly:
Many comments are complaining about comment moderation. This isn't about free speech. It's about dozens of death threats and hundreds of others saying pretty horrible things about one of of us. You may think that your comment needs to get heard and that calling for someone to die shouldn't be taken seriously. But multiply that by hundreds and maybe you'll get a sense of this. I was rude. I made the problem worse by saying things because I thought he was play-mad. and then i apologized. i may be a lot of things but i don't think i deserve to die over this. please. stop. i can't deal with the death threats after what happened last year and then this year in europe. leo won. you guys won. i surrender. just stop. please. stop.
Quite simply, Arrington was being "cute," and this thing just blew up in their faces. Really, the problem is that these guys never played a game of two-hand-touch in their lives. No harm, no foul!
And who the hell is making death threats to Michael Arrington over this? Jesus. Arrington then notes in the comments that this "ruined [his] entire weekend. for fuck's sake." And why wouldn't it?
Lesson learned: gadget nerds are terrifying! I'm going back to writing about Sesame Street and hipsters. Goodbye. Freaks.
N.B. One commenter on TechCrunch noted that Arrington has been "Keyboard Catted." Which made me laugh very loudly. Gadget nerds: terrifying. But hysterical:


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The Giants will have one less receiver for the first four games of the regular season — if that receiver even makes the team.
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The suspension implies multiple violations of the substance-abuse policy, and it puts Collins on the brink of a one-year suspension for the next violation.
Collins began his college career at Texas, but he was dismissed from the team after an arrest for aggravated robbery and engaging in organized criminal activity. Collins reportedly told police at the time that he and another man had arranged a meeting with the alleged victim to buy marijuana. He previously missed the 2009 season due to academic ineligibility. Collins transferred to Southeastern Louisiana.


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A couple with four children were shot and killed in an argument over dog feces on Monday, police in Texas said.
Officers were called to a shooting at the Sable Ridge Apartments in Dallas at about 8 a.m. Monday.
When officers arrived, they found two people, later identified as 32-year-old Michelle Jackson and 31-year-old Jamie Stafford, dead at the scene from apparent gunshot wounds. An infant inside the couple's apartment was not injured.
After talking with witnesses, police began searching for Chung Kim, a resident of the complex identified by residents as a man who lived in the unit below Stafford and Jackson and was seen leaving the complex after the shooting.
Police later located Kim in his black Lexus SUV nearby and took him into custody.
Investigators said the couple had been dumping dog feces on the patio and at the front door of Kim's apartment.
Police said Kim pulled out a gun and shot Jackson as she stood on her balcony. Police said Kim then went upstairs and into the couple's apartment and shot Stafford as he jumped off the balcony while trying to escape.
Police said Kim then stood over Stafford and shot him again.
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A friend of the victim said there had been several arguments over pets and noise.
One neighbor, Yoland Washington, spoke of the couple's children, including the infant who was home at the time of the shooting.
"When they come home today, their mother and their father is gone. Little baby, they call the newborn Little Mama, Little Mama is not going to never know her parents," said Washington.
Child protection officer Marissa Gonzales said they had taken temporary custody of a one-month-old child found unharmed inside the apartment and that three other children who were at school at the time of the shooting are now with relatives.
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Jena: The Ignored Story of Legal Lynching
Common Dreams, Sept 20, 2007
For many African-Americans today, the main battle field against terrorism is not Iraq or Afghanistan but Jena, a small town in the state of Louisiana.
This rural town about 40-miles northeast of Alexandria, La is where a group of six black teens are enduring criminal prosecutions for a school yard fight that many see as a legal lynching.
The prosecutor in Jena is pressing serious felony charges for this fight that produced no serious injury on the specious claim that the Jena 6 used deadly weapons in that fight: their tennis shoes…used to allegedly kick the white victim.
This is the same prosecutor who refused to pursue comparable felony charges against white teens who smashed a black teen in the head with a beer bottle while ejecting him from a 'whites-only' party and a young white man who pointed a shotgun at black teens.
The reason why African-Americans react to the Jena injustice as domestic terrorism is rightly rooted in America's history of racism…that scourge that still infects American society and is still widely ignored.
For most Americans, the face of terrorism is a foreign Islamofascist.
However, for African-Americans – long before 9/11 – the face of racism enforcing domestic terrorism was a fellow citizen wearing blue suits or black robes as well as white KKK sheets.
The series of incidents in Jena culminating in the charges against those six teens, for example, began last fall when lynch nooses were hung from the only tree in the yard at the town's high school.
Nooses dangled after black students dared share the shade under traditionally reserved 'whites-only' gathering spot.
Top Jena school district officials overruled the principal's recommendation to expel the white students responsible to hanging the nooses dismissing their inflammatory action as an adolescent prank.
For blacks, lynching is not a matter easily dismissed.
A 1919 NAACP report on lynching listed Louisiana as ranking fourth behind Georgia, Mississippi and Texas in the number of officially recorded incidents of this type of racist terrorism.
Thousands often attended lynching, once known as America's 'blood sport.' Beyond mob-justice against alleged criminals, lynching was a device for social control, ethnic cleansing and economic theft.
In July 1934 a prosecutor in Bastrop, La – about 60-miles north of Jena – refused to investigative the lynching of a black man in that town's public square. This prosecutor told a mob numbering 3,000 that he "sympathized with its attitude" moments before the hanging of this suspected criminal, according to an account in a New York newspaper.
The sympathy shown to whites by that prosecutor in Bastrop is eerily similar to sympathies displayed by the white prosecutor in Jena whose impermissible race based charging practices violate any legal discretion given prosecutors for lodging charges.
In June 2005, when the US Senate approved a resolution apologizing for that body's failure to enact federal anti-lynching legislation, Senators refusing to support that apology included Senators from Georgia, Mississippi and Texas…the top three lynch states in that 1919 NAACP report.
Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu initiated that anti-lynching resolution. Landrieu recently called for a US Justice Department investigation into the Jena incidents which now garner national attention.
Many across America take comfort in the claim that racism today is a minor matter due to the civil rights success of the 1960s. This comfort is a consequence of one of the most effective tools in the arsenal of institutional racism: Weapons of Mass Deception.
One misinformed comfort from WMD fallout is that the US Supreme Court has a century old tradition of correcting race based excesses.
The outrage of lynching, for example, received a critical legal underpinning by the Supreme Court ruling arising from the 1873 massacre at the courthouse in Colfax, La. A white mob murdered over 100 blacks during a voting rights dispute.
That massacre produced charges against ninety-six people. The nine guilty verdicts resulted from convictions for conspiring to prevent blacks from exercising rights protected by the US Constitution – not murder.
The US Supreme Court tossed those convictions, proclaiming federal civil rights law only barred unconstitutional acts by state governments, not actions by individuals…even though some defendants were government employees: police.
Further, the court falsely claimed racial hostility did not motivate that mob.
Currently, conservative Supreme Court justices use the phrase "the constitution is color blind" when maliciously voiding civil rights measures.
These justices pervert the context of that phrase coined by the lone justice criticizing the Court's infamous 1896 separate-but-equal racial segregation ruling in a case from New Orleans.
In fairness to fact, race based prosecutions are not limited to Jena.
Last year, prosecutors in Philadelphia secured a conviction against a noted black community activist falsely charged with attacking police while giving community service to a white major league baseball player who ironically attacked a policeman in a drunken rage hours before police beat the activist.
Many of the activists calling attention to Jena assail racial prosecutions places as far flung as Benton Harbor, Michigan and San Francisco, Ca.
Race prejudice infects the US justice system from the prosecutor in Jena to Supreme Court justices, making a mockery of the term homeland security for millions of non-white American citizens.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his famous 1963 "I Have A Dream" speech – lauded by conservatives and liberals alike – urged America to lift itself from the "quick sands of racial injustice."
Linn Washington Jr. is a Philadelphia based journalist who is a graduate of the Yale Law Journalism Fellowship Program. Washington is a columnist for The Philadelphia Tribune, America's oldest African-American owned newspaper.


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Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you. They're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Before she was even born, the cards were stacked against Jade Farmer. Her father died five months before she was born at age 18, leaving her teenage mother to raise her on her own. Despite alarming statistics of teenage parents and limited education, Claudine Farmer was determined to make her life better for herself and her daughter.
At age 17, three years younger than Jade is now, Claudine gave birth; a year later she earned her GED. She also attended Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and University of Wisconsin-Baraboo, graduating with honors with an associate's degree in ethnic studies and is only 14 credits shy of earning her bachelor's degree.
"While raising Jade, there were not many times she didn't see me reading or writing," Claudine said of her oldest and only daughter. "Jade was taught to always work hard and to never give up."
As a Winnebago Indian, Jade learned how to overcome obstacles by watching her mom, who is now employed as the communications officer for the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.
"I am so lucky to have such a wonderful and caring mother to push me to be my best in every aspect of my life. I wouldn't be where I am without her," Jade said.
And where is she today? After graduating with a class of 24 from Bancroft-Rosalie High School in Bancroft, Nebraska in 2011, Jade enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, where today she is a sophomore business major.
Raising a family of three, which includes younger brothers Sammy and Gavin, Claudine taught her children through action that hard work and determination eventually pays off. And through that action, Jade will become the first in her family to earn a bachelor's degree.
Her dedication to her education is getting noticed, too.
Recently, Jade was one of 10 Nebraskans chosen to share more than $52,000 in renewable "Reaching Your Potential" scholarships from EducationQuest Foundation.
"I want to set an example for younger students and show them that they can go to college and that there's people out there willing to help them succeed if they put in the effort," the 20-year-old said.
Jade doesn't have to look very deep down her family tree to find more inspirations. Her great-grandmother, Dorothy Irene Bear-Holstein, became the first woman and first Native American woman to be named to the Nebraska School Board in the 1960s and Siouxland National Bank board of directors all while owning her own business in Winnebago for 20 years.
Despite never having the chance to meet her father, Leonard Zach Jr. is never far from her mind.
"I just wonder if he's proud of me and if I'm on the right path. I wonder what he was like, and I wish I could have met him once or he could have at least held me," Jade said of her father, who graduated from Walthill High School in Walthill, Nebraska in 1992. "Even though I miss him every day, I love the way my life has turned out because I might not be where I am today or have my two wonderful little brothers in my life."
Besides bearing a strong physical resemblance to her mother, Jade hopes to also follow in her footsteps.
"I chose business because I know I will enjoy it, and there are a variety of jobs available to me," Jade explained. "I would like to work for Ho-Chunk when I graduate or the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska."
Her mom knows she will succeed.
"Jade comes from a very long line of strong Winnebago women, and she is merely following in their footsteps while making some pretty big ones of her own. What some may view as obstacles, Jade has handled with gracious dignity and a profound desire to succeed."
Like her mom, who was named Coach of the Year while leading the Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County women's volleyball team, Jade enjoys playing volleyball and running around the track at the university's rec center. And like most students her age, she likes listening to music and sleeping.
As she continues her education to become a role model for others with similar challenges, Jade's main mission is to get her word out.
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You would think that the Department of Justice� responsibility would be to help protect all innocent citizens in the United States, but their recent actions against the Alamance County Sheriff�s Office, in my opinion, are very questionable.
Only days after the terrible massacre of 20 innocent 6 and 7-year-old children and six brave adult heroes in Newtown, Conn., the DOJ took out a lawsuit against our ACSO, citing profiling and unfair treatment of Hispanics. I would ask, has anyone from the Burlington Police Department, the ACSO or the North Carolina Highway Patrol shot and killed 26 legal or illegal Hispanics? I think not. To my knowledge, there is no record of even one Hispanic being killed anywhere in North Carolina and certainly not in Alamance County by law enforcement. Yet we see the DOJ continuing to spend an excessive amount of time and taxpayer money supposedly to protect Hispanics. Read the Times-News article on Jan. 10 detailing the exhaustive investigation by the DOJ.
As a taxpaying citizen, one concerned for safety for everyone, I would like to ask the DOJ to please change their priorities, drop what appears to me to be unprofessional trumped up charges against Sheriff Terry Johnson instead of working against him, direct your time working with him and all law enforcement agencies and focus on ways to prevent another massacre of innocent children.
One of the major complaints from the DOJ and their small group of supporters relates to traffic stops and checkpoints. In my opinion, we need more highway checkpoints across Alamance County and the entire U.S. This is one method of apprehending the law breakers and protecting innocent citizens. People across the U.S. and the entire world would give anything if there had been a traffic checkpoint in Newtown, Conn., and the killer with a car loaded with assault weapons and ammunition could have possibly been detained before he reached the school and carried out the horrible shootings of those innocent little children and adults.
Please, DOJ, refocus. Work to protect all law-abiding citizens.


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I always liked the so-called Alexandrian solution. In summary, there was a length of rope tied into an unbelievably complex knot in a kingless kingdom located in an area that is considered modern day Turkey. It was called the Gordian knot; named after an ox-cart driving peasant farmer named Gordias.
To make a long story short, it was quite a knot and the first person to untie the Gordian knot would be declared the king of the land. A guy named Alexander came along and developed a new set of knot-untying rules. Rather than sticking with traditional knot-tying techniques, Alex whipped out his sword and cut the knot in half, declared the problem solved, added the words "the Great" to his name and took over as king of the land.
Much later in history, a boxer named Muhammad Ali used a fighting technique called the rope-a-dope in his 1974 Rumble in the Jungle match against George Foreman. After knocking out Foreman in the eighth round, Ali claimed to be the "the Greatest." Alexander the Great, being dead for over 2000 years at the time, was unable to argue with Ali's one-upmanship. So it appears that throughout history, if a person does something extraordinary with a rope, they often feel a desire to attach some sort of superlative form of the adjective great to their name.
Anyhow, the Alexandrian solution became a metaphor for thinking out of the box. However, while you are thinking about a thinking-out-of-the-box solution, you can work in parallel and use another strategy that often works. You can try to find one little strand of the Gordian knot-like problem and unravel it, and then another, and then another.
Think in terms of tangled up Christmas tree lights or a complex knot in your shoelaces. The slice through it with a sword solution will not work out too well in these kinds of situations. It is better to start by unraveling one little section of the overall knot and patiently keep doing that until you get everything untangled.
Take any problem that you have been struggling with for a long time (business or personal, it does not matter), and think in terms of "is there some little piece of this overall mess I can unravel just to get started?"
For example, lets say procrastination is your "Gordian Knot." Looking at the overall situation might quickly become overwhelming (similar to facing George Foreman in a boxing ring). But what if you found one little thing you could do to ever so slightly unravel your intimidating knot of postponed priorities? Wouldn't that make things just a little bit better? And it has been my experience with the Christmas tree light problem that at some point the knots begin falling apart on their own.
What is your biggest "workplace knot?" What is the easiest thing you can do today to begin unraveling it? Why don't you give that a try? If you are successful, that would be great wouldn't it – perhaps even greater, or the greatest.
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SALISBURY — Organizers of the seventh annual tree lighting and library Christmas party in Salisbury this Sunday, Dec. 9, are inviting the entire community to come join the celebration.
The party in the library will begin at 3:30 p.m. with music by the Hardt family, reading of a holiday story, and refreshments.
MIDDLEBURY – The Middlebury College men's hockey team followed up a disappointing 3-3 tie in Friday's home opener vs. Connecticut with a display of their potential against visiting Tufts on Saturday afternoon in a 9-2 romp.
The 3-1-2 Panthers excelled in all phases against the 3-3-1 Jumbos, passing crisply, moving well off the puck, finishing chances, breaking out of their zone and attacking the Tufts end with possession, winning battles for the puck, playing hustling defense, and getting solid goaltending.
ADDISON COUNTY — The Vermont Interscholastic Football League's alignment committee has proposed a new two-year alignment that would retain the three-division structure, drop Otter Valley Union High School from Division II to Division III, and leave the cooperative Mount Abraham/Vergennes program in D-III.
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It's noteworthy that of the many remembrances friends, neighbors and colleagues had of the late state Rep. Greg Clark, his sense of humor, his broad smile and his ability to make people laugh and feel good were among the first mentioned. What better tribute than to know the days of other people's lives were brightened by your presence.
Vergennes residents might initially be wary that a 19-bed residential treatment facility for young women who are battling drug addiction and/or "self-injury behaviors" might soon occupy the former Briarwood Manor nursing home in Vergennes, but initial reports look promising and we think area residents will be comforted as they learn more about the operation and its plans.
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Analog warmth and color
Add some HEAT to your mix. Get the warmth and sonic character of analog "in the box" with HEAT (Harmonically Enhanced Algorithm Technology), an easy-to-use Pro Tools | Ultimate software add-on that gives you the euphonic characteristics of prized analog gear without the expense or added bulk.
Developed in collaboration with renowned audio designer Dave Hill, HEAT tightly integrates with your Pro Tools | HDX, Pro Tools | HD Native, or older Pro Tools | HD system, enabling you to easily create rich-sounding mixes like never before—with unique warmth, punch, and clarity. Whether you're mixing music or sound for picture, you'll get the unmistakable sonic characteristics of a vintage analog console or outboard gear to "gel" your mixes together—right in Pro Tools.
HEAT does more than just warm-up your sound—it actually fuses the color characteristics of vintage analog consoles, vacuum tube circuits, and analog tape into your mix using high-quality, sophisticated algorithms. In the analog world, euphonic characteristics are introduced across individual audio tracks when mixing on an analog console or tracking to analog tape. HEAT works similarly, processing all audio tracks individually. But it also gives you the power to tweak its Drive and Tone controls globally to get the sound you want, whether that means something richer, brighter, smoother, or livelier. You can also A/B individual tracks or the entire mix to compare your handiwork, choose a pre or post insert state, or bypass HEAT altogether.
While HEAT uses the AAX DSP, AAX Native, and TDM architectures to work its magic, it's no plugin, making it faster and easier to access and use. That's because HEAT appears right in the Pro Tools Mix window—no need to insert it on every individual track or select it from a menu. Use it on your entire mix, with global Drive and Tone control, for total effortlessness—just "set it and forget it!"—or bypass it on a track-by-track basis to only affect certain sounds.
Whether you're mixing music albums or music beds, you can finally step away from costly analog gear and get the sound you're after "in the box" with HEAT. Easily create great-sounding mixes that have the familiar sonic characteristics of being mixed through a vintage console or box—including the pleasant harmonic distortion that "glues" your mixes together—without having to endure the usual technical complexities—or expense.
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* The song source files were recorded in Pro Tools | Ultimate at 96 kHz, 24-bit resolution, and features all acoustic instruments, vocals, and one virtual instrument—Xpand!. We mixed the song in Pro Tools | Ultimate using an ICON D-Command ES console, bussed to internal stem tracks, and then to a final stereo track with the McDSP ML4000 ML1 mastering limiter. We then dithered it down to 16-bit resolution and converted the sample rate to 48 kHz for the video.
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Founder of Root Cause Medical Clinic
Co-author of "The Gluten Effect"
Author of the eBook: "Gluten Intolerance – What You Don't Know May Be Killing You!"
What tests are recommended to rule out an infectious process in the intestines? Would a normal colonoscopy rule out an infection?
No, a normal colonoscopy would not rule out an infection. Here at HealthNOW we use a lab which evaluated 4 different stool samples for not only parasites, amoebas, bacteria and yeast but also can identify the ova or eggs of certain species. That is significant because if the lab is only able to identify the adults they can miss an infection due to the fact that these organisms have a life cycle and they lay their eggs before dying off so there is a period where there are no active adults. I hope this is not all too graphic but believe me we frequently have patients who are told they don't have any intestinal infections only to do the test that BioHealth Diagnostics offers and find that not to be the case. BioHealth is located in L.A. We give patients kits that they take home and then the samples are sent to the lab and we get the results.
I hope this helps.
Dr Vikki Petersen
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An iPhone 4 Yoga Class For Your Enjoyment!
And here I thought that I was going to get some time to be able to publish more episodes to you guys…in JULY.
Not so much, but alas! Here's a yoga class to start the month off right! This one is close to my heart. It's focus is all about the way we are swayed and often times misguided by what we see and hear all around us, especially the media. It is a call to take responsibility for our choice making and the way we go about making choices. The inspiration for this class came straight from all the hoopla around the iPhone 4 and its antenna issues.
If you happen to follow me on Twitter or are part of the Facebook Elsie's Yoga Kula Community, you would know that I have an iPhone 4! Yipeeee! So I speak from my own experience with the device, and I'm totally loving it!
Given that I'm sure you have heard at least something about the whole antenna thing, so I sorta offer my 2 cents about it and wrap it around a yoga class.
What's interesting about this theme is that it mirrored the hoopla around an article on my beloved teacher John Friend in the NY Times. If you haven't already, please read the article, John's response to the article PLUS Elephant Journal's exclusive interview with John. Interesting how perspectives and opinions shift and change if you simply choose to step deeper into them 🙂 And move from your heart.
This week's online yoga class
This yoga podcast class is a level 2 class, and if you have a yoga block in the house, please feel free to take it out and play with it during our backbends towards the end of class. I cut a bit of the class in the middle because I did a demo that doesn't really work if you weren't there so why put you guys through it 🙂 If you do hear references to it, or to another demo that I had a student do, just dismiss them. Pretend that you went to the bathroom during that part of the class!
The Yoga Class Sequence
Downward Facing Dog
Eka Pada Adho Mukha Svanasana Opening Hip
High lunge onto straight leg on the front leg
Downward Dog
Bend elbows 3 inches
Crescent pose into Lunge Twist
Uttanasana x ardha uttanasana
Hands on hips shoulders up stand
Arms up interlace hands
Contrast shoulder loop
Big shoulder stretch
Surya namaskar x 2
Wide stance uttanasana with arms interlaced behind the back
Surya namaskar to Downward Facing Dog
Vira 2 into reverse vira
Trikonasana/ ardha chandrasana/ trikonasana
Down dog
Trikonasana sequence
Uttanasana/ardha uttanasana
Standing hip stretch
Standing hip stretch into standing baby craddle
deep lunge with back leg straight
ardha bhekasana
DD with knees bent for lower back adjustment
Pigeon with Thigh stretch
Downward Facing Dog
hands of hips shoulders up stand up
setubandha with block in between the thighs
(optional into Urdhva Dhanurasana)
setubandha with block in between your shins
(optional into Urdhva Dhanurasana)
Urdhva Dhanurasana or Bridge pose
easy supine twist
Supta Padangustasana variation with bottom leg bent/straightening the bottom leg