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CORAL GABLES, Fla. — There was a spirit of cooperation that hovered throughout much of the NCAA's long probe of Miami athletics, so much so that the sides used to call the proceedings a joint inquiry.
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — There was a spirit of cooperation that hovered throughout much of the NCAA's long probe of Miami athletics, so much so that the sides used to call the proceedings a joint inquiry.
That's not the case anymore.
And especially not now — not after a day during which the NCAA defended its mistakes and Miami demanded a speedy resolution.
With the long-awaited notice of allegations against Miami looming — and possibly being prepared for delivery by the NCAA as early as Tuesday — the sides both made strong statements on Monday, first when the NCAA said its "missteps" would not derail the case, then when the Hurricanes rebutted by calling the probe "unprofessional and unethical."
"This is going to go forward," NCAA President Mark Emmert said.
Countered Miami President Donna Shalala: "We have been wronged."
A legal battle now seems possible, especially since Miami made its position clear on Monday: It will not accept any other sanctions other than the stiff ones it already has self-inflicted, a list that includes missing three postseason football games, holding back some football scholarships and declaring several players ineligible after they were found to be involved in wrongdoing.
"This process must come to a swift resolution, which includes no additional punitive measures beyond those already self-imposed," Shalala wrote.
The saga began with a Miami booster alleging that he plied athletes, recruits and coaches with impermissible benefits such as cash, yacht trips, lavish dinners and strip-club outings. In the past few weeks, the NCAA has had to acknowledge that it paid that booster's attorney to use subpoena power to depose witnesses who were unwilling to cooperate with the investigation.
The NCAA said it paid Maria Elena Perez, the attorney for former booster Nevin Shapiro, more than $19,000 for work she performed, primarily using subpoena power to ask questions on the association's behalf and doing so under the guise of a bankruptcy case. The NCAA does not have subpoena power and was not involved in Shapiro's bankruptcy proceedings.
Upon learning that Perez was willing to participate with investigators, members of the NCAA's legal team urged the enforcement department not to proceed, though they apparently were ignored. And now the depositions given by former Miami equipment-room staffer Sean Allen and former Shapiro business partner Michael Huyghue — along with any other lead that came out of their interviews — have been tossed from the NCAA's case against the Hurricanes.
"Based upon our review, it is our opinion that the current assertions in the U. Miami Investigative Record are not based on evidence that is derived, directly or indirectly, from the depositions of Mr. Allen or Mr. Huyghue," said a report into the NCAA's relationship with Perez.
The report was ordered last month after wrongdoing within the NCAA office was first acknowledged.
Perez did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Florida Bar said last week that it has opened a file to see if Perez broke any rules through her involvement in the Miami-NCAA matter.
"Sadly the NCAA has not lived up to their own core principles," Shalala wrote. "The lengthy and already flawed investigation has demonstrated a disappointing pattern of unprofessional and unethical behavior. By the NCAA leadership's own admission, the University of Miami has suffered from inappropriate practices by NCAA staff."
Some of those NCAA staff are gone now, most recently and notably Julie Roe Lach. She was the NCAA's vice president for enforcement — its top cop — since 2010, and is now being replaced on a temporary basis by Jonathan Duncan, a lawyer with extensive experience working with the association.
"Obviously, this is an outcome that nobody wants to see on their watch or anyone else's," Emmert said. "This is something that's an embarrassment to the association and our staff."
Lach was part of the chain that approved payments to Perez, the attorney for Shapiro, a convicted Ponzi scheme architect now serving a 20-year term in federal prison. According to a 52-page report commissioned by the NCAA and released Monday, Perez offered her help to the NCAA in the form of "using bankruptcy subpoenas to compel depositions from witnesses who had refused to cooperate."
The NCAA, in turn, provided her with specific questions to ask, those coming in an email from former investigator Ameen Najjar, dated Dec. 18, 2011. "Maria, Listed below are a number of areas we would like you to explore," began the email from Najjar.
From there, he listed 34 questions, none of which seems to be in any way related to a bankruptcy case.
According to the NCAA, Perez billed the NCAA $57,115 for work performed from October 2011 through July 2012 — though Lach and other officials were expecting the amount of her work to cost roughly $15,000.
One email released by the NCAA from an investigator who worked on the case said they wanted her to depose Allen because the NCAA "did not think he would interview with us again" otherwise.
Another point in the report was that an NCAA staffer bought a prepaid cellphone and paid for Shapiro's prison phone calls. The NCAA spent about $8,200 "to fund communications with Mr. Shapiro, including transfers of approximately $4,500 to his prison commissary account."


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Thanks so much Dr. Rox !!! ^^
Quote from: caper on May 03, 2011, 02:01:31 PMThanks so much Dr. Rox !!! ^^
The samba task is taking place at the intersection of two streets - Rua Sau Francisco da Prainha and Rua Scadura Cabral.
I was also trying to figure out this location by working out the tall building in the left-hand background.
I tend to diagree, DrRox, because the roadblock should be first, before they head south for the detour and then west for the pitstop. Besides the fact that the roadblock is usually first, they seem to start in the central Rio area (where the airport, tram and roadblock are) and work away from it.Perhaps I misunderstood your post but it seemed like you were suggesting that the detour was before the roadblock.
Delurking for the first time to ask if anyone else finds it a bit odd that every team, save Kisha/Jen, have two different cabs in the promo (35 and 37 look like the same cab). It may not mean anything but I just thought to myself - "that's kind of weird"
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In Missouri, President Obama focuses on the economy, especially the middle class
Diana Klosterman listened closely Wednesday, applauding as President Barack Obama spoke in a stuffy auditorium on the campus of the University of Central Missouri.
Jobs? Check. The middle class? Check. More help for higher education? Check.
Did she hear anything to suggest compromise with Congress is possible on those issues?
"Absolutely not," the Higginsville, Mo., woman said. "But I don't think that's ever going to happen."
Klosterman's view was widely shared among Republicans, political scientists and even some Democrats following Obama's speech in Warrensburg and a longer address earlier in the day at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill.
As an agenda setter, they said, the speech was valuable. As a road map to compromise with a recalcitrant Congress, there was less to see.
"This was an attempt to go public," said James Staab, a political science professor at the university. "Directly to the American people."
Both speeches were widely seen to reflect a White House desire to pivot back to economic issues and the middle class. The long speech in Galesburg and the shorter version in Warrensburg came just weeks before expected battles this fall over the debt ceiling, the budget and the automatic spending reductions known as the sequester.
"We've got to focus on jobs and the economy," Obama told more than 1,500 people packed into the gymnasium on the UCM campus.
He called for a restoration of what he described as an implicit American bargain that rewards hard work with security and more fairly shares the spoils of the world's largest economy.
"We still live in an upside-down system" that rewards the rich for saving, but not the poor and middle class, he said in Illinois.
He touted the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, as a significant step to protect working families from financial ruin by making health insurance more affordable for a wider range of Americans. He boasted that insurance premiums in New York will drop by half in new markets set up by the act. Analysts have noted that the large state could be an aberration unlikely to be repeated across the country.
"Building the middle class, making sure they're secure, that's my highest priority," he said. "When the economy's working for the middle class, that solves a lot of other problems."
And he urged Great Society-style programs, from preschool education to the subsidizing of college student loans.
"If you think education is expensive," Obama said, "you should see how much ignorance is going to cost in the 21st century."
Obama provided few new policy details in either speech. He promised more specifics on education, jobs and spending in the weeks ahead.
Republicans were swift to reject the president's remarks.
"The Obama presidency is in free fall and President Obama is not so much trying to restart as to distract Americans from his failures," said Missouri GOP chairman Ed Martin.
Sen. Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican, spent the day doing TV interviews, floor speeches and a news conference with political reporters. Each time, Blunt sharply criticized Obama's effort to move away from divisive arguments over guns, immigration and foreign affairs.
"This is about his 11th or 12th reset," Blunt said on MSNBC.
Obama did not shy away from criticizing Republicans. He accused House GOP members of preventing progress on a number of fronts — the failure, for example, to pass a farm bill that contained funding for the food stamp program.
"With this endless parade of distractions and political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball," he said in Illinois. "I am here to say this needs to stop."
Kansas City Councilman Jermaine Reed, who was in Warrensburg for the speech, said it was a message the GOP needs to hear.
"The American people can't wait," he said. "He's doing exactly what he needs to do."
But Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, said the addresses are unlikely to undo the logjam between the White House and Capitol Hill.
"Presidential speeches in and of themselves almost never reset administrations," he said. "Events and trends do."
Obama's speech on the UCM campus started nearly an hour late. People stood shoulder to shoulder in the warm gym, sipping ice water and waving homemade fans. A few swooned in the heat and were treated at the scene.
Obama chose UCM to highlight the way the Missouri Innovation Campus prepares students to advance their educations at an accelerated pace while lowering costs and avoiding loan debt. The program began last year in partnership with the university, the Lee's Summit School District, Metropolitan Community College and local companies such as Cerner Corp.
It teams classes with on-the-job experience so students secure associate degrees at the same time they earn high school diplomas. Then they're on pace to finish a bachelor's degree in two years. It also aims to arm them with the skills that employers are looking for and gives them an inside track to jobs with local companies.
"That's a recipe for success over the long term," Obama said.
Students from the program joined the president on the podium and were scattered in the audience.
The Warrensburg speech highlighted higher education — and the need to reduce the cost of a college degree, rather than simply make it cheaper to borrow.
"If we don't have smart kids, we don't have a future," said Susan Graham, a teacher at UCM, after the speech.
Like many Warrensburg residents, she welcomed the president's visit. There were few protesters, and welcome signs lined the highway between Whiteman Air Force Base, where Obama landed, and the UCM campus.
Warrensburg is part of Missouri's heavily Republican 4th Congressional District. While several GOP state lawmakers from the area attended the address, Rep. Vicky Hartzler did not.
Gov. Jay Nixon and Sen. Claire McCaskill, both Missouri Democrats, were on hand.
The view that Wednesday's speeches would have little permanent impact was not universal. Norm Ornstein of the conservative American Enterprise Institute said it is possible the addresses will reframe the debate and force a dysfunctional government to act.
"It's not like you're going to suddenly mobilize Americans across the board for you," he said. "But the fact is the president has a bully pulpit that nobody else has.
"Even if it's not a superpower — it's not like X-ray vision or the ability to fly — nobody else has it. When he speaks, he can have an impact on shaping that agenda."


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Ok, so my crpto lecturer in Uni posed this question at the end of the RSA key generation lecture as a brain teaser.
I have been thinking about this and I think I have come up with a way ( I am aware its not practical and very vulnerable - But I would love for you guys to punch holes through it ):
Use RSA to generate public and private key pair.
Make an additive hash function that taken in any input and adds the ascii value of each character and gives that as an output. ( I am aware additive hash has horrible distribution for ex ABC , BAC , ACB all have the same hash output -- but theoretically this can be used as an advantage to solve our problem )
Now take your public key and generate several possible keys by jumbling up the on and off bits.
Give these jumbled up keys to potential customers.
Put our hash function on the server.
When customer puts in his jumbled up public key - Hash function calculates the hash - which should be similar to original public key generated by RSA. Customer gets access.
Once again I am aware that this is very vulnerable and terrible. It cant be used in the real world. But does it answer the question my lecturer posed ?
Guys I am sorry for the confusion. This question has nothing to do with collisions and expoiting the maths ( Those are definitely valid ways to do that - but they weren't what my lecturer was referring too - they were discussed in the lecture itself. ). The way my lecturer asked this question was - " come up with ways to make several public keys related to a single private key - nevermind how vulnerable your solution is ".


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Jeff Ramsey seeks re-election to Gaston County school board for At Large District. He faces a challenge from Josh Helms.
School board candidate questions
Name: Jeff K. Ramsey
Age: 49
Family: Married to Jennifer Guy Ramsey; father of two children, Andrew, 15, in Gaston County Schools and Tyler, 18, attends Appalachian State University.
Current job: Sales Engineer for Spraying Systems Co.
Previous political experience: Served as Cramerton�s Town Commissioner/Mayor Pro Tem for 14 years. Currently serving on the Gaston County school board.
Contact information: 1006 Middleton Court Cramerton, NC 28032; Phone: 704-823-8596
Ever been convicted of a crime? No.
Q. Should students be able to express their opinions about school on social media such as Facebook or Twitter on their own time?
Q. How should the school system deal with aging facilities and a student population that has not been growing?
A. Utilize the balance of our 2007 Schools Bonds approved by the voters, so we can repair and renovate our existing schools.
Q. Is the current school board accessible to the community? If not, what would you change?
A. Yes, the board is accessible to the community. We hold two public meeting a month and participate in numerous schools events that parents can attend.
Q. Should teachers be paid based on their performance? Why or why not?
A. First, we need to provide a better base salary and get it back to the national average and then we can look at pay for performance.
Q. What would be your top three objectives if you were elected to the school board?


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bufio's reader and writer as we have done here means that we can work with convenient high-level
string values, completely insulated from the raw bytes that represent the text on disk. And, of course, thanks to our deferred anonymous function, we know that any buffered bytes are written to the writer when the
americanise() function returns, providing that no error has occurred.
func makeReplacerFunction(file string) (func(string) string, error){ rawBytes, err := ioutil.ReadFile(file) if err != nil { return nil, err } text := string(rawBytes) usForBritish := make(map[string]string) lines := strings.Split(text, "\n") for _, line := range lines { fields := strings.Fields(line) if len(fields) == 2 { usForBritish[fields[0]] = fields[1] } } return func(word string) string { if usWord, found := usForBritish[word]; found { return usWord } return word }, nil }
makeReplacerFunction() takes the name of a file containing original and replacement strings and returns a function that, given an original string, returns its replacement, along with an error value. It expects the file to be a UTF-8 encoded text file with one whitespace-separated original and replacement word per line. In addition to the
bufio package's readers and writers, Go's
io/ioutil package provides some high-level convenience functions, including the
ioutil.ReadFile() function used here. This function reads and returns the entire file's contents as raw bytes (in a
[]byte) and an error. As usual, if the error is not
nil, we immediately return it to the caller along with a
nil replacer function. If we read the bytes okay, we convert them to a string using a Go conversion of form
type(variable). Converting UTF-8 bytes to a string is very cheap because Go's strings use the UTF-8 encoding internally.
The replacer function we want to create must accept a string and return a corresponding string, so what we need is a function that uses some kind of lookup table. Go's built-in map collection data type is ideal for this purpose. A map holds key–value pairs with very fast lookup by key. So here we will store British words as keys and their U.S. counterparts as values.
Go's map, slice, and channel types are created using the built-in
make() function. This creates a value of the specified type and returns a reference to it. The reference can be passed around (e.g., to other functions) and any changes made to the referred-to value are visible to all the code that accesses it. Here we have created an empty map called
usForBritish, with string keys and string values.
With the map in place, we then split the file's text (which is in the form of a single long string) into lines, using the
strings.Split() function. This function takes a string to split and a separator string to split on and does as many splits as possible. (If we want to limit the number of splits, we can use the
strings.SplitN() function.) The iteration over the lines uses a
for loop syntax that we haven't seen before, this time using a
range clause. This form can be conveniently used to iterate over a map's keys and values, over a communication channel's elements, or as here over a slice's (or array's) elements. When used on a slice (or array), the slice index and the element at that index are returned on each iteration, starting at index
0 (if the slice is nonempty). In this example, we use the loop to iterate over all the lines, but since we don't care about the index of each line, we assign it to the blank identifier (
_), which discards it.
We need to split each line into two: the original string and the replacement string. We could use the
strings.Split() function, but that would require us to specify an exact separator string, say,
"", which might fail on a hand-edited file where sometimes users accidentally put in more than one space or sometimes use tabs. Fortunately, Go provides the
strings.Fields() function, which splits the string it is given on whitespace and is therefore much more forgiving of human-edited text. If the
fields variable (of type
[]string) has exactly two elements, we insert the corresponding key–value pair into the map. Once the map is populated, we are ready to create the replacer function that we will return to the caller.
We create the replacer function as an anonymous function given as an argument to the return statement along with a
nil error value. (Of course, we could have been less succinct and assigned the anonymous function to a variable and returned the variable.) The function has the exact signature required by the
regexp.Regexp.ReplaceAllStringFunc() method that it will be passed to. Inside the anonymous replacer function, all we do is look up the given word. If we access a map element with one variable on the left-hand side, that variable is set to the corresponding value or to the value type's zero value if the given key isn't in the map. If the map value type's zero value is a legitimate value, then how can we tell if a given key is in the map? Go provides a syntax for this case and that is generally useful if we simply want to know whether a particular key is in the map which is to put two variables on the left-hand side, the first to accept the value and the second to accept a
bool indicating if the key was found. In this example, we use this second form inside an
if statement that has a simple statement (a short variable declaration), and a condition (the found Boolean). So we retrieve the
usWord (which will be an empty string if the given word isn't a key in the map), and a found flag of type
bool. If the British word was found, we return the U.S. equivalent; otherwise, we simply return the original word unchanged.
There is a subtlety in the
makeReplacerFunction() function that may not be immediately apparent. In the anonymous function created inside it, we access the
usForBritish map, yet this map was created outside the anonymous function. This works because Go supports closures. A closure is a function that "captures" some external state for example, the state of the function it is created inside, or at least any part of that state that the closure accesses. So here, the anonymous function that is created inside the
makeReplacerFunction() is a closure that has captured the
usForBritish map.
Another subtlety is that the
usForBritish map is a local variable and yet we will be accessing it outside the function in which it is declared. It is perfectly fine to return local variables in Go. Even if they are references or pointers, Go won't delete them while they are in use and will garbage-collect them when they are finished with (when every variable that holds, refers, or points to them has gone out of scope).
This article has shown some basic low-level and high-level file-handling functionality using
os.Create(), and
ioutil.ReadFile(). Go's built-in collection types slices and maps largely obviate the need for custom collection types while providing extremely good performance and great convenience. Go's treatment of functions as first-class values in their own right and its support for closures makes it possible to use some advanced and very useful programming idioms. And Go's
defer statement makes it straightforward to avoid resource leakage.
The first article in this series is Getting Going with Go
This article is adapted from the author's recent book, Programming in Go. The source code from the book should be consulted for the full source code of these examples. The main example is listed under "americanise."
Mark Summerfield is an independent trainer, consultant, and writer specializing in Go, Python, C++, and Qt.
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Christian freedom carries with it the heavy responsibility of never using our freedom in a way that harms tender consciences, and the duty never to impose our personal scruples regarding indifferent matters on others. Besides studying God's Word, one of ...Read More
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Christians who choose not to exercise their liberty before immature believers need not do the same when they are not with immature believers. The weaker brother may not bind the conscience of the stronger believer, and as we will see ...Read More
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John Calvin comments, "They who are strong should spend their labor in assisting the weak, and that they who have made the greatest advances should bear with the more ignorant. For God, by making us stronger than others, does not ...Read More
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Oftentimes, those who possess advanced knowledge of the Christian faith look down upon those who are still babes in Christ. However, this was neither the attitude of Christ nor the attitude of the New Testament writers. Ask the Lord to ...Read More


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Compass and Scale Image for GOODS South Deep CANDELS Image
GOODS South Deep (GSD) and Distant galaxies
The image was created from Hubble WFC3 data from proposal 11359, R. O'Connell (University of Virginia) and collaborators, combined with Hubble ACS GOODS v2.0 data, which includes data from proposal 9425: M. Giavalisco (University of Massachusetts) et al., and proposal 10340: A. Riess (JHU and STScI). The science team for this release is led by A. van der Wel (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany), and the images were produced by A. Koekemoer (STScI).
WFC3/UVIS: F225W (UV), F275W (UV), and F336W (U)
ACS/WFC: F435W (B), F606W (V), F775W (i), and F850LP (z)
WFC3/IR: F098M (blue grism), F125W (J), and F160W (H)
This image is a composite of many separate exposures made by the ACS and WFC3 instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope using different filters that isolate broad wavelengths. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are:
Blue: F225W (UV) + F275W (UV) + F336W (U) + F435W (B)
Green: F098M (blue grism) + F606W (V) + F775W (i) + F850LP (z)
Red: F098M (blue grism) + F125W (J) + F160W (H)


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After parsing the unemployment report that was issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Friday, November 2nd, two scholars at the Heritage Foundation, Rea Hederman and James Sherk, concluded that at the present jobs growth rate it could take another five years for a full jobs recovery to occur from the Great Recession. That would place the recovery after the next presidential election in 2016, and nearly ten years after the start of the recession in December 2007.
Noting that 125,000 new jobs must be created every month just to keep up with population growth, they turned to the "jobs calculator" offered at the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and asked it to determine how long it would take for job growth to return to normal, based on the average job growth over the past three months (170,000). The answer: the summer of 2017.
This assumption that future job growth would be maintained at that rate is laden with so many difficulties and subject to so many unknowns as to call the entire exercise into question. This is called "straight line thinking in a curvilinear world," or, put another way, this assumes that the future will look like the past. It probably won't.
For instance, there is the "fiscal cliff" and the great uncertainty about how the lame duck congress will deal with it, if they deal with it at all. Great speculation abounds about various scenarios, but each concludes that such a monthly job growth assumption could be wildly off the mark, resulting in much lower job growth in the future.
Secondly, now that the president is free to work his will without having to face an unhappy electorate, the expected tsunami of regulations pouring out of Washington will certainly hamper job creators in the years ahead.
Thirdly, the recession extending across the nations of the European Union will likely ripple across the Atlantic to slow American businesses even further.
Finally, the predictable moving of American jobs abroad to avoid the draconian impact of ObamaCare mandates will further slow the economy and job growth.
Another Heritage scholar, J.D. Foster, has calculated that the president's attempts to stimulate job growth have in fact fallen short by more than 7 million jobs. Foster's thesis is simple: He used President Obama's own words. During the fall of 2008, Obama promised that he would create 2.5 million jobs by December 2010. Then at the end of 2008, Obama revised his target upward, promising that he would create 3.5 million jobs by the end of 2010. At that moment in time, employment stood at 135.1 million, so his revised "target" was 138.6 million jobs by December 2010.
But the current jobs report showed only 133.8 million are employed, more than one million fewer than in 2008, and nearly 5 million short of Obama's "target" number he promised by the end of 2010.
It's now the end of 2012. Foster took Obama's promise of 138.6 million and factored in the jobs that must be added simply to absorb new entrants into the workforce — about 125,000 jobs every month. That revised Obama "target" would, if it had been accomplished, required that the American workforce be at 141.5 million. But the current employment report from the BLS shows only 133.8 million are employed. That's 7.7 million jobs short of Obama's promises.
Foster explains that it was faulty reasoning behind Obama's failed promises that resulted in such a massive shortfall:
This [Keynesian] theory of demand manipulation through deficit spending ignores the simplest of realities: Government spending must be financed. So to finance deficit spending, government must borrow from private markets, thereby reducing private demand by the same amount as deficit spending increases public demand. In effect, the theory says that if I take a dollar from my right pocket and put it in my left, then I'm a dollar richer. No wonder it always fails.
Foster thinks Obama's promises were flawed from the beginning and that his policies are purposefully keeping the economy from growing:
Seemingly bent on perpetuating joblessness, Obama and his allies are seeking to raise some of the most damaging taxes possible. They seek to raise tax rates on the investors who are needed to provide seed corn for new businesses and on small businesses that use this seed corn to spur innovation and job growth. Foolish in the best of times, raising these economically punishing taxes in the face of high unemployment is indefensible.
He calls this deliberate promotion of failed economic policies "economic malpractice":
The intentions of Obama and his congressional allies to raise tax rates on small businesses, on savers and investors, on the risk takers who propel the economy with their successes goes well beyond ideology to economic policy malpractice.
As discouraging as the reports from these Heritage scholars may be, they could in fact be too optimistic about the economy recovering by 2017. With the unknowns facing the economy from the "fiscal cliff," the coming wave of regulations, the ripple effect of Europe in recession, and the moving of jobs abroad to escape the ObamaCare mandates, unemployment staying close to double digits for the foreseeable future may very well become the "new normal" and a full recovery just wishful thinking.


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Cereal-based EntertainmentApril 05, 2003
I don't eat breakfast cereal. Or at least, I don't anymore. I grew up with Rice Krispies and Cheerios, like any other kid, but I've long tired of it. In conversation this week I was reminded of my all–time favorite breakfast cereal, Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I had to have some, it was that simple.
So I was in the grocery store this afternoon, visting the cereal aisle for the first time in how long. And you know what they've started doing while I wasn't looking? There were DVDs on the front of almost every box. The one I picked up, for example, contained "Reflections of Olympic Gold", Episode 3.
Three episodes of this [deadpans:] serial so far, with undoubtedly more on the way. With licensed content (maybe even commissioned?) and a few cents of cheap plastic, General Mills has begun selling entertainment along with their product.
If you've read the wonderful No Logo by Naomi Klein, this shouldn't be a surprise. Corporate sponsorship and patronage of the arts has recently repositioned so drastically, that events are no longer about the artists but the brand behind them.
Is this the future of entertainment? Will creative endeavours be forced to partner with a product, selling licenses to their material instead of selling the material directly to the consumer? Will I need to buy a bag of Doritos to get my Simpsons fix? The ever–pervasiveness of marketing is starting to take some really strange forms.
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Perhaps you've seen this?
The video segment on the Sprite event blows me away, where there's an event being put on by a brand, broadcast by a company whose role is to further the brand by furthering the event and help align the brand with the acts and the audience with the attendees, who are, infact employees of the brand, thereby creating a show within a show for an ostensibly non-existent audience within audience which does exist and does, I should hope, hold power to buy sugar-water. Let the good times roll!
I witnessed much the same thing when MuchMusic filmed SnowJob in Jasper while I was living there. In reality, it was a bit of a dud (put lightly in the event Master T reads yer blog) with VJ's getting snowballs thrown at them for being so annoying and a thin, mute audience shivering away. All the "artists" were of the major-label cookie-cutter type (Sugar Ray, the Moffits, etc.) and played multiple takes of songs, live audience be damned. On TV it was a rock-n-roll party that Sammy Hagar would be envious of.
Now, I might be wrong, but I think there was a contest tied to a brand where the lucky winner won a trip to Jasper to see the "event" first-hand. They should have sent him/her to the editing room in Toronto where the real artists were at work.
So Sprite created an event to promote its brand, littered the audience with paid agents to spread the goodwill, and basically had control of the whole thing from the get-go. It's been a while, so I can't remember if Klein was saying this had happened, or would happen, but either way — you sure can't fault her writing. She was right on the money.
Dear Mr. Hooper,
We here at Quaker Oats, the producers of fine cereals such as Captain Crunch, take our corporate image very seriously. We recently learned of your libellous claim against our very fine product on a web site, and we wish to inform you that you have 48 hours to reverse your position and issue a retraction.
Luckily we have an on-going program where we sponsor fine web sites and upcoming talent, and we noticed you are a designer yourself. You may make full amends by allowing us to run targetted advertising on your web site, as well as working subliminal advertising for our products into all future commissions you work on.
We even have an upcoming event you can help us promote. A musical venue, with popular bands like Sugar Ray that's targetting our key demographic. We're sure you'll be interested.
Quaker Oats
Cinnamon Toast Crunch is a bomb, in cereal language. I remember when it first came out. My FAV right away. Like yourself, I no longer really eat cereal any more. One thing that I've noticed is it's damn spendy. Cinnamon Toast Crunch is more than $5 a box now. For the nutrition you get out of it, I'll spend than on Pepperage Farms Double Chocolate Milano cookies… ahhh.. :)
Cheerios give you nasty breath.
On the cereal nutrition tip: there was a study where they fed one group of rats a steady diet of Cap'n Crunch with milk and another group the Cap'n Crunch box and milk. Guess which rats were reportedly healthier?
(I can't verify this, so this Amazing Fact may, infact, just be Amazing)


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INDIANAPOLIS � Barkevious Mingo is ready for questions he will face this weekend in Indianapolis.
Seemingly every NFL team at the annual scouting combine will ask about his relationship with former college teammate Tyrann Mathieu and whether he ever hung out with the troubled cornerback.
The answers could make as much difference in Mingo living up to his projection as a first-round draft pick as his time in the 40-yard dash. So the LSU star has left nothing to chance, carving out time to prepare for the 15-minute interviews.
�It�s one thing that all the guys that came out from LSU are going to face,� Mingo said during a telephone interview. �We know what kind of guy he was and we�re always going to be there for him.�
Interview training has become an essential component for draft hopefuls. Most, if not all, of the 333 players expected to arrive in Indy for the combine have been instructed in how to answer coaches and general managers properly.
This year, the questions run the gamut.
Running back Marcus Lattimore is trying to prove he can return from a gruesome knee injury. Mathieu, a cornerback, and Da�Rick Rogers, a receiver, both were booted off the teams they intended to play for last fall after failing drug tests. Linebacker Alec Ogletree will have to answer for a series of problems that included a suspension for violating team rules early last season, and linebacker Manti Te�o will likely contend with the girlfriend hoax all over again. And those are just the big-name guys.
Lee Gordon, a former television anchor, runs a training program for Athletes Performance, whose client list includes Mingo and Lattimore. His advice: Be appealing, believable and accentuate the positive.
�We tell them up front that coaching you on this is similar to tackling techniques and the things you do on the field, but you have to be yourself,� Gordon said. �You can�t be fake or people will see right through it. What we do is give them a chance to see the media and the (team) interviews as a business opportunity.�
Obviously, the advice deviates greatly from player to player.
For instance, Gordon suggested Lattimore explain to teams that he will be ready on opening day, if that�s what he truly believes, and to provide supporting medical evidence to prove it.
Some don�t need as much training as others, though everyone seems to benefit. UCLA running back Jonathan Franklin, another of Gordon�s clients, worked as an intern in the Los Angeles mayor�s office and filmed a teen reality show in which he was depicted as a role model for inner-city children. Going through this program, though, gave Franklin a different perspective on how to handle things in Indy.
�In the mayor�s office, it�s more about helping people and saying things to give people hope where you help them believe things are going to happen. Sometimes it takes time. So in the mayor�s office, you have to speak more patiently,� Franklin said. �Here, you have to be more aggressive and more hands on and let them know you�re going to be the man.�
All this coaching has made things infinitely more difficult for the teams to sort out.
Over the years, Bill Polian, the architect of four Super Bowl teams in Buffalo and two in Indianapolis, grew so wary of these �coached� answers that he changed the way the Colts did business. Instead of asking the questions himself or having other front office personnel or coaches conduct interviews, Polian used a psychologist who could immediately tell the difference between honest answers and scripted ones. If the person believed the answers had been programmed, the order of the questions changed.
Even today, Polian is skeptical that teams will get the answers needed to make the right choices.
�I wouldn�t put any stock into the answers they give you. You know it�s spin. I�m not saying they�re not being truthful, but you have to go through it and figure it out for yourself,� he said when asked about the responses from players with drug issues or criminal allegations in their past.
He later added: �It�s not like what most people would think of a job interview. Here you have agents and advisers involved, and the agent�s idea is �Let me give you as little information as possible about this kid until the draft.��
Breaking down that information is entirely up to the teams, and that�s not the only thing that has changed about the combine.
Over the past decade, NFL officials have moved media interviews from hotel hallways to podiums. Hundreds of reporters are now credentialed to cover the event as opposed to the dozens who used to show up 15 years ago, a scene Te�o might have to contend with this weekend for the first time since the hoax story broke.
This year, the league will introduce a new measuring tool � the NFL Player Assessment Test, which has been billed as a compliment to the Wonderlic intelligence test. Polian described it as more of a personality test than a psychological examination but acknowledged most teams have been examining the personality traits of draft hopefuls for years.
What else is different?
The lessons Gordon gives on social media, the same medium that turned Te�o from a national inspiration into a national punch line.
�What we do is have interns go find out who we�ll be working with and try to friend them, and usually about 85 percent of them will say yes,� Gordon said. �We�ll tell them we�re all real people with real pictures and then we�ll show them how easy it is to get access to their life and their world. We�ll tell them that people are truly disguising themselves as other people, and if you don�t know them to defriend them because regardless of who it is, these people can see your pictures and all that stuff. We explain that these NFL guys, they know everything. So we tell them to clean it up before it�s too late.�
And he does mean everything.
While the stories of Mathieu, Ogletree and others have been well-documented over the past year, it�s not just those players who will face questioning this weekend.
�I�ve been asked that already,� Mingo said. �He knows he messed up, he made it harder on himself. He�ll be prepared for it (the questions).�
Just like all the other pro prospects this weekend.


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The Lakers usually emerge from the trade deadline with an intact roster geared for a championship run or with a significant move destined to accelerate the rebuilding process.
This season, neither scenario happened.
The only move the Lakers made leading into the NBA's trade deadline entailed sending Steve Blake to the Golden State Warriors for young, seldom-used shooting guards Kent Bazemore and MarShon Brooks, a deal that saved the Lakers $4 million in combined salary and luxury taxes.
Pau Gasol survived another trade scenario. Jordan Hill and Chris Kaman are also here. But the Lakers (18-36) enter tonight's game against the Boston Celtics (19-36) at Staples Center with mostly the same roster that has spiraled into a tie with the Sacramento Kings for last place in the Western Conference.
The Lakers also failed to collect any additional draft picks for this year's star-studded class or fall under the luxury tax threshold.
"Maybe once every 10 years, or maybe once every 15 years, you might have a bad year," Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak said Thursday at the Lakers' practice facility in El Segundo. "Our hope and desire is that next year will be a lot better than this year, and we certainly have the tools to begin the process."
Kupchak attributed the Lakers' failure to grab a draft pick as a product of teams holding onto picks for this year's star-studded draft. The Lakers' payroll remains at $76.9 million and the luxury tax threshold stays at $71.7 million. That leaves the Lakers vulnerable to the repeater tax, a penalty that applies to teams that spend over the luxury tax in four of five seasons since the NBA's new labor deal was constructed in 2011.
But Kupchak said "the organization is not motivated by saving a certain number of dollars."
Several teams, including the Phoenix Suns, Charlotte Bobcats and Cleveland Cavaliers, expressed interest in Gasol. But the Lakers were intent on acquiring draft picks for Gasol's expiring $19.3 million contract. The Lakers talked with Brooklyn, Phoenix, Cleveland and Dallas about trading Hill, but they couldn't attract any draft picks in that offer, either.
Meanwhile, the Lakers haven't offered a timetable on when Kobe Bryant will return from a fractured left leg, while Kupchak added "we're not going to push him to get back."
Kupchak said the Lakers will defer to Steve Nash on whether he will play out the last year of his contract next season, worth $9.8 million, after experiencing constant nerve irritation in his back. Kupchak also guessed Lakers forward Nick Young will opt out of his player option.
"Next year we're going to have Kobe, who is healthy," Kupchak said. "We will have a good draft choice and we'll have dollars to spend on free agents."
The Lakers aren't expected to pursue possible high-level free agents this offseason, including Miami's LeBron James (unrealistic) and New York's Carmelo Anthony (not interested). The potential candidates for the 2015 class include Minnesota's Kevin Love, Oklahoma City's Russell Westbrook, Boston's Rajon Rondo, Portland's LaMarcus Aldridge and Memphis' Marc Gasol.
Bryant's two-year, $48.5 million extension through the 2015-16 season allows the Lakers enough money to secure one high-level free agent in the next two years.
"It may take more than one year to build," Kupchak said. "Just because we have a lot of money this summer, doesn't mean we'll spend it all. We'll spend it wisely."
Magic Johnson recently said he's asked Kupchak to help out with free agency recruiting efforts. Johnson sold his 4.5 percent ownership stake with the Lakers in 2010, but remains an unpaid vice president with the team.
"Hopefully, Earvin's looking for a second baseman," Kupchak joked, referring to Johnson's involvement with the Dodgers' ownership group. "He's always been quick to call and encourage when he was our vice president for so many years … I have called on him from time to time to help me, whether it's, 'I want to run something past you, can you meet with a player and make a phone call for me.' Even though he's working for the Dodgers now, that has not changed."
Still, Johnson has criticized the Lakers plenty, ranging from the hiring of coach Mike D'Antoni last year over Phil Jackson to vice president of player personnel Jim Buss.
"It comes from the heart," Kupchak said. "It's not like there's some agenda there that he's trying to accomplish something."
Kupchak also downplayed the transition period a year after the passing of the late Lakers owner Jerry Buss. Kupchak compared the Lakers' recent troubles to when the team missed the playoffs in the 2004-05 season one year after trading Shaquille O'Neal to Miami. Four years later, the Lakers won an NBA title.
"It's natural when you lose an owner like that with Dr. Buss for people to say what's going on," Kupchak said. "But you have to trust the organization. Everyone is on the same page. We have a plan. I can't guarantee you can execute a plan in six months, 12 months or 18 months. But we're well-positioned and the organization has chosen to follow Dr. Buss' legacy, which is to win championships."


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Netflix has struck a deal with Weinstein Co. for the exclusive U.S. pay-television rights to the independent film studio's first-run movies, beginning in 2016.
The arrangement represents a further step in the budding Internet television service's strategy of securing exclusive movies and TV shows for its 37 million subscribers -- and representing the second time Netflix has outmaneuvered a premium cable channel for the U.S. subscription TV rights for a major studio's releases.
Last December, Netflix won the pay-TV rights from Starz to movies from Walt Disney Co., including Disney, Marvel and Lucasfilm live-action releases and animated fare from its Pixar and Disney studios.
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Netflix already distributes Weinstein Co.'s documentaries and foreign films, including the Academy Award-winning best picture "The Artist" and the best documentary feature "Undefeated." The newly announced multi-year deal with Weinstein covers theatrical releases starting in 2016, after the studio's current deal with Showtime expires.
"The deal that we've just completed with Netflix is probably the biggest deal in the history of the Weinstein Co.," co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein said in a statement. "Together, we are discussing ways to reinvent the pay-TV experience so that the audience can get even more for their money."
Deal terms were not released, though payments are often calculated based on how many movies are released and the box office performance. Media analyst Barton Crockett of Lazard Capital estimated the cost at about $30 million a year.
Crockett lauded the deal for bolstering Netflix's movie offerings -- bringing it content from a "hot studio" whose releases have included such Oscar winners as "Django Unchained" (lead-actor Oscar winner Christoph Waltz), "Silver Linings Playbook" (lead-actress Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence) and "The King's Speech" (best picture).
"Over the next few years, Netflix's movie lineup, we believe, will become second only to HBO's in prominence and exclusivity," Crockett wrote in an analyst note.
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A week ago Monday, President Barack Obama nominated former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense, calling him "an American patriot."
The prior Sunday, Sen. Roger Wicker tweeted that he would "strongly oppose" the nomination. "Chuck Hagel would be a divisive and disastrous nominee for SecDef," read the tweet.
Remarkable that Wicker took such an early, strong position against someone with Mississippi ties.
Hagel is married to the former Lilabet Ziller of Meridian. They met in 1982 when Hagel served as a deputy administrator of the Veterans Administration under Ronald Reagan and Ziller served as Congressman Sonny Montgomery's staffer on the Veterans Affairs Committee. They married in 1985 and are regular visitors to the Queen City and local haunts like Jean's Restaurant. "He relaxes more in Meridian than anywhere else," Lil told The Meridian Star.
A veteran and volunteer infantryman in the Vietnam War where he earned two Purple Hearts and the Army Commendation Medal, Hagel was "one of the gang" said a former Montgomery staffer. The gang was a group of pro-America military and veterans leaders that regularly joined Sonny for breakfast in Longworth House Office Building cafeteria. Admirably, Hagel resigned his V.A. position after then administrator Robert Nimmo referred to veterans groups as "greedy."
Remarkable, too, that Wicker took his position before Hagel was nominated, before the Senate held any confirmation hearings and before Hagel had any chance to express his views and defend his record.
The loudest opposition to Hagel comes from the ever-more-strident pro-Israel lobby.
The strongest opposition, however, may come from the defense lobby. While a proponent of a strong national defense, Hagel is an Eisenhower Republican willing to go after wasteful Pentagon spending. He has called the $525-billion defense budget, which doubled since 2001 (not counting war costs), "bloated." As the next SecDef he would oversee what are expected to be significant cuts to military spending.
In a statement released prior to the nomination, Wicker somewhat explained his position.
"Sen. Hagel's record of opposing Iran sanctions is troubling," he said. "His views and positions on the Middle East and Israel are contrary to the Administration's own stated policies, and there are concerns from members of both parties about this nomination."
Republicans with relevant leadership experience say otherwise — former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell, former National Security Advisor Gen. Brent Snowcroft and former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge say otherwise, along with five former U.S. ambassadors to Israel. They add that foreign policy related to Israel will be dictated by Obama, not Hagel.
Judging from how he handled this, Wicker appears to be more influenced by the politics of Hagel's nomination than its merit. As Sonny would have said, Hagel as a decorated veteran at least deserves a fair hearing.
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http://www.scribd.com/doc/24914837/Airport-Body-Scanners-What-you-need-to-knowEntered in AJ's contest, but it's more for informing people!
Have we confirmed that the scans can be turned into regular b&w images yet?
Ms Barrett said the black-and-white image would only be seen by one officer in a remote location before it was deleted.
Good work.
That is not dis-info it can be done in photoshop to the original scan......
Well, then this is a whole different ball-game now right?
So Viper, what's your point? Do you think the American people should SUBMIT TO THIS?
My point friend is this, we were told or lead to believe these were "scans" that the nellys would have but now they got HD b&w pics of naked children and everyone else.A naked scan is bad enough but now we learn these things are capable of takin' true b&w photos, shit the caller on the show said color is possible too!
So, the conclusion is that the people must not tolerate being forced...
Indeed and with the new relevation we should up our game even more, Good Job Sir.
Yes... I am suggesting a info bomb on all syndicated radio networks....http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=154510.0
Apologists claim that devices blurred out sensitive areas proven fraudulentPaul Joseph WatsonPrison Planet.comThursday, January 7, 2010As part of the gargantuan fraud being peddled by the corporate media in service of the governments agenda to subject everyone to degrading naked body scans in airports, apologists for the devices claimed that peoples genitals would be blurred out to save embarrassment.This has now proven to be a fraudulent con designed to keep people in the dark about the fact that the body scanners DO produce crisp images of your naked body and they DO allow TSA thugs to see intricate details of your genitals.A report from October 2008, when the naked body scanners were first being introduced at Melbourne Airport in Australia, detailed how the X-ray backscatter devices dont work properly unless the genitals of people going through them are visible.It will show the private parts of people, but what weve decided is that were not going to blur those out, because it severely limits the detection capabilities, said Office of Transport Security manager Cheryl Johnson.It is possible to see genitals and breasts while theyre going through the machine, she admitted.In addition, London Guardian journalist Helen Carter writes today that the scanners produce an image which make genitals eerily visible, after she attended a trial run at Manchester Airport earlier this week.The aggressive campaign on behalf of governments and the media to sell the public on invasive body scanners has been accompanied by the reassurance that the devices do not show details of genitals, an obvious attempt to counter the fact that the machines do represent a virtual strip search as well as violating laws against child pornography.Images accompanying articles about the scanners, as well as TV news reports, blurred out sensitive areas, creating the impression that this is also what officials in airports saw, misleading the public into thinking that their private parts would not be on public display.Since its already been admitted by security officials, as well as personally witnessed recently by newspaper reporters, that the scanners do indeed provide detailed pictures of peoples sexual organs, are Americans going to accept thugs in uniforms staring at their genitals, or are people finally going to say enough is enough and start boycotting the airlines as well as conducting mass protests in resistance to this complete abomination against basic human dignity?
"This is not how the pictures out of those scanners look like, and the woman knows she is on the internet.To explain it further, as shown here (sorry, german) the German tabloid "Bild" http://www.bildblog.de/14866/kehraus-2009/wanted to 'illustrate' what those new airport scanners show, but instead of using one of the published example pictures they simply took a model from a commercial stock photography cd, inverted the colors (that's why she looks real when the color is inverted back), pasted weapons onto her and tried to pass that off as the real thing.That blog post adds wrong to that wrong by doing the inversion back, but not using that to show where those incorrect images come from but as how the scanners show things."
So has anyone tried to do the same thing with real scanner pictures? Is it possible to turn negatives into color pictures?
"But last year, a bill sponsored by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), banning the routine use of these machines easily passed the House, with the support of two out of every three GOP members. At the time, he warned, The images offer a disturbingly accurate view of a persons body underneath clothing, even allowing Transportation Security Administration officials to distinguish gender or see the sweat on a persons back.
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Calder Stakes Advance
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (July 30, 2013) – When Elena Arocha's Backseat Memories and Groupo 7C Racing Stable's Grand Tito face off in this Saturday's $75,000 Naked Greed Stakes at Calder Casino & Race Course, there will be more on the line for the 3-year-old colts than just the stakes score.
Backseat Memories is no stranger to the Calder winner's circle after having won three straight races earlier in the meet which included a conquering of the Mambo Meister Stakes by ¾-lengths in April. He is 6-for-11 lifetime. Grand Tito just began his racing career at Calder in April but is already 2-for-4 with one second-place finish. He broke his maiden by 1 ¼-lengths in a 1 1/16-mile maiden special weight race at Calder prior to making his stakes debut in the Showing Up.
Lone Stable LLC's Boy of Summer won the Journeyman Stud Sophomore Turf Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs in April in his stakes debut, but finished seventh in both the Mambo Meister and the Showing Up in his only other stakes appearances since. Vivi Serena's Balino was stakes placed three straight times in her most recent races, finishing third in the Journeyman Stud Sophomore Turf before running second in the Mambo Meister, then third in the Armed Forces Stakes at Gulfstream.
Blackacre Farms, Inc.'s Gotta Be Fate, Herman Van Den Broeck's Offlee Fast, Crossed Sabres Farm's Midnight Cello, and A. Bianco Holding's Dad'z Laugh all have stakes experience. Vicente Stella Stables LLC's Statutorial, Fawkes Racing, Inc. & Sandra New's Symphony Forty One, J D Farms' Nova Light, and Crossed Sabres Farm's Jay Eye See make their stakes debuts in the Naked Greed.
Secretariat Racing Stable's El Gran Joyful and Teresa and David Palmer's Livingston Swagger are listed as also-eligibles for the main track only.
The Naked Greed begins the stakes action on the card as the seventh race with an approximate post time of 3:32 p.m.
For the 3-year-old fillies, the $75,000 Crystal Rail Stakes will be run at 7 ½-furlongs on the turf.
Sunshine Thoroughbred Corp.'s Nicki Starshine makes her 3-year-old debut in the Crystal Rail. She closed out her 2-year-old campaign with a 3 ¼-length victory in the John Franks Juvenile Fillies Turf Stakes at Calder last November. She has never finished worse than third, and is 2-1-3 in six career starts.
Frank Carl Calabrese's Dreaming of Susie has never finished worse than second in five career starts, and has two victories. In her stakes debut in the Grade 3 Azalea Stakes at 6 furlongs on the dirt at Calder, Dreaming of Susie set the pace and was leading, until she lost the battle down the stretch and had to settle for second.
Miller Racing LLC's E B Ryder finished second in the Calder Oaks back in April, before scoring back-to-back allowance victories at Calder and finished fourth in the Cellars Shiraz Stakes at Gulfstream. Rontos Racing Stable Corp.'s Love to Score finished third in her most recent outing in the Cellars Shiraz.
Champion Equine LLC's I Know It All and Blazing Forest Stable's Adriani both have stakes experience. Making their stakes debuts are Amin Saiden's Happy Voyage, Elijah Bailey's Creative License, and John P. McGreevy's Stars Collide. Miller Racing LLC's Swinger's Party and Silverton Hill LLC's By Golly Molly are listed as main-track-only entrants.
The Crystal Rail finishes the stakes action of the afternoon as the ninth race with an approximate post time of 4:26 p.m.
Post time for the first race at Calder is 12:50 p.m.
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Celebrate the music of that fabulous era when Frank Sinatra reigned supreme.
Watch it Saturday, August 13 at 7pm on PBS North (8.1 / 31.1)
This multi-platinum selling, five-time Grammy-nominated singer, pianist, and musical anthropologist has devoted his career to the rediscovery, preservation, and performance of the historic material we know as American Popular Song. Michael Feinstein presents an evening dedicated to The Sinatra Era - celebrating the writers, music and performers of that fabulous era when Frank Sinatra reigned supreme.
Backed by a seventeen-piece Big Band, Feinstein guides viewers on a musical exploration of how Sinatra affected his contemporaries and how they, in turn, affected him. Through his performance, Michael Feinstein conjures up the biggest musical legends of that golden era using their extraordinary music, spiced with intimate stories about their larger than life personalities.


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- Diet: Flake, Frozen, Freeze-dried
- Maximum size: 5"
- Water temperature: 72-82° F
- Swimming level: Bottom
- Experience level: Beginner
- Tank Setup: 20+ gallons
Angelicus botias, commonly referred to as polka-dot loaches, are extremely peaceful and live best in a community aquarium with fish of the same disposition. They are communal fish that do best when they are kept in small groups containing 3-6 loaches. Be sure to provide them numerous shelters for greater security. This generally makes them bolder. Like most bottom-dwellers the substrate should consist of a fine-grained or round-edged gravel.
Loaches either lack or have very tiny scales, which means they have almost no protection from toxic materials dissolved inthe aquarium. Avoid adding medications to the aquarium unless they are specifically recommended for "scaleless" fish.
This means they will eat both plants and tiny, living creatures.
Staple diet
Choose a tropical flake or sinking pellet fish food. Feed according to the directions on the packaging.
Specialty foods
Vary their diet by including frozen or freezedried bloodworms, tubifex worms and other small worms, mosquito larvae and daphnia. Always remember to thaw frozen foods before feeding.
Minimum aquarium size for smaller species of loaches is 10 gallons, but species that get over 4" long need an aquarium that's larger. A good rule of thumb is one gallon of water for every one inch of full-grown fish.
Loaches do best in aquariums that have lots of hiding places in the form of roots, driftwood and rockwork. In addition, place lots of hardy plants, such as vallisneria and java fern throughout.
Fish compatibility
Loaches can share their aquarium with other non-aggressive, tropical community fish.
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Green Day completes trilogy with 'Tre'
Green Day "Uno," "Dos" and "Tre" (Reprise Records)
As record sales continue to wane, one has to wonder the logic behind separately releasing a trilogy of albums over the course of three months. Maybe when you're a punk band coming off a pair of hugely successful concept albums turned into a Broadway smash, you do things a little differently. Still, it's an unusual way to release your ninth, tenth and eleventh studio albums.
"Tre," the final installment of the trilogy, out this week, is a bit more diverse than the others, with a slightly mellower and more mature sound that embraces a variety of styles. Imagine 1997's "Nimrod," but with more songs like "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)." Look no further than the opening and closing tracks to sum it up. There's the country blues-inspired "Brutal Love" to start, and the piano ballad "The Forgotten" to end.
While a common thread runs through the trilogy, each record is distinctly different.
The first, "Uno," returns the band to their pre-"American Idiot" sound with a dozen rocking songs that are melodic and highly energetic. The songs are also more mature, with themes like married men on the brink of infidelity. Standout tracks on this riffy guitar assault include "Fell For You" and "Oh Love."
"Dos" attempts to capture the no-frills sound of a garage rock band, but feels like a drop-off after "Uno." Some of the tracks work well, namely, "Stray Heart" and "Lady Cobra," but others don't fire on all cylinders.
Overall, this last installment of the trilogy shows another direction of the band's evolution.
Check this out: The best of "Uno," "Dos" and "Trois" is "Carpe Diem" "Stray Heart," and "99 Revolutions," respectively.


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You'll Like The 2010 Toyota Tundra If...
If you haul a lot of stuff and/or people, the Tundra is up for the job. Depending upon configuration, the payload can exceed one ton and towing capacity can reach 10,800 pounds. Pulling that load can be the available 5.7-liter V8 with 401 pound-feet of torque.
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Those who enjoyed the more nimble, economical Toyota pickups of the past may find the 2010 Toyota Tundra far too large. The Tundra's size means it can be challenging to maneuver in tight situations and, understandably, it is not particularly fuel-efficient. Shorter people and older folks may have difficulty climbing up and into four-wheel-drive versions.
What's New
For 2010, the Toyota Tundra gets a slight exterior and interior freshening. A new 4.6-liter V8 is available as are some new trim levels, exterior equipment add-ons and two new audio options. New standard features include a driver's side knee airbag and height-adjustable headlamps.
Interior Features
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Exterior Features
The 2010 Toyota Tundra projects the assertive image that buyers of full-size pickups desire. Its tall grille and hood and pronounced front fenders make it as imposing as any big truck. However, it retains its Toyota identity. A longer cab, larger rear doors and a shorter bed distinguish the CrewMax from the Double Cab. Toyota's lowest-cost version of the two-door Regular Cab model gains from styling changes, though its appearance is still consistent with that of a work truck. A no-frills Work Truck package outfits the truck with vinyl seating, rubber flooring and a choice of V6 or V8 engines.
Driving Impressions
From the driver's seat, there's no mistaking the 2010 Toyota Tundra is a very big vehicle. The tall seating position makes it easy to see the highway ahead, but its considerable size means the Tundra may require some concentration to keep it correctly positioned on narrow roads and in crowded parking lots. The available sonar warning system and backup camera will be welcome when parking, maneuvering off-road or connecting to a trailer. The Tundra offers excellent steering feel and a better highway ride than some of its competitors. This is thanks in part to its frame, which has a stiff fully-boxed front section, partially-boxed C-channel under the passenger compartment and more flexible open C-channel below the bed. The optional 381-horsepower 5.7-liter V8 will easily and comfortably accelerate an unloaded Tundra into fast-moving traffic.
Pricing Notes
With more than 50 model variations (counting the Flex-Fuel models) the Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) of the 2010 Toyota Tundra extends from just over $24,000 for a two-wheel-drive V6 Regular Cab to about $50,000 for a thoroughly-equipped CrewMax Limited with the Platinum Package. Dealer-installable options can push that far higher. To find out what smart buyers are really paying for this vehicle, check our Fair Purchase Prices. Over time, the Tundra will hold excellent resale value, remaining higher than any of its domestic competitors.
Notable Equipment
Standard equipment on the most basic Regular Cab model includes a V6 engine, limited slip differential, dual-zone climate controls and an AM/FM stereo with a single CD player. The SR5 trim of the Double Cab and CrewMax includes power front seats, AM/FM stereo with six-disc CD changer and heated outside mirrors. The Limited trim level includes a billet-style grille, front and rear parking sonar, heated leather seats, a bedrail system and a JBL audio unit. With 236-horsepower, the standard 4.0-liter V6 is more powerful than many V8s of the recent past. Only those who regularly haul massive loads and tow large trailers will truly miss the extra power of the optional V8s.
Notable Options
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Favorite Features
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Toyota offers a comprehensive assortment of more than three dozen dealer-installed items, including exterior and interior trim upgrades, cargo-bed accessories and performance and handling enhancements from Toyota's performance brand, TRD.
i-Force 5.7-liter V8
The Tundra's optional i-Force 5.7-liter V8 makes 71 more horsepower than the also-optional 4.6-liter V8, yet, with the technology of variable valve timing and the benefits of a six-speed automatic transmission, almost matches the fuel economy of the standard V6. Both the engine and transmission are built in the U.S.
Under the Hood
The 2010 Toyota Tundra offers three engine choices: The standard 236-horsepower 4.0-liter V6, an all-new 310-horsepower 4.6-liter V8 or the 381-horsepower 5.7-liter V8. The V6 comes with five-speed automatic transmissions, while the V8's are mated to a six-speed automatic. Since the 5.7-liter makes 71 horsepower more than the 4.6-liter and gets almost the same fuel mileage as the V6, the vast majority of Tundra buyers select the big engine, although the new 4.6-liter V8 bests both the 4.0-liter and 5.7-liter in highway fuel economy. Toyota employed several technologies to allow both V8 engines to produce both big power and reasonable economy. Variable valve timing optimizes engine performance for changing conditions and demands, and the six-speed automatic transmission employs a low first gear to aid low-speed acceleration and two overdrive gears to maximize highway economy.
4.0-liter V6
236 horsepower @ 5200 rpm
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EPA city/highway fuel economy: 15/19
4.6-liter V8
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5.7-liter V8
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This is just a short post to give a shout out to some folks who are sprinting for OpenStack this year at PyCon. It's a small group, since the Folsom Design Summit and Conference is coming up in a few weeks.
One big surprise came last night when I got an email about Cisco's recent work with Layer 3 (blueprint) support in Quantum, and there were two Cisco folks here this morning to chat about that. Mark McClain (DreamHost) is digging deep into their work right now.
Yahoo! is remote-sprinting today, and they hope to be in the house tomorrow, to continue working on current improvements in DevstackPy. Mike Pittaro (La Honda Research), Jonathan LaCour and Doug Hellmann (DreamHost) are working with Yahoo! on that.
Mike Perez (DreamHost) is hacking on some additional improvements in Horizon for different storage backend representations. We've also chatted a bit about the latest efforts in Horizon for Quantum support (Michael Fork's work). Perez is also helping out tracking some bugs down in DevstackPy.
Special thanks to Mike Pittaro for improving the sprinting pages on the OpenStack wiki with links to previous work and discussions!
If you're keen on OpenStack and would like to dive in with some fellow hackers into the deep ends of Nova, Quantum, or Horizon, be sure to come by or pop in at #openstack-pycon on Freenode :-)


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From the Mouth of the Sun – Woven Tide
January 25, 2012
From the Mouth of the Sun – Woven Tide
Lush and haunting, Woven Tide marks the first releases from From the Mouth of the Sun, the collaborative effort between Dag Rosenqvist of Jasper TX and composer Aaron Martin. Like Martin's grave, woodsy 2010 effort Worried About The Fire (also released on Experimedia), Woven Tide conjures vivid imagery using sparse, subtle tools. Some tracks disintegrate and dissolve into warm, melodic resolutions, like the entrancing "Color Loss"; in others, tension builds to stunning moments of catharsis, most notably in the gorgeous "Like Shadows in an Empty Cathedral". As a whole record, Woven Tide is a sublime and constantly shifting work: one that finds both of its illustrious creators in top form.
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Based on the latest information coming out from the ISO technical committees, the Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) for ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 9001:2015 are both expected to be issued in July.
"This signifies the first time that specific activities undertaken by organisations will start counting towards their transition to the final standards when they are published later in the year," said Steve Williams, LRQA System and Governance Manager.
Steve Williams, along with other LRQA technical experts have confirmed the approach that they believe organisations should take in order to ensure that they are ready to transition to the new standards.
"The common management system framework introduced by Annex SL, means that both ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 will contain a number of changes throughout, including terms and definitions being standardised. Based on this, and in line with all new and revised ISO Standards, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 will be structured into 10 standard clauses," explained Williams.
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i love that hair. That rat's nest/bird's nest driving in that car. something like that. That's Dora Ford in the middle. I dont know anything about her but it's a pretty picture i found. it's about -38 here in the Yukon. Thanks 4 that!
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|Santa Barbara > Activities > Camping > The Channel Islands
Channel Islands National Park
1901 Spinnaker Drive, Ventura, CA 93001
For camping specific information:
For camping reservations call 1-800-365-CAMP (2267)
Camping is allowed on all five islands in National Park Service managed campgrounds. No camping is allowed on The Nature Conservancy's western 76% of Santa Cruz Island.
Camping conditions on the islands are primitive and available in designated campsites. All campgrounds are equipped with pit toilets and picnic tables. Except at Santa Rosa Island water is not available and must be brought with you.
San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands have windbreaks for each campsite. Campsites are generally located close to one another and if the campground is filled to capacity conditions may be crowded. No trash service is provided and all campers must pack out their own trash.
Having said all that, camping on the island is a unique experience. The rustic and unspoiled nature of the island offers a true wilderness experience.
It is necessary to take a boat or a plane to the island. The following are official concessionaires:
Packers is the park's concessionaire for boat travel departing from
Ventura and Channel Islands Harbors to all of the islands. A variety of
trips, from half-day to multi-day, are offered. For prices, schedules, and
reservations, call or 805-642-1393; Island Packers, 1867 Spinnaker Drive, Ventura, California
Aquatics is the park's concessionaire for boat travel departing from
Santa Barbara Harbor to all of the islands. A variety of trips, from one
to multi-day, are offered. For prices, schedules, and reservations, call
805-962-1127; Truth Aquatics, 301 West Cabrillo Blvd., Santa Barbara,
California, 93101-3886
Channel Islands Aviation, located at the Camarillo airport, is the park's concessionaire for air travel to Santa Rosa Island. Trips vary from one-day to multi-day camping excursions. For prices, schedules, and reservations, call or write: (805) 987-1301; Channel Islands Aviation, 305 Durley Avenue, Camarillo, California 93010.