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Just wanted to make a list of common abbreviations seen on here for people who may not know. I got the idea from the "noob" thread so credit goes to Mr. Mukai for sparking my interest. Feel free to add any you might have, just label them for Nitro, Electric, General, or stuff thats non-rc related (call it Other).
RC- Remote Control or Radio Control
TX- Transmitter
RX- Receiver
WOT- Wide Open Throttle
EPA- End Point Adjustment (for higher end transmitters)
D/R- Dual Rate (another transmitter thing)
LHS- Local Hobby Shop
CVD- Constant Velocity Drive
FLM- Fast Lane Machine
UE- Unlimited Engineering
STRC- ST Racing Concepts
ESC- Electronic Speed Control
BEC- Battery Eliminator Circuitry
MM- Mamba Max
MMM- Mamba Monster Max
CC- Castle Creations
TDC- Top Dead Center
BDC- Bottom Dead Center
CB- Clutchbell
SG- Need some help on this one all I've found says Pilot Shaft
HSN- High Speed Needle
LSN- Low Speed Needle
LOL- Laugh Out Loud
ROTFL- Rolling On The Floor Laughing
TTT- To The Top
IMO- In My Opinion
IMHO- In My Honest Opinion
PM- Private Message
YGPM- You Got PM
Some like R/C's that are fast, others like nitro
ftw = for the win
jmwy= just messing with you
been there bought that
ittfr = Is this thread for real?
SG - Spur Gear?
Not sure what context it was being used.
I meant SG shaft, as in motors having either a threaded shaft or the SG type. I have never heard sg used as spur gear just because its easy enough just to say spur. I know what it is, just not where the abbreviation itself comes from.
Also on a side note. I would appreciate people not just making things up just to have an abbreviation. I am only concerned with the ones you see here, not every abbreviation that your teenage daughter might know.
Some like R/C's that are fast, others like nitro
ocibi= oh crap i broke it
Master of Traxxas engine longevity....
hth - hope that helps!
Last edited by cooleocool; 04-08-2009 at 09:30 AM.
OWB = One way bearing
I'm Baaaaaaack!
BDH= beating the dead horse
i use JK a lot.
JK: Just Kidding
i bet my Quad could out RIP your Quad!!
BL ~ brushless
MSC- Mechanical speed controll (outdated but still used) (Electric)
406 Powered 1962 Chevy Biscayne
SPC- Spec point Concepts (batteries)
SMC- Not an abbreviation, also makes batteries but is a completely different company than SPC.
Fact of the matter is, around here, everyone uses SG, for spur gear. Whether or not that is what you were looking for, that is what it is used for, which isnt why this thread was started??Originally Posted by streetdemon
PS= pull start
IDK= I dont know
IDC=I dont care
ABC (engine)= aluminum, brass, chrome
P/S= (notice the slash/) piston and sleeve
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Sorry JMWY = just messing with you.
I wanted to put a really cool signature but I ran
FOC= forward only conversion
SRT= Stadium Race Truck
SCRT= Short Course Race Truck
LVC = Low Voltage Cutoff
:Slash 4x4
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oh yes, smc has an abbreveation!!!Originally Posted by Mr. Mukai
S- Supirior
C- Concepts
if you want me to i can break your truck for free!
I did not know that, thanks!Originally Posted by thecoolman101
mt - monster truck
Are you an RC addict?
BTW= by the way
SB -small block
BB -Big block or Ball bearing
TMX - T-Maxx
TC -touring car
Li-Ion Lithium-ion
LiPo -Lithium-ion polymer
NiMH -Nickel-metal hydride
NiCd -Nickel-cadmium
#T -number of teeth in a CB or spur gear or turn in brushed motor
I won't name names, but it seems also alot of the big RC companies have abbreviated names as well.
Pay It Forward.
RB- Race boat
RTD- ready to drive
mAh= milliamp hours
The biggest thing i've broken: My wallet.
IIRC = if I recall correctly
mAh = milliamp hour
C = discharge rating
s = the number of cells in series in a lithium polymer battery pack
p = the number of cells in parallel in a lithium polymer battery pack
E-Maxx Neu1515 1y/MGM 5s
erbe= e-revo brushless edition
merv and erbe
OS (engines) - Ogawa Shigeo Engines
SAITO - stands for - OVERPRICED lol
TRex 450SA
TMaxx OS21TM
Edge 540 90 4stroke
T -Traxxas.... hmmm?
It didn't turn out like I thought would. Never mind lol
Not really an abbreviation, but a funny term coined by my friend, roverandspike:
Going Postal- Hitting a mailbox
obo-or best offer
Explosions, Think of the possibilities...
you mean IDKT....LOLOriginally Posted by Mr. Mukai
No matter where you go there you are.
JSYK- Just so you know
CG Center of Gravity
Gorilla Glue will fix that....
This ones big with the UE (Unlimited Engineering incase you missed it up top) guys..... NIP = New In Package LOL.......
V-Spec Revo, UE EXT Thunder SM
nice thread
I say what 99% of you are thinking!
Also seen is CoG or COG.Originally Posted by gustopf
Some like R/C's that are fast, others like nitro
WTB wanted to buy
FS for sale
V-Spec Revo, UE EXT Thunder SM
ft- for trade
R.I.P Paul Gray


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THE WALKING DEAD: Can Zombies Help Resurrect Christian Social Critique?
By Marty Troyer on March 9, 2014 at 1:37 AM
The raging success of shows like The Walking Dead suggest to me that culture is more consistently and courageously addressing these issues than the church; and that people have noticed. Hollywood brings a level of honesty and courage to social issues while the church is so often perceived to be silent. Sometimes the silence is intentional, like when we mistakenly say "the gospel" is concerned with saving souls to the exclusion of social issues. And sometimes we laud our lack of concern, as when we deny global climate change citing God's post-flood promise as proof humans can't do damage to creation. We do our people a disservice backpedaling from a robust social conscience to focus on the family or create spiritually happy people.
Its time for the church to arise and bring its best energies to the world's great needs.…
The Social Gospel Saved My Soul
By Marty Troyer on November 17, 2011 at 8:05 AM
By guest blogger Katelin Hansen Originally posted 8/22/11 at By Their Strange Fruit There seems to be a belief in the Evangelic church that social justice is secondary to an individual's relationship …

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Hill makes return to lineup following hand injury
WASHINGTON -- For D-backs second baseman Aaron Hill, Tuesday was a bit like Opening Day all over again.
Hill was activated from the 15-day disabled list where he had been since April 15 after suffering a fracture in his left hand.
"It kind of feels like [Opening Day]," Hill said. "It's fun. It's just been a long time. Unfortunately, it was longer than anyone expected it to be."
Hill's injury was a non-union fracture, which means the bone has not and will not completely heal, so further rest will not help the situation.
As long as Hill is pain-free or can tolerate it if there is any pain, he can play.
"We took the time that the doctors told us to take," Hill said. "It feels great now, a lot of hand-strengthening exercises and a lot of things we've been doing the last few weeks."
Hill played in six rehab games for Triple-A Reno and said the biggest tests for the hand came from check swings and swings and misses. Once he cleared those hurdles without any pain, it was just a matter of getting his timing down at the plate.
"The last few days felt great, and I told them I'm ready to go," Hill said.
If Hill makes it through the rest of the season without re-fracturing the hand, he can choose whether to have surgery on the hand during the offseason to correct the non-union fracture.
"It'll be a personal choice," Hill said. "It's up to me at the end of year, how it feels and just kind of play it by ear."
The D-backs optioned left-hander Joe Paterson to Reno to make room on the roster for Hill. The D-backs had been carrying an extra pitcher on the roster.


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Bow (any kind), rare (requires attunement)
This bow is made entirely out of incorruptible wood of pure white color. When you are attuned to this bow and wield it or carry it on your person, you can cast Spare the Dying as an action. When you do, you do not need to touch the creature, the spell's range expands to 120 feet, and it requires no somatic components. You can also cast Speak with Dead as a ritual by using the bow as a material component.
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A young boy looks up at the stars, his white clothing flickering with the light the campfire pitches onto it. He looks at his arm and sees the silver band his mother gave him long ago. The starlight shimmers on it, leading his eyes back to the sky. If he squints, he can almost see her again, a constellation in the night. It fills him with determination, and he swears quietly that he will never forget her. Turning from where he stands, he runs back towards the fire, and frowns. The group's bard has
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Just like with Chivalrous knights, Bushi are held to their own standard of right behavior. To become a legend of the way of the warrior, it is not enough simply to be an honorable samurai, but to uphold the tenets of Bushido in word and action. The following six virtues have been selected to represent Bushido. A samurai who holds a total of 80 between these six values gains 100 Glory a year and the listed bonus.
Bushido: Energetic, Just, Honest, Valorous, Modest, Vengeful.
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Rockstar Games has announced that Manhunt 2 will be released at the end of October for the PS2, Wii, and PSP, now that the game has been rerated by the ESRB. After the original version of the game resulted in the dreaded, release-killing "Adults Only" rating, Rockstar ended up cutting some of the footage in an attempt to score the coveted M rating.
"Manhunt 2 is important to us, and we're glad it can finally be appreciated as a gaming experience," said Sam Houser, executive producer of Rockstar Games in a statement. "We love the horror genre. Manhunt 2 is a powerful piece of interactive story telling that is a unique video game experience. We think horror fans will love it."
When Rockstar announced that Manhunt 2's release would be delayed due to the AO rating, we figured that the developer would end up cutting enough content to garner an M rating—especially when that meant Sony and Nintendo reminded everyone that they don't allow AO games on their consoles. Now we have a good horror title to look forward to on Halloween.


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Assange asks Sweden to investigate lost luggage
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asked Swedish police on Tuesday to investigate what happened to a suitcase he suspects was stolen from him by intelligence agents as he traveled from Sweden to Germany in 2010.
The suitcase contained three laptops with WikiLeaks material, including evidence of a "war crime" allegedly committed by U.S. troops in Afghanistan, according to an affidavit that Assange's lawyer filed along with a criminal complaint to police at Stockholm's Arlanda Airport.
In the affidavit, Assange suggested that the bag may have been illegally seized "as part of an intelligence operation with the purpose of gathering information about me."
He offered no proof but said all attempts to locate the bag had failed.
The move comes a day before President Barack Obama visits Sweden.
WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson said similar complaints would be filed in other countries, including Germany and Denmark, alleging potentially unlawful U.S. intelligence operations against Assange.
"It's time to confront it and fight back on all fronts," Hrafnsson told the AP.
According to the affidavit, the "medium-size soft suitcase with tan color, trolley wheels and an extendable handle" disappeared when Assange traveled from Stockholm to Berlin on Sept. 27, 2010.
"The suspected seizure or theft occurred at a time of intense attempts by the U.S. to stop WikiLeaks' publications of 2010," Assange said, and suggested that Swedish authorities "seek explanations" from members of Obama's delegation during their visit this week.
The police border control division at Arlanda Airport opened an investigation as a matter of course after receiving the complaint Tuesday, spokeswoman Jessica Fremnell said.
She declined to comment on Assange's suggestion to interrogate people in Obama's entourage, saying "we make our own decisions about what we think we need to do."
Assange's lawyer, Per Samuelson, told the AP that airport personnel in Berlin and Stockholm had not been able to locate the bag and could not explain how it got lost.
"It was checked in and we have luggage tags and everything," he said. "It's gone without a trace."
WikiLeaks has published tens of thousands of pages of secret U.S. diplomatic and military communications over the last few years, deeply angering the Obama administration. U.S. Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, previously known as Bradley Manning, was recently sentenced to 35 years in prison for giving U.S. government secrets to WikiLeaks.
According to Assange's affidavit, the missing suitcase contained evidence of a "massacre" of civilians by U.S. military forces in Garani, Afghanistan.
A U.S. Army investigation concluded that a 2009 airstrike killed 26 civilians, at least 78 Taliban fighters and five Afghan police in the village of Garani. Local officials said the attack killed 140 villagers. It was not immediately clear that this was the event Assange was referring to.
At Manning's court-martial, prosecutors tried unsuccessfully to connect Manning to an encrypted Garani video placed in December 2009 on the computer of a Brookhaven National Laboratory worker.
Assange's affidavit also accuses U.S. military intelligence of monitoring his "journalistic activities" while he attended a conference in Berlin in December 2009 and using that surveillance to assist the prosecution of Manning.
A German newspaper, meanwhile, reported that Assange filed a criminal complaint Tuesday against a former U.S. Marine, accusing the man of spying on him in Berlin in 2009.
The Sueddeutsche Zeitung said the charges were filed at the Federal Prosecutor's office in Karlsruhe. The office did not immediately respond to an AP request for comment.
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Assange has been holed up for more than a year at Ecuador's Embassy in London to avoid being extradited to Sweden on sex crimes allegations.
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After getting swept at home by Detroit last week, the New York Yankees dusted themselves off and answered immediately: Three easy wins over Seattle.
Derek Jeter had four hits and New York got consecutive homers from best pals Melky Cabrera and Robinson Cano during a six-run outburst, beating the slumping Mariners 8-2 Sunday to finish a lopsided three-game sweep.
Just called up from the minors, Darrell Rasner pitched six comfortable innings and the sweet-swinging Yankees roughed up an ineffective Carlos Silva. New York outscored the Mariners 19-4 in the series, right after losing three in a row to the Tigers.
"It's been kind of streaky," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "I'd like to shorten one streak and lengthen another."
The Yankees (17-16) responded following Friday's comments from co-chairman Hank Steinbrenner, who said he was "disappointed" with the season so far.
Seattle manager John McLaren didn't get the reaction he was looking for, however, after tearing into his team during a postgame tirade Saturday. Adrian Beltre hit a two-run homer in the first inning, but the Mariners mustered little after that.
"The Yankees just did a number on us," McLaren said. "The positive thing is that we're getting off the road trip and out of New York. We need some good home cooking."
Seattle (13-19) has lost a season-worst five straight, managing only nine runs during that stretch, and nine of 11 overall. The Mariners went 1-5 on their trip to Cleveland and New York. They begin a seven-game homestand Monday night against Texas.
"We're giving away the games," Beltre said. "Hopefully, we can turn it around."
Bobby Abreu had three singles, Hideki Matsui drove in two runs and New York finished with 14 hits for a two-day total of 27. Most of those came against Felix Hernandez and Silva (3-1), though each entered his start with an ERA below 3.00.
Jeter, who had three hits Saturday, received a warm ovation from the crowd of 53,542 after striking out in the eighth.
Rasner (1-0) struck out four and walked none during an eye-opening performance, his first major league win since last May 6 against the Mariners. After going 4-0 with a 0.87 ERA in five outings at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, he was called up to pitch in place of injured Phil Hughes and is slated for another start Friday or Saturday in Detroit.
Ross Ohlendorf, Kyle Farnsworth and Mariano Rivera each worked a scoreless inning of relief.
Playing without injured stars Alex Rodriguez and Jorge Posada, the Yankees erased a 2-0 deficit by scoring six times in the third -- their first inning of five or more runs this season.
Leadoff batter Johnny Damon, coming off a big game Saturday, singled and went to third on Jeter's single. Abreu grounded an RBI single to right, making him 8-for-10 against Silva, and Matsui pushed his team-best hitting streak to 14 games with a run-scoring double.
Slumping slugger Jason Giambi put New York ahead 3-2 with a long sacrifice fly, and Cabrera hit a two-run shot to right for his club-leading sixth home run.
"My style is getting on base, hitting the ball hard -- but I'll go with it," Cabrera said through a translator.
Cano followed with a drive to right on another two-strike pitch from Silva, snapping a 3-for-35 skid.
Damon singled again to start the fourth and stole second before scoring on Jeter's bloop double. Matsui added an RBI single off Ryan Rowland-Smith through a drawn-in infield to make it 8-2.
"It just cannot keep going this way, but we're still positive," Seattle's Jose Vidro said. "There's no hanging of heads here."
Silva's sinker was off. The right-hander gave up eight runs and 11 hits in three-plus innings, the first time this season he has failed to last at least six innings.
"I tried to pitch the same game I've been pitching, but I left some balls up. They are very smart hitters," Silva said. "Every time I made a mistake, they put good wood on it."
Notes: Farnsworth's hearing with the commissioner's office is scheduled for Tuesday. The reliever appealed a three-game suspension for throwing a fastball behind the neck of Boston slugger Manny Ramirez last month. ... The Yankees became the last team in the majors to score at least five runs in an inning this season, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. ... Vidro played first base for the Mariners, giving Richie Sexson a rest.


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The Secret Ingredient (Key Lime): Key Lime Shrimp Tacos Recipe
Every month we highlight a different ingredient and share weekly recipes that showcase its uses.
Key limes were brought to the States by Spanish explorers, and the limes continued to entrench themselves in the tropics and subtropics of the New World, including South Florida and its famed Keys—and my backyard, where we had a key lime tree until a citrus blight in the 1990s.
As I wrote last week, key limes are smaller, paler, yellower, and more acidic than the standard lime. Hence, their taste is incomparable. So incomparable, in fact, that according to Wikipedia, in 1965 a state representative proposed a $100 fine on anyone selling key lime pie (the state pie, of course) made using any lime other than key limes. It didn't pass, but I do think that selling key lime anything that does not quickly impart that distinct acidic sweetness—almost a vanilla tinge—is selling under false pretenses!
These light shrimp tacos are key lime and Florida through and through. Thanks to large Hispanic and Caribbean populations, our grocery stores are stocked with really fantastic ingredients like authentic corn taco tortillas, Mexican cheeses, tropical fruits. And, of course, key limes. These tacos begin with large shrimp (use the pink ones harvested from the Florida Keys for an authentic Florida recipe) marinated in key lime juice, and then grilled to a quick char with garlic.
A chunky salsa made from key limes, mango, avocado, and jalapenos adds flavor, heft, and a distinct bite. Crema made from key lime juice and zest and sour cream adds acidity and heat-reduction. Wrap it all together with shredded green cabbage and a small, warm flour tortilla, and the taco is light and fresh, with that distinctive sweet key lime acidity, and a taste of the most southern of States.
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- Taco Ingredients
- 12 jumbo shrimp, cut in half lengthwise
- 2 clove garlic, grated
- 2 tablespoon key lime juice (from 6 key limes)
- 4 teaspoons light olive oil
- 8 small corn tortillas, warmed
- shredded green cabbage to taste
- Key Lime, Avocado, and Mango Salsa Ingredients
- 2 tablespoon key lime juice (6 key limes)
- 1/2 jalapeno, finely diced
- 2 tablespoon fresh cilantro, roughly chopped
- 1 scallion, finely sliced
- 1 avocado, finely diced
- 1/2 mango, finely diced
- salt to taste
- Key Lime Crema Ingredients
- Juice of 6 key limes (2 tablespoons)
- Zest of 6 key limes
- 6 tablespoons sour cream, room temperature
For the tacos: Preheat a grill pan on high, and the oven to 350 degrees F.
Toss the shrimp with the garlic, lime juice, and light olive oil. Season with salt and pepper. Grill for 1 to 2 minutes per side. Set aside.
Wrap the tortillas in foil, and warm in the oven.
Meanwhile, make the salsa and crema (procedures follow). Then, to assemble, lay the cabbage in the center of each small warm corn tortilla. Top with shrimp, then salsa, then crema. Serve with key lime wedges.
For the salsa: Combine all the salsa ingredients, and allow to sit for a few minutes while you make the crema.
For the key lime crema: Whisk together all the crema ingredients.
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Testing RAM is a subject which requires a bit of technical knowledge. I have recently found a few other sites using nothing except video games to benchmark the RAM product they are reviewing, and this whole practice made no sense at all to me. Video games are GPU and CPU dependant, and RAM has a very small impact on framerate performance - as I will prove to you in my own tests. So keeping all of this in mind, I use the tools that belong in a system memory review; I use system memory tests for my benchmarks. Additionally, I don't spend three (usually tiny) pages discussing how I overclocked or how I made it to tighter timings. Every memory module comes with its very own limit, so one size doesn't fit all and this kit may not be the same as the next.
As it turned out, the Winchip PC3-10666 64A0TRHN8G17E DDR3 1333MHz 2x1GB 1.65V RAM kit could overclock to only 1381MHz from the default 1333MHz without adding any additional voltage and keeping the default clock latency values of 8-8-8-15. Keep in mind that the default memory voltage is only 1.65V, which means that there is still a good amount of room for safe voltage increases, but I'm rather skeptical of the possibilities based on this very minimal natural overclock.
Our first results were recorded from Lavalys EVEREST using the Cache and Memory Benchmark tool. The results shown below represent the average measurement obtained from the Winchip PC3-10666 64A0TRHN8G17E DDR3 kit at the 1:1 RAM-to-CPU multiplier of 1333MHz and the front side bus set to 333MHz to produce 1333MHz. After testing the default speed, I then test at the 1333 SPD-set baseline and then the overclocked speed of 1381MHz with a 345MHz FSB. The results for the average read, write, and copy bandwidth from EVEREST are displayed below.
Everest is among my most trusted benchmark programs, and the Cache and Benchmark tool is one of the more reliable in terms of consistent results. The chart above shows that while the difference between 1066MHz and 1333MHz are noticeable, the extra 48MHz over the stock 1333MHz speed amounted to nealy no measurable increase in added bandwidth; the most notable improvement is over the 1333MHz baseline where the read bandwidth improved by nearly 3%.
With both CPU-Z and EVEREST reporting memory clocks at 8-8-8-15, I will believe that the ASUS P5K3 BIOS settings were configured correctly.
Next up was the PassMark Performance Test benchmark which runs several different system memory tests in a row. Although some of the tests are specific to the performance of the RAM, others take the CPU clock speed and front side bus into account when developing a score. Most important are the memory read and write tests, and the score based tests are bias towards CPU speed and other hardware factors.
Passmark's Performance Test offers the most consistent memory test results of the entire group, with each of the test runs resulting in a score nearly identical to the previous test run. Ideally, all of these programs should be this consistent, but until they are I would consider Performance Test to be the best tool available for testing system memory bandwidth.
SiSoftware Sandra Lite XIIc offered identical results nearly the same in regards to increased performance; according to the chart above. Although the bandwidth tests are of a different nature, the improvement of 1381MHz over 1333MHz still resulted in nearly 2-3% in both the integer bandwidth and float buffered tests.
The last of our memory testing applications to run is RightMark Memory Analyzer. This program may not offer the same level of consistent test results that Performance Test does, but instead it offers a more technical approach to testing the system memory. Plus, this is a Benchmark Reviews favorite - because it's free.
RightMark Memory Analyzer offer nearly the same tests that EVEREST and Performance Test have, and could be considered a bit redundant, but then again this is a technology article and us geeks like our redundancy. While it's true that Memory Analyzer hasn't been updated in over a year and seems out of development, it's still not a bad tool since it gives the second most consistent results every single run (unlike Sandra). It also offers an average "real" RAM read and write bandwidth result which most enthusiasts don't appreciate because it combines the results of dozens of tests. This is the layman's alternative to the Sciencemark v2.0 test suite, which is also gone but not forgotten.
Finally, I tested with the memory multiplier set at 1:1 for 1333MHz against the overclocked 1381MHz setting in the game World in Conflict. Realizing that games can be either CPU or GPU bound, this made it difficult for me to compare all of the memory sets since the clock speed of the processor would change as I adjust the front side bus for the desired RAM speed. In the end a 48MHz system memory improvement over the 1333MHz SPD setting gave the framerate in World in Conflict only 1 FPS more in the minimum and average framerate. This mediocre improvement is evidence of how insignificant the system memory speed is in relation to video game performance.
But don't misunderstand me, because system memory could have a much larger impact on game performance if you use it to overclock the processor. This means that faster RAM allows for a faster CPU, and in turn produces a faster framerate. But in the world of system memory benchmarks, comparing the different sets of RAM in a game is pointless.


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First it was about Taoist's enlightenment, meditation and self-defense in the 13th century, then it was seen as an exercise for the old and those who got nothing else to do. Now, it might be the easy exercise that one can practice to effectively curb diabetes and thus saving and prolonging one's life.
Tai Chi, better known as Tai Ji Quan (太极拳) was founded by Master Zhang San Feng (张三丰), one of my most admired heros in Chinese history. Since then, it has more than 100 possible movements and positions and is now enjoyed by people all over the world. Many Community Clubs (CC) in Singapore have regular Taiji or Qigong classes and there are also many free video online. Unlike many exercises, this dance-like exercise can be done by people of all ages as it is slow (some movements are fast paced), gentle, graceful self-paced kind of exercise and does not required any equipment. It can be done at any permissible open space with clean air.
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The British Journal of Sports Medicine has just reported that studies by researchers in Taiwan and Australia indicated that Tai Chi exercises can help people control type-2 diabetes, the disease suffered by some 250millions people worldwide and which can lead to blindness, kidney failure, high blood pressure and heart disease.
Of the group of 30 diabetics involved in the Taiwanese study, at the end of the 12 weeks (3hours per week) program in which they learned 37 Tai Chi movements, their blood sugar level had dropped. The levels of glycated haemoglobin (excess sugar carried by red blood cells) fell significantly. Thus, the researchers suggested that Tai Chi may prompt a fall in blood glucose levels, or improve blood glucose metabolism, which in turn sparks a drop in the inflammatory response
In Australia, 11 diabetic patients were put to a 12 week sessions of Tai Chi and Qigong 气功(Chinese Yoga) for 60 to 90 minutes three times a week. The result was they have less craving for food, slept better, experienced less pain but more energy, lost weight averaging 3kg, waist line reduced by almost 3cm but most importantly, their insulin resistance improved, blood sugar level dropped and blood pressure dropped significantly.
It was explained that "the relaxation element of Tai Chi may help to reduce stress levels, preventing the release of adrenalin which can lead to insulin resistance and high blood glucose levels".
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The latest DmC: Devil May Cry footage shows off some of the game's platforming as well as the giant wall-crawler, Succubus. That's not all.
In the trailer, words like "die", "obesity", "stupidity" flash in the background. "Kill Dante" also appears. Subtle, no? (Then again, when has Devil May Cry been subtle?)
Not subtle, sure, but this could be seen as insensitive. Choosing "obesity" along with the word "stupidity" is puzzling. Are the game's developers saying being overweight is the same as being stupid? Wouldn't it be better to use words like "gluttony" or "sloth"? "Obesity" is an odd choice from a Western developer. The comparison is even odder.
Some people are, well, obese. They try to lose weight, but perhaps they cannot—no matter how hard they try. It's not a character issue or a discipline issue. And there's nothing stupid about that.
Worse yet, it's as though DmC's creators are equating being overweight with being an idiot. That doesn't mean this was their intention, but flashing them on the screen at the same time invite comparison, if only by default. Which is unfortunate.
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At least nine people died when a car bomb exploded in the Syrian capital, a watchdog says, amid reports of battles raging around a major airport and a military airbase in the north of the country.
Many people were seriously wounded in the car-bomb attack in a northern Damascus neighbourhood, and the death toll may climb, the group's director Rami Abdel Rahmane told AFP on Friday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of fighters and doctors to monitor the conflict in Syria, said the attack occurred in an area with a large population of Alawites, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam and the minority community of President Bashar al-Assad.
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Insurgents on Thursday besieged troops on the perimeter of Aleppo's international airport and around Taftanaz airbase in Idlib province, a day after the United Nations said 60,000 had died in the 21-month civil war.
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On the humanitarian front, a 33-truck aid convoy organised by Turkish and Qatari relief groups left Istanbul on Thursday carrying 850 tonnes of flour.
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Good morning. It looks like another busy day of meetings, memos, phone calls and, of course, driving all over town. As you start-and-stop your way down your first freeway of the morning, downloading your first Starbucks Venti of the morning, wouldn't it be great to also be down-loading your e-mail and schedule into your Palm handheld?
Better yet, how about doing it without taking your hands off the steering wheel or your eyes off the oversized SUV in front of you? What if you could tell your Palm to read your e-mail out loud and dictate replies to other team members?
In the future, right? Actually, really mobile computing is already coming your way. Before the end of the year, large retail automotive and consumer electronics out lets should be selling the Com-muniport Mobile Productivity Center for Palm handhelds.
Developed by Delphi Automotive Systems, the Communi-port autosync cradle for the Palm V and VII models translates your voice into lingo the Palm can understand and your stored Palm data into computer-generated speech. It fits in your car's cup holder, pulls juice from the cigarette lighter and links to your cell phone.
The Communiport taps the Internet either through Palm's Palm.Net or your cell phone's wireless service provider. According to Delphi, its price will be up to individual dis-tributors, who will probably slap their own labels on it.
Mike Hogan, Entrepreneur's technology editor, can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Wireless World
By now, we've become accustomed-maybe even a little addicted-to wireless communications on our cell phones. Wireless computing over the Internet is bound to be just as popular, say analysts, once we work out the details of crunching Web pages down into small PDA and cell phone displays.
IDC predicts that U.S. unit shipments of wireless consumer information appliances-like PDAs and gaming consoles-will climb from 11 million units today to about 89 million units by 2004. And even more people will use cell phones for Internet data services: IDC expects the number to jump from a mere 60,000 Americans today to 94 million by 2004-and 560 million users worldwide. Small wonder that cell phone and PDA-makers alike are high on wireless data access-none more so than handheld leader Palm.
"We think wireless capability is the next big thing," says Palm's chief competitive officer Michael Mace. "We're working to bring wireless capability into all Palm handhelds as quickly as we can."
Expect built-in wireless connectivity to be a part of all future Palm OS hand- helds, says Mace, including new releases next year. Some will come from new Palm partners like Sony, which, by this Christmas, will release its first Palm handheld with a slot for its own chewing-gum-sized memory sticks.
Handheld-OS-makers Microsoft, Palm and Psion are also busy swapping technology with wireless voice experts like Ericsson, Kyocera, Motorola and Nokia, who are anxious to add Internet browsing and PIM features to their coming generation of "smart" cell phones.
Currently, though, your browsing is pretty much limited to Web pages specially formatted for handhelds. For example, Palm VII owners are required to subscribe to Palm.Net wireless service and can only download pages from the 350-plus sites that support the browserless Palm's "Web clipping" protocol.
Owners of the Palm V and Palm Vx can branch out by buying OmniSky's $299 (street) Minstrel V wireless modem and subscribing to its new wireless service. OmniSky opens up most of the Web by stripping pages of large graphics and banner ads, but only 1,000 or so Web sites really fit the Palm display. Still, those include popular sites like Yahoo! and Amazon.com.
Similarly, handhelds derived from Microsoft's Windows CE/Pocket PC operating system can use the built-in Pocket Internet Explorer microbrowser to surf any Web site. But the experience isn't that gratifying unless your destination is a page on Microsoft's MSN network or other partner sites whose servers optimize Web site content for display on Pocket PCs.
One of the early movers in providing Web browsing to both Pocket PC and Palm owners is AvantGo. Subscribers to wireless services other than Palm.Net are allowed by a free AvantGo account to browse and download Web pages from any Web site. The AvantGo portal massages any site's data a little for handheld display. But those downloads are nothing compared to the news, stock quotes and other content and applications you get from the 400 or so AvantGo channels that have optimized their Web pages.
Phone.com is at the hub of providing cell phone users wireless computing. A co-developer of the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) for Web data display, Phone.com licenses its WAP-compatible UP.Browser or UP.Link server to major wireless carriers such as Sprint and AT&T. They, in turn, use Phone.com's software to make Web pages palatable to phone displays.
Will Wap Wag The Web?
Wireless Web browsing is taking its first tentative steps, but its potential is huge. According to IDC, as WAP microbrowsers and compatible Web servers proliferate, unlimited Web access will be coming to a PDA, cell phone, laptop, pager-maybe an everyday kitchen appliance-near you. When? IDC figures that within 18 months, there will be more worldwide wireless subscribers capable of Internet access than wired Web browsers.
"Once there are more wireless Internet users than wired users, Webmasters may first consider the needs of the wireless users and, secondly, the wired PC users," predicts IDC vice president Iain Gillott.
Things happen quickly on the Internet. It's not only driving growth for PDAs and phones, but also driving their architectures toward one another. For example, Nokia is licensing the Palm OS for its new generation of Internet-capable smart phones. Palm's easy-to-use interface code and PDA applications will be integrated with the Epoc phone operating system from Psion. In addition to traditional phone services and new voice technology from Nokia, the phones will include a Palm interface and Palm-like stylus for use with most of Palm's many existing applications.
The question is, will cell phones start looking like PDAs or PDAs like cell phones? Maybe we're headed for a hybrid such as Kyocera's pdQ, an oversized smart phone that runs Palm applications. "People will passionately argue for one or the other, but frankly, nobody has a clue how this will play out," says Mace. "Personally, I think more people will want a two-piece solution-connecting their Palm to their cell phone so they don't have to replace one when they replace the other."
As the leader in the area of handheld computing, Palm's decisions matter. With more than 6 million handhelds served, it's sitting on an incredible 78 percent of the remote computing market, according to IDC.
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Like Apple Computer, Palm started life as a hardware-maker whose real strength was its operating system. Now it's become a platform developer licensing its software to third-party hardware- and software-makers, much as Microsoft does with its Windows CE/Pocket PC operating system. Palm has signed up more than 80,000 developers-about 15,000 in just the past couple of months.
So far, Microsoft boasts about 60 partners for its new Windows CE/Pocket PC platform and has pretty much the same game plan as Palm for wireless handheld expansion. It will support the whole gamut of solutions-built-in transceivers, clip-on modems, cell phone-to-PDA cables, add-in cards-and let customers do the choosing, says Rebecca Thompson, product manager for Microsoft Mobile Devices.
Already, infrared-equipped handhelds and cell phones can create a dial-up connection between the phone and PDA if they are carefully lined up. But soon the Bluetooth protocol will make wireless transfers between local devices bulletproof. This transceiver chipset, due to become standard issue in desktops as well as handhelds starting this winter, works at up to 30 feet.
Ericsson already offers Bluetooth-equipped phones, and other cell phone-makers can simply add it to their batteries. Size and cost make Bluetooth a tougher fit for handhelds, says Mace, so Palm will rely on those third-parties in the near-term. Some time early next year, Palm will introduce new models including a slot for the new postage-stamp-sized secure digital cards, which will eventually store as much as 256MB of data or provide Bluetooth or other I/O functionality. This fall, it will ship the $50 (street) Palm Mobile Internet Kit to connect Palm III and Palm V models to mobile phones via an infrared link or a separately sold cable. Similarly, Microsoft will rely on Socket Commu-nications, which plans a winter release of a $99 (street) CompactFlash card as a wireless replacement for its Digital Phone Card that now links Pocket PCs and phones by cable.
You Talkin' To Me?
By first quarter 2001, Bluetooth cards should join hundreds of other add-ons already being sold through online catalogs such as iGo and Hand-ango-and even Amazon.com. Not too far behind are voice command/synthesis products which will initially be sold by third parties like Delphi to customers willing to pay extra.
For example, with the Communiport and the right wireless service, you can use your driving time to dictate a quick thank-you note to your last client, schedule a meeting with the next or download driving directions. When traffic really shuts down, there's the latest news headlines or a quick call to your online broker.
Once Bluetooth arrives, some hand-helds will get voice capabilities just by borrowing them from cell phones like the NeoPoint NP1000. Why reinvent the wheel? Already, Phone.com is trying to blend Conversa's voice technology with its UP.Browser for voice navigation of the Web.
It's all so new and volatile that it's hard to see very far down the road. But those headlights up ahead on the horizon? That's really mobile computing coming on fast.
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Menorah Medical Center is pleased to welcome Teressa Price, FNP, to the award-winning Midwest Cancer Care at Menorah. Price will work with Shalina Gupta-Burt, MD, medical oncologist and radiation oncologist and Sukumar Ethirajan, MD, oncologist in Midwest Cancer Care at Menorah.
Price earned master's degrees in counseling from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., and in nursing from Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa. She has worked in various oncology and telemetry units since 2006. She is a member of the American Nurses Association, American Association of Nurse Practitioners and the Oncology Nurses Society.
"Teressa is a welcomed addition to the Menorah Medical Center family," says Steve Wilkinson, FACHE, president and chief executive officer of Menorah Medical Center. "She will enhance the assets we have at Midwest Cancer Care at Menorah, including the team-focused continuum of care for patients."
"I am dedicated to my patients," says Price. "Midwest Cancer Care at Menorah provides the utmost care, and is known for its commitment to excellence. I am honored to be part of an organization whose focus is on patient support and the compassionate care they deserve."
Menorah Medical Center—part of HCA Midwest Health System, Kansas City's largest healthcare network and private-sector employer—is a regional center of excellence. Midwest Cancer Care at Menorah is accredited by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer as a Comprehensive Community Cancer Program and has some of the most advanced technology in the area. Menorah is the only area hospital to offer CyberKnife stereotactic radiosurgery that destroys tumors without surgery or anesthesia. In addition, The Breast Cancer of Menorah is accredited by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC), which is administered by the American College of Surgeons. Accreditation by the NAPBC is only given to those centers that have voluntarily committed to provide the highest level of quality breast care and that undergo a rigorous evaluation process and review of their performance. The world-class Sarcoma Institute, led by Howard G. Rosenthal, MD, treats patients from a wide geographic region for benign and malignant tumors of the musculoskeletal system.


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(Reuters) - Indiana Pacers forward Danny Granger is expected to be sidelined for about three months with a left knee injury, the National Basketball Association team said on Wednesday.
The 29-year-old former All Star, who led the Pacers in scoring last season with 18.7 points per game to help them reach the Eastern Conference semi-finals, received an injection to help treat his patellar tendinosis, the team said in a news release.
The injury dealt a blow to Indiana's playoff prospects after notching a 42-24 record last season and giving the eventual champions Miami Heat a tough battle in the playoffs before falling 4-2 in the best-of-seven conference semi-finals.
The Pacers, who are 2-2 so far this season and play the Hawks on Wednesday in Atlanta, have started Gerald Green and Sam Young at small forward in the absence of Granger, a 2005 first-round draft pick who is the longest-tenured Pacers player.
(Reporting by Larry Fine in New York, Editing by Simon Evans in Miami.)


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An embracing and comfortable armchair designed to support happy moments around the dining table. Hven Armchair carries a light expression highlighted by few subtle details such as the overlapping poles, round corners and curved shape.
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WxDxH: 53x52,5x86,5 cm / Seat H: 44,5 cm
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Proper usage and maintenance is vital for getting the most out of the valuable resources we have. Our designs are made to last for generations, but just like everything else, they need a little care to get there.
Oak grows in most temperate zones. The Skagerak oak comes from European forests and is either 100% FSC certified or FSC mix certified, supporting sustainable forest management. The selection of the wood is extremely careful and all processing is by hand, so that only the best and most durable pieces of wood are used in production.
Oak is a sturdy and hardwearing type of wood containing natural tannins that will protect against bacterial growth. Combined with its light, elegant colour and well-defined grains, this makes oak wood safe choice for high-quality interior.
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'I want to create products that people care about. Something they don't see as a utility object but as something that has value and isn't just discarded after use. Products they want to preserve for a long-term relationship.' Anton Björsing is a trained cabinet maker with the inherent will and properties of wood as his key professional focus. The long-term perspective is a vital factor for the Swedish designer, who sees his curiosity, his knowledge of materials and his ability to take on a given challenge as the key elements in his practice.


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May 19, 2008, Washington, D.C. – The National Endowment for the Arts awarded 122 grants to orchestras through the Grants for Arts Projects categories in FY2008, totaling $2,822,300. Awards to all arts disciplines through the NEA's three largest grant categories – Challenge America: Reaching Every Community Fast-Track Review Grants, Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth, and Access to Artistic Excellence – numbered 1,790 and totaled $41.1 million.
Congress allotted $144.7 million in total funding for the NEA in FY2008. In addition to the grants awarded through the Grants for Arts Projects categories, FY2008 funding supports the following:
- Congress requires that 40% of NEA grant funds be made available directly to the states; just over $50.17 million has been awarded through Partnership Agreements to state and regional arts agencies. Orchestras, in turn, benefit from grants at the state and local level
- Support for Arts on Radio & Television included grants to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic totaling $70,000
- FY2008 grants for Save America's Treasures, a partnership of the NEA, the National Parks Service, and other federal agencies totaled $1,089,993 and included a $150,000 grant to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and a $175,000 grant to the New York Philharmonic
- Funding for FY2008 American Masterpieces included a $10,000 grant to the Brooklyn Philharmonic and a $17,500 grant to the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra
- The NEA provided $1.01 million for Literature Fellowships in Creative Writing in FY2008 and $200,000 in FY2008 support for Literature Fellowships in Translation
- Upcoming FY2008 grants will include awards for Coming Up Taller and the National Heritage Fellowships.
- NEA FY2008 funds are also allocated to national initiatives including the Big Read, Poetry Out Loud, Shakespeare in American Communities, Great American Voices, NEA Jazz Masters, American Masterpieces, Operation Homecoming, and NEA Arts Journalism Institutes
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The latest budget data shows, once again, that the tax cuts are not paying for themselves.
"It's time to put to rest any notion that President Trump's signature tax cuts are paying for themselves. Anyone who says otherwise is lying with numbers," Jim Tankersley of The New York Times wrote.
The economy grew at a roughly 4.9 percent rate last year (before adjusting for inflation), but tax revenues fell by 1 percent. Adjusted for inflation, the revenue loss is even worse, down 2.7 percent on a year-over-year basis.
James Pethokoukis of the conservative American Enterprise Institute said that even some tax-cut true-believers are surprised by the now-undeniable drop in revenue, tweeting: "I am not saying nor even suggesting that the tax plan cannot work as conservative economists intended. But even those folks are disappointed so far."
And the cost is rising: Bloomberg's Stephen Gandel said that the tax cuts are proving to be "vastly more generous for corporate America, and vastly more expensive for taxpayers, than expected." How much more expensive? About $600 billion. "That's how much more than expected I estimate the companies in the S&P 500 are on pace to save," Gandel wrote. "It is also how much more the tax cut is likely to add to the national debt if it runs as planned for 10 years. The total savings for all of corporate America will be well into the 13 figures."


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Jonah Hill, 2X Oscar nominee and friend of Marty, Leo, and Brange, was nominated for his 2nd Oscar yesterday. Then he got to sit with Marty and Leo at the Critics' Choice Awards and Leo even namechecked him in his speech! Best day ever!
This is why Jonah Hill, 2X Oscar nominee and friend of Marty, Leo, and Brange, doesn't want to be funny in interviews and insists he be taken seriously as a "serious" actor. This is why Jonah Hill, 2X Oscar nominee and friend of Marty, Leo, and Brange, wants you to know that:
"You can dis me all you want on a blog, or write whatever you want in this magazine and I'll just be like, 'Whatever, man. Scorsese thinks I'm awesome.' [Laughs.] He hired me and didn't fire me, so I can kind of not care now. It really did give me personal assurance that I'm doing the right thing and that I'm talented in certain ways because he's so important to me."
With Leo sitting beside him and beaming at him from the stage, Jonah has everything. Jonah is completely actualised. I wonder if at this point he'd rather see Leo winning than himself. Isn't that what you want for the people you love? You'd rather their happiness over your own?
Leo won for Best Comedic Actor. I really hope he does something with his hair before the Oscars because right now, it's not working. Especially not at the back. It's one-length at the back now. And it pushes off his neck like a wig. You know why? Because he's making up for the slow recession by letting it long at the back, like somehow that balances it out. Look at him and admit it. If he wasn't LEONARDO DICAPRIO, he'd be the skeezy asshole trying to pick you up at the hotel bar in the airport Holiday Inn.


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The breadcrumb-topped cabbage is also delicious with roast pork or chicken.
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- Active Time
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- Kosher salt
- 1 (1 1/2-pound) head savoy cabbage, cut into 8 wedges with some core attached
- 1 cup (1") crustless bread cubes
- 1 teaspoon mustard powder (such as Colman's)
- 8 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 2 pounds mixed sausages (such as sweet Italian, kielbasa, and smoked garlic)
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh tarragon
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil over high heat. Season heavily with salt. Cook cabbage wedges until crisp-tender but not falling apart, about 5 minutes. Transfer to a paper towel-lined baking sheet. Pulse bread cubes in a food processor until coarse crumbs form; transfer to a medium bowl. Add mustard powder and stir to coat.
- Heat 3 tablespoons oil in a small skillet over medium heat. Add breadcrumbs; stir frequently until golden, 4-5 minutes. Season with salt and transfer to a paper towel-lined plate to cool.
- Whisk 3 tablespoons oil, Dijon mustard, vinegar, and 1 tablespoon water in a small bowl. Season mustard vinaigrette with salt and pepper.
- Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large cast-iron or nonstick skillet over high heat until smoking. Working in 2 batches and adding remaining 1 tablespoon oil between batches, sear cabbage wedges until dark and crispy edges form on both cut sides, 3-4 minutes per side.
- Cook sausages in a large skillet over medium heat until browned and cooked through (time will vary depending on variety and whether fresh or fully cooked).
- Transfer cabbage to a platter; arrange sausages around. Scatter breadcrumbs and tarragon over. Serve mustard vinaigrette on the side.
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The climate change encyclical has attracted the attention of video creators who want us all to view the pope's message through a humorous lens.
A Brazilian environmental group, Observatório do Clima, posted aHollywood-style trailer (in English) that casts Francis as an avenging action-movie hero.
And then there's this clip produced by Brian Lannin, a director and cinematographer, featuring a rapping pope at an open-mic night:
Harsh Words From a Conservative Stalwart
The father of conservative movement-building through direct mail, Richard A. Viguerie, issued a forceful denunciation of Francis, his encyclical and his priorities, calling the pope's message on climate change "a confusing distraction that dilutes his great moral authority and leadership."
Mr. Viguerie's post does not address the substance of the encyclical; rather, it argues at length that the pope should not be writing about climate change "at a time when Catholics, indeed Christians of all denominations, are facing persecution" as well as "a host of moral and spiritual challenges":
While the pope fiddles with one controversial political issue that is not at the core of spiritual matters, our spiritual culture is burning.
He goes on to assert that the Catholic clergy has "abandoned the teaching of morals" and "sees, hears, and knows few sins," while "the liberals' true agenda is to destroy religion" and, he says, the environmental movement has socialist roots.
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Those who most fervently deny the scientific consensus on climate change have ridiculed Pope Francis. Steven Milloy, who regularly denounces climate scientists on his website and on Twitter, posted a series of strident messages after a draft of the encyclical leaked earlier this week. Mr. Milloy is linked to the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute and has also argued against the scientific studies that suggest that secondhand smoke causes cancer.
In recent Twitter posts, he called some of the leaked portions of the encyclical "adolescent, insipid, primitive, embarrassing," as well as "a stumbling, bumbling PR disaster for Red Pope."


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HARRISONBURG, Va. (MarketWatch) — March was very cruel to gold bugs. But they think the metal will now rebound.
Gold measured by the CME active contract floor-close was down 6.5% or $116.20, measured from Feb. 28. The NYSE Arca Gold Bugs Index (HUI) was down 13.8%. (Measuring from Feb. 28 represents March better. Leap Year Day, Feb. 29, saw a brutal sell off, smashing a promising rally and establishing the new month's character.)
The last month of a quarter seems to be a dangerous time to own gold instruments. Last December was gruesome too, giving gold bugs a notably unmerry Christmas (See Jan. 2 column.)
But in January, gold rebounded. Could another new-quarter reversal be possible?
The latest of gold's two decent attempts to rally in March peaked last Monday. Although gold then fell back, over the whole week gold gained 0.6%, and further comfort to the bulls was offered by gold's starting to rise mid-morning in New York on Thursday and adding $17 on Friday — when the HUI closed up 1.09%.
And there's possibly bullish news out of India, by far the largest importer of gold. (China is a rival to India in consumption, but it mines the bulk of the gold it needs: India mines almost none).
The Indian government doubled import duties on the yellow metal on March 17. The huge Indian gold fabricating and retailing trade responded by going on strike! Reports from bullion dealers confirm that Indian imports subsequently have been very light, despite the low gold price.
But on Friday evening, HSBC gold analyst James Steel came up with something of a scoop: He reported that the strike is over. Subsequent newswire stories appear to confirm this.
There are differing opinions as to how much the increase in the gold duty — to just over 4% — will impact longer-term Indian demand. But in the short run, a substantial increase in imports after the drought of the last two weeks seems likely.
Gold bugs see reason for optimism from another angle too. CME gold open interest (the number of gold contracts outstanding, reflecting total public participation) plunged far more than gold in this period — down 15.2% to Thursday's close (Friday's will not be published until Monday morning).
Not only is this more than double gold's 6.5% decline, but it also takes open interest down to the level of early September 2009, when gold was in the upper $900s.
The Golden Truth website points out that after the September 2009 decline, "gold began the move to its 2011 cyclical peak just below $1,900. During that run, open interest expanded to over 660,000 contracts."
Big declines in open interest on falls in the gold price normally mean liquidation by CME contract longs. A posting over at the LeMetropoleCafe website suggests the March problem was the "liquidation of some major spec involvement".
If so, the new quarter could well see a directional change.
More evidence: an interesting chart supplied on Tuesday by Standard Bank, an active bullion dealer. This was its Gold Physical Flow Index, derived from the actual metal demand it is experiencing.
Gold offtake was the highest since June last year, just before the $400 rise into August. The bank acknowledged recently weak Indian demand but reported strong interest elsewhere in Asia.
Gold bugs hope that, without continued selling, this means gold has to rise — particularly if India indeed comes back on line.