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Begin the approach at the Bear Lake parking Lot. Go around Bear Lake counter-clockwise a short ways until the Fern Lake trail angles off to the right. Watch for several trail junctions. Each one is well signed. Just follow directions for Fern Lake. At 2.8 miles from Bear Lake, the trail reaches a saddle between Joe Mills Mountain and Notchtop Mountain. Look for a very obvious trail to the left that descends to Lake Helene. There is no sign for this trail, but it is easy enough to stumble across. Work counter-clockwise around Lake Helene. At the end of the lake, follow the trail uphill. The trail is braided, but keep an eye out for the path that is most well used. Eventually, the path works its way up through a gully. The upper part of this gully can contain a small snow patch until mid-summer. Always keep an eye out for cairns and the best path as it goes over a series of rock humps to reach a small lake at the base of Notchtop's south ridge at 0.7 miles from Lake Helene. With Notchtop's south ridge soaring above, work across the bottom of the lake and uphill to the left, through mild talus and grassy slopes. After entering the gully, look for a ramp going up to the right that would lead back to the south ridge. It should look very easy and is in a small cirque with large boulders at its base. An easy scramble leads to a nice perch on the ridge crest. This makes a nice place to rope up and/or put on climbing shoes. With a two hundred foot rope, two pitches can be made of a series of rock steps in the ridge. These steps are separated by low angle spots that can be used as alternate belays with a shorter rope. Many different paths are obvious on the initial pitches. Look for a cool line and enjoy. Eventually find a belay beneath the south ridge as it increasingly steepens above. A grassy ledge leads right around a spectacular corner. It is never very difficult and is nicely protected for both the leader and the second. Stretch the rope out to a belay beneath the east meadow. The "notch" should be visible above you. Follow the path of least resistance for a rambling pitch up the east meadow. Find a belay beneath a steep headwall that blocks access to the notch. Look for the easiest path path through the headwall. It should be a crack on the left that is well protected. It goes up to a small roof, where a step to the left leads to easy terrain. This is one of the best pitches on the route. From the notch, scramble south along a ledge until it is possible to scramble to the summit of the Notch Spire. Keep in mind that this ledge is on the opposite side of the mountain that the climb was on. It is very obvious. Enjoy the summit of the spire. It is very small and very cool. After descending the spire, work uphill to the north. The goal is to find the West Gully, a third class gully, full of yucky talus, that descends to the lake at the base of the route. Look for some cairns and and a well worn path. Several rap stations appear, but the cliffs below are long, and the trail goes right beneath them anyway. The scramble from the notch to the West Gully is longer and more intricate than would be expected. Don't worry, just look carefully for the path everybody else has used before. Some snow may be in the upper part of the West Gully until mid-summer. This traverse is not a good place to be caught in a big electrical storm. Maybe that's why there are several rap stations encountered along the traverse. Descend the West Gully down to the start of the route. This is the traverse from the gully to the ridge line. Pick-up any stashed gear or head directly down to the Lake. Reverse the approach to Lake Helene and Bear Lake via the Fern Lake trail. This is a wonderful route and not too sustained for its grade. It is a good first time route for someone looking to do a moderate tour in the mountains. It is a wonderful route to cruise 3rd class. With a two hundred foot rope, it can easily be done in 5 pitches. Enjoy.
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The last pitch described above is incorrect. The headwall with the small roof is another route called Mornin' and is 5.7 NOT 5.4. Still a great pitch but not the kind of place to put in your first 5.7 lead. What you want to do from the East Meadow is to angle left to some steps and a ramp that goes under Notchtop Spire and right to the notch. This tends to be very grassy and wet and just not a fun place in rock shoes. As far as the descent goes the only thing to remember is to go directly over the true summit and down the obvious well traveled ledge systems. (hey guys edit this as you wish, just thought I would point this out. Love your website. Hey I just registered my name is Sean Murphy and I climbed this route for the second time last Sunday).
I agree with the comments about that last pitch. If you go up the headwall with a small roof, it definitely feels like 5.7. Unfortunately I found this out by leading it in my mountaineering boots (we'd left our rock shoes at home). Had I not been trembling and cursing my luck for deciding to lead that pitch (there was some wet rock also), I think it would have been enjoyable. I do remember a fixed pin in one of the cracks. Once you get to the top, be prepared for an exposed, slightly hairy descent over to the gully.
I agree with Julian on the last pitch up to the notch. It has been a year since I've done it, but I distinctly remember the traverse to the left under the roof - it was probably what I would call the crux of the climb, but it is easy to protect and no harder than 5.4-5.5 (I was in mountaineering boots, also). After that, it is a cruiser to the notch. The ramps to the left that are directly under the spire seemed very wet and slippery to me last time, definitely less aesthetic than going directly up the headwall. As for the descent, the traverse along the arete is really exposed over some very loose rock; it has the potential to be very dangerous. Don't try the rappels into the gully to the south - the anchors get worse as you go down, culminating in a tied-off sketchy chockstone and a fixed #4 nut. I have heard that there are a series of bolted rappels down the west or northwest face of the spire; I will be looking for those next time.
Went up on September 10 to climb the South Ridge. Dropping temps and sleet prompted us to change our route to the Spiral Route. What would normally be a fun and easy route turned fairly serious with a thin layer of ice and climbing with approach shoes and wool gloves. Winds above the East Meadow were 30-40 mph gusting up to 50+mph. Even if one had excellent weather, the route above the East Meadow goes at 5.7 or so. I certainly did not see the 5.4 route above the Meadow. On this day my gloves had gotten wet down below and then froze when I reached the East Meadow. Climbing the icy 5.7 pitch above the East Meadow with frozen wool gloves was really fun. It felt like the equivalent of trying to climb the J Crack wearing roller blades! My fingers were numb and then above that pitch was welcomed by really scary winds and sleet. Gillet's calls the descent "problematic". In freezing temps with sleet wearing rock gear, that description was a huge understatement. After making the summitt our rope froze. That made our icy traverse around to the col scary as hell. I personally do not feel climbing the route in good weather is worth the sketchy descent. All in all it was a hell of a route in lousy weather.
Soloed up this today, and I wouldnt call it a three star...to much frikin hiking ... does anyone else agree? The summit is worthwhile, but otherwise the actual climbing seemed short. Gillet describes the descent as problematic, but it is not that bad although I did not see a "gendarme" or any other French law enforcement personnel just some seriously scary rap stations. Be very careful in the descent gully as it is very loose.
Definitely not a three star route, but two stars for the position it achieves on the mountain winding its way around and through the imposing east face. On the approach I found myself thinking "We're climbing up THAT!?!?" The climbing is good but short lived. We found the to be VERY problematic, it took just as long as the ascent, we tried rapping down with eventual success after many mini epics.
I also ended up at the headwall at the top of the east meadow. The obvious scrambling will take you there and it seems like most people end up there. I'd call the pitch we did on the left side of the headwall at least 5.6 and I don't think there's an easier line on that wall. I guess the easier way is somewhere on the left as you scramble up towards the headwall. Did the traversing decend below the crest as described in Roach's RMNP book, (a great guide for scrambles and easy climbs) and found it scary enough to justify belay's in a couple spots.
A fine day in the mountains.
Climbed the route on 7/16. No one else on the mountain. The [conundrum] about the East Cirque headwall dificulties can be addressed by angling left on grassy ledges to a right facing dihedral. This goes at no more than 5.4, probably less, all the way to the notch, in 2 pitches on a 50 M rope. The traverse on the NW ridge to the SE gully is probably the crux. It's exposed, but there are good holds and a faint trail on the ledges. The most difficult part is the sections of downclimbing, but it all goes. There is still snow in the gully, but it can be avoided.
The descent for my partner and I was where the adventure began. This route was like a mini Lone Eagle NF route. The big difference is that all though Lone Eagle had a lot of hiking and scrambling, it also offered some really good pitches of climbing. The only worthy pitch of the day was our finish on Morning. The Spiral Route was fun but I'd say its kind of a waste of time if you and your partner have the experience and fortitude to climb harder. There wasn't enough technical climbing on it to feed my hunger. It was over at the blink of an eye! But the peak is really an awe inspiring peak. I'd never climbed in that cirque before and my jaw dropped when I first saw Notchtop. The N. Ridge on Speerhead was my favorite alpine n00b route but due to the diversity, ease of climbing and the added challenge of getting down, I'd say that this route comes in 1st place for routes to take beginner alpine climbers on. As far as the descent goes, my partner and I decided not to do the walkoff. It was snowing and thunder storms were bearing down on top of us. Our ropes got stuck on the way down and we somehow missed a vital rap stataion, if it even exists. But we made it down and both agreed that it turned out to be a pretty cool little adventure. Thanks to the climber who was communicating with us and came back to check up on us on our way down.
I climbed Notchtop's Spiral Route on 6/25/06. I thought it was a fun climb in spectacular setting. But it's true that the technical climbing is quite short - still fun though for us relative newbies. Trip Report: www.leachfam.com/securearea/1story.php?subcategoryid=144&cat>>> Photos: www.leachfam.com/securearea/subcategory.php?subcategoryid=14>>> Video: www.leachfam.com/securearea/1movie.php?subcategoryid=144&cat>>>
Killer route, especially for a newbie alpinist. Molly and I did the route on June 29 and had a great time. You can see pics here www.flickr.com/photos/amos_n_molly/sets/72157600762185023/ I did not think the descent was too difficult to follow. Yes it was tedious and exposed but as long as you resist the urge to rappel you should be OK.
Climbed this today. It was okay but it's not worth the hike IMO. Each pitch has a couple fun moves but there's far more scrambling over rock ledges covered in vegetation than climbing. Also, might I suggest that people posting route information use the return key occasionally? It's painful to try and read the description on here.
I love the route. Guided it I don't know how many times. It's not rockclimbing, which is why many comments talk about too much walking. It's mountaineering, and both up and down the Spiral is superb for learning how to move in the mountains-- when to pitch, when to move together, when to shorten the rope or drop it--it's great. And it gets you to a beautiful summit.
I agree with Bicknell. A good route. Can be done easily and still give some butterflies in the 'taint spot. While comparable, I enjoyed this climb much more than Lone Eagle. The rap beta here on MP is right on. Easy rap route, however the top summit block rappel anchor was torn and chewed (marmots) as of July '11. We didn't stop to fix it, instead chose the downclimb to the first bolt station (which was scary for the second). Thanks for the rappel topo!
As mentioned above, this is more of a mountaineering route than a rock climb. The first two pitches go around 5.4, and after that, there aren't more than a few 5th class moves if the correct line is chosen. Though easy, the Spiral Route provides incredible positioning and a fantastic summit. The descent was pretty easy for us. We had double ropes and used the bolted rap stations on the West Face. From the summit: reverse the final 4th class section to return to the large talus ledge above the West face (to the SW of the notch.) Downclimb the very exposed 3rd/4th class gully below for a short while to a cramped exposed ledge that leads around the corner (skier's left) to the first bolted rap station. The final two rap stations aren't hard to locate as you descend. This descent is very apparent if you have the Gillett guidebook. All in all, the whole descent was straightforward and took us little over an hour.
Done this route twice both times with different second pitches. Might have missed it, but I don't think this route can be done easier than 5.5-5.6. Awesome position and fun route though. To me, the descent was the mental crux (4th to low 5th traverse and dirty gully descent).


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That I will....it's just disappointing to be limited to such little time, even now that it's getting colder
does anyone else that has dual monitors have some really shitty lag when running something on both screens and folding? I never had the problem on windows XP but have always had it on 7 I also didn't have the problem when i was folding on an ATI GPU but have on ever nvidia GPUs i have folded on just incase it may help SLI 8800GT 8800gt(not SLI'ed) SLI 8800GTS 8800GTS(current,not SLI'ed) GTX260 216 hd4200 3870 4850 once again i never had the problem with ANY of the ATI's even the weak onboard.
I run 2 28" Hanns-g monitors with a GTX480 card and have no lag. I did with my 460 or 470 cards. The 480 runs both of them NP and folds at the same time.
It only took a week and some config changes, but I have 3 -bigadv on hook right now. Two are 2685 and one 2692(all good WU's). One finishes tonite, one tomorrow and I just started the 3rd, so 2.5days on that one. Gotta look into more WC'ing, as the hottest chip approached 90C yesterday(it warmed up a liitle this weekend). This same rig has a GTX460 in it, so if GPU3 bites into the -bigadv too much, I may have to do a card swap for a GPU2 card .
I finally picked up a -bigadv WU on my i7 rig after 2 days. But it is a P2684 which is giving me a TPF ~53min and ~16,000PPD (folding on 7 cores)
I too picked up a P2684. I'm getting a little bit better TPF (49:19 on 7 cores), but it's still going to be close if I finish in time.
Could be worse... I was stuck with 6701's all week on the 2 newer machines. Hopefully the next one works out for you.
Good ones on all three rigs - that is very good (luck). I too have a 2685. The first 5 frames were with GPU2 (24:02 = 52.272 ppd) and after that I took the GPU off the frame time went down to 22:53 (56.261 ppd). Overall I lose 1.200 ppd by not have the 9800 GTX+ but I save 60 watt. I'm sure that the penalty of running a GPU3 would greater then 1:07 TPF the question is the amount of extra watt you are willing to pay for the extra points a 460 would give you. My guess is that a 450 will brake even on the point side with the 611 pointers. Please do the experiment (take the GPU3 off for 10 frames or so) and report back.
What speed you running at.Mine is at 4GHz but it was a quick OC to get it running, haven't played with my memory timings yet. Yeah I have two 460's in the same rig
So you both have 7 treads and I assume about the same OC but still there is a big difference in TPF. It seems two 460's are stealing from not only the "reserved" tread but also from the remaining 7. If Nasty is runing at 4.2 or so then the math is a bit more complex. I assume that neither rigs are dedicated to folding?
Mine is dedicated to folding and I use Process Lasso to set the affinity for the 460's to only 1 core and the SMP to the remaining 7 cores.
My main rig GPU 480GTX 790/1580/1848, CPU corei7 960 OC to 4.2GHZ All of it watercooled cpu runs around 55C GPU stays around 45 to 47C
now i'm confused... i thought it was the oc of the card that mattered... i didn't think it impacted the proc?!?
Then I must conclude that either -bigadv WU's work better on 8 treads then on 7 even when the 7/8 factor is taken into acount or that there are great variation between them - see below i7-920 @ 4.095 (7-8-7-24), 8 treads : 43:40 (one I timed in the past) i7-*** @ 4.00 ( so-so), 7 treads : 53:00 (yours ATM) 53:00 * (7/8)*(4/4.095) = 45:17. I don't think that the timmings alone can acount for that difference. But apples to apples - I need to find my optimum which might differ from yours.
Nice figures TexBill. You get better PPD on normal SMP the most do on the 2684 when running GPU3 at the same time.
The i7 runs SMP fast and the GTX480 is the fastest card I've ever had. I run 2 28" monitors with that card and fold 24/7 and it does it with NP.
The OC does matter the most, the GPU3 client only uses about 2% of the CPU for each client you have.I just like to leave 1 free core for it to use. Was the TPF of 43:40 on a P2684 WU ?
Really like the tech bench setup Tex. Would like my rigs setup on those, very handy and keeps temps cool.
yes they do I have 4 of the tech benches setup 2-dimas tech's and 1-lian li and one I'm not sure what it is.


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Friday, January 15th, 2010On January 18, Martin Luther King Day, the Maryland Humanities Council recalls that we began our Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Remembrance and Reconciliation special initiative in 2007 with the question "Where are we 40 years after Dr. King's assassination?" As Marylanders looked back to consider Dr. King's legacy and assess how far we have come–as individuals, as communities, and as a nation–our nation elected Barack Obama as President. When the first person of color took the oath of our nation's highest office, we as a people felt uplifted that the scourge of racism had been ameliorated sufficiently to achieve this result.
In November 2009, at MHC's culminating program for the Dr. King initiative, "Music of the Movement: A Sustaining Voice," an audience member questioned if we today live in a post-racial society, now that Obama is President. Program participant Congressman John Lewis answered, "We have come very far since the days of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. But too many people today are left out and left so far behind. We have to continue to agitate, to push–we all have roles to play…"
As we continue to play out these roles, will we look back to the election of 2008 as a new defining moment in the long history of the struggle for racial equality? When MHC asks in 2048, "Where are we 40 years later?" will we view Obama's election as a benchmark of success equal in symbolic importance to the 1968 assassination of Dr. King?
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Dec. 5, 2012 Recent research has shown that there are new cells that develop in the heart, but how these cardiac cells are born and how frequently they are generated remains unclear. In new research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), researchers use a novel method to identify these new heart cells and describe their origins.
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A sophisticated imaging system (MIMS) demonstrates cell division in the adult mammalian heart.
"The question about how often cardiac cells are born has been extremely difficult to answer because there was a need for new techniques to help us understand this process. We are especially excited about our findings because of the novel way in which were able to show new heart cells, using Multi-isotope Imaging Mass Spectrometry (MIMS). Our collaborator, Claude Lechene, MD, had developed this technology, and as a team we harnessed this for the cardiac regeneration question." said Richard T. Lee, MD, a physician and researcher in the Cardiovascular Division at BWH and senior author of the paper. "These data present one piece of the puzzle when it comes to the discussion around the generation of new cardiac cells."
The team of BWH researchers marked existing cardiac cells genetically to cause them to express a green fluorescent protein. Then they used Multi-isotope Imaging Mass Spectrometry (MIMS) to examine the development of new heart muscle cells, called cardiomyocytes, in a pre clinical model over a period of months. Researchers were surprised to find that new heart muscle cells primarily arose from existing heart muscle cells, rather than stem cells. Even in the setting of a heart attack, when stem cells are thought to be activated, most new heart cells were born from pre-existing heart cells.
"Our data show that adult cardiomyocytes are primarily responsible for the generation of new cardiomyocytes and that as we age, we lose some capacity to form new heart cells," said Dr. Lee. "This means that we are losing our potential to rebuild the heart in the latter half of life, just when most heart disease hits us. If we can unravel why this occurs, we may be able to unleash some heart regeneration potential."
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Rare look at the career of Regionalist painter Roger Medearis opens at the Huntington
Roger Medearis, April Hillside, 1998. Oil on linen canvas. 20 x 30 in. Collection of Stanley and Judith Farrar.
The career of American painter Roger Medearis (19202001) is explored in a special exhibition, Roger Medearis: His Regionalism, on view at
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
from June 16 through Sept. 17, 2012. With a title inspired by the artists unpublished book My Regionalism, the exhibition of more than 30 works brings together those given to The Huntington by his widow, Elizabeth (Betty) Medearis, as well as those on loan from private collections and a painting borrowed from the Smithsonians American Art Museum. Examples of Medearis accomplishments in various media, including paintings, prints, drawings, and sculpture, along with letters and photographs, trace the artists career, from his beginnings as a student of Thomas Hart Benton at the Kansas City Art Institute through the development of his own distinctive style in California later in life.
The Huntington is uniquely positioned to present an exhibition focused on Roger Medearis, who is, I think, a relatively underexposed and yet highly accomplished artist, said Jessica Todd Smith, Virginia Steele Scott Chief Curator of American Art at The Huntington. While he had mastered his craft under the celebrated Thomas Hart Benton, tastes changed before Medearis received his due. When Betty gave The Huntington a group of outstanding pieces, we knew we could be the ones to shine a new light on his work.
The making of a Regionalist
The son of a Baptist minister, Roger Norman Medearis was born in Fayette, Mo., and moved with his family to Oklahoma in 1928. He was interested in drawings as a child and, inspired by the work of Norman Rockwell, decided to become an illustrator while still in his early teens.
Medearis arrived at Kansas Citys Art Institute at the age of 18, when Benton was already a national celebrity, having been on the cover of Time magazine in 1934. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, Benton was a partisan of Regionalism, an American artistic moment in the 1930s and 40s that rejected European abstraction, took subjects from everyday rural life, and aspired to bring art to a wide audience through public art commissions and low-cost reproductions. For Medearis, this translated to painting what he knewthe farms and people of rural Missouri.
It was around this time that Medearis made the lithograph Benton at Work. He wrote his parents that he had been invited to a surprise birthday party for Thomas Hart Benton, his teacher. It was, to me, an overwhelming honor [to be invited], and I went, and wasnt too much of a sore thumb, I hope, among a group which was not on the sober side. But the real fun began, for me, when they gathered around my litho of Benton at Work, which he had in his dining room among his own works, and I became the topic of conversation. Before the party, Benton had purchased the lithograph, and a half-century later Medearis would re-create it. Both versions (along with snap shots of Medearis and Benton) are on view in Roger Medearis: His Regionalism.
The Consummate Craftsman
Medearis once remarked, I am a slow painter and devote to each painting all the time it seems to require. The whole purpose of art is excellence, and one good painting is better than 10,000 bad ones.
He became a master of the labor-intensive medium of egg tempera, concocted by mixing dry pigment with egg yolk thinned with water on a glass palette. He described his technique as by nature much slower, more cautious, than that of Benton, from whom he had first learned it. In Still Life with Green Chair (egg tempera on board, 1950), Medearis builds up a paint surface through innumerable small marks so carefully done that from a distance they meld together perfectly. It is only in the details of plant thorns or the loose yarns of a frayed rug that the tiny painstaking lashes of paint are apparent.
Another highlight of the exhibition made using egg tempera is Godly Susan (1941), on loan from the Smithsonian. The vivid and detailed portrait depicts Medearis grandmother on the sun porch of his fathers church. Medearis described this painting as his last painting as a student.
World War II and a Revolution in the Art World
Within months, however, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought his pursuit of local subjects to a sudden halt. Medearis produced a series of paintings about the atrocity of war; then, in 1942, he went to Washington, D.C., where he spent several years drawing battle ships for the Navy. After that, in the Army, he spent more than a year making training charts for the field artillery at Fort Bragg, N.C.
After the war, Medearis moved with his first wife, Marjorie Schwarz, to Chester, Conn., where they had a son, Thomas. Medearis then returned to painting and held an exhibition at Kende Galleries in New York in April 1949, but tastes were changing. The heyday of Regionalism had passed as Abstract Expressionism overtook the art scene in America. Medearis quit painting in 1950 and joined the corporate world. He married Judith Dettling in 1958. After Judiths death in 1975, Roger met Betty Burrall Sterling and they were married in 1976.
A Furtive Return to Art
Having accepted a position with the Container Corporation of America, Medearis moved to California in 1960. For years he had shunned art museums and galleries and didnt pick up a brush, until 1962, when he began what he described as an almost furtive return to art. He converted his garage into a workshop and began to experiment with acrylic paint; by the end of 1968 he had resigned from a job in sales and resumed what he long had felt was his true identity as an artist.
In The Beach (1970), which depicts surfers and families picnicking, and Home in the San Gabriels (1996), in which a small house is dwarfed by a wall of mountains not far from his home in San Marino, Calif., he turned to subjects in his immediate orbitthings he knew well from repeated contact with them.
American Regionalism at The Huntington
The Huntingtons collection of American Regionalist art began with the acquisition of John Steuart Currys State Fair (1929) and Grant Woods Study for Spring Turning (1936) in 1984. It has since grown to include such works as Yankee Driver (1923) by Thomas Hart Benton, and 11 works by Roger Medearis himself.
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President's secret trip to Afghanistan?
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May 5, 2012
Rich Lowry, Jehmu Greene
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Out of the media coverage this week they jumped all over.
The Obama campaign this they think think quite rightly thought it was inappropriate and in -- -- to do it and I think the Obama administration from the Obama campaign is a difference I think.
Is gonna face a sort of quality control issue on these videos will get to another segment they -- seemed to have a little operation out there Chicago cranking out stuff which -- blows up in their face.
And -- pay attention to what they're putting out and the -- just responsible for violent videos -- TV commercial but they're paying a lot less attention to them and videos like this one just and even the Huffington Post which.
Usually pretty fond of -- Obama administration was critical of of the release of Baghdad -- Arianna Huffington actually was critical of the entire.
Nature of using foreign policy strength and campaign ads and not -- in my view.
You know this was all ridiculous we just came from a presidential administration.
That a lot of people -- pointed out.
On campaigned on an aircraft carrier and now it suddenly inappropriate I just don't think people are buying it -- -- well this definitely gave the writers at The Daily Show -- a lot easier time they probably were able to take time off.
Because it's so easy to take those clips from the bush administration and basically show.
The exact opposite sentiment coming from many of the top conservative talkers.
And all the way up to the vice president and you can compare the ads so it's a lot of fodder for those who want to say what you're holding.
Democrats are holding President Obama to a much different standards.
And I agree with mark -- in the Daily Beast it would be absurd for him not to tout his greatest foreign policy achievement.
But -- -- while care but I guess the the question is you know one of his National Security Council people rich said that this.
Trip took months of planning and there was no way to know in advance what the political atmosphere would be like.
On the day of this trip but.
You gotta know that as a speech that's given before dawn in Afghanistan.
It would seem has political -- At a superficial level it was brilliant media and management because they have this that.
A week or so it's going to be inherently very controversial -- takes a cheap shot and Mitt Romney.
Chum in the water you get everyone debating.
And the death of -- line and boom.
Next thing you know president in Kabul saying look I'm commander in chief and understand from his hulking armored vehicles and give a speech -- it was a cover and there's nothing you can -- -- -- so you have to admire the technical.
Proficiency but it just I don't have any problem with the president touting foreign policy accomplishments he should these important questions but even Mark McKinnon he cited.
Said he went over the line you can do it subtly and away it doesn't grossly politicized well and even building.
Clinton makes an appearance in this there.
Right that there's two issues here one is to do presidents show -- about their victories or proceed victories and the answer is just a yes bush was on the aircraft carrier -- years -- -- -- -- and Afghanistan -- That is one thing to do that -- an incumbent we'll do that's nothing to say my opponent would have done the same thing that was the thing that got him in trouble main part of the kind of trouble was.
Impugning Romney that he would not have the wisdom -- that are them.
To do the same thing.
You and you'll never know that bush did not do that to the tire call -- John -- -- -- Is that a difference just.
-- I think bush to do that to John Kerry in 2004 you know we saw a lot of ads that really question whether or not Democrats.
Would have been on the offensive we saw that -- wolf that which is now a famous part of political lore.
And frankly I think we're a little too quick to subscribe the Afghan trip to solely politics.
If the media had been doing its attention and not focusing solely on the campaign.
A lot more Americans would know that we are at a pivotal point in Afghanistan right now.
We are about a month away from the NATO meeting that trip happen on the same day -- a new report.
Really detailed progress that was happening right now and I just.
I think it's not fair to say an American president can't.
What's truly -- and there's no doubt the agreement is important but.
There's just.
Happened that they you know it took -- -- and randomly if you got stuck it and make -- a calendar -- things happened that it its -- bin Laden died.
And had no awareness that this ad -- taking credit for the death of bin Laden.
Would be running right before hand I -- that takes an incredible night.
-- to believe all those things but like you said it was brilliant media manage management but at the end of the -- going back to 2004.
Not only did the bush campaign -- exact same thing.
Vice President Cheney said if John Kerry was elected.
We would be attacked he -- it would make it worse that they would come after us in in a much harder way.
This is I think a perfect example.
Where you're watching the media hold this president to a different standard than -- Ever -- -- -- W price bush guy and it added that it alignment.
Hold for him it's usual for him to pat itself on the back so it's not -- thoughts and that's an Arctic -- -- -- -- Lincoln look where President Bush just had some nine elevenths footage in his one of his campaign -- and it was a huge uproar -- of the ideas that.
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Recipe by Jackie
"Believe it or not the secret to many bean dishes is lard. Red beans are simmered, slowly, with ham hock. Then the beans and meat are processed in a food processor with spices and lard. The beans are reheated and served over rice."
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2 (15 ounce) cans red beans, with liquid
1 (15 ounce) can red beans, drained
1/2 pound smoked ham hock
5 1/4 cups water, divided
2 cups uncooked long-grain rice
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
5 tablespoons lard
Definately good but a little salty so I made these changes: In step 1, I used two cans of undrained beans and 1 1/2 cups of water with a ham hock. I omitted the salt altogether and substituted the lard with olive oil. I did not blend the last can of beans, I drained two cans into mixture and heated. It was absolutely delicious!!!
it needs to be more prompt w the directions
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This is very good, my son says better than Popeye's. I used dried red beans so the ham hock would cook throughly and left out the lard because my husband has heart disease
Excellent all in all. Always good to see people who aren't afraid of good ol' fashioned lard. I read another review claiming this recipe was too salty. Probably because it uses canned beans. I use the dried. Furthermore, sea salt instead of the usual stuff has a milder flavour and lacks the bitterness of table salt. I played around with the recipe and added some beef scraps I had from making my beef shortening, it was a nice touch.
This is terrific! If you like New Orleans red beans & rice, you'll love this. I couldn't bring myself to include the lard so just omitted it but I followed the rest of recipe and my family loved it.
This was very good, especially for someone like me who's not a meat eater and needs to find alternative protein sources. I didn't have any lard on hand so I used olive oil. Thanks Jackie!
Excellent. A friend visited me from Panama many years ago, and she gave me this recipe, almost to a T.I loved i then and I love it now...Thanks.
Followed the recipe w/o ham and used a lean pork which was shredded. Turned out amazing. Thanks for the idea.
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OTTAWA — The Harper government refused Tuesday to confirm or deny reports indicating it plans to reclaim from provincial governments job-training funding programs which deliver about $350 million a year to B.C.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty was peppered with questions from opposition MPs who accused Ottawa of acting unilaterally. They were responding to two recent media reports, the latest in the National Post Tuesday, saying the government wants to take back $2.5 billion in annual training funds shipped off to provincial governments as a result of a 2007 budget decision.
"Our government is consulting with Canadians from coast to coast in preparation for economic action plan 2013, the budget, which will include positive initiatives to create jobs, growth and long-term prosperity," Flaherty said in the House of Commons.
"I will not speculate on the contents of the budget other than that."
B.C. Jobs Minister Pat Bell said he is "not going to speculate" on the upcoming federal budget, but added that the province has done a good job managing federal funds since 2008.
"We are proud of this record and will continue our good working relationship with the federal government to ensure we continue to help British Columbians get the skills they need for the workplace."
The National Post reported that Ottawa, seeking creative ways to promote job training without having to increase spending, is considering a plan to take back the provincial transfers only recently shipped to the provinces for job training.
Service Canada staff would use the money to give vouchers to EI claimants, allowing them to shop for their own training from community colleges or building trades unions.
Reaction has already been critical. Brad Duguid, Ontario's minister of training, colleges and universities, told the National Post a federal move to centralize training "makes no sense to me whatsoever."
And an advocacy organization for B.C. employment agencies said Ottawa should reconsider any move to take over the management of job training, as Victoria has proven itself much more adept than Ottawa in handling job-training programs.
"I'm very disappointed," said ASPECT chief executive officer Norma Strachan.
"It's hard to do business with" federal job-training bureaucrats, she told The Vancouver Sun.
She also said that while Ottawa only handed over this responsibility in 2008, the B.C. program that merges federal and provincial resources didn't become fully operational until last year.
"The federal government hasn't given the province a chance, they can do a better job with it."
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in a 2007 budget aimed in part at wooing Quebec, announced a series of measures to ease financial stresses for provincial finance ministers.
Flaherty acknowledged at the time that "provinces and territories are best-placed to design and deliver" labour market training.
A year later B.C. signed two agreements with Ottawa, one a Labour Market Development Agreement that involved $280 million in annual transfers to Victoria.
The agreement said both parties supported the "vision" of a labour market development system that is "based on predictable funding" and would create a "cohesive, made-in-British Columbia system" in which both governments will try to reduce overlap and duplication.
The money, as part of a national $2 billion program, was for workers who qualify for payments under the federal Employment Insurance program, and provides services such as career counseling and job training.
The LMDA funding was merged with various provincial programs after "two years of research, data analysis and consultation with stakeholders" to create a new one-stop employment program launched last April, according to the B.C. government.
The agreement can be terminated by either party with two years' written notice.
The second, called the Labour Market Agreement, is for people who don't qualify under the EI program – especially older workers, new immigrants, aboriginals, youth, and the disabled – who are detached from the labour market and need to develop basic skills, including literacy.
That 2008 deal, giving B.C. $66 million of the $500 million annual handout, expires March 31, 2014.
Strachan said B.C. job training firms she works with are already unhappy with training programs the federal government still manage on its own.
She said Human Resources Development Canada will allow the programs to expire on March 31 of each fiscal year without telling training companies whether the contracts will be renewed.
As a result companies will lay off staff and even let leases expire, only to find out in mid-April that the contracts have been renewed.
Strachan also questioned the wisdom of a voucher system that leaves training decisions solely in the hands of individuals and employers, without the benefit of independent job counsellors.
"Some past efforts to give EI clients access to their own training dollars have not been exactly successful as many individuals are not knowledgeable about labour market trends and forecasts," she said.
"It also makes them susceptible to organizations that might promise them designations which aren't actually recognized by industry. There have also been examples of where some employers have accessed training funds or subsidies repeatedly and then fired the employees when the funds expired; some continually hire employees only to access their training dollars."
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Despite a modest outlook for the PC industry looking into 2013, Intel plans to begin production of its 4th generation Core processors, codenamed "Haswell," on schedule, in Q4-2012. In the run up to Q4, Intel has taken stepped down production to prevent swelling of inventories. A little earlier this week, the company declared good Q3 results, turning $13.5 billion in gross revenue, and $3 billion in net income. In its press-release, CEO Paul Otellini acknowledged a increasingly tough environment was taking shape for the industry. "Our third-quarter results reflected a continuing tough economic environment," he said. Source: X-bit Labs
Keep hearing good things about Haswell (the Haselhoff chip ). Only bought a 3820 cause i'm hoping for a ivy-e next year and knew z77 was on the way out. No matter what u think of intel.....they deliver And if the link (http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/di...xt_Gen_Xeon_Core_Extreme_Microprocessors.html) is on point 2011 is instore for much loving
133 MHz is not going to happen as long as there's an IGP on the same die as the CPU. Intel uses PCIe clock signal to time both PCIe and base clock.
HEDT lacks IGP. Let's resume this conversation in mid-December (when there are CPU-Z shots of Haswell ESs doing rounds).
Yup and AMD sucks. Haswell FTMFW it's going to perform so much better than everything else in existence.
Now just where did I say this? Intel is moving forward and in a big way. I am not nor have I commented about AMD, You however are implying that I have (or is that inferring?) Just stop .
In the land of much win.....the odor of the Almost.....Mostly there.........Dooooooh !!!!!!! Rears its head
Almost....... On time only afew years off Mostly there.....the featires and benifites we promised. Doooooh........(homer simpson style) results
Were is Intel moving forward they are going to be releasing another monolithic die based off of Pentium 3.


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