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CIOs at WorkBook - 2011
In CIOs at Work, noted author Ed Yourdon interviews many of the world''s most influential chief information officers. You will gain insights from the first CIO of the USA, take a peek into the future with the CIO at Google, learn the unique role IT plays in testing Microsoft applications, and much more.
Yourdon focuses on how his interviewees tackle the day-to-day work of managing information in their organizations while revealing much more: How they got there, how they manage and allocate resources, and how they interact with business units and assure that their companies take advantage of technologies and automation to make employees even more productive. Surveying a variety of unique corporations, you''ll get a great sense of what can be done and what is being done now in organizations around the world.
"Simply put, Ed Yourdon''s CIOs at Work is a fascinating read. The author has managed to illuminate the real challenges confronting the Chief Information Officer. The technical expertise of his extraordinary interviewees and their personal insights into the changing role of technology in business are in no short supply. But, what really stands out-- beyond the banter about "clouds," "agile development,"--is the human dimension. More than anything else, the CIO is wrestling with profound issues: the proliferation of choices, the speed of change, the shorter attention spans of consumers, the "everyone''s an expert" mindset, and the growing expectation for limitless and low cost computing resources that are as open and accessible as they are safe, secure and accurate. At last, the CIO has a human face, but also an enormous burden that can only be appreciated by reading Yourdon''s probative interviews." --Jon Toigo, Managing Principle, Toigo Partners International
Featured CIOs:
Ben Fried, Google
Tony Scott, Microsoft
Monte Ford, American Airlines
Mittu Sridhara, Ladbrokes
Steve Rubinow, NYSE
Lew Temares (retired), University of Miami
Mark Mooney, McGraw-Hill
Dan Wakeman, Educational Testing Services
Lynne Ellen, Detroit Energy
Becky Blalock, Southern Company
Ken Bohlen, Arizona Public Services
Roger Gurnani, Verizon
Ashish Gupta, British Telecom
Joan Miller, U.K. Parliament
Vivek Kundra, (first CIO), U.S. Government
Paul Strassmann, (retired), Kraft Foods
Other books in the Apress At Work Series:
CTOs at Work, Donaldson, Seigel, & Donaldson, 978-1-4302-3593-4
Coders at Work, Seibel, 978-1-4302-1948-4
Venture Capitalists at Work, Shah & Shah, 978-1-4302-3837-9
Founders at Work, Livingston, 978-1-4302-1078-8
European Founders at Work, Santos, 978-1-4302-3906-2
Women Leaders at Work, Ghaffari, 978-1-4302-3729-7
Advertisers at Work, Tuten, 978-1-4302-3828-7
Gamers at Work, Ramsay. 978-1-4302-3351-0What you''ll learn How many chief information officers from the world''s leading corporations do their jobs and the skills they consider most essential for doing their jobs effectively What technologies these CIOs think will be most important in the future Interesting applications of technology used to increase productivity or profitability in today''s leading organizations The technology and business-related challenges and opportunities that CIOs anticipate in the years ahead Who this book is for
Anyone interested in how organizations are moving to use technology to make their companies more productive will learn a great deal from this book. CIOs at Work is especially useful to managers and IT personnel charged with increasing productivity and using automation to do so. Indeed, it''s not just for aspiring CIOs, but also for project managers, management professionals, application developers, IT personnel and businesspeople who want to better understand the strategies their senior IT executives are following to make their organizations as productive and competitive as possible.Table of Contents Ben Fried, Google Tony Scott, Microsoft Monte Ford, American Airlines Mittu Sridhara, Ladbrokes Steve Rubinow, NYSE Lew Temares (retired), University of Miami Mark Mooney, McGraw-Hill Dan Wakeman, Educational Testing Services Lynne Ellen, Detroit Energy Becky Blalock, Southern Company Ken Bohlen, Arizona Public Services Roger Gurnani, Verizon Ashish Gupta, British Telecom Joan Miller, U.K. Parliament Vivek Kundra (first CIO), U.S. Government Paul Strassmann (retired), Kraft Foods
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Why do they bother even showing the scenes of Flonne swaying the Dark Assembly? Everyone knows demons can't win against THE POWER OF LOVE!
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Next we'll hear the Disgaea team is taking tips from Super Smash Brothers Brawl and deciding to include ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE as potentially recruitable special characters? Solid Snake? CQC insta-kills, and superior cardboard box defenses! A full size Gundam, only for it to be picked up by Laharlette and used like a hammer to drive your enemies into the ground like a stake! Let us not forget, of course, the Netherworld invasion of a continent full of Panda-people…
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Somehow, the glasses wearing gargoyle in pic #28 seems like he'd should the ultra-cool guy among all of them. Like a badass older sensei with a snarky undertone. Perhaps puns being involved. Either that, or he should be an expy of a Rastafarian-ized Snoop Dogg. :3 "What? You wanna take over all the Netherworlds? That sounds like a lot of fuss, bro. You should just be chill, know what I mean?" And that, just like a lethargic Flonne, would be just the type to get under Laharl's skin. :3
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Tom Cruise got Comedy Central to cancel Wednesday night's South Park episode about Scientology by warning that he'd refuse to promote Mission Impossible 3, insiders say. Since Paramount is banking on MI3 to make money this summer, and Paramount is owned by Viacom, which also owns Comedy Central, the tactic worked. The South Park episode – which pokes fun at Scientology and shows Cruise, John Travolta and R. Kelly – was mysteriously pulled at the last minute.
Well thank goodness Tom got the episode pulled; otherwise people might start thinking Scientology was weird or something. I don't know at what point Tom became such a jackass, though it's a well known fact that short people are intrinsically evil and must be destroyed. Hey, it's right there in the Bible, right after the part where Jesus flies around around the Earth to reverse time and save Lois.


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February 13, 1931 — Oradea, Romania
The only child of a cosmopolitan Hungarian Jewish couple, Eva grew up in a city on the border between Romania and Hungary. Nearly one-fifth of the city's population was Jewish. Eva was a small child when her parents, Agi and Bela, divorced, and she went to live with her grandparents.
1933-39: After the divorce, Eva saw little of her mother, who remarried and moved to Budapest. She also rarely saw her father, who lived on the other side of the city. Eva lived with her grandmother and grandfather near the pharmacy that they owned. An Austrian governess helped care for her.
1940-44: When the Germans reached Budapest on March 19, 1944, Eva and her grandfather took a walk in Oradea's Bishop's Park but did not see any German soldiers. Six weeks later, the Germans arrived in Oradea, ordering Eva and her grandparents to pack and move to the ghetto. They waited three days until they were taken by truck to 20 Szacsat Street. Their new home was stripped of furniture and packed with families. Rules were posted on every house; to disobey meant death. On May 29, 1944, they heard they would be "resettled in the East."
In June 1944 Eva was deported to Auschwitz. She died there four months later on October 17, 1944. She was 13 years old.
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Ancestry has just released a set of three books that will add greatly to London researchers genealogy. They comprise details of people from the University of London Officers Training Corp and London City Council who served in WW1 and residents of Croydon Borough who served in WW2. Details vary, but may contain the following information.
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Some time ago I read something about how classes are sometimes thinly veiled globals. I can't remember if this was agrued in general or specific to python.
Either way, when you look around the web for examples you'll find a lot of small programs that are basically just a single class, instantiating that class and then running it. Now I notice myself doing pretty much the same. My current project so far involves a calculation and GUI for that calculation. They are being developed in separate files, they're not connected yet. I imagine keeping them separate and later on import the calculation into the GUI file.
Since separate files have separate namespaces anyway so I'm wondering what the point is of single class programs (or program files) like that. You might as well make everything global to the file and use functional programming instead of OOP. self.bla would just become a global variable. Obviously you shouldn't because everyone says so, so I must be missing something. Thoughts?


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Baking Cakes at High Altitudes
High altitude (over 3,000 feet) has less air pressure and drier air. These conditions affect baked goods. The lower air pressure allows the gases created by the leavening agent to expand more quickly and causes liquids to evaporate and boil at lower temperatures. The drier air also dries out the flour.
For cakes, this means that there might be excessive rising from the gases produced by the leavening. This could cause the texture to be coarse or the cake to call before the structure is set by baking. Faster evaporation of the liquid, due to lower boiling point, would reduce the amount of liquid and increase the concentration of sugar. This higher sugar concentration may also weaken the structure of the cake.
Some measures to take for butter cakes are to increase the oven temperature 15° to 25°, which allows cakes to set faster and prevent falling. Fill baking pans half full not two-thirds full, since cakes rise higher. Reduce the leavener and the sugar and increase the liquid. Here are some general guidelines for adjusting ingredients for butter cakes.
For foam cakes, only beat the egg whites until soft peaks form. To strengthen the structure of the cake, decrease the amount of sugar by a tablespoon of two and increase the amount of flour or egg component of the cake a little. Increasing the oven temperature by 15° to 25° will also help set the cake structure sooner.


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A wanted man told police he "didn't fancy spending a night in the cells" - but that is where he ended up anyway
Police paid a visit to the 32-year-old's home in Bishopsford Road, St Helier Estate, to arrest him for breach of a court order.
The man was not home but they spoke to him on his mobile phone when he told police he would not come to the police station as he did not want to stay overnight.
However, the same evening, Monday, February 24, the wanted man drove a transit van and triggered an alert on an automatic number plate reading camera and was arrested by a police officer in Merrymeet Road, Banstead, at 9.20pm.
He was arrested for breaching his night time curfew which starts at 9pm, for the fourth time.
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Mike Neal scored a game-high 23 points and Appalachian put together its best shooting night in more than three years in a 97-70 win over visiting Bluefield College on Monday at the Holmes Center.
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Almond, Brazil, cashew, hazelnuts, hickory, macadamia, pecan, pistachio, pine nut, walnut. But not peanut, that is a legume.
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Eating 1.5 ounces, or about 1/3 cup, of nuts five times a week reduces the risk of diabetes and heart disease. And this amount does not cause weight gain. Click here for pictures of how many of each kind of nut are in one ounce.
Nuts are high fiber, high in healthy fat, a good source of vitamin E, and are cholesterol free. If you are interested, NutHealth.org has a chart with tiny print of specific nutrients in each kind of nut.
It is easy to add 1.5 ounces of nuts to your day. They make quick and tasty, nutritious gluten free snacks. Buy them raw or roasted, just check the label for any added gluten containing flavorings.
Or add nuts to any salad, top a casserole, garnish vegetables or even thick soups!
Equally useful is substituting ground nuts for bread crumbs. Gluten free breadcrumbs are either very time consuming to make from scratch, or mighty expensive to buy. Nuts are a great alternative that add lots of flavor, healthy richness, and tummy pleasing satisfaction.
Ground nuts are wonderful in meatloaves and meatballs. Or as toppings for fish!
Below is an adaptation of my grand prize winning recipe, substituting ground pecans for bread crumbs. I truly like version better than the original.
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Pecan Mushroom Fish with Tomatoes
Serves 4
8 oz fresh mushrooms
2 tablespoons oil
½ cup ground pecans
¼ cup chopped fresh herbs
salt and pepper to taste
1 pound fresh tomatoes, diced
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1 pound tilapia fillets or other thin fish
Pulse mushrooms in a mini food processor until finely minced.
Cook mushrooms until dry and slightly browned. Cool.
Mix mushrooms, oil, ground pecans, herbs, salt and pepper together.
Pour tomatoes into an oven proof baking dish. Drizzle in the balsamic vinegar and mix well.
Top tomatoes with fish. Top fish with mushroom mix.
Bake at 400 for about 20 minutes, or until fish flakes, topping is browned, and tomatoes are bubbly.
Notes If your tomatoes are not at the peak of summer flavor, you can add some diced dried tomatoes to give it an extra punch of flavor. No need to hydrate them before mixing with the fresh tomatoes. The dried ones will soften as the dish cooks.
Use your favorite herbs. This is a mild flavored, family friendly recipe, and fun place to experiment. Basil, green onion, oregano, tarragon and thyme all work well here. Or substitute 1-2 tablespoons of dried herbs for the fresh.
Unwrap and expose the mushrooms to direct sunlight to greatly increase the Vitamin D.
Cook the mushrooms in a cast iron skillet to increase the iron.
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Auburn, Ala. - The City of Auburn is currently accepting Request for Proposals (RFP) for the use of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) for fiscal year 2013. As part of the annual budget development process, proposals will be considered to fund housing and public service projects benefiting low to moderate-income residents of Auburn. Applications are available at the Community Development Office located at 122 Tichenor Avenue or you may call (334) 501-7280 to request an electronic copy of the application. The application must be received by Monday, January 31, 2013 at 5:00 pm.
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Applications received after January 31, 2013 will NOT be accepted.
Funding for housing and public service projects will be available during the CDBG 2013 program year beginning June 1, 2013. The CDBG program is administered by the Community Development Division. Please direct all questions regarding this Public Notice to the Community Development Office by calling (334) 501-7280.
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The City of Auburn is accepting applications for the Micro-Loan Program, Commercial and Industrial Loan Program, and the Individual Development Account Program.
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The Micro-Loan Program offers short-term loans for existing small businesses and small business start-ups. The Micro-Loan Program may be used to finance economic development activities needed to establish, stabilize, or expand a small business. Loans made under this program may be used for small real estate purchases, inventory and/or working capital, supplies, furniture, fixtures, machinery and equipment.
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The Commercial and Industrial Loan Program offers loans for the purpose of undertaking special economic development activities. Loans made under the Commercial and Industrial Loan Program may be used for acquisition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or installation of commercial or industrial buildings, structures, and other real property equipment and improvements.
Individual Development Account (IDA) Program
The IDA Program is designed to assist qualified low-income individuals to acquire savings that will enable them to start or expand a business. Participants save a maximum of $2,000 which will be matched with $4,000 from the City of Auburn and the Alabama Asset Building Coalition.
Applications for the Micro-Loan Program, Commercial and Industrial Loan Program, and the Individual Development Account Program are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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"God created every animal from water. Some of them go on their bellies, some of them on two legs, and some on four. God creates whatever He wills. God has power over all things." (Qur'an, 24:45)
Again, a characteristic that evolutionists assert is unique to primates also found in parrots—which appear in an entirely different branch of the imaginary evolutionary tree—constitutes a major evolutionary impasse. That parrots and certain other birds have such a complex brain capacity invalidates the evolutionists' entire scenario. Therefore, their assertion that a small brain capacity develops into a large one is not applicable, which also invalidates the claim that primates are the ancestors of humans.
Furthermore, nature provides many more examples of "lesser" species exhibiting intelligent behavior. Beavers, for example, build a dam of ideal hydrodynamic size to stem the current; termites can build huge nests with special ventilation channels; and honeybees can build combs based on apparent knowledge of geometry and mathematics. Although they do perform such complex behaviors, all these creatures—especially the insects—have very small brains.
Without any guidance, a crow named Betty, being studied in the laboratory of Oxford University, bent a thin metal rod into a shape that she could use as a tool. When she couldn't reach food at the bottom of a container with her beak, the crow bent the end of a piece of wire she found in the laboratory into a hook. Betty understood that the wire, an object she had never seen before, would be useful because of its size and flexibility. She also succeeded in bending the flexible wire in a way that suited her purpose. Scientists pointed out that in spite of her smaller brain, Betty demonstrated a level of intelligence higher than chimpanzees. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2178920.stm
A final example of this miraculous behavior is provided by a crow named Betty, which was studied in the laboratory of Oxford University. Without any guidance, Betty bent a piece of wire she found in the laboratory into a shape that she could use as a tool. When she could not reach food at the bottom of a container with her beak, the crow bent the end of a piece of wire into a hook. With the use of the wire, she was then able to get her food out of the container easily. What amazed the scientists was that Betty understood that something she had seen before only in the mesh of a cage would be useful, thanks to its size and flexibility. She also succeeded in bending the flexible wire in a way that suited her purpose. Wanting to establish whether or not Betty's success was a coincidence, scientists noted that she succeeded nine out of ten times.
Scientists pointed out that despite her small brain, Betty had demonstrated a higher level of intelligence than chimpanzees. The BBC, with its Darwinist prejudices, commented, "Betty is putting our closest cousins to shame.42 In other words, Betty had turned upside down the evolutionists' accepted ideas on the root of intelligence. Alex Kacelnik, a scientist from Oxford who conducted research on Betty, made this comment:
We assume primates will be cleverer because they are closest to us… But this animal (Betty) seems to be on a par at least with any primates we have seen.43
Betty is just one of many birds exhibiting "intelligent" behavior. Many other scientific investigations are being conducted on this subject, making it ever more evident that all interpretations of the intelligence of chimpanzees, and consequent claims of the relationship between man and chimpanzee, are wrong.
Whatever the source of animal behavior, evolutionary claims do not support these characteristics. Many birds' behavioral patterns are determined from birth by their genetic structures. But if so, we should question who coded such behavioral patterns into the genes of birds? The evolutionists' response—that behavior is caused by instinct—leaves this question still unanswered, because birds' behavioral patterns are the inspiration of God and cannot be explained by such vague concepts as "instinct." The learned behavior seen in a few species of bird creates yet another dilemma for evolutionists, since they cannot say it is due to instinct. The surprising degree of consciousness observed in birds that have vocal learning such as parrots is a manifestation of the inspiration of God.
Evolutionists seeking to establish an evolutionary link between chimpanzees and humans use skull size as a criterion. However, the evolutionist claim that "as the brain developed, its capacity to process information and store it in the memory also increased" is invalid for a variety of reasons. Although a bird's brain is extremely small compared to a human's, birds are able to perform extremely complex operations.
One group of evolutionists claims that skull dimensions can demonstrate that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor. They relate humans' brains being larger than chimpanzees' to greater intelligence, and claim that over time, cranial dimensions have shown an evolutionary trend. This claim—that as the brain enlarged, its capacity to process information and store it in memory increased as well—is invalid, for a variety of reasons. Just the observations conducted on birds with vocal learning disprove it: Compared with a human's, a bird's brain is extremely small. For example, in birds weighing an average of 85 grams, the brain varies from 0.73 to 2.7 grams in weight. A bird's brain differs from a mammal's in that the complex folds found in mammals' cerebral cortex are missing, and the cerebral cortex itself is much smaller proportionally. Nevertheless, some birds are able to perform extremely complex operations such as speaking, learning songs, conceptualization and visual memorizing. Accordingly, there is no question of brain development from simple to complex to support evolutionary theory in living creatures. * http://www.earthlife.net/birds/nerves.html
One important development to disappoint the evolutionists is the "fossil parrot jaw" found 40 years ago. This fossil, estimated as being 65 million years old, has the same structure as the jaw of a present-day parrot. When this fossil was first unearthed, it was not given the interest it deserved, but has become a current issue, due to investigations conducted by Thomas Stidham on the fossil collection of Berkeley University's Paleontology Museum. His research showed this to be the oldest parrot fossil found to date, and that this parrot lived in the same era as the dinosaurs. According to X-rays taken of the 13 mm fossil, the K-shaped mark on the fossil—the tracks of blood vessel and nerves—is identical to ones on a present-day parrot's beak. * Thomas A. Stidham, "A lower jaw from a Cretaceous parrot," Nature, No: 396, 5 November 1998, pages 29-30.
28. http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/111201/brain.html.
29. http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/111201/brain.html.
30. http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/111201/brain.html.
31.Coates M. 1991. New palaeontological contributions to limb ontogeny and phylogeny. In: J. R. Hinchcliffe (ed.) Developmental Patterning of the Vertebrate Limb 325-337. New York: Plenum Press; Coates M. I. 1996. The Devonian tetrapod Acanthostega gunnari Jarvik: postcranial anatomy, basal tetrapod interrelationships and patterns of skeletal evolution. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 87: 363-421
32.William Fix, The Bone Peddlers: Selling Evolution, Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, 1984, p. 189
33.Elizabeth Pennisi, "Microbes, Immunity, and Diease: Is It Time to Uproot the Tree of Life?" Science, cilt 284, no. 5418, 21 May 1999, p. 1305-1307.
34.Jonathan Wells, Icons of Evolution, Regnery Publishing, 2000, p. 51
38.Philip Lieberman, "Peak Capacity," The Sciences, cilt 37, Kasım-Aralık 1997, p. 27.
39.http://members.aol.com/rmallott2/origin.htm ; The Origin of Language:The General Problem, Cracow, 1986; Thorpe, W.H., "Animal vocalisation and communication. In Brain Mechanisms Underlying Speech and Language", Grune & Stratton, New York, 1967, p. 1-12.
42.http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml; jsessionid=ULR5HJFNPM2KICRBAEZSFEY?type=search&StoryID=1311577.


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This weekend we returned to Standard Time—or, as I like to call it, Darkness Savings Time. This is usually a week where I can feel kind of meh, but I have made efforts to get on an earlier schedule, which helps, not to mention a daily dose of Vitamin D. I have some other simple actions that I often take to get myself out of a funk. I thought I'd share them with you. It's good to keep a list like this handy, so that when the doldrums come you're not sitting around waiting for the flash of inspiration that never comes. So, here are five simple things you can do to pull yourself out of a funk.
1. Get a hair cut, or shave. I don't shave every day; instead, I keep my beard and the hair on my head at about the same length. Believe it or not, I use clippers without any guard. Sometimes I let this go a little too long, and then on a day when I'm feeling run down, I look in the mirror and notice that I look like a wooly mammoth, which is unbecoming of anyone professing to belong to the human race. I get out my clippers, my jaw line becomes discernible once again, and usually I'm in a better mood. Total time investment: maybe ten minutes.
Those who are recently shorn often look and feel younger, thinner, and more vigorous than their bushy counterparts. What's more, I find it to be a better solution than dressing up, which can be uncomfortable. No matter how skinny I get, there is always a point on my hip bones where the trousers and the belt start to dig in, so taking care of my hair—one of the remaining unhappy elements of the human body that evolution has yet to take care of—is often a better solution to get me feeling better about myself again.
2. Clean your house. I came home from work yesterday, took one look at the clutter that I allowed to build up over the past few weeks, and heaved a sigh of disgust. Sometimes life gets crazy and our homes become, more or less, a kind of pit stop. We throw things here and there until the clutter mounts up to poetic proportions. This makes our living spaces unlivable, so that when we are there we don't have the hideaway from the rest of the world that we need. As with any overwhelming task, it helps to break it down. Focus on one area that you really need to use with a sense of peace. Need to get some reading or writing done? Concentrate on your den or office. Wish you could cook a big meal for friends? Focus on the kitchen and dining room.
I actually have a studio apartment, which changes the game completely, but makes the matter much more crucial. There is no such thing as picking up a mess and simply moving it to another room—one of my favorite techniques of yore. My problem du jour is the clothing pile from Hell. Of course, instead of addressing this yesterday, I took a nap. I needed it. And no one sees my apartment anyway. But when it is clean, I actually get a sense of comfort from being there.
3. Take a long walk. I was tempted to make running an option here, since, as I have discussed before, its benefits are manifold, but walks have their own specific up-sides. I am thinking, in particular, of their ability to reveal heretofore unseen corners of the world to the observer. The Fall is a really good time for this. Take the opportunity to enjoy the simple pleasures that nature offers, like John Adams did in the last episode of the HBO series about him. Yesterday I was walking along Pine St. in Philadelphia when I found a tree whose leaves had turned to colors of yellow and red so that it looked like the whole thing was ablaze. Against the evergreen shutters of the nearest house, it was a gorgeous site. I should have taken a picture.
These are the kinds of things you see on a walk that you often don't see on the drive home from work, either because you're tired or you have to pee or whatever. I have discovered new restaurants this way, too. One important thing: Walk slow. This is not exercise; it is not a task. It is leisure, and that's ok. Not every important thing in life has to do with making money or taking care of your family. Your own self is important too. So, leave the house, and don't tell anyone where you're going.
4. Call an old friend. Forget social media. Pick up the telephone, or get on Skype, and listen to the sound of an old friend's voice. Tell him your problems, your plans, your fears, your frustrations. We only have so many true friends in life, and these days we tend to be spread out all over the place. There are people that I don't speak to for months or years at a time, but when we get going again, it's like we never missed a beat. Those kinds of friendships are great, and necessary.
It's easy to get distracted by the people around us, but often these are not our friends but rather people who want something from us and are massaging us in an effort to get it. It's good to be nice to acquaintances, but it's important to know that they are not our friends. Stick to your most reliable five friends, and don't be afraid to call them when you need to. If they are good friends, they will tell you when you are full of crap, when you are lying to yourself, when you aren't being realistic, and when you are not giving yourself enough credit.
I remember getting ready for a recital a few years ago and complaining to a friend that it wasn't going well, that I had no business playing in public, that I should do something else for a living, etc. With each finished beer my autobiographical commentary got worse. Then the recital came. He pulled me aside afterwards and said, "Now listen, everything you said was absolutely untrue." I needed to hear this, and coming from someone who studied with one of the world's best percussionists, it was encouraging. I needed to hear that. Stay in touch with these people, because chances are that many people in your immediate vicinity are mere operators.
5. Sing. Music in general is beneficial, even just listening to it. Better than simply listening is actively listening, and better than actively listening is actively making. When I was a kid, I would play the piano for hours after coming home from the windowless prison block that was labelled an intermediate school. Singing in particular is most beneficial because it forces your body to use more oxygen, which gets your brain fired up. I have dragged myself to my voice lesson, thinking that I was too busy, tired, sick—whatever—to go through with this. But on those days I usually leave completely refreshed.
You could sing anything, really—maybe a song by Johnny Cash or Ray Charles. I actually recommend art songs, and before you think this is too snotty for you, hear me (or read me) out. Many of these songs have melodies that anyone can identify with, along with texts that are as sagacious as the Psalms and not half as gory. They speak mainly of love and death—which is to say, of life. Many of them are translated into English. I'll bet you can find many of them at imslp.org. Look for recordings on YouTube. I recommend music by Faure, Schubert, Brahms, and Grieg, just for starters. There's a lot out there.
So you're not a real singer? Good! Remember the words of H.L. Mencken: Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Excellence certainly has its place, but so does recreation. And you just might surprise yourself. You might be better than you realize. Just don't try Liebestod the first week.
Well, there you have it, a little arsenal of weapons with which to fight the principalities and powers of gloomdom. More tools to use in the discipline of rejoicing. All the best to you.
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Published: Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 11:57 a.m.
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Coach: Les Miles, ninth season (113-42 overall, 85-21 at LSU).
Last year's record: 10-3 overall, 6-2 in the SEC (T-2nd in the West). Lost to Clemson 25-24 in the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
Fans' expectations: The Tigers had Alabama down late in last season's game in Baton Rouge, but let the Tide off the hook. That won't happen this season. The rebuilding Tigers will take down Alabama in Tuscaloosa and roll to the division title. Zach Mettenberger has starred coming into his own at quarterback and the young Tigers will be fast and athletic — and dominant — on defense.
Realistic expectations: This LSU team has more question marks than any in perhaps the past five years. Mettenberger still lacks consistency in the passing game, tailback Jeremy Hill is in limbo with his legal issues and the Tigers must replace their entire defensive line and star linebacker Kevin Minter. And the schedule is tough, with LSU having to go to Georgia, Mississippi State, Ole Miss and Alabama. The Tigers have been pick to finish third in the West, which seems about right.
Quotable: "We're looking forward to the challenge, to be honest. Our culture is, bring it on. It's what we do. We look forward to lining up against the best in the East and the best in the West. I like us in any game." — Les Miles
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A MAN tried to blow up his ex-wife's kitchen by leaving a lit candle near an open gas tap, risking the lives of neighbours and the emergency services, a court heard.
Harrogate man Martin Whyms was drunk when he went to his former marital home in Leyland Road in November last year, York Crown Court was told.
Prosecutor Nick Adlington said Whyms went into the empty house without his ex-wife's permission.
He drank more and spent hours poring over photographs of his wife and children, before eventually becoming so angry about the amount of work he had put into renovating the kitchen that he decided to blow it up.
Whyms, 48, pleaded guilty to attempted arson reckless as to the endangerment of life.
Mr Adlington said it was only when Whyms was walking home that he realised the seriousness of the situation and called the police.
Officers went first to his then home in Camwal Court, The Avenue, Harrogate, before going with firefighters to Leyland Road.
There they found a strong smell of gas and spotted a lit candle in the kitchen. Firefighters smashed a window so they could put the candle out with a water jet.
Neighbours in an adjoining house had to be evacuated for several hours.
For Whyms, Matthew Stephenson said his client had gone through an alcohol-treatment programme in the months he has spent in custody since the offence, and was filled with remorse for his actions. He asked Recorder Paul Reid to spare his client jail.
Mr Stephensons said: "He has not at any stage tried to excuse what he did, but he has with some anguish tried to get to the bottom of what has gone wrong these last few years."
Judge Reid gave Whyms an 18-month suspended prison sentence with a supervision order, and warned him never to touch alcohol again. He said: "You must be completely abstinent from alcohol for the rest of your life. You cannot afford to lapse once.
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Gosh and then right when I post this I get a handshake!
All i did was airmon-ng stop eth1, airmon-ng start eth1. Could that really have been the reason why it worked or just dumb luck?
Also -fair warning this will prob be a noobish question- if I can capture the handshake does that mean my card has injection capabilities? I have ran aireplay-ng -9 eth1 but it does not say anything about injection.


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UNLIKE his owner, Clive Palmer, a man not shy of voicing opinions, Jeff was eerily quiet on the first day of the Australian PGA Championship at Coolum, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
He was following instructions to a tee. There was no bellowing, no roaring, not even a golf clap from his little arms. All he did was hypnotically waggle his tail and wobble around in the strong winds.
Still, Jeff was getting more than his fair share of attention. Even with a gag order, it's difficult for an 8.5-metre Tyrannosaurus rex to go incognito in the middle of a golf course hosting one of the biggest tournaments on the Australian calendar.
Fans did not seem to mind his attendance, with plenty getting their photo taken alongside the giant.
And Jeff may not be alone for long. Palmer seems intent on adding to his collection of enormous robotic dinosaurs and bringing them to the former Hyatt resort, now the Palmer Coolum Resort, as proclaimed by a bright yellow sign at the turn-off.
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Stuart Appleby was one of many players confounded by Jeff. The veteran has played golf all over the planet but can clearly state he has never flopped one out of the sand with a hulking bipedal carnivore in the background. As he said to his caddy, Mike Waite: ''I've never seen a dinosaur in the background of one shot I've hit in my life.''
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So in this thread I posted a video of Hoppe dumbing it down to the bare assertion held by Keynesians like Paul Krugman.
As you can see there, at least one member of this forum thinks Hoppe is an ignorant boob, and that his question is "idiotic".
Well, Krubman himself was apparently made aware of it...and as predicted, couldn't seem to answer it. (Which, according to someone here, means he's not a "true economist".)
I'm surprised Krugman didn't actually mention Hoppe himself. He certainly could have used a few ad hominems against him, like "He believes monarchy is preferable to democracy" or "He believes in natural elites". Sort of like he did with DiLorenzo and secession in his "Johnny Reb Economics" post.
Well it's certainly odd to see Hoppe even indirectly mentioned in the NY Times, let alone by Krugman. That would certainly make for a strange debate.
It's also great to see more reliance upon passive aggressive swipes at the other side rather than actually addressing the argument that side has made. It's really quite refreshing after seeing normal discourse where people just vaguely accuse the other side, or imply that the other side is wrong in some unspecified way...
I don't think Krugman knows anything about Hoppe besides he's on the "radical right". Perhaps he know he's an Austrian and that he hates democracy, but beyond that I would doubt any actual knowledge on his part.
That's a good point.
krugman is an idiot for acknowledging hoppe. even that ayn rand character he loves to compare himself to knew better than that. the man needs to retire. ny times can hire fool on the hill, or the idiot lord keynes.
nyt is perpetually in the red, the more idiots they hire, the better. old media is headed off a cliff and the nyt is walking point.
LOL - why did he even try?
probably because spending his whole career doing something like taking really bad ideas and making them seem like decent ideas made him into an actual dumbass, or at least a partial dumbass. and he thinks he can play his dumbass smartass act anywhere, and it will work. he doesnt realize that an effeminate european intellectual like hoppe is his worst enemy in this regard, because he has the ivory tower cred and the street cred (being persecuted for his academic statements while on faculty at unlv) to match krugman, and he actually doesnt even know who hoppe is, so he doesnt realize that in any sort of exchange hoppe would gut, skin tan hide, and put his meat to market. its the end of the beginning, gents.
Jesus Malachi...
what? did I say something?
It ain't that hard for a keynesian to answer that specific question made by Hoppe.
Keynesians beleive there's a lot of economic value in the general perception of safety of cash reserves. That is, when people are not concerned with their money disapearing overnight, they can leave their cash for fractional reserves operations to find uses for it. Fractional reserves houses face liquidity risks due to their leveraged situation. Printing money when the financial system lacks liquidity avoids the cascades of bankruptcies and widespread panic.
So printing money "generates wealth" in the sense that it avoids self-reinforcing liquidity traps, but it cannot generate wealth indefinetely because after a certain point the gains on liquidity security are offset by the costs created by runaway inflation.
So it's up to central bankers, government technocrats and wall street people to decide upon this trade-offs.
This is not my personal opinion, by the way, it's just the answer a keynesian would give, and it would be correct provided the assumptions that orient keynesian thought.
The difference between austrians and keynesians is more related to what they expect to come out off a financial meltdown. Austrians beleive keynesians overestimate the lasting effects of such liquidity crisis and think that postponing them only aggravates things.
"Wow. Just wow. Krugman would never argue that, in the long run, a society can be made richer by printing money. He would only say that in the short run, an increase in the money supply can counteract the negative effects of a fall in spending caused by price stickiness."
This ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"Krugman is saying that printing money, i.e. inflation, is only able to boost growth **during certain times**. Now, if that is the case, then it doesn't even matter what those certain times happen to be. As long as it is not all the time, then Krugman should be relentlessly chastising the Fed for engaging in ONGOING monetary policy. After all, the Fed does engage in more or less continuous open market operations to target continuous price inflation, right? And doesn't Krugman support that too? His answer to Hoppe is either a blatant lie, or he is so confused he doesn't even know when monetary policy is justified in his own mind.
The important point is that because Krugman believes that printing money is only justified during certain times, where there is "insufficient demand", then that would mean the Fed should only ever print money during certain periods, say during bank panics, or recessions, or whatever. Nothing that would approach continuous price inflation."
This seems correct to me. Does the Fed does engage in virtually constant operations to "print money"?


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>Racing>2013 Sub-3:45 Marathon Goal Thread
Finally PRed!!!
doctorjen, is there any way to shift some runs just a little bit to make it fit better? Sometimes that's an option.
Hope everyone else's training (and tapering) is going well. I ended up with 59 miles last week, which was a little more than planned, but the legs seem to be doing ok with it. This week will probably be a little lower. Planning a 5K on 1/21 so I'll have an opportunity to check progress, but not necessarily expecting a spectacular time, as I tend to suck at 5Ks.
Happy running, all!
PRs: 5K: 22:09, 10K:44:55, 15K: 1:10:35, HM: 1:42:49, M: 3:32:09
I do a lot of shifting around to fit my schedule. The biggest issue this time is a whole week of our inpatient medicine teaching service which falls in week 15 (and I'm actually doing the same schedule this week as well, week 4.) This means arriving to work at 7 am every day for a week and taking phone call every night. It also falls right after a week of vacation in which we are going to travel to visit my mom in Arizona and hoping go see the Grand Canyon. I'll have to be creative to hit my peak milage while working the crazy hours. It really is only a couple of runs that are hard to fit in, though - usually the long run and the medium long run, so I can often suck it up and get it done if it's only a couple of hard runs. Shorter runs aren't so bad to squeeze in at the end of the day when tired. Last cycle all of my hard work weeks fell in recovery weeks somehow. It would be nice if the racing world scheduled itself around my work schedule. I managed my easy recovery run tonight on day 1 of the tough schedule at least. 6 days to go for this time around.
Ah, that does sound like a tough schedule to fit runs around, especially in the peak mileage week. Good luck with getting the runs in!
SRD for me today. I am doing some planks since I joined a Plank Challenge. I'm pretty crappy about doing core work. Last marathon cycle I started out doing the core routine in the Pfitz book, but fell off the wagon about halfway through the cycle.
Happy running, everyone!
Hello 3:45er's! I'm new to RA so still finding my way around and figuring things out. 52 year old male, have been running for about 6 yrs. Running the Arizona Rock 'N' Roll Marathon on 1/20 - it will be my 3rd full with a PR of 3:59:54 set 2 yrs ago. Both Marathons did not end well - yeah, the old 10K death march at the end of both. Endurance was definately an issue. So after upping my mileage this past summer, went with the Pfitz 18/55 program - it really kicked my ass, but I can't argue with the results. Ran a 5K pr of 20:42 on Thanksgiving day followed by a 1/2 pr of 1:39:32 in early Dec. so big improvements! Halfway through the taper and starting to get excited and anxious. Good luck everyone
So Prunner, what time are you shooting for this time?
I also ran on jan. 20, my first.
So Prunner, what time are you shooting for this time?
I also ran on jan. 20, my first.
Sub 3:45. Might go out with a pace group if one is available at that pace. I did that at my recent 1/2 (1:40 pace group) and it worked out great. I have 2 worries though - 1st is how badly my other fulls ended so I'm really afraid of going out too fast (even if I'm capable) and 2nd is that this course does not look to be a great to run fast on - it has a gradual uphill that goes on for miles and miles. Will just have to see how I feel late in the race and if there's anything left in the tank... How about yourself? What are you shooting for?
Sub 3:45. Might go out with a pace group if one is available at that pace. I did that at my recent 1/2 (1:40 pace group) and it worked out great. I have 2 worries though - 1st is how badly my other fulls ended so I'm really afraid of going out too fast (even if I'm capable) and 2nd is that this course does not look to be a great to run fast on - it has a gradual uphill that goes on for miles and miles. Will just have to see how I feel late in the race and if there's anything left in the tank... How about yourself? What are you shooting for?
I have a much slower 5K (22:50) and my 1/2 was 1:41:15 about a month ago. Interestingly, in that 1/2 race, I ran the last 5K at 22:50, the same pace as my 5K personal best. I'm 56 male. Also used Pfitz's 18/55 but, for one reason or another, it turns into 31/55 (I started the plan in mid-June).
On Pfitz's plan, I was initially thinking not doing the 3 tune-up races on weeks 6/4/2 before race as I don't think I could handle them physically. However, I changed my mind because one of the senior posters (longboat) said those are the important part of the plan. By then it was 4 weeks before race. So I tried to squeeze in the 3 races on weeks 4/3/2 before race. The first tune-up race I used 10K time trial. I ended up bonking the last mile dropping the pace from 7:30 to >9:00 to finish at 48:11. Interestingly, I ran 17 miles the following day with plenty of juice left (the last two miles at MP). The second tune-up was a real 17km trail race 3 weeks before marathon. After the race, it was obvious there was no way I could do long run the next day as my lower calves were hurting (I had to walk down the stair sideway). In fact, I rested 3 days and started to regret doing such a brutal run this close to marathon. The third tune-up was this past weekend, two weeks before marathon, again a 10K time trail. I ran the first 5 miles at 7:45 hoping to avoid bonking like last time. Well, it didn't help. I had to walk the last mile, even worse than first time. The next day, I had to cut short the long run from 16 miles to 14.5 due to tired legs. So I'm now in the last two weeks of tapering before marathon. I really really really need a good taper....lol
I'm debating to shoot for 3:40 (BQ) or 3:45 (pace group), or 3:55 (another pace group). Wish me luck. Your sub-3:45 goal is very do-able, good luck!
For those of you using Pfitz's 18/55, what were your experiences like in those tune-up race part?
I didn't end up doing the races as scheduled. My work and family life schedules are a little crazy and I have an easier time fitting in training runs which I can do at any time of the day than races. So the only race I ended up doing was a half marathon 4 weeks out from the full marathon. I did a "mini taper" and just didn't do the speed work that week and cut down the miles a little. I ran a 6 minute PR in that half (1:50:37). The following week I did all the miles, but didn't do whatever speed component was called for on the Tuesday after the race, just ran the miles easy. I ran 20 miles as planned one week after the half and stayed on the exact schedule after that. I ran a huge PR in the marathon, too (32:01, dropping to 3:53:21.)
This time around, my schedule looks even worse for fitting in some races, so I may do some time trials instead, especially if I can get a faster friend to do them with me.
+1 Doctorjen
I couldn't do the races as scheduled either. The races I have done though, I've been very happy considering none have had a proper taper. I would also do a mini-taper like Doctorjen - so if the race was on a Sun., I would rest on Thur., run 5 or 6 on Fri., then rest again on Sat. - but I only did this for the longer races (1/2 and a 30k). Big confidence booster when you can PR a race on tired legs!
The 30k was a interesting race (my first 30k). Was held right near my house, about 5 miles away and was on the same trail system that I run on all the time so I kind of had a "home course advantage". It fell on the exact day that I was to do my 18mi. MP run so I decided to run it as a training run. Went out slow and gradually sped up the first 4 mi., 8:45, 8:38, 8:30, 8:18, and then ran the final 14.8 mi. @ 8:05. They didn't have enough volunteers so it was "self-serve" at almost all the water stops - you had to stop, get a cup out of the plastic bag, fill'er up, drink and take off again lol. Took my first gu at mile 6 but when I got to mi. 12, I discovered that my other gu had fallen out of my pocket! Needless to say I was pretty spent at the end of that one
I think the MP runs were my favorites of the 18/55 plan - it was just a great feeling to know that as the plan progressed, I was seeing the results and that the training was in fact working like I had hoped it would.
The point of the tune-up race part in the Pfitz's plan is to go all out in the race, then do the long run the next day. It is this part that makes the Pfitz plan the hardest to follow. I read both of you not quite doing it the way intended and yet you both seem to be doing just fine. I tried to do it in a condensed way and may have just run myself into ground...lol.
I'm using the Pfitz 12/70 plan but can't find any tune-up races on the days scheduled.
I am only in the second week of training. I keep hoping a local 10k will be added but no luck yet.
It looks pAny suggestions on where to do a time trial?
It looks like I will be running a time trial. Any suggestions on where to do a time trial?
I'm using the Pfitz 12/70 plan but can't find any tune-up races on the days scheduled.
I am only in the second week of training. I keep hoping a local 10k will be added but no luck yet.
It looks like I will be running a time trial. Any suggestions on where to do a time trial?
If you have a GPS watch which can track distance, then you can do time trial on any of your regular routes. Alternatively, you can use websites like geodistance.com or mapmyrun.com. Or, you can use your car's odometer.
Good luck tomorrow C-Chik!


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