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Dallas Braden's perfect game looks simple enough on a scoresheet -- 27 Tampa Bay Rays up, 27 down. But an event so stirring and unlikely as this one -- Braden had 17 career wins entering the game -- provides glimpses into it from so many angles.
By late Sunday afternoon, Dallas Braden was regaling the news media with tales of his teenage foibles.
Let's start with Grandma.
One night after Betty White pumped some life back into the Saturday Night Live franchise, Peggy Lindsey became, perhaps, the second most-beloved grandma in the country after she told a news reporter, "Stick it, A-Rod," a reference to her grandson's well-publicized feud with the New York Yankees slugger.
By evening, "Stick it, A-Rod" was a trending topic on Twitter, adding an unlikely spice of trash talk to what was a sweet Mother's Day tale of Braden spinning his perfecto in front of the grandmother who has been his rock ever since his own mother died in high school.
The San Francisco Chronicle's Susan Slusser added some context to the "Stick it, A-Rod" bomb, noting that teammate Eric Chavez hoped the narrative would be dominated by Braden's relationship with his grandmother, and not A-Rod:
His grandmother at first agreed with Chavez that it's time to move past the Rodriguez business.
"I'm thinking, 'Let's forget it, let's forget it,' " Lindsey said.
But then she paused and said, "Stick it, A-Rod."
Just couldn't resist.
Meanwhile, Braden was regaling the news media with further details of his Cinderella story, with specifics that seemed, well, the exact opposite of athletic mea culpas we've come to expect. He said he missed "79 of 81 days of school" at one point in his junior year of high school.
He only pitched two years of high school baseball. And even before his mother, Jodie Atwood, passed away from melanoma, Braden noted his grandmother was his "rock of Gibraltar ... who knew I was going the wrong way."
Now, he's so well-regarded that even A's general manager Billy Beane got caught up in burnishing his club's first impressions of Braden.
When asked by the Chronicle's Scott Ostler if Braden's past growing up in rough-hewn Stockton, Calif., concerned him before the 2004 draft, Beane said, "Not really ... when you draft a guy in the 15th round ..."
Well, it was actually the 24th round. But who's counting now?
Then, there was A-Rod. Not only did he pick the wrong pitcher's mound on which to trespass, he only made things worse by going to the "I don't know who that guy is" card. So naturally, Braden pitches his perfecto while the Yankees are playing the Red Sox, which meant Rodriguez had to face about 15,000 members of the news media looking for him to eat a little crow.
He was gracious before the game, tipping his cap and sounding like a team guy. When the herd descended upon him postgame, well, let's let ESPN's Gordon Edes, via Twitter, take it from here:
When A-Rod was asked another round of questions about Braden, he literally said "Uncle," to which someone cracked, "No, the grandmother.''
Finally, for every hero there needs to be a goat. Sunday, the Rays played the patsy for the second time in less than a year, as they were perfect-gamed by the White Sox's Mark Buehrle. Perhaps desperate to avoid such ignominy, slugger Evan Longoria attempted to bunt for a base hit leading off the fifth. Once again, a Braden start was marked by a potential breach of baseball's alleged unwritten rules.
Braden was too giddy for the subject to be broached, but the Rays defended Longoria's moxie.
Hard to blame them. Once again, the Rays felt helpless as bit players in someone else's unfolding drama. And long after the game ended, the A's were willing to pay extra in electricity costs to revel just a bit more.


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Fingers of Instability - Series Introduction
This marks the return of the "Fingers of Instability" series begun in February of this year, as we look to see these emerging regularly over the coming weeks until they are priced into the market. First let's look at the "shortened" description of what they are from that issue of Tedbits:
This is a metaphor for the present structure of the Global financial systems as practiced by the G7 Central banks and Government Financial officials around the world. I read a missive from a prominent newsletter writer sometime in the last 6 to 12 months and he described a computer study of Sand piles. In this study they piled on grains of sand on a pile one by one. It went on to describe how the mound could grow one grain at a time, and was stable and that as it grew areas of instability emerged and that once it got to critical mass as little as 1 grain of sand could spark a complete collapse of either the whole pile, a major portion of the sandpile, or just a small part of the pile.
This is an apt description of the global financial system in a fiat currency and credit world, where money and credit are being created at a breakneck pace (Average Global growth rate of 14% year over year according to the economist magazine) by every Central Bank in the world. As the worlds government authorities pile dollar after dollar, yen after yen, British pound after British pound, euro after euro, Yuan after Yuan, Ruble after Ruble, Rupee after Rupee, etc. on the global economic pile, selected "Bubble" investment areas of the world economies will grow and then collapse, as we are now seeing in US housing and sub prime lending markets. They must keep the game going in other asset classes and create "emerging bubbles" so these "STRONG HANDS" can step into the dog pile and take out the losers in that particular bubble collapse and keep the overall game going. I have also seen this referred to serial "BUBBLE BLOWING". Many analysts wondered where the next bubble would emerge. Now we know, and this situation has now moved beyond the shores of America, and is practiced everywhere In the G7.
The next part of the Sandpile it is the money being created by the Big Institutional Banks and Brokerages (that's what they used to be called, now they are poorly disguised hedge funds, look at sources of their earnings) when they "INVENT" Derivative products that literally allow them to print money. Slicing and dicing things like commercial and residential mortgages, into instruments where the "devils" in the details. Most of these newly invented financial products are part and parcel of the holdings of every institutional and pension fund investor in the world. There are trillions of dollars in these investment vehicles/products. They know not what they hold, and have only the financial institutions mathematical models to inspire confidence in the underlying investment instrument and its creditworthiness.
These "credit ratings" used to underpin the issuance of these products come from the likes of Standard and Poor's, Moody's and Fitch and are bought and paid for by the Issuing Institution, and facilitated by enormous amounts of quantitative and probability analysis which is newly invented in the last 15 years. Many of the assumptions in these models are based on data from history, a history where bankers were not as irresponsible as the ones who currently lead the world's economies. We will see these mathematical models be tested in the securitized mortgage markets in the not to distant future and I bet you they are not as "ROBUST" and predictive as they have been presented to be. Its going to be interesting who they "pin the tail on the donkey" this time, as the players involved are also powerful investment interests pitted against one another!!! Of course it will be the little guy!!!
The next part of the sandpile is created the emerging world's central banks, and their money printing is a self defence mechanism, as they have developed fiercely competitive manufacturing and supply chains and their export industries have blossomed. When they get paid this puts a HUGE bid under their currencies as the sheer size of the money flowing into their economies when they get paid is Trillions of dollars in purchasing power from the G7. This money printing is a super charger to their economies allowing them to invest in businesses, plants, equipment, infrastructure and create jobs for their emerging middle classes. The virtuous circle of Austrian economics at work in these emerging powerhouses.
The size of their domestic currencies is Dwarfed by the size of the G7's. So as they receive payment for their products and services they must STERILIZE the income or risk having their currencies SKYROCKET against those of their customers in the G7. An example of "Sterilization" is where they receive a dollar or Euro in payment for something (manufactured goods, raw materials, energy resources, services, etc.) and rather then go to the currency market to exchange it for their domestic currency they print their domestic currency, put it into their central bank reserves (rather than convert them in the currency markets) and pay the domestic businessmen out of the money they printed in the domestic currency. They then must recycle much of this back into the financial systems of their customers to prevent the deflationary effects of the customers borrowing requirements to overwhelm their customer's ability to borrow.
It is clear that words have little meaning to G7 central bankers and government financial officials bent on "NOMINAL" growth at any cost, sacrificing the futures of later generations, for the votes of today's citizens. With runaway money and credit growth the appearance of a healthy, growing economies is in the headlines, while the seeds of collapse are being sowed on a wider and wider scale. The reckless expansion of G7 credit and money is winked and nodded at by Populous Politicians around the globe as the honey pot of a "growing economy" is worth any price to them, as it provides the fuels for the next "RE"election cycle and government inspired idiocy that fools their citizens into thinking there is growth. Look no further than ethanol for an example of a government inspired Disaster in the making, distorting every market that is related to it (we will revisit the "ethanol" finger of instability from the original "FINGERS OF INSTABILITY" as it is illuminating what has unfolded, and the monster it is continuing to morph into).
You have to learn to invest in the direction the wind is blowing and learn to take advantage of these fingers of instability as they emerge. Bubbles forming, driving asset prices higher as good fundamentals combine with TOO MUCH LIQUIDITY to drive the asset class to unbelievable heights, and then implode as the fundamentals no longer support the mania prices in the underlying asset class. It will happen over and over and over again, as rising asset prices, and nominal growth (growth from inflation) underpins everything in the G7 financial systems. As they no longer have policies that are conducive to and supportive of "WEALTH CREATION". Substituting an ever growing welfare state and the relentless expansion of government while the private sectors suffer death from a thousand cuts. As relentless regulatory expansion, uncompetitive tax structures and the relentless expansion of the welfare state "EAT THEM ALIVE".
You need to learn to make money in up, down and sideways conditions. As this experiment has a long way to go before the endgame emerges. Make money now, and do your homework, when the final explosions are on the near horizon, know where the exits are, be in liquid investments that will allow you to exit, and then initiate capital preservation and income strategies. In the wrong instruments and you will be killed, in the right ones and the opportunities are limitless.
What can you Bank on? You can bank on the G7 global money printing and credit creation continuing. Asset based banking and economic management strategies such as those that evolved under Greenspan, are now the economic models that are in place around the globe. Widely employed by the developed and emerging world alike. Around the world politicians and central bankers liked what Greenspan did so much that they now are challenging even him for supremacy in recklessness. He has left the scene and the public is quite good at blaming those left holding the bag!!! And he has passed the hot potatoes to others. But because they are putting a super charger to his previous efforts, what was an anticipated "US collapse" because of these reckless policies are now postponed far into the future! As all these new participants send their economies on the path to wealth creation through asset appreciation rather than growing economies and industries.
Globalization is the canvass, and the Global economic and financial system is the "Sandpile". As money moves around the globe with ease, seeking out returns. The smart holders of fiat money seek to own the "means of production", move out of paper currencies and move into assets that can withstand the relentless debasing the sovereign currencies are undergoing at the hands of G7 Central Bankers and Politicians. The assets the smart money holds and buys just reprice in the debased currencies.
The money and credit machines are generating the constant theft of purchasing power of currencies in deposits, wherever they may be held, (savings accounts, money market accounts, Bonds, interest rate instruments of all stripes, etc.). The dollar is a good example of fiat currency over time; as one dollar now buys what 4 cents bought when the Federal Reserve was unconstitutionally mid-wifed in 1913, only now the process has accelerated. (Sound money was a central theme of the founding fathers of the United States; they prohibited the creation of a "fiat" faith based money system, they had seen numerous failed experiments with this throughout history and new these lessons well). In 1913 US politicians forgot these lessons with the creation of a foreign owned central bank (US Federal Reserve) and changed this forever.
Now "GUSHERS" of hot money roll of the central bank presses or are created by the big banks and brokerages when they spin new products such as CDO's (collateralized debt obligations and CMO's (collateralized mortgage obligations), but there is one common element to all of these instruments and that is the are like bonds, and they are sold based on the underlying "ASSET" value, and if the asset value declines or the income streams off them cease they become 'BOMBS' to balance sheets.
Remember Japan, it was just 16 short years ago when we witnessed an asset based economy come off the rails; it is now just barely emerging from its deflationary debacle (During Bernanke's academic career he developed intimate knowledge of Japan and the great depression, both times where credit availability for even qualified borrowers evaporated: mean the sub prime mortgage debacle "must not" be allowed spread to other parts of the lending system). US and EU politicians are totally ignoring this recent lesson of history (as they attack the Yen and by extension the yen carry trade).
Think of what would happen if this Japanese type of deflation and a liquidity crunch were to unfold on a Global scale, that's what teeing up if the central banks don't keep the international money and credit creation trains humming. If feeble-minded protectionist politicians or weak kneed central bankers in the United States and the European Union precipitate the choking off of these money flows we all will enter a deflationary depression of unprecedented scale. A Kondratieff winter! Hopefully someone will explain this to them before it is too late. We are now in a world of inflate or die. I promise you they will inflate. So it's going to be fire hoses of HOT money right off the printing presses for as far as the eye can see.
Enough already? Ready for some fingers of instability? Also known as bubble opportunities? And potential pitfalls!!!
This week a fire emerged across the banking systems of the G7, as CMO/CDO's markets started to implode. Approximately 300 billion dollars was PRINTED during the week to rescue the banks and the prime brokers from "ARM"ageddon. The overnight lending windows froze as banks REFUSED to lend to other banks as the value of their counterparties collateral suddenly was in question. The overnight commercial paper market suffered many disruptions as well. So the authorities did as they must to keep the game going: they printed the money and said "COME and GET IT" to supply the short term liquidity requirements of the G7 financial systems. It was enormous as every G7 central bank opened the lending windows. These episodes are set to continue as the financial authorities DO NOT know where the problems are, and on whose balance sheets they reside so they must wait for them to emerge then address them one at a time.
Most people think the problems were contained by these injections, but the important event was not the injection into the overnight banking systems which HAD to be done. The important event is that the US "FEDERAL RESERVE" went to the heart of the problem on Friday and took the "MORTGAGE BACKED SECURITIES" as collateral. They took over 20 billion dollars worth of them into inventory. NEVER has any central bank taken these over the counter "DERIVATIVES" as collateral. By putting a price on them now they can mark the models to the market, and the G7 central banks have the purchasing power to dictate the bid price, therefore now the balance sheets can be defined. However to this point it is only the US Federal Reserve that has done so. The Bundesbank did a rescue as well of IKB bank, but only by guaranteeing the banks in question, they didn't take the notes.
The seeds of this unfolding debacle are trillions of dollars of Mortgage backed securities which up to this point has been completely an over the counter affair between big banks, prime brokers and their clients such as hedge funds, institutions and pension funds (the investors in these products). The blow up is happening because the quality of the mortgages in these securities varies wildly and has come into question, some are backed by "good borrowers" and others by "liar loans" and "ninja" (no income, no job or asset) loans. They are PANDORA's box investments. Open them up and you don't know what will fly out of them. So as more and more investors decide the risk is a little more than they can be comfortable with and decide to sell the market was turning into a black hole. No bidders will put a price on them, so effectively they were worth very little, maybe as low as twenty cents on the dollar or as high as 90 cents, as NO ONE will buy something if they can't understand the value of that something.
Another shoe just dropped as we go to press, banks are WITHDRAWING their credit lines to hedge funds that hold this paper, and they are revoking credit lines predicated on this type of collateral. Another negative.
Now the interesting part starts as to effectively address this problem the G7 central banks must wait for bank after bank, institution after institution, hedge fund after hedge fund, pension fund after pension fund to try and exit their positions. The cockroaches must be identified as they as are flushed out by the mob of investors in PANIC liquidation mode. LOL. Some will be allowed to survive and others will be allowed to die as a lesson to others. The G7 central banks will HAVE TOO be the market maker of last resort. To not do so spells doom for the G7 financial system as the "ALWAYS" inflating value of the assets are the underpinnings of their financial systems.
Did you notice there wasn't one central bank in the emerging world which had to inject liquidity? Why? Because they have savings, and their economies are not dependent on monetary and asset inflation for growth like the G7's is. The emerging world does not depend on financial magic, inflation through currency and credit creation, and smoke and mirrors to create the illusion of growth. They are becoming wealth creating machines, courtesy of unrestrained capitalism and the Austrian economic models they employ and the money the G7 prints and sends to them provides the seeds they need to emerge into the modern economies they wish to create.
This week looks to be interesting as the selling abated somewhat after the fed took the MBS (mortgage backed securities), but you can be sure that meeting between G7 central bankers and financial authorities occurred all weekend long to discuss the next step of containment strategies. But there is one containment strategy you can bank on: "THEY WILL PRINT THE MONEY"! Otherwise this is the big Kahuna for the G7 financial systems, and I don't believe they are ready to throw in the towel! They won't throw in the towel until they are dead and buried or the markets don't let them get away with it!
In conclusion, we will be covering the unfolding drama for the next several months in the "FINGERS OF INSTABILITY" series. As the worlds government financial authorities pile dollar after dollar, yen after yen, British pound after British pound, Euro after Euro, Yuan after Yuan, Ruble after Ruble, Rupee after Rupee, etc. on the global economic pile, selected "Bubble" investment areas of the world economies will grow and then collapse, as we are now seeing in US housing and sub prime lending markets. As we watch financial authorities and public servants WORLDWIDE battle the markets as they attempt to control them. It figures to cause stock market indigestion as the credit needed to underpin them is temporarily interrupted until they get the fires under control and restore confidence to the G7 financial systems and their participants.
The next round of reflation sits directly in front of us, as they take these bombs called CMO/CDO's and dispose of them in a safer manner then allowing the markets to do so themselves. A financial bond,er bomb squad. Then what's left of the underpinnings will be repackaged after being inspected for "FOUL SMELLING" elements, which will be removed. And the institutions that created them will generate another round of fees for themselves as they resell the remains. We will also be covering emerging and present "FINGERS OF INSTABILTY" in other areas of the global economies and politics. We will be discussing this newsletter on www.commodityclassics.com, on Wednesdays at 3:45 central standard time. Thank you for reading Tedbits, if you enjoyed it send it to a friend, subscribe its free at www.TraderView.com.
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With legal proceedings over, a longtime eyesore in downtown Forest Lake has bit the dust.
Crews razed two unoccupied buildings near the southwest corner of the US-61 (Lake Street) and Broadway (CR-2) roundabout on Friday and Monday. The structures, formerly a gas station and Taco John's, were on a property involved with the roundabout project at the city's main intersection. The roundabout was completed in the fall of 2010 after several months of downtown construction.
The city used eminent domain during the roundabout construction to take a slice of the .89-acre lot for a possible future right-hand turn lane.
Negotiations over the price tag for the 8,521-square-foot corner ensued, with the city depositing $264,000 as original compensation.
The property's owner, a shareholder in Lake Area Bank, sought $482,000. The city countered with an offer for $380,000 following a subsequent appraisal but a deal could not be struck and the matter went before a court-appointed panel of condemnation commissioners.
"In addition to the reduction in square footage, a fair amount of the proceeding revolved [around] the reduction in value due to the new parcel size, configuration, and access as a result of the taking," said City Administrator Aaron Parrish.
This spring, the panel announced a binding compensation of $400,000. The city also had to pay just over $52,000 in fees. The payment was lumped in as part of the overall roundabout project.
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Speculation linking Lake Area Bank to a new building on the site have made the rounds since Broadway Ventures LLC purchased the land in 2007.
However, no decision has been made at this point, according to Matt Elvehjem, location lead for the Forest Lake branch located at 91 Lake Street S.
Original plans for a new building took a hit from the economic downturn and the roundabout project, Elvehjem said, and the owner is now more likely to sell than build.
"The bank is clearly committed to the Forest Lake commuity and if we don't build over there what that means is we are going to do a remodel at the current location," Elvehjem said, noting that the same shareholder owns the bank's current building. "…One way or the other, it is exciting for the community to see something moving forward on that site."
The demolition work is the result of the conclusion of the legal process.
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Two of the greatest and most under-appreciated actors of their generation are teaming up on screen for the first time. Forget De Niro and Pacino. Forget Newman and Redford. Forget even, if you can, Sandler and Schneider. This is the big one:
Hayden Christensen and Paul Walker – together at last!
Yes, the blond bombshells and neo-Keanus are teaming up to star in the John Luessenhop-directed thriller, Bone Deep, in which a group of criminals find a hard-boiled detective meddling with their plans to pull off a $20 million heist.
Walker will play the leader of the gang, while Christensen will play a greenhorn cop, the partner of Matt Dillon, who had already been cast as the nosy cop.
The rest of the cast includes Chris Brown, T.I. and our very own Idris Elba.
But it's the casting of Walker and Christensen that may raise eyebrows, with many critics calling the duo's acting ability into question. We could be snarky and sarcastic and join in by dubbing them 'neo-Keanus', but we're going to rise above… what do you mean, we've already done it? Damn.
But we're just busting their balls. Walker was actually pretty good in fare like Running Scared and Roadkill, and seems to do pretty well when he's not just being a pretty boy with rock-hard abs. Christensen, of course, is still struggling to escape the Star Wars type-casting tag, but he showed promise in Shattered Glass, so let's hope that is consolidated here.


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Exclusive: Marcie Ciscel talks about her brief 'The Mole' journey
By Christopher Rocchio, 06/03/2008
Marcie Ciscel couldn't determine who was serving as the saboteur during her short stint as a
The Mole
fifth-season player.
The 31-year-old stay-at-home mom from Corona, CA paid the price for it when she
became the first player executed
during last night's premiere broadcast.
On Tuesday, Marcie talked to Reality TV World about why she wasn't really surprised to be the first fifth-season player to be executed; how she went from everybody suspecting she was the mole to being shown the door; what led her to form a coalition with another player and how paranoia subsequently set in; and why she initially didn't want to be on
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but is now grateful she took the opportunity.
Reality TV World: Who did you suspect was the mole when you were answering the questions on the quiz and what led you to think that?
Oh my gosh, it was so crazy. You know what, I think it was so early. It was too early, none of us really knew who the mole was. Um... The people I thought at that time, I think I had Bobby. I think I picked Clay. I know I had suspected Ali. I think those were my Top 3, but at that point, really none of us knew.
Reality TV World: Was there anybody you immediately thought couldn't have been the mole?
No. You can't do that. You can't do that in this game. The only person who I was hoping [wasn't the mole] was Paul, just because we had an agreement together that we were going to give each other information and pick other people's brains. So Paul was the only one I was hoping was staying honest with me.
Reality TV World: Were you surprised to be the first player executed? Did you think you had done well on the quiz?
Reality TV World: Okay, so you weren't surprised?
Emotionally, this was a tough, tough game. the other players were amazing. Things were being thrown at you at different ways at different times. It was crazy. I was emotionally, I was mentally drained. I felt like I was going crazy. I was confused if Paul was really giving me the right information. Now -- seeing the show -- I know he was! (laughing) It's crazy.
Reality TV World: What was your reaction when prior to the first mission, when host Jon Kelley revealed that the majority of your fellow players were suspicious you were the mole?
I was a little surprised. The other players kept asking me questions like, 'How could you do this? How could you be away from your three boys and your family? That's a bit suspicious.' Everybody was very up front about the way that they felt, they would tell you that.
I wasn't that surprised only because they kept watching me and I could feel it. (laughing) You want to throw them off, so maybe I did a good job.
Reality TV World: It seemed like some of your choices of where to place the money during the first mission were kind of odd. How did you decide which players would be going for the money?
As I said when we entered [that mission], we didn't have a lot of time together before that. I didn't get a chance to really get to know everyone that well. So I knew that Ali was in good shape and working out. It doesn't matter how tall you are. You can be very tall and clumsy and not very strong.
So I figured I'd go for the ones I knew were athletic -- like Ali, Victoria, Clay and Mark. Kristen, I really didn't get a lot of time to talk to her, so I didn't know she was athletic.
Everybody thought it was odd -- the people that I chose. But I just tried to go with who I thought was the most athletic.
Reality TV World: Okay, so you were intentionally trying to sabotage the mission and make the other players think you were the mole?
Maybe with some players, yeah. (laughing)
Reality TV World: What went into your selections of who would be sleeping in the cabin and who would be sleeping outside on the first night?
Nicole was just bothering me. You can only listen to her a certain amount, then you tune her out. So I just figured, "Ah, I'll put her outside. She wants to speak a lot and give everybody her opinion? We don't want to listen.' So I threw her outside.
Then grandma [61-year-old Liz], she's a camping, outdoors person. I didn't have a lot of time to choose! It was at the spur of the moment. Bobby could go outside. I wanted to put the people inside that I still needed to talk to, like Kristen. So I was strategizing, putting them close to me so I could find out more information. Paul got to sleep inside because we were together.
Reality TV World: Last night's episode showed Paul complaining Nicole kept everyone up all night. Did anyone who slept in the cabin manage to get much sleep with her staying up all night in there?
She did keep everyone up. She kept talking. She wouldn't go outside. We exchanged words. We shut our door and tried not to listen, but she just kept going and going. She would not stop and she would not go outside.
Reality TV World: Did anyone raise the idea that trying to keep everyone from getting much sleep might be something the mole might do?
In a way. I thought that maybe she could be the mole because she was still awake and maybe that's how they're handing her clues. You never know. It's so crazy.
Reality TV World: What was your reaction when you learned she'd be receiving an exemption and wouldn't have to take the quiz? Had any of you guys suspected the exemption going to be coming or was it a genuine surprise?
It was a surprise. We were hoping it wasn't going to happen. We were really hoping she wasn't going to be exempt. It was very disappointing.
Reality TV World: You've already touched upon your coalition with Paul. What was your reaction when he approached you about it?
(sighs) Um... Gosh. I wasn't putting a 100% trust in him. When he did look at me I kind of read his face and he gave me his word and I told him I'd hunt him down and kill him. (laughing)
But I had to trust someone at that point. I didn't have my husband, didn't have my friends, didn't have my kids. I needed to feel that I could trust someone so that I would have a little bit more confidence in the game. I trusted him as much as I could.
Reality TV World: Did you tell any of the other players that you and Paul were in a coalition?
We kept it to ourselves. As a matter of fact, I was getting information from Victoria and Bobby -- trying to pick their brains as [Paul] was with Alex. I was letting them know, "Yeah, he does have an alliance with Alex. Let's try to break them up. What do you think?" So I was feeding [Paul] the information I was getting.
Reality TV World: I see, so you were aware Paul was befriending Alex and leading him to think you were the mole as a strategy? [That] he knew about your similar strategy with Victoria and Bobby?
To an extent. We were always going. We didn't have that much time to really do that. I had to rely on not speaking to him a lot of the time and just trying to... I don't know, mouth things out and word things out where people couldn't see. But towards the end I got paranoid -- I just got paranoid he wasn't being honest with me. He tried to assure me he was. But this game's crazy.
Reality TV World: Did you use your journal at all the short time you were in the competition?
I did get to use my journal. I got to write everything that I felt, everything that I saw going on. But you never know what you need to remember. You write everything that you can because you don't know what they're going to use on the quiz.
Reality TV World: How were you cast for
The Mole
Marcie: I actually went with my best friend just for the drive. (laughing)
My boys were in school, and when I had gone I filled out paperwork with her. They asked me if I was really interested and said they were really interested. I actually was thinking, "Absolutely no. I can't do this. I cannot leave my family." I've been with my husband for 10 years, but together for 14 years. I've never really stepped out of my comfort zone.
I said, "No." Then after talking with my family about it, they really pushed me to do it. I'd never gotten the opportunity to travel like that or be on my own or test my limits.
Reality TV World: Would you consider yourself a fan of the show's first two seasons? What about the celebrity installments?
A huge fan. I've watched every single episode. I don't think they were expecting me to be a huge fan, but they were asking questions and I knew exactly what they were talking about. I love the show -- the fact that it's a mystery-solving adventure. I love it.
Reality TV World: What was your strategy heading into the competition? Did you come up with a game plan at all?
I tried to. (laughing) It's so nerve wracking. I tried to. I knew I wanted to form a coalition with another player. I knew that. Just to try and remain calm. I knew I was going to be devastated without my family. I knew I wasn't going to sleep well, I don't sleep well when I'm not around my kids or my husband just because I don't know what's going on at all times.
But mostly, I just tried to stay focused, meditate a little and pray. (laughing)
Reality TV World: You just mentioned one aspect you were concerned about was leaving your family. What did you think would be your strong points or attributes?
Strong points were the fact that I'm pretty good at reading people. I have a good intuition -- I have three little boys. My husband's a police officer, so he was trying to tell me, "Don't over think it," which is the best thing. "Do not over think it." But I did at points because you get paranoid. You don't feel you can really trust anyone.
I was also taking it as it was a game. Some people are like, "Oh, the whole lying aspect!" It's a game.
Reality TV World: You already touched upon this a bit, but when we talked to Jon before the season started he said this was an opportunity for you to experience the world. Are you happy you took that chance despite being away from your family?
It was so worth it. I am so happy that I was given this opportunity. Never in a million years would I ever do anything like this. I was so excited to go home and be with my family after being gone all that time, but then of course you come home and you're like, "Ugh! I wish I would have stayed!" (laughing) But you never I know. I didn't answer those questions on the quiz right.
Emotionally I wish I would have been stronger. You can tell on the show I was exhausted. I think I lost eight to 10 pounds from stress and not sleeping. But it's great, the producers and writers... they're pretty phenomenal.
Reality TV World: So what's next for you? What are you currently up to?
I'm raising my boys and coaching soccer. (laughing) I like to be active. I don't know, we'll see where this takes me. At first I was like, "No, I just want to be home to raise my boys." But after coming home... I don't know, I loved meeting all these other players. I really cannot wait to see everybody again and all that. I'll take it as it comes.
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We read that today too! It is the copy I had as a child, so it was so sweet reading it (they loved seeing the way I wrote my name on the inside cover when I was younger). Such a good book!
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Two minutes is not a lot of time but in that short span, director Lee Daniels managed to get so much wrong in his interview that it's shocking. I am often quite resistant to questioning the experiences, or the views of marginalized people with whom I don't share a marginalization with, simply because doing so can be extremely problematic. The moment you have privilege in an area, you must question whether your resistance to what is being said is really about an unwillingness to challenge your own privilege. No matter how committed to social justice the individual is, none of us has reached the point where we stop tripping over our privilege.
I paused for a moment, as I listened to Daniels talk about the supposed down low phenomenon and his association with a grouping of Black women and children with welfare. Please take a moment to watch the video or read the transcript.
Larry King: When did you know you were gay?
Lee Daniels: When did I know that I was gay? I was five.
Larry King: Five?
Lee Daniels: Five and I knew that something wasn't right or that I wasn't right in comparison to my brothers. Because my dad was playing cards one Sunday with his cop friends and I put on my mother's red pumps and walked down the stairs. He went, "what's going on? What's happening?"
Larry King: My life is over
Lee Daniels: Oh my God and then I got beat.
Larry King: Really?
Lee Daniels: He beat me severely for it. Yeah, he beat me really bad but that didn't stop me because the following Sunday I put on her blue high heel shoes and walked down the stairs; this time with her purse.
Larry King: In an interview a year ago you said that gay people are third class citizens.
Lee Daniels: I meant that to.
Larry King: Has that changed?
Lee Daniels: I think that they're prejudiced upon even from the African-Americans. I think that the reason that we have AIDS….I did a movie called Precious and uh
Larry King: Naturally
Lee Daniels: And I what I have learned – what I expected – When I was doing the research for Precious, I walked into the AIDS – Gay Men's Health Crises center in NYC expecting to see studying AIDS/HIV and I expected to see a room full of gay men but well there were nothing but women who were there. And the reason why women are there (black women with kids) I thought I had walked into the welfare office but uh they service Black women with AIDS. Why? Because Black men can't come out. Why? Because it's simply that you can't do it. Your family says it, your church says it, your teachers say it, your parents say it, your friends say it, your work says it, so you're living on this DL thing and you're infecting Black women. And so it is killing us and I think that the Black culture and the Hispanic culture have a thing about this.
Larry King: that's true
Let me state for the record that as a straight Black woman, I obviously have no idea what it is to be a gay Black man and while I share race as a marginalization with Daniels, our experiences and frame of reference in terms of sexuality could not be more different. That said, I have a problem with his statement that the down low is killing us (and by us I mean Black people). The closet is a horrible, horrible thing but the notion that gay Black men are infecting Black women with HIV/AIDS is highly problematic in my view. HIV/AIDS is an epidemic within the Black community and it is hitting Black women particularly hard. Black women overwhelming tend to have sex with Black men and are far less likely to date, let alone marry inter-racially. There is a stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS testing, which unfortunately leads people to believe that if they don't feel ill that they are fine. Not knowing if you are positive means that you are free to engage in high risk behaviour, potentially exposing others unwittingly (and irresponsibly in my view) to HIV/AIDS. There is also the issue of bad sex education, in which condoms are not stressed, or outright ignored. Many don't realise that if you are having oral, anal or vaginal sex, that a condom is absolutely necessary each and every single time. The problem is that people are not using condoms and as far as I am aware, straight men are more than capable of straying outside of their monogamous relationships and bringing home an STD. There is also the issue of sharing needles for those who are addicted to drugs and the limited number of exchanges for clean needles. It's not the downlow that is responsible for the alarming HIV/AIDS numbers in the Black community but ignorance, addiction and poverty.
I was absolutely disturbed to see Lee Daniels so publicly spread this lie about the downlow. HIV/AIDS is not a gay disease. The virus cannot distinguish between a straight person and a gay person. Safe, healthful, sexual choices, good sex eduction, free condoms and needle exchanges are the greatest weapons we have for fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS, not attacking and stigmatizing our same gender loving brothers of colour. To me, his statement read more like someone who has bought into the ridiculous narrative that is being spread by straight culture, than a serious commentary on how to stem the rising number of HIV/AIDS infection. The internalization of the oppressors truth is so insidious because it means we become a party to our oppression, believing the worst about ourselves and perpetuating harmful stereotypes that can do us nothing but harm.
Lee Daniels also spoke about walking into a men's health center and believing that he was in the welfare office. Black women and children are disproportionately poor and this has everything to do with insitutionalized racism and our warped capitalist system. There are however more White people on welfare than Black people and this is something that consistently gets over looked to promote the idea of the Black welfare queen. It is true that in terms of percentage of population, Black women and children are over represented on welfare but the fixation on this is simply an ongoing project by White supremacy to cast Black women as licentious breeders. That his immediate assumption was that he was in a welfare office speaks loudly about how Daniels looks at class, race and gender. In fact, what he did was shame these women for attempting to get the healthcare treatment that they so desperately needed. If there were more services which specifically targeted Black women and children, these women would not have been at the center. Their presence there should be lauded because it shows maturity and responsibility.
Homophobia is a global problem and no one race of people is more or less homophobic than the other. Even one incidence of homophobia is too much and to spend time debating about who is less or more homophobic distracts from the mission of bringing an end to all homophobia. Homophobia isn't an issue because Black people supposedly exist to oppress same gender loving people. It's an issue because of heterosexism and the fact that we teach children from birth that the only acceptable sexuality is heterosexual. Even if we were to accept the false notion that the homophobia in the Black community is worse than any other, how do we explain the fact that Black people do not as a group hold enough institutional power to make and enforce laws which specifically target the gay community? Daniels arguments again seem to me to be yet another instance of internalized racism. Growing up as a young gay Black male, Daniels would have most certainly experienced homophobia within the Black community but it is a significant leap to then suggest that his lived experience correlates to higher instances of homophobia within the Black community than any other racial group.To be clear, Daniels must have faced great difficulty coming out but at least to some degree, his experiences must mirror the experiences of other gay men across the world. Coming is difficult no matter what race you are because we live in a heterosexist world.
Lee Daniels is not representative of all same gender loving men of colour but it is still disappointing to see him espouse views which are clearly harmful, not only to himself as a gay Black man, but to the entire Black community. The Black community is under great peril with unemployment figures in the double digits, high rates of poverty, a school to jail pipeline, addiction and HIV/AIDS. These are serious issues which require thoughtful conversation and solid solutions, not the ramblings of a man who has internalized such much hatred that he cannot point to the north star. Freedom and equality will not be achieved by repeating and internalizing the oppressors lies but by having the courage and intelligence to learn the truth and then act upon it.
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Matt already working on shows for the 2013 series, said: "His first episode
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SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Arrives
Novell announced today that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is officially out in version 11. The SLES extensions for Mono and the desktop version SLED 11 should also concurrently hit the market. A high-availability extension is to follow.
A key factor of Enterprise Linux, according to project manager Gerald Pfeifer, is high-availability (HA) and the support of enterprise-critical applications, for which Novell together with Oracle developed the Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS). The HA extension supplemented the system with the Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) in version 8, together with Heartbeat and Pacemaker cluster management tools. Administration is through a command line interface, on the one hand, that allows for scripting and Novell's own GUI on the other. Novell now reports that the DRBD version is 8.2.7. The YaST module is Yast2-drbd version 2.13.1.
Another factor is Novell's interoperability with Microsoft technologies. SUSE Enterprise Desktop (SLED) version 11 includes next to the codex for MP3 and AAC support for the WMA and WMV Microsoft formats. According to Pfeifer this support satisfies a request from Windows customers who largely develop in these formats. Next to that is Moonlight, the Mono porting of MS Silverlight to Linux. Unfortunately the support for in-development Sharepoint for GNOME's Nautilus data browser is not yet part of the Enterprise product deal.
Desktop users, however, should be happy with enhancements in the GNOME Network Manager in the better support for UMTS cards, which Pfeifer says should provide a more comfortable notebook roaming.
Interoperability should become even better through extensions. The Mono extension brings .NET applications to Linux on an enterprise level, by company claims. Pfeifer: "The scalability in things processing and working memory are partly better than under Windows." Thus customer requests for Mono on the mainframe will become a reality.
Novell calls its virtualization solution a "perfect guest operating system for virtual computing." Thanks to the benefits of VMI used by its collaborator VMware, Novell claims a performance win under VMware ESX of 10% better than its predecessor. The cooperation with Microsoft brings support for Windows Server on SLES/Xen as well as guest on leading hypervisors.
SLES 11, SLED 11 and the Mono extension is available now. The HA extension should be ready the second quarter 2009. During the course of the year the SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 family hopes to have additional Real Time Extension, Thin Client and Point of Service offspring.
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Uptime Institute executive director Ken Brill said yesterday that some data center operators are manipulating or manufacturing Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) numbers.
In an online seminar, Brill said this is putting pressure on other data center managers to match these PUE ratios. Matt Stansberry has a summary at Data Center Facilities Pro:
Brill said he's seen companies talking about a PUE of 0.8, which is physically impossible. "There is a lot of competitive manipulation and gaming going on," Brill said. "Our network members are tired of being called in by management to explain why someone has a better PUE than they do."
The Uptime Institute is familiar with what can happen when data center operators play fast and loose with competitive benchmarks.
That's pretty much what happened with the Uptime Tier System, which set forth a four-tier rating system for data center reliability. Data centers began describing themselves as equivalent to "tier three-plus" or even "Tier Five."
But while the Uptime tier system became a recognized benchmark, the institute's efforts to advance its own standards for energy efficiency have gotten less traction than the PUE system developed by The Green Grid. Uptime has proposed four green metrics (PDF) including Site Infrastructure Energy Efficiency Ratio (SI-EER). For more info, Ken Oestreich from Cassatt has a nice overview of the proposed green data center metrics.
Brill says PUE is a snapshot of data center efficiency at a single point, and not designed to track progress over time. But Dave Ohara at the Green Data Center blog argues that regular PUE measurements over time provide a worthwhile picture of improvements in energy usage and management.


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UCN-01 and Topotecan in Treating Patients With Recurrent Ovarian Epithelial Cancer, Fallopian Tube Cancer, or Primary Peritoneal Cavity Cancer
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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Topotecan may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking the enzymes necessary for tumor cell growth. Combining chemotherapy with topotecan may kill more tumor cells.
PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of combining UCN-01 with topotecan in treating patients who have recurrent ovarian epithelial cancer, fallopian tube cancer, or primary peritoneal cavity cancer.
|Fallopian Tube Cancer Ovarian Cancer Primary Peritoneal Cavity Cancer
|Drug: 7-hydroxystaurosporine Drug: topotecan hydrochloride
|Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase I Study of UCN-01 in Combination With Topotecan in Patients With Solid Tumors
|Study Start Date:
|June 2002
|Primary Completion Date:
|June 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: UCN-01 in combination with topotecan
|Drug: 7-hydroxystaurosporine Drug: topotecan hydrochloride
Detailed Description:
- Determine the maximum tolerated dose and recommended phase II dose of UCN-01 and topotecan in patients with recurrent ovarian epithelial, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cavity cancer.
- Determine the safety and tolerability of this regimen in these patients.
- Determine the relationship between clinical and pharmacokinetic effects of this regimen in these patients.
OUTLINE: This is a dose-escalation, multicenter study.
Patients receive UCN-01 IV over 3 hours on day 1 and topotecan IV over 30 minutes on days 1-5. Treatment repeats every 21 days for at least 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Cohorts of 3-6 patients receive escalating doses of UCN-01 and topotecan until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is determined. The MTD is defined as the dose preceding that at which at least 2 of 3 or 2 of 6 patients experience dose-limiting toxicity. Up to 12 additional ovarian epithelial cancer patients are then treated at the recommended phase II dose.
Patients are followed at 4 weeks and then every 3 months thereafter.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 3-30 patients will be accrued for this study within 6-10 months.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 120 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- Histologically or cytologically confirmed recurrent ovarian epithelial, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cavity cancer
- Measurable disease outside of field of prior radiotherapy OR
- Progressive disease within field after radiotherapy
Must have had no more than 2 prior chemotherapy regimens
- At least 1 prior regimen must have included a platinum agent (e.g., carboplatin or cisplatin)
- No known brain metastases
- 18 and over
Performance status
- Karnofsky 60-100%
Life expectancy
- More than 12 weeks
- WBC at least 3,000/mm^3
- Absolute neutrophil count at least 1,500/mm^3
- Platelet count at least 100,000/mm^3
- Bilirubin no greater than upper limit of normal (ULN)
- AST/ALT no greater than 2.5 times ULN
- Creatinine no greater than ULN OR
- Creatinine clearance at least 50 mL/min
- No coronary artery disease
- No symptomatic cardiac dysfunction
- No symptoms suggestive of coronary artery disease with evidence of cardiac pathology
- No symptomatic pulmonary dysfunction
- No prior allergic reaction attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to UCN-01 or other agents used in this study
- No insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
- No other uncontrolled concurrent illness
- No ongoing or active infection
- No psychiatric illness or social situation that would preclude study compliance
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
Biologic therapy
- At least 4 weeks since prior biologic therapy
- See Disease Characteristics
- At least 4 weeks since prior chemotherapy (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin)
- No prior topotecan (other prior topoisomerase I inhibitors allowed)
Endocrine therapy
- At least 4 weeks since prior hormonal therapy
- See Disease Characteristics
- At least 4 weeks since prior radiotherapy
- No prior radiotherapy to more than 40% of bone marrow
- No prior mediastinal irradiation
- At least 4 weeks since prior surgery
- Recovered from all prior therapy
- No other concurrent investigational agents
- No other concurrent anticancer agents or therapies
- No concurrent combination antiretroviral therapy for HIV-positive patients
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00045175
|Canada, Ontario
|Margaret and Charles Juravinski Cancer Centre
|Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8V 5C2
|Cancer Care Ontario-London Regional Cancer Centre
|London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 4L6
|Princess Margaret Hospital
|Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 2M9
|Study Chair:
|Hal W. Hirte, MD, FRCP(C)
|Margaret and Charles Juravinski Cancer Centre
|Responsible Party:
|University Health Network, Toronto
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00045175 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
CDR0000256917 ( Registry Identifier: PDQ (Physician Data Query) )
|Study First Received:
|September 6, 2002
|Last Updated:
|June 21, 2016
Keywords provided by University Health Network, Toronto:
primary peritoneal cavity cancer
recurrent ovarian epithelial cancer
fallopian tube cancer
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Fallopian Tube Neoplasms
Peritoneal Neoplasms
Genital Neoplasms, Female
Urogenital Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Fallopian Tube Diseases
Adnexal Diseases
Genital Diseases, Female
Abdominal Neoplasms
Digestive System Neoplasms
Digestive System Diseases
Peritoneal Diseases
Topoisomerase I Inhibitors
Topoisomerase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents
Protein Kinase Inhibitors
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Environmental movement in the Arab world
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Our Service Excellence Vision
East Georgia State College employees are empowered to provide the highest possible level of service to one another and to all students, visitors, and the communities we serve in an efficient, supportive and professional manner.
Campus Culture
East Georgia State College has always strived to provide excellent services in a personalized, friendly and efficient manner. An intentional focus on Service Excellence fulfills our desire and commitment to provide an even higher level of assistance while accomplishing the mission of East Georgia State College and its critical role in educating and preparing students for a college degree.
Our faculty and staff are amazing at what they do in their respective positions and support this opportunity to further engage in successful, enduring service to the students and communities we serve. With strong leadership support and committed staff, our service focus began in 2005, a year before the State's initiative, as a means to build on the college's legacy of "Education with a Personal Touch" and strengthen our service accountability. Providing a service-oriented approach in everything we do endures even stronger today.
"As Service Excellence Ambassador for East Georgia State College, it is an honor to lead our institution in the development, implementation and demonstration of how a deliberate service approach continuously improves our processes and services.
We gladly welcome input and ideas as we sustain this continuous process of creating faster, friendlier, easier methods to carry out our mission of creating a more educated Georgia."
Norma Kennedy, Service Excellence Ambassador
FY13 Customer Service Initiatives
- Repurpose the Library as a Learning Commons to aid in student success (Click here for a plan overview)
- Redesign the EGSC Webpage to enhance functionality as a student recruitment tool
- Addition of front-line Customer Service Representatives in Enrollment Services suite for faster, friendlier service
- Employee Appreciation and Recognition Event: April 24, 2013 (Swainsboro) and April 25, 2013 (Statesboro)
- Service Awards
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Full-time faculty and staff will be recognized for service milestones beginning at the employee's five (5) year anniversary at EGSC and continuing at 5 year intervals. Service with other state agencies or USG institutions does not qualify. Faculty appointments of at least ten months count as one year of service. The measurement period for faculty will be length of service as of May 30th (end of regular contract period), and for staff the measurement period will be length of service as of July 31.
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>I can't remember, but it seems larger by 50MB or so (could be we just
>keep adding so much). I am, however, running htdig-3.1.0b2, installed
>Nov. 6.
Two possibilities for larger DB: 1) You're adding more (I have several
mailing list archives that grow exponentially). 2) The DB bug was hiding
the actual size of your data.
>So, your dbs are actually slightly larger than your document base? Well,
>if htdig didn't fail, I suppose mine might be slightly larger too,
>although it should still have enough space.
This depends significantly on the max_head_length you use (i.e. the size of
the excerpts you store). When I get pinched for disk space, I cut this down.
>Am I right in assuming that running "htdig -i -v -s" isn't creating a
>temporary set of databases and then writing them to the db directory?
>Because if it did, I'ld need over 500MB free on the hard disk, and I
>wouldn't have that much space free.
I don't believe htdig does this. On the other hand, htmerge uses temporary
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>I'll have to take a look at that, thanks.
I can't attest to halving, but it does help. I didn't use wordfreq, but I
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4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) is a mobile technology that is important for Telstra and its shareholders because it can provide faster mobile internet speeds and more downloads at better margins for the telcos. 4G networks have become a high-stakes battleground between Telstra, SingTel-Optus and Vodafone Hutchison Australia, with all three seeking to win customers with download speed and signal coverage claims.
Telstra revealed on Monday there were more than 3.2 million 4G devices on its network, representing about 20 per cent of its 13.1 million mobile subscribers. The technology only works if device makers such as
"Because other operators have gone with [our technology] it gets put in [phones] as iconic as the Apple iPhone, the Samsungs and HTCs," Mr Wright said. "As a consequence, compared to our original assumptions it's moved ahead better than we thought originally, which is great."
More than 360,000 4G smartphones such as the iPhone 5s and the Samsung Galaxy S4 have been added to the network since June 30, 2013. Telstra is expecting to cover 85 per cent of Australia with 4G by Christmas.
Mr Wright said the next step would be to release LTE Advanced and carrier aggregation, which would offer users peak download speeds of up to 300 megabits per second (Mbps). Carrier aggregation works by combining multiple frequencies to send and receive more information at the same time.
By comparison, the Coalition's national broadband network is offering baseline speeds on its fibre-to-the-node system of 50Mbps by 2019. However, the NBN will offer larger download capacities. Mr Wright said Telstra would release an LTE Advanced device by the end of the year and plans its network rollout in early 2014.
CIMB analyst Ian Martin said 4G networks carried more data and therefore offered telcos better margins.
"The expectation of customers is if you want them to pay a little bit more you must give them a lot more data and speed," he said. "The difference with this 4G technology is it's purpose-built for data.
"I would guess that 2015, when the carriers get their 700MHz spectrum holdings, is when 4G will become the standard for most people."
Telstra's Mr Wright said the 4G network's construction had ramped up to hit the company's Christmas targets.
"We've now got over 100 construction teams across the country building 4G and they're capable of building over 100 base stations a week," he said. "4G traffic is growing at around 23 per cent per month . . . and it's largely hit a critical mass where it's now driving its own [network] expansion."
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