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A new study conducted by Oregon researchers has found that the cold and dry air is more likely to give a better chance of getting the flu. A new analysis of previous data shows a significant correlation between a complete humidity and influenza virus survival and transmission. When absolute humidity is low - as in peak flu months of January and February - the virus turns out to survive longer and spreads faster from one person to another.
"It seems that the influenza virus' ability to survive and be transmitted person-to-person is greatly affected by how dry or wet the air is," says Jeffrey Shaman, Ph.D., an atmospheric scientist at Oregon State University in Corvallis, who specializes in ties between climate and disease transmission, and a co-author of the new study.
According to Shaman, it is strongly recommended to use humidifiers in places where the spread of influenza poses a serious threat, such as intensive care units or even at home with a sick kid- as long as sensitivity to moisture-loving mold and spores does not cause any problem.
A link between humidity and flu prevalence and its transmission has been suspected by scientists for a long time, but the focus has been on relative humidity, not an absolute humidity, according to background information in the OSU news release. The scientists have always been wondering about why some parts of the world have such a pronounced winter flu season with almost no flu activity in warmer months. Potential explanations are that people spend more time indoors in winter and, therefore spread the infection to each other more easily; less sunlight may have a chemical effect on the virus and people's immune system response, or there might be some not known environmental control. Shaman believes that the secret is in humidity. Absolute humidity, which is particularly low in cold weather.
Shaman and his colleague Melvin Kohn, an epidemiologist with the Oregon Department of Health Services, Portland, re-analyzed information from a 2007 PLoS Pathogens study by researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
The 2007 PLoS Pathogens study examined and analyzed the effects of temperature and relative humidity on transmission of influenza using influenza-infected guinea pigs in climate-controlled chambers. Twenty different combinations of temperature and relative humidity have been used in order to identify a primary reason for changes in transmission of the virus between infected guinea pigs and adjacent control animals. At around 40 degrees Fahrenheit, flu virus infected guinea pigs at humidity that stopped infections at room temperature. Infected animals shed virus two days longer at the colder temperature, probably because noses cannot shed virus as effectively when mucus is colder and thicker.
In general, that study found that there were more infections when it was colder and drier. However, the Oregon researchers concluded that relative humidity explained only about 36 per cent of flu virus survival and 12 per cent of transmission in the 2007 study, while in their new research absolute humidity explained 90 per cent of flu virus survival and 50 per cent of influenza transmission.
The researchers also analyzed the studies dating back to the 40s of airborne flu virus survival. Some of them included information on relative humidity, which the researchers converted to absolute humidity. Again, the relationship between survival and air moisture got much stronger.
"The correlations were surprisingly strong. When absolute humidity is low, influenza virus survival is prolonged, and transmission rates go up," explained Jeffrey Shaman. The finding "is very important for the scientific community and the medical community to know to develop better prediction models of influenza," he added. It will give a better opportunity understand and predict the spread of the disease. The scientist advised that in some cases it would be beneficial to add humidity to the air, but at the same time gave his warning to people to be careful of overdoing it - too much humidity, he said, can lead to other problems, such as mold.
The correlation with flu and low humidity is important because in cold winter months, when flu is most common, even a high relative humidity reading may indicate little actual moisture in the air, and the less moisture there is, the better environment for the flu virus to spread.
Absolute humidity is expressed in weight of water, grams or pounds, in a volume of air, such as a cubic meter or yard. The higher the reading - the wetter it gets. The wetter it gets - the worse for flu virus to survive.
"In some areas of the country, a typical summer day can have four times as much water vapor as a typical winter day - a difference that exists both indoors and outdoors," Shaman said. "Consequently, outbreaks of influenza typically occur in winter when low absolute humidity conditions strongly favor influenza survival and transmission."
Their findings were published in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Ok i'm a guy and i'm new on here. I've been wanting to grow an afro for about a year now and I just started growing my hair out. I've never grown my hair longer than an inch so far its been a month since i started growing my hair out all my hair is curly all around my head. I just brushed the top of my head so all the curls are going in one direction so its kind of hard to see them. But on the sides and back they're pretty visible, I come from a biracial hispanic family and i'm the only one that doesn't straighten my hair. Curly hair is the dominant hair type in the family. So here's some pictures sorry for the brightness my computer has flash on lol
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: Does anyone know what the phrase..."At least I always know where the rice bowl is." I read it in the novel "I am Charolette Simmons" and I have no idea what it means. Its driving me crazy. Thanks!
The Vietnamese, Chinese, Cambodian and Laotian cultures show the rice bowl as a symbol of womanhood.
In addition, there is some tradition as to where the rice bowl is placed when the family is having a meal together.
Asian funerals have a rice bowl near the head of the deceased so he or she will not go hungry as they move on.
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Hydration is Still Important
Before you had surgery, we stressed the importance of hydration, and nothing has changed in that regard. You still need to drink 64 ounces (eight cups) of fluid each day to avoid dehydration*. Appropriate fluid intake is essential for good health, proper weight loss and improving energy level.
One challenge that you may have noticed since your surgery is that you can no longer handle gulping fluids due to your smaller stomach size. This means that you have to consistently sip fluids throughout the day. Try drinking fluids from a medicine cup or shot glass instead of a regular-sized glass to limit your intake. Focus on drinking low-calorie beverages, such as water, diet tea, Crystal Light, low-calorie Kool-Aid and skim milk.
Eliminate high-calorie drinks, like milkshakes, soda, beer and other alcoholic beverages. High-calorie beverages provide a great amount of calories and sugar without giving you a feeling of satiety and can result in poor weight loss. It is also important that you never drink carbonated beverages, which cause belching and bloating that can put stress on your stomach. The extra stress can cause enlargement of the pouch or outlet and destroy your surgery. Do not drink fluids with meals and for 30 minutes before and after each meal. Drinking with meals or soon after meals may cause your pouch to overfill, which can lead to vomiting and stretching of the pouch. Drinking can also "wash" the food through your pouch quickly, which may cause you to feel hungry sooner.
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Urgent Help Needed Please! Ganache Too Soft - Can I Still Use Under Fondant?
Decorating By cakedivanot Updated 7 Nov 2013 , 7:38pm by cakedivanot
I am making a cake for son's birthday tomorrow. the plan was to ganache the cake and cover with fondant. I find dark chocolate too rich for little mouths, so I used milk chocolate for the ganache. I stupidly did not think to check the quantities of cream for milk chocolate as against dark chocolate BEFORE I made the ganache - so I used ratio of 2:1 instead of 3:1. I spread the ganache on the cake last night, and this morning, the ganache is still soft to the touch - you can easily spread it (with dark chocolate by this stage you would need a hot knife to spread it).
Would anybody know if I am able to still use fondant over this?
It is too late to start again ... and I imagine my son will be upset if he doesn't get his themed cake.
And just to make matters worse ... we will have rain today with 30 degree C heat.
I would appreciate any advice. I don't want to go covering the cake with the fondant if in the end it will just fall off or go funny.
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Escalating controversy over cost and design issues has stalled the proposed memorial to President Dwight Eisenhower in Washington, D.C. Although there is near-unanimous support for including the commander of D-Day alongside the most-honored American presidents, there is little agreement over the avant-garde design proposed more than three years ago by the Eisenhower Memorial Commission and its designer, famed architect Frank Gehry.
Their plans have drawn a degree of opposition that is unusual even for a city where it seems no memorial goes uncontested. Last week the commission withdrew its application from public review when a federal agency indicated it would not approve Gehry's design. Congress has already suspended its construction funding, and the Eisenhower family has called repeatedly for a redesign.
A bill introduced last spring by Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, echoes their proposal. It would also use a public selection process that is standard for national memorials but which for some reason this memorial commission declined to use. Bishop's proposal deserves further consideration in light of the recent events that threaten an uncertain future for Eisenhower's memorial.
The flawed and unusual selection process used by the Eisenhower Memorial Commission is the ultimate source of the current controversy. Public competitions open to everyone are the standard procedure for designing national memorials. Anonymous entries are judged solely on the merit of their ideas, which is how 20-year-old Maya Lin was selected to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1980. Public competitions have been used for every memorial on the National Mall designed since then.
The Eisenhower Memorial Commission, however, eschewed a standard public process for a bureaucratic procedure that considered only registered architects. In fact it sought a designer rather than a design, on the assumption that a highly credentialed architect would produce the most compelling design. It is not surprising that in these circumstances the commission selected Frank Gehry, probably the most-famous American architect, before he even submitted a final design. This backward selection process has left us without alternatives to whatever Mr. Gehry came up with and has left his design vulnerable to charges that he, not President Eisenhower, is its real subject.
Spiraling cost is another consequence of selecting a design without providing alternatives. The current design is expected to cost $142 million to build, far in excess of the $55 million to $75 million originally budgeted, in keeping with the cost of prior presidential memorials. The memorial commission expects the public to pay 80 percent of the current design's yet-to-be-determined final cost. The private fundraising that is supposed to pay the remaining 20 percent will be hard to secure in the current climate of controversy.
Nor has the Eisenhower Memorial Commission kept a clear account of the project's rising cost. Or rather that is the impression it's created by so far refusing — despite repeated requests from Bishop and others in Congress — to account for the approximately $40 million it has spent over the last 13 years without even starting construction on the memorial.
Nevertheless the commission has requested an additional $51 million for 2014. This kind of casual attitude to the public purse hardly serves the legacy of President Eisenhower, whose more-thorough accounting balanced the federal budget three times.
This summer the House Natural Resources Committee unanimously passed Rep. Bishop's bill, and it awaits action by the full House. It is most likely to receive the full attention it deserves if members of Congress, including Utah's delegation, refuse further funding for the current design. As the Bishop bill recognizes, we can only fix the flawed process that is responsible for the current controversy if we return to the standard practice for designing national memorials. It will take a fresh start to rescue Ike's memorial from the uncertain future his commission has brought about.
Sam Roche is a writer and a lecturer at the University of Miami School of Architecture. He is the spokesman for Right by Ike: Project for a New Eisenhower Memorial.


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A reader recently requested that we provide an article that addresses the following question:
"I have volunteered to do the financial books for my church. Could you maybe address some tips or suggestions on the best way to do this?"
First of all, God bless you – that's a ministry unto itself! There will be challenges, but it's a very necessary function that I'm certain your church appreciates you stepping up to handle.
There are certain aspects of 'keeping the books' that are common to any entity, and others that are unique to churches. From an accounting and bookkeeping standpoint, churches are in a category all their own.
How involved the work will be will depend largely on the size of the church and the degree of order the books have been kept in up to this point. Since bookkeeping is a certified 'back office' function in a church, their books and records aren't usually the most orderly. I don't know that this is the case at the church in question, but it's best to be prepared for this possibility.
1. Take a close look at how things have been done so far.
The first order of business will be to observe and study how they have handled the books in the past. Ideally, what you want to do is to establish a continuation of the existing system. There will be time to make changes later.
If the church's books are in poor condition, or if there are significant cash flows that are not being properly accounted for, you may have to improvise the existing system a bit. But otherwise, try to avoid any radical changes.
2. Interview current and former staff members.
You should interview anyone who is been connected with keeping the books at the church. If that person is still on staff, that will be a plus – they can help you to learn the system. But if that person has left, see if you can contact them and try to arrange a meeting or two to actually go over the books together.
3. Determine who the decision makers are.
Every organization – including churches – have a chain of command. One of the first orders of business will be to determine who the decision-makers are when it comes to all things financial.
In a small church, that might be the pastor or even the pastor's wife. In a larger church, that function may be handled by a minister, a manager, or even a combination of several people in the organization. What you want to do is to determine who you will be answering to with the bookkeeping, as well as who you can go to whenever you need input or questions answered. Make good friends with that person!
4. Initially, stay with the system that is already in place.
Whenever you pick up a set of books, it's always best to begin by using the existing system. Even if there are aspects of it that you do not understand or necessarily agree with, they may have been put in place because the church is trying to deal with a complication.
Before making any changes, you should first be sure that you fully understand the complexities of the church's books. You may find you have a better way to handle the situation, or you may determine that there is no alternative to the way it's been done in the past.
5. Ask if there are any salaried employees.
Employees can be a complication when you're handling bookkeeping for a church. It's actually an independent function, but it is often assigned to the person in charge of bookkeeping. A small church may not have any employees at all, but a large one can have many.
You are doing the bookkeeping on a voluntary basis, and if they have handled payroll manually in the past, you might want to try and implement an automated payroll system (ADP, Paychex and Intuit Online Payroll are some possible providers). They are precise and inexpensive, and can free up a lot of time particularly when it comes to quarterly and year-end payroll tax filing. In addition, since payroll and payroll taxes involve complications all their own, it is a function best not handled by volunteer.
6. Start by performing the bank reconciliation.
When you get familiar with the church's bookkeeping system, your first mechanical order of business should be performing a bank reconciliation on the most recent bank statement. Hopefully, this has been done consistently in the past but if not, it's best to start immediately. After that, plan on doing it monthly.
One of the biggest advantages of doing the bank reconciliation is that you will have at least one fixed number in the church's finances. This can be the starting point of creating order in the rest of the process. In addition, performing a bank reconciliation is an important control function that helps you to monitor the church's cash position.
Performing the bank reconciliation is a basic accounting function, but I'm emphasizing it here because church finances run the gamut. There's a very good possibility that it has not been done in the past. If not, you will be helping your own cause by adding the process now.
7. Track revenue and expenses.
Since churches are "nonprofit organizations," and usually staffed heavily by volunteers, tracking revenues and expenses can be more involved than it is in other organizations. You'll need to identify the sources of revenue (usually mostly contributions) as well as the flow of the money from the collection plate to the bank account. You probably will not be in charge of collections, but you will need a reliable accounting of how much is coming in.
On the expense side, if you are not the person who will be handling payments, you'll need to find out who is, and what the typical methods of payment are. Usually, expenses are run through a checkbook, but they may occasionally be made by credit card. It is even possible that some expenses will be paid in cash, and you'll need some method of accounting for these.
8. Perform a monthly income and expense summary.
Churches are not in the business of making a profit, but they do need to be solvent. The best way to track this is by performing a monthly income and expense summary. You'll want to match expenses against revenues, and determine if the church is operating in either a surplus or a deficit. Either situation should be reported to your superiors on a regular basis.
9. Discuss any important issues with the decision makers.
If you're turning up any significant issues, such as recurring monthly deficits, you'll need to discuss these with the decision-makers at the church, which will include the pastor. You should also discuss any changes that you think should be implemented and make sure the you get proper approval before proceeding.
10. Develop a relationship with a CPA who specializes in churches.
Church accounting is a discipline all its own, and there are some CPAs who do specialize here. It is possible that the church has a CPA who they work with, and if they do, that person should be a regular contact in your work at the church. If they don't have a CPA, you may want to try to develop an informal relationship with one who is a member of the church, or one who you know socially who might help you in a pinch. If nothing else, this will give you confidence to do the job better.
One more recommendation: Never disclose the details of your church's finances to the general public or even to non-authorized church members. Even though you are a volunteer, you are in a position of trust, and financial information should be considered absolutely confidential at all times.
This is not a soup-to-nuts job description for keeping the books for a church, but it should be enough for you to get in there and at least get started. Once you learn the "lay of the land," you will begin to understand the flow and how things work at the church. God bless as you as you enter this ministry!
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December stabbing ruled justifiable homicide
MOUNTAIN HOME (KATV) - A December stabbing in Baxter County has been ruled a justifiable homicide.
14th Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney Ron Kincade made the decision Thursday not to file charges in the death of 20-year-old Roy Lee Hogans.
Investigators said that a fight broke out between Hogans and his girlfriend's father, 44-year-old Kenneth Carl Kitch, around 10:30 p.m. on December 5 in Midway, Ark. Kitch was hurt and taken inside the house to be treated but then went back outside and a second fight started, ending with Hogans on top of Kitch.
Investigators said Hogans pulled a knife but Kitch was able to pull it away. He stabbed Hogans three times in the chest. Hogans was taken into the kitchen, where he later died.
Although the prosecutor decided the death was justified, other charges arestill pending against Kitch for his conduct during the investigation. He is currently in prison for a drug conviction out of Marion County.
At the time of the fight, Kitch had already been convicted on those drug charges but wasn't in prison because there wasn't enough bed space at the Marion County prison.


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Paintball. Paintball. Paintball. Paintball. Paintball. Paintball. Paintball. Paintball. Paintball. Paintball. Paintball. And Alison Brie (and Josh Holloway). But mostly paintball.
Episode synopsis:
Not to overstate things, but watching
's first-season paintball epic, "Modern Warfare," was like having the deepest sleep, eating the perfectly ripened fruit and finding pure, untainted love in your heart — at the same time.
Ostensibly, the episode was a send-up of pretty much every action movie ever, directed by the dude who directed the
No. 1 movie in the country right now
. Somehow, it meshed that with a totally organic ("totally" might be a stretch; sorry) story about de facto series leads Jeff and Britta consummating their will-they-won't-they-should-they-who-really-cares-this-show-is-a-lot-of-fun relationship. Oh, and they made fun of
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This being
, a show that has parodied zombie movies, done a Dungeons and Dragons-themed episode and pulled off a clip show made up entirely of clips that never actually aired this season, show creator Dan Harmon and his team of beyond-ambitious writers could not leave considerably more than well enough alone. Nope. Instead, we get a two-part paintball redux to end this go-for-broke, more-hit-than-miss and insanely all-over-the-place season. The first part aired Thursday night.
Thankfully, Paintball II does not try to duplicate "Modern Warfare," at least not in the first part. Harmon and crew, instead, provide us with an episode with a distinct Western motif with a relative lack of paint. And smartly, it is tied around one of this season's running themes: Pierce (Chevy Chase) as a villain.
The Dean decides to have another paintball game at the year-end picnic, but hopes to ensure a tamer game by having a less desirable prize than last year, which was the right to choose a schedule for the following semester before any other students. So when the ice cream company mascot sponsoring the tournament — don't ask — offers $100,000 in cold, hard, sexy, beautiful cash, Dean Pelton is shocked.
Judging by the opening scene, which had Annie (and holy hell, Alison Brie looked good and carried the episode as its pivot) taking out the bully from Season One's Christmas episode (probably my all-time favourite
episode), his gang and Fat Neil, chaos has broken out. Sparing you the details, the study group, separated, eventually comes together. And they come together to serve Pierce, who has a plan to win the game, which involves obtaining all of the paintball equipment used last year from Pelton. They eventually accomplish that.
It is lucky that they do, as a mysterious figure — The Black Rider, played by
's Josh Holloway, whom I will obviously call Sawyer from this point on — is dominating the game. Sawyer eventually captures Annie, and tries to shoot her with Jeff's gun — but it is full of blanks. Jeff and Abed come to the rescue, with all parties escaping unsplattered, but that is not the biggest issue with Annie. She notes that Pierce gave Jeff a gun with blanks.
This is an issue, as Pierce has been a bit of a jerk all year. So much so, that a series of flashbacks revealed that the group had a vote about whether Pierce would return to the group next year three days prior, with Annie being the lone holdout. Pierce makes his familiar complaint when confronted — that the group excludes him. Just with things getting tense, Sawyer walks in on the group, which is when Pierce fakes a heart attack. The gang knows he is faking, but Sawyer doesn't, and Pierce shoots him for his trouble. Pierce then breaks up with the group, declaring himself superior. Before Sawyer heads off into the sunset, though, he informs our heroes that he was hired by the powers that be, with the mandate not to let any Greendale student win the prize, and that it goes beyond the ice cream company. We see that is obviously true, as a group of men that do not not look like storm troopers come and eliminate Chang, and are told by the mascot to not let a Greendale student win. Presumably, that is where we will pick up next week.
It is funny that Holloway was a guest star this week, as
was always a show that I admired for its ambition, but considerably less for its execution. While I like
far more than I liked
, I would say there have been several weeks that I appreciated the show a lot more than I loved the show this season. Specifically, I have not been laughing nearly as much this year — I don't think an episode has really killed me throughout since "Cooperative Calligraphy," which was the eighth episode of the season. Again, I did not laugh much this week, except when characters broke from their intense paintball facades.
That is not to say I have not loved episodes: The episodes that focused on Troy's birthday, Abed's breakdown and Abed's birthday are favourites. However, it puts a lot of pressure on the emotional aspect of the show. All of that makes it clear that the ultimate take-out from this episode cannot be determined until next week. Presumably, Pierce finds redemption, possibly sacrificing himself in the name of the group. In the meantime, we can all appreciate the effort the show made with this episode. Like most of the season, "A Fistful of Paintballs" was daring, stunningly shot and completely unafraid to try to do more than any sitcom ought to.
- "Modern Warfare" was so unexpected that everything was just unbelievable to witness for the first time. The idea of the school's various clubs banding together was particularly inspired, with the glee club and chess club making appearances. The show did not go to that well too often this time around, but it was nice to be introduced to the math club and the Greendale cheerleaders, with the revelation that Annie was denied a spot on the cheer squad both a nice bit of backstory and impossible to believe.
- "Jeff wants to see you." – Abed; "Yeah? And I want pants. A lot of people want a lot of things." – Annie
- "Does that guy even go to this school? He's really good looking. Like network-TV good looking." – Abed on Holloway
- "I'm a deputy. I deputize." – Troy
- Jeff Winger is wanted gay or alive, or so says Pierce's sign
- "Stop trying to fluster me with your handsomeness. You're creepy." – Annie; "Why is your chest getting all flushed?" – Sawyer; "That's a rash. I'm allergic to beans." – Annie
- Last week, Pierce faked a heart attack to get out of giving Abed a stick of gum.
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Where to mount?
Using KDE, and have two hard drives that I would like to permanently mount and use as... data storage in 90% cases and some for Wine games. Now bit puzzled where to mount them.
While googling for difference between /mnt and /media, ppl usually say that /media is for dynamically loaded devices and /mnt for more permanent, but others say that I have to mount them into /media, otherwise KDE won't be able to see them, or I should soft link them from /mnt to /media.
So... where to mount those disk so KDE can see them and I can normally use them?
Anywhere you want. Like /storage. Or /fhjldhsjghf.
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I was testing the appliance on a different Laptop with VMWare Workstation - I made some errors with it but because they were errors with the networking I could never login to try and correct!
Is there a command to either reset the appliance so I can re-do the setup correctly?
Is there a console command to enter a different Network config to a running appliance that you can only get to on the console?
I could find neither of these documented in the InfoCenter.
Of course I simply re-imported the OVA into a new VM but there may be real scenarios where an Administrator can no longer hit their admin screen with a browser.


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Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich responded to very early election numbers with enthusiasm and gratitude.
"I deeply appreciate the vote of confidence and the opportunity to continue representing the over two million residents on the Board of Supervisors," he said.
"Over the past eight terms, my office has empowered our unincorporated communities with a voice and supported public safety, foster youth and municipal services."
At 72, Antonovich remains one of the county's longest serving supervisors.
Earlier in the day, the Republican incumbent did his part as a voter in the primary election and cast his vote in Glendale at the Incarnation Community Center there.
He cast his vote alongside his wife, Christine, and their children, Michael Jr. and Mary Christine.
In his latest re-election campaign, Antonovich ran against only one opponent, 49-year-old Palmdale businessman Raj Pal Kahlon.
Antonovich listed the following under his accomplishments: rebuilding Olive View Hospital after the Sylmar earthquake, building the Antelope Valley Courthouse, creating the Los Angeles County High School of the Arts and removing guns from convicted felons through the DISARM program.
"By consolidating county departments," he said. "The Quality and Productivity Commission I initiated has saved taxpayers over $4 billion.
"We enhanced the Fire Department's air support, and will continue to construct new fire stations," he said in a prepared statement.
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Long-Term Health of Social Security/Medicare is Worse
March 17, 2003
NCPA Experts Available on Newly Released Trustees Report, Disastrous Consequences of Status Quo
DALLAS (March 17, 2003) -- The Social Security Administration today is releasing the annual report from its trustees on the status of the nation's retirement and health programs for seniors. Even though this year's report shows slightly better short-term news, experts from the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) say "the long-term prospects for both programs are deteriorating rapidly." NCPA experts are available to discuss the report and the long-term implications of maintaining the status quo. Contact the NCPA Public Affairs office at the number listed above for more information.
"Just like anyone planning for retirement, policy makers should think long-term when discussing the health of Social Security," said Matt Moore, Social Security policy analyst with the NCPA. "This year's trustees report shows that attempting to maintain the status quo is going to be difficult at best, disastrous at worst."
According to the NCPA's analysis of the trustees' report, revenues from the payroll tax that currently support Social Security and Medicare will no longer be sufficient to pay benefits within the next ten years. At that time, the obligations denoted by the programs' Trust Funds will require a shift in tax dollars from other areas of the budget at an accelerating rate. The NCPA pointed to a few key dates:
- Today: Funds collected for Social Security and Medicare Part A and B are in excess to what is needed to provide benefits. This surplus is equal 2 percent of all federal income tax collections.
- 2008: The date when the funds will no longer be sufficient and general revenue transfers will be needed to meet the programs' obligations.
- 2013: 5 percent of all federal income tax receipts will be needed to maintain promised benefits.
- 2020: 17 percent of all federal income tax receipts will be needed to maintain promised benefits.
- 2030: 36 percent of all federal income tax receipts will be needed to maintain the status quo.
- 2040: Two years before the "Social Security Trust Fund" is exhausted under current estimates, these programs will require 47 percent, or nearly half, of all federal income tax receipts.
The NCPA will host a Capitol Hill briefing on the report Tuesday, featuring Social Security and Medicare Trustee Thomas R. Saving. For details, contact the NCPA Public Affairs office at the number listed below or online at http://www.ncpa.org/events/ncpa-briefing-on-2003-social-security-medicare-trustees-report.


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Overview of Live Smooth Streaming with Amazon Web Services
Smooth Streaming is the Microsoft implementation of adaptive streaming technology, which is a form of web-based media content delivery that uses standard HTTP. An extension of IIS Media Services, Smooth Streaming enables adaptive streaming of live events to Smooth Streaming clients such as Microsoft Silverlight. When you configure Smooth Streaming to use CloudFront, you benefit from the scale of CloudFront's global HTTP network and from latency-based routing of viewers to edge nodes on the network. To learn more about CloudFront, go to the CloudFront product page.
Smooth Streaming content is delivered to clients as a series of MPEG-4 (MP4) fragments that can be cached at the CloudFront edge servers. Smooth Streaming–compatible clients use special heuristics to dynamically monitor current network and local PC conditions, and seamlessly switch the video quality of the Smooth Streaming presentation that the clients receive. As clients play the fragments, network conditions may change (for example, bandwidth may decrease) or video processing may be affected by other applications that are running on the client. Clients can immediately request that the next fragment come from a stream that is encoded at a different bit rate to accommodate the changing conditions. This enables clients to play the media without stuttering, buffering, or freezing. As a result, users experience the highest-quality playback available without interruptions in the stream.
To encode a live broadcast to Smooth Streaming format, you use Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 Pro. To serve the encoded Smooth Stream, you can then use an Amazon EC2 Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that is running Windows IIS Media Services. CloudFront caches the live video and audio content, and viewers connect to the CloudFront edge servers to play the stream using a Smooth Streaming-compatible client such as Microsoft Silverlight. This tutorial walks you through the entire setup process.
Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 Pro with Service Pack 2 is not included in the Amazon EC2 Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that is running Windows IIS Media Services, and it is not a free download. For information about features and pricing, go to the Expression Encoder 4 Pro page on the Microsoft Store website. You can also use a third-party encoding tool to encode your video for Live Smooth Streaming. For a list of Microsoft partners that provide encoding software, see the Partners tab on the IIS Media Services page on the Microsoft website.
This tutorial provides an overview of how to integrate CloudFront with Microsoft Live Smooth Streaming running on an Amazon EC2 instance. For more information about how to manage and secure your Amazon EC2 instance, refer to the Amazon EC2 documentation. For more information about Microsoft Live Smooth Streaming options not covered in this tutorial, see Microsoft Documentation.
To set up Live Smooth Streaming with Amazon Web Services (AWS), review the system requirements for IIS Smooth Streaming in the Smooth Streaming Deployment Guide. Then perform the procedures in the following sections:
Creating an AWS CloudFormation Stack for Live Smooth Streaming
Verifying that Your Amazon EC2 Windows Server Instance Is Running
Deleting Your AWS CloudFormation Live Smooth Streaming Stack
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For the second time in three years, Laura Martinez will be mayor of East Palo Alto.
Martinez, 29, was selected for the post Tuesday night by the city council; Lisa Yarbrough-Gauthier was named vice mayor.
Although city councils typically promote their vice mayor to mayor, that wasn't an option for East Palo Alto this year because former vice mayor David Woods resigned mid-term in October, citing "health and personal reasons."
At Tuesday's meeting, Yarbrough-Gauthier nominated Martinez, who served as mayor in 2012. Although Council Member Larry Moody nominated himself for the position, Martinez won 3-1 with Moody casting the dissenting vote, according to City Clerk Nora Pimentel.
Council Member Ruben Abrica, who served as mayor in 2013, then nominated Yarbrough-Gauthier to be vice mayor. Moody had nominated himself for that title too, but lost again on a 3-1 vote.
Martinez has been on the council since 2008; Yarbrough-Gauthier was elected in November 2012.
The city council intends to fill Woods' seat through an appointment and is scheduled to interview candidates at a public meeting at City Hall today at 6:45 p.m. Sixteen people have applied, including former council members Peter Evans, Carlos Romero and Donna Rutherford.
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How many Mercedes owners change their own oil to save a few bucks? The latest "Meet the Volkswagens" TV ad doesn't just insult Benz owners'— and everyone else's—intelligence. It's also racially insensitive. By depicting a white guy with his face blackened with oil, it raises the specter of 19th century minstrel shows. OK, that's a stretch. But so is VW's supposition that reminding customers of their over-familiarity with their local dealer's service department is a good thing. And what does a Microbus sliding out of a nearby garage have to do with anything, Amigo? Wait . . . cue-up the Routan commercial . . .
There's that Microbus again, with its "Cars" rip-off happy hippy stoner's voice (as opposed to the Beetle's Arte Johnson-esque German accent). In this ad, the Routan asks an Odyssey owner if her van has an "autobahn-tuned suspension." Instead of checking her meds, soccer Mom replies that there's no autobahn in Japan. True! Nor is there an autobahn in Canada, where Chrysler builds the Routan. Or Lincoln, Alabama, where Honda builds the Odyssey. Or the rest of America, where Odyssey mom lives. To the same point, the day a Routan driver explores the limits of her minivan's autobahn-tuned suspension is the day I'm parking my Audi.
Needless to say, VW doesn't have the corner on bad commercials. Suzuki's "Supercar" ad makes it look like an SX-4—or any other car— can't traverse a pothole without shifting into 4WD. How about Saturn's recent campaign, where they attempt to reassure their remaining customers that they're still the "just plain folks" brand that they were back when they were barbecuing—I mean building cars—in Tennessee? A Saturn salesman warns viewers that there's a car company out there that'll take your car away from you if you lose your job. Jeez. How un-American is that?
He's alluding to the "Hyundai Assurance" program where you can return the car with no impact on your credit rating if you lose your job and can't make payments. Mr. Saturn makes it sound like Hyundai'll hunt you down and pry the car from your hands as soon as you're unemployed. Then Saturn man assures you that his [temporary] employer would never treat you that way. Really? Anyone want to guess what Saturn will do the day after their nine-month grace period on payments expires and you're still unemployed and not making the payments?
And what happens to Saturn's "Total Confidence" plan after GM sells the "ReThink" brand to the Chinese or Roger Penske or whomever shows up with cash in hand? Or no one at all? Call me cautious but I wouldn't feel too confident about Saturn's ability to back any of their promises at this juncture.
Chrysler's latest commercials proclaim that the bankrupt company (shhhh!) builds dugouts, lockers, easy chairs, radar systems, TV stations, starting gates, skyscrapers, fish finders, battery chargers, base camps, luxury suites, transporters, mechanical bulls, sanctuaries, viewmasters, security cameras, troop transports, and moving vans. No wonder their sales numbers looks so bad. They've been building all these neat things while everyone else is building cars and trucks. But don't worry, be happy! It's all backed by the U.S. Government, so buy your whatever-it- is they build with total confidence!
Ford wants you to know they're still building trucks. BIG trucks. In fact, one commercial highlights their extra-cost tailgate and bedside steps and tells you how much you need them to get in and out of the bed of the F-150. Well, if they're that important, why aren't they standard? Or even better, if it's such a chore to get stuff out of the back, why doesn't Ford make the F-150 a more manageable size so you can just reach over the side to get what you want, like you could a few years back?
If you're Chevy, and you can't match the competition's feature, you just make fun of it! In a Silverado commercial, Howie Long ridicules an F-150 driver (the usual stereotypical clumsy, balding, overweight schlub they use when they want you to know someone's less than a "real" man) for using his "man step." It's the same sort of "you're a faggot" put-down used by brain-dead high school football players (not to stereotype or anything) on classmates who can program a computer.
After questioning their competition's customers' sexuality, Chevy brags about Silverado's "unbeatable" five year/100K mile powertrain warranty. But they won't compare their warranty to the Dodge Ram's lifetime powertrain warranty. Instead, they just belittle the Ram's less-than-real-man owner for having a heated steering wheel and a manicure.
One good thing that's come from the auto industry meltdown: fewer car commercials. Unfortunately, the remaining ones are getting worse, as the automakers grow increasingly desperate for sales. They'll try anything to attract attention, whether it's lying, belittling the competition or insulting viewers' intelligence. Come to think of it, what's changed?
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May 21st, 2009 at 10:40 am
Volkswagen had some of the most pimp ads ever created with the GTI mk5 campaign. From fast to the engineer dude who obliterates lame cars… it was really entertaining and really fresh. It was part of what made me get my current car.
Those un-pimp my ride commercials were some of the funniest ever, and quite possibly THE best car commercials ever. Though I imagine people that own ricers with huge gaudy spoilers, side skirts, and fake diffusers were probably offended. Now I want to go on Youtube and watch those again.
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Net sales for Flight Options increased in the fourth quarter of last year compared with the same period in 2005, but the fractional provider recorded an operating loss quarter-over-quarter. Nevertheless, parent Raytheon stands by the company. "Flight Options essentially met or exceeded all the operational objectives that we had in place," said Raytheon CFO Dave Wajsgras. Raytheon chairman and CEO William Swanson said he is pleased with Flight Options from the aspect of "customer satisfaction and safety." Utilization of aircraft, dead-head legs, charter, every matrix has improved, he said. But, according to Wajsgras, in December it became apparent there has been a "meaningful shift in industry conditions," with a customer bias evolving toward jet card or membership programs versus the traditional fractional sales. He said fractional growth is "essentially flat with year-over-year growth of about 2 percent, which has been sort of the historical trend. Membership cards are growing at the 20, 30, 40 percent range year-over-year."
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England Knights defeated Ireland 56-4 in the Alitalia European Cup last night in Deramore Park, Belfast.
The result leaves Ireland with only a slim mathematical chance of winning the cup.
The Knights opened the scoring after only four minutes when Jodie Broughton crossed over on the left to make it 4-0.
But Ireland weren't giving much in a competitive opening and went over themselves when Liam Finn put Josh Toole in at the corner for his first international try.
However, England's class began to show and they produced four further tries before half time through Kieron Dixon, Jordan Turner, Tom Burgess and Danny Houghton to make it 26-4 at the interval.
The second half proved as difficult for the hosts with Broughton, Gale, Michael Lawrence, George Burgess and Tom Burgess all going over.
Joshua Toole, Luke Ambler and Matty Hadden showed well for Ireland but coach Mark Aston was disappointed with the performance overall.
Aston said on rli.ie: "We are very disappointed because we know that's not our best performance.
"We were looking to build on a good win against Scotland last week but the Knights are a more powerful side.
"This fixture is important for us as we are looking to improve for the world cup because we are going out to win.
"In 2013 we won't be playing just any sides, we'll be playing Australia, England and Fiji so we need to be at our best."
G McNally, T Bergin, S Littler, J Toole, J O'Donnell, J Mendeika, L Finn, L Ambler, C Sice, S Hesketh, C Casey, E Cosgrove, T McCarthy Interchange: C Roche, W Kerr, M Hadden, S Wellens.
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C Riley, K Dixon, J Turner, R Evans, J Broughton, D Sarginson, L Gale, S Taylor, D Houghton, G Burgess, J Hughes, M Lawrence, M Cooper Interchange: T Burgess, S Lunt, C Clarkson, B Jones-Bishop.


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Because this issue will continue to be in the news, let's answer some of the most common questions surrounding the debt ceiling.Created in 1917, the national debt ceiling is a level imposed by Congress on how much debt the U.S. can carry at any time. The debt ceiling is not the same as the budget process because our debt consists of spending that has already been approved previously by the Congress and the president: It is money we already spent and owe to creditors.This is no different than most debt situations when you do not effectively budget. Government is no different as we have seen years of prudent fiscal management and years of over indulgence. Every President since Harry Truman has added to the national debt expressed in absolute dollars. The debt ceiling has been raised more than 70 times since 1962, including 18 times under Ronald Reagan, eight times under Bill Clinton, seven times under George W. Bush and three times under Barack Obama.Deficit spending can, in general, create economic growth. Most investors look for companies who can leverage their growth through debt for greater profits down the road. When debt is effectively used, it can fuel business investment, productivity gains and consumer spending as jobs increase and our standard of living improves. The opposite occurs if mismanaged. If too much of this borrowed money is invested in areas that do not produce additional growth, the need for continued borrowing increases. Just like the business owner, politicians need to self police to prevent mismanagement of our tax dollars. There is no ideal level of debt except through the rearview mirror.The debt increases each day we bring in less in tax revenue than we pay out for things approved through the democratic process. It is growing more so today than in the past for several reasons, including an increase in overall spending, funding of wars and a decrease in overall revenue from tax cuts and a lack of economic growth.Historically, a country faces severe challenges if the debt to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ratio gets too high - commonly recognized as above 90 percent (The U.S. is at 101 percent as of May 2012). At these levels of debt to GDP, a country's ability to grow and pay off the debt is difficult and, like any overleveraged company or individual, it could lead to default. Or, more likely, it could lead to a spike in interest rates as borrowers demand more return because we are unable to generate enough revenue to pay the debt back.
The worry, my son, is not over the debt ceiling, but upon the recognition that $1,000 of new debt does not mean you are $1,000 richer. Our politicians need to know how to make the discussions surrounding the debt ceiling productive because investors have serious concerns.


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The roads are as bad as they can possibly get. The Wellington stage has not gotten in for two days. The Markleeville stage is making trips, though they claim the roads are in very bad condition.
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Beginning February 4th all German alien subjects in this country will be required to register and in towns or communities of less than 5,000 inhabitants, the registration will be done at the post offices. The regulations which were received from the attorney-general of the United States are as follows: "All natives, citizens, denizens of subjects of the German Empire or of the imperial German government, being males of the age of fourteen years and upward, who are within the United States and not actually naturalized as American citizens, are required to register as alien enemies."
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That an ancient crater on the side of Mt. Shoshone, five miles south of Ione throws forth smoke whenever earthquake shocks are felt in Nevada, is the declaration of L. V. Cirac who says that this activity has been attested to by a number of persons over the period on many years.
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The QM Scrap Squad is a select group of seven QM readers. They take one pattern from each regular issue of Quiltmaker and make their own scrappy versions to inspire you.
The Scrap Squad project from the July/August issue of Quiltmaker is Old Glory, designed and made by Margie Ullery of Ribbon Candy Quilt Company.
Today's featured quilt is by Donna Hanley from Cincinnatus, New York.
You'll hear from Donna in her own words below.
My first thought was to have a seashells theme. Initially, I planned to have blue strips shading from light to dark and then to brown to represent sky and sand. I quickly realized that didn't make much sense…seashells floating through the sky? No way.
So sky fabrics became sea fabrics instead…same fabrics, just thinking of them differently in my mind. Here are my fabric choices.
I remember hearing in one class that for a landscape, the proportion should be divided 1/3 to 2/3, so I made the sea 2/3 of the backgound and the sand 1/3. My first attempt at laying out the blues in a gradation didn't make the cut.
I decided to mix up the blues and browns and I like the result much better.
I'm now ready to sew and what do I do but sew the first strip on backwards?! Off to a great start!! But wait—I can use this mistake to show you all how I rip out seams.
First I use a sharp, flat seam ripper and cut every third or fourth thread. Then I pull the uncut thread from the other side. Finally, I use a piece of tape to pick up all the leftover little threads. The seam is unsewn in no time at all.
When I received my seashell applique shapes from QM Graphic Designer Denise Starck, I was ecstatic. She drew exactly what I had in mind. Here's the top with the shells in place.
I've owned my Bernina 440 for over a year and hadn't yet played with any of the decorative stitiches. I decided this was the perfect place to start. Here are close-ups of some of the results.
Close-up of the quilting:
Remember to check out all of the free applique patterns for the Scrap Squad variations of Old Glory. More versions coming in the days ahead!
Donna's quilt can help us learn something about applique placement. Look again at the original Old Glory quilt, below.
See how the stars are "sprinkled" across? They are slightly turned to and fro so they look very natural. And the line of stars is not straight across the quilt's diagonal—instead, it meanders lazily in a kind of wave.
Placing applique patches is tricky business. Each Scrap Squad member did it a bit differently—and that's fine, because ultimately the only person whose opinion matters is the quiltmaker's.
Donna took our cue and turned her applique shapes to and fro also. Notice the seashell below and how it's askew to suggest its random placement on the seashore.
This is where a design wall is critical. You'll want to use it to audition the placement of your applique shapes. Twist, turn, sprinkle…keep playing until you're happy with it. And then snap a photo of the finished quilt and send it to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The Clover Trail (Atom Z2760) Review: Acer's W510 Testedby Anand Lal Shimpi on December 20, 2012 10:34 AM EST
Connected over the Atom Z2760's SDIO interface is Broadcom's 4330 WiFi solution. The 4330 is a single-stream, dual-band (2.4/5GHz) 802.11n device. Wireless performance is reasonable - I was able to pull a maximum of 34Mbps down on a 5GHz network - but not great compared to the likes of the iPad 4 and Nexus 10.
Reception was comparable to most tablets of this size but I have been seeing a weird issue where Windows 8 claims there's limited connectivity on a known network even if there aren't any problems. Disconnecting and reconnecting always fixes it. I don't know if this problem appeared more frequently after one of the latest Windows 8 updates, because I don't remember having it much when I was testing Surface RT. Occasionally I've seen an issue where 5GHz networks won't appear to the W510 without toggling airport mode. I've been chalking these issues up to early Windows 8 problems, but again I don't remember having them with Surface so it's unclear how much of this is specific to the W510.
The W510 features a rear facing 8MP camera (3264 x 2448, 1.4 - 2.5MB compressed JPEG size) and a front facing 2.1MP camera (1920 x 1080, ~600KB compressed JPEG size). Neither is particularly amazing at shooting photos, but like with most tablets the rear facing camera can produce passable results for web use:
The camera UI and preview frame rate are both solid for stills, but there is a strange behavior where you'll get a split second of live view after you've taken a shot using the rear camera before you're shown a preview of the shot you just took.
Video is recorded in Main Profile (4.0) AVC at around 15Mbps with 2-channel stereo audio:
Maintaining 30 fps while shooting 1080p video isn't possible it seems. Video quality is average at best for a tablet using the rear facing camera:
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londiste - Friday, December 21, 2012 - linkare the windows x86 drivers for powervr sgx now stable and feature complete? the first batch of reviews for atoms containing these, including the one in anand iirc, complained a lot about the stability of video drivers.
the fact that these crashes are system-wide, would rule out specific applications, but not drivers.
windows 8 by itself, especially on x86 (but maybe even more so for the rt on arm) has been very stable. Reply
MFK - Thursday, December 20, 2012 - linkCan we get a detailed write up of how eMMC differs from SATA?
I'd be very interested in reading Anandtechs analysis on the differences between them.
It just seems to be the very prevalent now with smartphones and Atom tablets both using it. Reply
DanNeely - Thursday, December 20, 2012 - linkMMC is a memory card standard similar to the more common SD; eMMC is just an embedded version. Outside of the embedded world MMC is mostly used to increase the number of supported formats claimed by card readers. Reply
tempestglen - Thursday, December 20, 2012 - linkhttp://www.anandtech.com/show/6330/the-iphone-5-re...
I am very curious about the Z2760 electricity consumption when running kraken. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Thursday, December 20, 2012 - linkWorking on something even cooler, give me a few days... :)
Take care,
Anand Reply
tempestglen - Friday, December 21, 2012 - linkGreat! Hope you use a test application which could utilities all of the CPU cores. Kraken is good but not perfect, could Kraken make 100% usage on dual core? Reply
DanNeely - Thursday, December 20, 2012 - linkCould you add dimensions for the combined tablet + dock? Reply
mayankleoboy1 - Thursday, December 20, 2012 - linkClover Trail is a failure. It is competitive with Tegra3. Great.
But tegra3 itself is outdated now. Anyone notice that no new top-line smartphone has tegra3. All have Krait4. And will soon have Exynos5.
If all Intel has to show for its efforts is competition with tegra3/A9 , its in some deep shit.
The GPU is particulerly shitty. Either Intel need a node shift to 14nm, or a new arch or both. Reply
jhoff80 - Thursday, December 20, 2012 - linkMaybe I'm being naive, but it sounds like Bay Trail will be exactly that new architecture for Atom that Intel needs. Reply
jeffkibuule - Thursday, December 20, 2012 - linkClover Trail is just a stop gap. It's using a 5 year old architecture with a GPU that even the iPad 2 from 2 years ago could outperform. I think it's purposefully designed to be cheap.
I'd be far more interested to see what Bay Trail (next-generation Atom) and Haswell (next-generation Core) bring to the table, because at least it will look like Intel is trying. Reply


text: Saltwater Fly FishingSaltwater fly fishing presents us with lots of different opportunities, from deep sea fishing for marlin and sailfish where the fish are teased to the surface then cast at with flies through to Tarpon or Bone fishing in the tropics or sea bass fishing of rocky crags to fishing estuaries for freshly run salmon and sea trout. Saltwater fly fishing has its own demands and techniques. Tackle needs to be protected from the corrosion of the sea of the extreme heat melting the fly line!


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The one-and-done rule has become a popular subject of discussion in NCAA and NBA circles. For those unaware of the rule, it was instituted by NBA commissioner David Stern as a way to curtail high schoolers from going straight into the NBA. It required the 17 or 18-year-old to play at least one year of either college ball or international ball — as in the case of Brandon Jennings.
University of Kentucky coach John Calipari, who has had quite a few players leave his team after only one season, has been irked to the point of hating the rule. It's tough to blame him, or any other coach at the NCAA level for that matter.
While it is a useful tool in making sure that 17 and 18-year-olds can hone their craft at a higher level before jumping into the NBA, it's become an extremely unfair practice to the coaches of these schools that have to go out and find new high school stars after every draft.
Calipari, for example, has already had 11 players depart from his elite program after only a year's play.
As a result, it's left NCAA coaches to constantly recruit, create new gameplans, adjust to a new crop of players, and find and convince the next big star to play for their squad.
However, there are benefits to the one-and-done rule; namely for the players. While there are some with obvious talent that should warrant them a trip from high school straight to the NBA, it's also allowed other players, such as the 15 on this list, to improve their game before making the jump to the big leagues.
For every Kobe Bryant or Kevin Garnett, there's a Sebastian Telfair or Dorell Wright that proves how the one-and-rule could have possibly made something more out of their careers. That one year is a necessity to some. For others it's superfluous and simply a short road block to a prosperous NBA career.
Whether or not these 15 players actually benefitted from this rule is something that they would have to personally answer. For now, we'll just take a look at the 15 best NBA players who spent one year at college and made the smooth transition to the big leagues.
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John Wall will need to hone his jumper if he wants to live up to that lucrative deal he signed with the Washington Wizards over the summer, but one can't deny the money matches the potential. Following a memorable year at Kentucky where he and several future NBA stars won the national championship, Wall took his chances in the NBA and was selected first in the 2010 Draft by the team that just went all-in on his talent.
Speed kills, and no player knows that better than Wall. He's arguably the fastest player in the NBA and its showcased when he's handling coast-to-coast and turning an inbound pass off a score into a layup in five seconds flat.
Following an injury-plagued first half of the 2012-13 season, Wall made up for half a season's worth of scoring with performances such as the 47-point drubbing he delivered to Memphis, as well as a 37-point output against Indiana only a week later. He finished the season averaging a career-high 18.5 points, albeit in only 49 games.
Mike Conley, Jr. only needed one impressive season at Ohio State, where he helped lead the team to a national championship appearance, to declare for the draft and become a lottery pick. Conley was selected by the Memphis Grizzlies with the fourth pick of the 2007 Draft following his lone year with the Buckeyes, also complete with a previous nod as a McDonald's All-American, and was a starter by his sixth game in the Association. The up-and-down rookie season would be followed up with another tumultuous season where he actually split time with Kyle Lowry as the starting point guard.
It was in his third season, however, where Conley finally came out of his shell. Shots started to fall; he became a better facilitator and also became a stronger defender. In fact, Conley has become one of the league's strongest defenders at his position, recently earning a spot on the All-Defensive Second Team.
He was the steals leader in the 2012-13 season, finishing with 174. He also set a career-high for points per game with 14.6, while also shooting 36 percent from beyond the arc. He is a 38 percent shooter from deep for his career.
Conley continues to integrate himself into a larger role in the offense and attempted to do so throughout Memphis' postseason run. Despite low shooting percentages, Conley put up a respectable 17 points per while aiding the team in a run to their first conference finals in franchise history.
Somebody bring basketball back to Vancouver so we can see Shareef Abdur-Rahim before his sudden fall from grace.
Abdur-Rahim spent the first five years of his career with the Grizzlies after being drafted third once he finished a single year at the University of California. He impressed in his rookie season with averages of 18.7 points and 6.9 rebounds, good enough to finish third in Rookie of the Year voting and giving the young Vancouver franchise a player to possibly build around.
Unfortunately for the Grizzlies, the team success never came and they never won more than 23 games in six years in Vancouver. Shareef was able to at least put some fans in the seats, pouring in solid point outputs and crashing the boards well for a 6-9 forward, averaging as much as 10 boards in 2000. Shareef even earned a gold medal with Team USA in Sydney in the summer of 2000.
Abdur-Rahim averaged as much as 23 points with the Grizzlies, but the team ultimately made the right decision when he was traded to Atlanta for Pau Gasol. From there, Shareef would make his only All-Star Game in his first season with the Hawks.
That All-Star Game must have been the climax of his career because the rest of his NBA tenure is mainly a lot of falling action. He only spent another season-and-a-half with Atlanta before bouncing around from Portland to Sacramento and then retiring at the age of 31.