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Over the full period, the hedge fund index not only has underperformed every single equity asset class, but it also has underperformed even virtually riskless one-year Treasury bills (while taking far more risk) and intermediate-term and longer-term Treasury indexes as well.
To be fair, we'll point out that the hedge fund index did outperform the S&P 500 Index and all the other major equity indexes except for U.S. REITs during the first nine months of this year. However, that isn't exactly a fair comparison as there are many hedge funds that aren't fully exposed to market risk (such as merger arbitrage funds, long/short funds, currency and commodity funds, credit arbitrage funds and so on). Thus, a more appropriate way perhaps to look at these funds is to consider at least comparing their returns to diversified portfolio (such as a 60 percent stock /40 percent bond portfolio, diversified across asset equity asset classes). With that in mind, you can compare any particular mix you think is appropriate. This same analysis should be considered when looking at the long-term evidence.
Given the evidence, the only logical explanations I can think of for the continued popularity of hedge funds are that investors are unaware of the data or invest in hedge funds for the same reasons they buy a Rolex or carry a Gucci bag -- they're expressions of status, prestige, exclusivity and sophistication. Letting emotions such as these determine investment decisions is a recipe for transferring assets from your wallet to the purveyors of such products.
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NEW YORK (Jan. 7)
The Jewish Theater for Children will offer a $1,000 prize for the best full-length play for children in the English language on a Jewish theme, it was announced today by Philip Kasakove, chairman of the Theater. The prize will be the 12th offered by the group with funds made available by Norma U. Levitt, a member of the Theater's board of directors. Manuscripts for the 1968 competition must be submitted not later than December 31, 1968.
The purpose of the contest is to stimulate original dramatic literature for older age group elementary and junior high school pupils, which will give expression to ethical and spiritual values reflected in Jewish life, folklore, history and culture. Prize winning plays will be given professional production.

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Ivan Is Truly A Mighty Silver Back!
Ivan's Life Was unforgetable!
Ivan, a real gorilla, lived at Zoo Atlanta, but on the way to that happy ending, he spent almost three decades without seeing another of his own kind before being moved to Zoo Atlanta in 1994.
After being captured as in infant in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ivan's female companion, reported to have been his twin, died en route to the US or shortly thereafter), Ivan was raised in a home until he became unmanageable. At that point he was added to an odd collection of animals housed at a circus-themed mall in Washington state.
Ivan spent twenty-seven years of his life alone in a cage. Over time, as an understanding of primate needs and behavior grew, public discomfort with Ivan's lonely state grew as well, particularly after he was featured in a National Geographic special entitled "The Urban Gorilla." A public outcry followed, including heartfelt letters from children. When the mall where Ivan lived went bankrupt, he was placed on permanent loan to Zoo Atlanta, which houses the largest group of captive western lowland gorillas in the nation.
Ivan became a beloved celebrity at Zoo Atlanta, where he lived contentedly with other gorillas, although he never sired any offspring. He was known for his paintings, which were often "signed" with his thumbprint. Ivan died on August 20, 2012 at the age of 50.
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- Topiramate enhances GABA-mediated chloride flux and GABA-evoked chloride currents in murine brain neurons and increases seizure thresholdH S White
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Epilepsy Res 28:167-79. 1997..Taken together these results support the conclusion that enhancement of GABA-mediated Cl- flux may represent one mechanism that contributes to the anticonvulsant activity of topiramate...
- Pharmacological characterization of the 6 Hz psychomotor seizure model of partial epilepsyM E Barton
Anticonvulsant Screening Project, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah, 30 S 2000 E Room 201, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Epilepsy Res 47:217-27. 2001..The pharmacological results combined with the c-Fos immunohistochemistry suggest that the 6 Hz stimulation may provide a useful model of therapy-resistant limbic seizures...


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The B'nai Brith has appointed a committee to work in cooperation with the newly formed committee on policy of the American Jewish Committee, it was learned yesterday. Max J. Kohler will serve as chairman of the body. The other members are Albert Ottinger, Charles Horwitz, assistant corporation counsel; Louis Fabricant and Theodore Badman. Senator Alfred M. Cohen, president of the B'nai Brith, and Dr. I. M. Rubinow, secretary, are ex-officio members.
Joseph M. Proskauer, former justice of the Appellate Division, is chairman of the American Jewish Committee's policy group with which the B'nai Brith committee will work closely on matters regarding the German Jewish situation.


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- Terrain Vague: Interstices at the Edge of the Pale. London: Routledge, 2013. (Co-editor, with Manuela Mariani)
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"Unmasked Representations of Space in Edward Dorn's 'The Land Below' and 'Idaho Out.'" Paideuma 36.1-2 (2010): 105-30.
"Edward Dorn's Heretical Spatial Knowledge in 'The North Atlantic Turbine' and Gunslinger." The Midwest Quarterly 49.4 (2008): 401-15.
"Tra colline e canali: seguendo gli indizi di Andrea Zanzotto." Andrea Zanzotto tra Soligo e laguna di Venezia. Ed. Gilberto Pizzamiglio. Venice: Leo S. Olschki/Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 2008. 193-212.
"Gianni Celati's Poetic Prose: Physical, Marginal, Spatial." Italica 84.2-3 (Summer-Autumn, 2007): 323-44.
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Monday and Tuesday Mark "LIVE's" Best Single-Day Telecasts Since November 2011
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During the week of January 6, 2014, "LIVE with Kelly and Michael" ranked as the No. 1 syndicated talk show for the 3rd straight week in Households (3.4 rating), tying with "Dr. Phil" and beating "Ellen" by 10% (3.1 rating). In addition, "LIVE" outdrew "Ellen" by 5% in Total Viewers (4.510 million vs. 4.298 million) to rank No. 2 during the week. "LIVE" was the week's No. 1 syndie talker in Women 25-54 (1.9 rating), tied with "Dr. Phil" and "Ellen."
On average for the 2013-14 season to date, "LIVE with Kelly and Michael" stands as the No. 2 syndicated talker in Households (2.9 rating) and Total Viewers (3.822 million), moving ahead of "Ellen" (2.7 rating and 3.781 million) in both Nielsen measures.
- "LIVE with Kelly and Michael" held 100% of its week-ago season-high numbers in Households (3.4 rating) and Women 25-54 (1.9 rating) to equal its highest-rated week in over 2 years – since the week of 11/21/11. In addition, "LIVE" retained nearly all (97%) of its week-ago Total Viewer count (4.510 million) to draw its 2nd-biggest overall audience so far this season, behind only the prior week.
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- During the course of the week, "LIVE" scored its best numbers for any single-day telecast since the final broadcast of "Live with Regis and Kelly" in November 2011 (on 11/18/11) in Households (3.8 rating) on Monday and Tuesday, in Total Viewers (5.213 million) on Monday and in Women 25-54 (2.3 rating) on Tuesday.
"LIVE with Kelly and Michael" is distributed in national syndication by Disney-ABC Domestic Television. Produced by WABC-TV in New York and executive produced by Michael Gelman, "LIVE" airs in more than 200 markets across the U.S. Visit "LIVE" on the web at LIVEKellyandMichael.com, on Facebook, or follow "LIVE" on Twitter, @KellyandMichael.
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Two British adventurers have smashed the records for driving between Cape Town and London.
Philip Young and Paul Brace left the Mount Nelson hotel in Cape Town at 6am GMT (8am SAST) on 1 February in their 875cc Fiat Panda on a daunting 16,000km drive across two continents including former war zones.
They arrived at Marble Arch in central London at 5.28pm local time on Monday night - which meant they had taken just 10 days, 13 hours and 28 minutes.
The grinning pair posed for photos in the middle of the rush hour on top of their little city car, which Young said had not even needed topping up with oil or water on the trip.
"I just can't believe how well the car went."
"It's been a long ten days since we left the Mount Nelson which now feels like a month ago," he said.
"There were some tough times on the trip but we don't feel too bad because we did actually get some sleep in the car. Probably the most difficult bits were crossing the Egypt/Sudan border at a new crossing where there wasn't any customs office. They ended up stamping our passport on the bonnet of the car.
"The other difficult bit was in Libya which wasn't supposed to be letting in any foreigners. At one point when we were waiting for stamps in the passport we heard some muffled explosions. We asked what it was and the official shrugged his shoulders and said 'some people with no visas risk walking around the outside of the walls, setting off landmines'.
"When they spotted the Union Jack on the car they saluted us. Bizarre."
Their time easily beat the previous record of 14 days, 19 hours 26 minutes set by British Army officer Brigadier John Hemsley and his wife Lucy in 1983 in a Range Rover V8. Hemsley was at Marble Arch on Monday night to offer his congratulations.
However, Young and Brace also beat the north to south record of 11 days, 14 hours and 11 minutes set by three British drivers, brothers Mac and Steve MacKenney and Chris Rawlings in a Land Rover Discovery three years ago.
Young, 64, who is chairman of the Classic Rally Association and Brace, 45, a car restorer, covered about 1600km a day, taking in 13 countries at an average speed of 69km/h. After starting in South Africa they crossed Botswana, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia before taking a sea crossing to Sicily in Italy, France and then a cross-channel hop to England and London.
The record is all the more remarkable for the fact it was completed not in a powerful 4x4 but in a 62kW twin-cylinder Fiat Panda. The cramped car could fit just one spare wheel while a bigger-than-normal petrol tank meant it had a range of 1000km.
They encountered tropical storms, searing heat, desert tracks, bureaucracy and potholes 'the size of our Panda'.
As well as trying to break the record, Young and Brace were raising money for British charity Farm Africa which works with farmers in east Africa to combat hunger and starvation through agricultural innovation. As of Monday the pair had raised £12 500 (R175 000).
The pair wrote regular blogs on the trip and took pictures which they uploaded to the website. They took it in turns to drive while the other slept on a mattress in the back or ate from army-issue self-heating cans.
Young added: "We could have done it in a 4x4 but that wouldn't be much of a challenge, would it? It was hard because we were living and sleeping in the car, stopping just for borders and fuel stops.
"We passed some amazing places and the whole thing has been an eye-opener. It's tested us but the car performed brilliantly, nippy and powerful when it needed to be." - Cape Argus


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Yesterday a student, today a baker
By Saeed Khodadadi
Iran, Tehran, 3 October 2010 -Wiping the sweat off his forehead with a handkerchief, Hojjat Motaghimanesh began to knead the dough with his hands. It is hard work for a boy his age. Hojjat is 15 years old. He lost his father three years ago in an accident and since then has been working in a bakery in district four of Tehran.
He gave up his studies after finishing grade five of primary school because he had to earn a living for his family. His mother is sick and cannot work, but he has six sisters and two brothers who live in a village in Zanjan province, where he was born. Hojjat earns a little more than 20 dollars a month. He really regrets leaving school, but he said he had no choice.
"If I had continued my studies, I wouldn't have been able to earn a living for my family," he explained. "The only job I knew was how to bake bread."
I asked him if he liked his job.
"I do, thank God," he replied. "The only problem is that I don't' get enough sleep and there is no insurance."
I ask him if one day, if he had enough money he would like to open his own bakery.
"Definitely, and if I have the money, I would open one in Tehran", he replied.
"What about any other job, like car mechanics or welding or anything else?" I asked. He sighed.
"It makes no difference. They're all the same. Despite everything being so expensive nowadays, with the help of God I've managed to stand on my own feet."
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Florida Democrats are preparing to tap into Barack Obama's grass roots machine to build the biggest political operation ever seen from the state party.
Normally at this early stage of an election cycle, the chronically cash-strapped Florida Democratic Party is shedding jobs and struggling to keep the lights on. Not this year. State party leaders expect soon to hire dozens of professional organizers to harness and assist Obama's vast army of volunteers.
"This is the first time in modern history that Florida Democrats will be aggressively organizing so early,'' said Leonard Joseph, executive director of the Florida Democratic Party, who expects as many as 40 full-time field organizers to fan across the state by late spring. "At a period of time when the Republicans are constricting, we will be expanding our grass roots efforts in all parts of the state."
Specific plans and goals are still under discussion in Washington and Tallahassee. But the ebullient talk among Florida Democrats stems from an ambitious and uncertain plan often dubbed Obama 2.0 — an effort to keep engaged the vast and potent base of true believers that helped elect Obama president in November.
On Nov. 4, the election was over and Obama not only had won the White House, but he also still had an arsenal most campaigns could only dream of: 13 million e-mail addresses and a massive database pinpointing precinct by precinct and block by block the supporters who gave money or knocked on hundreds of doors or hosted house parties.
Rather than let that machine fizzle, Obama's political team launched Organizing for America, based within the Democratic National Committee offices.
"As president, I will need the help of all Americans to meet the challenges that lie ahead," Obama said last month in a video message to supporters. "That's why I'm asking people like you who fought for change during the campaign to continue fighting for change in your communities.
"Since the election, hundreds of thousands of you have shared your ideas about how this movement should move forward, and we've listened carefully."
The volunteer-driven effort initially is focused on taking feedback and promoting issues, such as the economic stimulus package. Activists across the state and country have been holding conference calls with Obama's political team leaders, talking about improving their voter database, training sessions and enhanced online organizing tools.
"People like myself they contact and ask if we can organize a meeting, so I e-mailed 15 people and invited them to attend a get-together,'' said St. Petersburg resident Alex Haak, a former New Jersey mayor who recently formed the Obama Action Club and hosted a meeting of Obama supporters Friday. "It's to keep our momentum going, to stay behind our president. Once elections are over people just fall astray, but us grass roots workers and believers, want to stay involved."
The initial focus of Organizing for America has been on specific issues — Obama supporters in recent days have been holding house parties across the state and country about the stimulus package — but energized and organized Obama supporters could have a major impact on elections up and down the ballot.
In Florida, the plan is to have paid staffers in place to assist the citizens already actively working with Organizing for America.
Big questions remain, including whether fundraising is adequate to match the ambitions and the level of resources that actually wind up committed to Florida. Also uncertain is whether enthusiasm for Obama would apply to other Democrats who might run in 2010. Obama won Florida, for instance, but had minimal coattails helping other Democrats on the ballot.
"The million-dollar question is how to translate the activism and enthusiasm that Barack Obama was able to create and translate it down the line,'' said Steve Schale, a Democratic consultant who managed Obama's Florida campaign. "That's the challenge, but fundamentally the state is better for Democrats than ever before because of what Barack Obama was able to do. It's still up to candidates to have compelling messages and drive up enthusiasm."
While Florida Democratic leaders are talking about dramatically ramping up their political operation this year, the state GOP is cutting expenses. The party has shut field offices in Tampa and Miami and is considering shutting one in Orlando. The party has about 10 field staffers across the state, down from the 16 initially budgeted.
But state Republican Party chairman Jim Greer said the party is launching a major voter registration push in all 67 counties. Taking a lesson from Obama's campaign, Greer also is pushing an ambitious technology initiative focused on improving communication through areas such as text messaging and Facebook.
He scoffed at the claim that Democrats would have 40 field staffers on the ground in Florida anytime soon.
"Cut that 70 percent and you might have an accurate number," Greer said. "I've seen what goes on in state parties."
Then again, Florida Republican leaders repeatedly dismissed the claims that Obama would put hundreds of paid staffers in Florida last year. By Election Day, more than 600 Obama campaign staffers were in place.
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Wish I had a truckloadThis seems to be on its way to being discontinued, just after I discovered it. It was on "close out" at the grocery store, and I couldn't find it at Rite Aid or Target at all anymore. It's thick, rich, and luxurious like a department store lotion, but at half the price! I got it cause it was highly recommended by Paula Begoun, Cosmetics Cop. I only hope they are just changing the name, packaging, or something like that....and not doing away with it altogether. — 6 years, 8 months agoSupernaturalfan | 53 reviews
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Place of Death: County: Robertson, Civil Dist.: 9, Village or City: Springfield
Reg. Dist.: 752, Primary Reg. Dist.: 27509, Reg. No.: 321
Sex: Male Race: Negro Marital Status: Married
Date of Birth: 12/11?/1895
Age: 21 yrs. 3 mos. 22 ds.
Occupation: Tobacco packers
Birthplace: Tenn.
Name of Father: Carn--t DUNN
Birthplace of Father: Tenn.
Maiden Name of Mother: Johnetta CARSON
Birthplace of Mother: Tenn.
Informant: Harvey DUNN Address: Springfield, Tenn.
Filed: 04/12/1917 Frank Bell, Registrar
Date of Death: 04/11/1917
The physician attended deceased from 04/01/1917 to 04/11/1917
and last saw him alive on 04/11/1917
Death occurred on date stated above at: 3:00 PM
Cause of Death: Tuberculosis Duration: 1 mos. 1 ds.
Signed: S. R. Blackwell, M. D. 04/12/1917 Address: Springfield, Tenn.
Place of Burial or Removal: Lindahand <Lend-A-Hand?> Date of Burial: 04/12/1917
Undertaker: H. L Hurt & Co. Address: Springfield, Tenn.


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Baby boy is here!!
Hello Berries!!
We are excited to announce that our little guy is finally here! He was nameless for a few days until Dh caved and let me choose his name Jude Wilder is here and he's perfect! He joins proud big sister Sydney Paige and brother Beckett Milo. Thanks for all the advice and posts - this site made searching for and choosing a name such a fun experience. I'm actually sad I won't be doing it again!


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I got my ball-and-chain this week: a manila envelope with "Coach Dan DeWitt'' scrawled on the outside and, inside, pink carbons covered with more scrawling — birth dates, phone numbers, pediatricians' contact information — for, among others, a Joshua, a Brett, a Tyler and an Alexy.
The best and most hopeful season in Florida, the fall, will pass with less time for drinking beer on the porch with my wife, or for watching football, or for those hundreds of home-maintenance projects I should get to.
I've been sentenced to four months of scurrying from work to practice, of evening scheduling calls, of desperate Internet searches to figure out how to counter a full-court press or execute a drop step.
Everything is easy when you know what you're doing, my father used to say. From my years as a youth coach, I can tell you the reverse is even more true: It's all difficult when you don't.
I'd like to be able to announce here that all the time and anxiety has been worth it. And it would be if I was sure I'd really done these kids any good.
Even though I'd never played organized soccer — or flag football or basketball, the other sports I've coached — I started volunteering because I thought it was "my turn,'' that I was passing that brief window when your children play youth sports and you have a chance to "be involved'' and have a "positive influence.''
I always doubted that such good intentions are enough and doubted it more after recently interviewing retired Hernando High coach Ernie Chatman and his former athletes.
How can sports justify the outsized emphasis we place on them?
For the tired-but-true reasons that learning skills and practicing them until you get them right teaches kids that honest effort pays off. And that only sinks in, and carries over later in life, if you get that payoff, if you win, or at least feel that you've gotten really good — or so said the deputies, teachers and even former pro athletes that Chatman coached.
"I was never the kind of coach who just rolled the balls out and said, 'Have fun,' " Chatman said.
He also said, when I asked why Hernando County no longer produces many top-flight baseball players, that there are probably as many good youth coaches as ever. But there are more kids, and probably out of necessity more ball-rolling-out, just-want-to-help mentors. In other words, the quality of local coaching has been diluted by people like me.
If that's the case, I thought, I probably shouldn't volunteer. And I agreed to this year only when the secretary of Hernando Youth League basketball told me that my son's previous coach had bowed out.
But that's not why my sense of obligation is heavier this year. It's because I realize more than ever that I need to be able to teach the game and, to do that, learn it. And, though I don't want to put too much pressure on kids to win, I do want them to improve — to be as good as their talent and the limited time we have together allow.
The parents and players have always seemed to appreciate what I tried to offer — fairness and a chance to have fun — and always greet me warmly if I see them around town. That's a great reward, of course. But I'd also like to be able to claim a cop, a teacher or even a pro.
So get to work, Brett.


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It's a cracking pace in the Kia design department these days with this Cross GT concept the latest to emerge.
Due to be unveiled next week at the Chicago Auto Show, Kia says the Cross GT previews possible changes to its corporate design themes.
It seems Kia might be thinking of going upmarket as the Cross GT is a premium SUV which is sized larger than the current Sorento. That would take it into the realm of say Infiniti FX and range Rover and, in North America the likes of Lincoln.


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Auditory emotional cues enhance visual perception
Recent studies show that emotional stimuli impair performance to subsequently presented neutral stimuli. Here we show a cross-modal perceptual enhancement caused by emotional cues. Auditory cue words were followed by a visually presented neutral target word. Two-alternative forced-choice identification of the visual target was improved by emotional cues as compared to neutral cues. When the cue was presented visually we replicated the emotion-induced impairment found in other studies. Our results suggest emotional stimuli have a twofold effect on perception. They impair perception by reflexively attracting attention at the expense of competing stimuli. However, emotional stimuli also induce a nonspecific perceptual enhancement that carries over onto other stimuli when competition is reduced, for example, by presenting stimuli in different modalities.
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WINDSOR, N.S. — There's a new sports league in town and they're on the look-out for fresh meat.
Tournaments to take place in in preparation for Finale in Fredericton
Members of the PEB's boys' volleyball team celebrate their victory and their advancement to the Finales des Jeux de l'Acadie. ROBERT D'EON PHOTO
YARMOUTH, N.S. – Events are coming up that will determine who gets to represent Nova Scotia at this year's Finale des Jeux de l'Acadie, including a track-and-field meet in Dartmouth and a number of tournaments in other sports taking place in different locations, including the Par-en-Bas region and Clare.
Ordinarily, Nova Scotia would have its own Jeux de l'Acadie as a qualifier for the Finale. Clare was to have hosted this year's Nova Scotia games over the Victoria Day weekend, but they were called off in late February as a result of the teachers' work-to-rule action and not enough time to prepare for the games with enough volunteers.
Nova Scotia athletes, however, still will a get a chance to go to the Finale – to be held this year in Fredericton (June 28-July 2) – through qualifying events that have been spread from one end of the province to the other.
First up is track and field, which was not affected by this year's changes. The athletics competition is normally held at Beazley Field in Dartmouth and this is the case again this year, with the meet set for May 12.
A number of qualifying tournaments in other sports will take place the following weekend:
• Boys and girls soccer in Clare.
• Mini handball in Par-en-Bas (the Municipality of Argyle).
• Girls volleyball in Sydney.
• Badminton in Richmond.
Details regarding other sports had yet to be finalized as of press time. Not all sports will have tournaments since the provincial committee's budget didn't allow for more tournaments than the ones listed above.
Meanwhile, the Municipality of Clare, which missed out on hosting Nova Scotia's Jeux de l'Acadie this year, is slated to have them in 2018.
This past winter, as the work-to-rule situation with the province's teachers wore on, the fate of this year's Nova Scotia Acadian Games was uncertain, given that teachers play a major role in the games as coaches and volunteers.
Organizers said they would wait until Feb. 28 before making a decision. By this time, the government had imposed a contract on teachers, but organizers of the games decided their best course of action – given the situation with volunteers and time constraints – was to call the games off.
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We really don�t know how Aquila and Priscilla treated each other in little things, this couple living in Corinth when Paul found them. We don�t know whether Aquila served his wife by helping with household chores. Someone said, �The most important four words in a marriage are, �I�ll do the dishes.�� We don�t know whether Priscilla told Aquila often how proud she was to be married to him, even if he never made it into the Bible. We don�t know whether Aquila opened the door for Priscilla before they walked into their house. Prince Philip said once, �When a man opens the car door for his wife, it is either a new car or a new wife.� Not so, your Prince-ness! I believe real men open doors for their wives. But I digress.
I would suggest that we do know five truths about this ancient couple�s marriage that we should apply in our own.
They were willing to be uprooted for the sake of the church.
These two moved a lot, from Corinth to Ephesus to Rome to Ephesus in order to serve the growing church.
They worked together as equals.
They were truly one flesh and they were always mentioned as a couple. Marriage should be like that, that whether we are together or separate, others think of us as one. The unity candle is a great picture of what marriage is positionally from the beginning, but it takes time and work and humility for that picture to become a reality. It reminded me of a couple in their nineties who died recently. Every morning for 70 years they held hands at breakfast. Their eight children said they had been inseparable since meeting as teenagers, once sharing the bottom of a bunk bed on a ferry rather than sleeping one night apart. When Helen died on the evening of April 12, her husband Kenneth quickly began to fade, and he was surrounded by 24 of his closest family members and friends when he died 15 hours later.
They cared for others more than they did themselves.
We see that in the way they take Paul in, not just as a fellow worker in the tent-making trade, but into their home. We see it in the way they opened their home to the church, in nearly every place they lived. We see it in the way they ministered to Apollos. They were not intimidated by Apollos� great eloquence and learning. They weren�t concerned that they might look foolish approaching this bold preacher with a word of encouragement and correction. They cared more about him than they cared about how they looked or were perceived by him. Also, they were gracious in their approach. �They took him aside and explained the way of God to him more accurately.� They talked to him, alone, with patient explanation of God in a way that changed the man�s life.
They were workers.
Aquila and Priscilla were yoked together through marriage and yoked with Christ through salvation, fully engaged in following His lead. Paul called them �fellow workers in Christ Jesus.� You couldn�t aspire to a more fulfilling life than the one described in that phrase.
They took risks.
Paul wrote that Aquila and Priscilla �risked their necks for my life.� A great marriage is sometimes marked by risks for the sake of Christ and His church. Hudson Taylor said, �Unless there is an element of risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith.�
Which of these five marks of a strong marriage would you agree to work on, starting today?
Mark Fox is pastor of Antioch Community Church on Power Line Road in Elon, hosts a weekly podcast at www.healthychurchradio.com and writes a blog at www.jmarkfox.com Email Mark at email@example.com
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I find my Mossberg 500A in 12 gauge feels as though it might benefit from a shortening of the buttstock. I am 5'9" and wear a 33" sleeve, weigh 170, the pull measured from the buttpad most directly to the center of the trigger is about 13 and 5/8".
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What are the merits/contraindicators for shortening the buttstock by say 1/2" to 1"?
Question 2: Can I lop the back end off the synthetic stock (I believe it to be factory) as if it were wood and refit the recoil pad?
Question 3: If I do this is there any reason to change the angle of the butt, would that change the way the guns shoulders?
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Junpei Kōsaka is a second-year high school student who despises cats and has an allergy to them. It just so happens that his high school crush is Kaede Mizuno, a girl who adores cats. One day, while walking home from school, Junpei kicks an empty can and unfortunately beans the local neko-jizō-sama (guardian deity of cats). He finds he can now understand what cats are saying, including his family's own ill-tempered cat, Nyamusasu. However, if he does not grant 100 wishes from cats, he will turn into a cat himself.
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Shintaro Asanuma as Junpei Kōsaka
Yuka Iguchi as Kaede Mizuno
Atsuko Tanaka as Nyamsas
Eri Nakao as Suzu Kōsaka
Haruka Tomatsu as Kotone/Akari Kirishima
Jun Fukuyama as Haruhiko Endou
Juurouta Kosugi as Keizou Kirishima
Rina Satou as Chizuru Mochizuki
Ryoko Shiraishi as Kanako Sumiyoshi
Tomoaki Maeno as Kouta Kawamura
Yu Kobayashi as Nagi Ichinose
Yui Sakakibara as Kumaneko
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Ending Theme:
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Kousaka Junpei
Mizuno Kaede
Sumiyoshi Kanako
Ichinose Nagi
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• Cathy Horyn is the latest of the fashion set to pen a tribute to the late L'Wren Scott. In the moving New York Times obit, Horyn speaks fondly of her friend, but also provides some insight into what was going on with Scott's label towards the end of her life. L'Wren cancelled her Fall 2014 show this season, citing production problems as the reason for skipping. But, according to Horyn, it turns out that Scott was planning on shutting down her label altogether, and would have announced it today. "Still, as painful as the decision must have been for her," she added, "I wouldn't draw any conclusions from it about her state of mind." (NYT)
• Ann Taylor just got a little more chic. Kate Hudson has teamed up with the brand's creative director to create a capsule collection of LBD's . The five-piece collection is designed to "fit how we all live," according to Hudson, and will hit stores April 10th. (WWD)
• Recognize the woman in the photo above? Believe it or not, that's Kim Kardashian. Oxygen has a new show, Celebrities Undercover, in which they give celebrities major make-unders, puts them out in public to see if their fans will recognize them. Would you have guessed that is Kimmy? (Oxygen)
• The ever-stylish and possessor of the most magnificent brows EVER, Lily Collins covers Lucky magazine's April issue. (Lucky)
• Lululemon's developed a new line that allows you to go straight from the gym to real life. &go is a collection of athletic wear that's functional enough for a run on the treadmill, but stylish enough to wear to meet your homegirls at the bar directly after. "You don't have time for a wardrobe that that keeps forcing you to change," says the collections' creators, but really: who is going to want to stay in their stinky, sweaty clothes after going hard in the gym? At any rate, prices range from $54 for a top to $198 for a dress, which you can pick up now at Lululemon. What do you think, guys, would you wear this to a dinner date after a workout sesh? (Fashionista)


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There's a new way to watch proteins shimmy and dance as they carry out their biological tasks. Researchers traditionally follow these shape changes spectroscopically, deducing them from changes in the molecules' ability to absorb particular wavelengths of light. But in the current Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a group in Israel reports taking a more direct approach: planting the tip of an ultrafine glass fiber on top of the protein and actually feeling it move.
The researchers--Aaron Lewis, Mordechai Sheves, Michael Ottolenghi, and their colleagues at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Weizmann Institute for Science in Rehovot, Israel--zeroed in on bacteriorhodopsin (bR), a protein found in the membranes of certain bacteria, where it responds to light by changing shape and pumping protons across the membrane. To sense these shape changes in a new way, the group used a variant of atomic force microscopy, a technique in which an ultrafine probe is scanned across a surface, sensing its atom-scale bumps and depressions to make an image. Lewis and his colleagues, however, kept the ultrafine probe in one place, poised atop a thin film of bR-filled membranes. In response to pulses of laser light, the proteins changed shape and then relaxed again, in a matter of milliseconds. At the same time, a second laser sensed a minuscule displacement of the probe tip.
The displacement not only showed that the technique worked, says Sheves; it also revealed stages of the protein's shape change that researchers have never reported before. These "spectroscopically silent" motions, says Sheves, point to a new model for the initial responses of the protein to light.
Sheves expects the technique to deliver similar insights into the contortions of other molecules. "It gives you a new direct probe to look at conformational changes in proteins," says Sheves. Robert Glaeser of the University of California, Berkeley, agrees, saying the work could "tell us more about how [motion] plays a role in proteins." But he thinks the work still needs some "reality checks." For one thing, while the researchers know the tip moved, they didn't convert the laser signal into an actual distance.


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I've worked in my small-town general practice in Scotland for ten years, combining clinical work there with a university post. In many ways my practice is pretty average. We have 5,700 patients, of all ages and from a mix of socioeconomic backgrounds. As in virtually all other British general practices, patient care is shared across our team of physicians and nurses, and we've used a form of electronic medical record (EMR) for many years. However, historically we didn't make full use of the skills of our nurses, or exploit our EMR to its full capacity. For example, our nurses did tasks like phlebotomy that could easily have been done by a less skilled person, and we primarily used our EMR for patient registration, prescribing and morbidity coding, while maintaining a parallel paper record for free-text clinical notes (the practice finally went paperless in 2005). Although we measured and tried to change areas of care that concerned us, quality improvement was often piecemeal and wasn't always sustained. But we were proud of our practice, and reasonably comfortable in our belief that we provided high-quality care.
In February 2003, the morning mail brought a copy of the Blue Book to me and every other general practitioner (GP) in the UK. It invited us to vote for a new contract with the National Health Service. The proposed contract had many attractions, not least the chance to increase practice income by about 20 percent. However, all of that increase was dependent on our delivering high performance measured by the 147 indicators in the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF). Although we'd all known the broad outline of the contract for some months, the detailed proposals were met with a storm of criticism from rank-and-file GPs, although uncertainty rather than rage was the dominant emotion in my practice. After some expedient changes to pacify the most discontented, GPs voted 4 to 1 to accept the contract, so committing ourselves to be the subjects of the world's largest health care pay-for-performance experiment.
How does UK pay-for-performance work?
In principle, QOF is very simple. Every QOF indicator has a points value attached, reflecting its relative importance. They all add up to 1050 points in total, and for an average-size practice (about 5400 patients, about 3 physicians) each point was worth £75 (approximately $140) in 2004/5 rising to £120 ($230) in 2005/6. (Currency conversions reflect exchange rates prevailing when this post was written.) Payment doesn't depend on comparisons with other practices, so we know that we'll get paid for any work done. We're also allowed to exclude patients from measures for a range of reasons, which means that practices aren't penalized for serving sicker, older or more socio-economically deprived populations. To get paid, we have to record all relevant data for every patient in our EMR. All practices get a "light touch" regulatory inspection annually, and a random 5 percent are additionally subject to a detailed payment verification audit (as well as those practices where there are concerns about data and payment accuracy).
In practice, the QOF is not so simple. The size of the performance bonus meant that there was little chance of our not responding. £125,000 ($240,000) is a substantial sum for a small practice, although payment per measure is rather less impressive. For example, in the first year, the practice earned a total of £225 (approximately $430) for ensuring that more than 90% of our 220 diabetics had their glycosylated haemoglobin checked in the previous 15 months, and £375 (about $720) for ensuring that more than 90% had appropriate retinopathy screening. However, it never really occurred to us to sit down and work out which measures were worth the effort involved to deliver them. We just decided to try to get as many points as possible. Doctors are pretty good at jumping through hoops, and that's what we enthusiastically set out to do. Remarkably, the nurses and the practice manager were equally keen participants, despite having no direct financial incentives. In part, that was because we all accepted that QOF really did represent high quality (most of the time anyway). In part, it was because public reporting of QOF data threatened our cozy assumptions of providing high-quality care.
What did we do?
Although the details weren't clear, we knew that something like QOF was coming over a year before implementation, and we used that time to prepare. In the eighteen months before implementation, we paid for a small increase in nursing hours, freed up nursing time through the use of a part-time phlebotomist, reorganized administrative work to facilitate the expected data collection, and starting thinking about how to make better use of our existing EMR capacity and nurses' skills.
We already had pretty good electronic data in terms of patient registration, prescribing, and morbidity. We also had experience of using a diabetes register, so creating registries for other incentivized diseases wasn't that hard for us, although we rapidly realized that creation is in some ways the easy bit. Keeping registries accurate and up-to-date is a neverending task. There is a torrent of data to be reliably recorded, which is a constant burden on clinical and administrative time.
Towards the end of the first year, we were at about 1,030 points. By then, the law of diminishing returns had kicked in. I pointed out that working many extra hours for a likely £750 (approximately $1425) shared among three doctors didn't really make financial sense. By this stage, though, imagined comparisons with other practices meant that pride trumped the weakness of the business case. In the end, we achieved 1,040.7 points in 2004/5 and 1,050 the next year.
What changed?
Where we had prior audit data, we know our quality for incentivized diseases got better. For example, between 2003 and 2005, the percentage of our patients with coronary heart disease whose blood pressure was measured at least annually increased from 69 percent to 94 percent and those with ideal control (less than or equal to 140/85) increased from 45 percent to 58 percent. QOF made us act on other diseases like stroke and epilepsy that that we hadn't previously paid enough attention to. I'd expect that improvements were greater for these relatively neglected conditions, but there is simply no way of knowing because that lack of attention also means that we don't have good "before" data to compare our current performance with.
QOF kept us consistently focused, but this greater depth for incentivized diseases is balanced by a narrowing of focus. Since 2004, we haven't done any major quality improvement work for the 85 percent of our workload that isn't in QOF. As an example, over several years we had successfully worked to make sure that our diagnosis and initial management of hypertension and diabetes was rigorous. QOF largely ignores diagnosis, so we don't do that anymore. Has our diagnostic accuracy and rigor got worse? We don't know, and are unlikely to have the time to find out. Has our care for people with complex problems, or our ability to deliver personal, individualized care suffered? We don't know, and I worry about it.
The QOF In Its Wider Context
We did well, but so did almost all other practices. The 2005/6 average points score was 1026/1050, far exceeding expectations. Unfortunately, exceeding expectations created financial problems for the NHS, since the payment system placed financial risk for "overperformance" solely on the government.
Is QOF a good thing? Patients got remarkably high quality for incentivized diseases with strikingly little variation between practices or regions. We got a large pay raise in return for significant effort to reorganize our practices, but the consequences of our new disease and incentive focus aren't yet clear, and the jury is out on whether quality of care more broadly has been affected. The NHS got high quality for incentivized diseases, although it paid a handsome price in the first two years. However, every GP I know expects that more work will be required for no extra money, and events support this view. The 2006 QOF review raised many performance thresholds and added six diseases to QOF with no change in total financial incentive. In the longer term, perceptions of who really won and lost may well change.
It seems inevitable that pay-for-performance for physicians and practice groups will continue its expansion in the US, although its impact is likely to be smaller than many purchasers seem to assume. We changed our systems of care partly for the money, and partly for pride in our publicly reported quality. In the US, financial incentives are currently small and only linked to a few quality measures. Additionally, provider payment and public reporting are both fragmented across many payers, weakening motivation to improve care. This will change as pay-for-performance expands, but since there is usually no new money to fund programs, change will be slow. Large-scale pay-for-performance drove moderate change in UK primary care, but the continuing debate over its true impact suggests that pay-for-performance in North America will never be as rapidly transformational as its more enthusiastic proponents suggest.


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Bob Woodward has made a series of bizarre assertions in the past week.
It started with Woodward's odd weekend assertion the White House is trying "to move the goalposts" by replacing sequestration with a deficit reduction package that includes tax hikes. The idea of sequestration was always that it was something elected officials were going to want to replace with alternative deficit reduction. Republicans have been trying to replace it with a package of cuts targeted at income support programs for the poor. Obama has been trying to replace it with a mixture of spending cuts and tax hikes.
Either everyone is moving the goalposts, which I think is tendentious but even-handed, or no one is moving them. But it really intensified Wednesday when Woodward went on "Morning Joe" to suggest it is crazy of Obama to be applying the law as written to the military, instead of simply ignoring it.
Things moved into the absurd late Wednesday when it was revealed National Economic Council director Gene Sperling had concluded an email disagreement with Woodward with the observation that in Sperling's view, Woodward would come to regret clinging so tenaciously to an untenable position.
As if determined to prove Sperling right, Woodward chose to start talking around town about how Sperling threatened him — a ridiculous interpretation that the ridiculous conservative media has been running with — rather than sticking with the obvious interpretation that Woodward's reputation among journalists is going to suffer from flagrant wrongness.
It would be interesting to see Woodward try to hash this out with, say, fellow Post-ie Ezra Klein, but instead he's going the full wingnut and will appear on Sean Hannity's show late Thursday to advance the agitprop agenda.
In retrospect, the whole affair was foreshadowed by the release of Woodward's latest book, "The Price of Politics." last fall. It made much less of a splash than many other Woodward books. Most well-informed observers agreed with Noam Scheiber of The New Republic that it was marred by anti-Obama bias, but under the circumstances of the time, it didn't get the right geared up either.
But none of this changes that we are facing cuts in government spending that are projected to harm the economy in the short term without doing anything to improve the long-term budget picture. The White House wants to replace cuts with a balanced package of spending cuts and tax hikes. Republicans are insisting on an all-cuts package.
It's not a very complicated debate. It just happens to be that the Democratic position is much more popular than the Republican position, so clear statements of what's happening tend to put the GOP at a disadvantage.
Woodward's epic week of attention-grabbing tends to obscure the underlying issue — are all cuts and no tax hikes better, or is a mix of cuts and tax hikes better?
Yglesias is Slate's business and economics correspondent. Before joining the magazine he worked for ThinkProgress, the Atlantic, TPM Media and the American Prospect.


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Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union dipped in June, with 790 people leaving the USSR, the National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ) reported Wednesday.
"We had hoped that the June figure would follow the pattern of monthly increases in emigration visas granted during the first five months of 1987. But it appears that emigration has once again dropped." the NCSJ said.
A report from Tel Aviv Wednesday said the "dropout" rate among Soviet Jewish emigres reached a record high of 85 percent last month. Of the 790 who arrived in Vienna, 121 went to Israel and 669 opted to go to other countries.
The Israeli daily Haaretz reported that of a total of 3,092 who left the Soviet Union since January, only 714 came to Israel.
The newspaper Davar reported that the deputy director of the Soviet Foreign Ministry's Consular Division will head a delegation due to arrive in Israel in about three weeks.


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OK, let's take a look at BlackBerry for a second. The company's stock closed Monday at $14.23, down almost 5%. There are rumors that "an established partner" just ordered 1 million BlackBerrys, and speculation says it's Brightstar, a company whose business is distributing smartphones to retailers. But the market doesn't seem encouraged. Goldman Sachs downgraded the company on Monday to "neutral" from "buy," and set a price target of $17. There is always the question as to whether BlackBerry has the chops to make a new operating system work. The company had the lion's share of the early (business) smartphone market -- but that was then. The BlackBerry brand fell out of favor as more people turned toward touch screens and phones that act more like personal assistants than telephones, and that trend has only accelerated. Late last year, the company lost 1 million customers in just one quarter, prompting a 48% drop in revenue in its fiscal third quarter.
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This weekend: The Will McLean Music Festival takes over Sertoma Youth Ranch in Hernando County
The Will McLean Music Festival has been around for 22 years, and Mindy Simmons has performed almost every year.
Every March, Simmons looks forward to the assemblage of what she calls "good, kind and humble people" who gather to perform and celebrate the legacy of the man known as the father of Florida folk music.
"I think anyone who writes Florida songs does so because they're concerned about educating people about the place they call home," Simmons said. "They want to create awareness and concern, and perhaps inspire people not to take for granted the beauty around them. That's why Will McLean remains such a hero to them."
The festival, a three-day celebration of music, food, crafts, art and fun, has evolved over the past two decades into one of Florida's premier folk events. This year's headliners include Simmons, above, as well as dozens of folk and bluegrass musicians from around the state.
The Will McLean Music Festival runs 12:30 to 11 p.m. today, 10 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at Sertoma Youth Ranch, south of Spring Lake on Myers Road, near the Hernando-Pasco county line.
Click here for Logan Neill's guide to this year's "Willfest." And click here for Jan Glidewell's look at the festival.


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A lot of people have been criticizing Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler's decision to become a judge for Fox's hit show 'American Idol'. However, Detroit's own Kid Rock really put it bluntly.
"I think it's the stupidest thing he's ever done in his life," Kid told Entertainment Weekly. "He's a sacred American institution of rock and roll, and he just threw it all out the window — just stomped on it and set it on fire."
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Hardware recommendations?
I've had Ardour on my various Debian boxen for years, but never had a box powerful enough to use it. Mostly I've got old laptops around here.
But I now want to seriously use it, along with specimen and ams and a bunch of other DeMuDi type software.
What do y'all recommend I buy?
- What CPU (Athlon still recommended, as docs say?)
- What MOBO (I understand VIA sucks, but which *do not* suck?)
- What Digital Audio card? Especially for analog input. Or, should I get a card that takes ADAT input and then ge t a digital mixer to do my D/A for me?
- What drives? Is SCSI or IDE/Firewire still recommended (as docs say), or is SATA better/cheaper for these apps?
- What MIDI card? I understand that the USB cards suck, but which ones suck not?
- Are old Matrox cards still the best for "playing nice" on the PCI bus? Or do the new AGP cards and onboard video work just fine nowadays?
If you were to build a PC to run Ardour simultaneously with other Linux music apps, what would you put in it?
Everything depends on what will you do with your system. If you are going to record a proximity-mic'd symphony orchestra, you will need a lot of disk i/o and memory. If you are going to do complex modular synth setups, you might not need that much i/o but a lot of CPU.
If you were to buy now, I would get a Core 2 Duo motherboard with the newest 1GHz memory bus, and a quite modest CPU. This is because Intel will be releasing a quad core processor quite soon. You can then swap the modest CPU for a quad core without changing your motherboard or memory. The memory bus is important as it will be shared by all four cores.
Your mileage and preferences might vary, but at the moment the truth is that Intel Core 2 Duos beat every AMD processor available. And I can personally vouch for their speed.
SATA disks are now the standard. They work very well. I see no reason to go for SCSI except if you are infact recording hundreds of channels at the same time. And I'm not even sure that there is a reason why you couldn't do that on a SATA disk.. I would advice against IDE disks because they are going away fast. You would have to select a "legacy compatible" motherboard which might not have optimal specs (or even worse: would not have a SATA controller at all, but just a SATA-IDE bridge and SATA performance would be compromised) and in a year or two, you will be hard-pressed to find an IDE drive anywhere anyhow.
If a stereo in stereo out type interface is enough for you, the audiophile 24/96 (NOT the 192, it does not work in Linux) is probably a good choice for you. It offers you both analog and s/pdif i/o plus MIDI. This will work for you only if PCI is the way you want to go. I don't know that much about USB cards than that I got burned by the M-Audio Quattro.
My advice on the sound card is to ask yourself whether two channels is enough for you. If you plan on doing live recording, you will want more, trust me.
If you don't need dazzling 3D performance, I would go with a well supported built-in graphics card with open-source drivers like Via Unichrome or Intel XYZ.
The open-source drivers are important for low-latency use. A lot of people have no problems whatsoever using proprietary drivers for their graphics cards, but we can't guarantee that. Nobody except the manufacturer can poke around the code and the community is not overly convinced that those drivers are completely real-time safe.
Regarding Matrox cards: the "playing nice" with the PCI bus is not a question of the chip, but a question of drivers. There are a lot of people using Matrox cards with heavy Ardour use and are very happy with them.
CPU - The Core 2 Duo is currently the best chip available, but as soon as AMD gets is 65nm facilities online you can probably expect AMD to overtake Intel once again. If you want to build now, go with the Core 2 Duo, it should be more than competent for virtually any audio task.
MB - Tyan makes very nice motherboards, but they are expensive.
Audio - A few options here, depending on your price range. The absolute best would be to get any supported card (check alsa.org for support) with lots of digital i/o and a nice multichannel ADC (like Apogee, Lucid, or Mytek), but this will cost a fair sum of cash. If you only need two channels, you can always pick up a Lucid AD9624 and DA9624 (normally around $500 on ebay) and run it through any supported s/pdif card for excellent results. The next best solution is to pick some product supported by the FreeBOB project (http://freebob.sf.net). It probably won't sound quite as good, but it will be cheaper and simpler.
Drives - SATA. There is hardly a price penalty over IDE, and unless you are doing something truly *massive*, you won't need the bandwidth of a good SCSI setup (which will cost you quite a bit more). If you can, consider building a RAID 5 array.
GPU - Later Intel integrated GPUs should be fine for your purposes (i915, etc). Older ATI should be fine (something like aRadeon 9500) with open source drivers, but I wouldn't recommend newer ATI with anything. All nVidia has good support under closed source drivers, if you aren't ethically opposed that that sort of thing. Definitely get AGP or PCI express, not PCI. You don't need any more bandwidth competition on the PCI bus than is necessary to work.
- What CPU (Athlon still recommended, as docs say?)
I prefer Athlon, but that's just preference. There were issues earlier with dual core Athlon clocks drifting between the cores, not sure if that has been fixed yet. (If it has, the fixes may not have had time to move downstream into the distros) If you've got $$ the Operton is highly recommended by others.
- What MOBO (I understand VIA sucks, but which *do not* suck?)
Depends on the make and model. I have a VIA chipset that works fine. I've heard bad stories about others. My computer is old though, and since then I've built Athlon machines with nvidia chipsets without any problems. If you use and Intel CPU, get an Intel chipset.
- What Digital Audio card? Especially for analog input. Or, should I get a card that takes ADAT input and then ge t a digital mixer to do my D/A for me?
Depends on what you want to do. Probably don't need a digital mixer though. Thay are generally overkill, expensive, and not as high of quality as a dedicated preamp and A/D converter. If you want ADAT then an RME Hammerfall card will work for you, but you have to have external preamps and an ADAT encoder. If you got money you could try a Apogee AD-16X + X-FireWire which offers 16 channels of A/D conversion piped in on firewire. But you have to get spearate preamps for that too. If you have less money a Presonus Firepod offers 8 channels of A/D conversion and preamps all in one package. Not as high end as the Apogee + nice preamps, but still nice and much less expensive.
- What drives? Is SCSI or IDE/Firewire still recommended (as docs say), or is SATA better/cheaper for these apps?
SATA Raid-5 Array is much more affordable and with more than enough throughput for most projects.
- What MIDI card? I understand that the USB cards suck, but which ones suck not?
USB midi should work fine. It's the USB sound cards that suck, not the midi.
- Are old Matrox cards still the best for "playing nice" on the PCI bus? Or do the new AGP cards and onboard video work just fine nowadays?
I use an nvidia with nividia's drivers. No problems. It's not been a resource hog. (in fact, the acceleration mode offloads a lot of work from the CPU, so in my experience, it has been a big help) The ones that "don't play nice" are probably only found on badly designed machines aimed a gamers where fps during game play is what sells the machine.
If you were to build a PC to run Ardour simultaneously with other Linux music apps, what would you put in it?
For recording: QjackCtl, lash, Jamin, Om, meterbridge, JAPA, ReZound, and any LADSPA or DSSI plugins you can find. That's about all you need.
If you plan on doing MIDI sequencing, softsynths, etc, the number of tools you will want/need grows quickly.
Thanks, all! I decided to go cheap and bought a Core Duo Mac Mini. Small, quiet, nice audio chip (SPDIF and analog), etc.
I bought a used M-Audio Keystation 88 Pro as a controller.
Now I'll either configure Jack under OSX or I'll try to get Linux running with RT/latency... whichever is within the realm of the possible.
I found a pre-made system at a local computer store (http://www.centralcomputer.com/systems/Pro_Audio/system.asp) which I'll go with if the Mac Mini runs out of "oomph".