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With Gecko 1.9 development wrapping up, I've been thinking about the roadmap for Gecko 2.0's Mac OS X support. One of the items that we'll need to consider is architecture support – this is something on many Mac OS X developers' minds since Mac OS X 10.5 was just released with top-to-bottom support for PPC, PPC64, x86, and x86-64.
I think we should make 2 architecture changes during the Gecko 2 development cycle – add support for x86-64 and drop support for PPC. I think the arguments for both changes are pretty solid.
x86-64 is the future for Mac OS X applications, and that future is likely to come sooner rather than later. Apple has a history of successfully making aggressive changes to their platform in order to stay on the cutting edge, and I think it is a pretty safe bet that come the next WWDC encouraging all developers to move to x86-64 will be a top item on the agenda. They have been dropping technical hints for years and sowing the seeds for this change in their hardware offerings. The reason for this is much bigger than x86-64's technical advantages though – Apple wants to consolidate. PPC is on the way out altogether, but if 32-bit x86 applications don't go away soon too then Mac OS X has to ship with support for more than one architecture for a lot longer and users will need to have 32-bit and 64-bit frameworks loaded into memory at the same time. I highly doubt Apple will drop support for 32-bit x86 in Mac OS X 10.6, but I think they would like the average 10.6 user to not ever have to load a 32-bit application for performance reasons. You can bet that they'll offer some creative enticements for 64-bit migration by making some APIs x86-64-only in 10.6.
Gecko 2.0 is a great time to add support for x86-64 even if the first version of Firefox that ships with Gecko 2.0 doesn't ship an x64-64 binary. I'm not suggesting that we necessarily make it a tier-1 supported platform, but we can get started down the path to tier-1 quality. It shouldn't be too hard to do the work, we will have to do it anyway, and by getting this work done earlier we'll eventually ship a higher-quality x86-64 product with less stress on development and QA.
Obviously PPC is on the way out in the Mac OS X world. I doubt that Mac OS X 10.6 will support PPC hardware, and by the time Gecko 2.0 ships (Q1 2009 at a minimum) we will have very few PPC users remaining. It simply won't be worth the effort required to support it properly even if it seems like a good idea at the beginning of the development cycle. Not supporting PPC will free up engineering and QA resource to work on much more important things, and we will no longer have to ship a universal binary. PPC users will have access to a supported Gecko 1.9.x Firefox for some time after Gecko 2.0 is released, so it isn't like they will be without a modern web browser. Dropping PPC support will be unfortunate for some just like dropping support for anything is, but on the whole I think it is definitely the right thing to do for Gecko 2.0.
Update: There is some confusion in the comments about what dropping PPC Mac OS X support would actually mean. First of all, I was referring to PPC Mac OS X only. PPC Linux and any other PPC platforms would not be affected. Secondly, I should have said we would just bump it from tier-1 supported status. There would be little in the way of code changes, PPC Mac OS X builds could remain available through a community effort.


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Battery drain
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Often people seems to be somewhat confused about how battery drain is calculated, so here is a short summary.
But first: There are two main types of mods: Regulated, and unregulated (mechanical). Putting a Kick in a mech mod automagically makes it a regulated mod.
We will start with the simplest type, and then use a little more time on the more complex type.
Unregulated mods
Unregulated (mech) mods are very simple. They have one circuit. This circuit can be easily modelled using Ohms law. In other words, if you have a basic understanding of Ohm's law, that is all it takes.
The battery drain is determined by two factors:
There is not much more to mech mods. The circuit is about as simple as a circuit can get. The voltage hitting the atomizer is the voltage from the battery (minus the tiny voltage lost in the switch and conductors). The current flowing through the battery is the current flowing through the atomizer. A multimeter and some straightforward use of Ohm's law you will give you all the numbers you need.
- The resistance of the atomizer, which is more or less constant after you have built your coil(s).
- The voltage of the battery, which gets lower as the battery drains. Using a single battery, it starts at 4.2V or 4.1V, and sinks a volt or less (measured under load) before the battery needs to be recharged.
Regulated mods
Regulated mods are not as simple as mechs, and not so easy to model. But even though they are much more complex than mechs, with some selective simplification we can ignore most of the complexity.
So let us break these mods down into two circuits and a black box. This makes our regulated mod model little more than twice as complex as our mech mod model.
The two main circuits of a regulated mod, is the battery side, and the atomizer side, and never the twain shall meet. The regulator circuit takes care of that. The regulator can have lots of more or less advanced circuits in itself, and they all use a little bit of power, but for the most part we can envision it as a black box separating the battery circuit from the atty circuit.
On the atomizer side, the voltage is (ideally) whatever the user has selected, but take note that some APVs promise more than they keep: Unless you know that your APV is accurate, you should probably measure and confirm the output voltage.
Variable wattage devices simply measure the atomizer resistance, and uses this measurement and Ohm's law to calculate what voltage to set.
When you know the voltage and resistance, you can calculate the current and power.
On the battery side, the voltage is whatever the battery has in it at the moment (just like with mech mods). The power is whatever the regulator needs to pull in order to produce the desired voltage in the atomizer. And the current is the power divided by the ever-decreasing battery voltage.
Since we are looking at two separate circuits, you can never mix numbers from both sides of the regulator in your calculations. For instance: You cannot determine the current drained from the battery by measuring the resistance of the coil and the voltage of the battery. Using the current from one circuit, and the voltage from a different circuit, will result in a nonsensical answer. Nor can you determine the current going through the coil by determining the current from the battery. They are two different circuits. The regulator makes sure of that.
But not all hope is lost. There is one way to "transfer" information from one side of the regulator to the other. The trick is simple: Use the power (wattage).
The power hitting the atomizer equals the power flowing from the battery, minus the power lost in (or used by) the regulator circuit.
The efficiency of these regulator circuits are typically between 80-95%. In practice this means that the regulator "steals" about a tenth of the power between the battery and the atomizer.
Knowing this, we can use our multimeter and Ohm's law to calculate what is going on at either side of the regulator. Then we can convert it to watts, and voila! Subtracting (or adding) the loss in the regulator circuit, we now know the watts on the other side as well.
So we use Ohm's law again, break down the power to current and voltage, and that's that: Now we have all the numbers we need.
And that's it.
As you can see, there is no voodoo going on in regulated mods. And if there is, we just tuck it away in a black box and assign an efficiency percentage to it.
If you can use Ohms law once, you can use it twice. So now there is really nothing stopping you from figuring out what is going on in your mod, whether it's one of our future robotic overlords that you're vaping on, or a simple metal tube with a battery in it. Vape on, and vape safely!
Update: After I wrote this blog post, it occured to me that I could easily model this, so I made another calculator for you.
Here you go, the brand & spanking new battery drain calculator!
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Farming may never be the same. Pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizer might not even exist on farms of the future – farms empowered by drones, high-tech sensors, and computer models, said David Hunt during the Crop Science session at Alltech's 30th Annual Symposium. Hunt is the managing director of Comex McKinnon, an agricultural supply chain management company, and is on the advisory board of Singularity University, a Silicon Valley-based university dedicated to educating people on advancing technologies and their impact. This new revolution is right around the corner, he noted, one that could even rival the Green Revolution that saved millions from starvation.
"Rather than machines disempowering farmers, I believe machines will empower farmers," Hunt said. "It's the beginning of a new type of farmer."
Inputs could be greatly reduced, as drones could recycle insects into fertilizer and animal feed, as well as recycle weeds into fertilizer to replace herbicides.
But farmers will have to be bold, and strive to become technological disruptors of current agricultural processes, before someone else disrupts the system for them, Hunt said. He cited the digital photography revolution, and how Kodak underestimated the powerful future of digital. It was actually a technology the company itself developed but it eventually "blew up" their entire business model when they instead opted to continuing focusing on film instead of digital for fear of cannibalizing sales.
While a new robot seems to pop up every day, a wealth of data is still needed to create the sophisticated autonomous and versatile robots needed for future farming, Hunt noted. Advanced air, soil and crop sensors could gather this information and analyze it – information that is not yet available. Current measures are crude at best, and simply "point in time" measures.
Technology could greatly reduce the risk of experimentation in agriculture that prevents breakthroughs, since farmers cannot afford to gamble on a crop that may take nine months to come to fruition, Hunt said. But if the right data is collected through sensors, agricultural innovations could simply be tested virtually – using computer models, rather than actual crops. The risk is thus gone, and disruptive technologies can be free to occur. Farmers must share their knowledge with one another as these technologies and be "hive-minded" to experience a true explosion of innovation.
"We could have answers immediately, not nine months after we try the new process," Hunt said. "I'm fully expecting to see that explosion of innovation in agriculture soon...Do you want to be the disruptor, or do you want to be disrupted?"


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The Relation Between Competition and Investment – Towards a Synthesis
Using a general two-stage framework, this paper gives sufficient conditions for increasing competition to have negative or positive effects on R&D-investment, respectively. Both possibilities arise in plausible situations, even if one uses relatively narrow definitions of increasing competition. The paper also shows that competition is more likely to increase the investments of leaders than those of laggards. When R&D-spillovers are strong, competition is less likely to increase investments. The paper also identifies conditions under which low initial levels of competition make positive effects of competition on investment more likely. Extending the basic framework, the paper shows that separation of ownership and control, endogenous entry and cumulative investments make positive effects of competition on investment more likely. Imperfect upstream competition weakens the effects of competition on investment. Keywords: competition, investment, cost reduction. JEL: L13, L20, L22.
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LaVern F. Tanner, a resident of Little Falls, formerly of Pierz, passed away Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013, at the Lutheran Care Center in Little Falls.
A Mass of Christian Burial was held Wednesday, Aug. 28, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Little Falls, with Father Nicholas Landsberger officiating. Burial was at St. Mary's Cemetery in Little Falls.
LaVern Boser was born Sept. 13, 1921, in Pierz, to John J. and Caroline (Block) Boser. She was united in marriage to Orville Tanner Sept. 14, 1963, in Grand Island, Neb. LaVern enjoyed crocheting, gardening, playing cards, dancing and spending time with family. She was a manager at the Morrison County Record, and after retirement spent much of her time volunteering at St. Otto's Care Center. She was a past member of the St. Camillus Advisory Board and received an award for nine years of service. LaVern was also a member of the Pierz American Legion Post 341 Women's Auxiliary.
LaVern is survived by her children, Bernita (Roger) Dodge, of Penn Valley, Calif., Terry Tanner, of Little Falls, and Kristy Tanner of Little Falls; brothers, Mickey (Lorraine) Boser, Richard (Marge) Boser, Lolly (Ralph) Hoheisel, Evie (Ronnie) Boser, Terry (Harvey) Block and Tootie LeBlanc, all of Pierz; seven grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
Preceding her in death were her parents, John and Caroline Boser; husband, Orville Tanner; daughter, Denise Swanson; brothers, Herb Boser, Floyd Adriens and Freddy Boser; and sisters Christine Duscher, Marie Collins, Dellie Brausen, Catherine Wuellner and Doreen Jones. She will be greatly missed by many.
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ESPN sent one of its NBA Draft analysts to Saturday's Kentucky-Indiana game to scout what the media organization considers were the four biggest draft prospects in the game (UK's Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Anthony Davis and Terrence Jones and Indiana's Cody Zeller).
David Thorpe has a pretty detailed write-up on each player in which he goes into depth about their game, their strengths and how they project at the next level.
You can read the full story at ESPN, but unfortunately you have to be an ESPN Insider to gain access.
For those of you without an account, here's what Thorpe had to say about Kidd-Gilchrist:
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, F
School/Class: Kentucky, fresh.
Line score: 18 points (9-12 FGM-A), 7 rebounds, 2 steal, 2 blocks
Top 100 draft ranking: 11
Game play: He's got great size for such a young guy; he should develop an excellent physique as he matures. His impressive fluidity enables him to defend much smaller guards. His motor ran hot in every facet of the game, and he played with purpose. He exerted real effort racing the floor.
Kidd-Gilchrist played at an excellent and mature pace, never rushing but always looking to attack when the moment presents itself. He reminded me of James Harden that way.
His power game already is decent, something Kentucky should exploit more in time. He'll be able to post up NBA small forwards on offense, and they won't be able to kill him with quickness on the wing when he's defending them. That makes him a matchup his NBA coaches will love.
Basketball tools: He has good ball skills, enabling him to drive open gaps for dunks. And he showed some "bucket-getting" ability, banging off guys and just making the shot. Kidd- Gilchrist does a great job of getting low when he dribbles, important for a bigger wing.
Physical aptitude/comparables: His strength and "in-control" efforts help him have great body control when finishing. This is rare for a young player with his size. He projects to be what I now call the "power 3" — players with great size and strength who can defend the perimeter and make plays from there on offense. He's not the athlete like the Portland Trail Blazers' Gerald Wallace is, though he competes like Wallace and has better skills. Kidd-Gilchrist will be a guy asked to defend guys like LeBron James and Kevin Durant as soon as he gets to the NBA. In a season or two, he'll be able to do it as well as anyone.
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Repeated battles for the soul of California's Republican Party began in earnest in 1968, when the ultra-conservative state Schools Supt. Max Rafferty bested moderate U.S. Sen. Thomas Kuchel in a June primary election and went on to lose badly to Democrat Alan Cranston, who would then be re-elected three times.
The newest split in this party that began by the advocating freedom over slavery is about immigration, with moderate elements in the state GOP wanting some sort of pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and the conservative wing holding they are all criminals who should have no rights or privileges.
It's a reflection of a national battle first symbolized in 1964 by the fight over Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater's nomination for President, one that still sees state parties all over America severely divided almost 50 years later.
In those days, the battle was over segregated housing, voting rights and what was euphemistically called "states' rights," the party's conservative wing arguing that states should be able to restrict voting, allow landlords to discriminate on the basis of race or religion and more.
Today's conservative Republicans say they discriminate against no one and want merely to limit government intrusions on individual rights, while insisting that no illegal act — including sneaking across a border — should be rewarded.
"The GOP divide is serious and real," writes Stephen Frank, conservative blogger and former president of the California Republican Assembly. "Issues like amnesty and abortion have so divided the party that folks on both sides of those issues say if they lose, they walk."
Already about 14 percent behind Democrats among registered voters, the state's GOP can ill afford to have anyone opt out. But Frank, strongly against both abortion and what conservatives call amnesty, claims that when Republican voters "no longer see a difference between the two major parties, (they) say no to the GOP." He says that's happened since 14 GOP senators voted for the omnibus immigration bill now languishing in the House of Representatives.
But House members are moved more by what's happening in their districts than anything else. If they alienate their constituents, they can't survive.
So it makes sense that Republican Jeff Denham, whose district includes Central Valley cities like Tracy, Manteca and Turlock, has lately spoken in favor of "top to bottom immigration reform." About 44 percent of residents in his district are Latino.
By contrast, only about 20 percent of residents in the district of fellow GOPer Dana Rohrabacher of Huntington Beach are Latino and Rohrabacher adamantly opposes any law granting any sort of path to citizenship for the undocumented. The overwhelming white Anglo majority in his district makes it among the nation's most conservative.
California is not unique. In states as varied as Maine and Alaska, state GOP officials have been forced out lately while their parties — like California's — face financial problems. "There's been a lot of division and disharmony in the Republican Party," Maine's new GOP chairman, Rick Bennett, told a reporter.
But Frank believes the real danger to the party lies in what might happen if the Republican-controlled House passes any immigration bill containing a route to citizenship, which is probably necessary to get Senate concurrence and become law.
If no such law passes, plenty of Latino voters in districts represented by Republicans will vote against the GOP. Of course, many would anyway.
But if enough Republicans do go along and Frank proves correct, a large segment of base GOP voters could stay home next year and beyond. Which means the party faces consequences either way, and might as well search its soul and do what it believes just and moral.
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Results: Net income for Blackbaud Inc. fell to $6.4 million (14 cents per share) vs. $7.2 million (17 cents per share) a year earlier. This is a decline of 12.3% from the year-earlier quarter.
Revenue: Rose 10.8% to $95 million from the year-earlier quarter.
Actual vs. Wall St. Expectations: Blackbaud Inc. reported adjusted net income of 27 cents per share. By that measure, the company beat the mean estimate of 24 cents per share. It fell short of the average revenue estimate of $99.2 million.
Quoting Management: Marc Chardon, Chief Executive Officer of Blackbaud, stated, "We continued to enjoy solid sales activity during the fourth quarter, contributing to a record year for Blackbaud. The combination of improved customer demand, solid execution and our broad suite of solutions enabled us to re-accelerate revenue growth back to the double digit range during 2011. This was a significant accomplishment in light of the continued challenging economic environment, and it provides us with momentum for 2012."
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The company has now topped analyst estimates for the last four quarters. It beat the mark by one cent in the third quarter, by 2 cents in the second quarter, and by 5 cents in the first quarter.
Looking Forward: The average estimate for the first quarter of the next fiscal year is steady at 22 cents a share. The average estimate hasn't changed from 88 cents per share for the fiscal year.
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MONTICELLO, Ark. — The fourth annual Tomatoes at the Trotter on Thursday will light up the taste buds with culinary twists such as Georgia Streak creme brulee with bacon, caramel and whipping cream.
MONTICELLO, Ark. — The fourth annual Tomatoes at the Trotter on Thursday will light up the taste buds with culinary twists such as Georgia Streak creme brulee with bacon, caramel and whipping cream.
The event will be at the University of Arkansas at Monticello's historic Trotter House bed-and-breakfast at 404 N. Main St. in Monticello.
Tomatoes at the Trotter works to promote awareness about heirloom tomatoes, to provide information about newly discovered varieties of heirloom tomatoes that have not been made known to the public and ways that these tomatoes can be used in cooking, said Bob Stark, professor of agriculture economics for UAM and the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture's Southeast Research and Extension Center.
The event began as an integration of heirloom tomatoes into commercial vine-ripened tomato operations. With more than 400 heirloom tomato varieties, the project purpose was to get recognition among consumers and the market to grow well in the state.
"It became very popular with the community and has been attended by several VIPs such as state representatives, state senators, mayors, county judges" and others, said Paul Francis, professor of crop and soil science at UAM.
The event begins with heirloom tomato tasting at 6:30 p.m. There will be 15 varieties of heirloom tomatoes available for tasting, such as the Cherokee Purple, Original Arkansas Traveler and Moonglow. Twelve of these had not yet been publicly introduced in Southeast Arkansas, Stark said.
The evening will also be filled with an eclectic heirloom tomato four-course menu featuring smoked Cherokee Purple tomato and basil bisque as an appetizer and that Georgia Streak creme brulee with bacon, caramel and whipping cream as dessert. Chef Brian Cherry uses heirloom tomatoes as the main ingredient in each course.
"It's a very special, very unique menu that he has put together," Stark said.
After the dinner, Cherry will talk about the menu and the specific heirloom tomatoes used in each course as well as why he chose them.
Featured speaker for the event is Zach Taylor, director of marketing for the Arkansas Agriculture Department. He will discuss the growing popularity of local food sources, keys to successful farmers markets and how the agriculture department helps the local communities in the state.
Tickets are $25 per person, with proceeds benefiting the UAM School of Agriculture scholarship fund. To learn more about Tomatoes at the Trotter and to RSVP call the school at 870-460-1091.
For more information about tomato production and agricultural economy, visit www.uaex.edu or contact your county extension office.


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Thanks to Pinterest, wine cork DIY projects have become very popular. As an avid wine drinker and a life-long crafter, I was immediately on board with this trend. I took an idea I had seen often (a corkboard) and gave it a little twist–making a desktop version with the back of an inexpensive frame. If you're decorating on a budget, you can recreate this DIY corkboard with only a few supplies and a little time!
– 25 Wine Corks
– Inexpensive 8" x 10" Frame
– Paint (I used Plum by Making Memories.)
– Foam Paint Brush
– Tacky Glue or a Glue Gun
– Push-pins
– Rhinestones (Optional)
Cut the wine corks in half. I'm a little embarrassed that I didn't think about this until I was halfway through gluing full corks. My board has 50 corks. That's a lot of wine.
Take the back out of an inexpensive frame and paint it the color of your choice. Let it dry fully.
Glue the corks on the frame back. I used a 2 x 2 pattern. Let it dry fully with a heavy book on top of it.
If you're like me and you prefer a little bling, glue rhinestones on the tops of push-pins.
Enjoy your beautiful wine cork DIY project! I finished mine off with a photo of my husband and me at a winery in Napa Valley.
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I Need Himhe has just walked out again and when ever we fight it makes me soo upset and all i want is to be in his arms ):
I hear you there... its the most empty feeling ever. I remember saying this exact sentence when me and my ex would fight. I miss him so much.
And now we should talk about what you, what people deserve... or what doesn't.
I prefer your smile on your nice face. Yes, this is it. Would it shine this nicely if there was no down side too?
While he is gone he will think and if it is meant to be he will return and realize what he walked out on is very special to him
Just quit fighting with him.
By him walking out does that mean walking out of the relationship? If that's the case then I can understand what you mean. When someone walks out it leaves a vacuum that you want to fill and more often than not we want the same person who left to fill it.

I know because I went through the same thing with my ex-wife when she left. But you know what? I filled that void without her and now I'm more complete than I was married to her. Why is that? Because no other person on this planet can complete you, they can only compliment you.

Praying for you!
I know the feeling =/
There is an time and an place for everything, so pick what you want to defend and also compromise on or just agree, sometimes, trying to make your point will make things worst, argueing constantly is no good for you and him, if you want things to work, discuss thing with him without argueing or write an letter if he is the type to argue for the hell of it. Good luck.
I am sorry for your pain! He walk out on you, no need to be hurting like you are, that is not how to do things by an man. Feel better.
Then stop fighting with him,learn to be compromising.Learn to communicate and know when to pick your battles an when to just not say a word.Not easy but could make life better.
What if the man does NOT want to communicate and is emotionally shut off towards her? Then no matter how hard she tries to communicate with him or to show him love, the fault will always lie with him, and not her!
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This week's surprise book announcements
October 14, 2010
Two major literary awards –the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award — announced some unexpected results this week.
On Tuesday, Man Booker judges gave the coveted British award to 68-year-old Howard Jacobson for The Finkler Question. It's the first comic novel to win the Man Booker since the inception of the prize 42 years ago. While many believe the award for Jacobson has been long in coming, The Finkler Question didn't get as much "predicted winner" buzz as did Emma Donoghue's Room and Tom McCarthy's C.
On Wednesday, the National Book Foundation listed its 20 finalists for the 2010 National Book Awards (NBA), and guess who's missing among the fiction finalists? "National Book Awards Snub Jonathan Franzen," reports the Guardian.
Author Pat Conroy announced the Freedom-less 20 finalists in Flannery O'Connor's Savannah, Georgia, childhood home. They include so many books I haven't read, which is my big sigh every year when the finalists are announced. But that's the beauty of the National Book Award selections: They're unpredictable, bringing to the forefront impressive books deserving a wider audience. Last year, Bonnie Jo Campbell's story collection American Salvage published by Wayne State University Press rose into the literary limelight as an NBA fiction candidate. This year, Karen Tei Yamashita's novel about Asian-Americans published by Coffee House Press, I Hotel, similarly rises.
Here is the full list of 2010 National Book Award finalists in the four categories. Two of the books aren't available yet: James Richardson's By the Numbers is set for publication November 1, and Jaimy Gordon's Lord of Misrule is to be published November 15. Unless the publishing houses release them earlier, the reading public doesn't have access to them until a few days before the winner is announced, which will be November 17.
Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America
Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule
Nicole Krauss, Great House
Lionel Shriver, So Much for That
Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel
Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
John W. Dower, Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq
Patti Smith, Just Kids
Justin Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward
Megan K. Stack, Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War
Kathleen Graber, The Eternal City
Terrance Hayes, Lighthead
James Richardson, By the Numbers
CD Wright, One With Others
Monica Youn, Ignatz
Young people's literature
Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker
Kathryn Erskine, Mockingbird
Laura McNeal, Dark Water
Walter Dean Myers, Lockdown
Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer
Man Booker 2010 longlist announced
August 3, 2010
Below are 13 novels that made the longlist for the United Kingdom's 2010 Man Booker Prize. The shortlist will be announced on September 7. The award winner will be announced on October 12. Last year, Hilary Mantel won for Wolf Hall.
According to the Man Booker website, the prize, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2008, aims to reward the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.
One book on this year's long list — The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas — is causing controversy. According to The Guardian: "…while some readers including, evidently, the Booker judges speak excitedly of the Australian author's bravery in tackling uncomfortable truths, others criticise the word-of-mouth hit as 'offensive' and say it is full of 'unbelievable misogyny'. The Slap is turning out to be the most divisive Booker novel in years."
You can read an interview with Tsiolkas from the book's linked title below. Also below is the rest of the 2010 Booker longlist. The books are linked to websites offering more information. Or, you can go to the Man Booker web page that gathers the books with summaries in one place. Being this is a British prize, not all the books are published yet in the U.S.
Peter Carey: Parrot and Olivier in America
Published in the U.S. in April 2010 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing
Emma Donoghue: Room
Scheduled to be published in the U.S. in September 2010 by Little, Brown & Company
Helen Dunmore: The Betrayal
Not scheduled for U.S. publication at this time
Damon Galgut: In a Strange Room
Scheduled to be published in the U.S. this month by McClelland & Stewart Ltd. (paperback)
Correction: In a Strange Room is not yet scheduled for publicaton in the U.S. McCelland & Stewart is a Canadian publisher.
Howard Jacobson: The Finkler Question
Not scheduled for U.S. publication at this time
Andrea Levy: The Long Song
Published in the U.S. in April 2010 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Tom McCarthy: C
Scheduled to be published in the U.S. in September 2010 by Knopf
David Mitchell: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Published in the U.S. in June 2010 by Random House
Lisa Moore: February
Published in the U.S. in February 2010 by Grove Press/Black Cat (paperback)
Paul Murray: Skippy Dies
Scheduled to be published in the U.S. end of this month by Faber & Faber
Rose Tremain: Trespass
Scheduled to be published in the U.S. October 2010 by W. W. Norton & Co.
Christos Tsiolkas: The Slap
Published in the U.S. in April 2010 by Penguin (paperback)
Alan Warner: The Stars in the Bright Sky
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Irene Hall Roseberry, 87, of Pulaski died Monday evening March 1, 2010 in the Pulaski Community Hospital. She was born in Pulaski County on June 14, 1922 and was the daughter of the late Ezra D. Hall and Mollie Altizer Hall. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Calvin Alexander Roseberry, Jr., and by two brothers, Cecil E. Hall and Marvin E. Hall.
Surviving are: Daughter & Son-in-Law – Bonnie & Carl Kemp, Draper; Son & Daughter-in-Law – Calvin A. "Sonny" Roseberry, III and Suzanne Roseberry, Groveland, Fla., Sister – Kathleen Ratcliffe, Pulaski; Four Granddaughters & a Spouse – Carla K. & Scott Abshire, Kingsport, TN; Meg Rice, Kingsport, TN; Dr. Chaffin Roseberry, Groveton, GA; Elizabeth Bakkal, Groveton, GA; Two Greatgrandchildren – Madison Rice, Kingsport, TN; and Audrey Willis, Groveton, GA.
Mrs. Roseberry will be cremated.
A memorial service will be held Friday, March 5, 2010 at 7:00 PM from Stevens Funeral Chapel with Rev. Johnny Howlett and Rev. Dwight Haynes officiating. The family will receive friends Friday from the funeral home from 6:00 PM until the service hour. Burial will follow at a later date from Highland Memory Gardens, Dublin.
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i have an powermac g4 and wanted to try install linux.
But if i proceed with installation often will be displayed an bus error / L1 cache error during machine check processing after that the powermac stoped working and hang up.
I have really no idea how that could happen...
If anyone can guide me how to solve maybe this problem it would be really appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Possibly there's something a bit wrong with the hardware or the install media. Did you check the MD5 sums of your media? Was the machine running OS X OK before you tried to install Linux?
A bit more info on the distro you're trying to install would be helpful.
I tried several operating system but with no success. I did check the md5sum and it went ok. But if i try to install debian i get the same error message. I tried to burn this under followed link but no success. Ok thanks for your posts
oh i forgot wanted to say that machine didnt start MacosX (version didnt know).
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- Origin: Taiwan
Formosa oolong is a darker style oolong tea from Taiwan, which was formerly known as Formosa. This tea has a fruity component to its flavor, which makes it stand out from Chinese oolong tea. This is due to the plant creating a compound to protect itself from insect attack. This compound imparts a peachy aroma to the flavor of the tea. This is an excellent tea that serves as a great introduction to teas grown in Taiwan.
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text: Politics & Government Political news Would Milwaukee County Residents Notice Downsized Board? By LaToya Dennis • May 14, 2013 Flickr.com/pinchof Listen Listening... / 2:22 Lawmakers in Milwaukee County and Madison have been at odds for months, over the wisdom and effect of shrinking the Milwaukee County Board. Early Poll: Clinton is Wisconsin's Preferred 2016 Presidential Pick By Marge Pitrof • May 14, 2013 According to a new Marquette Law School Poll, Wisconsin would favor a Clinton-Ryan presidential race, with Clinton winning. Assembly Gets Tough on Underage Drinkers, Repeat Drunken Drivers By Ann-Elise Henzl • May 14, 2013 flickr.com/webhostingreview The state Assembly approved a couple of measures on Tuesday, meant to reduce alcohol-related crimes. Wisconsin Congressman: U.S. Needs Right to Vote Amendment By Marge Pitrof • May 14, 2013 Wisconsin's newest Congressman wants the U.S. to amend its Constitution, so it guarantees adult Americans the right to vote in their home district. Wisconsin May Double Job Search Requirements By Marge Pitrof • May 14, 2013 Laid-off workers in Wisconsin may have to search for four jobs a week – rather than two, if they want to continue receiving unemployment compensation. The Legislature's Joint Finance Committee approved the higher standard on Monday. Now it's part of the proposed state budget, and would give Wisconsin one of the highest standards in the country. Some Win, Some Lose Following Joint Finance Moves By Marti Mikkelson • May 14, 2013 Alan Wolf, flickr The City of Milwaukee felt several body blows last week, when the Legislature's Joint Finance committee passed budget provisions directly affecting the city. State Senate Votes Today on Milwaukee County Board Changes By Bob Bach • May 14, 2013 State Senators are poised to act today on a bill that would weaken the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors. Assembly Sends Milwaukee County Reform Legislation to Senate By LaToya Dennis • May 13, 2013 Eric Allix Rogers, flickr Listen Listening... / 3:59 The Assembly on Wednesday approved legislation to shorten the terms of Milwaukee County supervisors and limit the board's power. Two Legislative Committees Grill WEDC By Ann-Elise Henzl • May 10, 2013 flickr/alumroot Two legislative panels sunk their teeth into the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. on Thursday. A state audit has revealed evidence that WEDC gave taxpayer money to ineligible recipients and did not properly track loans and grants. The Joint Finance committee voted to give WEDC $59M in the 2013-14 state budget but nothing in 2014-15 unless it improves. The Joint Audit committee grilled WEDC executives for more than four hours. Milwaukee's Streetcar Project Suffers Setback at Hands of Joint Finance By Marti Mikkelson • May 10, 2013 flicker_althouse Milwaukee's proposed streetcar project has hit a bump in the road. The Legislature's Joint Finance committee Thursday approved a provision in the Public Service Commission's budget, that would shift any related costs for the streetcar from utility ratepayers to the city. Pages« first ‹ previous … 588 589 590 591 592 593 594 595 596 … next › last »


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A great primer for the Lumpy neophyte. There are 2 roof options. We did the left one. The right one looks intruiging, perhaps a bit harder.
Definitely head all the way up the pitch, then escape up, over, and right, intersecting with the 'descent proper'.
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Apr 29, 2011
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|We did a pretty cool alternate second pitch on this. Instead of heading up we headed out climber's left, following small roof that angles up and left. Your feet are just at the lip of another lower roof, giving the traverse a pretty airy feel. After about 50 feet of traversing, you run into the Fender Gully. Instead of thrasing up that, look for a thin, right-angling crack that that gives you access to the slab above you. Strike out onto the slab. I was able to protect it with a slung flake (use a big cam to weight it and keep it in place), a yellow C3 and 0.75 C4. I am guessing it is about 5.7ish.
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Borealis, a leading provider of chemical and innovative plastics solutions, announces a reorganisation of its Executive Board. With the retirement of Henry Sperle as Executive Vice President Middle East & Asia on May 31, 2010, the organisational units previously reporting to him have been re-assigned to report to the Deputy CEO, Herbert Willerth, with immediate effect.
Herbert Willerth was born in Austria in 1950 and worked for the former PCD for almost 30 years before it was merged into Borealis. At the time of the merger Herbert Willerth was CEO of PCD. He was appointed Borealis Executive Vice President Operations & Procurement in 2000 and in addition Deputy CEO in 2008.
"Herbert Willerth is an integral part of Borealis and even more of the industry as such", comments Mark Garrett, Borealis Chief Executive. "We are very happy that he will now support me and the Executive Board by not only ensuring a continuous strong focus on Operational Excellence in Europe but in addition supporting our growth projects over the next coming years in close collaboration with our partners ADNOC and Borouge."
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Not too long ago, I had a conversation with a guy regarding some of my past bird hunts. The conversation became heated when I told him that I'd rather take pats while they're walking or sitting prior to them flushing. Since I don't hunt with a dog, I figured it didn't matter to shoot them on the ground. This guy got bent out of shape and starts to give me a bunch of crap about it, probably because he hunts birds with dogs exclusively. It actually got to the point where I had to walk away from him. It made me wonder if there was a bird dog hunter mentality that looks down on those who hunt without dogs.


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Some school lunch advice from an expert
When it comes to creatively doing drudge work like packing lunches, no one has better advice than our colleague Janet K. Keeler. As the Tampa Bay Times food and travel editor, she has raised her own "wolverine" of a son and taught thousands of readers how to cook with panache. But when it comes to school lunch, she says, parents have to admit that despite the best hatched plans, by cafeteria cooks and bagged lunch queens, it can sometimes end up in the trash.
If you're packing lunch for your kids, keep a few things in mind to make the process go more smoothly for both you and them. Impress on them that it's important that they tell you when they don't like something. Tossing or trading solves the immediate problem but the empty lunchbox indicates everything was eaten and enjoyed. In other words, they will get that tuna-on-rye again.
It's their right to not like certain foods.
One strategy is to focus more on breakfast and dinner, and hope the lessons taught there spill over to the noon hour. If children start and end their days with nutritional food, a lapse at lunch doesn't take on disproportionate significance.
If you're sending lunch, think about the different food groups and how you can sneak them in. A high-carb lunch could lead to an afternoon crash and a super crabby ride home. That could result in a trip through the drive-thru, adding more fat and carbs to the day and spoiling a nutritious dinner.
Insulated bags and containers
What you pack their lunch in might be just as important as what you pack. Soft-sided carriers have plenty of room for frozen packs to keep food and drink cold. You'll want to make sure to prevent any spoilage by keeping certain foods — mayonnaise for instance — the proper temperature. Insulated bags help to keep the packs frozen.
Don't forget insulated containers — generically we call them Thermoses — for chicken noodle soup or leftover chili or lasagna. To get the most out of your insulated container, fill it with boiling water to heat it, drain and then spoon in food that's been heated on the stove or oven, not the microwave. All insulated containers lose some heat so you want the food to be much hotter than you would actually eat it to start with.
Consider drinks
There are lots of empty calories plus carbohydrates in sugary drinks. Flavored waters are a good choice, but the best of all may be low-fat chocolate milk.
Shop in season
In August when school starts, there are lots of fresh fruits in season including strawberries, cherries, plums, apricots, peaches, watermelon and nectarines. Pack what your child likes. Later in the year, look for tangerines and other easy-peeling citrus.
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Stock up on plastic utensils and containers in various sizes for salads, dressings, dips or other foods that need more protection than a plastic bag.
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Most important, get your children involved with the planning and packing. If he eats sushi for dinner, what's to say he won't at lunch? Same with asparagus spears (with dipping sauce) and grilled chicken salad (pack the ingredients separately.)
The more they are invested, the more likely they'll be eat what's been so lovingingly packed. And that'll be a big load off your mind.
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If it gets turned over to a Grand Jury, your spare ammo will be used against you. In the event you are not familar with Grand Jury, only the prosecution side is presented. Your defense atty or yourself will not be present and your side will not be heard. Having a box of shells on you will not go in your favor. From there, things will get costly for you.
I never have bought into this line of thinking. A good shoot is a good shoot. Carrying spare ammo is not going to make a good shoot into a bad one. Besides, the grand jury means nothing. A grand jury can indict a ham sandwich. Since you cannot present your (defense ) case, it won't matter if the only bullet you had was the one you put in a serial rapist's brainpan while he was stabbing his latest victim, because if you get a DA that is scummy enough to use a spare mag against you, he will be scummy enough to make sure that all the jury will hear is that the man you shot went to church on Sunday and helped little old ladies across the street, and you shot him because you were a gun nut and carried a gun with you everywhere you went, because you were a paranoid right wing wannabe Rambo vigilante. Even without a spare mag, he will try to paint you to be the bad guy, if he is so inclined.
Your side comes out in trial. That is where you raise your defense.
BTW: You claim that you fire 5,000-8,000 rounds a month, and you have been a LEO for 38 years and have never experienced a magazine failure, and neither have your uncle or cousins. A total of 118 years of shooting between you at 5,000 rounds a month. Doing the math (5,000*12*118)= about 7 to 11 million rounds fired without a single mag failure? That is pure BS.
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I had a chance to interview Belgian IndyCar Bertrand Baguette at Media Day at the Indianapolis 500. As far as I can tell, he's the only Belgian to have repeat appearances in the Indy 500. However, I'm not a race historian, so I could be wrong.
But everyone is making such a big deal about having four women in the 500 again, that no one is saying a word about what may be a world's first.
I spoke with Bertrand about his sponsor, the Belgian Federation, the Best Chocolate in Town here in Indy, and the Brugge Brasserie, a Belgian restaurant here in Broad Ripple.
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Taxpayers group comes out against $810M Wake schools bond
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Raleigh, N.C. — The Wake County Taxpayers Association said Monday it opposes an $810 million school construction bond going up for a public vote on Oct. 8 that would help accommodate an additional 20,000 students over the next five years in the state's largest school system.
"Our concerns are the increasing bond debt that Wake County has, concerns about whether or not we truly need the additional school buildings," the group's chairman, Ed Jones, said.
Nearly 150,000 students attend the Wake County Public School System, and school district and county leaders project a 2 percent annual growth will push classrooms past capacity.
The bond – the first since 2006 when voters approved a $970 million referendum on school construction – would cover the cost of 16 new schools and six major renovations as well as the upgrade of technology and security.
As for debt from the 2006 bond, county leaders say another bond won't affect the county's AAA bond rating.
But Jones also cited a tax increase on residents as another reason the Taxpayers Association, which helped defeat a school bond in 1999, opposes the referendum.
It would require a 5-cent hike in property taxes, meaning, for example, that a Wake County homeowner with a house worth $200,000 would see a $100 annual increase.
"We want careful use of our tax money, wise expenditure of our tax money and not putting any taxes on us that are not necessary," Jones said.
Wake taxpayers group opposes school bond
Jones said he also believes that the number of school-age children attending private or charter or home schools, currently at 17 percent, will continue to rise.
"We feel students are beginning to go to more private schools," Jones said. "There's more in-home schooling being done, and the state has recently removed the cap on charter schools, and we think more students will go to these schools, and it will lessen the need for new buildings."
Bond supporters, however, have said that schools have to be built by law and that the funding to build them has to come from somewhere.
Friends of Wake County, the group tasked with selling the bond to the public, said that with no other source of revenue, bonds are the least expensive way to borrow money.
Even with the tax hike, the group said, Wake County would still have one of the lower tax rates in the state.
Friends of Wake County co-chair Billie Redmond countered Jones' concerns, saying a strong school system is also an economic driver for the county.
"When you start thinking, 'Why do people come? Why do people stay?' a big piece of that is the educational resources we offer our families and our children," Redmond said.
She points out that the bond is about more than bricks and mortar, it's about advanced technology, quality education and quality of life.
"Let's look at the cost of non-education or poor education. We see where that takes a community. We certainly don't want that," she said. "Missing the opportunity to educate a child is really hard to recover."


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You can put keywords in the search MV box (above right) for some ideas. A Professor Parrott noted "the deceitfulness of appearances." He was surely referring to the gold,silver and lead caskets. We are not told exactly how Portia appears when she presents herself as Dr. Balthasar. It then might become interesting to wonder if Bassanio suspects who the Doctor of laws really is. When Portia says, "I have within my mind / A thousand raw tricks of these bragging Jacks, / Which I will practice"(Act 3, scene 4), one might begin to wonder whether and against whom she plans to practice deception in the court scene. In the first scene, Gratiano's "Let me play the fool!" speech is also interesting as the line, "But fish not with this melancholy bait," implies that Antonio is practicing deception, to some degree, and the line is echoed in Act 3, scene 1, and recalls references to fish in ROMEO AND JULIET.