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The warehouse belonging to Not Just Hype sits at the edge of Little Haiti on NE 59th Street. Leo Beletsky, who helped found the hip-hop political group, noted that they only procured the warehouse a few weeks ago, thanks to his own money and some key donations. Now, this modest building with a bright yellow exterior serves as a temporary home for several young activists working overtime to get out the vote as the clock runs down to November 2. During the day, they strategize, do yoga, and hang out with the punk rockers who often come around; at night they answer e-mail, strategize, and eventually crash out in sleeping bags.
A few of them are roving activists who've come to Miami specifically to influence the upcoming election. Beletsky, for example, is a recent graduate of Brown University who initially came to the city under the auspices of the Hip-Hop Civic Engagement Project. "It's a great name, but there was no hip-hop, and no civic engagement," he said.
So Beletsky formed his own group with Rodrigo Garcia, a student at Miami-Dade College, and Amanda Brovold, an organizer with the League of Pissed-Off Voters. In addition to doing get-out-the-vote canvassing in the surrounding Haitian community, they throw several hip-hop-themed events and have started an innovative "Vote for Me" program that uses people from disenfranchised groups (immigrants, underage youth, ex-felons, and the mentally disabled) to encourage citizens to exercise their vote.
For more information, check out www.indyvoter.org and www.notjusthype.org.
Not Just Hype's Early Voting Fest takes place at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, October 30, at Churchill's Pub, 5501 NE 2nd Ave. Admission is free. Call 305-757-1807.
Not Just Hype is only one of several progressive groups (and one of dozens of political organizations) that have recently touched down in South Florida. There's ACT (America Coming Together), ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), the '86 Project, and many, many others. It's a complicated network of activists that often makes little sense to an outsider not directly involved with one of them.
But, like any "scene," from the politicos who hover around city hall in Miami to the twenty-somethings who coagulate at I/O on the weekends, the progressive activist movement (temporarily?) flowering here is full of familiar names. The League of Pissed-Off Voters were the principal architects of Slam Bush, the national MC "battle" that culminated in a Roots concert at Mansion on September 29 ("Bush Bash," September 23). William "Upski" Wimsatt, one of the directors of the League, was also heavily involved in organizing the National Hip-Hop Political Convention in New Jersey this past June ("First Edition," July 1).
Some things, however, are noticeably different. At that latter event, dead prez memorably shouted, "Fuck Bush and fuck Kerry!" from the stage. But at the League's Slammin' Benefit Show, a fundraiser held at the Wallflower Gallery on October 21, there was actually a Kerry/Edwards sign in the corner of one of the rooms. This was the first unabashed display of support I have seen for Senator John Kerry, as well as an impassioned dislike of President George W. Bush, at the many progressive events I have attended over the past several months.
But that support for Kerry, to use a political term, is soft. During the fundraiser, Valerie Benavidez, a Latina from Austin, Texas, who came to Florida to coordinate the League's projects here, noted that neither Kerry nor Bush discussed issues central to people of color until the third Presidential debate on October 14. Kerry even indulged in a little xenophobia during that final contest, ominously charging that because of Bush's immigration efforts "we now have people from the Middle East, allegedly, coming across the border."
"They didn't even talk about race," said Benavidez, adding that, during the vice-presidential debate on October 5, neither Senator John Edwards nor Vice President Dick Cheney could answer a question about AIDS in the African-American community. "When you don't talk about race in one of the most diverse and racially polarized countries in the world, then you're doing people a disservice," she continued.
So why is the League backing Kerry? His platform seems to echo many of its core issues (articulated on its Website, www.indyvoter.org), including being "a respected and respectful citizen of the world," "our freedom of choice" in reproductive decisions, and "create social support to strengthen families" by shoring up government-financed health care programs. But League members, like many voters, are afraid that if Kerry is elected, he may spend more time acquiescing to a Republican Congress and a decidedly centrist Democratic Party than carrying out his lofty campaign promises.
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"The issue for liberals is that we don't have any illusions that Kerry will go into power and solve our problems," said Benavidez. "What we think is that, if Kerry is elected, we will have more leverage."
Benavidez said that the League's ultimate plan is to build a national voting bloc that can push its political agenda. It's a lofty goal considering that activist groups tend to dissolve into a self-satisfied malaise after getting their Democratic candidates elected (President Clinton's bubble-economy Nineties being a prime example). But she vowed that wouldn't happen this time.
"In ten years, we want to see these people who are running voter blocs running for office," she said. That's far into the future; for now, the League has an election to win.


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Here are highlights from Tuesday's Analyst Blog:
Raytheon Gets $636M Contract
Raytheon Company (RTN) was awarded a $636 million development and sustainment contract to provide the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle ("EKV") to The Boeing Company (BA). The EKV is part of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense ("GMD") program, where Boeing is the prime contractor.
Under conditions of the contract, which extends through November 2018, Raytheon will provide EKV development, fielding, testing, system engineering, integration, configuration management, equipment manufacturing and refurbishment, and operation and sustainment.
EKV represents the centerpiece for the Missile Defense Agency's GMD as the intercept component of the Ground Based Interceptor, also known as GBI, which is designed to engage high-speed ballistic missile warheads in space.
Raytheon is one of the best-positioned companies among the large-cap defense players due to its non-platform-centric focus, as well as its strong order bookings and order backlog of more than $34 billion at the end of the first quarter of 2012.
Revenue and earnings growth continue to be driven by a strong presence in the areas of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance; air & missile defense systems; border security; air traffic management; training and homeland security; and cyber security. Also, its non-platform centric focus insulates it from cancellation or deferral of any specific platform programs.
Looking forward, the company enjoys strong order bookings and order backlog, an improving balance sheet, and growing cash flow, besides operational improvements. Future growth will be driven by its focus on ISR unmanned systems, training, cyber security, Standard Missile-6, Patriot, Zumwalt and THAAD. The company presently retains a short-term Zacks #2 Rank (Buy).
This is, however, offset by apprehensions over future growth of the U.S. defense budget, the fate of high-cost programs, risks related to key project executions and order cancellations. Thus, over the longer run, we maintain our long-term Neutral recommendation on the stock.
Based in Massachusetts, Raytheon Company is one of the largest aerospace and defense companies in the U.S., with a diversified line of military products, including missiles, radars, sensors, surveillance and reconnaissance equipment, communication and information systems, naval systems, air traffic control systems, and technical services.
Good News for Eli Lilly
Eli Lilly (LLY) will now enjoy an additional six months of exclusivity in the US for one of its lead products, Cymbalta. The US Food and Drug Administration (:FDA) recently granted pediatric exclusivity to Cymbalta, which means that Cymbalta will be protected from generic competition in the US until December 2013 instead of June 2013.
Eli Lilly, however, pointed out that Cymbalta is not approved for use in children and the company does not intend to seek approval for this patient population.
Cymbalta, one of the key products in Eli Lilly's pipeline, is approved for a wide range of indications including the treatment of major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder and the management of diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain and fibromyalgia. Cymbalta is also approved for the management of chronic musculoskeletal pain in people with chronic osteoarthritis pain or chronic low back pain.
Cymbalta, which accounted for 17.1% of Eli Lilly's total revenues in 2011, posted total sales of $4.16 billion in 2011. US sales were $3.2 billion in 2011.
Cymbalta continues to perform well with first quarter 2012 sales in the US coming in at $857.6 million. Given Cymbalta's current performance, the additional six month exclusivity period could result in sales of at least $1.6 billion in the US.
This bodes well for Eli Lilly, which currently faces a major patent cliff. Zyprexa, which posted sales of $4.62 billion in 2011, lost exclusivity in the EU and US in late 2011. Companies like Teva (TEVA) and Dr. Reddy's (RDY) have launched their generic version of the product and we expect a rapid erosion in Zyprexa sales. In fact, Eli Lilly expects Zyprexa sales to fall by more than $3 billion in 2012. First quarter 2012 Zyprexa sales fell 56% to $562.7 million.
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Skittish about stocks? The managers of BBH Core Select have carefully constructed a 30-name portfolio that has been more stable than the market.
A scion of the 200-year-old white-shoe private bank Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., BBH Core Select
Comanagers Timothy Hartch and Michael Keller take a sensibly conservative approach to stocks. They are very particular and very patient. First, they seek strong balance sheets, significant free cash flow, and high return on capital from companies that can sustain such performance by selling essential products to loyal customers. Only 150 or so large-cap names make the cut. Then they insist on a discount of at least 75% to intrinsic value; they might eye a prospect for several years before it is priced low enough to buy. Once a stock is in, it is held on average for at least three years.
The result is a portfolio concentrated in fewer than 30 names that has proved more stable than most broadly diversified core funds or the market. For the past five years--since current management took over and implemented its strategy in 2005--the fund has one of the highest returns in the large-blend category, an annualized 5.6% through Jan. 31, with one of the lowest risk profiles.
That makes this fund "appropriate for most of our clients, in the large-cap core space," says Walter Zagrobski, a senior vice president at Boston's Appleton Partners, the investment advisor to Cambridge Appleton Trust. Zagrobski says BBH Core Select can even stand as a sole holding for small accounts with long-term time frames. Cambridge Appleton Trust began investing in the fund about a year ago after meeting with Hartch and Keller. Zagrobski liked the fund's low-turnover, tax-efficient strategy and the fact that it invests in a limited number of names that the managers know inside and out. "What impressed us is their depth of knowledge about the management and financial metrics of all their holdings. We had to cut them off after five or 10 minutes on each stock [in order to get to everything]."
Fact-Based Stock-Picking
Indeed, as Keller describes it, stock-picking at BBH is an exhaustive collaborative process. The managers and their team of seven analysts "will spend hours sitting in the same room trying to develop a shared conviction." They check their own emotions against fact-based, written summaries developed for every investment before it is added to the portfolio. They add to positions in companies that continue to live up to their risk/reward profile when discounts to intrinsic value deepen, and they begin trimming when the price rises within 10% of that target.
That deliberative process led to a decision to sell the fund's bank stocks in 2006, one factor in the fund's subsequent category-leading returns. Keller makes it sound so simple: "It was a credit-related decision." The management team worried that credit concerns would affect even the best commercial banks-- a weakness obvious to many only in hindsight. That said, the managers were not making a sector call against banks; they never make top-down calls. Rather, because they prefer to err on the conservative side when estimating earnings growth, the credit risks made these stocks uncompelling. As the fund isn't measured against a market benchmark for sector weights, there was no need to maintain exposure.
Credit concerns are still an issue, says Keller, but the fund recently bought its first bank stock since then, U.S. Bancorp
Again, this is a bet on a particular bank, not banks in general. "People think that there is not much difference among commercial banks, but USB's strong underwriting discipline has differentiated it, and it is primarily a deposit-funded institution, so money is coming in the door regularly at low cost. The stock was trading well below even conservative estimates of earnings, and we were pleased to bring it into the portfolio."
Johnson & Johnson
"The company's free cash flow is greater than its net income and can be used for dividends, buybacks, and acquisitions. Yet the stock is trading at near 12 times free cash flow," Hartch says. "Wall Street expectations are quite low, but the company has very strong franchises and an effective management team. This is not a high-growth play, but given the valuation, it is quite compelling."
Sustainable Leaders
Steady, single-digit growth is a common refrain here. That's the theme that attracted David Copeland, a principal of Strategic Wealth Partners, in Deerfield, Ill. "The types of companies they select are growing faster than the economy, but not unsustainably fast. That allows them to provide more-consistent performance."
Several favorite picks dominate fragmented markets and so have room to grow simply by gaining market share. Dentsply
Then there's Ecolab ECL, "one of the best fits for our criteria," Keller enthuses. "The growth opportunity is almost unbounded." The company leads a highly fragmented market, selling cleaning and sanitizing products to hotels, restaurants, and food-sanitation and health-care companies. These are essential services, and an innovative leader can gain and retain customer loyalty. "Ecolab has the scale to reinvest in R&D and continue to innovate. Their products cause less color loss to hotel textiles, for example, and require less water for dishwashing," and so can command a premium price.
Other holdings are already entrenched leaders. Intuit
The ability to spend cash wisely is one of the main attributes Hartch and Keller look for in company management. Even though Liberty Global and Liberal Media Interactive don't boast squeaky-clean balance sheets, both are controlled by John Malone, who has a proven track record for leveraged growth. "We have enormous respect for him," says Hartch. "Of course, Comcast [a cable company, as is Liberty Global] is a larger position because it has lower debt load."
As for stellar capital allocators, the fund's top holding is Berkshire Hathaway
Evergreen Approach
Hartch and Keller are hardly running for the hills to stockpile gold, but hedging against inflation is a theme that threads through the portfolio. "We are not being driven by a macro call," Hartch emphasizes, "but it is important to be cognizant of potential challenges. Businesses with pricing power are good in any environment, but particularly in this one. Otherwise, profit margins become squeezed."
Waste Management
All told, Hartch and Keller's approach may be a reassuring one for clients who are skittish about stocks and the economy. Morningstar mutual fund analyst Ryan Leggio notes that their strategy is reminiscent of that of Bruce Berkowitz of Fairholme
Hartch emphasizes that the fund aims for absolute returns, not a benchmark in any one year. "It is important that new investors have a good understanding of our approach," he says, "and my sense is that they do." Indeed, the fund saw regular net inflows throughout 2009. "Investors are worried after this significant increase in equity prices. Whether they missed out on it, or fear giving some back, they want a strategy with an evergreen approach."
With the overall portfolio recently trading at a 73% discount to intrinsic value, now seems an eminently sensible time to buy.
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Maybe they've been studying too much. Perhaps their televisions don't work.
Whatever the case is, Anthony Davis and Doron Lamb say they haven't spent one second watching Louisville this year. The first they will see of the Cardinals, they say, will be Friday's film session, just a day before the annual showdown with Kentucky's archrival (Saturday at noon on CBS at Rupp Arena).
"I've never seen them play," Davis said. "I haven't even watched Louisville play at all this year. We never had a chance to watch them play. We always had a game or practice or whatever the case may be."
No worries, though, Davis says he understands the importance of the rivalry, at least from the fans' perspective.
"They really hate each other," Davis said. "I got a lot of tweets about 'Beat Louisville, they suck' and everything about that. We're guessing it's a big deal for (the fans)."
Lose and it's Armageddon for the fans. For the coaches and the players, they say it's "just another game."
"I don't know how much they're playing up this game," John Calipari said. "We're not talking about it that much. Maybe they are on the Internet – which I am not – seeing what's being said, (but) we're worried about us. Let's just play the best we can play, and if that's not good enough – say they come in and make 15 3s and the game becomes physical, we're not able to play that way and they beat us – great. We'll learn, we'll move on. We got 16 league games and another nonconference game to get going. It's the next game. Now, if you win it, it becomes a huge game. But truly, it's the next game."
The Basics
What: No. 3/3 UK (12-1) vs. No .4/4 Louisville (12-1)
When: Saturday, noon
Where: Rupp Arena (23,000)
Game notes: UK | Louisville
Video interviews: Calipari, Davis and Miller
Louisville File
Record: 12-1
Head coach: Rick Pitino (257-97 at Louisville)
Ranking: 4/4
Nickname: Cardinals
Conference: Big East
Player to watch: Peyton Siva (9.5 points, 6.4 assists, 2.8 rebounds)
Series history: UK leads 28-14
Last meeting: UK won 78-63 last season
TV/Radio CoverageTV: CBS
Radio: UK IMG
Live stats: Gametracker
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Whether or not that's truly the case in the heads of the players and coaches, we may never know, or at least until after the game is over. But Coach Cal's players are echoing the same mentality.
"We don't want to treat it as if it's a huge game or live-or-die game," Miller said. "We treat it as if it were any other game."
Downplaying a rivalry game is certainly nothing new. The "just another game" approach is as old as the rivalries they accompany.
But why do teams – and the Wildcats in this case – not give into hoopla and emotions of the game until the tipoff? Senior Darius Miller said they'd lose focus if they approached it any other way.
"We can't let our emotions get the best of us," Miller said. "We can't allow for stupid mistakes or try to do too much. We have to come out and play the same way we always play. That will provide us with the best opportunity to win."
Even if they've only been in Kentucky a few months, the freshmen receive all the exposure they need to understand the importance of the game. The fans are in the ears every day about it.
"I hear it every day," sophomore Doron Lamb said.
And still, Lamb said the freshmen won't fully grasp the emotions of the rivalry until the game gets underway. Lamb admits he didn't know it was a big game last year until he went through it.
"I told them it will be a great game, a physical game, a real hyped game," Lamb said. "They've just got to play their game and keep playing how they've been playing so far and they'll be fine."
Both teams will enter the game with a 12-1 record after Louisville dropped its first game of the season Wednesday night, a 71-68 loss to No. 12 Georgetown. The matchup of the third-ranked Wildcats and the fourth-ranked Cardinals will mark the highest combined ranked rankings of the two teams in the history of the rivalry, which dates back to 1913. UK owns a 28-14 advantage in the series, including a 2-0 mark under Coach Cal.
But outside of those stakes, Calipari said there's nothing personal between the players. Most of them didn't grow up in the state of Kentucky and didn't have a feel for the intensity of the game until they entered college."This is not ever, from my side, going to be a Cincinnati-Xavier," Calipari said. "That won't come from us. Our team does not feel any hatred or animosity toward their players. We do not. We do not talk that way or play that way. It will be a terrific basketball game of teams going at each other with all the bells and whistles."
The lack of animosity goes for the head coaches of both teams as well, Calipari says. Coach Cal and Rick Pitino were painted as rivals before Calipari took the job at Kentucky, and the perceived friction between the two has only intensified as quotes and comments have been shared through newspapers and TV reports.
"We don't send Christmas cards, but I mean, we're cordial to each other," Calipari said. "He coaches there and I coach here."
There's a notion that the two coaches don't get along because they're so much alike. Coach Cal didn't disagree that there are certainly a lot of similarities between the two.
"We've both taken three teams to the Final Four, we both got fired in the NBA and we're Italians with big noses," Calipari said. "I guess we are alike. … "We're just right on top of each other, but I respect what he's done, respect his program, respect their city and their school."
As for the actual game, Calipari expects it to be a physical one.
"It will be similar to those (other high-profile) games," Calipari said. "You have to be strong with the ball, protect yourself and get open. You can't be afraid of body-to-body contact. You're going to have to finish around the goal the same way. It's all good for us … This is a great experience for us in another crazy environment."
Louisville's style under Pitino has been to press, push the tempo and shoot 3s. While the Cats expect the Cards to show the press at times, Calipari also expects Pitino to throw a little zone their way.
Calipari said it will be a good barometer for UK's toughness.
"The M.O. is, don't shoot quickly to get (us) running," Calipari said. "Get into the shot clock a little bit. You've got to beat (us) shooting 3s, so get into the lane and kick it out. Foul. Ball fake, ball fake, ball fake. Throw your body in there and hope there's a foul called. Get to the foul line. And then the second thing is, be really physical.
"That's the M.O. We all know it. You know it. The people, the fans know it. Everybody knows it. So you get in there and you grab and you hold. On a foul, you'll push in the back because the guy's not boxing out, so give him a little push and shove. It's all stuff we have to feel so that we can take that next stride up."
It will be a particularly important game for UK freshman guard Marquis Teague. No matter what type of defense Pitino decides to go with, one can surmise he'll throw a lot of pressure at the first-year guard.
Teague has played pretty well since his early season struggles, but he's committed 14 turnovers over his last three contests. He'll likely be matched up with Louisville point guard Peyton Siva, who Calipari calls an "NBA player" and "difference maker for their team."
"Hopefully (he handles it) better than he handled Indiana the beginning of the game," Calipari said.
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Word has it that e-books are now outselling p-books (er, paper books) over at Amazon.com:
Amazon released its quarterly report for the end of last year and says that for every 100 books sold on its site, it sells 115 Kindle ebooks.
And that's despite neuroscience blogger Jonah Lehrer's insistence that e-readers are "too easy" on the eyes. He may be partially right, though I think the culprit here is that Helvetica is simply boring as fuck. Consequently, anything displayed in Helvetica is going to be boring as fuck, and anything boring as fuck is probably not going to be prioritized by your brains. A crisp, clear, elegant, easy-to-read serifed font is where I'm putting my money. Having readers default to some sort of Garamond would be kick-ass, though at the moment the Kindle 3 renders most Garamonds pretty shittily unless you do some hacking.
Over the holidays I traded in the rest of my magic beans and got a Kindle 3. Initially, I was merely out to more accurately format the e-books I distribute through Smashwords, but in the month and a half since, I've read two novels and a handful of short stories on the thing. The non-LCD screen has thoroughly seduced me (and, now that I've studied the Laptop Kama Sutra, I've made adjustments and seduced it back). I totally see a growing market for people weary of Microsoft's (Un)ClearType text rendering. Or Apple's soft, fuzzy iPad approach. Reading a novel on a dedicated e-reader is not like reading a novel on a laptop, iPhone, or iPad, the latter of which are perfectly suited for news articles or blog entries that include photographs, or for porn site "Enter if you're over 18" warnings, but not for long-form novels or text-based books. Ironically, all the screenshots provided in Bill Hill's "The Future of Reading: iPad Magazines" are proof that reading for extended periods on an LCD-based device is just lame. At least using current LCD technologies. If someone started mass-producing ~200dpi LCD screens tomorrow I'd so be there. In the meantime, as Amazon's Kindle or B&N's Nook excel at displaying text, and Apple's iPad excels at displaying graphics, we're looking at two separate e-reader markets: one for readers of newspapers, magazines, and manga / comics, the other for readers more interested in long-form books and novels.
Either way, I get why e-books are finally outselling p-books. Hardcovers sport excellent typefaces and quality paper stock, but are cumbersome to handle. Paperback novels may have enjoyed their "warm and cozy" reputation for the last near-century, but reading those two novels I mentioned above on a Kindle has proved to be just as enjoyable. More so, even, when you consider the ability to change font size or line spacing based on your preferences. You don't have to worry about margins being so close to the binding that you have to pry the book open just to read complete paragraphs. If you're dirt-poor, like me (or if you're a college student), you don't have to sacrifice modest living space for the sake of storing your dusty volumes. Best of all, you don't have to shift the book to suit odd or even pages if you're reading while lying on your side in bed—which is totally something I love to do. It's such a small thing, but makes such a big difference.
Now, come up with a reading device that's hi-res, can do color, and has an adjustable back-light, and you'll really start outselling your mom. And your dad.


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As Halloween approaches, parents around the country will warn their kids not to eat all their candy at once. It may rot their teeth out and make them gain a few pounds, but it also may show just how sweet they are.
That's according to new research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Brian Meier, an associate professor of psychology at Gettysburg College, and his colleagues analyzed five studies that related to taste and behavior. Even after controlling for positive mood and reward, researchers found that people who eat sweet foods tend to be more agreeable and cooperative than those who eat non-sweet foods.
"It looks like metaphors related to taste sensations in terms of behavior are more than just devices for communication," said Meier. "There is this theory of embodiment. People who we considered 'sweet' preferred sweet foods."
Those who enjoyed sweets also seemed to be more likely to volunteer. Specifically for one study, people were more likely to help clean up their city after a major flood.
Of course, several limitations put the results in question. The studies were small -the largest included 108 participants. The results were self-reported, correlated in result, and researchers did not test for other tastes (i.e. are people who prefer bitter foods more bitter by nature?).
So, it's a bit early to say that people who eat sweets are sweeter and those who load on the salt are saltier, but researchers plan to expand their research in the future by studying other tastes.
"We'd like to examine taste with other personalities," said Meier. "It may tell us a lot more about how people differ in nature than we think it does."
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I'll admit it – I'm a sucker for Hallowe'en. Oh, Christmas has its charms – lots of family, lots of presents. Easter is a chocolate-lover's dream. But nothing celebrates a combination of excess and rule-breaking like the 31stof October. "Wear whatever you want!" "Sure, you can go for a walk in the dark and take candy from strangers!" "Imagination is a good thing! Believe in ghosts and fairies all you like!" Hallowe'en is ironically, for all of its scary trappings, a day when members of the community agree to trust each other and take a one-day break from fear.
I am fully aware that I fly the Hallowe'en flag alone on this boat. Indy and Stylish like it, of course, but since our Hallowe'en activities change from year to year, they haven't built up a sense of tradition-through-repetition the way I did. Erik finds the entire urban trick-or-treating formula mystifying. As best I can tell, he travelled back to the rural 1880s for his Hallowe'ens. On Hallowe'en night, he and a friend rode on horseback between a handful of farms. They clopped down lanes lit with candled sheep skulls, and were invited into dim kitchens to sip hot cider and eat home-made treats while gammers and gaffers told them terrifying stories of local murders and haunted inns. What a show-off. I'm sure I had just as much fun strolling from house to house dressed as a punk rocker and collecting tiny Mars bars in a pillowcase.
We only really woke to the fact that Hallowe'en was upon us once again when Stylish was talking to her best friend from home. Her friend asked what Stylish was going to be on the big day, offering that she herself planned to be a ghost. Stylish and Indy blinked at each other.
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MIAMI, April 14— Fidel Castro called them ''worms,'' sexual perverts and criminals. The United States Government termed them ''excludable aliens'' and jailed hundreds of them for years with only the most minimal right of appeal.
But on the streets of America they are more simply known as the Mariel boat people, or Marielitos - the nearly 125,000 Cubans who made a frantic maritime exodus from the Cuban port of Mariel in 1980 to start a new life in the United States. That life began in the Florida processing camps of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service amid fears that such a large group of foreigners would prove an unacceptable burden.
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''I happen to think that Mariel was an historic event, right up there with Dunkirk,'' said Mayor Xavier Suarez of Miami, who once worked as a volunteer shuttling busloads of refugees from Key West to Miami. ''One hundred twenty-five thousand people came here in rickety boats to make a new life. It was not easy for some of them to integrate. But today, despite the difficulties, 85 percent of them are working productively. That's a story of success.''
The success stories include that of Esteban Torres. He was 10 years old and spoke no English when he arrived. In his homeland, he had been a member of the state-run Communist Pioneer movement for youths. Today, Mr. Torres is a straight-A student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who spent last summer working in experimental physics at the National Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He hopes to work next for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
''I guess it is kind of hard to believe that all this has happened for me in just 10 years,'' Mr. Torres said.
Representatives of Cuban refugee groups and city officials in Miami say the early fears about Marielitos have proved largely unfounded. Officials who have worked with them say the vast majority have been as successful as other Cuban immigrants over the last 30 years. Almost all have become naturalized citizens or legal resident aliens on their way to citizenship.
But several thousand other Mariel refugees stumbled after their journey ashore. They include Julio Gonzalez, charged with murder in the Happy Land Social Club fire that killed 87 people in New York City on March 25. He joins a list of suspected or convicted criminals who have been detained in American institutions at one time or another since 1980. The Mariel immigrants also included thousands of homosexuals who in Cuba were categorized as socially dangerous deviants and thus were apt to be jailed there.
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Some of the jailings in this country have set off long legal battles involving basic questions about how the American Government treats certain groups of immigrants.
Legally defined as excludable aliens rather than as political refugees, Mariel exiles who have not become citizens or legal residents are considered to be on parole, a status that is violated if they are charged with a crime here or are found to have committed crimes in Cuba. If they violate parole, Mariel immigrants are subject to indefinite jailing and possible deportation back to Cuba.
Under a 1984 treaty, Cuba agreed to accept the gradual return or the deportation of 2,746 Marielitos whom the United States Government deemed undesirable. Nearly 400 of those listed in the treaty have been sent back. The more than 2,000 others are subject to deportation if they run afoul of American law.
In general, the United States is most likely to deport two categories of people who enter the country without authorization: excludable aliens or deportable aliens. Excludable aliens, like the Marielitos, are those who are caught at the border or in American territorial waters. Deportable aliens are those arrested inside the United States after entering illegally.
Deportable aliens can be held up to six months while their cases are reviewed. If they are found to have entered illegally, they can be immediately deported. But excludable aliens may be held indefinitely pending review. Because they were intercepted outside the American borders - that is, they never entered the United States - excludable aliens are in a kind of legal limbo.
Still, the Mariel immigrants did receive some special treatment because they were Cubans. Under a dispensation granted by Congress in 1966, even excludable Cuban immigrants can be released on parole in the United States while they apply for legal residency. This special treatment does not apply to Haitians or unauthorized immigrants from other countries.


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Dp has a lump (nodule) on thyroid, I'm so worried it could be malignant(179 Posts)
Dp has seen GP said it could be a nodule, ultra sound confirmed this on Monday.
Went back to hospital yesterday, expecting the biopsy to be done, and hoping for a bit of relief from worry, I was sat in waiting room with our little ds, then my dp comes out and said consultant basically asked him to have ultra sound and biopsy and date will follow, dp has had an ultra sound already,so yesterday was so frustrating, only thing positive was he asked if bloods had been done, which they have, and consultant said 'good' when my dp said they were fine.
Nodule is 33 millimetres in size, with a smaller one at the bottom, I'm so terrified that it could be malignant
Dp is fine, not really stressing at all, and telling me not to, we've googled, and he has read there is a 5 % chance nodules can be malignant.
I have constantly got this knot in my stomach and can barely think of anything else, I'm just so worried.
Is anyone a GP or in the know of thyroid nodules ? Thankyou.
Hi dig hope your daughter is not so sore today, yes to be young and carefree would be nice, not a worry in the world.
Is it snowing in Germany too ?
I don't live there any more, since DH died. We don't know what real winters are here, you know. Months of -15 -18 during the day. Looked lovely when the sun was shining and snow still didn't melt.
Haven't heard from DD as she is Yoga teaching tonight. She was worried she wouldn't be able to demonstrate as she normally does.
I'll see her tomorrow after work and hope she's OK. I've felt exhausted all day - the effects from yesterday's trauma.
The sooner your DH has his biopsy and results < that it is benign> the better.
How did the biopsy go today?
Good news for DD - all benign. They even apologised for putting her through those awful 5 biopsies procedure.. But is better to err on the side of caution, as the saying goes.
Hope same results for your DH but hope his biopsy was not so traumatising as DD's.
Hi dig that is great news for your daughter !
Thanks for the update.
Dh went yesterday, biopsy he said was fine, had to do it a couple if times as didn't get enough to test.
I feel quite relieved at the news that there are no other nodules that have spread, so if it is malignant, which she said is rare, but not always, they will be removed.
I just feel a huge sigh of relief that they are contained in one area, so far so good.
He is feeling bruised a bit uncomfortable last night, but at work today as normal, so just waiting for results now.
Good that is over, now the wait for the results. I think I remember you saying your DH said if it is benign, he would rather leave it there than have an op? <grin- men!> But only 5% chance of being malignant?
Better than DD's - 20%-, and so relieved all 5 biopsies were benign. She didn't want the op either mainy due to her not being able to teach her Yoga for a couple of weeks.
She did feel unwell the next day after, but had 5 in different areas.
Of course your DH said it was "fine" - he's a man. But shame he had to have it done twice.
Was he told like my DD when he would hear the results?
Good Luck
They didn't tell him when he would hear anything, I presume during next week, will he get a letter or be called to see the consultant, do you think ?
I was surprised that the consultant saw DD and said she would phone in 8 days with the results. As your DH was not told that, I'd expect a letter will be sent to GP or as in my cases with the mammograms and smear tests I have had, I get a letter, but those are only screening tests.
After my cervical biopsy 30 years ago, I did get a letter myself telling me I had to have another op, as biopsy was malignant, and a bed was reserved for me on the Sunday to have the op on Monday. Those days we stayed in hospital a week, now it's in and out asap.
Are you sure DH wasn't told?
Do they always do a biopsy on a lump on the thyroid? Ive had one since dd was born (1.1) and was sent for a scan about 6/7 months ago, Dr said it was a cyst, totally normal, nothing to worry about. Would they do a biopsy in this case or jist leave it?
Not if it is an obvious cyst full of fluid. Some cysts are not that clear and have to be biopsied to make sure.
I had lumps in one breast, but just a feel of them by an expert, concluded they were fibrous tissue lumps and wasn't even sent for a scan.
Another woman had had a bopsy as they were uncertain and although benign, it was one that could turn malignant, so had biopsies, on a regular basis to keep a check on it.
If your cyst has not got any bigger or has disappeared, I wouldn't worry about it. If it causes you any problems, go back to GP.
Dh just saying now dig they would send an appointment through the post.
Hope everything goes well for your dh twosugars, my little dd has a fatty swelling at the front of her neck which was picked up by the health visitor 17 months ago.
She had a thyroid scan last september which was normal and a blood test which was also normal, my doctor called it a goitre and said as everything was normal she wouldn't need any more blood tests which shocked me to think thats it forget it.
She is seen in paediatrics for another minor problem so as we were there shortly after her thyroid scan I mentioned it to a lovely consultant there who checked her results and examined her and said as she is seen with him twice a year if there are any worries he will check and do a blood test if needed. He didn't agree with my doctor calling it a goitre he said it was an enlarged/swollen thyroid he said goitre was not referred to on her scan results.
I must admit it frightens me as she was not much past 2 when HV picked up on it, I cannot really notice it as there is no visable bulge but compared to other little ones at playgroup I can see her neck looks slightly padded with fat.. doubt anyone else would notice though.
It worries me as she is so young and its not common in children..anyone know of any children affected by this? Hope you don't mind me posting this on your thread twosugers.
I don't know any child who had one, but I did in my early 20's. But mine was swollen due to being very overactive for a couple of years - before it was diagnosed. Your DC has had Thyroid tests and they are normal - mine were not. Mine was also called a Goitre by my GP.
If DC is otherwise her usual self, it will not be affecting her. But it should be regularly checked.
Hello kiss I haven't heard of anything like this in children either, but I would be rest assured if your DD's consultant is happy with it.
I mentioned in one post that my dh seems to think he has had this for sometime, he even questions himself he might have had it growing up !
It's just never bothered him, but when mentioned to our GP during a visit, he was sent for tests, and here we are. But this is a nodule, a tiny one attached growing alongside it, his thyroid isn't swollen.
I did work with a girl years ago who had either an under or over active thyroid, which ever one it was made her always on the move, she was excellent to work with on shift
She took thyroxine tablets daily and that was all, [digerd] would that perhaps cause a swelling ?
That just shows how different it can be for each person.
"On the go all the time" is the initial stages of an overactive Thyroid, but you don't take Thyroxine for it, that is for an underactive one, when the Thyroid is not producing enough of it.
If she had been underactive, signs are sluggish and slow, but with too much Thyroxine given it could make her "Hyperactive", but would eventually become ill. Or she was back to her normal energetic self. A swollen Thyroid , in my case, was caused by my Thyroid producing too much Thyroxine, which is usual.
Don't know if an underactive one can sometimes cause a goitre.
That case is a bit puzzling.
Main symptom of overactive Thyroid is losing weight, underactive gaining weight. But there are always exception to the rule.
I suspect she was taking too much Thyroxine- but she would have become thin and ill - normally.
Not got your appt letter yet.? Your DH is a typical man- you had to drag the info out of him<grin> Bless 'em.
Hi, twosugars, hope all is well, any updates since his biopsy? x
Hi everyone <waving hi crushed
We got a phone all today, dh to see consultant tomorrow for results,would they still have to actually see you if all is ok ?
For any results, I'd say so yes, as they're not allowed to give results over the phone
Good luck to you both xx
Just seen that your DH has his appt at last tomorrow. Good Luck.
Thankyou dig will get back here tonight.
Dh saw consultant today, he said he will need half of his thyroid removed,( thyroidectomy) under general anaesthetic.
Apparently there are 5 stages...1=biopsy was inconclusive 2= benign 3=85% chance of being benign 4= suspicious of being malignant 5= malignant.
Dh is stage 4.
dig was this the case with you ?
Hi two sugars
No, I didn't have malignant cells, Thyroid went into overdrive and produced too much Thyroxine = Overactive or Hyper thyroidism.
Your DH has been diagnosed with Stage 4 - suspicion it could be malignant?
But the best course of action is, if in doubt where cancer is concerned be overcautious.
People I know who had cancer of the Thyroid diagnosed, it was always contained in the Thyroid and had not spread, and they had the whole Thyroid out.
Mine was a 4. Had my thyroid removed just over 2 weeks ago. Ask me any questions you like.
Are they going to do a frozen section during the op to get a definite answer ?
Hi dig yes that's right stage 4, I so hope it is all contained. What will happen after the op ?
peniscolada hello, how are you ??? I could chat all night, can you come for coffee. please go into detail, at what stage are you right now ?
dig please come along too, (you are my very own medical encyclopaedia ) x and x
penis consultant did tell my dh that he will find out what it is during the op, so sounds like a frozen section yes.
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Revisiting David Bowie's 'Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)'
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No mainstream artist enjoyed a more eclectic and exciting rock and roll career throughout the '70s than David Bowie. And as the chameleon-like singer delivered Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), on Sept. 12, 1980, it seemed possible that the same would be true of Bowie's next decade.
After completing his famed Berlin Trilogy of Low, 'Heroes' and Lodger, Bowie decided that his 14th studio album would be recorded at New York City's Power Station, again with help from longtime producer Tony Visconti – but without Brian Eno. That meant Eno's penchant for spontaneous songwriting and recording techniques were replaced by a more traditional, highly organized process focused more on delivering big hits than earning more critical plaudits for artistry.
In keeping, the advance single "Ashes to Ashes" – which resurrected his popular Major Tom character from "Space Oddity" – went to No. 1 in the U.K., while performing strongly in numerous countries. (In the U.S., the song had an entirely different fate, just missing the Billboard Hot 100 and peaking at No. 101.) "Fashion," a direct descendant from Station to Station's "Golden Years," following in short order, pushing Scary Monsters to the top the charts in the U.K.; Bowie reached No. 12 in America.
Elsewhere, however, many of the songs on Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) were as challenging and unconventional as critics and discerning Bowie-philes could have asked for. The opening tune, "It's No Game," married a plodding dirge to Bowie's intentionally strangled vocals and a female narration of the lyrics in Japanese. "Up the Hill Backwards" commented on the singer's recent divorce over a lurching, 7/4 beat, and then the title track arose from a sinister Robert Fripp guitar figure, which was indicative of its subject's descent into madness – all before the aforementioned singles made their entrances.
Bowie's imagination continued to fly unchecked and unafraid on the second side, over the anthemic, "Heroes"-like march of "Teenage Wildlife," the intriguing chord changes that made "Scream Like a Baby" half-new wave, half-hard rock, a lush interpretation of Tom Verlaine's "Kingdom Come" complete with girl-group backing vocals, a densely arranged "Because You're Young" boasting windmill power chords from Pete Townshend and concluding with a "civilized" reprise of "It's No Game" that proved a Dr. Jeckyll to the opener's Mr. Hyde.
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All this inspired creativity at the Power Station had transpired between February and April 1980 but, amazingly, only one finished vocal was in the can, so David decided to take a few more weeks to polish off his lyrics. By June, he had reunited with Visconti at the latter's London studio, and it was there he cut some of his finest words and vocals – elevating Scary Monsters up among his very best career efforts.
As for the young decade still ahead, the tragic murder of his good friend John Lennon on Dec. 8, cast Bowie into a period of paranoid isolation spent mostly caring for his son Zowie instead of touring or promoting Scary Monsters. Simultaneously, the singer's desire to wait until his onerous contractual obligations to former manager Tony Defries could expire in October 1982, led to a dalliance in theater (via Bowie's critically acclaimed lead role in a production of The Elephant Man), collaborations with disco magus Giorgio Moroder (on the Cat People soundtrack) and Queen (the smash hit "Under Pressure"), and an EP of songs written for Bertolt Brecht's play Baal.
By the time David Bowie released Let's Dance nearly three years after Scary Monsters, its unapologetic embrace of the mainstream was so at odds with much of the singer's outsider career arc that some wondered whether he had finally forgotten himself. The masses embraced this latest version, however, remaking Bowie into a sleek global pop star. It would be for quite some time before Bowie's inevitable return to the risk-taking creativity of Scary Monsters.
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Fences is the widely popular application from Stardock that helps you wrangle up those icons spread out all over your desktop. The v1.1 update for Fences Pro is out today with various fixes and improvements.
- Added ability to toggle hidden fences at startup
- Added "Hide shortcut arrows on desktop icons" to Appearance tab
- Reliability improvements based on user feedback
- Numerous small UI tweaks
- Improved multi-monitor support
- Icons no longer have risk of falling out of their fence on F5 and/or monitor resize
- Fixed flicker when moving a fence behind the taskbar on Win7
- Fixed issue where new icons could become "stranded" until interacted with, particularly on XP
- Fixed issue where moving Fences beneath the bottom of the screen exhibited odd behavior
- Improved "Disable Fences" functionality
- Fences now "come to the front" when moved. Fixes behavior where you could move a Fence behind another and then lose access to it.
Current users can update via Impulse. More information about Fences can be found at its website.


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In her letter "Sequester solution is pretty simple," Rosalyn Jimenez says that ending tax breaks for greedy corporations and the top 2 percent of Americans would be the "simple solution" to our budget problem. She says her proposal would raise $1 trillion in revenue over the next 10 years.
We now have a national debt of $16.4 trillion and are adding close to another $1.5 trillion to the deficit every year. Ten more years of this, and we would have a national debt of more than $30 trillion.
Her proposal would leave us with a very manageable $29 trillion national debt. Her "simple solution" would be better titled "simpleton solution."


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Two op-eds in the Washington Post today (here and here) continue the discussion about Jeb Bush's recent comments to the House Budget Committee. As a co-testifier with Bush, let me give you my impressions of the hearing.
Downsizing Blog
Food Stamp Republicans
Newt Gingrich had fun calling President Obama the "food stamp president," but many Republicans are just as responsible for the exploding costs of this welfare state program.
Big Sugar Wins in the Senate
Today we have yet another example of Republicans and Democrats teaming up to protect a special interest at the public's expense. A few hours ago the Senate voted 50-46 to kill an amendment from Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) that would have phased out subsidies and supports for the sugar industry.
Agriculture Is Doing So Well (ergo We Must Subsidize It)
Farmer-friendly members of Congress are such a target-rich environment for ridicule when it comes to poor agriculture policy that it would be a full-time job just blogging about their utterances. So I try to spare you, most of the time. (You're welcome.) But occasionally a quote passes my desk that is so ridiculous that I just have to share.
Bipartisan Policy Center Rejects Bipartisan Budget Control Act
The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) has come out against bipartisan spending restraint. The BPC has issued a report highly critical of the sequestration spending cuts that were agreed to in the bipartisan Budget Control Act of 2011.
Republicans Join Democrats to Save Corporate Welfare (Again)
Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) introduced three amendments to the recently passed Energy & Water appropriations bill that would have eliminated a slew of business subsidies at the Department of Energy. Unfortunately, House Republicans once again teamed up with their Democratic colleagues to keep the corporate welfare spigot flowing.
Farm Subsidies and Reverse Robin Hood
Liberals love to complain about Republican support for supposedly "reverse Robin Hood" fiscal policies. Here's Alan Blinder and Rachel Maddow, for example, pointing the finger at Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney, respectively.
Spending Cut Goal: 10% in Two Years
The new issue of International Economy has an article by Canada's Liberal finance minister from the 1990s, Paul Martin, who succeeded in shrinking that country's federal government. If a new President Mitt Romney wants to cut spending in Washington, Martin has some tips for him, such as cutting spending broadly, forecasting conservatively, and aiming to eliminate the deficit in a fixed time frame and sticking to it. (I'd also advise President Obama to follow the Canadian example, but he's issued four budgets so far and seems to be more interested in following the Greek fiscal approach).
Mike Leavitt as Governor
Mitt Romney has chosen liberal Republican Michael Leavitt to lead his presidential transition team. A lot of commentary focuses on his "Obamacare-lovin" proclivities.
Corporate Welfare vs. Entrepreneurship
I testified today to Paul Ryan's House Budget Committee regarding corporate cronyism and the opposite policy of free-market entrepreneurialism. Also testifying was former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.


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// Use D8 for CSclass.init(D8);
/* MyProject.c */#define PIN_CS PORTB0#include "somelib.h"// Use PORTB pin 0 for CSsomelib_init(PIN_CS);
#define PORT_CS PORTB#define PIN_CS PB0#include somelib.hsomelib_init();
You can gain a *ton* of efficiency by using atomic 8-bit operations on a whole PORT instead.
I'm looking for a way to support any current or future MCU (within reason) without having to republish the library with chip-specific layouts when they change, or have the user go and modify library sources because they want to use PORTD instead of B.
It's going to be difficult to achieve that. For one thing, on the Uno, only one port (D) gives access to 8 bits and even then two are shared with the serial ports. And on other processor what if the user happens to want to use pins that aren't in a single port?
The more hardware-independent approach (using pin numbers rather than hardware ports) is what the IDE currently supports, for good reason.
QuoteYou can gain a *ton* of efficiency by using atomic 8-bit operations on a whole PORT instead.It will be faster. I don't know about quantifying it like that. A bit depends how often you write to the LCD. A panel showing the room temperature, for example, won't matter if it updates a few microseconds faster.
I'm not sure that what you are proposing (rejecting the IDE and then substituting something that achieves the same end-result) is going to be worth the effort.
// io2313.h, line 77 #define PINB _SFR_IO8(0x16) // sfr_defs.h, line 179 #define _SFR_IO8(io_addr) _MMIO_BYTE((io_addr) + __SFR_OFFSET) // sfr_defs.h, line 128 #define _MMIO_BYTE(mem_addr) (*(volatile uint8_t *)(mem_addr))
I'm asking if there's a buried macro or trick that anyone knows of that can allow passing (full or partial) PORTS as parameters.
All I need is a way to get that address...
Compiler optimizations might also help resolve things like pin offsets, turning "PINB & (1 << PB5)" into "*(uint_8t *0x18) & (1 << 5)" into the cheapest assembly instructions that would achieve that I/O request.
void setup () { DDRD |= 1 << 4; // pinMode (4, OUTPUT); PORTD |= 1 << 4; // digitalWrite (4, HIGH); } // end of setup void loop () {}
void setup () { DDRD |= 1 << 4; // pinMode (4, OUTPUT); a6: 54 9a sbi 0x0a, 4 ; 10 PORTD |= 1 << 4; // digitalWrite (4, HIGH); a8: 5c 9a sbi 0x0b, 4 ; 11 } // end of setup aa: 08 95 ret
#define VAR_SET(var, id, pin) var ## id |= _BV(pin)#define VAR_CLR(var, id, pin) var ## id &=~_BV(pin)#define VAR_TOG(var, id, pin) var ## id ^= _BV(pin)#define VAR_GET(var, id, pin) ((var ## id) & _BV(pin))#define pinOutput(pin) VAR_SET(DDR, pin)#define pinInput(pin) VAR_CLR(DDR, pin)#define pinSet(pin) VAR_SET(PORT, pin)#define pinClr(pin) VAR_CLR(PORT, pin)#define pinTog(pin) VAR_TOG(PORT, pin)
#define HC595_SCK B, 0 //hc595 on portb.0
pinOutput(HC595_SCK); //hc595_sck as output ... do { pinClr(HC595_SCK); //clear hc595_sck ... pinSet(HC595_SCK); //set hc595_sck }
#define HC595_SCK C, 6 //sck now on portc.6
typedef struct { unsigned char B0: 1; unsigned char B1: 1; unsigned char B2: 1; unsigned char B3: 1; unsigned char B4: 1; unsigned char B5: 1; unsigned char B6: 1; unsigned char B7: 1;} BIT8_T;//extend bit fields#define PORTBbits (*(volatile BIT8_T *)&PORTB)#define DDRBbits (*(volatile BIT8_T *)&DDRB)//helper functions. don't call directly#define _DDR(id, pin) DDR ## id ## bits.B ## pin#define _PORT(id, pin) PORT ## id ## bits.B ## pin//port functions#define DDR(pin) _DDR(pin)#define PORT(pin) _PORT(pin)
#define HC595_SCK B, 0 //hc595_sck on portb.0
#define HC595_SCK B, 0 //hc595_sck on portb.0 DDR(HC595_SCK) = 1; //hc595_sck as output do { PORT(HC595_SCK) = 0; //clear sck ... PORT(HC595_SCK) = 1; //set sck }...PORT(HC595_SCK) ^= 1; //toggle hc595_sck


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National Book Award Winners Announced
The National Book Awards ceremony was full of surprises, with Jaimy Gordon's win the foremost. She was met with shocked silence from most of the audience, which mirrored her own reaction. In her speech she stated "I am totally unprepared and I am totally surprised…" So, prepare yourselves, for the winners are:
Lord of Misrule, by Jaimy Gordon
Just Kids, by Patti Smith
Lighthead, by Terrance Hayes
Young People's Literature
Mockingbird, by Kathryn Erskine


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Vandals hit part of O2 network in southern England
O2 is trying to restore mobile coverage in parts of London, Kent and East Sussex.
The company says vandals hit one of their east London sites early on Tuesday morning.
O2 put a statement on their website saying: "We've got a problem that means you can't make calls, use the internet, or send texts and emails."
The operator says it's working hard to get services restored and has apologised to customers.
The problems are affecting services on 2G and 3G.
A spokesman said: "Following the theft and vandalism at one of our operational sites in E London, we have been working hard to resume normal mobile service to N and E London, Kent and E Sussex.
"Some affected customers were able to make calls again from 4.30pm, and service across the region is being restored now with a few pockets of no coverage still remaining.
"We are carefully monitoring this throughout the night."
Sarah Doran, 21, from Maidstone, texted Newsbeat to say: "I'm on O2 and haven't been affected somehow, but most of my friends have.
"Every other Facebook status on my news feed is a complaint about signal/people on other networks bragging that their phone works."


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Obama: No excuses for Healthcare.gov problems
President Obama is admitting that there's no excuse for the problems that have marred the online signup for the Affordable Health Care program.
Obama said he is frustrated about the signup problems, because, he says, the Affordable Care program is a good deal.
"People don't just want it; they're showing up to buy it. Nobody's madder than me about the fact that the website isn't working as well as it should, which means it's going to get fixed," he said.
IT specialists are tackling the job, but, experts say fixing Healthcare.gov will take time.
In Kentucky, coffee shop owner Sondra Powell couldn't sign up online.
" I got an error -- please contact customer service," she said.
Korin Weese in Ohio got no help from phone support.
"She is as useless as this," said Weese, who was stuck at the log-in screen.
But the president said it's more than about websites.
"Nearly six in ten uninsured Americans will find that they can get coverage for less than $100 a month," he said.
"It won't work; there are some ways it can't work," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office.
Holtz-Eaken, a Republican, argues that everyone's premiums cannot drop. He believes the president is "fudging the stats."
The Government Accountability Office found that young people's premiums will rise sharply.
The voices of lawmakers are sure to rise when Obama Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies next week about the rollout of the Affordable Care Act.
Sebelius had resisted testifying, but Republicans hammered the administration and Sebelius has decided to show.


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13 Trends in 2013: #2 Marketing turns upside down
Through electronic word of mouth and online reviews, consumers will market to other consumers. Because marketers cannot control this, they will need to reward consumers for positive marketing reviews, offering incentives. To reach individual consumers, marketers will need to use micro-targeting techniques that offer personalized messages.
The traditional marketing concept of "push and pull" will lose effectiveness as a result of the power that consumers gain through the two-way dialog of social media. The social interactions provided by social media platforms will turn marketing techniques upside down, placing consumers in the role of marketers.
As you are planning for 2013, your business will find itself facing questions concerning the social impact of your business and brand. Winnie Hart and Lorrie Lee from TwinEngine share 13 in 2013 – Social Media Marketing trends that will take flight.
#2 Marketing turns upside down
- We are all marketers now
- Evolution from 'all about us' to 'all about them'
- Two-way marketing strategies support social shift - monolog to dialog marketing
- Agencies are challenged to develop new models
- Campaigns are no longer flat - need for integrated strategy and plan
- More targeted, more relevant, more effective
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he Happy Soap Company is owned and managed by the Fraleigh family. Although he is more of a company figurehead than an active participant in the company's day-to-day business, anything that family patriarch Tom Fraleigh wants for the company he usually gets. What he wants is Beverly Boyer - the wife of his daughter-in-law's obstetrician, Dr. Gerald Boyer - to appear as the company spokesperson when Beverly, who he meets at a small dinner party, mentions a personal and true story about how Happy Soap saved her life. She is to appear in a live commercial spot during a Happy Soap sponsored television show telling her story just as she told Tom. Despite Beverly's performance going poorly in her own mind, Tom loved it and how refreshing and honest Beverly came across to the viewer. So Tom signs her to a one year, $80,000 contract to continue doing the same. This move is questioned by Happy Soap's own managers and its advertising company. But it is questioned even more by Gerald, who believes Beverly's place is in the home taking care of the house and their two adolescent children. As Beverly continues to do the commercials, her fame rises and her professional commitments increase which add another level of strain to their marriage. Only a natural act by Mrs. Fraleigh Jr. may be able to save the Boyer's marriage.Resumen IMDb.com
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Often, the sole obstacle to my buying things online — aside from the occasional desire to physically inspect the item I'm purchasing before I buy it — is the cost of shipping. After all, why would I pay $5 to have something shipped when I can pick it up at the store free of charge? That's where the Your Driving Costs pamphlet comes in handy.
The vehicle my wife and I normally take on our shopping trips, for instance, is our 2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee, which would fall under the 4WD Sport Utility Vehicle category in the pamphlet and which — given the 20,000 miles or so we likely drive it per year — is estimated to cost us roughly 63 cents per mile to drive. Considering we do most of our shopping at stores on S. Westnedge Avenue in Portage, about 11 miles from our home, that comes to just under $14 for a round trip.
This number seems incredibly high, but it takes into account both operating costs (gas, maintenance and tires) and ownership costs (full-coverage insurance; license, registration and taxes; etc.). But even if you calculate just the estimated cost of gas per mile — 17.04 cents — that's still nearly $4 for a round trip.
Given that standard shipping starts at $5.95 at kohls.com, as just one example — with free standard shipping when you spend $75 or more — it's likely worth it for us just to buy online and save ourselves the time of driving out there. We would more than likely be saving money in the process.
One way we could save even more, obviously, would be by driving a less expensive car. Other average costs per mile for cars driven 20,000 miles per year, for instance, are 38.1 cents per mile for small sedans, 48.6 cents per mile for medium sedans and 61.2 cents per mile for large sedans. Download the PDF version of AAA's 2011 Edition of Your Driving Costs for more: AAA's Your Driving Costs 2011.pdf
Tally up the costs per mile for your most common shopping trips. Does it make more sense to buy online and pay shipping? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below or email me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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And they always tend to be inferior on multiple levels.
"Always" is one of those Red Flag words we're taught to keep an eye out for, especially in true/false situations. There's a reason for it, because all I'd need to do now is find a single superior example and your statement is obliterated.
Anyway, you miss the point again: Those "inferior" copies have been around forever, whether it's PC's or consoles that are the most popular platform. Ergo, the problem isn't consoles. If you change one variable and the situation doesn't change, then that variable is not the "cause".
It's hard to imagine that you don't think video games have changed at all in the last 15 years.
The specific and superficial qualities of games have changed; the "gaming world" - the developers, the publishers, the gamers - haven't changed too much, other than growing in size, scale, and stakes. But everything that's "wrong" with gaming? It's been there this whole time, ever since somebody first realized that you can make an awful lot of money catering to gamers.
That was supposed to contrast heavily against the point you made about there not being a PC gaming market.
Except I never claimed that there's not a PC gaming market. In fact, I've repeatedly stated the exact opposite, especially with my point that the successful devs are those that make their software target available hardware instead of expecting hardware to target their (cough Crysis cough) software.


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Yup, more eggs.
I wish I could say I am tired of them, but the truth is I am just addicted and there are even more egg recipes coming. Please, please tell me you love eggs.
But oh my gosh, you know what I really am tired of?
Editing photos. Normally, I love editing photos. It's a mindless task, well not really, but it is a task I can do while listening to music or half watching a show. So I like it, and I especially like it when I am super excited about the photos. But by the time I got to this post, I had just spent the last two hours editing set after set of photos. Now my eyes just do not want to look at my computer screen anymore.
Like they kind of burn. My eyes I mean.
Plus, Monday is not helping the situation.
Therefore, I'm sorry if these photos seem overly bright or just completely wacko. As I said, by the time I got to this set of photos, I was done. DONE.
But let's talk salad. Or french bread salad. With steak and eggs and all things Greek.
So basically, this meal came to be because my steak loving family felt deprived and I started to feel a little guilty for not cooking their very favorite thing.
It's not my favorite thing, but I pretty much cook the food I want to cook all the time, so I figured I'd give in… a little.
I sort of didn't though, because I made the steak into a salad, and placed it on top of whole grain french bread + some eggs and feta. I mean, did they really think I would just cook them a steak? Yeah, not possible.
The boys obviously ate this minus the salad, but that's MY favorite part… and the bread, ok and the feta. Fine, and the eggs too. Oh, and I really love kalamata olives + sun-dried tomatoes too.
Come on, I can't be picking favorites because that would be impossible for me to do.
If steak is not your thing just leave it out all together or swap it for chicken or tuna. Tuna would have been delicious!
Greek Steak Salad French Bread with Soft Boiled Eggs + Feta.
- 1 pound flank steak about 1 inch thick, 1
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- 1/2 lemon juiced
- 4 cloves garlic grated or minced
- 1/3 cup basil chopped
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon pepper
Salad + Bread + Eggs
- 6-8 cups spring greens
- 1 pint grape tomatoes halved
- 1/3 cup kalamata olives halved
- 1/4 cup oil packed sun-dried tomatoes drained of most oil
- 1 avocado diced
- 1/2 small red onion sliced
- 4 ounces feta cheese crumbled
- 1/4 cup fresh basil chopped or sliced
- 1 whole grain loaf french bread halved (use your favorite gluten free loaf if needed)
- 2-4 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 clove garlic halved
- sprinkle of salt
- 6 eggs soft or hard boiled (I used [this method | http://pickledplum.com/how-to-boil-eggs/]
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1 lemon juiced
- 1 teaspoon dijon mustard
- 1-2 teaspoons granulated sugar
- 1 glove garlic minced or grated
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoons dried dill
- salt and pepper to taste
Marinate + Grill the Steak
Whisk olive oil, red wine vinegar, balsamic vinegar, lemon juice, garlic, basil, oregano, salt and pepper in a bowl until combined. Add flank steak to a ziplock bag or baking dish and pour marinade ingredients over top. Marinate in the fridge for 4-24 hours, flipping steak a few times to coat with marinade. When you're ready to make the steak, heat the grill to high heat and grill the steak for about 5 to 6 minutes, flip and grill for 4 to 5 minutes more or until your desired doneness. Let it rest for 10 minutes, then slice thin strips on an angle. You can also cook the steak under the broiler.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
Rub some olive oil over the cut sides of the french bread. Gentle rub the garlic into the bread and then set aside (reserve the remaining garlic for the dressing). Sprinkle the bread with salt and 2 tablespoons fresh basil. Bake on baking sheet for 10-15 minutes or until toasted.
Meanwhile combine the spring greens, tomatoes, olives, sun-dried tomatoes, avocado, read onion and basil in a large salad bowl. Toss well and drizzle with the dressing (or serve the dressing on the side), sprinkle with feta. There will be leftover salad.
In a bowl combine the olive oil, red wine vinegar, lemon juice, dijon, sugar, garlic, oregano, basil, dill, salt and pepper. Whisk well, taste and adjust as needed.
Spread the salad over the toasted french bread. Add the sliced steak and chopped soft boiled eggs. Sprinkle with feta and fresh pepper. Cut into fourths and serve with dressing on the side.
Monday salad done right….Opa!! <– I had too.


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Located in Santiago Center, this hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende and Palacio de la Moneda. Plaza de la Constitucion and Santiago Town Square are also within 2 mi (3 km).