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Newt Gingrich has delivered more policy statements, campaign speeches, press appearances, course teachings, newspaper op-eds, and books (24 at last count), than any of his opponents seeking the Republican presidential nomination. So you'd think all this transparency would provide a clear picture of how Gingrich would govern if he were president. But the GOP presidential hopeful is still full of surprises.
With Gingrich currently leading the pack, his GOP rivals, have the knives out. Last night's Republican debate in Iowa was proof positive that defeating Obama took a back seat to derailing Gingrich. Ron Paul and Michelle Bachman accused Gingrich of being a compromised conservative. And Romney accused him of being a bomb thrower.
In a speech last Thursday at the National Press Club, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman called Gingrich "a product of the same Washington that participated in the excesses of our broken and polarized political system." And in a strategy switch, Mitt Romney dispatched surrogates to criticize Gingrich's leadership ability and commitment to conservative principles. "He's not a reliable and trusted conservative leader," said former Senator Jim Talent of Missouri, a Romney supporter.
Gingrich has waved away the attacks. "We're focused on remaining positive," he said last Thursday during a campaign appearance in South Carolina.
Either way, with roughly three weeks to go until the Iowa caucuses, The Fiscal Times has compiled these tidbits about the longtime politician, historian, consultant and author:
- 1. Gingrich avoided the Vietnam War draft through deferments because he was a student and then a father. "Given everything I believe in, a large part of me thinks I should have gone over," he said in 1985.
2. Before his election to the House in 1978, he waged two unsuccessful campaigns to unseat Georgia's sixth-district incumbent Jack Flynt in 1974 and 1976. In 1976 he attacked Flynt's ethics, after a newspaper pointed out that while chairman of the House Ethics Committee, Flynt had told another congressman who was facing influence peddling charges not to worry about an ethics investigation. Gingrich lost that election with 48.3 percent of the vote, but won the seat in 1978 when Flynt retired. Some 25 years later, of course, Gingrich would face his own ethics charges.
3. In 1981, Gingrich co-sponsored a bill with Barney Frank (D-Mass.) to legalize medical marijuana nationally, which failed. He now calls legalizing medical marijuana a "terrible idea."
4. Gingrich was a member of the Sierra Club, the left-leaning environmental advocacy group, from 1984 to 1990 – the years when he publicly opposed drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Later, in a 2008 book entitled Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less, Gingrich supported opening ANWR to drilling, as well as other parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
5. He broke from most House Republicans in 1990 by opposing a tax increase that broke George H.W. Bush's famous "Read my lips, no new taxes," pledge, which increased individual income tax rates from a top rate of 28 percent to 31 percent and phased out personal exemptions.
6. In 1995, Time Magazine named him Man of the Year after he co-engineered the GOP's Contract with America, saying, "Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable. Newt Gingrich belongs in the category of the exceptional."
- 7.Two years later, in 1997, he was the first House speaker in U.S. history to be reprimanded by the House for ethics violations. The House Ethics committee ordered him to pay out $300,000 after it concluded Gingrich had repeatedly improperly used tax-exempt charitable organizations to advance his political goals, accepting $25,000 from a restaurant-advocacy group to teach ideas they favored in a college course Gingrich taught. Congress fined him both for the violations themselves, as well as to cover some of the costs of the investigation, after Gingrich admitted he "misled" congressional investigators.
8. He signed Grover Norquist's anti-tax pledge in 1998 while he was House Speaker. According to Jared Bernstein, former White House adviser to Joe Biden, Gingrich was Norquist's "Butt-buddy" when he was Speaker .
9. He said in 2005 that tenure should be abolished at state universities, calling it "an artificial social construct."
10. Gingrich co-chaired an independent congressional study group made up of health policy experts formed in 2007 to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of action taken within the U.S. to fight Alzheimer's. Within the Alzheimer's community, he's well respected, with many in the community crediting him with helping to raise awareness.
11. He has flip-flopped on whether the government should impose an individual mandate to buy health insurance or not. In June 2007 he said, "Personal responsibility extends to the purchase of health insurance. Citizens should not be able to cheat their neighbors by not buying health insurance, particularly when they can afford it, and expect others to pay for their care when they need it." By spring of 2011, his tune completely changed. "I am against any effort to impose a federal mandate on anyone because it is fundamentally wrong and I believe unconstitutional," he said.
12. In a 2008 appearance on ABC's "This Week," Gingrich said, "I suspect were I still in Congress … I probably would end up voting reluctantly yes," for the bank bailout, "because I think you are given no choice."
13. In a December 2010 Fox News appearance, Gingrich endorsed letting business owners decide when the let the Bush-era tax cuts expire. "What Republicans ought to do is say to people who create jobs, how many years does the tax code need to be extended for you to make an investment decision? … I would have the business leadership of the country describe the number" of years the tax cuts should remain, he said.
14. Between 1999 and 2007, Gingrich collected at least $1.5 million in consulting fees from Freddie Mac, according to a former official from the mortgage giant. His consulting group, The Gingrich Group LLC, and a health policy center he started called the Center for Health Transformation, together grossed $55 million between 2001 and 2010. According to disclosure documents, his net worth at the end of last year was at least $6.7 million.
15. What sort of First Lady might Callista Gingrich be? Last week Gingrich's wife told Reuters that she admired Nancy Reagan, Laura Bush and Jacqueline Kennedy. Mrs. Reagan, she said, "was always protective of her husband, looking out [for] his best interest always." Laura Bush was "a very loving mother and wife," while Jacqueline Kennedy had "incredible style and grace. She also focused on the arts and music and that's something I admire very much."
Other Factoids about Newt Gingrich:
- • His full name: Newton Leroy Gingrich. He was born in June 1943 as Newton Leroy McPherson and was adopted a few years later by his mother's second husband, Army officer Robert Gingrich. He and his family (including three younger half-sisters) moved four times in seven years. They lived in Fort Riley, Kansas; Orleans, France; Stuttgart, Germany; and Fort Benning, Georgia.
• Gingrich became interested in politics as a teenager while living in Orleans, France, especially when visiting the Battle of Verdun site, where his biography says "he learned about the sacrifices made and the importance of political leadership." He graduated from Baker H.S. in Columbia, Georgia.
• He earned a bachelor's in history from Emory University in 1965 and a master's and doctorate in Modern European History from Tulane (in 1968 and 1971, respectively).
• His Ph.D. dissertation topic: Belgian education policy in the Congo, 1945 to 1960.
• Before he was elected to Congress in 1978, he taught history and environmental studies at West Georgia College for eight years.
• He believes in the theory of "departure and return," from historian Arnold J. Toynbee: It says that great leaders must be banished from their homelands before they can improve themselves and return to lead. One of his personal heroes is Charles de Gaulle, the French general who was exiled from France before returning to become one of the country's most storied presidents.
• Among his 24 books (including 13 New York Times bestsellers) are several alternate history novels, including 1945, published in 1995, in which Hitler doesn't declare war on the U.S. first but is injured in a plane crash on December 6, 1941, while Germany is run by Goring, Goebbels, and Halder. Gingrich has also written a series of Civil War novels, including Grant Comes East and The Battle of the Crater: A Novel.


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The best charcoal BBQs on the UK market 2021, for entertaining and dining al fresco this summer
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For most people, especially seasoned chefs, charcoal and briquettes are widely considered to be the best fuels for grilling meats.
Along with wood pellets (see our guide to the best Pellet Grills), charcoal generally produces more smoke than gas because its molecular ingredients are more complex (gas is a more simplified, odourless compound that produces just water and carbon dioxide).
Charcoal is also a much more authentic – and therefore fulfilling – way to grill food. Charcoal barbecues are also generally easier to assemble than their gas counterparts.
Even the cheapest charcoal model will generally grill as well as the most expensive; after all, you'll get the same results using just four bricks on the ground and a cheap grate.
The main considerations are therefore the quality of the barbecue's components (an important asset if durability is a main prerequisite), the dimensions of its grill, special features, how good it looks and, of course, price.
What type of charcoal barbecue is best for you?
If you tend to burn your food quite regularly, go for a lidded (convection) model which will grill more evenly, less fiercely and a little slower than an open-top brazier-style BBQ.
Lidded barbecues (especially the kettle variety) use a convection process – rather like an oven – to cook the food. The secret is to keep the lid on as much as possible or the convection process will come to a rapid halt.
The lid also prevents the smoke from the fats escaping into thin air and the result is food infused with a delicious smoky flavour. Convection barbecues also allow you more time to engage in idle chit-chat without constantly having to break away from the conversation to turn the food over.
Any model with a lid like these reviewed below can be used in much the same way as a brazier by simply leaving the lid off.
Lump wood charcoal or briquettes?
Most experts will recommend lump wood charcoal over briquettes. Lump wood provides a superior flavour due to the fact it doesn't contain any chemicals or binders. However, lump wood charcoal usually burns quickly and more fiercely and by the time it's at optimum temperature, it starts to burn down quite quickly.
Briquettes, on the other hand, take longer to reach optimum temperature but stay hot for much longer. And that's a good thing if you're cooking two separate amounts of food or have a lot of mouths to feed. Heat Beads and Weber produce some of the best briquettes on the market.
This keenly-priced model is just the right size for a small patio or balcony and the build quality is excellent for the price; the heavy-duty lid is especially worth mention.
The Blooma Rockwell 200 doesn't come with a side shelf but the bottom shelf is rigid enough for the storage of plates, condiments etc.
The split grate itself measures 42 x 41cm – plenty of space for up to six ravenous guests – but there's no separate ash catcher so you'll need to scoop out the ashes after a few sessions.
In the arena of basic budget-priced models, the Rockwell ticks most boxes.
It cooks well, it's compact enough for easy storage and it looks like it will last quite a few years without turning into a heap of rust.
For those who require more meal estate, the larger Rockwell 310 has a larger grill, a side shelf and closed cupboard for charcoal storage.
Multi-fuel for convenience
Charcoal heats up quickly
Not the prettiest of models
Awkward to assemble
If you're torn between cooking on gas or coal or just want the best of both worlds, then how about this two-in-one griller that can run off both charcoal or gas? If using gas, simply turn on the three burners and start grilling.
But when the need arises for some good old-fashioned charcoal grilling, simply reach down to the compartment beneath the burners, pull out the charcoal tray, place it on top of the three burners and fill with briquettes or lump wood charcoal.
Now turn on the gas to light the charcoal using the electronic igniter. It should be ready to grill in about 20 minutes – a lot quicker than the conventional method of using firelighters.
The Gas2Coal comes with an excellent porcelain-coated cast iron grate that measures a very ample 61.5cm x 44.5cm, plus a separate side gas burner for heating stuff like baked beans and potatoes or frying onions.
Granted, this isn't the most stylish looking barbie in the yard and it takes about three hours to assemble, but it grills very well on either charcoal or gas and is a great overall choice for fence sitters. Also available as a two- or four-burner option.
Reliable grilling method
Exceptional build quality
Lid doesn't have a hinge
Weber barbecues are known to last for years, even when kept in the garden without a cover on. That's testament to the quality of the materials used and a major reason why Weber is one of the most popular barbecue manufacturers on the planet.
Weber's kettle system is an extremely efficient and reliable way to charcoal-grill food without burning it to a cinder. Yes you can easily grill on it using the direct method of grilling (simple take the lid off), but for peace of mind and higher success, we'd opt for the indirect convention process and grill with the lid always on. This way the food will cook all the way through without scorching it.
The Master-Touch GBS E-5755 comes with a clever ash-removal bucket, an easy-to-use venting system and a 57cm stainless steel grate that can also accommodate a wide range of cooking accessories – wok, poultry roaster, griddle, pizza stone, etc.
If you're in the market for an extremely versatile workhorse that delivers the goods without any fuss, the Master-Touch GBS E-5755 is a top choice.
Huge size
Double skin wall
Great for smoking, too
Too big for most of us
Takes a while to assemble
This multi-faceted barbecue from Weber adopts the Japanese Kamado method of grilling (both direct or indirect), searing, slow-and-low smoking and roasting, and features a steel double wall and a brilliant sprung lid with an oven-style gasket that seals in the heat for up to five hours on a single dose of charcoal.
The Summit takes about 90 minutes to assemble and, as to be expected from Weber, the build quality is exemplary.
It's superbly designed, too, and comes with an excellent vent system that allows you to make fine adjustments to the airflow.
The huge 61cm stainless steel grilling grate also features a removable centre section for adding optional accessories from Weber's Gourmet range. Just below it is an aluminium deflector dish designed for flare-free indirect cooking.
The summit performed exceptionally well in our test, retaining its temperature for a staggeringly long time. In fact, a single self-lighting bag of cheap lump wood charcoal remained at a temperature of around 350˚C for just over four hours.
If you're after an extremely well-designed model that really does it all, then look no further than this solidly built and highly commendable behemoth.
Height adjustable charcoal grate
Excellent design
Some cheap materials
This keenly-priced barbecue cart comes with an adjustable charcoal grate that can be raised or lowered using a simple winding action. This is an invaluable asset on a barbecue, especially for novices.
Why? Well let's say you put too much charcoal on the tray and its created an inferno that is likely to incinerate anything that touches the grate. Or perhaps you're doing a long cook, and by the time you come round to putting the skewered prawns on the grill, the charcoal looks like it's about to die.
With this grill you simply wind the handle and the whole charcoal bed moves up or down by up to eight inches.
Other cool features include a porcelain-coated 48cm x 36cm grill grate with a removable centre section that can be replaced with a host of optional cooking accessories, a hatch for loading more charcoal, a folding side shelf, a built-in thermometer and a bottle opener on the side.
If you always struggle to maintain the correct grilling temperature when using charcoal,
This budget-priced model will soon become your new best friend.

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This should make us very easy to convert with the following three-step process:
- Produce the evidence that you found convincing.
- Explain why it is evidence only for your god and not any other. Since people have believed in over 3000 different gods in recorded human history, obviously you will need to show why your evidence couldn't be evidence for any of those.
- Explain how a god is the only possible explanation for your evidence and why it can't possibly be explained as the result of a natural process.
Now, since, presumably, you were convinced of your god's existence by just such evidence and just such a process, it shouldn't be too difficult to tell us Atheists where it's to be found and how it meets the above criteria.
In your own time....
(p.s. Opinion isn't evidence and nor is a quote from a book unless the quote refers to authenticated, observable evidence meeting the above criteria).
If you can't find any such evidence or provide any of this explanation, maybe you should be asking yourself why you believe in your god, because one thing is certain: your belief isn't based on evidence or rational analysis... so what is it based on exactly?
[Later note] It seems many Creationists are unsure of what constitutes 'evidence' and imagine it includes ignorance and even the opinions of others. The following blogs may help them gain the necessary understanding to be able to use the above method:
Generic Answer: What Is Evidence.(Thanks to @kaimatai on Twitter for providing these helpful link)
A Failure to grasp what evidence means.


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Victory for Free Expression at San Francisco State University
SAN FRANCISCO, March 20, 2007—In a crucial victory for free expression, San Francisco State University (SFSU) announced yesterday that its College Republicans will face no punishment for hosting an anti-terrorism rally at which participants stepped on makeshift Hezbollah and Hamas flags. SFSU's decision comes after months of pressure from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), national and local media, and the public—all of which called on the school to uphold the students' constitutionally guaranteed right to free expression.
"We are relieved that SFSU has come to its senses and recognized that it cannot punish students for constitutionally protected expression," FIRE President Greg Lukianoff said. "But the fact remains that the university should never have investigated or tried them in the first place. This was a protected act of political protest and it is impossible to believe the university did not know that from the start."
SFSU's shameful attack on free expression began after an October 17, 2006 anti-terrorism rally at which several members of the College Republicans stepped on pieces of paper they had painted to resemble Hamas and Hezbollah flags. Unbeknownst to the protestors, the flags they had copied contained the word "Allah" written in Arabic script. On October 26, a student filed a formal complaint with the university against the College Republicans, alleging "attempts to incite violence and create a hostile environment" and "actions of incivility." Although university administrators could have settled the matter informally or dismissed the charges outright, the university instead chose to press forward with a hearing on the charges.
FIRE wrote to SFSU President Robert A. Corrigan on January 23, 2007, to stress that no American public institution can lawfully prosecute students for engaging in political protest or for desecrating religious symbols. SFSU replied to FIRE's letter on January 29 by saying that the university would continue to investigate the complaint. When SFSU scheduled a hearing for March 9, FIRE immediately wrote to President Corrigan again to urge him to call off the hearing. Undeterred by clearly established constitutional jurisprudence, SFSU went forward with the hearing as scheduled. President Corrigan then responded to FIRE on March 13, once again standing by the university's disciplinary process.
Yesterday afternoon, President Corrigan wrote to FIRE with the welcome news that "the Student Organization Hearing Panel (SOHP) unanimously concluded that the College Republicans organization had not violated the Student Code of Conduct and that there were no grounds to support the student complaint lodged against them."
"SFSU has finally done what it should have done months ago," FIRE Director of Legal and Public Advocacy Samantha Harris said. "The College Republicans should never have been dragged through an investigation and hearing for their protected political expression, and it is an outrage that SFSU carried on with this for so long when it had the power to dismiss the charges informally. We hope that SFSU will make whatever policy changes are necessary to ensure that this does not happen again."
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ROCHESTER, Minn. — A new population-based study has found that patients with glioblastoma who died in 2010, after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of bevacizumab, had lived significantly longer than patients who died of the disease in 2008, prior to the conditional approval of the drug for the treatment of the deadly brain cancer. Bevacizumab is used to treat patients with certain cancers whose cancer has spread. The study appears in the journal Cancer.
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"There has been a great deal of debate about the effectiveness of bevacizumab in treating patients with glioblastoma," says lead author Derek Johnson, M.D., a neuro-oncologist at Mayo Clinic Cancer Center. "Our study found that, at the population level, treatment strategies involving bevacizumab prolonged survival in patients with progressive glioblastoma."
Researchers analyzed data on 5,607 adult patients from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database before and after the conditional approval of bevacizumab for the treatment of glioblastoma in 2009. The SEER database covers 18 geographic areas of the U.S., which collectively represent 28 percent of the U.S. population.
Researchers studied survival in 1,715 patients with glioblastoma who died in 2006, 1,924 who died in 2008 and 1,968 who died in 2010. "The difference in survival between 2008 and 2010 was highly significant and likely unrelated to any advancements in supportive care," Dr. Johnson says. "This study provides the strongest evidence to date that bevacizumab therapy improves survival in patients with glioblastoma."
Glioblastoma, is an aggressive cancer in which tumors grow rapidly and spread rapidly to new sites. It is the most common malignant brain tumor in adults and accounts for about 22 percent of all brain cancers. About 3,000 people develop a glioblastoma each year in the U.S.
Co-authors include Heather Leeper, M.D., and Joon Uhm, M.D. both of Mayo Clinic.
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MSU Receives $500,000 to Look For New Genes For Resistance To Wheat Stem Sawflies
Scientists discovered some 70 years ago that they could fight wheat stem sawfly by growing a new type of wheat. The wheat had a solid stem instead of a hollow one, making it harder for females to lay eggs and leaving less room for larvae to grow.
Montana wheat farmers still benefit from that breakthrough, and Montana State University now has a new grant that could add weapons to their arsenal, said MSU wheat breeder Luther Talbert.
With a five-year $500,000 grant from the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Talbert and his colleagues will screen 4,000 to 5,000 varieties of wheat that originated in areas of the world where wheat stem sawflies are a problem. The scientists will look for resistant traits that may be present in the wheat and then try to identify the genes associated with that resistance. New resistance genes will be incorporated into new varieties of wheat.
"I'm very excited. I have wanted to do this for several years," said Talbert, a professor in MSU's Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology. "It's good that the USDA will give us the opportunity to do this. It's good that our colleagues in the wheat breeding community are willing to help out."
Peggy Lamb, an agronomist at MSU's Northern Agricultural Research Center in Havre, said, "Any steps that can be taken to better understand, select and breed wheat that will help growers in the sawfly-infested regions of Montana and the U.S. is huge. Funding from this grant will definitely bolster the wheat stem sawfly resistance research that Luther and his spring wheat breeding program have been working on for several years."
In addition to Lamb, Talbert's team on the new project includes MSU entomologist David Weaver; MSU molecular biologist Jamie Sherman; Terry McKeever, a farmer near Loma; Shiaoman Chao, a molecular geneticist at the USDA's Agricultural Research Service in Fargo, N.D .; and researchers at four international wheat breeding companies: Bayer CropScience, Limagrain Cereal Seeds, Westbred (Monsanto), and Agripro (Syngenta).
Lamb finds farms that have sawfly problems, then lays out an area for field trials, plants the seed that Talbert's group has packed, and maintains the plots. The field crews of Talbert and Weaver will collect field data from the sites. Weaver and his laboratory staff will process samples to identify any potential new mechanism by dissecting stems. Sherman's crew will help with genetic studies to identify the new genes for resistance. Syngenta will provide an observation nursery in western North Dakota to help the researchers screen and identify potentially new sources of sawfly resistance.
"Current resistance based on solid stem doesn't always hold up," said Syngenta Northern Plains Wheat Breeder Joe Smith. "Syngenta feels additional sources of resistance would be useful. This kind of research is good for Montana growers, but also could be useful for growers in neighboring states that are experiencing sawfly problems."
Lyle McKeever of Loma said MSU researchers have conducted wheat stem sawfly research on his farm for about 10 years. His son, Terry, will be involved in the upcoming study by letting the scientists grow test plots of wheat on his farm.
"This area has some of the worst sawfly pressure in the state," said the younger McKeever.
Not sure why, Terry McKeever said climate, temperature and elevation could play a role. At any rate, wheat stem sawflies have invaded the family's farms since the 1970s. What started out as a nuisance has turned into major losses of yield.
"Solid stem helps a lot but those varieties don't have the yield potential that some of the hollow stem varieties have," Terry McKeever said.
Lyle McKeever said he reduced his problem by planting two varieties of solid stem wheat and planting spring wheat instead of winter wheat, but solid stem wheat isn't totally effective. In fact, he calls it semi-solid wheat because some wheat stem sawflies still make their way into the stems. Spraying isn't the answer either.
"You can spray for wheat stem sawfly," Lyle McKeever said. "But you have to spray about every other day each week because it keeps hatching."
Weaver said Montana growers estimate that wheat stem sawflies cause approximately $75-100 million damage a year in Montana, making this insect the most destructive wheat pest in the state. Overall losses to this pest have been estimated at $350 million for the entire Northern Great Plains.
Talbert added that, "Montana is the epicenter for wheat stem sawflies in our part of the world, so it's a bigger deal for us than most people."
Unless their life cycle is interrupted, adult female sawflies lay their eggs in the spring inside the wheat stem. During the summer, the larvae eat the inside of the wheat plant, disrupting the movement of sugar and water, weakening the plant and reducing yields. At the end of the summer, the larvae cut the wheat stems at the base so it can emerge the next year.
"That certainly appears to be the worst thing it does," Talbert said.
Weaver suggested that losses in grain weight due to feeding by the larvae might be quite a bit greater.
"It is certainly more insidious because growers can't see how much of the crop's potential has been stolen, whereas stems on the ground are very obvious," Weaver said.
The larvae live inside the wheat stubble during the fall and winter. In the spring, adults emerge from the stem, and the cycle continues.
Finding new resistant genes will be harder than detecting the gene tied to solid stems, but with new advances in molecular genetics, the outlook is promising, Talbert said. Weaver added that the new resistance targets for wheat stem sawfly should include everything from influencing female choices in laying eggs through compounds that kill the growing larvae.
Whatever the outcome, Talbert said he hoped the new project will have the same long-lasting impact as its predecessor.
"The previous wheat breeding community's discovery of solid stems has saved growers many millions of dollars over the past several decades," Talbert said. "It's our goal to leave a similar legacy – identify new genes for resistance that will be equally useful in the future."


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Start by de-cluttering cabinets! Following package instructions, and adhere two Command™ Quartz Terrace Hooks to the tile backsplash. For strongest hold, avoid placing adhesive strips over grout. Free up cabinet space by hanging strainers on the walls instead.
2. Take it one step further by using two Command™ Clear Medium Hooks on the outside of a cabinet to neatly store measuring cups and spoons.
3. Then, clear out those drawers. Following package instructions, mount a Command™ Quartz Key Rail on the wall near the stove. Instead of keeping oven mitts in drawers or on countertops, hang them on the key rail for easy access when you need them.
4. Whether you're preparing for houseguests or just your weekly errands, staying organized is key. Follow package instructions to adhere Command™ Party Mini Spring Clips and never lose a shopping list, calendar or important receipt again.
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I used to think serving static files (aka static assets) is really easy: configure nginx to serve a directory and you're done. But things quickly became more complicated as issues like asset compilation, CDNs/scalability, file-specific custom headers, deployment complexity and development/production parity rear their ugly heads. Judging by the huge number of different asset management packages on djangopackages, it seems like I'm not the only one who ran into this problem and felt not-entirely-satisfied with all the other solutions out there. Things actually took a turn for the worse ever since I started drinking the Heroku cool-aid, and for the live of me I just can't make sense of their best-practice with regard to serving static files. The heroku-django quickstart conveniently sidesteps the issue of statics, and while there are a few support articles that lightly touch on neighboring subjects, nothing I found was spot-on and hands-on (this is an exception to the rule; the Heroku cool-aid is otherwise very tasty and easy to drink, to my taste so far). Ugh, why can't there be a silver bullet to solve all this? Let me tell you about my "wishlist" for the best static serving method evar.
First, I want to be able to take any checkout from my VCS, maybe run an easy bootstrap function, and get a working development environment with statics served. In production, I want to serve my statics from a CDN with aggressive caching, so I need some versioning system, but I'd like to minimize deployment complexity and I want fine-grained cache invalidation of my statics. I want my statics to be served the same way (same headers, same versioning mechanism) in development and production without having to update two different locations (i.e., my S3 syncing script and my development nginx configuration). I also don't want to have to "garbage-collect" my old statics from S3 every so and so days. Like I said, I'd like some of my statics to be served with some bells and whistles, like various custom headers (Access-Control-Allow-Origin, anyone?) or gzip compression. Speaking of bells and whistles, how about a whole marching band, since I want to serve statics that require compilation (minify/concatenate/compile scss+coffe/spritalize/etc), but I don't want to have to rerun a 'build process' every time I touch a coffee script file in development. Finally, and this isn't something I'm not very adamant about, but I prefer my statics to be served from a different subdomain (static, not www), I think it's cleaner, I don't need my clients' cookies with every static request and it allows for some tricks (like using a CDN with support for a custom origin).
And nothing I found does all that, definitely not easily. In my dream, there's a package called django-static-upstream, which is designed to provide a holistic approach to all these issues. I'm thinking:
- a pure Python/django static HTTP server (probably just django.views.static with support for the bells and whistles as mentioned above), and yeah, I think I should bloody use this server as a backend to serve my in production
- a "vhost" middleware that will replace request.urlconf based on the Host: header; if the host starts with some prefix (say, static), the request will be served by the webserver above
- a couple of template tags like {% static "images/logo.png" %} that will create content-hashed links to the static webserver (i.e., //static.example.com/829dd67168a3/images/logo.png); the static server will know to ignore the content-hash bit
- this isn't really up to the package, but it should be built to support easily setting a custom-origin supporting CDN (like CloudFront) as the origin URL; this is both to serve the statics from nearby edges CDN but also (maybe more importantly) to serve as a caching reverse proxy so the dynamic server will be fairly idle
- support for compiling some static types on the fly (coffeescript, scss, etc) and returning the rendered result; the result may have to be cached using django's cache (keyd by a content hash), but this is more to speed up multi-browser development where there is no CDN to serve as a reverse caching proxy than because I worry about production
So now I'm thinking maybe I should write something like this. There are two reasons I'm blogging about a package before I even wrote it; first, since I wanted to flesh out in my mind what is it that I want from it. But second, and more importantly, because I'd like to tread carefully (1) before I have the hubris to start yet another assets related django package, (2) before I start serving static content with a dynamic language (what am I, mad?) and (3) because compiling static assets on runtime in violation of the fifth factor in Adam Wiggins' twelve-factor app manifesto (what, you didn't read it yet? what's wrong with you?). These are quite a few warning signs to cross, and I'd like to get some feedback before I go there. But I honestly think I'll be happier if I had a package to do all this, I don't think writing it should be so hard and I hope you'd be happy using it, too.
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Edgar Degas at the Norton Simon Museum
Over the course of his three decades of collecting, Norton Simon assembled one of the finest collections of 19th-century French art in an American museum. The artist toward whom Norton Simon gravitated most from this era was Edgar Degas (1834–1917), who is represented in the collection not only by his paintings, but by pastels, drawings, prints and sculpture. Spanning nearly every decade of Degas's career and nearly every medium in which the artist experimented (the exception is photography), there are over 100 works by this complex artist at the Museum. This grouping is the second-largest in the world assembled by a single collector, after the Havemeyer collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (The recent publication, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, provides an in-depth overview of the entire collection.)
While Degas employed a wide variety of media, in evidence at the core of his work is his exquisite draftsmanship. Born in Paris, by the time Degas was 20 this bourgeois son of a banker was copying artists in the Louvre and about to begin artistic training under a disciple of the 19th-century master Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Degas revered Ingres whom he met but once, and to the young art student the elder painter offered, "Draw lines, young man. Many lines." Degas obliged, but instead of continuing in the traditional arena of history painting, the young Parisian turned his eye toward contemporary life. His subject matter included the ballet, bathing women, portraits, women at work, landscapes, figure studies and horses, all of which are represented in the Norton Simon Museum collection. The spirited, dramatic angles of Dancers in the Wings, the exhausted intensity of Women Ironing, the nearly desperate self-assurance of Little Dancer: Aged Fourteen—Degas was keenly attuned to the moments he decided to capture, adjusting his compositions, techniques and style to infuse his subjects with the esteem they deserved.
The following is a gathering of all of the Degas works in the Museum's collection, divided into three categories: paintings, which consist of works on canvas or paper using oil, pastel, essence (dilute oil paint) and gouache; prints and drawings, which consist of charcoal, chalk, etchings, lithographs and monotypes on paper; and sculpture, defined as any work made in three dimensions


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RICHMOND, INDIANA–Geology students in the Cincinnati area are a bit spoiled when it comes to finding fossils in the field. The Upper Ordovician rocks here are world-famous for the extraordinary abundance, variety and preservation of invertebrate fossils.like those shown above and below.
Today Wooster's Invertebrate Paleontology class had its annual field trip to collect specimens for lab projects and analyses. We traveled to roadcut outcrops south of Richmond, Indiana — places Wooster Geologists have been visiting for about 30 years. Most recently Kit Price ('13) and her team was here collecting specimens for her Independent Study project. She was on this trip as well, and the class found lots of goodies for her work.
Our fleet of vehicles at our first outcrop (the Whitewater Formation).
Matt Peppers ('13) and Will Cary ('13) striking a Team Utah pose with the Whitewater Formation. Note that this rock unit is mostly resistant limestone beds.
The outcrop of the Liberty Formation at our second stop. (The Liberty is known as the Dillsboro Formation in Indiana, but we tend to use the Ohio names just across the border.) Note the prominence of less resistant shale.
It was a great day — sunny, warm and full of fossils. This class was especially adept at finding unusual specimens, several of which will show up us Fossils of the Week!


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In making your travel arrangements, please remember that the workshop starts at noon on Sunday, July 27 and will end at noon on Thursday, July 31. In order to arrive in time for the start of the workshop, and to allow time for travel from the airport and check-in at the workshop, please do not schedule plane flights to arrive in Syracuse any later than 10 am on Sunday July 27. If you wish to arrive on Saturday, July 26, we will provide a room at Hamilton College at no cost. If you arrive on Saturday, you may check in any time after 4 pm. If you have questions regarding the schedule, please contact Barbara Tewksbury.
Syracuse is about 60 miles from Hamilton College. Transportation to and from the Airport is at your own expense. You should arrange in advance for a rental car or for limo transport (Whitesboro Limo Service at 315-736-5221). We will provide information on arrival times of other participants in case you wish to share transportation to and from the aiport.


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Lamb Biryani
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I've made this a few times. It smells heavenly and has an exotic yet simple flavor. You'll want to check out the ingredient list before trying it since some of the spices aren't terribly common. It's good & it's simple and if you and those you cook for like variety & adventure, try it. It doesn't require a lot of supervision so it's good if you need to be able to walk away from your stove. It's easy to portion & freezes well.
Ingredients You'll Need
Ingredient set 1:
1/2 c plain yogurt
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/8 tsp cayenne
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1/4 tsp pepper
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 lb boneless lamb, cubed
Ingredient set 2:
3 T butter
1 onion, thinly slice
1/4 tsp cardamom (ground coriander may be substituted)
1/4 tsp turmeric
1 1/4 tsp salt
couple dashes ground cloves (or up to 5 whole cloves; I don�t like cloves so I cut it down)
1 cinnamon stick, broken in half or thirds
1 1/2 c long grain rice (basmati works well)
2 3/4 c water
optional: 1/3 c raisins & 1/3 c cashews or slivered almonds.
Brown cubed lamb. Combine all other ingredients in set #1. Add browned lamb to yogurt mixture. Set aside.
Melt butter in saucepan. Add onions & cook until soft, about 3-5 minutes.
Add spices from set #2. Cook & stir for one minute.
Add dry rice, yogurt mixture and water, in that order.
Cover and simmer until water is almost completely absorbed, at least 20 minutes (it usually takes mine well over half an hour; I think it's my rice). Remove from heat and let stand five minutes.
Remove cinnamon sticks and, if used, cloves. Stir in raisins and nuts, if desired. Serve with bread.
Note: The turmeric can stain so keep that in mind for your stirring utensil, clothing and countertop.


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It is one of the great truisms of our time that we live in an age of technological acceleration; the new paradigms keep rolling in, and the intervals between them keep shortening. This acceleration reflects not only the flood of new products, but also our growing willingness to embrace these strange new devices, and put them to use…It took ten years for color TV to go from the fringes to the mainstream; two generations later, it took HDTV just as long to achieve mass succeed.
In fact, if you look at the entirety of the twentieth century, the most important developments in mass, one-to-many communications clock in at the same social innovation rate with an eerie regularity. Call it the 10/10 rule: a decade to build the new platform, and a decade for it to find a mass audience.
Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From:
The Natural History of Innovation, 2010
As I gaze in the coming year's crystal ball, I suspect that, at this time next year, we will be talking about 2013 being the rise of the robot.
A colleague of mine, Larry Birnbaum, likes to talk about how artificial intelligence has witnessed significant breakthrough in the past couple of years and that its tools are coming into maturity. In 2011, a computer won "Jeopardy" and Google gave us the driverless car, and this year, we began to see significant adoption of Apple's virtual personal assistant service. Siri's founder, Dag Kittlaus, made the rounds this year talking about how technology is good enough when its accuracy is around 90–95% — the tipping point from cool and experimental to utility. He has high hopes for the coming year in artificial intelligence development.
If I get my wish, 2013 will produce the ultimate to-do/productivity app that not only tracks my tasks for me, but also completes some of them. It would be the smartest task-tracker robot ever, because it would know which tasks it could (and could not) complete, and it would just do the work for me.
If journalism gets its wish, 2013 will bring tons and tons of robots to the future of news — and I think it just might happen.
Perhaps we will develop and start to see significant adoption of computer systems that do the mundane reporting and writing work for us, like Ben Welsh's idea of human-assisted reporting. The dream of the ultimate "reporters' dashboard," complete with smart notes, data management, analysis and notifications, doesn't seem all that far off.
Perhaps we will build more, better, stronger robots that write some of our stories for us. In fact, friends of Knight Lab — Narrative Science — have made significant strides in automated story generation since 2010. Each year, there seem to be more and more startups and projects in the market of automating stories through datasets.
Perhaps we will build systems that learn our user's social media behavior, providing us with more significant understanding of our audience's desire for news. Perhaps we'll learn more about how our readers perceive us, based upon the specific words we write. Perhaps we'll get machine-learning design and publishing systems.
Perhaps. Perhaps.
In whatever form they take, it's darned exciting to think that we are not far off from having armies of robots all around us that collectively make it easier to be a journalist.
While automating journalism in order to save money is not terribly inspirational to me — and I am not the type who gets excited over the novelty of the technology (automating for the sake of automating) — I do think 2013 is primed for tools that make reporting and information gathering easier, removing obstacles to significant journalism work. Computers will never replace journalists, but they sure can make it easier to do our jobs.


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text: German cantor, musician, and composer; born in Russia Dec. 26, 1834; died at Gothenburg, Sweden, March 7, 1894. His father destined him for the rabbinate; but his love for music and the song of the synagogue caused him to elect the cantorate. At an early age he emigrated to Germany, and there under the tutelage of eminent ḥazanim prepared himself for his sacred calling. He officiated for a time at Pakosh and Schwetz in West Prussia, and at twenty-three (1857) was called to Gothenburg, Sweden. Well equipped with Hebrew and Talmudic learning, he applied himself with remarkable success to the acquisition of secular knowledge and the science and art of music. His researches were especially directed to the field of Jewish traditional melodies, then but little explored.These he collected with great patience and industry; and in 1871, after fifteen years of incessant labor, published his work, "Bā'al Tefillah, oder der Practische Vorbeter"—an almost complete collection of Jewish traditional melodies, of which a second revised and enlarged edition (358 pp. folio) appeared in 1883. The work contains fifteen hundred and five melodies, in German, Polish, and Portuguese (Sephardic) versions, and is divided into four parts: (1) for the services on week-days; (2) for Sabbath; (3) for the three festivals Pesaḥ, Shabu'ot, and Sukkot; (4) for the two great holidays, Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom ha-Kippurim; together with an appendix containing notes on the liturgy, the reading of the Torah, and directions and formulas for writing betrothal and marriage contracts. The collection is more complete in German and Polish melodies than in Portuguese. Occasionally a fourth version is appended, called by the compiler "Neue Weise," but this seems to be his own composition or that of other modern cantors. The collection is of great value both to the student and the practical cantor. The latter can find therein all traditional tunes of the synagogue—most of which were theretofore to be acquired orally from older ḥazanim alone. Many of the more familiar melodies had been collected and published before Baer by Sulzer and Weintraub; and melody No. 714, p. 160, is found even in a work published in the eighteenth century by Benedetto Marcello, called "Estro Poetico Armenico," in which it appears under the head of "Intonazione degli Ebrei Spagnuoli."


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A television producer sued dog trainer Cesar Millan, star of TV's "Dog Whisperer," claiming his Labrador retriever was injured at Millan's training facility after being choked with a collar and forced to run on a treadmill.
In the lawsuit filed Thursday in Superior Court, "8 Simple Rules" producer Flody Suarez said he took 5-year-old Gator to the Dog Psychology Center on Feb. 27 to deal with fears of other dogs and strangers.
Hours after dropping off the dog, Suarez said, a worker called to tell him the animal had been rushed to a veterinarian. Suarez later found the dog "bleeding from his mouth and nose, in an oxygen tent gasping for breath and with severe bruising to his back inner thighs," according to the lawsuit.
Workers at the facility were accused in the suit of placing a choke collar on the dog, pulling him onto a treadmill and forcing him to overwork.
Suarez said he has spent at least $25,000 on medical bills, and the dog must undergo more surgeries for damage to his esophagus.
The lawsuit claimed breach of contract, fraud, animal cruelty and intentional infliction of emotional distress, among other allegations. It seeks more than $25,000 in damages.
A call to Millan at the Dog Psychology Center was not immediately returned. The facility is also named as a defendant.
The lawsuit was the second filed against Millan in a week.
On April 28, his former publicist Makeda Smith and her partner Foster Corder sued Millan and other defendants, including the National Geographic Channel, which airs Millan's show.
That suit claimed breach of contract, copyright infringement and breach of confidential relationship, alleging that Smith originally conceived the name "Dog Whisperer" for Millan.
But while she and Corder attempted to sell a pilot episode written by Corder, Millan "went on his own" and pitched the show to the National Geographic Channel and two production companies without the plaintiffs' knowledge, the lawsuit claimed.
Together, Smith and Corder are seeking more than $5 million in damages.
A spokesman for the National Geographic Channel declined comment.
"As of this time, the National Geographic Channel has not been served with either lawsuit, and we do not comment on pending litigation," said Russell Howard, the channel's vice president of communications.


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How To Hide Flaws With Clothing
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How do you dress well if you've got a gut? How do you disguise a short waist? What exactly is the procedure for camouflaging a flat butt? And what kind of jeans should you wear if you've got a big butt? Thankfully, I've got the solutions for you. Welcome to the world of "clothes as body camouflage," where anything is possible.
general rules
Whether you're skinny or heavy, tall or short, you should never fall back on baggy clothes to disguise your body's flaws. Alternately, you should never wear very tight clothes. Instead, take the extra time to buy the right clothes. Don't be afraid to spend a little more to camouflage a little better.One of the best ways to complement your body with the right clothes is to find a tailor that you trust. He can be of great assistance when it comes to crafting suits and jackets that best fit your body type.
At the very least, you need someone around to give you a second opinion on your clothing. Don't worry if you still see your love handles after an afternoon of adjustments; as long as others don't see your gut, you're home free.
tips for body types
By using the right combination of shirt, pants and belt, there are many ways to overcome both a short-waisted and high-waisted look.Short-waisted
Simply put, short-waistedness is when your legs are longer than your torso. It's almost always a product of genetics, but it shouldn't prove to be any trouble for you if you follow these simple tips when dressing casual.
Pulling off suits for the short-waisted man, however, is trickier than with casual clothes. For starters, you should match the color tones of your jacket, pants and dress shirt to create one seamless outfit/look. In other words, don't throw on a pink shirt with a black suit if you're short-waisted, as it provides too much of a contrast.
Another trick is to have your tailor add an inch to your waist and subtract an inch from your inseam. This will let your pants sit comfortably on your hips, without touching the ground. Cuffed legs also make your lower half seem shorter.
If you're long-waisted, your legs are relatively short and your torso is long. There are several ways to overcome this problem with some simple clothing adjustments.
As for suits, double-breasted suits are a great way to make your midsection appear boxier, as they present your body as a series of segments (legs, trunk, chest, then head). This will help divert attention from your legs.
Wearing suspenders also creates the illusion of a higher waistline. Alternatively, a belt with a large buckle and pleated, uncuffed slacks will draw attention to your lower half and make your legs appear longer.
What to do about a small or big butt, and how to hide that belly...
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Novell paints Red Hat Linux manager green
SUSE Manager drives RHEL
The quickest way to build a commercial Linux business is to clone whatever Red Hat does. That's what Oracle and CentOS do with their Enterprise Linux redistributions and accompanying paid-for support offerings, and it is now what Novell is doing with a "new" product called SUSE Manager.
With SUSE Manager, announced today, Novell is trying to not only provide a better tool for managing its SUSE Linux Enterprise server than its existing Yast and ZENworks products, but is also trying to branch out into managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as well as its own distro for servers.
The company could have spent a lot of time and money creating a tool that allowed for the management of RHEL and SLES, the two most popular Linuxes (in terms of support revenue, not necessarily installations). Or it could grab the Red Hat Network Satellite code that its Linux rival created to provision, patch, and manage RHEL and make it play nice with SLES.
The code behind Red Hat Network Satellite, the version of Red Hat's management system that you run behind your own firewall (as distinct from plain old Red Hat Network, which Red Hat runs on its systems to manage yours from outside your firewall) was open sourced in June 2008. The RHN Satellite code was opened up as Project Spacewalk, which now exists upstream from the code base that eventually becomes RHN Satellite.
Doug Jarvis, product marketing manager for enterprise Linux at Novell, tells El Reg that Novell decided to create its own SUSE-compatible version of the Spacewalk code base about nine months ago. To make the Spacewalk code work with SUSE Linux required some changes, but nothing monumental, according to Jarvis. Essentially, you have to make RHN Satellite speak Zypp and AutoYast for SUSE Linux configuration and package management, both of which are used by SUSE Linux.
Red Hat's Enterprise Linux distro uses Yum for package management and Kickstart for network installs. Novell has added support for Zypp and AutoYast (their equivalents) to Spacewalk 1.2 and contributed this SLES-friendly code back to the project. So if it wants to, Red Hat can turn around and add support for SLES to RHN and RHN Satellite. Nothing has been removed from SUSE Manager that would break compatibility with RHEL, so you can switch from RHN Satellite to SUSE Manager.
SUSE Manager is similar, in concept, to the functionality in ZENworks Linux Management 7.3 and ZENworks Configuration Management 11, two existing products sold by Novell. But Jarvis says that these ZENworks products were designed at first to control Windows-based desktops and use terminology and logic familiar to Windows admins, not to Linux nerds.
But the problem is larger than that. Linux people want open source tools, Windows people could care less. Linux admins are still mad at Red Hat because its KVM hypervisor management tools run only on Windows, and ditto for VMware and its vCenter console. Linux and Windows platforms are like Hatfields and McCoys in the data center. They may share the same kind of iron most of the time, but even with virtualization on the rise and presumably making them share virtualized platforms under a single management framework, they tend to be siloed and they take shots at each other - mostly verbally - over the racks from opposite sides of the data center.
Novell tried to ignore this fact, as have Red Hat and VMware. The existing ZENworks tools were extended to support SUSE Linux Enterprise Server a few years back, but hard-core SLESheads didn't want to use a Winders tool to manage their Linux servers. They probably won't mind using a clone of RHN Satellite painted green with chameleons crawling all over it, though. And now, the RHEL people and the SLES people are allies inside of a company and in supporting the Spacewalk project, which Novell has been contributing to as it developed SUSE Manager. (If Novell wanted to be politically neutral, it could have called it Novell Linux Manager and not used the SUSE brand at all, of course.)
SUSE Manager is designed to run inside if a SLES 11 appliance atop a KVM or Xen hypervisor, but you can run it on bare metal iron running SLES 11 if you want to. The program can manage RHEL 4, 5, and 6 as well as SLES 11. The plan is to support the earlier SLES 10 release by the end of the year, but Novell does not have plans to go all the way back to SLES 9.
SUSE Manager is available today and is open source, so you don't have to pay to use it. But if you want the supported version, which gets patch feeds from Novell and Red Hat for their respective Linuxes, then you have to pay some cash.
The product has five different components. The first is the SUSE Manager Server, which runs on Linux; this costs $13,500 and it is the thing you put inside your firewall from which you control and patch your SLES and RHEL instances. You can manage virtualized versions of those Linuxes running locally on your own iron as well as out on public clouds; SUSE Manager can also be used, just like RHN Satellite, to patch and provision those Linuxes on bare physical iron in a non-virtualized manner. The second component is the SUSE Manager Proxy Server, which is used to do the patching and management work on your iron; this costs $3,500 per year, and larger installations with lots of servers might need a couple of these proxies to handle their machines.
Then, on top of this, you have to buy management, provisioning, and monitoring modules to provide the functionality that you want. Each of these modules has their own price on top of the cost of SUSE Manager Server and SUSE Manager Proxy Server, and the prices are the same for each module.
If you are running Linux on a bare-metal servers using x64 processors, then these modules cost $96 per server per year for support. If you are running in a virtualized environment, then in costs $192 per physical server with unlimited numbers of virtual machines. SUSE Manager can also be used to manage SLES and RHEL instances on IBM's logical partitions on its System z mainframes. In this case, support for the add-on modules cost $1,000 per year per mainframe engine.
While Novell is playing friendly with Spacewalk in helping the project work with SLES, the move is not just about co-existing with RHEL but also trying to replace it. The management tools that RHEL customers use are probably as important to system admins as the Linux distro itself, so trying to convince companies to drop RHEL because SLES is a lot cheaper is problematic. But if the management tools are essentially the same, now Novell at least stands a chance of winning some RHEL takeout deals. ®


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I am elated to report to you something you surely already know: Mitt Romney trounced President Obama in their first debate. The rout was so decisive that even the liberal media cannot spin it the other way.
There is no need to grade this on a curve. Romney did very well in absolute, not relative, terms. He didn't just do well compared with Obama's poor performance; he really shone, in every category. He proved himself to be very knowledgeable on policy and business, quick on his feet and able to deliver zingers as graciously as possible under the circumstances.
Obama, on the other hand, didn't just get edged out by a man who performed slightly better on a given night; he turned in a very poor performance. It wasn't just an off night for him. It showed that he isn't conversant with the essential details of the major issues at stake in this campaign and affecting our nation.
Obama is so often insulated by his teleprompter and his rigid control of the few news conferences he has that some haven't caught on to his weaknesses. But those were laid bare last night, as he couldn't hide his ignorance on so many critical issues. (You would think more people would have caught on by now from witnessing, for example, Obama's inability to identify the size of the national debt on David Letterman's show to within $5 trillion.)
The debate didn't turn on a cute turn of phrase or a clever one-liner or two; it was a comprehensive slaughter on substantive issues.
As we live by the sword, we meet our demise by it, as well. So as Obama's creators have manufactured his larger-than-life image, he is inevitably — and fairly — held to that standard. It's particularly damaging to Obama that he was taken down in the very area in which he and his devotees claim he excels the most: rhetoric.
As I wrote in a recent column, it is obvious that Obama's strong suit has been campaigning and community organizing, the latter being a euphemism for agitating and rabble-rousing. He has demonstrated that he hates getting his hands dirty on the details or even in the process of governance. He appears to believe that it should be enough that he drives the major issues of the day — the big ideas — and delegates almost everything else to his subordinates. On Wednesday night, he reaped the fruit of his habit of neglect — because the national audience witnessed it.
It was actually nothing new, as we've seen it a number of times over the past four years. Remember when he gave a rambling 2,600-word response, taking more than 17 minutes, to a woman named Doris at a public forum in Charlotte, N.C., that exposed his embarrassing amateurishness and naivete? Or his frustrated monarchical command during the Gulf oil spill debacle, "Plug the damn hole"? But Wednesday night, he staggered and stumbled repeatedly, to the point that no one can think it was just an isolated fluke or gaffe. It was way more than just a bad night.
This inattention to details is particularly troubling because it flows, I think, not from an inability to grasp facts but from a narcissistic arrogance, nurtured by years of coddling, that leads him to believe he doesn't have to condescend to learn the nuts and bolts of the issues upon which his decisions are changing lives and the very character and vitality of this nation. He is above it all.
Finally, Wednesday night, Obama was called on his empty slogans, and he had no response. None. Countless times, he resorted to, "Four years ago, I was left with this horrendous problem." Because he couldn't explain away his failure to improve any of our problems, he had to keep harking back to how terrible the situation was when he took office. It really is bush-league, and it's getting powerfully embarrassing.
Also, he was heavy on the cliches and generalities, even for him. He invoked fairness, class warfare, his professed love for the middle class, and Bush's two wars and tax cuts. But that's all he had, and it was nothing.
He tried again to claim that Romney would destroy Medicare and had his head handed to him in return when Romney refuted the dishonest charge and accurately turned it right back on him. Romney also refused to let Obama get away with any of his lies or propaganda, such as that he has "cut" $4 trillion from the budget — despite the fact that every year, we are still running $1 trillion deficits.
This was a wonderful night for those of us horrified about the future of the nation. Before the debate, I believed that Romney would win the election, but after it, I am significantly more confident. Thank you, Mr. Romney, for allowing me a very good night's sleep.
David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His latest book, "The Great Destroyer," reached No. 2 on the New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction. Follow him on Twitter @davidlimbaugh and his website at: www.davidlimbaugh.com.:


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2014 SUF Call for Nominations
The Science Unbound Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation, has as its mission:
Furthering scientific knowledge in the service of health, happiness, and quality of life of humankind through scientific research and education.
The Science Unbound Foundations giving is primarily limited to research and educational activities in the areas of Obesity, Nutrition, and Statistical Science, topics of critical importance to todays research agenda. The Science Unbound Foundation offers five awards on an annual basis.
The five Best Paper awards are for:
- A University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) based investigator in the area of obesity or nutrition.
- A UAB-based investigator in the area of statistical genetics.
- A UAB-based investigator in the area of general statistics.
- A UAB-based student in the area obesity-related research.
- An investigator affiliated with the New York Obesity Research Center based at St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital and Columbia University in the area of obesity-related research.
The institutions are chosen because of their established strength in this area and demonstrated success in promoting the careers of young investigators on these topics.
To be eligible, applicants must be the first or senior (last) author of a paper published during the year under consideration and not have won the award in the last 2 years. In 2014, awards will be given for papers appearing in peer-reviewed journals in 2013. The competition is open to investigators at all levels. Each award winner will receive a plaque and a cash prize: $1,000 for investigators and $500 for students.
To apply:
- Self-nominations are acceptable
- Submit a copy of the published paper
- Submit a cover letter of not more than 1 page explaining the importance of the paper and indicating that the nominee played a leadership role in producing the paper.
- Submit to address below by Fri 5/30/2014 at 5:00 pm central time.
Contact David B. Allison, Ph.D., at email@example.com
Electronic submissions are allowed and encouraged. Winners will be announced by Thu 7/31/2014.


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text: Book Summary Alonso Quixano, a less-than-affluent man of fifty, "lean bodied" and "thin faced, lives modestly in the Spanish country village of La Mancha with his niece, Antonia, and a cranky housemaid. Practical in most things, compassionate to his social peers, the local clergy, and the servant classes, Quixano is respectful toward the ruling classes, whom he unquestioningly accepts as his superiors. He is driven neither by ambition for wealth and position nor bitterness at his genteel poverty. Well read and thoughtful, Quixano's most prized possessions are his books. From his readings and studies, he becomes by degrees interested, then obsessed, with the codes, deeds, and tales of chivalry — of knights errant on some courtly and idealized mission. As his appetite for the lore of chivalry increases, Quixano begins selling off acres of his farmlands, using the funds to buy more books, and increasingly throwing himself into his studies. "From little sleep and too much reading his brain dried up and he lost his wits. He had a fancy . . . to turn his passion knight errant and travel through the world with horse and armor in search of adventures" with the purpose of "redressing all manner of wrongs." At length, he is galvanized into action by his passion for the chivalric code. Outfitting himself with some old rusty armor, Quixano enlists his spavined hack horse to go forth in search of knightly adventures. Hopeful of finding a proper noble to dub him, Quixano finally is licensed in his venture by an innkeeper who believes him to be a lord of a manor. Now Quixano is "Don Quixote de La Mancha"; the tired hack and dray horse becomes elevated to "Rosinante." All the new knight needs now in order to venture forth is a lady to whose service he is sworn and a servant or page. For the former, he chooses Dulcinea del Tobosa, named after Aldonza Lorenzo, a farm girl whom he had been taken with at one time. After three days on the road, Quixote encounters a group of traveling salesmen whom he attacks after they refuse to acknowledge Dulcinea's great beauty. He is badly beaten by the servant of the salesman and forced to accept the help of a neighbor, who brings him home on the back of a donkey. While he is recovering, Quixote is forced to watch as his housekeeper, a barber, and a priest burn all his books on chivalry in an attempt to persuade him to give up his improbable quest. But this only fuels Quixote's determination. He persuades Sancho Panza, a plump, simple-minded-but-opportunistic laborer, to serve as his page, by playing on his ambitions. Don Quixote promises Sancho his own island to govern, for surely such a splendid knight as he is sure to become will soon take many spoils. And so this pair set forth, Quixote on his spavined old horse, Panza mounted on Dapple, his mule. Their second adventure lasts for three weeks and is comprised of a series of events that comprise the balance of Book One. Among other things, Quixote battles windmills, thinking them to be giants. At an inn, which he mistakes for a castle, Quixote is visited in bed by a maid, who causes a great uproar when she discovers she has come to the wrong room. Refusing to pay the bill and accusing the innkeeper of being inhospitable, Quixote is rousted, only to fall promptly into another misadventure with a religious procession, and yet other ironic and error-prone encounters with locals. Interspersed among these adventures are a series of stories and moral tales, illustrating the pastoral storytelling tradition in Spain. As well, there are two long, learned disquisitions, delivered by Quixote. The first is a description of the Golden Age of mythology, told during a supper shared with some unlettered goatherds who don't understand a word he says. Later on, Quixote addresses a company during dinner at an inn in a debate about whether the career of arms is superior to that of letters, or vice versa. Throughout the adventures it becomes clear that Quixote, for all his seeming madness, is a mild-mannered, empathetic man, genuine in his concern for chivalric ideals. Although he has agendas of his own, Sancho Panza has come to believe in and show loyalty to his new master. But in spite of all his good intentions, Quixote's quest leads him to be returned home, imprisoned in a cage on an ox-cart by his village priest and barber for Don Quixote's own good. Published in a separate volume, Book Two of Don Quixote's adventures contains a unique feature. Shortly after Book One was published and Cervantes was at work on Book Two, he got word of the appearance of a pirated Book Two in which the author, a writer named Avellaneda, presumed to write further adventures of the knight, going so far as to renounce his service to Dulcinea. Cervantes was at Chapter 59 in Book Two, having Quixote and Panza headed to a jousting tournament in Saragossa. Now, angered by the pirated version, Cervantes sets forth in revenge by having Quixote and Panza eating dinner at an inn and "overhearing" talk of the Avellaneda version. The knight and squire promptly set forth to Barcelona, home of Don Alvaro Tarfe, a character from the Avellaneda book. When they arrive in Barcelona, they kidnap the Avellaneda character. Book Two also introduces the character of Samson Carrasco, a young man from Don Quixote's village. A recent graduate of Salamanca University, Carrasco takes on the earlier roles of the priest and the barber in attempting to rescue and keep Don Quixote away from danger, but Don Quixote is not interested in being "rescued." He is determined to go to Tobosa to pay his respects to Dulcinea. They encounter three peasant girls and by some deception, Sancho hopes that his master will accept one of these as being Dulcinea. When events or appearances run counter to his expectations, Don Quixote tends to believe that enchanters have worked their mischief. In this instance, he believes enchanters have made Dulcinea look like an ugly peasant girl. Don Quixote unexpectedly wins a battle with a knight (The Knight of the Mirrors), who turns out to be none other than Samson Carrasco in disguise. Samson had hoped to get the Don back home to safety by disguising himself as a rival knight. The plan backfires. Shortly afterwards, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza meet the "Knight in the Green Topcoat," which includes the episode of the lion with whom the Don wants to do battle. The major portion of this section is devoted to an unnamed duke and duchess who, with their retainers, play a series of pranks — in the form of burlesque pageants — on Quixote. They also cause injury to both the knight and his squire. Another vital element is the appointment of Sancho Panza as governor of an island — another elaborate prank that ends with Panza renouncing the life of a feudal governor and showing a deep layer of loyalty to Quixote. Once again Samson Carranzo appears, this time at the beach in Barcelona where, in the guise of The Knight of the White Moon, he challenges Don Quixote to battle. Of course, Quixote accepts the challenge and, in the presence of the viceroy and a distinguished company, is roundly defeated. A condition of Quixote's defeat is that he abandon knight errantry for the rest of his life. In the remaining chapters, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza return to La Mancha, but not before they experience an additional stay with the Duke and Duchess and sundry other humiliating experiences suffered by the ex-knight. When they arrive home, Don Quixote, apparently broken in spirit, is put to bed. After a long sleep, he declares his name to be Alonso Quixano once more and appears to have regained his reason. Shortly after he denounces chivalry and knighthood, he dies among the lamentation of friends.


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Do you feel sadder watching a documentary about war or a drama about a young person dying of cancer? According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, consumers mistakenly believe they will have stronger emotional reactions when stories are based on true events rather than fiction.
"Consumers may choose to read a tragic fictional story because they assume that knowing it was fictional would make them less sad than reading a less dramatic, but true story," write authors Jane E. J. Ebert (Brandeis University) and Tom Meyvis (New York University). "However, the fictional nature does not alter the impact of the tragic story, leaving them more emotionally distraught than if they had read the true story instead."
In the midst of emotional experiences, consumers are so absorbed by the actual experience that they might be unable to take into account the fictional nature of the story. The authors tested this in one study by informing viewers that a film they were about to see was fictional. These viewers did feel less sad after watching this fictional movie, but only when breaks were provided, allowing the viewers to mull over the fact that the story was not true.
In another study, participants read a tragic story and were asked how they would have felt if they had known that the event in the story really happened or was completely fictional. Not surprisingly, participants indicated they would have felt substantially sadder had they known the story was real. Another group of participants was asked to read the same story and told that the event was either real or fictional. These participants felt sad after reading the story regardless of whether the event actually happened.
Publishers and movie studios should note that underestimating the emotional impact of fictional stories may lead consumers to choose less enjoyable books and movies just because they are based on a true story. "Emphasizing realism may indeed make consumers more likely to choose these options, as consumers tend to believe that true stories will have a greater emotional impact than fictional stories. However, our results suggest that while emphasizing realism may increase sales, it does not necessarily increase satisfaction," the authors conclude.
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LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England – Tiger Woods gets a familiar face for the first two rounds of the British Open.
Woods is in the same group with Justin Rose and Sergio Garcia. It will be the fourth time in the last nine Opens for Woods that he plays alongside Rose. They also were in the same group at Muirfield in 2002, Carnoustie in 2007 and St. Andrews in 2010.
Luke Donald, the world No. 1 in search of his first major, is with Phil Mickelson and Geoff Ogilvy. Lee Westwood is with Masters champion Bubba Watson and Toshinori Fujimoto.
The field is 157 players, one over the limit. Two players would have to withdraw for the first alternate, Ben Crane, to get into the championship.