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The "fiscal cliff" — and the calamitous hit to the economy that will come with it — is more likely to be avoided if Mitt Romney becomes president, Goldman Sachs told clients this week.
Therefore, this November's election is one of the most important in this country's recent history, according to the investment bank.
"A Romney win seems more likely to lead to a short-term extension of the 2001/2003 tax cuts and some aspects of the fiscal cliff," wrote Alec Phillips, the firm's U.S. political economist, in a note Wednesday. "A status quo political outcome raises the risk of a game of fiscal 'chicken' at year end, in which policy goes 'off the cliff' unless one party reverses their long-held position on the upper income portion of the tax cut."
(Read More: S&P to 1,550 — Then 'Off the Cliff': Strategist)
With a President-elect Romney guiding the way, a Republican-controlled House is more likely to work with the Democrat-controlled Senate to hatch at least an extension of the tax cuts and delay the automatic spending cuts, according to Goldman and many on Wall Street.
(Read More: What Is the Fiscal Cliff?)
"There is simply more risk to the stock market with an Obama win because of the risks of going off the fiscal cliff," said Lawrence McDonald, author, trader and political strategist. "He will have to work with Tea Party members of the House, and the president has also shown little skill in bipartisan deal making."
Polls and electronic markets currently point to a very close race at the top of the ticket. The consensus seems to be Republicans will retain control of the House and the Democrats will retain control of the Senate. However, Republicans are likely to pick up some seats in the Senate.
There is a chance that things could become so bitter this November that a lame-duck Congress walks away without any compromise, investors said. Goldman gives that a 33 percent chance of that happening and does not believe the stock market or economy is prepared for that hit.
(Read More: Obama Says Post-Election Deal Still Possible)
By Goldman's numbers, the tax hikes and spending cuts of the fiscal cliff amount to roughly 3.5 percent of GDP.
"At the end of the day, no one wants that blood on his hands," said Michael Block, chief equities strategist at Phoenix Partners Group. "The perception, though, is that Romney is more anti-cliff than Obama given the latter's strongly stated desire to raise taxes on the ultra-rich."
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What's so special about Wednesday, Jan. 23? It's the third Dine United for United Way of the Adirondack Region, an event designed to bring the restaurants of Clinton, Essex and Franklin Counties together in an effort to help the people of our community.
On Jan. 23, restaurants in all three counties will be participating in Dine United by either donating a percent of their proceeds, a percent of the wait staff tips or a straight donation to the United Way of the Adirondack Region, Inc. If you would like to be a part of this wonderful event as a participating restaurant please contact the United Way office at 561-0028 by Jan. 7.
The public can help too by simply dining out at one of the participating restaurants. Be on the lookout for Dine United restaurants on Jan. 23, and mention to the participating restaurants that you are there to Dine United for United Way and enter into the drawing for raffle prizes that have been donated to the United Way.
For a complete list of restaurants and their locations, visit unitedwayadk.org and click on the event tab.

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"Not only has China's Central TV been running regular follow ups to its March 15 expose on Apple's iPhone repair policies, but on Thursday People's Daily - the Communist Party's official propaganda organ - attacked the company for the fourth day in a row, devoting half a page to negative articles." This isn't rocket science. The west treats Chinese technology companies like crap, so they treat western companies like crap. How exactly does this surprise anyone? And why is it okay for our governments to engage in political games to smear foreign companies, but we throw a hissy fit when a foreign nation engages in the same political games to smear western companies? It sucks for Apple to be the target right now, but had this occurred a decade ago, it would have been Microsoft.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Nov. 8, 2012) – Having already locked up a spot in next week's Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament, the ETSU volleyball team will look to keep its winning ways intact when the Bucs wrap up their regular season down in Jacksonville this weekend. The Bucs take on North Florida Friday night at 7 p.m., inside UNF Arena and face Jacksonville Saturday at 5 p.m., inside Swisher Gym.
ETSU (20-10, 11-5 A-Sun) – who can secure the No. 3 seed with a win over UNF or a Lipscomb loss on Friday – is riding a four-game winning streak into the River City after defeating Kennesaw State, 3-1 (21-25, 25-18, 26-24, 25-21), on Tuesday night inside Brooks Gym. The win marked the Bucs' 10th win in their last 13 matches, while ETSU concluded with an impressive 10-1 home record this season.
Despite dropping the first set and trailing 20-15 in the third, the ETSU volleyball team rallied back to knock off Kennesaw State, 3-1, Tuesday night at home. Sophomore Jamie Rutledge (Kingsport, Tenn.) and junior Megan Devine (Kingsport, Tenn.) registered double-doubles, while Bethany Gesell (High Point, N.C.) and Meredith Hardy (Kingsport, Tenn.) tallied double-digit kills. Rutledge quarterbacked the Buccaneer offense by finishing with a match-high 49 assists and added 10 digs and Devine added 20 kills and 15 digs – marking her 13th double-double in conference play which tied the A-Sun single-season record with FGCU's Jelena Simic (13, in 2009). Overall, Devine leads all A-Sun players with 21 double-doubles on the year and has accomplished the feat in eight straight matches. Meanwhile, for the fourth consecutive match and the 10th time in the last 12 outings, Gesell generated double figures in kills as she ended with 12 along with a .320 hitting percentage. Hardy hit .400 in the four sets played and finished with 14 kills on the night.
UNF (18-11, 9-7 A-Sun) also enters Friday's match on a four-matching winning streak and has won eight of its last 10. The Ospreys have defeated Kennesaw State (3-0), Mercer (3-0), Stetson (3-1), and Jacksonville (3-0) during this stretch and are 8-3 inside UNF Arena this season. UNF is led by senior outside hitter Paige Pridgeon and junior setter Britt Claessens. Pridgeon ranks fifth in the league with 3.43 kills per set and Claessens is third with 11.17 assists per set. Meanwhile, senior middle blocker Dagnija Medina leads the A-Sun in service aces per set (0.37) and is sixth in hitting percentage (.299), while senior libero Nicole Baran ranks second in digs per set at 5.06. As a team, the Ospreys are holding their opponents to a league-best .169 hitting percentage and also rank third in assists (12.83), service aces (1.36), and digs (17.39).
ETSU vs. UNF
ETSU has won nine of the 12 meetings in the series, including five straight. Of the 12 meetings, only four have been played in Jacksonville, with the Ospreys holding 3-1 mark in those games; however, the Bucs took the last meeting in UNF Arena back on Oct. 16, 2010. Most recently, the Bucs defeated the Ospreys, 3-1 (22-25, 25-19, 25-21, 26-24), last month in Johnson City as the Blue and Gold out-blocked UNF, 17-6, and held them to a .117 attack percentage. Individually, Hardy and Devine both collected double-doubles in the win. Hardy tallied 12 kills and 10 blocks, while Devine pitched in with 13 kills, 11 digs, and a career high seven blocks.
The Dolphins have won four of their last six games and enter Friday's match with USC Upstate at 8-22, 5-11 in A-Sun play. Jacksonville is battling for the final two spots in the conference tournament as the Dolphins are a half-game behind Mercer for the sixth and final spot and one-game back of Upstate for fifth. The Dolphins are coming off a sweep over Bethune-Cookman on Wednesday night behind freshman Sammie Strausbaugh's 14-kill, 9-dig performance. In addition, junior Kylie Jacob finished with nine kills, while freshman Thayla Pagan and junior Kendall Courtney each had nine digs. Overall, Jacksonville ranks third in the A-Sun in blocks (1.77) and junior setter Kendall Courtney ranks fifth in the conference in assists per set (9.58).
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Saturday marks the 14th meeting between the two schools with the Dolphins holding a slight 7-6 series lead; however, ETSU swept Jacksonville last month in Brooks Gym. Once again, only four games in the series have been played at JU, with the Dolphins holding a 3-1 record in those contests. Just like they did at UNF, the Blue and Gold defeated the Dolphins in their last trip to the Jacksonville in 2010. Meanwhile, last month, ETSU forced Jacksonville into 23 attack errors and held the Dolphins to a .144 hitting percentage. Gesell led the Buccaneer offense with 12 kills and Hardy hit a career-best .692 (9-0-13) in the match.
Friday's game will be broadcast live on ASun.TV for free, while live stats for the UNF match will be provided on UNFOspreys.com and the JU live stats can be accessed by visiting JUDolphins.com. Also, live Twitter updates will be available by following @ETSUAthletics.
ETSU fans wanting to receive Buccaneer news, score updates, in-game promotions and much more sent to their mobile device can do so by signing up for "Buc Updates." Click here to sign up today!
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for next week Tuesday on: any weekday between 8:00 and 21:00; or at Saturdays between 8:00 and 13:00 on GMT-3:00.
How fun. Anytime would work for me really
I work retail. So I'm interested, but I'll just have to hope you pick a time that I'm home!
I'm pretty much wide open. Though I can pretty much guarantee that the kids will be climbing all over me at whatever time it is. But that won't deter me. I'll still be there!
I'm pretty much available weekend only for about the next month. Hopefully, I'll be able to join ...
That would be AWESOME - but I am in NZ so GMT+12 so probably not possible for me
Well, I'm not much help either as far as suggesting a time, that ones of the things that's always hard for me to do...picking a time when others could be available...lol I'm USA Central time...but when ever.
I do have a question what types of things are you planning for the live chat? I just have no idea, what direction you might go.
@Laura: I'm not sure what direction I'm going to go either...It will probably be something simple the first time just to make the sure the chat works. I don't want to have some elaborate plan and then have technical trouble...
Early afternoon is usually good for me (EST) - esp. on Saturday. My schedule is so erratic during the week, with doctors visits & aqua p/t, that I have a hard time narrowing down an exact time - my free time changes from week to week. But if you decide to do one, and I have enough notice, I will pencil it into my personal calendar & make sure I don't schedule anything during that time. I've had fun in the few chats I've gone to.
Marisa.... I don't know if you are able to find out what the girls used in Scrap Orchard over iNSD this past spring, but we were able to play Pictionary & it was a lot of fun! They made us all admins so we could draw in the white space area, and assigned us all teams (by color - changing our usernames to that color).
I can't wait. If you need any technical help let me know. I'm as tech geek as it gets.


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The calendar may say "November," but the ambience says "Christmas" as Biltmore House is filled with holiday decor and glowing candles during the Candlelight Christmas Evenings, now underway.
The calendar may say "November," but the ambience says "Christmas" as Biltmore House is filled with holiday decor and glowing candles during the Candlelight Christmas Evenings, now underway. Admission includes a reserved evening visit at Biltmore House, daytime access to Biltmore Gardens and Antler Hill Village & Winery on the same day or next day as the evening visit, and free parking. The tours run through Jan. 4. On Friday and Saturday, admission is $79 for adults and $39.50 for those ages 10-16. On Sunday, admission is $69 for adults and $34.50 for those ages 10-16. Children under age 9 are free with adult admission every day. Buy tickets online at www.biltmore.com or call 800-411-3812.
Neil Simon's "Rumors" starts this weekend at the Tryon Little Theatre, 516 S. Trade St.. The Neil Simon comedy includes a bunch of madcap characters who arrive for a 10th anniversary dinner only to find things not as they expected. Friday and Saturday performances are set for 8 p.m. The Sunday matinee starts at 3 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students 18 and younger. Call 828-859-2466 for more information or to reserve tickets.
Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St., will kick off the holiday season with "Christmas with Santa" at 10 a.m. Saturday. The lighthearted comedy features two elves who have misplaced most of Santa's presents. In addition to the play, the event will feature complimentary face-painting and balloon animals before and after the show. Tickets are $5.
The Nighthawks Band from the Washington, D.C., area will take the stage at 8 p.m. Saturday at The Party Place and Event Center, off Interstate 26 in Saluda. The band has been playing for more than 30 years, and they perform a mix of blues, doo-wop, R&B, rockabilly, and honky-tonk country. Tickets are $12. Reserved tables and advance tickets can be purchased by calling 828-749-3676. Visit www.partyplaceandeventcenter.com for more information.
Southern Lights Square and Round Dance Club will hold a "Turkey in the Straw" dance Saturday at the Whitmire Activity Building, Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville. Wear costumes. Advance dance at 6 p.m.; early rounds at 7 p.m.; squares and rounds at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call 828-697-7732.


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Dolphins are 18th most valued NFL franchise
The recession has hit many people quite hard and caused the value of things to shrink. Homes some of us bought in the last couple of years are worth less today.
Oh, and the football team Stephen Ross bought a couple of years ago is worth less today than what he paid.
That according to Forbes.com, which values the Dolphins and their holdings at $1.02 billion. Ross paid $1.1 billion for 95 percent of the team and Sun Life Stadium.
The Dolphins rank as the 18th most valuable NFL franchise and the world's 23rd most valuable franchise if the list is expanded to other sports outside football. The Dallas Cowboys lead the way among NFL teams with a value Forbes estimates at $1.65 billion.
AFC East rivals New England ($1.36 billion) and the New York Jets ($1.17 billion) rank ahead of the Dolphins.
But don't feel bad for the Dolphins owner that his investment in the Dolphins isn't returning dividends yet. It will eventually. No NFL team has ever gone down in price over time. And Mr. Ross, you see, is worth approximately $3.4 billion, according to Forbes, and that makes him the 277th richest person in the world.
And just in case you missed it, that is billion with a b. The picture is of $100 stacked to equal $1 billion. Ross is worth nearly three-and-half times that many $100 bills.
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DragonflyTV "What's Nano?/Where's Nano?" Ebony and Jasmine visit laboratories at Harvard University to find examples of nanoscale objects on their quest to "see" a nanometer. Regina, Linda, Harrison, Jared, Lorenz, and Randi wonder what examples of nanoscale science and technology they can find in their everyday lives.G
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Biz Kid$ "The Marketing Mix" Now that you've decided on your business product or service, how will you promote it? Let the Biz Kids help you understand your target market and learn about the four P's of business success: product, price, promotion, and placement. Learn how "Exclusive Cuts" barber services, "Wow, Take a Bow" dog grooming, and other businesses market their services and products. D
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The Electric Company "Wordball Games" Right before the yearly Wordball Games, the neighborhood Olympics, Hector sprains his ankle. With Hector unable to compete, The Electric Company does not have enough players to participate against the four Pranksters! But when Manny also gets hurt, the numbers are even once again. Now the question is, can Marcus handle Hector's event the Word Obstacle course?. D
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Cyberchase "Eureeka!" (topic: 2- & 3-D Geometry) - Pursued by Hacker, Digit lands on cybersite Eureeka, where his mission is to find Professor Archimedes - the maker of the encryptor chip, a unique computer chip that can fix Motherboard. But Archimedes is nowhere to be found - only a pile of two-dimensional rods where his chip factory should be. The kids arrive to help, and discover that by linking the two-dimensional rods together into certain geometrical patterns they actually create a surprising three-dimensional shape that leads directly to unraveling the mystery of Archimedes' strange disappearance. D
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Knit & Crochet Today "Tunisian/Hairpin Scarf" Watch as Stitch Diva Jennifer Hansen explains the ins and outs of hairpin lace and tunisian crochet. Also, take a trip to the "Knit Out-Crochet" fashion show. D
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Paint This With Jerry Yarnell "The Lighthouse, Part 1" (18 x 24 Acrylic) A simple painting that teaches you the process of fine art technique. In this opening segment, it is all about blocking in the entire canvas. The background does not look like much, but it is essential to getting the value system correct. D
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Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "Summer's Bounty" Summer is definitely the time Joanne gets excited about fruits and vegetables, greeting her student Leah with a little jem salad perfectly dressed with a buttermilk blue cheese dressing. They make a spicy spaghetti together and then cool things down with a blueberry frozen yogurt. Recipes: Little Gems with Almonds and Buttermilk Blue Dressing, Spicy Spaghetti with Sauteed Fennel and Mussels, and Blueberry Frozen Yogurt. D
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Martha Bakes "Pound Cake" Pound cake makes excellent use of the basic building blocks of baking - butter, sugar, eggs and flour - and offers nearly unlimited opportunities for adaptation (incorporating cream cheese or semolina, for example). Martha takes the viewer through variations, starting with the most traditional and finishing with a version inspired by her travels through Asia. D
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This Old House "Essex 2012/13, Wooden Ships & Shiplap Boards" Norm visits Essex's last shipyard. Kevin and Tom build shiplap barn board walls and a mantel. Landscape architect Kellie Connelly and Roger show off the finished yard, and project architect Sally DeGan gives a tour of a home with accessible retrofits. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "North Wales: Feisty and Poetic" Rick takes in Mount Snowdon, medieval castles and Victorian promenades. He learns a bit of Welsh, follows a miner deep into a slate mine, and herds sheep with a clever dog.G
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Lidia's Italy In America "Yummy Pastas" Everyone loves pasta, and Lidia is known for her hundreds of super easy and really delicious pasta dishes that can be prepared any day of the week. In fact, this episode contains recipes that are perfect for the busiest of days, including Baked Ziti, Fettuccine Alfredo and Spaghetti with Basil Pistachio Pesto. D
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Primal Grill with Steven Raichlen "Heat Without Meat" Whether you're a vegetarian, feeding someone who doesn't eat meat, or simply crave meatless grilling from time to time, this show is for you. Smoked egg pate from Israel. (Think of it as turbocharged egg salad.) Grilled tofu with pineapple, cucumber, and a chili-peanut dipping sauce from Malaysia. Grilled bananas with a spoon-licking caliber coconut-caramel sauce from Thailand (as good for breakfast or a snack as a dessert). And Israeli Eggplant Salad-proof that you don't need meat to show off your grilling skills.G
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The perfect reticle setup is simple...Use the FREE Hawke ChairGun on:PC, MAC, iPHONE & ANDROID.
For those who wish to delve a little deeper into airgun or rim-fire ballistics, we present ChairGun Pro. Based on the highly successful ChairGun2 and 3, the interface has now been redesigned to make it more intuitive and easier to use. ChairGun Pro uses modern, accurate modified point-mass ballistic functions to instantly give you the essential data that you need.
ChairGun Pro is a free tool designed to compliment the Hawke Specialized Reticles (SR6, SR12, SR Pro and Deer PASS SR), the Hawke Multiple Aim Point reticles (MAP6, MAP8 and Deer PASS MAP), the Hawke 1/2 Mil-dot Reticles (10x and 20x) as well as traditional generic Mil-Dot and 30/30 reticles.
Take the information into the field - ChairGun Pro allows you to print trajectory graphs, tables, reticle images and range finding calculations - and save settings for future reference.
And it doesn't end there . the supplied pellet database is comprehensive, editable, printable and can be updated on-line. Additional 'helper' programs are included for specialized tasks (such as PCP Bottle Filling, Range Cards, Scope Tapes or Maximum Range and Crosswind analysis). The set-up package also includes a comprehensive help-file and access to on-line help
ChairGun Pro's modern ballistics functions have been thoroughly field-tested. If your requirements are simple or complex, the graphs, tables and labels give accurate information that would take hours of tedious range-work to achieve manually. Perhaps you're wondering how a different pellet will affect the trajectory of your airgun or a change of calibre or scope or mount height.
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Ron Jaworski continued his QB countdown today, naming Michael Vick his 12th-ranked signal-caller in the NFL.
Vick landed ahead of guys like Matt Schaub (13), Matthew Stafford (14) and Cam Newton (15).
During the segment on ESPN's SportsCenter, Jaworski discussed Vick's running ability and how it hurts him at times as a passer.
"The issue I have always had with Vick has been his willingness to run, to play the position outside of the pocket, outside of the structure of the offense," Jaworski said. "There's no question he'll always make plays, but he also leaves throws on the field."
Jaws then showed a play against the Buffalo Bills where Vick took off to run, despite having a clean pocket from which to throw the football. He was tackled after a short gain, while the film showed he had Jason Avant wide open in the middle of the field.
As I've written about at length here, deciding when to run will be something Vick continuously works on until his career is over. The official stats show that Vick ran 76 times for 589 yards last season. That averages out to 5.8 runs per game and 7.8 yards per attempt.
But I dug deeper into the numbers this offseason and found that 53 of those runs were improvised, meaning they occurred on plays that were originally designed for Vick to pass. So he took off to run on pass plays about 4.1 times per game. He averaged 10.2 yards per carry on those improvised runs, which is a huge number, but it's important to remember he was also sacked 23 times.
According to Jaws, Vick was hit more than 11 times per game.
"Vick always reminds me of something my former coach Dick Vermeil says: The problem with quarterbacks who can run is they run," he said.
Jaws also brought up a point that we probably don't discuss often enough: Vick has shown that he can make plays from the pocket.
"Vick has shown he is capable of throwing the ball exceptionally well from the pocket," Jaworski said. "His overall throwing skill set can be top five in the league. His objective in 2012 must be to play that way more often. It becomes an availability issue. You can't be an elite NFL quarterback if you can't be counted on every single week."
Earlier this week, I wrote about how Vick performed last year against different kinds of pressure. Many readers probably focused on his numbers against the blitz, but take a look at Vick's numbers when teams only rushed three: 31-for-40 for 470 yards. He was deadly (77.5 percent completions, 11.8 yards per attempt) when he felt comfortable sitting in the pocket and was not worried at all about the pass rush. Even though teams had eight defenders in coverage, Vick effectively found targets and delivered the ball accurately.
Jaws seemed confident that Vick can take another step in his development this offseason and lead the Eagles to big things in 2012.
"A more disciplined player will result in fewer turnovers," he said. "I would not be surprised if we're getting ready to see the best year of Vick's 10-year career."
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Tucked between the Ocklawaha and St. Johns rivers, this area's well-managed pine flatwoods and river swamps appeal to a variety of recreationists.
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Pine uplands and wetlands associated with the rivers are actively managed for wildlife and recreation. read more »
The adjacent rivers and fertile uplands have attracted humans for over five thousand years. read more »
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Kentucky Atheists, P.O. Box 666, Union, KY 41091; Email: email@example.com
Phone: (859) 384-7000; Fax: (859) 384-7324; Web: http://www.atheists.org/ky/
Editor's personal web site: www.edwinkagin.com
Editor's personal blog: http://edwinkagin.blogspot.com
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Edwin Kagin, Kentucky State Director, American Atheists, Inc.
(AMERICAN ATHEISTS is a nationwide movement that defends civil rights for nonbelievers; works for the total separation of church and state; and addresses issues of First Amendment public policy.)
What Is An ATHEIST?
(Edwin Kagin, 2008)
To Unidentified Recipients:
"Answers in Atheism," the sensational Internet live radio talk show that is heard regularly on www.answersinatheism.net at 8:00 pm Eastern Time, except when it isn't, will be on again Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 8:00 pm. Check the website for details. We wish we could have this on every week as we want to do, but if wishes were horses then beggars would ride. Our unpaid and overworked production and engineering staff have other things to do, like trying to stay alive, and decline to starve to death on an empty stomach. So, we do it when we can and as often as we can (the radio show that is). Hopefully, such doing will be more rather than less, but hope is not the best way to run a interesting robust life or a live Internet radio show.
Next week, your beloved Editor goes to England to help open the first ever Camp Quest U.K. Many thanks to Samantha Stein and her volunteer staff for getting this together. Enrollment is completely filled up, and applications are being taken for next year. You can find out about this worthy effort here: http://www.camp-quest.org.uk .
Camp Quest Michigan still has a few bunks left we are told. And moreover, there may well be Camperships available for the campers willing to make the effort to apply for such. You can learn all about CQM and its programs and Camperships here: http://michigan.camp-quest.org/main.html .
P.Z. Myers, the professor with the unlikely name, will be visiting Kentucky on a pilgrimage to the museum of nonsense in Northern Kentucky, laughingly named the "Creation Museum," and run by our friends and neighbors, the purveyors of superstition and medieval science known by the even more laughable name of "Answers in Genesis."
And P.Z. is taking some students on the tour with him, at reduced group rates.
Do not miss this opportunity to see this adventure in money spent on miracles and madness. I strongly endorse everyone going to see it. Never mind that the fee gives money to people who would abuse children with ignorance and commit terror on our free land by vending anti-scientific ways of viewing the world. It is important that you see this place. And that is because it is worse than you think it is. Really. It really is.
So, y'all come on down y'hear and see humans and dinosaurs (missionary lizards, say the arkonuts) living in harmony with one another 6,000 years or so ago. It is the dog dangest thing you ever seen in your life. They even have a statute of a barefoot and pregnant Eve.
Information on where and how is findable below.
You can still get in on the reduced rate, or so thinks
Important information about the Creation "Museum" trip!
Category: Creationism
Posted on: July 8, 2009 12:04 PM, by PZ Myers
I'm going to be speaking at the Secular Student Alliance conference on 8 August, and before that, you may recall, I announced that we were going on a little field trip to Ken Ham's bunco joint in Kentucky, on Friday, 7 August. We're trying to organize a bit, so SSA sent me the notice below. Preregister and get a big discount on the entry fee, and SSA is also looking for more people to help with coordinating travel.
Register to get the $10 entry fee athttps://secularstudents.wufoo.com/forms/creation-museum-with-pz-myers-registration/. You have to pay in advance but you get the $10 entrance rate, rather than the $22 that you'd have to pay at the door. People have to register by 7/23 to get this rate.
We're arranging carpools through www.rideshare.us using lookup code PZ2Creation. Anyone coming to the Museum and/or heading up to Columbus afterwards for the conference is strongly encouraged to post their rides if they'd be willing to take a student along with them. Students can also post ads for rides if they need to get from one place to the other.
We also have some (free!) housing available in Columbus for Thurs night for any students from out of town who need a place to crash before heading down to the museum. Interested parties should contact Jon the Intern In Charge of Housing at firstname.lastname@example.com.
From reader Conrad:
Americans favor science, but less than before
AP Science Writer
Published Thursday, Jul. 09, 2009
WASHINGTON -- The share of Americans who see science as the nation's greatest achievement is down sharply, even as the public continues to hold scientists in high regard. A new Pew Research Center poll indicates that 27 percent of Americans say the nation's greatest achievements are in science, medicine and technology, more than any category other than don't know.
But that's down from 47 percent in a similar study a decade ago, the center reported Thursday.
The decline comes even as technology reaches out to connect people worldwide via the Internet.
But the era of "Big Science," like the moon landings, has receded into history, while one-time wonders such as organ transplants seem increasingly routine and the battle against cancer drags on.
Probably reflecting last fall's historic election of Barack Obama as president, the poll found that people rating equal rights as the nation's top achievement jumped to 17 percent, compared with just 5 percent 10 years earlier.
Most Americans - 64 percent - see this country's science as "above average," but with advances by other countries getting increasing attention, just 17 percent say it's the best in the world. Indeed, the European Union currently published more scientific papers than the United States.
There is the danger, over time, that the United States could lose its pre-eminence in science and efforts to interest more young people in research are under way, said Alan I. Leshner, head of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Overall, the new study found that science remains well thought of by Americans, with 84 percent of respondents saying it has a mostly positive effect on society. Only 6 percent rated science as largely negative for society.
There was no exact earlier comparison for those numbers, but Scott Keeter, director of the survey, said other studies over the years have shown consistently positive views of science and medicine.
"The U.S. public recognizes research and development, perhaps especially to drive medical advances, as an investment in the future. Yet, researchers and the public too often are separated by a communications gap," said Leshner. He said his group is conducting seminars teaching scientists how to better communicate with the public.
Even when they disagreed with some findings, people showed an overall positive outlook for science.
For example, 63 percent of respondents who believe in creationism and 64 percent of those contending there is no evidence of global warming still said science does much to contribute to the well-being of society.
The new report is based on a series of three polls. The first was a telephone survey of 2,001 members of the general public April 28-May 12, asking their opinions of science. The second, testing the public's scientific knowledge, was a sample of 1,005 adults June 18-21. For comparison, the Pew researchers also conducted an online random sample of 2,533 members of the AAAS from May 1 to June 14. AAAS is an international organization of scientists and those interested in science. The error margin for the polls ranged from 2.5 percentage points to 3.5 percentage points.
Among the findings:
- About 91 percent of the general public knew that aspirin is recommended to prevent heart attacks, 82 percent knew that global positioning systems rely on satellites and 65 percent correctly linked carbon dioxide gas to rising temperatures.
-On the other hand, just 54 percent understood that antibiotics do not kill viruses and fewer than half - 46 percent - knew that electrons are smaller than atoms.
-Men have a more favorable outlook about science than women, 86 percent saying it has a mostly positive effect, compared with 81 percent.
-Science got an 87 percent favorable rating from whites, compared with 76 percent among blacks and 75 percent for Hispanics.
-The public and the science association members did not always see eye-to-eye. For example 87 percent of AAAS scientists believed that humans and other living things evolved naturally, compared with 32 percent of the general public. And while 84 percent of the association members say the Earth is getting warmer because of human activities, just 49 percent of the public agreed.
-A majority of the public - 58 percent - favor federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, but that is well short of the 93 percent of scientists who feel that way.
- And 69 percent of Americans say all parents should be required to vaccinate their children, compared with 82 percent of scientists.
Fan Mail Department:
If folks are going to gratuitously write us about how awful we are, they can expect to get published, together with their email, so that their potential victims can respond.
Here is one such, followed by the response of American Atheist's President Ed Buckner (NOTE: we do not answer all emails. But some we do).
Name: Mr. Bynum
Email: email@example.com
Re: Why God is real and why you are a fool
My name is Mr. Bynum. In no way is this message threatening, or filled with anger and hate. If you wish to try and prosecute me on false charges of hate/threatening mail, I just want you to know you will end up fighting a losing battle, for my God is not invisible, but very, very real.
The subject of my message is this: atheism is a pearl in the necklace of wrong ideas.
And there is a God, in a real place called Heaven, and there is a real place called Hell, where those who reject God will spend eternity.
You claim that you have given reasonable evidence against religion, and yet people won't turn from their religion. You wonder why this has occurred. Well it's because your alleged 'evidence' is actually nothing but washed up ideas that that have been proven worthless for decades.
The declaration 'There is no God, god, gods, is an absolute statement. For an absolute statement to be true, you must have absolute knowledge, of all things. You would have to know every detail of History, how many atoms there are in all the rocks, know how many hairs are on the head of every human, and the thought of every mind.
So do you have complete and absolute all knowledge of everything? If not, to be reasonable and logical, then you would have to state 'Using the limited knowledge that I have, I believe that there is no God, god, gods.'
Let me in turn ask you a question: if you were to send me a list of any and all questions you have regarding God's existence and other religious questions, and I answered them to your full satisfaction, would YOU then turn to God and be saved?
Here are some other questions for you to seriously consider:
How can morality exist in a world, without a complete and totally moral God?
How can there be an intelligent design (the universe, especially the Earth) without an intelligent designer (God)? Think of a soda can- do you think it is logical or intelligent to say that a soda can has no designer or creator?
Did you know that the eye has 40,000,000 nerve endings, the focusing muscles move an estimated 100,000 times a day, and the retina contains 137,000,000 light sensitive cells? The idea that the eye could have formed in such a way from evolution or natural selection seems undoubtedly absurd to the highest degree. So why do you think it's logical or even intelligent to believe that the world formed from a big explosion or any other form, other than a creator?
I invite you to come and veiw this website:
If you have any answers to my questions, feel free to contact me at email@example.com. The following statement is not a threat but a simple statement to whomever reads this message-Rest assured, I will always have a counterargument to anything you try to use to try and prove my God does not exist.
May God bless you,
S. G. Bynum
Ed Buckner Response:
Mr. S. G. Bynum,
Your message may indeed be characterized, plausibly, as not filled with anger and hate--but surely you realize that calling someone a fool in a subject line isn't likely to begin a meaningful dialogue? (And yes, I know your Bible calls me that as well in two nearly identical verses--but I don't see any good reasons to accept your Bible as an authority.)
Despite your apparent rudeness, I read your assertions and claims. They are neither as persuasive nor as original as you seem to think they are. If you really think this is an interesting set of arguments and want to pursue discussion of them, please first read Richard Dawkins, Keith Parsons, David Eller, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and the many essays on our web-site--and get back to me then.
Ed B.
Ed Buckner
American Atheists
Something To Do Department:
Read this from the President of American Atheists and then send your letter to the magazine.
From: Ed Buckner, President [mailto:email@example.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 4:05 PM
Subject: Amazing--and distressing--article in August Harper's
In this month's (August 2009) Harper's Magazine there is an article, "Like I was Jesus: How to Bring a Nine-Year-Old to Jesus," by Rachel Aviv, that stirs real anger in me and reminds me of Richard Dawkins's comments in The God Delusion about child abuse and religious identification, Edwin Kagin and Camp Quest (and the gross distortion in the press recently regarding Dawkins and CQ), the Jesus Camp tape of a few years back, and much else.
This article describes, in chilling detail (sometimes humorous, but overall frightening as hell) efforts in Connecticut to bring unwary children in public schools and public housing projects to Christian salvation. Aviv makes its abundantly clear that efforts such as the ones she describes so well are not mere academic questions, but are instead a real danger, to these children (including the young people, most of them little more than children themselves, who're doing the proselytizing) and to a secular, rational culture.
It's worth your going to the library or newsstand and buying the issue if you're not a subscriber. (An online link is below--but it only links to a teaser, nit to the whole article.)
Regards to all,
Ed B.
Ed Buckner
American Atheists


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Recently I went to the DMV to get my new Illinois license. The man behind the counter was extremely chatty for a state worker, and we exchanged pleasantries and conversation while he processed my paperwork. He told me about his wife and his plans to move to Colorado soon, I shared a story about my kids and our recent move from Pittsburgh.
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Nice image of the bridge. I know you cannot get a true HDR from on image. It just simulates the HDR look. You can set the three different exposures from the one RAW image and get a decent HDR,
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Hi Frank, I don't buy that explanation and whomever sold it to you did you no favours.
The camera sensor has a specific dynamic range and no amount of post processing will change that.
Yes you can take an image and, for instance, simulate an overexposure and the highlights will appear burnt out. But you can also reverse the process because the detail is still there, just hidden.
If the image was overexposed when you took it and the highlights are burnt out, there's no detail present to process, so you can fiddle about all you like and there'll still be no detail.
And yes you can use HDR processing to make a poorly exposed image look better but there are tools better suited to the job in Photoshop and in Elements.
On the other hand, a real HDR image aggregates the "good" data from however many frames you process and discards the "bad" data, so blown highlights are discarded in favour of more detailed highlight and so on with midrange and shadow detail. In this way you get an image with a greater dynamic range than can be recorded by the camera sensor in a single exposure.
I don't like to preach but you are better off learning good practise rather than wasting your time using HDR in a way never intended.
Done right, HDR can produce spectacular results but there are downsides, like your monitor can't reproduce the dynamic range of a proper HDR, neither can your printer, so the 32-bit HDR is reduced to 8 or 16-bit and squashed (dynamically) for viewing. Therefore, not every picture is suitable for HDR treatment and not every HDR looks impressive, and that's where the individual expertise of the photographer comes into play, again.
Peter (trying to be helpful)
Hey dr4gon, how much discussion like this is appropriate in this thread or should it be elsewhere.
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Reason: Second thought.
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Peek, well done! I've done that as well. Great simple easy trick to do in photoshop with masks! The reflections are so calming! Did you use a tripod for this? or just really good steady hands and alignment?
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You're joking dr4gon! Steady hands at my age. Tripod, Tripod, Tripod! (get it)
Got it! lol..... tripod = perfection everytime!
Thanks Peter
I have alot to learn both behind the camera and after the shot. I just like messing around to see what I come up with.
Millz, your image, to me, appears washed out.
That may be because I tend towards low key images unlike this one.
I would have post processed and given this a bit of a kick in the curves dialog.
Doesn't mean yours is wrong though.
Thanks dr4gon & Peek.
dr4gon, actually a storm was approaching when I took that shot.
Peek, love that apple shot, very sharp & 3D like. Great lens!
The owl's eyes sure look as big as a marble
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Lens: Tamron AF70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di LD Macro 1:2
Focal Length: 300mm
Exposure: ISO 400
Exposure Time: 1/50
Aperture: f/5.6
White Balance: Auto
Metering Mode: Pattern
Flash: No
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That's a beady stare if ever saw one. Good work.
As for the "Apple" lens, I was expecting that choice to stir up some debate, but it didn't. Go figure.
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Beltran's 2 HRs lead St. Louis over Arizona
PHOENIX (AP) — Carlos Beltran has been around long enough to know that there are good times and bad times in a long season.
Things are very good for the St. Louis slugger right now.
Beltran homered in his first two at-bats, including a grand slam, for six RBIs, and the Cardinals beat Arizona 6-1 on Tuesday night, handing the Diamondbacks their fourth loss in a row.
Beltran, who had one of the Cardinals' five homers in their 9-6 series-opening win on Monday, hit a two-run homer off Ian Kennedy in the first, then cleared the bases with a shot into the swimming pool area in right-center in the seconds, his 10th career grand slam.
"His swing and his approach is so simple," St. Louis manager Mike Matheny said. "He's got a good idea of what he's looking for and doesn't try to do too much when he gets it. That's just smart hitting from a guy that's been around for a while."
He has 10 home runs this season.
Beltran's performance came a week after he went 4 for 5, including two homers, for a career-high seven RBIs against Pittsburgh.
"It's confidence, it's results, it's a little bit of everything," Beltran said. "It's being able to come to the ballpark and have good BP (batting practice) sessions, staying inside the ball, things like that. You can carry those to the games. I'm just going through good times. In this game, you go through ups and downs."
Jake Westbrook (4-2) blanked the Diamondbacks on four hits through seven innings.
Kennedy (3-2) threw five scoreless innings after Beltran's slam but the Diamondbacks lost for the sixth time in seven games. They have dropped nine of their past 11 at home.
"We have to get our confidence back," the Diamondbacks' Justin Upton said. "We have had a couple of tough loses. We have gotten beat up but good teams come out of these things and pick themselves up. I think we have the group to do it.
The Cardinals won their third straight and can complete a three-game sweep in the desert on Wednesday night.
St. Louis catcher Yadier Molina left the game in the ninth inning after being hit in the back of his gloved hand trying to snag a pitch by reliever Mitchell Boggs. Preliminary X-rays were negative.
"That's good news because the ball hit me pretty good," said Molina, who was expecting a slider but got a fastball. "I feel good. We'll see what happens tomorrow."
Several seasons ago Molina broke a bone in the same spot.
Westbrook struck out eight and walked two. Only one Arizona base runner reached second against the sinker-throwing St. Louis right-hander.
"You could see the movement on the ball from the side," Matheny said. "When you see a sinker moving that much you know that they're going to have a hard time over there trying to put good wood on it."
Aaron Hill singled three times off Westbrook, two of them infield hits.
Jon Jay opened the game with a triple past diving center fielder Gerardo Parra, then Beltran hit Kennedy's 1-0 pitch deep into the right field seats to make it 2-0 in a hurry.
The Cardinals, who led 3-0 after one and 7-0 after five on Monday night, took a 6-0 lead in the second as Kennedy struggled with his control. Skip Schumaker doubled with one out, then Westbrook drew a two-out walk. Jay was hit by a pitch to load the bases and bring up Beltran, who lofted a 2-1 pitch into the swimming pool area in right field for the 32nd multi-home run game of his career.
Kennedy settled down after that, retiring the last 13 batters he faced, 15 of the last 16. He struck out Beltran twice. But the damage was done.
"Early in the game he was kind of like leaving balls in the middle of the plate," Beltran said. "Late in the game he was kind of hitting the corner, the spots, where he normally does. We took advantage of the opportunities and after that Westbrook was able to go out and pitch a good game."
The Arizona ace, who went 21-4 last season, lost consecutive starts for the first time since September 2010. He was beaten 2-1 at Washington last Wednesday, ending his nine-game winning streak. The six runs were the most he has allowed in his past 23 outings.
Kennedy struck out six, walked two and hit a batter.
The Diamondbacks averted a shutout when Upton led off the ninth with a single and scored on Miguel Montero's double.
NOTES: St. Louis has scored in the first inning for eight games in a row. … The Cardinals' five homers in Monday night's game were their most since hitting six on July 5, 2007, against Pittsburgh. … Beltran needs two stolen bases to become the eighth player in major league history with at least 300 steals and 300 homers. … Beltran had his second multi-homer game of the season. … The Cardinals go with Kyle Lohse (4-1, 2.11 ERA) while Arizona sends left-handed rookie Wade Miley (3-0, 2.33) to the mound in the series finale. … Arizona failed to score in 12 innings against St. Louis' starters in the first two games of the series. … The Diamondbacks' Cody Ransom struck out four times, giving him seven in two games.


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Guantanamo strike still on despite new Obama vow• Associated Press
MIAMI (AP) -- The Guantanamo Bay hunger strike is apparently still on despite President Barack Obama's renewed vow on closing the prison on the U.S. base in Cuba.
A U.S. military spokesman says there are still 100 prisoners refusing to eat as of Wednesday. Lt. Col. Samuel House says 23 are being force fed to prevent starvation.
House said the prison camps appeared calm a day earlier as word spread that Obama had said at a news conference that he would try to persuade Congress to end the restrictions that have prevented his administration from emptying the prison that now holds 166 men.
A lawyer visiting the camps this week tells The Associated Press that he doesn't think the hunger strike will end until the U.S. resumes transferring prisoners out of Guantanamo.


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The top leaders of one of Chicago's most violent street gangs have been charged in a sweeping racketeering case that alleges they controlled their West Side drug empire through pattern of intimidation, kidnappings, shootings and murder dating back to the mid-1990s, according to an affidavit unsealed today in Cook County Criminal Court.
Before sunrise today, police armed with "no knock" search warrants fanned out across the Chicago area surprising dozens of leaders of the Black Souls, including Cornel Dawson, known as the gang's chief, and Teron Odum, described as Dawson's second-in-command. Also arrested were a number of "top runners" and "supervisors" who authorities say control the gang's street operations.
The 78-page affidavit alleges the Black Souls ran an $11 million-a-year drug operation and protected the enterprise with violence that included at least seven murders from 1994 to 2012. In all, 23 members of the gang have been charged with racketeering conspiracy, while 18 more face state drug or weapons charges, authorities said.
Among the charges was the slaying last October of Claude Snulligan, whom authorities said was fatally shot after he worked undercover and agreed to testify against the gang's leaders about a robbery and attempted kidnapping months earlier.
The case, dubbed "Operation 40 Cal," marks the first prosecution under the state's new anti-racketeering law designed to hold gang leaders accountable for violence their organizations wreak on city streets.
"The new street gang RICO law has enabled us to launch an unprecedented attack on the leadership of this violent and notorious gang," Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez said at a news conference today at the Leighton Criminal Court Building. "It is a game-changer for law enforcement in our war against Chicago street gangs."
Chicago police Supt. Garry McCarthy said similar measures were used to great effect during his tenure in New York and allow police to "permeate the veil of secrecy" in which gang leaders surround themselves.
"We're going to use this a lot," McCarthy said.
Court appearances for the defendants are expected to begin Friday.
The arrests mark the first prosecution by the Cook County state's attorney's office under the gang RICO law, which took effect in June 2012 and was modeled after the 1970 federal RICO statute originally designed to go after mobsters. By classifying a gang as a criminal enterprise, the law allows authorities to hold leaders responsible for the gang's actions even if they are insulated from a particular crime such as a murder or drug deal.
The law carries stiff penalties for those convicted of participating in a criminal enterprise -- from a mandatory 7- to 30-year prison term for racketeering conspiracy up to life in prison without parole for those convicted of murder under the statute.
The Black Souls gang was founded on the city's West Side and is thought to have a half-dozen factions with more than 750 members, according to law enforcement reports.
In 2010, the gang was targeted by then-Chicago police Supt. Jody Weis under a new strategy to crack down on an entire gang if one of its members was involved in a fatal shooting. The effort, which began with the August 2010 murder of high school senior Anthony Carter, netted more than 60 arrests, according to a Tribune report that year.
Over the past decade, the federal RICO statute has been used against two Chicago-area gangs: the Latin Kings in Chicago and the Insane Deuces in Aurora.
In the Latin Kings case, prosecutors emphasized that the case provided them with a rare opportunity to hold the highest ranking Latin King in the country accountable for the violence that supported the gang's drug enterprise.


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AMD Hosting an Event for Fans In San Francisco on April 6th
Subject: General Tech | April 3, 2013 - 05:57 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: prizes, GCN, fan day, APU, amd
AMD has announced that is will be hosting an event for fans in San Francisco this weekend. The AMD Fan Day is free with registration (register here), and fans will give enthusiasts a chance to go hands-on with the company's 2013 hardware lineup, play several newly released (and some not-yet-released) games, talk with industry experts, check out modded PCs, and have a chance to win free hardware and swag from AMD, Corsair, and Gigabyte.
Gamers will get a chance to speak with the developers for Bioshock Infinite, Far Cry 3, Crysis 3, Devil May Cry (DMC), and Tomb Raider as well as AMD representatives. VIZIO, IGN, Ubisoft, Sapphire, and Logitech will also be attending the AMD fan day to show off their latest products.
The event will held at City View at Metreon (address below) at 5:30pm on Saturday, April 6th. Best of all, the first 1,000 registered attendees in the door will get a free AMD A8 5600K APU. The first 120 attendees will win both an A8 5600K APU and an A85X motherboard.
One of the modded PCs that will be on the event floor.
If you're going to be in the area this weekend and are interested in going, be sure to head over to the AMD site and register. It sounds like it should be a fun time, and the free hardware doesn't hurt!
The AMD Fan Day will be held at the following address:
City View at Metreon
135 4th Street
San Francisco, CA 94013
Will you be checking out the AMD fan day to enjoy some gaming and PC hardware?
Is AMD going to have any refrence PCs available to try out with their FirePro APUs The A300/A320 with the professional grade graphics drivers beacuse playing games is fun, but making 3D models for games is also fun! I would love to see AMD produce a refrence Laptop/workstation with this APU, it would be great for Student 3d and gaming design!
I was going to make a smart ass comment about how AMD is showing off CPUs and other designs to gamers. It is like bringing pigs to a feeding troth. The first comment beat me too it in a much more diplomatic way.
I saw a review of a i3, i5, i7 up against and 8350. In gaming even the i3 slightly has an advantage but not much. Single threaded gaming was better on intel but if you simply took the cost difference between a i7 and the extra cost of a intel motherboard and added that to your GPU cost with the savings you get from AMD you have a PC that smokes any intel in gaming. Dollar for dollar AMD wins every time. When you then jump into 3d modeling and video trans-coding dollar for dollar AMD wins again.
Reviewers need to complete the consumers understanding of what they are buying and where the advantages are. It is unfortunate that most consumers see only what they want to see and a great company like AMD has to struggle as a result.
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October 14, 2008
Section 1 - Implementation of Electronic Government Initiatives
|A. Describe the initiative, the methodology for identification of the initiative, and how the initiative is transforming agency operations.
The G5 investment has been selected and approved by the Office of Management and Budget as one of three Centers of Excellence/shared service providers for the Grants Management Line of Business (GMLoB). This investment provides for the replacement of the Department of Education's (ED) legacy grants management system - the Grant Administration and Payment System (GAPS) and supports the Line of Business consolidation initiative. The shared service model enables ED to provide services to client agencies that will migrate to the Department's end-to end grants management system.
The G5 solution supports the Agency's grant-making business process and is a full lifecycle end-to-end grants management system (from intake of applications, peer review, award, payment, and performance monitoring to final closeout of the grant award). The system is being implemented in a three-phase approach over several years. Phase I (Payments) was implemented in December 2007. Phase II (Pre-Award) will be implemented in October 2009, and Phase III (Post Award) will be implemented in 2010. The investment was initiated to gather new or changing requirements related to grants management and to better align with the Department's current business processes and strategic plan. The GAPS system became operational in 1998 and has reached the end of its lifecycle. This initiative ensures the Department's enterprise-wide grants management system is up to date with current technology trends and with Government Paperwork Elimination Act requirements and that it is closely aligned with both existing and new grants policies and procedures. The Department intends to leverage enabling technologies to facilitate improvements within the grants management lifecycle. The high-level planned capabilities of the G5 solution include total electronic records management, workflow management and automatic notifications and alerts. Workflow tools will be used to expedite planning and allow interaction between the grantor and applicant/grantee. The legacy system's total integration with the General Ledger and subledger components that support detail accounting for obligations, expenditures and payments will also be included in the G5 solution.
|B. Explain how your agency maintains an ongoing dialogue with interested parties to find innovative ways to use information technology for the initiative.
The GMLoB Consortia Leads collaborate through monthly meetings to share best practices and discuss ways to build on successes achieved. Further, as G5 is currently in the development stage, ED provides partners the opportunity to participate in requirements validation. Once all phases of the system have been implemented, ED will begin quarterly discussions with partners for enhancement, efficiencies, etc.
|C. Identify external partners (e.g., Federal, State or local agencies, industry) who collaborate on the initiative.
|D. Identify improved performance (e.g., outcome measures, quantifiable business impact) by tracking performance measures supporting agency objectives and strategic goals.
The G5 solution supports the agency's cross-goal strategy on Management Objective 1: Maintain and strengthen financial integrity and management and internal controls. G5 controls payments for the Department's programs, including payments for grants and direct loans and other program-related obligations. Until G5 is fully implemented, GAPS will continue to serve as a subsidiary to the general ledger for program-related obligations, payments, and expenditures. GAPS interfaces with ED's Financial Management Support System at the summary level for funds control and general ledger postings.
These systems are responsible for managing, reconciling, and delivering timely and accurate reporting of grant and financial accounting data for over 160 grant appropriations.
Tight three-way integration between grants management, payments, and accounting has been a critical success factor in:
|E. Quantify the cost savings and cost avoidance achieved through implementing the initiative (e.g., by reducing or eliminating other investments in information technology).
The G5 system has not been fully implemented and does not expect to realize savings until at least FY11. The Department expects to realize savings when Phase III implementation is complete, consortia partner migrations begin and legacy systems are retired.
|F. Explain how this initiative ensures the availability of government information and services for those without access to the Internet and for those with disabilities.
The Department provides a toll-free hotline and TTY for individuals without access to the Internet to ensure the availability of its grant systems to customers.
Compliance with Section 508 is required in the development of the system, and the system has undergone rigorous 508 compliance testing to ensure that customers with disabilities can successfully access and use the system.
|G. Explain how the project applies effective capital planning and investment control procedures.
ED requires that all information technology initiatives support and are aligned with the Department's business objectives and Strategic Plan, minimize duplication of investment efforts, and are selected and managed in a way that demonstrates careful decision-making, with the greatest possible partnership and resource sharing.
ED's Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) manages the Department's IT investment management (ITIM) process to ensure consistency with all applicable legislation, as well as the Department's enterprise architecture, information management, information assurance, and related standards and processes. The ITIM process is iterative and uses a cycle of IT project selection, control, and evaluation to maximize desired business outcomes. Tools such as business cases and "earned value" metrics reported monthly allow IT projects to be analyzed for success throughout their lifecycles. The G5 initiative submits a business case annually and other core deliverables to OCIO for review and clearance. OCIO collaborates with the Office of the Chief Financial Officer during the review process to ensure that the G5 acquisition is aligned with the Department's policies and standards and is driven by sound business needs and requirements as defined in an approved business case.
|H. Describe the established business process your agency has in place for the continued ongoing process of identification of initiatives.
ED's Investment Review Board (IRB) was established under the authority of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996; the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; Office of Management and Budget Circular A-130 (Management of Federal Information Resources); and other applicable laws, rules, and regulations.
The IRB is a forum for deliberation about Department information technology (system and resource) investments needed to achieve the Department's mission and business requirements. The IRB advises the Chief Operating Officer to ensure that the Department:
Section 2 – Agency Information Management Activities
|A. Your agency's Information Resources Management (IRM) Strategic Plan and EA Transition Plan.
The Department's IRM Strategic Plan:
The Department's EA Transition Plan:
|B. Final determinations, priorities, and schedules. Also include your agency's information dissemination product catalogs, directories, inventories, and any other management tools used to improve the dissemination of and access to your agency's information by the public;
|ED is committed to providing its full range of information to the public. A primary vehicle for doing so is the Department's main website, ED.gov. ED.gov offers regularly updated information on the administration's priorities as well as ED grants and contracts, federal student financial aid, education research and statistics, ED policy, and ED programs (please see www.ed.gov). The U.S. Department of Education (ED) developed an inventory of website content, http://www.ed.gov/notices/egovinventory.html, as required by Section 207(f)(2) of the E-Government Act of 2002. ED also offers a one-stop system for ordering ED publications (http://edpubs.ed.gov/webstore/Content/search.asp), an array of e-newsletters (http://www.ed.gov/news/newsletters/index.html), and an RSS feed (http://www.ed.gov/news/newsletters/rssnewsfeed.html).
|C. Your agency's FOIA handbook, the link of your agency's primary FOIA website, and the website link where frequent requests for records are made available to the public;
The Department's primary FOIA website is:
The Department provides a link from its primary FOIA website to the DOJ FOIA
Guide publication:
The Department provides information to assist requesters to "make a FOIA
request." The web address for "How to Make a Request" is:
The Department's "frequently requested records" web page is:
|D. A list of your agency's public websites disseminating research and development (R&D) information to the public, describing for each whether the website provides the public information about federally funded R&D activities and/or provides the results of Federal research;
The Department's primary website, ED.gov, hosts a portal page that serves as the starting point to ED research and statistics information (please see http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/landing.jhtml). The main ED organization that supports ED research and statistics is the Institute of Education Sciences (please see http://ies.ed.gov/).
|E. An inventory describing formal agency agreements (e.g., contracts, memorandum of understanding) with external entities (e.g., partnerships with State and local governments, public libraries, industry and commercial search engines) complementing your agency's information dissemination program, briefly explaining how each agreement improves the access to and dissemination of government information to the public;
Besides http://www.ed.gov, http://ies.ed.gov, http://studentaid.ed.gov/, our main sources of information for the public, we have contract agreements to complement our information dissemination program:
EDpubs, http://edpubs.ed.gov/webstore/Content/search.asp, is intended to help customers identify and order U.S. Department of Education products. All publications are provided at no cost to the general public by the U.S. Department of Education.
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), http://eric.ed.gov/, provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text.
What Works Clearinghouse, http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/, provides educators, policymakers, researchers, and the public with a central and trusted source of scientific evidence of what works in education.
Doing What Works, http://dww.ed.gov/, provides effective teaching practices and examples of possible ways to implement them. These practices have been found to be effective by the Department's Institute of Education Sciences and similar organizations.
College.gov, http://www.college.gov/, aims to motivate students with inspirational stories and information about planning, preparing and paying for college.
ED has two cooperative agreements:
Students.gov, http://www.students.gov/STUGOVWebApp/Public, is an official U.S. government web site designed for college students and their families. Our mission is to provide you with easy access to information and resources from the U.S. government – all the info you need, in one place, from all parts of the government.
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE), http://free.ed.gov, makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government. More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.
|F. An inventory that describes your agency's NARA-approved records schedules(s) or the link to the publicly-posted records schedules(s), and a brief explanation of your agency's progress to implement NARA Bulletin 2006-02. For the brief explanation, please report the number of systems for which a record schedule was submitted to NARA in FY 2008 and the number of systems still requiring records schedules.
The Department's Comprehensive Records Disposition Schedule is available
ED continues to make steady progress in meeting the requirements of NARA Bulletin 2006-02. ED has begun completely overhauling its existing records disposition schedules. We have obtained NARA approval to make the new ED comprehensive records retention schedules broader in scope, media-neutral and applicable to records in all formats. ED submitted approximately 30 new records retention schedules to NARA for final approval in FY08 and will submit the remainder (about 70) in FY09. A majority of our electronic information systems are covered by these new schedules. Any systems not covered will be scheduled individually in FY09. All of ED's electronic information systems will be covered by applicable records retention schedules by the September 30, 2009, deadline.
NARA Bulletin 2006-02 also requires agencies to incorporate records management functions into the design, development, and implementation of information. ED modified its Life Cycle Management process to incorporate records management requirements. This will ensure that records management considerations are taken into account during the system initiation and concept phases and records management requirements are defined and incorporated into system design, functionality, and operation.


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Twenty-five years ago, Chicago bluesman Corky Siegel unveiled a project that continues to obsess him.
He called it Chamber Blues, and since its Midwest premiere in 1988 at the Paramount Arts Centre in Aurora, the project has blossomed into an ongoing venture that continues to develop new repertoire for a steadily rotating list of musicians.
As its title implies, Chamber Blues unabashedly interweaves elements of blues and classical music, the balance shifting depending on the musicians and repertoire involved. For all the cross-genre appeal of this experiment, however, a quarter century does seem a long time to be at it.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 9th Jul 2007 17:49 UTC, submitted by Rahul
"After internal consideration in the Samba Team we have decided to adopt the GPLv3 and LGPLv3 licences for all future releases of Samba. The GPLv3 is the updated version of the GPLv2 license under which Samba is currently distributed. It has been updated to improve compatibility with other licenses and to make it easier to adopt internationally, and is an improved version of the license to better suit the needs of Free Software in the 21st Century. To allow people to distinguish which Samba version is released with the new GPLv3 license, we are updating our next version release number. The next planned version release was to be 3.0.26, this will now be renumbered so the GPLv3 version release will be 3.2.0. To be clear, all versions of Samba numbered 3.2 and later will be under the GPLv3, all versions of Samba numbered 3.0.x and before remain under the GPLv2."


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Inspiring action and fostering a nationwide culture of support are the themes behind the Better Hearing Institute's (BHI) newly renovated website — www.BetterHearing.org — BHI announced today. BHI has renovated its website as part of its larger effort to inspire a broader, more action-oriented outlook on the state of hearing loss in America. BHI recognizes the substantial link between hearing health and active lifestyles, whole health, quality of life and productivity.
The "hearing" landscape is changing rapidly. Greater numbers of Americans are experiencing hearing loss at younger ages while the United States is undergoing an upward demographic shift in age. Meanwhile, people eager to stay actively engaged in full, rewarding and productive lives are putting off retirement and staying in the workforce longer.
These emerging societal trends are creating an environment in which youthful-minded baby boomers and Gen Xers are coming to realize the importance of good hearing to their professional and personal lives, not to mention to their quality of life and overall health. The good news is that hearing assistance technologies are catching up with the needs and wants of this dynamic generation of change-makers. In fact, there are many leading-edge technologies available—such as digital hearing aids, advanced microphone technologies and wireless functionalities—that can help the great majority of people with hearing loss maximize their hearing ability whenever and wherever they want.
The new BHI website has information about hearing loss in both adults and children. And it is designed to help each individual take that next step—in gathering information, recognizing and addressing his or her hearing loss—no matter where they are on their journey to better hearing.
The new BHI website includes inspiring personal stories of everyday people who have already taken the first and most important step in addressing their hearing loss. And it is chock full of informational articles. Importantly, the website includes a free, quick and confidential online hearing check to help individuals determine if they need a comprehensive hearing test by a hearing healthcare professional. What's more, there are hyperlinks available that allow visitors to "window shop" and learn more about hearing aid technologies from the comfort and privacy of their own homes.
As more of America experiences hearing loss, it becomes increasingly imperative that we create a national culture of action and support that promotes the early diagnosis, appropriate treatment and successful management of hearing loss. Not only will it benefit the individual, but it will benefit families and society as a whole.
Be inspired. Capture your best. Visit the new BHI website at www.BetterHearing.org.
To take the free, quick and confidential online hearing check, click the "Check Your Hearing" tab at www.BetterHearing.org to determine if you or a loved one need a comprehensive hearing test by a hearing healthcare professional.
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Founded in 1973, the Better Hearing Institute conducts research and engages in hearing health education with the goal of helping people with hearing loss benefit from proper treatment. Recognizing the important role that hearing plays in an individual's whole health, productivity and quality of life, BHI is working to affect a culture of "hearing wellness" in the United States that fosters early detection and appropriate treatment of hearing loss, but that also maximizes technologies that make it easier for people with hearing loss to stay active and fully engaged at work, at home, and in their communities and social lives. BHI is the educational arm of the Hearing Industries Association (HIA). # # #


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Is there a better soccer event in the Bay Area than the Earthquakes' annual trip to Stanford Stadium?
As the club's players and coaches might say: No chance.
Last year, the club sold out one week before kickoff. This year, the demand will surely rise. With that in mind, fans should keep the following dates in mind: Friday, Feb. 1 - Visa Pre-Sale starting at 10 a.m. PT; Monday, Feb. 4 - Official public on-sale starting at 10 a.m.
If the past is any indication, fans won't want to miss the Earthquakes' version of The Big Game. And, in case you need some convincing, here are five reasons why you need to save the date:
1) California Clasico - Northern Californians love any chance to stick it to their LoCal neighbors. Not only does the San Jose-LA rivalry have heaps of history, but it continues to grow following a spate of "Goonie Moments" in 2013 and an untimely exit from the MLS Cup Playoffs for San Jose. You can be sure the 1906 Ultras will be armed with another epic tifo display for this one.
2) Salute to the Armed Forces - This writer's personal-favorite from the 2012 Stanford Stadium game was Chris Wondolowski's goal celebration. After a ridiculous no-look back-heeled goal, the Wondo-ful one gave his own salute to our armed forces with some passionate high-fives behind the net. The Salute is back on in 2013 - well deserved for everything those folks do for us.
3) Fireworks Display - No need to explain this one. Who doesn't like a spirited fireworks display a few days before the Fourth of July?
4) Halftime Show - Last year, the Earthquakes upped the midway ante with a patriotic tribute to our armed forces. America the Beautiful was sung, a giant American flag was lifted by red-white-and-blue balloons and all five branches of the military were on the field in what I'm sure was the most memorable halftime show any MLS team put out in 2012. Patrick Roberge Productions is back for 2013 and will undoubtedly turn out another brilliant show.
5) Magical Moments - Why do people attend big events? For the memories. Over 50,000 people will always remember the time they dropped by Stanford Stadium on June 30, 2012 to watch the Goonies come from 3-1 down to defeat David Beckham, Landon Donovan, Robbie Keane & Co. They'll remember Steven Lenhart's blond mane bobbing up-and-down during his post-goal workout on the crossbar, the 1906 Ultras' massive, grassroots tifo display, and, of course, Wondo's clutch goal. Expect to leave the 2013 edition with memories that will last a lifetime.