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February 17, 2014
Rihanna is known around the world for being the best-selling music artist of the digital age, for her fashion sense and for her devil-may-care attitude. Except, now, it seems she does care about at least one issue: HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Through her new philanthropic partnership with MAC AIDS Fund, which puts artists, musicians and other public figures in collaboration with on-the-ground workers fighting HIV/AIDS throughout the world, Rihanna has released a lipstick and a lipglass for purchase. The full amount from all sales goes toward MAC's HIV/AIDS support efforts abroad. Rihanna recently appeared on Good Morning America to discuss the new endeavor.
MAC AIDS Fund has a long history of working with music superstars to raise money for HIV/AIDS. Last year, Ricky Martin and rap diva Nicki Minaj were spokespeople, and Minaj's lipstick became the best-selling item in the history of the brand. Previous black celebrity spokeswomen include Eve, Mary J. Blige, Missy Elliott and Lil' Kim.
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Alumni and Students Network in Chicagoby Michael Warren • March 3, 2011 Share:
Advertising giant Leo Burnett's downtown Chicago office was once again the location for the Alumni/Student Networking Event co-sponsored by Wabash College Career Services, The Wabash Club of Chicago, and the Alumni and Parent Relations Office.
Over twenty area alumni made their way to the downtown office overlooking the river on Sunday afternoon not to get a head start on the work week, but to give nearly fifty Wabash students a head start in their careers. A speed networking session with the students moving from alumnus to alumnus started the day followed by a general networking session for more in depth discussions about career preparation, internships, interviewing skills, and much more advice offered by the alumni.
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Mark Zandi, the chief economist and co-founder of Moody's Economy.com was in the midst of a whirlwind day that included two speeches, a panel discussion, a television interview and a visit to the Congressional Budget Office but he still found time for a little extracurricular research.
In a taxi on the way to the Park Hyatt hotel in Washington, where he was making a presentation to a bank-industry group, Zandi turned to the driver. "How's business?" he asked.
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Houston Mayor leads trade mission to Saudi Arabia
November 10, 2012Dammam Mayor Dhaifallah Al-Otaibi received at his office today Houston Mayor Annise Danette Parker and her accompanying delegation. Mayor Parker was briefed on developments in Dammam.
Mayor Parker is leading a 38-member trade mission to the Gulf, which also includes stops in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, and aimes at expanding business cooperation between Houston and the Gulf states. "This trade mission will not only enhance our existing foreign business relationships, but also provide opportunities for new partnerships with public and private organizations in each country," said Mayor Parker said in a statement issued prior to her trip. "Houston's strength as an energy capital will help businesses looking for new ventures or strategic links in this part of the world and, inversely, place Houston at the forefront when Middle Eastern businesses contemplate future international business models."
"The U.A.E., Qatar and Saudi Arabia have defied and reconfigured expectations for petro-economies by investing heavily in major infrastructure projects, scientific and cultural undertakings, and providing an array of business incentives which have brought some of the world's largest corporations to their business community. One of the goals of this trip will be to facilitate new business partnerships and express the importance of maintaining existing ones. Mayor Parker in particular will strengthen international relations and advance Houston's business, economic, political and commercial objectives in the Middle East, which include increasing trade between the two regions."


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This course features a large selection of ideas for LEGO® robotics projects and photos of many robots and components. It also contains an archive of content from a related course, SP.285 Robotics and Mechatronics.
LEGO® robotics uses LEGO®s as a fun tool to explore robotics, mechanical systems, electronics, and programming. This seminar is primarily a lab experience which provides students with resources to design, build, and program functional robots constructed from LEGO®s and a few other parts such as motors and sensors.
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Good grief! Comedian Katt Williams just can't seem to sit down, shut up, and stay out of trouble. In his ongoing efforts to prove to the world that he is a total badass, Williams has been arrested again! The Scary Movie 5 actor's run-ins with law enforcement happened so many times in the past week or so that, quite frankly, we have lost count.
First there was that crazy police chase through Sacramento on a three-wheeler. Then that whole alleged slapping of a Target employee. And let's not forget the bar fight (heaven forbid you forget that) last weekend. Heck, by those crazy standards, this arrest actually seems, well ... tame!
TMZ is reporting that Williams was nabbed by deputies at a gas station following a traffic stop on a warrant for last month's tricycle stunt. He's been charged with reckless driving for allegedly taking the three-wheeler up onto a sidewalk while leading cops on a low-speed chase.
OK, so it isn't exactly a new problem. And there's no sign that Williams did anything kooky during the traffic stop. Really the biggest news out of it was the fact that his appearance at a show scheduled for Friday night had to be cancelled.
Could it be that Williams has finally learned his lesson? America has a pretty low bar set for what entertains us, but even we have a point where hijinks stop being funny and start pissing us off.
This guy has allegedly hurt people, put lives at risk, and wasted the time of our boys in blue. If this was some publicity stunt to get more attention for his comedy, America has had it. We're not amused.
I'm happy to hear that Williams actually listened to the cops this time. Let this be a sign that he's mending his ways and actually going to do something worth laughing about in the future.
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE andamp;#8212; Animal enthusiasts and their dogs of all shapes and sizes are encouraged to take part in the inaugural Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoeandamp;#8217;s Tennies andamp; Tails event Saturday, Sept. 1 at 9 a.m. at the Truckee River Regional Park.Participants and their dogs will park (for free) and register at the Regional Park on Brockway Road in Truckee, and they will descend the Legacy Trail to traverse a course set up along the river-front trail.This event is not limited to dog owners and their furry friends. In fact, the only requirement is support for the Humane Society andamp;#8212; animal lovers without their pets, kids, families with strollers, young and old alike are all expected to come together for this feel-good community event.Tennies andamp; Tails will compose two races. A three-mile run will commence at 9 a.m. and a one-mile walk will follow at 9:10 a.m. Imagine a whole town full of dog owners coming out to raise money for the regionandamp;#8217;s new animal shelter. Participants are encouraged to gather sponsors for their run or walk to help increase the total amount of money raised.For those who pre-register, Tennies andamp; Tails registration cost is $20 for each dog owner plus their leashed dog. Actually, for two leashed, well-behaved dogs under control are permitted per owner. Please note that all registered dogs must have current vaccinations.Day-of registration fees increase to $30, and participants can register as early as 7:30 a.m. Children under 5-years-old are free. To pre-register or for more info, visit http://www.hstt.org/events or call 530-587-5948.All proceeds from Tennies andamp; Tails will go toward much-needed building funds for the new HSTT animal shelter which is currently under construction. Another way to support the HSTT andamp;#8220;Be A Hero Now andamp; Foreverandamp;#8221; campaign which is quickly gaining momentum is to create an online fundraising page through FirstGiving.com. This creative, collective fundraising mechanism allows individuals to reach out to their circle of friends to help them raise money for a cause they passionately believe in. To learn more visit http://www.hstt.org/be-hero-now-and-forever.For those who havenandamp;#8217;t heard, the HSTT has had tremendous success to date raising over $2.5 million dollars to fund the shelterandamp;#8217;s construction. Unfortunately, due to higher than anticipated construction costs, they have encountered a shortfall and they now face an urgent need to raise additional funds. The new shelter, which broke ground in early July on Stockrest Springs Road above downtown Truckee, will provide much needed expanded space. Once built, it will replace an inadequate facility andamp;#8212; originally built to house eight dogs and 30 cats, the current shelter cannot accommodate the growing population, which can number 25 dogs and up to 70 cats at any given time.For more information log onto http://www.HSTT.org or call 530-587-5948.


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You've all heard the claim that we aren't really atheists, we are just mad at god. (Or you will see such things as "so and so claims to be an atheist.")
Today, though I saw an argument in chat with a theist, and someone else's account of an argument they had out in public, and I stopped to wonder if maybe we aren't sometimes encouraging this line of bullshit, albeit unwittingly.
What happened in both cases was the atheist began recounting all the sorts of horrible things Yahweh is portrayed as doing or believing or commanding. In one case, I saw the atheist say "why should I love god when he won't love me back?"
The problem with this sort of thing is we usually don't take care to phrase our remarks to make it clear that god is a character of fiction. When discussing the misdeeds of Yahweh we tend to fall back on a convention we use when we talk about a fictional character in a book. We refer to him by name and talk as if the guy was real and the book was not fiction, for example, "In George Orwell's 1984, Winston Smith was arrested for thoughtcrime," not, "In George Orwell's 1984, the character Winston Smith..."
We know what we mean, because we both know Winston Smith (or god) is fictitious. But they don't know god is fictitious.
Talking this way with someone who believes the fictional character is real might cause him not to understand you are just following the convention. Your phrasing sounds to him like you accept god as real, he "knows" god is real, so he assumes at some level you think god is real.
What I am suggesting here is that you ever want to bring up how nasty this being is, you make it clear that you don't think he exists, make sure you put "fictitious" (or equivalent) in every other sentence at least, and not let them think for a minute that you assume the existence of god.
Yes I know that when you just said you were an atheist this shouldn't be necessary, but obviously many of these people don't understand atheism in their guts, so don't let their paradigm default you into a "believer but mad at god" box.
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No way to take this god to the lab,we can examine, test if you like, all kind of creatures and you may find the notion of god but not god, and not intentionally of course.this how god exixts if ever existed,and this is what I am trying to bring it to your respectful way of thinking and your method,and let's say that ibraham exists one day and you find archeological proof about him ,writing in a cave or script in a stone or whatever.So you will consider his speech as evidence or you will believe him or what ?or you would ask him to prove any way the existence of the called god?? Examine the bible has nothing to do with god,it will show you that this book either was man written or was written by someone , and also it would not be a proof about his existence.
This is the logic of his existing. are we able(as human) to get it ?YES .And the moment we change this logic we lose him. We continue.
Lonely - RE: "let's say that ibraham exists one day and you find archeological proof about him ,writing in a cave or script in a stone or whatever."
No, we can't say that, and here's why - Abraham, or as I believe he is called in the Quran, Ibrahim. is such a mythical character, no one can even say when he was born. I have seen guesses ranging anywhere from 1825 BCE to 2300 BCE, and each of these from someone claiming to be an authority, but you will never find his "writing in a cave" because the Jewish people did not have the ability to write until about 1000 BCE - nearly a full thousand years from the most recent time that old Abe was supposed to have existed. So Abe couldn't have written anything, in a cave or anywhere else, because Abe (if he ever existed) couldn't read nor write.
RE: "Examine the bible has nothing to do with god,it will show you that this book either was man written or was written by someone , and also it would not be a proof about his existence."
But Lonely, you get your own belief in god from a book, the Quran, which was also man written. Think for a second, how YOU came to believe in Allah - your parents believed in Allah and taught you to believe as well. If you had been born in America, to American parents, they would have taught you to believe in Yahweh and Jesus, and you would be arguing with Muslims that their beliefs were false and that yours were true. We are not born believing in a god, we are taught as children by our families. We grow up watching them pray and go to church or mosque or synagogue, and because we are little and don't know any better, we take their word for it and try to be like them and believe what they believe.
But where do they get their belief? From their parents, and from a book, whether its the Bible, the Quran or the Tannakh - and if those books are untrue, then their religion is untrue, and what they taught you is untrue - not because your parents lied to you, they didn't, they taught you what they truly believed, but it was based on a book that was full of lies.
When I said, "real proof must be testable," here's what I mean. The author, Arthur C. Clarke once wrote:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Electricity is invisible. If I could time-travel back to Abraham's time (if he ever existed) and show him a flashlight, a cell-phone, an iPad, or anything electronic that he did not understand, he would fall to his knees and worship me as a god. NOT because I am a god (although I AM kinda cute!), but because I could do something and he couldn't understand how it was done, therefore, in his mind, I must be magic, and since only gods can do miracles, I must be a god.
While we can't see electricity, we can take it into a lab and see it's results. We can understand how it works, and understanding it, we can find ways to use what it can do, to help us in our lives.
But the so-called "miracles" in the Bible or the Quran or the Tannakh are not "reproducible" - we cannot experiment with them as we do electricity, and reproduce the same effect. And since we have only the word of people who lived thousands of years ago, we can't question those people to determine if what they say is true or a lie, or just a product of their imagination, and therefore, until someone can say, "yes, I can create a tall tower of whirling dust that will move across the desert in the daytime and turn into a whirling pillar of fire at night, and guide people on a 40-year journey!" (that wouldn't have been necessary, if there hadn't been a man in charge who refused to stop and ask for directions) - until someone can say that, and reproduce that tower of dust and flame that someone over 3,000 years ago said happened, we have to assume it didn't - that it was a lie, or a product of someone's imagination.
If you take away all of the people from the Bible who probably never existed - just cut our any reference to them, and all of the things that didn't really happen, the New Testament and the Quran would have no foundational base - like a building with its foundation removed, they would collapse.
There IS no "logic of his existing," because as soon as one begins to use logic, we see that there really is no reason for a god, because everything that happened - (that is, everything that REALLY happened, rather than the made up stuff in our holy books) - happened naturally, and there was no need for a god to do anything.
Lonely, please believe that I do not say this to mock you, but I say it with all due respect - the only reason you believe in a god, is because you are afraid not to believe.
I too, was once like you, "but when I became a man, I put aside childish things."
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Ah! "the only reason you believe in a god, is because you are afraid not to believe."
This statement is less reasonable, the same as believe in god, or not believe in him. is less rational but you are just trying your luck.
Re: the story of the parent and the previous formation, you mentioned this many times, yes many are following their parents, repeating what they said and maybe doing exactly the same. Also this argument is less reasonable because the parent's speech and talk could be wrong and could be right. And it will remain forever debatable and questionable, because simply: there can be no proof of God's existence nor indeed of God's non-existence.
You have mentioned "light"and I think this called "light' doesn't -at least till now-stand the idea Think atheist! why? because we know that we still don't know what is light, this unknowing light," it seems to be in a realm where there is no duration; no before, and no after. There is only "Now." even what we are seeing is not the light,
The light that strikes the eye is known only through the energy it releases. This energy is translated into a visual image in the mind.And sure you know this better than me, but as you said we can still use light and get great benefit from it. So if it's evolutionism not creationism?this light, relativity, quantum physic, this space, time, and the beautiful butterflies …..how we could understand their laws and we answered many questions about them if We speak other or different Language from all of this "UNIVERSE"?you may tell me this is 'Mathematics", numbers language, yes and it's not Swahili or Persian language.
If it was nihilism stroke, there would be NO SCIENCE.
About Abraham ,Isaac, Moses and many others ,believe me I don't care about them all of them, if they really existed one day or not,if they existed they may be right or wrong as a simple logic ppl can say truth or lies! to address to them, questioned and investigate their lives or if they ever existed or not it has nothing to do with god, if you want to "know" about him ask him directly and not be afraid, even if we did not realize his existence.
It would appear then Lonely, that we agree about everything, except for one thing:
"if you want to 'know' about him ask him directly and not be afraid" - I have never been afraid, in fact, at 12, I stood on a hilltop in a lightening storm and dared him to kill me if he was there, he wasn't. And he isn't. There is no one to ask.
You mentioned "nihilism" - nihilism implies that there is no purpose in life. I believe there is, and that purpose is to do everything you can, during the short time you live, to make the world a better place than you found it, to accept all people as equals, to vigorously pursue the beauty and truth and mystery of the world we live in for as long we can.
No one needs a god to do that. I know a 6-year old who does it every day of her life, and if she can, so can we.
@thelonely, I think everything you say here is pretty reasonable, except that I prefer a more scientific definition of logic. Observable, reproducible/predictable results are what science is all about. That's what makes today's technology and health possible, including this ability for us to communicate world-wide, instantly.
Even if scripture could be found to be historically accurate (which it hasn't), you're right that it still wouldn't prove that words in scripture came from any god. But "we cannot prove that scripture is true" is still an important fact, because so many people believe in their god just because of dogmatic (i.e. unquestioned and unchangeable) belief in their scripture.
Yaweh is real...I am typing now.
Anyway, is that the new trend argument now for theist? I never heard that argument yet.
I've gotten this several times. After a long argument the conversation eventually goes to condescension, something like "okay, well maybe you're not mad, you're just confused. It's okay to question God, He knows you'll come back to Him. You are an agnostic, not an atheist"
I recently "came out" to my family about being atheist. Actually my sister "outted" me, but anyways I also get the whole, what happened? Why are you mad at god? thing. I think what happened is that I grew up. I used to ask my mom, how did Noah get all those animals on the Ark? My mother (like a good Catholic/Christian) replied "God helped him", but HOW? "He's God". Well I think "he's God" started to sound that a circular thing. How did God create the Earth and all the living things on it if evolution is true "He's God" REALLY!? Thats not an ANSWER! Almost like we don't condone thinking, so just don't do it, okay honey?? But I AM a thinker and circular argument turned into silly almost ridiculous claims, which turned into me doing more research, learning more about the Bible and the history of Christianity than ever before and the same answer to my questions: "he's God". Im sorry but I like to use my brain, I think controversy is healthy, I think not knowing pushes people to find the answers. Complacency is destructive, faith is educationally abusive. You know what I''m not sorry mom and "he's God" isn't going to cut it anymore.
"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."
-- Chapman Cohen --
Yes, I am angry with the brainwashing that my parents and guardians abused me with as an ignorant child only looking to understand this life. When I got older I started to question the other religions and that is what made me realize it was just people making up shit to control other people. How can there me so many gods but you are only allowed to worship the right one, how do you know which god is right for you?
I think the problem is a two level issue:
1. a lot of people (including atheists) don't know how to argue an issue with strong logical points that DO NOT INVOLVE emotional responses.
2. People who do believe in god need to be given time to understand what atheism is and how a person chose to be an atheist before having a detailed debate about God.
Say you met a religious person that is a smart and logical. Intelligent people are naturally curious about things they don't have experience with; however, being raised in a Christian household, I can tell you that talking to someone about atheism. The radical christian view is that atheists are the worst of all "sinners". The mild view is that they just "hate god" and need to be convinced otherwise. I say that every atheist should tell their "coming out" story as an ice breaker to the subject!! But in a calm manner. I came up with a good way to tell my story, while making sure I used standard logical arguments to uphold my decision. If you don't religious people could get the wrong idea about us.
When in your example, the person said, "why should I love god when he won't love me back?", I think the person was trying to talk about a subject too advanced for a first debate with a christian. I hope the person was trying to discuss how, if god exists and cares about us, why would he allow evil to exist and would test us if god already knows how we would react. Most atheist would understand that this was where the debate was going. But a christian only hears the person talking about god as if he exists. I think any good debate should start with explaining the preface of the argument to be discussed. Thats the only way I can see avoiding any confusion between atheists and the religious.
The only mistake they are making is not taking what we say personally. Our anger tends to be directed at Christians, not their imaginary friend. They divert it because they don't want to think it is them.


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The following are updates on local baseball players at the minor league level.
Christian Bergman (St. Francis High, 2006) starting pitcher, Tulsa Drillers: Bergman, who was named last season's California League Pitcher of the Year, is now thriving in the Texas League.
He's quickly made a name for himself after pitching for the Modesto Nuts last season and diligently working his way up the ladder in the Colorado Rockies farm system.
Bergman, a former All-Area Baseball Player of the Year, was selected Tuesday to participate in the league's 77th all-star game on June 25 in Springdale, Ark., for the North Division. He'll be one of six Drillers, the Rockies double-A affiliate, picked to compete in the contest. Bergman will be joined by Tulsa teammates Tyler Matzek, Kent Matthes, Kyle Parker, Angelys Nina and Kiel Roling.
The players were chosen for the contest via voting by the league's managers and media.
Bergman, 25, is 3-6 with a 3.20 earned-run average and 1.14 WHIP in 14 starts. The right-hander has struck out a team-best 57 and allowed 42 runs (30 earned) in 84 1/3 innings.
On Tuesday, Bergman picked up his sixth loss of the season after receiving no run support in a 3-0 loss to the Springfield Cardinals. The former Knight allowed six base runners (four hits, two walks) and three runs over six innings.
Bergman, who struck out three batters, gave up all three runs on a homer from Xavier Scruggs in the bottom of the third inning. The Cardinals launched a two-out rally with a walk and Chris Swauger single, which set the table for Scruggs.
Before that, Bergman turned in a quality start against the Springfield Cardinals on June 11. In seven innings, Bergman allowed three runs (two earned) and struck out two. He did not pick up a decision in Tulsa's 4-3 home victory. Bergman threw 96 pitches, 62 for strikes. He also had a hit in two plate appearances.
The Drillers came into Wednesday in first place in the Texas League North Division at 34-34.
Nik Turley (La Cañada native) starting pitcher, Trenton Thunder: The 14th-ranked prospect in the New York Yankees organization, according to MLBPipeline.com, has hit a rough patch with the team's double-A affiliate.
With a 5-5 record this year, Turley has picked up losses in his past three starts. Most recently, he gave up six hits, six runs and a homer — his eighth of the year — in an 8-4 loss to the Altoona Curve Friday. He struck out six and walked two through five innings.
Turley's last solid outing came in his only relief appearance of the year May 28 against the Erie SeaWolves. He pitched the final five innings to pick up the win in a 4-1 victory after allowing just one hit and an unearned run, while striking four and walking two.
The 23-year-old's finest start may have come May 2, when he gave up two hits, three walks, one run and struck out eight through six innings of a 2-1 win over the New Hampshire Fisher Cats.
Turley gave up a triple, single and walk to the first three batters he faced, but bounced back in a big way and retired 18 of the next 20 batters.
"I was rushing too much," Turley told NJ.com after sealing the win. "But I was able to get my rhythm going and I felt comfortable. That's the greatest issue."
"When a game starts like that all you can do is control the next pitch. And that's what I was trying to do."
Turley then got called up to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, New York's triple-A squad, for a spot start on May 13 before being optioned back to the Thunder the next day.
The Harvard-Westlake graduate impressed in his first taste of the triple-A stage by throwing six innings of two-hit, one-run ball. He walked three and struck out four for a no-decision in a 3-2 loss to the Gwinnett Braves, which had Atlanta Braves slugger Jason Heyward in the starting lineup.
It was Heyward who tagged Turley for the only run with a two-out, run-scoring double in the top of the third inning. The runner reached on a one-out walk and moved to second on a wild pitch.
In his season at Trenton, Turley has a 4.90 earned-run average. Through 64 1/3 innings and 13 appearances (12 starts), he's allowed a 1.40 WHIP and .237 average to opposing batters. He's given up 57 hits, 38 runs (35 earned) and walked 33 batters to 71 strikeouts.
The Thunder came into Wednesday in third place in the Eastern League Eastern Division with a 34-35 record.
Joe De Pinto (St. Francis High, 2007) outfielder, Winston-Salem Dash: When De Pinto got a chance, he was impressive after he got his promotion in the Chicago White Sox minor league system. The only thing is those chances were few and far between.
The former Golden Knight was promoted from the Winston-Salem Dash to the Birmingham Barons, the White Sox's double-A affiliate, on April 26. He batted .375 with a .524 on-base and .438 slugging percentage, but it all came in a small sample size.
De Pinto appeared in just five games out of 23 in his first stint at the double-A level and was six for 16 with two runs scored, two more driven in and a double. Despite the impressive numbers, he was sent back to the class-A advanced Dash on May 22.
The St. Francis High graduate put his bid for more playing time with his finest game of the year Sunday, the final game before a four-day break for the Carolina League All-Star game in San Jose Tuesday. De Pinto went two for five with two doubles, including one with the bases loaded, to finish with three runs batted in and two scored.
In De Pinto's first 10 games at Winston-Salem, he batted .158 (six for 38) and he's since improved that number to .247 (22 for 89) through 16 more games with the Dash.
For the season with the Dash, De Pinto has 19 runs, nine RBI, eight doubles and four stolen bases.
Winston-Salem closed the first half of league play in second place in the Carolina League Southern Division with a 38-32 record.


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Features/JRuby 1.7.1
JRuby is an alternative Ruby implementation with fast growing user base due to its great performance in parallel tasks. Although JRuby 1.6.7 is already in Fedora, this feature brings in new major version and better Fedora integration.
- Name: Bohuslav Kabrda
- Email: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 19
- Last updated: 2012-12-3
- Percentage of completion: 5%
Detailed Description
Transition to JRuby 1.7.1 will consist of 3 basic steps:
- Updating packages
- Most of the packages that JRuby depends on are in Fedora just because of JRuby, so they can be safely updated.
- Some dependencies are shared with other packages, so they will have to be discussed with their owners (TODO: list).
- Integration with Fedora
- Normally, each Ruby implementations ships with its own copy of RubyGems library. This is wrong because a) it's bundling, b) there is no reason why multiple Ruby implementations wouldn't be able to share one RubyGems library. There used to be some differencies in JRuby's copy of RubyGems, but the JRuby upstream has been very cooperative and managed to get them all merged into upstream RubyGems.
- The integration will require changing Fedora's operating_system.rb (place for distro-specific defaults for RubyGems). This change will result into all Gems with binary extensions having to be recompiled, as the binary extension placement will change. See [1] for current operating_system.rb look and its changes from F18.
- TODO: /usr/bin/ruby stub
- Changes in packaging
- This feature will require some additions to Ruby Packaging Guidelines, the draft can be seen at TODO: pg_draft.
- An example of RubyGem packaged with both C and Java extension can be seen at [2].
[1] https://github.com/bkabrda/jruby.spec/blob/master/rubygems/operating_system.rb [2] https://github.com/bkabrda/jruby.spec/blob/master/rubygem-json/rubygem-json.spec
Benefit to Fedora
JRuby is starting to get very popular among Rubyists, mainly because of its excelent performance in tasks using concurrency (leveraging power of JVM). Because of this, JRuby is mainly used for running web (mostly Ruby on Rails) applications under great stress. Having up-to-date and sanely packaged JRuby is a must for Ruby development and deployment platform.
The changes only affect Ruby packages in Fedora. Few updated Java packages (TODO:) may also affect some Java packages - this will have to be discussed with their owners.
How To Test
1) There is a testing repo at http://bkabrda.fedorapeople.org/jruby/jruby.repo, which can be used to test. Do not install this on your system, due to the changes mentioned above, it would break your standard Ruby installation. This repo is meant to be tested in fedora-19-x86_64 mock chroot, where it can do no harm. 2) The repo packages do not contain all the integration features mentioned above, but provide a functional and usable JRuby installation.
User Experience
JRuby will be up-to-date, usable and will be able to use Fedora's RPM-packaged RubyGems.
As mentioned, few Java packages, that are dependencies of some other packages, will have to be updated (TODO:). Also, all the RubyGems packages with binary extensions will have to be rebuilt (TODO:).
Contingency Plan
Reverting to the previous behaviour will always be doable very easily, no harm will be done.
- https://github.com/bkabrda/jruby.spec
- Discussions on Fedora's ruby-sig mailing list for last few months (http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ruby-sig/).
Release Notes
- Upstream release notes at http://jruby.org/2012/10/22/jruby-1-7-0.html


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"The Old House" is number 88 in the Hans Christian Andersen Center's register of Andersen's literary works, i.e. no. 88 in the category fairy tale (the range 1 - 300).
"The Old House" was first published in English December 1847.
The work was published as a part of A Christmas Greeting to my English Friends. (Number 314. Category/genre: Fairy tale collection).
Show this work in its context: all new Andersen publications from 1847.
The first Danish edition: The work was published later (4 March 1848) as a part of Nye Eventyr. Andet Bind. Anden Samling. 1848 [Danish title]. (Number 315. BFN 529. Category/genre: Fairy tale collection).
The work was published later (18 December 1849) as a part of Eventyr. 1850 [Danish title]. (Number 316. BFN 551. Category/genre: Fairy tale collection).
The work was published later (30 March 1863) as a part of Eventyr og Historier. Andet Bind. 1863 [Danish title]. (Number 328. BFN 847. Category/genre: Fairy tale collection).


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Garrett Richards, who figures to open the season in the bullpen, started for the Los Angeles Angels and threw 2 1-3 scoreless innings Wednesday in a 6-3 win over the Texas Rangers.
Richards made his fifth spring appearance and second start. He allowed three hits.
Jerome Williams followed Richards and struck out six in 3 2-3 innings. He gave two runs and six hits.
Lance Berkman hit an RBI double and Adrian Beltre singled home a run for Texas.
Rangers left-hander Brad Mills made his first appearance since being claimed on waivers from the Angels last weekend. He worked four innings and gave up four hits and one run in his second spring start.
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Feb. 26, 2010
Box Score
NORTHRIDGE, Calif. - With the game only moments away from being postponed due to darkness, Cal State Northridge (3-2) third baseman Justin DeMarco drove home the game-winning RBI in the bottom of the twelfth inning to defeat the Pepperdine Waves (2-3) in their 2010 home opener.
The series now shifts to the coast for game two of the weekend series Saturday afternoon. With Southern California bracing for an incoming storm this weekend, tomorrow's game may need to be rescheduled. For the latest information on Saturday's game between CSUN and Pepperdine at Eddy D. Field Stadium in Malibu, go to www.GoMatadors.com.
After scoring 39 runs against their first four opponents, Northridge participated in their first pitching duel of the season as starters Ryan Juarez and Cole Cook mirrored each other's efforts for a majority of the game.
After Pepperdine scored the first run of the afternoon in the third inning, CSUN tied the game in their half of the fourth when DeMarco drove in second baseman Ryan Pineda, who initially reached base on a single to right-centerfield, on a single to left field.
Northridge then took the lead one inning later when left fielder Ridge Carpenter singled to left field, stole his fifth base of the season, and scored when centerfielder Drew Muren singled to reach base.
The Northridge advantage would be short-lived as the Waves responded in their next set of at-bats to tie the game at two apiece.
From then on, the pitching staffs of both teams quickly cooled the bats of their opposition. Cook ended up throwing 103 pitches before being removed from the game after giving up five hits and two earned runs, while his counterpart Juarez finished the game throwing 100 pitches of his own, giving up a paltry five hits and two earned runs as well.
Extra innings were needed to declare a winner as neither team was able to manufacture a run from the seventh inning until the bottom of the twelfth when DeMarco earned his second RBI of the game.
Had the Matadors not scored, the game would have been postponed due to darkness and rescheduled for another date. Neither Matador Field or Eddy D. Field, the home facilities of the teams involved are equipped with lights; with the status of Saturday's game threatened due to rain, Friday's game would have made the scheduling efforts of both teams difficult if two games were needed to be organized for a later date.
Any doubts that resided in the minds of those in attendance were quickly eradicated once DeMarco hit his single to centerfield, scoring Pineda from second base.
In 2008, the Matadors lost both games against Pepperdine at Eddy D. Field in walk-off fashion and look to change their fortunes in Malibu this season when they travel to the coast for a 1 p.m. game on Saturday. Live Stats will be provided by Pepperdine for Saturday's game.
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Matadors 000 110 000 001 - 3 7 1
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Whether you're recovering from surgery or struggling with an injury, it's a fact: You hurt. But you still need to protect yourself from the risks for heart disease or stroke — and that means exercise and diet.
It also means paying attention to prescribed medication and communicating with your healthcare providers, said Robert Bonow, M.D., a professor of cardiology at Northwestern University Medical School.
Dr. Bonow, who is also a past president of the American Heart Association, said it's crucial that even patients with chronic pain find a way to fit in fitness, preferably 30 minutes a day.
"Find the most comfortable way of exercise for you," Dr. Bonow said.
He suggests looking for different ways to get exercise to find what feels right. For example, you may want to trade high-impact activities such as jogging for exercises that are less jarring such as cycling, walking, strength-training or swimming as your body heals. Runners may try jogging in a pool to decrease the impact on their body.
There are yoga techniques that can be taught by a physical therapist or yoga instructor that can not only help you keep you moving during your healing process, but also help relieve stress.
Tai Chi is also often a recommended treatment for people with mobility challenges and post-surgery activity limitations.
"You can even do exercises while laying on your back," Dr. Bonow said. "Anything that increases aerobic activity is beneficial."
What about medication?
If you're in pain, talk to your doctor about prescription and over-the-counter drugs. There are different types of anti-inflammatory medications. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs include over-the-counter medicines such as ibuprofen and naproxen, and prescription drugs such as Celebrex. (Taking these can increase your risk for heart attack, so heart patients often avoid them.) Other medications may cause the body to retain water, which can aggravate high blood pressure or lead to heart failure.
But if taking those medications means a patient can keep moving, the risks can be outweighed by the health benefits of exercise, Dr. Bonow said. If pain medication is needed, consult with your doctor to manage the risks, starting with drugs that carry the lowest risks.
Get the support you need
Find a supportive environment that will help keep you motivated to keep up exercise and diet while you're managing other conditions, whether that's a support group, loved ones or a class in your own community or recommended by your healthcare provider. "Try to find something that works for you," he said. "There's no 'one size fits all' here."
"Under stress, people sometimes overindulge, or turn to sweets because it's emotionally soothing," Dr. Bonow said.
While chronic pain may increase your stress level, when eating try to stick to foods that are low in salt and saturated and trans fats, and favor lean meats, vegetables, fruit, and whole grains.
It's also important to manage stress, especially if it causes you to do things that are bad for your heart health, including smoking, not getting enough sleep, avoiding regular exercise or eating unhealthy foods.
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Airports in British Virgin Islands
Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport (EIS)
Beef Island Airport, or the Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport (EIS), is a tiny airport serving the British Virgin Islands. The airport takes up most of Beef Island, which is located just 9 miles (15km) from the region's major island of Tortola. The airport only accepts small aircraft (64-seater maximum), and most traffic consists of chartered flights. Nearby Trellis Bay makes for a fantastic last-minute stop on your way out of the country: a last chance to soak up some Caribbean sun before boarding the plane to take you back home.
The airport is situated nine miles (15km) from Road Town, Tortola.
Getting to the city
Taxis are available. Many resorts provide water launches or courtesy vans for their guests.
Local time is GMT -4.
Beef Island Airport Taxis: the taxi fares above are intended as a guideline only.
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These contents provide information on the route, required travel time and fares for train travel from Narita Airport Terminal 2⋅3 Station(or Narita Airport Terminal 1 Station) on the Keisei Line and/or other railway company lines.
When multiple routes and train services are available, these contents provide only the routing that requires the least number of transfers and the least amount of travel time. If there is a direct route to the destination without transfers, however, this route is indicated here.
Required travel times are subject to change based on actual scheduling and operational status. Times indicated here do not include the time needed to transfer trains.
Depending on the wait time until the next train departure and/or schedule, it may be faster to take another route or method. Ask a station attendant for more information.
Fare information provided here is for a one-way adult fare.
*1: Total travel time required between Narita Airport Terminal 2⋅3 and Haneda Airport Domestic Terminal. Does not include transfer time.
*2: One-way adult fare.
*3: Access Express fare will be 1,787 yen when using an approved IC card (PASMO or SUICA, etc.) at the ticket gate


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im running 33% approx diesel, 66% veg
i see some clouding at below 30* F
when will it gel, or get too thick to start.
right now it just hard starts
6.2L GM 1979 K5 blazer -Single tank w/electric preheaters.
Blend =66%WVO, 33% #2 diesel .
4 100watt IP line heaters
custom 160degree 300watt racor 1000 filter heater
polyeurethane 1/2" pickup
other fuel lines flouroelastimers
plastic fuel cell , Mallory 140gph gerotor fuel pump.
OC-50 dieselcraft centrifuge run by SBC gear pump -
I was wondering the same thing, and stumbled across this link above. It's pretty cold here in the northeast this past week, so blending is not for the faint of heart!
So this is pretty interesting. How do you interpret cloud point with regard to an appropriate mix? I guess it doesn't take viscosity into account, this is more like "when it will plug everything up," which is critical info of course!
I adjust the mix to the cloud point temperature for the temperature extreme expected. That way there is a bit of a 'safety margin' w.r.t. gel point temperature when it's colder than expected. My truck has an inline IP so I'm not that concerned about viscosity.
Great info.
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I continue to run with about 60% vo down into the teens(F).
David Norwood
2001 F350 7.3 DI purchased new by me and it is the first DI experimented with and talked about on this forum.
Updated 1/2011 Alternative Fuel User Since 2003-vo is always in my fuel. Only one fuel tank. GPI/CIM-TEK spin on filterhead and 10 micron filter. Superchip. Hutch and Harpoon mods 2010. Diesel inline filter between tank and Airtex E2236 fuel pump (rated to 110 psi).Fuel pressure gauge. HOH for fuel line heat from tank to 12v lift pump. Two 12v 36" heaters, one before add on filter and one before OEM filter.
Cool weather mixes updated 2010. 100% vo to 70°. 66% to 35°. 50% to 10°.
A couple cold weather tips for blenders and single tankers:
I have run 40 -50% WVO as low as mid teens * F in my Elsbett VW TDI.
1. Start with 2 or 3 glow plug cycles.
2. Let the engine warm up to 120*F before driving. Several times the engine has started, but stall a mile or so down the road because the fuel is too thick to pass through the filter.
3. Add a marine fuel tank hand 'ball pump' inline with the fuel before the filter to allow you to force feed fuel into the filter. Also helps with bleeding air after f.f. change.
4. A second fuel filter, in parallel with the first with a shutoff valve can be enabled when very cold to add second source of fuel when very cold.
5. I found starting fluid thats made for gas AND DIESELS recently. Keep a can on hand for a worst case scenario. Don't allow g.p.'s to get hot, and only squirt 1/4 second burst.
1-tank Elsbett VW TDI , 220,000 WVO miles.
and a '92 F-250 with only a FPHE
As Spring is here in TN.with lows still sometimes in the 30s I'm back to 40% veggie oil mixed with diesel.Also using heat,helps to offset cost of diesel fuel.If I had a heated pickup and lines,I'd run 50%.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Nathan,
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Cold air,real cold.Cobra electric radiator fan,Monark nozzles,10 psi electric fuel pump.85 amp alternator 12" subs.23 psi boost, 30 micron filter,an 5 micron filter added
2 tank,wvo,boost guage ,line heaters,coolant heater Fattywagons customer. 99 S320 with 75 more hp.
I tried number 1 today, and I think it helped.
I've been debating a lot about going to dual tank recently due to winter performance.
Some of these tips just may make the difference.
I think the folly in dual tanks is that you still have to blend in the winter. Which is what i wanted to get out of . I just hate the whole complication of dual tanks. I guess the real deciding factor here for me should be that I won't ultimately put that many miles on this 4x4 truck.
I think what I may do is this - 50% blend in the winter (at most), install a block heater, use your tips here, have my racor 1000 heater going before starting, use my ip line heaters when it's started up. That should get me down into the teens according to what you guys posted. I don't know , shiiit I live in Texas ! I've run 66% blend all year, and only had two days it was too cold to start the truck. 66% blend is just too hard to start though in the winter, it makes me nervous.
6.2L GM 1979 K5 blazer -Single tank w/electric preheaters.
Blend =66%WVO, 33% #2 diesel .
4 100watt IP line heaters
custom 160degree 300watt racor 1000 filter heater
polyeurethane 1/2" pickup
other fuel lines flouroelastimers
plastic fuel cell , Mallory 140gph gerotor fuel pump.
OC-50 dieselcraft centrifuge run by SBC gear pump -
To improve cold starting with blends below freezing temperature add up to 10% gasoline. I run single tank blends all winter to 30 below zero with nothing but plug-in preheating and a FPHE.
I second the 10% gasoline recommendation. Or kerosene over diesel #2.
Don't go over 10% gasoline. I did this summer and got vapor lock climbing hills
1-tank Elsbett VW TDI , 220,000 WVO miles.
and a '92 F-250 with only a FPHE
I I run single tank 60 %WVO 20% RUG 20% Diesel. With FPHE.1. Works good year round. Does anyone run 20% RUG or higher in any temperature?
2. When I turn on the heat to the FPHE (motor runs 170 degrees) on wide open I have injectors stop working. Have had to replace injectors. Anyone had this problem?
Look in the Blending Forum for info on % of RUG used.
Only way to know about the injectors is to disassemble them and inspect for the failure.
I would expect that with the 20% RUG and working FPHE @ 170*F, and at 'wide open' you would get air bubbles from the ethanol in the RUG leading to vapor lock and the engine dying.
Why did you replace the injectors?
Reporting the engine type would help.
1-tank Elsbett VW TDI , 220,000 WVO miles.
and a '92 F-250 with only a FPHE
When I first started I mixed E85 and ate up the injectors. (There was black rubber coming back thru the system and plugging filters). So now only pure gas. Its a 3126b caterpiller. I don't have this problem on my DT466. I'm wanting to try 30% RUG 70% UWO year around but afraid of burning up engine
I need to make this clear. No heat on the DT466 and only get problems with full heat on the Cat motor. Other than that its a good mix. Starts and runs good
Premium grade road gasoline in Canada generally has no ethanol. The percents of ethanol in the other grades is posted on the pumps. For blending I use premium or av-gas, or jetB/jetA when available.
I live in the southern part of Oklahoma so it doesn't get that cold
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text: The Future of Food: Technology Critical June 14, 2012 10:17 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Jim Dickrell Dairy Herd Management Dairy Editor Email In a unique partnership among the Washington Post, the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the "Future of Food: Food Security in the 21st Century" was debated and dissected in a 5 ½ hour conference starting this morning. More than 300 on-site participants and untold more at their computer screens nationwide watched the live-streamed event from the first-floor conference room of the Washington Post in downtown Washington, DC. At issue: How to feed an expected 9 billion people by the year 2050 in a world that already struggles to feed the current 7 billion. "It's really very simple. In the next 40 years, we will have to produce as much food in the world as we have in the last 8,000," says Jason Clay, senior vice president of the World Wildlife Fund. "We will [eventually] get this right. We can do it orderly or through disruption," adds Chris Policinski, president of Land O'Lake Cooperative. And therein lies the crux of the matter. Some food advocates have touted locally-produced, organic food production as the key to improved productivity and nutrition. Those in commercial agriculture argue that increased productivity and efficient land use will be the only way to feed the equivalent of the population of nearly two more Chinas by 2050. The debate Wednesday leaned heavily toward reliance on commercial agriculture, calls for more research and development, and third world countries doing what they can to increase productivity. "The reality is we need both. It's not a question of organic or conventional, technology or no technology, big or small. It needs to be inclusive. We need organic and conventional, big and small producers," says Policinski. "I think you can produce food in cities—vegetables, fruit, livestock and fish—but not calories. You need land to grow corn and wheat and rice, and you have to be realistic about what the science is," says Clay. Driving all of this was the recognition that the world is already using most of its arable land, and will only be able to expand that land base by 10% without cutting down even more forests, jeopardizing global biodiversity and accelerating climate change even faster. There were several key messages that emerged as part of the solution to the potential food crisis. 1. Reduce waste. Currently, one of every three calories of food produced is never consumed. In developing countries, this waste comes from post-harvest losses through storage and transport. In developed countries, it's food that is left on the plate or thrown away after a week in the refrigerator. 2. Avoid over consumption. While a billion people go to bed hungry each night, another billion people are consuming 500 more calories per day they do not need. This in turn creates long-term health issues such as obesity and diabetes that further strain resources. 3. Use best practices. Too few farmers, particularly in developing countries, use best practices to produce food, says Samuel Allen, chairman and CEO of Deere and Company. "In India, if 50,000 farmers used best practices on their 50,000 hectares, they could have a three-fold increase in food production and economic output," he says. 4. Use technology. Use of GPS and auto-steer technology in the developed world allows farmers to precisely plant, fertilize and protect crops from insects and weeds while avoiding over-lapping applications. On a 60' boom applicator, for example, John Deere now has the capability to regulate the rate of application every 10' to precisely meet soil types. Root zone moisture probes now can signal when crops need irrigation. 5. Consumer education. Dairy producer Mike McCloskey, who operates Fair Oaks Farm in Indiana, has built an agri-tourist destination center that hosted some 500,000 visitors last year. He says that producers must be open, honest and transparent about what they do on their operations. "Affordable and abundant nutrition is driven by technology," he says. No-till planting, GMO seeds, the use of a manure digester to produce both electricity and truck fuel all improve efficiency and reduce cost, which drives down consumer prices. More information on the Future of Food Conference can be found here. Back to news


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MEberdt needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 158 designs submitted by 30 freelance designers.
Minell Eberdt Consulting
We are a firm of 5 people with 12 years of web development experience looking to tap into the more targeted web/business consulting market. We feel that using an individual as the front person will give credibility to the overall marketing efforts.
We are targeting larger companies with bigger web budgets that need to send out RFP's for web projects and possibly may have in-house IT departments but not web developers. Our audience is the U.S. mostly within the southern U.S. states. Looking to focus on large non-profits as well.
We are a web/business consulting company using the name of the president as our brand. The name to use in for the logo will be: Minell Eberdt Consulting. The main focus will be on the name Minell Eberdt.
We would like something very sophisticated and professional. There currently is no existing logo. Do not use stock images or clip art for this project. Something very graphic with good contrast would be what we are looking for. We don't want to stifle your ideas; however, good use of black, charcoal gray, white, some type of steely blue would be preferable. Do not use red as an accent color.
This logo will need to translate well into a website design so please keep that in mind. We might like to see the initials ME used and maybe use it in a ligature style.
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Microsoft makes 'big' Rosario tools promise
ALM, take three
Microsoft claims it will have "nailed" the application lifecycle management (ALM) companion to Visual Studio with the third iteration - Visual Studio Team System 2010, codenamed Rosario - when it ships.
Three years after Microsoft debuted VSTS - and was pounded for bugs - Microsoft has said the planned VSTS 2010 will deliver on workflow, modeling, and testing.
Microsoft has promised capabilities to ensure software projects follow an architect's model, provide deep visual drill down into minute areas of code for checking, and ensure bugs are not signed off without being solved because the test conditions can't be recreated.
Also, Microsoft has promised to pay more than mere lip service to Agile with plans for a series of Excel workbooks.
There's no date for VSTS 2010 yet and, oh, it's still not actually finished, so this counts as the first real look at what Microsoft is planning.
One thing that is tangible, though, is a plan to reduce the number of VSTS SKUs by merging VSTS Development and VSTS Database with the 2010 release. Microsoft is getting a head start on this by allowing those on its Software Assurance (SA) program with the 2005 or 2008 editions VSTS Development or VSTS Database to get the other for free from October 1.
Microsoft is getting its act together as it prepares to again go up against IBM's Rational - the ALM big daddy. Microsoft believes VSTS 2010 will have an edge over IBM Rational because the new features work in the background, and do not force you to switch to new tools.
We've heard this kind of thing before from ALM providers.
Cameron Skinner VSTS product unit manager told The Reg, though, that VSTS 2010 will have the advantage as it will have been built and integrated from the ground up - unlike the vast Rational portfolio. Naturally, the fact Microsoft owns the world's premier Windows development environment that VSTS works with, so can therefore engineer things into the background, helps in this regard.
"We are looking at the entire thing from the suite perspective," Skinner said. "When you talk about the Rational products, which are you talking about? As a development team, which are we talking about?".
Tivo your software
So what kind of money is Microsoft putting in the place of its mouth for VSTS 2010?
Something called "Tivo for debugging" will re-create the QA testing environment at the point of failure in a program on a developer's desktop, making it easier to find and solve bugs. The feature captures video of the tester's desktop - with things like mouse movements recorded - along with logs.
If there's a problem, these are bundled up and played back on the developer's machine. The developer won't run the application but the application state instead. The idea is that the developer doesn't need to manually recreate the desktop environment from scratch.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Crazy Talk
Much macho bravado coming from the likes of Kory Teneycke. Truth be told, it's a bit amusing to hear the testosterone banter, because in reality I'd put 3 to 1 odds on the paper bag. Let's keep it real, the tough guys are facing the most likely scenario of a reduced mandate, worst case an outright loss. Not ignoring the Liberal challenges in the polls, we're hardly facing a Conservative juggernaut, that should strike fear in the opposition. I'd add, part of success is exuding CONFIDENCE, and it's about time the Liberals get some moxy. The polls aren't likely to change much in the next year, so the motivation should be more based on principle, rather than strategic timing. If I could scour all the issues and narratives at our disposal, my first choice by a mile would be the idea of a secretive, non-transparent, non-democratic, anti-accountability, "culture of deceit". That's our winning issue, it's not going to be the economy, or reaching out to rural voters, it will be a sense amongst the populous that the Conservatives represent an unattractive option, and we contrast that with a more open presentation. If you agree on the best case narrative, then you have to be pragmatic, and see the Speaker's ruling as an opportunity- should we fall off the ledge- to guarantee that our desired talking points would be center stage in a campaign.
I don't care what the Conservatives say, nor do I buy this idea that this is the excuse Harper is looking for to go to the polls. Harper has one more crack, anything but a majority and the united Conservative veneer will evaporate. The Conservatives want to choose the timing, and they desperately want a managed campaign, wherein they set the election parameters. If would submit, the idea of kicking of a campaign, faced with thwarting the will of Parliament, supported by our constitutional "referee" is the least desirable scenario imaginable. There is some thought that Harper would relish a debate about protecting national security, our soldiers safety, but last time I checked the sentiment out there doesn't support this narrow justification, it doesn't smell like a rallying point. On the other hand, the idea of democratic will does stir many, it has shown itself to motivate, there is a passion attached. Do the Conservatives really want to go on an issue that motivates the apathetic?
This is a fundamental issue, and Liberals should be prepared to take this as far as Harper chooses. We should offer compromise, as a matter of fact we already have for months. However, if we face more stonewalling, then I'd suggest we realize that in a certain sense, this "event" plays to our advantage. I don't think an election will come, but I'd proceed as though anything is possible and/or preferrable. Attitude is everything.
24 comments:
- Jesse said...
1) If Teneycke says he wants a fight, can't we assume that means they'll actually back down in the end? If Harper wanted an election, there'd be no reason to bluster.
2) Not only is this a great issue, this is great timing; not only does it seem possible Guergis-Jaffer stuff would trickle out, there'd be no reason not to assume, then imply, that there's something to hide there too.
- 10:22 AM, April 28, 2010
- Steve V said...
I'll use the bear attack analogy. When you encounter a black bear, and they huff and puff, slap their jowls, it translates to a defensive posture, they feel threatened. When you encounter a bear and he remains silent, no visual cues, THEN you must worry that it's a predatory attack.
- 10:26 AM, April 28, 2010
- Northern PoV said...
I hope you are correct, Steve, but more likely:
They will twist 4 ways to Sunday to appear to be compromising. When the inevitable failure happens, they will contrast their reasonableness with the intransigence of the Taliban lovers that want to endanger our troops.
Then, if that narrative polls well for them.... bingo, it is election time. (Or if Iggy sees similar poll results it is back down yet again time).
- 10:56 AM, April 28, 2010
- Steve V said...
That narrative has already polled poorly for them, people believe parliament has a right to know and the taliban lover line only works with the base. I'd add, the government can expect pretty much zero third party support on this line, which isn't something to fluff off during a campaign. I think they will isolate themselves, their blustering will ring hollow and they will be left with the proroguing, secretive, lack of transparent, outside of democratic tenet, presentation. Now, if I'm in the PMO, that type of debate would be at the bottom of my preferences. I'm sick of being afraid of these guys, again let's get some moxy and take it to them.
- 11:05 AM, April 28, 2010
- Dale said...
Are you sure that an election based on accountability and transparency would be in the Liberals' favour?
Even though the Conservative government has obvious issues with accountability and transparency they can point to Adscam and say:
"We'll we did it to protect our troops in the interest of national security. The Liberals did it to feather their own nests!"
For the unaligned voter who pays little or no attention to the political drama in Ottawa (which, I think, is the majority) an election where it's "The Control Freaks" VS "The Filchers" will just turn them off completely and they'll stay at home.
- 11:12 AM, April 28, 2010
- Northern PoV said...
I just took a causal glance at Blogging-You-Know-Whos
very little on the speakers ruling
and in various blog comments on MacLeans etc. I keep seeing the con trolls stating: neither side won
given that they are rarely this modest, you may be right about knowing that their narrative is already failing
Paul Wells is a must read, btw - and he supports my pessimistic take.
- 11:20 AM, April 28, 2010
- Ted Betts said...
I'm with you on this 100% Steve.
They may bluster, and the Liberals may be vulnerable on several fronts, but they are even more vulnerable.
Even more than he is an a**, Harper is politically smart when it comes to self-preservation. He wants to keep power and get more. Sometimes he makes a big mistake when he overplays his hand - like the fiscal update or prorogation - but he's been singed twice there and in each of those situations, he was the active player who set the agenda. He thought he had it all carefully figured out and proceeded aggressively. Here though he would be reacting to the issue set by others and I think he's always been a bit more tentative in such situations.
All the moreso here because there is no indication he is winning people over on this issue, and lots of polling indication that he is losing people or already lost them.
Three significant facts that seem to get ignored or forgotten which seem to me to indicate Harper will want to avoid an election.
1. Despite going up in seat count in 2008, fewer Canadians voted for Harper than in 2006. This despite the enormous war chest, an impoverished and divided and disorganized opposition, Dion as leader, two straight years of breaking spending records to buy our votes with our dollars, etc. Harper in 2008 actually had the lowest level of support among the electorate than any other PM in our entire history.
2. He'd be playing defence. While he could try to be aggressive and go on the offensive over the detainee issue, the fact is that he has no great agenda to campaign on and would be reacting to the isues and agenda set by others. That is not a good place to start for a government low in the polls.
3. Not only would he be playing defence but he has no alternative agenda. He spent 3 months "re-calibrating" and came up with... nothing new. So people are going to scratch their heads on his not abiding by Miliken's decision and forcing an election.
That all may not be enough facts lined up to assure a Liberal government, but it is enough to ensure a Liberal seat increase and more than enough to give Harper enough pause in forcing an election.
So which of his natural instincts will win the day? To never back down from a fight and force fights where you can? or self-preservation for the sake of power? My guess is the latter.
- 11:26 AM, April 28, 2010
- Tof KW said...
Dale, I'm certain they would try that tactic, but I doubt it would have the same traction it did in 2006. After all just last fall the Auditor General has herself stated in no uncertain terms (to Dean Del Fatso and his ilk) that this is over, and to stop using her office for partisan political gamesmanship. Likewise a full commission has investigated, there have been court cases and guilty people are in jail. Top it off with Mr Ignatieff having as much to do with adscam as Harper did with Mulroney's Airbus scandal.
Oh, and I'll add that they'll probably use the 'coalition' bogeyman too, and again it will ultimately also have little traction. They can cry adscam & coalition all they want, but it will do little to exempt them from the perceived notion that the Harper government is being quite secretive about the Afghan affair (among other issues). I think it will look like a lame excuse to avoid a contempt of Parliament charge myself, and actually work against them.
Regardless of the timing of the next election, the Liberals will probably face these adscam & coalition tactics anyhow; so if they are afraid of this I suggest they grow a pair.
- 11:46 AM, April 28, 2010
- Ted Betts said...
To that point T of KW, there is a maxim in politics that you can't run the same campaign twice.
Martin tried to demonize the Harper hidden agenda in 2004 to some success but it failed when he did it again in 2006.
Ernie Eves tried to paint McGuinty as "not up to the job" in 2003 just as they did 1997 and failed.
McCain tried to replicate the 2004 Bush campaign of smear and fear in 2008 and lost.
If you have nothing new to offer - and what new policy initiative has Harper introduced since 2006, let alone since 2008 - and you run the same kind of campaign, the electorate will see that you are out of gas and quite done.
So for Harper to run on Adscam would be a complete disaster. For him to run another campaign that was all about the other guy's issues instead of presenting his own, is almost as risky.
- 11:59 AM, April 28, 2010
- DL said...
I think this is as a good a time and as good an issue to go to the polls over as we will ever get. Why not make Harper force an election because he's too stubborn to submit to the will of parliament - it would feed into every negative stereotype there is about him. Quite frankly, if we keep waiting for Peter Donolo's "long game" to work its magic it will be Oct. 2012 and Harper will still be in power and serving a full term.
- 12:00 PM, April 28, 2010
- Steve V said...
Kind of hard to bring up Adscam, when you're running ads that Ignatieff was out of country at the time :)
- 12:31 PM, April 28, 2010
- penlan said...
Watching QP & Baird is bringing in Adscam in every "answer" he's giving & I've heard "unholy coalition" being used as well.
Oh yes, they are going to use these issues again.
- 2:57 PM, April 28, 2010
- Steve V said...
I don't doubt they will, but it's a crying wolf feel now. I really, really believe this coalition, adscam stuff is beyond old and won't resonate the way they hope.
- 3:29 PM, April 28, 2010
- Ted Betts said...
"I really, really believe this coalition, adscam stuff is beyond old and won't resonate the way they hope."
Certainly if that is all they have to offer Canadians, more attacks about old stuff.
But they also have tons of money for pollings and focus groups. They will, if they haven't already, start testing many different lines of attack.
Anything except talk about what they will do as government.
- 3:41 PM, April 28, 2010
- Steve V said...
As I recall they floated these old attacks during prorogue, and it didn't help a bit. At a certain point, it just gets old. I'm sure they are polling like crazy, but I'm pretty encouraged if this is the best they can offer.
- 3:44 PM, April 28, 2010
- Steve V said...
If anyone doubts the Con bluster here, I suggest a read of Toews and his "looking forward" to a compromise.
- 4:27 PM, April 28, 2010
- Shiner said...
If anyone doubts the Con bluster here, I suggest a read of Toews and his "looking forward" to a compromise.
Despite what Toews is saying, Big Daddy doesn't seem to be giving an inch (from lenny at Dawg's place):
Sounds like Harper is going to play some high stakes chicken:
"We look forward to both complying with your ruling and with the legal obligations that have been established by statutes passed by this Parliament," Harper told the Speaker during the daily question period.
"The fact of the matter is the government cannot break the law, it cannot order public servants to break the law, nor can it do anything that would unnecessarily jeopardize the safety of Canadian troops."
Damned if I know how he can comply with the ruling and not comply with it at the same time.
- 4:41 PM, April 28, 2010
- Ted Betts said...
Funny how he is so concerned about breaking the law after continuously breaching the Access to Information Act, not to mention offering "financial considerations" for Cadman's vote, the in and out scandal, calling a snap election, ignoring MPCC demands for documents, etc.
Culture of deceit, indeed.
- 4:47 PM, April 28, 2010
- Steve V said...
I find it hilarious, all this "we're so pleased" stuff coming out of every Conservative orfice. The compromises that I've heard today have been on the table for MONTHS from the opposition.
- 6:43 PM, April 28, 2010
- Jerry Prager said...
I would counter Adscam with Action Plan Adscam, 42 million promotional budget designed to keep conservative media in business despite the market forces that have otherwise bankrupted right wing media in this country. Instead of a couple of corrupt bagmen, we have a corrupt party pouring taxpayer dollars into propaganda to help out their friends.
- 7:18 PM, April 28, 2010
- RuralSandi said...
Speaking of the declared $42 million for the Ec Action Plan (some say it's probably a lot more) - can parliament request/demand an emergency audit by the Aud General?
- 11:53 PM, April 28, 2010
- Northern PoV said...
The "I'm so pleased" stuff is from the good-cops who are tasked with pretending to compromise. It is stage 1 of the disinformation campaign. Stevie is talking tough, well cause he is Stevie after all and his "follow the law" canard is a rapidly following stage 2.
Hey it wasn't the top story on CTV news last night (Shows at least some of the media has his backside.) and the PM didn't even bother to listen to the Speaker so that proves no one cares about arcane political stuff.
Iggy is sounding like a rerun of his EI fiasco last year ...My bet is that Harper will push a nonsense solution down Iggy's throat.
- 12:08 AM, April 29, 2010
- Tof KW said...
We'll see Northern PoV. Compromise to submit to the will of Parliament is the only rational solution I can see for Harper (the SCC would throw any case back & an election is too risky) but you have a point. I'm reading things into his "follow the law" comments as well, though I'm not certain of the angle yet.
- 8:47 AM, April 29, 2010
- Tof KW said...
BTW - top story on CBCNCBS (...whatever the hell the acronym is these days) is the Habs, and might I say rightfully so :)
- 8:50 AM, April 29, 2010


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