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2013-14 East Carolina Men's Basketball Schedule
GREENVILLE, NC August 8, 2013 – Striving to build off the momentum of its historic 2012-13 campaign, the East Carolina men's basketball team released its 2013-14 schedule Thursday highlighted by the program's inaugural appearance in the NIT Season Tip-Off, 10 games against teams that competed in postseason play and the renewal of the UNC Wilmington rivalry.
The Pirates, with two returning starters and eight additional lettermen from last year's team that finished 23-12 and captured the CIT title, will play a minimum of 17 homes games (nine non-conference, eight Conference USA) and are not scheduled to play a non-conference game outside the state of the North Carolina.
A trio of opponents: Middle Tennessee, North Carolina A&T and North Carolina State participated in the NCAA Tournament last season where N.C. A&T advanced to the second round before losing to eventual National Champion Louisville. Conference USA foes Charlotte, Louisiana Tech and Southern Miss competed in the NIT with Southern Miss reaching the quarterfinals by posting a second round victory over LA Tech. Tulane and Tulsa also gained postseason invitations in 2013 participating in the CIT and CBI, respectively.
The Pirates will open their 82nd season of intercollegiate basketball on Friday, Nov. 8 against North Carolina Wesleyan before playing their first road game of the season at UNCG (Nov. 12).
Following a home date against Chowan (Nov. 14), ECU will make its first appearance in the NIT Tip-Off as part of a yet to be announced four-team pod hosted by Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Pirates will play their opening round game either Nov. 18 or 19 and conclude second round action the following day.
The winner of the four-team pod will advance to the semifinals, which will be held Wednesday, Nov. 27, at Madison Square Garden in New York. The remaining teams will play third and fourth round consolation games at to be determined campus sites on Nov. 25 and 26.
Following the NIT, ECU will rekindle its rivalry with UNCW inside Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum on Dec. 1 to begin a four-year series. The Pirates posted a 99-85 win at Trask Coliseum during the last meeting between the former conference foes in 2008. The teams have played just four times since ECU left the CAA following the 2000-01 season.
Home games against Fayetteville State (Dec. 3), Mount Olive (Dec. 8), N.C. A&T (Dec. 14) and VMI (Dec. 19) follow before closing the fall semester against N.C. State (Dec. 21) at PNC Arena in Raleigh.
ECU returns from the Christmas break to host Georgia State (Dec. 29) before concluding non-conference play at Campbell (Jan. 2).
Conference USA action opens for the Pirates on Jan. 11 inside Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum against league newcomer and travel partner Old Dominion as part of its 16-game conference schedule. The league adopted travel partners for the 2013-14 season, playing games on Thursdays and Saturdays. The Pirates will play a home-and-home series with ODU and all other 15 teams just once in their final C-USA season before joining the American Athletic Conference.
The Pirates will play host to Tulane (Jan. 23), Southern Miss (Jan.25), UTSA (Feb. 6), UTEP (Feb. 8), Louisiana Tech (Feb. 20), Rice (Feb. 22) and Charlotte (Feb. 27). Conference road games in 2014 feature trips to Florida Atlantic (Jan. 16), FIU (Jan. 18), Middle Tennessee (Jan. 30), UAB (Feb. 1), Tulsa (Feb. 13), North Texas (Feb. 15) and Marshall (March 2) before closing out the regular season at Old Dominion (March 6). It'll be ECU's first-ever meetings with conference newcomers FIU, Louisiana Tech and UTSA.
The top four teams in the final regular season standings will receive a double-bye and seeds five through nine a bye in the 15-team 2014 C-USA Basketball Championship, which will be held at the Don Haskins Center in El Paso, Texas beginning March 11. All C-USA teams qualify for the tournament with the exception of FIU this season.


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Where to start? Somehow I suspect that the following method—fat is good, flame is good—is going to get me in trouble with some of you. But since this was the best lamb roast I've ever eaten in my life, I will forge ahead and tell you how we did it.
The lamb roast was succulent—crusty, flavorful char on the outside, pink and tender on the inside.
Note that the more fat on the lamb roast, the more likely you'll have flare-ups when you grill. Flare-ups are okay as long as they are controlled and don't get out of hand.
What Is A Butterfield Leg of Lamb?
Why use a butterflied the leg of lamb? A butterflied lamb roast is one that has the leg bone removed so that you can lay the roast out flat. You can do it yourself or have your butcher do it. Laying the roast flat on the grill helps it cook faster and more evenly.
By the way, it used to be that people were worried about char grilling being carcinogenic. Turns out if you marinate the meat in an acid-based marinade first, you negate the cancer-causing elements. (Grillers everywhere rejoice.)
Some people take offense at the very idea of using mint jelly with lamb. I wouldn't have lamb without it. Homemade mint jelly is fantastic with lamb. And if we're out, I've been known to chop up some fresh mint leaves just to go with the lamb. So, to each her own when it comes to the jelly. What is your favorite way to prepare leg of lamb?
Grilled Butterflied Leg of Lamb RecipePrint
In this recipe we sear the lamb first, on both sides, grilling on high heat for a short amount of time. Then we cook the lamb on lower heat until it is cooked through. In our opinion, the only way to eat lamb is medium rare or rare. There is nothing more depressing than dried-out, over-cooked lamb. For this reason it is essential that you use a meat thermometer to test the internal temperature of the roast.
- 1/2 onion
- 4 cloves garlic, peeled
- 2 Tbsp fresh rosemary leaves, or 1 Tbsp dried
- Zest of 1 lemon
- 1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 boneless leg of lamb, 5 to 6 pounds, butterflied
Special equipment:
- Meat thermometer
1 Make the marinade: Put onion, garlic, rosemary, lemon zest, apple cider vinegar, and olive oil into a food processor and pulse to combine. (If you don't have a food processor, just chop the onions, garlic, and rosemary very well and combine with the rest.)
2 Marinate the lamb: Sprinkle a generous amount of salt and pepper over the lamb. Place marinade and lamb into a 1-gallon freezer bag. Spread marinade over all sides of the meat. Seal the bag and refrigerate for 1 to 2 hours.
3 Remove lamb from refrigerator and let come to room temperature (about 20 minutes). When ready to put on grill, remove from marinade bag.
To help make the lamb easier to turn on the grill you can insert a couple of skewers through the lamb, crosswise. (A tip learned from Rick Rodgers in Kingsford Complete Grilling Cookbook.)
4 Prepare grill: If you are using a charcoal grill, prepare the coals so that they are double layered on one side of the grill, and sparsely single layered on the other side of the grill (this is called "banked" grilling).
If you are using a gas grill, heat the grill on high on all burners to start. After the initial browning you will reduce the heat.
5 Sear the lamb: Place the lamb, fat side down, on the grill on the hot side (double layer charcoals). You will get likely get flareups, so be prepared with a squirt bottle of water or a couple of cups of water (if using a charcoal grill) to control the flames if needed. (My brother Matt swears by shaking the bottle of beer he is drinking to squirt some beer on the coals when needed for flareups.)
Sear one side for 4 minutes, then flip the lamb over to sear the other side for another 4 minutes.
6 Move to cool side of grill and finish cooking: If you are using a charcoal grill, move the roast to the less hot side of the grill. If you are using a gas grill, lower the heat to low. You will want to maintain a temperature of 300-350°F.
Cover the grill and let cook for an additional 35-45 minutes (depending on how thick, and how many pounds the roast is), until a meat thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the roast registers 130°F (for medium rare).
7 Let rest before cutting: Transfer to a cutting board with a well to catch the juices. Cover with aluminum foil and let rest for 5-10 minutes. Remove the skewers if you are using any. Cut across the grain, 1/4 to 1/2-inch thick slices. Serve slices on a warm platter; pour meat juices over the slices. Serve with mint jelly or horseradish. Serves 8-10.
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The Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) and MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC) have teamed up to launch Outdoors Rx, an innovative program that gives health care professionals dedicated resources for prescribing regular outdoor physical activity to children. This collaboration combines AMC's expertise in getting families active with the medical expertise of MGHfC to combat the sedentary lifestyles of overstressed and overscheduled families, which can lead to childhood obesity, Type 1 diabetes and asthma.
"In addition to the widely known benefits of physical activity, research studies have found that exposure to natural environments also improves physical and emotional health," says Christina Scirica, MD, MPH, an MGHfC pulmonologist and weight expert who serves as the Outdoors Rx medical director. "Exposure to the outdoors has been found to reduce the risk of high blood pressure, vitamin D deficiency, depression and anxiety, and may even improve attention."
AMC and MGHfC have trained more than 60 medical professionals in the program's pilot communities of Framingham and Waltham. In addition to primary care pediatric and family practitioners, AMC and MGHfC will work with nurse practitioners, dieticians and nutritionists to write prescriptions. The goal is to have 5,000 outdoor prescriptions written in the first 12 months of the program. Following the pilot year, AMC hopes to expand the program to other communities with additional health care providers.
With a prescription, parents in the pilot communities can register at AMC's Outdoors Rx website, where they will find a calendar of free, AMC-guided local outdoor programs and information blogs. As extra encouragement to stay active, kids can track their activity and earn points toward outdoor gear rewards, including water bottles and a free stay at AMC's Ponkapoag Camp in Randolph, Mass. A variety of methods will be used to track the level of each child's activity before and after the program, including surveys and focus groups.
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(FULL DISCLOSURE: I am a writer for Deadspin, and I know the subject of this piece very well, since he's my boss and occasional drinking partner.)
When I began writing for Deadspin back in 2007, it was akin to working for a pirate radio station. Only a few people were hip to it, and the rest of the universe neither knew nor cared. I could bring up the word Deadspin to 500 people and not one of them would have known what I was talking about.
Well, it's four years later now and I can tell you, from anecdotal experience, that people no longer look at you quizzically if you say the word Deadspin to them. It's now a major force in sports journalism, for better or worse (many would say worse). And AJ Daulerio, the man who broke the Brett Favre sexting story that launched the site into the stratosphere, is the number one reason why.
Daulerio was profiled in GQ this week, and the article about him focuses mainly on the inner conflict of wanting to find compelling stories and knowing that those stories can adversely impact the lives of those you cover. That's been a source of angst for journalists since the dawn of time, but it's particularly pronounced for Daulerio, since many believe the stories he uncovers are far too tawdry for public consumption.
"It isn't a question of whether or not he should have done the story. It's a story," says Frank Deford, who's been writing for Sports Illustrated since 1962. "But aren't there better stories to do? Do we really want to know about Brett Favre trying to get laid? Wouldn't you rather spend your time delving into the evils of college athletics, or drugs and sports?"
Truthfully? No. No, I wouldn't. The evils of college athletics and drugs and sports are two subjects that have been beaten into the ground for ages now by sports reporters, who often believe they are the last true guardians of moralism in the sports world.
What Daulerio is doing is getting rid of that moralism and concentrating solely on what stories readers will find interesting. Should we have better things to think about than Brett Favre's sex life, like war and stuff? Well, yes. Of course. But we're human. We're nosy. We gossip. We're perpetually interested in the lives of others, and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
We focus on titillating stories like Favre's because we can't help but wonder about the lives of people who we can only possibly know on a surface level. We always want to know people better. We're curious. We want to dig deeper, and sometimes that means we end up finding a cell phone cam of someone's private parts. Not always, but sometimes.
To me it's not about what's right and what's wrong, or what's fair game for coverage and what isn't. I don't think there's ever been a clear demarcation when it comes to the latter, and Daulerio clearly has no interest in trying to establish it. All he can do is try and find the stories that interest sports fans, and he's shown a remarkable ability to do just that, even, according to the GQ profile, risking jail time for it.
If it were Olympic drug cheats he was pursuing, you'd probably applaud him. You'd also likely never read a word of him.


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hey333 wrote:All I know is I can't wait to hop back on a plane from Cleveland to LA for this weekend. Last years was legit the best wrestling shows I've ever attended.
Also I gotta disagree on the Donst hate. Having talked to him and seen him live so many times in the ring, lazy is the last word I'd use. Guy has plenty enough talent to hang with anyone in PWG
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Well known blogger, Robert Scoble claims that Apple will announce an iPad app to challenge the cable TV giants. The iPad app will provide video content which he claims is the main reason for Apple's huge data center.
I'm hearing that Apple is working on a new iPad app that looks a lot like DirecTV without the dish, too. Again, that app will have Steve Jobs' fingerprints all over it as it will be more expansive than the press is expecting in its content availability. There's a reason Apple built a 500,000-square-foot datacenter (about twice the size of a Facebook one, by the way) and that new datacenter is for video and the data that video causes to be shared with everyone.
As today's event is called "Let's Talk iPhone", I am not sure that this will be the place to announce such an app. More to the point, surely this service would be more suited to the Apple TV than the iPad? I guess we will have to wait and see, not much longer now!
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As "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" – the first installment director Peter Jackson's long-awaited film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkein's beloved prequel to "The Lord of the Rings" saga – makes its way to Blu-ray, Bilbo Baggins himself – in the form of actor Martin Freeman ("Sherlock") – looks back at the opening chapter, recalling the journey from green screen sound stages to a full-fledged Shire.
What was the experience of making one of these films with Peter?
I think I probably did myself a favor and tried not to do too much imagining about what it might be. I think whatever you conjure up nothing ever is what you imagine it to be. Whether it's your trip here or your trip home, nothing is ever how you're going to imagine it. So I suppose I was expecting the unexpected. The only thing I knew it would be was huge. I knew it would feel big, and I was right there. It did feel big. But outside of that, I had a feeling of what Pete was like as a director, but I didn't have direct experience of him. I knew a couple of the actors but not well. It was really stepping into a different territory. Very often, you're at least familiar with a few people from around, but I've never been to New Zealand before. So it was really much a fresh slate really. I didn't know Ian [McKellen]. I didn't know most of the people on it, by a long shot.
Once you saw Peter in action on set, what did you see in him that was different from other directors?
I suppose the 'That's why he's Peter Jackson' thing is probably his almost 'Rain Man'-ish ability to kind of keep stuff in his head that I certainly wouldn't be able to do. All directors have to be slightly obsessed and obsessive people because it's a ridiculous notion that you can keep that much information in your head and know what he's doing and she's doing and kind of keep tabs on all that, but he's extraordinary at that.
Also, just from an actor's perspective – because I'm not doing all the other jobs – the thing between me and him, he's got real shorthand with acting. He won't spiel a lot. He won't go into some big thesis about what this scene is about. He'll expect you to have done the work. He expects you to know your job better than he knows your job, but so it's a lot of trust on his side. And his direction, he's a man of few words in direction, and I don't mind that sometimes. Sometimes, just 'Louder, faster,' is actually quite an instructive direction, if you know what someone means. Like, 'Yeah. I know what you mean by that.' You make a quick translation and go to work on that. In truth, the unromantic truth is very often there isn't a great light bulb moment where you go, 'That's why…' There often isn't. It's work, and it feels like very enjoyable work. And I suppose the respect in which he is held on the set, speaks for itself.
Was there a scene that, no matter how you imagined it, once you saw the finished version, you said, 'That's so much more than was happening in the heads of us actors.'?
I think so, because as you could imagine with so much green screen stuff, you're seeing the wall of a sound stage. You're not seeing mountains, or you're not seeing this massive valley or whatever. And you're not seeing real Wogs attack you. You're pretending and imagining all of that. I was so impressed when I saw the finished product because it was a massive, massive world, chock full of incredible stuff. I knew it would be that, but it was very hard to visualize it specifically at the time. There were plenty of times when we were making the film where I thought, 'Is this really going to be a film?' It's almost so big, it's inconceivable that this is actually all going to come together because you just get so used to day after day seeing tennis balls and green screens. You think 'What is this all going to look like?' You know it's going to look good, but you're not quite sure how.
Is there a sequence from the next film, 'The Desolation of Smaug,' that you're particularly excited about?
I think the appearance of the dragon will be exciting. I've only seen what they call the previews stuff. It looks amazing. Obviously, Tolkien is quite revered in the world of making these films so everything starts from Tolkien up. But John [Howe] and Alan Lee, the artists are mini magicians. They're incredible the stuff they come up with as is everybody who makes all this stuff appear. The production design, the digital is mind-blowing.


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"I've had to deal with payment limits on my farm," said the caller from central Missouri, "and it's going to happen to other growers with 2,500 acres of corn this year unless prices improve significantly. If Congress passes something like Grassley-Dorgan when it returns in September, it will happen with even lower acreages.
Southern cotton and rice producers have the idea that the typical Midwest corn and soybean producer farms 500 to 600 acres mostly by himself or with one hired hand. That's not necessarily the case.
"There are lots of 2,000 and 3,000-acre farmers in this country," said the producer, who called about a recent column suggesting Sen. Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican who co-authored the Grassley-Dorgan amendment, talk to the folks at John Deere about trends in farm sizes.
The column quoted John Deere specialists as saying that their research shows many farming operations adding acres – the opposite of what Grassley seems to be implying in his rhetoric about saving farm programs for family farms.
"We've all been adding acres because we were told we had to become more efficient," said the caller, who farms between Columbia and St. Louis. "Of course, we've also had to get bigger to afford the payments for the larger equipment."
Cotton and rice farmers will still feel the sting of payment limits faster than Midwest growers if Grassley-Dorgan is passed. Some studies show that the Grassley-Dorgan $275,000 payment limit for a farmer and spouse would hit rice growers starting with as few as 480 acres.
For cotton farmers, the break point varies from region to region. Growers in some areas would stop receiving marketing loans and fixed and counter-cyclical payments with as few as 875 acres.
But it's interesting that more Midwest farmers could see their farm program benefits reduced than the national media seems to think.
"I think more Iowa farmers do support tighter payment limits than those in other states," the caller said. "But there are plenty of larger farmers in Iowa and the surrounding states."
During the farm bill debate, Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., and others said that if Midwest farmers didn't have payment limit problems now they would if Grassley-Dorgan became law.
Facing reduced farm program payments for cotton and rice, she argued, Southern growers would opt for cheaper crops of corn and soybeans. As the prices of those crops fell, loan deficiency payments would increase, pushing corn and soybean farmers closer to the new payment limit levels.
Based on conversations with farmers and farm supply dealers, Southern growers may be planting more corn anyway if they continue to experience problems with low soybean yields and frustrating cotton prices
These are uneasy times no matter what region you're from. With each report that Grassley-Dorgan will be introduced or that members are eyeing the farm bill for disaster assistance funding, more farmers are wondering if they will ever see all of the benefits many of them fought so hard to get.


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"I carry on working. Just as in the past people have not understood my pictures, they do not understand my later works, either. This is simply how it is: people don't understand that even an old artist can still develop." Edvard Munch, 1933 "By the repetition of a basic problem, we understand the opening-up of its original, long concealed possibilities, through the working-out of which it is transformed. In this way it first comes to be preserved in its capacity as a problem. To preserve a problem, however, means to free and keep watch over those inner forces which make it possible, on the basis of its essence, as a problem." Martin Heidegger, 1929 It is with pleasure that we present a new series of works by the artist Georg Baselitz, who lives and works in Derneburg (Lower Saxony) and Imperia (Italian Riviera). It includes two monumental bronze sculptures, seven large-scale oil paintings and nine watercolours. A central theme of these works is an intensive study of the artistic methods employed by Edvard Munch (1863-1944). This Norwegian symbolist, impressionist and later expressionist, whose succès de scandale in 1890s Berlin influenced the entire secessionist art of the period, contributed largely to shaping German expressionism. In 1916, Munch purchased an estate in Ekely, near Oslo, where he lived until his death. The name Ekely means "in the shelter of the oaks" – and in this haven Munch painted pictures free of all stylistic constraints and models, characterised by an untypical colouration, freedom of brushwork, and themes geared to his immediate surroundings. In his new series, Baselitz synthesises Munch's later liberal style with motifs referring to his own origins in Deutschbaselitz (Saxony) and to memories from his childhood. In 2001 Baselitz wrote: "I think it's time to take up my old stuff again, my childhood drawings and things I did at school [...] Using something you haven't yet lost is pleasanter, and as long as you're doing that, it isn't important whether the motif is the same as it was then." Thus some of his new works hark back to the small oil painting Sandteichdamm [sand pond dam], which Baselitz painted at school in 1955, when he was about seventeen, and which shows the immediate surroundings of the house where he was born. The motif is transformed into a sort of negative-painting, with which Baselitz has recently been attempting to produce pictures that look like negatives. A further leitmotif in Baselitz's new works is a fragment of leg, especially of a foot (sometimes in a shoe). Feet have long played an important role in his work; in 1960-1963 he painted naked, battered, pandemoniac feet. In his new works, the foot (shoe) – which has become a tradition within Modernism since Géricault's fragmented feet, van Gogh's Peasant Shoes and Andy Warhol's pre-pop drawings and Diamond Dust Shoes – has assumed an autobiographical connotation. It becomes a kind of self-portrait, as a pars pro toto. "In the motifs of tree and leg, Baselitz is constantly confronting – with shifting accents – the existential pair of opposites: staying and going; fixing and movement; standing and falling; obviously stably centred existence and being on the move (which always entails the danger of disorientation); the duration and the passing of existence. Having feet means having no roots. Baselitz creates an imagery of farewell, of departure, of homelessness, of destabilisation – though usually with no outward sign of dynamism or reference to movement." (Kirsten Klaudia Voigt)
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Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Love In The Land?
Abacus has released more data, and what they clearly show- as others have as well- is that there really isn't any deep affinity for the Harper Conservatives. I know, hard to believe, if one relies solely on the almost daily praise that comes from certain conduit quarters. Here was a key finding in my view:
Only 32% have any affection for the Conservative messaging, most of that weak, whereas a whopping 62% agree with the Liberal frame. People simply don't agree that Canada is stronger, that only Harper's leadership is what Canada needs. Interesting that the Conservative message can't even mirror the party support number in the poll, which is also the case on a host of competency questions in the same survey.
On the question of the economy, only 30% give the Conservatives a "good" rating, 27% on defending Canada's interest, 23% on creating jobs, 21% on the environment and an absymal 16% on working with the opposition. It's only when we see comparative studies, that Harper looks strong, the most natural of occurences, a sitting PM besting a opposition leader on clear either or questions. Those type of findings mask weakness, they are predictable, but not insightful. It is numbers like above, clear commentary on the government, where we see vulnerability, where this "chess master" that is on the cusp of majority looks a farcical proposition. Truth be told, divided opposition is the only real strength, Canadians really aren't enamoured with this government, in fact they don't like the Conservatives much at all. And, it is this objective fact that allows for some cautious, still long odds, optimism come a campaign, because the Liberals don't face an opponent that enjoys inspired, widespread support.
23 comments:
- Tof KW said...
I've this before and I'll post it yet again…
A minority government, in power for years, and plagued with scandals that never seem to stick. The PM is seen as a competent, proven manager of the economy, giving the government a Teflon coating against a divided opposition. All polls continually show that his party would win an election, the only question being the actual number of seats.
Meanwhile the leader of the opposition continually posts poor personal numbers, and poll after poll shows there is no love in the land for him. The official opposition continually hammers the government over this supposed scandal and that supposed scandal, but they never gain traction in the polls for any sustained time. The media constantly write obituaries for the opposition leader; 'no chance in winning an election', 'the party picked the wrong man' and 'he'll be gone after the next election' are common remarks.
Does this sound familiar?
It should…
I'm writing about the Paul Marin government, and opposition leader Stephen Harper - circa 2005.
- 10:25 AM, February 02, 2011
- Tof KW said...
1st sentence should be "I've written this before..."
- 10:26 AM, February 02, 2011
- Steve V said...
Exactly! Well played.
- 10:30 AM, February 02, 2011
- Tof KW said...
Thanks! Just wanted to show how useless our media is (and with 'journalists' like Taber, it won't get any better) in that they can't even figure out the obvious - elections work in predictable cycles. The CPC and LPC are about to re-fight the Martin vs Harper election, but with their respective rolls reversed. The only question is will it be 2004 (government wins, but a reduced mandate) or 2006 (opposition wins minority).
And no it will not be a replay of the 2008 election. This time, Harper will be the one playing defense; a new role for him as he's always been on the attack.
- 10:53 AM, February 02, 2011
- bubba said...
There is no "scandal" that has the traction of ADSCAM.Each scandal has proven less than the media made it out to be. Even the A.G. has coommended the gov't on the action plan spending. There are not the number of convicted(future) people involved in the cpc that were invoved in the Lib party of 2006. The house cleaning we have discussed has not happened yet. The Libs may still have success next election which I think will happen this spring. Their biggest hurdle is still the unwillingness to look inward.Dennis Corderre,McCallum,Goodale,The team that recruited Iggy,Like swimming with a bag of bricks. Have they unloaded enough bricks yet? I dont think so. Next election 2015 then probably.
- 11:38 AM, February 02, 2011
- rockfish said...
I fully expect Harper now to try and steal the most popular message: "For 5 years, Stephen Harper hasn't listened to Canadians. His priorities of $21B stealth fighters, super prisons, and tax breaks for big corporations are out of touch with real Canadians. But what can you do -- he loves Tim Hortons! Vote Harper."
- 11:42 AM, February 02, 2011
- Gene Rayburn said...
huh? there's 7 years between elections in Bubba's world? Well he was the guy that said he voted conservative because they bought him lunch so why am I surprised.
- 11:44 AM, February 02, 2011
- rockfish said...
As for scandals, true. Lets forget that a good number of those charged in AdScam were conservative people.
Harper has got away with plagarising, supporting the attempt to bribe an MP, and even the tape scams he and grewal did in opposition. He's repeatedly been able to shuck off past statements and efforts (his own coalition attempt, his 'tough' talk on the economy, deficits and afghanistan, complete intentional footdragging on the environment) and skate on perception. That perception now also includes no hidden agenda, even when the ground is showing that the seeds and salt he's thrown is producing a strange crop (the census, atomic canada, etc)... In one way, it is true all these tangible items are failing to stick -- it doesn't help that boneheads in the media (here in BC Bill Good comes to mind) have failed simple math (1+1+1=?) when it comes to Harper's ethical 'failings'... But just as Harper has relied on in-campaign advantages (the RCMP investigation announcement in 2005-06, the Dion interview of 2008) i'm wondering when his next mistake will prove to be poorly timed, and too big? Right now the stakes aren't very high for the Liberals, most pundits saying mid-90s as their best case scenario. Meanwhile, Harper courts Quebec city voters by implying quietly that he'll fund a hockey rink, stands 'tall' for poor CEOs of corporate canada). I see opportunity there, and Ignatieff's star could still rise a little.
- 11:52 AM, February 02, 2011
- Tof KW said...
Bubba, I actually like your post, but your logic is flawed in the following:
"There is no "scandal" that has the traction of ADSCAM."
I'd say spending $1.2 billion on one weekend pales in comparison to a $140 million scandal where the inquiry and two additional supreme court cases cost the taxpayer more than the actual scandal. By the way – look at the total spending costs of Harper's EAP advertising over the past two years. Not saying the Liberal's spending scandal wasn't a big deal (in 2005), but the Harper government is sure spending a lot of our money on shameless self-promotion in the here & now.
"There are not the number of convicted(future) people involved in the cpc that were invoved in the Lib party of 2006."
Total number of convicted Liberal party members from the sponsorship scandal = 0.
Look it up.
Also we've had an inquiry + AG reporting + 2 supreme court cases on this scandal …it's over now. The Harper government can yell 'Adscam' all they want in the next election campaign, but it's very old and doesn't carry the same traction as it did five years ago. Only among Harper's base does it work, but then so does the NEP. It's akin to the Liberals yelling 'Airbus' and thinking that will do anything anymore. It's just silly at this point - as Harper has as much to do with the Mulroney government as Iggy does with the Chretien administration.
BTW - if there is any inappropriate EAP spending (renogate, kickbacks to QC contractor friends of the CPC, etc) I expect the total number of convicted CPC members found would also equal zero. That's the way these things work Bubba. The government is only guilty of shoveling money out the door too fast and not employing full safeguards; the contractors used are the ones who are guilty of any actual criminal activity.
" The Libs may still have success … Their biggest hurdle is still the unwillingness to look inward"'
I fully agree with you on this Bubba. I think Steve would too. He's written about the need for new blood a few times now. A CPC majority win would have been good for the Libs in that they would have been able to act as an opposition party for a full 4 years without the worry of needing to be election ready. And it would have given them time to truly rebuild.
To finish; I personally do not think the Libs would win a possible election this spring. However the media are totally off in regurgitating the CPC's strengths – they are much more vulnerable than they are reporting. Therefore the Conservatives are very, very unlikely to win a majority unless a complete breakdown in the LPC occurs. The most likely outcome is a reduced CPC minority. The only question is the final seat count.
- 12:30 PM, February 02, 2011
- Steve V said...
I think the average voter will find giveaways to massively profitable companies, while we have a massively large debt, scandalous.
- 12:40 PM, February 02, 2011
- Tof KW said...
Thanks Steve, that sums it up nicely.
I in fact like Bubba, so I gave him the benefit of a very detailed answer on how fighting past election battles is a recipe for defeat. You need to fight elections on issues in the here & now.
- 12:50 PM, February 02, 2011
- Tom said...
I wouldn't pin your hopes on the findings of the latest Abacus poll.The pollees are so few that in some provinces, one person changing his mind would be the equivalent of at least a 4% swing, but they still have the Conservatives with a healthy lead.
- 1:48 PM, February 02, 2011
- Kirk said...
I just finished perusing this poll before coming here. Very surprising. When asked to choose between good, neutral and poor the Cons never reach their level of overall electoral support with any "good" rating. To me that says that Harper's current ~35% support is not in any way his floor.
He will certainly have his avid supporters rating him "good" on these measures and even have some supporters of other parties giving him a "good" rating on some issues . Yet his best result is 30% rating his "managing the economy" as "good" and even that is equalled by the 30% rating him "poor".
Also, the biggest "neutral" numbers are on the very things Harper is pushing as achievements, crime, jobs, economic management and keeping taxes low.
On "Reducing crime" they are doing the best, relatively speaking, with 28% voting "good" vs. 25% "poor". Their second best "good" rating and the only time "good" is greater than "poor" but also their second largest "neutral" rating at 43%.
Now we don't have any history with these poll questions so maybe Harper has moved people from a "poor" rating to a "neutral" rating and is on his way to a "good" rating but after all the effort the govt made pushing them as good economic managers, lowering taxes, reducing crime and creating jobs you'd think that they'd have moved many more people into saying "good" already.
- 2:09 PM, February 02, 2011
- Steve V said...
I actually noted that in the post as well Kirk
"Interesting that the Conservative message can't even mirror the party support number in the poll, which is also the case on a host of competency questions in the same survey."
Not good from the gov't perspective.
- 2:12 PM, February 02, 2011
- Steve V said...
Actually, every poll that asks these type of questions find the Cons aren't very popular. Not pinning my hopes, just reaffirming.
- 2:14 PM, February 02, 2011
- Kirk said...
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- 2:21 PM, February 02, 2011
- Kirk said...
I'd also like to comment on Abacus's analysis.
They write: 'With the exception of its managing of the war in Afghanistan, Canadians gave largely neutral and positive scores to issues the government has identified as pillars...'
Now this is true but it begs the question of why add positive and neutral scores? Why not add negative and neutral scores? Negative scores are just as related to neutral as positive is, which is to say, not at all. Yet Abacus chooses to find good news in the Cons getting only a "neutral" rating on their "pillars".
Later Abacus writes: "Respondents were nearly evenly split in terms of agreement with the Conservative party statement. However, a majority (62%) of respondents either agreed or strongly agreed with Mr. Ignatieff's response."
It is interesting to note that their "nearly evenly split" is actually 32% vs. 46%. Try getting your spouse to agree that that is an even split of the last of your strawberry cheesecake.
Finally, EKOS has found that more Canadians agree that Canada is on the right track than agree that the govt is on the right track. Abacus doesn't ask the second question (deliberately??) and looking at the other results you can see that it wouldn't be a good result for the govt.
- 2:23 PM, February 02, 2011
- DL said...
Pundits often blather about the Tories having this "rock-solid" core vote of 30-35%. Well there is a huge difference between them getting 35% and them getting 30%. If the Tory core is just 30% - they lose the election!
- 3:11 PM, February 02, 2011
- WhigWag said...
re: "with their respective rolls (sic) reversed" -- yup, now it's Harper as the portly complacent fatcat Mr. Monopoly / Rich Uncle Pennybags, with Iggy being the lean & mean outsider spoiling to let the little guy be freed of the Bay Street Bankers! Bring it on!
- 4:24 PM, February 02, 2011
- bubba said...
I don't beleive Ad scam will have any effect on the next election. I never said that. I am saying no current scandal is going to affect an election the way that did.The libs would be better if the guilty people were convicted then they could say justice was done and it is over. There is no doubt that the Lib party got the stolen money and noone has paid the price and noone has said wher the $ went. Thus it lives on. Not to affect future elections, but in these conversations. If the cons are convicted of stealing taxpayer money through the various election financing schemes it may have similar consequences. It would definitely be in their interest to have someone held responsible and punnished. Not have the Doubt float around for a decade.
- 4:31 PM, February 02, 2011
- Tof KW said...
DL - their core is 30%, or just over 4 million votes to put a real number on this. This is what they received in the 2004 election immediately after the takeover of the PC party by the Alliance. Well 29.63% actually, but lets round it to 30 to keep things clean. So whatever is above this number are CPC votes that are fluid.
- 4:33 PM, February 02, 2011
- Tof KW said...
Sorry, mis-read your earlier post bubba.
DL - that base of 30% shouldn't be counted on unless there really is a scandal as severe as bubba mentioned. I think it's safe to say that the CPC popular vote would fall around the 34-35% mark if an election took place today.
- 4:40 PM, February 02, 2011
- Tomm said...
I know you wish us to discuss Statement #2, but please remember that Statement #1 is from the same respondents. The responses there would indicate that less than 50% of Canadian's disagree with it. This may make Harper feel quite comfortable right now.
- 1:11 AM, February 04, 2011


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What if I encounter an aggressive driver?
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Buckley has been very generous with his Instagram, sharing a photo of Emily and her brand new love interest/swim team member Sydney Driscoll (played by Chloe Bridges from 'The Carrie Diaries').
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Teased actress Shay Mitchell (Emily) of their relationship, "For the Paige and Emily fans, I would say to hold tight. Nothing's ever said and done. And I will say to the Emison fans, you never know what could happen again. So stay tuned."
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Build (and use) a cross-toolchain using Dan Kegel's crosstool 0.38
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Compiling programs on the LinkStation (native compiling) can take a very, very long time. A much faster method is to cross-compile programs using a cross-toolchain. A cross-toolchain allows you to compile code for the LinkStation on a faster computer with a different architecture, usually an i386/i686 desktop.
Building a Cross-Toolchain
We will build the cross-toolchain using the GPL source code provided by Buffalo Technology, a custom kernel .config, custom build scripts, and [Dan Kegel's crosstool scripts]. You can download all of these from the [downloads area].
- You will need several gigabytes of free hard drive space to build the cross-toolchain. Also, you must be logged in as a user other than root. Start by unpacking the crosstool archive:
tar -pzxvf crosstool-0.38.tar.gz
- Place the appropriate custom kernel .config and custom build scripts in the crosstool directory. In this example, we will be building a gcc-3.3.5-glibc-2.3.2 toolchain for the powerpc-hdhlan LinkStation:
mv powerpc-hdhlan.config /usr/tmp/crosstool-0.38 mv powerpc-hdhlan.dat /usr/tmp/crosstool-0.38 mv powerpc-hdhlan.sh /usr/tmp/crosstool-0.38 mv gcc-3.3.5-glibc-2.3.2.dat /usr/tmp/crosstool-0.38
- Open powerpc-hdhlan.sh in a text editor and adjust the configuration variables if needed. For our example:
- where it will save source tarballs
- where it will install the toolchain
- which languages it will make compilers for
- Uncomment the toolchain you want to build. To build a gcc-3.3.5-glibc-2.3.2 toolchain:
eval `cat powerpc-hdhlan.dat gcc-3.3.5-glibc-2.3.2.dat` sh all.sh --notest
- Make sure you have the necessary permissions and ownership for the download and installation directories. Open gcc-3.3.5-glibc-2.3.2.dat in a text editor and adjust the configuration variables. For our example:
- which version of binutils to build
- which version of gcc to build
- which version of glibc to build
- which version of glibc-linuxthreads to build (same as glibc version)
- which kernel source to use
- Extract the kernel source code from the GPL source code archive and place it in the downloads directory previously defined. Our example calls for linux-2.4.17_mvl21-sandpoint.tar.gz. Then unpack the kernel source:
cd /usr/tmp/downloads tar -pzxvf linux-2.4.17_mvl21-sandpoint.tar.gz
- Download and apply any available [patches]. The 2.4.17_mvl21-sandpoint kernel needs 2 patches:
patch -p1 < netfilter.patch patch -p1 < usbvideo.patch
- Remove the old kernel source archive and package the patched kernel source:
rm linux-2.4.17_mvl21-sandpoint.tar.gz tar -pczvf linux-2.4.17_mvl21-sandpoint.tar.gz linux-2.4.17_mvl21-sandpoint@@
- See the following notes for OSX and Cygwin before proceeding. To build the toolchain, all you must do is run the build script; crosstool will automate the entire process!
cd /usr/tmp/crosstool-0.38 ./powerpc-hdhlan.sh
- The build process may take several hours. You also may see some warnings during the build process - do not worry, this is fairly typical.
Using a Cross-Toolchain
- Add the cross-toolchain to your $PATH (you can do this in .bashrc):
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/linkstation/gcc-3.3.5-glibc-2.3.2/powerpc-hdhlan-linux/bin
- Then declare the host and/or target type when running a program's ./configure script (this varies from program to program):
./configure --host=powerpc-hdhlan-linux --target=powerpc-hdhlan-linux
- Or specify the cross-toolchain's development programs when using make:
make AR=powerpc-hdhlan-linux-ar CC=powerpc-hdhlan-linux-gcc LD=powerpc-hdhlan-linux-ld NM=powerpc-hdhlan-linux-nm OBJDUMP=powerpc-hdhlan-linux-objdump
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- Use a UFS volume on OS X. Do not use an HFS volume as there will be confusion and overwriting of files due to case insensitivity. Create an alias to your mounted UFS partition, remembering not to use spaces in the path:
ln -s /Volumes/MyUFSVolume/lsdev /opt
- OS X 10.4 only - Despite there being a patch for build issues of glibc on OS X, there are still issues with version checking on things like ld and as which will break the install. Download the glibc configure file patch from the [downloads area] and put it in crosstool-0.38/patches/glibc-2.3.5/. If you are a Linux user and thinking about doing this, please don't, the version checks are there for a reason!
- OS X 10.4 only - You will need the Apple developer tools. You can obtain them by registering at [| Apple Developer Connection] and downloading the latest XCode installer.
- OS X 10.4 only - If you are compiling a toolchain using glibc 2.3.2, select gcc 3.3 or it will fail the version check during configure. Use gcc 4.0 for newer compilers and glibc versions or else they might break. I had to compile a gcc-3.4.4-glibc 2.3.5 toolchain with gcc 4.0 (your experience may vary). To select the gcc version you wish to use:
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- OS X 10.4 only - Install wget, GNU sed and gawk. Make sure you install them in /usr/local and ensure that /usr/local/bin appears at the beginning of your PATH in /etc/profile. Then run:
source /etc/profile
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- Due to Windows' file case insensitivity, toolchains built under Cygwin will encounter issues with certain files, e.g., ipt_tos.h and ipt_TOS.h. This will prevent Cygwin users from building the ip_tables kernel modules.
- Due to Windows' administrator design, Cygwin lacks a "root" user. You may encounter various file ownership issues.


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For all of you thinking about doing the recently released Through the Loops pattern Ida's Kitchen, please beware that you will be undertaking a project that is 100% addictive and may very well be one that you want to knit over and over again in a dizzying array of combinations (think Chevron Scarf and BSJ). Luckily if you've spent the last several years randomly acquiring skeins of yarn with no purpose at all, this won't be a problem for you. Yep.
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Pattern: Ida's Kitchen by Kirsten Kapur
Yarn: Blue Sky Alpaca Mélange in 'Cornflower' and 'Pomegranate'; Random skeins of Brown Sheep Naturespun Sport in various shades (see below).
Needles: size 6 and 8
Mods: Say what?
This was one fast knit people. Two days tops. And so much fun to watch the colors change! This project has scrap-buster written all over it because you could easily adjust the pattern to accommodate the bit and bobs of sport weight that you have.
Virtuous Knitter Alert: For this hat I used yarn 100% from stash. Go me! I had some BSA Mélange on hand that I'd been dying to try. I also had a mitten kit composed of Naturespun Sport that I'd purchased a while ago and knew that the likelihood of making the mittens was become dimmer by the day, so I repurposed it and put it into service for this project.
But of course me being perpetually stuck in a two-steps-forward, one-step-back mode, on my way to the airport last week ago I picked up more* BSA Mélange to make an even bigger and better Ida's Kitchen! So yeah, I'm a lifer.
*to people keeping track of my StashPact 11 avowal to cease and desist from yarn gluttony, this purchase was made BEFORE I signed on, ok?


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The US government fired out the above promotional video, which has been captured and uploaded on YouTube. It essentially sends out the message that smartphones (and mobile phones in general) can save lives just as effectively as other technology. A weather warning is demonstrated on a Nokia Lumia 920, but it's not showing a Windows Phone screen. We're looking at an iPhone.
Sure, it makes sense why the team behind the production would prefer to show the most popular smartphone UI in the US on that device, but it's great to see them consider the award-winning design of Nokia's Windows Phone hardware. Mixing the two together is just weird, especially since they didn't even fill the entire Lumia 920 display, making it appear to cut off. Why not just use the Modern UI?
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Talisker Masters. Nick Cullen Leads. November 14 2013
Left hander Nick Cullen lead the Talisker Masters after round one at the Royal Melbourne Golf Club, in Melbourne, Australia. Nick Cullen / Getty Nick had a first round -6 under par 65 to lead the Talisker Masters at Royal Melbourne by two shots. His round included an Eagle two at the short par four, the 11th. He also racked up two bogies, on eight and eighteen. Adam Scott is tied in second place at -4 under par for the day, he is sharing that score with today's surprise package, German Maximillian Kieffer. Adam admitted he had not had much practice since his win at The PGA last week; "I have not done much practice since last week so I felt I would try and sneak a few balls in before lunch and a 67 round here is a good score. It was a bit of a slow finish but it is a good way to open up. I felt like I left a couple out there but my game was in pretty good shape other than that and four rounds like that might go a long way this week." Max, on his first visit to Australia said he was very happy; "I love it, it is great. I think it is testing every part of your game. The greens are in great condition today if you think about how much rain there was. My expectations were very low because it is 10 hours' time difference. It is quite a lot and obviously the preparation was not how it should be but I think it is a good learning experience." All of Golf welcomed Jarrod Lyle's return to inside the ropes, and his appearance bought a tear to the eye of many. Jarrod himself was fighting off tears as he struck his first golf ball in competition in over 20 months. He was accompanied on his round by his wife Briony and daughter Lusi. He finished the day with a +1 over par 72 first round, a very respectable effort in the circumstances. Incidentally Taliskers is one of my favorite drops of Scotch.


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Students Learn toby Michael Warren • November 14, 2007 Share:
The L.E.A.D. Program (Linking Education and Alumni Development) offered a chance for students to learn the proper rules of dining on Tuesday evening.
Anthony Cawdron, Events Coordinator for the President of Purdue University, presented tips ranging from the R.S.V.P. to where you put your napkin when leaving the table as nearly 50 Wabash men were served a fine meal by Bon Appetit.
The men and guests from Purdue's Sigma Kappa sorority were able to practice some of the techniques shown by Mr. Cawdron at this dinner and will no doubt use this knowledge in the future to impress potential employers or clients.
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Members are NACE's best and most important asset. There are many ways that member talent can be tapped, including committee work and Board service.
Serving on the Board or a committee requires a significant amount of time, but can be very rewarding. Not only are these opportunities to help shape the direction and development of your association, but also both offer you the opportunity for personal and professional growth. Leadership, communication, and organizational skills are among the skills you can build in service.
Each fall, NACE announces a call for nominations for the NACE Board of Directors. Members are encouraged to nominate colleagues for various roles and are also encouraged to consider self-nomination.
The NACE President determines which committees will be needed to meet goals for the year and support the association's strategic plan. Although there are some standing committees, most are formed to accomplish a specific task, and, once that task is completed, the committee is disbanded. Consequently, there may be more committees one year than there are the next, and the range of opportunities varies accordingly.
The NACE President determines the specific charges and goals for each committee, and selects committee members from the pool of volunteers. Typically, the call for volunteers for NACE committees goes out in the spring. Committee members are appointed for a one-year term commencing July 1.
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Apparently, blind people can still actually "see" (you know that feeling when someone is watching you...), and it turns out that coffee is a protective factor against suicide. These are bad news for stalkers, and good news for coffee lovers!
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Steven Pinker, Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist and linguist, cited in Mariana Soffer, Metaphor and the Mind, Sing your own lullaby (via amiquote)
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But what is reality? The more we probe it, the harder it becomes to comprehend. In the eight articles on this page we take a tour of our fundamental understanding of the world around us, starting with an attempt to define reality and ending with the idea that whatever reality is, it isn't what it seems.
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"Bigger may not always be better, but when it comes to brain processing speed, it appears that size does matter.
A new study has revealed that words which refer to big things are processed more quickly by the brain than words for small things.
Researchers at the University of Glasgow had previously found that big concrete words – 'ocean', 'dinosaur', 'cathedral' – were read more quickly than small ones such as 'apple', 'parasite' and 'cigarette'.
Now they have discovered that abstract words which are thought of as big – 'greed', 'genius', 'paradise' – are also processed faster than concepts considered to be small such as 'haste', 'polite' and 'intimate'.
Dr Sara Sereno, a Reader in the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology who led the study said: "It seems that size matters, even when it's abstract and you can't see it."
The study, published in the online journal PLoS ONE, also involved researchers from Kent, Manchester and Oregon. Participants were presented with a series of real words referring to objects and concepts both big and small, as well as nonsense, made-up words, totalling nearly 500 items. The different word types were matched for length and frequency of use.
The 60 participants were asked to press one of two buttons to indicate whether each item was a real word or not. This decision took just over 500 milliseconds or around a half second per item. Results showed that words referring to larger objects or concepts were processed around 20 milliseconds faster than words referring to smaller objects or concepts. (...)
Lead author Dr Bo Yao said: "It turned out that our big concrete and abstract words, like 'shark' and 'panic', tended to be more emotionally arousing than our small concrete and abstract words, like 'acorn' and 'tight'. Our analysis showed that these emotional links played a greater role in the identification of abstract compared to concrete words."
"Even though abstract words don't refer to physical objects in the real world, we found that it's actually quite easy to think of certain concepts in terms of their size," said co-author Prof Paddy O'Donnell. "Everyone thinks that 'devotion' is something big and that 'mischief' is something small."
Bigger things it seems, whether real or imagined, grab our attention more easily and our brains process them faster – even when they are represented by written words."
-- Size matters: Brain processes 'big' words faster than 'small' words, Medical Xpress, 26, Sept, 2013
See also: Semantic Size of Abstract Concepts: It Gets Emotional When You Can't See It, PLoS ONE


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Police officers on the street arresting bad guys provide little value if they can't later testify in court. Cities must be able to replace cops whose credibility on the witness stand is questionable because of past deceit.
But a bill backed by police officers and headed for Gov. Jerry Brown's desk would tie the hands of local governments, making it much more difficult to replace those ineffective cops. It's the wrong solution to a legitimate concern. The governor should veto it.
Under a 1963 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Brady v. Maryland, prosecutors must disclose to defense attorneys any evidence that could help them defend their clients. That includes information about past dishonesty of the cops
As a result, district attorney offices across the state keep "Brady lists" of officers who have been identified as dishonest. As a practical matter, landing on those lists undermines officers' job effectiveness because their credibility will be called into question when they are called to testify.
SB 313, introduced by Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, would make it harder to remove those cops from the street. In disciplinary proceedings against an officer, a local government could not mention that the cop is on the district attorney's list. Similarly, officers could not be denied promotions because of it.
Cash-strapped local governments would be stuck with the officers and would not be able to take corrective action unless they independently proved in disciplinary hearings that the officers had lied or otherwise misbehaved. The governments could also be exposed to greater liability for knowingly keeping bad cops.
That's why associations representing cities, counties, police chiefs and sheriffs across the state oppose the bill. Yet, the Legislature approved it.
To be sure, procedures used by district attorney offices across the state for placing an officer on the list are inconsistent. In some cases, the cops have a right to a hearing; in others, they don't. That raises fairness and due-process issues. That's what the Legislature should address. It should be done through a law governing the district attorneys' constructions of the lists.
Hindering the ability of local government to get rid of bad cops, or to deny them promotions, doesn't solve the problem. But it will help rogue officers keep their jobs.


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Have you already written a BlackBerry® WebWorks™ application for the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet or BlackBerry® smartphone platform, and now you're wondering how to port it from one to the other? We've got some tips for you right here!
There is a great opportunity for vendors to provide versions of their applications that run on both the BlackBerry® 6 smartphones and the BlackBerry Tablet OS. In fact, due to the nature of Web technologies such as HTML and CSS – as well as how the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK is designed – vendors can easily port their applications from one platform to the other. There's never been a better time to port with big prizes up for grabs in the Most Innovative BlackBerry WebWorks app on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and BlackBerry 6 challenge*!
Additionally, the latest in-market and BlackBerry App World™ storefront device breakdown stats show that an increasing number of users who download applications (both free and paid) have a smartphone running BlackBerry® 6. The upcoming BlackBerry® 7 devices will also expand the market opportunity for developers who ensure BlackBerry 7 compatibility. To get a head start on testing your application on these new devices, learn about the new screen resolutions and download the latest simulators. Also, if your app supports BlackBerry 5.0 and BlackBerry 6 smartphones, you will be able to address the largest market of potential users as possible. Vendors can easily port their applications to BlackBerry 5.0 by checking out which APIs are supported in this version in the BlackBerry WebWorks API guide discussed below, as well as testing with the simulators on BlackBerry Developer Zone.
Here are a few tips and tricks to consider before starting your porting efforts:
BlackBerry WebWorks APIs: There are differences between the BlackBerry WebWorks API sets for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and the BlackBerry smartphone, which are documented in the BlackBerry WebWorks API Reference Guide. Some APIs are available only in the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK for Tablet OS, while others are only available in the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK for smartphones. This gap in functional parity is due to the availability of the given feature in the underlying OS. We've also recently updated the BlackBerry WebWorks API reference guide to make it more developer-friendly by bringing together both sets of APIs into a single view that makes it easy to see which APIs are supported on each platform. Note that custom JavaScript® extensions are only available on the smartphone version, so if you've implemented any of these extensions, they will not be supported on the BlackBerry Tablet OS. Check out the latest BlackBerry WebWorks API Reference Guide.
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Umbrella Krytac LVOA-C DMR
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This AEG is manufactured by Krytac and upgraded by hand here in the United States.
Watch a gameplay using this rifle here.
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Prometheus Inner Barrel with R-Hop
CNC Hop Up Chamber with M-Nub
Gate Titan MOSFET (Complete Set)
Rocket Airsoft Pre-Lightened 15 Steel Teeth Heat-Treated Piston
Lonex Polyoxymethylene Piston Head
Lonex Anodized Aluminum Cylinder Head
Lonex Polyoxymethylene Air Nozzle with Internal O-ring
Stari-Wei Neodymium CNC Body Motor
Umbrella Armory 8mm Steel Ball Caged Bearings
Madbull Blue Bucking
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Modified Krytac Gearbox
Fully licensed receiver and design from War Sport Industries
Unique wolf grey finish
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AEG Rifle with Iron Sights
2 x 11.1v Batteries (Capacity depends on stock selected)
2 x PTS EPM Midcap
Black Metal Muzzle Brake (Unattached)
This AEG will be shipped with an orange tip.
Fixed sights included
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Use 0.32g BBs or heavier for best performance
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All our rifles come with Prometheus tight-bore barrels, equipped with our hand fitted R-Hop. The perfect upgrade for any gun, to increase accuracy, range and consistency of each shot fired. This upgrade goes far beyond just changing out your inner barrel, by pairing the R-Hop with a tight bore polished stainless steel inner barrel. The R-Hop improves the consistency of each consecutive shot, improves peak backspin and airseal and provides the user with higher tolerances to imperfections in the projectile.
The MOSFETs from GATE will enhance your experience by shortening the trigger pull, allowing for faster follow up semi-automatic firing. The settings on the MOSFET furthermore allow for different technical features which our technicians adjust for you in the factory, including features such as pre-cocking for even better trigger response.
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Canistota Man Found Dead After Crash
A Canistota man was found dead after his semi-truck left Interstate 29, traveled through a cornfield and came to rest on a gravel road in Union County Monday evening.
The Highway Patrol says 66-year-old Gerald Fry was southbound on I-29, five miles north of Elk Point, just after 8:30pm when, for an unknown reason, his semi-truck left the roadway.
Fry's vehicle crossed the median and northbound lanes and entered a cornfield to the east of Interstate 29.
Troopers say the semi-truck traveled for about a mile in the cornfield before it encountered a steep ditch embankment at 473rd Avenue.
The truck crossed the gravel road and the trailer became high centered, bringing the vehicle to a stop.
The Patrol says Fry was wearing a seat belt, but he may have suffered from a medical emergency which may have caused the crash.
Fry was dead at the scene when first responders arrived.
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Learning Curve - National Archives
The Learning Curve is a free online teaching and learning resource, following the History National Curriculum from Key Stages 2 to 5. Students can work with a wide range of historical records including documents, photos and film. They can also enjoy games and activities for thinking and learning about our past.
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Britain 1906 to 1918
This website investigates the varied life of the British people 1906 to 1918, following the broad themes of contrast, contradiction and change. There are seven sections: Liberal welfare reforms, 1906-11 achievements of the Liberal reforms; early 1900s women's suffrage
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propaganda, 1914-18;review and revision
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British Empire
For the last 400 years Britain has played a key role in the world - mainly because of its empire. There are three sections in this exhibition that explore: the rise of the British empire; living in the empire; the end of the empire. There are case studies on the empire in Africa, Australia, North America, India and Ireland, using a wide range of sources.
- Ben Walsh
- The National Archives
Focus on Domesday
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Focus on Film
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- Ben Walsh
- The National Archives
General Haig, the butcher of the Somme?
Is it justified to call General Haig the Butcher of the Somme? This downloadable resource for interactive whiteboards investigates evidence for and against Haig's reputation.
Queen Victoria's family photograph
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The Great War
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Victorian Britain
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Zach Kabelac enters his second year as an assistant coach after
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