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MUA is one of those cute brands in your local pharmacy that are fun to try or easy to dismiss. On the one hand, they're cheap so you might doubt their quality or efficacy, on the other, they're at a price point where you feel like you can pick up an "it product" to try without feeling like you're wasting money.
Since some of my readers note that I tend to spend a bit on my makeup, I wanted to share this product with you, because I love it, and it's super affordable at just £2.
I was given my first one of these in a gift box, and wasn't expecting much from it. But I was pleasantly surprised.
It's something between a lip gloss and a lip balm. The best of both, it moisturises lips like a balm, but also gives a sleek bit of shine without being sticky. It's kind of a miracle product for me because with long hair, I hate having my hair stick to my lips in the wind!
It comes in a range of shades, from violet through pinks and reds. These two pictures are my favourite, Rouge Rumba, a true red, and Cherry Bomb, which is more a wine red or pink colour. As you can see, the shades are sheer when worn, but true to the colour on the tube.
I highly recommend these. They're a great little handbag product, versatile and beautiful to use. And yes, only £2.


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8-year-old girl among 3 killed in Delaware County crash
Laura Arenschield, The Columbus Dispatch
DELAWARE, Ohio — A young girl was among three people killed in a Delaware County crash yesterday evening, the State Highway Patrol said.
Isabella R. Zinsmaster, 8, died in the wreck on Rt. 229. Two other people, James William Wyatt III, 33, and Elizabeth A. Wyatt, 28, also were killed. Isabella is listed in birth records as Elizabeth Wyatt's daughter.
The crash occurred at 6:18 p.m. near Horseshoe Road in northern Delaware County, just south of Morrow County. Mr. Wyatt was driving and lost control of the car. It traveled off the right side of the road and hit a tree, the patrol said.
Another passenger, Jessica I. Wray, 22, was flown to Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center. Wray was listed in critical condition at the hospital today.

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GOP governor candidates split on greater Minnesota issues
ST. PAUL - Minnesota's major Republican governor candidates have sounded a lot like four peas in a pod, showing few policy differences. However, when asked about how they would deal with areas outside the Twin Cities, some splits begin to surface...
ST. PAUL – Minnesota's major Republican governor candidates have sounded a lot like four peas in a pod, showing few policy differences.
However, when asked about how they would deal with areas outside the Twin Cities, some splits begin to surface.
Those questions especially show a stark difference between Orono businessman Scott Honour, a first-time candidate, and three veteran politicians. Honour stands alone in insisting greater Minnesota should get no special treatment, saying his policies would help all Minnesotans.
The other three – Jeff Johnson, Kurt Zellers and Marty Seifert – vary on how much, and what, should be done differently in greater Minnesota, the part of the state outside the Twin Cities urban and suburban areas.
Honour admitted even he thinks greater Minnesota deserves special attention in road funding and that some property-poor communities should continue to receive Local Government Aid.
"Even my Republican competitors fall into the trap of going along with the status quo," Honour said about those seeking the $123,912-a-year job. "What will help this state across the board is to get government out of the business of trying to pick winners and losers. It is not any good at that."
A series of Forum News Service interviews with the four major GOP candidates competing in an Aug. 12 primary election produced some differences among them, but they agreed that winning greater Minnesota is critical to a primary victory and the Nov. 4 general election against Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton.
Rural areas important
There is a widespread feeling in political circles that whoever wins rural Minnesota wins the primary.
The rural "L" of western and southern Minnesota, long considered a key to a politician's chances, is expanding to look like a different letter. It could be a "C," including the Iron Range.
"I would put it more as a G ..." Zellers said, looking at a map and verbally tracing a letter that begins in the northeast, goes down the west, across the south and back west to the St. Cloud area. "I would never exclude any place on the Iron Range in this election, particularly due to the copper-mining issue."
Whatever the letter, most of the candidates said they spend about half of their campaign time outside the Twin Cities, visiting newspapers, radio stations and other venues, as well as marching in parades.
Greater Minnesota is so important to the candidates that two who live in the suburbs, Zellers and Johnson, picked rural running mates to balance their tickets even though they bring their own rural and small-town roots to the race. Seifert trumpets his life-long rural residency.
Candidates say they do not know who will vote Aug. 12 since it is rare for Republicans to have a competitive primary. But rural voters generally show better primary turnout than those in the suburbs and urban areas.
That prompts the candidates to emphasize greater Minnesota issues.
"One size fits all doesn't fit all the time in government," Johnson said, adding that urban, suburban and greater Minnesota needs differ.
"It is really important for the next governor to be really focused, almost hyper- focused, on greater Minnesota," Zellers declared.
Differences on ethanol
The biggest difference among the four candidates is how much they would target programs at greater Minnesota. The most stark example may be in how they would deal with biofuels such as corn-based ethanol and soybean-based biodiesel. In recent years, ethanol has fueled a boom in corn production.
Seifert, a Marshall resident and former state representative, said the state has created thousands of jobs and should not change the requirement that gasoline include 10 percent ethanol.
"I see this as the status quo for now," he said, not jumping on a bandwagon to increase ethanol percentages.
For diesel, Seifert said, he can understand concerns about biodiesel gumming up fuel filters in cold weather. "Biodiesel mandates are not going to go up if I'm governor."
Zellers, raised on a North Dakota farm and now a Maple Grove resident, said he wants to look into increasing the ethanol mandate to 15 percent, but needs more information before fully supporting it. At minimum, he said, he wants to keep existing mandates in place.
Johnson, who grew up in Detroit Lakes and lives in Plymouth, said he favors eliminating mandates from state law, including those affecting biofuels.
However, he added, he has been around government enough to know that the mandates cannot be eliminated right away.
"Government has created somewhat of a dependency," Johnson said, adding that eliminating biofuel mandates is not a priority and that he would like to phase them out.
There is none of that waiting for Honour.
"I would try to push away from mandates as quickly as possible," Honour said. "My view is that the less government is trying to influence a free market, the better."
While many Minnesota politicians and government agencies trumpet the fact that their vehicles use biofuels grown in Minnesota, Honour takes a different approach.
"In energy, we ought to be moving to taking advantage of resources that are sitting right next door in North Dakota, with natural gas, and Montana and Wyoming with coal," he said, emphasizing that the Ford F-350 pickup truck that he drives uses natural gas.
More road money
Transportation is a key issue in greater Minnesota.
The four said that greater Minnesota needs transportation help, and when they talk about transportation they mean roads. The four were united in opposing expansion of Twin Cities light rail and were mostly against passenger rail to other destinations if it involves a state subsidy.
Seifert said that a third of public works funding, which comes from the state selling bonds, should go to roads and bridges. That would provide $400 million to $500 million per two-year budget, he said, much more than normally is available.
Honour said that rural roads need more funding, but "the things state government does have to be looked at through the lens of how does it affect the entire state."
Johnson said too much "transportation" money is going to build sidewalks, trails and other things. That money needs to go back to roads and bridges, he said.
Regulations imposed on road builders have added to highway costs, he added, and streamlining those rules could save considerable money.
Zellers said one way to save construction money is to exempt rural projects from a law requiring contractors to pay the "prevailing wage." Under the law, rural projects pay workers the same as those in the Twin Cities, he said, even though the cost of living in most rural areas is lower.


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THE DRIVE: Driver aimed to kill; more Trump allegations; Ala. protects Confederate monuments
Prosecutors: Times Square driver wanted to 'kill them all'
NEW YORK — A man charged with slamming his speeding car into pedestrians in Times Square, killing a teenager and injuring nearly two dozen people, said he wanted to "kill them all" and police should have shot him to stop him, a prosecutor revealed Friday.
Richard Rojas, 26, also said he had smoked marijuana laced with PCP sometime before making a U-Turn onto the sidewalks of the bustling Crossroads of the World and plowing straight ahead into frightened tourists, according to a criminal complaint.
Officials are awaiting toxicology results, though Rojas "had glassy eyes, slurred speech, and was unsteady," during his arrest, the complaint said.
"He murdered in cold blood," Assistant District Attorney Harrison Schweiloch said. Eighteen-year-old Alyssa Elsman, of Portage, Michigan, was killed in the crash. Her 13-year-old sister was among the 22 injured.
Cummings wants WH documents on Russia meeting
WASHINGTON — The senior Democrat on the House Oversight Committee says the panel should request White House documents related to the May 10 Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian officials — and subpoena them if necessary.
The New York Times reported Friday that Trump told the Russians that recently fired FBI Director James Comey was a "nut job" whose ouster relieved "great pressure" on him.
Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings called Trump's reported comment "astonishing and extremely troubling."
Cummings said the committee's GOP chairman, Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz, "should ... have his subpoena pen ready" to obtain any White House documents related to Trump's meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador.
Chaffetz has scheduled a hearing on Comey's firing next Wednesday, although it's not clear if Comey will testify.
NAACP president won't be returning as leader
WASHINGTON — NAACP President Cornell William Brooks will not be returning as the leader of the nation's oldest civil rights organization after his contract expires this summer, officials said Friday.
Brooks has been the NAACP's leader since 2014 but will not be kept on past June 30, the end of his current term. NAACP Board Chairman Leon W. Russell and Vice Chair Derrick Johnson will lead the organization until a new president is selected.
Russell and Johnson planned to announce what they called a "transformational, system-wide refresh and strategic re-envisioning" for the NAACP in a Friday evening call.
Alabama lawmakers approve Confederate monument protections
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama lawmakers approved sweeping protections for Confederate monuments, names and other historic memorials on Friday, even as politicians elsewhere rethink the appropriateness of keeping such emblems on public property.
The measure "would prohibit the relocation, removal, alteration, renaming, or other disturbance of any architecturally significant building, memorial building, memorial street, or monument" that has stood on public property for 40 or more years," it reads.
Changes to names or memorials installed between 20 and 40 years ago would need permission from a new state commission.
Supporters argued that the measure should protect all kinds of history — not just Confederate symbols.


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During the sex, a glass light fitting was torn from its mount above the bed and landed on her face, injuring her nose and mouth. She suffered depression and was unable to continue working.
During the sex, a glass light fitting was torn from its mount above the bed and landed on her face
An Australian court has ruled that a bureaucrat who was injured while having sex on a business trip is eligible for worker's compensation benefits.
The Full Bench of the Federal Court ruled Dec. 13 in favor of the woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, and rejecting the appeal of the federal government's insurer.
The woman was hospitalized after being injured in 2007 during sex with a male friend while staying in a motel in the town of Nowra, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of her hometown of Sydney.
During the sex, a glass light fitting was torn from its mount above the bed and landed on her face, injuring her nose and mouth. She later suffered depression and was unable to continue working for the government.
Her claim for worker's compensation for her physical and psychological injuries was initially approved by government insurer Comcare, then rejected after further investigation.
An administrative tribunal agreed with Comcare that her injuries were not suffered in the course of her employment, saying the government had not induced or encouraged the woman's sexual conduct. The tribunal also found the sex was "not an ordinary incident of an overnight stay" such as showering, sleeping and eating.
That ruling was overturned in the Federal Court in 2012, when Judge John Nicholas rejected the tribunal's findings that the sex had to be condoned by the government if she were to qualify for compensation.
"If the applicant had been injured while playing a game of cards in her motel room, she would be entitled to compensation even though it could not be said that her employer induced her to engage in such activity," Nicholas wrote in his judgment in favor of the woman receiving compensation.
In the Full Bench decision upholding Nicholas' decision, Judges Patrick Keane, Robert Buchanan and Mordy Bromberg agreed last week that the government's views on the woman having sex in her motel room were irrelevant. "No approval, express or implied, of the respondent's conduct was required," they said.
It is not yet clear how much compensation the woman will receive. She was in her 30s at the time of the accident.
Comcare was on Monday considering an appeal to the High Court, Australia's highest legal authority, Comcare spokesman Russ Street said. "The issue is a significant one,'' Street said in a statement. "Workers need to be clear about their entitlements and employers should have an understanding of their responsibilities and how to support their staff."
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As you can see by clicking on this collage of commonly found gravestones from a presentation by Fred Burdick of Stonington, CT, there are 6 clearly identified types of gravestones found in many graveyards or cemeteries.
Stone Types
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Stone Types
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What is not listed here are wooden grave markers and metal markers. Needless to say, no wooden grave markers last long enough to have photos taken of them but that doesn't mean they weren't used in America. It is commonly accepted that the graves of the Pilgrim Forefathers were marked with wooden markers or maybe fieldstones. There are probably still wooden markers in some places in America and there are whole cemeteries were there are no markers at all. (Quaker burying places, as an example.) Remember, religion plays a part in the burial customs of the time period.
From various books and Web sites it can be roughly estimated:
Fieldstones: before 1650s into the 1700s
Sandstone (brown or red): 1660s-1850s
Slate: 1600s -1730s (sometimes in to the 1850s)
Schist: 1730s-1780s
Marble: 1800s (1830s-1880s)
Metal: mid 1870s-1912
Granite: 1900s to present day
From the three basic rock groups, we know that rocks on this planet are igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic and except for metal stones (which are cast zinc), gravestones fall into two of these three groups.
Sandstone and brown stone are sedimentary, Schist, slate and marble are metamorphic.
I am amazed at the gravestones made of red or brown sandstone as most are deteriorating rapidly but some look positively untouched. Slate stones are my favorite because they are so "New England" and have the wonderful scary symbols on them. Granite stones can be very hard to photograph. I find it hard to identify graves that are marble and not white and I don't have many schist gravestone in my collection.
Gravestones are supposed to last forever. I think that was the intent. But, why some do and others don't is not clearly definable.


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On balance, there may be worse things in life than sending someone pictures of yourself in your underpants.
However, there may be fewer more ill-advised things, especially if you've never met the recipient and you happen to be a politician held in some regard.
For his intimately twittered transgression, Anthony Weiner paid a certain price and that price was what, in some media, is defined by the word "disgrace." It seems odd that this word might be damning, as it is one so often used to describe politicians.
Some might have imagined that Weiner would seek a quieter, more contemplative life after events which saw the Democratic Representative for New York resign in 2011 for his socially networked unseemliness.
A decent amount of time has passed, however, and Weiner seems to be girding his loins for a run at the mayor's office. With this perhaps in mind, he has returned again to the place of alleged disgrace, Twitter.
He made a very brief return to his old Twitter account in order to call for assistance for those affected by Hurricane Sandy.
Today, he has created @AnthonyWeiner, a place where you can hear his latest views and buy a new patented brand of deliberately unflattering flesh-colored undergarments called Tone It Down. Actually, that last part isn't true.
Instead Weiner has chosen Monday to offer two tweets, one presenting his 64 proposals for ensuring the middle class prospers in New York and the other pointing out proposal number 54, which seeks to ensure environmentally friendly cabs in New York. Those who will always associate humor with Weiner will offer their relief that he has 64 proposals and not 69.
But in a recent interview with the New York Times, he admitted that, in the past, his ego had become inflated to gargantuan proportions. Interestingly, though, he blamed the ease of his previous indiscretions at Twitter's screen door.
"It's not like I would have gone out cruising bars or something like that. It was just something that technology made possible and it became possible for me to do stupid things," he said.
It's always possible to do stupid things. This particular thing, though, may have made his chance of becoming mayor rather slim. Indeed, the one-man advance electoral commission known as Nate Silver has already decreed Weiner's shot as long.
One assumes that Weiner will continue to employ Twitter in an entirely serious vein. At the time of writing, he already has more than 5,400 followers.
In explaining the need for a new Twitter handle, he told Politico: "It seemed like a fresh start was in order especially in light of all the new ideas around which I am hoping to drive conversation and debate."
His supporters and admirers will be hoping that his social steering wheel is a little more centered this time around.


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Linux allows any reasonably new computer to be used as a server to a thin client, or many thin clients, these thin clients can be inexpensive legacy computers. For a console terminal you need a 386 with 4-8mb of ram, or for an X-Terminal a 486/66 with 8-16mb ram.
One Option is without a hard drive, it keeps the noise down and simplifies administration as you only have one system to maintain.
If you have legacy apps, you can have them on a hard drive with it's legacy Operating System
This howto is aimed at those new to Unix/Linux, it will cover the essential areas you need to be aware of and point you to other documentation in that area you need to be familiar with.
You will probably use this as an aid to the
documentation, I include some more examples of config files, and leave many of the other features of etherboot as an exercise for the reader
If your client is sufficiently powerful only the file system need be shared, applications can run on the client system. (say a 233 32mb ram). Install an application on the server and all clients have access


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US service firms grow more slowly in October
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. service companies grew at a slightly weaker pace in October than September because sales and new orders slowed. But a measure of employment rose, indicating services firms hired more.
The Institute for Supply Management said Monday that its index of non-manufacturing activity fell to 54.2. That's down from a six-month high of 55.1 in September. Any reading above 50 indicates expansion.
The report measures growth in a broad range of businesses from retail and construction companies to health care and financial services firms. The industries covered employ about 90 percent of the work force.
A gauge of hiring rose to a seven-month high of 54.9. The government said Friday that services firms added 163,000 net jobs in October. It was the best showing since February and represented 95 percent of the jobs created last month.
October's ISM reading matched the 12-month average for the index. Overall, 13 industries reported growth and five contracted. The industries reporting the fastest growth were agriculture, construction, management of companies, and finance and insurance; those showing the most contraction were mining and arts and entertainment.
A measure of current sales fell to 55.4 after jumping to 59.9 in September. New orders fell, partly because of a decline in export orders. That reflects Europe's economic slowdown and weaker growth in larger developing countries such as Brazil.
Economists said the report still shows there is some momentum in the service sector. October's reading is above the July-September average of 53.8.
"The tentative indication ... is that growth may well be improving," Joshua Shapiro, chief economist at MFR Inc., said in a note to clients.
The ISM reported last week that manufacturing expanded for a second straight month in October. The sector had contracted from June through August.
Jonathan Basile, an economist at Credit Suisse, says the October readings of the manufacturing and non-manufacturing indexes are consistent with an annual growth rate of about 2.3 percent. That would be an improvement from the 2 percent pace in the July-September quarter.
Superstorm Sandy could drag on growth in the final three months of the year, economists noted. Still, most expect the impact to be temporary. Hiring and growth should pick up again early next year when homes and businesses damaged by the storm are rebuilt or repaired, they said.
The storm had no impact on Monday's report, the ISM said, because the survey was completed before it made landfall.
Employers added 171,000 jobs in October and hiring was also stronger in August and September than first thought, the government said Friday. The unemployment rate rose to 7.9 percent from 7.8 percent in September. The increase mainly reflected the fact that many more people began looking for work last month and not all of them found jobs.
Service companies have been a key source of job growth this year. They have created about 90 percent of the net jobs added since January. Still, many of the new service jobs have been low-paying retail and restaurant positions.
The unemployment report was the last major snapshot of the economy before Tuesday's elections.
President Barack Obama will face voters with the highest unemployment rate of any incumbent since Franklin Roosevelt. Republican challenger Mitt Romney has made high unemployment and the weak economy the major point in his effort to deny Obama a second term.


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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — When Fabiola Nava Carrera told her friends that she was going to pursue a master of business administration degree in Islamic finance at a Malaysian university, they were taken aback.
"I was very interested in going there to see what was going on, because I knew nothing about Asian and Islamic culture," said Ms. Carrera, a 27-year-old Mexican who had previously worked in international trade. "But my friends in Mexico couldn't believe that I wanted to go to Malaysia, because they thought that it would be too dangerous or that the culture would be too different."
Ms. Carrera went anyway. Last year, she was one of four students, three of whom were non-Muslim, who graduated from the inaugural class of the Universiti Tun Abdul Razak's Global Islamic Finance M.B.A. program in Kuala Lumpur.
Islamic finance differs from conventional banking systems in that usury and speculation are prohibited. Transactions have to comply with Shariah, the legal code of Islam based on the Koran, and are based on principles of risk and profit sharing.
Islamic finance is booming. According to figures from Hong Leong Islamic Bank, a financial institution in Kuala Lumpur, Islamic finance activity has been growing 14 percent per year, with Islamic finance assets exceeding $1.1 trillion in cumulative value in 2011.
Such growth has pushed more educational institutions into creating degree programs in Islamic finance. In 2005, the International Islamic University Malaysia created an Islamic banking institute that offers students Master of Science and doctoral degrees in the subject. In recent years, at least half a dozen business schools in Britain, including the University of East London and Bangor University in Wales, have set up M.B.A. programs in Islamic finance.
Ms. Carrera's alma mater, also known as Unirazak, is a rare business school located in an Islamic banking hub — according to the school, about a quarter of financial activity in Malaysia is compliant with Islamic law and customs — and yet foreigner-friendly.
"Malaysia is the third largest Islamic market after Saudi Arabia and Iran," said Geoffrey Alan Williams, Unirazak's deputy vice chancellor, whose jacket lapel sported a pin of the E.U. flag intertwined with the Malaysian flag. "So if you want to be in Islamic banking, you have to come here, unless you want to be in Tehran."
Unirazak's participation in the International Business School Alliance, a network of seven schools, also helps. The alliance, which Unirazak joined in 2011, allows students in member institutions to spend time in two schools and graduate with two M.B.A.'s. After one year in school, two thirds of which were spent in Bremen University of Applied Sciences in Germany and a third at Unirazak, Ms. Carrera graduated with an M.B.A. in logistics and supply chain management from the European school and an M.B.A. in Islamic finance from the Malaysian institution.
The other universities in the alliance are the University of Valencia in Spain, the University of Hertfordshire in Britain, Novancia Business School in Paris, the Institute of Business Studies in Moscow and the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Each alliance member specializes in a particular area of finance and only students enrolled in their university's specialty program can attend classes at sister schools. While Unirazak also offers more conventional M.B.A. programs, students there do not have access to I.B.S.A. resources.
"Our partners were initially quite skeptical because they thought" an Islamic finance program would be risky, said Barjoyai Bardai, the program's director. "But global Islamic finance is trendy and will make an impact. A year on, I think we all feel we made the right choice."
Unirazak has had to engage a wide range of faculty members to teach the course, with a specialized lecturer for each module. Apart from trained accountants like Dr. Barjoyai, the school has brought in a Shariah scholar from Egypt.
Most students, even practicing Muslims, are unfamiliar with the basic concepts of Islamic finance.
So classes are especially vigorous, since the school needs to impart very specialized knowledge in a limited time.
For a typical module in Islamic products and services, for example, students will have 14 four-hour lectures. The classes are aimed at both familiarizing them with the history of Islamic banking products, and encouraging them to think about developing more contemporary services. Apart from lectures, students are also expected to work on their own project papers.
"It would have been easier to get an M.B.A. in something else," said Azrina Muhammad Aznan, a 28-year-old Malaysian enrolled in the program. "Other students have time to go to parties, but I have to sit down and do work."
"If you are trained in Islamic banking, you should also be able to do conventional banking," said Raja Teh Maimunah, the chief executive officer at Hong Leong Islamic Bank, who recently gave a talk to Islamic finance students at Unirazak.
The global Islamic finance master's degree at Unirazak costs students more than 61,460 Malaysian ringgit, or nearly $20,000. At 29,020 ringgit, the master's degree in leadership that Unirazak also offers costs less than half as much.
Dr. Williams, the university administrator, said the reason for the discrepancy was the standardization of prices for all programs under the I.B.S.A. aegis.
Because Islamic finance master's degree programs were developed quite recently, it is difficult to assess how successful their graduates are.
"It must be relatively new, because I don't see many of them," said Ms. Maimunah, the banker. "I can see the benefits of regular conventional bankers going through certification programs that help them understand Islamic jurisprudence. I don't know whether someone with an Islamic M.B.A. can give me something different."
She cited programs like those offered by the International Center for Education in Islamic Finance, or Inceif, an organization established by the Malaysian central bank, as ones that were particularly valued in the industry.
Noting that Unirazak collaborates regularly with Inceif, Dr. Williams insisted that such programs were complementary with his school's degrees.
"The whole industry is exploding in size, so we're not fighting with other people," he said, adding that Unirazak was preparing to roll out graduate degrees in Islamic branding and halal management in 2014. "There is so much demand, we just need to find out the right type of courses.
(The New York Times / 26 March 2013)
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Paris was for all Americans, but especially for Republicans, a summons to seriousness that should have two immediate impacts on the Republican presidential contest. It should awaken the party's nominating electorate from its reveries about treating the presidency as an entry-level job. And it should cause Republicans to take another look at Chris Christie, beginning with his speech in Florida the day after the Paris attacks.
Until now, many Republicans have been treating the nominating process as a mechanism for sending a message to Washington. The eruption of war in the capital of a NATO ally is a reminder that the nominating process will potentially send a commander in chief to Washington. This might, and should, hasten the eclipse of Carly Fiorina, Ben Carson and especially Donald Trump. His coarse, vulgar and nasty 95-minute effusion last week in Fort Dodge, Iowa, answered this question: When he begins to fade, will he draw upon a hitherto well-hidden capacity for graciousness, or will he become a caricature of his normal persona, which itself is a caricature of democracy's most embarrassing possibilities?
Watch Trump on YouTube and consider his manner in light of his stupendously unconservative proposal, made one day earlier, for a federal police force. (It would conduct about 500,000 deportations a month to remove approximately 11.4 million illegal immigrants in two years). Then watch Christie on YouTube and pay particular attention to his affirmation of the foundational conservative belief in the indispensability, the sovereignty and the prerogatives of nationhood.
To the large extent that Trump's appeal is his forceful persona, no candidate in the Republican field can match Christie's combination of a prosecutor's bearing and a governor's executive temperament. In Florida, Christie sounded a new theme: "There are all too many people in academia and in global business that aren't really interested in America as a nation-state anymore."
A day after the Paris attacks, outside the theater that was targeted, a German musician, seated at a grand piano bearing the peace symbol cherished by people who thought the Cold War was not worth winning, played John Lennon's saccharine "Imagine," which includes this:
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for . . .
Right. Just one big happy caliphate. Lennon, as bad a political thinker as he was a grammarian, never learned this: Countries, meaning nation-states, are, for all their shortcoming and dangers, indispensable for making self-government possible and secure.
Heightened security concerns might be Christie's opportunity. The more disorderly the world becomes, the less luminous is the one credential that supposedly qualifies Hillary Clinton for the presidency. The credential is not her adequate but unremarkable eight-year Senate career. Rather, it is her four years as secretary of state. Recall the question Ronald Reagan posed to voters at the conclusion of his single debate with President Jimmy Carter a week before the 1980 election: Are you better off today than you were four years ago? The electorate's answer was emphatic.
In a debate 10 months from now, the Republican nominee will ask a variant of Reagan's question: Is America safer or more respected today, anywhere in the world, than it was when Clinton became secretary of state? Today, Republican voters need to ask themselves a question: Whom do they want onstage asking that question? It is beyond peculiar, it is political malpractice for Republicans to fritter away time and attention on candidates who, innocent of governing experience, cannot plausibly ask that question with properly devastating effect.
For an example of pluperfect unseriousness, consider this Trump claim, which is amazingly absurd even considering the source: "I got to know [Putin] very well because we were both on '60 Minutes,' we were stablemates, and we did very well that night." They were not in the same stable; they were not in the same greenroom; they were not on the same continent. Trump was in a "60 Minutes" segment taped in Manhattan; Putin was in another segment, taped eight time zones away in Moscow. Yet somehow Trump "got to know him very well."
Every day that such errant nonsense sloshes through the Republican nominating contest is a day when the party's claim to represent what the country craves — adult supervision — becomes less credible. Fortunately, sufficient days remain for Republicans to reshuffle the deck, to relegate Trump's rampaging to the nation's mental attic, and to recognize in Christie a serious political talent.
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Video: Jamie Grace, Dave Frey Perform "A Whole New World"
How cool is this?! Jamie Grace ("Hold Me") and Sidewalk Prophets ("Live Like That") lead singer Dave Frey break into a classic Disney duet, "A Whole New World." Could be a track on a whole new album for these guys!


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Last summer while sitting at the airport in San Antonio, Texas I picked up a copy of The Best of Fine Cookings Mexican Recipes.
While flipping through the pages on our way to LAX I found a recipe for Grilled Tamarind Chicken Tacos. My mouth was instantly watering because I could only imagine the flavor the tangy tamarind soda added to the chicken marinade.
The recipe was put on my list of must make as soon as possible list. Then we went on vacation and 2 weeks later I returned home and had Hawaii on the mind. Then two weeks ago I came across this recipe again while flipping through the same magazine and went to the store immediately. The next evening these Grilled Tamarind Chicken Tacos were dinner on the patio.
I changed up the original recipe by adding some extra spices… Chipotle Chile powder, Cumin, Onion Powder, Smoked Paprika, Grated Fresh Garlic (instead of crushed garlic) and Lime Zest. The next night I set up a taco bar and grilled up the tamarind chicken for the husband and a friend. This was the BEST grilled chicken I've EVER made. Between three people and the mountain of chicken there was not a single strip of left.
Happy Taco Tuesday!!!
Grilled Tamarind Chicken
2-1/2 pound Chicken Thighs, boneless skinless
1 Teaspoon Ancho Chile Powder
1 Teaspoon Chipotle Chile Powder
1 Teaspoon Cumin
1 Teaspoon Onion Powder
1/2 Teaspoon Smoked Paprika
1/2 Teaspoon Black Pepper
5 Cloves Garlic, grated
1 Tablespoon of Lime Zest + Juice
1/2 Cup Soy Sauce
12 ounces Tamarind Soda
In a large bowl toss the chicken with the spices, lime zest and grated garlic. Add in the soy sauce and the tamarind soda.
Cover and marinate the chicken for at least 4 hours and up to 24 hours.
Preheat a grill to medium-high heat and oil the grates so the chicken doesn't stick. Grill the chicken until completely cooked through, about 10 minutes, turning a couple of times.
Transfer the chicken to a platter and squeeze the juice of the zested lime over the top of the hot chicken. Cover with foil allow the chicken to rest for 10 minutes. Slice the chicken into strips and serve.
Set up a Taco Bar:
Warm Corn and Flour Tortillas
Pico de Gallo
Sliced Avocado
Crumbled Queso Fresco
Pickled Jalapeños
Mexican Crema
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"On Orange" is taking up residence at 108 W. Orange Street, Lancaster PA. " Not a complete revolution, just a new twist on an old favorite."
Lancaster, PA the oldest inland city in the United States of America, snuggled along the north and west by the mighty Susquehanna River, was originally settled in 1718.
This historical building , dating back to the 1850's, has been home to a number of restaurants over the years.
Most recently "Wish You Were Here" has developed a loyal following. Wish You
Were Here opened in 1990 under the direction of Elizabeth Maerz who introduced Lancaster to Swedish Pancakes and other favorites during her successful run.
Robin Murphy and Joe Clark took over ownership in September of 2001 and continued the success of Wish You Were Here. They added their own stamp with vegan specialties and homemade breads. Guests enjoyed traditional French Omelet's and Swedes surrounded by original art.
Prior to Wish You Were Here 108 West was owned by Jack & Corky Hartman from 1983 to 1990 who operated a gourmet take out shop called Sous Chef. Sous Chef became The Soup Kitchen under the direction of Ed Diller and Steve Smith.
During the Late 70's and early 80's The Orange Street Tea Shop was located at 108 West and is remembered fondly as a place to enjoy a cup of tea in front of the large fireplace downstairs. The Tea Shop was the dream of JoAnn Miles and Rob Sellers.
There is rumor of an ice cream parlor prior to the Tea House. If anyone has any information on this or other uses of this building please e mail Melissa Watro at email@example.com


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Brewing up a photo mosaic is not a lot different than making yourself a cup of coffee with Tinrocket's Percolator 2.0 iOS app. Released Tuesday, the latest version of the special effects photo app features iPad compatibility, new effects and filters, finer control over images, and a speed boost.
For those unfamiliar with Percolator, the app uses coffee brewing terminology to let users turn their photos into circle-based mosaics. You can control the Grind (the size of the circles) and Brew (the applied filter) of an image, and then choose the way you want to serve the photo—would you like it Black, Light & Sweet, Soy, or Stirred? The result is a fun, modern looking image that is unlike anything I've seen created with other photo apps.
The latest 2.0 update to Percolator adds even more control to the photo editing process. Users can tap on the Grind, Brew, and Serve dials to reveal new hidden dials that allow for increased customization, such as color, texture, detail, and transparency of the filter or photograph used. The app also includes new filters such as Treble, which creates a mosaic with target-like circles, and Superstar, which adds stars across a photo.
Percolator 2.0 is now a universal app designed to fit on the larger iPad screen, as well as the iPhone and iPod touch screens. Once you're finished with a photo, you can share it via Twitter, Facebook, and email—each photo contains metadata with the Grind, Brew, and Serve type used, so if your friends want to recreate an effect, they'll know exactly what to do.
Other new features and fixes include: a shorter, faster processing time for images; more animation when photos are "boiling" and "brewing"; and a redesigned dial-based interface for users to work with their images.
Percolator 2.0 is currently on sale in the App Store for $2 (the app costs $3 after the sale). The upgrade is free for anyone with a previous version of Percolator. It requires an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad running iOS 4.3 or later.


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A Colorado physicians' group has settled Federal Trade Commission charges of price-fixing by agreeing to halt its use of allegedly anticompetitive negotiating tactics against health insurers.
The FTC charged Roaring Fork Valley Physicians I.P.A., Inc., which represents about 80 percent of the doctors in Garfield County, Colorado, with violating the FTC Act by orchestrating agreements among its members to set higher prices for medical services and to refuse to deal with insurers that did not meet its demands for higher rates.
The FTC charged that Roaring Fork entered into these anticompetitive agreements between 2003 and 2006. According to the agency, the group's doctors used the agreements to demand that contracts with insurers include a cost of living adjustment that automatically raised reimbursement rates every year. The group's doctors also used the agreements to ban a cost-lowering provision commonly used by insurers that links reimbursement rates to Medicare rates. The group also discouraged its members from entering into individual contracts directly with insurers, the FTC charged, in order to enhance the bargaining power of the IPA. At the same time, Roaring Fork would accept contracts only if at least 80 percent of its primary care physicians and 50 percent of its specialty doctors accepted the proposed contracts.
According to the agency, the agreements raised the cost of physician services in Garfield County, without making the doctors' practices more efficient in any way or improving the quality of care that patients received.
The FTC settlement bars Roaring Fork doctors group from engaging in collective price negotiations and collectively refusing to deal with insurers. In addition, the group must:
• Terminate any contracts with insurers that were reached using price-fixing tactics.
• Notify the FTC before acting as an agent communicating contract offers and counter-offers between doctors and insurers.
• Notify the FTC before participating in any collaborative arrangement with doctors and allow the agency to review and approve the details before implementing any such arrangement.
The Commission vote to issue the administrative complaint and to place the consent order on the public record for comment and publish a copy in the Federal Register was 4-0. The Commission is accepting comments on the order for 30 days, until March 2, after which it will decide whether to make it final. Comments should be sent to: FTC Office of the Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, DC, 20580. Comments also can be submitted electronically at: https://public.commentworks.com/ftc/roaringforkconsent.
NOTE: The Commission issues a complaint when it has "reason to believe" that the law has been or is being violated, and it appears to the Commission that a proceeding is in the public interest. The issuance of a complaint is not a finding or ruling that the respondent has violated the law. A consent agreement is for settlement purposes only and does not constitute an admission of a law violation. When the Commission issues a consent order on a final basis, it carries the force of law with respect to future actions. Each violation of such an order may result in a civil penalty of up to $16,000.
Copies of the complaint and consent order are available now on the FTC's Web site and as a link to this press release. The FTC's Bureau of Competition works with the Bureau of Economics to investigate alleged anticompetitive business practices and, when appropriate, recommends that the Commission take law enforcement action. To inform the Bureau about particular business practices, call 202-326-3300, send an e-mail to [email protected], or write to the Office of Policy and Coordination, Room 383, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Ave, N.W., Washington, DC 20580. To learn more about the Bureau of Competition, read "Competition Counts" at http://www.ftc.gov/competitioncounts.
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COUNTRY SCRIBE: California dreamin'
For all the congestion in its populated areas, the bulk of California's land area is wilderness, some of the most spectacular wilderness in the lower forty-eight states.
For all the congestion in its populated areas, the bulk of California's land area is wilderness, some of the most spectacular wilderness in the lower forty-eight states.
Those who announce with pride, "I have no desire to ever go to California" will miss out on some of the most awe-inspiring scenery in the world.
The Big Sur, a rugged 120-mile stretch of coast between Santa Barbara and San Francisco, will give you enough seaside drama for a lifetime as huge waves crash incessantly against the battered base of the coastal range.
There is no greater constant display of nature's power. The endless spectacle has run for thousands of years without interruption.
A short hike into a forest of Redwoods fires the imagination. What wondrous behemoths! Some of the venerable giants are over two thousand years old.
The massive Sequoias, a bit higher up in the mountains and more endangered than the Redwoods, are now protected. Sad that thousands were cut down, as the lumber of such large specimens is useless.
We forget that the largest natural feature in the state of California is the Sierra Nevada, a mountain range 400 miles long and 75 miles across.
From downtown Los Angeles, you can see the snow-covered peaks of the Sierra on a rare clear winter's day, as you can from downtown Sacramento, 400 miles north.
However, due to cloudiness and the very gradual rise of the Sierras, the millions in California seldom see their mountains in their full grandeur.
In fact, the best view of the range is from the opposite side, in central Nevada, a perspective seen mostly by jackrabbits and antelope.
In a scenic oddity, the massive Sierras are made famous by where they aren't: A relatively tiny notch carved out of the mountain chain by a glacier.
Yosemite Valley was popularized by photographer Ansel Adams. However, Adams' photographs celebrate the texture of the massive granite walls more than their sheer size, which no picture can capture.
Rising straight up 3,000-4,500 feet off the floor of the little valley, the granite cliffs beggar belief. On a clear day, there is really no way to put them in perspective and understand how large they really are.
However, this past week I was lucky to hit Yosemite Park on a day when it was raining in the lower elevations and snowing higher up. The swirling mists added depth to the scene.
Tire chains weren't required on the valley floor, but 200 feet up the side of the cliffs it was clearly below freezing and snowy.
With the precipitation, the waterfalls which thunder down the valley's cliffs were in full throttle. Some of the mist turned to snow on the way down, creating a massive pile at the bottom.
Yosemite Valley has the feel of an eerie gothic cathedral. The rain, mist and fog, made the experience more ghostly and ethereal.
In an additional bonus, the miserable but dramatic weather kept the throngs of tourists at bay.
During summer, Yosemite is overrun by people from all over the world. Even during winter, the tour buses can clog up the relatively tiny valley.
But on this sleety, misty, mystical day, Yosemite Valley was pleasantly empty. It was 33 degrees and sopping wet in the John Muir meadow where we stood. I snapped some pictures, but the real pleasure was in just absorbing the scene.
After Yosemite Valley was reached by road, it became commercialized in the 1920s. Large lodges sprang up. A steam boat was launched on the lake. Plans were for it to be a tourist mecca.
One can imagine Yosemite Valley could have turned into the Wisconsin Dells: A touristy place people travel to with little idea what natural feature actually drew them there!
Ansel Adams, who had a studio in the valley, led the charge to get rid of some of the buildings, limit access and keep Yosemite Valley from being completely overrun.
In the end, the true lover of wilderness majesty might prefer King's Canyon, an equally beautiful but much less-traveled glacial notch in the mighty Sierras.
But one trip to Yosemite should be on everybody's bucket list.
Some places have a little of everything. California, which is really a country onto itself, has an excess of everything.
From the sooty sixteen-lane freeways of Los Angeles, to the Redwoods, to the elusive Sierras, to the dramatic glacial valleys of Yosemite and King's Canyon, to the dunes of Death Valley, to the bountiful Central Valley, to the whales of San Diego, to the stars on the red carpet in Hollywood, everything about California is bigger than life.
It is a place everybody should see once.


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Every Thursday is garbage day. And every Thursday 3-year-old Brooklyn Adracke is glowing with anticipation as she waits for her favorite person in the world, Delvar the garbage man.
Last Thursday was Brooklyn's birthday and she really wanted to share one of her cupcakes with Delvar. She stood and waited with the cheeziest smile, until Delvar finally arrived.
Then, that following week, Delvar showed up with a surprise of his own.
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It seems 2010 may be the year personal privacy makes a comeback -- that, or it's taking its final breath before it sinks into the tarpits. Every week brings news of some new affront to our personal data, accompanied by a backlash. Lately these stories have been bubbling up on an almost daily basis.
It started late last year, when Facebook arbitrarily changed its default privacy settings to make more of your profile information accessible to Google and other Facebook users. You could of course change those settings, but most people didn't. That earned Facebook a class-action suit and ongoing scrutiny by the FTC.
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Then Google introduced its Twitter wannabe service, Buzz. That emerged from the womb with two left feet, both of which it immediately thrust into its own mouth. The biggest problem? Buzz inadvertently shared information about Gmail users' frequent contacts that Gmailers had assumed was private. Google has been eating crow by the family-sized bucket -- and tweaking Buzz to make it more respectful of personal privacy -- ever since.
Last week Netflix canceled its second contest to have math geeks tweak its recommendations engine after the "anonymous" data used by researchers in the first contest proved not quite as anonymous as Netflix thought. A pair of University of Texas researchers proved they could identify individuals by cross-checking their movie preferences with other publicly available information.
At South by Southwest last Friday, Microsoft social media researcher Danah Boyd gave a keynote detailing how privacy has been eroded, largely because the people who build services like Google Buzz and Facebook (aka, "privileged straight white male technology executives") don't understand the differences between privacy online and how it works in the real world.
Yesterday brought yet more proof that putting all your personal eggs into a social network basket may not be such a hot idea, especially if you (or your friends) stumble into the crosshairs of law enforcement.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation released documents it acquired via a Freedom of Information Act request about federal activity on social networks. Among them: a Department of Justice presentation on how to use Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, and so on to gather intel on suspects and witnesses, friendly or otherwise.
(My theory: They finally heard about Mafia Wars on Facebook and decided to take a closer look.)
The document implies cops are going undercover -- using false identities to befriend suspects and learn more about them -- which violates the terms of service for most of these networks. (You never lie on your Facebook profile, do you?)
The arguments given for going undercover: "communicate with suspects/targets; gain access to nonpublic info; map social relationships/networks."
So if the feds are investigating one of your Facebook/MySpace/Twitter buddies, they could very well be investigating you. And if they're adding you to that "social map," what about your friends? At what point does the map stop? Does it even have borders?
Another key question: If an agent violates a service's TOS, is the evidence he or she gathers admissible in court? The documents ask this question; unfortunately, they don't answer it, nor do they explicitly state anyone is doing this.
Still, you gotta figure they are. Cops have been infiltrating "suspicious" organizations for years, mostly with good intent, sometimes with a political agenda attached. It's natural to assume they'd do it in the virtual world, but in the past you had to be an active member of such an org to fall under suspicion; now all you need to do is say yes to the wrong friend request.
I know what some of you are saying: "I never use Facebook/Twitter etc, so I'm not worried." But not using these things is not an option for many of us; that's like saying "I never use a phone because it might be tapped." (By the way, it probably is -- at least, the data stream.) It's also a little like saying, "I only use a typewriter because computers are the devil's spawn."
The only logical response is to be a lot less cavalier about the information you share and with whom you share it. So let's just say it: The social networking honeymoon is officially over. Time to get a lot more serious about what we do and don't do online.
Is privacy worth fighting for? What do you do to protect yourself online? Weigh in below or email me: email@example.com. Then hoist a brew for me -- it is St. Patty's day, after all.
This article, "The FBI on Facebook: Watching every move you make," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Read more of Robert X. Cringely's Notes from the Field blog.


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'He's dead to me': Aunt plans to sue nephew over $1.2 million lottery win
A Canadian woman says she is planning to sue her nephew over a lottery feud.
According to the CBC, Barb Reddick is furious with her nephew, Tyron MacInnis, after he collected half of the money won with a a $1.2 million Chase the Ace jackpot ticket.
"He's dead to me," she announced last week.
Reddick and MacInnis both put their names on the ticket, but Reddick insists her nephew had no claim to the prize.
"I'm heartbroken because I don't think he should have got half of the money," she said. "I always put Tyrone's name on the ticket for good luck. We had no discussion of money."
Regardless of Reddick's feelings, Chase the Ace split the money into two checks.
A spokesperson for Service Nova Scotia, which enforces gaming regulations, said it's not uncommon for multiple names to be listed on one ticket.
"In these instances, we expect the licensee to split the prize equally among those named on the winning ticket," a statement read. "From our perspective, the prize has been awarded and the lottery is concluded. If there is a dispute between the winners, it should be resolved by the parties involved."
Because the amount of money is more than $25,000, the case cannot be heard at a small claims court and would instead go before the Nova Scotia Supreme Court.
Experts say this route would result in most of the winnings being used for legal fees.
"There are lots of cases in Canadian law based on disagreements about who is entitled to lottery proceeds. And they're all quite sad and none of them end very well," law professor Rob Currie said.
Many on social media have criticized Reddick for her feelings about the situation, calling her greedy. The MacInnis family has declined to comment, outside of saying that they are hiring lawyers.


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Pregnancy linked to lower rheumatoid arthritis risk
By Amy Norton
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study finds that women who give birth may have a lower risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis than women who remain childless -- though the potential protective effect seems to fade over the years.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) arises when the immune system mistakenly attacks tissue in the joints, leading to inflammation, pain and progressive joint damage. The disease is more common in women than men, and frequently develops during the childbearing years.
Some studies, but not all, have suggested that pregnancy may lower a woman's risk of developing RA. Exactly why having children would be protective is not clear, but one theory is that fetal cells transmitted to the mother during pregnancy help lower RA risk.
For the current study, researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington in Seattle examined the pregnancy histories of 310 women who had been newly diagnosed with RA and 1,418 women without the disease.
Overall, women who had had at least one child were 39 percent less likely to have RA than women who had never been pregnant -- with factors including age and oral contraceptive use, which has been linked to a lower RA risk, taken into account.
However, the protective relationship grew weaker over time, Dr. Katherine A. Guthrie and her colleagues report in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism.
Women who had had their last child within the past 5 years were 71 percent less likely than childless women to have RA, whereas the risk reduction was 24 percent among women who had last given birth more than 15 years ago.
"The most exciting result for us," Guthrie told Reuters Health in an email, "was the relationship of a woman's risk for developing RA with time from childbirth -- in particular diminishing protection over time -- because this observation supports our hypothesis that fetal cells, now known to persist for decades after a birth, may benefit the mother."
The researchers found that of the 120 women in the study who had given birth in the past five years, 9 percent had RA. That figure was 14 percent among the 345 women who had had a child in the past 5 to 15 years, and 17 percent among the 805 women who had given birth more than 15 years ago.
Among the 406 women who had remained childless, 24 percent had RA. However, because the study compared a group of women with RA to a healthy group, those percentages do not reflect a woman's risk of developing RA based on pregnancy history. It's estimated that 1.3 million U.S. adults, or about 0.6 percent of the adult population, have RA.
The current findings do not prove that having children lowers a woman's risk of rheumatoid arthritis. But it's possible, Guthrie explained, that fetal cells that persist in the mother's body offer some protection against the disease.
Those fetal cells are genetically different from the mothers' since half of a child's genes come from the father. And if the cells carry genes associated with a decreased risk of RA, then that could, in theory, affect a woman's likelihood of developing the disease, according to the researchers.
It also makes sense, Guthrie said, that such protection would wane over time, due to the "natural aging" of the fetal cells, and possibly also due to the aging of the woman's immune system.
More studies are needed to look into the possibility that pregnancy confers some protection against RA, the researchers say. The answer to that question, according to Guthrie, could have broader implications for the understanding of how RA develops, and possibly point to ways to prevent it.
SOURCE: Arthritis & Rheumatism, online March 22, 2010.
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Attention Origami Yoda readers, librarians, teachers, booksellers and, of course, Star Wars fans!
Here are printable instructions for the super easy 5-fold Origami Yoda. This one is easier than the one in the book — The Strange Case of Origami Yoda — and is perfect for group activities, such as library programs, book talks and hootenannies.
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More coverage on the shootings from affiliates KOLD, KVOA, KMSB, KPHO and KGUN.
[Updated at 10:30 p.m. ET] A man who helped subdue the gunman in Saturday's Arizona shooting spree said the man was trying to reload when he was tackled to the ground.
"He was ready for war. He was not playing around," Joe Zamudio told CNN. "He was going to keep shooting. It was not over. He had just ran out of bullets."
The gun, which another bystander had wrestled from the gunman, was empty and cocked open, and the shooter had another magazine at the ready, Zamudio said.
Zamudio pinned him to the ground until police showed up. The suspect, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, is in custody of the Pima County Sheriff's Office, and authorities are obtaining search warrants for a residence and his vehicle. Authorities also are seeking a person of interest but his suspected connection to the incident is unclear.
Loughner is accused of shooting 18 people, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a third-term Democrat who had organized the "Congress on Your Corner" meet and greet. Authorities believe the gunman had specifically targeted Giffords. She is in critical condition after undergoing surgery for a single gunshot wound to the head, but doctors said they are optimistic over her prospects for recovery.
Eleven others were wounded in the shooting and six are dead, among them U.S. District Court Judge John Rolls, a friend of Giffords' who had stopped by the event to say hello after attending Mass, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said.
Also killed was Giffords staffer Gabe Zimmerman, director of community outreach who had coordinated the event to introduce Giffords to her constituents.
A 9-year-old girl also was killed.
The shooting sent shock waves through Washington, where Giffords was regarded as gracious and kind, a moderate Democrat known for her dedication to her constituents and willingness to work across party lines.
In light of the shootings, all legislation on the House schedule for the coming week has been postponed, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor announced in a statement.
Americans also struggled to come to terms with the event. Many of them showed up to a vigil at the Arizona State Capitol to pray together and share their thoughts.
In the Twitterverse, theories abounded as to the gunman's motivation. Meanwhile, while speaking to the press , the sheriff lamented "the vitriolic rhetoric" in American political discourse, suggesting it played a role in the shooting.
"This has not become the nice United States of America that most of us grew up in and I think its time we do the soul-searching," he said.
"The anger, the hatred the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous and unfortunately, Arizona has become the capital. We have become the mecca of prejudice and bigotry."
[Updated at 10:00 p.m. ET] A House vote scheduled for Monday on whether to repeal health care legislation has been postponed after Saturday's shooting.
All legislation on the House schedule for the coming week has been postponed in a decision by leaders of both political parties in the House so "we can take whatever actions may be necessary in light of today's tragedy," House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said in a statement.
[Updated at 9:13 p.m. ET] Some who knew Giffords and others who just wanted an outlet for emotions in the wake of the shooting rampage gathered on Capitol Hill Saturday night to honor the victims.
More than 50 marchers braved subfreezing temperatures and gusty winds to march to the Capitol and up the west steps to hold the vigil.
[Updated at 8:55 p.m. ET] A law enforcement source familiar with the investigation says the Glock model 19 used in the shootings was purchased legally. The official did not have details at this time as to when and where the gun was purchased.
The gun was loaded with a 30-round magazine. The official said it is likely the extended magazine used in the shooting was purchased separately and at a different time. The official said such a magazine does not automatically come with a weapons purchase and that it would be extremely rare for them to be sold together in one purchase.
The official said the suspect had purchased another gun a few years ago but this person did not know the details about what happened to that weapon and if the alleged shooter still owned it.
[Updated at 8:23 p.m. ET] Officials are not convinced that the suspected gunman acted alone, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik told reporters.
Law enforcement is actively searching for a "person of interest" who is a white male in his 50s believed to have assisted the suspect in a shooting, Dupnik said.
A suspect who Dupnik would not name is in the custody of the Pima County Sheriff's Office, he said. The suspect has had previous contact with law enforcement "regarding threats" to kill, Dupnik said, and described him as having a "troubled past."
CNN has confirmed that the suspect's name is Jared Lee Loughner, 22, whose apparent online footprint professes an distrust of government and a fondness for books such as "Mein Kampf," "The Communist Manifesto," "Peter Pan" and "The Republic."
"There's reason to believe this individual has a mental issue and I think that people who are unbalanced are especially susceptible to vitriol," he said.
"Vitriol" in public debate was a recurring theme in Dupnik's remarks as he blasted the media for "the vitriolic rhetoric" heard on television and radio.
[Updated at 7:57 p.m. ET] Gabe Zimmerman, director of community outreach for U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was among those killed in Saturday's shooting at a constituents meeting outside a Tucson Safeway, Gifford press secretary CJ Karamargin said.
Zimmerman was the staff member who set up today's event in Giffords' district, Karamargin said. The Tucson native was engaged to be married.
[Updated at 7:43 p.m. ET] The Army said in a statement that the suspect in the shooting was never in the Army.
"He attempted to enlist in the Army but was rejected for service. In accordance with the Privacy Act, we will not discuss why he was rejected," the Army said in a statement.
[Updated at 7:21 p.m. ET] Jared Lee Loughner, the suspect, had a limited presence on social-media sites, including YouTube and MySpace. Here's a sampling of some of the messages that CNN found on Loughner's pages:
December 26, 2010: I'm not going to change the mistakes, you don't know – funny! (I think the CIA watches my-space)
December 30, 2010: I now understand a certain word - Cult!
December 15, 2010: If I define terrorist then a terrorist is a person who employs terror or terrorism, especially as a political weapon.
I define terrorist.
Thus a terrorist is a person who employs terror or terrorism, especially
as a political weapon.
If you call me a terrorist then the argument to call me a terrorist is Ad hominem.
You call me a terrorist.
Thus the argument to call me a terrorist is Ad hominem.
December 15, 2010: The majority of citizens in the United States of America have never read the United States of America's Constitution.
You don't have to accept the federalist laws.
Nonetheless, read the United States of America's Constitution to apprehend all of the current treasonous laws.
You're literate, listener?
Read more about Loughner's digital footprint on CNN.com
[Updated at 7:12 p.m. ET] The University of Arizona's men's basketball game against Stanford University has been postponed following the shootings.
"The University feels the game should be delayed with deep respect to the victims and families impacted by this tragedy," Arizona athletics director Greg Byrne said.
The game will be played at 12:30 p.m. MST Sunday.
[Updated at 6:48 p.m. ET] Saturday's deadly shootings at an Arizona constituency meeting outside a Tucson Safeway appear to have "no nexus to terrorism," a law enforcement official said.
This official did not know if there had been any recent threat against Rep Giffords but said there are frequent threats to various members of Congress, mostly via phone calls or e-mails, or mailed threats.
[Updated at 6:30 p.m. ET] U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts released this statement on the death of U.S. District Court Chief Judge John Roll, who was killed in the shootings:
"Chief Judge John Roll was a wise jurist who selflessly served Arizona and the nation with great distinction, as attorney and judge, for more than 35 years. I express my deepest condolences to his wife Maureen and his children, as well as the other victims and their families. Chief Judge Roll's death is a somber reminder of the importance of the rule of law and the sacrifices of those who work to secure it."
[Updated at 6:16 p.m. ET] The Tea Party released this statement regarding the shootings:
"We at the Tea Party Express are shocked and saddened to hear about the terrible tragedy that took place in Tucson today. It is appalling that anyone would commit such unthinkable violence against Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford, her staff, a sitting federal judge and the many other victims and families impacted.
"These heinous crimes have no place in America, and they are especially grievous when committed against our elected officials. Spirited debate is desirable in our country, but it only should be the clash of ideas. An attack on anyone for political purposes, if that was a factor in this shooting, is an attack on the democratic process. We join with everyone in vociferously condemning it."
Read the full story on CNN.com
[Updated at 5:41 p.m. ET] Who is Gabrielle Giffords? She's a Democrat who was first elected in 2006. She has served as chairwoman of the House Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee and also holds seats on the House Science and Technology and Armed Services committees.
She won her third term in a closely contested race against a Tea Party-sponsored candidate and was one of three Democratic legislators who reported vandalism at their offices following the March vote on health care reform.
She is married to Navy Capt. Mark Kelly, a NASA astronaut who is scheduled to lead a space shuttle mission to the International Space Station. The two married in 2007, after meeting four years prior in China, as young leaders selected by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, Giffords told the New York Times in her wedding announcement.
The article described their courtship as a drawn-out affair between two deeply committed civic servants who slowly found their way to each other. When they met, Giffords was seeing someone and Kelly was married.
After Giffords split from her boyfriend, she invited Kelly to join her on a tour of the Arizona State Prison in Florence.
"I'd been working on legislation dealing with capital punishment. Mark is the son of police officers — well, he just really wanted to sit in 'the chair,' " she told the newspaper.
The two married three years later, they married at an organic produce farm in Amado, Arizona, called Agua Linda. An avid recycler, Giffords wore a Vera Wang gown borrowed from a friend.
"To a bride who moves at a velocity that exceeds that of anyone else in Washington, and a groom who moves at a velocity that exceeds 17,000 miles per hour," a wedding guest said in a toast to the couple.
[Updated at 5:20 p.m. ET] Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer expressed condolences for the shooting victims - 6 are dead and 12 injured.
"I am just heartbroken. Gabby (Giffords) is more than just a colleague she is a friend. She has always been a noble public servant," an emotional Brewer said, pausing for composure.
"I ask the people of Arizona and the people of America to keep the victims and their families in their prayers, and pray for their recovery and pray that in Arizona we never have to experience a tragedy like this ever again."
Giffords publicized the "Congress on Your Corner" meet-up at the Safeway in her southern Arizona district on her Twitter account.
Judge John Roll, the chief judge on the U.S. District Court for Arizona, was among 6 people killed, along with a 9-year-old girl, officials said.
Witnesses said the gunman shot Giffords at point blank range through the head and then continued firing. The suspect, identified by law enforcement sources as Jared Lee Loughner, has been taken into custody.
[Updated at 4:52 p.m. ET] Chief Judge John Roll was among 6 people killed at an Arizona constituent meeting outside a Tucson grocery store Saturday.
[Updated at 4:30 p.m. ET] The suspect in a shooting at an Arizona constituent meeting outside a Tucson grocery story is a white male born in 1988, CNN's Jeanne Meserve has confirmed from a federal law enforcement source.
Six people have died, including a 9-year-old girl, and 12 were injured, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, authorities said.
[Updated at 4:07 p.m. ET] Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is in critical condition and a young child has died after a shooting at a political meeting at an Arizona grocery store, a hospital spokesman said Saturday.
Giffords, who was hosting the event, is under anesthesia after undergoing surgery for a single gunshot wound to the head "through and through," said Dr. Peter Rhee, Trauma Director at the University Medical Center in Tucson.
"The Congresswoman is not deceased. She is in critical condition," Rhee said in a press conference. "I am very optimistic about recovery."
Giffords publicized the "Congress on Your Corner" meet-up at the Safeway in her southern Arizona district on her Twitter account.
[Updated at 3:40 p.m. ET] Six people have died and 12 - including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords - were injured in a shooting at a political meeting at a Tucson, Arizona, grocery store Saturday, according to Rick Kastigar of the Pima County Sheriff's Department.
[Updated at 3:20 p.m. ET] A suspect is in custody in the shootings of at least 12 people, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, at a constituent meeting at an Arizona grocery store, the U.S. Capitol Police said in a statement.
"The suspect is in custody. No further details on the motive or other victims are available at this time," the statement said. "The U.S. Capitol Police are directly involved in this investigation. As more information is developed, it will be provided. In the interim, all Members and staff are advised to take reasonable and prudent precautions regarding their personal security."
A statement from President Obama confirmed that some people had died.
"This morning, in an unspeakable tragedy, a number of Americans were shot in Tucson, Arizona, at a constituent meeting with Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. And while we are continuing to receive information, we know that some have passed away, and that Representative Giffords is gravely wounded," he said.
"We do not yet have all the answers. What we do know is that such a senseless and terrible act of violence has no place in a free society. I ask all Americans to join me and Michelle in keeping Representative Giffords, the victims of this tragedy, and their families in our prayers."
[Updated at 3:00 p.m. ET] Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is currently undergoing surgery for a gunshot wound to the head, a spokeswoman for the University Medical Center in Tucson said.
Nine patients were brought to the hospital, including a child. All of them are in either serious or critical condition and are undergoing surgery, spokeswoman Darci Slaten said.
A federal judge was also among those shot, a law enforcement official said. It is not clear whether he was among those taken to the hospital.
[Updated at 2:43 p.m. ET] There were conflicting reports Saturday about the condition of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords following a shooting Saturday at a Tucson, Arizona, grocery store. Giffords' press secretary said the congresswoman remains in surgery for her injuries, disputing an earlier report from a law enforcement source saying she had died.
[Updated at 2:23 p.m. ET] U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords died Saturday after a gunman opened fire at a Tucson, Arizona grocery store, a law enforcement source said. Giffords, who had been holding a meeting with constituents, was among at least 12 people shot.
[Updated at 1:51 p.m. ET] U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was among at least 12 people shot at a Tucson, Arizona, grocery store, a Democratic source told CNN's Dana Bash. The source called her injuries "pretty serious."
[Updated at 1:41 p.m. ET] U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was meeting with constituents at a Safeway grocery store in Tucson, Arizona, where at least 12 people were injured in a shooting shortly after 10 a.m. MST Saturday, a spokesman for the Pima County sheriff's Department said. It is unclear whether Giffords was among those hurt.
"Several" people were shot Saturday at a grocery store in Tucson,
Arizona, a spokesman for the Pima County Sheriff's Department said. No other details were immediately available.
Somehow Palin has blood in her hands. The Tea Party and her targeting of this Congresswoman would amount to a felony murder charge in any state.
University Medical Center called the local news channel and confirmed she is NOT dead but in surgery.
Tucson hospital spokeswoman just reported Congresswoman Giffords is alive and currently in surgery.
CNN is way behhind. The latest is that Giffords is in surgery and is still alve at this time at the Univ. of Arizona Medical Center.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/sarah-palins-pac-puts-gun_n_511433.html gun sights if you please posted on sarah palin's PAC website.
How irresponsible for the CNN news anchor to, in his own words, "speculate" that the shooting had something to do with the "heated political debate" in the country. Only minutes after the shooting, is CNN already relying on their own anchor's speculation as to the motive? Apparently they are. It is journalism at its worst! Shame on CNN and their anchor.
The anchor did a good job I think... but whomever screened that commentator didn't! That commentator shouldn't be allowed back on a news segment. It was also very poor choice of words to say she "survived" the last election.
What is going on in America today? We kill people because we don't agree with them? Americans we need to UNITE! We have some problems to get resolved before it is too late!!!! We have skyrocketing unemployment, an astromical debt, a war where our American brothers and sisters are fighting for a better world and we have people in American killing elected officials. I just cannot believe it. Maybe I would not have agreed with everything she said but I would have made my voice heard in more peaceful ways. God help our country because we really need it.
Blood on the hands of Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh! Shame on you hateful clowns for inciting this kind of violence. You are the most un-American, selfish, greedy, vicious thugs.
Absolutely Agree!!!
Felony charges to follow. Tea Party = bunch of whackos
The rhetoric being spewed but the far right is responsible for this-everyone from Rush-to-Boehner and everyone in between.
Many people agree with you. You're certainly not alone. No one has any respect for anyone anymore, least of all the Office of the President.
Thank you – agreed – but they will not and cannot see or understand that
Just another reason that Arizona needs to repeal its laws on handguns. Currently it's the wild west where anyone can carry a gun in public. In bars, in public parks, etc.
Horrible!!! I pray for her family.
I also hope CNN never has the "reporter" on again that would so quickly say this is the result of ads from the republican party. VERY bad reporting. For the reporter to also say twice that he was surprised that she "survived" the last election was very poor selection of words. The woman has just been killed, you should not be using the word "survived" in any reference during your report.
These "reporters" need to be screened a little better.
Time to wait and see what drove this nut. Lot of finger pointing before the facts here. This BLUE DOG democrat stood for a lot of things the Tea Party beleives in, so I don't see that angle. Big time critic of Federal Government in terms of lack border security.
Lets all wait before we pass judgement on this group or that and instead pray for the victomc and their families.
Like it matters that she was a "blue dog" democrat? Whatever that stupid term means anyways. She was on the cross-hair map Palin and I am sure every conservative news pundit railed against her like she was a full blown communist....
HEADLINE: Shot to death - STORY: Her injuries were pretty serious. Great proof reading.


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Think about it — that dollar bill in your wallet may have been in the sweaty hands of a 10-year-old waiting to buy cotton candy at the state fair last summer, or worse — in the hands of someone who didn't wash their hands after using the bathroom. And yeah — both of those people could have had colds when they handled that dollar bill. And they didn't use a tissue to wipe their nose. They used their hands. Gross!
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A study published in the Southern Medical Journal in 2002 analyzed 68 dollar bills collected from people in Ohio. Of those 68 dollar bills, 94 percent of them harbored bacteria, and although much of it was benign, a small percentage carried bacteria that could cause infections like pneumonia.
Of the 68 bills tested, 59 of them harbored bacteria that would be harmless to healthy people, but could cause serious infections in people with already compromised immune systems. But you should also know that the chances of getting sick from one of these bacteria-laced dollar bills is slim, and that's because your skin is a pretty good protector against germs. As long as you don't stick the dollar bill in your mouth and chew it up, you should be OK. But if you're touching particularly dirty dollar bills, it might be a good idea to wash your hands with soap and water afterward.
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Interestingly, a study at the University of Michigan in 2009 found that some bills actually carry traces of cocaine. And it's not just a few. 90 percent of the bills tested in the study were positive for cocaine. So yes, there's a very good chance that you're carrying around drug money in your wallet. Not to worry, though. A 1997 Argonne National Laboratories study found that the cocaine is so deeply imbedded in the fibers of our paper money that it is impossible for it to rub off on your hands. Phew! For a moment there, I thought my son could get high off his lunch money. What about coins? Are they as germy as bills? Turns out that coins don't harbor the same bacteria because metal does not hold germs like paper does.
I've read about an ATM that used to be in Japan that would "clean" your money for you. You would simply insert your yen, and the money would be instantly heated to a high enough temperature that all germs would be killed. Out it would come — clean and crisp as the day it was printed. I'm not sure if they still use them, but I do know that we Americans wouldn't know what to do with them. To us, an ATM that cleans money would just be a vending machine that doesn't work.
So what's the bottom line? Dollars bills can harbor germs, but so can thousands of other surfaces we come into contact with daily. Be smart, wash your hands often, and don't stick your fingers in your mouth (or pick your nose) if you can help it when you're at places like the supermarket or a public restroom.
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AMD's dual core Opteron & Athlon 64 X2 - Server/Desktop Performance Previewby Anand Lal Shimpi, Jason Clark & Ross Whitehead on April 21, 2005 9:25 AM EST
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The Lineup - Opteron x75Prior to the dual core frenzy, multiprocessor servers and workstations were referred to by the number of processors that they had. A two-processor workstation would be called a 2-way workstation, and a four-processor server would be called a 4-way server.
Both AMD and Intel sell their server/workstation CPUs not only according to performance characteristics (clock speed, cache size, FSB frequency), but also according to the types of systems for which they were designed. For example, the Opteron 252 and Opteron 852 both run at 2.6GHz, but the 252 is for use in up to 2-way configurations, while the 852 is certified for use in 4- and 8-way configurations. The two chips are identical; it's just that one has been run through additional validation and costs a lot more. As you may remember, the first digit in the Opteron's model number denotes the sorts of configurations for which the CPU is validated. So, the 100 series is uniprocessor only, the 200 series works in up to 2-way configurations and the 800 series is certified for 4+ way configurations.
AMD's dual core server/workstation CPUs will still carry the Opteron brand, but they will feature higher model numbers; and while single core Opterons increased in model numbers by 2 points for each increase in clock speed, dual core Opterons will increase by 5s. With each "processor" being dual core, AMD will start referring to their Opterons by the number of sockets for which they are designed. For example, the Opteron 100 series will be designed for use in 1-socket systems, the Opteron 200 series will be designed for use in up to 2-socket systems and the Opteron 800 series will be designed for use in 4 or more socket systems.
There are three new members of the Opteron family - all dual core CPUs: the Opteron x65, Opteron x70 and Opteron x75.
There are a few things to take away from this table:
- The fastest dual core runs at 2.2GHz, two speed grades lower than the fastest single core CPU - not too shabby at all.
- The slowest dual core CPU is priced at the same level as the fastest single core CPU; in this case, $637.
- Unlike Intel, AMD's second core comes at a much higher price. Take a look at the 148 vs. 175. Both run at 2.2GHz, but the dual core chip is over 3.5x the price of the single core CPU.
The pricing structure at the 200 and 800 levels doesn't change much either - the stakes are simply higher.
While AMD will undoubtedly hate the comparison below, it's an interesting one nonetheless. How much are you paying for that second core on these new dual core Opterons? To find out, let's compare prices on a clock for clock basis:
AMD's margins on their dual core Opteron parts are huge. On average, the second core costs customers over 3x as much as the first core for any of these CPUs. As you will soon see, the performance benefits are definitely worth it, but know that AMD's pricing is not exactly designed to drive dual core into widespread adoption.
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Opteron - Monday, June 20, 2005 - link
mikeshoup - Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - linkI think a better option for testing compiling speed would be to pass a -j argument to make when compiling FireFox, and tell it to run as many parallel operations as the processor can take threads. IE: -j2 for a dual core or ht cpu
fritz64 - Thursday, May 5, 2005 - linkI know what I will be getting after fall this year. Those numbers are impresive!
jvarszegi - Friday, April 29, 2005 - linkSo they're reproducible, but only in secret. And you knew, as usual, about mistakes you were making, but made them anyway to, um, make a valid comparison to something else that no one can verify. Nicely done. Whatever they're paying you, it's not enough.
Ross Whitehead - Thursday, April 28, 2005 - linkZebo -
You are correct you can not reproduce them, but we can and have 10's of times over the last year w/ different hardware. I do not believe that because you cannot reproduce them discounts their validity but it does require you have a small amount of trust in us.
We have detailed the interaction of the application with the database. With this description you should be able to draw conclusions as to whether it matches the profile of your applications and database servers. Keep in mind, when it comes to performance tuning the most command phrase is "it depends". This means that there are so many variables in a test, that unless all are carefully maintained the results will vary greatly. So, even if you could reproduce it I would not recommend a change to your application hardware until it was validated with your own application as the benchmark.
The owner of the benchmark is not AMD, or Intel, or anyone remotely related to PC hardware.
I think if you can get beyond the trust factor there is a lot to gain from the benchmarks and our tests.
Reginhild - Thursday, April 28, 2005 - linkWow, the new AMD dual cores blow away the "patched together" Intel dual cores!!
I can't see why anyone would choose the Intel dually over AMD unless all the AMDs are sold out.
Intel needs to get off their arse and design a true dual core chip instead of just slapping two "unconnected" processors on one chip. The fact that the processors have to communicate with each other by going outside the chip is what killed Intel in all the benchmarks.
Zebo - Thursday, April 28, 2005 - linkRoss,
How can I reproduce them when they are not available to me?
From your article:
" We cannot reveal the identity of the Corporation that provided us with the application because of non-disclosure agreements in place. As a result, we will not go into specifics of the application, but rather provide an overview of its database interaction so that you can grasp the profile of this application, and understand the results of the tests better (and how they relate to your database environment)."
Then don't include them. Benchmarking tools to which no one else has access is not scientific because it can't be reproduced so that anyone with a similar setup can verify the results.
I don't even know what they do. How are they imporatant to me? How will this translate to anything real world I need to do? How can I trust the mysterious company? Could be AMD for all I know.
MPE - Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - link#134
How can it be the best for the buck ? Unless you are seeing benchmarks from Anand that says so how could come to the conclusion?
At some tests the 3800+ was the worse performer while the X2 and PD where the best.
You are extrapolating logic from air.
Ross Whitehead - Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - link#131
"no mystery unreproducable benchmarks like Anand's database stuff."
It is not clear what you mean by this statement. The database benchmarks are 100% reproducable and are real life apps not synthetic or academic calcs.
nserra - Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - linkYou are discussion price and it's not correct since intel goes from 2800 to 3200 and amd goes from 3500+ into 4000+ (i'm ignoring amd new model numbers, still based on older).
I complete disagree the AMD model numbers, the should be = to single core, the should just had the X2.
The TRUE X2 will be more performer than opteron, by 2% to 5%.


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Your Daily Mind-Blow: The Lumarca
In this short documentary by Jason Scott, we see a beautiful work of sculpture/installation art made by Matt Parker, Albert Hwang and Elliot Woods. I won't spoil how it's done -- stick around through at least 1:50 for "the second blowing of [your] mind" when it's explained how exactly this is put together.
If you're in New York, you can experience the Lumarca for yourself at Eyebeam -- for two more days, anyway! You can also learn more and even build your own. Pro tip: try fullscreen mode, and watch this in HD.