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Missouri House Endorses Tax Cut Bills
The Missouri House has given first-round approval to two separate but similar tax-cut bills.
Both bills would create tax breaks for business income that's reported on individual income tax returns.They differ in this way: House Bill 1253 would pair the business income deduction with a tax cut on corporations, while House Bill 1295 would pair it with a cut to Missouri's individual income tax rate. State Rep. Andrew Koenig, R-Manchester, sponsored HB 1295.
"We happen to be in a situation where the states that are surrounding Missouri are committed to reducing their tax on production," Koenig said. "We are in a border war with Kansas, and if we do not act we will continue to lose jobs to Kansas, and to states like Tennessee that have no (state) income tax."
State Rep. Jon Carpenter, D-Gladstone, argued that both bills are deceptive.
"When you do a special exemption for people who call themselves business owners, and allow them to pay half the tax rate as the rest of us, what you do is you encourage people to call themselves business owners when they're not really," Carpenter said. "You and (your employer) might set it up to where now you've become a contract laborer, or maybe you're a consultant now, instead of an employee for the company...as a consultant you're a business owner, and so now you're getting taxed as a business owner instead of (as) an employee."
Carpenter and other Democrats say the proposals would cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue every year. House Bill 1253 is estimated to cost the state up to $347 million each year, while House Bill 1295 would cost the state more than $700 million a year.
Carpenter is also sponsoring the House Democrats' alternate tax cut proposal, in which the state income tax rate would be cut from 6 percent to 4 percent for citizens making $30,000 a year or less. Those making more than $300,000 a year would pay more, 8 percent, and those between $30,000 and $300,000 would pay the current 6 percent rate. Carpenter attempted to add his bill onto HB 1253 as an amendment, but it was ruled out of order.
, a Democrat, vetoed last year's tax cut proposal (HB 253), which was sponsored by state Rep. T.J. Berry, R-Kearney -- he's sponsoring HB 1253 this year. Nixon said last week that he would veto any bill this year that deprives funding to public schools and universities. He has been in discussions with state Sen. Will Kraus, R-Lee's Summit, on a proposal that would allow for a tax cut once Missouri's formula for K-12 schools is fully funded.
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In a bid to bolster the image of its music subscription service and lure new subscribers, Napster is returning to the days of yore by offering free music. But as you might expect, there's a catch. Rather than offering free downloadable music, Napster is taking a page from RealNetwork's playbook and offering free streaming music to users in an attempt to entice them. With Napster's offering, users can listen to streaming music from any of Napster's two million tracks, with one caveat: no single track can be played more than five times (tracked via mandatory user registration).
The free web-based offering utilizes Flash, presenting the user with a basic player application, a window for album art, and another for advertising. It works for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux users, and does not require the installation of any particular player software (other than the aforementioned Flash). The music streamed is of lower-quality than their commercial tracks, and my subjective tests indicate that the quality is also less than that offered by Rhapsody's "competing" free service.
When Rhapsody made this move almost a year ago to the day, it was clear that they were attempting to lure users to their services by giving them a reason to check out their offerings. Napster's plans are in the same vein, but there are some other notable differences besides quality. Napster's offering, for instance, appears to be designed primarily for sharing links to Napster songs. In Napster's ideal scenario, users all over the web will choose to link directly to Napster tunes which could then be heard by anyone with an account, for free. Want to share a song with a buddy? Napster hopes you'll think of them.
There are other reasons to suspect that this is designed to primarily to facilitate link sharing, as well. Unlike Rhapsody's web player, which debuted last December as an addition to their free jukebox offering, the player offered by Napster does not allow one to queue up songs to play. Without a proper playlist, the offering is more akin to Apple's own "preview" offerings, except that it is not tied to iTunes, and you can hear the entire song as opposed to a 30-second clip. Without a doubt, listening to this service all day long would be a challenge, inasmuch as one would need to find and then play each song they desired to hear. As a listening experience, it's horrible. As a way to hear an entire song without needing anything more than Flash, it's great.
On this account, it's not hard to see why Napster's offering is comparably "limitation free" in terms of playback. Unlike the Rhapsody offering, which is limited to 25 free songs per month, this option is more difficult to use for multi-song playback. Users who do listen to several songs will also find that Napster displays longer advertising clips interspersed between songs, in addition to the standard banner advertising that is always visible to users of the free service. For now, "free Napster" is limited in ways that make it undesirable as a streaming music service for anything but sampling, but then again, that appears to be the point.


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Make your Writing or Marketing Projects your Top Priority
When you finish your eBook or print books, you have a product you can sell. After you finish the book be sure to write the all important sales letter. The sales letter is the key to sales flooding in. Each book will market another book. Books help promote your service as well.
Like a messy room full of clutter, you just want to close the door on your project. If you really don't want it now, then make it ok not to do it. Or, if you are blocked in some way discover what that means and keep taking baby steps toward your dream.
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IMPORTANT: HOW TO USE THIS INFORMATION: This is a summary and does NOT have all possible information about this product. This information does not assure that this product is safe, effective, or appropriate for you. This information is not individual medical advice and does not substitute for the advice of your health care professional. Always ask your health care professional for complete information about this product and your specific health needs.
COMMON BRAND NAME(S): Imuran
WARNING: Long-term use of azathioprine may infrequently increase your risk of developing certain types of cancer (e.g., skin cancer, lymphoma). This risk is higher in people using azathioprine after an organ transplant and in children/young adults being treated for certain bowel diseases (such as Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis). You must be closely monitored by your doctor during treatment and regularly afterwards if your doctor stops treatment with this medication.
Azathioprine may also cause serious (rarely fatal) blood disorders (decreased bone marrow function leading to anemia, low number of white blood cells and platelets). It can lower your body's ability to fight an infection.
Keep all medical and laboratory appointments. Tell your doctor immediately if you develop any of the following signs: unusual skin changes, change in the appearance/size of moles, unusual growths/lumps, swollen glands, swollen or painful abdomen, unexplained weight loss, night sweats, unexplained itching, signs of infection (e.g., fever, persistent sore throat), easy bruising/bleeding, or unusual tiredness.
USES: Azathioprine is used with other medications to prevent rejection of a kidney transplant. It works by weakening your body's defense system (immune system) to help your body accept the new kidney as if it were your own. This medication belongs to a class of drugs known as immunosuppressants.
Azathioprine is also used to treat patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis who have not responded to other medications (e.g., nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs/NSAIDs such as ibuprofen). Rheumatoid arthritis is thought to be caused by the immune system attacking the joints. Early treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with more aggressive therapy such as azathioprine helps to reduce further joint damage and to preserve joint function.
Talk to the doctor about the risks and benefits of azathioprine, especially when used in children and young adults.
OTHER USES: This section contains uses of this drug that are not listed in the approved professional labeling for the drug but that may be prescribed by your health care professional. Use this drug for a condition that is listed in this section only if it has been so prescribed by your health care professional.
This medication may also be used to prevent rejection of other transplanted organs, to treat certain types of bowel conditions (Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis) that is not responsive to usual treatment, and to treat other immune system problems (autoimmune diseases) as determined by your doctor.
HOW TO USE: Take this medication by mouth, usually once or twice daily as directed by your doctor. Azathioprine should be taken with food to reduce stomach upset. Dosage is based on your medical condition, weight, and response to therapy. For the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, the manufacturer recommends that you do not take more than 2.5 milligrams per kilogram per day.
Do not increase your dose or take this medication more often without your doctor's approval. Your condition will not improve any faster and the risk of serious side effects may be increased. Also do not stop taking this medication without your doctor's approval.
Use this medication regularly in order to get the most benefit from it. Remember to use it at the same time(s) each day.
For arthritis, it may take up to 2 months of continued use to notice relief of symptoms. Inform your doctor if your condition does not improve after 3 months of treatment.
Since this drug can be absorbed through the skin, women who are pregnant or who may become pregnant should not handle or break the tablets of this medication.
SIDE EFFECTS: See also Warning section.
Remember that your doctor has prescribed this medication because he or she has judged that the benefit to you is greater than the risk of side effects. Many people using this medication do not have serious side effects.
You may experience stomach/intestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or loss of appetite. If these effects persist or worsen, notify your doctor immediately. These symptoms may be reduced by taking the medication after meals. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist about other dosing advice that may also help with these symptoms.
Although unlikely, more severe stomach/intestinal symptoms (e.g., severe nausea/vomiting/diarrhea, stomach/abdominal pain) may occur as part of a very serious allergic reaction. Seek immediate medical attention if you have severe stomach/intestinal symptoms or other symptoms of a serious allergic reaction which may include: fever, shaking chills, rash, itching/swelling (especially of the face/tongue/throat), severe dizziness, trouble breathing, cough, new or worsening joint/muscle aches, dark urine.
Tell your doctor immediately if any of these unlikely but serious side effects occur: muscle loss, hair loss, cold/numbness in the fingers, mouth sores, difficult/painful swallowing, greasy stools.
Seek immediate medical attention if any of these rare but very serious side effects occur: yellowing eyes/skin, swelling/extra fluid around the abdomen, vomit that contains blood or looks like coffee grounds, black stools.
This medication may increase your risk of getting a rare but very serious (sometimes fatal) brain infection (progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy-PML). Get medical help right away if any of these rare but very serious side effects occur: clumsiness, loss of coordination, weakness, sudden change in your thinking (such as confusion, difficulty concentrating), difficulty moving your muscles, problems with speech, seizure, vision changes.
This is not a complete list of possible side effects. If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.
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In Canada – Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to Health Canada at 1-866-234-2345.
PRECAUTIONS: Before taking azathioprine, tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are allergic to it, or to mercaptopurine; or if you have any other allergies. This product may contain inactive ingredients, which can cause allergic reactions or other problems. Talk to your pharmacist for more details.
Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist your medical history, especially of: kidney disease, liver disease, blood disorders, decreased bone marrow function, history of cancer (such as lymphoma), active infections, certain enzyme disorder (TPMT deficiency).
Do not have immunizations/vaccinations without the consent of your doctor, and avoid contact with people who have recently received polio vaccine by mouth or flu vaccine inhaled through the nose.
Since this medication can increase your risk of developing serious infections, wash your hands well to prevent the spread of infections. Avoid contact with people who have illnesses that may spread to others (e.g., flu, chickenpox).
Use caution with sharp objects like safety razors or nail cutters, and avoid activities such as contact sports to lower the chance of getting cut, bruised, or injured.
Kidney function declines as you grow older. This medication is removed by the kidneys. Therefore, the elderly may be more sensitive to the effects of this drug.
This medication is not recommended for use during pregnancy. It may harm an unborn baby. Consult your doctor for more details. It is recommended that men and women use two effective forms of birth control (e.g., condoms, birth control pill) while taking this medication. However, this medication can decrease the effectiveness of intrauterine devices (IUDs). This can result in pregnancy. Talk to your doctor about other effective birth control choices.
This medication passes into breast milk and may have undesirable effects on a nursing infant. Therefore, breast-feeding while using this drug is not recommended. Consult your doctor before breast-feeding.
DRUG INTERACTIONS: Drug interactions may change how your medications work or increase your risk for serious side effects. This document does not contain all possible drug interactions. Keep a list of all the products you use (including prescription/nonprescription drugs and herbal products) and share it with your doctor and pharmacist. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicines without your doctor's approval.
Some products that may interact with this drug include: ACE inhibitors (e.g., benazepril, lisinopril), allopurinol, aminosalicylates (e.g., mesalamine, olsalazine, sulfasalazine), "blood thinners" (e.g., enoxaparin, heparin, warfarin), drugs affecting the bone marrow (e.g., trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, cancer chemotherapy drugs), febuxostat, past or present use of alkylating-type cancer drugs (e.g., chlorambucil, cyclophosphamide, melphalan), other drugs that weaken the immune system/increase the risk of infection (such as rituximab, tofacitinib).
Azathioprine is very similar to mercaptopurine. Do not use medications containing mercaptopurine while using azathioprine.
OVERDOSE: If overdose is suspected, contact a poison control center or emergency room immediately. US residents can call their local poison control center at 1-800-222-1222. Canada residents can call a provincial poison control center.
NOTES: Do not share this medication with others.
Laboratory and/or medical tests (e.g., complete blood count, liver and kidney function) should be performed periodically to monitor your progress or check for side effects. Consult your doctor for more details.
If you have had an organ transplant, it is recommended that you attend a transplant education class or support group. Learn the signs of organ rejection such as a feeling of being ill, fever, or tenderness around the transplanted organ. Signs of a failing kidney transplant include a decrease in the amount of urine, swelling of the arms/legs/face, trouble breathing, or increase in blood pressure. Seek immediate medical attention if these symptoms occur.
MISSED DOSE: Unless your doctor directs you otherwise, if you take this drug once daily and miss a dose, take it as soon as you remember unless it is almost time for the next dose. If it is near the time of the next dose, skip the missed dose and resume your usual dosing schedule. Do not double the dose to catch up.
If you take more than one dose a day and miss a dose, take it as soon as you remember. If it is almost time for the next dose, take both doses together, then resume your usual dosing schedule. If you miss more than one dose, contact your doctor. You may need to have your dosing schedule adjusted.
STORAGE: Store at room temperature between 59-77 degrees F (15-25 degrees C) away from light and moisture. Do not store in the bathroom. Keep all medicines away from children and pets.
Do not flush medications down the toilet or pour them into a drain unless instructed to do so. Properly discard this product when it is expired or no longer needed. Consult your pharmacist or local waste disposal company for more details about how to safely discard your product.
MEDICAL ALERT: Your condition can cause complications in a medical emergency. For information about enrolling in MedicAlert, call 1-888-633-4298 (US) or 1-800-668-1507 (Canada).
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Yesterday Boston-based startup Rethink Robotics unveiled Baxter, maybe the only factory robot in living memory to generate prelaunch buzz.
Baxter is a vaguely humanoid model—a legless, two-armed, tablet-headed line worker. Its primary selling points are its low price—$22,000, exponentially less than most manufacturing bots—and the assurance that it won't kill anyone. Baxter can perform a range of repetitive tasks without the need to retrofit assembly lines and with minimal investment. It can even be trained, with operators initially guiding it through specific motions. It's the closest thing anyone has seen to a general-purpose blue-collar robot.
To humanity's credit, no one panicked. Well, almost no one. While news outlets like the New York Times announced Baxter's arrival in only vaguely ominous tones ("A Robot with a Reassuring Touch,") technology blog Gizmodo went back to the standard playbook with the click-baiting headline, "Even Small Businesses Can Afford Job-Stealing Assembly Bots Now."
There's nothing wrong with having a little fun. What's troubling is that this is the default attitude for covering robotics—couching the most capable new systems in the lexicon of fear. It's a hallowed tradition, one that typically comes with casual references to the genocidal military bots of The Terminator and the knee-jerk assumption that robots and their makers are hell-bent on putting humans out of work. Even NPR went there, with a series of field reports about the ubiquity of American robotics that it called Robots Ate My Job and hyped the series with segments called "Look Out! There Are Robots All Around." (Interestingly, Rodney Brooks of Rethink Robotics was also a driving force behind the Roomba by iRobot, which human have largely embraced. Bots are much scarier when they make the jump in capability, from being able to do our chores to being able to do our jobs.)
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Whether it's expressed with a knowing wink or breathless urgency, the meme of man's ever-looming battle with the machines runs deep. Mary Shelley may have sown the first seeds of robot fear with Dr. Frankenstein's proto-android monster. But it was John Henry's race with a steam hammer that mythologized the specific menace of workplace machines. It's simple arithmetic, as heartless as that infernal hammer—add one machine, subtract one human.
If only the layered vagaries of modern economics could be boiled down to grade-school math. "When anyone says we're losing jobs because of robots, they don't know what they're talking about," says Drew Greenblatt, CEO of Baltimore-based Marlin Steel Wire Products. Robots transformed Marlin Steel—not Baxter-like general-purpose models, but systems like the Trumpf TruLaser 1030, a 24-foot-long, 19,000-pound laser cutter. Greenblatt points to one current employee who went from a minimum wage job producing 300 steel bends an hour, all of them by hand, to earning $25 an hour overseeing five robots carrying out 25,000 bends per hour in sum. It's not only a higher-paying job with a staggering boost in efficiency, Greenblatt argues, but a safer one. "Before we spent $3.5 million on robots, we had accidents. Serious ones," he says. "Now we're at 1380 days without a safety incident. All of my employees are coming home with all of their fingers, all of their eyeballs."
And Marlin's workplace wasn't gutted by robots. The company has hired additional workers and cranked up the overtime and bonuses for nearly everyone thanks to an influx of new contracts. Robots allow Marlin to compete not only on speed, but also on precision. Some products have gone from a guaranteed consistency of plus-or-minus a quarter-inch, down to a few thousandths of an inch. The company is currently working on a $96,000 job for a Japanese automaker (though Greenblatt wouldn't specify which one), scheduled to ship this month. "If we hadn't bought these robots, we would have lost that contract to China, or Malaysia, or Vietnam," he says. "If you want to give your employees a chance to compete, you have to give them the best tools. It's not the conventional wisdom, but robots are a job creator."
If Baxter is a hit, there's no denying it: Jobs will be lost. But new ones will appear, as workers step back from the line to manage and maintain their so-called replacements. Just as industrialization largely called the world's workforce in from the field, and the automation of the auto industry pulled humans out of the unsafe conditions of the body shop, the impact of low-cost, widespread robotic labor promises a staggering net gain for American manufacturing and society as a whole. There's a promised land, of sorts, on the horizon, powered and populated by robots.
John Henry wouldn't be caught dead there. Then again, he died trying to show up a steam drill.


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Anglican Head to Visit Vatican for Unity Celebration
Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams will join in the anniversary celebration of a unity council at the Vatican next week. The visit follows the resignations of five Anglican bishops who converted to the Roman Catholic Church.
Williams, the spiritual leader of Anglicans worldwide, will visit the Vatican on Nov. 17 in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, according to a news release from the Vatican press office Wednesday. The council aims, in part, to develop dialogue and collaboration with the other churches and world communions.
Metropolitan John Zizioulas of Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Archbishop Kurt Koch, president of the council, will also attend.
Earlier this week, it was confirmed that five bishops would defect from the Anglican Communion to the Catholic Church. On Monday, Williams accepted "with regret" the resignations of the Church of England bishops who left over the ordination of women, among other things.
The bishops issued a statement explaining their reasons for leaving the Anglican body: "[P]articularly we have been distressed by developments in Faith and Order in Anglicanism which we believe to be incompatible with the historic vocation of Anglicanism and the tradition of the Church for nearly two thousand years."
They said they would resign from their pastoral responsibilities on Dec. 31 and join an ordinariate once one is created by the Roman Catholic Church.
The Vatican has welcomed the defected bishops which include three serving bishops and two retired.
Last year, the Vatican made a historic decision announcing it would create an apostolic constitution that would provide Vatican guidelines on integrating disaffected Anglicans into the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Benedict XVI made the provision in response to the numerous requests he received from Anglicans who were unhappy with the ordination of women and noncelibate gay bishops.
More details on the ordinariate will be announced following a meeting among Catholic cardinals on Nov. 19. The Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales said in statement that they "will be exploring the establishment of the ordinariate and the warm welcome we will be extending to those who seek to be part of it."
The structure would allow converts to enter into full communion with Rome but still retain certain Anglican rituals and traditions. For example, married clerics would be able to become Catholic priests but not Catholic bishops.
One of the breakaway bishops, John Broadhurst, the Bishop of Fulham, predicts that an exodus of "thousands" of lay Anglicans will occur once the ordinariate is formed.
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A strange thing happened during the announcement of Apple's new iPad on Wednesday: for a moment, CEO Tim Cook stopped talking about his company's products and started dissing Google's Android operating system. Cook displayed a couple of third-party Android tablet apps followed by their iPad counterparts, showing how each Android version was just a "blown-up smart-phone app," while the iPad versions were designed for the large display.
Apple doesn't often dwell on the competition — the company tends to boast about its own products and accomplishments instead — so this part of the presentation struck me as unusual. Still, Cook's claims had merit. Android tabletmakers have done an admirable job keeping up with Apple's hardware in terms of creating thin, light slabs with high-end specs, but when it comes to apps, Android can't keep the pace. If Apple's Android-bashing part of the press conference didn't light a fire under Google's crew in Mountain View, Calif., nothing will.
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In fairness, Google can only do so much. Like the iOS App Store, Google's Android Market — er, Google Play — relies on third-party developers to thrive. Those developers decide whether to optimize apps for tablet-size displays. Still, there are signs that Google isn't doing everything in its power to rally third-party developers.
Part of the problem is attitude. In a recent interview with the Verge, Google Android boss Andy Rubin said the biggest problem for Android tablets is "there's no organized way for consumers to recognize it as a viable platform."
Sorry, wrong. The much bigger problem is that Android isn't a viable tablet platform — not while the apps that people rely on look silly on a bigger screen, and while Apple continues to get new tablet apps that Android doesn't have. When the Verge questioned Rubin on the subject of apps, he was dismissive. Though he admitted that it was Google's responsibility to evangelize the platform to developers, he didn't offer a plan for how Google would do a better job of it.
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One way would be to promote the tablet apps that do exist. One year after the first 10-in. Android tablets hit the market, Google's app store still doesn't have a way to find tablet apps. The front page has a Staff Picks for Tablet section, but that's it. If you're just browsing the catalog, there's no way to tell whether an app will look good on a big screen.
In the iOS App Store, iPad users only see tablet apps in the top charts and categories; iPad apps are listed separately from iPhone apps in searches. It's easy to see why developers are flocking to Apple: the App Store makes their tablet software so much easier to find.
Google could also take a page from Apple and lead by example. Look at the homemade apps that Apple has created. iMovie, GarageBand and the new iPhoto aren't just a direct source of revenue for Apple. They're hardware sellers — the kinds of mass-appeal software products people envision themselves using — and they're inspiration for third-party developers.
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Google offers nothing similar, other than table-stakes apps like Gmail and Calendar. If Google isn't getting any showstopping tablet apps for Android, the company should create some of its own.
What Google should not do is go silent and pretend the problem doesn't exist. It can make all the "highest quality" tablets it wants, but people won't buy them without great software. For Google's sake, I hope the new iPad announcement drove that point home.
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In an early slide at his GDC presentation today, Microsoft Graphics Development Manager Anuj Gosalia presented a timeline for DirectX development dating back to 1995. On the 2014 line, the timeline asked the audience a rhetorical question: "This is where we're supposed to die?"
DirectX is far from dead, though. As Microsoft teased earlier this month and described in more detail today, DirectX 12 will be rolling out to developers with a preview release later this year, in time to target development of DirectX 12-powered games for the 2015 holiday season. Developers who simply can't wait can talk to Microsoft about getting early access even sooner.
In his presentation, Gosalia highlighted the divergence in power increases between CPUs and GPUs in recent years. While GPU performance has shot up aggressively, CPUs have had to rely on multi-threading to achieve more modest performance gains. Developers and engine and driver makers have made use of this glut of relative GPU power by cranking up the resolution and increasing the quality of in-game models, but it has been more challenging to achieve gains in how much the GPU can render in a single frame, Gosalia said.
That last part is the focus of DirectX 12. The new version of DirectX, and the key Direct3D drivers underlying it, wants to give developers the ability to "fully exploit the CPU," Gosalia said. DirectX 12 will be the first version of the API to "go much lower level" allowing console-style direct access to GPU system calls through APIs mapped specifically to a wide range of hardware. "With DirectX 12, we want the fastest way to exploit the GPU," he said.
DirectX 11 introduced the ability to put together sequences of instructions for the GPU on multiple threads. However, actual dispatch to the GPU was still performed on a single thread, and the design of DirectX 11 means that some of the work must be done on that single thread. Moreover, not all GPU drivers support this capability. DirectX 12 will increase the amount of work that's performed on the different cores, and similarly reduce the burden on the main thread.
Under DirectX 12, apps will have the ability to track the GPU's pipeline status directly, without relying on the API or driver as a middleman. Developers will be able to directly control when a resource changes from a texture to a render target and back, for instance, and control where resources are placed in the system heap. Developers will also be able to bundle resources into groups for easier tracking.
Gosalia said these kinds of low-level features are "targeted towards the smartest game developers," but will give unprecedented performance for those willing to get into the weeds. "For developers that want to get down deep, do their own resources management... this is going to be an API that will be super exciting to them," Nvidia Executive VP Tony Tomasi said in support of that goal. "It's all up to us, and that's the way we like it," added Turn 10's Chris Tector, who demonstrated a version of Forza Motorsport 5 ported from Xbox One DirectX 11 to PC DirectX 12 in about four man-months, with a large increase in performance.
Microsoft also discussed new CPU indexing algorithms in DirectX 12 that choose which core to use for specific tasks with no overhead. This lets those cores work completely asynchronously, Gosalia said, and maximizes the power of today's multi-core processors. In a demonstration running on an Intel i7 processor, he showed a scene that leaned heavily on the primary core under DirectX 11, with the other three cores only helping out a little bit. After porting to DirectX 12, the system load was balanced almost perfectly evenly over all four cores, leading to an almost five-times reduction in total CPU times and much more overall overhead.
There are other optimizations to reduce system loads in DirectX 12 as well, Gosalia said. Since "most apps and games have a lot of similarity in what they draw from one frame to another," DirectX 12 has algorithms to reduce the overhead from recalculating minor state changes in a scene. A new heap implementation will amortize the creation and destruction of resources, limiting system costs. DirectX 12 will introduce a new, faster resource binding model and allow for faster reuse of memory freed up by used resources that are no longer needed. Developers will also be able to decompress ASTC and JPEG images in hardware.
While previous versions of DirectX have often required new graphics hardware built specifically with the new APIs in mind, Microsoft suggested that a large portion of existing hardware would be able to support DirectX 12 and see immediate benefits from its roll out. That includes 80 percent of the new gamer PCs selling today, according to Gosalia's estimates, and 50 percent of all PCs that will be "out there" by the time DirectX 12 ships. Every Xbox One will be capable of running DirectX 12 games as well, he said, alongside many Windows Phones.
Specifically, AMD "Graphics Core Next" GPUs, broadly HD 7000 and up, and NVIDIA Fermi, Kepler, and Maxwell GPUs (which is to say, all of the company's DirectX 11 parts) will all support DirectX 12.
"People who have our current CPUs, they get the benefit of this API on day one," AMD's Raja Khodury said on stage. "And it's not a small benefit. It's... like getting four generations of hardware ahead with this API."
Nvidia's Tomasi echoed a similar sentiment, saying that all of its cards that currently support DirectX 11 will have DirectX 12 support from day one. Those high-end Nvidia cards alone represent what Tomasi estimated was about 40 percent of the current universe of gaming GPUs, based on Steam statistics. Those existing cards will see orders of magnitude improvements from DirectX 12's release, he said, "going from 100s of thousands to millions and maybe tens of millions of system draws a second."
On the mobile side, Qualcomm Engineering VP Eric Demers said that features like reduced CPU overhead and the resultant lower energy draw in DirectX 12 are "music to my ears from a power standpoint." DirectX 12 could also make it easier to see Xbox and PC titles transition to mobile forms, but he warned that "we'll see how that experience goes."
During a Q&A, Gosalia pointedly dodged a question about whether Microsoft would be offering DirectX 12 support on Windows 7. "We understand your desire to get DirectX 12 on the broadest set of hardware," he said. "We won't be announcing anything today, but stay tuned."


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During breaks from their full-time touring and recording, from 1999 to 2003, three-quarters of the iconic PANTERA (Vinnie Paul, Rex Brown and Dimebag Darrell) joined Metal forces with the legendary Country Outlaw, David Allan Coe, to form a band and record an album appropriately called: Rebel Meets Rebel (Big Vin Records). D.A.C. and CFH (Cowboys From Hell). A new brand of Metal was born!
I remember like it was yesterday, when I bought Rebel Meets Rebel! I was happier than a farm hog in a pit of stinky hot mud, as I trotted out of my local Super Walmart with this CD in hand. Hell, this was a CD that boasted the guitar prowess of (the late) Dimebag Darrell! From the first moment Nothin' To Lose started playing, I knew this supergroup was beyond special! I played this CD multiple times everyday, for at least a year! That's how much I enjoyed this CD and STILL DO enjoy it!
Crank Up Nothin' To Lose!! Hell Yeah!!
Rebel Meets Rebel is a keeper for life, for me. This CD is so rich with the spirit, vibes and sounds of Country/Southern Metal that it's dizzying to put into words! Believe me, I consider it a blessing that these four legends decided to record these twelve songs together. It's just so sad that Dimebag Darrell was not here to see Rebel Meets Rebel released; as it was truly embraced by his fans and climbed the Billboard Album Charts.
From many a PANTERA interview and article I've read over the years, combined with this CD's liner notes, Dimebag Darrell was a huge fan of David Allan Coe. I can understand why. David Allan Coe's resume speaks for itself and his rebellious songs are stuff of Country Music legend. David Allan Coe's vocals just comes across as his being one tough son-of-a-bitch and gritty Rock 'N Roll outlaw, while he surely savored every moment, on every song this CD has to offer! David Allan Coe is credited with writing all the lyrics for these songs as well.
Dimebag Darrell is superb on guitar, his licks and riffs being so freaking heavy as shit! When anyone ever asks me what Country Metal is, I respond: Rebel Meets Rebel and D.A.C. with the CFH! Vinnie Paul and Rex Brown are (of course) terrific on drums and bass, respectively. Man, as I write this, I get so pissed off that Dimebag Darrell was taken from us all; he never deserved to die so young and so violently by a psychopath. As fans, we are truly blessed to have the music that Dimebag Darrell has left for us.
My favorite song (out of favorite songs) on Rebel Meets Rebel is: Cowboys Do More Dope. I just love, love that song! It's a song that puts me in a freaking great mood in a micro second! It may not be the fastest Metal song ever; yet it's one of the heaviest of Metal songs I've ever enjoyed, time and again! To paraphrase what David Allan Coe writes in the liner notes: this was to be the first time that the Country and Metal genres were to fuse in such a circumstance; however, Metallica and Garth Brooks get credit for doing it first. It figures. Despite how the timeline of events happened, as David Allan Coe wrote in the CD's liner notes: "we are the real deal as they say, we are the Cowboys From Hell, that's for real."
This Rebel Meets Rebel CD is the real Metal deal; it's a thick and potent slice of imperative Metal history that can never be forgotten!
Metal be thy name. – Stone


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Monday, July 16, 2012
Media: Intaglio. 2012.
Artist: Guy Stone Stricklin
Contact: www.twitter.com/guystricklin
Clinton, MS. USA
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Now, if you are an elf, then Santa's birthday party is the best time of the year. Elves don't really celebrate Christmas like us because they have no time to prepare. Christmas takes a lot of hard work to make great and the elves are too busy making toys. Santa knows this and so makes sure that all of the elves get to have a great big party on his birthday. To give you an idea of how big a party it was, here is one page of Santa's party preparation list:
Jelly and ice cream
Crisps (all flavours, shapes and sizes)
Donuts (jam and chocolate)
Fizzy drinks
Sweets (soft, hard and chewy and all the colours of the rainbow)
Sausage rolls
Pizza (one of each topping and 2 pepperoni as its Santa's favourite)
Jam sandwiches (with the crusts cut off)
Ham sandwiches (with the crusts left on)
Balloons (the ones that float)
A Piñata (full of marshmallows so they don't hurt you when they fall out)
A gigantic birthday cake (must be chocolate sponge with chocolate icing and chocolate buttons)
And there are 20 more pages just like this one. I bet if you can think of something you would like to have at a party, you would find it on Santa's party list.
My blog today will be aimed at 2 groups of people, those who are new and those who have been here for a while. Allow me to explain.
To those new people who have found me through my article on Bucket List Publications I would like to say a big hello. Please feel free to sample the menu of topics on the blog. Here are a few of my recommended morsels…
1. A travel(ish) post. Up in the sky
2. A music blog. I'm with the band
3. A little geek chic. Why Star Trek is cool
And for pudding, try a little rant. An open letter to my neighbors
If you still have a little room left, have a browse of the Squidge elf website. It's all about the main character in my Christmas books and is filled with games, puzzles and even teaching ideas. www.squidgeelf.com
For those who are regulars in these parts, Howdy. I recently submitted an article to an online magazine with a pretty big readership. My article has been published and I've even been called a featured writer. Check it out whydon'tcha
My very clever article all about London link
I hope you liked the 2 for 1 ness of the blog today. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
So here it is, after weeks of moaning I finally made it to the Olympic park. I took lots of pictures and enjoyed the day immensely.
We took in the sights, atmosphere and overall Olympicness of it all. Enjoy my lazy blog.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
I would have loved to have done a blog all about the Olympic village, the amazing atmosphere and the buzz of the events, but I can't. I didn't go. I did a few very silly things in the long and arduous run up to the Olympics and so guaranteed myself zero tickets. A fact that I now regret and thought that I was over, until this morning. Here we go…
1) I didn't go in for the draw. Way back when, the Olympics seemed to be a real pain in the bum for those of us who live in East London. Our tax would have to fund (and continue to fund long after the flame had moved on) the new stadia of various shapes and sizes. These stadia were also under scrutiny around who would get them after. The ticketing system seemed unfair and the general feeling amongst us was that they would never sell all the tickets and they would eventually go for cheap. That was mistake number 1. The ticketing was a nightmare, and I really didn't want to end up with synchronised swimming tickets. What I hadn't taken into account was the fact that it got me onto the village or that the village tickets would disappear the day they came out. As I said, mistake number 1.
2) I booked a holiday in the first week of the Olympics. So the tickets did go back on sale thanks to the media coverage of empty seats. The problem with this was that I was in a caravan in Great Yarmouth (check out last week's blog if you're interested; don't bother if you're not). The tickets were still on sale when I got back but they were now in huge demand as the quarter finals and up had already started by this point so they were a) in demand and b) bloody expensive. I did try to get tickets, but all for nothing.
3) Every other person seemed to go. Facebook and texts have been mocking me. Not in a horrible way but due to the fact that many of my friends status updates and messages have been about how great the park is and all the different coloured Olympic flags they have had the time to wander round and take. Even my Dad got a free ticket from his company, a company he retired from months ago! Just when I thought it was safe someone else would pop up with a, "lovin the park, it's the most amazing thing in the world ever!!!!"
This though was to be topped by something far worse…
4) I don't have a Visa Barclay card. Just when I thought that was it, when no more needles could be inserted into my now paper thin skin, one of my old university friends posted that he had won tickets to the games. It looks to be VIP and all that (I haven't been able to ask as he is in the middle of it) and he has amazing seats for all the events he gets to see. The problem is that he is a nice guy so I can't begrudge him his good fortune. This is him below by the way, smug so and so.
So that's it. Gutted. I tried to get tickets most nights and early mornings this week but the website is a joke. Why did I think I was over it until this morning? As I came into the living room this morning my wife greeted me with an email from the borough (one of those blanket sign up for thingies) saying that they were giving away free park passes to residents. They had a thousand to give out and would do so at 9am. I chucked on some clothes, jumped in the car, parked very illegally and ran to get in the queue. 6 tickets per household, who would I ask? The queue went from the council building all the way round the block. I counted at least 800 folks queuing and I don't reckon on any of them asking for less than the full quota of 6. As I walked past the front of the queue back to my car some horrid chav of a women (surrounded by all her chavy mates) shouted, "Look another casualty of the queue, hospitals up the road darling." I did the only thing I could, the thing that I have been doing on face book and texts the last two weeks… I walked away without a word.
NB. It has come to my attention that I might be able to get Paralympic tickets. The nice bloke who won the tickets told me. What a nice bloke.
So I'm staying in a caravan this week. A caravan on a caravan park. This is one reason why I'd never make a good travel writer, my lack of travel.
It's our annual week away with the family (usually spent in centre parcs) and we have decided to come to Great Yarmouth.
I must admit to being a bit trepidatious about doing the caravan thing. It was partly to do with a change of scenery and partly to save money for the imminent arrival of child number 2. We also liked the idea of doing whatever we wanted and being allowed off site, as Center Parcs is harder to leave than a maximum security prison and harder to get into than the Olympic village. When there last year we asked some friends if they wanted to come and visit. Center Parcs wanted 50 quid for the pleasure. I'm not saying its not worth the money, but I am saying we wanted the same as Mel Gibson in Braveheart… Freedom!
So me, my son, my wife, her sister, her sisters husband and her sister and her husbands 2 kids are all sharing the same caravan. It's one of those massive static ones, but space is still at a premium. So far, so good. Why so good? Here comes the list…
1) We are all together. Every year our family come over from Saudi Arabia. They live there in the ex-pat community and get the summer off to visit with their various families. Before the birth of our boy they used to stay with us, since then we don't really have the space. It's nice to all be together for a prolonged period of time, sitting around, doing as little or as much as we want. Its trying to make up for a year of not seeing each other by having a concentrated dose. Potent but effective (in the nicest possible way).
2) We have the big room. The upside to this is all the storage, the down side is we have to share it with the boy. The small rooms hardly have enough space to walk between the beds, let alone put a ready bed (a blow up mini bed with the duvet attached) between them. No one has complained yet, I think they are worries that we might give them the big room, 2 year old child included!
3) My nieces look after my son. This one speaks for itself. They chase after, get ordered around by, play with and generally entertain him. It's a 2 way street though as they get some great video footage of his antics to show their friends back home. He loves it, they love it, me and my wife LOVE it!
4) The facilities. They have a bar and a pizza place. And some stuff for the kids I 'spose. Soft play and a pool if it rains, a park and the beach if not. They are all in good working order and have all been enjoyed by the younger among us. To be honest, I absolutely love the ball pool and will jump in it whenever it is quiet and empty enough to stop me squashing a small child. My son thinks this is hilarious (my nieces have footage of this as well).
So there you have it. Would I caravan again? Probably not. Not that it's not fun but we've had our break from the maximum security wonderment that is Center Parcs and am eager to go back. It's like ordering Chinese food, you may try something new every now and again but you always go back to your favourite. Haven holiday park and campsite has been a nice bit of lemon chicken, but next time I'll order the sweet and sour.
Have a wonderful rest of your weekend and feel free to share this post.
All pictures were taken on site at Haven, Caister-on-Sea and Great Yarmouth.
In true British fashion I expected the opening ceremony to be awful. I'm happy to admit that I was wrong. The ceremony was funny, interesting, spectacular and above all else culturally relevant. Where did this cultural relevance come? One man, Mr Dizzee Rascal.
Before the ceremony began the BBC did a very lengthy build up. Veeeery lengthy. It included a picture/video montage, another look at the torch relay, a chat to Olympic champions, yet another look at the torch relay and lots of pundits filling time. All of this was nice. What was great was the Dizzee Rascal segment.
Mr Rascal took us around east London and spoke very passionately about the area. He shared where he grew up (a council estate in Bow) and chatted to the people he met, some young and some old. It felt very real, not contrived or a show. He spoke about the diversity of London with pride and actually brought a lump to my throat.
Having lived in Bethnal Green and Bow for the better part of a decade I also agree that the Olympics has gone to a part of London that really needs it. The regeneration of the area has been huge and the investment by the council massive. I may not agree with where all the money has gone but it has gone on the local area.
I'll put up with the Olympic lanes, the closing off of my local park, the massive influx of tourists and not being able to use the public transport system, all because of the words of a grime rapper from Bow. His pride in this area (the jacket he wore onstage at the opening ceremony had E3 stitched on it, our local postal code), the way he speaks about London and his love of all things ethically and culturally diverse in our great city.
London has an effect on people. I was not born here but I feel that it is my city and I couldn't be prouder. I know loads of people who feel the same.
It had all the makings of a great night.
1) Son dropped off at parents. Check.
2) Meeting friends and Sis at a pub. Check
3) Friends band playing an awesome venue. Check.
4) Bowling alley booked. Check.
5) karaoke booth NOT booked. Check.
And it didn't disappoint.
The first sign of a good night in the making was that we walked into the pub about 20 seconds before our friends Alex and April. We sat, we chatted, we had drinks and we waited for my little sister to show. This was the second sign of a good night as my sister was only 15 minutes late. So we sat drinking, chatting and having a laugh without having to do that sly looking out of the corner of your eye thing, while hoping the person you are talking to doesn't notice, while waiting for someone who hasn't shown up yet to show.
We strolled up to Bloomsbury bowling and walked straight in. No cover charge for us (as we were bowling), no queue and it was the same story at the bar. The fun part was walking past the karaoke booths and trying to guess what the drunken groups of girls (stereotypical I know, but true) were singing and watching the dance moves. Some of them were really going for it.
So far, so good.
We then went to the diner part and ordered food and then the band we had come to see started to play. Bad. The diner table had a direct view of the stage and the audio was being pumped throughout the venue, Back on track! Even better than that was the fact that the bowling alley we had booked was as close to the stage as you could get.
The band themselves were great. A mixture of guitar twanging, drum thumping, bass pounding Rockabilly originals and unique covers. The lead singer interacted well with the audience through both his banter and rockabilly growling tones, the double bass filled the stage with both its size and sound (and was expertly played), the rhythm guitar was driving and didn't falter and the drums were a skillful mix of background metronome and foreground fills (and even a solo).
Better than all this though was the fact that I was winning the bowling.
Next on stage was a burlesque act. I shall say very little about them due to the fact that some of my students may read this. They did what all burlesque acts do and did it very well.
Our great night ended with 2 wonderful things. A) we caught the last train home and B) there was still a slice of pizza left in the fridge. Spot on.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.


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(CNN) - A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner on Friday said the top Republican condemns a controversial comment made by conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh but also disagrees with those who launched fundraising efforts over the remark.
"The speaker obviously believes the use of those words was inappropriate, as is trying to raise money off the situation," Michael Steel, Boehner's spokesman, told CNN.
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His response comes after House Democrats called on Boehner to repudiate Limbaugh's remark, in which the talk show host called a young woman who appeared before a congressional panel a 'slut' and a 'prostitute.'
The woman, Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke, testified in the House last week, advocating for women to have access to contraceptives.
On Wednesday, the radio host disparaged Fluke, saying the law student wants '"taxpayers to pay her to have sex."
"What does it say about the college co-ed [Sandra] Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says she must be paid to have sex?" Limbaugh asked. "What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex."
House Democrats, led by New York Rep. Louise Slaughter, had rallied Thursday in response to Limbaugh's remarks and sent a letter to Boehner urging him to condemn the comments. As of Friday afternoon, the letter had 80 signatures.
Democrats, however, pointed out that the House's Republican campaign arm also fundraised–not off Limbaugh, but off the issue of "religious liberty" surrounding the recent contraception controversy.
On her part, Fluke said in an interview with CNN that she felt "upset and outraged" when she first read online that Limbaugh had personally attacked her.
"I felt probably the way many women do when they are called those types of names," Fluke said. "Initially hurt and then very quickly upset and outraged because somebody is trying to silence you."
On Friday, President Barack Obama called Fluke to offer his support to the law student, according to White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.
"The president was expressing his support for her and his disappointment in the kind of attacks that have been leveled at her and to her and his appreciation for her willingness to stand tall and express her opinion," Carney said at the White House press briefing.
Also coming to her defense, Georgetown's president John J. DeGioia described Limbaugh's behavior as "misogynistic, vitriolic and a misrepresentation" of Fluke's position at the Congressional hearing.
"She was respectful, sincere, and spoke with conviction," DeGioia said in a statement. "This expression of conscience was in the tradition of the deepest values we share as a people. One need not agree with her substantive position to support her right to respectful free expression."
Georgetown is a Jesuit university that does not cover contraceptives in its health insurance plans.
Republican presidential candidate and devout Catholic Rick Santorum criticized Limbaugh on Friday, calling the talk show host's comments "absurd."
"He's being absurd, but that's you know, an entertainer can be absurd," Santorum told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Friday. "He's in a very different business than I am."
On the campaign trail, Mitt Romney initially walked by without comment when asked about the controversy by CNN at a campaign event in Washington state. He briefly addressed the issue with reporters at an event later on Friday, saying the words were "not the language I would have used."
Another high profile Republican, Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts, also faulted Limbaugh over his use of words.
"Rush Limbaugh's comments are reprehensible," Brown, who's up for re-election this year, tweeted on Friday. "He should apologize."
Some Republican groups, meanwhile, have also responded to Limbaugh's comments.
Rae Chornenky, president of the National Federation of Republican Women, told CNN the controversy has become "a sideshow, turning attention from the main issue."
Asked if she would repudiate the talk show host's remarks, Chornenky said: "I don't want to discuss that. We are working hard on keeping our Constitutional rights protected."
Frances Rice, chairwoman of the National Black Republican Association, also declined to comment directly on Limbaugh when contacted by CNN.
The chairwoman of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly, Alci Maldonado, argued the issue was about freedom of religion from government interference.
"This is really not about contraception, a private matter," Maldonado said. "Liberals are confusing the issue."
CNN also contacted the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, but did not receive a response.
- CNN's Dana Bash, Deirdre Walsh, Paul Courson and Ashley Killough contributed to this report.
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It was over-the-top. King Barry's never made one of those before, has he ?? what ? Oh – nevermind .....
No one should ever be surprised at what comes out of the Limbaugh's mouth. This guy lives by sensationalizing everything. That's the audience he is seeking. A demographic of people who tend to be followers as opposed to leaders. Most lack critical thinking skills so they act like sponges soaking up all of Limbaugh's garbage, hook line and sinker.
The world would be a more boring place without Limbaugh. Please, remain a clown: we love it.
Rush Limbaugh is to the Republican party what Michael Cole (Coulthard) is to the World Wrestling Federation. Both of them may have been actual journalists at some point in the distant past but both are nothing more than kayfabe entertainers now. The WWF shows have very little in common with the legitimate sport of wrestling and likewise Limbaugh's show has very little in common with legitimate republican politics. Here is the kicker. Unlike the WWF, huge masses of Republicans both inside and outside the political arena still actually believe Limbaugh's farcical kayfabe is authentic when in fact he makes the republican politicians look like morons and reveals his fans as utter fools. The reality is that Limbaugh is most brilliant ultra-liberal in the media to date.
The choice is pretty clear. You can have a reasonable discussion on an issue or you can have Rush Limbaugh. By the way how do you think Limbaugh listeners break down along party lines. I have a good guess. Republicans, he's all yours!
Republicans revealing themselves to be the American Taliban everyday. Soon Limbaugh, Santorum, and the Republicans will be stoning women for being raped, because it's the woman' fault for being so attractive.
1tonks are you confusing Limbaugh and Gingrich? Definitely an easy mistake.


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If you're on dialup (Sorry), a horrible dorm network, or your roommate hogs all the bandwidth with his love of True Blood torrents and pornography, you'll have trouble getting the download-only OS X Lion. Computerworld">But Apple's got you covered.
Letting you duck under bandwidth caps and other connection restraints, Apple will let customers download the 4 GB update via their retail stores' plentiful pipes. I'm not saying this isn't generous, but some complimentary shrimp cocktail or pound cake would be nice, while you wait. Just saying. [Cult of Mac via Computerworld]


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This short documentary is a portrait of Inuit hunter and artist Lypa Pitsiulak, who decided to return to the land several years ago. His goal was to rediscover his culture, teach his family survival skills in the harsh Arctic environment, and pull himself and his family away from the negative influences of white culture. The film portrays his lifestyle, his love for his family, and some of the sources of his artistic inspiration. It also highlights his beautiful prints and sculptures, with their fantastic interweaving of figures from the animal, spirit and human worlds.
Lypa, Shelagh Mackenzie & Sharon Van Raalte, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
Superb film....should be given to all Can. Emb abroad.... I have been fortunate to lecture around the world with "Culture on Cloth", under the aegis of DFAIT. Next heading to Whitehorse to lecture. This film is wonderful as it gives a sense of history on the land and combines the art that comes from the relationship of people and the land.JVBurch, 15 Jun 2012


text: COLUMBUS) — The president of Ohio State University could be fired for any more verbal gaffes, trustees told him in a letter that said his mockery of Notre Dame, Roman Catholics and the Southeastern Conference have embarrassed and divided the university and run the risk of diminishing the effectiveness of its efforts. Trustees warned Gordon Gee that comments or actions he makes detracting from Ohio State's core values are not productive and are unacceptable, according to a copy of the March 11 letter obtained Friday by The Associated Press. "Although none of us expects this to be the case, should future instances take place, they could constitute cause for even more punitive action, including dismissal, and the board will have no choice but to take such action," the letter said. An AP report this week revealed remarks Gee made to the university's Athletic Council in December, saying that Notre Dame wasn't allowed to join the Big Ten because its leaders were not good partners. He said its Roman Catholic priests were "holy hell" on days other than Sunday and joked "those damn Catholics" can't be trusted. He also questioned the academic integrity of schools in the SEC, singling out the University of Kentucky. Gee apologized in a statement Thursday, again on Twitter on Thursday night, and in a campus-wide email sent Friday. "I am deeply sorry for the discomfort I caused, which was wholly unintentional, to members of the Athletic Council and others present in the room at the time of my comments," Gee's email said. "More broadly, I want to apologize to all who were offended by my remarks, to the University community, and to our entire Ohio State family." Gee will get another chance to get his message across June 8 when he's scheduled to give the commencement address at St. Frances DeSales High School in Columbus, a Roman Catholic school. Gee has a history of headline-grabbing remarks, though none of those elicited such a strong response from trustees. In 2011, it was revealed that then football coach Jim Tressel had known for months of allegations that some players had traded memorabilia for cash and tattoos, but failed to tell his superiors in violation of his contract and NCAA regulations. Asked if he would consider firing Tressel, Gee said: "No, are you kidding? Let me be very clear: I'm just hoping the coach doesn't dismiss me." In 2010, Gee belittled several top football programs by saying they had weak schedules he likened to playing the "the Little Sisters of the Poor." He later apologized and made a donation to the religious order. In their March letter, the trustees laid out steps Gee must take including issuing personal apologies, getting help from professionals to revisit his personal communications and speechwriting processes, and rethinking what speaking engagements he accepts. Trustees told Gee that his attempts "to bring a bit of levity" to significant issues have had the opposite effect at times. "As a result, instead of your words promoting and uniting us, they have sometimes embarrassed and divided us," said board Chairman Robert Schottenstein and Trustee Alex Shumate, who led the search committee that hired Gee in 2007, in the three-page letter obtained through a public records request. "Such comments are not befitting a great university like Ohio State or its leadership," the letter continued. It added: "Although we do not believe that you intended harm, such comments risk diminishing the effectiveness of our collective efforts and of your good work." The letter said Gee is making progress on the board's list of requirements. "Your willingness to seek guidance and counsel on multiple levels, from a variety of sources, on how to adapt and grow is a hallmark of your leadership style and one that we value highly," the letter said. University and athletic conference officials have almost universally called Gee's remarks inappropriate but also said his apology has been accepted. After receiving the March 11 letter, Gee began to publicly address his occasional misspeaking, such as these remarks on March 29 at the downtown Columbus Metropolitan Club. "Even as my world view has greatly expanded, I have at times misstepped," he said. "It is no secret that my attempts at humor, to break the tension, to ease myself into a challenging moment, to establish rapport, have sometimes had quite the opposite effect," Gee continued. "But let me just say this: Those kinds of off-hand comments do not reflect my own thinking and certainly they are not the Ohio State ideals. Twentieth century values have no place in a forward thinking world, and I take that very much as my own responsibility as a leader." His choice of the Metropolitan Club was telling. It was there, on Jan. 11, 2012, he talked about the problem of coordinating 18 divisions such as independent schools and colleges. "It was kind of like the Polish army or something," Gee said in that speech. Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers John Seewer in Toledo, Tom Coyne in South Bend, Ind., Janet Cappiello in Louisville, Ky., Stephen Hawkins in Irving, Texas, and Mark Long in Destin, Fla. —— Andrew Welsh-Huggins can be reached on Twitter at https://twitter.com/awhcolumbus .


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Just 45 minutes from Edinburgh lies Stirling, a pleasant medieval town and a castle that is arguably the most important castle in Scottish history.
As the saying goes, "he who holds Stirling, holds Scotland." Due to its geographical location, if a king was in control of Stirling castle, they could rule over and defend Scotland.
To get to Stirling, you can take a guided day tour via large tour bus from Edinburgh, you can rent a car and go on your own, or you can take a train.
I recommend having the freedom to explore the castle, town and surrounding areas on your own, because you may also want to stop by the National Wallace Monument or meander around the walled city and have lunch in a nice cafe such as the Darnley Coffee House in the cellar of a 16th century house.
The castle offers guided tours included in the cost of admission, starting at 10 AM and leaving every hour after that until 3 PM, so you can plan your visit to coincide with the start of one of these tours. We thought our tour was great, just enough information and explanation of each part we visited from an enthusiastic and knowledgeable guide.
The other exhibitions at the castle were also very interesting, and certainly worth a bit of extra time after the tour.
If you have any interest in learning a little more about Scottish history, if you are a fan of Braveheart, or if you just want to see a cool castle with beautiful views over the countryside, Stirling Castle is definitely worth a visit.


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Check out the New Death Skateboards Video "Better Than Life" USA Premire in Monterey on November 30, 2007 or Berkely California on Sunday December 2, 2007 with Dekline riders Patrick Melcher, Zarosh, & Richie Jackson Full New Parts.
Patrick Melcher just got back to California after a Month with RODENT photographer for The Skateboard Mag and hammered out 4 new ads for us coming out in 2008. Keep you eyes peeled. Melcher is on Fire. Check out his New Part in the "Death Skateboards Video" premiring in the USA on December 2nd in Berkley along with other Dekline Riders Zarosh & Richie Jackson.
Patrick Melcher Grill Session Part 1 on Vital Skate. Check it out, tons of new Melch footage and a few classic Melch....Almost getting hit by the bus.......etc.... Peep it.
Soon to be released in the USA Soy Panday (Parisien) has been traveling the world for all the Static III Video Premires. His smooth style speaks for it self. This Kickflip in the New Document Issue 73 is just a glimps.
International Rider Peter Molec is here visiting us here in San Diego and snapped a few photos of him on his way to the office.
A few month's back Dekline joined up with Focus Magazine and some local shop's and brands from the east to send a group of East Coast rippers on a tour.
2 Dekline flow riders Damon Vorce and Ben Skryzpek travled with the crew and hot all the spots
Check the link and make sure to read the narrative section by Armin Bachman ( tour organizer ), he gives a great description of the tour
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Dekline Flow Rider James Juarez, Testing new Barrio Black/3M Sample due for release in Spring 2008, sent us this photo today.
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Our Favorite Friends Bwana Spoons & Killer are having Souther Salazar at Grass Hut for a Show. Saturday November 10th. 2007
Check out Matt Ball's Grill Session Part 2 on Vital Skate. In the Streets of Hollywood on his way to the Birdhouse Premier.
Dekline Am Nick McLouth has a new Video Part coming out this week in the "Via Marina" Video distributed by 411.
Dekline Flow Rider Jon Rojas placed 5th in the 2007 Damn Am this past weekend. Check out the video on vital skate.
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This is a new weekly feature in which I (and maybe you, too, readers) detail the various reasons for hating your ballpark. This week: Rangers Ballpark In Arlington.
Arlington cemetery: Rangers Ballpark is a monument to every crass instinct in the modern stadium business, a tombstone for good sense, corporate social responsibility and the belief that the public interest is anything but a nice phrase on which to campaign for a terrible bond issue. Everything about it is wrong and vaguely criminal, even — especially — the look of the place. The ballpark takes up an absurd 1.4 million square feet in the midst of that iconic feature of the Texas landscape, the office park. A couple sharp-eyed readers note this below, but the stadium is a mismatched collection of counterfeit parts: You can make out bits of Camden Yards (the red-brick exterior and general air of ye olde ballpark), Tiger Stadium (the home run porch), Yankee Stadium (the frieze), Fenway Park (the out-of-town scoreboard, since removed, that was built into the left-field wall), Comiskey Park (the arched windows), Ebbets Field (the quirks of the outfield dimensions, in this case wholly artificial). The corridor inside was patterned after Chartres Cathedral, which is not unlike modeling the Astrodome after the Kremlin. The ballpark's architect, David Schwartz, once said, "We tried to downplay the distinctions in class." Mind you, this didn't mean that they actually built an egalitarian ballpark with clean sightlines and close proximity to the action. This meant that they built, as the Washington Post put it, "plenty of lucrative luxury boxes, but without making it look that way." One of the owners at the time, a no-account oilman, would go on to build a political career on the principle of catering to the rich, but without making it look that way.
Eminently Bush league: Rangers Ballpark — more than anything not named Scalia, Rehnquist, Thomas, Kennedy or O'Connor — is what made George W. Bush president. This isn't an exaggeration. He put up $600,000 of his own money to buy into the team and flipped those shares into a $15 million fortune that he used to launch his political career, a bankroll that owed a great deal to the ballpark generously furnished by taxpayers. The stadium itself was a scandal, an unabashed land grab that lawsuits would later describe as "sordid and shocking" and "astounding, unprecedented and blatantly illegal." It was also Bush's signal achievement as an owner. I'll leave the details to others, but in essence, Bush and his fellow Rangers owners somehow contrived to privatize the city's power of eminent domain. Then they went shopping. They bought up land on the cheap for the twin purposes of baseball and speculation, and dropped a hideous, plagiarized ballpark in the middle of it all, next to an artificial lake, with thin bands of granite circling the exterior that might as well be police tape.
The view from the stands (everything sic'd): "Back when the Ballpark opened, in 1994, everyone was in love with the cigar-smoke antiquity of Camden Yards. This included your Texas Rangers, a team that debuted way back in 1972. So the Rangers outfitted their new stadium with a homerun porch (via Tigers Stadium), a frieze (via Yankee Stadium), and an old-timey sign in centerfield that said, 'Hit It Here and Win a Free Suit' (via, where, Bill James' wet dreams?). Those mindless and ahistorical little touches sum up everything you need to know about the Ballpark, and the Rangers, and-if we're in an expansive mood-Texas history: when all else fails, appropriate by force. Which is also how the Rangers got the land for the Ballpark, but that's a story for another day." (Jim Tom Pinch)
"It's fucking HOT!" (Jeff A.) ... "The seats are too small for fans in one of the most obese states in the country. There is dipspit everywhere." (Dixon M.) ... "Created in the image of Camden Yards, The Ballpark in Arlington/AmeriQuest Field, RBIA (Nandrolone Decanoate Field is the most appropriate name since it is, after all, Ground Zero for the steroid era) is a nice facility that just needs a winner. Yes it's hot. Parking costs $12 or something – big f-ing deal. Blah, blah, blah." (Sam E.) ... "With heroes like Canseco, Palmeiro, and Juan Gonzalez building the foundation for the ballpark, you knew things had to get better right??? I guess not." (Travis S.)
"It all boils down to one thing: family. Since the Rangers have sucked for a majority of their existence the organization is forced to market the ballpark as a family event. There's all kinds of stupid childrens' activities in the outfield, a stupid horse named 'Captain' but it gets even worse. You can't even heckle the opposing team (Swear free) without being asked to stop by an usher." (Brian H.)
"At the stadium, people are actually ordered to sit down at crucial moments. The stupid ass wave occurs at least twice a game. People aren't there for the baseball. Most people there don't even know what baseball is. The sad little plaques around the stadium celebrate the 3 playoff appearances. These netted one victory. One. damn. victory." (Lauren S.)
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Moab's Best New Trails
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Three new trail systems have created a wealth of new singletrack in one of mountain biking's original destinations.—Words and Photos by Eddie Clark
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The Magnificent 7
Best accessed from the westernmost trailhead, Magnificent 7 is a network of trails that can be ridden in various combinations. Here, Santa Cruz Nomad racer Dylan Wolsky demonstrates the best way to ride Bull Run trail: full throttle. Bull Run is mostly downhill and has countless technical sections to get your adrenaline flowing, followed by tamer flat sections that let you recover.
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The Great Escape
After charging down Bull Run, take an easy cruise down a dirt road, then get back up to pace on the Great Escape trail. While the Great Escape is quite fun to rally, it's just as rewarding to stop for a rest or snack break. While you're refueling, take in the amazing views of the surrounding desert landscape and the La Sal Mountains to Moab's east.
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Pin it on the Paint
One way to learn the trails is by racing them. Numerous events are held in the Moab area during the spring and fall. While blue course tape makes it easier to stay on the trail at race pace, it comes down when the event is over. Even so, you have a guide: All of the slickrock sections in the Magnificent 7 trail network (and other area trails, too) have color-coded paint stripes to keep you on track. The new favorite, the Gold Bar trail (seen here), features abundant slickrock sections that are found via its yellow stripes.
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Bringing Amasa Back
The quickest way to access one of the newer and more technical rides off Kane Creek Road is to park at the second trailhead and ride the road to the Amasa Back trails. Be warned: As soon as you leave the roadside pullout a solid rock garden with plenty of ledge drops comes at you quick and fast. After the short downhill and creek crossing (it's usually dry), a moderate climb up Amasa Back 4x4 road will take you to both of the entrances to the one-way Ahab trail.
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A Whale of a Trail
Named after the white-whale-chasing ship captain in the novel Moby Dick, Captain Ahab trail became a quest of sorts for Moab's local trail builders to complete. Giant cliffs and numerous ledges, such as this one Heather Irmiger is rolling down, required many hours of route finding before the trail was completed.
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Quest Complete
While maps list the Captain Ahab trail at just 4.3 miles, it was designed to be expert-level singletrack, so it requires technical skills and a lot of strength—with all the ups and downs, the vertical climbing tally hits 1,000 feet. While the going is slow, the technical pitches and great views are certainly rewarding. If the whole trail sounds daunting, take the connector trail off Amasa and turn left onto Captain Ahab for a primarily downhill stretch.
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High Exposure
The Ahab trail is certainly not for those with a fear of exposure, and therefore shouldn't be ridden alone. Because of its technical nature, the trail is a one-way, heading in a counterclockwise direction. Despite the big exposure in some areas, the long twisting descent that leads back down to the Amasa Back trail is unique and a true highlight of the ride.
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Gold Rush
Halfway between I-70 and Moab off Highway 191, you'll find the Klondike Bluff Mountain Bike Area. It borders Arches National Park and new trails are being added faster than the maps can be redrawn. Here, on the northern end of the area, Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski flows down a section of the new, 1.8-mile Nome trail.
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Northern Exposure
Heather Irmiger and Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski race the last rays of light down the Alaska trail which, for now, is the northernmost marked trail in the Klondike Bluffs area. Depending on the route you choose, the Alaska trail can be ridden in either direction as a downhill linking to the newer Homer trail or as a climbing loop to a rowdy descent down the Mega Steps trail.
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Downhill from Alaska
While on Highway 191, look for Mile Marker 148 and take the dirt road heading east for the quickest access to the northern end of the Klondike Bluff area and the Homer trail. Although it measures just under a mile, the trail seems much longer than that when you're riding it uphill from the Dino-Flow trail, but ride it as a downhill from Alaska, and it's over all too quick.
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You've bought a house. Congratulations!
The contract's been signed, the finance is in order, the settlement date is approaching, and your conveyancers are on it.
Wait up, no sleeping on your laurels yet!
What about the final inspection?
What final inspection? Your estate agent may have forgotten to mention this to you. As a purchaser, you are entitled to a final inspection – or, as many call it, a "pre-settlement inspection" that is conducted as the term implies at some point before settlement.
Do you have to go though the final inspection?
No, it's a right, not an obligation. In many cases with all the moving-home-mess our life gets so busy that we don't want to have that right, because it is just another thing we need to worry about. But experienced solicitors and real estate investors will tell you that you don't want to skip the final inspection.
Why should you conduct the final inspection?
Because of these 3 simple reasons:
A. Things that you bought the house with can go missing or be replaced (such as light fixtures and fittings, blinds, curtains, and so on).
B. Things you don't want can be left behind by the previous owner (who couldn't be bothered to remove them).
C. Things in the house can break down between the day you've signed the contract and the settlement date, and then you'd want to have them fixed before moving in.
When should you do the final inspection?
Some people suggest that you should do this pre-settlement inspection as close to the settlement date as possible – to make sure nothing breaks, disappears or gets left in the property. I say it depends on the vendors' circumstances.
If the vendors or their tenants are living in the house till the settlement date, then it makes sense to inspect the house after they have left (but before the settlement). This way you will see if anything is missing, broken or if anything unwanted has been left behind. If you were to inspect while they are still living there, all of the above wouldn't be possible to check.
If the property is vacant then you can check it even a week before the settlement, because the chances that appliances will break or go missing during that last week are minimal. The more time you have to solve a problem – if there is a problem – the better.
In case the house is not in the condition it was when you signed the contract, for example if any of the appliances were broken (and you weren't notified about that at the time you signed the contract), or any fixtures were removed from the house, etc, you would need to involve your conveyancers / solicitors to have this solved before the settlement. The vendors will need to rectify the problem either by doing their own repairs or by reimbursing the purchaser for the expected expenses.
What to check in the final inspection?
Things like:
- Light fixtures
- Water taps
- Sinks (check that don't leak)
- Toilets (check that flush)
- Exhaust fans
- Ceiling fans
- Stove / cooktop / oven
- Dishwasher
- Air conditioner
- Evaporative cooler
- Heating unit
- Hot water service
- Pool pump
- Spa
- Garage door (check that works + remote)
- Smoke detectors
- Rubbish bins (check that present and in good condition)
- Door locks
- Window locks
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This is a black day for ethics. A popular basketball star went back on his word, and leading sports journalists argued that it was just fine, he broke no written contract, it was his right to do what's best for himself. Fans of the Los Angeles Clippers swallowed their ethical principles and cheered. Youngsters all over America—and beyond—got a wrong-way lesson in ethics: your commitments aren't binding.
The star big man for the Los Angeles Clippers, DeAndre Jordan, became a free agent on July 1, 2015. On July 3 he agreed to sign an $80 million four year contract to play for the Dallas Mavericks for. On July 9 he signed an $87 million, four year contract to stay with the Clippers.
On my favorite TV sports show, "Around the Horn," respected commentators were unanimous: Jordan had done what was best for him and he was perfectly within his rights to do so.
Not by me, he wasn't. Shame on him for breaking his word. He caused serious damage to the Mavericks' prospects, because they had factored his commitment into other personnel actions they made. And shame on the Clippers for mounting a campaign to get Jordan to break his word.
I rooted for the Clippers last year, but no more.
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Cabrera, by necessity the Tigers' new third baseman, got a rude welcome to the hot corner in today's spring training game in Clearwater. A Hunter Pence grounder took a bad hop and caught Cabrera directly in the sunglasses, which cut open his cheek and ruined a perfectly good uniform with human blood. He left the game under his own power, and should be fine. [ESPN]
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