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WINSTON-SALEM � The court-rushing students having dispersed and the questions from reporters winding down, C.J. Harris, between dabs of his bloody left eye, revealed where his next stop would be Tuesday night after leaving Joel Coliseum.
Hearn Plaza, more commonly known as the upper quad on Wake Forest�s campus.
Tradition dictates that the lawn and trees there get streamed with toilet paper after significant victories.
And for the Demon Deacons, starving to continue climbing back toward relevance in Atlantic Coast Conference basketball, their 86-84 upset of 18th-ranked North Carolina State certainly qualified as meaningful enough to roll the quad.
�I�ve got the toilet paper in the locker room right now,� said Harris, the team�s lone scholarship senior, adding that he already had borrowed some from a nearby restroom. �Yeah, I�m going straight there. Absolutely.�
With Devin Thomas authoring the relentless performance of his young career � the freshman forward supplied a season-high 25 points, 14 rebounds, four blocked shots, four assists and three steals, all Wake Forest highs � the Demon Deacons knocked off a nationally ranked opponent for the first time under third-year coach Jeff Bzdelik.
Travis McKie, Wake Forest�s only other veteran, added 16 points and eight rebounds. His free throws with 3.4 seconds remaining helped ensure that N.C. State would have to navigate its second narrow loss on the road and subsequent court-storming in the span of a week.
But this special night belonged to Thomas, who had yet to top more than 12 points in a college game, and the Demon Deacons� other freshmen � Codi Miller-McIntyre, Arnaud Adala Moto, Tyler Cavanaugh and Madison Jones � who delivered 40 of the team�s 51 second-half points, in overcoming what was a 16-point deficit from late in the first half.
�We live in the moment,� Bzdelik said, �and this is a great moment.�
After the Demon Deacons denied N.C. State�s late rally � and avoided wasting a 10-point lead in the game�s frenetic final four minutes � their celebration trickled from the flooded court to the hallway outside their locker room, where athletics director Ron Wellman and other VIPs were waiting with high-fives and hugs.
McKie, a junior, likened what he was experiencing to one of college basketball�s trademarks.
�What�s that thing at the NCAA Tournament, �One Shining Moment?� � he said. �This is definitely mine right here. I�ll remember this always.
�It�s something that I�ll never forget for the rest of my life. Man, my two years here, a lot of losing, a lot of misery, a lot of depression. We�re definitely going to enjoy this one. I�ve been waiting for it.�
Miller-McIntyre pumped in 13 of his 15 points in the second half. Moto and Cavanaugh combined for 14 points in the second half, when Wake Forest shot 59.4 percent from the field.
Thomas, a 6-foot-9, 240-pound lefty, connected on 10-for-13 from the field. His confidence seemed to grow with every bucket in the post, rebound in traffic and hustle play, and he said Bzdelik challenged the Demon Deacons at halftime.
By the 8:25 mark of the second half, their response had materialized in the form of 30 second-half points from freshman � out of the team�s 35 by that juncture � that had this building rocking again like bygone nights.
�At halftime, Coach was telling us how they were laughing at us in the huddle,� Thomas said. �So we took that personal and we hit them in the mouth.�
The end came with Harris applying an ice bag to his blood-filled eye in a tunnel beneath the stands, the result of a wayward Wolfpack finger, and Wake Forest scratching to hold onto what had been an 82-72 lead with four minutes remaining.
C.J. Leslie, who logged just 18 minutes and was neutralized for long stretches by foul trouble, went up high to score over Thomas inside, bringing the Wolfpack within 83-81 with 1:48 left.
Later, with N.C. State trailing by one with 29.9 seconds left, Leslie missed a pair of free throws. Then Scott Wood missed an open 3-pointer seconds later after another of Richard Howell�s rebounds.
Wake Forest led 84-82 when the last 10 seconds became a flurry of physicality down low. Leslie missed underneath when he appeared to absorb a foul that went uncalled. The ball ended up with Rodney Purvis, who floated a follow shot with about eight seconds left that didn�t fall, either.
Leslie, trying to tip in a put-back, was among a cluster of bodies that elevated for the rebound of Purvis� miss. And there appeared to be more contact.
Ultimately, that perhaps decisive sequence left Leslie angrily flailing his right arm and punching the air in the direction of official Ted Valentine on the baseline.
�Can�t get a better shot. You just can�t get one. I�d have him take it again 100 times,� N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried said, referring to the game-tying attempt Leslie muscled up. �Calvin, inside, there was a lot of contact in there. � But we had enough chances.�
Purvis scored 11 of his 18 points in the first half. Howell, before fouling out in the last four seconds, collected 13 points and 16 rebounds. T.J. Warren chipped in 12 of his 14 points in the first half.
Warren had a chance at a miraculous game-winner after stealing McKie�s long inbounds pass near midcourt. Warren�s heave was way long at the buzzer, as fans spilled onto the court.
Leslie and Lorenzo Brown scored 13 points apiece. Brown dished out 10 assists and had the Wolfpack running early, toward what felt like another blowout in the making,
These teams� five previous meetings had finished in lopsided N.C. State victories by an averaging margin of more than 21 points. Last season, the Wolfpack routed Wake Forest 76-40 here.
N.C. State, getting out in transition and converting a bevy of attacking opportunities, raced to a 47-31 lead in the final minute of the first half. It was 47-35 at halftime.
�You could feel the energy in the coliseum changing, picking up,� Thomas said. �That helped us out a lot.�
-- TIP-INS �:Wake Forest�s last victory against a Top 25 team came in February 2010 against Georgia Tech. Dino Gaudio coached the Demon Deacons then. � Wake Forest went the final 4:10 of Tuesday night�s game without a field goal. � Harris exited with 4:24 remaining after getting poked in the eye. He returned with 29.9 seconds left and hit one of two free throws seven seconds later. � Thomas flapped his arms repeatedly during the second half, exhorting the crowd�s increasing noise. He said he was gassed by the end and catching cramps in his calves. � Praise flowed for Thomas. �He imposed his will down there on the block,� McKie said. Harris said: �His passion, his energy he was everywhere. The bigs of N.C. State, he didn�t back down from them. He just went straight at them.�


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Dynamite Super Premium Dog Food receives the Advisor's second-highest tier rating of 4 stars.
The Dynamite Super Premium product line includes one dry dog food, a recipe claimed to meet AAFCO nutrient profiles for all life stages.
Important: Because many websites do not reliably specify which Growth or All Life Stages recipes are safe for large breed puppies, we do not include that data in this report. Be sure to check actual packaging for that information.
Dynamite Super Premium Dog Food
Dry Dog Food
Estimated Dry Matter Nutrient Content
Ingredients: Chicken, chicken meal, pearled barley, oatmeal, brown rice, turkey liver, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), dried whole egg, menhaden fish meal, turkey, dried tomato pomace, lamb, salmon oil (preserved with mixed tocopherols), flaxseed, brewers dried yeast, carrots, lettuce, celery, chicken cartilage, monocalcium phosphate, salt, potassium chloride, dl-methionine, l-tryptophan, taurine, chicory root extract, calcium sulfate, Yucca schidigera extract, sodium selenite, vitamins (vitamin A acetate, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin E supplement, vitamin B12 supplement, choline chloride, niacin supplement, d-calcium pantothenate, l-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate, riboflavin supplement, thiamine mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, biotin), minerals (zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, manganous sulfate, magnesium sulfate, copper sulfate, cobalt carbonate, calcium iodate, sorbic acid [preservative], iron proteinate, zinc proteinate, copper proteinate, manganese proteinate, magnesium proteinate, cobalt proteinate), dried Lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation product, dried Bifidobacterium longum fermentation product, dried Lactobacillus plantarum fermentation product, dried Enterococcus faecium fermentation product
Fiber (estimated dry matter content) = 3.9%
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The first ingredient in this dog food is chicken. Although it is a quality item, raw chicken contains up to 73% water. After cooking, most of that moisture is lost, reducing the meat content to just a fraction of its original weight.
After processing, this item would probably account for a smaller part of the total content of the finished product.
The second ingredient is chicken meal. Chicken meal is considered a meat concentrate and contains nearly 300% more protein than fresh chicken.
The third ingredient is barley. Barley is a starchy carbohydrate supplying fiber and other healthy nutrients. However, aside from its energy content, this cereal grain is of only modest nutritional value to a dog.
The fourth ingredient is oatmeal, a whole-grain product made from coarsely ground oats. Oatmeal is naturally rich in B-vitamins, dietary fiber and can be (depending upon its level of purity) gluten-free.
The fifth ingredient is brown rice, a complex carbohydrate that (once cooked) can be fairly easy to digest. However, aside from its natural energy content, rice is of only modest nutritional value to a dog.
The sixth ingredient is turkey liver. This is an organ meat sourced from a named animal and thus considered a beneficial component. However, raw turkey liver contains up to 73% water. After cooking, most of that moisture is lost, reducing the meat content to just a fraction of its original weight.
The seventh ingredient is chicken fat. Chicken fat is obtained from rendering chicken, a process similar to making soup in which the fat itself is skimmed from the surface of the liquid.
Chicken fat is high in linoleic acid, an omega-6 fatty acid essential for life. Although it doesn't sound very appetizing, chicken fat is actually a quality ingredient.
The eighth ingredient is whole dried egg, a dehydrated powder made from shell-free eggs. Eggs are easy to digest and have an exceptionally high biological value.
The ninth ingredient is menhaden fish meal, another protein-rich meat concentrate.
Menhaden are small ocean fish related to herring. They're rich in protein and omega-3 fatty acids. What's more, in their mid-depth habitat, menhaden are not exposed to mercury contamination as can be typical with deep water species.
Fish meal is typically obtained from the "clean, dried, ground tissue of undecomposed whole fish and fish cuttings" of commercial fish operations.1
From here, the list goes on to include a number of other items.
But to be realistic, ingredients located this far down the list (other than nutritional supplements) are not likely to affect the overall rating of this product.
With five notable exceptions…
First, tomato pomace is a controversial ingredient, a by-product remaining after processing tomatoes into juice, soup and ketchup.
Many praise tomato pomace for its high fiber and nutrient content, while others scorn it as an inexpensive pet food filler.
Just the same, there's probably not enough tomato pomace here to make much of a difference.
Next, flaxseed is one of the best plant sources of healthy omega-3 fatty acids. Provided they've first been ground into a meal, flax seeds are also rich in soluble fiber.
However, flaxseed contains about 19% protein, a factor that must be considered when judging the actual meat content of this dog food.
In addition, brewers yeast can be a controversial item. Although it's a by-product of the beer making process, this ingredient is rich in minerals and other healthy nutrients.
Fans believe yeast repels fleas and supports the immune system.
Critics argue yeast ingredients can be linked to allergies. This may be true, but (like all allergies) only if your particular dog is allergic to the yeast itself.
In addition, a vocal minority insists yeast can increase the risk of developing the life-threatening condition known as bloat. However, this is a claim we've not been able to scientifically verify.
In any case, unless your dog is specifically allergic to it, yeast can still be considered a nutritious additive.
What's more noteworthy here is that brewers yeast contains about 48% protein, a factor that must be considered when judging the actual meat content of this dog food.
Next, chicory root is rich in inulin, a starch-like compound made up of repeating units of carbohydrates and found in certain roots and tubers.
Not only is inulin a natural source of soluble dietary fiber, it's also a prebiotic used to promote the growth of healthy bacteria in a dog's digestive tract.
And lastly, this food contains chelated minerals, minerals that have been chemically attached to protein. This makes them easier to absorb. Chelated minerals are usually found in better dog foods.
Dynamite Super Premium Dog Food Review
Judging by its ingredients alone, Dynamite Super Premium Dog Food looks like an above-average dry product.
But ingredient quality by itself cannot tell the whole story. We still need to estimate the product's meat content before determining a final rating.
The dashboard displays a dry matter protein reading of 27%, a fat level of 18% and estimated carbohydrates of about 48%.
And a fat-to-protein ratio of about 67%.
Near-average protein. Above-average fat. And near-average carbs when compared to a typical dry dog food.
Even when you consider the protein-boosting effect of the flaxseed and brewers yeast, this looks like the profile of a kibble containing a moderate amount of meat.
Bottom line?
Dynamite Super Premium is a plant-based dry dog food using a moderate amount of named meat meal as its main source of animal protein, thus earning this recipe 4 stars.
Highly recommended.
Please note certain recipes are sometimes given a higher or lower rating based upon our estimate of their total meat content and (when appropriate) their fat-to-protein ratios.
Dynamite Dog Food
Recall History
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Dearly Beloved...
...thank you for coming here today to witness as we become one.
Rumi asks, "who finds us here, circling bewildered, like atoms?" he points to our existence as individuals, as humans and birds and stars, and recognizes that together, we are god. that glory is our inner reality, the outer being a kind of language that explains that.
"love is the religion, the universe is the book."
what we have found in each other is a passion for experiencing both the inner glory and the outer language of being alive. by coming together here before you now, our familiar divinity, we are giving ourselves to one another and to this passion for the rest of our lives.
when Kristie and I found each other, we sought words to describe what it felt like. it was she who found Rumi, and one night she read to me:
"as Rumi was riding through the marketplace, surrounded by a knot of disciples, a stranger with piercing eyes stepped from a doorway and seized his bridle. the stranger challenged him with a question.
we cannot be entirely certain what the question was, but as Rumi was about to reply, he realized he had come face to face with the Mystery. a doorway to eternity flickered open...
and in one pure outrageous act of faith, Rumi dove through. in an instant of mystical annihilation, fire met fire, ocean ocean, and Rumi fell into pure being.
to the outside world, it is only recorded that, at Shams' question, Rumi tumbled to the ground, unconscious.
later he would say, 'what I first thought of as god, I met today as a human being.'
Shams and Rumi began a series of months-long retreats into solitude where they entered into a deep communion of words and silence called sohbet. who can say what transpired there?"
this is to be in part a Quaker service. in the Quaker faith there are no ministers as it is believed that no one is closer to god than anyone else. the worship that takes place is a gathering of people of faith, who sit together in silence, speaking if and when they are moved to do so.
paraphrased from a Quaker reader: "in silence, without rite or symbol, we have known divinity so convincingly present in our quiet meetings, that grace dispels our faithlessness, our unwillingness, our fears, and sets our hearts aflame with the joy of adoration."
in a moment, Kristie and Jim will exchange their vows. after the vows there will be music, and then silence. within this silence anyone is welcome to give voice to prayer or messages to the couple. Jim and Kristie will end the period of silence and sharing by standing and exchanging rings.
through loving you, I feel like I'm just beginning to understand love. always just beginning.
I bring to you all that I am, and as we learn and grow together, all that I will be.
as one, we will move through words, I vow to listen to you with the ears of my heart, and to speak with my heart's truth
as one, we will move through hurt, I vow to completely unravel before you, and to hold you faithfully when you unravel before me
as one, we will move through expression, I vow to explore with you the shared universe of galaxies that were created by our merging, to occupy these wordless places, and to build with you ways to share them with the world
as one, we will move through space, I vow to revel in the world reflected in your eyes, to see what you will show me, and to show you what I have seen
as one, we will move through time, I vow to remind you that every moment is an opportunity for the extraordinary, to listen when you remind me when I get caught up in the mundane, and to hold the progression of our lives and love over all fleeting obligations
as one, we will move through life, I vow to share this earthly existence with you, to share in sickness and health, weakness and strength, uncertainty and faith; to share the boundless passion of being alive as fully and completely as two bodies with one spirit can.
from this moment forward, I take our marriage as my highest honor, my greatest challenge, and my sacred duty. that I may be your husband and keep you as my wife, forever.
there is a photo on your website of the earthquake shattered freeway ramp in front of Electric Minds. the road leads skyward, ends in mid-air. the road loops from the foreground of the image to the top, and is framed in such a way that the image is mostly sky. there is very little actual freeway in the photograph. for me, this makes the image all the more powerful. it puts me under the freeway without really showing me the freeway. there is this enormous implied road which is all the more real than a photo of the road itself would be, because by giving me the sky and a hint of the freeway, the image forces me to create my freeway myself.
I have no words with which to speak the sky, or the freeway, just as I cannot speak to you with words why it is that you are unlike everyone else in the universe to me. the best I can do today is to be the finger you love to invoke, the one which points to the dog which is barking at the moon.
what I love about the moon is the awareness it creates of the sky. the that the photograph reveals the freeway by hinting at it, the way the freeway reveals the sky.
these words can only point toward the way you are my sky.
as a little girl I loved to think of infinity or forever. I would picture the sky and follow it out through the solar system, and further. I would think: "so it goes on and on and on and on..."
you have shown me the sky all over again, and I am here today to say forever to my sky. to you.
it is the craziest, bravest, most grandiose and humble thing I have ever done.
from this moment forward, I take our marriage as my highest honor, my greatest challenge, and my sacred duty. that I may be your wife and keep you as my husband. forever.
(here, some of our favorite people stood and said things that made us cry. you made our wedding. thank you.)
will you be my wife?
will you be my husband?
if you, the beloved family of James Hart and Kristie Haag, affirm that you have witnessed and sanctify this marriage, please answer with a resounding yes!
(they did)
Jim, will you kiss the bride?
(we kissed)
welcome Home.


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|On October 26, 2000, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) entered into a settlement with Morton International Inc. that resolved charges that the chemical company violated several environmental laws at its Moss Point, Miss., facility under a civil settlement and criminal plea agreement. Morton, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rohm and Haas Company based in Philadelphia, agreed to pay a $20 million penalty to be divided equally between the United States and Mississippi under the civil settlement filed in U.S. District Court in Biloxi. This penalty marks the largest-ever civil fine for environmental violations at a single facility.
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|Tampa Electric Company (TECO) Clean Air Act Settlement
|The Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency agreed to a settlement of a major Clean Air Act enforcement action against the Tampa Electric Company (TECO) that requires the company to significantly reduce harmful air pollution from its power plants. This agreement is the first to result from a national enforcement action aimed at cutting emissions from coal-fired power plants.
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|Koch Industries Inc., will pay the largest civil fine ever imposed on a company under any federal environmental law to resolve claims related to more than 300 oil spills from its pipelines and oil facilities in six states, the Justice Department and the U.S. EPA announced. A settlement filed on January 13, 2000 requires Koch, the second-largest privately held company in the United States, to pay a $30 million civil penalty, improve its leak-prevention programs and spend $5 million on environmental projects.
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1n 1995 Greg Hinson, co- founder and president, combined his unusual passion for citrus and healthy eating by crushing whole organic citrus with fresh California Mission olives to create an unparalleled new product category — the extra virgin citrus olive oil. These oils are neither infused nor flavored after pressing as is common in the industry.
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Learn about the various programs that ink manufacturers offer for tracking, mixing, and organizing inks and find out what improvements have occurred since our last review of ink-management software in the May 2001 issue of Screen Printing magazine.
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"Do I have a recipe for that color recorded somewhere? Do I have the inks I need to create that color? Can I match that color and deliver the job on time?" These are the kind of panic-induced questions you may often face in your shop when a customer calls with a rush order that requires a custom color.
You could avoid this frightening scenario by having custom colors premixed by your ink manufacturer, but you'd likely face minimum order quantities, slow turnaround, and extra costs. So that leaves just one option: mixing inks in house. However, to enjoy efficiency and economy from mixing inks yourself, your inkroom has to be well organized and correctly operated.
The keys to a well managed ink department are accurate ink-mixing records and detailed usage information that allow you to create correct colors time and time again and maintain the right inventory for your production volume. Ink-management software can be invaluable in helping you achieve both of these goals.
Today's ink-management software provides features for storing and recalling mixing formulas, estimating ink-volume requirements, monitoring ink inventories, tracking ink expenditures, and more. This article provides an overview of these general functions and details the specific attributes of programs currently offered by industry suppliers.
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You can eliminate much of the time, stress, guesswork, and potential for human error that comes with in-house ink mixing by allowing the brains of an ink-management program to calculate the amount of each mixing component you need. On all programs, you begin by calling up the desired color from a database of formulations.
Color formulations are based on specific color-matching ink series offered by the ink manufacturer that supplies the software. Many of the ink lines supported are Pantone licensed, which means the colors they produce correspond to colors from the Pantone color-matching guide. However, ink-management programs also allow users to store custom-color formulations created with any ink system.
When a particular color code is selected, the programs list the component inks that are mixed to achieve the selected color. Most programs also provide fields for inputting additional information, such as the number of prints that will be produced using the color, print area per piece, ink coverage area, mesh count/thread diameter, and other details. You may also be able to select the measurement units in which mixing components and total batch size are displayed.
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EU Roaming Regulation enters into force across all 27 Member States on 30 June
Using your mobile phone abroad will become substantially cheaper this summer thanks to the EU's intervention. With the publication of the EU Roaming Regulation in the EU's Official Journal at the end of this week, this important piece of internal market legislation will become binding law in all 27 Member States on 30 June. This finally ends in record time the legislative process, started on 12 July 2006 by the European Commission, to curb the excessive roaming charges that consumers and business travellers have so far endured while abroad in other EU countries. The national regulatory authorities, together with the Commission, will closely monitor the transition to the new roaming rules to ensure no abuses take place.
"At last Europeans can breathe a sigh of relief as the EU Roaming Regulation finally becomes binding law across all Member States. We hope we've now seen the last of excessive roaming charges. I note with satisfaction that some operators are offering the new Eurotariff already as of 1 July," said EU Telecom Commissioner Viviane Reding. "The Commission will, however, continue to monitor prices, in particular for SMS and data roaming, to make sure consumers do not suffer in other ways and to ensure after three years there is no longer a need to regulate. I hope that operators now understand the EU's ability to act. My message to them: Move now and bring SMS and data roaming charges down quickly, or we will be forced to also intervene there very shortly."
The Commission proposed on 12 July 2006 an EU Regulation on roaming on public mobile networks within the Community, to reduce roaming charges by up to 70% (see IP/06/978). Following one of the fastest ever political agreements between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission, the EU Roaming Regulation was finally approved, only 11 months later, on 7 June (see IP/07/696 and MEMO/07/233).
The EU Regulation will, as of this summer, enable consumers to benefit from a 'Eurotariff' that sets a maximum limit for calls made (€0.49 excl. VAT) and received (€0.24 excl. VAT) when abroad. Operators are expected to compete below this consumer cap. The price caps will be further reduced in 2008 and 2009.
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The EU Roaming Regulation, welcomed by citizens (see IP/06/1515), also forces operators to keep all customers informed about roaming prices. These transparency obligations will also allow consumers to identify easily the best roaming deals available and also know the prices they have to pay when it matters most, i.e. while they are roaming.
There will also be wholesale caps for the prices that operators charge each other for roaming which will apply two months after today's publication. For the next 12 months the wholesale cap is set at €0.30.
The publication in the EU's Official Journal on 29 June 2007 means that the EU Roaming Regulation will become law on 30 June in all 27 EU Member States. The Regulation will be applicable for three years. During this period the Commission, together with national regulators, will monitor the Regulation's implementation closely. The Commission will assess the regulation within 18 months to determine whether or not to prolong the regulation and whether it needs to intervene again to also include SMS and data roaming.
The European Commission's roaming website (IP/05/901), which includes samples of roaming tariffs per country and further information on roaming is available at:
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By Eno Sarris
The court of public opinion is currently debating: Was Jon Singleton's contract too team-friendly? $10 million for five years of a young player seems like a steal these days, and that's why you have people like Bud Norris and Mark Mulder chiding the young man for his payday.
But the economics of baseball are not so simple, as anyone who watched the first day of the amateur draft -- with its rules about bonus pools and slot values -- knows. Arbitration suppresses young player's salaries, for one. And then you have to deal with the fact that though Jon Singleton looks like he'll succeed -- he's got the bat flip down at least -- we don't know that he will. There's a non-zero chance that he busts. And if he busts, that's $10 million down the drain.
That's still not a ton of money for a major league team, at least not spread over five years, and that's why the team was interested in doing this. If he works out, they get him on three options that'll likely be under market value by that time. That's another reason they like it.
But it does make sense to look at the math. How many Jon Singletons do you have to sign, and how many have to succeed, in order to make the Jon Singleton contract a good idea?
To answer that question is fairly complicated, but much of the heavy lifting has been done for us. Here are the concerns involved with evaluating the deal:
1) How likely is Jon Singleton to succeed?
2) What is the most likely outcome for Jon Singleton on the field?
3) How much would Jon Singleton's output fetch on the open market?
4) How much will that cost per production change over the next five years?
Once we have that, we can put together a probability matrix that outputs the the median surplus. That will help us understand how good of a deal this was for the team -- and give us an idea of how good these deals are, in general. And we won't have to do any of the math ourselves. I promise.
As fresh-faced and homer-happy as Jon Singleton is right now, it's hard to believe that he has a bust rate associated with him. But he ended last season as the 82nd-best prospect by Baseball America. And position player prospects ranked in the 70-80 bust about 70% of the time.
Perhaps that's unfair. The big first baseman was once ranked as highly as 27th on that same list, and he spent the beginning of the year mashing in Triple-A. He cut his strikeout rate some, too, and that's the biggest negative on his record. If we could rehabilitate his prospect status -- if the Baseball America ranking came out today -- he might be as high as the top 20. Then he'd carry a 40% bust rate. If you add in his plate discipline, as a 23-year-old with a high walk and strikeout rate in Triple-A, it looks like his bust rate should be around 60%.
Listen to Matt Eddy from Baseball America, one of the list-makers, and maybe it makes sense to settle in with a 40% bust rate: "Speaking as a fan of Singleton's ability and profile, I had only modest concern about his outlook after a poor year at Triple-A in 2013. The man has 70-grade raw power, a sweet lefty swing and enough feel to hit to make it work as a big league regular, probably of the first-division variety."
Projection systems take minor league numbers, put them through the wringer, and produce a line based on what other players in similar statistical situations have produced. Dan Szymborski's ZiPs projections are among the best. He provided a five-year projection for Singelton that makes the first baseman look like he'll be a league-average producer:
That's a high-K, high-walk guy with 20+ homers a year and possible platoon issues. That lines up with our scouting report, and tells the story of the bust rate too: if he's purely platoon and can't rein in the strikeouts, he might find playing time scarce. If he does both, he'll outperform the projections.
But at least we have numbers that provide us the most likely outcome now. And an idea of how likely that outcome is. So how much is it worth?
There's some back and forth about how much a free agent win above replacement is worth. Some prefer to use projections -- after all, when a player is signed, the team doesn't know what they will get, they only know what the player is projected to produce. Some prefer to use retroactive results to see what the market paid. One approach says that it's about six million per win on the market, the other says seven. Let's use $6.5 million for our calculations here.
It's not as simple as adding up the WAR in the projections and subtracting the contract. In that scenario, the Astros make out like bandits as they get more than seven wins for just over ten million dollars by 2018 -- and then have three options that could help them lock down a league-average player for what would surely be a bargain of $20 million over three years. If you count those years and continue out his league-average projection, they'd pay around $30 million for 13 wins. Still a great deal.
But we have the risk in Singleton's production. And we have inflation in the cost of a win. So Sky Kalkman made a calculator that you can use if you want to change the numbers to fit what you think is most likely. In this calculator, you can see different scenarios for Singleton's outcomes, all the way from a .5 WAR of a bust up to an All-Star first baseman. The genius of this calculator is that it includes the different team actions for each Singleton outcome -- they only pay $10 million for the busted Singleton, but they go to $30 million for the best Singleton.
Since "bust" in the study above was defined as less than 1.5 WAR per year, we have a bust rate of 35% as the default in this calculator (scenarios A and B added together). Change that to 40%, add in a $6.5 million price per win, with 7.5% inflation if you want to follow along with the analysis here. Subtract the cost of the contract (less in the bust scenarios, where the options won't be used), and you get surplus values for each trajectory scenario. Give each scenario a probability, and you get a most probable outcome.
In other words, given the state of the market currently, and the particular skill set and talent level of Jon Singleton, the median outcome is that the Astros get a $10 million surplus on this deal.
Of course, much of that is due to the arbitration system, but it's an interesting number. It's the cost of the contract itself.
In other words, this is a good idea for the Astros. If you sign two Jon Singletons, the one that makes it pays for the one that busts. At least. If the one that makes it becomes an All-Star, he gives you over $30 million in surplus, and you can afford two other busts. This is why the Rays have been doing this from Wade Davis to James Shields to Evan Longoria.
You'll see more of these deals, even if they produce some stinkers. The ones that make it just provide their teams enough value to shrug off the busts.
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Eno Sarris writes about baseball at FanGraphs www.fangraphs.com most of the time. He also started BeerGraphs www.beergraphs.com for the beer nerds out there. He doesn't always play daily fantasy, but when he does, he plays it at DraftStreet.com.


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All you have to do is look at what people are wearing around Western New York to realize that this is a sports-crazy town.
The year-round wardrobe includes Bills shirts and Sabres caps, as well as a variety of clothing celebrating the sports teams at area colleges and high schools.
That would make you think that the local television stations would make sports coverage a major part of their newscasts. It has done anything but.
Channel 7 made a step in the right direction last week when it announced it is adding a third sportscaster, Jason Gruenauer, to its on-air staff of Jeff Russo and Shawn Stepner.
General Manager Mike Nurse said he added a third sports staffer to do more than just carry highlights. It would also allow the station to change the way sports is covered by going beyond telling people the score and other things they already know.
"I think sports is very important in this market," Nurse said.
Channel 7's sports staff is still one short of the four-person, on-air sports staff team that Channel 2 has been fielding for years. But it is one more sports staffer than Channel 4 has had since Robin Adams left the station four years ago.
Channel 2 General Manager Jim Toellner, who rarely talks about competitors, wasn't surprised by Channel 7's sports upgrade. "I don't know how you do it with two," said Toellner. "I don't how you cover everything with two. It doesn't surprise me they added a third."
It is more surprising that Channel 4 never replaced Adams. How "does it do it with two?" By using news personnel to anchor sports and cover sports stories, which insults the audience and its sports staffers by saying that anyone can do it and no expertise is needed.
The surprising thing for many viewers is how little respect that sports coverage gets around here on TV. The sports reports generally get around three minutes, except on Channel 2's 10 p.m. newscast and on weekends when there is little local news around here except for crime stories, parades, festivals and concerts.
And those three minutes follow four or five minutes of weather reports in which meteorologists tell us it is 72 in Jamestown, 70 in Mayville, 71 in Orchard Park, 70 in Buffalo and … well you get the idea. The weather anchors actually give more numbers than the sports anchors do when their reports air – after and before – long commercial breaks.
The short sports reports in a town that loves its professional teams usually means that coverage of local sports and nontraditional high school sports is sacrificed, which is self-defeating since parents of athletes are potential viewers. Amusingly, the traditional high school sports like football, baseball and basketball continue to get the most coverage here even though sports like lacrosse, volleyball, hockey and soccer are increasingly popular and often send more elite players to colleges. Any extra time to cover sports should give those sports more respect.
Why does TV disrespect sports coverage? National consultants long have viewed sports as the least important part of a newscast and they have more ammunition now.
One theory is that viewers go to ESPN to see national highlights. And now ESPN has competition with cable sports channels from FOX, CBS and NBC. Another theory is that women aren't as interested in sports as they are in weather. There also is the theory that people go to team websites or social networks to get their sports fix. The fourth theory is that late-night sportscasts compete with live competition on one of the cable sports channels.
I understand the theories, even if they apply less here.
The Bills and the Sabres really haven't been significant enough as franchises to get much coverage from ESPN and the other sports networks.
If you look at wardrobes around here and attend sporting events, you see that many Western New York women are heavily into sports.
The local ratings for the NBA Finals, Stanley Cup Finals and New York Yankees baseball illustrate this area's passion for sports.
The most-read blogs in this newspaper are focused on the Bills and the Sabres and the leagues they play in.
Twitter and Facebook feeds here are often dominated by sports comments.
The popularity of the area's top sports station – WGR radio – also illustrates the importance of sports. Buffalo Spree magazine even named WGR's Mike Schopp the area's "favorite media personality" in its July issue.
I love Spree. I had a great experience writing for it for more than a year, but that choice shocked me. I would have agreed several years ago that Schopp "is a breath of fresh air," but he has turned into an annoying, arrogant talk show host who spouts ludicrous ideas and then seems to reverse himself.
Still, Spree's choice speaks to the area's sports passion. However, the choice of a radio talker as "favorite media personality" makes you wonder what happened to the days when the popular TV sports personalities in town included Rick Azar and Van Miller. Now that Channel 2's Ed Kilgore has left the air, there is no area TV sportscaster with the longevity, star power or influence of those in the past.
Channel 2's Adam Benigni is the current dean of area sportscasters and seems to be the most likely to fill that role because he is the most opinionated and is on the station that values sports the most.
I've been critical of his backup, Jonah Javad, because he has come out blazing with opinions before many viewers have gotten to know him. But he has the right idea. Opinions are one way to make viewers pay more attention to sports coverage.
In my opinion, stations should stop listening to tired theories and give sports almost as much attention as the weather here. It would be "a breath of fresh air" and might even help their sports staffers become bigger personalities in the process.
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This is a technical post about PulseAudio internals and the upcoming protocol improvements in the upcoming PulseAudio 6.0 release.
PulseAudio memory copies and buffering
PulseAudio is said to have a "zero-copy" architecture. So let's look at what copies and buffers are involved in a typical playback scenario.
Client side
When PulseAudio server and client runs as the same user, PulseAudio enables shared memory (SHM) for audio data. (In other cases, SHM is disabled for security reasons.) Applications can use pa_stream_begin_write to get a pointer directly into the SHM buffer. When using pa_stream_write or through the ALSA plugin, there will be one memory copy into the SHM.
Server resampling and remapping
On the server side, the server might need to convert the stream into a format that fits the hardware (and potential other streams that might be running simultaneously). This step is skipped if deemed unnecessary.
First, the samples are converted to either signed 16 bit or float 32 bit (mainly depending on resampler requirements).
In case resampling is necessary, we make use of external resampler libraries for this, the default being speex.
Second, if remapping is necessary, e g if the input is mono and the output is stereo, that is performed as well. Finally, the samples are converted to a format that the hardware supports.
So, in worst case, there might be up to four different buffers involved here (first: after converting to "work format", second: after resampling, third: after remapping, fourth: after converting to hardware supported format), and in best case, this step is entirely skipped.
Mixing and hardware output
PulseAudio's built in mixer multiplies each channel of each stream with a volume factor and writes the result to the hardware. In case the hardware supports mmap (memory mapping), we write the mix result directly into the DMA buffers.
The best we can do is one copy in total, from the SHM buffer directly into the DMA hardware buffer. I hope this clears up any confusion about what PulseAudio's advertised "zero copy" capabilities means in practice.
However, memory copies is not the only thing you want to avoid to get good performance, which brings us to the next point:
Protocol improvements in 6.0
PulseAudio does pretty well CPU wise for high latency loads (e g music playback), but a bit worse for low latency loads (e g VOIP, gaming). Or to put it another way, PulseAudio has a low per sample cost, but there is still some optimisation that can be done per packet.
For every playback packet, there are three messages sent: from server to client saying "I need more data", from client to server saying "here's some data, I put it in SHM, at this address", and then a third from server to client saying "thanks, I have no more use for this SHM data, please reclaim the memory". The third message is not sent until the audio has actually been played back.
For every message, it means syscalls to write, read, and poll a unix socket. This overhead turned out to be significant enough to try to improve.
So instead of putting just the audio data into SHM, as of 6.0 we also put the messages into two SHM ringbuffers, one in each direction. For signalling we use eventfds. (There is also an optimisation layer on top of the eventfd that tries to avoid writing to the eventfd in case no one is currently waiting.) This is not so much for saving memory copies but to save syscalls.
From my own unscientific benchmarks (i e, running "top"), this saves us ~10% – 25% of CPU power in low latency use cases, half of that being on the client side.


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Buttons, the radical Boy Scout, has unofficially been the mascot of the Melrose Scout Productions podcast and the Around The Scouting Campfire podcast. He has even made guest appearances on the MISS Show and Akela's Adventure. This puppet has his own Twitter and Facebook accounts. It has been awhile since he has been in a podcast, and he has not been very active online lately. I guess he has been busy doing other things.
Last month, the Boy Scouts of Melrose Troop 68 went to Camp Stearns for a weekend. Although Buttons did not attend he did come up during a discussion during one of the meals. I was quite surprised when one of the Scouts admitted he did not like Buttons very much and found him to be freaky. When this Scout's father wanted him to stand next to Buttons for a photo during the scoutmaster retirement party in February the Scout refused, until he father TOLD him to stand next to the radical one.
When I asked the Scout why he did not like Buttons he compared it to how some people find clowns to be scary. It reminded me of a comment made by the caretaker of the American Legion as we decorated for the retirement party. This grown woman also found the puppet to be a little unnerving and told me to be sure to take it home after the ceremony. She did not want to walk into the meeting hall the following day and scare herself if she found Buttons standing off to one side of the room.
The only time I have ever noticed anyone afraid of Buttons is when he has been around young children. Sometimes the little ones come running up to him, but others times they stay close to their parents and are shy around the radical one. It has been rare to find a Boy Scout or adult who wants to avoid him.
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On this album, we get the vocals from disc one, most of the really good stuff from disc two, and some hand-picked tracks from disc three that simply can't be missed (like "Estrella" and "Gigantic Crimson"). The NISA team really did hand-pick this guy in such a way that it makes the import Japanese OST virtually obsolete. I've actually considered getting rid of my Meruru OST and replacing it with this version.
There is one thing they could have done to make this disc better: include some music from the Japanese bonus disc ~Die Musikkiste des atelier Drei~ that came with the Visual Art Book. The tracks on that album are ridiculously good. But I won't look a gift-horse in the mouth. This album is still a great collection of music.
Of course, even as I write this, this bonus album will be hard to come by. The Limited Edition of Atelier Meruru, direct from the NIS America store (for a great price of $64.99, it includes all sorts of beautiful extras including this soundtrack!), is already sold out. So, Atelier / Gust / NISA fans, count your lucky stars if you got in on the preorder. You'd be hard-pressed to get a better LE package for the price.
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Am I ready to make the switch from Alameda to 3rd?
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Well look at it this way, at 3PM when there are many people around it is more likely that someone will jump on your kite or grab your harness to slow you down or maybe even pull your release if you get paralyzed from fear. If you are getting dragged it is good to have other kiteboarders around.
j - check out the 'last chance' beach on a low tide so you know where it is. this is your last out before the bridge if you go downwind. it sounds like you've had some water time so I recommend that you launch from the mud flat and go all the way down to the last chance beach - blow off the lower launch spot to get more water time. when you are still a few hundred feet offshore dump the kite IN THE WATER. wrap up your lines and crawl up over the few rocks. then you can go into the office parking lot and untangle your lines and fold up your kite and then do the walk of shame up the bike path. soon you will be straining to see the launch when you look DOWNWIND!! goodluck
EDITED AFTER READING WINDHORNY COMMENTS BELOW: Yuri is correct, this advice is not for everyone. It may be beneficial for SOME (I used this method to learn upwind riding at 3rd) but it should not be taken as good advice across the board. Some influencing factors include: previous kite/water time, practice landing the kite in the water, practice wrapping up the lines in the water, swimming ability, ability to climb up the rocks without twisting an ankle etc, willingness to untangle your lines, and willingness to risk kite damage. There are definately negative factors with this method. Personally I loved the extra water time and didn't mind these factors but please be careful and goodluck!
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No offense but i think that is bad advice. it is called "last" chance beach for a reason. To advise one to intentionally kite there almost defeats it's purpose. I would say to at least try and get into the downwind launch and see if you can manage the wierd winds. Then, if you cant for some reason, then use the last chance beach as a LAST CHANCE. As long as you pick your tide height right, shouldnt be a problem to get in anywhere. Just wear booties!
Every post has valuable information! If you are interested in kiting at 3rd, please ask the locals what their take is! The spot is awesome once you can stay up wind, self rescue, as well as transition your board. However, hot launches and bad decisions can hinder your kiteboarding tremendously. there is a web cam http://home.comcast.net/~jhodgesatmb/thirdavecam.html to see how busy it might be. Safety FIRST!
Re: Am I ready to make the switch from Alameda to 3rd?
When i started a few months ago kiting I went to Alameda 2 times and hated all the idiots at that place. 3rd is where I learned and think it is a great place for that if you have a little athletic ability for the learning process.
Re: Am I ready to make the switch from Alameda to 3rd?
[quote="BryanMichaelMeyer" hated all the idiots at that place[/quote]
looks like your 12th post on this forum .. good start ...
Re: Am I ready to make the switch from Alameda to 3rd?
no need for generalizing and name calling - lots of cool cats at Alameda.
Re: Am I ready to make the switch from Alameda to 3rd?
Also if you find yourself alone at the upper launch I have installed a chain on the giant log/wood-beam a the top of the bay. You can clip your Chick-loop into it and bring your kite down the window and it will bounce around allowing you to run over to it.. I would recommend practicing launching before depending on it for landing in questionable circumstances..
There is also an eye bolt on the small log, but in high winds that can get dragged making it less straightforward to land or launch..
1) I have been collecting a nice array of broken glass from around the large log, but still be careful you don't want your kite bouncing on jagged glass fragments..
2) Also use at your own risk. the carabiner is a bit rusty and can get stuck open..
Naish - Torch (11m) <Helix as backup>
Still looking for the perfect board
Re: Am I ready to make the switch from Alameda to 3rd?
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Re: Am I ready to make the switch from Alameda to 3rd?
I think the hardest part of riding a new spot is just adapting to the new scenery and conditions. For instance, at Alameda, you expect to see the shack or the point when you turn back to shore, and you expect it to be in a certain location to help you gauge upwind progress. You also come to know the wind and the way it caps on the water. When you switch spots, the hardest part is learning a new set of clues. What feels like 20 kts at home for some reason always feels different somewhere new, even if it's down the street. I say, if you are comfortable going upwind when you are on the same size kite as everyone else who is upwind with you, then move on... and ask the locals at 3rd (while of course avoiding the "athletic" ones who believe that people who come from Alameda are idiots) what they reccommend, you'll be cool!
I would avoid getting way out in the channel at 3rd.... I dont know much about the conditions out there, but I have seen a couple USCG choppers out there saving our asses. Anyone have a good understanding of the troubles out there, other than the current and bigger surf? I am admittedly NOT a local at 3rd.
And I agree with the Yuri.... Last chance beach is not a good place to experiment when you are new to third. Unless you want to put on a show for the Peanut Gallery on the access road.
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I feel better already.
It would be good to see this initiative come to something. I've just been on their website and put my ten penneth in already.
Mine's the one with a copy of ISBN 978-0-00-727720-9 in the pocket.
As politicians and pressure groups limber up for the next election – now 217 days away and counting – NO2ID this week was encouraging its members to take part in Power 2010, an innovative new initiative designed to give voice to ordinary voters at the next election. Power 2010 is funded by the Joseph Rowntree Trust, and has …
But the Tories and Labour wont implement it because it means less power for them. The solution is of course proportional representation. The most common argument against PR that comes up is that you lose local representatives but what use is a local representative if he doesn't actually represent my views in any way as is the case in the current first past the post system?
It's well known and has been proven in numerous studies world wide that in first past the post systems turnout is always lower and the reason is blatantly obvious why- whose going to turn up to vote if their vote doesn't count?
In the 2005 British elections the Electoral Reform Society estimate that 19 million votes were thrown away on safe seats, that's 19 million people ou of the voting population whose vote simply was meaningless and did not count- is it any wonder turnout is low then? In this same election Labour were able to gain effectively 100% in power by having an absolute majority whilst only getting 36% of the nation's vote. I'd imagine most people can see there's something wrong when the ruling party is in power against the will of 64% of the population, as that's the situation we're in now, and will be under the Tories too.
There is another argument against proportional representation that comes up but it is also a weak argument. The argument is that if no single party holds absolute control of parliament then it can be hard to get agreement to pass laws. Well, this argument is clearly stupid because why the fuck should laws be passed if the majority of the population don't agree with them? This is actually a plus, despite being often spun as a negative in a non-sensical way by those defending FPTP.
The final argument that is most prominently used by FPTP supporters is that proportional representation means fringe parties like the BNP have more power- it's true, if the BNP get 2% of the vote, they get 2% of the power. But so what? What the fuck does 2% of the power matter in the face of people who hate, say, Labour, having to deal with the party they hate having 100% of the power?
It's not hard to fix the UK's voting problem, PR is the primary solution. But it would also mean Brown wouldn't have 100% power with only 36% vote, and Cameron wont have 100% power with only 38% vote or whatever he ends up getting.
Whilst 19 million people cannot enter a vote that counts, we do not live in a real democracy. Make the UK a real democracy by switching to proportional representation and you'll get more people bothering to vote and interested in politics. Of course people will be apathetic if they have no power to truly vote.
I'd suggest the separation of the administrative from the legislative and the formation of a second elected house, plus proportional representation... but that would mean the current politicos would actually have to be elected to the top by the people, rather than becoming our de facto president through invisible intra-party manoeuvring. So I'd just be waiting key presses.
Has a date been set?
The result of the poll will be Tory > Labour > Lib Dem. I will be voting Lib Dem along with others to try to make the point that when the party with the second highest amount of votes gets the third highest number of seats there is no excuse to not reform the voting system.
Don't laugh, Lib Dems have been second in the opinion polls a few times and have never got to having half as many seats as Labour.
We're got the Q2 bounce (OK, so it came in in Q3, I estimated it incorrectly), but the effect is the same. It's very risky for them to leave it 217 days, this bounce won't last forever.
I think if he left it till the last minute, he would just be milking the job knowing he was gone after the election.
People don't want or can't afford to buy a car at 12k, so you pay them to buy the car, at 10k. But what happens when you stop paying? Not only have you brought forward future car sales, you've also create a perception that the car should be worth 10k not 12k. The car companies won't restructure, they can simply cry to get free money now!
Then there's the money problem. Britains government debt isn't selling, the Bank of England is buying it with QE money. But that inflates the price of government debt, making it even more difficult to sell and depresses the pound driving up prices of imports. Think vicious circle.
So now your car is more expensive to make too, yet the perceived sale value for it is lower and any near future sales already used up!
So, while Brown is saying he's saved the world, and Paulson's stimulus plan is being claimed as 'Bush's guy saving the world', the reality is far different.
As those near future sales are used up, then the fake demand will have less and less effect, as the programs expire, their effect is ended, as the GBP currency takes a hit each GBP spend has less and less effect.
Keynsian economists talk vaguely about the private sector taking up the slack at this point, but that never happened in Japan, and there's no reason to expect it in the UK.
So the time he can claim to have fixed the economy is now, as he leaves it longer, it will be clear he's done nothing of the sort. So why leave is 217 days?
I will flesh them out at some point, but feel free to work on them yourselfs if you agree.
The bigest problem for with voting for me is lack of knolage. I don't know enough about the partys to be able to make up my mind. There is to much fluff and media rubbish from them. Rather than set out there ideas and let people make there minds up they would rather shout each other down and critisies each other, and rather than saying "we will do X Y & Z" they talk in spin and soundbites about how they would "make this a better place to live". I want facts not talk.
The other think is I don't know how voteing works so fear going to the poling station.
I think the government should send out a leflet to every house with each of the major partys (not just the 3 big ones, but, say, ten biggest) given a set amount of words, all in the same type face, all orderd alphabeticly, too set out what there policys are. If anyone gose over the word count it will stop mid sentence. If any refuse then there will be ab blank space saying they refused. Also, on the back page would be a short explanation of how the voteing process works, from what to do on the day to how votes are counted and how winers are chosen etc.
I like your line of thinking on voting Lib Dem. The more pressure put on Cameron and his "progressive" Conservatives, the better.
The 1983 general election was close to what you've got in mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_1983
With 8.7% more votes than the Liberal SDP Alliance, Labour took 809% more seats - an extra 809% seats on the basis of 8.7% more votes!
Parliament's mandate will run out on 10 May 2010, 5 years after it first assembled. That's in 214 days time. Assuming ElGordy leaves it to then to ask Lizzy Windsor to schedule a new election, the election will be on 3 June 2010, 4 weeks + 1 after. The minimum time between the proclamation of elections is 4 weeks to give the other parties a chance.
"The solution is of course proportional representation."
Indeed? Tell me more. Please start with a definition of what form of PR you are recommending, (Pure PR - Party list, STV, MTV etc.).
"It's well known and has been proven in numerous studies world wide that in first past the post systems turnout is always lower and the reason is blatantly obvious why- whose going to turn up to vote if their vote doesn't count?"
Surely the solution then is mandatory voting?
"In the 2005 British elections the Electoral Reform Society estimate that 19 million votes were thrown away on safe seats, that's 19 million people ou of the voting population whose vote simply was meaningless and did not count- is it any wonder turnout is low then?"
Really? care to back that assertion up with some evidence? Seriously I am skeptical about that assertion and I would be delighted to be educated as to how it was arrived at. Just because the person you voted for doesn't win it don't mean your vote was wasted, or stolen, it just means your guy didn't win.
"In this same election Labour were able to gain effectively 100% in power by having an absolute majority whilst only getting 36% of the nation's vote."
PR wouldn't necessarily change that. Even in a simple 2 party system (such as the US) you end up with a significant portion of people. I agree not a minority but you also have to accept that people vote tactically so 36% of the nation's vote does not necessarily mean only 36% of the nation wanted them to win.
"I'd imagine most people can see there's something wrong when the ruling party is in power against the will of 64% of the population"
It's not ideal I grant you, but the situation would probably be much worse under PR as the ruling body would necessarily be made up of parties who polled less than 36% of the vote, who would the wield a disproportionate amount of influence (look at Scotland, LibDems and tuition fees for an example). Not to mention that the ruling coalition would be decided by the largest coalition member and not by the voters.
".. if no single party holds absolute control of parliament then it can be hard to get agreement to pass laws....why the fuck should laws be passed if the majority of the population don't agree with them?"
Wouldn't happen What would happen is that main party would propose a law, and in order to get it to pass they would have to do a deal with minority parties who would want their own personal agendas meeting.
"The final argument that is most prominently used by FPTP supporters is that proportional representation means fringe parties like the BNP have more power- it's true, if the BNP get 2% of the vote, they get 2% of the power."
See above, and it would be more like 10% for the BNP:
Tories: "We have 43% of the vote to support our core policies - not enough"
BNP: "Hey, Tories. We'll support you with our 10%. For a bit of Quid pro Quo?
Tories: "OK, what you want"
BNP: Just a little thing, criminalisation of being black, nothing serious. Black people don't vote Tory as a rule anyway.
Tories: "We don't like that, but if we don't pass our core legislation then middle England won't vote for us next time, OK, you're on"
"Whilst 19 million people cannot enter a vote that counts, we do not live in a real democracy."
Again, you need to qualify this, I call shenanigans.
is it just me or does anyone else see the irony in your book being "The Authorised Edition"?
Anyway - isn't the solution to make politics more interesting; say, random executions of MPs who vote for legislation that was never in the party manifesto when they last consulted the electorate ... make ministers personally liable for any overspend or waste in their departments ....
Easy - ID cards are far, far worse.
The Tories sorted this country out after a labour mess last time and they'll do it again. Hopefully they'll start by swinging an axe at the public sector.
Personally I'll be voting Lib Dem (if I'm still in the country come election time) in the hope that they can at least form HM's Opposition and relegate Labour to the history books.
From the electoral report in 2000: http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp2001/rp01-014.pdf pp7-8:
Alternatively, Parliament is allowed to expire at midnight of Monday 10 May 2010*
when the Septennial Act (as amended) provisions take effect. Although there is no
statutory requirement that a new proclamation be issued immediately, it is expected
that a proclamation would be made and writs issued at the earliest practicable day,
which would be Tuesday 11 May 2010*. Polling day would, therefore, be Thursday 3
June 2010*.
By the Meeting of Parliament Act 1694, the Crown must issue writs for a general election
and meeting of Parliament within three years from the dissolution of the last one.
So actually the latest possible date for a general election would be something like 10th May 2013, not 2010. OK, this would never happen but legally it could. 3 years with no functioning government would certainly save us a fortune - OK losing 610 MPs over 3 years we would effectively lose 32 man days of actual work, but that is a risk I for one would be willing to take....
*dates amended to reflect current parliament.
Technically, according to some constitutional pedants, this government could run til June 4 (Friday) as oppposed to June 3 (Thursday). That depends on whether you consider this government to have taken office during the thursday or at midnight on that day.
As for date...I took a look at this some months back and whilst not unheard of, an election now...effectively between November and end of January is highly unlikely. Last October one - and that forced to a degree by circs, was October 1974.
Never say never: someone could blow up the cabinet...leading to chaos and a need for a quick election...Brown could have a sudden cunning plan, but personally, I don't think an election can happen any earlier than, say, Feb 11 2010.
Nor will it run into the buffers and go for June 3. Two reasons, really. That really would look like clinging to power by the finger nails: and it would be so close to the Council elections that the opposition could claim it was wasteful.
Ditto the other side. An April election would look bad for the same reason....probably most of March, too.
So that leaves February or the same day as the Councils in May.
If they go for February...just remotely possible as a surprise...then the question of whether to go for Feb 11 will depend on whether they want to go on the old electoral register or new: there is some effect there whereby more organised parties do slightly better on one than t'other (but can't remember which way round).
Register will be at its oldest on 11 Feb. Newest on 18 Feb. So that's it...I'd put my money 98% on May 6...with a very very very small chance of Feb 11 or Feb 18.
Anyone like to argue otherwise?
It really is about time that we were able to vote directly on policies, instead of career politicians.
A good start would be a way to indicate preference for higher taxes versus higher spending, on a simple 1-5 scale - everyone ticks box 1, then taxes rocket; half vote for 2 and half vote for 4, then we get a dead heat and no change to the budget.
>The bigest problem for with voting for me is lack of knolage. I don't know enough about the partys to be able to make up my mind. There is to much fluff and media rubbish from them.<
Here is the truth badly spelled.
When I hear Cameron or Brown or Clegg saying what they're going to do I just think, 'liar' and carry on with my day. Reform is needed but not in the way you think. A manifesto should be what they are going to do, not just promises and fluffy wuffy assurances, but a legally binding contract between the chosen government and its people. Failure to enact the contract or attempts to add to it after power is attained should be seen as treason and punished accordingly. The government must be held answerable just as its citizens are.
Who watches the watchmen? 'quote from some guy'
I moved to a new area around two years ago and finally got around to looking up my "new" MP a few months ago.
Despite having voted in ~89% of debates he's only voted against his own party 0.4% of the time!
I know people who are lifelong party members who don't agree with them that much.
Local representative? Looks more like a waste of a salary to me
The most recent poll I can find that lists BNP voting intentions puts them at 2%, behind UKIP and the Greens. They have only ever polled high in Euro elections because they're the obvious choice for people who want to stop the EU working.
Source: Populous, Sep 13
Yesterday's YouGov poll puts all 'other' parties (not Lib,Lab,Con) at 14% total. Again, UKIP is consistently polling higher than BNP. 10% they ain't getting.
"But the Tories and Labour won't implement it because it means less power for them. The solution is of course proportional representation. "
"Them" in this context doesn't mean the people comprising party memberships: it means the eminences grises who actually run the parties without stepping into the limelight very often at all. Those shadowy people who tell the whips, the PM, and all the rest what to say and what to do.
Personally, I think the emphasis on PR as the cure for all electoral evils is overstated. Rather, I suggest, it would be more helpful to look for ameliorations that tinker with the system as little as possible. I suggest requiring that the parties hold primary elections by secret ballot would be a big step toward denying the shadowy ones and central committees their power to designate candidates for election. Let the people speak!
More generally, one wants to be quite cautious about "injecting voter power" into the electoral mechanisms, lest you end up with the California system. Look what that's devolved into! It may be that the core problem with the California system is that the electorate can force state financial affairs (i.e. taxation and expenditure) into overly rigid arrangements. If California were to amend its constitution to reserve all financial measure to the legislature, I suspect the state would not be in the financial mess it is today.


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SR20DET Conversion
BY Fireballs (taken from our bulletin board)
Since there has been so much interest in the sr20det conversion, I thought i would start a new topic just for information about it.
Please post additional information / corrections as you find it.
Here's my story..
At first, all I did was put in the engine and hook up what i needed to get it running
I used:
* SR20DET from a Japanese SSS Bluebird Attessa 4wd $1500
* Haltech e6k ecu with harness about $1700
* Gearbox from a 98 SSS Pulsar (bought the engine, gearbox, and brakes from a burnt out sss pulsar $1200, but you probably get the gear box for $600 - $800)
various parts from the n13 pulsar which i already had.
engine will probably come with auto awd box which is quite useless
ECU. if you want to make your own harness, i can now get another ecu trade for about $900
if you can get the original computer, then great, i'm sure it will save a bit of money, but i couldn't get one.
stock, the engine puts out about 156kw from memory, it was somewhere between 147(silvia) and 164(gtir), it runs about 7.5 psi boost stock.
I've seen documentation on the sss bluebird which says you can safely boost to 14psi with the stock turbo, and with a 3" exhaust, it will put out about 206kw
if you decide to go for the gtir engine, measure up the intake and make sure you have enough room to the firewall, mine is quite close to the water jacket now, the quad throttle bodies may be be a problem. And the engine is twice the price.
gear box
The gear box almost fits straight up to the engine, except they moved one bolt, you can either get a plate made up, or just leave the bolt out, I got the plate made up, but they didn't put it in last time i got the clutch changed, they reckon it made something not match up (I think they are dreaming) so I'm runing without that bolt, and it hasn't cracked anything yet.
engine and gear box info:
I'm guessing that the bolt was moved in the redisign of the sr20. The sss pulsar would have had the 2nd generation sr20 being a 98 model, but the motor I used was a 1st generation sr20. You can tell by the color of the rocker cover.
RED rocker cover, 1st generation
BLACK rocker cover, 2nd generation
I've heard that the 2nd generation sr20's all have ball bearing turbo's, and are stronger than the first generation, I have 96 model 180sx which has a black sr20det, and I have also noticed that it reaches operating temperature much faster than the one in the exa.
SO, if you manage to find an east west mounted sr20det with a black rocker cover, you will end up with a slightly better engine than mine, and you're gear box may have all its bolt holes match up.
I'm also guessing that a gearbox from an earlier sss pulsar will fit my 1st generation engine. I could also be very wrong about that bolt, it may have been moved on the sr20's which were to have a 4wd box installed on them. If anyone finds out for sure, please post it.
engine mounts
The engine mounts are all in the same position, they just turned them around, so you have to do custom work.
The mount on the firewall, is a half/half engine mount, i think it was from an n13 pulsar and the one on the engine.
The gear box mount from the n13 pulsar fitted three out of 4 bolts, that one was easy
The right side engine mount used the ring from the engine and a custom body mount chopped and welded from the original n13 pulsar mount.
if you are wondering why i have lots of n13 pulsar stuff, instead of n13 exa stuff, its because i did this conversion on my pulsar, then rolled it, then transfered everything to the exa
I had to do extra work to fit the conversion into the exa after i rolled the pulsar
I had to use the clutch pedal and cable from the n13 pulsar (australian motor uses cable, sr20 uses cable, ca18 uses hydrolic). I prefer cable anyway, the exa one was leaking. I cut and welded the original pedal pad from the exa pedal so it was the right shape.
drive shafts
The did away with the two peice right hand side drive shaft setup, and used the drive shafts from the n13 pulsar, (exa probably the same if its single peice). They fit perfectly except you need to change the size of the right hand diff seal to the same size as the one on the left.
The gear shift will hook straight up if you position the engine corectly.
The left mount give you the forward/back, and up/down position, its only the rotational position to worry about, let the stationary gear shift member determine this and everything should be in correct position.
I got rid of air con cos i never used it, if its hot enough, i always take the top off,
this means less installation hassle too.
Extra stuff to possibly do eventually:
Use the brakes from the sss pulsar, they bolt straight on. And I recomend bendix ultimates. I have melted out the centres of my front wheels racing, and still i get no brake fade!
If you have overheating problems (i only did when i started racing it) then you can get a tripple core radiator made up. (about $500)
The engine comes with an intercooler top mounted that fits under the bonnet without any head room problems, either get a front mount one, or put in a bonnet scoop
i got a massive from mount one. (about $800)
I was told the fuel pump may be a problem, dont seem to have a problem at 19psi boost, and its running very rich too.
You could get a Knock Link (made by link) to monitor the knock sensor on the motor, i bought one but never got around to hooking it up.
Because I race, i also spent $5500 on pedder's extreme suspension kit. They also installed a rear sway bar which induces more oversteer, and helps front traction under power out of corners.
I also used a front strut brace from n15 pulsar (after market one), and made a rear one.
The bolt patern appears to be identical from n13 - n15 (maybe n12 too)
Stuff I havent got around to doing yet:
Bigger turbo. The s13 turbo bolts straight on. I'm hoping to go even bigger if i can, i may have to mount a fan in front of the intercooler / radiator and do away with the stock ones to going the room for a bigger one. The stock turbo says m25 on it, I'm guessing it is like a T25. It think the s13 turbo is a T28. I cant get the stock turbo to sustain more than 10psi at about 7500rpm, but it is extremely responsive, and at about 4500rpm it tops out at about 19psi. I'v been told the the s13 turbo can sustain 14psi to redline.
Swirl pot. Around the track I'm having to start with over half a tank of fuel so that it doesn't run out of juice around corners. I'm going to install a swirl pot to remedy this, the only other option is to install baffles in the fuel tank. Not important for a street car.
Q & A with Fireballs
posted 25 September 2001 02:34 PM
Some more info I just emailed:
Q. I wanted to contact you on your swap, to see if you have any more specific notes on your
motor mounts, I guess what I am getting at is, the actual mount location on the Exa is the same as
the SR20DET, meaning I can use the centerlines of my existing mounts to figure location of the new mount?
A. no, unfortunately they are all in the same place, the centres are probably in the same place, but they swapped the ring and pin around
in other words, instead of the ring being on the car, its on the sr20.
but the left mount i was able to bolt straight on from an n13 pulsar (3 out of 4 holes on the gear box were the same)
the right mount, i used the ring on the sr20, and cut up others to make the car half, including the orgininal n13 pulsar mount.
the rear mount. The rear mount was made from half the n13 pulsar mount, and half the sr20 mount. I dont have any pics, but i can take some if you end up needing me to.
Q. Anyhow, if you have pictures of your mounts that you fabbed, or notes about what you made,
that would cut down my fab time greatly.
What Crossmember did you use?
A. I bent and cut and welded the cross member to go through the engine in the right place
Q. I'm looking at getting NX2000 spindles, and possibly the drive axles to use on the SR20DET,
hopefully these will work. You said you used the N13 Pulsar spindles and drive axles?
A. yes
Q. Lastly, do you have the wiring information on the wire splices under the hood and to the dash?
I have done a USDM 240SX S13 to SR20DET already, so I can figure out the wiring, but if you already have that
information, I would appreciate it if I could get a copy.
A. I used an after market computer, and the supplied wiring loom, unless you are planning on using the same computer, i cant help you much, i hooked into the original harness in a few places at the computer end (fuel pump, power, speedo, tacho), and another place on the fan relay