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With current irrigation rates depleting the Ogallala portion of the High Plains aquifer by 2 to 4 feet annually, while the aquifer naturally recharges itself at the rate of less than one-half inch per year, it's obvious something has to change. Such an imbalance cannot be sustained indefinitely.
Absent the ability to coerce increased recharge from rain or snow in the region, it would appear limiting irrigation would be the most effective option to extending the aquifer's productive lifespan. However, that same irrigation helps sustain and grow the entire state economy. According to the Kansas Department of Agriculture, ag accounts for 19 percent of the state Gross Domestic Product and 17 percent of the labor force.
There has been no shortage of efficiency tactics employed by the stewards of Kansas farmland. Converting to no-till techniques, crop choices, improved irrigation technology, crop genetics and in some cases dryland farming come to mind immediately. The voluntary effort to reduce irrigation by a small slice in Northwest Kansas Groundwater Management District No. 4, as noted before, is exemplary.
Still, researchers at Kansas State University predict the aquifer to be 70-percent depleted within 50 years if current irrigation practices continue.
Leave it to the Kansas Water Authority to explore a radically different solution. Rather than focusing on use, the KWA is spending up to $300,000 to revisit a decades-old study that had suggested diverting excess water from the Missouri River to help refill the Ogallala. A 1982 study looked at the feasibility and cost of transferring the river water from near White Cloud and then moving it 360 miles through an aqueduct to a reservoir near Utica.
The price tag estimated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers back then was $3.6 billion. The Hays Daily News has discovered since reporting on this subject that the figure actually was reflected in 1976 dollars. Inflation during the past 38 years likely will result in an astronomical figure with the updated study.
It will be an uphill battle. Literally. White Cloud is situated at 883 feet above sea level. Utica's elevation? 2,625 feet.
We have confidence engineers could make it happen. More of a struggle might be found with water claims of other states and environmental impacts of both a lessened Mighty Mo and the aqueduct itself.
While the correct amount of money can make all hurdles passable, one question remains: Will it be a worthwhile investment for Kansas? Looking at the 19 percent of GDP, the local tax bases agriculture supports, and the communities that thrive because of farmers -- then it's worth exploring.
But before we get too far with planning this massive project, we would hope the new study recounts these facts about Kansas irrigators:
* They account for 85 percent of the consumptive use of water in the state.
* Of the 9.5 million acres planted with wheat in 2012, only 630,000 were irrigated; yields were 33.9 million bushels from irrigated land and 348.3 million bushels from non-irrigated. Kansas is the nation's top wheat producer without much reliance on irrigation.
* Corn farmers have a different story. The 3.1 million acres planted on non-irrigated land last year produced 121.2 million bushels, while the 1.6 million acres of irrigated corn yielded 258 million bushels. The production puts the state 10th in the country.
If the state eventually finds the water transfer plan makes sense and is worth the investment, we would offer it would have to come with serious strings attached. Crop choices might not be left to the individual farmer.
It doesn't fit with the limited free market ag economy existing today, but if production is dependent on enormous public investment -- the public needs to have a voice in future allocations of the aquifer. Profits still could be privatized, but the Department of Agriculture and the Kansas Water Authority will need to weigh in on planting decisions.
The loss of autonomy might be a small price to pay for the ability to stay in business.
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Kingman Training Chaser review (#3) - Initial Thoughts
Just got this sucker in the mail, thank you Josh (Shunut) and Kingman, for the awesome prize drawings you guys do.
In the box impressions:
The first thing I noticed when I opened the box was that it looked REALLY solid, and I mean solid enough to take some abuse. It also looked pretty intimidating, and reminded me quite a bit of a Glock Subcompact. [Note: even though this is a paintball marker, they should always be treated with the same care and respect as a real firearm.] The marker seemed much more proportionate to the frame than the stock photo pictures make it seem. The pictures also make it seem plastic, when in fact the body is made out of the same material as the newer Spyders, and the milling (including the meat left on the body) remind me a lot of the MR series. While the frame is composite plastics, at first glance it looks like powdercoated aluminum. Also in the box was a plastic jar with 100 rounds of .43 cal (11mm) paint marked Premium grade and 2 12gram CO2 cartridges. Upon closer inspection, the paint seemed to have been opened (I'm assuming to check for breaks before shipment) and the cartridges reminded me of the newer Crossman cartridges, but with KT logos on them.
In my hands:
Even with the composite frame, the marker felt a bit heavier than I expected. It was just a bit front-heavy, but I'm sure that once you install the 12g it will even it out. I'm about 5'10 and my hand from palm to tip is the length of the frame. The magazine release is positioned so that even when you grip the frame as hard as you can, your middle finger will only slightly brush against it, with nowhere near enough pressure to press it. But, loosen your grip and slip your middle finger up an inch, and it sticks out enough that you can release it without even looking at it. At first the frame felt a bit big in my hand, but it is slimmed down as much as possible while still being able to accommodate the magazine and 12g chambers, while the trigger guard is large enough to wear gloves with and still have a lot of moving room. The grips themselves are very thin and made of a hard rubber, but they have palm swells, which I thought was a very nice touch.
The tear-down:
Part 1 The Cocking Mechanism
Being the tinkerer and long-time Spyder enthusiast that I am, the next obvious step for me was to tear it apart and see how it ticks. I took off the plastic slide, which connects to the bolt and cocks the gun like any normal blowback, by simply removing a screw and nut combo VERY similar to the Tippmann marker design, just much smaller. Upon further inspection, this screw rests against the cocking pin of the bolt, and allows the slide to pull the bolt back into the cocked position. Underneath the slide was the slide return spring, which sat in a groove and was held in place by a notch on the body. This spring keeps the slide in position when not being used, much like the T-handle on the spyder MR2 and MR3. I then took off the frame, which was held on just like any other marker. In order to figure out what to take apart next, I consulted the manual.
Part 2 The Linkage Arm
On the right side of the marker (with the barrel facing away from you) is a long metal strip held in place by two screws, each of which seemed to be held in place with a light grade thread sealant. The sealant is very important to remember, since it holds the #1 thing to keep the gun from falling apart in place. Under this metal strip is the linkage arm. The arm functions much like the arm on the At, by connecting the front and back of the firing mechanism together into one movement. Those of you familiar with the A5 design know how the cocking handle on the linkage arm both cock the hammer/sear and bolt. The pistol does the same thing, but in stacked-tube fashion.
Part 3 The Dual Striker Design
Where in the A5 the bolt connects to the hammer, in the Chaser the front has the sear catch (referred to in the manual as the front striker [Note: the term hammer and striker are interchangeable]) while the rear has the plunger portion of the hammer, referred to as the rear striker. The plunger is the part that actually connects with the valve, which, unlike other Spyders, is located BEHIND the trigger assembly. Yep, thats right, in order to make a compact pistol, the paint and air is loaded via the center of the body, instead of from the front like a normal stacked-tube blowback (STBB). The plunger functions just like the striker on a normal spyder, including connecting to the bolt, except that the sear lip (which connects to the trigger assembly) is absent, due to it being located on the front striker, and it lacks a rear velocity adjuster, which baffled me for a minute. I had a hunch as to where it was located, but I had to finish taking both strikers out first. My hunch was correct, and the velocity adjuster is actually located at the front of the marker, deep inside the orange cap of the pistol. [Note, other than the 12g plug, the cap is the only thing that distinguishes the marker from an actual handgun.] At first I suspected that the cap held the set screw, but the cap is in fact hollow and the set screw is built into the front striker itself. Even though the velocity adjuster and main spring are reverse from a full-bodied STBBwith the adjuster in front of the spring instead of behind itthey function exactly the same. Screwing in the velocity adjuster compresses the spring, causing velocity to increase, by making the rear striker keep the valve open longer (aka, increased dwell) .An interesting thing I noticed is that the striker buffer sits in a metal plate inside of the body, which doubles as the backstop for the main spring.
Part 4 The Air Line and the Valve
In order to get to the valve, you must first remove the brass pierce pin assembly and unscrew the screw inside the brass assembly. At first the pierce pin seemed to be made of a cheap metal, but upon closer inspection its really made of steel, so it should hold up for a very long time. Kingman was also kind enough to include a spare pierce pin seal in the spare parts bag. After the brass assembly has been removed, the valve set screw can be seen and the valve can be pushed out fairly easily. The valve itself is set up like your standard Kingman valve, except that it is all contained within one unit. The front cap of the valve screws off to release the valve pin and valve spring. The valve itself seems to have taken some cues from aftermarket Spyder valves in that it has two holes drilled at 90* angles on the top and side of the valve body. This has been done by various manufacturers to increase the volume of air being held in the valve, which helps to decrease shot drop-off during high rates of fire by decreasing recharge time between shots.
Final thoughts:
I'm really impressed with the design of the marker, and even moreso the build quality. I expected a cheap plastic feel, but even the plastic feels durable and solid. The dual detents is a very unexpected touch While I wish the parts kit came with a spare pierce pin and a small tube of oil, it did come with a variety of spares, including two detents, 1 each of valve and striker o-rings, a full set of screws, pierce pin and valve cup seals, extra detent cover, and even a spare linkage arm and microfiber cloth! And I was very impressed to notice a generous amounts of oil (thicker consistency than Gold Cup, possibly Tri-Flow) on the valve and rear striker. Although I would assume that the bolt would have o-rings on it, which it does not.
I'm not going to rate this yet as I haven't shot it, but so far, this could easily become my sidearm of choice.
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This review makes me actually want to own one of these. Before I wasn't too interested, but now I really wish I had the extra coin to throw at this.
I think this should be rewritten in a non-paragraph based format and released by Kingman. It is that good.
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May is National Stroke Awareness Month
Joe E.
Friday, September 6, 2013
By: Joe Eliasen
On Aug 30, 2013 I gave my mom a hug and told her "I love you, and Happy Birthday!"
On September 2,2013 I was rushing to the ER after receiving a voice mail from my dad saying my mom had just had a stroke! My mom suffered a massive hemorrhagic stroke.
On September 3, 2013 I said goodbye to my mom for the last time.
My mom was a smoker (quit in 1985), suffered from high BP and A-fib. Like most people you don't think of these things until you're personally affected. I would urge everyone to start to think of these things NOW. Don't wait for you or a loved one to experience a CVA to act.
My mom was a loving, caring and gentle soul who would do anything for anyone. She will be missed greatly by her family and friends.
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Xbox debuted its new dashboard this week, complete with the option to use the Bing search engine to find the best matches for anything I'm looking for that is Xbox-accessible.
I tested it.
The results? The voice commands worked quickly and specific searches came up with what I wanted... sometimes. The big issue was with searching in general terms (an idea inspired by Eurogamer's trouble finding all the best RPGs). By trying to browse using generic terms you end up with a ton of useless and outdated hits. Maybe it's nit-picky of me, but I feel like Microsoft has to clean up the way Bing weeds out its search results.


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In CUDA, Supercomputing for the Masses Part 20, I focused on the analysis capability of Parallel Nsight v1.0 coupled with the NVIDIA Tools extension (NVTX) library to illustrate asynchronous I/O, hybrid CPU/GPU computing, and the performance of primitive restart to dramatically accelerate OpenGL rendering in CUDA applications. (Note that Parallel Nsight 1.5 has been released, which is now compatible with Visual Studio 2010 and further refines the Parallel Nsight experience.)
This article will focus on Fermi and the architectural changes that significantly broaden the types of applications that map well to GPGPU computing while maintaining the performance benefits provided by previous generations of CUDA-enabled GPUs. Particular attention will be paid to how the Fermi architecture affects CUDA memory spaces. Also discussed will be how the Fermi architecture moves GPU computing into mainstream 24/7 production computing with error correction and other robustness features.
Fermi is the internal name that NVIDIA uses for the GF100 architecture that has many expanded capabilities to overcome computational limitations in the previous G80 and follow-on GT200 series of architectures. Variants of the Fermi architecture are used in the GeForce 400 and Tesla 20-series of products.
GPGPU computing has now permeated all aspect of global computing technology. From ultra-low-power CUDA-enabled GPUs to the largest supercomputers in the world such as China's Tianhe-1A (meaning Milky Way), which can perform 1 quadrillion peak floating-point operations, GPGPU computing is redefining what is possible on a computer. Review my article for the GPU Source issue of Scientific Computing, "Redefining what is possible" and my GTC presentation "Supercomputing for the Masses: Killer-Apps, Parallel Mappings, Scalability and Application Lifespan" for a more in-depth analysis. Tianhe-1A was recently named as the world's fastest supercomputer in the Top500 list.
Aside from creating opportunities throughout science and industry for the developers of GPU software, this ubiquity (as illustrated by NVIDIA's claim of 250+ million CUDA-enabled GPUs sold to date) has driven the evolution of CUDA-enabled GPU architectures so they can efficiently run applications in more problem domains. Further, it has forced GPU hardware designers to harden GPGPU technology against common errors so that many GPGPUs can simultaneously be used in 24/7 production environments to reliably run applications for extended periods measured in days, weeks and months. Examples include rendering farms that create animated movies and supercomputers that run some of the largest physics simulations in the world.
Both as a result of Fermi and also due to the maturation of CUDA and GPU programming in general, the thinking behind how to program GPU technology is changing. Just as the Bebop (Berkeley Benchmarking and OPtimization) group led the way with publications like the Volkov and Demmel paper "Benchmarking GPUs to Tune Dense Linear Algebra" for high performance on earlier GPU architectures, so are they are changing the thinking about occupancy as is discussed in the hyperlink and will be discussed in this article.
An overview of Fermi changes
A brief overview of changes made in the GF100 architecture includes:
- A unified 64-bit memory space with:
- Pointers can now refer to local, shared, and global memory locations, and are portable among threads.
- Support for a per-thread stack and recursion.
- Full 32-bit ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) integer operations.
- Improved 64-bit data paths in shared memory.
- ECC capability on all global and internal memory and other robustness improvements.
- Fermi's upgraded configurable L1 cache and unified coherent L2 cache across the GPU provide:
- The ability to broadcast read-only cached data from global memory just like constant memory.
- Registers now spill to fast cache rather than global memory, which might speed application performance.
- Accelerated irregular memory accesses within the cache.
- An order of magnitude (10x) faster atomic operations.
- An improved GigaThread engine that:
- Supports concurrent kernel execution (and increased efficiency for unbalanced loads).
- Provides 10x faster context switching (that demonstrates a nearly 5x faster frames per second, FPS, rate on the virtual terrain demo from Part 18).
- Delivers concurrent bi-directional data transfers to/from the GPU across the PCIe bus.
- Numerous streaming-multiprocessor improvements including:
- Dual-dispatch scheduling that allows better utilization of the SFU (Special Function Units), integer and other pipelines.
- Hardware that accelerates small conditional branching and predication.
- Improved speed and accuracy of various math operations.
All these hardware capabilities translate to a higher-performance more generalized CPU-like GPGPU programming experience that can efficiently support a broader range of applications. Kudos to the CUDA software development teams that have leveraged these capabilities to further increase performance and support Fermi architecture GPGPUs including:
- Recursive functions.
- Function pointers.
- (Note: in CUDA 3.2 use
__forceinline__on functions to force inlining again.)
- C++ features such as:
- Virtual functions.
- On GPU "new" and "delete" operators for dynamic objects on the GPU.
- Try/catch/throw exception handling.
Please see the Fermi Compatibility guide to understand how Fermi related changes have affected the
nvcc compiler command-line arguments for building Fermi CUDA applications.
Fermi architecture products include the GF100 and variants classified as the GF104/106/108 and just released GF110 series. Differences include:
- Designated as compute capability 2.0 devices.
- Each Streaming Multiprocessor (SM) contains:
- 32 Shader Processors (SP).
- 4 SFU (Special Function Units).
- 4 texture filtering units for every texture address unit or Render Output Unit (ROP).
- Designated as compute capability 2.1 devices.
- Each Streaming Multiprocessor (SM) contains:
- 48 Shader Processors (SP).
- 8 SFU (Special Function Units).
- 8 texture filtering units for every texture address unit or Render Output Unit (ROP).
Each complete die contains varying amounts of texture capabilities shown in Table 1:
Various features of the GF100 architecture are available only on the more expensive Tesla series of cards. For consumer products, double precision performance has been limited to a quarter of that of the "full" Fermi architecture. Error checking and correcting memory (ECC) is also disabled on consumer cards.
Vasily Volkov has an excellent set of slides discussing how Fermi follows the trend towards an inverse memory hierarchy, "Programming inverse memory hierarchy: case of stencils on GPUs." The basic idea is that registers and on-chip local memory is fast and can scale with local processors and massive numbers of threads. This suggests that tiled/stencil algorithms on such systems should be stored in the upper, larger levels of the memory hierarchy such as registers instead of the traditionally used lower, smaller levels such as caches or local stores. (His slides, "Better Performance at Lower Occupancy" from the 2010 GTC conference are also an excellent source of information.)
Fermi, along with other processors, seem to be following this trend towards an inverse memory hierarchy as shown in this table created with data from, "Programming inverse memory hierarchy: case of stencils on GPUs." Note how the gap in memory hierarchy ratios is decreasing as parallelism increases. Succinctly, a single-thread won't see the inverse hierarchy. The inversion is caused by massive-parallelism, which motivates the use of large amounts of thread local data that can scale along with the number of processing elements. This also ties into the ILP (Instruction Level Parallelism) discussion in "Registers and warp scheduling" section of this article, see Table 2.


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Many Olympians have represented the USA throughout the years and showed everyone why they are proud to be an American. The USA is symbolized by record-holding medalists and other athletes who have overcome all odds to compete in their sport. These talented athletes will forever be remembered as they continue to inspire others to follow their dreams.
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"Miss Jen, when I grow up, I will name my daughter Jennifer."
A simple sentence can sometimes be enough to get one through a very challenging week (or two).
During the final week of a long school year, one of the 11 year-old students in the after-school filmmaking program I run and teach uttered that wonderful, simple sentence.
It was not the sentence in itself that held such important meaning, but also the student who spoke it. This student had driven me crazy at the beginning of the year. He could not sit still. He could not listen. He constantly tested the limits.
Yet, through care and patience on the part of myself and my co-teacher Jim and through the power of theatre and film, this student changed.
Editing film requires a lot of patience, difficult for any 11 year-old. Yet, this student, who at the beginning of the year could not sit still for even a couple of minutes, fell in love with film. So much so, that while other students are outside on the playground, he prefers for the two of us to go inside and work on the film -- editing and selecting music.
As I reflected on a hectic school year, I think of this particular student and of so many other students who changed as they participated in the program, I realize that all of the challenges and moments of insanity have been worth it.
"When I grow up, I will name my daughter Jennifer."
I reply, "When you are old enough to have a child, you won't even remember me."
"Yes, I will Miss Jen. Yes, I will," is his simple response.
He will and so will I. I will always remember him and the rest of these students.
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BlackBerry CEO Thinks Net Neutrality Means Forcing Developers To Make Apps For His Struggling Platform
from the you,-sir,-are-ridiculous deptIf you hadn't noticed, BlackBerry isn't doing so well in the company's battle to maintain relevance in a mobile ecosystem dominated by Apple and Google. While the company maintains a small but vocal component of fans, efforts to launch compelling new devices have generally stumbled around intoxicated before falling down, and the company has spent the lion's share of the last few years demanding it's still relevant, engaging in strange squabbles and denying reports that it's about to be put out to pasture via acquisition.
Apparently, as part of an effort to gain some attention and play kissy face with large carriers, BlackBerry CEO John Chen this week blogged about net neutrality. His missive starts off innocently enough, pointing out how net neutrality is hard to define. He then proceeds to try and argue that more flexible, tougher Title II-based laws aren't necessary because of the "Carterfone" provisions attached to the U.S. wireless spectrum:
"Those rules, advocated at the time by Google and a coalition of public interest groups, mandate two key non-discrimination principles – no blocking and no locking – which have proven to be a solid model for wireless carrier neutrality regulation....Verizon won the entire C block in the 2008 auction, and has lived under those rules ever since. The rules have withstood the test of time and have functioned well. There is no evidence the rules have failed to achieve their purpose or have failed to protect the principle of an open wireless internet."Except he's wrong. While those spectrum conditions were supposed to protect consumers from discrimination, they contained enough wiggle room in the wording to ensure that wireless carriers could get away with anti-competitive shenanigans -- provided they pretended it was for the health and security of the network. That's why, when Verizon Wireless and friends blocked Google Wallet to give their own mobile payment platform a leg up (which amusingly didn't work), the carriers simply had to vaguely claim it was for security's sake. Basically, those rules haven't stopped carriers from all manner of bad behavior -- just as long as they defend the behavior with some ambiguous, faux-technical jargon.
From there, Chen tries to kiss up to AT&T and Verizon by attacking Title II and Netflix (the latter being all the rage right now among ISPs and friends), trying to claim that because a company doesn't spend time and money to make apps for unpopular platforms, it's violating net neutrality:
"Netflix, which has forcefully advocated for carrier neutrality, has discriminated against BlackBerry customers by refusing to make its streaming movie service available to them. Many other applications providers similarly offer service only to iPhone and Android users. This dynamic has created a two-tiered wireless broadband ecosystem, in which iPhone and Android users are able to access far more content and applications than customers using devices running other operating systems. These are precisely the sort of discriminatory practices that neutrality advocates have criticized at the carrier level."Except of course that's total nonsense. Android and iOS, while certainly no stranger to anti-competitive shenanigans of their own, enjoy their dominant wireless market share primarily because they're excellent platforms. Developers would most certainly pay more attention to BlackBerry if the company's market share hadn't tanked (it's somewhere around 2% of all smartphones as of last year). Instead of staying quiet and remaining focused on making better products, Chen's silly solution is net neutrality rules that force developers to make applications and services for struggling platforms:
"Neutrality must be mandated at the application and content layer if we truly want a free, open and non-discriminatory internet. All wireless broadband customers must have the ability to access any lawful applications and content they choose, and applications/content providers must be prohibited from discriminating based on the customer's mobile operating system."We've seen so many ridiculous, riff arguments against net neutrality over the years (like the idea of search neutrality), it's hard to tell if Chen is being serious. Perhaps the BlackBerry CEO is a comedic genius, and this is a masterful troll or some amazing new performance art? Because if he's serious, BlackBerry's basically arguing that because it can't compete, government should come in and force developers to craft products for unsuccessful platforms. Given the ridiculous strain this would put on companies (especially small developers) this is obviously not happening, and BlackBerry's going to have to climb out of its deep, dark popularity hole like a big boy if it wants to maintain market relevance.
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Time flies…
I think of you BabyLeggers every day, and I truly know how blissful it is to hold your little ones. My own babies are now 12 and 10 years old, and it seems like long ago and far away that they were tiny, like so many of yours.
Though I'm not one to dispense advice or get overly-sentimental, I want to reach out to all of you who have kids in your lives. Why? Well, here at BabyLegs, we feel intimately connected to you because you care enough to protect your children with BabyLegs. When I think of your daily routines and all of the joys and challenges of raising children, I'm reminded of days that seemed like an endless chain of diaper-changes, crying, feeding, laundry, chores, and yes, even bouts of loneliness.
When the kids were small, my neighbor was an elderly woman named Sally. She would see me in the yard with the kids, slathering them with sunscreen on hot days, entertaining them with the garden hose, cutting up snacks, reading to them, laughing at their antics, and getting frustrated if they bickered. As if she could read my thoughts, she'd say: "Every day seems like a year for you now. But later on, the years will have flown by like days." She was right.
The pictures that you BabyLeggers send to us, of your little ones playing or even napping, remind me that we often wish our lives away. We wish that the hard days would hurry into night, we can't wait until the babies walk and talk, we hurry toward a finish line at the end of every goal. And then suddenly, your babies are teenagers. The years passed as quickly as days.
So here's a little Tuesday reminder to cherish every moment, hold the babies without thinking that you might spoil them (you CAN'T!), and make every effort to engrave every these moments in your hearts.
BabyLegs loves your babies!


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copyright © 2005 Olga Kizlova
After returning from a month-long concert tour of Italy, Ukraine's National Academic Symphony Orchestra held its first concert of the 2005 season, as always performing to a full house at the Lysenko Hall of Columns of the National Philharmonic. The concert program and repertoire transcended the traditional bounds. After another tour of Italy a year ago a tragedy befell the orchestra when its 29-year-old soloist, flute section concertmaster and laureate of numerous international competitions, Volodymyr Dmytriyev, passed away after a protracted illness. His orchestra colleagues, students and teachers from the Lysenko School of Music, fellow students and lecturers of the Tchaikovsky Academy, and many professional Ukrainian musicians came to pay their last respects. The orchestra's latest concert, conceived at the site of his fresh grave, was a musical commemoration of this gifted musician.
It was a grand, pure, and bright concert, during which the National Symphony Orchestra performed four large cycles, directed by the chief conductor Volodymyr Sirenko, Merited Artiste of Russia and Ukraine, and laureate of Ukraine's National Shevchenko Prize. Oleh Kudriashov spoke fondly of his student and then performed Vitaly Hubarenko's "Concerto for Flute and String Orchestra". It was another brilliant performance of one of the best flute pieces of the 20th century, which the composer dedicated to Kudriashov 40 years ago. It was also part of Dmytriyev's repertoire. Then People's Artiste of Ukraine Natalia Svyrydenko, Kudriashov's partner in the Dmytro Bortniansky Trio, performed French composer Francis Poulenc's "Concert Champêtre for Harpsichord and Orchestra." Ms. Svyrydenko explained her choice: "Volodia spent the best days of his life in France. Moreover, I repeatedly discussed with Volodymyr Sirenko the idea of performing it for the first time in Ukraine. This wonderful composition and the opportunity to perform it with an outstanding symphony orchestra was the motivating force behind this idea. Volodia himself was looking forward to the premiere. The light and occasionally sad music of the concerto is worthy of his memory."
After the interlude, Dmytriyev's older brother Oleksandr performed Shostakovich's "Second Cello Concerto." The concerto perfectly conveys the sense of irreparable loss and the fragility and fleeting nature of life. An outstanding and mature musician, Oleksandr Dmytriyev performed a brilliant rendition of the composer's concept, bringing tears to the eyes of many listeners in the audience and musicians onstage.
The last to perform was mezzo-soprano Maria Lypynska, who sang a cycle of Gustav Mahler songs based on the poetry of Felix Ruckert. This young soloist has a very beautiful, even, clear, and deep voice. Mahler's songs were a sad yet dazzling finale of the concert.
Still, the main performer of the night was the orchestra, whose members perform simply. Hidden behind this seeming simplicity are the experience and grandeur of the orchestra. The musicians amazed the audience with the wonderful sound of numerous solos and ensembles of wind instruments, and the even and noble timbre of string instruments. The musicians skillfully convey all the diversity, depth, intellectuality, emotionality, contrast and subtlety of every detail. Without a doubt, much of the credit for this goes to its chief conductor. The National Symphony Orchestra has often been directed by other gifted conductors, both young and experienced, yet, none of them make the orchestra sound as mature and perfect as Sirenko.
After the concert, the maestro shared his thoughts: "Volodymyr Dmytriyev was a bright and very gentle person, and a brilliant musician. When he died, his father Kostiantyn said rightly, 'In achieving humility, he acquitted himself honorably,' a nearly impossible feat in our artistic milieu. During his grave illness we saw how he longed to remain in the orchestra and feel like an artist. Above all, I feel extreme sorrow — a young, humble and gifted person has passed away. It has only been three days since we returned from the tour, but we knew that we had to perform this concert."
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Ukraine Report 1 of 1 Larry Appelbaum March 07, 05
Always nice to hear from Olga and learn what is happening in Ukraine. Just curious, what's the connection to jazz?
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Mayhem Festival 2012 Gets Off to Blistering Start in California
If there is one metal festival you should see this year, it would be the Mayhem Festival. This year's tour officially kicked off Saturday (June 30), and it was a first for many bands on the trek.
It was the first time that acts like Whitechapel and As I Lay Dying were able to debut new music on their current albums. It was a first time for many audience members to catch up-and-coming rock bands like I the Breather or the nattily clad Upon a Burning Body who both generated some attention. But most importantly, it was the first time that U.S. audiences have caught Slipknot since the death of bassist Paul Gray.
That being said, the audience was well aware of the significance of the show as evidenced by the endless sea of cell phones lit up as the opening notes were played and fans anxiously awaited the curtain to drop. Once it did, the band did not disappoint, showing exactly why they're one of the top concert draws in rock. Whether it be the percussive power of Joey Jordison, Shawn Crahan, and Chris Fehn, the showmanship of singer Corey Taylor, the magnified brilliance of guitarist Mick Thomson on a night when Jim Root was not around to aid the guitar attack, or the boundless energy of stagediving DJ Sid Wilson, who also completed several leaps onto the hydraulic 360 drum riser of Crahan. Their performance hit high notes on such favorites as 'Wait and Bleed,' 'Heretic Anthem,' and 'Psychosocial.'
Guitarist Jim Root missed the Mayhem tour kickoff due to an unexpected sidelining. #4 had been ill for weeks leading up to the show before heading to the hospital where he was diagnosed with a burst appendix. Root will likely miss a few more shows before joining Slipknot out on the road but is looking forward to joining his bandmates and fans according to the statement released by the band.
Slipknot had company on the bill by some acts that Chris Fehn told Loudwire they were definitely influenced by. Fehn admitted his admiration for Slayer, and the band put on a powerful and technically awe-inspiring set. With the crucifix setup of the speakers overhead, the band added in a pyro show that was not to be missed with flames emerging from each of the speakers in perfect timing to the beats of lightning quick drummer Dave Lombardo. But the heat onstage was only the beginning as a couple of bonfires generated on the lawn during Slayer's set. Things reached a fevered pitch with circle pits forming all throughout the crowd during the fan favorite track 'Raining Blood.'
The main stage also featured stellar performances from the always-rocking Motorhead and the Devil Wears Prada, who showed exactly why now is the right time for them to be releasing a live album. Meanwhile, Anthrax headlined a second stage where Asking Alexandria stood up to the challenge of winning fans over and As I Lay Dying and Whitechapel powered through performances.
Following Saturday's tour opener in San Bernardino, Calif. the Rockstar Mayhem Festival packed up and headed for Mountain View, Calif. for the second stop Sunday night. The tour is booked through Aug. 5.


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A surveillance system helps to protect your property and gives you a sense of security and safety when it comes to your home, business, family, and belongings. Knowing what happens when you are not around can benefit you tremendously. Perhaps you would like to keep an eye on employees, your nanny, your children, or even your dog. A surveillance system can help you do that and with a 2 camera system you don't have to go over budget to get those results.
With a 2 camera system the placement of your cameras is very important. Of course you will want to consider vulnerable areas such as the front and back door, your driveway, and inside the house around high dollar items. However, to pick 2 locations you will have to determine your most vulnerable spots. Statistics show that more thieves enter through the front door than anywhere else. Once inside they will go for the obvious items such as your TV or home computer. Therefore, you might want to place one camera outside over the front door and the other inside by your electronics. Then again, if your car is the concern and you park outside, having a camera look over your driveway is a good idea too.
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Four-time Olympic gold medalist Missy Franklin will swim her senior season of high school
Imagine LeBron James driving the lane against 17-year-olds. Ray Lewis busting through the line on a Friday night football game. Usain Bolt stepping into the blocks at an after-school track meet. Justin Verlander firing fastballs at kids who are preparing for proms. Terrifying, right? Now you've got an idea of what opponents of four-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer Missy Franklin will be facing this winter.
Franklin will be rejoining her Regis Jesuit High School team this season for an abbreviated schedule. Yes, an Olympian going back to swim at high school. Going to be interesting, yes?
However, Regis Jesuit athletic director John Koslosky told the Denver Post that this won't be a situation where Olympics fans can just show up at a meet and see Franklin. "Last year, there were all sorts of cameras everywhere," he said. "Missy was concerned about it, and I think that's what made her struggle in making this decision. But she said she wanted to pass on turning pro and attend college, and she signed to do that, and she said she wants to swim with her teammates and her school."
The school is also going to be working with the Colorado High School Activities Association to be sure that Franklin's meets don't turn into absolute circuses.
Franklin, who won four golds and a bronze this summer, announced in October that she will be swimming for California next season under Teri McKeever, who was also the head coach of the U.S. Olympic women's team. That decision cost her millions in immediate endorsement money, as she had to preserve her amateur status in the wake of the London Games in order to swim for California. Franklin's current plans are to swim for Cal for two years before turning pro.
Now, it's important to note that what Franklin is doing is not only perfectly within the rules of her sport, it's rather morally impressive as well, turning down money and fame in return for education and bonding with her friends and teammates. And her opponents will surely relish the chance to swim against an Olympic legend. Beat her? Well, that'd be a whole different story.
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Toothpaste Allergies
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Toothpaste Allergies Are Rare
Toothpaste allergies are rare and should probably be on the short list of potential allergens. However, allergy doctors have reported that some patients do have allergic reactions to toothpaste ingredients.
Toothpaste Ingredients
Ingredients found in toothpaste have a low allergic sensitivity rate which contributes to the rarity of this type of allergy. Toothpaste ingredients have changed dramatically over the past 20 years as manufacturers refine their formulas to make them safer and more effective.
However, the primary toothpaste ingredient known to cause some allergic problems are oil of peppermint. Peppermint reactions are generally mild and resolve themselves by switching to a different flavor or brand of toothpaste. For example, Contact Dermatitis reported in 1998 that a person who developed severe chapped lips (cheilitis) was a result of a contact allergy to spearmint oil that was traced to toothpaste.
A 2004 issue of the journal Dermatology contained a case report of a suspected allergy to fluoride containing toothpaste. The report concluded that fluoridated toothpaste may cause recurrent aphthous stomatitis, a condition more commonly known as "canker sores" in some people. Other ingredients found in toothpaste can cause allergic reactions, such as cinnamic aldehyde, papain and balsam of peru.
Read toothpaste labels carefully and check with your pharmacist if you have any questions before buying. It is also wise to avoid special formulations for 'tartar-control' or 'tooth-whitening' and stick with good ole toothpaste known to do the job. There are however, many toothpaste products which are sold as hypoallergenic by companies which are known to have safe products. I recommend buying the smallest tube possible and making sure you do not have an allergic response before continuing with a larger size.
If you experience an allergic reaction immediately following brushing of your teeth such as swelling, redness, dryness, or infection in your mouth, contact your dentist immediately.
About the author:
Ann Barlow is a dental hygienist in Clearwater Florida and writes for industry related newsletters.
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Early preview versions of Internet Explorer 11 lacked Emulation features that we saw in Internet Explorer 9 and 10. When Windows 8.1 shipped, Internet Explorer 11 was found to have the Emulation features shipped with it. These tools are helpful, though they can be misleading at times.
My general workflow in the past when using these tools goes like this: A user reports an issue in Internet Explorer x. I instruct the latest version of Internet Explorer to emulate the reported version. If I encounter the same issue, I can debug using the modern version of Internet Explorer. If emulation does not reveal the same issue, I need to load up a virtual machine, or use a service like BrowserStack.
The problem with these tools is that it's not entirely clear where the line of reliability resides. To what degree this emulation replicates the native experience is unknown (to me, at least). Due to this, I've decided to do a deep dive into Emulation and see just how reliable it is, and in which areas.
Computed Styles
The first dive wasinto Computed Styles. Does Internet Explorer generate the same computed styles as IE10 and IE9 when it is emulating those versions? Surprisingly, yes. Granted, I'm running instances of IE10 and IE9 in a Virtual Machine (compliments of modern.ie), so that should be considered. Also other important thing to note is that this pass-through assumes Standards Mode.
The comparison tables are being maintained in a Google Docs spreadsheet. Click the preview below for the full view.
Window Object
My next focus was on cycling over enumerable properties on the window object and laying those out for comparison. A cursory glance of this next table will reveal that Internet Explorer 11 emulates the window object from IE9 and IE10 very well. Granted, there are some very clear examples of where it brought along a couple extra methods and properties.
It's worth noting that this particular table had to be done a couple of times. Some of these members don't attach themselves to the window object until certain actions are performed. For instance, this table is front-loaded with a bunch of BROWSERTOOLS members that are pushed onto the window object when various portions of the developer tools are opened. Other members, such as $0, don't exist until you perform an action like selecting an element in the DOM Explorer.


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Reality TV Makes 'Naked' Bid For Ratings
Discovery Channel is baring it all for its new survival series.
Several other reality survival series have already tested participants' ability to hunt and create shelter. Discovery chose to up the ante, dropping cast members into remote, wild locations–completely nude. The show is sure to test the limits of what the public will accept from reality shows.
"Naked and Afraid" will feature two complete strangers, one man and one woman, for 21 days as they attempt to survive and navigate their way to a predetermined extraction point, one to 10 miles from their drop-off location. Each episode features a different couple in a different location and will premiere June 23.
As part of the show, the survivalists' are allowed one personal item of their choosing. They are also given a "rudimentary map" and Go Pro cameras, "which were rolling at all times," according to Denise Contis, an executive producer on the show.
While navigating the terrain of the Maldives, Panama and Boreo may have been a first time experience for the participants, all of whom classify themselves as "survivalists," nudity is no longer uncharted water for the network.
"Naked Castaway," which premiered in April, featured explorer Ed Stafford as he survived for 60 days sans food, clothing or tools on a deserted Fijian island.
"We wanted scenarios that are so real they are unreal," said Contis, referring to the premise of "Naked and Afraid."


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EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ - Tim Tetrick drove the 8,000th winner of his remarkable career on Thursday night at The Meadowlands, in the process becoming the youngest driver to reach that plateau in harness racing history at age 32 years and 4 months.
Tim passed the milestone in the seventh race behind Spender Hanover, affording the veteran a typical Tetrick steer placed second over behind the favorite and wearing that one down in the stretch.
Spender Hanover, an eight year old with career earnings of nearly $300,000, took a new record of 1:51.2 in the process for trainer Jeff Smith and owner Howard Ouriel.
Tetrick was greeted in the winner's circle celebration on a cold, windy night by his wife Ashley and daughter Tessa along with Meadowlands representatives Jenn Bongiorno and Justin Horowitz.
Tim is currently twenty second on the all time wins list and seventh in career earnings with over $141 million, all at the tender age of thirty two. Tetrick continues a pace that would put him in position to break every record the sport has by the time his career is complete.
The equine performer that stood out on the card was a young trotting filly. In the second race, Take The Money, a three year old daughter of Donato Hanover made it a perfect two for two in 2014 with a dominant five length romp in 1:56.1 for team Orange Crush, Andy and Julie Miller. The filly is owned by Black Horse Racing.
Racing resumes on Friday with a stellar 13-race program, including the first round of The Horse & Groom Trotting Series and a compelling Free For All Trot. Post time is 7:15 P.M.
by Darin Zoccali, for the Meadowlands


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The new universe for nominees
Washington's latest sideshow is all about Chuck Hagel, and it's got a little something for everyone.
The new: Social media campaigns on Twitter and Facebook. The old: Paul Wolfowitz and Zbigniew Brzezinski, a pair of voices from the past.
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The left: Barney Frank, coming to bat for a man he hopes will take over the Pentagon and then cut its budget. The right: Bill Kristol, who condemned Hagel as "anti-Israel" and, along with other critics, proffering the name of someone else — former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy — to take over the Defense Department from Leon Panetta.
( PHOTOS: Chuck Hagel's career)
In the center of the ring stands Hagel himself, the former Republican senator from Nebraska whom the White House has leaked as its top choice for Defense secretary, but has not actually been nominated.
With an announcement still pending, Hagel can't speak out on his own behalf. His friend, President Barack Obama, can't go to bat for him in public the way he did for his other ally, United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, when she came under fire as a possible nominee for secretary of State. And with three other major narratives soaking up Washington's precious but limited bandwidth — the ongoing fiscal cliff saga, a renewed focus on gun violence following Friday's mass shooting in Connecticut and the death of Sen. Daniel Inouye, the long-serving senator from Hawaii — there was no sign Thursday the Hagel sideshow would conclude any time soon.
So inside the national security establishment, the blows and counter-blows over Hagel rage on. After several days of attacks from Jewish groups and Israel advocates that Hagel's record showed he would not be a big enough defender as Defense secretary, Hagel's allies' first task was to try to change that narrative.
( Also on POLITICO: Hagel allies launch counter-attack)
They turned to Twitter, starting an account called "@SupportHagel" and with a convenient hashtag, #chuckhagelfacts. They created a Facebook page, "Chuck Hagel Supporters," which had a photo but no words as of POLITICO's check this afternoon. And they reached out through traditional conduits to the press, including with a fact sheet about Hagel and a letter, obtained by POLITICO, signed by nine former ambassadors lending him their support.
Part of the challenge for the White House is trying to walk a tightrope between what it's willing to leak to reporters — Hagel's our guy — and what it's willing to say publicly. Its top spokesman, Jay Carney, illustrated that dichotomy Thursday afternoon when a reporter asked him about a comment that has become a lightning rod for Hagel opponents: His 2006 allusion in an interview to the influence of "the Jewish lobby."
"You ought to address that question to Senator Hagel," Carney said. "We've been through this before, with Ambassador [Susan] Rice. This is an effort to go after somebody — we haven't nominated anyone. We've made no personnel announcement, and I'm not going to engage in that."
Hagel has declined to comment, including to POLITICO, on all the reports about him since the initial White House leaks earlier this month. But for a private citizen who has not been asked to join the president's administration, Hagel has Carney, a former journalist, eager to step up on his behalf.
"What I can say is Senator Hagel fought and bled in his country, served his country well," Carney said. "He was an excellent senator. I can say that as much as someone who covered him as much as someone speaking for the White House, but I'm not going to take part in this process."


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Signs of activity on property designated for a sheriff's substation in Marshdale are not what they seem, a spokesperson for Jefferson County said this week.
Heavy equipment and construction trailers at the location near the Bistro Restaurant belong to a contractor building a roundabout at a nearby intersection and to Jefferson County Highways and Transportation engineers who are overseeing that project.
"The contractor is simply using that area to stage his equipment and materials," said resident engineer Dixie Shear.
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The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In History
[Editor's note: While your Flavorwire editors take a much-needed holiday break, we're revisiting some of our most popular features of the year. This post was originally published June 19, 2011.] Sigh. Authors just don't insult each other like they used to. Sure, Martin Amis raised some eyebrows when he claimed he would need brain damage to write children's books, and recent Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan made waves when she disparaged the work that someone had plagiarized, but those kinds of accidental, lukewarm zingers are nothing when compared to the sick burns of yore. It stands to reason, of course, that writers would be able to come up with some of the best insults around, given their natural affinity for a certain turn of phrase and all. And it also makes sense that the people they would choose to unleash their verbal battle-axes upon would be each other, since watching someone doing the same thing you're doing — only badly — is one of the most frustrating feelings we know. So we forgive our dear authors for their spite. Plus, their insults are just so fun to read. Click through for our countdown of the thirty harshest author-on-author burns in history, and let us know if we've missed any of your favorites in the comments!
30. Gustave Flaubert on George Sand
"A great cow full of ink."
29. Robert Louis Stevenson on Walt Whitman
"…like a large shaggy dog just unchained scouring the beaches of the world and baying at the moon."
28. Friedrich Nietzsche on Dante Alighieri
"A hyena that wrote poetry on tombs."
27. Harold Bloom on J.K. Rowling (2000)
"How to read 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do."
26. Vladimir Nabokov on Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Dostoevky's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity — all this is difficult to admire."


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What's wrong with this picture? Voters waiting in line for hours to vote in Chaparral and Rio Rancho. Hard-to-update, inaccurate paper-based voter registration systems. It's little wonder that New Mexico's voter participation rate is so disappointing. Our elections should be free, fair and accessible to all New Mexicans.
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text: After looking at the new AA and Mikes Lab and a handful of others, it's deceiving but is there any toe-in at all on these boards? I see some I think are straight and then I see some that are toed in to the eye a little.? Can anyone shed some 411 on this? What's best?


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Last week, Lindsey Graham's unrelenting line of questioning compelled Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to confirm under oath that not a single military asset was deployed to help rescue besieged US personnel in the course of a terrorist raid in Benghazi, Libya. The September 11, 2012 attack lasted nearly eight hours, during which four Americans died, including our sitting ambassador. Multiple requests for increased security in the weeks and months leading up to the massacre were denied. Urgent warnings that the Benghazi consulate couldn't withstand a sustained attack were ignored. (The compound didn't even meet minimum security standards for American diplomatic outposts anywhere in the world). An eleventh-hour cable accurately predicting an imminent attack resulted in...nothing. Explicit calls for help during the prolonged raid went unheeded amidst a flurry of "stand down" orders. One of many lingering questions regarding this outrageous episode is what our Commander-in-Chief was doing throughout the ordeal, during which America's real-time response was evidently paralyzed by chaotic indecision. Yesterday, the White House finally shed some light on this question by releasing a letter describing what President Obama was not doing as American diplomats' lives hung in the balance:
President Obama didn't make any phone calls the night of the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the White House said in a letter to Congress released Thursday. "During the entire attack, the president of the United States never picked up the phone to put the weight of his office in the mix," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, who had held up Mr. Obama's defense secretary nominee to force the information to be released. Mr. Graham said that if Mr. Obama had picked up the phone, at least two of the Americans killed in the attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi might still be alive because he might have been able to push U.S. aid to get to the scene faster. The White House has said Mr. Obama was kept up to date on the attack by his staff, though after being alerted to the attack in a pre-scheduled afternoon meeting he never spoke again with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin E. Dempsey or then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
And there's this, which (a) re-confirms what we've known for some time, and (b) begs the question of why the administration approved false talking points for public consumption:
Mr. Panetta told Congress last week that he knew immediately the attacks were a terrorist assault, though the White House downplayed that notion in the first five days after the attack.
Who conceived of the false talking points and why were they employed at all, let alone for days? Why were requests for security upgrades repeatedly turned down, especially since our intelligence knew of at least ten active jihadi groups operating in Benghazi at the time? If the Commander-in-Chief wasn't in contact with his top people throughout the raid, and if he wasn't ordering the full might of the United States military into motion to protect the lives of our diplomats (which he's claimed is his "number one" priority), what was he doing over those eight hours? Our only clue is a campaign rally in Las Vegas the next day, which the president attended as scheduled -- having blown off another daily intelligence briefing, which was a habitual occurrence. That these questions have not been sufficiently answered -- or even asked, in some cases -- is less a product of masterful White House stonewalling as it is a profoundly vexing indictment of our media.
But hey, "what difference does it make?"
(Editor's Note: This item is cross-posted at HotAir.com's Green Room).


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A lot of companies still struggle with how much access to give employees to social media and mobile computing. The obvious concerns are over data security and the huge potential for wasting time.
But a new survey of 1,303 end users and 1,309 IT decision makers from Cisco finds that companies are starting to see the business value of Web 2.0 applications and mobile computing devices, which is leading to the development of IT usage policies that seek to find a middle ground between productivity and concerns over employees simply finding more creative ways to waste time.
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You are using emerge to build your KDE on Windows development environment, right? If not, start doing so now. It's mandatory. Some variables to check in your emerge setup:
Often some builds will fail for trivial reasons, like a download failing because the file has moved. This type of error (but also missing or wrong configuration options, and many others) can be corrected in the emerge build files. These are in (subdirectories of) emerge/portage/. Each package has its own subdirectory. In each subdirectory you will find at least one .py-file. I am not aware of any in-depth information on the semantics of these files, but most concepts should be fairly obvious, and if you are unsure, look at other build files for examples.
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For a group of politicians who claim they want to strengthen our public schools, the Honorables have a strange way of going about it.
For a group of politicians who claim they want to strengthen our public schools, the Honorables have a strange way of going about it. In their world, better public schools can be had only by siphoning off students and money into charter and private schools, and by eliminating the cap on class sizes in the lower grades, a factor that has been shown to improve academic achievement. At the same time, the same group of lawmakers is working to put tight caps on preschool education, another success story in education.
No, the way the Honorables in the General Assembly are going, the result can only be weaker public schools left with fewer resources to teach the very students the so-called educational improvements were designed to help. Is that their actual intent?
The latest nonsense involves a bill that would allow school boards to decide how many students should be in classes in kindergarten through third grade. They'd already eliminated class-size caps on the higher grades; teachers in those grades can tell you the result was not positive.
The N.C. School Boards Association is all for that flexibility, but many educators are cringing at the thought that it may reverse the gains our schools have seen over the past few decades. Yes, despite cries of "broken schools," North Carolina's public schools have been improving and until recently were a model for other states. If the schools get this new "flexibility," it will be on the shoulders of school board members to ensure that students who most benefit from lower class sizes are not left behind.
Another bill would offer "opportunity scholarships" to students deemed low- and middle-income, up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level – or around $70,000 a year for a family of four.
At the same time, another bill making its way through the legislature would limit preschool slots to families at or below the poverty level. Yet early education has been hailed as an equalizer in a number of credible studies, including some conducted by well-regarded researchers at the University of North Carolina and Duke.
Separate studies have been less enthusiastic about whether students from disadvantaged circumstances do better in private schools – and the bill would not allow the public to see if there is a difference, because aggregate test scores would not be public record.
Given that our governor and legislators continue to demand "evidence-based" improvement, it would seem that the eligibility criteria are backward here. We should be putting our tax dollars into programs that have been shown to work, rather than attempting to weaken the public schools by encouraging those who can afford to leave to do so.
Education is not one size fits all, and parents tend to agree that they'd like more choice in their children's educational settings. But that choice could be provided within the umbrella of the public schools. It's already happening with limited magnet school and early-college high school programs.
But it is bad public policy for a group of politicians to claim they are trying to strengthen our school systems while at the same time slashing budgets, imposing new restrictions and siphoning off money for charter and private schools that operate under fewer or no state restrictions.
Just call it what it is: the privatization of education.


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text: Rumen protected niacin has potential to reduce heat stress August 17, 2008 07:00 PM Tweet Rick Lundquist An encapsulated niacin product may be effective for reducing body temperature during heat stress. Niacin has been shown to help alleviate heat stress both by increasing evaporative heat loss from the body and also by reducing the effects of heat at the cell level. But unprotected niacin is extensively degraded in the rumen. University of Arizona researchers presented a paper at last months Dairy Science Association meetings on the effect of feeding a new encapsulated niacin in heat stressed cows. The study was conducted at this time last year on a commercial herd in Arizona; a good time to study heat stress! Four hundred cows were used in the switchback study that lasted 60 days, with two 30 day periods. Cows were balanced for days in milk, milk yield and age and fed either no niacin or 12 grams/day of the encapsulated niacin. Bottom line was that core body temperature was significantly reduced during the hottest part of the day (1:00 – 4:00 p.m.) when rumen protected niacin was included in the diet. Milk fat and milk protein were significantly higher for animals fed the protected niacin as was fat corrected milk and energy corrected milk (about 3 lbs/cow/day). The effect appeared to be greater in older cows versus first lactation animals. The trial was too short to produce any meaningful reproductive data. No economic figures were shown relating to return on investment for the product. However, as I discussed in my last column, the effects of heat stress go far beyond just lower milk production. The lasting effect of heat stress on cow health and reproduction may be hard to put a price on, but they certainly are real. I think this product may deserve another look. Reference: J. Dairy Sci. Vol. 91, E-Suppl. 1. Rick Lunquist is an independent nutrition and management consultant based in Duluth, Minn. You can contact him at email@example.com. Back to news


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Fading enthusiasm for Facebook
Teenagers hate Facebook, according to a new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. They also can't get enough of it. The report found that 94 percent of American teens are on Facebook, more than on any other social network. But many of the young respondents have lost enthusiasm for the site, complaining about "the increasing adult presence, people sharing excessively, and stressful 'drama.'" Despite these frustrations, teens say they keep using Facebook because it has become a key part of socializing.
"I think Facebook can be fun, but also it's drama central," one girl told a Pew researcher. Another said: "Honestly, I'm on it constantly but I hate it so much."
While these findings might seem troubling, they also sound a lot like young people's feelings about high school in general. The big difference is how the social network follows teens home. Pew found a significant rise in the kind of material that students share on Facebook compared with what was shared in 2006: 92 percent now reveal their real names, 91 percent post personal photos, 24 percent upload videos of themselves, 20 percent publish their phone numbers.
What was your first job?
Does your first job define you? Kate Rockwood, writing for Fast Company, asked several major names in business and entertainment about where they began. The consensus: You can start from anywhere.
Among our favorite first jobs in the illustrated slide show: Doug McMillon, chief executive officer of Wal-Mart International, started off unloading boxes in a Wal-Mart warehouse. Before directing the highest-grossing movie of all time (and then breaking his own record), James Cameron was a truck driver. Martha Stewart began as a $50-an-hour model for Chanel and others. Actress and writer Tina Fey kicked off her professional life answering phones at a suburban YMCA. And Liu Chuanzhi, cofounder of computer giant Lenovo, was a laborer in the rice fields during Mao's Cultural Revolution.
A sushi chef's memory of the 'Dear Leader'
The world knows little about North Korea. As Adam Johnson writes in GQ magazine, "We didn't even know the age of the current leader, Kim Jong-un, until Kenji Fujimoto revealed his birth date. (January 8, 1983.)"
Who is Kenji Fujimoto? For 11 years, he was personal chef, confidant, and court jester to the supreme leader's father, Kim Jong-il, and at times played nanny to a young Kim Jong-un. Now, after escaping North Korea and taking on an alias, Mr. Fujimoto is the "Japanese intelligence community's single greatest asset on the Kim family."
In 1982, Fujimoto signed a one-year contract, agreeing to move from Japan to North Korea and to teach chefs there how to make sushi. One night, he served dinner to a group of generals, party officials, and high-level bureaucrats. Everyone wore military uniforms except a curious fellow in a tracksuit. The mysterious man, whom he did not recognize as Kim Jong-il ("no one ever called him by his real name," Fujimoto said, "never"), took a liking to him and insisted that the sushi chef join the entourage.
Soon, Fujimoto was tasked with flying around the world, procuring odd ingredients to satisfy his new boss's culinary whims. Caviar from Iran. Fish from Tokyo. Beer from Denmark. And sometimes fresh Big Macs from the McDonald's in Beijing.
Palaces for the kingdoms of tech
Amazon, Facebook, and Apple battle one another across more than just the tech market. These industry titans seem locked in a new fight over which has the most innovative, striking, and wild-looking corporate headquarters, report Bill Rigby and Alistair Barr for Reuters. In May, Amazon unveiled plans to bring a taste of the Amazon forest to Seattle. The blueprints show a shining tower standing over three bubble-like terrariums, each large enough to house "mature trees."
Apple's upcoming HQ pulls in the company's favorite adjectives: sleek and smooth. The 2.8-million-square-foot ring looks like a mix between the Pentagon and an iPod click wheel. From the air, the upcoming Facebook expansion resembles a geometric golf course, thanks to its sprawling green roof. Computer-chip maker Nvidia will build two sci-fi-style triangular buildings, each apparently reminiscent of components in its graphics chips.
Fastest cellphone on the planet
While many Americans are still on their first 4G cellphone, Korean tech giant Samsung recently showed off early trials for its lightning-fast 5G mobile service, reports David Talbot for MIT Technology Review. To recap, 3G (or third generation) service ratcheted up mobile-data speeds to a point at which people could feasibly stream video to their phones. Over the past few years, phone companies raced to cover the country in 4G service, which is many times faster than 3G. Now, Samsung tells Technology Review that it can beam information to phones at 512 megabits per second. (Comcast's fastest cable package advertises just 105 megabits per second.)


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It still amazes me that the more we look, the more we realise just how important intact ecosystems are for our own well-being. I guess this is why I'm still a scientist.
Our latest paper that just came out today in Nature Genetics is a bit of a departure for me (again!); I really must not take much credit for this given that it was a huge effort among a big team of people and I played a comparatively minor role. Still, I can definitely say this is one of the more interesting papers I've co-authored in a while.
For me the involvement started after Alan Cooper (Director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA) asked me for a bit of help with a cool paper he and some of his colleagues were working on. When he told me what the subject was, my initial reaction was (yawn): Dentistry? Teeth? You've got to be joking. Why would an ecologist be even remotely interested in that stuff? Then he went into more detail, and I was hooked.
Before I get into that detail, I have to tell you a story about a colleague of mine (name withheld, but true story) who recently went to the dentist to have some routine cleaning and maintenance done. There was nothing particularly special about his visit – no local anaesthetic, no extractions, no caps, and certainly no surgery. Two weeks later he was in the hospital theatre getting his chest cracked open for open-heart surgery. Jesus H. Christ!, I said to myself. Read the rest of this entry »


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It has been eight months since we closed a Sierra led round. We remain as confident as ever that they are a great fit to help us realize our potential. The partners have strong operational expertise. This made for a very detailed due diligence process. As a clean tech company we were a new type of deal for them. We also had the added complexity of being located in an atypical geography.
However we went with Sierra because it was clear they had done their homework on our space and on our company and they are committed to building companies not just chasing trends. They definitely get involved and if you are looking for a passive investor they may not be a good fit. But if you want an investor that is willing to step in on strategic, exec staffing and other key issues they can add a ton value via their experience and connections. I've worked with over two dozen VC firms and would rate Sierra at the top of the pack. Jeff Loomans and Vimal Patel are the partners assigned to us and both are excellent.PRIVATE: Members Only (379 Characters)