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Our own poll was frustratingly inconclusive on their comedic skills, but ESPN thinks enough of the Sklar brothers to be talking with them toward developing a new project with the network. Their previous show, "Cheap Seats," in which the brothers — Randy and Jason — played fictional tape librarians who mock network sports clips, was canceled last year after a three-year run on ESPN Classic.
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"Every time we see a spelling bee, it makes us sad," said Jason of the former Cheap Seats staple. "And of course professional wrestling. And we really never got around to Barbaro. The people who write him letters, just strange. I just kind of wish that people had the same compassion for people in wars that they have for a horse. Granted, I love animals, but let's get real."
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The love to travel!!! I wonder sometimes if I was conceived while my parents were travelling.
To scratch a bit the travel itch (or to intensify it….I still can't decide what the effect was) I started looking at pictures I took during some of my trips and a particular one brought back tasty memories – the trip to Sicily.
Sicily is one of those places where you don't necessarily travel to visit historic places or to see natural beauties, but you go to stuff your face, you get your taste buds totally nuts.
I think I can place it next to my favourite foodies trips like Thailand, Greece in general and Crete in particular, Spain, France, Mexico or the rest of Italy. And this is not because Sicily doesn't have to offer great natural wonders, just to mention here Mount Etna and you know that this island is simply gorgeous. The greek, roman, arab , french and spanish influences make this island particularly interesting in terms of food, architecture or people.
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During winter, conifer trees — such as spruce, fir and pine — decorate the season, displaying newly fallen snow on their green branches. But it's the aspen tree, Colorado's main native deciduous (or leaf-dropping) tree that brings identity to the state. Visitors and locals alike admire the quaking leaves, and the "gold rush" of the fall as leaves turn a golden yellow.
In Greeley, University of Northern Colorado doctoral candidate Mario Bretfeld of Germany became fascinated with aspens while doing a study at Yellowstone National Park a few years ago. He was involved in research to see how the introduction of wolves had affected elk behavior in the park, including the aspen browsing habits of elk.
"Aspen are a very valuable food source for elk, deer, and ungulates in general," says Bretfeld. Additionally, aspen tend to create more humus-rich soil underneath. While conifers shed needles each year that inhibit growth on the forest floor, aspen leaves degenerate quickly, he explains. This helps create nutrient-rich soil with a lot more understory vegetation, beneficial to both plants and animals.
In Colorado, he is focusing on how the pine beetle epidemic affects aspen groves. Specifically, Bretfeld wonders whether the beetle outbreak actually has a positive effect for aspen growth, particularly in areas where aspens seem to be declining.
Aspens thrive after some sort of disturbance such as fire, clear-cutting of a forest, disease or insect infestation. Conifer trees grow in moist mountain climates, increasing in size and breadth until a disturbance occurs. When the trees disappear, the aspen roots which sometimes have been lying underground dormant for years, spring forth with new shoots to regrow the forest.
Aspens also help prevent erosion by retaining water runoff, Bretfeld continues. "Due to their connected nature of roots underneath, they are really good in preventing landslides." Another benefit is the firebreak that aspen groves create. "They don't burn as easily as conifers do. There is no needle layer underneath that burns away and there is more moisture."
What Bretfeld expects to find is that aspen groves are persisting well, or perhaps increasing in areas where the landscape has lost pine trees due to the mountain pine beetle. "It is important to mention that pine beetles are a natural part of the ecosystem," says Bretfeld. "They've always been here." Climate changes and fire suppression are two of the factors he mentions that have possibly given pine beetles a chance to emerge in great numbers.
Bretfeld was fortunate to be able to refer to and use a vegetation diversity study performed along the Front Range in the 1970s by Dr. Robert K. Peet (now at the University of North Carolina). Bretfeld and University of Northern Colorado professor Scott B. Franklin surveyed 305 of Peet's plots, of which 95 had aspen recorded. Most of those 95 still have some evidence of aspen in some form. This comparison has allowed him to see how aspen groves have changed, and many cases persisted.
While aspen trees produce seeds, most growth happens with shoots directly from the roots of an existing tree. "Most aspen groves you see are comprised of multiple clones that have grown together," shares Bretfeld.
To learn more about how aspen share resources within a clone, Bretfeld did another study. Using two aspens connected by roots, he cut all the roots off one tree, except for one root that tied it to the neighboring tree. Bretfeld had measured the flow of water throughout the roots before the cut. Following the root amputation, the fully rooted tree began to increase its flow of water to the rootless neighbor.
"You can think about it as a nursing effect — the big tree is trying to help the guy who lost all the roots," says Bretfeld, adding that it could also be a parasitic reaction of the rootless tree, pulling at water resources wherever it can. Regardless, it demonstrates a survival technique that benefits trees that must survive in an arid region.
Fire and disturbance are part of the cycle of regeneration and regrowth that enable aspens to grow. "Without the cycling, we wouldn't have aspen here anymore," says Bretfeld. "They need the fresh, blank slate to actually re-sprout and go crazy again and grow."
While a human lifetime is short in comparison to the life of a forest, Bretfeld offers a reminder that "Even though everything is brown, it will be green again." Whether it be fire or pine beetles, the forest cycle continues.


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Library and Archives Canada continues to display the richness and diversity of its collections with the opening of two exhibitions, one in Saskatchewan at the Mendel Art Gallery, and the other in Quebec at the the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau.
In Saskatchewan, the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon is hosting the I Know You by Heart: Portrait Miniatures exhibition until June 2, 2013. The exhibition highlights the intimate, personal nature of portrait miniatures, and the reasons that such images are commissioned and created.
In Quebec, the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau is presenting the exhibition Double Take: Portraits of Intriguing Canadians until October 14, 2013. Discover portraits of Canadians who have left—and are still leaving—their mark on our country and our culture. .
By presenting exhibitions such as these, Library and Archives Canada is able to make original works of documentary heritage accessible in galleries, museums and other community venues to Canadians across the country.
You can listen to the podcast overview of the featured works and the stories behind them at www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/podcasts/Pages/double-take.aspx


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DENVER — Looking to add depth and options for the pitching rotation, the Rockies signed veteran Roy Oswalt to a minor-league deal on Thursday.
In 12 seasons, Oswalt is 163-96 with a 3.28 ERA in the major leagues. He is 4-0 with a 2.25 ERA at Coors Field.
The immediate plan is for him to report to extended spring training in Scottsdale. He will be evaluated at each step and could go from there to Double-A Tulsa.
There are no guarantees the 35-year-old Oswalt will pitch for the Rockies. He has to show that he can be healthy and effective.
The Rockies pursued him last offseason before he signed with the Rangers. He struggled with Texas, losing his rotation spot and finishing 4-3 with a 5.80 ERA.
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At least the Rockies didn't have to face Clayton Kershaw in Los Angeles. The Rockies' road to recovery is paved with broken bricks and jagged rocks.
The Rockies return home today to melted snow to open interleague play against two of the game's premier left-handers: Tampa Bay's Matt Moore and reigning AL Cy Young award winner David Price. Moore, Today's starter, has a 1.13 ERA, and is the sixth pitcher under the age of 24 to go 5-0 in April, offering shades of Fernando Valenzuela in 1981.
"I have seen some video on them. They are two of the best in the game, and like a lot of nights in this league, you have your hands full," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. "It's a little strange with the timing of interleague play this year. But, we are playing at home and have played well there."


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Months before Kendrick Lamar released his critically lauded major-label debut, "good kid, m.A.A.d city," the Compton rapper collaborated on a couple tracks with one of the biggest pop stars in the world, Lady Gaga.
One of the collaborations between the label mates-turned-friends (both are with Interscope Records), "Partynauseous," didn't make the cut due to label holdups and creative differences.
The other, the original version of "Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe," was leaked by Gaga to her fans on Twitter on Wednesday night. A Gaga-less version of the trippy cut appears on Lamar's debut.
"We feel bad about killing your vibe, so here's the demo you never got to hear," Gaga wrote when she issued the "LG Mix" of "Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe."
The track plays over a video of Gaga chilling in Rio de Janeiro, dancing and boozing on a plane and waving to the throngs of fans hanging outside her hotel. She also issued artwork for the track. On the cover, she's a scantily clad fairy godmother standing next to a man, presumably Lamar, sporting a Mitt Romney mask.
She addressed "Partynauseous' " absence on the record with a statement on her fan site:
"I apologize to the fans that this situation with Partynauseous is confusing. To clear it up I must explain this. When I collaborate with an artist i work solely with them, not with their camps or management. Its purely organic and creative.
"I love Kendrick dearly as a friend, but was not willing to compromise musically to the changes his team was making to my music. This is why I am not on his record. I have a very specific vision as a producer and songwriter, and I always have. That song will be released at a different time, for a different project. I love you, and think you should check out his stuff because he is truly great. He's a good kid, its just sometimes a mad city."
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Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust (märsĕl´ prōōst), 1871–1922, French novelist, b. Paris. He is one of the great literary figures of the modern age. Born to wealthy bourgeois parents, he suffered delicate health as a child and was carefully ministered to by his mother. As a young man he ambitiously mingled in high Parisian society and wrote his rather unpromising first work, Les Plaisirs et les jours (1896; tr. Pleasures and Regrets, 1948; new tr. Pleasures and Days, 1957). Troubled by asthma and neuroses, as well as by the deaths of his parents, he increasingly withdrew from external life and after 1907 lived mainly in a cork-lined room, working at night on his monumental cyclic novel, À la recherche du temps perdu (16 vol., 1913–27; tr. Remembrance of Things Past, 1922–32, rev. tr. In Search of Lost Time, 1992; new tr. 2002).
The first of the novel cycle, Du côté de chez Swann (1913, tr. Swann's Way, 1928) went unnoticed, but the second, À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (1919, tr. Within a Budding Grove, 1919), was awarded the Goncourt Prize. Proust's semiautobiographical novel cycle is superficially concerned with its hero's development through childhood and through youthful love affairs to the point of commitment to literary endeavor. It is less a story than an interior monologue. Discursive, but alive with brilliant metaphor and sense imagery, the work is rich in psychological, philosophical, and sociological understanding. A vital theme is the link between external and internal reality found in time and memory, to which Proust sees humanity's strivings subjugated—time mocks the individual's intelligence and endeavors; memory synthesizes yet distorts past experience. Most experience causes inner pain, and the objects of human desires are the chief causes of their suffering.
In Proust's scheme the individual is isolated, society is false and ruled by snobbery, and artistic endeavor is raised to a religion and is superior to nature. Only through the vision gained in works of art can the individual see beyond his or her subjective experience. Proust's ability to interpret innermost experience in terms of such eternal forces as time and death created a profound and protean world view and his work has influenced generations of novelists and thinkers. His vision and technique have come to be seen as vital to the development of modernism. Most of his correspondence has been published (21 vol., P. Kolb, ed., 1970–93), as has his draft of an early novel, Jean Santeuil (1952, tr. 1955), and Contre Sainte-Beuve (1954, tr. On Art and Literature, 1896–1919, 1958).
See biographies by A. Maurois (1950, repr. 1984), R. H. Barker (1958), G. D. Painter (2 vol., 1959–65), L. Bersani (1965), G. Brée (1966), R. Hayman (1990), J.-Y. Tadié (1996, tr. 2000), E. White (1998), and W. C. Carter (2000); studies by W. S. Bell (1962), P. Quennell (1971), S. L. Wolitz (1971), G. Deleuze (1972), J. M. Cocking (1982), B. J. Bucknall, ed. (1987), A. Compagnon (1992), J. Kristeva (1996), R. Shattuck (2000), and A. Muhlstein (2012).


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There's nothing cerebral or airy-fairy about acid house, and therefore the Demons EP is unlikely to be blogged about much. Which is quite fine because this music doesn't belong on a blog: It belongs in a dank basement with sweat on the walls.
"Return to Darkly" is a ten-minute journey into jacking nastiness. The 303 chugs along steadily without screaming or accelerating and Solomon adds his trademark multi-layered psychedelia over the top, building slowly with squeaks and chirps before the track breaks down and comes pounding back with an insanely heavy kick drum and a brief downpitched vocal about some gloomy nonsense. It's beautifully lumpen and pragmatic music, executed with style and finesse and is the kind of thing you shouldn't listen to while at the office because it'll make you wish you were out of your head in some nasty club in the wee small hours.
"Demons" is considerably simpler, with more funk to it, giving it an '80s Chicago acid feel, although the bassline never actually gets squelchy, being content to just wobble away while choirs warble over the top. It's catchy, physical, and would be very effective in a club, but is unlikely to make much impression over headphones. Brennan Green's remix brings out more of the latent acid in that bassline, but sacrifices the banging drums for a more laid-back disco feel and slow-mo keys.
Does this mean acid is back? I doubt it, but Solomon does a good job here of reminding us that there's no substitute for loud drums and a great bassline—and that we don't have to make dance music into something complex for there to be value in it.
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A1 Demons
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After a year and a half of declining payrolls, economists are more certain there will be modest job creation than either a "jobless recovery" or an outright jobs boom.
But when companies start hiring again is still open to debate.
The latest weekly jobless data Thursday—including a six-month low for the four-week average and a sizable drop in continuing claims—added fuel to the argument that the climb out of recession has been gaining momentum for months.
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"There are signs the decline in unemployment is over," says David Resler, chief economist at Nomura International, reflecting the general view of half a dozen economists. "Sometime between now and the end of the year, we'll see the first positive increase in payrolls."
The closely watched initial weekly claims data have been shrinking since their late March peak of almost 700,000, and despite some confusion about seasonal effects in recent weeks, most economists say the trend has become more convincing. A marked slowdown in corporate layoffs — as measured by the monthly Challenger, Gray & Christmas report — is also considered a persuasive trend.
"At this stage every week you count past the peak in claims at the end of March, you should be on high alert for better-than-expected news on the economy," says Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi economist Chris Rupkey.
Rupkey is among those who cite historical data showing that the weekly jobless claims are a good leading indicator of the economic cycle. Jobless claims typically peak two months before the end of a recession.
"Based on the claims pattern, we're on track for an end of June end to the recession," chimes in FAO chief economist Robert Brusca. "We're going to continue to see progress and pretty good progress."
Look for that as early as next Friday, when the government reports nonfarm payroll and the unemployment rate for June.
Brusca and Resler say a 250,000 decline in payrolls is possible, which is well below the 333,000 consensus and a far cry from the 691,000 average of the first quarter. Meanwhile, Rupkey, who also thinks payrolls are likely to be better than expected, suspects the jobless rate — which is expected to climb from 9.5 percent in June to 9.6 percent in July — is around its peak.
The positive surprise in June data is likely to be followed by an actual gain in payrolls. Most economists say that is most likely to happen sometime between September and November. Brusca, for one, isn't completely ruling out September, based on another historical pattern, which shows a tendency for a positive payroll number two months after a recession ends.
That was certainly not the case in the periods following the 1991 and 2001 recessions, which have — to varying degrees — been deemed jobless recoveries.
There's already been great debate about whether that trend will continue this time around, regardless of when the recession ends (the safe consensus is sometime in the late third-quarter.)
The key factor appears to be whether the thousands of jobs employers slashed with abandon in a hasty rush to cut costs following the economic shock of the Lehman Brothers failure will be added back to corporate payrolls.
"It makes me wonder if they overdid it," says Rupkey.
"We're seeing companies use temporary workers to fill short-term gaps where they've cut too deeply," says Bill DeMario, COO, of Ajilon Professional Staffing, a unit of Adecco. That's typically a leading indicator things are bottoming out and companies are positioning themselves for a recovery."
DeMario says there's been no stabilization in the direct-hire market yet, which typically lags the temporary worker one by a minimum of six months.
Proponents of the a job boom say the current recession—deep, long and nasty—closely resembles those of the 1970s and 1980s, whose recoveries pumped out jobs quickly and amply. For instance, payroll losses bottomed out one month after the recession of 1982 ended in November and were 3 million higher a year later.
"We wont have as much as a bounce as '82-'83, but we will have some bounce," says Resler who expects a "fairly quick uptick in employment" when the housing market has rebounded. rebounds.
Brusca is a firm believer in what he calls the "symmetry of the cycle", meaning big declines in GDP and payrolls are likely to be followed by similar increases.
"Companies could be tremendously profitable," he adds, referring to the spate of second-quarter earnings showing effective cost-cutting. "They may be very willing to bring workers back on board."
Former IMF chief economist Michael Mussa is also in that camp. "If we get the kind of recovery I am expecting in GDP growth, it will be reflected pretty rapidly in job creation," says Mussa, now with the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
Conference Board economist Ken Goldstein sees only "a small probability we will spring back. This is an artificial improvement. But for the stimulus, TARP and TALF, we wouldn't be in the shape we're in."
Goldstein is among those expecting modest job growth, at best. Even though he thinks the jobless rate may be close to a peak of about 10 percent, the rate will still be in the 6.5-percent range through 2012-2013.
Macroeconomic Advisors President Chris Vavares says the recovery will yield a relatively low economic growth rate—a little more than 3-percent at an annual rate—which means "hiring will be slow and there will be a relatively slow decline in the jobless rate."
His firm is forecasting an 8.7-percent unemployment rate by the end of 2011, following a peak of about 10 percent late this year.
That would certainly rival the painful recoveries of the past two decades. Though comparisons can be helpful, they can also be problematic.
"There's a lot of self-fulfilling prophecy in this," muses Rupkey. "I'm kind of worried that policymakers are saying it is going to be a long recovery and joblessness will be high and that doesn't encourage business to go out and hire people."For more stories from CNBC, go to cnbc.com.


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Lady Wu wrote:Can someone give me a quick explanation of palettes and compression and stuff?
Palettes are a concern when creating a 256-color image because, depending on the application, you probably have specific colors to work with. There are 256 web-safe colors (well, 256 defined as web safe), for example, and if you work with that palette your image has to be constructed using only those colors. Windows 256 color graphics have to be created using specific Windows-supported colors and, unfortunately, those colors are selected more for the needs of Windows than for the presentation of graphics. Pictures in this color mode tend to look awful. What you exported, though, seems like it is just a 256 color export (made of 256 colors with no limited palette—or a very expansive palette) and it actually looks pretty good. You could accomplish a lot with that.
You asked about compression. What were you wondering, specifically? It is a very broad topic. I can explain general compression as it applies to web graphics, for example.
Edit: Something that you should definitely know about is dithering, though its seems you have used it in the graphic you created. Dithering scatters pixels and changes colors in an effort to replicate the appearance of non-supported colors without their actual presence. It gives a picture the somewhat noisy appearance yours has, but allows a much closer representation of a photograph (or similar graphic) when viewed from a typical distance.


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It's 2012 and it's the Olympics in London. A Scotsman, an Englishman and an Irishmen want to get in, but they haven't got tickets.
The Scotsman picks up a manhole cover, tucks it under his arm and walks to the gate.
"McTavish, Scotland," he says, "Discus." and in he walks.
The Englishman picks up a length of scaffolding and slings it over his shoulder.
"Waddington-Smythe, England," he says, "Pole vault" and in he walks.
The Irishman looks around and picks up a roll of barbed wire and tucks it under his arm.
"O'Malley, Ireland," he says, "Fencing".


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Welcome to Period Oak Antiques, probably one of the premier dealers in Antique early oak furniture and other early oak antiques and works of Art in England, UK. We (Jack and Jackie Simonini) are a husband and wife partnership specialising in early oak and country furniture, medieval sculpture and works of art for over 30 years. From our antiques showroom in Westmorland in the Lake District (Cumbria) we literally scour the entire globe for rare and unusual pieces. Our collection of Oak antiques often includes 15th century, 16th century and 17th century furniture, medieval sculpture, four poster beds, refectory tables, coffers, dressers and wainscot chairs.
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I started buying gifts throughout the year at sales and even garage sales. I've already got the majority of my Christmas shopping for 2013 finished. The items are hid away in the closet, picked up at sales as I see them throughout the year. So, I just need to wrap them.
I was very happy with the money I received for my old phones and I was shocked! If you are in need of extra cash fast and have some old cellphones lying around, put them up for sale.
Here's how to keep your stuff safe while traveling:
We call it "junking" and you can make as much or as little as you want. All you need to get started junking is a good eye for items that can be repurposed or brought back to their former life and then sold for a profit.
The term International Schools is a catch-all for schools abroad that teach a curriculum different to what is offered locally (and in a different language, such as English), often to children of expats or employees of foreign embassies. Sometimes they're called American Schools, British Schools, or even DoD (Department of Defense) schools.
There's at least one piece of junk mail in my mailbox every day. There are repeat offenders such as credit card offers, which I get extreme pleasure out of putting them immediately through the shredder, the realtor that we used to buy our home, and even ads from grocery stores.
As with any medicine, these homemade remedies may not taste good but they will give excellent relief for colds, coughs, sore throat and congestion.
I dropped to my knees and rested my head on her stomach. I put her hand in mine and looked into her wet brown eyes. I told her that I understood why she would think that given the financial lessons I have been trying to teach her. It was not OK to miss dance class because she'd rather stay home and play a computer game, or hang out with her friends. That would be wasting money.
With mortgage life insurance, if you (the mortgage payor) die, your mortgage is paid off in full. For this privilege, you pay a monthly premium along with your mortgage payment. If you decline mortgage life insurance when applying for your mortgage, you often need to sign waiver forms declining it, which might make you think twice about your decision. This is to protect the bank, since they want to do everything they can to ensure the money they lend you is going be paid back.
She was right; I had not collected their payment since the end of the school year in the spring. My wife and I been in the habit of looking at and reconciling our checking account each morning.
The year I did that I felt so guilty and I missed out on so much fun talking with the tricksters. I didn't put out my famous "glowing and making creepy sounds" pumpkin so I couldn't chuckle when the littler kids (and some of the big ones too) screamed and hugged their mom or dad's leg for protection. That Halloween was nothing but a bummer!
It was an activity that was supposed to save us time, but it almost ended up costing us money. With cooler weather and colorful trees it's quite evident that its fall, which means it's also time to get our yearly influenza vaccine.
Over the course of a week, I sent a total of two emails and made four phone calls. None of which extracted a response from the company.
I have read many articles where financial advisors are saying that to live out your retirement years and not run out of money you need to sock away a couple of million dollars prior to retirement. WOW! I don't think I made a couple of million dollars in my entire working life.
I was honestly surprised at what I was hearing. My memory of 7th grade was a time when who you hung out with and what you wore became extremely important to your social status. Having a plain organizer is the sort of thing that a bully could easily latch on to. But here was my daughter more concerned with being able to properly organize her school work than impressing her class mates.
Here are six unexciting but necessary living expenses, with some techniques to minimize them.
Occasionally, my wife would come visit me next to my grill, look at my broken down charcoal starter and tell me I should get a new one. I would just shake my head, refusing to shell out $15 for a new one. I didn't care how ugly my chimney was, or how nonfunctional it appeared.
I shared the questions with my husband and he stopped cold in this tracks. What were we thinking? We were very nearly on the verge of blowing our budget big time with absolutely no regrets - just thoughts of fun, fun, fun! We decided to sleep on this and see how we felt tomorrow.
Here are three ways I use my smart phone to keep me on budget, and get the most for my money.
My daughter had used the time to search the internet and had managed to match our cat's symptoms to a serious feline disease. When my wife and I got home, our daughter was very upset which resulted in my wife also becoming quite upset about the state of our cat. A few phone calls later, we were off to the vet.
We were planning to throw some Mahi Mahi and asparagus on grill, and had more than enough to share with our friends. They responded via text and said they already had a tri tip roast on the grill, and were making mashed red potatoes as a side. We suggested combining dinners at our house.
One of our favorite things to do is get dressed up and have dinner at a nice restaurant. We are able to do this just as we have done everything since retirement - by looking at things differently and thinking out of the box.
I showed Vonnie, and we both shook our heads. We both knew that in years past, we would have been forced to overpay, and buy the $60 backpack because we were in one of the stores for which we had a store credit card.
We don't feel we are doing without or that we are not enjoying life. Instead, choosing what is really important and saving our money for it has become an imaginative, fun challenge. We aren't living the life we had before retirement; we are enjoying a totally new way of thinking and living.
Before committing to one or the other, I did a little price comparison to see which would be the better choice.
In addition to the blogs, be sure to check out the new CareOne Groups:
Are you finally out on your own and figuring out how to balance your finances? If so, this is the group for you. In Starting Out, you can talk about the challenges you are dealing with in a group of like-minded people.
Do you feel like you are finally understanding what being a "grown-up" is all about and are settling into your adult life? If so, this is the group for you. In Settling In you can connect with others who are just like you.
Struggling to balance all that an established lifestyle has to offer? The balancing it all group is for you. Discuss the challenges you face when your responsibilities at work, at home and with family and friends all compete for your attention.
Are you currently retired or planning on retiring very soon? If so, this is the group for you. Times have changed and so has retirement. Learn how others are redefining retirement.


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Yesterday, the NHTSA announced it would require backup cameras to be installed on basically all passenger cars sold in the U.S. by 2018. That means even a Smart Fortwo will have a camera in its back.
The backup camera seems unnecessary on a lot of cars, but that mandate won't have such a profound effect as the sealed beam headlamp requirement that was in effect in the U.S. from 1940 until 1983. It definitely held car design back and was outdated long before the lighting regulations were amended.
But there are other worthless/ugly/stupid technologies that have been required on cars over the years. What are the worst?
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It's laundry day! Actually, if you have kids, you know there's no such thing as "laundry day." Every day is laundry day and will include several loads, depending on your lifestyle.
That's a lot of water and energy. And a lot of expense, too. Want to save some money, while being kinder to the Earth at the same time? Let's make our laundry eco-friendly!
Wash in cold water
But doesn't hot water get clothes cleaner? Yes, if we're talking about clothes with greasy dirt. But these could just as easily be pre-treated before tossing them in with the rest of the wash.
Eighty percent of the energy used in conventional laundry goes toward heating the water. Most homes could save at least $60 a year just by switching to cold. You'll also stop putting over 1,200 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year by reducing your energy needs.
You don't even need one of those commercial cold-water cleaners. Most detergents will dissolve just fine in any temperature water. If yours doesn't, switch brands, move to liquid, or dissolve your regular detergent in two cups of hot water before adding it to your machine.
With cold water washing, your clothes will last longer, too. Most of the world washes in cold. It'll work fine for you.
Switch to a vegetable-based detergent
Most commercial laundry detergents are petroleum-based. Apart from the fact that petroleum is an increasingly precious resource, switching to a vegetable-derived cleaner is a quick way to reduce your family's output of things that aren't good for our land and water.
You're washing clothes in a chemical soup. Phosphates are linked to algal blooms which choke the oxygen out of water and kill aquatic life.
And you really don't need those dyes, optical whiteners and heavy perfumes — particularly if there are people in your household with sensitive skin.
There are lots of natural detergent options these days, including Seventh Generation's Free and Clear Laundry Liquid (it also comes in powder form). You can also try EnviroRite detergent. Neither product is tested on animals — something which can't be said for most commercial laundry products.
Wash early and late in the day
For most people, power costs the same, regardless what time of day it's used. But doing the laundry produces heat, and there's no point paying to cool your living space unnecessarily. Do the laundry before it warms up.
Revive the family clothesline
Humans have used the sun and wind to dry their clothes for thousands of years. While modern dryers are certainly fast and convenient, you can save money and energy by hanging a few loads a week.
A clothesline can be something as simple as a rope between two trees. But if you're going to be doing big loads, you'll appreciate the capacity of an umbrella-style dryer. These can usually be found for around $50 USD, and will quickly pay for themselves.
An added benefit to line drying — other than that great "fresh laundry" smell — is that the sun's UV rays do a great job disinfecting clothes. The clothesline is a great companion to cold water washing.
Consider more efficient washers and dryers
Hooray for the front-loading washer! Less water, and much less energy when it's time to dry thanks to their aggressive spin cycles. They're easier on fabrics, too.
Washers and dryers are big-ticket purchases. But when it's time to replace yours, look for one of the energy-efficient models. Standard washers use up to 40 gallons of water per load; the new resource-misers only require 18-25.
EnergyStar has developed a rating system for washing machines. You can get a rated model in either front- or top-loading styles. You'll find EnergyStar's current list of recommended models here.
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In this new post to his blog Brian Swan shares the process that he and other Microsoft-ers went through to migrate a site off of a LAMP stack and over to one based on Windows Azure. They moved was the SAG awards website because of issues it had seen with outages and slow performance.
In many ways, the SAG Awards website was a perfect candidate for Windows Azure. The website has moderate traffic throughout most of the year, but has a sustained traffic spike shortly before, during, and after the awards show in January. [...] The main challenge that SAG Awards and Microsoft engineers faced in moving the SAG Awards website to Windows Azure was in architecting for a very high, sustained traffic spike while accommodating the need of SAG Awards administrators to frequently update media files during the awards show. Both intelligent use of Windows Azure Blob Storage and a custom module for invalidating cached pages when content was updated were key to delivering a positive user experience.
He walks you through each of the five steps (high-level, obviously) that they took in the migration:
- Export data
- Install Drupal on Windows
- Import data into SQL Azure
- Copy media files to Azure Blob Storage
- Package and Deploy Durpal
Each step comes with some explanation and descriptions of the commands and tools used during the process.


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ホーム > 作曲家 > 作曲家(クラシック) > ゾルターン・コダーイ (Zoltán Kodály)
Kodály, a colleague of Bartók in the early collection of folk music in Hungary and neighbouring regions, made his later career in his own country, where the system of musical education he devised has had a profound effect, as it has abroad. His own music is imbued with the spirit and musical idiom of Hungary and is in general less astringent than is sometimes the case with the music of Bartók. He was active as a composer until his death in 1967.
Stage Works
Kodály wrote relatively little for the stage. His Singspiel or musical play Háry Janós, more widely known in the orchestral excerpts heard frequently in the concert hall, deals with the alleged exploits of an old soldier, Háry, who has a vivid imagination and no regard for truth or probability. These include his single-handed defeat of Napoleon and the French armies.
Orchestral Music
In addition to the orchestral suite derived from Háry Janós, Kodály's Dances of Marosszék, Dances of Galánta and 'Peacock' Variations make powerful use of Hungarian folk material.
Choral Music
Kodály wrote a great deal of choral and vocal music, much of it for his choral method, an essential element in his plan for general musical education. He won his greatest early success with Psalmus hungaricus in 1923, and in 1936 celebrated the 250th anniversary of the re-conquest of Buda from the Turks with a Te Deum. His Missa brevis was written during the later years of World War Two. His unaccompanied choral work Jesus and the Traders has always proved effective.
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Tagged: Livermore Valley
Who was just called up?…
Who is Amaury Sanit?
The newest Yankee is a
31-year-old career minor league reliever who was most recently with AAA
Scranton/Wilkes Barre. A Cuban emigrant,
he is also the same pitcher that was suspended for 50 games in 2010 after
testing positive for a banned performance enhancing drug. Infielder Ramiro Pena was sent down to make room for Sanit. Pitcher Jess
Todd, recently signed after being cut by the Cleveland Indians, was
released to clear space on the 40-man roster for Sanit.
Despite giving up three runs
in 4 2/3 innings of work tonight, Sanit provided length after Ivan Nova
imploded (giving up 4 runs in the 2nd and 2 more in the 4th). So much for the quality Nova starts…
The Yankees have a tough
stretch coming up as they face the Boston Red Sox and then the Tampa Bay
Rays. For the three-game series against
the Sox this weekend, I have made yet another wager with Julia of Julia's Rants. At stake is a bottle of wine. If the Sox win, I will give Julia a bottle of
a Sangiovese-Cabernet Sauvignon blend (aptly named Cabiovese) from a fantastic
boutique winery in Northern California's Livermore Valley, Rodrigue Molyneaux
Winery (www.rmwinery.com). The wine, which is 75% Sangiovese and 25%
Cabernet, was aged for 12 months in American Oak. The blend of the Sangiovese's high acidity
with the Cabernet's tannin structure makes for an incredibly smooth wine. Of course, the Sox won't win so I'll just
drink the Cabiovese myself! If I win,
then Julia has to pick a wine from the New England region to send to me. Somehow, I just don't think that's going to
compare with Livermore Valley! 😉
As a Lakers fan, it was sad
to see the season come to an abrupt end at the hands of a sweep by the Dallas
Mavericks. It's ironic that the Lakers
were defeated by Dallas given that I was a Mavericks fan for the 14 years I
lived in the city, but that was long ago.
When I was a Mavericks fan, Rolando
Blackman was the star and Roy
Tarpley was the problem child. It
was also pre-Mark Cuban. My biggest disappointment with the Lakers
loss is that Phil Jackson deserved a
better farewell. Still, he leaves as
perhaps the premier coach in NBA history.
I wish the Zen Master the very best for whatever he decides to do next. I'd like to see Phil stay connected with the
NBA so a TV role would be fantastic unless he aspires to be an exec with a
team. It would be great for us as fans
to experience the wit and wisdom of the legendary coach.
My other sports team, the
NHL's San Jose Sharks, is also having its own set of problems. Once possessing a commanding 3-0 series lead
against the storied Detroit Red Wings, the Sharks face a do-or-die situation
tonight in Game 7. The Sharks are the
more talented team, but time will tell if talent will prevail or if it will be
the gut, guile and determination of a championship Detroit squad.
I'd mention the Minnesota
Vikings to get a full representation for all of my teams, but of course with
the lockout, QB Christian Ponder is
probably sitting by the pool, sipping Mojitos…
Lastly, I will be participating
in the 100th running of the Bay to Breakers 12K Run in San Francisco
on Sunday. Being San Francisco, you see
about everything which is probably more than you ever wanted to, but it is
still a fun experience. From the
Embarcadero to the Pacific Ocean, the day is a thrill. There's nothing like getting slapped by
hurled pancakes at the starting line, and of course, enduring the drive up the
Hayes Street Hill. But it's always a
thrill to reach Golden Gate Park. This
will be my fourth time with the run, and the first in an odd year.