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Nyamaza wrote:Dear Saundra from the Future
How is your Volair different from the one we've gotten to know? Has Volair mellowed a bit as he started to grey, or is he still as demented a vulp as ever? And what are the biggest differences you see between yourself and our-time Sundra?
Saundra wrote: Hm. I wouldn't say that he's really changed all that much, although being married has reigned in his more promiscuous tendancies.
I guess the biggest difference would have to be that I've learned to let things be. I think things really started to change for me after I got the TimePhone working; it's funny how Ph.D. programs snap up a girl who can break the laws of time and space with a soldering iron and a couple of neodynium relays. As for the portal itself, that took a little longer, and even longer for me to tell people about it. (Actually, I haven't told anyone about it yet; so far only my closest friends and family know.) I mean, sure, the math works out; you can't change the past or endanger the universe with it, but I'm still not sure the world is ready to cope with that knowledge!
Nyamaza wrote:Dear Volair
When did you first know you loved Saundra? And did you feel any anxiety about the feelings, given how you had loved Jake, and that relationship didn't work out? (Though at least you remained good friend =^_^=)
Volair wrote:Heh, that's kind of funny, you know? I guess I always knew, in a way. I didn't really -get it- though, untill I found out she felt the same way. I'd sort of put her in the "friend box" because of how she generally reacted to my shenanagans.
Anxiety? Maybe a little. The week after Jake and I broke up was pretty unpleasant, but then I have some pretty good indications that this thing is going to last. -laughs-
Fallwind wrote:dear Rick:
how many degrees do you have? (and what are they?)
Rick wrote:Ahem:
BS, MS, and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering.
Ph.D. in electrical engineering.
Ph.D. in bioengineering.
You might even say I'm once, twice, three times a doctor. -laughs-
I got the Mechie work done first; I was about sixteen when I got my Bachelors. The MS took two years, which is pretty standard, but I was doing lots of side projects at the time, if you know what I mean. -giggle- The Ph.Ds blur into each other; I was taking quals for the next while writing a thesis, you know, generally overworking myself and getting dangerously close to burning out. I think that's why I ended up getting into so much trouble in that part of my life.
But on the bright side, I sure can do a lot of multidisciplinary things these days!
maximuscoolman wrote:Leonard,
What is it like to be a TV in a man's world? Do you find being a TV restrictive or liberating? Do you ever feel that you don't get enough attention? Do they unplug you at night to avoid a fire hazard? Are you ever afraid that they will forget to turn you back on? Do you have any gossip about people that we fans do not yet know?
Leonard wrote:There's an old joke about cats: You get to lie around and do nothing all day, and have attention lavished on you for no reason, but you also have to eat nothing but cheap tuna and crap in a box.
Now, both of those are strictly biological concerns, but I think my lack of mobility more or less equates. So being a TV is both restrictive -and- liberating. I have virtually no responsibilities, save to be an observer of the culture, and maybe throw in a social commentary or two.
I do not present any more fire hazard than a typical sophonot, so I do not have to be unplugged. When my screen is off, I'm still "on", so I haven't experienced any breaks in consciousness, except once or twice when I needed to be repaired. I have no -end- of faith in Saundra's technical capabilities, so I wasn't any more worried in these instances than a human might be undergoing routine surgery.
Gossip? I have some, but I'd probably get hard-wired to Fox News for a week as punishment for spreading it.
The_Fox wrote:What was your first concious memory? What was it like the moment that you gained self-awarness? ... What was Saundra watching?
Leonard wrote:Saundra was watching a documentary on "non-human" pandas being rehabilitated into the wild when I cracked my first badly formed joke about oedipal interspecies confusion, earning me a proper scream and several hours stuck on "the kitten channel" in hopes it'd somehow excorcise me. She'd tried and (she thought) failed to make me into a talking TV, and having me come alive like that was a little offputting. I'd spent about two months "growing up" on a steady diet of cable TV.
And they wonder why I have such an off sense of humor.
The Fox, using very small print wrote:And if you tell us what kind of porn she likes, we'll set you up with a UPS and sattelite link. Heck, I'll BUILD you your own satelite.
Leonard wrote:ExCUSE me? Let me ask you this, would YOU use a sapeint television who consideres you more or less its mother to WATCH PORNOGRAPHY? I certainly hope not.
And they say I'm wierd.
Volair wrote:I'll field that one. She likes Jeff Stryker, who in our universe is a male skunk with a HUGE tail--
Volair wrote:OW!
Volair wrote:C'mon, Sandy, the people deserve to--
Volair wrote:Ow!
Nyamaza wrote:Dear Volair
Now that you've graduated, are you working full time at your old part time job? Do you have any good stroies you can tell us about, that have been declassified and such?
As a second topic, you never mentioned just what cybernetic implants you have. Are you able to tell us what they are? And have you considered having Rick make you more? He IS rather an expert at such things, as you know.
Volair wrote:Pretty much went back to full-time with the SAG. I've been thinking of taking that desk job they keep trying to get me into (since agents start training at around 16 years old, we tend to get professionally "long in the tooth" pretty young. Sure, I could probably backflip through hails of shrukien well into my fifties with the cortical servos I've got, but why would I -want- to?
I've got a few good stories, but Allan's saving them for future comics. When he'll use them is anybody's guess, but mine is that it won't be even another two years before Umlaut House starts up again in some form.
I've got wires running all through my musculature that allow me to perform actions faster by bypassing the slow nural electrics. There's a nodule at the base of my neck that coordinates all the impulses to match up the "faster than nerve" wires with the slow stuff. You know how reflexes only go to the spinal column and back? Well, I can do conscious actions with the same (or greater) speed.
I have what players of the twentieth-century game "Shadowrun" might call a battle coprocessor as well. Essentially I only make top-level tactical decisions like "hide", "run", "fight", and it makes decisions my grey matter isn't fast enough for.
I've also got a few storage banks which act as "dumb" storage, but since my -head- controls what goes in I can use it to:
store the song stuck in my head in 32-bit sound
take photos and video at human optical resolution (GREAT for lecture notes and/or pornography)
and just generally remember stuff better than any organic being ought to. I can get it into a computer using USBW. (Universal Serial Bus Wireless)
All this fits in a package the size of a standard hand-held rubber eraser (thank you Moore), which has been implanted at the base of my skull near the back, just under my visual cortex for better video performance.
I have about forty feet of wire running around connecting my brain to all this, thankfully added with a noninvasive nanosurgery developed especially for this purpose.
Nyamaza wrote:Dear Volair:
Well, the question was kinda asked of Saundra (though I have enough tact to not ask about someone as private about such things as Saundra), so I guess we might as well as you. What kind of porn do you enjoy? Do you and your lovely wife have seperate favored collections? And though I ask for NO details *glances scared at Sundra* Since we've established that Sundra is NOT a prude, I gotta ask... has she ever managed to pull anything in the bedroom (or other room in the house* that managed to squick YOU?
(Future) Volair wrote:Squick? No. Surprize? You bet. Saundra is an inventive and enthusiastic lover. Going into any more detail would probably earn me a pummeling, however.
Porn? Well, anything good, really. High quality film, good lighting, all that. ZZ Studios is still crankin' out the hits in 2040, although they're under new management. Saundra and I have similar tastes, although she prefers there to be men involved, for obvious reasons.
Nyamaza wrote:Dear Rick:
How DO you do that? (http://umlauthouse.keenspace.com/d/20011113.html)
Rick wrote:Suffice to say "double jointed" does not begin to describe what I can do with this cybernetic prosthesis.
Fallwind wrote:Rick:
how do you controll the spare bodies you arnt hooked up to? or do you? Is there like some wireless network where you sence what each of them is doing at any given time?
Rick wrote:The Spares operate in a bandwidth around 40GHz (Airwaves are less crowded at that frequency) using a QPSK signaling method. I didn't bother with any packet switching, routing, or even collision protection since I only use the network to send signals from the one I'm currently using to the others.
In this master-slave topology, I can find out where any Spare is (provided it's within antenna range) fairly easily. The Spares are also 802.11x enabled and as such can be reached wirelessly provided a router is in range.
(For you ought-fivers, the "x" does not mean every letter between g and x has been used; I'm using "x" like one does when referring to Windows 95, 98, and Me as Win9x.)
Nyamaza wrote:Dear Rick:
Where did you and Jake go on your honeymoon? I hope it was as lovely and wonderful as the two of you deserve.
Rick wrote:Hawaii. It's a pretty cliche'd choice, I know, but it's also a lovely place.
Nyamaza wrote:And did you decide to stay in the Washington area? Or did the group move elsewhere at some point (company moved, career change, etc). This one's for Future Rick, of course.
Rick wrote:The gang pretty much settled right down in Seattle. After Saundra won the Nobel (it has long been expected that such would happen to the inventor of time travel), she applied for a teaching position at the UW and was accepted by a nearly frothing-at-the-mouth physics program. Volair, Jake and I can basically chose from where we work as none of us have jobs that require a physical presence in the modern drive-by-wire era.
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Do you have a DCCCD NetMail account? Be prepared: NetMail is going away when the Spring semester ends.
NetMail is being replaced as the official email service of DCCCD by Microsoft Outlook. If you have a NetMail account, you can still use it for now, but new accounts are not being created. On May 14, which is the end of the Spring semester, you no longer will have access to your NetMail account.
Note: Your NetMail emails will not be automatically transferred to your new Microsoft Outlook account. If you have email messages stored in your NetMail account, be sure to forward them to a more permanent email account. If you don't, the messages will be lost once NetMail goes away.
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To replace NetMail, the district is providing all students, both credit and noncredit, with Microsoft Outlook email. We're calling it DCCCD Student Email.
You can sign up now for DCCCD Student Email. The new email is part of the free Microsoft Office 365 software that the district also is providing to you. All students (and employees) get free Microsoft Office 365 software. Office 365 includes Outlook email, an online calendar, the Office suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and more) and OneDrive document storage.
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Now in AL, Astros seek All-Star consideration
Altuve aiming for back-to-back selections to Midsummer Classic roster
HOUSTON -- Who will be the first Astros player chosen to the American League All-Star team?
Fans have the opportunity to help decide which Astros player will represent his team in the All-Star Game on July 16 at Citi Field in New York. With the Astros having switched leagues in 2013, they will be sending players to the AL squad for the first time.
Second baseman Jose Altuve made the All-Star team last year at 22 years old, and he's off to a quick start in 2013. Entering Monday's game against the Mariners, Altuve was hitting .370 with a homer and nine RBIs and was tied for second in the Majors with 27 hits.
"Altuve's been great," Astros manager Bo Porter said. "You're talking about one of the best hitters in baseball. He's confident, he understands what he's capable of doing and he doesn't try to do too much. He takes what the pitcher gives him and he uses the whole field."
Altuve would become the first Astros player to make consecutive All-Star Games since Miguel Tejada in 2008-09.
Fans can cast their votes for starters at MLB.com and all 30 club sites -- online or via your mobile device -- using the 2013 All-Star Game MLB.com Ballot until July 4 at 10:59 p.m. CT.
Fans may submit 25 online ballots during the voting period, but can also earn a one-time bonus of 10 additional online ballots. To access these additional online ballots, you must be logged into your MLB.com account when you submit any online ballot. If you do not have an MLB.com account, visit mlb.com and register in accordance with the enrollment instructions for a free MLB.com account.
Fans can also once again participate in the Home Run Derby Fan Poll. Fans will have the opportunity to select three players in each league whom they would most like to see participate in the Home Run Derby. The 2013 Home Run Derby -- part of Gatorade All-Star Workout Day -- will be broadcast live on ESPN, ESPN HD, ESPN Deportes and ESPN Radio in the United States beginning at 7 p.m. CT on July 15.
The 2013 American League and National League All-Star teams will be unveiled on July 7 on the 2013 MLB All-Star Game Selection Show, televised nationally on TBS. Baseball fans around the world will then be able to select the final player on each team via the All-Star Game Final Vote sponsored by freecreditscore.com on MLB.com.
And the voting doesn't end there. The final phase of All-Star Game voting will again have fans participating in the official voting for the Ted Williams All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet. During the Midsummer Classic, fans will vote exclusively online at MLB.com via the 2013 All-Star Game MLB.com MVP Vote, and their voice will represent 20 percent of the official vote determining the recipient of the Arch Ward Trophy.
Come to MLB.com for extensive online coverage of the All-Star Week festivities.
The 84th All-Star Game will be televised nationally by FOX Sports, in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and RDS, and worldwide by partners in more than 200 countries via MLB International's independent feed. ESPN Radio and ESPN Radio Deportes will provide national radio coverage of the All-Star Game. MLB Network and SiriusXM will also provide comprehensive All-Star Week coverage. For more information, please visit allstargame.com.
Fans can vote at Minute Maid Park beginning May 2 and through June 17.
The other Astros players on the AL ballot are first baseman Brett Wallace, third baseman Matt Dominguez, shortstop Ronny Cedeno, catcher Jason Castro and outfielders Rick Ankiel, Justin Maxwell and Chris Carter.


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With only one or two days left in January I've just realised it's been a year since my Sri Lankan sojourn and I never did get around to writing the posts I promised about all the incredible places and things we experienced there.
Perhaps a teeny, weeny part of my resistance was self-serving-I don't want toooo many people going there-just you guys 🙂
(Oh oh. Was I being a Holiday Destination Hoarder?!)
But I think the main reason was I'm just so damn in love with the place that I wanted every post to be perfect.
Then I remembered my old resolution that "DONE is a whole lot better than perfect" (Was that it?? Something to that effect anyway)
So, with no further time to waste, let's take a quick visit back to Taprobane Island.
Located in the Indian Ocean, just a stone's throw off the southern tip of Sri Lanka in Weligama Bay.
The famous stick fishermen of Weligama Bay
and yours truly, also in Weligama, waaay too many years ago to admit to.
Taprobane Island mimics the shape of Sri Lanka but measures a mere 2 1/2 acres. It was built in 1922 by the Count de Maunay-Talvande who grandly presided over this last, tiny tear-drop of land before the South Pole, for almost 30 years. After Maunay's death in the late 40's, the house fell into a state of neglect until the American writer Paul Bowles came upon it. It was love at first sight and it was here that he wrote "The Spider House".
In reading a biography about Bowles and his wife Jane several years ago I learned that as enchanted as he was with his tiny slice of Sri Lankan heaven, Jane simply abhorred it. She was a woman blessed with neither good health nor disposition at this stage of her life and deeply feared the swarms of huge bats that routinely descended upon the island each dusk. While Paul enjoyed the peace and inspiration Taprobane offered him, Jane would be plotting her escapes.
Not to mention her girlfriend was back in Morocco waiting for her, but that's another story.
I want to go back to Morocco now
The octagonal open air design allows the tropical breezes to flow through the house. The black doors you see flanking the terrace lead to bedrooms
This was Paul Bowle's bedroom. Much of the original furnishings and paintings are still there. Don't you just love the doors?!
Moi, in one of the other bedrooms enjoying a dreamy, sultry breeze on a very hot & humid day.
One of the things we loved about much of the architecture we encountered in Sri Lanka were the wonderful ways in which seating areas are incorporated into walls and floors.
Like this.
Note the gorgeous patina on the cool, smooth concrete floors- something we also saw a lot of and such a great choice in a hot climate.
Taking late afternoon tea at Taprobane.Uh… no bats 'til dusk right???
(ps. I told you it was humid!)
The steps leading down to the ocean where the house staff told us the present owner and his mother had been swimming when the Tsunami struck.
Miraculously, they both survived but much of the lower part of the house was damaged and the swimming pool was completely swept away.
A new infinity pool has been built in a higher location on the property. Here you can see how close the beach of Weligama is to the island.
The tropical gardens surrounding the house are brimming with eye-popping bouganvilla
Yes, I did post this pic of us leaving the island last year…
Remember that the tide does rise in the afternoon in Weligama Bay!
For More information about Taprobane read HERE
A photo hanging in the house.
(Please note, we did not stay on the island, we just visited and took tea and the tour one unforgettable afternoon)
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Call it a boom or a bubble or just Silicon Valley doing what it does, but tech companies -- like many industries, actually -- have been stockpiling cash. Sure, some have spent a little (looking your way, Google), but for the most part digital assets are amassing liquidity.
TheNextWeb's Alex Wilhelm has compiled a tasty list of tech's top 10 firms for capitalization as well as their cash-on-hand.
Cutting to the chase, the cash total: $290.89 billion; total market capitalization: $1.445 trillion. (That's $1,445,000,000,000.)
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
The list, in order, is Apple (of course), Microsoft (cash king in 2010), Cisco, Google, Oracle, Siemens, IBM (cash king in 2009), Samsung, Intel and Amazon.
The sum total of cash is greater than the GDPs or all but 11 countries. So tech companies are bigger than 170 sovereign nations.
For a deeper and (dare say it?) more fun look at the list and its implications, click here.


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Several prominent conservative media figures are backing a new effort by groups who oppose bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform, signaling growing willingness from conservative outlets to marshal their audiences against the bill.
Signatories on a new open letter to Congress titled "The Wrong Way to Reform Immigration" include RedState editor Erick Erickson, radio hosts Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin, and columnist Michelle Malkin.
"No matter how well intentioned, the Schumer-Rubio bill suffers from fundamental design flaws that make it unsalvageable," the letter states. "Many of us support various parts of the legislation, but the overall package is so unsatisfactory that the Senate would do better to start over from scratch."
The letter, originally circulated by Eagle Forum president Phyllis Schlafly, is also signed by over 100 individuals and grassroots organizations, including former Rep. Allen West, Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin, and author David Limbaugh, the brother of famed conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh.
While the influence of conservative radio hosts was widely credited for the collapse of a 2007 effort to overhaul the nation's immigration system, a trio of controversies – the IRS targeting scandal, the Justice Department leak probe and the Benghazi talking points spat – have largely dominated the airwaves as the current bill works its way through the Senate Judiciary Committee.
While activists working against the bill believe that grass-roots support can again topple the effort to create a pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants, most concede that the overwhelming Hispanic support for President Barack Obama in the 2012 election made vocal opposition to the bipartisan bill far less politically palatable for Republican lawmakers this time. Additionally, several major groups are still sitting out the fight, like the anti-tax Club for Growth and grass-roots clearinghouse FreedomWorks.
The opposition letter comes after a pledge of support for immigration reform from a coalition of conservative groups that called the bill "an important starting point" and urged Republicans in the Senate to "work to improve the legislation." That letter, organized by the American Conservative Union, was signed by a variety of Latino, faith and public policy groups -- many of which met earlier this month with Florida Republican Marco Rubio, the key Senate negotiator working to build conservative support for the bill.
Still, despite steady progress for the Senate legislation and a breakthrough compromise from a bipartisan House group last week, opponents of the legislation feel emboldened by what they see as renewed mistrust of the federal government – particularly in the wake of the IRS controversy.
On Monday, foes of the legislation got an additional boost when the union representing 12,000 employees of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it will oppose the Senate bill, in part because of an "insurmountable bureaucracy" created at the agency that processes immigration documents.
Activists also plan to hold more than 40 local events nationwide Tuesday to highlight opposition to the Senate legislation.
Related stories:
- Senate panel gives green light to test biometric exit program
- Union of immigration enforcement officers to oppose Senate bill
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NH bishop gives thanks to Pope Benedict, recognizes his teachings
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The head of New Hampshire's Roman Catholic diocese is giving thanks to Pope Benedict XVI for his service to the church as the pope prepares to resign.
Bishop Peter Libasci (lih-BAH-she) said Pope Benedict's announcement shows how the church is a never-ending continuum. He said the pope has taught how the Church is rooted in over 2,000 years of history and how deep traditions continue to guide us forward.
The 85-year-old pope announced Monday that he lacks the strength to fulfill his duties and will resign Feb. 28, becoming the first pontiff in 600 years to do so.
Michele Dillon, a scholar of Catholicism and University of New Hampshire sociology professor, says the pope will be remembered primarily for his intellectualism and concern for the integrity of Catholic moral teaching.


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Doodle 4 Google is an annual program that invites K-12 students in the United States to use their artistic talents to think big and redesign the Google homepage logo for millions to see. This year, Google has asked students to exercise their creative imaginations around the theme, "If I Could Invent One Thing to Make the World a Better Place..." One talented student artist will see their artwork appear on the Google homepage, receive a $30,000 college scholarship, and a $50,000 technology grant for their school along with some other cool prizes!
Last year Google received more than 100,000 entries. There will be 50 state finalists though and their doodles will go on display in May at Google's Headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Entries are due by March 20, 2014 no later than midnight, but your child's school must be registered first to be eligible.


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The Roles and Responsibilities of Middle School Literacy Coaches Across the United States: Results from a National Study
With the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 a significant amount of funding and attention has been focused on kindergarten through third grade, with an aim at identifying and preventing the reading failure of young children. Many schools and districts across the United States have used literacy coaches or reading specialists to provide this early intervention.
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Things go wrong. Hard disks fail and whole servers crash. Luckily, many Linux-based distributions are available to help systems administrators handle minor catastrophes. We looked at four of the most portable, all of which fit on a 210MB mini CD — SliTaz, Parted Magic, GParted, and RIPLinuX.
Each of these distributions is easy to use — just insert the CD or plug in the USB drive on which it's installed, then boot. Each gives you access to a variety of open source tools that you can use to manage disks, partitions, and files and perform diagnostics and network troubleshooting. These distributions provide most of the tools that you might need in an emergency situation.
To choose the most appropriate sysadmin distribution, you have to consider several factors. One is the supported boot devices. Most distributions can boot and run from a live CD, but you may want the flexibility of being able to boot from a USB device or even network Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE). Another factor is size: can it fit onto a 128MB USB drive or a mini CD, or do you need a DVD? If you like a smaller distribution, make sure that it holds all the tools and utilities you need. Lastly, consider usability. Does the distro offers tools that have a GUI, or only those you can use from the command line? The CLI may not pose a problem for system administrators, but a GUI may expedite the solution and increase the user base of the distribution, often resulting in greater support and more frequent updates.
Although primarily a desktop administration distribution, SliTaz also includes some useful partition and recovery tools. Of the distributions in this article, SliTaz 1.0 is the smallest. Only 25MB in size and requiring only 128MB of RAM, this Syslinux-based live CD/live USB distribution features a lightweight desktop environment based on Joe's Window Manager (JWM) and many tools for desktop applications, as we discussed recently in SliTaz, a mighty micro Linux distro. However, SliTaz also includes GParted, a Partition Magic clone that you can use for partition creation and manipulation. Although they're not included in the default package, you can download TestDisk and PhotoRec for partition recovery and file recovery, respectively. The default package includes Grsync, which is useful if you want to back up data recovered using TestDisk or PhotoRec.
For other system administrative tasks, don't expect much from this light distribution. It includes only basic network-related tools, such as ping and netstat.
Most of SliTaz's tools are for desktop usage, such as image processing, document viewing, multimedia, and even games. I didn't encounter any problems from boot to desktop. Overall, I recommend SliTaz for the average user who wants a compact desktop OS with some disk and data recovery tools.
Parted Magic
Parted Magic is a Linux From Scratch (LFS) distribution, and only 45MB in size. The latest version, 3.0, runs on the 2.6.26 kernel. You can boot and run it using a live CD, USB, or even PXE. It features an aesthetically pleasing GUI based on Xfce. However, be wary of its memory requirements. The latest version removed the live boot option, so the whole distribution is loaded into memory. You must have at least 300MB of RAM. Failure to meet this minimum requirement will result in problems loading Parted Magic. You may not be able to load all the programs, and even if you can, you might not have access to the graphical desktop.
This distribution's primary component is the popular GParted tool, but it also includes the data recovery tools TestDisk and PhotoRec, as well as a disk imaging program called Partition Image. Other tools include Xarchiver for viewing and extracting archives, Xfburn for CD burning, and ISO Master for creating ISO images. Use the graphical Leafpad for text editing, the latest version of Firefox (3.0.1) for Internet browsing, and Grsync for backing up data.
Parted Magic includes several command-line tools; most are disk related and include dd, ddrescue (for disk recovery), cfdisk, and fdisk. The variety of disk tools enables Parted Magic to support many file systems, including ext2, ext3, ext4, FAT16, FAT32, HFS, HFS+, JFS, Linux swap, NTFS, ReiserFS, Reiser4, and XFS. It includes some advanced network tools too, such as tcpdump.
Parted Magic is a great distribution for its intended purpose: filesystem and partition management, manipulation, and recovery. Its GUI makes it easy for average users and system administrators alike to perform disk-related tasks.
GParted Live
GParted Live is a Debian-based distribution from the GParted team. The latest version is 0.3.7-7, running on the 2.6.24 kernel, and is only 90MB in size. You can boot and run it via live CD, USB, or PXE, and you can even install it on a hard disk. You will need a Pentium II or higher and at least 64MB of RAM, with 128MB recommended.
GParted's boot menu is simple and mostly related to the type of video display. Like other live CD sysadmin distributions, it offers Memtest86+ as a choice in the boot menu. Upon boot, it asks you about the keyboard type you'll be using.
GParted Live's graphical desktop is simple and shows a shortcut to the GParted tool on the desktop. It utilizes a Fluxbox menu in which you can run other disk programs and editing tools. The Fluxbox menu has a limited set of tools, such as Vim and nano for text editing, GNU Midnight Commander for file management, Partition Image for imaging, TestDisk for partition recovery, and PhotoRec for file recovery. As with Parted Magic, you can access other disk tools using the CLI. An extensive collection of tools enables GParted Live to support the same filesystems as Parted Magic, and a shortcut for live USB creation is also available on the desktop. However, unlike Parted Magic, GParted Live doesn't have network support. This means it's missing Internet browsers, commands like ping and netstat, and features like rsync and Grsync, because they're dependent on a network connection. Likewise, the distribution offers no CD-burning software.
With no network support or ability to burn data on a CD, GParted is designed solely for partition management and manipulation on a local machine. You can recover data, but you need a locally accessible device, such as another hard disk or an external drive, to save the recovered data.
If you're concerned only with disk partitioning and related tasks, GParted Live is easy enough to use for both system administrators and average users. However, if you're able to meet its higher memory requirements, Parted Magic may be a better way to go.
If you're looking for a combination of the desktop tools found in SliTaz and the disk management capabilities of Parted Magic, plus more tools for the systems administrator, then RIPLinuX is for you. RIPLinuX, which stands for Recovery Is Possible Linux, is a Slackware-based boot, backup, rescue, and maintenance distribution. The latest version, 6.2, runs on the 2.6.26 kernel and uses just 85MB of disk space. Although the distribution doesn't include a tool for easy installation on a live USB, a guide is available on the Internet.
To use RIPLinuX, you must have at least 256MB of RAM — a little high but still lower than what is required for Parted Magic. RIPLinuX includes a boot menu with a Memtest86+ utility, and you can select whether to boot into the CLI or the GUI. Unlike some distributions, such as Parted Magic, RIPLinuX has a simple desktop interface and a Fluxbox menu. Right-clicking on the desktop displays all available options and programs.
What makes RIPLinuX an impressive sysadmin distribution is the number of programs available. It has more disk and recovery utilities than Parted Magic, more graphical programs than SystemRescueCd, and almost as many desktop applications as SliTaz. It includes the XMMS audio player, the Xine video player, and the QEMU emulation program. It even has network support for both wired and wireless networks. RIPLinuX uses the latest Firefox version, along with some nongraphical browsers such as Links. A remote desktop tool is also available for accessing remote workstations. RIPLinuX has a variety of text editors (Beaver, gVim, and Leafpad) and file management utilities (PCManFM, EmelFM, and GNU Midnight Commander), and it's replete with all of the utilities you'll find in Parted Magic, including the CD-burning tool Xfburn, the archive viewer/extractor Xarchiver, and the ISO image creator ISO Master. In addition to the disk and partition tools you can find on Parted Magic, RIPLinuX also includes disk tools such as G4L (a disk imaging tool) and Enterprise Volume Management System (EVMS). And, like Parted Magic and GParted Live, it supports many filesystems. There's also an offline help file that explains the usage of every tool available.
And the winner is …
Once I discovered RIPLinuX, I switched from my old sysadmin distribution and will be using RIPLinuX from now on. With so many tools organized in a user-friendly graphical environment, RIPLinuX is the best sysadmin distribution I could find that can fit on a mini CD. The organized help system makes the tools easy to use, even for nontechnical users. With a reasonable memory requirement and trouble-free booting, RIPLinuX would make a good addition to any system administrator's toolbox.
RIPLinuX may be the overall winner, but the three other distributions discussed in this article have their benefits as well. Parted Magic and GParted Live specialize in disk management, manipulation, and recovery, while SliTaz focuses on desktop applications but also features disk management and recovery. Just remember, regardless of which distribution you decide to go with, its effectiveness depends on the way you use it as much as on the tools included.
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As Halloween approaches, be very afraid - and also a little hungry - because participating IHOP restaurants in the Buffalo area are bringing back one of their most beloved traditions for kids: the "Scary Face" pancake joins the "Just For Kids" menu this month.
And as a special Halloween treat, on Oct. 31, participating IHOP restaurants will offer kids ages 12 and under a "Scary Face" pancake free (and that's no trick!).
Kids 12 and under can order a "Scary Face" pancake and be able to make it into as scary - or funny - a face as they want. The "Scary Face" pancake comes with one of IHOP restaurant's world famous buttermilk pancakes, a whipped topping mouth, a glazed strawberry nose and a set of decorations: two mini-Oreo cookies to create eyes, and eight pieces of candy corn to add teeth or fangs.
And kids over 12 - and grownups - will get a treat, too, when the most popular seasonal favorite, pumpkin pancakes, returns to the menu at participating IHOP restaurants.
"We're excited to bring back one of our most requested holiday promotions, the "Scary Face" pancake - and even more excited to celebrate Halloween with our guests 12 and under by giving them a free 'Scary Face' pancake when they visit us on Oct. 31," said Natalia Franco, vice president of marketing, International House of Pancakes. "Whether we're your first stop on Halloween to fortify your kids for a day of costume parades and trick-or-treating, or your kids want to end the day by celebrating with a 'Scary Face' dinner, you'll want to spend at least part of the day at your local IHOP restaurant.
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Why do kids want to fight each other with knives and scaffold pipes?
It was like "Knife fight at the OK Coral" last week! Two gangs, one Latvian the other Iraqi, were going at it hammer and tongs (or knives & steel pipes). Thankfully the only injuries were slash wounds to the arms and relatively minor head injuries.
Why do some people have kids when they cannot look after themselves let alone others.
We were called to a female "sick!" on one of the many estates in Big City, Ruralshire. On gaining entry to the address we found our patient slumped on the settee with a hypodermic hanging out of her arm……and a small child (approx 18-24 months old) toddling about in a dirty nappy playing dangerously near to the gas fire which was full on!
Why do some so called adults behave as if they are children when it comes to dealing with their lives?
Too many times recently I have felt as if I have been in the audience on "The Jeremy Kyle Show". Are we becoming a nation of Chavs?
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Using Computational Modeling to Interpret Experimental Measurements of Irradiation Induced Hardening in Metals
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Despite tremendous advances over the last few decades, experimental measurements of mechanical property degradation in irradiated metals typically provide information integrated over space and time, where the fine details of the microstructure are often lost. Computational modeling and simulation grounded on solid theoretical principles that link physical phenomena across several scales can be used to interpret the experimental data and provide a more complete picture of damage processes. In this talk, we will present two examples of cases relevant to fusion energy where modeling can explain macroscopic measurements of damage in structural materials subjected to neutron irradiation. First, we will show simulations of dislocation channel formation in irradiated ferritic systems, linking nonlinear dislocation mobilities with damage accumulation models, elasticity, deformation models, and experimental data. Second, we will show how the effect of transmutation in tungsten structural materials has a large influence on microstructural evolution and hardening, and how modeling can help bridge the gap between experimental observations and measurements of hardening.
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A Model Coupling Hydrides Formation and Mechanical Behavior of Zircaloy Cladding during Fuel Rod Lifecycle
A Phase Field Study of Void Superlattice Formation in Irradiated Materials
A Quantitative Phase-Field Model for Gas Bubble Evolution in Nuclear Fuels
Ab Initio Modeling of Vacancy-type Defects in a High Entropy Alloy
Atomistic Modeling of Primary Damage in Fe-based Ferritic Alloys
Atomistic Study of Thermal Spike Response of Xe Bubbles in UO
Breaking the Power Law: Multiscale Simulations of Self-ion Irradiated Tungsten
Calculating Free Energies of Metal-He Interfaces from Atomic Models
Cluster Dynamics in Irradiated Materials: A Hybrid Deterministic/Stochastic Coupling Algorithm
Competition of Deformation Modes in Irradiated Zr Alloys: A Micromechanical Approach
Computer Simulations of Dislocation-obstacle Interactions in the Hardening and Recovery of BWR-irradiated 304L SS
Density Functional Theory Simulations of Clusters in Reactor Pressure Vessel Steels
Density Functional Theory Study of the Magnetic Moment of Solute Mn in BCC Fe
Discrete Dislocation Sinks in Spatially Resolved Cluster Dynamics Simulations
Dislocation Loop Bias in BCC Fe
Effect of Dopants on Uranium-based Metallic Fuels to Mitigate Fuel-cladding Chemical Interactions
Effect of Post Fabrication Voids on Irradiation Performance of U-10Mo Monolithic Mini-plate
Effects of Oxygen on the Density of States and Elastic Properties of Hafnium—First Principles Calculations
Evolution of Grain Boundary Structure and Composition in Irradiated SiC
Experimentally Validated Computational Modeling of Advanced Alloys and Radiation Effects for Nuclear Energy Applications
Flux Effect on RIS in a Fe3%Ni Model Alloy: CD Modelling of the T Shift
Formation and Re-orientation of Multi-phase Zirconium Hydrides under Applied Strain
Fundamental Understanding of Corrosion of Nuclear Materials: Holistic Approach to Fuel Cladding Corrosion under Irradiation
Fundamentals of Energy Dissipation and Defect Energetics of Maximally Disordered Alloys
Grain Growth and Grain Subdivision in Triuranium Disilicide, a Potential Light Water Reactor Fuel
Hydrogen Transport and Trapping in Irradiation Damaged Zirconium Alloys
Interstitial-mediated Diffusion and Aggregation Mechanism for Transmutation Elements Rhenium and Ormium Precipitation in Tungsten
Kinetics of Point Defect Absorption by Sinks: Effect of Point Defect Properties and Surrounding Microstructure
Microstructure-sensitive Phase Field Fracture Model Including Anisotropic Elastic Properties
Modeling Inclusions with Surface Stresses in the Phase Field Framework
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Effects of Stacking Fault Energies on Defect Formation Process in FCC Metals
Molecular Dynamics Study of Defect-grain Boundary Interactions in Irradiated PyC-like Configuration
Molecular Dynamics Study of Irradiation Damage in Nano-grain Sized Polycrystal
Morphological Study of Dispersion Phases in Heterogenous Waste Form Materials for Efficient Nuclear Waste Containment
Multiscale Simulations of Sequential Dislocation/Obstacle Interactions in FCC Metals
Off-stoichiometric Cluster Dynamics in Irradiated Oxides
Phase Field Modeling of Grain Boundary Evolution in Porous Oxides: Grain Growth and Pore Mobility Effects
Phase Transformation in Zirconium Oxide – A Mesoscale Study
Quantitative Phase Field Modeling of Void Growth in Irradiated Solids
Radiation Damage in Carbon-based Materials
Rate-theory Modeling of Irradiation Damage Cascades and the Influence of the Underlying Microstructure using the MOOSE Framework
Rate Theory Modeling of Fission Gas Behavior in Ion Implantation Experiment
Real-space Diffusion-driven Models for Microstructural Evolution of Irradiated Materials
Residual Point Defects and their Evolution near Dislocation Loops and Grain Boundaries in α-zirconium: An Atomistic Study
Simulation of Phosphorous Migration to Grain-boundary by Molecular Dynamics
Sink Density Effect on Radiation-induced Segregation and Precipitation in Fe-Cr Alloys
The Thermodynamic and Kinetic Properties of Spinels as They Relate to CRUD
Thermomechanical Analysis of the Multi-metallic Layered Composite Fuel Cladding for Improved Accident Tolerance of LWRs
Thermophysical Properties of (U,Zr)O2 Pellet-cladding Interface though MD Simulations
Using Computational Modeling to Interpret Experimental Measurements of Irradiation Induced Hardening in Metals
Vacancy Clusters and Xenon Diffusion in UO2
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A glorious send-off for a piano whose glory days are behind it: Franz Schubert at sunset on Wednesday on a bluff in Half Moon Bay.
"I have many pianos and I decided I wanted to play by the water, and here we are," said artist Mauro Ffortissimo, who gathered a few friends to drag the piano to the bluff, something he's been doing since the beginning of February. It's a practice that is about to come to an abrupt halt, but is part of a planned project called "Sunset Piano."
"I start with Arabesque and the idea was to keep playing it for a month so people would notice how the elements are changing the tuning of the piano," Ffortissimo said, adding that it would be a show of impermanence.
In the two weeks since Ffortissimo hauled the piano on the beach, people have stopped by, day and night to touch it, take pictures and to play the piano in this spectacular venue. And, with every sunset, the crowds have grown, with dancers, upright bassists and poets joining in.
"It was majestic, I've never had any experience like this. I wish it was staying here for a long time so I could keep playing," said Suzanne Webber of El Granada, who studied piano for 24 years.
But the days of this aging piano are numbered. The city will no longer allow it to stay, saying it doesn't have the proper permits. Ffortissimo said the piano will get one more sunset at the harbor, one more sunset on a boat, then at sunset on Sunday, he'll burn it - a cremation of sorts.
"I am going to take it to my studio, I'm going to play the piece one last time while the piano burns. Wish me luck," he said.
As much as the people of Half Moon Bay and beyond have enjoyed the sunset serenades, Ffortissimo says they were never meant to go on forever. And yet, for the people who experienced them, the music will live on.
"To be able to play next to the ocean was incredibly cool," Webber said.
Fortissimo says that after one of the first few sunsets, a woman approached him, crying. She told him that the piano belonged to her family for decades, but that they could no longer keep it, nor pay to repair it. Watching the crowds enjoy its music made saying goodbye a little easier.
Ffortissimo says he may use some of the piano's charred bits in a sculpture. Perhaps another work of art that will make people feel once more. He said, "It's kind of humbling in a way, it's just making so many people happy and excited. It's amazing."


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Feng - Wind and Bu Jingyun - Cloud are raised by Xiong Ba of the World
Society. But Xiong Ba also killed their fathers. Wind and Cloud grow
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Christina D. Romer, the former chairwoman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, took U.S. manufacturing to task recently in a New York Times op-ed. Headlined "Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment?" Romer suggests that support for manufacturing needs to "go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than services."
She's asking the wrong question. Manufacturers don't need special treatment. But what they do require is a level playing field.
Romer is taking the academic view of manufacturing, and that's a problem. In the comfortable confines of a dusty textbook, her views may be fine. But in a cutthroat real world filled with competition, cheating, and harsh mercantilism, the textbook view is very limiting. Unfortunately, Romer sides with the safe, mathematical view, which means she's added her name to the long list of economists who just don't "get it."
Case in point: Romer uses arcane jargon like "market failures…efficiency grounds…positive externalities" to justify her view that there is something wrong with manufacturing. In her op-ed she explains that service work is just as important as manufacturing: "American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers. And our earnings from exporting architectural plans for a building in Shanghai are as real as those from exporting cars to Canada."
Really, the bottom line is jobs. Extolling the virtues of a hair salon misses a fundamental point. Manufacturing supports more jobs, and pays better, than the service industry. And those architectural plans being "exported"—how many jobs do they support, and what's to prevent that architectural work from being outsourced as well?
Romer makes three arguments against manufacturing. First, she says that "Government intervention can be justified on efficiency grounds if the free market won't work well." But U.S. manufacturing advocates aren't asking for a handout. Instead, they're saying that we don't have a free market at work. In reality, we have market failure. There simply isn't a free market when countries like China violate world trade laws and act in a protectionist manner.
I admire Romer's intellect, but I am shocked that she doesn't see this evidence of a market failure. Our trade deficit in manufactured goods, which has quadrupled since 1998, isn't a market failure? (Theory suggests that our trade balance should be trending toward equilibrium.) The fact that, on paper, U.S. steel and semiconductor production is far more efficient than Chinese production, but our market share is declining, isn't a market failure? The fact that productivity of U.S. manufacturing workers has gone up while wages have not isn't a market failure? And, the fact that dollars invested in the American economy by venture capital are producing diminishing employment returns, as Andy Grove has noted, isn't some sort of a market failure? Only if you haven't been looking.
Let's consider why we need government policy in manufacturing in the first place. I borrow this from Jared Bernstein of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, and formerly the Vice President's economic advisor. Bernstein says that manufacturers face barriers to entry, expansion, and innovation that no single, private firm can solve. For example:
Research Barriers: R&D can be prohibitively expensive, and hard to capture profits (e.g., advanced batteries);
Coordination Barriers: No single firm could coordinate national projects like the internet or smart electrical grid;
Innovation Barriers: Firms need help morphing academic innovations into the production process;
Credit Barriers: Markets will underinvest when returns are particularly uncertain;
Exports: Firms need the federal government to push back against unfair trade practices.
I want to especially emphasize Bernstein's last point. Enforcing the rules of trade that we already have on the books--a key piece of President Obama's manufacturing agenda—does not mean asking for "special treatment." In reality, China is using market-distorting practices on a massive scale. Until China halts this mercantilism, we can't have a free market. And common sense tells us that enforcing these rules should be the status quo. It should be standard practice.
Sadly, Romer argues against the importance of manufacturing. I'd like to point her to the Brookings Institution's Howard Wial and Jonathan Rothwell, who recently did an outstanding job of emphasizing the importance of a strong manufacturing base to our national ecology of innovation, research, and development. Similarly, there's also the award-winning work of Wally Shih and Gary Pisano, who made this same connection in a 2009 Harvard Business Review piece. If our nation values expertise in engineering, science, and technology, it must value manufacturing.
But most egregiously, Romer completely ignores perhaps the most important attribute of manufacturing: its jobs multiplier effect. Put simply, and to paraphrase the President's former manufacturing adviser Ron Bloom, a community that attracts an auto assembly facility will also attract a Walmart. But, the opposite is never true. A typical manufacturing job supports four or five other jobs in the economy, directly and indirectly. Manufacturing plays an outsized role in our exports, and factories are often the largest local source of revenue for the public sector.
Finally, we must look at the argument that policy prescriptions are not effective. Much of what President Obama is proposing would actually undo current disincentives such as the higher taxes that manufacturers face in the U.S. (which can drive them abroad), the lack of skilled workers to fill jobs, insufficient public investment in infrastructure, and a lax overall enforcement of trade laws. The President is proposing smart policies--but they hardly rise to the level of industrial policy.
What Ms. Romer needs to do is explain the phenomenon of Germany's thriving industrial sector. Despite strong industrial unions, high wages ($48/hour in manufacturing vs. $32/hour in the U.S.), and thick regulations, Germany is able to keep its global share of manufacturing and exports steady while China rises and the U.S. falls.
How does Germany accomplish this? Its economic policies are shaped around supporting manufacturing. The United States, with better access to natural resources, immense human capital, and breathtaking entrepreneurship, should be outperforming Germany on a per capita basis, but we are not.
Fortunately, President Obama appears to have rejected Romer's advice. If not for any of the above reasons, then for this one: from a strategic (though perhaps not economic) point of view, the U.S. does not want to depend on China to supply our military with parts, computer chips, rocket propellant, surveillance equipment, or anything else, really. If we lose the capacity to manufacture any of our key national security components, we really will have no choice. And China--which has ignored Romer's advice--will have won this argument, which is far from academic.


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COLLEGE STATION � Much of the state�s warm-season grass pastures have yet to recover from damage suffered during the 2010 drought, said a Texas A&M Agricultural Extension Service forage expert.
The recovery delay is caused by several factors, said Dr. Larry Redmon, AgriLife Extension state forage specialist, College Station. Factors include the continuing drought, cooler-than-average weather, cutbacks on fertilizer applications and overstocking.
As of April 23, the U.S. Drought Monitor listed 92 percent of the state in one form of drought or another � moderate, severe, extreme or exceptional.
Producers can�t do anything about the drought, Redmon said. But if they can lower their stocking rates and improve soil fertility, they�ll improve the chances for warm-season grass recovery.
However, from his observations as he travels around the state, many producers have not done either.
�It�s spring, and it�s green out there,� he said. �But most of that green is not grass but weeds, and we have to be very careful with our stocking rates. Only a very few people are using the amount fertilizer they should be because prices are so high. Hybrid Bermuda grasses must be fertilized or they start to weaken and other species (forbs or weeds) start moving in to take their place.�
On a positive note, warm-season grasses were not damaged by the late freezes in March and April, he said. The lack of damage was because of delayed emergence from dormancy, which was a result of the cooler-than-normal weather interrupting a warming trend.
However, some areas are better off than others, which is allowing people to cut back or quit feeding hay entirely, Redmond said.
�If you look at a little bit of East Texas, it looks pretty good,� he said. �But when you get out of deep East Texas and into the post oak savannahs, the Blackland Prairies, South Texas, West Texas, North Texas � many of those areas are essentially unchanged from 2011.�
Even native grass pastures, which have good drought tolerance, were not spared in some areas, Redmon said.
�If you were in Central Texas, west and south, there were a lot of those forages that were destroyed, even with their great drought tolerance,� he said. �When we start killing redberry juniper out on the plateau, you know it�s dry.�
But there is native grass seed in the soil, and with some water and the correct stocking rate they will eventually recover, Redmon said.
More information on the current Texas drought and wildfire alerts can be found on the AgriLife Extension Agricultural Drought Task Force website at http://agrilife.tamu.edu/drought/ .


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Last year, AT&T launched the powerful HTC Aria smartphone. This handset originally runs on the Android 2.1 (Eclair) OS. Finally after waiting for months, HTC Aria users has a reason to cheer. AT&T recently released the much awaited Android 2.2 FroYo update for the HTC Aria smartphone. It is the second Android powered device to get the Android 2.2 FroYo update on the AT&T's network.
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Kerley and Schilens. I hadn't noticed that Holmes is no longer on the active roster.
Kerley and Schilens. I hadn't noticed that Holmes is no longer on the active roster.
And the difference between a good o-line and an average one is slim. Mangold and Ferguson tip the average performance of the unit to good.
So you are telling me the only thing holding the Jets from the playoffs is Sanchez? I don't buy it.
This year? yes. He hath sucked the big one.
I expected Buffalo to be better, but they have sucked, too. If the Jets get comoetent qb play 75%of the time they are 7-5 or so. Instead they have entrusted their team to a jackhole who cannot stand up to Holmes and cannot be trusted to throw the ball witgin ten feet of his receivers.
Sanchez has played like trash this year. When you QB needs that much help, he's just not that good. Tell me who RGIII, Tannehill, or Wilson has that's a ton better than Sanchez? Yet I'd take all 3 over Sanchez.
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1. They have no running game.
2. They have no impact WR or TE since Holmes got hurt.
3. The linebacking corps is older, and slower, and not playing as well.
4. No Revis. This is the key factor. Rex's D with the Jets has been based around Revis erasing one player on the other team's O, usually the best WR they have, and then apply pressure with his exotic rush schemes. While Cromartie has played well this year, he can't do that. As a result, they have to put more people in coverage, which means less pressure, which, in turn exposes the slower LBs more often against TEs and short passes.
5. Mike Tannenbaum did nothing to improve the offense this past off season, as Revis himself pointed out in the preseason.
So, while Mark Sanchez has not had a good season, he's only one of the issues they have. If they add a playmaker or two on O, and get Revis back, I think they're back in the mix next season. If they fire Rex, which would be dumb, then that might change.
"False Start everyone but the center." Gene Steretore. Pats vs Jets. 12/24/16.
Firing Rex might be a good thing for Rex, tho, if he's out of step with his bosses. I would imagine he'd get a nibble from a few needy teams.


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Long-Term measurement of vertical displacements at the outer concrete bridges of the Berlin Main Station (2016)
Berlin Main Station is the largest multi-level station in Europe. Its daily passenger number amounts to over 300.000. Structures built for such a large number of people require a high-level safety standard. The station was built on the inner city site of the historic Lehrter Bahnhof. The conditions for building and start of operation were challenging by several reasons. The typical sandy ground with a high level of groundwater makes the permanent static stability of such a complex structure difficult. Several completed, ongoing, and planned construction activities in the immediate vicinity of the station influence the ground settlement of the whole area. On basis of the structural design an impact prediction was calculated, which expected certain vertical displacements particularly between the single columns of the outer concrete bridges of the building. These columns support the glass roof construction, which only allows a defined limit of displacement. In order to avoid damage, a concept for monitoring and adjusting potentially occurring displacements was developed for installation at the outer bridges of the station.


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Midnight Cowboy
Though "X-rated" means something different than it did in 1969, it's still a badge of honor that Midnight Cowboy is the only film with that "for adults only" label to have won the Best Picture Oscar (Last Tango in Paris being the other great "X-rated" flick of the era). Midnight Cowboy is less shocking today; sexually, it's not the graphic images that provide the punch it's the intellectually complicated nature of the characters' sexuality that still can move an audience. As a follow up to The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman proved he was more than a one-hit wonder and instead that he had a long and vital career ahead of him. It also deservedly made a star out of a little known pretty-boy actor named Jon Voight. And it also put British director John Schlesinger on the American A-list, a guy whose deep sensitivity and open homosexuality put him ahead of his time. The film's theme song, "Everybody's Talkin'" performed by Harry Nilsson, has become the iconic standard bearer for images of a lonely guy walking the streets of New York. Midnight Cowboy also is a fascinating peek at an era both for representation for how an artist works at a time when the movie studios were willing to take a chance on a grubby flick about a would-be male prostitute and his new BFF while also revealing a dark side to the Big Apple during what has sometimes been considered a golden age of self-expression.
Apparently screenwriter Waldo Salt (who was just emerging from two decades of being blacklisted) took a lot of liberties with James Leo Herlihy's underground but acclaimed novel. A Texas dishwasher named Joe Buck (Voight) decides to drop his apron and take advantage of his good looks; he busses up to Manhattan under the illusion that it's a city full of rich women and fairies. They need a real cowboy to show them what a true man is. Unfortunately life in the big city doesn't turn out like he hoped. There's competition in the cowboy hustler department and most people are not charmed by his act. He does finally hook up with a seemingly wealthy older woman but when he requests payment for his services, she turns the tables and he ends up paying her. Similar trysts with two men, a religious nut and a teenage boy (a young Bob Balaban), prove fruitless as Joe is kicked out of his pad and finds himself cold, hungry, and homeless.
After being taken and tricked by a dirty little weasel of a man, the peg-legged Enrico Rizzo aka Ratso (Hoffman), the two end up becoming buds with the gimpy and matted Ratso trying to show the big dumb cowboy the way of the streets and the con game, even sharing his condemned building shelter he squats in. Things look up as the guys get invited to a chic Andy Warhol-inspired hipster party (where real-life "Warhol superstars" Ultra Violet and Viva appear). Joe smokes some weed and goes on a groovy mind trip; he gets to experience what the Woodstock Generation in NYC is all about. He even meets a pretty socialite (Brenda Vaccaro) and finally makes some good cash for his stud services, though at first he has erection issues, but when she suggests maybe he's gay, that wakes Little Joe right up and he shows her how they do it Texas-style.
Throughout the film Ratso's cough is getting worse and his health deteriorates. We also slowly learn some Joe Buck back story through eerie flashbacks. He's haunted by two women: his grandmother who raised him (their relationship had a sexual nature to it) and his ex-girlfriend who ended up in a mental institute after she and Joe were gang-raped by a pack of yahoos. Joe's loneliness and Ratso's illness bring them closer together; finally they decide to leave chilly New York for the sun of Miami Beach. On the bus ride there Joe dumps his cowboy costume for some preppy frat boy outfits, but then Ratso dies on the back of the bus (the second Hoffman flick in a row that ends with symbolism of a couple on a bus). Joe tries to hold on to Ratso's dignity for him as he finally understands the meaning of friendship and, more importantly, manhood.
They say that cinematically it often takes a foreigner to truly understand the American dream. After the success of Darling and Far From the Madding Crowd, two films that criticize the British class system, Schlesinger here turned the big city ambitions of a country boy into the pathetic delusions of a Times Square hustler. And it wasn't just Schlesinger—Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah were turning the most scared American cinema genre, the western, on it head while the modern West was being demystified with films like Hud and The Last Picture Show. Most importantly, though, to where Midnight Cowboy fit into its era, with the Vietnam War raging young people were questioning the myth of the American cowboy and its cult of John Wayne. Midnight Cowboy added to the conversation by declaring that it's all one big lie (ironically John Wayne beat Hoffman and Voight for the Best Actor award at that year's Oscars for a film, True Grit, which already felt stale by '69).
Schlesinger followed Midnight Cowboy with a couple of interesting flicks: Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Day of the Locust, and Marathon Man, but then he spent the next 20 years trying unsuccessfully to connect with audiences, apparently losing the ability to pick good material and inspire his casts as he did so well in the earlier part of his career (one exception being The Falcon and the Snowman in '85). But with Midnight Cowboy Schlesinger nailed it; the gritty street realism he created gave Hoffman and Voight room to give two of the most memorable performances of their careers. Schlesinger had hidden cameras planted so the actors could relate to actual people on the street, most famously with Hoffman's reaction to a car almost hitting him, "I'm walking here!" But style and timing aside, what helps Midnight Cowboy stand the test of time is the relationship between the two characters. Sunday Bloody Sunday, Schlesinger's next flick, was about the sexual relationship between two men; with Midnight Cowboy it's not sexual, but there is an intimacy rarely seen at that time between two males on the screen—another reason audiences in '69 were so shocked and why audiences today can so appreciate it.
Midnight Cowboy was nominated for 8 Oscars including two for Best Actor (Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight), Best Supporting Actress (Sylvia Miles), and Best Editing (Hugh Robertson) and won for Best Picture, Best Director (John Schlesinger), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Waldo Salt).


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