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Thursday, August 29, 2013
Dino 'AKA' Dinos22 from Team.AU Does Some 3DMark Damage
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Mike Moen from Intel's Performance Team talks overclocking!
Hi guys, I wanted to share a video with you produced by OCTV and HWBOT during the recent Computex 2013 tech show in Taiwan. Pieter from HWBOT.ORG, leading enthusiast/overclockers website, did an interview with a really interesting guy that works for Intel. His name is Mike Moen and he's the lead engineer for high end and enthusiast platforms. In laymen's terms, a geek supremo that translates what overclockers are about into language platform architects can understand and implement into design.
One thing I found really interesting is when Mike said "we don't want logic to be the limiter, we want physics to be that natural limiter". In other words, Intel is always looking out to remove any possible limitation that the platform itself could produce on overclocking and open it up as much as possible so that the limits in overclockers are literally the limits of silicone and what is physically possible with any piece of silicone. He even talks about specific examples of where they've affected the change in logic to make sure overclockers are not left out such as PLL override option back in Sandy Bridge days or pushing the new boundaries with memory overclocking on Haswell platform. Very cool stuff, check out the full interview:
Thursday, August 22, 2013
ROBBO2 from Australia breaks new FM2 SuperPi records in GIGABYTE competition!
GIGABYTE's "Pi is Returned" is really hitting a stride at the moment with records falling daily it seems. This time it's Robbo2 from Australia leading the charge.
Australians are never far away when there's a SuperPi competition somewhere. It's nice to see a relative newcommer to the world of extreme OC really show off some decent skill and top the charts so far. Robbo managed to set new FM2 category world records in both 1M and 32M SuperPi. I've met Robbo2 at a recent OCAU Extreme OC workshop and it's great to see OCAU guys jumping the hurdle and really giving LN2 a serious go with some decent hardware. Motherboard used was the GIGABYTE F2A85X-UP4 and an AMD A10-6800K CPU clocked past 7.2GHz (32M SuperPi) and 7.3GHz(for 1M SuperPi).
Awesome stuff there, keep at it!
For those of you that would like to check out this competition you can follow all the action on HWBOT.ORG.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Hi Cookie takes down several i5 4670K world records on GIGABYTE Z87X-OC
Here's some more overclocking news for you all. Our resident overlocking evangelist Hi Cookie has been busy pushing an Intel Core i5 4670K processor to the max, garnering a bunch of world records in the process. Cookie took down 4670K world records for wPrime 1024M, wPrime 32M, SuperPi 32M, SuperPi 1M, PiFast and overall CPU frequency.
It's really great to see Cookie pushing the outer limits of performance on an OC board that was largely designed by himself. Congrats Cookie mate.
Check out the scores below.
Check out the scores in more detail on HWBOT here.
More info on our GIGABYTE Z87X-OC board here.
MikeCDM breaks FM2 SuperPi WR in GIGABYTE "Pi is Returned" Contest
GIGABYTE just kicked off a new competition at HWBOT with large cash prizes to see who the best of the best AMD overclockers are in the world today. First score was submitted by MikeCDM right at the start with the FM2 category world record 1M SuperPi and second place 32M Super Pi with a mere 3 seconds (0.004%) away from taking the FM2 32M Superpi world record as well. Mike is running a massive 7.3GHz with GIGABYTE F2A85X-UP4 sporting the new digital PWM.
Category win earns US$500 with a bonus US$500 for a world record. Looks like FM2 category will be earning some big prizes! Let's go!
Great score Mike and keep pushing. Awesome to see records fall so far already!
I'll end this with famous words of everyone's favourite anchorman, lol!
Monday, August 19, 2013
'Pi is Returned': A GIGABYTE OC Contest on HWBOT
Last Friday evening we launched our latest overclocking contest on HWBOT, Pi is Returned. The big news with this contest is that AMD and ourselves have managed to stump up some nice fat cash prizes – over 5 grand in total as well as some pretty attractive hardware prizes too.
The idea is pretty simple: Two AMD platforms – FM2/1 & AM3+ - on two classic benchmarks – Super Pi 1M and Super Pi 32M. Here's the break down of stages and prizes in more detail:
Group A - FM1/2 (Llano/Trinity/Richland)
Stage1: Super Pi 1M
- 1st place - USD $500
- 2nd place - USD $250
- 3rd place - FM2A85XN-WIFI & AMD A10-6800K
- World Record - USD $500
- Target score: 11sec 359ms (full list)
Stage2: Super Pi 32M
- 1st place - USD $500
- 2nd place - USD $250
- 3rd place - FM2A85XN-WIFI & AMD A10-6800K
- World Record - USD $500
- Target score: 10min 40sec 875ms (full list)
Group B – AM3+ (Bulldozer/Piledriver)
Stage1: Super Pi 1M
- 1st place - USD $500
- 2nd place - USD $250
- 3rd place - 990FXA-UD3 & AMD FX-8350
- World Record - USD $500
- Target score: 10sec 93ms (full list)
Stage2: Super Pi 32M
- 1st place - USD $500
- 2nd place - USD $250
- 3rd place - 990FXA-UD3 & AMD FX-8350
- World Record - USD $500
- Target score: 10min 31sec 770ms (full list)
Note: the World record bonus prize of USD $500 will be awarded at the end of the competition to the highest score per stage, if the target record has been broken.
Visit the official Pi is Returned competition page on HWBOT here.
Friday, August 16, 2013
Jeffrey Stephenson creates Flightline PC using a GIGABYTE Thin Mini-ITX board
Just to follow up on Dino's blog below. Here are some more details. Renowned craftsman and PC builder Jeffrey Stephenson (known to many as SlipperySkip) has now completed his latest creation, Flightline. Inspired by the Wright Brothers Memorial in North Carolina, and sporting a GIGABYTE Thin Mini-ITX board, Flightline is basically a desk ornament that is also a PC. The outer shell is made of quilted maple, maple burl, mahogany, lace wood and aircraft grade birch plywood, i.e. several types of damn good quality wood…
I'll let the photos speak for themselves…
Despite being really thin, the piece offers a thoroughly decent level of performance, powered by an Intel Core i3-3225 processor on a GIGABYTE H77TN Thin Mini-ITX motherboard with 8GB DDR3 and 60GB mSATA SSD. Not too shabby…
Check out this article on BoingBoing, plus the full monty on Jeffrey's website slipperyskip.com
More info about the GIGABYTE H77TN here.
Custom PC to rule them all!
We often catch glimpse of some amazing works of art by custom PC builders and I am always in such state of amazement what creativity and dedication people show to "prettyfy" their PCs. So a mate of mine tells me about this amazing custom build by a bloke on OCAU (Overclockers Australia) forum calling himself "slipperyskip" and what a build this was. I won't spoil the full build so I'll put up a couple of photos but for the full worklog click on this forum thread address and keep scrolling down!
Thursday, August 15, 2013
TeamAU take global 3DMARK03 world record!
I had a bit of a play with my favourite new toy (GIGABYTE Z87X-OC) running Intel 4770K and tripple crossfire 7970 and nailed the global 3DMARK03 world record tonight. Haswell is exceptionally fast clock for clock. It easily beats Ivy Bridge in benchmarks like 3D03 with up to 10% lower frequency.
Check out TeamAU Facebook page or OCAU forum for more details.
Monday, August 12, 2013
Anandtech interview Jackson Hsu, Motherboard Product Management Director at GIGABYTE
A couple of weeks ago Anandtech's chief motherboard reviewer Ian Cutress had the opportunity to get face to face with one of the most important men in our office, Mr Jackson Hsu – motherboard product management director here at GIGABYTE.
Taking a pretty relaxed and open approach to the questions Ian posed, Jackson's interview offers what is in many respects, a fly-on-the-wall view of just how much hard work, communication and sheer endeavor goes into designing, manufacturing and marketing our motherboards. A pretty interesting piece I hope you all enjoy.
Thursday, August 8, 2013
TweakTown investigate the power delivery of the GIGABYTE Z87X-OC Force
With the Ultra Durable™ 5 last year GIGABYTE introduced our new power design using Powerstage controllers and ICs from IR, debuting on our boards like the Z77X-UP7. The clear advantage of using these components was efficiency and good thermals. Simply put they get power to the CPU and memory without producing too much heat, even when you ramp them up and push the performance to the limit.
But it can a tad frustrating for a marketing guy when you try and actually get solid proof of these claims, especially as the vast majority of motherboard reviewers tend to focus on features, price and general performance. To be fair, few reviewers actually have the means to explore heat dissipation and efficiency.
Which was why it's really great to see Chris Ramsayer of TweakTown dusting off his thermal imaging camera and taking a good hard look at the PWM of our Z87X-OC Force motherboard, one our new Ultra Durable™ 5 Plus boards launched a few months ago. Here's sample of what he had to say, plus some fascinating images:
"At this point in the test, I'm under the impression that GIGABYTE's new PWM cooler is amazing. With temps like the set we ran we needed to find out what happens when we take the heat sink off.
In the image above, we removed the PWM heat sink and stressed the CPU with performance benchmarks running in a loop. Surprisingly, the warmest IR3550 only reached 45C and a majority of the digital PWM chips hovered right around 40C with am ambient room temperature of 20C."
Here's a video Chris shot. Chris explains:
"In the video embedded above, we see the system with and without the heat sink installed. In both cases, we used a timeline for testing with Cinebench 11.5 with the computer shut down and at room temperature to start with. Cinebench starts for the first time at 1 minute and 20 seconds. A new Cinebench CPU run starts every 1 minute and 10 seconds after so at 2 min 30 sec, 3 min 40 sec, 4 min 50 sec and finally at the 6 minute mark. Most of the PWMs reach 40C, but nothing goes over 45C."
Check out the full article on TweakTown here.
More info on the GIGABYTE Z87X-OC Force can be found here.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Dino talks high-end audio at PAX Australia 2013
Just came across this video from PAX Australia a few weeks ago where our man in Aus, Dino, fields some interesting questions about our new 8 series boards from a young fella from JTLProductions, a gaming channel covering the show. Interesting to see that journalists are looking younger than ever, yet actually having the brains to ask pretty well thought-out questions.
You can find more info on our G-Killer gaming series of motherboards here.
Thursday, August 1, 2013
GIGABYTE Question Time on Facebook: Form Factor Poll Results
Last week, in an attempt to better understand our Facebook followers and the systems they are building/using, we asked you to tell us which form factor motherboard you have installed in your current rig. The options were E-ATX, Standard ATX, Micro-ATX, Mini-ITX. Check out the results below:
It probably surprises nobody that standard ATX motherboards are the most popular choice. This totally makes sense. At GIGABYTE we offer more models in this form factor than any other, with the majority of our mainstream and upper mainstream product offerings coming in ATX. So no surprises that 62% of you are using a standard ATX form factor motherboard. For record, I also belong in this group.
So what about the larger E-ATX form factor? According to our poll, this form factor accounts for 9% of you. This is actually a little higher than I would have guessed, except perhaps when you take into account the audience being asked. Of course, our Motherboard Facebook page fans shouldn't be taken as an accurate sample of your average user, because clearly if you are following us you have a strong interest in PC building, motherboard etc. So sure, this would make you more likely to go for a larger, enthusiast motherboard such as our G1.Sniper 5 or Z87X-OC Force, two of our most recent E-ATX model offerings. So, yeah, plenty of enthusiast level systems out there, being built by enthusiasts. 10% in total.
Then we come to the smaller end of things, which for me is perhaps the most interesting. The PC business has been evolving slowly over the last decade with technology getting more and more efficient, using less power generally so one obvious trend that is the rise of smaller system builds based on small form factor motherboards.
Micro-ATX in fact has a great deal of flexibility in terms of size, with plenty of variation available. But the one main difference is that you're getting fewer add-in-card options with fewer PCIe and PCI slots than standard ATX implementations. Micro-ATX also tends to be mostly mainstream board offerings, less extreme configurations, so to see only 19% of participants using this form factor kind of tells me that our Facebook followers are more inclined towards the upper tier models, which echoes what we've seen so far.
Mini-ITX is a relatively new form factor, defined not by Intel like the other form factors, but by VIA Technologies – hence the ITX, not the ATX suffix. With fixed dimensions of 17cm by 17cm, recent years have seen the form factor mature considerably with more and more chassis available than previously. But despite the relative maturity of Mini-ITX I am still a little surprised to see 10% of those polled using it. This is a significant chunk and points to growth in this segment. It also ties in with GIGABYTE now offering more in this form factor than before. One example is our recent F285XN-WIFI board which see the AMD FM2 platform on Mini-ITX for the first time. Then again, one could also conclude that if you are a Mini-ITX user then you may also find polls about form factors to be quite interesting…. ;)
One other interesting point is the little nugget of data that tells about the gender of all those polled. According to our Facebook Poll App 96% of you are male, 2% female with 2% not sure. So it seems that our Facebook fan page is a bit of a boys club. Are we really so surprised?


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I have lurked the site for years, but only recently I decide to make an account! I would like some advice for my first track (ways to improve, directions I could take it, general thoughts etc.) All of the sounds minus the percussion were made by me in Native Instruments Massive. I would also like information on chord progressions, and keys that the genre uses. I don't have the best ear, unfortunately.
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Tutorial: How do I search for scores using uniform titles? Part I: Form Titles
How do I…find scores for symphonies, concertos, quartets and trio?
Searching for music materials is often challenging due to the variety of languages involved. Should you search for works in the original composer's language or by the titles in English?
Lucky for you, librarians have created "uniform" titles. Uniform titles are assigned each musical work and if you know how to search for a work by a uniform title, you can find every score for that work no matter how many languages it is published in.
There are two types of uniform titles-- form titles, used for works with a set instrumentation, and distinctive titles, used to find works with specific titles such as operas or orchestral works. Today we'll look at one type of uniform title, the form title.
Form titles are used to locate works with a set instrumentation. For example, we know that a symphony is performed by an orchestra, a quintet is performed by five individuals and so on.
To search for a score using form titles you need to know the form of the work (symphony, concerto, quartet, trio, etc.) and what instruments are involved. Let's start by looking for Mozart's bassoon concerto.
Always start your search with an author search in the library catalog. In my case I'll start an author search for "Mozart, W". I'll look for the Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus with the largest number of entries found and click on that link.
From here, I'll use the limit button to limit my search to the publication type of printed music scores.
I'll also use the "keywords in title" box to limit to my form title. Form titles always start with the form, so step 1 is to identify your form. In my case the form is a concerto so I'll type "concertos". I add an "s" to concertos as Mozart has written several concertos. I've completed step 1 of constructing my form title—I've identified my form and made it plural.
Step 2 is to add the medium or instrumentation of the work. Keep in mind that a symphony is always performed by an orchestra. Since the instrumentation for a symphony is set, you may skip this step when search for symphonies. In my case, I know the Mozart bassoon concerto is for solo bassoon so I'll add ", bassoon" to my form title.
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The sailor, whose name was not released, told authorities that he fired the weapon at a mirror in a parking garage, said Capt. Scott Adams, commanding officer of Naval Base Point Loma. Pellets were recovered near the mirror.
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Saturday, January 02, 2010
-28F is Freaking Cold
-28F is what my thermometer said this morning. My floors felt cold. I set the interior thermostat at 68F and the house was only 61F. The guage is upstairs so it is 68F up there, 61F where we live most of the time. Brrr.
I was going to run 10 miles on the treadmill, until I saw Topaz's dejected eyes when I stated so. Ugh...
Pulling my winter running clothing out of the dryer I began to layer it on. After I was all dressed I began to put on Topaz's booties. He smiled and pranced with glee.
I told him we were only running until I became cold, then I was finishing my miles on the treadmill. He said it was a deal.
Keeping a close eye on Topaz I made sure he wasn't doing 'paw in the air dance'. He wasn't. He was running like this morning wasn't any different than any other morning. He bolted across the field, made a u-turn and came back to me as fast as he could. He laid upon the frozen tundra and loosened up the cement like snow with his paws so that he could chew it up. He continued to paw the snow, then rolled in the loose pieces that he had softened up.
4 miles, 36 minutes and that was enough for me. -28F (-41F windchill) is not the same feeling at -5F. It just isn't.
We ran up the driveway and into the house. Brr. I pulled off my winter layers and again pulled on shorts. Nice warm treadmill of 6 more miles. I didn't mind the treadmill at all!
Stay warm fellow Minnesotans!
6 comments:
- Unknown said...
Wow Julie! I saw the temp on the news this morning said -14, I thought that was with windchill!! It was cold, I can't believe you were outside at all!
- PJ Geek said...
I'm from the south and live in Atlanta and 28F seems mighty cold here. However, I must have had another life lived in the great north. On a trip to a friend in Manitoba one winter, I learned to cross country ski at -20 and my Canadian born friend thought I was better suited to the cold than she was.
I enjoy reading your blog somewhat because of that trip. Also, I've lost 100lbs and technically have that much more to go. I'm inspired by your stories. I'm working on Maybe jog/walk/crawling a 5k this spring. Very slow jogger so far.
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What kind of dog booties does Topaz wear? For Ripley, I was looking at the Ruff Wear Bark'n Boots with the Vibram Grip Trex soles. Then I thought only a crazy lady would spend $60 for dog shoes. Then I saw that Topaz wears dog shoes and I felt validated. Hahaha!
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Renee, I bought the booties from a company in Duluth, Mn called dogbooties.com. I bought 4 booties for $10!! they are made of a sturdy canvas with Velcro at the top to size. I bought these two winters ago and there is only a bit of wear on them even though probably over 1000 miles. I will purchase another set for next winter. I saw the $60 ones and the sales woman told me they were mainly for inside , on hard wood flooring so the nails wouldn't scratch.
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Yes Mary, cold indeed! Today I took Topaz out for 5 and then ran 10 on the treadmill.
PJ congratulations on the weightloss and running! How wonderful. Little changes create huge lifestyle changes. Keep up the good work!
- Skwigg said...
Cool! I like that price a lot better. I bought Ripley a hot pink set. She loves running in the snow but will limp or stop to chew on her feet if she gets ice between her toes. The booties should make it much more comfortable for her to herd me across the frozen tundra. ;-)


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Despite a well-grounded and admirably lucid production helmed by LCT resident director Bartlett Sher, new play "Blood and Gifts" has no heart. J.T. Rogers' overview of the mess made by the big foreign powers when they were busily meddling in Afghanistan between 1981 and 1991 is not lacking in intelligence. But for all the finger-pointing and handwringing, the drama draws its political message from the actions of stereotyped characters in cliched situations.
Play originated in England as one of several short works about Afghanistan commissioned by the Tricycle Theater for a 12-hour marathon production called "The Great Game." The expanded version seen here was done last year at the National Theater.
Bartlett Sher's new staging of the play for the intimate space at LCT's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater is simplicity itself. In Michael Yeargan's subtle stage design, a geometric floor pattern of Middle Eastern tiles is enough to set the action in various locales in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan. (When called for, a gigantic American flag drops down to whisk the action to Washington.) Low benches set along three sides of the stage are an efficient way to stockpile actors for quick exits and entrances.
Catherine Zuber's costumes might not be strictly accurate, but they're suggestive enough to pass for the real thing. And Donald Holder's warm lighting stops short of piercing the eyeballs to make us pay attention.
Pared down to the bone, Rogers' Cold War thriller presents a subjective precis of events during the decade between 1981 and 1991 when Russia had an occupying army in Afghanistan. In attempting to subvert the Russians, the blundering Western powers led by the United States and Great Britain conspired with Pakistan to arm the mujahideen "freedom fighters" — and inadvertently laid the groundwork for the fanatical Islamist militancy and tribal factionalism that led to civil war.
The story is even more compelling than the one Rogers told in "The Overwhelming" about the genocidal bloodbaths in Rwanda. But those atrocities were viewed from the perspective of a realistically drawn American family made vulnerable by their political ignorance. Here, the players couldn't pass for anything but broadly drawn figureheads.
Dmitri Gromov (Michael Aronov), a Russian KGB agent, and James Warnock (Jeremy Davidson), the CIA station chief, meet cute at the airport in Islamabad. They are soon joined by Simon Craig (Jefferson Mays), a fecklessly charming MI6 British agent.
Although Rogers takes care to give these three spooks individualized personal histories, they aren't remotely believable. To be sure, Aronov plays Gromov with self-mocking Russian wit, and Mays finds the sad, soft spot that dissolves Craig's British reserve. But Davidson does nothing to humanize Jim Warnock by playing that decent but naive American with a lantern jaw and rigid spine. Thesping skills aside, the men are what they are — projections of nationalist traits.
The lack of realism becomes more acute when Warnock and Craig join the ruthless Pakistani Colonel Afridi (a very scary Gabriel Ruiz) in plotting to drive the Russians out of the country.
Craig very sensibly suggests arming Ahmed Shah Massoud, a Tajik warlord with broad popular support. Colonel Afridi pushes for Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the Pashtun leader of an army of Islamist extremists.
Both men are historical figures and it would have been interesting to watch the conspirators negotiating with either one, or both of them. But no, Warnock throws his support behind the fictional Abdullah Kahn, an honorable man in Bernard White's authoritative perf, but, you know, a made-up person.
Rogers is an accomplished scribe who brings real intelligence (and much literate dialogue) to the stage. But there's not enough dramatic art here to sustain a work of fiction — and not enough reality for an authentic historical drama.


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LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's center-right government presents its 2013 budget on Monday, which will outline the harshest measures yet under Lisbon's 78-billion-euro bailout and is likely to mark the end of the country's so far reluctant acceptance of austerity.
The budget will face immediate opposition from angry Portuguese, who plan to march on parliament to demand the resignation of the government and an end to austerity, which has sent Portugal into its worst recession since the 1970s.
The 2013 budget is set to introduce sharp income tax hikes, which could amount to up to two or three months' wages for middle income workers, to ensure the country meets its budget goals under the bailout. Finance Minister Vitor Gaspar has described the planned tax increases as "enormous."
Economists fear that the tough measures, which will also include pension cuts, a financial transaction tax and higher property taxes, could push Portugal into a recessive spiral like Greece, further undermining Europe's German-inspired austerity drive for the euro's highly-indebted countries.
The austerity moves in the 2013 budget came after the government announced last month a rise in social security contributions, which it subsequently dropped after mass protests erupted. The opposition to the alternative tax measures is set to be equally strong.
Even Portugal's conservative president, Anibal Cavaco Silva, criticized the budget measure. "In the current circumstances, it is not correct to demand of a country being subjected to a budget adjustment process that it meets the targets at any cost," Cavaco Silva wrote on his Facebook page.
Before September, Portugal had shown a relatively high level of political consensus and support for cutting costs and the bailout it sought in 2011. But that support has been eroded, with the main opposition Socialists now pledging to vote against the budget when it is put to parliament at the end of the month.
Protests have now become frequent, though still peaceful. A general strike is planned for November 14.
The ruling center-right Social Democrats hold a comfortable majority in parliament together with their smaller allies, the rightist CDS. But the CDS has a long history of opposing higher taxes and analysts say the party's complete support of the government can no longer be taken for granted, especially if the economy deteriorates further.
Local media reported that the government was still locked in an internal debate at the weekend on the possibility of finding more areas for spending cuts in order to ease the tax hikes. The budget is expected to be detailed on Monday afternoon.
The economy is expected to contract at least 3 percent this year and the government expects a contraction of just 1 percent in 2013 — a forecast widely doubted by economists. Unemployment is already at record highs above 15 percent and the government expects it to rise to 16.4 percent next year.
The 2013 draft budget may include new economic forecasts for next year.
This year's budget performance was undermined by tax revenues falling short of expectations as the recession deepened and unemployment rose beyond government forecasts.
Reporting By Axel Bugge; Editing by Rosalind Russell


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40 Days for Life's impact felt, resumes March 5
WASHINGTON (BP) -- The most enriching occurrence in Krysten Haga's time as director of a 40 Days for Life campaign came when she learned there was no longer a need for her to fill that role.
Near the conclusion of last fall's campaign in Lubbock, Texas, the city's only abortion clinic -- Planned Parenthood -- shut down a business that had taken the lives of more than 30,000 unborn babies, according to the 40 Days for Life national staff. The facility had not only been a site of 40 Days prayer vigils, but reportedly could not meet the state's new abortion clinic regulations.
As the local campaign director, Haga "had the honor of sending the email that announced the closing of Planned Parenthood Lubbock for good, which was by far the most rewarding experience I have ever had while being involved with 40 Days for Life," the Texas Tech University student told Baptist Press in an email interview.
When Planned Parenthood Lubbock, an affiliate of the country's largest abortion provider, stopped performing the lethal procedures, Haga recalled, "I spent that Friday afternoon [Nov. 1] emailing everybody that I could think of to share the good news, including the national team" of 40 Days.
As a result, there is no need for a prayer vigil outside an abortion facility in Lubbock when 40 Days launches its next campaign March 5.
During the campaign, tens of thousands of volunteers will gather outside abortion clinics in 251 cities spread across 11 countries, hoping for an outcome similar to the one the 40 Days team in Lubbock witnessed. The campaign, which concludes April 13, will be held not only throughout the United States but in cities in Australia, Canada, Croatia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, England, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, Spain and Wales.
The around-the-clock prayer vigils outside abortion facilities that are at the heart of the semi-annual campaigns have provided a significant boost to the pro-life movement since the effort went national in 2007. In the ensuing six years, 40 Days -- which also consists of community outreach, prayer and fasting to end abortion -- has reported the following.
-- More than 8,200 unborn children have been spared from abortion.
-- 44 abortion facilities have closed, and 88 clinic workers have left their jobs.
-- About 600,000 people representing some 16,500 churches have participated in 522 cities across all 50 states and 20 other countries.
Haga, 24, became one of those participants four years ago when, in spite of her age, "knew it was time to stop stalling and jump head first towards something I knew God was calling me to." She served as the 40 Days director for the final four campaigns outside Lubbock's Planned Parenthood facility.
The "biggest motivation" for her pro-life work is her mother, Haga said.
"She found herself in a crisis pregnancy at the age of 16 and chose life after visiting Planned Parenthood and considering abortion," Haga told BP. "She had me the beginning of her senior year in high school. Every time I find myself out on the sidewalks counseling, I see my mom in those scared and lonely girls. I thank God that someone was there to show her Christ's love and know that I was given the opportunity to do the same."
On its website, the 40 Days national staff encourages participants during each campaign to pray not only for women considering abortion and the unborn children whose lives are threatened but, among other requests, for post-abortion women and men, and abortion center workers.
Haga and the other participants in 40 Days have always been from a diversity of religious, ethnic and age groups, but "noticeable growth" came in three areas in the fall 2013 campaign, said 40 Days National Director David Bereit. These areas, he said, were "youth and young adults, Protestant and evangelical Christians, and minorities -- most notably a dramatic increase in Hispanic participation."
A Roman Catholic, Haga is part of the largest religious group of 40 Days participants. Catholics make up an estimated 65 to 70 percent of volunteers, while Baptists constitute the second largest religious affiliation and continue to increase, Bereit said.
The most recent 40 Days international campaign was marked by continued growth demonstrated in new locations and greater numbers of participants at repeat locations, Bereit told BP in an email interview.
The fall 2013 campaign appeared to reflect "a growing sense of hope and optimism as record numbers of abortion centers are closing, as more workers are converting and going public and as more local and state pro-life laws are enacted," Bereit said.
"In addition to the reports of lives saved, more abortion workers experiencing changes of heart, record numbers of abortion centers closing, I was most encouraged by the reports and photos of children participating in this 40 Days for Life campaign who were saved from abortion during previous 40 Days for Life campaigns -- some of them are now several years old."
Along with the hopeful signs, the foremost discouragement reported to the national 40 Days staff, Bereit wrote, was volunteers asking: "Where is the rest of the church of Jesus Christ?"
There remains "enormous opportunity for greater Christian participation in pro-life efforts," he said.
The locations for the next 40 Days campaign may be accessed at http://www.40daysforlife.com/location.html.
Tom Strode is Baptist Press' Washington bureau chief. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook (Facebook.com/BaptistPress) and in your email (baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp).


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7 Reasons Diigo Tastes Better Than Delicious
I've used Delicious for a long time to manage my Web bookmarks. It was easy to use, accessible from any browser, and worked well with Firefox. For all my needs, it was a great bookmarking service.
Then I found Diigo, and suddenly Delicious didn't look so good anymore.
Diigo is another social bookmarking service (and one we've covered before Top Web Annotation Tools: Annotate+Bookmark+Collaborate Read More ), offering all of Delicious' relevant features and much more. I left Delicious, and haven't ever looked back. There are a lot of things I love about Diigo, but there are seven features that sold me on using Diigo for all my bookmarking needs.
These are all in addition to the features I deem non-negotiable for social bookmarking sites- tagging, Firefox extensions, looking at popular bookmarks, etc.
1. Highlighting
I seem to always bookmark a page, and then come back to it later and forget what it was that I cared about on the page. With Diigo, you can highlight the page you're bookmarking, and then later view the page with highlights, or just the highlights themselves. No more searching through the page again to find what it was you cared about.
2. Saving Pages is Easier Than Ever, Regardless of Browser
If you're using Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Flock, the Diigo toolbar has all the features you could want – bookmark, search, highlight, and organize all your Web pages right from the toolbar. If you're not into those browsers, though there's a great bookmarklet that lets you do most of that with any browser.
I use Chrome, and all the functionality I need is built right into the bookmarklet. Delicious becomes more difficult to use outside of Firefox (there are bookmarklets, but they pale in comparison), and Diigo keeps on working fine.
3. Functional Commenting and Real Conversations
This is one of my favorite features of Diigo – when you're reading a page, you can make comments right on the page, that show up as speech bubbles. If another Diigo user comes across the page, they'll be able to see your comment. You can see (in the Firefox sidebar) who's reading a page you're on, who's talking about it, and a real conversation can happen – unlike in Delicious, when all you can see is someone's bookmarks.
4. Send Bookmarks to Facebook or Twitter with one click
With one click, you can send a Diigo bookmark to Twitter, Facebook, or your blog. It truly takes one click, from "Send" to the service you want to use. If you want to send bookmarks to Facebook, you'll have to install the Diigo Facebook app.
You can also have Diigo create a daily digest of your latest bookmarks and send it to your blog, which I'd debate the usefulness of, but the functionality is there. Being able to bookmark a site on Twitter in particular straight from Diigo is big for me, and makes Twitter easier and quicker to use.
5. Sites Help You Find Deeper Cuts
I'm a big YouTube fan, but there are way more videos than I can possibly figure out. With "Sites", you're able to go through a particular site (including MakeUseOf) and find out what other people are bookmarking and reading about. You can create a watchlist, and whenever someone bookmarks a page from that site, you see it. It's a great way to find popular and cool stuff in big, content-full sites that you might not notice otherwise.
6. Simultaneously bookmark things to Diigo and Elsewhere – even Delicious!
If you have a Ma.gnolia, Delicious, or Simpy account that you want to hold on to for posterity, you can set up Diigo to simultaneously bookmark pages to Diigo and to your other service, using the "Save Elsewhere" feature. I like this because it means you can use the vastly superior Diigo, but for all four different services. Just enter your account info, and you can start bookmarking all over the Web, with one click!
7. Bookmark and Search Entire Web Pages
When you bookmark a page with Diigo, it bookmarks more than just the link (like those other sites). It bookmarks the entire page you were on, which has two great implications. First, it means you can preview sites within the Diigo page. You can view your bookmarked page, without ever leaving Diigo.
It also means that you can search the full text of pages you bookmark. You don't have to perfectly tag everything, because every word on every page you bookmark is totally searchable. Your bookmarks live in Diigo, so if a site goes down or is unavailable, you can still find it in Diigo, as well as search and view it.
Diigo's become a social-bookmarking machine, and I left Delicious and never looked back. If you want to make the switch, you can import your bookmarks from most other services- making the switch is so easy, there's no reason not to! Diigo's the new gold standard in social bookmarks.
Do you use social bookmarking services? Which one? What are the killer features that make you use the one you've got?
Related topics: Bookmarklets, Facebook, Online Bookmarks, Twitter.
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In Plaza Mina, any little irregularity in the promenades cups a vestige of the water that a rising sun will soon suck up. Smoother surfaces are smeared with a fine film of it, in sweeps and swathes as if somebody has been at them with a mop.
It hasn't rained. The place has been hosed down by the orange clad operatives of the municipality – nocturnals that keep it clean, locked into tit-for-tat with the diurnals that dirty it.
We stroll beneath a miscellany of species – Date Palms and Banana Trees, Bunyas, Peruvian Peppers, Yucas, Cabbage Trees, Elms and Screwpines – and above us the upper branches, of the palms especially, squawk with the raucous birdsong of monk parakeets: bright green birds that delight the eyes and terrorize their fellow avians. From top to bottom – from the airborne exotics to the wrought iron grille of the benches and the monstrous roots of a Moreton Bay fig tree – the square is testimony. A story is told in the light that filters through the potpourri of plant breeds and dapples the stone paseos, the tables on their terraces, the old kiosk. It speaks of a great, enriching influx from a New World, of plants and parakeets and money.
In the grid of the old town, away from the squares, the x of each intersection is replicated on the vertical axis and the eye as it looks down any street is presented with the same symmetry More


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Ive never seen production or custom surfboards follow that pattern through their size range. Some will preserve more width or introduce more hip or whatever as they size down within a range, but I haven't seen a model of board that is wider in its smaller sizes than in its larger sizes.
Just a quick look at any surfboard site like rusty, channel island or firewire and you can see the scaling of width and thickness within a model line scales in the same direction as lenght.
Of course you as an individual rider need various proportion boards that dont follow that simple scale to match to various conditions. My big board is 5 inches shorter than by little board.
A shaper that shapes you a quiver designed to cover a range of conditions will scale boards based more on volume, but thats not what is represented by different sizes of a board for retail. Those are pretty much across the board designed for different size riders.
Even a quiver of boards for one rider by a single shaper are not really boards of a same model. They are a small wave model up to a gun and would be analogus to multiple models within the range of any brand.
You can easily pick an appropriate quiver from any surf or even kite brand that follows the scaling you mention, but I dont see any difference in how kite and surf companies size their gear within any given model of board.


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The goal of the project is to:
Fuel gauge:
Design a set of classes that work together to simulate a cars fuel gauge and odometer. It has to
know the cars amount of fuel in gallons
report the cars amount of fuel in gallons.
be able to increment the amount of fuel b 1 gallon this simulates putting fuel in the car max 15 gallons.to be able to decrement the amount of fuel by 1 gallon if the amount of fuel is greater than 0 gallons.
odometer class:
To know the cars current mileage
to report the cars current mileage
to be able to increment the current mileage by 1 mile the maximum mileage the odometer can store is 9999999 miles when this amount is exceeded the odometer
resets the current mileage to 0
to be able to work with a fuelgauge object it should decrease the fuelgauge objects current amount of fuel by 1 for every 24 miles traveled
So this is the code and i'm not sure whats wrong, I get get it to print the amount of fuel but nothing else. I think my main method is wrong or something.
package CarSimulator; //This program is a ca[#][/#]r simulator is that works together to simulate a car's fuel gauge and odometer. //Date: 9/27/2013 public class CarSimulator { public static void main(String []args) { fuelgague gauge = new fuelgague(15); odometer odometer = new odometer(15); //While while(gauge.getAmountOfFuel () >= odometer.currentMileage ()) { gauge.decrementFuelTank (); } if(gauge.getAmountOfFuel () <= odometer.currentMileage ()) { gauge.incrementFuelTank (); } System.out.println("AmountOfFuel:" + gauge.getAmountOfFuel ()); } } package CarSimulator; public class fuelgague { public int amountOfFuel; public fuelgague(int gallons) { amountOfFuel = gallons; } public int getAmountOfFuel() { return amountOfFuel; } public void incrementFuelTank() { if (amountOfFuel < 15 ) amountOfFuel++; } public void decrementFuelTank() { if (amountOfFuel > 0 ) amountOfFuel--; } } package CarSimulator; public class odometer { public int currentMileage; public odometer(int gallons) { currentMileage = gallons; } public int currentMileage() { return currentMileage; } public void incrementFuelTank() { if (currentMileage < 999999 ) currentMileage++; if (currentMileage == 999999) currentMileage = 0; } public void decrementFuelTank() { if (currentMileage > 24 ) currentMileage--; } }


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AUGSBURG, Germany (AP) — The United States backed up its No. 1 ranking with a convincing 3-0 victory over Colombia on Saturday as it joined Sweden in reaching the World Cup quarterfinals.
Sweden, which struggled up front for the second Group C game in a row, came away with a 1-0 win over North Korea that was worth a place in the last eight after the American victory.
The day's two winners have six points each, while North Korea and Colombia both have zero before the final round of matches and are eliminated.
Where Sweden missed chances for over an hour before it got a vital breakthrough, the two-time world champions were ahead within a dozen minutes after a fierce 25-meter drive from Heather O'Reilly into the left hand corner.
In a first week which has seen plenty of good goals, O'Reilly's was one to remember for its sheer force, which left goalkeeper Sandra Sepulveda helpless as the ball flew past her.
It brought the sellout crowd of 25,475, including many Americans from nearby military facilities, to its feet.
"I took a couple of touches and just let it fly," O'Reilly said. Megan Rapinoe and Carli Lloyd also scored in a confident allround performance.
The Americans and Swedes meet in Wolfsburg on Wednesday to decide who finishes top of the group. If Brazil wins Group D as expected, the winner of the clash will avoid facing Marta and her South American teammates.
Based on finishing skills, it should go to the United States, hands down.
When the U.S. players lined up to give a military salute to celebrate a goal, the Swedes got in a circle and did an intricate, joyful dance to mark theirs.
"It is our dance and I hope you guys get to see it more often," said captain Caroline Seger, who was yellow-carded for a run-in with the referee. The Player of the Match will miss Sweden's game against the U.S.
"I wanted to play that game. I want to play every game. But we are in the quarterfinal and that was our main goal," Seger said.
For Sweden to face Brazil or another Group D opponent doesn't matter to her.
"If you are the best you have to win against every team," she said. It was tough enough against a young North Korean side which included five teenagers, one as young as 16, in the lineup.
With tall strikers Lotta Schelin and Jessica Landstrom faltering, Sweden finally scored in the 64th minute when Linda Forsberg crossed into the middle and Therese Sjogran picked out the unmarked Dahlkvist for a simple finish from close range.
North Korea nearly equalized in the 73rd minute when Ri Un-hyang's header from a corner kick was cleared off the line by Sara Thunebro.
"Anyway, for me, it doesn't matter. I am satisfied," Sweden coach Thomas Dennerby said. "Hopefully, we have lots of games left for the Swedish team, and they can create chances and score then."
US Women's World Cup Team Roars Into Quarterfinals
AUGSBURG, Germany (AP) — The United States backed up its No. 1 ranking with a convincing 3-0 victory over Colombia on Saturday as it joined Sweden in reaching the World Cup quarterfinals.


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My 10-month old daughter is a banana fanatic.
When I get home from the store with a new bunch, I try to discreetly put the yellow bundle in the fruit basket. She always catches me, perks up from whatever is her fascination of the moment (a piece of paper lately) and lets out a squeal. She then looks at me with those impossible-to-say-no-to eyes. Banana. Yes, she will get another banana. Like every other one, it will be organic.
I've long been interested in food—where it comes from, who raises it, what chemicals were (or weren't) used to grow it. I grew up with a mom who penned Diet for a Small Planet—the "vegetarian bible," as fans would describe it—and a father who battled chemical companies as a toxicologist, it was hard not to be. But it wasn't until my second book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, that I fully grasped why organic food is so important, especially for babies and young children.
The chemical industry likes to quote the 16th-century Swiss chemist Paracelsus: "All things are poisons… It is only the dose which makes a thing a poison."
But Paracelsus didn't get it exactly right. Timing of exposure can make the poison, too. At certain times in our lives –when we're in our mother's womb, when we're infants and children, or when we're elderly or our immune systems are depressed – even very low doses of certain chemicals, particularly endocrine disruptors, can wreak havoc.
But instead of taking into account these truths and embracing a precautionary approach, U.S. regulators historically used uniform tolerance levels which perilously ignored these big differences in susceptibility. Uniform tolerance levels also ignore type of exposure—by air, through skin or eyes—as well as frequency. Are you eating those bananas every morning, or once a leap year? Sorry Paracelsus, it isn't just the dose.
Landmark research in the early 1990s proved that children and infants are more vulnerable to pesticide residues, in part because pound-for-pound of body weight children eat and drink more. When my daughter first started her banana love affair, a whole one was about as long as her arm. I pictured what that would mean if you and I ate that much banana and imagined that oversized banana chasing Woody Allen in Sleeper.
Children's immune systems are also less developed and provide less protection than those of an adult. Plus, they eat more of certain kinds of fruits and vegetables—can anyone say, bananas?
When the Food Quality Protection Act was approved in 1996, we finally had national legislation that considered the unique vulnerabilities of children and infants and required, for the first time, additional protections for them. The Act also considered not only the potential for pesticides to cause cancer but the dangers from endocrine disruption, too, with potential impact on fertility, intelligence, and the immune system. But despite these regulatory strides, we are still a long way from a chemical-free cornucopia.
We're also bound by another important factor: Yes, there are rules and regulations, warnings and labels and websites with all kinds of information on them. But keep in mind what drives all of this: Data. And the data the EPA uses to determine a chemical's safety comes from the manufacturers themselves. Yes, you heard me right: From the guys trying to sell you the products with the chemical in it.
Now that I have a daughter, this analysis of policy is no longer abstract and far-removed; I think about it every day when I decide what my daughter eats – and especially at those moments when her tiny little hands reach for that yellow bundle she loves so much.


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Is a Grant Right for your organization? First, decide if your organization is ready for a grant and learn more about the grant making process:
Foundation Center: Introduction to Finding Grants
Learn about the grant making process, who gives to Nonprofits, what is their selection criteria, and how to create a prospecting list. Also learn more about Foundation Center's publications, many of which the library owns.
Decide on the approach:
The next step is to decide where you should go to get the funding, for what programs, and how to find out about funding opportunities. There are many different types of grants: Federal, State, Foundation, and Corporate: follow the links below to explore the similarities, differences between them and where to go to search for the funding opportunities.
Do your Homework!:
In order to approach grant makers you need to develop your case to show your need for funding. If you need help on finding statistics and research information, try the links in the community analysis section.
-- see Community Information
Then develop a list of possible funders by searching business and grant making databases.
-- see Business & Nonprofit Databases
Finally, when you compile a list of funders that match your organization's criteria, continue with further research on your prospect to make sure your organization and theirs is a match.
-- see Prospecting
Writing the Grant Proposal:
There are many sites and books that show how to write a grant proposal. If you have already developed your case, then putting a proposal together is much easier. Just a note, writing and sending a proposal will still not guarantee a grant. Successful grant writers network to connect with their intended funders, so pick up the phone and call them!
Browning, Beverly A. Perfect phrases for Fundraising. (2013)
-- NP 658.15224 Brown
Carlson, Mim. Winning grants step by step : the complete workbook for planning, developing, writing, successful proposals.
-- 658.15224 Carlson (MK)
Foundation Center. The Foundation Center's guide to winning proposals. (vols. 1 & 2) -- NP 658.15224 Foundation
Foundation Center. The Foundation Center's guide to proposal writing. (6th ed. 2012) -- NP 658.15224 Foundation
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When Lance Armstrong gave the commencement speech at Tufts University in 2006, the school awarded him an honorary doctorate of letters. They cited his "tremendous grit and courage," and called his cycling comeback "a story of sheer determination."
Dr. Armstrong told the graduates about his decision to return to cycling:
At the end of '98, I decided to try and focus on one thing: the biggest bike race in the world. I'm not sure how you go from not sure whether or not you want to do it to, "Why don't we just win the hardest bike race in the world?" But we did it. It was all about risk; it was all about taking chances.
Because Armstrong's Tour de France wins were about as legitimate as an honorary doctorate, the Tufts Board of Trustees voted unanimously this week to rescind Armstrong's degree. "In the wake of the recent report of the United States Anti-Doping Agency and its acceptance by the International Cycling Union," the university said in a statement, "Mr. Armstrong's actions as an athlete are inconsistent with the values of Tufts University."
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But Lincoln's birthday, February 12, appears to have lost some of its former aura, since all presidents are now supposedly covered by the amorphous, all-purpose "Presidents' Day." (Let us now praise Millard Fillmore.) That is ironic, because despite the energetic work of some recent revisionist historians, Lincoln remains the most revered — some say "deified" — of all our presidents. Historians have repeatedly ranked him the greatest U.S. president, with FDR coming in second.
Lincoln on Presidents' Day: Image vs. Reality
"Presidents' Day," as it is now commonly called, retains some vague connection to Washington's birthday, if only for the purpose of advertising "Washington's Birthday sales." The traditional birth date of February 22has been stretched to create a Monday holiday — this year on February 18 — to accommodate America's patriotic devotion to three-day weekends.


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Claude Noel has the Winnipeg Jets on pace to do something that no team in the post-lockout NHL has accomplished.
The Edmonton Oilers lead the NHL with eight bench minor penalties. Every other team sits between one (the Predators and the Rangers) and eight, except for the Winnipeg Jets. The Jets haven't taken a single bench minor this season.
That's something of an achievement, given that no team has managed to go a full season without taking a bench minor in the post-lockout world. Here are the league leaders since 2005-06:
- 2010-11: Detroit/Ottawa (3)
- 2009-10: Anaheim (2)
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It's a particularly interesting achievement given that the Thrashers took 11 bench minors last season.
It's a good thing the Jets haven't been taking too many bench minors – because they've been prone to taking too many minor penalties everywhere else in their game. The Jets rank 26th in the NHL with 189 minor penalties, and they're further hurt by the fact they aren't getting power play opportunities – they've received just 137 power plays, tied for 26th in the NHL.


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West Friesland is (a) a district in the Dutch province of North Holland, in which are found the Mennonite congregations of Enkhuizen, Hoorn, Twisk-Abbekerk, and Medemblik, and the former congregations of Bovenkarspel and Venhuizen, now extinct; (b) in German literature the present Dutch province of Friesland, to distinguish it from the German province of East Friesland.
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- A new collection of essays on Nathanael Greene's campaigns in the South
- An examination of the men who accompanied Benedict Arnold to Quebec…
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- What did Burgoyne's surrender do? Maybe not all that much.
- Collection of firsthand Redcoat accounts
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- Finally, it's not the Rev War, but it's pretty darn close—a history of Dunmore's War.
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Justin Trudeau has yet to face defining tests of toughness, character
As Justin Trudeau extends his run as Canada's best-liked politician into a summer of high fives, BBQs and kissing babies, it's worth pondering this question: What would slow or prevent the Liberal leader's march on 24 Sussex Dr.? Can anything?
It's odd we can even pose this question, so soon into Trudeau's tenure as Liberal leader, with no Grit platform on the table, and two years still to run in the Conservative majority. But cascades of big mistakes by governing parties, together with strategic missteps by competing opposition parties, have a way of creating such situations. That is where we are now.
A deep cabinet shuffle, change of tone and charm offensive by Prime Minister Stephen Harper could bring Trudeau up short, it seems to me. And so could any obvious display of inconstancy or weakness on the Liberal leader's part. The first, he can do nothing to prevent. The second he would be wise to avoid, with considerable care, from here on.
Trudeau's critics must now acknowledge this much: The yoga-practicing Dauphin can take a punch. That's partly a function of name recognition and likability, of course. It's also a result of careful calculation. As I have said before, Trudeau is very deliberately positioned. He's a hawk on the economy, a dove when it comes to gay rights and marijuana. There is nothing novel in this bifurcation. Jean Chretien and Paul Martin used a variant of it in the '90s.
What is surprising, perhaps, is the systematic way in which Trudeau is reinventing the strategy, after it was written off by all and sundry following the Orange Wave in 2011. It seems Canadians are not yet sold on a wholesale leap into democratic socialism, or perpetual Conservative rule for the sake of an economic status quo that is merely decent. Go figure.
Indeed, one can make the argument that Tories and New Democrats will succeed in slowing or stopping Trudeau only to the extent that they too adopt classically liberal strategies, with large side orders of accountability. Of the two, the Conservatives should have by far the easier time of it, since they're already partly there on economics, and have planted their flag on preventing another abortion debate. Whether they can undo the damage done by multiple scandals is another question.
But the biggest driver of future Liberal, Conservative and New Democrat fortunes, as we head into the trench warfare of the pre-election period, will be none of the above, I suspect. It will come down to Justin Trudeau's particular set of skills and attributes, and whether he has the capacity to be as bloody-minded and occasionally brutal politically as he was with Sen. Patrick Brazeau in the ring.
Few would question, at this juncture, Trudeau's personal charm, work ethic or energy. His sunny, reformist political philosophy is a crowd-pleaser. He clearly likes to be on the side of popular opinion.
Unknown, as yet, is the degree to which he is prepared to hold his ground in defiance of the mob, for the sake of principle, or just out of sheer combativeness, as his father famously did during a St. Jean Baptiste Day riot in Montreal in 1968. Hanging tough on the unfeasibility of constitutional reform or defending Sikh soccer players in Quebec alone won't be enough. He needs a greater test.
On a couple of occasions during the Liberal leadership race and since, Trudeau has taken apparently firm positions, then waffled. He called the federal long-gun registry a failure, which it certainly was, then later appeared to hedge. More recently he met the brouhaha over his speaking fees head on, offering to repay them, but then later continued defending the initial mistake, saying he'd not accepted the payments for work as an MP, though he was an MP at the time. That was a construction of Clintonian subtlety that will have been lost on most who considered it.
Trudeau's first major misstep as leader, when he broached a discussion of the "root causes" of the Boston Marathon bombing some seven days too soon, within hours of the mayhem, is still out there, waiting to be capitalized on by Conservatives should he ever tread this road again. Precisely because Trudeau is a social progressive, this was a disastrous position for him to take. On terrorism he should be blunt and hard, with no equivocation. Model: Barack Obama.
The point is simply this. Stephen Harper has succeeded as long as he has, not by being charming, but by being respected. That only works for so long: The PM's utter disdain for the personal is now proving to be a considerable problem for him.
But a leader ignores the flip side of the equation at his peril. The hard man requires compassion; the compassionate man, hardness. When all the babies are kissed, burgers flipped and palms slapped, voters will intuitively seek a core of toughness that does not yield. Trudeau has yet to face that test.
It is the last big unanswered question about him, as we enter the home stretch to 2015.


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The Reverend Derek Stefanovsky joined Saint Luke's as Assistant Rector in July 2019, and was ordained as a priest in September 2019. He came to us after earning a Master of Divinity from Yale University. While working towards his degree, Derek served as interim chaplain at St. Thomas's Day School, a K-6 Episcopal school in New Haven, CT, prior to that position he served as seminarian intern at the parish of St. Thomas's, also in New Haven. As an undergraduate at Alma College (MI) he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. He is married to Dr. Katherine Vaillancourt, a resident in the Family Medicine program at Stamford Hospital, and together they live on Saint Luke's campus with their cats, Mia and Tia.
As Assistant Rector, Derek's responsibilities include leadership for the parish school (where he serves as clergy liaison, sits on the Management Board, and serves as chaplain), as well as supporting our Children's Ministries director and program, and Youth Ministry director and program. Additionally, Derek enjoys providing pastoral care, liturgical leadership, preaching, and teaching to all members of our community.
Ryan Fleenor became the XIII Rector of Saint Luke's Parish in July 2020.
Originally from Durham, North Carolina, Ryan comes to Saint Luke's after ten years as a priest at St. James' Church, Madison Avenue, in New York City. He studied history at the University of Virginia, taught English literature at a Roman Catholic high school in New Orleans, and prepared for the priesthood at Yale Divinity School and Berkeley Divinity School at Yale.
Ryan is married to Daniel Noble, former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York and now a lawyer for the House Intelligence Committee in Washington. Ryan and Dan met in graduate school and were married in 2012. They both love history, travel, music, and staying active.
As Rector (senior pastor and chief of staff), Ryan gets to be involved in nearly every aspect of life at Saint Luke's, from preaching, teaching, pastoral care and leadership development, to budgets, administration and financial stewardship. He is particularly passionate about worship, music, and Christian formation for all ages, as well as helping people discover, nurture, and use their spiritual gifts to love and serve others. As Rector, his focus is on creating a culture in which people of all ages can grow in faith and be equipped as disciples who will know, love, and follow Jesus.
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He and his wife Susan live in Norwalk, where both have been involved in Norwalk Community College. Don has been teaching ethics courses exploring human good, sustainability, awareness and choices in their Lifetime Learners program. He is active in the St. Luke's seniors thinking group. He assists in the worship life at St. Luke's when called upon.
The Rev. Susan Wyper joined the Saint Luke's clergy staff as Associate Rector in September, after nine years at St. Matthew's in Bedford, NY. While serving "across the border," Susan and her family continued to consider Saint Luke's their parish home and she is happy to return to the church that raised her family and supported her call to ministry.
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As us techies say in the field of computers, the protocols underlying the internet were designed to detect censorship and to route around it.
Free thinking people have a similar constitution. We detect problematic public policy imposed by the greedy, power mad collectivists and we route around it.
Though Zero and his Odramabots (aka Democrats, aka 'progressives', aka communists, aka all-around jackasses — hey, don't look at me, they picked their own mascot) have succeeded in forcing socialized medicine down our throats (policy-wise, at least for the time being), they will not corral us into their bureaucratic nightmare without a fight.
Yeah, the VA is such a success story for socialized medicine. Too bad dozens of dead veterans is harshing that mellow, now isn't it.
I will admit that the passage of the (un)Affordable Care Act is having one (but only one) positive outcome. And that is the destruction of the status quo and the rise of something better. Even the notoriously left-wing Washington Post has noticed. Note the clueless critiques from many of the commenters. Sean Parnell of The Self-Pay Patient blog has some good debunking of the promoters of the bureaucracy here.
I told at least a few government supremacists on Facebook and elsewhere that we would destroy this intolerable act by any means necessary. Defund, Dismantle, Destroy, Defy, and hopefully, eventually Repeal. Right now, we are in the Destroy phase. More power to these medical cost sharing programs, and any others that I have missed. The unintended consequence of the rise of these options, it is hoped, is that it will financially bankrupt the morally bankrupt system of the ACA.
One day when I eventually leave my current job, I will likely sign up and tell my new employer that if he likes his benefit package, he can keep it.
I'll keep my own money, at least for the most part, and pay for the coverage I want. I won't being paying hiked up premiums (I am unmarried, with no kids, and have a higher than average income, so I ain't gettin' any subsidies), contributing to your subsidies, or paying any penalties.
So pay for your own abortions, sex-changes, and birth control, you little twit.
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A quick example of how to make a post look.
This is what my character is doing, "And then this what he (or she) says."
Any time you want a private correspondence with me, obviously a PM is the way to go. I would also appreciate that any IC interactions that you want to pass between each others via PM, you attach me as a BCC. Also, obviously keep me informed of any OOC interactions between you and other players that might effect party dynamics and/or relationships.Originally Posted by OOC
I will post on Sundays and Thursdays according to what you guys have put up. If for whatever reason you cannot get a full post up or not sure what you are going to do, please try to contact me with what you are thinking are what you would like to do even if you cannot get it into a post.
My first and foremost concern is making sure that the players (that's you!) are having fun. However, in the few PbP that I've participated in, the speed and pacing and consistency (and sometimes, lack thereof) are what make or break it. With this in mind, if I haven't seen a post from you in between Sunday and Thursday or Thursday and Sunday, I will take temporary GM control of your character to keep the game going.
So let's get the posting started and see what horrificly awesome trouble you can start up, shall we?
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