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Tuesday, June 9, 2009
During his brief stay in Iraq, comedian Stephen Colbert has already made headlines by addressing a high school graduation by video, shaving his head on stage at a USO performance, declaring victory in Iraq, capturing Osama bin Laden, negotiating a peace treaty between Israel and Palestine, solving the Kashmir crisis, and wearing a turtleneck in the summer, in Iraq. Said Colbert, "I'd like to apologize to our viewing audience for a camera glitch that allows us only to broadcast in black and white."
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Saturday, June 6, 2009
Yet more sharks
More sharks. There are still images for a print guide to the movie. In order from top to bottom are the astounding zebra shark, the uncanny white-tip reef shark, the incredible sand tiger shark, the amazing nurse shark, the mighty bonnethead shark, and the marvelous black-tip reef shark. Collect all six today!
This has got to be possibly the cutest, least threatening thing I have ever drawn.
Or is it? That bear (it's a notorious Alaskan Kodiak Bear) has suspicious, beady eyes. Where did he get all those balloons? Why are none of them blue or green? What's in that picnic basket? Could it be filled with road kill? Or a severed head? Or perhaps, perhaps it's an apple pie that he does not intend to share with anyone!
Oh, the humanity!
Friday, June 5, 2009
Funnies People
SCAD held an Artist Alley last month. I moved some prints, made some dough, and did a bunch of drawing. Of them, these are the people who did not ask for theirs.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
The Beardsley Brolly Part II
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I've been given a project which, in part, involves some data acquisition coding using a ComputerBoards DAS-08 card. I'm a complete newbie in this area, especially since I graduated in Mechanical Engineering, and not Electrical
I've been trying to understand how to code, in C or C++, a simple way to output a high signal (+5V) on one of the digital outs (as an example, pin #10 on the DAS08 analog 37-pin connector), but the example programs I've been giving are far more complicated than I need, and as such they're not exactly easy to pick apart.
I'm capable of some simple C programming (ASCII file I/O, arrays, etc...) but this one has me stumped. I know you have to configure the ports at the beginning of the program using some hex addresses but even this has me confused. I have a feeling the program I need to write is probably about 8 lines long and extremely simple, but getting started is very frustrating.
If anyone can help me out it would be greatly appreciated!

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Jack Jezzro - The Beatles On Guitar - 1999 - Green Hill
An internationally recognized guitarist and composer, Jack Jezzro is a multifaceted and successful studio musician. He has produced over 100 albums, earned a Grammy nomination and five Dove award nominations. Starting out as a member of Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and attending the Eastman School of Music, Jezzro eventually moved to Nashville where he now resides. Also an accomplished double bassist, Jezzro performs regularly with Nashville String Machine, an in-demand studio group recording with many top artists. As a studio musician, Jezzro's recording credits include work with Faith Hill, Matchbox Twenty, Randy Travis, and many others. His work can also be heard on numerous motion picture soundtracks including Con Air, Pocahontas, and The Green Mile. © Matt Collar © 2011 Rovi Corporation. All Rights Reserved http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jack-jezzro-p6823/biography
A beautifully orchestrated recording of Beatles classics by the West Virginian record producer and multi-instrumentalist , Jack Jezzro. The album is in the "smooth jazz"/classical pop/easy listening style, but the music is not boring or bland. At times The Nashville String Machine tends to overpower Jacks's delicate playing, and the occasional "James Last" type lush stringwork may not please everybody, but these are minor quibbles. There are thousands of Beatles covers albums in every musical genre, and many of these albums do not do justice to John Lennon and Paul McCartney's work. Jack does not fall into that category. Jack's playing is not as technically complex as guitarists like Laurence Juber, or Stephen Bennett who are both solo acoustic players, but nevertheless, his subtle and very accomplished fingerstyle technique lends something "new" to these classic songs which is no easy achievement. If you want to hear some superb guitar artistry, give this a listen. If you are into Iron Maiden, AC/DC, or Black Sabbath....don't! (LOL)! Listen to Jack's "Jazz Elegance" album [All tracks @ 320 Kbps: File size = 94.8 Mb]
1 Hey Jude 4:59
2 In My Life 4:19
3 Here, There & Everywhere 3:56
4 Eleanor Rigby 4:33
5 I Will 3:39
6 Yesterday 3:14
7 If I Fell 4:05
8 And I Love Her 3:52
9 Michelle 4:44
10 Let It Be 4:47
All songs composed by Lennon & McCartney
Jack Jezzro (acoustic guitar, nylon-string guitar)
Craig Nelson (acoustic bass, electric bass)
Pat Coil (piano)
Bob Mater (drums)
Eric Darken (percussion)
Mark Douthit (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone)
Jeff Bailey (piccolo trumpet)
George Tidwell (flugelhorn)
Mary Alice Hoepfinger (harp)
The Nashville String Machine (strings)
DIVERSITY best describes the artistry of guitarist, bassist, and producer Jack Jezzro. His recordings and productions have sold well into the millions, and he surely ranks high in formal education, knowledge of his instrument, and sheer musicality. But even more than that, Jezzro has a style and taste that are all his own—qualities that are a breath of fresh air to the music of today and qualities that breathe new life into the music of yesterday. ::: The Early Years Jazz is a natural expression for this West Virginia native, who seems to have been born musical. Jack Jezzro grew up in the small town of Rivesville, starting on piano and accordion when he was very young. "I would go to the piano and start banging out tunes when I was four or five," he recalls. His remarkable skill at simultaneously fingering melody and chord changes came naturally to him as a young listener. "I had a stack of Chet Atkins records, and that's how I learned to play," Jezzro reports. "As a kid, I'd want to play all the parts. I'd listen to a tune by James Taylor, The Doobie Brothers, Simon & Garfunkel, or whomever. I'd play the bass part, the piano, the vocal—and I'd want to do it all right there on the guitar." ::: Education For his bass-playing skills, Jezzro earned a scholarship to West Virginia University in nearby Morgantown. "I still kept playing guitar, but they didn't have a guitar program," he says. "I wanted to go to school there because it was close by, so I picked the bass and really got into it." The year was 1976. "That fall, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra came to Morgantown, and I got to meet the principal bass player, Sam Hollingsworth. We immediately hit it off." Hollingsworth took Jezzro under his wings, preparing him for a professional career. By 1978, Jack knew that if he wanted to become a professional, it was time to move on. So he took the year off from school and began playing in the Charleston Symphony Orchestra (CSO). After a year with CSO, Jezzro won a scholarship and sailed into the sophistication of the prestigious Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. While a student at Eastman, he won an audition for and subsequently played in the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra for two years. Meanwhile, he continued developing as a guitarist by absorbing the sounds of George Benson, Joe Pass, and Jim Hall. After graduation, "it was either New York, Nashville, or Los Angeles, and Nashville felt more like home" where he landed a job with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and began breaking into the studio scene. ::: The Jezzro Style For an instrumentalist, speed and flash are often yardsticks. Innovation and technique unquestionably enter into play. Rhythmic invention, tonal dynamics, repertoire selection, or sophistication of arrangement are also called into the discussion. But Jack Jezzro has something more; and that something is taste. His latest guitar projects combine those elusive qualities instantly recognized when you hear them—discrimination, polish, grace, and artistry. In addition to sheer taste, another element of Jezzro's unique style is that he's a contrapuntal guitarist, integrating chordal harmony and melodies into one distinct sound—clean, lucid, and smooth––often performing on a nylon-string guitar. "I like to be true to a song," Jezzro begins. "At the same time, I try to do something fresh with a tune. My own sound or style—that's the freshness. I guess we all try to find our unique voice. That's what we're all striving for. I'm always going to be working for it." A lot of guitar trio records sound a little thin, so the challenge is to accompany yourself. "One of the things that's always been there naturally is being my own accompanist," Jezzro says of his special fingerstyle playing. "I was sort of developing this accompanimental thing before I knew what it was." [This biography was provided by the artist or their representative.] © 1996-2011, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates http://www.amazon.com/BEATLES-GUITAR-JACK-JEZZRO/dp/B004VS92SI


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One of the most exciting new features in SQL Server 2005 is DB Mirroring. Now that Service Pack 1 is released, we officially support this feature.
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With representatives from DOT, Department of Education (DOE), 104th Precinct, Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) and Transportation Alternatives, Crowley explained that the purpose of the meeting was to give community members a platform to voice their opinions about specific and general traffic concerns in their neighborhoods.
"The heart of the approach is engagement with the communities," Crowley said. "You know best and we want to hear from you what concerns you have, what ideas."
The end goal of Mayor Bill de Blasio's Vision Zero initiative, and the numerous public outreach meetings that have come from it, is to have zero traffic-related injuries and fatalities in the City of New York.
So far, Crowley said, she believes the initiative has been working, citing that there has been a 30 percent decrease in traffic crashes resulting in deaths in the first four months of this year.
That has come from increased efforts both in terms of traffic reorganization — including lowering the city speed limit to 25 mph, increasing speed cameras and introducing arterial slow zones on major roadways — and in terms of enforcement.
Captain Christopher Manson from the 104th Precinct said that hazard summonses, which range from failure to yield to pedestrians to speeding, have increased 20 percent in the precinct so far this year.
"I think we're doing the right job in the right place at the right time," he said.
But not all community members agreed, with many listing both street-specific and citywide problems that need addressing.
Carol Terrano, a member of Community Board 2, pointed out that there are no stop signs or traffic devices to reduce speeding on 50th Ave. from 59th St. to 65th Pl.
When DOT Queens Borough Commissioner Dalila Hall said DOT would look into the issue, Terrano expressed her frustration over what she claimed is a general lack of action from DOT, amid applause from fellow community residents.
"Every time that I ask anything in our community from the Department of Transportation, it's always, 'no,'" she said.
"We get no cooperation from your agency, you don't want to work with us. It's a nightmare," Terrano continued. "So it's very, very difficult for me to sit here and be calm about it, because it makes me very, very upset. I don't feel like we're getting anywhere, and until someone gets killed on 50th Avenue, then we'll get some action."
Executive director of Maspeth Town Hall Eileen Reilly pointed out a speeding issue on 72nd St.
"Especially now that we're looking into two classes of universal pre-K, we really need to make it a safe place," she said.
Hall said DOT would have to go out on the street and use radar guns to make sure there was actually a speeding issue. Then they would have to look into whether or not a speed bump is feasible, because they must be a certain distance away from driveways and fire hydrants.
Another issue attendees brought up was trucks that do not use designated truck routes, and instead cut through neighborhoods.
Manson said that this year over 150 summonses had been issued for this exact problem. But, he said, he did not expect that to solve anything.
"It's a neverending battle and I'm not going to lie to you, it's going to continue to go on and on and on," he said.
Others mentioned pedestrians and bicyclists who do not follow traffic signals, speeding on 74th St. near Maspeth High School, and traffic safety on both Queens and Woodhaven boulevards.
The hot-button issue of the evening, however, ended up being the conversion of 70th St. from 54th Ave. to Calamus Ave. into a one-way street.
This has been a long-contested and long-awaited change in the community, and one that was supposed to happen three years ago, according to Crowley.
She said over the years the project was delayed for weather-related reasons, but most recently was put on hold because, as she was told, "the community board changed their mind about the project and said they did not want it to happen."
Hall explained that just before work on the project was going to begin over spring break of this year, "several residents of 70th Street contacted my office and said that they were not consulted, they were not supportive, they didn't know this was going on.
"And it seemed like I was hearing mixed messages," Hall said. "So because it didn't seem to me that there was community support all the way around on this front, I wanted to have more discussion with the community, and that's where we're at right now."
At this point, one resident stood up and explained that, as he understood it, there were only two people in the community that had expressed concerns over the project. Crowley agreed that this was not reason enough to cancel the street conversion.
"You're never going to have 100 percent of one community agreeing to a traffic change," she said. "So when does the DOT say, 'This is happening because it's for the safety of the street and not because the majority agrees that they want it.'"
Crowley added, compared to Middle Village and Glendale, Maspeth is not up to standard on its one-way streets.
"Maspeth has narrow streets, and in my opinion, there are too many two-way streets in Maspeth," she said.
Crowley said her plan now is to follow up with Community Board 5 and continue to work on addressing the issue.


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Rail Safety
In response to Congressional concern regarding the potential for accidents and incidents on rail transit systems, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) added Section 28 to the Federal Transit Act (codified at 49 U.S.C. Section 5330). This section requires the FTA to issue a regulation creating the first state-managed oversight program for rail transit safety.
2009 Rail Safety Statistics Report
March 2010
This Rail Safety Statistics Report uses information collected by FTA from the National Transit Database (NTD) and the SSO Program between calendar years 2003 and 2008. As applicable, this report also uses data supplied by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and the National Safety Council (NSC).
Charter for Transit Rail Advisory Committee for Safety
November 2009
Establishment of the Federal Transit Administration Advisory Committee for Transit Safety
Recommended Fire Safety Practices for Rail Transit Materials Selection Manual.
January 2009
The FTA Office of Safety and Security has teamed with the National Association of State Fire Marshals to update the Recommended Fire Safety Practices for Rail Transit Materials Selection Manual. The manual is comprised of research into the adequacy of existing railcar and bus fire safety standards and an investigation of potential improvements in test methods and criteria.
Operation Lifesaver, Toolkit on Light Rail Safety for Transit Agencies
January 2009
The FTA Office of Safety and Security teamed up with Operation Lifesaver, Inc. to develop a toolkit on light rail safety for transit agencies. Able to be implemented as-is or customized by transit agencies, the kit includes information for adults and children, and includes posters, template speeches that your employees or advocates can deliver, activity books and cartoons for kids, and a full set of interactive activities that sneak safety education into games for kids from kindergarten to middle school. Many of the materials are bilingual (English and Spanish).
11th Annual State Safety Oversight Program Meeting Summary
October 2007
FTA held its 11th Annual State Safety Oversight (SSO) Program Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota on September 17-20, 2007. This meeting was co-hosted by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety and Metro Transit.
Commuter Rail Safety Study
November 2006
FTA worked cooperatively with the Federal Railroad Administration to identify frequency and causes of commuter rail accidents, direct FTA and FRA resources to address high risk causes and to raise industry awareness in identifying and implementing mitigation measures.
State Safety Oversight (SSO) Program Annual Report for 2005
October 2006
This document presents data provided by individual State Safety Oversight agencies and offer industry-wide analyses regarding accidents, probable causes and impacts.
Rail Safety Action Plan
September 2006
FTA has prepared this plan to focus attention on those safety incidents of greatest concern in the rail transit industry. The objectives of the report are to target the most frequent, highest risk causes of accidents, direct oversight and technical assistance resources, accelerate industry awareness, and spotlight mitigation practices and activities.
Fatigue Management Survey Results
September 2006
FTA conducted survey to identify and categorize fatigue management practices of rail transit agencies and oversight agencies affected by 49 CFR Part 659. This information was collected as part of the FTA's response to the National Transportation Safety Board safety recommendations.
Implementation Guidelines for 49 CFR Part 659
March 2006
The Federal Transit Administration recently amended 49 CFR Part 659, Rail Fixed Guideway Systems; State Safety Oversight. FTA's revised Rule was published in the Federal Register on April 29, 2005. These Implementation Guidelines for 49 CFR Part 659 have been prepared to assist states and rail transit agencies in developing compliant programs based on the revised FTA Rule.
Resource Toolkit for State Oversight Agencies Implementing 49 CFR Part 659
March 2006
Sample "oversight agency program standard and referenced procedures" document that can be tailored by each affected oversight agency to develop a compliant Initial Submission. Also sample program requirements that can be adopted by the state oversight agency to support the development of compliant System Safety Program Plans and Security Plans at rail transit agencies. A sample "certification that the system safety program plan and the system security plan have been developed, reviewed, and approved" is also provided, as well as sample checklists for use by state oversight agencies in reviewing and approving rail transit agency submissions.
Reporting Template
September 1999
To allow for the individuality of reporting agencies, FTA allows each agency to develop its own reporting format, including items such as accident cause classifications. Some agencies have indicated that they would prefer to report using a standardized form. In response, FTA has developed this SSO Annual Reporting Template. This format is fully acceptable for Annual Certification and will help streamline the process.


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|Oracle® OLAP DML Reference
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The RECNO function reports the current record number of a file opened for reading. It returns
NA when Oracle OLAP has reached the end of the file.
Return Value
A file unit number assigned to a file opened for reading in a previous call to the FILEOPEN function.
Usage Notes
Opening Files
Before you can use the RECNO function, you must open the file for reading. When the file unit number is not associated with an open file or the file has been opened for writing, RECNO returns an error.
Using RECNO with FILEGET
RECNO is usually used with FILEREAD or FILENEXT, which read whole records. When you are reading data from a file with the FILEGET function, which can read partial records, RECNO returns the number of times you have read data from the file, not the number of actual records.
LINENUM Option
See also the LINENUM option, which holds the current line number of output.
Records in Text Files
When the file is a text file, a record is delimited by a newline character. When the file is a binary file, you must set the file's LSIZE attribute to the record length with a FILESET statement. TEXT is the default file type.
Example 8-66 Using RECNO with FILEREAD
In the following example code, a FILEREAD statement maintains the INTEGER dimension, adding each record number associated with
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DEFINE dim1 INTEGER DIMENSION DEFINE textvar TEXT <dim1> x = FILEOPEN('filename' R) FILEREAD x APPEND dim1 = RECNO(x) W 8 TEXTVAR


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(CNN) — They went around and around for an hour, getting nowhere.
Then came a sudden change that could help break the political impasse causing a partial government shutdown and the looming threat of a further crisis when the nation bumps up against its self-imposed borrowing limit.
As first reported by CNN's Dana Bash and Deirdre Walsh, an exchange between GOP Rep. Paul Ryan and President Barack Obama seemed to clear the air, with each side acknowledging the validity of the other.
Ryan, the Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee, conceded his side wouldn't get all it wanted while Obama said, tell me what you need to make something happen, Bash and Walsh reported after the Thursday night meeting.
CNN Chief National Correspondent John King told CNN's "New Day" on Friday that Ryan "said something to the effect of, 'Look, we know you don't like our position, we know you probably don't respect our position, but we're the Republican majority.' "
"You're stuck with us for a while, at least through the next election season, so we need to learn to have a conversation with each other," King paraphrased Ryan as saying.
"And at that point, both Democrats and Republicans say, the tone of the meeting changed," King added. "The president said, 'Listen, I'm not going to negotiate with you until you reopen the government, but go to your members, find out what you need to do to get that part done and let's try to make some progress.'"
CNN's reporting on the meeting is based on accounts from multiple sources who attended.
Republican Rep. Steve Southerland of Florida essentially confirmed the CNN account on Thursday night.
"Paul and the President certainly have a pass through the last election and I think there's a great respect between them. And you can't make that up." Southerland said, adding that "the communication between Paul and the President, I think, was an important part of the conversation."
The meeting appeared to begin breaking the partisan logjam that has kept parts of the government shut down for 11 days, leaving hundreds of thousands of federal employees without work and causing countless ripple effects, from lost tourist revenue around national parks to a threat to the Alaskan crab fishing season.
"We're all working together now," Rep. Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican, said after the meeting, while House Majority Leader Eric Cantor called the meeting "very useful."
The Obama administration described the meeting as "good," saying the President listened to Republican proposals and the two sides discussed "potential paths forward."
On Friday, Senate Republicans arrived at the White House for their talks with Obama, who has held separate sessions with the House party caucuses as well as Senate Democrats.
Senators are involved in their own talks to come up with a package that would reopen the government and lower the debt ceiling, while ending a tax on medical devices under Obamacare and setting up broader negotiations on deficit reduction.
In a video message to a conservative political summit Friday, Ryan warned the right-wing gathering that they can't get everything they want with Democrats holding the White House and a majority of the Senate.
"This President won't agree to everything we need to do," said the message from Ryan, according to excerpts provided by one of his aides. "A budget agreement with this President and this Senate won't solve our problems. But I hope it's a start."
Beginnings of a deal?
After initially demanding changes to or the elimination of Obama's signature health care reform plan, Republicans have more recently focused on extending the debt ceiling for up to six weeks while negotiating on spending and other issues during a continued government shutdown.
Democrats have insisted that the debt ceiling be raised and the government reopened before they would be willing to negotiate on other issues.
Obama made clear, during his session with House Republicans, that he won't give concessions to reopen the government, according to a Democratic source familiar with the meeting.
But he has indicated willingness to consider a short-term debt deal, a Democratic lawmaker told CNN.
"If that's what (House Speaker John) Boehner needs to climb out of the tree that he's stuck in, then that's something we should look at," according to the lawmaker, who attended the meeting and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Rep. Hal Rogers, a Kentucky Republican, said both sides are talking "in good faith" about not just the debt ceiling, but also what it will take to restart the government.
"There was not a timeline set," Rogers said. "But we want to move quickly."
Some congressional Democrats have balked at the outline of the GOP offer, insisting the government must reopen and the debt ceiling must be increased to get broader talks going.
"One way or another both of those have to happen," said veteran Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan.
Another Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, said Obama "needs to press for the opening of the government."
"Without a doubt the default would be much more catastrophic, but I've got constituents, a lot of whom work for the federal government who are going through catastrophes every hour," Cummings said.
Anti-Obamacare provisions no longer in GOP plans
One thing any agreement won't include, it appears, is a provision to defund the 2010 Affordable Care Act.
Ryan, who was the Republican party's vice presidential nominee last year, didn't mention Obamacare in a Wall Street Journal op-ed this week, saying instead that politicians from both parties should focus on "modest reforms to entitlement programs and the tax code."
As others have done in recent days, GOP Rep. James Lankford of Oklahoma told CNN on Thursday that cutting the funding for the President's signature health reform is "currently off the table."
However, Lankford said Republicans still seek a one-year delay in the penalties under Obamacare for people who fail to obtain health insurance, as required by the law.
Yet Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas — one of the most vocal Republicans in the debate — wasn't so ready to let the health care issue go. Speaking Thursday on CNN's "Crossfire," he said, "Democrats in this town do not want to discuss Obamacare."
On Obama's signature health care reform and what's happening in Washington generally, Cruz said that it's House Republicans who "are listening to the millions of Americans" to do what's best for them.
According to a GOP source, it's not certain whether Boehner can gain support from some or most of his GOP caucus for a plan without anything to do with Obamacare or other concessions. That could mean, if a proposal like the one floated Thursday proceeds, the speaker may need Democratic votes to pass it.
Failure to raise the debt ceiling by next week's deadline would leave the government unable to borrow money to pay its bills for the first time in its history. And absent a breakthrough, the shutdown would continue at a cost estimated at up to $50 billion a month.
All of this is taking a toll on Washington's reputation: A national CNN/ORC International survey released Monday indicated that Americans are blaming all parties in the fight, though Republicans got the worst of it.
CNN's Alan Silverleib, Chelsea J. Carter, Paul Steinhauser, Jim Acosta, Barbara Starr, Ted Barrett, Dan Merica and Brianna Keilar contributed to this report.


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Strength and conditioning is a term used to refer to building the athletic qualities of an athlete. There are many qualities, such as strength, power, flexibility, endurance e.c.t. but really they all come down to one thing. Making the athlete more powerful, without making them less able to susstain that power output (power and endurance being opposite ends of the same spectrum). The way training works is we put a stress upon our body, and in response to that out body adapts. The stress is called a training stimulus, and it sends a message to our body. 'we need to be stronger' or 'we need to be able to run faster'.
What happens then when we send our body mixed messages? If you are a beginner you will see results doing anything, but if you are an intermediate level athelet you will really need to focus your message. For example, if you are telling it to become more powerful (stronger) while also telling it to become more endurance ornented (doing lots of aerobic work) then it will do neither well. It has conflicting messages, and doesnt know what to do.
The way professional athletes overcome this is through periodization. They will list all the artibutes they need, and structure them so that they work on one at a time, building them so that they peak before an event. Sport specific training has greater carry over to the sport, but also wears out the body faster. Typically you will start with non-sport specific stuff. This is long aerobic runs and strength training. You might then move on to doing anaerobic training with sort of sport specific movements, targeting the main muscles, but not mimicing the motion, i.e. med ball twists. The last stage is where you focus right before an event, using sport specific training and power systems. If you do 3 x 3 min rounds, you should be doing 3 x 3 min rounds, with a sport specific exercise like pad work or heavy bag training. Periodization is a tried and tested method used by the majority, if not all, professional athletes and trainers out there.
The problem, then, is what if you need to be in a state of readiness all year long? What if you dont have the luxury of knowing when you will have to fight? What if you dont have the luxury of having an off period where you can work on the non-specific components? The only answers I have to that question at the moment are to either use periodization with very short cycles so you are never lacking one area too much, or to just train everything all the time. There must be a better answer, so I was wondering how you train for self defense in regards to your strength and conditioning work.


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Cultured freshwater 6-6,5mm black rice pearl and bead necklace strung on silk without knots between each pearl with trigger clasp and 2,5mm round beads, 9K yellow gold or sliver. Available in various lengths and with a matching bracelet.
When you buy from M H Pearl Jewellery, you are guaranteed the very best quality at the most amazingly low prices. We do not just retail jewellery, we also repair and restring pearls – pearls are our passion and we hope that our customers soon feel the same way about them too. There are sadly a lot of fakes on the market and so we are particularly proud to be able to give a certificate of authenticity with every purchase. As soon as you open your pearl jewellery packaging we know that there can be no doubt as to whether the pearls are real or not – the moonlight gleam can't be faked – but a certificate is our extra promise to you.
You also want to present your gift well and also to care for your pearls after giving, so we are also pleased to be able to give a presentation case with every purchase. Pearls need a little more care in storage, especially if you have a lot of rings and necklaces with genuine stones, all of which are harder than pearls, which are a natural product from the oyster, rather than mined. The case will protect them as well as being a special part of present giving – the anticipation before opening and then the delight as the lid flips back are all part of the pleasure.


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Use this setting to define the coordinate system that will be used as a basis for the Symmetry function's mirror planes (as well as the following three options). The following coordinate systems can be used:
Use this setting to define on which axis the mirror plane should be placed vertically. For elements that are not rotated, for example, this would be X. The mirror plane is displayed in parenthesis.
Enable this option to create radial symmetrical effects, e.g., those requiring rotational angles, spatial repetition, etc. The brush stroke will then be duplicated around a defined axis, depending on the settings chosen. In the preview window below you will see a preview of the radial effect, which gives you an idea how the brush will behave when applied.
When in this mode, a circular dispersion of the brush's effect on the Layer will occur. The radius that will be used is the distance between the cursor at the start of the brush stroke and the object's center point. As long as the cursor hovers over the Sculpt object (without clicking!) the radial symmetry positions will be displayed in the preview. If the cursor enters regions in which the brush stroke would lie outside of the Sculpt object due to the brush's radius, the object's center point (marked in the image above) will be displayed (Attention: The object axis cannot be moved of a Sculpt tag has already been applied!).
When in this mode, the brush stroke will be duplicated radially (star-shaped) around the starting point of the brush stroke.
At the bottom of the menu settings is a preview window in which you can see approximately where and how the brush stroke will be applied.
If Radial Symmetry Mode is set to Point you can define the center point of the radial symmetrical brush stroke with a right-click.
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Use this setting to define the number of brush strokes that can be applied simultaneously.
With a higher value, rotationally symmetrical, intertwining shapes can be created:
Using this setting, gaps can be added to the otherwise evenly dispersed radially symmetrical brush strokes if a value greater than 0° is entered. Brush stroke groups (each with Number of Radial Strokes) will be created according to the following scheme: If, for example, 45° is defined, the brush stroke group will be spread evenly over 45°, followed by a 45° gap, followed by brush strokes spread evenly over 45° and so on.


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Kings of Comedy
Between Flops: A Biography of Preston Sturges
The King of Comedy
The American filmmaker Preston Sturges had a supreme gift for making people laugh without representing the world as better or worse than it is. It was worse than usual during the Depression and World War II, when, from 1933 (the year he finished a first draft of The Great McGinty) to 1944, Sturges wrote and directed seven comedies: McGinty, Christmas in July, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, The Palm Beach Story, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, and Hail the Conquering Hero. In them, politics is rigged, poverty is immune to charity, bosses are petty dictators and workers live on dreams of jackpots, romantic love is either a luxury of the rich or a fabrication of the con artist, and small-town America's morality is the kind that ostracizes an unwed pregnant girl while embracing a bogus war hero. Yet these movies sent waves of euphoria rolling through the audience.
They did it again at a recent Sturges festival at New York's Regency Theatre, whose audience could have watched most of the films, repeatedly, on Public TV over the past two years but seemed to sense that a Sturges film is best experienced communally, Maybe the present depression is one reason for the renewed interest in Sturges. He dealt with poverty and wealth in a skeptical way that an audience today can enjoy without making the allowances that it does for Frank Capra's movies.
But Sturges's surface vitality—his ricochet dialogue and pacing, his company of wild character types—isn't a ploy to distract you from, or resign you to, delusion and injustice. He drew on a deeper vitality, unsparing but confident. He had a genius for making a value call forth its opposite. The cynicism, for instance, of the heroine in The Lady Eve: she's a cruise-ship cardsharp who preys on rich, stupid men. Other filmmakers might have set her up as a bitch due for moral overhaul, or "rounded out" her character with psychology. But as conceived by Sturges (and as played by Barbara Stanwyck; with bemused seductiveness), she is the essence of cynicism; not a closed system but an open challenge to the world to offer up, if it can, pure innocence. And it can, it can: it offers up Henry Fonda, as a virginal snake-biologist ale-fortune heir. "I need him," she says, "like the axe needs the turkey."
In The Great McGinty, total political corruption manufactures its own opposition: a "repeat voter" (paid by the party) rises through the machine to the governorship, and goes honest—a choice so violently unusual that its momentum flips it over again. In Sullivan's Travels, a well-heeled director of movie comedies dresses like a hobo and sets out to experience poverty so that he can make socially relevant films. Sturges never questions his full sincerity, and neither does Joel McCrea (for whom the role was written). But Sullivan's sincerity is McCrea's intelligent civility with its teeth set…
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The Academy recognizes that there are occasions when a student may benefit from a leave from school to address a problem, while still remaining in good standing. Such a leave may be voluntary or required. A Voluntary Leave is initiated by a student or the family and must be approved by the Assistant Head of School for Student Life or the Dean of Students. A Required Leave is initiated by the Assistant Head of School for Student Life, the Dean of Students, or a designated representative.
Leaves may vary in length, though longer absences are more difficult to accommodate. For a leave, voluntary or required, return would not be automatic and would be subject to review based on criteria specified at the outset. In the case of an extended leave, repeating all or part of a school year may be necessary. It is not appropriate to use a leave of absence to postpone or otherwise interfere with any pending disciplinary proceedings.
The following descriptions outline typical forms of leave, although individual circumstances may require other responses:
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Medical Leaves might include those for severe or prolonged illnesses, significant injuries, especially those requiring major surgery, or psychological problems, including severe depression, suicidality, or eating disorders. A Medical Leave can be voluntary or required.
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There is an interesting search engine at http://names.mongabay.com/data/co/CUMPSTON.html
CUMPSTON is identified by the U.S. Bureau of the Census as a surname with more than 100 occurrences in the United States for the year-2000 U.S. Census. In "Demographic Aspects of Surnames from Census 2000", the Census Bureau tabulated the surnames of all people who had obtained Social Security Numbers by the year 2000.
CUMPSTON ranks # 27496 in terms of the most common surnames in the United States for 2000.
CUMPSTON had 825 occurrences in the 2000 Census, according the U.S. government records.
Out of a sample of 100,000 people in the United States, CUMPSTON would occur an average of 0.31 times.
Race / ethnic origin
The race categories shown in these files are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups: "White only", "Black only", "American Indian and Alaskan Native only", "Asian and Pacific Islander only", "Two or More Races", and "Hispanic".
For the last name of CUMPSTON the Census Bureau reports the following race / ethnic origin breakdown:
- 95.88 percent, or 791 total occurrences, were "Non-Hispanic White Only"
- 0 percent, or Less than 100 total occurrences, were "Non-Hispanic Black Only"
- Insignificant percent, or Less than 100 total occurrences, were "Non-Hispanic Asian and Pacific Islander Only"
- Insignificant percent, or Less than 100 total occurrences, were "Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaskan Native"
- 1.7 percent, or 14 total occurrences, were "Non-Hispanic of Two or More Races"
- 1.58 percent, or 13 total occurrences, were "Hispanic Origin"
NOTE: Fields suppressed for confidentiality are assigned the value "Insignificant"
The presentation of data on this site focuses on summarized aggregates of counts and characteristics associated with surnames, and, as such, do not in any way identify any specific individuals.
All data is derived from David L. Word, Charles D. Coleman, Robert Nunziata and Robert Kominski (2008). "Demographic Aspects of Surnames from Census 2000". U.S. Census Bureau.


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We have a feeling "This Is It" will not be it for some time to come. The much anticipated DVD release of Michael Jackson's hit concert film will be Jan. 26, Sony Pictures announced Monday.
The film showcases rehearsal footage of the late pop singer as he prepared for his sold-out series of 50 concerts that were scheduled for London's O2 arena.
The Blu-ray and DVD release will allow fans to go beyond the theatrical experience with a pair of documentaries -- "Staging The Return: Beyond The Show" and "Staging The Return: The Adventure Begins," in which Michael Jackson is shown developing, creating and rehearsing for his "This Is It" tour.
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Also included will be a series of featurettes, including "The Gloved One," with the show's costumer revealing the elaborate outfits created for the tour; "Memories of Michael," in which cast and crew pay tribute to Jackson's legacy; "Auditions: Searching for the World's Best Dancers," spotlighting the search for the show's backup dancers; and the film's theatrical trailer.
Additional features exclusive to the Blu-ray include the complete and uncut versions of "Smooth Criminal" and "Thriller," two all-new vignettes seen briefly in the film, along with a special "Making-of Smooth Criminal" featurette.
In the "Thriller" vignette, Jackson recreates one of his most popular songs featuring a new cast of zombies, ghosts and ghouls, and he performs new and signature dance moves.
Proceeds from the film are expected to benefit the Michael Jackson Family Trust.


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I just bought a game on Steam and now I have to install this UPlay crap with yet another account (on top of EA's crap Origin platform, Microsoft's XBox Live account and Apple's account for iTunes/Store).
I'm going to say this slowly:
I… do… not… want… this… on… my… computer.
In protest, I think I'm going to consider pirated video games from now on and just mail the company the money.
Dear Game Company,
I have been a legitimate software user for a long time now (over 20 years) but recently find myself frustrated at what is required of me to play your game.I already have Steam installed and yet you require I install yet another bit of software that will run on my system for no other purpose than to ensure I'm a legitimate user?
I have decided – in order to reduce my blood pressure, stress and frustrations in dealing with this 'protection' you dump on your legitimate users – to down load a pirated copy of your game.
Please find a cheque (that's how we spell it in Canada) for the box prices of the game.
I won't lie, it is damn well tempting.
I'm just too much of a good person.


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footsteps wrote:Aha, now I recognize you from the past! Looks like you've taken up multiple personalities as a pass-time. Did the Admins know this before they invited you?
Oh, and power grabs on the first day are not quite kosher.
Bruce N H wrote:As noted above, Dave is a member of CC since just about the beginning, and also of the larger LEGO community. His personal site is here. You may remember his Viking village being a category winner a couple of CCC's back or have used his LEGO-to-real-life measurement conversion tool, or seen his work in person at various cons. He's probably not as prolific in posting in the forum (or even posting his MOCs online - I remember an amazing multi-dragon layout at BrickFest years ago that he never posted online), you may note when he does post it's with deep expertise. Where he has been very active is behind the scenes - he's done a lot of programming for things like the CCC. That's more what he'll probably be focused on as an admin - working in a more official way on site architecture.
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Hey, I'm Dave, AKA DaveE, AKA Dave Eaton, AKA davee123! And as your new admin, I claim the right of Primum Figurae Femininae, the right to all your first female minifigures! ... Or... no? I'm being told no. Darn.
I've been in the LEGO community since 1999, back when LUGNET was pretty much the be-all, end-all place for LEGO discussion. That was one of the first places where castle fans battled space fans, and I put in a good fight to keep our post count higher than those ne'er do-well space-heads. At the time, I was a prominent castle builder (I built mostly castle and Star Wars at the time), and got a few awards at some of the early BrickFests (2001-2006). My Medieval Village from 2001 was considered really cool at the time, and was featured in Ikros. I also built some Rock Golems and a Red Dragon which have been referenced in Classic-Castle's Brick-Built-Beasts. In more recent years, I haven't done as much building and posting as I'd like (I've got a son who's now 19 months old), but you might remember my Viking Village from CCC VIII.
In my day job, I'm a developer. A web developer, as it turns out. I've done a few projects for the LEGO community, like a LEGO Scale Converter, a BrikWars 2001 Vehicle Scorer (back when it was painful to score vehicles by hand), the current CCC system for Classic-Castle (since CCCVI), a LUGBULK interface for my local club (which I've been trying to get LEGO to adopt), and a BrickLink price history utility (similar sad fate, awaiting approval by BrickLink admins), and even some minor work on LUGNET, Peeron, and (technically) LDraw.
As mentioned, I've been here on Classic-Castle since ... pretty much the beginning. I joined back in June of 2004 (a short 9 months after C-C started), I've just never been uber-vocal. And on that note, I'm probably not going to be doling out reprimands for abuse in the forums, or sponsoring any new building contests or anything. I'm more interested in doing some fun things with the site software itself-- like improving the CCC code to allow other management of other contests, turning the set guide into a bona fide database, and maybe getting a different CMS set up for various content.
Anyway, that's me!
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Birds of Prey are raptors. The word 'raptor' comes from the Latin word, rapere, which means to seize or capture. That's one of the things raptors do best. They are great hunters. They have special adaptations that make them unique in the natural world.
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Jesse Litsch was round, pink and efficient tonight (6.2 innings, 2 hits, 1 run, 4BBs and 1 K), while Russ Adams crushed a grand slam in the eighth off Jonathan Pablumbomb in a 6-1 win over the suddenly flailing Red Sox.
Russ Adams! All is forgiven!
Wednesdays with J.P. Highlights: A couple of interesting notes from the Mighty Wilner's tete-à-tete with J.P. Ricciardi tonight:
- J.P., in answering a question about Bob Elliot's hatchet job in the Sun today, noted that Elliot hasn't spoken to him in five years.
- J.P. confirmed - with an awesome snort - that he would not trade Vernon Wells for Tike Redman. (Drunk Jays Fans have the story here on that particular bit of fan insight.)
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IRVING, TX — For franchisees Kirk and John Galiani, the Gold's Gym family has been more than just a family. The brothers actually have relatives operating within the Gold's franchise system.
So it's understandable that the Galianis' move to create their own brand, Onelife Fitness, was not easy on them or on the folks at Irving, TX-based Gold's Gym International (GGI). After all, the Galianis became Gold's franchisees in 1990 and were part-owners of GGI from 1999 to 2004.
"We've thought about owning and starting a brand for quite some time, but leaving a brand that we love so much is extremely difficult," Kirk Galiani says. "We felt that this was the right thing for our company, to start something from scratch."
The official launch of Onelife Fitness was Oct. 1, although discussions to break away from Gold's have been taking place for at least a year. The Galianis converted five of their former Gold's clubs in the Hampton Roads section of Virginia to their new brand. Three more Gold's clubs that the Galianis operated in West Virginia and Maryland were in the process of sales negotiations as of press time.
Although the Galianis and GGI say that the parting was amicable, it wasn't always that way. The day after Onelife Fitness officially launched, GGI sent an internal memo to Gold's staff and franchisees threatening to take legal action against the Galianis.
The dispute came about when the Galianis leaked news of their leaving Gold's on social media Web sites, such as Facebook and MySpace, says Joel Tallman, senior vice president of franchising and global operations for GGI. Tallman adds that the use of the Gold's logo was not depicted properly in those announcements.
"I think there were some complete misunderstandings, probably on both sides, in the sense that we had been discussing this and how the departure would work for a long time," Tallman says. "It caught us as a complete surprise that it came out the way it did."
The Galianis referred questions about the Internet postings to Gold's but added that the issue has been resolved.
The recent announcement of James Weaver's resignation as Gold's CEO and the appointment of Jim Snow as its new president did not factor into the Galianis' decision, they say.
"We really want Gold's Gym to continue to grow and take it to the next level, and we can tell our kids and grandkids that hey, we were a part of that and helped that brand grow," says Kirk Galiani, who adds that he's pleased with Gold's direction, led by its parent company, TRT Holdings.
The Galianis are molding Onelife Fitness into a family-oriented, full-service club. Some of the amenities at the last club they built include swimming pools and basketball and racquetball courts. The clubs range from 45,000 to 65,000 square feet. The brothers may grow the brand in different markets, and they may look at other opportunities in the industry.
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MusiCares and GRAMMY Foundation Teen Substance Abuse, in collaboration with NIDA recently sponsored the Awareness through Music Contest for high school students to create and perform an original composition called the Teen Substance Abuse Awareness through Music Contest. The first-place winners, Jordan Atkins and Dae' Vion Caves, write here about what this experience means to them.
Hello fellow listeners and fans. This is Jordan Atkins and Dae' Vion Caves. We would just like to share with you why we wrote this song. We give special thanks to God, first and foremost, but we received news about the contest through a counselor at our school. The counselor went to our manager/leader, Mrs. Wittman, of the group and from there we worked on the song and video.
It took a lot of dedication, since we had only two weeks before the deadline, but we were able to let that be a minor issue and finish the song and video with help from our friends that lived in the community.
We have a rap group at our school named "Alton High School's 618," which consists of four members, but only two of us were able to compete in the competition, due to the rules.
The reason we wrote the lyrics is because we are trying to tell people to rise above their circumstances. We know, from our own family experiences that things can get rough at times, especially when you have no one to turn to.
We just want to let all of the fans, children, and even adults know that no matter how hard the struggle becomes, you can always follow your dreams. You shouldn't let anyone get in the way of that!! We are just another two artists who are trying to make something happen with our lives, but when we come together as one, we can have the world on our side.
We thank everyone for all of the support and hope to come out in the industry so you can all enjoy our music. The feeling is unimaginable, although we want to stay humble. We have A LOT of support throughout our city, school, and friends. Along with us, our community is helping to raise funds so we can get our other two members to attend with us in February.
We thank our school, community, and fans for all of the support and once again, we hope we can get into the music industry so you all can hear our music. Thank You!!
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Many mathematicians will tell you that Nobel omitted mathematics from his prizes to spite the Swedish mathematician Gosta Mittag-Leffler, a rival, and that the Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields created the award that bears his name to correct the omission. But this is a myth that needs debunking. First of all, there is no good evidence of a feud between Nobel and Mittag-Leffler. Nobel omitted mathematics simply because it was not as important to him as other endeavors were.
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As for Fields, he proposed his award not as a substitute for the Nobel Prize but as a symbol of international unity. In the aftermath of World War I, the scientific community was fractured by national rivalries. When the International Mathematical Union was first founded, in 1920, it explicitly banned representatives of the former Central Powers. Fields so wanted "to avoid invidious comparisons" among candidates for his award that he suggested it be presented "with a view to encouraging further achievement" rather than just honoring past accomplishments. (This remark would later be used to justify the award's age limit of 40, though Fields never intended the medal just for the young.)
Source: New York Times


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Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilitiesby nhoizey & 6 others
Here are some ports of common GNU utilities to native Win32. In this context, native means the executables do only depend on the Microsoft C-runtime (msvcrt.dll) and not an emulation layer like that provided by Cygwin tools.
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