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When Looking for Sports Commentary, Don't Settle for Less Than the BESTIt seems like there are more sports commentators than ever but the dramatic increase in quantity has hardly led to a corresponding increase in quality. It is so easy to start up a website that even a caveman could do it and, judging by some of the ones I've seen, more than a few apparently have. This website only covers NBA basketball, so I have decided to launch a new site as a forum for my commentary on other sports: BestEverSportsTalk.
The acronym "BEST" is both easy to remember and a reflection of the site's credo: "No fluff, no rumors, no nonsense--just the best sports analysis and commentary." The plan is to post at least one essay a week discussing and analyzing an important person or issue from the world of sports. The first essay examines the remarkable career of Frank Thomas, who just joined the 500 home run club:
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Yo peeps -
I botched last years "half off" special by offering it a a week or two later than usual..
So here's my apology :
I am offering the same deal I normally offer at the end of the year through 2019-02-14 (Valentine's Day state side).
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Just an FYI - I'm super stoked for this year folks... I have been able to free/negotiate a bit more time to work on the game, so we should be seeing a lot more additions/updates this year than we have recently.
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We will be exhibiting the work of James Fraher at the Houston 2014 FotoFest. It will be on display at the Art Department Gallery of Houston Community College Central from Feb 25th until March 30th.
In a career spanning over 30 years, photographer, musician and author James Fraher has had his images published in Downbeat, Guitar Player, Irish Arts Review, Juke Blues, Soul Bag, and Texas Highways, and on more than 150 record covers. His work can be seen in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the Chicago Blues Archive at the Harold Washington Library Center, and the University of Mississippi Blues Archive. James has also collaborated with Houston writer Roger Wood to produce two books published by the University of Texas Press, Down in Houston: Bayou City Blues and Texas Zydeco.
HCC Central Art and FOTOfest 2014 present Down in Houston: A Blues Community Remembered
Reception: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 20.
Photo exhibit runs February 25 through March 30, 2014
In the clubs, ballrooms, and barbecue joints of neighborhoods such as Third Ward, Frenchtown, Sunnyside, and Double Bayou, Houston's African-American community birthed a vibrant and unique slice of the blues. In this exhibit famed photographer James Fraher andCentral College professor of English and author Dr. Roger Wood tell the story of the musicians who gave voice to a working-class community, a still ongoing conversation about good times and hard times, smokin' Saturday nights and Blue Mondays.
There will be a gallery talk with the artists 1 p.m., Wednesday, March 19, and a lecture in Room 100 of Central's Learning Hub Science Building, 3 p.m., Wednesday, March 19.
The Central College art gallery is located in the Fine Arts Center, 3517 Austin at Holman.
Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Fridays and Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
For information and directions, please call 713.718.6600.
This exhibit is produced partnership with Texas Folklife, with artist travel underwritten by the Houston Museum for Culture with assistance from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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MPAA: Bad At Math & Bad At Economics
from the sigh deptWe recently noted that the MPAA was passing around a silly infographic chock full of bogus stats, and pointed out that someone had noticed that if you took the MPAA's "losses" claim seriously, it would mean that downloaders were buying 200 more DVDs per year. The MPAA folks were apparently not happy that people called them on their misleading stats, and have come out with a statement, which it claims is about "correcting the record."
If only that were true. Instead, we get more misleading bunk from the Masters of Propaganda.
First off, the MPAA admits that perhaps (just perhaps) their original graphic may have been a little misleading, and have put out a new version that moves away from implying that they were losing $58 billion, and now merely suggests that it's the US economy that loses this much money from the combined infringement on movies, music, packaged software and video games. This is complete and utter bunk -- and the MPAA folks either know this and are lying... or they're idiots. Take your pick.
The $58 billion claim comes from a study from The Institute for Policy Innovation that has been debunked so many times over, the fact that the MPAA would even bring it up is a laugh. And it's based on a very questionable analysis of the broadly defined "copyright industry." Of course, as we've noted in the past, the definition of "the copyright industry" for such studies includes all sorts of goods and services that do not rely on copyright at all, but are force-lumped into this study. So, if we're talking about actual products that rely on copyright, you probably have to ratchet down the scale by an order of magnitude. And that's just to start. From there, you have to realize that IPI's numbers use completely bogus math.
Tim Lee did an excellent job explaining the economic and mathematical fallacies of their methodology years ago (for which IPI kindly tried to get him fired from his job). The key issue is how the IPI counts "losses."
In IPI-land, when a movie studio makes $10 selling a DVD to a Canadian, and then gives $7 to the company that manufactured the DVD and $2 to the guy who shipped it to Canada, society has benefitted by $10+$7+$2=$19. Yet some simple math shows that this is nonsense: the studio is $1 richer, the trucker is $2, and the manufacturer is $7. Shockingly enough, that adds up to $10. What each participant cares about is his profits, not his revenues.Furthermore, in IPI and MPAA fantasy-land, dollars not spent on movies simply disappear from the economy. And yet, anyone can tell you that's simply not true. That money continues to be spent elsewhere, and plenty of studies have shown that, despite growing infringement online, the amount of money that individuals spend on entertainment continues to rise.
So why would the MPAA rely on this number, which is so obviously false? Because it doesn't care about the truth or accuracy or "correcting the record." The MPAA's job is to get Congress to pass laws that divert money from what the market wants to its legacy studios who are slow to adapt. So it will use any number it can get its hands on, no matter how ridiculous. It's just that this time it got called on it, so it had to scramble to try to make the number look even a little bit legit...


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Industry Organizes to Handle Shrinking C4I Market
The recent Frost & Sullivan report, "US Military Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) Markets," addresses the likely development of funding priorities for theater and national missile defense, tactical communications and information warfare under Secretary of Defense William Cohen and the new Congress. The report reviews the effects of the acquisition reform and industry consolidation, which occurred under former Secretary of Defense Perry, and the relationship between the Department of Defense (DoD) and defense contractors. The report points out that while a large number of contractors compete in each of the market segments, few are active in more than two or three markets. The major consolidations of the companies competing for defense business and the frequent strategic alliances formed are considered serious barriers to the efforts of small companies trying to compete in the market.
C4I is increasing its share of overall defense spending even as its total funding is decreasing. The report estimates the total C4I market was $7 B in FY 1996, down from $7.6 B in FY 1995. The funding is forecast to drop to $6.6 B by FY 2000 before it begins to rise. The negative compound annual growth rate for the market from 1995 to 2002 is estimated to be 1.1 percent. The funding decline for continental ground-based surveillance systems is expected to end in 1998 and remain constant through 2002. Funding for global command and control equipment is projected to decline this year and then become level at approximately $50 M in FY 2001 and FY 2002. The tactical reconnaissance and surveillance market, funded at $2.4 B in 1996 compared to $2.7 B in FY 1995, is expected to continue its decline through 1998 and then remain at $2 B through FY 2002. For more information, contact Kimberly Barney, Frost & Sullivan, (415) 237-4383, fax (415) 903-0915.
F/A-18E/F Strike Fighters to Receive Upgraded Radar
According to Aerospace Daily, the Navy is proceeding with its effort to install an active electronically scanned aperture (AESA) in some of its first F/A-18E/F fighters, a move that could give the fighters a radar with twice the range of the F/A-18s in service currently. Reportedly, the Navy has always been interested in an AESA for the F/A-18E/F and has provided the aircraft with the space, power and cooling to accommodate such a system. However, prior to the work performed for the Joint Strike Fighter on the multifunction integrated RF system, both the cost and the risks involved with such equipment were considered too high.
GAO Reports on Soviet Union Defense Industry Conversion
In a recent report, "Status of Defense Conversion in the Former Soviet Union (GAO/NSIAD-97-101)," the General Accounting Office (GAO) reviews the DoD's program to help convert defense industries in the former Soviet Union to commercial enterprises. The report considers the progress made in 20 conversion projects that have been undertaken and the agreements completed by the Defense Enterprise Fund to undertake an additional four projects. The DoD program to convert former Soviet Union defense industries to commercial enterprises is part of the Cooperative Threat Reduction program to reduce the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threat. The program's primary objectives are to help destroy nuclear, biological and chemical weapons; transport and store weapons for destruction; and prevent weapon proliferation. The Cooperative Threat Reduction Act of 1993 also authorized the DoD to establish a program to demilitarize former Soviet Union defense industries and convert their technologies and capabilities to commercial activities.
With the assistance of several other agencies, the DoD developed a candidate list of 150 WMD-related enterprises in Belarus, Kazakstan, Russia and Ukraine. The Defense Special Weapons Agency (DSWA) implements the defense conversion programs and awarded contracts in 1994 and 1995 for the DoD-managed projects. In most cases, the DSWA contracted with US firms to assist specific Soviet Union firms. Each of the pairs of companies established a joint venture typically to provide civilian goods or a service using US private and government funds, and former Soviet facilities and labor. The Cooperative Threat Reduction Act of 1993 also created the Defense Enterprise Fund (DEF), a private nonprofit fund that would continue the defense-conversion work started by the DSWA.
Noting the size of the former Soviet Union's weapons complex and the inherent difficulty of assessing and quantifying military production capacity, the GAO was unable to confirm that the conversion projects have had any impact on eliminating or reducing WMDs or military production capacity in the former Soviet Union. However, it did find that 20 of the 24 projects reviewed included former Soviet Union firms that had produced WMDs and that one of the projects was in the process of converting resources that had been devoted to that kind of production. Eleven projects used buildings related to WMD production and at least eight employed workers in new enterprises who were engaged formerly in WMD activities. Five of the 24 projects studied were no longer operating at the time of the review. The other 19 have made progress but eight have not yet begun production. The GAO found that the DEF has been in compliance with many elements of its agreement with the DSWA but the agency has not enforced compliance in some respects. Further, neither the agency nor the fund has established the required evaluation benchmarks necessary to measure the success of the Fund's operations. The GAO recommends that the DoD's oversight of the DEF be strengthened, that performance benchmarks be established, that a long-range plan for attracting private capital be prepared by the DEF and that the required periodic reviews and field visits be made.
GAO Recommends Better Use of DoD Funds
In its report, "Better Use of Limited DoD Acquisition Funding Would Reduce Costs (GAO/NSIAD-97-23)," the GAO finds that the DoD places too high a priority on buying large numbers of untested weapons during low rate initial production (LRIP) phases of procurement cycles. The practice ensures commitment to new programs at the expense of other, more fully tested, systems - in some cases requiring that full production rates of the tested weapons be cut in half. In many cases, the practice also leads to the need to modify large numbers of the untested weapons at high cost before they are usable. The combination of buying the large quantities in LRIP and subsequently having to modify those quantities stretches out the full-rate production schedules of proven systems for years due to lack of funds.
The GAO finds that annual full-rate production rates of 17 of the 22 proven weapons reviewed were reduced to the point at which their production runs were lengthened by an average of eight years. DoD records also reveal that the weapons involved would have cost nearly $10 B less if their original production rates and cost estimates had been maintained.
Among the cited examples of programs with elongated production schedules and accompanying increased costs are the Army's Black Hawk helicopter and the Navy's Tomahawk missile. At its present production rate, the Black Hawk will take nearly 54 years to complete, 43 years longer than planned originally. Tomahawk production was scheduled to be complete in 1992 but will be six years over schedule at the present rate of 276 missiles a year, a decrease of over 50 percent from the planned rate of 600 per year.
The GAO recommends that the DoD's acquisition policies be revised to require that annual quantities of weapons procured during LRIP be limited to the minimum quantity necessary to complete initial operational test and evaluation, and prove the production line. It also recommends that rate and quantity increases during LRIP for the purpose of easing the transition to full-rate production be prohibited unless there is clear evidence that such increases are critical to achieving efficient full-rate production and will not affect the efficient funding of proven systems.


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RIM to Take Shotgun Approach With a Half-Dozen BB10 Handsets
Speaking with Fierce Wireless, RIM CMO Frank Boulben said the company will debut at least six BB10 handsets in 2013, each one aimed at a different market segment. Some 150 carriers are currently testing BB10, and RIM has wisely chosen not to sign exclusivity relationships with any of them.
That should give it a fighting chance in the highly competitive market it has ceded to Google and Apple over the past few years. No exclusivity deals means fewer restrictions on what devices can be sold, and by whom. That leaves RIM free to hit the smartphone market at various levels on various carriers.
Add to that the 70,000 or so applications that RIM promises will be available for BB10 at launch, and it starts to look like the OS really does have a shot at evolving into the third-place contender RIM believes it to be. It's certainly not implausible. Remember, RIM has an installed base of about 79 million existing BlackBerry users.


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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Fan Pic Roundup: Cuteness From LA & London
Seems like we could be seeing pictures from the Breaking Dawn premieres until next year's premieres.. that's okay by us!
Rob Voted E! Celeb Of The Year
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
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Monday, December 26, 2011
'Breaking Dawn' Premiere Madness: Pap Video
This is one of those videos that really gives you a clear idea of what it's like to be at a premiere with Rob. It's madness!
Thanks for sharing @Lightboxgallery.
Rob Talks About His Post-Twilight Plans
So what will it take to keep Rob working for the next 20 years? - he answers that question as he talks about his post-Twilight plans in an interview from the Breaking Dawn promo (at about 2:25).
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Bel Ami: Possible U.S. Release Date Revealed!
Yes, we've been here before, thinking we have a date for the U.S. release of Bel Ami and then it gets delayed. While that could still be the case, it's looking like the March 2nd date just listed on IMDb might stick. No official word from Sony. The company bought the North American distribution rights to the film. Stay tuned!
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Fan's Luck: Gets Two Pics With Rob In LA
The fan got a chance to get a pic with Rob outside of Jimmy Kimmel's show, and at the Grauman's ceremony last month. Lucky her!
Thursday, December 22, 2011
New 'Bel Ami' Trailer Released: Plenty Of Hot Georges!
The trailer we've all been waiting for is here, courtesy of UK distributors. Studio Canal launched a new Bel Ami facebook page and twitter yesterday, ahead of the film's release in the UK on March 2nd. No word on when Sony will release Bel Ami in the U.S. - but Middle East distributor Front Row said on its facebook today that the film will premiere at the Berlin Film Festival which runs from February 9-19. The film has been rated R (U.S.) for "some strong sexuality, nudity and brief language". Just to confirm this rating info we called the MPAA. They said that is officially the rating given to the version of Bel Ami presented to them for review. But they did add that could always change, if the film was re-edited before release. Stay tuned for more details as they come in!
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
UK Launches 'Bel Ami' Twitter, Facebook, Teases Trailer!
New image of Georges
It looks like the Bel Ami promo is finally kicking into high gear. Brazil distributors were the first to set up their facebook page, and now Studio Canal is doing the same for the UK, promising a new trailer release tomorrow:
We've just received a heads up that the Bel Ami trailer will launch on the official page at 3pm tomorrow (UK) [22nd December 2011]. Like the page now and be the first to see it when it breaks and keep up to date with all the latest news, events and giveaways. You can also win tickets to exclusive preview screenings and events by following the official Twitter page @BelAmi_Movie.
The film opens in the UK on March 2nd. No word yet on the U.S. release date, but we're sure it's coming!
Personal Wedding Video?! Details On Breaking Dawn DVD
UPDATE 12/21: We've added the back cover of the Blu-ray (posted by Amazon) that will reportedly be released February 11th (U.S.) - DVD back cover is pretty much the same.
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By Olivia Solon, Wired UK
In Alan Turing's 42 years of life, his discoveries and inventions saved thousands of lives and paved the way for modern computing. Despite this, it has been only recently that he has been recognised for his achievements.
[partner id="wireduk"] Turing was eccentric to say the least, with a scruffy appearance and stammering speech. Turing's mother would have to write to him to remind him to buy "at least one suit a year". This did not stop him from holding up his trousers with string and wearing a pyjama top under his coat. In Hut 8, where he conducted most of his codebreaking at Bletchley, Turing would attach his tea mug to the radiator using a combination lock. During hay fever season, it wasn't uncommon to see Turing ride his bicycle to work wearing his government-issued gas mask.
Beyond his eccentricities, Turing was a brilliant academic and he was credited by Winston Churchill as having made the single biggest contribution to Allied victory in the war against Nazi Germany. Wired.co.uk has created a simple timeline of his achievements.
23 June 1912: Alan Mathison Turing was born in London
1926: Aged 14, he was sent to Sherborne School in Dorset. His first day of term coincided with the 1926 General Strike. Turing was so determined not to miss his first day of school that he cycled the 97km from his home in Southampton. His teachers worried that he leaned too heavily towards maths and science, at the expense of the classics. The headmaster wrote to his parents: "If he is to be solely a scientific specialist, he is wasting his time at a public school".
1927: At the age of 16, Turing got to grips with Albert Einstein's work and extrapolated Einstein's questioning of Newton's Laws of Motion from a text in which this was never made explicit.
1930: Turing's close school friend Christopher Morcom dies suddenly from bovine tuberculosis. Turing renounces his religious faith and becomes an atheist.
1931: Turing goes to study Mathematics at King's College, Cambridge.
1935: Turing proves the central limit theorem in his dissertation and is made a fellow at King's at the age of just 22.
1936: Turing published his paper On Computable Numbers and an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem (decision problem) in which he outlines the Universal Machine, which later became known as the Turing Machine. This was an idealised computing device that is capable of performing any mathematical computation that can be represented as an algorithm.
1936-1938: Turing spent time at Princeton in the US studying under Alonzo Church. There he started to study cryptology as well as mathematics. In 1938 he received his PhD; his dissertation was called Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals and introduced original logic and relative computing.
September 1938: Turing started to work part-time at the Government Code and Cypher School.
1939: The day after war is declared in September 1939, Turing arrives at Bletchley Park. There he works with Gordon Welchman to develop the Bombe, a device for decrypting the messages sent by Germans using their Enigma machines. The Bombe built on a machine that the Polish had already made, called the Bomba Kryptlogiczna. Turing used statistical techniques to optimise the trial of different possibilities in the code-breaking process using probability.
1941: Turing proposes to his co-worker Joan Clarke, a fellow mathematician and cryptanalyst. Shortly after, Turing had second thoughts, admitting to his fiancee that he was homosexual.
1942: Turing sent to the US as part of an intelligence collaboration. He shared what he knew about Enigma in return for being allowed to inspect the speech encryption system being set up to allow conversations between Churchill and Roosevelt. Turing was somewhat dismissive of US cryptanalysis, believing the Americans to rely too heavily on machinery instead of thought.
1941-43: Turing and colleagues manage to break the more complicated German Naval Enigma system. This is extremely helpful for the Allies during the Battle of the Atlantic as it could help them avoid the fearsome German U-boats, which had been responsible for sinking more than 700 Allied ships with 2.3 million tons of vital cargo.
1945: At the end of World War II, Turing is awarded an OBE for his services to his country
October 1945: Turing joined the National Physical Laboratory where he worked on developing an electronic digital stored-program computing machine that would later become the ACE (Automatic Computing Engine). By 1946 he had a finished proposal for the computer, but NPL did not have the resources to turn it into reality.
1947: Turing returned to Cambridge for a sabbatical year. The Pilot ACE was built in his absence and executed its first program on 10 May 1950.
1949: Turing became deputy director of the Computing Laboratory at Manchester University, working on software for one of the earliest stored program computers – the Manchester Mark 1. He also explored the problem of artificial intelligence and proposed an experiment (in his seminal paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence) which became that attempted to define a standard for machine intelligence, which would later become known as the Turing test. The core idea was that a computer could be said to "think" if a human interrogator could not tell it apart, through conversation, from a human being. Turing also worked with his former colleague D G Champernowne on a chess program for a computer that did not exist yet.
1952: Without a computer powerful enough to execute his chess program, Turing played a game in which he simulated the computer, taking about half an hour to perform each move. The program lost to Turing's colleague Alick Glennie, but won against Champernowne's wife.
January 1952: Turing meets a man called Arnold Murray and invites him over to his house. Murray visits Turing's house on a number of occasions, staying the night. Murray later helps an accomplice break into Turing's house. Turing reports the crime and admits having a sexual relationship with Murray. Homosexual acts are illegal in the UK and so both were charged with gross indecency. Turing is given the choice of being imprisoned or chemically castrated with oestrogen hormone injections. He chooses the latter. Turing's conviction means his security clearance is removed which means he is barred from his cryptopgraphic consultancy for the British government.
08 June 1954: Turing's cleaner finds him dead. It appears that Turing poisoned himself using a cyanide-laced apple.
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Sometimes we feel bad when cars get damaged or destroyed in ridiculous accidents. Take that ultra-sad Lamborghini Miura fire from a couple weeks ago, for example. But this Dodge Avenger falling into a Chicago sinkhole? I can't say I feel too bad here.
You'll recall that a section of the street in the city's Southeast Side collapsed yesterday, taking two cars with it. One local news station captured footage of a third car also falling into the sinkhole, and some wonderful person has turned it into a .GIF for us to enjoy.
All I can say is I hope the Avenger owner gets a decent insurance payout and is able to buy something else. There are a ton of cars that are better than a Dodge Avenger, like... well, anything, basically.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to stare at the .GIF some more. It doesn't appear to be getting old anytime soon.
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Has anyone taken their bmw scoot to Alaska yet, or plan to?
Has anyone taken their bmw scoot to Alaska yet, or plan to?
1978 R100rs MOA#22600 125cc Kymco , 180cc Kymco Racing King
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
Would be a interesting ride, one make sure you don't have a bmw top case! Two I think somewhere in route you may have to replace tires not certain who would stock the correct ones
Send pic's
A few years back we ran into a fellow from San Diego who rode to Alaska on a 500cc Aprilla scoot. He was a retired church missionary who had spent most of his life in Norway. He was riding with two guys on Harleys running straight pipes. Probably had about the same HP output.
Adventure Cycle Works in Fairbanks is a great place to have tires changed in Alaska. You could have tires shipped to them and have the waiting for you, or you can contact them and they may order them and have them there. They provide 24/7 service in the summer.
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There are also 2 BMW dealers in Alaska. Trails End in Fairbanks and The Motorcycle Shop in Anchorage.
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BMW, just recalled the mounting bracket for the scooter, seems a couple have broken off. Does NOT affect other models of BMW bikes.
Were all scooters involved in the recall? I have a 2013 C650GT and have not yet seen a recall notice.
Top case mount recalled, if you do not have a bmw case no recall
Side stand issue, mounting bolts need to be removed and tightened with loctite
Some issues have occurred with fuel gauges, mostly with European bikes
I don't camp, and motel budget stalled some others that considered it in more recent years.. I have ridden to & in 47 of the fifty states. Missing Alaska, Hawaii , & for some reason Road Island? Might get that one done this spring.......getting to Hawaii could prove problematic .....
1978 R100rs MOA#22600 125cc Kymco , 180cc Kymco Racing King
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
As for the recall on the side stand I have not had any notice on it. I think this is only if the owner of the scooter has had an issue of the engine stalling on them.
Now for the issue of the fuel gauge, in Canada we have the European scooters and I have not had any problem with the fuel gauge.
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PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona sheriff known nationally for his hardline stance on illegal immigration has taken the witness stand and is facing allegations that his trademark immigration sweeps amounted to racial profiling against Hispanics.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, testifying on his own behalf in a civil trial Tuesday, was asked about a statement in which he called illegal immigrants "dirty."
Arpaio says the proper context was needed to understand that statement. He says that if a person were to cross the border on foot over four days in the desert that person "could be dirty. That's the context on how I used that word."
Arpaio was without his typical bluster under questioning from lawyers for plaintiff's who say his policies are discriminatory against Latinos.
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was released in 1974 and was followed by a numerous promotional tour dates. However, the album didn't sell well enough to support the many onstage pyrotechnics and gimmicks that KISS used on concert dates. In an effort to capitalize on the popularity of their tour dates, KISS released a live album, titled
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- Small Brinjals – 500gms
- Coriander Seeds – 4tsps
- Red Chilies – 7
- Cumin Seeds – 1tsp
- Dry Coconut – 15gms
- Tamarind – Little (Approx.3gms)
- Turmeric Powder – 1/8tsp
- Salt to Taste
- Oil – 5Tbsps Divided
Wash and wipe dry the brinjals. Cut the head portion of the brinjal. Cut each brinjal into two parts keeping it intact (GUTTI LAGA). Cut the brinjal from the centre three-fourths length wise. Turn it upside down and cut three-fourths length wise in opposite direction to the first cut. Now observe that the brinjal is cut into two parts and it is also intact. Similarly cut all the brinjals. Add 11/2tbsps oil to the slit brinjals and coat them well. On a microwave safe plate arrange the oil smeared brinjals in a single layer. Place this plate in oven and cook on high power for 4 minutes. Cook till brinjals are three-fourths cooked. Keep the brinjals aside for cooling.
Break red chilies into pieces. Cut dry coconut into small pieces.
Heat a pan and add two drops of oil. Add coriander seeds, cumin seeds, red chili pieces, tamarind and fry on low heat stirring continuously. Fry till coriander seeds start changing color. Then add dry coconut pieces and fry for few seconds.
Take the fried ingredients into a mixie jar and add turmeric powder and salt. Grind the ingredients to powder stirring with a spoon in between. Use this powder to stuff the brinjals.
Stuff the powder on each side of the brinjal without breaking it. Stuff all the brinjals. Heat a pan and add 31/2Tbsps oil to it. When oil is hot add the stuffed brinjals and cook covered on low flame stirring in between. If required sprinkle some water on the brinjals and again cook covered. Cook the brinjals till they are fully cooked. Then remove the lid and cook till they are crisp. When done, transfer the brinjlas to a serving bowl. Serve hot with plain rice.
Points to Remember:
Cut brinjals tend to change color when kept in open atmosphere for a long period. Cut the brinjals just when you are about to cook. Or else cut the brinjals and keep them in salt water till use.
Use red chilies,tamarind and salt according to your taste.
Cooking the brinjals in microwave oven for 4 minutes will cook the vegetable till 80%. This will help in stuffing the brinjals. And with less oil the remaining cooking can be done on stove top.
I generally use Iron pan for cooking for health benefits. Brinjal tends to change color when cooked in an iron-pan. Do not bother about the color and enjoy the taste if cooking in an iron pan. Iron pan also retains heat for long time. So even when we cook on low flame also the heat will be more. So there are chances of burning the vegetable if one is inattentive. So sprinkle some water to lower the heat of the pan. This water in no way obstructs the cooking of the vegetable—as the water evaporates and the heat of the pan will be reduced.
Dry coconut with coriander seeds gives a mild flavor to the brinjals. Serve hot with plain rice and ghee. Or else eat with curd rice.
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DEAR ABBY: I have a half-sister with whom I share a mother. Her father and my mother were married for almost 10 years. This man, I believe, had some mental issues. He would quiz me about my sexual relations with my boyfriend at the time, wanting details. He often would fly off the handle and argue with my mother for no reason. There are too many other examples to list. Quite frankly, he was a horrible husband and father.
This man died two years ago. My half-sister since has immortalized her father into someone he was not. She even tattooed his initials on her wrist.
Abby, how is a person supposed to deal with a relative who is living in fantasyland about a parent? His widow has sent her emails telling her the kind of man he really was, but she continues to act as if he was the world's best father, even though he wasn't.
DEAR KNOWS THE TRUTH: Either your former stepfather was the greatest father in the world to HER, or your half-sister needs the fantasy she's clinging to for her emotional well-being. Let her have her fantasy if it comforts her. If she raises the subject of good old dad with you, just tell her you'd prefer not to discuss it. If you do that, you'll both be happier.
DEAR ABBY: I'm 31 and the mother of three awesome children. At 29, I left my husband of nine years and came out of the closet. I have been in a stable two-year relationship with my girlfriend, and she recently moved in with us.
My oldest child has started asking if his friends can come and stay the night on a weekend. I let one child spend the night with him once. My sister asked me if I had told the child's parent I'm a lesbian living with a partner. When I said no, she got upset and said because we live in a small, religious country town, I should inform the child's parent of my living situation.
I can see where she's coming from, but I don't feel it's my responsibility to offer this personal information. We're hardworking, law-abiding citizens, and I am a loving and protective mother. We aren't felons who need to "disclose" our personal "crimes." What do you think?
DEAR PROUD MAMA: I, too, can see where your sister is coming from, and I don't like the direction. You are not under any obligation to announce your sexual orientation to anyone. In a small town - religious or not - word gets around quickly on its own. Trust me on that. However, if you are asked directly, you should be honest.
DEAR ABBY: Our daughter was married recently. During the wedding or the reception, someone stole money from the purses of at least two of the bridesmaids.
Are the bride's parents responsible for the loss?
DEAR MOTHER OF THE BRIDE: What happened was unfortunate, and I hope the lesson the bridesmaids learned from this wasn't an expensive one. Unless you agreed to look after the young women's belongings, you are not responsible for the loss. They should have left their purses with someone they trusted or secured in a locked room or car.
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Yo bitches, check out my daddy bling
I almost died laughing this morning when I heard the NBC Today Show announcer exclaim, "Up next: The rise of the stay-at-home husband. Is this the new status symbol for alpha women?"
Since I had to drag my alpha ass to work, I was unable to watch the segment. But I did read it online.
With great interest.
As many of you know, Chuck has been a stay-at-home dad for a year and a half. Like the article states, there was a serious adjustment phase. For awhile there, I worried I might grow a penis and facial hair. I wished Chuck would get hit by a truck. I dreamed Chuck was riding bitch.
But never, EVER did I feel that "having a househusband may, in a way, be the ultimate status symbol for the successful professional woman."
Ah yes, my husband. He's right up there with my Gucci handbag.
In the article, Diane Sollee, director of the Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education and smartmarriages.com says, "In a way, it's almost like bragging for a woman to say she has a stay-at-home husband. Not only is she the breadwinner...but she's also got this highly evolved male person—a feminist, father, and husband who doesn't care what the gender roles are. It's really an elevated life-form." For the hard-driving careerist mother, a husband who's willing to take up the lion's share at home is a godsend.
Few things.
1. "Highly evolved male person"? "Elevated life-form"? Could someone pinch me, please?
Just because a man stays home with the kid(s) doesn't mean he's stopped farting, scratching, picking his nose, eating his fingernails, leaving laundry on the floor, telling you it "must be that time of the month" because you have strong opinions, or walking around in his slouchy underwear. In fact, chances are your child and husband will spend entire days in their underwear.
Let's not cream ourselves too much over daddy's metamorphosis, k?
2. "For the hard-driving careerist mother, a husband who's willing to take up the lion's share at home is a godsend."
Notice the key word "willing"? I love Chuck, but it has been a struggle of monumental proportions to get him to help more around the house. I'm not alone: Working women spend about twice as much time as working men on household chores and the care of the children, according to a recent survey by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
When Chuck was first laid off, there were days I worked nine-to-five, cooked dinner, threw laundry in, tidied up and put Junior to bed. Chuck helped here and there, but one night I turned to him and said, "I just can't do it all. It isn't fair."
I said it a few more times. Finally it sunk in. But dang, it was an uphill battle. I learned a valuable lesson. A man who sees his wife vacuuming will say, "Why don't you take a break?" but he won't get off the couch. A man who hears "I need help from YOU, buttfuck, yes YOU" 10 nights in a row will—finally, hopefully—get off the couch.
I guess that's an evolutionary milestone.
Anyway, the article made some good points, but overall it annoyed me. So men are staying home with the kids. So what? Women do it all the time and no one's calling them elevated life forms.
Here's an article I'd like to read: Men and women everywhere get over themselves.
27 comments:
- Unknown said...
"Here's an article I'd like to read: Men and women everywhere get over themselves."
Hahahaha, I wish more people would think like you!
- August 10, 2010 at 2:46 PM
- brokenteepee said...
It amazes me that men are so glorified AGAIN for doing what women did for years - because it was expected of them.
If in a marriage SOMEONE is staying home to take care of the kids why does it matter if it's the him or the her?
- August 10, 2010 at 2:55 PM
- Mama Badger said...
Hmmmm, men are finally asked to do more than just mow the lawn at home. Amazing. Some actually do it. Even more amazing.
Why do we stare in awe that some guys actually get that they are 1/2 of a team?
- August 10, 2010 at 3:02 PM
- Christy said...
I agree with you so much! My husband stays at home with the kids, but that's all he does. He takes his pillow from the bedroom ... puts it on the couch, and watches the kids while he is laying down until lunch. Then he'll make lunch ... and go sit back down on the couch. maybe the occasional vacuum, but seriously, I still do all the cleaning. your points are perfect!
- August 10, 2010 at 4:09 PM
- gretchen said...
Oh God, I saw this too! My mouth was agape. Who are these women she's talking to? I know several stay at home dads, and none of them do the "lions share of the housework". Somebody at the Today Show has too much time on their hands.
- August 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM
- Small Town Mommy said...
I didn't see the segment but I heard the teaser and I had to laugh. I know a number of women who have stay-at-home husbands and they still work way harder than anyone else I know. Where are all these husbands who are following the 50s wife model we all desire. I haven't met a single one.
- August 10, 2010 at 5:07 PM
- Jenni said...
A-to-the-fucking-men. My friend D took 3 months of maternity leave, and her husband took 3 months paternity leave when she returned to work. Everyone was all, WOW you are so lucky to have a husband that will take time off from work...
Uh, what about her? She took time off, too, assholes.
- August 10, 2010 at 6:16 PM
- Frogs in my formula said...
If in a marriage SOMEONE is staying home to take care of the kids why does it matter if it's the him or the her?
Exactly, Pricilla.
- August 10, 2010 at 8:31 PM
- Sabrina said...
So true.
- August 10, 2010 at 9:13 PM
- The Captain's Wife said...
Greetings! First time reader. I read through a few f your recent posts, we have some similarities...SAHD for Hubbies, snarky attitudes, living in the boondocks of CT. Congrats on your pregnancy. Looking forward to following ~
- August 10, 2010 at 9:30 PM
- Unknown said...
I laughed so hard at this. The fact they stereotype everything so easily and call it a big, grand awakening makes me want to barf. When my ex-husband stayed at home, we called it unemployment. We also called it that when I wasn't working, and even when I started working from home, my ex-mother-in-law liked to call it unemployment too. Thanks for making me laugh.
- August 10, 2010 at 9:51 PM
I love this picture, and your post. In general, I tend to stay away from those morning shows. They suck.
- August 10, 2010 at 9:55 PM
- kyooty said...
But then how many men that were home watching this will say "oh no she didn't just say I was evolved" or "what does she mean breadwinner" or similar? showing during his at home hours isn't going to help anyone.
- August 10, 2010 at 9:57 PM
- Beta Dad said...
My wife said that I'm real evolved and feminine and all that stuff, plus unbelievably good looking. And I will vacuum the fuck out of this house that I built for her.
Seriously, though, I'm ambivalent about getting credit for barely pulling off things as a SAHD that moms are supposed to do just as a baseline. On one hand, it's not fair to moms, but on the other hand, it really makes my job more pleasant to get the recognition (that I don't necessarily deserve.)
There has been a lot of online chatter lately about who does the housework--there was a controversial article on Slate right around Father's Day that some people saw as gratuitous man-bashing. And--here comes the plug-- I wrote a piece on Daddy Dialectic that got a pretty good conversation going. You should check it out. http://daddy-dialectic.blogspot.com/2010/07/who-changes-diapers-in-your-house.html
My wife thought it was a no-brainer that couples should share the housework, and thought my piece on Daddy Dialectic was pretty obvious, but judging by the tone of the comments here, it's still a contentious issue.
- August 10, 2010 at 11:43 PM
- Irrational Dad said...
I've had a few days where I've attempted to take on the brunt of household duties for a day.... I usually manage little more than making sure there are no deaths. The house is a disaster, food is not ready, the dishwasher is half full, and don't even think about the floors being vacuumed.
I don't think I'm qualified for the position.
- August 11, 2010 at 6:39 AM
- jo said...
A couple doing 50/50 of housework is pretty rare & the men who do more than 50% must be 'highly evolved'... I haven't met any
- August 11, 2010 at 7:11 AM
- Jodi said...
"I need help from YOU, buttfuck, yes YOU" 10 nights in a row will
That is so true and funny. It doesnt' even occur to them to help out thus the sledge hammer approach must be used. I gave up on that dream long ago. I don't think i would feel that way though if he wasn't bringing home a paycheck.
- August 11, 2010 at 10:48 AM
- Frogs in my formula said...
It's interesting to get some male perspectives, especially when they admit they aren't scrubbing the floors 24-7. LOL.
- August 11, 2010 at 11:56 AM
- Lindy said...
You are right. They don't stop farting and scratching and picking their noses - they TEACH that to the kids. Along with peeing outside.
....elevated life form, indeed....
- August 11, 2010 at 4:15 PM
- Jen said...
I can't even relate to this. I've sat here trying to come up with something witty to say and I got nothing. My ex didn't do much when it came to housework. He cut the grass, shoveled and did some cooking. It wasn't much, and he did work full time, but then so did I, but it was way better than having to do it all myself like I do now.
- August 11, 2010 at 6:20 PM
- The Mother said...
Men have had "trophy wives" for centuries.
I just can't help thinking that if the smart, career-driven woman decided she wanted a 'trophy' husband, he'd probably be just as bad at the housework and child rearing as most trophy wives are.
But great looking and good in bed. That's something, anyway.
- August 11, 2010 at 9:57 PM
- August 12, 2010 at 2:25 AM
- Unknown said...
Favorite line:
Since I had to drag my alpha ass to work, I was unable to watch the segment.
And I'm there with Pricilla. When a woman does that there's not story. But when a man jumps into the fray (even to watch his own children while his wife runs to the grocery store) it's an effing miracle.
You're so lucky to have such an attentive husband. Really? Those are HIS kids, too. Is he lucky to have an attentive wife? No? I didn't think so.
- August 12, 2010 at 5:02 AM
- Lisa @ Boondock Ramblings said...
Yes...it does seem that men get all the attention for suddenly doing what women have been doing for years...whatever!
- August 12, 2010 at 7:03 AM
- Julia said...
The things I miss by not watching network tv... Elevated live form. Yeah... What's that make us? Goddesses of course. Sounds like some working woman was just kissing ass in a big way to appease her husband. Or just sell the story. Cause that kind of journalism gets people to read.
Maybe she's just genius.
- August 12, 2010 at 9:59 AM
- Dto3 said...
Basically, people will right anything to make themselves feel better. [You know I'm talking about the elevated life-form comment, don't you?]
- August 23, 2010 at 11:43 PM
I just love you. While neither of us are SAH_'s, we have different days off and therefore each stay home with the baby on our "weekends". And even *that* apparently qualifies my husband for a medal. Where's mine? I don't ship the baby off to a sitter on my days off either! *stompingfit*
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Introduced on Wednesday as the Detroit Lions' new head coach, former Ravens offensive coordinator Jim Caldwell has no intentions of supervising a rebuilding project.
Taking over a talented roster that includes quarterback Matthew Stafford, wide receiver Calvin Johnson and defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh, Caldwell anticipates coaching an immediate winning contender.
"I believe the time is now," Caldwell said during a televised press conference at Ford Field. "Not two years or three years from now down the road, but right here, right now. There's a great nucleus here in all three phases, and I believe we're on the threshold of some great things."
Caldwell replaces Jim Schwartz after he was fired when the Lions lost six of seven games to close out the regular season and failed to make the playoffs in a season where the NFC North was winnable as the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers' star quarterbacks were sidelined with injuries for several games.
Caldwell won a Super Bowl as the Ravens' offensive coordinator following the 2012 regular season when he replaced offensive coordinator Cam Cameron. He made the Super Bowl as the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts following a 14-2 regular season and won a Super Bowl with the Colts as an assistant and was the quarterbacks coach of Peyton Manning.
Stafford is a strong-armed young quarterback whose statistics dipped this past season.
"A quarterback on the cusp of becoming an absolutely outstanding player in this league," Caldwell said of Stafford.
With Caldwell calling the plays, quarterback Joe Flacco threw 11 touchdowns and zero interceptions during the postseason and was named Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl XLVII.
The Ravens fell to 29th in total offense this season, though, as Flacco threw a franchise-record 22 interceptions and running back Ray Rice slumped to 660 yards.
"I enjoyed my time with Jim greatly," Flacco said in a stateent. "He is a man that I will always respect as a football coach, leader and a friend. Through his calming influence and extensive knowledge of the game, he was an integral part of our success over the past few years. He will be missed by me and the Ravens. I wish him the best of luck in Detroit."
Caldwell, who signed a four-year contract, emerged as the Lions' leading candidate after they were unable to land San Diego Chargers offensive coordinator Ken Whisenhunt, who took the Tennessee Titans job.
The Lions interviewed Caldwell first where he made an extensive presentation and plan of improvement for Stafford having reviewed all of his throws from this past season.
"I'm excited about working with the players who are here on this team at this time," Caldwell said. "I can feel and sense a genuine excitement. I think without question they're willing to do whatever it takes to win."
The Lions also interviewed Whisenhunt, former Tennessee Titans coach Mike Munchak and former Houston Texans coach Gary Kubiak.
"There is no doubt that anyone who thinks we settled for Jim Caldwell doesn't know Jim Caldwell," team president Tom Lewand said. "I couldn't be more happy to have the opportunity to introduce him to the city of Detroit and to all of you as the next head football coach of the Detroit Lions."
Added general manager Martin Mayhew: "We had a profile, and he fit that. We did have some characteristics we were looking for in our next head coach. A leader of men, Jim Caldwell is certainly that. Coming to the organization and bringing confidence and credibility, Jim has that. He has experience with quarterbacks. That was important to us."
Caldwell is taking over a team that has been prone to penalties and aggressive actions, especially Suh, who's been fined heavily.
"We're going to be smart," Caldwell said. "We're going to be a team that is disciplined, that is focused and understands situational football. It's going to be drilled and drilled and not just given lip service. What you should see on the field is obviously a product of our coaching, our instruction and our demands.
"We're going to have a fast football team. There's nothing like teams with speed. We have to be fast, and we're also going to be physical. We're going to be a physical, hard-nosed, rough football team. We're going to flat get after you from the word, 'Go.'"
Caldwell thanked several people for vouching for him to Lions management, including Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome, coach John Harbaugh and owner Steve Bisciotti, Manning, former Colts coach Tony Dungy and former Colts general manager Bill Polian.
Caldwell said he wants his team to be like "a piece of steel wrapped in velvet."
Known for his low-key demeanor, Caldwell said he won't be running up and down the sidelines and will remain his usual undemonstrative personality.
Caldwell is expected to hire Ravens secondary coach Teryl Austin as defensive coordinator.
Offensive line coach Andy Moeller is another possibility to join the Lions' staff.
"I believe it would be difficult to find anyone with the Ravens who is more respected than Jim Caldwell," Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome said in a statement. "That includes players, coaches and other staff members. He earned that because of the person he is and his extensive knowledge about football, including the keys to winning and his ability to teach all of that. Personally, it is a privilege to know him, and it was an honor to work with him.
"We put Jim in a difficult position a year ago when we named him offensive coordinator late in the season. All he did was help us turn our offense around, and we won the Super Bowl. He has many strengths, but one that is sometimes overlooked is his ability to bring a coaching staff together. He has already succeeded as a head coach, and he will again in Detroit."
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Administrators for CaroMont Regional Medical Center decided this weekend to pull the plug on the controversial tagline �Cheat Death.�
The slogan for a new wellness plan was announced Thursday along with the former Gaston Memorial Hospital�s new name.
�Cheat Death� was meant to spark a community movement to get well, according to a press release issued by CaroMont Sunday. Community backlash followed, including criticism from residents and CaroMont employees. And Gaston County Commissioners denounced the tagline during a press conference the next day.
The real issue should be community health, according to the release.
�Right now Gaston County is facing the highest levels of type 1 and 2 diabetes, heart disease, drug and alcohol abuse and obesity we've ever seen,� the release states.
�These are not just health problems. They constitute an unprecedented health crisis. In a health ranking of the 100 counties in North Carolina, Gaston County is ranked 81st. If this continues our children will be the first in American history with a life expectancy shorter than their parents. This is unacceptable,�
�Cheat death� was meant to be a rallying cry, according to the release, one that worked.
�We needed a way to get the issue of health care and the seriousness of the situation on the lips of every man, woman and child in the county. Whether you liked the tagline or not, for more than 5 days we have received more commentary and discussion than any other campaign in the hospital's history. We needed all of our participants and members to wake up and pay attention to the challenge that we face - as a hospital and a community. We have successfully accomplished that goal,� the release states.
�Our objective is to start a health revolution through an audacious goal and a bold rallying cry. Once the rallying cry began to take over the message for our medical staff and employees, the Caromont Health System Board Chair Spurgeon Mackie and President/CEO Randy Kelley decided to pull the tagline so that the critically important message was not sacrificed.�
Kelley emailed county commissioners Saturday to say much of what Cowden wrote The Gazette. He said CaroMont was �taking a step back� from the tagline to consider one that would unite � not divide � the community.
�We hear you. We respect you. We appreciate you,� Kelley wrote. �We know that you are all on board with our goal to move Gaston County to the number one healthiest county in North Carolina. And that is what is most important and what cannot be sacrificed for a two-word tag line.�
The following is the complete email from Kelley:
Our medical staff is comprised of some of the finest physicians in the country as is our clinical staff. We also have some of the most dedicated and talented employees I�ve ever had the pleasure to work with. Their voice is always a top priority with the Board of Directors and the Senior Leadership Team. Listening to that voice is critically important to us.
With that, we are taking a step back. We will pause on the initiative long enough to consider a rallying cry that will unite us and put the attention where it needs to be--providing every man, woman and child in Gaston County the opportunity to live longer and healthier lives.
Our children growing up today are at risk of being the first generation in American history that won�t live longer than their parents. We knew we needed a strong statement to bring attention to this serious issue and to begin working together to change the path we are on--especially in Gaston County.
Our objective is to start a health revolution through an audacious goal and a bold rallying cry. Our intent was never to offend or incite. It has never been about a two word tag line. It is about creating a community-wide movement. It is about motivating people to join us in changing the health of our community for the better. We are committed to that aim and believe in it wholeheartedly. We will do everything possible to make Gaston County the healthiest in the state.
We hear you. We respect you. We appreciate you. We know that you are all on board with our goal to move Gaston County to the number one healthiest county in North Carolina. And that is what is most important and what cannot be sacrificed for a two-word tag line.
Randall L. Kelley, FACHE
President and CEO
CaroMont Health, Inc.


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One concern I have is that, at some point fairly early on, it seems like the "pipeline" would get full, at which point the two processes would have to operate in lock-step.
The pipe consists of 3 x 4k buffers; one at each end and one 'in the pipe' which is basically kernel mode ram. This is easily demonstrated:
That shows the first process attempting to write 128 byte lines out to a pipe with the second process failing to read from that pipe. It succeeds in writing 96 * 128 bytes (12k) before it blocks pending the second process servicing the pipe. That means that when then first process needs to do another read from disk, the second process has about 100 lines (depending on the length of your lines) to process before it will block waiting for input.
In practice on my system, the second process runs with a very constant 25% CPU (ie. 100% of 1 of 4 cores) and an extremely constant IO rate, which mean that the buffering in the first process and in the pipe between the two processes is absorbing all of the IO waiting due to disk seeks. I don't think that can be improved much.
Another thought I've had is that, since the process appears to me to be CPU-bound, it might be worth forking several children and distributing the work across them. Each child would have to write to a separate output file, which admittedly would increase the possibility of disk head thrashing, but I think it's worth a try.
How are those forked processes going to get their input?
Either way, if disk head thrash isn't a limiting factor -- which if you had raided SSD drives it might not be -- then by far your simplest solution would be to just split your huge input file horizontally into 4 or 8 parts (depending how many CPUs you have) and just run:
Finally, if you are going to be doing this kind of thing -- building files from small, reordered subsets of the total fields -- then you'd probably be better off splitting your input file vertically into a names file, an address file, etc. Then you only need read 3/50 ths of the total data and write the same amount. With a little programming, you can then read a bunch names from the first file into memory; append the same number of fields from the second and third files in memory; and then write that batch out before looping back to do the next batch.
That way, you are effectively reading sequentially from one file at a time; and writing sequentially to one file at a time; which ought to give you the best possible throughput.
The downside is that you have to maintain 50 files in parallel synchronisation. Doable, but risky.
With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
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@Neal_Gabler These damn new fangled techmologies threaten my career in print!! @facebook @twitter #getoffmylawn
Politicans and the like already know how to use statistics -- or rather how to twist numbers to conform with their talking points. Really the average citizen should be given statistics lessons, so that they can all see through the bullshit and lies.
We're short a full-time employee thanks to these douchebags.
There go patents promoting progress and creating jobs.
I can picture it now, a 21st century re-boot on everybody's favorite fable, "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."
The Full Body Naked Scanner that Cried Terrorist.
Extortion 101:
Truly believe that people have taken from you. Treat them as "thieves". Collect your money by any means necessary.
Righthaven is not in the business of seeking justice for their clients, rather they're in the business of extortion.
George Bush Sr. went sky diving on his 85th birthday. Just sayin... :P
Ha, now that this law is in effect there is absolutely no way for sexual predator teachers who have access to children for 8 hours a day, 180 days a year to prey on their students. No way at all.
I found it interesting to skim through the PDF by searching for "LAW ENFORCEMENT IMPACT". You start to get a sense at how the FBI intends to leverage consumer technology to their benefit.
For example read about how the FBI is salivating over Microsoft Menlo, which is a new mobile device that can track a "target" when GPS signals are not available. (pgs 66-67)
"this kind of data is terrific for convicting people and terrific at exonerating people. with an activity-based navigation device, Since trail data can be obtained in areas where GPS would not normally be available, the Menlo prototype and the Greenfield app Should these devices become popular and used by targets, they will provide "
This initiative is similar in nature, but even less effective than a puerto rican shower.
Why doesn't Amazon just rename their store and be done with it?
IMO, they don't give up because they're in the right. On top of that, every time this story comes up it sheds light to Apple's unsavory side, while putting Amazon in a good light.
I would love, for once, to see companies battle it out in the marketplace rather than the courts.
Absolutely me too, but if Amazon gave in, it would solidify Apple's position to continue to sue over bogus trademark claims.
Mike, stop being a USG fanboi.


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Best Coast- Fade Away
Grade: C
Release Date: October 22, 2013
It's starting to look more and more like Bethany Cosentino doesn't have anything to say anymore. Maybe it's her love for California which has placed her into a heightened state where she has no need to develop interesting viewpoints, because nowadays Best Coast just sounds like the complaining of a closed off individual, which doesn't translate into good music. That might have always been the truth too which is easier to notice in hindsight, but the lack of development from this band is really frustrating when you consider that it's probably going to continue to be true for their future releases as well. Best Coast isn't singing about anything new or profound but they've still formed themselves a solid fan base, a steady slot in festivals, and a strong social media presence. In other words, although it's incredibly annoying to continuously hear her sing about how great California is and how she's sad because of failure in relationships, Best Coast doesn't really have to much of a reason to change their sound at this point because they have an audience for it.
Cage the Elephant- Melophobia
Grade: A-
Release Date: October 08, 2013
I'd managed to not listen to Cage the Elephant before this, and now I feel obligated to search their other albums because I really like Melophobia. Sometimes it's got the sound and energy of a live show like in the album opener "Spiderhead", but it's been cleaned up enough to be heard as a proper album in a similar manner to what Slam Dunk did on Welcome to Miami last year. It's a very raw sound which gets messed with a bit to often by adding unnecessary production effects and bad guest vocals (the presence of Alison Mosshart on "It's Just Forever" is painful) but on the whole the sound stays consistently great to make it a fun listen. There's screaming choruses, funny lines (personal favorite: "I think your mother wants me dead"), and boatloads of catchy guitar parts. There's even surprisingly genuine moments like the album closer "Cigarette Daydreams", Cage the Elephant brings a lot of great qualities to the table in this album and the final product is a really good listen.
Caroline Smith- Half About Being A Woman
Grade: C+
Release Date: October 08, 2013
Incredibly disappointed here. Back in 2011 Caroline Smith and the Goodnight Sleeps released one of the best albums of the year in Little Wind, and that was an eye opening experience for me about the hidden gems that could be found from artists that I wasn't familiar with. Little Wind was a mixture of pop and folk sounds with Smith singing about insecurities in relationships, and the confidence she suddenly exudes on Half About Being a Woman isn't really a welcomed change in sound. Smith switched from singing about how "ain't that always how it seems to go, when something good comes oh it goes" to singing about wanting to find a man who can buy her things. It has the sound of a project where Caroline Smith really wanted to define the person that she was and switched to a neo-soul sound in order to do it, but I think she's really just moving further away from her strengths. She's got a fantastic voice still, but it's not being used properly on this album.


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We'll repeat the process for the last intersection with Alley 3 and Alley 4. Notice that because of the transitioning geometry at the northwest curb return, the pavement edge is setback beyond the 10' lane width value we have been using. This is not a problem because instead of configuring a lane width of 10' for the primary road left offset parameters, we'll tie it to Road A's left offset alignment created to generate the curb/gutter baselines. We will perform this for the Alley 3 intersection. Alley 4 will be configured like the others.
So as we run through the intersection routine for Alley 3, we'll make this change to our process for offset parameters:
This completes the workflow for townhouse corridors.


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The Skylanders Cloud Patrol game is coming soon to the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD with exciting new functionality that will forever change the nonchalant manner we hand our tablet devices off to our bored children. Exclusive to the Kindle Fire version: in-app physical toy purchases.
In the IOS version of Cloud Patrol, players can enter the codes bundled with their Skylanders toys to unlock the corresponding character in the game. The Kindle Fire version takes this functionality a step further, giving players the ability to purchase the actual toys from within the game with, as the official announcement puts it, "the push of a button." With the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD always connected to Amazon.com, such purchases are easily facilitated, and characters are unlocked in the game as soon as the transaction goes through — players need only wait for the physical toys to arrive.
This is brilliant, in an evil sort of way. It's the sort of functionality the creators of children's cartoons have been trying to figure out for decades — how can we make it easier for the children we've enthralled to spend money on merchandise? If Saturday morning cartoons had a buy button on-screen when I was a kid, my parents would have set the television set on fire. Luckily Amazon's new Kindles are already on Fire (sorry).
As you read this, toy company executives around the globe are staring at the screen, muttering "Wait, we can do this?"
I'm sure there will be controls in place to ensure children don't devour their parents' credit cards ordering colorful pieces of plastic. Thankfully children are innocent and pure and would never dream of hitting the buy button all day long once they figured out their parents' password was their birth date backwards.
In closing, be sure you turn off 1-click purchasing before that $.99 app purchase turns into regular shipments of mystery toys at the hands of tiny terrors.


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Anyone else had the stomach/gastrointestinal flu that lingered for more than a few days? I'm going on a week tomorrow. It comes and goes and feels like it will never end.
Just curious if this is a typical strain this season or if I need to make a doctor appointment.


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So was Ma-dame, whose thighs I've always admired.
So was Wyland's whale.
We started Festering on Friday afternoon on our deck, after Mary Beth and Mark arrived.
The throngs.
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Miss Daphne.
It was Sailfest, after all.
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QE2, the Fed's $600 billion Treasury purchase in 2010, was expected to stimulate the economy by getting banks lending again, reduce the risk of deflation, and decrease unemployment. But its real effect on the struggling economy has been minimal at best.
As acknowledged by the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee, there is a "continuing weakness in overall labor market conditions, and the unemployment rate remains elevated." So much for QE2.
Now the Fed has a new plan—dubbed "Operation Twist"—and this one will cost $400 billion.
In response to continued slow economic growth, the Federal Reserve announced last week that it plans to purchase "$400 billion of Treasury securities with remaining maturities of 6 years to 30 years and to sell an equal amount of Treasury securities with remaining maturities of 3 years or less" by the end of June 2012. In other words, the Fed will be selling $400 billion worth of shorter-term Treasury securities and using the proceeds from those sales to purchase longer-term Treasury securities.
The FOMC expects this program to "put downward pressure on longer-term interest rates and help make broader financial conditions more accommodative." The Fed purchase is intended to raise the demand for Treasuries, which should decrease the Treasury yield curve—allowing the government to pay back only the bonds' face value plus the interest rate.
Although the primary desired effect of Operation Twist is to increase short-term interest rates and decrease long-term rates, the Fed also hopes to increase investment in corporate bonds and other fixed-income securities. While this could potentially translate into continued low interest rates and even encourage job creation, it's unlikely to have any real effect on the sour economy.
"We expect the Fed's actions to have very little visible effect on the economy, because the level of interest rates and the shape of the curve are not the key constraints on growth," according to an economist writing in the Wall Street Journal.
To make matters worse, the U.S. Treasury is working at cross purposes with the Fed. At the same time as the Fed launched Operation Twist, the Treasury is hoping to decrease the country's reliance on short-term debt by selling more long-term Treasuries. That will increase the supply of long-term Treasuries, directly opposing the Fed's efforts.
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I saw this on KTT but I thought we could do this a bit differently.
Instead of just naming an album and posting a gif, one member will have to post a gif related to the previous album mentioned and then name an album that the NEXT member will have to describe with a gif, and so on. Basically this works just like the "rate the song above" thread works.
I'm gonna start this off with...
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Jennifer Lopez Goes Lesbian For New ABC Family Series
Oh come on, we had to. With her status on 'American Idol' seemingly always in jeopardy, diva mogul sensation Jennifer Lopez might be moving into a new area of TV, this time ditching reality for family with a new ABC series that goes where no drama has gone before. What project could have lured Lopez to ABC Family, and what's going to have people talking?
According to a new report from Deadline, actress/singer/perfumist/dancer/MILF 'American Idol' judge Jennifer Lopez is looking to develop a new hour-long series with ABC Family. The as-yet-untitled series will follow a lesbian couple who have their already child-heavy household turned upside down when a wayward teenage girl moves in with them.
One of the adoptive mothers of the series is a police officer, while the other teaches private school. Together, they have one biological son and adopted teen twins, one a boy, the other a girl. It's likely that Lopez herself will find spots to contribute to the series in a guest role.
Lopez herself will executive produce the series, which the network is reportedly speeding through the development process, along with Simon Fields, Lopez's partner at Nuyorican Productions. Peter Paige and Brad Bredeweg, the creators and writers of the show, will also executive produce along with ABC Family collaborator Greg Gugliotta.
What say you? Do you think Jennifer Lopez's new drama will break new ground, or get voted down? Tell us if you'll watch in the comments!