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Right now I am "misting" alot. Love this new technique for cover chip board instead of painting and covering with paper.ReplyDelete
Right now, i'm into "Color Coordination"! I'm mixing lots of DIFFERENT colors which i thought it wouldn't match, but getting ideas from somebody's t-shirts, etc. whom i saw in the cafe, restaurant, etc. yes, i'm doing lots of "observing colors" on People's clothes in public lately! LOL :-)ReplyDelete
I've been using a technique often taught in elementary school--the collage. This technique allows me to use a lot of pictures that would normally get left in the storage box. I primarily use pictures, but stickers and other embellishments can also be used.ReplyDelete
I just got a Cricut and I am trying to learn to use it, so that would be my "technique" for right now. Other than that I am tyring to expand my horizons by trying a new techinique every week!ReplyDelete
My favorite thing is to layer different patterned papers when making my LOs and cards! I love the look of this! Besides this, I'm finding myself doing a lot more stamping, especially on my cards.ReplyDelete
I have just started using stamps and I love them! You can do so many different things with them! I have also been experimenting with more complicated layouts.ReplyDelete
LOVE my Cricut -- but think my "go-to" right now is my Texture Boutique for embossing. I seem to be using it in one way or another on everything!ReplyDelete
Handmade flowers from either paper, ribbon or fabric.ReplyDelete
Amo flores e como gosto de encadernação tipo.Também qualquer.ReplyDelete
It seems I do edgeing of the paper in one of the punches it adds is much to the design. Happy National Scrapbooking Day!!ReplyDelete
Got o tool is edge punches and embellishment is thickers.ReplyDelete
I just love the corner punches and border punches from Martha Stewart and EK Sucess. I keep going back to them over and over everyday. Makes your pages look great!ReplyDelete
My favorite embellishment is flowers and bling! I also rediscovered my love for punches. :) Happy NSD!ReplyDelete
I'm right now working on card kits which I love. The kits have all the materials. They use layering of papers, chipboard, rub-ons and you have to do some drawing of lines and dashes. I learn to do different layouts.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the opportunity to win a $25.00 gift certificate! I posted this in the wrong place the first time, sorry for the repeat for those that read it already on the other blog.ReplyDelete
My most recent projects involve my new cricut expressions. I love it! I use the cricut to make 3D stickers and embellishments with the Sure Cuts Alot program. Cricut Studio can do this too, I just like having access to all my computer fonts and svg files. I can now create anything I need for my scrapbook pages and the best part is they can be any size to fit my scrapbook page. It has also given me great ideas for making Christmas cards for next year and for my boys school projects.
It is so easy once you get the knack of sizing them and then putting them together! Maybe other users have already been doing this for some time, but I thought I'd mention it as it is a thrill to me!
Happy Scrapbooking day!
I love creating with a variety of things like punches, ribbon, die cuts...there is so much available to play with and inspire my creativity.ReplyDelete
I am currently obsessed with using glimmer mists on "everything"!ReplyDelete
My "go-to" technique is using my Cuttlebug embossing machine as a quick and easy card maker for those last minute birthday, thank you, sympathy cards, etc.ReplyDelete
Happy National Scrapbooking Day to ALL!
I've been using my Cricut a lot lately, mainly for card making but also for some general crafts. I've been having fun using it to outline with markers.ReplyDelete
alway cardstock brazzil mostly and my quickutz for dies and especially alphabets.ReplyDelete
I am just starting out, so don't have any 'go to' favorites. I am 'collecting' a lot of items so I can try everything! :) Thanks for the drawing and a chance to enlarge my collection.ReplyDelete
i love to stamp on die cuts and punched pieces to make my own embellishments.ReplyDelete
I love my chalks and inks. I have even broke out my "old school" scissors to just get a new refreshing look around things. If I am in a huge hurry, I will double or triple matte my pics and add a single piece of ribbon with a staple. Simple but chic!ReplyDelete
hi, I always seem to be using lacey border punches like Martha's and Stampin Up--easy and quick!ReplyDelete
My favorite is using stamps and making my own embellishments, especially flowers. They make my card just look more personalize. thank you for this opportunity to win, just need a little help in buying more stamps for my collection.ReplyDelete
My go-to tool is my Silhouette SD.ReplyDelete
My go-to right now are distress inks and mists either premade or made with distress reinkers. I love to watercolor using the mists and reinkers - all the time - its an addication that a $25 gift certificate would help feed - thanks for the chance!!ReplyDelete
I love using the Tattered Angles product when every I can. I love the Simmer look is gives your project. How many colors you can mix on one project is increadable.ReplyDelete
I also love to mix papers. I love a favorite of different companies paper. Beautiful, vintage, or plain paper. you can do so much with paper. I am a paper nut!!
I have been printing vintage images on cotton and using them to make old looking cards. Someone told me I should make them my signature style but I tend to hop from one style to another. I just love to create cards that make me happy.ReplyDelete
I never have a signature style..but I love to experiment..but yes, I keep coming back to clean and simple cards..works anyday..anytime..for any occassion..ReplyDelete
I am into my punches right now and alot of die cuts. I make alot of cards so I really like layers differeent patterns and finding different patterns that work together.ReplyDelete
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Right now DD#1 doesn't feel hopeful about ever getting promoted to waitstaff. She's wondering if giving the honest answer was the right thing to do.Since it's already been two weeks, she's also wondering when she could/should bring the subject up again with her manager? Or should she go straight to the waitstaff manager and ask her about a position?How does one actively push for a promotion without being rude?Any advice I could pass on to DD#1?
I think that this is somewhat of a stupid question from the manager. Unless DD is going to waitress school, of course she will be looking for work in her own field after graduation!!! I can understand asking the question to ensure that she's not leaving in three weeks, but if anything, her schooling helps ensure that she plans to be there for a few months. If that is no long enough for the restaurant, then fine, but why would they think that she would guarantee anything beyond that??? If they are looking for someone to be extremely long term, then college students are not a good source to pull from.I agree, be honest. Any lies will come back to bite you.
I don't think it's a stupid question. I wouldn't expect the boss to know the graduation schedule of all the part-time staff. It's perfectly reasonable for him to ask how committed she is to his business. Why should he spend time and money training someone who may plan to leave in the near future. And in this case she is planning to leave in the near future. I think she was a bit cheeky to ask for training in a job she knows she won't be committed to for much more than six months, including the training period.
I think she was a bit cheeky to ask for training in a job she knows she won't be committed to for much more than six months, including the training period.
I guess some questions are when does she expect to find a job in her field. It is likely to be right after graduation or take a lot longer. If she hasn't found a job by August, would she stay there waiting tables, or move home? Would she be interested in moving up in the restaurant industry, manager, maybe a job in corporate etc.
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By Ian Ransom
MELBOURNE, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Australia's traditional love of the underdog and admiration for sporting battlers garnered plenty of support for Briton Andy Murray during his long wait for grand slam success.
By Ian Ransom
MELBOURNE, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Australia's traditional love of the underdog and admiration for sporting battlers garnered plenty of support for Briton Andy Murray during his long wait for grand slam success.
However, the Scot's U.S. Open triumph last September has snuffed out some of the good will at Melbourne Park this year, with Australians having grown weary of sporting success from their former colonial masters.
Long Britain's measure in most competitive pursuits, Australia has felt the boot firmly on the other foot in recent years.
Australia's loss of the Ashes to the England cricket team on home soil two years ago was considered a national humiliation, coming off the back of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where Britain finished higher up the medals table.
Solemn pledges to right wrongs against Team GB at the London Olympics last year fell spectacularly flat, as Australia came off second best in almost all of their traditional clashes, barring the odd discipline like sailing.
Murray's breakthrough at the U.S. Open, after four consecutive failures in grand slam finals, was admired by Australians as warmly as any non-partisan nation.
The prospect of another grand slam win for Murray on Australian soil, where home fans have not hailed a local winner in 34 years, is another thing altogether.
"I like his game, but I don't like his personality," Blake Kebblewhite, a 17-year-old junior tennis player draped in Australia's national flag, told Reuters at Melbourne Park.
Kebblewhite watched Murray's first-round demolition of Dutchman Robin Haase on a big screen near Rod Laver Arena.
Although impressed by Murray's form, trouncing his Dutch opponent 6-3 6-1 6-3 in a little more than an hour and a half, Kebblewhite and his friends were not leading the cheers for the Briton.
"He's a sook (crybaby). I was watching him (on a big screen) and he was arguing with the umpire and I thought he was losing," Kebblewhite said.
His companion Zane Sillery-Shaw was still stinging the day after Australia's bleak Monday, when eight of nine local entrants crashed out in the first round, including former world number one and double grand slam champion Lleyton Hewitt.
"I saw (Murray) on the practice courts and he's up himself. He's a bit arrogant," Gold Coast native Sillery-Shaw said.
"I cried when Lleyton went out last night. I'm a huge Hewitt fan. Number one."
Murray's defeat of the 53rd-ranked Haase was applauded politely by the Rod Laver Arena crowd, who struggled to raise their enthusiasm for the one-sided slaughter.
Haase's rare winners, including the odd clever drop-shot to confound Murray, elicited warm cheers from the stands, however, but their hopes of a genuine competition were repeatedly thwarted by the jet-heeled Scotsman.
Murray did have some warm support from a pocket of young Australian fans at Rod Laver Arena that have been a fixture at Melbourne Park, rousing the Scot with a limited repertoire of songs over the past few years.
"I think it's the same group of guys that come every single year," Murray told reporters.
"(We) try to sort them out some tickets when we can... They're good support and pretty amusing songs. Although I think they haven't come up with too many new ones, so challenge them to that."
Murray's bid for a second grand slam title Down Under has sparked a light-hearted dig at Australia's iconic celluloid hero "Crocodile Dundee", the weathered bushman played by Paul Hogan in the 1986 film.
An image of Murray superimposed on a mock poster in Hogan's place next to his girlfriend Kim Sears has him carrying a tennis racquet under the revised movie title "Crocodile Dunblane", a nod to the Scot's hometown.
"He's here for your trophy... and your Sheilas," the caption reads, referring to the colloquial Australian term for women.
The poster has gone viral on the internet and local media have done their best to shrug off the joke.
Ron Reed, a veteran sportswriter for Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper, gave short shrift to the idea of rallying around Murray, with no real local threats in the men's draw.
"I admit to a sneaking admiration for how professional British sport has become," Reed said in comments published on Tuesday.
"But the Brits have become too big for their bovver (heavy) boots and it's time to put a stop to it because Murray's arrival in Melbourne is just the thin edge of the wedge for the new sporting year." (Additional reporting by Greg Stutchbury; Editing by John O'Brien)


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Just before 10:30 pm Montgomery County Hospital District dispatched a major accident at Jefferson Chemical and FM 3083. Moments later Conroe Fire Department dispatched a major accident at Pinto and FM 3083 which is three-fourths of a mile further north than the first report.
Conroe Fire arrived on the scene just south of the Conroe city limits in front of the just re-opened Ike Convenience Store. Crews found a Chevrolet Tahoe which was northbound on FM 3083 slammed into an 18-wheeler carrying a load of coiled wire.
The drivers side of the Tahoe was completely under the 18-wheeler. A immediate call went out for wreckers to assist. With a group effort drivers from Tommy's Paint and Body, Dell Harris Wrecker and Texan Towing pitched in hooking onto the rear f the Tahoe. They were then able to drag it out from under the 18-wheeler allowing firefighters to have access to the passenger compartment.
The passenger Cody Seidel, 16 was seriously injured and taken to a Conroe Hospital.
His brother Richard Seidel, 18, was driving and did not fair as well. Cody was trapped in the drivers seat for almost an hour as Conroe Fire and MCHD medics worked to free him and stabilize him. Once the roof was cut away once again the wreckers were called in to peel the roof back enabling crews to enter the passenger compartment. Richards's legs were pinned under the dashboard, the steering wheel broken, struck him in the face.
PHI Air Medical was dispatched to the scene and watched as crews continued to cut the driver out.
The driver was then flown to Hermann Hospital in Houston with severe facial trauma and severely broken left leg. Hospital personnel were still attempting to determine the extent of his other injuries.
The driver of the 18-wheeler, Ronald Lee Manning of Monroe, Louisiana who was driving the 2013 18-wheeler owned by Western Transportation fist said he had attempting to back into the parking lot of the convenience store in an attempt to turn around as he had missed the driveway of his delivery location. He later admitted to DPS that he had turned into the parking lot and had turned around and was in the process of going back south on FM 3083.
FM 3083 was closed until just after 2:30 a.m. as DPS troopers investigated the crash.


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Google.com took a step forward in offering the most relevant information available by beefing up their mission statement. For a long time Google has updated their database of information by indexing the World Wide Web once per month. In light of recent events I have come to the conclusion that Google is now updating their index much more frequently, as evidenced by server statistics from my clients, and from my own server.
With the November 2003 Florida Update, Google dropped many of the offending webmasters who employed black hat SEO techniques off of the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages). This upset a great many webmasters whose sites sat on the front pages of Google.com for years, and who felt smug without preparing for the future.
Google needed the Florida update in order to convince investors that "spammy Web sites" would no longer rank on the front pages of their searches, in preparation for the company's IPO. Since that time Google has gone public, and its shares of stock have risen in price significantly. This brought up Google's next move, one that also hurt webmasters. These webmasters weren't using black hat SEO tactics, but instead were buying, trading, and selling links with other websites–in fact, entire websites were built for brokering links. The latest Internet Back Link Update allowed Google to check the links from sites and rid its ranks of websites trying to manipulate their Google Page Rank Technology using questionable tactics.
Other updates included Google's technological steps, such as having bots sit, so to speak, on servers continually looking for new fresh content. Recently, while speaking with a client about getting their website listed on the front pages of Google, I did a search for one of their keywords. (Ironically enough, it was the word "website.") What I found startled me was very different from what I remembered, since for years this word returned mostly those who designed or built websites. The notable changes were the two new websites for George Bush and John Kerry. I can only imagine the faces of the webmasters whose websites were knocked off the SERPs by the candidates for president.
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This move toward continuous indexing will revolutionize search, and the businesses of those of us who strive to get clients listings on Google's front pages.
How will Google's decision to index websites more frequently change the way search engine optimization is performed? SEO will become less of a need in order to obtain front page listing results, and search engine marketing will grow to be the main focus for marketing and optimization firms, and for website owners.
The days of putting up a site and coming back once a month to update the website and keep the spider bots happy are gone for good. We live in the age of immediacy, and because of this the search engines are working to establish results that are the most current and therefore most relevant to users' search queries. The days of submitting your website and waiting more than thirty or sixty days just to get a listing are history. For the SEO, this means it's time to change the focus of his or her business; for the website owner, this can be a blessing–and a curse.
If you have been paying attention to your stats, it would almost appear that the googlebot is sitting on your server. In a way it is! In order for Google to provide relevant results, those results must be current. Returning results that are already a month old is not a smart, long term business model if Google plans to stay in business. Advertisers are looking for performance, and they don't care what worked in the past; they want immediate results for their advertising spend.
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I came upon this while speaking to a friend in British Columbia in early October 2004 about the possibility of getting his website listed on Google's front page natural results listings. His chosen keyword term was, again, "website." This made me laugh a bit, knowing all the competition and how entrenched this keyword term was for the many designers and developers who had resided on the front page of Google for so long. Any idea of moving most of them was funny. Or so I thought. When I typed in the term and saw the results I sat and felt my jaw hit the floor. The listings had changed!
What was now on the front page was a shock. Two new entries had found their way to the front-page results, the web pages of both George W. Bush and John Kerry, the two candidates running for the office of President of the United States at the time. Why were they listed so highly for the word "website" when these sites had nothing to do with the search term, other than the fact that each was a website?
This made sense to me when I thought about what people were searching for at the time. The terms I figured were being used were "bush website" and "kerry website," meaning that the two politicians, by virtue of searches, would show up for "website." Millions of people were typing that into their queries about each candidate. To Google, these two websites were the most current and heavily searched terms; therefore the websites belonged in the front page results for search queries using "website."
The blessings come in many ways, with the curses probably outweighing the blessings. Those who are in the search marketing business, and who do not know how to keep sites current and relevant will soon be among the unemployed. Those website owners who use software to optimize their sites and believe that is enough to keep them on any search engine's front page for long will soon learn different. No longer will SEOs be able to sit down, do some keyword research, optimize the coding and content, and sit back and watch each month as the client's site sits on the search engines' front page results.
{mospagebreak title=What To Do About the Change}
SEO consultants and marketing firms will need to move their clients to updating their websites more frequently and with relevant content, or they will need to implement this strategy into their services offerings. Additional strategies will need to be implemented in moving clients onto the front page of the major search engines.
Another area where freshness and relevancy are coming into play is in the reciprocal links that so many mistakenly think are the basis for good search engine results listings. Judging from what Google did during the Internet Back Link Update last month, any links that are developed will need to be fresh and relevant as well. The thinking behind this is based on Google's current strategy of presenting fresh, relevant content. Links that are several months old will no longer have as much relevancy or weight as links developed recently. Google treats links like votes. Each link is a vote for the page to which it links. Using rational thinking, votes from the past do not count in the present. The votes that George Bush received in 2000 do not count, and are irrelevant to, the Presidential election in 2004. Therefore links that are old and outdated will most likely have little value after a month or two.
The future of search engines and how your website will rank in the search engine results pages will be determined by popularity as well as the steps involved in search engine optimization. This goes hand in hand with our current lifestyle and its extreme breakneck speed. What is popular today will undoubtedly be out of fashion soon. If your website content or links are stale, you will not rank as well in the search engines as a site that stays current by presenting new or changed content frequently.
Due to the changes at hand in the search engines, (MSN states it will crawl daily and weekly) the work that search engine optimization specialists perform now will need to change dramatically. No longer will keyword density and weighting inside the content matter as much as how new the content is presented, and how relevant it is to your overall website theme.
I recently read in a forum a particularly harsh dissertation on how Google destroyed businesses by dropping websites during its notable indexing updates, such as the Florida update, where a great many websites that had previously employed black hat SEO tactics as well as overt spamming and other manipulations of the search results to gain the front pages results listings on Google, were dropped from Google's database or sent so far down the listings that they would not be back anytime soon. I had to think for a minute before responding. Would people build a business based on the assumption that their website would live eternally on Google's front page? It then occurred to me that my business is built on getting websites to the front page of Google. And in that thought I went on to answer the post, "If anyone builds a business solely dependent on front page results listings from Google, they don't deserve to be in business." It is never a good idea to place all your eggs in one basket.
No matter which business you are in, whether you're the webmaster who runs another's website, a website owner who handles day to day operations, a search engine optimization specialist, or an advertising agency, your business will need to redevelop itself to one that stays fresh in technique, presentation and the overall strategies employed.


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Stevens Construction has completed the 15,000-square-foot renovation for Grace Baptist Church, announced Mark Stevens, company president.
Located at 1300 Ceitus Terrace in Cape Coral, the project involved the conversion of an existing fitness center into a worship facility featuring a 300-seat sanctuary, seven classrooms, two multi-purpose rooms and a child care area. The project was completed within the aggressive three month schedule, enabling the church to open for services on Easter.
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Thursday , March 06, 2014 - 2:19 PM
Dear Mr. President,
Thank you, thank you -- sort of.
You have been able to do something my father was never able to do -- bring my sister Patti and me together politically.
You remember my rebellious sister Patti Davis? The liberal activist?
Maybe you saw her in Playboy in 1994. Or read one of many good books, or seen her latest, "The Blue Hour," which is a ghost story.
But really she's most famous for publicly falling out with her father over his conservative politics.
Patti's almost as liberal as you are, Mr. President.
We disagreed on my father's presidency. We disagree on abortion. We disagree on gay marriage. We disagree on guns.
Heck, we've disagreed on every big and little political issue in the last 20 years.
But now, thanks to you and that train wreck of yours called the Affordable Care Act, Patti and I have been brought together.
She and I are both asking the same question about Obamacare:
Why are we losing our private health insurance when you promised over and over that we could keep it?
Patti generated some publicity for herself (and her latest book) last week when she tweeted what millions of other Americans would like to know:
"Could the president'' — i.e, you, Mr. Obama — "please explain why I and others are losing our health ins. plans? Wasn't supposed to happen!"
Poor Patti.
Now she knows what it feels like when you and your soul mates in Washington dump one of your sweeping, coercive, bureaucratic, socialist government programs on the rest of us.
She's feeling the same pain as hundreds of thousands of people in Florida and Pennsylvania who've been dropped by their insurance companies.
Or those employees at companies like IBM that have decided to drop their company-provided health coverage and have their workers get coverage through state marketplaces.
Patti's been hit upside the head by your pipe dream to turn us into Europe Lite. And it's knocked a little sense into her.
She's seriously disappointed in you, Mr. President. You're apparently not as perfect as she thought you were when she voted for you twice.
Earlier this month, in an open letter to you on her website, she even expressed her displeasure to you for the way you dealt with the government shutdown:
"We all remember your campaign tag of 'no drama Obama,'" she wrote. "Interesting that there has been one drama after another in your presidency, this last one really tipping the scales."
I could have written that line myself.
That's scary, Mr. President. You're slowly turning my sister into a non-liberal.
She's starting to emulate -- or at least channel -- her older brother. She even compared your "me-me" persona unfavorably with her father's humbler, drama-free conduct.
I don't want to rub it in, Mr. President, but Patti scored another point with me when she noted that for a saint, you had a bad attitude.
You seem to be "annoyed" when you talk to our fellow Americans, "as if this job you campaigned for is keeping you from something else you'd rather be doing."
Did Patti mean golf, Mr. President?
Don't worry, Sir. My sister is still a true-blue liberal.
Like members of the mainstream media, she thinks Republicans were mostly to blame for that over-hyped, politically manipulated government shutdown you tried to scare us into thinking was a national crisis.
But I'm afraid you've lost Patti's unconditional love, Mr. President.
She's learned what we non-liberals have been trying to warn everyone about for years— that Obamacare is an absolute train wreck for the people of America.
So thanks again for your bad work, Mr. President. I hope this is a beginning of a new relationship between my sister and me. Next time I go on vacation, maybe I can get her to write one of my columns.
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Address: 438 New North Rd, Kingsland
Phone: 09 849 6436
Cuisine: Thai
Rating: 7/10
It's the discovery I like. A chance glance when driving by or the casual reference from a friend that starts with "there's this new place we've just found". There's nothing quite like the excited feeling I get when checking out an eatery that has yet to be truly discovered by the masses.
@ Bangkok is a small Thai restaurant and takeaway in Kingsland and they're just getting into the swing of things. Their furniture hasn't arrived yet, so the tables are still themed to whatever the space was previously, and the booze licence has yet to be granted, but this young crew, who look like a bunch of Thai DJs, are already creating a great scene within the cosy brick walls.
So many of our city's Thai eateries have either an obsession with creating an atmosphere fit for Thai royals, with tables adorned with white cloth and gold-threaded stuffed elephant ornaments, or they go to the other extreme of fluoro-lit, glass-table-topped austerity. The owners of @ Bangkok, thankfully, seem determined to provide something different so there's soothing music, soft lighting, photographic collages on each wall and warm friendly service. The sum total being that you feel at home, or should that be @ home?
My anticipation grew as I took in the menu and spied the lone chef furiously tending his hissing, spitting, steaming pots and woks through the saloon swing doors to the kitchen. Dishes with names like "sizzling crying tiger" and "garden lover snapper", the famous curries, panang and massamun, are there, so is sticky rice as well as a whole page of those snappy Thai salads that shout with flavour. The choice is worryingly wide and I feared individual dishes might end up being "versions" of each other. Fear not. Every dish is made from scratch and sauces are made in-house.
Grilled pork arrives threaded on stout wooden sticks and accompanied by a sweet chilli sauce that will restore your faith in this over-used condiment, so alive is it with tanginess and spice. The handmade prawn cakes are another revelation and come with an almost-clear plum sauce, the recipe for which I tried to wheedle out of the chef - to no avail. Pickled plums, sugar, chilli and vinegar? All the notes were there in perfect harmony. The prawn cakes had that wonderful spongy texture, without veering anywhere near the rubbery stage.
We liked the section of the menu dedicated entirely to "Snapper Lover's" (sic) with eight different options of steamed and crispy fish with a variety of toppings. Our choice, the garden lover snapper, was crispy and delicious, topped with a mountain of fresh herbs - dark, pungent coriander, shredded spring onions, fresh ginger - flavours that just keep on giving. Ground rice was in there too and we were completely ambushed by the amount of dried chilli hidden in it. Hilariously, we found ourselves using the larb, usually a spicy salad in its own right, to cool our mouths down. I love it when dishes are not "toned down for the tourists"!
The larb was outstanding with chicken mince that was moist and juicy with lime juice, tinged with sweetness, and plenty of fresh herbs to keep us happy.
The duck panang curry was sublime. The first hint of its brilliance came with the tantalising aroma of shredded kaffir lime leaves that sat atop the dark red-orange sauce. Dipping into the coconut milk-based curry for the first slurp sent me into raptures - peanutty, sweet but not too sweet, with thick slices of duck that were soft, meaty and rich, not rubbery and fatty.
Small disappointments came with sticky rice served in plastic wrap. Okay, so I know the theory is that it keeps it moist, and admittedly when I'm in Thailand it comes, like most things, wrapped in cling film but it doesn't work for me at a dinner table.
We reluctantly left @ Bangkok, with its easy tunes and glorious food, not because we wanted to but because it's so small we felt we needed to give someone else the chance at a table. I was back two days later for takeaways.
From the menu: Hand made prawn cakes $5, Grilled pork kebab $5, Garden Lover Snapper $24.50, Chicken Larb $13.50, Panang Curry (Duck) $15.50.
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When Paul Ince took over as manager of Blackpool this week, he inherited a side with some exciting young talents including Matt Phillips, Craig Cathcart and Thomas Ince – his son.
The father-son duo combine for the second time - following a short spell together at Notts County during the 2010/11 season - and are members of a select club of parents and siblings to team up
Here, GiveMeFootball presents five of the best family affairs in football…
The Ferguson's | Manchester United
Darren Ferguson spent four years on the playing staff at Old Trafford between 1990 and 1994, making 27 appearances in total, and picking up a Premier League winners medal in the 1992/93 season.
He left Manchester United following a lack of first-team opportunities and forged a successful career as a player, notably with Wolverhampton Wanderers and Wrexham, and is now a manager himself in his second spell with Peterborough United.
The Redknapp's | Southampton
The Redknapp's didn't combine forces until 2005 when Harry recruited Jamie to help him save a Southampton side that looked doomed for the drop.
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The Cruyff's | Barcelona
Being the son of the great Johan Cruyff was always going to be tough for Jordi. Having been brought into the Barcelona set up by his father in 1994, he made 41 appearances before moving to Manchester United in 1996.
Never in the same league as his old man, but still a good player in his own right, Jordi is now general manager of Maccabi Tel Aviv in Israel.
The Maldini's | AC Milan
Cesare and Paolo Maldini teamed up at both club and international level for AC Milan and Italy. Cesare had a brief spell in charge of the Rossoneri during the difficult 2000/01 season, but was a more permanent fixture with the national side from 1996/98 culminating in the 1998 World Cup where his side, captained by Paolo, were knocked out in the quarter-finals by hosts and eventual winners France on penalties.
The Clough's | Nottingham Forest
Old big 'ead Brian Clough managed Nottingham Forest for 18 years, leading the club to a league title in 1977 and back-to-back European Cups in 1979 and 1980.
Between 1984 and 1993 he managed his son Nigel, who made 311 appearances at the City Ground before spells with Liverpool and Manchester city amongst others as well as representing England 14 times.
Nigel has also followed his late-father into management, and is currently in charge of Championship outfit Derby County.
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The feature demands for NoSQL databases are increasing, many of it to catch up or merge the ones already in RDBMS. Here's the holiday wish list for a NoSQL Nirvana database.
NoSQL Nirvana = SQL API+
NoSQL Nirvana... A Wish List.
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The feature demands for NoSQL databases are increasing, many of it to catch up or merge the ones already in RDBMS. Here's the holiday wish list for a NoSQL Nirvana database.
NoSQL Nirvana = SQL API+
NoSQL API +
Graph Database
Flexible Schema +
Spatial +
Timeseries +
Text Indexing +
Hybrid Access +
Distributed Joins (and optimizer) +
ACID Transaction +
BASE support+
Scale UP (SMP) +
Scale out (web-scale, MPP) +
High Availability & Seamless Failover +
Mostly self-tuned & managed +
Tooling for SMP & MPP (stats,admin,archive) +
Storage (compression,row,columnar) +
Business Intelligence Tools +
In-Memory database +
In-Database Analytics +
Informix NoSQL: hybrid storage and access details.
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On December 17th, John MIller talked about Informix NoSQL hybrid storage.
The presentation and audio will soon be posted at: http://ibm.co/JFkr1B
In Q&A, there was a question and comment by Lyn Robison from Gartner on advising customers to use the right data model for the right problem/application.
So, how does this hybrid access work in Informix NoSQL?
Informix provides both SQL and NoSQL semantics. You can define regular relational schema or simply use MongoAPI and Informix creates the database, collections and documents just like MongoDB does. Let's look at the implementation details. Some of these are already in our detailed deepdive at: slidesha.re/1gEGXW6
Data representation:
SQL: SQL (relational) data is stored in regular tables with rows and columns. Logical schema is distinct from the physical schema.
NoSQL: Flexible schema for the data means, no upfront definition of tables or rows or columns or their types. Each row could have random values. To achieve this, NoSQL databases like MongoDB store data in JSON (actually in its binary form called BSON). JSON is a series of key-value pair. You can nest key-value pars within other key value pairs to form hierarchical structures or arrays. This is generally referred to as document-structure.
For each NoSQL collection, we create a table with a BSON data type. BSON is Binary JSON (http://bsonspec.org/). JSON is Java Script Object Notation (http://www.json.org/). All the MongoDB APIs exchange information with the server using BSON. When the client sends data as BSON, it's stored AS IS in BSON.
NoSQL pays more attention to application flexibility and agile appdev instead of storage efficiency. So, for now, additional space for key in key-value pair is fine. Eventually, all the databases will be looking at making JSON/BSON storage efficient. Within Informix, you can use compression to get space savings.
Query Processing:
NoSQL API on SQL data:
Relational data (relations or resultset) can treated as "regular" JSON documents; columnname-value becomes key-value pair. So, translating between relational data to JSON and vice-versa becomes easy.
This helps enterprises with large dataset in relational tables to use it in the web appdev stack like MEAN.
SELECT partner, pnum, country from partners;
partner pnum Country
Pronto 1748 Australia
Kazer 1746 USA
Diester 1472 Spain
Consultix 1742 France
{parnter: "Pronto", pnum:"1748", Country: "Australia"}
{parnter: "Kazer", pnum:"1746", Country: "USA"}
{parnter: "Diester", pnum:"1472", Country: "Spain"}
{parnter: "Consultix", pnum:"1742", Country: "France"}
Listner translates the query and the data object between relational and JSON/BSON form.
db.partners.find({name:"Pronto"}, {pnum:1, country:1}).sort({b:-1})
SELECT a, b FROM t WHERE a = 2.0 ORDER BY b DESC;
db.partners.save({pnum:1632, name:"EuroTop", Country: "Belgium"});
INSERT into partners(pnum, name, country values(1632, "EuroTop", "Belgium");
DELETE FROM PARTNERS WHERE name = "Artics";
Db.partners.update({country:"Holland"},{$set:{country:"Netherland"}}, {multi: true});
UPDATE partners SET country = "Netherland" WHERE country = "Holland";
The moment you have this kind of access, from MongoDB API, you can exploit the relational database features like transactions, views, joins, grouping, OLAP window functions, stored procedures, etc.
In this case, if a JSON query references a non-existent column, they'll get the error. The intent is not to simply extend existing relational schema, but to make the existing enterprise data available to new APIs seamlessly.
SQL on NoSQL data:
If you have the following JSON collections:
JSON Collection V:
{ "_id" : ObjectId("526a1bb1e1819d4d98a5fa4b"), "c1" : 1, "c2" : 2 }
JSON Collection w:
{ "_id" : ObjectId("526b005cfb9d36501fe31605"), "x" : 255, "y" : 265, "z" : 395}
{ "_id" : ObjectId("52716cdcf278706cb7bf9955"), "x" : 255, "y" : 265, "z" : 395}
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5271c749fa29acaeba572302"), "x" : 1, "y" : 2, "z" : 3 }
Ideally, you would want to use SQL like this:
SELECT V.c1, V.c2, W.x,W.y,W.z
WHERE V.c1 = W.x;
Currently, you'll have to use expressions and dotted notations to extract the specific key-value pairs.
SELECT bson_value_int(jc1.data, 'x'),
bson_value_lvarchar(jc1.data, 'y'),
bson_value_int(jc1.data, 'z') ,
bson_value_int(jc2.data, 'c1'),
bson_value_lvarchar(jc2.data, 'c2')
FROM w jc1, v jc2
WHERE bson_value_int(jc1.data, 'x') = bson_value_int(jc2.data, "c1");
You can also create views on top of these and make the access much simpler for application developers.
create view vwjc(jc1x, jc1y, jc1z, jc2c1, jc2c2) as
SELECT bson_value_int(jc1.data, 'x'),
bson_value_lvarchar(jc1.data, 'y'),
bson_value_int(jc1.data, 'z') ,
bson_value_int(jc2.data, 'c1'),
bson_value_lvarchar(jc2.data, 'c2')
FROM w jc1, v jc2
WHERE bson_value_int(jc1.data, 'x') = bson_value_int(jc2.data, 'c1');
You can model using relational or NoSQL concepts within the same database and access data from either SQL and MongoDB API without replicating the data or having ETL. Since you just have one copy of the data, you'll be accessing the consistent copy of the data.
Hybrid applications with Informix NoSQL.
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Applications generally look for NoSQL database for one of the following reasons:
While NoSQL generally means Not Only SQL, if you attend any of the NoSQL conferences, meetups, people more often mean
In case of Informix, we started with SQL. Added flexible schema with the native support of JSON, MongoDB compatible query language (in fact, Informix NoSQL customers have to use the driver for MongoDB) and scale out via range and hash based sharding.
Once we added that, the question was, how would enterprises with TBs of data in relational form and hundreds of applications running on this data exploit the innovations in the API and the technology advantages.
When it comes to data and its infrastructure, evolutions seems to work much better than revolution.
Replicating the data from one form to another just won't work in most cases due to cost and consistency issues. So, we've added support for MongoDB APIs to access SQL data (relational data), features (joins, stored procedures, views) and enabled SQL to access JSON data.
Tomorrow, TUES Dec 17th 11.30 EST, John miller will be talking on these features. Rigister Now.


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When you develop a product that is far better than anything else available you should charge well for it.
Now, my one big complaint about Microsoft, I don't understand why they feel that they need to charge $299 for an UPGRADE to XP Pro, it's simply unfair, but as we all know there is a price to pay somewhere, no matter what your choice of Operating System.
Perhaps Microsoft also believes that they develop something that is far better than anything else available, and that they should charge well for it.
Does anyone else smell hypocrisy?
And that's exactly what they were shooting for anyway. Microsoft's developers are not stupid; they're actually many of the brightest ones out there. Microsoft built it's empire by giving the people exactly what they want.
Here's a quick comparison of the Microsoft's goals versus the Linux approach to development (note that Msft has become much more UNIX-y in the past year or so). Listed more-or-less in order of importance:
Wow - what a totally different world you're from. I've had to work with
Trouble with
One project I was working on I actually went to a great deal of effort that I was not being paid for to migrate the code away from
Anyway, I guess if it works for you that's great, but I was kind of dumb with disbelief that there would be fans of this thing out there.
You send me your notes, I'll compile the docs.
Think the ldp would post it? I have hosting space, though, if necessary.
ps. I do not want you to send me porn. or spam. notes on how to set up software you use for multimedia viewing on non-luser platforms only.
Support the end of warez, use free s/w!
Actually, that is precisely the reason I switched to RH8 on both my home and office desktops. I find it impossible as a professional IT person to use Windows without having warez of some kind. Since I can't afford to run clean and green with Windows, I am switching to Linux.
Hear that, Bill?
Warcraft III works fine on Linux.
Go to www.transgaming.com
This is silly. Do you think that Windows and Macintosh don't have protection boundaries between the graphics rendering layer and the applications (client)? X has used shared memory and event coalescing forever. The only possibly defensible issue regarding X's C-S architecture is the context switch/scheduling delay, and that's on the order of a hundredth of a second delay. Even those delays can be ameliorated with one of the low-latency/interruptible syscall patches for Linux.
People calling for the rip-and-replace of X windows are simply not being realistic, either on a technical assessment level, or on a welcome to the real-world level.
You're still arguing that it is X's C-S design alone that is causing the problems you're talking about. The C-S design is an easy thing to single out.. "the other window systems don't support network graphics, and they are faster, so it must be the C-S design causing the problem" is not a valid logical argument. That's not to say that it mightn't be the problem, of course, but it's not to say it is, either.
Having to do context switches between the client and the server all of the time is a real issue, certainly. It is one that can be addressed through means other than simply throwing out 20 years of software developed on Unix, though.
Keith Packard wrote a good presentation on this, Efficiently Scheduling X Clients [xfree86.org] at USENIX 2000.
Something like the improvements to the X server's internal behavior mentioned in that presentation (or in the associated paper, see Keith's Publications Page [xfree86.org] for more), in conjunction with Linux kernels more optimized for low-latency multiprocess scheduling could help the performance issues a great deal without having to junk the whole system.
First mistake. Measured statistics have shown that X is actually faster at some operatons (like line drawing etc) than the GDI on Windows. X is fast. Some drivers are not fast. If you have speed problems with X that are not purely psychology (i think it is slow, therefore it feels slow) then there's a bug somewhere that should be fixed with a driver/toolkit/application.
The second biggest problem I have with Linux is stability. Linux itself is a rock, but I have not used a single X app that hasn't crashed at least once. It's a dismal record
Uhh, well, umm, dunno what to say to that. I guess no Microsoft app ever crashes either? Linux is the OS and is pretty stable. The stability of an OS isn't related to the stability of the apps (snide jokes about 98/macos 9 aside), anybody can write a buggy app. So far most OS level software I've used on Linux has been solid. Some pure userlevel apps, ie chat apps etc sometimes crash but most are pretty good. If you're expecting every piece of software written for Linux to be uncrashable then you'll never be happy with it, so I guess you'll have to stick with Windows.
There's no accountability for bugs, so they're only fixed when someone feels like it.
And if a bug is annoying enough, somebody tends to feel like fixing it. This sounds more like a "my favourite bug/feature isn't fixed yet" rant.
I want Linux to succeed. I really do. I don't see how it's ever going to do it relying on X, and I don't see the desktop environments coming anywhere near more polished corporate-funded alternatives.
What is it with the mindless X bashing? Linux has already "succeeded" in many areas, and is busy succeeding on the desktop too. I don't understand what you mean by these comments about the desktop environments, to me GNOME2 feels pretty polished, albiet a tad light in features. X has nothing to do with polish OK, and FYI both KDE and GNOME have oodles of corporate funding. So your point is kind of invalid.
Ditch X and come up with a really solid desktop environment that doesn't require it, and I'll be back in a heartbeat.
Ditch X and replace it with what?? A non network transparent windowing system? That would be a major step backwards and I promise you, you wouldn't notice any speed difference (try installing directfb, something that you seemingly want, and see for yourself).
Slower by how much percentage? 0.1? It is like saying, you won't take bath in ocean because fish f**k in it. I not only use X, but use VNC client exclusively on my laptop to access all my unix/linux boxes at work and haven't felt it slow. I access the same sessions from home/work/travel etc. BTW, I do heavy development work on unix/linux. I use windows a lot, however not because of X on unix. In fact, I consider X to be number one point of using Unix. Look at VNC on PC and you would know (it typically eats 20-30% CPU on 1GHz PC vs less than 1% on 400 MHz Linux). My reason for using windows are:
Lack of good fonts. They are improving and now a days a well tuned linux has quality comparable to PC. Still Unix boxes don't have good fonts or the apps don't use them correctly.
Many stupid websites shut you out, if you don't use Netscape or IE. I hate Netscape as a browser (though it is my exclusive mail client and HTML editor). On windows, I use IE for those sites and Opera otherwise.
I have a laptop which came pre-installed with windows and no media. Due to lack of time and media for XP, didn't feel like playing with Linux. Even if I could, the only use of this laptop is to browse, access unix/linux machines and view photo/video taken with digital camera/camcorder. Linux has no advantage in this space. For other machines, I use Linux/Unix.
I guess, X has something which windows never had and most likely won't have for ages. It is stupidity of Unix/Linux marketing folks for not exploiting this advantage. Your second point: "There's no accountability for bugs, so they're only fixed when someone feels like it."
You are comparing commercial apps in windows with free apps on Linux. I use almost all commercial only apps on Unix/Linux, and can vouch that there are far less failures on unix/linux than on windows. Just last night, my XP started acting weird on network (it was booted in morning), so I tried to shut down. Well shutdown hung too! I had to hard boot it. While I reboot my XP about once a day (haven't seen uptime more than 1 week on reasonably used XP and more than 2 weeks on NT) while all other unix/linux boxes that I remotely access, are booted once a quarter or so (typically for adding some OS patches) and they are used much more heavily.
I guess, Linux/Unix folks would rather be without U than be without X (pun intended).
It doesn't matter if you can get a Super-Athlon 2.6 Ghz at half the price of a PowerMac if the OS sucks.
I also get an occasional MS Office file and while there are products available for Linux that will allow me to work with these files, it's far simpler for me to pull them up in Office on my laptop. I also need to run Quicken and Quickbooks and so having my laptop running XP makes it all very convenient. It's a shame that I need to either boot into XP or use a second computer to get through the average day but that has been the easiest way that I have found.
Also, I don't have MS like a lot of people do. I do actually like some of their products and while I agree that they have some pretty bad business practices, a lot of security holes, and a list of other things to bitch about, I still find some of their products to be quite useful. I have a MS keyboard and a MS mouse that I really like. I use Office XP when I need to do a spreadsheet or write a business letter. I play Motocross Madness and Age of Empries on occasion. I use some Adobe products as well as other applications and games that aren't available in Linux and since I don't have a Mac, I'm SOL on being able to run OS X.
The more I think about the situation, the less I think that Linux will ever wipe out Windows. I don't think it will ever happen and I don't think that it should. It's all about choice and I do think that we will eventually reach a point where we are free to choose an operating system based solely on that os's merits (with all of the major apps being available for Win, Mac, and Linux).
Until everything that I want to use is available for Linux, I'll continue to contribue to the obscene profits of MS when they have a new program or an upgrade that I wish to purchase. I use whatever is best for the given task. Games, it's Windows. Work (for me) it's Linux. Graphics it's (if only I could afford to get one) Mac.
My fiancee wants to use it for Quicken, the kids for games. I want to use the games as well have having the option of working on documents from home. I am also, however, planning on getting the Amithlon as a secondary part of the system for my fun.
I have talked to friends about Linux and, quite frankly, I just don't have the computer knowledge base to try and use it as the primary OS. Hell I'm not even sure I can pull the Amithlon off ('tis been a long time since I played with my A1200). I have seen people with far more experience than myself struggle to get things to work with it. They are happy when they do, but I don't want to spend my weekends fighting with the confuser.
My $0.02.
The only thing at this point keeping me with a very very old copy of Windows 98 at home is the fact that the games are all there.
Unfortunately, this situation does not seem to be diminishing. What's worse, more games are coming out for XBox, and NOT on the PC platform, meaning to continue my lifestyle, I would need one of those... which is unthinkable to me.
I will completely abandon Windows when I have outgrown computer games. All my favorite development tools are on GNU/Linux or are cross platform. In fact, I even like Netbeans (free/open software) better than Borland JBuilder, which I happen to like a lot. For graphics, I like Gimp, although it takes getting used to. Mozilla has finally reached a critical point in development for me (and I want to develop for Mozilla as a platform). OpenOffice does more than I'll ever need, and doesn't even give me enough problems with Word documents anymore. The chat clients are better, text editing better, etc. Evolution is better than Outlook for me. I've had it with that other MS thing.
But the games...
I used to work at home, and when I did, I used GNU/Linux. Now I work in an office, and I still use GNU/Linux there. In fact, we are working very hard to ensure that all of our clients use GNU/Linux. There are two reasons. One, Free and Open software does not cost money, that's obvious. Our clients are poor NGO's, often working in even poorer countries. But there is another... with the continuing introduction of new technologies to track and control content, computers and their use, it is concievable that it will become more difficult for our clients to continue working with Windows in the areas where they are working. Often, they live in places with oppressive governments and need to maintain a certain degree of anonymity and we must be certain that there computer does not communicate what they do to a third party. Can't do it with closed source stuff, and more and more it's harder to do with Windows.
In short, our clients are only using microsoft for application compatibility, but that will change. In some instances, their lives may depend on it.
So.. in short, the reason I have windows on two out of four machines I use daily:
Work - Corporate Standard + PHB
Home - Sex
First, let me say that I do not want to discourage you from posting these opinions about developing on various platforms. But I must say, I am surprised to hear what seems to be an experienced developer who has used both platforms express a preferences for Windows. I hope you will read and reply to this message, and that perhaps I can learn something from your response.
You began with a brief note about your credentials, so I will follow suit. I have been getting paid to write code for about 23 years, now, and have used a variety of systems and languages. I've hand assembled code for a 6502 based single board system, and entered it via a hex key pad; I've written assembly code for MicroSoft Assembler under DOS; for the IBM 360/370 family and run it under MVT, CMS; for the Motorola 6800, 68000, 6805, and 6811 families, and for the Intel 8080, and 8048 families. I've written code in PL/I, Fortran, BASIC, IBM EXEC, EXEC2, REXX, various Unix shells, PERL, AWK, C, TCL/Expect, and Java, amoung other languages. I love programming and learning new systems, so what I am used to will never keep me from giving other languages and platforms a chance. I have to admit that while I have done some substantial programming under MS-DOS, I have never done any substantial coding under Windows.
While I understand why many normal users like MS-Windows and the user interface it presents, I am rarely asked to do the sort of mundane, ordinary user type work that Windows is designed to facilitate. I get mostly requests to do unusual things. I have often been required to use MicroSoft tools for a number of reasons, but I must say that I have not had a single experience with any of that appalling company's software that was not frustrating and unpleasant. I really hate having things hidden from me. GUI's are nice, I suppose, but I will never be happy with a GUI over a command line interface and flat text configuration files unless that GUI lets me do everything that I can do with the CLI and flat text config files. I find that such a GUI is extremely rare. I really hate hand holdy documentation, because it is almost always incomplete, and I really hate it when documentation says things that are not exactly correct, and I routinely face these problems with MS products. I don't have the words to describe how frustrating it has been for me to design my application to use MicroSoft's API as they are incorrectly documented, and then have to change my designed in the middle of a project to deal with how the API's really work.
Unix, on the other hand, seems like a dream operating system for a programmer. (I'm using "Unix" to refer to all Unix-like systems.) If you forget, for a moment, this naive tendency that some recent Open Source Programmers have to use HOWTO's and "info" files as a substitute for "man" pages (they are fine in addition to "man" pages), Unix documentation is online, generally exact, and fairly complete. Most things are designed to be out in the open and easily understood by the programmer. The tools that are provided with a Unix System are designed to be versatile, because the programmers that created Unix knew that they couldn't anticipate everything that their users (other programmers) will want to do with their system.
I realize that Windows has a number of GUI building tools that make it easy for people to create applications without having to know how to write a lot of code, but it seems like these tools do little to tell the programmer exactly what is going on at a low level with the resulting applications. Am I to trust MicroSoft to make sure the applications that results from my efforts with such a GUI will be secure? Also, how can a really serious programmer be happy with having all the details of what is going on hidden from him (or her)?
Finally, I have done quite a bit of teaching about programming, and I must say that I am concerned about the effect that MS-Windows seems to have on programmers that use it as their development platform. I really think programmers are better off learning from the very beginning that it is important to understand, in very fundamental terms, exactly what is going on in the applications they create. To me, the very notion that one can get by without understanding their application in pretty exact terms is antithetical to good programming. The boundaries between the application and the operating system must be reasonably simple and must be clearly and exactly specified in documentation that comes bundled with the operating system. Getting a new programmer used to the idea that the operating system is a mystery that he is simply not supposed to try to understand is terribly counter-productive. When a program or an operating system has a memory leak, the leak should be fixed; Training users to reboot the system to fix problems sets a terrible example for programmers. When I first learned to write code, and when I found that my program didn't do what I expected, I had to learn that my own mistakes were the most frequent source of problems. Programmers that first learn to program under MS-Windows don't have the benefit of an OS that is stable enough and conforms well enough to its documentation to teach them this essential lesson, and as a result, I find that programmers that come from a MicroSoft background are much more likely than programmers from a Unix background to start off blaming the operating system rather than looking in their own code for the source of their problems. Of course, programmers are individuals, and make their own decisions about what lessons to take from the platforms they use, but the example that the operating system sets is one of the things that influences the decisions that programmers make, in this regard.
So my question is this: What is it, exactly, that makes Windows a better platform for development?
My personal view is that a PC for games is a totally shitty value for your money. I have a Mac, which has a half-dozen games (mostly gifts). I use the Mac for my work. I have a Playstation 2, which I use for games.
Now, considering that a PS2 will work 100% of the time (no patches/bugs/drivers/cruft), has a bigger screen, and pretty much the same number of games as the Windows platform (insofar as both platforms have way more excellent games than I'll ever buy).... and considering that the high-end video card you need to buy (for the PC you've already bought) costs nearly as much by itselfas a whole PS2/GC/XB.... why do you guys do it?
It's not a troll, I really want to know. Is it certain games? Keyboard-based games? The supa-bleeding-edge graphics and sound?
It's just a variant of the original poster's question, really, but I find my Mac/PS2 combination works really well. I don't want for many games.
In short, I want to be able to "just use it". I want to go to a consistent place every single time and be able to enable a nic to use / not use DHCP regardless of flavor of linux I am on. That and the biggest thing that the linux community needs to do is have a serious attitude adjustment. The whole, holier than thou attitude and general unwillingness to help (with exceptions of course) have ruined it in many portions of society. I was working a very large gov contract position a few years back and when I asked why they didn't have linux in use (despite many of the workers privately using it), I was told bluntly, "because the community can't be bothered to step out of their white tower to help unless your a programmer". "The entire concept of anyone
In case your wondering if it's the whole CLI interface thing, no it isn't. I've been using computers since the TI80, have 5 years professional experience, and have absolutely no problem with the Cisco CLI. I'm also in school to pick up Solaris, Cisco, and Unix once Linux is finished. Thus I am hardly a newbie that is scared by the lack of a pretty interface. hope this helps.
The Mac is a waste of time: software that you can't configure because you don't have any damn option or it's too 'experimental'... Sugary sweet interface that makes it unusable (semi tranparent windows ?!? Anti aliased [=blured] fonts !?!?!? are they on acid or what ?)
The SGI and linux boxes are good for computations, grepping log files, servers and such but... user pleasure is just not there. Windows come with long delays and plenty of other UIR little things that tell you that it's just not quite right.
Anyway, that was just one more opinion.
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007
It's like Shark Week...only better
Well, our good friend Andy just got back from the Brickyard 400 and sent us the following pix of just such a Buckeye fan he spotted in the middle of the race.
Now, as Andy even said, if you've ever been to a race, you know how incredibly loud it is. These aren't quiet events.
However, this guy was apparently only 30 yards from the track on turn one, yet he was passed out drunk for the entire second half of the race.
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- TitleIX said...
even if it did mean that you went to the Brickyard 400/500/$1
what's up with that Andy????????
- August 01, 2007 6:19 AM
- beast in 'bama said...
We now have an answer to the age-old question about a tree falling in the forest. No, it was not heard - or seen - by anyone.
- August 01, 2007 7:36 AM
- lane said...
that was me & i had the flu - honest!
- August 01, 2007 8:08 AM
- Matt said...
You're following Shark Week? It's awesome. I was flipping through the channels when I came across these two guys diving with sharks and they were wearing these chain mail diving suits that the sharks couldn't bite through. It was pretty cool.
As a sports fan (particularly one of college football), I say ban NASCAR. It's a waste of gas and is bad for the environment. It's not a real sport anyway, just a bunch of hicks driving around in circles.
- August 01, 2007 10:46 AM
- Yost said...
Really? If so, that's why we blur the pictures - to protect the not-so-innocent!
- August 01, 2007 2:00 PM
- Da Braylon said...
He was just resting his eyes. HAHA
- August 01, 2007 2:50 PM
- Da Braylon said...
I have made that EXACT same argument for the past couple years. It is INDEED as waste of gasoline and it is INDEED bad for the environment. I hate NASCAR. I absolutely hate it. It is the dumbest thing I have ever seen...and exactly what you said...a bunch of hicks driving around in circles. How the fuck is that entertaining?
- August 01, 2007 2:52 PM
- god of the whoppers said...
it is funny that you associate hicks with nascar. i don't think that one of those drivers live in a shack/trailer/van-down-by-the-river. what they have done, unfortunately is created a stupid subculture and refuse to move away from that. no there is nothing stock about a stock car, yet they refuse to change the name, it used to be who could win a race in a car that everyone could buy. i personally can tolerate it (real race cars don't have fenders and more than left turns), but would much rather watch formula one or indy.
- August 01, 2007 3:33 PM
- TideDruid said...
Matt and da Braylon,
I would be willing to ban NASCAR if we could ban Hockey too. It's a waste of frozen water that could be used to help the Southern U.S. and the West during the sever drought months.
In the real world, the average street car pollutes more than a race car. (Googled information from here on out)
First of all, race cars cause little to no pollution, even on petroleum gasoline with a lot of lead in it. There is a simple scientific explanation for this. The emissions from vehicles, industrial facilities etc., are in fact the chemical components that do not get completely burned off in the processes. Because racing engines are more powerful than the rest, (even though the mileage is much worse because of this)
they actually have a much more complete burn of the fuel, & the more the horsepower, the more this is true. In fact, some levels of petroleum gasoline burning race engines in Drag Racing (like in Pro Stock & Pro Modified for example) actually achieve complete burn of the gas, thus leaving zero emissions from their exhaust.
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An anonymous reader writes "Last year Apple quietly authorized private-label app stores with its OTA (over-the-air) protocol, and now an Apple spin-off is offering the first hosting service to uses OTA to create alternative app stores for iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad. One of the first is Cisco's App Fridge (for cool networking apps), but a dozen other Fortune 500 companies have also signed up. And this fall, Apperian promises to add Android apps to its service, enabling one-stop-shopping for private-label apps store hosted in the clouds. So far these store are for employees only, but by 2012 Apperian claims it will be offering alternative app stores for the rest of us."


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Vancouver, B.C. – Eight tires, two cars, one ice rink, and one nervous driver – those were the ingredients for an illuminating Canadian Tire comparison test between a set of Goodyear Nordic winter tires and a set of Motomaster SE2 all-season tires.
Canadian Tire brought its tire-testing road show to an ice-rink in Vancouver last week after doing similar media stints in Toronto and Montreal. The purpose, of course, was to convince journalists to write stories about the benefits of buying winter tires – especially from Canadian Tire; but for me, it was also a rare chance to test-drive winter and all-season tires back-to-back on an icy surface in identical cars. That's the surest and most accurate way to observe the differences – it's similar to the back-to-back comparison method used by AJAC to rate new vehicles at the annual Car of the Year TestFest event.
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Canadian Tire equipped two 2013 Hyundai Elantra GTs with the aforementioned winter and all-season tires, and with the help of a professional driving instructor sitting in the passenger seat (who I suspect was there to discourage me from sliding a brand new Hyundai into the boards) I drove each car around the ice rink performing different braking, handling, and acceleration exercises.
I started out riding on the Motomaster SE2 all-season tires. I quickly discovered that a very gentle squeeze of the throttle is required to get moving on ice without spinning the tires. My driving instructor also informed me that traction control doesn't work on glare ice! That was news to me, but he was right! There was no drama while maintaining a steady speed driving in a straight line, a fact that initially lulled me into a false sense of security. It's only when I braked and turned that I realized how little traction all-season tires have on packed ice. Even at 20 km/h, the car couldn't make a 90-degree turn without ploughing through the corner cones. In a straight-line panic brake test, the all-season shod car took almost 50 feet to come to a stop from 20 km/h. On glare ice, even the pulsating anti-lock braking system doesn't seem to help regain grip and steering control.


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It wasn't supposed to work this way. Much as Mitt Romney was supposed to cruise into the GOP presidential nomination, Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst was supposed to have an easy path to the U.S. Senate. Dewhurst, after all, has a been a loyal soldier to Governor Rick Perry for the better part of nine years. He's toed the party line, pushing the state Senate chamber into ever more conservative territory, and he had a limitless campaign fund from his own personal wealth. Now, state insiders assumed, was his time to move up the ladder.
Instead, he's locked into a tight runoff against a Tea Party favorite, and much like Romney during the presidential race, he's stuck responding to accusations of moderation, begging his audience to believe that he's just as conservative and just as hard-line as his opposition. But unlike Romney, Dewhurst has become the underdog—and a loss is looking more and more likely.
Dewhurst's fall can be attributed largely to Ted Cruz, the Tea Party candidate and former solicitor general who forced Dewhurst into a runoff.
Two polls released Thursday showed Dewhurst not only trailing generally but trailing big when it came to enthusiastic voters. As The Dallas Morning News' Tom Bennett reports:
Wenzel Strategies—which, as Politico notes, correctly predicted tea party Senate upsets in Indiana and Nebraska, released on Thursday a survey showing Cruz winning, 48 to 38, among likely GOP voters.A separate poll released Thursday by Public Policy Polling shows Cruz leading the lieutenant governor 49-44 among likely GOP voters, a significant shift in a race that's long had Dewhurst as the frontrunner.
The Wenzel Strategies poll has Cruz winning 59-28 among tea party voters, a group some experts predict are more likely to turn out at the voting booth. And the PPP survey shows Cruz leading Dewhurst 59-36 among those who said they were "very excited" to vote in the election.
Ted Cruz is everything the Tea Party has been looking for. He has a great story—he says his father came to the country from Cuba with $100 sewn into his underwear. He went to Harvard, but he registers as far from an elite. He's Latino, he's religious, and he's got an anti-government message that he delivers with zeal. He served as solicitor general, so he can claim some experience, but he's also never held elected office. As a recent Texas Observer profile noted, many see him as Reaganesque.
He's also been extremely lucky.
Initially, few counted Cruz as a major force, and few people knew much about him at all. Then a protracted redistricting battle forced the state to delay its primaries, not once but twice. The state was supposed to have its candidates sorted by early March—when the race for the GOP presidential nomination would have been the major focus and few would have paid much attention to second-tier senatorial candidates. Instead, with the primaries set for May, Cruz had two extra months to define his candidacy—at a time when there was little else vying for voter attention. He began to paint Dewhurst as an establishment moderate. He caught the attention of Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform and national Tea Party groups and spoke at CPAC.
Meanwhile, Dewhurst was struggling more and more. His attacks against Cruz were lame at best—that he'd once defended a Chinese company against an American businessman, that he was tied to communism, and more embarrassingly, that he was "a secret Canadian." Moderate former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert was beginning to gain appeal among business conservatives, another voting bloc Dewhurst planned on winning. The lieutenant governor was fending off competitors on both sides, while Cruz was building momentum. By the time the primary date was approaching, a runoff was looking increasingly certain—as were Cruz's odds of being in it.
In the end, Cruz netted 34 percent of the vote, not that much behind Dewhurst's 45 percent.
But Cruz also benefited from the strange political landscape in Texas—a landscape largely formed and dominated by Rick Perry. Love him or hate him, those who observe Perry generally agree that he's a uniquely talented politician (on the statewide level, at least). With a remarkable sense of timing and charisma, the governor has managed to be both an establishment paragon and a Tea Party hero. That's a tough line to walk, particularly in Texas, where, with such a dominant GOP, party infighting is a huge part of the political landscape. Perry's been able to keep a solid platform of business interests going while jumping onto the Tea Party boat early and endearing himself to both factions.
Dewhurst, by contrast, is not a charismatic fellow. He's awkward, with a reputation for being downright weird. He's never commanded much fear—among the senators who have served under him, there are frequent jokes about his habitual absences, his need for constant air-conditioning, and the like. When Perry's disastrous presidential campaign came to a close, he returned to a state that had seen him vulnerable, in some ways for the first time. If there was going to be a revolt against a Perry dictate, it made sense that it would come against Dewhurst, whose wealth and odd demeanor make him an easy target. When Perry repeated his endorsement of Dewhurst at the state GOP convention last month, he was greeted with boos—a first for the governor.
Ironically, however, Dewhurst is being accused of moderation after one of the most austere legislative sessions in state history. The Senate proposed less severe cuts than the House, which passed a budget that would have crippled public education while the Senate's version merely cut off its hands. Dewhurst has largely adhered to Perry-style conservatism, which has devastated state services at all levels. Yet Dewhurst is often stuck responding to Cruz's accusations that he's too centrist. (The Texas Tribune recently noted that the two candidates agree on almost everything.)
Dewhurst's position is strikingly similar to the situation Romney faced during the GOP presidential primaries—but the outcome may be quite different. Rick Santorum got Romney on the ropes, promising that he too was a conservative, striving to endear himself to the Tea Party that approached him with suspicion. In that battle, Romney ultimately survived. But he wouldn't have won Texas. Increasingly, it's looking like Dewhurst won't either.


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text: Panths 76 Report post Posted December 6, 2012 Sean Gregory of TIME writes that one of the options being considered for replacing kickoffs entails giving the ball to the team that would have been kicking off at its own 30, automatically facing a fourth down and 15 yards to go. The team can then choose to punt or go for it, via fake punt or otherwise. In other words, the kickoff would be replaced with the punt, and the onside kick would be replaced with a fourth-down conversion roughly half the distance of Ray Rice's recent catch-and-run. http://profootballta...acing-kickoffs/ Forgive the fact that it's PFT as they're referencing a TIME article. I for one think this would be absolutely awesome to watch and change the whole dynamic of the beginning play that used to be so exciting before it was squandered by the go ahead touchbacks they are now. But would it benefit the panthers? I wonder how we would play that scenario. Consider for a second we actually WIN the coin toss (stay with me here, i know that's crazy). Do you think Rivera would ever actually go for it? I'll answer for you: No. I'm being lazy and not looking this up to verify, but I feel like we've converted 2 4th downs all season. Hell 3rd and short has me cringing a lot of times. But I like the idea that there's a small chance, for the risky head coach, that you end up with the ball regardless what that damned coin says. Also, you all would get your wish and we'd probably cut armanti. What do you guys think of this possible change? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Giulia D'Amico, Business Development VP for One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) talks about the new OLPC tablets, which are now available in the U.S. through Target, Amazon, Walmart, and other retailers, with some of the $150 sales price for each tablet going to support the OLPC project in places like Uruguay, Cambodia, Rwanda, and other countries where a tablet loaded with teaching software is a way better deal than trying to supply all the books a child needs for six or eight years of school. While there are many Android tablets for sale for less than $150, Giulia points out that the OLPC tablets contain up to $300 worth of software. Plus, of course, just as with almost any other Android device, there are many thousands of apps available for it through Google Play. And let's not forget the original OLPC laptop. It has been redesigned, and renamed the OLPC XO-4 and looks much cooler than the original. You can learn more about it through olpc.tv, which has videos from the introduction of both the OPLC tablet and the XO-4 at CES 2013. OLPC has shipped close to 3 million laptops so far, and is working to port Sugar to Android so that the laptop and the tablet can use the same software. One more thing: OLPC is now focusing on software rather than hardware. When the project started at MIT, back in 2006 or so, there was no suitable hardware available. Today, many companies make low-cost tablets and keyboards for them, so there's no real need for OLPC to make its own instead of using existing hardware.


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Every year the country's rising softball stars converge on Colorado as part of the states Freedom Invitational Tournament.
Starting Thursday at Community Park in Broomfield, teams from California, Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington as well as two from Colorado will vie for the crown.
A team worth keeping an eye on is Bri Workman and Kipp Bauchert's Colorado Stars. It is a team made up mostly of incoming BoCoPreps.com-area underclassmen that could become household names in the region in the next few seasons.
The other Colorado team on hand is the Colorado Intensity, a team based out of Thornton.
As for the Stars — with players from Legacy, Broomfield, Erie and Silver Creek, as well as Brighton — this tournament provides a chance to measure themselves against some of the country's best.
"I'm excited for this tournament and I think my team is too because you get to play teams from all over the country," said Lynsey Bauchert, who appeared in five games last season as a freshman at Erie. "It's a pretty good challenge and it gets us better and better.
"I think it will have a big impact on us in the upcoming season."
Bauchert is joined on the team by incoming Erie freshman Ciarra Nelson, who according to stats provided by the team is hitting .593 with 14 home runs and 76 RBIs in 53 games this season.
Defending Class 5A state champion Legacy has three incoming freshmen on the team, led by centerfielder Megan Foley. Trisha Cook and Megan Hernandez-Belew are the other two Lightning-players-to-be.
"I always look forward to this tournament because it is fun to play those teams that you have never seen before," said Foley, who is hitting .419 for the Stars.
For Foley, the summer exposure is a nice chance to hone her skills before August and trying to make Dawn Gaffin's Legacy squad, and it is all part of the experience.
"I'll have to earn my way on to that team," Foley said. "But I really like the coaches and the girls that I'm playing with and am excited about the opportunity."
Cassidy Sutton and Lainey Hughes are incoming freshmen to Broomfield next season. Sutton is hitting a crisp .386 in 51 games.
The City of Broomfield has been hosting this tournament since 1988 and on the night prior to the start of the tournament, each team will participate in the Adopt a Team program. Tournament teams will be adopting one of the City's Recreation 7-9 year old teams that will be playing games that evening.
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The forced budget cuts known as the "sequester" have not yet started to trickle down to the local level. But that hasn't stopped politicians from talking about what those cuts will mean. But business leaders in a city with strong aviation ties aren't looking at only the conversations in Washington as they plan their futures.


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No. 16 NC State edges UNC Asheville 82-80
No. 16 NC State edges UNC Asheville 82-80UNC Asheville's Jeremy Atkinson (15) battles with North Carolina State's Lorenzo Brown (2) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Raleigh, N.C., Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Richard Howell kept ripping down rebounds and tussling in the paint until he came through with the clutch plays that helped No. 16 North Carolina State regroup from its first loss of the season.
As for the rest of the game, well, coach Mark Gottfried had plenty of reason for frustration.
Howell scored 23 points, including the go-ahead basket with 3:06 left, to help the Wolfpack rally past UNC Asheville 82-80 on Friday night. But N.C. State trailed nearly the entire game and couldn't shake free of the Bulldogs until the final minutes, turning what should have been a chance to bounce back into a flirtation with an ugly home loss.
''We've got to be better,'' Gottfried said. ''We've got to be better defensively. We've got to develop better chemistry amongst our team. We've got to develop a team spirit that is all about winning - period. Nothing else.
''If we do that, we've got a chance to be a good team. If we don't, then we're just another team out there playing.''
For most of Friday night, N.C. State (4-1) looked like the latter. The Wolfpack kept bumbling away possessions, couldn't stop UNC Asheville's Jeremy Atkinson and just looked a step slow en route to trailing by seven with 8 1/2 minutes left.
Howell's big night helped reverse that, from his 15 rebounds to his two key free throws with 5 seconds left that helped secure the win.
''We're satisfied with the win but we're not satisfied with the type of win,'' Howell said. ''We felt like we should've come out and played with the same energy (we had) the last 6 minutes of the game. If we played like that, then I feel it wouldn't have been a ballgame.''
Things will have to get better quickly. N.C. State travels to No. 4 Michigan in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Tuesday night.
N.C. State was coming off a 20-point loss to Oklahoma State in the Puerto Rico Tipoff championship game Sunday. Its struggles continued against an aggressive and opportunistic bunch of Bulldogs (1-5) who wouldn't go away.
While N.C. State shot 62 percent after halftime and 56 percent for the game, it committed 19 turnovers that UNC Asheville converted into 31 points. The Bulldogs scored the game's first six points to build some confidence, trailed for just 22 seconds in the first half and kept the Wolfpack chasing them all night.
''I'd be lying if I didn't tell you I was expecting to blow them out by 40,'' said senior Scott Wood, who had 14 points and a pair of late jumpers in the decisive surge. ''That's how I feel about every team I play. I mean, it was a close game. They played extremely well. But at the same time, I feel like we need to come out there and try to step on their throats early.''
Meanwhile, the 6-foot-4 Atkinson frustrated the Wolfpack the entire way by being quick enough to get his shot off the dribble or strong enough to muscle around in the paint. He finished with a career-high 28 points while the Wolfpack tried at least three different defenders on him during the game.
''I'll take a two-point loss here in Raleigh against a ranked 16th team in the nation any day,'' Atkinson said. ''I told the team in the locker room that we have a long season ahead. If we play like this in the Big South (Conference), we will kill in the Big South and beat every team by 30.''
UNC Asheville coach Eddie Biedenbach, a former Wolfpack player, wasn't quite as chipper afterward.
''We just let this one get away,'' he said.
Howell put the Wolfpack ahead for good at 70-69 when he corralled a deflected pass and scored in the paint while drawing an intentional foul.
He hit one free throw, then Wood followed with a straightaway jumper on what amounted to a five-point possession that gave N.C. State a four-point lead. Two possessions later, Wood answered a 3-pointer by Trent Meyer with one of his own, losing Keith Hornsby around a screen on the right wing to make it 76-72 with 1:16 left.
UNC Asheville got as close as 80-78 on a three-point play from Hornsby (23 points) with 16.5 seconds left, but Howell made it a two-possession game with his free throws and the Bulldogs managed a meaningless putback just before the buzzer to end it.
Lorenzo Brown added 18 points while C.J. Leslie had 14 points and 11 rebounds for N.C. State, which improved to 18-0 all-time against UNC Asheville.