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i am so full of shit right now. that's what i get for eating mac and cheese with my lactose intolerant ass.
i am so full of shit right now. that's what i get for eating mac and cheese with my lactose intolerant ass.
last night, i was thinking really deeply about my life.
you know how some people see themselves being different from the time they were a kid to the time they're an adult.
well me on the other hand, i feel the same way i felt as a kid and now that i'm an adult. you know, *sigh* this is going to suck for me to say this but i always been someone trying to fit in and being accepted by others. i always wanted to be apart of the crowd and be considered to be a normal person like everyone else, you know, because as a kid, i was different. i don't know what it was. me not being able to talk until i was 5, me not being able to interact or get along with the other kids, me being put in special ed just to learn how to talk or whatever, me not being into guy stuff, acting extremely effeminate, or whatever. i was just thinking about wtf was up with me back then that lead to all that. in the long run, it was basically me fighting. i was always fighting somebody or something. whether it was fighting not to sleep at night, fighting some kids on the block that hated me or something else. i was always fighting. i would just get annoyed and wonder if my life would be much better when i got older because i felt like i didn't belong or like i was an alien. that was one of the reasons why i remained hopeful and decided not to run around doing any criminal activities, get involved with drugs, gangs, the streets, or even try to kill myself. zip past jr high, my teenage years, my early adult years and then now. i still feel the same way where i basically feel like i'm not accepted for who i am as a person and have to constantly fight and explain myself to people who look and treat me as if i'm not a human being. you know, i was getting really angry about it to the point where i just felt like saying fuck it, i should just do whatever since things won't change anyway. you know, it's like if i knew that my life would have came out to be like this, i would have probably just got locked up or tried to kill myself anyway. i hate other people treating me like i don't fucking belong or like i'm a weirdo and don't breathe the same fucking air that they do. like goddamn, do i have to kill somebody just to send a message that i'm the same as everybody else? i don't look disfigured or act crazy or whatever. i'm just like everyone else and i want my cake to eat it too. why the hell are people treating me so fucking different? that's the honest truth since it's supposed to be honesty day.
Where are you where people treat you so hostilely for being different? Because I don't get that. Some people aren't interested in me because my interests differ from them, but nobody treats me like I'm from space or anything. "Society" isn't one huge homogenous blob. If you're not fitting in where you're at, go a bit further down the block. Maybe you'll fit in with the emo folks or the punks or the jazz crowd. You might just need to look a bit harder to find people to accept you for you, but they ARE out there. If somebody isn't accepting you, stop trying to force them to do so - just stop dealing with them altogether.
Hello WagWag, I'm sad that I hadn't got the time to know you, your farewell post shows a good, if somewhat wounded, heart, and I would gladly have read more from you.
Why do you feel the need to stop being here ? You can lurk as you please, just read, or be absent for few weeks/months without saying a definitive goodbye.
Whatever your choice is, I wish you a very happy and fulfilling life wherever your feet will make you go !
Magna Veritas
I'm very ashamed : I go more frequently to McDo's than to French restaurants here in Paris
Magna Veritas
I'm a music fiend, I love going to concerts, and I've lived in Colorado for roughly thirty years.
Number of times I've gone to Red Rocks: 2.
In Colorado, even people who don't really go to concerts much tend to go to Red Rocks a couple times a year. From April through October, it's usually where any of the "currently big" artist or perennials are playing. But I've just never been sussed to get up there. I've been there to see a friend's band open for a national act (and I left before that national act took the stage), and once to see a bunch of 80s bands play (and my friend bought my ticket). The thing is - it IS a gorgeous venue, and it is a lot of fun seeing a show there. I just never seem to get up there.Are you saying that's too little?
I've lived in Colorado most of my life, and have never been to a concert at Red Rocks
There was a time because of where I lived, if they set things up just right (and a perfectly clear night) I could see some flashing lights from nighttime concerts...
(but not like I lived right close to it or anything LOL just a matter of being at the right angle to see it)
When we were in Romania to adopt 2 of our sons, the courts required us to track down any family members of theirs to sign away their rights to the boys before we were allowed to take them to the US. The boys were in very bad condition and needed to get to the US fast. While my partner took care of the boys, I hired private investigators. One of them was this huge Hungarian. I'm 6'3", 180 and he was at least a head taller and double my weight. He was the hairiest person I ever saw and mean looking. Frankly, I was afraid of him. To make things worse, I felt I needed to share with him who we were. I was scared to tell him we were a gay couple in case he had a problem with us. I needed his loyalty. Like any good coward, I wanted the support of others when I told him, so I invited others to be with me. It turns out his little brother was gay and he loved his brother. I began to develop trust in him, even though he still scared me. To make a long story short, I had told him all about the man who had abused the boys. He asked me if I wanted the man to have a taste of his own medicine. It was as if the devil whispered something tempting into my ear and I liked it. Alot. I mean, 2 broken legs would be a small price to pay for abusing children, I rationalized. Fortunately, my husband talked sense into me, after he laughed at me.
I laughed too, but the thought of revenge was so sweet. If you know anything about Romania, you know it's a dark place where there is precious little justice, especially for the most vulnerable. Had we been in the US, we would have had legal recourse and I wouldn't have felt so helpless. I felt powerless to prevent him from hurting any more children, which I am sure he would have. That is what bullies do. I did have the hairy Hungarian have a talk with the creep to let him know he was being watched.
I like to think of myself as a gentle man, but the way I enjoyed the thought of revenge still pricks my conscience.
I'm disappointed to see that WagWag left before I had the opportunity to say goodbye. I'd only just started interacting with him in recent weeks and was greatly impressed by his character. I must admit I was really looking forward to getting to know him better. Still, I am delighted to hear that he has overcome what ever difficulties he was facing in life and feels content to move on. Good luck with everything, bud.
Sixthson, the desire for revenge is a perfectly natural psychological mechanism, and is often parochial and heated - but what's important is that you felt conflicted enough to second-guess yourself, and that you ultimately rationalised a more diplomatic solution. Whereas our thoughts can ultimately become our words and actions, as your story depicts, it needn't be invariably so. There is no need to punish yourself harshly for negative thoughts when it is largely how you act upon them that defines who you are. Personally, I'm glad that there are men as gentle and kindhearted as yourself in this world, and even more so that your sons were(are) lucky enough to be brought up having two of them as parents.
As for a confession, I suppose I do have one that is pertinent to JUB. Sometimes at night when I'm finding it particularly difficult to sleep, I feel a calming warmth and comfort when I imagine a particular member of JUB lying beside me. What's odd is that since knowing him, I've had crushes on other men, I have dated other men, and have even had sex with another man, but find that my mind so often goes back to him when my head hits the pillow at night. I suppose that's not particularly surprising or damaging, but it is a confession nonetheless. You'll have to make do.
I'm a part time Buddhist so I'm not sure if I should be asking for salvation here but I have sex with every guy I meet! Ten Hail Mary time I think!
I don't think I post here often enough to have a reputation, but whatever...
I don't care for dead pet stories. For some reason, they just don't get to me in the way they do others. I've had pets, and of course I was dejected when they died, but I've never been able to revisit that level of dispiritedness as others seem to. The sheer overuse of such stories when the topic of sadness comes up prevents me from ever seeing them as anything but maudlin (I recall a thread on another forum where people decided to start posting sad material, and it was basically just ten pages of stories / videos of how someone's pet died). I don't think it's a case of me being impassive either, since I cry all the time...
Mechanical Birds
I used to carry a notebook everywhere. But I cared little what they looked like. Sometimes, I'd have a little spiral notebook with dancing dinosaurs or fighting unicorns on it. As long as I had a place to write things down. I didn't carry pencils, though - only pens. Once I found a pen I loved - Bic black retractables - I started stocking up on them. Usually had two in my pocket at all times.
I still have standard sized spiral notebooks and retractable pens at home, but my iPhone has replaced the notebook I used to carry. I use the "notes" secrion to write down my ideas, and I have an app for sorting thru my "things to do". Is it the "same"? No. Just different. Less personal but more convenient.
and where on earth is Lexington?
If you want. I only answered at length because I was unclear what the real question was, and felt like being thorough.Interesting. I want to know what time it is. Can you tell me how to make a watch? :P
It's an iPhone simply because that's the one I chose. I wouldn't have minded any of the other smartphones. Most of my friends have Androids and Blackberrys, actually.everybody has an iphone nowadays. i'm telling you, it's a trademark of the new world order. steve jobs was an evil man.
it's been almost a year since i smoked marijuana. i most definitely am not going to smoke weed anymore since i can't handle it but let me say this though, i think weed should be legalized. it is a thinking drug. if you are a person that enjoys thinking about life, the ills of the world, science, history, and etc, you need to smoke some weed one time in your life.
i will never forget when i was smoking in my friend's backyard behind his garage. we were getting weeded out and the effects of the weed hit me. i just remember being back there huffing and puffing all that weed into my lungs and my body and mind just going into another world. i felt warm, my hands went numb and i just lost my sense of reality. i went into another world. you know how people say that they die and go to heaven or hell or the after life, that's what i experienced. i was present in my physical form but my mind was in another place. i had to constantly tell myself if the people that i had talked to and interacted with really existed and if certain events really happened. it was crazy to say the least. it was similar to me feeling completely out of wack when i was at my job where i felt like i loss sense of reality that i wrote sometime back.
then here's where it gets good. i started to think deeply about the ways of the world. then a serious thought hit me. i suddenly asked myself did people seriously kill and hate other people for being a different skin color than them? it really hit me like i was dumbfounded. it actually sickened me like wow, "you mean to tell me that back in the 1920s, 30s, before and after those times that people were being lynched and killed and etc for having black skin by people with white skin tone." i was like, wtf is the difference between blacks and whites. i started to ask the same question about if women were really being discriminated against for being women. did gay people really get discriminated against for being gay? were people really mistreating and hating people because of small characteristics that were different than theirs even though they were pretty no different than them and basically, the same human beings that they were. i was just horrified that there were people that thought like that and continue to simply because they have nothing better to do with their time. this was all when i was high out of my mind. then i started to look at america and realized that this country really is a horrible place to live in. why is this type of thinking normalized? then i thought about how people would get defensive about people challenging their way of thinking such as being racist or self segregating and etc and how they would be willing to kill me to prove how right they're are and how wrong i am or people like me was.
but being weeded out just makes you realize how horrible the world is. we are basically living a lie when people say that they're happy with the way things are when there's a lot of things that need to be done to make the world a better place. reality truly does suck. i think that marijuana would actually make people explore the parts of their minds that they don't want to acknowledge and see themselves and the world in a light that they may know of already but may not truly understand.
also when i was weeded out, the truth about me being gay came out. i basically came out to myself even though i was still in the closet. the guy who i had a crush on, i was hallucinating about him and basically making out with the air and acting out sexual positions while thinking of him drilling me. i remember being on my bed lying face down grabbing my ass saying "have your way with me please?" i was questioning if i accidently emailed him or someone else saying the feelings that i was hiding at the time or if i really said that i was gay and really was acting out when i remembered everything clear as day. i felt guilty for days and weeks trying to forget everything that happened basically being in denial and that's part of the reason why i decided to finally question my sexuality.
marijuana is a powerful drug. try it.
Magna Veritas
^ Did your pyjamas have a draw-string and fly?
Well, that's probably the first time I've elicited such a response from someone.
Mechanical Birds
I don't know... I don't think I've ever come across one that brought me to tears, and I certainly don't seek them out. If anything, I've probably read less than most people. Maybe I just don't like animals as much as others...
Mechanical Birds
I was feeling woozy from a medical procedure during the day yesterday.
I got up in the middle of the night to exercise my bladder. It's cold here, My tracky-dacks fell to my ankles, I tried to hobble but fell full-length slamming my considerable body down to the ground. Ouch!
I joined another gay forum a couple weeks ago, and tho I've been reading threads there...I have never once posted..
had a sex dream about two of the actors in teen wolf fucking each other on some porn fantasy type of thing. makes sense since i heard about one of the actors is in the closet.
by the way, the guy that was bottoming had a really hairy ass. i think i saw the guy that topped dick and his dick was big and thick. i didn't see them fuck but i saw right when the guy that was bottoming was getting ready to sit on the other guy's dick. haha.
I don't even see a way to reply to comments...
But i too do enjoy reading them
it's so funny watching mayweather whipping cotto's ass. FLOYD MAYWEATHER WON TOO! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!
I have not been exercising for months and have gotten fat. It's not a bad thing.
I drink too much
at this moment of time, i would like to say i need to take a shit but my brother is hogging the bathroom taking a shit as well, i need to shower, i feel tired, i had a bad dream right now which involves the wu-tang c.r.e.a.m video along with redman in a video rapping along with some rock star, and my eyes and i feel tired.
i also was going to make a thread pertaining to this guy that i'm talking to online who happened to be a feminine gay guy along with a generalized statement on black feminine gay guys but then i realized that it was my internalized homophobia that was acting up again. (and besides, i know that most of you guys in here would call me out on it anyway like what you've done before. so what would be the point?) it was pretty much my fear and my self hatred that was like "hi, refuji. you're thinking about ignoring this guy because he went to the same school as you did and he may have been in the same class as you. you're scared to give him a chance because you're afraid that he might know people that know you and then everyone that you know will know that you're gay". then i thought about how much i thought that being accepted by the majority and all the cool people had mattered to me so much in the past that i was willing to compromise who i really am to be somebody i''m not. it really hit me hard. then i also realized that around last year, my fear of being gay along with the stress of finding a job after graduating college and basically growing up and moving on with my life made me do crazy shit such as go on craigslist to look for weed dealers and wasting a shitload of money i didn't have in order to "take the pain away".
basically, fear makes me do crazy things and then i realized that although i'm taking two steps forward, it's a whole lot better than taking two steps back. i'm not going to smoke weed or run away from my problems such as being gay but i'm going to slowly push forward despite the fact that it makes me nervous and scared. it's like the idea of me being out makes me grip to anything that i feel can make me retain my manhood because i feel less of a man and an outcast even though most people around me view me as less than a man and an outcast already. it's that i don't or refuse to allow myself to be that since i believe that that will make me feel good about myself.
right now, i am high off masturbation. this is what marijuana is supposed to do to me but it seems like my hand is a stronger drug.
i don't want to be bothered at all. leave me alone. i want to enjoy this mellow feeling right now. i'm so laid back, lazy and my armpits feel sticky. however, my kitchen sink smells like how my armpits are supposed to be smelling=unsexified.
like in that state farm commercial, can i get a hot tub?
When I was younger I battled against severe internalized homophobia, and was in such a fucked-up state mentally that I did disgusting, filthy things which (if it exists) would surely land me in Hell. I'm so ashamed of some of the things I did during my early teen years that I've done my best to forget them and block them from my memory.
okay, another confession that i'm going to get off my chase.
ever since i was 11, i always felt like i was being watched by somebody as in someone is keeping surveillance over me. i don't know why but i felt that way ever since i started taking out books that gave information about nuclear, biological and chemical weapons at east orange public library. i don't know why i had a morbid fascination as a kid with weapons of mass destruction or things which hurt or kill people.
but since then, i've been paranoid a bit here and there. i used to think that cameras were being stashed in my bedroom (not anymore though). i've been also suspicious of some people as well. i haven't been doing anything illegal. about 2 years ago, i thought a certain guy that i met in 07 was stalking me since i saw his car the same gym that i go to. turns out that it was just my imagination.
however, in recent times, i THINK someone else has been in the past months or so been watching or stalking me. not to give away any details but i think someone is watching me and they know that i know that they're watching me too. i think they want me to say something but then again, i don't want to because i might be opening up a can of worms. i would rather my suspicions be proven than me to sound like an idiot when i ask questions.
but to anybody that is watching me for real as in the real life person behind this screenname (not talking about any posters in here that happen to read my posts or whatever), it would be better to just straight up tell me that you're watching me or whatever you have to say than do the obvious because i'm not going to say anything and provoke the unprovoked. i'm a cool guy where i laugh things off or will be cool about situations where people might get really pissed over.
then again it might be my imagination and i'm just wishing to be persued or stalked. i don't know.
I once thought someone was watching me. Yhen I realized how utterly bored that person must be if he were.
For all I know, somebody IS watching my every move, and is brilliant about covering his tracks so that I don't stumble across him, or even suspect. But if so...why?
Let's say he just watched me this weekend. If so, what did he get to see? Yeah, he saw me shower and masturbate and have sex. But that's amid a sea of boring stuff like watching me sleep (and snore), and pet my cat, and look up album artwork on the internet, and listen to some music, and read my book, and eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and go to the lacrosse game, and wander around some bars looking for friends that never showed up. If somebody's sitting there watching all this, why? What's he getting out of it?
Is he compiling a dossier that he'll use to blackmail me? If so, he knows how poor I am...and how little I care if others know I watched porn or ate a sandwich.
Is he so turned on by me that he'll sit there watching me do all this stuff for a quick look at my cock? If he's followed me that long, he should know I'd give him a look if he asked. Hell, I might give him more than a look if he asked nicely.
Let's not get crazy now.
but honestly, i wouldn't be surprised if you did have a stalker or two. you did say awhile back that you're considered a celebrity in your town where people are like "oh shit, aren't you lex from..........?"
If they're following me 24/7, they've got no job but can afford difficult-to-detect cameras and microphones. In which case, hey, knock yourself out.good point. but then again, lex, that idea is not far fetched at all. who knows, you might actually have one or two stalkers following you right now and the craziest thing is that some people really don't have anything better to do than to do that to other people because they really don't have anything going on in their lives.
Actually, some years ago, I was talking to somebody about whether ghosts were real. He seemed to think spirits could (and did) look down into us wherever we were doing. And my response was that maybe they could, but what was I going to do about it? If they could watch as I got busy with a guy, it's not like I could foil them by moving to another room - they'd just follow us there. So my opinion is "if they're there, and they're watching, I hope they enjoy the show." My guess is that if they have that power, they're probably spying on somebody hotter, though.
I do have people "following" me...on Twitter. But even there, they find out what I maintain over and over - that my life is interesting and exciting to me, but boring as hell to others.but honestly, i wouldn't be surprised if you did have a stalker or two. you did say awhile back that you're considered a celebrity in your town where people are like "oh shit, aren't you lex from..........?"
well.... speaking of hot, what would you do if your stalker was a hot guy? you wouldn't invite from to a threesome with you and your man? honestly, if my stalker was a hot guy, i would give him the "are you serious?" look and then ask him how come he couldn't say hello or confront me and keep it real. i would give him a shot.
Well, if he's doing the "stalker" game as you set it up - where I'm under undetectable surveillance 24/7 - I really won't know, will I? Unless he either slips up, or decides to make his presence known, it's like he isn't there. And that's how I operate. Either nobody's watching me, or somebody's watching me that I can't do anything about (like a ghost), so I may as well operate like nobody's watching me. I suppose I could randomly yell out "Hey, stalker, feel free to join in and get some of this" each time I'm having sex or masturbating, but if he exists, I doubt that'll lure him out of hiding. But since he's presumably watching my every move, he no doubt is reading my JUB posts. In which case:
Dear Stalker, if you want to have sex with me, just ask. I'll make it happen.


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Results 8th grade: Grundy Center 14-8 W. Aplington-Parkersburg 46-34 W. West Marshall 53-16 W. East Marshall 27-0 W. AGWSR 40-0 W. Hudson 60-0 W
Results 7th grade: Aplington-Parkersburg 40-0 W. West Marshall 50-8 W. East Marshall 38-8 W. AGWSR 30-0 W. Hudson 38-0 W. North Tama 66-0 W.
The Junior High Football teams showed great improvement over the course of the season. This is only the second time in my 9 years of Coaching Jr. High Football at Gladbrook-Reinbeck; both the 7TH & 8TH grade teams finished with perfect records, the only time we did this in back to back years, and the first time a team was perfect in both 7th & 8th grade. Not only did they put up big numbers on the offensive side of the ball; both the 7th & 8th grade teams were solid on the defensive side of the ball, the 7th grade shutting out 4 of 6 opponents the 8th grade shutting out 3 of 6 opponents. As a coaching staff, we focused on the fundamentals of the game. The players did an excellent job of picking up the Offense, Defense, & Special Teams, giving us the luxury of practicing the skills of blocking and tackling on a more consistent basis. We were rather unfortunate with the weather we had, the teams played every game scheduled, however, lost several practices due to the heat. This was a very enjoyable and talented group of athletes to work with; they not only worked very hard, but did so with much enthusiasm and self discipline. We should expect great things from these young people, both on and off the field.
Opening the holes for the 8th grade this year were: Jed Peterson, Jacob Walters, Jaden McGhee, Spencer Goos, Joseph Pepe, Thomas Mussig, & John Edler. The QB: Joe Smoldt did a great job leading the offense. Eric Knaack, Slade Wager, Parker Bown, & Matt Roeding all ran the ball very well. Dmitriy Strohbehn, Ales Tscherter, Joseph Baugus, Hunter Beachler, & Tyler Pierce did a great job of both blocking for our backs and catching the ball.
Opening the holes for the 7th grade this year were: Bryce Schick, William Blakesley, Rhett Barnes, Christian Kibe, Hunter Smoldt, Kyle Koppen, Sam Cahalan, & Jake Moore. The QB: Hunter Lott did a great job leading the offense. Josh Saak, Walker Thede, Matt Johannsen & Gage Murty all ran the ball very well. Caden Kickbush, Cael Wyatt, Mason Skovgard, Bronson Wrage, Josh Peterson, & Owen Beach all did a great job of both blocking for our backs and catching the ball.
Hanna Sager & Mo Brown were both a great asset to the team; their organizational and managerial skills were valued and much appreciated.
Defensively, each and every one of these guys contributed. Throughout the entire fall, these guys displayed great skills and determination. They had excellent technique and had good knowledge of the game. We were able to run multiple sets; switching in and out of 4 and 5 man fronts, and 3-4 linebacker formations. The defenses dominated many of their opponents.
The coaching staff of Jeff Mayes and Todd Rickert really enjoyed working with each and every one of you. We wish you great success in the future.

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Hi all,
Over the past couple of weeks, I have started noticing missing emails on my storm running OS 188.8.131.528. I had switched from confirm delete and at first thought I might be accidentally deleting emails while I thought the screen was locked. (I turned that off). I noticed that some email that I got on my pc, never seemed to make to to my berry. Others are there, then gone, whether read or unread. Today I got about 25 emails at home. I only have one left on my berry. I probably deleted 2. Some of the others I say and then they were gone. Others I never Saw. My memory did get low and I have rebooted twice today. once for the low memory, once for application upgrades. Thoughts?


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Just echoing some earlier posted sentiments but worth repeating: just b/c IE8 is going to be released sometime in 2009 DOES NOT mean it is going to be so quickly adopted by all the IE6/7 users out there (who account for somewhere around 70% of typical market share still, on the conservative scale).
I'm not denying the fact that one could fork their code to supply CSS tables for all "modern" browsers and deliver "fallback" float/positioning layout styles via conditional comments to support IE6/7. But what's the point of all that extra work? From a business/production standpoint, that's just not practical.
Whereas, I've always been able to get even the most challenging layouts to work cross-browser with floats etc. Yes IE needs to be served a few fixes usually… but certainly it's less work to make minor tweaks for one technique as opposed to fully coding two entirely different CSS layout models.
You could argue for graceful degradation and let IE6/7 basically choke on the CSS tables and merely get a simplified version of the design. But try telling a paying client their site won't display as designed for such a large share of the market. Also not a practical option in most real world situations.
So yes, the idea of CSS tables is indeed interesting. It is definitely worth being familiar with for future use, and of course good to have in your toolbox for use whenever/wherever appropriate right now. 100% agreed.
But to call CSS tables the "first tool you reach for" as a production layout technique? That's an overstatement. Just my opinion, though.
Speaking of overstatements, and comments above regarding the book Mr. Yank is hawking… yes, I agree the title Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong! is misleading. The entire book is devoted to CSS tables as a layout technique, and we all know CSS covers a whole lot more than just layout.
I am curious to thumb through a copy, however, as I'd really like to see Kevin's suggestions for addressing the source order limitations with CSS tables.
From an SEO and accessibility standpoint, layout via CSS floats provides flexibility in ensuring the most important content can come first in the source order regardless of the design requirements.
Whereas, CSS tables for layout requires the content to be in the same order in the markup as it needs to be displayed on screen, which is of course mixing content with presentation. I should probably do some tests first to confirm, but that's my understanding. Please correct me if I'm wrong.


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Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration 103
|Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration: Beginner's Guide
|Maria Carina Roldan
|Packt Publishing
|If you have never used PDI before, this will be a perfect book to start with.
It's just what you want to know when you touch PDI for the first time. The instructions are easy to follow and understand and should help you to get started in no time. I honestly quite like the structure of the book: Whenever you are learning something new, it is followed by a section that just recaps everything. So it will help you to remember everything much easier.
Maria focuses on using PDI with files instead of the repository, but she offers a description on how to work with the repository in the appendix of the book.
Chapter 2: You will learn how to reading data from a text file and how to handle header and footer lines. Next up is a description of the "Select values ..." step which allows you to apply special formatting to the input fields, select the fields that you want to keep or remove. You will create a transformation that reads multiple text fields at once by using regular expressions in the text input step. This is followed by a troubleshooting section that describes all kind of problems that might happen in the setup and how to solve them. The last step of the sample transformation is the text file output step.
Then you improve this transformation by adding the "Get system info" step, which will allow you to pass parameters to this transformation on execution. This is followed by a detailed description of the data types (I wish I had all this formatting info when I started so easily at hand). And then it even gets more exciting: Maria talks you through the setup of a batch process (scheduling a Kettle transformation).
The last part of this chapter describes how to read XML files with the XML file input step. There is a short description of XPath which should help you to get going with this particular step easily.
Chapter 3 walks you through the basic data manipulation steps. You set up a transformation that makes use of the calculator step (loads of fancy calculation examples here). For more complicated formulas Maria also introduces the formula step. Next in line are the Sort By and Group By step to create some summaries. In the next transformation you import a text file and use the Split field to rows step. You then apply the filter step on the output to get a subset of the data. Maria demonstrates various example on how to use the filter step effectively. At the end of the chapter you learn how to lookup data by using the "Stream Lookup" step. Maria describes very well how this step works (even visualizing the concept). So it should be really easy for everybody to understand the concept.
Chapter 4 is all about controlling the flow of data: You learn how to split the data stream by distributing or copying the data to two or more steps (this is based on a good example: You start with a task list that contains records for various people. You then distribute the tasks to different output fields for each of these people). Maria explains properly how "distribute" and "copy" work. The concept is very easy to understand following her examples. In another example Maria demonstrates how you can use the filter step to send the data to different steps based on a condition. In some cases, the filter step will not be enough, hence Maria also introduces the "Switch/Case" step that you can use to create more complex conditions for your data flow. Finally Maria tells you all about merging streams and which approach/step best to use in which scenario.
In Chapter 5 it gets really interesting: Maria walks you through the JavaScript step. In the first example you use the JavaScript step for complex calculations. Maria provides an overview of the available functions (String, Numeric, Date, Logic and Special functions) that you can use to quickly create your scripts by dragging and dropping them onto the canvas. In the following example you use the JavaScript step to modify existing data and add new fields. You also learn how to test your code from within this step. Next up (and very interesting) Maria tells you how to create special start and end scripts (which are only executed one time as opposed to the normal script which is executed for every input row). We then learn how to use the transformation constants (SKIP_TRANSFORMATION, CONTINUE_TRANSFORMATION, etc) to control what happens to the rows (very impressive!). In the last example of the chapter you use the JavaScript step to transform a unstructured text file. This chapter offered quite some in-depth information and I have to say that there were actually some things that I didn't know.
In the real world you will not always get the dataset structure in the way that you need it for processing. Hence, chapter 6 tells you how you can normalize and denormalize data sets. I have to say that Maria took really huge effort in visualizing how these processes work. Hence, this really helps to understand the theory behind these processes. Maria also provides two good examples that you work through. In the last example of this chapter you create a date dimension (very useful, as everyone of us will have to create on at some point).
Validating data and handling errors is the focus of chapter 7. This is quite an important topic, as when you automate transformation, you will have to find a way on how to deal with errors (so that they don't crash the transformation). Writing errors to the log, aborting a transformation, fixing captured errors and validating data are some of the steps you go through.
Chapter 8 is focusing on importing data from databases. Readers with no SQL experience will find a section covering the basics of SQL. You will work with both the Hypersonic database and MySQL. Moreover Maria introduces you to the Pentaho sample database called "Steel Wheels", which you use for the first example. You learn how to set up a connection to the database and how to explore it. You will use the "Table Input" to read from the database as well as the "Table Output" step to export the data to a database. Maria also describes how to parameterize SQL queries, which you will definitely need to do at some point in real world scenarios. In next tutorials you use the Insert/Update step as well as the Delete step to work with tables on the database.
In chapter 9 you learn about more advance database topics: Maria gives an introduction on data modelling, so you will soon know what fact tables, dimensions and star schemas are. You use various steps to lookup data from the database (i.e. Database lookup step, Combination lookup/update, etc). You learn how to load slowly changing dimensions Type 1, 2 and 3. All these topics are excellently illustrated, so it's really easy to follow, even for a person which never heard about these topics before.
Chapter 10 is all about creating jobs. You start off by creating a simple job and later learn more about on how to use parameters and arguments in a job, running jobs from the terminal window and how to run job entries under conditions.
In chapter 11 you learn how to improve your processes by using variables, subtransformations (very interesting topic!), transferring data between transformations, nesting jobs and creating a loop process. These are all more complex topics which Maria managed to illustrate excellently.
Chapter 12 is the last practical chapter: You develop and load a datamart. I would consider this a very essential chapter if you want to learn something about data warehousing. The last chapter 13 gives you some ideas on how to take it even further (Plugins, Carte, PDI as process action, etc) with Kettle/PDI.
In the appendix you also find a section that tells you all about working with repositories, pan and kitchen, a quick reference guide to steps and job entries and the new features in Kettle 4.
This book certainly fills a gap: It is the first book on the market that focuses solely on PDI. From my point of view, Maria's book is excellent for anyone who wants to start working with Kettle and even those ones that are on an intermediate level. This book takes a very practical approach: The book is full of interesting tutorials/examples (you can download the data/code from the Pakt website), which is probably the best way to learn about something new. Maria also made a huge effort on illustrating the more complex topics, which helps the reader to understand the step/process easily.
All in all, I can only recommend this book. It is the easiest way to start with PDI/Kettle and you will be able to create complex transformations/jobs in no time!
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By ADAM LAPIERRE
News staff writer
April 22, 2006
In their last 12 games, the Hood River Valley High School varsity fastpitch girls have had nine shutouts, three wins by the 10-run mercy rule, five wins by 10 runs or more and six Intermountain Conference victories in a row. And at 14-1 overall after this week's victories over The Dalles/Wahtonka (6-0) and Bend (10-0, 10-0), the Eagles sit atop the IMC with a 12-game winning streak and sound victories over four of their eight conference rivals.
Thus far, IMC teams have not been able to score even a single run against the Eagles, who have outmatched their league opposition 62 runs to zero with an average of 10.3 runs per game. With less than a month remaining in the league schedule, the team's mix of pitching talent, solid defense and power at the plate promises an exciting post-season.
HRV vs. TDW
On Tuesday the girls hosted the Eagle-Indians, who currently sit fourth in the conference at 3-3 in the IMC. Under blue skies and some of the most pleasant weather of the season, the home team kept things hot at the Belmont ballpark against their longtime rivals from the east. Stefanie Draper pitched another solid game, striking out 11, walking one and coming one hit short of a perfect game.
Backing Draper on the mount was an unfaltering defense, which would finish the day without committing a single error.
Offensively, the girls proved once again to be a batting powerhouse. They took the lead in the second inning off an RBI from Lindsey Smith to score Brianne Rowley. In the next inning the Eagles opened their lead with runs from Chelsey Elliott and Megan Flem off a single from Rowley. Kayla Monahan then drove Rowley in to give the Eagles a four-run lead.
They would score two more in the fifth off a smash to the fence from Draper to drive in Flem and Rowley.
HRV vs. Bend
The Eagles hosted Bend High for a double-header on Wednesday that would end in two 10-0 victories for the home team.
In game one, Draper got her perfect game, striking out ten in the five-inning game cut short by the 10-run mercy rule. And the girls were again without error in the field, effectively shutting down the Lava Bears' offensive attempts.
And at bat, the Eagles were again punishers of the ball. They hammered in ten hits, scoring runs in each of the game's five innings.
Game two brought Elliott back to the mound for a little pitch and catch with Rochelle Friend. In five innings Elliott would strike out 11, leaving little work to be done in the field.
In the third inning the Bears threatened to score the first run against the Eagles in seven games. But they would not. With two outs and runners in scoring position, Monahan made a quick scoop at right field and threw to Flem at first to retire the inning and save yet another shutout.
The story was much of the same at bat in the second game. The girls handled Bend's pitcher with ease, scoring in each of the five innings and proving they are as effective at the plate as they are in the field. Flem and Draper would highlight the offensive blasting with a home run each.
The girls face perhaps the biggest challenge of their IMC schedule today in Bend. They face Summit High School, which is the league's only other undefeated team.
Summit hosted The Dalles/Wahtonka last weekend for a double header that would end with the home team winning 4-1 and 1-0.
Current IMC Standings: league overall
Hood River 6-0 14-1
Summit 6-0 9-5
Pendleton 5-1 10-4
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Chelsea FC's pursuit of Cesc Fàbregas is complete after the Spanish international midfielder signed a five-year contract with the west London club.
"I have unfinished business in the Premier League and now is the right time to return," said the 27-year-old, who moves from FC Barcelona for an undisclosed fee. "I considered all the other offers very carefully and I firmly believe that Chelsea is the best choice. They match my footballing ambitions with their hunger and desire to win trophies. They have an amazing squad of players and an incredible manager. I am fully committed to this team and I can't wait to start playing."
Fàbregas struck 28 goals in 96 Liga games for Barcelona after joining from Arsenal FC in 2011, winning the Copa del Rey and 2012/13 Liga among other trophies. Currently on FIFA World Cup duty with Spain, Fàbregas is aiming for his fourth straight major international crown. His previous stint in the Premier League entailed making 212 top-flight appearances for Arsenal.
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FRAMINGHAM - It's a familiar refrain Republicans in the state have been uttering for years: there's incompetence in Massachusetts's largely Democratic-led government, and people are fed up.
But after unsuccessful attempts the last few election cycles to crack what has been a mostly impenetrable blue barrier in Boston, the GOP knows by now it will take more than words to get its candidates into office.
"You've got to build a ground team," said Jon Fetherston of Ashland. "A lot of people want to help, but they don't know how."
That's why Fetherston and several other Republican Party leaders in the region teamed up to hold a jump-start campaign event Wednesday night at the Framingham Sheraton - "The goal really is to get people energized," he said.
Attended by about 60 people, the MetroWest Republican Town Committees volunteer recruitment meeting gave a platform to several state and national level Republican candidates for the mid-term election, including Karyn Polito, who is running for lieutenant governor with gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker; Mike Heffernan, treasurer, Patricia Saint Aubin, auditor; John Miller, attorney general; Brian Herr, U.S. Senate; and Doug Grindle, state representative.
The idea, organizers said, was to introduce those candidates to their potential backers, and inspire area Republicans to get our their wallets and their walking shoes.
"They need every bit of support they can get," said Terry Hendrix, chairman of the Ashland Republican Town Committee. "They need you, they need everybody you know. And it's not just money they need - they need your time."
The state Republican Party is also gearing up for a fight this campaign season; MassGOP chairwoman Kirsten Hughes said the organization has already opened 15 field offices around the state, three times as many as the Republicans had on the actual election day during the last mid-terms in 2010.
"There is absolutely progress," she said. "We have the tools to compete on the ground that we haven't had before, and that's where elections are won."
The candidates also�asked guests�at the meeting for their help, warning that another resounding victory for the Democrats this fall would only hasten the state's decline.
"Let's not fall short," said Polito, who did just that in her bid for state treasurer four years ago. "The consequences are too great."
While the Democratic side has had a good run lately, Heffernan pointed out Massachusetts has had a tradition of Republicans holding executive offices in the state government,�including the governor's office, which has been occupied by�the likes of Mitt Romney, Paul Cellucci and William Weld.
"It seems like eons ago, but it was only seven and a half years ago,"�he said. "We can get it back."
According to some Republican leaders at the meeting, they'll need longtime party supporters like the late Jim Hickey of Ashland, who was honored at the event. His strong views might not have made him a great fit for elected office, said his friend and former Ashland Republican Town Committee chairman, John Ellsworth, "but what he did do was work behind the scenes."
"He was just an honest, solid, conservative human being who cared," he said. "The caring came out in what he did for people."
"There are a lot of people like that around, but there aren't enough of them," Hendrix said.
Republicans are trying to find them - and get them on board for 2014.
"We all need to get around 1.2 million votes to win," said Heffernan. "And I don't have that many friends."
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Toby Ann Towns
Toby Ann Towns
April 16, 1949 – Feb. 4, 2011
PLYMOUTH — Toby Ann Towns, 61, a longtime Plymouth resident, passed away at 4:20 p.m., Friday, Feb. 4, 2011 in the Miller's Merry Manor, Plymouth.
Toby was born the only child of Herschel E. and Phyllis J. "Josephine" (Eaglebarger) Towns April 16, 1949 in Gary. Her father was principal of Lincoln Jr. High for many years and her mother was a member of Tri-Kappa and civic-minded. Toby enjoyed being a part of her parent's lives and the family involvement in the community.
Toby knew her way to salvation and her kind spirit brought joy to those around her and created a special bond with her excellent caregivers at the Cardinal Center in Warsaw and most recently Miller's Merry Manor. For three years she took part in the activities at the Cardinal Work Center. She loved to color, cut out house plans and "dress up" occasions.
Surviving cousins include: Becky (Jack) Cunningham of Taft, Calif., Dede (Don) Sherman of Huntington, Jodie (Ed) Welz of Mulberry, Fla., Mary (Stanley) Wilhelm of Argos, Jon Branch Williams of Bakersfield, Calif., Robert O. (Dorothy) Town of Bluffton, Ohio, and Bremen residents: William G. and Lu Town, a very special person in Toby's life.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
Visitation will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 8 in the Johnson-Danielson Funeral Home, Plymouth.
Services will begin at 11 a.m. with Rev. Charles Krieg officiating.
Entombment will be in the New Oakhill Mausoleum.
Memorial gifts may be given to the Down Syndrome Family Support and Advocacy Group, 51201 Old Cottage Drive, Granger, IN, 46530 or Center For Hospice Care, 112 S. Center St., Plymouth, IN, 46563.
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It says something about our super-size-me world that a 4,600-pound vehicle can be classified as a midsized SUV. But then the Acadia slots between GMC's Terrain and its barge-sized Yukon. For 2013, the Acadia gets a facelift that brings it in line with GMC's urban-macho aesthetic. We need to look rugged in those school car lines, after all.
Appearance: The Acadia's refreshed design gives it a more chiseled look that taps into the family features of the smaller Terrain. The most prominent change is a front that's more trucklike with a bold three-bar grille. The headlights, hood and fenders also get tweaks. The LED daylight running lights wrap around the headlight assembly for a modern look. The rear glass also is a wraparound, which makes the Acadia look streamlined and long. Our tester came in Crystal Red Tintcoat, which brought compliments from a soccer mom, surely the demographic that makes GMC giddy.
Performance: The 288-horsepower, 3.6-liter V-6 purrs quietly and is adequate in normal driving, as is the six-speed automatic. The engine seems strained under hard accelerations, but remember this is a beefy SUV at 4,656 pounds (the optional AWD is 4,850!). There also can be some torque steer on this front-wheel-driver. Important consideration: The Acadia handles and feels like a truck, which can make parking lot navigation more challenging. There's also body lean on turns because of its height. It's a good thing that a rearview camera and rear parking sensor are standard. You will need them.
Interior: The layout is much like a minivan: open, spacious and flexible. Cargo space is expansive: 24.1 cubic feet behind the third-row seats, and up to 116.1 cubic feet with both second and third rows down. The Acadia seats seven to eight, depending on the seating configuration. The second-row seats tip and slide forward easily to access the third row. You can also use the walk-through with the second-row bucket-seat. There also is hidden under-deck storage and a power lift gate. As for creature comforts, our tester had the entertainment system for rear passengers, with DVD player, wireless headphones and remote control. The power sunroof with second-row skylight made for a bright and airy cabin. The dash's instruments are clear and easy to read. The center console screen and controls? Not so much. Peter found the 6.5-inch Color Touch display too small for a vehicle of this size. The IntelliLink infotainment system has small touch buttons, but controls for the AC and towing mode are push buttons. Add some oddly marked controls and it's a confusing mix. Our tester did have some trucklike sophistication, with comfortable ebony leather seats with contrast stitching, as well as faux wood grain and aluminum accents. Other complaints: For shorter drivers, entry can be difficult; the side mirrors are small for a vehicle this size, as are the tiny blind-spot mirrors.
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Vista: The wraparound rear glass adds design flair.
New grille: It's a more distinctive look.
Ease of use: The SmartSlide Seating System is great for hauling the kids.
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Power tailgate: Remotely open and close the heavy lift gate.
Cargo space: Easily fold seats to get up to 116.1 cubic feet of space.
Utilitarian: Minivan convenience without the minivan look.
The bottom line: The Acadia is a nice people mover and minivan alternative with flexible seating. The tradeoff: It feels like the truck it is (oh, that MPG) and the price can quickly escalate depending on trim level and options.


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Children's medicine maker Pernix Therapeutics Holdings Inc. said Tuesday that it will buy insomnia treatment maker Somaxon Pharmaceuticals Inc. for about $25 million in stock.
It would be the third deal in less than two months for Pernix (NYSE: PTX), which makes the cough and cold treatments Brovex, Aldex, and Pediatex, and Cedax, an antibiotic for middle ear infections.
San Diego-based Somaxon (Nasdaq: SOMX) makes Silenor, a drug that was approved in 2010 to treat both short- and long-term insomnia.
Silenor is a low-dose tablet of doxepin, a drug that is used in greater doses to treat depression and anxiety. The Food and Drug Administration approved Silenor in March 2010, and Somaxon launched the drug in September through an agreement with Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG).
Pernix said sales of Silenor have totaled about $11.7 million over the last 12 months, and it expects continued annual sales of $10 million to $15 million.
Silenor is given by prescription, but Pernix said it believes Silenor could become an over-the-counter product.
The boards of both companies have approved the deal.
Pernix, which is based near Houston in The Woodlands, Texas, agreed in November to buy generic drug maker Cypress Pharmaceuticals and branded product maker Hawthorn Pharmaceuticals. At the time Pernix said it expected to report $135 million to $145 million in revenue in 2013.
Shares of Somaxon rose $1.18, or 80 percent, to close at $2.65. The stock has traded between $1.29 and $6.40 over the last year. Pernix shares lost 28 cents, or 3.5 percent, to $7.65. Its shares have traded between $5.90 and $10.75 over the past year.
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Taking guidance from his motto, For Sweden — With the Times, The King has actively followed developments and events, both within Sweden and internationally, acting as an important link between the past, the present and the future.
In the Hall of State and the Royal Apartments — the setting for many of The King's official duties — unique objects and images from The King's forty years as Head of State have been brought together.
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Dave's Rating:
It's hard out here for a billionaire.
Who's In It: Taylor Schilling, Grant Bowler, Graham Beckel
The Basics: Dagny Taggart (Schilling) is the hard-driving force behind America's biggest railroad, but her quest for success is ruthlessly impeded by an evil lefty government that wants to crush corporations and redistribute wealth, as well as by a mysterious, shadowy figure who shows up, lures away her best and brightest employees and leaves the unanswerable question, "Who is John Galt?" hanging in the air. She teams up with mega-industrialist Henry Rearden (Bowler), whose new super-strength metal alloy holds the key to rebuilding the greatness of the railroads and, ostensibly, ushering in a new American Renaissance of awesome ideas and individual achievement. Will they conquer all and sweep away the lazy, undeserving poor? For the answers you'll have to watch for parts two and three of this planned trilogy--think CEO Of The Rings--coming sometime soon, maybe, to a theater near you.
What's The Deal:This Sharktopus-budget-level cheap, badly-acted, clumsily-written and stiffly-directed movie about people sitting around tables talking about metal alloys, experimental engine prototypes and gettin' all the money still has a lot to offer film fans on both sides of the Great Ayn Rand Divide. For true believers, it's a way to finally see their ideals projected onto a big screen. This sort of hardcore conservatism simply doesn't often make its way out of a news-oriented setting and Rand fans will probably forgive it its bland TV movie production values. For curiosity-seeking bad-movie nerds, it'll be a whole other experience, one where you'll get to revel in the weird speechifying about "stupid altruism," borderline hypnotic stretches of dialogue about railway systems and hilariously sinister, giant-briefcases-full-of-oppressive-corporation-ruining-contracts-carrying liberals.
Actor Doing Her Best Under The Circumstances: Taylor Schilling delivers a sort of Dynasty-style, ballbusting lady-boss performance as Dagny. Even if you're not into this sort of person in real life, you kind of root for her to crush everybody trying to get in her way. I'm looking forward to parts two and three because, if we're lucky and they get made (and if we're even luckier and they get made by someone not slavishly devoted to the source material) she will go all actual ninja and begin using swords and throwing stars on those parasitical union employees trying to bend her will for the sake of dental coverage.
Nagging Questions I Want Ayn Rand To Answer From Beyond The Grave: I'm curious about the scene where a corporate titan's house burns to the ground and it's reported that fire trucks from other counties have to be called in to fight the blaze. Who does this person think he is, suckling at the public teat of fire department service? Shouldn't he go out and earn his own fire department to put out his possibly arson-related incident? And on the production end, were none of the actors on this thing SAG? Were the carpenters and electricians and other crew members just random day laborers they picked up hanging around outside of the local Home Depot? I think it matters from a purity standpoint.
Dear Objectivists, Don't Get Mad: Because, no joke, if this were a weekly series on Showtime I would watch it every week. And you know it could be with the right pitch. They air Gigolos, after all.
JG wannabee........it is a movie review. He is cracking jokes, being sarcastic. Even if he does believe what he says, no one wants to hear your political agenda on a movie review comment board. We want to hear Dave's film based political agenda.
Oh, only the reviewer gets to inject a political rant because it's from the left. LOL
I love how the left want to make this film fail.
Ayn Rand collected social security and medicare, so don't get your panties in a wad over a economic theory.
Oh, Ayn. If I wanted to see a movie about philosophy based on the primacy of the reasoning mind, I'd earn a fortune, produce one, then watch it...and spend plenty of time scoffing at second-handers along the way.
I think HANNA is still showing.
movie reviewers will pan this movie because they know that the Hollywood elites have visceral hatred for anything having to do with exposing the fascist left wing establishments that wants people to be slaves to the government. plus, they dont want to lose that invite to the special parties etc.
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2 stars?!?! That's more generous than other leftist reviewers. I plan on seeing Atlas next weekend and hopefully your criticism was jaded by your world view.
This is a movie where art imitates life. I didn't know the movie started and I thought I was watching a trailer for a documentary. I didn't notice that there were no Hollywood actors in the movie. Usually in a science fiction movie there is a lot of emphasis on the latest technology and how it is used to enslave humanity. In Atlas Shrugged the technology is to free humanity and that makes it a threat to government. It's no wonder that Hollywood hates this movie. It may change the industry.
I have not seen the movie yet but I read the book years ago. What Rand did in her book was take the lefts point of view to the extreme...complete central planning by the government. Complete central planning...i.e. socialism and communisim. Communisim has been an abject failure and proven so time and again while socialism has not completely failed but has made entire socieites of average joes. What socialism does is ultimately still protect the upper class by enslaving the lower classes. This is because it is inherently more difficult to rise economically in that system rather than capitalism. People who want socialism that are poor quite frankly are voting for their own economic enslavement.
I love the debating. People arguing from all ranges of the spectrum is what makes America one of a kind and a country that will never stop moving forward. BUTTT. People from the left and right need to realize:
Left: All rich people aren't sitting on panda bear reclining chairs thinking of ways to remove the standards of living for the lower classes. After all if their workers are sick, they cant work. (Atleast I hope they realize this)
Right: The U.S. government is not out to redistribute wealth, stifle capitalism, or promote lazy behavior. After all, a country full of lazy, broke, ungrateful suckers won't really stand a chance in any area of the global arena.
2 stars? Just what I expect from the liberal media. So predictable.
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A Microsoft tool entering its fourth iteration has seen slow adoption, but it could help greatly reduce the risk of successful attacks, according to a Verizon security expert and an author of the 2013 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.
The beta version of the fourth version of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) was released by Microsoft last week. The tool, which helps shield memory corruption vulnerabilities from exploitation, can make it much more difficult for attackers to gain an initial foothold into corporate systems, said Chris Porter, managing principal with Verizon's RISK Team. Administrators have been shirking the tool because some thought it was too complicated to deploy in some enterprises, Porter told CRN.
"It seems to be an effective control," Porter said. "We recommend taking a targeted approach with it against Internet Explorer and software that might be targeted by different groups."
[Related: Verizon Data Breach Report Finds Employees At Core Of Most Attacks]
Microsoft's EMET favors small organizations with less complex environments. But the tool is favored among nearly all security experts and is referred to in the 20 Critical Controls, a document created by a consortium of industry security experts to provide best practices to mitigate threats.
The 2013 Verizon DBIR found that 92 percent of all attacks emanate from outside the corporate network. Malware was used in 40 percent of the 621 breaches analyzed by Verizon. Many attacks required user interaction, typically clicking on a malicious link or file attachment. Attackers are exploiting vulnerabilities, installing spyware or keyloggers to steal account credentials, Verizon found.
In most cases, focusing on finding specific vulnerabilities and blocking specific exploits is a losing battle, Porter said. Patching is becoming easy on desktops, with automated updates for certain components that interfere less with software configurations, he said. If users don't have administrative rights and there's stronger configuration on the desktop, then organizations should wait before pushing out a patch, he added.
"There's a balance between configuration management and patch management," Porter said. "If you have very strong configurations, then you can patch in a targeted fashion and broadly over time."
If deployed properly, the final version of Microsoft's EMET, due out in May, could thwart zero-day vulnerabilities by preventing an attacker from targeting flaws regardless of whether the latest updates have been installed on an endpoint system. It does so by enabling administrators to apply data execution prevention, a defensive technology, to legacy software.
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Move most recent forum posts to the home page.
On the home page, have a list of all the most recent forum postings for all to see, with the thread count & time of last post. Then if anyone has an idea, they can click the link to go straight into the thread. With a link to the full board index at the top or bottom.
Remove the twitter or facebook blocks as they say the same and we have all of the logos everywhere, this would give more then enough space.
In case I have not described it to well here is the link to bluray.com so you can see what I mean.
This will improve the following aspects of the site:
It will get more people actively involved with the site.
List of threads to be included. All others to be excluded from this for reasons like C&A reports are no ones business apart from ours.
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Pippa Middleton's Rear Is 'Queen of the Booty' in Plastic Surgery Circles
By Hollie McKay
Published July 28, 2011
If you want a perfect rearview, apparently you need to look across the pond.
So-called British "commoner" Pippa Middleton has sparked a wave of surgery requests ever since she appeared in a form-fitting Alexander McQueen gown as maid-of-honor to big sister Kate (now Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge's) marriage to Prince William in April.
In particular, it was that back view of Pippa carefully carrying her older sister's nine-foot-long train into the church that captivated plastic surgery lovers
She's the sister to the Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, but she's carved out an identity that's all her own.
One sexy Royal Wedding dress turned Pippa Middleton into an international superstar. Other stars have had similar career-defining moments.
"The latest craze here in the U.S. and all over the world is to get the 'Pippa Butt Lift,'" Miami-based celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Constantino Mendieta told FOX411's Pop Tarts. "Once the breast implants reigned supreme, now it is the buttocks that are considered a woman's best asset."
While it was once trendy to boost the booty to mimic the likes of Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Lopez, "booty calls" for those two have been bumped for Middleton's bottom.
"The buttocks has been an increasing and escalating interest over the last four to five years, but the iconic figure was Jennifer Lopez and Kim Kardashian. Both have tremendous curves and large buttocks. While lots of people love the overall shape of those women, many felt those derrieres were just a bit too big," Mendieta explained. "But ever since the royal wedding, Pippa Middleton has become the new queen of the booty! She opens the doors to those who did not know you could have a small, shapely and perky backside without the large size. Patients want to be more proportionate [with] buttocks that look natural and sexy and go with the rest of their body."
Aside from the onslaught of Pippa-esque surgery requests, there are also entire websites and blogs now dedicated to the younger Middleton's posterior, and "Appreciation" pages are even popping up on Facebook. Earlier this month, photographer Alison Jackson told the Daily Mail that she is working to create a Web series called, "How To Create The Perfect Pippa Bottom," and Middleton's Pilates instructor Margot Campbell has reportedly inked a book deal to detail just how one shape up like her famous client.
But it's not just Middleton's bottom half that has folks talking.
"I am definitely seeing a rise in Pippa-like features," Constantino said. "People want to look sexy, elegant and petite."
And according to Dr. Richard W. Fleming of the Beverly Hills Institute, who each year spotlights the star-studded body parts that are currently being most requested in the highly-cited "Hollywood's Hottest Looks" survey, the Royal Middleton sibling's features are also in high-demand.
"People ask for what they see, and they are seeing a lot of the Middleton girls. Kate especially has been in the news non-stop for the past two months and the public adores her. She has impacted everything in the beauty and fashion industry - including plastic surgery requests - because of her beautiful natural looks, her polished appearance, her stylish approach to dress," he said. "The most requested features of both girls are their eyes and their nose. Both have beautiful, happy smiling eyes and very natural, perfectly proportional noses. ippa has a more curvaceous yet lean body so we are getting lots of requests from patients asking for liposuction and body contouring to get the 'Pippa Body.'"
So what is it about these twentysomething Bucklebury natives that has Hollywood hotties in awe?
"The Middleton girls are fresh and natural looking, they are the epitome of youth, and they're happy people - everything about their physical presence is happy and natural. They are ideally natural looking and their beauty is unpretentious," Fleming added. "We should all be so lucky to have their happiness, physical features and everything that goes with it. They represent blooming youth at its shiny best and it is fabulous to just watch it slowly mature before our eyes."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/07/28/pippa-middletons-rear-starts-new-plastic-suergery-craze/#ixzz1TUXtqyn0
by lenoxclanJuly 29, 2011 at 9:21 AM
Sorry..buttlift brings out my immaturity..LOL
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US Labor Department announces final rule expanding occupational skills training available to YouthBuild participants
WASHINGTON The U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration has issued a final rule implementing the YouthBuild Transfer Act of 2006, which establishes the program within the Labor Department.
The final rule incorporates comments received by the public throughout the comment period. Notable changes include expanding the occupational skills training available to YouthBuild participants to non-construction industries, including health care, information technology and other high demand industries. The rule also clarifies how students will allocate their time among education courses, occupation skills training, and leadership and/or community activities. In addition, the rule provides greater detail on allowable costs for construction materials and clarifies Davis-Bacon wage rules as they pertain to YouthBuild.
"For decades, Youthbuild has played a valuable role in helping thousands of young people earn an education, learn crucial job skills and improve their communities," said Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training Jane Oates. "Expanding this tested program to include training for high growth industries will only strengthen the American workforce and our competitiveness around the world."
YouthBuild is a highly successful alternative education program that assists youth who are often significantly behind in basic skills with obtaining a high school diploma or GED credential. The primary target populations for YouthBuild are adjudicated youth, youth aging out of foster care and out-of-school youth. The YouthBuild program is aligned with the Interagency Youth Vision and demand-driven investments supported by Workforce Investment Act formula funds.
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STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma State athletic director Mike Holder apologized to his fellow athletic directors around the Big 12 Conference on Monday in advance of what's expected to be a scathing expose of the football program by Sports Illustrated.
"I apologize to all the athletic directors in the conference for what's about to happen, for what's about to be said about a member institution," Holder said at a news conference without taking questions. "That reflects on everyone, all our brothers and peers, we're very remorseful about that."
The school announced over the weekend that SI had notified it of the upcoming series, which details transgressions by the football program starting in 2001. Oklahoma State said it has notified the NCAA and launched its own investigation.
Sports Illustrated, in a news release sent Monday, gave highlights of the five-part series that will begin Tuesday with a posting on SI.com. The magazine says it conducted interviews with more than 60 former Oklahoma State players who played for the school from 2001-10.
Among the allegations of misconduct and potential NCAA violations are:
— An Oklahoma State assistant coach paid cash bonuses to players of up to $500 for performance.
— Oklahoma State boosters and at least two assistant coaches funneled money to players and provided sham jobs for which players were paid.
— Tutors and other school personnel completed school work for players and professors gave passing grades for little or no work.
— The program's drug policy was selectively enforced, allowing some star players to go unpunished for repeated positive tests.
— Some members of a hostess program used by the football coaching staff during the recruitment of players had sex with recruits.
LSU coach Les Miles was head coach at Oklahoma State from 2001-04, when the program began to emerge from years of mediocrity. Current coach Mike Gundy took over in 2005 and the Cowboys have grown into a Big 12 power.
"Unfortunately, we've got something out there on the horizon that we'll have to deal with," Holder said. "I don't know a lot of specifics. I know a little bit. I know enough to be very concerned. As the athletic director and an alumnus of the university, I don't want it to be true. We pride ourselves on doing things the right way around here."
Gundy, trying to focus on preparing the No. 13 Cowboys for their home opener on Saturday against Lamar, said he was confident the proper steps would be taken by the university.
"I'm going to guess that once we get all the information and we see what's out there, then our administration, our people inside, will look at it and we'll see where we made mistakes," Gundy said. "And we'll try to make ourselves better and we'll correct it and then we'll move forward. And I would hope that there will be some of it that we'll say, 'I'm not sure, it could go one way or the other.' That's really the best way I can put it. But I think the university is looking forward to seeing the information and seeing how we can make ourselves better from it."
The Oklahoman reported, citing an unidentified source, on Saturday that former assistant coach Joe DeForest is accused in the story of running a bonus program, paying players for big plays as recently as 2011. DeForest now works as an assistant coach at West Virginia for head coach Dana Holgorsen, who is a former offensive coordinator at Oklahoma State.
West Virginia released a statement Saturday that did not mention DeForest and said it had "launched an internal review to ensure the coach's full compliance to NCAA rules while at West Virginia," while also contacting the NCAA.
"While our assistant football coach has denied the allegations, it is the right thing to do to look into the matter and review practices here," athletic director Oliver Luck said.
Miles has said he didn't know of any improprieties while he was the Oklahoma State coach.
"I can tell you this: We have always done things right," he said after LSU's game Saturday night in Baton Rouge, La.
Holder vowed to cooperate fully with any further investigations.
"We're all committed to playing by the rules and doing things the right way here and for people to say that's not what's happening is very disturbing," Holder said. "Our goal is to separate fact from fiction and then we can start dealing with it. We've already notified the NCAA and they're going to assign an investigator to this. We'll reach out and get someone to stand with that investigator and go through the facts and at the end of the day, we'll come to some conclusions and we'll deal with those, prop ourselves back up, polish off that OSU brand and move on down the road."


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"Building a railroad isn't driving spikes by hand anymore," said Martin. "It's about the technology that keeps it operating 24-hours, the maintenance and freight. Essentially, it's like a pipeline but above ground."
"The economy remains the Harper government's top priority and Canada's railway network is an integral part of our economy, transporting people and goods safely and efficiently across the country and to and from global markets." said Minister if Public Works Rona Ambrose. "This innovative facility at the University of Alberta will conduct specialized research and educate qualified engineers to meet the future needs of the Canadian rail sector."
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SERIOUS mystery wiring issue...
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Posted 02 December 2010 - 11:07 AM
If it's damaged, replace that wire. Just needs to be a heavy gauge wire from the alt to the Fusible link block.
If that wire looks good, then I would suggest that the alt is bad......bad diodes.
Are you getting any warning lights on while drivng? (Charge, Brake, Stop, etc.)
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Posted 03 December 2010 - 09:18 AM
There are usually three different colored fusible links used in the EA 82 models. Black, red, and green. I think that is the order of their current capability also going from highest to lowest ratings. Hopefully you don't have a mixup on their positions and have a lower rated link in the position for a higher rated link. A link isn't used for the starter motor itself as the starter draws way too much current to use one for that. Starters are tied directly to the battery through the starter solenoid. The solenoid has the heavy duty contacts to make the high current switch connection for the starter motor. The fusible links tie to the ignition and accessories circuits for the car. We need to know if the trouble happens when the ignition switch is turned to the RUN mode or to the START position in order to help you pin the trouble down. You stated that a 30 amp fuse worked ok in the circuit. Is that still true? If it is then there may not be a shorting problem and you most likely just need a fusible link with a little higher rating in that position.
starter solenoid should not pull 30A, there is a short somewhere, possibly in the solenoid itself... I would fix the start issue before throwing money at a new alternator.
oh and to the original poster, the "random pieces of wire" that are in the fusable links, cause car destroying fires because it doesn't break connection when there is a circuit fault.
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Posted 03 December 2010 - 10:12 AM
starter solenoid should not pull 30A, there is a short somewhere, possibly in the solenoid itself... I would fix the start issue before throwing money at a new alternator.
We aren't sure yet (at least I'm not) which fusible link may have the trouble on it, or if there really still is any trouble. The poster stated that a regular 30a fuse worked ok, for a while at least. I think even the lowest current rated link can handle 45a. So I have to ask, is there still a real problem here or if just the correctly sized link needs to be installed?
I agree with your statement about the solenoid current draw. The amount of current it needs to activate may be about 1 amp or possibly less. From what I have read of the posts I'm not sure when the fuse is blowing out. The poster talks about it failing with the starter but I question if that is really true and is why I asked if the fuse blows while the key is just turned to the RUN mode. There could be a wiring issue in the START mode somewhere but that is pretty rare. Then again, if a 30a amp fuse is working ok I don't think there is a real problem at the moment.
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Posted 03 December 2010 - 12:06 PM
You definitely have a bad connection - I don't think the alt or it's wireing is your trouble because if it were then the other links would be damaged as well.
That black link is like $10 from the dealer or you can find them at the junk yards, etc.
I would start simple - verify that the connectors under the link are clean and not corroded, etc. Same with the wires going to the fusible link box, etc. That is a common point of corrosion and high resistance - it creates heat which will damage and burn up the links after a short time. My guess is that your problem is very close to that area.
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GD is correct on his assessment of the discoloration. Best bet is to replace the entire fusible link box with the wiring. Should be easy enough to find an assembly at the junkyard since that's not an item that fails very often. Find one without any discoloration in the wires leading to the assembly and disconnect everything from the other end.
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Glad to hear the new fusible links are working ok for you and you now have some spares. I noted the rating that GD stated for the black one. I though it more like in the 40 to 60 amps area. I think the alternator charging currrent runs through it but I would need to look at my manual to verify those things.
If the windows still don't work then check the other fuses in the dash and make sure they are ok. If they are good then some other checks are needed in the window circuit.
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Posted 11 December 2010 - 02:02 AM
I checked my manual and you are correct about the 21 amps for the black link. The manual also stated that the link is designed to melt when there is 190 amps flowing for 15 seconds.
Posted 11 December 2010 - 10:56 AM
designed to melt when there is 190 amps flowing for 15 seconds.
. Yikes - that's a serious short.
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Despite the fact that it was a relatively small sample of QB play this season, Gardner looked pretty damn good at times, including an impressive performance against the mighty South Carolina defense. What do you think his ceiling is? Let's say the levels are:
-All B1G QB
-All American QB
-Heisman Finalist
-Heisman Winner
-Top 15 pick
-Top 5 pick
-Number 1 overall pick
Obviously, a wide range of possibilities, but this is assuming again, an optimistic ceiling, not a prediction of what he'll necessarily turn out to be. Personally, I think his ceiling is somewhere around All-American/Heisman Finalist, a lot will also depend on his redshirt and the success of team the next couple years.
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Northern Ireland have been dealt a triple injury blow ahead of the start of their World Cup qualification campaign.
Winger Paddy McCourt has been ruled out of their opening double-header against Russia and Luxembourg, while Martin Paterson (hamstring) and Shane Ferguson (groin) will miss the initial trip to the Russian capital.
The latter duo could, however, return for the Luxembourg match at Windsor Park next Tuesday.
"The players will remain with their clubs and will be assessed later in the week ahead of Northern Ireland's home game against Luxembourg on Tuesday (September 11)," a statement from the Irish Football Association read.
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Aneta Jensen Lawrence, 89
Aneta Jensen Lawrence, 89, of Blackfoot passed away Sunday, June 3, 2012, at Bingham Memorial Skilled Nursing and Rehab surrounded by her family.
She was born June 13, 1922 in McDonaldville, the daughter of James Mathias Jensen and Ann Emily Findlay.
Aneta lived her lifetime in this area including McDonaldville, Riverside, Sterling and Blackfoot where she received her education.
She married Kenneth C. Mecham in 1938 and they later were divorced. On Sept. 2, 1950, she married James Gerrard Lawrence in Jackson, Wy. Their marriage was solemnized in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple on June 29, 1991. He preceded her in death on Feb. 10, 2001.
Aneta was a Foster Grandparent for eight years. She also was involved with the Historical Society and the Senior Citizen Center.
She worked for American Potato for many years.
She enjoyed Bingo, camping, cards, crossword puzzles, quilting, crocheting and especially her grandchildren.
She is survived by her daughters, Shirley Ann Mecham of Blackfoot, Bonnie Mae Evans of Blackfoot, Emily Deone (Max) Anderson of Moreland, Peggy Amelia Sjostrom of Blackfoot, Vestal Roween "Tena" (Conce) Mejia of Pingree, Christine Marie (Kenny) Buck of Moreland and her poodle companion, Susie, of many years; 22 grandchildren, 57 great-grandchildren and 32 great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James, four brothers, Laurel, LaVon, Shirley, Varley and two sisters, Marie Scruggs and Margaret Ellen Jensen.
A funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 9, 2012, at Hawker Funeral Home, 132 S. Shilling Ave., Blackfoot.
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a movie theater charges $9.00 for adults and $7.00 for children. On a day when 325 people purchased tickets, the total receipts were $2675. How many adults tickets were sold? How many children tickets were sold? Create a system of linear equations and solve it using matrices.
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Mom's Green Rice Recipe
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MY MOTHER-IN-LAW always served green rice with her chicken casserole. She was a great cook, and the local newspaper featured her several times as "cook of the week". This creation of hers is one of our family's favorites. I'm thrilled to share it with Reminisce readers. -Nancy Beatty, Springfield, Illinois
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- 1/2 cup thinly sliced green onions with tops
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1-1/2 cups chicken broth
- 2/3 cup uncooked long grain rice
- 1/4 cup finely chopped green pepper
- 1/4 cup minced fresh parsley or 4 teaspoons dried parsley flakes
- Dash pepper
- 1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese, optional
- In a skillet, saute onions in butter until tender. stir in the broth, rice, green pepper, parsley and pepper; bring to a boil. Remove from the heat; pour into a greased 1-qt. baking dish. Cover and bake at 350° for 25 minutes or until rice is tender. Top with cheese if desired; bake 3 minutes longer or until melted. Yield: 2-3 servings.
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"Eight years ago I made this recipe when I was a newly-wed. We've moved so many times that I lost the Taste of Home magazine that I got it out of. I just found the website, did a search, and I am so pleased with the results (FOUND IT!)I don't care for rice and it's difficult to get your greens into a meal, but this is really tasty. I would recommend it to everyone, but you know what your tastes are : )"


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Informational meeting to be held for Union 76 parents
by Jessica Brophy
Parents from Brooklin, Sedgwick and the Island are invited to an informational meeting on Wednesday, November 28, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Sedgwick Elementary.
The meeting will discuss the formation of a union-wide parent committee, to meet two or three times during the school year, to provide feedback between parents and the schools about Title I programs. These programs are funded by federal dollars and range from literacy efforts to summer programs and more.
"The goal is to get input and ideas from parents about what works for their children and what doesn't," said Josh Nichols, special education director. Nichols also oversees the disbursement of Title I funds.
Presentations on programs already in place at the schools will also keep parents informed on what's happening in the schools. Nichols stressed that attending the meeting did not mean parents had to join the committee, and the first meeting is just for information.
Snacks and childcare will be provided. For information, call Nichols at 359-8400.