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|The "Dark Triad" is composed of three malevolent and offensive, though nonpathological personality traits: subclinical narcissism, Machiavellianism, and subclinical psychopathy. The "toxic triangle" describes the intersection of bad leadership, susceptible followership and certain environmental factors (Padilla, Hogan & Kaiser, 2007). This study evaluated leader emergence in relation to the Dark Triad, controlling for the Big Five personality constructs. A sample of 120 Wittenberg University students completed a battery of questionnaires assessing each Dark Triad and Big Five trait. Participants then collaborated with three other students on a task and subsequently answered questions about the group's leadership. The Dark Triad personality traits did not contribute significantly to prediction of leader emergence. Narcissism and the psychopathy construct, Fearless Dominance, were positively intercorrelated, as were Machiavellianism and the other psychopathy construct, Impulsive Antisociality. However, both narcissism and Fearless Dominance were uncorrelated with Machiavellianism and Impulsive Antisociality, suggesting that the four scales define two distinct factors.


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Hi guys my name is steve and I have an 86 gl wagon. Its my second subie and I
love it. My first one was a 84 gl wagon and it was a good car to until I killed it.
Oh well my 86 is better,I built a front and rear bumper for and a roof rack for it
My next project is to build a tire rack on the back bumper.
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cursioity how did you kill your old one?
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ANGOLA, Ind. - Pokagon, a 1,200-acre park, has one of the few refrigerated toboggan runs in the Midwest. Each year, thousands of visitors shoot down the icy twin tracks for a quarter-mile run, then haul their toboggans back to the 30-foot-tall starting tower to do it again.
ANGOLA, Ind. � As the thermometer climbed above zero, my kids and I cheered.
We�d be able to hit the toboggan trail again.
The three of us were staying at the lovely Potawatomi Inn at Pokagon State Park, about 75 miles west of Toledo. We were thoroughly enjoying the heated indoor swimming pool, our comfortable room and the lodge restaurant � which, like the rest of the inn, is decorated in a birch bark and Indian theme absolutely appropriate to a region that was once the center of Potawatomi tribal life.
In truth, though, we had made the drive to the northeastern Indiana park for one reason: the toboggan track.
Pokagon, a 1,200-acre park, has one of the few refrigerated toboggan runs in the Midwest. Each year, thousands of visitors shoot down the icy twin tracks for a quarter-mile run, then haul their toboggans back to the 30-foot-tall starting tower to do it again.
It�s a wonderful winter activity for families, as my 8-year-old twins and I had learned the previous day.
We arrived in the late afternoon after a hair-raising five-hour drive over snowy highways. (The drive back, after the plows had been through, took about 3� hours.) Although I was exhausted from driving the slick highways, I was as eager as the kids to try the toboggan run.
The refrigeration system means the track, open through early March, is ready for runs no matter the weather
� unless the temperatures fall dangerously low.
The forecast called for bitter cold the next day � one reason we wanted to get some runs in that first evening.
Toboggans must be rented at the park. All toboggans � including the four-person vehicles � are rented for $12.84 an hour (including tax). On Fridays, visitors can rent two and get a third free. Out-of-state visitors also pay a park entry fee of $7 per vehicle.
The run begins at the top of the tower, with a bit of limberness required to get on a sled. The forward-most riders cross their legs in front, with the riders behind wrapping their legs around the person in front.
Then comes a short safety lecture: Don�t lean or rock; don�t wave; don�t reach for your hat when it flies off.
Suddenly � whoosh! � you�re off.
The toboggan whips down the inclined chute through its raised, ice-coated track; over short rises and dips; through a lovely wooded glade; and under a couple of picturesque bridges (not that you�re noticing the scenery, at least not for the first few runs) until, about 30 seconds after the run starts, the sled comes to a gradual stop and you leap off ready to go again.
The run ends near the inn parking lot. Visitors who take the right type of vehicle, such as a pickup or an SUV with a tailgate, can load their toboggan into the back and drive it back to the tower. But most tobogganers carried their sleds � not too taxing of a task for two or more porters of middle-school age or older.
I found myself wishing I had been able to bring the twins� mom or older brothers for toboggan-carrying duties. The haul back to the tower, then up the dozens of steps is long. Katey and Charles were willing to help, but lugging the vehicle solo proved easier (though by no means easy).
I told myself that the exercise was helping me appreciate the exhilaration of the downhill run to come. But I think I would have been equally exhilarated without the lugging.
Near the end of the track, an electric sign flashes the speed of the ride as the toboggans pass a radar gun. The first night, our runs topped out at 30 mph. Beating that mark became our goal.
Doing so would have to wait until the next day � assuming the weather cooperated.
�I hope we can go again tomorrow!� both children exclaimed.
Fortunately, the mercury climbed throughout the early morning, and, by 11 a.m., we were back in action on the toboggan track.
I opted to rent a four-person toboggan that was lighter than our three-person sled of the previous day. The extra runner length, I suspect, kept us from hitting 30 mph. We topped out the second day at 29 but more often clocked in at 27.
That 3-mph difference is a big deal, especially when you�re 8, but it gave us a goal for our next visit.
We spent about an hour each day on the toboggan course, making three runs our first night and five the second day.
The morning crowds were slightly larger, but the park opened the second, parallel toboggan track, making the line at the top of the tower disappear.
After our runs, we visited the warming center, which serves snacks and drinks and offers a good place to watch others on toboggan runs.
Being an old person, I prudently ordered hot chocolate. My kids, though, insisted on ice cream.
And why not? The treat was certainly warmer than the air outside.


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The Terrebonne Parish jail regained power this afternoon after losing it Thursday, the sheriff said.
The Terrebonne Parish jail regained power this afternoon after losing it Thursday, the sheriff said.
Power was restored about 1 p.m., while generators powered the doors and a limited supply of light beforehand, Sheriff's Office authorities said.
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However, "thank God it was fixed in an expedient time," he said.
Inmates were not able to take hot showers or wash clothes during that time, Sheriff's Office attorney Bill Dodd said.
"You can't go without power. You're going to have a major potential health problem if the parish doesn't get that fixed," Dodd said this morning.
Being without power for an extended period of time would have opened the Sheriff's Office to lawsuits, Dodd said.
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A faulty transformer was installed last week, Larpenter said. An electric company replaced it today.
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European earwigs in homes and gardens
Originally from Europe, the European earwig, Forficula auricularia, was introduced into the U.S. in the early 1900's and is now common throughout much of the country. It first became noticeable in Wisconsin in the early 1980's and Minnesota in the early 1990's and has since been present in varying numbers. They get their name from the old belief that earwigs climb into people's ear while they are sleeping. Fortunately, this is not true (there are a few rare cases of earwigs inadvertently being found in ears but is accidental).
Earwigs are about 5/8 inch long, with a flat, reddish brown body and very short wings. They have medium length antennae and chewing mouthparts. They are distinctive because they possess a pair of strong pinchers (cerci) on the tip of their abdomen. Males have stout, strongly curved cerci that are widely separated at the base while females possess slender, straight pinchers that are close together. Earwigs use these cerci to protect themselves and to grab and hold prey.
Nymphs are similar to adults except they are smaller. Immature earwigs have female-like, slender straight cerci. Young earwigs are generally lighter in color than adults.
Earwigs are most active at night and hide during the day in dark, confined, damp areas and are found under potted plants, leaves, welcome mats, and other objects, as well as in cracks between pavers, bricks, and similar places. You can also find them on plants in buds and folded leaves. Earwigs are scavengers feeding on damaged and decaying plant matter as well as weakened or dead insects and other small organisms. Earwigs can also feed on healthy plant material.
Earwigs mate in the fall and males and females usually spend the winter together in specially constructed nests. In early spring, females force the males out and then lay eggs. Female earwigs are very maternal, an unusual trait for insects. They guard and protect their eggs and newly hatched young. Eggs hatch within about a week. Earwig nymphs emerge from nests sometime from late May to early June, maturing into adults in late June or early July; adults are active through fall.
Earwigs can be problems in one of two ways. First they can enter homes and other buildings during summer, sometimes in large numbers. Fortunately, they do not damage property or eat our food and they don't reproduce indoors but they are nuisances by their presence. Some people worry that earwigs will use their cerci to attack them. While they can grab onto objects with their pincers, they cannot squeeze very hard and are harmless to people. Earwigs can also give off a disagreeable odor as they can secrete a foul-smelling liquid from their abdomen. An individual earwig does not live long indoors, but they can continue to migrate into buildings throughout the summer.
Earwigs can also cause problems in gardens as they feed on flowers, like marigolds, dahlias, butterfly bush, and hostas, chewing irregular holes in leaves and flower blossoms. They are also reported to attack corn silk and seedlings. Larger plants will tolerate this feeding but seedlings and flowering plants can be severely damaged or killed by dense populations. Some of this damage can be confused with slug feeding. However, slugs leave a slime trail while earwigs do not. Earwig damage can also be confused with cutworm and even rabbit feeding. If you are not sure what is causing the damage you are finding, go outside at night with a flashlight check under plants for earwigs and other pests.
The following steps will help to reduce earwig numbers in your home and garden. However, when numbers are high, even taking these steps does not guarantee that you will not have some problems with earwigs. Fortunately, they are a problem only during summer.
To reduce the number of earwigs around your home and garden, clean up debris that earwigs can hide under, such as leaves, plant debris, bricks, piles of lumber, and similar things. It can also be useful to thin out or remove mulch.
You can set out rolled up newspapers or similar objects to trap earwigs. You can also place old tuna fish cans baited with fish oil or vegetable oil. Set them out during evening in areas where you are seeing earwigs in your garden. In morning, shake the traps above a pail of soapy water to remove and kill the insects.
Minimize excess moisture in the landscape. Be sure that the landscape has good drainage and that irrigation systems are working properly. A good strategy when watering, is to irrigate more thoroughly and deeply but less often so the surface of the soil remains drier.
To help keep earwigs out of your home, caulk and repair any obvious spaces, cracks, or gaps around the outside of your home at ground level, especially around doors and windows and the juncture of the siding and the foundation. Also, watch around water faucets and vents. However, if earwigs are determined, some will still get inside your home. For any earwigs you find inside, just remove them with a vacuum or a broom and dust pan.
You can supplement the above non-chemical steps with an insecticide treatment. To help keep earwigs from entering your home, use a residual insecticide, e.g. permethrin or cyfluthrin, around the foundation of the building. Be sure to read the label of the product you wish to use very carefully to ensure that it is registered for use around the exterior of buildings. However, once earwigs are indoors, insecticides are not effective or useful.
You can also protect plants with an insecticide application. An effective method is to treat the surrounding mulch where the earwigs are hiding. Use a drench, e.g. lambda cyhalothrin, for this. You may need to attach the product to a hose to get sufficient volume. Another option is to use a bait, e.g. carbaryl, scattered on the ground around the plants you are protecting. You may also be able to protect individual plants by applying a spray, e.g. permethrin, deltamethrin, acetamiprid, or carbaryl, or a dust, e.g. permethrin or deltamethrin, to plants when damage is first noticed. Be sure to read labels very carefully to verify that the plants you intend to treat are listed. Also be sure to follow all label directions to help protect bees and other beneficial insects.


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| Low Frequency Estimates for Long Range Perturbations in Divergence Form
Bouclet, Jean-Marc
We prove a uniform control as $ z \rightarrow 0 $ for the resolvent $ (P-z)^{-1} $ of long range perturbations $ P $ of the Euclidean Laplacian in divergence form by combining positive commutator estimates and properties of Riesz transforms. These estimates hold in dimension $d \geq 3 $ when $ P $ is defined on $ \mathbb{R}^d $ and in dimension $ d \geq 2 $ when $ P $ is defined outside a compact obstacle with Dirichlet boundary conditions.
| The Arithmetic of Genus Two Curves with (4,4)-Split Jacobians
Bruin, Nils; Doerksen, Kevin
In this paper we study genus $2$ curves whose Jacobians admit a polarized $(4,4)$-isogeny to a product of elliptic curves. We consider base fields of characteristic different from $2$ and $3$, which we do not assume to be algebraically closed. We obtain a full classification of all principally polarized abelian surfaces that can arise from gluing two elliptic curves along their $4$-torsion, and we derive the relation their absolute invariants satisfy.
| Universal Series on a Riemann Surface
Clouâtre, Raphaël
Every holomorphic function on a compact subset of a Riemann surface can be uniformly approximated by partial sums of a given series of functions. Those functions behave locally like the classical fundamental solutions of the Cauchy-Riemann operator in the plane.
| Critical Points and Resonance of Hyperplane Arrangements
Cohen, D.; Denham, G.; Falk, M.; Varchenko, A.
If $\Phi_\lambda$ is a master function corresponding to a hyperplane arrangement $\mathcal A$ and a collection of weights $\lambda$, we investigate the relationship between the critical set of $\Phi_\lambda$, the variety defined by the vanishing of the one-form $\omega_\lambda=\operatorname{d} \log \Phi_\lambda$, and the resonance of $\lambda$. For arrangements satisfying certain conditions, we show that if $\lambda$ is resonant in dimension $p$, then the critical set of $\Phi_\lambda$ has codimension at most $p$. These include all free arrangements and all rank $3$ arrangements.
| $S_3$-covers of Schemes
Easton, Robert W.
We analyze flat $S_3$-covers of schemes, attempting to create structures parallel to those found in the abelian and triple cover theories. We use an initial local analysis as a guide in finding a global description.
| Decomposition of Splitting Invariants in Split Real Groups
Kaletha, Tasho
For a maximal torus in a quasi-split semi-simple simply-connected group over a local field of characteristic $0$, Langlands and Shelstad constructed a cohomological invariant called the splitting invariant, which is an important component of their endoscopic transfer factors. We study this invariant in the case of a split real group and prove a decomposition theorem which expresses this invariant for a general torus as a product of the corresponding invariants for simple tori. We also show how this reduction formula allows for the comparison of splitting invariants between different tori in the given real group.
| Genericity of Representations of p-Adic $Sp_{2n}$ and Local Langlands Parameters
Liu, Baiying
Let $G$ be the $F$-rational points of the symplectic group $Sp_{2n}$, where $F$ is a non-Archimedean local field of characteristic $0$. Cogdell, Kim, Piatetski-Shapiro, and Shahidi constructed local Langlands functorial lifting from irreducible generic representations of $G$ to irreducible representations of $GL_{2n+1}(F)$. Jiang and Soudry constructed the descent map from irreducible supercuspidal representations of $GL_{2n+1}(F)$ to those of $G$, showing that the local Langlands functorial lifting from the irreducible supercuspidal generic representations is surjective. In this paper, based on above results, using the same descent method of studying $SO_{2n+1}$ as Jiang and Soudry, we will show the rest of local Langlands functorial lifting is also surjective, and for any local Langlands parameter $\phi \in \Phi(G)$, we construct a representation $\sigma$ such that $\phi$ and $\sigma$ have the same twisted local factors. As one application, we prove the $G$-case of a conjecture of Gross-Prasad and Rallis, that is, a local Langlands parameter $\phi \in \Phi(G)$ is generic, i.e., the representation attached to $\phi$ is generic, if and only if the adjoint $L$-function of $\phi$ is holomorphic at $s=1$. As another application, we prove for each Arthur parameter $\psi$, and the corresponding local Langlands parameter $\phi_{\psi}$, the representation attached to $\phi_{\psi}$ is generic if and only if $\phi_{\psi}$ is tempered.
| Distribution Algebras on p-adic Groups and Lie Algebras
Moy, Allen
When $F$ is a $p$-adic field, and $G={\mathbb G}(F)$ is the group of $F$-rational points of a connected algebraic $F$-group, the complex vector space ${\mathcal H}(G)$ of compactly supported locally constant distributions on $G$ has a natural convolution product that makes it into a ${\mathbb C}$-algebra (without an identity) called the Hecke algebra. The Hecke algebra is a partial analogue for $p$-adic groups of the enveloping algebra of a Lie group. However, $\mathcal{H}(G)$ has drawbacks such as the lack of an identity element, and the process $G \mapsto \mathcal{H}(G)$ is not a functor. Bernstein introduced an enlargement $\mathcal{H}\,\hat{\,}(G)$ of $\mathcal{H}(G)$. The algebra $\mathcal{H}\,\hat{\,} (G)$ consists of the distributions that are left essentially compact. We show that the process $G \mapsto \mathcal{H}\,\hat{\,} (G)$ is a functor. If $\tau \colon G \rightarrow H$ is a morphism of $p$-adic groups, let $F(\tau) \colon \mathcal{H}\,\hat{\,} (G) \rightarrow \mathcal{H}\,\hat{\,} (H)$ be the morphism of $\mathbb{C}$-algebras. We identify the kernel of $F(\tau)$ in terms of $\textrm{Ker}(\tau)$. In the setting of $p$-adic Lie algebras, with $\mathfrak{g}$ a reductive Lie algebra, $\mathfrak{m}$ a Levi, and $\tau \colon \mathfrak{g} \to \mathfrak{m}$ the natural projection, we show that $F(\tau)$ maps $G$-invariant distributions on $\mathcal{G}$ to $N_G (\mathfrak{m})$-invariant distributions on $\mathfrak{m}$. Finally, we exhibit a natural family of $G$-invariant essentially compact distributions on $\mathfrak{g}$ associated with a $G$-invariant non-degenerate symmetric bilinear form on ${\mathfrak g}$ and in the case of $SL(2)$ show how certain members of the family can be moved to the group.
| Transfer of Fourier Multipliers into Schur Multipliers and Sumsets in a Discrete Group
Neuwirth, Stefan; Ricard, Éric
We inspect the relationship between relative Fourier multipliers on noncommutative Lebesgue-Orlicz spaces of a discrete group $\varGamma$ and relative Toeplitz-Schur multipliers on Schatten-von-Neumann-Orlicz classes. Four applications are given: lacunary sets, unconditional Schauder bases for the subspace of a Lebesgue space determined by a given spectrum $\varLambda\subseteq\varGamma$, the norm of the Hilbert transform and the Riesz projection on Schatten-von-Neumann classes with exponent a power of 2, and the norm of Toeplitz Schur multipliers on Schatten-von-Neumann classes with exponent less than 1.
| On Complemented Subspaces of Non-Archimedean Power Series Spaces
Śliwa, Wiesław; Ziemkowska, Agnieszka
The non-archimedean power series spaces, $A_1(a)$ and $A_\infty(b)$, are the best known and most important examples of non-archimedean nuclear Fréchet spaces. We prove that the range of every continuous linear map from $A_p(a)$ to $A_q(b)$ has a Schauder basis if either $p=1$ or $p=\infty$ and the set $M_{b,a}$ of all bounded limit points of the double sequence $(b_i/a_j)_{i,j\in\mathbb{N}}$ is bounded. It follows that every complemented subspace of a power series space $A_p(a)$ has a Schauder basis if either $p=1$ or $p=\infty$ and the set $M_{a,a}$ is bounded.


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If Santa really does stuff his face with every cookie he encounters after shimmying down those chimneys, that explains the big belly. But health and fitness expert Pam Peeke might say Saint Nick's behavior also could be a sign of something commonly found south of the North Pole: food addiction.
Peppermint bark pushers might sound significantly less nefarious than cocaine dealers, but they're offering folks the same surge of dopamine, Peeke explains in her new book, "The Hunger Fix." Peeke, an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of Maryland and founder of the Peeke Performance Center for Healthy Living, says that being hooked on food can be every bit as devastating as a drug addiction, and the only way to kick the habit is by undergoing detox and recovery.
Remember how you felt the last time you became one with the fruitcake?
"Raise your hand if you're tired of doing that again," says Peeke, who notes that food addiction spans a spectrum, starting with people who have just that one weakness. "They see jelly beans and they lose it. That can lead to a binge."
For others, there's an array of trigger foods, or what Peeke calls "false fixes," that consume their thoughts -- and get consumed in vast quantities. Inevitably, it's stuff that's fatty, salty or sugary (or a combination thereof), rather than a crisp, juicy apple.
Peeke says a majority of Americans show some signs of struggling with food addiction, because of either a genetic predisposition or our modern-day environment that surrounds us with cues to constantly chow down.
When people argue that food addicts should simply use a little willpower, that shows a lack of understanding of the human noggin, and particularly the prefrontal cortex, explains Peeke. "It's the smarty-pants of the brain, and it reins in impulsivity. However, in full-on addictive mode, your prefrontal cortex is damaged," she says.
Without your brain to back you up, counting on willpower is wishful thinking: "That's like asking me to run a marathon with a broken foot."
Not that Peeke considers this science an excuse to give in to addiction. But it means that unhealthful eating habits are something to take seriously, especially during the holiday season, when there's no escaping the cookie parties, office potlucks, family gatherings and an endless list of other social engagements focused on food.
Although it's impossible to quit food cold turkey -- without some very serious consequences -- Peeke says you should try to lay off anything that you identify as a false fix. For Peeke, that's sweets. "You can put cheese and crackers in front of me and it won't do anything. With sugar, my brain lights up," she says.
What you don't eat, you can't overeat. And there are ways to substitute other foods so you don't feel deprived. "You have to experiment and figure out what you feel safest with," says Peeke, who offers the example of eating frozen yogurt instead of ice cream. Or, if you always want to devour an entire baguette, maybe switch to a whole-wheat pita, so you won't lose control.
Making these choices becomes harder when you're fretting that your gossipy cousin is about to spill your deep secret to the rest of the family, or you can't manage to figure out how you're going to get that gigantic project wrapped up by the end of the year.
"Stress is the Achilles' heel of everyone with addiction. It makes you cave to the crave," Peeke says.
The best way to tamp down these feelings and avoid grabbing something out of the fridge that you shouldn't? Exercise.
Sure, working up a sweat torches calories, and that's reason enough to keep moving during the holidays. But what's even more critical, Peeke explains, is how exercise beefs up your brain.
"You're developing better behavioral circuitry. Addictive genes and obesity genes get deactivated," she says. At the same time, you're creating a different reward system. You can get the high you were looking for from the treadmill instead of the triple chocolate cake.
And that can lead to the best holiday gift of all: not having to commit to a New Year's resolution.


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- 07/06/2013 @ Ministry Of Sound (London) - Solo Set
enjoy! last video is being upload... :-)
Thx for the vids. Is someone trying to make a complete tracklist?
I need these id's if someone know them;
vid 6 - 6min
vid 7 - 8min, 14-15min
vid 8 - 8min, 9-13min
vid 9 - 10min
vid 12 - 8min
vid 13 - 7min, 21min till end
vid 18 4min, 8 mins
"a few MS standards and then we are into the rabbit hole... hang on"
haha yeah the rabbit hole part was just simply wicked!
im busy with work but would be appreciated to get a kinda tracklist.
im wondering which tunes will be selected as for the WT episode.
Checking the videos now, though i said i wasn't going to be there i just couldn't miss it so got a train down! great night, great set as usual!!!!


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"It's a very simple game. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Sometimes it rains." (Bull Durham)
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Pittsburgh Holds On
Paul Maholm should be sharp; after all, he got to warm up twice. But he wasn't, giving up a leadoff single to Brandon Phillips and a one out walk. But he got Scott Rolen to spank one sharply to Pedro, and the 5-4-3 DP ended the frame.
The Bucs took advantage of some Cincy sloppiness and a couple of two-out knocks to put up a six spot in the second. With one out, Pedro walked, and that was followed by a Lastings Milledge double, a one hop chop Rolen tried to backhand that stayed down.
Chris Snyder singled them both home, and Maholm slapped one into right. McCutch took some high heat on the back of the neck, just under the helmet. He went down, and left the field wobbling between two teammates, looking like a Mike Tyson victim. But the docs say he suffered a contusion, and he'll be day-to-day; there were no concussion symptoms.
Jose Tabata followed with a single to left, scoring a run and keeping the bases juiced. Neil Walker then banged a pitch right down the middle high off the Clemente Wall, to send them all home. Nothin' better than clutch two-out raps.
Garrett Jones, the tenth batter, got to join a long and dubious list of guys who made the first and last out of an inning. But it was 6-0, so we think he'll get over it.
Maholm came out and pitched a strong inning with the lead and evened the ledger by plunking Mike Leake (on the knee, not the noggin). It would have started a riot with the Brewers, but Leake took his medicine and just jogged to first.
The Reds got on the board in the fourth thanks to a ball that wouldn't stick in a glove and another that did. Miguel Cairo singled when a diving Milledge got his mitt on the ball, but had it clank out.
An out and walk later, Jay Bruce hit a one hopper to Jones; he double clutched his throw when the horsehide stuck in his leather, and the Bucs could only get the lead runner instead of an inning-ending DP. Chris Heisey followed with a dink into right, beyond Walker and in front of Delwyn Young, to plate the run.
Pittsburgh got it back in the fifth when Tabata's swinging bunt was fielded by Leake, who threw it off-balanced into right, sending JT to third. Walker smacked a pitch up the middle for his fourth RBI of the night, his career high.
Cincinnati kept chipping away. In the sixth, with two on and two out, back-to-back singles by Heisey and Ramon Hernandez cut the lead to 7-3.
The Reds made it interesting in the seventh. Phillips doubled to left center on a ball that Tabata appeared to misread a bit, and then Paul Janish lined a single to left. Milledge missed the cutoff man badly - the ball should have went straight to second in any case - and there were runners on second and third with no outs.
JR gave Maholm the hook; Evan Meek came in. He did well enough; a grounder to first scored a run, but a shot to third and a K froze the second Red at third base, making up for LM's mental error.
Maholm went six innings, charged with four runs on nine hits with two walks and K's on 90 pitches, not an especially strong outing for the lefty.
The Bucs left a couple of guys on in their half, one being Meek, who got his first MLB hit. And as Bob Walk of FSN pointed out, it may be his only hit for as much as back-end relievers get to bat.
Meek went an inning too long, though. He walked a pair of runners, one with two outs, and Phillips drove a ball to the right center field wall, scoring them both and making it a 7-6 game. After an intentional walk to Joey Votto, he got Cairo to pop out.
Meek went two innings, giving up two runs on one hit, three walks, and K'ing a pair. He also threw a season-high fifty pitches.
The Bucs tried to add some insurance in the eighth when with two outs Snyder walked and Cedeno singled, but Jeff Clements grounded out to first. Time to check out the brave new world of Joel Hanrahan, closer.
The first at-bat wasn't so promising; Rolen lined a slider into left for a leadoff single. But after that, it was vintage Hanrahan - Gomes popped out to Pedro in foul territory, followed by whiffs of Bruce and Heisey.
Some things to take from tonight's game: the Pirates had best learn to add on runs; the pitchers have to develop a mindset to go seven innings instead of six, and JR has to figure out who his bridge man will be; he can't use two guys to cover three innings on a regular basis. Oh, and Hanrahan looks fine as the go-to guy in the pen.
Already, McCutch will be out tomorrow, and probably the same for Meek, who threw fifty balls. Someone in the pen is going to have to step up and claim that seventh inning spot.
Tomorrow afternoon's get-away game will match Jeff Karstens against Johnny Cueto.
-- Let's see...John Bowker, lefty. Andrew Lambo, lefty. Jeff Clement, lefty. Brandon Moss, lefty. Maybe the Pirate suits should quit looking at Clemente Wall and start looking at some balance. It'll be a chore next year to work all these guys into the mix, especially as all but Lambo are out of options.
-- McCutch was given the "Heart and Hustle" Award tonight, voted on by the Pirate alumni. His parents were in the stands to see him get the honor; too bad they also had to see their son beaned, too.
-- This year's Pirate ironman award goes to Garrett Jones, who has played 104-of-105 games so far. He did take May 1st off, though, so he should be good to go the rest of the season.
-- After the deadline dealing, the average age of the Bucs is 26.3 years old, making them the youngest team in the NL.
-- State College OF Cole White has been named the New York-Penn League's Player of the Week. White, 22, who recently rejoined the Spikes after a two-year stint in the Army, went 9-for-16 with a homer and seven RBI in five games.
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- WilliamJPellas said...
Reading between the lines, Ron, I'd say you're less than enamored of Pedro's defense at third. That makes two of us. In fact, this team as a whole is dreadful with the glove, though if Ryan Doumit is done as the regular catcher, that alone will help tremendously.
Looking back, you could usually say two things about the teams that Dave Littlefield put on the field most year. One, they could play good defense. Two, there was almost always a good bullpen. By themselves, those two factors aren't going to get you to the playoffs. But the Neal Huntington Pirates have been consistently terrible with the glove, and until this season their bullpens have been nonexistent. (I won't even go into the starting pitching in this little diatribe. Obviously it's been horrendous.)
- August 5, 2010 at 11:19 PM
- Ron Ieraci said...
Yah, and it's a pity too, Will, the kid's got a rifle but plays like he's stuck in mud.
I'm not too down on the D; Cedeno and Walker are OK and the outfield is quite good. I'll take a stick at the corners over a glove any day.
Starting pitching has sucked and I still think it'll take until 2012 to straighten out. They just missed on too many guys they thought were can't miss.
As for the pen, they've consistently tinkered with it, and that will be their MO, I guess, so get used to it.
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The Notre Dame star and Heisman Trophy runner-up, who was clocked at 4.82 seconds in the 40-yard dash at the NFL scouting combine last week, says he'll improve his time and is looking forward to his pro day on March 26.
Te'o was in town Friday to accept the Maxwell Football Club's Maxwell Award for collegiate player of the year and Chuck Bednarik Award for collegiate defensive player of the year. Te'o spoke to reporters for nearly six minutes, but wouldn't address his highly-publicized online romance with a girlfriend that was exposed as a hoax.
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Tilly held the family in his sway from 2000, a year after he was hired by Ghislaine de Vedrines to work at her secretarial school, until 2009. During that time, he led 11 people — ages 16 to 89 — to believe there was a secret plot against their lives, according to court testimony.
Skeptics like Ghislaine's husband were shunned, Picotin said.
The presiding judge, Marie-Elisabeth Bancal, described it as a "Machiavellian plot."
Picotin said the family's money was poured into a fake charity that Tilly, now 48, claimed was set up to pay the Vedrines' "protectors."
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With the trial over, Christine de Vedrines told the Sipa news agency the family would somehow rebuild.
"Eight years is a small price to pay for what he did to our family and children," said Christine de Vedrines, who Picotin said was locked up by the family for nearly two weeks, and deprived of sleep and food before managing to get away.
Picotin said he hopes to help the family reacquire their ancestral home. As for the rest, he said: "It's all gone."
A Tilly accomplice, Jacques Gonzalez, was sentenced to four years in prison.
Tilly's lawyer had argued that the family from the 13th-century village of Monflanquin in southwestern France had acted willingly.
"These 11 family members aren't ill, have their feet on the ground, a level of self-awareness. Eleven people manipulated by mysterious forces by a single man? The legal basis for the case is weak," lawyer Alexandre Novion said.
Novion denounced testimony about the family's mental state, saying a man's freedom should not depend on "an old Freud tome found in a psychoanalyst's attic."


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For general computing, iffish.
For embedded computing where I am worried about every chunk of space, and I can deal with the 3-4 GB RAM limit, definitely.
This is useful, and IMHO, should be considered the mainstream kernel, but it isn't something everyone would use daily.
With memory being dirt cheap I ask: Who cares?
Memory? What about cache? Is cache dirt cheap?
For some workloads, it's ~40% faster vs amd64, and for some, even more than that vs i386. For a typical case, though, it's typical to see ~7% speed and ~35% memory boost over amd64.
As for memory being cheap, this might not matter on your home box where you use 2GB of 16GB you have installed, but vserver hosting tends to be memory-bound. And using bad old i386 means a severe speed loss due to ancient instructions and register shortage.
That seams reasonable advantage. If it could take me from 60K tps to 100K tps per blade its a no-brainer. I doubt its going to allow office/home application to run any noticeably quicker but with a blade centre of 16 blades, I'll want to get my monies worth before needing to expand.
~35% memory boost is quite nice if you're running memory-bound multithreading processes; each thread being relatively light on CPU% but uses lots of memory.
I run a webserver where one of the batch jobs is exactly that. ~35% memory boost would be very close to ~35% increase in throughput.
It's not just about "having enough RAM". While that certainly is a factor, it's not the only one. As you suggest, pretty much everyone has enough RAM to run just about any normal application with 64-bit pointers.
But if you want speed, you also have to pay attention to things like cache lines. 64-bit pointers often means larger instructions are needed to be encoded to do the same work, larger instructions means more cache misses. This can be a large difference in performance.
Damn straight. Just spent $1000 for used 16 4GB sticks of HP DDR3 ECC registered memory; that's considered a bargain. New sticks would be $120 each.
Of course its a tradeoff, because the new RAM will have less of its spare ECC bits used up.
ECC memory is artificially expensive. Were ECC standard as it ought to be, it would only cost about 12.5% more. (1 bit for every byte) That is a pittance when considering the cost of the machine and the value of one's data and time. It is disgusting that Intel uses this basic reliability feature to segment their products.
That's right. Unfortunately it's called the market. The same boneheads that says x32 isn't worth it, are the same boneheads which have no idea how ECC is important, how hard it is to properly code everything worrying about cache hits is. Probably people that never wrote a single line of C or assembly code.
But the Intel way of making the same physical hardware cost 50% more (with a simple on/off switch) will continue until ARM Cortex start giving intel some real competition (at least competing with the lates
This is what Apple needs for it's silly 64 Bit mobile processors & OS.
The other applications running on your system who also want to use memory and are programmed by people who don't care about resource utilization. Or the other VM, or the 8 other VMs.
Processor power, memory and disk space should be considered like earth's natural resources. They're in limited supply and should never be wasted no matter how available they may seem at the present.
With x32 you get:
- You get 16 registers instead of 8. This allows much more efficient code to be generated because you don't have to dump/reload automatic variables to the stack because the register pressure is reduced.
- You also get a crossover from the 64 bit ABI where the first 6 arguments are passed in registers instead of push/pop on the stack.
- If you need a 64 bit arithmetic op (e.g. long long), compiler will gen a single 64 instruction (vs. using multiple 32 ops).
- You also get the RIP relative addressing mode which works great when a lot of dynamic relocation of the program occurs (e.g.
You get all these things [and more] if you port your program to 64 bit. But, porting to 64 bit requires that you go through the entire code base and find all the places where you said:
int x = ptr1 - ptr2;
instead of:
long x = ptr1 - ptr2;
Or, you put a long into a struct that gets sent across a socket. You'd need to convert those to int's
Granted, these should be cleaned up with abstract typedef's, but porting a large legacy 32 bit codebase to 64 bit may not be worth it [at least in the short term]. A port to x32 is pretty much just a recompile. You get [most of] the performance improvement for little hassle.
It also solves the 2037 problem because time_t is now defined to be 64 bits, even in 32 bit mode. Likewise, in struct timeval, the tv_sec field is 64 bit
Some people don't see the ABI as being worthwhile when it still requires 64-bit processors
There's your answer. If I'm writing a program that won't need over 2GB, the decision is obvious: target x86. How many developers even know about x32? Of those, how many need what it offers? That little fraction will be the number of users.
This way you'll be able to make it magically much faster when building it for x32 or amd64.
Some people don't see the ABI as being worthwhile when it still requires 64-bit processors
There's your answer. If I'm writing a program that won't need over 2GB, the decision is obvious: target x86. How many developers even know about x32? Of those, how many need what it offers? That little fraction will be the number of users.
Wait, what are you talking about? "target x86" Wat? Are you writing code in Assembly? How do you target C or higher level code code for x86 vs x86-64, or ARM for that matter?
Ooooh, wait, you're one of those proprietary Linux software developers? Protip: 1's and 0's are in infinite supply, so Economics 101 says they have zero price regardless of cost to create. What's scarce is your ability to create new configurations of bits -- new source code -- not the bits. Just like a mechanic, home builder, burg
I do not see many cases where this would be useful. If we have a 64-bit processor and a 64-bit operating system then it seems the only benefit to running a 32-bit binary is it uses a slightly smaller amount of memory. Chances are that is a very small difference in memory used. Maybe the program loads a little faster, but is it a measurable, consistent amount? For most practical use case scenarios it does not look like this technology would be useful enough to justify compiling a new package. Now, if the process worked with 64-bit binaries and could automatically (and safely) decrease pointer size on 64-bit binaries then it might be worth while. But I'm not going to re-build an application just for smaller pointers.
You misunderstand the desired impact. "Loads a little faster" doesn't really enter into it. It's rather that system memory is _slow_, and you have to cram a lot of stuff into CPU cache for things to work quickly. That's were the smaller pointers help, with some workloads. Especially if you're doing a lot of pointery data structure heavy computing where you often compile your own stuff to run anyway.
Still not saying it's necessarily worth the maintenance hassle, but let's understand the issues first.
The main benefit is that it runs faster. 64-bit pointers take up twice the space in caches, and especially L1 cache is very space-limited. Loading and storing them also takes twice the bandwidth to main memory.
So for code with lots of complex data types (as opposed to big arrays of floating point data), that still has to run fast, it makes sense. I imagine the Linux kernel developers No1 benchmark of compiling the kernel would run noticably faster with gcc in x32.
The downside is that you need a proper fully
So for code with lots of complex data types (as opposed to big arrays of floating point data), that still has to run fast, it makes sense.
Well, here's the problem. Code that is that performance-sensitive can often benefit a whole lot more from a better design that does not have so many pointers pointing to itty-bitty data bits. (For instance, instead of a binary tree, a B-tree with nodes that are at least a couple of cache lines, or maybe even a whole page, wide.) There are very very few problems that actually require that a significant portion of data memory be occupied by pointers. There are lots and lots of them where the most convenient
64-bit pointers take up twice the space in caches, and especially L1 cache is very space-limited.
L1 cache is typically 64KB, which is room for 8K 64-bit pointers or 16K 32-bit pointers. Now riddle me this.. if you are following thousands or more pointers, what are the chances that your access pattern is at all cache friendly?
The chance is virtually zero.
Of course, not all of the data is pointers, but that actually doesnt help the argument. The smaller the percentage of the cache that is pointers, the less important their size actually is, for after all when 0% are pointers then pointer size cannot
It is just as fast.
Takes less drive space.
Uses less memory.
As to rebuilding apps it should be just a simple compile and yes while memory is cheap it is not always available even today. What about x86 tablets on Atom? I mean really does ls need to be 64bit what about more?
The maintainer(s) find it interesting, and they're developing it on their own dime... so I don't get the hate in some of these first few posts. No one's forcing you to use it, or even to think about it when you're coding something else.
If it's useful to someone, that's all that matters.
Yeah, you can't use sailing analogies here. Cars only.
The company I work for compiles almost all programms with 32 bits on x86-64 CPUs. It's not only cheap RAM usage, it's also expensive cache which is wasted with 64 pointer and 64 bit int. Since 3 GB is much more than our programms are using, x86-64 would be foolish. I'm eager waiting for a x32 SuSE version.
I don't get it. x86-64 doubles the general purpose and SSE registers over x86. This alone makes a (usually quite big) difference even for programs that don't use 64bit arithmetic. The point of the x32 ABI as I understand it is to keep that advantage without having 64bit pointers.
But you just compile with 32bits losing all the advantages of x86-64?
The idea makes sense in theory. Build binaries that are going to be smaller (32-bit binaries have smaller pointers compared with 64-bit) and faster (because the code is smaller, in theory cache should be used more efficiently and accesses to external memory should be reduced).
But I suspect the problem is that the benefits simply outweigh the inconvenience of having to run with an entirely separate ABI. I doubt the average significant C program spends a lot of time doing direct addressing, and as such I suspect the size benefits of using 32-bit pointers is overstated.
But I suspect the problem is that the benefits simply outweigh the inconvenience of having to run with an entirely separate ABI.
Well; if the benefits outweigh the inconvenience --- then it seems x32 should be catching on more than it is.
Personally I think it is a bad idea because of the 4GB program virtual address space limit; which applications will be frequently exceeding, especially the server applications that would otherwise benefit the most from optimization.
Oops, I meant the other way round. The inconvenience outweighs the benefit.
Personally I think it is a bad idea because of the 4GB program virtual address space limit; which applications will be frequently exceeding, especially the server applications that would otherwise benefit the most from optimization.
You're making an assumption that the 4GB limit is prohibitive. For some applications, it could be - databases and scientific processing, and definitely games. But there are plenty of other applications that won't really benefit from the enlarged address space - would a word proc
and faster (because the code is smaller, in theory cache should be used more efficiently
Your skill is Not enough. when you blow registers onto the stack the code crawls. x86-64 has more registers. Code compiled for is far faster than x86 because of the extra registers. The L1 cache is how big on your CPU? Is your binary MEGABYTES in size? If your code is jumping all over the digital universe generating cache misses then you're purposefully doing something more idiotic than this universe should care about.
It depends on the delta. There are still many 32bit problems out there, and there are plenty of cases where having extra performance helps. If you have enough of the right size problems you could even reduce the number of systems that you would need.
It looks like it could allow packing a single system tighter with less wasted resources.
Reducing the footprint of individual programs could also have some benefits from system performance / management, especially in tight resource situations.
One minor drawback
debootstrap --arch=x32 unstable
Requires an amd64 kernel compiled with CONFIG_X86_X32=y (every x32-capable kernel can also run 64 bit stuff).
This could have a home on smart phones. A smaller memory footprint is *key* on smartphone apps.
There's plenty of applications around still without a 64 bit binary. From what I understand this layer just allows 32 bit programs to utilize some performance enhancing features of 64 bit architecture. It seems a genuinely good idea.
There's plenty of applications around still without a 64 bit binary. From what I understand this layer just allows 32 bit programs to utilize some performance enhancing features of 64 bit architecture. It seems a genuinely good idea.
It allows 32-bit programs, which are *recompiled*, to benefit from those features. You still need the source and x32 builds of all dependencies. However, sometimes I guess there could be porting issues due to pointer size assumptions (but no other hard assumptions of x86 ABI behavior). Those codebases could not be recompiled for x64, but might port to x32 more easily.
x32 would have been nice as the first transition away from x86-32, but memory needs keep increasing, and we are far too used to full 64-bit spaces. In fact, it feels like we're finally over with the 32-64 bit transition, and people no longer worry about different kinds of x86 when buying new hardware. So introducing this alternative is a needless complication. As others have pointed out, it's too special a niche to warrant its own ABI.
General question about x32 ABI: is the OS still can use more than 4GB RAM w/o penalties? IOW, is kernel still 64bit? Only userspace is x32? Or x32 and pure 64-bit can run alongside?
Anyway. Most performance-sensitive programs went 64-bit anyway - since RAM is cheap and there are bunch of faster but memory-hogging algorithms.
The kernel needs to be an amd64 one for x32 to work, at least as things stand now. The most common situation would _probably_ be an amd64 system with some specialist x32 software doing performance intensive stuff. (Or possibly a hobbyist system running an all-x32 userspace for the hack value.)
Yeah, working with big data is unlikely to benefit, and data _is_ generally getting bigger.
The majority of all executable files do not require several gigabytes of RAM, hence it makes sense to streamline their address space.
I know that. Many commercial *NIX systems are doing it. Though... Having a 32-bit "cat" doesn't really changes anything.
That why I have mentioned the memory hungry algorithms. Many applications are doing it this days. Needless to mention that java this days is started almost exclusively with the "-d64".
The market for 4GB address space is really small. Because modern general programming practices generally disregard the resources in general, RAM in particular. (The (number of) CPUs being the most disrega
I do some alternative OS development. When I setup a program to run there are 3 different 64bit modes (programming models) for me to select to run the program under: ILP64, LLP64, and LP64. In ILP64 you get 64 bit ints, longs, long longs, and pointers. In LLP64 you get 32bit longs and ints, and 64bit long longs and pointers. In LP64 you get 32bit ints, 64 bit longs, long longs and pointers. Note: All these pointers are 64 bit (but the hardware may have less bits than this, the OS will query it, code mus
Yes it would. That's among the nontrivial maintenance costs.
Funny thing I notice in articles of this sort. There are always comments saying it's dumb because there is no point in optimising software for performance because hardware is so cheap. And there are comments like yours, complaining that having to do a recompile to achieve it is too big a burden.
Do you see the tension between the thoughts? Because if hardware is so cheap that it is more reasonable to tell the user to upgrade his computer, rather than optimise your software, then does it not follow that same
And I don't want another set of libraries in my system in addition to 64 bit and 32 bit emulation.
This sure feels a lot like a throwback to the old 16-bit DOS days, where you had small/medium/large memory models depending on the size of your code and data address spaces. We've already got 32-bit mode for supporting pure 32-bit apps and 64-bit mode for pure 64-bit; supporting yet a third ABI is just going to result in more bloat as all the runtime libraries need to be duplicated for yet another combination of code/data pointer size.
I hate to say this since I'm sure a lot of smart people put significant effort into this, but it seems like a solution in search of a problem. RAM is cheap, and the performance advantage of using 32-bit pointers is typically small.
I understand it is the same beast as the COMPAT_NETBSD32 [netbsd.org] option that has been available in NetBSD for 15 years now. It works amazingly well: one can throw a 64 bit kernel on a 32 bit userland and it just works, except for a few binaries that rely on ioctl(2) on some special device to cooperate with the kernel.
NetBSD even had a COMPAT_LINUX32 [netbsd.org] option for 7 years, which enables running a 32 bit Linux binary on a 64 bit NetBSD kernel. Of course the Linux ABI is a fast moving target, and one often misses the lat
No, it's not the same.
The idea is that you use the 32 bit pointer model, with 32 bit indirect instructions, but you're doing it all using the x86-64 instruction set. Ie, the task is in 64 bit mode. The 64 bit mode includes primarily more registers, so you can write / compile to tighter code.
The stuff you described is for running 32 bit binaries that use the i386/i485/i586 instruction set, complete with the limited set of temporary registers. x86-64 has many more registers to use.
It's not just about cache li
While it's possible to have a system with 16GB that could use only x32 (the kernel is still x86_64 under x32, so the kernel can see the 16GB), for instance running thousands of tasks using up to 4GB each just fine, plus the page cache is a kernel thing, so the I/O cache can always use all memory.
On the other hand, there are workloads that run on a 4GB system but that need x86_64 (mmaping of huge files for instance), and so boneheaded tasks reserve tons of never used RAM, it could actually use 1GB of RAM but reserve 8GB, the issue there really should be putting the coder in jail, but I digress.
But the vast majority of linux workloads today that use even a 8GB system would run just fine under x32. Like 95-98%.
And nobody is even suggesting a mainstream linux distro without x86_64 userland. I'm sugesting all standard tools using x32, but keeping the x86_64 shared libraries and compilers, so if you need you could use some apps with full 64bit capability. Just use x32 by default.
Plus it's a good way to remind lazy developers that no matter how cheap RAM is, you should be serious about being efficient (specially to the KDE developers) !
KDE functionality is great, but they really have no clue about efficiency (RAM and CPU).
So for me the answer is no. The whole thing reminds me of doing ARM assembler with thumb code mixed in. If you have a very specific usage for it then yes, it would certianly be useful - but it's going to be up to the people who need it to actually use and improve it. Everyone else has no need to care and the average developer shouldn't *need* to care or even be aware of it.
Won't this require a 2nd copy of the shared libraries in memory, which will negate the benefit of a slightly smaller binary?
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For the 8 years we have been keeping goat we have only come across an ear problem once. The ear was clogged and there was brown gunk oozing out not forgetting that yucky smell that emitted from it. There was an infection in it obviously as the Goat scream bloody murder when its ear was inspected.
After cleaning the ear out with most of the gunk, using a cotton bud and some anticeptic cream we applied a few drops of a combination of equal parts of Extra Virgin Olive Oil, crushed Garlic (garlic is a natural antibiotic), a capsule of Vitamin E.
On the second day we checked the ear and repeated the same drop recipe after giving it a good clean with cotton buds. The ear seemed to be doing pretty well after the third treatment and we followed up with weekly drops of equal parts white vinegar and rubbing alcohol
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Hispanic evangelicals and immigration reform
One hundred and fifty Protestant evangelical leaders met this week Capitol Hill in Washington to discuss compassionate immigration reform. Whether their meaning of "compassionate" would measure up to what has been proposed by the Catholic bishops and other religious leaders waits on the details. But the meeting is significant and welcomed.
These leaders came from religious bodies that have been already on record for immigration reform--like the Southern Baptists Convention, the country's largest Protestant denomination, and the National Association of Evangelicals, which represents 40 evangelical denominations. But joining them was Focus on the Family [1], a Colorado-based network of evangelicals, and a very active body in Republican politics. What brings them together is the growing numbers of Hispanic evangelicals.
There are 7.5 million Hispanics among the nation's 85 million evangelicals. Most Latino congregations are independent, but denominations have also been incorporating significant numbers in established churches like the Southern Baptists. Many of their ministers are joined in the Hispanic Leadership Conference and they have been pressing their evangelical brothers and sisters to be more understanding and biblical on the issue of undocumented immigrants. Hispanic evangelicals generally look very much like their American brothers and sisters--conservative Republican, anti-abortion, anti-gay-marriage, anti-alcohol, and the like. But they are stung and hurt by the anti-immigrant rhetoric of the Republican primary campaign, echoed often by their evangelical brothers and sisters. (Catholic Hispanics are also not happy about some attitudes of white Catholics, for that matter.).
In alliance with the majority of evangelicals, some Hispanic Evangelical leaders hope to push prospective Republican nominee Mit Romney off his "self-deportation" position on undocumented immigrants that he announced during the presidential debates as his "bipartisan" approach to the issues.
There are more secular pressures to get him to ease up on immigration to woo Hispanic votes in swing states like Florida, Colorado, and Nevada. So far he has been non-committal. We'll find out soon if there is any movement. Romney is to speak next week in Orlando,to a convention of elected [1] Latino [1]officials. [1] Let's hope the Evangelical pressure leads to more GOP openness.


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SARASOTA — It has been a big week for the girls basketball team at Imagine School. First, the squad helped open its new gymnasium on Friday night.
The Sharks followed that up on Tuesday with the first postseason victory in the program's history, only the second-ever postseason victory for the school.


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The various sections around the triangle of lines between the SR and GWR stations at Barnstaple were worked by Train Staff & Ticket. According to a GWR WTT Appendix (sadly undated, as my copy has lost its cover, but from its content can be deduced as probably 1940s period) the sections were as follows:-
East Loop – Barnstaple: Red staff (summer only)
East Loop – South Loop: White staff (summer only)
Barnstaple – South Loop: Yellow staff (summer only)
South Loop - Barnstaple Jcn East: Blue staff (summer only)
Barnstaple - Barnstaple Jcn East: Red staff (winter only)
However on page 104 of his book "Cleaner to Controller" WJ Gardner makes reference to these sections, but describes them as follows:
East Loop – Barnstaple: Hexagonal Yellow
East Loop – South Loop: Round Red
Barnstaple – South Loop: Triangular Green
South Loop - Barnstaple Jcn East: Oblong Blue
He makes no mention of the 'winter section' Barnstaple - Barnstaple Jcn East.
Given the 'colour' discrepancy in three of the sections, was Gardner simply wrong, or did the sections all get re-equipped with new staffs (and tickets) at some date for some reason?


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WTF? I click read full article , and the web page has nothin but coded scribble.
The meaningfull pattents are yet to be filled ofcourse and or are under embargo.
You think they will show their cards upfront?
these articles are ignorant as Phuc*
the blocking of used games is str8 BS! i really hope sony doesnt do that.. Sometimes i wanna borrow from a friend or rent from the stores before i buy it..


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A ghostly face appears to loom out of the soft-orange landscape of the Tirari Desert in South Australia in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite on October 29, 2006. The pale, skeletal-like features are produced by salt deposits in the basin of Lake Eyre, a usually dry salt lake in the lowlands of central South Australia. The lake is Australia's lowest point, 17 meters (about 56 feet) below sea level.
Ephemeral rivers and streams flow through surrounding deserts into the interior lowland region when it rains heavily, carrying in salty, marine sediments that were laid down in the region in the distant past. The network of streams and creeks is called the Channel Country, but these arteries only fill Lake Eyre on rare occasions. In the 20thcentury, the lake only filled 3 times, most recently in 1989. Since it is usually dry, the lake is a significant source of dust storms in the region, as are dry lakes around the world. The Lake Eyre Basin and surrounding deserts are probably the largest source of airborne dust in the Southern Hemisphere, though the area's contribution to global dust levels is small compared to locations like the Sahara Desert's Bodele Depression.
- Landforms From Space from the Australian Government's Geoscience Australia Department.
- Dust Storm in Australia on February 2, 2005
- High-resolution image of Lake Eyre from Landsat satellite
- Fluctuating Water Levels in Lake Eyre from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) on NASA's Terra satellite.
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|Delicious. Liked the brunch. Place is SO clean. Eatloaf wonderful. Can't wait to go back! Kind staff. Great neighborhood.
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|Dinner is very good with some interesting choices. Especially liked the grilled watermelon salad. Brunch uninspired except for the polenta fries. Need more vegan options esp for brunch. Good service
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|French toast was ok; it had lots of fruit topping, but became too sweet. BLT was below average, with white bread & morningstar bacon(tempeh bacon would have been great).Staff was capable.
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|Mashed potatoes were great and the barely fried okra was our favorite thing. Hubbie liked his meatloaf but my seitan was not worthy of mention. Need to mark which items are vegan. Disappointing.
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|For a new restaurant (less than a week) excellent service and organization. Food was attractively presented, but portions were small & pricey (still hungry after $14 entree). If they expanded to include more vegan options with larger serving sizes, and I heard good reviews from others, I might give it another try. This rating is regional--many other/better veg restaurants in SF.
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By the looks of things, most of us are intent on gabbling on about the news that (shock-horror) smoking, drinking and drugs can shorten your life-span. As if we haven't been told enough already. Now, I'm not advocating a life that revolves around the next fix, cig, or flagon - but let's at least enjoy ourselves. Without these three deadly sins, where would we be?
Where would art, music and our beloved literature be without drugs? How could the artist, musician or novelist survive without the odd hasty cigarette clenched between their troubled lips? Where would the weekends of stumbling, spewing and stupidity be without the litres of white cider and mysterious mixed spirits?
If we are all as clever as we would like to think, why is it that we still torture our bodies with these fatal excesses?
The answer is fun - doing stuff for the pure hell of it - it's supposed to be what we (teenagers) live for. Now is the time to feast on rebellion, however petty, and believe ourselves to be invincible. So why waste it preaching to the unconvertible, when there's plenty of sensible heads on aging shoulders to do that for us?
Let's stop patronising each other, and just enjoy surviving. After all, good health is merely the slowest rate at which we can die!


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Bismarck State College (BSC) has partnered with the Communications Workers of America (CWA), the largest telecommunications union in the world, to provide continuing online education and training to its members across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.
BSC will provide training through the CWA/NETT Academy, which partners with workforce systems, community institutions and industry to provide convenient, affordable, and high quality education and training opportunities.
CWA represents more than 650,000 men and women working in telecommunications, broadcasting, cable TV, journalism, publishing, manufacturing, airlines, customer service, government service, health care, education and other fields.
In choosing a partner, CWA's goal was to find the partner that could best provide enhanced education and training opportunities to its wide ranging workforce.
After a national search, BSC was chosen for its flexibility and responsiveness, according to Kevin Celata, training administrator for CWA/NETT Academy.
"Small wins again," he said. "We looked at larger schools, but they had too many tiers of politics. BSC has the innovation and ability to move on the fly that we need for our members."
BSC will provide a wide array of online opportunities to CWA members, family members, active duty military and veterans that range from personal enrichment to job-related courses and retraining for new roles in the industries represented by CWA. Retraining opportunities include bridging the expertise of telecommunications into the burgeoning energy industry.
"This is a wonderful opportunity for Bismarck State not only to extend our educational excellence to the varied constituents of CWA, but to raise the awareness of our telecommunications offerings on a national level as we've done with our energy programs," said BSC President Larry C. Skogen.
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Before Occupy was a gleam in an activist's eye, Elizabeth Warren began her relentless crusade against the widening income inequality gap. Will that translate into votes?
Elizabeth Warren hasn't yet won her U.S. Senate race, and already progressives are talking about her as a potential presidential candidate. "I think that if she gets there, she's going to be in the White House someday," activist and former White House official Van Jones told Politico.
That progressive love was on display last week in Providence, R.I., at Netroots Nation, the annual convention of bloggers and activists, where Warren, who is challenging Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts, addressed the crowd in a general session devoted to the right-wing war on women. There, nearly any declarative sentence uttered by Warren was met with cheers. In a voice made ragged by a heavy campaign schedule and, she said, the parties following her clinching of the Democratic nomination on June 2, she made plenty of them.
Here's Warren on being a woman in politics:
If you get yourself in a position to run for the United States Senate or the United States House of Representatives as you're a woman, believe me, you 've learned how to fight for what you believe in. I've lived for a long time in a world where, in commercial law, in money law, dealing with Wall Street and Wall Street issues, in both the academic world and in Washington, in which -- let me put it politely: there was never a line in the Ladies' Room.
Here she is on being Elizabeth Warren in politics:
I got in this race because real people are getting hammered, and they're counting on me to stand up for them. And let me be clear -- I'm not backing down.
Then there's this, a rejoinder to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's assertion that "corporations are people":
No, Mitt, corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they love, they cry, they dance, they live and they die -- learn the difference.
To progressive ears, Warren's proclamations were music worthy of standing ovations.
It Began With the Banks
Before Occupy was a gleam in an activist's eye, Elizabeth Warren was began her relentless crusade against the widening income inequality gap, and the financial-sector shenanigans that were sending middle-class and lower income families into irreparable levels of debt. The progressive romance with Warren, a professor at Harvard University Law School, began with her aggressive advocacy for regulation of the kinds of financial products that were paving a path to ruin for regular people, such as payday loans, as well as mortgages and credit-card contracts with sneaky balloon payments or exploding interest rates. Even before the financial crisis tanked the stock market in 2008, Warren, known as one of the nation's top bankruptcy experts, was imploring banks and politicians to put an end to the public duping.
After failing to get banks to sign onto a "clean contract" pledge, Warren came up with an idea for a new federal agency, first floated in an essay she penned for the journal Democracy, whose job it would be to regulate the language and implementation of mortgage, credit card and loan contracts, and personally lobbied so relentlessly for it that she actually brought to fruition, via the Dodd-Frank financial reform act, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
In her 2007 essay for Democracy, Warren wrote:
It is impossible to buy a toaster that has a one-in-five chance of bursting into flames and burning down your house. But it is possible to refinance an existing home with a mortgage that has the same one-in-five chance of putting the family out on the street -- and the mortgage won't even carry a disclosure of that fact to the homeowner.
President Barack Obama appointed her to set up the new agency, but she deemed so controversial by Republicans and Wall Street toadies that she was passed over for the agency's top job, which ultimately went to Richard Cordray, a former state attorney general from Ohio who served as the bureau's enforcement officer in its earliest days.
Warren was first introduced to the nation as the co-author of a 2003 bestselling book written for a popular audience, The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers & Fathers Are Going Broke, which she wrote with her daughter, Amelia Warren Tyagi. The buzz around the book earned her appearances on television and radio. She eventually parlayed her media prowess into an effective advocacy platform for the CFPB.
Traveling a meandering path to Cambridge, Warren grew up poor in Oklahoma, and gave birth to her first child at the age of 22, before she attended law school. With her working-class roots and Ivy League pedigree, Warren is the walking embodiment of progressive ideals: an intellectual who sprang from the salt of the earth, at once brainy innovator and plainspoken advocate.
The Progressive's Creed
At Netroots Nation, during an interview conducted by the Huffington Post's Amanda Terkel that also included Democratic candidates Mazie Hirono, running for U.S. Senate from Hawaii, and Darcy Burner, running for the House of Representatives in Washington State, Warren said that right-wing spin, particularly on the retrogressive positions taken on women's issues by Republicans, required more than advocacy for the progressive position. Discussing the recent battle over a requirement in the Affordable Care Act that employer-based health insurance plans cover, without a co-pay, prescription contraceptives, Warren offered a prescription of her own.
As an example she spoke of an amendment sponsored by Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., that would have allowed any employer to withhold contraceptive coverage on the basis of "conscience."
"The Blunt amendment was straightforward," Warren said. "It was about empowering employers and insurance companies to decide not to cover birth control. Did anyone miss that? That's what it was really about. But you listen to all of the Republican spin around it, and it was about 100 other things...it was about religious liberty, it was about freedom, it was about opportunity -- you know, it was about everything else. And this is really a big part of what I think has happened to political dialogue: The reality -- the core -- has gone to a very bad place, but the conversation -- the noise, the wind -- is all somewhere else. That's why I say about these elections, it's not just about sending people to Congress; it really and truly is about changing the conversation. That's the only way we're gonna get real change. That's the only way we going to protect people."
When I asked Warren, after she left the Netroots stage, what she meant by "changing the conversation," she said: "We need to talk about our values; we need to talk about our goals, and we need to clearly differentiate ourselves from today's Republicans."
In her opening remarks at Netroots, Warren sought to do just that by serving up what amounted to a progressives' creed, embedded in a stump speech that featured plenty of barbs aimed at her opponent, Scott Brown, and lines that linked Brown to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who left office after a single term because of his unpopularity. Warren sought to draw that line of demarcation this way:
Today's Republicans call for tax cuts for the wealthiest, and fewer regulations on Wall Street. Think about that: they want to give the richest and the most powerful more money and more power. And at the same time, they want to cut investments in education, in infrastructure, and in science. They argue that is how we will build a more successful and a more successful and a more powerful country. Their vision boils down to a single sentence: "I've got mine; the rest of you are on your own."
Progressives...believe we must invest together in the things we cannot build alone. And we believe in rules for markets so that we have a level playing field for our economy.
And Mitt, learn this: We don't run this country for corporations; we run it for people. We are progressives, and we stand up for people. We stand for families; we believe in making investments in education, and building a future for our kids. We stand for jobs; we believe in putting people to work to rebuild the transportation system and investing in clean energy. We stand for working people. We believe in the right to unionize, and in collective bargaining. We stand for expanding equality and opportunity for all Americans: Equal pay for equal work. Marriage equality and civil rights and justice.
We stand for small businesses, and for the millions of people who work every day to build a better future. And we stand for accountability and a level playing field so no one steals your purse on Main Street or your pension on Wall Street.
Not surprisingly, thousands of progressive hearts melted at the sound of those words. But whether that message will resonate with the suburban swing voters of Massachusetts remains an open question.
Strategy and Fundraising
For all of her clearly stated, values-laced rhetoric, Warren didn't offer a single anecdote about a real family in either her speech or the Terkel interview -- an unconventional approach, especially in a tight race. At press time, Warren and Brown were virtually tied in the polls.
But while in most races, the Republican holds the money advantage, Warren is outpacing Brown in fundraising, almost all of it from individual donors. So far, Warren has raised $16 million in campaign contributions, according to the GoLocalWorcester Reporter -- that's $4.5 million more than Brown, who has spent $500,000 on consultants, most of them fundraising consultants.
On the post-Citizens United political landscape, however, campaign coffers don't tell the whole money story. Brown is likely to benefit far more from the independent expenditures of issue groups, often secretly funded by corporations or their top beneficiaries. Those so-called independent expenditures usually result in television and other advertising devoted to slamming the issue positions of a particular candidate.
At Netroots Nation, progressives seemed undaunted by the challenges facing Warren. "Elizabeth Warren is probably the Number One project of the progressive movement this November," Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos and Netroots Nation told Politico's Alexander Trowbridge (video) at the conference.
That matters, because a nod from The Daily Kos can amount to thousands of donations from DK readers, as well as amplification of a candidate's message to the progressive base.
It's point not missed by Warren. In a hastily arranged press scrum on a loading dock at the Rhode Island Convention Center after her Netroots appearance, a reporter from the Boston Globe asked the candidate why she ventured out of state during the heat of the campaign to address the Netroots crowd. "It's important to talk to people who are not using traditional media," Warren replied, "but who have an alternative way to reach readers all across the country -- I should say, readers and listeners all across the country." She then added: "And particularly in Massachusetts."
Onward to the Big Time?
Her focus at the moment may be the Bay State, but there's little doubt that Elizabeth Warren is headed for a future as a national political figure.
"Elizabeth Warren is everybody's favorite human right now," Van Jones told Trowbridge. "She's the rock star of the party...I think there's a reason that Wall Street wants to stop her."
He continued: "I think that when you have a talent like she has, to communicate some of the most complicated ideas in politics in the most simple way, without losing any of the intellectual integrity, but just from the heart, out of her own biography, that's a rare talent. It's a rare combination of rare talents. And I think she's got the brightest future in the Democratic Party right now."
Watch Elizabeth Warren's remarks to Netroots Nation here.
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