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Monday, November 7, 2016
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It seems most Hillary supporters are people who simply do not like Donald Trump. It's find to find reasons why they would like their own candidate. Because it's true that very few people actually like Hillary Clinton.
Throughout this US election season (which lasts several years), many have been asking, 'who likes Donald Trump'. Broadly speaking, the following people like Donald Trump: traditional Robert Taft style anti-war conservatives, anti-war people of all ideologies who realize he's the only broadly anti-war candidate who stands a chance of winning, disaffected left-wing voters who are upset at the effects of globalism and free trade on wages and employment, those who want tougher immigration into America, those who favor robust law and order, those who want a simplified tax code but not a neo-liberal one either, those who are upset about Obama care, those fed up of America being an international and at times domestic laughing stock.
As for who just does not like Donald Trump, and his Potty Mouth, or Orange Hair.
But who likes Hillary Clinton? Does anybody actually like her? I don't mean personally, even though it seems she rules more through fear and intimidation than through commanding respect lest affection.
It seems that many people who are voting for Hillary Clinton are doing so because they don't like Donald Trump. This shouldn't be surprising. She's as inspiring as a broken umbrella in a hurricane, she's as exciting as a dead monk, she's less honest than even her husband, she's more opportunistic than a prisoner with keys to his own cell (not that Hillary would know about that), her corruption cannot be denied by anyone other than those who are afraid of the truth and she's more pro-war than any US presidential candidate in recent memory. She makes Ronald Reagan look like John Lennon.
So my sincere question is, does anyone actually like Hillary Clinton? This is an entirely different concept to having a complete loathing of Donald Trump. Indeed, some Hillary Clinton supporters admit that if Donald Trump were standing against a ticket of Satan with the running made of Eva Braun, they'd hold their nose and cast their vote for the Devil. Now silly as this is, I'd at least respect the honesty of people who admit that by voting for Hillary Clinton, they are merely voting against Donald Trump and nothing more.
I struggle to find the arguments that one could hypothetically have in favor of Hillary Clinton as anything but a protest vote. But here are some suggestions:
Someone who lies awake at night with tear stained eyes, due to the fact Obama refuses to openly declare war on Russia.
People who are offended by the fact that Wikileaks ruined their childhood fantasy that American politicians are the most honest and forthright in the world and want to punish Julian Assange for telling these truths.
People who think that a woman who does deals to arm terrorists with the most anti-women country in the world, Saudi Arabia, is still somehow a champion of women.
People who lie awake at night dreaming of the murder of President Assad.
People who derive joy from the fact that Libya is now a failed state and want to spread the good gospel to others.
High level employees of Goldman Sachs.
That's it. I can't particularly think of any other reasons. None of these reasons seem to be very popular issues.
Saudi Arabia isn't generally on the 'must visit list' of most American women. When it comes to leisure time, it seems Donald Trump's Big Golf is more popular with Americans than Hillary's Big Gulf. So what is it about Hillary Clinton that her supporters actually like?
The whole Hillary phenomenon beggars belief. If Democratic voters were so keen on Trump not winning, they should be actively upset that Hillary Clinton's henchmen stole the primary election from Bernie Sanders. At least like Trump, Bernie Sanders actually had policies one could support, rather than and lying,socialist, money grubbing, thieving,Felon-est,Criminal!RepliesPssttt....there's far more to hate in Trump. He's downright dangerous-and you know it. And HRC is far more qualified and accomplished.
DeleteJust look at what is going on in Libya an Syria and that stupid Iran deal speaking of dangerous
DeleteWhat, the fact that we got Iran not to build nukes is dangerous? Nice try.
Rachel Maddow, Whoopie Goldberg, Chris Hayes, Joy Behar, Paul Krugman, Lena Dunham, Charles Blow, and numerous others - officially on suicide alert.
ReplyDeleteRepliesI have no idea WTF you're talking about, Willis. I watched MSNBC's election night coverage. They were professional. Suicide alert? You must have fallen asleep and that's what you dreamt. A list of people you hate and would like to see kill themselves.
DeleteYou had you comment section shut down, claimed you would not accept Trump as president, and said you were going to quit blogging Dervish. just another crybaby lie from your retarded mind. like the 100's of lies and death threats you have sent me. The blog would would be better without a LYING LOSER like you. Go ahead and quit blogging.
DeleteYou quit blogging. You aren't accepting comments on your blog, except by "invitation". Good luck with that. No comments from anyone that's been invited... yet.
I predict you'll eventually give up on "Words and Music". The proof is that you don't stay with one ID for longer than a few years. You were TOM for about 2 and a half years. Then you were another TOM (different ID #, although both posted on Stay A While, your old blog) for 4 more years. And you were also Steve during this time. Then you changed the name on the "Steve" account to "Luke". How long before you begin again with a new ID? I say "Luke" should get sick and die (like TOM). But this time make it happen FASTER.
As for Trump, he will be an illegitimate president in my view. The election was stolen from Hillary Clinton. #notmypresident.I am on invitation only because YOU send me 100's of email and death threats everyday, asshole!
Again, I am not TOM and your mistake on that is what's driving your delusional hate, the emails, and the death threats. THAT"S YOUR MENTAL PROBLEM!
Trump is not illegitimate just because you say so. The electoral college will meet and make it official. That's just another of your crybaby, loser lies. Thanks for proving me correct about you.Wrong! Even if you are not TOM (which you are) you still trolled me as Steve & Luke. And you most certainly were Steve! It is not a delusion that the account #s match!
Trump isn't illegitimate "because I say so", but because of the Republican election fraud that disenfranchised millions of voters. Republicans "win" by cheating. Donald did not win fairly. He will be an illegitimate president. Not a "cry baby" to point out facts.There was no election fraud crybaby loser. And you can claim all you want I am 5 other guys, but you have been proven wrong on that also, although, it is a great source of laughs for me watching you make an idiot out of yourself. Your analytical skills are that of a first grader, or a delusional idiot. I chose the second option, but you do come over as a first grader.
DeleteEven if? See! You really have no clue what you are talking about. Just as you have no clue what you are talking about when you claim election fraud. You had no clue what you were talking about when you were so sure Clinton would wi, and as usual, when you are proven a liar, or wrong, you lash out with your vulgarity on a delusional level. Now back to your crybaby, loser claim the election was a fraud. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Delete"you can claim all you want I am 5 other guys"... I have never claimed this. And I've corrected you before, but you just ignore me and go with your delusions. You've got other IDs. TOM, the other TOM and Luke (your Steve account with the name changed). You aren't any other "guys". Idiot. FYI, Trump TOLD us the election was going to be rigged. It WAS. In his FAVOR. Read about it here. FACTS. You're the one who is clueless. Ever hear of Red Shift? It's when people vote, tell pollsters how they voted, but (what they don't know is) their votes were never counted! Republicans have been cheating in this manner for awhile now.
DeleteWhat a lying crybaby.
End of this stupid conversation and all your lies.
I cant explain how happy I am tonight. That crooked bitch Hillary got a foot shoved up her ass and maybe she will just go away.
ReplyDeleteHAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN!
Ding Dong!
The Witch is Dead.
Which old witch?
The Wicked Witch.
Ding Dong!
The Wicked Witch is dead.
Wake up,
You Sleepyhead,
Rub your eyes,
Get out of bed.
Wake up!
The Wicked Witch is dead!
She's gone where the goblins go ––
Below, below, below,
So SING ––
And RING the BELLS Out.
The MERRYO.
Sing it High.
Sing it LOW.
Let them KNOW
The Wicked Witch is Dead!
Be wise. Don't question. Don't doubt. Don't fear. Don't analyze. Don't demur, Just ENJOY a rare and precious day of TRIUMPH OVER EVIL.
Check it out here:
We're having a PARTY today. All are welcome to join, except the SPOILSPORTS and PICKLEPUSSES. [You know who you are!]
REJOICE!RepliesThe Clintons are yesterdays news and they hate that the most. Good Riddens to whole lot of them
DeleteWoo Hoo!~ A xenaphobic white racist now to occupy the white house. Congratulations. I'm going underground.
DeleteHey, cut RN some slack speedy. He obviously doesn't have the latest talking points from his journalistic masters....
DeleteSo Lester Crapenter, make sure you go at least 6 feet under, since you promised to go underground.
Welcome to Pig Shit USA today. Herr Drumpf has claimed the ultimate prize and so goes America. Down the sewer.
ReplyDeleteRepliesWhat will you do now Rhoid - pull the fleas from Mooch's tail and give them to your wife as a keepsake?
DeleteHey sewer pipe Radical Red Ass, now you can be happy along with all rest of your ilk. America now has a white supremacist in the oval office. Congratulations.
DeleteWe Won - You Lost...Again!
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!REAL AMERICANS won! Which means YOU lost! Bigly!
(remember, slash down the tracks not across the street!)What does it say about Hillary that she would (according to you) lose to a racist, bigoted, white supremacist RN?
As I wrote months ago (that you and your buddies stole that post) Hillary will go down as the biggest political lose in American History. She couldn't even beat a racist!It's not so much what it says about Hillary as what it says about us.
You don't seem concerned that we elected a racist shyster.
But, you're a white male, Luke, so you aren't going to be bearing the brunt of the coming fiasco.
I'm going to chuckle when the chumps and dopes repeal the ACA and find out their premiums still rise.
Fiasco.You and RN have the same false superior attitude and are always wrong.
I am not a white male.
Do you think Jefferson was a racist?
Was LBJ a racist?
How about John Adams?
We started as a slave nation and the founders we worship were much more racist and bigoted than Trump.Duckster,
If you believe the MSM he is a racist but if you look at actions nothing he has done show racism. Elitism yes but not racism. He has never had to pander to the masses and is unfiltered which is unheard of for a politician.
I watched ultimate racist, BHO's, speech about -h,s- whipping and he was very polished so he must have been practicing for a few weeks. Guess he wasn't surprised.
As a government minion you have no idea what it is like to work for a living instead of show up for work and get paid.
Prior to the vote the leftists were all about the electoral collage now DJT stole the vote because hildabeast won the popular. Your buddies need to make up their minds what they want.
If thinks go their way they shout and insult everyone who disagrees but if things don't go their way they hide in a corner and plug their ears, brave bunch those leftists are especially the elite colonists.Luke: I am not a white male.
"I am part Native American on my father's side. I think I will go to my local tribal chapter and get on the list as a member of the community".
Sound familiar, TOM? You ever get that 250k a year check from casino revenues you were seeking?AAAAAAWWWWE! POOR SWOOSHIE NUTJOB! Did your head fall into the toilet bowl when you heard The Donald Trump won? Oh wait, I heard you were flushing the bowl when your head fell in, getting a big swoosh!
DeleteI am not TOM, so I have no clue what your delusional mind is talking about. That mistake has made you send me 800 vile emails and multiple death threats. That's your delusional mistake. I am not part Native American. Now back to your lying pals RN, Shaw, Ducky, Pam, Dog, and the rest of your LOSER LYING buddies.
DeleteI don't know if you are part Native American or not. I'm only referring to what you wrote on YOUR blog (using your "TOM" ID). BTW, you also trolled me as Luke (BS accusations of post stealing) and as Steve (with many homophobic comments that went on for years). That you were Steve is 100% a FACT. Proven by the matching ID #s. I haven't made any mistake in identifying you as a lying troll.
DeleteThe ID numbers you posted DID NOT MATCH! Which I suppose is why you removed them from your blog, and even your hate filled buddy RN said he's sick of your lying allegations and won't allow you to even mention it on his blog. Now get back to Star Trek and have your mommy bring you a sandwich downstairs for lunch.
DeleteI don't know WTF you're talking about. I did not remove anything from my blog. And where do you think I posted ID #s that don't match? LINK me to the RN comment where he said he's "sick of my lying allegations". Impossible for you to do either, because neither ever happened. There is no post by me in which ID #s don't match. RN never said he was "sick of my lying allegations". GIVE LINKS OR STFU. You used to be Steve (who trolled me for years). You just changed the name on your account. The ID #s DO match. Proven here and here. See also this Steve comment. Click the name Steve, and the account for Luke comes up. PROOF you are a lying troll.
DeleteFound the comment, dummy. RN says he doesn't want anyone to mention you again because you are, quote, "a hate filled shell of a human being" who is "dead to this weblog". He did NOT say I'm lying. He knows I tell the TRUTH about you.
DeleteWhere's his comment? All we see is your words, which have been proven NOT to be true. Enjoy yourself liar.
DeleteWhere's his comment??? I'm referring to the SAME comment you JUST referred to, moron! You KNOW where it is. What a dope.
Are any of those foreign governments and other crooks going to ask for a refund from the clinton crime family because they paid now the clintons can't play.
I did notice on one some liberal blog that they want DJT to fail in making America great again. That is a little different than the gop wanting to stop Hussein from a second term.
My hope is we have an administration that represents all the people instead of just the special interest.
Hopefully we won't see senator Chelsea and now -H- is free to leave BJ and seek true happiness with Huma.RepliesLes,
Can you name one thing BHO did for the majority of the American citizens. He was the poster boy for special interest politics.
I hope DJT can be as inspiring as Reagan and represent all Americans.
It is almost comical that after the elitists bragged about H- going to win the electoral college they now condemn that system because California voted -H-. Now the spoon fed college students and non-working welfare crowd are spending their time protesting the vote.
The IDIOTIC PROGRESSIVES SAYS;
"More Americans voted for Hillary than voted for Trump!
Trump will be a minority president, a president whom a majority of Americans did not vote for, did not want.
He won only because of an 18th century thing called the electoral college, not the direct will of the people. Had he run in any other modern democracy, he would have lost.
If there's any consolation in this travesty it is this:
She neglects to say that there was only one state that put her in that position, th land of fruits and nuts, CaliforniaRepliesOh so now they are against the electoral college . Aren't they special?
DeleteGuess the dems should have done away with it except they were to busy passing obamacare without seeing it
DeleteMy response to skudrunner pointing out that he's wrong about the Democrats "passing obamacare without seeing it" got deleted? I suppose it doesn't matter now. Preznit Trump will sign the repeal bill, and the ACA will be replaced with nothing. Surely not something that will be "great" and cost a lot less. But Trump made a LOT of BS promises that he will renege on as preznit. Question is, will his duped supporters care when they can no longer afford health care insurance? What about when the wall doesn't get built? So stupid.
DeleteShe should delete all your childish lies and crying garbage. Tell us again how the Justice Dept. called the election a fraud. Tell us again how Clinton claimed the election was a fraud. A politician made a promise he might not keep! OMG the world will end!! Keep crying baby!
DeleteWhy would the Justice Department investigate from now until the (fraudulent) Trump Administration shuts them down? All the while Trump-supporting dupes like you yell "cry baby" and "sore loser". That makes a lot of sense. Hillary Clinton DID say the Comey letters cost her the election, which absolutely was cheating! Also, it's not a big deal if Trump breaks many of his promises? We shall see. Trump will be one term when the rubes who voted for him realize he's a liar who lied to get their votes.
As for "She should delete"... WHO the hell are you talking about? Lisa? Lisa, nor ANYONE else has paid any attention to our back and forth (thus far). You're acting like Ben Carson when he said "cut her mic" on CNN because he was losing the argument. Just like you're losing this argument!
BTW, babies did not pay attention to the election. Babies have no idea who is president, who ran for president or who will be president.
I've been seeing some pretty interesting analysis on this (of course, the analysis is always easier AFTER the fact).
Dear Democrats, Read This If You Do Not Understand Why Trump Won
Trump Is What Happens When You Nominate A Cheater and Live In An Echo Chamber—sO Maybe You Can Learn From This.
1. If you had asked the average person, say, 5 or 10 years ago, which party would be closer to being populist and which was closer to being for The Big Guy, I think it's pretty clear that most would have said the Dems were closer to being populist. But somehow the GOP beat the Dems to the punch, and the Dems made it easier by running Hillary. Stunning. And reading Dems sites, they're sure as hell stunned, too.
2. And here's another thing:: You know those concerts with the music superstars that Hillary held , like Beyonce, Jay Zee, Lady Gaga, Bruce Springstein, and the rest of those elitist Holly-weirdo I wonder if those shove it in your face Multi- Millionaires drove home anything , by having them all on stage together in "The Winner's Club" -- all these rich, successful screwballs hugging each other. Maybe stuff like that was a big Net Negative.
3. Finally, now that the dust has settled a bit, I think overall half of us American just didn't understand just what it took for us to vote for Trump. The insults we took from our friends and realities, from the media, Enough rage to ignore any of Trumps faults and weaknesses and behaviors and sometimes the words and everything else. THAT is a LOT of rage right there. But we took it because of TWO reasons.. First of all, we believed in him, and secondly we DID NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING THAT HILLARY SAID, BUT WE DID BELIEVE ALL THE TRASH THAT WAS SAID ABOUT HER.
Y\In case you still don't understand, yet, you voted for more corruption, and to support and fascist, liar and a Crook.. We voted for someone who we honestly thought would change all of the above.
Obama was not able to deliver on the promises he made overall, and a lot of faith was placed in him. And Hillary would be the same.
And that's My two cents, worth every penny.Right FT. But until you figure out for yourself I have no party, and, that truth (not that any party or politician is fully honest) lights my way it is you who can kis my ass .
Given the facts it boiled down to the lesser of two evils for me.
Enjoy your false victory. HRC won the popular vote.RepliesIt doesn't matter how many Hits your team gets, RN. Only the Runs matter.
Delete...and just "who" won the "popular vote" won't be known for months, and the "rest" (9+ million) votes are counted.
Well said!
What a bunch of crybabies! They shut down comments because they can't handle I told you so, or can't defend their hate they have been writing for over a year. They misread the American electorate proving they had no clue what they were talking about. The MSN and pollsters mislead Americans and even went so far to say Hillary would win in a landslide. These hate filled liberals are mean and stupid. That includes RN, even though he wants to distance himself now. What a putz!RepliesLuke the Puke (a well known blog troll) fits in well here. Spreading his hate for Liberal bloggers. Joe Conservative liked what he had to say.
DeleteDervish Sanders one of the Clinton haters has sent me over 800 emails including multiple death threats. He is truly an obsessed psychopath.
DeleteAs Luke continues his trail of psychological projections.
DeleteA sick puppy like you RN is cheering him on. Of course you have no clue, as usual Now get back to you antisemitic blog.
DeleteYou've proven yourself to be exactly that which you accuse others of. On multiple weblogs.
Go eat shyte Luke/TOM/Steve/ whoever...No accusation, FACT, which you know nothing about. Dervish has sent me 800 vile emails and multiple death threats which you cheered on, and YOUR words were, "The Jews went willingly to the gas chambers."
You show your character while mourning your dad's death, you relish in posting your lies and insults all over the blogs. Thanks for proving what a despicable ass you are.In fact I'll send you all the vile emails he sent me. It should keep your comment section full for months. Enjoy!
DeleteYou really are pathetic. Just what this venue enjoys.
There ia over 3,000 poats for interested parties to read. None of which supports your many false allegations.
Go eat shyte, it is after all the very stuff you're made of.I have not written 3,000 poats. Just another lie by a guy so stupid he cannot spell posts.
DeleteI'm guessing RN is referring to your troll comments submitted to his blog. You've submitted quite a few to me as well. I don't know about 3k, but it's a LOT. Most of them as "Steve" and "TOM".
DeleteI have only written 86 posts, you idiots. Anyone can check that. It's a lie that you claim I am 5 other guys. Now get back to explaining how Trump "STOLE" the election. Just another of your delusions.
DeleteThe Election was Stolen – Here's How... (11/11/2016) by Investigative journalist Greg Palast.
NEVER said you were "5 other guys" btw. That's a line you pulled out of your ass (where your delusional mind is located).I don't see the Justice Dept. investigating the election, or charging anyone with election fraud. Hillary certainly is not accusing any kind of election fraud. Only the crybaby liar liberals like you. Get over it crybaby!
I checked, RN was falsely saying I wrote 3,000 posts. A TOTAL LIE!YOU lied about how many posts you have. Your archive says 72, not 86. But you're probably counting all the ones in "save" that you're too embarrassed to publish. Like the one where you're "spreading the word" about how great a writer you are. Ha ha ha ha ha. BTW, there is no investigation because the institutional Dems have decided that talking about Republican election fraud would depress voter turnout. And morons like you would say "crybaby" and "sore loser". The Dems have decided there's not much they can do, apparently. Why don't you ask them? I don't know what they're thinking. I only know it's happening. Whether or not morons like you want to acknowledge it. Proof Luke isn't a "Liberal" as he claimed on his blog, but a Republican. He's absolutely giddy over the coming Trump disaster.
DeleteIt's so childish that you keep ranting your lies here. You have my email, send your lies there child. Although I'm sure the readers here are laughing while you cry like a child. Lets here more about how the election was a fraud. That's good for a laugh.
Deleteemail addresses can easily be blocked. You'll block me just like you blocked comments on your blog. What a stupid suggestion. But you're stupid. You don't know how many posts are on your own blog.
BTW, why would I care what Trump supporters think of me? Also, where are these laughing comments? I don't see them. As for how the election was a fraud, I've written about it on my blog. See here. But no Luke the Puke troll comments will be accepted. Nor will any "nah-uh crybaby sore loser" comments.How does your rump feel after getting spanked hard, Dervish Sandbagger? Or should I call you Pookie Toot Toot?
The Dept. of the Interior quietly announced they were setting $250,000 aside for cleaning and repairing damages in the White House prior to the Trump family moving in. It seems the Obamas had a family game they called Fling The Bird where they would order a few buckets of KFC (both regular and extra crispy) and after eating a piece of chicken one of the family would yell "you're it" and try to hit another family member with the chicken bone. This is when the hilarity escalated as everyone started running and dodging flying chicken parts which left sizeable grease marks on walls and furniture which now have to be cleaned or painted over.
ReplyDeleteRepliesThey always redo the WH with a change of administration so you can't blame the sitting family. After all it is their residence and their tastes and after eight years probably needs a paint job and new carpet.
They should ask the Clinton's to return some of the things the appropriated when they left
Isn't it about time for you to tell us how Donald Trump would never get nominated or elected? Come on Lester, tell us.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm...well thought out Lester, "system rigged."
Lester is beside him self....DJT made poor RN look like a friggin moron. For over a year Les was running from blog to blog spouting his stupidity telling everyone Trump would never run, then Trump could never get nominated, then Trump could never win...in fact he was going to get crushed in a HRC landslide and cause the Dems to take the Senate and possibly the House. In fact a few weeks ago his fellow idiot Shaw gave him a PE commendation for being so diligent in his successful stoppage of the Trump train.Getting a pat on the head caused RN to tear up.RepliesYou're hilarious rusty, really you are. Not as funny as your bud Red Ass though.
Hope Herr Drumpf learns and does well. He might even earn the respect of real Americans if he does.
Time will tell. Meanwhile MA, CA, and NV will be enjoying quality brownies very soon.
Life's good.By the looks of it, you've had a few too many brownies, RN.
DeletePoor Nursie Poo Poo! He clocked himself with his own brownie after flinging it around. Uh, Nursie Poo Poo, take a bath and use some soap. The brownie streak will wash off your face.
Just remember folks, it ain't EVER over!
ReplyDelete_____ HILLARY'S LAMENT _____
My party's over, it's time to call it a day
They've burst my pretty balloon
And taken the moon away
It's time to wind up the masquerade
I've made my mind up
The piper must be paid
My party's over, the candles flicker and die
I screamed and dreamed through each night
It seemed oh-so right as I told each lie.
Now I must wake up, my dream must end,
Remove the makeup, my party's over
I now am empty with nothing to spend .
FACE it. I am KAPUT!
~ Ubin Kahned - selection from the D'RAT FOLLIES of 2016Ducky's here November 9, 2016 at 3:12 PM...It's not so much what it says about Hillary as what it says about us.
You don't seem concerned that we elected a racist shyster.
Didn't know we were still blathering about 2008. What with all the conservatives assaulting ProgNazis and wailing about non-existent assaults?And Rhoidi, yours, and especially Hitlery's, tears are sweet, sweet ambrosia to me!
Just think, now, instead of looting the country to which she felt entitled, she's now gonna be thrown in a dungeon where her FELLOW dykes look like her (complete with the burst colostomy bag) instead of Huma Abadouche, Katy Perry, Gaga, etc!It has been a hoot watching the Dems scratch each others eyes out. These Dinks are blaming everyone except their candidate and their policies for their beat down.
ReplyDeleteWhy are you here Dervish? You said Lisa's blog was so vile you would never post here.
That's right, you won't get posted at my blog. You have sent 800 emails and multiple death threats, I did post you 3 times. Once, was one of your death threats. Once was one of your vulgarities, and once was you admitting you sent death threats and 100's of emails. You are a self admitted criminal troll. You are a self admitted liar since I have your own words, which you deny. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA there's one of those laughs for you.RepliesWhy are you here, Puke? This is a blog where Trump's "win" is being celebrated. You've claimed to be opposed to Trump (and said you'd vote for HRC if you lived in a swing state). As for me saying (according to you) "Lisa's blog was so vile you would never post here"... that isn't a quote. I've never said I would "never post". You're lying. As usual. But that's what blog trolls like Puke do. BTW, I DO deny that I admitted anything. The "your own words" you have are me paraphrasing you. But you lie about that too.


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No way! Week 4.......giddy up.
There is something to be said about deadlines. I need them.
If I don't have one then I will never make a decision. No way could I be head of a large company unless I had an assistant that would come in, shut the door and shout "damn girl....get on it".
It could be 5 years from now and I would still be flip flopping around on this stupid guest room. Thanks you Linda for being our general.
Here is what got done.
My sister helped me attach the headboard to the wall. It kept falling off the paint cans.
That allowed me to raise it about 10".....which looks so much better with euro shams.
I got the bed made which was a little premature because I will just have to tear it apart when I put the rug down. I wanted to see how it was looking though. #inpatientfool
Nothing new here yet except the coverlet. I feel a little lazy considering that a few of the ORC bloggers are RENOVATING something. #overachievers
I got this bad boy painted.
Now I am trying to decide on the pulls. I tried a little DIY with rub and buff on the existing but wasn't feeling it so much. I might try knocking them back a little with shoe polish.
Yet I am leaning on ordering something like this.
Maybe pulls on the doors and knobs on the drawers.
Got the curtains, hardware and the trim ordered. Also hung the bamboo shades.
I might have gotten a few quotes on that fabulous ceiling.....but somebody is going to have to come waaaaayyyyy down if that is to be done. Holy mackerel.
By the way y'all.... I recently discovered that I will be out of town week 6 and 7. I mean gone for 8 days. You know what that means..... I will have to finish this sucker before I leave, write the last 2 post and figure out how to schedule them.
It's always something right?
There are 20 other bloggers who are ready to show you what they have accomplished.
Go see please.

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Analysts Debate: Is Tesla Motors a Top Stock?
The Motley Fool has been making successful stock picks for many years, but we don't always agree on what a great stock looks like. That's what makes us "motley," and it's one of our core values. We can disagree respectfully, as we often do. Investors do better when they share their knowledge.
In that spirit, we three Fools have banded together to find the market's best and worst stocks, which we'll rate on The Motley Fool's CAPS system as outperformers or underperformers. We'll be accountable for every pick based on the sum of our knowledge and the balance of our decisions. Today, we'll be discussing Tesla Motors , the leading electric vehicle maker.
Tesla Motors by the numbers
Here's a quick snapshot of the company's most important numbers:
Statistic | Result (TTM or Most Recent Available) |
Market Cap | $4.5 billion |
Forward P/E | 30.1 |
Revenue | $413.3 million |
Gross margin | 7.3% |
Net income | ($396.2 million) |
Cash | $201.9 million |
Long-term debt | $452.3 million |
Vehicles | Model S: 20,000 annual production rate, 15,000 reservations Model X: Scheduled for delivery in early 2014 |
Key competitors | Ford General Motors Honda Nissan BMW |
Sources: Yahoo! Finance and company earnings release.
Travis' take
Historically, auto companies have been a terrible investment. General Motors went bankrupt a few years ago, so did Chrysler, and even Ford hasn't outperformed the S&P 500 long term.
Source: F Total Return Price data by YCharts.
When you're in a capital-intensive business with union workers it's hard to alter your cost structure when the economy falters or consumer tendencies change. So, I come into any auto debate with a skeptical eye.
What Tesla brings vs. its larger competitors is a whole new look at the auto world. The company is building nothing but electric vehicles, it doesn't have legacy costs to worry about, and it's building its own dealer network. It's also making no qualms about going after the high-end consumer. Instead of trying to build an electric vehicle for the masses, like GM, Honda, and Nissan did, it went after affluent consumers who wanted an electric vehicle with all the perks of a BMW. This year's Motor Trend Car of the Year award validated all of those efforts.
On the financial side, Tesla is seeing some major progress. Revenue for the fourth quarter jumped 500% from the third quarter as production ramped up. Production run rate hit 20,000 annually by the end of the year and the result is an expected profit in the first quarter of this year and will be near breakeven on operational cash flow.
The future is even brighter given the company's pipeline. Toyota is buying powertrains for the RAV4 EV and the company is progressing on its Mercedes-Benz B-Class EV program. The Model X, a crossover vehicle, will begin production in late 2013, bringing more scale to Tesla's manufacturing. If sales go as well for the Model X as they did for Model S, it could be very profitable next year.
Projecting Tesla's profits involves a lot of guesswork, but if we assume 40,000 units annually at an average price of $60,000 and the 25% gross margin, Tesla could make a $600 million gross profit by 2014. That's not bad for a company so early in its development and it makes me cringe a little less at the $4.5 billion price tag on the stock.
Visionary companies don't come along often but Tesla has the makings of one. I'll take a chance on this stock and give an outperform call.
Sean's take
I'll hand it to Elon Musk for definitely giving consumers something to talk about. The man is without question a visionary who's comparable to few others. But as an investment, buying Tesla Motors is about as appetizing to me as eating dirt. I have quite a few concerns about the longevity of the business that will definitely keep me on the other side of this trade from Travis.
To begin with, Tesla claims to have 20,000 Model S sedans sold for 2013. That's a fine figure, but doesn't it seem a bit disconcerting, then, that it was supposed to deliver 2,500 Model S sedans in its most recent quarter yet it fell 100 short? That's particularly worrying given that it expects to ramp up to 4,500 deliveries in the first quarter. This speaks to the very thing that got Tesla's Model S in trouble with consumers and investors in the first place: delays, delays, delays. Tesla won't speak of any delays now, but the numbers clearly aren't adding up to the expectations as per the norm. As icing on the cake, its Model X was originally scheduled to begin production in late 2013. That's now been moved back to late 2014... surprise!
Second, have we all just magically forgotten that Tesla has to begin paying back the U.S. Department of Energy for the $465 million it borrowed under the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing loan program? Tesla has until the end of the decade to pay off this loan, but just keep in mind that it owes $12 million in interest on this loan, each quarter and beginning in the first quarter of 2013.
Third, do we really expect Tesla's competition to just roll over and die in "you got us" fashion? Travis is spot on that Tesla is hitting an affluent niche of the market that Ford and General Motors ignored when they developed the electric Focus and hybrid Volt. But who's to say that these automakers won't attempt to infiltrate this space? In addition, how does Musk plan to conceptually get beyond its roughly 20,000 unit sales? This is a production figure I'm skeptical it can hit, and its price points leave little room for error with taxes rising on middle- and upper-income earners.
Fourth, there's still little comparison to the massive infrastructure and timelessness associated with gas-powered vehicles. I believe getting Americans to give into the finite driving range and expensive setup needed to power electric vehicles will prove more difficult than Musk thinks.
Finally, there's no substance to its figures. Sure, sales were up 500%, but so was every dot-com in the late 1990s that burned through all of its remaining cash. Tesla's quarterly report delivered a wider-than-expected loss. Period! Until Tesla is cash-flow positive and can get its production line in order, as well as show me what other buyers are going to step up to its premium price range in order to make it profitable, I'm going to suggest we slap a CAPScall of underperform on Tesla.
Alex's take
Tesla is a different sort of automaker, as Travis has pointed out. But how different? One thing to focus on is how much of Tesla's revenue comes from providing technology and development services to larger automakers. Is this going to be a significant part of Tesla's business model going forward? Let's see what percentage of the company's revenue has been derived from services to other automakers so far:
2010: 17% ($20 million)
2011: 27% ($56 million)
2012: 7% ($28 million)
It's likely that this will be a smaller percentage of Tesla's revenue going forward as it builds out production capacity. It also counts some sales to larger automakers as part of its core automotive sales revenue. As Travis mentioned, Toyota is buying powertrains for its electric RAV4 -- this will generate $100 million between 2012 and 2014. Annualized out to about $33 million per year, that's not likely to be a huge driver of revenue either, as it's less than a tenth of total automotive sales revenue in 2012. Ultimately, this company will live or die by its auto sales.
So, about that 25% gross margin...
Automaker | TTM Gross Margin | TTM Sales / Admin. Expense Margin | TTM Net Margin |
Ford | 16.1% | 9.1% | 4.2% |
Toyota | 14.3% | 9.5% | 3.7% |
Tesla | 7.3% | 36.4% | (95.9%) |
Source: Morningstar. TTM = trailing 12 months.
Tesla's gross margin certainly could expand -- it was 30% in 2011, so the earnings history supports that projection. However, sales expenses are higher as a percentage of revenue than its large peers, in part due to the scale of those automakers but also undoubtedly because of Tesla's decision to operate its own sales program internally rather than adopt the standard dealer model. Internalizing the cost of sales might help Tesla better control its overall cost structure, but the ultimate benefit of that decision may be found much further in the future than many people expect.
Even if we assume that $600 million in gross profit is attainable in 2014, as Travis projects, there's still the matter of operating expenses, of which sales is a smaller component than research and development. If we assume that both R&D spending (which grew at an annualized rate of 43% from 2010-2012) and sales expenses (which grew at an annualized rate of 21% over the same period) will increase at the same pace through 2014 as they have since 2010, that still results in $780 million in operating expenses in 2014, and thus a net loss for the year in spite of $600 million in gross profit. If these expenses increase half as much per year to 2014 as they have since 2010, then Tesla winds up with about $7 million in operating profit in two years' time, before it has to pay any taxes.
Gross margins do matter. However, they matter less than the money that winds up in the company's bank account after all is said and done. Tesla makes nice cars, and I don't doubt that it will sell everything in its limited production runs. However, that does not seem to be enough, based on Travis' very generous calculation, to do more than merely break even on an operating basis.
I'm going to side with Sean and give Tesla an underperform call, but it's going to be a very cautious one. Since its IPO, Tesla has tracked the S&P 500 very closely, and as of this writing the difference between the automaker and the index is only two percentage points in the S&P's favor. There seems to be more of a risk of decline due to production bottlenecks and consumer backlash than a big pop due to an already-expected rise in sales. However, if Tesla pulls out a big surprise, such as unexpected profitability or some light-years-ahead new battery technology, I would like to quickly revisit this with the intent of avoiding a big short squeeze on our call.
The final call
Alex played the swing vote this time and we'll add an underperform call but will keep it on a short leash. So far, the other 26 picks we've made have beaten the market by 429 points so we hope the streak will continue.
Near-faultless execution has led Tesla Motors to the brink of success, but the road ahead remains a hard one. Despite progress, a looming question remains: Will Tesla be able to fend off its big-name competitors? The Motley Fool answers this question and more in our most in-depth Tesla research available for smart investors like you. Thousands have already claimed their own premium ticker coverage, and you can gain instant access to your own by clicking here now.
The article Analysts Debate: Is Tesla Motors a Top Stock? originally appeared on Fool.com.
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New energy price cap comes into effect
Around 11 million households could benefit from a new cap on energy prices, which came into effect on 1 January.
The new cap aims to ensure that energy customers on default tariffs – such as standard and variable tariffs – pay a 'fair price' for their energy.
According to energy regulator Ofgem, an average dual fuel customer paying by direct debit will pay no more than £1,137 per year. However, the amount consumers pay will depend on their exact energy usage, as the cap applies per unit of energy rather than to the total bill.
The cap will remain in place until at least 2020, with the level of the cap being reviewed every April and October, to take into account changes to the cost of providing gas and electricity.
However, some consumer groups have warned that householders could still save more money by shopping around for the best deal.
Commenting on the new cap, Gillian Guy, Chief Executive of Citizens Advice, said: 'The introduction of this cap will put an end to suppliers exploiting loyal customers. However, while people on default tariffs should now be paying a fairer price for their energy, they will still be better off if they shop around.
'People can also make longer-term savings by improving the energy efficiency of their homes. Simple steps, such as better insulation or heating controls, are a good place to start.'


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Miley Cyrus Makes Out With a Fan [VIDEO]
The provocative Miley Cyrus -- who recently locked lips with both Katy Perry and labelmate Brooke Candy -- tongue-kissed a front-row fan during her Bangerz Tour stop in Las Vegas on Saturday, March 1. And what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas, especially when caught on film.
During her performance of 'Adore You,' Miley walked to the edge of the stage and began making out with a blonde female fan. The intense kiss lasted for several seconds, and the audience couldn't get enough, cheering and screaming at the surprise makeout sesh. After ending the kiss, Miley immediately wiped her mouth and face with her arms -- but it wasn't in disgust. She took to Twitter to better explain why she cleaned herself up after the smooch:
Makes perfect sense. After all, if she's willing to make out with a fan (and put other fans' thongs in her mouth), it would be pretty shocking if she felt like she needed to wipe off the kiss!
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The Real Names of Over 50 Rock + Metal Icons
There are a lot of rock and metal musicians with stage names — and we mean a lot. The trend seems to have started in the late '60s and early '70s, with shock rockers such as Alice Cooper, David Bowie and KISS. Each member of the Ramones took on "Ramone" as their last name later in the decade.
There are many reasons people change their names. Sometimes, you just really don't like the name you were born with. Other times, you're on the way to becoming a superstar and want to be known as something else.
Stage names definitely became popularized in the 1980s, especially with hair metal artists such as Motley Crue.
But there are also lesser-known instances, like Chris Cornell, for example. As noted by the Guardian, the late singer was born with the name Christopher Boyle, but changed it to Cornell after his parents' divorce because that was his mother's surname.
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I want to give a huge thanks to the TJMS family that has sent my family positive energy surrounding the loss of my dad. So many of you showed crazy support of his fight with Cancer and I am humbled and overwhelmed.
Tom, this weekend I became honorary Alum of Dillard University when they presented me an honorary doctorate. It was an amazing pleasure to speak for their 2013 commencement where nearly 180 students walked the stage for graduation. And I was thinking about how many young and not so young people will be walking the stage this season. Some will be leaving high school for college, the work force, the military or even an entrepreneurial venture. And still some will be leaving two and four-year institution for a range of future choices that will transition them to the next phase of their lives.
I wanted to take a moment to celebrate a few graduates that the TJMS family shared with me via twitter and Facebook. But before I do. I want to ask you are you prepared to work towards graduating from something. These students all committed to a course of study and then put in the work to matriculate and graduate. We all can do the same thing. Some of us are working towards graduating our relationship to marriage, while others want to graduate a hustle to a business. Many of us are still trying to figure out a major, but the fact that you commit to anything is a step in the right direction. Don't stop enrolling in LIFE. That thing that you think or know you are here for. Keep pushing because it is the small steps, class by class and step by step that lead us to graduation.
Lets honor a few who did just that this year and have or will be graduating soon.
Shannon Alexandersays, Started from the bottom now she's here!!! Shouting out my sis Robinne CoCo-Drop Alexander from GED to Masters Degree!!! MBA from AIU.
Tiffany Johnson Jewellsays Im shouting out MYSELF! Associates of Applied Science, Human Services from Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis, In. Shartajeye' Wright says, I am a proud graduate of Texas Southern University and Shartajeye' Wright just graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Biology with a minor in Chemistry!
Kahlia Fordis celebrating her sister, Alexis Marie Davis graduated 3rd in her class from Philander Smith College, Summa Cum Laude!!
Caecilia Key gives major props to Evan Epic Polk, graduating from Washington Math Science Technology Public Charter High School, in DC and
Terrilynn Cook is incredibly proud of her son Branden Cook< graduating from Butler High School (Matthews, NC), is on the National Honors Society and will be attending Wake Forest University with a Presidential Scholarship .
Kim Brown says "hi Jeff, my Granddaughter Angel will Graduate on Friday 5/17 from Woodward Technical High in Cincinnati, I'm so proud of her". And finally,
Nina S. Kirk is celebrating her son Corey Thorpe who will graduate on May 25th from George Washington High School in Danville, Virginia.
Know that you don't have to be enrolled in college to graduate from something. I encourage you to keep pushing family….Your graduation is right around the corner.
I'm Jeff and that's my truth.
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Verizon Razr and Razr Maxx owners can rejoice again first it was announced that the Razr was being upgraded to ICS and now Verizon has announced they are planning on turning the Razr's GSM roaming capabilities for international use.
Verizon Wireless is activating GSM roaming capability for the first time on LTE handsets, turning on radios that were already built into the Motorola Droid Razr and Droid Razr Maxx.
Verizon has the biggest 4G LTE footprint in the U.S., but its 4Gphones so far have been limited when users traveled overseas. For roaming, they have relied on 3G CDMA technology, which reduced their travel range to about 40 countries.
Now, along with an upgrade to Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich, Verizon is pushing out software that activates the GSM radios in the two Motorola smartphones. As soon as subscribers get the update, which started going out Friday, they can use international roaming in about 150 countries.
Occasional travelers can talk on foreign carrier networks at rates ranging from $0.69 per minute in Canada to $4.99 per minute in Kenya, Sri Lanka and several other countries. A $4.99-per-month Value Plan reduces those rates. Data roaming, on networks with speeds up to 3G, costs $0.02 per kilobyte or $20.48 per megabyte in most countries, or $25 per month for 100MB.
Subject to restrictions, Verizon can also allow subscribers to go to a foreign carrier and buy a new SIM card to replace the one in their Razr or Razr Maxx, spokeswoman Brenda Raney said. They would then pay the foreign carrier's rates, while also relying on that carrier for support, she said. Verizon subscribers can't use the phones on GSM-based carriers in the U.S., she said.
The two Motorola phones are equipped with radios for GSM in the 850MHz, 900MHz, 1800MHz and 1900MHz bands, and for 3G HSPA in the 850MHz, 900MHz, 1900MHz and 2100MHz bands, Raney said.
Verizon offers several 3G CDMA handsets that include GSM "world phone" capability, but the Razr and Razr Maxx are its first LTE phones with this feature. Verizon said it plans to offer more global phones in the future, without giving details.
Despite most 4G carriers around the world converging on LTE as their technology of choice, it's likely to take years for roaming on that high-speed system to take shape. The frequencies that different operators are using for LTE are too varied, industry observers say. The international industry group Next-Generation Mobile Networks is trying to foster consensus on a few bands where LTE could be available in many countries, but regulatory and business needs make that a complicated task, executives said last week at the NGMN's annual conference in San Francisco.
The Droid Razr was introduced in November 2011 and the Droid Razr Maxx in January 2012. Subscribers probably have been waiting this long for global roaming capability because the software wasn't ready when the phones first shipped, said analyst Avi Greengart of Current Analysis. International roaming typically isn't a high priority, because only a minority of subscribers use it, he said.
"International roaming is one of those things that is not important broadly," Greengart said. Most U.S. mobile subscribers don't leave the country, and most of those who do only need voice service when they travel. But some business users need both voice and data overseas, and those tend to be higher level executives, he said.
"The most important thing about these executives is that the ones who travel the most are often the ones … in senior positions who can then mandate that other people in their firm use Verizon," Greengart said. Subscribers on corporate plans, like those on family plans, are especially valued because they are less likely to switch carriers, he added.


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UCL neuroscientists awarded highly competitive ERC Advanced Grants
10 December 2012
Congratulations to Professors Dmitri Rusakov (UCL Institute of Neurology), Robin Ali (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) and Patrick Haggard (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience), who have all recently been awarded European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants. These highly competitive research grants are among the most sought after Principal Investigator awards offered from the ERC, and as stated on the ERC's website: "allow exceptional established research leaders of any nationality and any age to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk projects that open new directions in their respective research fields or other domains."
Professor Dmitri Rusakov and his research group at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy (UCL Institute of Neurology) will receive roughly €2.5 million for five years for the study "Signal Formation in neural circuits with astroglia." Astroglial cells (astrocytes) are a common type of non-neuronal cell found in the brain and spinal cord and their rapidly emerging role in common neurological diseases raises an urgent need to understand the way in which they organise themselves and communicate with neurons in the brain.
Professor Rusakov commented: "Our research will explore the contribution of astrocytes and their assemblies to the key mechanisms of synaptic signal exchange, neural network function and homeostatic plasticity in the brain."
Professor Haggard (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) has been awarded about €2 million for the study "Human Volition, Agency and Responsibility (HUMVOL)." In this study, Professor Haggard and his team will use EEG, MRI and behavioural, psychophysical and neural experiments, to investigate the neural bases of human volition, in other words, what happens in our brains when we make our own choices and decisions, as opposed to responding to external instructions. He will also explore the implications the findings this research may have for society, particularly in the area of the law.
Professor Robin Ali and his group (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) will receive €2.5 million for five years for their study "Generation of stem cell derived photoreceptors for the treatment and modelling of retinal degeneration". Retinal degenerations leading to loss of photoreceptors are a major cause of untreatable blindness. Currently no treatments restore lost photoreceptor cells and visual function and thus there is a need for new therapeutic approaches. As new photoreceptors need only make short, single synaptic connections to the inner retinal circuitry to contribute to visual function, retinal repair by photoreceptor transplantation represents one of the most feasible types of CNS repair.
Over the past 8 years Professor Ali's group has developed a comprehensive programme to investigate the potential of photoreceptor cell transplantation to repair degenerating retinae. The study will build on their achievements in the field of donor photoreceptor cell transplantation and will determine if mouse and human pluripotent stem cells have the potential to provide an efficient source of rod photoreceptor precursors for restoring vision and modelling disease processes in vitro.
In a separate achievement, further congratulations go to Professor Rusakov's, who was also elected to the Academia Europaea (European Academy of Humanities, Letters and Sciences), a group comprising around 2300 European scientists and scholars, including 39 Nobel laureates.


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After many months of talking up its latest architecture, Nvidia reclaimed the single-GPU performance crown with its GeForce GTX 680, which outpaced the Radeon HD 7970 by about 7% in our tests. Kepler's arrival forced AMD to slash prices across its Southern Islands lineup, including a $70 drop on the HD 7970, putting it at $479 or about 4% cheaper than the GTX 680's MSRP of $499.
The HD 7950 also took a $60 cut to $399, making it one of the most tempting 7000 series cards because it has no equal – or had no equal, we should say. Continuing Kepler's rollout, Nvidia has unveiled the GTX 670, which is priced against the HD 7950 at $399. Despite being $100 cheaper than the GTX 680, the GTX 670 doesn't appear to be much slower on paper, and that could spell disaster for AMD.
The GTX 670 shares the GTX 680's DNA, as it's powered by the same GK104 GPU and has many other similarities. For example, it uses 2GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6GHz and features the new SMX units and GPU Boost technology. Although it's targeting the HD 7950's pricing, Nvidia says its crosshairs are actually on the HD 7970 in terms of performance. Again, a scary notion for AMD.
All this posturing means very little if gamers can't actually buy GTX 600 series products. It's been nearly two months since the GTX 680 launched, but as of writing, you can't purchase one online. Poor availability not only means that it's hard to find a GTX 680, but it also means many people have paid more than the $499 MSRP, which dents the card's full value potential.
We hope Nvidia solves this soon, especially if the GTX 670 is everything it's chalked up to be...
Having recently reviewed Gainward's GeForce GTX 680 Phantom, we're pleased to be looking at the company's premium version of the GTX 670. The Phantom edition card boasts a reworked PCB with an upgraded power phase, factory overclocking and a massive triple slot cooler. Gainward used the GTX 680 to introduce its second-generation Phantom cooler, and the GTX 670 receives the same treatment.
The GTX 670's Phantom heatsink measures 185mm long, 70mm wide and 17mm tall (7.28in x 2.75in x 0.66in), making it considerably smaller than the GTX 680's 225mm x 70mm x 40mm heatsink. It has a black fan shroud that forces the 80mm fans to draw air in through the grill above them and push it over fins below.
Although the smaller heatsink surprised us, we're more shocked at how compact the GTX 670 Phantom's PCB is. Without a cooler, it measures only 17.3cm (6.81in) long, making the shortest high-performance graphics card we've seen. To put this in perspective, the Radeon HD 6450 also measures 17cm and that's an ultra-low-end HTPC card. With the heatsink and shroud installed, the GTX 670 Phantom is 24.3cm (9.56in) long, which is still slightly shorter than the GTX 680's 25.5cm body.
You'll notice some layout changes between the GTX 670 and 680. Nvidia moved the power supply to the west side of the GPU (much closer than on traditional boards), then rotated the chip to improve power integrity and increase efficiency. With the GTX 670's power circuitry moved to the other side of the board, the right side of the PCB was empty and thus removed to save space.
Whereas the GTX 680 Phantom had a large heatspreader that covered its entire PCB to cool the GDDR5 memory and 6-phase power, the GTX 670 Phantom abandoned this design. Instead, the GDDR5 memory is naked while the power phase is cooled by a separate aluminum heatsink.
Gainward also performed a little factory overclocking, but before we talk clock speeds, let's explore the GTX 670's GPU in a little more detail. The card ships with 1344 CUDA cores and 7 SMX units, 1 SMX unit and 192 CUDA cores less than the GTX 680. There are also slightly less TAUs, 112 down from 128, while the ROPs remain at 32.
The memory subsystem is identical to the GTX 680, consisting of four 64-bit controllers (256-bit) with 2GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6008MHz (DDR). The memory bandwidth remains at 192.2GB/s.
Nvidia's specification for the base clock frequency is 915MHz while the average Boost Clock speed is 980MHz. Gainward has increased the base clock frequency to 1006MHz, while the memory operates at 6108MHz, boosting the bandwidth to 195.5GB/s.
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Vertical Shoot Positioned
The Vertical Shoot Positioned system trains foliage upwards and leaves grape bunches lower for easier harvesting. It also allows vines to be planted close together which stresses them and leads to quality fruit.
Geneva Double Curtain
Also known as GDC, the Geneva Double Curtain system has two parallel wires that train cordons to each side. This exposes vines to more wind and sun and is a safeguard against mildew. A third wire is sometimes run along the center above the other two in order to further encourage the spreading out of the vine.
The Lyre system is similar to Geneva Double Curtain trellises. Cordons are trained up and to the side, causing the vine to look like a U. Like the GDC, this helps to avoid mildew by exposing the vine to air.
This trellis system is often used for Cabernet Sauvignon planted in unfertile soils, and is widespread in Bordeaux. It allows the vine to minimize energy to the canopy and maximize energy to the grapes. Guyot trellises are relatively easy to maintain and can be adapted to local conditions.
Cordon de Royat
The Cordon de Royat is a unilateral spur trained system. Royat is a famous agricultural school in France where the trellis system was developed.
The goblet method is an example of spur trained trellis system and is often employed in older vineyards. When mature, these vines develop thick, gnarled bark. These older vines are prized for their low yields and flavor concentration.
Scott Henry
The Scott Henry trellis system was developed by Mr. Henry in Oregon's Umpqua Valley. It is a variation of Vertical Shoot Positioned and is basically a double version of the Guyot Double system. The difference is that canes are trained both up and down. In contrast, canes are only trained up with the Guyot Double. The Scott Henry system is used to thin and spread out the canopy. This exposes grapes to more sun and can be particularly useful in cooler climates.
As its name implies, the Chablis trellis system was developed in the Chablis district of Burgundy, France. Each year, canes grow from spurs along the vine's cordon. It is widely used to train Pinot Noir vines throughout the world.
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Nothing beats mom's cooking.... I am no where near in making this sambal tumis like my mom's sambal tumis... We usually make this in huge quantity.... and freeze some... don't have to cook to often... otherwise the neighbours will come knocking on our door .... the chillies and belacan smell!!
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In a blender... blend chillies, onion into a fine paste. Heat up the wok on high heat. Add 1/2 cup of oil. Add the blended ingredient, belacan and the tamarind paste into the wok. Once the chilli mixture starts to splatter, lower down the heat... into a simmer. Keep stirring as it will easily 'burnt' at the bottom. Add sugar and salt to your liking. It is ready when its thick and glistening with chilli oil...
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tactics are one of the many tools of the left, and the environmental
left particularly loves to spread fear of chemicals and "toxins" among
consumers. But that phobia also taints media coverage, and has resulted
in attacks on food-packaging chemicals like BPA.
media, along with the help of left-wing green groups and one infamous
liberal PR company, have attacked that chemical, commonly found in
plastics, liners of cans and many other ordinary products, for more more
than a decade.
groups and scientists have repeatedly claimed it is "a threat to human
health," despite government agencies that have found it "harmless" even
in baby bottles. But instead of relying on major studies done by
government researchers, the liberal media have embraced the junk science
from green groups, hyping it over and over again.
One of those liberal environmental groups, Breast Cancer Fund, sounds innocuous enough. Media coverage often labels BCF an "advocacy" or simply a "cancer group." By name only, it appears to be a $3 million charity devoted to fighting breast cancer, but a closer look reveals it's just another extreme environmental group cloaked in pink and media outlets have helped maintain the group's facade. The Los Angeles Times listed BCF among the "top breast cancer charities" in 2010. Unsurprisingly, BCF threw its support behind Rep. Markey's BPA ban in 2011.
Fenton Communications, the same PR group that helped a client get the EPA to ban Alar in the 1980s (following the unjustified apple scare), has in recent years also been working against BPA and for clients with BPA-free products. Its client in the Alar case, the Natural Resources Defense Council, filed a petition with the FDA to try and compel the agency to ban BPA in food and beverage packaging. A lawsuit filed later, forced the FDA to respond by March 31, 2012.
Media Research Center's Business & Media Institute analyzed ABC,
CBS and NBC news reports as well as The New York Times, Washington Post,
USA Today, Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal mentions of BPA
between Jan. 1, 2010 and Dec. 31, 2011. BMI excluded casual mentions of
products that happened to have a BPA-free label, because the stories
were not actually about the chemical. Here are some of BMI's findings:
Overwhelming Majority of Stories Focus on 'Threat' of BPA: Ninety-seven percent of two years' worth of newspaper and TV news stories that discussed BPA were about the supposed danger or potential threat of the chemical. This was the case in spite of an Institute of Medicine study (funded by Komen) and government agencies' findings about the chemical. Just two of the 87 stories focused on research that found BPA wasn't the risk the left claims it is.
Media label BPA 'Carcinogenic,' Despite Science: In just the past two years, the three broadcast networks and top five national newspapers have continued to report on the "hidden danger" of BPA, labeling it "carcinogenic" and "toxic" often with small or flawed reports from anti-chemical activists.
Komen Attacked by Left for Failing to Recommend BPA Avoidance: An Institute of Medicine study funded by Susan G. Komen said (of BPA and a couple other chemicals) that "evidence of danger is too scant to recommend avoidance." This provoked media criticism of the findings and left-wing attacks on the cancer charity before the left went after Komen on behalf of Planned Parenthood.
Fenton Communications Pushing BPA Ban: The same left-wing public relations firm that helped the Natural Resources Defense Council get Alar banned in the 1980s, has been working to dissuade consumers from using products with BPA in them. Fenton Communications also brags of its connections to the mainstream media, and represented Born Free, a BPA-free baby bottle company.
Don't Always Take the Activists Side: It is a journalist's responsibility to give balanced treatment to a subject, rather than siding with one view over another. In the case of BPA, the media have been squarely on the side of anti-chemical zealots. This needs to change.
Stop the 'Everything is going to kill us' Stories: The news media often resemble the boy who cried 'wolf,' with incessant claims that things will make us sick. By trying to scare people into action the media abdicate their responsibility, but they also leave the audience tone deaf to their warnings.
Find Victims of Regulation Too: Reporters always seem to be able to find victims of the "problem" they are reporting on, but in their haste to advocate regulation they rarely consider that individuals and business can be victimized by regulation and government interference as well. If the media insist on portraying people as victims, they need the victims of both sides -- not just one.
Read the report
Part 1: Ignoring Science, 97% of Stories Hype BPA as Health Threat
Part 2: Lefty Group Uses Pink to Camouflage Green Activism, Attack Business
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Loved by millions, Facebook has risen from a small-time university social networking service to become the biggest phenomenon on the Internet. But in Facebook's case popularity doesn't come easily. With some 400 million unique home pages, Facebook is pushing the boundaries of traditional Web application scalability -- and the company is not shy about admitting that much of this success has been achieved by leveraging open source software.
For more on Facebook's use of open source technology be sure to check out the related slideshow Open source at Facebook
Late last year Facebook announced it had surpassed the 300 million user mark. A significant (and growing) number in its own right, but what makes Facebook different is that users do not simply access a page for a search query, but instead actively upload content and interact with other subscribers. If Web analytics company Alexa is accurate, Facebook users spend more than 30 minutes per day using the service -- about three times more than Google. Therefore, the data processing requirements of Facebook make its scalability challenges even more daunting.
Facebook's core service is built on top of the venerable LAMP stack. Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP is used by millions of Web sites across the Internet to serve dynamically generated data. Facebook's rapid rise in popularity in recent years has seen it grow to the point where it now operates the largest single-domain LAMP stack in the world.
Traditional methods won't cut it for social networks
A popular way to scale a Web application is to continuously add Web and database servers to a cluster in order to distribute the transaction processing demands. Facebook needed to rethink this approach.
David Recordon, senior open programs manager at Facebook, says when scaling a traditional Web site you are able to "break up" the information and can share databases among your users.
"As you have more users you have more databases, and you scale from that perspective, Recordon says. "On Facebook everyone is connecting to other people all over the world. You can't scale based on where your users are. The challenge is: how do we serve all this information quickly with only having a small number of data centres?"
On average, a Facebook user has about 150 different friends and more than 70 per cent of users now come from outside the US. Thanks to its custom translation system, for instance, Facebook was translated into French in under 24 hours.
"When we render a page on Facebook we are pulling data from many different places. To render a page like that we are talking to many different pieces of our infrastructure without being able to separate them apart by user."
Recordon, who leads open source and open standards initiatives at Facebook, spoke recently at FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers European Meeting, in Belgium to discuss how the social networking giant uses open source software to meet it's enormous user demands.
"And every page is different, not just per person, but at what time they saw it," he says. "We think of relationships as a graph. You have people which are nodes, and edges to represent the relationships between them. But we've also seen Facebook grow to be more than just relationships between people."
Recordon says the fact that Facebook users can become a fan of a company or person presents "a very different scaling challenge", one that involves moving from connecting one person to a few hundred other people versus, say, serving Michael Jackson's fan page which has more than 10 million people connected to it.
Recordon's co-presenter and Facebook, open source developer advocate Scott MacVicar, also detailed some of the numerous technologies the portal uses to achieve the necessary scale.
"The scaling challenges come from what people do on Facebook," MacVicar says. Some 8 billion minutes are spent by people on the site every day and 3.5 billion pieces of content are shared every week, be text or multimedia elements like photos and videos. With more than 2.5 billion photos alone added every month, Facebook may also be the biggest photo sharing site on Web as well.
"There's more than just the Web site, there is the API and the platform people use to build applications with Facebook. There are a million users of that," MacVicar says, adding there are now around 400 million unique home pages.
"If we take a standard page on Facebook -- say a news feed -- to construct that we need to take data from 150 friends and that's split across multiple servers and it has to be done in milliseconds. It's not just your direct friends. If other friends have commented on your photos then that has to be pulled in as well. So we're pulling from potentially thousands of different sources all just to render that one single page."
A familiar technology architecture
At a high level, the Facebook's architecture consists of a load balancer on top with requests spread amongst a pool of Web servers. These Web servers then use different services to fetch data.
"It will fall into memcache, which is our in-memory fast database access [tool]," MacVicar says.
Recordon says Facebook's architecture looks like any Web server built today and claims that, for the most part, the site isn't architected any differently than any other site. Where things start to get different is with Facebook's use of PHP, which MacVicar says is popular among the site's developers because it is simple to learn and uses a syntax similar to C, making it is easy for new developers to learn.
"It's an interpreted language, so if you want to make changes you can see them live. And because PHP is a templating language it's good for Facebook because we move fast and can't spend time waiting for other languages."
However, MacVicar also highlighted how PHP is problematic for Facebook because of its high CPU usage. "Because we do a lot of data assembly and build the page in the app server we use a lot of CPU for that, as well as memory. We'd also like to reuse more PHP logic."


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Humans Evolving Slower Than Expected
Humans might be evolving slower than scientists had thought, according to a new analysis of the genomes of two families, but there is a huge variance between people.
The researchers, reporting their findings June 12 in the journal Nature Genetics, based their measurement of evolution speed on the number of new mutations that occur during one generation in each of the families. A slower mutation rate means we probably separated from chimpanzees evolutionarily longer ago than previously thought, the researchers say, adding that the finding may have medical implications, if some groups of people are more mutation-prone than others.
"This makes us think about what are the underlying mechanisms of these mutations, other than just a random process," said study researcher Philip Awadalla, of the University of Montreal in Canada. "Why are there differences in the rate or accumulation of mutations in individuals?"
The mutations rate seems to be highly variable, Awadalla said, and could be affected by aging and environmental exposure to toxins, among other factors. [Top 10 Mysteries of the First Humans]
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Every person has two copies of each of their genes, one from the mother's egg and the other from the father's sperm. These two copies are quite similar, but have some random differences.
Then, when the person creates sperm (or eggs, if a woman), new changes occur by accident in the resulting copy of the genome that gets passed down to the offspring. By sequencing both the parents' and the child's genome for two families, they could see which mutations were already present and which were new to the offspring.
The researchers found that on average, humans seem to have about 60 new mutations passed down every generation — that's 60 changes out of 6 billion letters, or bases, that make up the genome. Previous methods, which indirectly calculated the rates, overestimated that number to be about 100 to 200, the researchers said.
This means that we are accumulating new genetic mutations — the foundation of evolution — about a third as quickly as previously thought. If this mutation rate has been steady throughout human evolution, it pushes the fork between humans and chimps back 7 million years earlier. Some earlier evidence indicates that chimps may be evolving quicker than humans, though Awadalla said they would like to see how they stack up using this whole-genome sequencing method.
Mutating mothers
Luckily in the case of the families the researchers studied, the mutations weren't dangerous. Most of them were outside of the genes, in areas of the genome called "non-coding," which don't carry protein-making codes to carry out any function.
Scientists had hypothesized that because men make so many more copies of their genome when they make sperm (hundreds of millions every day), they might be more prone to pass on new mutations. The researchers found that this wasn't completely true. While one of the two families studied had 92 percent of their mutations passed down from the father, the other had only 36 percent.
"We always thought most of the mutations were coming from men," Awadalla told LiveScience. "In one family, there were more mutations in the male, but the next family the male had fewer mutations than the female did — it was very surprising."
The sources of these mutations seem to be diverse. They could be caused by age or other natural factors, since genome copying can get sloppy over time. It could also be due to genetic differences that control the DNA-copying machinery, which could affect the rate at which these mutations occur in different people. It's also possible that exposure to toxins in the environment could impact the mutation rate, Awadalla said.
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Make Super Bowl party a winner
U.S. Department of Agriculture consumer food specialists report the quantity of food consumed on Super Bowl Sunday is second only to Thanksgiving.
And while food safety information is plentiful during the holiday season, bowl parties can create additional food safety risks, said Karen Blakeslee, K-State Research and Extension food scientist.
"Football games last for several hours, making it more difficult for hosts to keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold," Blakeslee said.
"The danger zone, in which food-borne bacteria can multiply, is 40 to 140 degrees F," she said.
If perishable food sits out for more than two hours, it should be discarded, said Blakeslee, who recommended replenishing perishable foods periodically to reduce food safety risks.
Use a food thermometer to check the recommended minimal internal cooked temperature for steaks, 145 degrees F; ground beef, 160 degrees F; and poultry, 165 degrees F. Hot dogs and brats should be piping hot.
Bowl-day food safety recommendations include:
- Wash hands before and after handling raw or cooked food, and before and after eating, petting the dog, or tossing the ball around during breaks in the game.
- Avoid cross contamination; keep raw meats, poultry and fish away from cooked foods.
- Provide serving utensils for each food item, and individual plates and bowls for guests to minimize the need to reach into a larger serving bowl -- and spread a cold or the flu.
- Cover and refrigerate leftovers promptly.
Fans will have high calorie- and fat-favorites, said Blakeslee, who encouraged offering fruit and vegetable trays with low-fat dips, yogurt or cheeses, and whole grain breads and crackers.
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