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Monday, March 2, 2009
It's snowing!
Today will be a short post. I actually am calling out sick today because I'm feeling under the weather. It actually snowed here in Atlanta this weekend, I can't believe it. I think the weather change messed me up though...or it could have been playing in the snow that got to me, lol.
I'm going to show you some pics of me and the BF in the snow since it rarely happens here in Atlanta!
Yay it's snowing! We busted out our winter gear for this one!
My lil gangsta ninja ;)
Our lil pregnant snowman :)
Awww I feel like a kid again! You're never to old to play!
Snow angels!
Okay I'm wet and tired now look...probably why I got sick, lol.
I think he's ready to go inside too, lol.
Check out my Ciara video on YouTube today guys...time to go back to bed!
Atlanta Makeup Artist
20 comments:
- Makeup by ReRe said...
Lol yup, that might have had something to do with you getting sick! I miss the snow sooo much, u lucky!
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- March 2, 2009 at 8:32 AM
- Natakue said...
aww, you guys are too cute!
feel better soon!
- March 2, 2009 at 8:56 AM
- Askmewhats said...
you are too cute! and the snow looks fun!!!
- March 2, 2009 at 8:59 AM
- Girl with Curl said...
It snowed here too. I kind of had a hard time getting into my car. I didn't want to break the door handle because that's happened before.
Hope you feel better!
- March 2, 2009 at 9:41 AM
- SPECiAL x GiRL said...
aww i hope you feel better but it looks like you had alot of fun though lol.
- March 2, 2009 at 10:02 AM
- Niicole said...
You guys look like u had a lot of fun in that snow, too cute! Feel better :)
- March 2, 2009 at 11:09 AM
- Le Midget said...
It's snowing here too!
- March 2, 2009 at 2:22 PM
- chantastic said...
You are so adorable! Hope you feel better, Ren! :)
- March 2, 2009 at 3:27 PM
- JENSMAKEUPBAG said...
yay snow! it never snows where i live but maybe thats a good thing? well i loved your ciara and bridal look. that bridal look is something i would love for my wedding. its gorgeous!
- March 2, 2009 at 3:33 PM
- 12ayOFsunSHYNE said...
Cute post! Hope you feel better.
- March 2, 2009 at 4:41 PM
- avicdens said...
looks so much fun! cute couple!
- March 2, 2009 at 7:07 PM
- Ethereal Prey said...
LOL! w00t! it snowed here in nyc as well! snow day! looks like you had fun!
- March 2, 2009 at 7:09 PM
- LOVEpink said...
heh soo cute! looks like u guys had fun :)
- March 2, 2009 at 8:08 PM
- Noelle said...
you can have some of our snow if you enjoy it that much..hahaha. i am so sick of it up here in maine!
- March 2, 2009 at 8:32 PM
- Product Junkie Diva said...
Awww..lol thanks for the cute pics.
- March 2, 2009 at 10:09 PM
- Janelle said...
Hey there! I've seen your blog a few times but I can't remember if I ever left a comment. So here's one! :)
Lucky you for getting snow! We only got flurries. I do hope you feel better though. It sucks being sick.
- March 2, 2009 at 10:14 PM
- Zeno said...
Wow, it must be really cold there! It's just raining here in Washington :P
- March 3, 2009 at 1:13 AM
- LadyJane said...
Omgoodness, you guys are adorable! I can't believe it snowed in Atl - that's crazy. How often does it snow there?
- March 3, 2009 at 1:38 AM
- ♡ Nic Nic ♡ said...
you guys are soo cute!
love your snowman, though im not much of a "snow" person :P
- March 3, 2009 at 10:22 AM
- Amina said...
you guys are soooooooo cute!!!
I love your snow angel!
- March 6, 2009 at 8:48 PM


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by Anton Shilov
OCZ Technology, once the legendary name among the suppliers of high-speed memory modules, plans to completely withdraw from the dynamic random access memory market. As a result, the company will concentrate its efforts on solid-state drives (SSDs), flash media and power supply units (PSUs).
In August 2010, OCZ announced a strategic optimization of its memory products whereby it discontinued certain unprofitable commodity memory module products with the intent to continue only with certain high-performance memory products. However, this did not help the company much and its DRAM-related losses only widened. As result, OCZ decided to can all of its DRAM product lines going forward.
"The board has determined that it is in the best interests of the stockholders to accelerate plans to discontinue its remaining DRAM module products by the end of its current fiscal year of February 28, 2011. Accordingly, our DRAM products are now expected to have minimal, if any, sales in the next fiscal year and beyond," an official statement from OCZ teads.
Given the fact that solid-state drives (SSDs) accounted for about 78% of the company's revenue, whereas memory, flash media and PSUs accounted for 22% of the company's earnings, the decision barely was a hard one to make.
Even though OCZ will continue to ship products for enthusiasts, such as SSDs or PSUs, with the lack of OCZ-branded memory modules one of the legends of the high-end PC industry will be essentially gone.
"We will have some limited memory items moving forward especially during the ramp down period but our focus is definitely on our fast growing SSD business both on the client and enterprise side. We have a lot of resources placed on the development, manufacturing and deployment of our solid state drives and are able to innovate and add value in this product category. Moving forward flash media and PSUs are absolutely part of the plan and have and continue to sell well and are strategic areas for us as we can also add value for consumers and our industrial/OEM clients," said Alex Mei, chief marketing officer at OCZ.
OCZ will continue to fully support its memory modules and will even launch a number of new memory modules that have been in the short-term plans. However, no new memory products are in development.
"In general no new modules are incoming, but we are already committed to some launches for example the Fatal1ty launch alongside partners for the new Fatal1ty branded Sandy Bridge motherboard platform from Asrock and some XMP parts with Intel. Though we are exiting the market we are not leaving any customers or partners hanging," stressed Mr. Mei.
OCZ reported this week its third quarter fiscal 2011 results (Q3 FY2011), which ended on November 30, 2010. Net revenues in Q3 FY2011 were a record $53.2 million, and increased 40% both on a year-over-year and sequential basis, from $38.0 million reported in Q3 FY2010 and in Q2 FY2011. SSD revenues reached a record $41.5 million in Q3, an increase of 325% over Q3 FY2010 SSD revenues of $9.8 million, and a 105% increase sequentially over Q2 FY2011 SSD revenues of $20.2 million. GAAP net loss for Q3 FY2011 was $8.3 million, or $0.29 loss per diluted share. This compares to GAAP net loss of $1.0 million, or $0.05 loss per share in Q3 FY2010.

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A Blobby Language
First some background: Renderman is a "production quality" 3D renderer developed by Pixar and used by many visual effects houses, including my employer, ILM. One of its neatest features is that lighting and shading computations (ie. the calculation of the colour of every pixel once the geometry that you're looking at has been determined) are performed in a shading language called Renderman Shader Language. It's a C-like DSL that's compiled to a bytecode that runs on a SIMD virtual machine.
Buried within the Renderman documentation is another less well known virtual machine that is used to compute "blobbies". A blobby is simply an isosurface, ie. the set of points that form the solution to f(x,y,z)=c for a function f. The virtual machine is the one on which the function f is computed. Unlike shading, however, there are bytecodes for this VM, but no programming language. So this presentation was about my solution to the problem: embedding a tiny DSL in Python that compiles down to bytecodes. You write ordinary looking Python code but arithmetic operators and other functions are overloaded to build an AST that is converted to an "opcode" stream that is sent to Renderman. From a computer science standpoint it really is basic stuff, but as the author of the blobby code (Tom Duff of Duff's Device in fact) said to me, he's been waiting for someone to write a compiler for his opcodes for years and mine was apparently the first one. So here's a link to the presentation. There isn't really much detail in the presentation, but it might give at least a tiny flavour of what I do in my day job.
9 comments:
- aschwo said...
Wow, it's crazy this hasn't been done before. I've been playing around with Ruby with RenderMan, perhaps I'll try this in Ruby...
I wrote a Python Procedural a while back that would take a .geo file from Houdini and instance blobbies onto the particle system, and it was always a pain to fiddle with the opcode generation manually.
Any chance we can get the source? (Doubtful, I know, but worth a shot at least...)
- Saturday, 03 November, 2007
- sigfpe said...
There's no chance ILM will let me release the source. But it's not too hard - mainly just a matter of going through the docmentation and seeing how it maps to python expressions. After you've done it once you'll never have to fiddle with those opcodes again :-)
- Saturday, 03 November, 2007
- aschwo said...
Very good. Thanks for sharing, this is going to be a fun little project.
I'll be sure to link back to this post when I've got something to show.
- Saturday, 03 November, 2007
- Pseudonym said...
RenderMan is NOT a renderer. It is an interface standard. Photorealistic RenderMan is a renderer which implements the standard.
- Sunday, 04 November, 2007
- sigfpe said...
When I say 'Photorealistic RenderMan' people look at me funny. In fact, Pixar now call it Pixar's Renderman and even they say on their "What's Renderman?" web page, "RenderMan is *also* an industry standard interface specification for photorealistic renderers and is available here." making it clear that they interpret the word Renderman in two different ways.
Of course if you've worked on an alternative implementation things may look a little different... :-)
- Sunday, 04 November, 2007
- The Method Artist said...
You give a couple tantalizing hints about supporting general implicit surfaces.
I did a fair amount of work on an DSO procedural that would take a function described in almost-C (text that was lightly preprocessed to actual C), compile it on the fly with an embedded C compiler, and then extract iso-surfaces using marching cubes. Created a Maya node that was an implicit function type, you could construct implicit surfaces as a DAG. It was more than a proof-of-concept, but not quite there as a production-ready tool.
But I've been lately thinking of resurrecting it, since I'm working on something that really needs implicit surfaces, and I would really like to use Renderman. I've tried a ray-tracer with built in support for implicits, but renders are brutally long.
Any hints on how far you got with general implicits, or how you proceeded?
- Sunday, 04 November, 2007
- Conal said...
What kind of frame rate do you get on these examples?
- Sunday, 04 November, 2007
- sigfpe said...
For that image, about 0.001 fps!
Some background: it's a software render, and it uses subsurface scattering. The subsurface scattering approach here requires three stages: the surface is discretised and the lighting at each point is computed (including ray-traced shadows) - but the lighting isn't used to illuminate the surface, instead it's cached in a 3D data structure. What is, in effect, a low pass 3D filter, is then applied to this lighting data to simulate the subsurface transport of light, and then the final illumination is computed based on the filtered light. That's what gives the waxy look, but the filtering pass takes forever.
There's probably some GPU hack you can do to fake it at 60fps but I haven't yet thought too hard about that. I just plumbed together Pixar's standard Renderman tools. The standard subsurface scattering hack would be hard to use with the arbitrary surface topology here.
- Sunday, 04 November, 2007
- RMS said...
You can interactively create "blobby" models with ShapeShop (http://www.shapeshop3d.com). You don't need a GPU to get interactive framerates, just good caching data structures. (Although there have also been some recent SIGGRAPH papers about real-time blobbies using the GPU)
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Home schooling
Home Schooling
Home schooling or homeschool is the education of children at home, typically by parents but sometimes by tutors, rather than in other formal settings of public or private school. Prior to the introduction of compulsory school attendance laws, most childhood education occurred within the family or community, homeschooling in the modern sense is an alternative in developed countries to formal education.
Motivations for Home Schooling
According to a 2001 U.S. Census survey, 33% of homeschooling households cited religion as a factor in their choice. The same study found that 30% felt school had a poor learning environment, 14% objected to what the school teaches, 11% felt their children were not being challenged at school, and 9% cited morality.
According to the U.S. DOE's "Homeschooling in the United States: 2003", 85 percent of homeschooling parents cited "the social environments of other forms of schooling" (including safety, drugs, sexual harassment, bullying and negative peer-pressure) as an important reason why they homeschool. 72 percent cited "to provide religious or moral instruction" as an important reason, and 68 percent cited "dissatisfaction with academic instruction at other schools." 7 percent cited "Child has physical or mental health problem", 7 percent cited "Child has other special needs", 9 percent cited "Other reasons" (including "child's choice," "allows parents more control of learning" and "flexibility").
Other reasons include more flexibility in educational practices for children with learning disabilities or illnesses, or for children of missionaries, military families, or otherwise traveling parents. Homeschooling is sometimes opted for the gifted student who is accelerated, or has a significant hobby or early career (i.e. acting, dancing or music).
Home School in USA
Public schools were gradually introduced into the United States during the course of the 19th century. These were for the purpose of educating the orphans who had no parents to educate them at home. This concept slowly spread until Massachusetts became the first state to issue a compulsory education law in 1789. It was not until 1852 that the state established a "true comprehensive statewide, modern system of compulsory schooling."
Prior to the introduction of public schools, many children were educated in private schools or in the home. During this period, illiteracy was common and many children were never properly educated. It was common for literate parents to use books dedicated to educating children such as Fireside Education, Griswold, 1828, Warren Burton's Helps to Education in the Homes of Our Country, 1863, and the popular McGuffey Readers, sometimes bolstered by local or itinerant teachers, as means and opportunity allowed. Raymond Moore, among others, asserted that the United States was at the height of its national literacy under this informal system of tutelage, but such claims are difficult to prove.
After the establishment of the Massachusetts system, other states and localities gradually began to provide public schools and to make attendance mandatory as they too had problems with the question of how to educate the orphans. In 1912, A.A. Berle of Tufts University (not to be confused with the Adolf Berle who was a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference) asserted in his book The School in Your Home that the previous 20 years of mass education had been a failure and that he had been asked by hundreds of parents how they could teach their children at home.


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Carmelita Jeter wins the Women's 100 meter final during Day 3 of the IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Daegu Stadium.
With less than 100 days remaining until the London 2012 Olympic Games begin, there is plenty of action left for athletes trying to make the U.S. Olympic Team. This week's edition includes the Penn Relays track meet, more Olympic qualifying for archery and wrestling and more. And the Warrior Games, complete with an appearance from First Lady Michelle Obama, are gearing up for a third time in Colorado Springs.
Penn Relays, April 26-28, Philadelphia
U.S. women sprinters Carmelita Jeter, Sanya Richards-Ross and Allyson Felix, and men runners Walter Dix and Justin Gatlin will be among a strong international field competing Saturday in the 13th USA vs. the World competition at the 118th Penn Relays in Philadelphia.
Jeter, a double gold winner at the 2011 World Championships in the 100- and 200-meter races, is the second-fastest woman in world history with a personal best of 10.64 seconds in the 100. Dix is the current world silver medalist in the men's 100 and 200. The United States will face stiff competition from Jamaica and Great Britain, among others.
USA vs. the World is the first leg of the 2012 Outdoor Visa Championship Series and because this time the event is in an Olympics year, a record 21 nations have sent athletes to compete. Four years ago, the USA vs. the World produced three relay teams that won gold medals at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games: U.S. men's and women's 4x400, and Jamaica men's 4x100.
The men's 4x100 relay, featuring Jamaica and the United States, is one of the day's big races. Other events include: men's and women's 4x400, women's sprint medley relay, women's 4x100 and men's distance medley relay.
Another name to watch is two-time Olympic 400 hurdles gold medalist Angelo Taylor. Twelve years ago, he teamed up with Michael Johnson, Tyree Washington and the late Antonio Pettigrew to win the 4x400 in what remains the meet record of 2:56.60.
Taylor has run legs on six winning 4x400m teams at the USA vs. the World ('00-'02, '09-'11), which includes wins in each of the last three years. Taylor, a five-time Olympic and World Championships gold medalist in the 4x400m, will have his name among those to give Team USA a shot at winning its seventh consecutive men's 4x400m title.
TV: 1 p.m.-3 p.m. ET Saturday, NBC
U.S. Olympic Trials for Archery, April 25-28, Chula Vista, Calif.
Brady Ellison, the world's top-ranked men's recurve archer and a 2008 Olympian, was the leader of the men's scoring after three days of the U.S. Olympic Trials for Archery, and Jennifer Nichols, a two-time Olympian, led the women. The tournament field was trimmed to eight men and eight women after competition on Thursday, and those are the 16 who will compete for spots on the U.S. Olympic Team at the third nomination shoot June 1-3 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
Ellison leads the field with 54 points, followed by Jake Kaminski with 46 points. The next six: Jacob Wukie, 39; Butch Johnson and Joe Fanchin, 38.25; Thomas Stanwood and Vic Wunderle, 31.75; Dan Schuller, 31.25.
Nichols leads the women with 51 points, just ahead of Miranda Leek's 50.75 points. The next six: Khatuna Lorig, 43.5; Kristin Braun, 37; Heather Koehl, 36.75; Lori Cieslinski, 32; Mackenzie Brown, 31.5; Holly Stover, 26.
Paralympic Team Trials for Archery, April 25-28, Chula Vista, Calif.
Leading the open male category was Matt Stutzman with 686; he was followed by Jonathan Mize with 679 and Dugan Denton with 662. In the standing male category, Eric Bennett led with 624, followed by Michael Lukow with 562 and Tim Palumbo with 541.
Standing female results saw Lee Ford in first with 508; D'arce Hess and Natalie Wells followed with 499 and 469 respectively. In the W1 male category, it was Jerry Shields leading with 626; Aaron Cross was second with 606; Chuck Lear ended in third with 606. Russell Wolfe was the sole competitor in the men's W2 category, finishing with 540.
For the Paralympic Team Trials, it's round robin match play in this single Trials event that will determine the team for London.
World Olympic Games Qualifying Tournament, April 27-29, Taiyuan, China
Shawn Bunch will compete Friday in the men's freestyle 60kg weight class and Justin Ruiz will wrestle Sunday in the Greco-Roman 96kg class at the World Olympic Games Qualifying Tournament in China. Bunch and Ruiz are attempting to win slots for the United States at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The United States already has slots in the other 16 men's and women's Olympic classes. To obtain an Olympic slot, Bunch and Ruiz must finish among the top three.
Bunch is ranked No. 2 at 60kg on Team USA and is a six-time member of the world team. He'll face John Pineda of Canada in opening-round action Friday. With a victory he would face Radouan Ouled Bentle of Morocco. Bunch needs four wins in his half-bracket to qualify for the finals, which would qualify the Olympic slot. Ruiz was a bronze medalist at the 2005 World Championships.
ISSF World Cup, April 19-28, London
Two-time Olympic medalist Matt Emmons and three-time Olympian Jason Parker will begin competition Friday in the men's 50-meter, 3-position rifle event at the ISSF World Cup in London. The 10-day World Cup, a test event for the London 2012 Olympic Games, continues through Saturday.
On Friday, Olympic hopeful Kayle Browning earned a bronze medal in the women's trap, battling 40 mph wind conditions at the Royal Artillery Barracks. "I felt good going into the final," she said. "But I was extremely nervous because it was my first World Cup final."
In addition to the men's 3-position rifle, the men's 25-meter rapid fire pistol and men's trap will be held Friday, followed by another round of the men's 50-meter 3-position rifle Saturday.
Also in shooting:
National Junior Olympic Shooting Championships, April 20-30, Colorado Springs
Pan American Judo Championships, April 27-28, Montreal
Kyle Vashkulat (100kg) and Aaron Kunihiro (60kg) are among those battling for 2012 Olympic spots this weekend at the Pan American Judo Championships in Montreal. The event is the final opportunity for U.S. judoka to accumulate points for the U.S. Olympic Team.
To qualify for the Olympics, a male athlete must be ranked among the top 22 internationally; a female athlete must be ranked among the top 14. Vashkulat needs to retain his current ranking, while Kunihiro needs to move up. Fifteen U.S. elite athletes are competing in Montreal.
Three athletes have virtually locked up places on the Olympic Team: Kayla Harrison, women's 78kg; Travis Stevens, men's 81kg; Marti Malloy, women's 57kg.
April 30-May 5, Colorado Springs
More than 200 wounded and injured military service members will compete in the third annual Warrior Games, which begin Monday at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. First Lieutenant (Ret.) Melissa Stockwell, an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, and Captain Simon Maxwell, of the Royal Marines and a member of the British Armed Forces team, will be the honorary torchbearers for the Opening Ceremony. Twenty British athletes will face U.S. Armed Forces teams in archery, cycling, swimming, sitting volleyball, and track and field.
First Lady Michelle Obama will speak at the Opening Ceremony. In addition to speaking at the Opening Ceremony for the Warrior Games, Obama will lead the U.S. presidential delegation to the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
USA Taekwondo National Team Trials, April 27-29, Colorado Springs
Mark Lopez and Charlotte Craig, both 2008 Olympians, are among 63 athletes who will compete this weekend for 16 spots on the U.S. National Taekwondo Team. The event will be held at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
After weigh-ins and training sessions Friday, the tournament opens Saturday with competition in four men's and women's weight classes. Lopez, a brother of 2012 Olympic qualifiers Steven and Diana Lopez, will compete Sunday in the men's lightweight (under 74kg) class. Craig will compete Sunday in the women's flyweight (under 49kg). Eight other 2011 national team members are also trying to retain their spots on the team: James Howe (men's flyweight), Luke Ford (men's welterweight), Jason Neville (men's middleweight), Stephen Lambdin (men's heavyweight), Deireanne Morales (women's bantamweight), Aziza Chambers (women's bantamweight), Sanaz Shahbazi (women's welterweight) and Lauren Hamon (women's middleweight).
Osijek World Cup, April 26-30, Osijek, Crotia
David Sender of Team Hilton HHonors, Adrian de los Angeles of the University of Michigan and Glen Ishino of Cal-Berkeley are representing the United States at the IGF World Cup in Osijek, Crotia. The competition is in individual events only.
Rolex/USEF National CC14* Eventing Championship, April 26-28, Lexington, Ky.
Olympic medalists Phillip Dutton and Karen O'Connor are among the leading U.S. riders at the Rolex/USEF National CC14* Eventing Championship and Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event presented by Bridgestone. In all, 57 horses from five countries are entered in the competition.
O'Connor, riding Veronica, was in second place behind Boyd Martin, aboard Remington XXV, following Thursday's opening round of the dressage competition. Martin led the field with a score of 45.3. The competition continues Friday, and O'Connor is expected to ride her second horse, Mr. Medicott, on Friday.
TV: 10 a.m.-noon ET Saturday, Universal Sports; 2 p.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, NBC
Also in equestrian:
Ariat Kentucky Reining Cup, April 27-28, Lexington, Ky.
Webcast: usef network.com
Men's Saber World Cup, April 27-29, Athens
The U.S. Men's Saber Team, which qualified for the London 2012 Olympic Games with a rare World Cup medal in March in Moscow, resumes its World Cup schedule Friday in Athens. The bronze-medal finish in Moscow was the first World Cup medal for a U.S. men's team since 2005.
Tim Morehouse and James Williams were not only members of the medal-winning team in Moscow, but also earned silver medals at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Also in fencing:
Men's Epée World Cup, April 27-29, Heidenheim, Germany
Men's Foil Grand Prix, April 28-29, Wakayama, Japan
Women's Foil Grand Prix, April 28-29, Marseille, France
Stro Memorial, April 28-29, Los Angeles
FIVB Swatch World Tour, April 25-29, Myslowice, Poland
The U.S. men's beach teams of Matt Fuerbringer and Nick Lucena, and Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal each won their first two matches of the main draw, and advanced to the third round of this week's FIVB Swatch World Tour event in Poland. Fuerbringer and Lucena, seeded No. 2, defeated Netherland's Jon Stiekema and Christiaan Varenhorst, and China's Linyin Wu and Penggen Wu on Thursday. They were to face No. 7 Reinder Nummerdor and Richard Schuil of Netherlands on Friday. Gibb and Rosenthal, seeded No. 13, were to face No. 28 Clemens Doppler and Alexander Horst of Austria on Friday.
U.S. Men's National Team vs. Argentina, April 27 and 29, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.
The U.S. Men's National Team, preparing for the Olympic zonal qualification tournament, will face Argentina in a pair of exhibition matches Friday (7:30 p.m., local time) and Sunday (2 p.m.) at JSerra Catholic High School in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. USA Volleyball will host the Olympic qualification tournament, beginning May 7, in Long Beach, Calif.
Also in volleyball:
Collegiate Sand Volleyball Championships, April 27-29, Gulf Shores, Ala.
Desert Open, Beach Junior Tour, April 29, Glendale, Ariz.
French Olympic Sailing Week, April 22-27, Hyeres, France
Racing continues through Friday in the French Olympic Sailing Week event held in Hyeres, France. In all, 26 U.S. athletes are competing, including 15 Olympians and Paralympians. Anna Tunnicliffe's Team Maclaren, also including Molly Vandemoer and Debbie Capozzi, remained unbeaten in women's match racing entering the final day of competition.
Open Water National Championships, April 27-29, Fort Myers, Fla.
Christine Jennings, Haley Anderson and Ashley Twichell are among the leading women swimmers who will compete in the 10-kilometer portion of the Open Water National Championships in Fort Myers, Fla. The top two finishers qualify for the final Olympic qualifier in June. Alex Meyer has already qualified for the London 2012 Olympic Games because of his fourth-place finish at the 2011 Open Water World Championships.
World Mixed Doubles Championships, April 24-29, Erzurum, Turkey
U.S. mixed doubles champions Brady and Cristin Clark combined to win their first five matches at the World Mixed Doubles Championships in Erzurum, Turkey. They will face unbeaten Switzerland (6-0) and Ireland (0-5) on Friday, and the Czech Republic (2-3) on Saturday in the final two days of round-robin play. The United States is in second place in the blue group, just behind Switzerland. The top two teams in each of three groups advance to the playoffs.
Quarterfinal-round play begins Sunday morning at Milli Piyango Curling Hall in Erzurum. The semifinals and medal-round play also will be Sunday.
International Youth Diving Meet, April 26-29, Dresden, Germany
Eight junior divers from the United States are competing this weekend at the International Youth Diving Meet in Dresden, Germany. The U.S. divers: David Dinsmore, Henry Fusaro, Phoebe Lamay, Christopher Law, Brighida Rosendahl, Sine Scribbick, Cameron Thatcher and Emma Villarreal.
USA Triathlon Duathlon National Championship, April 28, Tucson, Ariz.
Gail Kattouf and Dave Slavinski, the 2011 female and male Duathletes of the Year, are among a field of nearly 600 who will compete Saturday in the USA Triathlon Duathlon National Championship in Tucson, Ariz. Competition will be held in standard distance (5-kilometer run, 35k bike, 5k run) and sprint distance (2.5k run, 17k bike, 2.5k run). The event is the only U.S. qualifier for the Standard-Distance ITU Duathlon World Championships, which will be held in September in France.
The Paraduathlon National Championship will be a part of the sprint distance event.
Pro GRT, NW Cup, April 26-29, Port Angeles, Wash.
The USA Cycling Professional Mountain Bike Gravity Tour (Pro GRT) kicks off its season this weekend with the NW Cup in Port Angeles, Wash. Danny Hart and Jill Kintner are the tour's defending champions from 2011. The tour consists of six events, finishing with the Northstar Pro GRT in Truckee, Calif., in early August.
Also in cycling:
Juniors Pan American Games, April 23-29, Guatemala
Story courtesy Red Line Editorial, Inc. Paul D. Bowker is a freelance contributor for teamusa.org. Material from various news services and press releases from National Governing Bodies was used to compile this report. This story was not subject to the approval of any National Governing Bodies.


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Schools: University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), University of Nevada-Las Vegas (Las Vegas, NV)
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Issue Brief #3724 on Arms Control and Nonproliferation
September 11, 2012
September 11, 2012 | Issue Brief on Arms Control and Nonproliferation
The State Department's August 2012 report on Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments (the so-called Annual Compliance Report) is an exercise in ambiguity which illustrates the difficulties involved in judging other countries' compliance with multilateral and bilateral treaties related to weapons of mass destruction and conventional weapons.[1]
Congress should demand a more thorough analysis of the situation and clarification of steps the United States should take in response to other countries' noncompliance. The 2005 Annual Compliance Report—about three times longer than the 2012 report—should be considered a sound standard for this work.
Compliance in Question
The 2012 compliance report reflects the Obama Administration's policy preferences. The State Department and the U.S. government have a long history of ignoring or tolerating arms control violations, especially with regard to Russia. These include the Krasnoyarsk violation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, violations of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, and violations of long-range missile throw-weights under the Strategic Arms Reductions Treaty.
The State Department acknowledges that "Russian entities have remained engaged in dual-use, biological activities," potentially raising compliance issues with the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). The State Department also acknowledges that it is "unclear" whether Russia has fulfilled its BWC obligations or that its activities were "conducted for purposes inconsistent with the BWC." Yet it has not bothered to raise any of these issues with the Russian government or in any international fora. Syria has not bothered to ratify the BWC and therefore cannot be found to be in violation of the treaty despite enormous stockpiles of biological weapons.
The case of the Russian Federation and its violation of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty is yet another illustration of the State Department's inability to influence other countries' actions through arms control. Moscow ceased implementation of the treaty in 2007, yet it took the U.S. four years to respond to this action.
Despite this violation, it is clear that the U.S. will continue to be bound by the terms of the treaty: "The United States will continue to implement the Treaty and carry out all obligations with all States Parties other than Russia, including not exceeding the numerical limits on conventional armaments and equipment established by the Treaty," reads the report. "The United States will voluntarily inform Russia of any significant change in our force posture in Europe."
The largest problem with arms control agreements has always been their enforcement. Other countries use arms control to restrain the U.S.—to the detriment of the security of its people—while disregarding these agreements in the pursuit of their own national interests.
There is yet another omission concerning Russia's proliferation of ballistic missile technologies to Iran. In his August 3, 2012, letter to Congressman Michael Turner (R–OH), Under Secretary of Defense for Policy James Miller stated that "Iranian defense attachés and their intermediaries in Russia have access to Russian academics, companies, and research organizations, and some of these individuals and entities may assist Iran with technologies that could contribute to its ballistic missile programs."
Under Secretary Miller wrote that further information on these issues will be available in the Annual Compliance Report. The report, however, does not mention any such issue. Also lacking are comments on Russia's potential noncompliance with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. According to the Russian press, Russia's Iskander R-500 missiles have a range exceeding the permitted 500 km.
Inability to Verify
The report contains very few conclusive assessments regarding whether states mentioned in its pages are engaged in activities prohibited under certain articles of the treaties. One of the plausible reasons is that the U.S. does not have sufficient national technical means (NTM)—such as satellites and sensors—and intelligence resources capable of providing enough information to draw conclusions.
In her July 12, 2010, lecture at The Heritage Foundation, Paula DeSutter, former Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance, and Implementation, noted that the U.S. NTM infrastructure is "broken." It is essential for the security of the United States and its allies that Congress addresses this shortfall.
Another problematic element is the State Department's lack of updated information regarding the New Strategic Arms Reductions Treaty (New START). The most recent information is included in the January 31, 2012, Annual Report on Implementation of the New START Treaty.[2] This report does not include telemetry exchanges and does not explain Russian efforts to add more Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicles on fewer missiles, the most destabilizing mode of deployment. The Russians even increased the number of their deployed warheads and their deployed and non-deployed launchers between the first and second data exchanges.
The report concludes that "The United States does not assess that there is a strategic imbalance between the United States and the Russian Federation." The Administration clearly does not consider Russian nuclear modernization and build-up or tactical nuclear superiority destabilizing. The report should be updated and take into account Russia's violations of the Presidential Nuclear Initiatives as well as the implications of U.S. disadvantage in this class of weapons for America's allies in Europe.
On the nuclear testing moratoria, the Annual Compliance Report mentions only that each state's definition of moratorium is unclear and that U.S. assessments are based on the U.S. position. Surprisingly, the report does not mention Chinese and Russian low-yield nuclear weapons tests, something the bipartisan Strategic Posture Commission referred to in its 2009 report.
Actions of Other States Have Consequences
It is essential to change the U.S. government's—and especially the State Department's—culture, which is too quick to tolerate arms control and nonproliferation noncompliance and violations of international treaties. The quality of reporting must improve. To provide policymakers with truly useful insights about other countries' weapons programs, Congress should take the following actions:
Necessary Security
These changes are essential for keeping the U.S. and its allies safe. They would mitigate the chance that the U.S. public finds itself geopolitically surprised by developments in other countries. It is imperative that Congress take the necessary steps to ensure the safety and security of the U.S. population.
Baker Spring is F. M. Kirby Research Fellow in National Security Policy and Michaela Bendikova is Research Assistant for Missile Defense and Foreign Policy in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, a division of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, at The Heritage Foundation.
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[1] U.S. Department of State, Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments, August 2012, http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/197295.pdf (accessed September 10, 2012).
[2] U.S. Department of State, Annual Report on Implementation of the New START Treaty, January 31, 2012, http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/197297.pdf (accessed September 10, 2012).


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Why does my site look crappy in IE but fine in Safari and Firefox?
because IE is a monstrosity. IE6 and earlier are not standards compliant at all. They are terrible browsers. IE7 is a big improvement but still behind the other browsers in compliance.
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I was hoping for an answer like that.
Thank You!
I love the chart and was going to bitch just about IE, but I wanted to make sure it wasn't just me before I did.
Hey mate,
You may want to check that the CSS properties you're using are compatible with IE.
Also, I recommend reading the following post for improving your page's load time because right now it's ridiculous.
Post: http://www.swieckiblog.com/2006/12/loading-times/
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Hey, thanks for that info and using your first post to help somebody out.
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I develop CSS / XHTML pages on a Mac but all my layouts have to work on safari, Firefox and IE 6 and now 7. It is becoming a nightmare.
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Debates of April 27th, 2009
House of Commons Hansard #46 of the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was relationship.
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- Tourism
- Leadership Initiatives
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- Health Care
- Identity Theft
- Arts and Culture
- Warren Goldring
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- Victims of Crime
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Oral Questions
2:50 p.m.
Peter Van Loan Minister of Public Safety
Mr. Speaker, on the contrary, we are taking action. We work very closely with our partners, including the Americans, in trying to combat terrorism.
However, I have news for the hon. member. There are real terrorist threats. That is why we just had a prosecution in this very city, the first ever successful prosecution under the Anti-terrorism Act of Momin Khawaja, convicted of assisting and making detonators, in touch with the London bombers.
These threats are real. We have to be vigilant against them and we are being vigilant against them. We will not turn a blind eye against these threats. We will protect Canadians and we will do what is necessary to ensure their safety.
Oral Questions
2:50 p.m.
Jack Harris St. John's East, NL
Mr. Speaker, today the Military Police Complaints Commission finally released its report on allegations of detainee abuse in Afghanistan in 2006.
The MPCC has found that many of the reforms brought in after the Somali inquiry have not taken hold and that "military police did succumb to perceived pressure from the chain of the command" and "failed to complete mandated [detainee] transfer procedures" and conduct a full investigation.
Will the Minister of National Defence release the sensitive portions of the report and allow all Canadians to see what this independent body has found?
Oral Questions
2:50 p.m.
Central Nova
Nova Scotia
Peter MacKay Minister of National Defence and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway
Mr. Speaker, the Department of Defence is always pleased to receive these reports and act on the recommendations.
What the member did not reference was that the report concluded the three individuals detained by the Canadian military police in April 2006 were, in fact, treated humanely and it exonerated the Canadian military of any wrongdoing in that regard.
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Jack Harris St. John's East, NL
Mr. Speaker, the MPCC was created as an oversight body for the military police and to build confidence in our military justice system. However, the Conservatives have been hostile to its reports and to its independence. Only this week, the Conservative government was in federal court, trying to stop MPCC from holding hearings on whether military police also failed when detainees were knowingly transferred to Afghan police units that torture.
Will the minister stop his attempt to block the public hearings? Why do the Conservatives want to shut them down and what is it that they want to hide?
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Central Nova
Nova Scotia
Peter MacKay Minister of National Defence and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway
Mr. Speaker, nothing could be further from the truth. We have been very co-operative with the MPCC. We have provided thousands of documents for its perusal. The only thing that we take issue with is the jurisdiction, the efforts of this body to reach into an area of jurisdiction that we feel is not correct. That is the only issue. It has nothing to do with disclosure. It has nothing to do with withholding information. The member simply has his facts wrong.
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Royal Galipeau Ottawa—Orléans, ON
Mr. Speaker, last Wednesday, this House voted for a bill that aims to put an end to lenient sentences for criminals who exploit children. While all the other political parties voted in favour of the bill, the Bloc, with a single exception, chose fanatical ideology instead and abandoned Canadian children and families.
This week is National Victims of Crime Awareness Week. Could the Minister of State for Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec please tell the House how this government is helping to raise awareness about victims' issues?
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Denis Lebel Minister of State (Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec)
Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my hon. colleague from Ottawa—Orléans for this important question.
Parents, sisters, brothers and friends will all be proud to know that our government is making sure that criminals who commit certain crimes against our children will face minimum prison sentences.
How can the Bloc vote against victims and for criminals? Once again, the Bloc prefers to play political games rather than protect Quebec families.
During this National Victims of Crime Awareness Week, our government is taking action in partnership with our communities to protect our families—
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
The Speaker Peter Milliken
The hon. member for Halifax West.
Chalk River Nuclear Facilities
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Geoff Regan Halifax West, NS
Mr. Speaker, documents obtained under access to information prove that the Prime Minister is unable to rise above petty personal potshots, even when it comes to the health and safety of Canadians. The natural resource minister's own briefing notes clearly showed the Prime Minister inflamed the recent medical isotope crisis for partisan purposes.
Instead of focusing on the problem, instead of doing his job, why did the Prime Minister choose to play politics with public safety? Will he assure us that he will not fire the official who wrote the briefing note?
Chalk River Nuclear Facilities
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Cypress Hills—Grasslands
David Anderson Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources and for the Canadian Wheat Board
Mr. Speaker, it is the member opposite who is playing politics with this. It is clear from his question that he has not read the document to which he has referred.
Members will remember in the midst of medical crisis, this government acted swiftly and decisively. I point out that Parliament voted unanimously in December 2007 to start the reactor. The decision to remove Linda Keen from her position was supported by a federal court judge.
I am surprised by the opposition's attempt to rewrite history.
Government Expenditures
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Michel Guimond Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, QC
Mr. Speaker, the current Minister of Revenue rightly justifies 40% of his travel on charter flights by saying that he had to visit remote areas when he was the minister for Canada Economic Development. But the government website gives no justification for the other 60%. There is no reason to believe the minister could not have taken regular commercial flights or his ministerial limousine.
Can the current Minister of State for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec tell us whether he has adopted the same practice as his colleague, the revenue minister, to travel to his riding of Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean?
Government Expenditures
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Denis Lebel Minister of State (Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec)
Mr. Speaker, a minister of state for economic development has the responsibility to visit all the regions of Quebec, and I am very proud to visit them. Obviously, a number of regions are further from Ottawa or major urban centres, and we are not always able to take commercial flights.
I will keep on proudly visiting all the regions, several of which are represented by parties other than ours. Personally, I feel it is important for our government to be everywhere in the field in Quebec and to support economic development throughout the province.
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Oral Questions
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Irene Mathyssen London—Fanshawe, ON
Mr. Speaker, tomorrow the government will issue a death sentence to Roohi Tabassum by deporting her to Pakistan. Her ex-husband has promised to kill her if she returns. Her only crime is that, as a hairdresser in Canada, she cut men's hair.
Roohi came to Canada fleeing religious persecution eight years ago. She has filed a refugee claim and a permanent resident application on humanitarian and compassionate grounds, but so far to no avail.
She is begging for her life. Will the minister ensure that Roohi is not deported?
Citizenship and Immigration
Oral Questions
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Jason Kenney Minister of Citizenship
Mr. Speaker, the member should know that deportations are the responsibility of the Canada Border Services Agency, which simply enforces the rulings made by the IRB or the courts and our civil servants.
I would be happy to review the case as it relates to an apparent application on humanitarian and compassionate grounds. If I receive the file, typically what members of Parliament do is to approach the minister rather than raise the matter on the floor. I cannot discuss the details of case files on the floor of the House of Commons. It would violate the Privacy Act.
Oral Questions
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Jeff Watson Essex, ON
Mr. Speaker, on April 14 the Liberal leader said, "We will have to raise taxes".
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In your post, you said that you used a biga, with 100% hydration. Did you mean a poolish?
In your case, if you kneaded your 63% hydration dough too much, that could have been the reason why your pizza was too chewy.
I did not mean to suggest that one should not use stretch and fold or similar techniques. We have quite a few members on the forum who do that in a home setting, usually where the doughs have above average hydration values, much as make your own high-hydration doughs. The point I was trying to make is that virtually no pizza professionals use such techniques in a commercial setting.


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TxDOT has an automated process for requesting and distributing raw crash data, including both the standard interface and the public interface. These files include all the crash data collected from the Texas Peace Officer's Crash Report (CR-3) that may be released to the public in accordance with Texas law.
The standard interface provides all information collected from the crash report, interpreted data fields, and roadway attributes for crashes occurring on the state highway system.
The public interface is similar to the standard interface information; however, personal information about individuals involved in the crash has been excluded.
Both the standard and public interface files are available in a CSV format.
A CRIS Automated Interface Guide is available to provide technical information on Crash Records Information System (CRIS) automated interfaces, including instructions on requesting and downloading the interfaces.
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Boards plan meetings this week
By The Daily News staff
The Dickinson County Board of Commissioners will meet at 6:30 tonight in the circuit courtroom of the courthouse.
The agenda includes ratifying the hiring of Nicole Frost as controller/administrator to begin her employment June 10.
The Iron Mountain School District Board of Education will meet today at 6 p.m. in the board meeting room of the administration building, 217 Izzo Mariucci Way in Iron Mountain.
Items on the agenda include approval of the ISD's general fund budget, accepting resignations from a coach and day care worker, letter of retirement, hiring a high school secretary, principal of alternative education program, day care worker, and high school summer school instructor; approval to award the phone system bid, network switches and WiFi award, approval for girls softball for the 2013-14 school year, and a closed session to discuss negotiation strategies.
The North Dickinson School District Board of Education will meet today at 7 p.m. in the high school library.
Business items include a request by Sheriff Scott Celello to address the board, increasing lunch prices, schedule B positions, employment status change, purchase of woodworking equipment, bus and car purchase, and a closed session to discuss school discipline.
The Breitung Township Schools Board of Education will meet today at 7 p.m. in the board room of the township offices in Quinnesec.
A conditional rezoning agreement will be discussed under old business. New business on the agenda includes a request to use Quinnesec park, and authorization to proceed with water line upgrades.
The Norway-Vulcan School District Board of Education will meet today at 6:30 p.m. in the board meeting room.
The board will discuss purchasing iPads for students not to exceed $350,000, a letter of intent for high school gym sound, letter of agreement with the Norway-Vulcan Education Association for cash in lieu of health care, budget update and forecast for 2013-14, external posting for one elementary certified position, art certified position and special education certified position for the 2013-14 school year.


text: the 130 mains are the problem. I'd try a 150 or so. -----Original Message----- From: Wendell Crain [mailto:wendell_crain at hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 4:26 PM To: Suzuki SV650 Mailing List Subject: RE: low power and brake issue Sorry, forgot those tidbits this time. It has a M4 full system, stock carbs, stock airbox, K&N, stock motor. Pretty plain jane really. Biggest deal was that I bought all the pieces separately and put it together in about 3 weeks. > From: afm199 at earthlink.net > Subject: Re: low power and brake issue > Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:27:42 -0700 > To: sv650 at micapeak.com > > pointless to speculate without knowing your exhaust, carbs, > airbox/filter and motor > > > On Jun 2, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Wendell Crain wrote: > > > Well, I took the "3 week wonder" to the track and something > > definitely isn't right. During the second 20 minute session, I ran > > out of gas. I know I didn't have the tank all the way full, but this was excessive. > > I ended up using about 7 gallons for evening. There was so much fuel > > going through it, you could smell it in the exhaust. I never even > > thought to check that before. The bike had no top end power at all. > > Going with WOT, I was at least 10 seconds down on a lap time. I know > > I am slow, but definitely not that slow. We rode the primary bike > > for the endurance race on Saturday and going through the pits, I > > found someone that loaned me some smaller jets. (Based on another > > mechanics advice there, his suggestion was to go to around a DJ130 > > and remove both shims from the nylon spacer on the needles.) So I > > spent Saturday evening swapping over to the smaller mains and trying > > very hard not to lose any small parts inside my tiny trailer. In > > Sunday practices, the bike seemed like it had a bit more, but I was > > still down 8-9 seconds and this was going around most corners WOT. I > > wasn't using quite as much fuel though. While the bike was running > > you could still smell unburnt fuel, just not as strong. The mechanic > > made suggestions on things to try, since I have 2 weeks before the > > next round. Since I have DJ mains in it and stock needles, he > > recommended buying the DJ needles (or complete kit). I do have > > another set of carbs I had purchased, so he recommended setting > > those up to see if something is wrong with the first set. (As a > > quick easy test without tearing the first set down to find an > > issue.) Rebalancing the carbs. Do a compression check. (Anyone know > > what kind of number I would look for in central Ohio?) If the > > compression numbers don't look good, a leak test would be next. (I > > really don't have a clue on how to do that > > one.) > > > > Wendell > > _________________________________________________________________ > > E-mail for the greater good. Join the i'm Initiative from Microsoft. > > http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ > > GreaterGood > _________________________________________________________________ Give to a good cause with every e-mail. Join the i'm Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?souce=EML_WL_ GoodCause This communication is the property of Qwest and may contain confidential or privileged information. Unauthorized use of this communication is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the communication and any attachments.


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (20 votes).
In full: We travel up from Somerset for this event and cannot fault the organisation or friendliness on Sunday, we really enjoyed the two guys in the commentary box with their priceless comments before and after the Marathon well done. Date of review: October 11, 2012
In short: Amazing!,,,, loved itDate of review: October 11, 2012
In short: Beautiful but challenging!In full: Fantastically organised, beautiful course and a great location. Will definitely be back next year to improve on my time, will do more hill training though!! Date of review: October 11, 2012
In short: Stunning and ChallengingIn full: This marathon certainly lives up to it's strap line of 'Britain's most Beautiful'with it's most amazing scenery. However, it has to be one of the most challenging due to the relentless hills that just kept coming with the only flat bit appearing at mile 18!! That said, it was fantastic and although the quads were screaming I loved every part of it. You could certainly tell this race was organised by runners for runners. Lots of very supportive marshals, plenty of water stations and despite the remoteness, supporters were able to get around the course by bus or bike. I'll definitely be back next year but will probably give the Run Bike Run a go. Date of review: October 10, 2012
In short: A very tough marathon with lots of ups and downs but wonderful scenery that helps take the pain away from aching quadriceps!Date of review: October 8, 2012
In short: Certainly a challenge, but definitely worth itIn full: Yes, this is a hard marathon, especially if you are used to long flat road races. None of the 'hills' are actually very big...but there are lots of them(although the hill at 22miles did seem big at the time!) Saying that, it is a great race, lovely scenery, good organisation(little touches like the massages hit the spot), and very friendly atmosphere.Thanks to all who made it happen and took part.Date of review: October 8, 2012
In full: As my second marathon I found this tough going with lots of short inclines and declines. The course was well marked and marshalled with plenty of water stations although supporters are sparse because of the remote nature of this run. We were lucky with fantastic weather to complement the scenery. Thank you to all involved for organising such a great event.Date of review: October 8, 2012
In short: Muddy, beautiful, tough but so worth it!In full: Forget the PB, or taking the bus. This is a must do race for the sheer scenery, pain and medal. The start was delayed due to the weather and getting people to the start. The rain and drizzle could not stop the feel good factor. Getting out of the parking field was difficult, but to see Steve Cram directing traffic was another highlight. Date of review: March 13, 2012
In short: Fantastic, exhillarating but very toughDate of review: December 13, 2011
In short: Amazing scenery, very friendly race. Looking forward to next year!Date of review: November 6, 2011
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Announcing the Petra Conference of Nobel Laureates
Washington, DC, US
17 March 2005
Our century has seen tremendous advances. Yet vast numbers of people suffer from humanity's oldest enemies: war, poverty, hunger, epidemic disease, despair. The developing world is home to five of every six people on earth. A quarter of them live in extreme poverty. Eleven million children younger than five die every year – more than half from hunger-related causes.
I believe the problem is not a lack of compassion. Millions of people throughout the world want to help. We saw that, just months ago, in the tremendous global response to the South Asian tsunami.
What our global system needs are new tools to address the world's enduring challenges. And the most important tool, the one that begins it all, is good ideas.
In May, for the first time, many of our era's most prestigious thinkers will come together to share their views and create new insights into global concerns. The Petra Conference of Nobel Laureates will give participants a private, collegial setting to work on urgent issues and forge a new consensus on solutions.
The conference will be held near the ancient city of Petra, Jordan – a historic crossroads for humanity. It will be held on May 18th and 19th, just prior to this year's World Economic Forum at the Dead Sea. This will ensure they have a world-class platform, with global media coverage, to present their conclusions and vision.
The Petra Conference can help the world's best minds to help the world's most vulnerable people. It is a first step to a new partnership for progress. We welcome your interest and support.


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Here is another handsome Deishi tea bowl for your consideration. This one is a cylindrical winter tea bowl, although I was quite tempted to keep it at my desk and use it year round. It is unused and in pristine condition as is the box, which is somewhat unique in that it's hand-signed and has a red stamp.
The "clay flavor" of the bottom is nice on this one and of course it looks better in person than in my mediocre photos. The piece is 10.5 cm tall and 10cm wide. Asking $80 American dollars. Free shipping if you buy two bowls Unless you live in HI, AK or Uzbekistan etc.. Normally I charge about $10 for insured UPS ground with insurance which is below actual cost. I live in the lovely and rainy Pacific Northwest fwiw.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Sept. 14, 2011) – USA Volleyball has nominated the beach volleyball teams that will represent the United States at the 2011 Pan American Games, pending approval from the U.S. Olympic Committee.
On the women's side, Emily Day (Torrance, Calif.) and Heather Hughes (Fallbrook, Calif.) have been nominated. For the men, Mark Van Zwieten (Pompano Beach, Fla.) and Andrew Fuller (Hermosa Beach, Calif.) are nominated.
The nominees were selected from a group of players who competed at USA Volleyball's beach high performance tryouts and then trained at USAV beach headquarters in Hermosa Beach, Calif. The players were chosen based on their current ability and future international potential.
The Pan American Games beach volleyball event will take place on Oct. 16-22 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Jeff Conover (San Diego, Calif.) has been nominated to be the team's coach and Ali Wood Lamberson (Hermosa Beach, Calif.), USA Volleyball director of beach programs, has been nominated to be team leader.
Day and Hughes, who both played indoor volleyball for Loyola Marymount, have competed together throughout the summer of 2011. The pair won the silver medal at the World University Games in Shenzhen, China and finished fourth at an FIVB Challenger and Satellite event in Seoul, Korea. They have finished third in two domestic events this season and will compete Sept. 16-18 at the Jose Cuervo Pro Beach Series event in Miami and Sept. 23-25 at the Jose Cuervo Championships in Hermosa Beach.
Fuller and Van Zwieten have not competed together, but have been training, along with Day, Hughes and others, at the USA Volleyball beach headquarters in Hermosa Beach.
Van Zwieten and partner Joey Dykstra won the silver medal at the 2005 FIVB Youth Beach Volleyball World Championships. They also won the bronze medal at the 2008 World University Championships. Domestically, Van Zwieten finished fifth this year with Adrian Carambula at the National Volleyball League event in Baltimore, Md. This weekend, he is scheduled to compete with Josh Binstock at the Jose Cuervo Pro Beach Series event in Miami
Fuller finished ninth twice this year in two NVL events with partners Pedro Brazao and Casey Jennings. He also finished fourth with partner Evan Engle in a USAV International Development Qualifier tournament.
The United States has won two beach volleyball medals at the Pan American Games. In 2007, Ty Loomis and Hans Stolfus finished second in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 1999, Jenny Pavley and Marsha Miller placed second in Winnipeg, Canada.


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Topic: Multiple Controller Question
Being new to Rails I am wondering the best or right way to do the following:
I have products that are grouped into multiple categories and I want to display all the products from all categories in one list and then I want to have a separate page for each and every other singular category to display all products from within that category. I was wondering is it best to have 5(or how ever many different categories there are) different controllers that are then supplied the data such as AllCategories, Category1, Category2, Category3 etc...
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Topic: I need your recommendations
I am a new RoR developer. I have experience in VC++ and PHP programming.
Currently I learn Ruby and I am plannig to learn Rails by the end of the year. I am taking online RoR course.
I use Ubuntu 12.04 as my primary OS. And I usualy develop web apps working on intranets.
However, I want to choose a framework for developing web apps and stick to it. After I did a little research I decided to try RoR.
As for Ruby, I liked it. It has a lot of usefull laibraries and it is an expressive language.
I would like to hear your recommendations on the following questions:
1) I know that there are development and productions environment for RoR.
What would you recommend for development environment? I mean tools, IDE,....
We work as a team of 3-6 people in a two-room office. We have network: 1 server + 6 machines connected by a switch. We want to setup a Linux server and deploy and test our RoR project on this server.
2) Basic steps for deployment on an intranet. Recommended OS, apache modules...
3) .... Everything I dont know and need for developing and deployment.
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While this is ostensibly about European Union politics, I wanted to make sure that Planet readers saw this interesting Ashlee Vance story in the NY Times on business models in open source software that mentions Mozilla and Firefox.
Open-source software has thrived and played a prominent role in the building of the Internet's infrastructure. Many companies rely on Linux-based computers and Apache Web server software to display their Web pages. Similarly, the Mozilla Firefox Web browser has emerged as the most formidable competitor to Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
The grass-roots nature of open source has led advocates to view the projects as a populist foil to proprietary software, where a company keeps the inner workings of its applications secret.
But in the last decade, open-source software has become more of a corporate affair than a people's revolution.
In some cases, dominant technology companies have used open-source projects as pawns. Google, for example, has needled Microsoft by providing financial support to the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation, which oversees of the development of Firefox. I.B.M. has been a major backer of Linux, helping to raise it as a competitor to Microsoft's Windows and other proprietary operating systems.


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Want to hear something cool?After many months of rumor and speculation, Facebook is finally starting to test a Want button on its site that will allow its one billion users to tag products that they would like to own and save them in individual wish lists that they create. This wish list feature is going to be known as Facebook Collections.Right now, Facebook is partnering with a handful of retailers, including Neiman Marcus, Michael Kors, Pottery Barn Smith Optics, Wayfair, Fab.com and Victoria's Secret, to conduct a beta test of the new features. Starting a few days ago, an elite group of Facebook users will be able to click a button to save those products that they most desire, although not everyone will be clicking Want buttons. Some of them are seeing "Collect" buttons, while others can use Facebook Collections by just clicking the standard Like buttons on products.
The move seems to be an obvious attempt by the social network to make the site even more e-commerce friendly, likely in an effort to increase advertising revenue from online retailers. They're probably hoping this will increase the profitability of the website to better appease their interested (and maybe slightly disappointed) shareholders.Despite its very limited test run, Facebook does currently have plans to launch Collections for all of its U.S. users in time.
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