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By Michael Aneiro
A couple of weeks ago this blog wrote about how bond funds are increasingly drifting away from the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, long the stalwart among core bond benchmark indexes, . That trend continues, as Morningstar senior fund analyst Eric Jacobson writes today in a piece titled "The Great Yield Chase." Jacobson says core bond funds – and their correlations – continue to stray from the "Agg" index and certain of its components, namely government bonds, as fund managers branch out into yieldier investments, mainly corporate bonds, commercial mortgage-backed securities and emerging-market debt. He sees rising allocations to these sectors in such funds as the BlackRock Core Bond (BFMCX) fund, the Hartford Total Return Bond (ITBIX) fund, the PIMCO Total Return (PTTRX) fund, the Artio Total Return Bond (BJBGX) and Fidelity Total Bond (FTBFX).
Here's Jacobson's take-away:
The ultimate questions for investors whose funds have been finding their way into these sectors are whether they will stand up to trouble down the line and whether their funds still line up with their expectations. There's a tension between trying to provide the best possible returns when things are going well and maintaining the kind of portfolio that should provide better diversification in the case of volatile equity markets. In each of [these bond sectors], investor demand has significantly pushed prices up and yields down. Those new lower yield levels suggest that even under the best circumstances, the prospect for future returns is muted. Meanwhile, there's reason to be wary of how these sectors will perform under stress scenarios. Most managers aren't expecting a repeat of 2008, when Treasuries rallied and risky assets sold off, but it's nearly certain that bumps in the road will crop up at some point, and there's reason to worry that a dearth of yield may be causing investors to take on more and more risk than they realize. The lesson isn't a new one. It's crucial to know what your core funds own, and how those allocations may overlap with other elements of your portfolio.


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Baked tortilla strips create the wow in a simple-to-make salad with Southwest flair.
Add grilled chicken or beef slices to turn this side-dish salad into a main-meal salad.
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Somehow I managed to pull myself off my rock in early October and drove to St. Joseph, Michigan, where I spent three fabulous days with my genie cousin Cheryl, of Two Sides of the Ocean, and Creative Gene's Jasia. We three had a great time talking genealogy, dining out, shopping, and just visiting. I also got to meet Jasia's awesome husband, and was entertained by her dog Kai as well as Cheryl's dog Zoya. I'm happy to say also that Cheryl's mom is recovering nicely from her stroke and was in very good spirits. All told, my visit couldn't have been more fun! Thanks again, Cheryl and Jasia, for your hospitality and for making my trip a very special highlight of 2010!
Speaking of Creative Gene, this fall Jasia has all sorts of reasons to celebrate: last month, her 1,000th post; this month, the 5th anniversary of Creative Gene; and coming right up, the 100th Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy. These are all remarkable events in the blogosphere. The COG gave rise to a great community of genealogy bloggers, resulting in new friendships, consumer clout in the genealogy industry, and inspired family history writing. Congratulations on your successes, Jasia, and thanks for the many ways in which you've enriched the blogosphere and those of us who have had the good fortune to find you there.
I haven't had much time this month for general internet surfing, but an article was brought to my attention by Denise (of Moultrie Creek Gazette) via the Genealogy Research Resources group at Diigo. Preserving Your Family History Records Digitally, by Gary T. Wright, is an excellent and very detailed how-to lesson in digital preservation, well worth reading for anyone who hopes to go that way. Having said that, however, I must admit I found myself laughing out loud at the possibility (and I use that term despite reality) that my descendants (or even I, for that matter) would remember to remake my preservation disks every few years, and would convert the files as formats become obsolete, and would archive not only the disks but also a spare device to read them when technology moves on to the next newer and better innovation. (Got 8-track player, anyone?)
Personally, I see digitized files as a great convenience:
- I can take everything with me on a research trip when it's on my computer.
- I can bring up a copy pretty quickly using tags.
- If I have need of a paper copy, I can print one out quickly.
- I can email whatever I have to cousins who'd like a copy.
- I can upload a copy to my family history software.
- I can crop or adapt a copy for use in my blog.
October Accomplishments
- Using Blurb, I've almost completed a 120-page book about my mom's childhood, up to and including her wedding. I'd say it practically wrote itself, but actually my mom wrote it. I merged her written stories with the many photos available, and I couldn't be more excited about the way it's turning out.
- During my visit to St. Joseph, Cheryl shared many photos to be used in our Schulte book. I haven't even begun to sort through the scans yet, but among them are some very special ones which will add great interest to the book.
- I read Legacy, the first book I've read by Danielle Steele. I did so because it has a genealogy theme, and because I only get two channels on my TV set, and because my brain turns to goo around 8 p.m., give or take an hour. Okay, 4 p.m., but sometimes I push on anyway. But... Legacy... only out of sheer inertia did I get past the first few chapters, and by that I mean the pull of gravity exerted by my couch was overwhelming but apparently did not extend all the way to my eyelids. I did learn why all the how to write fiction books say you should show, not tell. I was at least a quarter of the way through the book before the story began to catch my interest. I have to hand it to Ms. Steele though--she's found herself a sweet spot in a world where it's hard to make a living as a writer. Readers who enjoy her books will surely enjoy this one.
- Again this month, I have been all about Blurb books. Before My Time languishes!
- I've revised the target date for completing the Schulte book, as some of Joseph Meyer Schulte's descendants are still under-represented in the materials and photos we've gathered. We need to make additional contact with other Schulte cousins and see what else we can find.
- I've also revised the target date for my Kate Pettis Kerr book, for the same reason. I've learned that there are additional materials available which would greatly enhance the value of the book. However, I've been lax about making contact with the cousins who have those materials.


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SOMERSET, Pa. -- Two West Virginia cousins have been jailed after Pennsylvania State Police say they were stopped with a carload of stolen beef jerky and tool sets the men were selling for gas money.
Michael Graham, 37, and John Barry, 35, both of Milton, W.Va., were pulled over in Somerset Wednesday evening because their license plate was dangling from their car.
Read more: http://www.postgazette.com/pg/11049/...#ixzz1EJsUBYhq
You just can't make this stuff up!
Lesson: if you're going to transport large quantities of contraband Beef Jerky, make sure yer license plate is screwed on tight!


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Curtis C. Hoffman
Curtis C. Hoffman, age 79 passed away peacefully at home on September 19, 2013, surrounded by family.
He was born in Whitewater on July 21, 1934 to Carl and Ruth (Barber) Hoffman.
Curtis was a longtime resident of Stoughton and charter member of Covenant Lutheran Church. Beginining in 1955 he served 4 years of active duty with the U.S. Air Force, and then continued in the Air National Guard for the next 21 years. He retired from service in 1980. He also worked for the WI Dept of Transportation as an engineering technician in the materials lab for 44 years. His hard work and dedication was valued by those around him. He was united in marriage to Sharon Tuchel on October 19, 1968.
Curtis enjoyed the outdoors especially the season change and fall colors. He also enjoyed any kind of physical activity and was constantly on the move whether out fixing or building things, gardening, shoveling, mowing or simply on a walk.
He will be deeply missed by his loving wife, Sharon; daughter, Tanya (Ryan) Teasdale and their children, Brycen and Chayce all of Monticello. He is further survived by a sister, Barbara (Chalmer) Arneson of Rochester, Indiana; brother, David (Antonia) of Acapulco, Mexico; sister-in-law, Sandy Tuchel of Stoughton; and a niece and a nephew. He was preceded in death by his parents and sister-in-law, Benita Hoffman.
The family wishes to thank the staff of Agrace HospiceCare, Inc., Inspired Adult Day Services and especially Katie for their care and support which made it possible for Curtis to remain in his home, his deepest wish.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at Covenant Lutheran Church, 1525 N. Van Buren St., Stoughton with Rev. Jerry Tews officiating. The family will greet friends after 9 a.m. until the time of service. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Covenant Lutheran Church.


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Topics: "Iron Mining Plants Running All-Out" & "Duluth LISC Adds AmeriCorps Members"
Description: Iron Range iron mines are bucking the national economic trends and producing taconite at record levels. The mining companies high production is good news for the state, in the form of production taxes and royalty payments.
And the Duluth Local Initiatives Support Corporation is adding 17 AmeriCorps positions to support neighborhood groups in Duluth. It's good news at a time when many small non-profit organizations are struggling with reduced funding and increase need in the community.
Guests: Craig Pagel, President – Iron Mining Association of Minnesota; Pam Kramer, Executive Director – Duluth LISC; Nan Stubenvoll, Duluth LISC AmeriCorps Coordinator; Joel Vos, AmeriCorps Member – Duluth Energy Efficiency Program


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11-17-2012, 08:18 PM #1Junior Member Guppy
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All Fish Are Dead, Now It's A Start Over
Ok this is to the experts. I have a 20 gallon tank without fish. It's a start over. First I'm not sure what my first concern should be before I get more fish. When I visit Petsmart I get different responses each time I go. Therefore, I'm hoping to get solid help from someone here in tis forum.
What should I do first? My water seems really warm. What settings should my heater have? My water has evaporated. Should I do a water change while there isn't fish? Should I just simply add water?
What type of fish should I get as a beginner for the thousandth time beginner? I want fish large enough to see from a distance. I tried the tiny ones and they weren't fun to watch.
Should I buy a kit and test my own water? Pet Smart always encourage me to let them check it. If I had a kit at home perhaps it would help me to respond to my tanks need more often, I guess.
Your help appreciated in advance.
I would suggest empty the tank and give it a good cleaning with only water, not soap of any kind.
Refill it with dechlorinated water and bring the temp up to 78F. I would also suggest getting yourself a good liquid test kit and then completeing a fishless cycle to get your tank ready for fish. There is a link below in my sig to a thread here that explains how to do a fishless cycle
While your tank is cycling, you can figure out what type of fish you wnat to stockIf you take your time to do the research FIRST, you can successfully set-up and keep ANY type of aquarium with ease.
"Not using a quarantine tank is like playing Russian roulette. Nobody wins the game, some people just get to play longer than others." - Anthony Calfo
Fishless Cycle Cycling with Fish Marine Aquarium Info [URL="http://saltwater.aquaticcommunity.com/"]
I'm going to follow this thread closely coze I've lost 90% of my fish in less than two months since I bought them
Try downloading and reading the free ebook, that's what I did and I'm reading it now.
I'm now tryng to understand the fishless cycle
There are some really serious issues here when you are concerned how warm your tank water seems!
The first step is to download and read the FREE fish keeping book here(http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/aqua...ead.php?t=1602)
Do not buy any fish until you read up on fish keeping like temperature of the water and how to measure and set this critical parameter. Also, you need to understand about cycling and if you want to do a fishless or fish cycle (this thread is in the beginners section).
Critically, determine if you have untreated or city (treated) water (treated water contains chlorine compounds that can be deadly to fish and YOU must buy chemicals to remove this toxin before adding fish and when ever you add this type of water to the tank.)
Best of luckKnowledge is fun(damental)
A 75 gal with eight Discus, fake plants, and a lot of wood also with sand substrate. Clean up crew is down to just two Sterba's Corys. Filters: continuous new water flow; canister w/UV, in-tank algae scrubber!! Finally, junked the nitrate removal unit from hell.
For Fishless cycling:http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/aqua...ead.php?t=5640
++ to what Cermet and Cliff said
I was just like you 10 months ago - well, without the dead fish. But I knew nothing about fish keeping and soon learned I could not rely on the advice from PetSmart etal.
I found this forum. I studied the e-book AND I studied fish in and fishless cycling.
I now have 3 tanks and have not lost a fish due to poor quality water.
I would highly recommend fishless cycling
and please continue to asks questions before you purchase any more fish. we can help
In the meantime you need:
filters appropriate to the size of you tank - if you don't know if your filter is the right size, then ask
you must have a heater and a thermometer so you can keep check on your tank water temp and on the water that you replace during water changes
API liquid water test kit so that YOU can test your water every day. (do not buy test strips. They are highly inaccurate.
water conditioner to remove the chlorine from tap water.
If you cycle with fish, you must also do DAILY water testing to check for Ammonia, Nitrites and Nitrates because any of those toxic elements could spike over night and you could lose your fish.
You must also be prepared for the possibility of daily water changes if you cycle with fish.
If you don't have all of the above and haven't been doing all of the above - then you have your answer for why your fish died :o(
Oh - and regarding fish - a 20 gallon tank is a small tank. Small tank = small fish. You could have a nice school of serpae tetras or neon tetras or some cherry barbs. there are a lot of nice choices but if you don't get your tank cycled correctly then no fish is going to live regardless of the tank size
Good luck and do ask questions
Last edited by fishmommie; 11-17-2012 at 10:27 PM.30 g FW planted:corys, female ABNP, blue angel, harleys, zebra danios, rummies,
15 g FW planted:2 male guppies, neons, pygmy corys, clown pleco, 4 types of shrimp, assassin snails
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11-17-2012, 10:39 PM #6Member Swordtails
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Hi! :)
+1 to everything everyone said before. It's essential to get the tank cycled and learn the basics before getting the fish, so that you get out of the cycle of the fish dieing on you before you have a chance to enjoy them.
Good luck!
Learn to cycle a tank before adding fish. While the tank cycles, it will give you a couple of weeks to research and ask question about what kind of fish will work in your tank.
Cycling below.
Not to be totally inappropriate here, but your actions toward a fish in another thread has concerned me about your readiness to have fish. Do you completely and totally tpromise hat you will never flush a living fish down the toilet or otherwise kill it EVER AGAIN? Unless for carefully considered euthenasia of a terminal fish? Education is key here, but you also have to be of a mindset to care for these fish kindly and responsibly. Please think about it before you start again, if you start again.
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1 - 55 gallon planted community
3 - 10 to 20 gallon planted betta tanks
My advice: slow down, think, and be willing to learn. Then you'll be fine, no matter what.
Pets would only be a distraction.
Bethy --> Meh - Online promises aren't worth the paper they're written on. :-P
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Considering your reaction to what is a natural fish behaviour, Leave all pets aside because you have a long journey of personal growth ahead of you that will require all your focus and attention and I wish you luck with it.
Gas mileage isn't everything OIIIIIIIO
Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Why pretend there are no stupid questions? Actually, There are many stupid questions: "Should I drink this bleach?" Is just one example.
Having said that, Just because it's a stupid question doesn't mean that it shouldn't be asked. It's better to know.
A warm beer is better than a cold beer. Because nothing is better than a cold beer, and a warm beer is better than nothing.
After Bethy pointed out the other threads/posts by this member, I am beginning to suspect we are being played. No one could be that insensitive or immature.
so sad. time wasted all in good faith30 g FW planted:corys, female ABNP, blue angel, harleys, zebra danios, rummies,
15 g FW planted:2 male guppies, neons, pygmy corys, clown pleco, 4 types of shrimp, assassin snails
90 Gal Journal: http://bit.ly/1vC7gVX
fishless cycling: http://bit.ly/1DARf3T
fish in cycling: http://bit.ly/1ILvcfp


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Description ADULT SUMMER Has dark gray back and upper wings. Black wingtips are appreciably darker than rest of upper wing (in typical ssp. graellsii seen in North America) and note white trailing edge to inner two-thirds of upper wing. Plumage is otherwise white. Bill is bright yellow with an orange spot. Iris is yellow and eyering is red. ADULT WINTER Similar, but has streaks on head and neck and duller leg and bill colors. JUVENILE AND 1ST-WINTER Have streaked and mottled gray-brown plumage, palest on head. Upper wings appear uniformly dark brown and tail is whitish with dark terminal band. Eye and bill are dark. Full adult plumage is acquired over 3 years though successive molts. Second-winter is similar to first-winter but has gray back with pinkish legs and dark-tipped pink bill; underparts and tail are paler with less streaking. Third-winter bird resembles winter adult but has more streaking on head and neck, and hint of dark terminal tail band.
Dimensions Length: 23" (58 cm)
Habitat Scarce but increasing nonbreeding visitor to Atlantic coast, mainly Oct-Mar. Breeding status here is not known.
Observation Tips Search among winter gull roosts to find it.
Range Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Eastern Canada, Texas, New England, Southeast, Florida
Voice Utters a distinctive kyaoo and anxious ga-ka-ka.
Similar Species Yellow-legged Gull L. michahellis (L 23-26 in) from Europe is probably overlooked but increasingly detected. Adult recalls Herring but has yellow legs. Juvenile and first-winter have paler head and neck than Herring counterparts.
Discussion Eurasian gull with similar size and proportions to Herring, but adult's dark gray back and upper wings are obvious and bright yellow legs clinch identification. Associates with other large gull species outside breeding season. Sexes are similar.


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The legacy of Arnold Schoenberg as heard through the complete piano music
Monday, April 30, 2012
Without question Arnold Schoenberg is one of the great composers of the twentieth century. Many would argue, in fact, that musical modernism began with his music. This week on Hammered! we hear the composer's five incomparable piano works alongside the music of composers he may -- or may not -- have impacted.
Monday's show traces this influence in a very specific, pedagogically familial way, with music first by Schoenberg (his opus 11 Pieces for piano performed by the inimitable Maurizio Pollini), then by one of Schoenberg's pupils -- the great American modernist Leon Kirchner -- and finally by one of Schoenberg's pupil's pupils, in this case John Adams, a student of Kirchner. We'll hear, in addition to opus 11, Kirchner's First Piano Concerto (with the composer as soloist) and Adams' Eros Piano.
The rest of the week will begin with Schoenberg -- the opus 19, 23, 25 and 33's -- followed by complementary works by Steven Stucky, Luciano Berio, Igor Stravinsky, Milton Babbitt, John Harbison, Jaques Hetu and many others.
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Ryan Yarosh has been promoted to assistant director of media relations at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
In his expanded role, Yarosh will be responsible for coordinating, managing and promoting local and regional media coverage of Binghamton University events and activities. He will also coordinate the University's speaker's bureau, facilitate the 'Ask a Scientist' program, and manage the Office of Communications and Marketing's media relation internship program.
During his tenure with the University, Yarosh has developed and fostered strong relationships with media representatives that have served Binghamton University well by advancing its reputation.
Yarosh is a 2006 Professional Employees Council's Distinguished Service Award Recipient. He serves as board member for the local Meals on Wheels chapter; as the Communications Association of the Southern Tier's (CAST) director of publicity; and as a member of the Family Violence Prevention Council's media advisory committee.
Yarosh joined the Office of Communications and Marketing in 2004 as media relations specialist. He earned a bachelor's degree from Binghamton in 2002 and is currently working toward a master's in public administration degree. Before joining the University, Yarosh served as assistant news director at WICZ-TV 40 in Binghamton.


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Machine Project is having a set of classes coming up in LA, but as I'm in central OC (Orange County), that's too much of a hike for me.http://machineproject.com/archive/classwork/2011/08/02/introduction-to-microcontrollers-with-arduino-2/I would be interested in just about anything in OC though.GB
Hey everyone I'm actually thinking about opening an store in Los Angeles for electronics hobbyists and would like to get your thoughts on it.Here's what I have planned so far:Location: San Fernando Valley (North Hollywood or somewhere nearby) and online.Products: Arduinos (original and compatible as well as shields/accessories), Raspberry Pis, general electrical components (resistors, capacitors, wires, etc, etc, etc the list can go on forever lol), sensors, tools), ICs (Attiny, 555s, etc), and pretty much everything else you need to build something with electricity running through it.Extras: I plan to have a few work stations with ready to go computers and soldering equipment where hackers can start building knowing they have access to any item they might need as well as friendly help. I have even thought about sponsoring and hosting meetup.com group meet ups.Since a store like this will require a hefty investment, I'm asking around to see if Arduino enthusiasts in the Los Angeles area would prefer shopping at a local store rather than ordering online and having to pay for shipping/wait a few days. I have visited a few RadioShacks and although they carry Arduinos, they only offer about 1-5 shields and sensors (depending on the location). I also plan on having very competitive prices (cheaper than RadioShack, Fry's Electronics and even some online stores).Any input would be greatly appreciated.
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We began to explore the redwoods by snooping around Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park. We found an old 4x4 road going off into the forest and followed that for a while, while the overcast sky allowed the sun to poke thru occasionally and held off the rain. Not knowing what all the area truly offered, we returned to Crescent City to visit the local NPS visitor center for more info. After grabbing a map of the surrounding state and national parks, we were educated on nearby campgrounds, scenic drives and other to-do's. After a quick stop along the coast to make lunch (we saw a number of the incredible-looking endangered California Brown Pelicans), we drove to a county park a few miles outside the city where we decided to camp the night
The next day we started at sunrise and quickly headede back to Jed Smith S.P. Where we followed the Howland Hills scenic drive - a gorgeous some-paved, some-4x4 road that meanedered thru some of the most dense, old growth redwood forest left in the world. The roadway returned us to Crescent city just as it began to rain... Okay, it was more like a torrential downpour. We stopped at a local harbour-side restaurant and enjoyed some local, fresh seafood, as well as catching a glimpse of some big, fat sea lions! Feeling recharged, we hit the road in the rain and drove south of the Klamath river to follow the Coastal Drive Loop. While there were fewer big redwood trees, it was neat to see the untouched coastal environments. As the afternoon wore on, we decided to find another campgriund, this time in Prairie Creek Redwood S.P. As ligt faded in the thick forest, so we drifted off to sleep in the rain.
By the next morning, the rains had not even let up, so we made some ichi-ban soup for breakfast, broke camp, and hit the road. As we left the campground, we had a great sighting of the local Roosevelt Elk... Two impressive bulls surrounded by a number of cow Elk. We drove partway along the Baldhills scenic drive to a trailhead, but the continual downpour made us hesitate about a hike. As such, we hoped back on hwy-101 and followed it south past Orick, CA., thru Eureka, CA., and into Humboldt Redwoods State Park
We awoke to a morning without rain (finally!) and were on the road quickly. We stopped at a nearby area which enabled us to literally drive thru an old hollowed out redwood tree. The sun poked out quickly as Maria and I both took time to scamper around another hollowed out tree - this one a tree house, of sorts. With that, we felt satisfied with our Redwood experience and again began racking up the miles to make our Thanksgiving dinner date. As we approached San Francisco, the clouds broke, and the sun poked through, just as we drove over the Golden Gate Bridge. Wow! We were awe-struck... The movies really don't give this struxture justice. After winding our way thru the hilly streets of San Francisco, CA., we eventually ended up in Los Altos, just in time to joing my old friends, the Cave family, for Turkey Dinner. Kelly, Chris, and Jenny were all nice enough to invite us to spend the evening with them. We feasted on turkey, mash potatoes, stuffing... The whole 9-yards. With bellies filled to the point of discomfort, we enjoyed a fun ol' game of Taboo, before calling in a night.
Waking early on Black Friday, Maria said our goodbyes and thank-yous and backtracked to San Fran to explore the city a little more. We snooped around and walked over the Golden Gate Bridge (even more impressive on foot), enjoyed the nearby park (except for the large number of rude, ignorant, and unfriendly types walking around the area) and then drove across the city to another restaurant on our Triple D (Diners Drive-ins and Dives) quest. Pier 23 is a cool little seafood place right -as the name suggests- on te edge of pier 23, overlooking the water. Maria enjoyed fish tacos, I had a crabmeat pasta and we shared the best calamaria I've ever tasted! Cooked perfectly, it was not chewy or tough, at all. While the service was alright (nothing memorable or outstanding) the food made up for that fact. As the sky began to darken, we jumped on the freeway and made our way to Merced, CA., to spend the night.
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Nice, huh? Another report says that there are at least 6 cabinet members Obama has not talked to in 2 years. So he has no time for his own cabinet members yet he can talk the Union Hack daily.
RICHARD TRUMKA, PRESIDENT, AFL-CIO: I'm at the White House a couple times a week. Two, three times a week. I have conversations everyday with someone in the White House or in the administration. Everyday.


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By Ben Levisohn
Iron Mountain (IRM) has bet heavily that it's conversion to a real-estate investment trust would arrest its declining share price. But Don't count on a permanent benefit without major changes, according to a Jefferies report released today.
Jefferies' Dan Dolev and Trevor Young explain:
For many years, the durability of IRM's paper storage business (74% of GP) has made it synonymous with stability, but our proprietary survey highlighting a dramatic decline in paper storage intentions is concerning. Data centers are a step in the right direction, but to ensure long-term viability, IRM needs a comprehensive plan to diversify away from storing paper…
REIT status does not affect fundamentals, but a 2x dividend could bring short-term respite to the shares. Only the IRS knows if IRM would become a REIT; however, if it does, the stock would surely rise on the prospects of a $2+ dividend (~2x C-corp.).
Dolev and Young started Iron Mountain with a Hold rating and a $27 price target. Shares of Iron Mountain have dropped 1.7% to $29 today at 2:41 p.m.


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Kanen KM-92 Wooden In-Ear
" Was generally attracted to these headphones by the wooden look and the odd buds at the end. Fifteen minutes later I was fairly shocked at the big package I got in such a small one. While these are great for portability, they are annoying when they get tangles (but that happens to all of them unless they are self retractable). All in all, great earbuds. " --thatnewguy15
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Family: Tyrannidae, Tyrant Flycatchers view all from this family
Description ADULT Has dull olive-green upperparts. Note narrow white eyering and broad-based bill with pinkish orange lower mandible. Wings are dark with pale inner flight feather fringes and two bold white wing bars. Underparts are pale with olive-gray wash on chest. JUVENILE Similar to adult, but with buffy wing bars.
Dimensions Length: 5-6" (13-15 cm)
Habitat Common and widespread summer visitor (mainly Jun-Aug) to damp, deciduous woodland with alders and willows. Winters in South America.
Observation Tips Hard to separate from Willow with certainty, unless song is heard; with practice, call is a good clue too.
Range Florida, Mid-Atlantic, Alaska, Western Canada, Southeast, Texas, New England, Plains, Great Lakes, Eastern Canada
Voice Song is a harsh, repeated rrr'BEE-eh; call is a sharp piip.
Discussion Confusingly similar to Willow, and both species favor damp woodland. Best identified by voice; silent birds are often not separable. See Willow's entry for discussion of subtle structural differences. Engages in aerial sorties from perches near top of tree after flying insects; also hovers and gleans insects from foliage. Sexes are similar.


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Ubuntu: Project, Platform, Products
When most people talk about Ubuntu, they usually mean our flagship product, Ubuntu Desktop Edition. Sometimes, they might mean the Ubuntu project, or the community of people who work on it, or various other things.
Similarly, Debian might mean the Debian operating system, or the package repositories, or the project, and so on.
This gets a little confusing sometimes. When I'm talking about Ubuntu, I've started to use more specific terminology to explain what I mean, and this seems to help people understand better the nature of the whole Ubuntu. In particular, I use the three Ps:
- a portfolio of products, including Desktop Edition, Server Edition, Netbook Edition, Kubuntu and more. These are software bundles which can be downloaded, pre-installed on retail computers, and so on. Each one is designed to meet a certain set of user needs, and to work on a specific form factor of computer.
- a technology platform, which can be used to build a wide range of products. It is primarily of interest to developers, who build derivative distributions, OS products, applications and infrastructure using Ubuntu packages. This platform is the common foundation of the Ubuntu products above, and includes things like the global package repository. Joel Spolsky does a good job of explaining why platforms are distinctly different from products, and should be treated as such.
- an open community project, which collectively produces, distributes, promotes and supports the products and the platform. The Ubuntu project has a philosophy, a government, and various tools and processes to help contributors work together. Canonical supports the Ubuntu project by providing resources and infrastructure, and also directly participates in Ubuntu at various levels.
This breakdown may seem a bit obvious to those of us "on the inside", but it's confusing to people who are encountering it for the first time. I'm sharing this in the hope that if more people start using the same words, it will get easier for people to understand how these pieces fit together. I'll also be linking to it a lot, to help put things into context using this framework.
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recently I decided to discard my hand-written math library code and use the GLM library.
Because I want to make it "feel" like my own code need some thin wrapper around it. Because performance matters I don't want to
write the wrapper using inheritance like this:
class Vector3 : public glm::dvec3 { };
Now I have the idea to use a union and write code like this:
union Vector3 { public: Vector3(double x, double y, double z) : v(x, y, z) { } double x, y, z; private: glm::dvec3 v; };
Is this valid code (using C++11)?
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Rockit Sounds R-50
"Just want to state up front my review rating is an absolute rating, not one based on comparative performance, pricing etc. These are my observations after using an iBasso DX50, MacBook air, FiiO E17 and Sansa Clip Zip as test sources. I found very little variation between those sources with the DX50 maybe bringing out a little bit more richness and depth. Highs: Well what can I..." --Krisman
Rockit Sounds R-30
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"Secrets of a Millionaire Mind" topic of WBO Roundtable
BINGHAMTON, NY -- The Women Business Owners will discuss "Secrets of a Millionaire Mind" at the Binghamton University Small Business Development Center's roundtable from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 24, at the Binghamton Regency on Water Street in downtown Binghamton.
Gerri Harrison, owner of Geri Harrison Financial Services will explain how to organize finances without spending an extensive amount of time. Participants will learn how to achieve financial freedom so that you can grow and succeed in your business and personal lives.
The roundtable costs $10 per person, payable at the door and includes a full breakfast. Attendees are encouraged to bring business cards and brochures to share. Advance registration is required. Call Binghamton University's Small Business Development Center at (607) 777-4024 or e-mail email@example.com to register.


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College Supervisors
College Supervisors are responsible for preparing, guiding and supervising the student teacher
throughout the student teaching experience. The college supervisor works closely
with the cooperating teacher to ensure that each student teacher is provided
with opportunities for developing skills as a reflective practitioner.
The Feinstein School of Education and Human Development has entered into formal partnerships with 26 Rhode Island school districts and one charter school. A copy of the Partnership Agreement and links to all school district partners is located under Partnership Information.
Information about Entering Observation and Progress Reports (Spring 2011):
We do not need to send you a link to enter your Observation and Progress Reports (OPR), but rather, just visit: Ricassessment.org
In the far RIGHT hand corner you will find, Program Exit (Summative Assessment). A copy of the current TCWS is posted, and then there is a link Enter TCWS data. (Note that College Supervisors enter the TCWS scores.) The next line has the Observation and Progress Report and Enter OPR data. This is where you enter the scores/data for the OPR (It looks like Checkbox but we have moved to a school wide system called SurveyGizmo). IMPORTANT-Cooperating Teachers and College Supervisors need the Emplid and the RIC email of their teacher candidate in order to enter the OPR data. Ask your teacher candidate for this information and we have asked them to provide this to you as well.
Student Teacher Problems And Concerns
Problems or concerns about a student teacher or a student teacher's placement are to be directed to the Assistant Dean of Partnerships and Placements. Dr. Sullivan and her assistant, Kimberly Crabill may be reached at:
- email@example.com or 456-8114
- email@example.com or 456-8114
Student Teaching Seminar And Exit Portfolio Requirements
Questions concerning the development of the Exit Portfolio and/or the Student Teaching Seminar are to be directed to your department chair.
Student Teaching Calendar And Forms
Calendar for submission of student teaching observations.
- Mileage Reimbursement Request (for field supervision related travel). Open the document, Save As LastName_Month_Year.xls, and email to firstname.lastname@example.com. Your signature or receipts are not required.
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Veteran's Day and Other Notes
Dear Reader,
As I'm sure many of you are aware, Veteran's Day recently passed here in the states, and for what it's worth, I want to take a small moment to reflect on that. My grandfather is a WWII vet who saw combat and has to this day shrapnel in his leg. As I was growing up, he was a giant of a man, a hero in my eyes, but stoic and silent about his time during the war. Only as he got older and started, unfortunately, to lose his mind did he begin to open up. My father, who I am often feel quite estranged from, worked for months with the VA to get my grandfather the medals he was due. He was eventually successful, and the last time I saw my grandfather, he was given those medals by his children.
Regardless of how you feel about war in general or a particular war, it's important to remember that most often the men and women who fight those wars are not the policy makers who declare them. People join up for a variety of reasons – in America, it's often about a lack of opportunity. It's pretty well documented that we've got a military of the poor here, people who without the military's help had precious few other options in life. So regardless of who you are or where you live, take a moment to remember that every one of us has been benefited by a veteran at some point, whether recently or millenia ago.
On a totally and completely separate note, much more appropriate for the content of this blog, I've three other things to report.
First: The Mark of the Ninja
I avoided it for quite a while because I'd played Tenchu: Stealth Assassins years ago – which I loved and still stands out to me as one of the most creative games I've played – and I thought that returning to a 2d platformer for the same kind of gameplay would quickly bore me. However, after reading review after review that glowingly praised the game, I broke down and bought it.
I've written before how I frequently fall into a pattern of not completing games. I get used to the mechanics and realize that I'll have no problem eventually beating whatever the game can throw at me and then abandon it. It's happened recently rather often with FPS games. I started but did not finish RAGE and Metro 2033; both are set in dystopian futures – the meat and potatoes of game settings for me – but neither engaged me enough to finish.
I played Mark of the Ninja for three days back to back with no other games creeping in and finished it. It was fantastic. It kept the challenges mounting throughout the game and stopped when you'd learned what there was to know and applied it in a varied format. It also met the "Ed Quotient;" it cost 15 dollars and kept me playing for 16 hours. Perfect price for gameplay value.
Secondly, I've decided to level another toon, and not my paladin. It's not that I've got anything against him, but I want to max level a hordie, and he's not. I'm deciding between Stubborn and my rogue; I like the versatility of the druid but really loved the rogue in and of itself. We'll see.
Lastly, a little news about my buddy. He's in the hospital right now in NYC. He left a foot wound untreated for too long and now has to have some sort of surgery. As I've mentioned before, he's the head of a household of people who aren't really fully capable of taking care of themselves, so getting information out of them about what's going on has been nigh impossible, and my buddy is so foolishly cheap (which is why he didn't go to the doctor in the first place) that he won't hook up the phone in his hospital room. I can't get basic information about him other than the most important – that he is okay – but I'm curious. I think he may have lost a toe or worse based on what I'd heard about the wound. Anyway, it sucks, and I miss him, curmudgeonly as he may have gotten.
Stubborn (and anxious)
P.S. I'm putting this up early since I had the day off, but we'll be back to the regular schedule the rest of the week (Thurs and Sat). See you then!
Polynices permalinkNovember 13, 2012 2:59 pm
Not this bears on your main point, but the link about our military seems to say the opposite of how you summarize it:
"[R]ecruits were more highly educated than the equivalent general population, more rural and less urban in origin, and of similar income status. We did not find evidence of minority racial exploitation…"
In any case, great post, great blog, keep up the good work.


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Pilot projects clarify the vision of an intelligent utility system.
Scott M. Gawlicki is a Fortnightly contributing editor and energy industry writer based in West Hartford, Conn. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Pilot projects clarify the vision of an intelligent utility system.
The smart grid might not be a done deal, but the U.S. electric utility industry seems to have reached a conclusion about it. In short, we have seen the future of the electric system, and it works—intelligently.
In just a few years, the idea of a smart grid has advanced from a pie-in-the-sky idea to an industry bandwagon. Across the country, utilities large and small are touting investments in transmission and distribution (T&D) automation, and calling them part of a smart-grid strategy.
Of course, this investment trend isn't really new. For a couple of decades, utilities have gradually built more automation into their T&D systems. But the trend has evolved into something more. The smart grid has become a vision for the industry's future—a vision that both executives and lawmakers have recognized as a politically neutral, forward-looking technology trend. As a result, it's gaining momentum not just in terms of investment plans, but also in public-policy processes.
Most notably, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 called for the development of smart-grid standards, and directed state regulators and utilities to consider, among other things, time-based rate schedules. Then, Title XIII of the Energy Independence and Security Act, signed into law last December, moved the ball further by authorizing up to $100 million per year for smart grid initiatives, and establishing matching federal funds for up to 20 percent of qualifying smart-grid investments.
Spurred in part by the U.S. Congress, there's movement at the state level as well. Utility commissions across the country have been examining smart-grid-related filings, from basic cap-ex plans to innovative rate treatments for advanced metering programs. For example, in May 2008 state legislators in Ohio endorsed rate-base treatment for smart-grid investments, and supported electric utility revenue decoupling in the name of energy efficiency. In several states, decoupling allows utilities to recover not only the cost of implementing energy efficiency and peak demand reduction measures, but also the revenues they forfeit once the measures go into effect (see "Commission Watch table, Revenue Decoupling in the States ").
For many smart grid proponents, these developments are great news, because they provide solid policy support for many of the central benefits of system automation. But for all this progress, the smart-grid vision still remains fuzzy for many executives and regulators. Every investor owned utility—not to mention every cooperative or public power company—faces a different operational and strategic situation, so the smart grid means something different for each utility.
Also, no application to date has provided a complete, working example of the smart grid in operation, and the technical, business and regulatory implications of the smart grid are unfolding too quickly for a single project to adequately demonstrate. Thus executives and regulators remain uncertain when they're asked to invest in a smart-grid strategy. In short, the industry likes to think the future grid will work intelligently, but we're


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Posted on 20 Jul 2010 by Christopher Rowe.
In 1933 it began as a corollary to the Chicago World's Fair ("television" would be displayed at the 1939 World's Fair along with jet packs and the grandparent of the microwave oven), showcasing the most talented players from the 16 Major League baseball teams. America's Pastime was on display. Carl Hubbell struck out five of the game's most feared hitters - Ruth, Gehrig, Foxx, S...


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Sunnyvale and Baylands Park are close enough to Mountain View for me to post this email sent to Yahoo! employees in Sunnyvale this week. You don't need to stop going to parks along the bay; however, you should know to take extra precautions and be alert.
Subject: Mountain Lion Sighting: Be Cautious on Trails Surrounding the Sunnyvale Campus
Please use caution when using the trails surrounding the Sunnyvale campus. This past Saturday, several trail users reported seeing a mountain lion within 100 yards of our campus, just north of Twin Creeks Field #4 near the trail of Baylands Park.
If you plan to use the trails:
Mountain lions are quiet, solitary and elusive, and typically avoid people -- attacks on humans are extremely rare. However, conflicts are increasing as California 's human population expands into mountain lion habitat.
Here are a few tips to follow:
-Do not hike, bike or jog alone.
-Avoid hiking or jogging when mountain lions are most active—dawn, dusk, and at night.
-Keep a close watch on small children.
-Do not approach a mountain lion.
-If you encounter a mountain lion, do not run; instead, face the animal, make noise and try to look bigger by waving your arms; throw rocks or other objects. Pick up small children.
-If attacked, fight back.
-If a mountain lion attacks a person, immediately call 911.
For more information about mountain lions, visit the California Department of Fish and Game: Web Link.


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I made it out to see Star Trek! It was awesome! I'll be posting my review in the movies-other Star Trek thread soon.
I came home nearly on my knees dying for my painkillers, but Trek is definitely worth it! Constant action and thrill ride, worthy of contending with The Dark Knight in the action department as well as suprisingly, the casting and writing departments. Anyway, I'll post over there and then I'm going to crawl into bed. PAIN! Serious PAIN!


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Conjoined twins brings Islam to a village in Cameroon
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The twin girls, Phambom and Shefbou, who were joined at the chest, abdomen and pelvis and shared a leg, were separated in a 10-hour operation performed by a 65-member team, which included 10 Saudi women surgeons.
It will be exactly one year on April 2008 when the twins were separated. As
Cameroonians celebrated the successful operation and forgot about it, Muslims
keep on celebrating as 400 has reverted to Islam from April 21, 2007 to April 13, 2008, in this single village.
Many families are embracing Islam every day in the
Before the advent of the twins, there was nothing know about Islam in this village but today and approach to the village is signaled by veils and young beards.
Insha Allah, a mosque will soon be constructed and other facilities built to make life easy for the entire community.
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Please post the pics and results for the Jr. handlers in the Fort Collins Ret. Club. These young ladies deserve the recognition and our sport needs this kind of exposure. Thanks.
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#183 Overall -- B.J. Cunningham / WR / Michigan St.
why I like this pick: I had a 5th round grade on him for one. Several times mentioned him as one of the more underrated receivers in the Senior class since last summer. Michigan St.'s all time leader in career receptions and receiving yardage despite not always having the most consistent quarterback play. A program that's had Plaxico Burress, Mark Ingram, Derrick Mason, Charles Rogers, Muhsin Muhammad, and Andre Rison all come through there. He has a great work ethic and takes pride in it. Showed he belonged down at the East-West Shrine Game.
why I don't like this pick: Not much. Miami didn't reach for him and got a receiver capable of contributing in this offense.
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Toy Fair Silver Darth Vader for trade Post #1
I have a Toy Fair Silver Darth Vader (limited to 5000 apparently) on card with no noticeable defects for trade.
If youre interested please e-mail me at:
I need the following:
Episode II figures
Jorg Sacul (white beard)
Jorg Sacul (grey beard)
Bespin Luke Skywalker Bloody Variant
9.Captain Typho w/bk card.
10.Shaak Ti w/ bk card.
17.clone trooper w/ bk card.
18.Zam Wessel
21.Nikto Jedi.
22.Anakin Hangar Duel.
25.Taun We.
26.Luminara Unduli.
27.Count Dooku.
28.Mace Windu.
29.Luke Skywalker Bespin.
30.Darth Vader Bespin.
31.Jango Fett Final Battle 1st version with Flame pointing upwards.
32.Qui Gon Jin.
33.Endor rebel Soldier.
34.Massif w/geonosian.
35.Orn Free Ta.
36.Obi Wan Kenobi Jedi starfighter Pilot.
37.Han Solo Endor raid variant w/ white droid caller. This Figure is one per case.
38.Chewbacca cloud city Capture. this figure is also one per case.
39.Chancellor Palpatine.
40.Dejus Puhr.
25th Anniversary
Han Solo and Chewbacca 25th Anniv Set
Luke and Leia 25th Anniv Set
25th Anniversary Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader Final Duel
Included figures
Cloud Car Pilot (from Cloud Car)
Bespin Security Guard (from Carbon Freeze Playset)
Imperial Pilot (from TIE Interceptor)
Obi-Wan Kenobi (from Swamp Skeeto)
Han Solo (from CD-ROM Playset)
Imperial Scanning Crew Trooper (from Millennium Falcon Case)
Wedge Antilles (from Millennium Falcon Case)
Airspeeder Pilot (from Airspeeder)
Cloud Car Pilot (from Cloud Car)
Swoop Trooper (from Swoop)
2 packs
Obi Wan Kenobi vs Darth Maul
Han & Tauntan
Jabba the Hutt with announcer and gong
EP1 Eopie and Qui-Gon Jinn
Classic Edition 4 pack
Hong Kong 1997 Commemorative Limited Edition
1997 Commemorative Hong Kong Edition: Empire Set (Boba Fett * Darth Vader * Stormtrooper)
Sam's Club ROTJ 3 pack 1997 w/ AT-ST Driver, Luke Skywalker Jedi Knight + Princess Leia as Boushh
Sam's Collector Pack) R2-D2 * C-3P0 * Stormtrooper
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Tasco Essentials 8 x 21 Binoculars, Black
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Lightweight, compact design
Ideal for hiking, biking, or backpacking
Fully coated lenses
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Comes with carrying pouch and neck strap
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• Fully coated lenses for maximum light transmission
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• Roof prism system works to eliminate distortion and ensure color fidelity
• Rubber fold-down eyecups adjust to your eyes for comfortable use
• Rubber armored body is easy to grip and helps absorb shock
• Independent eyepiece focus helps you achieve optimal focusing
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Some topics in maths I did not knew or refreshed with Khan Academy are: Laplace Transforms, Convolution Theorem, Dirac Delta function, Taylor Theorem, Implicit differentation, insights in Chain rule, Conic Sections (foci of Ellipse, Hyperbola, and Parabola with Directrix), partial fraction expansion, l'Hôpital rule, surface integrals... I also learned a bit finance on forward contracts, futures and the margin mechanism I can use on the job. Sal, you are great!
Useful git hints
These git hints are taken from the Linux Magazine, article "Git in der Praxis".
Initial configuration:
git config --global user.name Danger Mouse git config --global user.email firstname.lastname@example.com
Coloured output:
git config --global color.diff auto git config --global color.status auto git config --global color.branch auto
New repository:
cd myproject git init git add . git commit
- Ignoring files: put your entries in a file .gitignore
Clone Linus kernel's repository:
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git linux-2.6
Push changes to repository:
git commit -a -m "these are the changes" git push
- Retrieve changes from repository with git pull
- List existing branches: git branch
- List existing tags: git tag
Create new branch:
git branch Refactor #switch to branch git checkout Refactor #back to master git checkout master
Create new branch and switch into branch:
git checkout -b Refactor
Merge from branch Refactor into master:
git checkout master git merge Refactor
Create a tag:
git tag -a "Tag_1.3.6" -m "new tag at version 1.3.6"
- Retrieve uncommitted changes with git status
- List latest commits with git log
Create a patch:
# on branch Refactor git commit git checkout master git pull git checkout Refactor git rebase master # repair conflicts git commit git format-patch master --stdout > mybugfix-patch.diff
I am also trying to understand a bit of this book:
The book is centered around Möbius transformations and Schottky circles. Möbius transformations
f(z) := (az+b)/(cz+d)are visualized as compositons of affine projections (az+b) and of projections on the Riemann's sphere 1/(cz+d) of the complex plane. They are at the ground of Beltrami disk (on page 379) and represent a non-euclidean geometry for which the parallel postulate is not valid. Schottky circles are generated by two Möbius maps which project one circle a into a circle A and another circle b into a circle B. With a breadth-first or depth first algorithm all set of reduced words (e.g AbBb reduces to Ab) are generated, and interesting pictures come out. Like the glowing gasket by Apollonius, invented in 220 BC, which is also the best way to pack as many tangent circles as possible (apollonian packing). The most famous fractal (Mandelbrot's apple) shortly appears at page 291.
Debian Squeeze
When installing Debian Squeeze, the partition with Windows XP was not recognized. Normally I adjust /boot/grub/menu.lst but this time the file was missing.
os-prober grub-updatedid it....
As "scientist of information", you might find these tricks with M$ tools useful:
Creating SQL statements out of an Excel table with
An insert:
=CONCATENATE("INSERT INTO tbdata(id, name, address) VALUES(";A1;"'";A2;"'";"'";A3;"'";");");
Or an update:
=CONCATENATE("UPDATE tbdata SET name='";A1;"');");
Lookup table in Excel
=VLOOKUP(C3;$L2:$O$25;3;FALSE);This formula looks up for the value in C3 in the table $L$2:$O$25 and returns values in the 3 column where C3 was found. It's a vertical lookup.
Importing Excel tables into access With File->Import->LInk External Table it is possible to import Excel tables into Access and then with SQL queries to extract data from them. However, I learnt that there is a limitation in the complexity of queries you can launch. I always switch from 'Design view' into 'SQL view' when creating queries.
For the interoperability of the Deltasql project, I setup a MS SQL server 2008 instance...
Installing SQL server
Downloading and installing it is easy, but at the end you need to assign a port to it, else the thing won't work. Might sound simple, but I assumed this step was automated by the install procedure. At best, you install it without touching defaults and as last step tweak it to open say port 2345 on TCP/IP protocol. Only after this step, you'll be able to connect with SQL Server Management studio client.
I still think that Oracle and Postgres are the high end of the database offer. However, I see once again how Microsoft is eating more and more of the lower segment. I know many little companies (10-30 employees) which now use some accounting solution based on SQL server. Still, sometimes at work I am puzzled and wonder if the transaction integrity of SQL server is always guaranteed, when under heavy load...
Tips to install Gentoo
I used an old CD to reinstall the latest Gentoo on andromeda, but failed due to some kernel issue with udev after several tries. I then decide to install Debian Squeeze, as I did not want to recompile everything on this old toaster (1GHz, 512 RAM) :-) As side effect I learned that it is always best to use the latest image of Gentoo install CD to get it running 8-)


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ok, just figured i would start a thread so everything with my neon can pretty much be together. here.
here was my neon when i first got it.
this is how both of the front rotors were when i changed them
new door to replaced the smashed one
traded my buddy hoods. which his car blew up shortly after
went to check my front brakes and snapped off 8 out of the 10 lug studs.
pulling the motor after i snapped the timing belt. bought a whole nother neon for $400 with a blown trans
getting ready to go back in
new fender to replace the one with a huge dent
whats the best way to get these two dents out?
replaced the rear door on driver side because it was getting some rust on it. also replaced the rear bumper because it got a huge gouge in it when my brother was pushing me cus my starter died. and also traded my buddy trunk lids after his car did die lol.
there's no life like a LOW LIFE!
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To show off the layers, use a 12-cup trifle dish, a footed glass bowl measuring about 8 inches across and 5 inches deep.
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Too pretty to eat! My trifle dish was 9-1/2 inches in diameter, and I used up everything except 3 ladyfingers. As other reviewers recommended, I let the mascarpone warm to room temperature and let the white chocolate cool, and I gently folded them together (which took awhile) and had no problems with graininess. My pears were poached in 25 minutes, so start checking them early. I used lots of chocolate curls, finely diced crystallized ginger, and silver dragees because everything is better with silver dragees!
I have made this for Christmas and New Year several times and each time it turns out perfectly. I haven't yet had a guest that didn't love it and request it for the following year. It is a bit time consuming but I knew that going into it and prepared for it. I always follow the recipe exactly. My pears always turn out beautiful and with just the right amount of spiciness. If you cook the brandy correctly and add the correct amount called for in the recipe it won't taste boozy at all. I think some people refuse to follow a recipe and then get frustrated when it doesn't turn out how they think it should.
I'll start by saying I'm generally more of a fan of rich/chocolate desserts, and not into creamy things, so that is part of my issue with this, but I definitely think it was not worth it! While it looked very pretty, it was extremely costly ($90 for ingredients, at least $45 of which were used in total) and really not that tasty. All the guests at the party were impressed with the appearance, and all said that they enjoyed the taste, but no one raved, because honestly, it wasn't rave worthy.
I make this almost annually at holiday time; always gets raves.
Yes, this is a long process to prepare and I am still on the fence about it. My mousse must have been overwhipped since it got grainy,too. But how to incorporate the mascarpone otherwise? ANY IDEAS? The pears themselves and their syrup were quite divine. I plan on making them for Christmas dinner served with whipped cream sweetened with the syrup and sprinkled with toasted sliced almonds.
This dessert was not nearly as good as I hoped. For all of the time & expense, it should have been spectacular, and it was just good.
I, too had trouble with the mousse curdling, but it was definitely cool when I added the cream to the chocolate, so must have been the result of over-mixing. I used it as it was, since I didn't want to spend another fortune on chocolate and liqueur to remake it. As another reviewer mentioned, all the components had great flavour on their own, but the resulting flavour when put together wasn't great. I loved the spiced pears - will probably try using them again in a different way. All in all, it was a ridiculously expensive dessert to make and the result was disappointing. I won't make this one again.
Great twist to traditional tiramisu! You don't need that many ladyfingers. I've used hard ladyfingers (dusted off the extra sugar on the ladyfingers) and put the trifle in the fridge for a few hours to let the flavors soak. I've also used soft ladyfingers and served almost immediately because I was worried it would be too soggy. I reduced the white wine to 1 1/2 cup and reduced sugar to 3/4 cup so it wouldn't be too rich. The white chocolate mousse is plenty sweet. Love this recipe with the changes I made and would make again and again :)
When I read the reviews, it seemed people either raved about this or were truly disappointed by it. As I love making new desserts I thought I would give it a go. The first time I made the sabayon it totally flopped and I had to make a second batch in the traditional sense of whisking the eggs over a double boiler etc etc. The syrup was mega sweet (and I have a sweet tooth) - but the flavour of the pears was lovely. However, when combined with the white chocolate, the overall effect was just too sweet. I might try it again if I had the alcohol on hand as it is an expensive recipe. I used Absolut Pear vodka. Pretty average overall, and not quite the showstopper I thought it might be.
I forgot to add that I used Alessi ladyfingers (and I didnt think they were particularly soft. Use harder/crispier ones because the syrup softens them adequately. I also made the mouse, pear syrup, a day ahead of time and it turned out perfectly.


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Luis Valdez 1940–
(Born Luis Miguel Valdez) Chicano dramatist, scriptwriter, nonfiction writer, essayist, editor, and director.
The following entry provides an overview of Valdez's career through 1992.
Considered the originator of modern Chicano theater, Valdez is best known as the founding director of El Teatro Campesino, a seminal, grassroots theater group initially formed to convince California migrant farmworkers of the value of unionization. Valdez, who writes some works in English and others in a blend of English and Spanish, is credited with having provided momentum to the Chicano theater movement through his highly vivid style and his ability to place the Chicano experience within a universal American framework.
Biographical Information
Born into a family of migrant farmworkers in Delano, California, Valdez began working in the fields at six years of age. Although his education was frequently interrupted by his family's constant travel, Valdez finished high school and subsequently attended San Jose State College. After graduating in 1964, Valdez joined the San Francisco Mime Troupe, from which he gained an appreciation of "agitprop" theater, which makes use of political agitation and propaganda to protest social injustice. Valdez returned to Delano in 1965 to assist César Chávez and the United Farmworkers Union in their efforts to unionize migrant workers. There Valdez organized the strikers into a performing group to dramatize the exploitation of farm-workers and to demonstrate the necessity of unionization for their financial survival. In 1967 Valdez and El Teatro Campesino began touring nationally, expanding their focus on the plight of migrant farmworkers to include the Chicanos' roots in Native American history, music, and myth. In the early 1970s Valdez's emphasis on mysticism and indigenous concerns eventually resulted in a split between El Teatro Campesino and the overall Chicano theater movement. Since the mid-1970s Valdez has become additionally involved in writing and directing for television and film productions.
Major Works
Valdez was credited early in his career with creating the acto, a short, often humorous dramatic sketch that employs the language of working-class Chicanos to present a lucid social or political message. Valdez's early actos, generally written or created with other members of El Teatro Campesino, often make use of humor and simple representational strategies, including signs imprinted with characters' occupations that are hung around actors' necks or masks that actors exchange to reverse their traditional roles. Valdez's plays of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including No saco nada de la escuela (1969), Vietnam campensino (1970), and Soldado razo (1971), deal with such subjects as the American school system's tendency to force cultural assimilation on minorities and the over-representation of Chicanos in the Vietnam War. Traditional Native American and modern issues converge in Dark Root of a Scream (1971), in which the death of a Chicano soldier is treated as a sacrifice to the gods, paralleling Aztec culture and history. By the mid-1970s El Teatro Campesino had become more commercially oriented. In 1978 Valdez's drama Zoot Suit enjoyed a highly successful run in Los Angeles. Considered the first play to draw large Mexican-American audiences to a mainstream American theater production, the drama is metatheatrical and documentary in nature. In this work Valdez uses Latin-American music, sections of courtroom transcripts, and quotes from newspaper reports to examine the Sleepy Lagoon murder case, in which several young Chicanos in east Los Angeles were convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment based on circumstantial evidence. In subsequent works, such as his play I Don't Have to Show You No Stinking Badges (1986) and La Bamba (1987), a film concerning Chicano pop star Ritchie Valens, Valdez has continued to deconstruct negative stereotypes regarding Chicanos and Mexicans within a mainstream perspective that avoids exclusive minority concerns.
Critical Reception
Although sometimes faulted for his overly idealistic rendering of Native American culture, Valdez has been credited with providing the impetus that led to the genesis of the Chicano theater movement and with creating the now-accepted genre of Chicano theater, as based on the acto. A leader and innovator, Valdez is widely recognized as one of the few dramatists who have been able to change the way Chicanos are perceived by white America. As Gerald C. Lubenow has noted, Valdez "has succeeded by shaping the experience of Chicanos into drama that speaks to all Americans."
Principal Works
The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa (drama) 1963
Las dos caras del patroncito (drama) 1965
La quinta temporada (drama) 1966
Los vendidos (drama) 1967
La conquista de México (drama) 1968
I Am Joaquín (screenplay) 1969
The Militants (drama) 1969
No saco nada de la escuela (drama) 1969
Bernabé (drama) 1970
Huelguistas (drama) 1970
Vietnam campesino (drama) 1970
Dark Root of a Scream (drama) 1971
La gran carpa de la familia Rascuachi (drama) 1971
Soldado razo (drama) 1971
Aztlan: An Anthology of Mexican American Literature [editor, with Stan Steiner]...
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John Harrop and Jorge Huerta (essay date March-May 1975)
SOURCE: "The Agitprop Pilgrimage of Luis Valdez and El Teatro Campesino," in Theatre Quarterly, Vol. V, No. 17, March-May, 1975, pp. 30-9.
[An American professor and critic, Huerta has written many books on Chicano literature and drama in addition to serving variously as founder, director, and actor in many Chicano theater groups in California. In the following essay, he and Harrop provide an overview of Valdez's career with El Teatro Campesino, focusing in particular on his development as a playwright.]
San Juan Bautista is a very ordinary, small town in central California. Its chief attraction to outsiders is the Catholic Mission—one of those churches the Spanish...
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R. G. Davis and Betty Diamond (essay date January-March 1981)
SOURCE: "Zoot Suit: From the Barrio to Broadway," in Ideologies and Literature, Vol. 3, No. 15, January-March, 1981, pp. 124-33.
[Davis is an American critic with a special interest in the theater. In the following essay, he and Diamond trace the evolution of Zoot Suit from its inception to Broadway and examine the reasons for its failure.]
Zoot Suit, by Luis Valdez, was the first Chicano play on Broadway. Valdez chose as his subject an actual event—the Sleepy Lagoon Murder case. On August 2, 1942, José Díaz was found dead in a dirt road near Los Angeles. There were no witnesses and no murder weapon, but twenty-four Chicanos were indicated for...
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Gerald C. Lubenow (review date 4 May 1987)
SOURCE: "Putting the Border Onstage," in Newsweek, Vol. CIX, No. 18, May 4, 1987, p. 79.
[In the following excerpt, Lubenow favorably appraises Valdez's work as a playwright as well as his role as scriptwriter and director of the film La Bamba.]
When playwright Luis Valdez withdraws to rewrite a script, he envisions himself not as some great Spanish playwright, but like Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman in a stuffy room in New York City smoking cigars and eating Hershey bars. The only difference is that he loves cigars and hates chocolate. "I'm as American as the next guy," he says. "It's just a question of being perceived as such."
In the...
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Anthony DeCurtis (review date 16 August 1987)
SOURCE: "Flawed 'La Bamba'," in Rolling Stone, Issue 506, August 16, 1987, p. 13.
[In the following film review of La Bamba, DeCurtis criticizes Valdez for artificially inflating the already powerful story of Valens's life.]
A variety of problems plagues La Bamba, the new film about the life of Ritchie Valens, the Mexican American rocker who was killed at age seventeen in the 1959 plane crash that also took the lives of Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper. Casting in the major roles is the movie's most obvious problem. Newcomer Lou Diamond Phillips is likeable but far from riveting as Valens, while Danielle von Zerneck, who plays Valens's girlfriend and the...
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Luis Valdez with David Savran (interview date January 1988)
SOURCE: An interview in American Theatre, Vol. 4, No. 10, January, 1988, pp. 15-21, 56-7.
[In the following interview, Valdez discusses his career as a playwright and the roles of politics and mysticism in his work.]
One month into the 1965 Delano grape strike, which solidified the power of the United Farm Workers, 23-year-old Luis Valdez met with a group of union volunteers and devised a short comic skit to help persuade reluctant workers to join the strike. He hung signs reading Huelgista (striker) on two men and Esquirol (scab) on a third. The two Huelgistas started yelling at the Esquirol and the audience laughed. Thus began Valdez's...
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Luis Valdez (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: Early Works: Actos, Bernabé and Pensamiento Serpentino, Arte Publico Press, 1990, pp. 6-13.
[In the following excerpt, Valdez defines "Chicano theatre" and discusses the significance of the acto in its development.]
What is Chicano theatre? It is theatre as beautiful, rasquachi, human, cosmic, broad, deep, tragic, comic, as the life of La Raza itself. At its high point Chicano theatre is religion—the huelguistas de Delano praying at the shrine of the Virgen de Guadalupe, located in the rear of an old station wagon parked across the road from DiGiorgio's camp #4; at its low point, it is a cuento or a chiste told somewhere in the recesses of the barrio,...
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Jorge Huerta (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: An introduction, in Zoot Suit and Other Plays by Luis Valdez, Arte Publico Press, 1992, pp. 7-20.
[In the following excerpt, Huerta traces Valdez's maturation as a playwright and director, and discusses the defining qualities of his work.]
For some, Luis Valdez needs no introduction; for others, his name may only be associated with his more widely seen films and television programs. No other individual has made as important an impact on Chicano theater as Luis Valdez. He is widely recognized as the leading Chicano director and playwright who, as the founder of El Teatro Campesino (Farmworker's Theatre) in 1965, inspired a national movement of theater troupes...
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Further Reading
Review of Aztlan; An Anthology of Mexican American Literature, edited by Luis Valdez and Stan Steiner. Choice 9 (January 1973): 1451.
Maintains that although the collection "is informative, dignified, and energetic, it is overbalanced by nonliterary matter."
Corliss, Richard. "Rock Fable or Teen Ballad?" Time 130, No. 7 (17 August 1987): 62.
Unfavorable review of La Bamba.
Garcia, Nasario. "Satire: Techniques and Devices in Luis Valdez's Las dos caras del patroncito." De colores Journal 1, No. 4 (1974):...
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by Lawrence J. Maushard
In 2011, the late Peorian Mark Clark was inducted into the local African American Hall of Fame. Last year, that honored position with the Hall found its way into the city's all-new Riverfront Museum.
So now in 2013, more than four decades after Clark's killing – he was gunned down along with fellow Illinois Black Panther Party colleague Fred Hampton, 21, by Chicago police authorities in a predawn house raid on December 4, 1969 – would be a good time for the Peoria Journal Star to finally revisit some grievous wrongs set to print at that time.
According to Kristan H. McKinsey, Director of Collections and Senior Curator at the Peoria Riverfront Museum, the following description is currently included alongside a photograph within the digital confines in one historical kiosk display:
"Mark Clark was a Defense Captain of the Black Panther Party. He was born and raised in Peoria, and attended Manual High School. In 1969, Clark started the first free breakfast program in Peoria for children; a program which spread across the country. Chicago police killed Clark and fellow party member, Fred Hampton, in December of 1969. Their deaths are seen as a landmark event in the Civil Rights movement."
At the web site for The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther by Jeffrey Haas (Lawrence Hill Books, 2009), a detailed account of the killings, lawyer-author Haas writes that he and his colleagues "ultimately exposed the conspiracy between FBI agents carrying out FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's secret and deadly Counterintelligence Program and the Chicago Police that led to Hampton's assassination. Black Panther leader Mark Clark was also killed in the 1969 police raid on the Hampton house."
So how did the Journal Star react to the killings back in the day? In its December 10, 1969 issue, less than a week after Clark's murder, the lead editorial claimed, "And it was finally put together under the Panther label by a coterie of articulate ex-convicts and jobless civil rights activists who duped a few young men who were not overly bright to sell their newspapers and play the cannon-fodder roles of tough-guy revolutionaries."
With appalling gall, the editorial went on to posit that "Hate coupled with intimidation and demagoguery made the Panthers into a sort of black Ku Klux Klan. The white sheet was replaced with the black beret and jacket."
Confidently asserting that "We doubt very much that anything resembling a murderous police conspiracy against the Panthers exists" the Journal Star also arrogantly maintained, "Just as intelligent whites refused to have anything to do with the Klan, intelligent blacks must refuse to tolerate or associate with the Panthers. The real sympathy that the Panthers need from black leaders of the day is the kind which attempts to protect these young men not from the police but from the idiotic Panther leadership which should not be allowed to continue to drive young men like Mark Clark to early graves."
Indeed, the Journal Star was so secure in its, ahem, historical understanding and social sensitivities that it even titled this incredibly paternalistic editorial, "The Panthers Need Help."
The reason for that delay? Again, incredibly, the Journal Star blamed the victim: "The slowness of Attorney General (John) Mitchell's response and the complete silence from the White House in regard to the Chicago affair is a discouraging commentary on how far the extremist tactics of the Black Panthers and other violent groups have set back black people in their quest for justice."
That editorial confidently concluded, "We know justice will be done in Chicago . . . but it may be a little longer in the doing."
In fact, no one was ever convicted in the deaths, and it took until 1983 that a $1.85M settlement was finally awarded to the raid survivors, families of Hampton and Clark, and their lawyers. A little longer, indeed.
So, after 43 years and counting, will a little editorial justice finally play in Peoria?
Back when it really mattered, the Journal Star not only didn't do its homework, it indulged in grotesque and detestable characterizations on a par with anything the Deep South could ever conjure up regarding Mark Clark and the Black Panthers.
Those deplorable editorials still speak for themselves through a yet-to-be-cleaned decades old textual bullhorn of hate and racism with a mouthpiece resting squarely on the doorsteps at 1 News Plaza, Peoria, IL. This cranky old river city is the home of Richard Pryor, Betty Friedan, Joe Girardi, Philip Jose Farmer, Ray LaHood, Jim Thome, Bob Michel, Dan Fogelberg, Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, and Caterpillar Inc. to name a few notables.
But hey, don't take my word for it. My analysis, if not my exact choice of language, doesn't appear to be so wildly off the mark if you take into account at least one scholarly review on the subject:
"The Peoria Journal Star offered a conservative perspective in its coverage of the raid and the murders of Clark and Hampton which did not look favorably upon its native son."
Authors Dr. Judson L. Jeffries, Professor and Director, Department of African American and African Studies, Community Extension Center, The Ohio State University and Dr. Omari L. Dyson, Assistant Professor of Education at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, came to this assessment in "Nobody Knows My Name:The Marginalization of Mark Clark in America's Collective Consciousness," International Social Science Review (2010, Vol. 85, Nos. 3 & 4).
They conclude, in part, that, "In sum, the press's treatment of the circumstances surrounding the death of Mark Clark as an afterthought has undoubtedly contributed to his marginalization in America's collective consciousness – something that serious students of politics and history alike should find unsettling."
Among the work's annotations, they added, "Clark's lack of national distinction should not detract from viewing him as an important figure in American history. He is important because he sacrificed his life so that others may live a better life. He is important just as hundreds of civil rights workers whose names were not household words were important, but whose work made a difference in people's lives.
More PJStar Mark Clark conundrum here...
More PJStar Mark Clark conundrum here...


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