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it's not about us. let it be.-Paul
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"For everyone to whom much is given, of him shall much be required." -- Luke 12:48
Raven - Moneybird's Black Magic Marker***
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Peerless - Moneybird's Sole Survivor
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Using found materials and discarded objects collected from the Moreland area, members of SAC and guest artists will transform the Counihan Gallery into an active studio environment, with new installations and interior spaces unfolding each week. A series of interactive events and workshops that focus on issues of sustainability will also take place in this multi-platform project. More info

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Brainwavz B100 Balanced Armature Earphone
" Preamble: It is finally happening – Brainwavz Audio is making in-ears with Balanced Armature drivers again. After they were introduced to the public few months ago, the two single-BA in-ears B100 and B150 are finally hitting the market. I already had the pleasure to review and listen to a prototype of the B150 with finalised tuning, and the B100 is the next in the line that I got..." --HiFiChris
Brainwavz B150
" Preamble: It is finally happening – a few years after Brainwavz stopped the production of their B2, a dual-BA in-ear, the Chinese company owned by the GPGSHK is back in the game and will be manufacturing Balanced Armature-based in-ears again. This has secretly been quite a big desire of mine, and I am very glad that Brainwavz' new models are finally ready...." --HiFiChris
Brainwavz B200
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Brainwavz B2 Dual Balanced Armature Earphones
"Summary of my experience with these: Build: Feels cheap and plasticky. In fact the box appears better made than the earphones. :) Treble: Very detailed, forward and sharp. No real sibilance BUT is very fatiguing after even after short listening sessions Mids: Again very detailed but there appears to be some forward and some recessed elements depending on the track you are listening to. The..." --Krisman
Brainwavz Beta (V2)
"Very nicely balanced overall. Bass very slightly lacking, but this is a matter of taste. Lots of tips to choose from, and came with foamies! Cheaply put together though. Loads of microphonics. Clip is useless. Thought I heard some imbalance but it went away with burn-in. Questionable quality? After further burn-in, my Betas became very bass..." --inline79
Brainwavz BLU-200
"Brainwavz Intro ABOUT US Brainwavz provides high-end earphones specifically designed for high-quality sound and tailor-made to provide the user with a solution that can be used across a wide range of audio genres and styles at affordable prices. Brainwavz believes in the idea that sound is a deeply personal experience, and strives to provide users with earphones that match their personal..." --Wokei
Brainwavz Delta
" Introduction I first got to know the company few months ago, when I was looking for a portable amplifier. They were about to release or they have just released the Brainwavz AP001 portable amp, so this was my starting point. I then visited their website http://www.yourbrainwavz.com/index.php, became interested with their products and decided to buy some and try them. The..." --Danihell
Brainwavz Jive
"At the time of the review, the Brainwavz Jive earphone was was on sale at Amazon's website for $25.00 USD. Here is a link to Their listing of the product: http://www.amazon.com/Brainwavz-Isolating-Earphones-Android-Blue-Android/dp/B013OKX8II/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1441323708&sr=8-1&keywords=brainwavz+jive Introduction I like Brainwavz because they offer a diverse range..." --Hisoundfi
Brainwavz Jive In Ear Earbuds Noise Isolating Earphones Remote & Mic Headset Stereo Headphones Apple iPhone & Android (Black)
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Brainwavz M100 IEM Noise Isolating Earphones with Remote & Microphone Headset For iPhone iPad, iPod & Android Devices
" Preamble: Brainwavz Audio, who belong to the GPGSHK, are an internationally quite well-known company that manufactures in-ears, full-sized headphones and audio accessories (mainly holders and ear pads). All of the models have in common that they are in the affordable price range and that the company doesn't carry any expensive products – even the higher-priced Brainwavz..." --HiFiChris


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Gotta love a director with a dry sense of humor: "My Halloween outfit. I messed up and cut off the wrong ear....that's why I need researchers 4 my movies."
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Was Chloe doing research for her new zombie movie Maggie? Probably not, since here she's a sexy zombie; note the many buckles all over her ensemble. Still, being Chloe, she kept it as tasteful as ever. And I'm digging the eye makeup!
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I preferred Diddy as Prince, but I guess this was a more relevant pop culture costume. The only annoying part was his charming caption: "Happy Halloween bitches! Suck my dicktator!"
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This could be my favorite costume that Katy Perry has ever worn simply because of the accuracy. You probably recognize her as Jane Lane, Daria's best friend from the MTV animated series. From the piping on her jacket to that unmistakable hairstyle, she's got every detail down. Yep, Halloween is made for folks like Katy.
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OK, it cannot be coincidence that two celebrities would choose to be Sandy from Grease right as a tropical storm of the same name was bearing down on the opposite end of the country... right? LeAnn's couples costume with husband Eddie Cibrian at least makes some sort of sense, but I'm not sure about the next one.
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Yep, that's Gwen as a "bloody Sandy from Grease." Maybe I'm being oversensitive after the hurricane, but it seems like it's in poor taste.
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Gotta love a director with a dry sense of humor: "My Halloween outfit. I messed up and cut off the wrong ear....that's why I need researchers 4 my movies."
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I'm surprised that Paris Hilton even knew who Batman and Robin are.
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As we learned from the VMAs, Kevin Hart gives it his all. Which is why I really liked him as the embodiment of the '70s.
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Avril doesn't seem too bothered by her ex Deryck Whibley dressing up as her, as she went out as a sexy sailor. But with that wig, she actually brings to mind Jennifer Love Hewitt on The Client List. Would've been a better costume, IMO.
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You rock that cat outfit on your birthday, Jenny McCarthy.
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RiRi didn't bother with a costume and just threw on a tiara. Woman after my own heart.
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In 2013, the National Gallery of Ireland will present a programme of temporary exhibitions which will explore the breadth and significance the Gallery's vast collection of Irish and European works of art
National Gallery of Ireland adds to collection with contemporary works by Davidson, Nickerson and Crozier.
Dutch landscape exhibition opens in the National Gallery of Ireland
A new book on the life and work of Dutch seventeenth-century painter, Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667), by Adriaan Waiboer, will be launched toady in the Gallery.
The NGI will commence conservation treatment to Monet's 'Argenteuil with a Single Sailboat' (1874), which was badly damaged following an unfortunate incident by a member of the public in the Millennium Wing on June 29th, 2012.
To mark the occasion of the London Olympics 2012 (opening today, Friday 27 July), the National Gallery of Ireland has placed on public display, James Hanley's portrait of sportsman, Ronnie Delany, who won gold for Ireland with his record win in the 1500m at the Melbourne Olympics in 1956.
National Gallery of Ireland presents a programme of new displays from its Irish and European collections.
Further to recent reports in the media, we can confirm that there was an unfortunate incident in the Gallery on Friday (29 June) when a member of the public was detained after a Monet painting was seriously damaged.
An exhibition to coincide with Dublin City Public Libraries festival, Dublin: One City, One Book will open in the National Gallery of Ireland on Monday 2 April.
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In the same time I have not hacked a lot on MlView itself.
I must also find the time to work on my new css parsing library.
Some other fixes. 0.0.3rc2 is coming soon.
I finally released mlview 0.0.3rc1. It fixes a lot of stability problems.
Users of this version must also upgrade to libxml 2.2.26 .
I still have to deliver some other small fixes before 0.0.3. After this, I must kick my ass to start the gnome2 port.
I've been playing with GNU/Linux for 6 years now but I've only installed slack, RH and Mdk... now Debian. Which one will I like most ?
After this release I must force myself to download the sources of gnome2 on my brand new debian system, compile it, admire it and start the porting of (damn even apm works!!) MlView to gnome2. That will take a lot of work since I have to totally rewrite (at least) the MlViewTreeEditor and MlViewNodeEditor widgets which are heavily based on the GTKCTree and GTKCList widgets ... Okay, these widgets are MVC pattern compliant but I have to rewrite the models and the controllers still.
Went forward in the support of iso latin1 edition. It works somehow. I think I should release it ...
I am now working on the foundations of the css support in MlView. I therefore have started to write a standalone C implementation of the Simple Api for CSS. I am expecting some great hacks on that front.
This CSS stuffs are certainly going to lower the release frequency of MlView...
I went to the last "first jeudi" of Paris. It is a friendly monthly meeting of more than one hundred Free Software users and programers who live in Paris. It was great. I met a lot of cool guys there. Going to work the day after was much less cool.
Hmmh, It seems like the people who certified MichaelCrawford as journeyer when he was known as goingware are quicker to certify him than those who certified him as master .... We still have to wait a bit for the system to reach its stable state but if the number of such phenomenon (persons changing their alias) increases, that would be a great test of the reliability of the advogato trust system.
MlView Hacking Still busy with the external encoding issues. It's Not that it is very complicated but I want to handle this aspect gently.
Work Hummh, the atmosphere is getting worse and worse at work. Our managers now want to send the activities of my team offshore. Hmmh, bad weather expected ...
Question. I definitely hate working in a place were the management doesn't understand that people who write software should 1) maintain it 2)document it so that further maintenance can be made at least possible. Instead, the management only insist on the code production part which is actually the smallest part of the software lifecyle. The greater part of a software lifecycle actually being the maintenance and the evolution. But they totally ignore the good practises that will ease code maintenance and evolution in the future.
They went to an extend where they created some division where people do *only* maintenance.
Readers should keep in mind that there is *zero* code documentation ... so an incredible amount of energy is spend to fix the bugs ...
I do think that one day, the company will just collapse because of their being incapable to roll out new products beacause all the energy is spent on maintaining unmaintainable products. That is very bad.
And as time goes, things are getting worse and worse.
Does anyone share the same experience as me ? Does anyone know how to get out of this spiral ?
I Have been busy last week with some family issues. Now, I am back to work and free software hacking again.
Started to work toward the next release of MlView which should be 0.0.3xxx .
Right now I am busy with the support of isolatin1 edition issues. In gnome1.xx I think translating isolat1 strings that come from the text widgets into utf8 before sending them to libxml2 and vis et versa will be enough to support isolat1 edition. However, a more general approach will be usefull for the truly i18n proof text widgets of gnome2 .
After that I hope I will start to work on a text oriented DTD edition view based on the GnomeCanvas. That will probably be a quit big/exciting development. Hmmm, another busy automn/winter is coming.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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5.86: Solenoid
Splat! This paintball player is taking a direct hit! Did you ever play this extreme game? The marker, or "gun," used in paintball is electronic. To "fire" the paint, the marker uses a device called a solenoid.
What Is a Solenoid?
A solenoid is a coil of wire with electric current flowing through it. You can see a solenoid in the Figure below. Current flowing through the coil produces a magnetic field that has north and south poles. You can see an actual solenoid with a compass showing its magnetic north pole at this URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgZHqfIBkUI&NR=1
Q: How is a solenoid like a bar magnet?
A: Like a bar magnet, a solenoid has north and south magnetic poles and is surrounded by a magnetic field.
Strength of a Solenoid
Any wire with current flowing through it has a magnetic field. However, the magnetic field around a coiled wire is stronger than the magnetic field around a straight wire. That's because each turn of the wire in the coil has its own magnetic field. Adding more turns to the coil of wire increases the strength of the field. Increasing the amount of current flowing through the coil also increases the strength of the magnetic field.
Uses of Solenoids
A solenoid is generally used to convert electromagnetic energy into motion. Solenoids are often used in devices that need a sudden burst of power to move a specific part. In addition to paintball markers, you can find solenoids in machines ranging from motor vehicles to electric dishwashers. Another device that uses solenoids is pictured in the Figure below.
This pinball machine uses several solenoids to operate bumpers, switches, and other moving parts.
- A solenoid is a coil of wire with electric current flowing through it, giving it north and south magnetic poles and a magnetic field.
- Using more turns of wire in the coil or more current increases the strength of the solenoid's magnetic field.
- A solenoid converts electromagnetic energy into motion, providing a burst of power that can move a specific part of a device.
- solenoid: Coil of wire with electric current flowing through it, giving it a magnetic field like a bar magnet.
At the following URL, explore the solenoid animation. Try varying the voltage and the direction of the current. Observe how these changes affect the magnetic field. Write a paragraph to summarize your observations. http://www.physics-chemistry-interactive-flash-animation.com/electricity_electromagnetism_interactive/solenoid_magnetic_field_current_poles_north_south.htm
- Describe a solenoid and its magnetic field.
- Which solenoid pictured below has a stronger magnetic field? How do you know?
- How are solenoids used?
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JACKSON — A Hinds County chancery judge is telling a state agency to delay the start of a finger scanning system for some parents to sign youngsters in and out of child care.
Delores Suel, who owns Jackson child care centers, sued Tuesday, claiming the Department of Human Services acted illegally by proposing a rule about the scanners without filing an economic impact statement.
DHS wants parents who receive federally subsidized child care to use scanners.
In a hearing Wednesday, Assistant Attorney General Earl Scales told Judge Denise Owens that DHS should've filed the statement.
Owens ruled DHS must restart rule-making, meaning mid-December — not Nov. 1 — is the earliest scanners could be required. Owens also ruled DHS must hold another public hearing.


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Trump Refuses to Back Down Over Obama's 'Very Strange' Birth
Thursday, 24 Mar 2011 06:36 PM
By Jim Meyers and Ashley Martella
Donald Trump is not backing down from his demand that President Barack Obama produce his birth certificate and stepped up his criticism by questioning why he has not released other personal records, including college transcripts and legislative papers.
The billionaire real estate tycoon and star of The Apprentice created a stir on Wednesday when he said on The View that Trump must release his birth certificate.
Now Trump has reiterated his call in an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV, with this simple message for Obama: Why dont you produce your birth certificate and put to rest all speculation that you were born outside the United States?
He says Obamas birth certificate controversy is a strange situation there are conflicting reports as to what Honolulu hospital he was born at, and the governor of Hawaii claims he somehow remembers Obama being born 50 years ago.
Read more on Newsmax.com: Trump Refuses to Back Down Over Obama's 'Very Strange' Birth
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Trump, who says he will soon announce if he will run for president in 2012, also says Libya is a total mess, with Iran possibly behind the rebels and waiting to take over the country, and charges that the United States is going to hell in a hand basket.
Its a very simple situation, Trump says in regard to the birth certificate issue. Id just like to see his birth certificate.
Im hearing all sorts of stories that his own family cant agree which hospital he was born in and lots of other things, and Im trying to find out where is the birth certificate. I have a birth certificate. Where is his birth certificate?
If youre born in this country, to the best of my knowledge people have a birth certificate.
Obama asserts that he was born in Honolulu, but former Pennsylvania Deputy Attorney General Philip Berg has claimed that Obamas paternal grandmother says she was in the delivery room when he was born in Kenya.
There are even differing reports about which Honolulu hospital he may have been born at. During his 2008 presidential campaign numerous reports indicated Obama was born at the Queen's Medical Center. Later, Obama's half sister said he was born at the Katiolani Medical Center.
After questions were raised about his birth, Obama's campaign released a Certification of Live Birth. The form is a summary document and does not include the newborn's location of birth. The long-form Birth Certificate includes such data, but Obama has declined to release it.
Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie first ordered the state attorney general and health department director to release more information about Obamas birth there, then abandoned that pursuit.
It is an amazing situation, Trump says of the governors actions.
And later the governor said, but I remember when he was born. I said, what? You actually remember when somebody was born? It sounded very unusual that a Democratic governor would remember when somebody was born 50 years ago.
I assume that Obama was born in the United States. I assume he was probably born in Hawaii. But I have to get rid of the word assume. If somebody wants to run for president you have to be born in this country.
And when the family argues about which hospital it was because theyre not sure, as has been reported, and you dont have a birth certificate, its sort of a strange situation.
Trump adds: I dont want there to be a question. I think it would be wonderful news for everybody, including me, if the birth certificate is found. But at this moment there is no birth certificate.
Some people say it exists, and if it exists, even worse, why isnt he showing it? So I would like to see a birth certificate, and when the governor and everybody else say they think it exists, why dont they produce it?
Asked if Obama has fulfilled his campaign pledge to have the most transparent administration, Trump responds: Certainly he hasnt in terms of his birth, and I guess a lot of college records and other records havent been produced, and thats a little unusual. Why wouldnt you produce your records?
There are client lists that havent been produced and lobbying lists that havent been produced, so there are a lot of things that havent been produced for somebody who is supposed to be so transparent.
Theres certainly not a lot of transparency.
Asked about the Obama administrations handling of the rebellion in Libya, Trump tells Newsmax: For one thing, if youre going to save lives on a humanitarian basis you should have started sooner, because many of those lives are gone.
For another thing, you really have to find out who youre fighting for. Who are the rebels? You have some people who say that Iran is controlling the rebels, that Iran is the happiest of all nations because they think as soon as we leave theyre going to go in with the rebels and take over Libya.
I hear more and more reports that the rebels arent the sweetest people on earth either. It looks to me like its a total mess.
Polls show Trump among the leaders in the GOP field for the 2012 presidential nomination. Asked if he has decided whether or not to run, Trump says: I will be announcing one way or another somewhere prior to June.
I hate whats happening to this country. Its never been at a point like this, ever. Were not respected. Were scoffed at. Were laughed at by other places. People from China and other places cannot believe theyre getting away with what theyre getting away with. Were rebuilding China. Were rebuilding other countries, and our country is going to hell in a hand basket.
One thing I can say, if I ran and if I won, that would stop, and everybody knows it. I think thats why I do well in the polls.
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Those crazy birthers!!!!!!
Of course, if you think about it, all he has to do is show his birth certificate.
Why is that so hard?????


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AudioQuest Cinnamon is the USB cable for music lovers. It's carefully engineered, made with top-notch materials, and tested through hours and hours of listening. One way AQ improves the audio performance of its digital cables is by adding a thin layer of silver plating to the solid copper wires. When it comes to conducting signals, silver is the best-performing metal — better than either copper or gold. Cinnamon's silver-plated conductors are designed to reveal more high-frequency detail.
If you enjoy listening to digital music files on a high-end audio system, you'll be surprised at the difference AQ's USB cables can make.
Well made cable like all the Audioquest products and fast shipping from Crutchfield.
Scott, Magalia, CA
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Well made cable like all the Audioquest products and fast shipping from Crutchfield.
Better sound quality compared to my original wire.
Perfect cable and Crutchfield provides top service and timely shipping.
How important are cables to the quality of sound? Very! Not snake oil at all, as it turns out. Learned that lesson sometime back with analog cables. But I was still skeptical of how much difference a digital USB cable could make and was poised to return it in a heartbeat if I didn't hear an appreciable difference. (I bought the shortest Cinnamon USB cable I could to replace the cable that came with my NAD 1050-D [DAC], which I had been listening to for 3 months.) I'm pleased to say that I absolutely could tell the difference when I swapped them out. Since then I bought another one for my Audioengine D1 DAC which came with a better USB cable than what came with the NAD, and I could still hear the difference!
Pros: More sparkle in the highs, tighter bass, more midrange detail, wider sound stage---a step up into higher quality sound without breaking the bank.
Cons: Price may still be a deterrent for those who've never got to audition high-end cables with cheaper ones before in an A/B comparison.
I bought this cable to upgrade from the PYST cable. It connects my Macbook to the Gungnir DAC. Occasionally, during normal playing of music (and no messing around with the gear) the DAC will drop out and the music will play over the computer speakers. Then it reverses, back to the DAC. I was advised this event is usually caused by a defective USB cable. I do not experience it with the old PYST USB cable. I think the AQ cables are decent quality, but I have some Forest cables and they are more flexible and work fine. Not sure the upgrade to the higher silver content makes much of a difference. This cinnamon cable is much stiffer than my Forest cables. When the DAC is working, the SQ is very good.
Great cable amazing sound
I noticed a immediate improvement over the stock USB cable provided with my DAC. I have many cables and components in my system I needed better emi protection. This got me that for a great price.
Pros: Affordable improvement.
Cons: None I can notice.
I am a firm believer in the fact that audio cable does make a difference in sound. I have experienced it first hand. I have an AudioQuest Cinnamon USB and an AudioQuest Forest USB. They make a difference! However, I can't tell a difference between the two. In other words, for my applications, the Forest works as well as the Cinnamon. It's also more flexible than the Cinnamon, making the Forest easier to manipulate in protable devices.
Pros: Makes an improvement in sound.
Cons: Unable to hear difference in Forest v Cinnamon?
This is a great cable for the price. I am using it to stream internet radio from my laptop through a DAC, to my stereo system. This cable delivers nice, clean sound and lets my DAC do its job.
Pros: Great cable for a price
Cons: none
good quality cable , sound is very clear audioquest cables well put together and look cool too.
I have the Carbon USB, then i needed another one for my desktop setup, i did a comparison of both, and didn't hear any difference, For the money this is a solid cable.
Pros: Good build from AQ like always Clearer sound
Cons: nothing
Got this cable along with several other Audioquest products when I was doing some finishing touches for my latest system upgrades. This cable feeds a nuForce udac2, and replaces the nuForce cable included with the dac. There is a bit more depth in the music, though seems clarity is close to the same. Worth the price? From a cheap usb cable to this one, definitely yeah. Maybe not so much going from the nuforce cable, nuForce provided a surprisingly good cable. But I've gravitated to the Audioquest Cinnamon line for a lot of my AV cables -- not cheap but also not in the absurd price range, a good balance IMO. With the systems I've put together the last few years, the emphasis has been on quality, and if it costs a bit to get subtle improvements, then so be it -- they add up.
Pros: well made, good connections, clean sound transferred to the dac
Cons: none
USB Connectors: The Audioquest Cinnamon USB cable features gold-plated USB connectors for maximum signal transfer. The Audioquest Cinnamon USB cable has a USB type-A connector on one end and a USB type-B connector on the other end.
Silver-Plated Conductors: The Audioquest Cinnamon USB cable uses solid 1.25% Silver-Plated conductors to eliminate inter-strand distortion and reduce jitter.
Polyethylene Insulation: The USB cable's solid Polyethylene insulation ensures critical signal-pair geometry.
USB 2.0: This cable exceeds USB 2.0 data rate specifications with greater than 1200 Mbps. It provides up to 20% more power delivery for maximum charging.
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Excellent value for the money. This cable delivers the best performance for the dollar spent. You can buy more expensive cables, but the difference in performance is incrementally better. Save your money. [ Jesse Feb 25, 2016 ]
AudioQuest Cinnamon cables are reasonably high quality without breaking the bank. [ JAIMESON M Dec 27, 2015 ]
This cable is utilized to take advantage of DAC on Oppo BD-105D thru Laptop/Computer for Music [ Michael Jan 11, 2016 ]
Need and AudioQuest quality [ J. PATRICK Dec 21, 2016 ]
AudioQuest brand recommended by Carson. I selected Golden Gate based on AudioQuest website. Brilliant brand! Thanks Carson! Carson's Bio: http://www.crutchfield.com/Support/Bio.aspx?bio=199 [ Thaddeus Jul 06, 2016 ]
Chip recommend these cables and you guys haven't been wrong yet !! Chip's Bio: http://www.crutchfield.com/Support/Bio.aspx?bio=210 [ Kenneth Mark Jun 16, 2016 ]
Usually it's the overall improvements throughout your setup added together, that you really start hearing the difference. [ Chris Sep 20, 2014 ]
Harry, Sound waves travel faster and cleaner on silver than they do on copper. USB cables with higher percentage silver conductors are able to send the sound waves at higher speeds thus helping to eliminate strand-interaction distortion and reduce jitter. Deciding which USB to buy really depends on the type of setup you have as well as how picky you are with your music. I'm running an Audioquest Cinnamon-which has the 1.25% silver conductors-through a Peachtree Audio Decco65. The Decco65 has a built in ESS Sabre 9023 DAC (digital to analog converter), which, when combined with the Cinnamon USB, really makes my digital music sound warm and smooth. While you do want to run a good quality USB, I honestly don't think you'll need the more expensive 5.0% cable. Unless you're an extreme audiophile with a ridiculously expensive system, you probably won't be able to tell any difference. Stick with the Cinnamon and use the extra cash to buy some new music. :) [ Matthew Sep 20, 2014 ]
I can here the difference , but that's not the reason i upgraded to the Big Surs . I have Carver equipment and am Tri - Amping into Monitor Gold GR 60's . With close to a thousand watts going into one speaker DISTORTION really becomes an issue . I can turn my volume up much more and not blow my speakers !!!!!!!! Couldn't do that with my old top of the line Monster Cables . [ Mark Sep 18, 2014 ]
I have not had the opportunity to listen to two different AudioQuest cables. I just know that my Cinnamon USB cable sounds much better than a common USB cable that I briefly used (one that usually connects my computer and printer) while waiting for the AudioQuest to arrive. [ MARC Sep 18, 2014 ]
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Google's Nexus 4 Finally Back in Stock, Are You Still Interested?
The Nexus 4 has been plagued with supply issues ever since it was released on November 13, 2012, more than two and a half months ago. LG, the company that manufactures the Nexus 4, said the shortage is due in part because of how popular the device is, and also because retailers failed to provide proper sales estimates.
Google's Nexus 4 delivers an unadulterated Android experience with a pure version of Jelly Bean. The software is wrapped in capable hardware that includes a 4.7-inch IPS display (1280x768), 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, 2GB of RAM, 8GB or 16GB of internal storage, 1.3MP front-facing camera, 8MP fear-facing camera, HDMI output, and a micro USB port (but no microSD card slot or native 4G LTE connectivity). The icing on the cake is that it sells for just $299 for 8GB and $349 for 16GB, both of which are unlocked and off-contract.
For now, the Nexus 4 is once again available to order and ships out in 1-2 weeks.


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pgAdmin 1.10 online documentation
pgAdmin Options
pgAdmin has a selection of configuration options to help it work as you prefer. If you think of an additional feature that should be optional or configurable though, please send the developers an email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Dang it. I stop coming around all the time and yall let the whole place fall apart? Tisk tisk...
Dang it. I stop coming around all the time and yall let the whole place fall apart? Tisk tisk...
"For everyone to whom much is given, of him shall much be required." -- Luke 12:48
Raven - Moneybird's Black Magic Marker***
(Esprit's Power Play x Trumarc's Lean Cuisine)
Mick - Moneybird's Jumpin' Jack Flash***
(Clubmead's Road Warrior x Oakdale Whitewater Devil Dog)
Peerless - Moneybird's Sole Survivor
(Two River's Lucky Willie x Moneybird's Black Magic Marker)
It's getting more tolerable every day. I definitely took a lot of things for granted at my old job and I miss a lot of stuff, but they are shutting down in 2 weeks and I still have a job. It's paying the bills and I am able to put a little money in the bank to build my savings back up. I am pretty sure that in the long run, I made an excellent choice, but it is just a lot to get used to and try to muddle through until then. I finally got computer access at my new job, but I don't get to sit down for more than about 45 minutes during a 10 hr shift, lunch break included. That's a huge change from my old job.
Thanks for asking luv, I miss being around here also. By the time I sit down at night, I have just enough time to check the refuge and lurk here before heading to bed....Hope all of you are doing well.
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I've waited a long damn time for this state to become less white. Not as long as some, I admit, but long enough. I've been pretty patient, too, even though I felt uncomfortable at times as one of the rare people of color here. Now, I can see at least a few every day without breaking a sweat, when nearly nine years ago I could go days upon days without seeing a single non-white face.
So let me tell you that I'm glad we have enough diversity now, with enough people celebrating Muslim holy days, that the daily newspapers around here can cover such events.
In my hometown of Chicago, celebrating Ramadan in a community might not warrant news coverage, given all the shady politics, crime, and social blights to deal with. But here, in Maine, my heart is often warmed by how normal people doing normal things can make the news regularly.
As such, I'm not very happy when a bunch of Muslims celebrate their holy day, and the news covers it, and the biggest newspaper in the state then apologizes for its coverage of the event because of some thin-skinned commenters, callers, e-mailers, and letter writers.
On September 11, the Portland Press Herald wrote a great story talking about how local Muslims marked the end of Ramadan with an Eid celebration. As a non-Muslim, I enjoyed reading the piece very much. However, some of my fellow Mainers felt the piece was ill-timed.
After all, it ran on September 11 and as we all know well, 911 isn't just the emergency services number you call; it's also the date we remember the deaths of nearly 3000 people and the injury of thousands more, as well as the toppling of the World Trade Center towers. On the day we mark one of the worst tragedies to ever happen on American soil, some commenters online made it clear they found the story to be ill-timed and insensitive. Some of the more ignorant folks actually felt the paper was pandering to terrorists.
Apparently unable to find his testicles, the newspaper's publisher, Richard Connor, printed an apology the next day expressing his dismay for offending folks.
As America becomes more diverse — and darker — in recent generations and into the future, it is both inevitable and desirable that our wide-ranging lives, histories, cultures, and traditions will overlap and be shared.
Saying "sorry" for being part of that smacks of cowardice.
Maybe I am biased, since I am the wife of a professional journalist, but apologizing for covering the news seems silly at best and dangerous at worst.
Just because a small number Muslim terrorists wreaked havoc on America doesn't mean you demonize all of Islam's millions of adherents. Lumping them all together as terrorists, terrorist supporters, terrorist sympathizers, or future terrorists borders on a level of hate and stupidity unbecoming of the "Land of the Free."
Last time I checked, one of the worst terrorist acts before 9/11 was perpetrated by Timothy McVeigh, a crazy white guy who blew up a federal building that had not only federal workers in it but also a daycare center. But we don't fear or target people who look like him. Frankly, the list of crazy white men who have done hateful things just in my 37 years on the planet is long, but still white men are given the benefit of the doubt.
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UC San DiegoSOCARE/UCSD CADC8950 Villa La Jolla DriveLa Jolla, CA 92037PH: 858-622-5820FX: 858-552-1012
Website: http://health.ucsd.edu/specialties/socare/
Douglas Galasko, M.D., Director/Principal Investigator
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) CADC, established in 1988, operates within the Department of Neurosciences at UCSD and includes collaborations with members of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry. The Senior's Only Care (SOCARE) clinic, an Outpatient Clinic located at UCSD Medical Center facilities in Hillcrest, San Diego, has a regional reputation for providing outstanding comprehensive assessments of people with memory disorders. The CADC provides specialized diagnostic and treatment services to optimize the cognitive, functional, and behavioral abilities of individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other dementias. Our goals are to improve the management and quality of life and to provide support and resources for both patients and caregivers.
The UCSD CADC serves some 336,120 individuals age 65 and older living in San Diego County, more than 11% of the county's total population. The UCSD CADC also provides services to individuals living in Imperial and southern Orange counties. As the risk of developing AD increases dramatically with age – to nearly 50% of individuals 85 or older - many of the county's seniors and their families will unfortunately be affected by this degenerative disorder. Given the large number of San Diego seniors at risk of developing cognitive impairment, the UCSD CADC is actively addressing this problem by offering patients and their families access to state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment services, novel clinical trials, specialized support groups, and educational programs about AD and the related dementias.
Early identification of cognitive decline and AD is critical so that available treatments, which are most effective before extensive damage to the brain has occurred, can be started, and families can plan for the future, take advantage of available community services, and develop effective coping strategies. UCSD CADC clinicians bring state of the art methods to accurately differentiate between normal aging, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), and dementia. The UCSD CADC also brings state of the art culturally sensitive methods to assist English and Spanish speaking individuals and their families through the diagnostic process, and has translators available to help with assessments of other non-English speaking patients.
The UCSD CADC provides infrastructure to attract new resources into the local economy, and has been able to leverage the investment of the state by approximately 6-fold or more. These include support from industry for clinical trials, specialized research, student training, and various Federal and private Foundation grants. The UCSD CADC is involved in translating basic findings from the laboratory into general practice within the broader health care community in a cost-effective fashion.
The CADCs have helped to build a vital workforce for the growing needs of the State to address the current and changing demographic needs in California. This includes the training of physicians, nurses, physician's assistants, health care professionals, and research investigators. Since 1988, the UCSD CADC has trained hundreds of professionals and students through fellowships, residencies (including a highly successful Mini-Residency), internships, rotations, clerkships, continuing medical education courses, academic classes, lectures, and presentations. Through their training programs the CADCs have shaped the practice of doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers and other providers who now staff hospitals and clinics throughout the state making daily life more manageable for thousands of people who struggle with the demands of caregiving and the ravages of the AD.
The UCSD CADC has also educated the lay public, caregivers and families on cognitive decline, prevention strategies, and best practices regarding the management of those afflicted by MCI and AD. The UCSD CADC provides many forums on AD education and also serves to integrate education opportunities in the community. The community looks to and depends on the UCSD CADC for high quality education.
The limitations in the current health care delivery environment and constrained budgets in both the public and private sectors require solutions that are cost-effective for patients and their families, as well as for businesses. The Centers continue to provide education, provide new opportunities for improving the quality of life of the elderly, and reduce the burden for those with dementia in California.
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Gateway Theory
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(Source of Perceived Gateway Effect) "The gateway effect, if it exists, has at least two potential and quite different sources (MacCoun, 1998). One interpretation is that it is an effect of the drug use itself (e.g., trying marijuana increases the taste for other drugs or leads users to believe that other substances are more pleasurable or less risky than previously supposed). A second interpretation stresses peer groups and social interactions. Acquiring and using marijuana regularly may lead to differentially associating with peers who have attitudes and behaviors that are prodrug generally, not only with respect to marijuana. One version of this is the possibility that those peers will include people who sell other drugs, reducing the difficulty of locating potential supplies. If the latter is the explanation, then legalization might reduce the likelihood of moving on to harder drugs compared to the current situation."Source:Kilmer, Beau; Caulkins, Jonathan P.; Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo; MacCoun, Robert J.; Reuter, Peter H., "Altered State? Assessing How Marijuana Legalization in California Could Influence Marijuana Consumption and Public Budgets" Drug Policy Research Center (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2010), p. 42.
(Estimated Age of Initiation of Substance Use By People 12 Or Older In The US)
" In 2013, an estimated 2.8 million persons aged 12 or older used an illicit drug for the first time within the past 12 months; this averages to about 7,800 new users per day. This estimate was similar to the 2012 estimate of 2.9 million. Over half of initiates (54.1 percent) were younger than age 18 when they first used, and 58.3 percent of new users were female. The 2013 average age at initiation among persons aged 12 to 49 was 19.0 years, which was similar to the 2012 estimate (18.7 years). See Section B.4.1 in Appendix B for a discussion of the effects of older adult initiates on estimates of mean age at first use.
" Of the estimated 2.8 million persons aged 12 or older in 2013 who used illicit drugs for the first time within the past 12 months, a majority reported that their first drug was marijuana (70.3 percent) (Figure 5.1). About 1 in 5 initiated with nonmedical use of psychotherapeutics (20.6 percent, including 12.5 percent with pain relievers, 5.2 percent with tranquilizers, 2.7 percent with stimulants, and 0.2 percent with sedatives). A notable proportion reported inhalants (6.3 percent) as their first illicit drug, and a small proportion used hallucinogens (2.6 percent). The percentage of persons in 2013 reporting marijuana as the first illicit drug in past year initiation was greater than the corresponding percentage in 2012 (70.3 vs. 65.6 percent). The percentage reporting nonmedical use of pain relievers as the first illicit drug was lower in 2013 than in 2012 (12.5 vs. 17.0 percent)."Source:Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Results from the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Summary of National Findings, NSDUH Series H-48, HHS Publication No. (SMA) 14-4863. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2014, p. 58.
(Cannabis and Progression to Other Drug Use) "While the findings of this study indicate that early cannabis use is associated with increased risks of progression to other illicit drug use and drug abuse/dependence, it is not possible to draw strong causal conclusions solely on the basis of the associations shown in this study."Source:Lynskey, Michael T., PhD, et al., "Escalation of Drug Use in Early-Onset Cannabis Users vs Co-twin Controls," Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 289 No. 4, January 22/29, 2003, p. 432.
(Relationship Between Teen Marijuana Use and Use of Other Drugs) "Our results indicate a moderate relation between early teen marijuana use and young adult abuse of other illicit substances; however, this association fades from statistical significance with adjustments for stress and life-course variables. Likewise, our findings show that any causal influence of teen marijuana use on other illicit substance use is contingent upon employment status and is short-term, subsiding entirely by the age of 21. In light of these findings, we urge U.S. drug control policymakers to consider stress and life-course approaches in their pursuit of solutions to the 'drug problem.'"Source:Van Gundy, Karen and Rebellon, Cesar J., "Life-course Perspective on the 'Gateway Hypothesis'". Journal of Health and Social Behavior. Thousand Oaks, CA. American Sociological Association. September 2010, p. 244.
(Alcohol and Tobacco As Gateway Factors) "While covariates differed between equations, early regular use of tobacco and alcohol emerged as the 2 factors most consistently associated with later illicit drug use and abuse/dependence. While early regular alcohol use did not emerge as a significant independent predictor of alcohol dependence, this finding should be treated with considerable caution, as our study did not provide an optimal strategy for assessing the effects of early alcohol use."Source:Lynskey, Michael T., PhD, et al., "Escalation of Drug Use in Early-Onset Cannabis Users vs Co-twin Controls," Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 289 No. 4, January 22/29, 2003, p. 430.
(Other Associations Between Cannabis and Subsequent Drug Use) "Other mechanisms that might mediate a causal association between early cannabis use and subsequent drug use and drug abuse/dependence include the following:
"1. Initial experiences with cannabis, which are frequently rated as pleasurable, may encourage continued use of cannabis and also broader experimentation.
"2. Seemingly safe early experiences with cannabis may reduce the perceived risk of, and therefore barriers to, the use of other drugs. For example, as the vast majority of those who use cannabis do not experience any legal consequences of their use, such use may act to diminish the strength of legal sanctions against the use of all drugs.
"3. Alternatively, experience with and subsequent access to cannabis use may provide individuals with access to other drugs as they come into contact with drug dealers. This argument provided a strong impetus for the Netherlands to effectively decriminalize cannabis use in an attempt to separate cannabis from the hard drug market. This strategy may have been partially successful as rates of cocaine use among those who have used cannabis are lower in the Netherlands than in the United States."Source:Lynskey, Michael T., PhD, et al., "Escalation of Drug Use in Early-Onset Cannabis Users vs Co-twin Controls," Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 289 No. 4, January 22/29, 2003, p. 430.
(Little Evidence of Causal Gateway Effect for Soft Drugs) "After applying these methods, there is very little remaining evidence of any causal gateway effect. For example, even if soft/medium drugs (cannabis, amphetamines, LSD, magic mushrooms, amyl nitrite) could somehow be abolished completely, the true causal link with hard drugs (crack, heroin, methadone) is found to be very small. For the sort of reduction in soft drug use that might be achievable in practice, the predicted causal effect on the demand for hard drugs would be negligible. Although there is stronger evidence of a gateway between soft drugs and ecstasy/cocaine, it remains small for practical purposes. My interpretation of the results of this study is that true gateway effects are probably very small and that the association between soft and hard drugs found in survey data is largely the result of our inability to observe all the personal characteristics underlying individual drug use. From this viewpoint, the decision to reclassify cannabis seems unlikely to have damaging future consequences."Source:Pudney, Stephen, "Home Office Research Study 253: The road to ruin? Sequences of initiation into drug use and offending by young people in Britain" (London, England: Home Office Research, Development, and Statistics Directorate, December 2002), p. vi.
(Other Hypotheses for Sequence of Initiation into Drug Use) "The causal significance of this sequence of initiation into drug use remains controversial. The hypothesis that it represents a direct effect of cannabis use upon the use of the later drugs in the sequence is the least compelling. There is better support for two other hypotheses which are not mutually exclusive: that there is a selective recruitment into cannabis use of nonconforming adolescents who have a propensity to use other illicit drugs; and that once recruited to cannabis use, the social interaction with other drug using peers, and exposure to other drugs when purchasing cannabis on the black-market, increases the opportunity to use other illicit drugs"Source:Hall, W., Room, R. & Bondy, S., WHO Project on Health Implications of Cannabis Use: A Comparative Appraisal of the Health and Psychological Consequences of Alcohol, Cannabis, Nicotine and Opiate Use, August 28, 1995 (Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, March 1998).
(Alcohol and Tobacco as Gateway Factors Among US Youth, 2013)
" In 2013, the rate of current illicit drug use among youths aged 12 to 17 who smoked cigarettes in the past month was approximately 9 times the rate among youths who did not smoke cigarettes in the past month (53.9 vs. 6.1 percent). Also, the rate of current marijuana use in 2013 among youths aged 12 to 17 who smoked cigarettes in the past month was about 11 times the rate among youths who did not smoke cigarettes (49.5 vs. 4.6 percent).
" In 2013, the rate of current illicit drug use was associated with the level of past month alcohol use. Among youths aged 12 to 17 who were heavy drinkers (i.e., consumed five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days), 62.3 percent were current illicit drug users and 57.9 percent were current marijuana users. These rates were higher than the rates among youths who were not current alcohol users (4.9 percent for current illicit drug use and 3.3 percent for current marijuana use). Additionally, among youths aged 12 to 17 who were binge but not heavy alcohol users (i.e., consumed five or more drinks on the same occasion on 1 to 4 days in the past 30 days), 46.6 percent were current illicit drug users and 43.2 percent were current marijuana users (with the marijuana use rate being higher than the 2012 rate of 37.8 percent).
" In 2013, the rate of current illicit drug use among youths aged 12 to 17 who both smoked cigarettes and drank alcohol in the past month was approximately 16 times the rate among those who neither smoked cigarettes nor drank alcohol in the past month (64.5 vs. 3.9 percent). Additionally, the rate of current marijuana use among youths aged 12 to 17 who both smoked cigarettes and drank alcohol in the past month was about 25 times the rate among those who neither smoked cigarettes nor drank alcohol in the past month (59.7 vs. 2.4 percent)."Source:Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Results from the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Summary of National Findings, NSDUH Series H-48, HHS Publication No. (SMA) 14-4863. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2014, p. 31.
(Nonconformance with Substance Use Sequence of Stages) "The gateway hypothesis holds that abusable drugs occupy distinct ranks in a hierarchy as well as definite positions in a temporal sequence. Accordingly, substance use is theorized to progress through a sequence of stages, beginning with legal, socially acceptable compounds that are low in the hierarchy, followed by use of illegal 'soft' and later 'hard' drugs ranked higher in the hierarchy. One of the main findings of this study is that there is a high rate of nonconformance with this temporal order. In a neighborhood where there is high drug availability, youths who have low parental supervision are likely to regularly consume marijuana before alcohol and/or tobacco. Consumption of marijuana prior to use of licit drugs thus appears to be related to contextual factors rather than to any unique characteristics of the individual. Moreover, this reverse pattern is not rare; it was observed in over 20% of our sample."Source:Tarter, Ralph E., PhD, Vanyukov, Michael, PhD, Kirisci, Levent, PhD, Reynolds, Maureen, PhD, Clark, Duncan B., MD, PhD, "Predictors of Marijuana Use in Adolescents Before and After Licit Drug Use: Examination of the Gateway Hypothesis," American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 63, No. 12, December 2006, p. 2138.
(Screening Young People for "Gateway Violations" Unproductive) "Deviations from normative patterns of drug use initiation that involve the initiation of illicit drug use earlier than usual in the gateway pattern of initiation may carry small risks for dependence, but other factors seem to be more important in the development of drug dependence. Drug use and initiation are clearly nested within a social normative context, yet neither adherence nor deviation from this order signals highly elevated risks of drug problems in and of themselves, although some violations are predicted by pre-existing mental disorders that seem to be more powerful risk factors for subsequent substance dependence. Although a gateway violation might be a marker of such risk factors, their associations with gateway violations are relatively modest. In targeting intervention efforts, it would probably be more productive to screen directly for these factors (i.e. internalizing disorders, early-onset substance use) than to screen for gateway violations."Source:Degenhardt, L.; Chiu, W. T.; Conway, K.; Dierker, L.; Glantz, M., Kalaydjian, A.; Merikangas, K.; Sampson, N.; Swendsen, J.; and Kessler, R. C., "Does the 'gateway' matter? Associations between the order of drug use initiation and the development of drug dependence in the National Comorbidity Study Replication," Psychological Medicine (Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, January 2009), p. 8.
(Behavioral Deviancy as Risk Factor for Illicit Drug Use) "The results of this study suggest that general behavioral deviancy and not specific risk factors accounts for illicit drug use. When illicit drug use occurs first, it is very likely due to the opportunity afforded by the neighborhood environment in context of low parental supervision. The probability and rate of development of a diagnosis of marijuana use disorder and alcohol use disorder were the same whether or not there was conformance with the gateway sequence. Evidence supporting 'causal linkages between stages,' as specified by the gateway hypothesis, was not obtained. Nor were specific risk factors identified that were related to consumption of each drug. Our results indicate that efforts to prevent marijuana use should utilize strategies directed at averting the development of the characteristics prodromal to the manifestation of behavior problems."Source:Tarter, Ralph E., PhD, Vanyukov, Michael, PhD, Kirisci, Levent, PhD, Reynolds, Maureen, PhD, Clark, Duncan B., MD, PhD, "Predictors of Marijuana Use in Adolescents Before and After Licit Drug Use: Examination of the Gateway Hypothesis," American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 63, No. 12, December 2006, p. 2139.
(Specific Risk Factors do not Predict Future Drug Use) "Our key findings were that 1) there are no unique factors distinguishing the gateway sequence and the reverse sequence that is, the sequence is opportunistic; 2) the gateway sequence and the reverse sequence have the same prognostic accuracy; and 3) a sizable proportion of substance users begin regular consumption with an illicit drug. These results, considered in the aggregate, indicate that the gateway sequence is not an invariant pathway and, when manifest, is not related to specific risk factors and does not have prognostic utility. The results of this study as well as other studies demonstrate that abusable drugs occupy neither a specific place in a hierarchy nor a discrete position in a temporal sequence. These latter presumptions of the gateway hypothesis constitute what Whitehead referred to as the 'fallacy of misplaced connectedness,' namely, asserting 'assumptions about categories that do not correspond with the empirical world.'"Source:Tarter, Ralph E., PhD, Vanyukov, Michael, PhD, Kirisci, Levent, PhD, Reynolds, Maureen, PhD, Clark, Duncan B., MD, PhD, "Predictors of Marijuana Use in Adolescents Before and After Licit Drug Use: Examination of the Gateway Hypothesis," American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 63, No. 12, December 2006, p. 2139.
(Evaluating Gateway Theory Using Cross-National Data) "The present paper examined the extent and ordering of licit and illicit drug use across 17 disparate countries worldwide. This comparison, using surveys conducted with representative samples of the general population in these countries, and assessment involving comparable instruments, allowed for the first assessment of the extent to which initiation of drug use follows a consistent pattern across countries. Previous studies, concentrated in high income countries with relatively high levels of cannabis use, have documented: a common temporal ordering of drug initiation; an increased risk of initiating use of a drug later in the sequence once having initiated an earlier one; and the persistence of the association following controlling for possibly confounding factors (Kandel et al., 2006).
"The present study supported the existence of other factors influencing the ordering and progression of drug use because 1) other illicit drug use was more prevalent than cannabis use in some countries, e.g. Japan; 2) the association between initiation of 'gateway' drugs (i.e. alcohol/tobacco and cannabis), and subsequent other illicit drug use differed across countries, in some instances according to background prevalence of use of these gateway drugs; and 3) cross-country differences in drug use prevalence corresponded to differences in the prevalence of gateway violations.
"Higher levels of other illicit drug use compared to cannabis use were documented in Japan, where exposure to cannabis and tobacco/alcohol was less common. In this case, a lack of exposure and/or access to substances earlier in the normative sequence did not correspond to reductions in overall levels of other illicit drug use. This finding is contrary to the assumption that initiation reflects a universally ordered sequence in which rates of drug use later in the sequence must necessarily be lower than those earlier in the sequence (Kandel, 2002). This has not previously been reported as research has been traditionally conducted in countries where use of tobacco, alcohol and cannabis is relatively common."Source:Louisa Degenhardt, et al., "Evaluating the drug use 'gateway' theory using cross-national data: Consistency and associations of the order of initiation of drug use among participants in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys," Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2010 April 1; 108(1-2): 84-97, doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2009.12.001.
(Medical Cannabis Patients and Other Drug Use) "Analysis of the demographic and social characteristics of a large sample of applicants seeking approval to use marijuana medically in California supports an interpretation of long term non problematic use by many who had first tried it as adolescents, and then either continued to use it or later resumed its use as adults. In general, they have used it at modest levels and in consistent patterns which anecdotally-often assisted their educational achievement, employment performance, and establishment of a more stable life-style. These data suggest that rather than acting as a gateway to other drugs, (which many had also tried), cannabis has been exerting a beneficial influence on most."Source:Thomas J O'Connell and Ché B Bou-Matar, "Long term marijuana users seeking medical cannabis in California (2001–2007): demographics, social characteristics, patterns of cannabis and other drug use of 4117 applicants," Harm Reduction Journal, (November 2007).
(Marijuana Use as a Gateway to Other Drug Use) "There is no conclusive evidence that the drug effects of marijuana are causally linked to the subsequent abuse of other illicit drugs."Source:Janet E. Joy, Stanley J. Watson, Jr., and John A Benson, Jr., "Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base," Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Research, Institute of Medicine (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999), p. 6.
(Patterns in Progression of Drug Use) "Patterns in progression of drug use from adolescence to adulthood are strikingly regular. Because it is the most widely used illicit drug, marijuana is predictably the first illicit drug most people encounter. Not surprisingly, most users of other illicit drugs have used marijuana first. In fact, most drug users begin with alcohol and nicotine before marijuana, usually before they are of legal age."Source:Janet E. Joy, Stanley J. Watson, Jr., and John A Benson, Jr., "Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base," Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Research, Institute of Medicine (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999), p. 99.
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How to redirect stderr and stdout to a file plus display at the same time
The biggest search term that has brought people to my blog this month has been "redirecting stderr". I realize that I probably should expound more on Redirecting stderr and stdout to a file plus displaying them so that it makes more sense.
The original example script:
if [ ! -e $OUTPUT_PIPE ]; then
mkfifo $OUTPUT_PIPE
if [ -e $OUTPUT_LOG ]; then
rm $OUTPUT_LOG
exec 3>&1 4>&2
tee $OUTPUT_LOG < $OUTPUT_PIPE >&3 &
exec > $OUTPUT_PIPE 2>&1
echo "This is on standard out"
echo "This is on standard err" >&2
exec 1>&3 3>&- 2>&4 4>&-
wait $tpid
rm $OUTPUT_PIPE
The Explanation
if [ ! -e $OUTPUT_PIPE ]; then
mkfifo $OUTPUT_PIPE
I needed to make a named pipe -- otherwise known as a FIFO (First In First Out) -- to provide means for the shell and tee to share the output. You're probably familiar with pipes, such as
ls -l | grep myfile. Named pipes are merely a way for you to do the same thing via a "file" in the filesystem. That same command can actually be done this way:
mkfifo tmpfifo && (ls -l > tmpfifo &) && grep myfile < tmpfifo
Yeah, it's a little messy for that simple command. But it can be used in cases where a simple pipe cannot be used.
exec 3>&1 4>&2
This saves the file descriptors for stdout (file descriptor 1) and stderr (file descriptor 2) to file descriptors 3 and 4.
tee $OUTPUT_LOG < $OUTPUT_PIPE >&3 &
tee will, to quote from the manpage tee(1): "read from standard input and write to standard output and files". So, let's break up this line into parts to describe what's going on:
tee $OUTPUT_LOG: tee will take from stdin and write to the file named in the variable $OUTPUT_LOG.
< $OUTPUT_PIPE: tee's stdin will be redirected from the named pipe named in the variable $OUTPUT_PIPE
>&3: redirect tee's stdout to file descriptor 3, which is the stdout of the shell script
&: start tee as a background process of the shell
This line saves the process id of the tee process to the variable tpid.
exec > $OUTPUT_PIPE 2>&1
In parts:
exec > $OUTPUT_PIPE: redirects the stdout of the script to the named pipe named in the variable $OUTPUT_PIPE.
2>&1: redirects stderr to stdout so both stderr and stdout are redirected to the named pipe.
Then comes whatever you need your script to do. I included a few
echo statements to show that both stdout and stderr are shown both in the terminal and in the log file.
After the meat of the script:
exec 1>&3 3>&- 2>&4 4>&-
2>&4restore the original file descriptors for stdout and stderr from file descriptors 3 and 4.
3>&~ 4>&~: now that they are not needed, close file descriptors 3 and 4
wait $tpid
This "pauses" the script until the tee process (whose process id is saved in the variable $tpid) exits. It will exit because its stdin (the output from the named pipe) has been closed. The named pipe closed the stdin because its input (file descriptors 1) was closed when the file descriptor stored in descriptor 3 was restored back to the original stdin.
rm $OUTPUT_PIPE
remove the named pipe, because it is not needed any more.
Addtional Information
For additional information, Chapter 19. I/O Redirection and Appendix E. A Detailed Introduction to I/O and I/O Redirection of the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide are very useful in understanding these concepts. Also, a good introduction to named pipes can be found in this Linux Journal article.
I hope this helped make things a little bit clearer.
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doesn't seem to be much happening in here latley, outside of the ontario folks.
so how bout us BC guys and gals? any neat finds latley?
doesn't seem to be much happening in here latley, outside of the ontario folks.
so how bout us BC guys and gals? any neat finds latley?
i need an ephant mon, who wants to help? :D
Yes, there's news up north. The news is not good. If you've read my *****-fest posts about nothing coming up here (Rupert) then pass on the rest of this one. The news is this: on May 18 when Zellers started the sale on epII figs we got 2 boxes. There are none left. There are no more coming, according to the stock guy. Absolutely amazingly stupid. Oh well, online shopping and AGAIN being a burden on friends to finish my collection for me are the standard for living in this crapnest. Sorry to gripe, I hope someone can post some GOOD news from BC here soon.
Bespin wave is available at TRU W. Broadway Vancouver...quite a bit of each figure there...the fewest being Jango Fett FB.
I have to let you guys know that I live on the island in Courtenay, and our walmart has been keeping up with the new waves. I just got the entire bespin wave. I went back today to get doubles of Chewie and Vader but they were snatched up. I can guarantee you that they will be getting more. Im trying to keep their numbers up so they will get more. I dont want to ruina good thing, gotta keep their tills ringing with star wars toys.
still only seeing yoda and dooku and stuff. no sign of the chewie and han and what not.
how do you like that chewie?
i need an ephant mon, who wants to help? :D
The Chewie is the best figure of the lot. Looks like they did a great job on him this time, atually looks like Chewie. My second favorite would be Vader. I dont like his hand but its still a nice figure. Bespin Luke looks kinda shoddy and the Anakin pilot sucks in my mind. He looks like agarbage bag wearing freak.


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New records from Amanda Palmer, Converge, Mission of Burma, and Passion Pit gave Boston a steady (inter)national presence in 2012. But as usual, the best music from our city was cultivated within the clubs of Cambridge, Allston DIY spaces, squares of Somerville, and way across the pike in Western Mass. Gone are the days when our music scene hoped those outside the community would pay attention to what's going on here; because if the rest of the county isn't listening, it's no fault of ours. Here are 10 reasons why, presented in no particular order.
AUTOCHROME ::SEPARATION REALMS [self-released] :: The sudden hiatus of this icy post-punk quartet was as abrupt as it was disappointing. But in their two years together, Autochrome left a wonderfully claustrophobic record ripped straight from the smoky UK lounges of 1982. Top track: "100 Series."
CASPIAN ::WAKING SEASON [Triple Crown Records] :: In August the Beverly post-rock veterans invited fans to T.T.'s for a listening party, then rewarded the 100 people vibing in the dark to the recorded version of Waking Season with a surprise gig that took the album's lush, hypnotic aura to another level. Several world tours later, Caspian are continually one of Boston's most overlooked treasures. Top track: "Halls of the Summer."
FAT CREEPS ::FAT CREEPS [self-release] :: The trio's late-2011 debut single "Nancy Drew" was an aural morning of ennui packaged in lo-fi garage-pop, and it was the perfect primer for the North Shore co-eds' August EP, carried by the ocean-strum cautionary tale of "Leave Her Alone," one of the best tracks of 2012. Primed for a huge breakout in 2013. Top Track: "Leave Her Alone."
GRAND RESORT ::VANGUARD DREAMS [self-released] :: Andres Pichardo crafted his C86-inspired jangle-pop sound by himself while studying at New England Institute of Art, but now the Dominican native calls Brooklyn home. What he created here was a washed-out sun-shower of blissful pop. Top track: "Microscopic."
INFINITY GIRL ::STOP BEING ON MY SIDE [self-release] :: Four unassuming dudes living in Central Square come together to create a thunderous, neo-shoegaze record that seduces with noise, reverb, and startling polish. Few bands sling such ferocious noise with such ease. Top track: "Please Forget."
MEAN CREEK ::YOUTH COMPANION[Old Flame Records]:: They twice toured the country with Counting Crows, but still were able to capture the sound of Boston with Youth Companion, a gutsy, rolled-up-sleeve collection of indie anthems. As impassioned a rock band as we'll ever get. Top track: "Do You Know?"
MELLOW BRAVO ::MELLOW BRAVO [Small Stone Recordings] :: Brash, bluesy, Boston. Bravo's sophomore record is another barroom brawl through Somerville back-alleys. There's always room in Boston for an old-fashioned no-bullshit rock-and-roll band. Top track: "Where the Bodies Lay."
POTTY MOUTH ::SUN DAMAGE [Feeble Minds/Ride The Snake/Puzzle Pieces] :: The debut 12-inch EP from this Northampton garage-rock quartet is so good, three record labels released it in July. Girl-gang vocals, '90s guitar-rock harmony vibes, and an abrasively smooth collection of songs impossible to get out of your head. Top track: "Dog Song."
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Just got my case of JL's today. All are as exepcted from the pics we've all seen except the 1701-A.
I pulled the TOS style Defiant out first. It's got a phaser blasting out of it's saucer section that swivels in any direction. It fell out, but goes easily back in. Kind of a cool little feature. It's blue though. I thought phasers were supposed to be red.
Next I opened the Enterprise 1701-A. I tried to take off the cheesy photon fire thingy thinking it was easily removable like the Defiant. Well it didn't just come out cause it's glued in ...so mine kinda snapped off. It's not bad though, it just looks like a third torpedo tube. I could try to glue it back on but it looks better without it anyways.
I'm telling you guys so you won't have any suprises.
It's still my favorite ship of the bunch because it's got some really cool detailing.
First of all it's alot whiter than her sister the JL Refit. The upper fuselage is
a tad bluer, as is the stripe around the main bridge.
What's really cool though is they did the aztec pattern all over the ship surface in white pearl which reacts to the light depending on which angle you look at it.
In between the pattern is the white of the ship, then a clear-coat over the top. This was really a good idea, and more ships should be released like that.
The JL Refit was already my favorite JL so far, and this makes it better. Though the stupid phaser-photon feature brings it back down to even.
The Majestic's aztec pattern is done in a pale green, which looks ok, but would look better in pearl like the A. I like the explosion effects.
The Borg Cubes poppin a cherry.
The Enterprise D is sure enough the "Nacho Enterprise" only after they were done dipping they put what actually look like cigarrette burns on her back.
Each nacelle though still has the see-through red and blue feature which is a cool thing they kept from wave 3. It also has the pearl aztec pattern on it, but the battle damage entry orange kinda cancels out the appeal.
Don't know if I like those awkward looking legs on Voyager yet.
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So do yourself a favor and have a looksie. Just be warned: this is the Olympics of Cute. This…is the Cute Hunger Games. Twenty species from across the globe have sent their cutest moms and babies to duel themselves into adorable sleep
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October 25th, 2013 by Rosa
I once bought Haribo Smurfs waaay back in 2009, when I was on vacation in France. There, they were Haribo Schtroumpfs, which was fun to say. I'm pretty sure I drove my boyfriend crazy going, "Schtroumpfs schtroumpfs schtroumpfs" for a good chunk of that trip.
While they've been popular in Europe for a while, Haribo Smurfs are new to U.S. shores. They've only been around since February of this year to promote that terrible Smurfs 2 movie. I found them at Cost Plus World Market, along with Wednesday's Haribo Ginger-Lemon Gummis.
The gummis may have all started out very Smurf-like in shape, but mine got melted a bit in my car, so their features were less than ideally defined. Still, I could make out Smurfette (the blonde) and Papa Smurf with his red hat.
The texture of the gummis was classic Haribo, very bouncy and sproingy without getting stuck in my teeth. The gummis were mostly blue, which tasted sweet with a light berry fruitiness. Maybe they were blueberry flavored, or maybe that was the power of suggestive coloring.
The classic white Smurf's hat tasted of core-y pineapple, while Papa Smurf's red hat tasted of berry as well. Smurfette's blond locks were lemony sweet with light citrus flavors.
I found these to be pleasant enough, if not especially earth-shattering in flavor. I probably wouldn't buy them again over other gummis, unless I was looking for an excuse to say "Schtroumpfs" a lot. An O.
Cybele on Candy Blog also reviewed these last month, and her photos came out much better than mine.
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pick her up from the breeder on Sunday
As well, I have a french background, thus the frog part
Thx...we think she is a cuttie. Can't wait to start working with her.
The mom is the same colouring while the dad is fox red. One of the male pups is fox red as well. I've always had luck with female dogs so we went with her, otherwise that red male would have been coming home with us!