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G5900, Planning Tree Windbreaks in Missouri
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Your need for a windbreak is measured by the benefits you can receive from one. Windbreak research has indicated that heat energy savings of up to 40 percent are possible when you use windbreaks. Most of these savings result from reduced wind velocity and, therefore, reduced air infiltration in homes downwind from the windbreak (Table 1). The properly placed windbreak also serves as an effective snow barrier and can improve the working conditions in farmstead areas where you perform winter chores.
Table 1Wind velocity
Crops protected from wind use moisture and nutrients more efficiently. Windbreaks reduce burning and wilting of crops, often resulting from strong winds, high air temperatures and deficient moisture. However, because of tree root competition, crop yields will be less than normal in a strip about equal to the height of the trees. You can plant grass or legumes in these areas as roadways or turning areas. Crop yields generally decrease at distances about two to 10 times the tree height. In seasons of abundant moisture, cool temperatures and little wind, the windbreak is not likely to increase crop yields.
Windbreaks improve feed efficiency and reduce death losses of cattle fed in open lots. This protection has reduced weight losses in cattle by as much as 50 percent. Studies over a five-year period in Iowa showed that sheltered cattle gained 80 pounds more per year and consumed 129 pounds less feed per hundredweight of gain than those not sheltered.
A windbreak can contribute food and a secure habitat for a diverse wildlife community, including game and other birds and animals. Choices of trees and shrubs can influence the types of birds and animals living there. Where wildlife values are important, two or more rows of evergreens with dense foliage and live limbs close to the ground are recommended for winter cover. You can then add rows of trees and shrubs that will produce wildlife food, such as autumn olive, or wild plum, to the protective rows of evergreens.
Plantings for beautification should contain flowering trees or trees with other colorful characteristics to complement the basic windbreak species.
Studies show windbreaks to be effective as noise barriers where busy highways or noisy industrial plants are nearby. They also provide visual screening. Tree and shrub belts 65 to 100 feet wide are effective in reducing noise from high-speed car traffic. Tree belts 20 to 25 feet wide are effective in reducing noise from moderate-speed car traffic. For maximum effectiveness, tree and shrub belts should be tall, dense and located close to the noise source rather than close to the area protected. Evergreen trees and shrubs are most effective where you desire year-round screening from noise.
Planning your windbreak well in advance is necessary. Make decisions about the types of plant materials that will grow well in your location and soil type. Also consider the windbreak design needed for the purpose and the available area. The design must take into consideration the equipment available for preparing the planting area, planting and maintenance. Order trees in the fall before planting to ensure the availability of desired species of trees. Many of the plant species mentioned in this publication are discussed in publications available at your local MU Extension center, the Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Missouri Department of Conservation District Forestry Offices. On-the-ground technical assistance in soils, plant selection, and windbreak design is also available at those same offices.
As you plan your windbreak, bear the following considerations in mind:
The prevailing winds in winter are north and northwest in Missouri, so protective windbreaks should be located along the north and west sides of your farmstead. The most effective zone of influence includes the distance from the windbreak out to six times the height of the trees. Drifting snow varies with the direction and velocity of the wind, the type of snow and the composition of the windbreak but often piles up behind the windbreak at distances of one to three times the height of trees.
Windbreaks placed too close to houses and other buildings result in snow drifting in the very areas that should be free of snow. Therefore, you should plant windbreaks for winter protection at least 100 feet from farm buildings and feed lots on level land.
If the land slopes steeply to the north or west, you will have to plant the trees closer to the farmstead but never closer than 60 feet from main buildings or drives, if snow drifting is a concern. If your farmstead is close to the south or east side of a public road, where the plantings may necessarily be located across the road from buildings, recognize the possibility of the road being blocked by a drifting snow.
Most winter windbreaks are U, L or E shaped. Because wind and snow whip around the ends of a wind barrier, the ends of the windbreak should be extended approximately 50 feet beyond each corner of the area to be protected. Reinforce corners with extra shrubs and conifers if you desire. Windbreaks do not have to be laid out in hard, straight lines. A curved windbreak on the contour line around the north and west sides of your farmstead is a little more difficult to fence, but it will look more pleasing and be easier to cultivate.
Don't plant across old feedlots, near manure piles or across barnyard drainage ways. Trees, particularly evergreens, survive and grow poorly in such locations. When soils or drainage conditions change drastically, it may be necessary to correct the drainage or change the species of trees and shrubs in the windbreak to match the conditions. If it is necessary to cross field roads, driveways or large ditches with a windbreak, try to make the crossings at an angle to avoid creating direct wind tunnels through the planting.
NoteDon't plant windbreaks where they might create visibility hazards at road intersections
Windbreaks usually require several kinds of trees with different growth characteristics to provide foliage density at various heights over a period of years (Figure 1). As trees grow older, their form and crown characteristics change. The ability of a tree planting to furnish protection depends on the sum total of all tree and shrub foliage making up windbreak height, density and longevity.
Figure 1Windbreak design.
NoteMost species have site limitations (example, pin oak is not suited to soils with a high pH). To be sure species chosen are suitable to your specific location, contact your local Natural Resources Conservation Service, Missouri Department of Conservation or MU Extension center for assistance.
Height influences the extent of the protected area. The taller the windbreak, the greater the area protected and the less land required by the trees. For a quick effect, fast-growing trees that reach maximum height in a short time are the first choice. Because fast growers are usually short-lived, also plant slower-growing tall trees that mature later but remain effective for a long time.
Density influences the extent of downwind protection. Most evergreens have fairly dense, compact tops that retain foliage throughout the year. In contrast, the broadleaf trees and shrubs lose foliage in the fall and cause windbreaks to have different densities in summer and winter. Density depends on the width of the windbreak, arrangement and spacing of species, and the crown height of the different species at various ages.
Foliage density of the middle level of shelterbelts will be provided by the fast-growing broadleaf trees for the first 15 years. After that, evergreens will provide it.
Young trees provide a lower level of density, but after 20 to 30 years you will have to rely on thickly growing shrub species for foliage density near the ground.
For winter protection, the main evergreen planting should always be north and west of the taller broadleaf trees for best control of drifting snow. Evergreens provide maximum winter protection and help trap snow. Shrubs also trap snow and reduce wind near the ground.
Mixtures of species offer more insurance against a plantation being damaged by disease, insects or climatic factors.
Plantations with both deciduous and evergreen species at least 20 feet of space between rows of evergreen and deciduous species.
A five-row plantation makes an efficient windbreak. If limited space prevents planting five rows, it is better to use fewer rows than to crowd the trees. Three rows, with room to grow, will give better long-range results than five crowded rows. Where there is not sufficient area for even three rows, a narrow windbreak of two rows of dense evergreens gives the most practical protection under the circumstances. Staggering the trees in an alternate pattern so they are not directly behind the tree in the next row will allow you to space them a little more closely.
Windbreaks can also modify the summer environment. A well-designed summer windbreak reduces wind velocity but will still allow a breeze for ventilation. Summer windbreaks usually consist of one or two rows of plants located to the south and west of the area to be protected. A one-row windbreak may be either evergreen or deciduous trees. The south row of a two-row summer windbreak usually consists of deciduous shrubs or small deciduous trees, and the row to the north, of moderate to tall deciduous trees.
Locate the summer windbreak about five times the mature height of the trees from the area to be protected. Dense windbreaks, located more closely, reduce wind speed more but may cause an increase in midday air temperature and reduce or eliminate ventilation.
For two-row windbreak, use rows 2-3.
For three-row windbreak, use species listed for rows 1-2-3 or 2-3-4.
For four-row windbreak, use species listed for 1-2-3-4 or 2-3-4-5 or 1-2-3-5.
For five-row windbreak, use tall deciduous and any other four rows shown here.
Plan spacing according to the probable size of the crowns after the trees reach 20 to 30 years of age. It takes longer for trees to form an effective wind barrier at wider spacing, but you can overcome this by staggering the trees in adjacent rows. The delay in effectiveness will be more than offset by the increased growth and vigor of the trees that have adequate growing space. Such trees live longer, retain their lower limbs better and produce more foliage.
Spacing between rows ranges from 15 to 30 feet, depending on the types of trees or shrubs in the adjacent row.
Spacing must always allow for proper use of suitable maintenance equipment.
Between trees in a row:
You can get planting stock from commercial nurseries or from the Department of Conservation's State Nursery at Licking, Missouri. Application blanks for trees from the state nursery are available from MU Extension centers in every county, Natural Resources Conservation Service offices or Missouri Department of Conservation District Forestry Offices.
A partial list of private nurseries carrying seedling trees is available by writing:
Seedling trees will be relatively small and will require good care from their arrival to planting time but are the most commonly used size because of their low cost. Medium- and larger-sized, bare-rooted stock, balled and burlapped stock, and container-grown trees and shrubs will usually produce an effective windbreak two to three years sooner than seedling trees. However, they greatly increase the cost of planting.
Proper preparation of the planting site is important for good tree survival and growth. Except on light, sandy soils where weeds and sod are not a problem, begin control of competing vegetation during the fall before spring planting. Control all competing vegetation, including sod, weeds and brush.
Where the ground is level and erosion is not a problem, plow the entire area in the fall, then disk and harrow it in the spring just before planting.
When erosion may be a problem, prepare a 4- to 6-foot strip in the fall by plowing or using chemicals. Leave a strip of sod between rows to cut down on erosion. Rows should also be aligned on the contour.
If the slope is steep, a circle of sod or other vegetation 2 to 6 feet in diameter may be removed or chemically treated where each tree or shrub is to be planted. Apply the chemical treatment the fall before planting. Plant the tree in the dead patch during the following spring. Be sure the chemicals are appropriate. Follow the label instructions. Pesticides used improperly can be injurious to humans, domestic animals, plants, crops, beneficial insects, and fish and wildlife.
Control of competing vegetation will be necessary for a minimum of three years after planting. If you use mechanical cultivation, it should be shallow to prevent injury to tree roots.
When the trees arrive from the nursery, open the bundles and inspect the trees for damage, mold, overheating and settlement of packing material away from the tree roots. Repack the roots and moisten the packing if needed. If the trees will be planted within a few days, they may be kept in the bundles in a cool, shaded place, protected from freezing.
If planting must be delayed for a longer period, the trees should be heeled in. Dig a trench in the ground in a shady location protected from the wind and spread the tree roots along the trench with the trees upright. Cover the roots with moist soil, refill the trench and pack firmly to eliminate air pockets.
When you are ready to plant the windbreak, remove the trees from the bundle or the heel-in trench as needed and place them in a bucket of water or wet packing material for transporting. Keep the roots wet until the tree is planted. Do not plant in dry soil.
Plant with a planting machine, shovel or tree planting bar. Technical assistance in planning or establishing your windbreak is available as well. Your MU Extension center can also assist you in locating free technical assistance in all aspects of tree care, including planting windbreaks.
Table 2Trees and shrubs used in Missouri windbreaks
Deep or moderately deep, well-drained or moderately well-drained soils
Poorly to very-poorly drained wet sites
Shallow, dry soils
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Stone Barns Center: Raspberry Picking
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I love this and have added it to our summer "to do" list! Fresh air! Open fields! Sounds awesome! We are also a City family and struggle with the process of getting from A to B. We recently joined Hertz on Demand. It's certainly more expensive than the train, but sometimes I find the convenience to be worth it, especially when traveling with kids. The membership is free! And the cost varies depending on the car you want, but can be about $10/hour and up. Again, the train is much cheaper and totally doable most of the time. But sometimes it's so nice to load the kids and put the AC on... ;) Happy Summer!ReplyDelete
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love the pics! Your kids and Toby- adorable!ReplyDelete
We're Zipcar members and love it. You can rent all types of cars - even minivans or trucks. Maybe something like that would be worth it?ReplyDelete
freshly picked raspberries are just so much better than those from the store! some of my favorite memories involve berry picking. Also, I very much agree with you regarding the free feeling of leaving the city- it is so easy to go for months without leaving and once you do it just feels so goodReplyDelete
these pictures are seriously amazing. love 'em!ReplyDelete
"completely oblivious and somewhat ungrateful for the absolutely wonderful life we are trying to give them"ReplyDelete
After taking my kids to this awesome little private airport all Monday morning, I thought I deserved a nice, quiet afternoon. But I didn't get it. I told me kids (5 and 3) I couldn't understand why they weren't more grateful for the awesome outing I took them on that morning and couldn't they show me their gratitude by playing nicely together and refraining from shrieking during the baby's naps. Blank stares.
Here I am in No. Cal., and I've never taken my kids anything-picking.
Great pictures! Stone Barns is right next to my town and I love love love going there! Totally buying those nets!ReplyDelete


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Stephanie Thomas, a rising senior, is spending this summer working in the laboratory of Rebecca Burdine, an assistant professor of molecular biology at Princeton, on research for her senior thesis. Thomas' thesis project relates to the study of left-right patterning in the development of heart tissues. She is one of many Princeton undergraduates who are spending the summer months engaged in intensive research activities in labs across campus.
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Summer is lab season for many Princeton students
Posted August 18, 2011; 12:00 p.m.
For many Princeton undergraduates, summertime is focused on life in the laboratory.
Although classes are not in session, more than 100 undergraduates remain on campus during the summer months to work in labs across campus. These students pursue opportunities to serve as research interns or assistants for faculty members, or to work on their own independent projects under the guidance of Princeton researchers.
Michael Fuccillo (left), a graduate student in chemistry, helps rising senior Megan Charles prepare a liquid helium tank that is used by members of Professor Robert Cava's lab to measure the thermoelectric properties of crystals.
A common thread unites students from various departments who spend their summer in labs: gaining experience in intensive projects as well as insights into the duties and discipline required of advanced researchers in their field.
Jasmine Hay, a rising senior who is majoring in chemistry, is working this summer in the lab of faculty member Robert Cava to conduct research for her senior thesis, which involves synthesizing various chemical compounds to evaluate their magnetic properties at different temperatures.
"I have really enjoyed being here in the summer. It's a lot easier to do things when you're here all day every day and you're able to work uninterrupted without having to rush off to a class and then come back to the lab," Hay said. "I'm really looking forward to my thesis now."
Like other undergraduates working in labs over the summer, Hay is being guided not only by a faculty member, but also by postdoctoral researchers and graduate students. She also is learning about projects conducted by fellow undergraduates spending the summer under the guidance of Cava, who is Princeton's Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry.
"We have a really wonderful lab, and everyone's willing to talk about what they're doing," she said. "I'm learning a little bit about what everyone's doing and I'm doing my own research, so it's been a lot of fun."
Charles and classmate Jasmine Hay (right) are working with Cava (center) this summer to conduct research for their senior thesis projects in the chemistry department. Cava is holding a compond synthesized by Hay for her thesis project, which focuses on the magnetic properties of various compounds.
Katherine Bedkowski, a rising junior who is majoring in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has enjoyed a similar experience while working in the lab of Alexander Smits, Princeton's Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and chair of the department.
Rising junior Katherine Bedkowski (left), a summer intern in the lab of Professor Alexander Smits, works with graduate student Gilad Arwatz (right) to prepare for an experiment using a rheometer to measure the viscosity of blood. Among other projects, students in Smits' lab this summer are conducting research on how blood reacts when put under severe stress. This research is related to the development of heart-lung machines, the devices that keep patients alive during heart surgeries.
Among other projects, students in Smits' lab are examining how manta rays and other aquatic animals propel themselves through water, with the aim of informing the development of underwater vehicles. The students also have conducted research on how blood reacts when put under severe stress, as part of Smits' work on the development of heart-lung machines, the devices that keep patients alive during heart surgeries.
The projects relate to Bedkowski's interest in biomechanics and applied mathematics, and have provided a window into possibilities that lie ahead after she graduates from Princeton.
"It has been nice to get a really in-depth focus on what research and life as a graduate student would be like," she said.
Smits, who has six undergraduate interns in his lab this summer, said the experience is invaluable in helping students evaluate their undergraduate research plans and their postgraduate options.
"I try very hard to bring undergraduates into the lab, both for thesis projects and also for summer internships, because I think it gives them an exposure to how research is done," he said. "They can find out if it's something they would like to do in the future, and I think it has inspired a lot of students to go on and pursue a research career. It has also given me lots of new ideas for future research projects, so it's win-win."
Graduate student Jessica Rowland (right) has served as a mentor to Thomas, including instructing her in lab techniques, as the undergraduate has spent the summer focusing on research for her senior thesis in the lab of Burdine, a developmental biologist.
From left, rising junior Birgitt Boschitsch joins graduate student Daniel Quinn and Smits in reviewing the equipment used in water-channel experiments that are conducted in Smits' lab. The water channel includes a shielded laser and is used to illuminate and record images of particles flowing through liquid. Boschitsch is one of six undergraduates working as summer interns in Smits' lab, contributing to his research on the development of underwater vehicles.


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The best of the Banff Festival of Mountain Films will be shown on Wednesday, March 14 from 7-10 p.m. in McCosh 10.
Tickets are $8 in advance for faculty and staff, $12 at the door, and $8 for students. Tickets are on sale at the Frist Campus Center ticket office.
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From the Archive: Kirk Hammett Discusses the Past, Present and Future of Metallica in 2002 Interview
As for the months that will follow, until work is finished on the band's new recording studio, Hammett is content to make music at home. "I've been playing a lot of blues, a lot of jazz," he says, "been jamming with friends in my basement studio." He's also been pursuing his newest love: "I recently discovered surfing," he reveals, "and it's the best thing in the world! I feel really fortunate that, in playing guitar and surfing, I've found two things that mean so much to me, and which really complement each other. There's definitely a spiritual thing to both of them; they totally connect you to a higher realm."
Now that we've got some idea where Hammett's going, let's take a look back at where he's been. While our prize committee goes off in search of a gold plaque for the Hammett mantlepiece, pull up a beverage and join Hammett and Guitar World as we trace the evolution of his sound through some of Metallica's musical high points.
Kill 'Em All (1983)
"When I was doing that guitar solo, I was using James' Marshall. That was the Marshall -- it had been hot-rodded by some L.A. guy, the same guy who hot-rodded Eddie Van Halen's Marshalls -- and when it came time to do my guitar leads, I just plugged into that. I had maybe four or five days to do all my leads. I remember thinking, There's 10 or 12 songs on this album, so that means two a day. I had to throw down a solo, not think much about it, and move on.
I had my trusty old Ibanez Tubescreamer, my trusty wah pedal, and my black Gibson Flying V that I used on the first four albums -- it was either a '74 or a '78, I'm not sure. I didn't have much really worked out; I knew how I wanted to open the initial part of the solo after the break, so I just went for it two or three times. And then the producer said, 'That's fine! We'll use it!' There were no frills, no contemplation, no overintellectualizing -- we weren't going over the finer points. On a couple of notes in that solo, I bend the notes out of pitch; for 18 years, every time I've heard that guitar solo, those sour notes come back to haunt me! [laughs] I remember on that tour, whenever it came time to do that guitar solo, I was always like, Okay, I'm gonna play this so much better than the way I recorded it!
"I had been taking lessons from Joe Satriani for, like, six months prior to joining the band, so his influence was pretty heavy in my mind and in my playing. He passed down so much information to me, I was still processing a lot of it. When it came time to do the solo, I was thinking, I hope Joe likes this. I hope this isn't something he'll just pick apart, like he has in the past." [laughs]
Ride the Lightning (1984)
''Again, we were using Marshalls; I tracked the whole album with Marshall amps and my Gibson Flying V. For that song, I knew that I wanted to come up with something really melodic at the beginning of the solo. At that point in the song, there's just a lot of riffing, a lot of heavy dynamics. I was thinking, Wouldn't it be nice if we had something somewhat melodic to lead into it? Hence that little melody I played. I can remember thinking, Fuckin' hell, man, these guys want me to play an awful-long fucking guitar solo! It was our first instrumental, and it was an incredibly long guitar solo. It was like, 'How can I keep this solo going without making it sound like I'm just playing a bunch of notes?' So I thought that I would break it up into sections rather than play one long spew of notes.
I used a modal approach, and there's also arpeggios that I play in the solo -- they're actually 'broken arpeggios,' a term that I got from Yngwie Malmsteen. At that time, 1984, Yngwie was big in the guitar world; he influenced me in that he was using all these different scales and different arpeggios, and really got me thinking about that kind of sound. I was also thinking chromatically: there's that one part at the top of the next cycle where I play a chromatic lick that goes all the way down the high E string with the wah pedal.
"I actually wrote out the entire solo on pieces of paper, using my own notes and my own pet names for the individual licks. I would say that 80 percent of it was composed beforehand and 20 percent of it was improvised. When we revisited that song with the symphony on S&M, it was a lot of fun; it felt like I was visiting my guitar technique from, like, 15 years ago or something. I just don't play like that now -- I'm a lot bluesier -- so it was pretty trippy."
Master of Puppets (1986)
"I used my Jackson Randy Rhoads V for this solo. When you listen to the solo, there's this weird sound right after the mellow part where it sounds like I'm hitting a superhigh note in the midst of my phrasing, like I'm fretting the string against the pickup. Well, what happened was, I had accidentally pulled the string off the fretboard! You know how you take an E string, you pull it down toward the floor away from the neck? I accidentally pulled down on the string, and it fretted out on the side of the fretboard. We heard it back, and I was like, 'That's brilliant! We've gotta keep that!' Of course, I've never been able to reproduce that since; it was like a magic moment that was captured on tape. That was one of my most favorite things about that guitar solo. I thought I had screwed the solo up by accidentally pulling on the string, but once I heard it back, I thought it sounded great. That was definitely a keeper!


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For Stephen Kearney, the beast has become a burden. Kearney has never been a coach inclined to gamble but he took a major punt last night in leaving out Manu Vatuvei.
It was a big call by Kearney - who wasn't overwhelmed by other options out wide - and provided an intriguing sub-plot to the match. The big winger has missed Kiwis games before but always through injury.
Regardless of form, Vatuvei was always seen as an automatic selection, as he remains one of the hardest players to tackle and a terrifying option close to the line.
Ultimately, perhaps Vatuvei was too much of a gamble. Already down on confidence after an NRL season where he made 38 errors (the third most in the league), perhaps there was no point subjecting him to the terrors of Jonathan Thurston and Cooper Cronk and their accurate kicking.
Still, it is understood that the selectors were close to including Vatuvei but decided on a different approach for this match, also aware of the punishing conditions.
Ultimately, it was decided it would be better to let him re-build his confidence next year at Mt Smart, to return to the frame for World Cup selection.
"It was really tough in making selection calls this year and it really was a difficult process," says Kearney. "We thought we would pick a side that would serve us well (last night) and that is what we have gone with."
Kearney wouldn't be drawn on what Vatuvei needed to do to come back into contention but confirmed the winger's Kiwis career was far from over.
"That's a discussion I'll have with Manu and I want to keep it that way," says Kearney. "I've spoken to Manu about that and I'll sit down with him and detail what we are after. There are a number of guys in the same position. Manu's been an integral part of the success we have had over the last five years and that doesn't change. I know what he is capable of and what he can do and he is certainly in the frame."
Vatuvei still provides incredible power carrying the ball forward but the Kiwis felt they had enough ammunition in that area. Instead, they need a defensively solid winger with the speed to take advantage of any line breaks.
Still, you wouldn't bet against Vatuvei lining up in the big games next year and he will be hard to omit.
Meanwhile, Sam Perrett emerged from a remarkable rollercoaster ride at club level to be the senior member of the back five last night.
With the absence of Vatuvei and Jason Nightingale (injured), Perrett was the veteran out wide, alongside the inexperience of Dean Whare, Josh Hoffman and Gerard Beale. It's a fitting reward for perseverance. Over the last few seasons Perrett has experienced phenomenal highs and lows in his NRL career.
After the Roosters finished a creditable fourth in 2008, Perrett had to endure the dramas of 2009 with a squad out of control, culminating in Nate Myles' notorious incident in a Central Coast hotel, where the naked, drunken prop defecated in the corridor. It all unfolded within a supposed heavy team drinking culture and they finished in disgrace with the wooden spoon.
The following year saw the fairytale Grand Final run, before another plummet in 2011 when the Roosters crashed to 11th.
This season started with a similar pattern and, when Perrett heard he was unwanted, he started negotiating with other clubs before a dramatic mid-season switch to Canterbury. At one point it looked like he could be stuck in the wilderness, as he was sidelined at the Roosters but the club was also blocking any move, before eventually relenting.
"There was a lot of turmoil and doubt," remembers Perrett, "I really didn't know if it was the right thing to do. But obviously it's been fantastic and probably a career-changer for me."
Perrett, who missed out on selection for this year's Anzac test, has thrived in West Sydney after being "stuck in a rut" at the Roosters.
There is a noticeable new attacking edge to his game, and he and Bulldogs centre partner Inu combined for many spectacular plays over the back end of the season, particularly in the preliminary final against Souths.
"I've added a few things to my game since I've been at the Bulldogs," says Perrett. "I guess I got a bit stale at the Roosters and it has been enlightening to help out the team in a different capacity."
"I was doing a lot of the yardage sets out of our own half but Dessie (Hasler) uses the big boys to do that more," says Perrett, "It's great - I'm more involved in the attacking plays and it's much more enjoyable and it has probably helped me to get back in the Kiwis."
Beyond the match last night, Perrett is confident all the ingredients are present for a strong defence of their crown at next year's World Cup.
"There are a lot of great young boys here," he says, looking around at his assembled team-mates. "Kiwi league is in good hands and there is so much talent coming through. We are well placed for next year. The main thing I emphasise to the young guys is make the most of everything and leave nothing on the field. Ruben (Wiki) and I were talking about it and we agreed - these times go by quick; they go by real quick."
Perrett, who is completing his carpentry certificates and already has a building renovation business, is also a mentor much closer to home.
His younger brother Lloyd (19), who also switched from the Roosters mid-year, now lives with Perrett and his family.
Sam has high hopes for his brother who has already represented Queensland at under-18 level: "The sky's the limit for him really. He could be a really good player - if he puts in the hard work then he can achieve anything".


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I think that we can all agree that things as they stand now are not good. A war in Afghanistan that is going badly, rising unemployment, ballooning deficit etc.The list goes on. An article by Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone magazine( I can already see the conservatives in this forum eyes rolling) brings out a point of view that I think is greatly overlooked.
" After all, the reason the winger crowd cant find a way to be coherently angry right now is because this country has no healthy avenues for genuine populist outrage. It never has. The setup always goes the other way: when the excesses of business interests and their political proteges in Washington leave the regular guy broke and screwed, the response is always for the lower and middle classes to split down the middle and find reasons to get pissed off not at their greedy bosses but at each other. Thats why even people like [Glenn] Becks audience, who Id wager are mostly lower-income people, cant imagine themselves protesting against the Wall Street barons who in actuality are the ones who fucked them over. . . .
Actual rich people cant ever be the target. Its a classic peasant mentality: going into fits of groveling and bowing whenever the masters carriage rides by, then fuming against the Turks in Crimea or the Jews in the Pale or whoever after spending fifteen hard hours in the fields. You know youre a peasant when you worship the very people who are right now, this minute, conning you and taking your shit. Whatever the master does, youre on board. When you get frisky, he sticks a big cross in the middle of your village, and you spend the rest of your life praying to it with big googly eyes. Or he puts out newspapers full of innuendo about this or that faraway group and you immediately salute and rush off to join the hate squad. A good peasant is loyal, simpleminded, and full of misdirected anger. And thats what weve got now, a lot of misdirected anger searching around for a non-target to mis-punish . . . cant be mad at AIG, cant be mad at Citi or Goldman Sachs. The real villains have to be the anti-AIG protesters! After all, those people earned those bonuses! If ever there was a textbook case of peasant thinking, its struggling middle-class Americans burned up in defense of taxpayer-funded bonuses to millionaires. Its really weird stuff."
Now I am sure some of this quote is going to piss some of guys off, but the point of the article and this quote is that we might be blaming the wrong people and if we continue to stay divided there really might not be to much hope in the future to correct it.


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Jim Cape posted his patch to add a GtkFileChooserButton widget to GTK+; this is what we would use to deprecate GnomeFileEntry. People who use GnomeFileEntry should take a look at the proposed API for GtkFileChooserButton to see if it suits their needs.
Tue 2004/Jul/20
GTK+ news:
Owen landed ellipsizing for Pango on the 1.5 branch. This is where a long text gets shortened by putting dots in the middle ("Some long text" ? "Some...").
Matthias added support for GtkTreeView and GtkComboBox separator rows. We now have gtk_tree_view_set_row_separator_func() and gtk_combo_box_set_row_separator_column(). This will make their way into the file chooser code pretty soon.
Matthias put in an ::editing-started signal for GtkCellRenderer. Also, GtkCellView is now public, so you can use it as a widget into which you can pack cell renderers: this is what gets put inside the menu items of a combo box.
Tracking the ChangeLog in HEAD is more fun than watching porn these days.
Bottle cap tripod. What will they think of next.
TheyWorkForYou has released the source code for their software that helps people make sense of what gets discussed in the British House of Commons. Having something like that in Mexico would be fantastic; most people are completely detached from the political happenings of their deputies and senators.
Mon 2004/Jul/19
There was the skeleton of a dead pigeon on the floor of the unused warehouse where we hold our LUG meetings these days. They love that place; it is open, lonely, shady, and has plenty of crevices for them to nest.
Pond in Tecajetes park:
Fri 2004/Jul/16
To die for: Bach scores as PDFs. Mariano really struck gold this time.
Dan Bricklin wrote a nice article about Software That Lasts 200 Years. There's plenty of interesting stuff there.
Authors of themes for GTK+ may alredy have run into bug #142417; the following only works for GtkMenuItem, not for check menu items, toggle items, etc., which derive from it:
widget_class "*.GtkMenuItem.*" style "style-for-menu-items"
As a result, theme authors have to do ugly things like this:
widget_class "*.GtkMenuItem.*" style "style-for-menu-items" widget_class "*.GtkCheckMenuItem.*" style "style-for-menu-items" widget_class "*.GtkToggleMenuItem.*" style "style-for-menu-items" widget_class "*.GtkSeparatorMenuItem.*" style "style-for-menu-items" widget_class "*.GtkImageMenuItem.*" style "style-for-menu-items" widget_class "*.GtkTearoffMenuItem.*" style "style-for-menu-items"
Even worse, language bindings often create glue classes such as GlueMenuItem: since this is not exactly GtkMenuItem, themes don't work on programs that were written with such a language binding.
As noted in the last comment I posted on in the bug, we can't change this behavior because we are within a stable branch. However, we could extend the theme file syntax to allow things like this:
widget_class "*.<GtkMenuItem>.*" style "style-for-menu-items"
Class names surrounded by angle brackets would indicate that one wants derived classes to get that style as well. It would be lovely if a kind hacker could write a patch for that.
Thu 2004/Jul/15
We had bean soup for dinner last night. For some reason, Oralia seems reluctant to hug me today.
To make things worse, this morning I put salt instead of sugar in my coffee.
The best bookstore in Xalapa is on Hidalgo street, and it is owned by the Universidad Veracruzana. However, they always have country music (rancheras, chunditas) inside the bookstore, making it completely unbearable to browse around for more than 5 minutes.
The other day we discovered that they have a suggestion box. So Oralia wrote a very nice note about how that kind of music is appropriate for a taquería, but not for a bookstore. We dropped the note inside the box and went out. Right outside, just as we were walking past the cashier's window to the street, I saw two employees looking at us, as if confirming that we had indeed left the area. We went nearby to rent some movies (to the amazingly comprehensive Zafra Video), and decided to go back to the bookstore to check if the bookstore's employees had done anything to our suggestion note. We asked them if we could please have our little piece of paper back for a second, because we had forgotten to write something down ? the suggestion box is not locked and doesn't have a slot to slip in papers; it's just a plastic box with no lid.
"Uuuh, someone from the manager's office just came to pick up the suggestions". Yeah, right. On a Saturday, at 6 PM. They had obviously not liked the suggestion and thrown it away. They gave us some very fake-looking contact information for the manager, "who is never around, because he doesn't live in the city..."
Mon 2004/Jul/12
Christian Neumair asked about being able to programmatically get the list of the user's bookmarks from the file chooser. You can't do that right now; you can only get back the list of shortcuts which the application defines for itself (e.g. "/usr/share/MyPaintApp/Clipart"). It would be useful to have access to the list of user bookmarks from the outside. For example, Nautilus could use it to provide easy access to those folders. Also, the user could then create bookmarks for folders from Nautilus and have easy access to them from file choosers everywhere. Also, this could be shared across desktops, so it makes sense to have it as a freedesktop.org standard.
I am a total fucking idiot. The other day I blew away a large part of my ~/src directories to free up some space. Today I discovered that my drag-and-drop tutorial was there. I couldn't undelete the file with the Midnight Commander (does it work at all for ext3?). I had not uploaded it to CVS or anything, so it's gone for good. Sigh. There's plenty of stuff to rewrite there.
Thu 2004/Jul/08
During GUADEC, Tino Meinen surprised me by giving me a CD of Bach's Art of Fugue as played by the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet. They are four recordists, and just as with Horacio Franco, it is just magical to listen to Bach played on a flute. Thanks, Tino!
GTK+ newbies are often confused by toolkit jargon: mapping, realization, events, screens, toplevels, containers, etc. There is an open bug about writing a glossary for the GTK+ documentation. A while ago I started to write one, but never got around to finishing it. Today I found that file on my hard drive and attached it to the bug. If you know about GTK+ and have some free time, please consider spending some time expanding the glossary so that we can include it with the documentation.
GnomeFileEntry doesn't handle filename encodings correctly. This is a nice small bug for newbie hackers; here's the material you need to know if you want to fix it.
Proof that GUADEC presentations could have been more fun. A lot more fun.
Wed 2004/Jul/07
I'm not sure that something similar to the file chooser is the right interface for selecting printers, but I do like the idea of having bookmarks to store commonly-used sets of printer options.
Today Oralia made a fantastic lunch: cabbage soup with habanero peppers, baked chayotes with cheese and cream, and delicious arracheras. The last time I had chayotes prepared that way is when my grandmother used to make them; I was a small kid then.
Tue 2004/Jul/06
During GUADEC everyone got to see Jon Trowbridge's Beagle searching infrastructure. Jon has a hack to add a "Search:" entry to GtkFileChooser and to fill the file list with the results from the search. To have a clean architecture for this, we need a few things:
A way to provide a widget to be embedded in all file choosers; that widget would prompt the user for the search terms. A trivial implementation of such a widget would be a "Search for:" label and a GtkEntry.
A method to populate the file chooser with the file names or URIs that result from the search.
The second item is interesting for things other than searching. Having a way to explicitly set the list of files or URIs that get displayed in the file chooser's list means that we can do a bunch of things. We can display search results. We can display the set of files from EggRecent without extra widgetry. In general, we can display a list of files in which not all of them may live in the same folder.
Sigh. While we were away, a stupid cockroach decided to walk into my office and lodge itself inside our laser printer. Now the printer is jammed, though nothing came out when I took out the toner cartridge. The second-last page it printed came out with bits of very flattened cockroach legs on it.
Mon 2004/Jul/05
Back in Xalapa after GVADEC. We drove back from Mexico City yesterday in the morning, and we stopped right before Río Frío to have breakfast at one of the little roadside restaurants. They had some fantastic tlacoyos con nopales that made us quite happy; that highway can really make one hungry.
The machine that hosts xalalinux.org had a slight hiccup while I was away; the stupid little program that updates the DynDNS records had quit as a daemon, and when my IP lease expired afterwards, the daemon didn't notify upstream. This is really frustrating, as about the only way I could have fixed it remotely would be to try to poke port 80 on every machine in the IP address block that my ISP uses for DSL. So I let it be broken for a few days until I came back. The obvious hack would just be to run the daemon in a loop for if it ever decides to quit.
The other day I committed my first patch to F-spot, which you use to organize pictures from your digital camera (or you could also use it to classify porn). There is a bunch of usability issues that need to get fixed; I'll take care of those first, and then I want to finish the special widget to support a timeline view of your pictures. I started using F-spot to organize my photos right before GUADEC, and so far it's working nicely except for a few kinks.
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January 27, 2013
Angel Castro's son, Aaron, 3, watches a movie after his evening bath while Castro feeds dinner to his sister, Alexis, 17 months, at their Englewood apartment. Castro, 28, a single mother relying heavily on public assistance, quit her part-time job after losing child care for the two children. Single parenthood is a bigger indicator of poverty than race, according to six decades of U.S. census data analyzed by I-News Network. Combined as it often is with curtailed educational and employment opportunities, the rise of the single-parent family is a major factor in the widening disparities between blacks, Latinos and white state residents since the decades surrounding the civil rights movement.
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Well the rising tide and the last chance to cross what once was a shallow channel were quickly closing on one another. Time was running out. The dogs in their exhuberance had already swam ahead. That told me the crossing was deep now. My hunting partner had crossed ealier. He waited on the other side it would still be below the top of my waders. I eased in slowly and a few carful steps the water was up to my knees, then another step an and the flow of the tide was pressing against my waste. I told myself to keep moving, no turning back now. There is maybe two, at best three inches before it will be over the the top of the chest waders. I been here before, both literally and figuritively. I've reached the middle of the channel and moving quiclkly. The neoprene waders give me a sense of boyancy and I know the water level is near the top of them. A half a dozen more steps and I pull myself out of the channel. Water is draining out of the pockets as I am standing on the gravel peninsula with warm sun on my face. It is a comfort to wet hands and forarms. Relaxing briefly and reflecting on the crossing I jolted from my comfort zone as Ripple starts to yelp. She a few feet from my hunting partner. I give a "here" command. She sprints to close the distance towards us. As she passes by my hunting he grabs her by the collar strap and in an instant he has freed her from her torment just as pull the soaked transmiter out of my cargo pocket of hunting jacket. Fortunately she responds to a level two on the Pro 500 were I have it dialed in for her. She was pretty clingy for the first few hundred yards as we walked the mile or so back to the truck. It took a few gentle release commands from me and soon she was back to herself, independent and exploring the ditches and marsh edges and channels on side of road as we hiked the trail back.
Now I'm thinking I will stop trying to blow the residual water out with burst of breath and try dispacing the remaining water with WD 40 and then using compressded to bring the G2 Pro 500 back to a safe and fully operational condition.
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Lime is a good match for red cabbage, and its acid keeps the color bright. Napa cabbage is a delicious alternative.
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Loved the cabbage salad mixture. Was a perfect addition to the fajitas.
Delicious, bright, enjoyed the textural component. Everyone raved. Love this alternative to the more traditional fajita!
So good! I thought it would be good, but didn't expect it to be great. I brined my chicken the night before (intact), and then threw them in the marinade before work (after cutting them into strips), and let them marinate in the fridge all day. I threw in the vegetables about 45 minutes before I cooked it all off. Added sour cream and guacamole as well as the cabbage and avocado mix and it was delicious!
The lime cabbage is a superb accompaniment for chicken fajitas. I don't think I'll ever use plain old lettuce for this kind of recipe again! The cabbage salad is a really refreshing dish to use as a side on its own. Perfect to pair with grilled meat or fish as well.
This was really beautiful from the variety of colors... red pepper, purple onion, green avocado. It's not the most delicious (or authentic) Tex-Mex, but for the ease and speed with which it comes together, I'll make it repeatedly. I like to follow the instructions the first time I make it, and then make changes after trying it. (I did add some tomatoes and manchego to the final product this time, and would do again.) I only marinated the chicken an hour, it would be better if it were longer. Also, I found the chicken to be WAY too oily, I'd cut it with some lime juice or vinegar next time. I love the idea of cumin and more garlic (maybe fajita seasoning?), and will try that, or will substitute another marinade. I thought the cabbage salsa was great, it made the dish; I wouldn't change a thing about it.
I will never eat shredded lettuce again after making the slaw in this recipe. Easy, quick, and delicious fajitas. My family likes garlic, so I added a few more cloves.The slaw also works well with fish tacos.
Made this for my mom and I, we both liked it. I added cumin to the chicken like the other reviews suggested, I used bagged cole slaw starter instead of red cabbage, and I used lettuce instead of tortillas. I also subbed out 2T of plain fat free yogurt for the olive oil in the slaw to make the dish weight watchers friendly. I had some mango so I sliced it and put in in the slaw as well. Mango worked out really well, and the whole dish was very yummy!
Made this with home-grown red cabbage last year--so good, could not wait until the cabbage ripened again this year. If you are not a garlic fan, just omit it--works a-ok; ditto for onion. But, do not omit the lime peel--mucho importante. To the marinade for chicken, I add 1/4 chopped small hot pepper, dash cayenne, sprinkle of paprika, 1/4 tsp salt and grinding of black pepper. To the marinade for cabbage, I add 1/4 chopped small hot pepper, 1/4 tsp salt and grinding of black pepper. Multigrain or whole wheat soft medium sized tortilla work well. Left-over cabbage makes good salad the next day.
These fajitas are absolutely amazing. We roast a pasture-raised chicken for one meal and use the leftover meat pieces for fajitas the following 2 nights. I will never do anything else with the leftover meat after roasting a chicken. This recipe is to die for.
This was pretty good. For the fajitas, I added extra garlic and cumin, and I also threw in some red bell pepper. The cabbage salad was very nice and light. Unfortunately, I didn't have any avocado, but after making this, I think guacamole would add some extra flavor. I also used less oil than the recipe called for. All in all, pretty good.


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Informazzjoni u opportunitajiet għaż-żgħażagħ madwar l-Ewropa.
All over the continent, too many people, communities and societies still suffer from the injustice and stigma that racism brings. What can you do?
There are about 10 to 12 million Roma people in Europe and most are EU citizens. However, they have faced generations of social and institutional discrimination.
One out of every 33 persons in the world today is a migrant, as more and more people are on the move today than at any other point in human history.


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By Ben Levisohn
Gold's drop has continued today–the precious metal has fallen 0.5% to $1,302.60 an ounce–but Newmont Mining (NEM) has been able to buck weakness in the precious metal and miners generally. The reason: Its sale of its Midas mine in Nevada for an undisclosed price.
Cowen's Adam Graf explains why Newmont is selling:
The high grade Midas Au-Ag Mine has served as one of the pinnacle operations within the company's Nevada Operations division…By our model, however, Midas should cease contributing to Nevada Operations by 2015/2016, due to resource depletion and as more focus turns to the Phoenix and CopperBasin Open Pits.
The Midas mine has been operating at 724tpd in 1H 2013, significantly under the Midas Mill capacity of 1200tpd. Midas has been running under capacity for some time, however the 2Q rate of 670tpd has been the lowest since 2007.
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By Brandon Speck/NEMS Daily Journal
Biggersville is a member of the MHSAA's smallest classification, but there is nothing small about its Saturday tournament – the Biggersville Shootout.
"We wanted to reward our fans and kids, an exposure type deal for the area," said Biggersville boys coach Cliff Little.
Some targeted teams already had obligations, but the eight-game lineup features a pair of Dandy Dozen players in Olive Branch's Sam Craft and Booneville's Kenny Paul Geno, as well as contenders in five of the six classes.
A pair of girls matchups open the tournament at 9:30 a.m., with Biggersville taking on Marshall Academy and East Webster facing Booneville. The state's top-ranked Academy AA team Marshall boys will then face Alcorn Central.
Geno and Booneville will play H.W. Byers and AJ Mabon, who is averaging 25 points per game. Shannon will face Olive Branch. Lakee Westbrook leads the Red Raiders with 20 points a game. OB's Craft is a Memphis basketball and football commit scoring 24.1 an outing.
Unbeaten Baldwyn is set to play Calhoun City at 5 p.m. Class 6A contender DeSoto Central plays Corinth at 6:30. Corinth has four players averaging more than 10 points a game, led by Desmin Harris' 11.6. Host Biggersville will face New Albany in the 8 p.m. nightcap. The Lions have four juniors averaging double figures, led by Daniel Simmons' 20.8.
Several of the losses for the tournament teams have come against other teams on the schedule. Three of Biggersville's four losses came against participating teams.
"We're excited. We support basketball and love basketball and keep a full house no matter who we're playing," Little said. "I feel like we'll have a lot people here to watch all the games."
The Ripley Event Center hosts four solid matchups on Saturday. The Walnut and Itawamba boys play at 2 p.m. Class 3A contender Mooreville will then play once-beaten North Pontotoc in a second boys game. The 8-2 Troopers are getting 18.1 points per game from transfer point guard Brandon Moore.
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Photo of the Day: Shootboxing Returns April 23rd
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April is shaping up to be a rather uneventful month for the world of kickboxing after a jam-packed March return for many of the bigger promotions in Europe. We saw the GLORY World Series continue, It's Showtime put on two big cards and Fight Code gave us the gift of Giorgio Petrosyan and a few other big fights. Understandably, Japan has been rather quiet the past month or so. Japan was actually hit by another earthquake today, a 7.4 and is once again on tsunami watch. Needless to say, inactivity in Japan is not a big deal. A few promotions are stepping up and running shows for Japan, to show the strength of the nation as well as to do their best to help out. Thankfully for us, Shootboxing is one of those promotions. Here is their poster. [source]


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And when we recently saw snow in India, how can anyone take a 6oC *rise* seriously.
Seeing how Himalaya (parts of it, anyway) is in India, I fail to see much shocking in this.
Some places are getting hotter, some are getting colder, nature will adjust itself as always.
Indeed. And that means that previously fertile areas will dry out as climate patterns shift, infrastructure designed for warm/cold climate will become unsuitable for the new conditions, and coastal areas - which are the most heavily-populated pretty much everywhere - flood as the sea level rises due to melting icecaps and expanding (heat expansion) water.
It's not that global warming spells the end of our planet, biosphere, human race or even human civilization; in fact we could even conceivably end up benefiting in the long run. It's simply that the cleanup required to adapt our societies to their new surroundings will be massive, and that makes them expensive. And of course the societies which can't perform them fast enough due to political or resource issues will end up having massive problems, possibly leading to mass deaths and major wars.


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By Ben Levisohn
On a day that central banks in Indonesia and Malaysia held rates steady–and a day after Brazil did the same–Capital Economics fires off its latest report asking if investors should worry about the independence of emerging market central banks.
It's a compelling question. Part of the transformation from global-basket cases in the 1990s to paragons of virtue has occurred because EM central bankers have worked hard to establish their credibility as inflation fighters. From Brazil to Russia–whose central bank has been instrumental in trying to convince investors to consider Putin's plaything a safe(er) place to invest–its the monetary minions that who have stood above the fray and guided their countries toward a more sensible monetary policy, and prevented a repeat of past crises. They've also helped boost the case for emerging markets as safe places to invest.
Investors are now worried about whether those gains will be given back. In Indonesia, for instance, the president has appointed his finance minister as that country's next central-bank head, while Hungary has appointed Gyorgy Matolcsy, its former economic minster. Politicians in Turkey, Thailand, Poland and Russia, meanwhile, have called for lower interest rates to boost growth.
Yet Capital Economics downplays the risks from these moves. For starters, finance ministers have been appointed central-bank heads before, with little damage done. Capital Economic's William Jackson writes:
…Agustin Carstens, who moved from Mexico's Ministry of Finance to the central bank in 2010, is widely respected in the markets. If anything, his appointment was seen as a blow for fiscal policy. The same appears to hold true for the nomination of Mr. Martowardojo in Indonesia.
And politicians publicly calling for lower rates? That may be a sign of how little sway they actually hold over central bankers these days. Jackson writes:
…one way of interpreting politicians' demands for looser policy is that they are voicing their grievances in public because they have little direct influence over monetary policy decisions. This would actually be testament to the independence of EM central banks. As further evidence of this, the financial markets don't appear to be too fazed by politicians' calls for rate cuts. Such demands have tended to have little impact on the markets' inflation expectations, proxied by the breakeven inflation rate derived from inflation-linked bonds.
Jackson's one worry: Hungary. He writes: …
The controversial appointment of Gyorgy Matolcsy, a government loyalist and previous Economy Minister, at the helm of Hungary's National Bank last Friday has raised the prospect that monetary policy will be eased further to support the government's growth agenda with scant regard for the Bank's inflation targeting mandate. This, in turn, would undermine the Bank's independence and credibility.
The lack of concern is also showing itself in some equity markets. The iShares MSCI Indonesia Investable Market Index (EIDO) exchange-traded fund, for instance, has gained 13.6% this year, while the iShares MSCI Thailand Capped Investable Market Index ETF (THD) has gained 10.6%. The iShares MSCI Turkey Investable Market Index ETF (TUR) has returned 2.8%.


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First.. I agree with you.. but this isn't Java's fault. This is SUN Microsystem's fault. They have systematically lied to the developer community, used their influence to pull the wool over the eyes the press, and basically do everything possible to ensure that Java *will* fail. This despite years of historical evidence from the Computer Industry that Closed Systems fail. SUN made it hard, it not impossibe for people to take Java and do innovative things with it.
SUN thought that interpreted X-platfrom applications would destroy Microsoft. The only problem was they were trying to replace the Microsoft Empire with another Empire just as Evil.
SUN would not license Java to companies (such as TowerJ) that wanted to build ahead-of-time optimizing compilers (this would make Java just as fast as C.. give or take a few implementation specific percentage points).
They insisted on making Java bytecode interpreted only. The GNU Compiler Collection 3.0 (with GNU Java Compiler) should fix this as it will be the first Open compiler with support for Java. This should remove the last barrier to Java's success! Java will no longer be under the thumb of an ignorant industry giant!
It doesn't matter. This has never been Java strength. The problem with JVMs is that they are closed source and impossible to port to other Operating Systems. With an Open Compiler, GJC. This will be no longer an issue because Java will run on every OS where GCC is ported (I think this is basically ever OS in existence).
Personally, I think the creators of Java did an amazing job. The problem is that their implementation was terrible. The Java Language Specification is still an awesome exercise in language design. This work will live on in GJC.
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Gleeman Pentaphonic
The Pentaphonic is a five-voice polyphonic analog synthesizer released in 1982. It was designed by brothers Al and Bob Gleeman and featured three DCOs for a stable and juicy analog sound. The Pentaphonic was in the running against such classics as the Sequential Prophet-5, Moog Minimoog and Polymoog, and the Oberheim 4-Voice. But the Gleeman Pentaphonic (and the Pentaphonic Clear) are extremely rare! Only about 30 Pentaphonics and 20 Pentaphonic Clears were ever made.
In addition to three oscillators per voice, the Pentaphonic has a four-pole lowpass resonant filter with an ADSR envelope, a VCA with ADSR, an LFO, and built-in chorusing (slow or fast). There is also a handy 300-note capacity sequencer on-board for simple real-time recordings that you can play along with. There's also a cool X/Y joystick for controlling pitch and mod effects. Some models also had a Presetter added which gave it 100 patch memories and eight digital waveforms.
The Clear model is unique because of its transparent plexiglass case. It was also designed to be strapped on like a guitar for live use. The standard models had a boring black case and a built-in speaker. Their demise has been blamed on the rise of the digital revolution as led by the Yamaha DX7. They went out of production in 1983, but the Audities Foundation had bought, restored and built some since. Audities-built Clear versions have green circuit boards. They have been used by Moog Cookbook, Imperial Drag, and Alabama. Originally selling for $2800 to $3400, they now go from anywhere from $700 to $5000 depending on the condition.
Read a very detailed history of the Gleeman Pentaphonic story here, written by Joey Swails.
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- LFO - One with sine wave modulation; routes to VCO, VCF or VCA
- Filter - 4 dB/oct with cutoff freq, resonance and EG amount. Has dedicated ADSR EG to filter.
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- Sequencer - 300-note realtime "sketch-pad" sequencer
- Control - None
- Date Produced - 1982
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You calling someone arrogant or stupid is the epitome of "the pot calling the kettle black". You are completely clueless!!! Many of us voiced our opinion on here which differs vastly from your and pointed out a desire for there to be a new president elected; however, realized that due to the fact there are millions of what appears to be less than intelligent voters, obama had a real good chance of being reelected. Why don't you take your own advice and say NOTHING!
coachmo...obviously I was not clueless because I perdicted the winner. Now all you guys have is excuses and I'm stupid. The fact that the guy you wanted to win did not does not make you stupid....not growing and learning from it is what makes you stupid.
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I'm one of those conservatives memnon loves to hate. But she can go search my posts and there won't be any opining I thought Romney would win. I hoped he would, but never felt confident enough to post anything about his chances. The election results merely indicated the dumbing down of America is progressing at a faster pace than any of us thought. And of course, the POTUS does have a proven strategy of catering to the lowest common denominator. So I'm disappointed, but not surprised he won the election.
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I'll cling to my god and guns in hopes for a better nation. Menmom you are so devisive in your posts. I wonder why you are this way. You want to fight all the time. Is there no joy of your fellow man in your heart. Please open your heart and see people for thier good intentions and love of country. It doesnt have to be this way. Bieng a liberal lefty comunist doesn't mean you have to be mean all the time thinking its your way or the hell with some one who doesn't agree with your ideoligy. I was just kidding about the lefty comunist thing.
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Menmon, I'm not sure I said obama wouldn't win. I didn't want him to win but that's besides the point. You get on here and call people stupid with what exactly to back that up? Your guy won the election and that makes you some kind of genius! I'll put my education and intelligence up against your underwhelming "smarts" anyway, anywhere with any venue you choose.


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Show off a part of your wine collection or prepare your wines for serving using the Vinotemp 6 Bottle Wall Mounted Wine Cooler (VT-6TED-WB). This unique thermoelectric cooler can hold up to six (6) regular-sized bottles of wine, and can be wall mounted for extra convenience. Featuring a double=paned glass door, this fridge is sure to keep the internal temperatures cold without letting any of the air out. The soft interior lighting helps to illuminate your collection while keeping the wines safe, without overexposing them to harmful UVs or lighting.
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Why? Because it only makes sense that those players who are about to be mashed to bits by the Mitchell investigation public shame-hammer know what's coming, and are going to race to get their absurd multi-year deals in the books before the market drops from under them. In that regard, it is somewhat surprising that Alex Rodriguez's sudden change of heart/panic re-signing with the Yankees has not been met with more whispers in the national media. One should probably also be suspicious of lopsided/sweetheart trades coming seemingly out of nowhere.
Think about it: if you were a baseball GM, and you knew this Mitchell thing was about to hit the fan, and suddenly one of your colleagues from another squad (say, a particular team from the National League's Central Division) called you in the middle of the night and started offering you big-name talent for a couple of scrubs. Then again, maybe the Central Division team's braintrust is just stupid — that can't be ruled out at all.
As for the Bonds thing . . .
This should just about put an end to one of the most irritating and depressing sports stories of all time. It was irritating because every sports fan on the planet Earth knew this moment was coming eventually — only a juiced-up egomaniac such as Barry Bonds could ever think that the Justice Department would let lying to a grand jury slide. The depressing part about this is that Bonds's downfall ultimately became one of the most loaded racial story lines of our generation. It was a subtle thing, but it was there all along — while all of Bonds's equally guilty white slugger counterparts took turns lawyering up, surrendering, cutting ass-saving deals, or otherwise bowing red-faced before the law — the weeping pantywaist-juicer Mark McGwire and the apologetic party animal Jason Giambi were the most notable — Bonds refused to play along with the system and instead chose defiance and the big fat middle finger. He then made matters worse by continuing to launch baseballs out of ballparks at a historic rate and growling that anyone who took issue with his joyless Ahab-like quest for the home-run record just didn't like seeing a black man succeed.
And the really ugly thing was that he was right; by then, the relentless Bonds-bashing in the national media took on an unmistakably racist overtone, as white America gave the spineless McGwire a free pass and piled on Bonds for having the nerve to refuse the cyanide pill and go down swinging instead. He was a black man who got crucified for refusing to take the deal, but he was no Muhammad Ali. There was no morality or ideology behind Bonds's martyrdom, just a lot of gland-fueled egomania and a big, basketball-size head full of oatmeal instead of brains.
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This intense 3-day class provides auditors with a solid understanding of the concepts for each of the core tools, and most importantly, how to audit their application in an automotive environment. The GM, Ford and Chrysler Customer-specific requirements are also covered within the course content to provide exposure and audit strategies for these important requirements.
At the completion of this training program, the participants will have worked with the following topics:
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