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Sometimes an employer needs an extra nudge to take a chance on hiring someone who is homeless.
HB274, a bill sponsored by Rep. Brian King, D-Salt Lake City, is King's second attempt to install an incentive by providing businesses with tax credits of $500 to $1,000 for each homeless individual they hire to work 80 to 160 hours per month for six months.
The measure cleared its first hurdle Wednesday, passing out of the House Revenue and Taxation committee with a favorable recommendation. But members of the public were equally adamant in voicing opinions for and against HB274, probably signifying a tough battle the bill will face when it receives full debate on the House floor.
In 2012, King's HB101 the precursor of this year's HB274 cleared the House but died in the Senate, as did most bills that required funding in such a lean budget year. The fiscal note for HB274 predicts costs of $248,000 in 2014 and $496,000 in 2015, and those dollars would come out of the education fund.
Davis County resident Peter Cannon, a fan of limited government, spoke against the bill.
"In my favorite world we would have volunteers taking care of the homeless rather than having government do that," said Cannon, who conversely opposes the idea of reducing the amount of money that should be spent on education.
Pamela Atkinson, a longtime advocate for the homeless community, said she believes that businesses need incentives to take a chance on hiring a homeless person. She also believes such a choice pays big dividends.
"The first thing when they get a job, their self-esteem goes up. They feel, 'I'm worth it,' and they put a lot of energy into making this opportunity work," Atkinson said.
Camille Winnie of the Downtown Alliance also spoke in favor of the bill.
"The downtown community bears a good portion of [the homeless] burden," Winnie said, referencing the many individuals who spend their days hanging around the shops and businesses because they have nowhere to go. "By hiring these individuals, you'd be helping the environment down there as well."
Gayle Ruzicka of the conservative Eagle Forum spoke against the bill.
"I think this idea of creating an unfair advantage" giving a tax credit for hiring a homeless individual instead of hiring someone else also in need of a job "over a period of time [could make] the people you didn't hire end up homeless," Ruzicka said. She argued that such policy falls outside the proper role of government.
However, Linda Hilton, project director for the Coalition of Religious Communities, said the tax credits would help give homeless individuals equal footing not an advantage when they apply for jobs.
The committee vote on the measure was 11-5 in favor, with the bill now heading to the full House. King said he would work with Rep. Gage Froerer, R-Huntsville, on the possibility of adding a sunset mechanism that would require evaluation of the measure's success after a specified period of time should it pass.
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Anwar Ibrahim, the insurgent leader in Malaysia hopes to have a new coalition of parties united behind his candidacy by the end of the week. He is dealing with a government that has ruled for over forty years and there are still fears the incumbents may not wish to depart in a graceful manner. "We want the transition to be peaceful," said Anwar. "That's why we are not giving an ultimatum." He refuses to provide names of members of the ruling coalition who have decided to come over to his group in hope that a new government can ensure democracy is practiced in their nation. Among the goals of a coalition government headed by Anwar would be involving members of minorities such as the Chinese and Hindus more actively in the political process.
During his political life, Anwar has previously been written off, particularly after the government tried to convict him on trumped up charges of sodomy. He has fought against every attempt to stifle voices seeking a more democratic society. Anwar promised that once in power, "there will be no witch-hunting. What we want is to rule without corruption, detention without trial, or theft of the people's resources."

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Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been Better Off?
posted at 6:03 pm on September 5, 2012 by Dafydd ab Hugh
At last! The reanointment campaign of President Barack "You didn't build that" Obama is finally ready to detail exactly what way Americans are better off now than they were four years ago. In a New York Times piece, they finally get down to the nitty gritty of economic, cultural, and national-security improvement since January 20th, 2009.
Here's the lede:
A day after fumbling a predictable and straightforward question posed by Mitt Romney last week — are Americans better off than they were four years ago — the Obama campaign provided a response on Monday that it said would be hammered home during the Democratic convention here this week: "Absolutely."
That answer, "absolutely," comes from Stephanie Cutter, deputy campaign mangler, at the Democratic National Convention on Monday:
In fact, on Monday the campaign settled on a definitive answer of, as the deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter put it, "Absolutely."
There it is, in black and white (or whatever colors you've chosen for your font and background): Stephanie Cutter has categorically, unequivocally, hysterically answered that "better-off" question for all time: Ab-so-lootely we're better off now than when Obama assumed the position. Absolutely!
Who could argue with that?
Let's not be unfair; Cutter did go on to give detailed and specific reasons why we're better off:
Followed down a hallway by a local news crew asking the "better off" question in the convention center here, Ms. Cutter described the economic scene four years ago — the auto companies teetering near bankruptcy, bank failures — and said, "Does anyone want to go back to 2008? I don't think so."
I'm not so sure: Perhaps those voters who lost their jobs under the Obama administration long for 2008, which they might see as the golden age of employment.
Today's real unemployment/underemployment rate — what the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls the U6 labor underutilitzation rate — includes those unemployed and actively looking for a job, those unemployed who would like to work but have given up in despair, and those who are working part time but want to work full time.
That U6 unemployment number is significantly higher now than it was when Obama seized the reins of power.
Back then, on January 20th, 2009, the U6 rate was 14.2%. It had been rising in the waning days of the Bush administration; and it continued rising throughout Obama's first year, hitting a peak of 17.1% in December, 2009.
That big run-up of 2.9% represented nearly 4.5 million more people unemployed or underemployed than when Obama was inaugurated.
The U6 rate stayed more or less around that point for another year, then finally began to drift downward a little in December, 2010. It wafted back towards the "inauguration rate" over the next year, hitting 14.5% in March, 2012; but then the U6 unemployment number took off again. Today it hovers at 15.0%… still noticibly higher than it was when Obama was sworn at by the Chief Justice. The 0.8% rise in the U6 rate from 2009 corresponds to 1.24 million more Americans out of work or underemployed than when Obama's term began.
At no point has total unemployment/underemployment dropped back down to Obama's inauguration rate; on employment, the president is still underwater. Those hoping for employment are certainly no better off today than they were four years ago… and I doubt the extra one and a quarter million unemployed/underemployed Americans are mollified by the fact that Barack Obama seized General Motors and gave huge bailouts to his Big Banking cronies.
Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley of Maryland echoed Cutter's claim anent Obama's stellar record on job creation, though he offered a slightly more cautious version:
Mr. O'Malley provided another answer on Monday on CNN: "We are clearly better off as a country because we're creating jobs rather than losing them. We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That's why we need to continue to move forward."
But they've also "not recovered" all the extra jobs lost in the Obama recession; they're still short, as we noted, by 1.24 million jobs since inauguration.
Forward! Progress! Ab-so-lootley!
Let's press on, guvnor. Surely there must be some objective measurement to back up Stephanie's cutting ejaculation of "Absolutely!"
Oh, here we go; Slow Joe Biden issues an unanswerable proof:
Speaking in Detroit on Monday, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said during a union rally, "You want to know whether we're better off?" He answered: "I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive."
Well, yes; it's true: Osama bin Laden is dead. On the other hand, his organization, al-Qaeda, and its kissing cousins in the Taliban, are significantly more powerful today than they were at the end of Bush's term. So there is that.
Throughout all of 2008, 151 Americans were killed in Afghanistan by enemy action, according to the notoriously right-wing news source, the Hufflepuffington Post. But last year, that number had exploded to 398, down from 492 in 2010. Seems like quite a lot more Taliban/al-Qaeda activity, especially for a war whose expiry date has already been announced.
And of course, radical Islamism in general (Egypt, Syria, Iran, Iraq, et al) has been on the march for the last couple of years. It's true that one extremely bloody mass murderer was finally taken down — by U.S. Navy SEALs, by the way; not by Barack Obama personally, no matter what he may fantasize. But as George W. Bush warned during his presidency, bin Laden, or even al Qaeda, is not the entirety of radical Islamism; in fact, Iran is the most dangerous radical-Islamist power, and it has been since the 1979 revolution.
President B.O. has done virtually nothing to check the overarching threat of jihadism and its related components, from nuclear weapons; to massacres of Jews, Christians, and Animists; to subversion of democracies or emerging democracies; to cross-border warfare; to "lawfare" and other elements of dawa, supporting sharia law by means short of violent assault. In fact, Obama reserves his strongest condemnations not for radical Islamists, but for Israel, the lone fully democratic nation in the Middle East.
With the uninhibited rise of radical Islamism across the world and even here in the United States on Barack Obama's watch (the Fort Hood massacre, for example), we are not better off on terrorism than we were four years ago… even with the death of an old man hiding in Pakistan.
Joe Biden's second point is technically true: General Motors is, in some sense, still "alive" (though I don't quite see how the attribute of "life" comports with the general Democratic Progressivist rejection of corporations as "persons" under the law). However, all those former stockholders of GM — millions of Americans (including a great many retireees) in their 401K plans and pension funds — might not feel better off… as their holdings were looted by Obama to give his Big Labor pals a stock jackpot. Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
Maybe the Democrats are happy to stand on bailouts for bankers, "Government Motors," and claiming credit for the heroic deeds of America's Special Forces; but it does seem just a little squirrelly to me.
Their next point… oh. Oh dear; I'm afraid we have managed to plod all the way through the triumphalist New York Times article. There is nothing else in the article.
Yet isn't it peculiar that in this entire litany of reasons in the New York Times why we're better off today than we were four years ago, not a single Democrat points to ObamaCare or the trillion-dollar "stimulus?" It's as if the two signal achievements of the Obama administration have faded, like the Cheshire Cat, leaving only their deficits behind.
NB: In the photograph accompanying the Times article, we see two people sporting "I ♥ ObamaCare" bumper stickers; alas, those two "people" are in fact cardboard cutouts — with no faces. I don't think they're any better off either than they were fours years ago, when they might have been living spruce trees. (I also find it amusing that Obama himself now accepts the derisive term "ObamaCare" for his MIA government medicine program, which used to be called the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act." Heh.)
We began this inquiry with the Reagan/Romney Riddle: "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" I reckon we'll just have to watch the
debacle spectacle unfold to see what evidence they can cite, besides that already (?) introduced, to justify Cutter's Comprehensive Confirmation: "Absolutely!"
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After a few days of trimming, fitting and attaching some hinges, I started painting my gauntlets.
Once again, these pieces were painting strictly with the "layering" method.
I also used the Montana Gold spray cans as well.
They still need some pretty extensive adjustments and I need to paint and attach all of the greebs. All in all I'm pretty happy with the result.
I think I used about 8 different shades of paint(not including the base coat of silver.
Constructive criticism is appreciated.
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LOL google it... I hope they actually make it like the dragonball world and not make it look like high school musical.... can someone actually make a film that is pretty close to the the original thing for once like sin city. They have some talent working on the film people who did the matrix,300,mr&mrs smith, x-files, ect but it already looks like another transformers, looks like bumble bee is back this summer look out megatron LOL


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Re: Love of Money
as greedy as a pig...piggy bank...money...great on many levels...nice work. gmv
jonomc wrote:i guess i dont have to say nicely done, as always, i'm impressed at how your subject captures the theme from some obscure (non-cliche) angle. i could use some of that obviously... any tips?
Another nice one from Mr. Cho. However I agree that the Astronaut removing the flag isn't that obvious. Maybe have him walking in the opposite direction carrying it on his shoulder with a big divot in the ground where it used to be?
Re: Click Click
Inside jokes don't make good shirts.
Re: It's Ours Now
Just my 2 cents to those who say it doesnt look like they are taking the alien flag out, instead of having the flag a perfect rectangle make it partially umm down...like you know what i mean...more how an american flag looks on a calm non windy day, just make sure the alien head is still visible, then add a few more motion lines below the flag making it look like it is moving up...yah....or just draw a small up arrow next to/under the alien flag either way...thats my 2 cents.
Fermi83557 wrote:yeah, I am not sure about how to do the box thing on the shirt.
THANKS for the compliment though!
this is my first ever entry
did you past it onto the shirt? and what program did you use?
DrkRonin wrote:did you past it onto the shirt? and what program did you use?
paste* i ment paste..
Re: So Hungry/Greedy He Could Eat A Horse?
I really love these colors...I'll have to get this shirt when it prints!
Amazing. Like others have said, not something I would wear, but for the misses.
Oh man i hope this wins i twould go great in my
monkey" collection
Re: Just... one... more...
This is really beautiful!
AdderXYU wrote:I would move for a Conquistador meme. They're much more intriguing than pirates anyway. My only fear is that it would give Johnny Depp a reason to ponce around in makeup through another increasingly baffling trilogy... after all, those crazy Spaniards were way more likely to dress like dandies and wear makeup than pirates were.
You know, I was really pulling for the privateer meme... But it was not to be (Henry Morgan's more than a rum brand? Who knew!).
This shirt is more of the awesome Zenne always seems to come up with. Glorious.
Re: Oil Kings
Your design is beautiful and grotesque. GMV!
Ain't that the truth! The national average is now $3.30 a gallon!
Great design.
great colors and nice work on the detail. gmv
Re: Emerald Feed
Whoa, changing up the style here. I love the art itself, but those colours are horrific, imo. Most will probably disagree with me, but green+close shade, yet still off green+dusky blue, or really any blue=extreme yuck. But I love the lineart
Wow, Thanks guys! I'm glad you dig it.
Re: u cant has deez - on asphalt
The best part of this is the expression on the squirl's face! It makes me laugh. Nice design.
Wow! I'll wear this every time I fill up!!! Great job, awesome shirt. GMV.
Re: Chillaxin
I I think this one is great, and I would vote on it, as-is. But since they rejected it, maybe if you resubmitted it, and make the expression on the big guy's face show a little more greed, then they'd let it go through. I'd vote for sure!
Hmm, maybe I'm looking at this wrong, but it was instantly apparent to me how this was greed... The woman is greedily collecting the hearts of men, always chasing after just one more, with no concern to the men themselves.
Hate to disagree with the woot mods, but it seems fairly obvious to me on first look (either color) that it's on topic and I like the shirt to boot.
Sorry you got canned, Toby. It was a good design.
barthesis wrote:Wow, Thanks guys! I'm glad you dig it.
ooh. welcome back, bart!
I would just resubmit as is maybe and explain in the first comment how it fits the theme... not sure if it would work, but its a thought
mjpupillo wrote:don't forget skulls and all things cute and fuzzy. i agree, but just thought it fit the theme too well to pass up.
And we don't see enough flying penguins
Looks amazing, and I will be first in line for one.
Re: I drink your milkshake, I drink it up.
Hehe ... It's pretty simple, but for someone like me that likes that saying so much, it's awesome. You got a vote of confidence from me. So long as no one makes a better one.
Re: I, ME, MINE !
Mr Happy looks a whole lot like pa...
Oh, I see what you did here. I think he's still rejected even if you anthropomorphize him
mlierre wrote:again, "pourquoi un chapeau ferait-il peur?"
So much Little Prince love...
I dig the pig man! Nice entry Barthesis!
Re: Greed Tree Colorized
I have to agree. I think w00t was a bit too hasty here. This does show greed... just maybe not what they were expecting. I really like it though!
Re: The Greediest Little Bunny There Ever Was
renfrue wrote:cah-yute!
Thanks! =D
AdderXYU wrote:Mr Happy looks a whole lot like pa...
Oh, I see what you did here. I think he's still rejected even if you anthropomorphize him
snap, really?
i thought a parody would be otay
must... hug... bunny
This is an intensely wearable design. Hope you get that $1000 check!
slysappysucker wrote:well thanks!
this is my first shirt design i've ever submitted.... i obviously was not aware of my audience. but when I think greed the first thing that comes to mind is politics. I suppose woot shirts tend to favor the animated whimsical sort of designs, nothing too serious. ah, well.
Yeah mostly geeky, cutesy crap. Monkeys, pirates, ninjas, calvin and hobbes references. Once in a blue moon there's something edgy but mostly its big eyes and pastel colors.
Re: Greedy Kids Pull Teeth Early
Similar to the baby gotta get paid, except more focus on the kid, less focus on the excesses of gold. Hopefully a better design, eh?
Aberrantic wrote:Whoa, changing up the style here. I love the art itself, but those colours are horrific, imo. Most will probably disagree with me, but green+close shade, yet still off green+dusky blue, or really any blue=extreme yuck. But I love the lineart
Got a color preference? I'm not particularly attached to anything, esp seeing how this is now in 7th place.
Re: Ask, and it will be given to you
Might make more sense around Christmas time on a green shirt though.
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Saturday, March 6, 2010
3/6 Stamping 411 Challenge Cards
15 comments:
- L. Ann said...
I am loving the simplicity of your first card. I have that stamp set, too and LOVE it. The colors are fantatic,too. Great cards!
- March 6, 2010 at 3:01 PM
- Judy Garza said...
Fabulous. Thanks for explaining "shadow dancing." I love that look!
- March 6, 2010 at 4:13 PM
- Butternut Sage Designs said...
oh so simple and pretty...the colors are great!
- March 7, 2010 at 12:08 PM
- stamperbeth said...
This is awesome! I think I need those extreme stamps so I can copy.
- March 7, 2010 at 1:15 PM
- Robin Merriman said...
Wow! Where to start?! Both of your cards are great, Kay! Love the use of the gel pen in the first one and you rocked that color challenge in #2! Thanks for the tutorial info!
- March 7, 2010 at 7:57 PM
- Selene Kempton said...
Clean, simple and striking! I love it Kay!
- March 8, 2010 at 8:38 AM
- Hi, I'm Lee Conrey! said...
Wow!!! These colors just POP!!! Love the simplicity of this. Fabulous card!
- March 8, 2010 at 6:46 PM
- Connie said...
Great job with the colors on the Stamping 411 sketch this week! Simple...but it works great!
- March 9, 2010 at 3:02 PM
- Crafting Clare said...
Both of these cards are gorgeous but the first one really grabs me. I love the colours, the gel pen accents and the faux thread is a lovely touch.
- March 9, 2010 at 5:33 PM
- Patti Chesky said...
Love them both, Kay!!!! The color combo on the first card is so striking!!!! The gel pen highlights just knock it out of the park!!!
I ADORE your color challenge card!!! It's the perfect "guy" card!!
- March 10, 2010 at 9:49 PM
- Megan at PPC said...
Great cards!
Please check out my NEW challenge blog and Design Team call! www.ppc-challenges.blogspot.com
-Megs :)
- March 11, 2010 at 12:02 PM
- Kelly Acheson said...
Kay - I LOVE the technique you used here! I also have all the Extreme stamps and can't wait to play with them some more! TFS!
- March 14, 2010 at 4:07 AM
- Zafran ali said...
Nice colour combination & used so nice technique I like ur great work....These are so nice cards..
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I love the simplicity of your first card and look absolutely delicious...
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Wow!! amazing colorful cards ... where to start???I think I need those extreme stamps so I can copy....
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Soul Legend Isaac Hayes Dies at 65
Grammy and Academy Award-winning soul legend Isaac Hayes was found unconscious, next to a treadmill, in his Memphis home and eventually rushed to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead on Sunday. Hayes was 65. The 'Shaft' singer paved the way for smooth, deep-voiced crooners like the late Barry White and is credited for rapping before the genre's actual existence. "The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence," Hayes said. "And they'll tell you if you ask."
Hip-hop went on to show love to the legend by sampling Hayes' classics. Jay-Z's 'Can I Live' samples the music from Hayes' 'The Look of Love' and Public Enemy borrowed the guitar riff from the 'Theme From Shaft' for 1988's 'Caught, Can We Get a Witness?' off 'It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.' Also, Nas' 'Getting Married' features Hayes' 'Ike Mood I' and the Notorious B.I.G. used the back track of the soul singer's version of 'Walk on By.'
The godfather of soul and funk, Hayes' 'Theme From Shaft,' for which the singer-songwriter won an Academy Award for Best Original Song, is widely known as one of the most iconic soundtrack hits. Hayes regained popularity in the 90's as the voice of Jerome "Chef" McElroy on the popular, controversial cartoon 'South Park.'
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hives... If I catch a swarm, would you suggest that I do the oxalic dribble on them before they start building brood....
Note that OA is only effective when used during a broodless period. I think the same is true of powdered sugar/SBB, but that fact is often ignored.LOL. What am I going to do, sugar dust my colonies at 10 below zero in January, lol.
Recipemix 100g sugar + 100 g water + 7,5 g oxalic acid.This enough for 3 two box hives or 5 one box hives.Cost is almost nothing.
It can also be applied with a vaporizer. That's how I apply mine.


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Green Bay Inducts the Late Butch Reimer into Phoenix Hall of Fame
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - The late Everett "Butch" Reimer was posthumously inducted into the Phoenix Hall of Fame on Friday night in a ceremony held at The Marq. Reimer was inducted as the lone member of the Class of 2011 and the 71st Hall of Famer in the 18th annual Phoenix Hall of Fame banquet.
A longtime coach and supporter of Green Bay Athletics, Reimer passed away on Oct. 19, 2010 after a battle with acute myogenic leukemia. Reimer's wife, Jill, spoke and accepted the honor on his behalf from Butch's brother-in-law, presenter Jed DeYoung.
Reimer most recently worked as the head Nordic ski coach from 2006 until the time of his passing. He also coached the Nordic ski program from 1988-98 and served as the head softball coach from 1996-2002. During his time at Green Bay, Reimer led the ski program to great heights. In his years leading the program, 33 men and women qualified for the NCAA Championships and his teams won two regional championships and two conference titles.
While at the helm of the softball program, Reimer led the Phoenix to three-straight conference title games and a then-program best 27-15 record in 2000.
Three of Reimer's former student-athletes - Phoenix Hall of Famer and former Nordic skier Dr. Philip Gallagher, Phoenix Hall of Famer and former softball player Debbie Kind Urben and current Nordic skier Carolyn Freeman shared their thoughts and stories on how Reimer impacted their lives and Green Bay Athletics. UW-Green Bay Chancellor Tom Harden and Director of Athletics Ken Bothof also spoke at the ceremony.
For more on Reimer, click here.


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Resource Accounting
Resource Allocation
ARSC allocates computer resources to projects rather than to individuals. Each project has a designated principal investigator (PI) who is in charge of the research project. The PI approves user access to the project. All users have equal access to the available resources.
ARSC resources are allocated in CPU hours for each platform. CPU hours are calculated by multiplying the number of hours a program runs by the total number of processors requested by the program. Allocations apply to the October 1st - September 30th federal fiscal year. If your project has or will run out of allocation, please contact User Support to request additional CPU hour allocation.
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To obtain the initial estimates of the CPU hours, most users need to run sample jobs. ARSC provides "Start Up" accounts that have limited allocation for code testing, porting and debugging. "Start Up" accounts are for users needing to make preliminary estimates of their resource requirements.
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Resource accounting is applicable to ARSC compute resources. The show_usage command is available to help you track your projects' utilization of resources. The show_usage utility is located in /usr/local/bin on the HPC systems.
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pacman1 % show_usage ARSC - Subproject Usage Information (in CPU Hours) As of 13:21:01 hours ADT 21 Nov 2011 For Fiscal Year 2012 (01 October 2011 - 30 September 2012) Percentage of Fiscal Year Remaining: 86.03% Hours Hours Hours Percent Background System Subproject Allocated Used Remaining Remaining Hours Used ========== ============== ========== ========== ========== ========= ========== pacman projecta 300000.00 165988.93 134011.07 44.67% 428.80 pacman projectb 10000.00 0.00 10000.00 100.00% 0.00
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by Hotsauce, Feb 16, 2006.
The Magic watch is on... current record 1-2 (after losing to the Hawks today)
Now we talkin! Off the top of my head there appears to be 7 or 8 good "big" men comin out next draft. All of em ain't centers, but we outta be able to snag one of em. I'd take that bet. Even if I lost, this rook will still be better for US than Darko was.
Mustafa Shakur has really picked up his game this year and is projected at NBADraft.net (as of today) to be a mid-second round pick. ESPN.com: Arizona Wildcats - Mustafa Shakur Player Card The Pistons worked him out last year but passed on him. Everyone loves a Lute Olsen (Arizona) player, so I think he will either get some interest with the Pistons second round pick if still available,get drafted higher (the Pistons own 1st rounder) or totally ignored if they saw something they didn't like. The kid has the size and scoring skills to play in Flip's offense.
Looks like Mustafa and the Cats come to Washington on January 4th. I'm going to see if I can snag some tickets for this game. If I can, I will give a scouting report.
theres a bunch of SF's going in the 15-20 range. wouldnt mind one of those so we can finally get a backup for Tay.
NBAdraft.net has Joe utilizing the "shotgun approach" in drafting 3 point guards with our three picks. The highlights. 15 -Stuckey drafted with Nick Young and Acie Law still on the board. 27-Aaron Brooks? drafted with literally everyone else including Morris Almond on the board. What a vote of confidence for your #15 pick front office guys. And then we throw the #57 away with yet another PG fresh off of hip surgery? Are these guys for real or is this their vote of disconfidence in Joe Dumars?
i find nbadraft.net the off-est of the mocks.
Living off their rep. I can dig it. I hope to one day have a rep worth living off of.
I like their information. its not entirely inaccurate. but its not looking at every team as closely as some others seem to be.
I guess they are the "Detroit Pistons" of mock draft boards.
It shouldn't be too difficult to construct a matrix with team needs (by position) and player value intersecting to show maybe a less popular mock, but certainly one that is a conversation starter. Joe will not draft 3 PGs. When Lindsey retires we will actually become a more organized offensive team. lmao
I would love to see us luckily get that 6'11 Yi Jianlian..but i doubt he will fall to 15th pick
I have a feeling we will get a mega athletic SF. If you look at how the draft seems to be shaking out, Minny is reported to be favoring Hawes, Atlanta; Crittenton at 11, LA Clippers possibly Law...you end up pushing the other guys down. Stuckey over Thornton? I dunno. They want a guy that can create his own shot. so it could be feasible to get a scoring wing.
If you want to know who we plan on drafting listen to McCoskey when he is on WDFN. He called the Jason Maxiell pick, and nobody was expecting that one.
McCosky and Bob Wojnowski (Wojo). They both have the inside track on the local team's picks. Wojnowski does this thing where they play this music and he keeps saying OHM, OHM and they call him Wojodamus. He picked the Ernie Sims pick for the Lions, and the Calvin Johnson pick this year I believe.
Al is my guy. I saw him play 4 times this year. A video snack... Google Video result for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBBBw3OoFrQ
IMO we need to come away with our next PG. We will probably never draft this high until the wheels come off. SF's are plentiful and easy to come by. but the talent difference may be too high to pass up an al type player.
Here is a couple predictions from sites: DraftExpress: Mock Draft 2007 NBA Mock Draft - HoopsVibe 2007 NBA DRAFT | MOCK DRAFT ver 7.0 | HOOPSWORLD.com | NBA News and Information | powered by Basketball News Services InsideHoops.com - NBA Mock Draft I was watching a few Greg Oden interviews, I came across one where he expresses that he thinks staying in college will help him develope more so he is ready for NBA, i wonder what happend..maby his ego grew... Ideas: (IF AL THORTON IS NOT AVAILABLE)-Tiago Spliter | Spencer Hawes #27 Pick-Solid 1/2 backup
i dunno man. its like $12 million. who wouldn't?
I really hate all of this Tiago Splitter prediction stuff in some mock draft. The guy seems like a stiff.
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Buddy's all - WTF. I didn't get to be an only child for very long!
Yeah, it wasn't working for her. Her back leg kept falling off, so she finally got up and then found a big dog chair.
She's currently snoring.
Oddly, I got the cat because Buddy has been having such issues when I'm not home. He's been crazy lonely. I came home four hours late a few weeks ago, and he was all wigged out.
Since it's not Armageddon, I'm hoping they'll friend up as the weeks go by. After all, Buddy used to hide under the bed for every little thing, and he got past that.
If nothing else, they'll just ignore each other, but, no fighting right now seems to be a good sign.
I was catching up on Grimm and saw this commercial for Fresh Step. Maru is in a commercial! Some of you may have seen this already since it was on Hulu.
Fresh Step Litter Playful Kitty - YouTube
WTG Maru!!!!!
This came up after I saw the Maru commercial. LIFE I tell you LIFE.
The Trials and Tribulations of Patrick Chesterfield II - YouTube
Our new kitten, Shadow:
Our new kitten, Shadow:
Awww, scared kitten eyes.
Lily (that'll be new girl's name) is settling in. As long as she and Buddy are about ten feet apart, all is well.


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"And I Will Make an End"
Timothy Dyer, Our Frère Loup
Pierre Tristam / February 16, 2010
I have just received the news that The Notebooks' oldest friend, and one of my best, Timothy Dyer, known here as Frere Loup, is dead. He died on February 3. He wrote me on the 2nd and said in part: "I have lived this life as fully as I could from beginning to end, even during the last 20 years of 'go nowhere, do nothing, spend nothing', just to survive, even when I was little more than just a ghost haunting my little one bedroom." And he wrote: "Constant fear. Constant threat. Over. I will have my thick leather hat, my levi/serape jacket from the Triumph 650 Bonneville and a year on the road in '73; my leather jacket from the Honda Gold Wing back in '91, my Tony Lama motorcycle boots, and my silk jacket--for my witnesses. I'll bathe and anoint my ankles, wrists, neck, and forehead with oils (I still have a few). I will burn a little sage, I will read out loud the Short Version of Sefer Yetzirah (from Aryeh Kaplan's transl. of the same name) which I have loved for many years and used to creative pieces--and I will make an end."
For those of you who knew Tim here, please leave a note or contact me directly. I have not kept up with the Notebooks for a few reasons, one of which will become obvious in the near future. Haloscan has switched owner. It still works. But in the switch I've lost all of your emails, and I would like those of you, the regulars, who still might check in here to send me a note.
Where the Customer Is Always Wrong
Brighthouse, Worst Company in Florida
Pierre Tristam / December 27
Beginning at about 8 a.m. the day before Christmas, the internet connection here at the house, which is also the internet connection this site (such as it's been), my other jobs and everyone else here at the house depends on, started acting strange. Certain sites didn't load–among them, ironically, the News-Journal. It hadn't sold, at last check, and cost-cutting hasn't been so dire that the company's Time-Warner cable bill was going unpaid. Google, too, was acting up. Sometimes it would load, sometimes not. Google News was on and off. And chess.com, my occasional addiction. It wouldn't let me log in. Welcome to Brighthouse hell.
False Dawn
Nuclear Power's Megafraud
Pierre Tristam / November 15
Energy independence is the new creationism; nuclear power its deity. As the head glow for nuclear's new dawn, you can't do better than Aris Candris. He's president and CEO of Westinghouse Electric, the company aiming to build 14 of 25 new nuclear reactors planned in the United States. Candris also sums up everything that's wrong with the nuclear power industry's orchestrated revival—the deceptions, the manipulated numbers, the false promises and the sheer swindle of taxpayer dollars for a technology with a lethal past and an unproven future. Read the tall tale...
Obama's Nobel
But Has He Done Anything Yet?
Pierre Tristam / October 9
The list of Nobel peace prize winners is full of dubious, at times downright outrageous choices: Henry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho, Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, Menahem Begin. Some of these guys were avowed terrorists (Arafat and Begin), some of them are still wanted in some countries for war crimes (Kissinger), all of them at one time or another thought diplomacy an interruption of war by untold means. The list also contains obvious choices: Eli Wiesel, Mother Teresa, Médecins sans frontières (Doctors Without Borders), Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela--men, women and organizations that unquestionably moved regions of the world in more peaceful directions while restoring dignity to masses of people who'd been denied it by force. The question is: where does Barack Obama, who just won the peace prize, fit in all this? Read the rest...
Elderly Gulags
Old and Dying Without Dignity
Pierre Tristam / September 27
No one volunteers to be institutionalized either in a nursing home or an assisted living facility, for entirely understandable reasons. Those places can be murder on a man's freedom and sense of self no matter how much their intake administrators reassure families with embroidered rhetoric and bingo nights. Nursing homes are worse. If it was my turn I'd opt for a death panel first. All of that is going to have to change, including Medicare's (and taxpayers') stinginess, if the country is to put the dignified — not just "humane," a word borrowed from dog pounds — caring of its elderly where the country's supposed reverence for individualism is. I'm not holding my breath, because here's one of the most telling ironies of how the business of caring is done in America: We pay the least those who care for our youngest and oldest. I'd say it shows, but most of us don't care to look, which suits our caregivers' shareholders just fine.
Endangered Species
The Devaluation of Journalists
Pierre Tristam / September 20
You'd think reporters were a lower life form. And I'm not referring to the way bean-counters are exterminating them out of newsrooms. It's not that the press needs a savior. It'll fend for itself. But the message underlying the anger over New York Times reporter Stephen Ferrell's rescue from Taliban captors earlier this month is that reporters are the problem. They're the hindrance. They're the nuisance. That, too, is a ruse happily fueled by the press' usual suspects — governments large and small, corporations, the military, those nodes of power to whom prying eyes check the execution of often-dirty business. The ruse is endorsed by the same "mainstream-media"-bashing consumers who then gripe and moan about the thinness of their newspaper and the fluff of their newscast. You can't have it both ways.
Brutish and Brainless
Obama School Speech Cranks
Pierre Tristam / September 4
The Big Babies are at it again. This time it's over President Obama's planned speech to schoolchildren on Tuesday. Parents are complaining about the president indoctrinating their children, principals and teachers are complaining about him taking up class time, talk-show hosts are complaining about Obama not doing this often enough so they'd have more ado about nothing to bash him over the head with. Are you flopping kidding me? Is this what it's coming to—Obama sneezing and right-wingers declaring a swine flu emergency in response? But this is what the shout-show culture of Hannities and Limbaughs and O'Reillies and Becks was bound to do to discourse: devolve it into segmented, nugget-size raving fit for the brute and the brainless. Bigotry, in this case, is the added bonus (viz., those signs that say "go home to Kenya ").
Health Scare Debate
Enough Lies
Pierre Tristam / August 9
Town hall brigades are fueled up on the lies of mass e-mails and shout-show demagogues that presume to list, page by page, the horrors of the health-care bill. Reporters fuel the lies by couching them in the false objectivity of reporting "both sides of the story" instead of tracking down the story's origin — the bill's content, which is nowhere near its detractors' imagination or many reporters' second-hand and third-rate reporting. You don't compromise fact in the name of balance. This isn't about dissent. When people shout some of the things they do to lapping cameras ("I want my America back!" "Obama is destroying the country!" "Socialism! "Communism!") I'm reminded of something more senseless than the Iraq war fantasists. I'm reminded of those 9/11 conspiracy theorists who insist Bush and his friends planned 9/11, or of people who think the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" — the anti-Semite's bible — explains the world. This is mass-hysteria territory.
Mountaintop Madness
The Leveling of West Virginia
Pierre Tristam / August 9
Why should we care? That the question has to be asked is in part the reason why Appalachia's destruction accelerated — first with the blessing of the Bush administration, then that of the federal Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia, now with that of the Obama administration: Not enough people care to stop it. Why should Appalachian mountains be different than protecting, say, Florida's shore or Alaska's Arctic refuge? Proximity or the likelihood that we'd ever visit a place doesn't make it more or less valuable. Its existence does. Besides, acre for acre, wildlife for wildlife, mountaintop removal in West Virginia is more destructive and toxic than expanded oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, had that gone ahead, with one difference: West Virginia's destruction isn't theoretical. It's happening now. All that before an ounce of coal is burned, triggering a whole other set of environmental damage.
Empire Falls
Suicide by Deficit
Pierre Tristam / August 2
Empires rise and fall on the strength of their kitty, not their guns. Spain in the 17th century, France in the 18th, Britain in the 19th — they each went bankrupt, exhausted from debt. With unsustainable trillion-dollar deficits projected through the next decade, is the United States going the way of its European forebears? If so, it would be by choice. European powers collapsed from overtaxing their people for wealth they no longer had. The United States is headed for collapse for refusing to fairly tax existing concentrations of wealth. Lack of taxes can be as insidious as too many taxes when collective slavery to debt is the result. The deficit can be crushed before it crushes us, and the nation's fortunes reversed — not by nickle-and-diming obligations to a more stable future, but by properly taxing and reinvesting hoards of wealth. Here's how.
Stupid Is As Presumption Does
The Police's Disorderly Conduct
Pierre Tristam / July 26
The Gates affair is not a race issue, as most of the debate is framing it. It's a police issue. The arresting officer said he complied with his department's policy. That's the problem: The policy is based on the assumption that an officer's request (to produce identification, to step outside one's home, to answer "reasonable" questions) should be complied with. It's a prevalent assumption. It's also wrong. It wouldn't be wrong in France or Germany, or Nigeria. In the United States, where a law-abiding person's rights trump a police officer's demands, it is. Gates is famous and rich enough to demolish the stupidity of the system. But in similarly power-tripped situations, most people are too happy to comply, or too fearful not to. That much deference and glib cheerleading for "law and order" are the chills radiating up what's left of the Bill of Rights' spine.
Cheap Trick
Homage to 8-Track
Rick de Yampert / July 17
I pity the iPod generation. Sure, iPods have a gazillion songs available at a touch, great sound, portability. But, back in my younger days, we appreciated music more because we had to work to listen to it. I'm talking about, of course, the worse technology ever designed to play back recorded music -- 8-track tapes. I was overcome with both loathing and joy last week when Cheap Trick released its new album, "The Latest," on 8-track. In the 1970s, when I was in high school, about the only way to play recorded music in your car was 8-tracks. Yes, I know—those of you born after MTV are asking: "What the hell was 8-track?" 8-tracks used recorded tape, except that, unlike the handy pocket size of cassettes (which 8-tracks somehow usurped), 8-track tape was housed in a flat, rectangular plastic case about the size of a Gideon's Bible.
Ayatollah Two-Step
Obama, Still Right on Iran
Pierre Tristam / June 28
Obama knows his history. But that's not the reason he's responding just as George W. Bush did before him (Bush did nothing during the 2003 Iranian student uprising). For all the bluster about supporting a more democratic Iran, the idea makes American presidents nervous. It makes America's allies in the Middle East nervous. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Algeria, the United Arab Emirates and a few other little Sunni-led tyrannies from the Persian Gulf to North Africa pretend to hate the Iranian regime's Shiite revolutionaries. They hate democratic movements and what they inspire even more. They'd rather live with a nuclear Iran than a democratic Iran, which would threaten every one of those tyrannies the United States unquestioningly props up.
Single Prayer Plan
How Obama Is Killing Health Reform
Pierre Tristam / June 21
There is no health care debate in the United States. There's not even a debate over principles. You'd think a nation intent on overhauling a broken system that presidents going back to Harry Truman have been trying to fix would want to openly discuss what it wants — universal care? Single-payer? A private-public combination? Nationalized insurance? Nationalized care? All very different things. None is being aired in congressional hearings and town hall meetings, with one exception: Tinkering with more of the same. When even Barack Obama — the last great hope for reforming the West's trashiest health care system — plays into the rhetorical ambushes of reform's enemies, it's clear that the debate has been hijacked by shams over the language of reform rather than its substance. And for all his skills at countering the pimping of language to crooked uses, Obama is flirting with collaboration on this one.
Kindelstücke, Op. 1
Erotics of Font and Print
Pierre Tristam / May 31
I'm not usually indecisive. But a new object in my life had me stumped. It up-ended my assumptions and made me doubt thousands of my most intimate relationships. It made me say sexist things I've never said before: The object is more desirable than an Alberto Vargas pinup and more devilish than Carmen. The most troubling thing isn't that it was a gift from my wife, but that she meant it to spice up my middle-aged life, not hers (let alone ours). I wasn't looking for spice. My harem, stocked in hardbacks and soft-covers from all continents, is quite diverse, thank you. I didn't know whether to love this thing or hate it, surrender to it or make a guarded peace with it. It told me I have no choice. It's here to stay.
Campus Class
Public Universities Abort Mission
Pierre Tristam / April 19
Brooke Wolfe is an Atlantic High School honor student with an excellent 3.63 grade-point average. She applied to Florida Atlantic University —not exactly the Harvard of the Gold Coast—and four other schools. She was turned down by all five, forcing her into the third-rate anteroom of community-college education. What should never have happened to Wolfe is happening to thousands of students across the state. They have the grades, the will, the ability to make it in any state school. What they lack is a state university system enabled to give them the chance. It's not for lack of space or capability, but of lawmakers literate in what's best for Florida. It's not just Florida, of course. Quality university education is becoming a privilege across the country, betraying the democratic mission of America's great post-World War II higher-ed boom. And that's without mentioning cost as academe's fattest poll tax. Florida isn't just fast-tracking the shift. It's excelling at it.
Torturers' Gallery
Obama's Memo from Nuremberg
Pierre Tristam / April 19
There's a bomb of a contradiction at the heart of what's passing for a debate on the torture regime of the past eight years. President Barack Obama calls those years of secret prisons and "enhanced interrogation techniques" a "dark and painful chapter in our history." That's not just a suggestion of something amiss. It's an admission and an indictment of wrongs, in terms that have been applied to atrocities like war crimes and slavery.And if there's a bomb of a contradiction at the heart of this debate, there's also an elephant: George W. Bush. His name is hardly mentioned in all these stories of shame and torture. It's all about the lawyers, the process, the exigencies of the moment. But it isn't. The decisions were his. "I am the decider," as he put it. And so he was. This "dark and painful chapter" began with him. His orders for secret memos. His orders to torture. It should end with him.
Ghosts of Tom Joad
Steinbeck's Wrath at 70
Pierre Tristam / April 5
Homeless camps now sprawl instead of developments. Unemployment numbers are spilling off front pages into our lives. Employers are turning workers into modern-day sharecroppers (every man his own contractor). And next week, as if on cue, marks the 70th anniversary of the publication of "The Grapes of Wrath," John Steinbeck's novel of foreclosure and dispossession in the 1930s. How timely. Steinbeck gave the decade's angers its voice. It was outraged and lyrical — as revolted over the country's exploitative instincts as it was hopeful of its redemptive capital. Have we lost something since? The din of hateful sanctimony mugs the airwaves, giving no chance to a voice like Steinbeck's, at once protesting, confident and forgiving. But nothing has been lost, exactly.
Civilized Pretensions
Epidemic of Institutional Sadism
Pierre Tristam / March 29
Savana Redding was ordered to the nurse's office for a strip search. Over ibuprofen pills. She was 13. Savana did not consent to the search but complied in humiliating details. She was forced, literally, to shake her bra and her underwear, exposing herself in front of the nurse and an assistant. Nothing was found. I don't know what's more perverse: The principal's zero-tolerance stupidity over ibuprofen pills, the degrading search, or the fact that nine U.S. Supreme Court justices will hear this case next month to decide what limits, if any, there should be on school authority. But this isn't authority. It's criminal abuse—of authority, of the child, of human dignity. How do we come to this? Stupid question, considering the accumulating record of a society where ideals of justice and humaneness mix with the basest controls in the name of discipline and order. They're close relatives, those school officials who order a 13 year old strip searched, to those who have children Tasered, or to police officers who now use that instrument of torture as a routine means of subjugation, or to prison guards who do the same with restraining chairs. When the barbaric becomes routine, it's called protocol. What should be denounced and forbidden is accepted and debated.
Waltz With Hamas
Israeli Atrocities in Gaza
Pierre Tristam / March 19
Israel immediately, and often justifiably, alights to the foulness of anti-Semitism when Arabs or others make no distinction between Israel and Jews, between the political and the ethnic, the act and the person. But there is such a think as Israeli bigotry, as vile and as consequential as anti-Semitism—the more so, between Israel and Palestine, given the relationship between the two. Israel is the powerful one. Israel is the occupier. Its bigotry has far more potency, when it is executed as policy—as it is every day, Palestinians will attest—than the pathetic bigotry of desperation Palestinians engage in. When a soldier says that "the lives of Palestinians, let's say, is something very, very less important than the lives of our soldiers," he's saying it all: Arabs, in Israeli soldiers' eyes, are less than they are. Less than human. Less than zero.
Bonus Crimes
From Iraq to AIG
Pierre Tristam / March 16
Sometimes I wonder whether this country not only has lost its moral compass, but does what it can to forbid its recovery. Then I remember: of course it has. Iraq. Afghanistan. Black sites. Torture. Guantanamo. AIG. Bear Stearns. George Bush. The gathering depression. Tim Geithner turning courtesan for his old Wall Street pals. It's all of a piece. There's no pretense of propriety or civility, let alone of anything resembling moral behavior. There's greed. There's thievery. There's more greed. Then there are apologies for the thieves and the greedy, half of that compliments of the government we thought we'd elected to clean house.
Exhuming the Sabra & Shatila Massacre
"Waltz With Bashir "
Pierre Tristam / March 8
There is no such thing as an "intractable" problem in the Middle East. There's dishonest (and repressed) memory, the mother of intractable problems. Then there's the reality of human suffering bleached of the distorting loyalties to god and country. That's the suffering Ari Folman comes to terms with in "Waltz With Bashir," starting with his own. It's the movie's universal language, touching all that Folman finally remembers — Israelis, Palestinians, Lebanese, and even, by extension, the Americans who were dragged into the entirely preventable madness at the heart of his story.
Hero Worship
The Real Dopes
Pierre Tristam / February 15
In the space of seven days -- long enough, if you're a god -- the greatest swimmer of all times and one of the best baseball players of the day were discovered to have a thing for dope: marijuana for Michael Phelps, steroids, or whatever spin-enhancing euphemisms he's on now, for Alex Rodriguez. As always, when athletes are hounded off their pedestals by the same fantasists who put them there, the gale-force judgments that followed spoke less to the athletes' character than to their critics' duplicity -- and to the country's delight in turning, on a dime, hero-worship into inquisitions.


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Miami Herald beat writer Barry Jackson pointed out that wide receiver Mike Wallace isn't seeing many looks, in particular deep balls. Quarterback Ryan Tannehill has only connected on three of nine pass attempts of 20 yards or longer. Wallace only has one reception beyond 20 yards, a 34-yarder in Week 2. Offensive coordinator Mike Sherman noted that defenses are giving Tannehill at lot of two-deep safety looks, effectively taking away the deep pass.
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Wallace's bread and butter has always been the deep ball and to an extent, the same can be said about Brian Hartline . Both guys are used to playing on the outside and running deeper routes. While it's all well and good to use a guy like Wallace to clear out certain areas for other guys to run routes underneath the coverage, eventually you have to chuck it deep to at least humor the outside receiver and keep defenses honest. The Dolphins look good and when you're good, you have to nitpick. This is a blessing for Miami that they can concern themselves about the frequency of deep balls, especially compared to a team like Tampa Bay who's making a headline per day about their head coach and quarterback drama. Wallace remains a decent WR2 with room to improve.


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By Rob Kelly
Arsène Wenger will not allow sentiment to play any part in his team selections - even though Robin van Persie is aiming for the Premier League goals record.
The Dutchman needs to score three times against QPR in the final match of 2011 to beat Alan Shearer's landmark of 36 goals in a calendar year, but Wenger says the good of the team must come first.
"I believe what is important is that the team win the games. Robin is the leader of this team and the leader of the club at the moment. He will remembered for how far he takes the team," Wenger told Arsenal Player.
"People will forget the record but people will remember how he has led the team.
"I should not put any pressure on him. There is enough on him at the moment that you should not add any. He just has to enjoy his football and lead the team as he does."
See the full interview with Wenger on Arsenal Player.


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My list of books-to-read-sometime is growing fast. It seems as if every magazine or newspaper I read has a list of "best summer reads." The titles range from beach reads to classics. I seldom read such a list without adding at least a handful to mine.
NPR recently had a commentary about reading. The point was if you could read two books a week and started that pattern when you were fifteen, still going strong at eighty, you would have read 6,500 books! That's a lot of books, BUT only a tiny fraction of all the books published EACH YEAR!
None of us readers will ever read all the good books out there, all the books on our own lists. We need to relax about that – I'm talking to myself here too! – and enjoy the ones we do read. As one writer has said, "each book is a wonderful gift and you're never going to run out of such gifts! That should be a cause for celebration, not frustration."
Well said, I agree!
I just finished reading Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell and Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch. Next on my reading pile is Room by Emma Donoghue followed by Please Look After Mom by Kyong-suk Sin.
What are you reading?
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Is genetic privacy overrated?
Why keep secrets? The 12 bloggers at Genomes Unzipped (an interesting genetics blog I didn't know about till just now) are releasing their genetic data, mainly 23andme results, to the world. Daniel MacArthur writes that the need to keep genetic data private makes valuable data-sharing difficult, so he and his friends are making a gift to science: The raw data is here. They also plan to release any software they create.
I liked his point that genetic privacy is overrated anyway, when you shed hair and skin everywhere you go.
A similar, more ambitious effort is the Personal Genome Project, which aims to build a repository of 100,000 individuals who have decided to share their data. (They're up to 10 so far. [Update: now it's 1,000]) That project's privacy statement includes the reverse idea: that if someone has your genetic data, it's not so hard for them to know who you are.
We question the long-held belief that research endeavors involving human genome sequencing can guarantee, in perpetuity, the confidentiality or anonymity of the information revealed from a personal genome sequence. For example, it is becoming easier to glean personally indentifiable knowledge from DNA sequences, including hair and eye color, height, and facial features. Protecting the identity of indviduals is particularly difficult while the number of personal genome sequences existing in the world is small.
Anyhow, I'm reading this as I sit at home watching the twitter feed (#bgt2010) for Beyond the Genome, a conference in Boston about "the true gene count, human evolution, and disease genomics." Sounds like fun!


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Thursday 19th August 2010
A league encounter with Blackpool is not something I can claim to have witnessed. Indeed only those Gooners who can remember back to the early Seventies and earlier can boast to have seen such an occasion. With their tangerine colours and that opening home game of the season I feel Saturday promises to be a colourful occasion.
It also sees the official return of our famous old Clock to the South end of the stadium, a momentous occasion in the continued efforts to make our still relatively new stadium feel like our proper home. Nobody can ever take away the very special memories we have of Highbury but our new abode is where we will enjoy or football for evermore. It's up to us to add to the ingredients that make it feel like home.
The luck we have endured with injuries over the last three seasons has been discussed so many times that it has almost become boring. This despite its accuracy of course but rather than discuss yet further, all we long for is a chance to prove we can go that extra step beyond just competing with the majority of our squad available for the majority of the season.
For me our best player throughout pre-season was Samir Nasri. Yet here we are one game in, a new and very catchy song first aired in Barcelona but finally catching on at Anfield and he will sit out a month due to a knee injury picked up on the day.
Not ideal but with the likes of Cesc and others available for Saturday we hope Sami's knock is just an isolated one within the squad.
The first of five home league games on the bounce with a Saturday 3pm kick-off, not only an enormous rarity these days but a pleasant scenario for all those of us who remember when this was the only time and day league football was played.
Like back when we last took on Blackpool in fact.
Come on you mighty reds!
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Beginning Wednesday, traffic on some lanes on 5400 South in Taylorsville will travel one direction during the morning rush hour and the opposite way in the evening.
Overhead lane indicator lights for the new "flex lanes" have been on for the past week to allow drivers to become accustomed to them, but no lanes have changed direction yet.
Those changes start Wednesday.
"Flex lanes will allow us to open a lane when we need it, where we need it," said Brandon Weston, project director for the Utah Department of Transportation. "Their implementation will efficiently improve traffic flow along 5400 South between Redwood Road and Bangerter Highway."
During the morning rush hour, 5400 South will have four eastbound lanes, a center turn lane and two westbound lanes. In the evening, that reverses with four westbound lanes, two eastbound and one center turning lane.
The stretch has overhead electronic lane control signs every 500 feet with green arrows in lanes where traffic is allowed, red X's where it is not, yellow X's where traffic should begin moving out of lanes because directions are about to change, and yellow left-turn markers for a center turn lane.
Flex lanes avoid widening the road in the area and are possible where roads are busy in one direction in the morning and in the other direction in the evening.
Tim Rose, deputy director of UDOT's Region 2, has said that not only are these the first flex lanes in Utah, but they also are the first flex lanes in America with a left-turn lane in the middle which Taylorsville wanted to help businesses there.
He said that made the project more complicated than expected and led to a year of delays from problems with hardware and software.
An animation of how the lanes work is online at udot.utah.gov/flexlanes.
Another nearby section of 5400 South also has big changes coming in the next few weeks. UDOT plans to open the state's second "ThrU Turn" intersection there at 4015 West inKearns before Thanksgiving, said spokesman Adan Carrillo.
It will not allow any left turns at the intersection to help speed traffic. Instead, cars seeking to go left must first proceed straight through the intersection and then make a U-turn at a special signal about 500 yards down the road, come back to the intersection and then make a right turn.
This year UDOT installed its first ThrU Turn called Michigan U-Turns in other parts of the nation at 12300 South and State Street in Draper.
The Kearns ThrU-Turn is part of a road-widening project on 5400 South between Bangerter and 4800 West, which will now have seven lanes. Carrillo said it is expected to be substantially completed by Thanksgiving. However, crews will add a protective "microsurface" to that stretch next spring.
The widening through Kearns required demolishing three dozen homes and a few businesses.
See how they work
To view an animation of how the new flex lanes work, go to udot.utah.gov/flexlanes.


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8th Annual Celebrity Guest Chef
Pasta Nights 2014
Glenora Wine CellarsVeraisons Restaurant5435 State Route 14
Dundee, NY 14837
5:00 – 8:30pm
$ 17.95 plus tax and gratuity - includes Fresh Garden Salad, Bread Basket, and unlimited trips to the Pasta Station!
Every Thursday local celebrities will be front and center at the pasta buffet station to serve guests their freshly created dish of pasta. A portion of the proceeds, each evening, will be donated to the charity of the Chef's choice. At the conclusion of the celebrity guest chef series, Glenora Wine Cellars matches the donation to the charity that brings in the most patrons. Over the last seven years, Glenora Wine Cellars has donated more than $10,000 to local charities.
Guests receives a fresh garden salad, a bread basket at their table, and unlimited trips to the pasta station. At the pasta station, the Celebrity Chef (with help from Veraisons staff), creates a custom-made dish of pasta from a selection of homemade sauces and ingredients including an array of meats, fresh vegetables, garlic and herbs.
January 9th – American Cancer Society
January 16th – Spirit of Schuyler
January 23rd – Keuka Arts Festival
January 30th – Geneva Community Projects
February 6th – Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce
February 13th – Monty Stamp Education Foundation
February 20th – Still Available
February 27th – Watkins Glen Art Club
March 6th – Live Like Liz
March 13th – Finger Lakes Culinary Bounty
March 20th – Schuyler County SPCA
March 27th – Children's Miracle Network
April 3rd – Schuyler Health Foundation
April 10th – Cobblestone Springs
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Jack Wilshere's emergence in the Arsenal first team is what every young player at the Club should aspire to, according to Conor Henderson.
Following the set-back of a serious knee injury, the 19-year-old Irish midfielder has worked his way into Arsène Wenger's plans this season and made his senior debut against Leyton Orient in the FA Cup.
Arsenal TV Online caught up with Conor to talk about his progress.
He also discussed:
- how his injury affected him
- getting the injury at a young age
- being part of the 2009 Youth Cup-winning team
- the possibility of a loan next season
- his debut against Leyton Orient
- why he chose to represent Ireland
- his Irish roots
- making his debut for Ireland Under-21s
- the Reserve League title race
- looking up to Jack Wilshere
- the Dallas Cup
Subscribers can now watch this exclusive interview 'on demand'Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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LUX* Resorts & Hotels is a leading group of hotels which strongly believes in sustainable tourism development. It has taken various initiatives in order to achieve same, amongst which the implementation of a Green Committee across the group to handle all environmental and energy saving related activities. LUX* Resorts & Hotels has embarked in a journey towards a carbon clean future through its project "Tread Lightly". Launched in August 2011, "Tread Lightly", is an amalgam of green projects.
To reduce its energy consumption from electricity which is mainly from the HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air-conditioning) system, LUX Group has introduced an Energy Management System (EMS). The EMS will also consider the security aspect of each room. The system will also provide professional reports to assess each step towards meeting the set objectives of reducing energy consumption and thus reducing the carbon footprint.
For further monitoring of energy consumption and hence reduction in carbon emission, a Carbon Management Plan (CMP) has been introduced. The CMP consists of actions to be taken by the resorts, the hotels and the members of the Green Committee at LUX Island Resorts Ltd from each respective entity are responsible to ensure that the actions are well undertaken.
Other initiatives include a laundry reduction project. The group has introduced a "Laundry Asterix" in each of its room with the below messages for the guests:
Thus it is engaging its guests in responsible tourism and in a very diplomatic way.


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I posted this in the Ruger gunsmithing section probably in error.
I do leatherwork and have orders for two custom holsters. Locally I have access to similar models but not the exact ones. Both holsters are to be basic cowboy type.
First, I'm working on a holster for a .44 Redhawk. The closest I can find locally is a .41 S&W. Can anyone tell me if the frame size is close enough for a decent fitting holster?
Second, another fellow wants one for a .44 Super Blackhawk. There's .44 Blackhawk locally that I can use for a pattern. As far as making a holster, is there enough difference to worry about?
I know this might not be the type of stuff for your forum but I figured go the people who know.
I run into this type of jam every so often.
Appreciate any help


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I will definitely check out those rods. Running 11:1 on 89 octane? almost sounds too good to be true...
I had checked out either the Twisted Wedges or the AFRs and I've heard good things about AFR and more good things regarding those. Always good to hear more positive comments.
As for the airgap -- yeah I dont think it'll fit either even tho i'm putting on the TPC engine mounts (dammit they better be worth the friggin price) and that drops the engine about 1 inch or so, i think its still too tall. If it'd be worth it, I'd even consider getting a 'glass hood with a scoop....
yep the 6AL was what I had been looking at. Good to have a confirmation on it.
FI will be way in the future.
Yep that TKO is a 5spd
And i'm definitely going to be using H-beam rods. Godawful expensive but worth it.
Thanx for the input! Anybody else have any advice?
If I were you, id use h-bead rods becuaes stock 351 rods wont be up to the task. Another intersting idea would be to contact speed-o-motive and get one of their long rod kits for the 351w. It uses the 400m length rods measuring 6.58 inches instead of stock 5.958. They say you can run 11:1 with 89 octane and aluminum heads with these rods. That should help a lot with hp and torque.
I would definately use AFR 185s, all ive heard is good reviews from the magazines about them. Also, use 1.6 roller rockers and 7/16 studs.......i broke a 3/8 stud in my 302 just from street abuse.
I agree with the performer rpm airgap and 750 carb. Im not sure if itll fit under the hood of a 66 mustang though, acutally..probably not, i have performer rpm and 600cfm edie carb with a 3 inch filter in mine and its about 1/2 inch from the hood. Check out speed demon carbs too, my brother got one for his 408 and theyre well worth the money.
Id use an MSD6AL so you dont overrev it. ALso, get a distributor with vaccum advance, itll give you better gas mileage without taking away performance. (if you dont know the difference between the two, the vaccum advance advances the timing when you cruise, so instead of giving it gas too keep going, the rpms stay up from the advanced timing)
THe stock crank should be fine....it has 3 inch mains afterall.
If your looking at fuel injection, edelbrocks work good i've heard....plus they look coooool. Anybody seen the one they put on the bronco in monster garage???
An AOD would definately help out, as would a 5 speed. 3.50s sound good for street use, but you could go up to 4.11s with overdrive without being killer on gas mileage. Heres some links for the swaps into old mustangs. t-5 AOD
Also...on another note, just for fun on desktop dyno i built a 351 for the engine building contest for hotrod magazine. I used edelbrocks flow numbers for their 2.02/1.60 heads, a dual plane manifold, 750 carb, 10.5:1 compression, compcams# 35-452-8 (230/230 @.050, .544/.544) hyd roller cam and this is what it gave me....448hp @6000rpm, and 443ft-lbs @ 4500rpm. This is without taking the long rods into consideration becuase desktop dyno wont allow you to. I think your combo should get your goal numbers.
so...there's my 2 cents
Thanx for the help guys. I have a brand new TKO waiting to go into it. Also thinking about putting 3.5s into the rearend.
As for the combustion efficiency, I am hoping that a complete MSD ignition system (including the distributor) will help that out a lot.
I was thinking about stroking it, but I don't believe I will. Only thing I'll be doing is putting it .030 over. However if someone can tell me I can get 10mpg/ city with a stroker, I might consider that. I certainly like the torque aspect of it, however I'm just worried it will negatively impact my mileage requirements.
Again, thanx for the input! Any other comments are more than welcome-- fire away!
|If you are willing to spend up to 8K, I'd get an Aluminum headed crate motor use a good 5 spd (or an AOD-E if you want to be shiftless) and a good mass air injection. It should be a pretty easy task to hit both goals.
Considering your goal and the components you have mentioned, you may want to look into a custom cam.
There are a couple of very good Ford guys around with great reputations and many satisfied customers.
I have a custom cam spec'd by Buddy Rawls. Take a look at his web site:
There's another guy by the name of Ed Curtis that has quite a rep too. Try a search on Google.
Sounds like you have a nice project going.
I'm partial to strokers myself. Especially in the early Mustangs.
Good luck.
|I`m not much help on fords. However, a electric water pump on the street won`t cut it. making that kind of power it`ll never keep it cool. 10 MPG with 450/450, You`ll need a AOD tranny for starters, and combustion efficientcy plays a role here also, so you`ll want to pay attention to the quench distance and so forth.
Need help with a 351W build
Greetings all! I have been doing a LOT of research trying to figure out how to build a reliable 351W with approx 450+ hp/ ftlbs and still maintain 10mpg in the city (if not more). Money doesn't present TOO much of an object, but I don't want to spend more than 8k or so. I will not be putting on an FI kit unless I can get a very good one for under my current engine budget. I will put in FI at some point in the future however. As I have stated, I want it to be reliable and my main goal is to get those numbers naturally asperated.
I want to go with:
complete roller assembly and I don't really have a lot of experience with roller items (anyone recommend a specific brand for the rockers/ lifters etc? ) And what ratio would you recommend?
Edelbrock performer RPM manifold, or an Air-Gap (not sure if it will fit-- any using a 351W with an Air-Gap on a '66 mustang?
I'll need to get probably 10:1 compression and I'm not sure what
I should go with on the pistons. Anyone have any recommendations?
I plan on using an MSD ignition system as well as an electric waterpump and fuel pump
Thinking about a holley 750 for the carb. Any recommendations here? more or less?
Cam I'm getting from Lunati and I don't have the exact grind at the moment, but I'd certainly like some other recommendations here as well. Remember i'm going with a roller assembly.
Next, I'm pretty sure a stock crank can do the job just fine, however I'd like other opinions as well.
Rods-- should I use H beam rods? I will more than likely be putting more crap on the engine so I want everything to have room for growth. And if so, can any recommend some brands you have experience with?
Also looking at chromemoly pushrods from crane-- anyone used these and do you recommend them or another brand?
Basically I want the engine to be VERY solid at ~450+hp/ft. lbs. with room for expansion in the future. Any and all comments on engine build are more than welcome. If anyone here has a high mileage, solid 351W that puts out the numbers I'm looking for, PLEASE share your configuration with me. Like I say, i'm looking for NA at the moment, However I'd like for my build to be able to handle FI at some point.
I have a decent idea of what I want to put into it, however I'd like as much outside help/ info/ recommendations as possible. Thanx a lot for the help and input!
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Mary Ann Singleton was twenty-five years old when she saw San Francisco for the first time.
That's the opening of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, a collection of stories from the 1970s about the fictional residents of 28 Barbary Lane: Mary Ann the midwestern naïf, Mona the free spirit, Michael the romantic, and Brian the swinger, all of them looked after by the benevolent landlady Mrs. Madrigal.
A late bloomer, I was in my 29th year when I first saw San Francisco.
Well, there was that daylong stopover one family vacation. Not that there was much to remember, except the crowds at Fisherman's Wharf and when Dad, at the wheel of the rental car, terrified Mom as he tore down Lombard roaring, "It's the crookedest street in the world!"
I was a teenager and determined not to be impressed by anyone or anything, and I was too busy rolling my eyes the whole time to see much of the place.
Fifteen years later, however, I landed at San Francisco International Airport, alone this time and sick of New York, intent on seeing as much as I couldin particular, what of Maupin's San Francisco might have survived the rise and fall of roller disco.
Tales of the City is a soap opera, but it's not merely Melrose Place in bell-bottomed pants. There's something touchingly familiar about these characters navigating contemporary urban life and the onset of adulthood. They may have rotten jobs, too little money, and too much heartbreak, but they have a family at 28 Barbary Lane. And if TheMary Tyler Moore Show (to invoke another '70s icon) taught us anything, it's that family-where-you-find-it is what keeps you going when you're going it alone.
It was a sunny, warm August day when I arrived, though my friends in town kept insisting that the fog would roll in, any minute now, really. But I wasn't having any of it, and neither was the Bay. I had rubber-soled shoes (those hills, you know) and directions to the "real" Barbary Lane, or rather its alleged inspiration. It was on Russian Hill. Finding the street, Macondry Lane, was a challenge for a New Yorker used to a consistent street grid and generally horizontal movement. I finally found a shady garden path lined with paving stones and branches of long green leaves, small houses on either side. I was astounded. This was an oasis, an impossibility in the middle of the modern city. It was something out of a storybook. It was quiet and peaceful. It smelled really good. There was no real street there, not in any sense of a street as I'd ever understood it. It was nothing like my block in Manhattan, where buses rumble by and car alarms whoop it up. You couldn't fit a Yugo onto Macondry Lane, and that seemed just perfect. This was the street where you live, not the street where you drive.
You're gonna make it after all, Mary Ann Singleton.
I wondered briefly how anyone could be unhappy there, even Mary Ann while she was having her disastrous affair with the heartless Beauchamp Day, Michael while he was nursing a heart decimated by a handsome gynecologist, or Mona when she was freaking out over being, well, Mona. I knew I was being naive. San Francisco was still a city with traffic and garbage and poverty. And I knew that troubles still find their way even into the most picturesque place. I just have this habit of thinking, when I'm somewhere extraordinary, that maybe this is just what I need. Why do I subject myself to New York? But something about Macondry Lane did make me think: Maybe I can live like this. Maybe it's not an impossibility after all. A real-life resident wandered out of his house to water his miniature garden, and I shyly hid my camera, feeling like an intruder. I walked the length of the block and down the long wooden steps at the end, back into a more typical urban scene. I left San Francisco determined to come back as soon as possible, maybe to stay. I returned halfheartedly to my life in New York, my job, and my noisy street. Autumn was beautiful in New York this year, unusually warm and sunny. My friends were here, and I found myself maybe a little more relaxed after my trip than I had been before. Something from that moment on Russian Hill must have stayed with me. As the months went by, I thought less and less about moving. It would be more hassle than I really wanted, hauling my belongings across the continent. But it also seemed to me, after a while, that Barbary Lane might be wherever you happen to build it.Kristen Mirenda


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A noncredit workshop on innovation and creativity, which can be taken as a stand-alone course or as one of four courses in a series leading to a certificate in systems engineering, will be held at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus (IUPUC) beginning Monday, August 5.
The certificate program is a new noncredit offering developed by the Center for Business and Economic Development (CBED) and the Division of Mechanical Engineering at IUPUC. The courses are appropriate for engineers of all types, as well as project managers, advanced manufacturing executives, business owners, and others who manage or oversee complex business operations.
According to Dr. Dan Fant, director of the mechanical engineering program at IUPUC, systems engineering is comprised of various methodologies needed to produce innovative, high-quality products and services that meet customer needs, whether in business-to-business or business-to-consumer settings.
"A systems engineering approach broadens one's ability to be more aware and understanding that individual business units are interdependent on each other for successful operations. In particular, it enables professionals of all types to develop the skills and critical thinking needed to efficiently and effectively manage business, manufacturing, or engineering processes through the product life cycle," Fant explains.
The IUPUC certificate program will focus on innovation, product planning and development, systems architecture, and other principles that will promote professional development and career advancement for participants, he added.
The first course in the series will explore creativity and innovation leading to market success, said Kevin McCracken, interim director of CBED.
It can be taken by those who just want to jump-start their creativity and innovation in the workplace or it can be taken by those who plan to complete the entire series and earn the systems engineering certificate.
McCracken says IUPUC has tapped Dr. Jonathan Weaver of University of Detroit Mercy, to lead the workshop. Weaver has worked with the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT) and the Naval Post-Graduate School to develop a master's degree in product development. He has more than 20 years of experience in systems engineering and product design
Cost for the workshop is $1,600 per participant, which includes all materials. The classes will be held in the Arvin Center for Graduate Business & Executive Education, a technologically advanced suite of classrooms.
Future courses in the series will include 40-hour sessions held on campus on topics including product planning and development, systems architecture, and systems engineering.
McCracken said, however, the courses could also be offered on consecutive weekends using video conferencing and other distance-learning technologies for remote access if there is enough demand.
"We have developed the course content so that it meets the needs of Cummins and other advanced manufacturers in this region. It is appropriate for any company that has operations in the U.S. or abroad," he noted.
For complete details about the workshop and the systems engineering certificate series, visit www.iupuc.edu/systems-engineering or contact Kevin McCracken at email@example.com or 812.348.7302.


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'"The Buffalo Sabres are here in Buffalo to stay, with new financial ability. All that risk should be gone, appears to be gone," team owner Tom Golisano said. "With all the rule changes, we should have a more exciting and interesting game."'
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