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I cannot.
i can, mrs. 1 can't, and miss 1 is turning into a leetle duplicate of mrs. 1.
Blanket protects me from the cat, so no.
I need a sheet over the largest portion of me. Not sayin'.
inkycatz wrote:Blanket protects me from the cat, so no.
make that "cats" for me, and make the "blanket" about 3 so their claws don't pierce my skin, and i agree.
If it's winter, no. If it's summer, just a sheet please.
Depends on what she looks like.
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I'm not quite sure what you are talking about, but I'm sure it is a ewwwwwwwww
We have ac, so I use a blanket.
As a kid, with no ac, I think I had a sheet and a cotton blanket.
Gee, that looks like I need a blanket to sleep.
Can and do.
I don't think I own a blanket...If it's cold, I have a sheet, otherwise nothing.
Last night, we fell asleep without even the sheet pulled up. Windows were open, chorus of frogs and the hum of the fan sang us to sleep.
Until it started raining. Woke up to realize it was coming in the window, so hurried over to close windows, then went downstairs and turned on the ac. Fell back asleep.
Woke up a bit later FREEZING and groped around for the blanket that had been pushed to the floor. Brrrr!
During the winter, I'll take a sheet. During the summer, get that crap off of me.
Mrs. Cruzer says I'm a furnace and requires a blanket.
AC is on all summer, so I do use a blanket. Of course, heavier one in the winter.

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so your going to have to make a BC as well as re do the lower for the ak mags.
it is much more simple to use the standard ar-15 lower and use the c-products mags and use a standard bolt carrier.


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I am trying to find the source for the limited slip for the GM IFS differntial. I have found the ARB and Eaton both make versions that I can turn on and off (air and electric) but I am looking for simplicity. powertrax makes one called a lock rite and according to their catalog the part number for the front IFS 9.2 ring gear is the same part number they list for the 14 bolt rear with 9.5 ring gear. Has anyone used one of the powertrax lock rite #1950's and does it work well?
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Abigail Hernandez, identified publicly only as "A.H." because of her age, sat quietly with her mother and family friends. Attorney General Joseph Foster was present but let his assistant, Jane Young, handle the state's case, which was short and shorn of any and all details.
Kibby counsel, Jesse Friedman, argued unsuccessfully for the unsealing of documents and affidavits in the case, saying he could not provide an adequate defense without them and saying that the defendant and the public had a right to access the documents.
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hey does anyone know about damn small linux? cuz want to use linux on my psp do do some mobile pen testing and would like to use dsl on the psp and run kismet and stuff.
here the thing i have my psp set to run linux, u need custom firmware and a program called bosch to emulate a pc. now i need to configure binary filas and stuff like that but umaa... im kinda lost. you can run win 95 easy but i dont want win!!! in you google it the first site that usally comes up is helpfull
its a cool project, exept i dont usdersatnd everything about linux yet so i would apreciate if somone could read up and tell me in non techie english what ineed to do.


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Monday, February 13, 2012
Pardus is no more
12 comments:
- RicardoFebruary 14, 2012 at 6:31 AM
Am i wrong or no big KDE distro will remain, just openSUSE?ReplyDelete
Unfortunately, this could bring some troubles to KDE project itself...
@Ricardo: Not exactly the case. Chakra is gaining momentum very quickly and Kubuntu is not going anywhere anytime soon. Fedora and Arch both have awesome KDE implementations and there are other, more obscure projects out there as well, like the very young Mageia.ReplyDelete
On top of that, KDE can be installed on other distros, like Ubuntu, so its options are still open. Having said so, I do think these problems will not help, so let´s hope some good news arrive soon!
Hi Chema.ReplyDelete
KDE is there to stay and although the recent developments have perturbed the KDE users, I hope it will get better.
Also Chema, didn't you receive a comment from me on your post "Which one is for you, GNOME or KDE?".
Hi Mohammad,ReplyDelete
I did receive an email message notifying me of your comment, but when I got into my blog to publish it, it was not there!... I don´t know what happened, to be honest!
- AnonymousFebruary 15, 2012 at 11:16 AM
pardus have always be my linux show off distro since 2011.ReplyDelete
so i feel really bad about these news about pardus which has been a wonderful distro leaving behind all its similars.
- AnonymousFebruary 15, 2012 at 11:17 PM
Pardus was among the best of all KDE distributions. The problem was Tubitak the institute who support it:ReplyDelete
Some there want only Microsoft/Windows. So they not put much effort in to have a good communication with the Pardus community and users.
And not give them enough resources to compete with Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc..
So they did they best to kill Pardus and now they have done it.
Mandriva and Kubuntu? I saw they are still on the case, why worry? :)ReplyDelete
- Derek StewartFebruary 28, 2012 at 12:48 PM
Oh no! I am really really sad that there will no longer be what is probably the finest KDE version of a linux distro - Ever!ReplyDelete
Please, can someone else not pick up the baton and run with it. It's too good to lose.
This is extremely sad news. I think Pardus had the potential to become the best KDE distribution available, and possibly the keystone in converting Windows users to the world of Linux through its ease of use and friendly tweaks to make KDE more welcoming. The main reason I went back to OpenSUSE from my Pardus 2011 install was the feeling that the distro was still too young, and I had various problems with it, such as having to compile programs that simply weren't in its repositories yet. But my hope was that I could come back in a year or two and keep trying Pardus, and watching as the project matured and became more usable for me.ReplyDelete
I sincerely hope this news is not truly the end. Please, someone out there, pick up the reins and continue developing Pardus, because I feel that in a world overwhelmed by GNOME-dominated distributions, where only OpenSUSE is the real KDE king, Pardus had the promise of becoming something truly unique and fantastic...the potential to become a big name and mainstay in the KDE community.
- AnonymousApril 2, 2012 at 11:33 PM
Good news...ReplyDelete
Pardus continues :-)
- AnonymousFebruary 4, 2013 at 5:20 PM
I loved the Pardus, I am SAD I stumbled unto this bereavement news. Truly datacully depressed now, It was so neat a system. Any hacker-healers out there, please raise this system from the dead; FAST!ReplyDelete
i think I need someone to send bereavement flowers, food, and of course - money to console me!
- AnonymousMarch 24, 2013 at 1:40 PM
http://pisilinuxworld.org/ Community run fork.ReplyDelete


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Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook buy more networking hardware than practically anyone else on earth. After all, these are the giants of the internet. But at the same time, they're buying less and less gear from Cisco, HP, Juniper, and the rest of the world's largest networking vendors. It's an irony that could lead to a major shift in the worldwide hardware market.
Over the past few years, the giants of the web have changed the way they purchase tens of thousands of the network switches inside the massive data centers driving their online services, quietly moving away from U.S.-based sellers to buy cheaper gear in bulk straight from China and Taiwan. According to J.R. Rivers — an ex-Google engineer — Google has built its own gear in tandem with varous Asian manufacturers for several years, and according to James Liao — who spent two years selling hardware for Taiwan-based manufacturer Quanta — Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft are purchasing at least some of their networking switches from Asian firms as well.
"My biggest customers were these big data center [companies], so I know all of them pretty well," Liao says. "They all have different ways of solving their networking problems, but they have all moved away from big networking companies like Cisco or Juniper or [the Dell-owned] Force10."
The move away from U.S. network equipment stalwarts is one of the best-kept secrets in Silicon Valley. Some web giants consider their networking hardware strategy a competitive advantage that must be hidden from rivals. Others just don't want to anger their business partners in the hardware sector by talking about the shift. But cloud computing is an arms race. The biggest web companies on earth are competing to see who can deliver their services to the most people in the shortest amount of time at the lowest cost. And the cheapest arms come straight from Asia.
J.R. Rivers is one of the arms dealers. He runs a company called Cumulus Networks that helps the giants of the web — and other outfits — buy their networking hardware directly from "original design manufacturers," or ODMs, in China and Taiwan. And he's worked in this world for an awfully long time. He's one of the Google engineers who secretly designed a new breed of networking switch for the company's data centers, the massive computing facilities that drive its search engine and the rest of its web services.
Rivers joined Google in October 2005, after five years as a distinguished engineer at Cisco, the company that dominated the worldwide market for networking gear. At the time, Google was still connecting its servers using standard networking switches from the likes of Cisco and Force10 Networks. But these mass-market switches just didn't suit Google's unusually large operation.
"When Google looked at their network, they need high-bandwidth connections between their servers and they wanted to be able to manage things — at scale," Rivers says. "With the traditional enterprise networking vendors, they just couldn't get there. The cost was too high, and the systems were too closed to be manageable on a network of that size."
So Google drew up its own designs — working alongside manufacturers in Taiwan and China — and cut the Ciscos and the Force10s out of the equation. The Ciscos and the Force10s build their gear with many of those same manufacturers. Google removed the middlemen.
The search giant does much the same with its servers, buying custom-built machines straight from Asia rather than going through traditional sellers such as Dell and HP. Because its web services were used by such an enormous number of people, Google faced all sorts of data center problems no one else faced — problems of power and space as well as cost and logistics. So it built all sorts of custom hardware to solve those problems.
"They all have different ways of solving their networking problems, but they have all moved away from big networking companies like Cisco or Juniper or Force10"
Now, the other giants of the web are running into the same issues, and they too are going straight to Asia for hardware. Following closely behind are companies that run large internal server farms, including financial houses and healthcare outfits.
As J.R. Rivers serves this market with Cumulus Networks, James Liao is doing much the same thing with a second startup called Pica8, offering networking gear that comes straight from the ODMs. Pica8 is a spinoff of Liao's former employer, Quanta — one of the companies that manufactured Google's original networking switches, according to Rivers.
According to Liao, tens of thousands of switches are already being sold by the Asian ODMs directly to the likes of Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft. And that doesn't include the gear Google has bought over the past seven years. "This is just the beginning," Liao says, pointing out that these buyers operate the biggest data centers on earth. These companies account for only a part of the $7-billion-a-year Ethernet switch market, but as more and more outfits move their operations into the proverbial cloud, the influence of these web giants will only grow.
Liao estimates that Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and others have bought Asian network switches spanning "millions" of network ports — i.e., connections to servers — and he guesses that in 2011, about 60 percent of these ports provided 10Gigabit Ethernet connections. According to Matthias Machowinski — a directing analyst with Infonetics, a research firm that tracks the networking market — the official market for 10Gigabit Ethernet spanned about 9 million ports in 2011.
J.R. Rivers declines to name the companies he's working with at Cumulus Networks, but he confirms that some of the big-name web outfits are already buying networking switches from ODMs in Asia. In all likelihood, these companies are also purchasing switches from other sources as well. Cisco says it has a "significant presence and mindshare" in the big-name web market, and Juniper says it has a relationship with all of the top five web players, pointing out that data center networks require more gear than just switches. But the market is on the move.
The Future of 'Web Giant 3.0'
"We are continuously exploring new infrastructure technologies that may evolve further efficiencies across our portfolio. We normally have discussions with ODMs and large and small OEMs to better understand their capabilities and evaluate their products," reads a statement sent to Wired by a Microsoft spokesperson and attributed to Dileep Bhandarkar, a distinguished engineer who oversees the data centers driving Microsoft's online services. But the statement did not specifically address the purchase of networking gear.
Amazon did not respond to a request for comment about its hardware practices, and a Google spokeswoman sent us a one-sentence statement: "We work with a variety of vendors to manufacture the equipment we use in our data centers," she said. These two companies — particularly Google — are rather tightlipped about their data center practices.
"This supply chain change is nascent. But it's the most exciting thing going on in Silicon Valley right now"
Facebook declined to discuss how it purchases networking gear, but in response to the secretive approach of Amazon and Google, the company has openly discussed some of its other practices, and it has actually shared its server and data center designs with the rest of the world. It purchases its servers directly from Quanta and Wistron, another Taiwanese ODM.
Martin Casado — the chief technology officier of a third Silicon Valley networking startup, Nicira — confirms that the hardware market is shifting to Asia. Offering a software platform that virtualizes networking gear in much the same way that VMware virtualized servers, Nicira helps some of the big web players build their networks. The Nicira platform was designed specifically for companies along the lines of Google that want to use cheap commodity switches to physically construct their network but then do all the complex management in software.
"If you're building web giant 3.0, you can go to Quanta in Taiwan and buy crates … of switches," he says. "This supply chain change is nascent. But it's the most exciting thing going on in Silicon Valley right now."
Google Goes to Asia
According to J.R. Rivers, Google began work on its custom-built networking switches in early 2005, before he arrived at the company. In the beginning, River says, Google worked in tandem with Quanta and other Asian ODMs, but eventually, the web giant took all the engineering work in house. Basically, Rivers says, the company wasn't happy with the work the ODMs did at the time. Google engineers would design the switches, and then they would bring the completed designs to contract manufacturers in Asia, outfits along the lines of Foxconn, the Asian company that builds Apple's iPhones and iPads.
Google has never discussed its practices publicly, but rumors have long indicated that the company built its networking switches in this way. In 2007, research analyst Andrew Schmitt noticed that certain manufacturers were producing enormous numbers of chips for 10Gigabit Ethernet switches but that the switches themselves weren't actually turning up on the market. "It didn't make sense to me why someone would be building so much of a given component if there were no customers that could use it," he says. "What I was able to determine is that Google was purchasing switch chips straight from the comment suppler."
"It didn't make sense to me why someone would be building so much of a given component if there were no customers that could use it"
The switches Google was building typically sat at the top of a rack of servers in the data center, connecting the servers to the rest of the network. As Juniper points out, this is only part of the networking hardware used in the data center, but it's a large part.
Google, Rivers says, is a unique company. It has the wherewithal and the talent to built its own switches, but other companies may not be up to the task. With Cumulus Networks, J.R. Rivers and his partner, Nolan Leake, are trying to grease the wheels. "[The other web players] are trying to figure out what the best model is, and that's one of the reasons we started up," Rivers says. "Google is unique in its willingness to build something just because they know it can be done. Most other people see a risk/reward trade-off. We seek to minimize that risk."
Though Rivers declined to name the ODMs his company is working with, he says that these are well-known manufacturers in Taiwan and China. "We've been working for the last year on opening up a supply chain for traditional ODMs who want to sell the hardware on the open market for whoever wants to buy," he says. "For the buyers, there can be some very meaningful cost savings. Companies like Cisco and Force10 are just buying from these same ODMs and marking things up. Now, you can go directly to the people who manufacture it."
This has become possible in recent years, Rivers says, because the ODMs have slowly acquired more and more engineering talent. You can now buy commodity gear from more places. "Networking is opening up much like the transition from mainframes to RISC machines and later to x86 servers," says Rivers' partner, Nolan Leake. "We're moving towards a world where customers have more control over their destiny."
'The Arms Dealer'
Before spinning Pica8 out of Quanta, James Liao was already selling similar networking switches to the big web players. Nicira's Martin Casado refers to James Liao as "the arms dealer" in this networking revolution. "He's the conduit between the rest of the world and Quanta. He knows this space better than anyone," Casado says. "And I love him because he talks like he's part of organized crime."
From July 2009 to September 2011, Liao was the senior director at Quanta in charge of product strategy for network switching and data center products. He was based in Silicon Valley, and his job was to serve the giants of the web. He declines to go into much detail about how these companies acquire their hardware, but he's unequivocal in saying that the other big companies — Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook — are now following Google's lead in going directly to Asia for their gear.
Networking switches, he says, have become a commodity. "They all use the same chips. They have to same latency. They have the same bandwidth. This is a clear signal that the hardware platform is commoditizing," he says. "You can actually find a lot of [ODM] suppliers that have the capability to manufacturer and design this kind of platform."
Like Cumulus Network, Liao's new venture, Pica8, brings this low-cost networking hardware to a much larger market. In the past, one of the problems with buying directly from the ODMs is that you had build your own software to drive your switches. But Pica8 aims to provide software for those companies that don't want to build their own. The company has open sourced an early version of this software — known as Picos — and it plans to open source a more extensive version of the platform next month.
"We give you the hardware and the software," Liao says. "If you take our platform and compare it to Cisco, the protocol features we provide and the hardware performance are all in the same range. The only difference is that the price is 40 percent to 60 percent lower."
Though Pica8 spun off of Quanta, Liao says that the company will also sell switches from other ODMs. But he declined to name them. But he does say Pica8 is selling gear to Japanese telecom giant NTT and Baidu, the company that dominates the Chinese search engine market.
Matthias Machowinski, of research firm Infonetics, says he is "very much aware" of this trend, though he adds that it is extremely hard to track. He says that the big web giants account for only a part of the overall switch market — "the number of customers that might choose to go down this route are very limited. Today, you can count them on one hand, and maybe over the next two years, two hands might be enough" — but he also acknowledges that as businesses move their applications onto services such as Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure — rather than running stuff in their own data centers — these web giants will account for an even larger part of the switch market.
Like Server, Like Switch
This shadow networking market is a repeat of what happened in the server world. Years ago, Google started building its own servers in tandem with the Asian ODMs, and other web giants followed. These companies are looking to save cost, but they're also looking to reduce their power consumption, customizing machines so they're far more efficient than their mass-market brethren.
In 2009, Google revealed some server designs it produced several years before. But, as with networking practices, the company says very little about its server gear. Amazon operates in much the same way. But Facebook had taken a different approach. Last year, after building its own data centers and working with various manufacturers to build its own servers, the social networking giant open sourced these designs to the rest of the world, hoping that others across the industry can help improve those designs, buy more hardware based on the designs, and ultimately drive down the price of the hardware.
"It's kind like buying couches. If you buy one, you go to a retail store. If you buy 10,000 couches, you go straight to the factory"
This Open Compute Project already has several other big-name backers, including Texas-based cloud computing outfit Rackspace and Japan's NTT. And it doesn't stop at data centers and servers. Last month, Frank Frankovsky — the ex-Dell man who oversees hardware design at Facebook — told us that the company is in the midst of building its own storage hardware and that these designs will be open sourced in early May.
In these cases, Facebook and Amazon and Google and others bypassed "original equipment manufacturers," or OEMs, such as Dell and HP. The servers sold by the likes of HP and Dell are actually manufactured by those same ODMs in Taiwan and China.
James Liao, of Pica8 and formerly of Quanta, does not work with servers. But he says that it's common knowledge that — like Google and Facebook — Amazon purchases at least some of its servers from ODMs in Asia. "For servers, Facebook and Amazon are taking almost exactly the same approach," he says. "Amazon also has some very high power designers, but they don't do the design themselves. They come up with a certain architecture and they tell the ODMs: 'This is my vision. These are the goals. And I want help designing the hardware.'"
Now, Liao says, this same sort of thing is happening with, well, everything. "All of the data center hardware is bought this way," Liao says. "You can refer to Facebook as an example, where one of the big projects inside the Open Compute effort is storage. Even the storage side is being commoditized. Servers, storage, and networking — all of them are going to this way."
Howard Wu — the president of greater China for Joyent, an Amazon-like cloud computing outfit based in San Francisco — agrees. "If you're a small business and you're going to buy five servers, you're going to Dell or HP, because of the support services. But if you're a data center operator and you're going to buy 10,000 servers, you're going straight [to the ODMs]," he says. "It's kind like buying couches. If you buy one, you go to a retail store. If you buy 10,000 couches, you go straight to the factory."
That said, Joyent is not yet buying its gear from the ODMs.
"We are definitely in talks, but it hasn't actually happened yet," he says. "We have other contractual obligations right now." The market has not completely shifted to Asia. It's moving in stages. These web companies have many suppliers — that's just good for businesses — and in some cases, they're still buying hardware from the traditional players — perhaps because they still have contracts in place. Facebook, for instance, is still buying some servers from Dell and HP. And Amazon is still buying custom servers from Rackable, a stateside manufacturer, and apparently other outfits based here in America.
The hardware supply chain is vast and varied. But it's consolidating. Now that they have the engineering talent, J.R. Rivers says, the ODMs are transforming into OEMs. "The market is maturing to the point where anyone can buy directly from ODMs," he says. "You don't have to be Google."
Update: In response to this story — which refers to Pica8 as a spin-off of Quanta — Quanta sent Wired a statement that reads: "Pica8 has licensed technology from Quanta and is not a "'spin off' of Quanta. Quanta has no ownership interest in Pica8 and has never owned Pica8's shares."Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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Presidential Debate III: Winners and Wieners
posted at 7:05 am on October 23, 2012 by Dafydd ab Hugh
Everyone (even Democrats) roundly agrees that Mitt Romney trounced President Barack "Small ball" Obama in the debate — the first debate, I mean. It's a no-brainer, one of several events that upended this presidential campaign. After the first debate, Mitt Romney gained in stature, in fundraising, and very strongly in the polls; he reversed the trend of a rising Obama virtually overnight and moved back to parity.
In the second presidential debate, most of the snap polls showed Obama had won; but the two focus groups whose results I saw, the Luntz group on Fox News and the MSNBC focus group, unambiguously showed Romney as the winner. As I wrote earlier, those whose business is necessarily adversarial — meaning the Progressivist, activist press, political pundits, and even a smattering of conservative lawyers — saw the second debate through very different eyes from the rest of the country:
Maybe attorneys tend to view a debate as they would a legal argument in court, scoring on specific points and authorities, on argument and who "wins" it, on who can best use objections to keep his opponent's evidence out of the record, and on who does the best job of submitting juror instructions that the judge accepts.
Meanwhile, the rest of us are looking for something very different: We want to see a candidate who can supply genuineness, sincerity, empathy, reassurance, a hopeful vision of the future, and a leaderly demeanor. We don't want glibness, aggression, or menacing body language; we're unimpressed by well-memorized talking points we've heard a hundred times before. We can taste defeatism and faux enthusiasm in a candidate the way you can taste overcooked barbecue even before you bite into it.
I suspect the laity look, more than anything, for nominees with a plan to get from here to there; one that is specific without drifting into the tall grass; plausible without sinking into logical lemmas and ponderous proofs; and gradual enough that we don't have to suffer radical dislocations and the upending of everything we believe into something foreign and frightening.
Watching the polls since then tells us "the rest of the story," as Paul Harvey was wont to say; post-Debate II, Romney continued to rise in the polls, both national and the determinative state polls. So punditry, jounalism, instant polling, and grumpy lawers aside, we must conclude that Romney won the second presidential debate as well; it was then two to nothing, GOP leads.
This time, however, the signs aren't as clear as in the first debate; they're not even as clear as in the second: Snap polls show that Barack Obama won on "points;" in the Luntz focus group on Fox News channel after the debate, a little more than half of the panel thought that Barack Obama won that portion of the debate about foreign policy, the ostensible subject.
But hold on thar, Hoss; regardless of the listed subject matter, this debate was not about foreign policy. It was about the economy. How do we know? Because that's what the whole election is about, who can fix the economy and bring jobs back to America by getting the blasted, rent-seeking gummint out of the dadblamed way.
Foreign policy is vitally important… to about 3% of the electorate. The rest just want to be reassured that the candidates aren't idiots (Poland isn't dominated by the Soviet Union) or crackpates (let's bring home all our troops stationed abroad, line them up along the southern border, and have them link arms to stop all them Messakins sneakin in!) Show the voters that much — reasonably bright, not obviously gibbering — and they're satisfied enough to turn back to the real $16 trillion donkey in the dining room: the economy, stupid.
And guess what? The Luntz focus group also found that whenever Romney managed to drag the economy into the conversation, he won those portions of the debate, big time.
Bottom line, Paul Mirengoff was technically right that Romney was not "playing to win" the debate, but right for the wrong reason: Romney was playing to win the election instead.
That has been the core misunderstanding among both conservatives and liberals all along, though the moderate and undecided voters "got it" way back: Mitt Romney gamed these three debates brilliantly, moreso than did any other presidential candidate in the entire history of the "debate" era. He never intended to "win" any particular debate, if by win we mean rank higher on the judges' scorecards; he always intended to win the goldurned election. You know, the real goal.
That was where Obama made his critical mistakes in the second and third debates; he was persuaded that you win an election by winning the debates on points. Well, that and spending a Zeppelin-ful of money to convince voters that Romney was a rich, bloody-handed Koch-sucker.
Obama was misinformed.
So how do you win an election? Ultimately, by capturing the hearts and minds of the electorate — for which you will surely need a number of resources, including money, campaign adverts, position pages, time spent personally campaigning, surrogates to plead your case, endorsements, and the fierce urgency of a ground game to get out the vote (GOTV).
Did I mention money? Yeah, Zeppelins-ful, on both sides, for a change. But Romney never took his eyes off the real goal: Not zinging your opponent in a nasty commercial, not a premature victory lap, and not winning debates by the crabbed rules of college debate teams… but being elected President of the United States of America.
Romney carefully painted a portrait of presidential bearing and gravitas, knowledge and wisdom, specificity and the political chops to carry it out, and the courage to point out that Emperor Obama has no clothes. Since that last clause was demonstrably true, the end result is — well, not quite inevitable; it ain't over till the fat lady votes — but extremely likely: Mitt Romney is going to win this election.
The presidential debates were part of that portrait, but only a part. They had a goal; they fulfilled that goal, and then some.
Romney's campaign by far out-organized the bewildered, flustered, inconstant, panicky, and now desperate Obama campaign. And that is why he's going to prevail on November 6th… and why he deserves it.
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- 03-09-13 03:41 PM #1Cadillac Owners Member
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Rebuilt 4.6 from Davis Auto Repair or Cadillac Doctor
I believe i have a broken rod in my 03 deville dts. My engine stopped without any significant notice. Went to accelerate during a turn and noticed no power steering and no throttle response...the engine had quit. I forced the steering around the corner and coasted half a mile down a hill and off onto a side street. Put it in park and tried to start it up...no luck. One click and the lights would all go out. Seemed like a dead battery so I put a new one in. Same thing again. I figured it was just because the new battery wasnt fully charged. Got it towed home and charged both batteries. Same thing again... wouldn't start and lights would go out. I considered it was possibly a safety mechanism for an overload and tried to turn the crank with a breaker bar. Well it seemed siezed!!!! Tried to rotate it backwards slightly and it went with normal force. Then it would turn forwards right up to the same exact point and felt like it was hitting something. It wasnt leaking oil anywhere, the oil still looked black, and all the plugs but one looked good. The # 7 or 8 spark plug appears to have been hit!!
So here we are. I am afraid to pay a local shop $2100 to install a $900 80,000mi junk yard engine and then expect to have a reasonably reliable car. I dont think its worth risking $3000 and if there is any problem I am screwed and I cannot take that kind of chance. I have found Davis and Cadillac Doctor and they will install a rebuilt with the 1yr warranty for $3000 in Ohio. That sounds like something I could consider if they are legit. I havent seen too much talk on here regarding them.
Has anyone dealt with them? Does anyone have any other suggestions.
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A thrown rod in a Northstar is VERY rare. The lower end is almost bullet proof. I think I may have heard of it one time (unless of coarse you hydro-locked it). Does it turn any easier with the plugs out?
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I will tell you in a few minutes...thank you for the reply!!
Plugs are already out..car has been sitting for a couple months since i turned it....
OK. so now that it has been so long the bolt is loosening up before the crank is turning at all. hmmm. I tried turning it forward with all force I could come up with, no luck at all.
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Find a used engine from the same year and VIN car, do a top overhaul with either inserts or studs and drop it in.
Good, used engine oil is NOT black - it is clear, dark amber/brown in color.
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BUT, do we hear any stories of balancer bolt coming lose when NO work has been done on motor? What are the chances the bolt just worked its way lose on its own?
Re: Rebuilt 4.6 from Davis Auto Repair or Cadillac Doctor
Piston goes up to the same point and stops each time - dropped valve.......... he can turn the crank backwards a bit, but when he rotates it clockwise - BUMP !.
Nope, harmonic balancer bolts on these engines don't wiggle loose ................
Re: Rebuilt 4.6 from Davis Auto Repair or Cadillac Doctor
The oil was pretty dark
Didn't get a oil pressure warning or anything else.
Could that have been bent if it were just a dropped valve?
I appreciate your help guy's.
How could it have gotten hydro-locked while going down the road? If that was the case and it had sat that long I could easily see how the engine would be locked up like this now.
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The engine can come out the top:
Re: Rebuilt 4.6 from Davis Auto Repair or Cadillac DoctorI've heard the engine doesn't like to come out of the topI'm guessing the engine has locked up a bit from sitting. At least enough for the bolt to loosen up first.How could it have gotten hydro-locked while going down the road?
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Yea so I guess we can just rule out Hydro-locking then.
It seems that I have two main options since I need to get this car running and get rid of my truck.
1- shipping it up to Ohio and getting the rebuilt one installed for around $3k plus towing it/shipping it etc. bringing the total to around 4k... I was just hoping someone had some experience doing business with these guy's. It seems like they are the only reasonably priced place for rebuilt N* engines on the internet.
2- pulling mine through the top. Opening it up to see what happened and most likely buying a used one. What would everyone recommend doing to a used engine before re-installing it? Inserts, and a new head gasket or more?
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To me always check your vehicle to a good mechanic whenever you think something is really serous to repair, in some cases don't try to it by yourself because sometime you'll be able to open some parts of your vehicle but when you try to refix it, ti will be kind a hard for new car owners or mechanics as well.
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Re: Rebuilt 4.6 from Davis Auto Repair or Cadillac Doctor
Hey Rob, considering your predicament and have a few questions and suggestions.
On #1, first where are you? Many of us know places or resources that may or may not be on the net that could be of great help. Those two shops have decided to specialize and therefore can reduce the price because they're set up to do it quickly with a lot of experience. What you save you spend in shipping though. And realistically when you say "around $3,000" I assume that the vast majority of jobs end up $3,500-4,200 before it's done due to unforeseen issues. Once your all in you can't say no. It's not so much that I think they are misleading it's just that I'm a pro and also I'm very familiar with these cars and Northstar's now and know that there's going to be other necessary and recommended maintenance and repairs. Esp. if you want the warranty and at least 3 years more service from the rest of the car. I'm not try to scare you or cast any doubt on those guys who I have no knowledge of. I'm just trying to be a expert realist. In your decision making unless you can find a list of impartial guys who swear they all came and went just under and above $3,000 and are still happily motoring then you should assume $3,000 is the bare minimum and rarely achieved by anyone who wants to keep the car. Just my opinion. We all have to earn a living and to keep up promised expectations everything else better leave tip-top. They wouldn't want complaints because they didn't take care of any other needed things and the power-train had another failure that parked the car.
On #2. Assuming the salvage engine is under 100K I would at the minimum replace the head gaskets and stud or insert the block. Also reseal the bottom end with the latest materials and procedures. Meaning rear main seal, lower case half, and oil pan. Don't forget about the water cross-over gaskets as this is also a large in chassis job. While the engine is out I would shift the transmission over. Pull the side cover and install a new TCC solenoid that's going to burn up during the first month of reuse if you don't. That's the minimum but I went 5x further when I had mine out. The rest would be an as need or wanted basis.
Taking it to a pro will go much faster. You need to balance your time vs. money. Yes it costs more to pay but you would be very surprised how much a DIY will have to spend in time and money to achieve the same results. It's not as big a gap as you think for the first timer and definitely not worth the difference IMHO. Look at some of these DIY rebuild threads and consider as a pro doing it for the first time on open Saturdays while collecting new tools and running into snags to overcome etc. it took me about 6 months and much frustration to go through mine. You'll find things you had no clue were going bad. And I still need a tighter tailshaft housing though it's back in service. Since AJ decided there wasn't enough interests in his parts to actually "dig them out" I got one coming from an Ebay vendor this week.
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In my experience, judging by the posts and comments I read and hear, it seems both Firefox and Google Chrome/Chromium are the top choices for Internet browsers in Linux. Firefox was probably comfortably leading not that long ago, but because of the continuous delays in the development of version 4.0, the obvious limitations in version 3.6.x and the ferocious Chrome/ium improvement rate, many users have already made the switch. At this moment, I believe Firefox is still probably the king, but certainly no longer leading that comfortably.
The aim of this article is to serve as an introduction for the poll that I will keep open for some weeks, but in order to provide a bit more context and discussion material, I would like to share what I consider good about both browsers. I will discuss the not so good bits in the next section.
Firefox 4.0
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- Great Integration in Linux Systems. System application defaults are recognized and most often used correctly. The Java plugin, onboard audio/video players or PDF readers, to name just a few, all work as expected. On a different note, but also important, Firefox can look completely native in both GNOME and KDE.
- True Commitment. Along the same lines, Mozilla has demonstrated true interest in delivering to the Linux community, keeping their Linux releases almost completely aligned with the Windows ones.
- Lightning Fast. The new Gecko 2.0 engine has proven its worth. I no longer notice any difference in speed when browsing with Firefox or Chrome/ium. They react differently, Firefox apparently waiting a bit longer to load web pages contents, but displaying them almost entirely when they are loaded. Chrome/ium seems to start displaying stuff as soon as it gets it, but then takes just as long to display the whole thing.
- Extensive Extension Catalog. Firefox was the first to implement extensions massively and it played a significant role in its success. Most of the extensions available have been migrated and made available for Firefox 4.0 by now.
- Extreme Customization Flexibility. Anything from the thousands of great themes available to the more recently released "personas" screams custom. One can get Firefox to look radically different from the default theme. Personas and Themes are kept once downloaded, so it is extremely easy to switch back to that favorite theme you haven't used in a while.
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- Tab Groups. Not a feature that I use a lot, but I am sure it will be a blessing for some. I have to admit I like how Opera implemented this idea better, though.
- Save or Run. Maybe a minor thing for others, but I love how Firefox allows me to save or run/display contents when I click on a download link. Most of the time I have no interest in keeping stuff that I only want to read/watch/listen to once.
- Simplify to your liking. There is a tendency lately to oversimplify interfaces, strip them down to the core basics. I definitely agree in that I don't like clutter and bloat, but sometimes stripping down can get too far. Not with Firefox, though, I think Mozilla has done a great job in finding the right balance, removing bloat while keeping functionality and flexibility pretty much untouched.
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- Web App Store and Web Apps. Ever since Google released the Google Chrome Web Store, I have thought that it was the best thing about this browser. Granted, most Cloud apps can run on any browser, but the great interface in the browser and the store itself are a master move by Google.
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While it is disappointing to see that some apps are nothing more than glorified bookmarks, there are some interesting projects going on which provide deep levels of integration with Google accounts and APIs. While this is not necessarily exclusive to Chrome/ium, integration is as native as it gets. (It is amazing what one can do by simply signing up for a Gmail account!!)
- Fast Development Pace. Everything about this project is smoking fast, development being no exception, which means support for new technologies/standards is often made available earlier than in other browsers.
- Quick Browsing. Probably the most popular feature in Chrome/ium, browsing speed has been the motto ever since the project took its first steps. The WebKit project certainly adds to that.
- Extensive Extension Catalog. Following the trend started by Firefox, Chrome/ium now offers a large set of extensions as well. While the Firefox catalog is probably larger and richer, Chrome/ium extensions offer unbeatable integration with Google services, which is a big plus for anybody using them.
- Web Standards. Probably the only browser that can claim a 100% score in Acid3 tests.
- Google Love. Google is certainly a force to be reckoned with. The endless list of services and applications available gets even better when one closes the loop with the enhanced integration offered by its own products. Chrome/ium users will always benefit from such integration, as they are part of the loop to begin with. The Chrome/ium extension that provides connection to one's Android device is a good example.
Firefox 4.0
- Not Google. Hardly a Firefox problem, but in the same way iOS users will always sorely miss the native integration Android users get for anything and everything Google, Firefox users may find it annoying to have to miss on some of those features.
- Fat bottomed. Much improved in version 4.0, but Firefox is still a bit lazy when starting up for the first time in a given session.
- Sloppy Synch. Yes, it's mostly fixed now (quite a headache during Beta testing) but the synch feature still lacks in certain areas. For example, I like to keep my bookmark bar pretty crowded with icons (see Firefox screenshot above), but I find it frustrating that those icons are not transferred as part of the synch. In other words, when I start a new Firefox 4.0 session on a new computer, I can't see those icons until each one of the sites linked is loaded. In other words, I am forced to click on every bookmark and wait until every icon is downloaded if I want to see them all!
Aside from that, I can't say I am a fan of the way synch was designed in Firefox. Yes, it's probably designed with more than one device kind in mind (Firefox 4.0 mobile has just been released), but it still feels cumbersome when compared with Chrome/ium's design.
- Web Standards. While the latest updates have got Firefox to an impressive 97% in the Acid3 test, it still misses out in some areas.
- Independent tabs? One feature that was much missed in previous versions of Firefox and that was meant to debut for Firefox 4.0, but is still missing. Unlike Chrome/ium and other modern browsers, which generate a separate process for each tab, Firefox 4.0 and all its tabs still work as a single one. In other words, a non-responding tab could still potentially knock it down. Having said so, while this may sound like a significant flaw, it really isn't, not in my experience, at least. I spend lots of time browsing the Web with both Chrome/ium and Firefox and so far I can't say such feature has made much of a difference. I very rarely stumble across a non-responding page, but when I do, it often knocks down Chrome/ium as well, even if that is supposedly not meant to happen.
- Poor Linux integration Probably the thing that bugs me most when using Chrome/ium in Linux is its poor integration. Not only it is almost impossible to make it look native, specially on KDE, but better integration with the system settings and applications is a big miss.
- Lack of commitment Even if Google is massively taking advantage of Linux and its free (as in beer and as in freedom) nature, they don't seem to be too concerned with providing great support for the Linux community. In fact, the Google Chrome version of Linux is constantly suffering from lack of features when compared to its Windows relative.
- The simpler the better? Undoubtedly the Chromium project has changed the way we think and interact with a web browser. With a very simplified structure, Chrome/ium appealed to lots of people who were tired of using overcomplicated and bloated browsers. Having said so, it kind of bugs me that I have no input in the features that get thrown away. I would rather have them in there and be able to disable those I don't use.
- Poor themes. Theming in Chrome/ium feels like a "forced" feature, one that was not part of the project requirements to start with but had to be introduced later on. I am not sure if that is the case, but Chrome/ium themes are somewhat poor, limited to a mere background change. While this may appeal to some, it's clear the level of customization is nowhere near that of Firefox.
- Save it or Save it?. Yes, probably just a personal thing, but I hate that I am forced to download files (ie. zip, tar, torrent, etc), then double click on them to start the corresponding application.
- No customization history. This one I plain don't understand. Download a new theme and you lose the one you were using... What tha...?
I have listed some of the things I like and dislike about both these browsers, but let me make myself clear: I consider both top quality material.
When I started testing Firefox 4 Beta, I felt I could put an end to using two browsers in Linux. Firefox offered the better integration and stability, but Chromium was the main option for casual browsing due to its superior speed. That idea has materialized now that Firefox 4.0 is available. Today I keep my Firefox instances in synch, get the most out of its superb system integration and stability, enjoy its awesome browsing speed and have fun customizing the heck out of it. Yes, Firefox 4.0 is my Internet browser of choice in Linux (I am sticking to Google Chrome on Windows, though).
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- 1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream
- 1 can (10-3/4 ounces) condensed cream of chicken soup, undiluted
- 1 tablespoon poppy seeds
- 1 teaspoon dill weed
- 4 cups cubed cooked chicken
- 3 cups cooked rice
- 1-1/2 cups butter-flavored cracker crumbs
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- In a large bowl, combine the sour cream, soup, poppy seeds and dill. Stir in chicken and rice.
- Spread into a greased 11-in. x 7-in. baking dish. Combine crumbs and butter; sprinkle over casserole. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 30 minutes or until bubbly. Yield: 6-8 servings.
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"It was a little on the dry side, but was very tasty, so I'll definitely make it again. Next time I will add another can of cream of chicken soup, add some garlic powder, a little bit of milk and half the amount of the rice. I used about half the butter the recipe called for and mixed in a little bit of sharp chedder with the crackers for the topping. I also used rotisserie chicken. It really is a tasty dish. I love the dill!"


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The Nobbi Dragon is similar in many ways to the Jacky Lizard: it is similar in length and weight (about 80 millimetres snout vent) and its ear membranes and nostrils are similarly conspicuous. However, there are several key characteristics which make Nobbi Dragons easily to distinguish from Jacky Lizards.
A male Nobbi Dragon, Amphibolurus nobbi coggeri, Lake Albacutya, Victoria. Photographer: Peter Robertson / Source: Wildlife Profiles
The scales of Nobbi Dragons are not as variable as those of Jacky Lizards and they tend to be lighter in colour. Nobbi Dragons have a distinctive stripe along their backs which is often pale-coloured or even yellow (but can have darker patches). The back part of the lizard (rump and tail) is often tinged with pink or red and the inside of the mouth is pink.
There is considerable variation in colour patterns in the Nobbi Dragon. Two sub-species are recognised in Australia, but only the Western subspecies Amphibolurus nobbi coggeri is found in Victoria. Amphibolurus nobbi coggeri is found south and west of the Warrambungle Mountains (only just dipping into the north-west corner of Victoria). The other subspecies Amphibolurus nobbi nobbi occurs from northern New South Wales to the coast and ranges of south-eastern Queensland.
A female Western Nobbi Dragon, Amphibolurus nobbi coggeri, outside her burrow, Hattah, Victoria.Photographer: Peter Robertson. Source: Wildlife Profiles
Like Jacky Lizards, Nobbi Dragons feed mainly on insects. These lizards are often seen basking on fallen logs, fence posts and rocks and are fairly familiar to people as they do not run for cover readily. It is suggested that their numbers are decreasing in some areas due to human activity (farming).
This lizard occurs from north-western Victoria through central New South Wales to inland and south-eastern Queensland. Its habitat extends to drier areas than does that of the Jacky Lizard.
The distribution of the Nobbi Dragon in VictoriaSource: Museum Victoria (www.museum.vic.gov.au/bioinformatics)
Cogger H. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. Reed Books.
Wilson S. & Swan G. 2003. Reptiles of Australia. Princeton University Press.
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On both the "Grapevine" and "All-Star Panel" segments of the April 7 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, Hume discussed the memo without acknowledging his own role in advancing the false accusation that Democrats had secretly authored it. Similarly, although Kristol did not personally question the authenticity of the memo, he discussed the issue on Special Report without noting that the Standard had run two articles -- including one by executive editor and Fox News contributor Fred Barnes -- pushing the same false speculation.
Though not a direct parallel, it is worth noting that Hume and Kristol both vocally denounced CBS' use of possibly fake documents -- even suggesting that Rather should have been forced to resign over the incident.
For example, on the September 19, 2004, edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday, Kristol demanded that CBS investigate the documents scandal: "Does CBS take the position that they protect the name of a source who knowingly, apparently, passed on forged documents or that they don't have an obligation to investigate the source of documents they went on the air with, that are forgeries?" And on the October 17, 2004, edition of the program, Kristol appeared to call for Rather's resignation: "CBS has Dan Rather doing the evening news every night. Is that fair after his defense of their forged memos that he put on the air?" Similarly, on the January 16 edition of Fox News Sunday, Hume told host Chris Wallace that it was "a little odd" that Rather hadn't been forced to resign from 60 Minutes:
WALLACE: All right. As we've said, the independent panel came out with its report on the CBS News investigation, basically found that CBS News suffered a complete journalistic breakdown, meltdown in its rush to get the story on the air.
Brit, does that end the controversy? Is the case closed?
HUME: No, it won't, because the panel stopped short on two questions. One was, you know, the continuation of Dan Rather in the job, really, which, you know, may have not been theirs to speak to, but the whole thing looks a little odd. You know, Rather's involved, deeply involved in the story, and yet -- and he's retiring in a couple of months but not from the program from which the story emanated. That looks a little odd.
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On Sunday 14 June 2009 Arsenal defender Mikael Silvestre will be joined by many other Arsenal stars and also FIFA World Player of 2008 Cristiano Ronaldo, ex-Arsenal and Barcelona star striker Thierry Henry as well as many other top European football stars for a fundraising extravaganza benefiting Schools for Hope, Silvestre's very own charity.
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As always, home team in CAPS.
SAN DIEGO 7 Kansas City
I don't think anybody is going to be watching this game. But I still have to make a pick. The Chiefs have been a disaster, and the Chargers haven't been much better. I'll take San Diego at home.
Chargers 27-14
Detroit 3 1/2 JACKSONVILLE
Perhaps last week's come from behind win might give the Lions a lift. The Jaguars are game, but they are still battling for the number one pick. I'll take the Lions. May be they are starting to become the team many thought they would be.
Lions 26-13
Chicago 3 1/2 TENNESSEE
It is hard to go against the Bears right now, as they are one of the hottest teams in the league. I don't think Tennessee will provide much of a challenge. They have been disappointing after many thought they were playoff contenders. I'll take the Bears to keep right on rolling.
Bears 23-16
Miami 2 1/2 INDIANAPOLIS
Look out for the Dolphins, who are right in the playoff chase in the AFC. So are the Colts, but either team making the playoffs is a long shot. Still, they will be spoilers. The Dolphins especially will be total pests the rest of the way. I'll pick them to win here too. I don't think anybody thought the Dolphins were going to be 5-3.
Dolphins 20-17
SEATTLE 4 1/2 Minnesota
Both teams have cooled off, especially the Vikings. Neither team is anything special, but like the teams above they will be pests as the year goes on. I think the Seahawks should be able to take care of business at home. But this is the NFL. Who knows.
Seahawks 24-19
Baltimore 3 1/2 CLEVELAND
The Ravens were off last week, and they really needed the bye. They are decimated by injuries. The Browns won last week, but their mini one game streak will end. The Ravens are hurting but they should be able to put away the Browns.
Ravens 20-10
OAKLAND 2 Tampa Bay
Perhaps the Bucs have turned the corner a bit, but it is likely too little too late. The Raiders never had a corner to turn. Still, I haven't seen either team play two good games in a row. Something has to give. I'll take the Bucs on the road.
Buccaneers 22-20
Denver 3 1/2 CINCINNATI
The Broncos are starting to look really good, and their division is terrible. The Bengals are very much in the running for the post season, and the entire conference is up for grabs. This is a pretty big game, but right now I think the Broncos are playing better.
Broncos 28-21
ATLANTA 4 Dallas
It is hard to go against the Falcons right now, and it is pretty easy to go against the Cowboys. There, the pick is made.
Falcons 27-21
HOUSTON 10 Buffalo
Both teams are coming off the bye week, and the Texans are arguably the best team in the NFL. I don't see the Bills putting up much of a fight here, especially in Houston.
Texans 31-14
GREEN BAY 10 1/2 Arizona
These are two teams going in total opposite directions. The Cardinals have absolutely hit the skids, while the Packers have been hot lately. I don't see the Cardinals slowing them down at all. Their defense must be getting tired.
Packers 29-14
NEW ORLEANS 3 1/2 Philadelphia
I think the biggest question in this game is how long before Michael Vick gets benched. I don't think we will be waiting much longer. I'll take the Saints at home, though neither team is going anywhere.
Saints 26-20
Game of the Week
NEW YORK GIANTS 3 Pittsburgh
Some might argue that the Giants are the best team in the NFL, and I wouldn't argue. The Steelers aren't the Steelers of old but they can still win the AFC North. Even though this isn't a conference game it is still very important. The Giants have been playing very well lately. I expect the trend to continue.
Giants 21-17
Stinker of the Week
WASHINGTON 3 1/2 Carolina
This is only the Stinker because of the Thursday night matchup. A pretty good consolation though.
Redskins 24-20
Record For Week Eight: 6-8 ( 9-5 without the spread )
Record Through Week Eight: 42-60-3 ( 55-50 without the spread )
Game of Week Record: 4-3
Stinker of Week Record: 2-5
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Stirring up rekindled romance rumors, Chace Crawford stepped out with his ex-girlfriend over the weekend.
The former "Gossip Girl" hottie kept it casual as he held hands and chatted with the lovely Rachelle Goulding outside the Dime Bar in Los Angeles on Friday (August 29).
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Everyone loves to party for a good cause, and this evening (March 2) stars of all kinds gathered for the 22nd Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party in West Hollywood.
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-When did you start JJM?
July of 2010 is when the store opened for business, online of course :>
-How did you come up with the name? (its cute!)
In Farsi, ju-ju is slang for boobies (My mom is Persian and my dad is American). When my son was born he was permanently latched on, or so it felt, lol. So I used to call him my little Ju-Ju Monkey. No one else knew what it meant, but thought it was cute…..so I decided to call my store Ju-Ju Monkey. What is funny is that I now know a lot of people who use Ju-Ju Monkey and I am not sure how they got it.
-Even though you are web-based and out of your home do you allow (local) families to come over and view your inventory if they are curious about cloth?
I am a web-based store, but I do consultations by appointment in my home. I wish I was a brick and mortar store, but currently that is not feasible. I have a room set-up in my house where people can come look at all the fluff, ask questions and compare products. I love all my cloth diapering families. They are so neat and exciting to talk to.
-What are some stand out products that you sell?
I feel the majority of my products do well since I stand behind every product and test them out myself. If there is something I don't believe in, it will be the first to go. I am not a good sales person, so for me the product has to sell itself. My favorites are Charlie Banana diapers, Fuzzibunz diapers especially the Perfect Size, Blueberry bamboo fitteds, and iPlay swim diapers. Ohhh and who can forget the luxurious sustainablebabyish wool longies. How I wish I had a pair in my size!
Ju-Ju Monkey also shared some pictures with me of their inventory/stock room. I am so jealous of all the fluffy goodness she has! Its delightful!
She also has the walls painted so incredibly cute! I would probably have just plain boring walls but this is really fun to see with the animals and such all over.
From looking at these pictures you can tell she has quite a selection of great products to choose from.I love how organized everything is as well.Sara from Ju-Ju Monkey was kind enough to send me a Blueberry fitted diaper to review. Now I have seen these around and was curious about them. I am always kind of leery about trying out new diapers with out seeing them in person. I am always afraid they are going to be all hard and scratchy or something but I can promise you this...you will not be disappointed in this fitted diaper. Just after I opened it I was talking online to Terra (another CDA contributor) and I told her it was so soft I could use it as my pillow because well it is really that soft!
The elephant print is super cute to. So this diaper features a three snap rise on the front as well as a double row of waist snaps. This is a OS fitted diaper. Here in the picture below you can see that it is opened all the way.
Here in the picture below it is set to the smallest rise setting.Here is the diaper opened up. It has a snap in soaker.
The soaker has two flaps on it that help to ensure fast drying time. You can remove the soaker before washing or keep it hooked together.
There are two snaps that are used to keep the soaker hooked onto the outer part of the diaper. The soaker snaps into the front of the diaper.
There are two snaps that are used to keep the soaker hooked onto the outer part of the diaper. The soaker snaps into the front of the diaper.
Here is the diaper opened up and showing the cute print side.The diaper set to the smallest rise setting
I have the diaper set on the middle rise setting for my 25 pound son. We also have the waist snaps in the middle.
This is actually quite thin for a fitted diaper. I have some that are super bulky but this isn't bad at all.So far I really enjoy this fitted diaper. It is very soft and washed up really well. I have found that it kind of wads up in the dryer and so it doesn't dry up and I end up hanging it to dry the rest of the way. I also have noticed that when its wet it does get stiff, which makes it easy to tell if the baby is wet and needs to be changed but I know some materials stay softer even if they are wet but this doesn't. But that doesn't really affect how much I really like this fitted. Its so cute and they have a lot of great prints as well.


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I'm just wondering what the paint colors for the armor is. I know Rouge Studios has an awesome thread on helmet paints for ESB, but I'm just wondering if the ROTJ armor colors are the same (armor wise).
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I just counted 19 'coons at once messing around my bee yard next to my house. I have some trees that they can climb up, but I put a maze of electric fence around the hives today. Those 'coons must be slow learners, as they will touch the fence, get shocked, stand up and growl at it, then do it again and again....they are repeat offenders for sure.You know, if I make a 'coon skin hat, etc. and actually put it on....someone would shoot me as they would think that I was BIGFOOT with all that hair!On the other hand, the big boar 'coons would think I was one big, bad sow!Might keep them out of the bee yard next year!Brenda
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Discussion in 'December 2011' started by max, Dec 28, 2011.
I thought of you while watching that play.
That ticked me off when Daye wimped out like that. Defenders get up in his face and he panics. Very disappointed in him last night. LOL....I just noticed Kgreg said the exact same thing....
Even worse than the infamous "Tayshaun ducks out of the way of LeBron." At least LeBron is big!
I had fun watching this game which was a lot different than last year. I may even get league pass back. 1. Austin Daye: You are 5" taller than your defender. %$#%$ shoot over him! 2. I was watching things on a smallish window and was like: who is that guy with poor ball handling skills driving into 4 guys, missing the open man and forcing up a shot? Oh that's Stuckey. That dude needs a running start in order to barrel thru the lane. He doesn't have enough momentum if he catches the ball by the free throw lane. 3. When we had Chris Webber, having him at the high post and have people cut worked great even though we didn't use it all that much. Greg Monroe could do that with us in a way but he needs to be able to score. Score Greg! You on my fantasy team. 4. Off ball movement sucks. I assume its because we have no offense and its like park ball. I want to see off ball screens and cutters. Not just pick for the ball handler, drive and kick out. 5. I want to see Ben Gordon become our 1st option on offense. Tay is a 3rd option kind of guy and he'll kill you with that hook but he ain't gonna carry us on it. 6. We lack mental toughness. We played good D in the 1st quarter but got worse as the game wore on.
Lol. I think Daye knows it. We'll see better from him soon.
Having these days off allowed me to pull a Lee, I got to watch the replay! And we competed in this game but we had 2 lulls where the game got away from us. Ironically the 2 main culprits for allowing a bad team to run us out of our own gym: #1) Brandon Knight. For everything he did good on offense in the 3rd qtr, he gave it back defensively and then he took an awful 3 on a possession where Clev was up 5pts and it quickly turned into a 9 pt lead shortly thereafter. #2) Greg Monroe. He had 5 TO's last night and most of them came during a time where we were trying to keep it close and tie the game up. His transition D was pathetic too. With this "new" information, I don't feel so bad. 2 Young'ns on the floor making dumb rookie-like mistakes is OK by me, secretly that's the best scenario we can hope for, Young players learning the game, getting better, playing through mistakes, all while racking up LOSSES! Stay focused fellas-stay focused!! Austin Daye looked worse the 2nd time around! We're getting absolutely NOTHING from the SF position right now, it very well may be our most un-athletic spot on the floor, which is sad to the Nth degree. Upon Charlie's return I say start him. Let's put the money makers on the court and make them try and at least earn their paychecks. So here's what I'll be clamoring for: Starters: Knight, Gordon, Tay, CV and Monroe. Bench: Stuckey, JJ and Ben. 8 Man Rotation with Bynum thrown in there occasionally when the team needs a spark.
Funny, the way Austin Daye looked in this game, Singler just may have beat him out for the backup SF spot this season.
Singler might have helped this year.
i thought of this while watching the game...hopefully frank instills some offense around it because monroe got the ball 3-4 times at the top of the key and i was screaming for the rest of the guards to move and make some cuts and they just stood there, leaving monroe with nothing to do but turn around and face up 15 feet from the basket
funny about #1 because i said the same thing about stuckey missing a layup that would've put us within 6, and then cleveland nailed a 3 on the other end to go up 11. i can't fault knight for taking that shot because he was feeling it and had just made several in a row...i have no issue with a heat check
It was a bad shot, but when he took I immediately said, "heat check" so it didn't anger me (unlike Austin Daye and his inability to shoot over Boobie Gibson), but I also thought of that old Larry Brown saying, "time and score".
Daye played pretty well at times last year and worked really hard this off season. I'd give him 10 more games or so before settling in on a negative opinion. He actually became our game winning shot taker last year because he was so clutch. He's got a unique game and body type, so maybe he's just not fitting in with our bench unit. The big problem is our big problem.
And Pierce will surely dress to assure that the C's don't lose the lowly Pistons at home..
Is it to late to get Singler out of his European contract and get him over here? Open a roster spot and just buy out Max's contract. If this is a rebuiding year or decade, may as well get him over here now, or we will never see him ever in a Piston uniform.
I think there are only 13 Pistons on the roster right now, so there are 2 open roster spots....not that I'm opposed to shedding Maxiel.
He came into the league full of potential with obvious holes in his game. If he is/was going to succeed in the NBA he had to get stronger and tougher, after 2 games it's easy to see he is the EXACT same player now that he was when he came into the league, there is absolutely no improvement in his game at all.
The Pistons prefer that no improvement is made before they give you a big raise.
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April 13, 2011
Steve Myers
Sometimes, [Concord Coalition National Field Director Harry] Zeeve said, politicians inaccurately describe the effect of their actions – by saying that they're reducing the debt when they're just reducing the deficit, or by misrepresenting how much they're cutting.
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