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Boris Evelson, a vice president and principal analyst for Forrester Research, spoke at the Alteryx user's conference on the need for flexible business intelligence tools (BI) to support better decision-making. He made some interesting observations but had one key flaw in his approach. I'll explain below.
Alteryx commissioned a report from Forrester to evaluate its location intelligent software solutions and where they fit within the context of the broader BI category. Evelson argues that "BI is so hot" because it offers a competitive differentiation. "If you and I sell exactly the same product, with the same features, then the only way I can win is if I know who my customers are," says Evelson. However the key is not in the data on customers but "information" that offers insights that raw data alone does not offer. Evelson relayed a conversation with a European banker at the height of the financial meltdown and asked him where he screwed up because he had the right data. "Yes, we had the data…but we didn't have the information."
Evelson argues that traditional BI approaches just don't cut it anymore. He says that traditional BI tools are just not intuitive; requirements change too fast; and knowledge workers spend too much time looking for the data. And if IT controls the applications, bottlenecks ensue. From working with clients he hears things like, "We really need to align business with IT." But Evelson says, "I really don't think that is a pragmatic reality."
Companies used to find that consolidation with one BI vendor was optimal, perhaps driven by the IT department that eschewed too many solutions to support. But Forrester is now finding in 2010 that fewer companies are consolidating and confirming that flexible BI solutions and BI self-service trumps centralization and consolidation. "IT [department] hates this," says Evelson.
Forrester finds that no single BI vendor does it all. All good news for Alteryx. Companies are using a mix of in-house solutions and multiple vendors for BI architecture. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the number of people using BI in the average enterprise is mostly in the single percentage digits. What will it take to transform more knowledge workers to become BI savvy? Evelson says that a combination of best practices and next generation technologies will work best but neither one of them work on their own. He stresses agile development practices, with the flexibility to change inputs to data analysis as processes change or new information becomes available.
But the one flaw I found in Evelson's argument is that GIS and geospatial technology fall into what he calls, "advanced visualization." This is unfortunate. The reason why the large BI vendors never understood the applications of geospatial technology was exactly for this misrepresentation of GIS. If it was just the map, any map visualization tool will do to display data. But many geospatial solution companies, Alteryx included, are embedding tools for spatial regression, spatial interaction models, and spatial ETL. They turn data into spatially-relevant information and allow an interpretation of data not available in any other business intelligence tool. These are the differentiators of location intelligent applications and whether they are embedded with mainstream BI solutions or are standalone applications matters little. But they are differentiators and that is where business analysts and knowledge workers can look to gain a competitive advantage for any industry.
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Dempster Highway
Connects: Klondike Highway to Inuvik, NWT
Route#: Yukon Highway 5, NWT Highway 8
Length: 456 miles
Road Surface: Gravel
Season: Open all year
Highest Pass: North Fork Pass Summit, elev. 4,229 feet/1,289m
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The Dempster Highway begins about 25 miles/40 km east of Dawson City, YT, at its junction with the Klondike Highway, and ends at Inuvik, NWT. Facilities are few and far between. It is strongly recommended that motorists carry a full-sized spare tire (or 2 spare tires if they are an unusual size) as well as extra water and gas.
Construction of the Dempster Highway began in 1959 and was finally completed in 1978, although it did not officially open until Discovery Day weekend in 1979. It was named for Inspector William John Duncan Dempster of the RCMP.
Although in relatively good condition, this highway requires drivers pay attention at all times for sudden changes in road surface, including frost heaves, potholes, boggy or slick stretches, crushed shale (hard on tires) and other drivers. Drivers should pull-over (if space allows) for oncoming trucks or to allow trucks to pass. Drive with your headlines on at all times. Free ferries transport motorists across the Peel River and the Mackenzie River. Crossing is by ice bridge in winter (closed during freeze–up and break–up). Current Highway & Ferry Conditions are posted online.
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- J 0 Dempster Corner, junction with Kondike Highway 2 (see Milepost J 298.3 Klondike Loop). NOTE: Next gas northbound is at Eagle Plains, 229 miles/369 km from here.
- J 44 Dempster Interpretive Centre; open mid-June to Sept., natural history displays.
- J 44.5 Yukon government Tombstone Territorial Park; 36 campsites.
- J 46 Tombstone Range Viewpoint.
- J 49.3 North Fork Pass Summit, elev, 4,593 feet/1,400m, highest point on Dempster Highway.
- J 63.7 Two Moose Lake turnout and viewing platform.
- J 120.4 Yukon government Engineer Creek Campground; 15 campsites.
- J 252 Arctic Circle Crossing; picnic tables, litter bins, outhouses.
- J 277 Yukon government Rock River Campground; 20 campsites.
- J 288.9 YT-NWT Border. Historical marker, good photo-op.
- J 303.5 Wright Pass Summit.
- J 334.9 Peel River Crossing via CF Abraham Francis, operates approx. 15 hours a day from about late May/early June to mid- or late October., with on demand ferry services and/or crossing by ice bridge rest of year.
- J 336 Nitainlaii Territorial Territorial Park campground and interpretive centre. Book NWT campgrounds online at Northwest Territories Parks.
- J 341.9 FORT McPHERSON (pop. 791); food, gas, diesel, lodging. Attractions: Lost Patrol Gravesite at Anglican Church. Local industry includes Fort McPherson Tent & Canvas factory.
- J 377.9 Mackenzie River ferry crossing via MV Louis Cardinal, operates approx. 15 hours a day from early June to late October, with on demand ferry service and/or crossing by ice bridge rest of year.
- J 426 Vadzaih Van Tsik Campground; 11 campsites.
- J 434.5 Gwich'in Territorial Campground; 15 campsites.
- J 453.8 Jak Territorial Park Campground; 36 campsites.
- J 456.1 INUVIK (pop. 3,430) has all services; visit Town of Inuvik. Stop by Western Arctic Regional Visitors Centre across from hospital on Mackenzie Road. Lodging at Capital Suites and Arctic Chalet. Sightseeing with Arctic Adventure Tours and Tundra North Tours.


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I made this cake for mine and a friends combined 22nd/23rd birthday party. We had a dress up party and of course the cakes had to match the theme! I also made one with a tennis player on top. This one was a vanilla cake with chocolate butter cream and green fondant icing. The golf guy is made of fondant :)
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Welcome your newest member of the Toronto Blue Jays, Jose Molina.
In a bit of a surprising move, the bluebirds signed the former Yankees backstop to a one year $400,000 dollar contract. That salary could be bumped up to $800,000 if Molina makes the 25-man roster out of Spring Training.
I say this was a surprise move because it seemed like the Blue Jays had the catching situation all but figured out. John Buck will catch most of the games, and Raul Chavez will backup. If need be, they could dip into the 51's roster and call up Kyle Phillips or J.P. Arencibia.
The Molina signing signals that something must be horribly horribly wrong with the development of the once highly-touted prospect J.P. Arencibia. Now that Travis d'Arnaud has even snuck ahead of Arencibia on the Blue Jays top prospects list, it must be a sign of things to come.
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My heart is heavy and all I can do is cry. I have lost my sweet, gentle giant. His body no longer worked and today he was telling me it was time. I can't imagine not having him here. He was the best dog ever! I can't even write about it, but it's so recent. Man, I thought he'd be here forever. :( I love you, Roswell.
So a couple weeks ago I went to the cancer place again. It was the 5th and last time they gave me chemicals. So I'm officially DONE!!!! No more chemo for me, woohoo! My blood work looks good after the follow up, and so far pictures of my chest show that my lungs are clear as well. The surgery site looks great and no further masses or anything screwy is going on in there. I need xrays once a month of my chest for another couple times and then every 3 months or so after that. But, I'm doing good. :)
So yesterday the moms took me to the doctor place that took away part of my mouth. I was pretty nervous going in. I didn't want to have to stay there again, even though they were really nice to me. The Moms talked to the dogor for a little while and she seemed to think that the surgery might have gotten rid of all the bad cancer bugs. But there is still a possibility that some of them escaped into my nose, so the surgeon said they should inject me with chemicals to get them to go away. Mom went back and forth about it for a while. She half thinks that the surgery did the trick and half thinks that if there are a few cells left that they need to be blasted. After thinking about it, she finally decided to go ahead and try to give me the best chance for completely getting rid of them.
The one tech took me back and vampirized me for a blood profile. That came back ok, so I was then taken back for a little while to get the drugs. They poked me in my back leg and I had to sit there for just a little while. I was so happy that I got to go home with Mom! She dropped me off at her work though for a little bit while she and step-mom went out for their annifursary. Did they bring me back anything?.... Nope....
I just wanted to get home. I fell asleep pretty quickly. I'm doing fine though from the chemo so far. The dogtor said that the medication can suppress my cell count, so mom needs to check some blood later this week to make sure I'm doing ok. After that, I need to go back in about 3-4 weeks for another round. It'll be done about 5 times. After that, hopefully they can say that the things are gone for good and I can just go on about my life. Wish me luck!!! :)
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I believe you are describing the issure here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1777 Until that issue is fixed though, the solution is to use the same interface for both. On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Sebastien Coutu <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > Quick question regarding the listen_address and rpc_address parameters. > We're trying to run some map-reduce jobs on our ring and my goal is to split > the Cassandra intra-cluster traffic from the Thrift calls. I've populated > the listen_address with the IP address of one interface and rpc_address with > the IP addres of another interface. Let's call them IP A (listen) and IP B > (rpc). Now our jobs are setup so the connect to IP B on the seed node and > use the describe ring method to get the ring information and then know where > to connect on each node (Forgive my very summary explanations but I don't > want to dive in the code just yet). The issue is Cassandra returns the IP A > for the ring nodes but I'd like to force the clients to connect to IP B. Is > there anything we can do to make Cassandra return the RPC addresses when > issuing that method or should I simply make RPC listen on all addresses? > Thanks, > Sebastien Coutu > Hopper Inc.
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New York, Feb 19(ANI): The Obama administration is reportedly holding direct, secret talks with senior Taliban leaders in Afghanistan as part of an effort to forge a political settlement with the group.
According to the New Yorker magazine, the discussions are continuing, they are of an exploratory nature and do not yet amount to a peace negotiation.
When asked for comment on the talks, a White House spokesman said that the remarks that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made earlier offered a "thorough representation of the US position."
Clinton had earlier said that only a political solution would end the war in Afghanistan.
"We will never kill enough insurgents to end this war outright," Clinton had said during a speech in New York.
Clinton had also voiced hope for splitting off rank-and-file Taliban from Al-Qaeda extremists in Afghanistan.he said that the surge in US-led troops over the past year was part of a strategy to "split the weakened Taliban off from Al-Qaeda and reconcile those who will renounce violence and accept the Afghan constitution". (ANI)


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In preparation for the premiere of the highly-anticipated new original series PENNY DREADFUL, SHOWTIME has launched The Penny Dreadful Production Blog, a first of its kind for any SHOWTIME series. Penny-Dreadful.com provides an in-depth look into the creation of the series, and offers unprecedented access from the series' creative team and producers. Fans will be taken behind the scenes to the production of the series from its early stages, as it is currently shooting in Ireland, through the end of season one.
Today, the network released a new video blog (http://s.sho.com/1fMoS5B) featuring series creator, writer and executive producer, three-time Oscar(R) nominee John Logan as he walks viewers through the literary works that inspired this next great SHOWTIME drama. Over the course of filming, the Production Blog will feature interviews with the show's cast, producers, crew and various scholars, giving fans a greater understanding of the show's origins, inspiration and themes.
SHOWTIME has partnered with the popular website Goodreads to create a digital book club where viewers can re-read and discuss the classic literary inspirations for PENNY DREADFUL online, including Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Series creator John Logan will provide discussion points and commentary on the site (http://bit.ly/1beOeUJ) to further engage the series' new fans.
In PENNY DREADFUL, some of literature's most famously terrifying characters - including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray and iconic figures from the novel Dracula, all brilliantly reimagined in a whole new light - have become embroiled in Victorian London. The series stars Josh Hartnett (Black Hawk Down), Eva Green (Casino Royale) Timothy Dalton (The Living Daylights, License to Kill), Reeve Carney (Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark), Rory Kinnear (Skyfall), Harry Treadaway (The Lone Ranger), Billie Piper (Doctor Who, Secret Diary of a Call Girl) and Danny Sapani (The Bill). PENNY DREADFUL is a frightening psychosexual thriller created, written and executive produced by John Logan (Hugo, The Aviator, Gladiator) and executive produced by Logan's Desert Wolf Productions, along with Oscar winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall) and Pippa Harris (Revolutionary Road, Call The Midwife), both of Neal Street. Of the eight episodes, the first two will be directed by Juan Antonio Bayona, who helmed The Orphanage and the acclaimed film, The Impossible starring Naomi Watts in her Oscar-nominated performance.
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I took my new Bersa 380 out to the range for the first time today - ran 100 rounds of Winchester "white box" target ammo through it - 95 gr FMJ w/ the flat nose.
The pistol is pretty accurate when I take my time on my shots- and I like the pointing and handling of the gun. BUT there was a FTF malfunction about every 14th round - it looked like the round was being fed too high into the chamber and got tipped upright so that the nose of the bullet got jammed and the slide closed onto the case of the round. :mad:To clear I had to eject the mag and the round would drop free.
This seemed to happen on the last round of every other mag I went through. What could be the cause? Mag problem since it was the las round typically? Ammo problem- maybe it just doesn't like those flat points? Shooter error (seemed like it happened when I was shooting rapid fire -maybe I'm limp wristing it?)?
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Federal Computer Week, a leading publication focusing on the business of federal technology, has selected NLRB Chief Information Officer Bryan Burnett as one of this year's leaders in the fields of government, industry and academia who have played pivotal roles that affect how the federal government acquires, develops and manages IT.
Burnett is hailed for his role in "innovating under pressure." In selecting Burnett, FCW writes: "Keeping an agency's IT running is not often a Federal 100-worthy accomplishment, but budgetary and political challenges made even normal operations a herculean task for the National Labor Relations Board in 2013. And Burnett did more than just maintain: He reduced core IT expenditures by $2 million and led his agency in adopting a unified case management system that replaced 12 legacy systems, cut down on duplicate efforts and streamlined document management. More than 80 percent of the board's employees use the Next Generation Case Management System, and the rest will adopt it by the end of 2014."
The publication notes that Burnett and the other honorees "have gone above and beyond their daily responsibilities and have made a difference in the way technology has transformed their agency or accelerated their agency's mission."
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In preparation for the upcoming Halo: Reach beta, Bungie has released a Halo: Reach Beta Guide. The guide includes details on: which playlists will be available, and when they'll become available to play; which maps and game modes are included in each playlist; general instructions for how to access the beta; and introductions to character customization, ranks, and The Armory.
The beta begins on May 3, will run for 17 days and end on May 19. Though there's also an early release for the beta that begins tomorrow.
Here's the schedule for the various playlists, and the modes that are included in each of them:
- Grab Bag – May 3 – A mix of 4v4 Slayer and Objective Games
- 1 Flag CTF; Stockpile; Oddball; Team Crazy King; 3 Plots; Team Slayer; Team SWAT; Covy Team Slayer
- Free For All – May 3 – 8 Man FFA. Spartans only.
- Slayer; Slayer Pro Round; Classic Slayer; Oddball; Crazy King; Juggernaut; Headhunter
- Arena – May 3 – 4v4 Team Slayer Playlist. Focuses on Team Slayer and variations thereof. Spartans only.
- Team Slayer; Team Slayer Pro; Classic Slayer
- Invasion – May 7 – 6v6 (Three 2-man fireteams vs Three 2-man fireteams), Spartans vs. Elites
- Invasion; Invasion Slayer
- Network Test 1 – May 14 – 3v3, Spartans vs. Elites
- Generator Defense – A test of the Halo: Reach multiplayer netcode under stressed conditions. Expect a few hiccups.
And there's the Halo: Reach beta for you. Seventeen days doesn't seem very long, but it should be plenty of time for players to decide whether to take the plunge and purchase the full game (or the deeper plunger and purchase the legendary edition).
When the beta formally begins, we'll make sure to put up an announcement post, and perhaps our gamertags as well. A Game Rant team of destruction, or an embarrassing situation waiting to happen? We'll find out on May 3.
Halo: Reach is scheduled for release exclusively for the Xbox 360 in Fall, 2010.
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Guatemala San Jose Ocaña
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Peach, brown sugar, lime
Producer- Roberto & Guillermo Sanchez
Farm- San Jose Ocaña
Region- San Juan Sacatepequez
Altitude- 1800masl
Process- Fully Washed
Varietal- Catuai and bourbon
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STILLWATER, Okla. --- A first-inning run stood up and Andrew Morales pitched a complete-game gem to lift UC Irvine over Oklahoma State, 1-0, Saturday night as the Anteaters won the Stillwater Super Regional and earned a berth in the College World Series.
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UCI scored the game's lone run in the bottom of the first as Chris Rabago hit a one-out single through the right side and then advanced to second on Connor Spencer's single to right. Jerry McClanahan flied out to left before Jonathan Munoz stroked a double down the left-field line to bring in Rabago.
Morales, who retired the high-powered Cowboys in order over the final three innings, recorded his third complete game of the season in improving to 11-2. He fanned eight, walked two and allowed five hits for the 'Eaters.
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What Does It Mean to Be French?
Nearly 75 years ago, the French writer Julien Benda published his now-classic essay The Treason of the Intellectuals. Benda argued that the true intellectual, like Emile Zola during the Dreyfus Affair, defended "universal" values, while nationalist opponents instead embraced the particular values of France. For Benda, the choice was clear: the imperative of justice and transcendental truths on the one hand; reasons of state and national myths on the other.
The latest essay by one of France's reigning intellectuals, Régis Debray, suggests the nationalists have just won over one of their former opponents. His Eloge des Frontières, just published by Gallimard, is a superficial work. But there are depths to the superficial - especially when it occurs in a charged context. This is certainly the case for France today, which is more divided than ever over the issues of immigration and national identity.
A young philosopher chasing revolution, Debray first catapulted into public prominence from the forests of Bolivia. In 1967, he was arrested by the Bolivian authorities, found guilty of associating with Che Guevara's guerilla movement and sentenced to a thirty-year prison term. When his case became a cause célèbre, Debray was released. Few thinkers, it seemed, took more seriously the call for political engagement than Debray.
Debray became the poster child for intellectuals without borders. But world revolution has become so yesterday; devolution is today's ideological flavor. Rather than the specter of communism, what now haunts the world is the ideal of a world without borders. Debray does not give those who thought this was true only for speakers of Esperanto the time to weigh his observation. Instead, skipping lightly in a few pages over millennia of human history, Debray insists that rather than boldly going where no people has gone before, we need to return to the past.
It is the past, he argues, that reminds us that frontiers guaranteed the sense of the sacred; that frontiers alone safeguard the unique character of a people. To cite counter-examples, ranging from the Jews to the Roma to the Acadians, in order to dispute Debray's claim is pointless. History must not get in the way of his poetic metaphors. Thus, for Debray, the French identity is the result of "seventeen centuries of sedimentation." It is the lay of the land and the laying of a table; what never lies are the soil and moeurs cultivated by a people.
But metaphors are complex. What do we do with those "elements," for example, recently introduced to the process of "national sedimentation"? Are they less French, especially if they do not recognize the same landscapes and table manners that Debray celebrates? In his riffs, Debray variously compares the border to a strainer, to human skin, to an "interface between the organism and the external world." It is, in short, a filter. These metaphors are certainly more generous than the border as a wall or rampart. But they raise a crucial question: what, precisely, does France seek to filter out?
While Debray does not bother to answer this question, many of his more conservative contemporaries do bother. Their answer has its roots in a writer Debray often echoes, the influential fin-de-siècle politician and nationalist Maurice Barrès. In his novel The Uprooted, Barrès explored the effect of abstract reason and universal standards, taught by professors who dined on Kantian idealism rather than Alsatian sausage, on the nation's youth. The result, for Barrès, was a decadent people and national decline.
Debray is certainly not an irrationalist, much less an anti-Semite, as was Barrès. But the two writers share the same obsession with borders. What Barrès meant by cosmopolitanism, Debray means globalization; what Barrès feared in Kantian idealism, Debray sees in corporate capitalism. If the land and the dead, as Barrès famously declared (and Debray clearly believes), is the stuff of the French nation, what happens when by malls and McDonalds - or, indeed, Muslims - overrun them?
Here is the rub: for France's extreme right, the enemy is not just globalization, but also "Islamization." Marine Le Pen, heir apparent to the xenophobic and protectionist Front National, hammers at these two issues in her public appearances. Like Debray and Barrès, Le Pen decries the leveling effect of global economic and cultural forces. But like Barrès, she also recoils at the presence of the "other" that threatens the organic purity of the French nation. For Barrès, the "other" was the Jew; for Le Pen, it is the Muslim. Debray does not identify a specific "other," but his notion of a filter anticipates his or her existence.
In the Treason of the Intellectuals, Benda asked what would "happen to a humanity where every group strives more eagerly than ever to feel conscious of its own particular interests?" A "child can give the answer," he replied. Surely Debray knows the answer as well.


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Rich or Simply Frugal?
There is always a target for bad tax policy, and these days it seems to be the rich. Every scheme designed to raise tax revenue is usually based on taxing the rich more, taxing the poor less, and generally redistributing wealth so that society is fair. Sadly, however, the non-wealthy but frugal and hard-working citizen often gets caught in the crossfire. And the fallout from bad policy tends to fall on them.
Take Obama's 2014 budget proposal that would limit the accumulation amount in a traditional or Roth retirement account based on the cost of an annuity. For a person retiring in 2013 at age 65, the amount is about $3 million. It is expected that this cap on tax-advantaged retirement accounts would raise about $9 billion over 10 years.
Ever since Mitt Romney ran for president and it was revealed he had tens of millions of dollars in retirement accounts, there has been concern from the administration that some savers are just saving too much. These savers may have excessive amounts of tax-advantaged retirement funds when the time comes to retire. So after reading countless articles about how Americans are not saving enough, now we're saving too much?
For a person who starts saving during their mid-life crisis, invests solely in bonds and contributes minimal amounts, a $3 million cap is nothing to worry about. Unfortunately, many people fall into this category. But as young people are faced with the realities of an insolvent Social Security system, it is entirely conceivable that they could have millions in an account by the time they reach retirement age. How? Read here.
If you bothered to read the piece, you may be asking me where I got my wild assumptions. They're not that wild. If an individual contributes the maximum allowable tax-deferred contribution to a 401(k) plan for 40 years (and that contribution is adjusted upward annually for inflation – which I assume to be 3 percent), and then they make additional "catch-up" contributions at age 50, and she invests in the stock market and receives a nominal rate of 12 percent (don't laugh – the rate of return for the stock market from 1946 to 1990 was 12 percent), she could have $6 million in retirement cash in today's dollars. This has nothing to do with being wealthy, but it has everything to do with being a consistent saver, regardless of income.
The likelihood of any sane Congress member incorporating this limit into a budget bill is small. But it's always a good idea to get ahead of hair-brained schemes before they happen.


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11 1/2 bolt circle torque converter
ok i have a 64 impala and need some advice. my dad just had a 700r4 trans rebuilt awhile ago and dropped off a new torque converter last week, just open the box and noticed it won't work the bolt holes on the converter are 9 1/2 and the flexplate on my 454 are 11 1/2 bolt circle. I know this is a stupid question but waht would be the best option? get a torque converter that will fit a 11 /12 bolt circle flexplate or get a new flexplate? thanks
I would try and exchange the one you have for the right one if it's new. If not then get a different flex plate. Pay attn. to the tooth count as some flex plates have different amount of teeth. :D
ok thank you
Am i missing something??? i have a 454 bbc and am mating it to a rebuilt 700r4 and running into issues with the torque converter.The flexplate on the motor measure 11 1/2 bolt pattern and the torque converter given to me has a 9 1/2 well, cant seem to find a converter with a 11 1/2 bolt cirlce pattern to bolt to the flexplate... What do i need to be looking for ? Im sorry if this is an idiotic question but i have been getting the run-around lately, so any advice would be great!
I had this same issue with a Caddilac motor and a t 400..I wound up with going to Hughes Performance to get a converter that fits and works..and has the stall that I needed..turned out it was the most cost effective for me..
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feca is completely different from before. earth feca is now a lot like earth sac, water shields allies, and fire glyphs were meganerfed
pretty sure the other classes you listed are the same
feca is completely different from before. earth feca is now a lot like earth sac, water shields allies, and fire glyphs were meganerfed
pretty sure the other classes you listed are the same
Bummer, I like the new Earth Feca, but glyph is just plain stupid now...
So are you guys still playing? I'm thinking about coming back for the new Feca.
The reason I quit is because I prefer PvP games whith Arenas or battlegrounds and such. Honestly, Wafku has incredibly good PvP and has the infrastructure for PvP (warring nations), but the problem is that there is no incentives. If your nation's leader starts a war then the citizens just get upset because it creates limitations for them. The nation gets nothing from warring as far as I know.
I wish they would add PvP arenas or something.
Anyways, we knocked some people out of the guild, so if you need an Invite you can pm almost anyone you see in the guild, Alternatively you can go to amakna and talk up Apostle. Wait a few minutes as he's usually afk.
Wakfu: Roxie HubrecutOriginally Posted by Your average commentor
hey guys so i didn't want to quit but one day wakfu decided it wouldn't open anymore so i tried to uninstall and reinstall and that didn't work either T_T any word on panda or sram revamp?
Always wanted to play every time i see this on first page i'm complaining to myself how it could have been better if it did this or that, i still have that nostalgia in me pvping everyone in the tutorial area, man was that awesome despite how small the community seemed to be
the tutorial area was packed with 10-20 people all over the place challenging each other as lv.1-7 characters, i really loved the 1v2 xDDD
it's pretty much the only hope for a "2d" mmo yet have no interesting classes for me to enjoy.. what a shame
here are things i hate about this game
1.very few hair styles, likely for hats to ruin your hair completely (the duck hats look kind of cute though)
2.weak skill graphics.. i dont really feel anything when im using skills just like grandchase or worse, i wish it looked more detailed
3.most characters look unappealing or have masks and such blocking their face or hairstyle that makes it look so ugly, main thing that keeps me from playing wakfu atm is this.
if there were mods for this game it would be a great start for me to use that and play again, dungeon fighter online has mods for ui and character skill effects, too bad wakfu doesn't have any of those despite how it's actually pretty old of a game now. literally every game i already love and appreciate with their looks, designs, graphics has a mod available, but not this game? strange how people
are making mods for games that don't need mods to make it look better
so to be precise.
Cra hairstyle sucks especially when you're looking to wear a hat (are there even hairstyles via cashshop?)
Enripsa are so cute but the skill effects feel so weak to get enjoyment fromt,
I don't want to play a wierd tinman class to enjoy the game or a grandma, a wierd whack krusty the clown etc..
Rogue mask is such a turn off and so much ugly green from their wind (even though it's probably a realistic color i prefer more of a "windy blue color" green makes me sick really though i don't mind emeralds rofl!)
old screeny, oh the anger when i saw my hair covered in white blob of nopes!
I guess the jail system sounds a bit interesting though.There is very little freedom in your build. And spells are flat out boring. You have this utility tree that has all the spells you want, but barely any points to allocate into it. You are pretty much stuck using boring spells all day if you want to level. Wakfu does almost everything right except for the fact that the thing it does wrong (build/spell stuff) is like 80% of the game.
Sacrier looks okay, has decent skill effects but i don't like melee as much in wakfu. infact i hate tanksEach Nation has a Jail. This is where Criminals end up if they are defeated in player versus player combat and thus resulting in being sent to jail, or turn themselves in.
Once incarcerated, a criminal becomes a Prisoner, and they must spend an amount of time in jail to pay off their negative Citizenship Points. This amount of time can also be directly reduced by performing actions while incarcerated by collecting Clinks and turning them into Community Service Containers.
Location: Each nation's jail is located to the right in its headquarters.
Note: You can break out of prison by assembling (making up a recipe) a tool (Rock Lime) with 5 pieces of Clink and 3 Rat-Tattoo Hairs on Community Service assembling points inside a prison. After crafting Rock Lime you can use it on manholes on the walls to make your way out of incarceration.
If a player decides to escape from prison before their character's remaining incarceration time, they will escape from prison with their remaining minus CP. In this case they will remain an Outlaw with "escaped" status.
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There's next to no mask in the game, BUT people usually wear Costumes because the default equips look weird.
You don't really have to worry about customization in the game. There's a lot of costumes which up for the lack of hairstyles and early customization. Most of the costumes come with hairstyles.
Honestly, Everyone hates the War system. But people take advantage of it have fun. Just a little while ago, The guild had this really awesome pvp "Event" in Amakna outpost.
Wakfu: Roxie HubrecutOriginally Posted by Your average commentor
next to no masks wat?! the annoyance of rogue masks covering their face... same with xelor v_v
the masqueraiders look whack with their clown masks and those long pinocio nose
sram has a mask except girls have it on their heads, it's still annoying having that big blob of nope blocking my pretty hair style
i've already checked costumes and there were very few that come with hairstyles, and those hairstyle's are whack >u>;;
valkyrie set looks okay, jiva's horn looks nice, all i care is the hats really, being unable to take off rogue's mask annoys me the most though
there should be a cash shop item that removes such things like that. :Loric:
it's a bummer i can't look like a feca / enripsa and use guns or something like that, hate to deal with rogue masks even though it's not that easy to see it scrolled out xD
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I'm thinking about starting this game.
What class would be best suited for a beginner?
I quit because I didn't feel like doing dungeons for 2+ hours every run and 5/6 of the time is waiting.
and while most skill effects are indeed pretty weak, there are a few that aren't
only nice skill effect on Eni is from massacuring mark (a passive skill, that makes your fire marks explode when the target dies). combining that with a high level refund mark especially is pretty cool. but yeah otherwise extra weak
also, Sacrier is indeed melee, but most of them aren't played as tanks. It is the berserker class afterall.
Though I haven't played Wakfu since the somewhat recent updates and the implementation of whatever assist-characters you now get, doesn't sit right with me, I enjoyed the single character RPG element of it, but there were of course summons and such before.
but if you want something that levels fast, sacrier (fire), iop, osamodas (summon) are some of the best
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Just started playing this with some friends, was wondering if anyone would answer a few question (sorry if they have already been answered, 3 AM and I'm about to go to sleep).
How do you go about doing proper builds in this game? A guy in the game told us to just dump everything into HP until the 30 respec and then dump into AP at 31, is this accurate?
Also for the elemental skills should we just focus on using a single element in battle or?
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It really doesn't matter what you do before your lv 30 respec. But yes, either grap AP at lv 31, or, depending on your class, MP. And then get the other one at lv 51
low level gear tends to have only one elemental damage stat on it, so pick one element and get gear for that. At higher levels, it's usually better to have two elements. Monsters' resistances start to vary more (ex: 350 resist in one element, 150 in another), and every piece of gear has two elements on it, and you get half the spell xp in the elemental tree that already has more than 1/3 your max available spell xp for that level (ie under leveled trees level up twice as fast)
what I do is pick my two elemental trees and level up both of them, and try to get gear for both of them whenever possible, but when I can't, just get gear for the preferred single element
also, since there's a max to the total spell xp you can have at each level, you only have enough to max out 2-3 spells in each element. (unless you're running single element, in which case you can max 3-4)
yay i got wakfu to work again!! but i guess there is a maint right now? also checking the patch notes there was some change to ap/mp? also there is a global restat too!!
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With all of the delays in securing funding for the Strand Theatre restoration, Brandon-Souris Conservative MP Merv Tweed has one message for the Brandon Folk, Music and Art Society: Time's up.
"I think the organization has been given ample time to put together a package that I can feel comfortable moving forward with in trying to present to our government," Tweed said. "As of today, I have just seen no indication that it's happened. I regret this, but I don't think this group is organized. I don't think they have done anything on the fundraising side, at least I have heard nothing."
The BFMAS application for Canadian Heritage funds to help pay for the theatre's restoration was originally declined in March, but at that time, they were invited to reapply with a revised business plan. On Thursday, BFMAS artistic director Shandra MacNeill said the second application has not yet been submitted. However deadlines and terms for other grants, such as a $474,000 from Renaissance Brandon, are coming into play.
Tweed said the lengthy delays in applying and reapplying for grants left him where he can no longer support the project or spending federal funds on the Strand Theatre.
"The fact they have not resubmitted indicates their lack of support for this project and the community's lack of commitment for the project," Tweed said. "You can not apply for federal funding when your only other sources of funding are public sources, other governments. It's pretty clear to me that no other funding is coming forward from the private sector and it's time to move on."
MacNeill told the Brandon Sun that she couldn't understand how the federal government could have refused the group funding when its second application had not been submitted yet.
"That seems a little but odd," MacNeill said. "This is not a political decision. It's a decision made by bureaucratic process and unless there's ministerial intervention at the end of the line, when the minister is supposed to sign off on it, the money is in the program. We are applying for the program and it gets a bureaucratic process and it's based on the merits of the project. Unless you are getting emails from bureaucrats, I'm not sure where you are getting this."
Tweed fired back at the BFMAS claim that political concerns are coming into play regarding grant applications supporting the Strand Theatre.
"I have always had my doubts about it and I have always had concerns," Tweed said. "I have had concerns expressed to me by many people in Brandon. Nobody is against downtown development, but I think what people say to me is when the governments of Manitoba, Brandon and Canada are the sole or major investors in this, it's probably not as good an idea as was originally thought."
The grant rejection letter sent by Canadian Heritage to the BFMAS on March 14 rejected the grant application, noting that "fundraising and business plans provided were optimistic and did not demonstrate that the (BFMAS) has the capacity to successfully manage the capital project or the new facility with significantly increased fixed costs."
As far back as August 2011, the BFMAS told the Brandon Sun that the group was awaiting final approval on a federal Cultural Spaces grant request. The provincial government had indicated it was willing to provide $1 million as well and a $474,000 grant from Renaissance Brandon was available, but contingent on the BFMAS securing federal funds as well.
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In a May 1, 2012, Sun story Brandon's mayor said she was willing to offer her experience and expertise — she had been a fundraiser for 30 years — to the Strand Theatre project, but weeks later told the Brandon Sun that she wasn't involved in the project.
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Hours after a Thursday afternoon conversation with a Brandon Sun reporter, where MacNeill said the application had not been submitted, she said she had just gotten off the phone with a Canadian Heritage grant officer and had scheduled a meeting next week with a regional Canadian Heritage grant officer. That meeting will include a discussion of changes BFMAS would need to make before submitting the application.
"(Canadian Heritage grant officer Adrian Wortley) said that there has been absolutely no discussion at Canadian Heritage and Cultural Spaces about banning us from the program or not accepting our resubmission, or rejecting it or anything like that," MacNeill said. "There has been no directive to do so and they haven't had any discussions about doing so. In fact, we have a meeting to go over the application."
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Tweed said the Cultural Spaces fund the BFMAS hopes to access is "depleting quickly." He added there are other applications that are seeking a share of that fund that meet the criteria and that those would be supported instead.
"The organization that has been promoting (the Strand Theatre) has not been able to muster up a package that's appealing to the federal government and I can no longer support, at any level, the time and delay that this has taken," Tweed said.
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(Host) For many people, the age of thirteen can be an extraordinary time of change and growth. You're on the cusp of adulthood, entering the world of dating, and your parents just don't understand.
For those who want to revisit those years, a grassroots theater company is presenting a play produced and performed by teenagers.
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(Charnoff) Evan Goldman is about to turn 13, and he's got something to say about it.
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(Charnoff) Thirteen the musical finds Evan and his friends facing the turmoil of the teenage years. Evan, who is played by Aidan Powell of Charlotte, has parents who are divorcing, he's moved from New York City to the small town of Appleton, Indiana, and now he's got to figure out which of his friends to invite to his bar mitvah.
(Scene) "Who'd have guessed....end up in stitches".
(Charnoff) Thirteen - the Musical! had a west coast premiere in 2007, and moved to Broadway the following year.
It's now being performed by a group calling itself the Stage Left Theater Company, which is comprised of teenagers from the Champlain Valley area.
The play explores common issues -- dating, first love, who's cool and who isn't.
In this scene, a couple of girls demand to know why their friend Brett is spending more time with a girl.
(Scene) "Yo Brett, why weren't you at practice today? Coach just said, why bother practicing without Brett? So instead we watched a movie called "God Doesn't Want You To Touch That"....Ugggh!"
(Charnoff) But Brett is too flustered to explain, and stumbles away.
(Scene) Did you see that? Brett's gone to the dark side. He's totally tongue-whipped. We've been jockblocked. She's a succubus. Why is she doing this to us? If I live to be 20, I'll never understand women.
(Charnoff) The Stage Left Theater Company was founded by teenagers Gianna Kiehl of Shelburne and Darcie Talbott of Charlotte.
They were familiar with another local performance of Thirteen, and began to envision their own production.
The show is essentially self-directed, with Talbott doing the choreography, and Kiehl becoming the de facto director.
Gianna Kiehl, who is 13, says Thirteen The Musical is a teenage oasis in a world of musicals about adults.
(Kiehl) "With this it's thirteen year old kids, it's exactly my life at this point, and I can relate to it so well, but it's so interesting to try and act from a different point of view, of a person the same age as me."
(Charnoff) Kiehl says the show really focuses on what most teens are thinking about....dating!
(Kiehl) What it's like to fall in love with someone at a young age or think you're in love with someone or get mad at someone because they ruined your life and how important it is to be a cool kid and to be liked and appreciated.
(Charnoff) Kiehl also believes the show is a reminder of what friendship means in the age of social media.
(Kiehl) "Like, this whole thing with Facebook, with who's your friend, it's not a real friend. And there's only a few characters who really understand what a real friend is, where you really care about the other person, where you really want what's best for them, and it's not just, 'I want to get in'..."
(Scene) "That girl is bad bad news, bad news...
Of course there were many challenges for the cast, and for the young directors.
Gianna Kiehl quickly learned one of the cardinal lessons of the creative process.
(Kiehl) "One of the first ones was trying to let go of ideas that were perfect in my brain, but did not work onstage."
(Charnoff) Thirteen The Musical came together in the true "Let's put on a show" spirit, with rehearsals taking place in available basements.
Wendy Bratt of Charlotte is the unofficial "house parent".
Bratt says that adult intervention has been minimal, mostly limited to helping secure the rights to the show, and offering up rehearsal space.
(Bratt) "It's so exciting. As parents we really wanted to keep their dream alive because, they still have basketball, they still have violin practice, they still have all of that, but Saturdays and Sundays they come together for several hours and work this out together."
Bratt says the play opens doors for parents to have conversations with their kids.
Gianna Kiehl thinks seeing the play is a good reminder for adults who may have forgotten what it's really like to be 13.
(Kiehl) "Over the years that experience is kind of muted to kind of, you laugh at yourself, 'oh, I was so dramatic back then, my life was so terrible, quote unquote', but when you're in that age, it is that terrible, it is that dramatic, it is that scary."
(Charnoff) Thirteen - the Musical! will be performed this weekend at the Vergennes Opera House, and all proceeds from the show will benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
For VPR Backstage, I'm Neal Charnoff.


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I picked up the audio CD for a long road trip. This was my first James Patterson novel, and he writes an okay lawyer yarn that I found diverting enough--up until the ending, which has an impossible twist piled on top of a highly improbable twist (or was it the other way around? it doesn't matter). What a piece of junk.
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Over the past few months, the National Center has been preparing to host a new SRTS resource developed by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for law enforcement officers. To celebrate the website's launch, www.saferoutesinfo.org/lawenforcement, we caught up with an officer at the Phoenix, Ariz., Police Department and asked him to share some of his insights and lessons learned. Meet Officer Terry Sills.
Officer Terry Sills is a 36-year veteran of the Phoenix Police Department who has devoted his entire career to traffic safety. He has been a traffic motor officer for 31 years, teaching traffic safety skills throughout the state of Arizona as well as the United States, and, in 2002, took over the Department's traffic complaint hotline and turned it into a user friendly, approachable arm of the organization for both internal and external customers.
Officer Sills also works very closely with the City of Phoenix's Street Transportation Department in addressing issues in and around schools in Phoenix and has put on several hundred SRTS safety events at area schools.
Q: Are there benefits to getting law enforcement officers involved in Safe Routes to School programs?
A: Absolutely. SRTS programs benefit not only the children involved but also the officers. The children get to see a police officer as a safe, encouraging figure, and officers get the opportunity to become more involved in their community and schools. This is a big plus for law enforcement.
Q: Who have been your greatest supporters for your SRTS projects/safety initiatives?
A: The schools without a doubt. As far as law enforcement goes in the city of Phoenix, one of our greatest supporters is the Streets Transportation Department which makes sure the SRTS projects are up and running properly every day.
Q: Can you name a particular challenge you faced in your efforts and how you creatively overcame it?
A: I think one of the biggest challenges was trying to get parents and caregivers involved in actually doing a SRTS program. The biggest thing we did was to make our cause fun and to try to change the mentality from "someone else can do it" to "how can I help."
In Phoenix, we decided to hold safety assemblies at schools and to invite parents to see what we were going to do so everyone — students, teachers, parents — could get excited about what was going on in their school. We also got the media involved in this effort to show folks that this is how we are teaching our kids and encouraging them to be safe.
We've tried to hold these safety assemblies at as many schools as we can and for whoever asks. So far for the 2009–2010 school year, we've held over 200 presentations at schools!
Q: Do you have any tips for navigating SRTS planning and activities with your school system, community, etc.?
A: From the law enforcement perspective, law enforcement needs to be aligned with the traffic engineering division of the city. You also need to try to get neighborhood leaders and teachers involved in the planning process and activities. Gathering these different community partners together to plan together is the key — the more people are involved, the more people feel ownership for their communities.
Q: What advice could you provide to individuals working to create an environment and infrastructure that makes it safer for kids to walk and bicycle to school?
A: Don't be disillusioned. There are people that just don't want to get involved at first. The way to make it work is to focus everything around the children. No one will turn you down when you're talking about safety for children.
Talk to kids about how to cross the street, talk about riding bikes safely. That gets you involved not only with the kids and teachers, but other community organizations with similar concerns, like a local hospital, that may want to get involved with SRTS activities too.
Q: What do you see as your department's greatest achievement with your SRTS efforts/activities?
A: I have to include the Street Transportation Department of Phoenix in this equation, as we couldn't achieve anything without them.
Specifically, we have not had any reports of children being seriously hit during this school year on the trip to and from school. That is great news and that is our ultimate goal.
More generally, we've achieved a greater awareness of safety around schools. We know kids are getting our safety messages because when we hold assemblies and see children we have seen before, groups of maybe 100 kids at a time will yell out the safety phrases like "Look left. Look right. Look left." they have already learned. Maybe even more encouraging is the fact that when we're out in the school zones, we see kids actually doing what we've asked them to do.
Q: Is there anything else you would like to share?
A: We're seeing much more vehicular traffic in schools to the point where neighborhoods around schools are grid locked with at least 15–20 minutes of traffic. In Phoenix, for example, we probably have an average of 400 of 500 total schools that currently have congestion problems. This is a huge challenge for any SRTS program and law enforcement agency around the country and the problem has gotten even worse within the last five years.
But there is also an opportunity for SRTS programs to help address the problem. If more parents could feel more comfortable with their kids walking and biking to school, congestion could be reduced. We have to work together to help parents and kids realize the benefits of alternatives to single vehicle transportation to and from school, be it walking or riding their bikes to school or riding the bus.
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