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InfiniBand and Ethernet are the leading interconnect solutions for connecting servers and storage systems in high-performance computing and in enterprise (virtualized or not) data centers. Recently, the HPC Advisory Council has put together the most comprehensive database for high-performance computing applications to help users understand the performance, productivity, efficiency and scalability differences between InfiniBand and 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
In summary, there are a large number of HPC applications that need the lowest possible latency for best performance or the highest bandwidth (for example Oil&Gas applications as well as weather related applications). There are some HPC applications that are not latency sensitive. For example, gene sequencing and some bioinformatics applications are not sensitive to latency and scale well with TCP-based networks including GigE and 10GigE. For HPC converged networks, putting HPC message passing traffic and storage traffic on a single TCP network may not provide enough data throughput for either. Finally, there is a number of examples that show 10GigE has limited scalability for HPC applications and InfiniBand proves to be a better performance, price/performance, and power solution than 10GigE.
The complete report can be found under the HPC Advisory Council case studies or by clicking here.


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Does it involve private sessions between Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl?
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No...but i like the way you think!
Well, then it's not accurate, cause that's my thing this week in terms of superhero(ine) pairings...although I like that you like the way I think...
You always give me interesting things to think about...
That statement has me questioning certain...details...about your life and interests...
(well, not just that one, but it feels as good a time as any to bring it up)
My life is a plethora of interests and curiosities...ask not unless you are ready for answers. ;)
Power girl all the way :D like the actual character
I'm a Legendary GI member.
Eh, Power Girl's kinda played out, at least on the websites I go to when using incognito windows...
But shes so kawiiii
That doesn't mean anything. I was told as such by the TV Tropes entry for My Immortal.
Well, i have completed my lifes work. I have created an infallible drinking game for when im moving.
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The biggest rally in commodities in a year may stall in the fourth quarter as supply of everything from copper to corn expands, tensions in the Middle East ease and the Federal Reserve refrains from tapering stimulus as it seeks more evidence of sustained growth.
Six of 15 commodities will drop by the end of 2013, seven will gain and two will move less than 1 percent, according to the median of estimates from 144 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News. Cocoa, gasoline and cotton will lose the most as natural gas, coffee and soybeans lead the winners. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. says raw-material prices will be mostly lower in a year………………………………………..Full Article: Source


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When Kylie Minogue became the face of Australia's breast cancer campaign, the effect was good.
And it was bad.
It was good because it raised unprecedented awareness in the target demographic; many women who had never previously done so had mammograms. It was bad because it also raised unprecedented awareness in young women, who exposed themselves unnecessarily to the risk of radiation and to the potential of false-positive results.
It's an example of how having a celebrity figurehead for a public health message can produce mixed results, says Simon Chapman, professor and director of research at Sydney University's School of Public Health.
Whether or not celebrities should be used to endorse such campaigns is a point Chapman debated in the British Medical Journal last week, with Geof Rayner, honorary research fellow at London University.
"Celebrities often get involved because of personal experience with a disease or because they share the concerns of other citizens and want to help by offering the publicity magnet intrinsic to their celebrity," Chapman wrote. "And like experts, some probably calculate that a public profile on good causes might also be good for their careers."
Ulterior motives aside, the ability for celebrities to bring an issue into the spotlight is second to none, Chapman says.
He cites the infamous Nicorette campaign with Shane Warne. "When he took money to quit smoking ... there were opportunist mutterings," Chapman told Life&Style. "I took the view that it gave quitting smoking legs that it mightn't have had otherwise... When he failed, people said he took the money and ran, but most people do fail [when trying to quit], often repeatedly. He might be a world-class cricketer, but he's an ordinary smoker."
The point is that his failure made Warne more relatable, more human. And this, in turn, may have inadvertently made the campaign more effective.
But for all their clout, celebrities can also affect a campaign's credibility. Chapman recalls when Nicole Kidman was supporting breast cancer awareness and was caught smoking a cigarette. "It sends a confused message - what, that breast cancer is a problem, but lung cancer is not?"
On the same note, he says we cannot expect celebrities to "be pure as the driven snow", as we so often do, because "frankly that's not true of experts either".
A part of the reason we come down so hard on celebrities, when we see any behaviour contrary to the campaign message, is because they are often paid.
"The subtext [of such concerns] is 'how authentic is it?'," Chapman said. "When you hear someone does something for money the tendency is to see their authenticity as diminished. But, we don't expect experts to do [campaigns] for charity - sometimes they are rewarded quite handsomely. It's quite a peculiar criticism."
Mike Daube, professor of health policy at Curtin University and director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute, notes that such paradoxes are rarely seen to be as problematic in the commercial sphere. He notes how many sports stars who are held up as images of healthy lifestyle are sponsored by booze companies. A moment that highlights the irony, he said, was when Australia's then cricket captain, Ricky Ponting, wearing a VB sponsored cap, sent fellow teammate Andrew Symonds home for drinking on tour.
"Commercial manufacturers such as those for tobacco, alcohol and junk food are only too keen to use celebrities in their promotional activities," he said. "They have done the market research, as have those of us who have at times involved popular figures in our health campaigns. Why should the devil have all the best celebrities?"
While Daube says the process of choosing a celebrity "should be done carefully ... and is sometimes appropriate and sometimes not", whether we like it or not, we respond to celebrity.
But Geoff Rayner doesn't believe celebrities are right for delivering important health messages. "It's not until you start delving into the role of celebrity culture on health that the negatives begin to stack up," he said. "What celebrity culture does so effectively is promote icons of rampant consumerism and fantasy lifestyle ... Not so long ago one celebrity entertainer, Ronald Reagan, told people what cigarettes to smoke."
Rayner acknowledges that "some celebrities might help [promote a good cause]", but he points out that celebrity status is often fleeting and therefore companies are unlikely to get bang for their buck in the long term.
He believes a better alternative is to "go on the offensive against junk food, alcohol, gambling, and other often celebrity-linked, commercial propaganda".
Celebrities can do good and bad to a cause, but what they do - or any other controversial campaign choice does - is put the desired cause on the map. The effect they have on important issues is more than "us mere mortals can struggle to achieve", Chapman says.
For better or for worse, this is precisely the point of such operations. As they say in showbiz, any publicity is good publicity.


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In 14 ABs this season, Freel has drawn 8 BBs.
In 14 ABs this season, Freel has drawn 8 BBs.
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I like it. It is proving he is way more valuable than what some think. Plus his stolen bases are huge at this point.Originally Posted by Falls City Beer
Maybe they will change the On base stat to the Ryan Freel stat.
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The reason Freel is not in the line-up EVERY SINGLE DAY is??? He is a on base machine. I don't get it. He has to play, period.Originally Posted by Falls City Beer
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I loved that 10-pitch AB today. Even though he saw his BA drop a good deal today, he still got on base at a .400 clip for the game and worked the Cubs' pitching. He is a catalyst in so many ways, I find it beyond ridiculous that he isn't starting every game at this point.
His steals are just icing on the cake at this point. Even when he isn't stealing, he's distracting opposing pitchers, which is always a good thing. I really think he helps our other hitters in that regard and I think they like swinging the bat with him on base in front of them. In fact, I believe Lopez made a comment saying as much.
And this one belongs to the Reds!!!- Hall of Famer Marty Brennaman
I would start him 5 out of 7 games. He will wear himself down if he plays every game.
I don't believe you only start Freel some of the time over fear of the unknown. Let him play. If he starts to wear down, sit him. Otherwise, just let the guy play.
And this one belongs to the Reds!!!- Hall of Famer Marty Brennaman
No I think you sit him in games where you can not ones where you have to. There are 162 games and if Freel plays in 100 that count its better than playing him in the first 100 and have him on the DL for the rest of the season.
I'd rather he play in 150.
Go Gators!
I dont think this is unknown. Freel does wear down. It has happened it probably would again. Plus, it's not like he isn't valuable when he doesn't start. He came in off the bench on Sunday, walked and scored. It's not like other players that are only good when they start. He is very valuable off the bench too. Of course I would like to start him a lot, but I would rather have a healthy Freel at the end of the season.Originally Posted by CincyRedsFan30
Of course we all would, I just don't think that will happen if he starts 80 of 82 games...Originally Posted by KronoRed
Freel's style of play can cause him to get injured, but I don't think you give him days off because of that fear.
That seems very "Dan O'Brien-like" to me. A fear of what COULD happen and a lack of action as a result. This team hasn't been run aggressively enough in recent years and it's time to change, IMO.
And this one belongs to the Reds!!!- Hall of Famer Marty Brennaman
Where do you get this idea from? Freel had more at bats in September of '05 than in any other month. The same was true in 2004. If he was worn down, why so many at bats?Originally Posted by AvesIce51
I understand he was valuable off of the bench on Sunday, but why does that mean he wouldn't have been much more valuable if he had started? If he walked and scored in one plate appearance, wouldn't he be more valuable if he could do that in 4 or 5?
I don't understand all of this "we have to save Freel from himself" rhetoric. It's not based in reality, and it has the potential to lose games for this team.
How do we know he's not Mel Torme?
But why? chances are at the end of the season we'll be 20 games back, our only chance to stay in it is to play our best players as much as possible.
Go Gators!
I think freel right now is projected to slug .727 without ever hitting a homer and to steal 161 bases. Thats why first week stats mean crap... however, I love freel and he needs more ABs!
Tom Shearn... who knew?
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USC Annenberg School for Communication
The Annenberg School for Communication, established in 1971 through the generosity of Ambassador Walter H. Annenberg, offers a wide range of instructional and research programs through its Schools of Communication and Journalism.
Entertainment, technology and global trade are powerful forces in the world today, and the Annenberg School, located in a "multimedia mecca" (the National Science Foundation has designated USC as the country's primary multimedia research center), plays a vital role in the growth of all three areas. USC Annenberg programs combine a policy-oriented focus with cutting-edge research and teaching, and the school is providing leadership in areas ranging from the quality of civic discourse, to journalism ethics, to global communication. The opportunities are boundless, and USC Annenberg aims to link its programs to cultural, political, technological and social developments around the world.
With a state-of-the-art online electronic newsroom and digital editing equipment for radio and television news production, the School of Journalism is at the forefront of efforts to prepare students for the new information age, while maintaining the highest ethical standards of journalistic practice. The School of Communication's experiential learning laboratory facilitates interactive exploration and simulation of the many aspects of communication. Students examine the processes and effects of discourse occurring in interpersonal, cross-cultural, public, international, organizational and mass media contexts.
USC Annenberg alumni fill top posts throughout the communication and media industries -- including television, radio, newspapers, telecommunication, multimedia, advertising, public relations and publishing -- as well as in government, education and nonprofit agencies around the world. Through active involvement with USC Annenberg, alumni remain an invaluable resource to students and faculty.
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Google's Second Brain: How the Knowledge Graph Changes Search 76
waderoush writes "Last spring Google introduced its English-speaking users to the Knowledge Graph, a vast semantic graph of real-world entities and properties born from the Freebase project at Metaweb Technologies (which Google acquired in 2010). This month Google began showing Knowledge Graph results to speakers of seven other languages. Though the project has received little coverage, the consequences could be as far-reaching as previous overhauls to Google's infrastructure, such as the introduction of universal search back in 2007. That's because the Knowledge Graph plugs a big hole in Google's technology: the lack of a common-sense understanding of the things in its Web index. Despite all the statistical magic that made Google's keyword-based retrieval techniques so effective, 'We didn't ever represent the real world properly in the computer,' says Google senior vice president of engineering Amit Singhal. He says the Knowledge Graph represents a 'baby step' toward future computer systems that can intuit what humans are searching for and respond with exact answers, rather than the classic ten blue links. 'Now, when you encounter encounters the letters T-A-J-M-A-H-A-L on any Web page, the computers suddenly start understanding that this document is about the monument, and this one is about the musician, and this one is about a restaurant,' Singhal says. 'That 'aboutness' is foundational to building the search of tomorrow.'"


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Fear of deadly virus has horse owners sticking close to home
Horse under quarantine in Dawson County.
Trail rides in the area have been cancelled or postponed as have events at the roping grounds north of town.
Horse owners are worried about a deadly and highly contagious equine herpes virus that has exposed and/or infected horses in 13 states.
Officials say at least seven horses have died or were euthanized which has led to the cancellation of many events involving horses across the nation.
The outbreak of the virus has been traced to an event in Ogden, UT, on May 8 to which horses from Nebraska—including some from Dawson County—competed.
Although state animal epidemiologist Roger Dudley of Gothenburg said there are no known cases in Nebraska, horses in three areas—including one in Dawson County—have been quarantined by the state veterinarian until this Sunday.
Dudley said one is in Scottsbluff and several in Saline County.
If the animals don't show symptoms of the disease by the end of the quarantine period, he said they will be released.
The incubation period for the virus, Dudley said, is about six days.
State veterinarian Dennis Hughes said the virus can cause respiratory disease, abortion in mares, neonatal foal death and/or neurologic disease.
Symptoms include fever, decreased coordination, nasal discharge, urine dribbling, loss of tail bone, hind limb weakness, leaning against a wall or fence to maintain balance, lethargy and inability to rise.
While there is no cure, Hughes said symptoms of the disease may be treatable.
In the meantime, both Dudley and Eastside Animal Center veterinarian Ryan O'Hare recommend biosecurity if owners take their horses to places where they will be exposed to other horses.
"It's easiest to think about what we would do to keep from getting a cold," Dudley said. "Don't drink out of the same glasses or sneeze on each other and stay away from sick people."
When traveling to shows or other events, he suggested bringing water from home.
Other suggestions are to wash hands before and after contact with each horse, avoid contact with other horses, disinfect boots and change clothes that come into contact with horses other than one's own.
Finally, state animal health officials recommend the isolation of horses returning from shows for two to three weeks.
O'Hare noted that the equine herpes has been around for a long time with outbreaks happening from time to time.
"Usually the animal is stressed," he said.
He said his clinic has received calls from a few horse owners with questions about the virus, adding that he doesn't know of any clients at the moment with horses showing symptoms of the disease.
The horses were infected at the National Cutting Horse Association's Western National Championships in Ogden.
Thirty-three confirmed cases have been reported in eight states—California, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Washington.
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Ditalini Garbanzo (Chickpea) Florentine Soup
2 cups cooked chickpea's canned or freshly made
2 cups ditalini pasta boiled and drained
6 plum tomatoes diced
1/2 cup chopped celery
1 can of diced tomatoes not drained
1 can tomato paste plus two cans of water
2 cloves minced garlic
1 bag fresh spinach chopped
1 16oz can chicken broth
1/2 cup white wine
1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt, pepper, oregano, parsley and garlic powder
grating cheese for garnish
In a large saucepan, add oil and garlic saute till brown. Add chickpea's and spinach and saute till wilted 2 to 3 minutes. Add spices, chicken broth, tomatoes, water and wine. Simmer for around 1/2 hour. Add separately boiled pasta. If too thick add more water for desired thickness. Top with red pepper flakes and grating cheese. Serve with garlic bread.
33 comments
- Federica said...
Chickpea soup is one of my favorites. This version with spinach looks really tasty. I want to try it, thanks for the suggestion :) Bye, have a great day
- September 28, 2011 at 12:23 AM
- Dzoli said...
chickpea in the soup.This is whole meal Id say;)
- September 28, 2011 at 1:48 AM
- Su said...
Wonderfull dish... I love garbanzo although I do not eat it often.
- September 28, 2011 at 4:07 AM
- Big Dude said...
Looks delicious Claudia. We make a similar one with white beans and kale, (http://bigdudesramblings.blogspot.com/2009/12/white-bean-ditalini-soup-and-another.html) and will have to try yours with the tomato flavor.
- September 28, 2011 at 5:34 AM
- Greg said...
This sounds really good! Easy to make and full of flavor. This would make a great weeknight meal.
- September 28, 2011 at 7:22 AM
- Belinda @zomppa said...
A hearty, filling, comfort!
- September 28, 2011 at 7:55 AM
- Mari said...
Delicious Dinner!! The garbanzos must make a great soup.
Happy Wednesday :)
- September 28, 2011 at 10:12 AM
- Emily Malloy said...
Oh my! This looks heavenly!
- September 28, 2011 at 10:29 AM
- Lizzy said...
What a great, hearty soup! Cool and rainy here...I'd love a bowl of this right now :)
- September 28, 2011 at 4:38 PM
- Kathleen said...
Claudia, this sounds delish. SU thumbs up girlfriend! Just curious, is the amount of white wine correct?
- September 28, 2011 at 5:35 PM
- Catherine said...
Dear Claudia, I love soup!! I started making soup too. The weather is getting cooler, thankfully, and the soups on! I made a similar soup the other day. Yours sounds delish!
I will keep your brother in my prayers.
Blessings to you my dear friend, Catherine ox
- September 28, 2011 at 6:19 PM
- ARLENE said...
Somehow I ended up with 3 cans of ceci in my cupboard; now I know how to use them! This looks delish!
- September 28, 2011 at 7:57 PM
- the food dude said...
Very hearty and comforting, great soup idea! Thanks!
- September 28, 2011 at 8:42 PM
- Reeni said...
Your thick and hearty soup looks so good! I'm ready for some comfort food.
- September 28, 2011 at 9:28 PM
- Stephanie @ Eat. Drink. Love. said...
Claudia, this is totally my kind of soup!! I love that you used chickpeas!! I am going to make this!
- September 28, 2011 at 9:47 PM
- Vicki Bensinger said...
Claudia this souP looks delicious and hearty. Would you consider it more like a stew?
- September 28, 2011 at 10:25 PM
- Ann said...
Claudia - I have to say I LOVE this flavor combination! GREAT soup!
- September 29, 2011 at 12:30 AM
- Gera@SweetsFoodsBlog said...
I love chickpea in every form, soup, farinata, falafel…so versatile and delicious :)
Hugs to you!
- September 29, 2011 at 1:29 AM
- easyfoodsmith said...
WOW! I could eat this right away! Yummmm....
- September 29, 2011 at 1:33 AM
- firefoodie said...
oh yes, that looks so much like the hearty 'minestrone' my Italian/Croatian grandmother used to make, she used beans and parmesan chese, but yum!
- September 29, 2011 at 4:51 AM
- Veronica Gantley said...
Oh Claudia, when I saw that picture of your soup I wanted to grab a spoon and dig in. Cold and rainy here sure could use it. Thanks for sharing.
- September 29, 2011 at 6:22 AM
- Debbi Does Dinner Healthy said...
This looks great, I LOVE chickpeas! Thanks!
- September 29, 2011 at 7:07 AM
- Tina said...
Nice ot see all these hearty soup recipes being posted-great for the fall weather.
This one is unique and I like the idea of chickpeas in soup-yum!
- September 29, 2011 at 7:43 AM
- Megan's Cookin' said...
Looks amazing!
- September 29, 2011 at 10:06 AM
- Joanne said...
Perfect! As you know, the weather is turning in NY so this soup is going to show up on our table very, very soon.
- September 29, 2011 at 4:48 PM
- Pat @ Mille Fiori Favoriti said...
I love chick peas and this looks like a wonderful soup. I'm glad i came over from Arlene's blog!
- September 29, 2011 at 5:04 PM
- anthony stemke said...
A neat soup meal. We love Ceci so this is a perfect recipe for us.
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- September 29, 2011 at 6:48 PM
- Free Spirit Eater said...
This looks so incredibly delicious! Wish I had this for dinner! I was so busy writing I almost forgot to eat. Thanks for sharing, looks great. I love this hearty soup. =]
- September 29, 2011 at 8:17 PM
- Krissy said...
I love ditalini and chickpeas. I often puree them with olive oil and herbs for a pasta topping, but this soup is a great way to welcome fall. Nicely done!
- September 29, 2011 at 9:31 PM
- Catherine said...
I just love chick pea soup! What is not to love. There are so many ways to prepare it and your soup sounds delish! Blessings, Catherine xo
- September 30, 2011 at 3:12 PM
- elisabeth@foodandthrift said...
I love chickpea soup, and yours is so hearty, and delicious. The ditalini is a perfect pasta with it!
- October 1, 2011 at 11:13 PM
- Judee@ gluten Free A-Z said...
I try to incorporate a lot of beans into our diet. I love this idea for chickpeas, especially the addition of spinach.
- October 9, 2011 at 9:08 AM
- easyfoodsmith said...
What a delicious and hearty meal!
- December 19, 2011 at 12:13 AM


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Richards rescues Shrews
Matthew Richards hammered a glorious late equaliser to preserve Shrewsbury's unbeaten home record as they hit back in style to draw 2-2 with Oxford.
Richards drove home from 35 yards deep into stoppage-time as the Shrews stretched their unbeaten record at the Greenhous Meadow to 25 games, a run stretching back more than a year.
Oxford led 2-0 at the break but Shrewsbury showed real spirit to pick up a point, with the home side lifted once Mark Wright cracked in an unstoppable volley from Marvin Morgan's cross in the 54th minute.
Oxford were in complete control at the interval, with on-loan Southampton man Lee Holmes netting twice.
Holmes fired Oxford in front after just 52 seconds when he drove a 20-yard shot to the bottom corner of the net after breaking from just inside the Shrewsbury half.
And it was Holmes again in the right place to finish off a devastating counter attack to double Oxford's advantage in the 37th minute.
Wright's poor corner was hammered downfield by Asa Hall at the near post and Oli Johnson burst clear to set up Holmes to lift his shot over advancing goalkeeper Chris Neal.
In between the goals, Asa Hall cracked a shot from the edge of the area with Shrewsbury creaking.
But Graham Turner's men turned the tables after the restart to ensure the spoils were shared.
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Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) - Dabo Swinney was under the microscope a few weeks ago when a story came to light that the Clemson football coach was reportedly pushing his religious faith on both players and other staff members at the South Carolina state school.
Earlier this month, the Freedom From Religion Foundation - a watchdog organization based in Madison, Wis. - sent a letter to Clemson University's Senior Associate General Counsel saying Swinney stepped over the line when it came to promoting his faith (Swinney is very openly Christian) among his players and staff. The FFRF expressed Constitutional concern with the culture Swinney has reportedly created, saying the football program is "entangled with religion."
Swinney responded to the complaints lodged against him last week, saying anyone is welcome in the Clemson program who can play football.
"I have recruited and coached players of many different faiths," Swinney said. "Players of any faith or no faith at all are welcome in our program. All we require in the recruitment of any player is that he must be a great player at his position, meet the academic requirements and have good character."
Specific allegations were made against Swinney by the FFRF, which sent a letter to the university through the organization's attorney, Patrick Elliott. According to the letter, Swinney brought in James Trapp as the team's chaplain, and provided him with an office in the athletic building and was given access to the football team between drills for the purpose of Bible study.
According to the organization, bringing in a chaplain goes against the "Guidelines for Athletic Team Chaplains," which states students must select their own chaplain and seek approval from the coach. Trapp also was given an office in an on-campus athletic building, though not as an employee of the university.
Other allegations included asking the entire Clemson team to attend a Fellowship of Christian Athletes breakfast in 2011, and taking the team and staff to church services and other organized religious activities.
While football is a sport known for its heavy indulgence in religion, if the Freedom From Religion Foundation's accusations are correct, Swinney's decisions and actions have no place at Clemson.
Considering Clemson is a state school, the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment stipulates the separation of church and state. No player or staff member on Clemson's roster should feel obligated, or be pressured into, participating in an activity that makes he (or she) feel uncomfortable, or one that goes against another belief.
That being said, the university itself hasn't shown much concern for the situation, which could have been played up by the Wisconsin-based group. Cathy Sams, Clemson's chief public affairs officer, told The Greenville News everything Swinney organizes in relation to his religious beliefs is strictly voluntary.
"No one is required to participate in any religious activities related to the football program," Sams said. "It's purely voluntary. Religion and faith is a big part of coach Swinney's personal beliefs, but it is in no way required. There is no mandatory participation."
Swinney himself said when he goes on recruiting trips, he likes the athletes to know exactly who he is and what he believes in because that's how he builds relationships.
"Recruits and their families want, and deserve, to know who you are as a person, not just what kind of coach you are," Swinney said. "I try to be a good example to others, and I work hard to live my life according to my faith."
The subject of pushing religion in football isn't specific to just this instance. A perfect example is former Florida quarterback and NFL player Tim Tebow, who won many people over with his in-your-face Christian lifestyle, and turned an equal number of people away for the same reason. It seemed for Tebow (football aside) there was no in-between when it came to his outward religious messages. Some loved his style, some did not like it. But very, very few shoved it aside and labeled it part of the business.
Since the reports came out of Swinney's alleged forcing of religion on his players, there hasn't been a shift of players asking to transfer out of the program. In fact, one of the Tigers' best defensive players, Vic Beasley, decided to forego entering the NFL Draft (where he was projected as one of the top defensive end/outside linebacker prospects). Instead, Beasley decided to return for his senior season at Clemson, despite the heavy amount of talent from the university that did enter the draft (including quarterback Tajh Boyd and star wide receiver Sammy Watkins).
A secondary concern for the FFRF, even if all of Swinney's organized religious events for the team were in fact voluntary, is the example he sets as someone with large influence on his players.
"Coaches should be aware of the tremendous influence they have on their athletes," the FFRF said in its letter to Clemson. "These young men spend a great deal of time in their coach's charge, and the coaches, through their own example, must be sure that athletes are not only treated fairly but also imbued with a sense of community and camaraderie."
Regardless of any potential outcome, it seems that's exactly what Swinney was trying to create based on the accusations against him - a sense of community and camaraderie.
Accurate or not, the accusations against Swinney are serious enough to at least be examined. There is no ill intention here on Swinney's part, but whatever he is trying to instill (likely a sense of unity and camaraderie), he's going about it the wrong way by attempting, perhaps subconsciously, to use his faith to bring his team together.
At colleges known for their heavily Christian faiths - such as Notre Dame, Boston College and Creighton - his actions wouldn't be seen as anything overly extreme. But at a religiously indifferent institution like Clemson, which is funded by the state, Swinney was bound to suffer some backlash.
Which he did, but there will be no repercussions, and nor should there be. But with a subject as polarizing as religion, Swinney should exercise more caution.


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A man undergoes a radiation test at a screening center in Kiriyama in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
Radiation experts are painting a sobering picture of the Fukushima nuclear disaster's long-term impact on Japan in a series of reports published today by the journal Nature. At best, the country faces more than a decade of expensive cleanup, including the decommissioning of the reactor complex and the disposal of contaminated debris. At worst, wide areas of land around the complex will have to be abandoned, as they were in Ukraine after Chernobyl.
"On the basis of the Fukushima data so far, it seems likely that in some areas, food restrictions could hold for decades, particularly for wild foodstuffs such as mushrooms, berries and freshwater fish," the University of Portsmouth's Jim Smith, co-editor and lead author of "Chernobyl: Catastrophe and Consequences," wrote in a Nature commentary.
Smith says the levels of radioactive cesium-137, with a radioactive half-life of 30 years, "will determine the long-term impact on the contaminated region and its residents."
"The extent of cesium-137 contamination at Fukushima is not yet clear, but available data indicate very high levels in some areas," he wrote. Last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency sounded the alarm about high radiation readings in the village of Iitate, 25 miles (40 kilometers) northwest of the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex. The readings ranged as high as 3.7 megabecquerels per square meter. Such readings led the IAEA to suggest an expansion of the current 12-mile-radius (20-kilometer) evacuation zone.
Since then, the reported readings outside the evacuation zone have not been as high. But Smith said that if large areas are contaminated with 0.5 megabecquerels per square meter or more, "evacuation could be for the long term."
One long-term strategy could be to bring in "liquidators" to decontaminate the towns and villages, remove topsoil and resurface roads, "although this approach met with varying success at Chernobyl," Smith wrote.
He said "the long-term response to Fukushima will have to be pragmatic." Radiation exposure limits for the general public might have to be relaxed, for example, going from 1 millisievert per year to 5 to 10 millisieverts per year. Smith noted that millions of people living in areas of high natural radioactivity are exposed to more than 10 millisieverts per year.
"A turning point in my understanding of Chernobyl's impacts came while studying lakes in Belarus during the mid-1990s," Smith wrote. "In an evacuated area, lake fish contained tens of thousands of becquerrels per kilogram. A couple in their early 70s lived near the lake, eating the fish and growing vegetables. They were living off contaminated land, but leading the life they had chosen to lead. This wouldn't by any means be the right choice for everybody, but I am convinced they had made the right decision for them: They were Chernobyl survivors, not victims."
Other reports in Nature's roundup hint at the uncertainties still hanging in the air three and a half weeks after the earthquake and tsunami that led to the Fukushima crisis:
- David Brenner of Columbia University's Center for Radiological Research explains why experts "really don't know" that much about the long-term health consequences of Fukushima's radiation releases. He said authorities should start assessing "whether it would be reasonable to undertake large-scale population studies among the exposed populations in Japan." Meanwhile, researchers should focus more study on the basic mechanisms by which low doses of radiation cause cancer.
- The Japan-based Radiation Effects Research Foundation is calling on authorities to start collecting baseline data for a study of Fukushima's effects as soon as possible. Some of the basic measurements are already being collected, but the effort is "scattered and uncoordinated," researchers at the foundation say. In a separate report, Nature says researchers "are finding that making any sense of the data is proving very difficult."
- Japanese authorities have been monitoring the effects of radioactive iodine-131 on the thyroids of children in the most contaminated areas around Fukushima, and Nature says the first results show minimal thyroid doses in 946 children living in the areas northwest of the plant. The results "seem reassuring that not much iodine-131 has got into children," Richard Wakeford, an epidemiologist at the University of Manchester's Dalton Nuclear Institute, told the journal.
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- Japan nuke firm offers 'condolence money'
- Cosmic Log archive on Japan's disaster
- Full coverage of the disaster on msnbc.com
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The S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the Nasdaq were all sharply lower for the week.
Crude oil futures are lower this week, trading around $83.20 per barrel on Friday afternoon.
Gold futures are higher this week, trading at $1622.94 an ounce in afternoon trading.
In notable economic news this week, the U.S. jobless rate increased to 8.2 percent in May from 8.1 percent in April and only 69,000 jobs were added during the month.
In corporate news this week, JoS. A. Bank Clothiers (JOSB) announced that fiscal first-quarter net income fell by 17 percent. For the three months through April 28, the company earned $14.8 million, or 53 cents per share, versus $17.8 million, or 64 cents per share, in the same period last year. Revenue increased by 4 percent to $201.4 million from $193.3 million, below estimates of $208.9 million estimate, and revenue at stores open at least a year dropped by 1 percent.
Tivo (NASDAQ:TIVO) announced on Wednesday that lost $20.8 million in its first fiscal quarter, versus a profit in the same quarter last year when it settled a patent infringement case with Dish Network (DISH) for $175.7 million. expected a loss of 15 cents per share. Revenue for the quarter rose 48 percent to $67.8 million from $45.8 million, in the same period last year. Analysts had expected revenue of $55.3 million. The company has 2.5 million subscribers, an increase of 27 percent.
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I actually think his has very little to do with gaming, and more to do with hobbies in general. I'm a runner. I love to run. I would do 2 a day workouts and race 2x month in season. This takes time away from housekeeping, and my spouse, and my baby. So now, I don't run as long, or as often as I did in my single days, but the house and family are better for it. On the other hand, while we were dating, I made it very clear that running was important to me, and I would not stop completely. Balance and compromise in all things
Here's the thing: Getting your partner to police the time you spend gaming is not going to work.1. Its YOUR responsibility to stick to whatever time frame you agree to.2. It makes your partner feel like a nag.
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When I give my indoctrination spiel, uh, er, "training lecture" on CVS to coworkers and lackeys, I usually hand down a list of requirements for log/commit messages and a ChangeLog entry.
Most of the time it's a variation on http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/changelogs/guil
Personally I can't stand changelogs that don't say a thing. It's just enough "open source" to look good, but not open enough to actually invite help.
Another nice suprise would be to have posting at +1 cost a point a karma.
I believe that allowing posters to "opt out" of their +1 is moronic. The premise behind the bonus is that said poster generally posts good comments, so this one is probably good too. Now this either works or it doesn't. If it doesn't, remove the +1. If it does, grant the +1 and get over it.
Allowing an option to "opt out" of the +1 is like an option that would allow you to "opt out" of being moderated up. The feature is down-right silly. Judging the quality of a post is not the job of the poster. It is the job of the community system and the moderators.
Just remove that option. It makes no sense.
Actually I like having the option. I look at it this way. I normally try to post good solid comments. But if I'm in the mood and just want to spout off and be an idiot, I post at +1 - that way the worst that can happen is a -2 hit to my karma
Of course sometimes when I'm being a d**k and posting obnoxious stuff it'll be funny enough to get +5 so go figure
Reproduced for the terminaly lazy:
First of all,this [slashdot.org] is a great example of how not to write a Palm version of the site, and here's why. Offline readers depend on "link-depth" to traverse a site. However, their Palm version breaks each story into a random number of small chunks. So, you can't just page-down to read a long story or a bunch of comments- you have to click on lots and lots of links. A real pain. Lots of small links makes sense on a slow online connection, but it's awful when you have more bandwidth available, as your desktop PC or an offline browser.
Additionally, it's restricted to 10 comments, not a threshold. That's boring. I'm sitting here in Jiffy Lube picking my nose, I wanna read some funny trolls and flamewars!
Finally, using
/. in "light" mode doesn't work either. There are too many useless links on the front page. I don't care about the advertising or the FAQ or all the other stuff: I want the stories and the comments. Basically, the readers I use so far have no way to "prune" sections of the tree you don't care about. This causes the site to be gigantic and not fit into the paltry 8MB of your typical handheld, or, it fits, but it so big as to detract from its usefulness.
Finally, someone did the right thing: AvantSlash takes the page, filters out all the crap you don't care about, and doesn't break it up into a thousand chunks so it's readable.
In order to make that usable, I'd have to pump my link depth to something like 4 in order to read the stories. Plus, for the first time in months, slashdot.org has stopped serving 403's to sync.avantgo.com, which basically killed it's usefulnes... (It was one of the first sites I tried to sync to my iPaq via AvantGo, and until today, everytime I tried, I'd get access denied errors reading it when I tried to sync.)
I'd like to see the stupid lameness filter changed so that instead of placing spaces into the middle of long words (like the URL above), it would simply add a <wbr> tag at that spot so that the browser can break the word there only if it thinks it's necessary.http://slashdot.org/frontpage.pl?commentthresh=5&
What it does is if you hit 'spellcheck', each misspelled word becomes a drop down list of the suggestions. You then pick the proper spelling at each of these (or leave them alone if they are already right) and when you submit, all replacements are made. It's really very slick.
The drawback with the way I wrote it at the moment is the fork to ispell though. I think there is a perl module for ispell which would work better, I just didn't have the time to research it.
I'm still waiting for the option to recalculate the point value for articles based on my own preferences. I want funny to count as +0.
I find it hilariously ironic that I and many others would have never seen this message if it hadn't been modded +5. By getting people going directly against the author's proposal he get more people to see it.
The fact of the matter is that most of the filters do not stop trolls, who are willing to attempt to post an obnoxious piece of ascii art multiple times, but do not stop legitimate posters who just want to share a contribution with the community. After all, who here has a job and a life, and time to refine their messages to make the slashdot retardo-filters pass their content along successfully.
I'm so glad to see that somebody else has realized that the slashdot auto-filters are useless, annoying, poorly written pieces of software that merely detract from the slashdot community.
It's been eased up a couple of weeks ago and now catches very little except ascii art. It used to catch comments posted in the mode "Code" pretty frequently but that's been fixed as well.
If anyone has good examples of genuine attempted comment text that trips the compression filter, email it to me [mailto] and I'll see about fixing it.
This line angers me b/c it is just a one-line unsupported dismissal of a widely held viewpoint. That may have been the design intention of the lameness filter. That may be what it looks like to you from up there. But down here in the posters' trenches, the consensus is that it sucks ass. Way too many people catch the lameness filter for a short subject, or trying to be lyrical, or just having too much whitespace. I have caught it several times, and after playing with the text for a while to evade the filter, I just give up. Most people I know do. Email it to you? Sure, right after pouring one's energies into writing someing insightful and on-topic, a tiny block of perl tells one to piss off, one should feel motivated to email bug reports to a group that has grown continually less responsive to user input?? Right, he said."Actually the gzip filter is a really clever way..."
Why the continuing trend to offload debugging onto users who didn't ask for the 'improvement' in the first place? Why keep pushing code onto a hugely popular community site that only serves in Generalissimo Taco's war on trolls, dadaists, and the generally absurd? Why a gzip "filter"?? There are decades of research into fast algorithms for determining statistics on bodies of text -- any one of them, many public domain, would be an intelligent tool against crapflooders. But a 'compress and size check' line instead?? That's the worst kind of lax unfeeling code, that wields a brutal metric without regard for corollary damage. ("Rob code", I've heard it called, but "MS code" is more typifying of that style of program design.)
I generally don't rant. You are running a valuable site at no monetary cost to us. But
"But down here in the posters' trenches, the consensus is that it sucks ass. Way too many people catch the lameness filter for a short subject..."
It sucks ass to have to type more than one character for a subject?
I log every instance of the compress filter doing its thing. In the last 20,000 comments or so that have been posted to Slashdot, it's blocked exactly two attempts to post because of a too-compressible subject. Both times the poster could easily have added about one character and it would have gone through.
And of the last 20,000 successfully posted comments, there have been exactly 50 blocked attempts because of compression on the text. (Note that two blocked previews followed by a successful post, which is typically what happens, counts for 2 of that 50.) The blocked posts are mostly things like the same link pasted in over and over, or one that was 23K worth of "... testtesttestesttesttestesttesttestest..."
Big chunks of whitespace look too much like ascii art and are frequently caught (where "frequently" means "well under 1%"). The solution is simple: trim out the whitespace. Sooner or later I'll get around to a feature that lets the Slash code trim it out automatically if you ask.
As I say, the code changed a couple of weeks ago, becoming much better. I am always very interested to hear about its failures, please, submit bug reports and let me know exactly what legitimate comment you were stopped from posting. But be precise. I have the debug logs, so vague anecdotes aren't convincing. And in this case, you're complaining about stuff that has already been addressed. Get with the times
If you really, really want to get people to pay, you could also allow only subscribers to filter Katz (you know, I used to be a supporter of that poser?). That seems a little mean, though.
Now that we've got the Fry tree out of the way, its off to work on Zoidberg (which will include subscriptions, killfiles, and a few surprises)
Wow. In just a few short years they'll have implemented....usenet!
Just kidding, I know there are differences. Still, an nntp gateway would allow people to use their own clients, and those killfiles.
There already is a Gnus client for Slashdot. It allows you to use Gnus scorefiles and everything. Sometimes I wonder if Emacs hackers belong to a totally different species.
How about comment editing capability??? There's nothing worse than posting a comment, even using preview, and realize you screwed it up somehow.
It might even be interesting to add a "previous version" capability. Just stick the message in some other dump table and have a different screen to dump them out.
The journals have editing capability, so I don't see why normal messages can't do the same.
If comment editing is put in place, at least make it so that you can only edit the comment if it has not been moderated yet. This will allow people to make quick corrections right after they post, but hopefully avoid the abusive implications of an edit feature.
The problem with this is if you could change your comment after it was moderated.
Hm; this gives rise to another idea: What if you could edit it only until it was moderated or comments were added to it?
OR even simpler. Any comment at -1 or 0 could be edited at its current moderation - who cares? Any comment at +1 or higher will automatically get set to +1 when edited to start over. Easy enough and hard to abuse.
So for the word problem challenged:
sub edit_submit { if current_moderation > 1 { moderation = 1 } }
Easy enough!
Four suggestions -- three of which should be easy and the fourth is harder:
Allowing deletion only if the post hasn't been replied to or moderated would be compromise. Since most of the "doh, I wish I could edit this" probably fall in the "oops, I misspelled something" or the "I forgot to preview" category, the author will catch these pretty quickly and be able to do something about it.The abuse for "modified" comments would be immense
http://freefall.homeip.net/stuff/spellcheck/ [homeip.net]
Be warned that this is VERY SIMPLE. You CAN hurt yourself if there is, something bad in the stuff you are spell checking (although unless there is a " before it, you are probably safe).
Joseph Elwell.
The rest of the world calls these surprises "bugs". Except Microsoft, who calls them "features".
In favor: I've used and enjoyed Slashdot for a very long time. I'm not concerned about privacy issues involving my email address, so that's not a worry for me. I know that a lot of hard work has been done to keep this service running for me to enjoy, and I know that the upkeep costs a lot. I know that the reality of the web is different now than it was.
Convincing, but against: I, and all the other posters, experts, flamers, trolls and etc. are what make Slashdot even basically interesting. The stories alone I can get anywhere -- it's the posts that are semi-interesting. When I pay for a subscription to Salon, I'm paying to get content I enjoy. If I were to pay for Slashdot, even just to get ride of ads, I feel like I'd be paying for something I help make happen.
All that said: I'll pay for Slashdot. The reason is that, all philosophical problems aside, I know that economic realities are forcing this thing in. I'll miss the free Slashdot, but even a subscriber-friendly Slashdot is better than no Slashdot at all (what would I *do* with my days?).
In return, I'd really, really like to see a more intelligent basis for story selection. I *miss* that Slashdot from three years ago where the stories were mostly tech-oriented and not just another excuse to flame Katz or diss Microsoft. I want to see real efforts to improve the signal to noise ratio without stomping on unpopular views (like moderation tends to). Maybe it's not possible to go back to that, but I'd like to see some effort made to try.
Enable me to have separate comment viewing prefs for when I'm a moderator. Changing them back and forth is annoying. Plus then they could be set automatically to more socially responsible defaults.
If a comment below my threshold has a child which is above my threshold, I think that should be clearer; ideally, in between the visible grandparent and the visible child should be a link to the invisible parent.
An easy way on the main page to scroll back through previous stories.
This could be as simple as an "Older stories..." link or as "complicated" as separators between days and something like a "Monday's stories" link.
If I miss a day or two, I always have to fiddle with the slashboxes to scroll back through the stories. This is a simple UI fix and would greatly increase usability.
I am insulted, chagrined, annoyed, disturbed, perturbed, dismayed, aghast, and perhaps even indignant at this shocking act of arrogance, Mr. Taco! Shame on you, sir. Shame shame shame!
Slashcode seems to fall into the second camp. There doesn't seem to be a wide variety of people who have contributed, rather the credit is purely to CmdrTaco and friends.
Instead of doing all the work yourselves, why not have a todo list and let others make contributions to the project, rather than just implementing suggestions?
Instead of adding a space to the middle of long words, why not just add a <wbr> tag so that the browser can decide whether or not it needs to actually break the word at that spot?
There are too many times when someone posts a URL in a comment, and I can't simply cut & paste because the lame filter has put a space in the middle of it!
a variety of optimizations that continue to make it possible to serve a quantity of pages that no other open source packagelike this can even touch
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I am not an expert on improving the scalability of web applications (especially those written in Perl, as is Slashcode), but, from what I read, I understand that Java generally scales much better, especially when it has been tweaked for that purpose. Recently, an open source discussion board (written in Java) appeared that its creators say is one of the most scalable on the planet: Jive [jivesoftware.com]. Even in Jive's old, version 1.24 form, it was so scalable that Sun Microsystems decided to use it as its main web discussion software, replacing discussion software that they had written themselves (in Java). Sun employee Eric Larson [sun.com] wrote (in article's [sun.com] last paragraph) that
Jive has proven itself at Sun by supporting 94 forums with more than 358,000 messages, and about 2 million users. And the current infrastructure is not even close to capacity. As more developers try the software and contribute to the project, Jive's success will only continue.
Jive's developers swear that it can serve a million page views per day without a problem. On the other hand, Jive doesn't support the posting of news items in a manner similar to Slashcode. Maybe that's what Taco meant when he wrote "like this" (above). Of course, the open source developers at Meinds [sourceforge.net] may decide to alter the Jive source to permit the posting of news items. Then Slashcode might have been bested in terms of features as well as scalability.
If graphics hackers are so smart, why can't they get the bugs out of fresh paint?


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eacc is a bash script that allows a group of people to share an encrypted, revision controlled file on a shared filesystem. Rather than store an encrypted file in RCS, eacc encrypts the RCS file and handles the decryption, check-out, check-in, and encryption steps automatically. The repository is encrypted using GPG's multi-recipient support, which allows each member of the group to use their own unique password. A typical use case would be to securely store sensitive information, such as password lists or account information, that is shared by a team.
autorevision extracts metadata about the current revision from your repository. It is meant to be used by project build systems to extract properties that can be used in software version strings. Repository types supported include git, hg, bzr, and svn. It can create files containing variable and macro definitions suitable for C, C++, Java, sh, Python, Perl, PHP, Lua, JavaScript, and header files suitable for use in preprocessing Info.plist files.
irked is an IRC client that runs as a daemon accepting notification requests as JSON objects presented to a listening socket. It is meant to be used by hook scripts in version-control repositories, allowing them to send commit notifications to project IRC channels. A hook script that works with git, hg, and svn is included in the distribution.
Boar provides simple version control and backup for photos, videos, and other binary files. Boar aims to be the perfect way to make sure your most important digital information, like pictures, movies, and documents, is stored safely. It makes it possible for you to restore any or all of your files from any point in time. It makes it easy to maintain verified backups of your data, including file history. It imposes no limits on file or repository sizes. Using boar is an effective way to prevent data loss due to human or machine error.
CVS, GIT, and Mercurial as well as other well-known version control systems cannot version directories. In other words, you cannot add empty directories. A "workaround" for this issue is to use placeholder files that are placed into empty directories. These placeholder files can then be committed into the repository and will make sure that, upon checkout, the directory tree is entirely reconstructed. The problem with using placeholder files is that you need to create them, and need to delete them if they are not necessary anymore (because sub-directories or real files were added). With big source trees, managing these placeholder files can be cumbersome and error prone. MarkEmptyDirs can manage the creation/deletion of such placeholder files automatically. It creates placeholder files in all empty "leaf" directories. If later on new files or directories are put into such directories, the placeholder files are not necessary anymore, and are removed automatically.
Hgfs is a read-only filesystem interface to Mercurial repositories. The interface gives access to the commit message, manifest, and files of each revision, and to .tgz's of each revision (the .tgz's are generated as they are read). The filesystem is a front-end for the Mercurial library that comes with it. All code is written in Limbo, for Inferno.
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February 14, 2013, 1:09 pm
Nintendo Land an addicting virtual theme park for the Wii U (review)
When Nintendo Land was released, I thought, "Not another Wii Sports game." I was hesitant to look at this game and if it wasn't for the fact we were sent a demo to review, I never would have played it — and that would have been a shame.
This game is extremely addicting. It's set up like a theme park and is an overall glamorous demo for the Wii's technology. Before you chop my head off for saying this, hear me out.
From racing games to puzzles and even Zelda, Nintendo Land shows what the Wii U can do. The graphics are stunning compared to the standard Wii and give me hope for the future of Nintendo.


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Open Big
That's what Hollywood wants. Martha Stewart is a write off because her first episode of the Apprentice had horrible ratings. That female president show, on the other hand, is on a roll. The irony, of course, is that these ratings are based on the promotion and the premise, not the show itself--they reflect viewership before word of mouth or first-hand experience.
We all want to open big. We want our product launches to be instant successes. We want the resumes we send out to be opened in one day, a call the next, an interview the third and a corner office by the end of the week.
The new marketing, it appears, doesn't work that way.
This is blog post #1,002 for me (I was so busy blogging today, the milestone flew right past... sorry). When I first started (thanks, Joi) many years ago, my readership was tiny. Just a few people a day. Today, they say this is one of the top 100 most-visited blogs in the English language... and I hear from people I never imagined I'd run into again (if I taught you canoeing in 1978, sure, send me an email!)
Permission Marketing : Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers. a book I wrote seven (SEVEN) years ago just went back to press at the publisher and continues to sell. Unleashing the Ideavirus, which you can get for free online or in a handy paperback edition, came out five years ago... but they're just now launching trade organizations around the ideas in it.
The bottom line is that it's way way easier to start things than it used to be (opening a movie big costs a tenth of a billion dollars, while opening a blog costs about twenty). The natural, user-driven networks that make a product succeed or fail rarely hit all at once. But the snowball effect online is far more powerful than the old-world scream & dream approach.
So, what's it mean to you?
Make something worth making.
Sell something worth talking about.
Believe in what you do because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.
Don't listen to the first people who give you feedback.
Don't give up. Not for a while, anyway.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I gotta figure out how to help The Big Moo open big. Hope you're around for post #2,004.


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Forest reorganization: a case study in an old-growth forest catastrophic blowdown", Ecology, vol. 76, p. 763-774, 1995., "
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Bones & Blood Recipe
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Like a zombie, you'll be desperate for more of these bone-shaped cookies and dip. Fight nicely over them—no biting! —Taste of Home Food Styling Team
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- 5 large egg whites
- 1/2 cup cake flour
- 1/2 cup ground almonds
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
- Dash salt
- 4 drops yellow food coloring, optional
- 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1-1/4 cups heavy whipping cream
- 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup strawberry jelly
- Red food coloring, optional
- Place egg whites in a large bowl; let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, combine the flour, almonds, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg.
- Add the vanilla, cream of tartar, salt and, if desired, food coloring to the egg whites. Beat on medium speed until soft peaks form. Gradually add sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating on high until stiff glossy peaks form and sugar is dissolved. Fold in flour mixture.
- Cut a 1/2-in. hole in the corner of a pastry or plastic bag. Fill bag with egg white mixture. Pipe 4-in. logs onto parchment-lined baking sheets. Pipe two 1/2-in. balls at both ends of each log. Bake at 300° for 25-30 minutes or until firm to the touch. Remove to wire racks. Store in an airtight container.
- In a small microwave-safe bowl, combine the cream, chocolate chips and jelly. Microwave on high in 30-second intervals until melted; stir until smooth. Tint red if desired. Cool to room temperature and serve with bones. Refrigerate leftover sauce. Yield: 40 cookies (2 cups sauce).
Originally published as Bones & Blood in Taste of Home October 2011, p31
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"The dough was hard to manipulate. They did not look like the picture. They didn't taste very good. A case of looked better in the picture than in real life."
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"I made these last year. The sauce didn't come out so red (the chocolate color overpowered color-wise). However, they were very very delicious!"


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2002-03 Men's Basketball
bc vs. marygrove
Bluffton rolls to tourney championship with 94-70 win over MarygroveBy Tim Stried
November 29, 2002
Bluffton College rolled over Marygrove College Friday night 94-70 in the opening night of the Taco Bell/Comfort Inn Coaches vs. Cancer Tournament in Founders Hall.
The Beavers will face Heidelberg College Saturday at 3 p.m. in the tournament championship. Heidelberg advanced to the title game with a 90-79 win over Urbana.
The game was Bluffton's 2002-03 home opener and the second win for the Beavers in a row.
Four BC players scored in double-figures, led by junior Brad Boyles who scored a career-high 20 points. Senior Mike Leimeister scored 18 points, with 16 of those coming in the first half. Senior Derek DeNero added 11 points and freshman Bryan Yelley chipped in 10.
A 9-0 run by Marygrove gave the visitors from Detroit a 17-11 lead with 14:33 left in the first half, but after a timeout Bluffton went on an 11-0 run to regain the lead and a 19-3 run later in the first half put the Beavers up 49-31 with two minutes before halftime. BC led 55-35 at the intermission.
Bluffton (2-2) shot nearly 62% from the floor in the second half to keep Marygrove (3-5) from getting back into the game as all but one of Bluffton's 15 players in uniform scored. The BC bench scored 31 points in the game.
Senior Marcus Bixler scored six points and dished out seven assists, while sophomore Bryce Beilharz was 4-for-5 from the floor for eight points.
Marygrove's Dennis Foster scored 32 points, 21 of those coming in the second half, to lead the Mustangs, who will face Urbana at 1 p.m. Saturday in the consolation game.


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2012-13 MIT Women's Openweight Crew Headlines
MIT Places 16 on Patriot League Academic Honor RollJune 29, 2013CENTER VALLEY, Pa. – End of the year academic awards were handed out this week by the Patriot League, with 16 of those awards going to members of its 2012-13 women's openweight crew team as the conference announced its 2013 Women's Rowing Academic Honor Roll. A total of 113 student-athletes earned the distinction, with MIT's total was fifth among the league schools, trailing Colgate and Holy Cross by just one and Navy by two. Bucknell led the league with 34 on the honor roll.
Sack, Meyer Named to Academic All-Patriot League Rowing TeamMay 29, 2013CENTER VALLEY, Pa. – A week after earning All-Patriot League honors in women's rowing, senior Jean Sack (Eureka, Calif.) and junior Erin Meyer (Austin, Texas) earned another set of honors from the league today as it announced its 2013 Academic All-Patriot League squad.
Sack, Meyer Named to All-Patriot League TeamMay 23, 2013CENTER VALLEY, Pa. – Two members of the MIT women's openweight crew team were selected to the All-Patriot League squad that was announced by the league today. Senior Jean Sack (Eureka, Calif.) was named to the first team and junior Erin Meyer (Austin, Texas) was selected to the second team. It is the second all-conference award for Meyer and the first for Sack.
MIT Openweight Crew Finishes Fourth at Patriot League ChampionshipsMay 17, 2013WORCESTER, Mass. – MIT's openweight crew team capped off the 2012-13 regular season this morning at the Patriot League Championships held on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester. Aided by a third-place finish by the Varsity 8 crew, the Engineers finished fourth in the final team standings with 20 points, trailing third-place Holy Cross by just three. Navy won the championship with 35 points, with Bucknell second with 29.
Openweight Crew Rows at EAWRC SprintsMay 05, 2013CHERRY HILL, N.J. – MIT's women's openweight crew teams competed today at the annual EAWRC Sprints, held this year on the Cooper River. The Engineers finished 11th in the Willing Point Trophy competition, totaling 22 points.
MIT Openweight Crew Competes at Annual Beanpot RegattaApril 28, 2013CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Rowing for the second time this weekend, the MIT women's openweight crew team took part in the annual Beanpot Regatta on the Charles River this morning. The Engineers raced a pair of varsity 8 and varsity 4 crews against teams from Radcliffe, Boston University, Holy Cross, Boston College and Northeastern. Overall MIT finished fifth in the Beanpot point standings.
Openweight Crew Takes On BC, BU and URIApril 27, 2013CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – After seeing its schedule upended by the recent events in Boston, the MIT women's openweight crew team was back in action on the Charles River, taking on crews from Boston College, Boston University and Rhode Island. BU won both races in the eights, with URI taking the Varsity 4 event.
MIT Openweight Crew Picked Picks Up Four Wins at GW InvitationalApril 13, 2013WASHINGTON, D.C. – It was a successful weekend for the MIT women's openweight crew team at the George Washington Invitational. The Engineers scored four individual race victories, including three by the Varsity 8 squad. The wins helped MIT to a third-place finish among six teams in the Howard W. Wilkins Bowl standings.
Openweight Crew Edged Out by Boston CollegeApril 06, 2013CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - In its first action of the spring season, the MIT women's openweight crew team took on crews from Boston College in three events on the Charles River today. In the Varsity 8 competition it was a close one between the Engineers and the Eagles, with the edge going to BC be less than a second at the finish.
MIT Openweight Crew Picked Third in Preseason Patriot League PollFebruary 27, 2013CENTER VALLEY, Pa. – MIT's women's openweight crew team was selected to finish third in the 2013 Patriot League standings in a preseason poll voted on by the league's head coaches and sports information directors and released today. The Engineers received 33 points in the poll, with Bucknell and Navy taking the top two spots.
Foot of the Charles Event Closes Out Fall Season for Openweight CrewNovember 10, 2012CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – On a fall day with excellent weather for a regatta, the MIT women's openwieght crew team concluded its fall season with an appearance at the Foot of the Charles. In an event that features Varsity Four boats and both openweight and lightweight crews, the Engineers had their best finish in the Varsity Fours with its "A" boat taking 26th overall.
Women's Openweight Crew Competes at Dartmouth Green MonsterNovember 03, 2012HANOVER, N.H. – On a crisp, fall day in New England the MIT women's openweight crew team competed in its third regatta of the fall season, sending a pair of novice crews to the Dartmouth Green Monster race. The Engineers fared well, placing eighth and 13th overall.
Women's Openweight Crew Completes Princeton ChaseOctober 28, 2012PRINCETON, N.J. – After opening the season last week at the Head of the Charles, the MIT women's openweight crew team took part in the Princeton Chase today. The Engineers had a pair of boats entered in the varsity 8 competition.
Women's Openweight Crew Opens Season at Head of the CharlesOctober 21, 2012CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – It was the official start of the crew season for the MIT women's openweight crew team this afternoon as the Engineers competed in the prestigious Head of the Charles regatta. The Engineer's varsity team participated in the Women's Championship Eights event, one of 40 entries in the completion.
MIT Crew Set to Open 2012-13 Season at The Head of the Charles RegattaOctober 19, 2012CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Crew season officially opens this weekend for the MIT crew teams as all four will have entries in one of the most famous regattas in the world, the annual Head of the Charles competition. MIT will have crews in action on both Saturday and Sunday in the world's largest two-day rowing event.
MIT Names Previn Chandraratna as Women's Openweight Crew AssistantSeptember 04, 2012CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – MIT has announced that Previn Chandraratna has joined the women's openweight crew coaching staff as the team's novice coach. He replaces Aaron Benson who was recently named the head coach at the University of Puget Sound.
MIT Crew Informational MeetingAugust 28, 2012MIT's Crew teams will have an information meeting for those interested in joining one of the varsity teams.


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Cash, a driver's license and credit cards were stolen from an unlocked vehicle at 10:45 a.m. Aug. 14 in the 1200 block of Dogwood Lane.
Possession of cannabis
• Rafael Baez, 24, 1858 N. Oak Park Ave., Chicago, was charged with driving under the influence of drugs, possession of cannabis and a seatbelt violation at 3:20 p.m. Aug. 13 in the 500 block of East North Avenue.
• Miranda N. Falls, 20, 314 W. Blair St., West Chicago, was charged with driving under the influence of drugs, possession of cannabis, possession of drug equipment and obstruction at 9 p.m. Aug. 16 at the Carol Stream Police Department, 500 N. Gary Ave.
Consumption of
alcohol by a minor
• Eric Marvell Miller, 19, 632 Willow Wood Drive, was charged with consumption of alcohol by a minor, being a pedestrian under the influence of alcohol, retail theft and resisting a municipal officer at 12:03 a.m. Aug. 15 at his home.
• Mohamed Y. Husein, 19, 1305 Woodlake Drive, was charged with illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor and possession of drug equipment at 10:59 p.m. Aug. 16 at his home.
Warrant arrests
• Efren Garcia, 28, 643 E. Gundersen Drive, was arrested on a warrant for driving with a suspended or revoked driver's license and a signal violation at 6:53 p.m. Aug. 14 at his home.
• Jorge U. Quinones, 21, 136 E. Pomeroy St., West Chicago, was arrested on a warrant for possession of cannabis and a seatbelt violation at 2:14 a.m. Aug. 16 in the DuPage County Jail.
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The rear passenger tail light of a vehicle was shattered at 10 p.m. Aug. 16 in the 1200 block of Dogwood Lane.


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Motivated To Give Despite The Uncertainty
Despite the uncertainty, charitable giving is top-of-mind for many folks. WSJ Wealth Management's Veronica Dagher reports.
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Hate Group Leader Bryan Fischer Calls Marriage Equality Rulings More Of An Injustice Than Zimmerman Verdict
Jonathan Higbee | July 15, 2013
Absolutely no one is surprised that Bryan Fischer, bigot in charge at hate group the American Family Association, doesn't consider the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin much of an injustice. Instead, tweeted Fischer, the Supreme Court rulings against anti-gay discrimination in marriage rights is what we all should be shaking our fists at.
"For example of injustice, don't look at Zimmerman," Fischer tweeted. "Look at what Supreme Court did on DOMA, Prop 8. There's your travesty."
Maybe Bryan Fischer just really, really wants to be on Big Brother next year?
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All-Star invite a dream come true for MCW
Posted: February 14, 2014
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NEW ORLEANS –– Tonight, the future stars of the NBA collide at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, where the league's annual rookie-sophomore showcase game, the BBVA Compass Rising Stars Challenge, will take place.
The game will see the league's top first- and second-year players split between two squads; Chris Webber will coach the first and Grant Hill the second. Headlining Team Webber are hometown favorite Anthony Davis, Orlando's Victor Oladipo, Jazz point guard Trey Burke, and of course Sixers rookie Michael Carter-Williams.
"It's a great honor," said Carter-Williams of being invited to participate in All-Star Weekend. "To even be here, to live my dream, to do what I love to do as my job, it's unbelievable."
Team Webber got together Friday morning for a brief practice session in front of fans at Jam Session. You can catch the game on TNT at 9pm (EST).
Giving Back
After practice, Carter-Williams and several of his teammates bussed up toKIPP New Orleans Leadership Primary School to join local volunteers, KaBOOM!, and KIPP New Orleans in building a new, state-of-the-art playground for local children.
The Greek Connection
One of the Team Hill members Carter-Williams will face Friday night is Bucks rookie Giannis Antetokounmpo, whose older brother Thanasis plays for the Delaware 87ers. Thanasis will compete in the Boost Mobile D-League Dream Factory Slam Dunk Contest Saturday at 3pm (EST) on NBA TV.
MCW's All-Star Kicks
.@MCW1's #NBAAllStar kicks pic.twitter.com/XEBrSstqPT
— Philadelphia 76ers (@Sixers) February 14, 2014
Press Pass
MCW Catches up with Brent Barry