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What about all the cycles compiling and debugging C++ code? Or all the trees torn down for C++ books? Or the environmental impact of C++ developers? I mean, have you ever had to share a cube with one of them? Pheewww.
I know your being funny but you've got a good point. Developing and maintaining C++ code is not like developing and maintaining PHP script. Which of course is why we have PHP to begin with. It's designed for the web and ease of implementation. Sure C++ would be faster running but not necessarily more efficient in terms of dollars.
Have no fear, turning devs into disposable resources will ensure bright future to efficiency being judged only in hardware terms.
It's a phenomenon we have also noted.
Sure C++ would be faster running but not necessarily more efficient in terms of dollars.
I think you'll find that the servers come out of the operational budget, not the development one. So the costs of running 10x more servers don't factor into development effort. The costs should of course be charged back to the dev teams.
What about the impact of whole classes of C++ bugs that don't exist in C++
I've spent many a sleepless night worrying about C++ bugs that don't exist in C++. I'm glad I'm not alone.
A PHP programmer who turns out good PHP code
The Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, a PHP programmer who turns out good PHP code, and Steve Balmer are in the four corners of a room. In the center of the room is a chair. Who throws the chair first?
Steve Balmer, because the other three don't fucking exist!
> a PHP programmer who turns out good PHP code
Yeah, that'd be me. Hi! We do exist, and there are plenty of us.
Granted, we tend to be outnumbered 100:1 by the PHP programmers who produce complete crap. The same is probably true of nearly any language.
A self proclaimed good PHP programmer... yeah there are about a 100 of those to every 1 that doesn't do that.
A PHP programmer who turns out good PHP code
Ontological argument: A good PHP programmer is better than a PHP programmer that doesn't exist. Therefore a good PHP programmer must exist.
Unfortunately, the C++ programmer who writes bad C++ code is more common than the C++ programmer who writes good C++, and the bad C++ is probably harder to rework than bad php.
I once rewrote a bit of software that some MIT grads did. Theirs was 20K lines of C++, used 110 MB ram (constantly newing and deleting), used dozens of threads (constantly spawning and harvesting), and drove the system to its knees (90% system, 10% user load). My 2K (yes, one-tenth) lines of straight C used 5 threads (preallocated)
I once rewrote a bit of software that some MIT grads did. Theirs was 20K lines of C++, used 110 MB ram (constantly newing and deleting), used dozens of threads (constantly spawning and harvesting), and drove the system to its knees (90% system, 10% user load). My 2K (yes, one-tenth) lines of straight C used 5 threads (preallocated), a configurably preallocated ring buffer (about 100K in practice), and used less than 5% of user time with no measurable system load. And I was able to do this adding functional
PHP's primary issue in the database department is it doesn't have a clean way of say, maintaining prepared statement declarations across connection instances. Which is frustrating. APC's handling of shared memory is not the best, either, and the memcached extensions for it need polish. Don't get me started on how PHP treats constants.
Where PHP really fails, however, is in memory usage. It takes up dozens of times as much RAM as a well-built C program would. Facebook would not reduce their computer count by
In terms of total page delivery latency for a typical I/O bound application, sure. In terms of actual cpu usage, 10x overhead for any dynamically typed language is to be expected. If the application servers are CPU bound, that means a lot more servers.
In addition, dynamic languages do not compile or JIT well, compared to statically typed languages, which severely limits the overhead reduction achievable.
Just serve up plain text files. Anything else is pure decadence!
Simply put: no.
The reason why they have so many servers is because Facebook contains so much data. The servers are there for a reason, and the reason is CACHING.
The overhead of PHP is very small for a platform that is all about sharing data and the bulk of processor time surely goes towards fetching that data in the first place. What, do you seriously think that when you hit your home page on Facebook, there are database queries issued for that? Lulz.
Besides, I'm almost sure that FB uses something like Zend Accelerator, which increases code execution speed a lot.
Anyway, just no.
Very true: they are are big contributor to projects like memcache.
...were they to rewrite it all in assembly language!
For something that is deployed to tens of thousands of machines..
Is there some reason why these languages couldn't be compiled and optimized? Code is just the programmer's will expressed as text that the machine can somehow interpret, right? If there is so much PHP out there, why wouldn't/couldn't there be an efficient compiler (by which I mean something that produces executables and not just "executables that are really just an interpreter tacked onto a script")
The dearth of such compilers on the market suggests to me that the gains wouldn't be as great as claimed for the majority of applications where interpreted languages are used.
For example, consider the following. Say bad things about PHP all you want (it deserves it) but one of the things you don't generally see with PHP code is a buffer overflow, where you try to copy a bunch of strings and concatenate them together and you run out of room and don't notice it and you go clobbering memory. That's because the string manipulation code goes through a bunch of checks when you're appending strings. You can't just skip these checks and hope that everything will work the same. You may know that such and such a code-path isn't going to need all the bounds checking because you're, say, idunno, assembling fixed-length ZIP+4 codes or something, but the scripting language can't be informed of that fact using any extant mechanism (nor is it clear how you could integrate such a mechanism with the powerful abstraction that lets you not worry about the rest of your strings to begin with).
Moreover, as has already been pointed out, a lot of the computational price of rendering a web page is database queries and memory-cached-object queries which employ compiled code already. The string-manipulation overhead isn't all that significant compared to the abstraction that it buys you. It's probably a better idea to track down logic issues, where your code does stupid useless computations that it doesn't need that make it slow, or could do certain computations in advance to make it faster, or such.
I think there's a lot more potential for interesting machine optimization of code for things coming from the functional paradigm, where you can mathematically show the equivalence of certain portions of code with its optimized replacement, and that this paradigm will be making a resurgence in some places during the upcoming era of 128-core processors. This might be interesting.
Actually, Facebook uses APC [facebook.com] to compile and optimize the code in the shared memory so it doesn't have to be compiled over and over again.
There are other libraries for caching PHP functions on many different levels as well, and they're open source, for the most part. Some real bright minds from Facebook and other large PHP applications have contributed to them.
Bottom line: PHP is quite powerful and efficient when built and extended properly.
Does the author seriously believe that Facebook isn't running some sort of PHP compiling/caching service, like APC or something similar?
It would be ridiculous for them NOT to be running something like that, which eliminates much of the advantage C++ would enjoy through being pre-compiled. While there still may be a reduction if Facebook were magically changed to precompiled C++ code, the reduction would be fairly minimal. In addition to that, you'd need to factor in the debugging and coding/compiling times, which would exceed the PHP times by an order of magnitude at least.
The author is pulling numbers out of his ass and has no clue about what uses most time (waiting for database results mostly), about PHP accelerators and about caching systems like memcached.
He's comparing performance of php script running on a raw PHP installation versus running a C++ version of the same script, doing calculations that almost never apply to real world scenarios.
I don't see how any company would use C++ to develop their whole systems except maybe for some CGI scripts. Not even Google does it, afaik they use Perl and Python a lot.
Anyway, the number of servers has no direct correlation to the programming language. Out of those thousands of systems, lots of them are read only database servers in a cluster, lots are only serving static files (thumbnails, images used in CSS files on people's pages and so on), some servers are used solely for memcached instances and content used very rarely, some are load balancers....
Basically, the author has no clue.
I always found Livejournal's presentation about scaling very insightful, especially as it's a pretty big site, just like Facebook and other big time sites. The second link gives a lot of details about how they fine tune mysql and other parts of the system, which just goes to show how the apparent speed improvement of C++ versus PHP can overall be actually insignificant.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8953828243232338732&ei=3VUuS5-hLaKi2ALXqanJBQ&q=livejournal# [google.com]
http://www.danga.com/words/2004_mysqlcon/mysql-slides.pdf [danga.com]
the author...has no clue about what uses most time (waiting for database results mostly)
Like many here, you are confusing page delivery latency with total processor overhead. If you need more than one processor for page processing, how many you need has little or nothing to do with how much latency there is elsewhere in the system.
I'm assuming the claim about 10 times is true, which I don't really think so...
But they could have done something - like precompile the PHP, just like JIT of Java, to make it better or on par with compiled C program.
There are PHP accelerators like Zend Accelerator for that.
What a troll. Any point or argument based on assumptions is very weak. Here there are two: "..Let's assume this to be
Don't make stuff up.
"assuming a conservative ratio of 10 for the efficiency of C++ versus PHP code"
Why? On what evidence? I mean, I hate PHP as much as the next guy, but last time I wrote a web application platform in C++, I got to the end, analysed the result and went "Great, I've made the fast bit even faster. Now, about that database engine..."
Latency is a different question than efficiency. If your page generation efficiency is bad, on a small setup the difference may be imperceptible. On a large installation, i.e. one with a large number of servers dedicated to page generation, the efficiency of those servers makes a big difference. Holding latency constant, in a large installation less efficient page generation means more servers. In a small installation, not so much.
.. because I didn't ever think I'd be defending PHP.
However, it is a much better choice for a web application than C or C++ - and I say that as someone who codes C, C++ and Java for a living. There are no decent web frameworks for C++, memory management is still an issue despite the STL, and the complexity of the language means both staff costs and development time are inflated. Peer review is harder, as the language is fundamentally more difficult to master than PHP. Compared to Java, the development tools are poorer, and things like unit testing a more complicated despite the availability of things like Cppunit. There's no "standard" libraries for things like database access, and no literature that I am aware of that describes how you would go about designing a framework for C++. You'd most likely end up porting something like Spring to C++, and the even if you published your code on the web, I doubt much of a community would build up around it.
If you want a less contentious argument, and one which can be backed up with hard evidence, then argue PHP that should be replaced with Java. A well written Java web application, using a lightweight framework such as Spring or PicoContainer, should outperform ad-hoc C++ code.
Seriously, years ago I started working on a c++ version of j2ee (not just servlets, the whole kit) and i mean providing similar functions not identical methods of execution obviously. It wasnt terribly hard actually. But it all falls apart really quickly cause of several reasons:
1) platform architecture - the dependence here, even between different versions of the same distribution was a pain and essentially spelt the end of my work. So I was stuck with "do i make web apps c++ soruce, or shared library binaries?" to which there is only one real answer for portability - source.
2) its a systems langauge - dear god that makes it painful for so many reasons.
There are caveats to both those, but the reality is that php exists because it fulfils a need and it does it quite well. To compare the two (c++ and php) is a little ridiculous and ultimately this article just reeks of "please everyone advertise my c++ web tool kit for me!". Sure, facebook (and trillions of others) MIGHT move to c++ web tool kit, but find me a dev that knows how to code an app it, now find me 2, now find me 200 cause thats how many i'd need to write and maintain faceboot apps in c++.
Even taking the OP's assumtion c++ is 10 times more efficient at what php does and that you could actually code facebook in it as actually acurate and that php vs c++ is a one-to-one relationship for things like code maintenance, your still stuck with "how many API's am i going to have to re-write and how many php api's do i use that dont even exist in c++". Its ludicrous to assume that you could drop-in replace php with witty without ending up coding tonnes of c++ code just to do things that PHP already provided. Not to mention the zillions of little extensions that revolve around php to accelerate its web-abilities (memcached for example). The number of things that can be used along side php for web-related things and the number of api's in-built to php just mean witty is never even going to be viable as an alternative. Lets also not forget there are millions of people round the globe using php for web stuff - which ultimately leads to php being a good web language (i.e. security problems being found, optimizations, etc etc).
Of course, wouldn't facebook be using something like zend to compile php pages? I mean seriously, if the 25000 servers are running php and not running zend the waste here just in cost of servers would be unbelievable - shear idiocy on facebooks part (if it were true, and i'd very much doubt it) and I imagine zend would have almost given it away for free just so facebook could say "we got a x% improvement using the zend compiler".
So, I wonder how many people are now learning about witty for the first time (which seems like the only real reason for the article to begin with). Better advertising than adwords!
Yes, PHP is a heck of a lot slower on proccessor-bound tasks than C++. In a pure benchmarking contest, no doubt C++ will win.
But what about when both languages have to query a database (be it mysql/postgress/oracle, etc)? In this case, both are blocked on the speed of the database. a 15 ms query takes 15 ms no matter what language is asking. Facebook is not calculating pi to 10 gazillion digits, and it is not checking factors for the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. It is serving up pages containing tons of customized data. This is not proessor-bound... it is I/O bound both on the ins and outs of the database and the ins and outs of the http request. It is also processor bound on the page render, but the goal of this many machines is to cache to the point where page renders are eliminated.
Once a page is rendered, it can be cached until the data inside of it changes. For something like facebook, I bet a page is rendered once for every ~10 times it is viewed by someone. Caching is done in ram, and large ram caches take a lot of machines.
So lets look at those 30,000 machines not by their language, but by their role. We can argue the percentages to death, but lets assume 1/3rd are database, 1/3rd are cache, and 1/3rd are actually running a web server, assembling pages, or otherwise dealing with the end users directly (BTW, I think 1/3rd is way high for that.)
So 1/3rd of the machines are dealing with page composition and serving pages. If they serve a page ~10 times for every render request, then abtou 1/10th of the page requests actually cause a render... the rest are being served from cache. Those page renders are I/O bound, as in the example above - waiting on the database (and other caches, like memcached), so even if they are taking a lot of wait cycles, they are not using processor power on the box. The actual page composition (which might be 20% of the processing that box is doing), would be a lot faster in C++... So 10,000 servers, the virtual equivalent of 2000 are generating pages using php, and could be replaced by 200 boxes using stuff generated in C++.
So the choice of using php is adding ~1800 machines to the architecture. or ~6% of the total 30,000. Given that a php developer is probably 10x more productive than a developer in C++, is the time to market with new features worth that to them? I bet it is.
Companies use PHP to develop and run web app functionality because it saves them huge amounts of time and money over rolling out the same thing if you were to write it all in C++. Realize what the cost structure of a company like Facebook is - the amount they pay their engineers, marketing personnel, and so on is significantly more than their amortized server expenses and server operating expenses (including energy costs, etc.).
Furthermore, the 10x speedup assumption seems ridiculous - how much time is spent on their server in compute-intensive PHP loops where huge gains would be made from switching to C++? And how much of the "code" is really database queries of various sorts? Furthermore, you can generally isolate small areas like that in your codebase and rewrite them as modules in C or C++ to be invoked from PHP land - and if they could easily cut their server expenses even in half (let alone by 90%) by having a few engineers spend a few weeks rewriting some components, don't you imagine they've probably set about doing that already?
Re-casting a discussion in terms of greenhouse gas emissions or energy use doesn't change any of this - saving energy generally means saving money, unless it takes more expensive resources (such as 100s of humans, who have to spend hundreds of months re-writing code in C++, while they, their families, and dependents emit tons upon tons of greenhouse gases, use electricity, buy groceries, and so-on and so-forth). The cheapest solution certainly isn't always the most environmentally friendly solution (such as when negative externalities are involved - lower labor and pollution standards in China, for example, that make a less "green" product manufactured there less costly in the US), but a vastly more expensive solution that no company in its right mind would implement isn't necessarily greener just because it might save some electricity and a few servers once it was implemented.
This is brilliant! I think it's clear now the direction we must go. Overuse of energy-guzzling languages like PHP have put us on an unsustainable trajectory fueling out of control global warming.
Congress must act to regulate the use of these energy-guzzling languages. No longer will programmers and corporations be permitted to turn out inefficient code with impunity.
PHP, Perl, Ruby, Bash, your days are numbered!
Just wait until we can get UN involved. Python, you and your CO2 spewing simplicity are next!
Isn't this "study" a waste of energy?
I am a C/C++ programmer by trade; I'm not fond of PHP. Yet this "C++ saves energy over PHP" argument smells like more selfish politics to me. And selfish politics is what is bringing doom down on humanity's head -- the use of PHP vs. C++ is a sideline, a distraction, and only truly valuable for people who have a philosophical axe to grind.
You want to save a lot of energy? Shut down all the computers running MMOs. And stop wasting cycles looking for alien signals in cosmic radio waves. And get rid of banal YouTube videos... and... the list is endless. The science behind Global Warming is being used to further political and social agendas that have little or nothing to do with adapting our species from a potential environment change.
In the end, selfish politics will kill us all. We will become a footnote in history is we do not discover enlightened self-interest.
Ok, this has gone WAY too far
This is idiotic, and is typical of the kind of pseudo-science underlying much of the climate alarmism currently en vogue. Like a lot of things, it is pretty much impossible to quantify which language ultimately uses more power, because of all the variables. As others have pointed out, you might save some power in the deployment of the code, but you would surely use more power in the development of that code. Then, you have to figure out what the total impact of that is, since you'd have more man-hours of coding, using human coders, who sit at desks, in offices, which must be heated and cooled, etc., etc.
It would take a really serious amount of in-depth analysis of the server application to even approach knowing what the efficiency impact of using a compiled language vs an interpreter would be on any specific stack. Or even stacks in general. Plus we don't even know what it really means to be "using PHP". What is PHP doing? Is it processing templates, doing just some post or pre processing with some kind of XML pipeline in the middle, how is the PHP deployed, etc?
It is simply ridiculous to make any assertions and claim accuracy for them. I'm no PHP fan boy by a LONG shot, but I know from hard experience that often a higher level tool which is optimized for a particular job can get the job done quite a lot MORE efficiently than a lower level one that isn't.
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In fact, they cannot yet confirm if the body Christopher Dorner is even inside a burning cabin in the San Bernardino mountains.
Los Angeles police Commander Andy Smith addressed the media Tuesday night, saying the cabin is still burning and therefore too hot for anyone to make entry into the structure Dorner barricaded himself in this afternoon.
"No body has been identified and no body has been located," Smith said.
San Bernardino County sheriff spokeswoman Cindy Bachman relayed the same information at a press conference just minutes later.
"Law enforcement officers on scene have not been able to enter the cabin," Bachman said. "It is still hot. It is still smoldering and it is not safe to enter."
Bachman said they have a "very large crime scene" now and she anticipate officials will be there working on a homicide investigation for most of the night.
"We probably won't have any new information for you until sometime tomorrow," she added.
Bachman did say that they believe the person involved in a firefight with officers earlier today was still inside the cabin when it burned down.
The cabin in question caught fire this afternoon after Dorner fled into the forest following a shoot out with San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies.
One sheriff's deputy was killed and another injured after that gun fight.
"Our deepest sympathies go out to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department for their loss tonight," Smith said.
Los Angeles police officers will remain on tactical alert until Dorner's death is confirmed.
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The next Los Angeles police press release is scheduled for 8 a.m. Wednesday at the Department's headquarters.

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ADNAN OKTAR: My true cause and one of my ideals in this world, as everyone knows, is the Turkish-Islamic Union, insha'Allah. In other words, the establishment of a very large union including the Islamic countries, Azerbaijan, Turkestan, Kazakhstan and all of them. And for Turkey to be the elder brother. In the Turkish-Islamic Union I have in mind, all states will remain as nation states; it is a union of hearts, a union of love. It will be a union of shared minds. For example, when terror raises its head, joint decisions will be taken to eradicate it. When an economic crisis emerges, a joint decision will be taken to resolve it. When a country faces economic collapse, for instance, a joint decision will be taken to rescue it. At the root of this union lie love, altruism, mutual aid, compassion, tolerance, understanding and compromise. The Qur'an commands the Islamic world to be as one. The moral values of the Qur'an must be sincerely applied. We have one faith, one tongue, one everything; we have the same everything, we share the same roots and are brothers, but we are separate. That should clearly not be so. If we suggested to Azerbaijan "let us unite" today, they would agree without thinking about it for even a day. All that is needed is for the official proposal to be made. We can easily unite as two states, one nation. There are no obstacles. That applies to Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. The Islamic world will be able to breathe much easier after this unification. Iraq and Syria are desperately keen to unite with Turkey. All it needs is for Turkey to come up with the proposal, to give it a name. Just making the request will be sufficient. The Arabs want it, too. They regard it as the only way out. It also means salvation for America. And for China and Russia. They will all be better off economically. Terror will be completely eradicated. Israel in particular will be able to relax and will have no more problems. Armenia will be able to relax and a fine civilization will result. There are really no obstacles to the foundation of the Turkish-Islamic Union, because it is a union of peace, of brotherhood and of love, not a conception based on racial superiority or putting anyone else down. Everyone will want such an excellent thing.
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Friday, November 17, 2006
"I Hate Those Guys"
There's much to hate about Ohio State. This post focuses on the players (and one very contemptible coach) who have added more than a dash of hositility to this already rancorous rivalry.
Note that some star Buckeyes, such as Archie Griffin, Chris Spielman, and Eddie George are not on this list because I actually liked those guys--or at least respected the way they played the game. Also note dishonorable mentions for Brian Baschnagel and Tom Skladany, the former for his ridiculous name and the latter for being a crappy punter for the Detroit Lions.
Here are my most hated Ohio State Buckeyes:
5) Art Schlichter: At tOSU, Schlichter was often elusive like Fran Tarkenton and a clutch passer like Roger Staubach--two other quarterbacks who I didn't like as a lad. Despite his appearance on this list, I take no pleasure in Schlichter's pathetic life after college, which has been destoyed by gambling addiction and stints in 30 different jails (including a current sentence in an Indiana prison) for fraud and forgery.
4) Tom Cousineau: A Romanowskiesque linebacker from the late 70s who still ranks among tOSU's best. He was the first overall pick by the Buffalo Bills in the 1979 NFL Draft, but shunned the NFL for more dough in Canada (the Bills later traded his rights for a future pick that was used to select Jim Kelly.) Cousineau left Canada to play in the NFL, mainly with Cleveland, where he put up solid numbers. I recall a preseason game in the 80s when he was flagged for literally stomping on a fallen Lions ball carrier. Last week the Republican Cousineau lost by a thin margin to an incumbant Democrat in an Ohio state house election.
3) Cris Carter: His Pee-Wee Herman dance following a touchdown reception in the 1986 game was--like his subsequent "broadcasting" career--obnoxious and ill-advised (tOSU lost that game 26-24.) He hasn't always shown great judgement; losing his last year of eligibility at tOSU after accepting money from an agent and forcing his release from Philadelphia due to drug and alcohol abuse. He would have to be on football's first team of Guys Who Show Up Their QB by Making Faces on the Way Back to the Huddle. Oh yah, he's also an ordained minister.
2) David Boston: A first-class college receiver and a first-clack a-hole as well. Though very talented, his play was often overshadowed by his obnoxious behavior--never more so than his taunting of a trailing Charles Woodson on his way to the end zone in tOSU's '97 loss to Michigan. Boston's volatile personality, frequent injuries, and abnormal muscular growth almost make one wonder how long he's been hepped up on roids.
1) Wayne Woodrow Hayes: He wasn't quite as bad as the Ayatollah, but he did share some interesting traits with the former Iranian tyrant. I absolutely hated this guy. Still do. You know how you always have a special place for the first girl you kiss? (or so I've been told.) It's the same way with my feelings for Woody. My hate for him taught me how powerful hate could be. So I suppose I should actually show some gratitude. Thanks, Woody.
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I don't know that much about Archie Griffin, but apparently he has been helping out with the "Please don't kill Michigan fans" campaign. And Eddie George has also seemed like a decent guy.
I kind of respect Troy Smith for his footwork when on the run, but I think he is overrated and Tressel is a cheater, so Smith is in bad company.
- November 17, 2006 2:34 AM
- WhiteDawg said...
Are you trying to say that Charles Woodson was a classy player..HAHAHAHAH.. That son of a bitch was one of the most cocky and arrogant fuckers around. To bad Boston did throw that ball in his face after making that catch.
- November 17, 2006 8:36 AM
Fuck Woody. The buckeye faithful cannonize him, but outside of Cbus he was nothing but a mean spirited prick that absolutely no respect for "that school up north".
Rather run out of gas than fuel up in Michigan? Small minded indeed...
- November 17, 2006 8:48 AM
Still waiting for the pre-season promise of a Buckstache photo and the plowing of Holly Mangold for the Buckeye double-digit win season.
- November 17, 2006 8:56 AM
There's a big difference between confidence and arrogance. Woodson was supremely confident because he knew he was the best player on the field every game during the 1997 season and he proved it by making huge plays every week and winning the Heisman. Boston may have thought he was "the best", but as the 1997 UM/OSU game showed, he clearly was NOT.
Go Blue!
- November 17, 2006 9:25 AM
- IC said...
Anon 5:56:
I shocked and saddened that you remember my very ill-advised prediction.
In fact, that my claim that tOSU would not win 10 games this year was so egregiously wrong, I'm not worthy of (as you so delicately express) "plowing" Ms. Mangold.
As for growing a Buckstache...I've already unplugged the Norelco.
- November 17, 2006 10:52 AM
- Ignats75 said...
In the spirit of fair play, here's my list of hated members of your side:
But first, my prayers for Bo. I just heard he was taken to the hospital again this morning. I hope such an important part of the hisory of this great rivalry gets to see this titanic competition.
#5) Jim Mandich. Traitor who played such a big role in the upset of the century.
#4) Hairball. His whining about crowd noise was like the punk kid who always ran to the principal to get you in trouble.
#3) Charles Woodson. Another traitor who killed us singlehandedly. (OK, he had Stanley Jackson's help.)
#2) John Kolesar. Another traitor (notice a pattern there?) who seemed to have played for you for at least 9 years.
#1) Desmond Howard. Traitor. How many times do I have to see the ultimate trash talk...THE POSE?
- November 17, 2006 11:50 AM
- Andy said...
I just have to smile when I think about all the great Michigan football players that are from Ohio.
Bucks fans need to remember that Craig Krenzel was from Michigan.
- November 17, 2006 11:58 AM
To IC:
1.It must really upset you that Bo loved Woody.
2. Woody hated UM? Well, he was good at hype but I just read an article where Bo said that after his (Woody's) coaching days were over and he was near A2 that he would come over and talk to the team (at Bo's request).
- November 17, 2006 12:22 PM
- Ignats75 said...
Along with one of my favorites all-time: Pepper Johnson
Lets not forget Vernon Gholston!!!!!
- November 17, 2006 12:26 PM
I'm with whitedawg on this one. Charles Woodson deserves to be taunted, raped, and shat upon everytime he comes near a football field. Utter garbage.
- November 18, 2006 8:35 AM
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Landaluce Educe Racing's 2013 Broodmare Band Portraits [14:02]
BROODMARE PORTRAIT PHOTO SHOOT This video captures the effort and manner by which all of our broodmares and N1 had their portraits taken in February. The goal is to get the filly in full sunlight with the dark background of the barn to help her stand out and provide definition. The filly's head is angled between 20 and 45° for two different photos. One will show the brass nameplate on the halter and the other is more of a head-on shot. The photo is taken at an angle to give depth perception to the filly's body. Shown in this session are: The groom, Tina who was drafted to work the reflector, Wendy - Matt's wife and a talented photographer but today is working on getting the horses attention to get their ears perked and alert, and Matt taking the photos. The reflector puts soft light on the dark side of the filly to highlight the brass nameplate on the halter and gives light to the filly's eye. Wendy has a recording of various barnyard animals to grab the horse's attention. It is a process, but when the moment is right a portrait to remember is captured. Niji's Grand Girl (Candy Ride), Volcat (After Market), Mazzy (Giant's Causeway), and Niji's Foal (Giant's Causeway) each have their portraits taken. The video is 14 minutes long, but captures all that went into the hour spent getting the portraits. Music: Groove Armada - 'Edge Hill,' 'Little By Little,' 'My Friend.'
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Today's Melbourne Festival of Racing Round-up includes nominations for Patinack Farm Blue Diamond Day at Caulfield on Saturday, with interstaters Barakey (Sportingbet Oakleigh Plate) and Miracles of Life (Patinack Farm Blue Diamond Stakes) both accepting. Meanwhile Craig Williams was at Cranbourne this morning for track gallops aboard Crack A Roadie who was also confirmed in the Blue Diamond Stakes. Today early nominations were also announced for the Group 1 William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley on March 22 and included Black Caviar who notched up her 23rd victory at the weekend.
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Path to world-class education system
21 October 2013
If China truly aspires to be a global powerhouse in the coming century, then there is one battle that it has to succeed in. That is creating a world-class education system. This is, however, one of the toughest of all the challenges it faces. Education is the ultimate investment - something that takes decades to gain a return on, one of the hardest of all social activities to measure, but one on which, uniquely, there is consensus over the paramount importance of. The future challenges globally will only be solved with a population educated to the highest possible level.
A recent paper in the China Quarterly published in the UK by an American scholar sets this challenge out, with the simple question: Are Chinese universities globally competitive? They certainly get plenty of funding now, and they produce increasing amounts of peer reviewed material. But in terms of internationalization and contribution to global intellectual discussions, the picture is less clear cut.
First, the positives. Chinese universities are better funded than they have ever been, they are filled with academics with more opportunities to travel and study abroad with many being returnees from overseas degree courses. The Chinese tertiary level system now takes a higher proportion of the population than ever before. Research and development funding has risen exponentially under the central government's strategy of supporting innovation financially in the last decade. The campuses of Chinese universities are some of the most spectacular in the world, with excellent facilities and vastly improved libraries and laboratories. The onset of the Internet means that textbooks and information are now widely available electronically, and access to knowledge has been democratized.
But there are plenty of problems. The Chinese system at the moment privileges volume over quality. Many journalistic articles are produced, but few in internationally prestigious publications. The discipline range in which Chinese universities are becoming world-class is narrow. Universities are, by definition, meant to cover all disciplines. But many Chinese universities mainly function in hard sciences and economics, with what the Financial Times recently showed was a critical lack of commitment to disciplines such as medicine, where there remains social condescension.
There is also the issue of creating world-class research. The most cited international scholars, a measure of their global recognition and contribution, are still largely in Europe or North America. On the data given in the China Quarterly paper, very few Chinese scholars at the moment have this sort of international impact. Part of this is of course language - the dominant language of global scholarship remains English. Even so, Chinese scholars are likely to need to make their voices heard far more on the international stage, particularly in areas where so much funding support has gone in the last few years.
There are a couple of key strategic choices for Chinese universities now. In view of the huge future demands that are likely to be put on them, their need to keep up with this by creating strong partnerships with global research partners is only likely to intensify. Just as the Chinese economy in the 1980s during the early part of the reform and opening-up process accepted foreign capital and know-how in order to meet its indigenous needs, so the tertiary sector is only likely to develop fully if there are far deeper partnerships with global partners than exist now. Education remains a highly protected sector in China, but a period of liberalization seems to be necessary, to allow foreign partners to operate more freely.
The second choice involves picking on the key areas and the key people or institutions in China that are best placed and likeliest to produce globally recognized research. Again, this is an area where cultivating foreign partners to assist in both the identification of these areas, but also the writing and producing of world-class standard work is key. China has produced many hundreds of thousands of gifted mathematicians, scientists and researchers. There now needs to be a focus on the elite within the elite who are likeliest, in small numbers, to be able to produce the best work they are capable of. This means that universities will almost certainly need a far less constrained and more privileged treatment than they get at the moment, with the acceptance of an environment of free enquiry across all disciplines.
Professor Kerry Brown is Executive Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.
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By Linda Sickler / Savannah Morning News; featured in the DO
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If you haven't bought tickets for the Savannah Philharmonic's 2012 Holiday Pops concerts, it's too late. Both performances are sold out.
This year's concerts are set for 7:30 p.m. Dec. 14 and 15 at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, which holds 950 people.
"People love hearing the concerts in the cathedral," says Philharmonic conductor and artistic director Peter Shannon.
But it's not too early to start thinking about next year. Tickets for the 2013 Holiday Pops concerts will first be available as part of the 2013/2014 subscription sales in early May, and individual tickets will go on sale in July.
Seriously, it won't be too early to buy tickets. The Holiday Pops concerts are wildly popular, and tickets go fast.
"It's kind of a Best of Christmas, with music from 'The Nutcracker,' popular Christmas music, the chorus singing by itself. the orchestra playing 'Sleigh Ride,'" Shannon says. "It's all the Christmas music that people love to hear.
"The 'Hallelujah Chorus' and 'Nutcracker' excerpts, together with 'The Skater's Waltz' and 'Sleigh Ride,' will put anyone in the spirit," he says. "And I love 'O Holy Night.'
"It's just so perfect in the Cathedral," Shannon says. "We always begin each half with a sing-along carol, just to get everyone in the mood."
Solos will be sung by soprano Tina Zenker Williams, who appeared in the 2010 Holiday Pops concert, and tenor Marcos Santos, a native of Portugal.
There are all sorts of holiday traditions. For many people, it just isn't the holiday season without a twinkling Christmas tree to pile presents under.
For many in Savannah, the Holiday Pops concert has become a cherished tradition. "Everyone will agree music plays a huge role," Shannon says. "It's a great chance to get the orchestra and chorus together."
Selling out the Holiday Pops concerts isn't a big surprise.
"We tend to sell out all our concerts, anyway," Shannon says.
The difference is the holiday concerts sell out so quickly. "That's exciting," Shannon says.
New this year is the Savannah Philharmonic Holiday Party, which will follow each concert at the DeSoto Hilton. Tickets for that event are $10.
"Typically, we celebrate ourselves," Shannon says. "It's not the end of our season, but it marks a significant point in the season. It's nice to get the chance to celebrate with the audience. It's nice it's organized so people can meet the orchestra players."
This is the third year in a row the holiday concerts have sold out.
"Next year, we may try to do a third concert to alleviate some of the pressure," Shannon says. "There's a good reason the Christmas concerts are sold out weeks in advance. It's the proverbial Christmas stocking full to the brim with all the favorites we all love."
What: Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus present 2012 Holiday Pops concerts
When: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 14 and 15
Where: Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, 222 E. Harris St.
Cost: The concert is sold out, but any tickets returned will be sold through the box office
Info: savannahphilharmonic.org,


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Congratulatory Events Held Prior to Commencement
May 05, 2012
On Friday, May 4, President Richard and Sandra Giese hosted a senior picnic at their home for the University's Class of 2012. This yearly tradition provides graduating seniors with one last opportunity to get together with classmates and faculty members prior to Commencement.
Following the picnic, students headed over to Commencement rehearsal in the McPherson Academic and Athletic Complex in preparation for Baccalaureate and Commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 5. The University is planning for a ceremony in which nearly 470 seniors will participate.
In addition, a senior send-off was held on Friday evening at the Elks Lodge in Alliance. This event allowed seniors to join with their fellow graduates, faculty and staff members and parents as they said farewell to a valuable and exceptional college experience.


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"What is the Risto Trainer? And how is it different from Risto Lifting shoes?" you may ask.
Here are the short simple answers:
What is the Risto Trainer?:
This is a leather shoe with a solid rubber heel and sole. The heel is flat– this is perfect for wide stance deadlifts, running, jumps, double unders, burpees, etc… The toe is also designed to be resistant to doing burpees.
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How is it different from other shoes on the market?:
Quality!!!! I have seen those $100 dollar shoes that wear out after 3 months. Ok, these will wear out too, but I think they will last a bit longer than soft, nylon/plolymer shoes with soft rubber soles.
Stability — we are using a much harder rubber than any of the flat sneakers or low heel deadlift trainers (ie EVA is softer than rubber).
Do I still need weightlifting shoes?:
Yes, if you want to have any chance at maximizing your lifting potential, then you actually need weightlifting shoes. Have you ever seen a pit crew in NASCAR — they have specialized tools for each operation, hence making them incredibly efficient and effective. You need the right shoes for the right job. Wearing a "sort- of- crossfit- Oly -lifting -but -not -really- shoe", will only give you sort of good results.
Finally- SAFETY and Injury Prevention! Weighlifting shoes are a must to protect yourself when doing maximal lifts. Lifting has the lowest injury rate at the Olympic Games — I think this also has somethign to do with the fact that even lifters from the poorest countries wear lifting shoes with a solid wood heel.
Do the best thing for your Lifts and your body.
What is the Risto Combo:
Right now, you can get 1 pair of trainers and one pair of white thunders for $175. Yes, this is a sale price. Yes, we do not guarantee how long we will be in production with either shoe, so best to buy it now. Yes, the trainers are on a presale, now, so its a 6 week lead time. These shoes take a bit less time to make since the heel is rubber.


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Apple Promises To Patch iPhone Passcode Bug In September
A recently-revealed flaw in the newest iPhone and iPod Touch software allows easy circumvention of the password lock. The bug is all the more interesting because it also existed in the earlier 1.x generation of iPhone software and was fixed there. It seems the fix did not make its way into the 2.x software base.
Now Apple has promised a fix for this bug soon. MacWorld quotes an Apple spokesperson as calling the problem minor and saying an update will address it in September. The spokesperson also gave a workaround: you can set the iPhone so that double-clicking the home button (this is part of the circumvention hack) will bring you to the home screen, which will be the unlock screen on a locked phone.
Is it minor? Debatable...


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Compensation & Benefit - Officer (Code: CBO)
Reports to Supply Chain Director, the candidate is responsible to:
* Support and manage C&B schemes of employees in line with Company regulations and HR policies
* Ensure payroll to all employee are well managed and on schedule. Preparing and processing the payment of monthly income tax, Jamsostek and DPLK
* Maintain manpower budget and headcount control
* Maintain HR information system, ensured that any data changes are keeping updated
* Keep updating all C&B administration (Leave, Medical, Pph 21, Employee Stock Options, etc)
* Managing respective organization and Human Resources.
* Managing the HR administration and regular headcounts report
* Managing safety function in the respective department
General Requirements:
* Must possess at least Bachelor degree (S-1) from recognized university majoring in finance or business management, Psychology or related major.
* Has minimum 2 – 3 years working experience in related field, and well verse in payroll systems (ABS software knowledge will be an advantage)
* Possess good knowledge of Indonesia tax (Pph-21) and have ability in tax calculation & report.
* Good personalities, energetic and able to work under pressure, aggressive, initiative and customer oriented.
* Good communication skills of Bahasa Indonesia & English, both oral and written
* Computer literacy / able to operate Microsoft Office
* High Integrity and Values, Initiatives, Customer Focus, Teamwork & Cooperation, and Driving for Results
* Strong Analytical thinking and Accuracy
Sourcing Manager (Code: SM)
Reports to Supply Chain Director, the candidate is responsible to:
* Analyzes supplier markets and leverages analyses to identify new opportunities for driving cost savings
* Negotiates key commercial terms and stands up to suppliers; yet skillfully knows when and how to close contracts
* Apply world-class sourcing processes - supplier evaluation, selection and performance reporting, contract negotiation, price inflation management, and net total cost savings metrics.
* Develops supplier and supply options
* Obtains signoff of technical specifications
* Prepares RFPs & manages bidding process
* Robust and proactive communication process for issues, strategy options & supply risk.
* Drive supplier quality improvement and accountability
* Implement and manage Contractor Safety Management
General Requirements:
* Must possess at least Bachelor degree (S-1) from recognized university majoring in business, management, engineering eg industrial.
* Minimum 5 – 8 years experiences in purchasing or supply chain preferable in cement industry.
* In-depth understanding of Services business.
* Leadership skills, facilitation skills, analytical skills, training skills, and global mindset are all required.
* Individual must possess excellent oral and written communication skills and have the ability to interface up and down the organization
* Contractor Safety Management preferred
* Experience in a multi local environment
* Good managerial & negotiation skills
* Fluent in English (Oral & written)
* Computer literacy / able to operate Microsoft Office (especially Excel, Word and Power Point).
* High Integrity and Values, Initiatives, Customer Focus, Teamwork & Cooperation, and Driving for Results
* Relationship Building, Flexibility, Information Seeking, Interpersonal Understanding, and Impact & Influence
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It promised so much. The Royal Stag Mega Cricket Cup third ODI from Pallekele between New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
Chances were rain would have a major bearing on the result but I was excited anyway.
Who couldn't get hyped up by a cricket series whose main sponsor was Zuari Cement?
Former New Zealand fast medium bowler Danny Morrison, dressed like a sweaty sales rep from Plumbing World, did his level best to create some interest during his intro to the coverage but even he seemed slightly pessimistic, describing Sri Lanka as "this beautiful, wet island nation".
It was the first ODI I've seen where there are more players and officials in the stadium for the first ball than paying spectators, which is a pity because Pallekele looks like a nice ground to watch cricket. The newly built grandstand behind the bowlers arm appears modern and complements the lush embankments with rock walls. As the game dawdled I imagined strapping on a harness and caribiner and abseiling up the granite during the luncheon interval. I was surprised that there was no Dilmah being grown around the ground. It looks like an ideal place to grow tea.
The other thing I noticed about Pallekele was the size of the covers. The Pallekeleans clearly understand their own seasonal weather patterns better than the ICC because they're world leaders in full ground-cover technology.
So far every match has been rain-affected - which I'm told is some sort of record. It seems playing cricket in Sri Lanka in November is akin to skiing in New Zealand during February.
Radio Sport's veteran commentator Brian Waddle must have known something the rest of the cricket administration didn't when he decided to give the tour a miss. Maybe he couldn't find an airline willing to sponsor his trip? Maybe they don't fly to Sri Lanka at this time of year for weather reasons? Who knows?
Still, there was some fantastic weather-watching for meteorological enthusiasts like myself.
And there were some interesting entomological situations also. By the 15th over of New Zealand's innings, a posse of black moths staged a ground-wide sit-in, either attracted to the stacks of floodlights or the relaxed family atmosphere on the grass embankments.
Whatever their migratory reasons, the moths were treated to some elegant strokeplay from BJ Watling, who scored his third consecutive ODI half century and in doing so broke John F Reid's 1984 record for a New Zealander batting against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka. Watling was the only New Zealand batsman whose strokeplay induced Craig McMillan to repeat the word "arhh".
Impressively, McMillan managed three "arhhs" and two "ohh brilliants" in Watling's 94.
New Zealand would have been relatively happy with their Duckworth-Lewised total of 180-something but the game was promptly taken away from them by Tillakaratne Dilshan, who seized on some poorly directed bowling to score a sumptuous hundred - his first against New Zealand.
Dilshan is a joy to watch, particularly when he's given width. The Sri Lankan batsman showed his opponents how to time the ball and place it in the gaps, at times threading the ball through 20 fielders placed square on the off side.
So where to from here for the New Zealand team? My hope is for somewhere drier and less competitive... with fewer moths.


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A former Childress Independent School District teacher's aide pleaded guilty Friday to a federal charge after she traveled to Oklahoma in February to have sex with a 15-year-old boy.
Shanice Adel Lambert, 38, faces five to 30 years in prison and a fine up to $250,000 after pleading guilty to a charge of travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, court records showed.
Lambert had been placed on pretrial release in September after a Lubbock federal grand jury indicted her on one count of production of child pornography, one count of enticement of a minor and two counts of transporting a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.
On Feb. 11, Lambert traveled to Altus, Okla., to have sex with a teen boy, who was a student at the school where she worked, court records show.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Clinton Averitte in September ordered that
Lambert cannot use or own any electronic device that allows Internet access or text messaging and cannot hang out where children congregate, according to court documents.
The judge ordered new restrictions after investigators learned Lambert, days after her arraignment, sent a text message to her daughter's friend, asking the teen to write a letter to "assist in her defense," authorities said.
About six days later, the teen's parent brought the matter to a Texas Ranger, who had the teenager's cellphone and confirmed Lambert sent the messages, authorities said.
Lambert's daughter also solicited help from friends to write letters to help her mother, an FBI agent testified at a previous court hearing.
The teen had been at Lambert's home on Sept. 21 to get ready for Childress' homecoming game when Lambert entered her daughter's room and took her phone away, the agent testified.
When the daughter got her phone back, she told her friend, "My mom is always sending text messages to my friends," according to the agent's testimony.
Lambert told a boy to send a pornographic picture of himself to her, attempted to entice a boy to have sex with her and twice drove a boy from Texas to Oklahoma to have sex, the agent testified.
More than a month later, authorities arrested the former teacher's aide on charges of sexual assault of a child and improper relationship between a student and an educator, Department of Public Safety troopers had said.
Childress ISD officials said Lambert no longer works for the district.
She began working for Childress ISD in 2008, the DPS said.


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By Elaine SanchezAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, March 13, 2012 I attended a luncheon about a week ago to hear the wife of the nation's top military officer address a group of military spouses attending the 2012 Military Spouse Summit in Washington, D.C.
Deanie Dempsey, wife of chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, had a key message for these spouses: share your amazing stories.
"I want all of America to see what I see -- this is a group that can be an incredible source of good," she said.
This past decade of war has challenged military families in ways no one could have anticipated, Dempsey noted. Yet, spouses have remained steadfast -- serving and sacrificing alongside their service members.
"As Marty and I have traveled around, we have been personally touched by your commitment and your sense of service to your country," she told the spouses.
As a nearly 36-year military spouse who has moved 21 times, Dempsey said, she understands spouses' challenges, whether it's health care, education or employment. She's also a military mom -- all three of her children served in the Army, and her son remains on active duty.
Dempsey said the nation is making progress tackling spouse employment issues, particularly through the Joining Forces campaign, a White House initiative to rally the nation in support of troops, veterans and their families.
A few weeks ago, First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden, the vice president's wife, unveiled a report that aims to remove employment barriers for the thousands of spouses with occupational licenses. A lack of license portability -- the ability to transfer an existing license to a new state with minimal application requirements -- can cause spouses to bear high administrative and financial burdens as they attempt to obtain a license.
At the time of the announcement, eight states had passed legislation to ease license portability issues, while 15 others had legislation pending or waiting to be introduced. Since then, Dempsey said, four more states have introduced legislation to support spouse licensure.
Additionally, the American Society of Travel Agents has announced the creation of the Joining Forces Travel Industry Coalition, which will amass veteran and military spouse hiring commitments from travel industry firms. Coalition companies have committed to providing nearly 3,000 jobs for veterans and spouses by 2014, Dempsey said.
Each day, more and more people are recognizing that military spouses represent "a tremendous source of strength," Dempsey said.
"You are resilient, accomplished, experienced men and women who possess strong values and an even stronger work ethic," she said.
Dempsey encouraged spouses to keep telling their "extraordinary" stories -- to each other and to the American public -- "because it's an amazing story that everyone should hear," she said.
For more on Mrs. Dempsey's remarks, read my American Forces Press Service article, "Mrs. Dempsey Urges Spouses to Share 'Amazing' Stories."


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This week, the queen of England will be visiting the United States, not a rare occurrence for her majesty, who loves to travel.
During her 55 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth has visited 129 countries. She has traveled the length and breadth of the earth, making her perhaps the best-known, best-loved and most-informed British sovereign of all time.
But according to environmental activists, the queen's many expeditions have come at a dreadful cost to the planet. They see aviation as a prime cause of global warming.
"We're talking about a global emergency," said Graham Thompson of the environmental advocacy group Plane Stupid. "We're talking about something that could wipe out most life on Earth."
To her credit, the queen has tried to change her environmental ways. Her limousines now run on propane. Her husband cuts about town in a propane-powered cab. She travels by train, the greenest option, whenever possible.
Coming to America
But her flying, said Thompson, still poses a problem.
"With aviation, there is no technology on the horizon to make it clean," he said.
To travel to the United States, the queen will use her Boeing 777, which holds 366 tons of carbon dioxide, three tons of luggage and a staff of 35 onboard.
"I can't say I'm expert enough in what all of those 35 people do, but my guess would be that she could possibly shave a few off," said Thompson.
But the queen can't carry her own bags, blow dry her own hair or deal with pesky journalists. She needs an entourage. And the queen doesn't just emit carbon when she's on the move, she also emits carbon at home, too, when she's reading the paper or having a spot of tea. That's because the queen's home is a lot bigger than most people's -- Buckingham Palace has 775 rooms.
One House -- 40,000 Light Bulbs
As the sun goes down, the lights in the palace come up. And while the palace uses energy-saving bulbs, which are 10 times more efficient than conventional ones, there are another 40,000 light bulbs inside.
"Does the queen go round turning lights off herself? I don't know," said Penny Russell-Smith, the queen's press secretary. "The queen, being from a wartime generation, it may well be the case. But certainly we do -- at the palace we are encouraged to switch lights off when we don't need them."
The queen's household spews 3,750 tons of carbon dioxide every year. The average British family sheds just 44 tons, but the queen seems to be doing all she can to lower her output, even planning a turbine in the Thames to power her weekend retreat, Windsor Castle.
"A borehole has been dug in Buckingham Palace garden, which helps with the air-conditioning in the gueen's gallery," said Russell-Smith, "and has also recently been used to air-condition the wine cellars where, of course, the wine is stored for official occasions."
Undercover Thermographer
Keith Leinster, a thermographer and analyst at Infrared Thermographic Surveys, snapped images of the palace with a special camera that picks up heat, not light. He was looking for wasted energy, and thankfully wasn't arrested for loitering around the gates after dark.
"It's looking pretty good," said Leinster. "Although there are some areas of concern."
These areas were prominent around the windows and beside the balcony.
"It's an old building," said Russell-Smith. "It would be very, very expensive indeed to double glaze, so there is some heat loss."
Ultimately, Leinster gave the palace a "five to six" out of a possible 10-point rating. But with such large living quarters, will the queen ever be able to improve her score? To find the answer, you might have to ask Prince Charles.
The 'Green' Prince
The prince was "green" long before it became fashionable. He gave up playing polo to cut down on his helicopter use (and to give his aging bones a rest). He canceled the annual ski trip to Klosters to cut down on air miles. His Jaguars and Range Rovers run on biodiesel, and he limits himself to 100 miles a year in his beloved Aston Martin.
Prince Charles won the Global Environmental Citizen Award this year but was later slammed for flying with a 20-person entourage to New York to collect it.
Later this year, the prince will start publishing his carbon footprint. He claims his London pad -- Clarence House -- is already carbon neutral, and his mother appears to be following his lead. For an 81-year-old grandmother, she moves with the times, but she could never give up flying.
It's her job to jet to the faraway lands her ancestors once ruled, to shake hands and smile politely at foreigners.


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Tell me the wost, stranger; I kin stand it; but I sure hate to fetch the news hum to her.
"mental capacity," Old English wit, more commonly gewit, from Proto-Germanic *witjan (cf. Old Saxon wit, Old Norse vit, Danish vid, Swedish vett, Old Frisian wit, Old High German wizzi "knowledge, understanding, intelligence, mind," German Witz "wit, witticism, joke," Gothic unwiti "ignorance"), from PIE *woid-/*weid-/*wid- "to see," metaphorically "to know" (see vision). Related to Old English witan "to know" (source of wit (v.)). Meaning "ability to make clever remarks in an amusing way" is first recorded 1540s; that of "person of wit or learning" is from late 15c. For nuances of usage, see humor.
A witty saying proves nothing. [Voltaire, Diner du Comte de Boulainvilliers]
Wit ought to be five or six degrees above the ideas that form the intelligence of an audience. [Stendhal, "Life of Henry Brulard"]
"know," Old English witan "to know," from Proto-Germanic *witanan "to have seen," hence "to know" (cf. Old Saxon witan, Old Norse vita, Old Frisian wita, Middle Dutch, Dutch weten, Old High German wizzan, German wissen, Gothic witan "to know"); see wit (n.). The phrase to wit, almost the only surviving use of the verb, is first recorded 1570s, from earlier that is to wit (mid-14c.), probably a loan-translation of Anglo-French cestasavoir, used to render Latin videlicet (see viz.).
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Crossfire: Multiprocess Cross-browser Open Web Tools Protocol
Most Web developers write for all Web browsers, but their development tools only work on one browser. To the extent that browsers are standard, this works out. Except when it doesn't. Then you are stuck trying to use the unfamiliar development tools in another browser. Moreover, some browsers have better or different support for development tools. The Crossfire project aims to provide a way for development tools to work cross-browser.
Michael Collins and I wrote a paper describing the Crossfire protocol and system for Splash/Wavefront. A PDF preprint is now available. We describe both some aspects of the remote protocol and discuss the evolution of the Firebug source code into client/server code using Crossfire.
The Crossfire project benefits from many contributions, so I encourage you to read the Acknowledgments section first and to add your name to that list by pitching in to help us push this project over the finish line.
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Anyone who has been involved in the Cooper Spur Race Team program over the years will have an extra reason to be excited about the upcoming Winter Olympics. For the first time in its 36-year history, one of CSRT's own young speed demons will race on the world's largest stage as a member of the U.S. Ski Team. Although she grew up in the Portland area (a 2010 graduate of Canby High School), Jacqueline Wiles got her start at ski racing on Mount Hood as a member of the CSRT, which she was a part of for about seven years during her childhood.
Labeled a U.S. Ski Team "young-gun," Wiles, 21, had a breakthrough year in 2013, vaulting herself into the spotlight by winning the U.S. Alpine Championship and the NorAm Super G title and scoring two top-10 finishes at the World Junior Championships. Her dreams of racing in the Olympics came one large step closer to reality last month when she was named to the Olympic team, to compete in downhill and super-G events, which are scheduled for Feb. 12 and 15.
"It has been a big dream of mine ever since I was little," Wiles said. "It's a huge step for me and I'm really excited about the future."
In a message to her fans and followers, Wiles explained how she got to where she is today.
"Born and raised in the great Pacific Northwest, I grew up skiing on Mount Hood. Weekend trips to the mountain became a regular activity for our family. My older brother and I loved it so much we had to join a program. The local race team was cheaper than getting basic lessons and from then on I never looked back."
For several years, that "local race team" was CSRT, which has long provided Mount Hood skiers with a framework to help cultivate talented young skiers into next-level racers. One of many former coaches who helped her along the way was Hood River resident Dan Bubb, who says he remembers Wiles well.
"She was a go-getter from day one," he said. "I could tell she was different than the others. She was focused and dedicated and worked very hard. It's so cool to see her come so far, and I can't think of a more deserving person than her."
Wiles was one of nine women named to the U.S. Olympic Alpine Team. She joins teammate Laurenne Ross (Klamath Falls) in representing Oregon at the Games.
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Cardiac actin compensated for the loss of skeletal-muscle actin in mice with a disease resembling nemaline myopathy.
A protein present in skeletal muscles during fetal development and in the heart after birth can apparently compensate for a similar protein that's missing in a small percentage of patients with the muscle disease known as nemaline myopathy.
MDA research grantee Nigel Laing at the University of Western Australia in Perth was part of a multinational team of scientists, who published their findings May 25, 2009, in the Journal of Cell Biology.
When the investigators bred mice missing the gene for the skeletal-muscle alpha-actin protein but with extra cardiac-muscle alpha-actin protein, they found the cardiac actin compensated well for the loss of the skeletal-muscle actin.
The findings open up the possibility of developing a treatment for some patients with human nemaline myopathy by increasing their own production of cardiac actin or giving them cardiac actin protein or genes.
|Muscle Contraction
A muscle cell is stimulated to contract by chemical signals sent from an adjoining nerve cell (1). Those signals open ion channels at the muscle cell's surface, causing an inward/outward flow of ions that acts as an electrical current (2). Inside the muscle cell, the current spreads and causes opening of ion channels that line calcium storage compartments, releasing the calcium ions trapped within (3). The freed calcium ions trigger nearby filament proteins to slide past each other, pulling the Z-discs closer together and shortening the muscle cell (4).
Nemaline myopathy results from defects in a number of different muscle protein genes, all of which have to do with the muscle's contractile filaments. These filaments slide over each other during muscle contraction in both cardiac and skeletal muscle tissue. Actin is a major filament component.
In its severest form, nemaline myopathy results in death in early infancy. In its less severe forms, affected children attain motor milestones slowly and may weaken further at puberty.
Previously, researchers had found mice bred not to produce any skeletal-muscle actin died by 9 days of age. In contrast, in this latest study, mice bred to produce extra cardiac-muscle actin but no skeletal-muscle actin survived into old age and had virtually normal muscle function.
These mice had grip strength and motor activity equal to that of healthy mice, and their muscles displayed a normal appearance, even under an electron microscope.
The researchers say their results show cardiac actin can effectively replace skeletal-muscle actin in muscles after birth, at least in mice and possibly in humans.
Previously, Laing said, it's been shown that higher cardiac actin levels in patients without skeletal-muscle actin correlate with higher levels of function. The present results might indicate that increasing the level of cardiac actin even more in these patients would improve their motor abilities, he said.
The researchers caution that these experiments only showed compensation for a deficiency of the skeletal-muscle actin protein, not an abnormality in the protein. Patients with abnormalities in the skeletal-muscle alpha-actin gene that result in abnormalities of the actin protein, rather than deficiency, might not be helped by extra cardiac actin.
"Our results show that cardiac actin can work remarkably well in skeletal muscle," Laing said. "This means that cardiac actin is a valid target for developing therapies for skeletal-muscle actin disease. However, we have a long way to go to be able to apply this to human patients. We have to find ways to increase cardiac actin in the muscles of human patients. That could take a long time, although we remain hopeful."


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Meditation could help people to be more empathetic, according to a small new study from Emory University.
"It's an intriguing result, suggesting that a behavioral intervention could enhance a key aspect of empathy," study researcher Jennifer Mascaro,
After the eight weeks, all the study participants completed the "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" test again. The researchers found that people who underwent the meditation training program had a 4.6 percent higher score on the empathy test at the end of the study period. Meanwhile, people who only partook in the discussion classes didn't experience any increase in empathy scores, and some even experienced a decrease in their scores.
The brain scans also revealed that people who took the meditation courses also had increased brain activity in the regions linked with empathy.
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Robbie Jo Williamson
Robbie Jo Williamson, 87, passed away Sunday, April 20, 2014, in Abilene.
Robbie was born March 30, 1927 in Higgins, Texas to Maurice and Lucy Bell (Loftis) Graves.
She married Roland Williamson on July 15, 1946 in Borger. Roland preceded her in death in 2009. She is preceded in death by Parents; Maurice Wilber and Lucy Belle (Loftis) Graves and a brother Harold. She was a longtime resident of Phillips, Texas and Stinnett, Texas before moving to Abilene.
Robbie is survived by a son, Roland Williamson, Jr. and wife Debra of Loveland, Colorado; a daughter, Sharon Willerton and husband Chris of Abilene, Texas; 3 Grandchildren; Russell Willerton of Boise, ID., Elaine Willerton-Acosta of Cincinnati, Ohio, Evan Willerton of Austin, and 1 Great-Grandchild Owen Willerton of Boise, ID.
Services will be 3:00 P.M. Wednesday, April 23, 2014 at Church of Christ at Stinnett, Texas. Burial will be at 10:00 A.M. Thursday. April 24, 2014 at Westlawn Memorial Park in Borger.
Funeral arrangements are by Brown Funeral Directors, Borger
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Whoa thanks for all the AMV's They're all great
....but these 3 are my favorite<3
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^ I think it's ok.
It's still a music video anywayz.
@ Slick rick: That "United States of Whatever" amv cracked me up xD
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Scientific and medical communities have discovered that the horseshoe crab provides an indispensable testing agent for drugs and vaccines, as well as resources for human optics and burn treatment. But horseshoe crab numbers are plummeting, as told by Nature on Sunday at 7 p.m.
In a case that will shatter his personal world to the core on Masterpiece Mystery, the newly retired Foyle battles to save a young man accused of high treason from the executioner's noose at 8 p.m. Sunday.
The Battle of Gettysburg was the turning point of the war on The Civil War at 8 p.m. Monday.
Nova presents a minute-by-minute eyewitness account of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, exploring why the flood defenses and disaster relief planning failed to match Katrina's fury at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Frontline tells the dark tale of the men of Third Platoon and how the war followed them home. It is a powerful portrait of what multiple tours and post-traumatic stress are doing to a generation of young American soldiers at 8 p.m. Tuesday
Two young American women, one Muslim, the other Hindu, sneak their cameras into Kashmir, where conflicting faiths mean war on Independent Lens at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday. Their mission: to find out what makes their peers choose homeland over preserving their own lives.
Secrets of the Dead: Deadliest Battle tells the true story of the battle that turned World War II, and established the Soviet Union as a world superpower for the looming Cold War at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Rockers Pearl Jam take the Austin City Limits stage with tunes from their latest album, Backspacer, as well as catalogue favorites at 10 p.m. Wednesday and 9 p.m. Friday.
Episcopal Bishop of Texas Andrew Doyle talks about new media and the church on Texas Monthly Talks at 7 p.m. Thursday and 8:30 p.m. on Friday.
Through behind-the-scenes archival and rare footage, photographs and first-person accounts, Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood traces the experiences of the exiles who took refuge in Hollywood and examines their impact on both German and American cinema at 8 p.m. Thursday.
Rock superstars the Dave Matthews Band lights up Austin City Limits with hits and songs from their latest album Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King at 7 p.m. Saturday.


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Alliance managers in both the US and Japan seem happy with the appointment of Satoshi Morimoto as defense minister of Japan.
Morimoto is a bit of a maverick, but is solidly in favor of the US-Japan alliance.
Many news reports have been a bit simplistic in referring to Morimoto as a "civilian." It's true that Morimoto is not a member of the Diet, so technically is a "civilian." But he has been part of Japan's power structure for a long time.
He has solid relations with the Liberal Democratic Party, which Prime Minister Noda needs at this time to help pass the consumer tax increase.
Morimoto, 71 years-old, graduated from the Defense Academy, and served in the Air Force. He retired from the military and then served in the Foreign Ministry. He graduated from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, which a good number of other Japanese experts in security policy have also attended. He speaks English very well.
Morimoto has been a regular figure at security conferences organized by the respected Pacific Forum-CSIS. The Foreign Ministry's Institute for International Affairs pulls together the Japanese delegation.
Morimoto is fully integrated into Japan's security structure. Quite often when the LDP organized research studies about security, Morimoto was a part of the team.
In the wake of last year's earthquake-tsunami-nuclear crisis, Morimoto was a regular commentator on crisis management. Behind the scenes, he was advising the government on how to improve its procedures.
The key aspect of this appointment is that Diet members from both the LDP and the ruling Democratic Party (DPJ) respect Morimoto. He is an independent thinker.
However...the Americans might not like everything he says. He is a strong advocate of independent Japanese diplomacy, although in the context of the US-Japan alliance. For example, he advocates direct Japanese diplomacy with North Korea.
He argues that Japan not blindly follow the US, instead maintaining independent diplomacy and overall security policies, toward especially China and North Korea.
But he is strongly in favor of the alliance. He knows the key security issues backwards and forwards. He is no amateur.
With his background as a military officer and his subsequent extensive writing on security issues, Morimoto will not have any trouble winning support from the military or the defense ministry bureaucracy. His reputation among American officials is solid.
There is clearly a domestic political angle to this appointment: Morimoto is a bit of a bridge between the LDP and the DPJ. He knows all the key people in the LDP, but harbors some of the sentiments in the DPJ: Japan should not blindly say "yes" to the US on security issues.
Prime Minister Noda has made a big political bet: He has to win support from the LDP to pass the consumption tax before the Diet session ends in late June. But he also agrees with Morimoto's basic view of the alliance: it is vital, but Japan should be a little more assertive.


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To many people's surprise, AC Milan out-played Champions League favourites Barcelona to take a 2-0 lead in their first-leg on Wednesday evening.
And while the two goalscorers that stole the headlines may have spent time on the south coast of England with Portsmouth, of equal note was the performances of AC Milan's young strike-force.
Most people know about Stephan El Shaarawy. The Italy international is Milan's top scorer this season, and following the departure of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, he's established himself as one of the game's premier talents.
But he's not the only highly-rated striker knocking about the San Siro. 18-year-old M'Baye Niang was linked with Arsenal, Manchester City, Spurs and Everton after breaking into the Caen first-team aged just 16. Spurs even reportedly bid €8m for the teenager.
In the end, after trials with Arsenal, Everton, and Spurs, AC Milan got him.
The youngster is Milan's second youngest ever scorer, and featured towards the end of the club's victory over Barcelona on Wednesday.
Even in such a brief cameo, his pace and technique impressed - the France under-21 international is certainly one for the future.
Add to the mix a 22-year-old Mario Balotelli and you've got one of the most exciting young forward lines in world football.
Anyway, all this got us thinking - who are five of the best forwards currently playing in one of Europe's top five leagues?
All players on this list are 20 years or younger, and yes, we know we've missed out some gems. Feel free to add your favourites in the comment box at the bottom...
Alvaro Morata | Real Madrid
Jose Mourinho gave Morata his first Real Madrid start last week against Rayo Vallecano, and he promptly scored within three minutes.
Although Sergio Ramos's red card led to a tactical shuffle - which saw Morata sacrificed - it's clear Mourinho now thinks the young forward is ready to lead the line at the Bernabeu.
His record for the Castilla - the Real Madrid B team - was sensational, and he notched 14 goals during last season's promotion winning campaign.
11 goals in 13 Spain under-19 appearances isn't too bad either, and the 6ft 3in forward has been compared with former-Madrid striker Fernando Morientes.
Stephan El Shaarawy | AC Milan
The 'little pharaoh' has already played, and scored, for Italy. And he's widely regarded as one of the players of the season in Serie 'A' so far.
With 15 league strikes to his name, El Shaarawy has scored 34% of AC Milan's goals this season, and he's second only to Edinson Cavani in the top scorer stakes.
Against Barcelona, his class was evident, not least in the neat line-up play with Niang for Sulley Muntari's goal in the 2-0 win.
Angelo Henriquez | Manchester United (Wigan on loan)
The Chilean international is another to have played and scored for his country. The 18-year-old moved to United from Universidad de Chile last year, before Sir Alex Ferguson quickly shipped him out to Wigan on loan.
He certainly knows where the goal is - he's already found the net for Roberto Martinez's side, and his record for Chile under 20s - 14 goals in 10 appearances - is incredible.
Ferguson was keen enough to shell out €4m for the teenager, while Martinez has been full of praise since his arrival - hailing his movement as "fantastic" and his all-round play as having "the profile of a goalscorer".
Romelu Lukaku | Chelsea (West Brom on loan)
If Stamford Bridge has been wracked by internal turmoil, at least Romelu Lukaku has not been affected. The 19-year-old was deemed surplus to requirements this season, but he's flourished at the Hawthorns.
The powerful striker offers something Chelsea lack, and assuming they don't panic spend on Radamel Falcao or Edinson Cavani, he should return to play a big role for the Blues next season.
He's certainly demonstrated his aptitude for the Premier League under Steve Clarke. A full Belgian international already, Lukaku is already a Premier League player. Expect him to be a Premier League star before long.
Son Heung-Min | Hamburg
Wanted by Chelsea, Manchester United and Spurs, Son Heung-Min has taken the Bundesliga by storm this season. He's currently Hamburg's top scorer with nine goals, but it's penchant for the spectacular that's really caught the eye this term.
A scorer of all types of goals, the 20-year-old attacker has bagged some absolute wonder-strikes this year.
Spurs were thought to be leading the chase to bring him to the Premier League, but Chelsea and United have now joined the race.
Known as the "Korean Muller" in Germany, watch out for Heung-Min at next year's World Cup - if not before in the Premier League.
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Dry, frazzled hair is what I have 99% of the time so I am always looking for intensive conditioners as long as its too greasy…
As soon as I saw this Kevin Murphy Born Again Masque I knew it wasn't playing. It comes in a super funky purple cube and it looks thick, and gloopy…like a good intensive conditioner:
Its soooooo thick. The texture is like thick jelly, its made with Shea Butter and Mango Butter which I know is mega thick and rich – great for the skin and hair but oh so hard to wash off. This product is great because it *does* wash off pretty well….
For example I adore Aussie intensive conditioners but they leave a layer of slick on my hair.
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This product is quite expensive at £21.50 but if you have very dry hair it is an excellent product to use – a real treat. It reminds me a bit of Phillip Kingsley's elasticizer, in that its quite expensive but very effective. I reckon you could just use this once a week, because it is so rich.
Worth the investment if you have very dry hair.
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The Division of Institutional Advancement invites the Barry community to a memorial Mass for Ms. Gloria Spadaro, member of the Barry Auxiliary and member of the Barry University Covenant Society.
Date: Monday, July 15, 2013
Time: 12:05 p.m.
Location: Cor Jesu Chapel
Spadaro was a resident of El Portal for many years and, like many in her family, a professional in the business world. She was a very loving and generous aunt to 17 nieces and nephews and 27 grandnieces and grandnephews, a world traveler and devout Catholic. Gloria chose Barry University students as the beneficiaries of her estate by setting up the Eugene, Louise and Gloria Spadaro Endowed Scholarship for undergraduate students in the D. Inez Andreas School of Business at Barry University.
For many years, Gloria came to Barry's campus for activities and events as a member of the Barry University Auxiliary, a group of friends and alumnae volunteers who were a part of campus life from 1976 through 2007. Their annual "Crazy Hat Luncheon" was a scholarship fundraiser that assisted students in financial need at Barry University. For 31 years, Barry University Auxiliary members supported many of our students and made provisions in their estate planning to continue that commitment. Gloria was one of those valiant women and her family scholarship will remain as long as there is a Barry University.
Ms. Spadaro was buried at St. Mary's/St. Andrew's Catholic Church in Ellenville, NY in June.