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My iPhone Omnifocus project for today is "election" – I'll ride to the polls, vote, and tick off the tasks to complete the project (last week it was Halloween). I use OF all the time on my iPhone, being mobile traveling, and riding. I also use
I've found a few bike-related apps; Bicycle Gear Calculator, Cychosis, and BikePower and wondered what readers are using? Do they work well?
An issue is that you've got to keep the iPhone on and that app active to get any results from a ride and look at the screen while riding.
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Assume that there are 5 contestants in each of the 12 categories and the 47 students just guess the winner in each category. What is the probability that their
Assume that there are 5 contestants in each of the 12 categories and the 47 students just guess the winner in each category. What is the probability that their will get 9 or more correct?
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Take statistics. Sorry, but you'll find later in life that it's handy to know what a standard deviation is.
David Brooks
New York Times, March 2, 2006
This appears on a list of core knowledge that Brooks says will be sufficient to give you a great education even if you don't make Harvard.
From the February 2006 RSS news we have:
One primary school in East London
has a catchment area of 110 metres.Sunday Telegraph
23 October 2005
And from the March 2006 RSS news we have:
Fewer names appear in the top 100
than ten years ago.
(from report on most popular names
given to babies born in scotland in 2005)The Scotsman
24 December 2005
More on medical studies that conflict with previous studies
Humans, being what they are, it is only natural that when a study's consequences seem plausible there is no need to look too closely. On the other hand, when the outcomes go against what was expected, a great deal of inspection is called for. This was discussed here.
The Wall Street Journal of February 28, 2006 details possible reasons for why the Women's Health Initiative might have had design flaws leading to "murky results." In summary, the WSJ reported:
- Calcium/Vitamin D study
- Message: Supplements don't protect bones or cut risk of colorectal cancer.
- Problem: Those in placebo group also took supplements in many cases.
- Message: Supplements don't protect bones or cut risk of colorectal cancer.
- Low-fat diet study:
- Message: Doesn't cut risk of breast cancer.
- Problem: Few met the fat goal.
- A 22% drop in risk for women who cut fat the most got little emphasis.
- Message: Doesn't cut risk of breast cancer.
- Hormone study:
- Message: No benefit, possible increased cancer and heart risk.
- Problem: Most in study were too old for this to apply to menopausal women.
- Message: No benefit, possible increased cancer and heart risk.
More generally, according to the WSJ, "Design problems in all of the trials mean the results don't really answer the questions they were supposed to address. And a flawed communications effort led to widespread misinterpretation of results by the news media and public."
In particular, in order to reduce the number of participants for the studies, "more than half [of the women] took part in at least two of them, and more that 5,000 were in all three trials." As might be imagined, "Among problems this posed was simple burnout" which "contributed to compliance problems that plagued all three and hurt the reliability of their results."
Another problem was the difficulty of double blinding for the hormone study since any hot flashes would indicate to the patient (and to her physician) that she was in the placebo arm; to get around this impediment, the vast majority of the women recruited were well past menopause, thus biasing the results against the benefits of hormone replacement.
So where are we after 68,132 female participants, "fifteen years and $725 million later"? More than likely, the Women's Health Initiative study will be in and out of the news for some time to come because of its ambiguity.
Submitted by Paul Alper
Economists analyze the tv show "Deal or No Deal?"
Why game shows have economists glued to their TVs
Wall Street Journal, Jan. 12, 2006
Charles Forelle
Economists Learn from Game Show 'Deal or No Deal'
NPR, March 3, 2006, All things considered
David Kestenbaum
Deal or No Deal? Decision making under risk in a large-payoff game show
Thierry Post, Martijn Van Den Assem, Guido Baltussen, Richard H. Thaler
February 2006
The authors of the research paper write:
The popular television game show "Deal or No Deal" offers a unique opportunity for analyzing decision making under risk: it involves very large and wide-ranging stakes, simple stop-go decisions that require minimal skill, knowledge or strategy and near-certainty about the probability distribution.
Here is a nice description of the game from the MS Math in the Media magazine:
- Twenty-six known amounts of money, ranging from one cent to one million dollars, are (symbolically) randomly placed in 26 numbered, sealed briefcases. The contestant chooses a briefcase. The unknown sum in the briefcase is the contestant's.
- In the first round of play, the contestant chooses 6 of the remaining 25 briefcases to open. Then the "banker" offers to buy the contestant's briefcase for a sum based on its expected value, given the information now at hand, but tweaked sometimes to make the game more interesting. The contestant can accept ("Deal") or opt to continue play ("No Deal").
- If the game continues, 5 more briefcases are opened in the second round, another offer is made, and accepted or refused. If the contestant continues to refuse the banker's offers, subsequent rounds open 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1 briefcases until only two are left.
- The banker makes one last offer; the contestant accepts that offer or takes whatever money is in the initially chosen briefcase.
So the banker is always trying to buy out the player. If he fails the player will end up with the amount in his suitcase.
The best way to understand the game is to play it here on the NBC website.
We did this playing the only the first round. We chose number 13 for our briefcase. We were then asked to choose six briefcases. We chose suitcases 3,10,12,13,19, 25. Here is the result of this round:
Our six choices eliminated the amounts 1, 50, 75, 300, 400,000, 500,000. The expected value of our suitcase is now the average of the amounts in the remaining suitcases. Making this calculation We find that this is $125,900 (rounded to the nearest dollar). The banker has offered us $29,854 to quit. So We would have to be pretty risk adverse to accept the banker's offer at this point.
In order to see if the banker's offers get better, we played a second game in which we refused all the banker's offers. With this strategy we start with an expected winning given by the average of the initial amounts which we found to be $131,478.
We then played all 9 rounds. In each round we recalculated the expected amount in our briefcase and recorded the banker's offer but refused it. Here are the results:
Expected Value
Percent of Expected Value
Sexual prediction
Predicting the sex of fetus has been around for as long as children have been born. According to Roger Dobson of The Independent (March 7, 2006) there are many "theories from the wilder side."
- Coffee: If a man has coffee before sex, the Y-sperm is more active and likely to result in a boy.
- Dreams: Whatever sex of child a mother dreams of having, she will have the opposite.
- Age: As a mother gets older, her chance of conceiving a boy increases.
- Positions: Missionary position is best for a girl, says Italian folklore.
- Underwear: Men who wear loose underwear are more likely to produce boys.
And several others which we would also view as less than scientific. Now, however, modern methods of predictions with probabilities attached exist. Unfortunately, it is difficult to tell from the article whether it is P(X|Y) or P(Y|X). For example, "The Whelan method, named after Dr. Elizabeth Whelen," and depends on the timing of ovulation, "is claimed to be some 68 per cent effective for boys and 56 per cent for girls." Assuming that boys and girls are equally likely and "effective" means P(Test Boy|Boy) = .68, and P(Test Girl|Girl) = .56, translates via Bayesian inversion to a not very impressive P(Boy|Test Boy) = .61 and P(Girl|Test Girl) =.64.
"Another technique, the MicroSort method" which depends on DNA relating to the difference in size of the X and Y chromosomes, yields "success" rates of 88 per cent for girls and 73 per cent for boys. Assuming again that boys and girls are equally likely and "success" is synonymous with "effective," this translates via Bayesian inversion to a slightly more striking P(Boy|Test Boy) = .86 and P(Girl|Test Girl) =.77.
None of these methods can compare with that of the Acu-Gen Biolab which claims 99.9 per cent "accuracy," a term which sounds like "effective" or "success" but may not mean anything because some mothers who paid $25 for the kit and the $250 for the analysis wound up with a child of the other kind than what they were told. According to the Boston Globe (March 1, 2006), "Alleging that their pregnancies had been marred by fraud, 16 women have filed a class-action lawsuit against a Lowell laboratory that promises to determine the gender of an embryo by testing the mother's blood just five weeks after conception. In the suit filed in US District Court in Boston, the women charged that despite its claim of 99.9 percent accuracy, Acu-Gen Biolab of Lowell got the genders of their babies wrong, causing confusion and distress, and then refused to make good on its double-your-money-back guarantee."
Whether believer or buyer, always beware.
1. What are the ethical implications of an inexpensive, non-invasive sex prediction procedure which is available very early on in a pregnancy? What are the implications for the anti-abortion movement and for the pro-choice adherents?
2. Comment upon the linguistic dangers of using ordinary English, as in "effective," "success" and "accuracy" for well-defined statistical concepts.
3. Are you surprised that Acu-Gen Biolab "refused to make good on its double-your-money-back guarantee"? What excuses or reasons do you think the firm would give for claiming the fault lies with the woman and not with the technique?
Submitted by Paul Alper
Some children left behind
Joseph Stalin's famous quote regarding elections, "The people who count the votes decide everything" has an analogy to the bizarre world of the No Child Left Behind Act. Regardless of the merits of the act, it is in the interests of those who will be judged by this law to look good. As a consequence, it appears that there are several ways, other than outright cheating or the students actually testing higher, to make the numbers come out better.
In Minnesota, according to James Walsh of the Minneapolis Star Tribune (March 6, 2006), the trick is to have the low-scoring students take a different test. "To some, it may look like we're gaming the system" says Tim Vansickle, the Minnesota director of assessments. Minnesota does have many students whose native language is not English and Vansickle denies that the alternative test is not meant to help schools keep off "the list" of schools deemed failing.
Another technique according to Jay Mathews of the Washington Post (February 28, 2006), is to engage in strange arithmetic. He quotes Monte Dawson, the testing and assessment director for Alexandria, Virginia: "Remediation Recovery, which has been around since 2001, means that fourth grade students who failed the third grade test in 2004, got to retake the third grade test in 2005. Up until this year (2005), if they passed the third grade test, then they were included in the numerator only of the calculation to determine the third grade passing score. As illustration, if 4 out of 5 third grade students passed and 1 out of 5 fourth grade Remediation Recovery students passed, the passing percentage would be 100 percent."
Mathews, the Washington Post's education columnist, is puzzled by this explanation so he leaves it to the spokesman for the Virginia Department of Education, Charles Pyle. Mathews translates Pyle's remarks thusly: "in 2000, the state school board changed the counting procedure to encourage more schools to do what Maury [the school featured in the article] did -- give the students who failed some extra help and let them try again. Often the second-test passing rates of students who flunk a test initially are lower than their class's overall passing rate, since they are the class's weakest students. So if those second-test results were combined with the first test results in the usual way, it would likely lower the overall percentage and make the school look worse than otherwise. School districts in Virginia figured this out and resisted the urge to work with their lowest-performing students and test them again."
Therefore, to avoid this inevitable drop in performance should a school actually try to help its students rather than game the system, Mathews uses the following illustration: "To give schools an incentive to make that effort, the school board ordered an unorthodox change in the way the school percentage would be calculated after the retesting. If a school had 100 students, with 30 failing the test the first time and 10 of those passing the test the second time, they could add 10 to the 70 who passed the first time, divide those 80 passing students by 100, and get a nice boost from 70 to 80 percent in their passing rate. Done the conventional way, they would have had to add 30 to the denominator as they added 10 to the numerator, and gotten a passing rate of only 62 percent, lower than the 70 percent rate they had before."
Stalin was undoubtedly an evil person but his remark about defining and controlling the counting and evaluation procedure has many followers who probably don't realize the inspiration for their creativity. Perhaps the moral of the story for statisticians is the well-known dictum, "the data never speaks for itself." People have great ingenuity particularly when it comes to guarding their vested interests via number manipulation.
1. Is the purpose of the No Child Left Behind Act punishment of teachers and administrators or is the purpose to improve performance of the students?
2. Why is the Act controversial?
3. If the rules of the game allow the numerator to increase while not changing the denominator, what is there to complain about?
4. If you were a teacher or administrator would you be tempted to suggest to your poorer performing students to stay home on the day of the test?
Submitted by Paul Alper
Norton Starr sugested the next article.
The future divined by the crowd
The Future Divined by the Crowd
New York Times, March 11, 2006
Joe Nocere
Michael Mauboussin is a well known Wall Street strategist who also is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School. Every year since 1993 he has asked his students to vote for the winners in 12 categories including major and relatively obscure contests. We read:
This year, the pick that got the most votes — the consensus pick, he calls it — turned out to be right in 9 of the 12 categories, including, amazingly enough, film editing and art direction. And yet, of the 47 students who participated, only one matched the accuracy of the consensus. None did better, and most did much worse; according to Mr. Mauboussin, the average number of correct answers per ballot this year was only 4.1. "It has never failed," he said. "The consensus invariably does much better than the average student."
The article also discusses other evidence that consensus predictions are often better than individual predictions such as the Iowa Electronic Market ((Chance News 13.06) , Holywood Stock Exchange (Chance News 12.02), and a new one HedgeStreet whose motto is: "It's your economy. Trade it."
Assume that there are 5 contestants in each of the 12 categories and the 47 students just guess the winner in each category. What is the probability that their consensus will get 9 or more correct?


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PALO ALTO — A 71-year-old hiker who lost his footing and fell about 30 feet down an embankment of Foothills Park was rescued by firefighters and airlifted to Stanford hospital.
The man was hiking with a group of friends on a narrow trail in the 1,400-acre park just after 10 a.m. Tuesday when he slipped on loose gravel and tumbled down, Palo Alto Deputy Fire Chief Catherine Capriles said.
Once the man fell, some hikers in his group ran to find cell coverage and called 911 while others hiked down to help him, Capriles said.
Palo Alto firefighters responded to the park, set up a base camp and then hiked about 15 to 20 minutes to get to the injured hiker.
Firefighters used a rope system to reach the man and get him back up to the trail.
From there, firefighters wheeled the man to a landing zone, where a Cal Fire helicopter used a rope to pull him into the aircraft. The man was then transported to another landing spot in the park, where he was transferred to a Life Flight helicopter, when flew him to Stanford.
The hiker lost consciousness for about two minutes and complained of head, neck and shoulder pain, Capriles said.
Cal Fire and park rangers and Stanford Life Flight assisted in the rescue.
Contact Mark Gomez at 408-920-5869. Follow him at Twitter.com/markmgomez.


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This is a lesson to demonstrate magnetic field lines in 2- and 3-dimensions. In the first activity, learners sprinkle iron filings over a magnet underneath a paper and record their observations. The second activity involves building a 3-D magnetic... (View More) field visualizer using a clear plastic bottle, a cow magnet and iron filings. This is the second lesson in the first session of the "Exploring Magnetism" teacher guide. (View Less)
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This activity demonstrates Lenz's Law, which states that an induced electromotive force generates a current that induces a counter magnetic field that opposes the magnetic field generating the current. In the demonstration, an empty aluminum can... (View More) floats on water in a tray, such as a Petri dish. Students spin a magnet just inside the can without touching the can. The can begins to spin. Understanding what happens can be explained in steps: first, the twirling magnet creates an alternating magnetic field. Students can use a nearby compass to observe that the magnetic field is really changing. Second, the changing magnetic field permeates most things around it, including the aluminum can itself. A changing magnetic field will cause an electric current to flow when there is a closed loop of an electrically conducting material. Even though the aluminum can is not magnetic, it is metal and will conduct electricity. So the twirling magnet causes an electrical current to flow in the aluminum can. This is called an "induced current." Third, all electric currents create magnetic fields. So, in essence, the induced electrical current running through the can creates its very own magnetic field, making the aluminum can magnetic. This is activity four of "Exploring Magnetism." The guide includes science background information, student worksheets, glossary and related resources. (View Less)
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This is a collection of outreach resources about the Sun that are meant to be used in informal education settings. This toolkit was originally designed for NASA Night Sky Network member clubs and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Astronomy... (View More) from the Ground Up network of museum and science center educators. The toolkit includes background information about the Sun, magnetic fields of the Earth and Sun, and space weather, activity suggestions, and detailed activity scripts. The themes of this toolkit address both the constant nature of the Sun as a reliable source of energy and the dynamic nature of the Sun due to its changing magnetic fields. The activities and related materials in this collection include The Sun in a Different Light - Observing the Sun, Explore the Sun cards, Magnetic Connection, the Space Weather PowerPoint, Protection from Ultraviolet, and Where Does the Energy Come From cards. These activities can be done separately or as a group as part of an informal education event. Institutions that are not part of the Night Sky Network will need to acquire the various materials required for each activity. (View Less)


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The fall semester is under way with a record 3,650 resident students on campus this fall at Lindenwood University. The students returned to several campus improvements and new services, and much more on the horizon.
Most notably, the first classes are being held today in the Lindenwood Center, which is the palatial home of Lindenwood's School of Fine and Performing Arts and the studios of LUTV. The new building will be the performance venue for Lindenwood's theatre, music and dance programs in addition to a destination for a full range of touring professional performers, including the opening act, Liza Minnelli, who will perform two shows on Sept. 11 and 12.
Students will also notice redesigned, reconfigured and refurbished parking lots and drives around Roemer and Harmon halls, which allow for greater safety and ease of passage, as well as a 25 percent increase in the number of spaces in the Roemer lot and improved aesthetics.
Two new dorm buildings are also welcoming their first students this fall. Pfremmer Hall and an as yet unnamed residence hall were completed over the summer and are the seventh and eighth new residence halls constructed on campus since 2000.
Also starting this semester, students will have access to an on-campus health center, which is located in the Connection room of the Spellmann Center. The health center, which is open to students only, is operated in cooperation with SSM Healthcare and will be available for students with minor injuries and ailments.
In the coming weeks, students will see the beginning of a construction project at Harmon Hall, which will be refurbished and expanded in three phases and will become the new home of the Lindenwood School of Business and Entrepreneurship.
"We have looked forward all summer to the start of the fall semester," said Dr. James Evans, Lindenwood's president. "This semester is particularly exciting because of the new Lindenwood Center and the various other campus improvements. We are expecting another great year at Lindenwood."


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December 27, 2004
How to Boil Perfect Eggs
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Ok for hard boiled eggs, but I prefer soft-boiled eggs. Place eggs in a temperature controlled water bath at exactly 65C for 45 minutes. Roll the eggs frequently to ensure that the yolk is centred. Perfect! But you must source quality free-range eggs and keep them refrigerated before cooking.ReplyDelete
You can't make deviled eggs with soft boiled eggs!ReplyDelete
I use this method, but I only let the egg sit for 7 minutes. As just a hard-boiled egg to eat plain, I like the yolk to be a little softer -- not soft-boiled, just soft.ReplyDelete
And eggs taste so much better in Japan than in the U.S.! I think it has to do with the chickens' diets: lots of seaweed, sesame seeds and other things with lots of omega-3s. Yum.
Apologies Rachel - it was my wicked sense of humour. Just the thought of someone breaking into an egg with a really firm white and a completely runny yolk. I take it back. Happy cooking, happy eating, happy Easter!ReplyDelete
I was just teasing, Trig!ReplyDelete
This method is excellent!ReplyDelete
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here we go...lets stop cribbs now
well that's one way to keep him from returning, Reed just kicked it in to the stands..LOL. the wind is crazy
hell yeah, great tackle Clark, 3rd and long !
I expect the Stillers to try to completely shut down the run game.
now THAT's how you start out..3 and out!!!
Was that the wind or stupidity?
Dont' get a dumb penalty....
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Masato Masuda, Creator of Fire Pro-Wrestling, Dies at 48
The creator of the famed wrestling game series, Fire Pro-Wrestling, has passed away.
According to legendary game designer Suda51, Fire Pro-Wrestling series creator Masato Masuda has passed away at the age of 48.
On TwitLonger, Suda51 said of his former mentor, "I genuinely pray for his happiness in the next world. He was one of the greatest creators of video games and he was my direct teacher. Thank you for giving us our favorite Fire Pro-wrestling. You are the god of it."
As a mentor to Suda51, Masuda impacted gaming in more ways than just creating a wrestling game series that debuted a revolutionary grappling system; he helped teach the man who would eventually come to start the development studio, Grasshopper Manufacture.
His legacy continues on in gaming, considering an Xbox Live Arcade version of Fire Pro Wrestling was released as recently as 2012. Our condolences to his family and friends.


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Like a lot of you, we've been yearning for Microsoft to come up with a gift card solution for Windows Phone. Sunny skies ahead. Looks like Microsoft is finally gearing up to drop the Points system on Xbox and replace it with gift cards and cash.
We first reported on the rumor of Microsoft dropping their Points system back in early 2012. The Microsoft Points system has always received its fair share of criticism from users. Now The Verge reports that Microsoft is dropping the Points system with a new one.
The new system will work across a variety of Microsoft properties and platforms, like the Windows Phone Store, Windows Store, and Xbox Marketplace. This new system will also include gift cards, similar to those available for the iOS and Android ecosystems. Debit and credit cards will still be supported for purchases.
Moving towards a system based on cash instead of Point should make it easier for consumers to know how much they are spending on an app or game. We might get more info about this new system at E3. We'll be there to bring you any info.
Anyone else looking forward to gift cards on Windows Phone and knowing exactly how much that Xbox Live game costs?
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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
Oh, the dichotomy of Trace Adkins . One minute he's revealing the details of his upcoming album of all love songs (Love Will …), and the next he's going head-to-head with his old nemesis Piers Morgan on All-Star Celebrity Apprentice. On Sunday's (March 3) premiere, Adkins recalled that he'd never actually been "fired" in that signature Donald Trump way when he was on Celebrity Apprentice. But the way Morgan (that season's winner) remembered it was that he had been the one to fire Adkins. "Did you? I don't think so. I would've slapped the [expletive] outta you," Adkins said in his deadpan way. "Calm down, cowboy. It's not my fault I beat you," Morgan said. It was awkward, tense, uncomfortable and fantastic — the stuff reality shows are made of. I am glad there are two sides to Adkins, though, so he can walk out of that uptight Manhattan boardroom and into a happier place where there's country love in his heart.


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The Intelligent Use of Water Summit is slated for March 15, 2011 in Clovis, Calif. Presented in partnership with the Center for Irrigation Technology (CIT) at California State University, Fresno, The Intelligent Use of Water Summit: California Agriculture at a Crossroads will focus on providing greater insight into the water issues, policies, legislation, programs, initiatives and trends that ultimately impact California's agricultural industry.
Scheduled for Tuesday, March 15, 2011, at the Veterans Memorial Building in Clovis, California, the Summit is open to the public at no charge and will feature two morning panel discussions followed by a lunchtime presentation.
The first panel of experts will address land and water rights issues surrounding the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which provides water to 25 million Californians and hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland. This session will begin at 9:00 am and features:
Tim Quinn, Executive Director, Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA)
Byron Buck, Executive Director, State and Federal Contractors Water Agency (SFCWA)
Jason Peltier, Chief Deputy General Manager, Westlands Water District
Joe Del Bosque, President and CEO, Empresas Del Bosque
Richard Matoian, Executive Director, Western Pistachio Association
Mario Santoyo, Assistant General Manager, Friant Water Authority (FWA) and Executive Director of the California Latino Water Coalition
The second session will address recent policy initiatives, with an emphasis on the Water Conservation Act of 2009 (SBX7-7, SBX7-6) and its impact on California's farming industry. This session will begin at 10:45 am and includes the following experts:
Mike Wade, Executive Director, California Farm Water Coalition
Dave Orth, General Manager, Kings River Conservation District (KRCD)
Manucher Alemi, Chief, Office of Water Use & Efficiency, CA Dept. Water Resources
Juliet Christian-Smith, Senior Research Associate, Pacific Institute
Panelist will have the opportunity to discuss their experiences and observations and propose recommendations that address the critical relationship between California's agriculture industry and the state's limited water supply to an audience of agricultural and water professionals as well as government representatives, NGOs, key water industry representatives and the media.
The morning panels will be moderated by Dr. David Zoldoske, director of the Center for Irrigation Technology (CIT), California State University, Fresno. Serving as director since 1994, Dr. Zoldoske oversees CIT's independent testing laboratories, applied research facility, and educational resource center. He also serves as the executive director of the California State University's Water Resources and Policy Initiative and is a past president of the Irrigation Association and the American Society of Agronomy (CA-chapter). Dr. Zoldoske has authored or co-authored over 100 articles on water and irrigation and has over 30 years of experience addressing irrigation and water policy issues.
The summit will conclude with a lunchtime presentation in which Andrew Gregson, CEO of Australia's New South Wales Irrigators' Council and Rebecca Nelson, lead researcher of the Comparative Groundwater Law and Policy Program at Stanford University, will present case studies on Australian water policy and compare and contrast those with California's current water situation.
Established in 2004 as a forum to further define the relationship between water conservation and outdoor water use, The Intelligent Use of Water Summit series presents a view of the current and future state of water resources through the eyes of water conservation and environmental experts. Previous summit locations have included: Pasadena, Calif.; Tucson, Ariz.; Tempe, Ariz.; Madrid, Spain; Aix-en-Provence, France; Melbourne, Australia; and most recently, Washington, D.C. in April of 2010.
The Intelligent Use of Water Summit: California Agriculture at a Crossroads will be held at the Clovis Veterans Memorial District in Clovis, Calif., on March 15, 2011 and is open to the public at no charge. Session and lunch presentation seating is limited. Please register online at www.rainbird.com/summitRSVP.


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Happy New Year everybody! Wow it has been a long time since I blogged :)
A new year and we got new things to announce. We have been working on apps.formeego.org for a while. The idea is to have a community driven Apps catalog for open source applications. Created by the people who also contributed to maemo.org Downloads (More than 100M downloads and counting!), many of the concepts born there were brought along.
This site includes a community driven QA part, where you can test apps and fill in a simple score card about the app. Once a certain amount of positive reports have been made, the app will automatically go to the stable Apps site. Apps will also go through some automated tests, so we can prevent broken applications from entering the repositories.
With the N9 device now in the market, the community needs a central place to publish their applications. If your application needs special security capabilities, like sending text messages etc, you need to publish your application in a place that is 'trusted' by the device. Nokia has now granted Apps the same credentials as Nokia Store. This means that we can now let the community publish applications which need more than the default credentials.
We have a very nice Apps client for use on your N9. This makes it very easy to browse through the available apps and install them on your N9.
Most of the infrastructure and processes are in place, what we need now is help from you! Whether you are a developer (submit your app) or an enthusiast (help us test new apps), there is always a way you can help making it more attractive to end users. Make sure we are getting more new applications more quickly available for everybody!
The current setup of Apps for MeeGo is so that you can't have any external dependencies for your application, other than what is provided in the SDK and the Nokia Apps repository. I'll post a proposal on the wiki about how to allow these dependencies while trying to prevent a mess :)
A last thing to add: We see that MeeGo.com is going away at some point and we have a maemo.org heritage, so we are planning to move our authentication, OBS and wiki to maemo.org in the coming months.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
2 comments:
- thp said...
Looking good! Thanks a lot :) Maybe we can have a "Maemo Extras" equivalent for Harmattan after all! ;)
- January 4, 2012 at 4:10 PM
- nsuffys said...
Nice !
I'll do an article about this on my french blog very soon ! :)
- January 4, 2012 at 10:33 PM
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Nintendo puzzle platformer PushMo is the hottest game to hit the 3DS eStore. Twitter user CushionLotion makes it even better with a set of custom levels crafted to resemble the evil robot masters and lead character of Capcom's classic Mega Man 2.
Seriously, PushMo is the best money I've spent in the 3DS eShop thus far. It's a pushing-pulling puzzle game that keeps on giving thanks to a built-in level editor that allows players to share their creations via QR codes. Codes much like the ones in the image above.
Do you see what I am getting at here?
The image is your ticket to nine new levels resembling Mega Man and the foes that plagued him during his second outing on the NES. PushMo's block-based editing tools make it perfect for reproducing sprite art, and one might argue that Mega Man 2 is the perfect sprite art.
If you've got PushMo, then you know what to do. If not, help yourself to the doughtnuts in the c...oh, we ate them all. Sorry.
Fans use 3DS game to turn classic sprites into puzzles [Capcom Unity]


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The past year or so I have really started to enjoy sewing. I am still learning, really, but have been able to make a few things for my girls. So naturally they have been interested in learning to sew something themselves. I don't know what a good age is to begin learning on a machine, but this is the second time I have given Lou (age 7 1/2) a mini sewing lesson.
She made a pillow. I think a pillow is a great thing to sew for a beginner because it only involves straight lines and it's fun because it's something she can actually use. I traced around a box onto some scrap fabric we had and I cut it out since my scissors are a little dull, but next time I think I'll let her do the cutting also.
|Sewing carefully at a low speed, she was able to keep a pretty straight line.
|Turning the fabric right side out to prepare for stuffing.
|Stuffing the pillow.


text: Village of Morafeno, Madagascar: the Ombiasa, known as Manjovala, is the healer everyone turns to when they are suffering and need to be cured. In this photo he is in the midst of a ceremony, waiting for the spirit he works with to give him guidance. The Coca-Cola bottle in his wife's hand serves as one of the many offerings they use to attract the spirit and then offer it afterwards as thanks. Photo courtesy of Haleemah Jackson '14.


text: Dr. Marguarite Kay is a top-flight molecular biologist at the University of Arizona. She gave a presentation at the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) Conference last December on the aging of "Band 3" protein (the protein that allows cell membranes to "breath" by ion transport) and the reduction of Band-3 aging by Vitamin E. With aging, the "Band 3" protein undergoes changes due to oxidation (and possibly glycation) to become what is known as "Scenesent Cell Antigen" (SCA). SCA is what marks aging cells for removal by the macrophages. Dr. Kay stated in her talk that "The results of the studies on aging *in vivo* indicate that IgG binding and anion transport are the two most sensitive screening assays for determining cellular age." If there is such a thing as a "biomarker" of aging, these might be good candidates -- perhaps better than insulin resistance, which is being used to evaluate the effects of calorie restriction in monkey experiments. A good summary of Dr. Kay's work on "Band 3" aging can be found in ANNALS OF NEW YORK ACADMEMY OF SCIENCES 719:419-447 (1994). She wrote a review of aging of the immune system in MECHANISMS OF AGING AND DEVELOPMENT 9:39-59 (1978). She is an ardent life-extensionist, but her ability to do research is under attack by powers-that-be at the University of Arizona. I am not in a position to evaluate the politics involved or the accusations against her. However, I do greatly respect her work. For that reason, I am posting the following description of her plight. I invite others to pass this message along to other life extensionists or life-extension related newsgroups and/or lists. ************************************************************************ ** BEGIN "WITCH HUNT" INFORMATION ************************************************************************ WITCH HUNT at the University of Arizona in the tradition of the Salem Witch Trials and the Inquisition. (reference: the Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagon) We need as many people there as possible in the hope that the presence of people will create pressure for the hand-picked panel to at least appear fair. GRAND INQUISITOR: University of Arizona Administration WITCH until proven innocent at the pre-judged trial: Marguerite M.B. Kay, M.D. Regents Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in the College of Medicine. Her duties include, but are not limited to research, teaching, and service. WHEN: Monday, March 30 starting at 1:00 PM until 5:00 PM. Tuesday through Friday, 8:30 AM to 12:00 noon, then 1:00 until 5:00PM. Fifteen minute breaks at 10:30 AM and 3:00 PM. Saturday, 4/4/98: 8:30-10:30, and 10:45-12:00 noon. NOTE: This may be delayed because Dr. Kay's lawyer is seeking judicial review of the University of Arizona's decision to continue to deny her due process. WHERE: At the University Marriot on campus. if there are changes, a recorded message will be left at (520) 297-9234. HISTORY: In May, 1996, Dr Kay published a high profile paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences which showed that Vitamin E delays aging of the immune system and brain. The effect was dramatic. The study was covered by CNN, all major TV and radio stations, news papers and periodicals nationally and internationally. Within 2 weeks, Dr. Michael Cusanovich, the Vice President for Research, ordered Dr. Kay out of her laboratory space on the main campus of the university. Harassment accelerated. Dr. Kay was required to fill out endless forms, repeatedly move her lab to multiple new locations, etc. The University of Arizona has violated Dr. Kay's due process and US and AZ Constitutional rights, and is refusing to allow her to be represented by a lawyer in direct conflict with all applicable policies and constitutional law. They will make Dr. Kay's lawyer sit there and whisper to her, but he must leave the room if he speaks. Dr. Kay's remaining lab in the Medical School was closed to research April, 1997, on Dr. Cusanovich's orders, and Dr. Kay has been relentlessly harassed by committees directly under his control. Witch trial will be in front of hand-picked Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, the composition of which violates all applicable rules. Half of this committee, including its Chairman, Dr. T.Cetas, will serve as prosecuters and half will serve as judges. Dr. Kay has been involved in building a World Class Research Group in Immunobiology. She is internationally known in the areas of cellular and molecular aging, immunology, and Alzheimer's disease. The purpose of her research is to find treatments that will delay or prevent diseases associated with aging. The goal of her research is to prolong productive lifespan. She has had a national and international reputation as a physician/scientist since her twenties. Dr. Kay has been working on developing cures for age associated diseases and Alzheimer's disease by manipulating the immune system and using antioxidants and alternative medical treatment. Dr. Kay is a Diplomat of the newly formed American Board of Anti-Aging Medicine, and spoke on her vitamin E research at the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine meetings in Las Vegas this past December. Questions? Call Marguerite Kay at 520-297-9234. Please send contributions to Dr. Kay's legal defense fund to: Dr. M. Kay's Legal Defense Fund c/o Torralba & Assoc Trust Acct, 55 W. Franklin Street, Tucson, AZ 85701. Questions? Call Marguerite Kay at 520-297-9234. "my candle burns a both ends. it may not last the night, but oh, my friends, and ah, my foes, it sheds a wondrous light. . ." ------Lowell ************************************************************************ ** END "WITCH HUNT" INFORMATION ************************************************************************ --Tom Tom Matthews The LIFE EXTENSION FOUNDATION - http://www.lef.org - 800-841-5433 A non-profit membership organization dedicated to the extension of the healthy human lifespan through ground breaking research, innovative ideas and practical methods. LIFE EXTENSION MAGAZINE - The ultimate source for new health and medical findings from around the world.


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Detroit Lions' Joique Bell, left, gets up with the help of Brandon Pettigrew, center, and Calvin Johnson after scoring a touchdown during the first half.
PHILADELPHIA — Jeremy Ross plowed his way through the snow, even with cleats that felt more appropriate for date night than a touchdown dance.
Ross broke free on long punt and kickoff returns, sprinting to the 50 ... the 40 ... well, it was kind of hard of tell with about six inches of snow blanketing Lincoln Financial Field. But he was definitely headed the right way.
There was no doubt about his landing spot — both times in the powdery end zone, with celebratory snow angels for fun.
"That was the worst I ever played in," Ross said. "The snow kept clogging the bottom of my cleats. I felt like I had heels on."
Ross didn't need snow boots, just some help from Detroit's offense. LeSean McCoy ran for a franchise-best 217 yards, including touchdowns of 57 and 40 yards, and the Philadelphia Eagles overcame Ross' two TD returns to beat the Lions 34-20 in a blizzard Sunday.
Ross returned a punt 58 yards for a score in the third quarter and ran a kickoff 98 yards in the fourth.
Talk about cold snaps. The Lions fumbled seven times, losing three, with most of them coming on jumbled exchanges. Running back Joique Bell, who started for Reggie Bush, had two fumbles in the snow. Matthew Stafford, who was 10 of 25 for 148 yards, muffed five snaps.
"It's not the same as a sunny day, that's for sure," Stafford said. "But you've got to make adjustments."
The Eagles sure did, scoring all 34 points in the second half. Playing in the same wintry mix, the Eagles recovered their only fumble.
"We were expecting the possibility of [bad] weather," Lions coach Jim Schwartz said. "But even waking up this morning, coming here today, nobody was predicting six inches of snow, or whatever we had."
Detroit star Calvin Johnson passed Herman Moore for most yards receiving in franchise history on a 33-yard catch to the Eagles 13 late in the first quarter. Johnson came up with a face full of snow on the play. Bell fumbled a few plays later at the Eagles 10 and Patrick Chung recovered.
The Lions stumbled in the snow from pregame warmups. They lost Bush for the day when he fell on the slippery field during warmups and re-injured his calf. Bush leads the Lions with 854 yards rushing.
Snow began falling two hours before kickoff and intensified after the game started. Workers used shovels and hand-held blowers to clear off yard lines. Conditions were so poor neither team tried a field goal, and there were 2-point conversion attempts after seven of the eight TDs.
Philly fans that stuck this one out appeared to be having fun — some even lightly tossed snowballs at Ross after his second TD. With temperatures in the 20s, there were some huge gaps in the second level and upper deck.
The Eagles, looking to go worst-to-first in the NFC East, won their fifth straight game and took over sole possession of first place. Dallas can make it a tie for the top spot with a victory at Chicago today.
The Lions (7-6) have a half-game lead over the Bears in the NFC North.
"It was tough handling the ball early on," Stafford said. "We had a couple of turnovers, but we have to be able to overcome those. You don't want to have them, but in a story like that, early on in the game you might have some, and we have to do a better job of holding on to it."
The Eagles finished with 299 yards rushing against a defense that didn't allow a TD on the ground in the previous eight games and came in allowing the third-fewest yards rushing per game (82.7).
"It was a big game and we didn't take advantage of the moment," linebacker DeAndre Levy said.
The Lions collapsed in the fourth.
McCoy ran 57 yards up the middle for a tying TD, and Nick Foles connected with Riley Cooper on the 2-point conversion. Foles sneaked in from the 1 and Chris Polk had a 38-yard touchdown run to cap a 28-point fourth quarter for the Eagles (8-5).
McCoy ran for 148 yards in the fourth quarter, and broke Hall of Famer Steve Van Buren's mark of 205 yards rushing against Pittsburgh on Nov. 27, 1949.
"He was dominant," McCoy said. "It means a lot."
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LaunchNet is a nationwide Internet Service Provider based in the USA. We are looking for a logo design that will make our company look like one of the big guys
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We are looking for a logo in which the design is integrated into the LaunchNet name. I've attached files from DSLExtreme and Megapath as examples of what we are looking for. I've also attached the LaunchNet logo for your reference. We are willing to change colors or whatever your creative mind desires.
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Well, not always that my breads turned out perfectly soft but this time, it is! The recipe was adapted from the book recommended from my dear friend (who is an expert on breads).."孟老师的100道麵包".
Oh I just love this so much! This was done this morning, which I took 1 right after baked. Then 2 more now with some butter spread on the plain ones, and of course with a cup of hot black coffee. Oh this way of having my tea break was totally heaven!


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Wednesday, January 11, 2006
The Most Lethal Backfield in America
Not to be outdone by Maurice Clarett after his recent arrest for robbing two people at gunpoint outside a Columbus bar, former Virginia Tech QB Marcus Vick was charged Monday with three counts of brandishing a firearm after pulling a gun on three teenagers during an altercation in a McDonald's parking lot.
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Michigan fans,
After stumbling across your site and getting quite a few laughs from the front page, this post included, I went through your archives to see what you guys thought about the second slaughtering at the Alamo. Not one team slaughtering the other, but refs slaughtering a matchup between two of the greatest football programs in CFB history. I just wanted to extend my apologies for the idiots that came over here acting like we blew you guys out. The officiating was horrible on both sides of the ball. Let it be known though, that both of our schools went through games with shoddy reffing, IE NU's games with OU and TTU. Best of luck next season.
A Husker Fan
- January 10, 2006 3:52 AM
Seriously, thanks for taking the trouble, AHF, but as a Michigan fan, I feel any Michigan fans who needed to be consoled about the officiating is being a baby. You don't like it? Then don't go to any fourth-rate bowl games. I agree that the general level of officiating is subpar in college football these days, but to the degree to which the Alamo was UNUSUALLY poorly reffed, Michigan and Nebraska have only themselves to blame. Now Texas and USC, THEY have a beef, because that doddering old idiot from the Michigan-MSU replay booth was actually assigned to the premier game of the last few years.
- January 10, 2006 5:17 AM
- Yost said...
Classy post, Husker fan.
- January 10, 2006 12:03 PM
I would like to compliment the artist who posted the lethal backfield pic. That is great. M.C., a waste of talent and another self-centered athlete falling from glory. If OSU had not signed him do you think UM would have, they most certainly extended him a schollie. M.V., well who cares. Anyway complaining about Alamo Bowl officials or placing the blame elsewhere is an all too familiar UM tradition. Every time something doesn't go your way or you loose another game you had no business loosing you place the blame somewhere other than where it should be. Hell you should have beat Nebraska by 3 touchdowns. They are crap, middle of the pack team in a barely breathing big 12 that only had 2 teams to talk about (OU and TX). The truth is this, L.Carr has as much talent each year as any program, he just under utilizes it consistently. You lost to a barely better than D2 team in the cornhuskers and immediately you (all UM fans) blame someone other than UM. Cry me a river and get some balls!
- February 01, 2006 10:04 AM


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Scott Brown's win last Tuesday night, represents the epitome of America's continuing on again off again relationship with the Democratic Party. The rise and fall of the DNC.
Conservative experts in the study of the rise and fall of the jackass find that root of the problem lies with the common human error of forgetfulness …
From this article at Townhall.com by conservative columnist Ann Coulter:
That Old Obama Magic is Back
by Ann Coulter
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Democrats are trying to write off Brown's colossal victory as the standard seesawing of public sentiment that hits both Republicans and Democrats from time to time. As MSNBC's Chris Matthews explained, it was just the voters saying "no" generally, but not to anything in particular.
Except when Republicans win political power, they hold onto it long enough to govern. The Democrats keep being smacked down by the voters immediately after being elected and revealing their heinous agenda.
As a result, for the past four decades, American politics has consisted of Republicans controlling Washington for eight to 14 years — either from the White House or Capitol Hill — thus allowing Americans to forget what it was they didn't like about Democrats, whom they then carelessly vote back in. The Democrats immediately remind Americans what they didn't like about Democrats, and their power is revoked at the voters' first possible opportunity.
Obama has cut the remembering-what-we-don't-like-about-Democrats stage of this process down from two to four years to about 10 months. Folks, I'm convinced that if we all work really hard, we can get it down to three months.
Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years — and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.
Two years of Bill Clinton gave us a historic Republican sweep of Congress, which killed the entire Clinton agenda (with the exception of partial-birth abortion and felony obstruction of justice) — and also gave us two terms for George W. Bush.
And now, merely one year of Obama and a Democratic Congress has given us the first Republican senator from Massachusetts in 31 years.
In other recent news, last November, New Jersey voters, who haven't voted for a Republican for president since 1988, threw out their incumbent Democratic governor, Jon Corzine. In Virginia, which Obama carried by 6 points a year earlier, a religious-right Republican won the governor's office by 17 points.
Sen. Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, won his last election in 2006 by 28 points — the largest margin for a Democratic Senate candidate in that state in a quarter-century.
Since voting for the Senate health care bill last Christmas, the once-bulletproof Sen. Nelson not only gets booed out of Omaha pizzerias, but he has also seen his job approval rating fall to 42 percent and his disapproval rating soar to 48 percent. (Meanwhile, the junior senator from Nebraska, Mike Johanns, who voted against the bill, has a job approval rating of 63 percent.)
The Democrats have no natural majority because they have no fundamental principles — at least none that they are willing to state out loud. They are like a drunken vagrant who emerges from the alley to cause havoc every few years. They are the perpetual toothache of American politics.
To be sure, the fact that 52 percent of Massachusetts voters are racist, sexist tea-baggers — i.e., voted for a Republican — means only that the Democrats just went from having the largest congressional majority in a generation to the second largest. But this was "Teddy Kennedy's seat." And it was in Massachusetts.
Now, no Democrat is safe.
But the country just got a lot safer.
Ann is right. Things are all grave (pun intended) for the Democrats because they just can't help themselves without alienating every sane, pragmatic and logical being on the planet.
What goes up always comes down to their inevitable loss due to their uncanny ability to disappoint people. I know this.
I used to sleep with the party of ass. I was the wife, mother and child of my now sworn enemy.
During my time as a liberal, I spent many nights cursing at a seemingly endless chronology of television screens which broadcast harmless electoral college maps into my home. Maps of America all lit up in Republican red. The color of Nancy Regan's suit and hair and lipstick. The color of rich people and success.
"Pretenders" is the word my mother used to describe people who were Republicans that were not rich.
"They (farmers) vote for Republicans because they want to pretend they are rich like other white people," she said visibly disappointed with the results of the 1988 election.
She wanted Michael Dukakis.
She did not care that on the inside she was a Christian that believed all gays and lesbians were sinners. It was the outside that mattered. Wearing skin of the donkeys was always about the government doing what they could for her family as blacks. Though never outspoken on the issue of abortion, mother was pro-life- belittling my aunt for having three abortions in under two years. That same aunt would later describe my deceased mother as the most racist woman she had ever met.
"That woman (my mother) was so racist," my aunt said while discussing her sister during a time when we were feeling a bit guilty about her untimely passing. " She hated Mexicans and–"
"Jews," I inserted flatly.
"Whenever your brother got in trouble in grammar school, if a black teacher did the scolding, it was okay but if the teacher was white…oh boy your momma would raise some hell up in that school…saying how they didn't understand or know how to teach black kids…No body wanted to say nuthin' to your brother cause they knew your momma would be up there at the school like–"
"It was embarrassing," I said. Young Afrocity had also been a recipient of mother's undying protection against racist teachers. "She would do the same at my school. One teacher treated me like I had leprosy after one of mom's visits. She cursed him out in front of the PTA…Funny how she could do that without one moment's thought but when it came to getting a job to feed me…well that was another story."
"Boy she hated Mexicans when she was in Texas," my aunt went fast forward to my mother's last years in Houston.
"Yes, she did," I nodded.
"She wanted America to only have real Americans, no migrants, especially Mexicans…'Whey does this country help foreigners like those Chinese and Mexicans better than they treat their own black peoples who worked as slaves.' your momma would say…America needs to help Americans."
We were both silent. This conversation was deep cleansing for both of us.
"Yes, she loved America," I said. "Perhaps she would have been a Republican, had she not been a black woman," I laughed loudly, though it still did not shake my feeling of loss.
The loss of seeing her as a whole woman with a job and goals beyond waiting for a monthly welfare check from Uncle Sam.
I will always wonder.
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It's been quite a while since I've reviewed a Ring of Honor event on DVD, and quite a lot has happened since then. Titles have changed hand, talent has changed sides, and the head booker has been replaced by a masked man.
Now we're going to jump right back into the deep end by going back to Chicago Ridge last September to see what happened when former TNA World Champion Rhino challenged Kevin Steen for the ROH World title in the main event of Death Before Dishonor X: State of Emergency.
The disc began with the first semi-final of the World Tag Team title tournament between Caprice Coleman and Cedric Alexander and the S.C.U.M. team of Steve Corino and Jimmy Jacobs.
Looks like there has been quite a bit of change since I checked in last. Corino and Jacobs have gone back to the dark side, and Jacobs is now wearing a dress. Let's just say that Brian Pillman could have pulled off that ensemble a little better.
Also, there's a stipulation here, with the bad boys promising to leave ROH if they lose in the tournament.
Now all of that is out of the way let's get back to the action. Well, it wasn't a bad opener. Alexander and Coleman have certainly come a long way since I last saw them, and they looked pretty good as they pulled off some exciting tag team moves.
Corino and Jacobs, for their part, looked decent as well, although not as polished as their less illustrious opponents.
There were a couple of slightly dodgy moments, one involving Corino surprisingly, but overall it was quite enjoyable. Sadly head honcho Jim Cornette didn't get his wish when the S.C.U.M. boys took the win. Alexander tried to roll Corino up for the three count, but after Corino kicked out Jacobs threw a chair at Alexander from ringside while the referee wasn't looking. Corino then rolled him man up with a bridging backdrop driver for the three count to advance to the tournament final.
By the way, Zombie Princess? What's that all about?
The Survival of the Fittest qualifier saw Tadarius Thomas taking on Silas Young.
This was one of those short and sweet encounters, the type of match ROH usually opened their shows with, and even though it didn't last long it was pretty enjoyable.
Young put in a very solid performance, while Thomas, a guy I don't think I've seen before impressed the hell out of me, showing the kind of flexibility that a certain Rob Van Dam showed during his ECW prime years.
There weren't many near falls to speak of here, but after Young failed to take his man down with a springboard moonsault Thomas connected with a spin kick to take the winning pin and the final spot in the tournament.
The singles action continued with Davey Richards' mini me Kyle O'Reilly taking on the debuting A.C.H. Who came up with that guy's name, Groundskeeper Willy?
All joking aside, this was another quality quickie. Like Thomas before him A.C.H. impressed me as he pulled off some great fast-paced moves.
It was a nice piece of storytelling with O'Reilly underestimating his man early on until he took him down with a suplex on the floor.
From there we saw some extremely fast exchanges, but when A.C.H. missed a 450 splash from the top rope O'Reilly applied a triangle choke, adding a few elbows into the mix as the newcomer tapped out to give O'Reilly the submission win.
Then it was back to the Tag Team title tournament semi-finals as the Briscoe Brothers took on Rhett Titus and Charlie Haas, accompanied here by Shelton Benjamin.
Much was made of the dissension between Haas and Titus, and it was another storyline that was well played out, because while the brothers put in a good combined effort their opponents only tagged each other twice during the entire match.
Haas took on most of the workload for his team as he attempted to put Jay away, but when Jay got the hot tag his brother Mark came in and proceeded to batter Haas with his unique kung fu stylings.
It was only when Titus tagged himself into the match that this hybrid team had any chance of winning, and just when it looked like the Briscoes were going to take Titus down with their version of the Doomsday Device Haas managed to come back into the ring to stop the action, with Titus taking the win for his team with a roll-up on Jay.
By the way, is it me or is Mark borrowing a few mannerisms from George Steele these days?
After a brief in-ring speech from the returning Davey Richards it was back to singles action and a battle between old enemies as Jay Lethal went up against Homicide.
Looks like Lethal is another one whose attitude has changed since I last checked in with these shows, thanks to Jim Cornette telling him that he didn't have a killer instinct.
Before the match began Homicide got in the face of our esteemed commentators Kevin Kelly and Nigel McGuinness, telling them that Lethal couldn't beat him. Remember that for later kiddies.
What we had here was a battle between two guys channelling the forces of the dark side, and it was a very solid and very good match. Mind you, I wasn't expecting anything less, considering the number of times they've faced each other in the past few years.
It started off, surprisingly, with both men observing the Code of Honor, but it wasn't long before the niceties went out of the window, especially when the action spilled to the outside of the ring and Homicide wanted to bring a few toys into the equation. The referee was having none of this though. He looked even more shocked when they tried to put each other through the timekeeper's table.
Eventually the match settled down, and it wasn't long before Lethal brought out the big moves as he attempted to put his man away. First came the Macho Man elbow, but instead of going for the pin he went for the Lethal Combination. That didn't get the job done though.
So Lethal picked his man up and took him down with a second Lethal Combination, and once again Homicide kicked out of the pin, taunting Lethal that he couldn't beat him.
So Lethal upped his game even further, and a few moments later he finally tasted success, taking Lethal down with a DDT variation for the winning pin.
The Tag Team Challenge Match saw the House of Truth team of Roderick Strong and Michael Elgin, accompanied by Truth Martini and his extraordinary hair, taking on Irish Airborne's Jake and Dave Crist.
Another thing I've missed is the dissension in Martini's ranks, with Elgin apparently unhappy with his place in the grand scheme of things.
This match was basically another chapter in the House of Truth's breaking up storyline, not that there's anything wrong with that. It began with Strong taking on Jake, and after he was on the receiving end of a few of the Airborne's double team moves he tagged himself out of the match.
It then became a handicap match for all intents and purposes. Elgin put on a great display of power as he took both Crists down, but when he went to tag his partner Strong either jumped off the apron or walked off in the opposite direction.
Despite the lack of assistance from his partner Elgin went on to dominate his opponents, who were more or less becoming the forgotten men of this encounter. Elgin proceeded to take Dave apart, first with a buckle bomb and then with a normal powerbomb.
It was then that Strong wanted to tag in, but Elgin was having nothing of it, and while he was attempting to take Jake out after he'd charged into the ring Strong tagged himself in, so while Elgin took Jake down with another buckle bomb Strong pinned the fallen Dave to take the pin and the glory for his team. Needless to say that Elgin wasn't too happy with things.
After the introduction of guest commentator Matt Hardy it was on to the first title match of the evening as Mike Mondo challenged Adam Cole for the TV title.
Before the match began Mondo grabbed the microphone and challenged Cole to a "No Fear" rules match, with no count out and no time limit. It was a challenge that Cole readily accepted.
Now this was good. It started off with a long lock up as both men jockeyed for position. Neither man was willing to give way as they took the hold around the ring, out of the ring and around ringside before heading back into the ring.
Then it settled down into a nice technical encounter, with Cole working over Mondo's leg in preparation for his figure four before Mondo took the upper hand working over Cole's arm in preparation for his double-armed DDT.
The action got really heated when it spilled out of the ring. After they rammed each other into the metal barricades Cole dragged Mondo up the aisle and planted him head first on the floor with a suplex. He then went back to the ring, intent on taking the count out win before remembering the he himself had waived the count out rule.
Eventually the action returned to the ring, and Cole was able to apply his new submission hold of choice. Mondo tried to fight the figure four and even managed to roll over and put the pressure on Cole's legs for a few moments. Cole soon regained the momentum though, and it wasn't long before Mondo tapped out to give Cole the title retaining submission win.
Matt Hardy then got up from his seat at the commentary table and grabbed the microphone, and after Cole and Mondo observed the Code of Honor once again he got into the ring and shook Cole's hand. He then went on to talk about the comparisons between Cole and his young self before declaring his intentions by saying that he's a lot better than Cole is now.
The penultimate match was the final of the Tag Team title tournament, with Steve Corino and Jimmy Jacobs taking on Rhett Titus and Charlie Haas, who were once again accompanied by Shelton Benjamin.
Once again the dissent between Haas and Titus was apparent for all to see. The arguments began before the match, and once it started they hardly tagged each other again.
This seemed to make things a lot easier for Jacobs and Corino. They looked a bit better this time around as they used Titus as their personal punching bag. It was only then that Haas wanted into the match.
But with Titus refusing to tag him in Haas eventually went in anyway as the mass brawl began, and as he began brawling with Corino in the corner, and as the referee tried to separate them, Benjamin made his presence known when he took Jacobs down with a super kick.
This wasn't the way Titus wanted to do things, and even though Benjamin urged him to pin the fallen Jacobs Titus was more intent on arguing with his partner's partner.
When Titus eventually went over to Jacobs Benjamin had had enough as he took Titus down with his Paydirt move. Jacobs had recovered by this time, and the first thing he saw was Titus laying prone in the ring. A three count later and we had new champions.
Unsurprisingly Haas and Benjamin blamed Titus for the loss, and when Titus tried to explain to Haas what Benjamin had done Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team attacked Titus and took him down with their double spine buster.
The main event saw Rhino, accompanied by Truth Martini, challenging Kevin Steen for the World title.
Before the match began Executive Producer Jim Cornette came down to the ring and grabbed the microphone, changing the match to an anything goes affair because both men were experienced in fighting under a no DQ stipulation.
So with those stipulations in place I have to say that this was quite unlike any other ROH World title match I've seen. Over the years I've been treated to some technical classics, but this was as far removed from those technical classics you could get.
In short, this was one big brawl between two big guys, and it was pretty good. They threw everything they could at each other, and then some, and despite the fact that these two were meant to be hated heels the crowd were lapping it up.
It wasn't long into the match that the tables and chairs were brought into the equation, and as all hell broke loose even the lovely lady timekeeper took a shot when Martini managed to avoid Steen's super kick. Moments later Martini clobbered Steen with his massive book, setting him up so Rhino could dive over the top rope and put him through a table.
As the action went on, and when it looked as if Rhino was about to put Steen through a second table Steve Corino appeared on the scene in an attempt to convince his former ECE protégé to stop the carnage. Rhino was having none of it, and Corino soon found himself on the receiving end of a gore, as did Jacobs, as did the referee.
Further attempts at interference followed as Roderick Strong went flying over the ropes and Martini was taken out by Steen's package piledriver. It was then that Rhino tried to set up for the gore again, but Steen moved out of the way and Rhino went crashing through the table.
Steen then lifted the Man Beast onto his shoulders and took him down with the F5 for the title retaining pin.
As the champion celebrated number one contender Michael Elgin came down to the ring. Steen spat on his challenger, and as Elgin was about to take Steen down Corino pushed Strong into them to break them up. Strong tried to plead his innocence but it didn't help him much as Elgin took him down with a powerbomb as the show came to an end.
The bonus feature comes in the form of a backstage segment with the S.C.U.M. boys as they celebrated their various title triumphs.
In conclusion - as I said at the beginning of this piece it's been quite a while since I've reviewed an ROH event on DVD, and to be honest with you I think I've been a little spoiled having watched all of those compilations last year.
Death Before Dishonor X was a good event. The action was good, and the majority of the matches were quite good, but for me it just seemed to be lacking that certain something. It took me a while to figure out what that was, but then I realised that it was actually quite a simple thing.
The sound. You see for all of the show the way the sound was handled kind of bugged me. While you could clearly hear the commentators, the bumps in the ring and the entrance music you couldn't hardly hear the most important people in the building, the fans.
Let me explain: when the wrestlers made their entrances you could clearly hear the music as well as the announcers, but you couldn't hear the crowd reactions. It was something that went on for most of the show, and this lack of atmosphere ruined things a little. It meant that you couldn't get wrapped up in the fan's reactions to the matches.
But enough of this. You're probably wondering who is going to get the esteemed no-prize this time around. This time the award is going to Adam Cole's TV title defence against Mike Mondo. A great piece of technical wrestling, even though it had a no DQ stipulation.
So with all of that out of the way it's time to end this thing by giving Death Before Dishonor X the thumbs up for it's action and a thumbs down for it's lack of atmosphere because of the technical issues.
With thanks to the powers that be for supplying a copy of this release. Death Before Dishonor X can be purchased online at www.rohwrestling.com.


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I don't know if atheistnexus.org has already discussed this but this is horrible! Children are either tortured, buried alive or stabbed to death after being accused of witchcraft. It's like Salem.
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"Religious leaders capitalize on the ignorance of some parents in the villages just to make some money off them," said Lucky Inyang, project coordinator for 'Stepping Stones Nigeria'."They can say your child is a witch and if you bring the child to the church we can deliver the child but eventually they don't deliver the children... The parents go back to the pastor and say, 'why is it you have not been able to deliver the child' and the pastor says 'Oh - this one has gone past deliverance - they've eaten too much flesh so you have to throw the child out. And most pastors charge a fee for deliverance -- anywhere from $300 to $2,000."
This ideally could be good for atheist PR if we were more funded. We could offer assistance to those who've suffered under religion like these kids. I also don't see any Christian organizations stepping up and stopping this madness.
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Fashionisticly challenged
To my considerable annoyance, I somehow ended up on a mailing list for men's bicycling 'apparel.' This is not mere clothing. No, no, it's called apparel because the word 'clothing' is too plebeian. This stuff represents a lifestyle choice reflecting one's highly refined taste, fashion sense, and apparently, over-filled wallet.
Garrison Keillor said that he had some friends with lifestyles while other friends had children.
These 'apparel' people are trying to sell me a two hundred dollar pair of pants. Oh, they're nice enough, what with being made of some miracle fiber that repels coffee and wine stains while retaining a plush, lightly brushed surface that's oh-so-comfortable. Tell you what - I have a nineteen-year-old son working in a garage. Let's see if he can put some irreversible stains on these pants. Better still, let me wear them while I work on a couple of commuter bikes. How's that magic fabric stand up to chain lube?
Besides, I've bought old, used cars for two hundred bucks. My first 'adult' bike cost less than that.
One other thing - these are essentially knickers meant to be worn without knicker socks. I suppose it projects a cosmopolitan, care-free attitude as you cruise down the boulevard on your fixed gear bike, perfect for bar-hopping on weekends or making that run to the trendy coffee shop down the street. Honestly, unless you're going cross-country skiing, men over the age of 15 should not be seen in public wearing knickers.
Curiously enough, this company is based in southern California - where 'winter cycling clothing' consists of a long sleeve jersey. Let's try this stuff in North Dakota come January or February. I'm sure the frozen body will still look fashionably chic when the spring thaw arrives.
I can imagine the scene if I came home in a pair of $200 pants. She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed wouldn't give me a 'come hither' look and say, "My, you look so handsome and devil-may-care in those! Be still my heart!"
No, it's more likely she'd make a disparaging comment (or two, or three, or however many days we still have on this planet) involving my lack of intelligence, shortfall in common sense, and inability to think clearly and logically while various kitchen implements fly through the air toward my head. She's not very good at throwing knives, but I'd still prefer to avoid it.
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Opinion: Breakout for the U.S. Economy?
Americas columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady explains why economists in a new survey are predicting 3.3% growth next quarter.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... Opinion Journal on Dan Henninger sitting in for Mary Kissel ... well the Wall Street Journal in its survey of economists from a projected that the U S economy might throw in the second quarter at three point three percent some thought might get as high as four percent ... well that would be good news since that the economy grew in first quarter at a rate of oh point one percent ... here talk about the these projections with me is the Wall Street Journal's Mary Anastasia O'Grady ... married ... I think the obvious question of ... coming out of this survey is this the long-awaited breakout for the United States economy ... I think it's too early to Pow aam you know if you look at the first Potter and the official number came in at point one percent that's a very weak very Libor shelling out ... and out revisions suggests that we get my of actually contract in the first corner ... so it's not unusual to see if you have that kind of of of lackluster performance in the first quarter then you would have some kind of a rebound second quieter ... because we're not hopefully heading into a recession don't trying to come out of recession so ... I think a lot of the activity that mind of occurred in the first quarter was pushed into the second fire was being pushed and second on and ... so on ... but if you look it be totally year forecasts when looking at something like you know to unchanged at two point three ... I'm you know that's exactly and booming economy is specially take into account how weak the economy has banned in the last five years sell me normally when you have a bad recession ... it's returned with that I'm you know that that's the cycle of debt up in an economic growth ... the corporate scene ... let's talk a little bit about the last five years the means through the slow growth period that there is panic Autobot the ... strong relationship between the economy and what the Federal Reserve is doing when trends ... several iterations of quantitative easing ... I guess the question at this point is how relevant is the Federal Reserve to ... the economy going forward ... well I think that what the Fed Reserve is figuring out what is that is really less and less relevant I mean this this this strategy had and then if you keep interest rates very well ... and you ... push a lot of money out into the banks ... that somehow this will entice people to start borrowing ... and that will see economic growth ... but the problem and said I'm you know all I've had QE once you reach into the fray noted the balance sheet that's four times as big ... as it was in the beginning that means there's four times as much ... money available not all of that is in the system but it's a valve up ... on me and ... whom you still have ... you know first clutter of ... point one percent growth so ... that I think it's telling the Fed that the QE is ... not going to help anymore and I think that's the primary reason why there is not stopping it not because they think of the economy is ... big and strong now and we can leave it's because they've finally admitted this doesn't work go ... will do so ... there's some ... expectation that they're going to hold off on raising interest rates till the second quarter of twenty fifteen ... that leaves a long period of people to sort of maneuver their way through ... the zero ... rate interest and barman I mean I think one of the things they've tried to do with this um create some wealth in the ... economy by ... pushing up the stock market and of course with very low interest rates corporations can borrow ... very cheaply ... on that span and good generator and asset wealth ... aam but I and I think for that reason they don't want to forecast any kind of ... increases in interest rates ... until the market gets really use to the idea that their son to be more QE know aam and so they're just putting engaging way out in time so that nobody well um you know the market won't get jittery it