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2010-05-26 / Columnists
Pets, Pets, Pets
Alf Wight. Chances are, you never heard of him. Yet, he enchanted millions with his tales of a country vet, probably inspired more people than anyone else to enter the field of veterinary medicine, and was (and still is) the biggest boost to tourism of the Yorkshire Dales. If you are an animal lover, you know him better by his familiar pen name- James Herriot (1916-1995), the veterinarian and author behind All Creatures Great and Small and a host of other heartwarming books.
Last week I had the privilege of listening to James Wight, Herriot's son, a retired veterinarian, talk about his life and the practice he shared for 25 years with his famous dad. Wight came to the U.S. to address the graduating veterinarians at the University of Pennsylvania, and later was a guest at the NYC Veterinary Specialists Hospital on West 55th Street so the city veterinary community and a few fortunate fans would get the opportunity to meet him.
In 1999, James Wight published The Real James Herriot, A Memoir of My Father. This biography gives an inside glimpse at a skilled surgeon who never let being a best-selling author interfere with his devotion to animals and people. Each Herriot chapter offers humor, compassion and insights into human nature. Wight reminisced that after his father had become a celebrity, the tour buses would arrive to demand visits while the duo was busy spaying a cat. Herriot had to set aside specific weekdays for book signings, and once joked that the waiting room had "one hamster, two Yorkshire Terriers and 45 Americans."
Proceeds from the NYC event benefited the James Herriot Museum (www.worldofjamesherriot.org) in the UK which consists of the original Skedale househis home and surgery office as it looked in the 1940s; archival medicines and items that chronicle veterinary history; and a recreation of the set where the BBC television series- All Creatures Great and Small was filmed. The Museum holds a writing competition and a bi-annual Herriot convention.
Herriot served as a vet full time from 1940-80.The works of Herriot including sequels All Things Bright and Beautiful; All Things Wise and Wonderful capture a nostalgic era when veterinary medicine was undergoing a metamorphosis. During those four decades, antibiotics were refined whereas practices shifted from large animals to small animals, as the one-person farms gave way to conglomerates.
Herriot's books have sold 85-90 million copies worldwide and were later turned into two feature films plus a BBC television program, but Wight explained that fame never changed his humble father who considered himself 99% vet and 1% author- (although, in later years, 1% vet and 99% author comprised his income). He described his dad as a well-read man who enjoyed writing as a hobby. In fact, Herriot typed his manuscripts alongside his family while watching the "telly" and endured ten years of editor rejections before he was successfully published.
It wasn't until 1972 when the St. Martin's Press editor combined Herriot's first two books under the new title All Creatures Great and Small that Herriot became an overnight literary sensation. At that time, if he had published under his real name, his profession would have construed this as brash advertising so Alf Wight chose "James Herriot" (after a talented soccer player) as his nom de plume. All characters (including partner Siegfried and his brother Tristan) and places were rechristened to protect the innocent or guilty, and to preserve their anonymity and that of his quaint village. Herriot sets his practice in a place called Darrowby but actually his clinic was in Thirsk.
Despite some reviewers labeling Herriot's works as fiction, Wight insists that each animal anecdote did occur. Sometimes his father would "borrow" the cases that had happened to his son including one of my favorites- the story of Blossom, the old cow that broke away from the slaughterman and raced back home as the farmer who loved her was trying to reclaim her. Other times Herriot would morph locals so they wouldn't recognize themselves, but they often did, just the same.
Wight chuckled about how the farmers and pet owning clients in Yorkshire were so delinquent in paying, how they wouldn't praise your skill because you may then charge more, and how it was often years before they settled outstanding bills. The vet was always the last to get his money. Back then many emergencies, even the farm animal calls, would come in the middle of the night. Waiting until the last minute, the farmer had tried every home remedy (to save money), so the poor animal was often moribund by the time the vet got there. Still, they expected the good doctor to work a miracle, and many times, he did.
Theyounger Wight talked about Mrs. Bush who owned a pub and a piggery. His father was called out to deliver a dozen piglets while Mrs. Bush held a broom in the sow's mouth. After Herriot's sweaty ordeal, she offered him a bucket to clean up and a mug of ale in her pub, but was quick to hold out her hand and say: "That'll be five bob." In a subsequent book the parsimonious pub owner was turned into a composite character of several farmers. However, the veil was thin, since the real Mrs. Bush remarked to Herriot: "I enjoyed your book. Aye, Mr. Wight, that fellow with his pigs could've been me."
For Adoption at Town of Oyster Bay Shelter (677-5784) Miller Pl. Syosset: "Atticus" #185 is an active male Shepherd mix found as a stray in Massapequa while "Simba"#865 is a small young Pit mix who has been waiting a long time for her forever home. She had obedience lessons during the time the Mixed Breeds in Need volunteer trainers were at the shelter. Dog: "Tut" white Shepherd/Lab
Cats: "Clyde" tuxedo male; "Sushi"- orange & white male in the lobby.


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It is interesting. At least once upon a time, the United States was a very religious country, yet few of its presidents, at least those in the last century, have been at all religious. Several have had the loosest religious affiliation if any.
Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton never allied themselves with any specific congregation, at least as president, but all identified themselves as Christians. This is true of Barack Obama, as well.
Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush were on the rolls of their congregations, but among them the only regular churchgoers were Wilson, Kennedy and Carter.
Possibly religious conflicts in their families had an effect. Eisenhower's mother was a Jehovah's Witness. She seemed to have been the more religious of his two parents, but the future president never associated himself with her religion. Harry Truman was reared a Baptist. His wife, Elizabeth "Bess" Wallace Truman, was a lifelong committed Episcopalian.
Richard Nixon's mother, again the more religious parent, was a Quaker. He never formally connected with any Quaker congregation, and actually spoke publicly of the difference between his views about the military and warfare and Quaker pacifism. Nixon's wife, Patricia Ryan Nixon, was the daughter of an inactive Catholic, whose sister was a nun, and a Protestant mother. Apparently, however, she was never baptized a Catholic, nor did she ever associate herself with the Catholic Church.
Ronald Reagan was the son of an inactive Catholic and active Protestant, but Reagan was never baptized a Catholic, nor did he ever practice the religion. His first wife, actress Jane Wyman, was a Catholic, and Reagan allowed their two children to be raised as Catholics.
Wilson nursed some hostile feelings for Catholics, it would seem, but anti-Catholicism was not a problem for the other presidents of the past 100 years, if their writings and actions are to be believed.
For example, when Truman's nephew was married to a Catholic, the president wrote Bess Truman that it was fine with him. As far as Catholics were concerned, Truman had served in the First World War in a unit in which he was about the only soldier who was not Irish-American and Catholic. The Catholic chaplain became Truman's friend for life. Indeed when this priest visited Washington between 1945 and 1953, he usually was the Trumans' guest in the White House. Truman, an amateur pianist, loved Gregorian chant.
The most intriguing figure in this discussion is Lyndon Johnson.
Nominally a member of the Disciples of Christ, with an Episcopalian wife, he had a fascination for the Catholic Church. He said that it dated to his days when he taught Mexican immigrant children. Johnson retired in 1969 and returned to his boyhood home in Texas where he eventually died. In his last years he often attended Sunday Mass, and it was not rare for him to go to weekday Mass.
When he died, the local Catholic pastor with whom Johnson developed a friendship officiated at his burial. Johnson's daughter, Luci, converted to Catholicism while her father was in the White House. It made news around the world.
Coincidentally, when Johnson took the presidential oath in Dallas a few hours after John F. Kennedy's assassination, he held a Catholic missal. In that frenzied moment, no one could find a Bible, but somebody found Kennedy's missal with which he traveled.
Msgr. Owen F. Campion is OSV's associate publisher.
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2. "I can't seem to find your records."
This type of information is kept best to yourself and your staff, particularly because your patient has nothing to do with their missing records. Figure out where they went as quickly as possible and get on with the procedure, otherwise, you're going to needlessly stress out your patient over a silly and easily preventable administrative hiccup.


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|Request methods
|Header fields
|Status codes
The 404 or Not Found error message is an HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with a given server, but the server could not find what was requested.
The web site hosting server will typically generate a "404 Not Found" web page when a user attempts to follow a broken or dead link; hence the 404 error is one of the most recognizable errors encountered on the World Wide Web.
When communicating via HTTP, a server is required to respond to a request, such as a web browser request for a web page, with a numeric response code and an optional, mandatory, or disallowed (based upon the status code) message. In the code 404, the first digit indicates a client error, such as a mistyped Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The following two digits indicate the specific error encountered. HTTP's use of three-digit codes is similar to the use of such codes in earlier protocols such as FTP and NNTP.
At the HTTP level, a 404 response code is followed by a human-readable "reason phrase". The HTTP specification suggests the phrase "Not Found"[1] and many web servers by default issue an HTML page that includes both the 404 code and the "Not Found" phrase.
A 404 error is often returned when pages have been moved or deleted. In the first case, it is better to employ URL mapping or URL redirection by returning a 301 Moved Permanently response, which can be configured in most server configuration files, or through URL rewriting; in the second case, a 410 Gone should be returned. Because these two options require special server configuration, most websites do not make use of them.
404 errors should not be confused with DNS errors, which appear when the given URL refers to a server name that does not exist. A 404 error indicates that the server itself was found, but that the server was not able to retrieve the requested page.
Custom error pages
Web servers can typically be configured to display a customised 404 error page, including a more natural description, the parent site's branding, and sometimes a site map, a search form or 404 page widget. The protocol level phrase, which is hidden from the user, is rarely customized.
Internet Explorer, however, will not display custom pages unless they are larger than 512 bytes, opting instead to display a "friendly" error page.[2] Google Chrome includes similar functionality, where the 404 is replaced with alternative suggestions generated by Google algorithms, if the page is under 512 bytes in size.[citation needed]
Another problem is that if the page does not provide a favicon, and a separate custom 404 page exists, extra traffic and longer loading times will be generated on every page view.[3][4]
Many organizations use 404 error pages as an opportunity to inject humor into what may otherwise be a serious website. For example, Metro UK shows a polar bear on a skateboard, and the web development agency Left Logic has a simple drawing program.[5]
While many websites send additional information in a 404 error message—such as a link to the homepage of a website or a search box—some also endeavor to find the correct web page the user wanted. Extensions are available for some popular content management systems (CMSs) to do this.[6]
In Europe, the NotFound project, created by multiple European organisations including Missing Children Europe and Child Focus, encourages site operators to add a snippet of code to serve customised 404 error pages[7] which provide data about missing children.[8]
Tracking/Checking 404 errors
A number of tools exist that crawl through a website to find pages that return 404 status codes. These tools can be helpful in finding links that exist within a particular website. The limitation of these tools is that they only find links within one particular website, and ignore 404s resulting from links on other websites. As a result, these tools miss out on 83% of the 404s on websites.[9] One way around this is to find 404 errors by analyzing external links.[10]
Another common method is tracking traffic to 404 pages using log file analysis.[11] This can be useful to understand more about what 404s users reached on the site. Another method of tracking traffic to 404 pages is using JavaScript-based traffic tracking tools.[12]
Phony 404 errors
Some websites report a "not found" error by returning a standard web page with a "200 OK" response code, falsely reporting that the page loaded properly; this is known as a soft 404. Soft 404s are problematic for automated methods of discovering whether a link is broken. Some search engines, like Yahoo, use automated processes to detect soft 404s.[13] Soft 404s can occur as a result of configuration errors when using certain HTTP server software, for example with the Apache software, when an Error Document 404 (specified in a .htaccess file) is specified as an absolute path (e.g. http://example.com/error.html) rather than a relative path (/error.html).[14] This can also be done on purpose to force some browsers (like Internet Explorer) to display a customized 404 error message rather than replacing what is served with a browser-specific "friendly" error message (in Internet Explorer, this behavior is triggered when a 404 is served and the received HTML is shorter than a certain length, and can be manually disabled by the user).
Some proxy servers generate a 404 error when the remote host is not present, rather than returning the correct 500-range code when errors such as hostname resolution failures or refused TCP connections prevent the proxy server from satisfying the request. This can confuse programs that expect and act on specific responses, as they can no longer easily distinguish between an absent web server and a missing web page on a web server that is present.
In July 2004, the UK telecom provider BT Group deployed the Cleanfeed content blocking system, which returns a 404 error to any request for content identified as potentially illegal by the Internet Watch Foundation.[15] Other ISPs return a HTTP 403 "forbidden" error in the same circumstances.[16] The practice of employing fake 404 errors as a means to conceal censorship has also been reported in Thailand[17] and Tunisia.[18] In Tunisia, where censorship was severe before the 2011 revolution, people became aware of the nature of the fake 404 errors and created an imaginary character named "Ammar 404" who represents "the invisible censor".[19]
Slang usage
In 2008, a study carried out by the telecommunications arm of the Royal Mail[20] found that "404" became a slang synonym for "clueless" in the United Kingdom. Slang lexicographer Jonathon Green said that "404" as a slang term had been driven by the "influence of technology" and young people, but at the time, such usage was relatively confined to London and other urban areas.[20]
See also
- ↑ "6.5.4 404 Not Found". ietf.org. Retrieved 2014-07-25.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Friendly HTTP Error Pages". 18 August 2010. Retrieved 14 June 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Heng, Christopher (7 September 2008). "What is Favicon.ico and How to Create a Favicon Icon for Your Website". thesitewizard.com. Retrieved 23 February 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "The Dastardly "favicon.ico not found" Error". Internet Folks. 3 August 1999.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "From skateboarding bears to missing children: The power of the 404 Not Found error page". Metro. 6 June 2011. Retrieved 16 April 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Swenson, Sahala (19 August 2008). "Make your 404 pages more useful". Official Google Webmaster Central Blog. Google, Inc. Retrieved 28 August 2009.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Notfound.org".<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Missing children messages go on 404 error pages". BBC News. 27 September 2012. Retrieved 20 September 2014.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Sources Leading To 404s". SpringTrax. Retrieved 11 February 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Cushing, Anne (2 April 2013). "A Data-Centric Approach To Identifying 404 Pages Worth Saving". Search Engine Land. Retrieved 7 June 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Tracking and Preventing 404 Errors". 404errorpages.com. Retrieved 7 June 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Understand 404 Errors". SpringTrax.com. Retrieved 7 June 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Why is your crawler asking for strange URLs that have never existed on my site?". Yahoo Ysearch Help page. Retrieved 4 September 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Farewell to soft 404s". Google Official Blog. Retrieved 20 September 2008.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "LINX Public Affairs » Cleanfeed: the facts". Publicaffairs.linx.net. 10 September 2004. Retrieved 6 March 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "DEMON – Error 403". Retrieved 14 June 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Sambandaraksa, Don (18 February 2009). "The old fake '404 Not Found' routine". Bangkok Post. Retrieved 12 September 2010.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Noman, Helmi (12 September 2008). "Tunisian journalist sues government agency for blocking Facebook, claims damage for the use of 404 error message instead of 403". Open Net Initiative. Retrieved 21 November 2010.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Anti-censorship movement in Tunisia: creativity, courage and hope!". Global Voices Advocacy. 27 May 2010. Archived from the original on 7 July 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2010.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 "Don't be 404, know the tech slang". BBC News Online. 10 December 2008. Retrieved 13 December 2008.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
External links
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to [[commons:Category:{{#property:P373}}|HTTP 404]].
- A More Useful 404
- 404 Not Found of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content specification, at the Internet Engineering Task Force
- ErrorDocument Directive – instructions on custom error pages for the Apache 2.0 web server


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Monday, August 1, 2011
Moving right along
This is my block #5 called the Star.
Here's block #6, the Arkansas Traveler.
Block #7, the Six Pointed String Quilt. I was afraid to trim this one down to 12.5" because I think it's jacked up. It's not exactly square if you know what I mean, so I decided to leave it a little wider until the end of the series when I get ready to sew all the squares together. This block was really fun for me to make. I loved just grabbing some strips and sewing them together and see what I ended up with. If my block is too jacked up to use I definitely won't mind making another one.
Block #8, called Lucky Pieces. I just love the aqua and plum combination in this block.
Now I have to start thinking about what I will do to enlarge this quilt a little. I think I'm going to make some extra squares and add to it along with added some sashing and corner stones. We'll see though.
8 comments:
- Linz said...
These blocks look aMAZing!!! Perfect!!!!!
- August 1, 2011 at 12:18 PM
- Debbie said...
Your blocks are fantastic! I'm a tad behind & can't wait to get back to them!!
- August 1, 2011 at 12:34 PM
- Melinda said...
I think my favorites are 8 and 5. Oh my, did you use white? Not white! Just kidding (you know what I'm talking about!).
- August 1, 2011 at 1:33 PM
Your points are killing me, SO perfect! I really wish I had started this series, your blocks might be the push I need to try it out.
My fave is definitely the star. I love the way the stripes made a hexie. Can't wait to see the finished quilt, and it better be in person! ;)
- August 1, 2011 at 9:12 PM
- Mishka said...
Your blocks look awesome!
- August 2, 2011 at 2:55 PM
- MulticoloredPieces said...
What fun blocks! Just stopped by from Quilting Bloggers to enjoy your blog while trying to beat the heat. You're quilts are great--l like your use of color. Happy quilting!
best, nadia
- August 3, 2011 at 12:00 PM
- Toni said...
Your blocks are fabulous! I love that you are using all solids!
- August 3, 2011 at 3:05 PM
- Lyanna L. said...
These blocks look great, I love the color story! =)
- August 8, 2011 at 7:33 PM


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California Senate Bill (SB) 1221 – which bans the use of hounds to pursue bear and bobcat – was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown last year but now faces a new legislative challenge and the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors intends to support that challenge.
California Senate Bill (SB) 1221 – which bans the use of hounds to pursue bear and bobcat – was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown last year but now faces a new legislative challenge and the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors intends to support that challenge.
At the April 2 regular board of supervisors meeting the board approved a letter to recently-elected Dist. 1 Assemblyman Brian Dahle asking that he support Assembly Bill (AB) 1230. Assemblyman Tim Donnelly (R-Hesperia) representing the 33rd assembly district, introduced the new bill last month, which would repeal the ban on hunting with hounds.
"Dedicated citizens came out to oppose the hypocritical and purposeless government ban imposed by SB 1221 last year. They were ignored. I am excited to give their voice another chance to be heard," said Donnelly in a press release.
Author of SB 1221, State Senator Ted Lieu (D-Torrance), and other supporters of the hound ban such as the Humane Society of the United States, alleged that pursuing bear and bobcat with hounds was inhumane and cruel because animals are sometimes chased for several miles before being cornered or treed. In addition, supporters said the hounds sometimes mauled the animals.
However, houndsmen and women say the practice of treeing a bear or bobcat is humane because it allows hunters to be selective in their hunt by affording up-close inspection of an animal before choosing to kill it or not. Hunters say undersized or pregnant bears are often released. Opponents of SB 1221 also say that treeing animals allows hunters to get a clean shot and avoid chasing wounded animals and possibly losing them. In addition, supporters of hunting with hounds say it is an essential tool in managing bear populations, which they fear will grow out of control without the practice.
The supervisors' letter to Dahle states that with the passage of SB 1221 is "an essential, efficient and cost effective wildlife management tool has been eliminated." The letter calls the ban an "ill-conceived, emotionally driven bill" and says the state is "now on the brink of a management crisis consisting of an over-abundance of predators and a precipitous decline in prey species."
According to data from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, about half of the bears taken in the state over the past decade were reportedly taken with the assistance of hounds.
The letter to Dahle also states that the skills necessary in hunting with hounds is "not something you can just pull off the shelf whenever the need arises." The supervisors say, because only a short time has elapsed since the passage of SB 1221, there is still time to reverse course and save the skill set.
According to the Donnelly press release, AB 1230 has been referred to the Assembly Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife and is awaiting notice of a hearing date.


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St. Joseph rolls in Northeast Classic
TRUMBULL -- There's no doubt the St. Joseph boys basketball team took a hit when Quincy McKnight transferred to the Phelps School of Pennsylvania over the summer.
However, as head coach Chris Watts likes to remind his team as often as possible, it was anything but a knockout punch.
"I tell the guys, the train doesn't stop for anybody," Watts said. "Whether it was the freshman we lost last year or one of the best players in the state in Quincy this year, it doesn't matter. The train doesn't stop. We don't wish this or regret that. We have to keep playing St. Joe's basketball."
The Cadets certainly did that Friday night, flying out of the gates and cruising to a 75-40 victory over rebuilding St. Moore of Staten Island in the opening round of the Northeast Classic at Montelli Gymnasium.
St. Joseph simply had too much size, too much strength and way too much talent for the Mavericks (1-10), who were bereft of height and had just two players on the bench.
Sophomore forward Mike Sulik (10 points, 11 rebounds) got the Cadets off to a fast start, hitting two 3-pointers while pulling down four rebounds over the first three minutes. Senior captain Jon Dzurenda helped St. Joseph put the game away early, scoring 17 of his game-high 22 points in the first half to stake the Cadets to a 44-18 advantage at the break.
St. Moore received nice efforts from 5-6 freshman point guard Edwin Valentine (15 points) and senior forward Wanjala Mwesiga, who scored 14 points with his team's only two 3-pointers of the game. But it wasn't even close to being enough.
With each passing game, perhaps with each trip down the floor, Watts sees his team making constant strides in a positive direction. The Cadets (2-1) have won two straight since a narrow setback against Westhill in the season-opener.
"It's only the third game, but there is improvement since the first game," Watts said. "It was a great Westhill team that beat us, but I think we improved against Warde and I think we improved tonight."
The Cadets are sure to find out what their made of Saturday night when they face St. Francis of Queens, N.Y., in the final game of the tournament. There is no official championship game in the round-robin format, but this might as well be it. St. Francis (10-1), which competes in a highly-competitive Catholic League in New York City, posted a 60-42 victory over Trinity Catholic in the first game of a double-header Friday night.
"(Saturday) is going to be a totally different night," Watts said. "Any time you can beat Trinity by more than 10 points, it's going to be a tough game. Any time a New York team comes into any gym, it's going to be a contest."
Some early bravado by the Terriers might just make it electrifying.
"Their coach didn't have a problem telling us they play in the best league in the country," Watts said. "My guys understood and took a hint from what he was trying to say. So now that's a challenge for us. Now we want to come out and show that the FCIAC is one of the toughest leagues in the country."
No matter what the outcome, and perhaps no matter what the Cadets do over the next few weeks, St. Joseph promises to be a very exciting team come the end of January. By then, the Cadets will finally have Arkel Ager on the floor.
Without even playing a game, Ager, a 6-foot-5 junior guard who transferred from Ohio, is already being looked at by at least a dozen Division I programs. That includes UConn, which sent Ricky Moore to Trumbull over the summer to have an up-close look.
"He was a top-five player in New England at the end of the summer. He's on every big D-1 school's radar," Watts said. "He's no secret now. Everyone knows he's here. Coaches know he's here. It's just a matter of getting him going."
The Cadets got going early against Moore, jumping out to a 20-12 lead at the end of the first quarter. Dzurenda then scored 11 points over the first four minutes of the second quarter and point guard Raekwon Reid, who sat the entire second half as he rests a lingering knee injury, scored five straight as the Cadets used a 21-0 run to take a 41-14 lead.
St. Joseph dominated the rest of the night behind its huge front court of 6-6 center Steve Hashemi, 6-4 forward Jordan Vazzano (nine rebounds, two blocks) and 6-2 forward Erick Langston (nine points, four assists).
With a huge lead, the Cadets got an extended look at some of their role players. Senior Darren Jackson was impressive, scoring six straight points late in the third.
Edwin Valentine 5 5-8 15, Quadir Williams 1 4-6 6, Peter Quercia 2 0-0 4, Kevin Brauer 0 0-0 0, Wanjala Mwesiga 4 4-6 14, Mike Casale 0 1-2 1, Eric Flashner 0 0-0 0. Totals: 12 14-23 40.
Mike Sulik 4 0-0 10, Tyshon Williams 4 0-0 8, Connor Gallagher 2 0-0 5, Erick Langston 3 3-5 9, Jon Dzurenda 9 2-2 22, Steve Hashemi 2 0-1 4, Raekwon Reid 2 0-0 5, Jordan Vazzano 0 2-4 2, Darren Jackson 4 0-1 8, Seamus Keating 1 0-0 2. Totals: 31 7-13 75.
3-pointers: M--Mwesiga 2; SJ--Dzurenda 2, Sulik 2, Gallagher, Reid.
Michael Fields 2 1-2 6 Connor Bacci 1 0-0 3 Shane Herrity 11 2-3 24 Jordan Santiago 6 3-7 15 Brian Haggerty 5 0-0 10 Alex Amenta 1 0-0 2 Nick Mennis 0 0-0 0 Totals: 26 6-12 60.
Aaron Wheeler 2 0-0 5 Tremaine Frasier 3 1-2 9 Justice Page 2 0-0 4 Tyrell St. John 8 2-2 18 Tyler Williams 1 0-0 2 Peace Ilegomah 2 0-2 4 Totals: 18 3-6 47.
3-pointers: SF--Fields, Bacci. TC--Wheeler, Frasier 2.


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Internet Activist Dies as Legal Case Stalls
Aaron Swartz, who went from teen computer prodigy to Internet activist, killed himself as a possible plea deal with prosecutors stalled. Spencer Ante joins Markets Hub to discuss. Photo: Reuters.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... Spencer ... Spencer ... um we have the story of the weekend Aaron Swartz and Internet activists ... has ... has taken his own life here's a quick sound on tape we have of ... of the gentleman in the past ... the speech the other thing I'm getting into how these words are copyright ... it's so easy to accidentally copy something ... about their sports teams liked ... his belief that in this world what is at the center of the so you have ... federal prosecutors State trustees announced uses going after him ... to have him with a history of potentially some awesome and wellness ... and it seems like it the one to head over the week over the weekend is that I ... he I think he knows the very a sad um story that though ... you know happened over the weekend ... if it does Youngman our Schwartz use computer prodigy he was twenty six years old ... even when in the technology made it as a teenager people known if he does have special talents ... and help work on many important projects like the creative Commons which is designed to ALM ... share um share content to promote certain of ... the liberation of copper in some ways ... he worked on some of the sofa undefeated is still to build a Hollywood older years or so ago that people ... got very iam active about ... instilled ... this case it was about ... him ... downloading several million academic journal papers ... are from ... the on the MIT campus ... use an MIT computer network attack ... and prosecutors basically threw the book of an ... impact ... than they were seeking charges second-quarter Michelle for more than thirty years and several million dollars in fines ... and I spoke to his girlfriend ... and his attorney over the weekend he committed suicide on Friday ... his parents blamed ... and this goal for blame ... the prosecutors the U S prosecutors to be overzealous they also cleaned my teeth are pursuing the case against her son ... and so basically this debate ... over the weekend about the bowl the government to prosecute uncollected computer punched as though we have and the only word we have the Masters is is with this in the past which is ... good for many steel was no difference between using a computer a crowbar yet they have in common is that thought was ... this is that ... the we are prosecute but if you look at ... you know the the the ... the penalty they were going after the stock looks seems like a lot and one the text on this it seems ... the old debate the debate was over ... did the with the punishment fit the crime ... law unless it was a very well known legal scholar who teaches at Harvard was the founder of Schwartz actually wrote a very ... interesting post on Saturday calling it ... cost you as a way ... that he said ... this punishment they were seeking for this crime which could like this that were just born thirty years did not fit the crime issue was actually guilty of a crummy don't know he was guilty of a crime the trial never happened ... who was the critical first ... based on conversations with his golf round and his lawyer what I concluded was that ... they felt the people closest and felt ... that ... this case basically two opened to the ground ... and then mental health expert of course have told us that he you know what to what commit suicide you can actually really dependent on one factor ... but I don't actually know if I agree with that in this case um be somewhat these people call me ... my feeling is that if it wasn't for this case ... this man would not have committed suicide at this point in this life ... so they were telling a day and we have that to you have this ... situation where ... and he was running out of money he faced he even ... did a lot to potentially giving a plea deal yet that was out the window I mean that that that dollars are really falling gasoline and yes yes so basically ... gone ... based on these conversations what I learned is that ... the case had actually started last July ... the tube and died at last on July two thousand was actually to go on for several years now ... he was coming to ahead ... the trial day was that ... he always thought he would be able to cut a deal with the government ... based on what he thought ... his legal improvising ... and maybe some precedent for the government really went gung ho on this case for some reason we don't know exactly what you have a history of sort of like timing with the lobby of the doubt that some do it that ... and so what his lawyer met with the U S prosecutor last ones and tried to reach out ... and ... find a compromise that didn't ... require his client to go to jail ... we think it would not budge ... so I think it kind of dawned on him that he was going have to go to trial ... and he was going to have to pay a lot of money ... and don't actually have to ask a lot of his friends and family members for support and help them as friends have been dragged into this and I was causing a lot of stress and pain ... they were being subpoenaed ... to serve talked about who he was and what he didn't so ... he just couldn't ... handle it and it is Khona like as his girlfriend told me ... he had a phrase that you'd like to use Colby into the pain ... which meant to him that if you're going to some really difficult her life to one away from ... lean into it deal with that ... and ... the end of the story is that she said she she fell into the Amazon ... and it's incredibly sad Spencer thank you so much for joining us ... please make sure to read more on


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Robert Downey, Jr. hosts movie nights for Iron Man 3 cast and crew
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. has been staging movie nights for the cast and crew of IRON MAN 3 - so they can keep up with all the latest film releases.
"It will be less settled than of late with showers or longer spells of rain across northern parts, with sleet or snow over hills
The actor reveals he has been booking theatres so he can sit down with his pals from the set and check out Oscar-worthy movies with experts.
He tells Entertainment Weekly, "We do something that involves movies and our love of movies."
And Downey, Jr. admits Iron Man 3's cinematographer John Toll has really helped his enjoyment of the current slate of top films: "One (film we saw) was the Wachowskis' film Cloud Atlas (which Toll shot). We were impressed with how cohesive the direction was, and obviously everything that John shot was amazing.
"We saw Flight, which was great, and before that it was Argo, which was also kind of cool. It's nice knowing that you can (go to the) theatre every weekend and see something good. And it's great to see what people are doing and to get excited about it."


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Current Law Students / How to find new case filings?« on: July 10, 2011, 01:53:37 PM »
I would like to start a newsletter that summarizes new case filings in California. The problem is that I don't know how to find these new complaints, other than by going to the clerks office. Does anyone know any other way that I can find these filings, ideally i would like to find them online... I'm looking for the complete filing that I would then summarize into a simple paragraph. Any help is greatly appreciated.


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A New York state assemblyman was found guilty on Monday on charges he accepted $22,000 in bribes in exchange for official acts, including securing legislation favoring a network of adult day-care centers operated by four businessmen.
A federal jury in Manhattan found New York State Assemblyman Eric Stevenson guilty of all four counts including conspiracy to engage in honest services fraud and bribery.
The case was the latest to involve allegations of wrongdoing by members of New York's legislature in Albany, where at least 30 politicians have faced legal or ethics problems since 2000.
"Graft and greed are intolerable in Albany, and we will go to trial as often as we have to until government in New York is cleaned up," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.
A lawyer for Stevenson, a Democrat, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska scheduled sentencing for May 20.
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Prosecutors said the bribery scheme stemmed from the efforts of four businessmen - Igor Belyansky, Rostislav Belyansky, Igor Tsimerman and David Binman - to operate and build adult day-care centers in New York City's Bronx borough.
According to the indictment, the men paid Stevenson to sponsor and get legislation enacted that would have effectively given the men a monopoly by declaring a three-year moratorium on constructing adult day-care centers in New York City, but exempting them from the restriction.
Stevenson helped in other ways, prosecutors said, facilitating the installation of a gas line to one of the centers and holding events to recruit senior citizens to attend a second one.
As part of the investigation, prosecutors secured the cooperation of another state legislator, Assemblyman Nelson Castro, a Bronx Democrat, who wore a wire as part of a deal to avoid perjury charges related to statements he made when he was a candidate in 2008.
Castro resigned from office in April 2013 when the Stevenson case became public.
He pleaded guilty in August to federal charges making false statements to law enforcement committing perjury and also admitted in state court to committing perjury. The four businessmen all pleaded guilty prior to trial.
Several cases against members of New York's legislative bodies are still pending.
State Senator Malcolm Smith, a Democrat from Queens, was charged in April 2013 with attempting to buy a place on the Republican ticket in the New York City mayoral race.
New York State Senator John Sampson, meanwhile, is fighting charges of embezzlement, obstruction of justice and making false statements to federal investigators after prosecutors accused him of stealing proceeds from sales of foreclosed properties to fund a failed run for district attorney.


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Colette wrote:Kalvinator wrote:
Links?...Like I'd realllyy like links.
Also where are these places on the map...if they're on it.
There is something to the tune of ~250ish countries in the brikverse the last time I counted. The map I posted only has the 42 of what I judged to be the most important factions in the brikverse at the moment (just like on a Risk board) so a ton of countries got left out, including a lot of insignificant n00b factions.
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I have recently been diagnosed with Chiari 1. I am 43 years old and while I feel like many symptoms I have been having now have an explanation, I still have many questions b4 I elect surgery. Does anyone have any recommendations for NS's in Florida. I am based in Tampa Bay. Any recommendations for who other than a NS I should see to rule out other possible causes of a feeling of passing out if I massage my neck on right side only??
Any input is appreciated


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Here it is. This is the long anticipated list of the minimum stat requirements you need to do the early bosses of Zul'Aman successfully. Having stats like these should carry you through Bear boss with a little luck.
Guilds attempting to go through raiding should understand the principle of progression. When you're going through it for the first time, you should have no blues and not need more than 1 or 2 items from Karazhan. You will have acquired all the badge gear that you need and you've done Gruul's or Mag a few times so that you've developed some ingame smarts.
As always, this list is subject to change at any time and without notice with your help and feedback.
Remember, I'm only a Priest and a Shaman. I don't know the other classes as well. Any corrections and suggestions will be valued. All figures are after any kind of raid buffs or consumables and should be used as a guideline rather than a rule. These numbers are based off of observations and conversations with Guildmates and other colleagues who have made progress in ZA.
In Zul'Aman, there is a certain threshold of stats you need in order to survive and be productive. If you can meet them unbuffed, then you're fine. There's a variety of consumables and buffs to configure your character to surpass the mark that you need. It doesn't matter what buffs they are as long as they exceed it. But if you go in there raid buffed and you DO NOT match the stats you need, you will be ineffective.
Let's use my Priest as an example. I strongly advise anything over 8500 health. I've got a Priest that's 6500 without buffs. Raid buffs he would top out at about 8000 health. That's not enough. You never know what kind of class make up you will have going in there. You may not have Kings. You may not have fort. Maybe you don't have a certain flask or something. This isn't a 25 man raid where you can expect to get every buff known to man. That's why I created the list with raid buffs in mind.
Do not take Zul'Aman lightly. It drops loot that is on par with Tier 5. The difficulty is about the same as SSC and TK.
Updates and modifications at the bottom of the page
Suggested Composition
2 Well geared tanks, ideally different classes (Pally/Druid, Pally/Warrior, etc).
3 Healers (Ideally 1 Priest for Imp. Fort and Imp. DS)
3 Caster DPS (Warlock, Mage, Shadow Priest, or feel free to toss in a Moonkin and an Elemental Shaman instead)
2 Physical DPS (Hunter, rogue, enhancement shaman, DPS Warrior or any combination thereof)
The DPS part isn't as crucial. You can mix and match however you like. Zul'Jin has a phase where you have to have some physical damage going in there and when you read about it, you will understand why (phase 3). Bring 3 healers. I seriously recommend bringing 3 healers. You can disregard everything else on this page if you want, but please listen to me when I say to bring 3 healers.
If any player's health is below 8000 after all buffs are cast, you may want to consider someone else instead.
Note: I shouldn't have to mention it, but as a tank you should be uncrushable and uncrittable at this point.
Health: ~17000
Block/Parry/Dodge: A very high number combined. Hoping to find a Warrior to give me an exact figure.
Health: ~17000
Mana: ~5000+
Block/Parry/Dodge: ~100% combined
Spell damage: 200+
Health: ~17000
Dodge: ~40%
Armor: ~30000+ (Thanks Karthis, Argonaut)
Note: The combined healing output of your healers should be approximately 5000. For example, you could have a Paladin with 1500, a Priest with 1800, and a Druid with 1500. But don't go too far in the wrong direction. I strongly suggest bringing in 3 healers.
Holy Priest
Health: ~8500+
Mana: ~9500+
+Healing: ~1600
MP5: ~140 while casting
Resto Druid
Health: ~8500 (Tree druids move slow)
Mana: ~9500
+Healing: ~1600
MP5: ~140 while casting
Holy Paladin
Health: ~8500
Mana: ~9500+
+Healing: ~1600 (Flash of Light spam)
MP5: ~140 while casting
Spell crit: 20%+
Resto Shaman
Health: ~9000
Mana: ~8500
+Healing: ~1600 (Rank 2 or Rank 5 Chain Heals)
MP5: ~150 while casting (Achievable with recent Water Shield improvements)
DPS Classes
Note: Caster DPS should be hitcapped (Thanks Trollin').
Health: ~9000+
Attack Power: 1800
Hit: 200 rating+
Crit: 25%+
Heath: ~9000
Mana: ~8000
Spell damage: ~850+
MP5: ~130 while casting
Health: ~9000+
Mana: ~6000
Attack Power: 1600
Hit: 9%
Crit: 27%
Health: ~9000+
Mana: 9000
Spell damage: 900+
Crit: 30%
Health: 10000+
Mana: 8500+
Spell damage: +900
See above. Warlocks, comment if it should be different.
Health: ~9500+
Mana: 6500+
Hit: Capped
Crit: 20%+
Health: ~9500+
Mana: 6500 mana
Hit: Capped
Crit: 40%
Agility: 950+
Health: 9000+
Mana: 9000
Crit: 18%
Spell damage: 900
Shadow Priest
Health: 9500
Mana: 8500
Spell damage: 900
Fury Warrior
Health: ~9500+
Attack power: 1800+
Crit: 40% (That too much to ask?)
Retribution Paladins
Health: 9000+
Mana: 7000+
Crit: 26%
There you have it folks! Those're are my suggested stats to get into Zul'Aman. Use it as a guide as opposed to a rule. I'm expecting a flood of comments saying that I went too high here or too low there. Keep it coming! Any updates to this, I will post on the bottom.
12/01: Lowered +hit requirements for melee. Equalized mana regen among healers. Lowered health requirements among melee. Equalized tank health. Thanks Mera!
15/01: Added armor figures for Druids (Thanks Karthis). Raised mana pool and healing for Paladins slightly (Thanks Arduanne).
16/01: Split up the Hunters into three different specs. Posted one for survival. MM and BM I'm unsure of, so I'm using existing numbers. Hoping another Hunter can confirm.
14/03: Added fury warriors, Ret Paladins, several stats adjusted for hunters, shamans, etc.


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Farmers, agribusiness representatives, and others interested in Mid-South agriculture will converge on the Memphis Cook Convention Center Feb. 29-March 1 for the 56th annual Mid-South Farm & Gin Show, the South's largest indoor farm show.
The event will feature approximately 400 exhibitors from more than 40 states and eight foreign countries and will occupy over 200,000 square feet of exhibit space in the convention center.
It is sponsored by the Southern Cotton Ginners Association and Foundation, with Delta Farm Press as co-sponsor.
"Every year we welcome new and different attractions," says Tim Price, executive vice president of the Southern Cotton Ginners Association and Foundation, who is show manager. "Those who attend will get the season's first look at a wide array of the latest equipment, inputs, services and new technologies, all of which are designed for today's progressive farm and agribusiness operations."
The show is a perennial "must-attend" for farmers, ginners, and others, with more than 20,000 decision-makers coming each year. "It's a tradition," he says.
"We're excited about the number of new products — both from traditional exhibitors and those who are new to the show."
Of major interest at this year's show, Price says, will be the opportunity for attendees to learn about the latest developments in cotton harvesters with on-board module builders, and the newest precision ag technologies, along with new chemistries, seed, and a host of other products and services.
"Biotechnology continues to have a major impact on our industry, as will be reflected in exhibits for crop seeds, agrichemicals, and related products and services," Price says.
"Agriculture experienced major shifts in acreages in 2007, as a lot of issues and trends converged. Farmers continue to adapt and change as they evaluate the impact of markets, energy demands, and other key influences."
The show's popular Ag Update Seminars, to be held Friday and Saturday mornings at 8:30, will focus on the outlook for crops and legislation. Slated to speak at the Friday session are Carl Brothers, senior vice president of Riceland Foods, and Joe Nicosia, chief executive officer of Allenberg Cotton Co.
Richard Brock, president, Brock Associates, will conduct his popular grain marketing outlook seminar Saturday morning, offering strategies and projections for 2008. Brock will also discuss agriculture issues and bio-energy.
Saturday, at 1 p.m., there will be a special seminar, "What a difference a year makes — energy and agriculture," evaluating the challenges and potential for growth in the next decade as the focus on agriculture's role in energy security continues.
"It's going to be a heckuva show," Price says, "and we hope everyone will mark their calendars and plan to bring the family for an informative, fun-packed weekend in Memphis."
Exhibit areas at the show will be open Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
In addition to the show and Ag Update Seminars, members of the Southern Cotton Ginners Association will be holding their annual meeting during the week.
For additional information, contact the association at (901) 947-3104 or visit the Web site: www.southerncottonginners.org.


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Published February 2011.
I followed a recent email talk-list conversation with interest. The mathematical content does not follow a steady path, because of varying interpretations of the original question. However, the resulting ideas for problems and investigations are worthwhile. A little editing has taken place to transform the informal language of email to publication standard. Some diagrams have also been added
to assist with interpreting the problems. The dialogue began with the following call for assistance:
The Chessboard problem referred to, is to find out the total number of squares (of all sizes) found on a chessboard, which is an 8 x 8 grid. There are, of course, many ways to go about this. One way is to start by systematically counting from the largest square.
|and so on, which gives the square numbers.
The progressive totals give the sequence 1, 5, 14 . . .
"Well, what I have tried with my teacher students is to find a solution to the following problem:
A young girl, Mary, decides to save money during a certain period of time.
She decides that everyday she will put some money in her saving box according to the following pattern: 1 pta (I assume a pound would be too much!!!!) the first day, the second day 2pts, the third day 4pts, and everyday she saves the double of the day before. For how long do you think she will be able to keep on her project? Why?
And how much would she have collected in one month if she managed to follow her intentions?" (N.G., Spain)
This of course is a doubling pattern, set within the context of a real life situation.
"Number of single triangles enclosed by equilateral triangles on isometric paper." (C.A., UK)
This generates the square numbers: 1, 4, 9, 16. If the total number of dots on and inside the triangles are counted, the triangular numbers emerge: 1, 3, 6, 10 . . . (This pattern by the way, fits nicely with the children's book The Very Hungry Caterpillar.)
Now the conversation takes a new turn, with following comment starting off two separate trains of thought.
Now the pyramid idea is developed a little further, bringing out more opportunities for mathematical thinking.
Stacking pyramids with an equilateral triangle base leads to the triangular numbers again! The instigator of the conversation now responds to the rectangles idea.
Now the original question is restated.
With thanks to the members of the Mathematics Education email talklist based at Nottingham, UK.


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To stop the custard or jam seeping to the edge of the batter and possibly burning during baking I came up with a method to make channels in the batter and spoon the fillings into it. Use a spoon or knife to make a channel like this:
Take care to spoon the custard and jam into the channel, making sure there is batter protecting it from the edges of the tin:
You get a lovely big slice from a bundt cake like this; the batter was the perfect quantity to fill the tin and, when baked, the cake only needed a thin trim to cut off the crust and make it stand nicely on a plate.
The sponge is lovely – soft and springy, and would be nice on its own with a buttercream or full covering of icing. Definitely a keeper!
2 tablespoons custard powder
1 tablespoon caster sugar
280ml milk
225g unsalted butter, at room temperature
450g caster sugar
4 eggs
2 tbsp vanilla extract
350g plain flour
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
250ml natural/Greek style yogurt
4-5 teaspoons jam – I used strawberry
150g icing sugar
2-3 tablespoons warm water


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Irish needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 53 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
Design a creative sticker that will be used as a free giveaway for St Patricks Day in USA.
AGWA de Bolivia Coca Leaf Liquor
Something to give an Irish appeal, if you can include the green white and gold colours or Ireland. We are a small drinks company who develop alcohol brands globally
- Item 1...The stickers dimensions are 8.3 cm by 8.3. Circular in shape. It must contain a few basics lines like:
Happy St. Patricks Day
In very small tiny print please include.... Imported by BABCO Imports, Manhasset, NY
Please include....www.agwabuzz.com
The AGWA logo needs to be included, I will send to you on request
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XCPUScalar for Pocket PC
"XCPUScalar" for Pocket PC has been nominated for a 2007 Best Software Award
XCPUScalar allows you to dynamically scale the processor speed of your handheld Pocket PC 2002, Windows Mobile 2003, WM2003 SE, and Windows Mobile 5. It uses the power of the XSCALE or TI OMAP (OMAP850 and OMAP1510) processor and unlocks its dynamic scaling capabilities. You can scale the processor speed from 100 to 728MHz. By scaling the processor speed down, you can increase the battery life between recharges or increase the speed when you need more power for playing games or multimedia programs that require more CPU power.
A more in depth review of XCPUScalar can be read here: Pocketnow Review.
The speed can be scaled from 100 to 300MHZ on the fly for the iPaq 1910 ,100 to 500MHz for PXA250 XSCALE processors and 100 to 530MHz at 265MHz bus for PXA255, PXA26x, and 104 to 728MHz for PXA270, PXA27x or higher processors. For TI OMAP processors the speed can be scaled from 104MHz to 260MHz. Use the Auto Scaling capability of XCPUScalar and assign your own speeds to different CPU loads as shown in the picture above. With Auto Scaling, applications will get power on demand depending on CPU usage, saving battery life. Monitor CPU usage as you run your applications, XCPUScalar integrates with popular task managers like Wisbar, Icbar, and Gigabar. Monitor the health of your Pocket PC using the health meters. iPAQ 1910 users can almost double their framerates when watching movies or playing games.
PDA's based on XSCALE processors can enjoy speed increases of upto 30 to 35% (QUAKE timedemo1 test scores , reported 33 FPS using XCPUScalar on an Axim X30, on iPAQ 2215 is around 20 to 21 FPS. Speed will slightly vary from PDA to PDA. ).
XCPUScalar should work with most XSCALE or TI OMAP Pocket PC's on market. Minimum Windows mobile 2003 and XScale or TI OMAP processor PDA required. Some of the known supported PDA's include:
XScale processor Pocket PC's:
HP iPAQ 6925, HTC Advantage X7500, HP iPAQ hw6915, HP iPAQ hw6945, HP iPAQ hw6965, Treo 700w, XDA Atom, XDA Atom Exec, HP iPAQ 6828, Samsung I730, Mio A201, Mio A701, MDPNA, HP iPAQ hw6515, hx21xx, hx27xx, hx24xx, Dell Axim X51v, o2 XDA II executive, HTC Universal, i-Mate JasJar, Qtek 9000, Sprint / Verizon PPC-6700, Orange SPV M5000, HTC Apache, HTC Magician, XDA II Mini, MDA Compact, Qtek S100, XDA IIi, i-mate JAM, i-mate PDA2, Orange M500, VPA Compact, HP iPAQ 2410, 2750, HP iPAQ hx4700, Loox 720, Dell Axim X50v, Asus A730, MDA-III, Axim X30, X50, iPAQ 415x, iPAQ 435x, Axim X30, Axim X3, Asus A620, Asus A716, XDA, XDA2, Toshiba e800. Older but still new PDA's like HP iPAQ 2215, 51xx, 55xx series, Dell Axim Advanced, Toshiba 750/755, Asus etc. Backwards compatibility has been retained for older 400 MHz Pocket PC's like HP iPaq 39xx, 54xx, Toshiba 740, older Dell Axim Advanced, Fujistu Loox plus many more. Most Dell Axim's basics at 300MHz can also run at 400MHz / 472MHz speeds. Some Toshiba E350's / E405 can also run at 400MHz / 472MHz speeds.
TI OMAP processor Pocket PC's:
Cingular 8125, HTC WIZARD, DoPod 818 Pro, Qtek 9100, i-Mate K-Jam, HTC Prophet, i-Mate JAMin, MDA Compact 2 and clones of these PDA's.
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[B]y the greatest miracle of all, this postwar world of super-international controls and coercions is also going to be a world of "free" international trade! Just what the government planners mean by free trade in this connection I am not sure, but we can be sure of some of the things they do not mean. They do not mean the freedom of ordinary people to buy and sell, lend and borrow, at whatever prices or rates they like and wherever they find it most profitable to do so. They do not mean the freedom of the plain citizen to raise as much of a given crop as he wishes, to come and go at will, to settle where he pleases, to take his capital and other belongings with him. They mean, I suspect the freedom of bureaucrats to settle these matters for him. And they tell him that if he docilely obeys the bureaucrats he will be rewarded by a rise in his living standards. But if the planners succeed in tying up the idea of international cooperation with the idea of increased State domination and control over economic life, the international controls of the future seem only too likely to follow the pattern of the past, in which case the plain man's living standards will decline with his liberties.
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Henry Hazlitt on the so-called "free market"
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The problem is that the free market as it is known has caused its own temporary, at least, demise.
Once you surrender your principles to the state due to your own inefficiencies and corruption that's it.
- 8 December 2008 at 15:50:00 GMT
John, it wasn't the free market. It was the U.S. Congressmen, who wanted to increase the number of house owners over the amount at which the number of house owners would have settled on free market. Therefore they persuaded, pressed and forced the banks to lend money for people who couldn't pay it back. That is, they interfered to the function of markets, which means that they can hardly be called "free" anymore. The result is now visible for everyone, but don't blame "free markets" for it, because there isn't any free markets anymore.
- 8 December 2008 at 17:06:00 GMT
- dreamingspire said...
And, from his restating his lesson at the end, his thesis is for an era of increasing prosperity. At the very end, he deals with the plight of those who suffer as a result of a change in economic conditions brought about by "the increased supply or new discovery" making them poorer because they lose out - in other words, with the granularity of progress of the free market:
"It is altogether proper – it is, in fact, essential to a full understanding of the problem – that the plight of these groups be recognized, that they be dealt with sympathetically, and that we try to see whether some of the gains from this specialized progress cannot be used to help the victims find a productive role elsewhere."
He was writing in 1946 - but, from just reading those last few pages, I don't see how we apply that today. Or should the oil rich, cash rich nations help the rest of us?
- 8 December 2008 at 17:20:00 GMT
- Tom Papworth said...
I think that he is refering to those temporarily put out of work as old industries give way to new (for example, as the makers of CDs and CD players are put out of work as we shift to downloading MP3s). He is talking about temporary unemployment relief, and perhaps retraining, I think.
What he certainly opposes is efforts to keep people in jobs that are no longer useful - either because technology has moved on or demand has shifted.
BTW: I think we are a cash-rich nation!
- 8 December 2008 at 17:44:00 GMT
My favourite line from the book is:
"demand and supply are merely two sides of the same coin"
It maybe stating the bleeding obvious but so few people understand.
- 8 December 2008 at 17:52:00 GMT
I see our old friend Anonymous is back spouting neocon nonsense. It is true that some of the damage was by the means you state - far and away the most damage was caused by greedy people who persuaded the naive to take on new ARM loans when they had either already paid off their loans or were paying off their loans quite easily. Apparently 80% of the so-called `sub-prime` loans were to this group.
Yes the people were greedy and naive - yet the regulators were lazy and naive.
The idea that the banks were all helpless maidens is laughable - why then did they reparcel these loans to each other on a giant pyramid scheme?
- 9 December 2008 at 00:47:00 GMT
- Tom Papworth said...
The bankers certainly deserve their share of the blame for reckless credit expansion. But this would not be possible if government did not underwrite banks through the central bank system.
It is also worth noting that the sub-prime crisis was partially forced on US banks by the Community Reinvestment Act, and partially was a natural response by banks to the excess of liquidity created by central banks imposing artificially low interest rates.
As for "the banks... reparcel[ing] these loans to each other on a giant pyramid scheme", that was invented by Freddie Mac which is... er... a Government-run agency.
I've written about this whole sorry saga before.
- 9 December 2008 at 01:13:00 GMT
- dreamingspire said...
Indeed I'm sure that Hazlitt was referring to those temporarily displaced as you say - I have no problem at all with that working of the free market, and have myself participated in the ups and downs (including supplying state of the art equipment to the money markets over 20 years ago - my up was someone else's down, and vice versa later - and usually you can see it coming and individually make your own plans in mitigation). Again, H was in an improving environment where progress was rewarded, and he looked to govt to help those whose route was (hopefully temporarily) down through market forces.
As in my earlier posts, the position now is that something that none of us can personally control or even sometimes mitigate is pushing very many of us down, reducing almost the entire market. Cameron's call again this morning (R4 Today) for a cut in public sector spending suggests to me a further reduction in market size - more people out of work with nowhere to go. You might argue that this is just a savage free market adjustment, but it isn't my competitor who beats me this time, because we competitors are all in it together.
So how about this? Keep public spending more or less the same, but re-orient it. Cameron was, however, right in complaining about waste in the public sector, but you only put that right if you have competent people at the top, and in many areas of the public sector we do not have that luxury. I was myself in front of 3 civil servants last week, as they tried to work out how to make something work better - but they don't have the knowledge, the skills, the support from other parts of their dept, the courage to tell their bosses the same; they are wasting your money and mine. So: politicians, have a faceup with those civil service depts and local authorities that are failing us, and tell them that they must reform their Victorian organisations (and become contrite instead of arrogant) or be pilloried (warn the First Division Association first).
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Merry Meet Again, my Beloveds!
I'm having serious issues with dead people.
Allow me to explain. Dead people are now sending messages either to me or through me in ways they never have before and I'm not exactly sure how I feel about that!
If you've read my last entry, you know that my friend, Roy went to great lengths to send a message to his fiance, Michelle from beyond the veil. It was my pleasure and honor to help in whatever way necessary.
This morning, I received another message from my friend, Tommy, that I hadn't been expecting.
Tommy had a bigger than life persona. He was, physically, the most beautiful man I have ever known. His personality ran the gamut of every aspect one's soul could possess. He was wildly impulsive, kind, incredibly funny and cruel. He depised Mayonaisse! He displayed a child-like innocence, while exuding undeniable sexuality. He loved to be the center of attention and it was virtually impossible not to notice when he entered a room. Both men and women were enchanted by him.
Tommy and I became friends while working out at the local gym. Our friendship grew when he pushed me to do "one more rep, you candy ass!" I didn't even know this man, but knew we would soon be good friends.
Several years ago, Tommy decided to move back to Georgia. I was saddened by his choice to relocate, but knew that he would never be happy here in New Jersey. We never lost touch after his departure, but these days people don't talk, they text or update their status. That was until this past January when Tommy's cell phone began to "butt dial" me on a daily basis. He left me a text message apologizing for the same and asked me to call him, which I did. We chatted for a while, catching up on what had been going on in our lives, but hadn't spoken since.
For the past couple of weeks, I have thought about Tommy often. So often so that it prompted me to visit his Facebook page today to see what had been going on in his life. Well, I believe Tommy wanted me to know what had been going on as well. He passed away suddenly 4 months ago...my heart was broken..
Tommy shared with me things that troubled him since childhood and in doing so, always left me with the image of a heartbroken little boy with full pouty lips and sad eyes that was perpetually looking for someone to take care of him and yet, he would often push away those who loved him most.
Was I surprised to learn of his passing. Not so much. Tommy always played hard. He was fulfilling his dream of making a name for himself in the music business and lived a "Rock Star" lifestyle.
If anyone had the energy it takes to cross the veil it was Tommy. I truly believe that he knew if he reminded me enough of things about our friendship that I couldn't ignore, I would learn that he had chosen to leave this World behind far too soon.
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