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NHL Scoring Projections for Lightning Forwards in SyracuseSubmitted by Anonymous on October 12, 2012 - 12:02
Despite the large void the NHL lockout created, the hockey season is already long underway. Various amateur and professional leagues throughout North America and Europe have wrapped up their preseasons and are set to begin or are already in the thick of regular season action.
The Lightning's new AHL affiliate, the Syracuse Crunch, open their 2012-2013 season tonight with an impressive roster that boasts the nucleus of last season's Calder Cup-winning roster and an infusion of talent with varying professional experience: (J.T. Brown, Brett Connolly, Danick Gauthier, Riku Helenius, Dmitry Korobov, Vladislav Namestnikov, Jared Nightingale, Matt Taormina and J.T. Wyman). In the absence of big-league action, watching much of the (currently foreseeable) lifeblood of the Lightning's future skate and bond together is a much-welcomed tonic.
Bolts Increase the Population of SyracuseSubmitted by chad on September 14, 2012 - 12:33
The Tampa Bay Lightning assigned 18 players to the Syracuse Crunch of the AHL ahead of what appears to be an NHL lockout, vice president and general manager Steve Yzerman announced.
Among the players moving to New York are reigning AHL Most Valuable Player Cory Conacher, former No.6 overall pick Brett Connolly, and last year's late-season signing, J.T. Brown. Others include recently signed prospects Vladislav Namestnikov, Danick Gauthier, Dmitry Korobov, and Riku Helenius. The additions of Connolly, Brown, Namestnikov, and Korobov will make the Crunch a stronger team, which is scary considering they were already among the favorites to claim the Calder Cup.
The full list of new Syracuse residents includes forwards Brown, Conacher, Connolly, Gauthier, Alex Hutchings, Tyler Johnson, Alex Killorn, Namestnikov, Ondrej Palat, Richard Panik; defensemen Mark Barberio, Radko Gudas, Korobov, Charles Landry, Dan Milan; and goaltenders Helenius, Dustin Tokarski, and Pat Nagle.
We'll offer some opinions shortly on who could end up in ECHL Florida with the Everblades and who likely stays in Syracuse.
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Bolt Prospects 2012 NHL Entry Draft Coverage: ForwardsSubmitted by pete on June 21, 2012 - 17:00
The strength of the Lightning organization remains at the forward positions, where the team still boasts an impressive mix of star veterans like Martin St. Louis, Vincent Lecavalier, and Ryan Malone, and the game's best young star, Steven Stamkos. The team will spend some of its offseason tweaking its third line, and they made overtures to Swiss star Damien Brunner to try to improve their scoring depth on the wings. But, ultimately, the team should feel pretty solid offensively. Keeping the puck out of the back of their own net has always been the bigger challenge.
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Bolt Prospects 2012 NHL Entry Draft Coverage: IntroductionSubmitted by pete on June 18, 2012 - 17:01
With the Lightning prospect season finally completed, it is now time to turn our attention to the 2012 NHL Entry Draft. While the team's prospect system enjoyed unprecedented success, the team's struggles at the NHL level last season left the Lightning with a draft pick bonanza after a bevy of pre-deadline deals. Heading into the draft, the Lightning currently holds a pair of first round picks, and at least one second round pick following the trade of picks 37 and 50 to Nashville in the Anders Lindback trade.
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Stormi wrote:ChevellesMomma wrote:Timas Mom wrote:
Well not yet. But previous ones have. Im sorry you find me rude, I just dont understand your rationelle.
They have killed pets=fact
Its happened more than once=fact
They get sited by the fda for mishandling of ingredients that arent even listed in ANY of the foods they are to be making =fact (and where the hell ARE they using it?)
I dont know what it would take for you to see my point. If you do like TOTW so much, demand they use a better plant! One that doesnt completely fail at every turn. One that has a decent track record. One that hasnt killed pets.
My dogs do well, GREAT on it. That's all the "fact" I need to keep them on it.
Mine has done well on TOTW, too. I've been completely happy with that brand until this recent recall. It's simply too wide spread for me to feel comfortable feeding their food after everything that has been made public, and the above mentioned issues. There have been incidences of sick dogs in my state who have been fed diamond foods even though Washington isn't on the recall list. Maybe coincidence, maybe not. It's not worth chancing my dog's health, or mine. We've switched over to Horizon Pulsar fish protien, which is a nice transition from the TOTW pacific stream we were using. It's the same price as TOTW, and comes from a small company that manufactures everything in their own plant and has never had to issue a recall.
Same here. I order food online for delivery so I can't control which plant the TOTW comes from.
I'm not very concerned about salmonella (I prepare chicken, eat runny eggs, don't use bleach, handle turtles, don't always wash fresh produce-- these risks are higher and I probably won't change) BUT the business practices coming to light including label/ingredient misinformation is what I didn't like. I only spend $40ish a month on food but would still rather spend it on a different sort of company, and also one where I hope there isn't unlisted stuff routinely included. Just like I don't like "processed mystery meat" for myself. I don't think it's TERRIBLE of people to feed it to their dogs, though. I still would recommend TOTW, Nature's Domain, and Kirkland Chicken & Rice to dog owners I interact with, as a "step up" (in terms of value/nutrition for your buck) from Pedigree and Beneful, which are the foods I see the most.
I switched to Nutri-Source, also similar pricing to TOTW, made with seafood and peas. We'll see. The protein % seemed lower than the Horizon grain-frees IIRC which is the only reason I picked that brand over the other. If it doesn't work out then I will try the Cal Natural again; it's not grain-free but Booker did well on it in the past and despite their purchase, I think Natura is still good.
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Piers Morgan does not take kindly to criticism--just ask Larry King!
The 80-year-old journalist, who retired from "Larry King Live" in 2010 and now hosts "Larry King Now" on hulu, told Howard Stern on Wednesday he felt CNN made a "mistake" picking Morgan to replace him.
"I thought it was a mistake, one, to hire a Britisher [sic] in prime time," he said, "and, two, I thought that he made himself too much part of the show." In other words? There was "too much 'I'" on the now-canceled show, King said.
VIDEO: Chelsea Handler slams Piers Morgan
"It wasn't my kind of show," he clarified. "He was nice to me. I went on his show two or three times...He wasn't unfriendly to me. It just wasn't my type of show."
On Thursday, Morgan, 49, took to Twitter (where else?!) to fire back. "Hey Larry @kingsthings - you don't need to KEEP bitching about me. It's over. Relax," he wrote. "And FYI @kingsthings - there is no such word as "Britisher'. But then research &facts were never your strong point were they, Brooklyner?"
"As for our respective egos, one of us changed his name legally to 'King' and it wasn't me. So get over yourself," he continued. "Always tried to be respectful to @kingsthings - but he's been a constant poisonous twerp towards me for 3 years and I'm bored with it."
Then Morgan gave his final musing (for now) on the matter, tweeting, "Why should I show any respect to @kingsthings any more when he has shown zero to me? Game on, Brooklyner."
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Why should I show any respect to @kingsthings any more when he has shown zero to me? Game on, Brooklyner.
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Mark Lieu, Dean - Language, Communication, and Academic Success Division
Mark Wade Lieu has been at Ohlone College since 1989. He was originally hired to start the English as a Second Language program. In addition to teaching, Mark has served as the president of the Ohlone College Faculty Senate and as the president of the statewide Academic Senate for California Community Colleges. He worked in the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office for 18 months, his primary function being the grant monitor for the Basic Skills Initiative. He was hired as Dean of the Language, Communication, and Academic Success Division at Ohlone in June of 2012.
Mark has Masters Degrees in Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language and in Instructional Technology, both from San Francisco State University.
He has been the webmaster for the ESL professional organization California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (CATESOL) since 1994.
Contact Information
Mark Lieu
Dean, Language, Communication, and Academic Success Division
(510) 659-6276
Fax (510) 659-7318
Room HH-223, Hyman Hall, second floor, Fremont campus


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A note from the blogger: I started this review in December but got distracted. When I was putting the finishing touches on it today, I checked the book's availability on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, only to find it is sold out. I found 5 used copies available, with the cheapest being $378. I suppose this means that if you want to read it you will probably need to get it from the library or download the ebook. It also means, "Wow! Heather must be right - this IS a great book!"
I discovered this book in the children's section and selected it as a Christmas gift for my dad, a WWII buff. The title suggests a religious story, but it's not. It's a true, historical adventure. Your 7, 8, or 9-year-old will really like this book.
Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw writes about Lt. Gail Halvorsen, a pilot for the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. At the end of the war when Russia blockaded West Berlin, the Germans living there were unable to receive shipments of food, fuel, or other necessary supplies via truck or train. The Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to drop tons of supplies each day onto the bombed-out city. Lt. Halvorsen was assigned to the airlift.
With only a fence separating Templehof Air Base from the people of West Berlin, Halvorsen was accustomed to seeing children lined up to watch the planes take off and land. When he stopped to talk to some of them one day, children who had lost their homes and were trapped inside the city without regular shipments of food, he soon understood how grateful they were for the efforts of pilots like himself. He felt compelled to give them something, but only had two sticks of gum in his pocket. When he saw the way the older children divided up those two sticks of gum to share with the others he was inspired to give them more of his rations and to see if his fellow airmen would join him.
His buddies were eager to join in, so Halvorsen devised a plan to attach candy to tiny parachutes and then drop the parachutes out of his C-54 Skymaster cargo plane over West Berlin for the children. Because there were so many planes flying over each day, a plane took off or landed every 30 seconds, he told the children he would wiggle his wings to let them know it was him. When the children saw his plane they rushed out to gather the candy "bombs."
Lt. Halvorsen's private mission was taken up by his commanding officer and became known as "Operation Little Vittles." Halvorsen earned the nickname "Uncle Wiggly Wings" and the "Candy Bomber." Soon, individuals and businesses all over the world began shipping tons of candy to the air base to be dropped for the children. American schoolchildren also took part by attaching candies to parachutes before shipment.
Hungry children, kind strangers, and an innovative idea to bring a little bit of happiness to those in need make for a very compelling story for children and grown-ups. Brokaw's writing is superbly simple and Robert T. Barrett's illustrations are warm and inviting. The high-quality photos of Lt. Halvorsen solidify the idea that he was, indeed, a real and heroic person. Many German children wrote thank-you notes to the "Candy Bomber" and some of these are included. There is also a page of instructions for making your own candy parachutes which could come in handy for any number of terrific purposes.
The feature that sealed the deal for me was the included DVD of Tom Brokaw telling the story at the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's Christmas Show in 2012. Listening to that voice I grew up with set against the choir and orchestra was a moving experience for me. It also gives young readers an opportunity to read along as they listen to Brokaw's re-telling.
This story would be well-suited for 7-year-olds and up, especially those who enjoy airplanes or are learning about World War II. The DVD makes it a picture book that is appropriate for a grown-up. A more in-depth version of this story for older children was published by Michael O. Tunnell in 2010. You can find it on Amazon here
This version is also available as an ebook from Google Play, so you can read it during the next snow day. We all know it's coming!
If you choose to buy the ebook, you can find segments of the Tom Brokaw/Mormon Tabernacle Choir performance on YouTube. You can also enjoy a thorough interview with Colonel Halvorsen at Historynet.com.
If you read this book with your child, I would love to hear your thoughts about it. Or perhaps your child would like to share. Feel free to comment here or email me at email@example.com.
Happy reading!


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Two Russians were caught on dash cam getting into a fight on the road when one of them realized that, oh shit, his truck is rolling away.
CarScoops reports that the fight was somehow between a pedestrian and the trucker, though the initial slight is beyond me. Like a good Russian, the trucker concluded fighting the man before dashing off to rescue his vehicle.


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Distributed Presence For Asterisk in Asterisk 1.6.1.
There were many occasions that we wanted presence information across multiple Asterisk servers. In the past we had to do various gimmicks to get that done ;). But going over the new Asterisk 1.6.1 Now I see that it has been made available to us, mainly due to lot of hard work by Russell Bryant.
According to a post by him on his blog, Asterisk 1.6.1 will have the ability to share device state between servers using a new module, res_ais, which uses the SAForum AIS to share events between Asterisk servers. It has been tested with and developed against the openais implementation of AIS.
You can read his post to find links to the code and follow comments that request (demand) DUNDi over XMPP and vice versa.


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Limestone County Schools is in need of substitute nurses. Benefits of being a substitute nurse can include:
- Pay rate of $70/day
- You can choose which day(s) you work and which days you don't
- You can choose which school(s) in which to work
- Substituting can be for half day or full day (depending on the need).
- Free training to prepare you for working in a school setting
- Good hours (typically 7:30 to 3:15)
- Conduct staff training to prepare them to deal with medical situations
- Serve as nurse on school field trips.
- Have the opportunity to inspire young people to pursue careers in the health services field.
If you'd like to be a substitute nurse with Limestone County Schools please complete the "Substitute Application Packet". On the Limestone County Schools' home page, on the left-hand side, click on "Substituting". On the next screen, towards the bottom, click on "Substitute Employment". The application is one of the files that will be listed. When you have completed the packet, please return it, along with all necessary supporting documents, to the Limestone County School's Central Office located at 300 South Jefferson Street, Athens, AL. Incomplete applications will not be accepted.
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Uganda First Lady: If Cows Aren't Gay, How Are Humans?
The First Lady of Uganda, Janet Museveni, is certainly drawing some interesting correlations when trying to disavow the existence of homosexuality in humans.
Basically her argument against homosexuality is that cows don't have gay sex so how could humans be gay? (Is that even true about cows?? For the love of God and Oprah, please keep the videos to yourself!)
From Gay Star News:
Museveni, who is also the minister for affairs in the region of Karamoja, said because of the bishops Uganda has 'progressed'.
'We must listen to God and obey him,' she said. 'Thank you God for leading us.'
She said the Anti-Homosexuality Act was passed because they owed it to God.
'If cows did not practice homosexuality, how could we the human beings start arguing over homosexuality?'
Museveni said they would not repeal the anti-gay law and stressed 'people who pray cannot be defeated.'
Continuing to give Christians a bad name...
In other news, the United States has suspended a portion of its aid to Uganda based on its anti-gay laws, which we'd actually be totally in support of except the financial aid that's currently being suspended apparently goes towards HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention.
"As a result of this review process, a portion of the U.S. Centre for Disease Control's (CDC) cooperative agreement with the Ministry of Health has been put on hold pending this review," a senior U.S. government official told Reuters on Thursday.
The U.S. official did not say how much aid was withheld but added the CDC had spent $3.9 million on a ministry of health program last year.
Uganda's health ministry said it had been told it would no longer be able to access money from a fund used to buy antiretroviral drugs and HIV testing kits.
Ministry spokeswoman Rukia Nakamatte said the freeze would affect 50 of its workers.
The U.S. government estimates its total assistance to Uganda stood at about $723 million in 2013. About half a million Ugandans with HIV or AIDS receive help through U.S. programs.
What's the appropriate action, Instincters? Clearly the U.S. is taking steps in response to Uganda's anti-gay laws, but if what Uganda's health ministry is saying is true--and really, who even knows--is taking funds away from HIV/AIDS work the right move?


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The Jets played a thrilling afternoon game against the high-scoring Penguins, as both teams took advantage of the depth players on the other side to work the twine.
It was a mostly scrambled affair, with the Penguins finding space in the neutral zone too often, leading to a collpase and chasing model of defence for the good guys, and the Jets bodying the opposition away from the puck often to create in-zone pressure. The two modes of offence – quick strike versus continuous pressure was reflected in the numbers. The Jets led the corsi battle, and I won't be surprised if they led the chances battle as well. It was a back and forth game, but in the 31 minutes when the score was within 1 goal, the Jets dominated with 37 shot attempts for and 26 against. That's almost 60%.
That doesn't mean they controlled the whole game. A lucky bounce to Trouba's stick as he swept past the front of the net gave them an early goal. Then with four seconds left in the first period, Kane delivered a back hand pass onto Scheifele's tape, but a contested shot led to a lucky bouncer to give the Jets a 2-0 lead into the second.
I said before the game that the Jets come up with surprises in the first, and despite a long stretch from 4:29 to 16:15 without a shot on goal, the 2-0 score represented a surprise. The period included a 90 second period where the Penguins generated 6 shots (7 attempts) against two Jets lines before Byfgulien took a penalty for pushing Malkin face first into the boards after he'd already been tripped going past the net. But Montoya kept the door closed during the extended breakdown, something we don't see often with the Jets.
The period also included a Crosby breakaway and subsequent penalty shot. Montoya stopped both.
That surprise lead ended when the Penguins made adjustments between periods. (Stop me if you've heard that one before.) They came out with three straight goals – Malkin, Neal on the powerplay while Wheeler was in the box for slashing Malkin, and Neal again. The Jets to that point had played Malkin with a scouting report so old it was featured in the Capitals/Penguins 24/7 – if you attack Malkin, he'll retaliate. Yeah, he doesn't do that any more and is far removed from his 100PIMs 'Season of Anger.' But maybe the Jets don't have pro-scouts (I almost wish it was true, because it would explain and lot and be easy to solve).
Thankfully for the Jets, the Brooks Orpik show began. Wheeler caught up to Orpik circling behind the net, and checked him into a turnover to Bryan Little. Little's attempted pass bounced in the air and Orpik took a leaning, casual swat before Wheeler banged it home. Later in the period, Orpik spun away from pressure on the boards only to fall and deliver a pass to space for Kane's breakaway marker.
In between those two goals, Thorburn and Stuart got on the ice at the same time against Malkin. Malkin set up on the left side of the zone (where those two defensive geniuses play) and eventually delivered a goal to Jussi Jokinen's stick.
Tied 4-4 with 6 goals in the second, the period wasn't done. On a scramble play with just over 20 seconds left in the period, Scheifele tracked down Craig Adams at the top of the Penguins zone and muscled him off the puck. A scramble play from a Frolik pass went to Evander Kane at the side of the net, and he shelfed it on the backhand from an improbable angle.
The Jets exited period two with a lead as well. And to that point, the pairing of Stuart and Byfuglien that was getting so much ice was just awful and not yet meme worthy.
But the third period opened with 10 straight shots (12 attempts) by the Penguins in 8-1/2 minutes before Malkin potted his second of the game to tie it. The Jets woke up at that point, but it was too late. A lost faceoff 4 minutes later included both Olli Jokinen and Mark Scheifele on the ice, and neither of them took the winger role to challenge the point. Evander Kane tried to cover both men, but a cross-blue line pass gave Niskanen a wide open shot with Scheifele in the shooting lane and Jokinen in no man's land. It was the winner, and the camera immediately went to Byfuglien who was on his knees when the goal went in. I'm not sure why not covering Matt Niskanen is his fault, but then that's why they don't pay me to talk at the picture show.
The shots ended up in favour of the Penguins (39-34) thanks a dominating third period, but a seven goal second when the Jets really lost the game. They squandered two lucky goals in the first 20 minutes, and lost the rest of the game 6-3. It's the Penguins, granted, but the team needs to be able to close out 40 minutes of a hockey game with fewer than 6 goals against.
The Good
As mentioned at the top, this was another classic split for the Jets. The LLW line was terrific, and used their size and speed to hold the puck in the good end of the rink. They had tremendous corsi numbers at even strength (Wheeler was 21 for, 9 against), and though they were out-scored, they were positive performers.
As well, the second line delivered as much offence as anyone can ask. Kane had two goals, Scheifele another. Frolik was a corsi threat (16 for, 10 against). But the group also gave up as much as they created by way of goals.
Trouba and Pardy were the only defenders not on for a goal against. That's kind of ridiculous, but reflects the fact that the Penguins are only two lines deep, and the Jets played those two more carefully than the others. Trouba had less than 16 minutes at even despite his goal, and Pardy only 12. Pardy also made a blunderous Error (capital E) on a giveaway at the opposing blue line with everyone facing the wrong way. So I'm noting this as a good-er than it could have been group.
Al Montoya took some heat, including the word 'regression' on twitter, but the fact is that the Jets were out-manned against the Penguins and just don't have the structure to manage the Pittsburgh attack. He was beaten for six goals, and apart from the second Neal goal (a distance wrister), I'm not sure any of them were his fault. He also stopped 31 shots, and several of them of the breath-holding variety. I liked his game and give or take a goal, I don't think there's a goaltender in the league who would have done better with the looks the Jets gave. Even that second Neal goal came after two giveaways by the Jets.
Bogosian had a bizarre game that was very high event. He was on for 3 goals for and just one against. That's a huge positive in this game. But he was also on for 24 shot attempts for and 26 against. It was a firing range at both ends when he was on the ice, and the Jets are Never going to win games in those circumstances. Not with Montoya, and not with Pavelec.
The Bad
It was a game where the divide in talent on the Jets was extremely clear. Scheifele was great in the offensive zone, but really struggled in his own zone and in transition. He had a number of turnovers trying to get past the blue line that cost the Jets. But he was only for 2 goals against, because he wasn't the main problem.
The Jokinen line faded into the background in this game, but sadly it was the background of Penguin goal celebrations. Thorburn was once again the team's worst corsi player at under 30%. Replacement level is considered 40%, meaning they could expect to get 40% from an AHL call up or waiver player. In fact, they got 43% from Eric O'Dell! But the whole line was in the basement – the third word numbers on the team. The unit was also on for two goals against (Thorburn only played 11 minutes!) at even strength, and Jokinen was on for the game winner as well while with Scheifele and Kane. Jokinen was also on for 2:37 of the powerplay, during which he lost a faceoff and never managed a shot attempt on net OR a pass for a shot attempt on net. I'm really glad Noel has opened this door again after last season's single powerplay point performance in 105 minutes.
Mark Stuart was just pure terrible. He was on for five goals against (including the powerplay goal) and he controlled the blue line like a turnstile against a team that generates so much off the rush. In just 18:35 – less than a third of the game – Stuart was on for 80% of the goals. Plus, the Penguins used his side of the ice to re-start their offence all game. He's just not an NHL player, and his limited success this season alongside Bogosian or Pardy came when they played third pairing matchups. Against Malkin and Crosby, he was beyond hopeless.
Byfuglien got the Byfuglien treatment after this game. He was also on for four (five including PK) goals against, and I'm sure I'll be told I'm biased for not blasting him like I did Stuart. Hey – he's in 'The Bad' section. But even his atrocious turnover on an attempted pass to Mark Scheifele was a three person failure. Scheifele split his feet to let the pass through, the pass was terrible and should have been on his stick, and then Mark Stuart charged in front of Montoya and screened him! You can watch Montoya try to stretch up to see over Stuart just as the Neal shot is released that gives Malkin the rebound. The first Malkin goal is on Buf, though, after a turnover just inside his own blue line,. Again, he had no passing options as the forwards stood still in check and I wonder if anyone told him he had a trailer coming, but he was too casual in a danger area. In general, Byfuglien had a poor game marked by too many turnovers against a very good offence. But he was on for 25 shot attempts for and just 17 against, and I still choose the player who has lapses over the one who gets buried. I just wish the team would furnish him a partner already, and one that talks on the ice.
It was a massively entertaining game that exposed both teams for their lack of depth. The Jets beat Crosby at evens (1 goal for Pens with Crosby, 3 goals against), but not on the shot counter and he still created a fair amount. And, as usual, shallow teams can only manage one player at a time. Malkin was on for four even strength goals (and the PP goal) and just two against. Kunitz, Scuderi, Engelland, Adams, Orpik, and Vitale were the other Pens beaten for more than a single goal in the game. Sadly, the Pens can go away knowing that the Jets scored at least four of their goals on lucky bounces (albeit generated by pressure), and the other on a mistake by Orpik for a Kane breakaway. They're some healthy bodies and another Tyler Kennedy away from a cup contender. The Jets have to live knowing they managed 5 against the Pens' starting goaltender and let it get away.


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KirkD - The +10 SubSee is 200g in water and the +5 SubSee is 140g in water. On land, they are 345g and 240g, respectively.
The new SubSee adapters do not use a set screw design like in the past (or like the Aquatica mounts). Instead, we use a circumferential o-ring clamp system, which applies an even pressure around the entire port, holding it in place much tighter than ever before.
In the worst case, when using a dual-hinge adapter with both the +5 and +10 lenses installed, it will add approximately 0.75lb to the rig. I don't often hear people complain about this, but you could certainly add a float belt around the port to compensate.
Keri Wilk | ReefNet Inc. | www.reefnet.ca | 888-819-REEF or 905-608-9373
If it would not be to kuch trouble, could you post a picture of this new mount. The picture on the website shows 3 screws. Thanks


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DailyDirt: Duh... Ads Are Supposed To Change People's Minds
from the urls-we-dig-up deptAds can be controversial sometimes -- designed to attract attention. Most ads catch your eye with attractive people or shocking images, but the "best" ads also stick in your mind and remind you who the actual sponsor was. We're always interested in "good" ads (not the ads that get attention for how hated they are). So here, we've found some interesting ad-related articles and videos that demonstrate how ads can be entertaining.
The BBC picks 6 ads that it thinks changed the world. Don't worry: "Apply directly to the forehead" didn't make the cut. [url] If you could save an online banner ad for later, would you? This sounds like a really bad copy of Instapaper.... [url] LEGO has made a couple interesting short films. But still, I always forget that it's not Legos. [url] Can any kind of internet meme effectively sell a mobile phone? If so, let loose the CaTz of advertising. [url]
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First, I want to give an update on what's up recently. First off, work is busy as ever. SQL 2012 RTM'd, so that is cool on the Business Intelligence side, and on the Dev side, working on moving a desktop app to the cloud, Azure specifically. Many things going on, as well as keeping on the SharePoint and Yammer trains. Enterprise Social is just "starting" and there is much more happening. Windows 8 is still good. Some quirks but very good, excited for the RC and RTM versions.
It has been a while since I have posted, for good reason, but of course it usually boils down to "just time". This is my 1000th post on this blog. Well, not really, I had some that I probably removed over the years. Back since 2004, I have moved this blog from blogger.com, to wordpress, to my own wordpress (on windows!) to different providers and hosters and what not. It has been a road. And more to come. I have a few drafts queued up, but was waiting to have something good for post 1000.
So what else? Other things are keeping me busy. Since last October, Homebrewing has become a big hobby of mine.
We have done 8 batches so far, and it keeps getting better and more fun. We are now past kits and we now are picking our ingredients, which is cool. The beer is good too 🙂
MADPASS (www.madpass.org) – I am on the board with MADPASS, we hit our 1 year mark in Feb, which was cool.
We keep doing cool new things, the speakers are good, and the "community" is growing. SQL Saturday 118 is coming up on April 21st as well in Madison (at MATC) – and I am helping out with that as well.
Besides that? Always the same old tech things I do every day. Finally consolidated my Google life to my Google Apps (more on that in a future post). No, no iPad 3/Next for me yet. Maybe though. Thinking about my next tech gadget. Chromebook? New TV? Not sure yet. Nothing really pressing there.
What else could there be? Well… a couple of things 🙂
I have been in the Madison area since November 2007. Been at Trek since Sept 2008. I have lived in Madison (apts), Sun Prairie (condo) and now in an apartment downtown Sun Prairie. It is a cool place. Nice view. Right in the thick of everything that goes on downtown (parades, festivals, etc). But.. the apt life wears on you. We have been "looking" for a house for a while now. Not ready to just go pick one out that is on the market, but wait for the right one. Right area, right price, right look, etc. Well, we found one. In less than 2 weeks, I will be moving to a house in Sun Prairie. It is about 6 blocks away from downtown, so within walking distance of everything (cough cough – Eddies), but yeah, nice little place. In a semi-secluded street. 3 bed, 1.5 Bath, Nice fenced in yard. Should be a nice house.
But wait, there's more!
Now, I would say that I have everything I need to be happy, and that is true. But sometimes things happen and you get things in your life that will even make you *more* happy. Well, it is a good thing the new house is a 3 bedroom, because come fall there will be another baby Novoselac running around. Yes! We are expecting. Ella will be a big sister and of course our lives will change for the better once again. I am excited but will be even more excited around October!
So until then, and even after, we will keep watching the movie that we call life and having fun.
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The business is not only forward thinking in its products but also in its entrepeneurial spirit and the way in which we intend to market ourselves and our products. Contemporary, cutting edge, vibrant, lean are words which could be used to describe us. Traditional, corporation, legacy are not!
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I've interviewed customers over the years for Ch9, but this is the first time I was interviewed. Zhiming Xue (aka "Dr. Z") interviewed me about my WP7 app. Check it out if you are interested: https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/ARCast.TV/ARCastTV-Building-My-First-Windows-Phone-7-Application
Year: 2010
Code Coverage for Silverlight and Windows Phone
As part of building my WP7 app, I spent a fair amount of time trying to get code coverage working for my unit tests. I tried a number of different approaches including using the Silverlight Unit Test Framework and NUnit + dotCover. I finally landed on an approach that worked for me using the unit…
SHAMELESS PLUG: My First WP7 Marketplace App
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Pat, who is one of my teammates, just blogged about a project he's been working on with Sunlight Labs. It's an app called Congress for Windows Phone 7. Check it out: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/publicsector/archive/2010/10/17/introducing-the-first-public-sector-application-for-windows-phone-7.aspx
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I always hesitate to publish a blog post that is just a link to someone else's. However, sometimes you just want to make sure people know certain posts exists. This is one from Paul Stubbs (@PaulStubbs on twitter) qualifies: Developing Windows Phone 7 Applications for SharePoint 2010 – http://bit.ly/bC0yi8
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BEAUMONT – Effective Jan. 1, 2012, Lamar Institute of Technology will become a tobacco-free campus, in an effort to maintain a healthy and safe environment for its students, staff, faculty and visitors.
The Texas State University System has asked for all its colleges and universities to have a tobacco-free policy in place by June 2012.
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Dartmouth engineers solutions to binge drinking
Associated Press via The Seattle Times
December 4, 2011
A few years ago, students in Dartmouth's introductory engineering class invented a bicycle wheel to help young children maintain their balance. A recent challenge for the current class? Tipsy college students.
When professor John Collier learned that Dartmouth President Jim Young Kim planned to visit his class, he decided to have students show off their problem-solving skills by attacking a social problem instead of an engineering dilemma. Binge drinking—defined as consuming five alcoholic drinks in two hours for men and four drinks in two hours for women—was an obvious choice, given the national initiative Kim launched last spring aimed at reducing excessive drinking on college campuses. And it was a topic that students had plenty of experience with.
"They leapt at it," Collier said. "They came up with a ton of really interesting things."
The students were divided into groups and asked to work on one of four problems related to binge drinking. They had an hour to evaluate the problem, come up with solutions and rate each one based on how well it met the specifications of the problem, including whether a solution would work well for different age groups and genders.
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"It's crazy to think that we readily accept that a domestic dog can turn on a child - "because it's just a dog""
Not sure I understand (or agree) with that. Just the opposite in fact. We immediately put down dogs for that. In fact, I've known a few cases (including my own father) who put down a dog who protects itself from a child pulling his tail or hurts the animal.
Sorry, just thought that may not have been a good analogy. In fact it may show the opposite of what you're trying to get across.
Some excellent responses here (and the reason I posted this later) but to answer Rudy's question and Wanderer's too, I think.
We accept that a dog might turn - because it's an animal; but we forget that we are animals too largely I think because for millennia, religions have told us we're special.
We are not.
Any pissed up, horny half-witted asshole on high "roids" of a Saturday night is highly likely to revert to type (ape instinct) and rape the first "slut" he comes across - particularly if she's wearing provocative clothing - yet popular opinion says that it's OK for her to dress that way.
This also alludes to my point that with great freedom, we must balance great responsibility. The slutwalks were popular with great volume given over to "We have the right to dress how we want..." ya de ya.
Indeed, they have - but they have to accept that if attacked they must bear some responsibility (as Rudy puts it here) for "pulling the dog by the tail".
This is the very thing the slutwalkers forgot (or chose to ignore).
Furthermore, such dress may also be responsible for entirely innocent women getting dragged into a hedge while walking home from work in the early evening by a similar ignorant asshole.
The point is, generally (an obviously my friends here are proving otherwise - which is the point of the experiment) it's impossible to have these discussions without being shouted down by popular opinion.
With that, I thank everyone who has had the courage to contribute without emotion and invite and more sober comments - all three of these "elephants" may warrant full discussion in separate threads, so I'd appreciate if we keep this one general if that's OK with everyone?
Indeed they do. But as Fil observes, this is just part of it.
I have no wish to demonise women, no matter how they dress (and I should point out that by going into detail, we're a bit off topic) but we have to remember that we're animals: first and foremost.
I was hoping we'd look at each "elephant" in turn but as we're on it, I find that most women I ask have no real idea why they dress "provocatively" or even wear makeup - the most common response I have to date is "Too look good'.
Ach! Sorry, we're getting way OT here - I really wanted to have this discussion in its own thread.
My observation is that women/men who dress provocatively do so to attract the opposite sex - it's not rocket science.
The beer-fueled breed of casual/date rapist seems different from the serial rapist who picks random victims by convenience/security.
Of course, I could be wrong and I'm certainly trying to keep it simple.
Not quite what I was getting at Marc. You talk about turning back to our original animal instincts? Well we'd all be naked then. Where does that put the dressing provocatively theory? I love to have a few drinks. I've never had the urge to "rape" a woman. Turned on? Hell yeah! But don't need drinks for that. Has it occurred to you it's more of a learned response as opposed to a natural one? Going back to a dog analogy...a dog that is trained to attack is just that...it's TRAINED to. It's not it's "natural instinct". Yes it might guard it's territory, pups, or fight over food, but it can be trained to do many "unnatural" things. I'd put forward, raping a scantily clad woman is NOT natural or going back to our "ape days". It's a taught behavior (the lack of respect and empathy), possibly subconsciously in many instances and therefor why it is more common with drunks. In fact, I'd go as far to say empathy IS our natural instinct being social creatures...even when drunk. And being a "social animal", it's something that should and can be "unlearned". If dogs can do it (and bears, and monkeys, and parrots, and crows, and......), I'm sure we can. Btw, I've bred dogs and male dogs don't breed til the bitch lets them.
And I'd like to add, I'm very much in favor of the max penalty for guys who do that, because, well...I like girls who are scantly clad and if they can't do it safely, they're less likely to do it (^_-).
Of course I simplified it and there's more factors behind it. I did that on purpose. Sometimes...well most of the time, when you over think things, one can cloud the issue. Like your definition of "natural". The way you state it, EVERYTHING anything does is natural. Fancy houses, cars, computers...all built by an animal (us) and is therefor natural. In a way that is correct. Not the "definition" I was referring to.
And for the record, just about everything you mentioned about the dog applies to humans. Humans can be trained and our personalities are affected by things like abuse, how they are treated, whether they have enough food, where they stand in the "pack", etc. And if you were to purposely do genetic breeding with humans, even our "breeding" would affect our behavior. For the most part though, human races (oriental, African, white) are so large and diverse it's not a factor. Again, purposeful genetic PLANNED breeding is needed for that.
So if we want to go back to "my definition" of natural, in nature, if you get deviants like murderers and rapists (whether that be human, chimps or wolves), they are generally eliminated from a social group. No matter the reason. It's simply a matter of survival of the group.
OK, I've been thinking about it more. You asked if "he was wrong". The answer is yes. I'm a man of science and logic and because of that I know the actions of a black person or any other race has more to do with the lifestyle, condition, situation they happen to be in at the time. Has nothing to do with race. Religion and belief system? Sure, but again, that's independent.
Is he racist? Most likely...not much more to say than that.
As far as the other points? Don't take any offense, but the whole premise is plain silly. As in let's take it further. Let's say your opinion pissed me off to the point I track you down and kill you out of anger. Or my neighbour gets a nicer car and I steal it out of jealousy. Does that mean you shouldn't be allowed to express your opinion? Or my neighbour isn't allowed to make more or own nicer things than me because we "are just animals"? No, makes no sense. If a women wants to walk around topless here or a woman wants to expose her face (while wearing a turtle neck) in the Middle East, men should be able to control themselves and their "urges" no matter the circumstance...or suffer the consequences. The only exception is not our "animal urges", because again...they're not. It's simply what we're used to...not nature. Of course there is religious/beliefs reasons, but well, I'm atheist and don't accept that as an excuse. (^_^)
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HOYLAKE, England (AP) — The last time Sergio Garcia played the British Open at Royal Liverpool in 2006, he was one stroke off the lead after three rounds and played in the final group with Tiger Woods.
HOYLAKE, England (AP) — The last time Sergio Garcia played the British Open at Royal Liverpool in 2006, he was one stroke off the lead after three rounds and played in the final group with Tiger Woods.
Woods, wearing his traditional Sunday red shirt, shot 65 to win by two strokes. Garcia, dressed from head to toe in yellow, shot a 73 and finished tied for fifth, seven strokes behind.
It was another British Open disappointment for the Spaniard.
Five times he's gone into the final round of the Open within three shots or better of the lead, including his three-shot lead at Carnoustie in 2007.
On Thursday, Garcia opened with a 4-under 68, two strokes behind first-round leader Rory McIlroy, and still in search of that elusive first win in a major tournament.
"It would be nice to put myself in a position to have a solid chance on Sunday, like I did a couple of times, and like I did in 2006," Garcia said. "But, still, it's only the first day. So we're going to go a little step by step and hopefully keep shooting good scores."
Garcia had five birdies and one bogey, on the par-5 10th. But he followed up the 6 with a chip-in birdie on No. 11.
"It was perfect timing, it was one of those things that it was great to be able to do it right after a bogey on a par-5, which always stings a little bit," Garcia said.
"I hit a great tee shot, then then just pulled it with my 9-iron left of the green ... let it run down the hill. Fortunately, it went straight in the middle and hit the pin and went in."
He also birdied the par-3 13th before finishing with five pars.
Garcia said he's in a good place mentally, despite what the Open has dished out to him in the past.
"Even in the tough years in this championship, it's different to me," Garcia said. "I love it so much. After the Ryder Cup it's my favorite tournament to play. You always come with a different frame of mind here, even if you're struggling a little bit. It almost kind of feels like a Ryder Cup, when people start shouting, "Come on, lads!'"
Whether the fans are still offering encouragement to him on Sunday is still a big question mark, but Garcia is happy after Thursday's effort.
"Every time you start a major championship and an Open with a 4 under, you've got to be pleased with it," he said.


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Bryanna Clark Grogan's Vegan Feast Kitchen/ 21st Century Table: The kitchen journal of a vegan food writer.. I'm on Facebook and Twitter (see links in sidebar at right).
Sunday, April 24, 2011
As you probably know from reading this blog, our casual "vegan dinner group" of 5 vegan Denman Is. couples gets together every now and then to share good vegan food, wine, companionship and conversation. Last night we had a fabulous vegan Easter/Spring dinner. It had an Italian theme this time. (Unfortunately, on couple could not make it-- we missed you, Rudy and Ellen!)
Here are some pictures:
My contributions:
My seitan ham and Squash and Cranberry Mostarda
Squash and Cranberry Mostarda-- the only changes I made in the recipe were white wine vinegar instead of champagne vinegar, and kabocha squash instead of butternut. I wanted to make a mostarda to make my seitan "ham" fit better with the Italian theme. A mostarda is an Italian relish-- sweet and spicey-hot-- that is usually made with a variety of dried fruits. I only had dates, raisins and cranberries in the house. I went looking on the internet for something mostarda-like that I could make with what I had around, and found this great recipe, which was delicious with the "ham". It would be good with smoked tofu, too!
My seitan "ham"
My crusty artisan no-knead bread baked in pots
Smaller version of Pastiera Napolitana Vegan (Neapolitan Easter Grain & "Ricotta" Pie)-- see recipe and better pictures at this blog post. My pictures of the cut pie I made for last night did not turn out. here's a photo of a slice of the larger-sized pie I made last year:
Last night we had some of Pelka's organic frozen strawberries with the pie.
Sarah and Gord's wonderful spring greens salad with baby green beans, zucchini, arugla, and tomatoes in a lemon, garlic and olive oil dressing-- couldn't stop eating it!
Pelka's Fennel and Mushroom Pasta in Cashew Cream sauce-- delish!
Pelka's terrific kale with pine nuts
My bread with a bowl of Fireweed's delicious olive spread to slather on it!
Fireweed's gorgeous and mouth-watering stuffed portobello mushrooms with asparagus.
Everyone except DH, who took the picture, ready to toast and eat!
Thanks to Pelka and Rob for hosting us!
Have a wonderful holiday ushering in Spring!
8 comments:
- Linda said...
In which of your cookbooks is the recipe for Seitan Ham?
- Mon Apr 25, 11:42:00 AM PDT
- Bryanna Clark Grogan said...
Linda it will be in my next cookbook (after World Vegan Feast, which comes out in Sept.).
- Mon Apr 25, 12:23:00 PM PDT
- Lauren (PB&G) said...
It all looks great but that Seitan Ham has me salivating! Can't wait to see the cookbook!
- Mon Apr 25, 01:21:00 PM PDT
Where can I find the recipe for the Seitan Ham? What is the name of the cookbook it is in? Thanks, Diane
- Sat Apr 30, 09:23:00 PM PDT
We made a Lasagna di Carnivale from Nonna's Italian Kitchen as our Easter centerpiece - it takes a bit of time to make the components, but the end result never fails to impress the veggies and carnivores alike!
- Sun May 01, 06:56:00 PM PDT
- Bryanna Clark Grogan said...
I'm so glad you enjoy it, Mike!
- Sun May 01, 07:05:00 PM PDT
It all looks so appetizing!! Lovely photos.
- Fri May 06, 10:44:00 PM PDT
Will be buying that Cookbook for the ham !!!!
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Rescoring performed for 13 August Quiz on INDICES OF BETWEEN (1330)
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To be honest I do not see any reasons for re-scoring here. If the choice would be formulated so "The lower value in the BETWEEN clause can be 1" - would you consider re-scoring in favor of players that would not select it? I doubt so.ReplyDelete
The choice was absolutely unambiguous, to interpret it as Sergey P. did it shall be written either "... can be any PLS_INTEGER value - and only such values" or "shall be a PLS_INTEGER value, any such value is permitted".
Thanks, al0. I agree that it was not strictly speaking necessary. I guess I was just in a generous sort of mood - and I don't want players to get caught up in (and possibly discouraged by) linguistic hair-splitting.ReplyDelete
This quiz, as it was originally presented and scored, was neither ambiguous nor erroneous. The argument that expressions which are not of type PLS_INTEGER could be used in the BETWEEN clause does not alter the fact that PLS_INTEGER values can be used. This argument is fundamentally the same as one that was presented (and rejected) in response to the recent quiz regarding INSTR. In both cases it is the completeness, not the accuracy, being challenged. The rationale for rejecting the INSTR challenge was that a choice is not incorrect solely for not completely describing a feature. The decision taken for the BETWEEN clause case is inconsistent with that taken for the INSTR case.ReplyDelete
Rescoring should be reserved for instances where a quiz is ambiguous or contains errors that can reasonably be expected to influence players' choices. In this case the semantics of the original quiz were clear. The difference between must and can is not one of "linguistic hair-splitting." Ignoring that difference and accepting Sergey P.'s challenge rewards specious argument and diminishes the efforts of those who responded correctly.
A choice should be considered correct if it does not contain false statements and does not conflict with the details of the question. Extending this standard to require complete description of the topic feature would make it nearly impossible to formulate meaningful options with other than concrete code examples since players could likely identify some aspect of the feature that was omitted (similar to challenging when an intended correct choice includes "always" or "never" as part of its phrasing).
I agree with al0 and jhall62, there was nothing wrong with the question.ReplyDelete


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My friend Bill Otis has this to say about the defeat of the bailout legislation:
No one likes this bailout, and there's plenty not to like about it, starting with the fact that it does nothing to remedy the country's addiction to debt which is the real problem. Indeed, it's merely the next "fix" for that addiction, not to mention a bonanza for millions of foolhardy and/or dishonest people who took out mortgages they knew they couldn't afford.
Still, Bush is right that the consequences of not having the bailout will be worse than the consequences of having it. Right now I'd say we are headed for a Depression. Almost no one alive remembers what that is really like. When they find out, there will be chaos. At least in the thirties the country was tough. Now it's soft and pampered. People will be in for a shock when they find out the privation they've been (falsely) complaining about can be quite real, and is about to descend.
So, bottom line, the thing has got to pass. But it failed today in the Democratically-controlled House by 23 votes, with more than 90 Democrats voting against it.
Question: Where is Barack Obama? The man is the newly annointed head of the Democratic Party. He could tell his followers in Congress that for the good of the country, they have to vote for this, awful as it is. Has he? No. Why? Either because he doesn't understand what we are actually facing, or because he sees it's unpopular and hasn't the guts to risk his lead in the polls by swimming against present opinion.
The country cannot abide such "leadership." You can't just vote "present" on this one. Nor would such a "vote" by Obama be honest, since in fact he's not even present. . . .
His yammering inaction in the face of this financial crisis is bad enough. But it is yet more frightening to think about what he would do, or fail to do, in the face of the far more malevolent and lethal threat we will face if and when he occupies the White House.
Give me someone with some guts. For whatever his flaws might be, and they're plenty, I believe there is someone meeting that description on the ballot this year.
PAUL adds: John McCain, of course, did not rally many conservative Republicans behind the bailout legislation. But McCain has never had much influence with the conservative wing of his party; there just isn't sufficient ideological affinity. And he at least suspended his campaign in an attempt to help bring about a deal.
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Snakes and daredevils have taken over the Howard County Fairbarns.
The 47th Annual AMBUCS Rattlesnake Roundup is in full swing. There are snake skinning and milking demonstrations and the opportunity to savor some fried rattlesnake. Professional snakehandler Jackie Bibby is back again for the snake shows.
The arts and crafts show and flea market will continue from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday as well. Admission to the arts and craft show is free. Roundup admission is $5 per adult and $3 for children ages 4-11 years old.
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The American dollar is a flawed currency and will collapse in value before the end of the decade, taking with it the prosperity of the American nation. Investors should be buying commodities - platinum, lead, wheat, sugar, oil, the sort of assets that haven't been fashionable for a quarter of a century or more. While you're at it, teach your children to speak Mandarin, the coming language of the 21st century. And don't encourage them to do an MBA: "Tell them to be a farmer and do a real job."
Such advice, if given by your regular financial adviser, would probably provoke a complaint to the ombudsman. The speaker, though, is Jim Rogers, a legendary Wall Street name. The Indiana Jones of finance - a nickname earned by virtue of two round the world trips in the name of grass-roots investment research - has become a multimillionaire by backing such views with hard cash.
In 1973, Rogers and George Soros founded Quantum, one of the first and most successful hedge funds. In Britain, the Quantum Fund is best known for making £1bn by selling sterling ahead of Britain's exit from the exchange rate mechanism on Black Wednesday in 1992, but Rogers' contribution came before then. He helped Quantum to return a 4,000% gain in its first 10 years and departed in 1980, staying a year longer than he had intended only because 1979 had been so profitable - he predicted the stock market crash of that year.
The "poor boy from Alabama" whose first job was picking up bottles at baseball games at the age of five, retired at the age of 37 a very wealthy man. He set about managing his own fortune and travelling the world, projects that have become virtually indistinguishable over the years. In the early 90s, Rogers travelled 65,000 miles roving the world by motorbike and related the tale in his first book, Investment Biker. Last year, he completed a second, Adventure Capitalist, which was the result of an even more ambitious journey: a three-year, 150,000 mile journey by custom- built Mercedes across 116 countries with his girlfriend, who became his wife along the way - in Henley-on-Thames, of all places.
Snake burger
Like the earlier book, it is part anecdote - what it's like to eat snake; what happened when he forgot about the bottle of vodka in the boot when trying to enter Saudi Arabia - but the heart is commonsense investment analysis built on firsthand observations. His philosophy is that you learn about a country from talking to brothel owners and black marketeers rather than government ministers.
In conversation, Rogers rattles along in similar style. He punctuates everything with American-style full disclosure of his personal holdings - "I'm short Citibank, incidentally," he will interject into a dissection of the rotten heart of the American stock market - and delights in challenging received wisdom. His central argument is that a new bull market has started that will match the fireworks seen in the dotcom-fuelled stock markets of the late 90s. This time, though, the bull market will be in commodities not shares. Rogers' reasoning is straightforward: raw materials are running out.
"There has been no great oil discovery in the past 35 years," he argues. "The North Sea has peaked. Alaska is in decline. Mexico is in decline. All these great oilfields are in decline. To anybody who thinks I am lying about this, I would ask: where is the oil going to come from?
China bull
"Mines deplete. Wells deplete. It's supply. In the 1970s, we had horrible economies around the world, but commodities skyrocketed despite those horrible economies because there was no supply. That is happening again."
How high is high? The nature of all bull markets, he argues, is that prices go higher than anybody would have imagined possible. "Nobody could ever have thought that Cisco could go to $75 [it had been $5 a few years earlier]. Who would have thought in the 1970s that oil could go to $40 a barrel - it was $2 a barrel in the 1960s," he says.
"Sugar in 1966 was 1.4 cents per pound. In 1972 - six years later - sugar was 66 cents. Who could have conceived that? For decades, it had done between one and five cents. If you had said in 1966 that it would go up 47 times they would have made you certifiably insane. But it happened."
Hand in hand with this faith in the value of commodities is a long-term confidence in China, whose appetite for raw materials has already fuelled a strong rise in commodity prices in the past 18 months. All the best capitalists live in communist China, he argues, and overseas Chinese are returning with their capital and expertise. He has employed a Chinese nanny for his one-year-old daughter. Mandarin will be the most important language in his child's lifetime, he thinks.
But even this China bull predicts a major economic slowdown there, with accompanying political unrest, very soon. In this, he is not wholly out of the line with the consensus thinking - City economists are currently debating whether China's landing, after a decade of extraordinary growth, will be hard or soft. Rogers' view is that it will be very hard, but will also represent a golden investment opportunity.
"I remind you of the last two times that China had to cut back an overheated economy," he says. "In the late 80s, it led to Tiananmen Square when things got out of control and the second time was in the mid-90s, when they had to devalue their currency. Sometime this year or next you will see headlines in the Guardian, 'Turmoil in China'. At that point, you buy all the China you can and all the commodities you can because that will be bottom of the consolidation in commodities and consolidation in China."
Buying in the face of prevailing hysteria is a principle that has served Rogers well over the years. Crisis in China - however serious it looks at the time - will merely mark the end of the first leg of this new bull market, he thinks.
"Remember," he enthuses, "that the second leg is wonderful, and the third leg is spectacular. In the fourth leg, there is dancing in the streets and in the fifth leg people are hysterical and everything is skyrocketing every day. We are nowhere near the second leg, much less the third, fourth and fifth legs."
His bearishness on the US dollar is predicated on economic fundamentals, notably the balance of payments. Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve and Rogers' bogeyman-in-chief, has been printing money on an unprecedented scale and President George Bush has been spending it just as rapidly.
"The US owes the world $8 trillion," he argues. "We are the world's largest debtor nation by a factor of many times and our foreign debts are increasing by $1 trillion every 21 months. That's terrifying.
Dollar demise
"People need to understand about this major change in the world and about the demise of the US dollar. The US dollar is going the way that sterling went as it lost its place as the world's reserve currency. I suspect there will be exchange controls in the US in the foreseeable future. It will be a complicated and difficult currency."
Not that Rogers is a fan of many currencies. He says he has stakes in a dozen but has "no confidence in any of them". He expects the euro to fail eventually but holds some anyway because he judges it to be less flawed than the dollar. For the record, his daughter's assets are held in Swiss francs and gold, silver and platinum coins.
Unlike his old partner, Soros, who has devoted part of his vast fortune to opposing Bush's election campaign, Rogers stands wholly outside the political fray. He calls the US-led invasion of Iraq a "horrible, horrendous, unbelievable mistake", but thinks the Democratic candidate, John Kerry, would make his own mistakes. "They wouldn't be politicians if they knew what they were doing," he says, far from flippantly.
The balance of payments, and the looming dollar crisis, make the election result irrelevant, he argues: "Whoever is elected president is going to have serious problems in 2005-06. We Americans are going to suffer."
The CV
Born 1942, Alabama
Education Yale; Balliol College, Oxford
Career US army; co-founder, Quantum Fund; professor of finance, Columbia University Graduate School of Business
Family Married to Parker Paige with a daughter
Interests Henley royal regatta


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Humboldt penguins are medium-sized penguins that can grow to heights of 70 cm or more. Also the Humboldt penguin is undoubtedly very similar in appearance a number of other penguin species, the Humboldt penguin can be easily identified by the pink, fleshy base at the end of their bills. All penguins are fantastic swimmers and the Humboldt penguin is no exception. Humboldt penguins use their powerful flippers and streamlined bodies, aided by their webbed feet to soar through the water. Humboldt penguin populations have been severely affected in their native regions due to increasing commercial fishing which leaves less food for the penguins to eat.
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Humboldt penguins nest on beaches and rocky islands along the South American coast, where their range in Chile overlaps that of the closely related magellanic penguin (these sites are known as rookeries). The female Humboldt penguin lays two eggs which are incubated for just over a month and usually fledge (leave the nest) when they are between 2 and 3 months old. Today, the Humboldt penguin populations throughout the Pacific Ocean have been drastically declining over the past few years, with human interference (mainly habitat loss and over-fishing) being the main cause.


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Chris Johnson's six-season run with Tennessee is officially over.
The Titans announced they will release Johnson, their star tailback, on Friday.
Johnson, 28, rushed for 7,965 yards and 50 touchdowns in regular season play for Tennessee, which drafted him in Round One in 2008. He has exceeded 1,000 yards rushing in all six of his NFL seasons, and he has missed just one game in that span.
At his best, Johnson has been a clear-cut blue-chip player — one of the game's most dynamic tailbacks. He has 68 rushes and 15 receptions of 20 yards or more in his pro career. However, he gained a career-low 3.9 yards per carry a season ago, and he was due $8 million in salary in 2014.
"As an organization, we want to thank Chris for his contributions to the Titans. Chris produced many memorable moments, broke franchise records and was durable over his six year career with our team," Titans G.M. Ruston Webster said in a statement issued by the club on Friday.
"We have had an open dialogue with Chris' agent, Joel Segal, over the last few weeks, and we appreciate the patience and professionalism they have shown throughout this process. We made an effort to trade Chris but were unable to do so. We wish Chris the best and thank him for the six seasons he spent with us."
Johnson's best season came in 2009, when he rushed for 2,006 yards on 358 carries, gaining a college-like 5.6 yards per rush. While he hasn't reached those heights since, he has been a stalwart for Tennessee.
Now, Johnson enters a market that hasn't exactly been kind to running backs this offseason. Then again, Johnson has been far from ordinary for the vast bulk of an exceedingly productive NFL career.


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IBM Deep Thunder for the New York City Metropolitian Area
Date added: 27 Feb 2013
IBM is helping organizations all over the world manage the Big Data deluge for better environmental forecasting. An IBM Deep Thunder visualization of weather in the New York City Metropolitan Area. (Credit: IBM)
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2013 Sand Season
Played in all eight matches during the program's inaugural sand season with partner Katie Aprile…played the first six matches of the season at No. 2, before playing at No. 1 during the final two matches of the year…Beal and Aprile posted a team-best 5-3 record during the season…the tandem provided the match-clinching victory at No. 2 to help deliver a 3-2 victory over Cal on April 13…Beal and Aprile went 5-1 at No. 2, and 0-2 at No. 1 in the lineup.
2012 Season
A second team all-Big Sky Conference selection after starting all 30 matches and appearing in all 119 sets…averaged 2.69 kills and 1.12 blocks per set while hitting .235…the blocks were the seventh best mark in the conference…increased her averages to 3.01 kills and 1.14 blocks per set with a .246 hitting percentage against conference competition…among Big Sky leaders (conference matches only), the blocks were the sixth best mark and kills the 10th best…also averaged 3.78 points per set against league foes, sixth best in the conference…over the team's final nine matches of the season, Beal hit a team-high .343 with 3.46 kills and 1.21 blocks per set…recorded double figures in kills on 15 occasions…hit better than .320 five times during a six-match stretch from Oct. 22-Nov. 9…that included a victory against Northern Arizona where she had a career-high 22 kills, a .435 hitting percentage and six digs…also had 20 kills and a career-high 11 digs in the regular season finale win over Montana…posted double figures in digs three times…hit a career-best .647 (11-0-17) in a home win against Southern Utah…also had a career-high 10 blocks in wins over Weber State and Montana State…had three double-doubles during the season, including 13 kills and 10 blocks against Weber State, and 16 kills and 10 blocks vs. Montana State.
2011 Season
Appeared in 30 matches, including 23 starts at rightside hitter…battled a knee injury the majority of the season…did not play the final two regular season matches because of the injury…played in 110 sets…averaged 2.32 kills, 0.96 blocks and 2.87 points per set…against conference competition, her 0.98 blocks per set were the ninth best mark in the Big Sky…recorded 10 matches with double figures in kills, including season highs in both kills (21) and hitting percentage (.567) at home against Northern Arizona…recorded double digits in kills in three straight matches over a 5-day stretch, comprised of 15 at San Jose State, 11 vs. Portland State and 10 vs. Eastern Washington…named Big Sky Player of the Week on Oct. 10…an all-tournament selection at the Belmont Invitational…had a career-high nine blocks against both Georgetown and Saint Mary's.
2010 Season
Appeared in 29 matches as a freshman, including 22 starts as the team's rightside hitter…averaged 2.30 kills, 0.45 digs and 0.68 blocks per set while hitting .216…the hitting percentage was the best mark among the team's regulars…had 253 kills with 119 errors in 619 attacks…among team leaders, she was third in attacks and kills, and fourth in points (2.69 pps) and blocks…the Hornets were 7-4 when Beal tallied double digits in kills…became the first Sacramento State freshman to earn Big Sky Conference Player of the Week honors (Oct. 4) since Lisa Beauchene accomplished the feat in 2000…named to the Sacramento State Invitational all-tournament team…had a season-high 20 kills at home vs. Idaho State…had at least three blocks in 17 matches…increased her numbers to 2.61 kills and 0.79 blocks per set against conference competition.
High School
A 2010 graduate of Dixon High School in Dixon, Calif…played four years of volleyball, and ran two years of track…in volleyball, she was a two-time team captain and three-time all-Capital Valley Conference selection (first team as a junior and senior, honorable mention as a sophomore)…named the conference MVP as a senior after posting a league-best 4.8 kills per set and ranking fifth in the conference with 3.3 digs per set…the kills were the fifth most in the Sac-Joaquin Section and she guided the Rams to a 19-11 overall finish and a second-place league record of 12-2…also led the conference in kills as a junior with 3.9 per set and was tied for fourth in digs (2.4 per set)…as a sophomore, she ranked first in the league in aces and second in blocks…during her final three years, Beal helped lead Dixon High School to a combined 47-29 overall record, a 29-9 conference mark (including a league championship in 2008) and three section playoff appearances.
Parents are Jimmy Beal and Leslie Sherlin…a civil engineering major…played for the Northern California Volleyball Club (NCVC), and the team's coaching staff included former Hornet Kristi (Lambert) Deter and current Hornet outside hitter Janelle Currey.


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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Appetizer Party Platter
I'm always looking for easy appetizers to bring to a party or to make ahead when I'm hosting a party in my own home. It's easy to fall into a rut and make the same boring appetizers over and over, I'm guilty of it myself. I created this appetizer plate with some of the usual items but tried to add something different to make them feel new again. The stuffed mushrooms and peppers had the usual bread crumb filling but I added some crispy prosciutto to the mixture. On the mushrooms I added a little piece of Italian Fontina cheese to the top of each one. The potatoes (trader joe's teeny tiny potatoes) were sauteed with shallots sundried tomatoes and then tossed with a premade muffaletta salad. Recipes to come soon!
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- Patti T. said...
We loved the teeny tiny potatoes from Trader Joe's, to bad there aren't any near us. Your apps look delicious.
- December 29, 2011 at 1:21 PM
- janice15 said...
It looks great and your rite sometimes we get stuck doing that same ole same ole...I love coming to visit you...Happy New Years...with LOveJanice...
- December 29, 2011 at 4:04 PM
- Claudia said...
Love the platter - it has all my favorite things. Happy New Year - may 2012 bring joys.
- December 31, 2011 at 11:34 AM
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The Green Room in Carlisle closing
The Green Room Bistro & Juice Bar, Carlisle's High Street restaurant that specialized in local organic foods, said today in an email that it's closing the doors in the next couple weeks.
"It is with a sad heart that I must announce that The Green Room, in all likelihood, is closing," owner Patrick Andrews said in the email. "We are facing a financial crisis from which we cannot recover."
The restaurant will remain open for the next couple weeks to sell its remaining food and pay employees, but without a buyer or investors, the restaurant will close, he said. The restaurant opened in March 2010.
The Green Room will hold a roundtable discussion at the restaurant at 6 p.m. Oct. 18 to discuss how it might be saved, Andrews said in the email. He did not go into details about what led the restaurant to its current financial state.
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