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The plan was simple: Stay smooth. Stay consistent. Keep moving forward. Your equipment is the best. You are a better bike handler than 99% of these guys. Just flow, race my race and go as hard as your under-tuned body can push you was my inner-chanted mantra. That, and stay out of the shit-show many riders would demonstrate given the conditions we faced. I was lined up 6th row…close enough to see the smiling faces of my brothers on the front line, Webber, Dubba, WB, Robson, Jonny C which gave me some hope and confidence. Yet turning around in the start grid seeing the masses lined up behind…some 17 or 18 rows deep…was daunting. 180+ riders in all. I have no idea what it would be like if the conditions were dry and fast. It would be a scoring nightmare as we had no ankle transmitters.
Friday - The Time Trial
The day before those that either were out of the top 8, did not do Nationals the year before or upgraded to a new age bracket could participate in a time trial to help seed your position. Any little advantage would help. I am a fast starter and while the TT course was well designed to challenge you, it felt pretty manageable to me. There was a beautiful and treacherous run up of ice and snow featured at the midway point, with fast and flowing trails leading to it and from it...trails which were a lot like what you'd experience short tracking. Leaders were doing it in about 6 to 6:15. I pre rode and felt fairly good. Legs were still a little under-whelming but I knew I could push through it. I pre-rode everything…twice mind you…with the exception of the very first section of the course…a critical mistake.
Three, two, one, go! I am off and Robson is yelling at me to stay smooth. The beginning threw a few paved 180's at you and then immediately puts you into the dirt. I flow into a section super hot shortly after entering the dirt (e.g. unsmooth) that had a radically arced turn (that of course I missed by not pre-riding). I completely blow this corner to the extent that I am off course, in the brush and off the bike. Being off your bike is not fast. I remount and start 'er up again, pushing hard and find a rhythm. I hit the run up and find myself Mario De Clercq-ing up the run up 'fast feet' style, truly bounding up this thing. I complete the course including a set of barriers about 30 seconds off the winning time set by my boy Michael Robson to put me in 40th position, seconds separating riders 10 at a time.
Saturday - The Main Event - Men's Cat 1/2/3 40-44
My compatriots Dave Weber, Jeff Wardell and I were at the start line together. We were shivering, hopping up and down in the grid partly due to nerves, but mostly due to the conditions which were unlike anything I'd faced in the time I've been racing. It was a rain and snow squall alternating between the two every few minutes. Looking up into the sky was surreal. The Pacific Northwest was literally raining down snowflakes as big as golf balls. I've raced in all types of conditions: It's been colder than hell racing here in Colorado, for sure. It's rained on my races plenty of times for sure. But the combination of the two yesterday was such a vicious cocktail, racers would push themselves to new levels…insane levels…to finish and to say 'they were there.' We were, for all intents and purposes about to participate in the Woodstock of cycling folklore.
From the sound of the whistle the starting group blasted off the line. The paved start chute was a sea off slush, each riders wheel making a wake and massive frozen rooster tail into the riders faces behind them. It was a 'pray-for-your-life' scenario. You can see it all here, from the slush to the mass of humanity racing in the event as captured by Colt and crew. I come in to the first chute off the pavement in the first 40 riders or so (at 00:36…yes, Colt, this needs to be BlipSnippable!)
By lap three I have a brother with me in Jeff Wardell. I am feeling better, railing lines and generally feeling pretty motivated. Surprisingly I don't necessarily feel I am going backwards but gaining ground. Having Jeff there would be a great carrot. I know I was motivated as I could feel the cold but it wasn't the most 'present' thing. Railing the lines were and I felt simply great on my Rhinos doing exactly that.
So as I am flowing with Jeff, an S & M guy and a DeSalvo guy attach to the group and we tractor-pull through a grassy slog which nearly everyone identified as a major leg sapper. This flowed out to a paved path that shot the riders up and over a pretty rad bermed embankment. On the paved lead up into the berm the S&M guy makes a move and we start to tangle bars. I yell at him 'No! No! No!" as I feel we are both a second or two from hitting the deck. We untangle and he moves on yelling 'Come on man! It's racing!" To which I agree but if I could get that guy to see my season through my eyes and the desire to not end up on the ground (again) he'd appreciate the need for me to yell.
100 meters later we are all three shooting to the bermed embankment. S&M guy is through, then DeSalvo and I head in and up. There are two lines and he takes the low, me the high. We converge on the exit, now bombing down the embankment when DeSalvo guy comes unglued and yard-sales in front of me. I hit him t-bone square-on and go over him, his bike and onto the pavement.
I can't believe it. I open up a cuss-fest and I jump back on and try to pedal and already hear/feel something wrong with me and the bike. Leg warmers are torn and my hip is shooting bullets at my brain. We head into the woods and the rear end of my bike starts making carnival-like noises. Some dude yells at me "Your derailleur's broken!" and I look down and sure enough it's in the wheel. And so, my National Championship cross country running race begins.
I ran for minutes and minutes, even making some ground on dudes still trying to pedal who went out too hard too early who look like they were in the Bataan Death March. I could feel myself getting pinned from running but finally see the pit. I raise my hand to my dear friend Chris 'Shotty' Shotwell who is faithfully manning the pits in the freezing cold for me personally. The course lead up into the pits is painful. I am literally at a point where the pits are 10 feet away as the crow flies, but 100's of feet away given the course I have to still run to get there. So frustrating as I can see Shotty prepared but it was a lifetime to get around the course. I eventually make it into the pit and toss in my wasted bike and Chris hands me the clean one.
And right there when I tossed in the bike, I had 'that' moment.
As I remount the clean bike, I could feel demoralized, gassed and simply shattered from this season. Every single thought ran through my head…the most prominent of which was 'crawl off'. I am tired of sucking. Tired of complaining. Tired of lots of things. I was hurt and for the next few minutes as I eventually pedaled on truly questioned what I am doing and why (on many levels). It was short lived thankfully. I just sucked up the fact that I simply am not fast and I will work harder next year if I can find the focus in my life to devote to it wholly.
As I come through on the bell lap, my spirits lift a bit. Dave Towle sees me and cheers me on over the course P/A system which made me smile. He also was calling out the fact that my dear friends and team mates Pete Webber and Brandon Dwight were pushing hard at the front with our Colorado compatriot Jon Cariveau murdering himself behind Brandon by mere seconds. I knew even with my running race I had made it into the bell lap safely. That fact and the fact my boys were flying ahead of me and Colorado was slaying the field. My mood went from piss poor to pretty incredible in a matter of pedal strokes.
The elation aside, the suffering on the bell lap was incredible. I barely realized I crossed the finish when I eventually came through 7minutes down on Za Webber in an illustrious 70th place and just kept pedaling and circled back to our tent where we all sat and began our bouts with hypothermia. Webber, Brandon, Ward Baker…we all were in an extremely bad way. Friends were piling in to the tent to literally begin to rescue us as it became pretty scary. Uncontrollable shaking, lips turning blue, no motor coordination, completely slurred speech. It truly was happening and we were going hypothermic. I had the Hogan family (Karen and Mike) on me. Each tearing off clothes, boots, helmets, base liners. Mike literally had to get me naked and wrapped in blankets. I had enough focus to ensure he know I was having a Seinfeld-esque 'Shrinkage!" moment when I was naked. We then all got corralled into the Moots Sprinter van, its heater blaring we all sat inside and literally on each other unable to hold in our hands the amazing warm treats the Hogans and others were bringing. Literally shaking so bad that the coffee could not be brought to one's mouth.
Thank you Mike, Karen and EVERYONE who helped us after the race.
The Exhale
After warming up from our near-hypothermic experiences on Saturday, we proceeded to watch the remaining races and I prepared for my role as pit crew chief for Brandon and Pete in the Elite Men's race the next day by downing a gaggle of Deschutes Porter. Time to let go a little I guess. There were some amazing spectacles to watch from Danny Summerhill's win in his last U23 performance, to Matt Pacocha and Jon Baker's age group wins. All fellow Wednesday Worlds compatriots. (Side note, we've got to erect some sort of trophy wall at Elks given that one park has produced a number of National Champions. Amazing.)
Sunday's races would be raced in almost balmy conditions compared to the day prior. Sunny yet still super wet. I was able to pit with good friends Dan Farrell and Dave Weber out in shirt sleeves. It was a muddy mess but simply great to be outside in. Dan and I had Brandon and Pete's bikes dialed and ready for action while other Coloradan's tended to our other teammate Allen Krughoff's pit services.
We had a great time, sharing lanes with Mr. ATMO himself, Richard Sachs and our friends from KCCX. I think I saw a bloody shard of my vocal chords pop out of my mouth I was yelling so hard at Boulder Cycle Sport and all Coloradans to keep their mojo and their tempo high. Frankly any racing mope that came within site of me got yelled at to motivate them.
Pete, Allen and Brandon all had unbelievable rides…Brandon starting literally from the very last row to a 24th place finish, Pete 20th and Allen Krughoff right in front of him at 19th. Just amazing to see this especially after Brandon and Pete's insane battle at the front of our race yesterday. It is amazing to see how being smooth and consistent keeps moving you up and up and up. That's the game and these guys are absolute masters of it. Not sure if I'll ever get it.
The weekend was capped off with an epic after party on Sunday. Each year it's like a reunion. I'm in desperate love with the spirits that inhabit our sport, from the comedic to the serious to the God-gifted. We suffer so greatly together that so much is just understood without speaking about it between us…from an Elite Champion to a Cat 4 newbie to the sport. The conversations I had at the Summit Bar with my friends…both old and new…were amazing. These conversations had a theme and I was truly 'hearing' what was being said. While the words were flowing in to my brain, I'm balancing them with my thrashing uncertainty of where 'am' in this sport. "What is my place in this sport I love?" proverbially speaking. I won't be a National Champion in the Elites…likely never in my age group. I am confused at what fast means and how to get there even after 14 years of racing this insane sport. What I do know is that I love it and those that stopped me that evening and put a hand on my shoulder to simply say 'thanks for writing' meant so so much to me. They were the words I needed to parse and balance with everything else pinging around my brain these days. I was able to 'hear' them. Truly.
It's odd, I want to write about crushing the competition and having arms up again and being some sort of alpha-winner. At least that is a part of the vision I thought I should have. Winning and personal bests will happen again some day when I can devote what I need to, to it. But maybe that is not my 'role.' Maybe it is about expressing the need to just keep going. To not extract yourself and take your toys home because an aspect of your goals like winning or "personal best" is met unfulfilled. It's so frustrating, yet the sport is 360 degrees around us. It's the people, the courses, the equipment and nerdery around it. It's the ability to get over embarrassment and embrace failure. It's the need to know you're doing this because you love it…and where would you be in life without it.
My life is what it is because of cyclocross. And it is beautiful. And that is not an embellishment.
I will try again next year to be better if life will have it. To fly. To have my legs feel supple and fluid again. The leaves are off the trees now and flowing in the heavy breezes that mark our winter here in Colorado. And before we know it they will be changing colors again. You are my anchor, cyclocross.


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Wrestlemania is less than a month away and the top of the card is starting to shape up nicely. Hopefully the rest of the card will come into focus tonight, and I don't mean Ryback versus Mark Henry, either.
JBL is still off scaling mountains, so Michael Cole and Josh Matthews call the action from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Unfortunately Brad Maddox is also at the announce table.
Match #1 � Sheamus and Randy Orton vs. Rhodes Scholars
As the Rhodes Scholars walk to the ring, Damien Sandow calls what happened on Monday Night an abomination. They had a sure win taken from them and then thrown into a much they were not prepared for. Rhodes stops Sandow and blames Sheamus and Orton for ruining their date with the Bellas last week.
Sheamus takes Rhodes to the mat with a head lock and follows with shoulder block. Sandow gets the tag and Sheamus knocks him to the mat. Sandow fights back, pummeling Sheamus in the corner. The Celtic warrior fight out and connects with a high knee. Sandow escapes the ring and Sheamus follows. On the outside, Rhodes jumps off the announce table and connects with a Disaster Kick to Sheamus. We then go to commercial.
After the break, Rhodes is in control of Sheamus; cutting him off from making the tag to Orton. Sandow and Rhodes exchange quick tags to keep Sheamus off balance. Sandow kicks the Irishman in corner, but then runs into a boot. Sheamus flies off the top rope connecting with an elbow. Orton gets the hot tag; taking it to Rhodes with a power slam and a T-Bone suplex. The Viper takes Rhodes to the ropes and hits the elevated DDT. Sandow tries to interfere, but Sheamus takes him down with a Brogue Kick. Orton hits the RKO on Rhodes and gets the pin.
Winner via pinfall: Sheamus and Randy Orton (I refuse to call them #CelticVipers)
Immediately after the bell, The Shield's music hits, but they don't hit the ring. All three men deliver a message via the Titantron, stating that it's a injustice that they don't have a match a Wrestlemania. They tell Sheamus and Orton to find a partner, any partner, to face them at Wrestlemania.
If you missed it on RAW, you get another chance to see Kane and Halle Berry have a really awkward moment to promote the WWE film, The Call , that opens tonight.
A vignette for Fandango? We know who he is, we just don't know if he can wrestle.
Cole and Matthews recap Brock Lesnar's challenge to Triple H on RAW.
Looks like Orton and Sheamus have all ready decided on their partner, but Big Show wants to offers his services, because he can be ruthless. Orton likes the idea of a ruthless partner, which is why they have chosen Ryback.
Match #2 � Layla and Kaitlyn vs. Tamina Snuka and Aksana
For some reason, Naomi and Cameron are watching this match backstage. Layla makes a blind tag after Kaitlyn hit Aksana with a spear. Layla hits a flying cross body and covers Aksana to get the pin.
Winner via pinfall: Layla and Kaitlyn
The Bellas get in the faces of Naomi and Cameron and then jump them.
Another RAW Rebound, but this one is official, it's sponsored and everything. CM Punk crashed Undertaker's tribute to Paul Bearer, you know what just go back and read Nick Tylwalk's recap from Monday night.
Match #3 � Kane w/ Daniel Bryan vs. Dolph Ziggler w/ AJ Lee and Big E Langston
Kane knees Ziggler into the corner and sends him to the mat with an uppercut. Ziggler is knocked to the outside and Kane follows. The Show Off gets back in the ring, and tries to cut Kane off on apron. Ziggler is unsuccessful and eats a big boot for his trouble. Ziggler starts to mount some offense, landing on the apron after a back body drop. Ziggler knocks Kane down with a flying drop kick and keeps him grounded with a series of elbows. Ziggler hits a DDT but cannot get the pin.
Kane whips Ziggler from corner to corner and looks for side slam. Ziggler counters into a sleeper hold. Kane breaks free, but then runs into a boot. Ziggler flies off the top turnbuckle, but Kane catches him with an uppercut. Kane goes to the top and connects with a flying clothesline. AJ leaps on the apron, distracting Kane, as Bryan attacks Langston. Big E fights Bryan off, but then turns right into a boot from Kane. Ziggler hit Kane with the Zig Zag as he re-enters the ring and gets the pin.
Winner via pinfall: Dolph Ziggler
After the bell, Ziggler gets caught running his mouth to Kane, but Big E Langston runs in to make the save.
Alberto Del Rio and Ricardo Rodriguez made another parody video. This time they have Swagger and Colter blame Canadians for America's problems. Remember it's just a joke, but maple syrup is delicious. Chris Jericho thought it was funny, but Swagger isn't amused. In fact, Swagger tells Jericho he is no better than Del Rio. Jericho says he should worry about Wrestlemania, not politics.
Once again, Fandango doesn't even compete. This time he is offended by Khali and Natalya dancing in the ring. He asks Khali to pronounce his name, and that goes as well as can be expected.
The Rock. John Cena. This time it's personal, wait, no, this time it's business. Remember kids, this only happens twice in a lifetime; maybe three times if they can make money off it.
Matt Stryker announce that Booker T has just made the Sheamus, Orton, Ryback match against The Shield official, when The Shield attacks. They lay out Orton and Sheamus backstage before getting chased off by officials.
After the break, Sheamus and Orton are still being attended to. Booker T tells Ryback just to worry about his match with Mark Henry.
Match #5 � Mark Henry vs. Ryback
Ryback and Henry lock up and push each other around, when The Shield hits the ring. Mark Henry clears out of the ring, but Ryback is able to fight off all three men. Henry acts like he's returning to the ring, allowing The Shield to take down Ryback with Triple Powerbomb. Henry finally returns to the ring to finish Ryback off with The World's Strongest Slam, twice.
No Contest
Match #6 � Jack Swagger w/ Zeb Colter vs. Chris Jericho
Swagger and Jericho lock up and have a good old fashioned wrestling match, until Swagger forces Jericho into the corner. Swagger decks Jericho, who chops his way out of the corner. Swagger finds his way to t apron and Jericho knocks him off with a spring board drop kick. And we go to break.
After the break, Swagger is in control with submission in the middle of the ring. Jericho powers out with a suplex. Swagger applies a headlock and then hits a high elbow. Jericho responds with a shoulder block and follows with a bulldog. Jericho misses the lionsault, but is able to block the Swagger Bomb. Swagger avoids the walls of Jericho, but connects with an enziguri. Swagger kicks out at two. Jericho is whipped into the corner and Swagger cuts his down at the knees. Swagger clothesline Jericho in the corner, but Jericho responds with a DDT. Swaggers counters the Code Breaker, but cannot get Jericho in position for a Gut Wrench Powerbomb. Jericho tries for the wall, which is countered in the Ankle Lock, but Jericho reverses into the Walls. Colter climbs the ring steps, giving Swagger an opening to escape. Jericho climbs the turnbuckle and gets a lateral press off a cross body, but Swagger kicks out. Swagger counters another Code Breaker and is able to hit the Gut Wrench Powerbomb. Swagger covers and gets the pin.
Winner via pinfall: Jack Swagger
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Cooper '07 to Study at Harvard Lawby Howard Hewitt • August 6, 2010 Share:
Joe Cooper '07 spent two years after Wabash in the Teach for America Program. Last year he started law school at Boston University. But this fall he'll resume his pursuit of a law degree at Harvard Law School.
Cooper, a Wabash English major and Independent, will be the first Wabash man to study at Harvard Law in recent memory, according to Pre-Law Advisor Scott Himsel.
"At Wabash, Joe developed the most important skill of a liberally educated person – asking great questions," Himsel said. "Indeed, Joe was one of the most inquisitive students I've had. There is no better way to prepare for the study of law than learning how to ask good questions in a liberal arts setting.
"Joe's success should inspire his fellow Wabash men to continue to aim high and to work hard."
Cooper has had a busy summer working and getting ready for the transition to the nation's most prestigious law program. He answered some questions via email to share with the Wabash community.
Wabash: What graduate programs did you consider before landing at Harvard?
Cooper: I am actually transferring from Boston University School of Law. I came to Boston from Memphis, TN, because Boston offered great law schools for me, as well as great schools of public health for my girlfriend Christine, another Teach For America alum and a native of Worcester, MA.
The decision to transfer was difficult. I performed very well in my first year at B.U., finishing first in my class. I developed strong and lasting relationships at B.U., especially with career services staff and professors. However, I knew that an education from "across the river" would open doors in my career that otherwise would either be hard for me to open or closed to me altogether. (Harvard sits across the Charles River from B.U.). I could not pass up the opportunity to learn from the greatest legal minds in the world and study with future leaders in law, government, and politics. B.U. is a great school with a great reputation, but Harvard is arguably the leading legal institution in the world, and I'm humbled that I have the opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity.
Wabash: What was your Teach for America experience like?
Cooper: I taught for two years in Memphis, at a middle school as a member of the founding faculty at a new charter school, Power Center Academy. I still maintain close relationships with the school's administration, faculty, and students, who were and continue to be an inspiration to me. Teaching in an urban school system was a very challenging experience, but lesson-planning, grading, disciplining, and just generally being responsible for 120 adolescents helped me grow professionally and personally. It is hard to remember that you were in college only a year before, when you're reprimanding teenagers for sagging their pants or wearing their shirts untucked!
During law school, I've worked as a research assistant to my criminal law professor and as legal intern at the Massachusetts Department. of Elementary and Secondary Education, and participated in the Rappaport Fellowship in Law and Public Service. Each of these experiences has afforded me the opportunity to see the law from a unique angle. At DESE, I've helped legal staff promulgate regulations following Massachusetts' new Anti-Bullying law and assisted the administrative hearing officer in cases involving various educator misconduct claims.
Wabash: So now you're going to Harvard, what does that mean to you?
Cooper: Gaining acceptance into Harvard Law School was a great moment for me. The opportunity to go to the alma mater of Supreme Court Justices and Presidents is both inspiring and humbling. While gaining acceptance has caused me to spend a lot of time preparing for the work that I lies ahead - the studying, learning my way around campus, and developing new relationships - I have also thought a lot about the path that has led me here. The other week, I was speaking with someone who spent their high school summers working for one of NYC's most prestigious law firms, delivering court filings, etc. I made the joke that, when I was in high school, I spent summers detassling corn and mopping floors in a tool and die shop. My new friend had never heard of 'detassling corn,' but he got the point, and we had a good laugh.
I guess one morale of that story is that I definitely won't take this opportunity for granted. At the same time, I am confident that I'm prepared to meet the demands of a Harvard education. It may seem convenient to say this now, but I truly believe that my classroom experiences at Wabash easily matched the caliber of discourse in my first-year law school classes. In particular, both the teaching and the student involvement in my Constitutional Law classes with Scott Himsel were practically indistinguishable from those I encountered in law school.
Ultimately, it's not simply a mission statement - Wabash really does teach its students to think critically. I guess what I'm trying to convey is just as Harvard Law School is perhaps a probable future for a high school student already working in a prestigious NYC law firm, Harvard is not a stretch from Wabash College.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
The European Union has released a report that labels the very presence of Jews on the eastern side of Jerusalem as "provocative." According to the Europeans, the building of Jewish homes in these areas is the single greatest threat to peace in the region.
Titled "Jerusalem Report 2012," the survey asserts that the construction of homes for Jews on the eastern side of Jerusalem is a "systematic, deliberate and provocative" effort to make it "impossible for Jerusalem to become the capital of two states."
It should be noted that the report is not referring to small, isolated settlements, but rather to large Jewish neighborhoods like French Hill, Pisgat Zeev and Gilo (for those familiar with the city).
For Israelis, the whole thing is just absurd. That the return of an ancient people to the areas that made up their ancient heartland should pose a threat to peace simply doesn't make sense. Not to mention the fact that Jews have continuously lived in these areas, and especially in Jerusalem, non-stop for some 3,000 years. What the world doesn't like is that the Jews now exercise control in this Land.
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It's time to stand up for working Americans.
Anytime you hear a Republican politician or a right-wing newspaper editor argue against raising the minimum wage, you can be sure they are not working for minimum wage. They are mouthpieces for rich corporations like Walmart and McDonalds, which do not want to pay their workers a living wage. The Republicans worry more about taking care of the wealth and huge corporate businesses than they care about their fellow citizens.
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I am writing on behalf of the Tonasket Chamber of Commerce in support of the Tonasket School District levy and bond.
I believe strong schools contribute to strong communities. Good schools are an important draw to people looking to move into our area.
Often, the first the question potential residents and entrepreneurs ask is about the school system. We have a vibrant and strong school district with beautiful facilities. We can proudly answer our community supports our schools.
Our vibrant and strong district will be in jeopardy if these measures do not pass. Without these necessary funds, cuts will have to be made to meet state-mandated longer day. Also, some of the state equalization funds will not be available.
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Let's do the poll and see what the results are — Who's more scared right now, the bulls or the bears? Let me know by commenting below or sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com, or in the Subscriber Chat Section at http://tradingwithcody.com/subscriber-chat-room/ (I've opened up the chat room to everybody today so we can get as much commentary about who's more scared as possible).
I'm bidding on some Nvidia /quotes/zigman/80597 /quotes/nls/nvda NVDA April calls, with strikes from $11-12 or so. I don't know that the near-term for NVDA will pop or that next week's earnings report will be a catalyst higher either, but the premiums on the NVDA call options are so cheap that I can buy the calls for just about the same price as I can buy the common (the common's at $12.40 and you can buy the April 11 call options for about $1.60, putting your cost basis at $12.60 instead of $12.40).
There's a chance NVDA misses estimates and has to cut near-term and our analysis on NVDA is that the next year will be good, not the next three months. Read this before you do the trade.
NVDA Slips: Pac Crest Cuts Tegra Estimates on Apparent Loss of GOOG 'Nexus 7′ Tablet
Read this pretty darn good analysis to recall why we're buying NVDA for the next year or so:
Don't Count NVIDIA Out in the Smartphone Wars
And as always, remember that you can lose 100% of all your capital in any options trade.
Who's more scared right now, the bulls or the bears, even with today's pullback? Don't forget to let me know what you think.
Me personally? I think we need to let some of these worries that I wrote about last week work their way back into the markets for the near-term and I'm not looking to be aggressive one way or another for now.
Cody Willard writes Revolution Investing for MarketWatch and posts the trades from his personal account at TradingWithCody.com, which is not affiliated with MarketWatch. At time of publication, Cody was net long Nvidia, Qualcomm, Google. Follow Cody on Twitter at twitter.com/codywillard.


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Except for an area of storms moving across Burlington and Ocean counties today's round of thunderstorms are done but more are expected on Tuesday.
Strong storms developed along the Delaware River and moved east bringing lightning, hail, and high winds with heavy rain falling at the rate of 2 inches -per-hour in some areas. One person was struck by lightning from one of the storms earlier in Delaware County, Pennsylvania at the Glenn Mills School in Thornbury Township according to WCAU TV, which reports over 1,000 lightning strikes from storms in a half-hour period Monday afternoon.
A Thunderstorm Watch for most of New Jersey was lifted early. Hot and humid weather will be back on Tuesday with temperatures in the 90s and increase in humidity meaning more strong storms will develop.
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- Country Style Pork ribs - quantity to suit your crowd
- Ground ginger
- Garlic powder
- Salt and pepper
- Soy sauce
- canned pineapple chunks, drained
- Sweet Baby Ray's or Cookies Barbecue Sauce, or pick your favorite!
- Arrange a single layer of ribs in a baking pan.
- Sprinkle with garlic powder, ground ginger, and soy sauce.
- Bake, uncovered, at 325 degrees, for ½ hour.
- Drain any fat and juice that's accumulated.
- Add salt and pepper.
- Arrange pineapple chunks over the meat.
- If you're not using a sweet barbeque sauce, sprinkle with brown sugar.
- Smother in/cover with barbecue sauceto taste!
- Bake, uncovered for 1 ½ to 2 hours longer, or until meat is fork tender.
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- This recipe isn't an exact science; it's to your taste. But more importantly -it's for any size family! And it's such a great meal for the time and energy it takes to prepare.
- Slice a sweet onion and arrange over the top with the pineapple chunks.
- The ginger helps give it that Polynesian flare, but if your family doesn't like it, leave it out.
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Cut top from each head of garlic, exposing the cloves. Place heads of garlic (cut side up), on a piece of heavy duty aluminum foil. Pour olive oil over them, and top with thyme springs. Season with salt and pepper. Wrap the foil tightly. Place in a small ovenproof pan, and bake until the cloves begin to pop out, about 1 hour. Remove from the oven and cool.
To remove the cloves, open the foil and squeeze the lower part of the head of garlic. In a small bowl, mash the cloves to form a paste. (At this point the paste can be used or stored in the refrigerator or freezer.)
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We chose a few items from Chanel Jardin de Camelias that we'd like to share with you, to put you in the mood for spring. This collection is exclusive to Chanel.
The Chanel Jardin de Camilias is part of a long tradition of this line to release a soft, face-brightening capsule collection this time of year. Of the items that we chose, my favorite is the Chanel Ombres Tracees eyeshadow palette in Jardin Zen ($65).
This softly pigmented collection has a light cream-toned highlighter and a soft cool pink. To keep the color palette in the sophisticated (rather than the jejune) side of things, Chanel has added a soft mid tone grey-mauve and a deep pigmented black. There is a soft sheen throughout the shades, and an inconsistent bit of sparkle throughout the mauve and black shades. The design is gorgeous.
Chanel Jardin Zen is the perfect palette for understated sophistication. If you are the kind of person who thinks that most eyeshadows look too strong on you, this is the perfect palette for you. This lightest shades are a soft whisper of color in an ultra-finely-milled powder. Here is Liz wearing the three lightest shades, applied very lightly with the Edward Bess Luxury Eye Brush.
I've been having very good luck applying this palette with the Wayne Goss eyeshadow brushes (typically, #3). We didn't use the Jardin Zen black shade in this picture, although it makes a good eyeliner shade or applied softly in the outer "V" of the eye to add depth.
Above, Liz is also wearing the Chanel Joues Contraste powder blush in Sakura ($43). This is a softly-pigmented cool medium pink. We had to layer it on quite a bit to build up the color that you see on Liz in these photographs.
Above, Liz is wearing the Jardin Zen eyeshadow palette, the Chanel Sakura blush, and Tom Ford Paradiso lipstick. Below, she wearing the same makeup and singing Jay Z's "Tom Ford" because we get sort of carried away like that. She's also used the T3 Bodywaver ($149). We've both become addicted (we each own one by this point). Anyway, I think the Chanel Jardin de Camelias products look quite natural on her.
We also tried two Chanel Rouge Allure lipsticks in this collection–Chanel Rouge Allure Charmeuse and Chanel Rouge Allure Fleurie ($34 each). Chanel Charmeuse is a pretty soft lustrous semi-sheer nude.
There is a touch of shimmer in the formula. This reminds me of Tom Ford Pink Dune, but the formula feels more moisturizing and lush.
Because Charmeuse has some sheerness, it doesn't "blank out" one's lips or give the "corpse effect." You'll see a touch of your natural lip color showing through, depending on how heavily you apply the color. On Liz:
Chanel Fleurie is a cool medium rose with red shimmer reflects.
This reminded me of Tom Ford Paradiso, however again I prefer the Chanel formulation (your mileage may vary, but the Rouge Allure feels better and seems to last a bit longer on me). On Liz:
Overall, this quiet little capsule collection from Chanel is easy to miss. Perhaps you shouldn't, especially if you love soft, natural colors that look amazing everyday.
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Liz looks lovely! May I ask what foundation/concealer/powder she is wearing?
I really like how natural this looks on Liz, so French!
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Fn-Keys never worked for me to begin with, so I'm suspecting that having them work automagically might rely on hardware drivers.
Life's not fair, but the root password helps.
- The BOFH
I have installed a kernel 22.214.171.124 and now brightness control works perfectly. With "acpi_backlight=vendor" i have intel_backlight in /sys/class/backlight. Fn keys work, powerdevil slide works, echoing $number to /sys/.../intel_backlight/brightness works.
I think is a regression of official kernel, not an Arch issue, because i've installed for testing Opensuse 12.3 with 2.7.x kernel that has the same problems of arch.
Thanks, bongo_fury! I'll try it in the evening when I get home.
BTW, everybody: should I mark this as [SOLVED]? Or as [WORKAROUND]? Technically it is a solution, but I'm not happy at all about being forced to work with an older kernel.
Life's not fair, but the root password helps.
- The BOFH
No I don't think you should mark this as solved. It is an ongoing issue, and it does indeed seem to be kernel related.
I hope by 2.6.8-1, bongo_fury means 3.6.8-1. Though as you probably know, partial updates are not supported, so it might be a better idea to try the LTS kernel, or even the linux-lts34 kernel from the AUR. I actually compiled it the other day, and it works pretty amazingly (it includes efistub and everything).
I too have this issue and have tried various combinations of acpi_backlight/acpi_osi combinations. Still I have no functional backlight stuff all around. I have the keys working, but the /sys stuff doesn't. So for now it is good enough.
Thanks, bongo_fury! I'll try it in the evening when I get home.
BTW, everybody: should I mark this as [SOLVED]? Or as [WORKAROUND]? Technically it is a solution, but I'm not happy at all about being forced to work with an older kernel.
@ WonderWoofy, yes 3.6.8-1 not 2.6.8-1. Sorry
PS:Someone should report the regression to kernel developers. I could do it mysel, but my English is too bad (thank you Google Translate )
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So, the Fn-keys apparently have access to some brightness-changing-magic. Does anybody know what those functions are or how to find out? Because I always thought, echo-ing into the /sys/class/backlight/.../brightness file was as direct a change as it got. But apparently there are some system functions you can call to change the backlight directly, and if we knew how to call them, we could word around the issue.
I think the FN keys funcionality is added by acer_wmi kernel module. try load it (modprobe acer_wmi) and see if it works for you...
EDIT: missed the page 2, so this ^^ is kinda outdated
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core i5 4590, x86_64, nvidia 970
Update at long last: Everything still is as it was, BUT: yesterday I installed redshift, and it regulates brightness and RGB-/gamma-values without a problem. So I used it to tune down the brightness a bit in general (-b 0.8) in addition to the normal redshifting ... Problem solved for now.
It seems that while the /sys/class/backlight files don't work, randr still can change brightness or gamma values. So, it isn't perfect, but it isn't a terrible hack either.
Life's not fair, but the root password helps.
- The BOFH
Hmm, redshift doesnt work for me.
(process:2661): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_instance_get_private: assertion `instance != NULL && instance->g_class != NULL' failed
[1] 2661 segmentation fault (core dumped) redshift
Seems creating ~/.config/redshift.conf with
; Global settings
; The location provider and adjustment method settings
; are in their own sections.
fixes it. Is there any cool gui for it? like a slider or smth? the one in aur (redshiftgui) didn't build.
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I think redshift is another workaround not a solution. It works changing the gamma settings of the panel but backlight is always at the top. It is not a good thing if your notebook is running on battery power.
I think redshift is another workaround not a solution. It works changing the gamma settings of the panel but backlight is always at the top. It is not a good thing if your notebook is running on battery power.
So after posting quite a while ago, I found that my machine does indeed work very well with acpi_osi="!Windows 2012". You have to be careful with how you quote in the kernel command line though. It depends on what bootloader or boot manager you are using.
For instance, with gummiboot (my daily driver), the 'options' line has no quotes, so it can be put in exactly as is. Srs5694's rEFInd indicates that you should use double double quotes in the 'options' line (or maybe 'append' I can't remember). So it would be acpi_osi=""!Windows 2012"". In other bootloaders such as grub, I found that simply delimiting/escaping the quotes seemed to work fine. So it would be acpi_osi\"!Windows 2012\". This also works if you are using an efibootmgr entry to directly boot the efistub, and I have also tested with elilo as well. So I presume that what works for elilo would also work for lilo. I think for syslinux, it can be entered like gummiboot since the 'APPEND' line is not quoted in this case either.
I have seen reports that this does not always work, but from threads I have read, it seems to work more often than not if the proper quoting is used. I noticed that when I quoted the whole thing (ie. 'acpi_osi="!Windows 2012"') it borked it pretty good. I can't remember what it did, but it didn't work right for sure.
No luck for me with that Windows stuff
I think, you're right, changing gamma values doesn't solving the backlight issue, it's only a workaround. I'm removing the [SOLVED] tag.
Life's not fair, but the root password helps.
- The BOFH
today after upgrading I noticed these lines in dmesg:
[ 9.464498] acer_wmi: Acer Laptop ACPI-WMI Extras
[ 9.464509] acer_wmi: Function bitmap for Communication Button: 0x801
[ 9.464513] acer_wmi: Brightness must be controlled by acpi video driver
Kernel parameter:
I found this interesting. It still doesnt work of course
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Good News! With the latest kernel 3.9.x backlight works. At this time I've tested my system only with "acpi_becklight=vendor" flag but backlight works (fn button, powerdevil slide etc.). Later other tests.
Backlight works again!!!
And... here... we... go!
Backlight should be set to vendor? Or intel? I have the latest kernel from core.
Tried backlight=vendor. Now the XFCE brightness plugin works! But FN keys doesn't
had to leave acpi_osi=Linux too at the kernel line for my Acer v3-571
Now it really works!
Should we mark this as [SOLVED] ?
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The design should (1) incorporate my company name/logo and tagline, and (2) fit with the technology/legal industry focus of the company.
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You know it's election season when reporters start to take note of evangelicals a bit more than usual.
The Economist has a new piece on the supposed changing landscape of evangelicalism and what it means politically. The piece is set up describing three evangelicals who apparently defy evangelical stereotypes.
CONSIDER three young religious-minded people of the left. The first is Andi Sullivan, who set up a charity to distribute mosquito netting to Africa and Asia during her first year at university.
I don't know any conservative evangelical who opposes mosquito netting, especially if it's driven by nonprofits. But the story fits the reporter's narrative that evangelicals have all acted one way while the coming generation will change the picture.
The vast majority of evangelicals oppose gay marriage. They are more likely than non-evangelicals to oppose extra funding for public education, unemployment benefits and aid to the poor, both within and outside America. And a poll taken by the Public Religion Research Institute in 2010 showed that nearly half of all white evangelicals favour deporting illegal immigrants.
The story's premise suggests younger and/or Latino evangelicals could change the makeup of the political landscape because they could change the evangelical landscape. But what the piece doesn't point out is that Latino evangelicals are pretty opposed to gay marriage and abortion. Much of the piece uses stats without citing specific polls, so it's difficult to see whether the reporter is using data worth noting. The most recent poll on immigration is really from 2010?
The prominence of evangelicals within the Republican Party is increasing: they made up more than half of all Republican voters in the first 16 primaries and caucuses where entry and exit polls were taken, up from 44% in 2008.
And fully 70% of white evangelicals consider themselves Republican these days, up from 65% in 2008.
It might not be useful to compare 2012 to 2008 since party identification is pretty low. Perhaps some evangelicals have shifted identity as independents?
But if those numbers are comforting for Republicans, the trends below the surface are less so. Mitt Romney, the all-but-official Republican nominee, is a Mormon, and has struggled throughout the primaries to win the backing of evangelical voters. And in 2008 Barack Obama won the votes of nearly one in four evangelical voters; comfortably more than the one in five John Kerry won four years earlier. He showed particularly strong gains over Mr Kerry among younger evangelicals, and in swing states. Our three examples might not remain as outliers for too much longer.
Romney likely didn't struggle among evangelicals in the primary because they're turning liberal. If anything, they were turning towards a candidate they saw as more conservative: Rick Santorum. Oops: that doesn't fit the narrative.
Given the traditional strength of Republicans among evangelicals and the record number of illegal immigrants, mostly Latino, deported by Mr Obama's administration, Latino evangelicals ought in theory to be easy pickings for Mr Romney in 2012. But that may not be the case. Mr Bush supported immigration reform in the teeth of opposition from congressional Republicans. Mr Romney, on the other hand, was endorsed by and campaigned with Kris Kobach, who helped write the harsh immigration laws passed by Arizona and Alabama.
The reporter makes the jump that Latino evangelicals all oppose immigration laws Romney wants enforced. Is there any data to support that assumption? John McCain didn't make much headway with the same group, despite his stance. The reporter quotes one pastor, taking the beliefs of one person and universalizing them for an entire subset.
In the last half of the 20th century, membership of evangelical churches boomed while more traditional church attendance declined; today one-quarter of Americans aged 18-29 (and 16.1% of all Americans) are unaffiliated with any faith. Being unaffiliated is not the same as being atheist or agnostic, but it does suggest a waning of evangelical institutional authority, just as traditional authority in the old-established churches began crumbling several decades ago.
What is "evangelical institutional authority"? Sounds like an oxymoron. In my sociology of religion class in college, I was surprised by how many of my peers declined to identify themselves with a particular denomination, saying "I grew up Methodist" or "I grew up Baptist." I wonder how many younger evangelicals actually self identify as evangelical when they might say "yes, yes, yes, yes," to scholars' four descriptions of what an evangelical looks like.
American evangelicals spearheaded the drive to end slavery.
Yet the Devil can quote Scripture, too: many Americans used it to defend slavery and segregation. And Christian voters eventually rejected the devout, low-church Mr Carter in favour of a divorced movie-star longer on charm than piety. All of which suggests that American Christianity—much like both America and Christianity themselves—is fundamentally neither of the left nor the right, but is capacious enough for all comers.
That's quite the sweeping conclusion on religion in America based on two elections. The entire piece suffers from the primary view of a political lens without really consulting the religion lens. I know it's hard to to believe, but religious movements can be a little more complex than presidential elections every four years. Correlation does not mean causation, especially when a reporter tries to fit a square peg in a round hole.
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