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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Comic 471: Randall The Tolerant, Randall The Caring
This comic makes me realize there is a whole new category of xkcd comics that I haven't really noticed before: the smug "aww, I'm so much better a person than everyone else" comic. With, of course, the typical xkcd "hey guys look I know what some internet memes are!"
So what do we have - Weird Dude is mocked by everyone except the Kite Flier (and we know randall is a kite person) who is kind and understanding. Rob noted in a comment on the last post noted that "It's usually pretty obvious when Randall is getting preachy. They are usually neither very subtle nor very clever." I think this is both. "I stick up for you when I can." Seriously? Why not just write "I am nicer than other people! Won't you love me, world?"
I get tired of writing this, but again, what is the joke supposed to be? People are mean to dude dressed like Tails, then Randall is nice to him, then there is a brief remark about appropriate analogies. The "joke" at the end feels like more of a tagged on attempt at a joke, not a real punchline. Or was the whole thing about how nice he was really supposed to be leading up to "ha ha, you chose an animal themed analogy!"
Better endings include:
-Kite Dude is actually not tolerant; whole comic has been a set up for a massive prank of some kind
-Kite flying somehow connects to being a furry, perhaps it turns out he can fly or something, and he helps with the kite
-Furry turns out to be totally deserving of his reputation, like he's totally creepy or something like that.
Obviously those are not funny on their own, but I suspect that at least one of them could be worked into something better than the out-of-left-field random fable ending that.
I say it all the time, but just to be fair I'll say it again: I don't hate this comic, I just think it's very Eh and not very funny. And could easily be better.
PS - if you are going to comment and say that the kite dude does not represent Randall, don't bother, you're wrong.
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I thought for sure this one was going to have a punch line. Even when I finished reading, I clung to the hope that somehow, the alt text would wrap it all up and leave me roflmaoing on the floor, but it was all pretty hopeless.ReplyDelete
I was sort of confused about why/how those guys at the beginning even knew Tails was a furry. Perhaps I'm naive, but not everyone who dresses like a squirrel wants to have sex dressed as a squirrel, or with someone else dressed as a squirrel. So to me, the comic was just off right from the beginning.ReplyDelete
On the topic of "how much better I am than you", I can think of a lot of examples right out of the blue (the "DON'T BE A JERK TO GIRLS ON THE INTERNET GOD I LOVE WHITE-KNIGHTING" comic comes to mind), and I think you should compile a list. Just to prove a point...again.ReplyDelete
Yeah, here I completely agree with you. About the preaching, that is. The punchline reads like an afterthought.ReplyDelete
I do kind of like the forum thread for this comic, though. Being a furry is suddenly cool.
Andy - I bet there are alt-texts that could have saved this. I can't think of any right now, but I'll try later, and you guys can give it a shot too. IT WILL BE FUN. That's your challenge - come up with an alt text that is funny using exactly these panels. And something Randall could have actually put there, not something mocking him.ReplyDelete
Sarah - This is a good point. For that matter, given how Randall draws everything as stick figures, how do we know Tails isn't actually a squirrel? That can talk? Or something?
Connor: I will get on this. I am still meaning to do "One panel from funny" from like forever ago. But this will be good. Let's list some more, some time.
Jay - I was going to read the forum thread but it got crazy long too fast and also I was at work and many people have read-over-shoulder capabilities...
Hey, if your guest posters can bring up wildly irrelevant points, so can I.ReplyDelete
Putting the words of a character in the author's mouth is extremely questionable in criticism. In this case, of course, the character is portrayed very positively, so it's a bit moot, but referring to "kite girl" as "Randall" and jumping to "look how nice I am" is still a bit... smug? Sloppy and presumptuous, at least.
It is at least moderately interesting that internet populations a) are pretty down with all kinds of alternative sexual mores, and b) endlessly critical of furries. Granted, this doesn't make the comic funny, just sociologically interesting.
The "insert a joke in the last panel" routine is commonly accepted in webcomics that also have a storyline. Whether or not social commentary is also acceptable as supplementary content is up for debate though.
I also think you have an excessive hatred for set-up, but I've opened up enough lines of debate for the moment.
Is it kite dude? I thought it was kite chick. Now I keep seeing a dude with a mullet, though. There ought to beReplyDelete
I was actually thinking of this very comic when I was writing my comment. It's just... very preachy. And not very funny. Diesel Sweeties handles furries in a much more amusing way.
As an aside, I feel that it's not so much 'look how much better I am than you' as it is 'you people are all internet jerks.' It's preachy, but I think he tries to avoid making it 'I do this, and you should all follow' so much as 'guys, you shouldn't do this anymore.' Subtle but important difference.
Normally when you ask what the joke is supposed to be I respond 'there isn't one!' but, uh. This time? There is clearly supposed to be a joke, and it is almost Shaggy Dog Story in its anticlimax. This sort of thing is fine in comics that have storylines (as previously noted) because the storyline is usually interesting enough to keep me reading (otherwise I wouldn't read it).
xkcd does not have a storyline.
Intro: random people mock the furry on sight aloneReplyDelete
Middle: Kite person calls the mockers "assholes" and is social with the furry
End: Kite person has aversion to furries using animal allegories and the furry apologizes, seemingly for being turned on by the "lion and the mouse" tale
What were the assholes from above supposed to do, then? Wait for confirmation bias and THEN indulge their aversion fad? I understand the hypocrisy of singling out one fetish as bizarre but letting the rest slide, but that's a specific population there. Plenty of people can and do think that furry as well as many other fetishes are weird. The fact of the matter is, most fetishes have sexual connotations with people and human behaviors, whereas furries want bestiality, which is a minority (outside the Internet, anyway).
Sorry for the mini-rant, but the preachiness is definitely there, and had Carl not updated when he did I would've volunteered to take the reins today. I mean, it would be one thing if the "Tails" person was a cosplayer or fan of animals in general, but Randall's "it's just a fetish wait it's who you are" scripting lets him have his cake and eat it too.
Alt text/ending: "Man, look at it go! That's squirrel-skin for ya. Oh. Sorry."
OK I made a list of preachy comics but it's horribly short now. I need some help on lengthening it before I add a link to the front page.ReplyDelete
this is the list, woo hoo
I thought it was a dude with the kite, upon rereading it could go either way. I still feel like it's Randall clearly speaking through his characters though. If it had been anything but kite flying...(well, unless it had been "ha ha they are assholes come help me draw a lame comic")
Thomas, your new alt-text is good. It inspired this one: "OK, the kite mounted missile is working. Let's find some anime fetishists and blow them up. They suck."
Uh, what about the one that... didn't have words? The arguing on the internet one? That one was preachy.ReplyDelete
Agreed. It is added.ReplyDelete
Don't forget the flaccid rule he started about dick jokes!ReplyDelete
- Christy HotwaterSeptember 18, 2008 at 12:51 AM
I think the reason a lot of people get annoyed with furries is that furries make their fetish a "lifestyle." People who like being handcuffed to national monuments by French maids can somehow resist making it some sort of identity politics nonsense. Of course, Munroe's Mary Sue sanctimony blots out this nuance.ReplyDelete
So what do you consider funny?ReplyDelete
Christopher Guest.ReplyDelete
John Hodgman.
The Harvard Lampoon Guide To College Admissions.
The Perry Bible Fellowship.
The first 10 or so seasons of the Simpsons.
The Producers.


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Skip to comments.First person charged with voter fraud [in South Dakota]
Posted on 10/18/2002 11:47:13 AM PDT by jpthomas
A KOTA Territory man is the first person to be charged with voter fraud this election.
Police say Lyle Nichols is charged with five counts of forgery of voter registration cards. Nichols is one of two brothers hired by the Native American Voter Registration Project.
They collected and submitted 226 registration cards. The Pennington County Auditor's office found that two of those newly registered voters were dead.
If convicted, Nichols could be sentenced to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine for each of the five felony counts.
Last week, accusations of voter registration fraud began to surface in several counties. Dead people had been registered, people were registered in counties other than where they live, and names were misspelled, signatures didnt match.
Throughout the state, there are massive voter registration drives being conducted by both political parties, tribal governments and national organizations. Nichols currently is the only person charged.
There is another voter fraud investigation involving a woman paid by the South Dakota Democratic Party to register people. Becky Red-Earth Villeda says she is innocent, that the accusations against her are an attempt to stop the registration of Native Americans. Red-Earth Villeda was fired after discrepancies were found in two applications she collected.
IMO public flogging is best.
The on-going investigation into possible voter fraud in several South Dakota counties continues. KSFY's Shelley Keohane received a packet of information from a personal friend who volunteers for John Thune's campaign. It includes one questionable application for an absentee ballot from Dewey County. Shelley verified this document, and then she and a photographer made a two day, 800 mile trek in order to research the allegations of possible voter fraud that the FBI and U.S. Attorney are examining.
KSFY talked to five individuals on camera in Dewey County who say their signatures were forged on ballot request forms. While in Dewey County, we met with County Auditor Adele Enright, a registered Democrat.
As KSFY reported last Friday, Enright contacted the Democratic Party about irregularities she noticed in several ballot applications. The party then fired independent contractor Becky Red Earth-Villeda who they say is responsible for 2 questionable ballot applications. The Democratic Party turned that information over to the authorities.
During the course of Shelley's independent investigation, she found multiple people who have testified on camera their signatures were forged on absentee ballot requests.
KSFY has confirmed with county auditors in five South Dakota counties...Fall River (who handles voter registration requests for Shannon County), Todd, Dewey, Ziebach, and Pennington, that the FBI is investigating possible attempts of voter fraud. KSFY will continue to follow this story and we will continue to bring you the very latest as it develops.
I only wish that the ACTUAL election results for the past 100 years would be revealed by some Miracle. I'm not sure the Democrats would have even 80% of their current seats.
Don't even try and play that race card Becky. Your RAT party sold out a whole tribe of Native Americans who would have GREATLY benefited from the drilling of ANWR, not to mention the rest of our country.
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As the peak of hurricane season arrives Tuesday without a major storm having formed, forecasters are starting to rethink predictions of a busy year for high-powered tropical systems.
As of the National Hurricane Center's 5 a.m. update, Tropical Storm Humberto was located roughly 150 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands, at latitude 14.4 north and longitude 26.6 west. The storm was moving west-northwest at 9 mph, expected to turn more to the northwest and slow later today.
Forecasts call for Humberto to reach hurricane strength later today. The storm's current maximum sustained winds are near 65 mph, with higher gusts, and tropical storm-force winds extend outward as much as 80 miles.
Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Gabrielle has reformed in the Atlantic Ocean, some 165 miles south of Bermuda. Gabrielle is moving to the north at roughly 14 mph, a track expected to continue through the night before the storm turns to the north-northwest and slows before reaching Bermuda tomorrow. Maximum sustained winds are 40 mph, and extend outward up to 70 miles.
Depending on what happens with Tropical Storm Humberto this week, 2013 could mark the slowest start to a hurricane season by one measure in more than 100 years.
Humberto formed off the coast of Africa Monday and is expected to curve out to sea, staying far away from Florida. The system is only notable because forecasters believe it has a good chance of becoming the first hurricane of the season. If it does, it would be one of the latest first hurricanes on record.
On average, two hurricanes should have formed by now. Past seasons have started slow and finished with a flurry of tropical cyclones, but the window is starting to close.
Phil Klotzbach, a research scientist with Colorado State University's Tropical Meteorology Project, has been perplexed by the hurricane season's progress so far. Klotzbach predicted there would be 18 named storms this year, including eight hurricanes. The average is 12 named storms and six hurricanes.
Other forecasters, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, also looked at the conditions that contribute to storm formation earlier this year and similarly predicted a busy season.
"As with any statistical model, there are going to be busts in some years," Klotzbach wrote in an email, adding: "I'm certainly going to be doing a lot of study over the next couple of months to try and figure out exactly what happened with this year's hurricane season. It's a very strange one so far!"
Hurricanes feed off moisture, but there has been an unusual amount of dry air at mid-levels in the atmosphere this year.
Additionally, strong upper level westerly winds have hampered hurricane development. Such winds usually are less prevalent during years when the El Nino weather pattern is absent, as it is this year.
"The combination of wind shear and dry air have certainly been the surprise factors," said Accuweather meteorologist Dan Kottlowski.
Kottlowski's team predicted 16 named storms this year and eight hurricanes. He no longer believes that many hurricanes will form.
"We do not think we will have an above-normal year for hurricanes" anymore, he said.
Yet in some ways this has actually been a busy year for tropical cyclones. Humberto is the eighth named storm of the season. That mark usually is not hit until Sept. 24. But none of the storms have generated sustained winds of 74 mph, the minimum required to qualify as a hurricane.
There are still more than 2 1/2 months left in the hurricane season, but the tropics must heat up fast for an above-average season to materialize.
The probability of major storms forming starts dropping after today. Hurricanes are rare after late October.
Still, it's not unusual for a series of storms to form quickly in September and October, even after a slow start to the hurricane season.
The first hurricane of 2001 did not form until Sept. 9, but the season ended with nine hurricanes and 15 named storms.
"We're only at the midway point," said Hurricane Center spokesman Dennis Feltgen. "We still have a lot of season to go."
The record for the latest first hurricane of the season is Oct. 8, 1905, although before satellites were invented some storms likely went undetected if they stayed out at sea. The six-month hurricane season ends Nov. 30.
The latest first hurricane of the modern satellite era is Hurricane Gustav, which formed on Sept. 11, 2002.
Forecasters are predicting that Humberto will become a hurricane late Tuesday or Wednesday, possibly eclipsing Gustav but leaving 1905 in the record books.
"It's the old baseball saying: Records are made to be broken," Feltgen said. "This is a record I don't mind breaking."


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Friday, March 19, 2010
The Closer Carousel makes us dizzy!
Sure, we love the iconography of it: The Gunslinger! The Fireman! The Hammer! Mr. Lock-That-Shit-Down! We love the idea of some big, burly guy swaggering out of the bullpen in the ninth with some AC/DC or nu-metal anthem blasting as he loads it up and gets ready to put a final exclamation mark on a Blue Jays win. It's high drama, and great fun. It's the Ghost of Tom Henke, and it haunts us still.
The other side is that we can't entirely understand the whole idea of holding your single best relief pitcher out of the game so that he can continue to accumulate numbers in a mostly meaningless counting stat. If you're about to lose the lead in the seventh inning, we can't quite understand why you'd want to send out some mid-level reliever to get you out of the inning while your best relief guy tilts back in his folding bullpen chair, wiping sunflower seed detritus from his warmup jacket.
It's with this in mind that we consider the whole discussion of the 2010 closer situation.
We read this piece in The Sun this morning, wherein Kevin Gregg asserts his confidence that we will once again reclaim his rightful post as Major League Closer. Such talk makes us think that he needs to get a few opportunities soon before his membership in the Closer's Club lapses, and he's left emasculated by Alec Baldwin when looking to fulfill his daily caffeine requirements.
This is where we start feeling anxious about Kevin Gregg stepping to the mound with a one-run lead, and the idea that the Jays are going to hang their hopes on this National League retread makes us really worry about the state of the bullpen.
But then, we set emotion aside and approach this rationally. And we get thinking about it, and we wonder if the Jays aren't better off giving him the role he wants, thereby leaving them with the luxury and the freedom to run Jason Frasor (for our dough, the guy with the best arm/brain ratio in the Blue Jays bullpen) and Scott Downs (who runs like a girl but gets outs when he doesn't hurt himself running) out to the mound in any situation and in any inning.
In a close game, with men on and the Jays in need of an out, we're fine with the notion of leaving Gregg out in the bullpen to clean his goggles and cool his heels while the big boys take care of business.
Even with the lack of a prototypical closer type guy, we're feeling like the Jays' bullpen could be as strong as anyone's this year. At this point, we're at least brave and/or crazy enough to think that we'll trade a few nervous ninth innings for some stability through the rest of the games.
...and finally, a Friday Rock Out memorial
Our favorite Big Star song. Thank you, Alex Chilton.
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So your point here is that AA signed Kevin Gregg to trick Cito Gaston into using a "veteran" with "experience" as the closer, which really allows the better relievers to be used in more important situations? So basically, finding the best possible use of Cito's, um, Citoness, to actually benefit the team? I like it!
- March 19, 2010 at 12:19 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
I'm not sure if that was my point. But I like what you said, so yeah, exactly. That's what I meant!
- March 19, 2010 at 12:21 PM
Detritus: Accumulated material; debris
Just trying to help out - hell, I had to look it up myself.
- March 19, 2010 at 12:21 PM
- Gil Fisher said...
Why did I get the sense last year, that the Manager so hated relief pitchers that he would disregard their need for the "stat" that he would put whomever he thought would get the out.
eg. I think there was an 8th inning somewhere along the line that had the heart of the lineup up and the Manager went to the Frasor to get the outs rather than trusting the available 8th inning arm.
Am I misrememebering?
- March 19, 2010 at 12:26 PM
- Gil Fisher said...
Apologies to my grade twelve English teacher (not so much to my University English professor, because he struck me as being morally compromised when it came to sexual matters and young people) for my previous post.
And for this one.
- March 19, 2010 at 12:29 PM
- mike in boston said...
while there are reasons for being optimistic, there are also facts about the state of the BP relative to other teams. The Jays were 19th in BP ERA last year and they are brining mostly the same crew back + the a guy with a spectacularly bad career ERA and mediocre WHIP.
why exactly will this BP match up well with other teams? where is the improvement coming from?
- March 19, 2010 at 12:43 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
I don't think this is exactly the same crew coming back. And some of the guys coming back were part of one of the best bullpens the year before.
Yeah, there will be a lot of familiar faces, but with just one or two solid new arms, this pen goes meek to mighty.
I've got a good feeling about Roenicke, Reider (Call Me Ray) Gonzalez, and possibly even Merkin Valdez.
And I'm starting to get over my irrational hatred of Shawn Camp.
Plus, you put Tallet in there for some middle inning work, or a refurbished David Purcey, or even a rebuilt Dusty Lambchops, and suddenly...We got guys!
- March 19, 2010 at 1:07 PM
No matter how hard I tried -- and I tried pretty hard in college, I just could never get into Big Star.
- March 19, 2010 at 1:33 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
I'm not a massive devotee either, but I like some of their stuff just fine.
I think that people approach Big Star with the notion that they're supposed to blow their minds...but it's not that type of band at all.
Just a really uniquely American amalgam of country, rock and pop, with some pretty deft and understated musicianship.
- March 19, 2010 at 2:02 PM
You're just okay with Gregg because he's white. If you weren't racist you'd want Merkin Valdez and his high velocity fastball and flat breaking balls. Racist.
- March 19, 2010 at 2:18 PM
- Darren Priest said...
Yeah, I think a lot was written about their "Columbia" recording that put them in an impossible situation in terms of living up to expectations. Kinda like the La's.
Would we be better off if the La's got Oasis/Blur attention?
- March 19, 2010 at 2:34 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
I'm not racist!
Regardless of race, creed or colour, I'm in favour of dudes who can throw smoke. And Valdez throws his Merkin Balls with great velocity.
It's just that he doesn't get them into the strike zone as much as you'd like.
- March 19, 2010 at 2:46 PM
Tao works part-time at a Wal-Mart in New Jersey making customer announcements.
- March 19, 2010 at 3:11 PM
- eyebleaf said...
The Sausage King gets my vote.
- March 19, 2010 at 3:22 PM
Anybody else concerned that Morrow was scratched today? I don't recall "Shoulder soreness" ever being a skip a start and you're okay kind of thing. Also, Dusty only hit 88mph today. Is that to be expected and he'll get back to the mid-90's as his arm shapes up, or is he close to topping out and we can only hope for some stamina to be built?
- March 19, 2010 at 4:18 PM
- saxrdrunk said...
Thanks for the Big Star tribute. There's a reason Alex was revered by a who's who of indie bands (REM, The Replacements, The Hold Steady, The Flaming Lips, Sleater-Kinney, etc. etc.). Alex could have kept The Box Tops alive and raised them to the pantheon of Sixties' rock. Instead, he did it his way and made the music he wanted. The world is richer for the path he took. R.I.P. Alex.
- March 19, 2010 at 4:39 PM
if you have problem with commenters on blog i have solution. in my store there is information. you can buy it. if you put the information on your body the commenters won't call you racist :). do you have leg fungus busted knee clinging toad bacteria
- March 19, 2010 at 5:17 PM
- Gil Fisher said...
soft tosserist!
- March 19, 2010 at 6:08 PM
- Darren Priest said...
LOL, you know your blog is =doing ok when clowns like the above have invaded.
- March 19, 2010 at 9:30 PM


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SEOUL (Reuters) - Japanese and German automakers are benefiting more than their U.S. peers from a free trade deal between Washington and Seoul, according to import figures suggesting U.S. brands are not reaping the rewards they may have expected from the pact.
U.S. automakers are battling a perception that they lag German peers in fuel efficiency just when sales figures show South Korean consumers are developing a particular taste for diesel-powered models, the German brands' mainstay.
German and Japanese carmakers boosted sales of U.S.-made vehicles last year by nearly five-fold from 2011, the year before the trade deal took effect, outpacing the 43 percent jump U.S. automakers reported during the same period, according to the Korea Automobile Importers and Distributors Association (KAIDA).
South Korea, one of the few auto markets dominated by domestic carmakers, has emerged as a big source of growth for global brands following trade deals with Europe and the United States which cut import tariffs and ignited a sales bonanza.
The South Korean market for imported cars exploded to 9.2 trillion won ($8.87 billion) last year, from just 1.5 trillion won in 2008, according to industry estimates. There were no total revenue figures for imported cars available for 2011.
"The FTA did give us an opportunity to grow but it is not having a significant boost to our sales," an official at Cadillac said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
"Growth of foreign car sales in South Korea is mainly driven by expanding sales of diesel models, but there's a dearth of diesel cars in the United States."
Despite the trade deal, U.S. automakers saw their share of South Korea's imported car market shrink to 7.5 percent last year, from 7.9 percent in 2011, according to KAIDA.
German brands led the pack with 67.5 percent of imported car sales last year, while Japanese companies were second on 14 percent.
"U.S. cars are still perceived as bulky and less fuel-efficient than German and Japanese cars," Daelim University College automotive engineering Professor Kim Pil-soo said.
German brands such as Volkswagen
Volkswagen, which did not bring a single car from the United States to South Korea in 2011, sold almost 5,000 U.S.-made vehicles in the country last year.
Unperturbed by the lack of a free trade pact between Tokyo and Seoul, Japanese firms have seized advantage of the Korea-U.S. deal to minimize the impact of a volatile yen and capitalize on lower tariffs on U.S. imports.
The FTA immediately halved South Korea's tariff on U.S. auto imports to 4 percent.
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That compared with 8,671 U.S.-produced vehicles sold by U.S. automakers, led by Ford Motor Co
The surge in U.S.-made Japanese imports has sparked scrutiny from South Korea's customs office.
Customs officials said they were reviewing whether U.S.-made Toyota cars were qualified to get a tariff benefit, which requires vehicles to contain at least 35 percent U.S.-origin materials.
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President Barack Obama's nominee for defense secretary said Thursday he would not hesitate to use the "full force of the U.S. military" as he plunged into a Senate confirmation fight with critics from his own Republican Party, who worry that his past statements about Israel, Iran and nuclear weapons are signs of weakness.
Chuck Hagel's appearance at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing could be crucial in determining whether he will win Senate confirmation to succeed Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in Obama's second-term national security team.
The hearing was the first time the former senator has publicly addressed the barrage of criticism that he is not sufficiently pro-Israel or tough enough on Iran. His past comments about the influence of a "Jewish lobby" and his description of a diplomatic nominee as "openly, aggressively gay" have been scrutinized. Hagel also has questioned the efficacy of unilateral sanctions on Iran, arguing that penalties in conjunction with international partners made more sense.
Hagel's record "is deeply troubling and out of mainstream views," Sen. Jim Inhofe, the top Republican on the committee, said shortly after the hearing began. Republican Sen. John McCain had even sharper words for Hagel during a spirited exchange over the war in Iraq.
Crucial for Hagel was Thursday's feisty questioning by McCain. Hagel and McCain are fellow Vietnam veterans who once had a close relationship during their years in the Senate, but Hagel's evolving opposition to the Iraq war caused a split between the two men that was on full display.
McCain pressed Hagel on whether he was right or wrong about his opposition to the influx of 30,000 U.S. troops in Iraq in 2007. Hagel, who voted to authorize military force in Iraq, later opposed the conflict, comparing it to Vietnam and arguing that it shifted the focus from Afghanistan.
"Were you right? Were you correct in your assessment?" McCain asked.
"I would defer to the judgment of history to sort that out," Hagel said as the two men talked over each other.
McCain has praised Hagel's military service but said he had serious concerns about positions the nominee has taken on various issues. He said he is reserving judgment until after the hearing.
Hagel has been meeting one-on-one with senators, winning support from influential Jewish Sen. Charles Schumer, and he has taken a harder line on Iran. Hagel also has insisted that he will implement the military's policy allowing gays to serve openly and move ahead on opening combat roles to women.
Hagel would be the lone Republican in Obama's Cabinet if the Senate confirms him, but the prospect has failed to placate Republican senators in a post-election atmosphere that remains politically divisive.
Once the hearing was under way, the Republican National Committee put out a news release titled "Chuck Hagel is the Wrong Choice for Secretary of Defense," contending that he would weaken the nation's military.
Hagel said he was committed to Obama's goal of ensuring that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon, and he insisted that all options, including military force, are on the table.
"My policy is one of prevention, and not one of containment — and the president has made clear that is the policy of our government," Hagel said.
Hagel said he always supported multilateral sanctions against Iran. He also expressed support for maintaining a strong, modern nuclear arsenal, a position that has been challenged because of his support for the Global Zero organization's recommendation of nuclear cuts.
"We are not going to unilaterally disarm," Hagel said.
Hagel added that America "must engage — not retreat — in the world," and he insisted that his record is consistent on that point.
If confirmed, Hagel, a decorated Vietnam combat veteran, would be the first enlisted man and first Vietnam veteran to serve as defense secretary.
Six Republicans, including four members of the Armed Services panel, have said they will oppose Hagel's nomination.
In responses to a questionnaire before the hearing, Hagel adopted a hard line on Iran and its possible pursuit of a nuclear weapon. He echoed Obama's view that all options are feasible to stop Tehran, praised the rounds of penalties and warned of "severe and growing consequences" if Iran balks at international demands.
He said that he would continue to put in place the "smart, unprecedented and effective sanctions against the Iranian regime" that Congress and the Obama administration have adopted in recent years.
The criticism of Hagel has surprised some of Hagel's strongest backers.
"This idea that's being propagated that he might be soft on adversaries. Chuck Hagel's not soft on anybody, particularly himself," said Democratic Sen. Jack Reed, a member of the Armed Services Committee, in a conference call with Hagel allies.
Associated Press writer Donna Cassata contributed.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.


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CBD Pet treats in Meridian can be hard and chewy since they are supposed to clean the dog's teeth. Some dog treats are meant to aid in digestion and improve the internal health of the dog. Veterinarians have come up with varied dog treats incorporated with various medicines for heartworm prevention, antibiotics, and pain killers.
Some dog owners make their own special dog treats. Homemade dog treats are either made from sliced pieces of steak, small bits of cooked hamburger, chunks of cheese, balls of rice, or even their own special recipes. These can either be CBD Pet Treats In Meridian. Some recipes even include molasses, wheat germ, and couscous. Owners should always check with a veterinarian before giving their pets these homemade treats. Remember never to give dogs chocolate not let them chew a chicken bone.
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Many people think that a dog treat is just a treat, but many don't realize nutritional harm or good, some of these treats offer. Ideally, a healthy treat should contain a variety of naturally occurring nutrients, and not a lot of empty ingredients or, low quality vitamins and minerals, often added as supplements to conventional pet foods and treats. Learn about the benefits of using organic dog treats and give your pet good health and yourself, peace of mind.
The food you feed your dog is the single most important factor affecting his or her health. Organic dog treats provide more than merely calories for your dog. Aside from energy, healthy treats should provide an appropriate amount of protein, fats, carbohydrates, and nutrients. The quality of the ingredients used in a given pet food, determines how much nutrition your dog receives. The healthiest ingredients are often labeled USDA certified organic. These foods contain much higher levels of nutrients, such as vitamins, antioxidants, and minerals, than non-certified organic or conventional ingredients. Foods which contain organic ingredients supply your dog with nutrients that are important for both, maintenance of health and proper healing after injuries.
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Meat, fruit and vegetables free of chemical pesticides which can number up to 20 different types in ordinary produce; Higher concentrations of vitamins, minerals and fibre;
A much improved taste experience making eating more enjoyable and you feeling more alive and healthy than before. If you are enjoying these benefits then is it not time you offered them to your pets? Just in the same way we can opt for organic food, now you can offer a range to your pets for their approval.
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Taking a look around the internet you will readily see offerings for organic dog food and also, maybe to a lesser extent, organic cat food. Several suppliers are very active in organic pet foods and typically this is what they have to offer: All organic pet food products are made with human grade organic ingredients which can include: chicken and other meats, organic cereals and organic rice as well as organic vegetables.
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MIAMI - LeBron James scored 32 points on 12-for-18 shooting, Dwyane Wade scored 30 and the Miami Heat beat the Los Angeles Lakers 107-97 on Sunday for their fifth straight win.
It was James' fifth straight game with at least 30 points, a franchise record. He's shot better than 60 percent in all five of those games.
Mario Chalmers scored 13 and Chris Bosh finished with 12 points and 11 rebounds for the Heat.
Kobe Bryant had 28 points and nine assists for the Lakers, who also got 18 points from Earl Clark. The Lakers had eight turnovers in the fourth quarter, while Miami had none.
With the win, Miami moved 2 1/2 games clear of the New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference standings. The Knicks lost to the Los Angeles Clippers earlier Sunday.
Dwight Howard and Steve Nash each scored 15 for the Lakers.
Wade also shot 12 for 18 for Miami, which shot 55 percent as a team and held a 38-29 edge in rebounding. James scored 20 in the second half and Wade had 18 in the final two quarters.
CLIPPERS 102, KNICKS 88 NEW YORK - Chris Paul scored 25 points in his second game back from injury and reserve Jamal Crawford had 27 to lead Los Angeles over New York.
Carmelo Anthony had 42 points - his fifth 40-point game this season - for the Knicks, but made only one basket in the fourth quarter as 40-year-old Grant Hill came off the bench to defend him.
Blake Griffin finished with 17 points and 12 rebounds for the Clippers, who bounced back from a 22-point loss in Miami on Friday to win for just the fourth time in 12 games. They finish off their eight-game road trip Monday in Philadelphia.
Raymond Felton scored 20 points for the Knicks, who lost for the second time in eight games.
BOSTON - Paul Pierce had a triple-double with 27 points, 14 rebounds and 14 assists, and Boston extended its winning streak to seven games with a triple overtime win over Denver.
The loss ended Denver's winning streak at nine games.
Pierce made a 3-pointer in the second overtime, sending the game to a third extra period with the score tied at 107.
Kevin Garnett had 20 points and grabbed 18 rebounds, while reserve Jason Terry scored a season-high 26 points for the Celtics, who remain unbeaten since Rajon Rondo's season-ending knee injury.
Ty Lawson scored 29 points to lead the Nuggets
MAGIC 110, BLAZERS 104 ORLANDO, Fla. - J.J. Redick scored 22 points, Nikola Vucevic added 17 points and 19 rebounds, and Orlando snapped a 12-game losing streak with a win over Portland.
The Magic shot 50 percent from the field in earning their first win since Jan. 16. They play their next two games at home. Reserve Gustavo Ayon had 16 points and 11 rebounds for Orlando.
LaMarcus Aldridge led Portland with 25 points. Nicolas Batum added 19 points and Wesley Matthews chipped in with 17.
The Blazers, who have lost three in a row overall, fell to 1-7 in their last eight road games. They play at Miami on Tuesday and New Orleans on Wednesday before the All-Star break.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Tayshaun Prince scored 18 points, hitting all eight of his shots from the field, and Memphis pulled away in the second quarter before coasting to a win over Minnesota.
Three other Memphis players - Zach Randolph, Mike Conley and Austin Daye - each finished with 16 points. Conley also handed out eight assists, while Randolph grabbed eight rebounds to help the Grizzlies win their second straight.
Luke Ridnour and Ricky Rubio led the Timberwolves with 17 points apiece, and both finished with four assists. Mickael Gelabale scored 14 points on 5-of-7 shooting and Alexey Shved had 10 points and nine assists for Minnesota, which has lost 15 of 17 - including eight straight on the road.
RAPTORS 102, HORNETS 89 TORONTO - John Lucas scored 10 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter to match his season high and Rudy Gay had 20 points to lead Toronto over New Orleans.
Kyle Lowry had 14 points and 10 assists, and Amir Johnson scored 14 points for the Raptors, who won consecutive games for the first time since beating Philadelphia and Charlotte on Jan. 9 and 11.
Jonas Valanciunas had 11 points and 10 rebounds as the Raptors blew open a close game by outscoring the Hornets 33-23 in the final quarter.
Robin Lopez scored 19 points, Greivis Vasquez had 17 and Ryan Anderson 15 for the Hornets, who lost for the first time in three games. Brian Roberts had 13 points for New Orleans.


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The Bulls without Derrick Rose have become mostly unwatchable.
It's hard to care about this team without their only hope for an NBA title. It's harder still to sit through it.
I'm not blaming the remaining Bulls players. Bless their hustling, rebounding, defensive-minded, Thibodeau-fearing hearts, they try. Yes, they can be very trying.
Against good teams, that's a gimme. We saw an example of it Sunday in Boston, and remember, the Celtics are barely a good team because they're barely off life support. The Bulls couldn't shoot and couldn't score. They wasted a solid rebounding performance on the offensive boards. It looked like a plea for a group rate to attend basketball camp.
Against bad teams, the Bulls either end it early or prompt cursing. Welcome to last night against Sacramento.
C.J. Watson and John Lucas III were taking turns making me punch something with the way the point guards were running the Bulls late. I didn't realize there was a competition to see who would be more responsible for
But as that seminal philosophical production "Blazing Saddles'' told us: out of chaos comes Deng.
Luol Deng gave the Bulls a game. In fact, he gave them maybe his best all-around performance since he got here: 23 points, 11 assists, seven rebounds.
The assists mark a career-high and by design, too, because Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau saw it the way we did: Watson and Lucas needed a designated driver. It wasn't that the ball stopped on offense, it was that it never got started, it seemed. The offense was being run through the backboard.
And then all of a sudden, the offense was being run through Deng. He was the one making the decisions. He was essentially playing point-forward. He was restoring order. The Bulls held on to win another one for the toxic waste dump that is this NBA season.
Horrible product aside, this would be a good time to say I'm sorry for hating Deng. No, wait, actually, I hated the rumor formerly known as John Paxson for paying Deng a ridiculous amount of money. Yeah, what I really hated was Deng's contract, and here's why:
He wasn't worth it.
He didn't play like it.
He didn't know who he was in the NBA scheme of things.
He didn't know how he was supposed to fit into Rose's offense.
And now he might be the most complete player in the league.
I'm talking both ends of the court here. He's good and game on defense, and not just compared to the stiff formerly known as Carlos Boozer. Look, there's a reason that the defensively obsessed Thibodeau consistently gives Deng the most minutes and frequently the most difficult cover.
On the offensive end, Deng has found his role in Rose's offense, whether it's hitting threes, slashing, or moving the ball to the open man.
Deng never had the flash or dominance to match that big contract. But now he is showing the all-around skill and smarts that render it immaterial.
So, I now have a greater appreciation for what Deng can do when coached the right way and put in position to succeed. I have more appreciation for Deng than this team without Rose. Deng didn't make the Bulls watchable, just more tolerable.
I'm telling you, the NBA really needs a DVR for this joke of a season. Just skip the crap and fast- forward to Miami in the Eastern Conference Finals, as soon as Rose is OK, that is.


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Clinical Studies Results show Immune Function Can Be Improved by Consumption of DuPont™ Probiotic Strain Bifidobacterium lactis Bi-07
A collaborative study by DuPont Nutrition & Health and the University of Reading (UK) on the effect of probiotic Bifidobacterium lactis Bi-07™ on immune function in healthy elderly subjects has been published in the Journal of Nutritional Science.
The results of this study found that consumption of the probiotic Bifidobacterium lactis Bi-07™ improves the function of specialized innate immune cells, the phagocytes, in elderly subjects. The elderly commonly have reduced immune function and this physiological effect may thus contribute to a better maintenance of their health.
"Immunity continues to be one of the main fields of research for DuPont N&H. Alterations in the gut microbiota and immune functions of elderly adults are associated with higher susceptibility to infections and metabolic disorders," said Dr. Markus Lehtinen, senior scientist, DuPont Nutrition & Health.
"Phagocytosis, by which immune cells 'eat' bacteria or infected cells, is one of the mechanisms that help to resist infections. Results of this study show that the probiotic Bi-07™ may provide health benefits to elderly individuals by increasing the activity of phagocytic cells."
Study Design
Upon completion of a screening process, 40 healthy elderly volunteers were found to be eligible for the study and were randomly divided into four groups. A double-blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized cross-over study was designed in which volunteers received maltodextrin as a placebo (8 g/d), prebiotic galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS) (8 g/d), probiotic (Bi-07™; 109 colony-forming units/d) and synbiotic GOS + Bi-07™ (8 g GOS/d and 109 colony-forming units Bi-07™/d).
Daily portions were based on dose-response clinical studies showing that an 8 g portion of GOS increases the number of bifidobacteria in the intestine, and that 109 colony-forming units of B. lactis induce changes in elderly microflora. Volunteers were randomized to four groups that consumed the study products in random order in four periods. Supplements were provided for 21 days, with a 28-day wash-out period that has been effective in previous studies with B. lactis and GOS.
Study Data
Blood, saliva and fecal samples were taken from the study subjects to analyze markers of immune function and microbiota composition. The phagocytic activity was analyzed using fluorescent bacteria that were incubated in blood samples containing phagocytes. The number of bacteria in the phagocytes was detected by using flow cytometry.
Primary statistical analysis revealed carry-over effects, which had the potential to bias results, and thus the statistical analysis was conducted for parallel groups using results from samples obtained on day 0 (before the first supplementation) and on day 21 (after the first supplementation period). It was found that subjects in the Bi-07™ group had higher phagocytic activity of monocytes (p<0.001) and granulocytes (p=0.02) than subjects in the placebo group. Changes in other markers of immune function or microbiota composition were not detected in any supplementation groups.
Key Findings
The investigators found that the 28-day wash-out period for GOS and Bi-07™ was not sufficient in this elderly population, although previously it has been found useful for adult populations. This finding indicates that results on probiotic and prebiotic interventions may not be extrapolated from one population to another that differs in microbiota and immune function.
Researchers concluded that Bi-07™ consumption improved innate phagocytic activity of monocytes and granulocytes in healthy elderly. This could be beneficial to elderly who suffer from decreased phagocytic activity and higher susceptibility to infections. Supplementation with GOS or with the synbiotic combination of GOS and Bi-07™ did not have an impact on any of the parameters that were measured.
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The combined resources within DuPont Nutrition & Health help manufacturers create products with a healthier profile, and that actively promote good health, to address consumer needs in digestive health, immune health, heart health, muscle health and weight management. The company's capabilities are applied with a focus on the specific needs of key industry segments, including bakery, beverages, bars and snacks, dairy, meat, ready meals, pediatric nutrition and dietary supplements. DuPont N&H recently launched its new Howaru® Protect probiotic range to address the need for improved immunity in different consumer segments.
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Google's BigQuery is a large-scale, interactive query environment that can handle billions of records in seconds. Now, wouldn't it be cool to process the 26+ billion triples from the LOD cloud with BigQuery?
I guess so 😉
So, I did a first step into this direction by setting up the BigQuery for Linked Data project containing:
- A Python script called nt2csv.py that converts RDF/NTriples into BigQuery-compliant CSV;
- BigQuery schemes that can be used together with the CSV data from above;
- Step-by-step instructions how to use
nt2csv.pyalong with Google's gsutil and bq command line tools to import the above data into Google Storage and issue a query against the uploaded data in BigQuery.
Essentially, one can – given an account for Google Storage as well as an account for BigQuery – do the following:
bq query
"SELECT object FROM [mybucket/tables/rdf/tblNames]
WHERE predicate = 'http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/knows'
… which roughly translates into the following SPARQL query:
PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
SELECT ?o
?s foaf:knows ?o .
Currently, I do possess a Google Storage account, but unfortunately not a BigQuery account (yeah, I've signed up but still in the queue). So, I can't really test this stuff – any takers?


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It's official: Giant Glass is now owned by Safelite
Safelite Group Inc. said Friday it has purchased North Andover-based Giant Glass Co. Inc. for an undisclosed sum. The sale, rumored for more than a week, was completed Monday, ending 34 years of local ownership by Dennis Drinkwater and Lance Cramer.
"I am proud of the company that my business partner, Lance, and I have built,'' Drinkwater said in a statement. "We have a strong customer base and excellent employees, and we wanted both of them to be well taken care of in the future. We trust that Safelite will take care of them both.''
Safelite, which has about 10,000 employees nationwide, said it will keep the Giant Glass name and has no plans to layoff any of the company's 54 workers or reduce its fleet of 30 vehicles that provide on-site automobile glass replacement services.
Drinkwater and Cramer will stay on under the new ownership, overseeing Giant's five locations in Lawrence, North Andover, Peabody, Weymouth, and Worcester.
"We expect that Giant Glass's clients, customers, business partners and employees will benefit from our commitment to be the leader in the vehicle glass industry,'' said Safelite chief executive Tom Feeney.
A spokeswoman for Safelite said the company, based in Columbus, Ohio, aims to maintain the Giant Glass brand in the Boston area. Giant is a prominent advertiser at Fenway Park and on radio broadcasts of Red Sox games.
At most Sox home games, Drinkwater occupies what is widely considered to be the best seat in the house — directly behind home plate.
Giant's image as a local company is critical to success, said Cathy Waters, associate chair of the marketing communications department at Emerson College.
"A company that fixes broken glass needs to be locally focused because it's something that needs to be done right away,'' Waters said.
Giant's ownership by an out-of-state company likely will not undermine consumers' perception of the company as local, Waters said. She pointed to Jordan's Furniture as an example of another company that Massachusetts consumers still consider local, even after its 1999 sale to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., based in Omaha, Neb.


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Hand From Above is a public art installation by Chris O'Shea. It is meant to encourage us to question our normal routine when we often find ourselves rushing from one destination to another. Inspired by Land of the Giants and Goliath, we are reminded of mythical stories by mischievously unleashing a giant hand from the BBC Big Screen. Passers by will be playfully transformed. What if humans weren't on top of the food chain? Unsuspecting pedestrians will be tickled, stretched, flicked or removed entirely in real-time by a giant deity.
Hand from Above is a joint co-commission between FACT: Foundation for Art & Creative Technology and Liverpool City Council for BBC Big Screen Liverpool and the Live Sites Network. It premiered during the inaugural Abandon Normal Devices Festival.


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WASH in Schools Empowers Girls' Education in Rural Cochabamba, Bolivia: An Assessment of Menstrual Hygiene Management in Schools
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The onset of menstruation presents multiple challenges for schoolgirls. Many girls lack the knowledge, support and resources to manage menstruation in school. This project aims to understand the scope of education and health challenges faced by girls in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Findings will inform strategies that mitigate challenges and appropriately support adolescent girls at school during menstruation.
Data were collected in rural communities in the municipalities of Tacopaya and Independencia of Cochabamba, Bolivia. Methods included an in-country desk review of research, policy and practice related to menstrual hygiene management (MHM); focus group discussions and in-depth interviews with girls; focus group discussions with mothers, boys and teachers; and key informant interviews with teachers, health professionals and school administrators. Structured observations of school water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities were performed at 10 schools. Findings focus on the challenges surrounding menstrual hygiene practices from the perspectives of schoolgirls, teachers, male classmates and mothers.


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"As a kid, I wondered, 'why can't we have anything new?' And now, here I am."
—Beverly Bentley Ingram on her family's love of antiques
Owner: Beverly Bentley Ingram
Address: 32 E. Main St.
Hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
In business: For nearly 16 years
Number of employees: 6: Ingram, plus Bettye Neal, Lois Platt, Janis Parker, Glenora Pace and Jo Woodward.
Dentist to sponsor third annual 'candy buy-back' to send treats to troops
Dr. James "Randy" Ransdell and his staff at Elk Creek Dental are sponsoring the third annual candy buy-back "Treats for our Troops" on Friday, Nov. 2, from 3 to 6 p.m.
Ransdell's office will buy back Halloween candy from kids for $1 per pound, up to $7 for each kid, and pack and ship the unopened candy to troops serving worldwide.
If it hadn't been for JoAnn Prewitt, Aimee Robinson may have never become a hairstylist.
Local business Elva Fields gets national attention
Elva Fields Jewelry, whose studio is located on Main Street in Taylorsville, has gained national attention recently, with features in both Country Living and O Magazine.
The Taylorsville-Spencer County Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon cutting for Small Town T-shirt Design and Trading Post on Sept. 5. The business is owned by Chastity Nevitt and is located at 79 Settlers Center Road. The store offers T-shirt design and used items ranging from clothes to car seats to car audio systems.
Store hours are Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. For more information, call 477-9099. Pictured is the owner with family and local business and government officials.
As the only florist in Taylorsville, Tammy Owen sees families at high points — birthdays, anniversaries, weddings — and low points, like during illnesses and funerals. And it may come as a surprise as to from which side of the spectrum she gets the most fulfillment.
The Taylorsville-Spencer County Chamber of Commerce will host its monthly meeting Thursday from noon to 1 p.m.
The luncheon will feature guest speakers Betty Darnell of the Spencer County Historical and Genealogical Society and John Lilly. The catered lunch is $10 for members and $13 for nonmembers.
To RSVP, contact Cara Lewis at email@example.com or call 502 477-2244.
The Taylorsville-Spencer County Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon cutting for Fiesta Brava, Spencer County's newest restaurant, on Aug. 1. The restaurant, located at 100 Tanglewood Drive, offers authentic Mexican cuisine and is owned by Heather and Reinel Salgado. Business hours are Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.; and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. For more information, call 502-354-9154. Pictured are the owners with family, staff, friends and local business and government officials.
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We miss you, Fardin. :(. RIP.
A cricket supporter forever
Member of CW Red and AAAS - Appreciating only the best.
Check out this awesome e-fed:
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Pak did well to promote Afridi at 3 in the semi-final, a KO game, because on his day he can win his team the game .... on the other hand, Dhoni held back the match-winners like Yuvi and YP for late in the KO game against Eng
In T20, if your big hitters are playing well then you should always try to give them as many overs as possible, if they fail then guys like Jadeja and Dhoni, himself, can bat sensible to post a respectable score .... what happened was the opposite, Dhoni promoted himself and likes of Jadeja who slowed things down then guys like Yuvi had to hit out to help post India a decent score or try to catch a blown up RRR
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el_loco_avs wrote:What do you mean exactly with balance? As in, do diffrent muscles on different days. Or the amount of crunches vs pushups?
I think he meant being able to do 50 pushups (max) in one set and 50 crunches (max) in one set as being unbalanced in terms of one muscle group's endurance to another.
Personally I never do pushups or situps to those kinds of numbers. Hell, the only pushups I do are diamonds at the end of my arm days to gauge how hard I hit my tri's.


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Teavangelicals: GOP prez hopefuls meet in D.C.
Jeb Bush, Rubio, Rand Paul, Palin, Trump, Ryan, Santorum among names
(BLOGS.CBN) — For those trying to write the political obituary of conservative evangelicals, they might want to take note of what's happening at the JW Marriott hotel later this week in Washington D.C.
The "Teavangelicals" are back. Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition holds its, "Road To Majority Conference" starting Thursday and it is turning into a must-see political event considering that many potential Republican candidates for president will be on hand. Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Paul Ryan and Rick Santorum are coming in for the big affair and it will give conservative Christians their first real chance to size up the possible presidential candidates.
It will also give these Republicans a chance to see how they might fare among the key voting constituency in the GOP Primaries. Other speakers include Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump and many more.


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Michael Jordan would take 'Kobe' over LeBron
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: He's still the OG of all-time greats. And he still wields tremendous clout.
For instance, Michael Jordan, the owner of the Charlotte Bobcats and the NBA's all-time greatest player, was recently asked at his basketball camp who he'd take: Kobe Bryant or LeBron James?
His one word answer sends a hundred ten year old campers into a frenzy of epic proportion and nearly causes an adolescent, Agent Cody Banks style riot.
Watch the video and get at us with thoughts on Jordan's answer to Kobe or LeBron.
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Quinn vows to veto ADM, cites pension reform 'issue of a lifetime'
Gov. Pat Quinn refused to say for several days whether he'd support a $1.2 million a year tax break for Archer Daniels Midland to move 100 jobs out of Decatur and open up a world headquarters and new tech center in Chicago. But last week he made it clear that without pension reform, the ADM proposal would be a nonstarter and he would veto it.
"He won't even consider the ADM bill much less get on board when pension reform has not been done," a Quinn spokesperson told me.
"The best way to help jobs in Illinois is to do pension reform," Quinn himself told the Associated Press. "To distract legislators in any way from this issue of a lifetime is just plain wrong."
Quinn didn't say, probably because he wasn't asked, whether he thought a vote on gay marriage during the upcoming fall veto session would also "distract legislators." But a spokesperson later explained that pension reform was vital to the state's economic interests, and gay marriage, while important, was not.
And so the governor has seized yet another political hostage in his quest to ease Illinois' enormous budget problems by reducing pension benefits for public employees and retirees.
Gaming expansion, including a new Chicago casino that Mayor Rahm Emanuel is practically slobbering over, was put on hold last spring because the governor threatened to veto it until pension reform was approved.
Then came his veto of state legislative salaries, which was recently struck down as unconstitutional by a Cook County judge. Quinn said he vetoed the salaries out of the state budget to prod legislators into passing a pension reform bill. It didn't work. If coming up with a pension reform plan was that easy, it would've been accomplished long ago. Quinn is currently attempting to appeal the judge's ruling directly to the Illinois Supreme Court.
And now comes ADM, one of the oldest companies in Illinois and one of the largest companies in the nation.
Quinn suggested to reporters last week that the company ought to help lobby for pension reform if it wanted its tax break.
Politically speaking, these are all no–brainers. Polls have shown that Illinoisans aren't in love with the idea of more casinos. So, holding up gaming expansion has few political risks.
The General Assembly's job approval rating is below Quinn's, and that's saying something because Quinn is one of the least liked governors in America. Vetoing legislators' paychecks could rank right up there with the most popular thing Quinn has ever done, whether its constitutional or not.
And Republicans and Democrats alike have long had a strong distaste for "corporate welfare." It just rubs people the wrong way to provide tax breaks to gigantic, profitable corporations while Illinois government has trouble paying its own bills.
The ADM tax break proposal hasn't proved to be all that popular so far in the General Assembly, either. A company officer admitted to a House committee last week that it often pays less than $1.2 million a year in corporate income taxes, even though it made $1.2 billion in profits last year and $2 billion the year before. That was a startling admission, and didn't please the committee's liberal Democrats.
The subject was broached when some conservatives on the committee said they'd rather lower the corporate income tax rate than give out a special deal for one company. But lowering the tax rate – even eliminating it entirely – wouldn't do the company any good. It wants that tax break.
However, ADM has hired some influential Statehouse lobbyists close to House Speaker Michael Madigan, Chicago Mayor Emanuel appears fully on board, and word is that an omnibus corporate tax break bill is being prepared. Despite the public resistance by legislators, the national embarrassment of losing ADM's world headquarters to another state is probably enough to assume that this will eventually get done.
The political hostage phenomenon should be familiar if you watched the shutdown of the federal government over Republican opposition to Obamacare. The difference with Quinn is that the federal shutdown proved to be wildly unpopular with the American public, while the "hostages" Quinn is taking are prized mainly by people within the Illinois Statehouse, not by the public at large.
But, even if you don't care, I'm here to tell you that this schtick of Quinn's is really getting old. It's juvenile when they do it in Washington, D.C., and it's juvenile when our own governor does it.
Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax, a daily political newsletter, and CapitolFax.com.


text: The Second Dalai Lama's writings and biography are brought vividly to life in this extraordinary book by the renowned translator Glenn Mullin through a selection of the Second Dalai Lama's ecstatic outpourings of enlightened teaching. He gives us a glimpse into the visionary life of this outspoken and unconventional Dalai Lama. Mullin provides a readable and comprehensive introduction to the life and times of the Second Dalai Lama, and the selections of works contained herein greatly enrich our understanding of his exalted realizations.


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Seminars for SWAT for optimizing health and performance
Did a seminar for the Waterbury CT RRT/SWAT team at their Training Division Headquarters 4/15/09. I try to cover a broad range of topics applicable to tactical athletes, such as supplements, nutrition, and training, but considering how extensive each of these topics are, and all could be a long seminar on their own, its a balancing act at best.
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Reducing Musculoskeletal injuries in SF soldiers with applications to Tactical LE and other high tempo groups
Note: This is a side bar excerpt from the P.A.S.T Program.
A fairly recent article in the Journal of Special Operations Medicine (JSOM)* examined the Musculoskeletal injuries from 5th group.
The authors decided to quantify the rates and types of these injuries in SF using the records from 5th group, "who
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Part 3 of the CT SWAT Challenge 2008. Can't resist the toys!
Part 1 covered the killer PT course for this event, here are the shooting stages:
CT SWAT Challenge PT Stages 2009
As expected, the P.A.S.T style training paid off and it was mission accomplished for the major goals we set for the NEMLEC SWAT/RRT:
Goal for this year, break the top 10:
The team I worked with was 7th out of 37 teams (last year they were 14th out of 33 teams)
Be #1 team from MA:
They were the number one team from MA (there were 6-8 teams from
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Attribute encryption protects sensitive data while it is stored in the directory. Attribute encryption allows you to specify that certain attributes of an entry are stored in an encrypted format. This prevents data from being readable while stored in database files, backup files, and exported LDIF files.
The only data that is saved on the disk is encrypted. Not all the data that is displayed under the Entry Management panel of the console or as an output of the ldapsearch command, is encrypted.
With this feature, attribute values are encrypted before they are stored in the Directory Server database, and decrypted back to their original value before being returned to the client. You must use access controls to prevent clients from accessing such attributes without permission, and SSL to encrypt all exchanges between the client and Directory Server. For an architectural overview of data security in general and attribute encryption in particular, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Reference for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition.
Attribute encryption is active only when SSL is configured and enabled on the server. However, no attributes are encrypted by default. Attribute encryption is configured at the suffix level, which means that an attribute is encrypted in every entry in which it appears in the suffix. If you want to encrypt an attribute in an entire directory, you must enable encryption for that attribute in every suffix.
Attribute encryption affects all data and index files associated with a suffix. The only attributes are encrypted that are changed after the attribute encryption is activated. Existing attributes will remain unchanged.
To apply encryption to all the data, you must first export its contents, make the configuration change, and then re-import the contents. DSCC can help you perform these steps. For more information about using DSCC, see Directory Service Control Center Interface.
For additional security, when turning on encryption for any attribute, you should manually delete the database cache files and database log file that might still contain unencrypted values. The procedure for deleting these files is described in To Configure Attribute Encryption.
You should enable any encrypted attributes before loading or creating data in a new suffix.
If you choose to encrypt an attribute that some entries use as a naming attribute, values that appear in the DN will not be encrypted. Values that are stored in the entry will be encrypted.
Even though you can select the userPassword attribute for encryption, no real security benefit is realized unless the password needs to be stored in the clear. Such is the case for DIGEST-MD5 SASL authentication. If the password already has an encryption mechanism defined in the password policy, further encryption provides little additional security, but, it will impact the performance of every bind operation.
When in storage, encrypted attributes are prefaced with a cipher tag that indicates the encryption algorithm used. An encrypted attribute using the DES encryption algorithm would appear as follows:
When importing data online with a view to encrypting it, you will already have provided the key database password to authenticate to the server and will not be prompted a second time. If you are importing data offline, Directory Server will prompt you for the password before it allows you to encrypt the data you are importing. When decrypting data (a more security-sensitive operation), Directory Server automatically prompts you for the key database password, regardless of whether the export operation is online or offline. This provides an additional security layer.
As long as the certificate or private key does not change, the server will continue to generate the same key. Thus, data can be transported (exported then imported) from one server instance to another, provided both server instances have used the same certificate.
While attribute encryption offers increased data security, it does impact system performance. Think carefully about which attributes require encryption, and encrypt only those attributes that you consider to be particularly sensitive.
Because sensitive data can be accessed directly through index files, the index keys that correspond to the encrypted attributes must be encrypted to ensure that the attributes are fully protected. Given that indexing already has an impact on Directory Server performance (without the added cost of encrypting index keys), configure attribute encryption before data is imported or added to the database for the first time. This procedure will ensure that encrypted attributes are indexed as such from the outset.
Consider the following when implementing the attribute encryption feature:
As a general best practice when modifying attribute encryption configuration, you should export your data, make the configuration changes, and then import the newly configured data.
This will ensure that all configuration changes are taken into account in their entirety, without any loss in functionality. Failing to do so could result in some functionality loss and thus compromise the security of your data.
Modifying attribute encryption configuration on an existing database can have a significant impact on system performance.
For example, imagine that you have a database instance with existing data. The database contains previously stored entries with an attribute called mySensitiveAttribute. The value of this attribute is stored in the database and in the index files in clear text, . If you later decide to encrypt the mySensitiveAttribute attribute, all the data in the database instance must be exported and re-imported into the database to ensure that the server updates the database and index files with the attribute encryption configuration. The resulting performance impact could have been avoided had the attribute been encrypted from the beginning.
When exporting data in decrypted format, the export is refused if an incorrect password is used.
To be able to use the dsconf command with the -y or -–decrypt-attr option, set the set password prompt mode on and choose a certificate database password as described in Configuring the Certificate Database Password.
As a security measure, the server prompts users for passwords if they want to export data in decrypted format. Should users provide an incorrect password, the server refuses the decrypted export operation. Passwords can be entered directly or by providing the path to a file that contains the password. Note that this file has the same syntax as the SSL password file. See Configuring the Certificate Database Password.
Algorithm changes are supported, but the result can be lost indexing functionality if they are not made correctly.
To change the algorithm used to encrypt data, export the data, modify the attribute encryption configuration, and then import the data. If you do not follow this procedure, the indexes that were created on the basis of the initial encryption algorithm will no longer function.
Because the encrypted attributes are prefaced with a cipher tag that indicates the encryption algorithm used, the internal server operations take care of importing the data. Directory Server therefore enables you to export data in encrypted form before making the algorithm change.
Changing the server's SSL certificate results in your not being able to decrypt encrypted data.
The server's SSL certificate is used by the attribute encryption feature to generate its own key, which is then used to perform the encryption and decryption operations. Thus, the SSL certificate is required to decrypt encrypted data. If you change the certificate without decrypting the data beforehand, you cannot decrypt the data. To avoid this, export your data in decrypted format, change the certificate, and then re-import the data.
To transport data in encrypted format, that is, to export and import it from one server instance to another, both server instances must use the same certificate.
For information, see "Encrypting Attribute Values" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administration Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition.
You can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help.
If the suffix on which you want to configure attribute encryption contains any entries whatsoever, you must first export the contents of that suffix to an LDIF file.
If the suffix contains encrypted attributes and you plan to re-initialize the suffix using the exported LDIF file, you can leave the attributes encrypted in the exported LDIF .
To enable encryption for an attribute, use this command:
$ dsconf create-encrypted-attr -h host -p port suffix-DN attr-name cipher-name
where cipher-name is one of the following:
des - DES block cipher
des3 - Triple-DES block cipher
rc2 - RC2 block cipher
rc4 - RC4 stream cipher
For example:
$ dsconf create-encrypted-attr -h host1 -p 1389 dc=example,dc=com uid rc4
Initialize the suffix with an LDIF file as described in Initializing a Suffix.
If you are importing the LDIF file using the dsadm import command, you must use the -y option. The dsconf import command does not require to use the -y option.
As the file is loaded and the corresponding indexes are created, all values of the specified attributes will be encrypted.


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The International Graduate School: Heritage Studies at Cottbus-Senftenberg University is offering under the direction of the UNESCO Chair in Heritage Studies its third International Summer Academy Cottbus: Understanding Heritage (ISAC) under the title: "The Role of Participation, Empowerment and Sustainable Development in Heritage Studies and its Corresponding Disciplines" from 7 until 19 july 2014.
The Summer Academy is organized under the patronage of the German Commission for UNESCO and the Brandenburg Ministry of Science, Research and Culture (tbc). The ISAC is supported and funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
The third Summer Academy aims at making the protection and the use of heritage in consideration of diverse approaches and concepts of participation and empowerment the subject of discussion. Analogue of the professional potential of our IGS, the approaches will be developed once again disciplinarily as well as interdisciplinarily.
In this coordinated two-week programme, that combines lectures, workshops, individual presentations and thematic excursions, the ISAC will focus on the following themes:
- The Role of Communities in Sustainable Development
- Participation and Empowerment in the Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention
- Possibilities and Limits of Participation
- Entrepreneurship & Empowerment
- Urban Management & Empowerment
- Theory and Practice of the Concept of Cultural Landscape in the Context of UNESCO
For more information about the Summer Academy please visit the website www.tu-cottbus.de/interkulturalitaet/summer-academy/ or contact Ms. Anca Claudia Prodan at the following e-mail address email@example.com


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second batch
so I've just baked by second batch, took some pictures and I'm hoping for some feedback.
the method i used involved a refrigerated starter, I removed it from the fridge, added half of my mother starter (as it was time for a feeding anyway) mixed it and left for a few hours to reach room temperature, scooped out 200g, and added 100g of feed and 100g of water, then left it to double, this i divided evenly into two bowls, in one bowl i threw 8 cups of wholemeal, the other, 8 cups of rye and hefty amount of seeds (flax, poppy, chia), to each I added a tablespoon of salt, then added water until I got a dough I was happy with, kneaded for 10/15 minutes, then divided each in half and shaped into loaves. I let these proof overnight, covered with a wet cloth (about 12 hours). First thing this morning I preheated my oven to 200C and baked one of the wholemeal, one of the rye (on a pizza stone) and didn't get nearly as much oven spring as I expected, in fact I barely got any. will post more pictures of these once they've cooled enough to cut into.
so I knocked back the other two, gave them a quick knead, reshaped and currently have them rising again, uncovered. is there something I should be doing differently? I'm quite an experienced baker with commercial bakers yeast, but am still very new to sourdough, I thought that maybe I should just go back to baking with white and work from there, but I'd rather not.


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The Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) yesterday unveiled a prototype it believes will bring faster train service than ever before to Japan.
The Series Lo prototype is a magnetic levitation (maglev) train, floating above its track and moving forward thanks to powerful magnets, the Japanese newspaper The Asahi Shimbun reported.
It will run from Tokyo to Nagoya, and travel as fast as 500 kilometers per hour (about 311 mph).
The idea of maglev-powered transportation has been around for more than a century. The first relevant patent was issued in 1905; Britain operated a low-speed maglev shuttle in Birmingham between 1984 and 1995. Today, only two commercial systems are in service.
The first began operation in Shanghai in 2004, followed in 2005 by a Japanese system called Linimo, which runs at only 60 mph, 20 percent of the top speed the JR Tokai predicts for the new maglev train.
Japan is already served by high-speed bullet trains, but maglev systems offer numerous advantages. As they are frictionless, they are faster and quieter than trains that use wheels, and are not impacted by bad weather.
JR Tokai plans to build a train that will seat nearly 1,000 passengers that will be in operation by 2027, and expand service to Osaka by 2045.


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Los Angeles: Bottega Louie
Another community-submitted bit of intel from the field from jms1253. Thanks, jms1253! —The Mgmt.
Bottega Louie
700 S Grand Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90017 213-802-1470; bottegalouie.com
Pizza style: Neapolitan
Oven type: Wood Stone
Price: Margherita pizza (serves 1), $16
Bottega Louie pizza is the only reason I'll travel downtown. The texture of their crust is absolutely perfect, and I would drink their sauce straight if they sold it in water bottles.
I've tried them all, and this is, hands down, the best pie on the entire West Coast. —jms1253
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When Officer Garrett Flatt arrived, someone had tried to pry open the door but the double door secure locks located inside, kept them from gaining entry to the law firm.
"There has been a rash of break ins and vandalism around town," said Detective Jason Roberts. "The Macon County Health Department was broken into a couple of weeks ago. But most recently was a break in at Tooley & Carver, where the culprits took a bag containing $2,500 in cash and checks."
Roberts says a bicycle has been stolen, along with a go-cart, and they have also received reports of spray painting all in the same area of town. "I think teenagers might be involved in some of this activity, but I'm not sure."
"If you see anything that doesn't seem right, or anything odd please let us know. And if you see juveniles out past the 11:00 p.m. curfew, please call the Lafayette Police Department at 666-4725."
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