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Quri App Pays You to Be a Secret Shopper
Grocery shopping and buying household items can be hard on the wallet, but there's a way to make some of that money back. And it's not through extreme couponing.
Today at the 10th annual D: All Things Digital conference, San Francisco-based company Quri launched its secret shopper app and analytics tool for consumer product brands and retailers. At its root, Quri helps businesses monitor the way their products and promotions are being executed in a retail environment and sell more product, but it also gives consumers an opportunity to earn some extra money by being the eyes for the companies.
Currently only available for the iPhone, the EasyShift app presents users with a map of assignments, or "shifts," that are available in their area. Shifts are typically observation-based tasks, such as photographing a product display or answering questions about stock levels, and range in pay from $1 to $20. The average, however, is between $5 and $7 for tasks that only take a few minutes to complete.
After a shift is done, Quri performs a quality check on the gathered information, and then users are paid every night through PayPal. In addition to payment, EasyShift users earn points with each task. The more points you have, the more privileges you get, such as the ability to reserve more than one shift at one time or access to higher-paying shifts.
Released to a limited number of users in eight to 10 markets since July 2011, the free app is now available to everyone through the iTunes store. During the trial phase, Quri co-founder John Mecklenburg said users earned around $50 to $100 per month, with the most active participants earning up to $800 to $1,000 a month.
For businesses, Quri provides a Web app that compiles and analyzes all the data in real time as the EasyShift participants submit their task. Companies can then filter the information by metric, market, retailer or question, and use the real-time data and photos to make sure the store display is up to their standards, check stock, learn more about shopping habits by region and more.
"Brands invest hundreds of billions of dollars every year to promote their products in stores, and they need a scalable solution to measure and optimize that investment," said Justin Behar, co-founder of Quri. "We can check the status of products and promotions in thousands of stores within hours, providing brands and retailers with real-time, actionable data and photos, which enables them to greatly improve their in-store execution and the shopper experience."
Quri says over a dozen brands have signed up for its service, including Nestle Dreyers. The EasyShift app was released to a limited number of users in eight to 10 markets in July 2011, but it's now available to everyone nationwide through the iTunes App Store.
As far as Android and Windows Phone apps, the company says it will explore other platforms as they expand to more markets.
Quri, formerly known as Wiseview, was founded in late 2010 and is funded by Catamount Ventures and Simon Equity Partners.


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A junior officer was a low ranking commissioned officer, typically with the rank of no greater than lieutenant. The term was often used to refer to the early part of an officer's career when he or she had little or no command experience or department head responsibility.
Nonetheless, exceptions to this existed: an officer with the rank of lieutenant or lower was not considered a junior officer but rather a staff officer – if he or she served as a department head or other supervisory position in a particular command's senior staff. An example of this was Ensign Harry Kim, who, despite his low nominal rank, served as the chief operations officer, the operations division department head, and part of the senior staff aboard the USS Voyager. As department head, officers who would otherwise outrank him instead served under him. The same was true for (provisional) Lieutenant junior grade and Chief Engineering Officer B'Elanna Torres. (Star Trek: Voyager).
On a starship, it was common for junior officers to be assigned to shared quarters. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country; TNG: "Lower Decks"; VOY: "Flashback", "Good Shepherd")
Junior officers were considered among a vessel's junior staff. One illustration of the gap between senior and junior officers occurred when, on behalf of Voyager's junior staff, Ensign Jenkins thanked Harry Kim for diffusing the situation with the series 5 long-range tactical armor unit that threatened the crew – even though they both held the same nominal rank of ensign. (VOY: "Warhead")
In 2369, Ambassador Taxco was embarrassed by the fact that Deep Space 9's liaison for the visiting delegation was a "first year officer", Julian Bashir. (DS9: "The Forsaken")
Typical Starfleet junior officers included Ensigns Sito Jaxa and Taurik. (TNG: "Lower Decks")
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Bernie Sanders on Environment
Socialist Jr Senator; previously Representative (VT-At-Large)
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Rep. OBEY (D, WI-7): The cash for clunkers program has proven even more wildly popular than its strongest supporters had predicted. Just last month, Congress passed the program, which provided up to $4,500 if you trade in your old gas guzzler for a new car that gets better mileage. That was done in the hopes of spurring some new car sales and encouraging people to be a little more environmentally friendly. We provided $1 billion in the supplemental to get it going, enough for about 250,000 sales--which was just about exhausted in one week. This bill transfers $2 billion from the Department of Energy's Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee program, which doesn't expect to award funding until late next year.
Opponent's argument to vote No:Rep. LEWIS (R, CA-41): In the majority's haste to slam legislation with no time for consideration or amendments, we are now seeing the effects of such shortsighted martial law tactics.
Senator Feinstein tried to negotiate some changes to improve the program but was told that it was this way or the highway. Not one hearing on the Cash for Clunkers program, not one hearing on how the first billion dollars has been spent, not one hearing on how much money the program will need to get through the fiscal year.
Many of my colleagues will say, This is a great program, and it is necessary for the revitalization of the car industry. I'm not really going to argue with those goals. However, are we sure this program is working like it's supposed to? I don't think so. This program has only been up and running 1 week. If that is how the government is going to handle billion-dollar programs affecting all Americans, I ask, Whatever will we do if the administration takes control of our health care system?
Proponents support voting YES because:
Sen. CRAIG: "Eminent domain was elevated greatly as an issue following a highly controversial 2005 Supreme Court decision known as Kelo vs. The City of New London. Since that decision, we as a nation have allowed state & local governments to utilize eminent domain to force landowners to yield their property to private development. Farmers and ranchers in particular have become vulnerable to state and local governments taking their property for economic development or open space designations. My amendment is a very targeted amendment. It addresses only cases in which private working agricultural land is taken and turned into public open space."
Opponents recommend voting NO because:
Sen. HARKIN: This amendment doesn't reach the Kelo decision [because Kelo was about taking open space for private development]. Under this amendment they can still do that.
CRAIG. Oh, I disagree totally. We reach a portion of Kelo that is now most frequently impacting farms and ranches, and that is open space for open space.
HARKIN. The amendment has the Federal Government telling a local government what it can and cannot do within its own jurisdiction.
Letter from the National Conference of State Legislatures & US Conference of Mayors:
"This amendment is not only ill-advised, but it is also unconstitutional [because it] preempts state & local land use laws. The 5th Amendment expressly permits the taking of private property for public use provided just compensation is provided to the owner. The power of eminent domain has always been, and should remain, a state and local power."
LEGISLATIVE OUTCOME:Referred to House Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness; never came to a vote.
The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) is the political voice of the national environmental movement and the only organization devoted full-time to shaping a pro-environment Congress and White House. We run tough and effective campaigns to defeat anti-environment candidates, and support those leaders who stand up for a clean, healthy future for America. Through our National Environmental Scorecard and Presidential Report Card we hold Congress and the Administration accountable for their actions on the environment. Through regional offices, we build coalitions, promote grassroots power, and train the next generation of environmental leaders. The 2003 National Environmental Scorecard provides objective, factual information about the environmental voting records of all Members of the first session of the 108th Congress. This Scorecard represents the consensus of experts from 20 respected environmental and conservation organizations who selected the key votes on which Members of Congress should be graded. LCV scores votes on the most important issues of the year, including environmental health and safety protections, resource conservation, and spending for environmental programs. Scores are calculated by dividing the number of pro-environment votes by the total number of votes scored. The votes included in this Scorecard presented Members of Congress with a real choice on protecting the environment and help distinguish which legislators are working for environmental protection. Except in rare circumstances, the Scorecard excludes consensus action on the environment and issues on which no recorded votes occurred.
To assist in the conservation of rare felids and rare canids by supporting and providing financial resources for the conservation programs of nations within the range of rare felid and rare canid populations and projects of persons with demonstrated expertise in the conservation of rare felid and rare canid populations. Congress finds the following:
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax deduction for charitable contributions by individuals and corporations of real property interests for conservation purposes. Known in the Senate as the Rural Heritage Conservation Extension Act of 2009.
Sen. CANTWELL. I reintroduce today the Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act of 2007. This legislation has won the unanimous approval of the Senate several times, but unfortunately has not yet reached the finish line.
There is no doubt, animal fighting is terribly cruel. Dogs and roosters are drugged to make them hyper-aggressive and forced to keep fighting even after suffering severe injuries such as punctured eyes and pierced lungs. It's all done for "entertainment" and illegal gambling. Some dogfighters steal pets to use as bait for training their dogs, while others allow trained fighting dogs to roam neighborhoods and endanger the public.
The Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act will strengthen current law by making the interstate transport of animals for the purpose of fighting a felony and increase the punishment to three years of jail time. This is necessary because the current misdemeanor penalty has proven ineffective--considered a "cost of doing business" by those in the animal fighting industry which continues unabated nationwide.
These enterprises depend on interstate commerce, as evidenced by the animal fighting magazines that advertise and promote them. Our bill also makes it a felony to move cockfighting implements in interstate or foreign commerce. These are razor-sharp knives known as "slashers" and ice pick-like gaffs designed exclusively for cockfights and attached to the birds' legs for fighting.
This is long overdue legislation. It's time to get this felony animal fighting language enacted. It's time for Congress to strengthen the federal law so that it can provide as a meaningful deterrent against animal fighting. Our legislation does not expand the federal government's reach into a new area, but simply aims to make current law more effective. It is explicitly limited to interstate and foreign commerce, so it protects states' rights in the two states where cockfighting is still allowed.
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LA-2:Cedric Richmond
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MI-13:Hansen Clarke
RI-1:David Cicilline
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AL-5:Mo Brooks
AZ-1:Paul Gosar
AZ-3:Ben Quayle
AZ-5:David Schweikert
AR-1:Rick Crawford
AR-2:Tim Griffin
AR-3:Steve Womack
CA-19:Jeff Denham
CO-3:Scott Tipton
CO-4:Cory Gardner
FL-12:Dennis Ross
FL-2:Steve Southerland
FL-21:Mario Diaz-Balart
FL-22:Allen West
FL-24:Sandy Adams
FL-25:David Rivera
FL-5:Rich Nugent
FL-8:Dan Webster
GA-2:Mike Keown
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Laz Benitez puts duct tape on the window of the 9th-floor lower Manhattan apartment he shares with his wife, Annie Chambliss, early Monday. The couple decided to stay despite Mayor Michael Bloomberg's mandatory evacuation order because they felt they were safe and would not pose a concern for rescue workers.
While large swathes of New York City were under mandatory evacuation orders Monday – a fact that police cars and vans with speakers loudly blared throughout the morning – many residents elected to defy the edict and hunker down in their homes.
Annie Chambliss and Laz Benitez took their dog, Kallon, on one last pre-storm walk at midmorning before taping up their windows and holing up inside their lower Manhattan apartment overlooking the Hudson River. A block away, parents Claire Wladis and Nicholas Rennie did the same with their 21-month-old daughter, Iliana, in their 15th-floor flat.
"We sort of decided it would probably be safer just to stay where we are," said Wladis, 34, a university math professor, noting that her relatives lived in other states that were expected to fare even worse during the storm. "We are not that high up and there's an internal hallway, so we figured if the winds got strong we'd just pull a mattress out there and camp out."
Despite an evacuation order issued Sunday by the city's Mayor Michael Bloomberg, which covered some 375,000 people living in low-lying areas, it was clear Monday that many residents decided to stay put and take their chances when Hurricane Sandy reached shore.
The neighborhood where the families NBC News interviewed live was quiet on Monday, but it wasn't a ghost town. Some people walked their dogs or jogged, while others stood at the waterfront watching the river rise. Some nearby businesses were boarded up, however, and many buildings had sandbags piled up around their entrances.
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Claire Wladis, 34, holding her 21-month-old daughter Iliana, and her husband, Nicholas Rennie, 45, look across the Hudson River toward New Jersey early Monday, trying to assess how high the water had risen.
Only 3,000 people had sought refuge in city emergency shelters, Bloomberg said Monday at a late-morning briefing, though many others were likely staying at hotels or with friends or family.
Wladis and Rennie said having a young child figured into their decision-making.
The couple moved a small, cozy sleep tent for Iliana into a walk-in closet, away from the apartment windows facing the river, which was lapping over walkways amid a constant drizzle and powerful wind gusts during high tide.
"I actually feel safer being able to go into internal hallways ... than say being in a shelter where she's maybe not sleeping and I'm chasing her around," said Rennie, a 45-year old literature professor, as Iliana crawled and ran around an apartment building lobby.
Of Iliana's tent, he said: "She loved it. She didn't want to leave this morning."
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Iliana Wladis lays in her sleep tent, which her parents placed inside a closet for protection in case of high windows or other weather trouble during the storm.
The couple figured they were well-prepared for what could be a lengthy stay inside: They stocked up on five days' worth of nonperishable foods, bought a tarp, flashlights and candles, filled up the bathtub with water, moved computers and other valuable objects away from the windows, and charged their laptops and computer tablets. And, they had sleeping bags ready in case they lose power.
They also had wet pads and food for their 12-year-old black Pomeranian, Little Bit, and plenty of toys and books for Iliana. They said they planned on letting Iliana play ball with Little Bit in the hallway and turning to real-life books to occupy their time if they lose all electricity.
"I think if this was much worse, we would definitely have seriously considered going to a shelter or to somebody else's (place)," Wladis said, adding she felt the biggest risks were more likely to be "inconvenience, as long as you stay inside and don't go wandering off in the storm."
Flights and trains canceled, schools, offices and Wall Street closed as Sandy bears down on the coast. NBC's Brian Mooar reports.
Chambliss, 31, and Benitez, 41, made similar preparations for their 9th-floor apartment, but also bought thick foam and duct tape to cover their lone window. Though they had many offers to stay with friends in other parts of the city, cramming into a small apartment wasn't an appealing prospect, especially with a dog.
"When we evacuated last time (for last year's Hurricane Irene), it actually was worse off where we evacuated to," said Chambliss, who works in web communications, as she walked Kallon along the riverfront. "We'll probably be stranded wherever we are for a long time. We figured we'd rather be stuck in our own home."
The couple did expect to lose power, and had fully charged all of their electronic gadgets. They also stocked up pans and pots in case of any water leaks, since they are on the top floor in their building.
"We're not being reckless. We're being very cautious," said Benitez, who works in public relations, who was continuously monitoring TV news for updates on the storm. "We feel much safer here actually."
Some politicians have taken a harsh tone in criticizing those who stayed behind. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Monday called residents who did not follow evacuation orders in his state "both stupid and selfish." Bloomberg took a milder tack on Sunday, asking city dwellers to leave if ordered to do so as not to endanger rescue workers.
But Chambliss said blanket orders don't take into account individual residents' circumstances.
"We're definitely very conscious of that," Chambliss said of the criticism. "If we were on a lower floor and if we felt that we were like really in danger of flooding and that we were in a position where we were going to need to be rescued or calling rescue workers, we would have left."
Her comments were echoed by Wladis.
"We don't feel like we are doing anything particularly crazy," she said. "I respect why elected officials make those comments because they want to try to scare people in really dangerous places into getting out, but … I think there's just more nuance than just saying everybody's in an evacuation zone and everybody should get out."
Authorities continued their efforts to get the holdouts to leave on Monday, with police vans and cars equipped with speakers driving through the evacuation zone broadcasting warnings. "Please leave," said one message, while another warned that those who stayed were committing a Class D misdemeanor.
A possible citation notwithstanding, Wladis and Rennie said they intended to make the most of the experience of riding out a hurricane.
"As long as it doesn't feel dangerous, it's kind of fun and festive," Wladis said as they headed back to their building after learning it would soon be locked down until the storm has abated. "Once the storm actually comes in, I'm sure we'll feel differently."
More on Hurricane Sandy from NBCNews.com:
- Live updates on Hurricane Sandy
- A state-by-state look at the hurricane's impact
- The superstorm, by the numbers
- Photo Blog: Images of Sandy's devastation
- The stay-behinds: Residents tell why they defied evacuation order
- 12 rescued, 2 missing from HMS Bounty off N.C. coast


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In 2009, my brother Andy and I started SkyFoundry, a software company focused on analytics for the Internet of Things. One of the many exciting aspects of bootstrapping a software startup is that you begin with a clean slate. So we began to think about what programming language we might use to construct our product, and we found the options wanting. We spent our nights and weekends creating ourselves a new programming language, and thus Fantom was born.
I had been building software systems with Java since the 1.0 days, so I was familiar with all Java's strengths and weaknesses. Perhaps Java's strongest asset was the JVM as a mature, bullet-proof runtime. So from the get go, the JVM was our primary target. But we had some guiding principles on where we thought Fantom should break new ground:
- Stick to Java's statically typed object-oriented core, but integrate functional programming and dynamic typing
- Ability to target alternate runtimes such as .NET and JavaScript
- Tackle big problems that plagued Java programs: concurrency bugs and null pointer bugs
- Built-in modularity to aid the construction of large software systems and avoid issues like classpath hell
- Fantom should be licensed and developed as an open source project.
What we wanted to keep from Java was the syntax which was approachable and readable to a wide audience of everyday programmers. Fantom is at its heart a statically typed object-oriented language much like Java or C#. In addition, functional programming is blended into Fantom with support for first class functions and closures. The whole library is designed to use closures for easy extensibility. For example,
// find all the employees who have a salary over $100,000 highPaid = employees.findAll |e| { e.salary > 100_000 } // sort a list of files by modified time files.sort |a, b| { a.modified <=> b.modified }
In the first example, we pass a closure function to the findAll method. This closure is called for each item in the list and returns true or false to match the item. All the matched items are returned as a new list. In the second example we see how to use a closure to provide a customized sorting comparator. Judicial use of functional programming is a key ingredient in the design of Fantom's easy to use APIs.
We love static typing and find it a useful tool in our toolbox. But there are definitely times when a static type system hinders an elegant solution. In Fantom, we wanted the best of both worlds, so we designed two different "call" operators. The "." operator calls a method with static typing and the "->" operator calls a method with dynamic typing. Using the "." operator lets you reap all the benefits of static typing: compile-time checks that the method exists and that your parameters are all correct. But if the compiler is getting in your way, just switch to "->". This duality between static and dynamic method dispatch lets us have our cake and eat it, too.
Portable Runtime
Java deserves much credit for making "portable programs" a mainstream concept. However, licensing restrictions and the huge surface area of Java's standard library make porting the Java runtime a sticky situation. Witness the current Oracle lawsuit against Google regarding Android to see how Java isn't necessarily the best vehicle for portability. And despite more than a decade of trying, Java never made any traction as a suitable runtime inside web browsers. In Fantom, we deliberately designed the language and the standard library to be portable to alternate runtimes.
Perhaps the biggest quality issue that plagues Java programs relates to concurrency. Java's architecture of shared memory with manual locking is prone to race conditions and deadlocks that befuddle even expert programmers. Concurrency bugs are especially insidious because they often slip through testing, only to be discovered in production systems.
Fantom was designed to address concurrency by making it impossible to share mutable state between threads. Fantom achieves this using a variety of features. The most important concurrency feature comes from Fantom's immutable types, which have compile-time guarantees that once an instance is constructed, it will be deeply immutable for its lifetime. Fantom also comes bundled with its own actor framework. All these features are seamlessly integrated to make Fantom ideal for designing highly concurrent systems. At SkyFoundry, we have built databases, web servers, message queues, and protocol stacks — all completely in Fantom. The result has been high performance, high quality software with none of the headaches and hours spend debugging low level race conditions and deadlocks. Let's look a simple example of a
const class:
const class Library { const Str name const Book[] books }
In the class above, the
const keyword informs the compiler that the
Library class should be immutable. Notice that
Library contains a field called
books, which references a list of
Book instances. In Fantom, the compiler and runtime will guarantee that the
books field is deeply immutable — that the list and what the list contains are also immutable.


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Ontario College of Art & Design's professional gallery space, Onsite [at] OCAD U, is raw and industrial. Its warehouse-like ambiance is enhanced by the cinder block walls, industrial piping crisscrossing the ceiling, and bank of floor-to-ceiling windows facing the street. These features present a number of restrictions when mounting an exhibition, a challenge for artists and curators in this unconventional gallery setting. In No Dull[…..]


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Peter Holland had a hat trick Friday night as the resurgent Norfolk Admirals (25-25-3-1) beat Charlotte 6-2 at Scope.
The Admirals overcame a 2-0 deficit to beat the Checkers (32-18-2-3), one of the AHL Western Conference's top teams.
Brandon McMillan scored twice to pull the Admirals even, and Chris Wagner netted the go-ahead goal 5:08 into the second period. Holland, recently sent down by the parent NHL Anaheim Ducks, scored the last three goals.
The Admirals, who spent much of the season mired at the bottom of the 15-team Eastern Conference, have moved up to 12th with 54 and are in the playoff chase.
Norfolk is two points behind three squads who are tied for ninth and is five points behind the eighth-place Connecticut Whale, which holds the final playoff berth.
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Swansea chairman Huw Jenkins has denied media reports that the club have made a recent bid for Middlesbrough striker Marvin Emnes.
The Swans enquired about Emnes at the end of last season and have been reported to have returned with a £3million offer for the Dutchman.
However, Jenkins told the club's official website, swanseacity.net: "We made an enquiry with Middlesbrough six weeks ago regarding Marvin's availability. We needed to test the water. But that was six weeks ago when Brendan Rodgers was the manager. We have certainly not made an enquiry since then."
He added: "Having just appointed a new manager in Michael Laudrup, all current and new options are being assessed.
"Michael, with the help of the recruitment staff, will decide over the next few weeks the direction we take regarding potential new signings.
"It's important our supporters are aware of this and not to read too much into the host of names being linked with the club at present or in the future."
Emnes, 24, enjoyed a successful one-month loan spell at Swansea in October 2010. He became an instant hero after scoring the winning goal against south Wales rivals Cardiff.


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Winter storm lashes central U.S. with ice, snow, cold
- Widespread power outages are forecast
- The entire state of Wyoming had below-zero temperatures Thursday morning
- Winter storm warnings in place from New Mexico to New York State
The eastern half of the USA faces a nasty mix of freezing rain, sleet and snow Friday and this weekend as a 1-2 punch of winter storms lashes a vast region from northern Texas to the Mid-Atlantic.
The first storm will potentially affect millions of people and threaten to cut power for hundreds of thousands from northern Texas to western Kentucky, according to AccuWeather meteorologist Alex Sosnowski.
"This will be the worst ice storm for the United States since January 2009 and will affect many of the same areas as that storm," reported AccuWeather's Jesse Ferrell. The January 2009 storm killed 65 people and knocked out power to 2 million from Oklahoma to West Virginia.
As the first storm begins to diminish by Friday night, another is expected to bring snow, ice and rain to the South and Mid-Atlantic by Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.
As the storms plod east, most of the central and western part of country will continue to shiver under some of the coldest temperatures in years through the weekend: "Temperatures will be 10 to 30 degrees below normal for the next few days," the weather service predicted in an online forecast. "High temperatures will remain below zero for some parts of the northern Plains."
Temperatures dropped to 30 degrees below zero in parts of Colorado on Thursday and the entire state of Wyoming was below zero as of mid-morning, according to meteorologist Jacob Wycoff.
Holiday events were called off in the north-central U.S. In Rapid City, S.D., officials concluded it was too cold for ice skating.
"Cold. Cold. Cold. Cold. It's going below zero everywhere," said Don Day of DayWeather in Cheyenne, Wyo.
Also, every weather station in the states of Colorado, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota, North Dakota, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming were registering below-freezing temperatures Thursday morning.
National Weather Service meteorologist Matthew Aleksa said the temperature in Meeker, Colo., hit 29 below zero just before sunrise Thursday, and Craig was at minus 27 degrees. It was minus-6 degrees in Bismarck, N.D., Thursday morning, but wind chills made it feel like 30-below.
Physician John Torres said it's so cold that even people in Colorado, normally accustomed to wintry conditions, need to be wary.
"The cold temperature can cause a lot of problems, mainly frostbite, hypothermia — they can sneak up on you," Torres said. "They can affect you real quickly and those can be life-long effects you're dealing with."
The Weather Channel has dubbed the storm "Winter Storm Cleon" as part of its practice of naming winter storms, now in its second year.
Contributing: John Bacon, USA TODAY; Trevor Hughes, The (Fort Collins) Coloradoan; Meagan Fitzgerald, KUSA-TV; Associated Press


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...the main event will be a look at Atico Mining (ATY.V). Because it's about time.
...the gold/silver ratio, five years:
...in Mexico, this time at the AEM La India mine in Sonora.
We don't know how much gold was stolen yet, perhaps AEM might tell us some time today. We do however know that one security guard was shot and injured by one of the robbers and was treated in hospital for his non-life threatening wound.
"Bottom line: Putting all those bits together, unless a new event comes along to justify a new move in the price of gold we're going to be stuck where we are for a while and will probably see it move back to U$1,300/oz, too."
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It's probably not cost effective but I was wondering if it would be possible to include some old BCB websites that aren't around anymore on this site. The one I'm particularly thinking of is Harold Howe's BCBDEV.COM. I still get hear from people looking for that site.
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After Goodwin Liu was confirmed as a member of the California Supreme Court, he looked like he couldn't believe it. He expressed surprise not as his confirmation -- but at its speed.
Liu's nomination to a federal appellate court was held up for more than a year, and a Republican filibuster blocked even a confirmation vote (even though he had the support of the Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate).
In California, Liu's confirmation took all of a month.
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What's the difference? The confirmation process is not nearly as politicized here. The Commission on Judicial Appointments -- which includes the elected Attorney General and two top judges -- has been set up to handle the work. The questions tend to focus on resume and qualification, rather than hot-button ideological questions.
In this area at least, Washington may have something to learn from California.
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My 1996 Chrysler Cirrus started making noise about 2-3000 miles ago. Had a difficult time determing what was causing the noise since it went away a minute or two later after warming up. Now it is constant and the clutch is starting to smoke from friction. Driving any further may cause it to freeze and snap the belt. I tried to pull the clutch off but too difficult. Guess I have to pay $6-700 to replace it.
The AC compressor is belt driven. There is an electric clutch that engages the belt drive to the compressor. The circuit for the clutch is driven by the Powertrain Control Module (PCM), which might feed to a relay used to drive the clutch. The PCM receives a start signal from the dashboard control knob or switch. There may also be a refrigerant pressure sensor that can moderate the output of the PCM to the AC clutch signal.
The A/C compresor is low on the front of the engine, up inside the engine compartment. I have never heard of a serpentine blt "bending" a pulley... When an idler pulley bearing fails and siezes, it will break a belt. This is most likely the cause of belt failure. If the A/C compressor drive is not turning by hand, this is most likely the cause. There is a bearing on the nose of the compressor that allows the hub to rotate and "drive" the compressor when the clutch is activated. The A/C clutch is replaceable without replacing the entire compressor assembly. Check all the pulleys and make sure another one is not also failed.
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Conference Report Card: SECPosted by Brian Goodman on April 18th, 2011
Jared Quillen is the RTC correspondent for the SEC conference. We will be publishing a series of conference report cards over the next week for conferences that got multiple NCAA bids to recap the conference, grade the teams, and look at the future for the conference.
Conference Recap
- It was a good year for the Southeastern Conference. After a weak showing in the NCAA Tournament last year, the SEC was the only conference with multiple teams (Kentucky and Florida) in the Elite Eight. The SEC also got five teams into the NCAA Tournament for the first time in three years. It was a major improvement over the sad slump that was 2009 when the SEC only qualified LSU, Tennessee, and Mississippi State at 8, 9, and 13 seeds, respectively.
- When the season started, I predicted the conference could get five and possibly six teams in the tournament and I still contend that Alabama was snubbed. But regardless of that, five teams is a good showing and a sign of improvement for a conference that lost a little respect as an elite conference in the past few years.
- Florida was consistent all year, winning close games by playing calmly even when trailing late, but the biggest turning point for the conference came when Kentucky finally was able to win those same close games. The Wildcats were sitting at 7-9 in conference play and likely facing a first-round game in the SEC when they won close games against Florida, Vanderbilt, and Tennessee finishing the regular season 10-6 and easily marching through the conference tournament. Kentucky was the favorite at the Final Four in Houston, but poor shooting likely cost the Wildcats their eighth national championship. And the debate about John Calipari's ability to win it all with young teams goes on.


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Hi all!
I'm going to develope for the first time a web application using JEE with Servlets, and for the user's authentication and authorization I'm going to use container-managed security, as recommended by the JEE 6 tutorial, in a typical fashion: the user presents username/password once for the login, and next he/she presents a session id within a cookie. Finally, he/she can logout.
My question is: is it possible to achieve that only with declarative security, or am I forced to use programmatic security?
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Saint Augustine Zhao Rong was a Chinese diocesan priest who was martyred with his 119 companions in 1815. Among their number was an eighteen year old boy, Chi Zhuzi, who cried out to those who had just cut off his right arm and were preparing to flay him alive: "Every piece of my flesh, every drop of my blood will tell you that I am Christian."Traditionally today is the feast of St. Maria Goretti, virgin and martyr. Her optional memorial is new to the USA liturgical calendar and is celebrated on July 9.Historically today is also the feast of St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher. Their feasts are currently celebrated on June 22.
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It's our 2nd annual Chisholm Trail Cowboy Youth Poetry Contest. Your original cowboy poem could earn you some cash!
Four categories: pre-K to 12th grade. Entries due by Friday, Nov. 1, 2019. Click here for all the details. Rules and Entry Forms
Pictured are two of the entries in the 2018 contest. More can be found on our Facebook page.
Thanks to Woody Creek Ranch for sponsoring the cash prizes for this contest! (Woody Creek Ranch was established in 1909, Bray, Oklahoma, and continues to be a thriving testament to the spirit of the cowboy. We appreciate their dedication to the Heritage Center and the cowboy way of life.
Thank you to Oklahoma Arts Council for making this educational program possible.
We are open Monday, September 2, 2019, Labor Day. Our hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (and 1-5 p.m. Sundays)
In fact – we are open daily – with the exception of Thanksgiving and Christmas Days.
Chisholm Trail Heritage Center is hosting a free writing workshop, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2019, to be led by Oklahoma author Beth Robinson. She will inspire writers of all ages in this two hour workshop.
It is recommended participants arrive about 1:15 p.m. The workshop begins at 1:30 p.m. (The museum does not open until 1 p.m.) Robinson is an award-winning writer who creates engaging dialogue with the participants. She offers many writing exercises and participants will have a hands-on opportunity to explore the museum in at least one writing exercise.
Students who are considering entering the Heritage Center's second annual Cowboy Youth Poetry Contest are encouraged to attend this free workshop. Deadlines for entries in the student contest are Nov. 1, 2019.
Full details will be added to the website and to the Facebook page for the Chisholm Trail Heritage Center. Registration for the workshop is not required, but is appreciated. To register, call (580) 252-6692, or email: email@example.com
We will be closed all day, Thursday, November 28, 2019 so that our staff may enjoy the holiday with their families and friends. We hope you will shop with us on Friday, November 29, when we open for regular hours, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Remember – shop local & the bonus is you avoid the crowds and find unique gifts!
"The Long Hard Ride: A Commemoration of the Chisholm Trail" is an installation exhibition by Oklahoma leather artist, Jim Weaver. On display July 2 – Sept. 28, 2020 at the Chisholm Trail Heritage Center, 1000 Chisholm Trail Pkwy, Duncan, OK 73533
Weaver's exhibit will feature new work, with nearly a dozen large-scale leather hides displayed in the Chisholm Trail Heritage Center's main exhibit room. Extensive research by the artist includes visual and written references of the 1870s cattle drives, drovers' journals and geography. Using his leather craft skills, Weaver tells a story of history, and how humans are dependent upon the earth.
"Geographically, the scene will begin in San Antonio and end at the railroad stockyards in Abilene, Kansas," Weaver said. Exhibit details will include the extreme weather conditions faced along the trail, a focus on topography, and more. His work has been featured in The Paseo Arts District, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition Gallery, the Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory in Ada since 2016 as part of its 50th anniversary, and most recently in France, among numerous other places. The Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition provided Weaver with a funding grant for this exhibit. To learn more about Weaver, visit his website.
Photo: Jim Weaver researching the archives at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
We are closed Thursday, November 26, 2020 for the Thanksgiving holiday. In case of inclement weather Friday, Nov. 27, please call ahead to make sure the museum is open. Be sure to consider us when shopping this holiday season. Our gift shop is open every day with regular museum hours, and you can shop our online store.


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Sounds More Like 'the Zune of Reading' to Me
If Jeff Bezos truly hopes to create "the iPod of reading," observers say he's going to have to do a hell of a lot better than Amazon's new Kindle e-book reader. Because though Kindle, with its paperback-sized form factor and an electronic display that reportedly looks and reads like real paper, might project an aura of bookishness, it doesn't project much of a value proposition.
Amazon has priced Kindle at $399. It's offering digitally rendered books for download over the device's wireless Whispernet service for an average price of $9.99 a book. And it's peddling subscriptions to newspapers like the New York Times for up to $14.99 per month and blogs such as the Onion at 99 cents per month. This, despite the presumably vast disparity between the manufacturing costs of dead-tree publications and digital ones. Apparently to Amazon, economies of digital distribution don't translate into lower prices for the consumer, but greater revenues for the company.
"This is the most important thing we've ever done," Bezos told Newsweek. "It's so ambitious to take something as highly evolved as the book and improve on it. And maybe even change the way people read." Change the way people read? Seems doubtful–at this point at least. Especially when Apple could easily develop an e-book reader for the iPhone or the multitouch tablet it's allegedly prepping for market, launch it in concert with an iTunes bookstore or a partnership with Google Book Search and, ba-da-bing, turn the Kindle into the Zune of e-book readers.
"Google's Book Search project has already pumped much of the world's printed matter into Google's servers," writes Forbes' Brian Caulfield. "Downloads of classic titles, such as 'Bleak House,' can already be had for free. Mix Apple's iTunes content distribution smarts with Google's vast storehouse of content, and you'll have an instant competitor to Kindle–one with a touch interface and the ability to play movies and music, too."
Course, if the primary market Amazon's gunning for here doesn't quite pan out, there may be another worth targeting: the textbook market. Says Good Morning Silicon Valley's John Murrell: "No more crushing backpack-load of tomes, no frustrating trips to the bookstore trying to find what you need in stock, and, for the publishers, no need to hold off updating until there's enough to make a new edition. If the textbook industry could get together on an open standard format, if schools and/or the industry subsidized the hardware, if the electronic bookstore would allow for sale or rental, if the device allowed for things like automatic handling of citations and bibliography … well, that's a lot of ifs, but I think there's something there."


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The patients came, scores of them. Carried by family members. Pushed in makeshift wheelchairs. Leaning on battered canes and crude crutches.
They all came for the same thing: hoping for the chance to walk again.
In Nicaragua, you must be mobile. It's a walking country. If you can't walk, you can't work. The knees give out, and your world becomes tiny. You become dependent on family for everything.
So when a team of doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and other medical staff travelled there from Winnipeg's Concordia Hospital to take part in an Operation Walk mission, it was the only hope many patients had of being pain-free and mobile again.
Operation Walk has been providing orthopedic surgery to underprivileged populations around the world since 1994. The organization, based in Los Angeles, helps physician teams that raise money to travel to areas of the world where such surgeries as knee and hip replacements are only for the rich. Operation Walk makes at least 10 trips a year.
The October trip to Managua, Nicaragua, was the first for a Winnipeg orthopedic team. In four days, they performed 49 knee replacements on 39 patients who had made the cut. Ten patients had bilateral surgery -- both knees replaced in the same surgery. Some patients were turned away because of medical issues, others because there just wasn't time.
In such a country, the $2 million in artificial knees and related equipment the Winnipeg group took with them was just a drop in the bucket. But to the patients who walked out of the hospital three days post-surgery, it represents a new life.
"Nicaragua is mountainous... When you live in a mountainous country mobility is critical," said Dr. Dave Heddon, a surgeon on the trip. "They've got to go up and down stairs, up and down hills — you try and do that in a wheelchair, or with crutches, or with a walker.
"You just can't go to work. How do you go to work if you're as crippled as some of these patients we saw?
Juan Canda is a good example of the patients the team treated. The 55-year-old former gardener hasn't worked in 10 years, not since his knees gave out. That's 10 years of relying on his children for support. Some of his six grown kids brought him to the clinic. He was the team's first bi-lateral surgery. The double operation is performed at Winnipeg's Concordia Hospital on only the most fit patients — younger, more active, very healthy people — as recovery is very difficult.
In Managua, many of the patients have been in so much pain for so long, the surgery itself is a relief. In Canada, patients routinely take a whole cocktail of medications including narcotics, morphine and OxyContin. In Nicaragua? Mostly it's over-the-counter painkillers, little better than straight acetaminophen.
"Some people had been in pain for 10 years, and then after surgery, they take extra-strength Tylenol because their pain before was so great, that they don't need anything more after," said nurse Alison Bartel.
The Canadian team could see its work's effect immediately.
Juan was able to take his first walk, with much help, the day after his surgery. That is much sooner than most Winnipeg patients are up and attempting to walk.
This Operation Walk — a team of Winnipeggers, doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and general volunteers — treated 39 patients over nine days, helping people get back on their feet. In a little more than a week, they changed the lives of 39 people and their families.
On the following pages, Winnipeg Free Press photojournalist Phil Hossack tells their story.
For Juan Canda and his family, it's a simple tale. He's back in his garden, standing firmly with the help of two new knees. He's got his life back.
Winnipegger Bill Desjardins loved to walk his dogs.
Even when the pain got so bad in his knees, swollen with rheumatoid arthritis, Desjardins would shuffle along the three blocks to a coffee shop, with his cane and three dogs.
Finally, it got too much for the retired truck driver who turned 70 in August. He described his suffering as steady, steady pain; a relentless weight.
But Desjardins is on the mend. Just days before that milestone birthday, he had knee replacement surgery on his worst knee at Concordia Hospital. His surgeon was Dr. Tom Turgeon, one of the doctors on the Nicaragua Operation Walk mission.
Desjardins waited three years for his knee replacement. During that time, he lived with his son and daughter — and all the dogs — and managed to manoeuvre around the small house and yard with his cane.
Day 1 after surgery, Desjardins walked about 15 metres down the recovery ward hall, leaning on a walker with a staff member following closely with a wheelchair.
Desjardins is going to mark 2013 with knee replacement on his second knee early in January.
And soon, he and his dogs will be hitting that coffee shop again.
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For whatever reason, Anna Faris is suddenly one of the hottest commodities in Hollywood, and she is wasting no time capitalizing on it.
Faris is in talks to star opposite Sacha Baron Cohen in "The Dictator," reported Deadline. Baron co-wrote the film, which is being directed by his longtime collaborator, Larry Charles ("Borat", "Bruno").
"The Dictator," which Paramount has joked will "tell the heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed," finds Cohen playing a ruthless despot who comes to New York City to address the U.N.
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But while he's stateside, The Dictator's #2 replaces him with a lookalike, also played by Cohen, leaving the deposed leader to wander the streets of NYC, during which time he meets the owner of an organic food store, possibly Faris, who changes his world view.
The story is said to be based on the novel "Zabibah and The King," which was allegedly written by Saddam Hussein, and which the CIA studied at length for clues to what made the Iraqi strongman tick. It sounds more like Khaddafy meets "The Devil's Double" to us.
Faris can next be seen Spet. 30 alongside Chris Evans in "What's Your Number?"


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An evolutionary biologist asked me a question which boils down, at least in part, to what seems to me an interesting question of combinatorial/probabilistic geometry.
It is an old chestnut of a problem to ask: into how many pieces can an n-sphere be cut by k hyperplanes? (Here I want the hyperplanes to be honest linear subspaces, not affine ones as in the classical "lazy caterer" problem, but the flavor is much the same.)
Now suppose that instead of the sphere, I have the 2^n vertices of the n-cube, i.e. the set {-1,1}^n. I cut this set with k random hyperplanes. Now I have a partition of 2^n.
What do I expect this partition to look like? E.G. how many blocks are there? How big is the largest blocks? Are the biggest blocks "close to each other" in the sense that you can pass from one to the other without crossing very many of the hyperplanes? (To formalize this, one might say that the structure one is studying isn't just a partition, but a partition in which each block is identified with an element of (Z/2Z)^k, thus providing a notion of Hamming distance between block.)
I have asked this question in a rather vague way by not specifying what range of k relative to n is in play. This should actually be considered part of the question: what are the threshold curves in the (n,k) plane, if any, where the partition sharply changes its expected nature? My biologist friend is certainly interested mostly in the case k > n; I think he's most interested in the case where k is bounded between n and a constant multiple of n, but I'm not sure. I expect he would be interested to know, for instance, how big k needs to be before all blocks of the partition are singletons almost surely.
Further remarks: though I don't think this is relevant to MBF, one could certainly pass from a discrete to a continuous setting and ask about the statistics of the partition of the volume of the unit (n-1)-sphere by the k hyperplane cuts, which would also be interesting. Or, instead of letting the cuts be chosen randomly from a continuous distribution, you could let them be chosen from the vertices of a cube in the dual R^n; in other words, you could choose at random from hyperplanes of the form x_1 +- x_2 +- ... +-x_n. This last version is probably closest to what MBF is actually thinking about.
Update: A couple of people asked about the biological context. Here's the original paper.


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Once upon a time, when I was a very new writer, I was not too picky about who read my work-in-progress. I wanted feedback for my writing but was intimidated by the idea of joining a writers group. So I'd just ask random people who were mildly interested in what I was doing to read my stuff. Needless to say, their feedback, if they ever got back to me, wasn't very helpful.
Flash forward to present time. For my current YA novel, I worked with some wonderful people who read either my whole WIP or a few chapters of it. Their feedback helped me a lot in my multiple revisions. I am so very grateful for these people who took the time to read my work and give me an honest and constructive critique with the intention to help me be a better writer.
The person who reads your WIP should be someone you trust, someone whose opinions you respect. It would help if your critique provider actually likes to read, is a writer, and/or is someone knowledgeable about the industry. While you can certainly share your work with your children, their feedback alone would probably not be enough to steer you towards an effective revision.
For those of you who are working on a book and want feedback, but don't know where to look, let me offer some tips on what has (and hasn't) worked for me:
Enroll in a fiction writing class or workshop. Many fiction writing classes and workshops are structured such that members can take turns critiquing each other's work. My take on receiving critiques in group settings is that you don't have to utilize each and every piece of feedback you get- it is up to you to distinguish between useful feedback and feedback that came with good intentions but not something you necessarily need to adhere to. Someone super cool I'd stayed in touch with after a writers workshop later critiqued my WIP.
Attend a writers conference. I've also stayed in touch with some awesome people I've met at conferences who have offered to look at my stuff and/or have asked me to look at their stuff. At conferences, I've also rubbed elbows with industry professionals- published authors, illustrators, agents, and editors. Sometimes I am able to sign up for one-on-one sessions where an industry professional critiques a chapter or a few chapters I've written. It's nice to get feedback from more than one industry professional to see where opinions of my work are similar and different. For example, at the Book Passage Children's Writers and Illustrators Conference last year, I was able to meet separately with two faculty members to discuss one WIP.
Seek out industry professionals offering critiques. If you can't attend conferences, there are still opportunities to find industry professionals offering critiques. Sometimes authors, agents, and editors offer critiques in online auctions. I have found out about such auctions simply by visiting other kidlit blogs or going on Twitter. An online auction that has offered critiques from industry professionals is Brenda Novak's Annual Auction for the Cure of Diabetes.
Go online. With anyone you meet online, you should proceed with caution before you decide how far to take a connection, if there is one. That said, there are sites out there where writers can post on forums to search for a critique partner. Two sites that come to mind are SCBWI and WriteOnCon. I do not recommend that you immediately forward a 50,000 word manuscript to any person you initially connect with. I do recommend exchanging first chapters. Decide if the nature of the feedback you receive for the first chapter is what you're looking for, and give the other person a chance to decide the same thing about your feedback. Check out this person's blog and Twitter posts to get a better feel for their personality, and see if it meshes with what you are looking for in a critique partner. My disclaimer: Though I have done a chapter exchange or two, I have not yet offered anyone I met in an online forum a critique partner relationship.
Make friends with other writers. Find out about local events in your area- SCBWI seminars, author visits at the library, and events at the bookstore are just some places where you might meet some writers.
I feel very fortunate that one of my critique buddies who recently gave feedback on my WIP also happens to be a friend and a published author too. A few years ago, after a friend of a family friend introduced us, we met for lunch to get acquainted, and years later, she and I still maintain a correspondence.
Feel free to share how you met the people who critique your work.


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Police: Man identified himself as cop prior to sexual assault
Milwaukee police said a man who identified himself as an officer during a sexual assault has been arrested.
Lt. Mark Stanmeyer said officers received a report of the assault on Feb. 17. A Milwaukee woman told police she was assaulted in a hotel room by a man who identified himself as a law enforcement officer.
Stanmeyer said officers were investigating an armed robbery on Port Sunlight Way two days later and located the robbery suspect in the 4500 block of North 27th Street.
Investigators determined the man was also linked to the Feb. 17 sexual assault.
Stanmeyer said that in the Feb. 19 robbery, the man identified himself as a bounty hunter.
He said the man in custody was arrested by police on Jan. 31 on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
The Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office is reviewing possible charges in the Feb. 17 and 19 incidents, as well as the Jan. 31 arrest.


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That is really weird.. I FTP'ed all the files yesterday, but just now downloaded them and got the old version Let me try this again..
Yeah hardware mode is working My XM music is also sounding better. Thanks for your hard work.Btw it seems IBXM is the old version and its now called Micromod-j:http://sites.google.com/site/mumart/
This is for reading files that are compressed way down using the assumption that voice only ranges from 2 to 44 kbps.
I am in the process of writing a codec plug-in for JSpeex. It is a fairly low-level library, though, so it may take a while for me to understand it well enough to get it functioning properly in the context of an ICodec implementation. I'll keep you updated
Oh btw software mode does not work for me. Its just fuzzy now for my XM music.
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Back home to close out the season
Well, we were back at it in Chicago this weekend. The weather is cold and windy, with a little rain. It's not very good but hey, maybe I need to get used to it already. Had the chance to stop by and see my good friend at the dentist's office, Dr. Jack Ruby. It's always good to see him. His staff always takes such good care of me and my family. He is one of so many others that I don't even want to begin to name because I might forget some. I have had such great friendships during my time here in Chicago.
OK, back to baseball. We would really like to finish this season in second place. I know for most fans that doesn't seem like much right now, but for me and the coaching staff it's a huge deal. Of course we would have rather been finishing in first place, because I believe — just like Ricky Bobby — if you're not first, you're last. I love that movie! Hopefully we can finish strong here the last series and the fans can come out and show their support. We get the Blue Jays for a couple games this week and then it's time for everyone to go home.
One more thing: I will definitely have to watch "Money Ball" sometime soon. Looks like a good movie about a good GM; what do you guys think from seeing the previews?
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Ozzie- I wish you nothing but the best for you and your family! Your a good man! I'll be cheering you on from chi-town! Good luck!
Ozzie- "Money Ball" is a must see movie. It had humor, human interest, and suspense. Go see it. I'm sure you'll recognize the parts that were made up for the movie and I'm sure you will enjoy it. However, if you're a friend of Art Howe, you might have to tell him you're sorry about the movie…he is portrayed as a little rough.
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This isn't singing 'Kumbaya
Posted by RRC on February 26, 2006
In Reply to: This isn't singing 'Kumbaya posted by Smokey Stover on February 26, 2006
: : : : "This isn't singing 'Kumbaya,' " I understand that 'Kumbaya' is a folk song and that the word is associated with unity or closeness.
: : : : But I often hear "This isn't singing 'Kumbaya,' ". Could someone restate the phrase for me without using 'singing' and 'Kumbaya'.
: : : This is a tough problem, and the solution won't be easy. Heads will roll. People will be stressed. Bruises, conflict, struggle. Darwinian survival for those who endure. It is not, in short, a situation that can be solved by sitting around in a circle singing wimpy folk songs hoping that uplifting attitudes will make everything right. Pragmatism versus "newage," which is New Age thinking set to rhyme with sewage.
: : Bob is getting in his licks in his usual colorful, but accurate, way. Kumbaya is a simple song of somewhat uncertain origin (possibly Gullah), but with a positive theme, sung by groups stressing positive (i.e., Polyanna-ish) attitudes. Allegedly it can be heard or sung at karaoke bars, where anyone from the audience, talented or not, can get up and sing well-known songs to a pre-recorded accompaniment. Karaoke bars originated in Japan, but in the U.S. the word is pronounced kar-i-o-ki, or possibily ker-i-o-ki. It is sometimes argued that you have to have a positive attitude to mistake the singing you hear in a karaoke bar for music. New Agers are not particularly associated with karaoke bars, but are thought by outsiders (people who don't buy crystals) to have something in common, namely, a somewhat Panglossian view of the world. SS
: :On most days I know how to spell Pollyanna. SS
But I do like the image of a group of naively happy Annas singing in unison with their arms linked together - a Poly-Anna. ^_^
- This isn't singing 'Kumbaya Bob 27/February/06


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Facebook is the place where old boyfriends contact you out of the blue, former high school cheerleaders befriend former nerds, and conversations about politics get heated. It should come as no surprise then that the number one social networking site in the world is also becoming a place to share breast milk.
It makes sense. Roughly one in 13 people on the planet is now on Facebook. That makes it the perfect place for an organization like Eats on Feets, which was started in July 2010 by a midwife. She was trying to match breast milk donors with people whose children had health issues.
Though not recommended by the FDA or the American Academy of Pediatrics who say it puts babies at risk for HIV, hepatitis B, and other infectious diseases, sharing breast milk online is here to stay, it seems.
"We cannot recommend the sharing of breast milk over the Internet," says Lori Feldman-Winter, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and a spokeswoman for the American Academy of Pediatrics. Instead, Feldman-Winter says, mothers in need should turn to one of the country's 11 breast milk banks.
Sharing breast milk is a strange topic. With certain people, the idea is repulsive. To others, it's completely normal and not strange at all. Obviously, the FDA frowns upon it, but women have been sharing breast milk since the dawn of man. I've heard stories of women banding together after the death of a mother and nursing her infant to six months. I've heard stories of women saving the lives of infants who had allergies whose mothers couldn't nurse.
Breast milk is powerful stuff and a gift whose value cannot be overstated. The idea of another woman putting her breast in my child's mouth makes me a little uneasy personally, but that doesn't mean I can't see the value it could have for women who can't nurse.
NPR interviewed Lindsey Ward, a woman who received breast milk over Facebook. She tried the legal "breast milk banks," but found them cost-prohibitive.These banks take donations from pre-approved nursing mothers and the milk is pasteurized. Preemies, who stand to gain the most from breast milk -- including protection against necrotizing enterocolitis, a serious intestinal disorder -- get first dibs.
Ward did contact a milk bank in North Carolina in her search for breast milk for her son.
"They said I'd need a prescription," she says. "And it'd be $3.50 per ounce. And I saw that, and my jaw dropped. And I was like, There's no way we could afford that."
She was able to get the milk she needed through the Facebook group. In fact, eight different lactating moms have donated milk to Ward and my initial discomfort was alleviated by her blog.
I thought my son would never have the breast milk he deserved ... I am completely satisfied now that he is off formula entirely. I feel better about my "failure" at breastfeeding because of Eats on Feets and the generous moms who have donated to us.
The fact is, not every mom can breastfeed, and if this helps alleviate some of the guilt associated with that "failure," then great. I am supportive of anything that ends that ache of guilt for moms. We all have it and it's awful.
It requires a great deal of trust, to be sure. But on some level, one has to have faith in the (literal) milk of human kindness. We have to hope that a woman who was sick with anything that could be passed through the milk wouldn't put herself in a position to donate.
What do you think of the idea of donated breast milk?
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