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Shirt: Gap, Sweater: F21, Scarf: Nine West, Jeggings: Old Navy, Shoes: Gift, fabulous local boutique (Brooke and Nicole), Vest: Belk, Earrings: F21, Watch: c/o Mimi's
I resolved not to make any resolutions this year, rationale being that I make them every year and all I'm left with come the end of January is a broken pile of promises and a guilty gut. And so I won't make any promises to get in shape or run every day or learn to cook something new or improve my {fill in the blank} skills. But I believe I will, in fact, weaken my resolve not to resolve. I have spent this Christmas holiday soaking in all of the goodness it has to offer. I haven't turned down plates of goodies, fires in the fireplace even if the weather is too hot to justify their existance, cup after cup of soul-soothing hot tea, kisses to furry puppy faces, staying up too late and going to bed too early, wearing yoga pants, opportunities to go shopping with mom instead of doing laundry, falling asleep on the sofa to the light of the Christmas tree, breakfasts with Mamaw and Aunt Essie, not setting an alarm, and an overall zeal for each day that, for me at least, is territory that has not been trod in the last few months. So my resolution of sorts is to allow the happiness...no, the joy...that has filled me from head to toe over the past few weeks to spill over into the post-holiday season. And to not feel guilty for taking time to "waste" on things that make me feel full and happy. Like a trip to Dollar Tree to spend 15 minutes debating whether to purchase a pack of colorful, striped pencils. Or a morning of coffee and muffins with all of the women of the family at our favorite local bakery. Because there is beauty in those simple moments that completely defies the pretty walls of productivity. I am comitting myself to time "well wasted" and to allowing myself to thoroughly enjoy the experience sans the usual side dish of guilt. Will I need reminding of this once the week after next rolls around and I'm back to the books plus one more class than last semester thrown in for good measure? Yes. And if you guys want to chime in and keep me accountable, chime away.
My uncle was in town visiting for Christmas last week, telling us of an trip he'd taken and he said something along the lines of, "usually you don't realize how great moments were until you look back later in life, but you know those times when you look around and actually realize how great of a time you're having while it's happening? That is truely an amazing feeling." And that part of the story stuck with me. Because that elated feeling of I'm so happy right now has been hovering around this season like a coat of morning fog and I'm not ready to let it go. I want to realize how wonderful a moment is when it's happening. I want to "waste" time being happy. So I learned how to make friendship bracelets with my sister last night and, for the record, we stink at it, but it was awesome. Plus we looked mighty gangsta in our awesome crotch-dangling pants, see below exhibit:
And I spent a good 30 minuts just browsing the aisles of my newest favorite dollar store for nothing in particular and spending the very thoughtful Christmas giftcard from my sister on new "office" organizing supplies. And I went to the movies with mom to see New Years Eve, which was the perfect, cheesy blend of funny, Cinderella story, and heartwarming tearjerker all wrapped up in a neat two-hour package and sprinkled with our favorite stars. And I am happy. Nestled right in the now.
Happy New Year lovelies! May your hopes, dreams, and plans for 2012 come true and may you ring in the new year in a most satisfying manner!


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Brazilian Newspaper Printers Gets manroland Retrofit
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manroland web systems develops integrated solutions for retrofits on older printing presses to reduce press downtimes and associated costs while boosting the performance of the printing system.
Retrofits increase a printing system's availability and keep its automation up to date. A retrofit optimizes system performance, combined with higher product quality and fewer production standstills.
Quantum leap in control, operator, and drive technology
Better product quality and fewer production stops: retrofitted control systems provide clear performance advantages for printing companies. With these system updates, companies can implement additional upgrades or closed-loop systems on existing presses, which can easily be integrated in next-generation systems. In combination with INTERBUS technology and Ethernet communication, a new control equipped with the right application software also improves printing unit diagnostics. Faulty modules or operating conditions in the aggregate can be pinpointed and displayed in the monitor or via remote call. Ethernet interfaces ensure optimal print system networking. All data on the press or production status are centrally available. The control console provides both added operating comfort as well as functional advantages and a touch screen facilitates the selection of key functions. This improves process visualization and enables coordinated, automatic workflows. The operator has all production data at a glance, including specific color, dampening, and register values. A 19″ monitor visualizes the production parameters and presettings in a series of graphics, and documents notifications, operating conditions, and alarms. Inconsistencies can be easily diagnosed and quickly remedied – or avoided altogether through prompt intervention.
Jornal Do Commercio: complete retrofit in 5 weeks
The Brazilian newspaper printer Jornal Do Commercio in Recife has had its UNISET system made ready for the future with ten new printing units. In five weeks, manroland websystems technicians upgraded the system, which was originally built in 1999. The conversion occurred one section at a time, ensuring that production could be covered by the second section. "We are extremely pleased with this modern control technology, which allows us to achieve significant improvements in the productivity and product quality of our presses," says Satyro Gil de Sousa, Industrial Director at Jornal Do Commercio. "We've especially made significant strides when it comes to the control console operation. The training courses really helped us to master this conversion process. Our operators are absolutely impressed by the central control functions."
Further steps in planning
Next year, the reel splicers that still have EAE controls will be upgraded with a PECOM system. This will enable fully integrated operation of the entire system.
"Once again, we have a UNISET that will continue to deliver its usual high level of performance and excellent print quality, now and in the future," summarizes de Sousa.

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The Veloster is one quirky little car. A gaping grin? Two doors on one side and one on another? OH YOU!
Well, now they've gotten even quirkier with the Veloster C3 Roll, which appears to be a Veloster convertible for people that like aqua colored wheels and transporting bicycles.
The C3 concept appears to be based on the Veloster Turbo, at least that's what the big trumpets out back are telling us. The big change is up top. If you didn't guess, "C" means "Convertible" and "3" means "3 doors."
The rear seats can fold flat and the tailgate drops like a pickup truck, making this a prime candidate for bicyclists the world over to transport their wares.
Much like the 500C Abarth, the Veloster C3's canvas roof rolls back to the tailgate. Don't expect the Miami Vice color scheme to make it to production... if the C3 is actually built.


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Better safe than sorry? On Wednesday morning, Serena Williams was part of a headline on TMZ, but there were no photos of the tennis star on a red carpet or out to dinner in Hollywood. Want more details? Click here. Or the image above. And should we really be surprised that Serena has a panic room? It's Serena! | TSF Vault: Serena Williams
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JULY 6th: 5th ANNUAL BEAT SHOT FESTIVAL Hip-Hop festival showcasing regional and independent artists at Red Square, Albany. Starts at Noon. DJ LO FI LOBO (Saturdays, Midnight-2AM) and DJ Tha5ftAZZAZZIN (Thursdays, Midnight-2AM) will be performing!
JULY 10th: LADIES NIGHT AT LAUGHS ON LARK!!! All lady comics! Hosted by Ethan Ullman and featuring Jaye McBride, Anna Phillips, Kristin VanSteemburg and more! Elda's on Lark, Albany. 8:00PM. (DJ Ethan Ullman, Thursdays, 10PM-Midnight) LINK TO FACEBOOK GROUP
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JULY 13th: DELAWARE AVENUE STREET FESTIVAL A mile of food, art, music and garage sales. 9AM-5PM. DJ EVERY DAY (Thursdays, 8-10PM) will be performing 3PM-7PM for KHAN WIRELESS. EVENT LINK
JULY 24th: STORYTIME TIME Hosted by Ethan Ullman, and featuring comedic true stories from the area's greatest storytellers and comedians. More Bread & Jam in Cohoes, NY. 6:30PM. (DJ Ethan Ullman, Thursdays, 10PM-Midnight) LINK TO FACEBOOK GROUP
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AUGUST 23RD: C. AMANDA BOUTAHORSE'S CULT CLASSICS PRESENTS MONTY PYTHON Bi-monthly burlesque show featuring local and national acts with a Cult Classic Theme. The Hangar in Troy. Doors at 8, Show starts at 9. (DJ HEAT, Mondays 6-8PM) LINK TO FACEBOOK


text: This interactive map presents the nanoplayers collected by the NANORA partners in Belgium (Wallonia), France (Nord-Pas-de-Calais), Germany (Hessen and Saarland), The Netherlands (Southern Netherlands), Ireland and United Kingdom (North West England). Beside region and number of displayed nanoplyers, you can select several tags based on a nanotechnology taxonomy developed by Nanora. Just type the beginning of a word of interest in the TINCA tag field. Of course, feel free to add any supplementary tag to refine your search. If you have any enquiry, suggestion, correction or new entry to propose, please use our contact form or contact your regional Nanora Access Point


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This download contains updated versions of the three Online Manual PDF files included with FrameMaker and FrameMaker+SGML:
- Character Sets Online Manual (Character_Sets.pdf)
- MML Reference Online Manual (MML_Reference.pdf)
- MIF Reference Online Manual (MIF_Reference.pdf)
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Mageia 2, the second stable release of the community distribution originally forked from Mandriva Linux, has been released: "We're the Mageia community, and we are very happy to announce the release of Mageia 2! We've had a great time building our community and our new release, and we hope you enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed making it. Here are some of the nice things included in Mageia 2: KDE 4.8.2 SC, the current release of the popular KDE desktop; GNOME 3.4.1, Xfce 4.8.3; VLC 2.0.1; Flash Player plugin 11.2; Chromium Browser 18; GIMP 2.8 featuring the all new single window interface.
Mageia is a fork of Mandriva Linux formed in September 2010 by former employees and contributors to the popular French Linux distribution. Unlike Mandriva, which is a commercial entity, the Mageia project is a community project and a non-profit organisation whose goal is to develop a free Linux-based operating system.


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B óË ÁN
B óË ÁN is a glitch Pokémon found during battles in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen when an unreliable "always your turn" code is used with a cheat device. There are several observed variations of this Pokémon, such as B oE eA and oE Ai.
oE Ai can be found when a certain sub-glitch of the Pomeg Berry Glitch is performed. The player must enter a battle when all of his/her Pokémon are fainted. Then, on the first turn, the player must Revive a Pokémon that is not in the first slot of his/her party. The game will then ask the player if he/she would like to switch. The player must select Yes, but then select Cancel. oE Ai will then be sent out.
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If you are experiencing an emergency, dial 911
Sheriff's Office West Valley Division
The West Valley Division Substation is located in Cupertino and maintains regular business hours for inquiries. The Substation has eighty-seven personnel assigned to the division. The division commander is Captain Rich Urena, who serves as the Chief of Police for the City of Cupertino. If you have a non-emergency situation or need officer assistance during or after business hours, please call 408.299.2311. Also, please use this number if reporting an emergency or non-emergency from a cell phone. For more information about the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office, please visit our website.
Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office
West Valley Division
1601 S. De Anza Blvd., Suite #148
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Closed on Santa Clara County holidays
The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office, West Valley Division, provides law enforcement services to the City of Cupertino as well as the communities of Saratoga, Los Altos Hills, Moffett, and the unincorporated areas of the western Santa Clara County. The Sheriff's Office maintains contracts with the Santa Clara County Superior Court, Valley Transportation Authority and the Santa Clara County Parks Department for law enforcement services. The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office has 1429 sworn personnel assigned to these and other divisions.
There are twenty-eight deputies allocated to the City of Cupertino. Four deputies are assigned to traffic enforcement; three are assigned to the Motorcycle Unit and one uses a patrol car. Two deputies are School Resource Officers, providing the fourteen schools in Cupertino with a law enforcement resource and liaison to the Sheriff's Office. One additional deputy handles all the enforcement incidents that arise at the schools. The remaining twenty-one deputies perform routine patrol functions, twenty-four hours a day.
The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office is committed to providing progressive law enforcement services and maintaining healthy community partnerships. Deputies are routinely involved in community events in the City of Cupertino. The West Valley Division offers many community oriented services in addition to routine law enforcement services. Some of these programs are Child Fingerprinting, Property ID, Teen Academy, Child Safety Seat Inspections, and Vacation Patrol Checks.


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Silver Fox is a western novel by Joel Goulet. Haunting memories of a Civil War event draws Marshal Damian Boedel and Colonel Brown together for the first time in several years. In an all-but-dead town they find themselves pitted against a mystical foe they thought had been done away with in the swamps of Florida during the war. The marshal also has to deal with outlaws that have his demise well planned. Forced by the outlaws into tunnels beneath the sleeping town, the marshal and colonel and a group of people unfortunate enough to be with them, find themselves fighting for their lives against the mystical foe ahead of them and the outlaws behind them. Available in eBook and paperback at Amazon, B&N, Kobo, other online booksellers (prices vary) For more info on his many novels please visit his internationally awarded website where you can find reviews, first chapter excerpts, photos, a firefighter tribute page, and all the many website awards. http://www.joelgoulet.com


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Capgemini and VMware combine global consulting and services capabilities with best-in-class infrastructure and cloud solutions to deliver business transformation solutions that reduce costs, enhance business outcomes and drive new business models. Capgemini leverages VMware cloud management and cloud automation software for its Cloud Services, supporting a cloud-first way of working, transforming business performance, and accelerating time-to value. "
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|Type 2 diabetes drug index
New medications to treat type 2 diabetes are helping people obtain excellent blood glucose control. An important research study, The United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study, found that the people with the best blood glucose management had fewer complications from diabetes.
Some of the most common medications are listed below along with basic information on how they work. NEVER make any adjustments to your medications without specific instructions from your doctor or diabetes educator.
|Medications for Treating Diabetes
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Glyburide: Micronase Diabeta Glynase
Glipizide: Glucotrol Glucotrol XL
Glimepiride: Amaryl
Pancreas makes more insulin
Low blood sugar
Repaglinide: Prandin
Pancreas makes more insulin
Low blood sugar
Metformin: Glucophage
Improves insulin sensitivity
Causes the liver to make less glucose
Digestion disturbances; usually this side effect goes away after a few weeks; take medication with food to lessen effect of drug
Sulfonylurea/ Biguanide Combination
Glyburide/Metformin: Glucovance
Helps pancreas make more insulin
Causes the liver to make less glucose
Low blood sugar/stomach upset
Alpha-glucosidase Inhibitors
Acarbose: Precose
Miglitol: Glyset
Slows the digestion and absorption of carbohydrates
Gas & bloating
Thiazolidinediones (the glitazones)
Rosiglitazone: Avandia*
Pioglitazone: Actos
Decreases insulin resistance
Weight gain, mild edema (swelling)
Dipeptidyl peptidase IV antagonists
Sitagliptin: Januvia
Helps hormones from your intestine stimulate insulin release
Nausea, stomach pain, diarrhea
Incretin mimetics
Exenatide: Byetta
Behave like hormones produced by your instine that help the pancreas release insulin
Note: The bold names under the medication column are the generic names. The unbolded names are the trade names.
*Rosiglitazone may increase the risk of heart problems. Talk to your doctor.
Review Date:
Reviewed By: Nancy J. Rennert, MD, Chief of Endocrinology & Diabetes, Norwalk Hospital, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Previoulsy reviewed by Ari S. Eckman, MD, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. (5/13/2010)


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Looking East
Although most of the great non-U.S. ballplayers have come from Latin America, a fair number have also hailed from the East. No, I'm not talking about New Jersey. I'm talking about the land of the rising sun. Players like Ichiro in his heyday or the sometimes brilliant Yu Darvish. Or the professional pitcher pictured here at the right. But aside from a couple Koreans and one or two Chinese, baseball doesn't seem to have had quite the same effect on the rest of the continent.
We could take the time to do an in-depth study of why certain Asian cultures have successfully assimilated baseball and I'm sure there are quite a few reasond to be found. However, we see no need to be scientific and instead decided to focus on the most important metric available in the internet age: Youtube videos.
So, in two steps, here's why there aren't more Asian ballplayers, moving from the west (Rinku and Dinesh??)…[youtube http://youtu.be/kJa2kwoZ2a4]
…to the east:[youtube http://youtu.be/9bZkp7q19f0]
I think that pretty much clears it up, even if the horsey dance is quite catchy.


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Thursday, September 30, 2010
NASCAR's Daily TV Shows Deliver (Updated)
Update #2: Leaving this post up as both NASCAR Now, which was preempted on Wednesday and Race Hub will have updated RCR appeals coverage on Thursday.
There may be some gloom and doom in NASCAR land over the production and TV ratings of the two Chase races this season, but one part of the NASCAR TV landscape is thriving. Right now, a little good TV news goes a long way.
ESPN2's six day a week NASCAR Now and SPEED's four day a week Race Hub are both cranking along on eight cylinders. Tuesday night was a great example of how two TV series with completely different approaches to the same subject matter can co-exist.
Mike Massaro has been a workhorse for ESPN this season. Monday, he filled-in on the one hour show for Allen Bestwick. After the recent passing of his mother, Bestwick was attending to family matters after anchoring the Dover weekend from the track.
The NASCAR Now production team, pictured above, has been tinkering with the show and on Tuesday had Kasey Kahne in the studio. Although notoriously low-key with the media, Kahne mixed it up as a co-host with Massaro and actively took part in the entire program.
Dale Jarrett and TNT/SPEED's Kyle Petty were among the satellite liveshot guests and both interacted well with Kahne on a variety of topics. Massaro several times put Kahne on the spot about issues from the Hamlin and Harvick spat to his racing future next season. Kahne absolutely took every question head on and never missed a beat.
The feature of the program was Lead Reporter Marty Smith's interview with Denny Hamlin. Smith knows how to ask the right questions the right way and really got Hamlin to address a wide variety of topics with honest comments.
Smith, Nicole Briscoe, Angelique Chengelis and the multiple other contributors to this program make it a pleasure to watch. Ricky Craven is the best NASCAR studio analyst by far. ESPN has been struggling to find a re-air slot for NASCAR Now and often the 5PM original airing is the one and only time this program can be seen by fans.
Even as the sport is in the Chase for the Championship, the Monday and Tuesday shows this week did not re-air. Due to the fact that these programs cannot be made available online, it would seem that ESPN would make sure to show them again and promote the very races for which the network paid dearly to televise.
Update: Informed by ESPN this AM that the Wednesday 5PM NASCAR Now program has been cancelled due to scheduling conflicts. This is the day that the RCR appeal is being heard and cancelling this program is just a horrible decision.
Away from the suits and ties of ESPN is the casual style of SPEED. Since Steve Byrnes took over Race Hub, the series has the personality and credibility it needed. SPEED is still working to adapt the studio, but things have come a long way from the famous car couch and pinball machine.
Danielle Trotta has been a solid addition to the program as the fulltime reporter based in Charlotte, NC. Still a tough sell for some female fans, Trotta has been asking the right questions and working to solidify herself as not just another pretty face.
SPEED has also been working veteran Wendy Venturini back into the interview mix. Fans were miffed when Venturini's Real Deal segment was dumped from the RaceDay show so resources from the NASCAR Media Group could be used for a new NASCAR cooking series.
The strength of Race Hub is the ability to have guests drive a short distance to the studio. It didn't take NASCAR types long to grasp that with the big new SPEED studios, a driver could bring a show car or two along for the interview. Tuesday, that is exactly what Ryan Newman did.
Following a poignant interview with Jack Roush on Monday, Byrnes led Newman through topics from on-track anger to the upcoming birth of his daughter. Confirming that Thanksgiving was the due date, Newman talked candidly about his thoughts on fatherhood. Once again, Byrnes' experience in the sport made the interview click.
With an hour each day, Byrnes and the SPEED staff have begun to truly grasp that they have the ability to provide a valuable service to the sport with each program. Airing two hours after NASCAR Now, the challenge for Race Hub is to deal with breaking news and eventually live reporting from the field with Trotta.
While SPEED has backed off its original commitment to re-air Race Hub at midnight Eastern, the current 11PM Pacific timeslot is better than nothing. Eventually, as the program matures, it may also find a morning home just like SportsCenter on ESPN.
There may be some NASCAR TV problems to address this off-season, but the success of both these daily shows is a tribute to the hard work of the production staff and the commitment of ESPN and SPEED to keep NASCAR fans updated away from the track.
Perhaps you could share with us your views on these two shows. To add your opinion, just click on the comments button below. This is a family-friendly website, please keep that in mind when posting. Thanks for taking the time to stop by The Daly Planet.
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- September 29, 2010 at 3:21 AM
- GinaV24 said...
sorry to hear about Allen's mom, I know how hard that is and I would like to offer my sympathy to him.
As far as the NASCAR daily shows, the only one I watch regularly is Race Hub. Steve Byrnes is doing a great job and it is so nice to have the human interest side of things being presented on this show. I enjoy seeing the interviews with the drivers, crew chiefs and other guests they have had on. You are right - being in NASCAR's back yard IS the perfect spot - not Bristol, CT - where things are teleconferenced at best and half the time impossible to find on the schedule.
I had been very critical of DW and just wanted to say that I watched Race Hub program when he was on with Steve and DW did a really great job and I enjoyed the show very much. The relaxed DW is a person I like very much.
Also Hammond has had a spot on Wednesday's doing the tech stuff and since I am a bit of a geek about the race cars, I really enjoy that. Having it presented there gives me a chance to enjoy the tech side without it interrupting the racing.
I can't comment on the ESPN shows because I stopped watching them some time ago. The regular timeslot for NN is before I get home from work and setting the DVR has resulted far too often in getting something other than the show. I refuse to chase the shows around the schedule - life is too short and even the re-airs are sporadic.
- September 29, 2010 at 9:17 AM
- Vicky D said...
We watch NN and Hub when they are on, or in the case of NN, accidentally find it recorded on our DVR. I thought Kasey Kahne was the weak participant yesterday and getting DJ from his golf tourny wasn't a good idea. I also enjoy Steve Byrnes as the host of Hub he asks good questions although during race weekends I feel Hermie Sadler and Marty Smith try to dig for good comments and answers to some tough questions from the drivers. I like some of Jimmy Spencer's minutes too and that crying towel is funny.
- September 29, 2010 at 9:34 AM
- West Coast Diane said...
Nascar Now lost me. Tired of it not being there when I check my DVR. Too bad. Enjoyed when I did watch.
Race Hub. On DVR, but only seem to watch if I read something on TDP. I like Steve Byrnes.
Think weekends with ESPN has soured my interest on all things NASCAR.
- September 29, 2010 at 11:03 AM
- Junior88Rulz said...
People think just NASCAR Now gets bumped by live events but the other shows are in the same boat. I DVR NFL Live and always end up recording something else. BTW, I think Craven-Evernham-McGee like they had on Monday is easily the best roundtable combo.
- September 29, 2010 at 1:15 PM
- Anonymous said...
88,000 announced attendance at
Dover????Please....I've been attending races there since 1993.
65,000 tops.They can put whatever number they want up there,but empty
grandstands don't lie.
- September 29, 2010 at 1:23 PM
- Newracefan said...
Just when I think about giving ESPN a break they do something stupid. No matter who was interviewed a question about the 33 penalty was asked, not to mention all the Denny vs Harvick hype and now there are scheduling conflicts. WTF, that's OK I'll wait for Steve and get all the info. Poor Marty Smith he must be having a fit and I'm sure Mike M is not thrilled either, I feel bad for those guys they obviously want to be there for us, just look at their twitter accounts. What a mess
- September 29, 2010 at 1:29 PM
- SonicAD said...
It's worth noting the Friday night/Saturday morning 1AM NASCAR Now is canceled too, because the AFL Grand Final Replay was scheduled in that slot... starts at midnight on ESPN Classic and moves to ESPN2 as soon as the high school football game ends at 1.
- September 29, 2010 at 1:56 PM
- Anonymous said...
I disagree that Kahne "mixed it up" - he gave the same politically correct answers that every driver gives. When Kyle and Mike asked him on separate occasions what it was like to drive for RPM with only 8 races to go, mixing it up would have been him saying "It's frustrating, because they aren't giving me good equipment any more, the organization has shifted its focus to a guy I don't like, and things are so messed up at RPM that I wonder if they're even going to be competitive." Instead he gave some PR-agent scripted answer of "Well, I want to finish strong and wish everyone the best."
- September 29, 2010 at 3:35 PM
- Anonymous said...
I love the Monday version of NASCAR Now with the roundtable and the discussion of the weekend's race. Especially when they have someone like Jenna Fryer, or Ed Hinton, or anyone who is really willing to get a serious discussion going.
But the Tues-thru-Friday NASCAR Nows, with Mike or Nicole standing in front of a screen are just awful. It's just the most boring recap of the day's news - and they usually have one analyst who comments on everything.
Why isn't NASCAR Now using Marty Smith more? It seems lately that he's rarely on the show. They should have more roundtables, and more discussion. Massaro seems like a nice guy, but he is so stale on the teleprompter, and Nicole Manske is like a boring robot. You know it's bad when DJ Kopp is the most exciting segment on the show.
- September 29, 2010 at 3:40 PM
- Anonymous said...
Here's one thing that I hate about NASCAR Now: when they pipe in Rusty or DJ or Andy or even Ray from a remote location, and they're in some garage filled with cars. Half the time I'm thinking "Man, the shop behind them is more interesting than what's coming out of their mouths." I just hope against hope that one day one of the interviewers actually stops and asks them "hey, what's that car you're working on behind you?" I bet the answer would be 10x more interesting than their "take" on some issue of the day.
- September 29, 2010 at 3:42 PM
- Anonymous said...
I used to watch Race Hub back when it was replayed at 11:30PM I guess they have a audience in the monster jam reruns that they show. Does speed have a west coast feed? The best way for me to watch things like this is to catch the replay 3 hours later.
- September 29, 2010 at 5:33 PM
- Bobby said...
For those of who who aren't familiar, the "AFL Grand Final Replay" is the championship (Geelong vs St. Kilda) of Australian Rules Football, which was played last week, but because of the tie game, must be replayed in its entirety. ESPN's coverage is well-known dating to the origins of the 31-year old network.
The only other championship sporting event with such a rule is any Japanese baseball playoff game, where after the 15th inning, the game ends and the game is replayed from the top of the first, 0-0.
- September 29, 2010 at 10:30 PM
- Anonymous said...
Nascar Now is not a must watch show except for the Monday Round table show.
- September 30, 2010 at 12:52 AM
- GinaV24 said...
I had to record Race Hub last night since I knew I wouldn't get home in time to see it live. Thought the press conference with Childress and his expert was pretty telling. This whole appeal process is such a joke. They have always rubberstamped whatever decision NASCAR makes -- even Hammond's answer to Steve's question about ever winning an appeal was telling. It was a simple "no".
I watched Hammond's "show and tell" about the shocks too and the thing that came up in my mind is: they disallowed Mark Martin's qualifying lap for too much pressure, but they had allowed both the 11 and the 48 to let their shocks "cool off" after the race so they met the height requirements. Why? What makes it different? Another reason why Hamlin shouldn't have run his mouth -- sounds lke JGR is "cheating" along with the 48.
I also saw that Steve did a long interview with Johnson, but although I'm sure it was well done, I employed my FF button for the segment -- I am very very tired of Johnson, Johnson, Johnson.
Think anyone at NASCAR has a clue yet -- I wonder what the Kansas ratings will be like? I know I don't plan to watch.
- September 30, 2010 at 9:46 AM
- Anonymous said...
First I'm more of a NASCAR Speed fan than ESPN, love all the Speed Crew..., not as much of ESPN, exception is all...ex-NASCAR persons. ESPN is like Kyle Busch, you try.... to like them and then they go do something stupid. For "2 WEEKS", all its been is the penalty and "They... cancel", NASCAR NOW. Have tweeted to you on multi occasions my anger. "I personally" feel like we NASCAR fans get kicked to the curb "ALL THE TIME". I mean SportsNation is one of the irritating programs they have, but they manage to air it, no matter what.
That being said, "if' something has intervened, I do try to catch it, even an hr. later. But my patience has about run out, especially considering this is "The Chase"....
- September 30, 2010 at 1:22 PM
- Anonymous said...
You failed to mention Inside NASCAR, so let me give you the update from this Showtime show:
1) Michael Waltrip is getting goofy again, this week singing, even after Chris Myers asked him to stop
2) Choppy editing. The first roundtable discussion of every episode is heavily edited (likely for time, but that's odd considering the show rarely fills it's one-hour timeslot and usually runs about 45ish minutes). Panelists sentences are abruptly chopped off in a way that the edits are obvious. As if they didn't let the person finish his point.
- September 30, 2010 at 3:42 PM
- Anonymous said...
3) Excellent clips -- I really love the scanner segments on this show because they playing unbleeped cursing. Now, I'm not saying this because I like to hear drivers swear, but it DOES give me a different perspective on the drivers' emotions. Example: Everyone saw/heard the audio reaction of Kurt Busch to getting a pass-thru penalty mid-race. They showed it on the live broadcast, on NASCAR Now more than once, RaceHub, etc. But on Inside NASCAR, you also hear Busch scream the F-word three times (the last time extending it for a comical four-five seconds). When you hear the clip with the over-the-top cursing, it's a much more real feeling of intensity. I like that, and it's one thing Showtime has on its competition because of the relaxed rules for pay-cable.
4) Brad Daughtery adds nothing to the show. Nothing. Zilch. If you thought he was bad on NASCAR Now, he's even more useless on Showtime.
5) The set. In between the three race-rewind segments, the hosts are in a variety of locations (about four or five) and there is no continuity. Why don't they either stay on the couches or stay at the desk instead of constantly move around? It makes no sense to me.
6) Viewer emails. They almost always have a driver or owner on the set and inevitably they go to the viewer/twitter emails, and I cannot understand why. Does it REALLY make the show more interactive to waste time saying "Rebecca from St. Petersburg Florida wrote in and wanted to know"? Does it? And, let's be frank, the questions that the viewers ask are almost always incredibly dumb. That is time wasted that could be better spent asking a good question from a knowledgeable host.
Oddly, however, this show is still pretty darn good and must-watch if you are a NASCAR fan. I just wish they would tell Michael Waltrip to get back on his good behavior like he was the first 5-8 episodes, and stop the singing and catchphrasing and goofing off that he's done in the last 5-8 episodes. Man, is that goofball schtick tired.
- September 30, 2010 at 3:43 PM
- Andrew (Sydney, Australia) said...
Bobby, it's actually COLLINGWOOD vs. ST KILDA. And what a pulsating game of football the first one was!! We can only hope that the sequel will be just as good as the original!! :)
No one really likes Collingwood. Half the country is cheering for the Saints to break their drought of no titles since 1966.
We love that it gets LIVE coverage on ESPN -- and that we get two grand finals in a row!!
- September 30, 2010 at 5:11 PM
- larry said...
In my opinion, RCR is winning the PR campaign on the penalty and NASCAR is losing miserably.
I wonder if Childress will be angry enough to start another series. He and Bruton Smith could do the job.
Frankly, I would support another league. NASCAR will never get their heads out of the sand.
I've been a serious fan for well over 50 years and am seriously losing interest in the current NASCAR.
LOL, word verification is failta...describes Brian France very well...
- September 30, 2010 at 7:15 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Yes, it is my understanding Steve will continue with his role on FOX.
- October 1, 2010 at 3:28 PM


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I run a rails development environment, which runs a server I can access at localhost:3000. I was doing this again today, and went to restart the webserver and it started timing out.
After some time I ran
nmap localhost, and realised that 'ppp' is running on port 3000:
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I've decided to try out sabayon linux as it looks very nice. The live dvd ran sweet in my laptop, with the exception of not being able to access the net. I didn't panic too much about this and thought once I'd installed it the problem would be easily solved. Ha.
I'm using DHCP with NetworkManager, and get the correct IP range and everything is fine there. I can ping IP numbers throughout the internet. My resolv.conf looks ok:
192.168.1.5 is my local DNS server, and the others are my ISP's.
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[email protected] $ cat /etc/resolv.conf
#generated by NetworkManager, do not edit!
search hol.net.local
nameserver 192.168.1.5
nameserver 184.108.40.206
nameserver 126.96.36.199
I can successfully dig and nslookup any address and get the correct ip address:
If I use the address given by nslookup manually I can contact the server:
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[email protected] $ nslookup www.sabayonlinux.org
Server: 192.168.1.5
Address: 192.168.1.5#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.sabayonlinux.org
Address: 126.96.36.199
However I cannot ping names!
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[email protected] $ ping 22.214.171.124
PING 220.127.116.11 (126.96.36.199) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 18.104.22.168: icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=232 ms
As this is a fresh install and the same problem happened on the live DVD, I'd imagine this isn't too uncommon... though I've never struck it before!
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[email protected] $ ping www.sabayonlinux.org
ping: unknown host www.sabayonlinux.org
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U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20590
Federal Highway Administration Research and Technology
Coordinating, Developing, and Delivering Highway Transportation Innovations
Public Roads
This magazine is an archived publication and may contain dated technical, contact, and link information.
|Publication Number: Date: March/April 2004
Issue No: Vol. 67 No. 5
Date: March/April 2004
by Gary Mroczka, Val Straumins, and Jim Pinkelman
Indiana closed a major interstate corridor for repairs and reopened it a month ahead of schedule.
Coordinating Incident Response
by K. Craig Allred
Guidelines demonstrate how agencies can apply unified command to managing highway emergencies.
Erosion Control with Recycled Materials
by Timothy Barkley
Texas produced an award-winning program for using compost to control soil erosion along roadways.
Glenwood Canyon 12 Years Later
by Karen Stufflebeam Row, Eva LaDow, and Steve Moler
More than a decade after its completion, has this marvel of highway engineering in western Colorado attained its original goals?
by Steve Moler
Colorado DOT applies lessons learned from the Glenwood project to a similar highway in the Snowmass valley, near the famed Aspen ski resort.
by Gary Strasburg
Innovative highway projects in seven southern States demonstrate environmental leadership.
The AIRS Approach to Analyzing Intersection Crashes
by Jessica Rich
A transportation management center in Kentucky pioneers a new recording system to improve driver safety and accountability.
by Steve Moler, Marie Roybal, and Gary Strasburg
Four FHWA regional centers become one national center operating through virtual teams that can be placed anywhere across the country.


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Chocolate Thin Mint Ice Cream Recipe
Fair warning: this is some really rich chocolate ice cream. It's plenty dark, and so pumped with chocolate that it melts more into pudding than custard. The mint keeps things light enough, but a little of this goes a long way.
Read more: Scooped: Chocolate Thin Mint Ice Cream
- Yield:makes 1 generous quart
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:1 hour, plus an overnight chill
- 6 egg yolks
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 3 cups half and half
- 28 Thin Mints (1 box), divided
- 5 ounces dark chocolate (about 70% cacao), chopped fine
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
In a medium saucepan off heat, whisk together egg yolks and sugar until light in color and slightly thickened, 3 to 5 minutes. Whisk in cocoa powder until no lumps remain. Slowly add half and half, whisking constantly. Finely chop 10 Thin Mints (crumbs should be no larger than a pea) and stir into dairy.
Put saucepan on medium-low heat and cook, whisking frequently, until custard reaches 180°F on an instant read thermometer (custard should coat the back of a spoon but a swiped finger should leave a clean line). Remove custard from heat and stir in chocolate, then salt to taste.
When chocolate is fully melted and incorporated, transfer to an airtight container and chill overnight in refrigerator.
The next day, churn in an ice cream maker according to manufacturer's instructions. Roughly chop remaining Thin Mints; chunks should range from pea to nickle-sized. In the last minute of churn, add chopped Thin Mints. Return ice cream to container and chill in freezer for at least two hours before serving.
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Colin Kaepernick was raised by cheeseheads.
His grandparents were Green Bay Packers fans since the days of Vince Lombardi, and his aunts and uncles had season tickets at Lambeau Field.
His parents? Even after the Wisconsin natives moved to Turlock when Colin was 4, they raised him with the Pack mentality. After church, they"d change into their other Sunday best (green and gold Packers gear) and head off to a sports bar to cheer on Brett Favre.
But on Sunday, the Kaepernicks would love nothing more than to see Colin trample all over their once-sacred ground. The quarterback makes his first career start at Lambeau Field, where the 49ers (12-4) open the playoffs against the Packers (8-7-1) in an NFC wild-card game.
Kaepernick is here, in part, because of his upbringing.
"Just watching Brett Favre play every Sunday really makes the passion for the game grow on you," the quarterback once said.
There"s a snapshot of Kaepernick as a kid outside Lambeau Field, posing in matching No. 4 jerseys with his cousin. Even as a Californian, his family vacations as a kid included trips back to the Packers Hall of Fame and to the team"s training camp.
It fueled his dreams. By the time Colin was in fourth grade, he wrote a letter to himself for a class assignment that said, in part: "I hope I go to a good college in football then go to the pros and play on the niners or the packers even if they aren"t good in seven years."
To his relatives, many of whom still live within a half-hour of Green Bay, this is an almost surreal turn of events.
"I"m going to be so excited, I"m not even thinking about the cold," said Kathy Algiers, Colin"s aunt, who lives in Appleton, Wis.
The forecast for Sunday calls for 2 degrees at kickoff, with a wind chill factor of minus-20.
Or, as Colin"s grandfather might call it, "balmy." Edgar Algiers was in the Lambeau Field stands for the game dubbed "The Ice Bowl," the coldest game in NFL history, when Bart Starr led the Packers past the Dallas Cowboys in 1967. That game featured minus-40-degree wind chill temperatures — cold enough to freeze your tundra off.
Edgar won"t be at Sunday"s game (he"s scheduled for back surgery soon), but he was on hand for Kaepernick"s one-play cameo there on Sept. 9, 2012. Serving as the backup quarterback behind Alex Smith, Kaepernick trotted onto the field with a few seconds left before halftime.
Rick Kaepernick, the quarterback"s father, was the first to notice.
"I start saying, "He"s in! He"s in! He"s in! He"s in the game!" " Rick said. "Just watching my son run onto Lambeau Field after being a fan of the team for 55 years of my life was absolutely out of this world."
"I just remember everyone screaming, "There"s Colin! There"s Colin!" There was just so much pride," Kathy Algiers said. "I just sort of feel like when you make it to Lambeau Field, you"ve really made it. So, he"s gotten there."
Kaepernick took a shotgun snap that day and zipped 17 yards. On the next play, David Akers drilled a then-record-tying 63-yard field goal, That was the extent of Kaepernick"s contribution to a 30-22 victory.
Now, Kaepernick returns to Lambeau as an established Packers enemy. In a playoff game against Green Bay last season at Candlestick Park, he ran for 181 yards in a 45-31 victory. In the 2013 regular-season opener, he threw for 412 yards and three touchdowns in a 34-28 win in San Francisco.
Kaepernick"s focus this Sunday is on producing a similar performance, so he saw no need to run a bootleg down memory lane. Yes, he was a Packers fan growing up. And, no, that doesn"t matter to him now.
Asked if a playoff game at Lambeau Field was his dream scenario, Kaepernick said: "I don"t think my dream was to play in freezing weather."
Then he forced a smile.
Kaepernick was born in Milwaukee on Nov. 3, 1987. His birth mother gave the baby to a young couple from Fond du Lac, Wis. — Rick and Teresa — who had lost two infant boys to heart disease. They welcomed Colin to a family that already included a son named Kyle and a daughter named Devon.
In 1991, the family headed west. But they"d take family vacations back to Wisconsin in the summer, careful to coordinate the days with Packers training camp. Rick was among the most enthusiastic of the bunch. When he was 10, he had his photo taken with Fuzzy Thurston, the Packers" legendary offensive lineman. His favorite player was running back Jim Taylor.
Rick, 58, is quick to assure the 49ers fan base that he is no longer a Packers fan. The Kaepernicks — even those in Wisconsin — converted in an instant shortly after 3 p.m. PDT on April 29, 2011, when the 49ers traded up nine spots to the fourth pick of the second round.
Now, Cherie Kaepernick, the quarterback"s 84-year-old grandmother, proudly flies a 49ers flag outside her home in New London, Wis., about 40 miles from Green Bay. Kathy Algiers (Teresa"s sister) planned on wearing her 49ers jersey to work Friday as the business office manager at the Fox Valley Pulmonary Medicine center in Neenah, Wis.
They"ll be there Sunday, adding another icicle to the family tree.
"There"s so much history at Lambeau that when Colin played there last year it was really, really exciting," Kathy said. "Now, he"s going to be starting. My biggest emotion would have to be pride."


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Today we have our latest installment of Charlene Dodds's postcard rephotography project (previous editions of which can be found here, here, here, here, and here). Here's Charlene:
My continued thanks to Charlene for sharing her stories and family postcards with us.
Heading northwest from Bedford, Pennsylvania, I went looking for the famous Horseshoe Curve just to the west of Altoona. The curve is shown on a postcard I found with my great aunt's college-era postcards [see above]. It was never mailed and is blank on the back, but I suspect she and her chums took an adventure to see this engineering marvel, purchased a postcard as a souvenir, and decided they didn't want to part with it, especially since cameras were not commonly owned back then. The postcard was probably their only visual record of their visit to the curve.
I eventually located Horseshoe Curve, which is part of a rail line that was constructed to shorten the distance between Harrisburg and Pittsburg and eliminate the need for another line. The 220-degree curve was incorporated to lessen the steep grade and allow safe passage of trains. Even so, before the invention of modern braking systems, the rails were regularly pulled up and switched around to give equal wear to both sides, doubling their lifespan. So many troops were moved along this line during World War II that the Germans hatched a plot to blow up the tracks and even landed men on our shores to do just that. (The FBI ended their plans.) The curve is so ingrained into the local culture that Altoona's minor league baseball team is called the Curve.
Horseshoe Curve looks much the same today as it did back then. But trespassing on the rail tracks is illegal and dangerous, so I couldn't take a proper photo and had to settle for a contemporary postcard:
Next: I was intrigued by the postcard of Bickford Fire Brick Co. ("Largest Fire Brick Plant in the World Under One Roof"), which was sent to my grandmother from "Fritz & Foster" in 1924 (click to enlarge):
First, what is a fire brick? I discovered it is a ceramic brick made to withstand high temperatures inside a fireplace, furnace, or iron smelter -- and of course there were lots of those in nearby Pittsburgh. Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, is known for the high quality of clay used in manufacturing these bricks, and Bickford Fire Brick Co was "what is probably the finest, best equipped and one of the largest fire-brick plants in this country," at least according to in a state review in the 1930s. Alas, there is no trace of this plant left in town, so I wasn't able to photograph it.
Continuing farther west, I searched for Conneaut Lake Park, which was shown on a postcard received by my grandparents in 1948. The day I arrived was picture perfect, just as depicted in the postcard (click to enlarge):
While I was taking photos, there was a great influx of motorcycles and many vans, from which emerged various tattooed folks. Then a loudspeaker announced, "Ladies and gentlemen, we appreciate your patience. Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath will be here any minute. Their plane has finally landed and they are on their way. The show will be well worth the wait." My grandparents would roll in their graves if they knew this idyllic site was about to be overrun by the heavy metal hordes.


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Little Big Town will be the subject of a yearlong exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum.
Opening on June 29, Little Big Town: The Power of Four will feature unique items that illuminate the personalities of group members Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet and Jimi Westbrook. The exhibit will also focus on the narrative that brought the four members together to form contemporary country music's first two-woman, two-man vocal group.
"Having an exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is something we would never have thought to dream of for ourselves," says Karen. "It is beyond a dream come true. We are honored to be a part of country music, and are so thankful to all our fans, the music community here in Nashville and the museum for this privilege."
Highlights of the exhibition include:
- neon signs used for the cover photo of the album Pain Killer
- instruments used in underwater scenes in the music video for "Pain Killer"
- BCBG Max Azria linen sundress with crochet detail and Golden Goose boots worn by Karen when she married Jimi in a private ceremony in Nashville in 2006
- clothes fitted with LED tube lighting worn by Little Big Town for their appearance at the 2014 CMA Awards
- Gretsch Electromatic with silver-sparkle top played by Kimberly in performances of "Your Side of the Bed"
- childhood memorabilia, including Karen's high school cheerleading uniform, Jimi's trumpet, Kimberly's recital costume and a drawing by Phillip
- a handmade Afghan ceramic pitcher, given to Phillip by an American soldier after Little Big Town performed at a small military base in isolated Tarinkot, Afghanistan
On June 26, Little Big Town will discuss their musical inspirations, creative process and career milestones in the museum's CMA Theater. Tickets can be reserved on June 14 at 10 a.m. CT.
Little Big Town: The Power of Four runs from June 29, 2018, to June 9, 2019.
photo by Tammie Arroyo, AFF-USA.com


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Got Fiber?
Ryan Bradley, ND, MPH April, 2007
Many of us have heard that fiber is beneficial to our health, yet few know exactly how and why fiber is helpful. Unfortunately for us all, a relatively simple concept is mystified by advertisements announcing the miracle benefits of one fiber versus another. Even more unfortunately, very inexpensive fiber gets packaged, encapsulated and bottled for sale - making it very expensive to you. I find this marketing of expensive fiber unfortunate because it distracts you from focusing on the most important, and least expensive, sources of fiber - vegetables! I hope this article takes some of the mystery out of fiber for you and teaches you the importance of a high fiber diet in regulating blood sugar, blood cholesterol, and inflammation in the body.
Types of Dietary Fiber
Dietary fiber is generally considered indigestible to humans, and is broadly classified as water-soluble and water-insoluble fibers.
Water-insoluble fibers bind or attract water, becoming very viscous and add bulk to the stool. This bulking helps maintain normal bowel function by acting as a scouring agent in the bowel.
Water-soluble fibers actually dissolve in water and are further altered by the bacteria in our intestines.
How Fiber Works
All fibers can slow the absorption of sugar and fat from food, and therefore help prevent spikes in blood sugar and blood fat after eating, possibly reducing the inflammatory response to food. Fiber can also prevent the absorption of some fat and cholesterol all together, lowering blood triglyceride and cholesterol levels.
Calling dietary fiber indigestible is not entirely accurate. Although we do not produce the needed enzymes to digest many of the fibers we eat in our diets, many of the bacteria that live in our intestines (They belong there!), are able to break down, or ferment, fibers to the benefit of the bacteria and to us!
The bacteria that live in our intestines have important health functions, including helping to maintain normal nutrient absorption, immune function, and bowel function - so it is important to live with them and help them live to help us!
Fiber provides important nutrition for the bacteria to live and prosper, and so they are called pre-biotics. An example of a pre-biotic fiber is fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) (say that fast ten times!), also known as inulin. A few examples of inulin-containing foods are: legumes, jicama, onions, and Jerusalem artichokes.
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How Much Fiber Should I Eat?
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recommends adults eat 14 grams of dietary fiber per 1000 calories eaten in the diet [1]. For must of us, this translates into 21-28 grams of fiber per day.
However higher fiber diets may have additional benefits for those people with diabetes, including reducing blood sugar, lowering insulin and lowering cholesterol[2]. Chandalia et al. studied 50-grams per day of dietary fiber in 13 people with type 2 diabetes and recorded reduction in total cholesterol, triglycerides, pre- and post-meal glucose levels, and measures of insulin sensitivity [2] compared to a 24-gram fiber per day diet.
Some sources warn of gastrointestinal side effects (gas, bloating, cramping) with fiber intakes this high, however this has not been my experience except in people with sensitivities to specific types of fiber, e.g. psyllium or gluten-containing sources.
My typical recommendation to patients is 35-40 grams of fiber per day ideally achieved through the diet alone, with additional fiber intake (usually as a fiber supplement) for weight loss or to selectively target reduction in post-meal blood sugars.
Many people need to increase their water intake when they increase their fiber intake to avoid constipation because of the water-binding/bulking effects of water-insoluble fibers. Fiber, in combination with fish oil, has extra benefits on triglycerides and total cholesterol[3].
Food Sources of Fiber
Vegetables, whole grains, nuts and legumes (beans and peas) remain the single best sources of fiber in the diet - and not coincidentally - these same foods are recommended as the foundation for a healthy diet for people with diabetes.
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Whole-grain sources of fiber include quinoa, barley, oats and rye.
Legumes include beans like peas, soy, black, pinto and lentils.
Quick sources of supplemental fiber that I recommend include: ground flax seed (freshly ground to preserve the oils present in the seeds), store-bought psyllium supplements (without the added colors or artificial flavorings that are frequently added), chopped nuts, and/or oat bran. All of these fibers can be sprinkled over salads, mixed in protein-shakes or water, or added to yogurt, salads and vegetable medleys.
I recommend the World's Healthiest Foods website http://www.whfoods.com/ for more detailed fiber content information.
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It is really difficult for me to make a recommendation about a "best" source of fiber for diabetes. Too few studies have been done and the studies have had different doses, types of fiber, duration of treatment and different outcomes being measured. Psyllium, oat bran, glucomannan (Konjac), corn bran, peas, and agar have all been studied in people with type 2 diabetes and these studies all demonstrated substantial reductions in blood glucose, hemoglobin A1c, triglycerides, LDL cholesterol and/or weight in study participants [4-11]. Wheat fiber has also been studied, but did not result in improvements in blood glucose or cholesterol in people with diabetes, though this was a very small and short study [12].
My recommendation remains to focus on dietary sources of fiber, add supplemental fiber when impossible to achieve through diet alone, and never buy fiber sold in a capsule. My experience also suggests some people cannot tolerate psyllium-based fiber supplements; gas, bloating, cramping and constipation are the signs of intolerance. Also, it is important to determine wheat/gluten sensitivity before choosing to supplement with oat, wheat, rye or barley bran as a fiber source.
Dietary fiber is important to human health and nutrition because of its role in regulating glucose and cholesterol absorption, detoxification/elimination, and promoting healthy bowel function by serving as a pre-biotic. Vegetables, nuts, whole grains and legumes are the best dietary sources of fiber - and are nutrient dense foods high in micronutrients, protein and antioxidants. Although some companies claim to have the "best" fiber (often sold in bottles), few studies have made thorough comparisons of one fiber versus another, and most studies of different fiber types show positive results in improvement of cardiovascular risk factors in diabetes.
The bottom line is: Fiber really is good for you. Eat for 1 last update 08 Jul 2020 a lot of it and often.The bottom line is: Fiber really is good for you. Eat a lot of it and often.
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2. Chandalia, M., et the 1 last update 08 Jul 2020 al., Beneficial effects of high dietary fiber intake in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. N Engl J Med, 2000. 342(19): p. 1392-8.2. Chandalia, M., et al., Beneficial effects of high dietary fiber intake in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. N Engl J Med, 2000. 342(19): p. 1392-8.
3. Sheehan, J.P., et al., Effect of high fiber intake in fish oil-treated patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Am J Clin Nutr, 1997. 66(5): p. 1183-7.
4. Anderson, J.W., et al., Effects of psyllium on glucose and serum lipid responses in men with type 2 diabetes and hypercholesterolemia. Am J Clin Nutr, 1999. 70(4): p. 466-73.
5. Hanai, H., et al., Long-term effects of water-soluble corn bran hemicellulose on glucose tolerance in obese and non-obese patients: improved insulin sensitivity and glucose metabolism in obese subjects. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem, 1997. 61(8): p. 1358-61.
6. Maeda, H., et al., Effects of agar (kanten) diet on obese patients with impaired glucose tolerance and type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Obes Metab, 2005. 7(1): p. 40-6.
7. Rodriguez-Moran, M., F. Guerrero-Romero, and G. Lazcano-Burciaga, Lipid- and glucose-lowering efficacy of Plantago Psyllium in type II diabetes. J Diabetes Complications, 1998. 12(5): p. 273-8.
8. Schafer, G., et al., Comparison of the effects of dried peas with those of potatoes in mixed meals on postprandial glucose and insulin concentrations in patients with type 2 diabetes. Am J Clin Nutr, 2003. 78(1): p. 99-103.
9. Tapola, N., et al., Glycemic responses of oat bran products in type 2 diabetic patients. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis, 2005. 15(4): p. 255-61.
10. Vuksan, V., et al., Konjac-mannan (glucomannan) improves glycemia and other associated risk factors for coronary heart disease in type 2 diabetes. A randomized controlled metabolic trial. Diabetes Care, 1999. 22(6): p. 913-9.
11. Ziai, S.A., et al., Psyllium decreased serum glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin significantly in diabetic outpatients. J Ethnopharmacol, 2005. 102(2): p. 202-7.
12. Jenkins, D.J., et for 1 last update 08 Jul 2020 al., Effect of wheat bran on glycemic control and risk factors for cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care, 2002. 25(9): p. 1522-8.12. Jenkins, D.J., et al., Effect of wheat bran on glycemic control and risk factors for cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care, 2002. 25(9): p. 1522-8.
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The introduction to A Long Way Downstream: The Life and Family of Thibertine Johnson Winje, Norwegian-American Pioneer begins:
There is an old Norwegian emigrant prayer that reads: …The ties that bind me to home fire my courage and strengthen my soul. Should all things perish, fleeting as a shooting star, O God, let not the ties break that bind me to the North. Norwegian emigrants had a strong attachment to the land they left behind, and clung to centuries of beloved folklore that resulted from scratching a living out of the unforgiving Nordic landscape. What caused home loving Norwegians, like Baard and Bertina Johnson, to cross an immense ocean, bid goodbye to family members, often forever, and risk their lives and those of loved ones? How did they summon the courage to leave familiarity and family for uncertain gain? Despite their ties to the homeland, the great migration to America during the 19th century is unrivaled in the history of Norway except for the westward sweeps of conquest and exploration during the Viking Age, a heritage treasured by Norwegians.
I can give any number of excuses for the delay, including the worst winter commute on record, fussing with the sale of two properties, my elderly mother moving in, writing seminars and activities on top of working full time, and now a history column, to boot. I have really tried to keep the delay to a minimum, but have failed. But, as I said, an end is in sight, and your copy or copies should be coming your way soon.
It's time for me to move on with other projects, and I do have a few in mind that deal with either family or Pacific Northwest history: pioneers in Coon Valley, WI, miners/photographers in the Cascade Mountains, Scandinavians and their involvement in Seattle's 1909 Alaska Yukon and Pacific Exposition, and even a fictional novel or two.
Now, I just need to get multiple households and storage units merged into one place so I know where everything is, set up a quiet workspace, cut my commute in half, and find that clone who is off hiding again. She's not very good at cooking or organizing, but at least she lends a fair amount of moral support.


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I've been thinking a bit on how dependency injection could be better integrated directly into a C# like language. I've come up with a potential solution I'd like to hear your opinion on. I haven't used many dependency injection frameworks so there might be something I'm overlooking
Anyways, the idea is to be able to declare properties as "injectable" using a keyword. When an object is instantiated, and that property is not initialized through the constructor, or object initializer, it requests an instance of that property type from some global service.
Similarly you register handlers for different types to that service so that you can instantiate the injected property type.
The upside of using this kind of architecture IMO is that it's fairly flexible and easy to use. The downside is that there might be some overhead of doing the callout to the singleton each time you initiate a class that has injection.
Then again that's only an issue for classes that get's instantiated frequently in a high performance solution so it shouldn't be much of an issue. Perhaps you could use some kind of factory in those instances.
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Microsoft has released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community. The code, which includes three Linux device drivers, has been submitted to the Linux kernel community for inclusion in the Linux tree. The drivers will be available to the Linux community and customers alike, and will enhance the performance of the Linux operating system when virtualized on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V or Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V.
According to Tom Hanrahan, director of the Microsoft's Open Source Technology Center (OSTC), this is the first time Microsoft has released code directly to the Linux community. Additionally, Hanrahan believes this to significant because the code is being released under the GPLv2 license, which is the Linux community's preferred license.
Hanrahan went on to say that the goal in developing the code was to enable Linux to run as a virtual machine on top of Hyper-V, Microsoft's hypervisor and implementation of virtualization. The Linux device drivers being released are designed so Linux can run in enlightened mode, giving it the same optimized synthetic devices as a Windows virtual machine running on top of Hyper-V. Without this driver code, Linux can run on top of Windows, but without the same high performance levels.


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"Song Composed by Henry Box Brown on His Escape From Slavery"
Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself, First English Edition (Manchester, Eng.: 1851), 60–61.
Henry Brown escaped from slavery in March 1849. His friends in Richmond packed him in a box and sent him by train and steamboat from Richmond to Philadelphia. Abolitionists in Philadelphia took delivery on Brown's box, and when he opened it he sang a hymn. Brown adopted Box as his middle name and toured Northern states speaking and performing at antislavery meetings. This song that he composed for those venues was a popular account of his escape and his hardship when packed in the box. Following the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, he fled to England, where he campaigned against slavery.
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William-Sonoma sells an amazing pan & box mix to make these little gems but I recently discovered Trader Joes sells them pre-made in the freezer section. Just throw them in the microwave for a few seconds and Oh. My. Goodness.
Don't live near a Trader Joes? My condolences, you might consider moving... just sayin'!
There are a variety of ways to eat them. We sprinkle ours with powdered sugar and top them with homemade jams & jellies. We also serve them with warm chocolate sauce & fresh whipped cream...Heaven!
To avoid slipping into a chocolate & carb coma, I also serve some yummy fresh fruit.
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Comment Ever since Rational got three development automation gurus in the same room to agree on UML (Unified Modelling Language) and put an end to those pointless arguments about what shape the boxes in an analysis/design model should be, what used to be called CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering) has been on a bit of a roll.
Well, with the sort of people who believe that you can automate the process of developing computer software, anyway.
Now, perhaps driven by the need to be able to demonstrate corporate governance (and, since everything is built on automated systems these days, this has to include IT governance) to third parties such as regulators and shareholders, it is becoming mainstream, although it is usually called something different these days. The concept is also being extended to cover computer assistance for the delivery, management, and operating of automated business systems, not just software engineering.
We are thus seeing a new focus on Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) as vendors realise that only end-to-end governance with transparency to stakeholders outside of the IT group really makes any sense. And there is plenty of product/vendor consolidation as the established leaders flesh out the bits of the lifecycle they've neglected in the past with best of breed products.
The missing bit is often Requirements Management. After all, the saddest thing in software development is seeing someone craft a high-quality piece of software which solves the wrong problem.
So, for example, we see Compuware acquiring Steeltrace, one of the more innovative Requirements Management product vendors, which has been a Compuware partner for some time.
The important part of this is the complimentary nature of the products now in the Compuware portfolio. It already has a strong Model Driven Architecture (MDA) story, transforming "Platform Independent Models" (PIM) into code, via OptimalJ, but MDA has been weak, in the past, on the "Computationally Independent Model" (CIM) part of the story.
The CIM looks at the complete business system regardless of which bits of it you'll automate. However, MDA explained, for example, which is co-authored by Wim Bast of Compuware, only devotes part of one page (out of 150) to the CIM. There is, in fact, a real problem with automatically transforming a CIM into a PIM because a human decision has to be made as to where the man-machine boundary is placed, which (as MDA is all about automatic transformation of the different models) may explain the limited use of the CIM so far. Now, however, Andrew Watson (technical director of the OMG) seems to see business process modelling as implementing the CIM.
Steeltrace requirements management, however, could also address this potential hole in the MDA story, by providing for a structured analysis and refinement of business requirements, some of which may never be automated.
Compuware also acquired the Changepoint product in 2004, which addresses IT Governance in general. This could also complement its latest Steeltrace acquisition. The ultimate failure in IT Governance is to waste money on a technology which doesn't address a business requirement; resulting in a cancelled project or, worse, a dysfunctional project that is forced into production.
QACenter is yet another Compuware technology which supports automated risk-based testing – and it is well-known that early testing is cost-effective testing. With Steeltrace, testing could effectively start at the requirements stage and trace through into automated test cases run against the coded system. It could even continue into the operational use of the system, as you check that the working system continues to satisfy the business' requirements.
To my mind, the cheapest and most effective place to remove defects is during requirements analysis. This is when unnecessary requirements can be eliminated, the business stakeholders can be questioned as to their understanding of their business processes (sometimes, what the user asks for isn't what the user really meant to ask for) and the most cost-effective man-machine boundary can be drawn. Sometimes, a manual decision made by an experienced human being is more cost-effective than developing an automated artificial intelligence solution.
Compuware's main task now is to meld all these different products into a coherent whole, addressing the Application Management Lifecycle in its entirety, but the signs are that it will succeed in doing this. However, Compuware certainly isn't the only game – or the only tool consolidator – in town and the others also have their strengths.


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Benzphetamine is used together with a diet plan to help you lose weight. This medicine works by suppressing your appetite .
This medicine is available only with your doctor's prescription .
This product is available in the following dosage forms:
In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered:
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
Appropriate studies have not been performed on the relationship of age to the effects of benzphetamine in children below 12 years of age. Safety and efficacy have not been established .
Appropriate studies performed to date have not demonstrated geriatrics-specific problems that would limit the usefulness of benzphetamine in the elderly. However, elderly patients are more likely to have age-related liver, kidney, or heart problems, which may require an adjustment in the dose for patients receiving benzphetamine .
There are no adequate studies in women for determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks before taking this medication while breastfeeding.
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. When you are taking this medicine, it is especially important that your healthcare professional know if you are taking any of the medicines listed below. The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their potential significance and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is not recommended. Your doctor may decide not to treat you with this medication or change some of the other medicines you take.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. Discuss with your healthcare professional the use of your medicine with food, alcohol, or tobacco.
The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of this medicine. Make sure you tell your doctor if you have any other medical problems, especially:
It is best to take this medicine in the mid-morning or mid-afternoon. Taking this medicine late in the afternoon or evening could make it harder for you to fall asleep .
Carefully follow your doctor's instructions about a special diet plan that will help you lose weight .
The dose of this medicine will be different for different patients. Follow your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following information includes only the average doses of this medicine. If your dose is different, do not change it unless your doctor tells you to do so.
The amount of medicine that you take depends on the strength of the medicine. Also, the number of doses you take each day, the time allowed between doses, and the length of time you take the medicine depend on the medical problem for which you are using the medicine.
If you miss a dose of this medicine, take it as soon as possible. However, if it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule. Do not double doses.
Store the medicine in a closed container at room temperature, away from heat, moisture, and direct light. Keep from freezing.
Keep out of the reach of children.
Do not keep outdated medicine or medicine no longer needed.
Ask your healthcare professional how you should dispose of any medicine you do not use.
It is very important that your doctor check your progress at regular visits to make sure that this medicine is working properly .
This medicine may be habit-forming. If you feel that the medicine is not working as well, do not use more than your prescribed dose. Call your doctor for instructions .
If you will be taking this medicine for a long time, do not stop taking it without first checking with your doctor. Your doctor may want you to gradually reduce the amount you are taking before stopping completely .
Check with your doctor right away if you think that you may be pregnant. Benzphetamine may cause birth defects or other problems in the baby if taken during pregnancy. Use an effective form of birth control to keep from getting pregnant .
You should not use this medicine if you have used an MAO inhibitor (MAOI) such as Eldepryl®, Marplan®, Nardil®, or Parnate® within the past 14 days .
Do not take other medicines unless they have been discussed with your doctor. This includes prescription or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC]) medicines, and herbal or vitamin supplements .
This medicine may cause some people to feel a false sense of well-being or to become dizzy, lightheaded, or less alert than they are normally. Make sure you know how you react to this medicine before you drive, use machines, or do anything else that could be dangerous if you are dizzy or not alert.
Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
Check with your doctor immediately if any of the following side effects occur:
Get emergency help immediately if any of the following symptoms of overdose occur:
Some side effects may occur that usually do not need medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine. Also, your health care professional may be able to tell you about ways to prevent or reduce some of these side effects. Check with your health care professional if any of the following side effects continue or are bothersome or if you have any questions about them:
Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
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