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Storm clouds were moving in, literally and figuratively, when Gov. Charlie Baker walked out of Faneuil Hall and met the quartet of reporters waiting by his car Wednesday morning.
Storm clouds were moving in, literally and figuratively, when Gov. Charlie Baker walked out of Faneuil Hall and met the quartet of reporters waiting by his car Wednesday morning.
After the governor posed for a photo with a group attending the Recovery Day event he just addressed and took a few questions, his press aide told the reporters the governor had to get going and had time for just one last question.
Plus, Baker added as the wind picked up, "it's also going to start raining on all of us."
The literal storm clouds threatening to drench that cobblestone scrum were from Jose, the spitfire tropical storm moving up from the south. Behind that storm loomed the specter of another redrafted Obamacare repeal bill that could harm Massachusetts to the tune of billions of dollars -- this one taking the name Graham-Cassidy -- on its way to the Senate floor in Washington, D.C.
"Graham-Cassidy would be, as it's currently conceived, would be a huge problem for the commonwealth of Mass.," Baker, the popular governor whose party has been promising to pass such a bill for years, said. "And it's my hope that it doesn't pass."
About five miles away in Chelsea, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren warned Wednesday of a "staggeringly irresponsible" bill that would turn Medicaid into a block grant program and reduce federal funding to Massachusetts, according to the senator, by an estimated $5 billion over 10 years.
"We are looking at the perfect storm in terms of education budgets in the coming year," Chelsea schools Superintendent Mary Bourque said, not in reference to the approaching tropical storm. Graham-Cassidy would result in a loss of $700,000 in Medicaid reimbursements that go into her school budget, she said.
In about 13 months, Baker and Warren will most likely be the highest profile candidates on their respective party's ticket. But this week, with the threat of block granting Medicaid bearing down, they were on the same page.
The Republican governor has joined with Bay State Democrats in resisting GOP-sponsored health care bills targeting Obamacare, a position which U.S. Senate Democrats have made part of their resistance to the new GOP bill.
Baker's friends in the GOP like South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham are using Massachusetts as leverage to try to drum up support for the bill.
"Four states under Obamacare get 40 percent of the money -- New York, California, Massachusetts and Maryland," Graham said at a press conference last week. "If that bothers you this is a chance to do something about it."
The U.S. Senate is planning to vote on Graham-Cassidy next week, before the Sept. 30 deadline to pass a repeal bill with a simple majority. At the end of next week, depending on how the Senate votes, only one of the following will be cheering -- the Republican Party or Republican Gov. Charlie Baker.
While Baker still has not said whether he is going to run for reelection next year, plenty of others have turned their sights to the 2018 elections.
Activists are trying to compel action on a sales tax cut, a new income surtax on millionaires and an increase in the minimum wage -- issues that don't lend themselves very well to a governor taking a firm position and remaining the nation's most popular heading into an election year.
Unlike his advocacy on federal health care reform that's made some waves, Baker has tried not to disrupt the waters back home and hasn't staked out a firm position on those three issues he could share space with on next year's ballot.
Workers, unions, economists and activists filled the State House's largest meeting space Tuesday to call for boosting the state wage floor to $15 an hour by 2021, and threatened to put the question directly to voters absent legislative action.
The governor's position -- he said Wednesday he wants more info on the impacts of the recent minimum wage increase to $11 hourly first -- could prove pivotal if lawmakers try to pass a minimum wage bill to avert a ballot campaign in the coming months.
Retailers resisted the minimum wage increase, arguing that brick-and-mortar merchants are already under siege from competition against tax-free sellers in New Hampshire and online, the weight of recent minimum wage increases, rising health care costs and some of the highest energy costs in the continental U.S.
If it is going to cost more to stay in business, retailers will have to compensate by compelling customers to spend more of their money. Their proposal for sparking more shopping is to drop the state sales tax from 6.25 percent to 5 percent and the Retailers Association of Massachusetts confirmed this week that they're moving forward with a potential ballot question to do just that.
Baker -- who in 2010 supported reducing the income, sales and corporate taxes to 5 percent but now has to manage the state budget in a time of sluggish revenue growth -- has said there is a long time before the sales tax cut gets to the ballot and that he will consider it then. The sales tax increase from 5 percent to 6.25 percent 2009, by the way, was orchestrated by House Speaker Robert DeLeo, a person Baker needs to negotiate with regularly.
The retailers tried to beat back another threat Tuesday, this time taking the form of online lottery. Treasurer Deb Goldberg and Massachusetts Lottery executives say they cannot keep returning record-setting profits to the state coffers -- and in turn, to cities and towns -- without being able to move online. Retailers say it would decimate the foot traffic they rely on; one more nail in the coffin of Main Street retail.
On that issue too, Baker wants more information before making up his mind. He told reporters recently that Massachusetts should study the experiences of other states that have allowed their state-sanctioned gambling enterprises to move online before going any further.
To be sure, being governor is hard. Protect your state from harm at the federal level, try to keep various, and sometimes opposing, constituencies content at home, and catch the flack when things don't go as planned.
People nonetheless want Baker's job. Newton Mayor Setti Warren, for one, proved he can have feelings for more than one municipality.
"We should urge Amazon to come to Worcester," the Newton mayor said on a conference call Friday, rather than making a case for his own city to be the location of the most coveted economic development project in the country right now.
Baker, elected to represent all 351 cities and towns, said his administration won't partner with any one particular municipality to vie for Amazon's second headquarters but encouraged multiple Bay State bids.
"Locals are going to propose on their own. We're not going to partner with any particular local," Baker told WGBH's Boston Public Radio on Thursday. "Because there's a lot of different folks who are interested in submitting proposals, and God bless 'em. Go for it."
Some Massachusetts voters went to the polls this week to determine who will appear on their November ballots and, from Medfield to Rehoboth to narrow the field of candidates vying to replace James Timilty in the Senate.
Democrat Paul Feeney of Foxborough and Republican Jacob Ventura of Attleboro were each chosen by their party this week to square off in next month's special election with the winner serving the remaining year of Timilty's term in the Senate. Feeney and Ventura, however, will first have to contend with former TV reporter Joe Shortsleeve, running as an independent and looking for room to run between a Bernie Sanders-backed Democrat and a GOAL-approved Republican.
And in Attleboro, Rep. Paul Heroux topped the ticket in that city's preliminary mayoral election Tuesday, setting up a November showdown with Mayor Kevin Dumas.
On Monday, Heroux posted on Facebook that a dog had bitten him on the ankle while he was campaigning door-to-door, sharing photos of a bloody, torn sock and himself smiling in a medical office with the post.
"I have been bitten six times knocking on doors," Heroux wrote. "I still love dogs. But if anybody ever questions whether or not I want to be mayor, they really should think again."


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Nutro Max Dog Food receives the Advisor's second-highest tier rating of 4 stars.
The Nutro Max product line includes 8 dry dog foods.
Each recipe below includes its related AAFCO nutrient profile when available on the product's official webpage: Growth, Maintenance, All Life Stages, Supplemental or Unspecified.
Important: Because many websites do not reliably specify which Growth or All Life Stages recipes are safe for large breed puppies, we do not include that data in this report. Be sure to check actual packaging for that information.
Use links below to compare price and package size information at an online retailer.
- Nutro Max Puppy Recipe with Chicken [U]
- Nutro Max Adult Recipe with Beef [U]
- Nutro Max Adult Recipe with Lamb[U]
- Nutro Max Adult Recipe with Chicken[U]
- Nutro Max Adult Recipe with Chicken Mini Chunk [U]
- Nutro Max Senior Recipe with Chicken (3.5 stars) [U]
- Nutro Max Large Breed Puppy Recipe with Chicken [U]
- Nutro Max Large Breed Adult Recipe with Chicken (3.5 stars) [U]
Nutro Max Adult Recipe with Chicken Mini Chunk was selected to represent the other products in the line for this review.
Nutro Max Adult Recipe with Chicken Mini Chunk
Dry Dog Food
Estimated Dry Matter Nutrient Content
Ingredients: Chicken meal, whole grain sorghum, brewers rice, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), dehydrated alfalfa meal, chicken, peas, flaxseed, natural flavor, whole brown rice, whole grain oatmeal, chickpeas, potassium chloride, choline chloride, dl-methionine, salt, zinc sulfate, niacin supplement, biotin, vitamin E supplement, d-calcium pantothenate, riboflavin supplement (vitamin B2), vitamin B12 supplement, iron amino acid chelate, copper amino acid chelate, selenium yeast, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), manganese amino acid chelate, vitamin A supplement, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1), vitamin D3 supplement, potassium iodide, folic acid, rosemary extract, decaffeinated green tea extract, spearmint extract
Fiber (estimated dry matter content) = 3.9%
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The first ingredient in this dog food is chicken meal. Chicken meal is considered a meat concentrate and contains nearly 300% more protein than fresh chicken.
The second ingredient is sorghum. Sorghum (milo) is a starchy cereal grain with a nutrient profile similar to corn.
Since it is gluten-free and boasts a smoother blood sugar behavior than other grains, sorghum may be considered an acceptable non-meat ingredient.
The third ingredient is brewers rice. Brewers rice is a cereal grain by-product consisting of the small fragments left over after milling whole rice. Aside from the caloric energy it contains, this item is of only modest nutritional value to a dog.
The fourth ingredient is chicken fat. Chicken fat is obtained from rendering chicken, a process similar to making soup in which the fat itself is skimmed from the surface of the liquid.
Chicken fat is high in linoleic acid, an omega-6 fatty acid essential for life. Although it doesn't sound very appetizing, chicken fat is actually a quality ingredient.
The fifth ingredient is alfalfa meal. Although alfalfa meal is high in plant protein (about 18%) and fiber (25%), this hay-family item is more commonly associated with horse feeds.
The sixth ingredient is chicken. Although it is a quality item, raw chicken contains up to 73% water. After cooking, most of that moisture is lost, reducing the meat content to just a fraction of its original weight.
After processing, this item would probably account for a smaller part of the total content of the finished product.
The seventh ingredient includes peas. Peas are a quality source of carbohydrates. And like all legumes, they're rich in natural fiber.
However, peas contain about 25% protein, a factor that must be considered when judging the meat content of this dog food.
The eighth ingredient is flaxseed, one of the best plant sources of healthy omega-3 fatty acids. Provided they've first been ground into a meal, flax seeds are also rich in soluble fiber.
However, flaxseed contains about 19% protein, a factor that must be considered when judging the actual meat content of this dog food.
After the natural flavor, we find brown rice, a complex carbohydrate that (once cooked) can be fairly easy to digest. However, aside from its natural energy content, rice is of only modest nutritional value to a dog.
From here, the list goes on to include a number of other items.
But to be realistic, ingredients located this far down the list (other than nutritional supplements) are not likely to affect the overall rating of this product.
With four notable exceptions…
First, we note the use of chickpeas, also known as garbanzo beans. Like peas, bean and lentils, the chickpea is a nutritious member of the fiber-rich legume (or pulse) family of vegetables.
However, chickpeas contain about 22% protein, a factor that must be considered when judging the actual meat content of this dog food.
Next, we find no mention of probiotics, friendly bacteria applied to the surface of the kibble after processing to help with digestion.
In addition, this food contains chelated minerals, minerals that have been chemically attached to protein. This makes them easier to absorb. Chelated minerals are usually found in better dog foods.
And lastly, this recipe includes selenium yeast. Unlike the more common inorganic form of selenium (sodium selenite), this natural yeast supplement is considered a safer anti-cancer alternative.
Nutro Max Dog Food Review
Judging by its ingredients alone, Nutro Max Dog Food looks like an above-average dry product.
But ingredient quality by itself cannot tell the whole story. We still need to estimate the product's meat content before determining a final rating.
The dashboard displays a dry matter protein reading of 27%, a fat level of 16% and estimated carbohydrates of about 50%.
As a group, the brand features an average protein content of 27% and a mean fat level of 16%. Together, these figures suggest a carbohydrate content of 49% for the overall product line.
And a fat-to-protein ratio of about 57%.
Near-average protein. Near-average fat. And near-average carbs when compared to a typical dry dog food.
When you consider the protein-boosting effect of the alfalfa meal, peas, flaxseed and chickpeas, this looks like the profile of a kibble containing a moderate amount of meat.
Bottom line?
Nutro Max is a grain-inclusive dry dog food using a moderate amount of named meat meals as its main source of animal protein, thus earning the brand 4 stars.
Highly recommended.
Please note certain recipes are sometimes given a higher or lower rating based upon our estimate of their total meat content and (when appropriate) their fat-to-protein ratios.
Those looking for a higher quality kibble from the same company may wish to check out our review of Nutro Ultra dry dog food.
Nutro Dog Food
Recall History
The following list (if present) includes all dog food recalls since 2009 directly related to Nutro. If there are no recalls listed in this section, we have not yet reported any events.
- Nutro Dog Treats Recall of December 2015 (12/13/2015)
- Nutro Dog Food Recall (10/4/2009)
You can view a complete list of all dog food recalls sorted by date. Or view the same list sorted alphabetically by brand.
A Final Word
The Dog Food Advisor is privately owned and is not affiliated (in any way) with pet food manufacturers. We do not accept money, gifts, samples or other incentives in exchange for special consideration in preparing our reviews.
However, we do receive a referral fee from online retailers (like Chewy or Amazon) when readers click over to their website from ours. This policy helps support the operation of our blog and keeps access to all our content free to the public.
For more information, please visit our Disclaimer and Disclosure page.
Important FDA Alert
The FDA is investigating a potential link between diet and heart disease in dogs. Click here for details.
Notes and Updates
07/12/2019 Last Update

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You'll love preparing and adding flowers to these planters! With the bridge-style bench, you can enjoy the blooms and have extra seating, too. Natural wood is classic in construction and offers durability for enjoyment in any outdoor setting. Extensions are also available to create a corner design for the patio or along a walkway. They're easy to set up and a joy to own.


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Does Newt Gingrich's response to accusations he worked as a lobbyist hold water? Sure, said Stephen Colbert's mock-conservative alter ego, and he had some compelling reasons why.
On "The Colbert Report" Wednesday night, Colbert quoted from a New York Times article in which aides to the former House Speaker noted that Gingrich was "not a registered lobbyist."
After he left Congress, Gingrich was reportedly paid $1.6 million in consulting fees by Freddie Mac — fees many say he was paid for lobbying.
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"He is not registered, ergo, he is not a lobbyist," Colbert agreed.
"[It's] the same reason that I have not registered my Audi A8 — so legally it is not a car. Which is why I can drive it on the sidewalk."
Colbert also invoked Gingrich's recent debate mention of Rep. Barney Frank, the long-time liberal Congressman from Massachusetts who announced this week that he is retiring at the end of his term.
"If you want to put people in jail, you ought to start with Barney Frank," Gingrich had said In one of the GOP presidential debates. "Go back and look at the lobbyists he was close to at Freddie Mac."
Colbert vehemently agreed — with a wink, of course.
"Yeah, string him up! Barney Frank was close to lobbyists at Freddie Mac, and Gingrich should know, because those same lobbyists gave Newt $1.6 million," Colbert said.
"But that does not mean Newt was close to them. I'm sure he waited until they left before he picked up the brown paper bag of money."
As for Gingrich's chances of winning the Republican nomination for president? Romney better get cracking, Colbert said.
"Mitt Romney has very little time to executive his proven strategy of saying and doing nothing while the guy ahead of him in the polls destroys himself in some spectacular and unforeseen manner — like gay marrying a burning American flag," he warned.
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As I stay at home today with work called off because of Hurricane Sandy, I hope everyone stays safe.
Meanwhile, last night the S.F. Giants won their second title in three years. This time, it was in a sweep. The Giants defeated the Tigers 4-3 in ten innings.
Pablo Sandoval, who tied a record with three HRs in Game One, was named the WS MVP. He hit .500 (8 for 16) for the Series.
In the second, Pence doubled, and Belt tripled to give the Giants a 1-0 lead.
Miguel Cabrera put the Tigers up 2-1 with 2-run HR in the third.
In the sixth, Buster Posey put S.F. up with a 2-run HR, but Delmon Young tied it with a HR of his own in the bottom of the sixth.
Some littleball won the game and the Series for the Giants in the 10th. Ryan Theriot singled, was bunted over to second by Brandon Crawford, and then Marco Scutaro, with two out, singled in Theriot.
The final out was a strikeout of Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera, who watched strike three go by.
Now as for that ring, I wonder if PED users (Melky) shouldn't get diamonds but should get cubic zirconia instead?


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Jeff Giardinelli embraced the cold outside Lambeau Field dressed in a No. 8 Steve Young jersey, red San Francisco 49ers knit cap and Candlestick Park-themed scarf.
He'll remember his first visit to Green Bay for a while, and not just because beloved 49ers beat the Packers 23-20 in the NFC wild-card game Sunday.
An arctic front pushing through the Midwest made the game one of the coldest in NFL history. During its telecast, Fox reported the temperature dipped to 2 degrees and the wind chill was minus-11.
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"It is not that cold, it is all mental," 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick said. "Just look at Bow (All-Pro linebacker NaVorro Bowman) with no sleeves."
The meat-locker conditions put a chill on outdoor tailgating and had fans heading into Lambeau early to warm up with free coffee and hot chocolate.
"Refreshing," Giardinelli, of Fresno, Calif., exclaimed as he walked across a parking lot with friend Jeff Morgan. "We suited up, we brought all the snowboarding gear we use out there and added to it. Without the wind, which isn't here yet, we're good. When it gets windy, we'll be ready for it."
Morgan wasn't quite as convinced.
"He says 'refreshing.' I say it's cold as heck," said Morgan, also from Fresno. He's not a 49ers fan but wanted to come this weekend for what he called the "Lambeau atmosphere."
It was 5 degrees by kickoff at mid-afternoon, though a northwest wind made it feel like minus-10. Winds increased through the evening.
That apparently meant little to some of the players like Bowman. Each member of the starting offensive line of the Packers went sleeveless under green jerseys. The sleeveless look also fit for Kaepernick.
The coldest NFL game on record is the 1967 championship game, known as the "Ice Bowl" won by the Packers 21-17 over the Dallas Cowboys at Lambeau Field on New Year's Eve. The temperature dipped to minus-13, and the wind chill that day was minus-48.
The game at 80,000-plus capacity Lambeau Field was sold out. But with tailgating more subdued because of winter's blasts fans, had to find other ways to celebrate before the showdown between the NFC rivals.
Some fans took to unusual measures to stay warm. At one house two blocks from Lambeau, revelers dressed in camouflage outdoor gear and gathered next to a fire pit set up in the driveway.
Greg Falkenberg and wife Laurie of Chippewa Falls went through all but two cans in a case of beer about 90 minutes before kickoff. They thought the alcohol could help keep them warm.
"You know beer in the cereal is good for you," Falkenberg joked.
And no, cold would not be factor for them.
"Absolutely not," Falkenberg said. "This is the Frozen Tundra."
Back at a Lambeau parking lot, Craig Heling of Waukesha was setting up a camouflage hunting blind behind his white pickup truck, where he planned to tailgate next to a propane heater. It's the kind of setup he uses to go ice fishing.
Four layers of clothing up top, two on the legs, Heling said. "Two wool socks on — right now, I feel comfortable," he said.
His wife, Renee, was helping to set up inside the blind.
"Well, my nose is about frozen. It feels like — I jumped in the lake the other day — it feel about like that," she said with a laugh. She was completely dry, unlike New Year's Day when she took part in a "polar plunge" into Lake Michigan.


text: Sometimes there just isn't a technical solution to a management problem. Define your policy clearly on what is considered appropriate use of corporate resources (yes computers are corporate resources they are not the employees personal toys) and empower the managers and supervisors with the authority to enforce the policy. Like Nihil said, after the first few are fired for violation of the policy, the rest will quickly fall in line.


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Suprathel®-Acetic-Acid-Matrix versus Acticoat® and Aquacel® as an antiseptic dressing – an in-vitro study
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Background: The treatment of burn wounds is still a challenge concerning the management of antiseptic treatment. Especially in the United States silver containing dressings such as Acticoat® and Aquacel® are frequently used. Because silver containing dressings have well known drawbacks like a therapeutical lack in Pseudomonas aeruginosa we searched for an alternative dressing. In prior studies we showed the excellent antiseptic activity of acetic acid against common burn unit germs and in another study the feasibility and suitability of a Suprathel®-Acetic-Acid-Matrix as an antiseptic dressing.
Materials/Methods: This study was designed to test the in-vitro antimicrobial effect of a "Suprathel®- Acetic-Acid -Matrix" versus Acticoat® and Aquacel®. To cover the typical bacterial spectrum of a burn unit, the following gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria strains were tested: Escherichia coli, ESBL-positive Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii, Enterococcus faecalis, methicillin-resistent Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
Results: The tests showed an excellent bactericidal effect of the "Suprathel®-Acetic-Acid-Matrix" particularly with problematic gram-negative bacteria such as Proteus vulgaris, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumanii. The efficiency was superior to that of Acicoat® and Aquacel®.
Conclusion: It can be concluded, that "Suprathel®-Acetic-Acid-Matrix" has an excellent bactericidal effect and therefore seems to be suitable as a local antiseptic agent but clinical studies need to be performed.
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ADHD treatment options
Jayne Matthews Hopson | 5/23/2014, 11:07 a.m.
Education Matters continues the series on special education. This week focuses on treatment options for ADHD. Parents and guardian should be aware that their child's teacher or guidance counselor will often be the first to raise concerns a student is ADHD. However, ADHD is a neurological condition that requires a diagnosis from a physician. While your child's school may suspect ADHD, only a medical doctor is equipped to conduct the proper assessments, make a diagnosis, and determine which, if any medications to prescribe.
The following information is offered to give parents an overview of treatments and other remediation options that are available to help your child reach his or her full academic potential. The Centers of Disease Control (CDC) is the primary source of information for this article.
Once a child has been diagnosed with ADHD parents are faced figuring out what to do next. It is important to remember that while ADHD can't be cured, it can be successfully managed. There are many treatment options, so parents and doctors should work closely with everyone involved in the child's treatment— teachers, coaches, therapists, and other family members. Taking advantage of all the resources available will help you guide your child towards success.
Remember, you are your child's strongest advocate! In most cases, ADHD is best treated with a combination of medication and behavior therapy. Good treatment plans will include close monitoring, follow-ups and any changes needed along the way.
Treatment for ADHD falls into three categories: behavioral therapy, medications and parental support therapy.
Research shows that behavioral therapy is an important part of treatment for children with ADHD. ADHD affects not only a child's ability to pay attention or sit still at school, it also affects relationships with family and how well they do in their classes. Behavioral therapy is the option that can help reduce these problems for children and should be started as soon as a diagnosis is made. Following are examples that might help with your child's behavioral therapy:
•Create a routine. Try to follow the same schedule every day, from wake-up time to bedtime.
•Get organized. Schoolbags, clothing and toys in the same place every day so your child will be less likely to lose them.
•Avoid distractions. Turn off the TV, radio, and computer, especially when your child is doing homework.
•Limit choices. Offer a choice between two things (this outfit, meal, toy, etc., or that one) so that your child isn't overwhelmed and over stimulated.
•Change your interactions with your child. Instead of long-winded explanations and cajoling, use clear, brief directions to remind your child of responsibilities.
•Use goals and rewards. Use a chart to list goals and track positive behaviors, then reward your child's efforts. Be sure the goals are realistic— baby steps are important!
•Discipline effectively. Instead of yelling or spanking, use timeouts or removal of privileges as consequences for inappropriate behavior.
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Forgotten Silence
ormer members from thrash bands Sax and Remembrance, specifically guitarist Madved and bassist Krusty formed Forgotten Silence in the autumn of 1993 in 1993.
guitarist Medved was the instigator that brought the two groups together into one as his side-project, an attempt to create a Thrash act with experimental tendencies under the membership of Medved (guitar), Krusty (bass/vocals), Prochin (guitar), Bana (keyboard) and Straton (drums) to release The Nameless Forever...The Last Remembrance MCD in 1994 after only 6 months of rehearsals.
Prochin, Bana and even Straton left the band almost immediately after releasing of the debut work. Krusty and Medved decided to compose new material first and then to look for replacement band-members. The band saw Medved & Krusty recruit Marty (keyboard), Hanka (vocals), Chrobis (narration) and Milon (drums) for the release of the Thots MCD (1996); in the case of Milon he was a quick session replacement for Bismarck who had left only a few days before entering the studio. You can also hear guest member Jewel (ex-Love History). Chrobis (ex-Rvhp/ex-Love History) and Hanka (ex-Prolog/ex-Endless/ex-Love History) were also guest performers with Chrobis and Hanka becoming full members after. A deal with 'Obscene Productions' followed soon after.
More line-up changes commences soon after, however, when keyboard master Marty left the band, Hanka would take over the role, Lauda would join for only the split vinyl with Agony, The Hills Of Senyaan Pt.II. But the release was delayed when problems with communication between the band and their record label appeared. Indeed, troubles also started with new keyboardist Lauda started, leading to the aforementioned Hanka taking the position.
Young and active label from Southern Moravia: 'Red Black Productions' showed interest in band's new material in summer 1998. And a double-CD edition with two bonus tracks emerged titled Senyaan later that year.
The end of year was in the sign of guitarist Biggles' arrival (ex-Morpork/ex-Re/ex-Anime) for several live performances and the tribute CD compilation A Tribute To Master's Hammer, not to mention entering a digital studio for the first time because they are true lovers of "analog", and recorded another split vinyl with Notre Dame before August of 1999 when the keyboardist decided to leave.
Drummer Chrobis then also left two months before studio recording with Milon taking over the roll to help complete KaBaAch (2001) on 'Red Black'. Iggy (ex-Monastery/ex-XYZ/ex-Zizlilz/ex-Hypnos; guitar/programming) helped them with intermezzo parts. The band then supported their new album with some live gigs again (with Adis on vocals and Milon on drums).
More line-up changes followed and the band started to rehearse again in the spring of 2002. They planned to compose something more acoustic and experimental. The results was 7"EP Yarim Ay (2002) featuring Medved, Krusty, Biggles, Hanka, Siki (cello) and Petr Kudibal (guest percussion).
Footnote: Formerly the founding members were a part of Sax and Remembrance.
As thrash band Sax (1987 - 1994) they would release With Satan in The Body (1989), Zone Of Fear (1990), Zóna Strachu (1991), Thrash Of Moravia (1992), Moravské Nárez (1993). There were several line-up changes as the band began to fade with bassist Krusty joining and drummer Milon leaving to join Titanic before the act folded. The last Sax crew feature Medved (guitar), Sklebos (guitar/vocals), Krusty (bass), Pupek (drums).
As Remembrance (1992 - 1993) they released only one demo tape called Tales From The Other World (1993). The last featured Krusty (bass/vocals), Prochin (guitar), Bana (keyboard) and Straton (drums).
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Last week I was walking back from The Y, it was getting colder like it was about to rain and I was listening to depressing music because happy music is so you know, fundamentally dishonest. I was thinking about how it was looking like I'd probably end up spending Christmas alone this year (I did) and how last year I'd planned to spend it alone but Alex made me spend it with her family and I'm glad she did that. I've always said 'I prefer to be alone' but I realize now I've been lying about that. I just don't mind being alone, but good company could be better than none.
I could be alone forever. Maybe that was a thing we could've done forever, together.
I don't think you realize how much I miss you. But that's what happens in arguments like these when everybody's right/wrong and nobody makes sense and at the end of the day it's me being me and you being you.
Last year I spent Thanksgiving alone but this year Haviland and her friend Ashley came up from LA -- it's my fourth Thanksgiving with Haviland. You and me weren't talking much then. I wondered what you were making and if I'd ruined it.
When Haviland & Ashley arrived the night before Thanksgiving, I was still in the hospital. Not a big deal but when you don't have health insurance, everything's an emergency, like having a pager in the 90s. After bcw/m. got off work, she met me there and I drank Dr. Pepper and we did a crossword puzzle and about a billion hours later, I was called back.
I'd been sitting on a bed back there for an hour when Haviland marched in and extracted me. It was very cinematic. I'd been in a screaming match with the senile World War II veteran who'd been yelling about the Chinese & the Jews and calling the nurses the n-word and then said something about my 'tits.'
It's sad when a person's dying / sick / drunk and you learn how they really feel.
You don't want to know how anyone really feels.
We left the hospital in Ashley's Prius and it felt like a spaceship. I felt like everything was gonna be okay. I leaned -- or burrowed, really -- into m.'s shoulder, in that space between collarbone and chest and I felt so safe in there, in that car, with those people. Everything felt easy and peaceful in a way things haven't felt in a while. Old love, new love, the future.
I'd moved into my apartment two weeks before Thanksgiving, after spending ~6 weeks on Taylor & Kelsey's couch where every morning Taylor would make coffee or I would and Kelsey always woke up last, look who just got born. Most afternoons I'd be in m.'s living room -- smoking, writing, editing, talking to you on g-chat. I know you say I never talked to you then but I did.
Kids kept killing themselves in October. I feel like I'm working the suicide beat, I said.
Or m. would arrive at TK's looking defeated from the endless interrogation that'd been unleashed upon her after being brave enough to say to her now-ex, This is how I feel, and how I feel is that this is over.
You don't want to know how anyone really feels. Honesty was never the point, we just need to believe that it is in order to do anything at all.
The key was to avoid eye contact. Maybe then we could avoid seeing eye-to-eye or looking too long but people are animals and animals are magnets w/hearts sometimes.
This was when I was still allowed to go there; to the apartment m. & her ex still shared while she looked for somewhere new/the future. But things happen and you can't just go everywhere anymore. Things happen and people cry and your boxes are in the street.
People tell each other how they really feel, and then everybody's crying.
You don't want to know how anyone really feels.
That's how life is. It's fair. A person gets what a person deserves or sometimes gets what someone else deserves by proxy which is also your fault.
If life was all open doors and purple sunsets then it wouldn't mean as much when the sunset would be so beautiful that you actually stop to kiss on the sidewalk. Even assholes like me can do that, I know that now. I can see the sun rise and set every day in California and usually it would set while we were taking our daily walk like old people needing a stretch. To Safeway, Berkeley, Piedmont, the city. Or just around. Sometimes we'd just walk around.
What if trees and sky were all I needed and I was just afraid to be a thing worthy of light? What then.
By the end of the month most of the walks were to look at apartments. First for me, then later for her.
I feel like everything is about to change for everyone, including you.
The thing that's blown my mind for the past few months is how people will hang on to a thing that's completely stopped working, if it ever did -- that is, the ex-girlfriends of many of my friends; the ex-girlfriends who fought to keep a tired thing or fought just to make sure everyone felt equally attacked. It's savage. It just feels so savage to me and I can't shake it.
Why spend your life sitting in a car on the side of the road, hazards blinking like a wolf crying.
All I really want in life is to never want a thing that doesn't want me back. Maybe that's even worse. I don't know how to fight for a person. I'm learning with you, even though it's not like 'that.'
No. I'm not learning.
But I'm studying.
m. & Ashley made Vegan Thanksgiving 'cause Hav only eats twigs now. Then m. played guitar and they all sang while I watched. It was super gay/perfect.
I love how I took Emily's part and you took Amy's, Haviland said to m., like we didn't even have to discuss it.
The next night we played frisbee on the quiet street and I was wearing tights but can't remember why. Later on we got stoned and I was talking about feeling psychic and Ashley asked me if I felt like I might have had wings in another life. Like that I could've been an angel or something.
You know better than that, though, don't you. You know I'm not an angel.
Haviland has a lot of feelings about light now. Maybe I would've laughed at them in August but now it's December and I like them. This is a thing she said to me:
Haviland: "You are choosing light now and I cannot explain the massive difference I see. You can't control [people], you can only wish for them to make the light choice and keep doing it yourself. And surround yourself with other lightworkers."
[I was lying before when I told you I liked the darkness. It was a defense mechanism, for when the other kids would be splashing away the goldenest years of their brilliant athletic youths and I'd be sulking inside with a book.]
[I didn't know the darkness was a thing I could change.]
[I couldn't. Not in New York. In New York I loved the darkness. But I'm almost 30 so I have to stop that.]
I don't cry much lately but I did the night I sent you that terrible email. It was lots of things: a fruitless day at the health clinic, my family losing interest it seeing me for the holidays and doing so too late for me to make other plans (but that's unfair, probably, like "will you buy me a plane ticket 'cause i can't afford one myself" isn't necessarily the best barometer of love). But mostly I was crying about you.
I do cry about you, I have cried about you. In the afternoon with pre-sunset whiskey, on my bed in child's pose at night, scrunched up like a baby dinosaur (my spirit animal).
I want you to like me again. I want you to admit that you still love me. I want you to admit that you know we still love you but that would be admitting that we're not bad people and then you'd have to like me again.
What if me and you were just two people who met somewhere else at some other time. Like we were astronauts who spent too much time eating astronaut ice cream and not enough time shooting valiantly to the stars. What if we were waitresses together, smoking cigarettes and waiting for our rides after a dinner shift, blowing smoke valiantly towards the stars above us.
What if we were those people instead of who we are.
What if we were infinite? What if we were infinite and I showed up on your doorstep and said I know you don't want to be fixed, but I heard from a friend who heard from a friend that you said you felt broken.
What then.
You deserve/need a giant girl with a heart bigger than your whole body -- I'm not just talking about you now but also you and you and you. You'd sleep cradled in the scoop of her enormous ribcage, which'd be larger than a significant tropical body of water like the Gulf of Mexico. Lake Huron. Swan Lake. What you need is a heart bigger than a jet plane. Higher and faster and bigger.
Not just you, all of you.
What if my little heart's more like a motel where you can sleep for a while but someone else might need the room tomorrow and I've gotta clean it first. It's on a little brown raft crawling out to sea/see. What if I kept you there though.
Do you remember last October when everyone was partying in the room after the Equality March and I was sitting in the hotel hallway talking to you on the phone. I'm obsessed with how socks feel on hotel hallway carpet, dashing to see friends in the next room. For ice or something. What's funny is earlier that day we'd been on the National Mall and m. and julia were both there too but I didn't know them yet. I could hear Tess talking and Katrina loud-talking and Alex laughing because Alex has the best laugh in the whole world. She was/is/willalwaysbe my little lightworker, and the lightest thing I ever held in New York.
Do you remember that?
I've got rooms & rooms and my socks on the carpet and they're filled with you all of you and I wanna live in every room forever but that would mean believing I'd ever been invited.
Everyone tells me you just need time but I miss you all the time. How long is time. I don't think we're meant to understand these things.
I can't explain why it's true that I love you in this/that way but can't always be the thing you want. Nobody's made me want to be everything as much as you have. I tried to do everything from here which is so far away from a place where I could touch your face and I ended up doing the worst thing of all the things.
It's a thing.
So many things can be true at the same time. Different feelings at the same time.
I never expected more than one (now dead) person could ever love me. I thought you were all lying. Now I don't know what to do with all the people who probably really do love me but who I know, i KNOW, would not really like me if they met me, even if they've already met me. Every time someone tells me they love me, it feels like a surprise party.
I'm sorry I didn't believe any of you who said you loved me. I'm sorry I just don't know why you would, it just doesn't make sense like why anyone would love Love Actually or beef jerky.
I realize I'm comparing myself to a bad romantic comedy and a piece of meat but maybe that's actually the most perfect metaphor I've ever pulled on you.
I was lying when I said I hate everyone. I love everyone. Everyone I've ever loved; I love forever. It's a long list.
I was lying when I said I hate everyone. I love everyone.
That's the problem, Sid.
Sometime in October, my little heart slipped out on its own. I wasn't unhappy. I think I was just outside. You weren't the only one who complained and still even now I don't know what happened because I don't remember changing. Everything seemed perfectly natural and I loved you and everyone just the same.
It'd been so long since the world promised up oxygen I was semi-interested in breathing. I wasn't writing things down because when you write a thing down it starts to exist. Sometimes i need to keep my stories in my head, close to me where nobody else can see them.
What if I tell you a thing and then I lose track of the meat of it, like a pen or my sanity.
What if I showed up on your doorstep.
My little heart was dashing around in slow motion or slipping into patches of darkness with m. where nobody could see us and we could forget about the rest of it -- an overhanging tree, some ambitious cross-fence foliage -- on Oakland's night-time sidewalks. Corners. The damp, lukewarm California night. Fingertips. Her palms. My bones were on fire.
One night all four of us got kicked out of the hot tub, when only moments earlier there we were being sparkly wet and unemployed and fucked up in California at night in a tub of hot water with our shirts off? Stumbling home later, like sparkly wet animals? It was a Saturday night, it was a good night.
The feeling of being young. Not in the sense that I'm younger in years, but that feeling children have of life being totally infinite and incomprehensible.
So now my life is pretty simple. I wake up and do Autostraddle and sometimes go to The Y, or take a walk alone, and at some point later, m. gets off work and at some point she comes here or I go there. Then I burrow like a thing. Like I'm a thing who laughs and smiles and everything.
I didn't consider the possibility of this.
I don't consider possibilities, good or bad, that I don't have control over. My problem is expectations, my boyfriend said to me in high school on the dock of Green Lake, I just need to stop expecting anything, and then I won't be disappointed.
I thought good point.
So I don't. But now it's become everything: I literally cannot see tomorrow. Tomorrow does not exist. I can't even write to-do lists anymore. I can't warn you of anything. Maybe her and I have the same problem, that way.
Expectations are too much for a writer/psychic -- give me a possibility and I've got the next five chapters and they're so gorgeous I can hardly believe the pages are mine to turn. I used to want things. Ages ago. I remember being on the bunkbed in my Dad's apartment, underneath my brother, where I learned how to cry hysterically silently so he wouldn't hear me.
That's what growing up is, or was. You learn how to cry silently. How to throw up silently. How to walk silently. How to feel silently. How to break silently.
Things happened that we didn't want/expect/predict.
I mean since I've gotten to California.
Things like the purest most unexpected happiness ever.
I'm sorry I couldn't warn you.
I did not consider this possibility.
Because it's not what I do, and because there were so many reasons not to.
The point of this is that I love you. The point of this is that I'm sorry. The point of this is that I don't have a giant heart after all. I'm just me on this fucking raft.
I want to be a lighthouse but I'm only a flashlight. You know what I mean?
I love you though. I'm not what you asked for, but I'm still what you have. I can't touch you but you're a thing I am keeping and nothing can change that.
Not even silence.
I will fight for you forever even if you never let me win.
While unpacking I found a letter Carl had sent me a year or two after I moved to NYC. Not a letter really. A note.
A piece of paper he'd cut in a heart shape and colored red with a marker. And a note with it that said, be careful. It's the only one I have.
We haven't talked in ages, me and Carl. I put it on the wall on my bulletin board to remind myself of that -- that sometimes being careful with a heart isn't the thing you thought it might be.
On Thanksgiving I gave thanks for my friends but I called them "my family."
I'm glad Haviland was here, I told m. when they left. I'm glad she was in this space after I moved into it. Like someone from before.
Like she blessed it?
Yeah, yeah. Like she gave it her blessing.
A thing to be thankful for.
Did I ever tell you that I picked Berkeley for you and what I knew you'd need. It doesn't matter anymore.
Things tend to matter more when you can't say them.
I guess that's the thing about us.
I could just tell you everything and anything and you'd get it and you'd tell me something and we could go like that forever.
I just wish I could still tell you everything and anything.
I wish my life hadn't become a blog post you don't want to read.
When for so long; you were the first one I told.


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Haskell does provide several different kinds of monads for various uses, but sometimes one must roll one's own to fit the current need. I was exploring the ackermann function, curious to know what A4,2 looked like [oh, yes, 19730 digits in all its (gory) glory -- I went there!] (other than the cop-out of 265536-3 that is listed in Wikipedia), and whether my computer could calculate and display that value [obviously it could, but it took some work (see below) to arrive at that point]. The ackermann function written in Haskell looks very much like its representation in standard mathematical notation:
a :: Integer → Integer → Integer
a m n | m ≡ 0 = n + 1
| m > 0 ∧ n ≡ 0 = a (m - 1) 1
| m > 0 ∧ n > 0 = a (m - 1) (a m (n - 1))
The "problem" with the Ackermann function is that even though it is easy to write, the recursion required to arrive at a solution from even small (single digit) inputs is staggering. My computer staggered and then killed the computation in mid-process (too bad Redjak didn't have that option). The Ackermann function, being not primitively recursive, is also highly redundantly recursive, so it would be nice to provide "hints" to the program, something like: "Oh, you've already computed A3,1 to be 13, so you don't need to recompute that entire branch any more."
This "hinting" has a name in computer science; it's called "memoization", and Haskell provides the State monad that can be used to cover that functionality quite nicely. As we're computing the values that build up the solution, we put the smaller-indexed solutions into a dictionary, something like:
|... and so forth ...
Such a dictionary in Haskell is called a Map, because we are mapping from the "word" (the indices of the Ackermann function) to the "definition" (the solution)...
type Index = (Integer, Integer)
type AckMap = Map Index Integer
... and we wrap that Map with the State monad ...
type AckMapS = State AckMap Integer
... where AckMapS uses the AckMap dictionary to provide the preexisting (partial) solution, or, given there's none yet, populates the solution calculated (the Integer) into the dictionary at the current Index. Simple, yes? So, all we need is an utility function that does the lookup or updates the state ...
ackify :: Integer → Integer → AckMapS
ackify m n = get >>= λma . maybe (a' m n >>= update m n)
(Map.lookup (m, n) ma)
... the update function that actually does the housekeeping ...
update :: Integer → Integer → Integer → AckMapS
update m n ans = do mappo ← get
put (Map.insert (m, n) ans mappo)
return ans
... so that our monadic version of the ackermann function is as follows:
a' :: Integer → Integer → AckMapS
a' m n | m ≡ 0 = return (n + 1)
| m > 0 ∧ n ≡ 0 = ackify (m - 1) 1
| m > 0 ∧ n > 0 = ackify m (n - 1) >>= ackify (m - 1)
which looks very much the same as the original function, with calls to
a being replaced by calls to the lookup-or-update
ackify function and function composition (e.g.
a (m - 1) (a m (n - 1))) being replaced by the monadic composer,
>>=. So, from the above demonstration we see that monads are not only easy to use, but also easy to "roll your own" and integrate into preexisting non-monadic code without much fuss.
Although the incorporation of the State monad dramatically speeds processing solutions and makes some solutions computable that were unreachable under the naïve approach, there are at least two better generalizations:
- Use the fixpoint (or the Y-combinator) of the ackermann function so that one can now decorate the engine of computation without altering its structure at all! Incredible! So instead of using a monad to abstract stateful decoration of computations, the fixpont can be used to abstract any decoration of computation!
- Use the compiler to change the code, instead of having it programmed in. Many functional language compilers have the option to memoize computations automagically. So, instead of writing code that memorizes partial results, the compiler intercepts the computation, replacing computation with previously calculated values (or running the computation if no such value exists and then storing that result into the runtime). No extra coding; no "troublesome" monads.
Critique on the critique
On the other hand ("there are five fingers", as my favorite Mother-in-law enjoys rejoining),
- The fixpoint solution is more general and more elegant, but being more general suffers in a slight decrease in efficiency: it more than likely will run more slowly than the specialized monadic state solution
- With an explicit encoding of state, the programmer has direct say into what is memoized and what is not, but with a compiler directive, everything is memoized. Since the Ackermann function can be represented by simple functions for m < 4, the map can be replaced by a faux-map for those values, reducing the memory footprint of memoization to only a couple of cells for m == 4 (as opposed to over 150,000 cells for m == 4 and n == 1 using the naïve memoization scheme).
... so the above described solution may be "good enough" for the task at hand, after all. Put another way, when I said I was wrong, I might have been wrong. Caveat programmer.


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4) Give the filter a name.
5) Make the desired selections for Rules and Actions. On the right side, you can add or delete rules and actions.
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I am getting too much junk mail and was wondering if there is a way to filter my Roundcube email. Please give a complete answer...I am a novice. Thank you.
Some of the filter rule words include:
rightmove - but emails from rightmove.com are getting through
Zoopla - emails from Zoopla.co.uk get through
cruise - emails from cruisenation.com get through
travelzoo - emails from travelzoo.com get through
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matching any of the following rules
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move messages to = trash
I still get emails from "monoprice"
The monoprice filter seems to be working now but none of my other filters are yet to work.
If any filters were working I would see the filtered email in my trash. None have gone to my trash.
Hi. Could someone please tell me how to block someone's e-mails on Roundcube? There's one person in particular who is hounding me day and night and I don't even want to see their name pop up in my inbox. Many thanks.
I'm getting unwanted mail from a sender. How do I block from even being received?
There's a person who has been placing nonsense messages in my guest book for years, so I finally had to disable my guest book because I can't spend so much time policing the guest book. It's a shame. I wish I was able to block that person from submitting comments in the guest book.
In addition, the same person is sending me nonsense e-mails, so I'm trying to block him. In "Filters" I've placed his e-mail address, but I'm confused about the rules: match all following rules, match any of the rules or all e-mails. I clicked "any." Then I clicked on "From" and "is equal to." plus a value of "1." But I have no idea what any of that means and if it's the correct way to block his e-mails.
(Note: I first clicked filter "all messages" and sent myself a test e-mail, but my own e-mail didn't go through. So I assume that "matching all rules" or "any rules" is okay. I hope so.)
I then clicked "reject message" with the comment added: "Permanently blocked." I assume this means that he'll get that message when he sends an e-mail. Have I done this correctly?
Any feedback is much appreciated. Thank you kindly.
May I please inquire if there are some instructions or a "help" file for Roundcube e-mails? I'm having difficulty understanding and applying the following categories in the filters option:
- contains
- does not contain
- is equal to
- is not equal to
- exists
- does not exist, etc.
Also, does the number value mean that the filter will work according to the number you choose? Not sure about that one either.
Thanks in advance.
Which number value? If you are looking to make a particular filter, I may be able to help guide you.
Thanks. I did everything according to our previous discussion.
Once you've completed filling out the information and you click "OK," the program asks you to "Please enter a value to test the header against" and a blinking cursor appears near the small garbage can icon. So I typed in "1" there but that didn't work. So I tried "9" and that didn't work either. (Meaning the harassing e-mails didn't stop getting through.)
If you have a Roundcube e-mail account and also another e-mail address, you could possibly make a test for yourself and see if it will block the messages from your other e-mail address.
The filters aren't clear. I think Roundcube should provide more information. Do they have an e-mail address where I can write them so you don't have to spend so much time on this?
I'm at a loss about what to do with this person and their hateful e-mails. There is something amiss, if you know what I mean.
Thank you very much, Drew. After submitting my last post, I kept trying to make it work and finally succeeded. I think the problem was that I had clicked "reject with message," but I didn't write the message (or it got deleted when I tried again). Whatever the case, I checked using a couple of messages from different e-mail addresses and they were rejected, so problem solved. Sorry for the inconvenience. I was getting exasperated with the unwanted messages. I appreciate your support.
>Have a great weekend!<
A company out there has there email service stuck in a loop and keeps sending me email how can I mick sure these emails get into the spam and I will not be able to pick them up in my outlook?
If you follow the instructions in this post, you can filter those messages to skip the inbox and go right to trash.
How do I block an email address that continually sends spam to my email box?
I'm sorry you're having trouble with a spammer. You would just need to follow these instructions to create a filter to send that email address to your spam or trash folder.
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thanks for the update...so what big names does that leave...shareef isnt on there but it looks like hes going to the nets. joe johnson, dalembert, curry, chandler, jaric, sprewell....
thanks for the update...so what big names does that leave...shareef isnt on there but it looks like hes going to the nets. joe johnson, dalembert, curry, chandler, jaric, sprewell....
Peter the Russian...back like cooked crack
hey hey hey smoke weed every day
Shareef Abdur-Rahim will be a Net next year.
Antonio Daniels is debating between Portland and LA Lakers.
Donyell Marshall will be a Cavalier.
Marco Jaric is looking to be a Cav aswell.
Samuel Dalembert is in talks with Atlanta.
and i think the trade and player we will get next is Antoine Walker...now if Browns are coach next season who knows who hell want us to target. but i think thats our next addition...we dont have much to offer but Boston might take Mo Taylor for a big backup PF which they need but i dont know why theyd take an expiring contract as in Penny or Tim..who knows though anything can happen
#15...So good it had to be retired twice
i heard jaric is talking to minny and that daniels may go to utah.
Peter the Russian...back like cooked crack
hey hey hey smoke weed every day
the jaric thing is correct about talking to minnesota but i think the cavs who have just bolstered there roster with the additions of Donyell Marshall and Larry Hughes aswell as the resigning of Iglauskas with push hard for Jaric.
Utah drafted Williams so i doubt they will push hard for Daniels. Especially when the Lakers are said to be very interested. They have no starting PG especially after including Atkins in that Kwame trade. but i think we all saw that coming after the Kobe=GM statement...interesting that hes gone next season haha. the only thing that mite push Daniels towards Portland is obviously the Coach Nate McMillan aswell as his past of playing in PORT.
#15...So good it had to be retired twice
wow well Antonio Daniels just surprised the hell out of me. Supposedly he is going to be a Washington Wizard next season. that will be a pretty small back court with him and Arenas but i guess this is there way to make up for the loss of Larry Hughes..
#15...So good it had to be retired twice
Off of ESPN.com which has a very good free agent list coverage. heres as of Wednesday the players and teams that have came to terms..
Ray Allen, Sonics (5 years, $80 million)
Michael Redd, Bucks (6 years, $85-90 million)
Larry Hughes, Cavs (5 years, $65-70 million)
Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Cavs (5 years, $55-60 million)
Bobby Simmons, Bucks (5 years, $47 million)
Cuttino Mobley, Clippers (5 years, $42 million)
Shareef Abdur-Rahim, Nets (either 6 years, $38 million or 5 years, $28 million)
Udonis Haslem, Heat (5 years, $32-34 million)
Dan Gadzuric, Bucks (6 years, $36 million)
Stromile Swift, Rockets (5 years, $28-29 million)
Antonio Daniels, Wizards (5 years, $28-29 million)
Jerome James, Knicks (5 years, $28-29 million)
Kyle Korver, Sixers (6 years, $25-27 million)
Kwame Brown, Lakers (3 years, $22-24 million)
Donyell Marshall, Cavs (4 years, $21 million)
Raja Bell, Suns (5 years, $20-25 million)
Willie Green, Sixers (6 years, $20 million)
Brian Scalabrine, Celtics (5 years, $15 million)
Fabricio Oberto, Spurs (3 years, $7.5-9 million)
Arvydas Macijauskas, Hornets (3 years, salary undisclosed)
Robert Horry, Spurs (terms undisclosed)
Luke Walton, Lakers (terms undisclosed
Chris Andersen, Hornets (terms undisclosed)
Bostjan Nachbar, Hornets (terms undisclosed)
#15...So good it had to be retired twice
the lithuanian guy....jankisevus ...totally forget his name, but he plays for macabbi tel aviv. went to u maryland and is a great euro point guard. word has it hes going to cleveland with Z.
Peter the Russian...back like cooked crack
hey hey hey smoke weed every day
These are the current unsigned free agents from ESPN.com
Michael Finley,
Mavs SG 32 15.7 ppg, 4.1 rpg
Aaron McKie,
76ers SG 32 2.2 ppg, 1.5 apg
Agreed to terms with Lakers
Derek Anderson,
Trail Blazers SG 31 9.2 ppg, 3.0 apg
Agreed to terms with Rockets
Ron Mercer,
Nets SG 29 7.6 ppg, 2.2 rpg
Troy Bell,
Grizzlies PG 24 1.8 ppg, 0.7 apg
Clarence Weatherspoon,
Rockets PF 34 3.1 ppg, 3.1 rpg
Calvin Booth,
Bucks C 29 2.4 ppg, 2.1 rpg
Fred Hoiberg,
Timberwolves SG 32 5.8 ppg, 2.4 rpg
Derrick Coleman,
Pistons PF 38 1.8 ppg, 3.0 rpg
Tyson Chandler,
Bulls PF 22 8.0 ppg, 9.7 rpg
Eddy Curry,
Bulls C 22 16.1 ppg, 5.4 rpg
Latrell Sprewell,
Timberwolves SG 34 12.8 ppg, 3.2 rpg
Vladimir Radmanovic,
Sonics F 24 11.8 ppg, 4.6 rpg
Earl Watson,
Grizzlies PG 26 7.7 ppg, 4.5 apg
Gerald Wallace,
Bobcats G/F 23 11.1 ppg, 5.5 rpg
Gary Payton,
Celtics PG 37 11.3 ppg, 6.1 apg
Damon Jones,
Heat PG 28 11.6 ppg, 4.3 apg
Ronald Murray,
Sonics G 26 7.0 ppg, 1.3 apg
Darius Songaila,
Kings PF 27 7.5 ppg, 4.2 rpg
Reggie Evans,
Sonics PF 25 4.9 ppg, 9.3 rpg
Dan Dickau,
Hornets PG 26 12.5 ppg, 4.9 apg
Is it just me or do 85% of these free agents suck! I mean there's no really big name. And when did Joe Johnson become such a valued commodity? Joe who? The NBA's not the same.
I think Wheatherspoon resigned with Houston. Could be wrong. I always liked Clairence.
Eddy Curry or Tyson Chandler would be great additions to the Knicks.
New York Basketball!!
There are a couple of decent players such as Curry Chandler Damon Jones Radmanovic and Finley
Also former knick Othella Harrington resigned with the Bulls and the Pistons sign Dale Davis.
The Knicks should get Tyson Chandler (PF)and Eddy Curry(C). If the need get them two we are definetly a chapionship team because the Knicks need a good PF and C and that's what Tyson Chandler and Eddy Curry are.
It seems they havent been offered any contract.


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Rachael: this just in from the "Does Anybody Really Care? Dept." - Did you know that your name, "Rachel," means, "Little Lamb"?
Recently, I finished working on the Chapter in Genesis, where the fictitious "Isaac," 60, met his fictitious bride, "Rachael" (Actually, Rachel, but, close enough), 14, and during my research, I ran across that information, just in case you ever wanted to know, but were afraid to ask.
I actually did know that! I couldn't grow up in a backwoods Southern Baptist East Texas town without picking up that bit of information. Interestingly enough, the correlation was not intentional--my dad was firmly atheist/agnostic, a fact I didn't find out until after he passed away a few years ago.
I'll bet you (a game I'll call "Stump the Newbie") didn't know - speaking with all due respect for your dad - that the Mormon Romneys baptized Anne Romney's agnostic/atheist father years after his death, and saved his eternal soul from the hell that their god, who made him the way he was, was willing to send him to, for being the way he made him.
Silly Mormons, they do the darnedest things.
Hi, from the great state of Flori-DAH
sleeping is overrated.
I like chemistry, mostly because my birthday is (wiki quote)...
" Mole Day.[18] It is an informal holiday in honor of the unit among chemists in North America. The date is derived from Avogadro's number, which is approximately 6.022×1023. It officially starts at 6:02 A.M. and ends at 6:02 P.M."
So did have a big party for my birthday?
Actually.. yes. I'm a member of the American Chemical Society and for Mole Day we made liquid nitrogen ice cream haha.


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About diversification that is.
The key to successful investing is to diversify and rebalance. You've got to know when to sell as well as when to buy. Anyway, it turns out that mutual funds are the perfect way for most of us to build beautifully balanced portfolios that in the long run will make us money.
So how do we do it? The first thing we need to do is to decide on the asset classes. I like to break it down into five classes: Domestic Stocks, International Stocks, Bonds, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS), and Commodities.
Within these classes we can break it down further into subcategories. Under domestic stocks, we find Large Cap Value (often identified with so-called Blue Chips), LC Growth, Small Cap Value and SC Growth. International stocks can be similarly broken down and we can add in emerging markets.
Bonds come in three basic flavors: Government (U.S. and Municipals, often tax free), Corporate and Foreign. Real Estate, of course, can be personal or commercial, but for portfolio construction, I generally stick to commercial Real Estate Mutual funds or REITS. Commodities are those famous pork bellies, cotton, metals, corn, and the like.
Next, it's time to determine how much to put into each class. This will vary according to your goals, your time line, and your risk profile. I recommend you work with your personal financial advisor to determine the proper percentages to allocate to each class. We whiz-bang advisors call this an Asset Allocation.
Finally, choose your mutual funds. I generally use two, maybe three, funds in each asset category to get a broad spectrum of managerial expertise. It's all about the right team. Note that my portfolio now is diversified in two ways: across many asset classes and with mutual funds which, by definition, invest in many different securities. I'm spreading my risk.
Of course, just buying and holding isn't the end of the game. You must periodically rebalance your portfolio in order to maximize your investments. So, for example, if 25 percent of my portfolio should be LC Domestic Value Stocks but that allocation has grown to 35 percent of my portfolio, then mathematics in our universe decrees that some other combination of securities must be at least 10 percent lower.
So it's time to sell the LCV and buy the other securities to bring my portfolio back to equilibrium. I'm selling high and buying (relatively) lower.
Next time: There's no free lunch. How much do mutual funds cost?
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Carbon wheels are a hot market right now and Reynolds Cycling is at the top of the game. We had a recent close-up look at their World Headquarters and R&D facility so we know first hand how committed they are to building quality products. At the Winter Press Camp event, Reynolds was on hand showing their latest line of high end carbon wheels. In fact, their new BlackLabel wheels are at the very top of their wheel lineup.
In this video, Rob Aguero (Director or Sales and Marketing) shows us some of the highlights of the BlackLabel series.
The BlackLabel wheels have a real slick "stealth" look to them due to the black on black sublimated graphics, but as everyone knows, true beauty lies within. Beneath their appearance, the BlackLabel wheels also feature:
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- DT Swiss 240 centerlock hubset with 15mm and 142/12 axle compatibility
- DT Swiss Aerolight spokes
- Available Summer 2014
The BlackLabel wheels come in four versions: 27.5 AM, 27.5 XC, 29 TR (trail) and 29 XC and all are tubeless compatible. The weights and rim widths are as follows:
BlackLabel 27.5 AM:
Weight: 1528 grams (set), 710 grams (rim)
Rim Width: External: 31 mm, Internal: 23 mm
BlackLabel 27.5 XC:
Weight: 1435 grams (set)
Rim Width: External: 29 mm, Internal: 21 mm
BlackLabel 29 TR:
Weight: 1600 grams (set), 695 grams (rim)
Rim Width: External: 29 mm, Internal: 21 mm
BlackLabel 29 XC:
Weight: 1440 grams (set), 665 grams (rim)
Rim width: External: 26 mm, Internal: 19 mm
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Reynolds Cycling is deeply committed to the carbon wheels market for mountain bikes and their products should definitely be on everyone's radar. We are eager to get our hands on a set of the BlackLabels for some closer inspection. The ride quality and durability of carbon wheels has to be experienced to be appreciated. These wheels aren't cheap, but top-of-the-line models never are.
From the Manufacturer:
"BLACKLABEL combines Reynolds' unsurpassed MR5 carbon rim design with precision DT Swiss components, resulting in purpose-built, performance-oriented wheelsets that surpass expectations of weight, stiffness and acceleration. All wheels in the collection feature black-on-black sublimated graphics."
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If you have a media director in a room with lights, a scenario called Showtime is created. This scenario is triggered when media is started.. This scenario can be changed. I typically change it to dim my lights to 30%. When the movie ends, it triggers the On scenario. You can adjust the On scenario to a comfortable light level.
no, go into Events, and alter the watching/stopped watching media events to not fire the command groups for showtime and on.
you can delete the event. The event always fires, what you're editing is what happens when that event fires.
Just go to Scenarios -> Lighting scenarios in the web admin and use the lighting wizard to leave all of the lights unchanged.
Did you try the checkboxes? If they do indeed disable the auto-generated scenarios, then it will allow you to make your own additional Showtime scenario that will operate like it should when you want it to.
for the record, I rather like the automatic scenarios, and I am doing a whole set of truth tables to do more intelligent scenarios...
Quote from: tschak909 on June 18, 2008, 03:02:18 pmfor the record, I rather like the automatic scenarios, and I am doing a whole set of truth tables to do more intelligent scenarios... Hi Thom. I think this should be a feature set that can be turned On or Off depending on personal preference. Something in the admin control panel where you can say "Use Automatic Lighting Events: Y/N" I find them extremely annoying, especially in the daytime when it turns on the fireplace and the corner table lamp when I start TV. So I use the gyro and navigate to Lights > Off. Then when I stop TV, it turns the fireplace and corner table lamp back on, and the floor lamp! So I use the gyro and navigate to Lights > Off. Oh, but then I start a Video and the lights change again! Can you recognize how annoying that can be? I'd much rather prefer to run the lights by myself. In the daytime, I don't need lights. At night, I can flip on the system and navigate to Lights > "TV Mode" or Lights > "Movie Mode" (which are a couple lighting scenarios I created) as I require, with or without media active. I have other problems with these auto-generated events too. For some reason, in the basement, the core keeps shutting my TV off at weird places. Sometimes I just click the gyro mouse and off goes the TV. Or while watching TV, I click the media button and select OFF and not only does it stop watching TV -- it shuts my TV off! I'm about ready to remove the TV as a device completely because just like the lights, it might be better to just let me control it. The core is also flipping through the inputs on the TV, for reasons I don't know, since the only thing I use that TV for is LMCE on HDMI, but it likes to turn the TV on and then start hitting the INPUT button. There are about 6 input selections, and it starts hitting INPUT while the TV is in the middle of turning on (at which point the TV doesn't respond to remote key presses) so it leaves me at VIDEO2, forcing me to grab the TV remote and hit INPUT 3 more times to get to HDMI. So I'm either using the TV remote to constantly turn the TV back ON or adjust the INPUT. I did edit the TV device template to remove the various Inputs, but that hasn't helped, or else I have to use the ReSync button in the edit A/V Properties area? Upstairs, the MD seems to control the TV and Stereo power just fine, at the appropriate times. I like that. It works great! I don't know what's up with the core in the basement! HAL is having fun with me! :-)


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