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Minority children less likely to receive CT scans following head trauma
African-American and Hispanic children are less likely to receive a cranial computed tomography (CT) scan in an emergency department (ED) following minor head trauma than white children, according to an abstract presented Friday, Oct. 14 at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition in Boston.
While racial disparities in adult health care are well documented, less is known about the variations in pediatric, and specifically, ED care. Appropriate CT scan use can ensure optimal diagnosis; however, as CT scans emit "appreciable radiation," potentially increasing cancer risk, their overuse can be harmful and expensive.
In the study, "Cranial CT Use for Minor Head Trauma in Children is Associated with Race/Ethnicity," researchers reviewed existing data on children seeking care at one of 25 Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network trauma centers. The study looked at CT use following a head injury, based on the child's potential for traumatic brain injury.
Of the 42,412 children enrolled in the main study, all of whom were evaluated for head trauma, 39,717 (94 percent) had a documented race/ethnicity of Hispanic, African-American or white. Of these, 13, 793 children (35 percent) were imaged with a CT. While there was no significant difference by race/ethnicity in the likelihood that a child deemed at higher risk for a traumatic brain injury would receive a CT scan, white children at the lowest risk were significantly more likely to receive a CT scan.
"Our study demonstrates that among children with minor head trauma, but at low risk for clinically important brain injury, white children received cranial CT scans more frequently than black or Hispanic children," said Alexander Rogers, MD, FAAP. "In this low-risk population, higher rates of cranial CT may represent overuse in white children, leading to increased radiation exposure and health care costs.
"The cause of this disparity is likely multi-factorial, but this study highlights the importance of strong, evidence-based guidelines to assure equal and optimal care," said Dr. Rogers.


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Wall Street Journal (Editorial)
November 7, 2012
President Obama won one of the narrower re-elections in modern times Tuesday, eking out a second term with a fraction of his 7.3% margin of 2008, in a polarized country with the opposition GOP retaining and still dominating the House. Given that second Presidential terms are rarely better than the first, this is best described as the voters doubling down on hope over experience.
Mr. Obama's campaign stitched together a shrunken but still decisive version of his 2008 coalition—single women, the young and culturally liberal, government and other unions workers, and especially minority voters.
He said little during the campaign about his first term and even less about his plans for a second. Instead his strategy was to portray Mitt Romney as a plutocrat and intolerant threat to each of those voting blocs. No contraception for women. No green cards for immigrants. A return to Jim Crow via voter ID laws. No Pell grants for college.
This was all a caricature even by the standards of modern politics. But it worked with brutal efficiency—the definition of winning ugly. Mr. Obama was able to patch together just enough of these voting groups to prevail even as he lost independents and won only 40% of the overall white vote, according to the exit polls. His campaign's turnout machine was as effective as advertised in getting Democratic partisans to the polls.
Mr. Obama also benefitted from his long run of extraordinary good luck. Hurricane Sandy devastated the Northeast a week before Election Day, letting him rise for a few days above the partisanship that has defined his first term. The storm changed the campaign conversation and blunted Mr. Romney's momentum. The exit polls show that late-deciders went for the incumbent this year when they typically break for the challenger.
The President owes a debt as well to a pair of Republican appointees in government—John Roberts and Ben Bernanke. By joining four liberals on the Supreme Court in upholding ObamaCare in June, Chief Justice Roberts provided a salve of legitimacy to the President's deeply unpopular health-care law. It also helped him unify his party around something to protect in an otherwise aimless second term.
As for the Federal Reserve Chairman, Mr. Bernanke's latest round of quantitative easing was an invaluable in-kind contribution to the President in the final election weeks. It helped to lift asset prices, including the stock market, which contributed to rising consumer confidence and helped to counter the damage to investment and hiring from Mr. Obama's policies.
Mr. Romney is one of the least natural politicians of our era, but he is a laudable man who ran a spirited campaign on a reform agenda, especially after the first debate on October 3. He took the risk of putting Paul Ryan on the ticket, and the Congressman proved to be a campaign asset, even if he couldn't overcome the strong Democratic turnout in Wisconsin.
The exit polls show the two campaigns fought Medicare essentially to a draw in Florida, despite the Democratic attempt to demagogue the Romney-Ryan Medicare reform. Many seniors seem to understand that ObamaCare poses a far greater threat to the future of Medicare than does opening the rickety program to private insurance options.
Yet Mr. Romney also made some fateful strategic errors. He took too long to defend his Bain Capital record, letting the Obama campaign pummel him with more than $100 million in unanswered attack ads from May through July. He then devoted too much of the GOP convention to rehabilitating his own image to the detriment of laying out an agenda. Only in the first debate did voters get to see Mr. Romney explain his Medicare and tax reform plans in clear, reasonable terms—and he rose in the polls.
It appears he also failed to distinguish his economic plan enough from the memory of George W. Bush's. Mr. Obama kept telling voters he needed more time to fix the economy, however implausibly, but voters seem to have believed him in the end. More voters in the exit polls blamed Mr. Bush for the economy than they did the current President.
Perhaps most damaging, Mr. Romney failed to appeal more creatively to minority voters, especially Hispanics. His single worst decision may have been to challenge Texas Governor Rick Perry in the primaries by running to his right on immigration. Mr. Romney didn't need to do this given that Mr. Perry was clearly unprepared for a national campaign, and given the weakness of the other GOP candidates. (Tim Pawlenty had dropped out.)
Mr. Romney missed later chances to move to the middle on immigration reform, especially Senator Marco Rubio's compromise on the Dream Act for young immigrants brought here by their parents. This created the opening for Mr. Obama to implement the core of the Dream Act by executive order, however illegally, and boost his image with Hispanic voters.
The exit polls show that Mr. Romney did even worse among Hispanics than John McCain in 2008, and we may learn in coming days that this was the margin in some swing states. The GOP needs to leave its anti-immigration absolutists behind.
Mr. Obama will now have to govern the America he so relentlessly sought to divide—and without a mandate beyond the powers of the Presidency. Democrats will hold the Senate, perhaps with an additional seat or two. But Republicans held the House comfortably, so their agenda was hardly repudiated. The two sides will have to reach some compromise on the tax cliff, the spending sequester and the debt limit, but Speaker John Boehner can negotiate knowing he has as much of a mandate as the President.
These columns have viewed this election as more consequential than others for a single reason—ObamaCare. Tax rates do economic damage when they rise, but they can be cut again. Regulations can be adapted to or phased out. Spending can be cut. But the Affordable Care Act will spread like termites in the national economy and public fisc. Mr. Obama will no doubt use his second term to consolidate this liberal entitlement dream, with its ultimate goal of single-payer health care.
Some of our conservative friends will argue that Mr. Obama's victory thus represents a decline in national virtue and a tipping point in favor of the "takers" over the makers. They will say the middle class chose Mr. Obama's government blandishments over Mr. Romney's opportunity society. We don't think such a narrow victory of an incumbent President who continues to be personally admired justifies such a conclusion.
Perhaps this fear will be realized over time, but such a fate continues to be in our hands. There are few permanent victories or defeats in American politics, and Tuesday wasn't one of them. The battle for liberty begins anew this morning.


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People are aware that cucumber is used for beauty regimen especially for reducing eye bags. However, only few know that cucumber is one of the most watery vegetable that can now be use for losing weight. Is it really possible to reduce weight by merely eating and or incorporating cucumber in your meal?
The truth is, yes that is so true. Cucumber is very nutritious for the skin and for body's healthiness. As proof read on and find the health benefits of cucumber water diet and how does cucumber helps in losing weight.
1. Low calorie content – this plant has low calorie content and high water content. Calorie and fats is what causes human to increase weight.
2. Diuretic – though it has high water content also is has water retention that will aid you lose water which is the common reason of gaining weight.
3. Increase Fluids – water helps flush toxins in our body therefore drinking lots of water is of great help in your losing weight program. The fact that cucumber has high water content it is best to include it in your diet plan to increase fluid intake.
4. Fiber rich – it has fiber that helps in digestion and it helps in filling you up and encourages you to eat less. Better food digestion will help you Losing.
5. It contains protein, carbohydrate, sugar, vitamins K, C, B6 and A. Likewise it has foliate and potassium that is best for Pregnant mom.
These are only five among the many benefits of cucumber water diet. But don't you know that cucumber has three different types and are taste subtly unlike.
• Lemon cucumber – it's a round- yellowish-green cucumber with mild nice taste.
• Japanese cucumber – it is a long thin cucumber that has mild taste and best used for salads.
• American cucumber – this type of cucumber has many varieties that range from small pickling into large which is also best for salads. It has mild taste but some varieties taste bitter.
Cucumber can be intake even cooked or raw but what is well liked is raw cucumber. However, one should be cautious in eating raw cucumber that is brought from the supermarkets or nearest grocery store because it may contain insecticide or formalin for it to last longer. You can made cucumber into salad, juiceor soup to refresh and fulfill your appetite with the various nutrients it contains.
Losing weight can never be possible if you don't know who you can partner with. Of course, when it comes to losing weight your partner is the food you ingest so try cucumber water diet and gain your ideal weight soon.
Since it is no more fashionable to serve bottled water, the trendy hostess needs to dish up the tab water. Last summer, I showed you how to serve a pitcher of waterwith fresh berries. The look was great but the taste of the water is not distinctively altered by the berries.
Cucumber water improves the taste of tap water. Spa aficionados already experience the benefits of cucumber water for improving the look of your skin. On top of it, this drink is simple to make at home.
Cucumber Water Recipe
In order for the cucumber to fully release its juice, you need to prepare it the day before your event.
- 1 cucumber, sliced and unpeeled + 6-7 cucumber slices for decoration
- 1 1/2 to 2 liters of water
- 3 mint sprigs + 2 mint sprigs for decoration
- Half a lemon, sliced and unpeeled
- Ice cubes
In a pitcher, mix the water, cucumber, 3 mint sprigs and lemon. Let it rest on the fridge for 24 hours. If you prepare the water at the last minute, cut the first cucumber in three or four pieces. Then, squeeze the cucumber pieces to release all the juice.
Before serving remove the cucumber slices used to flavor the water. Then stir with a wooden spoon, add some ice cubes, 6 or 7 fresh cucumber slices and the remaining 2 mint sprigs. Enjoy this refreshing drink.


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Every question, query and curiosity about science, music and language arts can be accessed with a click of a mouse. Literally, the whole world of digital learning will open up on students' laptops.
The Jordan School Board recently approved investing $360,000 in 1,200 Google Chromebooks for students to study on this fall. The district chose Chromebooks over iPads because of the full keyboard, Chrome Apps and the ability for students to use the innovative, interactive touchscreen as an interactive learning tool.
I am a proponent of digital learning because I have personally witnessed how digital learning has opened up a whole new world for my son Chase, who is 14 years old.
But I was not always a digital learning proponent. In fact, I was a doubter.
I recall when my son was in second grade and how he fell in love with music and was fascinated with the piano, keyboards and any percussion instrument he could get his hands on. We did not have a piano, but he was learning instruments and music in school from his wonderful music teacher. Six years ago, I found Chase playing the piano in his toy room on his home computer. I smiled with surprise and wonderment when he told me he simply searched online for a piano so he could play. This was the first time I realized the power of digital learning. My son wanted music and keyboards, so he searched online and found a virtual piano to play music.
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The BBA's Public Service blog, Beyond the Billable is your one stop shop for everything Public Service at the BBA. Check it out here.
Citing arguments made in an amicus brief submitted by the Boston Bar Association, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit yesterday ruled that a judgment of $904,076.17 in attorneys' fees against the Real Estate Bar Association (REBA) violated REBA's First Amendment right to bring a non-frivolous lawsuit. The appeal followed a U.S. District Court decision in REBA v. National Real Estate Information Services (NREIS) and NREIS Inc.
The BBA's brief was drafted by Jonathan M. Albano, Brandon L. Bigelow, and Julie S. Palmer of Bingham McCutchen LLP. The influence of the brief leaps off the pages of the First Circuit decision:
"As to the First Amendment issue, it is clearly one of 'constitutional magnitude.' It is also an issue of great public concern, having significance to the administration of justice in the federal courts. No party bringing suit should fear that its non-frivolous advocacy of reasonable position in federal court will, on that basis alone, lead to an injunction and declaration against it based on the dormant Commerce Clause. Much less should a party be made, based on its conduct in bringing such a suit, to fear the imposition of attorney's fees. . . The law is quite clear and this court has received the benefit of briefing on the issue from NREIS and the amicus Boston Bar Association."
The court dealt with several issues in its 33 page opinion, and certified to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts the question of whether the defendants' business constituted the unauthorized practice of law in Massachusetts.
The BBA's Amicus Committee is chaired by Julia Huston of Foley Hoag. The BBA will only file or join an amicus brief related to the practice of law or the administration of justice.
As you may know, the BBA recently endorsed legislation that would eliminate an unjust...
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North Carolina Claims Women's National Team Indoor Title 4-3 with Kay's Victory in Third Set Tiebreaker
|The 2013 ITA Women's Team Indoor Champions North Carolina
©Colette Lewis 2013--
Charlottesville, VA--
By the narrowest of margins, no wider than the broken string on Bruin Pam Montez's racquet in the third set tiebreaker of the deciding match, the University of North Carolina squeezed past defending champion UCLA 4-3 Monday afternoon, claiming the ITA Women's Team Indoor Championship, the first national team title in the program's history.
With the match tied at 3-3, all eyes at the Boar's Head Sports Club were on court 3, with Kay up a mini-break 4-3 in the third set tiebreaker and serving. Early in the point, the unmistakable plink of a broken string came from Montez's racquet. The senior from Mexico, who has a delicate touch and had already hit a drop volley winner earlier in the pressure-packed tiebreaker, kept the rally going in spite of her handicap, hitting deep looping shots four or five times before a big forehand by Kay was finally too much for Montez, and her response sailed way beyond the baseline.
It was 5-3 for Kay, instead of 4-4, and when Kay hit a clean backhand winner on the next point, Montez was facing three match points. She saved two on her serve, one on a forehand putaway and one on Kay's missed backhand return, but not the third. Eager to get to the net, Montez hit her approach shot straight up the middle and Kay passed her with a well-struck forehand to set off the championship celebration for the Tar Heels.
"It's obviously hard for her, breaking a string on a really big point like that," said Kay, a freshman from Alpharetta, Ga. "But it's also hard for the person on the opposite side of the court, because you think, I can't lose the point to a person with a broken string. It's hard, because you don't want to go for too much, just keep the ball in the court and wait for your opportunity."
UCLA coach Stella Sampras Webster was philosophical about the unfortunate timing of Montez's broken string.
"It was just bad luck," said Sampras Webster, whose team had played in three consecutive National Team Championships, also losing in the NCAA final last May. "Sometimes we get breaks, sometimes we don't get breaks, so that's just the way it is. That's life. But Pam fought hard and it was a great match."
North Carolina coach Brian Kalbas thought Kay might have wasted her opportunity to win the match when she had her first match point with Montez serving at 4-5, 30-40 in the third set. After hitting a couple of big forehands and getting Montez on the defensive, Kay approached the service line and had the ball right where she wanted it for a swinging forehand volley, but it caught the tape, and Montez held for 5-5.
(To see video of Kay's unsuccessful match point, click here.)
"It was tough at the time, because that's a shot I usually don't miss," said Kay. "I thought I had it. But I was thinking it needs to be one point at a time. I need to come back from that and just play my game."
Kalbas had seen Kay come through in a similar circumstance in the quarterfinals against USC's Zoe Scandalis, going from 3-0 down in the third set to a 6-3 win in another last-match-on situation. But against Montez, Kay wasn't getting any free points.
"You've got to beat her," said Kalbas of Montez. "She made zero unforced errors in that third set. Whitney got a little nervous on that first match point, on that swinging volley, but just like she did against Southern Cal, she composed herself and did a amazing job of finishing it off."
For all the excitement at the end of the match, there was precious little at the beginning, when UCLA took an early lead on all three doubles courts and less than 50 minutes later had pocketed the point. Freshmen Kyle McPhillips and Catherine Harrison were first off the court for UCLA, beating North Carolina's Lauren McHale and Tessa Lyons 8-4 at line 3. Courtney Dolehide and Montez of UCLA also had a big lead at 2 over Gina Suarez-Malaguti and Zoe De Bruycker, but it was Robin Anderson and Skylar Morton who delivered the second win, beating Kay and Ashley Dai at line 1 8-6, winning a deciding point in the no-ad scoring to take the match on their serve.
Fortunately for the Tar Heel fans scattered around the courts, their team had recent history to console them. Against No. 3 seed USC in the quarterfinals, North Carolina had also dropped the doubles point, and yet had found a way to win four singles matches from one of the best lineups in the country.
"I think the other night helped a lot," said Kay. "Seeing that we could lose the doubles point and still come back and win. Obviously, it was a little discouraging at first, but we all came out and fought for it."
North Carolina announced their intentions early in the singles, going up a break in the first set on five of the six courts. They held on to four of those, with Suarez-Malaguti, Kay, Caroline Price and Lyons taking first sets. UCLA's two first sets came from Chanelle Van Nguyen at line 4 and, eventually, Kyle McPhillips at line 2.
McPhillips and De Bruycker battled for nearly an hour before McPhillips took a 4-3 lead in the first set, but McPhillips won the last two games quickly to give UCLA hope.
Van Nguyen added to that optimism by earning UCLA's second point with a 6-4, 6-0 win over Lauren McHale. Montez, who was down 3-0 to Kay in the second set after losing the first 6-2, won six of the next seven games to earn a split. Anderson, down 4-1 in the second set to Suarez-Malaguti on court 1, had gotten back on serve at 4-4, but she wasn't able to sustain that momentum, with Suarez-Malaguti holding and breaking to give the Tar Heels their first point.
By then De Bruycker was nearing a split with McPhillips, and Price, who had dropped the second set to Catherine Harrison on court 5, was up 3-0 in the third. Lyons, who did not play in the Tar Heels semifinal win over Duke, pulled North Carolina even with a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Dolehide on court 6.
Less than five minutes later, Price finished off Harrison 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 to give North Carolina its first lead of the day, and trailing 3-2, UCLA had to win both matches still on courts 2 and 3 to retain their title.
Both matches were early in the third set, with Kay leading 2-1 on serve and McPhillips and De Bruycker just beginning their third set. McPhillips and De Bruycker started with three breaks of serve until McPhillips held for 3-1, and when she earned her second break and a 4-1 lead, it was apparent that court 3 would decide it.
Kay had two golden opportunities to end the match slip by with Montez serving at 3-4. At 15-40, Kay had two break points to serve for the match, but four straight Kay unforced errors later, Montez had held. After failing to seize her match point in Montez's next service game, it appeared Kay may have let too many chances go by, but holding her serves relatively easily in her last two service games helped ease her into the tiebreaker.
|Kay embraced by her teammates after heart-pounding win
"I was a lot more nervous about it today," said Kay, who said she primarily felt excitement during her win over Scandalis in the quarterfinals. "I was excited, but I was a lot more nervous. I just think one point at a time, and try to block the crowd out. It was getting really loud, but I can usually ignore them."
As the volume rose, culminating in the Tar Heels celebrating their first team national championship, the tension that built up over the four-hour contest left spectators and players and coaches alike shaking after its release.
Asked if he thought his team was the best in the country now, Kalbas said, "maybe for one weekend."
"We definitely had the hardest road to the championship," added Kalbas, whose team defeated No. 3 seed USC, No. 2 seed Duke and top seed UCLA in successive days. "We've got amazing competitors on this team, and we just never give up. We fight and stay together and we're a very close team. I think those things speak volumes when it comes down to close matches like that. I'm really excited and happy for our program and our players, to win this and have it be the first time for our program."
Sampras Webster was equally proud of her team.
"It was great tennis. Pam I'm really proud of," said Sampras Webster. "Whitney Kay played unbelievable. We didn't lose that match, Whitney played well. I'm really proud of my team. We've grown a lot here, and I'm happy to see the way my team's coming together. It was a good tournament for us."
North Carolina 4, UCLA 3
Singles competition:
1. #11 Gina Suarez-Malaguti (NC) def. #6 Robin Anderson (UCLA) 6-3, 6-4
2. #47 Kyle McPhillips (UCLA) def. #28 Zoe De Bruycker (NC) 6-3, 2-6, 6-2
3. #21 Whitney Kay (NC) def. #96 Pamela Montez (UCLA) 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (7-5)
4. Chanelle Van Nguyen (UCLA) def. #111 Lauren McHale (NC) 6-4, 6-0
5. #36 Caroline Price (NC) def. Catherine Harrison (UCLA) 6-2, 2-6, 6-2
6. #101 Tessa Lyons (NC) def. Courtney Dolehide (UCLA) 6-1, 6-4
Doubles competition:
1. #16 Robin Anderson/Skylar Morton (UCLA) def. #8 Ashley Dai/Whitney Kay (NC) 8-6
2. Courtney Dolehide/Pamela Montez (UCLA) vs. Gina Suarez-Malaguti/Zoe De Bruycker (NC) 7-3, unfinished
3. Kyle McPhillips/Catherine Harrison (UCLA) def. #51 Lauren McHale/Tessa Lyons (NC) 8-4
Order of finish: Doubles (3,1); Singles (4,1,6,5,2,3)


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What's the difference between our environment and your typical Tampa elementary school after school program?
This is NOT your typical after school program. Although Tampa is a HOST to many after school programs and daycares, our program is unlike a typical childcare program with a community center mentality. Time spent at our program is full of activity, learning, and FUN!
There's nothing better than an active afternoon after a day of school!!!
Education, sports and FUN are the name of the game in this innovative program for kids in grades K thru 8th.
What do the kids do each day/week?
With a heavy emphasis on education and daily homework completion time, your child will surely benefit from dedicated study time. Each day will also feature tutoring and study advice to assist students in their quest for academic excellence.
Our life skills sports and enrichment after school programs are designed to keep kids active while enjoying a variety of team and individual sports as well as educational enrichment activities. Life skills programs were created to incorporate important life lessons including teaching on healthy competition, sportsmanship, attitude, effort, and more.
We keep our ratios low so that your child receives appropriate attention and supervision. Our sport instruction components are specially designed to introduce sports in a recreational environment where kids can learn skills from experienced coaches while having a great time!
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You Again - Movie Synopsis & Plot
No matter how old you are, you never get over high school Successful PR pro Marni (Kristen Bell) heads home for her older brother's (Jimmy Wolk) wedding and discovers that he's marrying her high school arch nemesis (Odette Yustman), who's conveniently forgotten all the rotten things she did so many years ago. Then the bride's jet-setting aunt (Sigourney Weaver) bursts in and Marni's not-sojet-setting mom (Jamie Lee Curtis) comes face to face with her own high school rival. The claws come out and old wounds are opened in this crazy comedy about what happens when you're reunited with the one person you'd like to forget.


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This photograph is from a large collection inherited from my grandparents when they died. Unfortunately most of them are not attributed in any way. So it is a challenge trying to work out who people are. I am resigned to accepting that I will never know for sure but I can still enjoy the images all the same.
This photograph has the photographers name and address embossed in the bottom right hand corner. It looks like F. Shuttleworth, West Lane, Haworth. This certainly puts the happy couple in the geographical area of my Dawson ancestors from around Keighley in West Yorkshire. So perhaps they are relatives.
There is no indication as to when the photograph was taken. I have seen other photographs by F. Shuttleworth on internet auction sites and they all seem to be from the 1920's. And that would also be my guess for when this wedding took place – or maybe even a little earlier. Does anyone have an alternative suggestion?


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It is time to make Parallelism a full First Class Citizen in C and C++. Hardware is once again ahead of software, and we need to close the gap so that application development is better able to utilize the hardware without low level programming.
The time has come for high level constructs for task and data parallelism to be explicitly added to C and C++. This will enable Parallel Programming in C and C++ to be fully portable, easily intelligible, and consistently decipherable by a compiler.
Language solutions are superior to library solutions. Library solutions provide fertile grounds for exploration. Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) has been the most popular library solution for parallelism for C++. For more than five years, TBB has grown and proven itself. It is time to take it to the next level, and move to language solutions to support what we can be confident is needed in C and C++.
We need mechanisms for parallelism that have strong space-time guarantees, simple program understanding, and serialization semantics all things we do not have in C and C++ today.
We should tackle task and data parallelism both, and as an industry we know how.
- Task parallelism: the goal is to abstract this enough that a programmer is not explicitly mapping work to individual processor cores. Mapping should be the job of tools (including run time schedulers), not explicit programming. Hence, the goal is to shift all programming to tasks, not threads. This has many benefits that have been demonstrated often. A simple fork/join support is fundamental (spawn/sync in Cilk Plus terminology). Looping with a "parallel for" avoids looping to spawn iterations serially and thereby expresses parallelism well.
- Data parallelism: the goal is to abstract this enough that a programmer is not explicitly mapping work to SIMD instructions vs. multiple processor cores vs. attached computing (GPUs or co-processors). Mapping should be the job of tools, not explicit programming. Hence, the goal is to shift all programming back to mathematical expressions, not intrinsics or explicitly parallel algorithm decompositions.
The solutions that show the most promise are documented in the Cilk Plus open specification. They are as follows:
For data parallelism:
- Explicit array syntax to eliminate the need for explicit looping in a program to loop (serially) across elements to do the same operation multiple times
- Elemental functions to eliminate the need for authors of functions to worry about explicitly writing anything other than the simple, single wide, version of functions. This leaves a compiler to create wider versions for efficiency by coalescing operations in order to match the width of SIMD instructions.
- Support for reduction operations in a way that makes semantic sense. For instance, this can be done via an explicit way to have private copies of data to shadow global data that needs to be used in parallel tasks that are created (the number of which is not known to the program explicitly). Perhaps this starts to overlap with task parallelism
For task parallelism:
- spawn/join to spawn a function, and to wait for spawns to complete
- parallel for to specifically avoid the need to serially spawn individual loop body instances and make it very clear that all iterations are ready to spawn concurrently.
Like other popular programming languages, neither C nor C++ was designed as parallel programming languages. Parallelism is always hidden from a compiler and needs "discovery." Compilers are not good at "complex discovery" they are much better at optimizing and packaging up things that are explicit. Explicit constructs for parallelism solve this and make compiler support more likely. The constructs do not need to be numerous, just enough for other constructs to build upon fewer is better!
For something as involved, or complex, as parallelism, incorporating parallelism semantics into the programming language improves both the expressability of the language, as well as the efficiency by which the compiler can implement parallelism.
Years of investigation and experimentation have had some great results. Compiler writers have found they can offer substantial benefits for ease of programming, performance, debugging and portability. These have appeared in a variety of papers and talks over the years, and could be the topic of future blogs.
Top of mind thoughts are:
- Both C and C++ are important. No solution should be specific to only one.
- There is strong value in adding some basic task parallelism and data parallel support as a first class citizen into both C and C++. The time has come.
- Maintaining serial semantics is important (see Four Reasons Why Parallel Programs Should Have Serial Semantics by Steve Lewin-Berlin). A program should be able to be understood (and executed) as a serial program. This is critical for making it easy to reason about a program that uses parallelism.
- Task parallelism: nothing is more proven than the simple spawn/sync and parallel for of Cilk Plus.
- Data parallelism: nothing is more simple than extending syntax to make data parallel operation explicit via array operations such as
a[:]=b[:]+c[:](Fortran 90 added similar capabilities over two decades ago!)
- Data parallelism: elemental functions have an important role and should be included
- Task parallelism goal: shift parallel programming to explicit language features, making parallelism easy to express and exploit task parallelism that can be optimized by a compiler, and can be more easily tested and debugged for data races/deadlock.
- We need strong space-time guarantees in parallelism constructs.
- Data parallelism goal: shift programming to EXPLICIT and EASY-TO-FIND (exploit) data parallelism, so all varieties of hardware can be addressed
- Everything proposed here is incredibly easy to teach. The power that can be placed underneath via a compiler is a big bonus, of course! That power makes all these very compelling. The data parallelism is immediately convincing by its compact form, but the task parallel constructs are convincing as well.
None of this is radical and none of it need be proprietary.
If we don't get carried away adding other stuff, KISS, we can add these and make a fundamental and important advance for task and data parallelism in C and C++ the languages that lead the evolution to parallelism, and are becoming more (not less) important in the future.


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Club and Tournament subforum cleanup, In progress
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I've started clearing out some of our unused Club and Tournament subforums, but need some help from the WAU community in identifying what should go and what should stay...
My current plan is to delete any club or tournament area that hasn't had new posts since 2015, on the assumption that >12 months of inactivity means the event or group no longer operates.
If that isn't the case for your favourite club or forum, please let me know and I'll make sure it doesn't get removed in this round of cleanup.
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Re: st: rename
"Airey, David C" <email@example.com>
"email@example.com" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: rename
Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:29:56 -0500
If I had 1000 variables and wanted to rename them to a
list of another 1000 names, what is the best way to do this?
There are no stubs, so I cannot use the rename group command
rename (stub1-stub1000) (mystub1-mystub1000)
I can probably get the variable names inside a single local
more easily after which I might expect this to work:
rename (`original') (`newnames')
> -rename- as such places absolutely no restrictions on the use of
> locals in -rename- commands for the very simple and very fundamental
> reason that all macro references are interpreted before -rename- gets
> to work. -rename- never sees any macro references, just their
> interpretations as macro contents.
> That said, let's emphasise that -rename-'s language is based on
> extensive use of wildcards.
> Either way, the heart of David's question seems to be whether a common
> stub is needed for -rename- to work well, if at all, and the answer is
> No.
> -rename- can be used with a first argument as general as (*), meaning
> all variables, so there are no presumptions on the structure of
> variable names.
> Otherwise I think we need to see concrete examples to comment on
> apparent difficulties here.
> Nick
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Airey, David C
> <email@example.com> wrote:
> > With the new rename group command, can you use locals to rename a very
> > large number of variables from an old name set to a new name set where
> > there will be no stub used in either set?
> >
> > The syntax is
> >
> > rename (old1 old2) (new1 new2)
> >
> > but can locals be used inside the parentheses to represent a long list
> > of variable names to be switched? I can generate the locals using code
> > rather than typing.
> >
> > Otherwise, what is the best way to rename a whole bunch of variables
> > to new names where the variables do not have stubs.
> >
> > I can do the renaming using a reshape and merge, but it seems clunky.
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Voice search is optimized for Android phones -- that's what the device does, right? Voice.
And Google has been expanding its use of voice-search ever since collecting months of user data with voice dialing.
Now it's migrated to Google Maps on the desktop, but only via the newest version of Chrome.
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Below are documents obtained by the Washington Post's Bob Woodward that show a grand bargain proposal the White House was prepared to make in order to reach agreement with the House Republicans last year. This is how Woodward described the documents on Meet the Press this morning:
"This is a confidential document, last offer the president -- the White House made last year to Speaker Boehner to try to reach this $4 trillion grand bargain. And it's long and it's tedious and it's got budget jargon in it. But what it shows is a willingness to cut all kinds of things, like TRICARE, which is the sacred health insurance program for the military, for military retirees; to cut Social Security; to cut Medicare. And there are some lines in there about, "We want to get tax rates down, not only for individuals but for businesses." So Obama and the White House were willing to go quite far."


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Why is the 'View in browser'link appearing In my search results? OWA is installed in the farm but isn't associated with the web application in question. The office web apps feature is deactivated at site collection level and the 'open in client app' feature is activated. Link is appearing for Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.
When a user clicks on this link to open a document, it screen sits for a while and then displays an error saying it could open the file. If I associate the equivalent service app in configure service associations it works but I don't want to. Can I just get rid of the link or why is it rendering?


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In the stems and the background of the sunflower portion I quilted wavy lines.
I believe I used 2 thread colors, but it's been so long (I quilted this earlier this summer), so I might be mistaken. I know for sure that I used So Fine! Daffodil (yellow) and So Fine! Out of the Blue (the blue in the background).


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William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats [W.B. Yeats] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939 / County Dublin / Ireland)
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Narrative And Dramatic The Wanderings Of Oisin
S. Patrick. You who are bent, and bald, and blind,
With a heavy heart and a wandering mind,
Have known three centuries, poets sing,
Of dalliance with a demon thing.
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Last month, an article was posted on Audisite.com noting that German luxury car Audi would entering into 2012 without a wagon or Avant version of their vehicle for the United States. Considering the fact that Audi was a long-time hold-out in the crossover vehicle arena, it was becoming far more likely that the auto company was giving up on presenting car-based wagons stateside. Just as a minor crisis was developing for the lovers of the Avant products, Audi made a New Year's resolution at the 2012 North American International Auto Show in Detroit to bring a brand new wagon to the United States. More than just a basic Avant wagon, the Audi reintroduced the more aggressive Allroad vehicle as a 2013 model year product.
At the beginning of the sport utility vehicle surge in the United States auto market in 1999, Audi addressed the craze in a rather European manner. Instead of developing a truck-like vehicle, the Audi company created specialized version of the A6 Avant called the Allroad. Making more aggressive use of the quattro all-wheel drivetrain, the Audi Allroad defined itself as a rougher terrain luxury vehicle with matte black body panels and a raised ride height accomplished through an air suspension system. Though the Allroad would continue to be sold in Europe, the disappointing sales of the innovative wagon caused Audi to pull the vehicle from North America. Audi would concede to the conventional wisdom in the North American marketplace by adding their full-sized Q7 crossover vehicle in 2005. As Audi added the Q5 as well as the Q3 in the future product portfolio for the United States, the ever-changing complexion of the crossover vehicle market has grown to appreciate characteristics that made station wagons popular from the 1950s through to the 1980s. Changing automotive consumer tastes and a luxury car marketplace seeing companies, as such Audi, carrying a record-high product line-up has given the German brand encouragement that the Allroad could make meaningful inroads into the current United States auto environment.
While many crossover vehicles claim to have a car-like ride and handling, the Audi Allroad position as a car instantly enters it in a situation of advantage. Built on the updated Audi A4 platform, the new Allroad is a bigger, wider vehicle than the A4 Avant predecessor. This third generation Allroad is the first version to utilize the Audi A4 after previously versions of the model were offered as relatives to the A6. Smart and sophisticated, the 2013 Audi Allroad stands 1.5 inches taller in ground clearance rated at around 5.7 inches. Like the last time the North American market saw the Audi Allroad, the new all-terrain wagon receives the distinguishing matte black finish along with bumper covers and flared wheel arches. Audi owners not in favour of the noticeable bodywork touches can opt to coordinate the Allroad matte black surfaces to match the other bodywork at an additional price. Stainless steel skid plates, aluminum-optic roof rails and 18 or 19-inch wheels complete the 2013 Audi Allroad utilitarian look. For a little vanity and natural light inside of the Allroad's cockpit, Audi will include a standard panoramic sunroof on every version of the unique wagon.
Powered by a 2-liter TFSI inline-4 engine, the 2013 Audi Allroad provides usable performance without jeopardizing fuel economy. The Allroad's standard quattro all-wheel drive churns with 211 horsepower and 258 pounds-feet of torque from the turbocharged, direct-injected powerplant. An eight-speed tiptronic transmission insures the power is well managed from the Audi TFSI engine. Fuel economy for United States bound 2013 Audi Allroad has yet to be assessed by the EPA, but expect it to come within the average range of 25 miles per gallon.
As can be expected from the interior of a wagon, the Audi Allroad is spacious even with 5-passenger seating. With a full capacity of occupants, 27 cubic feet worth of cargo can be secured inside of the 2013 Audi Allroad. Only 2.1 cubic feet less than the Q5 crossover featuring a similar full passenger layout, the Allroad's initial interior cargo space is roomier than the Acura TSX Sport Wagon and Mercedes-Benz R-Class. When the rear seats are folded down, the Audi Allroad will offer 50 cubic feet of cargo capacity.
With quattro all-wheel drive optimized with increased ride height and ample cargo capacity, Audi engineering has found plenty of room to infuse luxury into the Allroad wagon's interior. The 2013 Audi Allroad features Aluminum Trigon inlays along with 8-way power seats as standard. Choices of wood trim, heated seats and front seats power adjustable for up to 12 ways can be optioned on the Allroad for extra interior enjoyment.
Beyond the simpler luxury comfort items, the Audi Allroad's high-tech array of available features is extensive. Bang & Olufsen supplies the Audi Allroad an optional 505-watt sound system. Providing factory-installed wireless internet access, Audi connect relays important driving information relating to weather, traffic and even gas prices in the driver's area. Audi connect is also designed to handle up to eight mobile wireless devices at the same time inside the Allroad. Powered through Google, map information can be downloaded directly to the Audi MMI Navigation System.
Pricing for the 2013 model year Audi Allroad is expected ahead of its United States introduction later in 2012.
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Panga cliff
The Panga cliff is located on the northern shore of Saaremaa, at the end of the Kuressaare - Võhma road, close to Panga village. It is the highest of the Saaremaa and Muhu cliffs, reaching to a maximum of 21.3 meters. The entire cliff is approximately 2.5 kilometers long.
Standing at the tip of the cliff, one can clearly see another half-circular cliff under water. This is especially noticeable during storms, when the waves break against the underwater rocks, while the inside of the half-circle is calm.
During bird migrations in the spring and fall, this half-circular lagoon is a favorite stopover point for storks on their long trip to and from Egypt, where most of them spend the winter. Sometimes there are well over a hundred storks, as well as other waterbirds, resting in the calm waters of the lagoon.
Folk tradition ties Panga cliff as a place of worship and sacrifice for the ancient Saarlanders. It is known that until well into the 19th century, local fishermen poured libations of beer and whisky over the edge of the cliff, especially at midsummer eve, to ensure lots of fish during the coming year. There is a fishing spell that was chanted in Mustjala parish, and it says: "Come, come closer codfish to me. Bite my hook my dearest gray one. My hooks are silver, dipped in gold and slipped in lead."
It is not known whether the requisite virgin was ever sacrificed here, but it is known that the last animal sacrifice took place during the 1960's. Mustjala kolhoz had finally acquired a prize seed bull. The animal was let loose among the cows that were pastured on the cliff meadows. In a delerium of utter happiness and apparently following some ancient instincts, the bull soon made a beeline for the edge of the cliff and over it went. No doubt the fishing was good that summer.
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One day, many centuries from now and possibly never, the world will have had enough of the "Thriller" renditions, and they will cease to delight us all. Today is not that day. There's a good chance that this particular take, which was shot during a game at Safeco Field last week, was a Mariners PR plant and that we are their idiots, but we do not care. This kid deserves his own statue.
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The profile of boxer Keisher McLeod-Wells in the New York Times today includes details about her persona as "the Boxing Diva" — she likes Gucci anything, pink Juicy Couture knee-socks, Prada platform heels, Tory Burch tops and Bulgari eyeglasses. But some of the facts from the piece are plain-old depressing:
"There are many talented female boxers, but a lot of times, you need to have a gimmick," says McLeod-Wells. Talent is not enough? Sad. And when it comes to getting paid for a championship, it's "Maybe $8,000, $10,000," Ms. McLeod-Wells says. "It's pennies compared to a man." Sad.
Even sadder?
Last month, she traveled to Chiapas, Mexico, for six weeks to tape "Todas Contra México," a reality show for Mexican television about female boxers in the vein of NBC's recent show "The Contender."
That's right! In Mexico, lady boxers have their own TV show. Americans have no such love for the females who fight — unless they're "real" housewives.
Smile When You Call Her a Diva [New York Times]
Related: Fire The Boxing Diva [Official Site]
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The Concrete Lizards held a fund raiser for James Crawford.
By Don Cook
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Dairyette (Dallas)
Jan. 1 (Friday)
Over two hundred Hot Rods, Customs and Motorcycles braved the cold to attend the Dairyette Car Show. The Concrete Lizards Car Club hosted their annual fund raiser event. This year the Dallas club was raising money for James Crawford. A master painter/pin striper for over 50 years that is battling cancer. All the proceeds, including money raised from a silent auction, went to Mr. Crawford. If you would like to learn more about the Concrete Lizards Car Club or their annual Car Show, go to: www.concretelizards.com
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Supreme Court Summaries
Opinions filed August 4, 2011
In re Marriage of O'Brien, 2011 IL 109039
Appellate citation: 393 Ill. App. 3d 364.
JUSTICE FREEMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.
Justices Thomas, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion.
Justice Garman specially concurred, with opinion.
Justice Karmeier specially concurred, with opinion, joined by Chief Justice Kilbride.
In this Lake County marital dispute, the supreme court ruled on the proper standard to use in ruling on a petition to substitute a judge for cause after a substantive ruling has been made in a case.
In bringing his appeal from a 2006 marriage-dissolution judgment, the ex-husband here complained, not only of a maintenance award which was made, but of the fact that the proceedings were presided over by a judge as to whom the husband had unsuccessfully filed a petition to substitute for cause. This petition had complained that, in 2003, the challenged judge presided over an evidentiary hearing in a domestic battery case in which the husband was ultimately acquitted by a different judge. The petition also alleged that the wife had exchanged greetings with the challenged judge in a parking lot and had waved at him in a courtroom. The petition to substitute for cause was ruled on by a different circuit judge, who denied it. The appellate court affirmed, and the cause came before the Illinois Supreme Court on a certificate of importance.
The husband complained on appeal that the refusal to substitute had been based on erroneous application of an actual prejudice standard, which he conceded he could not meet. He argued for a standard which looks to the appearance of impropriety, found in the Judicial Code, which is part of the supreme court's rules. Rule 63(C)(3), which utilizes this standard, deals with the question of when a judge should voluntarily recuse himself, a decision which is made solely by the judge in question.
In this decision, the Illinois Supreme Court noted that recusal is different from substitution of a judge for cause after a substantive ruling, which is initiated by petition under section 2–1001(a)(3) of the Code of Civil Procedure. The Code does not define cause, but Illinois courts have construed cause to mean actual prejudice shown by prejudicial trial conduct or personal bias. This interpretation has been consistently applied by the courts, not just to the current statute, but to every former version. The General Assembly has never seen fit to include the Judicial Code's lower standard of appearance of impropriety in the statute on substitution of judge for cause after a substantive ruling, and the Illinois Supreme Court, in this decision, declined the husband's invitation to do so.
On June 8, 2009, shortly before the appellate court's July 14, 2009, ruling in this case, the United States Supreme Court filed a decision in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., which the husband argued supported his position. Although it raised due process concerns, that opinion dealt with recusal rather than substitution for cause and also concerned a situation which the United States Supreme Court viewed as extreme. Caperton does not call for a different result here.
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The original Borderlands was a game that shone with potential but in reality turned out to be more brown and boring than its in-game environments.
Guilty on so many levels of simply underachieving for rather easily fixed reasons, has Borderlands 2 done the work and made for an impressive come back? Or is this another return to the world of Pandora that should be avoided?
Okay, we were a bit tough on the original Borderlands there. The problem we had with it was that it created a sort of strange love/hate relationship. We adored the game for its variety in weaponry, cell-shaded looks and highly addictive loot and stat-based gameplay.
Or at least we adored it for a few hours. We then realised that we were going to be stuck doing the same thing over and over again, in environments that all looked the same, with a fairly uninteresting story. Heck, even champagne can get boring if you drink it too often.
With Borderlands 2, absolutely everything has been fixed. We have put a lot of hours into the game now and have to say we would happily play the whole thing through all over again.
In this game, you actually care about the characters, who have ten times more dialogue than in the original. You play one of four vault hunters who have found themselves stuck in a war between the Hyperion corporation and some prospectors. Heading up the Hyperion side is a man called Handsome Jack, who from the get-go makes it entirely clear he is determined to put an end to your vault-hunting antics.
The result is a vast adventure full of inventive characters as rich and as complex as they are funny. Even Claptrap, the incredibly annoying robot from the original, makes a return in a far more enjoyable form.
We don't want to give away too much, but essentially the story in Borderlands 2 is enough to make you want to continue playing through the game, something that simply didn't happen in the original.
So things have been fixed on the story front, but what about the gameplay? The framework in the original was definitely there for a game of Diablo III levels of addiction. Combine a theoretical near-unlimited arsenal of guns, with upgradable characters and basic RPG style elements and you should have a game that's hard to put down.
The problem was that variety fell flat on its face when you realised the core variations of each gun made little difference. The ultimate goal was to just shoot things a lot and eventually you would come across a gun so big that nobody could stop you.
Again Borderlands 2 addresses this issue. Now every weapon manufacturer demands a clearly distinct play style. Take Jakobs, for example, it provides powerful single-shot style weapons that might be slow to reload but can do plenty of damage. Then there is Tediore, which is all about ridiculously high fire rates. Each feels different and the variety means that there will always be a gun to suit your style.
The variations in looks and design also make simply searching for guns and incredibly addictive process. They become a reason to indulge in side quests. A handy in-game bank which lets your store your collection also conjures up a sort of Gran Turismo feeling, giving the same pride in our weapons as that game generates for cars in a garage.
The four characters you can choose from also handle very differently, be it the elemental-based Maya the siren, who can turn enemies on themselves, or Salvador the gunzerker, who can use two weapons at once, and inflict an incredible amount of destruction at the higher levels.
So that's already two variables to keep gameplay addictive, but then comes a third. The elements used in the original now have much more of an effect. So elements such as acid or fire work to varying degrees against different enemies. Think of it like an incredibly violent version of Pokemon.
Add in the fact the grenades can be modified and your character's appearance changed and quite frankly you have got the most addictive game we have played in a long time.
Borderlands 2 lets friends jump in and out of the single-player story and do things together. Should two people be playing at once then loot is upped, as is the difficulty of overcoming enemies. If the person you are playing with is of a very high level, then you can find yourself constantly dying with enemies too tough to handle.
One clever trick is that should you complete plenty of missions with friends, these will sync up to your single-player campaign and give you the option to skip them once you take up the reins offline.
It's also possible to fight against others using your in-game character, complete with all of his or her customisations. Get enough involved and this can definitely be fun, but we feel that playing through the single player with another friend is the best way to tackle Borderlands 2 online.
Borderlands 2 falls short of being a true classic because of a few odd bugs. Getting stuck in environments was a classic example. In fact we found ourselves beating two in-game bosses by trapping them in various invisible walls and enclosures.
Other than that, this is the game that the original was clearly intended to be. Vast in scope, colourful, polished and incredibly addictive, we enjoyed every minute of it.


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Christ Is Risen!
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But would you give a gun to a small child, knowing full well what could happen?
Ozgeorge, That site was hilarious but sad at the same time. The description of Acne seems particularly apt for the
Yes, no age is to young to learn to shoot...plus the earlier they start the better shot they usually end up being.
Excellent for Chris...but who are his henchman? ha.
I can go along with you for EkhristoAnesti's description
PS. I hope everyone knows that this is all in jest. Of course I don't know any of you personally. It's just an amusing little bit for comic relief.
what a sheltered life I've led.
Yeah, I'd say ...if you're ever in the states perhaps I can show you the great pleasure that can be taken in the controlling of large amounts of firepower
Ozgeorge: http://redwing.hutman.net/%7Emreed/warriorshtm/ferouscranus.htmOh, and a bit of this one too: http://redwing.hutman.net/%7Emreed/warriorshtm/artfuldodger.htm
always have a Godfather who is surrounded by a cadre of loyal henchmen.
I noted that someone who shall be nameless indicated that I am a godfather-type. The following is an excerpt of this description:I clearly am not the godfather, since it seems none of my henchmen are loyal...
You guys are silly and your posts are trivial.
In recent communication from the godfather:
GiC & Ozgeorge, How about you lads start a seperate discussion for hutman? Thanks in advance.
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text: On Sunday 12 June 2005 21:38, Patrick Boettcher wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Andrew de Quincey wrote: > >> Attached is my current channels.conf and a hacked version of scan which > >> prints out the service_id at the very end. It is not a big problem to > >> add in to parse the VDR format too, as i had a parser for the Metzler's > >> libdvb format also, but temporarily removed of all those bells and > >> whistles to make testing and debugging easier.. > > > > I'd be interested in helping with parsing the file formats to start with > > - if they were to be exported into a seperate library that is. > > > > Looking at VDR 1.26 there are three config files: > > > >From what I know the channels.conf-format from 1.3.* changed > > significantly. I would first implement 1.3-parsing and later, if really > necessary (1.4 (= stable) is near), later implement support for > 1.2-format, if at all. Ah thats a good idea. I'll have a look into 1.3.x then. OK, where do I get the ca_zap sources - so I can see what is there already and start some coding? I assume this sort of stuff would go in dvb-apps/libdvb2 in CVS?


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The Vinyl Never Lies: The Full Henry Rollins Interview
We bring you, at last, the full version of our talk with Henry Rollins that ran in the September print and iPad editions of Sound+Vision. Enjoy!
S+V Henry, you're always on the move. You're on the road a lot doing your own speaking tours, playing with bands like Dinosaur Jr., and conducting shows and events internationally for charity. What kind of portable A/V gear do you take with you?
ROLLINS I bring one or two iPods with me, and now I bring an iPad, too. But the iPad is not for audio. I cram a bunch of DVDs on there via Handbrake, and make MP4s so I can watch things. I'm on airplanes a lot. The longest flight has been Dubai to America, like 16 hours. And I've done America to Australia about 27 times. Trips like those are where I'll watch 2 seasons of Dexter.
S+V I used to do cross-country caravans where I'd take 500 CDs with me, but now I don't have to do that anymore. I've got most of my music collection on iPods or available in the cloud.
ROLLINS Right, right. When I travel, anything I want to listen to I have to carry with me, and anything I read, I have to carry for weeks or even months at a time. So to be able to put any media into something that's the size of a cigarette pack - hell, I'll take one!
I live all over the world for months at a time, so I go through eight kinds of this device and three of that device, trying to find the right ones. Those that don't work are sitting in boxes.
S+V You have your own publishing arm, 2.13.61. Do you foresee a day when all of your books will be in electronic form?
ROLLINS Right now we have five of my books available for download, but I've written over 20. Unfortunately, we're waiting in line, because it's us and every other guy who wants to do this. So it's, "Take a number, and we'll get back to you when we can."
I was talking with my friend Ian MacKaye, founder of Dischord Records [not to mention Fugazi and Minor Threat], who's doing a killing in downloads. I asked him, "Hey, we're doing book downloads and we're loving it; what do you think of that?" He said, "I hate it. We're going to stop reading." He thinks you're going to lose the iPad behind the couch: "After you get it, you'll read half a book, then you'll put it down somewhere and never pick it up again." I said, "Well, I disagree." I think it's going to make more people read. You'll find them saying, "Oh, I can download this and this and this," but then they'll be in a bookstore a year later - if there are any left - and they'll say, "Oh, I love the feeling of a book in my hand."
S+V So you're reading books on your iPad, too?
ROLLINS That's the one threshold I'm having trouble crossing. I don't read a lot of fiction, and that may be an age thing, I don't know. I read a lot of history, politics, and investigative journalism; stuff like that. And I do a lot of underlining of things, or memorize a paragraph about Congress from the last century that I can go back to and learn more about.
I almost bought the e-book for Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. I was allowed to download about 30 pages as a free sample. I sat with my iPad turning the pages. But I really want better apps for underlining. At the end of the day, all of these qualms will be addressed because they do want to sell these things.
S+V What about newspaper and magazine apps?
ROLLINS I've got The New York Times, and a couple of magazine apps. Magazines will make it work and make you want to buy an iPad. You'll want the online version so you can interact and walk through the door and into the laboratory.
S+V Do you see print going away at any point? Or do you think it will last?
ROLLINS We'll still probably use paper for tickets and marriage proposals, things like that. But we're heading toward a much less-papered society.
My assistant and I, we're running this company [2.13.61] ourselves. And I can't afford to have a bunch of books sitting in a garage and have them not sell; we'll go broke. So the idea of a non-physical inventory - that's the biggest wet dream.
I can't tell you how exciting it would be for us to hear, "Where are your books?," and then be able to say, "On that hard drive," and not have to be saddled with copies coming back as returns. We get these huge boxes of books sent back that look like an elephant stomped on them. I can't sell them; I can't even give them away. It looks like a machine ate them. With a download, if the file is corrupted - no problem! Here's another one. I love that.


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I really didn't mean to drop off the blog for so long. Between the house and getting ready for Christmas, I'm feeling a bit unglued. Hopefully I can pull myself together fairly quickly. Despite two snow storms, we've started framing the house. In between, our school-aged kids all performed at the local Festival of Trees. (I love kindergartners!)
The day after I finished up painting the basement walls, the concrete subcontractor backfilled our foundation. Woot! Last Thursday, our contractor and I measured off the foundation and chalked the lines for the sill plates.
It took Mr. Pickup and I a few days to get those plates on with the weather.
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Got 40 right in October. Unless they jacked up the passing score way beyond what they have customarily done, that's a pass.classicroadster wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2017 4:37 pmHow do you know you passed? If you have not been invited to an audition, you did not pass (regardless of what your score was) and can/should take the test again. If you have auditioned in the last 18 months, you should not. That's pretty much it.John Boy wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2017 3:00 pmI passed the online quiz in October. For me to take the quiz scheduled for the end of may would be:
a. redundant; can't hurt but can't help; or
b. prohibited; might get me booted from the pool; or
c. quite all right; nothing to be gained or lost; or
d. encouraged; passing again might help.
What do you think???
I guess I have a different definition than yours. If I reach the qualifying score but don't get invited to an audition, then I passed the test and failed the lottery.
If I have not been invited to an audition, and it's not because of not passing the test, it's either because they have sent out invitations for auditions to whatever city I would have gone to, and I wasn't among them; or they haven't yet sent out invitations to auditions in "my city."
Unlike years past I don't know what "my city" would be since they didn't ask us to choose an audition city. But I haven't seen word on this thread regarding auditions in any city in the region: Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Detroit, Chicago, Nashville, etc. So I'm holding out hope I'm still in the lottery to be chosen to go to one of those or to some other nearby city.
My question is: if that is the case, is it permitted to take the test again. From what I read in the several answers to my query, I think it may be permitted, so I'll go ahead and do it.
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Cal State Fullerton hoops coach, fiance shot to death
- Cal State Fullerton assistant women%27s basketball coach Monica Quan%2C 28%2C and her fiance Keith Lawrence%2C 27%2C were found dead around 9 p.m. Sunday
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IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — A college basketball coach and her fiance were found shot to death in a car at their upscale condominium complex in Southern California, and authorities say they have no motive or suspects in the killing.
Cal State Fullerton assistant women's basketball coach Monica Quan, 28, and her fiance Keith Lawrence, 27, were found dead around 9 p.m. Sunday on the top floor of a parking structure at the complex, police said. Officers found their bodies after someone reported seeing Lawrence slumped over the wheel of his vehicle.
Quan was found in the front passenger seat and Lawrence was in the driver seat, Irvine Police Lt. Julia Engen said.
"It doesn't appear they were robbed," Engen told the Orange County Register. "There's no obvious motive."
Few other details have been released.
Lawrence and Quan played basketball at Concordia University, and Quan was in her second season as an assistant coach at Cal State Fullerton.
"The loss of any member of the Titan family causes our community great grief, but the loss of one of our own under these circumstances is indeed tragic and heart-wrenching," university President Mildred Garcia said in a statement Monday. "We hope that Monica's family and friends will feel and be comforted by our support during this difficult time."
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Engen said the couple recently moved into the condominium complex. The parking structure requires a key-code for entry and there are security cameras throughout the complex, a resident told the Los Angeles Times.
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text: 2 1of2The movie is a vehicle more for Scarlett Johansson's looks and charisma than for her acting ability.A24 Films 2of2Scarlett Johansson plays a mysterious woman who drives around Glasgow, Scotland, in a van, inviting men who live alone to join her.A24 Films Under the Skin Drama. Starring Scarlett Johansson. Directed by Jonathan Glazer. (R. 107 minutes.) "Under the Skin" can be confused for a movie that hides its meanings, when it's really a movie that hides its meaninglessness. A film of empty surfaces, it begins with a white dot on a dark screen that could be a planet or a space ship. This changes into something that could be optometry equipment before becoming (or revealing itself to be) a human eye. With its dissonant soundtrack, it's an expressionistic opening reminiscent of Ingmar Bergman's "Persona," only minus the emotion, the meaning and the interest. But the ambition is there. "Under the Skin" is an attempt at something - not something serious so much as serious-seeming - and it gets credit for escaping the usual pattern. Scarlett Johansson, in a black wig, plays a mysterious woman who drives around Glasgow, Scotland, in a van. Periodically, she asks men for directions and then strikes up a conversation. If they say they live alone, she invites them into the van and takes them back to her place, which is not a regular apartment. It's a surreal dark tunnel, and as they walk toward her, taking off their clothes, they sink into thick black liquid, until fully submerged. Then they stay there, suspended. So this is no normal woman. This isn't even a normal homicidal maniac. This is someone on some kind of supernatural harvesting project. This is clear from the very first minutes, and the movie never advances beyond that. Instead virtually the entire action of the film just repeats the same kind of event - she goes out, looks for a man, etc. As one might imagine, this becomes quite dull, even sleep-inducing, especially considering the movie's overall cast of slow-moving gloom. Gradually, it's possible to infer what she's really after, and you can see the movie as a meditation on loneliness. But at its most essential, "Under the Skin" seems more like a phobic sex fantasy circa 1900, a cautionary tale about the dangerous power of the feminine. Or perhaps it's more specific, a movie celebrating Scarlett Johansson's ability to get anybody into a van in less than 30 seconds. Johansson is the film's main asset. It's not exactly an acting vehicle for her - she has little dialogue and a deadpan expression for most of the movie. But the camera is always on her, and she really is, in the classic movie sense, a worthy subject for contemplation. It would be an exaggeration to say this is a movie about Johansson's eyes, nose and mouth, but only an exaggeration, not a falsehood. By taking everything out of the equation, by placing Johansson against a blank canvas, director Jonathan Glazer makes the best case yet for her as a cinematic entity, as someone who can hold the screen outside of any context, who is herself an event. That's the entire value of "Under the Skin," what she gives him (access to her surfaces, a willingness to be seen, which includes nudity) and what he gives her - a gaze of unending curiosity and an occasionally arresting visual backdrop. In one scene, we see what she sees, as she walks through a crowded street - a gold-tinged deluge of humanity, which comes to resemble a tapestry, against which Glazer superimposes an image of Johansson. Suddenly, it looks as though she's inside a Klimt painting. These moments are beautiful and are their own reward. But they're without connection or purpose, and worse, they're few and far between - islands in a dead sea. Mick LaSalle is The San Francisco Chronicle's movie critic. E-mail: email@example.com


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Editor's note: Welcome to the Hispanic Heritage Month "A Trip to" series here on Latinaish. Join us as we virtually visit different Latin American countries through the photos and words of people who live there, have lived there, or have visited and have a lot of love for that particular place. Today Susan of Medina Adventures shows us around Bolivia!
One of my favorite parts of visiting La Paz, Bolivia, is the descent along the highway, from the airport into the heart of the city. I get butterflies every single time and not just because I'm afraid of heights – It's anticipating the breathtaking views, like this one of the snowy Illimani mountain watching over the city, that makes my heart leap into my throat.
I've never been a city girl, but La Paz is definitely a big time city with amazing architecture and brilliant colors, even on an overcast day. Each building is different; there are no cookie-cutter houses here. And some buildings are so close to the edge of the cliffs, that they look like giant Jenga towers – I'm amazed at how they don't topple over.
On my first visit to La Paz, I didn't know what these green things were. Any guesses? – They're trash cans! So then I couldn't figure out why they'd be up on those poles. It's brilliant, really, it's so the street dogs can't dig through it and scatter the trash all over the place. I also find it interesting how little trash is in there. Reusable bags are brought to markets, and most things are sold by the kilo, so there is little packaging to be thrown away.
La Paz is also famous for its street parades. Dancers swish to the music of marching bands and leaders signal with whistles. That is my daughter and her cousins dancing in those beautiful green costumes. Along the path of the parade, you can see locals dressed in traditional clothing – polleras (ruffled skirts), shawls, and bowler hats. There's also a mom carrying her daughter on her back in an aguayo, the brightly colored woven cloth. Rain or shine, vendors will be selling on the streets of La Paz, anything from fruits to jeans.
I remember telling my camera, "Take, take, take!" as we were leaving this picturesque street in Coroico. I loved the colors of the buildings, the cobblestones, and the little market set up right in the middle of it all. Coroico is often a vacation destination for people in La Paz, since it is only a two hour drive from the city and is in a subtropical part of the country.
This is my husband after a four hour trek down the mountain which started at La Cumbre, 14000 feet above sea level. He's ready to hitch a ride back up. The row of buildings with corrugated metal roofs is a typical sight on the roadsides and will usually offer lunch or sell little snacks.
And finally, this is my son enjoying the Sunday tradition of chicharrón, mote and limonada (fried pork, corn, and limeade). See that giant plate of food? That's for one person! I can never finish all the food they give me at one sitting, and I usually discreetly pass it to my husband (which is why he always gains weight when we go back!) And those red plastic chairs? Coca-Cola propaganda is everywhere in Bolivia. Toma lo bueno!
Editor's note: Did you enjoy this guest post? If you have some nice photos of a Latin American country you'd like to share as we did here with some short descriptions, please email me to be a part of this special Hispanic Heritage Month series!