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Part of a silicon chip set, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) logic chips are designed to optimize the performance and power of a central processing unit (CPU). Functions that once required multiples of relatively large integrated circuit boards of much lower computing power and speed, can now be assigned to chipsets of semiconductors that are designed to work together as a unit.
View a low magnification image of an AMD logic chip.
Logic chip sets complement their microprocessors by providing additional features for bus-based systems. Power management is often enhanced by the inclusion of logic chips and may offer additional modes such as low power and stand-by modes, or disk and processor sleeping periods for the computer or other peripheral device so enabled. Output power to AC convenience outlets, CODECs, general purpose ports, and even the speed of the cooling fan may be controlled by the logic chip set, leaving more power for number crunching while conserving batteries in portable devices.
Audio interfaces, controllers, and "glue logic" blocks are other features of a logic chip set. Demand for these additional abilities has grown as personal computers have moved from the laboratory into the home and business as multimedia centers. As semiconductor fabrication techniques are continually refined and miniaturized, more functions are being incorporated on a single multipurpose chip and the demand for logic chip sets may decline.
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NIS is a protocol developed by Sun to allow one to defer user authentication to a server. The server software is in the ypserv package, and the client software is in the yp-tools package. ypbind-mt is also available, which is a multi threaded version of the client daemon.
Note: obviously this article is far from finished. hopefully in the future that will change, but in the meantime check the More resources section.
NIS Client
The first step is to install the tools that you need. This provides the configuration files and general tools needed to use NIS.
# pacman -S yp-tools ypbind-mt
Next put your NIS domain name into the file /etc/conf.d/nisdomainname.
Now edit the /etc/yp.conf file and add your ypserver or nis server.
ypserver your.nis.server
Start the rpcbind and ypbind daemons (add them to your rc.conf file if you want it to start automatically).
# /etc/rc.d/rpcbind start # /etc/rc.d/ypbind start
To test the setup so far you can run the command yptest:
# yptest
If it works you will, among other things, see the contents of the NIS user database (which is printed in the same format as /etc/passwd).
To actually use NIS to log in you have to edit /etc/nsswitch.conf. Modify the lines for passwd, group and shadow to read:
passwd: files nis group: files nis shadow: files nis
And then do not forget
# /etc/rc.d/ypbind restart
See section 7 of The Linux NIS HOWTO for further information on configuring NIS clients.
NIS Server
Install Packages
Make sure packages ypbind-mt, ypserv, and yp-tools are installed:
# pacman -S ypbind-mt yp-tools ypserv
Add the domain name to /etc/conf.d/nisdomainname:
# NISDOMAINNAME="nis-domain-name"
Add rules to /etc/ypserv.conf for your your nis clients of this form:
# ip-address-of-client : nis-domain-name : rule : security
For example:
# 192.168. : home-domain : * : port
For more information see Template:Code.
Add or remove files you would like NIS to use to /var/yp/Makefile under the "all" rule.
# all: passwd group hosts rpc services netid protocols netgrp \ # shadow # publickey networks ethers bootparams printcap mail \ # # amd.home auto.master auto.home auto.local passwd.adjunct \ # # timezone locale netmasks
Due to recent changes in networking in Archlinux you have to change the line:
# LOCALDOMAIN = `/bin/domainname`
# LOCALDOMAIN = `/bin/hostname -d`
After that you have to build your NIS database:
# cd /var/yp # make
Add rules to /var/yp/securenets to restrict access:
# 255.255.0.0 192.168.0.0 # Gives access to anyone in 192.168.0.0/16
Be sure to comment out this line, as it gives access to anyone.
# 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
Add the domain name of your server to /var/yp/ypservers:
# your.nis.server
Start NIS Daemons
Start rpcbind if it isn't already started:
# rc.d start rpcbind
Start ypbind:
# rc.d start ypbind
Start ypserv:
# rc.d start ypserv
If you want these to start automatically on startup, add them to your DAEMONS array in rc.conf:
DAEMONS=(... rpcbind ypbind ypserv ...)
Make sure they go after network in the array.
Simply use the systemctl command to enable and start the ypbind service:
# systemctl enable ypbind.service
More resources
- The Linux NIS HOWTO,very helpful and generally applicable to Arch Linux.
- YoLinux NIS tutorial
- Quick HOWTO, Configuring NIS


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After assembly and using the python code from github (Adafruit_CharLCDPlate) the five buttons work. Backlight on/off works. But nothing appears in the display
(no cursor, no text). Searching the forums I find this thread and the final post says
please note the deigns is similar but the code we have will NOT work for the i2c backpack , its ONLY for the RGB plate! The code will have to be adapted to support the backpack- no ETA as to when we can get to it.
Should the python code from github (Adafruit_CharLCDPlate) work? If not, what changes would be necessary in the Adafruit_CharLCDPlate python code to make it work?


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In the annals of "successful people doling out advice," the genre may have found something of a new classic text in Dilbert creator Scott Adams' Wall Street Journal piece on failing your way to the top.
While most pieces that advocate failing as a life skill do so as a means of stressing the value of perseverance, Adams' advice goes one step further, listing some of his greatest failures not as evidence of a path or series of stepping stones, but rather "because successful people generally gloss over their most aromatic failures, and it leaves the impression that they have some magic you don't. When you're done […] you won't have that delusion about me, and that's the point. Success is entirely accessible, even if you happen to be a huge screw-up 95% of the time."
While the humor and the honesty alone make the piece well worth reading in its entirety, here are a few more takeaways for those who don't have the time for the full 2,000+ words.
Don't follow your passion
Odd as it may sound for someone who has made a career out of something that is widely considered to be a creative, artistic pursuit, Adams' advice for those seeking to climb the ladder is to "grind" at jobs, making steady progress rather than holding out for the perfect opportunity to do that one thing you happen to love. As he tells it, his own experiences of following his passions led to disappointments and failures that were difficult to get over; the reasoning presumably being that it's more dispiriting to fail at something you love than at something you're dispassionate about.
Always be on the lookout for a better opportunity
Hand in hand with that philosophy is Adams' belief that "your job is not your job; your job is to find a better job." Accordingly, Adams recommends treating your entire career as something akin to a series of stepping stones: places to occupy for short periods of time while you figure out your next (brief) destination. As Adams puts it: "This makes perfect sense if you do the math. Chances are that the best job for you won't become available at precisely the time you declare yourself ready. Your best bet [is] to always be looking for a better deal."
Develop a system, and stick to it
The final piece of Adams' advice also winds up being something of a unifying theory in terms of his outlook. While expressing a preference for those who approach career progression in a systematic fashion, he bluntly states that "goals are for losers. That's literally true most of the time. For example, if your goal is to lose 10 pounds, you will spend every moment until you reach the goal—if you reach it at all—feeling as if you were short of your goal. In other words, goal-oriented people exist in a state of nearly continuous failure that they hope will be temporary."
Adams' solution to that problem: forget your goals, and develop a system that will produce incremental gains—an approach that meshes perfectly with his previous advice to constantly be on the lookout for the next opportunity.
While the advice Adams has to give may sound a little blunt and conniving—and therefore in keeping with the corporate world he portrays in Dilbert—the article's overriding message is one that any careerist should be able to take to heart: that success requires planning, and hard work, a willingness to keep trying new things, and an equal willingness to be prepared to fail at them. While there might not be anything new in those observations, that's hardly Adams' fault—there simply isn't anything new that can be said in the realm of career advice (at least not that's likely to be helpful, anyway). That said, Adams' everyman tone and lack of self-regard help to bring the lessons home in a way that is both straightforward and encouraging—he's living, self-confessed proof that success is something that anyone can find, provided they choose to make it their mission.
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Of course it is not only the Lazyboy that boasts of recliner functionality as there are plenty of other recliner chairs that offer the perfect way to relax at home. Reclining chairs can cost a bit more than regular chair types, though their flexibility means they are worth the extra investment. Some office chairs serve only to make office guests and customers comfortable.


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I could be wrong on this but Brett Lawrie was on his way to having a monster WAR season and most of it was due to his defense. The BlueJays would often position him in the outfield which made his range seem far greater which made him look like Brooks Robinson on paper. If this is correct then by all means you are right.
It's hard for me to believe that in 16 seasons Konerko has only gotten a 25.3 career WAR. Meanwhile in 7 seasons Ben Zobrist has gotten a 25.4 career WAR. There's no way Ben Zobrist has had a better career than Konerko. I don't disagree with Zobrist's numbers but I do disagree with how Konerko is viewed and it is because of his defense for the most part on why he is so low.
If I had the time and energy I could point out countless examples going all the way back to Bill James' original big hit Total Baseball. I'd also like to point out AGAIN, that way back in the Stone Age when I first began to play and follow baseball it was not unknown that the metrics we used (we didn't call them that) were flawed. My all time favorite White Sox player is Billy Pierce. I never thought that Whitey Ford was that much better than Pierce, if in fact he was better at all. It's easier to pitch when Mantle, Maris, Skowron, Berra, Howard etc have staked you to an early 3-5 run lead then when you know if you make one big mistake you're probably going to lose. Pierce is one player that really suffered in the HOF voting because of strict adherence to the established ways of looking at players. Back to Konerko. If there's one thing I want defensively from my 1B man it is to dig out those errant throws. He's not a Vic Power or George Scott when it comes to that, but he's damn good. Another reason why you can look fish eyed at your other infielders fielding percentages, they can be so much at the mercy of your 1B man. Even one like Konerko who is considered a dog by the saber people.
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Coming away with a split in a home tri-meet last Thursday, Germantown Friends School picked up its first head-to-head win of the 2012-2013 wrestling season, defeating non-league opponent Girard College, 45-18.
Unfortunately, the Tigers lost 42-30 in their other appearance at this "Three G's" event, succumbing in an official Friends Schools League bout with the Cougars of George School.
Against George, GFS (1-7 overall, 0-2 FSL) was handicapped by forfeits, a chronic problem this winter. In seven of the 14 weight classes, no actual wrestling occurred.
Neither team had an entry at 106 or 220 lbs. The Tigers' senior heavyweight, Khari Goosby, went unopposed and acquired six quick points for his team because of the Cougars' no-show, but Germantown, in turn, had no one to wrestle at 145, 152, 182, and 195 lbs.
That net loss of 18 points did in the Tigers, even though they outscored the Cougars 24-18 in the seven bouts that took place.
The meet was the league opener for George School (6-1 overall), and the action started off at 138 lbs. Here, GFS junior Matt Reed registered a pin midway through the first period. After two Germantown forfeits, freshman Dash Buyske-Friedberg leveled the meet score at 12-12, going up 6-2 before pinning his George School rival late in the second round.
The Tigers enjoyed their lone lead of the meet (18-12) thanks to Buyske-Friedberg's twin brother, Gabe. He was ahead 7-3 in the second period of the 170 lb. match when he pinned his opponent with 46 seconds to go.
After two Tigers forfeits and the mutual abdication at 220, Goosby got the hosts back even at 24-all by garnering the forfeit at 285 lbs. Neither squad had a 106-pounder, and the Cougars picked up their first true wrestling victory of the day with a second-period pin at 113 lbs.
Responding in kind with 1:19 remaining in the 120 lb. contest, Germantown Friends junior Elliott Wattenbarger tied the team score for what would be the final time, 30-30.
Facing a pair of inexperienced GFS freshmen, George School secured pins at 126 and 132 lbs. to win the FSL tilt by a dozen points. The Cougars then stayed alongside the mat for their encounter with Girard College. Girard, like GFS, chronically suffers from vacancies at a number of weights, and they bowed to the Cougars, 66-18.
Squaring off against GFS in the final phase of the tri-meet, Girard put up a quick six when the Tigers once again forfeited at 152 lbs. There was no mat action in the next five classes, either. The Buyske-Friedberg brothers each won by forfeit, and neither squad showed up at 182. Girard then accepted forfeits at 195 and 220 to take an 18-12 lead in the meet.
Goosby tied the team tally at 18-all, getting a fairly quick takedown and then pinning his man with 46 seconds left in the opening round. That score remained in place through a mutual forfeit at 106 lbs., then GFS went ahead for good as Girard fielded no opponents for two Tigers ninth-graders, Nick Wells (113) and Rob Wilf (120).
Bumping up to 126 lbs. for this meet, Germantown's Wattenbarger performed in the lone match that ended in a decision, grinding out a 4-0 victory that boosted the hosts' advantage to 15 points, 33-18.
Forfeits by the Cavaliers favored GFS freshman Bix Komita Moussa at 132 lbs. and Reed at 138, and the home team had its first meet victory in the bag. There was still one more weight class to go, 145 lbs., but the meet ended on an entirely anticlimactic note, since neither team would come out to play.


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Last week I attended my first game of the season, a 58-0 destruction of Arizona. On Friday night the wife [aka Amy] and I flew up to Toronto for the first time. I passed through customs in my Lynch jersey and when the agent asked why we were visiting Canada I replied simply 'We are here to see the Seahawks win.'
On Saturday we spent a few hours doing a city bus tour, then walking around the Distillery Area / Xmas Village. It was setup with all kinds of outdoor shops and was nice, though it was a little chilly. Eventually we made our way into some bar where we ran into 6 Seahawks fans including Dan the Marine and his girlfriend. We spent a few hours drinking Canadian beer and talking. I tried to get the bartender to let me mount a 12th man flag on the bar but he wouldn't go for it.
Saturday night we had dinner at a nice bistro, then around 10pm hooked up with Mr. & Mrs. Tech Worlds, bestfightstory and mystermatt. I was a few drinks behind them and couldn't really catch up. The drink special was a mixture of canadian whiskey, apple juice and maple syrup garnished with cranberries. A funny moment was when Matt bit into one thinking it was a cherry. I was also impressed by bestfightstory who wore 4 hats at the same time.
We turned in around 12:30...and headed down to the Rogers Centre around 10am on Sunday. There were plenty of Hawks fans out on the street. I went into the hotel that is part of the stadium and got a great view of the cheerleaders warming up on field.
Around 11:30am we hit the Fox & Fiddle with the crew from the day before as well as seatown81, beerhawk, Shawn P. from Toronto and special guest the Hawkblogger [kudos for flying all night to make it]. We had a great time watching the early games and getting ready.
I headed into the stadium early as I had never been there. It was a typical dome, seats were very small and not much going on stadium wise. Lots of Blue Jays stuff around...and then put in the Bills stuff for the game.
I would say the fans in the stadium were 70% Bills 30% Hawks. Kind of hard to tell since the Hawks fans had 10x as much to cheer about. In general the crowd was dead - nobody stood at all though there obviously wasn't much drama in the game. the Hawks fans were great everytime we scored or got another turnover.
You all saw the game so no need for a recap. I thought the wolf grey jerseys looked great and Wilson is just a super stud. I also got to see Flynn play for the 2nd time this year...though he didn't have much to do this week.
Some of the excitement of the day was obviously subdued by the 49ers game that night, but it was still a great trip and a great win. Hawks are now winning 108-17 in games I attend this season. If only I had any money left and no kids I might just keep flying to all these games.
Here are some pics from Sunday.
Here are some degenerates we ran into on the trip.
Group shot of the Twelves before the game.
Shot of the field from inside the hotel.
Seahawks fans down on the rail pre-game.
Game shot.
Halftime show - Gangham Style.
Nice sign.
Amy and I celebrating the victory!


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Sherrington: When it comes to paying players, Johnny Manziel might turn out to be the patron saint
Over the last year, we've learned that Johnathan Manziel has no boundaries. He takes what he wants. Nick Saban will testify as much. Johnny Football left Tuscaloosa with Saban's pride in his back pocket. The kid considers nothing out of reach, be it a first-down marker, a Heisman, the bling of wealth and fame, a UT frat party, maybe even a price for his signature. He's come so far, so fast expressly because there's no governor on his talent and desire. It was the way he was raised.
Which begs the question: What's college football's excuse?
If the NCAA finds Manziel guilty of selling his autograph for five figures — a number growing with each ESPN report — he could be ruled ineligible this fall. Forget a lifetime ban. He wasn't coming back to Texas A&M in 2014 if College Station named him grand marshal.
Of course, there's the distinct possibility that he walks, too. Unless one of these "brokers" is willing to talk to NCAA gumshoes, it may only serve as interesting reading.
Whatever happens to the face of college football — I make it 50-50 that he plays another down at A&M — this much is sure:
Kevin Sumlin will make his millions.
A&M will make its millions.
The NCAA will make its millions.
And no one will question a dime of it.
In the eyes of the NCAA, it's fine for a kid to practice 20 hours a week and countless others behind the scenes, risking his mental and physical health in the process with no guarantee that his scholarship will even be re-upped for another year, all while trying to retain his status as a "student-athlete." And if a kid turns out to be such a talent that it makes his school and coaches a fortune, so much the better.
Just as long as he doesn't try to cash in himself.
Manziel doesn't need the money, not that that's ever stopped anyone. As an ESPN story recently revealed, the Manziels don't want for much. Johnny drives a Mercedes. Vacations at Pebble Beach. A child of privilege, Johnny is like a lot of kids I know. They've been given everything they wanted and not enough of what they need.
The only difference is that none of them could play football like Johnny.
Until recently, it's been my position that more is expected of a Heisman winner. Once he earned that distinction, even as a freshman, Johnny couldn't simply tweet whatever he wanted and hide behind the excuse that he's just a kid being a kid. But, hey, that's me. I come from a place where we learned early on that to whom much has been given, much will be required.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be a credo for many of today's youth. And whose fault is that?
Pardon the parenting lesson, but here's my take on children, having survived four: As soon as they figure out they're in charge, all is lost.
If you read Wright Thompson's ESPN story from a round of golf and dinner with the Manziels, you got a pretty clear picture of the family dynamics. Johnny's father, Paul, says he doesn't like to play golf with his son because of Johnny's temper. And it's not just a golf course's aggravations that worry the father. He says he's afraid Johnny's going to blow one day, and when he does, it'll be bad. He says it'll all be on him because "if I give up on him, who's gonna take over? The school sure the hell isn't gonna do it."
For the record: Yes, the responsibility of their only son falls on the Manziels. They signed up 20 years ago. If you've got any conscience at all, it's a lifetime contract.
But Paul Manziel has a point of sorts. A&M's job is to educate and coach their son and make sure nothing bad happens to him. Or at least that's all it once was. I can still hear Bill Yeoman calling an athletic scholarship "three hots and a cot." It was a different time. Locker rooms were cramped, stadiums bleak. Weight rooms were dark, dank places braved by the bold. Indoor practice facilities? If David McWilliams wanted to work his players on grass, he used the field across the street from Memorial Stadium, where he first had to scare off Texas students flipping Frisbees.
If you aren't building a new wing on the weight room or adding another layer of luxury suites these days, you aren't keeping up. Same with coaches' salaries. Remember the uproar when Jackie Sherrill got $267,000 at A&M? His salary couldn't keep Mack Brown in cowboy boots.
There's nothing inherently wrong with all this excess, I suppose, unless it's this: What happens when enough of these kids figure out that, in effect, they're the ones generating the record revenue streams, not coaches or athletic directors or presidents? Ed O'Bannon, the former UCLA basketball star, has already triggered a lawsuit to recoup some of the millions the NCAA makes off players' likenesses on video games and apparel. What happens when enough kids raised me-first demand that they get what's coming to them, too? What happens when they realize they're in charge?
Johnny Football may be long gone by then. Still, every cause has its patron saint.
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THE SHOOTER by R-SKY
November 13, 2013, 03:52 AM »
Review by Grischa
My attempted translation_v1 prompted by Frazer ...
THE SHOOTER by R -SKY
The new freestyler by R -Sky is available since mid-June. An enormous amount of 2.2m wingspan kites are shooting up in recent times, some of which landed in my quiver
The shooter is a true R -Sky kite! Shape and design are typical of the famous Roger Tessa Gambassi kite workshop. Richard Debray and the R -Sky team pilots are very successful with this kite and show that France is still absolutely top notch in sport kite technology.
I tested the Ultra version with a suggested retail price of 289. It is, apart from the spine, framed with Skyshark 3 and 5PT. The slightly cheaper option costs 249 and is framed with P300 and carbon fiber.
The Shooter is a thoroughly modern design, which is well trimmed for freestyle and is hardly overpitched. She is not a kite for light winds, and certainly not for light gusty winds!
However, once applied steady 10 kph she develops into a tracker - pure French style! For its size, it does have enormous steam and so it happened that she tore my 40 daN Liros lines at around 25 kph. Apropos of lines, flown at 25m length, I found the Shooter too hectic, too sensitive and too aggressive. She then has little opportunity to run freely and calls from pilots lightning fast reactions and maximum slack control. 5 m more and she is clearly more adult. With 35 m lines she was for me a little too indirect - hence my recommendation: the Shooter is at its best at 30 m and that between 40 - 68 daN breaking strength.
The power needs to be controlled. Roger has configured the kite with the ability to fly tight corners in a small space. The kite has a very tight turning radius, so the untrained pilots will have their difficulties not to overshoot the desired 90° degrees. But you get used to it quite quickly. The Shooter needs a tough hand and inputs around corners.
The kites sound is rather tinny, lacking a leech line and double stitched hem will produce a not too noisy but quite uniform tone.
I have flown the Shooter at winds between 5 kph and 55 kph. I would recommend winds between 14 kph and 34 kph. Below that one quite often loses control and the propulsion is often not enough to fly properly. Over 30 kph she has a very powerful pull, but still tricks very easily. The interaction of pressure and low slack demand required, at least for me at first, a bit of getting used to it as you tend for very strong inputs when the kite is pulling strong. At first this seems slightly disproportionate, but then makes perfect sense.
The straight line flying thanks to the enormous pressure is correspondingly good. Equipped with a three-point bridle, she does not need any special commands for push-pull inputs to accelerate out of the corners. Speed control is not a particular strength of the Shooter, it converts gusts very directly into propulsion. The generously used nylon panels do not help too much there unfortunately.
The Shooter tends to over-steer tight turns or loops, which was more noticeable under 10 kph and with short lines (25m). I test flew the kite almost exclusively on the first knot (flatest) setup. Even in gusty winds often missing the sail pressure, it can happen that after an Axel she just falls towards the ground.
She has a few quirks, but I would nevertheless entitle the Shooter a very easy and well-balanced modern freestyler.
Designed for all modern tricks, the Shooter has an aggressive horizontal axis, but without getting stuck in a Turtle. The Turtle is deep, but not provided (as in many other current models) with auto-lift . That makes two-point landings from 10 kph pure bliss! Such a tight turning radius makes it a brute(?) even under full load to force a two-point landing without having to be afraid of losing her in the turtle, for that you have to keep the lines VERY tight!
Yoyos go very fast without being uncontrollably. From the Fade the Shooter wraps even faster and so I celebrated WapDoWaps at 20 kph all the way to the end of the flying field - what a treat!
Negative manoevers like YoFade and CrazyCopter succeed as easy, but require, as opposed to more stretched kite designs such as the Toxic or Vortex, a little more fine tuned setup. But then moves are more accurate and look better in my opinion.
A major criticism is the pressure buildup in the wrapped state! If you want to fly wrapped up, the Shooter begins to pump. As soon as it receives pressure the kite swings on the horizontal axis and wont allow a normal flight. The reason for this are probably too low mounted Yoyo stops.
The Shooter needs a very concentrated slack hand, otherwise you lose it, as already written above, even with basics such as an Axel. The TazMachine needs a very short first impulse and immediate confirmation by the second, otherwise you lose control again immediately and the Shooter wraps up. If one has gotten used to these short commands, one is rewarded with wonderful Taz cascades without much effort!
Yoyo TazMachines are super easy because it needs minimal commands for Taz and has zero ambition to fly further wrapped up - she un-wraps of her own no matter what wind.
She spins incredibly quickly at Axel turns, so that the Axel Cascade needs short and fast inputs to prevent over-steering. For a descending Axel Cascade you need some more pressure on the sail.
In the Pancake she has a blind spot way back. This is easily bypassed. For beginners, the blind spot in the pancake but can be quite annoying. Half-Axel to Fade, however is a challenge with low wind. She comes rather quickly and wobbly in the fade and the nose tends to come up high. If theres no pressure built up, the kite becomes unstable and starts oscillating - well, that's in any modern stunt kite, but here I felt it as something distinct.
The backspin is immediately triggered even without accurate setup. The fast rotation on the back allow for a tremendous speed in backspin. But this exactly requires a VERY strong stopping for a Backspin Cascade. If the Shooter isnt stopped hard for the counter rotating backspin, she completely denies rotations in the opposite direction !
Comets with the shooter are a bit quirky. From flowing to akwardness is only a small step and she needs an accurate hand to fly fairly stationary or flying smoothly without major loss of altitude. If you dont find this fine point, some of the energy dissipates in the (in that moment) too soft wings. However, if granted too much slack, she acknowledges that with one and a half rotations and subsequent total- pressure loss.
Cynique worked for me (not my best discipline) relatively easy. Goffing (if you like this) can also be done relatively simple. Guided Multi Lazys (La pedals) are in whichever wind not her strength, because the Shooter is quite low but not particularly stable in the Turtle. Normally triggered Multi Lazys are on the other hand very unproblematic.
When I tore my Liros DC40 lines, the spontaneous loss of pressure was so immense that the lower spreader pulled out of the ferrule. This happened to me again while I flew Comets around 7 Bft. Both were extreme situations for which the shooter could not be blamed ;-)
Specs and Built
The specified dimensions of R -Sky I could not follow, because I measured a standing height of 93 cm and a wingspan of 205 cm (210cm with spars) and a leading edge length (without spar) of 135 cm.
The weight is about 260 g of which 10.5 grams are found in a brass weight at the spine end.
The inner bridle is attached slightly below the centre cross.
The lower outer bridle has its place directly under the connectors.
The spine is only 6 mm pultruded carbon fiber. The nose is made of coarse Cordura, the top spreader sail protector made from Dacron. The stand-off re-inforcements are generously equipped with Mylar and stand-off connectors on the sail are common variants with a small bevelled washer. Otherwise R-Skys sail sewing makes sense and saves unnecessary frills. Accuracy and used materials are of high quality and are sensibly implemented!
The shooter is, in my eyes, a well-built kite for straightforward fun. - At times I found myself with a line snag never experienced before.
Grischa aka GiMiCX
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Have you seen this video? A couple of (male) firefighters in Sedan, Minnesota were dressed in drag for the St. Patrick's Day parade when a truck fire broke out. These two brave men came to the rescue...and looked glamorous doing it!
According to BlueCollarBuddha this is what went down,
Moments before the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in the small town of Padua, Minnesota, was about to begin, a truck fire broke out at the end of the block. Fortunately, the all-volunteer firefighting crew from nearby Sedan, Minnesota, was on hand to celebrate their 125th anniversary and to raise money to pay for their new fire hall and truck; one of their members was set to drive the city's new fire truck in the parade and the others were on a float dressed in drag to entertain the crowd.
When a truck erupted in flames, people called 911 to alert the fire department that was assigned to that jurisdiction; but that crew was 15 miles away and some members of the general public were already attempting to put out the blaze with fire extinguishers, which can be exceptionally dangerous. When the blaze spread to an SUV, the Sedan crew decided to take action to prevent possible injuries as well as further damage to additional vehicles or to the surrounding fields and crop land. So the Sedan firefighters, still in drag, grabbed equipment from their truck and put out the blaze in two minutes, some of them adjusting their brightly colored dresses as they did so.
Yes, it was dangerous for these firefighters to do what they did, but in my mind they are heroes.


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I was checking my Twitter feed on my way in to work this morning and was alerted to an interesting blog post by Valentino Vranken that highlights a problem regarding the OLE DB Source in SSIS. In short, using double-dash comments in SQL statements within the OLE DB Source can cause unexpected results. It really is quite an important read if you're developing SSIS packages so head over to SSIS OLE DB Source, Parameters And Comments: A Dangerous Mix! and be educated. Note that the problem is solved in SSIS2012 and Valentino explains exactly why.
If reading Valentino's post has switched your brain into "learn mode" perhaps also check out my post SSIS: SELECT *... or select from a dropdown in an OLE DB Source component? which highlights another issue to be aware of when using the OLE DB Source.
As I was reading Valentino's post I was reminded of a slidedeck by Chris Adkin entitled T-SQL Coding Guidelines where he recommends never using double-dash comments:
That's good advice!
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I always use double dash, so I guess it's time to start changing my habits :)
Maybe i should look at my TSQL Smells project taking apart a dtsx package also as it can already detect these in .sql scripts :)
Unless you need to comment out some XML code that uses /* in the XPath expression.
select @XML.value('.', 'int')
from @XML.nodes('/root/*[@ID = 1]') as T(N)
Then you need to use the double dashes.
Sorry, but this is totally off the mark. Inline comments are easier to use, maintain, and even to read for small comments. Plus they don't create a comment block, and that's a plus when you need to later comment out larger chunks of code.
Don't abandon tools due to perceived weakness. Just as you wouldn't abandon a hammer due to its lack of utility as a screwdriver. Figure out, instead, the appropriate time and place for everything.
Each to their own. If there are good arguments for and against then I hope people have the good sense to take both arguments on board before deciding what they want to do.
Adam and Mikael both have very good points - the double dash comment has a purpose and it shouldn't be discarded as being dangerous, especially because of a product bug.
Also, unless I am missing some clever trolling or delicious irony, Chris Adkin's slide not only offers up a poor reason for not using the double dash (any good statement can become useless because of an accidental backspace), but it also contains a spelling error when countering the argument for good code review (an error which would have been caught during a review).
Hi Mike,
Thanks for the comment.
No clever trolling or irony intended. Yes, Chris' slide contained a spelling error but I wasn't going to not post it because of that. Hopefully Chris will come here and reply to your belief that he offered a poor reason for not using double dash.
As per Jamie's comment, "Each to their own". However, I do know for a fact that there have been instances where code has gone bang in production because of lines being back spaced onto preceding lines containing '--' comments by mistake. Also, and you can put this down to my own personal preference, I think /* */ comment blocks are more readable. As for your comment about trolling, I'm not sure where this comes from. Another point I would make, and again this is regarding readability, and again, before anyone shoots me down in flames you can attribute this to my own personal preference, is that I often see people use '--' style cooments where by you have to scroll a considerable distance to the right of the screen to see what the comment text actually is. In my humble opinion, the use of /* */ style comments is more conducive to readable code in this specific case. Thanks for the point about the typo, I hadn't noticed this and I will correct it. I would suspect that the spirit of Jamie's post was intended to reflect the fact that '--' can be dangerous and was not intended to out right castigate anyone that uses these. Conversely I have seen people comment out whole blocks of code with /* */ which is also bad, such code, again IMHO, should never make it into production. I never suspected that comment styles would illicit such strong opinions, temp tables versus table variables perhaps . . .
I prefer using a stored procedure as the source if there is anything more than a simple select. If it is a simple select with maybe a few joins, I will place comments in the annotation next to the OLE SRC if needed.
I also agree that "someone might hit backspace and hose code" is not, IMO, a good reason to not use the double dash. If the developer is testing code, and code is being locked down, then this will be caught long before it gets to production. In terms of portability, I believe there are some SQL engines that do not support /* */ commenting. Of course, I could be wrong on that last point.
All that being said, I use both styles. If it's a simple comment, I will use the double dash. If it's going to need a paragraph then I will use the comment block style.
On the comment-style usage topic, I'm using both all the time. As Adam said, they both have their good uses!
Having said that, the bug has been filed: https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/773689/ssis-ole-db-source-incorrectly-returns-zero-records-in-combination-with-parameter-and-comment
I just read this advice and this is my first time reading a SQLblog.com entry that i said NO!
Thanks you Adam Machanic for your comment
The problem with /**/ style comments, that means we must be careful with them also, are 2 fold
1) If there is a big block of comments, finding the start and end of a block can be a challenge
2) You cannot have 1 set embedded in another, this limitation can result in difficult find compile SQL errors.
My default advice to juniors, or non-SQL developers is to use the double dash by default. The reason is that they are "in your face" at the begining of each line of SQL code, easy and obvious.
Typing errors can cause all sorts of problems and the fear of them should not be the basis for defining coding best practise when using the alternatives has bigger issues to worry about.
[irony]I think the solution, then, is NO comments.[/irony] Because in SSMS for SQL2005, we encountered this:
I tried to modifiy a USP; SSMS pops up a dialog:
Script failed for StoredProcedure 'dbo.uspUhoh'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)
Additional information:
Syntax error in TextHeader of StoredProcedure 'uspUhoh'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)
We were in the middle of a server issue-- and when I hit THIS I was concerned we may have had a db problem. I punted to the developer to do some checking.
His conclusion was that it was caused by nested comments before the ALTER PROCEDURE statement-- here was his sample:
So it is okay to have one level of comments...
It is not okay /* to have more than one embedded */ C-Style /* comments like these */
Though, strangly one set of embedded C-Style comments is, apparently, okay. Two are not.
-- These style are okay to embed
ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.uspUhoh
-- your code
I don't think a valid solution to not using the comment block properly is to just not put in any comments. That's like refusing to walk because you tripped once.
Pretty sure mst was making some attempt at humor.
By the way, to those who believe in banning inline comments due to some tiny potential for error: this same argument would have to apply to any language that supports such comments. So what you're really implying is that virtually every language ever created got this wrong. Sorry, but I'll have to take the side of the language designers in that particular battle.
By the way, this reminds me of a manager I once had who banned us from using the ternary operator in C++ programs, because once he had accidentally misread one and introduced an error in some program. There is such a thing as acceptable risk, and both inline comments and ternary operators have very low, very reasonable thresholds.
Actually, my goal is always to make my code as self-documenting as possible, Zen-like. When I insert a comment, I am acknowledging failure.
CodePro: I've heard that lots and lots of times. And it doesn't work. Use comments, please.
CodePro - Code cannot be made self-documenting. Code always answers the question "How?", but can never the question "Why?". This is a problem, as anyone can (eventually) understand *how* a piece of code works; understanding *why* the code is doing it requires comments.
In other, more Zen-like words, just because the cat has her kittens in the oven doesn't make them biscuits. Code is code: it cannot be made more than it is.
use 4 dashes (double click the comment button in SSMS, then an inadvertent delete still leaves you with a spare dash...ROFL at the logic here, why not just never drive because an inadvertent slip might put you in the guardrail...
Test your code before you commit it, so users don't catch your silliness...THAT is the hard\fast rule...


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|Registration Deadline:
|March 21, 2012 about 7 years ago
|To apply for Funding you must register by:
|December 21, 2011 over 7 years ago
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|Critical Issues
|Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley CA
Show List of Speakers
- Deborah Ball (University of Michigan)
- Hyman Bass (University of Michigan)
- Sybilla Beckmann (University of Georgia)
- Ashli Black
- Jo Boaler (Stanford University)
- Brian Cohen
- David Cohen
- Amy Cohen-Corwin (Rutgers University)
- Philip Daro
- Wade Ellis (West Valley College)
- Susanna Epp (DePaul University)
- Megan Franke (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Sol Garfunkel (Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP))
- Imani Goffney (University of Maryland)
- Rochelle Gutierrez (University of Illinois)
- Farshid Hajir (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
- Patricio Herbst
- Mark Hoover (University of Michigan)
- Judith Jacobs
- Elham Kazemi
- William McCallum (University of Arizona)
- Emily McCullough (San Francisco State University)
- Juan Pablo Mejia Ramos
- Cody Patterson (University of Texas)
- Rheta Rubenstein
- Deborah Schifter
- Alan Schoenfeld (University of California, Berkeley)
- Meghan Shaughnessy (University of Michigan)
- Kara Suzuka
- Paola Sztajn
- Kristin Umland (University of New Mexico)
- Ellen Whitesides
The wide adoption of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) offers a helpful curricular coherence to the environment of teacher education. And so the CCSSM present both an opportunity and a challenge to teacher education. An opportunity because of the greater focus made possible. A challenge because not only of the ambitious level of the CCSSM, but also of the prominent role in them of Mathematical Practices. While most mathematicians will find these congenial, much needs to be done to make them meaningfully understood by teachers and teacher educators, and, still more, how to enact them as an organic aspect of instruction. The CIME workshop aims to gather and stimulate ideas for how to meet this opportunity and challenge.
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Students, recent Ph.D.'s, women, and members of underrepresented minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Funding awards are typically made 6 weeks before the workshop begins. Requests received after the funding deadline are considered only if additional funds become available.
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Pepperdine is a great place to live and work, but don't take our word for it. We've gathered these stories from people around the University. Read their stories, and contact them if you'd like!
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Lisa Welch
"I can't imagine going somewhere else and finding the sense of family I feel here."
Read more about Lisa's personal story of the Pepperdine community supporting her in a moment of need.
Tabatha Jones Jolivet
"We have an obligation to use our higher education to do something good in the world. We're preparing students to do that."
Read more about how Tabatha turned a post-undergrad job into a fulfilling career.
Hung Le
"Be prepared to have your life changed by Pepperdine. It's a great workplace, but it can be much more than that."
Read more about how the Pepperdine on-campus community has impacted Hung's family.
Jack McManus
"I can't believe they pay me to be here."
Jack has worked with each of Pepperdine's five schools, read more about his nearly 40 years of experience.
Frank Villasenor
"It's a dream job. Pepperdine gives you the ability to have a balanced life."
Read more about Frank's more than 20 years of experience and the work Pepperdine does for his employees (or read it in Spanish).


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When Nicki Minaj premiered her "Roman Holiday" single two months ago via the most baffling Grammys performance ever, fans who had high hopes for her second album began to express concern about the focus on her alter-ego character, Roman Zolanski, pausing from uttering "WTF" just long enough to say: Please, God, not a concept album.
Those particular worries could hardly have been more misplaced. "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded" is about as concept-less an album as has ever been made.
It was telling that Minaj dramatized a gaudy exorcism in her Grammy number, because there are definitely two spirits fighting for control of the singular body of "Roman Reloaded." Most of the first third of the album is straight-up hip-hop — usually vulgar, often clever, mostly discordant and hardly dull.
Then it suddenly transitions for most of its last two-thirds into a personality-drained pop-dance album in which Minaj seems possessed by the evil spirit of Katy Perry.
In other words, it's an album with something to annoy everyone. If you're one of Minaj's hardcore fans, or even just would rather hear her rap than sing, there's a good chance you'll want to take the disc off after track 6… with 13 songs still left to go on the bloated standard version (and 16 still left to go on the super-extra-bloated deluxe edition!).
If you just want to hear Minaj sing generic pop, well, you're probably 16 and will cherry-pick singles off iTunes anyway, rather than buy this entire behemoth. But if you do listen from the start, you will rightfully have all kinds of questions about the wacko opening numbers, starting with why Nicki is singing in a Sharon Osbourne British accent at the beginning. Also, you will learn a lot about oral sex.
Ah, yes, this is the Nicki Minaj who put in an appearance at the Kids' Choice Awards two days before release date, right? Any parents fooled by Nickelodeon's loose standards for kid-friendliness or Minaj's adorable Day-Glo-glam persona into imagining that "Roman Reloaded" is suitable preteen fare should probably be slapped, if not slimed. It's an album that would make Harvey Weinstein go, "Oh, yeah, NC-17, for sure."
Initially, it's a relief just to realize that the titular character won't be making any more appearances after the opening "Roman Holiday" — nor will Roman's irritating Cockney mother, or anyone else to remind us that Nicki did some theater in high school. But ultimately it's a dispiriting sign of how the reins got away from such a promising artist that she ditched her central idea in favor of bulking the album up with lame Top 40 bait while keeping the title as a testament to her compromised ambition.
"Come on a Cone" provides the record's most fun moments, early on — and it's probably the only track that's slightly less salacious than it sounds. The rapper spends the entire tune basking in high fashion, wealth and media attention, not sex. (Funniest lines: "When I'm sitting with Anna, I'm really sitting with Anna/Ain't a metaphor punch line, I"m really sitting with Anna!")
By the time she starts chanting "My ice is so cold, it should come on a cone" in a series of maniacal voices, you realize you're listening to the world's most gleeful representative of the One Percent.
The materialism just keeps on comin' in "I Am Your Leader," in which Minaj brags, "When I fly it's one letter and one number," encouraging her fans to share her disdain for all the losers who fly commercial first class. It's a old joke, all this hip-hop money-hoarding, but unlike some of her male contemporaries who've exhausted the gag over the years, she's at least in on it, as is clear from the unbashful comic extremes to which she takes her hysterical voice on these Richie Rich Bitch raps.
Then, in the title track, Minaj defensively raps, "Only thing that pop is my endorsement op… Gotta run and reinforce the glock." Which, inexplicably, is her cue to go pop for nearly all the remainder of the album. Maybe if she'd knocked on wood when she said it, it would have come or stayed true.
On a few transitional selections, she does some singing and lets superstar male guests round it out with some rapping. On "Champions," over some uninspiringly new-agey synth riffs, she sings "This is for the single mothers," and even names a few. Sweet, right? Then Drake comes in with lines like: "Makin' hits in 3-acre cribs…/Lots of bad bitches, but they good to me/I make her do the splits for a rap." Yep, he's every bedragged single mom's dream.
Things get even more balladic and less rap in the duet with Chris Brown that follows, "Right By My Side," which is extremely innocuous by recent Brown standards. You've got to wonder what they were thinking, though, in light of what we know about the instigation of the Brown/Rihanna incident. when Minaj says, "Wait, let me see your phone," followed by another reference to "bitches."
That's followed by the leading contender for Worst Song of 2012, the R. Kelly-style "Sex in the Lounge," a collaboration with Lil Wayne and crooner Bobby V in which Minaj barely even shows up. Yes, it is literally a song about the joy of annoying people by making love in the club. "Get on that [sex organ] and get that money/Go Oprah for me," Weezy raps. Won't Oprah looooove finding out she's invoked as a metaphor for prostitution on one of the year's most anticipated albums?
As if chastening herself for Lil Wayne's sins, Minaj spends the rest of her album being kind of a bore. The current single is a rave-pop number with the hook, "Starships were meant to fly…" You suppose they'll run into any fireworks up there?
"Beautiful Sinner" is competitive with the worst of Madonna for sheer banality ("You are the type of bad that feels so good" — did she really want her name on these credits?). The uncharacteristically self-pitying ballad "Marilyn Monroe," another one you can't believe Minaj had a hand in at all, is basically an extreme narcissist's version of "Candle in the Wind."
"Gun Shot" and the impossibly hokey "Young Forever" sound right of Rihanna's reject pile and prove that just because Minaj can easily adopt RiRi's subtle patois doesn't mean it's all advisable that she should.
When Minaj eventually makes one stab at returning to bad-ass status at the end—with the previously issued "Stupid Hoe," where her idea of a brilliant girl-on-girl putdown is "I'm Angelina, you Jennifer"—you might not be sure whether to prefer the bland Nicki or the sometimes bluntly nasty one. But at least Mean Nicki knows how to have some oddly rhythmic, tonally bizarre fun. If we're to pick one side or the other of her to exorcize, it's got to be the sellout.


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Isidor Sittenauer, a CFCA sponsor, shares some of his thoughts about his experience on the recent mission awareness trip to El Salvador.
When we first arrived at the CFCA center, I was rather surprised to be in a dormitory-type of setting and by the shock of cold water showers.
However, after visiting some of the homes of the sponsored children, I realized I was living in luxury by comparison. The people we visited were poor, yet they were always ready with a smile and hug. And, despite their housing situation, they always had on spotless clothing.
Every American citizen should appreciate the luxury we live in.


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Army Says Alleged Fort Hood Shooter Saw No Combat In Iraq
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army's top civilian official says the soldier accused in the Fort Hood shooting this week was deployed for the final months of the Iraq war but did not see combat.
Three people died and 16 were wounded before the shooter committed suicide.
Army Secretary John McHugh testified Thursday that the soldier appeared to have no connections to extremist groups.
The soldier is identified by others as Ivan Lopez. He enlisted in the Army in June 2008 as an infantryman and later switched his specialty to truck driver, the job he had in Iraq.
McHugh says the soldier was examined by a psychiatrist last month and was found to show no violent or suicidal tendencies. He says the soldier had been prescribed Ambien to deal with a sleeping problem.
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans showed that their brain's outer mantle, or cortex, thickens more rapidly during childhood, reaching its peak later than in their peers ?perhaps reflecting a longer developmental window for high-level thinking circuitry. It also thins faster during the late teens, likely due to the withering of unused neural connections as the brain streamlines its operations. Drs. Philip Shaw, Judith Rapoport, Jay Giedd and colleagues at NIMH and McGill University report on their findings in the March 30, 2006 issue of Nature.
"Studies of brains have taught us that people with higher IQs do not have larger brains. Thanks to brain imaging technology, we can now see that the difference may be in the way the brain develops," said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D.
While most previous MRI studies of brain development compared data from different children at different ages, the NIMH study sought to control for individual variation in brain structure by following the same 307 children and teens, ages 5-19, as they grew up. Most were scanned two or more times, at two-year intervals. The resulting scans were divided into three equal groups and analyzed based on IQ test scores: superior (121-145), high (109-120), and average (83-108).
The researchers found that the relationship between cortex thickness and IQ varied with age, particularly in the prefrontal cortex, seat of abstract reasoning, planning, and other "executive" functions. The smartest 7-year-olds tended to start out with a relatively thinner cortex that thickened rapidly, peaking by age 11 or 12 before thinning. In their peers with average IQ, an initially thicker cortex peaked by age 8, with gradual thinning thereafte r. Those in the high range showed an intermediate trajectory (see below). While the cortex was thinning in all groups by the teen years, the superior group showed the highest rates of change.
"Brainy children are not cleverer solely by virtue of having more or less gray matter at any one age," explained Rapoport. "Rather, IQ is related to the dynamics of cortex maturation."The observed differences are consistent with findings from functional magnetic resonance imaging, showing that levels of activation in prefrontal areas correlates with IQ, note the researchers. They suggest that the prolonged thickening of prefrontal cortex in children with superior IQs might reflect an "extended critical period for development of high-level cognitive circuits." Although it's not known for certain what underlies the thinning phase, evidence suggests it likely reflects "use-it-or-lose-it" pruning of brain cells, neurons, and their connections as the brain matures and becomes more efficient during the teen years.
"People with very agile minds tend to have a very agile cortex," said Shaw. The NIMH researchers are following-up with a search for gene variants that might be linked to the newly discovered trajectories. However, Shaw notes mounting evidence suggesting that the effects of genes often depends on interactions with environmental events, so the determinants of intelligence will likely prove to be a very complex mix of nature and nurture.
Also participating in the study were Drs. Dede Greenstein, Liv Clasen, Rhoshel Lenroot, and Nitin Gogtay, Child Psychiatry Branch, NIMH; and Drs. Jason Lerch and Alan Evans, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University.


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Listen to Jay-Z's 'Magna Carta Holy Grail' Collaborations With Beyonce, Justin Timberlake + More [Video]
Jay-Z's groundbreaking and landmark 'Magna Carta Holy Grail' is upon us, and you can listen to some of the songs, which feature the likes of his wife Beyonce and frequent collaborator Justin Timberlake.
'Part II (On the Run)' is a love story, done Jay-Z-style, and features the Queen Bey, delivering a butter smooth R&B vocal eschewing cliched romance while Jay raps about how bada--- his baby mama is and other assorted things like dying for love, the notions of heaven and hell and all that good stuff. Is this as good as their ''03 Bonnie and Clyde' collabo? You listen and be the judge.
Listen to Jay-Z + Beyonce on 'Part II (On the Run)'
Then there is 'Holy Grail,' his collabo with 'Suit & Tie' partner JT. The intro finds JT crooning and singing over a piano melody before the Hov swoops down and spits his rhymes. This is also the track that samples the lyrics and melody for Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.'
Listen to Jay-Z + Justin Timberlake on 'Holy Grail'
'Tom Ford' is a laid back track that mostly features the Hov, with Bey showing up at the very end to sing. Everyone in this camp loves the high-end fashion designer.
Listen to 'Tom Ford'
'BBC' features another appearance by Beyonce, along with Nas, Swizz Beatz, JT and Bey. It starts out with all sorts of references to fashion brands and boastfulness. It's slowed down a bit, which may have been done to prevent it from being yanked from the Interwebs. Jay also quotes Britney Spears' famous line: "It's Britney b----."
Listen to Jay-Z, Nas, Swizz Beatz, Beyonce + Justin Timberlake on 'BBC'
The appropriately titled 'Oceans' is opened by Frank Ocean and one helluva beat. Best lyric? "The only Christopher we acknowledge is Wallace," which is a ref to Biggie Smalls aka The Notorious B.I.G. Holla!
Listen to Jay-Z + Frank Ocean on 'Oceans'


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gailr wrote: . . . As for the topics of "training children_and_guns", here are links to two Landover articles. (For those unfamiliar, this is a spoof site, but one I enjoy immensely.) Vacation Bible Gun Camp and Unarmed Student Shot in the Head by a Jesus Puppet.
The only problem with parodies and spoofs is that there is sometimes a kernel of truth in them. I wonder where the Landover Baptist Church website owners really live? Landover, MD, is located between Riverdale and Upper Marlboro. AHA! Wikipedia has an article on Landover Baptist Church with a link to a Press Release about the origins. I note that one of the datelines on the press release is Falls Church, VA, just t'other of Washington, DC from Riverdale and Landover . . .
Be afraid; be very afraid!


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Onuchic and Levine will study molecular basis of bacterial decision-making
A $1 million INSPIRE award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to Rice University will fund research on how bacterial decision-making occurs at the molecular level. A better quantitative analysis of integrated biological systems could impact medical applications and the removal of pollution and other contaminants from the environment.
Rice was one of 11 institutions chosen for the NSF's first round of INSPIRE (Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education) awards, which were established to address some of the most complicated and pressing scientific problems that lie at the intersections of traditional disciplines. NSF announced the first awardees July 18.
"We're going to explore the fundamental question of how intricate protein-based molecular machines can determine cellular-level dynamics for living systems," said principal investigator José Onuchic, Rice's Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Chair of Physics and a professor of physics and astronomy, chemistry, biochemistry and cell biology. "Our team will apply an integrative approach that combines computational and experimental techniques to bridge the huge gap in our understanding of and ability to predict the quantitative functionality of biological systems."
Herbert Levine, the Hasselmann Professor of Bioengineering, is co-principal investigator for the project. He and Onuchic are also co-directors of the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at Rice.
Their team of researchers at the center plans to create a framework for quantitatively predicting functional consequences of designed changes in protein systems. For their test case, they will focus on the decision-making circuitry of Bacillus subtilis, a bacterial microorganism that is commonly found in the soil.
"Although biology starts from the molecular scale, it is only at the cellular and multicellular levels that we see life in action, as a distinct form of matter that has goal-oriented behavior," Levine said. "So the dynamics at higher levels must be directly determined by their molecular underpinnings. But exactly how this works has not yet been understood even for simple forms of life such as bacteria. Such knowledge could show us how to intervene at the molecular scale to engineer the performance of quantitative systems."
Onuchic said the research is "inherently multidisciplinary" and combines protein chemistry with signal transduction, molecular biology and biophysics with complex pattern-formation physics, and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics with synthetic biology.
He said the basic knowledge gained from this work could revolutionize the ability to control biofilms by molecular manipulation. "Biofilm control is crucial for medical applications, for bacterial-based environmental remediation and for modern desalination," he said.
Only Rice and Tufts University received the maximum amount — $1 million – allotted for INSPIRE awards in the first round. The INSPIRE awards that will be distributed this fiscal year are expected to total about $30.4 million.
NSF Director Subra Suresh said, "INSPIRE is a great example of the vital role NSF plays in supporting highly innovative research and education projects at the intersections of traditional disciplines in science and engineering."
For a list of the INSPIRE awardees, visit


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You've already sent us one set of iOS 4 beta screenshots, and you just keep them coming. So here we are with round 2, and here's what they show:
- Photo Stream can support multiple Apple IDs
- Automatic downloads work for apps everywhere, but for music only in the US
- Game Center has a place for your picture now
- iCloud won't work with Apple IDs that aren't email addresses (older Apple IDs)
- Swiping in weather gives you hourly forecasts (first update since 1.0, yay!)
- You can Tweet a single picture but not multiple pictures
- If you don't recall your password, there's an iForgot button (we kid you not)
Anyone notice anything else?
[Thanks Rodney, Kevin, JD, and anon!]
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Even-keeled Span making big impact for Nats
NEW YORK -- Nationals center fielder Denard Span acknowledges that he is more relaxed this year than he was at this time last year. It helps that he's gained better familiarity with his teammates and vice versa.
"They know they type of person and player I am. It gives me more confidence," Span said. "The people understand me more. I work my butt off and I play the game hard."
NEW YORK -- Nationals center fielder Denard Span acknowledges that he is more relaxed this year than he was at this time last year. It helps that he's gained better familiarity with his teammates and vice versa.
"They know they type of person and player I am. It gives me more confidence," Span said. "The people understand me more. I work my butt off and I play the game hard."
Being more relaxed has carried over onto the field. Entering Tuesday's action against the Mets, Span is on a 14-game hitting streak and has reached base in 36 consecutive games.
The current success doesn't tell the whole story, though. Span has seen his on-base percentage climb to .360, and he leads the Nationals with 32 doubles. He is also on pace reach a career best in stolen bases. Span currently has 23 steals, while his career high is 26 with the Twins in 2010.
Let's not forget that Span is arguably the best defensive center fielder in baseball. Not many balls fly by this 30-year-old speedster. Since coming to the Nats last season, Span has made only one error. Last year, Span was not rewarded with a National League Gold Glove Award, but he should be a leading candidate to win one this year.
Asked if this is his best season in the big leagues, Span pointed out that the season is not over yet.
"I'm not satisfied. I'm always staying hungry," Span said. "I feel like I can do more. I'm hard on myself. I just want to continue to come here every day and just do what I've been doing and just try to get better and help this team win."
Manager Matt Williams is one of Span's biggest supporters. Despite calls that Span should hit down in the order, Williams never wavered. Span is his leadoff hitter for the rest of the season.
Williams also pointed out that Span saves a lot of runs because of the excellent defense he provides in center field.
"My thought about Denard is that he prepares every single day," Williams said. "I know from experience that it's important to be able to score runs, but it's doubly important to prevent runs. That's what I believe in. I believe that Denard has played and earned the right to be where he is at. Not just this year, but last year, too. He didn't make an error last year, not one error. That's important to our club."
In fact, Span credits Williams for the season he's currently enjoying. After being benched twice in a week earlier in the season, Span went to Williams and explained that he takes his job seriously. That's when Williams assured him that he would be his everyday center fielder.
"He stood up for me," Span said about Williams. "That goes a long way with me. I'm a very loyal person, so when somebody sticks their neck out for me, I take that to heart. That means a lot to me. I give a lot of credit to him. He has never wavered. Even when I wasn't playing well, he never went away from his word. That has given me the confidence to get going."
The season that Span is having comes at a time when the Nationals have to make a decision about his future. He could become a free agent if they don't pick up his $9 million option for 2015.
In late May, Span did not think he would be with the Nats after this year. He declined to give a reason for his possible departure. At the time, Span was hitting around .270, and that was when Bryce Harper suggested he should be the starting center fielder after he returned from his left thumb injury.
Asked on Sunday if he thought the Nationals would pick up his option, Span said, "I don't know. I've never been at that this position where my contract has been up like this. The team has the decision to pick it up. I really don't know. Do I want to be here? Of course. I would like to be here even longer than next year. We'll see."
Bill Ladson is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, All Nats All the time. He also could be found on Twitter @WashingNats.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Franklin Graham, son of legendary Christian evangelist Billy Graham, urged fellow Christians last week to support the State of Israel, on both moral and religious grounds.
Speaking at a solidarity event at the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC, the younger Graham, himself an accomplished minister and evangelist, said the Bible makes clear that modern Israel should be an important issue for Christians.
"I support Israel not only because I worship a Jew, but because of what the Bible says about Israel and the future of Israel," he said.
Graham's remarks come at a time when more and more Evangelical Christians are abandoning support of Israel in favor of a new theology of social justice that serves Palestinian nationalist aspirations.
One of the talking points of this new theology is that modern Israel can not and must not be directly associated with the Israel of the Bible, that today's Jewish state is not, as people like Franklin Graham preach, a fulfillment of biblical prophecy.
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