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Don't really mind if you want to start early without me, but keep nibbs in mind as he's still in the cup and the NZ cup runs longer than WI.
Don't really mind if you want to start early without me, but keep nibbs in mind as he's still in the cup and the NZ cup runs longer than WI.
I'll join in and get knocked out.
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I'll play. And if you need some help to run it, consider me.
Or something.
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I'm into Round 7 so I won't be able to play for at least one week, maybe longer if things go well.
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Lost today, so I'm in.
I'm in, just got knocked out of my cup.
I'm in, and I want to be put in the same group as Collins.
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i think that is fair... if you were making groups of 4 have 2 groups of 2 with lower seeded teams with 3 teams? obviously nibbs and adam would be one of tops seedsOriginally Posted by Adamc
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Let me assure you 2005 will be a different story....Except that, in Test-matches in 2004, them not winning has been very much the anomaly.
Let me assure you 2005 will be a different story....Except that, in Test-matches in 2004, them not winning has been very much the anomaly.
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Both of us have batting averages below 100.
So which one isn't?Originally Posted by Richard
Ramprakash isn't in there
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He's only good because he either hits very quick runs or gets out, and if he gets out early we have England's best opener in ODI coming in at 3Originally Posted by Langeveldt
Originally Posted by Richard
You are such a killjoy.
I've got an idea then.Originally Posted by Richard
Ban people below number 8 from batting because that just ruins the game.
If these bowlers are so good, then how come they don't get the "rubbish" batsmen out?
hahahahahahahaha, that's a good one.Originally Posted by Barney Rubble
You realise I was kidding, right? I'd be surprised if anyone scores a hundred quicker than 37 balls any time soon, let alone Harmison!!
haha, well the smiley with tounge did give me a hint.Originally Posted by Barney Rubble
Just checking! You are from Australia, after all - it's my national duty to be suspicious of you!
fair point!Originally Posted by Barney Rubble
Solanki is every bit as out-of-position as Ramprakash was in First-Class-cricket.Originally Posted by marc71178
Sadly, that experiment wasn't abandoned quick enough (probably mostly because of a wholly impressive 164* against the mighty Shropshire), unlike the Ramprakash one.
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Because believe it or not, no-one can bowl well all the time.Originally Posted by marc71178
For me, I don't like seeing someone slogged by some people who normally wouldn't be capable of doing so.
So you didnt even raise a slight smile when Harmison hit that 30 odd vs WI the other weekOriginally Posted by Richard
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Well, that was all crap bowlers - I certanly won't be smiling if he does it to Ntini and Nel this winter (though I can't see it's very likely).
Also, it was a wholly needless innings that didn't make any difference to the match-situation - and you can go on all you like about mental demoralisation, I don't think it made a difference and you can't prove it did.
In spite of the fact he's been doing it for a fair while now and is getting results in that position in List A games?Originally Posted by Richard
Just because he didn't start there, doesn't mean he's out of position now.
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What rights spouses unnamed in reverse mortgages have remain unclear after a Department of Housing and Urban Development appeal of a court decision calling for it to provide direction on the issue.
Its too big an issue for lenders to want to deal with by themselves. What they can do in the meantime is to ensure that they lend prudently and they dont make any decision that will impact a spouse, consciously or not, says Atare Agbamu, president/CEO of consultancy ThinkReverse LLC.
One way to mitigate the risk is to refrain from allowing only one spouse to take out a reverse mortgage in exchange for the withdrawal of equity from the home, even though a single individual may get more attractive terms.
HUDs policy when it comes to the rights of non-borrowing spouses after their partner dies and the loan becomes due has been unclear, a court decision last fall suggests. HUD refrains from comment on litigation, but its appeal late last year suggests it is continuing to contest this.
HUD may want to think twice before simply doing away with allowing non-borrowing spouses on the Federal Housing Administrations Home Equity Conversion Mortgages, which almost entirely comprise the current reverse mortgage market.
The non-borrowing spouse has been part of this industry since its inception, notes Roger Beane, CEO of LRES, a national provider of property valuations that has been active in the HECM market.
Allowing the practice does intensify the risk that spouses unnamed in HECM documents could lose their homes when their partners die, though.
Until that problem is resolved, that is not a good reputation for the product. HUD should solve that problem rather than litigating it. Otherwise that problem will linger and impact the business reputation, says Agbamu, who has long pressed for a resolution to the non-borrowing spouse issue.
The HECM program has already been in the throes of a lot of change in the wake of disproportionately large losses from it during the downturn and overall strains on the FHAs finances that have led to reform.
This larger context could play a role when it comes to the non-borrowing spouse question. Among other things it has led to a situation where underwriting standards for HECMs are growing much tighter. This will likely improve HECMs performance and reputation, but leaves the most financially needy seniors the government program exists to help with less access to this financial resource.
Some might say, Hey, maybe we should do away with public insurance, especially now that the product has become more of an upper-middle-class financial planning tool. Minds need to be put together. We need to figure out how to serve the neediest cases that originally motivated the legislation and the industry without opening up the government and lenders up to unsupportable financial risk, Agbamu says.


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Joseph Farah and many others are screaming "voter fraud!" based on some easily debunked numbers, though it's clear they haven't even tried to check them out. For example, they're claiming that in St. Lucie County, Florida, there were more ballots cast than eligible voters:
Out of 175,554 registered voters, 247,713 vote cards were cast in St. Lucie County, Florida on Tuesday. Barack Obama won the county.
When faced with the astronomical figures, Gertrude Walker, Supervisor of Elections for St. Lucie County, said she had no idea why turnout was so incredibly high. She was flabbergasted, saying, "We've never seen that here."
70.7% of the district's 175,552 registered voters cast their ballots in the election. That's a lower percentage than the 2008 election, which saw 77% of registered voters cast ballots. Walker had originally predicted 80% of voters would turn out.
And then look at the actual voting results for the county. The number for "cards cast" is not the same as the number of ballots turned in and votes recorded. That's because the ballot was two pages long, so the number of cards cast is twice the number of ballots. If they'd just looked at those numbers they would see that 123,591 votes were cast for president out of 175,554 eligible voters. That's 70.4%. Gee, that's almost exactly half of 141%, isn't it? Reading isn't the only thing that's fundamental; thinking is too.


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Drew Brees led the undefeated Saints to a crushing 38-17 victory over the Miami Dolphins on Monday as New Orleans continue to put last year's nightmare season well behind them.
Brees completed 30-of-39 attempts for 413 yards passing and tossed four touchdown passes as the Saints dominated a matchup between previously unbeaten teams, improving to 4-0, while dropping the visiting Dolphins to 3-1.
New Orleans' start to this year's campaign is a far cry from a year ago when they lost their first four games while coach Sean Payton served a year-long suspension for involvement in a bounty program, eventually missing the playoffs with a 7-9 record.
"We like this a lot better," Brees told reporters, of their resurgence. "Everything that could have gone wrong for us went wrong [last season]. Fortunately, we're having the ball bounce our way this year. We're playing good football."
Restored to full strength, New Orleans have looked a different proposition, and they jumped 7-0 ahead of Miami on their first drive of the game and never took their foot off the gas.
Darren Sproles scored on a five-yard run on the initial possession and added a 13-yard receiving touchdown at the end of the second quarter to give the Saints a 21-10 halftime lead.
Sproles finished with seven catches for 114 yards.
Tight end Jimmy Graham also had a big day to continue his great start to the season.
The big target caught 100 receiving yards and two touchdown passes, the second coming midway through the third quarter on a 43-yard bomb that put New Orleans 35-10 in front.
Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill added a touchdown pass in the fourth quarter, but finished with three interceptions and one lost fumble.
"They were huge," Dolphins coach Joe Philbin said of the turnovers. "We were hanging around. It was a big giveaway."
Lamar Miller rushed for 62 yards and a first-half score for Miami, but did not see the ball in the second with his team playing catchup.
The Dolphins entered the game with their first 3-0 start since 2002, but drop one game behind New England (4-0) for the American Football Conference East lead as a result of the loss.


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Nobel Prize laureate to speak at Iowa State
The 2011 winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry will speak at Iowa State University Wednesday about using technological entrepreneurship as a tool for world development.
Danny Shechtman, an Iowa State engineering professor and a research scientist will speak at the university's memorial union great hall at noon Wednesday.
His lecture will focus on ideas about building up developing countries by motivating new generations of students in technological entrepreneurship. He says one way to speed up the process is motivating today's engineers and scientists in developing countries to establish startups and eventually mentor the next generation of entrepreneurs.
Shechtman won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of quasicrystals, crystalline materials whose atoms don't line up like other crystals. The discovery changed ideas about matter and its atomic arrangement.


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text: Every fall, my mother-in-law gets everyone together to take a family photo for her Christmas card. With each passing year, we've gotten a little better (and a little more creative) at using a timer and a tripod to get everyone in our growing family looking and smiling. I have to say, as long […] Read More »


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Williams 1 #280
Impending relocation means #280 is up for sale. £9k
The car was bought new by my father and over the years we have both had a lot of fun owning it. I have many great memories growing up with the car and eventually bought it from him around ten years ago. I have been running it since and will be very sad to see the car which has been a part of my life for nearly 25 years go. I haven't however been using the car as much as it deserves and it has been SORN for the past two years. To store the car and continue this also feels a shame and so I hope somebody is able to take on the car and get as much enjoyment out of it as I have. The car is not in perfect showroom condition but has had a lot of mechanical work done over the years to keep it running well.
New tyres and MOT last week so now back on the road.
Full service history with one Renault dealer until 2013 and then with R Sport.
106k miles
Bodywork needs some attention with right rear arch and front sill starting to rust (shown in photos)
Rear left arch suffered minor dent in 2013 which was pulled back out and resprayed. Rubber strip was left slightly bent and could not be refitted so still needs sourcing.
Also have a set of 4 original wheels for sale. These were replaced by those now on the car in around 2005 and are in need of a refurb.
Please message me for contact details and I will be more than happy to chat and answer any questions. The car is available for viewing in Wimbledon for the next week only.
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The Best Dystopian and Near Future Movies
List Rules Films about what happens when society & civilization crumble, or the possible future that awaits us...
The best dystopian and near future movies are the films that make us a little more thankful for the Starbucks line every morning. These futuristic movies include some of the best alien movies, the best doomsday movies, and the greatest disaster movies of all time as they would play out after the rebuilding (or complete destruction) of society.
These near-future and dystopian films are all images of what the world would look like after a nuclear war, alien invasion, natural disaster, or some other earth-shattering uprising. From science-fiction films like Twelve Monkeys and Blade Runner, to action films like Mad Max and Children of Men, to revenge movies like V for Vendetta and The Hunger Games, this list of the best dystopian and near-future films gives us a glance into the best movies of the worst to come for the future of humanity.
What is the best film about a dystopian future? What movie best tells the story of a disastrous reality set in the near future? What is the greatest movie about the end of the world as we know it? Don't see your favorite end of days film on the list of the greatest near-future and dystopian movies? Make sure to add it so other fans can see your idea of what the best end of the world film really is.


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New York, May 8, 2014--An Australian journalist covering protests in Burma was deported by authorities today, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the move.
The exile-run news outlet Irrawaddy reported that today's case was the first time a journalist had been forced to leave the country since 2012, when President Thein Sein's administration started taking measures to address its restrictive anti-press practices.
"Deporting journalists harkens back to Burma's half-century of military rule and is one of many signs that democratic reforms have been illusory," said CPJ Asia Program Coordinator Bob Dietz. "Burma should allow foreign journalists to enter the country and report freely."
Angus Watson, 24, an intern video journalist for the exile-run news website Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), flew out of Yangon today after authorities accused him of violating the terms of his visa by participating in a protest, according to news reports. Watson was covering protests in the Magwe region against a one-year jail term given to another DVB journalist last month, according to news reports.
Ye Htut, a presidential spokesman and deputy minister of information, said in a statement on Facebook that Watson was on a business visa but had broken the law when he "participated in a protest that did not have government permission," The Associated Press reported.
"Ye Htut's comment that I was involved as a protester is baseless," Watson told CPJ today. "I was at the protest only in the capacity as a DVB journalist. It seems as if my deportation is another attempt to intimidate media workers with the use of legal clauses unrelated to press law."
Earlier this year, Burma's Ministry of Immigration began denying three- to six-month visas for foreign journalists working for exiled media groups, including DVB, according to Irrawaddy. Some were given visas for only two or three weeks. To counteract the move, some journalists with foreign passports began applying for business visas, while others had used business visas before the new restrictions were imposed, the report said.


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State allows insurers to renew canceled health policies
LANSING — Michigan will heed President Barack Obama's call to allow state health insurers to extend policies that fail to meet requirements of the federal health care overhaul.
Department of Insurance and Financial Services Director Ann Flood said Friday the one-year extensions will offer more opportunities to consumers who buy their own insurance and a reprieve from policy cancellations planned on Jan. 1.
The decision comes after the faulty launch of a federal health care website in October — on which 1,300 Michigan residents picked a plan during the first month of sign-ups — and amid the potential cancellation of 225,000 policies in Michigan that fall short of the law's minimum coverage standards.
Flood said her department weighed "possible disruptions to the market against benefits to consumers" and determined it was preferable to give consumers "a choice" and the federal government "time to fix problems with the site."
"It's about making sure that come Jan. 1, 2014, our Michiganders have coverage for health care," she said.
Nationally, more than 4 million people who buy their own insurance have gotten cancellation notices, because their plans don't meet requirements of Obama's health law.
The cancellations have angered some policy holders, many of whom will see their monthly premiums and deductibles rise sharply under new plans. They also fly in the face of promises Obama made repeatedly when he said people who liked their current health insurance policies could keep them under his health insurance reforms.
Last week, Obama announced proposals that would temporarily allow those people to keep their insurance, but it ultimately will be up to each state to decide whether that can happen. The response to Obama's plea has been mixed, with many states running their own health care exchanges saying they will not follow his advice and will let the older policies expire.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, the state's largest insurer, said Friday it's continuing to let older policies lapse and move people into new ones that comply with the new law. But the company is keeping one individual health plan, known as Keep Fit, available as a fallback option through next year. Of about 175,000 members in the company's individual market, about 47,000 have that plan.
Blue Cross Chief Executive Daniel Loepp said the recommendation to keep other plans open for another year "adds a great deal of complexity" after spending two-and-a-half years aligning its plans with the new law's requirements.
"This was not an easy decision for us, but it's a responsible decision," Loepp said. "We understand that many people are upset that federal law set forth the need to transition out of their old plans. But it's responsible to our members to promote insurance affordability. Avoiding 30 percent rate hikes and helping people find the subsidies they are eligible for is our effort to help our members during this time of tremendous change."


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The California Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on whether local governments can ban retail pot dispensaries within their borders, a question that could lead to the medical marijuana industry's expansion or further contraction depending on the outcome.
After several hours of arguments at a special session convened at the University of San Francisco in honor of the law schoo's 100th anniversary, it was hard to tell which way the justices were leaning. They are expected to issue a ruling within 90 days.
At issue is a Southern California pot club - the Inland Empire Patient's Health and Wellness Center - that sued the city of Riverside over its decision to ban pot clubs.
Opponents argue state law empowers local governments to ban the establishment of pot clubs but supporters contend local governments can only regulate the pot industry, not ban it all together.
"I feel that we clearly have some justices that are in our corner," said J. David Nick, an attorney representing the city of Riverside. "Some of them showed their hands more than others, and I'm feeling optimistic that they can convince the others that may have a doubt."
Many of the local bans were enacted after the number of retail medical marijuana outlets exploded in Southern California after the U.S. Department of Justice said in 2009 that prosecuting pot sales would be a low priority under the Obama administration.
"These places are popping up everywhere, and the typical city that had one or two, two became four and four became 16 or 20," said Jeffrey Dunn, an Orange County lawyer who argued along with Nick in favor of the local bans. "What has happened as a practical matter is this state law, which authorizes the medical use of marijuana, and federal law that prohibits it, has forced cities and counties to be the ones to regulate this like any other entity that crops up in our business districts."
Medical marijuana advocates maintain that the state's medical marijuana laws, the nation's first, allow local governments to set limits on dispensaries, but not to outlaw them. About 200 cities and counties already have outlawed storefront pot shops, according to the pro-dispensary group Americans for Safe Access, but this was the first time the state high court considered if such all-out prohibitions are legal or barred by California's medical marijuana laws.
"If it's the case localities can ban, you could end up with the entire southern and middle portion of the state banning dispensaries, which clearly does not promote uniformity throughout the state or safe access" to marijuana, Americans for Safe Access legal director Joe Elford said before the hearing.
Along with the permissibility of local dispensary bans, the state court's seven justices must weigh whether marijuana's federal status as an illegal drug prohibits local governments from explicitly authorizing its distribution at all, as about 50 California counties and cities have.
The arguments come in a case out of Riverside, where city lawmakers used their zoning powers to declare storefront pot shops as public nuisances and to ban them in 2010. The Inland Empire Patient's Health and Wellness Center, part of the explosion of retail medical marijuana outlets, sued to stop the city from shutting it down.
A mid-level appeals court sided with the city, but other courts have come to opposite conclusions. Last summer, a trial judge ruled that Riverside County could not close medical marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated areas because the move did not give the shops any room to operate legally under state law.
An appeals court in Southern California also struck down Los Angeles County's 2-year-old ban on dispensaries, ruling that state law allows cooperatives and collectives to grow, store and to distribute pot.
In a separate case in Long Beach, however, an appeals court said federal law pre-empts municipalities from allowing dispensaries.
The rush to adopt bans has lessened over the last 18 months, since the four federal prosecutors in California launched a coordinated crackdown on dispensaries by threatening to seize the properties of landlords that leased space to them. Hundreds of pot shops have since been evicted or closed voluntarily.
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
I have procrastinated on writing this blog post for a while. So this morning, I did what all good procrastinators do – visited Facebook. I justified my dalliance by telling myself I might find inspiration for a subject to cover there; I didn't really believe it but I felt better about my transgression. Well, how fitting was it that the first two posts I saw from friends in different parts of the country were about stink bugs? I saw numerous complaints about these fall invaders and lots of misinformation about them, so, thanks to karma, today's topic is stink bugs!
I read one post that suggested stink bugs were transported from another country to eliminate ladybugs. Incorrect. Stink bugs did come from Asia, but they were not purposely brought here. They made landfall in America in 1998 and were first found in eastern Pennsylvania. They have now been reported in 40 states. For those of you fortunate to live in one of the ten states that haven't laid eyes on these ugly things, they look like a blend of a dinosaur and a bug. They are brown, gray or dark green and have a distinct shield-like shape.
Unfortunately, they have wreaked havoc on numerous crops; so much so that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is researching what natural predators they have in Asia that we can unleash here, so that those higher-ordered bugs can eat the stink bugs and save our peaches and apples and such. The cycle of life, I guess. (Don't worry, though, the USDA won't send a new insect species out into the wild without making sure it's safe to do so!) While the stink bugs cause devastation to our crops, they don't really cause problems around residential settings – unless of course you count utter fright and disgust. However, these smelly bugs are currently inviting themselves indoors as they are looking for vacation spots to overwinter. If they have selected your home as their Club Med for the cool months, don't despair. These slow moving creatures can be easily removed with a tissue or vacuum. But, be careful not to squash them because if you do, you will learn how these insects earned their names. Their smell has been aptly described as a blend between rotten eggs and smelly feet.
Some people report having hundreds and even thousands around their home. If you are inundated, a pest professional can assist. While I am thankful to China and Japan for many of our imports, these beady-eyed, pre-historic looking creatures are something I could do without!


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PuppetDB collects data generated by Puppet. It enables advanced Puppet features like exported resources, and can be the foundation for other applications that use Puppet's data.
Install it now
To start using PuppetDB today:
- Review the system requirements below (and, optionally, our scaling recommendations).
- Choose your installation method:
- Easy install using the PuppetDB puppet module on our recommended platforms
- Install from packages on our recommended platforms
- Advanced install on any other *nix
Version note
This manual covers the 4.0.x series of PuppetDB releases, which adds several new features and contains some breaking changes since the 3.x series.
See the release notes for information on all changes.
What data?
PuppetDB stores:
- The most recent facts from every node
- The most recent catalog for every node
- Optionally, 14 days (configurable) of event reports for every node
Together, these give you a huge inventory of metadata about every node in your infrastructure and a searchable database of every single resource being managed on any node.
Puppet itself can search a subset of this data using
exported resources, which allow nodes to manage resources on other
nodes. This is similar to the capabilities of the legacy ActiveRecord
storeconfigs interface, but much, much faster. The remaining data is available
through PuppetDB's query APIs (see the navigation sidebar for details).
System requirements
*nix server with JDK 1.7+ (Debian) or JDK 1.8+ (RHEL-derived)
Standard install: RHEL, CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu
Puppet provides packages and a Puppet module for PuppetDB which simplify setup of its SSL certificates and init scripts. These packages are available for the following operating systems:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6+ and 7 (and any derived distro that includes Java 1.8)
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Your site's Puppet masters must be running Puppet 4.0.0 or later. You will need to connect your Puppet masters to PuppetDB after installing it. If you wish to use PuppetDB with standalone nodes that are running puppet apply, every node must be running 3.8.1 or later.
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The actual requirements will vary wildly depending on your site's size and characteristics. At smallish sites, you may even be able to run PuppetDB on your Puppet master server.
For more on fitting PuppetDB to your site, see our scaling recommendations.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The Birmingham-Southern Panthers scored four touchdowns over an eight-minute span of the second quarter en route to a 50 to 10 Homecoming football victory over Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference foe Sewanee Tigers this afternoon in front of 3,462 in Panther Stadium.
Birmingham-Southern improved to 5-2 overall on the year, and 2-2 in SCAC play. Sewanee fell to 1-7 overall, and 0-5 in the conference. The five wins by BSC are the most in a season since reinstating the football program in 2007 after a 68-year absence.
BSC is now 4-1 all-time against Sewanee dating back to 1921.
The Panthers and Tigers exchanged field goals for the only scoring in the first quarter. Birmingham-Southern got on the scoreboard first on its initial possession of the game on a 30-yard field goal by freshman Ryan Laughlin. Sewanee tied it up on the ensuing drive on a 46-yard field goal by senior Geoffrey Marolda.
Birmingham-Southern then began to pull away with four second quarter touchdowns.
The Panthers first found the end zone early in the second period on a double reverse pass from junior wide receiver Eric Nordgren to sophomore wide receiver Aaron Sherrill. The 26-yard scoring strike and Laughlin point after touchdown put the Panthers up 10-3 with 13:46 to play in the first half.
Following a Sewanee punt, the Panthers got on the scoreboard again, this time on a four yard quarterback keeper by sophomore Jimmy Stainback. The key play of the drive was a 38-yard run by senior talkback Walter Arrington. BSC had extended its lead to 17-3 with 8:47 to go before halftime.
The Tigers were forced to punt again on their next possession. BSC sophomore wide receiver John Lawroski fielded the kick on his own 23 yard line and returned it 74 yards before being forced out of bounds on the Sewanee three. Arrington bulled his way into the end zone on the next play and the Panthers were up 24-3 with 6:20 still to play in the half.
On its very next offensive play, Sewanee quarterback Lee Schurlknight's pass was tipped by BSC junior linebacker Dustin Massey and then picked off by sophomore defensive back Jeffery Steele who returned it 35 yards for the touchdown. The Panthers led 31-3 going to the locker room.
Birmingham-Southern continued its scoring on its first possession of the third quarter as Stainback hit Nordgren on a 27-yard scoring strike to make the score 38-3 with 11:37 still to play in the third quarter.
Sewanee closed to gap to 38-10 on a 52-yard pass from Schrulknight to senior wide receiver John Ugorji to make the score 38:10 with 10:47 left in the third.
The Panthers quickly got that score back on a touchdown on special teams. Senior defensive back Zac Napier blocked a Sewanee punt, picked it up, and returned it six yards to the end zone to put Birmingham-Southern back up by 34 points at 44-10.
On its next possession, BSC reached the half century mark as freshman quarterback Chase Childers found sophomore wide receiver Edward Robinson on a nine-yard scoring toss to extend the lead to the final margin of 50-10 as time expired in the third quarter. The point after touchdown was no good.
Offensively, Birmingham-Southern finished with 18 first downs and 353 yards in total offense. The league's leading rushing team racked up 279 yards on the ground. Arrington, the SCACs leading rusher, finished the afternoon with 123 yards on 14 carries.
The Panther defense held Sewanee to 265 yards and 15 first downs. Senior defensive end Jeremy Jones finished the day with six tackles, including three sacks. Napier added an interception to his blocked punt and touchdown.
Birmingham-Southern travels to Greencastle, Ind., Saturday, Oct. 30, to face league-leading and defending conference champion DePauw University at noon at Blackstock Stadium.
BSC rolls to 50-10 Homecoming win over Sewanee
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The Birmingham-Southern Panthers scored four touchdowns over an eight-minute span of the second quarter en route to a 50 to 10 Homecoming football victory over Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference foe Sewanee Tigers this afternoon in front of 3,462 in Panther Stadium.


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Monday, July 19, 2010
Madness Monday: Organizing my death and cemetery files
Jen discussed her burial spreadsheet that lists names, birth and death dates, burial place, grave location, and death certificate number. I will definitely add death certificate number to my spreadsheet, and I also have a couple of additions for her, and anyone else who likes to use Excel spreadsheets to manage their genealogy data:
In a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet I have a column for each of the following:
1) Cemetery
2) Findagrave.com ID
3) Prefix (I don't use this often, unless I know the person was never married, I'll put in Miss, or if a name like Kelly was a male instead of a female)
4) Last name
5) First Name
6) Middle Name
7) Suffix
8) Maiden Name
9) Nickname
10) Birth month
11) Birth day
12) Birth Year
13) Death month
14) Death day
15) Death Year
16) Plot
17) Notes
18) Marker Transcription
19) Has Photo (Yes/No)
20) (*New) Death Certificate
21) (*New) My spreadsheet contains both Brenden's ancestors and my ancestors. So I'll add a column called Tree and indicate whether it's Brenden or my tree.
22) I'm also going to add a column for obituary, to indicate whether or not I've found the obituary for that particular person.
If you've use Findagrave.com to import multiple names for a single cemetery you'll probably recognize a lot of the categories. I've added a few columns, and have kept some of the columns in the same order/format for easy uploading to findagrave.com.
I used to have a spreadsheet for each cemetery, but every time I added a new record, I'd have to add it in both spreadsheets.....until I found a better way (*Note: This is in Microsoft 2007, but other versions are similar):
1) Highlight the column headings of your spreadsheet
2) From Home, go to Sort and Filter (AZ with filter image)
3) Click the drop down arrow
4) Select "Filter"
Now all of the column heading will have a drop down arrow (pictured below). When you want to find all of the people buried in a particular cemetery, for example Pine Mound Cemetery, I select the arrow in the cemetery column and in the drop down box select Pine Mound. I can also use the drop down box to sort the columns alphabetically. Or if I was looking for the graves of a particular surname, I'd go to the last name column, click on the arrow, and select the right surname from the drop down box. Or if I was looking for all the graves I had not yet obtained pictures for, I'd go to the Has Photo column, click the arrow, and select no.
The spreadsheet also serves another purpose for me. I use ancestry, google, familysearch.org and other websites on a frequent basis. I often find a name or two that could possibly belong to my family, but I'm not sure how or if they really do belong. I put their name and information in my spreadsheet to remind me to find information about that person and see if and how they are related, and so if I find they are related later down the road, I don't lose the information I found.
I need to do some more data entry, as I currently only have my ancestors whose cemetery locations I have found. I need to add the ancestors whose cemetery location is unknown to help me remember to search for the location and remind me to look for them if I am in a cemetery that contains other family members.
I also find this spreadsheet useful to add information when I am not sitting in front of my genealogy software (Family Tree Maker), and can keep the information organized until I can input the information into the software.
What do you use to organize your cemetery/death files? Do you have any suggestions for additional columns?
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Great post! I'll reference it on my blog as a follow-up.ReplyDelete
I finished organizing my file finally and went through all my Death Certs this afternoon to make sure I entered them in the Excel sheet and FTM DB. I should add the FindAGrave # though. I have entered roughly 60 people on that so far.
I use Excel for my research log precisely because of the data sorting capabilities you described. I record information using headers for year, location (State and County), surname, given name(s), dna/family group, fact description (which includes precise dates), master source, source detail, database ID (filled out when I transfer a fact to genealogy software), notes (for comments and questions raised by information) and a record id#. It's a flexible enough system to allow me to record almost anything from vital stats to land transfers and immigration records. I can sort by date, location, surname. I could add a column for record type if I wanted to track immigration records, cemetery records, etc.ReplyDelete
I have a small computer with me and can often add info directly to the spreadsheet. If not, it's my first step in the evening or when I get home from a trip. The only thing I don't do well is use it when I'm at home and doing online research. But that's operator error, not the spreadsheet ;-)
Great Article. Thank you.
I have Blogged on how I do this. Pretty close to what you did. But, I started with the Find-A-Grave downloadable template for submission, then added the information that I needed.
If you would like more information, please stop by:
Actually, if you click here:
You'll see some more detail about how I use EXCEL for tracking my Cemetery Photos.
Hi Melissa,ReplyDelete
Very nice article, and I too have blogged about this. My access chart has two additional columns, that of the state where the cemetery is located (as I have over 130), and a M or F, which is either my mother's or father's side.
Isn't it nice to be organized in something!


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kinda lump this stuff in with the Clang Quartet. you a Clang Quartet fan, DL?
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I was completely unaware.
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there's something of a shared aesthetic imo - you're visual arts and he's performance, but you both totally bring the xtian noize :)
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Ted & Raphael Cruz painting ( NSFW )
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that too.
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well, still working on that, but here's a new cartoon
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Whoa! Missed those last revives. Thanks Dan!
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We want you to throw big parties and win big (big!) prizes from Le Creuset. (Find out more here.)
All week, we'll be featuring Sara Franklin, Neftali Duran, and Sally Ekus as they plan and throw a Oaxacan-style goat roast.
Today: How to build a fire pit in your backyard. Check out their previous post, The Year of the Goat, for the history and inspiration behind the feast.
When you send out an invitation to 60+ food-inclined friends and professional contacts and tell them pit cooking is involved, you're bound to receive responses tinged with enthusiasm and envy. But some questions are inevitable as well.
1. Where is this pit you're planning to use?2. Who will tend the fire?3. Doesn't that take forever?
The answers, respectively:
1. In Nef's backyard (as of spring 2011). 2. We will, of course (Nef makes fires for a living at his bread bakery, and his son, Emiliano, has inherited a love of anything related to flames).3. Yes.
Cooking meat in the ground certainly isn't unique to Mexican cooking, but it has been practiced there for a long, long time. And though the process may seem elaborate, in fact it allows for greater liberty in meal preparation. You dig yourself an oven (a one-time deal), line it with heat-holding bricks or stones, heat it up, put in your food, and forget about it while you go about your busy life or make merry.
In Nef's case, The Pit has become the focal point of the convivial and oversized gatherings he likes to throw at least once a year. Usually there are whole animals involved. In the past, there have also been spits and grills, but there's something particularly alluring about burying meat underground and just waiting and hoping that, when you uncover the thing many hours later, things will turns out as they should—succulent, moist, and falling off the bone.
Getting started
Before you get too excited and start sending out the invitations to your own pit roasting party, though, here are some instructions (and a few warnings as well).
First of all, you need a yard. Or a friend's yard. You need space, in the ground. Unfortunately, pit-cooking isn't particularly city-friendly, unless you happen to have access to an oversized yard or are brave enough to dig your pit in a vacant lot, guerilla style. But barring those exceptions, you need to find yourself some land in a more rural locale.
Once you've staked your spot, gather up a few shovels and lots of bricks.
(Note: for this next step, we recommend inviting some friends to come help you dig. Tip: offering food and maybe some libations helps entice joiners).
When you're ready to start, dig in. Literally. You're going to want to dig a pit at least 2 feet by 3 feet, but that's cutting it close. Nef's is more like 3 by 4, to accommodate larger animals, a big blazing fire, and pots of various accompanying vittles that might need to make their way into the ground as well.
You're looking for a hole with straight edges—flat bottom, vertical sides. You may need to use a tamp to help achieve this.
Keep at least half of dirt you remove from the pit nearby—you'll need it when it comes time to cook.
Once you've reached geometric perfection—or at least something sort-of close—you've got to line the whole thing with bricks. (If you can scavenge old bricks, you'll save yourself a bunch of cash, which you can later spend on extravagant ingredients… like whole animals). You're looking to pack the bricks as tightly as possible in order to keep heat contained.
If you can find them, get yourself a few river stones and scatter them in the bottom of the oven (What, you may ask, is a river stone? You're looking for fresh water—NOT ocean—stones, preferably about the size of your head. They hold heat extraordinarily well, and help bring the oven's temperature up. If you can't find them, an all-brick pit will do, but it may take longer to heat up and will likely cook your food more slowly).
In addition to your masonry supplies, you'll need to buy enough corrugated iron (the stuff used for cheap roofing and storage sheds) to cover the pit with at least a 6" lip on each side. Several strips overlapping one another will work fine if you can't find one sheet large enough). You'll also want some old blankets or sheets. And at least 1/8 of a cord of hardwood.
Now, to get going with the actual cooking process.
You'll need to start the evening before your party (assuming it's slotted for the afternoon or evening). Get a fire going in the base of the pit. Newspaper, thin twigs and dry cardboard all make for excellent starters (We recommend avoiding the use of artificial starters or lighter fluid, as your food will be cooking a long time in direct contact with whatever you use to heat your oven). Once you've got some hot flames, start adding some good, dry logs. Your goal is to build a very hot fire and keep it going for at least 8 hours before you begin cooking. If you plan to catch some shut-eye, make sure you (or someone else) sets an alarm to wake up around 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning to stoke the fire again.
In the morning, you should have a bed of smoldering coals and a capsule of very hot bricks and/or stones. Now you're ready to cook. Lower your meat (or whatever you're cooking) into the pit very carefully (Notes: we recommend using strong cord around the pans or gardening stakes threaded through handles to lower your food into the ground. Also, be SURE you're using very heavy duty cookware that can withstand high heat for prolonged periods of time. If you're conscious of contamination, avoid aluminum).
Once the food is in place, lay the corrugated iron across the top, cover it with your blankets or sheets, and then cover the entire thing with a few inches of dirt. The idea is to close the pit as thoroughly as possible to hold heat in.
Let your food cook for at least six hours, usually longer (at least eight is our rule of thumb). As you get to know the particulars of your own in-ground oven, as well as those of your stones, the wood you burn and the type of meat your cooking, you'll have to play with cooking time. You'll get the hang of it though, and before long you too will be wowing your posse with pit-roasting parties.
For more Big Feast DIY projects, check out How to Build a Tandoor Oven in Your Backyard.
Photos by Ilana Panich-Linsman
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Re: Ron Paul endorsed by Stormfront Radio
Is that like the Halfrican-American Obama, the president usurper Obama, the fraud and foreigner, receiving endorsements from La Raza and the NAACP, as well as from Louis Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright and other hateful black racists who hate the United States and claim to be "Afro-centric" and yet hypocritically remain here rather than return to Africa where they belong? Repatriation not reparations!
"I will say, then, that I AM NOT NOR HAVE EVER BEEN in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the black and white races---that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with White people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the White and black races which will ever FORBID the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together, there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the White race."
- Abraham Lincoln
Regardless, I voted for Chuck Baldwin.
Sign me...
A White Israelite (more than simply a White Nationalist - Alternative to UN),
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Obama endorsed by racist NAACP
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Jennifer Aniston Wanderlust LA Premiere Pictures
Jennifer Aniston Poses Solo for Wanderlust Premiere in LA
Jennifer Aniston and her boyfriend Justin Theroux were both in attendance at their LA premiere of Wanderlust at Mann's Theatre on Thursday evening, though she decided to pose solo to kick things off. Jennifer, who celebrated her 43rd birthday with a private party at the Chateau Marmont last weekend, mixed up her standard little black dress habit with this sexy strapless black and white Tom Ford number. Justin was looking sharp in his suit, but he skipped most of the arrivals line and let Jennifer have the spotlight. Instead, Jennifer was focused on her leading man in the film, Paul Rudd. Aniston showed off her abs in a bra for a sexy GQ cover shoot with Paul, while Justin spoke about their actual romantic relationship calling it "happy" in an interview.
Wanderlust hits theaters on Feb 24, so we should be seeing a lot more of Jennifer, Paul, and Justin over the next week. Jennifer, for one, will also be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a big ceremony next Tuesday.


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Thank you so much to everyone who sent their condolences yesterday, I really appreciate the notes. I'm so grateful to have such kind readers! We're back from Omaha and the dust has settled, it's good to be distracted.
I thought it might be fun today to share the 'inspiration board' behind the new office. This isn't an exact and I'm sure our minds will change again and again over the next month, but it's an outline that helps to narrow down furniture, accessory and 'do we need this?' choices.
Back before we were even close to finishing the space, I shared this layout idea (with an initial color palette) and these inspirational rooms. Wow, much has changed in the last eight months! But you know, looking back so many ideas have stayed the same, too. Some stuff just sticks with you.
Key pieces in the above room include: a desk, bookshelves, refrubished credenza (not pictured), wallpaper for credenza, grasscloth, new platform bed, a wooden office chair (I'll add plenty of padding to make it comfy), a French-style occasional chair (a Craigslist find like this would be so cool), bedding, window curtains, side table with a handmade skirt, new lamp and chic office organizers. So I'm maybe half way through the list?
Inspirational fabrics include: Arden Chocolate by Ballard Design, Joann's Dot Brown, Calico Corners' Thomas Paul in Silhouette, Aviary Thomas Paul in Robin, Robert Allen Roman's Circle in Pool and Thibaut's Jubilee Collection. Love, love, loving these prints!
Creating an inspiration board is usually high in my process for building out a room. It keeps you from distraction and really focuses you on the functions and feel of your finished space – it's especially useful if you're tempted with an impulse buy!
Wow it feels like the office is ALMOST there! Especially considering the room started as this:
And once the kitchen was removed (and the wall between the old office and kitchen was knocked down), turned into this:
Little by little!
For more Office Makeover posts, check out: new lamps, wallpapering open shelves, finding the perfect credenza, new trim, dining table-to-desk, a new desk & bookshelves, installing remnant carpeting, grasscloth wallpaper, painting the office nook, finding carpet for the office, chocolate brown wall ideas, plastering progress, inspiration for a diy desk, back in action!, desking hunting for under $300, bookcases under $300, inspirational rooms, room layout options, demo part 1 & demo part 2.


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Suspect in Police Shooting Still Hospitalized
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) - A prosecutor says a man who exchanged gunfire with a southwestern Illinois police officer during a traffic stop remains hospitalized and will face a slew of charges if he survives.
Authorities say the 27-year-old suspect was in intensive care at a St. Louis hospital Saturday, four days after being shot in the confrontation with a Fairview Heights officer. That officer sustained a hand wound.
Illinois State Police say the suspect was spotted acting suspiciously around a Fairview Heights hotel where there were recent break-ins. The officer pulled him over when the motorist committed a traffic violation. Police say the motorist fired at the officer before starting a car chase.
State's Attorney Brendan Kelly says the suspect will face 10 charges, including attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery and marijuana possession.


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We anxiously await superconducting tequila: It's not actually the booze that's superconducting, but it can improve the superconduction of another material. This one's in the arXiv, so it hasn't been through peer review yet, but the procedures seem so straightforward that it's difficult to imagine they got things wrong unless all the authors have been hitting their samples, which included "ethanol-water mixtures and alcohol drinks (beer, red wine, white wine, Japanese sake, Shochu (clear distilled liquor) and whisky)."
The goal of the work was to improve the performance of a simple model superconductor, a mixture of iron, tellurium, and sulfur. Unfortunately, solubility issues cause problems, and the material has to undergo extensive water treatments before it supports superconductivity. Changing the treatment slightly by mixing some ethanol in must have seemed like a reasonable approach to accelerating the process. Why they thought booze might work better isn't obvious, but they checked, and it did. For the record, wine worked best, with reds outperforming whites.
Or you could just use a football fan's breath:
Booze Superconducting research material may be easy to find in the bottle, but another of this week's papers went looking for it somewhere else, as is apparent in its title: "Can We Assess Blood Alcohol Levels of Attendees Leaving Professional Sporting Events?" The answer is yes, at least if the events are baseball and football. Alcohol could be detected on the breath of a full 40 percent of the fans, and that may be a low estimate. "Our sample size was small, partly because of the difficulty of getting fans to submit to a BAC test after a game," said an author. Risk factors for alcohol consumption? Tailgating and being under 35 years old. Tailgating increased the odds of being legally drunk by 14 times and, if these numbers hold up to the full stadium, about 5,000 people leaving a typical NFL game couldn't drive legally.
Still bearing the scars of childhood: I'm sure a number of readers were frustrated by being perpetually stuck at the end of the line due to having a last name that started with a letter from near the end of the alphabet. Well, that experience is probably having repercussions to this day, even if you've changed your name since. Meet the Last Name Effect. Those who went through childhood with a last name close to Z are more likely to try to acquire items quickly when they're adults. They also find limited-time offers more appealing, too.
Infertility can sometimes be a laughing matter: Yet again, Weird Science introduces another previously unknown research procedure to my vocabulary: "a medical clowning encounter." I downloaded the methods just to see what was involved but, alas, no details were given, although there was extensive mention of the construction of a control group from women who went to a clinic on "nonclown days." The clinic involved performs IVF treatments, and the experiment was intended to test whether the medical clowning encounter boosted their effectiveness. Apparently, it did; success rates went from 20 percent to 36 percent on clown days. The authors suggest a reduction in stress is ultimately responsible.
A choice of complex sperm or a hypodermic sexual organ: That's what some hermaphroditic flatworms appear to face. I really don't know what to write about something that includes quotes like, "The complex sperm design, which includes stiff lateral bristles, is likely a male persistence trait associated with sexual conflicts over the fate of received ejaculates and linked to female resistance traits, namely an intriguing postcopulatory sucking behavior and a thickened epithelium of the sperm-receiving organ." All of that can be skipped, however, if a species goes the injection route. Sperm can be simpler, as can the female's reproductive organs.
I was perfectly happy with one that ended in 90: Everybody likes a nice round number, right? That appeal turns into desire in some unexpected situations. According to the people who ran the statistics, pro baseball players alter their behavior to ensure that they end the season batting above .300, while students who had scored just under a multiple of 100 were more likely to retake the test and try to crack that barrier.


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It is NO secret around here that I am a Car Guy. I guess that would be why I am THE Garage Guy, too. For the last 4+ years one thing I have had NO problem being transparent about is my love of things automotive. Here on this blog, as well as my blog, LaneBailey.com, and my website, GarageHomesUSA.com, I have written numerous posts about cars, garages and cool tools.
Recently, I started a blog solely targeted to other car lovers. It is called CoolCaroftheDay.com. And because I seem to be a glutton for punishment, I also created a network of supporting sites:
- Cool Car of the Day on FaceBook
- Cool Car of the Day on YouTube
- Cool Car of the Day on Twitter
- CoolCaroftheDay.mobi on Posterous
Blogging here on Active Rain and meeting so many influential and successful bloggers has taught me a LOT about creating content and delivering it. I've tried to take some of that knowledge in a new direction.
I still enjoy blogging about real estate... but I have also written around 2000 posts. I have 1780 posts here in the Rain, and there are around 1600 on LaneBailey.com... there is certainly a lot of crossover between my blogs. I am slowing down a bit on real estate. I have trimmed back from 7 days a week on LaneBailey.com down to 3 days a week.
The new blog has been up around a month. There have already been some really cool cars... and there are more coming.
Road Atlanta preview
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SF(4) NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual SF(4) NAME sf -- Adaptec AIC-6915 10/100 Ethernet driver SYNOPSIS sf* at pci? dev ? function ? Configuration of PHYs may also be necessary. See mii(4). DESCRIPTION The sf device driver supports the Adaptec AIC-6915 10/100 Ethernet chip. This chip is found on several Adaptec Ethernet boards: + ANA-62011 Single port 10/100 64-bit + ANA-62022 Dual port 10/100 64-bit + ANA-62044 Quad port 10/100 64-bit + ANA-62020 Single port 100BASE-FX 64-bit + ANA-69011 Single port 10/100 32-bit SEE ALSO arp(4), ifmedia(4), mii(4), netintro(4), pci(4), ifconfig(8) HISTORY The sf driver first appeared in NetBSD 1.6. AUTHORS The sf driver was written by Jason R. Thorpe <firstname.lastname@example.com>. BUGS The sf driver does not support the IPv4/TCP/UDP checksum function of the AIC-6915. The sf driver does not support the VLAN function of the AIC-6915. NetBSD 5.1 June 18, 2001 NetBSD 5.1
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How Does the U.S. Power Grid Work?
With over 160,000 miles of transmission lines, the U.S. power grid is designed to handle natural and man-made disasters, as well as fluctuations in demand. How does the system work? WSJ's Jason Bellini has #TheShortAnswer.
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I ... we talk about the U S electric grid ... referring to the Lord high voltage power lines used with purple power as was the hardware that links them together ... the lessons of a hundred sixty thousand miles of transmission lines ... in what receive from power plants to cities and towns ... and from one party system to another ... that was designed so that if demand goes up in one location or major transmission lines ... other lead to infrastructure goes down to whether ... a technical malfunction or even a terrorist attack power can be ... rerouted to prevent blackouts ... but it's not always effective as the big two thousandthree blackout in the Eastern Connection demonstrated ... when fifty million people lost power ... is just one big grin ... quite actually it's three grids also called ... interconnections the Western and Eastern ... and the Texas interconnection ... well with our transfer goes on with the release of the three inner connections ... how much ability to move power between ... it appears California prisons ... could rescue me or ... now with that with ... the blue lines are high voltage direct current lines ... it would carry twelve hour plus long distances in the West for example they help supply Southern California with waitressing from the Pacific Northwest in the summer ... and power flows reverse in the winter DC power must go through conversion stations before transferring to AC ... alternating current walked ... by capacity the sea lions the red and dark warns lines on the map ... link areas like the Midwest the eastern seaboard ... and the southern U S one challenge for two days with ... highs transmission lines don't read some of the new or renewable sources coming online ... like wind and solar because they often are in remote locations ... were sub stations for ... their essential what are these generating plant usually goes to ... step up substation to increase the voltage ... for the shares can ride the high voltage transmission lines ... but before that power can get to end users ... must go through another substation that brings the ball to back down again ... some of the show facilities can handle this level ... but for homes and offices electricity must pass through a separate distribution system with its own sub stations ... that brings the gold is down even farther ... is reduced if idle time on the Transformers you see on electrical poles ... delivering the hydrants wanted it to earn forty able to get from a wall socket what causes walk outs and brown outs the system has redundancy built into it ... but if demand increases to quickly ... and our power plants online to ramp up production ... grid operator says littler avoid blackouts until the system gets back in balance ... also if too many high capacity transmission lines ... or transmission sub stations go down it wants for whatever reason ... the system or part of that


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more from Maximum Fun
In this episode of Dead Pilots Society, Ben Blacker interviews Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley (Spider-Man: Homecoming, Horrible Bosses) regarding their dead pilot, Punching Out. You'll also listen to a never-before-heard live table read of Punching Out performed by some of today's funniest comedic actors.
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Founded Sector49 Studios in 2009, I am going to high-school. I am responsible for the level-design, the models in the games, their textures, their stories, PR, and a few other things. I am working with the engine of FPSC since it's beginnings in late 2005. In my free-time I do graphics-design jobs and go swimming pretty often. I have an iPhone 4 and an iPad 2, but don't like Apple much. I'm also addicted to tea. I can't wake up or work without an Earl Grey tea in my mug.
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Managing The Cultural Change (#SWChat)
Any company undergoing a social business transformation has to address the cultural change for sustained adoption. If you don't plan to deal with the change in mindset of your employees then you are planning to fail.
When I talk about the culture of social business I'm referring to the human behaviours of what it means to be social in business and the change in mindset associated with sustained change.
The culture of a true social business is about being open, transparent and encouraging trust amongst your peers and colleagues. It's where much more value is placed upon the benefits of networking and relationship building with employees to work together on the companies goals.
I often use the phrase 'Social Business is said to flatten hierarchies'. This doesn't mean it replaces them, but instead creates the framework to allow the right employees to collaborate and focus on the objectives to deliver regardless of the job title they hold.
"For every piece of the knowledge pie you share, you will receive two in return."
This event debated how companies should manage this cultural change to be successful in their social business transformation and reveals the new CHANGES methodology designed to help any business evolve to become a true social business.
Event Questions
Q1) Top down management policies are the best way to change an entrenched culture. Agree / disagree?
Q2) Are methodologies like The CHANGES Methodology, essential for changing hearts & minds for social collaboration?
Q3) What 3 top tips would you advise any organization dealing with a dramatic cultural change (e.g. no internal email)?
Q4) Cultural change in any organization has to be driven from HR. Agree / disagree?
Q5) Many people in an organization will always fear change. How do you overcome this fear/resistance?
Related Articles
- The Path Of Social Media Enlightenment - via David Christopher
- 7 Top Tips For Creating The Social Workplace - via David Christopher
- How To Change Your Organisation's Culture - via The Wall Street Journal
- How To Change Your Culture: Organizational Culture Change - via About.com
- The Vital Role Of HR In Waking The Walking Dead - via Ian Buckingham
- Who Leads Cultural Change? - via Amanda Coleman
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I will be posting regular updates regarding the development of the next version of XtGem up until the release. Consider it proof that we're hard at work
I have spent past two months working on a PHP framework that will allow us to develop new features and services much faster than before. Framework is basically a set of predefined functions and rules that we will be able to use as shortcuts and reduce the development time.
PHP community already has a vast selection of existing frameworks, however after spending a lot of time researching different frameworks none seemed to fit my requirements (I'm very picky!). I needed something very light,... [Continue reading]


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|June 20
1912 — The New York Giants outslugged the Boston Braves 21-12 with the teams scoring a total of 17 runs in the ninth inning. The Giants scored seven runs to take a 21-2 lead and the Braves scored 10 runs in the ninth.
1951 — Bobby Avila hit three home runs, a double and single in the Cleveland Indians' 14-8 victory over the Red Sox at Fenway Park.
1980 — Freddie Patek, one of baseball's smallest players at 5-foot-5, hit three home runs and a double to lead the California Angels in a 20-2 rout of the Boston Red Sox in Fenway Park.
1982 — Pete Rose became the fifth major leaguer to appear in 3,000 games and extended a personal consecutive-games streak to 523 in a 3-1 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates at Three Rivers Stadium.
1992 — Kelly Saunders became the second woman to serve as a public address announcer at a major league game when she filled in for Rex Barney in Baltimore.
1994 — The Detroit Tigers' string of 25 straight games hitting a home run ended in a 7-1 loss to Cleveland. The streak matched the major league mark set by the 1941 New York Yankees.
1998 — Sammy Sosa hit two home runs for the second straight day to set a major league record with 16 homers in June as the Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia 9-4.
2001 — Barry Bonds broke two major league records with his 38th homer, including one set by Babe Ruth in 1928, as the Giants beat San Diego 8-3. Bonds hit a two-run shot in the eighth inning to break out of a tie with Reggie Jackson (1969) and Mark McGwire (1998) for the most homers before the All-Star break. And he became the quickest to 38, doing it in his team's 71st game. Ruth hit 38 in 88 games in 1928.
2004 — Ken Griffey Jr. hit the 500th home run of his career, off Matt Morris, to help the Cincinnati Reds beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-0.
2006 — Jason Jennings and two relievers combined on a one-hitter as Colorado beat Oakland 6-0. It was the first one-hitter in team history and the third time there has been one hit or less at Coors Field.
2007 — Sammy Sosa hit his 600th home run, making him the fifth player to reach the milestone. Sosa, playing for the Texas Rangers following a year out of baseball, hit a solo homer off Jason Marquis. It came in the fifth inning against the Chicago Cubs, the team he played for from 1992-2004.
2009 — Two games ended on wild pitches in extra innings. Nate Schierholtz scored the winning run for San Francisco on a wild pitch by Jason Jennings with two outs in the 11th inning and the Giants beat the Texas Rangers 2-1. Earlier, the Chicago Cubs beat Cleveland 6-5 in 13 innings when Andres Blanco came home on Kerry Wood's gaffe.
2011 — The Florida Marlins named Jack McKeon interim manager. The 80-year-old McKeon became the second-oldest manager in major league history. Connie Mack managed the Philadelphia Athletics in a suit, tie and straw hat until 1950, when he was 87.
2012 — Jason Heyward hit two of a record nine homers at the new Yankee Stadium and the Atlanta Braves beat the New York Yankees 10-5. Freddie Freeman, Martin Prado, Heyward and David Ross all connected off Phil Hughes to build a 6-1 lead. Michael Bourn stole what might've been another home run from Jayson Nix after missing an earlier opportunity for a try at a leaping grab. Alex Rodriguez hit his 640th career homer, and Robinson Cano, Derek Jeter and Eric Chavez all hit long balls against Tommy Hanson.
Today's birthday: Kendrys Morales 30.
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Monday, October 24, 2011
hauntingly awful Halloween bento lunch
This bento lunch was hauntingly awful.
Packed in the sandwich box:
- two little sealed pb&j sandwiches
- two clementines
- silicone spider cup full of homemade pickles
- goldfish crackers
- silicone cup of cheddar cheese
There is a little fruit leather scaredy cat cut with a mini cutter for a bit of decoration and I used grassy barran to keep any moisture from the clementines off the sandwich bread. One piece of the cheddar cheese was cut into a pumpkin shape using a mini cookie cutter, with the scrappy pieces hidden under it.
Paige informed me on this day that she only likes peanut butter and jelwee sandwiches and requested I stop putting "that other stuffs" inside them. So pb&j it was. I sealed the little sandwiches using a Play-Doh toy from the kids' stash and a sharp knife.
I used the top/wide side of the cutter to smash the bread (and seal it) and used the knife to trim around. I was able to make one mini sealed sandwich per bread slice with very little left to waste. It's always fun to find regular items around the house to use for bento-ing. :) Fun until the little sassy pants girl informs me that square sandwiches are not very cool for Halloween and what she willy wanted was another jack-o-lantern sandwich. In the words of Charlie Brown, GOOD GRIEF!
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- The Mom Chef said... [Reply to comment]
OHHHHH! Play-Doh toys! We have stacks of those around here. I need to dig them out. You rock.
How do you get around the issue of crispy stuff going soggy when in the same container as fruit and veggies, even if not touching. Don't your kids have an issue with that or is it just mine?
- October 24, 2011 at 10:18 AM
I may have to pull out the play-doh box and see what is in there!
- October 24, 2011 at 10:51 AM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Mom Chef, occassionally Ethan will say something got soggy, but it is not often. I think it's usually the fault of the ice pack placement in the lunchbox, that one side of the bento box will get too cold and cause moisture to form. I try to straegically place the ice pack away from things that could be problematic...
- October 24, 2011 at 11:23 AM
- Wendy said... [Reply to comment]
When I first looked at this box (before I read anything about it) I thought you had created a pumpkin patch! The clementines and cheese were pumpkins groing along the left side, the sandwiches were hay bales and the cauldron was some sort of spooky punch. Maybe just re-brand a little?
- October 24, 2011 at 11:45 AM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Ah, that's a nice take on it, Wendy!
- October 24, 2011 at 7:54 PM