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$50 pay in per team to register for the points championship. You will have a team captain, the team captain may substitute partners and retain points.
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Place Points
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4th 70
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7th 40
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10th 10
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2nd 20
3rd 30
4th 40
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Points per each coyote shot 10
Points per pound 1
Most coyotes shot each day on 2 day tournaments. 10
$10 per team on a 1 day hunt will go towards the pay out for the points series champions.
$20 per team on the 2 day hunts will go towards the pay out for the points series champions.
Example: Tom and Bob enter the Minot Predator Hunt (10 points) Tom is the captain of their team, They shoot 4 coyotes (40 points), and they take 2nd place (90 points), total wt. of their coyotes is 120 pounds (120 points) for a total of 260 points. Tom wants to hunt The Luke Oyloe Memorial Hunt but Bob is unable to attend, apparently his sister-in-laws 3rd marriage is more important then hunting coyotes, so Tom picks up a new partner for this hunt. Tom and his new partner Raymond enter the tournament (20 points) which is Tom's 2nd and he is the captain so he retains the 260 points from the Minot hunt. Tom and Raymond get 1 coyote (10 points) (because Raymond couldn't hit water if he fell out of a boat) and that coyote wt. was 24 lbs (24). They do not place but Tom adds another 54 points to his season total. Bob can hunt again with Tom or get a new partner for upcoming hunts. He will have to pay and register if he wants to get into the points series and accumulate points. The intent is for a team to stay together through out the year but does allow for substitutes if you team member can not make it to a hunt. This format has been used in fishing tournament series and though it may not be perfect it will be a place to start.


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LOCATION: PSU Lincoln Recital Hall, room 75; (1620 SW Park Ave.)
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- Dr. Ae Soon Sung, gayageum performer, Traditonal Music Dept, Chonnam National
- Dr. Hyun Ok Moon, pianist, Music Dept., Chonnam National University, South Korea;
- Dr. Hyun Su Chung, composer, Music Dept., Chonnam National University, South Korea;
- and Dr. Julia Hwakyu Lee, adjunct professor of piano at Portland State University.
The program consists of works by Hyun-Sue Chung for piano and gayageum, including:
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This series was developed by Dr. Wynn Kiyama, assistant professor of musicology and ethnomusicology; Dr. Julia Lee, adjunct professor of piano; and Katherine Morrow, program administrator of the Institute for Asian Studies.
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Kelly Donohoe was a bit concerned about his Blue Springs High School football team's practice schedule this past week.
"We played at (Lee's Summit) North on Friday, got postponed until Saturday (because of lightning in a 28-3 victory) and you never know how that's going to affect your players," Donohoe said after the Wildcats blanked crosstown rival Blue Springs South 35-0 Friday night at Peve Stadium.
"We were walking off the practice field on Monday and I'm thinking, 'That's the best Monday practice we've had this season.' Then, we're walking off Tuesday and Wednesday and I'm thinking the same thing.
"That's why I wanted to tell the guys after the game that they played like they practiced. And this was our most complete game of the season. Offensively, defensively and special teams – we really played at a high level."
A determined South defense, led by linebacker Josh Watson, held the Wildcats to just 14 first-half points as Kaleb Prewett took a reverse handoff from Dalvin Warmack and carried it for a 34-yard touchdown just one minute into the first period. Blane Howell kicked the first of five extra points and it was 7-0.
On a fourth-and-7, Ian Brown connected with Darrius Shepherd for a 26-yard touchdown at the 4:08 mark, and that was all the scoring in the first 24 minutes.
But the Wildcats marched 80 yards on the opening series of the third quarter with Shepherd catching a 20-yard touchdown pass from Brown.
Warmack then opened the fourth quarter with an 80-yard touchdown run and Prewett scored his second touchdown of the game on a 46-yard pass from Brown.
"Kaleb is a burner," said Brown, who was 13 of 16 for 195 yards and three scores. "He has 4.3 speed and he makes my life easy out there. If you get him the ball, he's going to do something. Same thing with Shep and Dalvin."
Shepherd caught eight passes for 131 yards and a touchdown.
"This was fun," Shepherd said. "A lot of guys got to play when we got the running clock, and the line did a great job and the defense recorded a shutout. Those are the things you want to do when you play your big rival."
Warmack finished with 234 yards and a touchdown on 18 carries to push his season total to 1,237 yards.
"This was pretty much a perfect night – great crowd, the offense and defense and special teams all played well and we won," Warmack said. "You never know about games like this, especially when you're playing a good team like Blue Springs South."
Prewett, who is expected to play in the Kansas State secondary, grinned when asked about his newfound offensive prowess.
"Whatever they need, whatever they ask me to do, I'll do it for this team," Prewett said. "I like playing defense, but I like those touchdowns, too."
The win was a school-record 17th in a row for the 7-0 defending Class 6 state champions. It was the fifth-straight win over the Jaguars, and the Wildcats now lead the all-time series 11-9.
"If we keep playing at this level, this could be a very special season," Donohoe said.
The Jaguars fell to 3-4 despite a solid effort by Watson, who had a sack and three tackles in the Blue Springs backfield.
"Josh played well," South coach Greg Oder said. "We just gave up too many big plays. You can't give up that many big plays to a team with the talent they have."
Added South defensive coordinator Jon Oyler: "Josh plays hard no matter what the score. He's a great kid on the field and in the classroom, and I feel honored to work with him."
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CrossFitters are rallying behind a Colorado man after he suffered a catastrophic injury during a competition in California over the weekend.
CBS Denver reports Kevin Ogar was performing a
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On the financial front, his CrossFit community and others have begun raising money to help him out.
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The digital video recorder is the most wonderful technology innovation of the last 20 years. With replay, watching football is a totally different experience. iPhone, Android or BlackBerry? BlackBerry, because my fingers are too fat to type on an iPhone. First job: Scooping ice cream at Baskin-Robbins. A great opportunity to be in front of customers, but not good for the waistline. Off-hours pastime: Mountain biking. When I'm not working, I'm out there somewhere in the Colorado mountains. Favorite movie: My favorite comedy is Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
Scott Hicar has a big-data problem. Every year, the DigitalGlobe CIO must find room for another petabyte or two of the imagery that streams from his company's three Earth-imaging satellites. And the scope of that task is going to grow: A fourth satellite is under construction. Processing that data is a massive challenge, as is the task of delivering ever larger volumes to customers, who use DigitalGlobe images for everything from assessing storm damage to providing location-based mobile services. But it's worth the effort: DigitalGlobe helped emergency teams take stock of the devastation in Japan after the April 2011 earthquake and tsunami -- an undertaking that earned the company recognition as a 2012 Computerworld Honors laureate. Here, Hicar talks about how big data is becoming an "immovable object" and why DigitalGlobe is betting on the cloud.
What challenges did you face in processing and distributing data to Japanese emergency responders after the earthquake and tsunami? We worked with Hitachi Defense and targeted our satellites. First responders could see an impact assessment within two hours of the event so they could start to plan. Two years ago, that capability was possible [only] for special circumstances like that event; otherwise, our average load times were in the 12-hour time frame. Now we can take an image from a satellite, downlink it to a ground station, get it back here to Colorado, process it and have it available online in our cloud in under two hours, on average.
What role does IT play in DigitalGlobe's business model? As the leading provider of Earth imagery content and analysis, we are a digital company creating digital products, so IT has a very broad role. We have a network of ground terminals around the world that take information from our satellites, and we provide the telecommunications infrastructure to get that massive amount of content here to our processing facility. We receive 2 to 2.5 petabytes of raw imagery a year from our satellites, we have about 8 petabytes of fresh content on spinning disk, and we have an archive of over 2 million square kilometers of imagery that represents seven or eight years of active collections of the planet.
We decompress that, process it, and ship out 15 to 20 petabytes of imagery per year to our customers. Most recently, we're putting it into our geospatial cloud to make it available on a much more real-time basis.
What's involved in processing that data? We stretch the images across an elevation model of the Earth to make sure that they're accurate. We cancel out the angle of the camera that the image was taken from; we cancel out the bumpiness of the Earth; we correct for the wobble associated with the gravitational pull of the moon and what that pull means to the tides. All of those things need to be corrected. It's a massive computational problem to create accurate imagery.
What role does analytics play in your business and IT operations? We use analytics to keep our images current, to determine where we need to refresh next. Cities with a high rate of change are high on this list because our customers use our imagery to reset car navigation systems.
What unique challenges does IT face in meeting the needs of your industry and business? It's the big-data problem. We process massive amounts of imagery, and we need to meet very exact timelines. So the challenge is how to create a flexible computing model that lets us create the right product for the customer. We created our own high-performance compute cluster, and we are actively harnessing the power of graphics processing units to do this. By moving processing from CPUs to GPUs, we have seen anywhere from a 10- to 20-times improvement in speed.
Today we have somewhere around 20 petabytes of data between spinning disk and tape. In the future, customers will no longer be able to [receive] all of the data they need to answer a problem. The data is becoming an immovable object. So we're going to create in our cloud an opportunity for customers to bring us their computations, which we can then run on our high-performance computing environment. It will be easier to bring the computations to the data than to bring the data to the computations.
Can you discuss some of the mobile projects you're exploring? We have a customer that provides location-based services through an online navigation portal, and they want to make our images accessible to their mobile customers. If you're looking at imagery through a phone or online, it comes back in little squares, or tiles. To create this ability to tile out the entire globe and serve it to mobile customers requires somewhere in the neighborhood of 42 billion tiles. We put that into our high-performance computing cluster, and we are in the process of finishing up delivery of those 42 billion tiles.
What do you find most frustrating about your industry? Our information, our content and our analytics can solve business problems that are very broad-based across many industries. But other corporations don't understand how much value can be generated from satellite imagery, how many problems can be solved in a way that's more cost-effective than a traditional solution for gathering information. We're watching and waiting for that to emerge. We see leading innovators using these solutions. But we're not yet in what I'd call the middle of the market in some of these areas.
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ADD, endocrine, heart, Lamictal, lamotrigine, meds, side effects, stimulants, stress, Yaz
I told the reproductive endocrinologist about the heart palpitations and he waved them off. My Psych Nurse didn't; she ordered an EKG, which came back with an abnormal result. I've been referred to a cardiologist, and just filling out the paperwork has been stressful enough to give me more palpitations.
There are a couple of obvious potential causes of heart palpitations. As the endo pointed out, caffeine and stress are possible triggers.
- Caffeine: I have one serving in the morning. Sometimes two. That's not going to cause palpitations throughout the day, and it has never caused them before.
- Stress: Sure, I have lots of stress, and have had for a very long time. In fact, with all the therapy and stuff, I'm a lot less stressed than I used to be, and have much better coping skills. So I don't accept stress as a primary cause of palpitations either.
- Stimulants: My ADD meds could lead to palpitations. I have never had that happen on any dose of any stimulant, not even when combined with substantially more caffeine than usual and a stressful situation.
- Lamotrigine: Lamictal has potential to create withdrawal arrhythmia despite very slow tapering, as I've worked my dosage down from 200mg to 25mg over about 3 months. That timing happens to overlap with taking Yaz.
I don't know what happened, but all of the sudden, everything makes my heart race and struggle. Adding Yaz was the only recent change to my meds, since it's possible but farfetched to blame lamotrigine withdrawal alone for causing arrhythmia. The palpitations started about two weeks after I started Yaz, but took about 6 weeks to build up to the point where I was worried enough to mention it to the docs.
I worry that all the meds are worsening an existing but dormant problem, interacting with or potentiating other medications, or otherwise just plain hurting my heart. But Yaz definitely played some kind of role in this – the big clue, as with every med to which I've ever had adverse reactions, is that the side effects hit their max at peak blood serum level timing – in this case, 1-2 hours. So I would take my meds at 7 AM and by 8:30 I was having heart palpitations every few minutes, fairly intensely, fading off a little after nine.
But then on the days I took the placebos, there were hardly any heart palpitations at all. So after the abnormal EKG, I discontinued Yaz in hopes that things would return to normal like they seemed to with the placebo pills.
Well, not yet, anyway. It's unquestionably better, but just a few days after stopping Yaz I was very anxious about making my flight connections and had heart palpitations like crazy, very clearly associated with the anxiety rather than the timing of taking meds.
This never used to happen except during panic attacks, but now it's just coming up more often for lesser worries, and it's almost enough to scare me into a panic attack by itself. Since then, even on days when I didn't take my ADD meds, I've still had heart palpitations – not many, but still. Enough to notice and worry. Quite a lot more than before.
I'm a bit terrified of what will come of the appointment with the cardiologist. I'm genetically prone to coronary heart disease but I'm doing everything right in terms of eating properly, losing weight, and getting reasonable exercise. So why am I suddenly having heart palpitations? What the hell is really going on here? What kind of horrible new tests are they going to inflict on me now? And is this a temporary thing, or will I have to deal with a bum ticker moving forward?
Worry worry worry…
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The research focused on neonates, who are infants up to 28 days of age. They are at high risk for harmful effects from drugs. The unique ways in which their bodies work makes it difficult to determine how drugs might affect them by analyzing data involving older patients, according to background information in the study.
"The scientific and clinical research community will need to work together with the FDA to conduct essential neonatal studies," said Dr. Matthew Laughon, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and colleagues.
The researchers reviewed 28 drug studies that included neonates and were conducted as a result of federal legislation, along with 24 related labeling changes.
The results showed that 11 of the 24 neonatal labeling changes made it clear that the drug was approved for use in neonates.
The investigators also found that 13 of the 28 drugs were not used in neonatal intensive care units and that eight of the drugs were used in fewer than 60 neonates, according to the study published online Dec. 9 in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.
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Greg Jennings has been asked plenty of times about the differences between the quarterbacks he played with in Green Bay and the one he'll play with in Minnesota after signing with the Vikings as a free agent this offseason and he was asked about it again during an appearance on ESPN on Tuesday.
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"Brett Favre, receivers around him. Aaron Rodgers, receivers around him. Christian Ponder, receivers around him," Jennings said. "He [Ponder] has always been in a position where the stress and pressure was on him. He really didn't have the help around him to take that load off, outside of 'All Day' [running back Adrian Peterson]."
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Southern Comfort by Allison Vines-Rushing and Slade Rushing
Everyone knows that you don't mess with comfort food, especially Southern comfort food. Unless, that is, you happen to be a Southern chef. Chef duo Allison Vines-Rushing and Slade Rushing of MiLa restaurant in New Orleans know just how far to push the comfort food envelope and where a little extra brown butter makes all the difference.
Quick Facts
• Who wrote it: Allison Vines-Rushing and Slade Rushing
• Who published it: Ten Speed Press
• Number of recipes: 100
• Recipes for right now: Vanilla Fresh Toast with Brandy Whipped Cream, Black-Eyed Peas Empanadas, Arugula Salad with Asian Pear and Sheep's Milk Cheese, Curried Squash and Crawfish Soup, Oyster-Swiss Chard Gratin with Country Bacon, "Shrimp Creole" Risotto, Coffee-Roasted Pork Loin, Banana Pudding Brûlée
• Other highlights: Allison Vines-Rushing and Slade Rushing hit just the right note with this cookbook, I think. These recipes and their rich ingredients are familiar to our palates, but they're elevated ever-so-slightly to give us more refined, complex, and intriguing dishes. Some of them are definitely "restaurant recipes" with a lot of steps (not to mention pots and pans) and an emphasis on presentation — great for dinner parties or if you're in the mood for a challenge, but less suited to a simple family meal.
• Who would enjoy this book? People who love southern cooking, fans of MiLo restaurant, homecooks who love the challenge of re-creating restaurant meals.
Find the book at your local library, independent bookstore, or Amazon: Southern Comfort: A New Take on the Recipes We Grew Up With by Allison Vines-Rushing and Slade Rushing
• Visit the author's restaurant website: MiLa Restaurant
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A video made by a seagull who stole a woman's GoPro camera off a beach, briefly filming a sunset before dropping the camera again, is one of the most-shared viral videos on Unruly Media's charts this week. It's had 2 million views on YouTube (video below).
The video is allegedly just one of those random things filmed by a tourist that happens to have recently gone viral on YouTube. And GoPro — which makes the small, versatile, action-oriented cameras — has featured it on its own YouTube channel.
The video was published by a marketing executive, Nathalie Rollandin, who currently works for Accenture. She used to work at Value Lab and HEC Paris.
In an amazing coincidence, it's the second viral video made by a seagull who stole a GoPro from a marketing executive. In 2011, a seagull stole the GoPro camera of Lukas Karásek, who works at digita.sk in Europe. He previously worked at BBDO and Wiktor Leo Burnett. That video has had 3.2 million views.
What are the odds that two separate seagulls stole the same brand of video camera from two people in the same business, and dropped both cameras within retrieving distance from said execs, and both execs then decided the videos were interesting enough to upload to YouTube while properly branded with the GoPro name? Astronomical, we think.
A marketing exec who monitors viral video but is unconnected to the videos tells us he thinks the new video may be a viral tactic by GoPro: "I do not know for certain, but I definitely think it is. Why would you say 'GoPro' and not just 'camera'?"
We tweeted messages to both execs, asking if their videos were made for GoPro. If they get back to us, we'll let you know. In the meantime, enjoy both videos below:


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When the gates reopened after about a two hour delay, Lollapalooza concert-goers rushed across Michigan Avenue chanting "USA, USA, USA." So, where did around 100,000 people go when they had to evacuate the festival grounds? There were three evacuation shelters provided by Lollapalooza, but most decided to hit up the nearest restaurant or hotel lobby to wait it out.
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Once the sea of fans made it back inside, the first stop was the huge puddles of mud in the concert fields. It seemed as if this was the best way to cope with the disappointment of missing some of the acts that were bumped. A group of two young boys and their chaperone went to McDonald's to hide from the storm, and then came back to find out they wouldn't get to see who they wanted to. However, they were glad they even got to come back, and rolled around in the mud at the Perry's stage to lighten their spirits.
This isn't the first time Lollapalooza was dampened by bad weather. Last year it also rained, but the grounds were never closed. It cost over $1 million to repair Grant Park.
This year, the attendees got to dance in the mud again, treating the ground as a natural slip-and-slide, and grabbing each others' legs to swing each other in the air.
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Cover-up of China's gender-cide
The World Health Organization is not one of my favorite groups, but last Friday the United Nations agency released a paper that should have prompted front-page headlines around the globe.
The report, released at WHO's Regional Committee for the Western Pacific, said more than 50 million women were estimated to be "missing" in China because of the institutionalized killing and neglect of girls due to Beijing's population control program that limits parents to one child.
Many of the girls were killed while still in the womb — the victims of ultrasound technology that revealed the baby's sex. Others, WHO said, were starved to death after birth, the victims of violence or were not treated when they became ill.
The report's statistics showed that in 1994, 117 boys were born for every 100 girls in China. Though baby girls tend to have a higher survival rate than boys, that natural process has been dramatically reversed in China by infanticide, gross neglect, maltreatment and malnutrition of females in a culture that regards boys as more desirable — especially when couples get only one chance at parenthood.
The trend transcends the infancy stage, too, the report shows. Girls are at higher risk than boys of dying before the age of five in China — despite their natural biological advantages.
"In many cases, mothers are more likely to bring their male children to health centers — particularly to private physicians — and they may be treated at an earlier stage of disease than girls," the paper reported.
Just to put this story in perspective, WHO is documenting what can only de described as the biggest single holocaust in human history — and doing it in a surprisingly clinical and low-key fashion. Nevertheless, it's stunning, breathtaking news, by any standard. Once again, it shows, centralized, command-and-control government planning has resulted in a slaughter of the innocents. It's news that cries out for a new word in our vocabulary — "gender-cide."
But I'll bet you didn't read it in any establishment newspaper in America. And I will guaranty you didn't see it reported on the network news. So, was this story just missed by the big media? Was it reported only by some obscure foreign news agency?
No. And this is the biggest shocker of all. The story was reported by the Associated Press in Sydney, Australia. Now, just so you understand, the Associated Press in Sydney is the very same Associated Press that serves as a cooperative news agency here. Yet, the world's largest news-gathering organization did not see fit to include the dispatch on its world wire in the West. Apparently, it just wasn't deemed newsworthy enough. It was dismissed as a story of interest only in Asia — a regional issue.
This strikes me as one of the most colossal of bad news judgments — one that smacks of pure ideologically driven, pro-abortion, pro-population-control, pro-China bias at the national news desk of the Associated Press. What else could possibly explain the spiking of such a news story? Was someone asleep at the switch in Washington? If so, where's the apology?
And where's the followup? What an opportunity the Associated Press and other news agencies have to gather reaction to this tragic story. Wouldn't you love to hear what the National Organization of Women and other population-control apologists have to say about the snuffing out of more than 50 million little girls in one generation? Somehow, I doubt we'll ever see it. Because the story was ignored by the establishment press, official cover has been provided to the abortion zealots to dismiss the WHO statistics. Instead, we'll no doubt hear from one of them in the future about how effective the Beijing regime has been in curtailing population growth.
Of course, it's not unusual for the establishment press in the freest nation in the world to miss some of the biggest stories. What is remarkable in this case is the deliberateness of it. A conscious decision was made in Washington to exclude this story from the domestic news budgets of thousands of newspapers across the United States that rely principally on the Associated Press for their national and international news.
I feel certain that someday God is going to judge parents who kill their children. He's also going to judge governments that encourage — even force — such murders. But there's got to be special little place in Hell reserved for those who, aware of such barbarity, go out of their way to cover it up.


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Buttertart and Nanaimo Bar Statistics: Annie's Dream Bakery #MRX
As fun as statistics are, there really are very few jobs where you can apply those skills. Unless you want to be a math or statistics teacher, it's good to have a fall back plan. And if I had my way and unlimited funds, Annie's Bread Corner would be a flourishing little business right now.
I've visited a ton of bakeries and pastry shops in many different cities and have figured out exactly what my quaint little bakery would be. The focus would be on fresh, out of the oven, warm baked goods. Tall loaves of olive bread, oatmeal bread, and sourdough bread as well as buttertarts, nanaimo bars, and scones would fill up my shop with tantalizing smells.
Of course, you can't run a successful business unless you manage it well and that's where my classical education in psychology and statistics comes into play.
- I would calculate the frequency of inquiries and purchases for each product by time, day, week, and month
- I would conduct test/control, randomly ordered tests on different times and days of the week determine whether the buttertarts should be made with pecans or hazelnuts
- I would run regression analyses to determine which products create the highest total sales per individual shopper
- I would run cluster analyses to determine which products sell better together than alone
- Most importantly, all potential customers would be required to fill out a demographic profile, including their taste and smell likes and dislikes before being allowed to view, purchase, or smell any items in the store (the entrance will be hermetically sealed)
Now that I think about it, if statistics are this important to a tiny little bakery, I probably won't have any time to bake. Help please?
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Yet another sign that the car is going gadget.
Now Linux is joining the bandwagon with its Automotive Grade Linux Workgroup. Members of this group that includes automotive and tech heavyweights will work on Linux-based standards for devices and services that will run on them.
Samsung's Tizen is part of this collective. A further indicator that the electronics giant will be moving away from the Android OS.
I mean, if we're all one day going to be carted around by Google's robot-driven driverless cars, we might as well have some cool in-car apps to at least keep us interested, right?
Tech companies that have signed up are Tizen (the Linux-based platform that's supported by Intel and Samsung), Texas Instruments, Harman, Intel, NEC, NVIDIA, and, of course — Samsung! Toyota, Nissan and Jaguar Land Rover are among the auto companies that have jumped on the train.
Keep in mind, Linux is not even close to the first company to move in this direction, far from it. The last few years have seen various "cars of the future" moves from Google, Ford and Honda — and there has even been some speculation that Apple is working on concepts (omg! Don't tell us … the iCar?).
Read more about the Linux car-gadget move from TechCrunch below:
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A list of tools which are used to analyze a program. This includes debuggers and profilers, for instance.
[KBabel] is a suite of tools for editing and managing gettext PO files. The primary tool is a powerful and comfortable PO file editor which features full navigation capabilities, full editing functionality, the possibility to search for translations in different dictionaries, spell and syntax checking, display of diffs and much more.
Also included is a catalog manager which provides a file manager view to help you keep an overview of PO files. Last but not least KBabel includes a standalone dictionary application as an additional means to access KBabel's powerful dictionaries.
This little utility, once activated, can present a report about conflicting shortcuts in menus. Not only this is helpful for translators but also for developers. A little hand editing of `kde-config --localprefix`/share/config/kdeglobals activates this feature:
[Development] CheckAccelerators=F12 AutoCheckAccelerators=false AlwaysShowCheckAccelerators=false
Now pressing F12 will show a dialog containing which accelerators in the currently focussed interface conflict and provide suggestions for new accelerators. If no accelerators conflict or Dr. Klash has nothing to suggest, no popup dialog will not be displayed at all.
With AutoCheckAccelerators enabled the dialog will popup automatically if a conflict exists and AlwaysShowCheckAccelerators can force the dialog to always popup even if there are no conflicts to report.
This helper language serves as a debugging aid for people finding untranslated strings in applications. If you start your application with the ``xx locale, all translated strings will appear with x's. First you have to check out these ``translations from l10n/xx and install them.
After you've built l10n/xx and installed it, run your application using the XX locale. This can be done by launching it from the command line like this:
> KDE_LANG=xx kspread
This will start KSpread using the XX locale no matter what your current language setting is. Look for strings that do not have the x's in them. If x's are missing from a string, it could be due to missing i18n calls or even missing or incorrectly generated .pot files. Consult the i18n tutorials for further information.
When checking for untranslated strings, be sure to check all the WhatsThis help and tooltips.
You can look at the translated .po files to see if a string is present and has been translated. For example, here's a portion of l10n/de/messages/kdebase/konqueror.po:
#: konq_mainwindow.cc:3707 konq_tabs.cc:84 msgid "&New Tab" msgstr "Neues &Unterfenster"
The string to be translated is given on the msgid line. The translated string is on the msgstr line. Notice that the exact same string to translate came from konq_mainwindow.cc and also from konq_tabs.cc. This saves the translators from having to translate the same identical string twice.
You can also use KBabel to examine .po files. KBabel is part of the kdesdk module.
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Andrea O'Driscoll (AKA Mom): Oh, here we go. We're getting interviewed. I think I need a smoke first. So, you'll have to wait.
Steve O'Driscoll (AKA Dad): Do I need to leave the room then?
AO: What?
SO: I thought we were doing it separately. I object. I want to do it separately.
AO: I'll be right back. I have to get stoked for this.
CO: Do you think I'm funny?
AO: It depends on what day it is.
SO: Monday, Wednesdays, and Saturdays. Not so much on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
CO: All right… That went well. Let's move on.
AO: It depends on whether I'm being your mom, or going to see you in something.
CO: Was there a moment when I was growing up that you thought, "Hey, this kid might one day think she's a comedian?"
SO: Yes.
AO: Every night at dinner from the time you were about… Oh, I guess a year… you would wait, everyone would sit at the dinner table, and you would stand up in your high chair and say, "It's showtime."
CO: Do you have anything else to add, dad?
SO: Always. Right from the beginning.
AO: Before you were even here, it was a joke. You were one of God's little jokes. Should we get into that? Do you want to tell that story?
SO: No, don't.
CO: Explain the Harold.
AO: Harold who? No. I know there's beats. What do you know about it?
SO: What?
AO: The Harold.
SO: The Harold? I don't even know what we're talking about.
AO: The type of improv she does. There's three sections and so many beats to each section, but I can't figure it out from watching it. I need a drum to find the beats.
SO: Can I say anything about the other?
AO: Organic's too noisy.
SO: I like it better than the other.
CO: How do you feel about improv?
AO: I like it. Some's funnier than others. We can go back into that again…
SO: I think it's really hard when you have 5 or 6 people on stage not to end up with one or two people who dominate… to be honest.
AO: I still don't believe that you don't use stuff that you did in rehearsal. If it's failing and flailing and you have good stuff that you did in rehearsal. Why not use it?
CO: We don't.
AO: Well, then I guess I just don't get the rehearsals. But yeah, I like improv, I come see you all the time. Some nights are funnier than others, just like some days you're funnier than others. I could have said it depends what side of the bed you woke up on.
CO: Do you have a favorite Davenger moment?
SO: I think there's been a lot of funny moments. The only thing I can think of pointing to is always your first improv show is the best, because you don't really know what to expect and it's better than what you expect it to be. That's the only way I can put it.
AO: The show where Hilary played Hans and you were in relaxation therapy, but you were afraid of rubber bands and they kept stressing you out with them; that was the therapy. Then you were doing bumper cars and Kevin made you kill a child, and the show ended with Hilary saying, "You've been Hans-ed."
CO: When you brag about me to your friends, what's the first thing you say? When answering, please remember this is a comedy article that all my funny friends will see (so maybe say something about how hilarious I am).
SO: I don't know, I just say you've been performing on stage since as long as I can remember. What was she 7 or 8? And we've always enjoyed…
AO: I was always stunned when she started doing improv because I was always thought she was a drama queen.
SO: Oh no, I think she should do stand up comedy. That's the natural extension.
AO: I'd always seen her in dramas and the first time I saw her in a role when she was funny, like overtly physically funny, all the physicality, expressions, timing. I was blown away by it. And the role in that play was dumb, so you took it to the absurd, and it was really funny.
CO: What do you think about me performing comedy?
AO: I'd like to see you push it more. You still look to me like you hesitate, and you allow other people to continue when I know there's something hidden behind your little smile that's probably funny.
SO: Well, I've always liked some of the more physical humor, like Dick Van Dyke, or people that do physical, Jack Tripper, people that do physical comedy. And I remember at the last show I went to, that was the remark I made to Dan the way, out of the blue, he does this contortion with his body. I think that the expressions and the actions are as important as what comes out of your mouth sometimes.
CO: Do you think I should try stand up?
SO: Yes. Absolutely. What are you waiting for?
AO: I think you should because I think you're a good writer, and I think if you put your mind to it… but sometimes you're lazy.
SO: A lot of people that do stand up comedy are afraid of the audience. A lot of them. I remember distinctly Johnny Carson was afraid of crowds.
AO: Oh boy, Dad's gonna give you a history lesson. I think it's hard for females. A guy can get away with any raw comment, but when a female does it…
CO: What do you think my opening joke should be?
AO: One time at band camp… No.vDon't say the lawn mower joke, Steve.
SO: No, you don't do jokes. You do more like something that happened to you on the way to the place… or…
AO: Let me tell you about my mother…? That's always a good place to start. Here's to the mothers, it's their fault.
SO: You could open it with the two girls in diapers.
CO: What?
AO: No idea what you're talking about.
SO: Dogs in diapers it's a funny image.
AO: Oh, the girls.
SO: To me part of doing stand up is relating stories about people that you know.
AO: Well, God, you better know funny people than. She's up shit's creek then.
CO: Who's your favorite comedian? Other than me guys, geeze, you're making me blush!
SO: Uh, so I'm just gonna say you to get it out of the way then. Current comedian? Probably, Lewis Black. I like Seinfeld.
AO: I pick Robin Williams.
AO: Yeah, I like Robin Williams. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
SO: Oh yeah, Tina Fey.
CO: Anything else you want to add?
AO: I think you should push it. I think you should pursue it.
SO: You could create a character like um… what's her name did… SNL… Gilda Radner.
AO: Oh, I know who I love, Gilda Radner's husband, Gene Wilder.
SO: When you can develop something where you get into character, you can really go with it, rather than standing there and telling jokes, you can be in character.
AO: You do that well. I can see your acting experience. I like when improv has a connection to the acting.
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Teen Underground Cafe, an after-hours performance & arts program for teens, is coming–and it wants your participation!
Through Teen Underground Cafe, we hope to turn Libraries all over the city into after hours showcases of teen talent. As one part, we will soon be scheduling eight Teen Underground Cafe Presents… at the Main Library (in Oakland), in which we'll be looking for teens to fill two slots of 30-40 minutes of material of all kinds–music, poetry, improv, you name it–as well as one teen to feature their visual art of choice in the Main – Teen Department for a month after the event. (Think of it like your own private opening party.)
Performers and artists will be compensated for their time and efforts. If you are a performer or visual artist and would like to be considered, please submit the following information to email@example.com:
- Name
- Performing or artist alias or name of group
- Description of performance or art
- Link to any recordings or documentation
- E-mail address
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Additionally, the Teen Underground Cafe is going to travel all across the city for a series of after hours Open Mic Nights. The stage will be yours to feature your music, poetry, and more. And with a full PA system and back line of drums, guitars, and amps, you may meet a fellow collaborator–or even get scouted to feature more of your work at Teen Underground Cafe Presents…!
Our Open Mic Nights will be happening the following months at the following locations. Tune into our events page for more info as it comes:
- Feburary 2014: Knoxville [Saturday, February 22, 2014 ; 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM]
- March 2014: Hill District [Thursday, March 27, 2014 ; 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM]
- May 2014: East Liberty
- June 2014: Brookline
- July 2014: Carrick
- August 2014: Hazelwood
- September 2014: Squirrel Hill
- November 2014: Homewood
- January 2015: West End
- March 2015: Sheraden
- April 2015: Allegheny
- May 2015: Woods Run
Hope to see you there!
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Consider it the ultimate tennis bitch slap. Sure, Novak Djokovic is by far the hottest thing on the tennis circuit right now, but for Anna Wintour to go as far and shoot the world no. 2 for a spread on the mag's website and a bikini shot worth two (three if you want to study hard) glances, is so … un-Federer.
Is Mirka seething? Well, we can't quite know. But Djoko looks fantastic in the black swim trunks, seen above on the entrance of Vogue.com today and below in the image, which was taken by Norman Jean Roy. Roy has plenty of high-quality fashion accolades to his name, including Vanity Fair and Details alongside Vogue, of course. He took this well-known image of Lindsay Lohan for the cover of Vanity Fair.
So is Anna over Rog? Naw. We doubt it. But would he ever pose in a tiny black swimsuit like that? We sort of doubt. Below, another look at the bikini and after the cut, Djoko wears … clothes. The shoot took place in Miami during the Sony Ericsson Open.
TSF Vault: The shirtless chronicles | Wintour feature in the WSJ
While the write-up is expectedly-cheesy, it's full of some good info. But our fave line? This parenthese-ed aside: Q. Who is the president of Serbia? A. Me neither. Vicki Woods wrote the piece, which dives into Djokovic's life off the court and usually outlandish description of both his personality and his game. Why the hyperbole? Woods is a (London) Telegraph writer, so it just comes naturally.
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Batting Around: When the stars (and leagues) align

 Each of the four major professional sports in America — basketball, hockey, football and baseball — uses the same basic format to divide up their leagues: two separate conferences, each divided into divisions based primarily on location.

 The NHL and NBA are most similar to each other, each having an Eastern and Western Conference with three divisions of five teams for a total of 30 teams (although it is notable that in both sports, the division lines dissolve when it comes to playoff spots, which are decided on the basis of overall record independent of division).

 The NFL has 32 teams, so their divisions are slightly different. With 16 teams in both the American Football Conference (AFC) and National Football Conference (NFC), there are four divisions in each conference: East, North, South and West. Each division has four teams. The four division winners — plus the two non-division winners with the best records — from each conference advance to the playoffs.

 The MLB is a little different. There are 30 professional baseball teams (although the Houston Astros barely qualify this year), so a NBA/NHL style league seems appropriate. Instead, however, the National League and American League are misaligned — the former has 16 teams, with two divisions of five and one of six, while the latter has 14 teams, with two divisions of five and one of four. The winners of each division advance to the playoffs, along with the second-place team with the best record from each league (dubbed the "wild card" team).

 The curious divisional imbalance is not due to historical happenstance or tradition, but rather it was a conscious decision by Major League Baseball when the league expanded from 28 to 30 teams in 1997. Before the addition of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and the Arizona Diamondbacks, each league had 14 teams. Adding one team to each league would keep the leagues even. Seems like the logical decision, right?

 Well, not quite. Unlike the NHL and NBA, Major League Baseball teams do not regularly play teams from outside their league. Thus, having an odd number of teams in each league would leave one team with no opponent for 3-4 days.

 Disaster? Hardly. It would, however, greatly extend a regular season that already spans roughly half of the calendar year and create logistical problems that no one is quite sure how to deal with.

 So, in 1997 the MLB went from 28 teams in a 14/14 split to 30 teams in a 14/16 split (the Devil Rays and Diamondbacks went to opposite leagues, but the Milwaukee Brewers simultaneously jumped from the American League to the National League to maintain even numbers in both leagues).

 The theory is sound, but the problem is that it's not fair to have one division with four teams and one with six.

 Baseball is a game of details. But like the butterfly effect, each detail contributes to the larger path a team takes throughout the season. Because the season is so long and often arduous (they play 162 games in roughly 180 days), it can be easy to devalue the importance of a single game. But it becomes clear in September, as many division and wild card races come down to the wire, that a single game can be the difference between making the playoffs and watching them from home.

 The point is that in baseball, everything affects everything.

 I'm not a baseball purist in the sense that I think we should make every effort possible to play the game exactly as it was created in the 1800s. But I am a purist in the sense that I want the game — the stats and the standings — to be true and fair.

 The fact is that you play a different game — from the very first pitch of the season — when you're competing with five other teams versus three other teams for a playoff spot. And the purist in me says that if these teams are competing for the same prize, they ought to be playing the same game.

 There are a number of ways that the MLB could amend this unfortunately misalignment. Here are a few:

 1. Add two more teams.It's not that I'm dying to see the Buffalo Blizzards face off against the New Orleans Cajuns, but this is one possibility for bringing the leagues back into balance. With two leagues of 16, however, the MLB would still be left with the problem of odd-sized divisions — each league would have two divisions of five and one of six. Unless they re-mapped their divisions to match the NFL, with four divisions of four, this is an unlikely solution for a league already struggling to find fans in some of its smaller markets.

 2. Get rid of two teams. Success comes in cycles in baseball, with very few teams consistently finishing at the top or bottom of their division (obviously certain teams buck this trend — the Pirates are currently in the midst of their first winning season in 18 years, and the Yankees, well…they're the Yankees). Axing two teams based on performance would be difficult, especially since some of the more futile teams are also some of the oldest and most historic (Cubs, Orioles, Royals, etc.). It would probably be smarter to pluck the lowest hanging fruit in terms of attendance, as that gives a better indication of what a team is accomplishing in terms of revenue. Florida, Pittsburgh, and Tampa Bay consistently bring up the rear in yearly attendance — if anyone deserves to get axed, it's them.

 3. Use interleague play to your advantage. Above, I noted that the difficulty with odd-numbered leagues is that teams don't regularly play teams from the opposite league. The key word there is regularly. Since 1997, teams have played interleague games during a few weeks of the year, matching up with cross-league rivals for rare and exciting series. Thus far, teams have played these games all at once, first during one weekend in May and then later in the season, for a week or so in June. I propose a different model: one interleague series happening at all times. While the rest of the 28 teams match up with opponents from their own league, two teams from opposite leagues face off. The MLB scheduling gurus could ensure that teams play their cross-town or in-state rivals (Mets vs. Yankees, Angels vs. Dodgers, Astros vs. Rangers, etc.), sprinkling the excitement and intrigue of interleague play throughout the season.

 Ultimately, it just doesn't make sense to having unequal leagues. Though they remain separate for much of the season, it seems strikingly unfair that the American League champion must best 13 other teams, while the National League champ has to top a field of 16. It's time to restore balance back to the MLB.

 Ian Trombulak is a rising senior at Middlebury College, and is interning at the Addison Independent as a news reporter and member of the online team this summer. He likes sports — a lot — and, as with most things he likes, he spends a lot of time thinking about them. He hopes that you enjoy the cathartic weekly release of those thoughts, and that you will share yours as well in the comments below.


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Marketing Email Inspiration: REI Asks For Your PreferenceCarly Brantz
Personalization is key to any email strategy. That's why you have to take every opportunity to get to know your customers beyond a simple click. Take a moment to profile your customers and collect relevant data points that will help you customize the user experience.
To get started, create a preference center. A preference center provides a centralized location for customers to manage and update their information. This can include the basics like name, subscription, and email address, or you can expand to mailing address for location-based communications or interest categories to send more targeted messages. The key here is to only collect data that you will actually use. Remember, it's okay to start small. As your capabilities to provide customized content become more sophisticated and/or important to your business, you can ask your customers for more information.
Also, include links to your preference center in every email you send especially since it serves as a great alternative to unsubscribing. Instead of hitting the spam or unsubscribe button, a preference center gives subscribers the power to decrease frequency, change the type of email they receive, or modify their interest categories in order to receive more relevant messages from you. Check out how outdoor retailer REI asks customers to help them maintain a healthy database.
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- Clear Subject Line: "What are your favorite outdoor activities?" For subscribers who just signed up to receive mail from an outdoor sporting goods store, this catches their eye–hook, line, and sinker. It's personal and will encourage the subscriber to provide this information if they want help identifying what's right for them.
- Strong Branding: Beyond the logo, REI incorporates the outdoor theme in their email through strong imagery and reiterates their value near the footer with 100% satisfaction guarantee and membership rewards. Together, this sends a powerful message about how they treat the customer relationship.
- Strong Call to Action: REI wants one thing – to get to know you better. Therefore, they include one prominent button to update your preferences backed by smart copy that invites you to "custom-fit' your Gearmail.
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Two teachers in New Mexico are facing child abuse charges after the school released a video showing them dragging a blind 6-year-old boy down a hall by his legs.
The teacher told cops that the special needs child at Gonzales Community School in Santa Fe refused to go to another classroom, so she dragged him there, local TV station KOB reported.
In the video, one woman can be seen towing the little boy by the ankles as he lays on his back. A second teacher joins in, while a third walks with the other two, watching the troubling incident.
Santa Fe Police Sgt. Andrea Dobyns told KOB the teacher has worked with the boy for a long time and that the two had a good relationship.
"We don't believe the teacher was intentionally trying to hurt the child, but our problem is the blatant neglect for his safety," Dobyns said.
"The boy's parents like this teacher," she said.
The boy complained that his head hurt after the dragging, but otherwise wasn't seriously injuried, the station reported.
The two teachers who dragged the boy would face child abuse charges, while the third teacher could face punishment for not reporting the incident.
The Santa Fe district attorney was reviewing the case, KOB reported.


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It was reported the other day on an inside page of the Pioneer Press, and without nearly enough fanfare, that more than six out of 10 women who give birth in their early 20s are unmarried. That is census data, from census demographers, from the very government that then becomes responsible for many, if not most, of those unmarried women and children.
If that isn't an astonishing statistic, it should be. Why, to any logical person's way of thinking, it explains everything in terms of government at all levels bloating out of control.
Supposing that even angels might fear to tread here, it being liberal dogma that I shouldn't be telling women what to do, or men, either, for that matter, I would submit that marriage would solve virtually every economic issue facing this country.
The census demographers said that single motherhood, on the increase since the 1940s, has accelerated mindblowingly. The birth rate for unmarried women in 2007 was up 80 percent in the almost three decades since 1980. Just between 2002 and 2007, it was up 20 percent.
The census people didn't use the word mindblowingly. I have chosen it because these numbers are chilling and so telling of the true nature of the government's insatiable spending. Just think of entitlement spending the next time the hypocrites in Washington want to take a snowplow off the road in Yellowstone or take a few flight controllers out of a tower because of this so-called sequestration. Who do they think they are fooling?
Statistically, you can avoid poverty in America by getting a high-school degree and waiting to get married before having a child. It's really that simple.
The census report would state it differently. The U.S. Census Bureau report said that women with college degrees and higher household incomes are less likely to be single mothers than are women who have lower incomes and less education.
Now, I suppose this is where I should acknowledge that not all women who choose to give birth without a marriage are consigning themselves and their child to a life of poverty.
But when more than 600 out of every 1,000 children born to women in their early 20s have single mothers, can anybody come up with a percentage for how many of them will flourish?
Single mothers in their early 20s instantly become the have-nots, statistically, in income and education. For so many women to have so many children without a husband is a complete abdication of personal responsibility, which leads to a complete shunning of any civic responsibility. We are going broke. And if you think taxing higher-income earners more is the answer, you haven't done the math. The men who are party to these births are, of course, just as irresponsible, just as uncommitted to a civic responsibility to take care of their own.
So what has happened as a result of this mindblowingly destructive trend? Well, most principally, what has happened since the 1940s is a government that has expanded to require more and more money to feed, clothe, house, educate and medicate the children of mothers who cannot afford to do it themselves because their education has stalled, knocking them off the path of growing their incomes.
We hear a hue and cry for all-day kindergarten, which I suppose makes sense because the children have no place else to be if their single mom is fortunate enough to have a job. Whole bureaucracies have been created to cut general assistance checks and food payments and housing vouchers and health care provisions. All because there is no conventional family in place to take care of these obligations.
I am hopelessly conservative in these matters and not in tune with all the wonderful life choices encouraged by liberal dogma.
But the numbers don't lie. More than 60 percent! Not for an air traffic controller or a snowplow driver are we going broke.
Joe Soucheray can be reached at email@example.com or 651-228-5474. Soucheray is heard from 1 to 4 p.m. on 1500ESPN.


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Perseverance Press, Sept 2004, 13.95, 288 pp. ISBN 188028474X Thirty years ago, in Port Silva, California a young girl was raped and killed putting the whole town on edge. A few days later, two anonymous calls were made stating that Edgar Larson, thought to be an upstanding citizen, was seen molesting children. Although the police tried to keep his name out of it while they investigated the charges, pretty soon all of Port Silva Knew about the ...


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I think it's as simple as taking every search result and lumping each into one of the three categories (pos, neg, indiff).
There would be lists of positive words and negative words to tally for each link.
More good words than bad words on a particular link, and that result is counted in the 'Positive' pile.
I doubt they even use any unique keywords for 'Indifferent', as it would most easily be implemented as a category for results that are roughly balanced in total + and - keywords.
If my guess is correct then it's basically guilt-by-association, so to speak.
Ahh, the complexity of free, online, automated opinion-makers.
24 hour TV news should add this to their repertoire:
' Well I don't know, Let's check online! ... What does the internet think? '
Negative: 44.6% … 34k+ hits
Positive: 44.3% … 34k+ hits
Indifferent: 11.1% … 8k+ hits
Conclusion: The internet is negative about news, but only just.
OK, that a definitive conclusion is drawn at all there^ bothers me ... how accurate are these results again?
"This, of course, produces questionable results which should not be taken very seriously. However, the more results (hits) returned, the more reliable these results can become."
"The results are provided 'as is' and should not be considered reliable, nor do they reflect the opinion of whatdoestheinternetthink.net, its creators or Microsoft. Furthermore, results may vary greatly on a daily, or even hourly, basis. The results are merely a reflection of a majority in search term results reported by said search-engine."
Which leads me to believe that any robocalypse in the near future would be schizophrenic at best. If I am permitted to anthropomorphize hypothetical events, I should do so more often.


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This article describes what happens if you have multiple antivirus software or utilities installed, and how to uninstall them and have only one AV software installed on the computer.
The use of multiple anti-virus programs may cause your system to lockup. Antivirus programs come pre-installed on most Dell Computers, so customers sometimes install other antivirus programs without realizing that there is already a system installed. If you decide to install an alternate antivirus software, it is important that you first uninstall any other antivirus programs that may be running on your computer.
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The rock formation of Gorge waterfall in Fillmore Glen State Park.
Vertical composition of Fillmore Glen waterfalls, Finger Lakes.
Wooden Bridge over Fillmore Glen Creek, Finger Lakes.
Excelsior Glen Waterfalls and Fall Foliage.
Dry Creek, Fillmore Glen
Autumn Leaves in Watkins Glen.
Sun Rays above Buttermilk Falls, Finger Lakes.
Ithaca falls in October
Autumn Landscape in the Finger Lakes Area.
Small barn and Golden Leaves in October.
Eagle Cliff Falls in October.
The Creek of Fillmore Glen State Park, New York.
The Wooden Bridge at Buttermilk Falls State Park
Waterfalls in Buttermilk Falls Gorge Trail
Gorge Trail at Buttermilk Falls State Park
Panoramic view of rural farms, Upstate New York
Lonely Tree in the field, Finger Lakes.
The Old Barn and Fall Foliage, Finger Lakes.
Eagle Cliff Falls, Havana Glen Park.
Wooden Cabin in Finger Lakes.
Cascading falls of Buttermilk Falls, Finger Lakes
Red Barn and the wheat field, Finger Lakes
Country Road and Stormy Sky.
Eagle Cliff Falls in autumn.
Ithaca Falls on Fall Creek.
Excelsior Glen Waterfalls, Finger Lakes.
Autumn Colors in Fillmore Glen State Park, Finger Lakes.
The Narrow Gorge of Fillmore Glen State Park, Finger Lakes.
Wide Angle view of Gorge Waterfall, Fillmore Glen State Park
Panoramic View of Fillmore Glen State Park, New York.
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Reclaim Your Dreams is an ebook by Jonathan Mead who is a liberation artist I've seen taking this field by storm lately. He runs his own website Illuminated Mind as well as writing for Zen Habits and Lateral Action, two prominent blogs in the field of simplicity, creativity and productivity. All of this while still working a normal job, having a wife and occasionally (I bet) a life offline.
Jonathan put out a call for reviews of his ebook and I took the opportunity after reading about it on Mind the Beginner and a few other sites.
One thing you'll notice in almost all of Jonathan's writing is he doesn't stick to the normal productivity, life hack ideas that get pushed around all the time. He doesn't let the standards of even the unconventional community dictate his words. He stays true to his values.
On to the book.
The opening pages kick right off with five hitting statements. My favorite two lines are "this is …. a call to live deliberately" and "this is a permission slip to be ridiculous". Deliberate ridiculousness is the name of the game in lifestyle design. We have to choose to look like fools in the eyes of our friends and family because often they won't understand the radical choices we choose to undertake to become the dreamers who create life on their own terms.
One of the root notions that Jonathan uses throughout the eBook is a contrast between heart and mind. Whether it is seeing with the mind vs. the heart or thinking with the mind vs. the heart, it is a constant dichotomy that he uses. The mind is often associated with the conventional, the conditioned, the practical and secure while the heart is associated with the free, the unconventional, the passionate, and the frivolous.
However, when I read a book for review the trained philosopher in me comes out and I start breaking things down. Why use such a typical dichotomy, perhaps it's for the ease of understanding or that's how Mead truly feels where the difference is and in the land of life it's hard to argue with a persons feelings. In any case it's a superfluous detail for most people but one that I noted.
Mead aims to help readers forge a bond between mind and heart. He begins with a simple question: Why do you live?
Why do we live? It's easy enough to misplace our life by setting into autopilot. We graduate from school, get a job, get a partner, get married, buy a house, have a couple kids, a car garage… blah blah blah. It goes on into conventional style so overdone that it makes my brain hurt. It has gotten to the point where saying 2.5 kids in a judging tone has gone from being a critique of convention to becoming the convention.
Mead answers it in a broad stroke. If you don't wake up happy what's the point. Because you've missed it.
He redefines the notion of success as: the person that's most alive.
Part 1: Unbrainwashing.
Here is where Mead starts to dive into the meat of reclaiming your dreams. First though you have to clear out all of that dredge holding you back. This is the unbrainwashing. The breaking down of the conventions that we have been domesticated with. There are three chapters in Part 1 each with a different intention.
The first calls for you to reclaim ownership of your mind. To get out of your own way and let yourself believe that you can do it. Often times our harshest critics are ourselves and we often ask permission and then deny ourselves rather than apologizing to ourselves when things don't work out. Mead wants you to get around that.
The next calling is to stop caring. To stop preparing for what is coming up. To forget about the titles and statuses that define us in society as successful and go with living our life. "Sometimes the smartest way to solve a problem [e.g. caring too much] is to stop participating in the problem." If you just let that care slip it liberates you to do with life as you will instead of getting the next level of life.
The last call for action in Part 1 is to undomesticate yourself. This chapter focuses on removing the limits we place on ourselves. If we want to do something in life we most likely can. I may not be a world famous musician if I'm 25 and have never picked up an instrument before but I can definitely learn to play a few songs on a guitar if I take the time to do it. To be interested in life rather than seeking out interesting things. This is a lot like my notion of engagement. You can't live if you aren't in your life.
Part 2: Manifestation
Now that Mead has helped you clear out the debris holding you back Part 2 is there to help you create your dreams.
My favorite part of Part 2 is right at the beginning. Mead gives you three exercises to do. Realize your dreams. Find your purpose. Understand your values. These become the tools and guidelines for liberating yourself from the conventional life that has held you from your dreams. I would recommend this book for this section alone, but even more so for the exercise that follows.
With the dreams, purpose and values in place Mead challenges you to write a personal manifesto and this is something I have taken to heart and started crafting. This personal manifesto becomes like your mission statement, what you can look to help guide you through your decisions and actions. I've read about personal statements or manifestos before and I think they are an excellent idea for anyone hoping to create change in their life.
One portion of the manifestation exercises I had not heard of before is the creation of a dream sanctuary. This is where you can keep your dreams safe and where you can go to immerse yourself in them. This is where you can find inspiration in times of drought or to go to when you feel your dreams are challenged by the world of circumstance. You can do this in a variety of ways which he details and I recommend it highly.
The last three chapters in Part 2 revolve around 3 Keys to Success in Reclaiming Your Dreams, but rather than extolling on each one I will offer a brief list.
Key Number 1: Give Up (or overcoming uncertainty).
Key Number 2: Quit (or reclaiming ownership of your time)
Key Number 3: Skills (or creating love money)
In conclusion Mead's Reclaim Your Dreams dives into the basics of creating the vision for action. It is a way to blueprint your dreams into reality. While it leans towards belonging in the self help section of a Borders it provides some interesting tools to start you on your way into living your life on your terms.
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