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New plane delivered to NetJets at Westchester County Airport
NetJets Chairman and CEO Jordan Hansell accepted delivery of the first Bombardier Business Aircraft Challenger 350 at Westchester County Airport June 27.
"The addition of the Challenger 350 aircraft to our fleet is a significant step in NetJets' continued growth and clearly demonstrates our commitment to provide NetJets customers with the most state-of-the-art aircraft models in the industry," Hansell said. "This is the first of up to 200 Challenger 350 aircraft that we have on order from Bombardier over the next 10 years. We worked very closely with Bombardier to deliver an aircraft that exceeds our customers' needs by providing the highest levels of safety, comfort and convenience." Bombardier Business Aircraft President Éric Martel presented the ceremonial keys to Hansell before unveiling the aircraft to employees and invited guests. NetJets is the worldwide launch customer for the Challenger 350 aircraft and will add eight of the jets to its fleet this year.
NetJets, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The company has operated service out of Westchester County Airport for 10 years, making over 87,000 flights and carrying more than 300,000 passengers in that span.
Leif Skodnick is a reporter for the Fairfield County Business Journal. For more of his work and that of the journal, visit www.westfaironline.com.


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Sioux Falls Mayor Mike Huether's Listen and Learn Session Saturday
Sioux Falls Mayor Mike Huether will continue his Listening and Learning Sessions for the public Saturday, June 15 during the Festival of Cultures at Falls Park from 11:30am to 1:00pm.
Mayor Huether will discuss any and all topics involving the City of Sioux Falls.
Listening and Learning Sessions is held monthly at various locations throughout the city. To learn more visit www.siouxfalls.org

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The August issue of O Magazine (I think) features four Books That Made a Difference to Gary Sinise. Sinise is of course one of Hollywood's good guys, and two of the four books he selects will be familiar to faithful Power Line readers: Surviving Hell: A POW's Journey, by Leo Thorsness (Sinise's comments are here) and Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand (Sinise's comments are here).
These two books obviously relate to Sinise's interest in, and support for, the armed forces. The two other books Sinise picks relate to his career: Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck (Sinise's comments are here), and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey (Sinise's comments are here).


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She really reminds me of Stacy from last season <33
I wish I could watch these videos in Australia!!
I wish I could watch these videos in Australia!! But she seems like an interesting one, although I don't think much of somebody comparing themselves to Sandra, who lay on the beach for 39 days on Heroes vs Villains (not sure about her other season).
I don't know about Sandra on Pearl Islands, having never seen that season, but I was just bored by her on HvV... Parvati is the true winner of HvV in my eyes! Obviously my opinion of Sandra could be very different if I had seen Pearl Islands.
Quote from: racer on January 18, 2012, 08:33:02 PMI wish I could watch these videos in Australia!! That is a You Tube one, can you not see it?? Will do the rest tonight...
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There are many kinds of computer games. Some games let you shoot a gun at people on the screen. If a body is hit, blood and body parts come off the body. Another game shows a monster eating a person.
In another game, many of the pictures show violence. Some pictures show women with very little clothes on. The people who make the games are worried that these kinds of games are not good for people to play.
One game company wants less violence in the computer games. They want their games to not have women shown without much clothing.
Some people think that the violence in the games is like growing up. Some boys like to fight and they will use the computer to pretend to fight.
These games were made by young men. The violence and sex are put in the game for boys. But what about girls? Girls need to be comfortable with computers so they can use them when they grow up.
Most computer games are not violent. Playing computer games help kids to get involved with computers. The problem now is to get girls to learn computers while they are still young.


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Nashville, Tenn. - The Tennessee State men's basketball team held Belmont to a season-low 19 percent from the three-point line and knocked off the East Division's top team, 80-69, on Thursday night.
TSU's victory was its first against Belmont (20-6, 11-2 OVC) since 1987- before the Bruins became members of Division I.
Robert Covington led the Tigers with 25 points on 7-of-9 shooting. He also made 3-of-4 from outside the three-point line and all eight of his free throws. His 25 were his most since Dec. 16 against Lemoyne-Owen
Kellen Thornton (18), Patrick Miller (15) and Jordan Cyphers (10) also scored in double-digits for TSU (15-11, 9-4 OVC).
Thornton also pulled in a game-high ten rebounds for his eighth double-double of the season. Covington added seven boards, helping TSU win the battle on the glass, 35-30.
Cyphers nailed TSU's first bucket with a long two-pointer, but Thornton was the Tigers' main option early, scoring six of TSU's first eight points on 3-of-4 shooting.
Thornton finished the half with a team-high eight points and a pair of boards.
Despite the forward's hot start, the Bruins managed to build an 18-8 lead by scoring nine points off of seven TSU turnovers within the game's first eight minutes. The frequency of TSU miscues made Tennessee State head coach Travis Williams burn his team's first timeout with 11:20 left in the half.
The pep-talk worked as Covington nailed a three on the Tigers' following possession, sparking an 11-2 run that included baskets from Thornton, Miller and Rhett as well.
The string of hoops cut the Belmont lead to one with 6:10 to play until halftime.
The sides traded hoops for the better part of the period, but the Tigers ended the period on an 8-0 run to take the lead, 31-28, heading into the locker room.
All eight of TSU's points occurred during the last 55 seconds of the half.
TSU shot 50 percent (12-of-24) from the field during the first frame and held the Bruins to a 37.5 line (12-of-32). The Tigers also forced 12 turnovers and blocked five shots during the first 20 minutes.
Tennessee State came out strong to start the second half and increased its lead to 37-30 when Covington slammed down a dunk at the 18:46 mark.
TSU eventually raised its lead to eight, 48-40, when Thornton went on a run in which the senior made three consecutive fade-away jumpers- the last occurring with just over 12 minutes to play.
The sides went back-and-forth for the game's next seven minutes, but the Bruins were able to tie the game at 59 with a pair of free throws.
The stalemate was short-lived, as M.J. Rhett and Cyphers had layups on TSU's next two possessions to make the score 63-59 in favor of the home team with under four minutes to go.
TSU continued to roll and raised its advantage to seven when Miller poured in a layup with just two minutes left in the game.
The Tigers made all eight of their free throws to close the game and walked away with an 80-69 upset victory.
With the win, TSU improves to 10-0 at the Gentry Center, matching the team's best start since 1992-93.
Tennessee State will next travel to SIUE for a game against the Cougars. The game is scheduled for Feb. 20 with a 7 p.m. tip-off
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World's Largest Temperature-Controlled Carrier Outsources to Reduce Fuel and Operations Costs
World's Largest Temperature-Controlled Carrier Outsources to Reduce Fuel and Operations Costs
HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwire - Feb 20, 2013) - FuelQuest Inc., the leading on-demand software and services company for the global downstream energy industry, announced today a five-year contract with C.R. England, Inc. of Salt Lake City, Utah. C.R. England is one of North America's largest transportation companies and the largest temperature-controlled carrier worldwide, specializing in moving temperature-sensitive freight such as fresh produce, meat, dairy products, and beverages. Under the agreement, FuelQuest Fuel Center will provide outsourced fuel management services for C.R. England's bulk fueling locations, reducing overall fuel costs and improving operational efficiency.
"Buying bulk fuel is nothing less than challenging in today's high-priced, volatile market," says Allen Nielsen, director of fuel at C.R. England. "Daily price swings are common, which places significant strain on our operational budgets and corporate profitability. In choosing FuelQuest Fuel Center, C.R. England now has industry experts working on our behalf to secure consistently the lowest priced fuel available."
With its team of fuel experts and industry-leading Fuel Management System (FMS) software, Fuel Center forecasts and sources fuel acting as a supplier-independent extension of the fleet customer. Fuel Center assumes other critical fuel management activities including order management as well as fuel, freight, and tax charge reconciliation. These capabilities allow Fuel Center to provide its customers the following benefits:
Fuel Center also provides value management dashboards so customers can monitor the return on investment they are receiving from the Fuel Center service. Fuel Center's growing list of private and commercial fleet customers includes such companies as Carmeuse, Dyno Nobel, J.B. Hunt Transport, Linde North America, Murphy-Brown, Pilgrim's Pride, and Republic Services.
"We are excited to be working with an industry leader like C.R. England on sourcing, replenishing, and reconciling their bulk fuel inventory," said Ryan Mossman, vice president and general manager of FuelQuest Fuel Center. "Our supplier-independent approach to managing fuel has proven time and again to provide the greatest savings for our customers. It is why transportation companies such as C.R England are turning to FuelQuest to manage their end-to-end bulk fuel management needs and why we continue to lead the market."
Founded in 1920, C.R. England, Inc. corporate headquarters are located in Salt Lake City, Utah and is one of North America's largest transportation companies and the world's largest temperature-controlled carrier. C.R. England services include National, Mexico and Regional Truckload service in addition to Dedicated and Intermodal services. For more information, visit www.crengland.com.
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When I was visiting my parents and grandma last month, there was a discussion about my grandpa's uncle with a wooden leg. My mom and grandma didn't remember his name, but remembered visiting him in Ontario on vacations. They thought the wooden leg was from a war injury (World War I).
My grandfather's father, William Francis Elvey Suckling, was the only son in the family. My grandfather's mother had only one brother, Leslie Merritt Stull. Leslie served in WWI, but he moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Grandma and mom said that the wooden leg uncle lived in Ontario. I kept saying that grandpa only had one uncle and assumed that they didn't know what they were talking about.
I was so confused until two weeks later. It finally came to me that when your aunt gets married, you get an uncle. Duh! I think I have been so focused on the family groups of my direct line, that I forget about all those extra collateral relationships.
So one of my grandfather's aunts married a WWI veteran with a wooden leg. I don't know which one it was yet. The Ontario records that are online do not capture the time frame of the 1920s and 1930s that I need to solve this new family mystery. But at least now I know my grandpa could have had an uncle with a wooden leg.
Friday, January 7, 2011
When Aunts Marry You Get an Uncle
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That's quite funny! It's always a bit embarrassing when we genealogists get caught out by family relationships - but they can be confusing!ReplyDelete
It was funny to read this; I grew up knowing my mom's siblings and their spouses, and I often felt closer to the aunts and uncles who had married into the family.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 13, 2011 at 3:58 PM
I'll have to tell your grandma and mom that you don't think they are nuts any more. Love the story. Pretty funny. ...DadReplyDelete
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Chevelle, Middle Class Rut + Janus Bring the Rock to New York City
In support of their latest album 'Hats Off to the Bull,' hard rockers Chevelle tore up the stage in front of die-hard fans at New York City's Irving Plaza on Wednesday night (Feb. 29).
The trio started the set with 'Antisaint' off of their 2007 disc 'Vena Sera' and continued to play a great collection of songs spreading across all of their albums. At points, there was almost no need for frontman Pete Loeffler to sing, as the crowd did all of the work when it came to their radio hits tunes like 'Closure,' 'Send the Pain Below' and 'The Red.'
Fans also rocked out to the band's new tracks such as the latest album's title track 'Hats Off to the Bull,' 'Same Old Trip' and 'Envy.' Chevelle ended the night with 'Face to the Floor,' which recently topped the active rock chart for 13 weeks. Loeffler's vocals were impeccable and Chevelle's chemistry and stage presence were undeniable.
The duo Middle Class Rut served as direct support and these two guys had the energy of a full on five piece band. The band features guitarist/vocalist Zack Lopes and drummer/vocalist Sean Stockham. Both members performed with vigor and gained some major new east coast fans, Lopes won the crowd over with his layered vocals which can go from whiny to raspy but still keeps a certain edginess while Stockham mesmerized fans with his vigorous drumming and melodic vocals.
Janus opened up the show with a solid set, as the Chicago based band is on tour in support of their upcoming full length album 'Nox Aeris' which is due out March 27. Frontman David Scotney had great crowd interaction as he jumped offstage and sang face to face with many fans. They performed tracks such as their latest single 'Stains,' as well as 'Eyesore' and 'Numb' just to name a few.
To catch these three talented bands on the road, go here for a list of remaining dates and cities. And check out a photo gallery of Chevelle and Janus below:


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How does an ancient religion find context and relevance in a world filled with smart phones and other gadgets?
The Buddhist Geeks Conference, a three-day event featuring a host of TED-style talks, round table discussions and meditation sessions, aims to answer some of those questions. Yet as participants explore the intersection of Buddhism, modern-day life and the fast-paced world of technological innovation, organizer Vincent Horn said they will uncover many more layers of questions.
The Buddhist Geeks Conference takes place Aug. 9-11 in the University Memorial Center on the CU campus.
Horn, who started Buddhist Geeks as a podcast when he was a student at Naropa, said the conference is a way to frame questions about Buddhism's place in modern life.
"We're bringing together some of the leading thinkers in fields of technology and Buddhism, Buddhist practice and the convergence of those fields," he said.
Technology is a key component of the event, but the three-day conference also includes an array of speakers who will touch on topics ranging from meditation to creative expression to modern views of Buddhism's future.
The first Buddhist Geeks conference was held last year in Los Angeles, where Horn and his wife lived for a short time. He began planning the second conference in Boulder after his family moved back to town.
"L.A. is a great city, but it's not the same as having a conference in Boulder," he said. "Plus, the UMC is a great venue with great internet. We want people to be able to break out their iPad 2 and their laptop and phone all at the same time."
The conference will delve into ideas such as the world of contemplative science, an emerging field that combines meditative practices with fields such as neuroscience. Other panels explore the art of the imagination, finding balance between practice and the outside world, and ways to engage meaningfully in the community.
Some of last year's speakers, such as Shinzen Young, suggested a shift in perception about how Buddhism fits together with life in the 21st century.
"Instead of thinking of him as an archetype or prophet, or a religious figure, we could think of him as the first, and so far greatest, scientist of human happiness," he said.
Other speakers urged participants to think of Buddhist practice as something to take ownership of on modern terms while honoring its ancient heart.
"There is such diversity and such richness that is being developed in Buddhism over the years that the idea that it is going to be one thing is really counterproductive," said Ken McLeod, a teacher who will lead several roundtables and speak in part about how Marshall McLuhan's famous "the medium is the message" quote applies to Buddhism's identity.
Whether it's a session entitled "Meditation and the Modern Cyborg" or " Mindful Binge Drinking and Blobology: The Promises and Perils of Contemplative Neuroscience," Horn said each facet of the conference focuses on an array of questions, not just possible answers.
What does it mean to live in an increasingly global society, and how does Buddhism fit into that? What does it mean to find meaning in technological gadgets? How do we adapt an ancient practice to modern times?
"We talk a lot about innovation. What does it mean to innovate a religion? Or is it fine the way it is?" he said.
A limited number of spots are available for the conference. To find out more, visit conference.buddhistgeeks.com.


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LONDON (AP) -- U.S. professional poker star Phil Ivey has filed suit in a London court over what he claims are 7.8 million pounds ($12.1 million) in winnings that were withheld from him.
The suit filed Tuesday in the High Court says that Ivey won the money in August playing Punto Banco at the venerable Crockfords casino in London.
Ivey said he had "no alternative" but to pursue legal action against the casino. His lawyer, Matthew Dowd, said Ivey regretted the decision to go to court.
Crockfords, part of the Genting Group, has not yet answered the claim in court. The company did not respond Tuesday to requests for comments on the case.
Ivey is one of the world's most successful poker players and has won numerous World Series of Poker Championship bracelets.


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Devils shut out again in loss to Wildby Dan Myers
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Wild goaltender Josh Harding is making things look easy. His teammates are making it easy for him too.
The Wild scored a goal in each period and added an empty-netter late in a 4-0 victory against the New Jersey Devils at Xcel Energy Center on Sunday night.
Minnesota needed Harding's A-game in the opening 20 minutes, and got it. He stopped 10 shots in the first period, helping the Wild overcome a sluggish start that featured three penalty kills.
From there, Minnesota's skaters did the heavy lifting, holding the Devils to just nine shots on goal the rest of the way, helping to secure Harding's second shutout of the season and ninth of his career. Harding finished with 19 saves.
"It's unbelievable. He's keeping us in every game he plays in," said Wild forward Nino Niederreiter, who had three assists for the first multi-point game of his career. "We are really thankful to have goalies like that."
The victory was Harding's seventh in nine starts this season. His goals-against average dropped to 1.10 and his save percentage increased to .950. Each is tops in the NHL amongst goaltenders with at least five starts.
"The guys are making it easy," Harding said. "It's never about one player. This was another team win. Everybody contributed and pulled their weight."
Besides Harding, perhaps no group has pulled more of its fair share than the Wild's second line. Mikael Granlund entered the game with a career high four-game point streak, and extended it to five at 13:20 of the first, slamming home a pass from Niederreiter in the slot for his first goal of the season.
Over his current five-game streak, Granlund also has seven assists. He leads the team with 10 assists this season.
"I'm glad that he got that goal tonight," Wild coach Mike Yeo said. "He's had a lot of chances. He's obviously been setting up a lot of plays but it's good to get that off his back."
The Wild extended their lead at 7:35 of the second when Zach Parise, playing in his first career game against his former team, got a return feed from Ryan Suter at the right circle. With Devils goaltender Cory Schneider in solid position, Parise flipped a puck towards the front of the crease, where a crashing Suter and Torrey Mitchell were headed. The puck caromed off Mitchell and in for his first of the season.
Mitchell, who has slotted in on the Wild's fourth line much of the season, was playing up with the first line of Parise and center Mikko Koivu.
"Apparently, I scored. So I'll take it," Mitchell said. "I just knew being out with those two guys, just go to the net and good things will happen and it did."
Parise said playing against the Devils was about what he expected it would be heading in.
"As a player, you always hate practicing and scrimmaging against your own team and that's what it felt like for me tonight the whole game," said Parise, New Jersey's first-round pick (No. 17) at the 2003 NHL Draft. "They don't give you much offensively, they play well systematically. Not a lot of room out there, fortunately, we were pretty opportunistic. When we did get our chances, we put them in."
Minnesota struck with the man-advantage early in the third when a shot from the point by Keith Ballard was tipped in front by Dany Heatley for his second of the season. The goal was Heatley's 141st career power-play goal, the most in the NHL since he entered the League in 2001-02.
For Ballard, it was his third assist in two games and first multi-game point streak since Dec. 4-6, 2011 when he played for the Vancouver Canucks. He has four assists in eight games this season.
Niederreiter assisted on that goal as well and also on Jason Pominville's empty-netter at 17:35.
"The more you play, the more confidence you get," said Niederreiter, who was acquired at the 2013 NHL Draft from the New York Islanders in exchange for Cal Clutterbuck and a third-round pick. "With help from players like Granlund and Pominville and Parise and Koivu, they believe in each other and it just gives you confidence."
Playing its second game in two nights, the Devils have been shut out in both and have not scored a goal since 10:54 of the second period last Wednesday against the Tampa Bay Lightning, a stretch of 149:05.
"This is seven periods without a goal," Devils coach Pete DeBoer said. "I thought we did some good things structurally, but you're not going to win in this League without scoring some goals."
DeBoer indicated the Devils' power play is a definite issue and even sapped New Jersey of its early energy.
"We lost momentum with our power plays," DeBoer said. "In the first period, we were playing well, drew a couple of power plays playing that way and really, the momentum shifted when they killed off a couple of penalties in the first."
Schneider, making his return from a groin injury that cost him three games, stopped 16 shots in the loss.
The Devils played shorthanded on their blue line for much of the game. Anton Volchenkov was declared out Sunday with a lower-body injury. He was replaced in the lineup by Jon Merrill, who made his NHL debut. But his first appearance was marred by an injury less than five minutes into the game, when he crashed awkwardly into the boards while chasing a loose puck in the corner. The team announced during the third period he would not return due to lacerations.
The Devils, who also played without forwards Patrik Elias and Travis Zajac for the second straight night, will have three days to try and get healthy before continuing their three-game road trip with back-to-back games Thursday and Friday against the Philadelphia Flyers and Toronto Maple Leafs.
Minnesota wraps up its four-game homestand Tuesday against the Calgary Flames.


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Rod Blagojevich was the 40th governor of Illinois. He was first elected in 2002 and was re-elected in 2006. Blagojevich was born in Chicago in 1956. He graduated from Northwestern University and earned his law degree from Pepperdine in California. Before being elected governor, Blagojevich was a Cook County assistant state's attorney and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996. Late in 2008, Blagojevich was arrested for political corruption and later convicted on several charges, most notably for his attempts to control who would replace Barack Obama in the Senate following his first presidential election victory. The Illinois House of Representatives impeached Blagojevich, and the Senate voted in early 2009 to remove him from office. In 2011, Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison and began serving that term in 2012. He is married to Patti Blagojevich and the couple have two daughters, Amy and Annie.
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Hacker News is a social echo chamberOct. 15th, 2013 10:10 am
That rather specific demographic appears to correlate with other traits. There's a rather more techno-libertarian bias on Hacker News than on most general discussion forums, which is consistent with the startup-oriented culture that it springs from - the desire to provide disruptive solutions to real world problems tends to collide with existing regulatory frameworks, so it's unsurprising that a belief in individual rights and small government would overlap with US startup culture. There's a leaning towards the use of web technologies rather than traditional client applications, which matches what people are doing in the rest of the world. And there's more enthusiasm for liberal open-source licenses over Copyleft licenses, which makes sense in a web-focused environment (as I wrote about here).
Now, personally I'm a big-government, client-app, Copyleft kind of person, but for the most part I don't think the above is actively dangerous. It's inevitable that political views will vary, we'll probably continue to cycle between thick and thin clients for generations and nobody's ever going to demonstrably prove that one licensing model deserves to win over another. But what is important is that the ongoing debates between these opinions be driven by facts, and that it remain obvious that these disagreements exist. As far as technical (and even political) discussion goes, Hacker News doesn't seem to
have a problem with that. Disagreeing with the orthodoxy is tolerated.
This seems less true when it comes to social issues. When a posting discussing the myth of the natural born programmer[2] hit the front page, the top rated comment is Paul Graham[3] off-handedly discounting the conclusions drawn. The original story linked to a review of peer-reviewed scientific research. Graham simply discounts it on the basis of his preconceptions. Shortly afterwards, the story plummeted off the front page, now surrounded by stories posted around the same time but with much lower scores.
How does this happen? There's two publicised methods which can result in stories dropping down the order. Users with high karma scores (either via submitting popular stories or writing popular comments) are able to flag submissions, and if enough do so then a negative weighting is applied to the story. There's also a flamewar detector, a heuristic that attempts to detect contentious subjects and pushes them off the front page.
The effect of both is to enforce the status quo of social beliefs. Stories that appear to challenge the narrative that good programmers are just naturally talented tend to vanish. Stories that discuss the difficulties faced by minorities in our field are summarily disappeared. There are no social problems in the technology industry. We have always been at war with Eastasia.
This isn't healthy. We don't improve the state of the software industry by hiding stories that expose conflicts. Flamewars don't solve problems, but without them we'd be entirely unaware of how much of a victim blaming mentality exists amongst our peers. It's true that conflict may reinforce preconceptions, causing people to dig in as they defend their beliefs. However, the absence of conflict does nothing to counteract that. If you're never exposed to opinions you disagree with, you'll never question your existing beliefs.
Hacker News is a privately run site and nobody's under any obligation to change how they choose to run it. But the focus on avoiding conflict to such an extent that controversial stories receive less exposure than ones that fit people's existing beliefs doesn't enhance our community. If we want to be able to use technology as an instrument of beneficial change to society as a whole, we benefit from building a diverse and welcoming community and questioning our preconceptions. Building a social echo chamber risks marginalising us from the rest of society, gradually becoming ignored and irrelevant as our self-reinforcing opinions drift ever further away from the mainstream. It doesn't help anybody.
[1] During the batch of interviews I did last year, two separate interviewers both mentioned a story they'd read on Hacker News that turned out to have been written by me. I'm not saying that that's what determined a hire/don't hire decision, but it seems likely that it helped.
[2] The article in question discusses the pervasive idea that some people are inherently good programmers. It turns out that perpetuating the idea that some people are just born good at a particular skill actually discourages others from even trying to learn it, even those who are just as capable.
[3] One of the co-founders of Y-Combinator and creator of Hacker News.
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1. Radiohead: In Rainbows (radiohead.com). You get what you pay for - and whatever you decide will be worth every cent, as Thom Yorke and crew continue in their ever-surprising, ever-expansive way. As they say: no static at all. 2. Herbie Hancock: River: The Joni Letters (Verve). In the best tradition of jazz masters like his old boss Miles Davis, a contemplation of the music of Joni Mitchell that's both deep and accessible. No mean feat, that. 3. Miranda Lambert: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Columbia). Maybe she's no American Idol, but this Nashville Star can take our wheel anytime. Just don't cross her, or it'll cost you - dearly. 4. Amy Winehouse: Back to Black (Universal Republic). It's too bad that her trainwreck of a personal life has at least temporarily derailed what started out as a pretty cool musical retro-ride. 5. Peter, Bjorn, and John: Writer's Block (Wichita). They're cute. They write nice songs. They whistle. Got a problem with that? 6. Levon Helm: Dirt Farmer (Dirt Farmer/Vanguard). Now you know: You can indeed raise a Cain back up when it's in defeat. Rag, papa, rag - all over the barn. 7. Arcade Fire: Neon Bible (Merge). As eclectic as they are artsy. A chill in their air, to be sure, but remember: They are from Canada. 8. Mavis Staples: We'll Never Turn Back (Anti-/Epitaph). This gospel treasure has never sounded better - and that's saying something. (Producer) Ry Cooder, consider your ticket punched. 9. Björk: Volta (Atlantic). If life is like a box of chocolates, then every Björk CD is like a packet of Fizzies. As long as my ears keep on tickling, I'll keep on listening. 10. Woody Guthrie: The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949 (Woody Guthrie Publications, woodyguthrie.org). It's been nearly 60 years since this recently unearthed concert recording by the folk icon was made - and yes, his machine still kills fascists.


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LOS ANGELES – The San Francisco 49ers today issued a brief statement on the arrest of linebacker Aldon Smith, who was taken into custody at Los Angeles International Airport after allegedly making a comment about having a bomb as he was undergoing security screening.
Smith, 24, was arrested about 2 p.m. Sunday in Terminal 1, and was booked at the Los Angeles Police Department's Pacific Station on suspicion of making a false report of a bomb threat, said Los Angeles Airport police Sgt. Karen Ortiz.
Smith was released Sunday night on $20,000 bail, according to the sheriff's department. No court date was set.
In a statement this morning, 49ers General Manager Trent Baalke said: "We are disappointed to learn of the incident involving Aldon Smith. As this is a pending legal matter and we are still gathering the pertinent facts, we will have no further comment."
Smith who resides in San Ramon, was approached by airport police in the gate area after he made the comment, and was arrested when he became uncooperative, Ortiz said.
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"There is some concern that the Greece agreement isn't as much of a done deal as everyone hopes, and there are doubts it will bear fruit," said Mark Waggoner, president at Excel Futures Inc.
U.S. equities were mixed after opening lower, reversing a trend that saw global stocks higher after the deal to allow Greece to receive its next aid installment.
Wall Street was pressured by fears that the global economy will slow if budget negotiations do not prevent looming mandated U.S. tax increases and government spending cuts.
Also applying pressure on dollar-denominated oil prices, the dollar index strengthened as the euro retreated from a one-month high against the U.S. currency as initial optimism about the Greece agreement gave way to worry about the wider euro zone.
Oil traders had cautioned that price gains earlier in the session might be limited after the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) cut its global growth forecasts, saying the debt crisis in the recession-riddled euro zone is the greatest threat to the world economy.
Brent January crude fell 74 cents to $110.18 a barrel at 11:42 a.m. EST (1642 GMT), back below the 100-day moving average of $110.61 and the 50-day moving average of $110.55.
Brent had swung from $109.31 to $111.36 during the session.
U.S. January crude was down 15 cents at $87.59 a barrel, having slipped to $86.83 during the session.
Traders will receive the latest weekly snapshots of U.S. oil inventories on Tuesday and Wednesday, with analysts expecting a rise in crude oil and refined product stockpiles last week.
The American Petroleum Institute will release industry data at 4:30 p.m. EST (2130 GMT) Tuesday. The U.S. Energy Information Administration's data will follow at 10:30 a.m. EST (1530 GMT) Wednesday.
Investors also kept watch on the political crisis in Egypt, which has triggered concern about potential disruptions to oil supplies in the region.
Opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi rallied in Cairo's Tahrir Square for a fifth day on Tuesday, stepping up calls to scrap a decree they say threatens Egypt with a new era of autocracy.
Syrian war planes attacked towns in the country's north and east as fighting raged in the capital Damascus on Tuesday, opposition activists said.
Bombs targeting ethnic Kurds killed four people on Tuesday in the city of Kirkuk in Iraq's disputed northern territories, where the Iraqi army and troops from the autonomous Kurdistan region have been in a stand-off for more than a week. (Reporting by Peg Mackey in London and Luke Pachymuthu in Singapore; editing by John Wallace)


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Rasmussen Reports shows Barack Obama with a four-point lead this morning. Last night was the first time Rasmussen's survey followed both Obama's convention speech and McCain's selection of Sarah Palin. While a few interviews would have been conducted Thursday night after Obama's speech, for practical purposes today's result reflects both the speech and Palin's nomination for the first time.
Since Rasmussen's margin was three points yesterday, the fact that it went up by only one point suggests that McCain's selection of Palin may have blunted the impact of Obama's acceptance speech, which was generally considered a success in political terms. If Obama really came out of his convention with only a four-point bounce, it's good news for Republicans.
SCOTT adds: Reader Avinash Singh comments:
If you compare the Rasmussen numbers before the start of the Dem convention and after the end, you could argue that there was no significant change in the polls at all.
Mon, Aug 25 (reflecting polling till Sunday), with "leaners" – Obama 48, McCain 45
Sat, Aug 30 (reflecting polling till Friday), with "leaners" – Obama 49, McCain 45.
The convention and the acceptance speech appear to have been a wash.
Rasmussen's numbers so far show a smaller bounce than Gallup, but Singh's observation may be worth keeping in mind in looking at the numbers over the next few days.
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DENVER — The White Sox surrendered Monday night, helping two teams in the National League West. After an unsuccesful bid to get Arizona's Jon Garland, the Rockies acquired struggling White Sox starter Jose Contreras, someone they are very familiar with from facing him multiple times in spring training.
The Rockies sent Triple-A starter Brandon Hynick to Chicago to complete the deal. Hynick was the Rockies' most consistent starter for the Sky Sox, but there was debate on whether he would ever be a big-league starter or just a middle reliever. He threw a no-hitter in Triple A this season.
The Dodgers landed Garland and White Sox slugger Jim Thome.
The Rockies are taking on a flier on Contreras, hoping to catch lightning in a bottle by getting him out of the American League. By making this move, they felt that Contreras was a better option at this time than Hynick or Triple-A starter Russ Ortiz. Contreras last pitched on Saturday, absorbing a beating that got him demoted back to the bullpen again. The Rockies skipped their fifth starter for Tuesday's starter, but could adjust to provide rest for Jason Marquis and Jason Hammel by putting Contreras into the rotation on Thursday on regular rest.


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Stand outside my house on any given day and you'll hear the loud bangs and cries of delight as I repeatedly pulverise my genitals - but now I lie prostrate before the feet of the self-appointed high priests of political correctness.
The local hospital has always dutifully bandaged my mangled manhood, but they have now decreed that the cost of my boner-bashing behaviour is too great for the NHS to bear.
Naturally, I've launched a civil action to force them to attend to my needs - I am, after all, a tax payer, and if I wish to clatter my clockweights twixt door and jamb then they are obliged to respect my basic right to do so.
It's for that reason that I stand in solidarity with 16 year old Sarah Scott, who finds herself needlessly persecuted by the mullahs of public morality for her decision to wear a fucking annoying Abortion is Murder T-shirt to school.
Similarly, I fully support 16 year old Lydia Playfoot in her deeply honest and not at all disingenuous action against schools, demanding that they permit the wearing of creepy, Christian hands-off-my-hole rings.
Their self-important moral grandstanding is an example to all blubbing, worthless skin-sacks with a beef against reality.
The same goes for trinket-waving cretin Nadia Eweida, whose righteous quest to allow the open display of religious symbols amongst fucking trolley-dolleys has gratuitously wasted everybody's time and money.
And I fulsomely support Islamic hoodie Shabina Begum, whose non-politically motivated campaign to force schools to accept her headscarf has heartened fuckbrained, sobbing whingevictims nationwide.
Ladies, I salute your courage and your willingness to create a huge ruckus over bugger all.
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QuestionStrange question - as an NYC resident, I will rent for my entire time here. I have, in fact, just purchased my very first home, which I will be moving to in about 10 years. I am currently retiring my mom into it.
I know that if it was my primary residence, I'd get a huge tax break - but surely I can't be the only NYC resident who's run into this issue. Found the perfect house young, used NYC salary to fix it up, and then moved out on the cheap to retire?
Are we just plum out of luck?
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I believe you are referring to the home mortgage interest deduction available if you file Form 1040 and itemize on Schedule A. The deduction is available to you if the debt has been secured by a qualified main home or second home.
According to the IRS, your main home is "the home where you ordinarily live most of the time".A second home is "a home that you choose to treat as your second home". You do not have to use the second home during the year.
Assuming you are not renting to your mother, then the IRS would consider your house a Second home not rented out. The mortgage interest would be fully deductible. Also, the corresponding property taxes are deductible on Schedule A and provide a tax benefit, presuming you are not subject to Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) on your return, which is unfortunately common for residents of high tax states such as New York.
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Create a cluster configuration file specifying the cluster's high-availability-related configuration properties.
Enhanced Broker Cluster Properties shows the required property values. However, do not include the imq.brokerid property in the cluster configuration file; this must be specified separately for each individual broker in the cluster.
Specify any additional, vendor-specific JDBC configuration properties that might be needed.
The vendor-specific properties required for MySQL and HADB are shown in Example 8–1 and Example 8–2, respectively.
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Start the broker at least once, using the imqbrokerd command.
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Shut down the broker.
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Previously, Remmers served as a volunteer intern for the nutrition staff in 2005, and was promoted to graduate assistant in 2006. She served as the associate director of sports nutrition for the Huskers from 2008 to 2011. Originally from Filley, Neb., she obtained her bachelor of science degree in human nutrition from Winthrop University in South Carolina, where she was also a member of the volleyball team. She helped Winthrop to a pair of conference championships as an athlete and another as a volunteer coach.
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Dan Grossman needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 82 designs submitted by 26 freelance designers.
w3roi - http://www.w3roi.com
w3roi provides consolidated conversion tracking for all your online advertising - PPC search marketing, banner ads, e-mails, etc. It is a service, meaning people will sign up for an account and access it through their browser.
This service targets two groups: Small ecommerce site owners (people that sell things on a website), and affiliate marketers (people that market other companies' products for a commission on the sales).
This is a brand new service, so it is in need of a brand new website. A home page and one interior page (PSDs) are the requirements for this contest, and we may hire the winner for additional pages after the contest (if you're available, this isn't required).
You may submit only a home page to qualify, but with the understanding that an interior page layout would be required before the prize money is turned over.
These are examples of the kind of design I like:
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I have a video I'd like to put on the home page (http://www.w3roi.com), but use the example sites as a guideline, there doesn't need to be an explicit place for the video to sit, screenshots with a "play" arrow graphic overlaid works great. It can also be resized to fit any design.
You can find the site's logo files and screenshots here:
I like the designs that integrate one or more screenshots, so I've provided several that may be used.
The design of the site does not need to match the header of the application itself. In fact, I'd prefer they don't. Too much grey is boring!
I provided logos in several colors, white on a dark background or colored (the gray/red/blue design) on a light background are equally OK with me.
The top navigation should have room for: Features, Pricing, Learning Center, Affiliates, Blog, Sign Up, Log In
Here are some simple layout mockups:
I just threw in some sample text, but I have tons of features I can talk about so there doesn't need to be exactly 4 text slots or anything like that. Lorum ipsum filler text is fine to fill areas feature descriptions would go since I can't provide final text yet.
The design should target 1024x768 browsers and up.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) (2014) estimates that 35 million people around the world are infected with HIV and 1.1 of them live in the United States (WHO, 2014). There was a decline in Men, Women, White, Black, Hispanic/Latino, heterosexual, Intravenous Drug Users (IDUs) and most age groups, except young gay and bisexual men.
In 2006 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that all Americans from the ages of 13 to 64 should be tested for HIV because it should be as common as having cholesterol tested. In 2000 37% of the population was tested and in 2010 that number increased to 45%. In the United States in the year 2002, 24 out of 100,000 people were diagnosed with HIV and in 2011 that number decreased to 16 out of 100,000.
According to the Washington Blade (2014) the Washington, D.C., 2014 Annual Epidemiology & Surveillance Report showed the number of newly diagnosed HIV cases in the District of Columbia decreased to 680 in 2012, a decline of 42% from the 1,180 new cases reported in 2008. Men who have sex with men (MSM) also saw a slight decrease in the D.C. area. In 2008 in the D.C. area there were 443 MSM diagnosed with HIV and in 2012 there were 313 MSM diagnosed with HIV. Heterosexuals saw a drop: In 2008 there were 335 heterosexuals diagnosed with HIV compared to 215 in the year 2012 (Washington Blade, 2014). The number of newly diagnosed HIV cases in the District of Columbia decreased to 680 in 2012, a decline of 42 percent from the 1,180 new cases reported in 2008.
And Intravenous Drug Users (IDUs) diagnosed with HIV dropped 81%, a decrease primarily and directly contributed to needle exchange programs.
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When a really big person enters a lift and overloads it. A warning will be illustrated or heard in the lift, OVERLOAD WILL THE LAST PERSON PLEASE EXIT THE LIFT.
"James you overloaded the lift, get off and go up the stairs u might lose them man tits!"
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When something is so immensely cute, overload encompasses the object that is cute and the feeling of cute. The viewer becomes completely whelmed, thus one's feelings goes on overload. And the object of cuteness is an overload of cute.
1) I am so on overload by this cute puppy! 2) This cute pupppy is so cute overload.
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The act of taking a rip of a bowl, hitting a hookah until your lungs are completely full of smoke, and then holding it in as long as possible. This is more of an act of showmanship than anything, because no extensive research has been done to see if it enhances the high and/or causes you to get high faster. This is most likely the case though, as holding it in longer allows your lungs to completely absorb all applicable substances. While experimenting with the process I noticed that while high one is able to hold one's breath significantly longer than while sober. This is what makes the Overload potentially dangerous as an individual will not be able to comprehend the extreme amount of time they have been holding their breath and black out. Therefore, it is advised that one does not partake in this activity alone. Hypothetically speaking, the Overload could be done with a bong or a joint, but it has never been attempted.
After ripping the bowl, Edmund surprised everyone by picking up the hose and attempting the infamous "Overload."
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I tried to blow my load for the 7th time today but i over loaded my balls.
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Cyaegha is a literary small press publication edited by Graeme Phillips and published in the UK.
The word 'Cyaegha' is comes from the short story "Darkness, My Name Is" by Eddy C. Bertin (Dunwich Dreams). Cyaegha is devoted to wierd fiction and horror stories, with an emphasis on Cthulhu Mythos work, inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
The first issue was published in Spring 2008, and was entirely devoted to Eddy C. Bertin, and included his essay "My European Mythos", poems, an interview, a bibliography and glossary. The cover was by Paul Carrick.
Issue two was released in Winter 2008, and featured an interview with Toren Atkinson and art work by him, poetry by Wade German, fiction and an essay by Eddy C. Bertin, artwork by Tais Teng, and a collaborative illustrated story by Eddy C. Bertin and Tais Teng. The cover was by Toren Atkinson.
Issue 3 was devoted to Vol Molesworth, and appeared in Autumn 2010. The cover drawing of Molesworth was by Tom Hubble. It featured fiction by Molesworth, and an essy on his work by James Doig.
The fourth issue came out in Spring 2011, and included fiction by Frank Daman, Murray Ewing, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, and Don Webb. Poetry was by Cardinal Cox, Wade German, Ann K. Schwader, and Richard L. Tierney. Reviews were by Paul Harland, Tais Teng and Richard L. Tierney. Featured was an interview with artist Paul Carrick. Art work was by Tais Teng, and the cover was by Leon Alkinson.
Issue 5, from Autumn 2011, was a special issue devoted to Sweden, and included a cover by Jonas Anderson, and interior art work by Jonas Anderson and Nicolas Krizan. Essays were by martin Andersson, and Rickard Berghorn, reviews by Andrew Coulthard, and fiction by Anders Fager, and Fredrik F.G. Granlund. Poetry was by Cardinal Cox. Also included is an interview with Anders Fager is by Stefan Nordin. Some of the writing in this issue was in Swedish.
Issue 6, from Spring 2012, was a Dutch/Flemish special issue, and featured cover art by Torn Atkinson, with interior art work by Torus Atkinson, and Tais Teng. Essays were by Jaap Boekestein, Eddy C. Bertin, and Marcel Orie. Fiction was by Cornelis Alderlieste, Jaap Boekestein, Marcel Orie, and Tais Teng. Poetry was by Eddy C. Bertin, and Cardinal Cox. Some writing was in Dutch and German.


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Ye Meng Yuan was 16 when the plane she was flying on crash landed in San Francisco. She survived the crash only to be run over and killed by a fire truck responding to the scene.
The question is: Did firefighters see the girl lying on the ground before she was run over? New video obtained by CBS indicates at least some of them did.
CBS reported that it got the video from a source close to the girl's family, which is suing the city of San Francisco.
Yuan was on Asiana Flight 214 when it crash-landed at the San Francisco International Airport around noon on July 6, 2013. She was one of three people who died in the crash.
Her family's attorney alleged in July that multiple firefighters were aware that the girl was lying on the tarmac.
The county's district attorney declined to file criminal charges against the firefighters in October, but the family's attorney said then that it still intended to sue the city.
"Obviously no one intended to hurt or kill this young girl," attorney Anthony Tarricone said in October. "We believe it was an accident, however, it never should have happened."
Earlier this month, legal forms filed by the family said the firefighters who first saw her should have examined her and moved her somewhere safe. Firefighters told investigators that they assumed the girl was dead and hurried on toward the damaged aircraft.
The Associated Press and San Jose Mercury News contributed to this report.


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Harlequins hooker Dave Ward has been rewarded for back-to-back Heineken Cup man of the match awards with an England Saxons call up.
The 28-year-old, and centre Matt Hopper, received late calls this week to join both Luke Wallace and Charlie Matthews in the squad to face Ireland Wolfhounds in Gloucester on Saturday.
Ward, his club's third choice hooker at the start of the season, starred as a late Ben Botica penalty secured a 22-20 win at Llanelli Scarlets on Sunday and an Amlin Cup quarter final clash with Stade Francais.
"Playing with world class players at Quins has helped my game improve," he told the RFU podcast.
"Representing your country is the ultimate high.
"It will be a stressful experience, but also a very enjoyable one."
Ward starred as director of rugby Conor O'Shea's men won in Wales with the help of Mike Brown, Karl Dickson and Ollie Lindsay-Hague tries and Botica's late kicking heroics.
And, with the club still in the hunt for the Premiership title, the former Cornish Pirate believes Quins are right where they want to be.
"We knew it wasn't the strongest start to the season, but we've gathered momentum after the Clermont game in France," he added.
"We were disappointed to lose to them at home recently, but Sunday's result has got us into the Amlin Cup and has us up for two trophies, which is where we want to be."


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It's Blooming Awful! Rare Corpse Flower Expected to Thrill Binghamton University Greenhouse Goers
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Newswise — It's going to cause a stink at Binghamton University's E.W. Heier Teaching Greenhouse but the staff can hardly wait. One of their largest charges – the Amorphophallus titanum a.k.a. corpse flower or titan arum – is getting ready to bloom and expected to show off its strikingly good looks on or around Tuesday, September 14.
Believed to be one of the world's largest flowering plants, the bloom is expected to last only a day. But while the flower is stunning, it's the smell that really knocks people off their feet. Reminiscent of the odor of decomposing flesh, the aroma is expected to permeate the area in and around the University's greenhouse.
Binghamton University received this particular Amorphophallus titanum plant through the efforts of an alumnus, Werner Stiegler, who facilitated the donation of the bulb-shaped plan stern – a.k.a. the tuber - to the University's greenhouse. The plant was grown from a seed that had come directly from Bali, Indonesia, and in keeping with the tradition of naming the corpse flower after mythological Titans from ancient Greece, Stiegler had called it "Metis," in honor of the goddess of learning and teaching.
When Metis was sent to Binghamton University in 2007, it weighed in at a little over 4 lbs and measured a mere 8 inches in diameter. It was housed in the Tropical Room of Binghamton University's Teaching Greenhouse and in spring 2008, produced a fair-sized leaf. But it really seemed to like its surroundings because by the time Metis went into dormancy later that year, it weighed a whopping 40 lbs and measured 24 inches in diameter.
In 2009, Metis again produced a leaf - this time, a big one, measuring 10 foot high and 10 foot wide. But producing such a large leaf took its toll and when Metis entered its dormancy period at the end of April 2010, it only tipped the scales at a skinny 30 lbs. Now, a mere 4 months later, Metis is back, producing its first flower at the 'ripe' old age of 5.
Typically titan arums are 'teenagers' when they begin to bloom – flowering at this young age indicates that Metis could be fairly 'advanced' for its age. Greenhouse staff are eager to see just how well Metis is going to do during its very first flowering, realizing of course, that since corpse flowers bloom very infrequently, they may not see another bloom for upwards of 15 years. At a little over 51 inches tall right now, Metis could very well have inflorescence of 5 feet or more.


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The NFL draft's first round will not be Thursday night's top viewing priority at the Teel mansion. Spurs-Clippers, Nationals-Mets and the latest from "Paw Patrol" will be our preferred fare.
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Not to suggest an absence of draft intrigue. But Tim Duncan hitting bank shots, Stephen Strasburg throwing heat and pups saving an elephant are far more entertaining than Generalissimo Goodell announcing picks, Mel Kiper and Jon Gruden bickering, and Miss Congeniality Britt McHenry reporting on the Rams.
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A technical indicator is used to provide a distinctive perspective of market activity that may be unavailable by simply viewing price charts. Each indicator is essentially its own program that tells the computer what data to use, which calculations to apply and how to display the results. While there are hundreds of readily available technical indicators, such as moving averages and stochastics, some traders may wish to design their own indicators to perform specific functions or spot unique conditions in the market.
Many of today's trading platforms enable users to program their own custom indicators using some sort of proprietary language (such as TradeStation's EasyLanguage or NinjaTrader's NinjaScript) that interprets the concept for the computer. A list of commands is written in a specific syntax (known as the code), and after the code is entered into the trading platform, it is compiled or verified by the computer. Then it can be displayed as an indicator on a chart.
Here, we introduce a step-by-step process for building a custom indicator, using as an example the Volumizer indicator, designed to evaluate the relationship between average price and average volume. The graphic in "Go with the flow" (right) provides an overview of the development process that we will use.
Define the concept
The idea for a custom indicator can come from fields outside of trading; for example, a trader may wish to apply an idea from mathematics, statistics or simply the result of observation. A trader might notice a specific price or volume tendency, or an intermarket relationship and decide to investigate further. This is critical: It is important to have a specific goal in mind before attempting to develop an indicator, and traders must be able to verbally (and eventually mathematically) express what it is that they want the indicator to do.
For our example, we use a daily price chart of the SPDR S&P 500 exchange-traded fund, with volume inserted as a sub-chart. From observation, there appear to be trading opportunities as price and volume diverge and converge (see "Behind the moves," below). Further, it seems that there are often changes in the average volume preceding strong market trends.
Because we are looking at price and volume on two completely different scales, however, it is almost impossible to measure this type of movement in this context objectively. If we were simply to superimpose volume on an existing price chart, the relationship between price and volume would be distorted by the scaling of the chart. In other words, more data (a wider chart) would provide a much different relationship between average price and volume than a chart with less data (a narrower chart). This would render this type of trading analysis useless because it would be subjective and, thus, difficult to reproduce for the purpose of making consistent trading decisions in the future.
This is where a custom indicator can help confirm (or negate) the hypothesis that divergence and convergence between average price and average volume may be an early indicator of strong price trends. Our next step is to combine these two data sets into a single indicator to visualize the analysis and help determine if it has merit as a trading indicator.


text: The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade. The organization officially commenced on 1 January 1995 under the Marrakech Agreement, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. The organization deals with regulation of trade between participating countries. WTO provides a framework for negotiating and formalizing trade agreements, and a dispute resolution process aimed at enforcing participant's adherence to WTO agreements.


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For all Commercial, Multi-Family and Industrial building projects inside the city limits of Winston-Salem (excluding WS/FC Schools), the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Building Inspections Division will forward a set of construction plans to the Winston-Salem Fire Department for review. The Winston-Salem Fire Department will contact the person, indicated on the plans as the contact person, to discuss Fire Code requirements for the project. A fax or e-mail will also be sent to the contact person with the requirements listed. A building permit will not be signed off, by this office, if further information or a resubmittal of the plans is required.
The following information details the plan review submittal requirements to the Winston-Salem Fire Department for fire alarm systems. Submittals should be made electronically to email@example.com or mailed to:
Winston-Salem Fire Department Plans ReviewBryce A. Stuart Municipal Building (formerly 'City Hall South')Suite 328100 East First StreetWinston-Salem, NC 27101
Contact Information:Norman Mitchell, Deputy Fire Marshal (336) 747-6935 email@example.com (336) 727-2792 fax
Upon approval of the plans, an approval letter will be issued for the installation of the particular system. When requesting a final inspection from the Winston-Salem Fire Department, you must submit the Statement of Compliance prior to any inspection being scheduled. If there are multiple fire protection systems being installed at the same location, the final inspection may be held until all trades have completed their installations so that this office may conduct one inspection. Rough-in inspections can be scheduled after approval of any fire protection system.
Please contact our office at (336) 734-1290, Tina Chappell, to request an inspection or if you should have any questions regarding these requirements.
Statement of Compliance
Section 901.2.1 of the North Carolina State Fire Prevention Code states the following:
"Before requesting final approval of the installation, where required by the Code Official, the installing contractor shall furnish a written statement to the Code Official that the subject fire protection system has been installed in accordance with approved plans and has been tested in accordance with the manufacturer's specifications and the appropriate installation standard. Any deviation from the design standards shall be noted and copies of the approvals for such deviations shall be attached to the written statement."
The above-referenced Statement of Compliance shall be furnished to the Winston-Salem Fire Department upon request for a final inspection of any fire protection system installation. This Statement of Compliance shall be on the installing companies' letterhead with the project name and address clearly indicated along with the type of fire protection system installed. The installer shall print their name and sign their name to this Statement of Compliance.
Additional certifications or information may be required at the final inspection.
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The following information must be submitted to and approved by the Winston-Salem Fire Department and the Building/Zoning Inspections Department, (Building Permit Must Be Obtained) prior to any installation per section 901.2 of the North Carolina State Fire Prevention Code and the Winston-Salem Fire Marshal's Office:
2. Provide a cover letter with the following information:
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Western Force improved enormously but it wasn't quite enough to avoid a 36-26 loss to the powerful Bulls at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria.
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The Force lost narrowly to the Melbourne Rebels to start the Super Rugby season and then put in a poor performance to hand rookie side the Southern Kings victory in Port Elizabeth, but it was a vastly different team on Saturday night.
Coach Michael Foley brought experienced South African fly-half Sias Ebersohn into the line-up and he went on to kick two field goals, two penalties and two try conversions.
The Force seriously threatened the Bulls when leading 26-19 after a Toby Lynn try early in the second half, but the home side went on to score 17 straight points to end up with a four-try bonus point victory, the Force missing out on a point altogether.
It took just over a minute for the Bulls to make the perfect start when unlikely runner Morne Steyn, better known as a kicking machine, had no trouble carving through the non-existent Force defence to score the try.
The Force's kicking game was disastrous in their opening two losses, and the new game plan was quickly evident when Ebersohn nailed a drop goal at the 10-minute mark.
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Both teams then traded penalties, including a 58-metre bomb by Ebersohn, with the Bulls leading 14-9 going into half-time.
An Ebersohn field goal for the Force started the second half before the Bulls scored another simple try, this time to winger Sampie Mastriet.
However, the Force weren't ready to throw in the towel and in the 46th minute levelled the scores at 19-19 through a converted try to Angus Cottrell.
The Bulls then surprisingly turned down an easy penalty goal to go for a lineout, but the Force defence created a turnover and from that Lynn went on to score his second career try in his 50th Super Rugby match.
When Ebersohn converted, the Force led a stunned Bulls outfit 26-19 but the home side powered home with a penalty and two late tries.
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Love the cloud, the marketing goes. It's here, it's there, it's everywhere, and better yet, it's nice and familiar; your own little personal cloud is chock-full of your own little personal files and all the magic takes place behind the scenes — adding files to your online storage account is as easy as adding files to your documents folder. Whoever said "You can't take it with you" never had a 25GB SkyDrive locker.
The cloud is wonderful. The cloud is everywhere. The cumulative cloud knows everything about you. But over the past few weeks storms have rolled in and left plenty of people wondering: is the cloud all it's cracked up to be?
Trouble in paradise
The dark clouds started brewing at the end of July, when several Dropbox users began receiving spam after spammers were able to gain access to their accounts, partially because many users repeated the same username/password combination at multiple websites. When another site's login credentials were stolen, the information was used to access the Dropbox accounts.
Things came to a head this past weekend, when baddies leveraged overlapping vulnerabilities in Apple and Amazon's security authentication schemes to seize control of current Wired and former Gizmodo journalist Mat Honan's personal cloud. They gained access to Honan's Amazon, Google and iCloud accounts, then proceeded to remotely wipe his iPhone, iPad and Macbook using Apple's "Find my <insert device here>" feature. The hackers also screwed around with Honan and Gizmodo's Twitter accounts.
In the midst of all this, Apple founder Steve Wozniak piped up with his own ill tidings. "I really worry about everything going to the cloud," he said during an audience Q&A following a performance of Mike Daisey's "The Agony And The Ecstasy Of Steve Jobs" earlier this week. "I think it's going to be horrendous. I think there are going to be a lot of horrible problems in the next five years."
What, was he hacked too? Nope — he's just worried about the potential implications of moving all of your data off of your PC and into the servers of giant mega-corps. "A lot of people feel, 'Oh, everything is really on my computer,' but I say the more we transfer everything onto the web, onto the cloud, the less we're going to have control over it," Woz said.
The problem isn't with the cloud, it's with YOU
It's all worrying stuff, especially once you consider that Microsoft has deeply hooked online-enabled Microsoft Accounts and its SkyDrive service into the guts of Windows 8. But should the recent woes scare you off from the cloud?
Absolutely not.
The cloud is just as wonderful today as it was yesterday, or a few weeks ago. The problem is, cloud technology has advanced to the point where it's too comfortable and easy to use. People have forgotten the dangers inherent in storing all your prized possessions on someone else's servers, especially in these Lulz-filled days.
Lax security procedures by company personnel had a hand in both the Dropbox and Honan hacks, but they were exacerbated by even more lax behavior by the end users themselves. Simply put, if you're going to be using remote services for sensitive things, you need to step up your security, as tedious and boring as that might be. If Honan and the Dropbox users took better steps to secure their data, the damage could have been significantly mitigated.
Using the same login credentials at multiple "critical" websites? It's common, but nevertheless ludicrous. Invest some time setting up a password manager and creating strong codes. Password managers aren't foolproof, but they beat using "p*assword" for your banking, WordPress and Digital Trends accounts alike. Likewise, two-factor authentication is a pain in the ass, but much less so if you have a smartphone on your hip. Oh, and the security questions that ask for the name of your mother or pet? Here's a protip: don't actually use the name of your mother or pet.
And if your data is really, truly important, there's no excuse for not creating a local backup on a DVD, external hard drive or secondary computer. Honan lost a year's worth of data when the hackers wiped his Mac — including all the pictures he had of his newborn daughter.
What about Woz?
Steve Wozniak raises a much deeper question: are we getting too complacent with our data in these days of cloud storage? Sure, the hot new service offers unlimited free storage, but what are they doing with your data when you upload it to their servers?
So far, the answer has been pretty straightforward. Early fears about Google Drive's privacy appear to be misguided; cloud storage lockers all promise that what's yours is yours and what's theirs is a license to use the data only in ways needed to provide the service itself. So far, so good — unless the Terms of Service change suddenly, of course. (You remember the clause in the ToS that said it could change at any time, don't you?)
As our own Andrew Couts laid out earlier this year, what cloud storage services don't offer is a guarantee for your data's safety. If a glitch wipes out your research paper or wedding photos, you're out of luck, plain and simple. (That's why you want to back up your data locally!) It's the same song if hackers get ahold of your account and use your personal information to trash your life as hard as they trashed Honan's.
If you store any information that's even remotely sensitive in a cloud locker, the only way around the potential privacy issues is encrypting your data before you upload it. That way, not even the cloud service itself can decipher your information. The free and open source TrueCrypt is my go-to encryption tool, but there are other options available, such as BoxCryptor, a multiplatform tool designed specifically for encrypting files plunked into your cloud service of choice.
Woz's other implication — that we're actually losing sight of owning data thanks to the glut of all-you-can-eat streaming subscription services — may be accurate, but whether or not it's a worry is up to you. Personally, I'm fine with spending $18 a month to "rent" gajillions of songs, movies and TV shows from Spotify and Netflix. I fill in the blanks with digital music downloads and DVDs/Blu-rays of the titles that aren't available on my chosen streaming services, creating a hybrid rent/own media library.
I'm still a Sky Captain
"For the first time, it's becoming possible for us to use Web and Internet services for almost all of our needs," my colleague Jeffrey Van Camp said in April, in the wake of Google Drive and the approach of CISPA. "This is fantastic, but our added connections and use of the Net now looks a lot like a honeypot to entrenched entertainment companies who don't want their business models to change and our government, which is now finding it so easy to access so much more information than it ever dreamed possible just a decade or two ago." I'm going to add hackers and disgruntled employees of the cloud services to the list of potential no-goodniks.
Jeffrey suggested keeping important files off the 'Net and giving cloud services the hairy eye. I agree wholeheartedly with the second part, but I'm not so in-step with the first part. Between Google Docs, SkyDrive, Netflix, Hulu Plus, SkyDrive, Skype and Dropbox, I live a large part of my life in the cloud, and now that I've experienced the cloud's go-anywhere freedom, I wouldn't have it any other way.
Fortunately, I don't need to. As frightening as the recent woes are, nothing has changed. The cloud is wonderful, but it isn't infallible. Continue giving the cloud services the hairy eye and treat storing your oh-so-personal data off-site as the potential liability that it so clearly is. Because as uncomfortable as constantly wearing a tinfoil hat can be, not wearing one when you need it most hurts even more. Here's hoping that Mat recovers the pictures of his newborn daughter.
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