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Informed midweek that they would be out of a job in only a few days, the station's personalities -- including Adam Carolla, Tom Leykis, Tim Conway Jr. and the team of Frosty, Heidi &Frank -- spent their final on-air hours saying goodbye to fans with emotions ranging from exasperation to sadness to celebration.
Said Carolla in his last minute to listeners Friday morning: "To you who listen, who get me up every morning and every weekend, I appreciate every one of you. . . . It has been a pleasure to serve you. This is not goodbye, just a brief parting."
As he signed off, co-host Teresa Strasser wiped away tears.
Frosty Stilwell, Heidi Hamilton and Frank Kramer started their last show Friday with Sia's "Breathe Me," the melancholy song that marked the finale of HBO's "Six Feet Under." On Thursday afternoon, Leykis told fans, "On Monday morning, I will wake up for the first time in 15 years with no place to go. I have had a great time doing this job. It's the best job in the world. But I don't get to ride that pony anymore."
Owner CBS Radio had announced Wednesday that at 5 p.m. Friday it would be changing the station to 97.1 Amp Radio, described as an "on-air, online, on-site and mobile audio destination." The music format -- initially with no DJs -- will feature contemporary artists such as Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, T.I., Kanye West and Britney Spears, and it is intended to compete for young adult audiences with top-rated KIIS-FM (102.7).
"At the end of the day, we wanted to better position our cluster of stations to give us better leverage," said Dan Weiner, senior vice president and market manager for CBS Radio. "We've got a very strong collection of stations that delivers ratings with males, and this move will balance it out a little bit. We'll hopefully draw more advertisers by going a little younger than we have with the 25-to-54 male demographic" that has been the core of KLSX's talk audience.
The personalities on KLSX, which was the local broadcast home to shock jock Howard Stern before he leapt to satellite in January 2006, specialized in call-in shows that mostly explored dating, relationships, sex and popular culture. The conversations with callers were often crass, raunchy and filled with innuendo.
Though its overall ratings were not strong, KLSX had a loyal and devoted fan base. Carolla, who took over the morning slot from Stern, has seen his popularity steadily rise in the last several months. He produced, co-wrote and starred in a well-received boxing comedy, "The Hammer," in 2007, and he was a contestant on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" last year.
Leykis, who dispensed advice to men on how to woo women without spending too much money on dates, said his afternoon show was recently rated No. 1 with men ages 25 to 54.
"What's happening had nothing to do with ratings," Leykis said in an interview. "We had great ratings."
One radio industry expert found the switch surprising. "It flies in the face of the general trend, which is for talk radio to go from AM to FM," said Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers, a radio industry trade publication. "It's the next territory for radio. This is a setback. KLSX was not a ratings giant, but it was a significant platform in terms of talk radio."
Harrison added that he admired the "very colorful personalities" on the station but felt the direction of the format should have aimed a bit higher.
"I really am not belittling the talent, which is awesome," he said. "But it's not the only way to do talk radio to get young people to listen. Instead of reaching for a younger demographic, CBS went for the stereotypical image of what they thought young people wanted. If you aim high, if you appeal to more intelligent listeners, it will be more successful."
Still, the mood of the hosts was mostly upbeat in the final hours (in some instances helped by alcohol). Carolla, Leykis and Conway repeatedly praised their CBS bosses and were particularly grateful that they were allowed to say goodbye to their fans instead of being yanked abruptly off the air, which is the usual case when a station changes formats.
"I'm not angry or bitter. . . . I'm a professional," Leykis told his listeners. "I understand this is not my train set."
The farewells also gave the hosts the chance to speculate about the future. Leykis, a one-time host at KFI-AM (640) who has been on KLSX since 1997, said he had been "solicited by countless people" in the industry and was weighing several possibilities, including television projects or a book. He said CBS Radio had been "generous, and I only have to work if I want to," noting that he was under a "no-cut contract through March 31, 2012."
Carolla said he had "very good offers in the way of TV" and would also start a podcast Monday that listeners could access through his website, adamcarolla.com.
Not all was sweetness and light. Carolla on Thursday riffed on what he called the sad state of Los Angeles radio. "All you're going to hear on L.A. radio now is ranchera music and Top 40," he said.
But the mood of the hosts was mostly celebratory and optimistic. And Carolla wasted little time in making plans with his stationmates.
Calling in to Conway's last show Thursday night, he said, "Tim. Monday at the ArcLight. Matinee of 'Paul Blart: Mall Cop.' See you there."


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There are a number of factors that complicate any projection of the type of package it will take to land Mets outfielder Carlos Beltran, who is far and away the biggest name and most accomplished hitter that is known to be available on this summer's trade market.
1) Lack of supply, abundance of demand
Right now, the Mets are a one-man OPEC sitting on top of one of baseball's most precious resources: a dispensible middle-of-the-order bat. Beltran entered yesterday hitting .293 with a .389 on base percentage and .523 slugging percentage in 386 plate appearances for the Mets. He has hit 14 home runs while striking out just 58 times. In 43 games at the cavernous Citi Field, he is hitting .318/.409/.589 with eight home runs. And he is just now entering what historically has been his hottest time of the year: his three most productive months throughout his career, at least in terms of OPS, have been July (.848), August (.904) and September/October (.869). Beltran is the rare switch-hitter without any noticable holes, a career .280/.360/.486 hitter from the left side of the plate and a career .291/.362/.524 hitter from the right side. His contact and on base numbers are down from the right side this season (.232 average with a .291 OBP), but he is slugging .547 with eight home runs and has struck out 19 times in 95 at-bats.
Beltran and the Athletics' Josh Willingham are the only two bona fide everyday players available on the market. The Padres Ryan Ludwick would help a lot of teams, but he has not had the consistency that either Willingham or Beltran have displayed during their careers. But Beltran is the creme d'la creme. Willingham has battled injuries this season while posting numbers well below his career norms. And he does not have the type of balance or power that Beltran does.
Simply put, there is Beltran is the one elite power hitter who is known to be available this season. In fact, he might be the one elite player available. While speculation involving Colorado's Ubaldo Jimenez seems to be picking up steam, this year's market at this point is devoid of the type of blue-chip pitcher that dominated the headlines the last three seasons: C.C. Sabathia and Rich Harden in 2008, Roy Halladay, Jake Peavy and Cliff Lee in 2009, and Roy Oswalt, Cliff Lee and Dan Haren last season.
That makes sense. After all, with so many pitchers trading places over the last few seasons, there was bound to come a time when the music stopped and no chairs were left. It's why the Rockies are smart to at least explore the possibility of trading Jimenez: in this market, who knows what he might command.
But it isn't just pitchers that are in short supply. In 2009, Victor Martinez and Matt Holliday both changed teams, along with Felipe Lopez and Freddy Sanchez, both of whom were in the middle of solid seasons. In 2008, it was Manny Ramirez, Jason Bay and Mark Teixeira, along with Xavier Nady.
This year, Beltran and Jose Reyes are the top two names who are believed to be available, but Reyes is not a power bat, and power is what most teams are looking for. Particularly right-handed power. Scoring is down across the game. Home runs are down across the game. Baseball is a Darwinian game, its evolution ebbing and flowing along with it's economy's invisible hand. In the steroid era, home runs sold tickets, and the game saw an explosion of left-handed players who made their money hitting them.
The past few years have seen lefties like Cole Hamels, David Price, Cliff Lee, Jaime Garcia, Jon Lester and Wandy Rodriguez establish themselves as antidotes to the previous decade's sluggers. Along with righties like Tim Lincecum, Felix Hernandez, Matt Cain, Tommy Hanson, Josh Johnson, Jordan Zimmermann and Zack Greinke, there seems to be more young electricity in the pitching ranks than there has been in quite some time.
The Yankees may have been ahead of the curve when they began to stock up on hitters who had proven themselves even in this new era of improved pitching and decreased power: Alex Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira, Curtis Granderson. The Red Sox followed suit this offseason in landing Adrian Gonzalez and Carl Crawford. Now, everybody else is looking for a similar piece. Even the Red Sox are looking to add offense, probably because they do not see much in the way of pitching options, and thus have decided to make their strength even stronger, similar to the Phillies last July.
2) Beltran's salary
So Ruben Amaro Jr. once again finds himself in pursuit of the top talent available. This time, though, he is not alone. In 2009 and 2010, the Phillies GM benefited from his ability to add significant payroll, which he did with the acquisitions of Lee and Oswalt. In Oswalt's case, the veteran righthander's no trade clause and short list of acceptable destinations further dwindled Amaro's competition. This year, though, Beltran seems destined to land with the contender that offers the Mets the most attractive package of prospects. If that means the Mets are forced to pick up some or all of the $6 million Beltran will be owed for the last two months of the season, then so be it, at least according to the reports out of New York. Although FoxSports.com reported yesterday that the Phillies and Red Sox have been the two most aggressive teams in pursuit of Beltran, offense-starved contenders like the Braves and Giants could also enter into the mix. The more teams bidding, the higher the price will go, particularly if more than one of them sees Beltran as the only suitable option available on the market. After all, teams must weigh the cost of not getting Beltran in addition to the cost of getting him.
For the Phillies, the cost of not getting him will include the potential of him landing with an other NL contender.
3) Beltran's free agency
Whoever lands Beltran will be landing him for the last two months of the regular season and whatever length of the postseason they experience. After that, he becomes a free agent. His agent is Scott Boras, so you can probably forget about signing him to an extension. And at 34 years old, coming off microfracture knee surgery that sidelined him for big chunks of the 2009 and 2010 seasons, he might not be a guy you would want to invest in. At least not at the number of dollars and years that Boras usually snags for his clients. So the Phillies would be trading away prospects for less than a half a season of production from a proven major league veteran. In fact, when you really boil it down, a team like the Phillies would be trading prospects for one postseason of production from a proven veteran. Because they have reached a point where the postseason is all that matters. They have reached a point where their fan base will view a first-round exit as the near-equivalent of not qualifying for the postseason. They have reached a point where two home divisional playoff games will not impact their bottom line in a substantial fashion, where the only way to invigorate the fan base for another regular season of ticket-purchasing is to show them another World Series, to remind them what it feels like, to remind them why they shell out their disposable income for three hours of baseball that the players and coaching staff will later downplay as "just one game."
But they have also reached a point where they need to develop young, cheap talent that can prop up their aging or soon-to-be-aging millionaires without propping up the payroll. The ultimate kick in the cup would be a season that includes both an early playoff exit and the departure of some of their coveted young talent.
Beltran would appear to be as safe a gamble as any. In 22 postseason games, he carries an average of .366, an on base percentage of .485, a slugging percentage of .817 and a ridiculous 11 home runs. To put that in comparison, Ryan Howard and Chase Utley have played in 41 playoff games apiece in their careers. Howard has hit seven home runs. Utley has hit 10.
4) Comparables
Over the last three Julys, three marquee position players have been traded midway through the final year on their contract. The most recent was Holliday in 2009. In 2008, Manny Ramirez and Mark Teixeira were both dealt in the final years of their deals.
Here are the packages that landed those players:
Matt Holliday, 29 years old, Athletics to Cardinals on July 24, 2009
Oakland gets:
1. 3B Brett Wallace: Wallace was one of the hottest young prospects in the game at the time of the deal. Prior to 2009 he was rated No. 40 by BA. Prior to 2010, rated No. 27. He's now with the Astros, where he is putting up a solid season.
2. OF Shane Peterson: The Cardinals' second round pick in 2008, he had hit .291/.400/.809 with one home run in 230 at-bats as a 20-year-old at rookie-league Batavia. He is now a 23-year-old in Oakland's system, where he is hitting .301/.383/.467 with nine home runs in 319 at-bats at Double and Triple-A
3. RHP Clayton Mortensen: He was a supplemental round pick of the Cardinals in 2007. In 2009 he was a 24-year-old at Triple-A Memphis, where he was 7-6 with a 4.37 ERA, 7.0 K/9 and 2.9 BB/9 in 17 starts. He is now with the Rockies, where he has appeared in 16 games, including six starts, with a 3.86 ERA, 4.6 K/9, and 3.7 BB/9.
Manny Ramirez, 36 years old, Red Sox to Dodgers on July 31, 2008
Red Sox get:
1. OF Jason Bay
Pirates get:
1. 3B Andy LaRoche: LaRoche was a 24-year-old at Triple-A who was rated before 2008 as the No. 31 prospect in the game by Baseball America. The Dodgers traded him to the Pirates.
2. OF Brandon Moss: Moss was a 24-year-old outfielder who was hitting .282/.346/.528 with eight home runs for Triple-A Pawtucket and .295/.337/.462 with two home runs in 78 at-bats for the Red Sox. He was once a well-regarded prospect, but his star had begun to fade a bit by the time of the deal. He is now in the Phillies minor league system at Triple-A Lehigh Valley.
3. RHP Craig Hansen: He was a 24-year-old reliever who had a 5.58 ERA, 7.3 K/9 and 6.8 BB/9 in 32 appearances for the Red Sox at the time of the deal. Prior to the 2006 season he was rated No. 54 by Baseball America.
4. RHP Bryan Morris: Morris was a 21-year-old low-A starter who had a 3.20 ERA, 7.9 K/9 and 3.4 BB/9 at the time of the deal. He is now a 24-year-old at Double-A Altoona, where he is pitching out of the bullpen with a 3.42 ERA, 7.3 K/9 and 3.8 BB/9 in 19 appearances, including six starts.
Mark Teixeira, 28 years old, Braves to Angels on July 29, 2008
Braves get:
1. 1B Casey Kotchman: Rated by Baseball America as the No. 6 prospect in the game prior to the 2005 season, Kotchman was a 25-year-old in the middle of his second full big league season when he was dealt. The previous season, he had hit .296/.372/.467 with 11 home runs in 443 at-bats. At the time of the deal in 2008, he was hitting .287/.327/.448 with 12 home runs in 373 at-bats. Kotchman struggled after the deal, spending unspectacular stints with the Red Sox and Mariners in addition to the Braves. This year, though, he is hitting .331/.391/.459 with four home run in 266 at-bats for the Rays.
2. RHP Stephen Marek: Marek was an up-and-coming 24-year-old reliever when he was dealt. In 34 appearances at Double-A Arkansas he had a 3.66 ERA, 11.0 K/9 and 4.0 BB/9. He is still in the Braves system, but has yet to break into the major leagues. That won't happen any time soon. He underwent Tommy John surgery in May.
So. . .
What does all of this tell us about Beltran's price tag?
For starters, the Phillies should be prepared to part with one of their better prospects. Sure, Beltran has question marks about his health and age that did not exist with Holliday and Teixeira. And Ramirez was one the game's best players at the time of his deal. But those reservations only matter if a GM is bidding against himself, or if every interested GM allows those reservations to temper their offers, which would seem unlikely to happen given the aforementioned supply/demand problem.
The Phillies have two prospects that are currently ranked in Baseball America's Top 50, both of them at Class A Clearwater: RHP Jarred Cosart and 1B Jonathan Singleton. Regardless of BA's rankings, the following players are regarded by the Phillies to be at the same elite level as Cosart and Singleton: RHP Trevor May (Class A), RHP Brody Colvin (Class A), C Sebastian Valle (Class A). If the bidding reaches a point where the Phillies are required to part with two of those players, they will likely have some serious reservations about staying in the hunt. You can probably include Lakewood lefty Jesse Biddle in this group. Same goes for if the Mets insist on Domonic Brown being the center piece of the deal.
But circumstance suggests that Mets GM Sandy Alderson will look for young pitching, following the model of his former organization, the Oakland A's, which played in a pitcher's ballpark (like Citi Field) and stockpiled a glut of young arms: Mark Mulder, Tim Hudson, Joe Blanton, Rich Harden, Dan Haren, Gio Gonzalez, Brett Anderson, Trevor Cahill, just to name a few. Alderson is a smart man, and he knows that the key to sustainable success is a foundation of young, home-grown pitching. The Mets do not have that foundation right now. But if they can develop one, they have the type of resources that can enable them to be good for a long time. Alderson was just hired, so he is not under any sort of pressure. He can plan for the long run. And the long run starts with pitching.
That's good news for the Phillies, who have enough young pitching to pull off a couple of headline deals. Colvin and Trevor May are both held in esteem similar to Cosart. And Cliff Lee and Roy Halladay will both likely be here through at least 2013. And you have to think that the Phillies will do everything possible to keep Cole Hamels around.
So cross out Singleton and focus on the pitchers (besides, the Mets have a young first baseman in Ike Davis). The Mets will take whichever one of Cosart, May or Colvin who they rate the highest. Odds are it is Cosart.
The team that lands Beltran might be the team that can best augment the young, elite pitching prospect the Red Sox seek.
Perhaps the Mets start out by seeking Cosart and Biddle, or Cosart and Triple-A reliever Justin DeFratus.
Perhaps the Phillies start out by offering Cosart and Double-A righthander Austin Hyatt (25 years old, 4.23 ERA, 10.1 K/9, 3.0 BB/9 in 19 starts this season).
Keep in mind the Mets appear to have all of the leverage.
In a vaccuum, I'd say that Cosart, Hyatt and perhaps a reliever like Michael Schwimer or Phillippe Aumont or a younger position prospect like Jiwan James or Tyson Gillies would be a fair price to pay.
Anything more than that and the Phillies need to consider targeting a less-coveted alternative like Willingham, or perhaps making a strong take-it-or-leave-it offer for a guy like Hunter Pence.
Cosart and Biddle (or any of the other young starters) is too high a price to pay. I would surprised if the Phillies gave up De Fratus. A cheap bullpen is going to be one of the keys to sustaining their success over the next few seasons. And a lot of people in the organization are really high on De Fratus.
That leaves plenty of potential combinations to be decided by one high-stakes poker game. Do the Mets secretly covet one of the Phillies' pitchers more than anybody the Red Sox or Braves have to offer? Do the Phillies view Willingham or Ryan Ludwick as a palpable back-up plan? Do the Mets really have an offer on the table from another team that is equal or better than Cosart, Biddle and Hyatt or Cosart, Biddle and Freddy Galvis or Cosart, Hyatt and J.C. Ramirez? Is that other team willing to pick up all of Beltran's remaining salary?
Unknowns like these are what negotiations are all about. And it's why Amaro likes to keep a tight lid on his true feelings about other team's personnel. And it's why you should always remember that when it comes to the trade deadline rumor mill, the vast majority of information is out there because somebody wants it out there, not necessarily because it reflects reality.
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"The price of the bargain dress is not paid by Tilda or Ray who wears it. The real cost is borne by the workers in the sweatshops that are springing up in hard-pressed communities."
In the aftermath of the Bangladesh building collapse that killed more than 1,000 garment factory workers last April, these words have a timely ring. But in fact, they are drawn from U.S. Labor Secretary Frances Perkins' 1933 essay "The Cost of a Five-Dollar Dress."
I couldn't help but be struck by the many parallels between now and then—including the reluctance of us cash-strapped shoppers to pay more than necessary. "[I]n hard times it is perhaps asking too much of the consumer to hope that he (or she) will refuse to purchase specially priced' clothing as a protest against sweatshop products," acknowledged the pragmatic Perkins (who was, incidentally, the first woman to hold a U.S. cabinet post).
Even for consumers committed to putting their dollars where their values are, the situation is far from simple. "I really want to do the right thing but I don't know how to do that on my income. I certainly can't make my own clothes for a host of reasons. I do buy many things at thrift shops, but does that solve the problem if they were still made cheaply in the first place?" was one friend's response to my recent essay on "The Hidden Costs of Fast Fashion."
There is also concern that even expensive clothes may have been manufactured under bad conditions—so given that we don't know for sure, why pay more? (For what it's worth, here's my take: It's true that money is no guarantee—that a pricey item may have come from an overseas sweatshop. But that $15 skirt or pair of pants? You can be pretty sure of it.)
Moreover—and I hate to tell you this—factory conditions are not the only potential moral hazard here. Consider the fact, as I learned just this morning from my law professor friend Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, that the tin in the zippers and buckles we wear is often inextricably linked to bloody armed conflicts and human rights abuses. (For more on this issue, see Ciara's disturbing Slate piece about how "conflict minerals" are integral to our cell phones—and that the companies who make these products are currently engaged in a legal battle to secure their right not to tell us.)
So what do we do?
For starters, I suggest we not simply throw up our hands or turn away–and that we keep looking for information and answers even as we acknowledge our own complicity.
In the meantime, many of us can spend more but buy less—though some no doubt would question this. To wit, one reader of my previous piece was horrified at the suggestion that eight or ten pairs of shoes are more than a teen girl strictly needs. "Eight or ten pairs of shoes is extravagant? Where did you grow up? Well-dressed women have, at a minimum, a pair of workout shoes, sandals, boots, bad-weather boots, flats, and some dressier heels of varying heights — and then they have some if not all of those in different colors and styles, depending on their lifestyle. I doubt there's a woman above the poverty line in America with two feet and fewer than ten pairs of shoes. The average woman in the US has at least 19 pairs."
I will also continue to sound the thrift shop drum. Yes, the clothing we buy there—like the $2.00 Gap t-shirt I'm now wearing—may have been manufactured under bad conditions, but the fact is, it's already here. We are talking sunk costs, both environmental and human, and in buying used clothing, at least we keep it out of landfills. As I see it, thrift shops are one place we can still feel good about that five dollar dress. Or that five dollar dress that's not a dress—just ask this woman here.
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has the following multiplier, ( > 1 = advantage).
A defender in this terrain,
has the following multiplier, ( < 1 = advantage).
The following units vanish in this terrain.
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Wary of standardized testing, parents are increasingly opting their kids out of exams
DELAWARE TOWNSHIP, N.J. – More and more parents are telling their kids to stay home the day of standardized tests.
They're opposed to standardized tests for many reasons and don't want kids taking them.
Some say they're being used to measure teacher performance and fear testing narrows the curriculum.
This year, teachers, students and parents from a Seattle high school refused to administer or take a standardized test. In response, the Seattle schools superintendent now says schools can choose not to administer the tests.
Robert Schaeffer of the nonprofit National Center for Fair and Open Testing says the consequences of opting out of standardized tests vary from state to state. He says so far there have been very few consequences for children, but that might change.


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Word on the street is that CBS Amazing Race is running around the Downtown and Plaza areas today, probably filming for the next season
[Dec 1, 2005]
Decoy Run in Kansas City On Thursday?http://www.blogkc.com/QuoteWord on the street is that CBS? Amazing Race is running around the Downtown and Plaza areas today, probably filming for the next season?[Dec 1, 2005]
Word on the street is that CBS? Amazing Race is running around the Downtown and Plaza areas today, probably filming for the next season?[Dec 1, 2005]
To add to the sightings over the last week, Phil was on a flight from Japan to Seattle last Thursday, 12/1. Makes sense from everything else we've heard.
Just thinking out loud. Why would Phil not go to Anchorage? :huhC:
Monday, December 5, 2005The Amazing Race 9Amazing Race 9 spotted inside and outside the continental United StatesProduction began last month on The Amazing Race 9, and theres good news for everyone who thinks this current season has been a North and Central America-centric catastrophe. (Stop reading now if you consider location information to be a spoiler.)The race has been spotted outside the US, specifically in northern Australia. The Northern Territory News reports that teams were rushed through Darwin airport to SkyCity hotel casino on Thursday night and yesterday morning they are believed to have filmed scenes at Darwins Crocodylus Park before being whisked to a secret location. That would have been on Nov. 24, Thanksgiving, and Nov. 25, the day the rest of us were assaulting our neighbors so we could save 35 cents on a DVD player.A team was later spotted in Adelaide on Nov. 27 on their way to Sydney. The team, young, good-looking Americans carrying only backpacks, with a TV crew filming their every move, was spotted at the airport in Adelaide attempt[ing] to book a capacity Singapore Airlines flight, according to The Advertiser. They had boarding passes for a flight to Sydney, and after being told the Singapore Airlines flight was full, they ran back to the domestic terminal
.Reader Andrew breaks down the dates and locations, using that funny backwards date notation thing non-Americans do:23/11 - filming at Rottnest Island Prison (near Perth)24/11 - arrived in Darwin, went to Skycity hotel25/11 - went to crocodile park28/11 - desperate-looking couple running around airport in AdelaideSeparately, the Salt Lake City Tribune managed to get Phil to confirm that the series was filming somewhere near the Middle East, although its not clear if the interview was conducted before or after the Australia sightings.The race may have started in Denver, where the Denver Post ran a photograph of teams running through the airport on Nov. 7. A Reality TV World forum poster reproduced the photo and the caption from the paper: CBS cameramen for The Amazing Race film two race participants Monday as they pass through Denver International Airport. The ninth installment of the reality TV show, which pits teams in an around-the-world race, starts in Colorado and is expected to air in the spring.
fwiw~Amazing again!The ninth edition of "Amazing Race" began filming - and it promises a return to the classic "race around the world." Reports say that the race began in Denver and quickly moved on to Ottawa, Ontario.http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/entertainment/homepage/article_756287.php
There's nothing quite like being on vacation, driving down a street and seeing someone holding a very familiar yellow and black clue envelope bearing the words "The Amazing Race". Squeeee!Here's what we saw:Ottawa, Ontario (Canada), on November 5th at 3:20 pm. At the corner of Rideau and Sussex, we almost ran down some twit walking into the road against the light. He was wearing a brown trench coat (possibly oiled canvas) and a brown leather hat with one side turned up, and was holding a classic Yellow and Black TAR clue envelope. My fiance thinks he saw someone with this guy, but I don't remember a film/sound setup at all. Plus it didn't look like he was wearing a backpack. But... that envelope is unmistakable.This is right near Byward Market, so maybe a task there? Fiance says the guy was moving fast.Squee!
Don't forget Canada runs their own Amazing type Race's :yaya:
AAAND THE OTHER DAY BUCKO, DID YOU HEAR, THE AMAZING RACE PEOPLE WERE IN PERTH?!?!?! My mum's friend saw all these people running through the international airport, and then she heard from someone else that they went to Rottnest that day, and then they were at Fremantle Prison, and then they left throught he national airport and went to Darwin. WHY IS EVERYOEN GOING TO DARWIN?!?YUCK YUCK
a few days ago? i think i saw them tooo!!!!!! like through Freo town square! there was like these 2 ppl, looking quite lost, flanked by a cameraman and sound guy. i immediately thought AMAZING RACE but didnt actually think anythin of it, yaaay!!
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lock_type: READ [LOCAL] | [LOW_PRIORITY] WRITE UNLOCK TABLES
MySQL enables client sessions to acquire table locks explicitly for the purpose of cooperating with other sessions for access to tables, or to prevent other sessions from modifying tables during periods when a session requires exclusive access to them. A session can acquire or release locks only for itself. One session cannot acquire locks for another session or release locks held by another session.
Locks may be used to emulate transactions or to get more speed when updating tables. This is explained in more detail later in this section.
LOCK TABLES explicitly acquires
table locks for the current client session. Table locks can be
acquired for base tables or (as of MySQL 5.0.6) views. You must
have the
LOCK TABLES privilege, and
SELECT privilege for each
object to be locked.
For view locking,
LOCK TABLES adds
all base tables used in the view to the set of tables to be locked
and locks them automatically. If you lock a table explicitly with
LOCK TABLES, any tables used in
triggers are also locked implicitly, as described in
Section 188.8.131.52, "
LOCK TABLES and Triggers".
TABLES explicitly releases any table locks held by the
current session.
Another use for
TABLES is to release the global read lock acquired with
LOCK statement, which enables you to lock all tables in
all databases. See Section 184.108.40.206, "
FLUSH Syntax". (This is a very
convenient way to get backups if you have a file system such as
Veritas that can take snapshots in time.)
A table lock protects only against inappropriate reads or writes
by other sessions. The session holding the lock, even a read lock,
can perform table-level operations such as
DROP TABLE. Truncate operations are
not transaction-safe, so an error occurs if the session attempts
one during an active transaction or while holding a table lock.
The following discussion applies only to
TEMPORARY tables.
TABLES is allowed (but ignored) for a
TEMPORARY table. The table can be accessed
freely by the session within which it was created, regardless of
what other locking may be in effect. No lock is necessary because
no other session can see the table.
LOCK TABLES and
TABLES cannot be used within stored programs.
Rules for Lock Acquisition
To acquire table locks within the current session, use the
LOCK TABLES statement. The
following lock types are available:
READ [LOCAL] lock:
The session that holds the lock can read the table (but not write it).
Multiple sessions can acquire a
READ lock
for the table at the same time.
Other sessions can read the table without explicitly acquiring
READ lock.
LOCAL modifier enables nonconflicting
INSERT statements (concurrent
inserts) by other sessions to execute while the lock is held.
(See Section 7.3.3, "Concurrent Inserts".) However,
READ LOCAL cannot be used if you are going
to manipulate the database using processes external to the
server while you hold the lock. For
READ LOCAL is the same as
READ as of MySQL 5.0.13. (Before that,
READ LOCAL essentially does nothing: It
does not lock the table at all, so for
InnoDB tables, the use of
LOCAL is deprecated because a plain consistent-read
SELECT does the same thing, and
no locks are needed.)
[LOW_PRIORITY] WRITE lock:
The session that holds the lock can read and write the table.
Only the session that holds the lock can access the table. No other session can access it until the lock is released.
Lock requests for the table by other sessions block while the
WRITE lock is held.
LOW_PRIORITY modifier affects lock
scheduling if the
WRITE lock request must
wait, as described later.
If the
LOCK TABLES statement must
wait due to locks held by other sessions on any of the tables, it
blocks until all locks can be acquired.
A session that requires locks must acquire all the locks that it
needs in a single
statement. While the locks thus obtained are held, the session can
access only the locked tables. For example, in the following
sequence of statements, an error occurs for the attempt to access
t2 because it was not locked in the
LOCK TABLES statement:
LOCK TABLES t1 READ;mysql>
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM t1;+----------+ | COUNT(*) | +----------+ | 3 | +----------+ mysql>
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM t2;ERROR 1100 (HY000): Table 't2' was not locked with LOCK TABLES
Tables in the
INFORMATION_SCHEMA database are
an exception. They can be accessed without being locked explicitly
even while a session holds table locks obtained with
You cannot refer to a locked table multiple times in a single query using the same name. Use aliases instead, and obtain a separate lock for the table and each alias:
LOCK TABLE t WRITE, t AS t1 READ;mysql>
INSERT INTO t SELECT * FROM t;ERROR 1100: Table 't' was not locked with LOCK TABLES mysql>
INSERT INTO t SELECT * FROM t AS t1;
The error occurs for the first
INSERT because there are two
references to the same name for a locked table. The second
INSERT succeeds because the
references to the table use different names.
If your statements refer to a table by means of an alias, you must lock the table using that same alias. It does not work to lock the table without specifying the alias:
LOCK TABLE t READ;mysql>
SELECT * FROM t AS myalias;ERROR 1100: Table 'myalias' was not locked with LOCK TABLES
Conversely, if you lock a table using an alias, you must refer to it in your statements using that alias:
LOCK TABLE t AS myalias READ;mysql>
SELECT * FROM t;ERROR 1100: Table 't' was not locked with LOCK TABLES mysql>
SELECT * FROM t AS myalias;
WRITE locks normally have higher priority than
READ locks to ensure that updates are processed
as soon as possible. This means that if one session obtains a
READ lock and then another session requests a
WRITE lock, subsequent
lock requests wait until the session that requested the
WRITE lock has obtained the lock and released
it. A request for a
LOW_PRIORITY WRITE lock, by
contrast, allows subsequent
READ lock requests
by other sessions to be satisfied first if they occur while the
LOW_PRIORITY WRITE request is waiting. You
should use
LOW_PRIORITY WRITE locks only if you
are sure that eventually there will be a time when no sessions
have a
READ lock. For
tables in transactional mode (autocommit = 0), a waiting
LOW_PRIORITY WRITE lock acts like a regular
WRITE lock and causes subsequent
READ lock requests to wait.
LOCK TABLES acquires locks as
Sort all tables to be locked in an internally defined order. From the user standpoint, this order is undefined.
If a table is to be locked with a read and a write lock, put the write lock request before the read lock request.
Lock one table at a time until the session gets all locks.
This policy ensures that table locking is deadlock free. There
are, however, other things you need to be aware of about this
policy: If you are using a
lock for a table, it means only that MySQL waits for this
particular lock until there are no other sessions that want a
READ lock. When the session has gotten the
WRITE lock and is waiting to get the lock for
the next table in the lock table list, all other sessions wait for
WRITE lock to be released. If this becomes
a serious problem with your application, you should consider
converting some of your tables to transaction-safe tables.
Rules for Lock Release
When the table locks held by a session are released, they are all released at the same time. A session can release its locks explicitly, or locks may be released implicitly under certain conditions.
A session can release its locks explicitly with
If a session issues a
TABLES statement to acquire a lock while already
holding locks, its existing locks are released implicitly
before the new locks are granted.
If a session begins a transaction (for example, with
TRANSACTION), an implicit
TABLES is performed, which causes existing locks to
be released. (For additional information about the interaction
between table locking and transactions, see
Section 184.108.40.206, "Interaction of Table Locking and Transactions".)
If the connection for a client session terminates, whether normally or abnormally, the server implicitly releases all table locks held by the session (transactional and nontransactional). If the client reconnects, the locks will no longer be in effect. In addition, if the client had an active transaction, the server rolls back the transaction upon disconnect, and if reconnect occurs, the new session begins with autocommit enabled. For this reason, clients may wish to disable auto-reconnect. With auto-reconnect in effect, the client is not notified if reconnect occurs but any table locks or current transaction will have been lost. With auto-reconnect disabled, if the connection drops, an error occurs for the next statement issued. The client can detect the error and take appropriate action such as reacquiring the locks or redoing the transaction. See Section 20.8.11, "Controlling Automatic Reconnection Behavior".
If you use
ALTER TABLE on a
locked table, it may become unlocked. For example, if you
attempt a second
operation, the result may be an error
'. To handle this, lock the table again prior to
the second alteration. See also
Section B.5.7.1, "Problems with
tbl_name' was not locked with LOCK
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Note that while you are allowed to drop a table that you have a lock on, you can not subsequently create the table. Attempts to create the table without first issueing unlock tables results in a "table not locked" error. Therefore, you can't use lock tables to process data through several staging tables where you would drop and create the intermidiate tables. Truncate also won't work, as stated in the manual. The only option that will work is to delete from the table, but this is a slow operation.
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FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK does _not_ seem to put InnoDB into a sufficiently quiesced state for Linux LVM snapshot.
|Posted by Daniel Kadosh on October 26 2009 10:02pm
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@Rick James -- a solution I use to lock InnoDB tables before snapshots that I use is below. CAVEAT: I haven't done any real test for "is mysql fully quiesced".
1) I use an XFS filesystem, which you can freeze right before taking the LVM snapshot. I mount this filesystem on /var/lib/mysql (RedHat/CentOS default location).
2) I have a mysql script that does the whole thing like this, and it's based on an Amazon EC2 tutorial I read
SYSTEM xfs_freeze -f /var/lib/mysql;
SYSTEM YOUR_SCRIPT_TO_CREATE_SNAPSHOT.sh;
SYSTEM xfs_freeze -u /var/lib/mysql;
|Posted by Andrew Atkinson on February 25 2010 9:03pm
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For a filesystem snapshot of innodb, we find that setting innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct to zero; doing a 'flush tables with readlock'; and then waiting for the innodb state to reach 'Main thread process no. \d+, id \d+, state: waiting for server activity' is sufficient to quiesce innodb.
You will also need to issue a slave stop if you're backing up a slave whose relay logs are being written to its data directory.
Don't forget to set innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct back to it's normal value and resume slaving afterwards. :-)
Hope this helps.


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Elizabeth Harvey, Visiting Research Fellow at the Van Raalte Institute of Hope College, will present the address "The RCA Mission to Chiapas, 1925-2000: Re-evaluating Traditional Theories about Missions" on Thursday, Feb. 19, at 4 p.m. in the DeWitt Center Herrick Room.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Harvey was the recipient of a 2008-09 research fellowship at the Van Raalte Institute, through which she conducted research on missionaries from the Reformed Church in America in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. She carefully examined the files in the Joint Archives of Holland concerning two former RCA missionaries, John Kempers and Samuel Hofman. She was able to trace the complicated processes occurring in their mission's history: the relationships with new converts, existing Mexican churches and the state, as well as the deep ties between missionaries and their supporting churches.
In her lecture on February 19, Harvey will discuss how the story of the RCA mission in Chiapas fits into the broader historiography of religion in Mexico - a story that she notes challenges many of the major trends in the historiography and defies much of the conventional wisdom academics employ when talking about Protestantism in Latin America.
Harvey received a B.A. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005, and subsequently began graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley. The work that she completed while at the Van Raalte Institute will contribute toward her M.A. thesis.
She is a proficient reader and speaker in Spanish, Portuguese and Tzotzil. She has conducted research in Mexico, working collaboratively with other researchers on a major transnational research project, and has conducted interviews on migration of labor from Mexico to the U.S. and its effects on Mexican women and families.
Both the Joint Archives of Holland and the Van Raalte Institute are housed in the Theil Research Center located at 9 E. 10th St. The Joint Archives of Holland collects, cares for and makes available to the public the archival collections of Hope College and Western Theological Seminary in addition to serving other organizations that contract for archival services. The Van Raalte Institute specializes in scholarly research and writing on immigration and the contributions of the Dutch and their descendants in the United States, but is also dedicated to the study of the history of all the people who have comprised the community of Holland throughout its history.
The Herrick Room is on the southwest corner of the second floor of the DeWitt Center, which is located at 141 E. 12th St., facing Columbia Avenue at 12th Street. Refreshments will be available prior to the lecture.


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A.J. had put out the invite on Friday, so consider this your reminder to come meet up if you're in New York and you'd like to watch tonight's Bears-Lions game with a few Deadspinners and a handful of others from the Gawker gang.
Here are the particulars:
The Place: Upstairs at Professor Thom's, 219 2nd Avenue, NYC, between 13th and 14th
The Time: 7:30 until the game ends
Just say you're there for the Deadspin thing and head upstairs. And don't forget to bring money because it's a cash bar and not some opportunity to freeload your way through Monday Night Football. Got it? Good. Hope to see you there.


text: Hi Rob, It is possible, but the head nodes require 3 NICS, the third NIC is for the world. We have a Beo-cluster fully dual bonded, with two head nodes. Here are the relevant files (RH7.3): /etc/modules.conf -------------------------- alias eth0 tulip alias eth1 tulip alias eth2 tulip alias bond0 bonding ... -------------------------- /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0 -------------------------- DEVICE=bond0 IPADDR=192.168.1.100 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=yes USERCTL=no BOOTPROTO=none -------------------------- /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 -------------------------- DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx IPADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=xxx.xxx.xxx.0 ONBOOT=yes -------------------------- /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 -------------------------- DEVICE=eth1 USERCTL=no ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes BOOTPROTO=none -------------------------- /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2 -------------------------- DEVICE=eth2 USERCTL=no ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes BOOTPROTO=none -------------------------- Dan robnash at rogers.com wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > Fist off I would like to thank everyone for the valuable input regarding the "Two heads are better that one" question. > > I have another question. I have been doing quite a lot of reading on how to bond Ethernet interfaces. In all my reading I have yet to come across literature that describes booting nodes in bonded mode. Is this possible? I have been hacking around with PXE and it seems to me it's not doable due to the fact that the boot process happens in two phases? Does anyone out there know the steps involved in get a fully bonded cluster up and running using the NIC?s prom as the initiator? > > I have the INTEL 10/100/1000MX copper cards. > > Thank you in advance,


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When sending persistent messages, the send method does not return and the client blocks.
When sending a persistent message, the client receives an exception.
A producing client slows down.
Possible causes:
The broker is backlogged and has responded by slowing message producers.
The broker cannot save a persistent message to the data store.
Possible cause: The broker is backlogged and has responded by slowing message producers.
A backlogged broker accumulates messages in broker memory. When the number of messages or message bytes in physical destination memory reaches configured limits, the broker attempts to conserve memory resources in accordance with the specified limit behavior. The following limit behaviors slow down message producers:
FLOW_CONTROL: The broker does not immediately acknowledge receipt of persistent messages (thereby blocking a producing client).
REJECT_NEWEST: The broker rejects new persistent messages.
Similarly, when the number of messages or message bytes in brokerwide memory (for all physical destinations) reaches configured limits, the broker will attempt to conserve memory resources by rejecting the newest messages. Also, when system memory limits are reached because physical destination or brokerwide limits have not been set properly, the broker takes increasingly serious action to prevent memory overload. These actions include throttling back message producers.
To confirm this cause of the problem: When a message is rejected by the broker because of configured message limits, the broker returns the exception
JMSException [C4036]: A server error occurred
and makes the following entry in the broker log:
[B2011]: Storing of JMS message from IMQconn failed
This message is followed by another indicating the limit that has been reached:
[B4120]: Cannot store message on destination destName because capacity of maxNumMsgs would be exceeded.
if the exceeded message limit is on a physical destination, or
[B4024]: The maximum number of messages currrently in the system has been exceeded, rejecting message.
if the limit is brokerwide.
More generally, you can check for message limit conditions before the rejections occur as follows:
Query physical destinations and the broker and inspect their configured message limit settings.
Monitor the number of messages or message bytes currently in a physical destination or in the broker as a whole, using the appropriate imqcmd commands. See Chapter 20, Metrics Information Reference for information about metrics you can monitor and the commands you use to obtain them.
To resolve the problem:
Modify the message limits on a physical destination (or brokerwide), being careful not to exceed memory resources.
In general, you should manage memory at the individual destination level, so that brokerwide message limits are never reached. For more information, see Broker Memory Management Adjustments.
Change the limit behaviors on a destination so as not to slow message production when message limits are reached, but rather to discard messages in memory.
For example, you can specify the REMOVE_OLDEST and REMOVE_LOW_PRIORITY limit behaviors, which delete messages that accumulate in memory (see Table 17–1).
Possible cause: The broker cannot save a persistent message to the data store.
If the broker cannot access a data store or write a persistent message to it, the producing client is blocked. This condition can also occur if destination or brokerwide message limits are reached, as described above.
To confirm this cause of the problem: If the broker is unable to write to the data store, it makes one of the following entries in the broker log:
[B2011]: Storing of JMS message from connectionID failed[B4004]: Failed to persist message messageID
To resolve the problem:
In the case of file-based persistence, try increasing the disk space of the file-based data store.
In the case of a JDBC-compliant data store, check that JDBC-based persistence is properly configured (seeConfiguring a JDBC-Based Data Store). If so, consult your database administrator to troubleshoot other database problems.
Possible cause: Broker acknowledgment timeout is too short.
Because of slow connections or a lethargic broker (caused by high CPU utilization or scarce memory resources), a broker may require more time to acknowledge receipt of a persistent message than allowed by the value of the connection factory's imqAckTimeout attribute.
To confirm this cause of the problem: If the imqAckTimeout value is exceeded, the broker returns the exception
JMSException [C4000]: Packet acknowledge failed
To resolve the problem: Change the value of the imqAckTimeout connection factory attribute (see Reliability And Flow Control).
Possible cause: A producing client is encountering JVM limitations.
To confirm this cause of the problem:
Find out whether the client application receives an out-of-memory error.
Check the free memory available in the JVM heap, using runtime methods such as freeMemory, maxMemory, and totalMemory.
To resolve the problem: Adjust the JVM (see Java Virtual Machine Adjustments).


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As I mentioned in an earlier post I am currently in the beginnings of a come back. When I will finally be back I cannot say, one thing is for sure though, it's a long road.
Fitness is a strange concept which must be considered relative to the person striving for it. What I consider fitness may be very different to somebody who earns a living through cycling. Even the most mediocre professional cyclist is certainly going to be a lot fitter than most of us can hope to be but by the same token your average couch potato living a sedentary lifestyle would probably think that I was quite the athlete.
As I type this the rain is steadily beating down outside my window and the weather has turned decidedly Arctic (by Melbourne standards), there was once a time when I was so motivated I would have gone out in the rain and not even thought about it. Well over the years after a few too many wet, miserable training rides I started staying indoors when I could see that precipitation was imminent, as the old saying goes "rain drops, bike stops". Somehow I don't think Eddy Merckx ever heard of this saying. Sorry Eddy but it's the rollers for me today.
We all find motivation in different ways, one thing that certainly enthuses me is new gear. Unfortunately I'm not well connected enough to have people throwing swag at me (unlike some other bloggers) so with this in mind I have embarked on a quest to purchase some new race wheels. I'm not going to mention any brand names but my current race wheels (a popular French mark) are over five years old and even though there is nothing wrong with them consumer culture dictates that I must upgrade to the latest greatest product. Don't you just love being referred to as a consumer in the media? We're not even people or citizens anymore, just consumers. I think it was Eddy Merckx who said "ride up grades don't buy upgrades", with that attitude its no wonder he sold his bicycle business. Apologies again Eddy.
Of course like most people in the market for bike related items my first point of call was the internet and I did what I normally do when shopping for anything. I went straight to the top of the range. All of my equipment is pretty high standard so I'm not going to ruin the aesthetic of my beautiful Italian made machine with cheap Chinese carbon am I?
As I perused the pages of an English online bicycle retailer I came across a German brand used by many top professionals, I was astonished to find that a pair of their top of the range wheels was going to cost me a whopping $6265.00 (Australian). I don't doubt the quality of their product but does the extra speed they give me really justify their cost? Would they really be an investment in my cycling future? I doubt it. Anyway for that sort of money I could get myself to Belgium and race for about six weeks.
Next I visited my local bike shop which is something of a weekly habit for me. The social atmosphere and relaxed attitudes of the proprietors keeps me coming back, they always seem to have a funny story to tell and the service is also better than any website too. When I got there the owner was helping out a fixed gear ruffian who was looking for some deep section track wheels for the early 80's department store ten speed he was converting (apparently he was going to grind off the pannier mounts and cable guides). He walked away satisfied with his purchase and I'm sure the finished build is going to look great in whichever pastel colour he was going to paint it. I then learned that the retail price on a very nice pair of Italian race wheels was around the $5000.00 mark, cheaper for me because I'm such a great guy. I must say I am quite taken by these race wheels. I call them race wheels but I continually see people out "training" with them on a popular beach front road frequented by local cyclists. My guess is they do it for the show off factor or a keeping up with the Joneses type scenario. Whatever makes you happy I suppose but in my opinion such nice wheels should be kept somewhere safe and only see the light of day when you intend pinning a number on your back.
In any case I still can't afford the price so it looks like I will be sticking with my old wheels for a while longer. More research is in order but as I will be going away on a short country holiday this week (not a secret training camp) the research will have to wait till I get back.
I'll keep you posted.
Monday, June 28, 2010
The Search for Form, the Need for Speed and Economic Rationalisation
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Hi Mr. Muse, I am a fan of your blog and also keeps my work mates amused for hours all avid hubbards of the humble bike! Just a quick question on a previous post relating to both the Giro and TDF, what are your thoughts on what Lance Armstrong said recently claiming the Giro is becoming insignificant compared to the rise of the Tour of California? Your humor would be much appreciated!ReplyDelete
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Mudras have been a part of the Hindu and Buddhist traditions as also many other cultures from ancient times.
A regular practice of mudras leads to discover that mudras not only serve as an ideal meditative tool, but also as a healing medication for our emotional, mental, and physical problems and spiritual enhancement.
It is Called the yoga of the hands, a mudra [sign or seal], is a specific hand gesture, or position, that helps in releasing the energy locked within our body and directing its flow and reflexes to the brain. Mudras are known to alleviate a host of ailments such as asthma, depression, piles, cough, diabetes, stress, and even a heart attack too. Mudras can create inner peace and harmony, health and wealth and balance the left and right sides of the brain and promote a sense of wellbeing. They can also change your life considerably, through gradual spiritual regeneration.
The innate healing power of hands and the 10 fingers are explained in the Atharva Veda. This power can be easily fortified by the practice of special gestures formed by varying the position of the fingers through mudras. Mudras heal by activating both the meridians [nadis] as well as the chakras [energy centres] - in more ways than one.
Our physical body is made up of five elements, viz., water, earth, akasha [ether], air, and fire, which are represented by the little finger, the ring finger, the middle finger, the index finger, and the thumb, respectively. Imbalances in these elements upset our immune system and cause various ailments The joining of two or more fingers to form hand mudras, and holding them in a certain fixed pattern, creates balance for the five elements, following which healing ensues.
Imbalances in the chakras are suggested to affect the body's energy circuit. One of the ways to activate and balance chakras is through mudras. As the five fingers are associated with the lower five chakras, the right positioning and holding of the fingers together in a specific pattern brings balance. The body, thus, gets energised, diseases get healed and, gradually, spiritual awakening is experienced.
Of the many known hand mudras, a few of the essential "key mudras" are presented here. Practice them with both the hands in a convenient asana [posture], or sitting in a chair, for about 20-30 minutes a day, or as long as you enjoy doing them.
This is performed by joining the tips of your index finger and thumb, and keeping the other three fingers stretched and joined together. This is very powerful and effective in cases of mental ailments and sleeplessness [insomnia]. It also imparts happiness, develops the intellect, sharpens your memory, and concentration powers.
Join the tip of the thumb with the tips of middle and ring fingers, keeping the other fingers straight. This helps individuals who have difficulty in passing urine, or when there is a possibility of "obstruction." The posture reduces constipation, and purifies the body of harmful substances.
Join the tip of the thumb with tips of your little and ring fingers, and keep the other two fingers straight. This mudra balances the root chakra and infuses pranic energy into your body. It is also beneficial for many diseases; it improves vision and mental clarity.
Press the index finger at the base of the thumb and keep the thumb on the index finger, keeping the other fingers straight. This mudra is useful in ailments such as arthritis, Parkinson's disease, polio, and paralysis. For better results, practice it after prana mudra.
Join the tip of the thumb with the tips of the middle and ring fingers, while the index finger [turned inside] rests on the root of the thumb. Let the little finger remain extended. This posture is said to work like a "fire-fighting aid" in the event of a heart attack.
The middle finger is lowered into the base of the thumb and is covered by the thumb, while the other fingers remain extended. This is good for ear afflictions, listening and speech difficulties.
Interlock the fingers of both hands, and keep one of the thumbs up encircled by the other thumb and index finger. This mudra produces heat in the body, and helps in easing colds and cough.
Mudras endow the practitioner with benefits like improved meditation and calmness of mind. It also addresses a host of health concerns and infuses greater self-reliance and self-discipline. Mudras are easy to practice, because they are free hand body gestures, that gradually lead you to spiritual rejuvenation.
There is, perhaps, nothing better in the world than the practice of mudras for success and wellbeing.


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The City of Midland is going to be working on roads across the Tall City beginning this week and here is an update on how it will impact you.
This week, a contractor will be working on Midland Drive between Andrews Highway and Illinois avenue. A single lane will be used at Midland Drive and Cuthbert and on Midland Drive near Andrews Highway. You will still be able to get to the businesses in this work zone.
Work is also being done on Midkiff Road between Illinois Avenue and Golf Course Road. You can expect some lane closures while they work on manhole covers, but traffic in both directions will be maintained along Midkiff Road and Golf Course road at all times. You will still be able to get to the businesses in this work zone.
Work will continue on Scharbauer Drive between A Street and Lamesa Road. One eastbound lane and one westbound lane of Scharbauer drive will be closed. Some streets adjacent to Scharbauer drive will be closed for short periods of time, but all businesses and homes near the work zone will still be accessible.
Starting today, work will begin on Fairgrounds Road between Pine Avenue and Front Street. One northbound and one southbound lane will be closed, but two way traffic will be maintained. Some streets adjacent to Fairgrounds Road will be closed for short periods of time, but you will be able to get to all the properties near the work zone.
Starting this week, workers will be working on Golf Course Road between Tilden Street and Lamesa Road. During this time, be on the look out for lane closures, but two way traffic will be maintained on Golf Course Road. Some streets near Golf Course Road will be closed for short periods of time.
A work crew is going to continue its work near Clarewood Drive and Greenville Drive next week. The 6000 block of Clarewood Drive will remain closed to through traffic as road repairs continue. You could see some adjacent streets closed off for short periods of time.
The city is going to be repairing a water line on Lamesa Road at Golf Course Road next week. A single lane will be closed off as they work. The project is expected to be complete by May 10.
Resurfacing the Ward Street Bridge between Ward Street and Garfield Street is on hold, but once franchise utilities relocate their lines, they will get back to work, possibly in mid to late May. During this time, access to the alley will be limited to local residents only.
And a work crew is building streets and alleys in the Sparks Park Target Area. They include Jackson Street, Hamby Avenue and Jax Avenue. All the properties in the area will be accessible during construction.


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Spring is a very fertile time at La Jolla Playhouse. Known for its innovative and adventurous programming, the prestigious theater continues that trend with a new play development initiative, the DNA New Work Series, running through March 3. The series offers audiences the chance to see the birth of a new work while giving playwrights and directors the opportunity to develop a script by providing rehearsal time, space and resources, culminating in a workshop production or public reading.
"As the place to look for what's next in American theatre, it's not only a major tenet of our mission to cultivate and develop the work of emerging and established artists, it's in our DNA," said Playhouse Artistic Director Christopher Ashley. "The Playhouse's commitment to these artists and their work is the lifeblood of our theatre, and it is our hope that we can create an annual series to shine a spotlight on the development of the eclectic and diverse theatre that has become a hallmark on our stages."
Upcoming DNA offerings include a workshop production of Brahman/i: a One-Hijra Stand-Up Comedy, by Aditi Brennan Kapil, plus a series of six free readings presented over five days. Earlier in the series the Playhouse presented a workshop production of Meg Miroshnik's The Tall Girls and a concert reading of a new musical, Chasing the Song, directed by Ashley and written by the creators of the Tony Award-winning musical Memphis: Joe DiPietro and David Bryan, founding member of the band Bon Jovi.
On March 9, the Playhouse will host its annual star-studded Gala, featuring entertainment by the iconic rock band The Flaming Lips, composers of the Playhouse's acclaimed 2012 world-premiere musical Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. The Gala raises funds to support the institution's award-winning education initiatives, such as the Performance Outreach Program (POP) Tour that brings a Playhouse-commissioned, world-premiere production to elementary schools throughout San Diego; summer theater programs like the Young Performers Workshop; and numerous others that reach over 30,000 children each year. The Gala also helps support the Playhouse's play development programs, including the DNA New Work Series, Page To Stage, and readings and workshops throughout the season.
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How To Do Parallelism Without Getting Egg On Your Face
The other day I put together a trivial parallel code example that was going to be used in a 'how-to' document. The code was nothing much more complicated than a parallel 'hello world'. The sort of thing you could write while asleep.
I then sent the code to three colleagues for review. Well, embarrassingly the code came back, the reviewers pointing out that the code had a data race and the results of the program were inconsistent.
What had I done wrong? Simple, because the code was 'easy', I had fallen into the trap of thinking that I could spot every problem by reading through the code. Now, if I'd have been sensible and used tools that come with Intel Parallel Studio then I would not now have egg on my face.
When adding parallelism to a piece of code, a well tested strategy is to do it in several stages -- Analysis, Implementation, Verification, and Tuning. Typically these stages are repeated as parallelism is incrementally added to the code. Intel Parallel Studio has tools to help in each of these phases.
Additionally (a reminder to myself!), when changing a program from serial to parallel, you should really make sure the following questions are all addressed.
Questions to ask at the Analysis phase
- Is my program parallel?
- Where is the best place to parallelise my program?
- How can I get my program to run faster?
- What's the expected speedup?
Questions to ask at the Implementation phase
- How?
- How difficult?
- Is my code still working?
Questions to ask at the Verification phase
- Is the parallelism correct?
- Do I have deadlocks or data races?
- Do I have memory errors?
- Does my program still work as intended?
Questions to ask at the Tuning phase
- Do my tasks do equal amounts of work?
- Is my application scalable?
- Is the threading running efficiently?
If only I had used Parallel Inspector at the Verification stage, I would now not look quite so stupid.
Let's hope only three of my colleagues spotted the error of my ways. I think this is a case of Physician heal yourself.


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Coronado High School got an $8.5 million pool in late 2006. The "fast and flexible" Olympic-class facility was funded by the school district but was supposed to be operated by a nonprofit foundation.
When that fell through, it meant students had to compete with groups from around the world for access – and they have to pay for pool time.
Coronado Unified School District officials say the businesslike setup is the price they must pay to prevent an expensive instructional asset from becoming a boondoggle.
The many international events booked at the Brian Bent Memorial Aquatics Complex are loud and cause parking problems for blocks.
State environmental laws allow for such community impacts in the name of public education. But nobody – including the pool manager – is quite sure how much education-related use the aquatics complex is getting.
"I don't have an exact percentage for that," said director Carolyn Fisher-Fernan.
Fisher-Fernan said there have been nearly 66,000 student entries to the complex since it opened in late 2006, but she can't say how many have gotten in the water or participated in classes, and she does not know how many non-student visitors there have been in comparison.
What's important, she says, is the pool is getting use and it is gradually digging itself out of a financial hole with its year-round battery of water polo tournaments and swim meets. It also draws significant revenue for local businesses, she added.
The pool was supposed to be staffed and maintained by the Islander Sports Foundation, which failed less than three years after the facility opened. The district agreed to take over operations in January 2010. Superintendent Jeffrey Felix acknowledged this would come at a price.
"When I am working on the business of the pool I will not be in classrooms, I will not be talking with the community members, and I will not be directing our staff," Felix wrote in his recommendation to the school board.
Worst of all, he wrote, would be the cost to students.
"We are implementing a business model that hopes to increase pool participation at the expense of student time in the pool," he wrote. "Classes on water safety, physical exercise and interscholastic sports will necessarily need to take a back seat to those who pay for pool time. We have built a pool that we cannot afford to use and therefore we must rent the facility to others who can afford it."
That has meant marketing and leasing the aquatics complex to various groups from around the world. Some of the more notable visitors include swim teams from Denmark and Victoria, Canada, along with national water polo teams from Estonia, Australia and the U.S. team.
Coronado students have to raise money if they want to use the school pool for physical education classes or team sports, Fisher-Fernan said.
The fees for use have shrunk the pool's net loss from $102,000 in fiscal 2011 to $56,000 in fiscal 2012, and a projected net loss of $24,000 this year.
Events at the pool are bustling, resident George Powell says, and many extend beyond the 9 p.m. curfew set in 2004 by the school board.
Many of the groups use a public address system, which would not have been allowed under the original project approvals. The school board in 2009 voted to allow the PA system because many groups would not rent the facility without them.
Powell led the opposition to the pool when it was first proposed a decade ago, arguing in part that the facility was unneeded because of the city's new aquatics center with a 52-meter lap pool, along with separate warm-up and water polo pools.
Now Powell says he's furious that his tax dollars are subsidizing a separate facility that no longer even serves students. The district's agreement to subsidize the pool expires this year, and he doesn't want to see it renewed.
"That pool was built to teach our kids how to swim, and two weeks out of the year doesn't cut it, in my book," Powell said. "And now they're using the 'educational' card to opt out of city ordinances."
The superintendent said it's worth the expense and hassle of running the complex as a business to provide children with even limited extracurricular opportunities, Felix said. He said athletic facilities are always expensive and rarely, if ever, pay for themselves. And he said students often have to raise money for their extracurricular activities.
"We charge a good amount for people who come over here from other countries, so why shouldn't we be paying ourselves?" he asked. "They're getting benefits from it just like they're getting the benefit from their classes."
Finally, swimming is a proud tradition in the community of 30,000 that has produced two three-time water polo Olympians.
"We do bring a lot to this community, and I don't think people understand how busy we are," Fisher-Fernan said. "The swim team has 200 kids on it, water polo has 125 kids, and those are youth club teams. And those programs are developing core values in the kids. They're developing how to be focused, what a commitment is, and so much more."


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As David Letterman bade farewell to late-night on Wednesday, celebrities poured their hearts and humor out on social media to send off the "Late Show" host after 33 years in the biz.
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Patriots 23, Ravens 20
5. Ed Reed truly is a strange, but fascinating enigma. I really look forward to the day Reed, left, goes into the Hall of Fame, because his speech in Canton has the potential to be one of the strangest moments in the history of sports speeches. He might burst into tears, start doing impressions, or start spouting out song lyrics that summarize how he's feeling. I say this last one because that's precisely what he did in the locker room on Sunday, declining to answer questions from the media, and instead choosing to belt out lyrics to Teddy Pendergrass' "Love TKO." I can't decide if the lyrics were Reed's cryptic attempt to comment on the game, or if he had his iPod on shuffle and that song just happened to appear. To be honest, one is just as likely as the other. The lyrics are poignant if you buy into the idea he was trying to say something deeper, but you can read what he was singing and decide for yourself. Lookin' back over my years I guessed, I've shed some tears Told myself time and time again This time I'm gonna win But another fight, things ain't right I'm losin' again Takes a fool to lose twice And start all over again What's all the more fascinating is Reed played what I think was his best game of the season against the Patriots. He was all over the field, swatting down passes, taking away the deep threat, wrapping up receivers and making real tackles for once. The play he made on third down late in the game to force a New England punt was textbook Ed Reed. He broke on the ball almost before the receiver did. I honestly have no idea if Reed is going to retire. And I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say the Ravens probably have no idea either. Reed could threaten to retire, then turn around 12 hours later and insist he needs a new contract. No one on the Ravens can tell him what to do, or predict what he's going to do. The team had no idea he was off giving a radio interview on Tuesday when it happened. Reed speaks with the media so sporadically, the Ravens' PR staff only asks him do it a handful of times during the year, because he'll just refuse. So to say the organization felt blindsided by the interview would be completely accurate. But what can you do? Reed is an extremely intelligent guy, but he's also mercurial. He marches to the beat of his own Second Line, to steal a New Orleans reference. And no player in the locker room is as universally revered as Reed is. People assume it's Ray Lewis, but that's not accurate. From the practice squad rookies to the 12-year vets, it doesn't matter if they're black, white or Asian, Reed tries to embrace them. It's a strange dynamic, but it also speaks to Reed's weird magnetism. In a way, Reed's personality and play is an accurate way to describe this year's team. Talented but erratic, frustrating but dynamic, and now facing a lot of tough questions about the uncertain future. Thanks for another fun season writing this column, folks. Hard to believe that game literally came down to Lee Evans needing to get a heel or a toe on the ground a few tenths of a second sooner, and everything would be different. But that's why sports are so riveting. firstname.lastname@example.com twitter.com/kvanvalkenburg
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DES MOINES, IA — The Iowa Department of Revenue notified dozens of Iowa Curves franchise owners that they owed state sales taxes from years past, and 18 of the notified franchisees are fighting the assessment that could cost them more than $500,000.
In Iowa, sales tax is charged for all commercial recreation, including health clubs and country clubs, said Dave Casey, policy manager for the Iowa Department of Revenue. However, Iowa sales tax is not charged if customers are paying additional fees for instruction. According to court documents, one test case brought by an Ames, IA, Curves argues that the women-only facility's activities should not be considered commercial recreation because members "receive instruction under the guidance and direction of instructors on how to perform the Curves workout. Ordinary persons cannot perform the activity without instruction, and the instructors have received special training."
Casey disagrees. "If Curves had a special class they charged for, then [the Iowa Department of Revenue] would not tax those activities," he said.
Besides, Curves franchise owners had written to the department two and a half years ago with informal questions about the tax, Casey said.
"We said they would be taxable," he said. "We met with the business and they showed us what they did. It didn't change our mind."
Heather Palmer, a Des Moines attorney representing a group of Curves owners challenging the tax, could not comment due to pending litigation.
Becky Frusher, communications manager for Curves International, advised "franchisees to comply with all applicable state and local laws, as well as to secure their own attorney and tax advisor."
The case is in its first step, an administrative hearing. Next will come a director's hearing with appeal rights if applicable. If the issue were to go to the state Supreme Court, it could take three years to go to court, Casey said. If the court rules to uphold the state tax assessment, Curves owners will owe the state the uncollected sales tax, plus a penalty of 10 percent of the unpaid tax and interest of 0.7 percent a month on the unpaid tax. Because the tax wasn't collected from customers, the money will most likely come out of the owners' pockets, Casey said.
Casey also said taxing services is not common in other states, but he urged facilities to check into their state laws.