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Slum Infrastructure: A Local's Guide To Kibera
African maps are notoriously problematic. Much of the data is old; roads, particularly footpaths, languish unnamed. Africans often navigate by informal landmarks like bars or gas stations, places not represented on standard maps. The slums have it even worse: On Google Maps they figure as blank expanses, in keeping with their reputation as shadowy, marginal places.
Enter Spatial Collective and Map Kibera. These two organizations, a company and a nonprofit, are mapping a Kenyan mega-slum called Kibera—the name is derived from a word meaning "jungle"—according to how its 200,000 inhabitants actually navigate it. The maps started with crowdsourced landmarks important to locals: water taps, schools, pharmacies. Residents with Internet access were invited to add to an open source map; others contributed data by SMS or attended community workshops, where they wrote on giant empty maps.
Spatial Collective overlays these community-generated maps with official data. One project tacked on sewer-line data (depicted here) from Nairobi City Water to find the most valuable spots to build new public toilets. Another mapped community-reported crime data to help the World Bank understand where to place safety interventions like lamps. These kinds of projects make Kibera more legible to its inhabitants and to outsiders.
By Eve Fairbanks John Grimwade
Climate Change: CO2 Emissions in Indianapolis
The stuff that causes global climate change—carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases—doesn't spread out in a homogenous vapor. It accumulates in domes and plumes, mostly above cities. Levels ebb and flow with time of day and season, varying not just from city to city but neighborhood to neighborhood. The Megacities Carbon Project aims to understand that flow with exactitude. The map here shows a model of data from Indianapolis; Los Angeles, Boston, Salt Lake City, and Paris are carrying out similar projects.
In LA, where a ring of mountains traps carbon as well as it does smog, that will mean installing 16 ground-based spectrometers (around a dozen are up so far). Soon they'll also get data from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, a satellite scheduled to launch in summer 2014. "Cities are very complex. That's why you need a lot of stations and very dense observation," says Riley Duren, a NASA Jet Propulsion Lab engineer working on the project. "Some places don't emit at all, and some places look like a hot spot."
The point of mapping carbon at such high resolution? "We're trying to link cause and effect," Duren says. Sensors could help catch factories flouting emissions laws or identify unexpected carbon culprits. If nations won't make progress on climate, perhaps cities will.
By Adam Rogers CleverºFranke
Development: Financial Services in Nigeria
Before households can rise out of poverty, they need access to financial tools: the basic banking, payment, credit, and insurance services that Westerners take for granted. So in January, the Gates Foundation's Financial Services for the Poor program launched an ambitious geospatial project in Nigeria. Armed with BlackBerrys and traveling in a grid pattern, 30 surveyors undertook a three-month campaign in Nigeria to pinpoint all of the services available—from bank branches to microfinance institutions to post offices and more. They logged GPS coordinates and took photos. (The program had to rescue one surveyor from the police after he aroused suspicion at a bank.)
The resulting website gives the best picture yet of how financial services work in a developing economy. Jake Kendall, the Gates Foundation program officer who heads the project, hopes financial institutions will use the map to figure out where to open new locations. It can also guide public policy: Kendall's team used this map to show the Nigerian central bank governor the need for mobile-based financial services, since it demonstrates that more than half of residents live outside a 3-mile radius of brick-and-mortar options. Besides Nigeria, the Gates team has already mapped Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, and Bangladesh, with India and Indonesia coming soon.
By Victoria Tang John Grimwade
Health: US Medical Readmission
For more than 20 years, the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care has been producing uncomfortable revelations about the US health care system. For example, regions that spend the most money don't necessarily provide the best care. And doctors with access to fancy scanners and expensive diagnostic tests are more likely to use them, whether patients need them or not. By mining and mapping data on Medicare in particular, Dartmouth researchers have shown that the quality and efficiency of medical care varies surprisingly from place to place; the White House and Congress discussed these findings often in their recent debates over health care reform.
This map shows one of the Dartmouth team's newer discoveries. Red crosses indicate regions where more patients wind up in the emergency room within 30 days of being discharged from the hospital. This is especially disturbing when patients suffer from heart disease or other chronic illnesses that require long-term care. Ideally, hospitals help coordinate continued treatment with the patients' primary care physicians after they're discharged. But in many places that doesn't happen, says David Goodman, codirector of the atlas, because too many administrators believe "their responsibility ends at the hospital door."
By Greg Miller CleverºFranke
Disaster Planning: Jakarta's Flood Zone
Jakarta is sinking. Two-fifths of the Indonesian capital sits below sea level, and the lowest areas are also the least mapped. Surrounded by a labyrinth of flood-prone waterways, residents must always brace for the worst.
But before this year's deluges (the rainy season begins in November and lasts until June), a new planning tool came online. More than 250 village lurahs, or leaders, received maps of the critical infrastructure in their communities: schools, municipal buildings, hospitals, mosques, and more. In addition, areas inundated by recent floods were clearly marked.
The maps were made possible by a nonprofit called Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. HOT recruited geography undergrads from the University of Indonesia in 2012 to collect data. The students then held a series of workshops, teaching lurahs how to fill in a base map of their communities with landmarks. Altogether, they mapped 6,000 buildings. Now Indonesia's National Disaster Management Agency is integrating this data with a free software plug-in called InaSAFE, which creates "impact scenarios" of future hazards. When the next flood rushes in, Jakartans will have better contingency plans in place.
By Cameron Bird John Grimwade


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A PRESIDENTIAL BOOM—its birth, its nurturing and its outcome—is a fascinating thing to behold. This is especially true in the case of a political novice like George Romney, the Rambler Man, who is now regarded as a candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 1964.
How did the Romney-for-President talk get started? The answer seems to be that it was started by former Vice President Richard M. Nixon. This was back in November, just after the announcement that New York's Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller and his wife would be divorced. More recently the word has circulated among Republicans that former President Dwight D. Eisenhower is also a Romney rooter, and this has proved to be an addition to the boom.
Naturally, these developments have brought to mind Wendell Willkie, who stormed the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia in 1940, captured the party's nomination for President, and so won the chance to take a beating from Franklin D. Roosevelt.
There are some differences, of course, one of them being that Mr. Romney is going to test his ability as a vote-getter by running this year for Governor of Michigan. He says himself that he starts out as an underdog. If he wins his uphill battle in November, and thereby becomes the first Republican Governor of the Wolverine State in 14 years, it would make him a major contender for the GOP Presidential nomination two years hence.
What is most fascinating about the Romney boom is that here is a man who is being talked about for the Presidency before he has even reached first base, politically speaking. Why choose a novice when there are Mr. Nixon, Governor Rockefeller and Senator Goldwater of Arizona, all professionals?
There seems to be only one answer. As was the case in 1940, the Republicans now see a popular Democrat in the White House and doubt whether any of their pros can dislodge him. Accordingly, the Republicans—a good many of them, at any rate—are sizing up the fellow in Michigan who looks so much like Dick Tracy.
Strategists in the Democratic party express confidence that President Kennedy will win a second term in 1964. Looking over the Republican field, they see no potential candidate who causes them apprehension—or so they say. Just the same, it would make them very happy if Mr. Romney were knocked out of the picture this November.


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And on the cool check in
Center stage on the mic
And we're puttin' it on wax
It's the new style
Four and three and two and one (What up!)
And when I'm on the mic - the suckers run (Word!)
Down with Ad-Rock and Mike D. and you ain't
And I got more juice than Picasso got paint
Got rhymes that are rough and rhymes that are slick
I'm not surprised you're on my dick(Mike D!)
B-E-A-S-T-I-E, what up Mike D
Ah yeah, that's me
I got franks and pork and beans
Always bust the new routines
I get it - I got it, I know it's good
The rhymes I write - you wish you would
I'm never in training - my voice is not straining
People always biting and I'm sick of complaining
So I went into the locker room during classes
Went into your locker and I smashed your glasses
You're from Secaucus - I'm from Manhattan
You're jealous of me because your girlfriend is cattin'
("There it is")
Kick it
Father to many - married to none
And in case you're unaware I carry a gun (word)
Stepped into the party - the place was overpacked
Saw the kid that dissed my homey and shot him in the back
Man, I had to get a beeper cause my phone is tapped
You better keep your mouth shut cause I'm fully strapped
I got money in the bank - I can still get high
That's why your girlfriend thinks that I'm so fly
I've got money and juice - twin sisters in my bed
Their father had envy so I shot him in the head
If I played guitar I'd be Jimmy Page
The girlies I like are underage (check it)
Girls with boyfriends are the kind I like
I'll steal your honey like I stole your bike
My father - he's jealous cause I'm making that green (what up?)
I've got a list of girlies' numbers from the places I've been
There it is
Kick it
You wanna know why - because I'm…
October 31st - that is my date of birth
I got to the party, you know what I did? The Smurf
Taxing all females from coast to coast
And when I get my fill, I'm chilly most
We ragtag girlies back at the hotel
And then we all switch places when I ring the bell
I chill at White Castle cause it's the best
But I'm fly at Fatburger when (when he's) I'm way out west
K-I-N-G-A-D whammy
All the fly ladies, they're on my jammy
Went to the prom - wore the fly blue rental
Got six girlies in my Lincoln Continental
I met a girl at the party and she started to flirt
I told her some rhymes and she pulled up her skirt (check it)
Spent some bank - I got a high powered jumbo
Rolled up a wooly (what did he do?) and I watched Columbo
Let me clear my throat
Kick it over here baby pop
And let all the fly skimmies feel the beat
Mmm... drop
Coolin' on the corner on a hot summer day
Just me, my posse and MCA
A lot of beer - a lot of girls - and a lot of cursin'
Twenty-two automatic on my person
Got my hand in my pocket and my finger's on the trigger
My posse's gettin' big - and my posse's gettin' bigger
Some voices got treble - some voices got bass
We got the kind of voices that are in your face
Like the bun to the burger - like the burger to the bun
Like the cherry to the apple - to the peach to the plum
I'm the King of the Ave. - and I'm the king of the block
Well, I'm MCA - and I'm the King Ad-Rock
Well, I'm Mike D - I got all the fly juice
On the checkin' at the party on the Forty Deuce
Walking down the block with the fresh fly threads
Beastie Boys fly the biggest heads
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho...
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho...
Brooklyn, ho
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho...
This is the second single — and Track #2 — from Beastie Boys' debut full-length album, Licensed To Ill. The record was released on 6.6.1986 by Def Jam Recordings, a division of CBS/Columbia Records. The track was co-produced by Beastie Boys, engineered by Steve Ett, and mastered by Howie Weinberg.
Samples include:
"Drop the Bomb" by Trouble Funk from the album, Drop the Bomb (1982)
"Peter Piper" by Run-DMC from the album, Raising Hell, (1986)
"2-3 Break" by The B-Boys from the album 2-3 Break (1983)
Beastiemania reports that "The New Style" has been performed in 71 known concerts.
Here's a rendition from Black Thought feat. Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) from the Lyricist Lounge 20th Anniversary on 6.23.2012.
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Preview of a Scene with the Smelly Sneaky Thief Named Mundungus Fletcher in Deathly Hallows
Apr 21, 2009
DH Film
Last month in one of our recent exclusive casting reports, TLC was able to tell you that actor Andy Linden was confirmed be appearing as Mundungus Fletcher for the upcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Today, there is a new article online with actor Martin Ballantyne who discusses his role as "Scary Face" in the upcoming Half-Blood Prince as an extra with no lines, but landed a small role that is part of a scene with Mundungus Fletcher for Deathly Hallows. Mr. Ballantyne notes he is playing an "associate" to the dodgy member of the Order of the Phoenix, and says the scene involves one of Dung's notoriously underhanded sales. Quotage:
But in The Deathly Hallows the director, David Yates, had remembered me
and I was given the part of Mundungus' Associate. He is a baddy – I'm
always the baddy – and I had a few lines to learn and say."
"I couldn't believe it when I got to the Leavesden studios in
Hertfordshire a month ago and was told I had this part. The director
said 'we will try something a bit more meaty this time'."I cannot repeat the lines I had to say but it was in a scene where Mundungus is negotiating a purchase."
Martin Ballantyne goes on to note that Dung Fletcher actor Andy Linden is "really nice," and speaks abit about the remaining filming and release schedule for the two films.
"It's like a big family when you get there.
"Having this part is a good part for me because I have lines and most of the parts I have had are without lines.
should be in the final film The Deathly Hallows Part 2. The Half Blood
Prince is out in cinemas in July, The Deathly Hallows Part 1 will be
out in cinemas for Christmas 2010 and the second part will be out
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Carme Ruscalleda – Sant PauPosted by Mike Tommasi on 28 July 2009 in Restaurant Reviews
Getting a reservation at the Sant Pau (c/Nou, 10 – E-08395 Sant Pol de Mar – Catalunya, Spain – T: +34-93-7600662) is not an easy matter, this three-star dining room only has 9 tables. Catherine and I travel frequently to Catalunya, my parents live in the Baix Empordà area; the region is also one of the earth's true hot spots for star chefs: within 120km of Sant Feliu de Guíxols, that useful tyrant known as the Red Guide has identified 38 one-star eateries, 2 two-stars and 3 three-stars! While I can only describe my experience at super-legendary elBulli as "interesting", a recent visit to El Celler de Can Roca proved to be one the most memorable and perfect lunches of my life. Sant Pau is very different from Can Roca, and yet both share the same extremely high level of taste, precision, service as well as culinary culture and intelligence.


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Fungicide seed treatment for soybeans has been thought necessary ever since the soybean production system in the midsouthern US changed from traditional May and later plantings to ESPS plantings. Ensuring against stand failure in early plantings has been thought to be worth the cost of seed treatment even though proving yield increases and greater net returns has been difficult.
Finally, there is proof that treating soybean seeds before planting provides increased economic return. A study conducted in Arkansas and published in the Agronomy Journal* by senior author Paul Poag and his colleagues is the first to provide results that place an economic worth on fungicide seed treatment.
According to sources cited in their report, soybean seedling diseases in Arkansas caused an estimated loss of $32.4 million in 2003. Also, they state that there is no feasible instrument to economically test for the presence of seed and seedling pathogens, or to predict resulting yield losses at time of planting. That is why it has been difficult to objectively prove the worth of fungicide seed treatments for soybeans.
The data for their study were obtained from experiments conducted at Stuttgart and Keiser over a three-year period. They used high- and low-quality seeds planted at high and low seeding rates in April, May, and June. To ensure that conditions were conducive to pathogen development, they applied simulated rainfall when seedlings were emerging.
They used contact, systemic, and contact plus systemic combination fungicides applied to seeds before planting to compare their effect to untreated seeds. Since the cost of the different seed treatments used in their study was relatively minor (<$2 per acre for product) compared to other production costs, the economic impact of the different seed treatments was mainly driven by yield differences.
Their results are striking. According to their analyses, profitability was increased by an average of nearly $18 per acre when high quality seeds were treated with a systemic fungicide (<$3.50 per acre cost for pretreated seed). This finding was true across locations, planting month, and soil moisture conditions.
Their data revealed another important point. Using high- rather than low-quality seeds when both were properly treated increased producer returns by an average of over $26 per acre. When low-quality seeds were used, a seed treatment product containing both systemic and contact fungicides was sometimes superior.
Another conclusion can be drawn from their results, based on the following two points. First, the cost difference between the systemic fungicide and the product containing both contact and systemic fungicides used in their study was only $0.27 per 50 pounds of seed. (Similar cost differences exist today). Second, the use of a product with both systemic and contact fungicides was sometimes necessary to achieve the best results in their study. Therefore, since the cost difference between a systemic product and a combination product is small, it makes economic sense for producers to use one of the myriad products that contain both systemic and contact materials to ensure the best possible results from the application of fungicides to soybean seeds for planting.
My next column will provide a list of combination products that are labeled for soybean seeds.
(*V. 97, p. 1647-1657, published online Nov. 17, 2005. Available to members at http://agron.scijournals.org/content/vol97/issue6/).(Delta Farm Press, Vol. 63, No. 9, 3/3/06)


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The Paragon PARA-XD is based on the ATKO 10 design. Just push the button and the single action automatic knife fires the blade out-the-front of the handle. Action is fast and lock-up is nice and tight. To retract the blade just press the button in and use the retracing lever to pull the blade back in. The sliding safety lock on the face of the handle ensures the blade stays closed or open if you please. These Asheville Steel Paragon PARA-X knives are proudly made in the USA.
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Mesker Park Zoo Fostering Rare Mexican Wolf Pups
The Evansville Zoo is now the new foster home to a couple of Mexican wolf pups.
Earlier last week, the extremely rare, male cubs were transported to Mesker Park Zoo, after being born under risky conditions in New York.
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A White Nationalist Memo to White Male Republicans
January 29, 2013, 07:30:28 PM »
Waking Up from the American Dream
A White Nationalist Memo to White Male Republicans
Gregory Hood
Do you get it yet?
Look, I know you probably despise us. Youve been told your entire life by your schools, your churches, and your heroes of sport, screen, and stage that there is no greater sin than racism. You wanted to be a good person. Heck, you are a good person.
So you treated everyone with respect, no matter where they came from. You figured everyone should have an opportunity. You believed in playing by the rules. You believed in freedom. You believed in America. You thought that what makes this country great is that everyone, from whatever background, can make it together. You may have even voted for Obama that first time, despite some policy disagreements, because you really wanted to believe that race is irrelevant, that skin tone doesnt matter, that the only colors we need are Red, White, and Blue.
Youre a conservative, maybe even a libertarian. But you dont want to make arbitrary distinctions between people. After all, were all children of our Creator. So you gave Obama a chance.
Unfortunately, instead of hope and change, you got a national health care program that frightened you and would increase your health care costs. You got more racial division, not less. The economy didnt improve in some places, it got worse. There was a huge stimulus program but you cant say what all that money was spent on. And because you care about your country, you worry about the debt, and federal spending, and fiscal responsibility.
So you supported Mitt Romney. Perhaps you even participated in a Tea Party rally or two a few years ago, careful to stick to fiscal issues rather than divisive social concerns. You were embarrassed by how white the rallies were and did your best to bring in racial minorities. You liked Herman Cain. You liked Allen West. You wanted to get blacks off the Democratic Plantation.
The economy was collapsing so you supported a campaign focused on growing the pot for everyone. You said a rising tide lifts all boats. You talked about jobs, about growth, about making America proud again. You talked about how blacks are hit more than anyone else from the bad economy, how Hispanics in Nevada have been devastated by crushing unemployment, how a culture of dependency is taking root in entire communities. And you believed the conservative pundits that told you that America was rising, as one, to bring about real change.
And because youre a patriot, you felt justified in being angry. You felt your blood boil when you read how Americans begging for help as terrorists stormed into our embassy were contemptuously ignored for hours. Your heart broke when you read about the mother of the Navy SEAL crying out in anguish that Obama murdered my son and a grieving father at his sons funeral treated to our buffoon of a Vice President joking about testicles. Your jaw dropped when Bill Clinton gloated that the military is less racist, less sexist, less homophobic now that Barack is in charge. You watched in disbelief as the President of the United States palled around with interviewers on hip hop shows like the Pimp With a Limp on the anniversary of 9/11 and used former crack dealers turned rappers on the campaign. You knew something was wrong, but come Election Day, wed Remember in November and America would be America again.
And then this.
So youre probably in a state of shock. They all lied to you. It wasnt even close. Ohio, Pennsylvania, even Virginia Virginia! the great Southern state of Washington, Jefferson, and Lee. All went to Barack Obama. And as you watched the gloating on MSNBC, the victory parties in the major cities, the undisguised loathing for you at the likes of the Huffington Post, or Gawker, or Slate, you felt a sick feeling in your gut that something was deeply wrong.
Mitt Romney won the same share of the white vote as Ronald Reagan. It didnt matter. You worked your butt off with your church, your charity group, your neighbors. It was undone by some Somalis who cant speak English that the Democrats bussed in and told to vote Brown all the way down, and they werent just referring to the Democratic candidates name.
Take a good, hard look at those Obama victory rallies. They are celebrating your dispossession, your displacement from the country your ancestors built. They dont even disguise their hatred. And even though you dont think in terms of race, they do.
Michael Moore called it a victory over hate. Howard Fineman gloated that America was turning its back on tradition, and thank God. Twitter erupted with black voters screeching in triumph, bragging that America belongs to them now.
Even the President of the United States said voting is the best revenge. Revenge for what? Arent we all in this together? Doesnt this country belong to all of us?
Do you get it yet? Its revenge against you for existing. Its revenge for racism, for conservatism, for success, for being strong, and proud and accomplished. Its vengeance against the America that once was. They have their revenge for the fact that your country existed. Barack Obama is President of these states united, and was re-elected because, not in spite of the fact that he despises everything America was.
Look, I was like you. I was a patriotic, normal Republican. I knocked on doors for city council. I wanted Colin Powell to be President, because a black Republican will help everyone get beyond race! I was there too.
And then I started looking around.
It doesnt matter if black unemployment is skyrocketing and their communities are devastated they vote black. It doesnt matter if Nevada has the worst economy in the country they vote Hispanic. It doesnt matter if candidates are running for re-election from the Mayo Clinic, or Congressmen think islands tip over if too many people are on them, or if blacks are worse off, by every measure, when African-Americans are in charge. It simply doesnt matter.
There are vast swaths of the country where elections, policies, and good government simply no longer matter. Camden, NJ, Detroit, MI, Birmingham, AL, and other once proud metropolises are shattered wastelands, and they are lost forever regardless of how bad they get. Lets make it perfectly clear George W. Bush was probably the last Republican President this country will ever see. Once you go black, the country doesnt come back.
Perhaps you think it will all be OK if the GOP just wins the Hispanic vote. After all, Newt Gingrich and Karl Rove tell you they are socially conservative and patriotic. Unfortunately, they favor Obamacare even more than they favor unrestricted immigration. They have their problems with President Obama because he doesnt support immigration enough. If you want to win the minority vote, you have to become more liberal on economic issues. Even the Beltway conservatives know it. And despite what your ministers and priests tell you about Christian Hispanics, they have higher rates of illegitimate births and abortions too.
Well, cest la vie. America is still America. Government isnt everything right? You can still have a decent life in this country, right?
You probably have a kid or two. Do you have any illusions about what he is learning in school? He is being taught that white people are uniquely evil, that he is the recipient of unearned privilege because he was born, and that to be a moral person, he has to turn his back on his ancestors i.e. you. If youre a Christian, youre faithfully taking your child to church once a week and five days a week hes being taught about the glories of homosexuality, or the wonders of Islam, or how black people single-handedly built Western Civilization. None of it makes sense except that it is all targeted against you.
Lets say you send him to college. Well, you can look forward to paying off student loan debt for the rest of your life. It would be great if you could get free money for college on account of your race, but youre white, so no one cares about you. This assumes your child can even get into a decent school, as every major school in the country fiercely defends anti-white racial preferences.
What will he learn there? Well, he will be carefully taught to despise you, that your religion is nonsense, and that his heritage is evil. Professors admit this is their job. But the fiscal crunch will cut the fat, right? Actually, schools are cutting mathematics and serious programs, while shoveling more money to anti-white programs. The school will pay tens of thousands of dollars of your tuition money to bring in guys like Tim Wise, who will gloat that CONSERVATIVE WHITE PEOPLE, yr nation has left the building. And all these professors, and anti-racist guest lecturers, and professional activists for causes youve never heard of will make more money than you ever will and youre paying their salaries.
Now that youve bankrupted yourself and burdened your child with student loans, its time to get a job. Unfortunately, there are few to be had. The government is still hiring, but unfortunately, your white privilege doesnt extend to having a job.
You know who else defends anti-white racial preferences? Corporate America. The 1% is actually pushing for diversity even more than the universities. Wal-Mart, McDonalds, Microsoft, and all the great job producers that youve been defending? They despise you, give money to your enemies, and discriminate against you because youre white. When your right to be treated equally went before the Supreme Court, sixty-eight Fortune 500 companies filed amicus briefs to make sure you and your children cant get jobs. Those are the people you want to give tax cuts.
Want to have a small business? Better not try to do anything with the government or from federal funds those are set aside for minorities. Also, any of your nonwhite competitors get special financial benefits for operating so good luck competing. Incidentally, Barack Obama is going to dump some more regulations and taxes on you, especially through Obamacare. The Secretary of the Treasury doesnt have to pay taxes, but, well, you do.
Well, maybe you want to be a cop or a fireman then. You cant. Those jobs are set aside for minorities, even those who cant pass the test. Especially those who cant pass the test. Remember those heroic NYC firefighters on 9/11? Well, your government sued them for being too white and racist. Even dying for your masters doesnt get you anything.
Lets say against all odds, you manage to get a job. Well, better keep your head down. You never know when a co-worker will accuse you of racism or sexism. There doesnt need to be a reason it could just be out of spite. Or because youre Republican. Or because you reported them for stealing or incompetence. If anything, count yourself lucky they dont shoot you the media will report that you, as a racist, had it coming. Every moment of every day, you are on the brink of professional and personal destruction, because you are white.
At least you can come home to a loving family right? Well, if your children watch television, they are being carefully instructed to disregard anything you teach them. Even childrens programming executives laugh about how what they do is a fuck you to the right wing. When they grow up, theyll worship celebrities of dubious talent who mock and despise you. Youre surrounded by filth you cant go to a restaurant or a store without background music from some bimbo relying on autotune to sing about S&M or threesomes.
Of course, thats assuming your kids arent another victim of random crime by youths.
As a father, sitcoms portray you as an idiot. As a husband, commercials mock you as sexually undesirable because of your race. As a white man, movies openly call for you to be killed. And if by chance you do something admirable, why, Hollywood simply changes the race.
And what about your wife? Of course you love her. But what is the culture telling her? If she leaves you, she gets your kids, your money, and any future earnings. The culture tells her she has no obligation to you or your children. The law rewards her if she abandons you. The media tells you the real problem is a war on women. Maybe youve got a great girl, but just take a glance around the broken families and shattered men around this country, and ask yourself if the United States is a fit place for decent men and decent families.
Starting to get it yet? Every moment of every day, you have to bend the knee. Then, maybe, theyll let you have your job so you can pay taxes to sustain people who hate you. Maybe, youll have the privilege of working long hours to pay the mortgage, which costs you more, because youre white. Maybe, you can spend a few years with the children that the entire society is trying to turn against you. Maybe you can have a dinner with the woman you love and hope that she can ignore the culture telling her shes a traitor to her sex by staying with you. Maybe you can avoid the doom that hangs over your head every second.
And then, you can die. In fact, hurry up and do it. The Democrats are more becoming bolder in just telling you these things.
The worst part is you had it easy compared to your kids.
Then, when its all over, your life wasnt nothing. It was less than nothing. You actively contributed to your own destruction. Despite your surrender and respectability, youll be remembered as a racist, a relic of an evil society.
Want to change this? Well, you will never have the possibility of Republicans fixing the problem for you. Ever again.
This isnt Network. Im not going to tell you I dont know how to make things better. Im not going to tell you to get angry. I know youre angry, and it hasnt done a damn bit of good for you or anyone else.
Im going tell you what the solution is.
Everything you loved about what used to be your country came from one group of people. Its the group you belong to. Its the white race. And its not an accident that the same people who hate your country, your religion, and your family hate your race more than anything.
Youre a white man. American doesnt mean anything anymore. If anything, citizenship is actually a burden. As a white American, you are a second-class citizen in jobs, education, and government benefits. No one cares about you and no one ever will. Those in power will deny that your suffering even exists. So why are you fighting for these people?
The nation you loved is still there. But its not in the flag of a government that hates you or in the guns that serve people who dont care about you. Its in the faces of the white people that built this country and that sustain it today. Thats what you have to fight for.
You need to fight for a country of your own. We need revolution if ordinary people anytime, anywhere are to have anything even close to a moral and pleasurable life. And it makes more sense than spending your rapidly diminishing days shuffling through this horrifying nightmare that used to be your country.
You arent alone. Were fighting for it right now. I cant force you to join us. I dont know where you are in your life.
But I want you to know one thing. You cant pretend you dont know anymore.
You cant kid around with talk about taking back the country, or freedom, or liberty, or the Real America. This is the Real America now. This is freedom. This is what it led to. This is the only thing it could have led to. What happened to the American Dream? It came true. Equality is being taken to its logical conclusion and all you can ever hope for is serving the people who hate you.
You cant pretend this is still your country or that you are a free man. You arent.
You cant pretend that you can keep playing by the rules and somehow win. You wont.
Im not saying you need to drop everything. Im not pretending I know exactly what to do. But Im saying you need to remind yourself each morning that you are a slave and people who hate you rule you. Im saying you need to recognize that America today is a filthy lie, the most vile and despicable fiction ever foisted upon decent people. Im saying everything good and generous about you is being used to kill you. Im saying there are people out there like us who really care about you and want to help you. Your government and your society does not.
You can ignore me. Wave the American flag and pretend everything is going to be OK. But it wont be. Turn on the TV. Listen to the radio. Look really look at the culture that surrounds you. I think you know it too.
Do you get it yet? America, your America, is finished. But you dont have to be. Its time to fight for what comes next. Its time to fight for a country of our own.
Its time to stop being Americans. Its time to start being White Men again.
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Quote from: galeniko on January 29, 2013, 07:43:51 PM
heres a memo from the other party.
youve lost the election.
Here a memo from the USA: You don't live here, fuck off.
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Its time to just hoard wealth and make preparations for the abyss
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Quote from: galeniko on January 29, 2013, 07:43:51 PM
heres a memo from the other party.
youve lost the election.
Because the majority is always right, right? You are so fucking dumb it's staggering. Keep posting about bullshit stories with low lives of your kind, that's about the only thing you do well for our greatest amusement.
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Greg Hood, you mad bro?
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January 29, 2013, 08:25:16 PM »
Quote from: uberman on January 29, 2013, 08:09:21 PM
Because the majority is always right, right? You are so fucking dumb it's staggering. Keep posting about bullshit stories with low lives of your kind, that's about the only thing you do well for our greatest amusement.
He is anti-white. The mere mention of white repulses him. Only beta males are repulsed by themselves. An alpha could never take this approach.
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What do the ladies think of this? White women are hot. We need more of them too.
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Gimme a break. Minorities and women only flap their lips and wings because they feel and ARE innately inferior. It's completely cool with me that the mud people and lesbians take pot shots at me. For one it makes me smile seeing their inferiority complexes in action. And two, do you think it matters to me or other white guys? I mean really? You're nothing. Less than nothing to me. Just another faceless brown stain in the crowd.
The realisation that sparks up with mud people that they're going to spend the ONE life they have on this planet as an inferior. Now, I'm not saying all of them are like that. Some have no issues with themselves and just get on with life, but I'm talking about those that can't. That points at The Man (people like me) for their shortcomings or self-hatred. That hates the fact that they need Whitey to live a decent life. Hate the fact that pretty much the only countries in the world with great living standards are all white countries and that the mud people and their kind have to crawl there for a better life. Hate the fact that millions upon millions of mud people world wide use skin whitening cream to be more 'beautiful' That Korean girls cut the slits in their eyes to look more like white women. Hate the fact that their backward ways and religions are mocked and laughed at. Hate the fact that 99.999999% of whites would rather die than to wake as an ethnic tomorrow. Didn't Chris Rock say it the best? 'I'm black, rich and famous, but you still wouldn't want to be me'. He was talking about whites, and he is correct. And I have a lot of respect for him for telling it like it is. He keeps it real while dumbass media and liberal scumbags try and convince the world otherwise. People with a tiny modicum of intelligence would laugh and laugh and laugh at such people and see them for what they are. Self-hating whites.
White guys are fine. At the top of every single field. And I mean everything. Well, not sports but then again, that's for amusement only. And that's what the blacks are good for. Amusement
And yes, I know my post sound racist. And no, I'm not racist at all. I think Wiggs have a good attitude for a black guy. He gets the fuck on with things and don't dwell like other black douches
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this matter. I can see you some effort into that post. Carry on bro.
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Quote from: James28 on January 29, 2013, 09:55:49 PM
White guys are fine. At the top of every single field. And I mean everything. Well, not sports but then again, that's for amusement only. And that's what the blacks are good for. Amusement
And yes, I know my post sound racist. And no, I'm not racist at all. I think Wiggs have a good attitude for a black guy. He gets the fuck on with things and don't dwell like other black douches
Very keen observation. Republicans "lost" the election, but Obama lost the white male vote...and it's white males who have the money and who run the world. That's why the status quo doesn't change regardless of how many minorities vote democrat. You can't change genetics, and no matter what policies you invoke, smart people will always rule over the less smart. We've enacted every form of affirmative action possible, and has it really changed anything? Whites still have all the money, and now they are segregating themselves into the "nicer" parts of town. What's left are wastelands of cities filled with crime, minorities, and downward-spiraling home prices which drive the cities to bankruptcy since they don't get anything from property taxes. And I don't mean that in a racist way...it's happening all over, particularly in california.
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Officers found the 3-year-old already dead from a stab wound that passed completely through his neck. Charles was still alive but severely injured with knife wounds to her neck and chest, police said. When an officer asked who was responsible for the attack, she gave a name, "Preston," and said he tried to rape her. She died moments later.
Authorities went to the nearby apartments and found Hughes, the only resident with the first name of Preston. He already was on probation for a conviction of sexual assault on a child and denied any role in the attacks.
The punishment came after Hughes lost multiple appeals and lawsuits in courts to block it. Two appeals -- filed by attorney Patrick McCann, who Hughes unsuccessfully sought to fire -- failed at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Other court actions were filed on Hughes' behalf by a death penalty opponent in Houston. They were denied in the courts or could not halt the punishment, attorneys said.
In one Supreme Court appeal, McCann said instructions to jurors deciding Hughes' punishment were not adequate. Hughes, however, was "properly convicted and sentenced to death," Jefferson Clendenin, an assistant Texas attorney general, told the justices.
In another high court action, McCann contended new evidence showed Hughes was sexually abused as a child and a jury should be allowed to consider that at a new punishment trial. He also obtained an affidavit from a former medical examiner who questioned whether Charles, after massive blood loss from her stab wounds, could have still been conscious or even alive by the time police arrived to ask her about her attacker.
State attorneys argued the assertions from McCann were "patently meritless and nothing more than a last-minute Hail Mary," said Fredericka Sargent, an assistant attorney general.
Additional appeals focused on the legality of using a single lethal dose of pentobarbital for executions, a procedure Texas adopted earlier this year.
Another, from Hughes, accused the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles of violating his rights when they declined a clemency request filed by his lawyer but refused to consider a similar request from activist Ward Larkin. And another raised civil rights violations in a lawsuit against the mayor of Houston, alleging improprieties and fraud in the Houston police crime lab that handled evidence in Hughes' case.
Ellis McCullough, one of Hughes' trial lawyers, said this week he was convinced no evidence was planted or mishandled.
He said Hughes, brought to a police station for interviews in the early morning hours after the slayings, made phone calls from the police interrogation room to acquaintances, including his probation officer, that "were pretty devastating taken as a whole."
"He didn't help himself any," McCullough said. "It was pretty convincing he was the guy."
Evidence examined for DNA testing after his conviction and at his request found traces of Charles' blood on Hughes' clothing. At his trial, prosecutors showed Charles' glasses were found on a couch in his apartment. Hughes, who knew Charles through a friend, said police took the evidence from the crime scene, planted it in his apartment, illegally searched the place, coerced his confessions and copied his signature to them from another document.
"The fact is I didn't kill anyone," he told The Associated Press last month, speaking from a small visiting cage outside death row.
Hughes also denied the sexual assault conviction that resulted in his probation.
"I didn't know she was 13 at the time," he told the AP of the victim in that case. "I was led to believe she was 17."
Hughes moved to Houston in 1983 from his native Buffalo, N.Y., where a rape charge against him was dismissed when the victim failed to appear in court.
He testified at his capital murder trial that he pulled a knife on "a guy who came up to me from behind" and "stuck him twice" but denied it was Charles or the 3-year-old.
"I didn't stab anybody," he said. "Stabbing and stuck is two different things."


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STOCKTON - Bonnie Lew is a 68-year-old little girl. Minus the childhood shyness.
STOCKTON - Bonnie Lew is a 68-year-old little girl. Minus the childhood shyness.
Lew had a Mississippi "aw-shucks" moment Monday when she joined Assemblywoman Susan Eggman, D-Stockton, on the floor of the state Legislature to be honored.
Lew, born in San Francisco's Chinatown and raised in rural Mississippi, was recognized as the 13th Assembly District's Woman of the Year.
"It was fabulous," said Lew, almost tongue-tied a day later. "The most magical day of my life. To be in the Assembly hall, to have everybody clapping for you, it was surreal. That's where people make laws and change lives.
"I took civics like everybody else ... it is so ... kinda ... pretty fun."
Last year's Woman of the Year was Linda Jimenez of Tracy.
Both were selected by Eggman, a former member of the Stockton City Council.
"She was humbled by the honor," Eggman said. "Off and on all day, I saw her near tears. She was like 'Oh, my gosh, this is happening to me.' It was an incredible experience to live it through her."
A Stockton resident, Lew retired seven years ago after almost three decades with the Stockton-San Joaquin Public Library system, where she was instrumental in bringing new reading materials to various immigrant groups.
Since then, she has served as president of the board of Jene Wah, a Chinese social-service organization that serves meals, provides classes and offers other assistance for seniors. Ten years ago, she helped found the Chinese Cultural Society of Stockton.
Lew won't admit it, but she has led a remarkable life.
She was born Bonnie Cheung at Chinese Hospital of San Francisco, the only such facility in the United States, on Jan. 25, 1946 - the same day and place as author Judy Yung, who in 2006 included Lew's life story in her book, "Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to Today."
Yung had been the Asian Branch librarian for the Oakland Public Library.
The two women, raised worlds apart and yet with so much in common, had been in the same Chinatown nursery together 60 years before actually meeting. "My mouth drops when I tell that story," Lew said.
In the mid-1950s, Lew's father moved the five-person family to Clarksdale, Miss. A great-uncle made the suggestion, segregation provided the economic opportunity.
"Blacks were not welcome in white grocery stores," Lew said. "So the Chinese, including my dad, opened up grocery stores."
Life in Mississippi for a Chinese child was strange in the extreme.
"I grew up Chinese Southern Baptist," she said. "I was colored in white schools. I had teachers who never looked at me, never called on me. I sucked it up."
She received her undergraduate degrees (English major, American history minor) from nearby Delta State University, a small public college also attended by best-selling author John Grisham.
Lew taught at her high school for two years before deciding, in 1970, to move back to California, enrolling in San Jose State University's library science master's program.
After graduation, an aunt living in Stockton told her about a local job opening.
Lew moved to the Valley and never looked back.
Over time, she rose through the library ranks and was admired for her work obtaining grant funding for books published in other languages. It was a way to introduce first-generation immigrants to reading and American life.
It also was a welcoming gesture to the thousands of newcomers arriving in San Joaquin County in the 1980s from Southeast Asia.
"If we can get kids into the library, their parents will follow," Lew reasoned. "Books provide knowledge, and knowledge is power."
She met and married Bobby Lew in 1972. Their 28-year marriage ended with his death at age 50 in 2000. The couple had no children.
"She was an urban librarian - on the front lines of government, of literacy, of possibilities," Eggman said.
In 2009, Lew's remarkable life became part of a permanent multimedia presentation at the Museum of Chinese in America in Manhattan. Lew flew to New York for a special ceremony.
"I've had a blessed life," she said. "I love Stockton. The city has allowed me to grow. I was a nobody in Mississippi. I was shy. I suppose I had all this stuff suppressed inside of me until I moved to Stockton. I found my voice here. I am so blessed to live in a community that allows me to do the things that make me happy."
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Don Moen has expressed a "huge" thank you to all his fans and friends after reaching 1 million likes on his Facebook. Moen has expressed his gratitude for all the support received through social networks.
To celebrate 1M likes, Moen will be giving away free albums and holding a live chat. The celebration begins June 5, with a 48 hour giveaway of Moen's new record "Hymnbook."
"Hymnbook" is a special collection of hymns that have touched Moen's life over the years.
During his live chat, Moen will be talking about the project and songs. There is a chance that he might perform some of the hymns on the project. During the chat, fans will also have an opportunity to ask questions.
Those who would like to receive a free album, view the live chat, and interact with Don Moen, can sign up HERE.
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Don grew up in Minnesota before moving to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to attend Oral Roberts University. There, his musical gifts caught the eye of Terry Law, who asked Don to join his worship team, Living Sound, which ministered in communist countries throughout Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. For 10 years, Don was responsible for much of the group's arrangements and musical productions, and saw first-hand the power of praise and worship to open closed doors and hearts, and lead enslaved people into the presence of God.
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Street Fair Food at Home: How to Make Frozen Lemonade
My first stop at any street fair during the summer is the frozen lemonade stand. Imagine lemonade, already a refreshing beverage, but frozen and shaved into a soft snowy mound directly in your glass. When the sun is beating down and there are funnel cakes and corn dogs yet to be found, there's nothing better.
Frozen lemonade is a bit different than its cousin, the Lemon Shake-Up. This is more like a granita, and in fact, it technically is a granita. You make a base of squeezed lemonade and sugar syrup, diluted with a little water. Freeze it solid and then use the tines of a fork to shave off enough to fill your cup (or follow Martha Stewart's method and throw it in a blender).
The result is something more intense than regular lemonade. That bright lemony goodness is infused into every tiny crystal. Each frozen mouthful hangs for just a second on your tongue before melting. It really is like eating a handful of lemon-flavored snow.
Slurp it through a straw or take bites with a spoon: either way, refreshment is guaranteed.
Frozen Lemonade
What You Need
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 cups lemon juice from 6-8 lemons
1 1/2 - 2 cups additional water for diluting the lemonade
Measuring cup
Lemon squeezer or wooden reamer
shallow baking pan or pie dish, glass or ceramic (metal will react with the lemon)
A fork
1. Make a Simple Sugar Syrup - Combine 1/2 cup of water and 1/2 cup of sugar in a saucepan. Simmer over medium-high heat just until the sugar dissolves, about three minutes. Set aside to cool.
2. Squeeze the Lemons - While the sugar syrup cools down, squeeze all your lemons. You should end up with about 1 1/2 cups of fresh lemon juice.
3. Sweeten and Dilute the Lemonade - Add 1 1/2 cups of water and 1/4 cup of sugar syrup to the lemon juice. Taste and add more water or sugar syrup to taste. Once frozen, the lemonade will taste less sweet than it does at room temperature, so it's ok to over-sweeten it a little at this point.
4. Freeze the Lemonade - Pour the lemonade into your baking dish. Cover and place the dish in the freezer. Every hour or so, give the lemonade a stir to break up the big ice crystals. Let the lemonade freeze overnight.
5. Serve the Frozen Lemonade - Scrape the tines of a fork across the surface of the frozen lemonade. When you have a good mound of snow, scoop it into a waiting glass. Repeat until your glass is filled, and then enjoy before it starts to melt! Make these glasses "to order," as I find that the snowy texture of freshly shaved ice doesn't hold well in the freezer.
• Ginger Frozen Lemonade - Infuse a few rounds of fresh ginger into the hot sugar syrup. Strain out the ginger before mixing it into the lemonade.
• Arnold Palmer Frozen Lemonade - Infuse two bags of black tea into the sugar syrup. Remove before mixing with the lemonade.
• Strawberry Frozen Lemonade - Hull a pint of strawberries. Blend the strawberries, the lemon juice, and 1/4 cup of sugar syrup in a blender or food processor. Add water or syrup to taste and freeze as directed in the recipe.
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Pino unable to keep ball in yard in loss to Astros
HOUSTON -- Oswaldo Arcia matched Astros slugger Chris Carter with a pair of home runs on Tuesday night at Minute Maid Park. And the Twins equaled the Astros' three home runs.
However, the three Minnesota home runs weren't enough to keep pace with Houston. And a ninth-inning spurt by the Twins wasn't enough in a decisive 10-4 loss to the Astros.View Full Game Coverage
HOUSTON -- Oswaldo Arcia matched Astros slugger Chris Carter with a pair of home runs on Tuesday night at Minute Maid Park. And the Twins equaled the Astros' three home runs.
However, the three Minnesota home runs weren't enough to keep pace with Houston. And a ninth-inning spurt by the Twins wasn't enough in a decisive 10-4 loss to the Astros.View Full Game Coverage
Kennys Vargas and Arcia homered in Minnesota's three-run ninth. But that only delayed the outcome.
"A couple of the kids put the ball in the seats, but we didn't pitch well enough tonight," said Twins manager Ron Gardenhire.
Yohan Pino is probably glad the Astros, and specifically Carter, aren't in the same division as the Twins. The less Pino faces the Houston slugger, the better.
Carter lit up the Minnesota starter with two home runs and five RBIs to even the series at a game apiece.
"He's a good hitter," said Pino (1-5), who didn't get out of the fifth inning. "He has power. I tried to stay away but left them in the middle. I tried to get him to hit ground balls and left them up."
Carter, who has 28 home runs, is on a major power streak. In homering for the second consecutive game, Carter recorded his ninth career multihomer game, and sixth this season to tie a franchise record for single season (Lance Berkman, 2006).
In five games against Minnesota this season, Carter has four home runs and 10 RBIs. Since July 1, Carter leads Major League Baseball in home runs (15), slugging percentage (.732) OPS (1.104) and RBIs (36).
"We've seen Carter do it before," said Gardenhire. "Get those balls up to him and he's going to do that. Pino missed with his pitches, and then we got the kid [Trevor May] in there later and he didn't throw it over too well either, trying to give him some work."
May allowed three runs (two earned) and three hits in 2 1/3 innings.
Jake Marisnick also homered in Houston's 12-hit attack that was more than enough support for Houston starter Collin McHugh (5-9), who allowed only one run and four hits in six innings.
But it was Carter who was the difference maker.
"It's always been there, just hasn't really shown up in the big leagues," said Carter. "It's something I went through in the Minors and I'm happy it's finally showing up here.
"I'm staying with my approach and sticking to it every day. I'm working hard in the cage."
Added Houston manager Bo Porter:
"He's definitely locked in," said Porter. "I've said this many times that when this guy's locked in, he can carry a ballclub. We're witnessing that right now."
Pino allowed the three home runs and seven runs on seven hits in 4 1/3 innings. Carter's three-run shot in Houston's four-run fifth gave the Astros a six-run lead. In the third, Carter's two-run homer had broken a tie.
"I'm fine," said Pino, who struck out seven and walked one. "I'll do my best next time. I don't worry about today."
Before Carter started cranking out the homers, Arcia got one. The right fielder homered in his first at-bat off McHugh. Arcia had been out of the lineup since Friday after tweaking his lower back. His homer to right field was his ninth of the season. He added his 10th, a two-run shot, in the ninth off Mike Foltynewicz, who allowed two homers in his only inning.
It was Arcia's first career multihomer game. Arcia was the only Twin to get two hits.
Joe Mauer, playing in his second game since coming off the disabled list Monday, singled in the first inning to push his hitting streak to a season-high 14 games, and the longest this season by a Twin.
Pino started out well in his 10th career Major League start. The right-hander did not allow a hit through the first two innings, retiring the Astros in order in the first. Marisnick, who had four hits Monday, led off the Houston third with his first home run of the season into the Crawford Boxes in left field.
It wasn't long before things began to unravel for Pino. Four batters later, Carter hammered a Pino offering, giving the Astros a 3-1 lead. Carter's blast to left field scored Jose Altuve, who went 3-for-5 to raise his batting average to .339.
Richard Dean is a contributor to MLB.com.


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Last night I was fortunate enough to be given free tickets to the U2 concert. While I couldn't say that I actually listen to their music, they played all the hits to ensure that every fan and concert goer had a great time.
The music was stops, but i couldn't help thinking about photography the whole time. I found Bono to be incredibly photogenic, every action made was an image to be captured, inspiring awe with each movement. He worked his video cameras well, always found his light and remained animated from beginning to end. No wonder everyone in the audience had their cameras out the entire concert.
At one point of the concert, the 360 stadium turned all it's lights off and Bono asked everyone to whip their mobiles out and to wave them about. I shot the image above with an iPhone 3G, hence the low quality, but you get the picture. The result, creating the milky way!
The video visuals on top of the stage then transformed to show bokeh lights! Again, shot with an iPhone 3G, but I was pretty stoked to witness some bokeh at a major concert:
A pre-made visual of bokeh lights appeared on the circular screens, one of the features of the stage. The bokeh light visuals were used to frame Bono as he performed on stage, creating a magical concert atmosphere. It was a spectacular view from the stands watching the moshpit people waving their lights about.
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text: On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Josip Loncaric wrote: > So, the work/cost optimal policy is roughly this: > > (1) Initially, pick a budget p which you can sustain every 3-4 years > (2) Buy the highest performing system available at price p > (3) Every time you can get about 5x performance at cost p, repeat (2) > > This simple calculation assumes complete equipment replacement at a > fixed budget. The above does not take into account component upgrades > along the way which may extend the useful life of the original > equipment, nor inflation-adjusted budget increases. However, as Robert > has pointed out, software is a moving target, and eventually old > hardware just won't comfortably run new software. > > Each situation is a bit different, but the above "5x performance > upgrades" rule is not a bad choice. > > Sincerely, > Josip > The only really significant modification to the Josip's beautiful math I'd suggest is one associated with hardware reliability. I've encountered two generically different kinds of hardware: a) Hardware that you buy and is almost totally trouble free "forever". An original 1982 IBM PC, for example, was still running when I gave it away to my kid's kindergarten in 1994 or thereabouts. Aside from a single hard drive crash, it had never required any sort of repair. b) #*!&@ hardware that has anything from a single bad component that fails repeatedly to a total bad mix of components that are prone to failure. We've all seen this, some of us by specific brand or configuration. This is hardware that, service contract or not, eats (our) time and (somebody's, possibly our) money like crazy. Josip's budget computation presumes "a" type hardware. The fraction of "b-ness" of any given hardware batch shifts the curve, possibly significantly, towards earlier replacement. We have some node hardware that we are counting the days on, literally, until we can decommission it and stop fixing it when it (regularly, frequently) breaks. It is "severe b" type and breaks repeatedly even when we replace components with new ones (we've nearly totally rebuilt some of the nodes several times with warranty replacement parts and parts we've bought ourselves). One cannot usually justify throwing grant-purchased hardware out and asking for more before the third year is up, but if one wants to get OUT to 3.5 years or more, try very hard to ensure the "a-ness" of your hardware. Another thing to insert is that for reasonably a-like hardware IN its third+ year that still has some use in it (and has somebody else paying for electricity;-) is "eat your dead" -- let nodes fail, use them for spare parts, and gradually let your node count diminish until you cannot be bothered to take the time to mess with node repair out of the boneyard (which happens, believe me). This depends, of course, on having opportunity-cost time available or a systems person with a bit of spare time on their hands. If your operation already saturates your labor pool, it may be better to let failure mean failure after year 3 and just donate the dead to a recycling or charitable organization. rgb Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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