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The Pentagon is about to waste $1.5 trillion, 38% of entire defense budget for a "virtual flying piano". That may sound preposterous, and it is. Unfortunately, it is also true.
Foreign Policy Magazine discusses the sad saga of The Jet That Ate the Pentagon.
This month, we learned that the Pentagon has increased the price tag for the F-35 by another $289 million — just the latest in a long string of cost increases — and that the program is expected to account for a whopping 38 percent of Pentagon procurement for defense programs, assuming its cost will grow no more.
How bad is it? A review of the F-35's cost, schedule, and performance — three essential measures of any Pentagon program — shows the problems are fundamental and still growing.
Although the plane was originally billed as a low-cost solution, major cost increases have plagued the program throughout the last decade. Last year, Pentagon leadership told Congress the acquisition price had increased another 16 percent, from $328.3 billion to $379.4 billion for the 2,457 aircraft to be bought. Not to worry, however — they pledged to finally reverse the growth.
The result? This February, the price increased another 4 percent to $395.7 billion and then even further in April. Don't expect the cost overruns to end there: The test program is only 20 percent complete, the Government Accountability Office has reported, and the toughest tests are yet to come. Overall, the program's cost has grown 75 percent from its original 2001 estimate of $226.5 billion — and that was for a larger buy of 2,866 aircraft.
The total program unit cost for each individual F-35, now at $161 million, is only a temporary plateau. Expect yet another increase in early 2013, when a new round of budget restrictions is sure to hit the Pentagon, and the F-35 will take more hits in the form of reducing the numbers to be bought, thereby increasing the unit cost of each plane.
A final note on expense: The F-35 will actually cost multiples of the $395.7 billion cited above. That is the current estimate only to acquire it, not the full life-cycle cost to operate it. The current appraisal for operations and support is $1.1 trillion — making for a grand total of $1.5 trillion, or more than the annual GDP of Spain. And that estimate is wildly optimistic: It assumes the F-35 will only be 42 percent more expensive to operate than an F-16, but the F-35 is much more complex.
The F-35 isn't only expensive — it's way behind schedule. The first plan was to have an initial batch of F-35s available for combat in 2010. Then first deployment was to be 2012. More recently, the military services have said the deployment date is "to be determined." A new target date of 2019 has been informally suggested in testimony — almost 10 years late.
What Happened?
You can actually blame president Clinton for this debacle. You can also blame every president since Clinton for stupid decisions upon stupid decisions and for not scrapping the program. The sad saga continues …
The design was born in the late 1980s in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon agency that has earned an undeserved reputation for astute innovation. It emerged as a proposal for a very short takeoff and vertical-landing aircraft (known as "STOVL") that would also be supersonic. This required an airframe design that — simultaneously — wanted to be short, even stumpy, and single-engine (STOVL), and also sleek, long, and with lots of excess power, usually with twin engines.
President Bill Clinton's Pentagon bogged down the already compromised design concept further by adding the requirement that it should be a multirole aircraft — both an air-to-air fighter and a bomber. This required more difficult tradeoffs between agility and low weight, and the characteristics of an airframe optimized to carry heavy loads. Clinton-era officials also layered on "stealth," imposing additional aerodynamic shape requirements and maintenance-intensive skin coatings to reduce radar reflections. They also added two separate weapons bays, which increase permanent weight and drag, to hide onboard missiles and bombs from radars. On top of all that, they made it multiservice, requiring still more tradeoffs to accommodate more differing, but exacting, needs of the Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy.
Finally, again during the Clinton administration, the advocates composed a highly "concurrent" acquisition strategy. That meant hundreds of copies of the F-35 would be produced, and the financial and political commitments would be made, before the test results showed just what was being bought.
This grotesquely unpromising plan has already resulted in multitudes of problems — and 80 percent of the flight testing remains. A virtual flying piano, the F-35 lacks the F-16's agility in the air-to-air mode and the F-15E's range and payload in the bombing mode, and it can't even begin to compare to the A-10 at low-altitude close air support for troops engaged in combat. Worse yet, it won't be able to get into the air as often to perform any mission — or just as importantly, to train pilots — because its complexity prolongs maintenance and limits availability.
The Dustbin Awaits
Foreign Policy Magazine arrives at a rational conclusion: "There is only one thing to do with the F-35: Junk it. America's air forces deserve a much better aircraft, and the taxpayers deserve a much cheaper one. The dustbin awaits."
Who supports the program?
Defense Contractors
Defense contractors are at the top of the list. For example, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, and Pratt & Whitney support the F-35.
Please consider this Lockheed Martin Propaganda.
Establishing air superiority in today's complex global security climate requires the unprecedented capabilities and versatility that only the F-35 Lightning II can offer.
And the F-35's strong global partnership and broad industrial base ensures affordability through economies of scale while delivering thousands of technology sector jobs around the world.
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To show you what incredible liars the defense industry has, Lockheed Martin has the gall to claim "economies of scale".
Senator John McCain Supports the Boondoggle
Senator John McCain wants F-35 training in Arizona at Luke Air Force Base.
McCain was presented with the Wing Coin and Chairman's Award by Brig. Gen. Kurt Neubauer, 56th Fighter Wing Commander, and Charley Freericks, Chairman of Fighter Country Partnership's board of directors. The award was given in recognition of McCain being a champion of Luke during his years of public service.
Neubauer thanked McCain for speaking at the gathering of more than 250 Fighter Country Partnership members and guests at the annual meeting. He noted the 27,000 sorties, 35,000 hours of flight, the training of 350 new pilots and 400 crew chiefs that took place at Luke in 2009. He told the crowd that Luke trains 95 percent of all the fighter pilots for the Air Force, and has deployed 600 down range to 17 different countries.
Spirit of Idaho
The Spirit of Idaho organization hopes for training mission in Idaho.
Idaho citizens are second to none in their enthusiastic support for the men and women of our Armed Forces and for their military missions. Hosting the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter would be a great way to continue that tradition while helping to secure the future of Mountain Home Air Force Base and Gowen Field. That's to say nothing of the thousands of great jobs and economic opportunities that having the F-35s here would create. C.L. "BUTCH" OTTER, GOVERNOR
Greed, Graft, Public Unions
In general, states where defense contractors are located, states that will house or train the pilots want the jobs support the F-35. Those states, and politicians in those states do not give a rat's ass about how inept or costly the program is.
The greed, graft, and waste are bad enough as it is. However, no amount of greed, gall, and waste is so great that unions will be satisfied with it.
Please consider Lockheed F-35 workers ready for long strike, union says
Unionized workers on strike against Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) over healthcare benefits and pensions are prepared for a long work stoppage, a top union official said on Tuesday as the company said it would be able to keep operations running.
Nearly 3,650 union workers walked off the job on Monday at the Fort Worth, Texas, plant where Lockheed builds the new F-35 fighter plane and at two military bases where it is tested.
Paul Black, president of the local chapter of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), said three earlier strikes in 1984, 2000 and 2003 lasted from two to three weeks, and union leaders have warned workers the current dispute could take longer to settle.
Workers in the union voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to hit the picket line rather than accept the company's "best and final offer," which called for an end to the defined benefits pension that current workers receive and a switch to a retirement account similar to a 401(k).
The F-35 program deserves to be scrapped because of cost overruns, inept design specs, and poor test results. Yet 3,650 union ingrates were arrogant enough to walk off the job demanding still more money to build this boondoggle.
Every last one of them deserves to lose their job permanently. Let's hope this is the final straw that kills the program.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
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LG K10 USB Drivers Download & Installation Guide: Have you ever tried connecting your LG K10 to one of your computers and realized that it doesn't connect? This issue can be solved by installing the latest LG K10 USB Drivers for your Windows or Mac computer. Here's how to go about doing this:
Things to Consider
- The LG K10 USB Drivers are from LG PC Suite Software. They are official.
- By installing the LG K10 USB Drivers you don't need to install the LG PC Suite on your computer. These drivers are officially provided by LG itself.
- Compatible: LG USB Driver is compatible with Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP (for both 32 and 64 bit).
Before installing new LG K10 drivers, you must first remove, from your computer, any drivers that haven't been completely uninstalled and may be conflicting (or might do so) with the new drivers. To do this, follow the steps below:
- Disconnect your device from your PC.
- Uninstall any previous drivers installed for your phone on your computer.
- Reboot your computer.
Download LG K10 USB Drivers
Installing LG K10 drivers using this method should work in most cases, if not, refer to the next method. This involves drivers only installation, and the next method involves installing drivers through the LG PC Suite software.
Download LG Phone Driver (11 MB) Filename: LG-Mobile-Driver_vx.x.x.x.zip (where x = version number). Click to download Windows LG USB Driver.
- Download the driver setup file from the link above.
- Double-click/run the setup file on your Windows PC and begin the driver's installation.
- Once finished, reboot your PC (Optional).
- Connect your device to the PC, it should now be recognized.
LG K10 USB Drivers for Mac
These drivers are for MAC computers only. Please use the above driver for Windows.
Download LG Phone Driver for MAC(11 MB) Filename: LGMobileMacDriver_vx.x.zip (where x = version number). Click to download Mac LG USB Driver.
- Download the driver setup file from the link above.
- Double-click/run the setup file on your MAC PC and begin the driver's installation.
- Once finished, reboot your MAC (Optional).
- Connect your device to the MAC, it should now be recognized.
LG PC Suite
Install LG PC SUITE for LG K10 — LG's own software for managing your phone on your PC. It will install the proper drivers for your phone.
- Connect your device to your PC.
- Download and install LG PC SUITE → Download link
└ If it asks for downloading additional files while installing, then let it do so.
- Once the installation is finished, your LG device should be working on the PC.
Troubleshooting LG Driver Installation
Follow these steps if you are experiencing any issues while installing the correct drivers for your LG phone via LG PC Suite.
- Open LG PC Suite that you installed above.
- Go to "Tools" and select the "Reinstall device driver" option.
- On the pop-up window, click on "Reinstall" button.
- Select "Yes" on the next pop-up screen to allow the installation of driver
More Troubleshooting Tips
- Connect your phone to a different USB port on your computer.
- Try different USB cables. The original cable that came with your phone should work best, if not — try any other cable that's new and of good quality.
- Reboot computer.
- Try on a different computer.
That's all there is to install the drivers for any LG K10 Device on your computer or laptop. Thanks for reading. You can check out our LG USB Drivers page for more device-specific drivers.
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- LG G Flex 2 USB Drivers
- LG G Pro 3 USB Drivers
- LG G4 Stylus USB Drivers
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Administrative Rule 22 - NORTH DAKOTA ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL
Effective Date: 8/1/2004
Section 1. Authority and Policy.
In accordance with Article VI, Section 3, of the North Dakota Constitution, and consistent with Administrative Rule 2, the Supreme Court adopts this rule establishing the North Dakota Administrative Council.
Section 2. Administrative Council - Membership - Terms.
A. The Administrative Council consists of the Chief Justice, who serves as presiding officer of the Council; one justice of the Supreme Court elected by a vote of the justices; the presiding judge of each judicial district; one district judge from each administrative unit with more than one judicial district who is elected by vote of all district judges of the state; and one member of the State Bar Association appointed by the Chief Justice from a list of three names submitted by the Board of Governors of the State Bar Association of North Dakota.
B. Except for the Chief Justice and presiding judge members, of the members initially elected or appointed and as determined by lot at the first meeting, one member has a three-year term, two members have two-year terms, and two members have one-year terms. Thereafter, each complete term is three years. Each such member may be reelected or reappointed and, if not, serves until the member's successor takes office. In the event a member no longer serves as a justice of the Supreme Court, district judge, or lawyer member of the association, that member is ineligible for membership and a vacancy exists. Vacancies are filled in the same manner as the affected membership is filled. Except for the Chief Justice and the presiding judge of each judicial district, a member may not serve more than two successive terms. A member appointed or elected to an unexpired term less than one-half the duration of a regular term is eligible to serve two full successive terms.
C. Elections for the district judges from the administrative units shall be conducted by the State Court Administrator in a manner similar to Administrative Rule 2, subsection 4, with ballots due by July 20. Terms shall commence on August 1.
D. Each member is entitled to reimbursement at state rates for expenses incurred in attending Council meetings.
Section 3.Administrative Council Duties.
The Council, with the approval of the chief justice, shall:
A. Develop uniform administrative policies and procedures for the trial courts and juvenile courts and make recommendations for their implementation.
B. Review the biennial budget proposals submitted by the trial court administrators for the respective administrative units.
C. Review and approve for submission to the Supreme Court a proposed trial court component of the unified judicial system budget for each biennium.
D. Monitor trial court budget expenditures.
E. Perform other duties as directed by the Chief Justice.
Section 4. Administrative Council Operation.
A. A quorum of the Council is necessary for the Council to take any action. The affirmative vote of a majority of the Council's members present, and the approval of the Chief Justice, is required for final Council action. The Council shall meet at least quarterly.
B. Any proposed Judicial Branch administrative policy must be distributed to all trial court judges and affected personnel for comment. Comments must be received within 30 days after distribution of the proposal. If the proposal requires expedited action, the Council may provide for a shorter comment period or may adopt the policy on an emergency basis subject to comment and final action of the Council.
C. The Office of State Court Administrator serves as the secretariat for the Council and assists in arranging meetings, providing meeting minutes, distributing Council proposals for comment, and providing other assistance as required by the Council.
Section 5. Effective Date.
This rule is effective August 1, 2004, with the exception of Section 2.C., which is effective July 1, 2004.
Dated this 8th day of March, 2004.
Gerald W. VandeWalle, Chief Justice
William A. Neumann, Justice
Mary Muehlen Maring, Justice
Carol Ronning Kapsner, Justice
I dissent. The "judicial reorganization plan" reflected in these rule changes received extensive public comment. Almost all of those who commented, including the Board of Governors of the State Bar Association and most of the district judges, objected to the plan. Although some of the objections may have been met by changes to the plan, it appears most have not.
I would make implementation of the rule changes subject to approval of the North Dakota Judicial Conference.
Dale V. Sandstrom, Justice
Penny Miller
Clerk of the Supreme Court
SOURCE: Council of Presiding Judges, Minutes of July 15, 1994; Administrative Reorganization of the Judicial System, Supreme Court No. 20030098.
[Adopted effective July 1, 1984; amended effective January 1, 1995; amended effective August 1, 2004 with the exception of Section 2.C., which is effective July 1, 2004.]


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Our vibrant and wonderful cases will compliment any outfit or look. Designed to protect your phone from unwanted scratches and marks, our cases not only look great, they're functional too!
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If gravity travels at $c$ (light speed), why aren't objects pulled to Earth at that speed?
Since the velocity of gravity is 9.8 meters per second squared, will it eventually accelerate until it maxes out at $c$ then hold constant?
And if that is the case, then why doesn't the gravitational pull between objects and earth immediately travel at $c$ like photons?
So the acceleration of gravity is 9.8 meters per second squared only on earth.
The gravitational pull is contingent on the body off mass and the distance between the masses.
Gravity waves travel at the speed of light.
So if a gravity wave extending from one primary object of greater mass to another object of lesser mass was to move a lights speed it wouldn't affect the speed or acceleration of the secondary object. the secondary object would just react to the primary object at the speed of light, but the reaction it self is dependent upon the size and distance between them?


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Pewter Bridesmaid Dresses
In weddings today, it is common to see a pewter bridesmaid dress paired with complementary colors such as dark shades of blue, orange, beige, purple, red and golden yellows. The pewter color has a steadying effect on other colors with which it comes into contact. Pewter tones down the stronger and brighter colors and illuminates or brightens the softer ones.
Pewter is considered a neutral shade and it blends well with colors that are solid and definite. This is why many brides have been using it as a neutral base for their weddings. [Continue reading..]
A color somewhere between silver and deep gray, pewter is a rich shade of gray that has very remarkable depth and presence. With gray as the primary color in pewter, the shade is solid and stable, creating a sense of calm and composure, a breath of relief from our everyday hectic world.
Pewter Bridesmaid Dress and Body Shapes
If you have settled on the color pewter for your bridesmaid dresses, it is time to think about the style and design. This could be easy if your bridal party has similar body type. But how about if some of them are curvy while others have wide shoulders and a broad chest?
You may decide to give them a free hand to choose their preferred style and design. Its best for you to give your bridesmaids some guidelines in order help them determine the appropriate style for their body type.
A woman with a pear body shape has hips that is wider than her shoulder, rounded bottom and well-defined waist. Think about the figures of celebrities Kim Kardashian, Katherine Heigl and Eva Mendes. A bridesmaid dress ideal for this shape should have hemlines that slim the thighs and hips and a neckline that accentuate the waist and shoulder.
Some of the styles to try are A-line skirts, strapless and ruffles on top. Cowl, neck tops and square necklines will also do the trick. Additionally, recommend to your bridesmaid to wear pointy-toed shoes to elongate her legs.
A wedge body shape looks like an inverted triangle with wide shoulders and broad chest and narrow waist and hips. Celebrities Demi Moore, Teri Hatcher and Naomi Campbell possess this body shape.
The trick here is for women to find a style that will accentuate their lower body while draw attention away from their upper body. They may wear bottoms in deep gray color, wide-leg pants or full skirts.
Actresses Natalie Portman, Kate Hudson and Cameron Diaz have rectangle body type with similar waist, hip and shoulder widths. A bridesmaid with rectangle body shape can wear a scoop neck or sweetheart neckline to add some curves or collars and ruffles to flatter her chest.
Drew Barrymore, Eva Longoria and Jennifer Hudson are some celebrities who have apple body shape. This body type has narrow hips but broad back, ribs and shoulders. The goal is to lengthen the body by wearing dresses with necklines that elongate the figure. An empire or A-line hem should be a staple for women with apple body shape.
Tiny waist and shoulders and hips that are similar in proportion are the major traits of an hourglass body. Take a look at the curves of celebrities Salma Hayek, Halle Berry and Scarlett Johansson. Creating a balance on the dress style is a must. Keeping an even proportions for a fuller bust, hips and thighs will be achieved with pewter bridesmaid dresses with sweetheart necklines or V-necks.
Lastly, create a streamlined silhouette by choosing a fabric that is high quality and highlights only the best assets of a bridesmaid.


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Have you been to Peter Island Resort & Spa____? Well, I think it's time you take a visit. Need convincing? For starters, it's about 80 degrees and sunny there. (Meanwhile, we New Yorkers are shivering!)
This lush resort is situated on an idyllic private island in the British Virgin Islands, and its spa extends to 10,000 square feet of tranquility on the Atlantic side. This Ayurvedic-inspired spa offers an array of treatments that will transport you to heaven, at least for a couple of hours, that is. And added just last month to the spa menu is the Natura Bissé Diamond Experience Facial, which consists of intense lifting and which redefines the facial contour. Doesn't that sound fabulous? Well, it is! How do I know? Was I at the resort on Peter Island? Sadly, no! So, for those poor souls (like myself) who cannot make it to the Peter Island Resort & Spa, you're in luck, for behind the __Natura Bissé__counter at Bergdorf Goodman is a hidden treatment room. When the door shuts, all department noise dissipates and you are in for a treat.
Marta, the very versed Natura Bissé aesthetician, took me to Peter Island (in essence) with this facial, using all of the Diamond White skin-care line. First, with her welcoming touches of body alignment along with lavender-aroma inhalation, the heavenly face treatment began with a cleansing of the face, neck, and décolleté, followed by the toner's misting, and then the Glyco Extreme Peel was applied—it was so gentle that it didn't tingle! Love that. And while the peel was on, Marta gently massaged my arms and hands using Diamond Experience Body Cream, and then applied some nectar to the face, neck, and chest. Next came the facial massage, concentrating on specific pressure points (this is just about when you will doze off, like I did), and then the Diamond Ice-Lift DNA Cryo-Mask was applied. Again, rhythmic body-alignment touches were performed while the mask was, and the treatment was then finished off with Diamond White S.P.F. 50 and lip balm.
Did my face sparkle like diamonds? You bet it did.
So, if you can make it to Peter Island, see the travel tip below. But if you can't, go see Marta at Bergdorf Goodman at the Natura Bissé counter—you'll be glad you did. (The Spa at Peter Island's Diamond Experience Facial is 90 minutes and starts at $260.)
Travel tip: Fly direct to St. Thomas, where Peter Island has a 40-foot yacht that picks you up. Transfers to and from St. Thomas are now on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and Tuesdays. Make sure your flight arrives before 3 p.m. in order to make it in time for the yacht.


text: I've been experimenting with charts on my iPhone and I know others are using them on their iPads. Could a check-box option be added to VSP to generate charts with red stars on a black background? It's not that hard to load them in Photoshop or whatever and change the colors, but it's an additional step. Plus, guys like me could generate charts from their iPhone and eliminate the middle man of emailing them to ourselves, or going through iTunes. I suspect more and more people will be using charts this way.


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What Has Government Done to Our Money? and The Case for the 100 Percent Gold Dollar
Author: Murray N. Rothbard
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 191
Language: English
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Release Date: September 20, 2005
The Mises Institute is pleased to present this very beautiful hardbound edition of Rothbard's most famous monetary essay--the one that has influenced two generations of economists, investors, and business professionals. The Mises Institute has united this book with its natural complement: a detailed reform proposal for a 100 percent gold dollar. The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar was written a decade before the last vestiges of the gold standard were abolished. His unique plan for making the dollar sound again still holds up. Some people have said: Rothbard tells us what is wrong with money but not what to do about it. Well, by adding this essay, the problem and the answer are united in a comprehensive whole. After presenting the basics of money and banking theory, he traces the decline of the dollar from the 18th century to the present, and provides lucid critiques of central banking, New Deal monetary policy, Nixonian fiat money, and fixed exchange rates. He also provides a blueprint for a return to a 100 percent reserve gold standard. The book made huge theoretical advances. He was the first to prove that the government, and only the government, can destroy money on a mass scale, and he showed exactly how they go about this dirty deed. But just as importantly, it is beautifully written. He tells a thrilling story because he loves the subject so much. The passion that Murray feels for the topic comes through in the prose and transfers to the reader. Readers become excited about the subject, and tell others. Students tell professors. Some, like the great Ron Paul of Texas, have even run for political office after having read it. Rothbard shows precisely how banks create money out of thin air and how the central bank, backed by government power, allows them to get away with it. He shows how exchange rates and interest rates would work in a true free market. When it comes to describing the end of the gold standard, he is not content to describe the big trends. He names names and ferrets out all the interest groups involved. Since Rothbard's death, scholars have worked to assess his legacy, and many of them agree that this little book is one of his most important. Though it has sometimes been inauspiciously packaged and is surprisingly short, its argument took huge strides toward explaining that it is impossible to understand public affairs in our time without understanding money and its destruction.


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On Election Day, as Donald Trump raged on Twitter about revolution, Nate Silver took an opportunity to pitch his book, and an 18-year old girl vowed to move to Australia "because their president is a Christian and actually supports what he says," Twitter's servers were handling a surge of 327,452 "tweets" per minute, according to Mazen Rawashdeh, Twitter's VP of Infrastructure Operations Engineering. In total, there were 31 million "election-related" posts to Twitter over the course of the day, and the traffic continued to periodically spike—at one point reaching 15,107 tweets per second.
Part of the reason Twitter was able to sustain the unprecedented continuous spikes in traffic, Rawashdeh said in Twitter's engineering blog, was a set of changes the company's operations team has been making over the past year in Twitter's infrastructure—including a move away from the Ruby web scripting language and runtime engine that Twitter was built on, and toward code (a combination of Ruby, Java and Scala code) running on a server-side Java Virtual Machine , while at the same time continuing to tweak Ruby's runtime for more performance.
Twitter has largely run on a modified version of Ruby, called Ruby Enterprise Edition, since 2009. But the interpreter for Ruby has put heavy loads on the processors of Twitter's servers, partially because of its "garbage collection"—the task of reclaiming memory from processes that have ended. Twitter's developers have continued to try to optimize Ruby's garbage collection to squeeze more performance out of the runtime, developing their own garbage collector called Kiji. But the company has also begun to move its development efforts away from Ruby and onto Java.
"As part of our ongoing migration away from Ruby," Rawashdeh said, "we've reconfigured the service so traffic from our mobile clients hits the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) stack, avoiding the Ruby stack altogether."


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1. Chewing on Ice - Munching on hard, frozen cubes can chip or even crack your teeth.
2. Playing Sports With No Mouth Guard - Whether you play football, hockey, or any other contact sport, don't get in the game without a mouth guard. This is a piece of molded plastic that protects the upper row of teeth.
3. Bedtime Bottles - Giving a baby a bedtime bottle of juice, milk, or formula, can put new teeth on a path to decay as baby's teeth will bath in sugars overnight. Make a habit to keep baby bottles out of the crib.
4. Tongue Piercings – maybe trendy, but biting down on the metal stud can crack a tooth. (same for lip piercing)
5. Grinding Teeth - Teeth grinding, or bruxism, can wear teeth down over time. It is most often caused by stress and sleeping habits.
6. Cough Drops - Most are loaded with sugar, be sure to brush well after you take the drops. Then bacteria in the plaque convert the sugar into an acid that eats away at tooth enamel, creating cavities!
7. Soda - Sodas can have up to 11 teaspoons of sugar per serving. Watch out cavities!
8. Opening Stuff With Your Teeth - Using your teeth as tools can cause them to crack or chip. A wrong bite on the bottle cap will send you to our office in a jiffy!
9. Drinking Coffee - Coffee's dark color and acidity can cause yellowing of the teeth over time. Talk to Dr. Bergan on the latest whitening packages available in office and take home.
10. Smoking - tobacco products can stain teeth and cause them to fall out as a result of gum disease. Tobacco can also cause cancer of the mouth, lips, and tongue. Call office of Dr. Alina Bergan at 800-223-0801 to setup your cancer screening appointment! You can also schedule online at http://www.alinabergandds.com/appointments/


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So who doesn't love the weekend and free music? We dig both and want to share the love. PopWreckoning is proud to present 'Free Music Friday' — we'll give you a quick rundown on a band and have an mp3 streaming and available for download. We think it's a solid idea and hope you do, too!
Juliette Commagére
Juliette Commagére of LA outfit Hello Stranger will be releasing her first solo effort, Queens Die Proudly, on October 24th through Aeronaut Records. Joining her are Ry and Joachim Cooder, as well as up-and-coming songwriter & brother, Robert Francis.
She's already toured with the Foo Fighters and now she's got residencies with the likes of Joachim and Petra Haden in LA and NYC. Listen to the title track from her forthcoming album.
"Queens Die Proudly" (download)
Whales and Cops
We just reviewed Whales and Cops' EP, but it should be pretty obvious by now that we love anything with any sort of relation to Philadelphia's Man Man, and since Whales and Cops boasts former members of the chaotic rock group as well as a similar sound , we're enamored.
Today, we're bringing you "Bosuns of the Yard," a heavily electronic track with lots of beeps and boops layered under deep, raspy vocals reminiscent of their former act.
"Bosuns of the Yard" (download)
Emanuel and the Fear
Here we have a newly recorded track from Emanuel and the Fear's debut album. The Brooklyn ten-piece lists influences from John Coltrane to The Shins to Daft Punk. This tune is a bit mellow but some electronic flourishes and a lovely violin and flute melody.
"Alright (We're All)" (download)
Nicole Atkins & the Sea
Rock and roll chanteuse Nicole Atkins lent a previously unreleased track to the Choke soundtrack. PopWreckoning fell in love with Nicole at Austin City Limits and we're pretty sure you'll dig her, too. This song is pretty sultry, fitting for Choke, and shows off a bit of Nicole's darker side.
"Crystal Ship" (download)
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Hopefully fans will support this item... which is what needs to be done in order to hopefully get some new vehicles/playsets made.
With Target being the new home of 12-13.00 single figures and a recent $40.00 Tie Fighter, $60.00 for a BIG ship and two figures would be more than a little out of character.They do keep their battle packs to a decent price...
Pessimism or realism?
$60 for a shuttle plus figs as a bonus is totally worth it. Even if it didn't come with figures I think it's a bargain. I'll be picking one of these up for sure if the rumors turn out to be true.
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What a great weekend! This weekend we traveled to Arizona for a double wedding reception! It was a great weekend and we had so much fun! I love being in the sun and basking in the heat!
We had an AMAZING dinner at Citizen Public House. Wow, great service, delicious food and amazing drinks. I had the Chopped Salad, which has it's own facebook page, and let me tell you, not being a salad eater, it was amazing! Yum. Then the next day we went to breakfast and I had researched the Hall of Flame, which is a firefighter museum in Phoenix. They have so much stuff there to look at and B was in heaven! The history and how they honor many of the fallen fire fighters is really great. It was really a fun little adventure.
It was actually the Open House for the museum so it was actually free! Random, we didn't even know that! There were some special exhibits that were there because of the open house like Sparky and the helicopter so that was really cool. We hung out at the pool for a while after we visited the fire museum and then it was time to get ready for the wedding! I was so excited to wear the bridesmaid dress from my own wedding! :) I absolutely love the dress, and couldn't wait for this wedding to wear it! B also wore the tie he wore for the wedding as well. Ahhhh how special. :)
It was actually a BEAUTIFUL evening and the wedding was SO pretty! I was so happy that we got to make out there and we had so much fun. Overall, a great weekend full of love!
I did get some running in and I will update everyone on the status of running and working out. B and I made a new pact together and I will blog about it tomorrow!


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Vanessa Williams' upcoming memoir exposes dark details from her past.
The actress recalls being molested by a family friend when she was just 10 years old — an incident that haunted her for years.
Excerpts from the book, "You Don't Know," published in the current issue of People Magazine, reveal how a typical trip to a family friend's California home took a sobering turn.
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It began when Susan, the family's 18-year-old daughter entered Williams' room.
"She told me to lie down on the rug ... I was confused. Are we going to play a game?" she writes. "As I tried to make sense of it, Susan pulled down the bloomers of my cotton baby-doll pajamas. 'What are you doing?' I asked."
Susan told her not to tell anyone. For years she didn't.
"I didn't really understand until college," Williams said. "I was with my boyfriend and it hit me and I blurted out: 'Oh my God -- I was molested.'"
"After that trip I felt something change in me," she said. "I had always been defiant, but I became a bit more rebellious. I began to pull away from my parents."
Still, the 49-year-old star who moved on to record chart-topping R&B albums and establish a successful acting career, says the event didn't paralyze her.
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It was a low point in a painful year that also included the assassination of President John Kennedy and the murder of NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers.
Now, 50 years after the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., on Sept. 15, 1963, the four little girls who died in the blast are seen as martyrs whose deaths changed history.
Addie Mae Collins, 14, Cynthia Wesley, 14, Carole Robertson, 14, and Denise McNair, 11, were in a basement restroom, preparing to enter a church assembly, when the bomb went off. The blast came from dynamite placed under the steps of the church by members of a Ku Klux Klan group. The girls' bodies were found in the rubble. Addie Mae's sister, Sarah Collins Rudolph, lost an eye.
The blast cleanly blew out a depiction of Jesus' face from a stained-glass window, according to a National Park Service account.
In life, Cynthia Wesley excelled in math. Addie Mae Collins had been a budding artist. Denise McNair, a friend of Condoleezza Rice, who would become secretary of State, raised money for charity by staging plays and poetry readings. Carole Robertson earned straight A's.
On Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner awarded a posthumous Congressional Gold Medal to the four girls. It will be kept at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Democratic Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama, who introduced the legislation that led to the award, presented medals to relatives of the girls at a ceremony at the church Friday.
"I question where I would be today without the influence of the four little girls, but more importantly, I question where America would be," Sewell said. "The premature and senseless deaths of these girls awakened the slumbering conscience of America and galvanized the civil rights movement."
Klan member Robert Chambliss was identified by a witness as having placed the bomb. He initially received a six-month jail sentence for possession of dynamite without a permit. Years later, Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley discovered evidence that the FBI had withheld and won a conviction of Chambliss in 1977. The sentence was life in prison; he died in 1985. Bobby Cherry, convicted in 2002, died in prison in 2004. Thomas Blanton, convicted in 2001, is in prison in Springfield, Ala. Suspect Herman Cash was never charged; he died in 1994.
The bombing is considered a bellwether that woke people up to the peril of the battle for civil rights. Eight-thousand people attended the funeral for the four girls. No city officials were there. The nationwide reaction to the incident helped lead to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
From awards to simple words, officials and friends say the children gave their lives to help move society forward.
The church, designed by Alabama's only black architect in the late 1800s, has been host to such notables as actor and activist Paul Robeson and educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune. It has been observing events of reflection on the bombing, including a symposium with the U.S. Conference of Mayors and a worship service led by Julius Scruggs, president of the National Baptist Convention. A sculpture honoring the girls was unveiled in Birmingham.
On Friday, the Hallmark Channel will show The Watsons Go to Birmingham, a fictional story about a family visiting Birmingham and how it copes with the aftermath of the bombing. Writer and producer Tonya Lewis Lee spent time in Birmingham and at the 16th Street Baptist Church as she prepared for the film, which was 10 years in the making.
Protesting could be violent and dangerous work in the city of notorious police commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, who used fire hoses and attack dogs on peaceful demonstrators, yet children were often at the center of Birmingham's protest movement as they took part in the Children's Crusade, organized by Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
"I think there's something really special and strong and resilient about people who come from Birmingham," said Lee, whose husband, Spike Lee, directed 4 Little Girls, a 1997 Oscar-nominated documentary about the bombing. "That city really pushed America forward, and so I hope people understand that the Children's Crusade and other events really were amazing. And I hope young people come away with that if they see something they don't like in their community, they can use their voices to make a difference."
Katharine Rhodes Henderson, president of Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City, said forgiveness is the lesson society must take from the memory of the blast.
"The day Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, Addie Mae Collins and Denise McNair were killed, the Sunday school Bible lesson came from Matthew: 'For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,' " Henderson said. "As Dr. King knew, when we turn our cheek away from retaliation and revenge, we turn our spirits to spreading the seeds of understanding, acceptance and love."
Carolyn McKinstry, who was a friend of the four girls and was at the church the morning of the bombing, went on to lead tours of the church and talk about that day. As she guides tourists toward the back, where the blast happened, they see a stained glass window depicting a black Christ with outstretched arms beneath a rainbow. The window was a gift from the children of Wales, who donated money toward creation of the window.
On McKinstry's website is a message:
"Yes, we all remember the dark and difficult days of 1963, not just in Birmingham but in many places across the nation," she writes, saying that Birmingham wept and prayed after the four girls died.
"During their memorial service, Dr. Martin L. King told us that unmerited suffering was redemptive. The death of these four young girls might well serve as a redemptive force for our nation and the world.' "
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For the past 10 years, MacArthur has supported research and design experiments to understand the implications for education of young people's use of digital media. A new approach, Connected Learning, has emerged as a powerful way to connect fragmented spheres of a young person's life—interests, academic and work opportunities, and peer culture. The Foundation has determined that real scale and spread of Connected Learning requires a new, more diverse set of investors and partners; alternative funding models and mechanisms; and a more entrepreneurial and innovative way of operating than is possible as a foundation program. In October of 2015, MacArthur launched Collective Shift, a new, independent nonprofit organization whose initial goal is broad adoption of the principles, practices, and products of Connected Learning. Grants that do not specifically relate to this new development will come to a close over the next two to three years.
MacArthur has invested in education since 1980, but direct investment in schools met with mixed results and few clear successes. In the 1990s, we awarded more than $40 million in grants in Chicago, working to develop more skilled teachers and better principals. In 2000, we sought national impact with The Learning Partnership, a $40 million school district reform initiative in Chicago, Minneapolis and Baltimore. Three years into that effort, numerous superintendents had cycled through the three districts with little improvement in students' educational experiences or performance.
In 2004, we decided to consider alternative paths. Instead of focusing on schools and school districts, we turned our attention to how young people were learning outside school. Digital media and the Internet seemed to be sparking new ways of creating, sharing and organizing knowledge.
We decided to investigate this topic. Site visits, a literature review and modest exploratory grants suggested that it would be a promising area to work in. In June 2005, the MacArthur Foundation Board established Digital Media and Learning as a new grantmaking area, which launched in 2006.
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In this phase, we focused on inquiry and raising awareness. We wanted to understand how learning is changing as a result of digital media, and asked:
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The first phase of the work exceeded our expectations. Research we funded received widespread attention; we established a research hub at the University of California, Irvine, which has become a vibrant intellectual center; programs such as YOUmedia Chicago, Quest to Learn, and the Hive learning networks in New York and Chicago generated significant interest from schools, other learning institutions, and government; and MacArthur was acknowledged as a leader in a new field. This success persuaded us to launch a second phase in September 2009.
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In this phase, we made a transition from exploration, research and raising awareness to a goal of influence and impact. We began supporting a number of demonstration sites to test and scale the concepts of Connected Learning, the program's framework for reimagining learning for the digital age. In an effort to capture learning in informal settings, the Digital Media and Learning program also funded the development of an innovative new online credentialing tool called digital badges. Digital badges represent skills, interests, and achievements earned by an individual through specific projects, programs, courses, or other activities. The belief was that digital badges could help make learning that takes place in museums, libraries, and afterschool programs more visible, and by doing so, connect these experiences to each other and to classroom activities.
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One promising approach that has emerged over the past two years is Cities of Learning. This growing national movement seeks to transform the learning landscape in a city by using badges to connect in- and out-of-school learning, and highlight alternative pathways to academic, civic, and career success. The goal of Cities of Learning is to create the conditions necessary for Connected Learning to take root and spread. Data gathered through badges will help provide a more holistic view of what a young person is learning, where they engage in learning, what they are interested in, and whether city resources are distributed equitably to offer learning programs where they are needed most.
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Foundation funded research includes ethnographic studies, surveys, interdisciplinary research networks—one on youth and participatory politics and another on connected learning—and other projects that examine what young people are doing online, their views on such activities, and the knowledge, skills, and competencies they are gaining.
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To continue building the digital media and learning field and spread new approaches to learning, the grant portfolio includes the MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning and the MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning. A website with resources and research related to connected learning and the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub, an international research center at the University of California, Irvine, are additional resources for the field. Grants also support the local and national design and implementation of Cities of Learning.
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MacArthur supports experimentation in several types of institutions—libraries, museums, schools, community centers, afterschool programs—to demonstrate what connected learning could look like in action. These include:
- Hive Learning Networks are open, connected networks of institutions and organizations in cities that seek to create opportunities for youth to explore their interests across institutions in both digital and physical spaces. Currently active in Chicago, New York City, and Pittsburgh—with other locations under development—Hives fund innovative youth programming through public-private partnership support.
- Quest to Learn is an innovative school model—with campuses in New York City and Chicago— developed in response to growing evidence that digital media and games offer powerful models for reconsidering how and where young people learn. Quest schools are designed to bridge old and new literacies, with students working through a challenge-based curriculum.
- YOUmedia—which first opened at the Chicago Public Library's downtown Harold Washington Library Center in 2009—is an innovative teen space for engagement and learning based on MacArthur-supported research. Expansion to other libraries, museums and community-based organizations around the country is supported by funds from the Foundation and the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Digital Media and Learning Competition
To encourage innovation and provide resources for new learning environments, the Foundation funds the Digital Media and Learning Competition. Administered by HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory), and supported by a grant to the University of California, Irvine, the competition invites U.S. and international participants to compete for grant awards for domestic and international projects that use digital or new media as platforms for connected learning. The most recent competition supported teams of practitioners and designers to develop innovative digital badge systems, data management platforms, digital learning environments, online learning content and related digital tools to promote trust in connected learning experiences.
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Bringing Connected Learning innovations, its principles, practices and products to scale quickly will require new partners—public and private—for a wide range of purposes. Scale and sustainability will require new levels and new types of investment. We believe that the best way to achieve these goals is to experiment with a new organizational model that can attract a more diverse set of partners and investors, explore alternative funding models and mechanisms, and accommodate a more entrepreneurial and innovative approach to philanthropy. The Foundation created a new nonprofit organization to scale Connected Learning in October of 2015. Over the next few years, the Foundation will continue funding select research, policy advocacy, and community building activities to ensure the long-term sustainability and impact of the Foundation's investments in the digital media and learning field.
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Indianapolis Archdiocese's Catholic Charities assists the displaced. The local St. Francis Xavier Church survived the storms and serves as a command center.
Indiana Catholics are committed to helping victims recover from the March 2 outburst of tornadoes that killed at least 13 people in the southern part of the state.
Jane Crady, the disaster response coordinator for Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, has visited several of the worst-hit areas. She said the devastation is comparable to that witnessed in the first day of Hurricane Katrina.
National Weather Service coordinator Bill Whitlock reported "extreme damage" in the area of Henryville, a town of about 3,000 people, while the local sheriff's office described the town of Marysville, population 1,900, as "completely gone."
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Henryville's St. Francis Xavier Church and its community center were among the few buildings left standing in the area, making it the logical command station for response personnel.
Greg Otolski, the archdiocese's director of communications, said that the church building suffered roof damage but no structural damage. It held Mass on Sunday, despite the disaster.
The parish was holding its Lenten fish fry when the storms hit and ended up using the food to feed disaster-response personnel, Otolski said.
He noted that many people lost their workplaces and businesses as well as their homes. He asked that others pray for these victims.
"It's going to take quite a while for people to get back on their feet," he said.
Many parishes in the Henryville area are already working together to do cleanup, to take in newly homeless families, and to provide necessities for victims.
"They're already taking care of their own neighbors," Otolski said, noting that support from those outside the disaster zone has been "pretty overwhelming."
Crady said it's too early for volunteers to sign up for Catholic Charities' relief work. She estimated volunteers will be needed in at least three to four weeks, when rebuilding efforts begin.
Churches in the archdiocese have held collections at Mass for the victims. Donations to Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis will target those without insurance or money.
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Today, Konami announced that the Xbox 360 version of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has been slashed, cut, and cancelled. Only the PS3 version will be released in Japan.
The studio apologized to those gamers looking forward to the Xbox 360 version, but did not give a reason as to why it had been canned.
No word on how this impacts the Western release of the game.
Update: Konami tells Eurogamer that Rising will still be released on Xbox 360 in the West.
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