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I used to think I looked young for my age. Others might have actually thought it too, as I got "carded" well into my 30s. Lately though, when I see photos of myself, I notice deep lines that I don't remember seeing before. It could just be normal aging, I suppose, but that's the thing about having had breast cancer twice — it changes how you think about everything. When I look at my face, I see the line from the twelfth biopsy, or the splotches from my six months of chemo. And there are new circles under my eyes, the result of the lack of sleep during those years.
I really think the moment you find out you have cancer is a bit like finding out there is no Santa (but worse). Your world grows up in a new and scary way. You lose your innocence, and you have the ability to recognize it in others. Whenever I see someone who I know is going through breast cancer treatment, I try to gauge whether she would want me to say hello or give her a word of encouragement. I am a breast cancer cheerleader of sorts. I want to say, "See my long hair? I was bald in 2002 and most of 2003! Look at me now." Or I could tell her, "I know this chemo thing is really a drag, but hopefully, you will be cancer-free sometime soon and back to your old life this time next year."
Not too long ago, I was at the airport and saw a young girl much like me, with a child and the bald head and telltale scarf and hat. "Are you going through chemo?" I inquired. "I had it too. And you are going to be fine." She thanked me for saying something and told me that it made her feel better. She was almost finished with chemo, then due for surgery and radiation.
It's a balancing act for me because I really respect people's privacy. I always try to put myself in their position to see if I would want a stranger to talk to me. Of course, having someone ask me when I was "due" six months after I had given birth and lost all my pregnancy weight reminds me to choose judiciously who I speak to. I spend a lot of time trying to read someone's energy before I speak out.
I am currently awaiting my follow-up blood work. I always feel the same way while my blood sits in a random lab somewhere reacting to the test: I think I am fine, and I believe there's no point in wasting energy on worry. I know that whatever the test results say, I will be fine either way. If the cancer has stayed away again (this time I am two and a half years out), I will be extra-grateful. But if it came back, I would fight it, just like I've done twice before.
I have so much to live for. But I still feel old this week.
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Sometimes, yours truly gets to do cool things. In case you want to do cool things, too, here's a step-by-step guide for making said things happen.
Today's lesson: How to Sit For a Portrait. We'll cover everything from finding an artist to getting through the session.
Pencils up? Let's go!
1. Through an amazing stroke of luck, find yourself employed by a top-tier animation studio.
2. Spend 4 or 5 months marveling at your luck, keeping your eyes down and speaking to no one lest you do something to wake up from this wonderful lucid dream.
3. Finally work up the nerve to start talking to people. Start with the dude you always seem to end up riding up 5 floors with in the elevator.
4. Chide self for thinking that the Bo Burnham lyric "…and f*cked her in an elevator…It was wrong on so many levels…" Is the funniest ish in the world.
5. Initiate sarcastic conversation about the peanut butter and jelly sandwich your elevator-mate is holding.
6. Wonder if maybe you shouldn't be such a fucking bitch and maybe try starting conversations with "Hey, I'm TOE, I've seen you around…what's your name" instead.
7. Take Artist's lack of response as confirmation that you are a fucking bitch, ignoring any possibility that maybe Artist is shy or distracted or thinking about something, I don't know, related to his life and not sitting around waiting for you to make some lame joke about sandwich crusts.
8. Wonder why so many kids want the crusts cut off sandwiches. The crusts really don't taste any different from the rest of the bread.
9. Put the desire to rationalize with beings whose frontal lobes haven't fully developed on to your list of reasons to not have kids.
10. Repeat awkward elevator rides for a few more months.
11. Finally determine you have a legitimate reason to talk to Artist because Artist is friends with the guy who dresses entirely in Victorian Era clothing and you need to be introduced.
12. Enjoy this new, albeit sometimes quiet collection of friends.
13. Go to a meeting of the Whisky Society at work.
14. Feel awkward there. Probably because you made the same lame jokes instead of just relating to people as human beings.
15. Miss going to Artist's goodbye party because you have a show that night.
16. Be surprised as f when six months later, you see Artist back at the studio.
17. Assume that when Artist says "Good to see you, we should hang out!" that he's lying.
18. Have lunch with Artist anyway.
19. Learn that Artist has joined the Whisky Society at work.
20. Wonder if this might be a way back in to getting to sample some amazing amazing bottles.
21. Discover that yes, it is.
22. Attend artist's birthday party.
23. Sample from too many amazing amazing bottles.
24. When discussing the other portraits in Artist's home, mention that you did figure modeling in college.
25. Enjoy the fact that because this isn't super conservative Texas, the creatives in the room understand that yes you were naked, but no, it wasn't all creepy and/or sexual and that you weren't causing your brothers to stumble. You were just helping people make art to the tune of a very good hourly rate.
26. The next day, wonder if you remember correctly that you said you'd pose for Artist.
27. See Artist at work. Confirm suspicions.
28. Send an awkward email asking if the third pour of cask strength Laphroaig caused you to say that you'd pose nude.
29. Learn that it didn't.
30. Exhale.
31. Wonder if Artist is just following up on said portrait session to be polite.
32. Decide to go along with it anyway.
33. Gain 3 pounds. Of course.
34. When asked, say that yes, white truffle oil pizza and duck confit salad sound just fine even though you've never had either.
35. Haul your costume choices upstairs.
36. Discover that you don't like truffle oil or duck. Try to hide this fact from Artist who loves the shit out of both and got this food as a nice gesture, you cultureless ingrate.
37. Marvel at the amount of preparation Artist goes through before painting. Realize you never knew that many different kinds of brushes existed and that you've never seen oil paint except on already-mounted pieces in museums. Wonder if you're this diligent about your art. Think that it's neat that this rough and tumble dude can make really pretty things with his hands. Wish there was a way to cut through small talk bullshit and get right to this part of a friendship from the first time you meet in an elevator.
38. Watch Downton Abbey while Artists paints.
39. Wonder why the effing eff you've never seen this miracle of television programming before. Seriously, it's like the producers took all the things you love about life–including Laura Linney–and put them into one fantastic show handcrafted just for you.
40. In between episodes enjoy the sounds of brush on linen and cars on street.
41. Decide that this would make a great one-act play where the audience is forced to watch two actors be very still and to create all the movement and action in dialogue and acting alone.
42. Hope you're not being vain by wanting to see the final thing.
43. See the final thing.
44. Gasp.
45. Hope that it's possible that you sometimes look that lovely.
46. Finally feel confident in a friendship.
47. Ruin that bit of maturity by checking Aritst's post of the picture to make sure that people are saying that not only is the painting gorgeous, but so is the model.
48. No really, truffle oil tastes like poop. How can anyone disagree??
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At the 2009 Very Large Databases Conference, Peter Boncz, Stefan Manegold, and Martin L. Kerstenand have been named as recipients of the VLDB "10 Year Best Paper Award" for the paper Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access.
The paper addresses the evolution of computer architecture and the problems that database programs face due to their legacy architecture hitting the so-called "memory wall." It describes new ways in which databases should be organized internally to optimize the use of CPU caches. The paper pioneered much of the subsequent research into data processing techniques that optimize the use of modern computer architecture, such as CPU cache and SIMD instructions. It has also brought new attention and recognition to column stores, specifically in the context of MonetDB, an open-source database system for high-performance applications in data mining, OLAP, GIS, XML Query, text and multimedia retrieval. MonetDB often achieves a speed improvement for SQL and XQuery over other open-source systems.
"I am very honored to receive this prestigious award, together with my CWI colleagues Martin Kersten and Stefan Manegold, which validates our work on the use of columnar data storage and in making database systems much more computationally efficient on modern hardware," said Boncz. "Our subsequent research, which led to VectorWise, has since further improved these techniques and coupled them with many new innovations that allow us now to scale such efficient query processing to terabyte scales on a single database server."
VectorWise is a spin-off of the database research team at the CWI Institute of Amsterdam. VectorWise is working exclusively with Ingres to bring this technology to market. The Ingres VectorWise project lets developers take advantage of advances in modern processor and storage hardware using SQL. It's believed that these developments will enable the next generation of business applications to integrate the instant analysis of vast amounts of business data with mission critical transaction processing. Data management technology based on the Ingres VectorWise project should allow businesses to manage their current data at highly reduced costs, or to scale up their database workloads to perform data analysis tasks that were previously not feasible. Initial results show that the Ingres VectorWise project achieves more than 10x performance gains.


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I have installed the audiostream package "audiostream-0.1-justdave" and it worked quite fine after having configured it correctly.
As streaming source I used ezstream and it also worked nice - at least for some time.
So the setup was:
- one instance of icecast
- 3 instances of ezstrem
running on freesco 0.3.6
After quite some days eventually one of the ezstream instances was restarted every night - withot having a cronjob running to do this.
Trying to find the reason for that I stopped all ezstream instances and the icecast server and restarted them manually.
Everything seemed to work fine but one of the ezstream instances shut down after abou 20 minutes.
Couldn't get it up running reliable again.
The strange thing was that from then on the other ezstream instances were also restarted every night - and the icecast server too.
The strange thing is that nothing was changed in the configuration.
Does anyone know why (and eventually where managed) the icecast and ezstream instances get restarted every night eventhough no cronjob is active to do so.
Another strange thing after the first restart was, that the the webpage didn't show anymore the three streams as it has done before the restart.
Once I logged in at the webpage as an admin I could see and access the streams - will say listen to the music.
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August 27-30, 2020 - F_CK FEST Part 4
This weekend is dedicated to our Exhibitionists and Voyeurs. Come and play in the open and enjoy the freedom to do as you want in our 60+ Acre campground. Last Year Marv (the owner) gave away free weekends to a couple he saw f_cking the most through out our campground. Don't miss out on the action packed weekend of a lifetime.
We're having another one of our infamous 'Foam Parties'. Come on out and join us for many Adult party games.
A Big Surprise Awaits
It's all over Facebook.....Brian and Alicia are bringing a 12 person hot-tub.. Come out for our wildest Fest ever.
Theme Nights for F_CK FEST 4 include:
Thursday - Sexy Pajamas wear your sexy sleep wear! Silk, satin, and lace! Friday - Naughty School Girl / Boy Night! Saturday - Bare as you dare glow night! Think flourescent colors! Glow Sticks!
Instructions to make your Reservation:
All chalet rentals are available for two-nights or three-nights with additional nights at an event rate.
Check-out time is 12 noon. If you stay past that time, you are charged for an additional night.
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Event + Primitive Camping (white ticket): Choose this option even if you do not intend to tent camp. Primitive Camping is free with your paid Event fee but feel free to upgrade to any of the Additional Options listed in Step 2.
Day Pass Tickets are for those of you who would like to check out the party on Friday night only. Saturday Night Day Passes are available for purchase. Both sold at gate.
Weekend Pass Tickets are for those of you who would like to check out the party each night but not stay overnight. This ticket is valid for Friday and Saturday only; sold at gate.
Step 2:
Select Additional Options:
Full Hook-up: This is a site that has both Electric and Water. Select sites also have a sewer drop. Please specify if you require sewer when making your reservation. Qty of 1 is for your entire stay of an event.
Electric: Sites with electric only. We currently offer 30 and 50 amp services. Please specify what amp service you will need. Qty of 1 is for your entire stay of an event.
Chalet: Rent this 12' x 16' chalet right on the pond - choose from Shadow or Southern and enjoy the views from your own front porch! Qty of 1 is for your entire stay of an event.
The Honey Moon Suite & Marv's Retreat are 14' X 24' and have 1 King bed with mirrored Canopy, shower, Handicapped stool, air conditioning, sink, refrigerator, microwave, cloth closet. Carpet in the living area & Vinyl in the bathrooms. 2 Night Minimum. They both have porches overlooking the lake.
Cabin: 12' x 12' of rustic luxury. Choose from Hillbilly Holler or Ole/Lena (sleeps two comfortably). Qty of 1 is for your entire stay of an event.
Wood: Pre pay for the wood you think you'll need and we'll deliver it to your site as needed. Select the Qty of loads you want.
Ice: Order your 6lb bags of ice now and we'll drop it off as you need it! It's easy & convenient! Select the Qty of bags you want.
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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
What is an aspiring filmmaker from Manhattan's privileged Upper East Side doing in a Taylor Swift video? Oh wait. That's just the Vanessa Abrams character that Jessica Szohr played on TV's Gossip Girl. Szohr is actually just a girl from Wisconsin, so I guess it makes sense she'd be friends with Swift and that she'd get to be part of the new "22" video. "It was great," Szohr told Us Weekly about making the video. We were just in Malibu, and we got to eat pizza all day and then dance around and jump on the trampoline. It was just a fun, free Saturday. Taylor wrote a song and all of her girlfriends … we've all been through breakups and stuff together. So she asked a few of us to come and have a fun day at the beach." Nice work if you can get it. She recently tweeted about the video and the power of girlfriends, "Check out @taylorswift13 new video 22 with @clairewinter @ashavignone@addijay & I! Good girlfriends can get u through anything! #22."


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the last figure disclosed back in July. Microsoft revealed the new milestone to us today.
The publisher wouldn't confirm Gears of War 3's sales figures to us, but we know the game surpassed 3 million in its first week at retail. Back in June 2011, former Epic design director Cliff Bleszinski told IndustryGamers the Gears 3 sales target was "definitely over 6 million," with the interview noting Gears 1 & 2 combined sales being over 12 million. This is only speculation, but today's reveal suggests Gears 3 is nearing if not already over its target.


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Jenn Sterger's 'GMA' Shocker: I've Never Even Met Brett Favre!
Jenn tells George Stephanopoulos that she may have passed by Brett in stadium tunnels — but she's never spoken to him!
The NFL says Jenn Sterger never did anything wrong in the Brett Favre texting and sexting scandal, but she has suffered the consequences as her career has stalled. And now she reveals that she never even met the gray-haired quarterback who wanted to be introduced to her!
"I don't know him, we have never met, there has never been an introduction" she tells George Stephanopoulos on ABC. "We have never been closer than this [gesturing to George, who was seated across from her] — and that's just been in passing in the tunnel."
Jenn, then a game-day hostess for the NFL's New York Jets, compares Brett to a guy at a bar "who wouldn't get the hint."
Brett, 41, was accused of sending suggestive texts as well as photos of his penis to Jenn back in 2008 while he was a member of the Jets. Jenn claims to have no idea how he obtained her number, though she does admit that on member of the Jets organization approached her at one time regarding Brett.
"I was approached one day at the beginning of the preseason games, by a man wearing a Jets badge, employee badge, who asked me, 'How would you feel if Brett Favre asked for your phone number? What would you say?' And I just looked at him, my usual smartass self. And I said, 'I'd say I like my job an awful lot. And I've been told I look remarkably like his wife.' "
You can check out more of Jenn's interview on Nightline April 12 and on Good Morning America April 13.


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This week in new hires, Joel Marcus joined Genworth Wealth Management and Direxion brought in Patrick Rudnick as chief financial officer.
Also, Benjamin Jensen went to U.S. Bancorp Investments, and Citi Private Bank appointed Steven Wieting global chief strategist.
Genworth Wealth Management Adds Joel Marcus
Genworth Wealth Management, a subsidiary of Genworth Financial, announced that it had hired Joel Marcus as regional specialist, in charge of business and channel development in the central region. He will be based in Dallas, and report to Michael Kim, senior vice president.
Prior to joining, Marcus was vice president of sales, institutional wealth services, at Fidelity Investments, where he managed RIA custody sales. He also served as managing director, sales and marketing, for Advisor Partners, a boutique investment management firm, and as key account manager, strategic accounts group, for Schwab Institutional.
Direxion Names Patrick Rudnick CFO
Direxion announced that Patrick Rudnick has been named CFO. He will report to Eric Falkeis, chief operating officer of Rafferty, and oversee the financial, compliance and risk oversight aspects of the firm's business. He will also join the senior planning team.
With more than 16 years of experience in the financial services industry, Rudnick was most recently a vice president in the fund administration division of U.S. Bancorp Fund Services. He began his career as a fund accountant at U.S. Bancorp, and served as an audit manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers before rejoining U.S. Bancorp in 2006.
U.S. Bancorp Investments Welcomes Benjamin Jensen
U.S. Bancorp Investments, an affiliate of U.S. Bank, announced that Benjamin Jensen has joined U.S. Bancorp Investments as a financial advisor in Anacortes, Wash.
Jensen brings more than seven years of experience to U.S. Bancorp Investments. He spent several years working in the Anacortes market and regionally as a financial advisor for another firm. Citi Private Bank Appoints Steven Wieting Global Chief Strategist
Citi Private Bank announced the appointment of Steven Wieting as global chief strategist, with responsibility for formulating investment views and strategies for the business and its clients around the world. He is currently managing director and U.S. economist in Citi Research and is based in New York, where he will remain in his new role. He will report to Eduardo Martinez Campos, global head of investments at Citi Private Bank; he also will be appointed chair of the global investment committee for the Private Bank and join the investments leadership team.
Wieting joined Smith Barney in 1996 and was appointed lead economist for Citigroup's U.S. institutional equities business in 2000. Prior to joining Smith Barney, he was an economics correspondent with Dow Jones, and also served as a contributor to the Wall Street Journal's "Credit Markets" column. Previously he worked for the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Read the May 1 New Hire Roundup at AdvisorOne.


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By Sara Sjolin, MarketWatch
LONDON (MarketWatch) — Oil firms led European stocks higher on Tuesday, as oil prices topped $97 a barrel for the first time since mid-September, while encouraging German consumer-confidence data and solid U.S. earnings reports also lifted sentiment.
The Stoxx Europe 600 index (STOXX:XX:SXXP) added 0.3% to close at 290.30 after snapping a three-day winning streak on Monday.
Queen Beatrix steps aside for son
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands is stepping down after 33 years on the throne. She will be succeeded by her eldest son, the 45-year-old Willem-Alexander.
"The markets have had a good run for a couple of months, but I think the euro area still has more problems. Markets need to remember that a lot of the euro-area countries are in recession and that will have an impact on company earnings," said John Redwood, chief of the investment committee at Evercore Pan-Asset.
"Some countries have done a good job of meeting requirements, but there are still large deficits and it's difficult to get the economies growing again. It makes sense to pause after this rally," he said.
Shares of Royal Philips Electronics NV (AMS:NL:PHIA) (NYS:PHG) posted one of the biggest gains in the pan-European index, up, 2.3%, after the Dutch firm said it expects sales to pick up in the second half of the year. See: Philips sees H2 sales pickup after slow start
William Hill PLC (LON:UK:WMH) picked up 2.1%, after the online-betting site said operating profit for the 14 weeks to Jan. 1 grew by 20%.
Pointing in the other direction, shares of Sandvik AB (OME:SE:SAND) lost 0.7%. The Swedish engineering group reported fourth-quarter profit, which was slightly lower than a year ago, and said production rates declined in a reflection of weaker demand. See: Sandvik reports lower fourth-quarter profit.
Shares of Sanofi SA (PAR:FR:SAN) (NAS:SNY) lost 0.8% as Barclays cut the French drug maker to equal weight from overweight. The bank also downgraded Germany's Bayer AG (FRA:DE:BAYN) to underweight from equal weight, sending its shares 2.8% lower.
GlaxoSmithKline PLC (LON:UK:GSK) (NYS:GSK) , up 1.6%, was lifted to overweight from equal weight.
Fed meeting under way
Elsewhere, European stock markets were broadly upbeat, erasing earlier losses as investors took inspiration from Wall Street, where better-than-expected earnings reports from Pfizer Inc. (NYS:PFE) and Valero Energy Corp. (NYS:VLO) gave way for optimism.
U.S. stocks traded in positive territory Tuesday, ahead of a two-day Federal Reserve meeting. See: Wall Street reacts to consumer-confidence report
The central bank is expected to keep monetary policy ultra loose in efforts to boost the labor market and economy. A statement is expected at the conclusion of the meeting on Wednesday. See: Fed to press ahead with bond buying
On the data front in the U.S., the S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city composite showed home prices declined in November on seasonal weakness. See: November home prices tick down, Case-Shiller says
Separately, a gauge of consumer confidence fell to the lowest level in more than a year in January. See: Consumer confidence drops in January
Closer to home, data from Germany showed consumers became more confident at the start of 2013. The GfK consumer-climate study improved to a 5.8-points forecast for February, up from 5.7 points in January and better than expected by analysts.
The German DAX 30 index (XEX:DX:DAX) rose 0.2% to 7,848.57, with shares of ThyssenKrupp AG (FRA:DE:TKA) up 2.7%.
Outside the main index in Frankfurt, shares of Software AG (FRA:DE:SOW) sank 17%, after the IT firm said 2012 revenue and earnings before interest and taxes declined compared with a year earlier. See: Software AG '12 Ebit off 8%; deals to drive growth
In France, the CAC 40 index (PAR:FR:PX1) inched 0.1% higher to 3,785.82, even as shares of Credit Agricole SA (PAR:FR:ACA) slumped 2.7%, Société Générale SA (PAR:FR:GLE) dropped 1.4% and BNP Paribas SA (PAR:FR:BNP) lost 0.9%.
Shares of oil group Total SA (PAR:FR:FP) (NYS:TOT) gained 1.6%, as oil prices climbed above $97 a barrel. See: Oil tops $97 on Mideast unrest, supply fears
Oil firms were also on the rise in the U.K., with shares of BP PLC (NYS:BP) and Royal Dutch Shell PLC (LON:UK:RDSB) both up 1.5%.
Shares of Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC slumped 6% after The Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. authorities want the bank to face criminal charges over allegations of rigging interest rates.
An RBS spokesman said, "discussions with various authorities in relation to Libor setting are ongoing. We continue to cooperate fully with their investigations." See: U.S. seeking criminal charges for RBS: WSJ
The FTSE 100 index (FTSE:UK:UKX) closed 0.7% higher at 6,339.19. See: Resource firms boost FTSE 100; GSK rises


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These are the spoils from my UFO catcher win today. But more about that later..
Nothing much was accomplished today at all. It was SO hot and humid today, the best thing to do was nothing at all. Apparently it was so bad a few elderly japanese couldn't take it and died.
As the sun went down we walked towards Shinjuku. I was thinking of going to that shop and getting that friggin' amp I want/need.
I asked if they could bring the price down any lower than what they emailed but they wouldn't budge any further. I said I'd come back later and tried to get it discounted at other music shops and they didn't come down either (and they were more expensive). Don't these guys want to make a sale?
On the way to central Shinjuku I saw "my" car parked nearby with the same hardtop and colour as my MX-5 back home. Yoko was impressed. Oh, I miss driving!
Anyway.. we had ramen noodles at Kohmen. When you click this link it should show a picture of what I ate. It was pretty tasty and not too expensive. Better than Macdonalds for sure.
I thought we had enough time to go back to the music store for the amp, but after a few steps I realized it would take more than ten minutes to get there before it closed.
Plan B was to go to Krispy Kreme. Always a good option. As per usual we got our free donut waiting in line, and then got two donuts each. I got a pineapple filled and a lemon filled one. Gf got a normal glazed and a chocolate glazed donut. We will eat these as part of breakfast for tomorrow.
You can sort of see the donut making behind me if you look real carefully. Yes, I'm wearing a Tokyo shirt in Tokyo. TOURIST!!
From there we made our way back towards Yotsuya. It looks a little overcast like it might rain.
We walked past the UFO catcher arcade and I asked gf if we could go in. Surprisingly, she said, "yes, five minutes!"
Check out the concentration, but more notably the wallet in my hand ready to take out the next 100 yen coin!
I saw a Rilakkuma machine that looked like I could win it. The first (brown one) took 800 yen to win. The second (white) took 1200 yen. My adrenalin was running at an all time high. Once I had one, I HAD to try for the other one as well.
They have names. The brown one is "Shin" and the white one is "Junko", a play on words for their place of "birth", Shinjuku.
This was one of my tries. Unfortunately, I didn't get a video of either of my "winning moves".
I was walking proudly, but slightly shaken back home, and I thought we could use a free Macdonalds iced coffee, so we walked back for a celebratory drink.
On our way back in a combini (convenience store), I saw they were selling flavoured oxygen in cans. These are coffee and strawberry. For what you can get pretty much free, 600 yen. Weird!
Friday, 17 August 2007
Shin and Junko
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How should men and women differ their chest workout to attain a chest suitable for their gender? Here are the qualities that I believe are masculine and feminine. Your thoughts may differ, but I'd like to hear chest exercise variations that attain these particular definitions.
A masculine chest should be like plates of armor. They should be wide, flat, and square shape, They should not be bulbous. The top should be like a plateau and not recede smoothly into the collarbone. It should not be top nor bottom heavy, but rather even throughout. Dexter Jackson, below, is a great example.
Lex Luger, below, shows an example of a feminine male chest. His chest is round, soft, and squishy looking. We would call these "man boobs" if he were fatter.
A feminine chest is hard to describe because it is covered by breasts. There should not be a division between the chest and the breast. The two parts should seamlessly join. The chest should enhance the breast, making them appear bigger. Silvana Silvati, below, is a great example.
Below is the total opposite of a feminine chest. The skin around the breast is too tight. You can clearly see that the breast is forming a bulb over the chest. On some more extreme female bodybuilders, the breasts appear to be dried up like raisins.


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Anybody out there know anything about computer monitors/extended monitor usage to help me out? Not a major issue, just annoying lag.
I've been using extended monitor quite a bit, hooking my laptop up to my 20" Samsung TV. It works and the picture on the TV looks great, but there is some audio/video lag that's driving me crazy.
Streaming videos lag, and the video gets behind the audio so everyone's motions and lips are off, and we all know how annoying that is. Windows lag when you drag them around the desktop on the TV, too. I checked the refresh rates, and they appear to be the same, 60Hz. Any thoughts?


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Dundy County was created by legislaive enactment on 27 February 1873. It is
named in honor of Judge Elmer S. Dundy of the U.S. Circuit Court. He was
prominent in Nebraska politics.
Dundy County is located in the extreme southwest corner of Nebraska, with
Benkelman as the county seat.
The north and south forks of the Republican River join near Benkelman. The
ancient Indian Traders Trail coming up the ladders of rivers, creeks, and ponds
from Mexican settlements went on north. Northern clans crossed at the
Republican fork bringing extra items to exchange for obsidian, pipestone, and
The Indian Traders Trail, Highway 61 today, has also been called Custer's
Trail, and Hunter's Trail. In 1867 Custer commanding the 7th Cavalry battled
Pawnee Killer gave it the the name of Custer's Trail. Buffalo hunters hauling
hides to Ft Wallace called it the Hunter's Trail.
The cattle drives of the 1870s from Texas to Ogallala inspired the permanent
name of Texas Trail Canyon. By 1882 the B and M Railroad came through to
Denver. With the railroad came the settlers and barbed wire and cornfields.
From the book, Dundy County, 1880-1987, comes this statement:
Further, "Through the years there have been many descriptions of Dundy
County. The blizzards in winter . . . the heat curling the corn in summer . . .
the sand . . . the winds . . . the grasshoppers . . . hail storms . . . etc."
And, "On a brighter side we hear meadow larks singing . . . blackbirds
and pheasants crowing . . . cottonwoods rustling . . . we see acres and acres
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Best quality/compatibility obtained with XRGB-Mini
- You will also need something like the UMSA (VGA to SCART adapter)
- Changing the A/D setting of the XRGB greatly reduces video noise. 133 seems to work well but try others.
- Disabling scandoublers, if supported by a core, tends to improve image and color quality.
- Make sure to get a European SCART connector for the upscaler, as it ships with a JP21 connector not compatible with UMSA.
- Cons: it's a rather expensive solution...
- Cons: only RGBHV will work if you use a UMSA adapter (other adapters might accept RGBS)
- Works for most cores via RGBHV input (you need to switch source to RGBHV)
- Upscales to 1024x768 (to show nicely on big TVs)
- At 640x480 it solves scaling issues seen on many screens, and can be chained to a scanlines generator
- May work for the cores that can output RGBS (not tested)
- Cons: some cores do not work, others appear off-center and aren't playable (see Core status spreadsheet for list)
- Cons: RGBHV 15khz not accepted (probably expects RGBS for it).
I've been looking for ways to connect the MiST to my XRGB Mini upscaler, both to handle 50Hz (PAL) and to capture video on my PC via HDMI.
The upscaler does not have VGA inputs; but I picked up yesterday a cheap noname VGA-to-HDMI converter in my local computer store.
It works... but the VGA box adds significant horizontal noise, so the result seems to come from a wonky VHS tape. Still better than when I recorded console videos with a camcorder pointing at the TV as a kid, though
Interestingly the vertical banding that other posts complain about is not present, which I think suggests the problem is with TV upscalers or their VGA handling.
My setup:
- MiST FPGA with minimig, NES, and C64 cores
- No-name VGA to HDMI converter (seems to output PAL at 800x600 and NTSC at 640x480)
- XRGB Mini Framemeister (converts 50Hz to 60Hz and upscales to 1280x720p)
- AverMedia ExtremeCap U3 to record video on a PC
Here's a few captures that show how the result (set to 720p for best quality):
minimig core PAL:
minimig core NTSC (skipped to a part that shows the heavy noise from the VGA box on the OSD):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... FVrOM#t=56
NES core on XRGB (1280x720):
NES core direct feed from VGA box (640x480) (my TV stretchs this but not reflected on capture card):
C64 core
For some reason the C64 core has no sound with the VGA box.
It also has heavy sync issues, so I didn't bother uploading the video.


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Optimizing Room Size / Mode Calculation
Modes are the driving forces behind a room's reverberant field. A mode is one of the resonances of an enclosed space; a mode can be interpreted by its dimension. All rooms have modes, but not all rooms, or modes, are equal. Some physical shapes are more likely than others to reflect sound waves along a repetitive path causing a modal resonance. In a fairly bare rectangular room, the surfaces form three pairs of large parallel surfaces; each surface will bounce many waves back and forth with its parallel counterpart. The modes that are generated between two parallel surfaces are called axial modes. There are other paths around a rectangular room besides back and forth between just two walls (as there is more than one way to bounce a pool ball around a pool table and back to where it started) but the paths between the parallel surfaces, the axial modes, are easier to picture and understand, and easier to calculate in your head... so for illustration purposes it helps to discuss solely the axial modes. This does not mean you can ignore the other modes! Do not be misled by trying to use a mode calculator that only looks at axial modes. Use a tool like this online calculator:
Bob Golds Online Mode Calculator
Or this Excel spreadsheet:
Eric's Calculators & Files
Think of a room's modes as its "tuning"... like an organ pipe having a pitch arising from its length. You want your room to have en even distribution of resonances so that it will be as "uncolored "as possible.
As an illustration, picture a spherical room 11.30' in diameter it will have a single resonance of 50 Hz (and the harmonics of 50 Hz). Sound moves in air (at standard temperature and pressure) at 1,130 fps, thus a wave of sound with a frequency of 50 Hz (or cycles per second) in size fits perfectly bouncing between the surfaces of a spherical room 11.3' in diameter (1,130 fps / 11.30' / 2). This means that sounds at this frequency (50 Hz) will echo very efficiently in this room. Additionally, all of the harmonics of this wave will fit perfectly (50 Hz, 100 Hz, 150 Hz, 200 Hz, etc.). This is not good. This room, if the walls are left reflective, will be highly "colored" at these frequencies. To use such room for musical purposes it would need to be made very dead, otherwise everything we did in it would whistle a tune back at us in the key of 50 Hz.
Even in large, less reflective rooms one must pay attention to modes especially at the low end of the sound spectrum where modal density is low (generally below 200 Hz – but this threshold depends on the volume and reverb time of the room). Modal density gets higher as you climb the band for the simple reason that you have more multiples (harmonics) from all the different resonances of the room mixing together and coming across more evenly. Nonetheless even at high frequencies modes can create problems if the harmonics of a number of different modes all line up at or very near a single frequency.
Assume a more typical room with parallel walls, floor and ceiling, having an 11.30' ceiling, a width of 22.60' and a depth of 45.20'. The fundamental axial resonances of the three pairs of parallel surfaces in this room are not all 50 Hz like the single resonance of a sphere. But these dimensions still cause a similar problem. They are no longer all 50Hz, instead only the ceiling has a 50 Hz fundamental resonance, but the first width mode is 25 Hz, and the first depth mode is 12.5 Hz. These modes will support a string of harmonics up to 200 Hz as follows:
Ceiling 50, 100, 150, 200
Width, 25, 50, 75, 100, 125, 150, 175, 200
Length, 12.5, 25, 37.5, 50, 62.5, 75, 87.5, 100, 112.5, 125, 137.5, 150, 162.5, 175, 187.5, 200,
Sorting all of the above by size we get:
12.5, 25, 25, 37.5, 50, 50, 50, 62.5, 75, 75, 87.5, 100, 100, 100, 112.5, 125, 125, 137.5, 150, 150, 150, 162.5, 175, 175, 182.5, 200, 200, 200
Oops! Four triple redundancies at or below 200 Hz (at 50, 100, 150 and 200 Hz). We have radically changed the shape and dimensions of the room but we haven't solved the problem of spacing the modes out so that they don't line up. Because these dimensions are small whole number multiples of 11.3, they still line up with disturbing regularity, for example, if we run these strings long enough, we will see that all of the floor to ceiling modes will be resonances of both the width and length dimensions. Yikes! – this aint much better than the sphere, what do we do?
The short lo-tech answer is to take into account the practical constraints of the budget and the practical potential wall locations we have to work with, and then use a spreadsheet, or calculator to string these numbers out for sets of dimensions we are capable of achieving. With each of our iterations of dimensional choice, we get a snapshot of how the modes will interact. In essence we go hunting for a set of dimensions which we can (i) afford and fit into the space available; and (ii) does a reasonable job of spreading the modes out (particularly at the low end of the spectrum). Tools for automating this search have been developed (the links above for examples) and using these tools you can improve significantly the spread of the modes generated by a room like the one given in the example above by simple trial and error adjustment of the available practical dimensions.
Better still read up on how different acousticians have classed a number of room ratios into a "known good" zone... and how you might go about changing your room's dimensions to fall into the "good" area.
Acceptable Room Ratios (an overview)
To understand [in a crude way] how the idea of "known good" ratios work, assume we have a large empty space (perhaps a basement) with finished walls measuring 20' wide 40' long with an open ceiling with a 12' clear height available to the bottom of the joists. Further assume we want to divide the space up into a recording room and a control room and add a finished ceiling to both rooms. If our preliminary design specified a recording room with the dimensions of 20' wide by 20' long, and our planned ceiling was going to reduce the finished ceiling to 10' in height, we can quickly see by reducing these dimensions to a ratio (1.00 : 2.00 : 2.00) that with this design we are going to create many coincident modal harmonics and that some adjustment is necessary if we want to spread the modes out evenly.
In trying to address this problem, we could take a look at increasing the long dimension to 21" and raising the ceiling to 11'. To quickly check what this does to our room's modes we look at the ratio these dimensions generate (1.00 : 1.82 : 2.10). Immediately this looks better. To refine our analysis, we could plug the original dimensions into a mode calculator so we can look at axial modal components, and then do the same with the proposed changes. The results would look something like the following
28, 28, 57, 57, 57, 85, 85, 113, 113, 113, 141, 141, 170, 170, 170, 198, 198, 226, 226, 226, 254, 254, 283, 283, 283
Proposed Changes:
24, 28, 49, 51, 57, 73, 85, 98, 103, 113, 122, 141, 147, 154, 170, 171, 196, 198, 205, 220, 226, 245, 254, 257, 269, 283, 294
Running our eyes across the two lists of axial modes it is obvious that the proposed changes in the room's dimensions will yield much improved the smoothness of the distribution in the room's modal harmonics. Refining the dimensions further we would look at the tangential and oblique modes to see what problems they are apt to cause.
Just as we wish to avoid building a room with modes bunched up together, we also want to avoid generating a string of modes that are too far apart, and in essence, leave a hole in the reverberant field of the room. Some rules of thumb for simple modal analysis are (i) avoid exact coincidences (modes that are exactly equal) (ii) try and keep every mode at least 5% larger than its predecessor; (iii) try to keep from creating mode strings with large holes [modes more than 25 Hz apart will probably leave an audible hole]; (iv) focus on the part of the sound spectrum below 200 Hz as problems here will be more troublesome.
If you study the links provided above you will see that much thought has evolved as what makes a "good room" - from the simple idea of balancing the dimensions of a room. The concepts and methods outlined above are dirt simple but they will guide you in avoiding the deepest pitfalls.
Important! Building funny shaped rooms with canted walls and ceilings will not obviate the negative potentials of bad modal spacing - this practice only makes it impossible for non-experts to predict what the resulting modal structure will be [in fact such predictions are non-trivial even for experts]. Also, building funny shaped rooms usually ends up reducing the room volume from what it would be if a rectilinear room where built instead - and this makes all the problems of recording in a small room worse - because you made your small room even smaller! In short, there is no problem in small room acoustics that cannot be lessened by the simple expedient of building a larger room... making your room smaller so it can be funny shaped is a bad idea because you are making the fundamental problems increase in severity, and unpreditable in scope.


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The 2014 Farm Bill, formally known as the
Agricultural Act of 2014, makes the Livestock Forage
Program (LFP) and Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP)
permanent programs and provides retroactive
authority to cover eligible losses back to
1, 2011.
LFP provides compensation to eligible producers who
suffered grazing losses due to drought and fire. LIP
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suffered livestock death losses in excess of normal
mortality due to adverse weather and attacks by
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USDA is determined to make implementing the
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regulations. Additional information will be provided
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Sorry Robh (or whomever...) to come back to the well so quickly, but this mate of mine plans to run those L88's paired with some L200's he's refitting.
The L88 cabinet is factory positive. I need check the L200 network, same-same.
And, he's perplexed between the 136A, 2235H or LE15A. Here's a plot of all three in an approx. L200 cabinet.
136A = Green
2235H = Blue
LE15A = Yellow
I guess the 2235H would be safest, to avoid any chance of weakened alnico motor. Anybody run either of these in the L200 and have an good/bad experience?


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Miranda Lambert to Perform on Finale of 'The Voice'
Grammy-winning country singer Miranda Lambert will perform with finalist Dia Frampton on the live finale of 'The Voice,' NBC confirmed Friday.
"Miranda is an amazing artist and it will be fascinating to see her blend her talents with those of Dia," said Paul Telegdy, Executive Vice President, Alternative Programming, NBC and Universal Media Studios. "This special duet is what 'The Voice' represents to our audience. Together, Miranda and Blake, who represent a true power couple in country music, will help provide a memorable finale for our first season."
That Blake he was referring to is, of course, Blake Shelton, Lambert's husband of just over one month. Shelton is one of four judges on the show, alongside Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green and Adam Levine.
No word yet on what Lambert and Frampton will sing together.
The finale of 'The Voice' airs Wed., Jun. 29 at 8PM ET.


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The dimension of the free passage usually refers to the largest spherical object that may pass through the impeller.
For small and medium-sized sewage pumps, a free passage of 80 mm is normally sufficient. Free passage for large pumps (above 100 l/s) should normally be at least 100 mm. The bigger the free passage, the lower the risk of clogging.


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A general howto for understanding and configuring Home Assistant is over here: https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?t=27321
The changes needed to HomeAssistant to control your TV are stored in this github repository: https://github.com/mad-ady/home-assista ... omizations
1. Make sure you've installed the web api and its dependencies on the TV
2. Install Home Assistant on your computer/RPI/Odroid/device and go through the standard configuration
3. Copy the jsonrest sensor to your custom components folder:
Code: Select all
mkdir -p ~homeassistant/.homeassistant/custom_components/sensor/
wget -O ~homeassistant/.homeassistant/custom_components/sensor/jsonrest.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mad-ady/home-assistant-customizations/master/custom_components/sensor/jsonrest.py
4. Configure your Home Assistant by adding several sensors and a web cam.
Example configuration: https://github.com/mad-ady/home-assista ... o-api.yaml
Example URLs: https://github.com/mad-ady/home-assista ... ecret.yaml
5. Restart homeassistant or reload the configuration
6. Profit:
Home Assistant Web UI:
Home Assistant History (view state changes):
Youtube demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC7yUe_AJw4
Tested on a H6400. Older models might need some tweaking with regard to the screenshot functionality. Patches and ideas welcome! TV is surprisingly stable despite repeated injections - good job SamyGO team!


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If the CFP Board's goal in proposing to offer CE credit itself is to improve continuing education credit, there are many strategies available. Perhaps the most important is simply to recognize that ultimately, the quality of continuing education lies not in the slides that a presenter at a planners' conference uses, but in the presenting speaker himself.
That means that the CFP Board needs to do more to scrutinize who is delivering the CE credit in the first place. To oversee educational presentations without scrutinizing the educator is like overseeing financial planning by ignoring the financial planners and just reviewing their written financial plans; in both cases, the reality is that even good materials are useless in the hands of an untrained and inexperienced planner or educator, while the best in both categories may rely little on their written materials if at all while delivering a quality experience.
To improve CFP continuing education, then, the key step is for the CFP Board to shift from merely reviewing presentations and content, to reviewing the presenters of the information.
For instance, many state insurance departments require that the speaker have a graduate degree in the subject matter (or some comparable advanced designation or certification), or five+ years of experience before being approved as an educator. By contrast, the CFP Board has no apparent speaker requirements whatsoever. In addition, the CFP Board could require that when event organizers submit names for CFP CE credit after a presentation is delivered, the organization must also submit the evaluation results of the speaker regarding his/her topic, expertise, presentation skills, supporting materials, and whether the speaker was objective and avoided selling financial products.
Consistently low scores, or a consistently high comment rate from attendees that the speaker was selling his/her products, could result in a "three strikes and you're out" policy where persistently bad speakers or sponsoring organizations would ultimately be denied offering CE credit altogether. I suspect major financial services firms would be far more likely to oversee for themselves who they put up on the podium if there was a risk that inappropriate wholesaler sales-pitch presentations could get the organization barred from delivering CE credit!
Reviewing speakers after their sessions and gathering the results of evaluation forms could also be fed into a central "Speaker's Clearinghouse" maintained by the CFP Board, allowing conference organizers to search the database to screen presenters based on their scores, or to identify top educators to contact for their own upcoming events. This would allow the best CE providers to naturally rise to the top, the low quality to decline into obscurity, and ensure that problematic speakers who deliver sales-pitches-in-lieu-of-presentations can't just keep hopping from one organization to another delivering poor content that fails to deliver value to attendees and sours certificants on the benefits of quality continuing education.
An Unmanageable Conflict Of Interest
Given the avenues available to improve the quality of CFP continuing education by improving the oversight of speakers and the results/outcomes of presentations, it's hard to see why the CFP Board's "potential" proposal to begin offering CFP CE credit directly to certificants is an appropriate course of action. Althoughthe organization's willingness to at least broach the conversation and look before it leaps is commendable and consistent with Keller's leadership in recent years, the prospective conflict of interest for this initiative is quite significant. After all, continuing education sponsors operate at the sole discretion of the CFP Board, which has the unilateral right to approve, control, or revoke the sponsor's status, and approve or deny any/every presentation the sponsor submits.
In other words, the CFP Board functions as the sole regulator for its CE sponsors. Will the CFP Board really be able to consistently review, consider, and approve or deny "outside" presentations in the same objective manner as its own "inside" presentations? That's kind of like the SEC announcing that it's going to roll out its own direct-to-consumer RIA to provide ongoing investment advice to the public, and "promising" that it will oversee and maintain compliance for its internal RIA in the same manner as everyone else. Does anyone really think the SEC's audit of its own RIA will consistently remain the same as its external audits?
It's hard to see how a path like this won't eventually stray from the ideal, whether for the SEC or the CFP Board. And of course, if the CFP Board is going to oversee its own content, speakers, and results, then it will have to roll out a feedback program anyway… in which case, it may as well do so for all CE providers!
In addition, the reality is that the conflict of interest goes far deeper than just the oversight of content and CE credit. The CFP Board charges hard dollars to outside CE sponsors to maintain their status as a CE provider, and applies further charges to each and every hour of CE credit the organization wants to approve. This represents a cost to "outside" CE sponsors—not to mention the time, hassle and stress that event organizers must deal with to complete the process—that the CFP Board would not have to bear for its "internal" CE offering. Put another way, not only would the CFP Board be competing with those its oversees, but there's a remarkably uneven financial playing field for the competition.
The conflict gets even worse when it comes time to market a CFP CE offering, which every one of the current 1,250 CE sponsors must do by spending real dollars on advertising or other marketing strategies. In fact, if a CE sponsor wants to send a mailing to CFP certificants, it must pay the CFP Board thousands of dollars for the "privilege" of just doing one printed postcard mailing to those who might need CE credit!
By contrast, a CE program offered directly by the CFP Board faces no such costs; it already owns the mailing list for all CFP certificants, since it is the organizationthat issues their certification. It would therefore face zero costs to send out as many solicitations for its own programs as it wishes, even while it requires significant charges for any/every other CE sponsor to do the same.
How long would it be before the CFP Board started steering people away from its 1,250 CE sponsors and including its own CE offerings when it sends out reminders that a certificant's renewal is due soon and he/she still needs a few more CE credits, exacerbating the conflict of interest even further?
While CFP Board CEO Kevin Keller was on record at NAPFA being dismissive of these conflicts, stating that "everybody has conflicts" advisors don't appear to be so sanguine; an impromptu poll of the audience at FPA Retreat regarding the CFP Board's proposal yielded 99% of advisors opposing, with the hand of only one, lone individual supporting the idea. As good advisors know, when the playing field is uneven and rife with conflicts, it creates an environment where the good providers struggle to gain market share, while the bad providers continue to abuse the system. That scenario is not exactly an appealing educational ecosystem for the future of financial planning. It would mean that if the CFP Board goes into competition with its CE sponsors that the Board could wind up being the only CE provider in the future!
(Disclosure: Kitces.com offers CFP CE credit for its publication The Kitces Report and is a registered Continuing Education Sponsor with the CFP Board. In addition, Michael Kitces is a regular speaker at numerous continuing education events organized by other third-party Continuing Education Sponsors registered with the CFP Board and offering CFP CE credit.)


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My freshman year of high school, I took a class that was supposed to prepare students for adulthood by teaching us how to do grownup things, like balance a checkbook and eat vegetables.
In theory, I guess it was a good idea, considering most of the kids at my school thought Cheetos constituted a nutritious breakfast. In practice? It was an easy A class, where the teacher, when she wasn't showing us a video from the 1970s, alternated between dozing at her desk and giving sketchy advice. A typical nugget of wisdom? "If you eat an apple with an entire bucket of fried chicken, it will cancel out all of the fat."
Most people skipped the class. Their empty seats were filled by kids who were skipping other classes and trying to avoid hall security. Too nerdy to misbehave, I just used the period as a study hall for geometry homework. Food Network eventually taught me how to cook. I took my financial questions to Google and my mom.
It didn't surprise me, then, that a recent study conducted by Guardian Life and LearnVest found 20- and 30-somethings — Gen Xers and my Gen Y peers — to be woefully uninformed when it comes to insurance products. Of those surveyed, 60 percent didn't know the difference between term and permanent insurance. And 1 in 5 thought they didn't need to be covered because their spouse was.
If their high school education was anything like mine, the respondents probably finished the survey and then hunkered down for a low-fat lunch of several pounds of fried chicken and one apple.
In the press release accompanying the Guardian/LearnVest study, Deanna Mulligan, Guardian's CEO, said the company will soon be launching a pilot financial literacy program in community colleges. LearnVest, for its part, offers educational tools online. These are great, needed steps in the right direction, but … isn't this also something agents can help with, right now?
Because even if schools work to better prepare students, let's face it, retention isn't always guaranteed. Remember all that geometry homework I worked on? I couldn't tell you how to find the area of a rhombus these days … or even what a rhombus is. Raised to have information retained for us by the Internet (for example, I just googled rhombus), my generation, regardless of education level, needs information and guidance at the point of purchase.
See also: Don't sell your service, sell your smarts
This is actually pretty true of most generations. It's why seminars are a big hit with information-seeking seniors. It's why agents exist in the first place. But younger people aren't interested in hotel ballroom steak. They're going to go to Google and social networks first.
In fact, the Guardian/LearnVest study found just 27 percent of respondents said they'd turn to a professional for insurance guidance. The rest opted for family, friends and the Internet. And of those who owned insurance, 32 percent said they didn't consult any source — human or digital — before buying.
Part of this aversion to agent help probably stems from my generation's distaste for overt selling. But it also has to do with the fact that agent advice is still largely an in-person experience, and we're an online generation. What we've got, then, is a classic distribution disconnect — the umbrella salesman in the Sahara, the suntan lotion store in Siberia, and all those other well-worn business-school examples.
Luckily, the solution is as easy as moving that umbrella stand to Seattle: get online. And not just with a homepage that has your email address and phone number. Provide educational materials. Start a blog. Post informational YouTube videos. Join social networks. Make it easy for someone's mom or best friend to send your links around and recommend you.
Fundamentally, it's the same education you've been giving clients for decades through power lunches and PowerPoint. You're just doing it in a way that's more accessible to today's consumers.
If all goes well, you'll be educating a population that desperately needs your help. If you fail to adapt, you'll risk eventually becoming as irrelevant as those '70s VHS tapes my old teacher is probably still playing.
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By Meredith Varela
In 2010, President Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea told visiting President Lula da Silva that, "For us, the Republic of Brazil is a country that serves as a reference development model." Brazil has become a model for many developing countries as it continues to grow in economic and political power. It has become a leader in south-south relations, helping developing countries gain a more powerful voice in the international community.
Yet Brazil showed questionable judgment in actively supporting a UNESCO prize sponsored and funded by President Obiang in an apparent effort to strengthen its relations with his regime, which has accumulated a long list of human rights violations and corruption in the course of its 32 years in power. On March 8, UNESCO's Executive Board approved the prize, and Brazil was among the countries that supported it. Given Obiang's dismal human rights record, a global campaign of Equatoguineans, civil society organizations, Nobel Laureates, Latin American literary figures, Cano Prize winners, press freedom groups, scientists and public health professionals, and others had urged UNESCO to abolish the prize.
Controversy over the prize led UNESCO to suspend it in October 2010 and to reaffirm that suspension twice the following year. Then, in February 2012, Brazil joined forces with Cuba and Zimbabwe to make an internal push at UNESCO to reinstate the prize. In doing so, Brazil dismissed concerns about Obiang's human rights record as well as concerns that the $3 million Obiang gave to UNESCO might be tainted by corruption.
According to the prize's original statute, the prize was to be funded by President Obiang's foundation, but in February 2012 the government of Equatorial Guinea revealed that the money for the prize had actually been drawn from the public treasury, raising concerns that President Obiang was blurring the distinction between private and public funds. Given the uncertainty surrounding the source of the money, UNESCO's legal office stated that the prize could no longer be implemented, and that doing so would violate UNESCO's own regulations. The Executive Board approved the renamed prize anyway. The unquestioning and shameful support of the prize by Brazil and other countries demonstrated a lack of regard for the rules and reputation of UNESCO.
It is likely that Brazil's support for the prize is linked to its increased economic ties to Equatorial Guinea, especially in regards to petroleum. Petrobras has made multiple forays into Equatorial Guinea over the past decade in search of oil, and Brazil began importing Liquified Natural Gas from the region in 2009. As a sign of the two countries' warming relations, then President Lula da Silva traveled to Equatorial Guinea in July 2010 and signed several bilateral agreements to promote trade and cooperation. He returned one year later to give a speech at the African Union Summit, which Equatorial Guinea hosted. Brazil is also supporting Equatorial Guinea's bid to join the Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa (CPLP), despite the fact that very few people speak Portuguese in Equatorial Guinea.
Equatorial Guinea has recently tried to position itself as a leader in south-south relations, and its overtures to Brazil should be viewed as part of that effort. In November 2011, Equatorial Guinea hosted the Council of Ministers meeting of the Africa-South America Cooperation Forum, at which Brazilian Foreign Minister de Aguiar Patriota spoke. President Dilma Rousseff is scheduled to travel to Equatorial Guinea in May for the Heads of State meeting of the Africa-South America Cooperation Forum.
Sadly, the two budding allies share some common problems as well, namely in regards to human rights abuses and poor governance. Torture and poor prison conditions are still reported in both countries. Security forces commit illegal abuses, including arbitrary arrests and extrajudicial killings. Corruption is another major barrier to progress in both petro-states. President Rousseff's administration has been plagued by corruption scandals, forcing more than a dozen officials—including her cabinet chief—to resign in the first few months of her presidency.
Nevertheless, Brazil could be a positive example to Equatorial Guinea on democracy and human rights. Brazil's relatively smooth and effective transition from a military dictatorship to a participatory democracy in the 1980s contains lessons for democratic transitions in other southern countries, including Equatorial Guinea. In recent years, Brazil has supported several important international human rights initiatives. In 2010 and 2011, for instance, Brazil backed United Nations resolutions addressing human rights violations in Iran, Belarus, North Korea, and Sudan.
Furthermore, President Rousseff's dismissal of ministers accused of corruption signals that Brazil is getting tough on corruption. Brazil has taken a lead role in promoting transparency and government accountability at the international level. In September 2011, Brazil and the United States announced a new joint initiative, the Open Government Partnership, which promotes government transparency, accountability, and effectiveness worldwide.
Government accountability is something that people in Equatorial Guinea and other southern countries dream about. Their current reality consists of a state-owned media, flawed elections, widespread corruption fueled by government secrecy, and impunity by government officials. By justifying its support for President Obiang's UNESCO prize as south-south solidarity, Brazil harmed its international reputation, weakened the credibility of south-south alliances, and turned its back on the daily struggles of Equatoguineans to hold their government accountable.
If Brazil truly wants to be a good friend of Equatorial Guinea and its people, as well as a good ally to its other southern partners, it should set a consistent example and take a stand against corruption and human rights abuses, wherever they occur.


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If Ford didn't arrange this whole video, they should have. Talk about some stellar product placement. (Thanks for the tip Kobolowski Tires)


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To look up your race results, click here.
VANCOUVER - Under spectacular blue, sunny skies, tens of thousands of participants and spectators crammed into the downtown core Sunday for the 27th annual Vancouver Sun Run.
The race — the largest in Canada and a spring tradition for Vancouverites — got off to an early and energetic start.
By 7 a.m., clusters of Sun Runners, clad in Lycra and yoga wear, spilled out of coffee shops clutching their hot cups of joe in the chilly morning air and headed to the starting area at Georgia and Burrard streets.
Although it was only 10 C, brilliant sunshine greeted the early birds. A couple of teens threw a football in the street, while a group of young women handed out Red Bull to hype up the estimated 49,365 runners, walkers and wheelchair racers as they warmed up under the multi-coloured balloon banners arching over the street intersections.
Two B.C. Lions cheerleaders pumped up the growing number of competitors, many of whom were wearing Canucks jerseys, already amped for Sunday night's playoff game against the Chicago Blackhawks.
The elite men's title was won by Eric Gillis, a 30-year-old from Guelph, Ont., who became the first Canadian winner since 1998. Lucy Njeri, 33, a Kenyan now based in Toronto, won the elite women's title, while the wheelchair titles went to Kelly Smith of Langley (men's open), James Hustvedt of North Vancouver (men's quad), Djami Diallo of North Vancouver (women's open) and Michelle Stilwell of Nanoose Bay (women's quad).
Gillis clocked a time of 29:06 to finish ahead of Vancouver's Dylan Wykes, who nipped Kip Kangogo of Kenya for second place after both crossed the line in 29:15. Njeri finished in 33:41, six seconds ahead of Paula Findlay of Edmonton. Port Moody's Natasha Wodak was third in 34:01.
But the Sun Run is about more than results. Among the smiling crowd were the All Nations Sun Runners, a group of 18 runners from Davistead Farms, a dairy farm in Milner, B.C., competing for the 14th year.
Wearing first nation-themed T-shirts, each member of the group was running to honour someone who has died. Laurie Willier, who designed the shirts, said each feather on the back of the shirts represented a loved one lost.
"We run to honour the memory of those who have passed. The feathers represent the memory and the spirits of the people that run and walk with us today," he said.
Another runner, Linda Whitelaw, said she was jogging in memory of her mother, Esther, and her mother-in-law, Lenora.
Entertaining the participants as the start time approached was the band The Neurotics, which played upbeat tunes as people danced and sang in the street to classics such as Brown Eyed Girl and Wooly Bully, albeit with different lyrics about running the Sun Run.
Vancouver Sun editor-in-chief Patricia Graham greeted the crowd and wished the first participants, the wheelchair racers, good luck.
About 8:40 a.m. — as the frenzied crowd shouted, "Go Canucks Go" — the first horn sounded and they were off.
Wheelchair racer Kelly Smith was decked out in a splashy outfit that looked like something out of the movie Tron, complete with a Lycra body suit and blue spikes on his helmet.
B.C. Premier Christy Clark, who said she has been a Sun Runner for 10 years, joked with the crowd, saying she thought she'd finish in "an hour and something."
"I'm not sure I'm going to be at the front, but I am running," she said.
"What a way to bring the city together. This is incredible."
Before the next wave, the noisy crowd ceased dancing and shouting as it honoured Sun Run organizer Dawn Marie Potis with a moment of silence.
She died of cancer in January.
By 9 a.m., after Mayor Gregor Robertson and Vancouver Sun publisher Kevin Bent signalled the next wave of runners, the participants were inching down Georgia Street, clamouring to find enough space to start a sprint among the throng of bodies.
Along the route, bands played and spectators cheered the runners on, hooting and hollering and banging on drums. Many held up signs of encouragement for loved ones.
There was one disruption along the route.
A two-alarm fire broke out at 1939 Beach Ave. about 9:40 a.m., causing runners to detour slightly as firefighters ushered them past any danger.
Smoke could be seen billowing out of the windows of a third-floor apartment as fire engines parked alongside.
Two patients were taken to hospital and treated for smoke inhalation. Officials said the fire was caused by candles. Around the one-hour mark, streams of runners, young and old, were crossing the finish line near BC Place Stadium, wiping away sweat as the sun beat down on them.
Running for his 25th year, Peter Madderom, 67, completed the race in 52 minutes.
He said it was a great day for the run, although he lamented there were too many people in the yellow group, which were one of the first to start.
Tired runners sucked on orange wedges and juice boxes, while others sat on the ground, stretching out their limbs. Music bellowed from the stage.
Many beamed as they boasted of beating their time from last year, while some — like 11-year-old Tijs DeVries, who belongs to an after-school track and field club — were competing for the first time.
"I came in at 47 minutes," he said, proudly. It was pretty fun."
Dressed in a pink spandex outfit with matching pink wig and big green sunnies, Kellen Kjera, 30, also was running for the first time.
"It was a lot of fun, especially because it was in such a cool city and it was such a nice day," he said, adding he loved hearing all the bands along the route.
Organizers said the event, established to promote health and wellness, raised $50,000 for the Raise-a-Reader program and $70,000 for the Harry Jerome International Track and Field Classic.