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San Francisco to offer free Wi-Fi on Market Street
San Francisco will soon roll out free public Wi-Fi down long stretches of Market Street, with plans to light up the city's main vein from the Castro district to the Ferry Building by early next year.
The city famously squandered its chance for a citywide system several years ago. But the Department of Technology, in partnership with other agencies, has been installing free Internet in patches ever since. There are now dozens of public hotspots, mostly around low-income communities, parks, hospitals and libraries.
The efforts have largely fallen under the radar, probably because stories about a block of Wi-Fi aren't as headline grabbing as a system that blankets the city. But residents, businesses and visitors are bound to notice the next installment along one of the city's most prominent commercial corridors.
San Francisco's acting Chief Information Officer Jon Walton said the network should provide adequate coverage for common Internet use.
"We want anybody walking up and down the street, sitting in the park or having a cup of coffee, to be able to hop onto the network and use it," he said.
Several years ago, Google and EarthLink agreed to provide San Francisco with free Wi-Fi service, but the plan fell apart amid political infighting, concerns about privacy and financial problems at EarthLink.
Similarly ambitious efforts have flopped around the country for some combination of political, economic or technical reasons. It turns out it's expensive and difficult to provide a Wi-Fi system that serves a large city. But Walton believes the patchwork approach, which sidesteps much of the political drama, will eventually lead to the same result. Declining prices and improving technology are also moving us ever closer to that goal.
"Free public Wi-Fi is an idea that will happen," Walton said. "It's a question of when, not if."
There is still debate about whether cities should be in the business of paying for free Wi-Fi, but there shouldn't be.
These networks are every bit as central to the information economy as roads were to the industrial one. It's how we move the products of the day. It's the basis of the communications that have become vital to our personal and professional lives.
Beyond that, public Wi-Fi offers Internet access to those who can't afford it. It nudges private Internet service providers to offer better service at lower prices. It offers alternatives when the strained cellular networks of companies like AT&T fail. And it's a competitive lure for attracting businesses and people to San Francisco.
San Francisco's network is a basic, open Wi-Fi system (users will see: SFGov_Free_WiFi). The city doesn't monitor use, block sites or require accounts.
Walton said it's no more or less secure than any open Internet signal, so users should exercise common-sense discretion about the sites they visit and information they enter (for instance, I wouldn't do my online banking over public Wi-Fi).
Walton added that the system isn't tied to the city's network, so it shouldn't raise security concerns for law enforcement and other departments.
San Francisco also plans to restore public Wi-Fi access at Union Square and add hotspots along parts of Golden Gate Park, the Mission Street corridor and additional libraries and open spaces. It chooses the locations of access points based on demand (residents can add suggestions at sfgov.org/wifi) and cost efficiency. The city has an online map of Wi-Fi sites available to the public ( www.sfgov3.org/ftp/survey/wifi_map.html). The Department of Technology secured $80,000 from the Board of Supervisors for Wi-Fi projects during this year's budget negotiations. It's been making the most of that money by, whenever possible, installing access points where the city already has power and data fiber lines, such as traffic lights or public buildings.
Walton expects the Market Street rollout to begin in December and to be completed around the end of March.
City apps: In other city tech news, the Department of Technology is on the verge of delivering mobile apps that will provide a new means of accessing the city information and services now available on SFgov.org. It built versions for both Android and Apple smart phones and is awaiting approval to appear in Apple's App Store.
"We understand people are more mobile, and if they want to access city services, we want them to be able to do it on demand," said Ron Vinson, director of media for the department.
Users of the app will be able to watch live city meetings, check out the social media feeds of various departments, and look up other city information. Planned updates will include tablet versions of the software, and the ability to submit questions or concerns to the city's 311 customer service center, Vinson said.
The city is also releasing a mobile version of the website (m.sfgov.org), as well as a new section of the home page that showcases mobile apps that it has developed or that rely on its data. That would include a compelling one unveiled this week by Assessor-Recorder and mayoral candidate Phil Ting.
The Parkzing app for Apple gadgets is designed to help people avoid the wallet-dinging frustration of having a car towed in San Francisco. If a drivers launch the app after they park, it will alert them 10 minutes before a tow zone goes into effect at that location or the night before morning street cleanings.
Rather than navigating through the usual city process for approving and developing technology, Ting and his organization, Reset San Francisco, sponsored a mobile app contest.
The winner, Aren Sandersen, developed the software in two months and snagged a $1,000 prize.
"Using Web 2.0 tools, Sunshine (Ordinance information) requests and a little old-fashioned incentive-based marketing, we were able to do in less than two months and for just $1,000 what it would have taken City Hall two years and millions of dollars to accomplish," Ting said.
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hmm.. I seem to be having some troubles with moving a camera in 3D space.. I've read through some tutorials and tried writing some code but I just cannot get the effect I want..
1) When up or down is pressed on keyboard I want the camera & view to move up or down (like someone is wearing a jetpack and is flying)
2) When left or right is pressed on the keyboard i want the camera to rotate around a point vertically
Can someone tell me the steps i need to accomplish this?
1) Check for keyboard input
2) Find the direction between camera & view
3) Find the cross product between direction & upvector
4) Normalize the cross vector
5) who knows ???
Am i even on the right track? I've looked at code that rotates the camera around a point horizontally and strafes the camera left and right but i can't understand the math.. anyone have a good site that explains the math involved with some diagrams or something? I can't picture the upvector or the cross product vector in my mind... its making it difficult to imagine what axises i need to rotate about... thnx for any help
[EDIT] i've messed around a bit more and i got the camera to act like someone is wearing a jetpack.. though i doubt i did it correctly...
can someone tell me if this is the correct way to go about this? it works though i haven't tried rotating the camera so i don't know if this code will still work since i noticed in camera strafing left/right you find the cross product of the camera's direction and camera's up vector.. though i couldn't get camera to go up/down unless i removed the cross product thing...Code:1) Camera view - camera position = camera direction 2) Camera position = Camera position + camera direction * constant speed 3) Camera view = Camera view + camera direction * constant speed

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The Adobe@Adobe Video Production Team was on hand at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, helping out with two major Adobe initiatives being put on by Adobe's Social Media Team at the event. Adobe was a leadership sponsor of the film festival this year, and helped celebrate independent film, storytelling, while helping to share stories about how Adobe's industry leading video tools help bring new ideas to life.
PillowTalk Interviews
The first initiative, PillowTalk, was a series of live-streamed, and on-demand interviews with a number of filmmakers, actors, and artists. The series was unique in that it invited the guests to be interviewed in bed, in a less formal setting to discuss their films, and what they see coming up next in the industry. The A@A Video Production Team provided their technical production skills to broadcast out these interviews over YouTube Live, reaching over 1.4 million viewers of these videos. Taken from an unusual top-down perspective, the interviews were extremely well received by both guests and fans alike, as the interviews took place on a bed right inside the extremely busy Airbnb Haus, allowing onlookers to watch the interviews live. It was a lot of fun, and provided a fresh, relaxed interview environment, that seemed in-tune with the atmosphere of the always amazing Airbnb Haus. The A@A Team continues to help with Adobe's expansion into social live-stream experiences, as that medium continues to be a fun and interactive way to reach customers.
Make It Experience featuring Adobe Post
Between PillowTalk interviews, and in partnership with Airbnb, attendees were invited to jump into bed themselves, to take a photo memory of their Sundance experience, while getting the chance to bring their photos to life with Adobe Post, Adobe's newest mobile app that builds stunning graphics in seconds. The Adobe@Adobe Video Team was able to develop an efficient workflow that allowed attendees to take a photo in bed, and then share that photo to an iPad, which allowed editing of the photo in Adobe Post. The workflow then automatically applied a branded Adobe & Airbnb border to the image, and shared the photo back to the user via Twitter, email, or iMessage. The activation was a huge success, with over 3000 people being photographed over the week. Despite the complexities of moving digital assets around so quickly, for so many people, the workflow was still able to easily able to handle the crowds, and help people get their shared photo in a timely manner. The solution utilized a couple of third party technologies such as a CamRanger wireless DSLR remote control that allowed camera control from an iPad (as the Canon 5D MkII we used was ceiling mounted), as well as a great iPad application called "Workflow" that allowed for easy automation for what would have been manual tasks, like adding a custom border to a photo, or sending a Tweet or email. The magic of Adobe Post ensured that everyone's photo turned out looking great, and we utilized the Creative Cloud for our photo gallery of final images! Of course, the impact of this social engagement was measured in Adobe Social, where Adobe was able to greatly exceed their 2015 numbers for brand reach.
Once again, it was an honour for the A@A Team to be included in these activities at Sundance 2016 (while getting the chance to catch a couple of wonderful films as well!), and we are pleased that we were able to help expose new people to some of Adobe's amazing technology, while helping to strengthen the Adobe brand. Looking forward to helping out again in 2017!


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The nuclear crisis on Japan's northeast shores is throwing several nascent European nuclear projects into debate – in Poland, Italy, Sweden, and Switzerland – a day after European leaders agreed to "stress tests" on all current nuclear plants in the European Union.
EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger said a planned Bulgarian nuclear plant on the Danube in a highly seismic zone will be reassessed, and offered bleak comments on Europe's nuclear future.
Europe is the most nuclearized zone on the planet, with 143 reactors, and eight more under construction. Yet the EU has no formal nuclear policy, with each nation mapping its own plans.
After the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986 in what is now Ukraine, a powerful antinuclear lobby emerged in Europe, especially in Germany and Italy. But in recent years, visions of a "nuclear renaissance" here are supplementing a bright green European proclivity for wind-turbines and solar power.
Yet Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, capturing the public mood as Europeans watch the tops blown off of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, calls the disaster "a turning point in the history of technology based society."
Critics complain she's pandering to voters. French leader Nicolas Sarkozy plans to raise nuclear safety as a major theme at the next G-20 that France heads; pound-for-pound France is the world's nuclear leader, with 58 reactors.
Europe desires to be the premier Kyoto-adhering low carbon-emitting civilization, and its utilities increasingly forecast nuclear power as part of the mix. The relatively minor accidents since Chernobyl, promises of improved safety, and arguments of reduced global warming and coal-fired power have brought billions in EU loans for new nuclear projects.
But the renaissance comes directly in the face of events at Fukushima Daiichi. Ms. Merkel ordered the shut down of seven plants, and EU energy chief Mr. Oettinger even hinted the "possibility" of a "foreseeable future" without nuclear reactors in Europe, though critics said he was speaking ahead of himself.
Still, amid Japan's agony, Switzerland's energy ministry said Tuesday it will put on hold three planned reactors.
Italian officials and representatives of its public utility Enel vowed Monday to move forward with a $25 billion joint French project to build four reactors. Italy voted no to nuclear in 1987. And now, despite government efforts to restart nuclear projects, with 63 percent of Italians opposed to reactors in one of Europe's more severe earthquake nations, a June referendum could permanently scotch the project.
Poland is divided 50-50 on pending nuclear blueprints, but Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said his country will move forward with construction of two projects, one to open in 2020. "Japan's disaster is not evidence that nuclear energy is unsafe; Poland does not have to fear an earthquake or tsunami," he said.
Sweden, with 10 working plants, phased out nuclear energy after the Three Mile Island incident in the US, but last year brought nuclear renaissance ideas back on line. Now new public fears may again delay this.
In Brussels, much of the energy and focus on nuclear reactors has come from Austria and its environment minister, Nikolaus Berlakovich. Antinuclear views appear to transcend party politics in Austria, which banned reactors in 1978 after completing the building of one plant.
Yesterday's "stress tests" and safety review adopted by the EU were Austrian proposals. Even Oettinger, when asked about details of the stress test, referred inquires to the Austrians. The tests, which are voluntary, will take place in the second half of the year. They will examine safety issues involving earthquakes, flooding, the age of the reactors and their cooling systems and ability to contain a meltdown.


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Cam Weaver's goal a minute before halftime stood up as the game-winner as the Houston Dynamo Reserves defeated the Montreal Impact Reserves, 1-0, on Saturday morning at Houston Methodist Champions' Field at Houston Sports Park.
The Dynamo Reserves finish the MLS Reserve League season 5-4-0 (15 points) in the East Division. The Impact Reserves are now 4-4-3 (15 points).
Houston's scoring play began with a well-weighted through ball from Dynamo guest player Joe Dixon, who threaded his pass to Omar Cummings. The Dynamo forward drove toward the near post before slotting a pinpoint pass to Weaver, who finished his chance from eight yards for a 1-0 lead in the 44th minute.
The Dynamo pushed for a second goal after halftime. In the 63rd minute, Cummings struck a shot from 15 yards that forced a good save from Montreal goalkeeper Max Crépeau.
The Impact came close to equalizing five minutes later as Victor Ndiaye, an Impact Academy player, broke into the box before Houston goalkeeper Tyler Deric slid to block his shot.
Just two minutes later, Deric came up with another important save. Impact substitute forward Andrew Wenger raced in behind the Houston defense and drove a low shot that required a foot save from Deric.
The Dynamo had two chances in the 78th minute, as Jason Johnson's hard shot from 12 yards was saved by Crépeau before the rebound fell to Andrew Driver, who fired wide from six yards.
Ndiaye continued to threaten late in the game, including a chance in the 90th minute, but his shot sailed over the crossbar from 15 yards for Montreal's last chance on goal.
Deric recorded his second Reserve League shutout of the season.
Houston Dynamo Reserves (5-4-0; 15 points) vs. Montreal Impact Reserves (4-4-3; 15 points)
MLS Reserve League
October 5, 2013 — Houston Sports Park, Houston, Texas
Scoring summary:
Houston Dynamo: Cam Weaver 1 (Omar Cummings 1) 44
Houston Dynamo: Tyler Deric; Christian Gonzalez*, Eric Brunner, Antony Arena, Mike Chabala; Jason Johnson, Servando Carrasco, Alexander Lopez, Joe Dixon* (Bryan Salazar 46); Cam Weaver © (Andrew Driver 61), Omar Cummings (Memo Rodriguez 89^)
Substitutes not used: Erich Marscheider, Stuart Close^, Irvin Ramirez, Calen Carr
Montreal Impact: Max Crépeau; Maxim Tissot (Louis Beland-Goyette 61^), Amine Meftouh^, Dominique Morin^, Karl W. Ouimette ©; Blake Smith, Paolo Del Piccolo, Jérémy Gagnon-Lapare^, Zakaria Messoudi; Sanna Nyassi (Andrew Wenger 67), Victor Ndiaye^
Substitutes not used: None
*Guest player ^Academy player
Misconduct Summary:
HOU: Eric Brunner (caution) 8
MTL: Jeremy Gagnon-Lapare (caution) 53
HOU: Anthony Arena (caution) 55
Referee: Alejandro Mariscal
Referee's Assistants: Greg Boles, Gabriel Powell
4th Official: Ricardo Hernandez


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Hello, my name is Melissa and I'm a procrastinator.
Yes, it's that dreaded nightmare that holds people back from continuing their plans (or even getting started on something). I admit that I can be a really bad procrastinator. Back in school, if I could put something off, I would usually do it. I always liked to think I just got distracted really easily (which I do, trust me), but I can't put all of the blame on that. Sometimes, it's not distractions that hold me back. It's not having the drive to do it or putting it off to the side so I can "Finish it later." We all know that never really happens.
Have I been procrastinating finishing my book? Yes. Have I been doing anything about that? No.
A part of it is definitely fear. Fear of what's next after that last word is written. After the editing is completed and the book is ready to find a publishing home. Self-publishing or not? If I do go self-pub, how am I going to do it? How in the hell am I going to afford it? Those questions race through my mind and makes the procrastination monster rear it's ugly head.
Tomorrow, I'm making an effort to try and write more. It's important to get this finished even when I don't know what I'm doing afterwards. I have to worry about that after I'm finished. Not right now.
I also plan on blogging on here more. I've been so busy trying to make jewelry and hair accessories to put in my etsy shop so I can save up money to actually publish my book. I'm still not seeing much success, but I guess it's all about patience, right? If you want to read all about my jewelry and hair accessory making, you should check out my new blog which talks all about that. 🙂 I also have one that I started on blogspot for all of you on that site to follow. I'm probably going to make the switch to that one soon.
I'll leave you with this flower headband I just made that's in my etsy shop.
Hopefully, tomorrow I'll be back to talk about my views on self-publishing vs. traditional publishing. Stay tuned!


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Monday, June 6, 2011
Referentially transparent nondeterminism
Nondeterminism is both useful and important. In the context of stream transforming functions, we need to be able to merge two inputs to a stream transformer without specifying an ordering on the elements. As an example, if we have an event stream for mouse clicks and an event stream for key presses, we need to be able to merge these streams in a nondeterministic way, without saying anything at all about how the streams interleave - that is, I do not want to specify that the output stream is, say, all the mouse clicks followed by all the key presses, or the two interleaved in a completely regular way. No, what I want is more like the result of summing two independent random variables - the actual stream of events for the merged stream will be interleaved in a random way (not truly random, but modeled outside of the system), where there is no interaction between these events. I should be able to remove (via filtering) all the key presses from the merged stream and obtain something equivalent to the original mouse click stream.
In order to keep RT, then, whatever consumes this stream must also end the universe (it can never return). If such a consumer did return, we could then feed the stream to another consumer and observe that we did not have the same results. But this is nothing new, functional programming is all about moving side effects to the edges of the program where they cannot be observed. The only difference is what effects we're hiding in this way. There's something neat about the approach though - instead of eliminating the nondeterminism entirely, which would force us to chose some global, explicit ordering for our effects (unrealistic for a distributed system and many other situations), we keep the nondeterminism and just focus on pushing it to the outside of our programs like we would other effects.
At some point I'll write up these ideas in code to make it clearer what heck I'm talking about.
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- jamiiecb said...
This is close in spirit to the CALM theorem (http://www.bloom-lang.net/calm/). Basically, the eventual result of a monotonic logic program is referentially transparent with respect to the ordering of elements in incoming streams. This means that distributed monotonic logic programs are eventually consistent.
I also did some work in the past using transactional mealy machines (with non-deterministic scheduling) to implement a betting exchange. I wrote about it very briefly at http://scattered-thoughts.net/one/1300/292121/72985 . I haven't had a chance to watch your talk yet (still at work) but I'll be interested to see how you reconciled determinism and addressable actors, if at all.
- June 6, 2011 at 11:34 PM
- jamiiecb said...
Your approach seems similar to Opis (http://perso.eleves.bretagne.ens-cachan.fr/~dagand/opis/). Opis comes with some fairly amazing tooling which could be ported to Scala. From the original announcement:
Beyond an EDSL, Opis also provides some useful tools to speed-up the
development and deployment of event functions. Hence, given an event
function and without any modification, we can:
- deploy it on a real network
- simulate a network executing the event function, to test the
behavior of the system "in the large"
- debug a network of nodes running the event function, to inspect
the system "in the small", with forward and backward execution steps,
state inspection, ...
- model-check the distributed system against safety properties,
featuring a dynamic partial-order reduction mode that avoids the usual
combinatorial explosion in most systems
- performance-debug the pure functions, by measuring their
processing time and inferring their (algorithmic) complexity
- June 6, 2011 at 11:49 PM
- Paul Chiusano said...
@jamieecb - Thanks for the references. :) I will take a look.
- June 7, 2011 at 5:34 AM


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German chocolate cake is an aggravating cake. It's not German (it's named for Sam German). It's barely chocolate (it relies on the low-wattage "sweet chocolate" German developed). It's filled with a sticky mix of pecan bits and coconut flake, which goes on gloppy and goes down chewy. And it lacks frosting.
The playwright who introduces a gun in the first act is advised to fire it in the second. Likewise the pastry chef who calls for a four-yolk filling ought to follow up with a four-white frosting. Any recipe that calls it quits — leaving cake bare and whites idle — should be shredded.
I figured I could bake a German chocolate cake with a deeper, darker outlook. I'd lose the flakes, but retain the coconut lilt. I'd crisp the nuts and fluff the filling. I'd lavish the cake with a lightly salted caramel frosting. A sort of plate-and-fork candy bar.
My plan worked. Though it took 16 pounds of butter, 16 trying afternoons and 15 failures.
The nutty expedition deepened my respect for the pastry chef, who must balance delicious and doable. I even came to appreciate that guy German, and the Southern cooks who turned his baking bar into the back-of-the-box classic. By introducing chocolate, coconut and pecan, they knew something startlingly good would happen.
Intensive German chocolate cake
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1 glamorously tall 9-inch cake
2 cups cake flour
6 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened
2 1/2 cups dark brown sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 eggs
4 ounces unsweetened chocolate, melted
1 cup buttermilk
3/4 cup boiling water
1. Fluff: Whisk together flour, cocoa, soda and salt. Set aside. Beat butter, sugar and vanilla fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating fluffy after each. Mix in chocolate. Mix in alternating scoops of flour mixture and buttermilk. Thin with the hot water.
2. Bake: Pour into two 9-inch cake pans, buttered, lined with parchment paper. Bake at 350 degrees, about 28 minutes. Turn out; cool.
3. Stack: Slice layers in half horizontally. Set one layer on a cake platter, cut-side down. Spread on 1/3 pecan filling. Continue filling and stacking. Cover top and sides with caramel buttercream.
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Pecan filling:
Melt 1 stick unsalted butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir in 1 cup dark brown sugar, 1/4 cup coconut milk, 1/4 cup whipping cream, 1/4 teaspoon salt and 4 egg yolks. Cook, stirring, until thickened, about 10 minutes. Cool. Beat fluffy. Stir in 2 1/4 cups toasted chopped pecans.
Caramel buttercream:
Stir together 1/2 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons water and pinch salt in a saucepan. Heat to a boil. Cook, without stirring, until syrup starts to color, about 3 minutes. Reduce heat to medium; stir to a dark amber, 2 minutes. Pull pan off heat; carefully stir in 1/2 cup whipping cream. Cool. Whisk together 4 egg whites and 3/4 cup sugar in a saucepan over medium-high heat, whisking constantly, until foamy and 160 degrees. Pour into a bowl; beat to cool glossy peaks, 5 minutes. Beat in 2 sticks softened butter, a few tablespoons at a time. Beat in caramel.


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Rural broadband service coming to libraries, schools - but not homes
By: Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
High-speed Internet access could be coming to rural Wisconsin schools and libraries soon, but it could be years before the service is available to businesses and homes in some areas - if it's ever available.
Gov. Jim Doyle said Thursday that Wisconsin will receive nearly $23 million in federal stimulus money to provide high-speed, or broadband, Internet access to 467 sites in 380 communities.
More than 200 miles of fiber-optic cable will be installed to bring the service to 385 libraries and 82 schools.
The cable could improve police, fire department and hospital communications in rural areas.
Having the cable in every county will make it easier to expand broadband, said Thad Nation, executive director of Wired Wisconsin, a non-profit group focused on telecommunications issues.
Some rural schools and libraries could receive high-speed Internet access in 12 months as a result of the stimulus money. The work will be done by contractors hired by state government.
But don't expect broadband in all rural homes and businesses anytime soon.
The state's Internet service providers were shunned in the first round of stimulus grants aimed at bringing broadband to rural communities.
"If the goal is ubiquitous broadband in a short time, that clearly isn't going to happen," said Steve Schneider, president of Hilbert Communications of Green Bay.
Hilbert and other Internet providers applied for stimulus grants but instead received rejection letters with almost no explanation as to why they were turned down.
"My take on it was the government did very politically safe projects," Schneider said.
Hilbert is moving ahead with plans to bring broadband to rural areas, but the process will be slower without stimulus money.
It also would help if banks loosened their lending policies, Schneider said.
"Before, if a company raised $30 million in private equity, banks would be clamoring to get involved. But that isn't happening now," he said.
Internet providers say they can't afford to extend broadband coverage to rural areas where there are a limited number of customers. It could cost several billion dollars to make the service available statewide.
Experts say ideally there would be several hundred million dollars in federal stimulus money leveraged with money from private industry. Then most of the coverage gaps in Wisconsin could be filled in only a few years.
Second round planned
Applications are being accepted for a second round of stimulus grants, although some broadband providers say they haven't decided whether to pursue the funding again.
"It wasn't a real communicative process," Schneider said.
"We got a form letter saying we were rejected," said Brighid Riordan, spokeswoman for Cellcom, a Green Bay broadband provider that applied for $12 million in stimulus money to expand service in six rural Wisconsin counties and two Michigan counties.
About 80% of Wisconsin residents have access to some type of broadband through cable television providers or telephone companies, according to industry figures. But coverage gaps in rural areas are a problem as businesses and individuals increasingly turn to the Internet for everything from online sales to entertainment.
Nationwide there were 2,200 applications for broadband stimulus money, and about 1,300 of them were denied, said Tom Jackson, a staff member with state Sen. Dale Schultz (R-Richland Center).
Left behind
Improvements are coming at "glacial speed," Jackson said.
The lack of broadband access has put children in rural schools at a competitive disadvantage. Unable to quickly access podcasts, videos and Webinars, these children are a step behind in a technological society.
Rural businesses and residents also can be at a disadvantage if they don't have broadband.
"It would be a net plus, economically, if we were linked in effectively," said Jordon Maclay, a retired quantum physics professor near Richland Center who does research on rocket propulsion systems.
Maclay is frustrated over a lack of fast, reliable access to the Web for business and personal use.
"I don't get online trade journals because it would take half a day to download them," he said.


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UN: HIV may afflict almost half of Asia-Pacific transgenders
BANGKOK—Nearly half of transgender people in the Asia-Pacific region could have HIV as poor healthcare and high-risk lifestyles push infection rates to "critical levels", a UN report said Thursday.
The region's estimated 9-9.5 million transgender population is "bearing the brunt of the HIV epidemic", the UN Development Program study said, adding that figures suggest 49 percent of the community could be infected.
The figure is drawn from anecdotal evidence of infection rates among trans-women — men who become women — taken from the "scattered and often small-scale research" available across the region, the UNDP said.
Report author Sam Winter, of Hong Kong University, urged governments to take note of the "burning need to address a very human crisis", pointing out many transgender people end up working as prostitutes and having unsafe sex.
"Social exclusion, poverty and HIV infection contribute to what we call a 'stigma sickness slope' — a downward spiral that is difficult to reverse," he said in the "Lost in Transition" study.
Transgender people also routinely suffer violence and prejudice while being offered narrow economic opportunities and scant psychological support, the report found.
Billed as the region's most comprehensive study, the report collates information from the last 12 years, painting a picture of hardship for many transgender people, who lack basic healthcare and emotional help.
It recorded cases of "backyard" sex change surgery including castration and the widespread use of unsafe industrial silicone for breast implants among those who cannot afford quality healthcare.
Often transgender people leave home at a young age in response to family disapproval, drop out off school because of bullying and struggle to find work, which pushes them into prostitution, it said.
But the study also highlighted positive developments, noting an increasingly confident transgender identity has taken root. It also detected greater will from the community to engage with mainstream services and policy discussions.
"The creation of advocacy networks, community-based organizations and non-government organizations devoted to empowering our communities is a source of joy," according to Thai transgender activist Prempreeda Pramoj Na Ayutthaya.
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Occupy's Pledge to FIGHT BACK
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Occupy's Pledge to FIGHT BACK
We Didn't Start the Class War
Matthieu Béguelin pledged on to fight back against the 1% by doing the following:
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"What you should be scared of is Romney's plan for those of us in the working class!"
It's been just long enough since last year's Reese's Peanut Butter Cup hangover to allow me to look forward to another Halloween. Assuming I will have learned nothing from previous celebrations, I'll undoubtedly be purchasing an extra big bag of candy under the pretence of preparing for trick-or-treaters, knowing full well that, in the five years I've lived here, I've gotten exactly one caller.
Let me tell you though – that one trick-or-treater made me so excited I gave him three huge handfuls of candy; enough that both he and his mother looked a little concerned; there was almost certainly an after-hours comb-through to search for pins and poison in the hoard I'd bestowed.
I'm digressing here, but why hasn't anyone invented candy pins? Am I alone in thinking that would be neat?
Still better than Necco Wafers!
Every year I assemble folks to watch horror films and eat candy. I don't yet know what we'll be watching (last year it was Susperia) but I am ready with a playlist of atmospheric Halloween music, some of which I'll share with you…
First, nothing fills out a Halloween playlist better than a hearty dose of organ music by the baddest mutterficker of baroque: Johann Sebastian Bach.


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Delaware State Animals
State Bird: Blue Hen
Adopted on April 14, 1939, the Blue Hen chicken had long been used as a motif in numerous political campaigns and in many publications. During the Revolutionary War, the men of Captain Jonathan Caldwell's company, recruited in Kent County, took with them game chickens that were said to be of the brood of a famous Blue Hen and were noted for their fighting ability. When not fighting the enemy, the officers and men amused themselves by pitting their Blue Hen chickens in cockfights. The fame of these cockfights spread throughout the army and when in battle, the Delaware men fought so valiantly that they were compared to these fighting cocks.
Delaware Code Title 29 § 304
State Dog: Rescue Dogs
Signed on May 15, 2019, the state dog of Delaware is rescue dogs. There are many animal welfare agencies in the State of Delaware who are proud to provide care for these homeless dogs, striving to enhance the well-being of companion animals and committing to ending pet overpopulation. Animal shelters and rescue groups are brimming with happy, healthy dogs just waiting for someone to take them home.
Delaware Code Title 29 § 327
State Fish: Weakfish
In recognition of sport fishing's overall recreational and economic contributions to the state of Delaware and of the specific values of the weakfish (Cynoscion genus) as a game and food fish, the state Legislature adopted the weakfish as Delaware's State fish in 1981. This fish is also known as sea trout, gray trout, yellow mouth, yellow fin trout, squeteague, and tiderunner.
Delaware Code Title 29 § 311
State Marine Animal: Horseshoe Crab
Recognizing its great importance and value, the horseshoe crab was designated as Delaware's official marine animal on June 25, 2002. These invertebrates contain a compound, limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL), that is used to detect bacterial poisons in certain medications, vaccines and medical devices. Chitin, a natural polymer found in the horseshoe crab's shell, is used to make bandages. The horseshoe crab is used in vision studies, because their complex eye structure is similar to the human eye. It is the principal food source for over a million shore birds. Delaware Bay is the home to more horseshoe crabs than any other place in the world.
Delaware Code Title 29 § 319
State Wildlife Animal: Grey Fox
Adopted June 10, 2010, the grey fox is a unique and primitive species, believed to be between 7 and 10 million years old, which is indigenous to Delaware. It is a swift and powerful animal capable of running up to 28 miles per hours and the only member of the canid family which is able to climb trees. The fourth grade students at Joseph M. McVey Elementary School, as part of teacher Paul Sedacca's lessons on persuasive writing, suggested that the grey fox be designated as Delaware's official state wildlife animal. Since it does not hibernate, the students said that it is "always ready like our soldiers at Dover Air Force Base".
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There has been a lot of righteous indignation displayed by government officials (primarily by U.S. senators and Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood) over the proposal by Spirit Airlines to charge passengers for carry-on bags. Specifically, Spirit Airlines has said that it will charge $45 for carry-on luggage using the overhead bins. Some of the responses are almost comical:
"We are going from the sublime to the ridiculous with airlines," Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-N.J.) said at a news conference last week in Washington.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) called the fee a "slap in the face to travelers." Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) called it "skyway robbery."
The lawmakers hope to put the kibosh on the fee by imposing a tax on all airline revenue collected from such charges.
I'm not a frequent flyer, but I've flown enough to recognize that baggage fees have created a big problem with boarding airplanes. In the era of the checked baggage fee people have chosen to cram everything into a carry-on. Of course, when everyone brings a full-sized carry-on there is not enough room in the overhead bins for all the passenger luggage and the airline inevitably spends a lot of time placing carry-on bags in.
So, to combat that Spirit Airlines has instituted a carry-on bag fee. What has been glossed over is that Spirit is merely providing incentive for passengers to check their bags in the first place rather than carrying them on. The first checked bag will only cost $25 if checked online before arriving at the airport ($20 less than for a potentially smaller carry-on). Therefore Spirit is merely making the carry-on a luxury and giving reason for people to check their luggage. Oh my! Senators are really upset that flights will run more smoothly and that Spirit may actually assist with difficulty of TSA security checks?
Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe looks at this issue from a free market perspective.
But if [Senator Charles] Schumer grieves so deeply about travelers being "nickeled and dimed'' when they fly, why has he never gone after the US ticket tax, which adds 7.5 percent to the price of every domestic flight? Or the $16.50 the federal government charges for each international departure and arrival? Or the $17 in customs and inspection fees paid by passengers flying into US airports from abroad? Or the "passenger facilities charges'' (up to $18 per round-trip)? Or the "US Security Service Fee'' ($2.50 per departure)? Or the "domestic segment fee'' ($3.70 per flight segment)? The government's unremitting "nickeling and diming'' of airline passengers doesn't trouble the sleep of New York's senior senator. Only when a private firm acts does he toss and turn in anguish.
Reality check: Every airline charges for its overhead bins, just as every airline charges for bathrooms, oxygen masks, and flight attendants. The cost of those amenities is built into the fare you pay when you fly, and you pay whether you use them or not. The same used to be true of the "free'' meals, pillows, and baggage handling airlines provided, before they unbundled those services, made them optional, and began charging for them separately. Spirit, an ultra-low cost carrier that describes itself as "the unbundling leader in the industry,'' has decided to do the same for carry-on luggage, simultaneously reducing its base fares by $40 or more each way. …
Is Spirit's strategy a good one? The free market can answer that question faster and more accurately than any one of us can. The less assistance it gets from grandstanding senators and transportation secretaries, the better off all travelers will be.
I agree that politicians have found a pinata not worthy of their attack, especially given that Spirit Airlines has less than 3% of the US market share for airlines.


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The Orc ({{OrCr}}, Orc Crusader) makes by far the best race for Crusaders. Due to his massive attack bonus, an Orc Crusader's heightened base attack will be multiplied to enormous proportions. It is virtually impossible for a Human Crusader to exceed the attack power of an Orc Crusader, and other races simply don't make sense by comparison.
Once you have unlocked every one of the Gods, you may encounter the Crusader in a subdungeon. You much reach 100 piety with any deity in order to gain his trust, at which point you will unlock the Crusader class. Reaching 100 piety is easiest with The Earthmother. A single use of her plantation boon is usually enough to generate 100 piety.
The Crusader can build up to massive amounts of attack bonus, reaching up to +100% after killing four enemies. This allows Crusaders to deal massive amounts of damage that other classes simply couldn't achieve with a single blow. On the other hand, the Crusader loses this bonus if he doesn't land a killing blow, so he must repeatedly kill low-level monsters to rebuild his momentum and deal his maximum damage. This makes it exceedingly important to leave lots of low-level monsters alive for the boss battle, and makes him work very well with deities like Tikki Tooki. Note that killing monsters that don't grant XP will still cause your momentum to disappear. This makes it very difficult to play the Crusader on the Hexx Ruins level.
Normally you will want to be immune to either weakening or mana burn, depending on your dungeon. It is a good idea to seek out the type of affliction you want to be immune to as early as possible. This is especially important when using Patches. Being immune to mana burn makes it much easier to use Patches, but he might randomly poison you when you level up, so you must gain mana burn immunity as soon as possible. For some reason, Jehora Jeheyu's punishments do not trigger the "scarred" effect, so you will need to find immunity from another source if you wish to use the Crusader to ignore Jehora Jeheyu's penalties.
One particularly devious strategy with the Crusader is the so-called "one-hit-wonder". This Crusader both prepares a strength potion and purchases one in dungeon, and otherwise works to maximize his attack bonus (usually by playing orc and converting just about everything). He then builds up to 100% momentum and activates each of the strength potions, regenerating his mana between each activation. This will grant him a single attack that deals several hundred damage. Against weaker bosses, this is often enough to kill them outright with a single blow. These strength potions last for only a single attack, however, so make sure it counts!
Prior to a change to the apothecary that reduced the number of strength potions a character can have simultaneously, the Crusader was one of the only classes in the game that could kill a boss with melee attacks as a level 1 character.


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Faulknerian: The Trouble isn't with Harry
The Trouble With Harry
at Dürty Nelly's
December 12
Though the crowd was rather sparse at Dürty Nelly's last Friday night, it definitely was not the fault of local pop/rock group The Trouble With Harry– the group performed a set of almost all original tunes that spoke of crafty songsmithing and a talent for melody.
Fronted by Harry Faulkner, Boyd Tinsley's bandmate until 1994, The Trouble With Harry has a sound that's refreshingly different from the normal roots-heavy Charlottesville scene, instead heeding influences along the lines of Dire Straits crossed with Jimmy Buffett's tropical flavor.
Composed of Faulkner on acoustic guitar (and later electric), a bassist, a drummer, and a lead guitarist, the group spent more than a few minutes setting up, but the set that unfolded after about 9:30 was worth the wait. The first tune reminded me a bit of the aforementioned Straits' hit, "Romeo and Juliet" (a phenomenal work, if I do say so myself), though this was only in general feeling, not because of any melody or instrumentation influence. An original song, this number was my first exposure to Faulkner's voice, and I must say I was very impressed– flexible where it needs to be and stronger than most. It was quite a pleasant unexpected surprise.
The group easily pulled off a cover of the Band tune "Up On Cripple Creek," the lead guitar wahing it up with the best of them, and Faulkner's falsetto-yodeling for the middle breakdown equally impressive. Another original with one of the better examples of over-the-top rhyming ("The story goes that Cecil knows" and "That was when the cops arrived to investigate a suicide") was the last acoustic/electric song performed before Faulkner switched over to electric, sarcastically remarking, "My guitar tech guy didn't make it tonight" as an excuse for the length of time for the switch.
Introducing it as "the oldest song in their repertoire," Faulkner sighed that when he wrote it he was talking about "Arabs shooting bombs like in 1983– the sad part is it's still relevant."
Faulkner's reggae staccato guitar and nicely placed echoey leads elevated the song from a great but– note wise, predictable– verse chorus structure. On the bridge, however, the song broke from convention with an unusual chord change that tickled the critic's senses.
More great pop songs followed, and a stronger reliance on the jam, though the group never reverted to extended instrumental passages (one of my personal banes). With songs easily good enough to fit on modern radio (and probably improve some play-lists quite a bit), The Trouble With Harry might just be lack of publicity rather than any failings of the group.
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For those tired of only seeing friends' new photos after Facebook announcements, there's now Pixable, a new application that says it will keep the social network's millions of photos organized and relevant to each user called: the Pixable Photofeed.
Pixable actually compares itself to Google's algorithm and calls itself the "first intelligent and comprehensive photo aggregator on the web."
Our WonderRank technology acts as your own, personal "photobot", analyzing dozens of Facebook variables ultimately producing the photos that you find most interesting. This targeted experience is enhanced by the ability to "follow" friends and receive notifications when they comment on, are tagged in, or upload new photos. This is key for anyone looking to keep up with happenings in their social circle.
The app does allow a lot of searching options, including following friends' photo activity as well as having categories such as "photos with girls." All in all, it's not an application you can't live without, but maybe you just might be the first of your friends to see Kevin's latest drunken escapade or Tamika's photo with Justin Bieber.


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You can inspect the gift card boxes in the adhering to ways:
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If you do not have the opportunity to inspect the gift card online, you can call the telephone number that is specifically given to inspect the equilibrium of your gift card. This contact number is also on one side of the gift card boxes.
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ok but it doesnt help, all settings low, render set to 80%,vsync turn on and my fps 60 and drops during all game, if settings set to medium or higher i`ve got almost stable 40
ok but it doesnt help, all settings low, render set to 80%,vsync turn on and my fps 60 and drops during all game, if settings set to medium or higher i`ve got almost stable 40
any other suggestion to improve my FPS besides buying new computer (parts)?
i tested Underlord since spamming his Firestorm ability will give me lowest FPS
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Pausing the game to execute perftest.cfg is misleading specially when it comes to particle performance, since the load drops significantly (-50%?!).
Particles are exactly what hurts the most any low end system, and it's unfortunate that lowering Effects Quality only does a lame cl_particle_fallback_base adjustment, not affecting Shrines or Cosmetics at all.
Anyway, more representative of the DOTA 2 real-world performance would be to test a particular demo file live - one that really puts a load on your system, like MatchID: 2844309781
I've been providing a benchmark.cfg alternative for a while now (even before perftest.cfg, using ingenious pseudo-wait). Last versions use MatchID: 2844309781, and does 2x live tests, plus the static 7x tests in OP on a demanding scene.
If any of you are interested, details are quoted below:
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Troubleshooting crashes
Dota 2 Resources: autoexec.cfg reference / benchmark.cfg / Tweak it yourself (launch options, cvars) / useful batch files
No-Bling GlanceValue & FPS ++ NEW! Panorama hotkeys NEW! dota_primary_mm_language_override NEW TOGGLE_QUICKCAST_TP.bat NEW FIX LEGACY KEYS YOURSELF! NEW Toggle UI Animations OFF
I made a quick video just to show you what I'm doing exactly. Not sure if there is an error on my part or not, but I figured this would help.
Hi guys, I'm new here but I've been playing Dota for ~10 years including DotA 1. I bought my laptop ~4-5 years ago (yea it's pretty old) and it has AMD graphics card (AMD Radeon 6600M and 6700M Series, sorry if it's out-dated and offends your love for cards ) and a onboard card (Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000). I already set AMD card as high performance for Dota 2 but Dota 2 always runs with the Intel one.
What should I do to force Dota 2 to run with AMD card? And will it be better? I got ~70fps ingame with absolutly no effects except animation portrait, normal map and 100% render, but the problem is after a short time in-game, fps drops to 10-15, makes the game spike af for 2-5sec then returns to normal.
Should I turn off Intel card's driver to make AMD become the only card that running? I've not tried it because I don't have enough knowledge and I only have 1 laptop for both gaming and working so if it's fucked up, I'll die
Doofyrob, what's in your autoexec? If you remove it and all of your launch options temporarily does that help?
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Simon Cowell has broken his silence on the departure of former "The X Factor" judge, British singer Cheryl Cole, and the decision to move forward with the show, with Nicole Scherzinger taking over the vacant seat.
"All that happened was I said to her, 'cause we have a lot of shows around the world, that I wanted her to front the UK show and that was it and she said, 'No,'" Simon told Access Hollywood on Thursday at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: British Beauty & ' X Factor' Judge Cheryl Cole
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Simon revealed that although Cheryl was axed from the show, the Brit will still appear on TV when the show hits FOX this fall.
"Yeah, you're gonna see her on the show," Simon said.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Anything But Dreadful! Hot Shots Of Simon Cowell!
The British judge and "The X Factor" boss said the way things happened with Cheryl left a tear in their relationship (the two were both judges on the British version of the show, prior to filming this upcoming American installment).
"You know, whenever you do anything in public it's horrible, but that's what happens when you make these shows," Simon told Access. "I hope that we're gonna be friends going forward. She'll be mad at me for awhile, but I didn't do anything wrong."
Following Cheryl's forced exit, show co-host Nicole was moved to the judges' chair, a seat she actually occupied in the UK once before, when Cheryl was sick with malaria.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: The Brit Pack: Hot Shots Of Stars From The UK!
Simon told Access there was no other choice to fill Cheryl's seat.
"What else are we gonna do? She would've killed me if I'd a chosen anyone else," Simon explained of putting Nicole on the judges' bench. "I literally would have been killed."
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WTAE Channel 4 Action News Anchor Mike Clark Reports from Rome
WTAE Explands Coverage of the Next Pope and on All Digital Devices
WTAE Channel 4 Action News begins continuing news coverage of the selection of the next pope with live coverage from Rome reported by Mike Clark. Pittsburgh will play a distinct role in the process as three Cardinals in the conclave have connections to the city. Clark has a wealth of experience on coverage of papal events including Pope John Paul II's visits to the U.S. in 1995 and 1999, and his 2005 death and funeral in Vatican City. In 2008, Clark field anchored WTAE's live coverage of Pope Benedict's first pilgrimage to America.
"This is a global news event with significant local interest and Mike brings a unique perspective to covering news for Pittsburgh" said WTAE President & General Manager, Michael J. Hayes. "WTAE will provide continuous news coverage from Rome on WTAE Channel 4 Action News, WTAE.com, the WTAE iPad App, with the WTAE smart phone App, and on all internet enabled mobile phones and devices" he added.
WTAE is providing a digital device experience that parallels the high definition broadcast coverage on Channel 4 Action News. Internet users will find special live stream coverage on WTAE.com with additional interactive features and editorial content that will review all the Cardinals with Pittsburgh Connections, examine Vatican City and the Curia, and walk-thru the process and traditions of the Conclave.
Users with iPads can download an optimized WTAE iPad App that includes expanded features such as photo galleries of the Swiss Guard and the Sistine Chapel, and a retrospective of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope John Paul II. Smart phones will have access to live news streaming and editorial features by downloading and the WTAE mobile App. All digital devices will have access to Mike Clark's Digital Diary, which allows users to personally share Mike's journey from Pittsburgh to Rome with real time updates and exclusive content from Mike Clark.
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'Follow Me' to be notified of new patterns and project updates! My name is Elena Nodel, and I am a mom to a very industrious, busy, ever curious and adventurous little girl. She is my ever present inspiration for all my creative ideas. As she grows, she becomes more and more involved in my creative work, and actually does have a say in a final look of any given project. I have a Girly Girl, thus most of my designs are very feminine. However, lately I have started working on more unisex projects. I was born and raised in Russia, a place where knitting is a part of the lifestyle. I now live in British Columbia, Canada, one of the most beautiful countries in the world. I am a trained microbiologist/immunologist , and have spent years doing scientific research. I am married to a like scientist, and his name is Peter. I am truly blessed to have such a wonderful and supportive husband, and Maya is very lucky to have a father who constantly encourages her natural curiosity, and teaches her about the world around her - she has him wrapped very tightly around her little finger! I love working with natural fibers such as cotton or wool, and always try to use them.One thing I don't like doing is seaming, therefore I knit in the round as much as possible. It is great for me and comfortable for kids. And as a result, I usually design my garments to be worked in the round from the top down. Dare to follow?
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ONETIME- Worthless help: Problem at the urology clinic
One time when I was a general contractor's supervisor, this kid was on my crew. He was just a typical rural high school dropout who was a gopher and cleaned up our site.
One day he came over to me and said in his thick accent, "'Bo, you gotta help me out, Bo." And I said, "What's the matter?" And he said, "'Bo, I ain't ever gonna git nowhere bein' a clean-up man. How am I gonna make any money?"
I said, "I'm gonna give you some responsibility."
We were working on a urology clinic. In it, there's a stainless steel portal where the urine sample cup gets passed through a door in the wall to someone else on the opposite side through another door. They're easy to put in: you just cut a hole in the wall and there are two sleeves that connect to each other.
I told him, "I've got a problem. These two sleeves aren't going together because the screws aren't long enough. After work, stop by a hardware store and find screws that will fit these. Tomorrow, you can cut them and put 'em in."
He said, "'Bo, I got it!"
The next day, he came in looking guilty.
He said, "'Bo, you gonna be mad as hell... Look at this."
He pulled out the stainless steel sleeves, which were all bent and mangled. And I said, "What the hell have you done?"
He said, "'Bo, I went to the hardware store looking for the screws, and I slammed the door, and the damn thing got caught in the door!" And I said, "Get your dumb ass around..." He said, "I know, I know: get the broom..."
If you need a cleanup guy or gopher– every big construction site has to have them, guys like that are fine.
But to avoid hiring flakes, it's all luck of the draw, then you weed them out. You're always going to find worthless help.
When I did commercial work, I used to get temporary help through temp services. Out of ten, you would probably get one good one. You call the temp service and try to keep him. But I've gotten guys that show up and want to bum money. You loan them some, then they vanish.
But remember: allegedly skilled help is sometimes not much better.
Sometimes the more you work with someone or a group, you start finding out who you can work with and who you can't, and you start positioning yourself to work with them more often. That's usually how more stuff gets done properly.
But when you get people on jobs that don't do things the way you want them done, then it snowballs and affects everything down the line.
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A test of a HEPA air filter stationed in California recorded radiation levels at 351% and 538% above normal background levels.
The tests, conducted by the Enviroreporter, show levels much higher than normal background levels that are most likely coming from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
It is clear that, despite a large scale misinformation campaign conducted by various governments and sock puppets throughout the internet, an increase in radiation HAS been seen in the United States after the Japan Fukushima nuclear disaster.


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Russia's hosting of the World Cup is becoming increasingly problematic for FIFA's leaders after the International Olympic Committee withdrew support for sporting events being staged in the doping-tainted nation.
The IOC's move followed this week's second damning World Anti-Doping Agency report, which accused Russia of state-sponsored doping.
The scandal landed at FIFA's door after Russian football was for the first time implicated in the alleged doping cover-up by a country that has been entrusted with football's most prestigious event in 2018.
Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, whose department is accused of orchestrating the deception, is also head of the country's football federation and is a member of FIFA's ruling council.
Football's governing body is standing by the 2018 hosts – just as it has done throughout six years of scrutiny since the contentious vote to hand the World Cup to Russia for the first time.
"Preparations for the World Cup are in full swing," Dmitry Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, said Wednesday. "FIFA said yesterday that they are preparing for the World Cup to be held in Russia."
And 2018 is not the only countdown. FIFA is less than 11 months from staging the Confederations Cup, an eight-team warm-up competition, in Russia.
Dick Pound, the former WADA president who authored the earlier report on doping in Russian track and field, said FIFA now has another "credibility issue" to confront following McLaren's findings.


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Summer is around the corner and some of you are beginning to plan your trips to Italy. Many of my friends and family that come to visit during the summer months usually have one thing in mind: the beach. Excellent plan. While there is lots of "coastline" to choose from in Italy, Cinque Terre (chink-way ter-re), or the five earths (aka towns), has risen to the top of the popular spots for tourists. This is an especially great escape from Florence (which can be very hot during the summer) and can easily be done in a day!
Recently, while writing to a friend who is planning just such a day trip, I was trying to remember all the ins and outs and I realized that there were maybe a few more than the average person can just "pick up," especially if the Italian is limited. So I thought, why not make it easy (for me and for others) and put it all in one place. Below you will find all the need-to-know info from how to get there for less to what you can skip to save time and from where to hike to where not to. Of course we'll tackle the food, I mean, the cuisine is worth the trip in itself, but we'll also be sure you know how to make it home without getting stranded there (unless that is part of the plan). Enjoy and see you there this summer!
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Poverty and homelessness — nobody in the political world talks about these things because poor folks don't have money, and in politics, money talks.
But when an overnight homeless shelter operated by a little church — Apostolic Pentecostals of Rockford — was shut down by the city of Rockford on March 10, these twin issues inconveniently popped up again. The church was the second whose shelter was closed by the city; the other one was Five Gates Church, in 2011.
These shelters must have proper zoning and have sprinkler systems, the city says. As churches they don't have to have sprinklers. But if people sleep there overnight, they do, the city says. Hmmm.
I've taken part in all-night vigils in a church without sprinklers. Churches have overnights for their youth groups.
I've also been in churches where, on any given Sunday morning, half the congregation is asleep. Does this mean the church has become a shelter? Or would that take a supermajority of sleepers?
Fire codes are arbitrary. Whether they are capricious is open to interpretation.
There will always be poor and homeless people — the Bible says that. In Rockford, with its persistent high unemployment rate above the national and state averages, there are more of them. We are not importing these people; we are creating more of them because we are miserable at creating jobs. We do have wonderful banquets about creating jobs, though.
What Christians are commanded to do about poverty is outlined in Matthew 25. It contains this warning about ignoring the plight of the poor:
"'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.' Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life." Hmmm. I've never heard any reverend preach about the "eternal punishment" part of that verse.
Pretty sober stuff. But how do we go about doing what it says? The two churches I mentioned, and many Christian organizations, believe that personal salvation through Christ is the powerful force that turns lives around. Providing food and shelter, job training, permanent housing is a means to that end. They reject the use of taxpayers' money because that would stop them from practicing their faith.
Mayor Larry Morrissey and his "Boone/Winnebago Continuum of Care," a group of 30 agencies and governments in Winnebago and Boone counties, take a somewhat different approach, based on holistic goals and Department of Housing and Urban Development guidelines.
Morrissey said that while he appreciates Apostolic Pentecostals' desire to help the homeless, "There are rules you have to follow. Life-safety codes don't have to do with homeless shelters, but if you're going to put people overnight, whether it's a hotel or a shelter, rules apply."
When working with the homeless population, Morrissey said, "you're dealing with mental health issues, people with criminal records, sex offenders, people who tend to be violent individuals. The single address that has the most calls of service (police and fire) is the Rescue Mission. That's not a knock, but it's a particularly volatile population."
Morrissey has invited the Rev. Dave Fredericks, pastor of Apostolic Pentecostals of Rockford, to join the Continuum of Care.
Thursday, in the third part of this series, I'll talk more about the Continuum of Care, including an interview with Shelton Kay, the director of community services at Crusader Community Health. Kay chairs the Continuum.
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Image was created using the iPhone panoramic application) HIndu devotees look on as Naga Sadhus, naked Hindu holy men (unseen), walk in procession to bathe on the banks of Sangam, the confluence of the holy rivers Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati, on the auspicious bathing day of Mauni Amavasya during the Maha Kumbh Mela on February 10, 2013 in Allahabad, India. The Maha Kumbh Mela, believed to be the largest religious gathering on earth is held every 12 years on the banks of Sangam, the confluence of the holy rivers Ganga, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati. The Kumbh Mela alternates between the cities of Nasik, Allahabad, Ujjain and Haridwar every three years. The Maha Kumbh Mela celebrated at the holy site of Sangam in Allahabad, is the largest and holiest, celebrated over 55 days, it is expected to attract over 100 million people who will bathe in holy waters to wash away their sins. - high-definition photo for free download.


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Current TV announced Friday that it has severed its relationship with Keith Olbermann barely a year after he signed a five-year $50 million contract with the station.
The station's founders, Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, released a statement indicating that their relationship with Olbermann no longer reflects Current's values of "respect, openness, collegiality, and loyalty to our viewers."
"Countdown with Keith Olbermann" will be replaced with "Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer," hosted by the former governor of New York beginning 8 p.m. Eastern on Friday.
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Olbermann, who has a long history of explosive departures, fired back via 11 Twitter updates and a finale statement.
"Editorially, Countdown had never been better. But for more than a year I have been imploring Al Gore and Joel Hyatt to resolve our issues internally, while I've been not publicizing my complaints, and keeping the show alive for the sake of its loyal viewers and even more loyal staff. Nevertheless, Mr. Gore and Mr. Hyatt, instead of abiding by their promises and obligations and investing in a quality news program, finally thought it was more economical to try to get out of my contract."
He adds that he has already begun filing legal action against the pair and "in due course, the truth of the ethics of Mr. Gore and Mr. Hyatt will come out."
While Current's statement does not pinpoint a particular catalyst for their move, a source told Politico that Olbermann was fired for breach of contract, including "a failure to show up for work, sabatoging the network and attacking Current and its executives."
In January and February, when the GOP presidential race kicked off, Olberman missed 19 out of 41 working days, Politico reported. He was also out March 5, the eve of Super Tuesday.
The New York Times reported in January that Olberman declined to host special election coverage "apparently out of frustratrion about technical difficulties that have plagued his 8 p.m. program." The channel produced the election shows without him.
Olbermann has also had bad break-ups with ESPN, which did not renew his contract in 1997, and MSNBC, which he left just 14 months ago, ending an 8-year run.


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Taylor Momsen: Naked on New Album Cover!
Taylor Momsen is very much naked on the cover of her band's new album. See what we mean here.
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Taylor Momsen is making a serious name for herself in Hollywood.
In 2000, she starred in Ron Howard's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" opposite Jim Carrey, a role that earned this actress praise and press clippings. The film grossed over $340 million worldwide.
Additional film credits include: Robert Rodriquez' "Spy Kids 2," and Randall Wallace's "We Were Soldiers," starring Mel Gibson.
Momsen was born in St. Louis, Missouri; she currently resides in Maryland.
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Nutcracker Ballet draws dancers from across Maine
Ballet updated to be set in Portland
Ballet dancers from across Maine are taking part in a time honored tradition.
Each year, the Portland Ballet Company performs the Victoria Nutcracker. The show is adapted to be set in Portland, with the first scene taking place at the historic Victoria Mansion.
Everything from the costumes to the sets is made in Maine. "Our sets for Victoria Nutcracker we use year after year, but they do get wear and tear, so we definitely have a whole crew of people who take care of the props," said Nell Shipman of the Portland Ballet Company.
The dancers -- some of them as young as 7 -- work for months to get ready. "As dancers, we're always working, we're always striving to improve our technique and to rehearse this production," said dancer Derek Clifford. "We start in October usually."
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Agilent selected by ST-Ericsson
ST-Ericsson selected Agilent's solution for characterizing RF transceivers, a key component of every mobile phone. The RF wireless and digital laboratory solution required capabilities for LTE, W-CDMA, GSM, TD-SCDMA, MIMO and DigRF v4.
"The characterization of our RF transceiver requires a huge number of complex RF and digital measurements mixed together," said Sylvain Bertrand, ST-Ericsson, RF broadband validation manager. "Agilent is able to accurately characterize 2G, 3G and LTE technologies in RF and over the DigRF digital bus used in mobile phones. The total solution significantly improves our time-to-market capabilities, while giving us the incredible platform flexibility and expandability required in today's competitive market." The radio transceiver is a crucial part of any mobile phone because it is the key between the digital portion of the phone and the cellular network. ST-Ericsson's multistandards testing of smart RF transceivers requires a broad range of RF analyzers and sources such as the Agilent PXA signal analyzer; MXG signal generator; DigRF emulator, adapter and tester; RF power meter; and precision power supply, plus software dedicated to the vectorial signal such as Agilent Signal Studio, 89600 VSA (vector signal analysis) and X-Series measurement applications. Agilent measurement experts delivered an integrated RF and digital test solution that combined industry-leading hardware with application-specific software. "It was critical to meet the stringent cellular specifications from GSM to LTE, including W-CDMA, and TD-SCDMA with both speed and uncompromising accuracy. Our innovative laboratory solution delivers a 10X improvement over previous methods in system-characterization test time," said Guy Séné, president of Agilent's Electronic Measurement Group. "The unmatched combination of hardware, software and support is characteristic of our 60-plus years of market leadership in electronic testing, and it spans R&D through validation and characterization. Agilent's unique approach not only addressed the technical requirements but also lowered the total cost of the solution."


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How many of 82 peaks had you climbed before?
Not sure, but not too many. I had never climbed the easier mountains before.
Climbing Les Droites. © Ueli Steck
What did the #82Summits project teach you?
That it's all about motivation. I was surprised how long I could keep going without stopping or having rest days. It's different to an expedition because I was moving almost everyday. That was great. I was so motivated that even on rest days I went for a run!
What three words would you use to describe #82summits?
Passion. Friendship. Fun.
What were some of the most unforgettable moments of the summer?
There were many great moments. The last one was on Barre des Écrins, in the French Alps. I ran up the wrong valley in the morning. Instead of taking the trail to Glacier Blanc, I went to Glacier Noir. There was a sign I read and I was sure the trail to Glacier Blanc was on the left. It felt strange, but I kept going. I ran for another two hours before reaching the end of the valley. By then it was daylight and I realized I wasn't where I should be. I checked Google Maps and figured out I was on the wrong side on the mountain. I ran back down and after 3h40 minutes I was back in the valley from where I started my ascent again. So I did a little extra to warm up!
Ueli and wife Nicole on Fiescherhorn. © Ueli Steck
When was the project at its hardest?
Mentally, it was the hardest in the beginning. You start and there are still so many peaks to climb!
You started the project with Michi Wohlleben, but didn't finish with him. What happened?
Michi crashed his paraglider descending from the Schreckhorn Hut in Switzerland. Afterwards he tried his best, but couldn't continue.
Aiguille Blanche de Peuterey. © Ueli Steck
How did losing your partner early on change things?
It was a difficult moment. What could I do? I didn't want to give up so easily. That's not my personality. I would never forgive myself. So I kept going and it turned out great. It was so much fun to climb with different partners and to do solo climbs. I still have very great memories of climbing with Andreas Steindel, a mountain guide and member of the Swiss Ski Mountaineering Team. Climbing with my best friend and supporter Daniel Mader and, of course, also the summits I climbed with my wife, were all great experiences. I also enjoyed solo climbing some peaks.
How were the cycling stages of the project?
This was something new to me. On the last part down from Massif des Écrins, I really felt the magic of cycling. Going over Col du Galibier, an iconic section on the Tour de France, is a great memory. And after so many kilometres your butt doesn't hurt anymore!
A rainy day didn't stop Ueli having fun cycling over Col du Galibier. © Ueli Steck
If you had to choose, what were some of your favourite peaks?
1. Red Pillar of Brouillard, on the Brouillard flank of Mont Blanc, in Italy
2. Dent du Geant-Grandes Jorasses Traverse: multiple 4000 m peaks on the border between France and Italy
3. Monte Rosa Traverse: 18 peaks in one day
4. Finsteraarhorn, Switzerland with my wife
5. Aiguille blanche de Peuterey, Mont Blanc massif, Italy with Jonathan Griffith
In some of your Facebook posts you refer to the pioneers who did the first ascents on these peaks. Was there a historical side to your project as well?
It was great to be on all of these routes. Sometimes you think about the people who did the first ascents and you realize that what these guys achieved was just incredible!