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Sounds like you are really happy with your skin care regimen. I always have to smile at how resistant men are to using these kinds of products, my husband uses hand soap to wash his face. I'll never get it.
How long do you think it took before you noticed a real change in your complexion?
How long do you think it took before you noticed a real change in your complexion?
It was about three weeks into the regimen that there was a noticible difference. After two months people thought I was much younger.
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Written by Cocktailsfor2 and Rum Bunter
(Saturday, 8:30 am. A man in a black and gold luchador's mask slings open the library door with a loud grunt. He marches past the Pittsburgh Pirates team who is scattered throughout the library making a bee line to the back of the room. He quickly surveys his computer monitor. Obviously not happy, he immediately flips over an adjacent desk and before the papers hit the linoleum, he lets loose. It's quite apparent that he has been watching this team lose for nineteen god forsaken years.)
Sit the hell down, and shut the hell up! All of you know why you are here….(he pauses, and it works– the team is completely silent) Some of you clowns have assigned seats, so grab 'em. You know the drill.
If it's not obvious– which, based on your pitch recognition this season, it might not be — I want to tell you that I am really pissed off to see most of you. The 2011 season just blew my mind, gentlemen. An opportunity to make a monumental statement to the fans of Pittsburgh was lost.
For a few months this season, I thought – mistakenly, it turns out – that last year's Dear John letter actually hit home with some of you returning lettermen. I told you I wasn't excited to see you in 2011. I lied. And it seemed to work….
Your quick start had Pittsburghers wearing Pirates hats again, and no – we aren't just talking about Wiz Khalifa, smart asses.
Jerseys with McCutchen, Hanrahan, and Walker were all over town. Fans were showing up for baseball games, and after 18 years of destruction, you made fans believe again. They showed up in droves to see some great baseball! Even to see games that didn't include an 80's band, a bobble head or a fireworks show afterward!
Fans were coming to see winning baseball, something many Pittsburgh writers said you jack wagons couldn't make happen! These same idiots who have no idea what WAR means were kissing your asses. You proved everyone wrong. You were living the dream.
Bob Nutting – who many blame for the recent rash of losing – was standing tall, signs were waving in the stands that said fans loved him… well, we saw one at least. The Dollar General was handing out the knock-off brand Kool-Aid on radio shows throughout the city. And, to our dismay, everyone was chugging it down like it was a 30-pack of Iron City on a 90-degree dog day in August.
But obviously, spending months beer-bonging the Nutting-Aid – but not paying close attention to just how fortunate the baseball gods were being to us – caught up with everyone.
But still, if I had given you 52 jagoffs a lecture as late as July 29, your parents would have been proud. They should have been proud! You shocked the world!
If any one of you wanted to commit a crime, you could have pulled it off with no fear of recrimination. Well, maybe anyone but you, Matt Diaz… you really sucked. And maybe you too, Lyle Overbay, you stunk it up all the way to Moon– maybe I should put this another way: if you were a major free agent acquisition this off-season, just go ahead and leave. Now. Get the hell out of my sight.
Whoa, whoa, whoa there, Corriea! Put down the surf board and stop running, Kevin – I'm not talking to you. There's always an exception, no matter how small it might be in your case. (Sarcastically) You were an All-Star alternate!
But anyway, in spite of all the excuses, you scallywags were in first place. We were sending postcards to Philly, just daring them to show their cheesesteak-eating mugs at PNC Park, for chrissakes!
The phrase "Pirates in first place" …it sounded so damn good. When we got a tip on this hot new song about the Bucs from Chuk Wun we had no idea what to think….but the more we listened, the more we liked it.
Shit, this could be good, but can this team possibly back it up? The song sat in our inbox for two weeks. And then it hit me….. Screw it. We're posting it anyway. It was refined and the final product blew our minds.
The best part was that you guys did back it up. BucTown became a Pirates fan anthem– blasting from the speakers of diehard Pirates fans all over this town. When we started hearing it in May it was old to us by then, but still delivered the goosebumps after you guys pulled out big victory after big victory.
But of course, now I'm afraid to even google 'Pirates first place' because I know how the story ends. Thanks for looking like utter shit since July 29. Utter shit, gentlemen.
(Long, awkard silence)
So even the miserly owner of this mess, Bob Nutting back there, knows why I have ruined yet another four hours of my life to gather all 52 of you together today. No, we're not here for a "union brother" book reading marathon. Each of you contributed to breaking the hearts of Pittsburgh Pirates fans everywhere. Again. And I've got something to say about that.
It's not that any of us expected much from you this year, but what was it with the teasing? For about four months you propped open the door to a winning season. A winning season! Just thinking back on it is downright mind blowing. Nobody saw this shit coming.
Most of us would die to just see you lose as much as you freaking win! We're not hard to please!
I can't even begin to describe what it felt like to see you play on ESPN.
And then on the Major League Baseball Game of the Week.
Hell, you were even on the cover of USA Today, for cryin' out loud!
You owned the Pittsburgh talk radio circuit – hell, after a jock said you would never be winners, you proved him wrong. And that sports jock even washed your stinkin' jocks!
For those efforts, I want to sincerely thank you for…..
Owner Bob Nutting: Oh, you're welcome!! See… I told you so!
You told me so? You fu##ing told me so? Yeah….right. Okay, you told me so, Bob.
So, it was you that created all of these emotions, Bob? As pissed off as I am at what happened this season, my anger for you is being saved for an entirely different lecture. Be back here next Saturday, 8:30 am. Sharp.
In the meantime, I hope you choke on a chicken bone at an $8.99 all-you-can eat Golden Corral buffet.
Maybe it's fitting the collapse happened in August. That's all this city needs is a man like you, gloating all over himself. I have no idea how Coonelly and Huntington put up with your stupid shit. Adjust that wig, ass-pony, and for God's sake – button your Gabriel Brothers shirt! We can't stand looking at your unwaxed chest hair any longer. Keerist.
So, where was I? Oh yeah, the city – I'm still stuck on the city. It was on fire with Pirates spirit – the phones were ringing off the hook with fans trying to buy tickets as you racked up series win after series win and climbed your way to the top of the weak NL Central.
Everyone knows that PNC Park desperately needs to have its' first winning season, and she was gorgeous when she was full this summer. Pittsburgh was a freaking baseball town again!
Clint Hurdle: I told you so! I told you it would happen!
Damn it, Hurdle! Less talking and more writing! When are you going to finish what I told you to write on that chalkboard? And please stop making Ciriaco run outside repeatedly to clean your erasers…..how 'bout less of you and more of me because that's what happens here. Are we clear?
Clint Hurdle: Sure…I mean haven't you ever been driving and you get lost and you tell your sweetheart….
Clint, shut the f%%% up. I'm not the bored to tears Pittsburgh beat writers who get wood from your terrible stories. Look directly into these eyes, fat boy: I don't care what you say. I care about what you do. Write. On. The. Board. Now.
So class, like I was saying… Pittsburghers believed in the Pittsburgh Pirates again. The Pirates were back. But then it all collapsed.
YOU LET THE DAMN DOOR SLAM SHUT ON ALL OF IT! Actually, you let the door fall completely off it's hinges!
So who did it? What the hell happened?
Michael McKenry: It was Jerry Meals, sir. I put the tag on the runner, but Meals said he was safe….
Shut the hell up, McKenry! Don't give me any of that Jerry Meals bullshit! An umpire can't ruin an entire season on one blown call!! Maybe, just maybe, if any of those catching "pals" of yours–all six of them– could hit like Doumit over there, we wouldn't be here.
Paul Maholm: It was definitely the offense. They couldn't score runs and absolutely refused to score for me.
Well, well, well… at least you finally came right out and admitted it, Maholm. All those "rah-rah, we will get 'em next time" tweets got old. Fast. Especially when you gave up only a run or two and still would get strapped with a loss. It's okay to get pissed off once in a while, Paulie – just be sure to end the tweet with a Bible verse.
Ryan Doumit: It was the damn second half pitching. Awful, it was just awful. Even the opposing pitchers lit 'em up! And can anyone explain getting swept by the Cubs and Padres in August?
Okay… okay, we got it, guys. Even though there are about 520 fingers crammed in here today, there still aren't enough to point out all the blame that can go around. Getting swept by the Padres sealed a ten-game losing streak, including seven-in-a-row at PNC Park! Yet another futility record was set–outstanding work, fellas! The fact you did it in front of a full house at your home park was just icing on the damned cake!
But Maholm has a point. You guys were shutout 14 times, and obviously every last one of you made your disdain for Maholm and other starters known with your lackluster run support.
And Doumit… you have a point, too. The ERA skyrocketed in the second half, but even so – the overall improvement has been the best in the majors. Now, if you could only manage to stay healthy for an entire season, Doumit! (Starts laughing hysterically.)
Improving your earned runs allowed by the largest margin in baseball is great, but when you were so damn awful–the worst in the league last year– it's mostly meaningless. Especially when the lineup card is full of players pretending to be big league hitters. You guys sucked at hitting baseballs. You had the worst True Average in baseball, and piled up strikeouts so fast that the national debt is blushing!
Seriously, what the hell happened? Did you look at yourselves getting twelve or so more wins than last year as a big deal? This team sucked the eyes out of suck last season. Don't compare yourselves to the players on that team. What the hell is wrong with you?
The relief pitchers in this room please stand up.
Great work in the first four months. But…there was those few weeks where….ahh, just go ahead and sit back down.
The problem with all of the starting pitchers in here is this: Nobody can get any whiffs. Nobody in the starting rotation has swing-and-miss stuff on a consistent basis.
So, despite having so many of you starters make at least 25 starts – and you get some credit for that – you weren't missing bats.
We needed the pitchers to stay healthy. But of course, doctors' excuses were the one thing that was consistent this season. We would try and add all of them up for you, but calculators aren't allowed in my detention hall!
The injuries came in three waves. It allowed an opportunity for many of you to look awful in a big league role. You succeeded.
Clint Hurdle: (coughing…)The uh – (clears throat) The experience will pay dividends (cough-cough)…
Clint, who gave you permission to speak? Weren't you the one that said you would reconnect a fan base with its' baseball team?
Clint Hurdle: (turning from the blackboard to face the team, he gestures to Ciriaco that his eraser is filthy as he crosses his arms chomping the hell out of his Big League Chew) But I did reconnect the fans with the team…
Yeah, for four freaking months Clint…four freaking months! And the last time I checked, you can't put your four month trophy beside all of those dusty World Series trophies in the lobby! So listen up, Hurdle! Turn your "Sports Illustrated Cover Boy" ass around and keep writing on the chalkboard!
If I have to strap that chalk to your hand with a gumband, I will! I'll tell you when you can stop – and for God's sake, spit out that gum!
Damn it Clint we've been here for over an hour and that's all you've got…pick up the freakin' pace…
Yeah, you in the letterman's jacket in the back. Stop jerking that ridiculous shake weight, and go ahead with your explanation of this madness.
Andrew McCutchen: This team was pretty weak, sir, my back hurts from carrying 'em, we gotta shake it to rake it….(starts shake-a-weight repetitions again)
Look, you athletic freak of nature…. This team needs you to step up and be a leader in 2012. You're one of the best players in the game! I know you don't like what's going on here anymore than the rest of us, but this team… your team… can't afford for you to disappear late in the season.
I think you know that Pittsburgh needs a baseball playing superstar and you're the closest thing we have to that right now, Cutch. Well … you and perhaps maybe Walker and that smart kid in the back. (Joel Hanrahan looks up from tweeting and smiles)
Ross Ohlendorf: (In that slow, booming Texas voice) Hey, what … did someone ask me a question about my homerun?
No, Ross. (sighs) No, we didn't. The season was bizarre enough…please go back to reading your book about injecting your cross-bred cattle with micro-bacterial enzymes from Uranus – we didn't mean to disturb your studies. Good luck with that next year, by the way.
We are talking to that guy with the great grades this season…yeah, you, Hanrahan.
Without your dominant stuff this year, I don't know what I would have done.
Pedro Alvarez, are you here?
(Crickets are heard from the non-fiction section)
Damn. He swung and missed on detention, too? Sunnuvabitch.
Neil Walker (looking out the window): He's out there playing wiffleball on the playground, sir.
Oh, okay. Good. That's good.
(Opening window) El Toro!! Pull that hat up over your ears and listen to me…..Stay active, big fella! Damn, you sucked on ice this year–striking out on Fan Appreciation Day sucked, but dammit get yourself together, big man! You're the key. Hey Beimel—keep throwing him that breaking ball! (Slams window)
Well, my voice is getting tired. 19 years of this shit sucks, men.
Huntington and Coonelly……………….. you know what needs to be done here. The last thing I need to be doing is repeating this worthless shit in 2012. Make it happen fuck###rs!
Obviously starting pitching needs to stay healthy. And please, gents, keep drafting hard and often, because we like the looks of the Pirates system – it has the makings of being in the top ten.
Now, go find us some students that can hit! Automatic outs are bad enough, but when you combine it with the nonsense Clint is teaching we may never end this losing crap!
The pitching staff has number three, four and five starters most everywhere, but the ones and twos are still a couple years away. Teach Gerrit Cole, Jameson Taillon, and Luis Hereida everything imaginable. They can't get to the majors fast enough.
Spend time developing the next wave of number three and four starters. Guys like Kyle McPherson, Rudy Owens, Justin Wilson, and Nick Kingham. The system is flooded with arms, now flood their brains with how to pitch in the bigs.
And one last thing – spare us the Derrek Lee and Ryan Ludwick types, willya? Sure, Lee has been Pujols-esque since he got off the DL, but just ignore it. Don't chase his old ass.
This team is made up of young players with (some) upside in various ability levels – let's look past those players poised for breakdowns which might cost us millions. Let's focus on improving the weaknesses in the ability levels of the youth. If we need to hire a few more quality coaches, do it. Immediately.
Sure, leadership is needed, but look internally for such leaders. Young talent is what this roster needs.
Enough! Redd up these tables, grab your yearbooks and get the hell out of here! I hate all of you! And be sure to prop that door back open on your way out too, we expect 2012 to be the year!
Hey Nutting – see you at PirateFest. What friggin' genius on your staff came up with the idea of moving it to right before Christmas?
Nutting: Oh, that was me.
We just had a hunch that was your idea. Hmph. So, will you be flying in all the youngsters like Taillon, Heredia, Allie, Bell, and Cole?
Nutting: Umm…flying them in? No. We rented a van.
Oh.. I see… So who will be dressing like Santa?
Nutting: Well…..I couldn't find a Santa suit for under $29 bucks, so I will have my glasses on with a Santa hat. Think that will work?
Oh yeah….that will be just freakin' great. We're sure you can't wait to have all those Pirates fans sit on your lap.
(The room emptied, and as RumBunter pulled off his lucha mask, he checked his computer….)
Damn it. Now that's funny… see you ass clowns next year.
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from PIL import Image, ImageDraw
import colorsys
def make_rainbow_rgb(colors, width, height):
"""colors is an array of RGB tuples, with values between 0 and 255"""
img = Image.new("RGBA", (width, height))
canvas = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
def hsl(x):
to_float = lambda x : x / 255.0
(r, g, b) = map(to_float, x)
h, s, l = colorsys.rgb_to_hsv(r,g,b)
h = h if 0 < h else 1 # 0 -> 1
return h, s, l
rainbow = sorted(colors, key=hsl)
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x = 0
y = height / 2.0
for rgb in rainbow:
canvas.line((x, y, x + dx, y), width=height, fill=rgb)
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Thank you for the reply Julio and to all of those who replied
privately. Sarg seems to be a hands-down favorite. While Sarg is a
great tool it does not do what I want simply because I can already do
it it offers.
I realize that I may have stumbled my words a bit in my first post so
I'll try to clarify a bit. Most of the info that Sarg generates I can
get using grep, Calamaris & Squint (down to the user-level browsing).
What I was more interested in was a system which could facilitate
(better even automate) going through the logs so that I wouldn't need
to spend hours doing it by hand.
Example of how things are now: A user is suspected of wasting time.
We get his proxy logs from the rest using regular expressions. I now
know everywhere he's gone. I then use calamaris to summarize the
sites by most visited, most downloaded, etc. I go over these sites by
hand to determine what is work related and what is not (This is the
long part). I then use squint to see how much time is spent online.
A benefit of doubt is always given to the employee: banners and page
refreshes (i.e google mail constantly refreshing) is grepped out to
not have constant 24/7 traffic.
This is a recursive process and can take a few days depending on the
amount of traffic the user has. When we get a request for a few
reports at a time we downright freak out.
This is why I was interested in a more automated app that could
intelligently determine policy violations and greatly lessen the
Thanks again to everybody
On 8/8/07, Julio Crespo <julio.crespo () aes com> wrote:
Hi, i use sarg
Its excellent for block pages and see sites for each ip.
Also see deny and top of download.
take care with files(hard disk) when generate the report daily.
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De: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] En nombre de Jon V
Enviado el: Miércoles, 08 de Agosto de 2007 14:27
Para: security-basics () securityfocus com
Asunto: Proxy log analyser
The company I work for uses squid as a proxy server to restrict
outbound http web access. We use calamaris and squint to get an
overall view of browsing (mostly statistical data) and squidguard for
basic policy enforcement (blacklist porn sites and such) however most
proxy log auditing is unfortunately done by hand when needed.
I was wondering if someone knew of a product that could be used that
would help with the policy enforcement as well as automate more of the
analysis of user logs since these take an enormous amount of time to
go through by hand.
Most open source apps that I've seen are mostly for summary
statistical data and don't seem to quite have what I want. The
closest thing that I've seen so far is Cyfin Reporter by Wavecrest
Thanks four your time
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A 24-year-old man accused of beating and burning a 3-year-old boy was arrested Saturday by Baton Rouge police.
Wesley Moore, 24, 3155 Fairfields Ave., Baton Rouge, was booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on counts of cruelty to juveniles, according to an affidavit of probable cause.
The victim had been taken to the hospital Saturday for injuries to his hand when hospital workers discovered a bite mark on his cheek, second-degree burns on two of his fingers, a black eye and several bruises on his back and hip, the affidavit says.
Moore told authorities that the victim had been in his care — and no one else's — for several hours on Friday and Saturday, but he could not explain the boy's injuries, the affidavit says.
Baton Rouge police are searching for the person who shot a man Sunday night in the 4700 block of Gus Young Avenue, Cpl. Tommy Stubbs said.
The wounded man drove himself to a hospital, but Stubbs said he did not know the extent of the man's injuries or his condition Sunday evening.
Baton Rouge police arrested a 40-year-old man Saturday accused of spying on a 14-year-old girl through an air vent while she showered.
Jose Villanueva, 40, 12385 Shay Ave., Baton Rouge, was booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on counts of sex crimes against a child, according to an affidavit of probable cause.
Villanueva spied on the girl multiple times over the past few months, the affidavit says.
A 20-year-old man accused of raping a woman while she was asleep in a hotel bed with him was arrested Saturday by East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office deputies.
Devon Dajon Turner, 20, 1911 Charleston Drive, Marrero, was booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on counts of simple rape, according to an affidavit of probable cause.
Turner removed some of the victim's clothing while she slept and had begun to rape her when she awoke and pushed him off, the affidavit says.
Turner fled from the room but was later caught by deputies while hiding outside the hotel, the affidavit says.
Turner admitted to taking off some of the victim's clothing, not knowing whether the victim was awake, but said he did not rape her, the affidavit says.
Authorities arrested at least 13 people suspected of driving while intoxicated in East Baton Rouge Parish and booked them into Parish Prison between 2:30 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, booking records show.
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Computer: Dell XPS 410 (purchased around July 2007).
Specs: XPS 410 Product Details | Dell
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I recently purchased an nvidia 9800 gx2. I'm replacing an 8600 gts.
My drivers and BIOS are up to date. I also upgraded my PSU from the stock 375w to a 530w Raidmax.
When I have the new card (the 9800) in, I experience issues with full screen video. There is stuttering, and the audio goes crazy. This happens for streaming video on Hulu/YouTube, and in VLC/WMP. In VLC, I go fullscreen, it fails until I stop moving the mouse and the navigation bar fades away. At that point, playback is fine, but as soon as I move the mouse, the issues return.
I've tried nearly everything I can think of, including swapping in the old card (video works fine), and swapping in an identical 9800 that I ordered for my roommate at the same time I got mine (same video issues), using a variety of older drivers just in case, and most recently a complete reinstall of Windows 7. I also tried changing various SLI settings in the nvidia control panel, with no luck.
I would think the card itself is not likely to be the issue (since the roommate's card fails in my system, but works in his own), but something about the card is not agreeing with the rest of the system. On the other hand, I just wiped the OS completely, and am still having issues.
One other thing: Upon installing the OS, Windows thought that I had the most recent drivers (after a few restarts), but they were quite a bit out of date. Again, updating these had no effect.
Thanks in advance!
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The minimum recommended power supply is 580watts. Sounds like it isn't getting enough power.
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Lordbob75, power is not an issue. The "recommended" wattage presumes a certain setup, is designed to guarantee power under certain load strains, and allots for inefficient power supplies. Not to mention certain tie ins with part of the industry. Pretty much no standard user actually needs a 580W power supply. The 530W raidmax does provide enough power for his entire system (I can say this because I helped pick the power supply and specced it out).
Additional useful information: the same full screen video issues occurred with an 8800GTS which has no where near the same power draw as the 9800 GX2. Also, both the 8800 GTS and 9800 GX2 are capable of playing World of Warcraft at nearly all settings on Ultra in two other slower systems (slower proc in each). However, in the affected machine, WoW will only play on, at best, middling settings.
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Ah, you didn't mention that it happened with the 8800 as well.
Now, you mentioned that you tried to update drivers through Windows Update.
You need to download the newest drivers directly from NVidia's website.
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...actually, he just said "updating these had no effect."
We've used the current drivers offered on nVidia's website, as well as a variety of previously released drivers. We have made certain to fully uninstall and remove traces of any driver before installing and testing new drivers. While some driver changes allowed for playback of full screen video, the quality would then be significantly reduced.
In no event did we find proper gaming performance regardless of the selected driver (with the exception of the stock 8600 that came with the machine).
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Is the new card compatible with Seven and your motherboard? Run the Upgrade adviser to make sure it is. Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor - Download - Microsoft Windows
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Yes, the nVidia 9800 GX2 is compatible with windows 7. This model is a stock reference card - nothing fancy.
Additionally, as mentioned before, the same problems occurred with an 8800GTS (also stock reference model). Both the 8800GTS and 9800GX2 work in harmony with Windows 7 in other computers we have at our disposal.
The likelihood of the motherboard being "incompatible" with any PCI Express video card is very low, but it is especially low that it would not handle an 8800 GTS since the 8800 GTX was an available option for the XPS 410 when it was manufactured.
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|15 Dec 2010
It is possible that the graphics card (and OS) is fine, and the motherboard is bad. Also, try a different cable as well as a different monitor, trying to eliminate possibilities.
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It is theoretically possible that the motherboard is bad, but I don't really have any way of testing it. I mean, the only thing that could really be happening there is that somehow the motherboard is incapable of feeding data to the PCI Express slot at the rates it will really support, but if that were the case I would expect more widespread problems than just video games and full screen video, because it would suggest a problem with the northbridge itself.
Also, I'm not going to test it, but you can rule out monitor and cable. A change in display and output cable will not create a change in frame rate. Output is output- the only thing that would change would be the quality of the image on the screen, not the rate at which the frames are pumped out by the card--especially not in a manner where sometimes it's perfect and other times it isn't. Full screen video works perfectly if I put something else in front of it (even just right clicking so as to put a clickable menu over the image).
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Toni Braxton fraudulently transferred $53,490 to her estranged husband in order to avoid paying back creditors in her bankruptcy case -- so says the trustee of Toni's bankruptcy estate.
According to new docs filed in Toni's ongoing bankruptcy case, Toni's estranged husband Keri Lewis received the 5-figure sum after Toni's money was already earmarked to repay creditors.
Now, the bankruptcy trustee is suing Lewis to get the money back -- much like John Mayer was sued for $465,000 following a giant Ponzi scheme collapse in Seattle.
TMZ broke the story ... Toni filed for bankruptcy in 2010, claiming she owed between $10 million and $50 million in debts.
A rep for Braxton tells TMZ, "All of the payments made to Lewis prior to Toni's bankruptcy filing were appropriate transfers for reasonable and necessary personal and business expenses in the ordinary course of her business."
The rep adds Toni will continue to provide the trustee whatever info is needed to address the allegation.
Now we know what's meant by "Braxton Family Values".
Toni, Toni, Toni you came from such humble beginnings and you really need to draw back on this and stay out of court for financial reasons. You are the eldest and always giving advice to your sisters and not taking heed to your own words. Wish you the best in your future endeavors.
If Toni's willing to take it in the butt totally bareback, balls deep then and allow her colon walls to be coated with hawt ball batter, I'd happily pay her bills.
a lots of this actors need to go back to school to learn the fact of life,making money is one thing,how to manage it is another thing.
unbreak my bank.....
HAHA in your face stuck up witch!
How is she inbankuptsy she has a show and getting paid WOW
these women always wind up in financial turmoil because they are noteably superficial and my reply to it is "you did it to yourself"!...
Isn't this her SECOND bankruptcy? She files bankruptcy and still lives the high life, and then files again and she'll still live the high life??? Meanwhile, all these people don't get paid. Entitled witch.
I remember seeing a spread on her wedding. Her theme was "Tiffany's" as in the exclusive Fifth Ave. store. Her bridesmaids and flower girls carried their flowers in Tiffany blue boxes. She chose that theme because Tiffany's is her favorite place to shop. That was AFTER she declared bankruptcy the first time. What a spoiled *****!
Disappointed to find out what a cheat she is-----
but dang you wh@res are tripping off her and saying crazy $hit about her like what she does with her money effect yal, it kills me yal act like yal know so much about what really goes on in hollywood like yal aint F'd up or have a F'd up family member yal just pathetic
but dang you wh@res are tripping off her and saying crazy $hit about her like what she does with her money effect yal, it kills me yal act like yal know so much about what really goes on in hollywood like yal aint F'd up or have a F'd up family member yal just pathetic
Toni keep doing your $hit boo we all are f'd up in one way or another it's one thing that makes us human
why are people so mean for No Reason.. i will always Looooove Toni Braxton, her Voice! her Music! her Performances gives me life... with her string of Hit records she needs to start touring more


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Second former PTO official charged with embezzling
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A Frederick County grand jury has indicted a leader of the Bass-Hoover Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization on embezzlement charges.
This is the second time in more than a year that an officer from that PTO has been indicted.
The two counts issued Oct. 4 against Catherine Elaine Martin accuse her of stealing at least $200 from the organization. She was released from custody Monday on $2,500 unsecured bond.
The indictment states that Martin, 40, of 109 Black Walnut Court, Stephens City, embezzled money from the PTO between Aug. 24, 2011 and Feb. 6.
Capt. Allen Sibert of the Frederick County Sheriff's Office said his agency began an investigation into Martin after receiving a phone call from the PTO's president on May 15. Sibert said Martin was treasurer of the PTO at the time of the offenses.
Sibert said the exact amount stolen is "still in dispute."
"It's not $20, but it's not $100,000, either," he added.
Sibert called the case "a straight up embezzlement" that did not require a long, painstaking investigation. He said the investigating deputy's report ran to 30 pages, the majority of which are bank statements and receipts.
Sibert said Martin's case is unrelated to that of Shawn Marie Bianco, who is scheduled to go on trial Jan. 24 on a long list of embezzlement charges involving the Bass-Hoover and Aylor Middle School PTOs. She is a past president of both PTOs, according to court documents.
Authorities have linked Bianco to $18,000 missing from a certificate of deposit in the Bass-Hoover PTO account. Authorities have also connected her to a missing $4,000 certificate of deposit from the Aylor PTO account.
Investigators executing a search warrant of Bianco's home at 109 Georgetowne Court in Stephens City seized a laptop and desktop computer, and various documents from the PTOs, the Sherando Warriors Club, the Georgetowne Homeowners Association, a
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Updated: Manchester mailman who allowed children to play in truck pleads guilty on assault charge
MANCHESTER— A U.S. Postal Service letter carrier accused of sexually assaulting children on his West Side route pleaded guilty Monday in Hillsborough County Superior Court to a misdemeanor charge of simple assault, for spanking a child as part of a game of "playing house" in the mail truck.
Francis "Frank" Saucier, 44, of 260 Pawtucket Blvd., Tyngsboro, Mass., was sentenced to 12 months in the Hillsborough County House of Corrections, with 11 months suspended for two years of good behavior. Saucier, who had been free on bail, was taken into custody to begin serving his sentence.
Saucier was indicted in July on six counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault, one felony count and two misdemeanor counts of indecent exposure and lewdness, and a misdemeanor count of simple assault in connection with his alleged behavior involving three youngsters between April 1, 2011, and April 9, 2012.
Assistant Hillsborough County Attorney Kenneth Perkes said the remaining charges were not pressed, but Saucier is required as part of the sentence to undergo a sexual offender evaluation and follow-up with any recommended treatment. The plea also specifies that he spanked the child on the buttocks, not just that he had unprivileged physical contact.
Saucier is also barred from direct or indirect contact with the three children, is barred from going within 150 yards of the trio's residences, and is barred from going to Conant Street. He is also barred from contact with any minor child, except family members, until that is approved by the sexual offender evaluator.
Perkes said there are a number of factors that must be considered in such a case, including what has to be proved and what the victims are capable of doing on the witness stand, including undergoing cross examination. He said sometimes the victims have issues that complicate their testimony and, by extension, prosecution.
"We don't get to choose our victim, the defendants do," said Perkes, adding that offenders often deliberately select the most vulnerable children.
He said Saucier picked the wrong child to spank in April 2012. The 10-year-old boy told his parents what had happened to him.
The 10-year-old, a younger boy and a young girl told authorities that Saucier invited them into his truck where they would "play house."
The 10-year-old boy told police that when they played house, Saucier would be the father and when the children were "bad," he would spank them.
The father of two of the children said in court: "This has been a long time coming for me and my family. My boys went through a lot."
Parents in the Amory Street neighborhood became suspicious of Saucier's behavior and contacted police April 9, 2012, after learning the children were in the postal vehicle, and Saucier was arrested on the assault charge. The additional charges followed an investigation by police and the U.S. Postal Service.
Saucier was suspended after his arrest. U.S. Postal Service spokesman Tom Rizzo said Monday that he was trying to find out what effect Saucier's conviction will have on his employment status.
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What they say: This world has gone through many Dusks, and is slowly nearing its end. Within this world, in the western reaches of the "Land of Dusk," there was a nation that prospered thanks to its use of alchemy. There, in order to survive the eventual arrival of the "Dusk End," the people devoted their efforts to rediscover and recreate lost alchemic technologies. Rediscovered technology from the past era was gathered in the alchemy research city known as "Central," where research was conducted on how to halt the advance of the twilight. One of the heroes is a young man who researched alchemy in Central, the other a girl living in a small town on the frontier. This girl's name is Escha. In the process of using her knowledge of ancient alchemy to help others, she was assigned to the Development Department. The young man's name is Logy. Having learned the newest alchemic techniques in Central, he requested a transfer to this understaffed town to make use of his abilities, and meets Escha when he is assigned to the Development Department as well. The two make a promise to use their alchemy together, and bring success to the Development Department.
What they say: Okay, I was pretty excited about a new Atelier game. This one was no longer in Arland but now in Dusk Land.
So let's start with what has been added. Synthesis was very different. Okay, not completely different but so different that it was once again a mystery like it was in Atelier Rorona. Also most of the things you could synthesize were different with a few exceptions like healing salve. The way combat was done was also changed. In past Atelier games only 3 people were allowed out traveling for items to use in synthesis. This is also counting the main characters, so only an additional 2 could go with you. Now, an additional 4 can go with you along with Logy and Escha. The way it is set up is annoying as can be. Three are allowed to fight at a time but they switch out when one dies and it seems to take forever for the living character to switch with the dead character. This can get aggravating when you are in a boss battle.
The graphics really didn't change. It stayed basically the same from the last game. The art style was unchanged, I mean it looked the same as Atelier Ayesha. The controls didn't seem any different to me. It played the same as the last one.
The story was different. It wasn't like the past Atelier games were you were given 3 years to do something, this one just gave you a certain amount of days to finish a mission. This annoyed me because I liked how the past games were like, "Oh you have 3 years to do this and if you fail game over!" This helped me manage time. Atelier Logy and Escha wasn't quite the same. You didn't have to save a workshop or kingdom, you didn't have to find a lost your lost mother or sister. You just had to do as you were told…
Over all it was a okay game, not as enjoyable as the past ones but that's okay. I would prefer the game to explain a few things with more detail but hey, it happens, Also I would like to have the Friendship Points back. They took that out and that was the only reason I would replay the past games, so that kinda killed the replay value for me.
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Chief Minister Narendra Modi-led government sought vote on the development agenda and people approved it, state unit President KS Eswarappa said in a statement in Bangalore.
"In Karnataka also, the BJP government has performed well in the last four-and-a-half years. We will seek vote on the basis of development and hope people will vote us for power in the next year assembly election", he said.


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In the audio commentaries for the series DVD collection, it is mentioned that there is a subplot for Inara which was not developed in the series or the film. The producers mention foreshadowing events that hinted at this plot. During a panel at 2008's DragonCon, Morena Baccarin confirmed that Inara was indeed dying of a terminal illness.
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Puncher: River Tam
Punchee: a Reaver
Memorable lines: "My turn."
Why it's awesome: We've been waiting literally the whole movie for this moment - the turnaround, the payoff to all the setup, the moment when little wounded River changes from the victim of government conspiracy to the badass who beats up everything. It comes when our heroes are their very lowest point, some are dead (well, it does say Joss Whedon at the bottom of the page) and the rest are pretty much about to be, and when the audience is just starting to seriously consider whether he means to make it a Total Party Kill, when up pops River. She's been both broken bird and the central macguffin of the story line since her introduction, and at this moment she at last comes into her own, unleashing the epic fight scene of the film, and the first bit of success our heroes have seen in a long long time. And, naturally, it all begins with a face punch.
Where to find it: Serenity by Joss Whedon
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UCLA Basketball will be taking on the Kentucky Wildcats in a battle of elite college basketball programs this December at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. The Dispatch, a news outlet out of Columbus, Ohio, has just released information about the event, which will be a double-header with Ohio State and North Carolina, taking place right before Christmas.
.@UCLAMBB vs. Kentucky will be held at Chicago's United Center the weekend before Christmas, per @BBaptistHoops. http://t.co/On1lycIogo
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It has been stated that it will be a round-robin event, but has not been conformed if that will start this year. Either way, expect some great holiday hoops.
Recently, UCLA head coach Steve Alford has said that he wants to play more top quality teams. Well, as his first year in charge of scheduling, he is doing just that.
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"The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state."— Nikolai Berdyaev (via Dover Beach)
"The author of The Conservative Mind [Russell Kirk] once described the automobile as "a mechanical Jacobin," and when he found his daughters had smuggled a television up to the attic to watch more TV than they were allowed, he threw the offending device off the roof."— No Car, No TV: The Kids Are All Russell Kirk
By DANIEL MCCARTHY
"The trouble about the Conservative Party is that nobody can still suppose there will be any resemblance between what they say before an election and what they do afterwards if they win it […] Without exception, whatever happened, they put their cars and their chauffeurs, their salaries and their positions before their principles and their promises […] What is wrong with the Conservative Party today is that it is morally bankrupt."— Enoch Powell, "The Devil Was Sick, The Devil a Monk Would Be" Daily Mail (4 October 1976) reprinted in Reflections of a Statesman – The Writings and Speeches of Enoch Powell (Bellew, 1991). extracts from p. 460-461. (HT Sydney Trads)
➸ How I Saved Russell Kirk from Drowning- The Imaginative Conservative
I was holding on to Russell Kirk, the most important American conservative writer of the twentieth century, to keep him from going under water.
Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk (October 19, 1918 – April 29, 1994) was an American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, and fiction author known for his influence on 20th century American conservatism. His 1953 book, The Conservative Mind, gave shape to the amorphous post–World War II conservative movement. It traced the development of conservative thought in the Anglo-American tradition, giving special importance to the ideas of Edmund Burke. Kirk was also considered the chief proponent of traditionalist conservatism.
"The instinct of the conservative, as Lord Hailsham observes, is to enjoy life as he finds it, not to mold society nearer to his heart's desire; nor does he think of practical politics as the end and aim of being. Family life, church, literature, good talk, good dinners, sometimes good hunting—these things please him far more than parliamentary intrigue or journalistic controversy."— Russell Kirk, qtd. by The Imaginative Conservative (via joshbishopreads)
Only a bias that is friendly to the evils of this age, only a prepossession in favour of our materialistic, mechanical, unscrupulous and supinely irresponsible civilisation of "Progress," could so distort the facts as to make Charles I appear as the felon, and the ignoble band of grasping, bigoted and filthy-minded Puritans as the just accusers, in this historical trial and tragedy."
"The Grand Rebellion, or the so-called Civil War of the seventeenth century, was as much the first struggle between the new, vulgar spirit of the nation and the old, declining better taste of the nation as it was a contest between Puritan and High Churchman, or of King and Commons. I submit that it was on the battlefields of Edgehill, Marston Moor and Naseby that trade first advanced in open hostility against tradition, quantity against quality, capitalistic industry against agriculture and the old industry of the Guilds, vulgarity against taste, machinery against craftsmanship, grey and mournful Puritanism against cheerful and ruddy Paganism—in fact, plebeian democracy against aristocracy." —
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A Defence of Aristocracy. (1915)
"And right here let me say a word about conservatism. It does not mean, as many believe or affect to believe, a stubborn refusal to discard what is old and unworn, nor an old fogeyish prejudice against innovations of any kind. It really means a determination to retain what has been tried and proven to be good, and to refrain from the exploitation, simply because it is new, of what is essentially cheap and silly"
Winthrop H Brooks, President Of Brooks Brothers, 1935-1946He must be spinning in his grave now knowing how the Bros. Have almost wholly embraced the silly (tight & short suits by T.Brown) and the new (most all of their shirts chemically treated to be non-iron lifeless things).
➸ Smash the Meritocracy by Helen Rittelmeyer
No, no, no, no, no. Meritocracy as we know it has only existed for about fifty years, which is definitely not enough time for it to have entered conservatism's DNA. Perhaps Rod Dreher is conflating capitalism and meritocracy and assuming that conservatism's faith in one must extend to the other. It's an easy mistake to make at this particular moment in history. The Left has taken to arguing that the rewards of the market have zero relation to merit ("You didn't build that"), which forces the Right to emphasize the fact that the two have at least something to do with each other. But at the end of the day, conservatism embraces capitalism for the same reason that Lord Salisbury said that British foreign policy should respect the right of conquest—not because it apportions rewards to the deserving, but because it's just the simplest way to sort out who owns what. I have always found it odd that the same therapeutically minded liberals who put such stock in "closure" at the level of personal psychology fail to recognize the same principle in politics, where deciding a question with finality is often more important than deciding it rightly. At a certain point, people just need to move on.
From Right Minds : What sets conservatives apart from authoritarians and fascists? By SAMUEL GOLDMAN
Yet the counterrevolutionaries were not simply authoritarians. Unlike Hobbes, to whom it was a matter of indifference who ruled so long as someone did so, Burke and his disciples were deeply concerned with the character of the wielders of power. This was not simply a matter of natural endowments, although the conservatives did observe reasonably enough that men are not born equal in strength, intelligence, or other capacities. Instead, the classical conservatives insisted that only certain persons are in a position to develop the skills and habits that fit them for rule, not for their personal enjoyment, but rather to secure the common good that is available only when men acknowledge the distinctions that God and nature have established.http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/right-minds/
No one should be mocked or oppressed because of the way he earns his living, Burke insists. Yet he echoes Aristotle's argument against political participation by tradesmen when he insists that "the state suffers oppression if such as they, either individually or collectively, are permitted to rule. In this you think you are combating prejudice, but you are at war with nature."
The content of the relevant distinctions, however, is a point of difference between the conservative tradition as it developed in the English-speaking world and on the Continent. Although it was fundamentally anti-egalitarian, the former took its bearing from the ideal of the gentleman, who did not necessarily bear a title of nobility and was most at home on his rural estate. For Burke, the possession and care of landed property had a central role in cultivating the virtues necessary to rule others well. As the reference to an "entailed inheritance" suggests, Burke saw the management of an estate and its tenants as the basic model of harmonious social relations. On the other hand, those who earn their living from rapid exchange can hardly resist habits of short-term thinking, deference to the whims of customers, and the less than frank speech necessary to succeed in business.
Even a successful merchant, then, could not make himself into a gentleman. He might, however, hope to be successful enough that his grandsons would be. The assumption that social mobility is possible, although never frequent or easy, inclined English-style conservatism to the idea of a powerful but permeable aristocracy. Burke's own rise from obscure man of letters to the ideologue of the establishment testifies to the plausibility of this assumption.
But "the spirit of the gentleman," as Burke called it, did not exist in the same way on the Continent, partly because European titles passed to all of a nobleman's sons rather than only to the eldest. In its place, Bonald, Maistre, and German counterparts like Friedrich Gentz deferred to the nobility of the sword. The natural rulers, as they saw them, were not a class of squires periodically refreshed by talented outsiders. They were the titled commanders of armies.
Continental conservatives generally acknowledged the necessity of a class of civil servants to administer the state. But they rejected the Aristotelian principle that participation in politics is an important component of virtue, in favor of a military monasticism that alienated the elite from the society that it was supposed to lead. Among the reasons that Burke's conservatism supported his commitment to parliamentary government, by contrast, was that he saw politics as a fit occupation for a gentleman. Indeed, one of Burke's central criticisms of the French Revolution is that its subversion of all civil authority made military dictatorship inevitable—an outcome for which he had no sympathy whatsoever.
Despite their disagreement about who the natural rulers were, Burke and his European counterparts agreed about how this rule was to be exercised. In both cases, power was to be constrained by the complex structure of relationships that make up a whole society. A father might be the authority in his own home, but he owed obedience to the local lord of the manor. The lord might rule his estate, but not in defiance of the king. And the king had to be prepared to account for himself before God for his stewardship of these relationships, which are not of his making or subject to his will.
Burke's insistence that good government is always limited government is well known. But Maistre, who has the reputation of a crazed absolutist, insisted on the same principle. Elaborating his theory of sovereignty, Maistre explains that while sovereignty must, in certain senses, be absolute, it should never be arbitrary or exercised outside its proper sphere. Although the king's will must not be challenged, "Religion, laws, customs, opinion, and class and corporate privileges restrain the sovereign and prevent him from abusing his power…"
The insistence that power be embedded in restraining traditions and institutions is the crucial distinction between classical conservatism and the fascism that would eventually replace it on the European right. Conservatism defends the authority of lords, of generals, of kings—but not of a "leader" who emerges from and rules over the disorganized mob.
In The Reactionary Mind, Robin tries to efface this distinction by quoting Maistre's arguments that the restoration of the king would require the participation of the people. But he ignores Maistre's insistence that the restored order be monarchical—and indeed that the crown continue in the line of succession that had been interrupted when Louis XVI was executed. The template for the populist dictatorship that Robin associates with conservatism was not the Bourbon Restoration. As Burke foresaw, it was the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte, whom even Maistre opposed.
The French Revolution was not the first revolution in human or even European history. Mobs had ruled the streets before; princes had often enough been deposed. Yet Burke insisted that that the Revolution was "the most astonishing thing that has hitherto happened in the world." What was so astonishing about it?
Burke's answer was that the French Revolution was the consequence of an extraordinary new theory of society. According to this theory, which Burke attributed to the philosophers of the Enlightenment, human beings are naturally free and self-sufficient. Because each man is potentially a Crusoe, any relations between individuals are essentially voluntary.
The question, then, is whether the "chains" that bind one person to another reflect the will of every individual involved. If so, they are legitimate—a term that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the first to transform from a principle of dynastic succession into the moral justification of rule as such. If not, they lack moral authority and may be rejected, potentially with violence. So, in Burke's view, went the philosophical argument behind the revolution.
This reasoning was mistaken, Burke argued, not so much in its logical structure as in its first principle. In fact, human beings are born into networks of sympathy, obligation, and authority. These networks make us what we are, transforming unformed potential and dispositions into concrete identities. On this view, there is no Archimedean point from which the legitimacy of existing social relations can be assessed. As Maistre put it in a brilliant formulation, "In the course of my life, I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians… . But, as for Man, I declare that I have never met him in my life. If he exists, I certainly have no knowledge of him."
All political philosophy boils down to two basic ideas about human nature – the utopian vision and the tragic vision.
All political philosophy boils down to two basic ideas about human nature – the utopian vision and the tragic vision. Either man is a perfectible animal and we can build a society free of inequality, injustice, poverty and discrimination, or these grand dreams will always fail because of man's failings. The first idea inspired the Jacobins and Bolsheviks; the latter has informed the views of conservatives from Edmund Burke to Roger Scruton.
Arguably the greatest political philosopher of his era, Scruton's misfortune is to have lived during a time when, despite the evident failures of Communism, the masses have embraced the utopian vision like never before. As a youth he witnessed the 1968 student revolution in Paris which, although superficially a failure, has been so fantastically successful in imparting utopian ideas throughout the political-media class that deviation from its principles is socially unacceptable and in some cases a "hate crime". For, as Professor Scruton points out, secular ideologies can be just as intolerant of heretics as any religion; indeed, the religious, believing in salvation in the next life, are less prone to believing in utopian ideas about this one.
Utopian ideas are doomed to fail because, as Scruton points out in his new book, The Uses of Pessimism, they hail from "unscrupulous optimism", the subject of this book. Optimists are political thinkers who "ignore or despise the findings of experience and common sense. The millions dead or enslaved do not refute utopia, but merely give proof of the evil machinations that have stood in its way."
The utopian fallacy is just one of several that form the basis of modern Left-wing thinking. Among the others is the "born-free fallacy", based on Rousseau's idea that without social constraints we are all free, when in fact there can be no freedom without obedience.
There is also the "zero-sum fallacy", which states that someone is poor and unhappy because someone else is rich and happy. And the "best-case fallacy", the line of optimistic utopian thinking which chooses to ignore the likely outcome of a policy in favour of the intended outcome; among the many examples are the liberalisation of divorce and abortion laws, which led to more abandoned children and domestic abuse – the complete opposite of what was promised…
The utopian vision is also behind that other modern grand illusion, mass immigration.
As Scruton notes: "Since the 1960s western countries have adopted policies in the matter of immigration that no person schooled in the elementary truths of pessimism would have endorsed. Anybody who has studied the fate of empires, and the difficulties of establishing territorial jurisdiction over communities that differ in religion, language and marital customs, knows that the task is all but impossible, and threatens constantly to break down in fragmentation, tribalism or civil war."


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A couple of years ago, I was 20 years old. This was a really weird time in my life. I didn't have a car or a cellphone or my own computer. Every weekend, I would get on my bicycle and ride about 4 hours up to Napa to play music on a ranch with my band. I was taking classes in community college, but I wasn't highly motivated. I was having all sorts of issues with my dad and ended up living out of this girl's house for a week, which was really awkward because I thought she wanted to be "more than just friends" and I was clearly in no place emotionally or psychologically to do that. Anyways, during that year, I saw that one of my favorite artists Papa M (aka David Pajo, formerly the guitarist in Slint) would finally be playing in California. Pajo is from the midwest, so the prospect of getting to see him play live was a very rare occurrence. Even better, Papa M would be playing at Cafe Du Nord, a smaller venue in San Francisco. To top it all off, the show would be Pajo and some bandmates performing my favorite Papa M album, Live From A Shark Cage, in its entirety. Then I saw that the show would be 21+. I freaked out for a few minutes and then emailed Pajo and asked him if there was any way that I could get into the show. He told me it wasn't a problem and that I should show up early for the soundcheck and he'd get me in. Needless to say, I was floored. Here I am, this stupid 20 year old kid who doesn't have his shit together, and one of my favorite artists personally responds to my email asking for a favor and he wants to have me show up early for soundcheck? Fuck yes! The show that I ended up going to a few weeks later was one of the strangest that I've ever been to. Despite his pedigree as one of the saints of post-rock (aside from his role in Slint, Pajo was also in Zwan alongside douchebag extraordinaire Billy Corgan. Pajo's songs have also been covered by Mogwai; my point is that he is well-known and well-respected), there were about fifteen people in attendance. Even though our numbers were few, it was pretty damn obvious that those of us there were huge Papa M fans. When the lights went down and Pajo started playing "Arundel," this overweight, kind of sweaty older guy standing next to me let out a big sigh, said "oh man," and started crying. That's usually how I feel when I listen to this record too.


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced her resignation Friday to take over the University of California system, leaving behind a huge department still working to adjust to the merger of nearly two dozen agencies after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The former Arizona governor came to President Barack Obama's Cabinet with plans to fix the nation's broken immigration system, and she is leaving in the midst of a heated battle in Congress over how -- or if -- that overhaul will be accomplished.
The most frequent contact by most Americans is with the department's Transportation Security Administration screeners at airports. But its charter is much broader: It comprises agencies that protect the president, respond to disasters and enforce immigration laws as well as secure air travel. It includes the Secret Service, the Coast Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection as well as TSA.
Like the department Napolitano has run since the beginning of the Obama administration, the University of California system is a giant, multilayered organization, though with a far different mission. Her appointment, which still must be confirmed by the system's board of regents, could triple Napolitano's salary from $199,700 to around $600,000. She said she would stay on as secretary until early September.
It is not clear whom Obama may be considering to replace her.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Friday he wants to Obama to nominate New York Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly.
Unlike the University of California school system, which dates to the 1860s, the Homeland Security Department is just a decade old and at times has seemed in search of a clear mission.
Though Napolitano came to Washington with plans to change the immigration system, her tenure is marked with few new sweeping immigration policies. And those she has pushed through were met with great controversy, such as a policy to give thousands of young immigrants living in the U.S. illegally temporary reprieve from deportation, a plan rolled out in the summer of 2012 before the presidential election.
Opponents assailed Napolitano and Obama for creating what they called "backdoor amnesty." Under her instructions, immigration officers have been told to focus on deporting criminals living in the U.S. illegally who pose dangers to public safety and national security.
When Napolitano took over as secretary, she was quickly faced with counterterrorism challenges outside her normal experience. During her first testimony as secretary on Capitol Hill, she did not mention terrorism or the 9/11 attacks in her prepared remarks. And after an al-Qaida operative nearly took down a commercial airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009, Napolitano went on national television and declared that the "system worked," a statement widely ridiculed.
But as the nation saw an uptick in attempted terror attacks in the first part of Obama's first term, Napolitano turned her focus to terrorism. She traveled around the world, strengthening information-sharing and travel-security policies with other countries. She launched a national ad campaign to alert the public to suspicious activity. And she scrapped the much-mocked color-coded terror alert system put in place after the 2001 attacks.
She also was at the helm during a number of controversies.
Secret Service officers and agents were accused of spending a wild night with various women, including some prostitutes, at a hotel where the employees were staying ahead of a presidential trip to Cartagena, Colombia. Eight of the Secret Service employees were forced out of the agency, three were cleared of serious wrongdoing, and at least two have fought to get their jobs back. The incident raised questions about the culture of the agency which Napolitano and her senior staff stood by consistently.
Also, one of Napolitano's appointees, a protegee from her time in Arizona, Suzanne Barr, was forced to give up her post as Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief of staff after being accused in a lawsuit of sexual harassment. In her resignation letter, Barr said she has been the subject of "unfounded allegations designed to destroy my reputation."
Before government-wide budget cuts earlier this year, Napolitano warned of hours-long waits at airport security checkpoints and customs lines, and a near standstill of cross-border traffic because of planned furloughs for Transportation Security Administration and Customs and Border Protection officers. At the start of the budget sequester, she even declared that customs lines at large airports, including in Los Angeles and Chicago, were already backing up. But the massive delays she predicted never materialized. Critics said she was fear mongering for political reasons.


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Jim Thebeau, a partner, and Amber Mussman, a public relations counselor at Henry Russell Bruce (HRB), a strategic marketing firm, presented tips on how to grow a company's brand in a down economy at a business luncheon seminar sponsored by the Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce (ICACC).
"Research shows that in down times, those companies that continue to market, continue to advertise retain market share and come out of a recession or down time stronger and maintain their leadership," said Thebeau.
Thebeau stressed the importance of research in defining your brand. "Do you know where your brand is positioned in your market? Are you sure?" he asked. "Don't believe your own press releases too much. Research can help you get insights and find unique spaces your brand can own and keep you from making mistakes."
An article by Gigi Wood highlighting the presentation appeared in the Corridor Business Journal (Nov. 24 – 30).
Henry Russell Bruce is a strategic marketing firm that uses research, brand-building, design, advertising, media, public relations and Web strategies to help clients grow market share, generate new business, create brand loyalty and measure marketing results to build and support its clients' brands. HRB, founded in 1973, has offices in Cedar Rapids and Davenport, Iowa. For more information, contact HRB at 319.298.0242 or 563.322.0577, or visit www.hrb-ideas.com.