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Denny's: 20% Off Entire Check
Denny's currently offers 20% off the entire check by using this printable coupon. It is valid through 10/30 and is limted to one coupon per check per visit.
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Moon Over My Hammy!!!!
Is there any limit on the size of the check? You could save some serious money :) I'd like to see how much food a $200 Denny's bill contains.
Great deal! Just don't forget to tip on the original amount!
Is anyone concerned with the wording, "Must print and present this e-mail to receive 20%..." ?
Or does anyone think it's odd that the copyright is 2011 and the expiration date is slightly different font and size from the rest of the coupon
@annf: If you sign up to receive their emails, this coupon gets emailed to you (got mine last week). That said, this is exactly as they sent it to me. No concern about the expiry date!
This is a FAKE DO NOT USE. Denny's is starting to crack down on fake coupons. Check with the manager be using.
@firefighteremt30: THIS IS NNNNOOOOTTTTT a FAKE!!! The link connects directly to Denny's server. Stop with the Sky is Falling Routine!!!
@bigray57: It may or may not be fake, but it does not go to the Denny's site. It goes to fbmta.com, which is a marketing firm.. They claim Denny's as a client, so this is probably legit, but it is not on a Denny's server.
Used it this morning... No issues at all - Thank you OP !
I love the extra scowl I get when I use a coupon at a restaurant. Like it's my fault I want to save money. Restaurants really need to start being better about accepting their OWN coupons.

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Invisible inflation: 9 grocery products giving you less for your buck
The government tells us there's no inflation. They must not go grocery shopping.
A decent steak will now run you $15 to $20 a pound.
Want chicken? A pack of boneless breasts will set you back almost $10.
But it's a hidden price hike -- the invisible inflation -- that really costs you more in the long run.
Fewer Cookies and Crackers
Cindy Metz noticed something strange with Keebler cookies recently.
"I noticed when we bought them the other week that we seemed like we had less cookies," she said. "I know we have the same amount of people in my home, but it seems each of us got a smaller portion."
She's right. According to the website Mouseprint.org , Keebler's recent package redesign contains two to three fewer cookies, down from 13.3 ounces to 11.6 ounces.
Ashmi Dayal said she noticed a lot of cookies and crackers shrinking, like Ritz crackers, which now have shorter stacks.
"The product is definitely smaller," she said. "Smaller quantities, smaller packs, yes."
The website Consumerist, run by Consumer Reports Magazine, calls this the "Grocery Shrink Ray."
Recent additions to in the Consumerist's Shrink Ray files include:
- Kraft Shake n Bake, down from 11 ounces to 9 ounces.
- Many Nabisco crackers, including Triscuits, which are down from 9.5 ounces to just 9.
- Jif Peanut Butter, down from 18 to 16 ounces.
- Special K cereal: A standard box is now 12.5 ounces. It was 13.5 ounces.
- Chobani Yogurt: Down from 6 to 5.3 ounces.
- Renuzit Air Freshener: The new container looks bigger, but is actually a half-ounce smaller due to a clever hole in the bottom.
- Sun Chips: Down from 10 to just 7 ounces.
"It's kinda' subtle," Anna Auris said. "When you open the bag, there seems to be fewer potato chips in it."
Less Toilet Paper on Roll
But the item most people have complained about in the past few months: Shrinking toilet paper.
Donna Cann said her Charmin rolls now rattle in the holder.
"I decided to get out the tape measure and see how much difference there is, and there's a half inch difference in the rolls now," she said.
A Procter & Gamble spokesman confirmed the Charmin shrinkage, but said the exact reduction is three-eighths of an inch, not half an inch.
Nabisco calls their smaller packages an improvement, saying "we've taken the same great Ritz you love and shrunk down the package so it will fit anywhere you go."
But whether it's T.P., P.B, potato chips or cookies, we keep paying the same price, but getting a lot less for our buck.
Bottom line: If you look at all the items giving us 5 percent less, that's the equivalent of an inflation rate of 5 percent.
As always don't waste your money.


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With 70 percent of Fall River's public school students eligible for free lunch during the school year, the summer months can prove to be a challenge for Fall River families who rely on schools to provide a lunch during the school year. When students are home for the summer, it can put more of a strain on family budgets and limit opportunities for better nutrition than might be available at home.
Under a federally and state-funded program, free lunches are available during the summer months in several city parks on a first-come, first-served basis to youth under age 18. The program is available to cities like Fall River, where at least half the children live in households earning less than 185 percent of the federal poverty line. That's $23,850 for a family of four. Local programs are federally reimbursed at up to $3.55 per meal, while the state provides reimbursement of 14 cents per meal.
But, despite the high need for the lunch program, only about 15 percent of eligible students participate. For that reason, Fall River RE-Creation, which administers the program locally and estimates that it serves about 40,000 to 50,000 lunches during the summer, has increased its outreach efforts to promote the program to those who are eligible. Those promotional efforts include social media and traditional media outreach, as well as a FRED-TV video shoot featuring Mayor Will Flanagan and students at the park grabbing milks and lunch bags.
While families who are able to provide their own lunch for kids ought to do so, those who need the free lunch should not be ashamed to take advantage of it. This program can help struggling families make their food budgets stretch a little more and help ease the summer strain that local food pantries experience.
The summer lunch program also provides employment opportunities for some young people who serve the lunches. While it might be easy enough for some parents or kids to make a sandwich, in some cases, the cupboards may be empty. In other cases, kids may go for the junk food instead of a more nutritious lunch option.
These days too many kids tend to sit inside playing video games instead of getting some fresh air and exercise. The summer lunch program represents a good opportunity for Fall River kids to get some exercise in the park during July and August, while also getting a chance to eat a nutritious lunch after they work up an appetite. It's a healthy proposition for all involved. For more information about the summer lunch program, call 508-679-0922.
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I have high resolution images that would be much more effectively executed in landscape format. Is there a way to tell ConTeXt to automatically place images in landscape format to suit their dimensions when fitting them to a page?
I don't know of any automatic method, but what you can do is to define a custom style for the images that have to be rotated and use it for big images. Example:
Whenever you want to include a big image that should be rotated, you add another pair of brackets with the identifier (here


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In a class, 18 students like to play chess, 23 like to play soccer, 21 like biking, and 17 like jogging. The number of those who like to play both chess and soccer is 9. We also know that 7 students like chess and biking, 6 students like chess and jogging, 12 like soccer and biking, 9 like soccer and jogging, and finally 12 students like biking and jogging. There are 4 students who like chess, soccer, and biking, 3 who like chess, soccer, and jogging, 5 who like chess, biking, and jogging, and 7 who like soccer, biking, and jogging. Finally, there are 3 students who like all four activities. In addition, we know that every student likes at least one of these activities. How many students are there in the class?
I know this is a case of using the inclusion-exclusion principle, but I'm a little overwhelmed, given that there are 4 sets. Can someone please explain this to me? Thanks!


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To the editor:
I completely disagree with former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland's recent denial in your newspaper of the Obama Administration's war on coal. Strickland's claims ring hollow in this part of the country.
Obama and his allies are hostile to the jobs and affordable energy provided by America's coal industry. Obama has stated that under his energy plan, "electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket," as well as warning the industry that expansion, "will bankrupt them."
Obama and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson are working hard to put the tens of thousands of American families that put food on their tables through their hard work in the coal industry out of a job. They have circumvented the Congress, using executive branch regulations to get their way.
The devastating effects of the president's destructive extremist agenda can be seen plainly in the steady stream of mine closures. All along the Ohio valley, mines and plants are shutting down.
The president has proven time and time again that he would rather placate his extremist environmentalist allies than stand up for working families.
Deborah Bush


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The R1200GS is a bike designed for long days on the road or trail, but its seat has always been the weak point. The stock foam is much too soft, creating hot spots sometimes only minutes into your ride. Touratech comfort seats feature an ergonomic design and high-density foam that will keep you supported no matter how many miles you plan on riding per day.
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Given a line function $y = ax + b$, it is easy to calculate the sum-of-squares distance between the line and a window of samples $(1, y_1), (2, y_2), ..., (n, y_n)$ (where $y_1$ is the oldest sample and $y_n$ is the newest):
$\sum_{x=1}^{n}(y_x - (ax + b))^2 $
I need a fast algorithm for calculating this value for a rolling window (of length
n) - I cannot rescan all the samples in the window every time a new sample arrives.
Obviously, some state should be saved and updated for every new sample that enters the window and every old sample leaves the window.
Notice that when a sample leaves the window, the indecies of the rest of the samples change as well - every $y_x$ becomes $y_{x-1}$. Therefore when a sample leaves the window, every other sample in the window contribute a different value to the new sum: $(y_x - (a(x-1) + b))^2$ instead of $(y_x - (ax + b))^2$.
Is there a known algorithm for calculating this? If not, can you think of one? (It is ok to have some mistakes due first-order linear approximations).


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For Sale: Luxury Condos, Corpse Included
Just a stone's throw from Judith McMonigle Flynn's thriving Hillside Manor, workmen are busy renovating the elegantly decrepit Alhambra Arms into pricey condominiums. But concerned contractor George Guthrie fears that well-heeled potential buyers may blanch when they learn about the four-decades-dead body that was stashed behind the crumbling walls of the moldy manse. And ever-inquisitive Judith's discovery of some much more recent remains on the premises threatens to se property values through the floorboards--and Guthrie through the roof! Both her professional detective husband Joe and her partner-in-crime solving cousin Renie think Judith is bonkers to suspect that the two killings are connected. Nevertheless, Judith's ready to build a strong case to that effect -- unless some homicidal someone decides to deconstruct her first!
About the Author
Mary Richardson Daheim is a Seattle native with a communications degree from the University of Washington. Realizing at an early age that getting published in books with real covers might elude her for years, she worked on daily newspapers and in public relations to help avoid her creditors. She lives in her hometown in a century-old house not unlike Hillside Manor, except for the body count. Daheim is also the author of the Alpine mystery series and the mother of three daughters.


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NATRIUM - The plant has yet to process its first barrel of butane, but Dominion Resources and Caiman Energy have struck a $1.5 billion deal to operate the Natrium facility, along with other Utica and Marcellus shale infrastructure.
The Natrium plant is but one of the major natural gas processing projects under construction in the Upper Ohio Valley. MarkWest Energy, Williams Partners and M3 Midstream are pumping billions of dollars into eastern Ohio and northern West Virginia to separate and transport the methane, ethane, propane, butane, pentane, oil and other valuable materials.
Energy companies such as Chesapeake Energy are also building natural gas compressor stations - such as those at Battle Run and Sand Hill - to help move the gas through pipelines so that it can reach the processing plants.
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Chesapeake Energy is building natural gas compressor stations like this throughout the area to transport the company's product.
All told, the overall investment in moving and processing the natural gas after a well has been fracked and starts producing is in the tens of billions of dollars.
A company such as Chesapeake, which has agreed to supply the Dominion plant with its gas stream, is known in the industry as a "producer" because it sells the gas that it pumps out of the ground. Because the wet gas requires processing before it can go to market, Chesapeake and other producers send their gas to companies such as Dominion, Williams or MarkWest for processing. The separated gas products are then ready for use, with the ethane possibly going to a cracker plant somewhere in North America because the substance is too volatile to keep in a tank.
Though the $500 million Dominion plant is taking longer to complete than the originally projected date of Dec. 31, work continues at a frantic pace. Officials with both Dominion and Caiman believe the plant's location along the Ohio River in Marshall County will allow it to be a centerpiece in the burgeoning Utica and Marcellus shale industries in Ohio and West Virginia, respectively.
"The Utica Shale has enormous potential to provide jobs and revenues for the local Ohio economy," said Thomas F. Farrell II, Dominion's chairman, president and chief executive officer. "Because the portion of the Utica Shale targeted today produces a rich gas stream, gathering and processing capacity must be developed so that the natural gas and valuable natural gas liquids can be separated and sold."
Dominion and Caiman will operate the Natrium plant and other infrastructure under the badge of Blue Racer Midstream. In the natural gas and oil industry, the term "midstream" broadly refers to pipelines that gather and transport gas and oil, processing plants, fractionators and compressor stations.
Once the Natrium plant opens, the company plans to employ 40-45 full-time, permanent workers for jobs at the plant itself. Dominion spokesman Charles Penn said these jobs will pay from $20-$30 per hour.
He said those looking for a career working at a natural gas plant will need different skills depending upon their specific positions. Some workers will need electrical experience in an industrial setting, while others will need experience in process operation control that they may have from working in gas, paper, water or chemical plants. There will also be positions for rail and tanker truck loading.
The Dominion facility will also feature a connection to the CSX Corp. railroad line running along the Ohio River.
Construction workers recently built the railroad lines that will connect the Dominion plant to the CSX line, which is part of the historic Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
"Cars would be pulled onto the siding (rail) and be loaded, then taken away when full," Penn said of the rail connection.
In April, Caiman sold nearly all of its Marcellus Shale assets - most substantially the processing plant located at Fort Beeler along U.S. 250 between Moundsville and Cameron, as well as the fractionation facility along the Ohio River south of Moundsville - to Williams for $2.5 billion. Williams is also operating a field office in the TeleTech building in Moundsville.
MarkWest now has its Mobley plant operational in Wetzel County, as the company is going to receive some gas via the Magnum Hunter Resources pipeline running under the Ohio River from Monroe County.
"With the initial plant now online and expansions well under way, our producer customers now have the infrastructure needed to efficiently develop their prolific Marcellus Shale acreage in northern West Virginia," said Frank Semple, chairman, president and chief executive officer of MarkWest.
"The initial Mobley project presented a significant challenge because of the remote location and mountainous terrain."
MarkWest has been operating a processing facility at Majorsville in eastern Marshall County for the past few years. The company also is building a $500 million plant just outside Cadiz, some of which came on-line to process Gulfport Energy late last year.
In addition, MarkWest is developing a second processing complex in Noble County.
The Harrison and Noble processing complexes will be connected through a gathering system to the Harrison fractionation complex, which will include 100,000 barrels per day of fractionation capacity by early 2014.
M3 Midstream is building a $900 million processing complex in eastern Ohio. According to a map on the M3 website, it appears the Harrison County portion of the complex is being built near Scio; the Columbiana County part of the complex will be located near Kensington, Ohio; and the Carroll County portion will be at Leesville, Ohio.


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September 27, 2012
#LoveCapeTown Photo Competition: And the winner is…
The #LoveCapeTown Photo Competition winner is Naude Heunis for his photo titled "Our own seventh wonder," which is pictured above. Heunis, 25, lives in Stellenbosch and works in the film industry.
Heunis wins R10 000 and the right to say he took the photo that best depicts love for Cape Town, as chosen by members of the public who voted for 20 short-listed images. He is getting married next year and says the prize money will go toward the honeymoon.
He adds: "I feel amazing right now!! I'm so happy and feel extremely blessed to have won such an amazing prize. It was only made possible by all the people that voted and supported me the whole way."
Describing the image, he says: "This shot was made possible by my fiance Laura D'Amore's friend Richard Timmis, who was the pilot of the plane on the day when managed to get this shot. He would always try and share the experience of flying over Cape Town with all of his friends."
"A big thank you to Cape Town Tourism for creating such an awesome platform for photographers to showcase their work and also promote our beautiful city," says Heunis.
Votes were thoroughly audited to ensure the rules of the competition were followed.


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Has anyone tried out Passbook?
When I upgraded to ios6 on my iPhone, I automatically got the Passbook app installed. After staring at it for a week, I went into the Apple store and they showed me how to set it up and use it. It seems like a really cool app but I have yet to try it out. Has anyone tried it? I am sure it is going to be really helpful once a few more companies get on board.
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Nope. Probably will next time I go to a Starbucks, though.
Nope. I currently have no use for it. The apps made for Passbook just aren't any places I shop. I don't travel often, don't have a Target nearby and I'm not a fan of Starbucks. So...Passbook is pretty much useless to me right now. If they add Stop & Shop or CVS or something, I might use it.
I dont really have a ton of those frequent member cards though.
All in all, I like it as a concept. It'd be great if we could add our own cards, so that if an app doesnt exist, I could still use Passbook, but in the meantime it's just going to remain unused.
I've used it for Starbucks, and it worked great. It shows up on the lock screen whenever I'm near one of my favorited stores, pretty convenient. I also have a concert ticket ready to go from the Livenation app that I'm going to try out next month. So far that all I've needed it for, but still it seems like it has a lot of potential to be really handy.
No use for it here either.
It's a useless app. It just takes you to the app store to download apps.
You still have to use the other app to do anything.
Worst part, it can't be deleted or put in a folder like newsstand. Another useless app.
So far, pretty useless on my iPod Touch. Especially since there's no 3G data attached. I'll stick with CardStar - no Internet required. And that does work at CVS and many other places.
Just tried it with Starbucks the other day too because I had a free $10 card from a past deal, worked flawlessly even though it did felt a little awkward at first.
Definitely +1 on the variety of apps so far, but I could speculate that there will be more in the (far) future.
I find the "delete" option of the cards to be rather amusing.
It will be good one day. Just not today....


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Follansbee Baseball Association set to hold sign-ups Saturday
FOLLANSBEE - The Follansbee Baseball Association will hold sign-ups from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and Feb. 9 and 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Feb. 13 at City Council Chambers.
The cost is $40 for T-Ball and Pinto, $60 for Mustang and Bronco, and $40 for Pony, special celebratatory pricing for the grand re-opening of the Pony division. The first child is registered at the regular price, and there is a $10 discount for each additional sibling. Registration includes baseball pants, hat and jersey.
Those who cannot attend registration in person may call (304) 871-3308.
The association is holding a ham/turkey shoot fundraiser, with blocks available at $1 each. One winner per target gets a choice of a turkey or ham and will receive it before Easter. The contest ends March 1.
A murder-mystery dinner fundraiser will be held March 9 at Staffileno's on the River in Wellsburg. The Brooke Hills Players will perform "Where There's a Will, There's a Way." There will be a Chinese auction and 50/50 drawing. Tickets are $20 per person and includes dinner, dessert and the show. For tickets, call (304) 374-3658 or (304) 871-3308.
Country Friends to host dance
COLLIERS - Country Friends will host The Sands of Time Saturday at the Memorial Hall located at 402 Old Police Lodge Road.
The doors open at 6 p.m., and the dance starts at 7 p.m.
Country Friends holds covered-dish dinners and open mic nights every Monday and Friday. The doors open at 4 p.m., the meal begins at 5 p.m., and open mic begins at 6 p.m.
Country Friends Foundation Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting Christianity, friendship and brotherly love through music. All proceeds go to charity.
For information, call (304) 527-4253 or (304) 479-1270 or visit the website at www.countryfriendsfoundation.com.
Grief support group to begin
WELLSBURG - A GriefShare seminar and support group will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays at the New Day Christian Center located at 2640 Pleasant Ave., beginning Tuesday and continuing through April 30.
The weekly video seminar will feature experts on grief recovery topics, and a grief support group discussion will allow time for participants to talk about the seminar content and how they are coping.
Cheryl Kriebel, GriefShare facilitator, and Chaplain Ron Rice, a hospice chaplain, will lead the meetings. For information, contact Kriebel at firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www. griefshare. org.
Altar Society holding breakfast
AVELLA, Pa. - The St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church Altar Society will hold a pancake and sausage breakfast from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Feb. 10 at the church hall located at 176 Cross Creek Road. The cost is $6 for adults and $2 for children. Take-out is available.
Capito speaking at dinner
CHARLESTON - U.S. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-Charleston, will be the key speaker for the West Virginia Republican Party's Lincoln Day Dinner Feb. 8 at the Charleston Marriott.
Party Chairman Conrad Lucas said Patrick Morrisey, the state's new attorney general, also will be a special guest, along with state Del. Tim Armstead, R-Kanawha, and state Sen. Mike Hall, R-Hurricane, who will lead a legislative roundtable discussion.
Tickets can be purchased through the website at www.eventbrite.com/event/5247836420#.


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I'm looking for a reference which deals with limits of families of algebraic varieties as the degree increases (or at least keywords from this subject).
For the kind of example I have in mind, consider the exponential function as a convergent power series e^x=1+x+x^2/2!+... on the interval [-1;1] say, and consider the varieties A0:={(x,y)\in\R^2 s.t. y=1}, A1:={(x,y)\in\R^2 s.t. y=1+x}, A2:={(x,y)\in\R^2 s.t. y=1+x+x^2/2!}... which converge (in the euclidean topology) to the graph of the exponential (as in the picture here).


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There are many things that make a visit to Keeneland for the opening weekend of its 17-day Fall Meet, a special autumn event in Kentucky.
There is, of course, the usually pleasant weather and the autumn color. The meet serves as a lovely transition from summer to a new season, and racing at the Lexington track is always a social event and the track is packed on its best weather days.
But the primary lure of a fall trip to Keeneland remains the high-quality Thoroughbreds that will be on the track. Nine stakes races – five of them Grade I events – are set for the meet's opening weekend and many horses will be prepping for the Breeders' Cup World Championships on the first weekend in November at Santa Anita.
The main attraction during the track's "Fall Stars Weekend" is a major contender to become America's "Horse of the Year." Morton Fink's Wise Dan, a serious contender for both the Breeders' Cup Mile on turf and the $5 million Classic on the main track, is set for a Saturday run. Trainer Charlie Lopresti told Daily Racing Form on Tuesday that his 5-year-old gelding would run in the Grade I, $750,000 Shadwell Mile on turf.
It is fitting that horse that could be the meet's biggest star will run in its richest fall race. Wise Dan has won five of his last six races, with his only setback being a narrow loss on dirt to Ron the Greek in Churchill Downs' Grade I Stephen Foster Handicap in June. Since that setback, the winner of last fall's Grade I Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs has cruised to turf wins in the Grade II Fourstardave at Saratoga and the Grade I Woodbine Mile at Toronto's Woodbine Race Course.
While his versatile star would be likely be either the favorite or among the favorites in either the Mile or the Classic, Lopresti said the Mile is the current target.
Sizzle was added to the prospective Breeders' Cup Mile field on Tuesday when Team Valor International announced that Animal Kingdom, winner of the 2010 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands, would likely return from a long stay on the sidelines in that race. The Graham Motion-trainee was last seen winning a turf allowance at Gulfstream Park on Feb. 18 in his only start of the year. He was pointing to the $10 million Dubai World Cup until a stress fracture knocked him out of training.
"Coming off the layoff, the Mile just seems very logical for him," Motion said. "He certainly has the turn of foot to handle it. The timing is right for his schedule coming back, and the caliber of horse that he is, you're not going to look for a nice, easy spot"
Another Kentucky-based star set to run on Keeneland's opening weekend is Groupie Doll, the multiple Grade I winner owned by a partnership headed by former Kentucky State Senator Fred Bradley and his son, Buff, the filly's trainer.
The possible favorite for the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint is headed for the Grade 2 Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes on Saturday.
Like Wise Dan, Groupie Doll is notable for talent, speed and versatility. She is a Grade I winner on dirt in Churchill Downs' Humana Distaff and over Keeneland's synthetic surface in the Grade I Madison.
Groupie Doll is the latest chapter in the marvelous ongoing story of the Bradley Family. Fred Bradley's farm near Frankfort, Ky. produced the unlikely millionaire Grade I winner Brass Hat a few years back, and that star gelding became a fan favorite on the Kentucky racing circuit.
Brass Hat now lives in comfort on the Bradley Farm, which has now produced the even-more accomplished Groupie Doll. If all goes well in the TCA, which is part of the Breeders' Cup's "Win and You're In" series of prep races, she'll become the Bradleys' first runner in the event.
Last week's Breeders' Cup preps in New York and California produced big results for Hall of Fame trainers Bill Mott and Bob Baffert.
Mott, who won last year's Classic with Drosselmeyer and Ladies' Classic with Royal Delta at Churchill Downs, put himself in prime position to repeat in both races. Royal Delta dominated a good field in Belmont Park's Beldame and looms as the possible favorite for the Ladies Classic, which continues to loom as the most intriguing race of the two-day Breeders' Cup Weekend. Mott also won the Grade I Jockey Club Gold Cup with Flat Out, the beaten favorite in last fall's Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs.
Mott, Churchill Downs' all-time win leader, could run three horses – Flat Out, Ron the Greek and To Honor and Serve – in this year's Classic. But there's a chorus of racing fans – this voice being a part of it – that believes the filly Royal Delta has a better chance to win that wide open race that any member of that trio.
This much is odds-on about Royal Delta and Mott's plans for her: whatever he does will be in the best interest of his horse, who could return to run next year at five.
Baffert won a trio of Grade I races at Santa Anita last Saturday, topped by a victory by 2011 Classic runner-up Game On Dude in a Grade I race now named the Awesome Again, the winner of the a Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs in 1998 that truly lived up to its name. Game On Dude is a son of Awesome Again and the 5-year-old gelding is set for another run in the wide-open Classic.
The three-time Kentucky Derby-winning trainer, who has seen 3-year-old stars Bodemeister and Paynter head to the sidelines with injury and illness this year, also notched Grade I wins in 2-year-old races by the filly Executiveprivelege and the colt Power Broker.
Tom Proctor, another trainer based at Churchill Downs most of the year, won the Rodeo Stakes with Marketing Mix, a talented 4-year-old filly who is expected to run in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf.
Looking ahead to the Churchill Downs Fall Meet now less than a month away, the jockey colony will include Kentucky Oaks-winning Rosie Napravnik. The Daily Racing Form's David Grening reported that Napravnik would ride at the Keeneland meet and stay in Kentucky to ride beneath the Twin Spires. Napravnik will head to Fair Grounds in New Orleans when the New Orleans meet opens on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 22. She has won the last two riding crowns at that meet.
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Politicized culture wars are debilitating because they almost always require partisans to denigrate the moral legitimacy of their opponents, and sometimes to deny their very humanity. It's often not enough to defeat a foe. Satisfaction only comes from an adversary's humiliation.
One other thing about culture wars: One side typically has absolutely no understanding of what the other is trying to say.
That is why the battle over whether religious institutions should be required to cover contraception under the new health-care law was so painful -- and why it was so hard to comprehend why President Barack Obama, who has been a critic of culture wars for so long, did not try to defuse this explosive question from the beginning.
It's also why he was right, finally, to reach a compromise that respected the legitimate concerns of each side. He should have done this at the outset, but far better late than never.
That so many liberal Catholics supported the church's core claim surprised both Catholic conservatives and more secular liberals. There are lessons here, and that includes lessons for Obama.
Those of us who are liberal Catholics have remained in the church for reasons beyond tribal loyalties or a desire to honor the traditions of our parents and grandparents. At the heart of the love many of us have for the church -- despite our frustrations over its abysmal handling of the sexual-abuse scandal and its reluctance to grant women the rights they are due -- is a profound respect for the fact on so many questions that count, Catholicism walks its talk and harnesses its faith to the good works the gospel demands.
When it comes to lifting up the poor, healing the sick, assisting immigrants and refugees, educating the young (especially in inner cities), comforting orphaned and abandoned children, and organizing the needy to act in their own interest, the church has been there with resources and an astoundingly committed band of sisters, priests, brothers, and laypeople. Organizations such as Catholic Charities, the Catholic Health Association, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, and Catholic Relief Services make the words of Jesus come alive every day.
For liberals who sided with the church in this controversy, the most vexing problem with the original exemption on contraception is that it defined "religious" so narrowly that the reality that these organizations go out of their way to serve non-Catholics was held against them. Their gospel-inspired work was defined as nonreligious. This violated the very essence of Christian charity and the church's social-justice imperatives.
Some conservative Catholics still insist that the relief from regulation that Obama offered is not enough. I hope they reconsider, especially since the Catholic service providers most affected by the revised rule welcomed it. What bothers liberal Catholics about the arguments advanced by some of our conservative friends is that the Catholic right seems so eager to focus the church's witness to the world on issues such as abortion, gay marriage, stem-cell research and, now, perhaps, contraception that they would effectively, if not necessarily intentionally, relegate the church's social-justice work and teaching to second-class status.
Liberal Catholics were proud to stand with conservatives in defending the church's religious liberty rights in carrying out its social and charitable mission. Now, we'd ask conservatives to consider that what makes the gospel so compelling -- especially for the young, many of whom are leaving the church -- is the central role it assigns to our responsibilities to act on behalf of the needy, the left-out and the abandoned.
And we'd ask our non-Catholic liberal friends to think about this, too. Many of us agreed that broad contraception coverage was, as a general matter, a good thing, and we shared their concern for women's rights. But we were troubled that some with whom we usually agree seemed to relish a fight with the church and defined any effort to accommodate its anxieties as "selling out."
As a young politician put it in 2006, "There are some liberals who dismiss religion in the public square as inherently irrational or intolerant, insisting on a caricature of religious Americans that paints them as fanatical, or thinking that the very word ëChristian' describes one's political opponents, not people of faith."
Barack Obama, who spoke those words, finally figured out that a sensible compromise on contraception was far better than a running cultural and religious war. The administration would do well not to lose track of that guy again.
(c) 2012, Washington Post Writers Group
Related: Bad Decision, by the Editors
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E. J. Dionne Jr. is a syndicated columnist, professor of government at Georgetown University, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His most recent book is Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent (Bloomsbury Press).
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Thanks for articulating this position. It seems to draw a line in the sand, between "conservative" and "progressive" Catholics that I was surprised not to see appear when this mess was first born late last year.
I think Dionne has "declared victory and gone home;" whereas the so-called "compromise" is not a compromise at all, but merely an accounting trick which leaves many questions still unanswered, in particular, why does the Government have the right, seemingly contrary to the First Amendment, to attempt such mandates on a religious institution. I believe Dionne's article is pre-mature.
I think the President intended to compromise all along. He put out a compromisable position & in the process got a "read" on public opinion. That opinion favored him on the original mandate. The "compromise" mandate is what already exists in many states, including California, where Rick Warren says he'd rather go to jail than obey it, but has had thirteen years to put his body where his mouth now is. If the Bishops want to take a hardcore stand against it they will find themselves on the losing side not only of public opinion, but of Catholic opinion. But that doesn't matter. They often enough find themselves there, sometimes with good reason, sometimes not. The Repuiblicans & their evangelical protestant base stepped right into Mr. Obama's trap, putting themselves in a position to alienate every woman in America who uses or has used contraception & consders it not only an incontestable right, but also vital to women's health.

If the Bishops want to take a hardcore stand against it they will find themselves on the losing side not only of public opinion, but of Catholic opinion.

I don't think there are "winning" and "losing" sides here - except, of course, the government's side, which always wins, in one sense, because it has all the power.
This is a serious moral controversy, if not to the "progressives" then to many others. And many others matter in a representative democracy - not just the majority or the party in power. This issue - and others like it - will live on and develop as the future of this democracy unwinds.
This controversy has revealed how many so-called progressive Democrats are at heart anti-Catholic bigots. It is sad. There would be no Democratic party today if it were not for Catholics support over the last 150 years. Catholics formed the backbone of the Democratic Party in the north and the midwest. My parents and their parents, all working-class Irish, Itailian and Czechs, first and second generation Americans, were all Catholics and Democrats. My dad was a union orgnizer in his youth and later a NY Irish cop. I doubt they'd be Democrats today. I've been in and out of the Democratic Party over the last thirty years. Now an Independent, I doubt I'd ever rejoin. When Catholics oppose abortion on demand based on sound moral principles, they're called "anti-women" by the so-called "progressive" Democrats. When they oppose equating gay unions with marriage, based again on sound moral principles agreed upon by most civilized people for millenia, they are called "homophobes," again by these so-called progressives. The anti-Catholic vitriol in the social media, and some of the main stream media, over the last week has been astounding. Perhaps it is about time these bigots are labeled for what they are, "anti-Christian," and, specifically, "anti-Catholic bigots."
EJ, I aprreciate you. I have done a blog responding to the ridiculous attacks against you on the left. Particularly ridiculous is the idea that you are aiding the legacy of Jerry Falwell. Here is my link:
The "compromise" is just the same mandate as before with slightly modified phrasing. It is insulting. Telling that the author of this piece prefers to discuss something called "culture wars," implying, perhaps, that anyone who disagrees with it is an aggressor? Wasn't Obama clearly the one who picked this fight?
The author sighs at those "conservative Catholics," like the USCCB, who "still insist that the relief from regulation that Obama offered is not enough." What relief? This is begging the question. Nothing has changed.
It is very disheartening the way the Administration is treating Catholics. If it were not for the last minute switch of moderate Democrats in the House, most of whom were Catholic, there would never have been an Affordable Healthcare Act. President Obama has reneged on both the spirit and letter of the promises he made at that time. We Catholics who support this Administration should be very wary.
"That so many liberal Catholics supported the church's core claim surprised both Catholic conservatives and more secular liberals.
Haha! As usual, a man writes about contraception, and other men respond. Where are the women?
Dionne claims that "many liberal Catholics" joined him and the bishops at the barricades. Were there any women among the "many"?
Funny how the men writing, editorializing, accusing, commenting, ruminating, etc., etc., on contraception agree that women don't count and don't need to be counted.
Our local bishop compared the proposed contraception mandate to the Holocaust. The ending words of his letter read from the pulpit: "The only thing required for evil to triumph over good is for good people to say nothing." Probably not only Jews were disturbed by the implicit moral equivalence.
This is not a good time to be a Catholic with a uterus. How do these men propose to speak for me... to understand what it is to be a woman? I do not claim to understand what it is to be a man. How many women have "bred themselves to death"? How many men get health insurance coverage (probably, including emplyment @ Catholic institutions) for Viagra or Cialis? Last I knew, those druges were not marketed as aids to fertility.
I find the whole situation sad and disheartening. Didn't go to Mass Saturday. Couldn't stand the hypocricy... although it doesn't come from the priest @ the church where I worship.
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This is called Hypocorism.
English forms nicknames in a variety of manners. Shortening, often to the first syllable:
Addition of the diminutive suffix, usually -ie or -y. It is often added to the end of an already shortened name. This suffix connotes smallness or endearment. Although most often applied to the names of children, it is not uncommon for an adult to be referred to by the diminutive, especially by family, friends and close acquaintances:
A short form that differs significantly from the name:
Elizabeth - Liz, Lizzie, Beth, Betty
Patricia - Tricia, Trish
Michael - Mike, Mikey
Robert - Rob, Bob, Bobby
Jacob - Jake
William - Will, Bill, Billy
Katherine - Kate, Kathy, Katy, Kat
Caitlin - Kate (and all the assorted spellings: Cait, Kate, Kait, Cate, etc)
Jennifer - Jen/Jenn, Jenny, Jenna
Pamela - Pam, Pammy
Tamara - Tammy
Christina/Christine - Christy, Chrissy, Chris
Jillian - Jill
Allison - Alli/Alley/Ali
Megan - Meg
James - Jim
Debra - Deb, Debbie
Jessica - Jess, Jessie
Danielle - Dani
Angela - Angie, Ang
Katrina - Trina
Nicole - Nicky
Nicholas - Nick
Samuel - Sam, Sammy
Stephanie - Steph
Andrew - Andy, Drew
Amanda - Manda, Mandy
Joshua - Josh
Kimberly - Kim
Matthew - Matt
Jeffrey - Jeff
Joseph - Joe
Janet - Jan
Rebecca - Becka, Becky
Michelle - Shelly
Benjamin - Ben, Jamie
Joanna - Jo
Kristen - Krissy
Thomas - Tom, Tommy
Margaret - Maggie
(There are plenty more...these are just the ones that I saw while scrolling through my Facebook feed.)
Basically, nicknames are a (usually) shorter, more familiar form of a name, usually used by friends and family. Some people will ask you to call them a nickname - perhaps to differentiate from a relative with the same name, because they do not like their given name, because that is how people in your shared circle of acquaintances know them, or to indicate that they feel a sense of familiarity with you (for example: strangers, acquaintances, coworkers and the like call me Bridget, but my family often shortens my name to Bri [pronounced Bree] or Bridey [an Irish diminutive form of my name] or B, my gamer college friends call me Bizzit or Biz [a corruption of my name from a sleep-deprived late night of gaming that just sort of stuck], my boyfriend's brother calls me Bridgey because he thinks it's funny, another friend calls me Babs because those are my initials...)
While someone may think it's funny to call someone by a certain name (whether it's a given name or a diminutive form of their name that they dislike), it's usually best to ask if they would prefer a nickname before simply calling them by one, especially if you don't know someone very well. A more formal, conservative Michael may think you to be rude if you call him Mike (or god forbid, Mikey.) It's usually best to call someone by the name that they use to introduce themselves.
These are commonly referred to as nick-names. A nick-name is typically a shorter, more personal, and less formal version of someone's name. They are generally a shortened, but phonetically similar version of the original name. Many standard English names have garnered popular nick-names over the years. Some others:
Christopher -> Chris Richard -> Dick, Rick Charles -> Chuck, Charlie Donald -> Don Stephen -> Steve Patrick -> Pat Ronald -> Ron Edward -> Ed
(being a guy, I'm more familiar with the male names, but there are many more for women as well)
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5 Reasons The Founding Fathers Were Kind Of Dicks
It's easy to say the modern teabaggers are assholes. The modern teabaggers are assholes. See? We didn't even break a sweat.
But as it turns out, these latest teabaggers are simply carrying on a longstanding tradition of proud, vaguely patriotic douchebaggery that they learned from the OG's of asshole behavior; the guys who tossed some tea into a harbor a couple hundred years ago.
No, we're not saying we wish the British had won the war or that we wish America had never been born. We're just saying that American history glosses over a lot of true dick behavior. After all, consider that...
#5. Great Britain Had No Idea The Colonists Were Unhappy
Benjamin Franklin had been chosen by the Pennsylvania colonial legislature to represent the colonies before the crown. If the colonies were pissed, or sick of paying unfair taxes (or as was more often the case, not paying them), it was Franklin's job to let the crown know.
Unfortunately, Ben really loved the crown. Right before the revolution, he had been trying, unsuccessfully, to convince the king to take back Pennsylvania from the Penn family, and put it under royal control.
When the issue of the Stamp Act first came up, even though the colonists were furious, Ben Franklin was all about it, and he told Great Britain as much. Hell, he even gave a friend of his the cushy job collecting the new taxes.
But Why?
Because he was fucking clueless about the people he was representing and spent most of his time in Britain. When colonists eventually showed up at his house rioting, he must have been just shocked that they were so angry about the Stamp Act. Or, he would have been shocked, but people were rioting at his house and threatening to hang him, so he kind of had some other stuff to deal with.
When you think about it, Ben Franklin was a terrible choice for Voice of the People. The dude managed to be a rich, successful, self-made, internationally jet-setting playboy in the 18th goddamn century, for fuck's sake. John Q. Public he was not. Of course he didn't mind the Stamp Act; if it didn't at all impede his ability to fuck princesses on hot air balloons, (or whatever the 18th Century analogue to the mile high club was), why should he care? Franklin's hypothetical balloon-humping to one side, the point is that Great Britain was blissfully unaware on the other side of the ocean while the colonists steamed and let their rage build.
#4. The Colonists Were Living at home, Rent free, Without Following Any of the Rules
When we think of the original Tea Party Guys, we think of a bunch of decent, hardworking people who were treated unfairly and had every right to rebel against their oppressors. That's sort of a harder pill to swallow when it turns out the "oppressors" were more like "laid back goons," and the "opressees" were more like "whiney assholes." True, Great Britain did impose taxes on the colonies without representation, but according to Taxation in Colonial America, the British rarely bothered collecting them. Hardly anyone was paying the tax that the colonists were so pissed off about.
But Why?
Smuggling mixed with some general bad leadership. London was an ocean away and there just wasn't an efficient way to manage an entire empire across seas. Not to mention the smuggling. Lord, the smuggling. The British taxes were only on trade, and it was just ridiculously easy to get away with simply not paying them. This was because the layout of the Virginia coast allowed merchants to sail past the authorities and just pull their boats right up to their customers. As a result, many merchants built their businesses on smuggling.
The British tried to put a stop to this, but how could they? Imagine if, instead of just losing a portion of your paycheck to taxes every month, you had to literally hand money over to an IRS agent who wouldn't chase you, didn't keep record of you and was incredibly easy to sidestep. Would you pay that guy?
Great Britain understood this inefficient system, but they also understood that they didn't really need the taxes they were asking for. So unofficially, it was decided that as long as the colonies were doing well, the British were just going to loosely enforce the trade laws, lest they risk accidentally starting a rebellion. This is the same discipline philosophy held by parents who think that the point of having children is so that you can finally be invited to high school parties.
When it eventually did become necessary to start collecting cash, the British were never able to successfully put and keep in place any taxes, ever again. Every time they tried, a group of colonists would throw the kind of shit fit that ends in some embarrassed step-dad having to buy a pony.
So why bother?
#3. The Colonists Blundered Britain into the French and Indian War
Say you have a friend, who's kind of a loud-mouth. He's a few years younger than you and infinitely more irritating, so much so that he pissed off some tougher, bigger kids. Now they want to kick his ass. Even though it's your friend's own fault, and even though you had nothing to do with the dispute, you still feel like you have to step in and fight on his behalf. The French and Indian War was sort of like that, except Great Britain was the older, sensible friend of the idiot colonists, and the French "bullies" knew a shitload of Indians.
But Why?
The land known as the Ohio Country was perfect for fur trading. The French realized this, so they claimed it. The British colony of Virginia claimed it "second," which is English for first. Great Britain didn't care too much and France wasn't terribly interested in putting up a big fight over what clearly must have just been a misunderstanding. The colonists were, objectively, wrong. To apologize for the misunderstanding, the Virginian colonists started sprinting to the territory in order to gobble up land, take advantage of the fur trade, and annoy the living crap out of the Native Americans.
The French, hilariously thinking this conflict was still in the "words" phase, sent a bunch of troops on a peace mission into the forest to see if absolutely anyone in Virginia was in charge (nope!) A nearby colonial militia spotted the French, and being young, dumb, and full of guns, they thought it'd be real neat to sneak up and yell "SURPRISE!" With their guns.
Now, the French are fine if you're running around saying "Nuh uh, we own the land," but if you start wrecking their shit? They're going to have something to say which, in this case, involved recruiting a buttload of Indians and an even bigger buttload of bullets. Regardless of the outcome, the ensuing French and Indian war ended up being ridiculously expensive for the British who, remember, didn't even really give a crap to begin with.
On top of this, the British colonial smugglers continued to sell stuff to the French illegally throughout the course of the war. This kept the French well-supplied and the British well-supplied with rage at the colonists who, (once again), refused to pay taxes.


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BUCKEYES BUZZ: No wonder they call it "The Game" - it's the only one left for the Buckeyes.
Ohio State (11-0, 7-0) can post just the sixth perfect record - no losses, no ties - in the program's 123 years of intercollegiate football when it hosts Michigan (8-3, 6-1) at noon next Saturday at Ohio Stadium.
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THE GAME — Urban Meyer will participate in his first game against rival Michigan as Ohio State's head coach. They will tee it up at noon Saturday in the Horseshoe.
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The Buckeyes captured the outright Leaders Division title on Saturday with a dramatic 21-14 overtime victory at Wisconsin, which scored in the final seconds to force the extra session. Carlos Hyde's burst up the middle supplied a lead on the first possession with the defense stifling the Badgers to clinch the win.
Jump around, indeed.
"This was a great game against a very good team that's been to the Rose Bowl a bunch," Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said after the tense victory. "(But) this is not our rival. The next one is. So when you use that R-word, we're talking about this week. We're going to dive into it as soon as we get back."
Michigan still has a chance of playing in the Big Ten title game. Tied for the Leaders Division lead with Nebraska, the Wolverines would need to win at Ohio State, of course, with the Cornhuskers losing at Iowa.
Also, it goes without saying, the Wolverines would like nothing better than to ruin Ohio State's perfect record.
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Almost all the other top contenders would probably have to lose again, or at least play very, very poorly or win on a fluky, controversial play.
That's possible. One need look no further than 2007 when the Buckeyes were eighth in the BCS rankings after losing to Illinois in their next-to-last game of the season, but then climbed the ladder by beating Michigan while every single team ahead of them lost at least once.
Ohio State ended up No. 1 going into the BCS title game (where they were manhandled by No. 2 LSU).
Working against the Buckeyes are several factors. First, despite a perfect record that can only be matched by Notre Dame, they've struggled in almost every game this season except for two or three. Second, almost every national expert considers this an awful year for the Big Ten. Being the best team in a bad league isn't as good as being a very good team in a superior conference, the thinking goes. Third, Ohio State's opponents are just 57-65 this season, with most evaluators of strength of schedule putting the Buckeyes somewhere in the middle of the pack in FBS.
After Saturday's victory at Wisconsin, Meyer said that his team has shown a lot of backbone by winning in three difficult environments. He's referring to road games at Michigan State, Penn State and Wisconsin. The Buckeyes won those three games by one, 12 and seven points (in overtime) against teams with a combined 14 losses.


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Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell - A look into Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center, Part I
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Those full-wall whiteboards are becoming the indespensible design tool de rigeur...
At first I couldn't see it..I mean why would anyone want to persist al that data? My perception was that Bush had the visionary genius in mind when developing his Memex. Like a Buckminister Fuller type, someone who looks at a leaf and sees a new design for a fusion reactor, not an archive of Scoble's droolfest at the new Apple Store (sorry!)
But that real-estate demo with the overlap between multimedia and time definitely clicked.
Okay so text is easy..once its tokenized, indexing and retrieval is a snap.
How do we begin to think about indexing audio and video? Is it even possible?
Anyway, these MSR vids are fantastic! Keep em comin!
Scoble talks about (around 26-27 min) how people can't do links to the middle of the channel 9 videos. Well I argue that the technology is already here, just needs some refining.
Suppose we have a player plugin that is integrated with the browser. Now when I am the one who decides to watch the whole hour long episode and see interesting segment, I just do what I do currently already, stop the video (I haven't finished it yet) and come talk about it. But with the plugin I can mark the interesting spots in the stream and the browser extension allows me to create a special hyperlink with the timecode. It could also be possible to gather these different links from other people to a central metadata file associated with the video. This way the video author would have people watching the video "do the editing", by giving the interesting timecode segments.
So the tech for most of the problems discussed is here already, just need to code and spread it!
Regarding the clipping of videos, I hate that. The early Channel 9 videos with 5x 1 minute segments just plain sck, as you need a lot of clicking to watch the whole thing and most of the time you want to watch the whole and comment only on some short segments.
It should also be possible to allow people watch to say a live TV broadcast or keynote presentation in the net, in such manner that everyone watching it are approximately in sync and can add their text and audio/video commentary which comes available in
realtime to other who watch it. Kind of like commenting a movie with friends in the hometheatre or whatever.. Technically possible to do, just need to integrate it in the player that comes with the OS so that everyone would have it.
Course it would also be nice to record the commentary to some repository so others who watch it later get it too.
So practically MS should integrate parts of the webcast tech to the generic player tech.
Its funny that while the discussion in the video came almost to touch the Google TV, where you can do searches in to the latest TV broadcasts cause of the subtitling, but never mentioned that. Basicly the people who watch the video should be creating the "subtitling" by creating commentary etc.
androidi wrote:But with the plugin I can mark the interesting spots in the stream and the browser extension allows me to create a special hyperlink with the timecode. It could also be possible to gather these different links from other people to a central metadata file associated with the video. This way the video author would have people watching the video "do the editing", by giving the interesting timecode segments.
Minh wrote:I think it's a server-side problem, not client-side. If you say, I want the 22nd minute of this video, the server must know how to get there & start streaming..
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Perhaps. However clients can already seek in the stream to a point they want. Just give me the timecodes and have the player do the seeking. This approach will work with every streaming format, not with just MS ones.
Minh wrote:Without the media server back-end, you would have to download the entire stream up to the point to want to start. For local media, you wouldn't notice it because it's so fast, but with media on the net, you'd have to wait a bit.
One thing that wasn't touched on is how people could interact via their archives. It seems like it would be easy to compare virtual lives and find people with very similar interests. That's just one example
I'm not really sure how a web server would know where the 22nd minute of a WMV begins. Could you give me an example of a HTTP media that can start at an arbitrary point?androidi wrote:
I do not quite understand? Its possible to seek in streams through HTTP. It's even possible to do this when playing an Mpeg 4 inside AVI from an FTP site. However this does require client code. From server it only requires that resuming is supported from arbitrary point.
Minh wrote:I'm not really sure how a web server would know where the 22nd minute of a WMV begins. Could you give me an example of a HTTP media that can start at an arbitrary point?
<Duration value = "00:00:35.080" />
<StartTime value = "00:22:5.812" />
Ah, hey I did not know about this
However my point was entirely that the tech need refining, or can you do these links with some simple way from media player? And it seems you also need a place to host the asx - so essentially not useful without more work.
Thank you for nice video.
I can see MS researchers are tackling with the next file system especially contents DataBase problems.
We may need a Convenient Binder Tool (CBT) before WinFX.
I'll visit Moscone West in SF late March.
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If you just want to install indicator-multiload you have done it wrong. You have downloaded the source code of the program, while you can use it to install it, you need to compile it, and this can be non-trivial for someone without programming training.
To install software in Ubuntu you should always look first in the Ubuntu Software Centre.
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It seems to be a naive question, but I was unable to find an explicit definition and difference in meaning of the words "software", "program", "application", and "gadget". What is the correct (at least theoretically) way to use each of these words?
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The differences are mostly connotative and contextual.
"Software" can refer to the entire field, or in the specific to the general part of something that isn't hardware or to a collection of things that aren't necessarily part of the same program/app. ("An iPhone is great hardware, but it would be nothing without the software").
"Application" is a complete unit that may consist of more than one module in more than one language on more than one computer, all working together. It may not, in which case it is pretty much the same as a "program".
"Program" has the connotation of being a discrete unit, and while it is used interchangeably with "application", it seems awkward to refer to a "web program" instead of a "web app", or a "client/server program", instead of a "client/server app". "Program" is often used to refer to a complete operational unit as seen from a developer rather than a user perspective (it seems old-fashioned to refer, as a user, to installing a "program" instead of an "app"), and often for things that are not intended for public use, such as a testing program or proof of concept program.
"Gadget" (which I take to mean the same as "widget") usually means something smaller than an app, (though it is one), usually because it has less than a full-featured gui, it often runs inside or attached to something else, or is used casually to do one single thing, like checking the weather, rather than with prolonged interaction.
"Program" refers to an executable sequence of instructions that can be directly run by a computer (as opposed to a library, which can only be run by an outside program).
"Program" and "Application" are mostly interchangeable, though "Application" almost always refers to a program for a specific task that has some kind of user interface (as opposed to services/daemons, drivers, etc.).
"Software" is an umbrella term for all computer instructions, whether it be a program, library, framework, OS, or sometimes even the code itself.
"Gadget" is just a useful piece of electronic hardware, usually handheld, often shiny and overpriced.
I would say that the terms "program" and "application" are used synonymously. However, the term "software" can be more generic and does not necessarily always mean "program" or "application" (e.g. a software "library" or "framework" is not a "program" or "application", but are used to facilitate the functional requirements of "programs" or "applications").
This is what I know from my understanding within the context of a desktops, mobile devices or servers.
Software: Requires installation that is hardware specific. For example Windows 7 is software, Microsoft office is software, etc. Main thing here is there is an installation process.
Application: Doesn't require installation, when downloaded can be run it without making it hardware aware. For example java applications can be run on macs and pcs without installation due the virtual machine. If you can drag the download to your desktop and just click the executable and it runs, it would be called an application.
Program: Instruction for a computer to follow. For example the code you would run in a batch process is a program. There is no installation required, you are basically telling the computer to run some code to perform a task.


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