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What are useful commands, tools, or tricks that one would find on Solaris or OpenSolaris that aren't available on a typical Linux distribution?
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Live Upgrade, which uses ZFS, creates writable snapshots of the operating system boot environment. With Live Upgrade, you can apply patches to a snapshot boot environment, then make that snapshot bootable. Upon the next reboot you get a patched OS environment. If you discover an issue with a patch, you can make the old snapshot bootable, reboot and you've backed out your changes. Its a pretty impressive solution to patching.
ZFS for the boot environment requires Solaris 10u6 or newer.
Also, Solaris Zones are pretty useful for application isolation. Obviously DTrace is very nice but RedHat is playing catchup with System Tap.
ZFS, DTrace and SMF are hardly hidden features since anyone who has ever heard of Solaris also has heard of them.
If you'd really like to get to know some hidden/less known features of Solaris, I recommend you read the Less known Solaris Features ebook by Jörg Möllenkamp.
Don't forget SMF (Service Management). I have yet to see something comparable for linux (any pointers gratefully accepted). It did save me (and colleagues) a lot of ticket handling :)
There are a number of features that Solaris has that Linux people wish they had. These include:
A few personal experiences...
I find Zones so easy and useful that I've simply created one for each service I am running at home - this way I can play and test things out without trashing it all. One of the zones is reverse proxy (Sun Web Java Proxy) so that I can play with different web servers easily.
Also I find the opencsw (previously known as Blastwave) packages hierarchy much better that anything yet seen - it always takes care of all the dependencies.
And - not to forget - binary compatibility. If an app is specified to need Linux with kernel 1.2.3_4 you better have it. On Solaris everything just works on future releases. For me this means upgrade when I want and no stress doing it.
Here are several interesting documents if you want to dig deeper: Less known Solaris features
Just for taste - Adminstration specials:
Live Upgrade Service Management Facility Resource Management pfiles fuser /export/home? /home? autofs? lockfs About cores and crashes CacheFS Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit
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The two biggest, compelling reasons for Solaris seem to be DTrace and ZFS, neither of which is directly available for Linux.
kstat to get all kinds of awesome kernel statistics.
Not necessarily hidden, but not obvious to Linux people are the process observation utilities: pstack, pmap, pflags, pfiles, pcred, psig, and pldd. Also prstat, which is more or less equivalent to top, but can also aggregate resource usage by user, zone, project, and display microstate accounting.
Look at projects and tasks for managing lots of applications in one OS instance.
I don't know of an equivalent to coreadm in Linux, though it's probably scattered around /proc somewhere.
Logadm is a bit obtuse but a good replacement for logrotate, and generally more powerful/flexible.
The arrangement of multi-level security (roles, authorizations, profiles) is different from Linux (SELinux contexts, AppArmor).
THe Image Packaging System (IPS) in OpenSolaris is pretty neat, but still under heavy development.
Also, +1 for LiveUpgrade. It's great, especially with ZFS snapshots.
Most of the GNU userland stuff you're used to is available, and probably installed by default on a sufficiently new Solaris.
Fast Reboot for OpenSolaris skips the normal HW Probing/BIOS POST/GRUB process on x86 hardware, allowing for reboots to occur in <10sec instead of ~2mins. Even supports booting alternate Boot Environments (e.g. reverting a botched upgrade).
ZFS and SMF are great, but a real pain with solaris is that package manager is ages behind its linux counterparts.
Also all utilities are different in subtle ways(killall anyone?), if you admin linux machines most of the time, switching to solaris means reading man pages again and again. A sucky "more" pager and always slightly misconfigured terminals make your life difficult.
Solaris Crash Analysis Tool - best tool to assist the analysis of Solaris kernel crash dumps.
kssl, kernel SSL module. Quote from ksslcfg(1M)
Unlike Linux, "lsof -o" (show file offsets) works. This can be useful for showing how far along a process is when it's reading or writing large amounts of data.
Probably the biggest trap for new players, a typical Linux user might be tempted to run killall on a Solaris host;

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There are several other diseases that share symptoms with food allergies, including ulcers and cancers of the gastrointestinal tract. These disorders can be associated with vomiting, diarrhea, or cramping abdominal pain exacerbated by eating.
Gluten intolerance is associated with the disease called gluten-sensitive enteropathy or celiac disease. It is caused by an abnormal immune response to gluten, which is a component of wheat and some other grains.
Some people may have a food intolerance that has a psychological trigger. In selected cases, a careful psychiatric evaluation may identify an unpleasant event in that person's life, often during childhood, tied to eating a particular food. The eating of that food years later, even as an adult, is associated with a rush of unpleasant sensations that can resemble an allergic reaction to food.
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To diagnose a food allergy a doctor must first determine if the patient is having an adverse reaction to specific foods. This assessment is made with the help of a detailed patient history, the patient's diet diary, or an elimination diet.
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- Was allergy treatment successful? (Antihistamines should relieve hives, for example, if they stem from a food allergy.)
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- Did anyone else get sick? For example, if the person has eaten fish contaminated with histamine, everyone who ate the fish should be sick. In an allergic reaction, however, only the person allergic to the fish becomes ill.
- How much did the patient eat before experiencing a reaction? The severity of the patient's reaction is sometimes related to the amount of food the patient ate.
- How was the food prepared? Some people will have a violent allergic reaction only to raw or undercooked fish. Complete cooking of the fish destroys those allergens in the fish to which they react. If the fish is cooked thoroughly, they can eat it with no allergic reaction.
- Were other foods ingested at the same time of the allergic reaction? Some foods may delay digestion and thus delay the onset of the allergic reaction.
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EA's Q3 financials have revealed the extent to which the smartphone market has shifted from full price to freemium and microtransaction titles.
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There is a minhag to only say Selichos before Rosh HaShanah and not during Aseres Yemei Teshuva. I know in Chabad this is in the minhag. Is this minhag practiced anywhere else? Where does it come from? What's its reason?
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The Lubavitcher Rebbe (Sefer Hashichos 5750 vol. 1 page 351 footnote 132) quotes the Tzemach Tzedek's explanation of the Chabad custom to recite selichos only until Rosh Hashana and not during Aseres Yemei Teshuva:
The Sefer Otzar Minhagei Chabad usually attempts to compare the Chabad minhag with that of other communities. He brings (pg 162) a custom in Ger (until the Emrei Emes) to say only the first selichos, or Erev Rosh Hashana or Erev Yom Kippur, and in Chernoble a similar custom (also subsequently stopped). So it seems that at least that author couldn't find more than that. (Thanks @Yishai). See the sefer for a more comprehensive discussion on the topic.


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Let $N$ be a positive integer. Are there known estimates for the product of all numbers that are smaller than $N$ and relatively prime with $N$? One can assume that $N$ is free of squares, if this helps.
For the sake of completeness, here is a proof of Gjergji's formula, which is a cute exercise in elementary number theory.
The idea is the same as in one of the proofs of the identity $\displaystyle n = \sum_{d | n} \varphi(d),$ only this time we will be multiplying in two ways rather than counting in two ways.
Consider the fractions $\dfrac 1N, \dfrac 2N, \ldots, \dfrac {N-1}N, \dfrac NN.$ Put them in reduced form, that is $\dfrac ad,$ where $d$ must necessarily divide $N$ and $\gcd(a, d) = 1.$ The first multiplication gives $\dfrac {N!}{N^N},$ while the second yields $\displaystyle \prod_{d | N} \prod_{\substack{a \le d-1 \\ \gcd(a, d) = 1}} \frac ad = \prod_{d | N} \frac {\Pi(d)}{d^{\varphi(d)}},$ where $\Pi(N)$ denotes the sought product. The result now follows from the Möbius inversion formula (in multiplicative notation): $\displaystyle \Pi(N) = N^{\varphi(N)} \prod_{d | N} \left( \frac {d!}{d^d} \right)^{\mu(d)}.$
For what it is worth, note that if $N$ is $2, 4,$ a power of an odd prime or twice the power of an odd prime, so that we may find a primitive root modulo $N,$ say $g,$ then the sought product is just $g^{\varphi(N)(\varphi(N)+1)/2}.$
To get the asymptotic, one can replace the factorial in the exact formula by the Stirling formula. Then the desired quantity can be estimated as follows: $$ c\cdot A_N\le (\dots)\le C\cdot A_N $$ with $$ A_N=N^{\phi(N)}\cdot \prod_{d|N}(\sqrt{2\pi d}\cdot e^{-d})^{\mu(N/d)}=(N/e)^{\phi(N)}. $$
I will slightly expand upon my comment. For $N$ a prime, one has the desired product being $(N-1)!$. For $N=pq$, a product of two primes, the desired product is $\frac{N! pq}{p!q^p q!p^q}$ . I have not worked it out, but one should note a similarity between this representation and that of the cyclotomic polynomial $\Phi_pq(x)$. For square free $N=pqr\ldots$ I imagine an analogous relation holds.
EDIT 2012.05.19 Thanks to Gjergji Zaimi, the above idea can be extended and nicely expressed in terms of the Moebius function $\mu()$ and the Euler totient function $\phi()$ as $$N^{\phi(N)}\prod_{d|N}\left(\frac{d!}{d^d}\right)^{\mu(N/d)} .$$ (I have faith enough to post it, but have not fully verified it myself. It looks right to me.) END EDIT 2012.05.19
If you want something rougher but still in the ball park, consider $(N!)^2$ as product of terms of the form $(n+1-i)i$, which for many i look like $o(N^2)$. Then the desired product is something like $\phi(N)/N$ fraction of those terms, perhaps with a power of e to take care of the discrepancy. So I nominate without proof $[(N!)^{1/N}/e]^{\phi(N)}$ as a rough estimate. I imagine provable upper and lower bounds are a mere exponential factor away from this estimate.
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I deleted a file last week (a PDF in this case). While I'm able to reconstruct the information I need in this case, I'd like to take precautions against this happening again.
Is there anything built into the OS that will let me recover files? Will enabling time machine allow me to do this? (I don't want it to be taking up lots of room on disc.) Am I best off purchasing a program such as DiskWarrior, or are there free options to do this?
How can I set up 10.6 so that it'll be easier for me to recover deleted files?
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Did you hear what the CEO of Papa John's said?
The CEO of Papa John's Pizza says President Obama's healthcare law will raise pizza prices by 11 to 14 cents.
John Schnatter says the law will require him to offer healthcare coverage to more of his company's 16,000 employees. Otherwise, he will have to pay a penalty to the government.
So, what does everyone think?
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old news. Duh.
patiently waiting for first moron to say "It's worth 15 cents to me for everyone to get healthcare"
I think the health care reform act is going to be good for many people, neutral for nearly all the rest. Perhaps Papa John needs to get a different business model.
Meh... 14 cents so that people can have health insurance doesn't strike me as a serious problem.
Here's my logic:
I've never gotten an order from Papa John's that cost me less than $20 wih tax, tip, delivery charges, etc. and it is usually more like $25. So a 14 cent increase works out to at most a 0.7% additional tax, which is still much much less than what people pay in many places with "universal healthcare." (eg. Canada)
(Yes, I realize that my paying an extra 14 cents for the pizza guy to get some form of health insurance does not provide universal healthcare, but I honestly doesn't see that this is something worth harping on. Also, it would be much less expensive for Papa John's to just pay the penalty rather than do what they should have been doing all along, which is providing healthcare for their employees.)
I don't think I have ever ate a Papa Johns pizza, but I feel like everyone should have access to healthcare. That being said, I don't feel like Obamacare is the correct way to go about it, I feel like the same people who pay so much in taxes now, will be the ones hurting in the end. I guess we just wait and see.
I actually will sort of enjoy the surreal commercials that they'll have to sign off on now. "Get a large unlimited topping for $10.64!" Or do you think he'll round up and donate the extra to charity?
That would actually be great PR. Put it on the pizza box: "15 cents from every pizza order helps us give all of our employees health care!" I honestly wouldn't even notice if my pizza cost 15 cents more and would be happy to pay it if I knew it was going to give Papa John's low wage owners health care.
Problem 1: Healthcare costs are outrageous.
Problem 2: Insurance costs are outrageous. Notably so when provided by some employers, but prohibitively so when purchased personally.
Result: When your heart stops, the ambulance, 3 week hospital stay, emergency procedures, mind-boggling amount of tests, insertion of an ICD, and so on will run you about $300,000 without insurance.
You can't pay it. EVER. You likely can't even return to work for some time, since the stopped heart cut off air to the brain, causing damage.
You go bankrupt. You go into foreclosure. Perhaps you inadvertently wipe out the savings of some family members along the way. All said and done, that bill still won't get paid.
Wouldn't it be beneficial for everyone to avoid this?
I don't understand the bill well enough to comment for it or against it. All I know is that the ship is sinking, and some someone has got to do something or we're all going down.
He just said out loud what every company will end up doing. Corporations are not in business to lose money so if their expenses go up, their prices go up.
@kamikazeken: It's worth 15 cents to me for everyone to get healthcare.
Didn't want to disappoint. :)
@ohcheri: very true. However, as @tgentry stated very eloquently, it isn't really going to be a significant impact on the average pizza customer on any individual order. Because the perceived cost to the public in this case is so low, it is likely to have the opposite effect than the one he intended.
@okham , @mkdr: I think the cost of pizza is the least of our concerns, I can survive without it, especially Papa John's. If the cost of Pizza will rise, I'm sure almost everything else will follow. I guess all we can do now is hope the money we're saving on our health insurance premiums will help balance it out... As a middle class American who pays way too much taxes as it is, I'm sure the tax hike, and the rising costs of goods will be a bit more than the money I save from my insurance costs going. I guess we'll just have to wait and see!
Considering how mismanaged to many things are these days, I doubt .15 is all it's going to go up.
No more chick fil-a
No more papa johns
Stop blamming everyone else and take some ownership and responsibilities for your employees and customers....
@eraten: I hear ya! I don't anticipate saving anything on healthcare anytime soon - unless I change jobs. I have good coverage and reasonable out of pocket expenses - I expect them to go up over time to be more in line with the national averages (higher I believe) as other prices rise. I'm in the "wait and see" mode, only if I'm feeling particularly optimistic. I generally don't delve into the political discussions here and try to remain as neutral as possible, which often makes my position on issues come across incorrect.
I'd be willing to pay even more than an extra 14 cents if they could figure out how to make good pizza.
That makes no sense whatsoever. Isn't pizza considered a vegetable? Why would a healthcare bill raise the price of vegetables?
@ohcheri: Yes, now the companies will start having to pay for health care that they should have to begin with. Many companies like Bank of America in the past kept their employees work hours below the threshold of getting health benefits.
The story of Nichols and the Papa John's franchise makes no sense at all. She already offers health insurance where the employee kicks in $90/month and she kicks in another $90 so it's basically costing her $90/month per employee. But now she's comparing that to not covering her employees at all and paying $2,000/person? And the breakdown of her numbers don't seem to make sense at all.
The cost of rising oil and gas and wheat has a bigger impact on pizza prices. Give me a break.
No company is going to absorb their increased healthcare costs. They will all pass the increase on the the consumers of their products so from you coffee, to your tires, to your haircut everything will go up. Or companies will decide to pay the penalty and dump their employees into the healthcare exchanges. They exist to make money for their stockholders. Companies that are currently at 60ish employees will lay off workers to get below the magic 50 count to not have to offer insurance too. Companies do not exist to be workers benevolent providers.
@magic cave: Change their business model to what? Not passing along the costs imposed on them by the government to the customer? Lose money because the government mandates cost them more money?
What people don't understand, is that it won't end up being just your pizza. It will be everything. Just as when fuel prices rise, and you end up paying more for food/clothes/services because they pass along the cost to you, the same thing will be happening with Obamacare.
Nobody will eat their extra, mandated, costs. Free health coverage is very expensive.
Oh noes! They'll have to give their overworked employees benefits now? Quick, where is my tiny violin? This is an emergency!
Honestly, I have no pity for this corporations who are acting like babies just because they're going to have to treat their employees somewhat decently. The guy delivering your pizzas for minimum wage deserves to be able to see a doctor when he's sick, just like the higher ups get to. If that means an extra 14 cents tacked onto your pizza, then so be it. I'd rather pay for that than a new company jet for the executives.
@ohcheri: You're right on this one. I think that @tgentry has an excellent idea as well. Our health care has to improve, we just need to figure out who is going to pay for it. :)
@kmeltzer: "Nobody will eat their extra, mandated, costs. Free health coverage is very expensive."
Do you actually think it's free now? Who do you think is paying for all that indigent care? You are. I am. My husband is, my son is, and my daughter-in-law is. People should be responsible for their own health care costs whenever it's possibble, and this law will make it much more possible for many more people to buy and pay for their own health insurance.
If that costs me a few pennies here and there, so be it. I'm ready to pay it, and it sure as hell beats people dying from lack of prompt care. Besides, if it worked for Mitt's state, how bad can it be?
Our health care providers - and I am referring mostly to redundant procedures and specialists who make a huge amount of money (not the internal medicine, general practitioner) compared with other places in the world where they make good money but not the obscene amount they make here. Too many physicians own their own testing labs or equipment (especially cardiologists and gastroenterologists) and keep patients returning year after year for stress testing and endoscopies/colonoscopies when there was no problem to begin with. Same goes for any specialist who has their own testing, therapy, whatever facility. At least this is my observation and experience from being a caretaker for my dad and husband.
Who are you or the government to decide how much doctors should be paid? Hollywood actors and athletes make obscene amounts of money too and don't have 1/3 of the same educations or put in the same tough hours. Should we start dictating what they make too since tickets to concerts and sporting events are expensive?
A medical specialist goes to college for 8 years and then will intern and do at least one residency and sometimes more. They get paid pennies for the hours they put in during those years. When a doctors graduates they are likely a least $100K plus in debt. Put caps on their pay and see how many current doctors bolt and how many students who might go into medicine chose something else.
If you think that there are too many tests, procedures and facilities already, then you won't mind if there are long waits for those tests and procedures in the future under Obamacare since you are certain that all of those tests are unnecessary anyway based on your experience.
If that GI doc doesn't order that endoscopy or colonoscopy and two years later advanced colon cancer is found the same person saying there are too many tests would be suing for malpractice. The fear of malpractice lawsuits likely drive some of the "unnecessary" testing and procedures.
@kmeltzer: The cost of having people w/o health care is even more expensive like it is now. We have over 35 million people w/o coverage so when they get sick, they go the the ER which costs much more than if they just went to see a Dr. The ER can't turn people away so they have to treat them. About 49% of those costs are covered by MedicAid. The remainder are absorbed by the hospitals which then pass those losses to people and the insurance companies by way of higher costs and insurance premiums.
Preventative medicine is cheaper than when it gets worse. Allowing the sick to see a dr. instead of the ER is cheaper.
it's also going to add to the cost of a gallon of gas. It's going to add to the cost of your new computer or tablet or phone. It's going to add to the cost of a new car or even a USED car.
If you have a business with less than 50 employees, and you're thinking of expanding, that's another factor against expanding, and thereby new potential jobs are lost.
If you're running a manufacturing plant or a call center, this is simply another cost that will make it that much harder to keep the jobs in the US.
@kamikazeken: If you own a business and can't/won't offer a "living wage" to your employees, including some option for medical insurance, then maybe you shouldn't own a business? A large part (not all, but a lot) of the problem of people needing government assistance isn't because they're lazy and don't want to work. A good number of them have jobs, those jobs just refuse to pay anything above minimum wage and offer them no health insurance. Quite a few of these lower paying jobs purposely keep employees at part time because a part time employee is cheaper than a full time employee.
If a company can't afford to treat the >50 employees they already have decently, what business do they have trying to expand? Clearly if they can't offer basic medial coverage, their business is not doing well enough to justify expansion.
"Besides, if it worked for Mitt's state, how bad can it be?"
@magic cave: It didn't.. Unless having the highest premiums ANYWHERE is what you call working..
And it is rather shocking to me that PJs didn't apply for a waiver like 1,800 companies have.
@magic cave: "Do you actually think it's free now?"
No. I pay for minet, and my employer pays for mine. For the rest, we pitch in for the CARE, not COVERAGE. Obamacare is paying for COVERAGE. We aren't paying to make people more healthy, or even use the coverage they have.
" it sure as hell beats people dying from lack of prompt care"
We have prompt care in this country, no matter who you are. We have excellent CARE.
It's not the governments job to mandate health coverage. Health insurance isn't a right in this country, and I have no business paying for/being taxed to pay for anyone's coverage.
@magic cave: And, you said "they should change their business model". And I asked "to what?" So... why don't you answer the question about your statement.
What do you propose Papa John's "change their business model" to?
@tucnguyen: First, you're assuming people who don't get any preventative medicine now, will suddenly start getting it. There's nothing showing that the unhealthy will suddenly get healthy with Obamacare, or that they won't smoke, eat fatty food, do drugs an have genetic/hereditary diseases. Nothing says people won't go to the hospital, and not a personal doctor for, anything. There's no mandate (that I know of, who knows what's really in there) that people MUST go get an annual physical, or do anything with their COVERAGE to be preventative. There are no mandated lifestyle changes.
And, you're talking about the cost of CARE absorbed by hospitals, not COVERAGE. Obamacare is COVERAGE not CARE. The CARE will not go down in cost, the cost of COVERAGE will just increase with every birth.
@kmeltzer: Your reality and mine are so different that I don't think further discussion will be productive.
@magic cave: Agreed. When you visit the reality of how things actually are, let me know.
And, in the future, don't make a statement you're not willing to answer a question about.
Do ya'll think people are all going to get sicker once the health care plan takes effect? Because we, the taxpayers, are already paying for medically indigent people to receive care. The health care plan just shifts some of those costs up front to provide medical insurance instead of just paying directly for the care. In theory, with access to more preventive care, people will get less sick, and end up costing less to care for than in our current environment, where medically indigent people can only get care when they have become quite ill or badly injured. That is the theory behind health insurance, it's why those businesses that do not regard their employees as disposable resources help to pay for health insurance. Whether we, the taxpayers, will ever see any benefit from those cost reductions or whether the money will simply be absorbed into the corporate-government machine is for time to tell.
@kmeltzer: I spent a large part of my adult life as a registered lobbyist; I recognize a closed mind and a distorted view of facts when I see them. I'm not really into trying to pry open your world view; it's too much like trying to teach a pig to sing.
@magic cave: Ahh.. so you were an "open minded" lobbyist? Oxymoron.
Let me ask an honest question. No sarcasm, no personal attacks on anyone.
What is your solution to this problem? It seems the conservatives don't want a government mandated health care program, they don't want government funded health care such as Medicaid, and they don't want employers to provide their employees with any source of affordable health care. What do you want? For the poor to just quietly die out of sight? That's what it sounds like, because so far no one who's opposing health care reform seems to have any better ideas.
For anyone who complains about "freeloaders" who're on government assistance. THIS is why they need those food stamps and the medicaid and the housing vouchers. They work, but their employers are such greedy bastards that no amount of hard work on their part will ever improve their situation. The story of the guy who worked his way up from mopping floors to CEO is about as likely to happen as getting struck by lightning during a shark attack.
@purplefeather: As long as the no insults extends to not insulting me, because frankly I get so sick of ad hominem attacks, here goes:
Everyone approaches debates with presuppositions, so let's just get those out of the way right here: I believe people are at their core scumbuckets. Every single person, including myself. Based on looking through history on how various societies worked/didn't work, in general I find that people don't want to cooperate or contribute if they can get away with it (USSR/factory quotas, Rep. of Venice/post loss of Cyprus, fall of Western Roman Empire).
(cont, this'll be a long one.)
Really I don't think people are that different. So how does this play in? Because I think the scumbucketry will pervade throughout whatever we do. And I think the ACA is just another example of that. Think about it: the responsible thing for people to do is to have their own coverage, have yearly checkups, and nip problems in the bud wherever possible. They should use prescription drugs only when applicable and sustain their coverage in good and bad health. But obviously people don't do that right now for a variety of reasons, and the ACA proposes rectifying this by mandating responsibility. And I don't think that'll work.
Think about it: mandating responsibility never really ends up working. What about your child responsible for cleaning his/her room? What about mandatory car insurance (and my uninsured driver fees)? Sure to some extent things may improve, but not ever completely. So I find that the ACA ultimately is the wrong approach to a problem that can't be legislated out of existence. And, I won't be surprised if costs are driven up due to various parts of the bill, especially the mandated coverage for those with preexisting conditions. I don't see why I should bother carrying coverage if I know I can get it after being sick anyway, so why should I sustain coverage and carry that other bum that just thought the same thing? It's a poor financial decision based on people acting like scumbuckets, which is the overall prevalent modus operandi.
Whatever we may think the problem is, I think the issue here is that we're trying to fix something that goes against the basic human condition. That's not to say I want poor people dying in the streets or some such nonsense, so I'm 100% ok with ERs having to treat people regardless of the ability to pay. I'm protestant, but I'm a huge fan of Catholic hospitals treating anyone, and the various other faiths with the same things. These small glimmerings of selflessness and virtue are a beacon to the world.
As for trying to make things better, ultimately I think that there is no reason that the health insurance market needs to be treated differently from the life insurance or car insurance markets, since they're basically just risk transfer markets at their core. As a first crack I'd want for health insurance to be divorced from employer tax incentives, and allow for insurance companies to more effectively compete across state lines. Once we're there, we'll need to see how things level out to figure out the most effective next small step, but at least that better allows people whose jobs do not offer health insurance to better find a policy that fits within their budgets, and would incentivize insurance companies to more effectively compete on their premiums and offerings.
@kmeltzer: Actually, there is evidence that providing people who are uninsured with Medicaid increased preventative care visits and lowers rates of both mortality and morbidity. One study by public health researchers compares three states that expanded Medicaid coverage with four neighboring states that did not. The other study, conducted in Oregon, compared two groups of people: those who applied for Medicaid and were selected in a random lottery with those who applied and were not selected; that's as gold-standard as you can get for this type of study. I had a difficult time finding an article that summarized the recently-released results of the Oregon study, which found the lower morbidity rates, but here's an article from a year ago that summarizes the initial findings.
@neuropsychosocial: I'll look at the studies when I have some time. Not the NYT and NPR stories on the studies :-) If there were every two biased organizations to non questions something that helped Obamacare...
I think this is just a ploy to raise prices anyways and he wants something to blame it on. I doubt that he will have to offer healthcare to all his employees since I am sure that several are still covered by their parents' insurance and will not require that benefit from him. That being said, what he is saying now is that his employees are left on their own, despite the fact that he is a national pizza chain and could qualify for health insurance discounts from doing a company buy.
So let's say his employees do not have insurance. So if they go to the hospital, the tax payer is the one picking up the bill so we are already paying the cost and not getting to eat a pizza with it. It is the social programs that are causing the nation to extend the debt and one of those programs help pay for those that cannot afford their hospital bills. If everyone has insurance, there is no need to have the extra supplemental.
every company shifts their increased costs onto consumers of their product/service whether it's trucking companies adding fuel surcharges or a mechanic upcharging for a part. The new or increased health insurance costs that many companies will see as a result of the ACA will be passed on to consumers. Companies will not eat the additional cost. So it might be 11 cents more for your pizza, $150 more for your new car, $10 more per month for your electric bill, $5 more on your cable bill, $2 more on your cellphone bill, etc. It will add up and those in the middle class who are too rich to get subsidies for their health insurance but too poor to have enough extra in their budget to absorb the increased costs of goods and services that will get screwed. Obama promised no new taxes on the middle class. ACA is a direct tax and due to the rising costs of goods and services will be a defacto indirect tax.
@hessem: Car manufacturers and the power companies most likely already offer employees basic health coverage, and are unlikely to change a thing because of the health care bill. So you've been paying extra for their health insurance for years without complaint, why not your pizza guy?
@purplefeather: because people working at power companies and auto manufacturers are most likely experienced, more educated, and likely to stay with that company for the long term. Fast food and other minimum wage jobs are supposed to be ENTRY-LEVEL jobs where younger people who are usually single without families gain valuable work experience. The vast majority of younger un-married people have no need for expensive, full coverage health insurance. A simple & cheap catastrophic plan to cover major injuries and serious illnesses like cancer are what most people under 25 should have.
Too many of the uninsured are so by CHOICE. They have smartphones, big screen tv's, expensive cars, take expensive trips, spend $5 a day at starbucks, etc.


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The previous ones have been crap. Even some "specials" had a hire price then what was normally on sale.
@xarous: Yeah, but you have to pay a greater premium for lesser quality sometimes. That's what makes it such a good deal :)
@capguncowboy: Wow, I didn't even notice that I typed hire instead of higher on my comment. Man, I need to get some sleep.
I'm guessing...
The Refurb 250Gb xBox will be $200.
The Refurb 160Gb PS3 slim at $230-250.
The $100 Gunnar glasses for $80; the $80 ones for $60. Maybe as low as $75 and $50 respectively.
The $40 ereader cases at $25 or $30.
Carpy $30 video games (and Dragon's Lair) for $20
Things less than that get $5 off down to $10 or so.
NOTE: I think the buy 2 get 1 free will work with games in this sale. So if you want lots of them, this becomes a much better deal in 3's.
So less-inflated prices on previous generation goods. Can't. Wait.
these are always great opportunities to snag DVD box sets on considerable markdown
Best Buy Sucks major sweatsack.
@theiginator: I'm always up for a good deal on a TV show I like. Not. One. what has happened to our Best Buy? was it the onset of Geek Squad? I mean really...
Hey look, I only browsed the video games section.
Now for more guesses!
@theiginator: I'm betting $5 off each, for a range from $5-15. Their selection seems to be a lot of USA shows with a few others thrown in.
Dell refurb desktop w/ Intel i7 3.4 GHz,6Gb DDR3 RAM, 1.5Tb hard drive. $650 down from $800 sale price.
Asus refurb 14" laptop w/ i3 dualcore, 4Gb ram, 500Gb drive. $400 from $500 at Outlet Center.
Lenovo 15.6" laptop w/ dual-core AMD E-350, 4Gb ram, 320Gb drive. $250 from $280 sale price.
I don't know the other items well enough to guess.
More like WORSTBUY...HAHA
I always check the video game selection on this, and pretty much every time they only have super obscure titles that didn't sell well 3 years ago. Yeah, $4 might be a good price for Happy Feet 9, but that doesn't mean I want it.
Oh, also worth mentioning, Amazon has matched the prices on this sale in the past.
@sneefy: Actually Best Buy has been having some great sales lately. For the past month, their sales have been way better than Amazon's. Last week Fallout New Vegas was only $9.99 and they had a lot of games for $4.99. Also they had a lot of games that retail on Amazon for $25 or more for only $9.99. Best Buy has stepped their game up on the sales.
@jawwaad: I doubt he's talking strictly sales. For me, BB has really gone down hill in all departments and it would take one red hot deal to ever get me to purchase from them ever again.
Yeah last weeks deal was super gr8! I got some silly wii chicken blaster bundle for $4.99 plus 2 copies of New Vegas & 3 Def Jam Rapstar Bundles all for $9.99 each! I kept one New Vegas for myself & gave one to my nephew. I kept one Rapstar Bundle for myself then took the other two and the chicken blaster thing to Walmart (yeah...w/o a receipt) but I was given a gift card w/ $135.00 on it which I promptly took home and used for Alice Madness Returns & pre-ordered CoD MW3 for my nephew & I still have like $20 left on it which I'll use to top off my gas tank! All for the under $60 I originally spent at Best Buy! Thanks BB & Woot!
If I can get some of those TV seasons for $10 or less, I am totally in. Even $15 is a good price on those, but I'll wait until midnight to see if they go down.
@skyzophrenyk: They will. You should definitely wait.
@drchops: "WorstBuy." How original! Did you think that up all by yourself? What a clever, clever boy you are! Do you do weekly gigs at The Apollo? Surely, this must have been you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHl_jsYXib0
P.S. Thanks for letting us know that Amazon matches BB's "horrible prices."
I will be drunk! Armed with nothing but a bag of week-old cool ranch Doritos and a best buy credit card! If the federal government can blow their credit on useless things, than I can to!
You'd best buy elsewhere.
@sneefy: Hey! How dare you sir...
@spyder69696969: lol...I think you may have posted the wrong link though. The one you posted - I'm guessing - was still on your clipboard from a post on the Titanium Ring (Only a guess, haven't checked, but it just makes sense)
I watched that video all the way thru...at first I just thought it was a really weird insult...but then I remembered the sponsored ring.
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Yeah it pretty much sucks. Especially since the $279 laptop was "coming soon" before the sale started and immediately changed to "sold out" when the sale started...
Disappointing, oh wait that implies that I actually got my hopes up. Nevermind.
@moedeenterprises: The problem is that they blow YOUR money on their big government waste. The joke's on you (and our future generations). :-(
@trahentis: Woo Hoo! I love fishing games! I'm going to have to get one of those "Carpy" $30 video games. ;P
Survey says: Crap!
Eh, I just got a new stereo for my car. Nothing fantastic, just a cheap unit I can use with my mp3 player. Cost about the same as one of those fm tuners, but this should work a lot better.
Shows like White Collar, Burn Notice, and Eureka may be cheaper than amazon depending on the season, but anyone looking to pick any of those up may want to look at the sale.
do they have free shipping? I swear I have never paid shipping before ordering from bestbuy.com. Was I just lucky in the past?
They sometimes have free shipping on items. If you're a Reward Zone Silver member, shipping is always free.
@girlbytes: That's lame. And, you should have at least thanked Walmart since they're the company you ripped off.


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Since there is a bootable grub in your system, one way to boot Fedora would be to find its
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Here we will break down health and fitness concepts that have been publicized to seem more complex than they really are. Our goal is to provide you with simple, common-sense tips to preventing disease and living a fuller, healthier lifestyle.
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Recent and archived news articles by Tracie Rozhon of The New York Times.
Garage Sales, So to Speak, but With Cachet
Museum sales of parts of collections are an opportunity for art lovers who like the idea that at some point a curator wanted the work.
February 18, 2010, Thursday
Trading Filet Mignon for Chicken Pot Pie
Even the wealthy are toning down the charity benefit, that yearly fund-raising ritual
February 26, 2009, Thursday
New Deal Architecture Faces Bulldozer
A movement hopes to save from demolition hundreds of buildings built by the Works Progress Administration.
February 9, 2009, Monday
Jet Set, Meet the Bus Bunch
The route between Boston and Washington has become jammed with cheap express buses with jazzy names and Web sites to match.
September 26, 2008, Friday
Passion and Prudence, the Secrets to Collecting
Whether collecting pocket watches, rosewood divans or Sèvres porcelain, seasoned collectors and auctioneers alike say the most important requirement is to find something you love.
September 10, 2008, Wednesday
Pathway to a Secret Garden
An architect and an interior designer reconceive a one-bedroom by blending outdoor and indoor spaces.
May 4, 2008, Sunday
Building a Horse Farm Barn by Barn
In "the quiet corner" of Connecticut, a plan to preserve open space by putting it back to work.
April 6, 2008, Sunday
Upstairs, Downstairs and Above the Garage
You've made a pile of money, but you're missing something. You're always busy, yet you're far too unsatisfied. Maybe you need help. As in staff.
March 18, 2008, Tuesday
Preserving the Best of the Old
A brownstone in a landmarked district offers a challenge for an architect whose specialty is theaters.
March 2, 2008, Sunday
A Shower Stall With a View
An architect's design would change a claustrophobic two-bedroom in SoHo into an oasis of adventurous living.
February 3, 2008, Sunday
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Rosneft began handling and installing oversize equipment at its Kuibyshev, Syzran, Achinsk, Komsomolsk and Angarsk refineries in early December.
MOSCOW -- Rosneft began handling and installing oversize
equipment at its Kuibyshev, Syzran, Achinsk, Komsomolsk and
Angarsk refineries in early December, following the unique
transport operations, one of which was noted in the Russian and
European Books of Records as the
longest-ever automotive transportation (to 203 km) of the
largest-ever payload (a hydrocracking reactor weighing 1,306
tonnes to the Achinsk refinery).
Four reactors of the first and second stages -- two at each
of the Kuibyshev and Syzran refineries -- were delivered and
installed at the sites of the vacuum gas oil hydrofining units
currently being built at the factorys FCC complex. Each
reactor weighs 550 tonnes, and measures 36 m in length and 6.4
m in diameter. The reactors for the hydrofining units arrived
from St Petersburg by sea, having covered about 2,400 km. The
reactor handling and installation in place required specialized
cranes with the lifting capacities of 1,350 tonnes.
The gas oil hydrofining units of the Kuibyshev and Syzran
refineries are designed to remove sulfur-, nitrogen- and
oxygen-containing organic admixtures from vacuum gas oil, which
is then used as a raw material to produce automotive fuels
meeting the most stringent Euro-5 ecological standard.
The last and fourth oversize reactor of the diesel fuel
treatment unit was installed at the Angara Petrochemical Company. The
second-stage reactor weighs about 330 tonnes and has a length
of 36 m. It is made of chromium-molybdenum-vanadium steel,
which boasts outstandingly high heat resistance. The reactor
travelled from Yekaterinburg to Angarsk in a specially designed
carriage by rail.
Work is also under way to install four hydrocracking
reactors ranging in weight from 350 to 1,300 tonnes and
measuring in length from 24 to 48 m at the Achinsk refinery, for which the dedicated
B-SET WV transport and handling machine is used to put the
bulky loads upright. The portal based system can lift loads up
to 1,400 tonnes to about 100 meters and, moreover, is able to
perform precise positioning of equipment on fundaments. The
reactors are the key elements of the hydrocracking unit, which
is currently being built at Achinsk along with the petroleum
coke complex. With the new production facilities in place, the company
will increase the refining depth rate to 96%.
RN-Komsomolsky refinery is installing another four reactors
the vacuum gas oil hydrocracking reactor, the first and
second stage hydrocracking reactors, and the diesel fuel
hydrofining reactor which will be the elements of the
hydrocracking complex currently being built. Despite the floods
in the Russian Far East this autumn, the refinery managed to shortly
rehabilitate the berthing facility at the Amur River and the
approach road to the construction site. The oversize
equipment, weighing in total 2,500 tonnes, with the heaviest
reactor weighing 1,306 tonnes, was delivered to the site. Three
of the four reactors have already been put in position.
The hydrocracking complex is expected to enable the
transition to the production of only Euro-5 compliant products,
as well as the increase in the refining depth to 95% and the
creation of about a thousand new jobs both at the refinery and
Another load of oversize equipment was shipped to the
Novokuibyshevsk Oils and Additives Plant. Specialized vehicles
delivered sections of the T-1301 vacuum column from
Yekaterinburg to the construction site of the isodewaxing
unit. The column will be assembled right at the place of
installation. It will reach 38 in height when ready and will
have a diameter of 4.6 m and the total weight of about 137
tonnes. The construction of the IDW unit is the
second stage of the larger effort as part of the plants
investment program to set up an up-to-date and technologically
advanced hydrotreatment complex. The unit is intended for
catalytic dewaxing in hydrogen media of hydrogenizates and
hydrocracking residues, fed from the Novokuibyshevsk refinery. With the IDW unit
commissioned, the company will be able to produce new
generation commercial oils, featuring improved physical,
chemical and operating properties.
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CHESTER - The Fourth of July is Chester's annual moment in the sun, but City Council doesn't want safety and security concerns to eclipse the fun.
Councilman Dennis Murray said Monday he's concerned about two issues related to the Fourth of July celebration: The safety of runners in the 5K Freedom Run and the practice of allowing open containers at Chester City Park on that day.
Murray said he was uneasy with the way runners mixed with traffic on Carolina Avenue.
"That was my biggest concern. We were fortunate no one was hurt," he said, noting the race also raises liability issues for the city.
"I don't think that would qualify for insurance coverage," Murray said.
Council members discussed the possibility of rerouting traffic onto Indiana Avenue or rerouting the race onto more residential streets.
Murray said the amount of cleanup of beer bottles and cans required this year suggests open drinking at the city park is getting out of hand.
Police Chief Ken Thorn said he, too, has heard complaints about open containers and thinks the practice should be curtailed.
"There's no way to stop it all, but we should just try to control it as much as we can," he said.
Thorn said he believes the Fourth of July celebration is "slipping away from being a family-oriented event and turning into one big party. ... The open drinking in front of families was the major complaint I heard. ... We should leave the park for families and to enjoy the concert."
In remarks to council on Monday, Thorn accepted partial responsibility for the lack of a law enforcement presence on the Fourth.
He said he had three city officers on duty that day, as well as help from the Hancock County Sheriff's Department. Although only one reserve deputy was on duty because "no one else volunteered," two regular deputies served from noon to 8 p.m. and three midnight shift deputies assisted by starting their shifts early, Thorn said.
"It was my fault. I should have asked you guys (on council) for help. We were inundated with calls. We were spread so thin," Thorn said.
Mayor Ken Morris said the Fourth of July event "came off OK," but its growth means that it will require more organization in the future.
"As this thing gets bigger and bigger, there needs to be more people involved," he said.
Council members said the popularity of the event, although good for the city, also has a downside.
Murray, who also serves on the park board, said the city's website got 500 hits in the month leading up to the Fourth.
"We are getting looked at a lot as a destination," he said.
"Along the parade route, there were thousands more people than I've ever seen before," Morris said.
"It's a compliment to the city that people are coming here from all over," City Solicitor April Raines said.
Chester Celebration Committee Chairman David Nurmi said council's concerns, while well-taken, are more for council to address.
"I'm open to any suggestions that come down the pike," he said.
Nurmi said the open container policy has had the tacit approval of the city administration and the police department since the celebration began in 2007.
"They're not arresting people for having an open container on that day," he said.
As for this year, Nurmi said, "I was there until 12:30 a.m. I took a walk through the VFW and the American Legion. I really didn't see any issues that had to be addressed that were of an untoward nature. There was drinking going on, but I didn't notice a lot of rowdiness."
Chester Fire Chief John Hissam said he doesn't share council's concerns.
"Their concern over something like this is baseless because there's security everywhere. Everybody's here to see that nothing like that is going on. I don't think it's a major concern to be upset about. I think it's well enough in hand," he said.
Although the Chester Volunteer Fire Department holds the title to Chester City Park, it leases the park to the city, which operates it through a park board.


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1936 Ford Three Window Coupe - Wil ChlWritten by on October 1, 2012 Contributors: Randy Lorentzen Keeping a cool family tradition
If you were to take one of Henry Ford's most elegant body designs, add to it a combination of traditional and contemporary street rod styling elements, mount it on a pro touring chassis, and execute it with show-winning attention to detail, you'd have Landis Chisenhall's stunning '36 Ford three-window coupe. Landis is no stranger to cool cars, they run in the family. His dad, Jack, is not only president of Vintage Air but has built a number of noteworthy street rods, including a 200-plus mph Studebaker and his well-traveled '39 Ford sedan.
Growing up, Landis spent a good deal of his summers traveling to events in his pop's Tudor, and it was during those trips that the basic design of the '36 that had been stashed away began as sketches on countless napkins at diners and ice cream shops across the country. An avid go kart racer and veteran with lots of cross-country rod runnin', Landis knew he wanted a car that was competent on a road course or a 2,000-mile cross-county trip while retaining the look of a traditional hot rod. A pretty tall order for the kid's first build.
With their goals established the Chisenhalls began construction by boxing the original framerails and fitting a Pontiac Solstice front suspension with C6 Corvette hubs and 14-inch Baer rotors with 6S calipers. A Woodward power rack was added along with coilovers from Detroit Speed and a Schroeder antiroll bar. All of those components mount to a unique cradle that is welded to the frame and also ties into the structural rollcage, making for a very stiff chassis.
Mast Motorsports was asked to supply the power, so they responded with a fuel-injected 416ci LS3. Inside are Calles forged rods and crank, Mahle pistons, and a Mast hydraulic roller cam that all combine to make 595 hp at 6,200 rpm and 550 lb-ft of torque at 5,000 revs. A McLeod Racing RST Street Twin clutch sends all that power through a C6 Corvette Z06 driveshaft to a C5 Corvette transaxle. The IRS is equipped with a limited-slip differential, LG Motorsports coilovers, and 14-inch Baer brakes.
While the coupe's chassis is truly high tech, the exterior has undergone more subtle modifications. The original grille had the crank hole filled and under the nose a panel has been added to direct air to the engine oil, power steering, and transmission coolers. Lowering the stock headlights 1-1/2 inches and fitting them with '35 bezels and lenses is a small change that makes a big impact. Generally going unnoticed are the original horn grilles that now deliver cooling air to the front brakes through aluminum ducts and high-temp hose. Further alterations include a three-piece aluminum hood with louvers by Eric Vaughn replacing the original, the top has been filled with an insert from the Walden Speed Shop, and Dodge taillights that perfectly complement the shape of the rear fenders have been added. With all the refinements completed, the coupe was turned over to Danny Zoller for final bodywork and paint.
One of the most unique features inside the coupe is the 4130 rollcage. It's part of a mounting system that secures the body to the chassis with a series of vertical crush tubes welded into the boxed rails. With the body and rollcage bolted in place, the chassis became extremely rigid, which allows the suspension to work as it should.
Despite the race car rollcage, the coupe's interior confines are plenty comfy, thanks to lots of Dynamat insulation, leather trimmed Recaro bucket seats, and of course, a Vintage Air heat and cool combo. When he's not listening to the mechanical melodies the coupe produces there's an alternative sound system that includes Kicker speakers in the doors and a COMP C-84 free air woofer.
Along with efforts of Dad and Son, a host of friends contributed their talents to this build, including Bob McCall, Danny Zoeller, Ryan Zwicker, Jake Dallenbach, George Hagy, Troy Bearden, Mike Ellis, and Andrew Rivera. All their work was rewarded with a class win at the 2012 Grand National Roadster Show, then with 1 mile on the odometer, it was off to a Pro Touring event on a 2-1/2-mile road course. At the end of the day the coupe had 80 miles on it and posted the 12th fastest time of the day. We'd say that's all pretty cool, but then cool cars are the family tradition.
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Inside the coupe is a combination of luxury car form and race car function. A rollcage and five-point belts coexist with yards of Oxblood leather.Under the aluminum three-piece hood is an LS3 from Mast Motorsports. Note the custom air cleaner box that picks up air from the louvered side panel. Headers are Corvette LS-7 and the aluminum radiator is by Steve Long.Budnik supplied the wheels; the fronts are 8 inches wide, 10 inches in the rear. Tires are Goodyear Eagles, 235/45Z R18s and 315/40ZR19s, respectively.On a lift the narrowed Corvette transaxle and the partial bellypans can be seen. Note how the frame has been narrowed in front of the rear wheels.


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Audi Q7 2011, the high performance SUV, is more powerful and efficient with a choice of three new V6 engines and 8-speed tiptronic transmission. Two versions of the supercharged V6 are available. The basic version develops 200 kW (272 hp) and has a maximum torque of 400 Nm (295.02 lb-ft) over a broad engine-speed range from 2,250 to 4,750 rpm. It accelerates the Q7 in 7.9 seconds from a standing start to 100 km/h (62.14 mph) and gives it a top speed of 222 km/h (137.94 mph), or 225 km/h (139.81 mph) with adaptive air suspension.
The more powerful version of the 3.0 TFSI delivers 245 kW (333 hp) and a torque of 440 Nm (324.53 lb-ft) between 2,900 and 5,300 rpm. 100 km/h (62.14 mph) are reached in 6.9 seconds, with powerful forward progress continuing until 243 km/h (150.99 mph) are reached; with adaptive air suspension the top speed is 245 km/h (152.24 mph). Both versions of the 3.0 TFSI are impressively efficient: in the EU fuel consumption test cycle they are content with 10.7 liters per 100 kilometers (21.98 US mpg). Compared with the previous engines, the 3.6 FSI and the 4.2 FSI, fuel consumption has been reduced by 1.4 and 2.0 l/100 km – 12 and 16 percent respectively.


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After decades of effective advocacy, policy changes, and direct service provision, myths about violence against women and victim blaming persist and impact the effectiveness of the criminal justice system's response to victims and sirvivors. Research indicates thta advocates and law enforcement offers are effective expert witnesses, and that they and court personnel can affect change regarding the perceptions of these crimes. This conference aims to address that gap by providing training to increase the use of expert testimony indomestic violence cases.Early rate registration fee is $300.00.Registration fee is $325.00 after December 13, 2012.Registration fee includes: all workshop sessions, conference materials and continuing education document
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The Preston B. Bird & Mary Heinlein Fruit & Spice Park
is the only tropical botanical garden of its kind in the United States. The unique 37-acre public facility is owned and operated by the Miami-Dade Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Department. The Park's tropical climate can be found nowhere else in the continental U.S. and hosts over 500 varieties of fruits, vegetables, spices, herbs, and nuts, and other commercially important plant specimens from around the world. The Park showcases 150 varieties of mango, 75 varieties of bananas, 70 bamboo varieties, and numerous other exotic edibles. Visitors are invited to munch at our tasting counter inside our Park Store or enjoy lunch at the Mango Cafe.
Homestead, Florida 33031
9am to 5pm. Except Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.
$2.00 per child 6-11
Children under 6 are FREE
Picnic facilities are available
Miracle Fruit is a berry that, causes sour foods (such as lemons and limes) subsequently eaten to taste sweet. This effect is due to miraculin.
Amazing recipes are Coming Soon!
The fruit has distinctive ridges running down its sides (usually five but can sometimes vary); in cross-section, it resembles a star, hence its name.


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My coworkers use NTFS partitions, and I can't share my data with them, as NTFS on Mac OS X is read-only.
How can I read and write onto NTFS partitions?
For free, you can use the NTFS-3G driver. In order to use it, you have to install MacFUSE first.
In the end, you'll have a prefpane to mount and manage your NTFS drives
I payed(34$) for the full NTFS driver from Tuxera, the free version was not able to safely eject NTFS disks.
Update: starting with Lion, you'll not be able to share the NTFS drives even if you use NTFS-3G or Tuxera NTFS for Mac.
It may be a good idea to reformat your drive to EXFAT in order to overcome these issues. I know it's a real pain and time killer.
You have 3 main choices :
and even a built-in solution inside Mac OS X.
If you're running Snow Leopard, don't bother with various MacFUSE based solutions - NTFS support is built in, but disabled by default. To enable it, read this.
Alternately, you could use NTFSMounter, for a GUI utility to do the same thing.
I use NTFS-3G with really good success, never lost a bit also sharing the same disk with windows machines and a WD media player connected to my TV.
Only very minor issue I've found was that to proper reclaim space from the disk when I delete file I need to run a Maintenance utility or the Disk Utiity to recover space.
See also http://www.phillo.it/?p=9
Here is a good description how to access NTFS partitions. Basically - install NTFS-3G via macports http://fernandoff.posterous.com/ntfs-write-support-on-osx-lion-with-ntfs-3g-f


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"Silver fillings" and
"amalgam" are really
Help us fight FDA and
the dental industry,
who do not want you
to know this crucial
Find out more...
Amalgam pollutes our environment
Amalgam pollutes 1) water via dental clinic releases and human waste; 2) air via cremation, dental clinic emissions, sludge incineration, and respiration; and 3) land via landfills, burials, and fertilizer. Once in the environment, dental mercury converts to its even more toxic form: methylmercury and becomes a major source of mercury in the fish people eat. Dental mercury in the environment can cause brain damage and neurological problems, especially for children and the unborn babies, according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Amalgam endangers our health
Amalgam emits mercury vapor even after it is implanted into the body. This mercury is bioaccumulative, and it crosses the placenta to accumulate in fetuses as well. Dental amalgam's mercury is a known health risk, especially for children, fetuses, nursing infants, and people with impaired kidney function especially. Even the U.S. Food and Drug Administration concedes that the developing neurological systems of children and fetuses are more susceptible to "the neurotoxic effects of mercury vapor" - and that there is no evidence that amalgam is safe for these populations.
Amalgam damages teeth
Placing amalgam requires the removal of a significant amount of healthy tooth matter. This removal, in turn, weakens overall tooth structure which increases the need for future dental work. On top of that, amalgam fillings - which expand and contract over time - crack teeth and once again create the need for still more dental work.
Amalgam endangers dental workers
Due to mercury exposure from amalgam in the workplace, studies have shown that dental workers have elevated systemic mercury levels. Few of these dental workers – mostly women of child-bearing age - are given protective garb or air masks to minimize their exposure to mercury; many are not aware of the risks of occupational mercury exposure. As a result, dental workers have reported neurological problems, reproductive failures, and birth defects caused by amalgam in the workplace.
Amalgam is frequently implanted without informed consent
Most dentists do not inform consumers that amalgam contains mercury. As a result, over 76% of consumers do not know that amalgam is mainly mercury according to Zogby polls. But once they are informed, 77% of people do not want mercury fillings - and they were even willing to pay more to avoid this unnecessary source of mercury exposure.
Amalgam perpetuates social injustice
While middle class consumers opt for mercury-free filling materials, people in developing nations, low-income families, minorities, military personnel, prisoners, and people with disabilities are still subjected to amalgam. Racial minorities are more likely to receive amalgam; for example, dentists place almost 25% more mercury fillings in American Indian patients than in white patients. In his testimony before Congress, former Virginia state NAACP president Emmitt Carlton described this injustice as "choice for the rich, mercury for the poor."
Amalgam costs taxpayers
Taxpayers foot the bill for the environmental clean-up of amalgam and the medical care associated with mercury-related health problems. Meanwhile, the dentists who dump their mercury into our environment and our bodies are not held financially responsible.
Amalgam is diverted to illegal gold mining
Amalgam is commonly shipped to developing countries labeled for dental use, but then it is diverted to illegal use in artisanal and small-scale gold mining. Not only are the miners exposed to the risks of mercury poisoning, but the dental mercury they use to extract gold is released into the environment.
Amalgam is interchangeable with mercury-free filling materials
Amalgam is interchangeable with numerous other filling materials – including resin composites, compomers, and glass ionomers - that have rendered amalgam completely unnecessary for any clinical situation. In fact, the mercury-free alternatives have made amalgam so non-essential that entire nations, such as the Scandinavian countries, have banned the use of amalgam. Developing nations have benefitted from modern mercury-free techniques, such as atraumatic restorative treatment (ART), that only cost half as much as amalgam and make dental care more accessible.
Amalgam drives up the price of mercury-free alternatives
The continued use of amalgam keeps the price of mercury-free filling materials high by decreasing demand for these alternatives. As use of mercury-free materials increases, their price is expected to decrease even further.
The continued use of amalgam keeps the price of mercury-free filling materials high by decreasing demand for these alternatives. As use of mercury-free materials increases, their price is expected to decrease even further.
No more mercury, Medicaid!
A new Zogby Poll shows that most Americans do not know that amalgam is mainly mercury, that most dentists do not tell them about it, and that government action now is needed.
Wake up call for amalgam manufacturer Dentsply
Consumers and dentists call on FDA to keep its promise to act on amalgam
Chicago Tribune: Momentum building to phase out dental amalgam
Dr. Oz highlights why we need mercury-free dentistry
New report proves mercury-free fillings are less expensive than amalgam
Obama's Lead Results in Breakthrough Mercury Agreement, Say NGOs
The "silver fillings" deception
The Environmental Threat of Dental Mercury
The Health Hazards of Dental Mercury
FDA's Thirty Years of Concealing Amalgam's Mercury from You


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Rachel Gfeller of El Dorado and Sheldon Smith of Augusta are happy to announce their engagement and upcoming wedding.
Rachel is the daughter of Tim and Pam Gfeller of El Dorado and Sheldon is the son of Kimberley Smith of Augusta and Gary Smith of Wichita.
Rachel graduated from Pensacola Christian College in December 2012 with a BS in Office Administration.
Sheldon will graduate from Heartland Baptist Bible College in May 2013 with a BS in Pastoral Studies.
Their wedding will be July 13, 2013 at Temple Baptist Church, 925 Douglas Road in El Dorado, at 2 p.m.
The couple will be moving to Carrollton, Texas to be youth leaders at Central Park Baptist Church.
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My sister has just bought the Sony DSC-HX200V camera. She mainly uses the camera to take photos of views and portraits of children (for university work). Are there any lenses available to buy for this to make better quality photos? If so what?
That camera has a fixed 30x optical zoom lens, so there are no alternative lenses to buy for it.
There are third party wide-angle and close-up adaptors available that screw on the front, but that will likely decrease image quality by introducing additional elements in the optical path. I would not recommend buying one of these until you find you really need it.
The built in lens provides a 25mm equivalent field of view at the wide end so that should be sufficient for landscapes.


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Does anyone know of any recent Biblical scholars who advocate for a position that separates Luke and Acts (from an interpretive point of view)?
edit: Many scholars view Luke and Acts as an intentionally-planned sequence, moving from the third gospel to Acts. Martin Dibelius views them as separate works based on his belief that Luke has different audiences in view. Is anybody aware of any newer scholars who support this (or a similar) view that Luke and Acts should be taken as truly separate works?


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I need to switch to c-shell and after installing it via software-center it looks like I am ready to go.
Nevertheless, when I type 'csh' the line changes to %_ I am still not in a c-shell. When typing which $SHELL I get /bin/bash
Also my program is recognizing I am wrong and gives me error messages. I guess there is a simple solution?
thanks in advance