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Besides installing W3 Total Cache or another caching plugin what steps can I take to make sure that my theme and site run as fast as possible.
You could install WordPress on Nginx. There are a number of resources to help:
Some performance information from that last link (which appears to be a bit different setup than the others):
Set client-side expiries for things like css, images, JavaScript etc which don't need to be redownloaded for each page view. This, by far, made the biggest difference to my site loading times. The fastest download is the download that never happened ...
You may pre-gzip everything you reasonably can (7-zip is a good tool for this) & upload it in the same place as the file you just gzipped. Change .htaccess to serve the pre-gzipped files, as below. The caveat here is you need to remember to re-gzip them if/when you update things. This cuts out the CPU overhead, apart from parsing .htaccess.
This is just a raw answer. There are a lot of variations on this theme. I blogged about this and added quite a few references to more in-depth articles at http://icanhazdot.net/2010/03/23/some-wordpress-stuff/. Read that and, more importantly, the references I point to - they are good resources.
Be aware that if you tinker often then users will need to refresh their cache.
A plugin I found very useful too is wp-minify. The thing to watch with this one is that you should exclude page-specific items (contact form, front page slider etc) so you're not re-downloading the whole set of css, JS etc for each page. It is a good way to minify, combine & compress your baseline CSS, JS etc. It cuts down on http requests a lot. Wp-minify plays well with supercache and also with expiry headers that I detailed above.
Use Yslow in Firebug (Firefox) or similar to monitor your http requests and what is and isn't compressed. Have a look at expiry headers in there too. You will soon see what you can improve.
Minimize the number of plugins you run to only what you really need. Especially be aware of plugins that add javascript and CSS code on every page load, even when that code isn't being used on the page.
If you are creating your own theme from scratch, break your CSS down so that features that are only need for particular page templates or view types (single post, archives, category, etc) are only loaded when needed.
Configure W3TC to use a CDN (like Amazon CloudFront, or any of the others supported by W3TC).
See if the Minify options work for you (some plugins generate js/css that won't minify nicely, so be sure to test your site after activating the minify feature).
If you have full control of your MySQL server, make sure that you have the query_cache turned on. Use a MySQL tuning script to find other ways to optimize your database config.
If using a CDN is problematic for some reason, configure mod_expires in your apache setup. Set expiration times as long as reasonable for static types like images, css, javascript, video, audio, etc.
Run memcached and use an object cache to reduce the number of database queries. This caches data from the database, rather than pages. Not sure if w3-total-cache already does this.
Make sure you are running an opcode cache like APC. (There are several more available.)
In addition to using a disk caching plugin like wp-cache, put your blog on a host volume that has the "noatime" property set on it. Otherwise, SSH into your host (if your webhost provides that) and routinely run this command on your files every few days:
The ~/* means "my files under my home directory". You can change that path as you see fit. You can also set this up on a cron job in cpanel if your webhost provides that.
For more info about atime property, see this. It speeds up Linux disk read performance greatly.
Sometimes your site is being hammered by spiders. You can use a tool like SpyderSpanker or Chennai Central to filter out spiders who don't help bring more page rank to your site and merely slow it down, and then throttle good spiders (like Google, Bing, etc.) by sending them random HTTP 304 Not Modified messages.
Another thing I see is just poorly written plugins. If you learn how to make plugins, you begin to see how some plugins are inefficiently coded, or even find timebombs, such as a database table that fills and fills and never gets cleaned out, storing things such as incoming connection data.
Beyond all the other solutions here, you can also create a WordPress web farm of your blog by hosting it on several web node PCs that all connect back to one single database and one single disk volume for the files (such as a volume mounted over NFS). Check out Ultra Monkey for how to get that all going.
A few answers off the top of my head:
2) Offload as much of your image/media serving to 3rd party CDNs as possible, particularly if you're using shared hosting.
3) Try reducing the number of posts you're displaying on the front page in order to cut down on total render time.
3a) Try using a theme that presents a few featured posts in full on the front page and all other, older posts as excerpts.
Caching the WordPress Menu also gives you a performance boost. Especially if you have a lot of Pages or a giant Menu Structure, this should be considered.
Do it in 2 easy steps. At first, create a function that gets or creates the menu, instead of calling
In your theme, replace the
Menus don't change often - but you also have to hook into the
Do it like this:
The Menu will be generated the next time the page is called - and use the cached version until someone updates the menu again.
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Thanks @helgatheviking for pointing out a mistake between slugs and IDs. I updated the functions so it works both with
The menus are always saved with the name of the Menu, not the position in the Theme.
Use a database class that is trimmed for optimization. We made good experiences with own code to reduce memory usage and database access speed. Next to that, you can optimize the database structure itself by some small changes that do a lot as well.
Part of the database class code can be found in the wordpress trac, it did not made it into core (Ticket #11799 and related).
For a highly trafficked site, you should tune all MySQL buffers for the content that is in place now. Regardless of the version of WordPress, the MySQL layer can have its configuration computed.
In fact, if you have InnoDB data without enabling innodb_file_per_table, you need to cleanup InnoDB by segmenting each table into its own physical tablespace. It is possible to do decent MySQL tuning even if you have a limited hardware. There are many scenarios for doing such InnoDB optimizations.
IMHO, you cannot plan good settings for my.cnf without knowing the amount of data to configure for. You would have to periodically load a current dataset from production into a staging environment, perform optimizations and come away with the numbers to configure in the my.cnf of the production server.
you could enable global output compression. this will gzip everything going out automatically if the browser supports it. This drastically reduces the size of files transferred, but does increase your CPU load.
I recently spoke about this subject at WordCamp Houston. All of the above recommendations are great and the important thing is to make sure all the front end stuff is fully optimized then you can start working on the caching and server performance issues.
Progressive rendering will make your pages feel faster because the user will see the page content before it is fully loaded. To do this make sure any blocking js is at the very bottom of the page and css is at the top.
Also if you use a lot of social media buttons you can customize the scripts to make them load in an iframe after the page is fully loaded. I wrote a tutorial on how to do it with the TweetMeMe re tweet button (now obsolete since Twitter released their own retweet button) but can still be applied to other share buttons.
For server performance look into Nginx as a front end proxy for static content with Apache handling the heavy PHP and MySQL lifting.
Since nobody mentioned it yet, one of the most important steps to enhance server performance in conjunction with any LAMP setup would be to switch to apache worker thread and mod_fcgid.
This freed up 500MB of memory on my virtual private server.
Guide for checking plugin slow down
There's a beautifully simple plugin called Page Load Time, which adds timer to your page footer. Its actually only four lines of code:
Your spreadsheet should look something like
So if after deactivating a plugin the page response time increases significanly then you can see if you can avoid that plugin.
I found two plugins that caused 'significant' slow down mqtranslate and (the rather old but good) Multi-level Navigation Plugin.


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Garbage that's guaranteed for a lifetime? Fascinating.
@jamesc359: I've owned plenty of Ultra PSU's...not sure why you think they're garbage. This is a great deal with the rebate.
Agreed, a great deal. I upgraded my parents' computer with my old graphics card, and spending about 15 bucks to upgrade their stock PS to handle it all is a no-brainer.
Also, you can get the 450W for $7.97 after rebate as well; just click the 450W button once you go through this link.
I will put it my closet as an emergency back-up. If I never use it it's worth $ 11.00 just knowing it's there.
The 450W does not include free shipping+ $ 4.89. (cheapest for me) So you end up paying more for it than this one.
A lotta things ... are like a lotta other things.
The 550 watts may mean surge watts, not for continuous duty.
You could always cheat- add up all the max wattages of your components. If you don't come up over 300 watts, then a 550 watt PS like this will work well.
I still get amazed by folk with lame PCs and a 150 watt video card. Or two.
And there is still some cap rot out there. A set of rounded out caps on a mobo can pull too much on an old PS. Check your fans- a bad PS fan can be bad news for a lot of things.
I've got an Ultra in my computer now that is just starting to fail after five years. I'll use my warranty claim on it but in the meanwhile I need another PS and this will do just fine!
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker got caught in a moment of honesty. On Sunday's Meet the Press, Booker, an official surrogate for President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, let his unequivocal disdain for negative campaigning on from both parties be known, saying, "This kind of stuff is nauseating to me on both sides. It's nauseating to the American public. Enough is enough. Stop attacking private equity. Stop attacking Jeremiah Wright. This stuff has got to stop."
It was the type of false equivalency that in today's political landscape signals to voters "independent thinker," precisely what Booker has become known for as he has risen to national prominence. Drawing a parallel between shadowy right-wing groups attempting to use Obama's relationship to firebrand preacher Reverend Jeremiah Wright (again) to discredit his capacity to serve and the Obama team's ads attacking presumptive Republican candidate Mitt Romney's business experience, the only experience he has offered as evidence of his ability to be president, is disingenuous. But that wasn't Booker's true sin.
Where he stepped into a mess that required a hastily put together YouTube video and an appearance on The Rachel Maddow Show in attempts to rectify his image was when he added: "I have to just say from a very personal level, I'm not about to sit here and indict private equity. To me, it's just we're getting to a ridiculous point in America. Especially that I know I live in a state where pension funds, unions and other people invest in companies like Bain Capital. If you look at the totality of Bain Capital's record, they've done a lot to support businesses, to grow businesses. And this, to me — I'm very uncomfortable with."
Booker essentially went to bat for private equity, an institution that even Romney's Republican opponents took to referring to as "vulture capitalism" during the primary race. While the Obama team has refrained from denigrating private equity in its mere existence, its message has been that Romney's tenure at Bain Capital and the type of business in which he was involved did not prepare him to tackle the economic needs of everyday Americans. Booker went on national television and contradicted that message.
Which shouldn't come as a surprise considering, as Steve Kornacki at Salon pointed out, Wall Street and the "investor class" have been crucial backers of Booker's political aspirations. "The allies he's cultivated on Wall Street and in the financial industry...have made Booker a prolific fundraiser," Kornacki writes, and given such it's hardly shocking that he would refuse to join the progressive chorus that has chastised the finance wards in the years after the Great Recession took hold. And he's not alone, either. Adam Serwer of Mother Jones reports former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford saying, "Private equity is not a bad thing. As a matter of fact, private equity is a good thing in many, many instances," and former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell calling the attack on Bain Capital "very disappointing."
Booker wasn't off message, he was just telling the truth about where the money comes from.
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What makes Booker's statement resonate more than those others and what disappoints the progressives that have become his most ardent supporters is that he became popular for representing a "new" kind of politics. Here is a guy who was literally in the street trying to reduce the crime rate in his city, who braved snowstorms to shovel his neighbor's cars out of danger, who risked his own life running into a burning house to rescue a woman, and still possessed the charisma and eloquence to speak passionately to progressive issues like same-sex marriage advocacy. He knows how to use social media to connect with his constituents and hold civil discourse with those with whom he may disagree. And he's just damn likeable, right? Here's the politician America had been waiting for, the one who would not allow partisan bickering prevent him from getting a much needed cash infusion to the school system or the potholes filled on the street. He can talk the talk, but he has little time for chatting because he's always on the go, doing what needs to be done.
Now, with his public bowing to the financiers largely responsible for the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, he's become just another politician. A gifted, highly intelligent, and seemingly good-hearted politician, but a politician nonetheless.
This isn't unlike 2008 when then presidential candidate Obama rejected public campaign financing in favor of raising money on his own, a move that gave him the financial advantage he needed to compete in states not typically in play for Democratic candidates. Though he obviously didn't lose any major support, his decision did cause a backlash among those upset that he would go back on his word to take public campaign money and that he would feed into the notion that money rules politics by out-fundraising and outspending his opponent. The


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So to breathe a little life in my talk and to make the lemma more attractiv I want to explain its usefullness and its power, so they get a mental picture which will hopefully hinder them falling asleep. :-) I did some research in the web, but the descriptions I found in the articles and papers are most often the same: Szemerédi's Lemma asserts that, very roughly speaking, any dense graph can be decomposed into a bounded number of pseudorandom bipartite graphs. The book I use, uses the Lemma to prove the proposition of Erdős and Stone from 1946. But I don't have the time to explain that too.
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Life means enjoying oneself and bringing joy to others in whatever small ways you can.
for me life its all about love one another and live for God n love God with all your heart even we poor on this life but we rich n spirit always know your father wont let you down if live for him for God so love us Jesus said,My salvation is free.whoever will.let him come and be saved from this place of everlasting punishment.i will not cast him out.if you have been a witch or a warlock,even if you have a written agreement with the devil,My power will break it,and My shed blood will save you.i will take the evil curse off your life and redeem you from hell.Give me your heart that i may unchain you and set you free God love us he give his only one son to die for us so we might have life
The meaning of life. Is to live with everything that surrounds us.
But not to let things around us to control our lives.
But not to let things around us to control our lives.
Life for me is full of excitement and adventure.We must live each and every moment of life because if we lost it once then we never get it back.
I believe that the meaning of life is to serve God and help others. At the same time, enjoy the pleasures that God has made possible for us like the simple things that we sometimes overlook. For example, many take for granted the fact that we could taste. All food could have just tasted the same but God gave us the pleasure of enjoying different flavors. And each person has different favors which shows that we are all very unique. Another thing is sight. We could've all just seen in black and white. I know the older people remember when the first color TV came out. But we already have the best HD color TV, our eyes. Another thing is smell. Smell is used for us to detect danger. But don't we all enjoy a home cooked meal when we can smell it from the living room? All these things are the simple stuff that God has given us. So i believe that the meaning of life is to demonstrate our gratitude for these things by doing what God wants and pleasing him for making this all possible.
Life is meant to spent not saved.
everyone knows that saying "Live like is the last day of your life". I try as much as possible to do so
Live for others specially your parents.....
life means eat, drink and be merry:P


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is there a way to buy an update for the cobra 7750 that includes mexico maps please let me know.
- A driver learns from the past to lead the future
- A driver builds up his own trucking business
- Father and son share a love of life on the road, even if it makes visits rare
- This driver always makes time to mentor the next generation — whether at home or on the road
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Getting Back to Your Routes
How did we ever get along without these things?
Modern technology has brought so many conveniences to truck cabs, it's hard to know where to start. Back in the '70s, CB radio changed the way drivers communicated. A generation ago, professional drivers lined up in truckstops to use the public phones to check in with dispatchers and to call in for loads. Along came Qualcomm, and drivers got communications right in their cabs. Dispatch knew where the loads were and where you were. Loads came in from sales and global positioning technology told your Qualcomm where you were. That information was sent to your company. You no longer lost time waiting to phone in.
Microelectronics freed cellular telephones from being fixed to the cab or tethered to battery packs. Phones can now be carried in a pocket. In fact, even the largest truckstops have cut back their public phones. Customers now have their own.
Similar advances made global positioning systems (GPS) practical. In fact, as phones got smarter, GPS applications were added to "smart" cell phones; those with functions like computer access.
When drivers discovered GPS units sized for use in cabs, they quickly tried them. Some immediately ran into trouble. Early GPS databases and software were compiled for mass market users — drivers in cars. Truck restrictions were not considered. Drivers following directions for cars found themselves driving on truck-restricted roads. Routes included bridges with weight restrictions. And worst of all, physical barriers like low bridges and tunnels were not recognized, leading trucks to have trailer roofs sardine-canned, peeled back by the bridge girders.
Truck route software has long been available for computers. Pioneered by ALK Technologies' PC*Miler, truck-specific mapping allowed dispatchers to help their drivers avoid these hazards. Those with laptops could plan their own routes accordingly. But truckers wanted more. They wanted the same convenience that passenger car drivers now have; small-size, dashboard mounted units that provide turn-by-turn directions with visual aids. And that's what the new generation GPS models for professional truck drivers provides — and then some.
The machinery
Global positioning is a military technology using signals from 24 active satellites, each orbiting the earth twice daily. They orbit about 12,000 miles above the earth. Using solar power for their electricity, they transmit electronic signals continuously. The GPS receivers identify the signals from at least four satellites and determine the receiver's precise location by calculating time to receive signals. Microelectronics enable accuracy to about three meters, or 10 feet. What happens next depends on the hardware and software of each receiver.
In general, each unit has a database of all streets and highways, and such points of interest as municipal facilities, truckstops and service locations, gas stations, food, shopping and more. A GPS receiver compares the location information it calculates from the satellites and identifies your location in the database. When you provide a destination or request a point of interest, the chips compute locations and distances, then present routing in a graphic format.
For trucks, the databases know restrictions and calculate the most efficient (shortest or fastest) route to avoid them. Early receivers for trucks recognized two types of vehicles: cars and 80,000 pound 18-wheelers. But we all know there are various types of trucks between pickups (restricted on some routes), and Class 8. For example, a bridge may be restricted to 20,000 pounds, so Class 5s are allowed but Class 6s are prohibited. Today's GPS receivers for trucks know the difference.
Size is a major variable for all makes. You will want something large enough to read easily and still present all the information the device provides. With smaller screens, you may have to give up some information or choose between displays of speed, distance to destination or time of arrival. If your unit will be mounted near the center of the windshield in a big rig, a 7-inch screen will be fine, but if you'll be using a GPS in a light truck, too, the 7-inch may be too large to use close to you. A 4.3- or 5-inch may be a good size for mixed use, but before buying, do some research to find out what the display trade-offs might be.
Placement is critical. Screens are sensitive to ambient light. When I tested four of the most popular truckers' GPS units, I found that sunlight caused screen glare, sometimes making it unreadable. I had my best results positioning the units high on the windshield, in the shadow of the upper console or, in a pickup, under the roof. The worst was low on the dashboard, exposed to light from all sides.
The units I tried are in alphabetical order, below. All were similar in function, yet each had its own distinctive features. And each had its own navigation errors, due to out-of-date portions of its roadway database. Most of the (few) errors I did find were due to highway rebuilding, although some "new" configurations were open several months before my test units were sent out.
Space doesn't permit reviewing every feature of each unit, but here are a few highlights.
Cobra 7750 Platinum
I liked the large-screen graphic of lane choices at exits and complex lane configurations. While all units had lane representations and recommendations, the Cobra's Junction View with Lane Assist had the most realistic 3-D representation. It tracks state-by-state miles for fuel tax reporting. It also helps track driving hours by state by category: on-duty, driving and off-duty. The Cobra has audio and visual alerts for speed and red light cameras, dangerous intersections and known speed traps.
Cobra uses data from ProMiles Software Development Corporation. The 7750 Platinum includes three months of unlimited downloads from the AURA Camera & Driving Database. It has one female voice for each language: Canadian French, American Spanish and English.
Garmin nuvi 465T
Garmin uses the Autoroute DEM Basemap database. There are several voice options for languages, including male and female voices in Canadian French, Mexican Spanish and three variations of English: North America, Australian and British.
A Proximity Points feature lets you customize and add points of interest, such as red light cameras, to the alert system. The NTTS (National Truck and Trailer Services) Breakdown Directory is on the nuvi, with emergency breakdown resources just two or three touches away. There are free lifetime traffic and route updates.
Speed limits are displayed for all but minor roads, but there are no over-speed alerts.
PC*Miler Navigator 450
All PC*Miler units use the ALK PC*Miler database. I found the Navigator the least intuitive unit of the four, but once you take some time with the 80-page instruction booklet, navigating the Navigator becomes easy. With close to four hours operation with a fully charged battery, the 4.3-in Navigator adapts to use when walking or riding a bicycle as well as use in cars, RVs, motorcycles and, of course, trucks. It's small enough to fit in a shirt pocket. You can plug in an ear bud to get voice directions.
The ClearTurn feature displays lane configurations and gives recommendations. You can program it to display from three miles to 0.2 miles from the exit or intersection. I found two miles at highway speeds is enough to maneuver into the proper lane. You can select voices for audio directions, with one male and three female Spanish voices, two male and two female French voices with different dialects, eight U.K. English voices and three U.S. English voices. Not all voices are programmed with text-to-speech, needed to speak street names.
Rand McNally Intelliroute TND 700
Rand McNally's 7-inch Intelliroute TND 700 has a wide screen that displays more trip data than others, once you learn where to look. Its stylus is in the bracket.
The Intelliroute uses Rand McNally's proprietary database which, if experience with their road atlases holds, could take time to update for new construction. Where this GPS shines is the "timers" page. It records driving hours and on-duty hours daily, and the on-duty work week with two odometers, two maintenance interval timers and average speeds for two trips. Home, local and destination times are displayed.
Alert distances and times are programmable, from zero miles on up for hills and sharp curves, to time to running-out-of-hours, in quarter-hour increments. Programmable alerts also include weigh stations, toll booths, construction, state borders and speed limit changes. 3-D lane guidance with a sign post display simplifies exiting highways. There's even a feature to let you communicate with Rand McNally when you log on to take advantage of the free upgrades.
I was impressed with the on-the-road convenience and functionality of all the GPS units. You should do your homework and decide which unit most matches your needs. You'll soon find it as convenient and necessary as your cell phone, and you won't leave home without one.
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Trojans Remain Fifth in NCAA Southeast Region RankingsFebruary 27, 2014
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – After splitting road decisions over the past week, the Anderson men's basketball team remains fifth in the Southeast Region in the NCAA's second Division II Southeast Region rankings of the season, as released Wednesday.
The top five teams in the poll remained unchanged, as Peach Belt Conference-member USC Aiken (24-3, 16-1 PBC), which is ranked eighth in the latest NABC Coaches Poll and sits atop the East Division of Peach Belt Conference, remained atop the regional rankings. Lincoln Memorial (22-2, 18-2 SAC), which is ranked 13th in the latest NABC Coaches Poll and is first in the South Atlantic Conference, is still second on the regional list, with 21st-ranked Montevallo (21-4, 14-4 PBC), which is first in the West Division of the PBC, remaining in the third spot.
GRU Augusta (21-5, 14-3 PBC) sits in fourth. Anderson (19-7, 14-6 SAC), which is third in the South Atlantic Conference, is one of four teams from the South Atlantic Conference in the regional rankings. Carson-Newman (18-6, 15-5 SAC), which is currently second in the SAC, vaulted from ninth to sixth, with Georgia Southwestern (18-9, 10-8 PBC) slipping one spot to seventh.
Conference Carolinas' members Mount Olive (18-8, 12-4 CC) and Barton (16-10, 12-4 CC) are eighth and 10th, respectively, with SAC-member Newberry (17-7, 13-7 SAC) moving from 10th to ninth in this week's rankings.
Limestone (18-7, 10-6 CC), which was eighth a week ago, dropped out of this week's poll.
The regional rankings are scheduled to be released weekly on Wednesdays through March 5, with the NCAA D-II Tournament selections scheduled to be unveiled on Sunday, March 9.
Eight teams from each of the eight regions will advance to the NCAA Division II tournament. In the Southeast Region, the tournament champions from the SAC, Peach Belt, and Conference Carolinas will receive an automatic bid, with five more at-large selections.
Following tonight's key home contest versus Tusculum, Anderson closes out the regular season at Queens on Saturday.


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Two Things Stephen Curry Does Better Than You
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This year, Stephen Curry, the Golden State Warriors point guard, broke an NBA season record for the most three-point shots made, with 272. So far, his 44.6% career three-point percentage ranks him No. 2 in league history—behind only the great Steve Kerr.
The typical effect, when one watches Curry play, is to become so transfixed by his laser-sharp shooting that it's no longer possible to focus on anything else. Up in the stands, one may find oneself eating a beer while drinking a popcorn.
But what makes this 6-foot-3 25-year-old worth pulling out from the pack at this still-early stage of the NBA playoffs and hoisting him up on the highest pedestal is something else—something other great shooters like Reggie Miller and Ray Allen never achieved.
He's not just an extremely gifted shooter, he may be an even better ballhandler.
All season, and in defeating Denver in the playoffs last week, Curry bamboozled defenders—and at times TV camera operators—with an epicurean buffet of crossovers, needle-threading drives and bull's-eye passes. He's mastered a knee-buckling behind-the-back bounce move that allows him to change directions or immediately stop while his defender zooms off in the wrong direction. It's these tricks that are largely responsible for giving him the space he needs to launch his dead-aim shots—or dish to open teammates.
"So many of his points are from jump shots," said Bryant Barr, Curry's college teammate and roommate. "It's been so long since you've seen someone who's able to pull up from anywhere."
America got its first glimpse of Curry in 2008 when he led tiny Davidson College to the NCAA tournament's Elite Eight. But there's a difference between that version of the player and this current one: In college, when the kid played shooting guard until his junior year, he didn't dribble or pass so much.
Early in his career, the team already had a point guard, Jason Richards, who led the country in assists—many of which went to Curry, who used screens (not clever dribbling) to get open. And when he did put ball to floor, the results weren't nearly so dramatic. "His ball-handling now is for sure an A," Barr said. But at Davidson? "D his freshman year and C+ his junior year."
Curry, who scored 44 points in the Warriors' Game 1 loss in San Antonio Monday, isn't freakishly tall or athletic. He's a living symbol of a lesson that many top-tier athletes seem unable to learn once they get to the pros: That as good as you already are, you can always get better.
The Warriors took him with the No. 7 overall pick in the 2009 draft as a point guard. In his first two years, he was good but a step below elite, averaging 18 points and 5.9 assists per game while hitting 44% of his three-pointers.
It was during the NBA lockout in the summer of 2011 that Curry decided to try something weird. He started working out at Accelerate Basketball Training, a gym in his hometown of Charlotte, N.C. His trainer there, Brandon Payne, said he tries to give Curry a "mental overload" while the guard works on dribbling.
In one drill, Curry has to perform a series of between-the-leg and behind-the-back dribbles while catching and throwing a tennis ball with his right hand. In another, he waves a 40-pound rope in his one hand while dribbling a ball in the other. "This is basically what we're doing, patting your head and rubbing your tummy," Payne said.
Of course, once Curry removes the second part of the drill—the tennis ball or the weighted rope—dribbling feels much easier.
Another drill involves dribbling two balls simultaneously: one of which is a normal ball while the other weighs three pounds (more than double the weight of a normal one and also far less bouncy). The drill is meant to teach Curry to dribble harder, which means the ball moves from the floor to his hand more quickly and lets him navigate tight spaces on the court.
To dribble quickly, Payne said, "you have to dribble the ball with a lot of force."
Curry said he believes the drills make his hands quicker and stronger. His coaches aren't so sure. "I'm not sold," said Warriors coach Mark Jackson, a former NBA point guard. "I guess I'm an old-school guy. Give me a basketball and let me work with one." Jackson said he thinks Curry's improvement comes from recovering from an ankle injury that sidelined him most of the 2011-12 season.
Curry said he would continue to train with his unorthodox methods. He's especially excited for an off-season workout that Payne has for him: Outfitting him with special goggles that will cut off vision in one eye.
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WELLSBURG - A Wellsburg man has been arrested for allegedly using an excavator to dig ditches along an area being timbered for a natural gas pipeline.
Jeffrey B. Palmer, 20, of RD 1, Wellsburg, was arrested by the Brooke County Sheriff's Department Saturday for tampering with a vehicle and three counts each of destruction of property and petit larceny.
According to court reports, Palmer on the night of Aug. 13 stole keys and four handheld radios from excavators being used by Northern Clearing Inc. to clear trees to allow the extension of a pipeline through an area off Campground Road near Bethany.
The reports said Palmer returned to the site the following night and dug a ditch across the access road to the site and again on Nov. 18 to dig another ditch and a large hole.
The reports said Palmer also took a pistol from a locked compartment in one of the vehicles.
Sheriff's deputies say a gas station receipt bearing Palmer's name was found on one of the vehicles.
Palmer wasn't employed by Northern Clearing, and his motive wasn't stated in the reports.
The incident isn't related to a fatal accident Sunday on nearby Camp Run Road where workers also have been installing pipeline.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the accident, which occurred when a heavy, 120-foot section of pipeline, being lifted in the air, swung through the window of an excavating vehicle. The pipe struck and killed the vehicle's operator, a Lousiana man whose name hasn't been released.
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Tracy's Waters
Wooden Arms
Traveling Salesman
Big Bird in a Small Cage
Down at the Beach
Man Like You
Where the Wild Things Are
Machinery of the Heavens
Wooden Arms is Patrick Watson's highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed Close to Paradise, which vaulted the man and his band to international stardom in 2007. The Montreal band toured non-stop for two years following initial Canadian release of Close to Paradise in 2006, and in many ways Wooden Arms is the story and sound of a band waking up in strange places all around the world.
Whether it's the bicycle-city sound of "Beijing," or the warmth of "a hole in the wall" in "sweet New Orleans" on "Big Bird in a Small Cage," or the haunting European waltz of the title track, you can't help but feel in listening to Wooden Arms like you're on the road with the band. Sometimes it's dirty, sometimes it's wild, but it's never, ever boring.
Close to Paradise won Canada's prestigious Polaris Prize in 2007, turning more than a few heads in beating out offerings from Arcade Fire and Feist, among others. By the time it saw release in the United States, Europe and Japan, the band was flying all over the world, garnering rave reviews for the album and their blistering live show alike.
When the dust had settled the band had written enough songs on the road to lay down a new record in a few short months at the end of 2008 in Montreal. On the album's opener, "Fireweed," Watson sings, "So we dug ourselves a hole, and planted all our skin; like a seed in the ground, to grow again." And you can hear stripped down rejuvenation all over Wooden Arms; Watson's voice and orchestrations shine brighter against a rhythmic percussive foundation that has been brought to the forefront.
But Wooden Arms isn't just the sound of a band learning how to build a slicker wall of sound together. The playful album closer "Machinery of the Heavens" is almost a full on swing-tune; "Big Bird in a Small Cage" proves they're capable of producing a perfect country-pop song, and fans of "The Great Escape" from Close to Paradise will have a hard-time resisting the heart-wrenching just-voice-and-guitar of "Man of Like You."
Perhaps most importantly though, Wooden Arms showcases both Watson and his bandmates as genuine composers, and the serious musicians that they are—from the orchestral pull of "Tracy's Waters," to Simon Angell's noise-twang on "Traveling Salesman" to drummer Robbie Kuster's jaw-dropping performances and his string piece "Hommage," to the anchor of Mishka Stein's bass on the instrumental freak-out number, "Down at the Beach."
Wooden Arms will be released April 28th in Canada and May 5th in the USA.
Patrick Watson & the Wooden Arms have just announced a string of U.S. shows in May, including shows in New York, Chicago and LA, and wrapping up with an appearance at The Sasquatch Fesitval at the Gorge in Washington. These will be their first US shows since the jaw-dropping CMJ performance in new York back in October. (Which by the way, you can still hear in its entirey thanks to NPR and KEXP).
"Recorded with the help of Seattle's KEXP, this was one of the best live shows I've seen all year, anywhere. Watson is a dynamic performer who gets deep inside the songs, and you can tell. His face contorts, his body shifts as he becomes the characters and stories he sings. But there's more to Watson than his colorful songs. He has one of the best bands performing music these days, able to shift moods from funny to scary, and from cartoony to evocative of street life, often in the same song."
Patrick Watson's Wooden Arms has been shortlisted for the 2009 Polaris Prize. This is the second time they've been nominated for the award, after having won it the first time around in 2007. You can see the rest of the Short List here.
"Wooden Arms, Patrick Watson's 3rd full length is so intoxicating, so magical, that it has pushed every thing I've heard since, down a notch, or two."
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"The moment I heard Patrick Watson's new record, Wooden Arms, it was love at first listen. ... Wooden Arms is a beautiful collection of songs that bring together delicate pop, ethereal atmosphere and a minimalist sense of composition."
"The spontaneous sounding arrangements - topped by Watson's uniquely mercurial voice - are at turns ornate, grand and subtle, but never less than totally bewitching."
"a series of impressionist vignettes into a quick-seeming 45-minute session perfect for late nights and lonely bus rides."
"third album of baroque pop is a meandering path of Puckish enthusiasm and Jeff Buckley warmth, moonlit and effusive with churning pianos, tense strings, and crisp xylophone ... [4 stars] "
"a gigantic leap forward in Patrick Watson and his band's ability to tell stories and capture precise moods with a cinematic grace"
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If I'm fighting a major boss in Diablo III (Maghda, Belial, the Big D himself, and so on), is there any way to escape or flee from the arena other than death? Can I quit the game, or yank my ethernet cable?
This can be used from what I read. In a game by your self, pause the game. Then log in on a different computer. This will cause you to be kicked out of the game.
The other thing that I've noticed if you afk too long (about 25+ mins) paused you get kicked from the game, so that could be an option as well.
Both methods could be useful for hardcore mode, in normal mode I would just take the death.
If you are outside of town, the only way to quit the game involves a 10 second countdown timer. Whether you yank your ethernet cable, unplug your computer, or just go to menu -> leave game, the countdown timer will be triggered. Your character will stand still and take no actions for 10 seconds as you wait to leave the game. This occurs whether or not you can visibly witness it.
So, yes, you can leave a game during a boss fight. If the reason you want to leave the boss fight is because you want to avoid death, however, I don't think it's going to work out too well. If you're having trouble surviving while actively fighting back, being completely motionless for 10 seconds isn't going to help matters.
Pulling out the internet cable still leaves you in the game for a while before you time out so you would still die. Same for just quiting the game, probably enough to get you killed.
You can do any of the following:
1) Yank the ethernet cable, this terminates communication to and from the server
There are no ways to get out of the arena, i.e. town portals will not save you. It should be noted it is still possible to have your character die (which is of concern in hardcore mode) and to suffer equipment damage.
There's no efficient way to instantly quit the game, I think. So yes, either you die or you wait 10 seconds for the game to close.
You could actually get someone to tank the boss for you while you quit the game. Just a suggestion.


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HELPING Modern Woodmen of America has helped raise money for two area youth programs.
The St. Clairsville chapter of Modern Woodmen helped Warren Township Boys Baseball raise $1,500 for equipment, which included $750 in matching funds from Modern Woodmen.
The chapter also helped Edison FFA Boosters raise $1,500 for equipment, which also included $750 in matching funds from Modern Woodmen.
The Edison group staged a truck pull as its fundraiser, while the Warren Township organization sponsored a drawing.
Modern Woodmen nationwide supports community causes, matching up to $2,500 of the money raised for a particular project.
Last year, the fundraising projects contributed more than $6.5 million to community needs across the nation.
Tim Conrad is activities coordinator for the local chapter.
APPOINTED: Christopher J. Barrick is the new chairman for the department of music and theater at West Liberty University.
Barrick is an associate professor of music and teaches saxophone, clarinet and jazz studies at the university.
Prior to joining the West Liberty faculty in 2008, he was jazz ensemble director at Doane College in Crete, Neb., from 2007-2008 and a teaching assistant in saxophone and jazz studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 2005-2008.
He also served as assistant director of bands at Cocke County High School in Newport, Tenn., from 2003-2005, and as teaching assistant for two years at the University of Tennessee School of Music.
Originally from New Jersey, Barrick earned his bachelor of arts in music degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2000 with a specialization in music performance, saxophone concentration, and a bachelor of science in music education degree, also at IUP, in 2001.
He earned a master of music degree from the University of Tennessee in 2003 and a doctorate of musical arts degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Barrick completed WLU's Executive Fellowship Program to prepare faculty for eventual roles in higher education administration in 2012-2013.
He performs locally at many venues and also in the jazz duo Pair O'Docs.


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I tend to err on the side of paying too much for quality stuff, but $180 for a standard replacement battery for a Dell laptop makes the $80 knockoffs look pretty tempting. I wouldn't consider it (batteries really aren't something I want to take a chance on getting a refurb with) - but I was so surprised to learn how popular off-brand server rails are, that I thought I'd fling the question out there and see what stuck.
I got my replacement battery from batteries plus for my laptop. It's worked as good as the original HP battery when it was new. In fact according to Linux it's still at 100% the batteries rated capacity and it's about 6 months old now.
It wasn't as cheap as the batteries on ebay but it all came down to if I wasn't happy with it I wanted the option to take it back and deal with a real person. I also didn't want to wait the couple of weeks it takes an ebay transaction to go through and get the shipment.
I bought a off-brand replacement battery for my old/spare Fujitsu laptop in Thailand. I happened to be over there so I stopped by their "IT Mall" in Bangkok.
I paid something like $50-$80 for it and its been working great for over a year now.
Basically your laptop battery is nothing but a certain number and type of cells put into a plastic case. There's really not a whole lot of difference between "Dell" and generic provided that the generic cells are reasonable quality. You're paying for a brand name.
If you're feeling really adventurous you can CAREFULLY take the plastic battery case apart and figure out which cell(s) are bad then simply order replacements (or all brand new ones) and solder them all back up.
I HIGHLY recommend buying the types of cells that already have the soldering tab attached to them as soldering directly onto the end of a battery can be a bit dangerous (ie. heat) if you don't know what you're doing.
But the short answer is... go for it... buy the generic battery. Most of the time they work just fine. Avoid the total "bargain basement/too good to be true" deals though.
Hope this helps.
When making your decision just remember that Dell don't make those batteries, they buy them in, so in some respects there is no such thing as a genuine Dell battery. $100 is quite a lot of money for a label.
I haven't tried non-"genuine" batteries in Dell laptops but I have tried tried them in several other brands. If it wasn't for the label I would never have been able to tell the difference.
I have used off-brand batteries for Acer laptop before - in fact they were purchased via ebay from some outfit in China, and they charged me half price because it was a prototype.
The comfort of using PayPal and being able to put the transaction into dispute if the goods are not up to spec.
I highly recommend intelligentbatteries.com.
Not only are they the cheapest online source I've found, they're also dependable and make good batteries (they buy the old casings and electronics and put new LiIon cells in them). I've already bought 4 replacement batteries from them.
The only place cheaper I've found yet appears to be very shady and has lots of negative reviews online.
I used to know a guy that refurbished his own laptop batteries. He would open the battery up, take one of the cells down to Radioshack, and buy however many were actually bad. He said most times it was just the first few that were dead. I only ever tried this myself once, and couldn't get replacement cells because the battery I opened was from a very small-name laptop manufacturer that has since gone bankrupt.
Don't forget to consider your warranty status when buying batteries. If you are out of warranty, then no problem - do what you want. But if you are covered by a warranty, then you might have to go with name-brand parts in order to keep coverage.
My laptop (property of my employer) is covered by a service agreement, so when I needed a new battery, IT didn't really have any options but to go back to Dell.
Not a problem in your case, but Sony laptops have a startup program that checks if the battery is genuine and force a shutdown/hibernation if it's not. It's not too hard to kill it, but it's another reason to avoid Vaios.
The company I work for uses a lot of laptops, and as such goes through a lot of batteries. I investigated both aftermarket and OEM batteries, and every single OEM battery had a higher rating than its aftermarket counterpart. If you need the most performance possible on a single charge, opt for the OEM. If you're fine with slightly lower performance and don't mind swapping out/charging sooner, then aftermarket will be fine. I purchase OEM batteries on our more current laptops, and aftermarket on our older ones.


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HASTINGS - A 46-year-old Emerson man died in a crash Friday afternoon, Sept. 10, on U.S. Highway 34 near Hastings.
I must have read my invitation wrong, but I thought last Thursday's gathering in western Mills County was supposed to be a groundbreaking celebration for the new U.S. Highway 34 - Missouri River bridge project.
I didn't know it was going to turn into a summit to discuss Nebraska's move to the Big 10 Conference and the future rivalry between the Husker and Hawkeye football teams.
PACIFIC JUNCTION - A Pacific Junction City Council meeting ended abruptly last Tuesday after the council failed to pass its agenda for the meeting.
According to Iowa Code, a local board, council or commission acting as a government body must approve that meeting's agenda before considering new business. At last Tuesday's meeting, the council declined to approve the agenda. In Jim Lovely's nearly 10 years as Pacific Junction mayor, this was the first time he can recall where a consent agenda failed to pass.
The Glenwood girls cross country team had two runners in the top 12 to place fourth as a team at the Clarinda Invitational last Tuesday.
MALVERN - The way East Mills and Stanton began their district opener last Friday, with both teams scoring on their opening possessions, the reporter-estimated crowd of 400 on hand probably thought they were in for an offensive shootout.
A smothering Harlan defense effort held Glenwood to 47 total yards and four first downs in the Class 3A, District 1 opener for both teams on Friday.
"They scored 21 points in the first 12 minutes and 30 seconds. After that, we didn't do too bad defensively," said Glenwood coach Brian Albert. "We just didn't have an answer for them."
The Cyclones (2-1, 1-0 in the district) scored on their first three possession while holding Glenwood to negative net yards in the first half.
Johnny Fuller was first and teammate Mark Abrams second, to lead the Glenwood cross country team to the team title at the Council Bluffs Lewis Central Invitational at Iowa Western Community College on Saturday.
PACIFIC JUNCTION - More than 200 people, including dignitaries from Iowa and Nebraska, turned out for Thursday afternoon's groundbreaking ceremony for the U.S. Highway 34 – Missouri River Bridge.
Noah Murray, a Glenwood resident and Nishna Valley High School graduate, died on Wednesday from injuries he suffered in a swimming accident at Lake Manawa on Aug. 28.
A 21-year-old Glenwood woman died in a single-vehicle accident late Saturday afternoon in Washington County.
Sara Suzanne Sell was a passenger in a pickup truck driven by Micah Harmsen, 26, of Keota.
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Accounting for Self-Insurance--Theory and Practice
Date: August 1957
Creator: Saleh, John Thomas
Description: This study is an investigation of the theoretical accounting viewpoints and the accounting procedures used in business practice for the origination and administration of a self-insurance program. The purpose of this study is to compare the correct theoretical accounting procedures for self-insurance planning with those used in practice today.
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Advantages of Marginal Costing as Compared to the Hour Rate or Normal Costing Now Used as the Basis of Price Determination in the Forms Division
Date: May 1955
Creator: Evans, Wayne W.
Description: This thesis is designed to emphasize and illustrate that marginal costing is a tool of management that can make clear the how, when, why, and wherefor of the price determining affect and its results.
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Advertising and Promotional Procedure as Practiced by Five Dallas Department Stores
Date: 1949
Creator: Drake, Jerry E.
Description: The problem with which this paper is concerned is to observe and appraise the retail advertising and promotional procedure of five of the Dallas department stores. After observing their advertising methods, an attempt will be made to conclude whether their efficiency might be increased through use of different advertising and promotional policies.
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An Analysis, as Revealed by the Wire Recorder, of the Methods Used by Ten Selected Business Mathematics Students in Solving Stated Problems
Date: 1949
Creator: Jones, Donald M.
Description: Many studies have been made concerning the difficulties which business mathematics students have in solving stated problems. Such studies have been made by analyzing the student's errors as they appear on written solutions to problems, and, as a result, many errors are overlooked. Errors in the thinking process, and failure to read the problem a sufficient number of times are responsible for many errors made by students. Such errors are not apparent on written solutions, but would be revealed through oral solutions as recorded on a wire recorder. The purpose of this study, then, is to analyze the errors revealed by a wire recorder, along with errors on written solutions, and to classify and tabulate the errors from both sources.
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An Analysis of Personnel Programs Currently in Use in Selected Texas Banks
Date: August 1954
Creator: Honea, Arthur A.
Description: It is the purpose of this study to survey and appraise the personnel programs currently in use in selected Texas banks.
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An Analysis of the Correspondence-improvement Program at Great American Reserve Insurance Company Dallas, Texas
Date: June 1954
Creator: Brock, Luther A.
Description: A preliminary purpose of this study in the area of business communications was that of determining the status of correspondence improvement in stock life insurance companies in Dallas. However, the major purpose, which stemmed from the preliminary one, was to study intensively the approach used in Great American.
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Analysis of the Financing of Church Building Programs
Date: August 1964
Creator: Daniels, Paul R.
Description: This study was an analysis of current financing of building programs of selected Protestant churches in the State of Texas.
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An Analysis of the Progress of Unions in Organizing Professional Engineers
Date: 1956
Creator: Montgomery, Austin H.
Description: The problems of this research report were threefold: 1. To trace the history of the unionization of engineers from its inception to the present time. 2. To present the arguments of those individuals and groups who practice and favor engineering unionization, and to set fort the counter-arguments of those individuals and groups who reject unionization for engineers. 3. To summarize the facts and opinions discovered and, in view of these findings, to draw conclusions on the merits and the trend of engineering unionization.
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Annual Average Prices of Veal Calves at Chicago Compared to Annual Average Weekly Earnings of Employees in All Manufacturing Industries, 1900-1951
Date: August 1952
Creator: McClung, William S.
Description: This study traces the annual average prices received per hundredweight for veal calves at the Chicago market and the annual average weekly earnings of employees in all manufacturing industries. The period of time covered by the study is 1900 to 1951.
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An Attempt to Determine Means of Predicting Sales Success of Salesmen of National Chemsearch Corporation
Date: August 1962
Creator: Jenkins, Omer
Description: The purpose of this study is to analyze the information which is available to determine what past experience, personality and temperament traits, etc., distinguish the successful from the unsuccessful salesman, in order to have some criteria on which to base future selection.
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Gun Control Meltdown
The President's agenda fails in the Democratic Senate.
President Obama's gun control agenda was routed in the Senate on Wednesday, and Mr. Obama naturally blamed the National Rifle Association. The truth is that Mr. Obama invited this meltdown by assuming he could exploit the Newtown massacre to ram through a liberal wish-list that wouldn't have stopped the next mass murder.
The day's biggest news was the defeat of the amendment expanding background checks by Senators Pat Toomey (R., Pa.) and Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.). It fell six votes short of the 60 needed to pass, as four Democrats defected: Max Baucus (Mont.), Mark Begich (Alaska), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.) and Mark Pryor (Ark.).
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And that was the liberals' best hope. The President's proposed bans on certain rifles and large ammunition clips didn't even make 50 votes. It was amusing to see Majority Leader Harry Reid try to salvage some credibility with liberals by declaring his support for all of these failing provisions. Mr. Reid won his last Senate race by running as a wholly owned NRA subsidiary. He and Mr. Obama are blaming everyone else for their defeat, but the meltdown took place in the Democratic Senate.
The rout also vindicates Republicans who wanted the Senate to vote on the gun bill as opposed to the Rand Paul-Ted Cruz faction who sought a filibuster. For once Democrats had to declare themselves in public and couldn't hide behind shouts of "Republican obstructionism."
So much for the first big liberal hope of Mr. Obama's second term. Maybe he should consider a centrist strategy from now on.


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Orange-Ginger Soy Sauce with Cilantro
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You can serve this as a sauce partner for just about anything grilled.
Serves: Makes about 1 cup
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed orange juice
- 1 tablespoon grated orange peel
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger
- 2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro
- 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
- Pinch ground white pepper
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- Combine all the ingredients in a small bowl and mix well until the sugar dissolves. This sauce will keep, covered and refrigerated, for 2-3 days.
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Justice Alito Visits Columbia Law School
United States Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. recently visited Columbia Law School and served as the featured speaker at a Law School conference on Burkean constitutionalism organized by Professor Thomas W. Merrill and Professor Philip Hamburger. Burkean scholars from across the country came together to discuss the jurisprudence attributed to Edmund Burke, the 18th-century British legislator who is often called the father of classical conservatism. During his remarks, Alito praised Burke for the importance he placed on stability and time-tested rules—a perspective, Alito said, that is especially useful in the context of serving as a judge.


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Since she was 10 years old, Ashley Stratton knew exactly what she wanted to do for the rest of her life: She wanted to own a gym.
Brown named as a regional 'Entrepreneur of the Year'
Spencer County native Vickie Yates Brown, president and CEO of Nucleus in Louisville, was recently announced as a regional winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for 2013.
To Tim Nichols, running a small-town pharmacy is not about the numbers, such as prices or how many people he has served, but about the relationships his employees build with customers.
At W.T. Froman's Drug Company, in business since 1871 in Taylorsville, it's the relationships with customers that have made the pharmacy into a successful business for nearly a century and a half.
Cauley attends educational seminar
John Cauley of Taylorsville, a Modern Woodmen of America representative, recently completed a five-day training program at Modern Woodmen's home office in Rock Island, Ill.
The program focused on helping families plan for life and reach their financial goals with Modern Woodmen. Speakers also covered topics including technology, fraternalism, underwriting and a number of other areas vital for success.
After 37 years, Bruce Kleinsteuber knows the nuts and bolts of the hardware store business.
FitzGerald joins Sanctuary Homes
Micah Blaine FitzGerald recently joined the home building/renovation team of Sanctuary Homes.
As the process director, FitzGerald will serve as the liaison between clients and trades. FitzGerald brings four years of industry experience to the team.
Sanctuary Homes is based in Eminence and serves Spencer County.
Jolly appointed to Seven Counties Board
In 2000, Jenny Sun came to the United States from Fu Zhou in the Fujian Province of China (south of Shanghai, along the coast of the East China Sea) with her husband, Deti "Tim" Hou, and his family in search of the American dream.
Signature recognizes Hall of Fame honorees
Plum Creek Baptist Church was among the honorees during signature HealthCare of Spencer County's most recent Hall of Fame Cafe celebration.
The Hall of Fame Cafe is a program developed by Signature to honor the lives and contributions of nursing home residents and staff, as well as community leaders.
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The Executive Director of the American Immigration Council, Ben Johnson, was quoted in a Financial Times article titled "US Senate to debate immigration." Here's an excerpt:
"In a sign of how the GOP establishment is swinging behind the effort, Crossroads GPS, the well-funded and influential political group run by former Bush aide Karl Rove, has started running newspaper ads in favour of immigration reform.
"The group has taken full-page ads in Washington newspapers declaring that 'America deserves an immigration system that works', saying reform 'presents a historic opportunity to strengthen our nation's security and prosperity for the future'.
"However, many immigration reform advocates are holding their breath.
'This issue has proven to be difficult – beyond difficult – and I think it's going to be a fight to the death,' said Ben Johnson, executive director of the American Immigration Council, adding that it was still 'susceptible to political winds'.
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5 Advanced Technologies Nature Does Better Than Scientists
We humans think we're pretty top shit when it comes to our big, juicy brains and fancy inventions, but sometimes we need to man up and admit that we're not always the best at what we do. In some cases, nature just rolls its eyes, pushes the scientists out of the way, and shows us how it's done.
#5. A Natural Nuclear Reactor Formed Underground in Africa
Few things demonstrate our mastery of the natural world better than nuclear power -- the godlike ability to dig certain elements out of the ground, split their atoms, and use them to power our homes and/or kill a billion people. But the science required to convert uranium into electricity is both advanced and incredibly tricky -- few countries have mastered it, and various disasters throughout history have shown us exactly what happens if you take your attention off a nuclear reactor for 10 minutes.
Well, OK, not that, but it's still pretty bad.
But then, after decades of trying to perfect safe and easy nuclear power, scientists discovered that a fully operational nuclear reactor had been safely chugging away under the West African dirt, long before humans came along. This sounds like something that would turn up in an outlandish documentary about stuff built by aliens, but the most remarkable thing about it is that the Oklo mine reactor in Gabon is completely natural.
Back in the 1970s, the French were mining uranium out of Gabon when they came upon the strange discovery that what they were digging up was depleted uranium (the waste from a nuclear plant) and even plutonium (which doesn't exist in nature -- ordinarily). After ruling out a secret West African nuclear program, scientists were forced to conclude that a kind of natural nuclear reactor had assembled itself in the uranium deposit and provided power for meerkat cities for millennia.
"Don't make us angry. You wouldn't like us when we're angry."
This reactor, assembled by nature due to random chance, generated the equivalent of about 100 kilowatts of electricity, got hot enough to boil off nearby groundwater, and consumed more than five tons of uranium before it shut itself down millions of years ago. Somehow, all of the elements just fell together to form a natural, self-regulating nuclear plant, and it kept running for 150,000 years.
#4. Whale Fins Are More Efficient Than Our Propellers
Conventional wisdom has long agreed that the leading edge of a blade (such as in airplanes, helicopters, turbines, propellers, fans, and windmills) should be as smooth as possible for greatest efficiency. And sure, it's this straight-edge design that helps us break the sound barrier, put men on the moon, and shape perfectly straight lines of cocaine. But nature laughs at our simple inside-the-box thinking. There's an animal out there that gets double the efficiency out of its "wings," and that is, of all things, the humpback whale.
Although it looks extremely ungainly, the humpback whale, with its fat, bumpy fins, has long been renowned for its acrobatic skills and great speed, letting it navigate water better than any of our wondrous flying machines navigate the air, but the same principle applies both ways. It turns out the secret is in those warty bumps.
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And its powers of telekinesis.
The bumps on the leading edge of each fin actually break the water into high-speed channels that flow more smoothly over the wing, increasing buoyancy/lift and reducing drag and noise significantly. And science, defaulting to the whale's superior wisdom, is catching up by testing this design in everything from windmills to helicopters. This is what it looks like on a windmill blade:
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Even if it doesn't work, imagine using these bad boys as weapons.
Of course, even if we can steal their idea, until our scientists can make a 30-ton vehicle as maneuverable as those whales are, it won't really feel like a victory.
#3. Palm Trees Brew Their Own Wine
Humans have gone to some impressive lengths to convert various liquids into alcohol. It was one of the first things we learned how to do after we started walking upright, and we've been refining the process ever since. But like anything we've invented with these opposable thumbs, there's a science to producing alcohol, which is our reward for reaching the top of the evolutionary ladder.
"Suck my pretentious balls, Darwin."
Then again, you could just get a palm tree. There are several varieties of palm tree native to the tropical parts of the world that double as natural breweries that manufacture wine on demand. You don't even need to do anything but tap the tree. As soon as it is collected, the palm sap immediately begins the process of fermentation and, within an hour or two, will typically have fermented to about 4 percent alcohol content. That's almost as quickly as it would take you to drive to the liquor store to obtain booze that has already been distilled.
While you'd think that booze you just wrung out of a tree would probably taste like ass, "palm wine" apparently has a certain charm that makes it popular from Ghana to India to Mexico. It's extremely cheap to collect, because collecting is really all that's being done. While conventional brewing methods require large facilities, specialized equipment, and plenty of time, all you need to get palm-drunk is a palm tree, a knife, a bucket, and an hour.
Holy crap, woman, go to a meeting.
In fact, probably the only reason you can't find palm wine on the shelf next to the Milwaukee's Best is because it's just too good at fermenting. After only a day or so, it ages into vinegar. Which, admittedly, still beats Milwaukee's Best.


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Kimi Raikkonen was pleased with his performance during his second day at the wheel of the E21, setting the fastest time to conclude an encouraging week for Lotus
Though proceedings were interrupted by red flag periods including a lengthy pause for track run-off repairs, the Finn ran through a continued programme of aerodynamic assessments and was able to get the set-up of the new car more to his liking.
"We continued our work from yesterday and made some good progress," said Raikkonen.
"We're at the top of the timing monitors, but that means nothing in testing. Our focus has been testing parts on the car, but I've been able to get the set-up more to my liking. For sure there's more work to be done in this area, but that's what we're here for.
"The car feels strong and we seem to have a good idea of where we're going with improvements. Let's see what happens in Barcelona."
Lotus technical director James Allison added: "After the orgy of work at the factory to prepare the car over the winter months it is always a welcome relief once the testing campaign finally kicks off; not because the pressure backs off, but because we get a chance - finally - to see what we have been working on.
"It is tremendously exciting for the whole team, but very nerve wracking as well. We desperately want the performance to be good, but we are all aware of the thousands of potential traps in bringing a complex car to the track for the first time.
"We have had a good first test. The car seems competitive, and while there is always a background hubbub of problems to be solved, we are delighted with the basic reliability of the E21.
"With Jerez now behind us, our thoughts have already turned to Barcelona in ten days' time. There is a mountain of work ahead, but we are looking forward to our next opportunity to run the car."


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A Message from Sheriff Scott Israel
The Thanksgiving holiday is fast approaching and many Broward County residents will be taking vacations or leaving town to visit with family and friends. The Broward Sheriff's Office reminds everyone that there are certain security-minded steps to take before leaving town. Remember to stop all newspaper deliveries, ask a trusted neighbor to pick up your mail and contact your local Broward Sheriff's Office district office to sign up for our Home Watch program.
When you sign up for BSO's Home Watch program, a deputy, community service aide or BSO volunteer will check on your home regularly while you are on vacation. An exterior check of your home will be conducted to make sure there have been no unlawful entries and that no other obvious problems have occurred outside of your home. To sign up for this FREE service, visit www.sheriff.org/homewatch and download the form. Complete it and return it to the BSO district that serves your community. You may also stop by your BSO district office and our staff will help you complete the form. Knowing that your home is being protected will put your mind at ease during your vacation. We only offer our Home Watch program in our patrol jurisdictions. If you live outside of a BSO jurisdiction, contact your city or town's police department and ask if they offer a similar service.
Before you leave town it is important to make sure your home appears occupied. Place timers on your lights and set them to turn on and off at different times. Lock your garage door and disconnect the automatic opener. Most importantly, tell a trusted neighbor that you are going to be away and ask them to dial 911 immediately if they see anyone on your property.
Here are some additional home security tips to keep in mind:
- Install good locks on all doors and windows and always use them.
- Give a spare key to your trusted neighbor and provide them with an emergency telephone number where they can reach you.
- Have someone mow your lawn if you'll be away more than a couple of weeks.
- Never leave a message on your telephone answering machine stating you are out of town.
- Leave your window blinds as you normally would if you were home.
- Invite your neighbor to park their car in your driveway.
If you are traveling by air, we remind you to arrive early. At the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport our deputies are in place to ensure your safety, but long lines to check-in and security check points are often a cause of frustration for travelers. Arriving early alleviates congestion and allows you appropriate time to arrive at your gate. If you are picking up guests at the airport, you are reminded not to park on the swale at the entrance of the airport. You can park in the "cell phone" lot until your loved one's flight arrives.
If you are traveling by car, you should also allow yourself enough time to reach your destination since the roadways are always more congested during the holidays. Confirm your vehicle is in proper working order prior to traveling. If you plan to stop at a rest area, make certain it is well-lit and lock your doors when you exit the vehicle.
On behalf of the men and women of the Broward Sheriff's Office, I wish you all a safe and enjoyable Thanksgiving!
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Drop-Side Cribs Banned Due to Safety Issues
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The ban doesn't just target the manufacturers--retailers will be unable to sell any of the affected cribs they already have in stock, and second-hand stores will also be prohibited from accepting and reselling any donated cribs that do not meet the new standards.
Hotels, motels, and childcare facilities will have up to 18 months after the ban takes effect to replace old cribs with newer, up-to-code models. This extended time period was given to ensure enough new models will be available to replace the older ones, and will give businesses time to budget in the cost of replacing their old cribs.
So what should parents do? The Juvenile Products Association, which represents most of the crib industry, assures parents that most cribs that are assembled correctly and have not been recalled are safe to use. The CPSC recommends that parents currently using drop-side cribs inspect them to ensure all the parts are working properly, and to check the CPSC website to make sure their model hasn't been recalled. .
For more the most up-to-date recall information, visit our Children's Products and Toy Recalls page.