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I'm having my first attempt at stress testing a simple django web app running from gunicorn and nginx which I've put on a small 256MB Rackspace Cloud server.
Using httperf, I increase the number of connections per second until I start getting errors e.g.
httperf --hog --server=localhost --uri=/myapp --timeout=10 --num-conns=2500 --rate=25
I find that for a simple almost static page from django I can get about 35 req/sec before errors start being thrown.
For a more dynamic page which requires a database lookup and some more processing, I can get about 25 req/sec.
Originally I was only using 1 gunicorn worker, but increasing to 4 workers (I think my cloud server has 4 cores) didn't seem to make any difference (it still starts throwing errors above 25 req/sec).
Do these results sound about as expected considering this is running on such a small (256MB) server?
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Big government programs and special tax-code carve-outs often lead to corrupting ties between government officials and private interests. The Washington Post today discusses the municipal bond industry:
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Economic Lessons from Obituaries
Where is the best place in the newspaper to learn about how the economy works?
Electric Guitars: Capitalism Built That
The magazine Guitar World is not known for addressing public policy questions, but a recent issue reminded me of President Obama's July 13 comments on business. The president said, "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." Les Paul and other guitar industry pioneers must have turned over in their graves.
Water: Excess of Subsidies, Lack of Markets
A recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal describes what happens in an industry that suffers from a plethora of subsidies and a dearth of free markets. Water experts Peter Culp and Robert Glennon write:
Election Pamphlets Raise Questions
I live in Virginia, which is a battleground state, and my mailbox has been littered with political propaganda in recent weeks. Here are some questions for the candidates:
Hurricane Isaac and Louisiana
Hurricane Isaac is heading for Louisiana, and everyone is hoping that individuals and government agencies are ready for the onslaught. Seven years ago, Hurricane Katrina caused huge damage, but to a large extent "it wasn't a natural disaster. It was a man-made disaster, created by lousy engineering, misplaced priorities, and pork-barrel politics," noted journalist Michael Grunwald. Grunwald pointed his finger particularly at failures of the Army Corps of Engineers, as have others.
Paul Ryan Gets Free Markets
Paul Ryan is an excellent choice as running mate for Mitt Romney. He understands federal spending and tax policies in enormous detail. He has said that he started reading federal budgets when he was in high school. He's also read Global Tax Revolution, my book with Dan Mitchell about the implications of globalization and tax competition. He knows that the American economy will not thrive with high tax rates, especially on business income and capital. He shares Mitt Romney's goal of chopping the corporate tax rate to revive investment and job creation.
Federal Pay Advantage Narrows
Average private sector wages in the United States rose 3.0 percent in 2011, which was more than the 1.2 percent average increase for federal government workers. This was the second year in a row that average private pay rose faster than average federal pay, but that comes after many years of an escalating federal pay advantage.
Small Government is Beautiful
Joelle Cannon is one of Capitol Hill's top budget experts, and she looks great in her new Downsizing Government T-shirt. She's good at cutting costs and knows a bargain when she sees it. The new shirts are just $18 from the Cato store and emblazoned with the inspiring slogan "Small is beautiful … when it comes to government."
Air Traffic Control Screwups
The Washington Post today describes the latest near-miss disaster at National Airport, apparently the result of screw-ups by our government-run air traffic control (ATC) system. The Post notes that this near-accident is one of many troubling incidents in recent years:

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I'm gonna spec a new computer, used for running VMWare Worksation. The computer will be running a few virtual machines - A dev machine running VS-2010, a build machine, a version-control machine, a web server for testing, a "personal" machine running office etc.
Any suggestions? Processor, MB, disks etc?
(P.S. The only item I AM sure of is that the machine will be using a Xonar Essence Stx, connected to my NAND amplifier ;-)


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Don't Go to the Wrong Polling Place Tomorrow
Sixty of them in New York City have moved thanks to Hurricane Sandy.
Your vote is so unlikely to affect the outcome of the presidential race that "scholars debate whether voting is a rational act," the AP informs us today. But let's say that, for whatever reason — civic duty, societal pressure, an excuse to take an extra-long lunch break — you do plan to vote tomorrow. If you live in the city, it's probably a good idea to check out this list to confirm that your polling place (or, as the Board of Elections refers to it, your "polling site location," which seems redundant) hasn't moved in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Sixty polling places in the city have been relocated due to storm damage — 28 in Queens, 24 in Brooklyn, three in Manhattan, three in the Bronx, and two in Staten Island. Meanwhile, in New Jersey, the National Guard will set up mobile voting stations with paper ballots at polling sites without power, and residents can even vote via e-mail or fax. Let your uninfluential voice be heard!


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Google Now Gives Instructions for Mixing Drinks
It even tells you which glassware to use.
It even tells you which glassware to use.
Malört: is there anything it can't do?
Meatpacking district bars really are the best place to meet single ladies!
Bloody Mary, bloody Mary, bloody Mary.
Ben Schiller departs Boka Group for Berkshire Room.
Rare Tea Cellars branches into bitters.
Guest bartenders at Drumbar.
So, basically, it's like '24' set inside Employees Only.
Malört has gone from novelty to actual ingredient.
The planned restaurant and mixology bar comes from Planet Hollywood Casino in Las Vegas, but that doesn't stop itself from aligning with Nancy Silverton's new burger spot.
We've seen this expansion model before ...
Bitters go artisanal.
Classics meet original contemporary cocktails at Liberte.
Scallops flambéed in absinthe? How can you go wrong?
Can you make a martini worthy of Don Draper?
Business as usual at Apothéke.
Joseph Brooke will welcome his mentor, as well as bartenders from San Francisco and Australia.
Amateur mixologists can tweet their cocktail recipes in a new contest.
Winners get a feature in Mutineer Magazine and $250 credit at the Redondo restaurant.
"Red Rover, Red Rover" is a new Downtown supper club's answer to Edison's Radio Room.


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Yield: 16 servings
1 (18.25 ounce) box spice cake mix
1 (21 ounce) can apple pie filling
3 eggs
3/4 cup regular or fat-free sour cream
1/4 cup water
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 teaspoon almond extract
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2/3 cup confectioners' sugar
2 teaspoons whole or fat free milk
Set aside 1 tablespoon cake mix. Set aside 1 1/2 cups pie filling.
In a mixing bowl, combine eggs, sour cream, water, oil, extract and remaining cake mix and pie filling. Beat on medium speed for 2 minutes. Pour half of the batter into a 10-inch fluted tube pan coated with nonstick cooking spray.
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By Ed Runyan
What could be more politically incorrect than offering sympathy and understanding to an individual who has been convicted of a crime?
And yet, that's what Ohio Gov. John Kasich did this year when he supported and signed Senate Bill 337, which increased the number of convictions a person could get expunged from their record and other things to help ex-convicts find employment.
Kasich, speaking in Cleveland, quoted the Bible in justifying the legislation: "Sin no more, and for those who have never sinned, cast the first stone," Kasich said. "There is a big element of redemption throughout Scripture and that we all make mistakes."
Warren Mayor Doug Franklin and Trumbull County Commissioner Frank Fuda took on a similar tone in recent weeks, participating in a meeting with two men recently released from prison trying to start up The Lateral Foundation — an organization they hope will provide support to those leaving prison.
Franklin and Fuda said they have lots of conversations with people who return to Trumbull County after leaving prison who say they want to be productive citizens but don't get the chance.
"It is a big problem," Fuda said. "We have so many kids, so many adults who have nowhere to go. There is a need for our companies to give some of these kids a chance.
"A person from Niles has called me several times. He's got out of jail. He's working for 7 bucks an hour, $7.25 an hour, and he can't raise his family on that money," Fuda said. "He keeps trying and trying. As soon as they see he has a record, they seem to want to keep away from him. It's not a good thing."
"There is a cost of recidivism," Franklin said of the term that means returning to prison. "We all pay. We need to realize we have a stake in the future. These men and women will be our neighbors."
The two ex-cons are former Niles dentist Anthony Montevideo, 44, who says an addiction to Oxycontin after a battle with cancer led him to aggravated drug possession and other charges; and Phillip W. Stern II, 39, of Lorain, who recently got out of prison after killing a Grafton woman while fleeing from police and driving drunk.
Montevideo said he's speaking about his experiences to try to help others.
"I have been out since April. I have a doctorate degree. I have a bachelor of science degree. I put out 203 resumes. I did not get one interview," he said. "Mr. Fuda actually attempted to help me with employment. I couldn't get hired.
"I'm in a boat that I was hearing about from all of these other prisoners while I was in prison. I can't get a job. I thought I'd be able to get a job. Child support is all over me. They took my driver's license. Thank God for my mother because I have a place to live."
During his five years in prison, Stern said he observed that "there are so many good people in prison. I don't know what happened ... whether they were abused mentally or sexually or whatnot. I don't know. I came from a good family.
"I was like, 'What could keep these people from coming back to prison over and over again?'" Stern said. "I seen during the time I was there they would come back two and three times. And they were doing well while they were in [prison], and they would get out and get a job and go right back to their old addictions.
"My idea was basically we need to get them serious psychiatric help, because they're not receiving that in prison. When they can treat the core issues, then it will be easier to treat the underlying issues, which is the substance abuse," he said.
The organization will also attempt to get them housing and job training, Stern said.
Prison officials have told Stern they support Stern's ideas and will help the foundation, and will make information available on how individuals behaved in prison to help assess their needs shortly after they leave.
Montevideo and Stern said they believe a host of state and federal programs as well as private foundations offers grants focused on addressing these problems.
Franklin said he's seen ex-cons who deserve a chance, especially those who have a relationship with God.
"They're going to be OK. They're not going back to prison," Franklin said. Their relationship with God "sustains them through the mean times, but they still have problems with employment," Franklin said.
Participating in the meeting were representatives from U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan's office, the Mahoning Valley Organizing Collaborative and the Warren Urban Minority Alcohol and Drug Abuse Outreach Program Inc., which has been assisting inmates for 30 years.
"I don't think you can ever have too many re-entry programs," said Beverly-Jean Pollard, executive director of Warren UMADOP.
This Website exlains why the good 'ol US of A is felonizing more people than all of the so called Communist Nations put together.
We are following the Soviet Empire practice of criminalizing everyone for everthing imaginable. After all it is the easiest way of violating the constitution Isn't it ?
Restoration of civil rigths for the felonized is the real solution.
Growing up in the 50's ,60's and 70's when one finished paying back their debt to society they were forgiven, as well they should be.Today in the most felonized country on Earth (America)there are over 50000 so- called crimes that can get a person felonized.
Without a Philadephia $300.00 an hour lawyer your chances of a felony conviction are far more likely than not, should the authorities shine a light on you. It is all about the money when it comes to felonization in America.
When this country was founded there were 5 crimes that were considered felonies. Are you getting the picture yet?
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Having a week off was a pleasure for Ron Rogers and his Caprock football team. But now the Longhorns are ready to get back to business.
Caprock will open its District 3-4A slate today when it faces Pampa at 1 p.m. in Dick Bivins Stadium.
For both the Longhorns (1-4) and the Harvesters (3-2), a victory to open the ultra-competitive district season can go a long way to helping determine which teams earn their way to the playoffs.
"District play starts and, of course, it's one of the best districts in the area," Rogers said. "This is a fun league. Just about anybody can beat anybody else on any given night."
Or day, for that matter.
While both teams have been able to find offensive success during their non-district schedules, their execution has been as different as night and day.
With quarterback Tanner Craven leading the way, the Longhorns have relied on the passing game. Craven has already thrown for a district-leading 1,055 yards, completing 72 of 161 passes with nine touchdowns against 10 interceptions.
Craven's main beneficiary has been junior wideout J Fields, who averages 20 yards per receptions with six scores.
Caprock, however, has had trouble running the ball, averaging only 87 yards per game on the ground. Joey Lopez and Derrick Ball remain the Longhorns' top running backs, but neither has had a breakout game.
Contrast that with Pampa, which has picked up a majority of its 275 yards per game on the ground. Thomas Long, Ramon Martinez and Terrance Lemons are all threats for the Harvesters.
The Longhorns, on the other hand, have given up more than 250 yards rushing per game, something Rogers was concerned about given Pampa's rushing ability.
"I think they're more open, running more sets than they have in the past," Rogers said. "But they've got three greats backs. We have to be able to stop their run."
The Harvesters have also built a tradition around defense, something it has worked to continue this season. Orlando Madrid, Jason Burklow and Nathan Arnn are all ranked among the top five in the district for tackles, combining for 154 through five games. Geoffery Ornales is Caprock's leading tackler at 41.
While a victory in the district opener would be good for both squads, Rogers added that it is not a make-or-break game for either team.
"It's not the end of the year if you don't win," Rogers said. "Obviously if you can start 1-0 it's a real advantage. We need to win, and if we play good we can win."
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Since there's going to be a movie, I attempted to put faces to the characters before they start casting and my perceptions become contaminated.
...Plutarch, you ridiculous man in your fabulous sci-fi Capitol getup.
HG trilogy (c) Suzanne Collins
...Plutarch, you ridiculous man in your fabulous sci-fi Capitol getup.
HG trilogy (c) Suzanne Collins
Love this drawing. You really matched the way the book described the characters!
I like the young and old Haymitch! In the films Cinna doesn't have green eyes, I like your representation of him, and most of these characters! I've always imagined the Avox Girl to be a nicer version of Foxface...
I love this version so much! Better then the movies!
oh ya and prim
thats so cool my fav is rue katness and peeta
Wow! I know practically every comment says something about how these are all pre-movie concepts, but I'm going to just add another one! I love how you depicted everyone! I saw the trailer for the first movie before I read any of the books, so I ended up picturing almost everyone how they looked in the trailer. But I love how you stuck to the book for these! Cinna is spot-on how he's described in the book (although I loved Lenny Kravitz in the movies) and so is Haymitch I believe (pretty sure the book did describe him with brown hair, but it's been awhile since I've read it :shrugs: ) Johanna, Boggs, and Coin are all exactly how I always pictured them Excellent job!
Wow, this is exactly how I pictured most of them. Really cool
After about three years of being a die-hard Hunger Games fan, this is still my favourite piece of fan art! Great job.
That's just how I pictured all of them! Nice job!
Aww, Rue is cute!
Haymitch Coin and Peeta are spot-on for me. c:
Love your designs, expecially Effie, Haymitch, Rue and Thresh!
so cool!
Nice! ^^
I really like this, all the characters look amazing!
They are really good Prim and Rue especially
Love your designs, especially Plutarch, Boggs, and Coin.
So gorgeous, I love your interpretations on the characters!
Love your designs for Rue, Johanna, Katniss, Peeta, and Gale, especially.
i want to hug prim because she is my favorite charrie O__________________________O
I absolutely LOVE THIS!
This is absolutely flawless, I love your style
Katniss and Haymitch loo so cool!
My faves are Prim, Effie, Johanna, Madge Lavina! So pretty, I love it!
It'd be cool if you did the careers as well. LOL
Wow! So a good representation of the characters. Finnick, Katniss and Haymitch are my favs
And but also says... President Snow, creepy as he looks, that's really close than how I imagine him. It's scary
And but also says... President Snow, creepy as he looks, that's really close than how I imagine him. It's scary
GASP!!! You drew YOUNGER HAYMITCH!!!
I freaking love your Plutarch! What the heck is he wearing? XD
I love how Effie's like completely purple. Even her skin XD
this is awesome!!! way much better than the real cast!!
I love the then and now rendition of Haymitch! The mixture of bitterness and cockiness in his expression(s) really sells it!
Wow this is really good! Some of the characters are a lot like I imagined them in my head!
Its interesting to see how other people perceive the characters.
Its interesting to see how other people perceive the characters.
YEAH! Boggs.
Plutarch, Haymitch, and Katniss are PERFECT.
Katniss sorta looks like Korra
the avox girls name is lavinia
Yes. But her name isn't revealed until book 3. So I figured I'd keep it "avox girl," and people who haven't read that far will still recognize her.
Unfortunately I saw the movie before reading the books so the characters from the movie are stuck in my head, but at least I still had a few original ideas for characters like Finnick and everyone who wasn't in the movie. I like your Madge. I see her with bangs as well...or did it say she had bangs? Anyways, great work!
Thanks! I was kinda bummed that they didn't have Madge in it, but it's understandable; huge cast and all.
You did a phenomenal job in capturing each character! I love all of them XD I like how you included younger Haymitch. Love Peeta's expression and how Rue came out <3 Over all amazing!
Love them!
D: omg..... CINNNNNAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
snow looks like mccain
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Is there any way where i can create a thumbnail image from a flash movie file(flv /swf) [NOT FROM A VIDEO File ] in ASP.NET ? Any samples of implementation ?
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Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you can contribute.
you can use ffmpeg to create thumbnails of the flash video
For .flv you can use ffmpeg to convert parts of the video (e.g. one frame) into an image (sequence)
I've used it as command-line application by calling
For .swf I don't know any way to achieve this without some Adobe tool.
for flv it can be done easily, as others mentioned ...
for swf, it depends HIGHLY on the swf ... if the swfs visual appearence is determined by code, there is no other way than to embed a flash player in you app and either let the flash player make the snapshots, encode them as JPEG/PNG, and send them somewhere using TCP or LocalConnection (a flash<->flash communication connection, which can be used with C# as well) or try to somehow grab its output buffer yourself ... the first possibility should be no more than 10-20 lines of actionscript code ... don't know about the latter ...
other than that, you might use an external command line converter ... there are a few floating around the web ...
Take a look at this article, it should point you in the right direction. It uses SharpFFmpeg to extract thumbnail images from movie clips from a variety of formats.
the only way to get an image, is to use a full flash client that starts playing and allows you to capture the first frame.
I would take a close look at flirt (they actually have an example that renders pngs) Maybe some of the other flash libraries may be of help ( swfdec gnash swift tools gplflash)
Gnash is probably the best choice since its the most mature project out there, but i do not know how easy it is to integrate into command line tools or into your own projects.
We have been working on this in my company, and we got a proof of concept working pretty fast (but the project we made it for is on hold right now). I am not able to share the code, but I can give you some pointers.
It is not pure ASP.NET, but maybe you can still use it. We made a windows service that can be called from ASP.NET.
Basicly you install the flash plugin on the server, the windows services can then simply open the swf through the swf ActiveX component and then you can grap a picture of the whole thing. It works pretty well, notice that you do not have to actually render the ActiveX component on screen to capture the picture.
Check out this post. It does not tell you everything but I guess it provides the ground work required for it. You probably have to figure out how to get the object tag out of the flash-html you are trying to download from a web page. After that you'd have to figure out when to capture the frames. Its a long ride however. You don't need the asp.net part. Just concentrate on the windows project part. Hope this helps. :)


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Blogs Cliopatria EarthquakeDec 26, 2004 1:58 pm
On the one year anniversary of the Bam earthquake in Iran that killed 40,000 people, an earthquake of 8.9 magnitude struck in the Indian Ocean.
-Sri Lanka: About 4,500 reported dead, up to 1 million displaced. Massive tidal waves smash coastal villages.Yahoo News.
-India: More than 2,000 reported dead. Huge waves leave southern beaches strewn with bodies and flip over fishing boats and cars. Some flooding.
-Indonesia: 1,902 reported dead. Towns leveled and bodies wedged in trees by walls of water. Aceh province on Sumatra island - torn by separatist violence for years - was near the Indonesian quake's epicenter and was the hardest-hit part of the vast archipelago
-Thailand: 198 reported dead and many missing, mostly in idyllic southern islands packed with holiday revelers from around the world at the height of this country's tourist season. Swimmers are battered on coral reefs and sunbathers are swept out to sea.
-Malaysia: 43 people, including an unknown number of foreign tourists, reported dead. Tens of thousands are temporarily evacuated from hotels and apartments after the Indonesian quake was felt around peninsular Malaysia. No major damage reported.
-Bangladesh: A magnitude 7.36 tremor struck the southern port city of Chittagong. Tidal surges kill at least two children as a boat with about 15 tourists capsized. Reports said the quake was felt in the central, southern and western parts of the country, including the capital Dhaka.
-Maldives: No deaths confirmed, but much of this low-lying country of coral atolls off India's southwestern coast, a popular high-end tourist destination, is reportedly inundated. The country's only international airport is closed.
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You don't have to be going to a holiday party or gathering to get glammed up and festive for the season. My very favorite way to infuse a bit of glam is a killer red lip. But for this makeup look, I added metallic eye shadow and doll-like lashes to look a bit more polished than just any other day.
Face: I started this look with my favorite Smashbox primer, wiping a thin layer all over my clean skin. Next, I used my Real Techniques foundation brush to swipe on a thin layer of Revlon Photoready Airbrush Effect foundation in #003 -Shell. This liquid makeup has been one of my favorites for a long time - it never fails me. When the liquid makeup is still slightly damp, I brush on some loose powder to set it. I used Bare Minerals loose powder in Fairly Light. Lastly, I apply a bit of my favorite bronzer (IT Cosmetics) on my cheekbones.
Eyes: For this metallic look, I used the Lorac Pro Metal Eyeshadow Palette, which is new to me. I really loved all the neutral metal shades. I used the colors Graphite, Guilded and a little bit of Onyx on the outer corners for this specific look. I don't usually wear fake lashes, except for my wedding day or special occasions, so it was fun to pick out a pair that enhanced the lashes I already have without being overkill. I chose this pair since they are "lash accents," not the full length of my eye, and they just enhance the outer corners. Lastly, I created a cat-eye with my 24/7 Liquid Liner from Urban Decay. This stuff is a true black and is so easy to apply, especially if the cat-eye shape is a challenge for you.
Lips: For the final touches, I used Smashbox Fireball on my lips to get the perfect, festive pop of red. This lipstick stays on, has a beautiful matte sheen and the color is a great holiday shade.
To get your makeup to last you all day or all night (or both!) I swear by the Urban Decay Deslick Makeup Setting Spray. This stuff is a life-changer! You can find all of these products (and get lost for hours) in any Ulta Beauty store.
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The Shape: Happy Travels – Music Video by WWO
Journey of some basic and universally sacred geometries through recursive animations, plus a bit. Triangles, squares, pentagons, hexagons, merkabas, peace & love fractalized vesica piscis, all animated rescursively. Made for my good friends The Shape – Happy Travels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVXGU7G9g_A – http://TheShapeIsReal.com Open Source Animation! Download After Effects files and swap in anything you like to render these with: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/images/Shapes-AE-Files.zip Component animations for music video… More on Sacred Geometry: http://WoodenBooks.com/browse/index.php
TheShapeIsReal.com New Splash Page by WWO
As I shift a bit towards exercising more creative outlets, I've wrapped up another pure art project for my good friends' band, The Shape. Using silly skills I've periodically played with for half my life, I've finally completed some 28 animated GIFs to bring their beautifully painted album cover and turn it into their new splash page. Into Trenches album cover painted by Jon Weiss, oil on canvas. Painting scan by Hanson Digital. Animation by […]
Tom Delay Beats: Dreamlab (music video)
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The Shape: Deminimal – WWO Animated Music Video
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SSDP AMPLIFY Project Interview with Big Gigantic
Jeremy Salken of Big Gigantic discussing Amendment 64 and political activism Re-Posted from Students for Sensible Drug Policy, http://ssdp.org/news/blog/amplify-project-interview-with-big-gigantic/. I started the University of Maryland chapter of SSDP in 2002 and have been involved in fighting the drug war ever since. Congrats to all anti-drug warriors on the big steps forward this election after decades of work. <3 Brooke Napier, National Outreach Coordinator for the AMPLIFY Project (Students for Sensible Drug Policy), asked Jeremy Salken […]
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Please check out the entire Peace Revolution episode 060: The Invisible Empire of The New World Order / You Can Hear It, If You Listen. This clip only highlights intraspecific kleptoparasitic Rockefellers, rational decisions, and more! Full Episode: http://peacerevolution.podomatic.com/entry/2012-07-21T06_32_28-07_00 Download Video: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/video/shorts/PeaceRev60.mp4
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John Reynolds and Morgan Lesko record our first discussion really getting to know each others' perspectives. This was a casual late night chat on July 25, 2012, but perhaps you'll find value in this too. Download Audio: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/interviews/CuriousJohn120725.mp3 http://CuriousJohn.com http://WikiWorldOrder.org
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Occu-Music To My Ears – Occupy National Gathering Sing-A-Longs
Singing 'This Land Is Your Land' (originally by Woody Guthrie Chorus) while standing in support of extending the Veterans for Peace tent permit on Independence Mall, July 2nd. Download MP3: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/music/Occupy/OccNatGat-ThisLandIsYourLand.mp3 We sing 'Lean On Me' (originally by Bill Withers)… Download MP3: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/music/Occupy/OccNatGat-LeanOnMe.mp3 We sing 'Holiday' by Green Day… Download MP3: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/music/Occupy/OccNatGat-Holiday.mp3 More coming soon… <3


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Thaaaat looks dangerous, and very pretty
Really like this one
Thanks, it's one of my favourites too. I've got it as my desktop for now
Yeah I got a wide screen on 1920x1080 so that would look ugly on my screen >.<
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Christion Jones made a beautiful, one-handed circus catch at Wednesday's Alabama Pro Day.
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There have been some amazing catches on this first college football Saturday of the year, but Christion Jones didn't add his name to that list on this deep ball from Alabama quarterback Blake Sims. Sims saw Jones behind the defense, completely uncovered, heaved a bomb to him, and Jones just…muffs it. Alabama leads West Virginia by seven, but it could be more. After this drop...
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Distributed sensor system applications (e.g., wireless sensor networks) have been studied extensively in recent years. Such applications involve resource-limited embedded sensor nodes that communicate with each other through self-organizing protocols. Depending on application requirements, distributed sensor system design may include protocol and prototype implementation. Prototype implementation is especially useful in establishing and maintaining system functionality as the design is customized to satisfy size, energy, and cost constraints. In this paper, we present a streamlined, application-specific approach to incorporating fault tolerance into a TDMA-based distributed sensor system for line-crossing recognition. The objective of this approach is to prevent node failures from translating into failures in the overall system. Our approach is specialized and light-weight so that fault tolerance is achieved without significant degradation in energy efficiency. We also present an asynchronous handshaking approach for providing synchronization between the transceiver and digital processing subsystem in sensor node. This provides a general method for achieving such synchronization with reduced hardware requirements and reduced energy consumption compared to conventional approaches, which rely on generic interface protocols. We demonstrate the capabilities of our approaches to fault tolerance and transceiver-processor integration through experiments involving a complete prototype wireless sensor network test-bed, and a distributed line-crossing recognition application that runs on this test-bed.
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The pinnacle here is when Dana Vespoli and Haley get aggressively submissive with Mr. Pete, the trio putting together a thoroughly enjoyable romp. While that might be the best of the best, Early Entries 3 is packed with very enjoyable non-stop action. Like the earlier entries in the series, the videography and lighting are very good, and the girls very nice looking; the difference is that this version is notably nastier than the first two.
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Pistachio Rice Pudding
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Prep 15 mins
Cook 20 mins
Here's a recipe from the 2006 William-Sonoma cookbook, 'desserts' & is right up my alley, what with rice combined with these nuts! If serving the pudding cold, the preparation time does not include time needed to chill!
Ingredients Nutrition
- 6 cups milk (low-fat or whole)
- 1⁄2 cup sweetened condensed milk
- 1 cup short-grain rice
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1⁄2 cup dried apricot, chopped
- 1 -2 teaspoon lemon zest, minced
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream (opional)
- 1⁄2 cup pistachios, chopped
- In a saucepan, combine milk, condensed milk & rice & bring to boil over medium heat.
- Reduce heat to maintain a low simmer & cook, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes.
- Add cardamom, vanilla & 2/3 of the apricots, & cook until rice is tender, stirring occasionally, about 10 minutes.
- Stir in zest & cream, if using it.
- Garnish with pistachios & the remaining apricots, & serve warm or cold.
- If serving cold, press parchment/baking paper directly onto surface of pudding to prevent a skin from forming, & chill at least 3-4 hours (or overnight if desired).
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GREAT pudding. I took Mike Keys advice and some cut cherries to this. Made recipe as posted. We enjoyed the apricots and the cardamom too. Will repeat. Made for PRMR tag.
I can't believe this isn't a "baked custard with eggs" rice pudding. Very creamy and I love the cardamom! The apricots and pistachios make this a very elegant dessert out of something so basic. Would be good with dried cranberries or cherries, also. The only change I made was to sub half-and-half for the condensed milk, and add 1/2 cup of Splenda. Made for Fall 2008 PAC


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Your refrigerator and freezer are not blast chillers. If you need to cool down large quantities of hot food quickly, you need a blast chiller. Your refrigerator was not designed for this job and it will have to work extra hard to bring the temperature back up to the proper degree.
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Laser Doppler flowmetry signals give information about many physiological activities of the cardiovascular system. The activities manifest themselves in rhythmic cycles. In order to explore these activities during the reactive hyperemia phenomenon, a novel time-frequency method, called the S-transform, based on a scalable Gaussian wavelet, is applied. The goal is to have a deeper understanding of reactive hyperemia. This paper focuses on the evaluation of the different activities between a rest signal and an hyperemia signal, both acquired simultaneously on the two forearms of healthy subjects. The results show that after the release of the occlusion, the myogenic, neurogenic, and endothelial related activities clearly increase on the forearm where the occlusion took place. Then, they return progressively to their basal level. However, on the rest forearm, no increase is noted for the three activities. The mechanisms that take place during reactive hyperemia are, therefore, local. The S-transform proves to be a suited time-frequency method, in order to analyze laser Doppler signal underlying mechanisms.
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What Rhonda Hunt knows about football could fit into a thimble.
"I don't know anything about it, to tell you the truth," said Hunt, credit manager for Tejas Industries in Amarillo. "I try to watch a little with my husband, and he tries to explain it to me. There's too many rules. I don't even know who's playing in the Super Bowl."
So today is just the first day of the new month? There's nothing Super about it and Hunt just ignored all talk, any office involvement last week with Super Bowl XLIII? Right.
"It is the Super Bowl," she said. "It's different than any other game. A lot are involved in it. It's kind of a group thing."
That means when it comes to the time-honored office pool, for the picking of the squares, Hunt is like millions across the country. Casual football fan or no fan at all, she's all in.
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$10 billion - Amount gambling analysts estimate is bet worldwide on the Super Bowl.
$600 million - Amount wagered online last year.
$93 million - Amount legally wagered in Las Vegas for the 2008 Super Bowl.
$40 million - Amount legally wagered in Las Vegas for 1991 Super Bowl.
60 million - Estimated number of people worldwide who bet on the Super Bowl.
2 million - Compulsive gamblers in the United States, according to Gamblers Anonymous.
700 - Bets per minute on one Web site last year in the nine hours before kickoff.
300 - Approximate number of bets available on Super Bowl today.
$5 - Most popular amount to play in an office pool.
Sources: various online gambling sites
"Because that's where the money is," she said.
No event - not the Kentucky Derby or the NCAA basketball tournament - generates the massive amount of wagering like a Super Bowl. It's like a moth to flame.
For each of the last five Super Bowls, more than $90 million has been wagered in Las Vegas alone, according to sportsbetting.com. Six years ago, that figure was $70 million. Las Vegas consultants believe what is wagered in their city legally is just 1 percent of the entire action.
Estimates are that $10 billion - that's with a 'b' - will be wagered on today's game. It's not just the point spread between the Arizona Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers, but more than 300 proposition bets surround the game, too. There are opportunities to win - or more likely, lose - hundreds of times during the game.
A huge bulk of the wagers come from online gambling sites where just one site last year for New England-New York averaged 700 bets a minute in the nine hours before kickoff.
The rest comes from wagers between individuals and the office pools, the games of chance that seem to draw everyone from the hard-core fantasy-league player to those who may not know who's playing, but know a fun thing when they hear it. There's myriad Web sites on how to set up grids for "pick the score" squares.
"We do the grid and I guarantee you, we'll get everyone to participate," said Sam Spradlin, chief financial officer for Tejas Industries. "We'll get 100 percent participation. People will not miss out on a chance.
"We'll get wives to play. Guys will pick for their wives. You don't have to know anything about the game or teams. People jump on it like lottery tickets."
In a 2008 survey of office betting pools, vault.com, a jobs-oriented Web site, found 58 percent of office workers have participated at least once in a betting pool, and that 77 percent of their co-workers did.
In the survey, the Super Bowl edged out the NCAA basketball tournament as the most popular event. Only 9 percent surveyed said their office had a policy against such pools.
In essence, the office pool is like buying a raffle ticket to win a prize. Throw down a few bucks and hope the football gods smile. If it helps with office morale, so much the better. The vault.com survey said 72 percent of participants said "harmless fun" was the top motivation.
"We charge a couple of bucks a square with 49 to 50 squares, and so maybe the winner of each quarter gets $25," Spradlin said. "There might be $100 in the whole thing. We keep it so it's not too crazy. It ends up being basically coffee money."
But a huge segment do get a little crazy. Those who bet on football each week of the season online or with a bookmaker certainly aren't going to simply watch the Super Bowl.
"The only betting I did was on football, so the Super Bowl was like going for broke," said Scott, 34, an Amarillo blue-collar worker who asked that his last name be withheld. "It was definitely the adrenaline rush. You got a financial interest in it. It's like someone watching the stock market."
Scott bet for years until he quit after last season. He was worried he could drift into being a problem gambler if he didn't stop. So he did. Before this year, he would bet $125 on a weekend of games.
For the Super Bowl, his average was around $300. One game he bet $500.
Last year, he bet the point spread, the over/under and the coin toss with a bookie. And for the Super Bowl, unlike any other event, he had friends wanting to get into some action.
"I'd get people calling me because they knew I had a bookie and say, 'Hey, can you get me $300 or $100 on so-and-so,' " Scott said. "It was almost like I had my own bookie service. People who'd not normally bet liked to do it a little and make it fun.
"It absolutely sucks-in the one-time bettor. The guy who used to handle the book for me, before he got computerized, he'd get a call from a client who'd say, 'Hey, my brother wants to put $100 on this team.' He'd complain about it because how was he going to find Joe's brother when it's time to pay?"
Brian, 36, an acquaintance of Scott, bets pro and college regularly.
He won $3,200 two years ago when the Indianapolis Colts and Chicago Bears played. He likely will wager around $300 on most Super Bowls. He has plenty of company.
"There are quite a few who do this," he said. "It's pretty big around here as a local type deal, definitely."
For Scott, his gambling participation today will be like most of those at his Super Bowl party - throwing $5 to $10 into a pot.
He's gone from the weekly $125 with a bookie to the occasional $5 bet with friends.
"Of all the people I've known, and this is probably true just about anywhere, about 50 percent who bet on the Super Bowl are casual bettors, who just do it for the major events," he said. "The other 50 percent are the guys who are there for every game."
The innocent $2 office square to the online bookies to the major casinos in Las Vegas. The Super Bowl explodes into a billion-dollar wager industry every year. And that's a sure bet.
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For a listing of all UVM courses, view the UVM Course Catalog.
NFS 203 - Food Microbiology (4 credits) Syllabus
In this class, which includes a lab, you'll get down and dirty with bacteria: exploring their desirable and undesirable activities in foods and studying the mechanisms of food-borne infection and intoxication. The laboratory component focuses on methods used to enumerate and identify microorganisms associated with food.
Prerequisites: Biochemistry.
This course is offered only in the fall and required by all NFS majors, is taken senior year.
Instructor: Todd Pritchard
NFS 205 - Functional Foods: Principles and Technology (3 credits) Syllabus
Functional foods are foods that offer health benefits beyond those of typical nutrients; soy, fiber-rich foods and fish abundant in omega-3 fatty acids.
In the past few years, much market and media attention has focused on the development (and benefits) of these foods. This course examines the constituents that make food products functional and demonstrates techniques needed to create functional food.
Pre/co-requisites: NFS 153, NFS 154 or instructor's permission.
This course is an NFS elective.
Instructor: Mingruo Guo
NFS 223 - Nutrition Education and Counseling (3 credits) Syllabus
Since dietitians often educate people about healthy eating and counsel individuals on how to improve their diet, this class is required for all Dietetics majors. The course focuses on education theories and techniques and the media in nutrition education. It also covers interviewing and counseling skills used in individual and group counseling.
Pre/co-requisites: NFS 043, NFS 053, NFS 054, NFS 143.
This course, required for DNFS majors, is usually taken in the fall semester of junior year.
Instructor: Farryl Bertmann
NFS 243 - Advanced Nutrition (3 credits) Syllabus
Students study nutrients (carbohydrate, protein, fat) and their specific functions in the metabolic process, integrating cellular physiology, biochemistry and nutrition.
Prerequisites: NFS 043, PBIO 185 or equivalent, ANPS 19 or equivalent.
This required course for all NFS majors is taken during spring semester of the junior year.
Instructor: Stephen Pintauro
NFS 244 - Nutrition in Health and Disease Prevention (3 credits) Syllabus
Students learn how to plan diets and do nutrition assessments. They explore genetics, drug-nutrient interactions, complementary and alternative medicine therapies and nutrition related to health and prevention of disease.
Pre/co-requisites: Chem 42, ANPS 20, NFS 053, NFS 054, NFS 143.
This course is required for DNFS majors. It's taken in the junior or senior year.
Instructor: Lizzy Pope
NFS 250 - Food Service Systems Management (4 credits) Syllabus
This upper-level course focuses on the food service system as a model for understanding quality control. Topics include: food procurement, production and marketing; management and evaluation of food service facilities, human and financial resources.
Prerequisites: BSAD 65 and BSAD 120.
This course, required for DNFS majors, usually is taken during spring semester of the junior year. (It's not offered in the fall).
Instructor: Sylvia Geiger
NFS 253 - Food Safety and Regulation (3 credits) Syllabus (pdf)
The objective of this course is to have the student gain a thorough understanding of the extent, applicability and flexibility of the United States food laws and regulations, and their relationships to the safety of the US food supply. Focus will be on the structure of the federal government, how laws and regulations are enacted and enforced, detailed examination of selected food regulation topics and how the food safety decision making process works within the framework of the asscoiated federal laws and regulations.
Prerequisites: NFS 153, Junior or Senior standing, or instructor permission
Instructor: Stephen Pintauro
NFS 260 - Diet and Disease (3 credits) Syllabus
The Dietary Guidelines tell healthy Americans what to eat in order to maintain overall health and wellness, but individuals with health conditions have different nutritional needs and require special diets. This course examines the physiologic, biochemical and psychosocial basis of various disease states and the application of medical nutrition therapy in clinical treatment.
Prerequisites: NFS 053, NFS 143, NFS 243, NFS 244.
This course is required for DNFS majors.
Instructor: Haley Dienst
NFS 262 - Community Nutrition (3 credits) Syllabus
What`s involved in ensuring adequate nutrition for all Americans? Public policy, which is preceded by much hard work often carried out by community nutritionists. In this course students gain an understanding of U.S. public health nutrition policies, programs and practices and then have the chance to work through the process of developing a community nutrition program, including the procedures of needs assessment, intervention development and evaluation.
Prerequisites: NFS 260 and Senior standing.
This course, required for all NFS/DNFS double majors, is taken in the spring semester of senior year.
Instructor: Farryl Bertmann
NFS 263 - Nutritional Biochemistry (3 credits)
This course is an "advanced" advanced nutrition. Studentsl review the metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids and protein and learn how diet-induced conditions such as starvation and obesity cause hormone-mediated alterations in metabolism.
Prerequisites: NFS 243 or instructor's permission.
This course, required for DNFS majors, is taken in the spring semester of senior year.
Instructor: see BIOC 263
NFS 274 - Community Practicum (1 to 6 credits)
This course is for anyone who aspires to a career in public health or community nutrition. Students gain real-life experience for credit. Enrollment may be more than once, maximum of 6 credits.
Prerequisites: Instructor`s permission. (Not offered for graduate credit,)
NFS 283 - HACCP: Theory and Application (3 credits) Syllabus
This course addresses the development of a Hazard Analysis and Critcal Control Points (HACCP) plan. Requirements of both the USDA-FSIS and FDA are examined. A mock HACCP plan will be developed.
Prerequisites: NFS 203 and instructor permission.
Instructor: Todd Pritchard
NFS 295 - Special Topics (1-15 Credits)
Lectures, laboratories, readings or projects relating to contemporary areas of study. Credits negotiable. Enrollment may be more than once, maximum of 12 hours in NFS 195 and NFS 295 combined.
Prerequisites: Instructor permission.
Instructor: Marcia Bristow
NFS 295 - Food Safety and Public Policy (3 credits) Syllabus
This course explores issues that impact the development of microbiological food-safety policy through analysis of how science and risk assessment are used in establishing policy. Using selected case studies and readings, students will examine the factors that have created current food-safety policies and explore how future improvements can be made to protect public health.
Prerequisites: NFS 203, Senior standing, Graduate Student or instructor permission.
Instructor: Catherine Donnelly
NFS 295 - Functional Foods Lab (3 credits) Syllabus (pdf)
NFS 295 Functional Foods Lab was previously a part of the course NFS 205: Functional Foods: Principles and Technology. It is now an independent lab course. Students taking this lab are required to also be signed up for NFS 205. The lab is composed of 6 laboratory experiences, including antioxidants (iced tea), pre and probiotics (symbiotic yogurt and yogurt beverage), sports drinks, soy milk and tofu. This course will allow students to gain hands-on experience of functional foods making in real world, and how to make functional foods themselves. The lab will enhance understanding of the principles of functional foods as shown in NFS 205.
Prerequisites: NFS 205 must be taken concurrently.
This course is only offered in the Fall.
Classes are every other week and six labs will be taught during the semester.
Instructor: Mingruo Guo
NFS 295 - Sustainable Food Purchasing: What is the Future for Food Services? (3 credits) Syllabus (pdf)
This service-learning based course provides an overview of the distribution channel in which institutions and foodservices purchase food. The course focuses on the detailed mechanics of large-scale food purchasing and the strategies institutions use to increase their local and sustainable foods purchasing.
Through working with the UVM Real Food Challenge, students will gain an in-depth understanding of the complexity of such purchasing, including the importance of defining sustainability criteria and the metrics used to evaluate progress and success.
Students will learn the role various food movements and organizations such as Health Care Without Harm, Farm to Institution & School, FAO, Farm-to-Plate, The Real Food Challenge (and others) have in effecting change in institutional food purchasing practices.
Students will assist the UVM Real Food Working Group in evaluating UVM's progress towards its commitment to purchase 20% of Real Food by 2020.
Prerequisites: none.
This course is only offered in the Fall
Instructor: Sylvia Geiger
NFS 296 - Field Experience (1 to 15 credits)
Like NFS 196, but more advanced/intense
NFS 311 - Supervised Practice I (3 credits)
Through lecture, discussion, presentations and practical experience, students develop competencies in clinical dietetics, community nutrition and food service management.
Prerequisites: Acceptance into MSD program.
Instructor: Amy Nickerson
NFS 312 - Supervised Practice II (3 credits)
Through lecture, discussion, presentations and practical experience, students develop competencies in clinical dietetics, community nutrition and food service management.
Prerequisites: Acceptance into MSD program.
Instructor: Amy Nickerson
NFS 350 - Nutrition and Food Science Seminar (1 Credit)
Review of recent developments in nutrition and food science research. Offered in fall/spring
Prerequisites: NFS 243 and instructor permission.
NFS 360 - Research Methods in Nutrition and Food Science (3 Credits) Syllabus
Advanced research methods, including grant preparation, IRB requirements, data analysis and presentation and selected topics in advanced nutritional and food sciences.
Prerequisites: Instructor permission.
Instructor: Stephen Pintauro
NFS 391 - Master`s Thesis Research (Credit as arranged)
NFS 392 - Evidence Based Practice Project (1-2 credits)
Solutions, data collection and analysis, writing and presenting the results and conclusions of a research problem.
Pre/co-requisites: NFS 360, MS in Dietetics.
NFS 395 - Vermont's Rural Food System: From Milk to Maple (3 credits) Syllabus
In this course, students will be introduced to the complex interdependence of all aspects of the contemporary food system, with a focus on Vermont, a small rural agricultural state. The course adopts a systems analysis for understanding the history, present and future of Vermont's working landscape. The course will combine a broad exploration of important foods to the region from the past (maple syrup) and the present (diversified vegetables) with a more intensive case study of dairy farming and dairy products.
NFS 395 -Research Methods and Proposal Writing (3 credits) Syllabus
This course is designed to introduce new M.S. and Ph.D. graduate students to a selection of research topics and tools commonly used in the fields of animal, nutrition and food sciences. Topics to be covered include methods of literature review, grant proposal writing, Institutional Review Board requirements, data analysis and presentation, and research ethics.


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Ultimate Despair is an organization in the Dangan Ronpa series founded by Junko Enoshima. Its goal is to make the whole world despair. They are, essentially, a cult composed of students at Hope's Peak Academy who Junko found at their lowest point and manipulated utterly, transforming them into nihilistic maniacs who only have empathy for their leader.
After their leader died in Super Duper Nasty Torture, most of the members committed suicide. The ones who survived hacked up Enoshima's body and attached many of her body parts onto themselves. However, the Future Foundation was able to capture them, and recognizing that they didn't entirely have a choice in what they became, inserted them in a computer simulation of a "field trip" to help ease the pain that Junko exploited, replacing the horrors they experiences at Hope's Peak with kinder memories to rehabilitate them. However, Izuru Kamukura, one of the most important members, uploaded an Alter Ego of Junko to the simulation for his own reasons, allowing Monokuma to appear within it as well and attempt to reawaken their old, vicious personalities through a game of Mutual Killing.
Naegi's words about Ultimate Despair:
- There was one who went without food to experience the delight of hunger, until only a leathery husk of a person was left…
- There was one who offered up their parents to Enoshima to use for experiments on murder...
- There was one who slaughtered innocent civilians and forced them to kill themselves as a tribute to the dead Enoshima…
- There was one who took Enoshima's eye from her corpse and put it into their own bloody socket. I wonder if they wanted to be able to see her despair?
- There was one who wanted to bear Enoshima's descendants and so took from her body-
Known Members
- Junko Enoshima (founder) ✝
- Mukuro Ikusaba ✝
- Monokuma (controlled by Enoshima)
- Izuru Kamukura/Hajime Hinata (former)
- Kazuichi Souda (former)
- Peko Pekoyama (comatose)
- Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu (former)
- Akane Owari (former)
- Nekomaru Nidai (comatose)
- Gundam Tanaka (comatose)
- Hiyoko Saionji (comatose)
- Ibuki Mioda (comatose)
- Mahiru Koizumi (comatose)
- Mikan Tsumiki (comatose)
- Nagito Komaeda (comatose)
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"One doesn't want to get carried away, but I have to say I'm pretty carried away." That's how Francis Collins, who directs the National Human Genome Research Institute, expressed his exuberance over the decoding of the human genetic package, comparing its sequencing to the work of Darwin, Mendel, and Watson and Crick. Two scientific consortia, one public, one private, announced their distinctive but convergent findings early in February. The expected economic, ethical, philosophical, theological questions along with further scientific ones have yet to be fully formulated. In the lacunae between Dr. Collins's exuberance and the drear examination of the consequences, we thought there might be room for a few expansive, even poetic, thoughts on the discoveries that
-we humans have somewhere between 27,000 and 37,000 genes, rounded off in the headlines at 30,000;
-there is relatively little difference between our numbers and those of the mouse, the orangutan, or the fruit fly;
-some 75 percent of the genome is "junk" (described by science writer, Natalie Angier, as "the apparent product of a typing pool of drunken baboons"-are they, we wonder, the same typing pool trying to write Shakespeare?);
-the genetic differences between man and mouse being so small may leave a little room for nurture and culture-or at least more room than mice have.
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i just received my copy of Dance View - thank you for the wonderful tribute to Rudolf Nureyev,,beautifully written by Judith Cruikshank. She did an outstanding job of reminding/informing us of the numerous contributions to dance made by Rudi. I believe every current dancer should read this piece. So many of them only know the gossip.
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Indeed -- I think many people are considering Nureyev's career again, perhaps in light of the upcoming changes at the POB, and it's very interesting to re-visit those events.
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Q4 2008 Earnings Call
February 18, 2009 10:30 am ET
Jason Lang – Manager, Investor Relations
Scott Morris – Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Malyn Malquist – Executive Vice President
Mark Thies – Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Kelly Norwood – Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
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Jason Lang
Thank you, Erica. Good morning everyone and welcome to Avista's fourth quarter and fiscal year 2008 earnings conference call. Our earnings were released pre-market this morning and the release is available on our website at avistacorp.com.
Joining me this morning are Avista Corp. Chairman of the Board, President and CEO, Scott Morris; Executive Vice President Malyn Malquist; Senior Vice President and CFO Mark Thies; Vice President of Finance and Treasurer, Ann Wilson; Vice President State and Federal Regulation, Kelly Norwood; Vice President, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer Christy Burmeister-Smith; and the President and CEO at Advantage IQ, Stu Stiles.
Before we begin, I'd like to remind you that some of the statements that will be made today are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties which are subject to change. A reference to the various factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in today's call, I will direct you to our Form 10-K 2007 and Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2008, which are available on our website.
To begin this presentation I would like to recap the financial results presented in today's press release. For the fourth quarter of 2008, our consolidated net income was $0.32 per diluted share compared to net income of $0.26 per diluted share for the fourth quarter of 2007. For the year ended December 31, 2008, our earnings were $1.36 per diluted share compared to $0.72 per diluted share for the year ended December 31, 2007.
Now I'll turn the discussion over to Avista's Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, Scott Morris.
Scott Morris
Thank you, Jason, and good morning everyone. Overall, we are pleased with our results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2008. We expect continued improvement in our financial results in 2009 due to the implementation of a general rate increase in Idaho that became effective October 1st and the implementation of a general rate increase in Washington effective January 1, 2009.
A previous general rate increase in Washington implemented at the beginning of 2008 partially contributed to the improvement in our utility results as well as lower interest costs. Avista Utilities also had weak earnings in 2007. In addition to the improvement at the utility, our consolidated results improved as compared to 2007, which were lower due to the net loss at Avista Energy in 2007.
Despite a good winter snow pack in early 2008 the late spring runoff resulted in excess water being spilled which yielded lower than normal hydroelectric generation for the first half of the year. Purchase power costs were higher than expected due in part to colder than normal temperatures starting the first quarter heating season and an increase in the price of wholesale power. Therefore, for fiscal year 2008 we absorbed $7.4 million of costs under the energy recovery mechanism in Washington compared to $8.5 million in 2007.
Also contributing to the increase and net income for 2008 was $5.7 million of interest income related to the company's 2001 through 2003 tax years and the resulting refund received from the Internal Revenue Service, which included the settlement of the indirect overhead cost issue. This was partially offset by $1.4 million of interest expense related to 2004 and 2005 tax years. Both amounts were recorded during the third quarter of 2008.
As approved by the Idaho Public Utility Commission electric rates for Idaho customers increased by 12% and natural gas rates increased by 4.7% effective October 1st. Combined, these rate changes are designed to increase annual revenues by $27.1 million. Effective January 6, 2009 natural gas rates decreased 4.7% in Idaho reflect an adjustment to the purchase gas adjustment mechanism, a decrease in 2009 revenues of $3.1 million. As you know PGAs are designed to pass through changes in natural gas costs to our customers with no change in gross margin or net income.
As approved by the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission base electric rates for Washington customers increased by an average of 9.1%, base natural gas rates increased by an average of 2.4% effective on January 1, 2009. Combined, these rate changes are designed to increase annual revenues by $37.3 million.
In January 2009, the Office of Public Counsel filed a petition for judicial review of the Washington Commission's recent order approving the company's multi-party settlement. Public Counsel raised a number of issues that were previously argued before the Commission. The appeal itself does not prevent the new rates continuing to be in effect.
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