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Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like Make, but without Make's wrinkles. Why another build tool when there is already make, gnumake, nmake, jam, and others? Because all those tools have limitations that Ant's original author could not live with when developing software across multiple platforms. Make-like tools are inherently shell-based--they evaluate a set of dependencies then execute commands, not unlike what you would issue in a shell. This means that you can easily extend these tools by using or writing any program for the OS that you are working on. However, this also means that you limit yourself to the OS, or at least the OS type, such as Unix, that you are working on. Makefiles are inherently evil as well. Anybody who has worked on them for any time has run into the dreaded tab problem. "Is my command not executing because I have a space in front of my tab???" said the original author of Ant way too many times. Tools like Jam took care of this to a great degree, but still have yet another format to use and remember. Ant is different. Instead of a model where it is extended with shell-based commands, Ant is extended using Java classes. Instead of writing shell commands, the configuration files are XML-based, calling out a target tree where various tasks are executed. Each task is run by an object that implements a particular task interface. Granted, this removes some of the expressive power that is inherent by being able to construct a shell command such as `find . -name foo -exec rm {}`, but it gives you the ability to be cross-platform--to work anywhere and everywhere. If you really need to execute a shell command, Ant has an <exec> task that allows different commands to be executed based on the OS used.
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An attempt to force Qantas chief Alan Joyce to open his airline's books to the scrutiny of senators seems likely to fail, with the opposition preferring to keep the heat on the government over Prime Minister Tony Abbott's reluctance to provide a debt guarantee for the airline.
The Greens and independent senator Nick Xenophon will move to establish an urgent inquiry into the future of Qantas when Parliament resumes on Monday and want to question Mr Joyce directly.
But the Labor Party is unlikely to support the move, and without ALP numbers, the attempt to establish a Senate inquiry will fail.
Instead, the opposition will keep up direct political pressure on the government.
''Labor's immediate priority is for the government to stop talking and to start defending jobs in the aviation industry,'' opposition transport spokesman Anthony Albanese said.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said in a statement on Monday that cabinet was ''hopelessly divided on Qantas''.
''The Prime Minister has spent months lecturing Qantas to get its house in order. It's time Mr Abbott took his own advice – it's time he got his own house in order,'' he said.
''This policy paralysis from the Prime Minister and his Treasurer has to end.
''Labor is prepared to work with the government on Qantas – the issue is too important for political games.''
But Mr Abbott toughened his stance against a debt guarantee, saying it would result in a flood of demands for similar treatment.
''If you offer it to Qantas you've got to offer it to Virgin, you've got to offer it to Rex, and indeed to any other airlines that put their hand up,'' the Prime Minister told Channel Ten's Bolt Report.
''It is the job of government to ensure that, as far as is humanly possible, essential services are delivered, but it is not the job of government to play favourites between particular businesses.''
Mr Abbott wants Parliament to alter the Qantas Sales Act to allow greater foreign investment in the airline, but Labor and the Greens say it would allow more jobs to be shifted overseas.
The cabinet will discuss Qantas's plight on Monday morning. The ACTU said Mr Abbott and his cabinet had a clear choice: save Qantas workers, or open the way to sack even more of them.
''Tony Abbott can be the Prime Minister he said he would be and stick up for jobs by providing Qantas with a debt guarantee,'' ACTU Secretary Dave Oliver said.
''The alternative is that Tony Abbott can deny Qantas a debt guarantee, throw the national airline into further turmoil and uncertainty and open the gates for Alan Joyce to sack even more workers.''
Reacting to Transport Workers Union threats of industrial action at Qantas, Mr Abbott said Qantas needed a partnership between staff and management.
''I want to see the staff and the management of Qantas working together to save a great airline, and plainly the last thing that would help Qantas right now is industrial disruption,'' Mr Abbott said.
Greens senator Lee Rhiannon said a Senate inquiry would offer an opportunity ''to bring forward a solution that will protect the thousands of workers and their families who will pay the price if Abbott and Joyce get away with their brutal plans for Qantas''.
Senator Xenophon said a wide-ranging inquiry was crucial because ''one of the world's greatest airlines has been brought to its knees by a management and board that's clueless''.


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Mount Saint Mary College students Brittany Botta, an honors
mathematics/education major from Warwick, NY, and Pablo Escotto, a
psychology major from Wappingers Falls, NY, were selected by the
American Educational Research Association (AERA) to participate in
the association's prestigious undergraduate research workshop.
A national research society, AERA strives to advance knowledge
about education, to encourage scholarly inquiry related to
education, and to promote the use of research to improve education
and serve the public good. The annual meeting was recently held in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The students are pictured with George L. Wimberly (center),
director of social justice and professional development at AERA.
Last fall, Wimberly was the keynote speaker at the Mount's Summer
Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) symposium on campus.
Botta's primary research interest is motivation among adolescent
girls to pursue careers in mathematics and engineering. Escotto's
research interests include exploring the prefrontal cortex's role
in the regulation of cognitive activity.
Mount professors Frances Spielhagen, education, and Sarah
Uzelac, psychology, wrote letters of support for Botta and Escotto,
respectively. Spielhagen noted that application to the program is
very competitive and Mount students competed against large R-1
research institutions and Ivy League colleges.
Botta is a graduate of Chester High School where she played
track and field. Escotto transferred to the Mount from Dutchess
Community College. To facilitate the transfer of credits, Mount
Saint Mary College has special agreements with community colleges
in Orange, Dutchess, Westchester, Rockland, Sullivan, and Ulster
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Libraries often acquire the papers of famous writers, and these sometimes have drafts of stories, poems, or novels, so that interested scholars can see the process of writerly creation. Are those days dying? Most writers write on computers, I assume, and plenty probably don't even print out drafts as they go along. Maybe they save them as separate drafts, but unless they're thinking specifically of scholarly posterity everything might just be one Word file. Maybe one could examine the writing process by hitting Control-Z a million times.
Are there libraries or archives out there that are trying to acquire not just authors' papers, but perhaps their hard drives as well? Instead of boxes upon boxes of paper, the entire creative life of a typical writer could probably be stored on a flash drive. Even without public digitization, such drives would be useful to study some writers. It's just something I've been wondering about lately, but don't know of any examples.


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Its never going to happen though
also maybe instead of Hunt a Safety
EDIT: keep Hunt and get a safety instead of Spence
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Also I doubt the Cardinals would pass on Mingo in the 2nd round
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Love the Dolphin's 1st round and 1st pick of the 2nd round, but if DaRick is still on the board for the 2nd pick of the 2nd round, I'm callin his #.
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Post subject: Re: skrILL's 4 Round Super Bowl Mock
skrILL wrote:
28. Denver: Ezekiel Ansah (DE/BYU)
58. Denver: John Jenkins (DT/Georgia)
90. Denver: Nico Johnson (LB/Alabama)
122. Denver: Omoregie Uzzi (G/Geeorgia)
If it goes the way you suggest, he's what I like for the Broncos. I could see them trading ups for Lattimore though..
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I like it for the Rams but would like it 10x more if you changed Aaron Dobson to Da'Rick Rogers, Deandre Hopkins, or Cobi Hamilton.
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Post subject: Re: skrILL's 4 Round Super Bowl Mock
skrILL wrote:
32. San Francisco: Johnthan Banks (CB/Mississippi State)
62. San Francisco: DeAndre Hopkins (WR/Clemson)
74. San Francisco (f/CAR): John Jenkins (DT/Georgia)
94. San Francisco: William Gholston (DE/Michigan State)
126. San Francisco: Brandon Jenkins (LB/Florida State)
32. San Francisco: Johnthan Banks (CB/Mississippi State)
62. San Francisco: DeAndre Hopkins (WR/Clemson)
74. San Francisco (f/CAR): John Jenkins (DT/Georgia)
94. San Francisco: Travis Frederick (C/Wisconsin)
126. San Francisco: Levine Toilolo (TE/Stanford)
would be my preferred selection - a job well done!
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LOVE the 1st and 4th picks for the Cardinals, but 2 and 3 should've been a Dysert pick
Warford in the 2nd would be an amazing pick. I would prefer Dysert to Nassib.
Also not sure the team goes 3 OL in the first four rounds.
That said if Mingo is there in the second round there is no way Arizona passes on a superior talent like him.
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Eh. Keenan Allen is not worth a top 10 pick.
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Lions really need to trade down and pick up additional picks. They have far too many holes to fill.
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Would prefer a bigger WR to Austin, but nice Eagles draft.
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Decent Eagles draft, but I have my doubts they use the #4 pick on QB.
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Let that be a warning to the rest of the NFL
You don't give the ball back to Blaine Gabbert
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Post subject: Re: skrILL's 4 Round Super Bowl Mock
So a few critiques - both positive and negative - but it's food for thought:
1) Well done not letting people bull you off the "This QB class sucks, no one's
a 1st rounder" stuff push you off of having at least 3 QB's in your 1st round. I said the same thing in 2011 and everyone thought I was insane, and I believe the same will be the case this year... we're more likely to see 4-5 QB's go in this year's 1st round than we are only 1-2. It's just too much of a premium position these days (as in like a half-round leeway in value), that given the option between reaching for a QB in the 1st and having to likely trade multiple picks (including their 2nd) to trade back into the 1st to get what's left (because all these guys people are confident
be available in the 2nd likely won't, save for maybe 1 or 2 at most), they'll opt for the former.
1b) I'm not sure I'd project one of those teams to take a QB in the 1st to be Philadelphia, but it's possible. My reasoning in that actually isn't some amazing faith in Nick Foles or in Chip Kelly having stated that he, when UofA was an opponent, thought highly of Foles, but rather that taking a QB in the Top 5 these days (particularly in a larger sports market like Philadelphia) is effectively committing to starting said quarterback at some point in his rookie season (though the expectation seems to be moving more and more towards Day One). And
is something I'm not sure fits with Chip's calculating approach unless he falls in love with Geno as a prospect (which is possible) - and not just because of his ability to run the option... Chip's likely going to take whatever approach he believes gives them the best chance of winning the soonest.
2) Hankins will be an interesting case. I admit I actually like the fit with New Orleans, but more so for the case that I think the best chance he has to go in the Top 20 at this point is that teams go largely off of his 2011 tape (which means they're going off the tape of when his team was less successful) AND he's viewed as a good fit as a 3-4 NT (as he does have the ability, like many of of the more successful 1st round 3-4 NT's of the past, to spend time as a rookie at the 5-Tech as well as the 1-Tech, before eventually moving into the 0-Tech).
3) I just have difficult seeing Tank Carradine get selected prior to Day 3. I know, he looked REALLY good this year up until the injury. But the fact that he is coming off an injury that will keep him from working out pre-draft for teams, coupled with the fact that he really only has 1 year of quality tape, just doesn't lend itself to the theory that teams are going to roll the dice on him (particularly when he may likely have to start his rookie season on the PUP and thus miss at least 6-8 weeks, if not more). This isn't like the case of Bruce Carter who had multiple years of quality tape prior to his injury/surgery or even Obrien Schofield who at least was able to measure, workout, and play in the Senior Bowl prior to getting injured in the pre-draft process. It's just a case of "realistically" I don't see a team rolling the dice on him till Round 4 or 5.
4) With respect to the Chargers, while I'm not his most ardent fan Desmond Trufant is more realistic than Robert Woods. I get that some people get a burr up their butts that "San Diego has to replace Vincent Jackson" and I actually like Woods as a prospect. However, people are rather quick to completely forget about Vincent Brown (who is a very similar type of player to Woods). Has Robert Meachem failed to achieve any kind of quality production thus far? Yes. Does that mean the team is likely to rush out and replace him with an early draft pick after extending Malcom Floyd halfway through last season, having Brown coming back off IR, and having a good chunk of money committed to both Meachem and Royal for 2013? Not really. I won't be shocked to see us draft a WR, but doing it early is just too much of a luxury for it to qualify as the "best case of value meeting need" approach our GM has stated is how he's going to go about the draft.
Others I could see as options at the 2nd round pick are Jesse Williams (Vaughn Martin will likely be let to walk in FA, Cam Thomas hasn't done enough to lockdown NTotF for us, and Williams is quality value with a high floor), Jon Cooper (back-to-back OL selections isn't very likely... unless 1st round value like Cooper were to fall to us in the 2nd - both our starting OG's are FA's and we don't have a proven long-term option at center, thus he's a really good fit), or even - believe it or not - Gio Bernard (again, it's value and Ryan Mathews - while he was a high pick investment was the previous administration's high pick investment. Not to mention, I keep hearing more and more about him being constantly out partying it up in downtown San Diego, so the fact that he still exhibits technical flaws to his game that are typically fixed in a player's rookie season, and he's now entering his 3rd year, gives me serious pause about his work ethic).
In the 3rd, if Trufant is there and we haven't selected a CB to that point, I'm not arguing in the slightest. If we've already selected Trufant/CB or he's not available, Sean Porter's a good fit of value and need. As coudl be argued Markus Wheaton, Dallas Thomas (won't be there, most likely), Datone Jones (won't make it past the 2nd round), Phillip Thomas, and Christine Michael.
Watson in the 4th is good value and pick. If we haven't taken an RB by that point, you won't find me arguing if we rolled the dice on Marcus Lattimore either. Could it be considered putting an injury-prone player behind another player with a penchant for getting injured? Sure. But I don't question Lattimore's work ethic for a minute and at his current level he's further developed as a pass-blocker and less prone to fumble than Mathews is. Additionally, with Mathews on the roster (at least till he gets inevitably nicked up again) there's no need to press Lattimore into action from the outset and give him a massive carry-load. Could be a very similar situation to the Cowboys drafting DeMarco Murray.
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i am a big fan.
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I absolutely love it. Some people will hate on Barkley but the top of the 3rd is good value imo.
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Sabres stay alive … barely
'Make no mistake; the Sabres are still playoff long shots. They need to win their three remaining games and get a lot of help to make it.'
Are Sabres eMax'ed out on Afinogenov?
'The dip in Afinogenov's production has been stunning. Once one of the league's most explosive talents, he has just 10 goals, 27 points and an awful minus-14 rating in 53 games this year. He scored 55 goals, 134 points and sported a nifty plus-25 rating in 133 games during the previous two seasons.'
Olean boys, Bona field and Sabres
'It's not that I dislike the Sabres – to the contrary – but this is a team lacking character, leadership and talent and doesn't deserve to be in the post-season.'
Sabres need to find their voice for final, desperate playoff push
'Clearly, the Sabres' strengths do not include scoring more goals than the other team on any given night. So to make the case that Buffalo deserves a spot in the playoffs, management needs to be proactive, set the agenda and, above all, slag the other guys.'
Staying alive, part one
'The Sabres finished with 30 shots, though the number of scoring chances probably could be counted on one hand. The Bruins took just 18 shots, scoring on their first one.'
Giving false hope seems about right
'Who would have imagined that, one year after winning the Presidents' Trophy, the Sabres would be jumping with joy because they still had an outside chance to finish eighth?'
Rookies keep march to playoffs alive
'"We're not expected to play like rookies," Weber said. "We're expected to play like the good hockey players we can be. Hockey is a game of confidence and if you're playing well, you know you're going to go out there shift in and shift out and make smart plays. The coaching staff has put a lot of trust in us and we can't let them down at this point."'
Sunday showed opportunity was ripe for Sabres
'Even with Sunday's 2-1 overtime win, though, the Sabres finished the home slate with 21 losses in 41 games.'
Enough Max, fans say; Ruff listens
'For the contest, the eighth-year forward got just 7:36 worth of ice time, less than every Sabres aside from Patrick Kaleta.'
Sabres find life with Sekera
'"There's three teams at 91 points and if we win our three, then we've got a shot," said relieved Buffalo coach Lindy Ruff. "But," added Sabres' centre Derek Roy, "we're going to need some help."'
Monday's Boston Coverage
Sabres a little sharper (Boston Globe)
Not an easy skate through possibilities (Boston Globe)
Patience pays off as Hoggan gets the call (Boston Globe)
Point suits Bruins fine (Boston Herald)
Hope turns into reality for Hoggan (Boston Herald)
Boston Bruins @ Buffalo Sabres (BostonBruins.com)
Photo gallery (BostonBruins.com)
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Buffalo 2, Boston 1 (OT)
'"It's an awesome feeling, it's unbelievable, I can't describe it," Sekera said. "But the most important point is we get the two points. We're not dead yet."'
Buffalo 2, Boston 1 (OT)
'"Our fans have been behind us all year," said Buffalo forward Jason Pominville. "We're going to need them from here on out. We wanted to be sure we came out strong and got a win. Our backs are against the wall. Overall we played well. It was definitely fun and rewarding to get that win at home."'
Sabres Stay Alive with 2-1 OT Win
'The Sabres must get another two points in Toronto against the Maple Leafs on Tuesday night.'


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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 12:25 am
Post subject: Manti Teos draft stock...
I know this story is still fresh, and not all the facts are known. But given our long list of needs (one of which is some youth at LB), would it make sense for Miami to roll the dice on Manti?
I'm assuming he is a second round talent (correct me if I'm wrong). I'm also assuming this strange story will bump him down a couple of rounds due to character concerns. Thus, if we find ourselves picking in the fourth round and he's still on the board, would it be worthwhile to draft him?
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 1:00 am
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He was still one of the top ILB's in the college ranks until he came across Alabama. I would not mind taking him in the late 2nd or 3rd round. But we have too many holes to fill to take a LB IMO.
I am very curious as to how far he will actually fall. I bet someone takes a flyer on him earlier than most people put him now.
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He would be taken off my list all together. Sorry, that's one of the single most twisted stories I've ever heard. Its speak a lot to character and I can't imagine selecting him unless it was something like the 6th or 7th round.
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He would be taken off my list all together. Sorry, that's one of the single most twisted stories I've ever heard. Its speak a lot to character and I can't imagine selecting him unless it was something like the 6th or 7th round.
I agree...A guy making stupid mistakes as a young college kid is one thing, but to fabricate this relationship and to claim she died and to use to his advantage...dude has some serious problems that are more then most teams will be willing to take on.
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 2:34 am
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I just don't think he's all that great, I wouldn't have drafted him in the 1st round even before this story broke out. I would take Alec Ogletree over him every sunday.
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I'd still take him. Everyone messes up- and we don't even know that he did anything wrong here. Either way, honesty isn't what you look for in a player.
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I'd still take him. Everyone messes up- and we don't even know that he did anything wrong here. Either way, honesty isn't what you look for in a player.
I think honesty is a huge issue as it speaks volumes about his character. This isn't a guy who has an overwhelming physical presence on the field and his true value was in his ability to come in and be a leader. His intangibles and character were his biggest selling points and why he was so widely regarded. You take that and his performance against Alabama. Alabama has the type of players he would be facing in the NFL and fared about as poorly as anyone.
I think, that as a society, we are very forgiving of a athlete when they mess up (I still see plenty of Vick/Ron Mexico Jerseys), but when they lie to the fans and use it to their advantage (Armstrong) we become less forgiving.
The issue is the lie and how big of a story it became for Notre Dame. I can almost understand him being duped, but he lied before that about how they met and their relationship....he fabricated a whole back story. This isn't a simple teenage screw up with drugs or alcohol or minor run in with the law this was a national Hoax that he and Notre Dame used as sympathy and publicity to garner national attention.
On a side, but on topic note: Does anyone else want to sit in on the player interview between him and Ireland....
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On a side, but on topic note: Does anyone else want to sit in on the player interview between him and Ireland....
Would be very interesting..
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 4:10 pm
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I still think Catfish Te'o is a 2nd half of the 1st round draft pick. The more information that comes out about this, the better idea we'll have if it drops. It's too hard to predict right now because there's so little out there as fact.
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As far as his draft stock, I believe it will be more impacted by the championship game than the
girlfriend. People have short term memories and by the time Draft Day arrives this will be little more that a footnote. About the only real effect this will have is that his predraft interviews will be very long.
I do project him in 10-15 range now.
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No thanks, after doing a bit of research, he is too susceptable to the fake.
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Never was high on the guy to begin with. I thought he was majority hype.The game against Alabama confirmed it. People keep talking about his interceptions and TD's but the balls were threw right to him. He lacks side line to side line speed, he cannot shet blocks well and he went to Notre Dame. Enough said.
Not only that but appears as if he is an attention seeker. No thanks.
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 8:33 pm
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Never was that impressed with him. Honestly wouldn't have taken him until the 3rd round anyways. Not great measurables, isn't a great open field tackler, struggles in coverage, and can't shed blocks to save his or his dead girlfriends life. And that was before all this hoopla...
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 10:14 pm
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Putting this crazy twisted story aside, I never thought he was that good of a player to begin with. I honestly don't know what anyone saw in him as a football player. He's not special.
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 11:12 pm
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I never liked his lack of athleticism, he reminds me of Rolando McClain.
I was hoping we avoided him all together & now something smells really fishy. Lets see if he has the Cojones to just come out with.
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PS4: A Gamer's Guide to the New PlayStation 4
I thought my days of getting excited by the arrival of a new video-game console were pretty much behind me. So, I was pleasantly surprised to get a thrill out of unboxing and baptizing a new PlayStation 4.
The $399 PS4, which hits a store near you Friday, hit my living room a day earlier. It's the first console refresh for Sony since 2006, and the sleek and zippy device generally did not disappoint.
I know many fellow reviewers have already praised the PS4's design and Sony's complete overhaul of the box's user interface. I thought those two were the weakest features of the PS4.
Yes, the console is thin and sexy-looking, with beveled edges and gleaming Knight Rider-style colored lights. But if you're bordering on old coot, as I am, Sony went overboard on the sleekness of its industrial design.
The on/off and eject buttons on the front of the console are too durned small. I actually missed them on first perusal of the PS4.
When I did locate them, my fat fingers had trouble hitting the on/off switch, which is wedged into the cranny that separates the shiny half of the console from the matte side. It was very hard to reach, though the device turned on right away when I grazed the button with my fingernail and a soft blue light signaled the box was on. The light turned to white when I inserted my first game disk.
Turning off the PS4, though, was a pain. A quick touch did nothing. Holding the button in with my fingernail made the light blink for a second, then nothing. Then, a few second later, the white light turned to orange, then the PS4 shut off. But I failed to shut it off on several subsequent attempts, and I'm still not sure how long I have to hold the button to shut the thing off.
The only other notable features on the front of the PS4 are two USB ports — blazing fast USB 3.0 ports, to be exact. Those can be used for peripherals and for the recharging cables of the PS4's wireless DualShock controllers.
The back of the console is also quite zen-like with only an optical audio output port, an HDMI port, an Ethernet port and an auxiliary through which you can hook up the the PS4 camera. That peripheral will, by the way, set you back around $60, removing some of the console's price edge versus the Xbox One, which comes with a Kinect sensor. An extra DualShock controller also costs about $60, if more than one wants to play.
The PS4 came with an HDMI cable, a power cord and a micro-USB charging cable, as well as a fairly crummy mono-earbud that I intend to replace with a proper wireless headset.
I was impressed at how quiet the PS4 was. Chip technology has come a long way since 2006, so there's no whirring helicopter keeping the device from overheating, forcing you to jack up the TV's sound and ruining your hearing.
When I first turned the PS4 on, I had to go through a Day One firmware update, which took about 10 minutes via a wireless network. The console shut off and restarted without a problem.
The UI, while revamped by Sony and much better than the PS3's confusing hodgepodge of menu hieroglyphics, is still not very intuitive. Gone are the series of pulldown menus accessed via the controller, replaced by several rows of icons and tiles. The presentation of non-game content — such as Hulu, Netflix and other tiles — pops out and is easy to navigate. But I still find the little tool boxes and other hoodingies Sony uses not at all user-friendly, and I wonder why such a plugged-in, quirky company still can't get the menus right.
I want something as easy to move around in as an Amazon Video or Netflix window. It's not that hard to do, but that will have to wait for updates, upgrades or the next console.
There are some very cool things in those menus, though, once you find them. First, it's a snap to capture and share photos and clips of gameplay and share to Facebook, once you've used your social platform details to log in. You can annoy friends or friends of friends as much as you want (I chose not to), by sharing game activity as often as you achieve something, like winning a trophy. This brings social to a whole new level for Sony, and to me, removes one of my big complaints about the PS3.
I was a big PS2 player, but largely ditched Sony's last-generation PS3, save for game reviews, because there wasn't much you could do with the PS3 versus the Xbox 360 and its social parties and chats and media choices. I'm highly encouraged and intrigued by the PS4's social possibilities.
A PSP Vita connected easily to the PS4, allowing me to watch or play my games on the smaller screen. I connected both directly to the box and also tried out a connection over a 4G mobile network. Both worked just fine, though there was a bit of lag with the mobile wireless network. You can change your TV's input and watch a show while still playing on the smaller screen. I first experienced this on the Wii U last year, but it was clunky on the bulky plastic controller. Gameplay is much more elegant on the PSP Vita.
I also had zero trouble quickly connecting my Samsung Galaxy Note II device to the PS4 as a second screen, using an easily downloaded app from the Google Play store.
As I mentioned, you can connect to your Hulu, Netflix or Amazon accounts, as well as watching videos or movies on other sites. You just need to log into your accounts and you're good to go.
I could not, for the life of me, get the digital upgrade of PS3 games to work for me. It was probably my fault, not Sony's, but I was eager to see if I could play my recently purchased Battlefield 4 game on the new console as a digital download. The PS4 is not backward-compatible with PS3 games, but a limited number of PS3 games are digitally upgradable for a cost of $9.99 in the PlayStation Store via a code. Though you can't play your game disc in the PS4, you'll have to insert it into the console to play the digital PS4 version.
My PS4 console came with Knack, a game that reminded me very much of Rayman Legends, and the not-so-catchily named Kill Zone Shadow Fall. Neither game would be on my Christmas list, nor would they have been my first choices for breaking in the new console. I will start my full reviews of PS4 games starting next week.
Kill Zone required another system update of about 10 minutes, requiring an auto-reboot, also without incident.
I was prepared to be bowled over by the console's graphics, but I wasn't. The two games looked cinematic — kind of like TV shows or movies — with much better edging and shadowing than the PS3. And the teeth of Kill Zone characters were pearly white, not grey, which is one of my constant complaints about the animation on a PS3 and Xbox 360. It's not hard to understand, with an AMD next-generation Radeon-based graphics engine as its GPU. The games, themselves, loaded quickly and ran smoothly, also not a surprise, since the box runs an eight-core CPU with a clock speed of 1.6Ghz.
They do, however, eat up tens of gigabytes each on the PS4's 500-gigabyte storage drive.
The new DualShocks are probably the best feature of the PS4. No longer are you holding a too-small, flimsy hunk of plastic, fishing around for the trigger buttons and fumbling for the too-tightly spaced left and right sticks. The new controller feels heavier and more-substantial, the rounded bottom edges extended longer than those of the PS3's. The triggers also stick out a bit, making it extremely easy to find and tap, and the sticks are spaced a tad further apart. Sensitivity was a bit too high for me out of the box, though.
The PS button remains between the sticks, and there's a headphone jack next to another jack labeled "EXT," for I know not what. I like the speaker that sits just above the PS button and note the start button is gone, replaced by an "options" button located just above the four main game-control buttons. There's a "share" button on the opposite side, just to the right of the d-pad. In the middle of the controller, above the sticks and between the d-pad and game-control buttons is a clickable touch pad.
A video from Sony that loaded up when I connected the first controller seemed to indicate the colored light on the front of an active controller could or would somehow factor into gameplay for some titles. I'll have to wait and see until I try out the new camera.
I enjoyed testing the PS4, was largely impressed by it and would even consider buying one, but unless you're an early adopter or if you're interested in mostly or only game-playing on the console, I'd counsel you to wait just a bit longer.
The price is reasonable, and it seems game titles will remain around $60. I like the social media integration in the PS4 and the ability to watch TV and movies. This is a clear upgrade to the PS3 and is right up there with some solid gaming PCs. Graphics went from standard definition to high-definition from the PS2 to PS3 in a very eye-popping way. There's not that wow factor this time around, but processing power makes everything you play look cinematic.
I'm cautious only because it's early days, and there just aren't that many games that will be on the shelves. Each console is launching with over 20 titles, but that's just not a lot if you zip through games and are always looking for something new.
I don't view this is a Sony vs. Microsoft battle, because I have little doubt there's room in the market for both consoles and that developers will make ample number of games for each box. But you're probably looking at late Spring 2014 or around this time next year before you really see a robust game ecosystem for the PS4 and its rival.


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STANWOOD — The new Stanwood Camano Community Resource Center plans to open its doors by July to families who need help, teens who want to hang out and community groups that need a meeting place.
Construction of the center is nearly complete, with the planting of an edible landscape of berries, herbs and fruit trees and the establishment of a community garden expected to begin soon.
Every inch of the new $2 million, 7,000-square-foot center has multiple purposes, but the main one is to promote a healthy, connected community, said executive director Christie Connors.
"One of the joys of the new building will be the added opportunities to form partnerships with other Stanwood and Camano Island groups," Connors said.
The Community Resources Foundation, which runs the center and its programs, has provided social and health services for families, young people and the community since 1992.
"In this economic recession, part of the job has been to educate people and tell them that it is OK to get some help," Connors said. "The needs have been huge."
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"It's been done with no tax money, and the majority of the funds have come from the community," said Connors, who chokes up when she talks about a particular $1 donation that came clipped to a heartfelt note of thanks.
About $290,000 still needs to be raised to cover the $2 million project, she said.
"But I am confident that we will get there," Connors said. "This community has so many generous people."
From her temporary office in a storefront near the QFC store in downtown Stanwood, Connors talked recently about the people who have made the new center a reality.
Kris Voelckers, of Stirling Construction Co., built the center at a reduced cost. Architect Russ Leach donated his time and work. Stanwood welder Rick Wesley is donating a metal chandelier. Nationally known glass artist Jack Archibald, of Camano Island, donated the stained glass windows, titled "Stanwood Lights," for the front of the building.
"I decided that donating the art glass would all be worth it if more people would find out what incredible stuff these folks do at the resource center," Archibald said.
The center provides health and safety referrals and classes for individuals and families, free meals and classes for teens, a mobile dental clinic and job training in the center's used bookstore. It also is the home of the Stanwood Camano Island Soap Box Derby.
Major donations for the new building came from the McEacheren Charitable Trust, the Floyd and Delores Jones Family Foundation, the Charles and Donna Cole Charitable Fund, Washington Energy Services and the Tulalip Tribes, Connors said.
At the back of the new center is a 1,500-square-foot meeting room that can double as a dining room, a gym or a theater. That big room is connected to a large commercial kitchen and the Davis Place Teen Center. There are computer rooms, art rooms and classrooms. Morgan's Tales Used Bookstore, the center's main fundraising arm, is located near the front door, adjacent to a comfortable sitting room complete with a fireplace, Connors said.
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Winter Weather Preparedness
While the danger from winter weather varies across the country, nearly all Americans, regardless of where they live, are likely to face some type of severe winter weather at some point in their lives. Winter storms can range from a moderate snow over a few hours to a blizzard with blinding, wind-driven snow that lasts for several days. Many winter storms are accompanied by dangerously low temperatures and sometimes by strong winds, icing, sleet and freezing rain.
One of the primary concerns is the winter weather's ability to knock out heat, power and communications services to your home or office, sometimes for days at a time. Heavy snowfall and extreme cold can immobilize an entire region.
The National Weather Service refers to winter storms as the "Deceptive Killers" because most deaths are indirectly related to the storm. Instead, people die in traffic accidents on icy roads and of hypothermia from prolonged exposure to cold. It is important to be prepared for winter weather before it strikes.
Winter Storms Home Preparedness Checklist
To prepare for a winter storm you should do the following:
- Before winter approaches, add the following supplies to your emergency kit:
- Rock salt or more environmentally safe products to melt ice on walkways
- Sand to improve traction
- Snow shovels and other snow removal equipment
- Sufficient heating fuel, like dry, seasoned wood for your fireplace or wood-burning stove
- Adequate clothing and blankets to keep you warm
- Make a Family Emergency Plan—Your family may not be together when disaster strikes, so it is important to know how you will contact one another, how you will get back together and what you will do in case of an emergency
- Listen to a NOAA Weather Radio or other local news channels for critical information from the National Weather Service (NWS). Be alert to changing weather conditions
- Minimize travel, but keep a disaster supplies kit in your vehicle
- Bring pets/companion animals inside during winter weather
- Move other animals or livestock to sheltered areas with non-frozen drinking water
During the Winter Storm
- Stay indoors during the storm
- Walk carefully on snowy, icy, walkways
- Avoid overexertion when shoveling snow; overexertion can bring on a heart attack—a major cause of death in the winter
- If you must shovel snow, stretch before going outside
- Keep dry, and change wet clothing frequently to prevent a loss of body heat (wet clothing loses all of its insulating value and transmits heat rapidly)
- Watch for signs of frostbite: loss of feeling and white or pale appearance in extremities such as fingers, toes, ear lobes, and the tip of the nose. If symptoms are detected, get medical help immediately
- Watch for signs of hypothermia: uncontrollable shivering, memory loss, disorientation, incoherence, slurred speech, drowsiness, and apparent exhaustion. If symptoms of hypothermia are detected, get the victim to a warm location, remove wet clothing, warm the center of the body first and give warm, non-alcoholic beverages if the victim is conscious. Get medical help as soon as possible
- Drive only if it is absolutely necessary. If you must drive: travel in the day; don't travel alone; keep others informed of your schedule; stay on main roads and avoid back road shortcuts
- Let someone know your destination, your route, and when you expect to arrive. If your car gets stuck along the way, help can be sent along your predetermined route
- If the pipes freeze, remove any insulation or layers of newspapers and wrap pipes in rags. Completely open all faucets and pour hot water over the pipes, starting where they were most exposed to the cold (or where the cold was most likely to penetrate)
- Maintain ventilation when using kerosene heaters to avoid build-up of toxic fumes
- Refuel kerosene heaters outside and keep them at least three feet from flammable objects
- Conserve fuel, if necessary, by keeping your residence cooler than normal. Temporarily close off heat to some rooms
- If you will be going away during cold weather, leave the heat on in your home, set to a temperature no lower than 55 °F
Source: NOAA.gov
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Our Hotel
Historic Hotel in Arizona with a Rich and Unique Background
Even before it was constructed, the Hassayampa Inn helped to bring the people of Prescott together.
During the Roaring Twenties, El Paso architect Henry Trost was challenged by a group of residents to design a grand hotel – somewhere where people could relax, chat and the escape the grind of their hectic lives.
Hundreds of Prescott citizens bought shares into the project at $1 each and the result was the construction of a stunning red-brick building, completed in 1927, that would serve as the cornerstone of downtown. Back then, it was known as the Hassayampa Hotel.
These warm and welcoming accommodations were named after the Hassayampa River located north of Prescott, which mysteriously sinks beneath the surface for much of its 100-mile journey. The Apache word "Hassayampa" loosely translates as "the river that loses itself"—a fitting moniker for a hotel that was designed to be a place where patrons can emerge refreshed and relaxed.
Today, the Hassayampa Inn remains an anchor in the community. The building is included in the National Register of Historic Places and is a member of the Historic Hotels of America. But most of all, this red-brick hotel is as charming today as it was more than 80 years ago.
Step inside and marvel at the elaborate stained-glass doors, vibrant murals, hand-painted ceiling beams and other historic features that have been artfully restored. Unwind in your comfortable room knowing that you're staying in the same hotel where celebrities like D.H. Lawrence, Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Tom Mix, and Will Rogers and Georgia O'Keeffe once came to relax.
Encountering Faith Essay
The year it opened, the Hassayampa Inn developed its most famous legend. A very young bride named Faith Summers checked into a balcony suite with her much older husband in 1927. According to the story, Faith's husband went out to buy cigarettes and never returned. Faith waited for three days and then took her life in despair.
Since then, countless hotel guests and employees have reported encounters with a young woman throughout the hotel—crying at the end of a bed, dressed in a pink gown in the hallway, appearing and disappearing from rooms. One housekeeper saw a woman by a bed, holding flowers and crying. When asked if she needed help, the woman vanished. Kitchen staff have reported feeling Faith's presence in the kitchen, right before the burners on the stove suddenly went out.
Others have reported strange cold spots in Faith's honeymoon suite. Frequently the smell of flowers emanates from the empty room. Once, a staff member was standing in front of the room drinking coffee and talking about the legend when her coffee leaped from the cup and spilled over her hand. Others have had similar experiences while doing research on Faith and her story.
One recent guest, a young man, said he sensed someone in his room when he awoke. He drifted off, and awoke to someone hugging him. He asked if there had been incidents of haunting at the hotel. "Oh, that's just Faith," the desk clerk said. Others have experienced lights or the television going on in the middle of the night, or awaking to find their toothbrushes missing.
Faith never threatens in these encounters. The heartbroken ghost simply appears unable to move on. We like to think that even Faith likes staying at the Hassayampa Inn.


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Nelson, Kristofferson, Haggard working on collaborative album
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Sunday night's Grammy performance isn't the last we'll hear from Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and Merle Haggard.
Nelson tells Billboard.com the three of them are working on an album together. But he doesn't indicate when they'll be presenting it to the public. Willie says it "could be" a 2014 release, but adds that they'll issue the disc once they "get it together."
On the Grammys Nelson, Kristofferson, and Haggard teamed up for a tribute to "outlaw" country. Blake Shelton also took part in the segment, which featured performances of "Highwayman," "Okie From Muskogee," and "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys." The set marked the first time Haggard had ever performed on the Grammys.
And the upcoming album is thought to be the first collaborative studio project for Kristofferson and Haggard. They've both worked with Nelson before. Willie and Kris were in The Highwaymen together, while Willie and Hag teamed up on the 1983 album "Pancho & Lefty."
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'Cosi' set for Oct. 1 – 4 in experimental actor training space
The University of South Carolina's department of theatre and dance will present Louis Nowra's endearing comedy, "Cosi," Oct. 1 - 4 in the newly created Center for Performance Experiment at Hamilton Gymnasium.
Curtain Times are 8 p.m. Oct. 1 and 4; 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. Oct. 2 and 3. Admission for all shows is $10, payable at the door only.
The Center for Performance Experiment at Hamilton Gymnasium is located at the corner of Pendleton and Pickens streets, in the Gibbes Green section of the university campus.
A madcap look at theatre behind the scenes, "Cosi" is ultimately a fresh, startling play about personal dreams, madness, ambition, disappointment, creativity and transformation. A young Australian director, looking for purpose and meaning in his life, lands a job directing a group of inexperienced but colorful performers in a mental institution. The motley band of players prepares to perform Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte." But can they sing? And who speaks Italian?
Professor Steven Pearson, head of the master's program in acting, will direct this production.


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GSA Helps Companies Put Computers in Classrooms;
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January 26, 2004
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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. General Services Administration today expanded access to its Computer for Learning (CFL) Web site to include private-sector entities, along with federal agencies.
The Web site, www.computers.fed.gov, provides a list of approximately 10,000 schools and nonprofit, educational organizations that need computers.
The CFL program, committed to working with the private sector to promote developments in American education, including making computer technology an integral part of every classroom, encourages companies to use the site to help meet the overwhelming demand for computer equipment, which exceeds the number of available federal excess computers.
"The Computers for Learning program is an ideal, Web-based resource for linking unneeded computers with less fortunate children in at-risk communities, including empowerment zones and enterprise communities throughout America," said GSA Associate Administrator G. Martin Wagner.
Now, companies and other private entities can join the federal government in a public/private partnership to invest in America's next-generation work force, and help preserve the environment by recycling computers.
"The partnership is good for schools, good for business and good for the environment," Wagner said.
GSA is a centralized federal procurement, property management, and policy agency, created by Congress to improve government efficiency and help federal agencies better serve the public. It acquires, on behalf of federal agencies, office space, equipment, telecommunications, information technology, supplies and services. It also plays a key role in developing and implementing government-wide policies. GSA's 13,000 associates provide services and solutions for the office operations of more than one million federal workers located in more than 8,000 government-owned and leased buildings in 2,000 U.S. communities.


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The Worldnutdaily posts their annual list of the nation's "gayest" companies. Actually, it's just a reprinting of the list from the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index. But while the HRC does this to reward companies that value equality, the WND does it to tell its readers which companies to avoid.
And as I wrote long ago, the list is long — though not as long as it was then because HRC changed their criteria and made it more difficult to get a perfect score. So while more than 300 companies once scored a 100 on their scale, now only 109 do. But I fully agree that the bigots should not buy anything from any company that actually treats gay people like human beings.
They should stop using any medications made by Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer. And any medical instrument made by Medtronics. They should probably stop using the internet completely, since Google and Yahoo both get perfect 100s, as did Apple and Microsoft. And the entire internet uses routers made by Cisco, which means all those emails they forward to each other every day about how Obama eats Christian babies for dinner every night are actually catching The Gay as they pass through those routers.
They even have to give up seemingly wholesome things like Disney movies and Avon. They can't each anything from General Mills, Kellogg's or Kraft foods, so they're gonna have to hope for some of that manna. Hell, they can't even join the military because major defense contractors like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin score a perfect 100 on the sodomy scale.


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Journalists, economist discuss 2008 financial crisis
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A panel of top financial journalists and a leading Federal Reserve economist will discuss the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath at a University of South Carolina conference Friday, Sept. 28.
The 11th annual Convergence and Society Conference, "Advancing Business Journalism and Convergence," will feature Gabriella Stern, a veteran editor at the Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires in New York; Mary Fricker, an award-winning investigative financial reporter from California and editor of the RepoWatch.org news website; and John Weinberg, senior vice president and research director for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Rob Wells, a USC lecturer and former Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal deputy bureau chief in Washington, D.C., will moderate the panel.
Panelists will discuss, "The 2008 Financial Meltdown: Lessons For Journalists and Educators," at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Inn at USC, 1619 Pendleton St., Columbia. Each panelist will examine the meltdown from his or her perspective and recommend ways business reporters, students and educators can gain the skills to address complex financial topics in the future.
The conference also will feature a Sept. 28 luncheon speech by Linda O'Bryon, chief executive officer of South Carolina ETV; a presentation by Chris Roush, a business journalism professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Pam Luecke, journalism professor and department head at Washington and Lee University; and presentations from other top academics on business journalism and convergence.
For details and registration information, see: http://sc.edu/cmcis/newsplex/FallConf2012/agenda.html
The 2008 financial crisis panel is a project of the Baldwin Business Journalism Initiative at the USC School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
For more information, contact Rob Wells, email@example.com, 443-591-1189
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Bennett is very popular, and many among the right and religious Zionist community see him as a savior-type figure.
Jennings found himself unable to believe that someone so skilled as Bennett could have been killed.
I went to Tel Aviv last Thursday night to hear Bennett speak with young "internationals."
And while five Democratic senators voted against the DREAM Act, three Republicans—Lugar, Murkowski, and Bennett—voted for it.
Bennett captures the peril of an era when heads rolled and the grit of two women seeking to survive on their own terms.
Miss Bennett started, and her colour grew a little brighter.
This conclusion is so remarkable that it ought to be stated in Dr. Bennett's own words.
To the east, Mr. Bennett was relating to Bream the more striking of his recent symptoms.
Captain Bennett glanced from one to another of his five Sergeants.
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Thread: When do you start Contracting?
3rd January 2012 12:21 PM #1
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When do you start Contracting?
I can not remember when I started with my first child, but I surly think I am contracting now and I am about 27 weeks. I mean it feels like it hurts a little and I wanted to see if I am contracting or if the baby is just pushing my belly out or something. When do you actually start contracting? I tell you I am not sure at the moment and it is really getting to me haha.
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Though I did not experience it at all during my first pregnancy, I began to experience pretty intense braxton hicks off and on around 25-30 weeks with each of my subsequent pregnancies. However, if they feel like the are in a regular pattern I think you should contact your midwife of physician, just to let them know what is going on.
Usually you can try drinking a glass of water and lying down for an hour. If you continue to feel contractions and they seem pretty regular, it could be preterm labor.
4th January 2012 05:23 PM #3
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Oh ok thank you so much I was wondering about it, because I have started, but it is not regular at all. I am glad that I can sleep good tonight. I went to doctor today, so everything check out okay for me. I had them with my first son a little, but not much. Yes I was still trying to figure it out haha. Thank you again as well.
6th January 2012 10:25 AM #4
Braxton Hicks contractions are can start at any point in pregnancy and varies from pregnancy to pregnancy. With my third baby I started noticing them very early in the first trimester. One of the things that I've found that helps settle them down is soaking yourself in a deep warm bath - particuarly useful at night so you can get a good night sleep and wake up rested in the morning. Another thing that may help is taking a magnesium supplement or adding a magensium bath flakes to the warm bath.


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I am trying to dual boot bt2 and xp on my laptop.
It is a 50 gig scsi hardrrive so the partitions are /dev/sda.
This is all done from a usb pen drive
I followed the dual boot xp and bt2 video from offensive security, but when it came time to modify lilo.conf, it just didnt work.
these are my partitions
sda1 - windows xp ntfs
sda2 - swap
sda3 - kernel and boot files
sda4 - root
when the video started to show how to modify the lilo.conf , I followed exactly has he had done, except changing the /dev/hda to /dev/sda and putting the proper partitions.
so lilo.conf ended up being like this (without messages)
boot = /dev/sda
timeout = 1200
vga 773
other = /dev/sda1
label = xp
table = /dev/sda
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda4
label = bt
when I type lilo -v I get :
Reading boot sector from /dev/sda
fatal: trying to map files from unnamed device 0x000d (NFS/Raid mirror down?)
I am probably making a stupid mistake somewhere but I cant see it, or I should be doing something completely different because of my hard drive settings.
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Looks like there's an ALSA issue with intel HDA audio. The kernel is built with the driver, and it works perfectly fine under intrepid, but there is no sound in BT4b (alsaconf is also lacking). Any ideas?
akaars... been there, tried that, using alsamixer/alsamixergui and kmix-kde3. nada
hatake_kakashi, thanks for the link - working throug the stuff on there to see if anything will work, i'll post results as i get em .
at present still not working, going to add newest alsa when i get a bit more free time and see what happens then... however, without modification to the live image, it doesnt seem to work on the hp 1183cl
So i had to install the newest alsa-driver alsa-lib and alsa-util (manually though) and alsaconf is part of those drivers. Ran alsaconf, it set up my card, and voila - everything works. Given that we have the repo and package management, maybe its a good idea to add this to the repository as well as the final build of BT4? Newer drivers can't really hurt for something like sound, right?
In case the model information is important, cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec returns:
Codec: IDT 92HD71B7X
Codec: LSI ID 1040
Codec: Nvidia MCP78 HDMI
or you could try alsaconfig then alsamixer to raise the sound before updating alsa ??. The trouble with these cards is there's a few different manuf of this card and kernel drivers can conflict if you enable all the cards.
Raise the PCM volume to around 70 percent and then set the master as your main channel if not you can get distorted sound issues too.


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Kristol erroneously cited polls; falsely claimed that, since March, "no new information" Bush misled U.S. into Iraq
In his November 21 article [1] in The Weekly Standard, editor William Kristol claimed that because of an "unanswered assault by Bush's enemies" since the president's second inauguration in January, there has been an increase of 20 percentage points in those who believe that President Bush "deliberately misled people to make the case for war with Iraq." But this argument rested on two false assertions.
First, the polling data Kristol cited was incorrect. Kristol erroneously claimed that NBC/Wall Street Journal polling data showed that eight months ago, only 41 percent of Americans thought Bush had "misled" the nation into war and five months ago, only 44 percent though he had done so, compared with 57 percent today. However, the poll numbers Kristol cited were not from NBC/WSJ polls taken in January and March of this year, as he claimed, but were, in fact, from 2004. They show that, in June 2004, a plurality of Americans believed that the administration "deliberately misled people to make the case for war."
Second, Kristol falsely asserted that "no new information" has emerged in the past eight months to justify the shift he purported to identify; in fact, new evidence has emerged. Some of the events and documents shedding further light on the Bush administration's case for war include the recently revealed Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) assessment of Al Qaeda operative Ibn Al-Shaykh al-Libi and June 2005 reports on certain British prewar memos, including the so-called "Downing Street Memo [2]." Since March 2004, when the correct NBC/WSJ polling data indicates that the downward trend Kristol identified began, other significant pieces of "new information" that may have influenced public opinion have also come to light.
From Kristol's November 21 Weekly Standard article, titled "Bush Fights Back [3]":
And the attacks have been working. In last week's Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey, 57 percent of Americans endorsed that proposition that the president "deliberately misled people to make the case for war with Iraq," compared to 35 percent who thought he "gave the most accurate information he had." Five months ago, those numbers were 44 percent "misled" versus 47 percent "accurate information." Eight months ago, shortly after Bush's second term began, there were only 41 percent who thought Bush had "misled" them, while 53 percent credited the president with being "accurate." No new information has appeared in those eight months. All that has happened is an unanswered assault by Bush's enemies. The White House figured the election was over and didn't recognize that the anti-Bush campaign would continue.
But while Kristol cited the most recent NBC/WSJ poll [4] (conducted November 4-7) correctly, he appeared to be a year off on his historical claims -- the polling data [5] he cited from "five" (June 2005) and "eight months ago" (March 2005) are apparently from 17 (June 2004 [6] - subscription required) and 20 months (March 2004 [7] -- subscription required) ago, respectively. Between June 2004 and November 2005, NBC/WSJ pollsters did not ask about how Bush made the case for war, and NBC/WSJ did not conduct polls in March 2005 or June 2005. Further, Kristol incorrectly cited the June 2004 data, which showed that a plurality of 47 percent believed that the administration had "misled people to make the case for war," while 44 percent said that Bush "gave the most accurate information he had." Kristol incorrectly switched the two figures.
Other NBC/WSJ poll questions show that, even in mid-2004, most Americans questioned how truthful the administration had been in making the case for war. The March 2004 poll, which reported that 41 percent of respondents believed Bush had misled them, while 53 percent did not, also reported that respondents split 49-49 on whether Bush had "exaggerated information to make the case for war" or had given "the most accurate information he had." But by the June 2004 poll, 53 percent of respondents said they believed that Bush had "exaggerated" the intelligence, versus 42 percent who thought he had been accurate. According to the poll data, an initial shift in public opinion did occur during the 2004 campaign season -- when, contrary to Kristol's point, the election was not yet over, and between March and June 2004, the administration did forcefully defend [8] itself against questions about its truthfulness.
Regardless of Kristol's flawed timeline, new information has surfaced in the past eight months that further cast doubt on the administration's truthfulness when pushing for the Iraq war:
- June: The so-called "Downing Street Memo [2]", which contains [9] the recorded minutes of a July 23, 2002, meeting of senior British cabinet officials and advisers and includes British intelligence chief Richard Dearlove's statement, based on meetings with U.S. officials in Washington, that President Bush was determined even then to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq "through military action" and that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
- October 16: Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff, said in a speech [10] that there had been no consensus about whether Iraq posed an imminent threat at the time of the invasion -- despite repeated claims [11] by the president and his administration that the Iraqi threat was "urgent," "gathering," and "mortal," and, in response to press questions, agreement that the threat was "imminent." Wilkerson described the administration officials who led the push for war in Iraq as a "cabal [12]" that made far-reaching decisions in private and excluded dissent:
[T]he case that I saw for four-plus years was a case that I have never seen in my studies of aberrations, bastardizations, perturbations, changes to the national security decision-making process. What I saw was a cabal between the vice president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made. And then when the bureaucracy was presented with the decision to carry them out, it was presented in a such a disjointed, incredible way that the bureaucracy often didn't know what it was doing as it moved to carry them out.
- October 27: A National Journal article [13] reported that Vice President Dick Cheney and his chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby [14], had "decided to withhold crucial documents" from the Senate Intelligence Committee during its 2004 investigation into pre-war intelligence on Iraq. The withheld documents included "Libby-authored passages in drafts of a speech that Powell delivered to the United Nations in February 2003 to argue the Bush administration's case for war with Iraq" and "intelligence data that Cheney's office -- and Libby in particular -- pushed to be included in Powell's speech." The article cited "administration and congressional sources" in asserting that the withheld information "likely would have shifted a portion of the blame away from the intelligence agencies to the Bush administration."
- November 6 [15]: The Washington Post reported [16] that in early 2002, the DIA sent a report to the National Security Council and the White House expressing serious doubts about information provided by Ibn Al-Shaykh al-Libi, a captured Al Qaeda operative. Despite the DIA's objections, al-Libi's claims later became the basis for the alleged Al Qaeda-Iraq link that then-Secretary of State Colin Powell described in his February 5, 2003, speech before the United Nations Security Council. Al-Libi's false claims were also used in prewar statements [17] by Bush and Cheney.
In addition, "new information" revealed in 2004 further called into question the case the Bush administration made for war in Iraq:
- July 2004: In its final report [18], the 9-11 Commission found [19], among other things, that Iraq was not involved in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, nor did it have any "collaborative relationship" with Al Qaeda, as the administration had repeatedly asserted and implied. For example, throughout the 2004 presidential campaign, Cheney suggested [20] that Iraq had been involved in the 9-11 attacks by citing a Czech intelligence report that lead 9-11 hijacker Mohammed Atta likely met with a senior Iraqi intelligence official in April 2001. While Cheney did backtrack in June 2004 from his 2001 claim that such a meeting was "pretty well confirmed," he continued to push the connection even after the 9-11 Commission concluded [8] that "[w]e do not believe that such a meeting occurred."
- September 2004: The CIA's Iraq Survey Group finished its report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and concluded [21] that "Saddam Husayn ended the nuclear program in 1991 following the Gulf war." The report stated that the ISG "found no evidence to suggest concerted efforts to restart the [nuclear] program." It also found [22] that, at the time of the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, Iraq did not possess chemical weapons stockpiles, having destroyed them in 1991. The survey group found "no direct evidence that Iraq, after 1996, had plans for a new BW [biological weapons] program or was conducting BW-specific work for military purposes."
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Williams Suicide Has People Talking Mental Health
Ohio sees about 1,400 suicides each year. That's the 16th lowest in the nation.
"We're not the best, but we're not the worst either," said Dr. Mark Hurst, medical director for the Ohio Dept. of Mental Health and Addiction Services.
Hurst says the state has a lot of resources to deal with suicides including community behavioral health centers, a phone hotline, emergency rooms, and private care providers.
"The only wrong place to go is nowhere," he said.
Many people will show warning signs before they take their own life. Hurst says you should always take someone seriously if they're talking about suicide.
"If they start talking specifically about a plan, that escalates things even further. When they're talking about being hopeless, not feeling there a way out, not feeling there's a reason to live, all of those things raise a substantial concern," he said.
Hurst says if you suspect someone is thinking about killing themselves, talk with them about it. It's a myth that talking about it makes someone more likely to follow through. Hurst believes the exact opposite is true.
It's hard to pinpoint exactly what triggers suicide. Hurst calls is a "complex public health problem."
"For all people who commit suicide we can never really know what was going through their mind at that particular point in time."
When a celebrity commits suicide, Hurst says they will typically see a spike in suicide rates. A lot of that depends on how the situation is covered by the media.