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FREE Family Swim Passes now available at Evergreen Pool
Low-income families who qualify for free/reduced lunches and live within the Burien city limits can now receive FREE Family Swim Passes for the Evergreen Community Aquatic Center. The City has partnered... [Read more]
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Evergreen Pool in White Center will be throwing a party for the community this Saturday, Dec. 21, along with a toy and food drive to help the less fortunate in the area. Just bring an unwrapped toy or... [Read more]
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The source images were shot on a Canon EOS 5d with a 16mm fisheye lens.
This 360° panorama was shot from a rock overlooking Killeany Pier on Inishmore (Arainn or Inis Mohr), the largest of the Aran Islands.
Killeany is located on the coast road between Kilronan, the main ferry port, and the airport. In Irish "Killeany" is "Cill Einne"which literally means "Enda's Church", reflecting the fact that St. Enda established one of the earliest monasteries in Ireland near this spot. The nearby cemetery, is still in use, and is said to include St Enda's grave.
The panorama shows a fishing boat at the pier. Along the road to Killeany are many large stone memorials to Island people lost at sea.
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Panoramic views of Ireland |
The panorama was created by combining 27 separate digital photographs covering every angle and with bracketed exposures (from -2 stops to + 2 stops).
The source images were shot on a Canon EOS 5d with a 16mm fisheye lens. They were stitched and blended together by Hugin, an open source program. Hugin in turn invoked a program called "Enblend" to create the HDR effect from the bracketed exposures.
Because of the way that it was created this is a very high resolution image (the equivalent of about 40-megapixels). It is capable of delivering very fine detail even when printed at massive sizes.
I have written a short journal entry introducing the method by which these panoramas are created, it is called:
"Creating a Stereographic Panorama – the Basic Idea"
I have other panoramas here from the Aran Islands .
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How very wonderful! Much admiration for your ability to make these – the globe perspective is really neat. Congratulations on the feature.
Congratulations! Your photo has been featured in "All About Boating"
This photo was chosen because it was of a very high quality and it captured exactly the sort of work we are looking for in this group.
Please keep up the great work and we hope you continue to add more of your excellent photographs to this group.
Thank you so much. I have a few other panoramas that would fit in the boating group – but it will be a while before they are ready to upload. I will be sure to bring them to your group when they are ready. Thanks, George.
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So I love this template and have had no problems with anything until now. When you click on the name of the person who posted it brings up a page with the nickname, bio, email address and all the posts by that author. I beleive this is called the author page. The only problem is that the formatting is all wrong. Is has the left sidebar, then under that is the acctual contant then under that is the right sidebar. I would just remove the sidebars but I can't an option that just lets me remove it from that page. In fact, I cannot find a way to edit the author page at all, so maybe I'm just missing something.
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Louis Bacon's Moore Capital favoring Emerging Markets, Tech, Telecom and Financials
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Louis Bacon's Moore Capital Management shuffled up its portfolio's allocations over the third quarter of 2009. The hedge fund manager increased its holdings most notably in the financial, basic materials, information technology, and consumer discretionary sectors. Moore Capital's highest exposure was to the Financials sector where it increased its holdings by approximately $226mm, bringing its total sector holdings to about $704mm, or 32% of its portfolio. As of 9/31/2009, its top financials holdings included: - Bank of America Corp (BAC): $288.5mm / 17,050,000 shares, 0.2% held, Change: $-50.8mm / -3,000,000 shares - streetTRACKS Series Trust KBW Bk ETF (KBE): $96.8mm / 4,150,000 shares, 0.0% held, Change: $96.8mm / 4,150,000 shares change - Mastercard Inc (MA): $71.8mm / 355,000 shares, 0.3% held, Change: $71.8mm / 355,000 shares - Assured Guaranty Ltd (AGO): $57.3mm / 2,950,000 shares, 1.9% held, Change: $17.1mm / 880,000 shares - Citigroup Inc (C): $50.8mm / 10,500,000 shares, 0.0% held, Change: $50.8mm / 10,500,000 shares Moore Capital also closed-out of some positions in the financials sector, including CIT Group (CITGQ), iShares Xinhua China ETF (FXI), Wells & Fargo Co (WFC), JP Morgan Chase (JPM), and Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS). Overall, the hedge fund manager's sell-offs for these five companies totaled $26mm. Moore Capital's most active sector was the Tech and Telecom sector, where it increased its exposure from only $3mm to over $433mm during the third quarter. The largest new positions include: - SPDR Technology Sector (XLK): $125.2mm / 6,000,000 shares, 0.0% held, Change: $125.2mm / 6,000,000 shares - Vimpel-Communications (ADR) (VIP): $68.4mm / 3,655,400 shares, 1.8% held, Change: $68.4mm / 3,655,400 shares - Merrill Lynch Internet HOLDRs Trust (HHH): $35.5mm / 700,000 shares, 0.0% held, Change: $35.5mm / 700,000 shares - America Movil S.A. de C.V. (ADR) (AMX): $28.5mm / 650,000 shares, 0.0% held, Change: $28.5mm / 650,000 shares - China Mobile (Hong Kong) Limited (ADR) (CHL): $26.5mm / 540,000 shares, 0.0% held, Change: $26.5mm / 540,000 shares | ||
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Okay, my head is starting to hurt. I've done all the reading of your Code of Virginia, Title 18.2-308 that I can stand for now.
Basically, if you have any intention of returning or otherwise availing the firearms to your son within ten years of his conviction (in ANY State), you are guilty of 18.2-308.2:1, a Class 6 Felony. As the unwilling participant in a felony, it would behoove you to immediately surrender the arms to your local P.D., contact the County D.A., or consult an Attorney. I found nothing as to the legality of your son "owning" while not "possessing" firearms, so I won't speculate as to the outcome of such a claim, if made by him. Unless they are something special to you, it would probably be best to rid yourself of them in some way. Which way you choose would be where the educated/experienced opinion of the aforementioned parties will serve you best. Sorry for your predicament, and I wish you the best of luck!
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Its very simple, the son of fxdrider lives out of state and is a convicted felon. If the guns are transerred to the mother a convicted felon will probably have access to them. Fxdrider has the sales receipts for both guns.
An order to release the guns to the mother must come from a judge in the state where fxdrider lives: That means the mother would have to come to fxdrider's state and hire a lawyer and for a hearing or trial. All that stuff costs big bucks: Unless the guns are extraordinarily valuable or the mother has money to burn the chance of a lawsuit is nil. fxdrider, don't give up those guns. Good luck to you. Last edited by thallub; August 8, 2012 at 06:22 PM. |
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I agree with thallub; do Not relinquish these weapons to anyone besides family
I agree 100% skysoldier (above quote is the last line of your post)
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If the order comes from a judge to surrender them, your conscience should be clear. Let him worry about giving a felon access to guns come reelection time. Short of that, I'd just go ahead and hang on to them.
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World Cup 2010 KIckoff Concert in Africa
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Drew, great post. Glad you enjoyed the concert. what you say about redefining poverty is so true.
Some of my fellow countrymen don't have running water, electricity, sewage or even a warm place to sleep tonight.
We are hoping that the tourism and confidence in South Africa increases as a result of the world watching us. That in turn will help our poor...we hope. Enjoy Jozi. GThanks for updates, it's cool to hear first hand reports. I like the feeling of a big event that brings people with a common interest together. Even people who aren't interested in the event specifically tend to absorb and share the good spirit. It's a shame World Cup isn't as big here in Canada as the rest of the world outside of N. America, because it'd be a bit like having a second Olympic fever all in the same year!
ReplyDeleteDude... I'm from SA and you wont believe the trouble with the traffic that we've been enduring for the WC... for the last 3 yrs now... I'm really glad that you enjoyed the vibe and that you had a great time at the concert! Oh and get used to the vuvzela's.. you aint seen nothing yet.. Have a great trip... oh yes.. WELCOME!!
ReplyDeleteWelcome to South Africa Drew... Take some ear plugs to the games bro... otherwise your ears are gonna suffer. Imagine sitting in the stands and having someone behind you blowing one in your ear. The noise inside the stadiums is gonna be HUGE. We have stacks of spirit here and we don't mind the traffic jams for the games, just leave earlier then you won't have the stress of getting there on time. On a lighter note, I noticed a guy driving his car to work this morning with a wig on which was in South Africa colours and his face painted with the SA flag... sooooo coool. I hope you enjoy your stay here. Regards Adrian
ReplyDeleteHey Drew, just wanted to comment on the comment about the poor, and how we need to redefine what poor means here, and I really agree. We do have a lot others don't have in these poorer countries, and we should be more grateful for that and be happy with what we have as opposed to chasing after that that we don't.
That being said though, I think in general we need to redefine our priorities as a whole. We take certain things, such as yes sports more seriously then we should, while the things that really are important in the end and effect our quality of life here we sort of take for granted, meaning our freedoms as a country, or rather freedoms we used to have I guess.
I kind of find it sad in that sense.....that the freedoms are constitution gave us and was founded on even, what made this country so great, is slipping away from us and not many seem to notice as we're so wrapped up in entertainment and what not.
Not that it's bad in itself, and certainly not saying sports is bad per se, but more......we need to put it in perspective. At the end of the day, win or lose it's only a game and life goes on just as it did before it was played.
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- Searching For Low-Phase-Noise Synthesizers
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A hybrid frequency-synthesis approach provides low-phase-noise signals both close to and far from the carrier.
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Clean, quiet frequency synthesizers are essential for modern communications systems. But the performance of RF/microwave frequency synthesizers is often tied to a lower-frequency reference oscillator, such as an oven-controlled crystal oscillator (OCXO), and great effort is often required to produce a microwave frequency synthesizer with low phase noise. To demonstrate, a 10.24-GHz frequency synthesizer with OCXO reference source was developed, and the design path to that synthesizer will be traced.
Phase noise is a vital parameter for oscillators and synthesizers in communications and other systems. It is measured as the ratio between the power density in one phase noise modulation sideband, per hertz, and total signal power.1 Typically, a wideband synthesizer will exhibit more noise than a single-frequency synthesizer. When low noise is required, a single-frequency synthesizer can be combined with frequency mixers to build a wideband synthesizer with low noise.
The phase noise of the signal produced by the synthesizer is determined by the performance of the oscillator used to build the synthesizer, the performance of the reference, and the transfer characteristic and intrinsic noise of the synchronization method. Major contributors to phase noise are the internal oscillator and the reference source (for noise offset far from and close to the carrier, respectively). An OCXO may be used as the reference for low-noise applications, possibly locked to a rubidium clock or a 1 pulse-per-second GPS source.
The phase noise performance of the oscillators has a fundamental limit imposed by the Johnson-Nyquist theory. A resistor at room temperature (300 K) produces about -173.82 dBm/Hz noise, with this power level equally split in two sidebands. A signal with 0-dBm power will have a lower phase-noise limit of -177 dBc/Hz, improving upon -177 dBc/Hz only if the signal carries more than 0-dBm power, as with some low-noise OXCOs.2,3 The best low-noise oscillators are capable of approaching this limit at far offset frequencies. For close-in frequency offsets the phase noise will be determined by the quality factor (Q) of the resonator.
The frequency offset at which the phase noise approaches the theoretical limit is roughly proportional to the frequency of the oscillator, increasing as the frequency increases. Figure 1 shows typical performance levels for different low-noise oscillators, including a 100-MHz OCXO, a 1-GHz surface-acoustic-wave (SAW) oscillator, a 10-GHz dielectric-resonator oscillator (DRO), a 10.24-GHz sapphire oscillator (SO), and a 10-GHz opto-electronic oscillator (OEO).4-10
In Fig. 1, the OCXO phase noise exceeds the -177 dBc limit, because its power is 13 dB higher than the 0-dBm limit. The lowest-frequency oscillators typically exhibit the lowest noise floors. They also show lower close-in phase noise, since the quality factor (Q) of lower-frequency resonators is higher, and because the flicker characteristics associated with these resonators is better. When using these oscillators as the reference of a synthesizer, their noise contribution is scaled by 20log(Fout/Fref). Thus, the noise contribution of a 100-MHz OCXO will be increased by 40 dB when producing a 10-GHz signal. Figure 2 shows the expected noise from these oscillators when used to generate a 10-GHz signal.
As that figure indicates, the lowest close-in phase noise is from the sapphire oscillator (SO), followed closely by the OCXO. The lowest phase noise far from the carrier is for the optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) and the dielectric-resonator oscillator (DRO). Combining the SO or OCXO with the OEO or DRO could achieve lower noise levels. Additional specifications are available in Table 1.
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1: | -Introductory Remarks By Sonny | ||
2: | The Prisoner's Song | ||
3: | Blue Moon Of Kentucky | ||
4: | The Great Speckled Bird | ||
5: | San Antonio Rose | ||
6: | I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry | ||
7: | Wildwood Flower (studio) | ||
8: | I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine | ||
9: | Waiting For A Train | ||
10: | Back In The Saddle Again | ||
11: | Just A Closer Walk With Thee | ||
12: | Hard To Please | ||
13: | Introductory Remarks By Biff Collie | ||
14: | In The Jailhouse Now | ||
15: | Don't Let Me Die On Prison Land | ||
16: | Abilene | ||
17: | Heartaches By The Number | ||
18: | Wildwood Flower (live) | ||
19: | Walkin' Tall | ||
20: | She's What Lovin' Really Is | ||
21: | Pistol Packin' Mama | ||
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Sonny James
After more than four years as a Capitol country artist, Sonny James needed a breakout hit. Not that his career was faltering – by fall 1956, the youthful Alabama balladeer was seen regularly coast-to-coast on 'Ozark Jubilee,' ABC-TV's weekly country music showcase from Springfield, Missouri. Nor was Capitol dissatisfied with James's record sales. His first release of the year, For Rent (One Empty Heart), climbed to #12 on 'Billboard's' list of country best sellers, and its bluesy follow-up, Twenty Feet Of Muddy Water, landed a #11 placing among country disc jockeys. In fact, producer Ken Nelson brought James to Hollywood that August to record an LP – a privilege that Capitol seldom extended to its country or western artists.
But nothing from James's first thirteen sessions yielded anything close to a signature song – a career-maker like You Are My Sunshine, Walking The Floor Over You, I'm Movin' On, Lovesick Blues, or Crazy Arms. With a Nashville session penciled in for late October, James also needed to find something more in synch with a new generation of record buyers. Youths were spending millions on singles by Elvis Presley and Pat Boone. Though his close contemporary Marty Robbins flirted with rockabilly, James opted for something more suited to his warm, intimate style.
James and Dallas-area songwriter Jack Morrow, who co-wrote James's recent country hit For Rent, collaborated on a catchy love ballad that had strong potential for success. With his accompanist Harland Powell, James devised a bouncy background vocal arrangement reminiscent of the Easy Riders' counterpoint on Dean Martin's hit Memories Are Made Of This.
You're The Reason I'm In Love had the potential of meeting – if not beating – Pat Boone on his own turf, and James was sure Nelson would share his enthusiasm. The veteran producer usually trusted his artists' musical and commercial instincts. The only other thing James needed for the upcoming session was a suitable 'B'-side.
But Nelson was way ahead of him. Before James and his longtime steel player/bassist Harland Powell arrived in Nashville, Nelson met with Atlanta music publisher and talent scout Bill Lowery. Since setting up his firm in 1951, Lowery successfully placed numerous songs on Capitol, most recently Gene Vincent's chart-topping rocker, Be-Bop-A-Lula. This time the publisher pitched a rock 'n' roll act he recently released on his Stars label: Ric Cartey and the Jiv-a-Tones. Ooh-Eee, a rockabilly number penned by Lowery protégé and Capitol artist Jerry Reed, was beginning to generate some action around Atlanta. Lowery hoped Nelson would acquire the Cartey single for national distribution.
Though he politely declined Lowery's suggestion, Nelson sensed something special about its flip side, a ballad Cartey penned with his girlfriend, Carole Joyner. "That's your hit, " he told Lowery. Nelson offered to play Young Love to Sonny James when he came to Nashville.
"I went up to the Andrew Jackson Hotel and we were going over songs that we were going to do," James later recalled. "He said 'I've got this song.' I think he told me Bill had brought it to him or something."
The record Nelson played was far removed from anything James had recorded. Well-intentioned but amateurish, it was primitive even for those barnstorming early days of rock 'n' roll. "Anyway, whatever it was, Ken played it for me and I said, 'Are you sure, Ken?' or something like that. He said, 'Yeah.'"
Though Lowery wanted James to consider covering both sides of the Cartey single, Nelson told James to prepare an arrangement for Young Love. "He said, 'You can work your arrangements, your Southern Gentlemen that you want to use, singing," James remembered. "You can work Harland, and at that time I was gonna use Gordon Stoker and I think it was Neal Matthews as the only two other voices and Harland there."
Using Cartey's record as a guide, James retooled the ballad, removing extraneous chord changes and adding stylistic touches that compensated for lines that weren't long enough to fit the melody. "The song on the demo that I heard -- after all these years it's not that fresh in my mind -- but I do remember, the way that I do my voice, and I overemphasize the way that I do it, because Ken figured that I'd probably figure the way to sing it," James said. "You'll notice that it was never this way on the demo at all, but my record was, 'They say for every boy and girl there's just … and I-hi know-ho, I-hi-hi found mine.' Now, I'm over-accenting it. I'm showing you that break, it's a whole lot different. It doesn't sound the same thing.
"I worked with my guitar and I had used this repeated voicing on my earlier record, 'Till The Last Leaf Shall Fall.' If you remember how I had them singing, that's what I did when I got to the chorus of 'Young Love.' This is just one of the changes. 'Young Love (you're my love) First Love (you're my love)…' See, in other words, it's just a style that I had on 'Till The Last Leaf Shall Fall' and the style that I was singing."
Always the professional, James invested a lot of time reworking Young Love, even if it was only intended as a B-side to You're The Reason I'm In Love. However, on hearing the finished product following the session, both James and Nelson thought it would be the big country hit they had been searching for. Almost instantly it became one of the biggest hits of all time. Forty years later, this record is still being programmed around the world.
Jimmie Hugh Loden was born May 1, 1929, in Hackleburg, Alabama, a small agricultural center about ninety-five miles northwest of Birmingham. His parents, Archie and Della Burleson Loden, operated a 300-acre farm about six miles outside of town. By most standards, the Lodens generally fared better than most of their neighbors. Their farm supported three tenant families, who cooperatively used teams of horses and mules to raise enough cotton, corn and hay to see them through each season.
Along with his sister Thelma, who was born five years earlier, 'Sonny' James Loden grew up listening to music. Both of his parents were musicians. Pop Loden played guitar and fiddle but preferred the five-string banjo, while Mom played guitar in an open tuning. Thelma – whom the family always called 'Sis' learned guitar as soon as she could wrap her left hand around the fingerboard. The family owned a wind-up Victrola – Pop particularly liked Jimmie Rodgers' records – and a battery-powered radio introduced them to pop singers like Kate Smith.
James vividly retains childhood memories of Saturday nights when local musicians gathered in each others' homes to play music amid the bronze glow of Aladdin and coal-oil lamps. "I used play around on a broom," he said. "That's when Pop decided, 'Well, I'll give him something that he can at least play around on.' That's when he cut the molasses bucket in half and used the bottom of it and put a neck on it and reversed it. It became the top of a little banjo, but it was tuned like a mandolin. So then I graduated to a mandolin and long about that time – I must have been about three or something – I began singing."
By age eight, Sis Loden was a confident singer and skilled rhythm guitarist with a knack for picking up contemporary hillbilly or pop tunes. Mom's voice soared over the others, creating a harmony that paralleled with what Rose Carter later did with the Chuck Wagon Gang. When Pop added the necessary bass vocals, the Loden Family's sound began to gel....
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Since the quake of February last year, central Christchurch has changed drastically. And in the year since, as LP author Brett Atkinson wrote in his recent article and this May 2012 update, Christchurch has become New Zealand's fastest-changing city.
That's why, on this page you'll find a link to LP's new, post-quake-researched Christchurch & Canterbury chapter. This was researched by author Brett Atkinson in December 2011, and is destined for the 16th edition of the NZ guidebook, to be published in September this year.
To deliver on the promise to provide quality travel information to New Zealand, we are providing this chapter now. Get the free Christchurch chapter here.
If you have a copy of LP's current New Zealand guide (or NZ's South Island or Discover New Zealand), please print this PDF out and fold it inside your book. If you don't have a copy of the LP guidebook – if you have a competitor's guide or no guide at all – well, just print it out anyway! A gift from us to you.
We haven't had time yet to finalise editing, nor to fine-tune our mapping, and we have not included all chapter maps, just the Christchurch ones - we wanted to pass the up-to-date information on to travellers as soon as we could. If you find anything with which you disagree, or if there are other awesome sights/eateries/bars/etc in Christchurch that you think travellers should know about, well, we'd love to hear about them!
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This is wonderful, Lei. I love the little cluster and the swirly "frame". Thanks for joining in.
Bee-yoo-ti-ful siggie, Lei! So you and so beautifully done! I love the frame and the font in which you wrote your name! Gorgeous!
LOVE this Lei!!!!
Beautiful siggy, Lei, wonderful colors and I like the angled tag.
Ooo! Another terrific siggy. This is lovely Lei!
beautiful new siggie
oh Lei, this is gorgeous... I really need to get myself a siggie too after seeing this beautiful one
Lei, such a beautfiul signature.
Beautifully elegant and pretty Siggie, Lei. I really like the warm colors you used.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww Lei - love your pretty new siggie!


text: Choose the 4 Worst Science Fiction Movies Ever: The Last Airbender Vs. Highlander II!Alasdair Wilkins and Meredith Woerner3/27/12 2:40pmFiled to: March movie madnessPollsLast airbenderHighlander ii the quickeningbattlefield earthBatman and RobintweetFb156EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink We're down to the Elite Eight in our quest to find the worst science fiction movie ever made. Who will it be? Mac & Me or Catwoman? Battlefield Earth or Batman & Robin? The time to vote is now! Advertisement You can find all the polls down below. As far as criteria for voting goes, we leave it in your hands. Vote by how you feel. What makes a bigger flop: shattered expectations, or just general crappiness? It's up to you to decide. Today marks the first round. The polls will be open from today to 11 PM PST tomorrow. Here's the official schedule:Elite Eight: TODAY Final Four: Thursday, March 29th Championship: Monday, April 2ndVOTE RIGHT NOW for the movie you think deserves the title of Worst Scifi Movie Ever Made. This round of polling ends tonight at midnight PST. Advertisement Friday's Sweet Sixteen proved just as wild as every other round. On one side of the bracket, 1- and 2-seeds Battlefield Earth and Batman & Robin emerged for a battle between two titans of crap, while on the other side of the bracket you continued to show us just how much we underestimated the terribleness of Catwoman and Mac & Me. The biggest upset was unquestionably Superman IV handily taking down The Phantom Menace with 60% of the vote. Between this and the early exit for Attack of the Clones, it looks like, even if nobody loves the prequels, there are still a bunch of movies you hate even more. But all that is done now — time to choose which movies will go to our Final Four!1. Battlefield Earth vs. 2. Batman & Robin1. The Last Airbender vs. 3. Highlander II: The Quickening6. The Adventures of Pluto Nash vs. 13. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace15. Catwoman vs. 16. Mac & MeReply156 repliesLeave a reply


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Get an overview of this hotelMotel in Oak Creek with free parking
Situated near the airport, this motel is 3 mi (4.8 km) from Mitchell Gallery of Flight and within 6 mi (10 km) of South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center and Crystal Ridge. Chalk Bluff Park and Pitman Theater are also within 6 mi (10 km).
Property Features
Along with coffee/tea in a common area, this smoke-free motel has laundry facilities and a 24-hour front desk. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include multilingual staff and RV/bus/truck parking.
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All 108 rooms offer free WiFi, TVs with cable channels, and free local calls. Video-game consoles, desks, and free toiletries are among the other amenities that guests will find.
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Red Roof Inn Milwaukee Airport features multilingual staff, coffee/tea in a common area, and laundry facilities. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Red Roof Inn Milwaukee Airport is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour front desk
- Number of floors - 2
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- Total number of rooms - 108
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- Laundry facilities
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Free long-term parking, Free self parking, RV, bus, truck parking
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- Premium TV channels
- Video-game console
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Access via exterior corridors
- Blackout drapes/curtains
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I would like to know if it's possible to buy a license for Max 5.1.9. These don't appear in the shop website, are they still available from some other source?
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HYDE PARK—I recently quoted a poem in this column, called "Song of Peace," by Lloyd Stone, thinking that it had never been in print. I am now told that I should have given credit to the Lorenz Publishing Company as they had copyrighted it in 1934. They would have been glad to have me publish it and give them credit for it, which I am now doing, and I only regret that I did not do it at the proper time.
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The usual summer institute which Dr. Mary Langmuir conducts at Vassar College again has been successfully carried on during the past weeks and one night this week I had the pleasure of meeting with the group. I found as in past years that their questions are intelligent ones and show a great interest in the world situation.
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The other day I received a copy of a speech made in the House of Representatives by the Congressman Frank Thompson Jr. of New Jersey on the subject of an advertisement that appeared in most of the New York newspapers and which contained an editorial by Huntington Hartford.
The advertisement attacked American art criticism, abstract art, the contemporary theater, art dealers and museum officials and the public. Only a man with great wealth could have published this editorial and reached thousands of people with his opinions in an effort to put across his point of view with the hope of preventing the development of such art as he disliked.
President Eisenhower in a recent message congratulating the Museum of Modern Art on its 24th anniversary said, "There is an important principle which we should ever keep in mind—the principle that the freedom of the arts is a basic liberty, one of the pillars of liberty in our land."
We may not like or understand some of the experiments made by modern artists but they have a right to experiment. Art dealers and museums should exhibit their art and the public in the long run will make the decision of whether the art is good or bad.
What the President has said stresses a position that is basic to our freedoms.
Congressman Thompson says, "New ideas and experimentation are essential to art and to democracy. We must guard our freedoms jealously, for it is these very freedoms that differentiate our form of government from communism, Nazism and Fascism."
Undoubtedly, young Mr. Hartford, in writing his editorial, was expressing a certain reaction, and he had certainly not thought through all the implications in trying to buy public opinion by printing an advertisement of this kind. True, we sell products in this way and we try truthfully to say what they contain, and urge the public to buy. Mr. Hartford may well have thought we should sell ideas in the same way.
Ideas, however, require more careful handling, and the channels of communication should be free to all points of view, so that those who differ from our point of view may be able to reach the same public that we reach. In the case we are considering it seems to me that this fairness of presenting ideas freely has not been achieved.


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At xpdays Benelux 2009, I attended an interesting session called 'Developing a Sense of Smells' by Kevin RutherFord and Lindsay McEwan.
The exercise we did went as follows: suppose you are asked to do some work on code you never saw before. How would you assess this, go about estimating the effort and explaining that effort to justify the price/number of days. The first round resulted in terms like 'look for design patterns', 'readibility of the code', ...
Then they explained code smells patterns: f.i. a greedy function: one function that does way to much making it difficult to change, hidden secret: internal knowledge such as the real interpretations of a CSV file data format that can not be deduced by looking at the code. The code smells made it easier to express the problems.
The devops in me,thinks that this can be translated to the sysadmin world. Here are some of the 'smells' I've come up.
Private Playground
The sysadmin uses the system as his toy playground, doesn't clean up.
- /tmp & /var/tmp full of old install files
- / full of files
Gready Server
One server that does every function
- combined mail and web and dns and fileshares
- all users on the same system
Root is the cause of all evil
- last show login all root
- no sudo is activated
- no sshd keys for logins
- nfs share/root?
- Chmod 777
- most processes run as root
Cranky Crutches
Things that are needed to keep the system alive when failed
- /etc/ start but no stop scripts
- kill /stop/start in cron jobs
Nobody lives here anymore
Mainly indicate not much maintenance is done any more
- Last update is a long time ago
- Older kernel versions
- last login was more then x days ago
- olders reboot is a long time ago
Complexity Conspiracy
Loadbalancers, Cluster software, Dependencies
More is Less
- All packages installed
- All services running
- All ports are open
This is just the beginning, so if you have your own ideas/names, just leave a comment.


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At the moment, I have functions in PostgreSql that create temporary tables, fill them and then drop them at the end of the function (which for Postgresql is the end of transaction)
The key benefit Postgresql offers me is that these temp tables are local to function execution scope, that is, two simultaneous calls to same postgres function would create the temp table with the same name, but they would not see/touch each others data.
I was wondering if I can do the same thing with VoldDB. Create and drop temp tables visible only to the execution context of a stored procedure.
Apologies for being lazy and asking this question instead of setting up voltdb and trying it out. Your response will save me at least a few hours, which would mean a lot for me at the moment.


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The April issue of the magazine has a story commemorating the 15th anniversary of the tragedy at Waco.
Actually, it isn't a "story" in the purely journalistic sense of that word. What Texas Monthly presents instead are "stories," snippets of narrative from several people who were in Waco during the siege -- law enforcement officers, Branch Davidians, and others.
Some of what's presented is fiction.
Sadly, Texas Monthly allowed former followers of David Koresh to repeat claims that have no demonstrable basis in fact, claims that are either deliberate lies, or, perhaps just as likely, the product of delusional minds.
For example, one of them intimates that the federal agents who initially approached the Branch Davidian compound opened fire first -- that the agents, there to serve a search warrant, just started blasting away -- and that any gunfire from inside was retaliatory, from citizens justly defending themselves and their property. Says Clive Doyle:
The government tells it as though we were waiting for them in ambush, and then we just opened up and blasted the daylights out of them. That's not true. If we had been waiting for them, they would never have gotten out of those trailers. Now, David had shown us in the Scriptures that it was okay to defend your family and your property. So after that huge barrage of gunfire, some people grabbed guns. Whether they already had them or whether they went and got them, I don't know, but they retaliated.
All of the best evidence -- all of it -- is that Koresh and his comrades were tipped off about the raid, waited in ambush for the feds to arrive, then opened fire, killing four of them.
Then there's the matter of the fire that brought the siege to a disastrous end on April 19, 1993. In the Texas Monthly narrative, two Branch Davidians repeat the unsubstantiated accusation that the FBI started the deadly blaze.
"We didn't start any fire! The fire was set by the government," one says.
"Until one of the survivors who was there tells me that they lit the fire, I'll never believe that we started it. Because where I was, that didn't occur," another one says.
But here's what the evidence shows. From Byron Sage, who was the FBI's primary negotiator during the standoff:
I ended up reviewing all the audiotapes that our concealment devices recorded on April 19, and there are 47 times when the Davidians mention spreading the fuel: "Do you have more fuel?" "I need some Coleman over here," and so on. Now, we didn't hear these tapes in real time; if we had, I'm confident that we would have changed course. Right after Steve [Steve Schneider, a Koresh lieutenant] hung up on me on the nineteenth, there was a clear order: "Spread the fuel." The last recording on that mike is also, I'm convinced, Steve, and he says, "Start the fires." This is not us trying to make up some story. These are actual audiotapes of Davidians inside the compound.
There will always be conspiracists who insist that Koresh was an innocent, murdered by evil agents of an evil government. (That's what Tim McVeigh believed, and 168 truly innocent people lost their lives in Oklahoma City as a result.) There are lingering disputes about many aspects of what happened at Waco, and some of them will never be resolved. And the government surely deserves blame for having botched this thing at a hundred turns, starting, very probably, with the decision to launch the raid in the first place.
Still, it serves no one when a distinguished magazine, one that has earned our trust over many years, allows the repetition in print of dangerous fantasies and damning canards. Whatever happened at Waco 15 years ago is too important for such casual treatment.


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Besides being one of the most successful consumer products in decades, the iPod has changed our behavior and even our society. It has transformed Apple from a computer company into a consumer-electronics giant. It has remolded the music business, altering not only the means of distribution but even the ways in which people enjoy and think about music. Its ubiquity and its universally acknowledged coolness have made it a symbol for the digital age itself, with commentators remarking on "the iPod generation". Now the iPod is beginning to transform the broadcast industry, too, as podcasting becomes a way to access radio and television programming. Meanwhile, millions of "Podheads" obsess about their gizmo, reveling in the personal soundtrack it offers them, basking in the social cachet it offers, and even wondering whether the device itself has its own musical preferences.
Steven Levy, the chief technology correspondent for Newsweek magazine and a longtime Apple watcher, is the ideal writer to tell the iPod's tale. He has had access to all the key players in the iPod story, including Steve Jobs, Apple's charismatic cofounder and CEO, whom Levy has known for over 20 years.
©2006 Steven Levy. All rights reserved; (P)2006 Simon and Schuster Inc. All rights reserved. AUDIOWORKS is an imprint of Simon and Schuster Audio Division, Simon and Schuster Inc.
"Apple fans and iPod owners will enjoy Levy's exploration." (Publishers Weekly)
"An enjoyable listen"
I enjoyed this audiobook. I knew it was a fluff piece and it didn't have character development, etc, but its a book about the iPod, so that's not what I was looking for. It was an interesting look at the making of the iPod and some very "fanboy" observances. As much as I enjoy my MP3 player (not an iPod, btw), it IS just another means to listen to my own audio collection, albeit a very cool one.
And agreeing with the previous reviewer, the chapter on shuffle-mode was quite a bit long in the tooth and really only worth a couple of minutes mention.
The quality of this audiobook's recording was substandard. The voice was "tinny" and not as clear as most other audiobooks, which is ironic as heck.
Overall, though, if you consider yourself a tech fan, I would recommend this book.
"An Appreciation of the iPod"
An enjoyable book, keeping in mind that this isn't a critical appraisal - it's more about the phenomenon of the iPod and its impact on culture and music consumption. I saw myself in the book - everything from the new enjoyment I derive from my music collection thanks to my library's portability and shuffle, to the physical connection I feel with my iPod, and now, my iPhone. I think Levy nicely captured the tactile enjoyment many people derive from their iPods. He also filled in a few gaps (for me, at least) in the iPod story.
Former Marine 4321, former State Department public diplomacy officer. Current USAF Public Affairs Specialist
"This Book is a Blast"
This book is hardly academic, but it has a lot of fascinating data. It rambles and I love the narration in the audible.com version. The narrator's delivery is awesome. It's also awesome that I was listening to the audible version of the book on ... of course ... my iPod.
I'm not a Mac-ophile. Unlike some of the comments in the book about the spiritual journey of the company Apple, I'm not really there. However, I really enjoyed the description of the how the iPod came to be. How the designers really wanted something "perfect" and kept pushing to create it. I love their obsession with minimalism. The focus on designing something to such a level that the design itself becomes virtually invisible -- that the functionality of the device is key.
The discussions about how the iPod has made people into Stepfords like the bad robot wife movie is hilarious. Anyone with a long commute knows the daily mindlessness and sense of complete lost time, even life from those lifeless, senseless minutes that seem to drain years from one's life. My iPod took the drear out, engaged my mind with audiobooks or at least let me feel like the time was valuable with foreign language vocabulary study.
I find this book odd for its obsession with music, since music is only one of many types of media one can consume on this device. One company, sadly gone out of business, created a set of Chinese character flashcards for the iPod, which I thought was awesome. I love Lumosity, so I was really stoked to hear they'd created Apps for the iPod, but when I went to the iTunes store, was sad to discover they are only for the iPod touch.
The pocket entertainment system has significantly reduced the pain of plane rides and unfortunately, I have endured too many transoceanic flights -- the worst is a half-globe flight with a wailing infant -- but the iPod adds a cottony distance between me and the child making sleep possible and taking the edge off the baby's high notes.
Honestly, I can't imagine life without this thing now. It improves my life in so many ways. I can consume audio books at a significantly higher rate than I was ever able to consume paperbooks. And I can carry them with me without exceeding airline luggage limits. I can change, according to brain fatigue from Chinese philosophy or Japanese language instruction to Judas Priest with the same swish and flick hero Harry uses to vanquish villains in Potter flicks.
Thanks to the Apple team and thanks to Steven Levy for this fun and frolicking history of the thing that modernized life.
I read on the internet that iPods have sold more than 300 million. In this book, Steven Levy notes that the walkman sold around 300 million. Is that right? Are they neck and neck for sales? Seems odd somehow.
"Mildly entertaining, but too lightweight at times"
This title reads more like a collection of magazine articles or essays than a solidly researched book. Given its source - Newsweek tech writer Steven Levy - that doesn't surprise. The sections that discussed the development of the iPod and the thinking of Apple's staff were interesting, but lengthy discussions of hip young people trying to out-cool each other with their music selection, or an inane chapter on whether the shuffle function is really random (of course it is!) bog down what could have been a much more in-depth look at an admittedly amazing product and cultural phenomenon.
Always Learning though I'm not sure it changes much of your life to be honest.
"not a book, it's a commercial!"
Not one single character developed to relate to. Whats worse is no info either. He makes a hundred references to how "sexy", how "naked the beauty is". Tries to get you to believe it is the "drug of today". It is neither. Nothing helpful like, tips, shortcuts, fixes support, websites, NOTHING! The whole book is about how your playlist can make you cool. Dozons of obscure bands are mentioned.(with no sample sound of course.) Nothing about photos, or t.v. programs, The man does not even talk about the fact it playes videos or movies. One whole chapter wasted on, if the "shuffle is random or not! Yes it is. In his perfection rant, he doesn't wish to talk about the high cost-crashes-cables that break in your hand-no support-$30.00 for a piece of plastic accessory-downloads of inconsistent quality and volumn-you buy it and they think they still own it, dictating exactly what you may or may not do. We can go on. Bottom line, the artist sets the mood, and delivers the emotions, not the i-pod. It's a high teck tape recorder, thats all. The positive item is the author has a great vocabulary and a good writer. In the end no info was exchanged, i learned almost nothing,and it was a waste of time and money.


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−Lefse Fundraiser3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Sons of Norway's is having their Annual Lefse Fundraiser. Prepaid lefse orders are being taken now through November 3rd with delivery on Saturday, November 14th at CrossPoint Church in Hutchinson. Package of three large rounds for $6.50. For more information email firstname.lastname@example.com or call Gabra Lokken at 320.234.8979.
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−Meeker Sportsmens Meeting8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
The Meeker Sportsman's Club is having it's monthly meeting on Wednesday, Nov 4th at the Litchfield VFW, and they would like all interested people to come. They will update everyone on the status of the club, and what they expect to accomplish in the next year. All interested persons just need to show up.
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−The Taffetas5:30 pm – 9:00 pm
The Hutchinson Theatre Company presents the Dinner Theatre Production of "The Taffetas", Nov. 5-7th and Nov. 12-14th at the Crow River Winery. Doors open at 5:30 pm each day, Dinner at 6 pm, and Show at 7 pm. Tickets are $40 per person and available online (hutchtheatre.org) or at the Hutchinson Center for the Arts and at the Hutchinson Chamber office.
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St. John's Lutheran of Winsted invites you to a Chili and Pie Luncheon on Friday, Nov 6th from 10a-1p. Cost is a free will donation. Crafts and Baked Goods for sale also. Proceeds support Missions.
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There is a Christmas Bazaar and Bake Sale at the Winsted Legion on Friday and Saturday (Nov. 6, 7). Hours Friday are Noon-5 pm, and Saturday is 9a-2p.
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Scandian Grove Lutheran Church of Norseland is having their Lutefisk and Meatball Supper on Saturday, Nov. 7th from 11a-2p and 4-7 pm. Cost is $16 for adults, $6 for ages 6-12, and 5 and under eat free.
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The Stewart American Legion is hosting their Poultry Party and Raffle on Saturday, Nov. 7th starting at 5:30 pm at Cactus Jacks 2 in Stewart. Free BBQ's and Beer 6:30-8 pm, Raffle, Paddle Wheel and more at the event.
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−Turkey Dinner10:00 am – 1:00 pm
The Church of St. Mary in Arlington invites everyone to their Turkey Dinner on Sunday, Nov. 8th from 10a-1p. Cost is $10 for adults, $5 for chid. Serving Turkey, Stuffing, Mashed Potatoes and all the fixin's!
+10:00 amTurkey Dinner -
−Soup and Sandwich Luncheon10:30 am – 1:00 pm
St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Green Isle is having a Soup and Sandwich Luncheon from 10:30a-1p on Sunday, Nov. 8th. Serving Chili, Chicken Noodle, Cream of Broccoli, and Wild Rice Soups. Adults are $8, Children 6-10 are $4 and 5 and under are frfee. Proceeds used for local and world mission projects.
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−Turkey Bingo6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
St. Thomas More Church of Lake Lillian has Turkey Bingo on Sunday, Nov. 8th at 6:30 pm. Free Lunch and Door Prizes given away. Everyone is welcome.
+6:30 pmTurkey Bingo
−Brownton Legion Meeting7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
The Brownton American Legion Post and Auxiliary will be meeting on Monday, Nov. 9th at the Brownton Community Center starting at 7:30 pm.
+7:30 pmBrownton Legion Meeting
−Senior Dance1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
The Next Senior Dance at the Cosmos Legion will be Wednesday, Nov. 11th from 1:30-4:30 pm with music by Michael James.
+1:30 pmSenior Dance -
−Monthly Community Dinner5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
The Brownton Congregational Church invites you to their Monthly Community Dinner, the 2nd Wednesday of each Month. Next one is Nov. 11th from 5-7 pm. Cost is only a Free Will Donation.
+5:00 pmMonthly Community Dinner
−Trees and Traditions9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Christ the King Lutheran Church of Hutchinson hosts their annual Trees and Traditions event on Saturday, Dec 5th from 9a-2pm. View decorated trees, table settings, collections, and quilts…Shop at the Country Store, Bake Shoppe, or Silent Auction…and enjoy lefse and krumkakka demonstrations. Light lunch available for $5 from 11a-1:30p.
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−International String Trio7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
The Hutchinson Concert Association presents "The International String Trio" on Thursday, Nov. 12th at 7 pm in the Hutchinson High School Auditorium. Hear music from Bach to the Beatles. Tickets are $20 at the door or with a concert membership. Questions? Contact Cyndi at 234-6762.
+7:00 pmInternational String Trio
−Chow Mein Dinner11:00 am – 1:00 pm
The Church of Peace, NYA is having a Chow Mein Dinner on Friday, Nov. 13th from 11a-1p. Cost is a free will offering.
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−Holiday Open House5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
The Emmaus Gift Shop of Litchfield is having their Holiday Open House on Friday, Nov 13th from 5-7 pm and Saturday, Nov. 14th from 9a-1p. Bake Sale on Saturday at 9 am including Scandinavian Treats.
+5:00 pmHoliday Open House
−Documentary Premiere7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
The Mcleod County Historical Society is hosting a premiere of the documentary "Little Crow and the Dakota War" on Saturday, Nov. 14th at 7 pm. Popcorn and Refreshments will be served. More info at mcleodhistory.org
+7:00 pmDocumentary Premiere
−Bouja/Chicken Noodle Soup Sale8:30 am – 12:00 pm
The Next sale of Bouja and Chicken Noodle Soup is Sunday, Nov. 15th at St. Anthony's Church of Watkins from 8:30a-Noon. Bouja is $13, Chicken Noodle is $12 per gallon. You may preorder by calling Larry at 320-764-2965.
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−Hot Dish Sunday10:30 am – 1:30 pm
The Brownton Congregational Church Ladies invite you to Hot Dish Sunday, November 15th from 10:30-1:30 pm. Cost is $8 for adults, $4 for Children 4-10, and Kids under 3 along with All Veterans eat Free.
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−Love Potion #103:30 pm – 6:00 pm
The GSL Panther Association presents Love Potion #10 featuring the Whitesidewalls and Michael Patrick "Records" Ryan, Nov. 15th at 3:30 pm at the Glencoe City Center. Tickets are $25 and availavle online (glencoemn.org) or at the City Offices. The Panther Association will have a variety of desserts available for purchase and a cash bar.
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−God's Acre5:30 pm – 9:00 pm
The God's Acre Banquet at United Lutheran Church in Lake Lillian will be on Sunday, November 15. Social hour is at 5:30, dinner is at 6:00 and music and message by "Allen and Matt" will be at 7:00.
+5:30 pmGod's Acre
−DC Turkey Bingo6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
The Dassel Cokato Wrestling Team is holding their Turkey Bingo Fundraiser on Thursday, Nov. 19th at the High School Commons. $10 per person, proceeds support the Wrestling team.
+6:00 pmDC Turkey Bingo -
−HL Library Event6:15 pm – 8:00 pm
The Howard Lake Library is hosting an evening of fun and information for children ages birth-5 years old and their families on Thursday, Nov. 19th from 6:15-8 pm. Free Refreshments and a gently used book for each child. Plus there will be free resources from the library, WIC, Public Health, HLWW ECFE, and other community resources.
+6:15 pmHL Library Event -
−Meeker County Light of Love Holiday Trees7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Light a bulb in Meeker County this year for the Light of Love Holiday Trees around the communities. To light a bulb contact Ecumen Home Care and Hospice of Litchfield. Tree Lighting Ceremonies will be held: Nov 19th in Cosmos at 7 pm – Nov. 20th in Atwater at 6:15 pm – Nov. 21st in Litchfield at 3 pm – Nov. 29th in Kingston @ 4:30 pm – Nov. 30th in Darwin at 6:30 pm – Dec 11th in Dassel @ 4:30 pm.
+7:00 pmMeeker County Light of Love Holiday Trees
−Kingston Chili Feed5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
The Kingston Apostolic Lutheran Church has their annual Chili Feed on Friday, Nov. 20th from 5-7 pm. Serving Chili, Cornbread, and more. Craft and Baked Goods for sale also.
+5:00 pmKingston Chili Feed


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Randomized, Controlled Trial of Regular Sildenafil Citrate in the Prevention of Altitude Illness
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Condition | Intervention | Phase |
High Altitude Pulmonary Edema Acute Mountain Sickness |
Drug: Sildenafil citrate Drug: Placebo |
Phase 4 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor) Primary Purpose: Prevention |
Official Title: | Randomized, Controlled Trial of Regular Sildenafil Citrate in the Prevention of Altitude Illness |
- Pulmonary Artery Systolic Pressure (PASP)
Enrollment: | 62 |
Study Start Date: | March 2003 |
Study Completion Date: | February 2008 |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: 1
Sildenafil citrate
Drug: Sildenafil citrate
50mg tds
Placebo Comparator: 2
Drug: Placebo
Placebo tds
Detailed Description:
High altitude pulmonary oedema (HAPE) is a life-threatening non-cardiogenic lung injury precipitated by exaggerated pulmonary hypertension. The incidence of this rapidly progressive illness, among the estimated 40 million visitors to high altitude each year, may be as high as 0.5-2.0%. The pathogenesis of HAPE is multifactorial and may include impaired clearance of alveolar fluid, increased pulmonary vascular permeability and genetic susceptibility. Elevated pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) caused by hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV) is a key prerequisite for the development of HAPE and thus the reduction of PAP is paramount in the prophylaxis and treatment of this devastating illness.
Nitric oxide (NO) is thought to play an important role in the exaggerated HPV that characterises HAPE. NO, constitutively produced in the lung by the enzyme endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), increases intracellular cGMP in pulmonary vascular smooth muscle and activates cGMP-dependent protein kinase, ultimately leading to a reduction in intracellular calcium and smooth muscle relaxation. HAPE-susceptible individuals exhale less NO during both normobaric and hypobaric hypoxia suggesting that a deficiency of NO synthesis may predispose to HAPE. At high altitude, inhaled NO causes a significantly greater reduction in the systolic PAP of HAPE-susceptible individuals compared to its effect on the PAP of HAPE-resistant subjects, but the administration of NO would be impractical in the field. Most recently, work has concentrated on another target in the NO pathway.
Sildenafil citrate is an orally active, potent and selective phosphodiesterase type-5 (PDE-5) inhibitor. PDE-5 is the predominant enzyme responsible for degradation of cGMP in the lung. In a small sea level study, Zhao et al. demonstrated that pre-treatment with sildenafil nearly completely abolished the pulmonary vasopressor response to breathing hypoxic gas in healthy humans. More recently, studies at altitude have also shown reductions in pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP) in subjects taking sildenafil at high altitude.
One potential problem with the use of sildenafil at altitude is that PDE-5 inhibitors may worsen symptoms of acute mountain sickness (AMS). Headache is a defining symptom in AMS and is a prominent side effect of sildenafil.
We conducted a double-blind placebo-controlled randomised trial to assess the effect of regular sildenafil administration on PASP and Lake Louise AMS score at an altitude of 5200 m.
Ages Eligible for Study: | Child, Adult, Senior |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Participant in Apex 2 high altitude expedition
Exclusion Criteria:
- Previous history of high altitude pulmonary edema
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00627965
Principal Investigator: | Matthew Bates | Altitude Physiology Expeditions |
Additional Information:
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | Director, Altitude Physiology Expeditions |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00627965 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
Sildenafil1 |
Study First Received: | February 24, 2008 |
Last Updated: | February 24, 2008 |
Keywords provided by Altitude Physiology Expeditions:
Sildenafil citrate Prevention High Altitude Pulmonary Edema |
Acute Mountain Sickness Healthy Lowland Subjects Pulmonary Artery Systolic Pressure |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Pulmonary Edema Altitude Sickness Hypertension, Pulmonary Lung Diseases Respiratory Tract Diseases Respiration Disorders Sildenafil Citrate Citric Acid Vasodilator Agents |
Phosphodiesterase 5 Inhibitors Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors Enzyme Inhibitors Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Urological Agents Anticoagulants Calcium Chelating Agents Chelating Agents Sequestering Agents |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 28, 2017


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One thing that has not been discussed, amid the arrival of the Wii U and thus the departure of the Wiimote as the central controller of Nintendo's console, is the fact that this means that by and large, a great source of unintentional comedy is slipping away from us.
Yes, the Wiimote offered much in the way of hilarity to the world, often due to the fact that most people are incredibly clumsy. But now that's ending as it cedes its place as Nintendo's weird controller to the GamePad.
So long, dear friend. You made us laugh, you made us cry (when we saw the repair bills), and you have contributed, in your own special way, to popular culture.
Here, in GIF form, are just some of the joys the Wiimote has brought us.
Although to be fair, this one wasn't caused by the Wiimote, really.
If only this were actually possible.
Apparently nobody has bothered to make this as anything bigger than avatar sized. Shame.
Ah, the pitfalls of live television. Here's what we're wondering: During the entire QA process, this never came up? At all?
The Wii and live broadcast simply do not mix.
Now, this, on the other hand, is absolutely baffling. This isn't live. There's a director, an editor, a producer, all people who could have looked at this and thought "What will the most perverted place on the Internet think of this clip of video?" Which is part of their job, really. Maybe they just didn't like their jobs? That's all we can come up with.
It is dangerous to be siblings and on the Wii, apparently.
And, just to show that it's not all comical injuries and property damage, here's a Wiimote controlled robot in a beer can.


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Mayoral candidates trade attacks at Santa Ana forum
SANTA ANA A candidates forum focusing on business issues became a forum for challenger Councilman David Benavides and incumbent Miguel Pulido to attack each other over leadership, vision and City Hall's relationships with business.
"There hasn't been a strategic plan and a vision to make Santa Ana the strong, vibrant city that it can be," said Benavides, who has served on the City Council since 2006. "After 20 years, it's understandable that the current person would be tired. But times have changed."
He said it's time to bring in a mayor who can make the city business-friendly.
"It's easy to talk about things. It's hard to realize things," said Pulido, who has held the mayor's job since 1994. "But if you look around the city, whether it's the Artists Village, Mater Dei, the widening of Bristol Street, they're all projects that have taken years to build, but they're wonderful."
About 50 people attended the forum, held this week at Delhi Center. Candidates were asked a variety of questions, including the city's fiscal challenges, pension reform, and how they would encourage business development.
Benavides reminded the audience that the city came close to bankruptcy last year, blaming "20 years of poor decision making."
He pointed to "a lack of bold decisions in the past" that contributed to the city's financial situation.
"I think it's disingenuous to vote with somebody 98.6 percent of the time for six years and then pretend like those six years never existed," Pulido said. He said the current budget, which includes a plan to develop a surplus, was approved with a unanimous vote, "and it was under my leadership."
Benavides also raised an issue that at times has surfaced at council meetings – the culture of City Hall.
"If you go right now, there's definitely a sense of an insider's club, of sorts," Benavides told the audience. "If you're friends with a particular person, you might get your development project approved, you might get your business approved. That's not the way that a business-friendly city should operate."
He said that within the first 100 days of being mayor, he would form a business-improvement task force with members of the business community and local chambers to find out what they need and what the city could do to help.
Pulido said that with close to 16,000 businesses, some will have problems, and he proposed an ombudsman to help.
He highlighted the vote he took against a portion of the "Sunshine Ordinance" the City Council approved on Monday. The council voted 7-0 on some provisions, but narrowly approved other provisions dealing with land use on a 4-3 vote, in which Benavides voted yes and Pulido no.
The portion Pulido opposed will require developers to hold community meetings on certain larger-scale projects. The Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce had notified the city it was preparing a letter to express its concerns.
"If we would have taken time to listen to the chamber, the chamber would have said, 'Don't do this,' because what we did was we added $1,000 at least on any major development to do another meeting," Pulido said.
On other issues, candidates generally agreed that a two-tier system needs to be set up for pensions and pointed to the need to cut the red tape that businesses face at City Hall.
Among the other mayoral candidates, George Collins said the city needed to build up business in order to build up revenue. He said the city needs to lower business taxes to be more competitive, needs to encourage people to dine and shop in the city and needs to promote itself through its public-access channel.
Lupe Moreno pointed to safety as a concern, and also to the proliferation of food and produce trucks on city streets. She said that the city needs to have a department that would work with new businesses, which she said are over-regulated.
Miguel Angel Briseno said the city needed to encourage entrepreneurs, who would in turn contribute to the tax base. He supports a proposal that would allow marijuana dispensaries to operate in Santa Ana and would impose an extra 2 percent sales tax.
Four candidates seeking the Ward 3 seat took part.
Eric M. Alderete said that as a member of planning commission for more than five years, he helped create jobs and housing. He pointed to his legal experience as a corporate lawyer, and his familiarity with small business through his service on the California Small Business Board.
Shane Ramon Barrows said the city needs to become friendlier to business, and he said he wanted to create a partnership with the chamber to seek solutions. He called for a reduction in business fees and red tape.
Charles Hart pointed to his experience in the private and public sectors dealing with contracts and labor-management issues. He said the city's business fees lead businesses to set up shop in other cities at Santa Ana's expense.
Brett Elliott Franklin, a former member of council, said the city needed to conduct an audit to ensure its fiscal health. He said the city needed to improve its image, and make it easier for businesses to work with City Hall.
Ward 5 candidate Karina Onofre said she grew up in Santa Ana in a financially unstable home, but went on to graduate from Alleghany College and is now a businesswoman with real estate, insurance and tax licenses. She called for reform of the city's business taxes to be more competitive.
Absent were mayoral candidate Roy Alvarado; Ward 1 candidates Estela Amezcua and incumbent Vincent F. Sarmiento; Ward 3 candidates Angelica Amezcua and Stefano "Steve" Rocco; and Ward 5 candidate Roman A. Reyna.
The Orange County Labor Federation has endorsed Benavides, Sarmiento, Alderete and Reyna. Sarmiento said he has also received the endorsement of the Los Angeles/Orange County Building Trades Council.
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Lehtinen Officially Retires From NHL
by Staff Writer / Dallas StarsFRISCO, Tex. – Former Dallas Stars player Jere Lehtinen officially announced his retirement today as a player in the National Hockey League.
Statement from Jere Lehtinen:
Photo Gallery Lehtinen Tribute Video |
It's a tough decision due to the fact that you play hockey your entire life and then must decide to stop playing. However, I choose to focus on all the great times I had playing over the past 15 seasons, understanding that I am very fortunate to have played all those years with one organization. The memories I have playing in Dallas will never be forgotten and I will always be proud of the fact that I finished my career where I started it.
There are so many people that have positively influenced my career, including the entire Dallas Stars organization, the coaches, the players, the trainers, the fans and most importantly, my family. To all of those people I want to say thank you. Everybody that touched my career in some facet, whether small or large, had an impact on me and I will always remember that. Thank you."
Lehtinen, 37, played 14 seasons in the NHL (1995-2010), all with the Dallas Stars. He appeared in 875 regular season games for Dallas, scoring 243 goals and 271 assists for 514 points with 210 penalty minutes. Lehtinen also played in 108 playoff games for the Stars, tallying 27 goals and 22 assists for 49 points and 12 penalty minutes. He won the Stanley Cup with Dallas in 1999, assisting on Brett Hull's Cup-clinching goal in Game Six at Buffalo.
Lehtinen among Stars' all-time franchise leaders:
- Ranks 8th in franchise history in all-time scoring (514 pts.).
- Ranks 3rd in franchise history in games played (875).
- Ranks 7th in franchise history in goal scoring (243).
- Ranks 10th in assists (271).
- Ranks 1st in +/- (+176)
- Ranks 3rd in game-winning goals (37).
- Ranks 4th in playoff games (108).
- Ranks 6th in playoff goals (27).
Other notable accomplishments:
- Won Selke Trophy (Best Defensive Forward) three times ('98, '99, '03) – One of only four players in NHL history to win three-or-more (also Bob Gainey, 4, Guy Carbonneau, 3, and Pavel Datsyuk, 3).
- Was nominated for the Selke Trophy six times.
- Led the Stars in goal scoring in three seasons:
- '06-07: 26 goals
- '05-06: 33 goals
- '02-03: 31 Goals
- Remains the only Finnish player in history to win both a Stanley Cup (1999) and a gold medal at the World Championships (1995).
- Played in five Winter Olympic tournaments for Finland (1994- bronze; 1998- bronze; 2002; 2006 – silver, 2010 - bronze).
- All-time among Finnish players in NHL:
- 5th in Goals with 243 (1 behind EsaTikkanen).
- 7th in Points with 514.
- 8th in games played with 875.
- 10th in Assists with 271.
- 2nd in plus/minus at +176 (behind only Jari Kurri, +282).
- 4th in Power Play goals with 77.
- 6th in game-winning goals with 37.
- 3rd in playoff games with 108.
- 4th in playoff points with 49.
- 4th in goals with 27.
- Tied for eighth in assists with 22.
- Chosen to play in the NHL All-Star Game twice (1998, 2002 – did not play due to injury).
- Notched seven 20-goal seasons over his career, only Mike Modano (16) and Brian Bellows (10) have more in team history.
- Career +/- at +176 ranks 67th all-time in NHL history.


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Holiday window secrets
Designers dish on their festive creations.
Tue Dec 14 2010
Macy's | Henri Bendel | Lord & Taylor | Barneys | Saks Fifth Avenue | Bergdorf Goodman
Henri Bendel
712 Fifth Ave between 55th and 56th Sts (212-247-1100, henribendel.com). Through Jan 3.
The concept: Bendel collaborated with the the New York City Ballet to riff on one of the best-known NYC traditions: George Balanchine's the Nutcracker. "We presented the concept to them, and they loved everything," says Bendel's visual director Gilberto Santana. To create the outfits, Santana and his team worked with Marc Happel, the NYCB's director of costumes. And for the accessories—such as the tiara and necklace worn by the Sugar Plum Fairy—Santana tapped designers Badgley Mischka and Jennifer Behr.
The result: The finished windows are "about 99 percent" similar to Santana's concept, he says. The display combines traditional Bendel iconography, like the store's striped boxes, with stylized interpretations of classic Nutcracker characters. The tree is adorned with 15 screens playing scenes from the NYCB's production.


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so much for the last prophet
Islamist sect found, after nearly a decade of living underground in Russia's Kazan.(AA).Seventy members of an Islamist sect who have been living in an underground bunker without heat or sunlight for nearly a decade have been discovered living on the outskirts of the city of Kazan in Russia, local media reported. The sect members included 20 children, the youngest of whom had just turned 18 months. Many of them were born underground and had never seen daylight until the prosecutors discovered their dwelling on Aug. 1 and sent them for health checks. A 17-year-old girl turned out to be pregnant.
Religion was suppressed in the Soviet Union which collapsed in 1991, prompting various cults and sects to flourish in the vacuum that opened up. The group - known as the "Fayzarahmanist" sect - was named after its 83-year-old organizer Fayzrahman Satarov, who declared himself a prophet and his house an independent Islamic state, according to a report by state TV channel Vesti. Satarov was described as a former deputy to a Sunni Islamic cleric in the 1970s. His followers were encouraged to read his manuscripts and most were banned from leaving their eight-storey underground bunker which had been dug in the basement of a building, Vesti said. Prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into the sect and have said it will be disbanded if it continues its illegal activities, such as stopping its members from seeking medical assistance or education. No arrests have been made although police are likely to look into suspicions that some of the children were being abused. A court will decide whether the children will be allowed to stay with their parents.Read the full story here.


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Smith, S M (2004) Information mobility: the behavioural technoscape. Working Paper. Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development, Lancaster University.
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The convergence of new and old technologies is not only changing the way we communicate but is influencing the mobility and speed of information exchange as well as the devices and users themselves. This paper will address the relationship between humans and technology (especially communication devices and the technologies which enable them to be connected) and the mobility of information between people and devices. This combination, I argue, is not separable and that humans render technology as part of the 'social' rather than part of the 'technical' in which they are normally positioned. Technologies influence behaviour and humans influence how technologies are used, this combination of technology, users and mobility of information between them, I propose, forms a behavioural 'technoscape'.
Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Mobility ; Information ; Technology ; Behaviour |
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Departments: | Lancaster University Management School > Institute for Enterprise & Entrepeneurial Development (IEED) |
ID Code: | 48718 |
Deposited By: | ep_importer_pure |
Deposited On: | 11 Jul 2011 22:08 |
Refereed?: | No |
Published?: | Published |
Last Modified: | 24 Mar 2017 01:17 |
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URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/48718 |
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National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) 2016
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD), held annually on February 7, encourages African American and African immigrant communities to get educated, get tested, get treated and get involved with HIV/AIDS prevention. The theme for NBHAAD 2016 is, "I Am My Brother's and Sister's Keeper: Fight HIV/AIDS!"
NBHAAD is directed, planned and organized by the Strategic Leadership Council who partners with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to mobilize communities and provide technical support to localities to influence the course of HIV/AIDS prevention in Black communities across the country.
2016 Events Calendar
How to Plan NBHAAD Activities:
- Community-Based
- Local
Public Health Departments
Governor Dayton's 2016 Proclamation (PDF)
On this page:
How Organizations Can Participate
HIV/AIDS Facts for Minnesota
For More Information
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2016 Fact Sheet (PDF)
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2016 Talking Points (PDF)
How Organizations Can Participate
Organizations may wish to provide or host activities that can help raise awareness about HIV/AIDS within their communities.
- Host an event to re-sound the alarm;
- Articles/editorials/news releases in newspapers and newsletters;
- Community forums on AIDS;
- Rapid HIV testing opportunities at community locations and events;
- Agency/clinic-based HIV testing for walk-ins arranged and scheduled;
- Public exhibits to distribute HIV prevention education materials;
- Community marches and rallies;
- Social media and mobile text messaging used to promote NBHAAD;
- Agency web pages created and posted for the observance;
- Youth peer education performances at schools and public events;
- Places of worship promote the observance; and,
- Get NBHAAD resources from the National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day website
As of 12/31/14, a total of 10,718 HIV and AIDS cases have been reported to the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) since the epidemic began:
- 2,126 (20%) African American
- 823 (7 %) African-born
- 652 African Americans have died
- 60 African-born persons have died
- 1,719 African Americans currently living with HIV (includes those who have relocated to Minnesota)
- 1,100 African-born persons currently living with HIV (includes those who have relocated to Minnesota)
307 new HIV cases were reported in 2014:
- 136 (44%) cases among whites: rate 3.1 per 100,000
- 61 (20 %) cases among African Americans: rate 31.8 per 100,000
- 52 (17%) cases among African-born: rate 67.0 per 100,000
- Statewide rates for African Americans were 10 times greater than whites
- Rates for African-born communities were 22 times greater than whites
For More Information
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Strategic Leadership Council
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
NBHAAD Web site
Content Notice: This site contains HIV or STD prevention messages that may not be appropriate for all audiences. Since HIV and other STDs are spread primarily through sexual practices or by sharing needles, prevention messages and programs may address these topics. If you are not seeking such information or may be offended by such materials, please exit this web site.