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Ben Folds released his retrospective this week, called The Best Imitation of Myself (also a great song with the Ben Folds Five). The liner notes Ben gives about each song are great, but he failed to mention—perhaps out of humility—how the song we heard this morning has, I'm sure, nearly replaced The Wedding Song as the, well, go-to wedding song. I actually heard Ben's version of The Luckiest in a music-listening (read: non-wedding reception) setting for the first time this morning!
Thanks to Brian Laidlaw:http://www.brianlaidlaw.com for coming on this morning, celebrating the release of his new album, Wolf Wolf Wolf. We also heard new music from Tom Waits and Pert Near Sandstone.
New music this morning from a group out of Brooklyn called Superhuman Happiness, a group out of Kansas City called Making Movies, a group out of Boston called Caveman, and something not-yet-released from our own Dakota Dave Hull, recorded with former Minneapolitan (now out in Virgina, I think) Duck Baker.
We welcomed members of Phantom Tails:http://phantomtails.bandcamp.com/ and Fort Wilson Riot:http://www.fortwilsonriot.com/Home.html into the studio this morning. They each have a new ep available, and actually did a split vinyl, available only at their live show at the Triple Rock December 3rd.
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Lodi, CA
Marjorie L. Haskins
Nov. 14, 1948 - Dec. 8, 2012
Marjorie L. Haskins (Deede) age 64, of Lodi, California, passed away on Saturday, December 8th, 2012, at her home. Deede was born November 14, 1948. Living most of her life in San Joaquin County, She spent her time caring for all the children in her life. She was preceded by her parents Ruby and Frank Jones, brother Loren Oliver, sister Doris Young. Deede is survived by sons John C.II and Thomas William Haskins and grandchildren Brandon,
Andrew, Shelby and Amanda, and a host of other family and friends.
Funeral services will be Graveside at Cherokee Memorial Park in the Garden of Gospels, on Friday December 14, 2012 at 1 pm. The family ask that in place of flowers being sent to the graveside services, living plants be sent to her many friends at The Ashley Place, 1321 S. Fairmont Ave., Lodi, CA 95240.

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It's T-minus two days until Mother's Day. If you have totally forgotten haven't found just the right present, here's an easy, heartfelt and FREE idea: Create a super-slick video using your best photos and videos.
Our new Video Maker tool lets you upload photos and videos (if you have them), and then add music and transitions to make it feel like a professional put it together. Then you can send it to Mom to totally make her day, and share on Facebook too. Create a video of the best moments from the year, or tell the story of a sweet moment, like this video of a little girl's first ride down a slide:


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You've been staring at the blank spots on your pedal board at every practice, you want that wicked big delay sound but not before you get that killer buzzsaw distortion for that riff (you know the one), oh and it wouldn't hurt to get an EQ to give your guitar a little extra bite. Sound familiar?
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Categories: Intellectual Property
Instructor(s) Ghosh, Shubha
The class, structured as a practicum, will provide a hands-on approach to the understanding of the main theoretical and practical issues surrounding intellectual property ownership and infringement. The course will be divided into three parts covering three distinct issues: (1) Protection of valuable information and ideas through trade secret and copyright ; (2) Marketing of products and technologies through copyright and trademark; (3) Promotion of new technologies and innovation through copyright and patent. In addition to close reading of cases and statutes, the course will develop through two writing projects and a final writing assignment due the last day of finals. All of the writing projects will be based on a developing fact pattern. Time will be provided during the semester for focus on the review of the material and the writing assignments. The course is designed for students with a solid background in the first year curriculum, strong background in science and the humanities, strong writing skills, and advanced degrees in an analytical field in the natural sciences, engineering, humanities, and social sciences. The course is also structured for those who wish to pursue opportunities with the Entrepreneurship Law Clinic.


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UCA News - Issue 93
UCA Mountain Societies Research Centre Co-Hosts International Events: International Symposium on Pastoralism in Central Asia & World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT) Events
International Symposium on Pastoralism in Central Asia
The University of Central Asia's (UCA) Mountain Societies Research Centre (MSRC) and the National Centre of Competence in Research North-South (NCCR North-South) co-hosted an International Symposium on Pastoralism in Central Asia: Status, Challenges and Opportunities in Mountain Areas, 13-18 June 2011 in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic. The Symposium was co-sponsored by Mountain Partnership, which is hosted at UCA, and GIZ.
His Excellency Torogul Bekov, Minister of Agriculture of the Kyrgyz Republic opened the Symposium and highlighted the importance of pastoralism in the development of mountain societies, as well as regional cooperation and Ministry initiatives to promote environmentally-friendly practices. During his remarks, UCA Director General Dr Bohdan Krawchenko, announced the establishment of the MSRC, which is dedicated to supporting and enhancing the resilience and quality of life of mountain societies through sound research on sustainable mountain development and management of their physical, social, economic and cultural assets.
The Symposium was attended by 140 participants from over 20 countries and different sectors, including herders and rural inhabitants; scientists and academics; policy makers and government representatives; development practitioners and NGO representatives; and media representatives. Pastoralism is a traditional primary source of livelihoods in mountain areas of Central Asia and pastoralists, particularly in fragile mountain environments of the region, face dynamic challenges that require innovative and adaptive solutions. Symposium participants sought to create a deeper understanding of these complex issues and identify measures to positively inform policy and programmes.
The keynote presentation by Dr. Carol Kerven from the Odessa Centre (UK), provided an overview of mountain agro-pastoralism in Central Asia, based on a review paper commissioned by the MSRC, with recommendations for future directions for research in this area to address knowledge gaps and inform policy and practice. Other presentations included Pasture Reform in Kyrgyzstan: Problems and Solutions by Dr. Egemberdiev, Director of Kyrgyz Pasture Department; Development Policy and Practice regarding Mobile Pastoralists in Africa by Professor Leif Manger, University of Bergen, Norway; Theories, Management Practices and Policies by Dr. Yi Shaoliang of the Aga Khan Foundation, Afghanistan; and information about the Aiyl Demi Newspaper by Ms. Elbegzaya Batjargal and Ms. Jyldyz Mukhametsalieva of the Central Asian Hub of Mountain Partnership, which is hosted by UCA.
Scientific thematic sessions were conducted on issues ranging from Historical and Contemporary Challenges of Agro-pastoral Production to Development Interventions and Central Asian Pastoral Committees. In a special session, UCA Research Fellows Dr.Inam-ur Rahim and Dr. Daniel Maselli presented the MSRC/NCCR North-South Herders' Manual, which blends traditional and scientific knowledge to provide simple, effective tools for improving animal and pasture productivity in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan.
"The Herders' Manual has been developed with input from the community and local experts using participatory methods and is designed to support herders, livestock owners, village pasture committees and respective authorities in pasture management and monitoring to improve their understanding and knowledge about sustainable pasture and livestock management," said Mira Arynova, Coordinator of the Central Asian Regional Office of NCCR North-South, which is hosted at UCA. Participants also participated in a field excursion to Chui and Naryn districts, where they met with herders to learn about current pasture use and management, and the impact of policies and initiatives, such as local pasture user committees.
World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT) Share Fair on Sharing Sustainable Land Management Knowledge to Respond to Global and Local Issues, and the 15th Annual WOCAT Workshop and Steering Meeting
The World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT) Share Fair on Sharing Sustainable Land Management Knowledge to Respond to Global and Local Issues, and the 15th Annual WOCAT Workshop and Steering Meeting, took place from 21-27 June 2011 in the Kyrgyz Republic. The events were jointly hosted by UCA's MSRC and partners, the NCCR North-South and the global WOCAT management (Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern; Food and Agriculture Organization; and the International Soil Reference and Information Centre) and secretariat.
"UCA's recently-launched Mountain Societies Research Centre (MSRC) is proud to co-host these events. The MSRC aims to support and enhance the resilience and quality of life of mountain societies through sound research on sustainable mountain development and management of their physical, social, economic and cultural assets. Partnerships with platforms such as WOCAT are critical to the success of these initiatives," said Dr. Nasreen Dhanani, Deputy Director of UCA.
WOCAT is a global network of Soil and Water Conservation specialists, contributing to sustainable land management. The events brought together 100 participants from 25 countries to create synergies, strengthen collaboration and harmonize activities between different stakeholders, and address climate change adaptation and mitigation, pasture and grazing land management, and new WOCAT modules. The WOCAT Share Fair took place in Bishkek, bringing together over 50 organizations to share information on sustainable land management projects.
This was followed by the 15th Annual WOCAT Workshop and Steering Meeting in Naryn district, in which plenary and working group sessions assessed WOCAT progress to-date and plans for future activities. Field visits to Tolok and the surrounding areas of Naryn and Jergetal were also organized. The event led to the identification of priority actions that could be undertaken by WOCAT members, institutions and governments in Central Asia to capitalize on the potential benefits of integrated sustainable land management and climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies in dryland grazing systems.
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Kristen's Guide to Cathedral Square
Name: Kristen
Neighborhood: Cathedral Square/Lower East Side
City: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
My Home: Historic one-bedroom apartment in an ivy-covered brick walk-up
Nestled between Lake Michigan and downtown Milwaukee is a neighborhood lined with boulevards and within walking distance to some of the best Milwaukee has to offer. From delectable cafes to a park boasting one of the city's best farmers markets, the historic charm of the neighborhood is contrasted by the modern architecture of Santiago Calatrava's Milwaukee Art Museum and multiple condo developments along the lakefront.
Kristen's Guide to Cathedral Square
1. Favorite Bookstore
DOWNTOWN BOOKS: 327 East Wisconsin Avenue
Wander the stacks of this used bookstore with multiple levels of literary imagination to be explored.
2. Favorite Coffee Shop, Café, or Restaurant
BUCKLEY'S KISKEAM INN: 801 N. Cass Street
A great place to meet friends for brunch on Sunday, or just grab a copy of the New York Times and a latte and plant yourself on the patio during the summer months. Another option is to stroll down to the lakefront and grab a cup of coffee at Alterra.
3. Best Place to Pick Up Groceries
METRO MARKET: 1123 N. Van Buren Street
4. Best Place to Buy Flowers
CATHEDRAL SQUARE FARMERS MARKET: In Cathedral Square Park
June through October, Saturdays 8 am - 12:30 pm.
5. Best Neighborhood Park
CATHEDRAL SQUARE PARK: West of the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist
Also check out Juneau Park and Veteran's Park.
6. Best Spot to Take Visitors
COUNTY CLARE: 1234 N. Astor Street
An Irish bed and breakfast, I suggest taking guests to try the Guinness Pot Roast for dinner. You can also grab a pint of Milwaukee's finest local brews.
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That was my reaction when I learned what topic would be discussed in the recent Eat Smart Move More Weigh Less program. Moving. And not only moving, but moving more.
That was my reaction when I learned what topic would be discussed in the recent Eat Smart Move More Weigh Less program. Moving. And not only moving, but moving more.
I�ve written columns before about some of my weight loss ordeals and how exercise in particular is difficult for me. I feel awkward when I do it and after I do it for a while, I get bored. When I�m moving with a purpose, like cleaning the house or chasing the dog or doing yard work, then I don�t mind it at all. But I�ve never been able to consistently get to the point where I exercise regularly and get it to click in my mind that the whole purpose is moving. It just feels like wasted time to me.
Not so surprisingly, I couldn�t be more wrong about that last sentence.
The program says there are three types of exercise to increase physical fitness and help with weight loss: aerobics for heart and lungs; muscle-strengthening for stronger muscles; and flexibility for muscles and joints.
Aerobic exercises, like dancing, walking, running and riding a bike, get your heart rate up and require a large amount of energy, so they burn more calories. Adults should do at least 30-60 minutes at a moderate intensity or 15-30 minutes at vigorous intensity about five times a week.
Strengthening muscles comes from resistance exercises, like push-ups or sit-ups or using hand weights or stretch bands. They help maintain and build muscle tissue, which is important because it burns calories even when at rest.
Regular strength training also affects body composition or how much of your total body weight is composed of fat weight and how much is composed of fat-free weight (muscles, bones, tissues, organs). Signs that your body composition is improving are when your clothes fit better, tasks are easier and you can visually see the difference.
Flexibility exercises are those that require reaching, bending and stretching. They help give a greater freedom of movement, improved posture, increase physical and mental relaxation, reduced muscle tension and soreness and lessen the risk of injury.
Healthy adults should do flexibility exercises at least two to three days per week.
And children need to move more as well. They need at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day.
If you decide to move more and what to build an exercise routine, Eat Smart says to check with your doctor for some additional and instruction.
The bottom line is that most any activity can get you moving more and feeling the benefits.
And there�s nothing awkward, boring or �ugh� about that.
Timmi Toler is city editor of The Daily News who is keeping up with the Eat Smart, Move More, Weigh Less 15-week weight management program sponsored by Onslow County Parks and Recreation, N.C. Cooperative Extension and the Onslow County Health Department. Contact her at email@example.com.


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The European Union's executive body has come out in favor of lessening U.S. influence over the Internet infrastructure, a move brought on by revelations of U.S. National Security Agency surveillance of online activity.
The European Commission said Wednesday it would push for a "clear timeline for the globalization" of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
"The next two years will be critical in redrawing the global map of Internet governance," Neelie Kroes, commission vice president, said in a statement. "Europe must contribute to a credible way forward for global internet governance. Europe must play a strong role in defining what the net of the future looks like."
Countries have complained for years that U.S. involvement in ICANN give it too much influence over the root domain registries of the Internet, which control the routing of traffic into and out of nations. ICANN exists under the authority of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Over the last year, critics' arguments have been bolstered by revelations of massive data gathering of Internet activity globally as part of the NSA's anti-terrorism efforts. Media reports on the NSA's work stem from documents taken from the agency by former contractor Edward Snowden.
Eli Dourado, research fellow at the Mercatus Center in George Mason University, said the EC proposals underscores "the foolishness of U.S. global surveillance policies, which have inspired an international backlash."
"Its a shame that the U.S. has squandered its reputation as a leader in civil liberties by engaging in such overbroad global surveillance," Dourado told CSOonline.
While not mentioning the NSA by name, the commission said its proposals came "in the wake of large-scale Internet surveillance and reduced trust in the Internet." The commission said it was committed to globalizing decision-making and improving "transparency, accountability and inclusiveness" of countries dependent on the Internet for communications and commerce.
While supporting the EC's push for more transparency in Internet governance, Dourado said, "until we know what exactly they mean by 'globalization' of ICANN and IANA, that aspect of their proposal is hard to evaluate." (IANA, or the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, is the part of ICANN responsible for Internet protocol resources).
Jacob Olcott, a principal on cybersecurity at Good Harbor Consulting and a former counsel for U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.VA., argued that the proposed changes were unnecessary because the U.S. did not have any more influence over Internet governance than any other country.
"It's hard not to see this as political posturing," Olcott said of the EC.
Much of the criticism of U.S. influence has been led by non-Western countries, such as China, Iran and Russia, which have an interest in more government control over the Internet to prevent political dissidence at home. Western nations have opted for less government involvement in order to foster freedom of speech and innovation.
Countries pushing for more international control over the Internet have tried to transfer governance to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), which is under the United Nations. Western countries fear ITU decisions would be unduly influenced by countries less supportive of a free Internet.
While the EC does not support ITU control over the Internet, its position, coupled with the international fallout from NSA activities, will likely lead to changes in Internet governance that result in less freedom on the Web, some experts say.
"There's going to be changes. I think they'll probably be bad and I think the Europeans should be careful what they wish for," Paul Rosenzweig, former deputy assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Homeland Security, said. "The loss of Western support for ICANN is going to lead to greater authoritarian control of the network."
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Many of us decline both paper and plastic options to bag our groceries thanks to the widened availability of reusable totes. It's a simple change that helps the environment, but green bags may carry an unwanted danger along with your freshly bought groceries, reports MSNBC.
Questions about the safety and sanitation of reusable grocery bags stem from a 2010 incident in Oregon, involving several members of a youth soccer team who became ill with symptoms like vomiting and diarrhea. After the first player to fall ill left without any further contact with her teammates, several other girls fell violently ill in the subsequent days. Scientists eventually traced the illness back to packaged cookies, which had been kept in a reusable bag that was in the hotel room of the first player to become sick. Weeks later, the bag still tested positive for norovirus.
PLUS: Germ Fighting Tips for a Healthy Baby
Noroviruses are highly contagious and the main cause of gastroenteritis (or stomach flu), causing an estimated 21 million cases a year, 70,000 hospitalizations, and 800 deaths. And they're tough to combat because they can live on objects and surfaces for extended periods of time. Although it's unlikely that one might contract an illness from any given bag, researchers at the University of Arizona and Loma Linda University found large numbers of bacteria in reusable grocery bags, including 12 percent that were contaminated with E. coli. The number of bacteria jumped 10-fold when scientists stored the bags in the trunks of cars for two hours. Yuck.
PLUS: Germ Alert: Protecting Your Family
The good news is that the study found that washing reusable shopping bags regularly decreased contamination by 99.9 percent. "We wash our clothes when they're dirty; we should wash our bags, too," said Kimberly K. Repp, an epidemiologist with the Washington County Department of Health and Human Services in Oregon, to MSNBC. She recommended that a regular simple wipe down with Lysol or Clorox can do the trick.
Do you clean your reusable grocery bags? Did you know that your tote could be so easily contaminated?


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Baked oatmeal is a special treat for breakfast and perfectly acceptable to eat at any and all hours of the day including for dessert!
Cubes of apple laced with peanut butter dominate every bite of this thick and creamy oatmeal with crunchy walnuts and warm notes of brown sugar and cinnamon.
Apples love peanut butter. In case you didn't know. Apples and peanut butter? They both love oats. Win-win.
A sudden craving for oatmeal cookies came over me as I was whipping these up! The craving subsided after eating one of these cute little crocks full of soft oatmeal slightly reminiscent of a cookie.
The recipe as written is not overly sweet, if you like your oatmeal on the sweeter side bump up the sugar a little and add more milk so they won't be too dry.
A spoon of jelly dolloped over the top or a drizzle of maple syrup can only make them better.
Cubes of apple laced with peanut butter dominate every bite of this thick and creamy oatmeal with crunchy walnuts and warm notes of brown sugar and cinnamon.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease with butter or baking spray: 6 small oven-proof ramekins and place so they are not touching on a large baking sheet. Or grease an 8×8 inch deep-sided baking pan.
- In a large bowl mix oats, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder and salt together. Stir in milk. Microwave peanut butter 10 seconds and stir into mixture until well combined. Stir in apple cubes.
- Measure a 1/2 cup of mix into each ramekin, if there's anything left in the bowl distribute evenly amongst the ramekins. Bake ramekins 20 minutes, an 8×8 pan 30 minutes. Garnish with walnuts and/or a dollop of jam. Best eaten right away, leftovers can be stored in refrigerator tightly covered 3-4 days, you may need to add milk to them after reheating as the oats continue to suck up the liquid as they sit.


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Return For Russell to Castleford
Castleford Tigers are very pleased to announce that Russell Gaunt will be returning to the club at the end of August as the club's new Sales and Marketing Director. Russell had a previous and very successful spell with the Tigers as Commercial Manager and is delighted to be returning to the club in this new post.
The Tigers Chief Executive Richard Wright in making the announcement said:
?Russ was the first person I brought to the club to kick start the off-field operation back in 1996. I worked with him for three years and am well aware of his ability. We went through the bad times in early 1997 and great times in 1999 and we were disappointed to lose him when he left us for Leeds, although we fully understood his reasons for leaving."
?Russ?s return to the club is a great boost to us. We have to increase income from all sources if we are to compete at the highest level and his joining us will certainly strengthen our off-field management team. This is an important step if we are to achieve our long-term goals and we are all looking forward to working with him again.? Added Richard.
Russell himself said: ?When I left Castleford it was to take up an opportunity to work with both cricket and the two rugby codes at Headingley and that experience as part of a big operation has given me the opportunity to learn an awful lot. But I have always held a strong affection for Castleford and am proud of the work that we did in my time there."
?When I was offered this opportunity to return to the club in the capacity of Sales and Marketing Director it was one that was too good to miss. The Tigers have impressed me with their ambition and I am really looking forward to the challenge of taking the club forward off the field and in turn generating the revenue to take it forward on the field of play.?
The Tigers had originally planned to appoint Bristol Rugby Union Commercial Director Mike Turner to a similar post but he could not take up the position for personal reasons.


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Underwater cliffs and monster bass (up to 13 pounds) attract divers to this sizable reservoir straddling the U.S.-Mexico border near Del Rio. Some 540 miles of shoreline on the Texas side makes the lake's underwater features easy to reach.
Amistad NRA staffer Angela McClendon points fellow divers to Scuba Cove in the park's Diablo East area. Marked with buoys and sporting a paved ramp for easy entry into the water, the cove contains two sunken boats and a treasure chest to explore, and McClendon promises we'll see turtles, sunfish, bass, and catfish. "Look for baby bass hiding in rock crevices," she says, "and listen to the catfish croaking underwater as it gets late."
'You follow a rock cliff down to about 100 feet and see fish in the crevices, and when you look up, the rock looks like a castle.'
A dive called Castle Canyon is McClendon's favorite. "You follow a rock cliff down to about 100 feet and see fish in the crevices, and when you look up, the rock looks like a castle," she says.
Mark Bewley of Amistad Aqua Adventures knows of several other cliff dives, some up to 130 feet deep. "Chuy's Island has some swim-throughs, all recreation--
al. The old Highway 90 bridge is a sub-merged picnic area with stone picnic tables, shade covers, fire and barbecue pits, and even stairs that are still intact. I take people to a submerged ranch house at about 45 feet. There's also a sinkhole that we dive. I won't finish this lake in my lifetime. It's an incredible dive site."
Sign up for Bewley's two-tank dives on Saturdays, or rent his 29-foot boat for a two-tank daytime dive trip, or for a nighttime dive. He also takes divers on overnight camping trips that involve a dive the next morning and on dives in the Pecos
or Devils rivers, which feed into Amistad.
Visibility in Lake Amistad runs up to 30 feet, with temperatures in the mid-50s in winter and mid-80s in summer. Early summer offers the best diving, as the water warms up but visibility remains good.
Amistad Aqua Adventures, 210/508-5038; Amistad National Recreation Area, 830/775-7491.
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1909-1911 T206 Walter Johnson - Portrait
Starting Bid - $400, Sold For - $1,998
Graded EX 5 by PSA. Extremely attractive high-grade example of one of collecting's most classic cards. T206 Walter Johnson portrait is one of the most famous of all vintage baseball cards. This card is widely recognized to be among Walter Johnson's most striking cards. In fact, the majestic portrait of Johnson on this card is considered by many advanced collectors to be the single best image of Walter Johnson to appear on any baseball card. This is a beautiful example! It is crisp and clean, with bold colors and a bright yellow background. The corners are square with just a hint of even, very light wear. Centered 40/60 left to right. The Piedmont advertising on the back is boldly printed. This is an exceptional card in an extremely desirable grade, and would be a worthy addition to any T206, Walter Johnson, or classic Hall of Fame card collection. SMR value for the assigned grade is $1,750. Reserve $400. Estimate $800/$1,200+. SOLD FOR $1,998
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text: Rave Computer has announced a new ruggedized MIL-SPEC-810F in-vehicle computer that looks good for use in autonomous vehicles and robots too. The RCV 6100 is based on a 1.6 GHz Atom N270 with up to 2GB of RAM. The fanless design can operate in temperatures ranging from -30 C to 60 C (-22 F to 140 F) and run on 6 - 36 VDC. IO includes a PCI-104 expansion connector, 2 mini PCI express slots, compact Flash and SIM slots, GB Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n, GSM or WCDMA, Bluetooth, GPS, 3 USB ports, 2 RS-232, 1 RS-485, 1 LVDS, 1 VGA, 1 DVI-D, audio in and out, 4 GPIO ports (4 in and 4 out). And, of course, you can run GNU/Linux on it. For even more info, see the RCV 6100 spec sheet (PDF format). How much will all this cost? Rave isn't saying but our guess is you should apply the old rule of thumb: if you have to ask, you can't afford it. Via LinuxDevices.com


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Will they ever learn?
Yes, yahoo hacked two times and yahoo updated its security system in December 2016. Thanks for providing awesome information about hacking. If you need any help regarding hacked website fix then you can contact me.
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Car Review
2013 Ford Flex: New Car Review
Pros: Offbeat good looks; elegant interior; upscale options and electronics; comfortable on long drives.
Cons: Small cargo area behind third-row seat; low ground clearance; city fuel economy only so-so.
What's New: The 2013 Ford Flex gets an eye-catching new front end, more horsepower and better fuel economy for the 3.5-liter V6, and an improved MyTouch. New options this year include adaptive cruise control, Blind Spot Information System (BLIS), inflatable second row safety belts, Intelligent Access with push-button start, a power tilt/telescopic steering wheel and rain-sensing wipers.
There are plenty of 7-passenger SUVs on the market, all of them with pluses and minuses. But if you're looking for something truly unique, a vehicle more like that big station wagon you grew up with, the 2013 Ford Flex might very well be the car for you. The Flex's boxy shape and low-to-the-ground profile is the first hint that this SUV is something different, but look closer at the grooved side panels, the broad aluminum panel covering the rear liftgate's lower half, the available white-capped roof, the list of standard and available equipment and the outstanding roster of safety features and you'll see why the Flex is in a class of its own.
Ford offers two V6 engine choices in the Flex. Both are reasonably fuel efficient on the highway, although city economy is nothing to write home about. There is an all-wheel-drive model for those who regularly deal with winter's worst. What the Flex lacks in off-road and heavy-towing ability (it's rated at a max of 4,500 lb), it more than makes up for on streets. The Flex offers seating for seven people or a cargo bay big enough to haul home a 55-inch flat-screen TV.
Available in three trims (SE, SEL, and Limited), the Flex can go from a nicely equipped family vehicle for around $30,000 to a fully decked-out cruiser that has no trouble wearing a $50,000 price tag.
Comfort & Utility
The Flex outshines the competition with an interior that is truly unique. From the elegant diamond-pattern leather seating to the handsome dash and the sculpted door inserts, the Flex looks and feels like a premium crossover. While we can't say we're thrilled about the small knobs and buttons used to control the audio and ventilation, we generally like the layout and features found on the Flex's instrument panel.
The Flex's roomy interior offers a number of configurations, including a choice of bench or bucket second-row seating. When equipped with the bucket seat option, a refrigerated center console can be ordered. The Flex's third-row seat may prove too narrow for two adults, but young children should be quite content, especially if your Flex is equipped with the dual DVD, rear-seat monitors. When not hauling people, the Flex's second-row and third-row seats fold flush to create a level loading floor; an available power folding third row and power liftgate make it even easier to load large or heavy cargo.
The Ford Flex offers a host of technology and convenience options aimed at both driver and passengers. A Vista Panel multipanel roof provides a power sliding front sunroof along with two small fixed glass panels over the second-row occupants and one enormous glass panel over the third-row seat. Individual DVD screens mounted behind the front-seat headrest keep the kids entertained, while a refrigerated center console keeps beverages and snacks cool and dry.
Audiophiles will love the available Sony 12-speaker, 390-watt stereo, made even more user friendly by the SYNC hands-free communication system and MyFord Touch. Among other things, the system allows for voice control of iPods or cell phones. The SYNC system also provides Vehicle Health Reports and 911 assist; it can also read aloud incoming text messages. Flex Limited features standard ambient floor and cup holder lighting that can be changed to suit the driver's mood.
Ford's voice-activated navigation system is one of the better ones we've tested, with a large, bright monitor, touch screens that are easy to use and understand and features such as Sirius XM traffic and weather. A rear backup camera projects its image on the navigation screen, and the sonar-based rear parking assist can alert the driver of objects near the bumper.
Perhaps the coolest option on the Flex is the Active Park Assist, which can parallel park the vehicle for you, requiring only that you select reverse or park and brake when prompted.
Performance & Fuel Economy
Ford offers the Flex with two V6 engine choices, both of which are hooked to a 6-speed automatic transmission, with the SelectShift 6-speed automatic as an option. The standard engine on all trims is the 3.5-liter V6 rated at 287 horsepower and 254 lb-ft of torque. Fuel economy estimates for this engine are 18 mpg city/25 mpg highway (2WD) and 17/23 mpg (AWD). For most needs, the 3.5-liter does just fine, with good throttle response, smooth operation and plenty of power for pulling and passing, even when fully loaded. Those who prefer a bit more kick in their car can opt for the EcoBoost V6, which is essentially the same 3.5-liter engine equipped with twin turbochargers. Rated at 365 hp and 350 lb-ft of torque, the EcoBoost produces V8-like pulling power while demanding only a small penalty at the pump, with an estimated 16/23 mpg. The EcoBoost engine is only available on the Limited trim and only with all-wheel drive and the SelectShift transmission.
Airbags cover the Flex's front passengers from both the front and the sides, while side curtain airbags cover all three rows. Available inflatable second-row safety belts are offered on all trims. Ford's AdvanceTrac with roll stability control is standard, bringing electronic stability and traction control. The EasyFuel capless fuel filler does away with the traditional screw-on fuel cap, and available puddle lamps help you see when stepping out of the vehicle at night.
Driving Impressions
The Flex is one of our favorite vehicles. It's easy to drive, can haul lots of people and stuff and gets pretty good fuel economy on the open road. We also like the Flex's quirky good looks, and we love the excellent 360-degree visibility provided by its nearly all-glass greenhouse. On the road, the Flex delivers a very supple ride and a quiet cabin, thanks in no small part to a heavy use of laminated side glass. In congested urban settings, the Flex is surprisingly easy to maneuver despite its long body and wheelbase. The Limited trim's available 20-in wheel and tire package helps the Flex round curves without drama, and the steering feel is nicely weighted and responsive.
Merging and passing for the base 3.5-liter V6 is strong and linear, but if you're looking for seat-of-your-pants acceleration, the 3.5-liter EcoBoost engine is the obvious choice. The EcoBoost engine brings both a boost in power and extra grip provided by the accompanying all-wheel drive.
Other Cars to Consider
Chevrolet Traverse - The Traverse has a wider, more comfortable second-row and third-row seat arrangement and more cargo space behind the third row seat.
Honda Pilot - The Pilot is more SUV-looking, a feature some might like. It offers more ground clearance, but its roof is more difficult to reach when loading skis or a cargo carrier.
Dodge Durango - The Durango's V6 is impressively powerful, and there's the option of a HEMI V8. The Durango can tow more weight than the Flex.
Toyota Highlander - The Highlander holds its value better than the Flex and comes in a hybrid version.
AutoTrader Recommends
Truthfully, the base SE trim comes very well equipped, is reasonably priced and holds its value fairly well. If you don't need automatic climate control and power folding seats, the SE provides all the basics a family requires. For a few hundred dollars more, you can add must-have options such as SYNC and SirusXM. If money is no obstacle, a fully loaded Limited with the EcoBoost V6 is the way to go. Here, power and luxury combine in a unique package that looks fantastic on its 20-in chrome wheels. Top it off with the Vista Roof and two-tone roof panel, and you'll have one of the sharpest 7-passenger CUVs on the road.


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|Pick and Roll
|Rick Eid
|Alec Smight
|Original Airdate
|November 7, 2012
|Previous Episode: Play Dead
|Next Episode: Fallen Angels
Pick and Roll is the sixth episode in season thirteen of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Things get personal when D.B. Russell is drawn into the investigation of the death of his son's basketball coach.
Basketball coach Tom Burns is found dead in the showers beaten to death. They find out he was beaten with a weapon with flat surfaces, sharp edges. Russell visits his son Charlie and meets Vanessa, Charlie's girlfriend. The LVPD finds out that someone tried to clean up the crime scene with towels. There are also two sets of footprints. The team finds out that Charlie had punched the coach in the nose hours before he died. Nick and Russell find out that Burns was playing with someone AKA Unknown Female. They meet Burns's wife, who was in Tahoe, locking up their cabin. Russell and Nick find out that Vanessa, Charlie's girlfriend, was discipling Burns because she's a licensed sex therapist. Russell asks her if Charlie knows what she does. Russell then takes Vanessa's wine glass to get her DNA. Her DNA matches their unknown female, meaning she was sleeping with Burns. They then find out that the tear on Burns's forehead had traces of Longessa. They find Longessa meds that were prescribed to Burns's wife, Linda. Sara and Nick find out that there were a lot of calls between Burns' wife and Oxford. Nick then says that the Longessa puts Linda in the shower, standing over her dead husband's body. Nick calls Brass and plans to tell him to bring in Linda and Oxford. Brass then tells Nick that Jack Oxford, WLVU's biggest donor, is dead. Linda then admits she was sleeping with Oxford. She said that the affair was just a fling. She knew that her husband was seeking professional company with Vanessa. She does say that she saw her husband's body that morning. She fled and made up a story about being in Tahoe. She had thought Oxford had done it because her husband and Oxford had argued that Burns refused to put Oxford's son, Eli, on the team. After Russell's son, Charlie, visits him, Russell starts to think that a basketball was rolled at the scene. Hodges and Morgan use many modern basketballs, but none of them make the pattern at the scene because the balls they rolled made dimples and bounced in a reasonably straight line, while at the scene, the pattern was smooth, no dimples, and it was jagged and irregular. The team then figures out that an antique basketball with laces prior to 1948 rolled through Burns's blood. It leads them to WLVU's president, Rob Austin, who killed Burns. His basketball stand is the murder weapon because the CSIs swabbed it and the basketball, and it came back positive for Burns's blood. He killed Burns out of anger. Burns had refused to let Oxford's kid on his team. He said that he was the face of WLVU. Austin was just a Ivy League pimp with his hand out, looking for money. Austin then says that Oxford gave millions to the school. Burns got all the glory, but Rob did all the hard work. After he killed Burns, he saw Linda driving up. He knew she was having an affair with Oxford. Rob hated Jack, so he stole Linda's gun and shot Oxford in order to set up Linda and blame her.
Main Cast
- Ted Danson as D.B. Russell
- Elisabeth Shue as Julie Finlay
- George Eads as Nick Stokes
- Jorja Fox as Sara Sidle
- Eric Szmanda as Greg Sanders
- Robert David Hall as Dr. Al Robbins
- David Berman as David Phillips
- Wallace Langham as David Hodges
- Elisabeth Harnois as Morgan Brody
- Jon Wellner as Henry Andrews
- Paul Guilfoyle as Jim Brass
Guest Cast
- Brandon W. Jones as Charlie Russell
- Peri Gilpin as Barbara Russell
- Robert Mammana as Coach Tom Burns
- Theodore Borders as TJ Fair
- Michael Gross as President Rob Austin
- Bryan Callen as Jack Oxford
- Kevin Mondane Jr. as Assistant Coach
- Italia Ricci as Vanessa Drake
- Alexie Gilmore as Linda Burns
- Elaine Tan as Miss Lotus
See Also
- List of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episodes
- CSI:Crime Scene Investigation Season 13
- Category:Images from Pick and Roll
|CSI:Las Vegas Season 13
|Karma to Burn • Code Blue Plate Special • Wild Flowers • It Was a Very Good Year • Play Dead • Pick and Roll • Fallen Angels • CSI on Fire • Strip Maul • Risky Business Class • Dead Air • Double Fault • In Vino Veritas • Exile • Forget Me Not • Last Woman Standing • Dead of the Class • Sheltered • Backfire • Fearless • Ghosts of the Past • Skin in the Game


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The Web Really is an APINovember 29, 2004
Every so often I'm reminded of how the simplicity of the web is belying of the underlying power.
Generally speaking, the web provides a simple user interface that has the ability to power increasingly complex back-end interactions. The more I delve into the nuts and bolts of how things like HTTP work, the more I realize that the implicit transparency of it all creates prime opportunities for even know-nothing coders like myself to build more and more sophisticated interfaces and applications.
Once the data hits the server it's mostly smoke and mirrors to me. But the data that hits the client side is quite transparent, and easy to tweak at will. The web is built on View Source, Open Source, and transparent URIs.
For example, the more I use Movable Type, the more I end up routing around the scripts and code that are provided out of the box. I'm creating my own interfaces for common tasks, customizing for my own preferences and improving where I see fit.
Case in point, the tweaked search page on this site which uses PHP to move beyond the limitations of MT's built-in templating (made possible thanks to the HTTP
get method), or the tweaked comment preview pages which tap directly in to the common templates used elsewhere throughout this site, and allow PHP usage on those pages (something you don't get out of the box).
Now thanks to View Source and the ability to trigger actions via a hyperlink, I've been able to litter this site with hooks back in to the MT interface to perform common actions, from the pages on which I wish to perform them.
For example, on every page what I now see is a list of actions running down the sidebar that allows me to do things like jump directly into the comment editing and clear the activity log. When I visit an individual article page, I get a set of buttons that allows me to perform actions like edit the original article or rebuild it (or even outright delete it if I'm so inclined).
I see them because I have a cookie set on my hard drive:
setcookie ('aCookie', 'aValue', time()+31536000, '/');
You don't see them because the PHP that checks for that cookie selectively hides them from you:
if ($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["aCookie"] == 'aValue') {
// here's where the good stuff goes
This is nothing revolutionary, and WordPress and others have had this type of functionality for ages. It's not the final result that's important here, it's that a non-coder like myself could whip this up in a matter of a few hours (including button creation time) simply by observing output and modifying it accordingly.
The MT interface works based on simple hyperlinks, each performing an action with data being passed to and fro via querystrings. I grabbed the relevant links straight from the interface. There was nothing saying I couldn't just right-click -> Copy Link to Clipboard and then use that URI on another page, which was exactly what I did. In cases where variable data was being passed via querystring, it was a simple matter of replacing things like Entry IDs with their programmatic equivalent.
The importance of this isn't to say hooray me for hacking up Movable Type (although I am rather pleased with how far I've been able to extend it). Rather, the concept of observing the data being passed to the client side, and then manipulating it and sending custom data back to the server in a form it expects, is basically a (poorly documented) front end API in and of itself.
An API, or Application Program Interface, is a set of routines that form the basic building blocks of an application. Web sites have been making use of APIs for years, e.g. Google and Amazon.
Theoretically it's not even necessary to see what's happening inside the server. A web browser exposes all the information passed to it, and viewing the source nets server variable names. It's even easier when the HTTP
get method is used, since the variables are right there in the URI.
All this transparency means these pieces of data can be used elsewhere. With a bit of trial and error, and assuming there's nothing in the script specifically blocking the practice, there's no reason why an entirely new front-end interface couldn't be built for any number of web-based applications and services.
But as for what the server does after receiving the data though, well, that's what a more formal API is for.
(The title of this article is, of course, a reference to Joel Spolsky's infamous "How Microsoft Lost the API War".)
Reader Comments
My god, that's brilliant, yet so simple!
I might as well go do that right now with Textpattern…
Marvelous! So simple…
This is the umpteenth time you've though of something I've never even hear of before, but it's been right under my nose for so long.
I do like the sexiness of this usage since you include the functionality you need without having to request updates from the software originators. I recently signed up on Technorati and they encourage you to bookmark a particular link that, when accessed, automatically tells Technorati that your weblog has been updated. Obviously, this uses the GET method to pass in the info. It's only a matter of including an iframe on the content submission form of your blog software to do this one step for you without having to remember to go to the link yourself.
Ah, the joys of the web… it truly IS an API.
P.S. I only just now thought of adding that iframe to the "content posted" page of my blog as I was writing my response. Thus, as Hans mentioned, it was right under my nose… you just brought it up to eyelevel.
Funny… When you hover over the word API, the tooltip says "Application Interface" - how unhelpful, as if somebody who doens't know what API means would know what Application Interface does mean.
Great idea, Dave. I may implement this tonight!
As soon as my site becomes wildly popular (not) I might even have a reason to use the added functionality.
Well, thanks Hans, but I definitely can't take credit for the idea itself. As I reference in the article, I cribbed the basic idea from WordPress, and I'm pretty sure before that at least one product from UserLand offered the same functionality.
…but I made some buttons. Everyone loves buttons.
>…but I made some buttons. Everyone loves buttons.
it's the looks that kill, baby. it's in the looks…
My brain took leaps and realized how much more important CSS is for web applications, in regards to the web being an API. How much easier will it be to parse data into applications without having to work around alot of formatting tags. For example looking at the source of this comments page, I could imagine a XUL frontend that understood the comments and such, very easily. Without full CSS, you would have to come up with a new parser whenever a new design came along.
Just great… now I can't be lazy with my redesign.
I'm pretty sure Blogger had this sort of functionality back in the day, too. And there have been some documented efforts to do this with MT, everything ranging from wikifying pages to front-end editing:
And I think our own Brenna and Shelley documented this even before that:
But the core point, that URLs are eminently hackable, and that this sort of hackability can yield some really fun results, is one of those ideas that I keep rediscovering and getting excited about again and again.
The most interesting point to me is that, the same day you've posted about this, Arvind posted about another way of hacking MT's URLs. Maybe we should take the time to document these options. :)
Greatly implemented. Really nice.
You should congratulate yourself by making a couple of more buttons. ;)
I wish we could see a larger screenshot of those buttons. ;-)
This is a great idea, though. I have been seeing all of the new comment editing links in the MT3 comment emails and have been thinking of doing something with them. Your ideas here are certainly going to help with my final solution.
Joel Spolsky touches on the web as an API in his larger article on what amounts to the future of Microsoft. An interesting read, though it's pretty long.
Big downside with this approach: Maintenance. In a few months, try to make some changes and see if you can make head or tail of your own code.
Or worse, upgrade to the next version of MT and fix what breaks. Repeat for each new release.
Just to point out one thing: you're possibly breaking the safe-idempotency of the GET method of HTTP. This basically means that if you GET a resource specified by a URL, it shouldn't change the state of the web server (such as deleting the resource). The POST method is more appropriate for those kinds of stuff (or even DELETE or PUT).
See http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html for more details.
Of course, there's no way to specify that clicking on links uses another method other than GET. Only HTML forms AFAIK can specify the method. So in practice, GET is often used, even though it is incorrect.
Eugene wrote:
"This basically means that if you GET a resource specified by a URL, it shouldn't change the state of the web server (such as deleting the resource)."
More precisely, if you GET a certain resource twice in a row, the second GET should have *exactly* the same effect as if you just did a single GET.
Let's please not mess with the HTTP Spec by breaking Idempotency.
"The POST method is more appropriate for those kinds of stuff (or even DELETE or PUT)."
And there's no reason Dave's PHP script couldn't insert a little HTML form, which used POST (say) to achieve whatever non-Idempotent action he wished to achieve.
Back when I used CuteNews (a PHP script for posting updates on a web site), I completely rewrote a lot of the frontend, but kept it a local GUI for adminning the site updates.
On another site I wrote, when I or another person is logged in, there're hooks on each page to the admin services. Quite useful indeed.
The thing I realized when writing my own updates script for the first site is that every admin action needs to make sure it's after a cookie-check, so no can somehow use the controls by finding out the URLs. Now I just need to find a way to improve the cookie, so one can't use it were they to somehow get my cookie - I'm thinking a password/IP md5 hash within the cookie.
I wonder how maintainers of MT, CuteNews, etc. would feel if someone released an alternate, more usable, admin center to their script…
Note: When I put two - in a row, the Preview doesn't work. This is in Firefox 1.0 on Linux, and doing a View Source shows that the comments with the post in it, and the double - prevents the comment from closing properly, resulting in an unusable Preview page.
Really nice. Thanks for the great idea! :)
Thats $_COOKIE["aCookie"] now ;)
BTW, the $HTTP_*_VAR's are deprecated. You should be using the following vars: $_POST, $_GET, $_COOKIE, $_SERVER, $_SESSION. You should also check out turning off registered globals.
To keep things simpler in the individual archive code, you can replace some of the code with MT tags. There is less customization this way, and you can use the code on blogs with an id other than 1.
1. change "http://www.yoursite.com/mt/" to "<MTCGIPath>"
2. change "blog_id=1" to "blog_id=<MTBlogID>"
Of course, remove the quotes.
Thanks for the code Dave, it works brilliantly.


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Often, I'm in the middle of frosting cupcakes when something comes up – forcing me to stop (e.g. my son woke up from his nap and needs to walk down the block to see the train NOW or the world will end). I decide to cover the bowl to protect the frosting from uninvited house guests (I'm not talking about hungry neighbors with spoons, but rather evil flies that let themselves in during the one second that our door is open). At this moment, I always wonder how to best cover the mixing bowl. Here were my options as I saw them pre-amazing-mixing-bowl-cover:
- Foil. Flaw: Foil doesn't come in circles and I end up piecing together several foil fragments and worrying about the gap that always ends up forming between them.
- Cling wrap. Flaw: This has the same non-circle problem, with the addition of the not sticking to the bowl problem.
- Kitchen towel. Flaw: The kitchen towels are dirty because I've been baking. Plus, they don't provide a tight fit.
Needless to say, when I heard about the mixing bowl covers available from Anyplace on Etsy, I did a happy dance! They are so simple and so practical that I can't understand why no one thought of them before! Plus, they are adorable! Check out the Etsy shop to see all of the current styles. I'll use my sample ones (thanks, Anyplace!) all of the time – not only for cupcake batter and frosting covering emergencies, but for bread dough and yeasted cake rising.
The covers fit all models of KitchenAid, Breville, and Cuisinart (and similar mixers) and they are made from a cotton blend that is food safe and machine washable. In the photo above, you can see one on my KitchenAid bowl (in the front) and one on my Breville bowl (in the back).
How to Win A Mixing Bowl Cover
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Anyplace is giving away 10 mixing bowl covers in the style shown at the top of this post to Cupcake Project readers (Hey, international readers – you get to play this time. Anyplace is willing to ship any place!). I'm giving 9 away on the blog and I'll be giving one away on my Facebook page in the near future. To enter:
- Leave a comment on this post (not on Facebook, e-mail, or Twitter) telling me what you currently use to cover your mixing bowl and how the mixing bowl cover is better.
- Be sure that your comment includes a way to contact you if you win.
Fine Print
- All comments must be posted by 11:59 PM CDT on Sept 8, 2011.
- Limit of one entry per person.
- 9 winners will be randomly chosen on September 9. I will contact the winners and update this post with their names.
- If I don't hear from a winner within one week to claim their prize, I will choose a new winner.
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The major ghetto of Salisbury, NC. Home of LSU (Long Street University), a soul food resturant, and the Rowan County Homeless Shelter. There's probably even a hoopty dealership, but there has never been a white person to drive the whole street and live to tell about it.
There are way too many hooptys on Long Street.
Q: What's the fastest way to Africa?
A: Over da bridge!!
Q: What's the fastest way to Africa?
A: Over da bridge!!
by hoopty driving instructor 101 January 04, 2004
I am Longstreet, want to come to my house thats in Kentucky
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Road running east in south central Rhode Island, separates buttonwoods from Buttonhoodz, by hte way that road sucks cock.
Remember that time we walked Long street and almost got jumped by those ricers
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Color My World: Blue illustrated by Peggy Tagel
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Dirt Showdown
Version and / or Patch Used: Latest Steam Update
Timedemo or Level Used: Built in Benchmark
Developer Homepage: http://www.codemasters.com/uk/
Product Homepage: http://www.codemasters.com/uk/dirtshowdown/360/
DiRT Showdown is the new arcade racing game from the team that brought you the award-winning DiRT series, uncaged in 2012. Pick up and play controls combine with electrifying events, frenzied crowds and stunning graphics to deliver high octane, dive in and drive thrills from event one.
Dirt Showdown performance sits ahead of the GTX TITAN SLI setup at the highest resolution and you can see that across the board we're hitting a 145 FPS limit that is present.
The setup clearly seems to have more room for performance. This is a number that will satisfy 120Hz monitor users, which is important.
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Friday, August 04, 2006
Fun with SVG
So one can have a SVG with some viewbox, that SVG can in turn have some element defined and one can have a surface with a whole different coordinate system and in that system have a rectangle on which the SVG element should be rendered. So in the picture it would look like this - SVG with an element mapped to another viewport with a custom bounding box.
Implementing it on top of selective rendering turned out to be rather simple. All we have to do is translate and scale (but we translate by the difference between the destination and mapped scaled coordinates of the source).
As always, I wrote a demo application to test it. In the application I have 4 SVG elements renderer at different locations within the same viewport and a circle with a radial gradient rendered on top of them. Here's how it looks:
What's pretty nice about all of this is that it makes styling applications using SVG's pretty simple. For example I wrote a simple application that renders a clock, clock is stylable via SVG. SVG contains five elements with four predefined id's "face", "minutes", "hours" and "seconds". The application loads those element into respective spots and renders them. I couldn't help myself so besides rendering them I'm dynamically generating correct shadows for SVG shapes defined in the style files. It really is pretty cool. Here are the screenshots (yeah, yeah, I didn't have any time to create really good looking SVG clocks so you'll have to live with one's I slapped together :) ).
Ideally I'd love to see applications that do custom rendering stylable in the same way. For example KOrganizer for the calendar view could easily load SVG file that defines the look of that view. This way before new KDE releases we wouldn't have to be manually changing the look of applications to match the style or make them seem more modern - we would just add a new SVG file and that's it.
5 comments:
It would be nice to have a program to create Qt and KDE styles by just opening a couple of SVG files.
For example, someone can create a style where the button has some SVG animation when the mouse is hovered over the button. Or an array of SVGs can be used to draw random buttons, such that they look like if they were drawn by free hand.
- August 4, 2006 at 6:31 PM
Hi Zack!
Cool work.
Do you know whether there is any way to specify KDE colour roles in SVG files?
This would be very useful to make artwork used in applications blend in with the colour scheme. Especially users with low vision would benefit a lot from this.
- August 4, 2006 at 6:41 PM
I'm curious, are these features also being written to stay in the race when Vista comes out?
I was really impressed when I saw this video: http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/3/5/c35138d4-3295-428c-8889-246639882b79/KarstenJ_WPF_MIX.wmv
(more video's and screencasts are available at channel9.msdn.com)
- August 5, 2006 at 7:48 PM
- MacSlow said...
Wow! Zack, that's terrific! I had no idea of those advanced capabilities in Qt regarding vector-graphics and SVG. Is the blurred drop-shadow rendered via an OpenGL-accelerated rendering-path?
I'm just grabbing the preview of Qt 4.2, I just have to check that out! Totally awesome!
Best regards...
- August 15, 2006 at 11:01 PM
Isn't this the same idea as the animation element in SVG 1.2?
- December 7, 2007 at 4:52 AM


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February 4, 2011
NEWPORT--The Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training and netWORKri one-stop career centers will host a free résumé workshop for area job seekers at the Florence Gray Center, One York St., Newport, from 9 to 11 a.m. on Monday, February 7, 2011. Pre-registration is mandatory and may be completed by telephone at (401) 828-6162.
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Contrast Ratio:
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Naomi Watts dolls up while attending the premiere of her new flick Sunlight Jr. during the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday (April 20) in New York City.
The 44-year-old English-Australian actress was joined by her co-stars Matt Dillion and Normus Reedus.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Naomi Watts
Jodie Foster was also spotted attending the premiere.
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State of Alaska > DOLWD > Employment
Security > Unemployment
What is it?
Quality Control is a management information system that helps State and Federal managers control error and fraud in the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Program. The tool provides valuable information on the rates, responsibility for and causes of unemployment insurance benefit overpayments and underpayments. The goals of the program are better prevention, detection and collection of improper payments, there-by protecting your tax dollar investment.
The basic design of the system is:
Each week throughout the year, a sample of claims for which UI benefits have been paid or denied is randomly selected for audit. Each selected claim is audited to determine if the unemployment benefits were paid or denied properly.
Persons whose claim have been selected for audit are interviewed: their UI claim records are reviewed; their reasons for becoming unemployed are substantiated; their attempts to find work are checked; their wage records are verified - all in an attempt to be sure that they are eligible for benefits and received the correct amount.
Based on the investigation, a determination is made as to whether the claim for the week was paid or denied properly. If paid or denied improperly, it is determined whether the error was made by the agency, the claimant, or the employer. Finally, the reason for the improper payment or denial of benefits is documented. Once all this information is obtained, a statistical analysis is performed and management information on the rates, responsibility and causes of over and underpayment of UI benefits is produced.
Why are employers contacted?
Contacts with employers are an integral part of the investigation. The three main reasons why Quality Control Auditors contact employers are:
Who contacts employers?
A group of highly qualified personnel works on the Quality Control team. Staff are very carefully screened before they are selected for the project and receive very intensive training after selection. Each staff member is knowledgeable about Alaska UI laws and policies; has worked in an UI local office, and has an excellent record of service with the Alaska Employment Service.
All Quality Control Auditors carry identification and will be glad to present it upon request.
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Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development
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Phone toll free (800) 478-4859
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Captain's ReportFishing Above, Relaxation Below on the 3000 OpenBy Capt. Bob SmithTiara Yacht proudly displayed their new model, the 3000 Open at the 2006 Miami Boat Show for 2006. Tiara is ready to sunset the 29, which has been a stalwart for them for many years. Rather than refit the old, they built the new 3000 Open. This is a well-configured boat that is just as comfortable running offshore, as is it is pulling up to a dockside restaurant in Key Biscayne. The sleek lines on this new model betray her functionality as a fishing machine, and play up on her overall sophistication. The only outward appearance that reveals she is a fishing machine is the rod holders in the uprights for the hardtop at the back. This is unless you opt for the TSS, Tiara Tournament Series which includes additional rocket launcher rod holders as our test model did. Regardless, this boat is impressive.At the BowUp front, our boat was well-equipped with high protective stainless steel bow railings. The pulpit houses the anchor roller and we had the optional electric windlass for near effort-free anchoring. The deep line locker certainly is large enough to stow the anchor line needed for offshore anchoring. The expansive bow deck gives you a great chance to lay out and catch a few rays or to work the fish from the front of the boat. Side access from the cockpit to the bow is plenty wide for comfortable movement and the expansive front windows have large wipers to help out in heavy chop or rain. There are also large washer ports for both sides.Configurable CockpitThe aft cockpit was outfitted for primarily fishing, therefore instead of the side benches we had a large live baitwell in the center of the stern wall. The baitwell has a rounded interior with soft lighting for better bait maintenance. Fish lockers on either side of the stern are divided with an upper section and lower section with pump-outs and macerators. Access to the fuel shut-offs was through a center hatch that was a bit impeded by the baitwell. Not a big deal, but it was a bit awkward. The walkthrough stern door was heavy duty with an easy to use latch system. I can see this being handy when you are boating the big tuna, or bringing well-dressed guests aboard across the optional swim platform.Accessing the EnginesThe motorized engine hatch is actually the base for the entire forward section of the cockpit, or the helm and companion sections. With my 6-foot height and over 200-pound frame, I found it a real squeeze to get into the engine compartment with the limited rise of the hatch. The generator is center and forces you to crawl even further into the compartment to check the engines. Now there is a day hatch forward I had no problem getting in and out of, but still, if I were a smaller-built guy, there would be less of a problem with the engine hatch. The batteries were mounted outboard of the massive 8.1L engines. Once again, that is a problem if you want to maintain them, or need to ever change them. Tiara representatives there told me they recognized these issues and were working on a better solution. The Helm StationOn the starboard side of the cockpit is a rear-facing bench with storage in the seat back for lines or small items. The helm seat slides and the entire seat flips forward to give you access to a very large, ventilated storage box below. The helm seat is quite comfortable, but I would prefer to have a little more space between the seat and the helm. The console is well arranged with analog gauges across the top, flush mounted electronics in the center, and the hydraulic wheel mounted below. For an express cruiser, visibility from the helm was outstanding. Tiara eliminated the center window and now ventilation is drawn through elongated ports at the top that are located below the lip of the hardtop. This really pulls a lot of fresh air into the cockpit and opens up the vision forward. Over on the companion side is another double bench seat with equally impressive storage beneath. Down BelowAccess to the cabin is through a center sliding door. Once inside I was immediately impressed with the abundant use of teak. Battery switches and breakers are tucked behind slides at the top of the stairs leading inside. Entertainment features are mounted in the hanging closet to port, and a flat panel TV is displayed in the corner where it's easily viewed from the cabin.The wraparound lounger converts into a double bed with a clever use of the old idea of lee sheet straps. The back of one section flips up and is held in place with the straps to increase the space on the upper berth. An extension slides out to provide room for a filler cushion, and there you have two berths in one compact area. This is a very smart use of space. The head is located on the port side across from the galley and has a VacuFlush toilet, vanity with Corian countertop, stainless steel sink, and shower with wraparound curtain.Functional GalleyA compact galley is mounted on the starboard side below the helm. It features a Formica countertop with Corian trim, a stainless steel sink, single-burner electric cooktop, microwave, cabinets and a 3.7 cu. ft. Isotherm drawer-style refrigerator, which is another great use of space. I would add a plastic pan in the bottom to keep the spills from getting into the section that is hard to clean, but I like the drawer refrigerators since they offer more room for groceries. SpecificationsThis new model measures 30'6" length overall not including the standard bow pulpit, or optional swim platform. With these items included the length is pushed to 35' 0''overall. She has a beamy 12'6" beam for smoother rides and more stability while trolling in the ocean.Tiara Yachts has done a fine job of bringing the elements of many of their larger models into the 30-foot express cruiser range. This model fits well in a family that really enjoys cruising, and still wants to go offshore to chase grouper, snapper, red fish, or other big game fish.
Test Result Highlights
- Top speed for the Tiara 3000 Open (2006) is 39.2 mph (63.1 kph), burning 67.6 gallons per hour (gph) or 255.87 liters per hour (lph).
- Best cruise for the Tiara 3000 Open (2006) is 25.6 mph (41.2 kph), and the boat gets 1.12 miles per gallon (mpg) or 0.48 kilometers per liter (kpl), giving the boat a cruising range of 211 miles (339.57 kilometers).
- Tested power is 2 x 385-hp Crusader 8.1 L (inboard).
Standard and Optional Features
Marine Electronics
|Optional Upgrade to Raymarine
|Optional Upgrade to Raymarine
|Optional Upgrade to Raymarine
|VHF Radio
|Air Cond./Heat
|Battery Charger/Converter
|CD Stereo
|Dripless Shaft Seals
|Head: Fixed
|Power Steering
|Standard Teleflex
|Shore Power
|Washdown: Fresh Water
|Washdown: Raw Water
|Water Heater
Exterior Features
|Carpet: Cockpit
|Outlet: 12-Volt Acc
|Swim Ladder
|Swim Platform
|Transom Door
|Transom Shower
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|Oil Change System
|NMMA Certification
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