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As a previous post stated, I have ran out of space on my 5.4TB NAS. New parts were ordered through Newegg.com and were in transit as this post was first being drafted. A 6TB rented external hard drive was used to backup all data from current NAS so that the old parts may be cannibalized for the revised NAS . The new NAS has approximately 12.4TB of usable space after the RAIDZ3 protection and will be easily expandable to 24.8TB (using another set of 10x 2TB drives in another RAIDZ3 configuration) of space without need for temporary storage or even a system shutdown due to the hot-swappable bays on this new case. This setup will be able to withstand three drive failures of the ten without any data loss. All this is due to the ZFS file system. So lets take a closer look at this versatile NAS setup.
The Hardware:
This go around I decided I need to be able to expand the system in the future by having available bays and ports. Throughput of drives doesn't double every 18 months like other sectors of technology, so buying SATA III hardware is likely a safe bet as it won't be phased out too quickly. Also as prices continually fall for 2TB drives it makes sense to only create an array that meets current demands while not overbuilding too much as the price for the same drives or equivalents is likely to be significantly cheaper in just a few months time.
I decided early on to reuse my motherboard, processor, power supply, and current 2TB drives for cost reasons.
As for the new hardware I started off by evaluating computer chassises. First I looked into consumer towers, the most 5 ¼" bays I could find in a single tower had 9 bays, it was fairly cheap. Alright, then I started looking at hard drive cages and soon realized, due to the price, that buying a purpose built chassis would be more cost effective than piecing together something that could hold quiet a few HDs. Most of the quality drive cages were in the excess of $90 for a 3x 5¼" bays to a 5x 3½" drive system; if you do decide to go that route I suggest going with Icy Dock as their products are well built and pretty. The chassis I ended up purchasing has 20 hot swappable bays on 5 backplanes using SATA ports; in hindsight I should of gone with backplanes with SAS 8087 connectors as it would of been more efficient for cooling and cable routing.
The next step was getting 20 SATA drives on a motherboard with only 6 SATA ports. My first plan of attack was to use a simple SATA port multiplier. Well after have many issues with them, including IO errors while running some benchmark test on the preliminary testing setup I decided to RMA the cards. The next idea was to use a RocketRAID 2760 card, 24 ports on a PCI Express 2.0 16x interface; it would of been wicked fast if it would of passed the volumes to the OS. So what I ended up settling on was a 16 internal port HBA card by LSI, using this card will require me to use the 4 remaining SATA ports on the motherboard to be able to fully utilize all the bays in my case; not a problem ZFS can handle that as you can even mismatch IDE, PATA, and SATA drives on the same pool without issue.
For the additional hard drives I simply went to NewEgg.com, did a filtered search for SATA hard drives that were 2TB in capacity. Currently 2TB hard drives have the lowest Cost to Capacity ratio, 3TB HDs seem to go for double the cost and the 1TB drives are about $20 cheaper than 2TB drives. The drive I settled on was $59.99 after a $10 rebate and yes they are Deathstars; two died within a few days with I/O errors and eventually not even showing up in the BIOS. NewEgg's RMA policy sucks; not only do you have to pay for return shipping on the dead devices shipped to you, NewEgg doesn't ship out the replacement product quickly (2+ days after receiving the broken hard drives.) And forget about cross shipped RMAing.
As for the RAM I went all out, using 16GB to max out the motherboard's capacity. ZFS is a RAM intensive system and can have a performance loss if not using at least the recommended 2GB+. With large writes ZFS fills the RAM with the data then dumps it to the disks in bulk. ZFS also has an option to attach a SSD to be used as a caching device for writes, that technology is called ZIL.
For the OS drives I went with a couple of 32GB SSDs in a mirrored configuration. Originally I was going to utilized an old CF to IDE card reader but for $10 more I got the 2x 32GB SSDs which had double the capacity as the 16GB CF cards I was looking at with the SDDs having way faster read and write speeds.
The operating system – Solaris 11 Express:
Before building my first NAS I had never heard of ZFS. I deducted from the name it was a filesystem but it was foreign. UFS, btrfs, and XFS were all new in my book as well and I didn't really read any praises for any particular one. As I was set on using FreeNAS at the time I went with UFS, UFS was the recommended filesystem to use due to other filesystems having the possibility of data loss due in part to incompatibility and partly due to a lack of development to patch bugs. In FreeNAS 0.7 there is a point made to make sure the user knows that ZFS is experimental and should only be used in a testing environment. I looked a little into ZFS, saw it had a few nice features but due to the heed of warning from FreeNAS's lack of support I dropped the idea. There was even a warning message in the dmesg on boot warning of ZFS's experimental state on FreeNAS 0.7.2.
This time around I decided a WebGUI was not needed. The only time I used it was during the initial setup and occasional status checks so moving on from FreeNAS was easier letting go of that feature. I'm convinced ZFS is the way to go and the best supported OS for ZFS is Solaris 11 from Sun/Oracle. I started running a copy of Solaris from VirtualBox, the virtual machine was setup with several virtual hard drives so I could really test ZFS and try to find fault. Besides being very slow from only allocating 2GB of RAM to the virtual machine everything worked and I decided I could live with Solaris even though it will be a slight learning curve.
ZFS – a closer look:
As I mentioned I had never heard of ZFS before my first NAS build and would of used ZFS had FreeNAS 0.7.2 supported it stably. The amount of useful features that ZFS has is remarkable. The key features are as follows:
- It supports pooled storage which is similar to sticking in more RAM in a PC than the current song and dance required to setup a harddrive which still has the volumes separated by partition required by other filesystems.
- There is built in data check-summing which most filesystem don't have. This feature alerts of quiet data corruption(1)(2)(3) and repairs it in cases of mirrored or RAIDZ configurations.
- Encryption is built in, completely transparent, and from what I can tell doesn't effect performance too much if using a processor with AES hardware instruction set. Encryption keys can be passwords, fobs, or hex hashes.
- Within ZFS itself there is the option for improved software RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 6 + one more parity drive, and nested RAIDs of any of the former options. RAID protects from data loss due to a hard drive crashing which is inevitable.
- Limitless snapshots which is the same technology that TimeMachine uses on OSX.
- Transparent compression
- Data Deduplication. This looks for blocks that have the same pattern and uses a single block for the pattern and references said block for all other occurrences.
- Background online data scrubbing and resilvering. Which are the repair and rebuild processes.
- Pool importing. ZFS will recognize drives that were part of a previous pool even if on completely different motherboard, controller, port, order on said controller, and/or whatever else you can throw at it. ZFS just imports the pool and all is well. ZFS will even warn you if you are about to overwrite a drive with part of a pool on it. This was jaw dropping for me when I saw this.
- Copy-on-write. Files are copied to blank blocks then commits all changes at once.
- Quick RAID rebuilds due to only requiring the blocks of data with actual used data rather than recreating the entire disk including the empty data. This can be critical if the lower RAIDZ or RAIDZ2 options are used and other drives are starting to fail(1).
- Scalability. 128 bit filesystem. Which means it can have pools as large as 256,000,000,000,000,000 ZettaBytes (1ZettaByte = 1 billion TB).
- Pipelined I/O. This manages IO for maximum performance and data safety.
- Variable block size. Great for optimizing the block size for the size of files.
- Open sourced. If the licensing was less strick you'd see it on far more OSes, including Linux.
As stated before one of the nice things about ZFS is it's pooled storage. Which means when the need arrises to expand to NAS v3, all that will be needed is additional harddrives as the rest of the current hardware setup has additional bays and ports available. I'll be able to add another RAIDZ3 array of any sized drives in a concatenated (still one massive pool of data) type setup without erasing any of the data; which will be necessary because I think 10TB drives aren't in the near future (4+years for consumer level).
Below is a screenshot of a NewEgg.com cart with all my hardware plus 10 more drives. If you price hunt or utilize NewEgg's price alert you can lower the cost to about $2500 as of this writing. The LSI HBA card has a huge markup on NewEgg, I ordered from WiredZone.com which had a $100 difference from NewEgg's price:
Other thoughts:
It's hard to dispute that ZFS is anything short of awesome. Given all of it's advantages and features you might wonder why it's not used on a lot more systems and OSes, including whatever you are currently running. Well, it does have one large disadvantage which is ZFS's opened source CDDL license renders it difficult to implement for the masses on Linux or any other OS for that matter. If you are willing to run Solaris on your NAS box you'll have one wicked filesystem. There aren't major differences between Solaris and Linux. The backend on Solaris is slightly different from what you might be used to on Linux but it still uses Gnome for the frontend and a package manager so for the semi-power users converting over won't be that much of a learning curve.
Another possible solution if you are running some high end hardware or even at the research point and willing to drop the cash is going with a virtualized setup and running VMware's EXSi virtualizing OS. Basically you could run a virtualized Solaris OS with the hardware controller passed straight to the virtualized OS, ZFS could handle all the storage aspects and you could run a daemon (iSCSI, SFTP, AFP, CIFS, SAMBA or others) to pass that data to a more familiar OS for some more comfortable file serving and handling.


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Potato Kielbasa SkilletFrom gkwillow 7 years ago
- 1 pound red potatoes, cubed shopping list
- 3 tablespoons water shopping list
- 3/4 pound smoked kielbasa or Polish sausage, cut into 1/4-inch slices shopping list
- 1/2 cup chopped onion shopping list
- 1 tablespoon olive oil shopping list
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar shopping list
- 2 tablespoons cider vinegar shopping list
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper shopping list
- 4 cups fresh baby spinach shopping list
- 5 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled shopping list
How to make it
- Place potatoes and water in a microwave-safe dish. Cover and microwave on high for 4 minutes or until tender; drain. (I covered the potato cubes with water and boiled on the stovetop for a few minutes until tender and drained well)
- In a large skillet, saute kielbasa and onion in oil until onion is tender. Add potatoes; saute 3-5 minutes longer or until kielbasa and potatoes are lightly browned.
- Combine the brown sugar, vinegar, mustard, thyme and pepper; stir into skillet. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 2-3 minutes or until heated through.
- Add spinach and bacon; cook and stir until spinach is wilted.
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I made this using baby Yukon golds and smoked kielbasa. I left out the oil b/c I used the grease rendered from the bacon (Applewood smoked, of course) in its place. I also left out the spinach b/c I didn't have any. We LOVED this! The flavors of swee...moreDetroitTokyo in Detroit loved it
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Top 10 Tips for Organising a Vegan Wedding
Posted by
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on 18th May 2017
Your guide to planning the perfect vegan wedding! As featured in Vegan Food & Living Magazine.
Catering – One of the most important aspects of planning a vegan wedding is to get the food right. You want to wow your guests (many of whom will have preconceived ideas of what vegan food is like) and show them how incredible and delicious vegan food is. Before meeting with your caterers make sure you do some research and have ideas you can suggest for the menu, and do not settle for stuffed peppers!
2. Clothing – Most vegan brides and grooms know to watch out for and avoid clothing that contains silk, wool, leather etc. When trying on outfits check the labels first so you don't fall in love with something that contains animal products before you realise! Another idea is to buy a second-hand wedding dress or suit, which is better for the environment and would count as your 'something old'!
3. Hair and Makeup – Try to find hair and makeup artists who use cruelty-free and vegan products. If you can't find anyone who uses exclusively vegan products then ask if they would be happy to use products that you supply. It's a great opportunity to show how easy it is to create a beautiful look that's cruelty-free.
4. Favours – Not everyone gives wedding favours, but if you decide to treat your guests there are lots of vegan-friendly options, such as soy candles, handmade bath bombs, soaps, cake jars, chocolates and sweets. One of my favourite ideas is small envelopes containing seeds which your guests can sprinkle in their gardens to attract bees and other wildlife.
5. Gifts – It is very common nowadays for couples to ask for money as a wedding gift rather than having a traditional gift-list. If your guests would like to give you money, then why not put it towards a honeymoon to a vegan-friendly city like Berlin or Barcelona?
6. Flowers – If you opt for real flowers at your wedding then try to make sure they're Fairtrade. Rather than having cut flowers, a lovely idea for centre pieces is to have potted plants. Then at the end of the day either you or your guests could take them home to enjoy. If you choose to buy artificial flowers be careful to avoid ones that contain silk.
7. Jewellery – Choosing vegan-friendly jewellery to go with your dress is easy as long as you avoid real pearls. When looking for your wedding rings try to go with a company that uses ethically sourced diamonds and fairly traded gold or silver.
8. The Wedding Cake – There are many exclusively vegan bakers around the UK offering wedding cakes. Meet your cake maker to taste different flavours and take pictures with you of the design you would like. If you can't find a totally vegan bakery then go with a baker who offers a vegan option. Most know there is now a demand and so offer egg and dairy-free cakes.
9. Drinks – Remember that many wines and beers aren't suitable for vegans due to manufacturing processes. Use barnivore.com to check which drinks are vegan-friendly.
10. Remember this is your wedding! Your wedding day is about you as a couple, and it is the one day you are allowed to have things just the way you want. Being vegan is about living your life in the most compassionate and ethical way you can, so of course you will want your wedding day to reflect that. Your guests should respect your choices, and if you think there's anyone who will make a fuss about attending a vegan wedding, then just don't mention the v-word!


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Supreme Court OKs DNA Collection on Arrest
Top justices rule that police have the right to take DNA swabs from people who are arrested, even before they are convicted.
Jun 4, 2013
Dan Cossins
STOCK.XCHNG, SCHULERGDThe Supreme Court yesterday (June 3) ruled that law enforcement authorities can take DNA samples from people arrested for serious crimes, such as violence or burglary, reported Reuters.
With a narrow 5-4 majority, the justices rejected a 2012 decision by the Maryland Court of Appeals, which held that authorizing the sampling of DNA from people who had not been convicted is a breach of the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure.
The practice is a valuable tool for investigating unsolved crimes, but the court justified the ruling on the grounds that it is a legitimate way to identify suspects."[T]aking and analyzing a cheek swab of the arrestee's DNA is, like fingerprinting and photographing, a legitimate police booking procedure that is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment," wrote Justice Anthony Kennedy for the majority.
Justice Antonin Scalia expressed vigorous dissent from the bench. Scalia said that the majority's justification "taxes the credulity of the credulous," reported The New York Times, because DNA testing is not currently used to identify suspects in custody. He also challenged Kennedy's claim that the ruling was limited to serious offenses, and said that in practice, under the terms of the court's justification, DNA samples could be taken after any arrest. "Make no mistake about it: because of today's decision, your DNA can be taken and entered into a national database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason," said Justice Scalia.
Other critics are concerned that DNA sampling exposes people to as yet unpredictable privacy issues that will only be revealed as science decodes more of the genome. "Once an individual's DNA sample is in a government database, protecting that information from future exploitation becomes more difficult," said the Electronic Privacy Information Center in a friend-of-the-court brief submitted earlier this year. But Justice Kennedy said that the information gleaned from DNA testing carried out by police is limited, and insisted that whether or not "the testing at issue in this case reveals any private medical information at all is open to dispute."


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At the beginning of the movie, the archenteron has folded all the way in. Primordial germ cells (four of them) emerge from the roof of the archenteron while the blastopore closes. The embryo begins to elongate along the anterior-posterior axis (not visible yet) as folds grow down from the roof of the archenteron. These drag the primordial germ cells with them. The coelomic compartments are the dorso-lateral chambers thus carved out by ingression of these folds. I am not clear on what becomes of the actual archenteron, because it's not visible in this film, and in embryos after this stage, the apparent archenteron is quite small. It may form by re-opening the space between the two ingressing folds.
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Enterocoely in Chaetognaths
Marley Jarvis did a plankton tow at the F dock last week, and among the contents were many chaetognath embryos, almost certainly Sagitta elegans (because adults of these are common here, and a few small ones were in the same plankton sample). A couple were just finishing gastrulation. I made a time-lapse film of one of them overnight, and it so happened that it was a transverse view at about the middle of the embryo. This means that the formation of coeloms, as pouches that are pinched off of the archenteron, is easily visible in this movie.
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FLIGHT, JANUARY 3, 1930 A successful early mooring mast : R.33 riding at the mast at Pulham. (FLIGHT Photo.) the elevators being on the envelope. She had a 35-h.p. " Y" Anzani engine, driving swivelling propellers above the small well-streamlined car. Willows IV was bought by the Navy in November, 1912, the boom being immediately done away with, and a new car made. Naval Airship No. 3 was of an interesting type, built by the Astra firm in France, to the designs of Senor Torres- Quevedo, a Spanish engineer. The distinctive feature of these Astra-Torres airships was the internal rigging system. The main car suspensions were led through sleeves in the bottom of the envelope into the interior, where they branched and were carried up to an internal fabric top-ridge on each side. This resulted in the load of the car being borne entirely by the top surface of the envelope, where any end pull served only to put the fabric in tension, which it was able to resist. The result of this system was that in cross- section the envelope was trilobe, or clover-leaf shaped. No. 3 airship was used a good deal at the beginning of the war, and proved most successful, though another ship of the same type, No. 8, was rather less so. They were the forerunners of the successful series of British-designed classes, " Coastal," " Coastal Star," and " North Sea," that were largely used for anti-submarine work from 1916 onwards. No. 3 had a volume of 230,000 cub. ft., and was driven by two 210-h.p. Chenu engines at a speed of 51 miles an hour. Naval airship No. 4 was a Parseval, bought from Germany, also in 1913. This airship, as has already been stated, was characterised by the extraordinarily fine streamline shape of the envelope, which was interesting in other ways. In the first place, it was three-ply, very strong, with exceptional gas-holding properties. It also incorporated a system of rigging which had many advantages. Forming an ellipse along the under surface was a rigging band, from which ran a number of fabric bands, known as " trajectory bands," right over the top surface and down the other side. These bands were nearly vertical at the centre, but sloped progres- sively more and more towards the nose and, in particular, the tail, so that the weight of the car was well distributed— as in the Astra-Torres, but by a different system—along the whole top surface of the ship. As a result of this, the car was able to be slung unusually close to the envelope. She had two 170-h.p. Maybach engines and, besides doing valuable service in the early stages of the war, proved a most excellent training ship. To have been captain of No. 4, indeed set a seal on an airship pilot's reputation, and qualified him automatically for command of a rigid airship as soon as one became available. This, except for the fact that rigid airship No. 9 was under construction, was the position when war broke out in August, 1914. The story of the war development of British non-rigid airships is too well known to need much elaboration here. Not much in the way of development took place, though a good deal of flying was done with existing ships, until March, 1915, when S.S. 1 was evolved from the envelope of No. 2 (Willows IV), and the fuselage of a B.E. 2 aeroplane. Messrs. Airships, Ltd., built an experi- mental airship to the same specification, but it did not find favour with the authorities, and no more were ordered, though the firm built a number of Maurice-Farman aeroplane- type cars for use under S.S. envelopes. Messrs. Armstrongs also tendered, with an airship with an A.W. aeroplane fuselage, which proved successful, and a number were built and put into service. All the S.S. airships had 60,000 or 70,000 cub. ft. envelopes, and were fitted with either Rolls-Royce or Renault «igmes. In 1916, the S.S.P. (" Pusher ") type was designed, at Kingsnorth, with a more comfortable car, fitted with a 100-h.p. Green engine at the back. The most noticeable novelty of all the S.S. type, which was also in- corporated in the larger non-rigids, was the hinged blower-pipe, taking air from the slip-stream of the pro- peller to the ballonnets, a device which entirely did away with the necessity for carrying an auxiliary engine to drive a blower. Early in 1917, all other S.S.'s were super- seded by the S.S. Zero, designed by the personnel of Capel Airship Station. This type had a most comfortable water-tight car, seating three in tandem, with a Rolls- Royce 75-h.p. engine, mounted on a gantry at the back. The first ship was an immediate success, and the type was standardized, some- ." thing like a hundred being put into service before the Armistice. At the end of the war, experiments were being carried out with several types of " S.S. Twin," with two engines. The most interesting of these was, perhaps, " S.S.E.3," which had an envelope known in the laboratory as shape " U. 721," from which the hull shapes of both R 100 and R 101 are derived. From 1916 onwards, much was done to develop larger ships on Astra Torres lines. The first was the " Coastal " class which had an Astra-Torres envelope with two Avro fuselages cut in half and joined end to end, to provide a tractor and pusher propeller, as car. These were gradually superseded by the rather larger " C Star " class which had a streamlined envelope and improved car, though on similar lines. They had 210,000 cub. ft. envelopes, compared with the 170,000 cub. ft. of the Coastals, and were as a rule fitted with a 100 h.p. Berliet engine forward and 260-h.p. Fiat aft. Concurrently with the " C Star," the " North Sea " type was developed with a 360,000 cub. ft. envelope of improved stream- line shape and a greatly improved enclosed car in which the crew could move about, and were indeed most comfortable. They had 240-h.p. Fiat engines, and one of them soon after the Armistice made a duration flight lasting for 101 hours. Both the " Coastals " and " North Sea " types, though founded on the A stra Torres, were a great improvement in detail on their prototype. The clumsy bunches of rope used for the internal rigging were, for instance, superseded by wire cables. To return to the rigid airships of Count Zeppelin, L.Z.I was built in 1900. The hull was of cylindrical shape with, hemispherical ends and incorporated the structural form, which has been adhered to ever since, of a number of longi- tudinal girders connected at intervals with a series of trans- verse frames forming bays within which the gas-bags are enclosed. The transverse frames are braced by radial wires carried to a ring in the centre of the circumference. Z.I had two cars, each containing a 16-h.p. Daimler engine, con- nected by a long steel boom on which ran, operated by pulleys, two trolley cars for altering the longitudinal trim. It measured 420 ft. long with a diameter of 38 ft. There were 24 longitudinals and 16 transverse frames enclosing 16 gas-bags. This first airship made three flights and though considerable success was achieved it was five years before Zeppelin could collect sufficient funds to build a second airship. On her second flight L.Z.II, which had two 85-h.p. engines, was forced to land, through engine trouble, and had to be moored out in a field. Unfortunately the wind got up and the ship was so badly damaged that she had to be dismantled. In the following April, 1906, L.Z.III was started, and she was completed by October of the same year. She was improved by the addition of stabilising fins on the envelope and had four propellers carried on outriggers on the hull and driven through shafting, a system of propulsion which was adhered to for many years—until the appearance of the L.40 class in 1916. It is impossible to detail all the different Zeppelins that were built and the most one can do is to pick out one or two of the most prominent as instances of the general trend of development. The first passenger airship was the Deutsch- land built in 1910 followed by the Schwaben (1911), the Viktoria Luisa and Hansa (1912). The Schwaben was 460 ft. long, with a diameter of 46 ft. and a volume of 620,000 cub. ft. She had three 145-h.p. Maybach engines. The Viktoria Luisa and the Hansa were sister ships measuring 485 ft. long and 46 ft. in diameter with a capacity of 670,000 cub. ft. In 1913 the Sachsen was added to the " Delag " fleet. She was the same length as the Schwaben, but had a diameter of 50 ft. which increased the capacity to about the same as the 87
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The fight game is at times an ugly competition. But 100 percent of the time, it's all business inside the UFC's Octagon.
For UFC 166 lightweights Diego Sanchez and Gilbert Melendez, their prior dealings with each other mean they'll have to put whatever relationship they had to the side so they can handle business Saturday night in Houston.
Sanchez, reflecting on the days when he and Melendez used to be training partners, said that this is something they always knew they would have to prepare for.
"We know each other really well. We've trained together," Sanchez told MMAWeekly.com. "We always brought the best out of each other in the training, so we knew if we ever had a fight we would bring the best out of each other.
"Our styles are a contrast of styles. Styles make fights, and these styles make for an excellent fight, a really awesome fight. Those are the fights that when you're old and retired, you look back and you're like, 'Oh, those were the best fights.' They bring out that heart, that passion, that drive, and the inner warrior. That's the type of makings that this fight has."
While Sanchez said he looks forward to having the best brought out of him by his upcoming opponent, Melendez gave a much more forward expectation for the contest.
The former Strikeforce lightweight champ told MMAWeekly.com that he's glad the two fighters didn't get too close when they were sparring partners. This allows him to go into Saturday's match-up with no hesitation on pushing things to the furthest limit possible.
"I'm glad we didn't really get that tight and build that relationship too, too tight," Melendez said. "So I have no problem fighting him, and I have no problem trying to kill him."
Those who know Melendez can read through that statement and realize there is no animosity towards Sanchez. More accurately, it's a testament to Melendez's desire in bringing the fight to his opponent in the hardest way possible.
But when asked about what he thought about Melendez's comments, Sanchez had a fire lit under him. His response: he damn well better try.
"I'm ready to rock n' roll. I'm ready to turn it on," Sanchez exclaimed. "When I walk down and you feel my music and when it goes off, you guys are going to know. You guys are going to know what's up. If he says that he's going to come and kill me, well he better come and try. I want him to come and try. I don't want him to run all night.
"I believe in my training, and I know I have the experience. When it goes down, I have no doubts because I know I did everything possible to outwork this guy. I was the one that was up at five in the morning, running at 8,000 feet altitude for five miles, then going to Jackson's and going to practice later on in the evening. I was the one doing that stuff. I don't know what or how he was training. All I know is that I did the stuff I knew he wasn't doing, the stuff that's going to make a difference in this fight."
Sanchez added that he thinks his training camp, including the level of his sparring, was and is on a completely different level than Melendez's. While giving his opponent credit for being one of the best in the world in the weight class, Sanchez said a win on Saturday would mean great things in his rise up the 155-pound rankings. And a finish, Sanchez said, will have more of an impact than any comments about killing each other will ever have.
"I knock out the guy that beat Josh Thomson twice, then I feel like I'm right there in the running," Sanchez said of Melendez. "I feel a strong victory over Gilbert Melendez makes a definite statement."
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Welcome to Building the Book Pile! A Weekly meme inspired by Stacking the Shelves
Hello Readers, Bloggers, and Awesome people!
I got home on Tuesday, had a recoup day on Wednesday, then LOADS of work on Thursday and Friday, so the weekend was pretty much nap-time. My vacation was a lot of fun but it is so nice to be back home. Sometimes getting back to the routine is very comforting. Do you have any spring vacation plans? If so where are you headed? or are you planning a Staycation? :)
Recent Reads: Lady Mechanika Vol 2 by Joe Benitex
Waiting on Wednesday
Blog Tour: Review And Giveaway - A Boy Called Bat by Elena Arnold
Books Received this Week
Spurt by Chris Miles from Author and Nerd Tours for Review and Blog Tour
How to Pack: Travel Smart for Any Trip by Hitha Palepu from Blogging for Books in exchange for review.
The Amazing Crafty Cat by Charise Harper from Netgalley and FirstSecond Books
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We have come to seek Your face
Because You have called us
Were gathered in this place
We have come to seek You
We have come to seek Your face
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Somebody asked Dale Carnegie if he spent his time learning as much as he could about the world.
His answer was essentially this:
Why would I waste my time trying to learn everything about the world?
There is no way I can be an expert at everything.
That's why I build a network of people who are experts in their fields.
In this way, indirectly through my network, I AM an expert in everything.
My expertise is in fixing musculoskeletal pain.
I leave the rest to the experts.
When it comes to nutrition, I have three resources that I always ask questions:
- Dr. Dennis Lesniak of Crossfit 716 in Buffalo, NY.
- Dr. Alex Rinehart of the NJ Nutrition Center.
- Diane Sanfilippo of balancedbites.com.
Whenever I get an opportunity to learn more about a subject that has changed my life and continues to change the lives of my family, friends, and patients, I pursue it.
Practical Paleo with Diane Sanfilippo
This past Saturday, March 3, 2012, I attended a "Practical Paleo" Seminar with Diane Sanfilippo at Brazen Athletics in Fairfield, NJ.
As humble observers, it is important to learn as much as we can about moving reality so that we may be able to change our reality and circumstances. We don't necessarily need to own the "why's" behind our actions, but we need to know people who do.
Here are the home-run hitters for me from Diane's seminar:
1. Transparency: Body weight is not relevant.
I'm more interested in your long-term health and reducing disease conditions than I am about you losing a few pounds. Sorry. ~Diane Sanfilippo
Within the first thirty minutes, Diane told us her weight. Out of respect for her, I won't put it here. But I was awed by her willingness to share this usually embarassing information. This action shows her true intentions, which are to reduce disease conditions and not just have you lose a few pounds.
2. Reality: This paleo stuff works.
"This is not a religion." ~Diane Sanfilippo
There is a lot of dogma out there behind this Paleo bandwagon. Unfortunately, people discredit the Paleo-diet for being a buzzword right now.
The reality is, though, that this Paleo stuff really does change lives.
It changed Diane's. It changed mine. It changed at least 5 people's lives from Crossfit Morristown. And it can change healthcare in the United States and other affluent societies.
You heard it here first.
3. Cholesterol: Cholesterol is nothing to be scared of.
Cholesterol is a precursor for three things:
Your cholesterol levels are independent of how much cholesterol you consume. And when you don't consume cholesterol, your body makes it anyway.
Take home: There's no reason to be scared of egg yolks folks. It's not uncommon for me to eat 6 egg yolks/day. You should do the same.
4. "The Pregnenolone Seal" – Stress first, sex second.
The chart to the right is a fancy way of saying that your body uses cholesterol to make stress hormones and sex hormones. But stress hormones come first.
The Pregnenolone Seal occurs when you experience so much stress that no sex hormones are made.
If you have a low sex drive or are having trouble conceiving a child, you are a victim of this pathway.
5. Familial hypercholesteremia: Genetic high cholesterol.
"High cholesterol does NOT run in your family.
A bad diet and lifestyle run in your family." ~Diane Sanfilippo
Well said Diane.
6. Horrible Sleeping and Carb Cravings:
"Have you ever had a bad night of sleeping and craved carbohydrates the next day?" ~Diane Sanfilippo
As I mentioned when I discussed Endless Summer Syndrome, human beings are meant to sleep when it's dark out.
When is it dark out?
It is dark for about 8-10 hours in the summer and 10-12 hours in the winter.
Yes, you read that correctly. No, you're not sleeping enough.
See how good you feel after sleeping for 10 hours in the winter.
7. Spot reducing fat:
"How do I get rid of the fat from my triceps or inner thighs?" ~Struggling gym-goer
As I always tell my patients, everyone has six-pack abs. Some people just have them hidden under a bunch of fat.
You can have the biggest triceps in the world and if there's fat on top of it, you won't be able to see it.
Increased fat on the triceps, inner thighs, or chest is a sign of high estrogen levels, caused by an inflammatory diet.
It just so happens that the Paleo-diet is also an anti-inflammatory diet.
8. Every disease has a cause:
Many people are told by their primary care physicians that their disease condition is "idiopathic." That means "we have no idea what is causing your symptoms."
"How scientific is it that any condition is idiopathic?" ~Diane Sanfilippo
Medical doctors may not know directly what causes a disease.
But when humans start eating, moving, and thinking according to what their genes require, disease conditions miraculously (and sarcastically) disappear.
Just because any healthcare practitioner does not know what is causing your symptoms does not mean it can't be fixed.
Where Should I Spend My $1000?
If a patient comes to me who is in chronic pain, sedentary, and ridden full of disease, and they have only $1000 to spend on one type of care, where do I send them?
My choices are:
- Me (of course) to get them out of pain. Why wouldn't I take their money?
- Pay for an annual gym membership, probably at a Crossfit gym.
- Pay for the highly qualified experience of a Paleo-ish nutritionist and spend the rest of that money on organic vegetables and grass-fed meat?
I'd choose #3 every time.
Diet is more important than manual therapy and exercise. Your foods literally make you. Do you want to be made out of twinkies, pasta, or spinach?
Popeye was onto something. I wonder if he was one of Dale Carnegie's experts.
Thank you Diane, for being one of mine.
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iPad mini Reviewby Anand Lal Shimpi & Vivek Gowri on November 20, 2012 6:10 PM EST
A Retina mini?
I prefer reading text and browsing the web on the bigger iPad, but in terms of actually holding the device the mini wins hands down. One iPad is better to look at and one is better to hold. It's a real problem. The obvious solution would be to give the iPad mini a Retina Display. Once again, in our Podcast on this topic, Brian offered poignant insight: a Retina Display likely won't come to the iPad mini.
There are three routes Apple has to enable a Retina Display on the iPad mini:
1. Double horizontal and vertical resolution (4x the number of pixels, similar to what was done for the iPad 3/4)
2. Pick a new, in-between resolution that isn't an outright doubling in each dimension but maintain the 4:3 aspect ratio
3. Pick a new resolution that isn't an outright doubling, also pick a new aspect ratio in the process
With the exception of the iPhone 5, Apple has preferred outright quadrupling of pixel count (2x in each dimension, option #1) to create a Retina Display. With the mini's display using a 1024 x 768 resolution, this option would give it a 7.85-inch 2048 x 1536 panel. That would be the same resolution as the iPad 3/4, but in a much smaller display giving it a pixel density of 326 PPI (vs ~263 for the iPad 3/4). Apple could do this, but it would then need to make all of the same changes it made in going to the iPad with Retina Display, primarily the introduction of a larger battery and much larger SoC. The bigger battery is needed to drive the more powerful backlight, and the X-series of SoCs is needed to actually render the UI and games at such a high resolution. Both of these things would increase the size and cost of the mini, which would make it distinctly un-mini.
The second option would be to pick a new resolution that wasn't an integer multiple of the current one, say 1600 x 1200. You could maintain the same aspect ratio, but you'd just get greater pixel density. The problem with this approach is iOS for the iPad projects points in screen space to one of two resolutions: 1024 x 768 or 2048 x 1536. Picking a non-integer multiple of those resolutions would force Apple to do some scaling and filtering to hit the new resolution, which could reduce quality. Apple does this on the MacBook Pro with Retina Display to enable higher resolution modes. To maximize image quality however, Apple renders the desktop offscreen at 4x the resolution and then scales down to fit the panel. There are obvious performance concerns here as well.
The final option would be for Apple to take the iPhone 5 route and just pick a new resolution and enable support for it. The only downside to this option is that developers would have to target yet another type of display. As we've seen with the iPhone 5, that can be done but it also means a number of applications may take a while to get updated, if they are at all.
None of these options is particularly enticing for Apple, especially given the low (for Apple), starting price for the iPad mini. If you're expecting next year's mini to have a Retina Display, I wouldn't hold your breath.
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Calista - Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - link^+1
I bought the original iPad and as many was amazed by the build-quality (stupid sharp edges excluded) and how fluid surfing the web felt considering the hardware. But I also within 15 minutes realised that it was badly memory-starved. Apple is an amazing company taking great pride in the user-experience of its products, but back then they goofed up badly.
I feel the same about the Mini. The CPU may be old but it's still fairly competent, the GPU still among the best, and the screen size may be close to perfect. But only 512 MB of RAM just ain't sufficient for today, even less for tomorrow. Reply
ltcommanderdata - Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - linkBeing slow to increase RAM and VRAM is consistently an issue with Apple. That's the case with Macs as well.
For the iPad 1, it wasn't just that 256MB of RAM was small. Rapid drop-off in app support for the iPad 1, especially in games, is due to the resolution being so high in comparison to the RAM. The GPU was also underpowered compared to the resolution. 3rd gen devices have 480x320 screens and 256MB of RAM while the iPad 1 has 5.1x the pixels with the same 256MB of RAM. The 4th gen iPod Touch is affected by this too having a 960x640 screen with 256MB, but the iPad 1 is even worse with 1.3x the pixels of the 4th gen Touch. Support for the 4th gen iPod Touch in games isn't perfect, but is better than the iPad 1, which indicates that 256MB in itself isn't the limitation, but the drop in support for the iPad 1 is a combination of 256MB RAM with the higher 1024x768 resolution and the iPad 1 no longer being sold after 2011. The iPad 1 received 2 major OS updates (iOS 4.x and 5.x) post launch like other iOS devices so its OS support wasn't prematurely terminated.
I think the situation will be different for the iPad Mini 1. The iPad 2/Mini doubles the RAM to 512MB while keeping the resolution the same, which alleviates the poor resolution-RAM ratio of the iPad 1. 512MB of RAM represents the majority of iOS devices including the iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad 2, iPad Mini 1, and 5th gen iPod Touch, of which given historical patterns, the iPhone 4S and 5th gen iPod Touch and perhaps even the iPad Mini 1 itself will sell into 2014. Given historical patterns, OS support for the iPhone 4S, 5th gen iPod Touch, and iPad Mini 1 should continue into 2015. Seeing it's only in 2012 that developers are really beginning to require 512MB of RAM, I don't see them already upping the minimum requirement to 1GB in 2013. Especially not when that eliminates the majority of their potential customer base, when those devices are still being actively sold into 2014, and receiving OS support into 2015. I think 2014 is a more realistic date for when apps will begin to stop supporting 512MB devices.
Personally, seeing the CPU was unchanged and the GPU is only 2x faster despite the 4x increase in resolution making it slower at native resolution than the iPad Mini 1 and iPad 2, I wouldn't be surprised if the iPad 3 loses app support before the iPad Mini and iPad 2.
Of course, just because apps continue to support 512MB devices doesn't mean the usage experience won't be degraded or sub-par. I can see that becoming an issue faster than app support. Reply
Klug4Pres - Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - linkI guess you reviews the Wifi-only version, but I'd like to see some analysis of the cellular connectivity options, especially what LTE bands are supported in the available SKUs. Reply
HighTech4US - Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - linkThe mini lacks a GPS on the base model making it useless for using any map software with turn-by-turn prompts.
The Nexus 7 has a built in GPS chip (and a very effective one and way better pin pointing location than a TomTom) and Google Maps works great on the Nexus 7 (you can download maps for offline use).
The lack of GPS on any tablet is a deal breaker for me.
Adding in the omission GPS with the other short comings along with its sky high price makes the mini just an overpriced iToy. The Nexus 7 is a much much better deal. Reply
Calista - Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - linkI think we have all forgot what gave us forgot what gave us 7" tablets. A "tablet" - i.e a tablet PC running Windows was normally in the 12-14" range. The JooJoo was a 12" tablet as well. Apple brought it down to 10" and sold a ton of those.
At the same time a large number of more or less obscure manufacturers brought out 7" tablets *not* because 7" was considered the best compromise but because those panels could be bought dirt-cheap. But this also gave us this idea that a small tablet was supposed to be 7" while a large tablet was to be 10". I would say this is an anomaly, tablets have for the last ten years been larger than 10".
Maybe the "correct" size for a small tablet is in the 8-8.5" range? I was playing with my friends Motorola Xoom 2 (8.2", 1280x800) and while a bit heavier than my 7" tablet it seemed to hit the perfect size. Not so big or heavy as to be cumbersome, while still packing almost 40" more screen area.
Too much focus is being put on the device being pocket-able, how many really bring a tablet in their coat or pants? Just the idea of asking for a device to be pocket-able while still lacking a 3G/4G connection is just plain silly. Instead focus should be put on how it feels in hand but also how much space it occupies on a table. The 10" iPad was always too big to fit comfortable on my table while still having space for a cup of tea, a notebook, a plain book or the remotes for the TV and receiver. Reply
Quad5Ny - Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - linkThere is a Pop-over interactive banner ad running that opens when you try to hit the x, please take a look. Thanks.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=34271... Reply
vicbdn - Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - link"but in terms of repsonsiveness" In the conclusion. Reply
BSMonitor - Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - linkIncredibly too much... By the 4th generation of these, 32GB should be standard and 64GB a $100 upgrade...
The BOM on 32GB NAND in this fashion is what? $15? Even if it's $20($10 x 2 16GB), they are getting a 1000% profit margin on that upgrade from 16 to 32 GB??
But they know we all have huge iTunes libraries we'd want on it...
Unfortunately there will never be a do-it-yourself tablet similar to the PC market. I stopped paying Dell and Gateway and HP a LONG time ago for their ridiculous profit methods. Reply
TouchPadKing - Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - linkNot sure if this has already been rehashed, but the pixel size is what kills the ipad mini for me. I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, and I can SEE the pixels and it drives me nuts. The ipad mini has an even bigger screen with about the same number of pixels... Also, samsung fits in pocket, mini doesn't. I like the ipad mini's form factor, but again if it won't fit in my pocket it'll probably never leave the house... Reply
Rising - Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - linkI bought Nexus 7 when it was released. This is what i can tell you after few months of usage..
"Its a good hardware in a crappy software". Iwould say the higher price premium on ipad mini is justified for software.
Most of the apps are zoomed over apps for Nexus 7. I hate that part of it. For example i use this app called apex launcher in my samsung s 3 and when i try using it on Nexus 7 all the icons are so small that they are hardly recognizable.
I donot understand why Google cannot optimize the apps to their own Nexus tablets.
Anand do you know whats stopping them from doing this? Reply


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Aerodynamic Heating
One of the problems with airplanes and high-speed flight is the heat that builds up on the airplane's surface because of air friction. When the SR-71 Blackbird airplane is cruising at Mach 3.5, skin temperatures on its surface range from 450°F to over 1,000°F. To withstand this high temperature, the airplane was constructed of titanium alloy, instead of the traditional aluminum alloy. The supersonic transport Concorde was originally designed to cruise at Mach 2.2, but its cruise speed was reduced to Mach 2.0 because of structural problems that started to occur because of aerodynamic heating. If airplanes capable of hypersonic flight are going to be built in the future, one of the obstacles that will have to be overcome is the stress on the airplane's structure caused by heat.
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|Black "boomerang" over Norcross, GA during thunderstorm.
On April 24, 2010, in Norcross, GA, at approximately 12:40 PM EST, I stepped outside my office to watch the start of a thunderstorm. To the northwest, I observed a fairly large, black object in the sky above the trees but below the cloud ceiling (3600 feet, according to my local FAA Fight Service Station's data). At first, I thought it was a hawk, as they do sometimes circle above. But as it slowly moved across the sky, it became clear to me that it was, in fact, a solid boomerang or backwards-L-shaped object. It had no lights and was silent (at least to my ears), and it didn't move like one would expect a gliding bird to. As I reported above, this was during a thunderstorm, so with the cloud cover, there was no sun or anything else I could use to give it scale, but it appeared to me to be at least as large as a helicopter or a single-engine plane. It was a solid, hard object, moving slowly and deliberately.
It moved in a wide, horizontal arc towards me, traveling from left to right in my field of vision, and began moving to the north/northwest, away from my location, and disappeared, possibly into cloud cover. One unusual aspect of this object was that the "boomerang" did not have a horizontal attitude like a plane, but rather a vertical one, hence the backwards "L" description.
In the interest of accuracy and full disclosure, I should note here that I am mildly nearsighted and wear glasses for driving. I was not wearing my glasses at the time of this sighting, and felt that there wasn't time to go and get them. However, my vision isn't that bad, and I stand by what I've described.
So, I immediately wrote down the details of my observation, and went to my computer to look up what to do in the event of a sighting of this type, and then called the local police who, in turn, sent two officers to speak to me right away. They listened to me but did not take a police report, and instructed me to keep a camera handy should the object reappear. I then called the Center for UFO Studies to make a report.
I should also put on record with this report that I've had a mild interest in the subject of UFO's and have read about them and kept an open mind. However, I never expected to have my own sighting, and can draw no conclusions as to what it really was that I saw, except that it didn't appear to me to be a plane, helicopter, or other known aerial vehicle. It did not appear to be natural phenomena, but it did appear to be an object of some kind.


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Jersey Mike's Subs Opens First North Augusta Location
Owners and Managers Celebrate With Free Sub Fundraisers
June 23, 2014 - North Augusta, SC - Jersey Mike's Subs, known for its fresh sliced/fresh grilled subs, opened in North Augusta on June 18. Franchise owners Eric Clark and Jason Wren, along with area manager Stephen Carter and general manager Will Sims, held a grand opening and free sub fundraiser from Wednesday, June 18 to Sunday, June 22 to support the Southeastern Firefighters Burn Foundation.
The new restaurant, located at 1141 Knox Avenue, circulated 10,000 coupons throughout the community offering a free regular sub for a minimum $2 contribution to the Southeastern Firefighters Burn Foundation.
"The Southeastern Firefighters Burn Foundation is an organization that we partner with year round," said Clark. "In addition to supporting the Burn Foundation for our annual Month of Giving in March, this is our third grand opening to raise money for the cause. We're glad to support a charity that is locally based and supports patients and their families by providing medication, supplies, transportation, housing and support during their time of need."
Clark added, "North Augusta is a great fit for the Jersey Mike's brand and we are excited to open our doors to the community."
Clark and Wren are exemplary Jersey Mike's franchise owners who share the company's commitment to quality products and exceptional customer service, and who are dedicated to giving back to the local community. Since 2010, Jersey Mike's locations throughout the country have raised nearly $10 million for worthy local charities and have distributed more than 750,000 free sub sandwiches to help numerous causes.
About Jersey Mike's
Started in 1956, Jersey Mike's now has 1,300 restaurants open and under development nationwide. In just three years, the company has nearly doubled in size. A 2014 Technomic report ranked Jersey Mike's in the top five fastest-growing restaurant chains with sales above $200 million.
The growth is fueled by passionate Jersey Mike's fans who crave their subs made Mike's Way® with the freshest vegetables – onions, lettuce and tomatoes – topped off with an exquisite zing of "the juice" – red wine vinegar and olive oil blended to perfection. Jersey Mike's premium meats and cheeses are sliced on the spot, piled high on in-store baked bread and served up with a helping of neighborly banter from a dedicated and high-energy team.
This is the fourth Jersey Mike's location for Clark and Wren. In October 2011, they opened their first Jersey Mike's in Grovetown, Ga. The pair owns additional locations in Martinez, Ga., and Aiken, S.C.
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The irony isn't lost on me. I absolutely despise shopping for myself. Being a shop owner, my job is to shop shop shop non-stop. I have to travel to trade shows, test out products, and also create and produce products. Then when I am done shopping for Rich Hippies, I have to shop for all of our design and renovation projects. It kind of takes the wind out of you when you have to shop every. single. day.
When it comes to fashion, technology, and anything for home that doesn't require a design decision – we order it online. Salesforce gives some great advice about ecommerce if you're not as familiar with it as we are. We order our groceries online, we get water delivery, we order our coffee through an app, and avoid lines like the plague. We tend to only shop small when it comes to setting foot inside a store, and Target is a seasonal event for us. When Black Friday turned into Black-Friday-Shop-Small-Saturday-Cyber-Monday i.e. You-can-shop-it-all-online I finally decided to peek at what the big deal was, and there were a ton of them. This is our stress-free round up of shopping from the comfort of your own home, and avoiding a fist fight over the last Cabbage Patch Doll.
First up, furniture. We are still working on four kitchens, seven bedrooms, four bathrooms, and a ton of outside areas and it seems we will never be done. With 40% off everything, we stocked up on what's missing, and what we think we made need.
This butler tray was a just-in-case purchase at $60.
These were already a steal at $40, but they were included in the 40% off sale!
This simple and easy loveseat came to $300!
Another $300 steal! We also snagged a mattress cover and are using it in an extra bedroom.
We shared this guy with you in this post. Now it's only $450!
I had my eye on this table and even though it was only 15% off, I knew it was a good as it was going to get.
I am still on the fence about these guys, but they are less than $135 and can ship free this weekend in addition to a lighting sale….thinking….thinking…
20% off all black custom frames, which is nuts, because their prices are already so reasonable and shipped to your door. Sale ends Monday.
holiday card on your mind? The best designs ever are 20% off right now. I am so bummed we haven't taken our pics yet. We are going to try and squeeze some in tomorrow so we don't miss this sale.
All kid organic PJ's are $25! Atlas needed a size up, and you know we all match! Everything else is 25% off. Sale ends Monday.
80% off rugs and a ton more AND free shipping, this is where you will fund us for the rest of the weekend.
Would you believe me if I told you this was down to $91 from $380?!
I feel so much closer to being done shopping for the compound. Happy shopping friends, let me know if you find anything amazing to share.


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I've always been taking part in WordPress' Weekly Photo Challenge. However, I usually post my entries in my other blog which is on travelling. That's because most of the photos I've taken were from my overseas trips.
This week's theme is Dreaming and the challenge is guest hosted by Kristin Luna of Camels & Chocolates. She suggests using long exposures to create a dreamy effect and "an otherworldly sense of escapism".
I tried it out on my camera and it really works! Thanks for the tips, Kristin!
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Cat & Mouse
For this edition of Picture of the Week, I thought I would offer something a little different…three cat and mouse drawings, two of which I'm only sharing here on Art Filled Days.
All three drawings date back to at least 1891. Yet, they could have just as easily been drawn yesterday for the charming and fun story they tell is timeless. We have the perfect hunter and her prey on full display. Just when our feline friend thinks she has the upper paw, we find out that it is she who is in for the surprise.
First we have kitty closing in for the kill.
If that was the only drawing included in this children's magazine, we would be left wondering if the cat was able to snag its prey or if the little mousie got away. But, for you see, there is much more to this charming little story.
For the next drawing we see changes everything and reveals a secret…a spring.
A springing cat finds that this was no ordinary rat. Surprised was the cat as she leaps in the air, for it was she who suffered the greatest scare.
But, our little tale has one more part you see. No winner at all one sprung as another flees.
My little ditty is done. It leaves one dead mouse and poor kitty on the run.
You can use this trio of drawings however you wish as they are in the public domain forever documenting kitty's miss. They are signed S.F.A. but are not credited so they are safe to use in the USA. Everywhere else too they are free except for the words, they're copyrighted by me.
Be sure to check out the rest of our public domain black and white cat illustrations on Reusable Art.
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A companion file is available: Click here to downloadQ. When I use Excel's AutoFiltering, the status bar displays the number of qualifying rows. But for no apparent reason, that number often vanishes. How do I keep this number visible while I work?
AutoFiltering a list hides rows that don't meet your filter criteria. After applying filtering criteria, Excel shows the record count on the status bar--but this value disappears when the sheet is calculated.
To display a permanent count of the visible rows in an AutoFiltered list, create a formula using Excel's SUBTOTAL function. The first argument for SUBTOTAL specifies the type of operation (an argument of 2 displays a count of the visible cells in a range).
The figure below shows a list in rows 6 through 3006. The formula in cell D3 is:
The formula counts the number of visible cells in the range (minus the header row). Apply different filtering criteria, and the formula updates to show the new count. The SUBTOTAL function only works for AutoFiltering and outlining. If you hide rows manually, it won't return the correct result.
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Dear Peace Loving Friends,
From the producers of The Inconvenient Truth, as well as Inglorious Basterds and Good Will Hunting, comes Countdown to Zero, a documentary account of the urgent movement to rid the world of nuclear weapons.Featuring the likes of Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton, Tony Blairand Jimmy Carter, the film debuted to critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival and is set for widespread theatrical release in July.
JMU has been selected for a special screening, at which Global Zero (the NGO behind the documentary) representatives will be on hand toanswer questions and discuss the their efforts, as well as the recent events such as the treaty between the US and Russia and the global anti-proliferation summit.
This is a last minute opportunity. I need your help to publicize it in your communities. Please forward this email far and wide, post notices in your department, announce it at church, do whatever you can. The showing will be at JMU, in the Health and Human Services Building, room 1301, on Tuesday, April 27th at 5:00pm. Please check out www.globalzero.org for more information.
Thank you.
Jack Marmorstein


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Look, I get why the quarterback for the winning team at the Super Bowl yells "I'm going to Disney World" when he's asked about what he plans to do after his big win.Read more
I must be listening to too much Taylor Swift because when I was trying to write a column last week my mind was the blankest of blank spaces.Read more
Feminism is taking over the world and it must be stopped. In the feminists' ruthless conquest for power, the rights and voices of men are being ignored and stepped on with sharpened stilettos like a pile of dog poop. With Beyonce standing in front of a giant, neon-lit "FEMINIST" at the MTV Music Awards and Taylor Swift embracing the label, it's become harder to ignore feminism's destructive reign.Read more
Here's a fun game. Go to any comment section on an online story/video/blog/whatever about or written by a woman and count how many posts it takes before you see a gendered slur or personal attack against said woman.
And by fun, I mean horribly depressing and soul-crushingly unoriginal and disheartening.
Words like "cunt," "bitch," and "slut" are tossed around online like sprinkles on a misogyny cake.Read more
Whenever your mom shares something on Facebook about feminism, it's time to get skeptical.Most current example is the viral video "F-Bombs for Feminism," which features young girls in princess dresses and tiaras going on expletive-ridden tirades about issues of gender equality they'll face as they grow up into a patriarchal world.At first, it was nice.Read more


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David Bosch 1966-2017
Dear CPTC,
A handful of us from CPTC met up in Chestnut Ridge for Dave Bosch's memorial on Saturday, and we wanted to share the experience with those who wanted to be there but couldn't make it, and also to share a little of who Dave was with those who didn't know him. A longtime member of CPTC, Dave passed away Wednesday evening after suffering a stroke while swimming in Coney Island on Sunday. He was 50.
By 4:00, the clouds and chill of the day had given way to a pristine spring afternoon, and the setting couldn't have been more peaceful. The memorial was held at a conference and performance space called Threefold Auditorium, a stunning, 200-seat octagonal building dating to 1949.
Each of the 200 seats was filled with family and friends of Dave; more people sat on folding chairs around the edges of the main room. Plenty more stood. Dave was a popular man.
The hour-long program was set up as a chronological retelling of Dave's life by those who knew him best, starting with Dave's father, Will, and then his brother Darren, his friends from grammar school Andy and Jeff, three of his rowing teammates from Brown, and finally, his friend Seth from the Coney Island Polar Bears swim club and his girlfriend, Tanya. In between were chamber orchestra pieces by Haydn and Bach, performed by Dave's siblings and friends.
No matter when each of the speakers knew Dave best, their memories all overlapped to reveal that Dave was the same guy since before he was in kindergarten: driven to excel but never boastful about his accomplishments; eager to make friends, bring people together, and put others at ease; tireless in his work and his athletics; and of course, always up for a party at the end of a hard week.
Will Bosch told us that Dave, forever committed to helping others, decided to donate his organs, and so his heart is now beating in the chest of someone else, who can't possibly know the turbo-charged engine he just received. But those of us who knew Dave knew that engine well. Anybody who ever trailed Dave in one of his hard-charging track workouts would have chuckled – we did – as, one by one, the speakers revealed just how far back his dogged persistence stretched. From endless summer days of baseball cajoling little brother Darren to play just one more inning, to his walking onto the Brown crew team despite having never rowed before, to his painstaking assembly of drying racks for 12,000 plants of organic garlic grown on the farm his dad bought in retirement, what emerged was a portrait of a life well and fully lived, if only for a painfully short time. And, as those who'd gathered were cautioned more than once, "Dave would hate this," because he never, ever made it about himself.
Dave went to Brown University, was a Peace Corp volunteer in the Cape Verde Islands for two years, got his MBA at Yale, spent many years in an executive role at the MTA, and most recently, was the director of commercial planning and development at Amtrak.
But, as one of Dave's friends pointed out, despite working 15-hour days, he always made time for his two biggest passions: sport and those he loved. He ran more than a dozen marathons, with a 2:48 PR; participated in open-water-swimming races in China, Turkey, and other distant locales; and in 2015, at age 48, completed the 700-mile Paris-Brest-Paris bike race in just 71 hours and 39 minutes, on almost no sleep. And still, if you invited Dave to a party, or a concert, or a dinner, nine times out of 10, he'd be there, never showing an ounce of fatigue, no matter how inconvenient the location was from his home in Sunnyside, Queens. And he always took public transportation — or biked.
Dave had to quit running a few years back due to a slipped disc, so many newer CPTC members may have never met him. But he didn't allow that to dampen his competitive spirit. As David Greenberg noted after Dave passed: "My favorite memory of Dave was actually after he had to stop running — he talked about his injury with obvious regret, but then when he started describing the swimming he was doing, his eyes lit up. He was able to walk away from something he loved, and instead of being sad about it, went out and found something else to be passionate about. Sounds easy but it isn't."
As runners, each of us knows that all too well. But if you're lucky, you get to meet a guy like Dave Bosch, who would tell you that when the door to something you love closes, don't just stand there. Find another door that's open, and be prepared to love what's on the other side.
We'll miss you, Dave. And thank you for reminding us to always look for those open doors.
By David Alm and Chris Donnelly


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December 31, 2015
Happy New Year!Year of the Monkey
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Life in Yachiyo City, Japan
So it's been awhile since my last full post; the end of the year brought a busy time at school and not quite as much traveling. This is simply part of the job though!
Today was our first day back at school. It was a short and sweet day containing an opening ceremony to welcome the students back for this next semester (about 3 more months of school left - the schools here run on a three semester schedule over the span of the year).
For winter vacation (the time between the second and third semester) I was able to travel home for the holidays. It was great to spend time with my family and friends and do some reflecting on the past 5 months spent in Japan. While winter vacation was well deserved and rewarding though, it will be nice to get back into a routine.
We are now in the year of the Monkey, according to the Zodiac, and I'm excited to see what the year will bring. I have officially decided to not renew my contract so I will be heading back to the US this July. It's amazing how time has flown by!
So far, this year has started off pretty well. I was able to spend New Year's in Japan and participated by watching a countdown concert with my fellow ALT's (Jennifer, Jenny, Jessica and Angela - Jazmyn was back in the States with family) and then Jenny, Jennifer and I walked to our local temple and waited almost an hour to climb the bell tower and ring the large bell! We then drank amazake (a traditional hot rice beverage) and ate seaweed wrapped mochi (soft, gelatinous rice cake) while staying warm by a big bonfire. It was exciting to participate in some local customs and we also happened to see a few of Jennifer's students who lived nearby…
Besides that, I was able to spend time with one of my oldest friends, Madison (we've been friends for 20 years!), while she was visiting another friend, Tyler, here in Japan who is also teaching English. The year promises more friends and family visits, seeing more of Japan, another new school (I will be switching schools after the school year ends in March) as well as a new chapter when I move back to America. Last year (the year of the Sheep) was pretty jam packed full of exciting ventures, so I look forward to what the year of the Monkey brings.
Happy New Year!


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'There was no coming and going of dandies and mouthpieces'
"There was no coming and going of dandies and mouthpieces. All was quiet, dignified, soft, slow and noiseless, as became the dedication of a great temple of music." So said The New York Herald of the opening night of the new Music Hall at the corner of 57th Street and Seventh Avenue on May 5, 1891.
It was the first night of a five night festival celebrating the inauguration of New York City's newest and finest music hall. The concerts, which featured two giants of the composing and conducting worlds—Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Walter Damrosch—attracted the great and good of late nineteenth century New York society, with The New York Herald listing the luminaries seated in the boxes and the stalls.


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Recently Visited Pages
Take advantage of this at-a-glance look at the pages on the SCC website you most often visit. Use this as a tool to navigate quickly to info you need the most. Take it one step further and click the star in the top right corner to ensure your favorite pages remain on your list of Visited Pages.
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Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP)
The purpose of SCC SSDP (Students for Sensible Drug Policy) is to create a fairer, alternative public discourse at St. Charles Community College and in the local area on issues pertaining to cannabis and hemp policy in the local, state and national political arena.


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Income investors looking to profit from the United States' $890 billion energy boom need look no further than midstream master limited partnerships, or MLPs. These providers of transport and storage pipelines and processing facilities are vitally important to oil and gas companies and usually operate on long-term, inflation adjusted contracts. However, there are today 74 midstream MLPs to choose from; this article's goal is to help income investors choose some of the best options for long-term income growth and market-beating total returns.
The safest distribution is one that has just been raised
A great starting point for finding well-run MLPs is to start with those that have consistent track records of growing distributions.
|Forward Yield
|10-Year Distribution Growth Rate
|10-Year Projected Annual Distribution Growth
|12 Month Coverage Ratio
|10 Year Projected Annual Total Return
|ONEOK Partners
|Magellan Midstream Partners
As seen in this table, Magellan Midstream Partners (NYSE: MMP) and ONEOK Partners (NYSE: OKS), not only have a solid track record of growing distributions over the last decade, but analysts expect their growth rates to accelerate in the years to come. What's more, those distributions are safe and their growth is sustainable based on strong distribution coverage ratios. However, just how realistic are these analyst projections?
Why invest in ONEOK Partners?
ONEOK Partners just raised its distribution by 2%, which represents a 5.6% year-over-year increase.
On July 24, ONEOK Partners announced plans to invest $365 million to $470 million into Oklahoma's SCOOP (South Central Oklahoma Oil Province) play. The project consists of a gas processing facility with a capacity of 200 million cubic feet per day, or MMcf/d, and will represent 29% growth in ONEOK Partners' Oklahoma gas processing capacity.
Oklahoma's SCOOP isn't the only place ONEOK is betting big.
Thanks to North Dakota regulators installing strict gas-flaring limits, Bakken shale oil producers will have to pay to store and transport the natural gas that is produced as a byproduct of oil production.
In fact, ONEOK is executing on a six-year, $6 billion-$6.4 billion investment program that runs through 2016. This impressive organic growth initiative doesn't include $4.5 billion-$5.8 billion in yet to be announced projects or potential acquisitions. Management expects this growth pipeline to result in 6%-8% distribution growth for ONEOK Partners.
Analysts expect distribution growth to accelerate after 2016; with continued growth of oil and gas production in the Bakken and Woodford shales, as well as Oklahoma's SCOOP and the Permian Basin, I believe those projections to be valid.
Why invest in Magellan Midstream Partners?
|Operating Margins
|Net Margins
|Return on Assets
|Return on Equity
|Magellan Midstream Partners
|Industry Average
The key to Magellan's success has been its management team, which has proven itself a master of efficient capital allocation. For example, back in 2009, at the height of the financial panic, Magellan bought out its general partner at a dirt-cheap eight times EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization). This greatly reduced its cost of capital, making it more competitive, and eliminated its incentive distribution rights, which doubled the amount of distributable cash flow available to pay distributions.
In fact, Magellan Midstream Partners has a proven track record of only selecting low-risk, highly profitable investments and acquisitions. In the last 10 years it has closed $3.7 billion in acquisitions and organic growth projects, such as:
- After the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Magellan in 2010 acquired $289 million in oil and pipeline assets from BP for just eight to nine times EBITDA.
- The Long Horn pipeline expansion from the Permian Basin to Houston: $430 million investment, 50,000 barrels per day increase in capacity, EBITDA multiple of three.
- The Double Eagle pipeline, a joint venture with Kinder Morgan that will transport 50,000 barrels per day of condensate from the Eagle Ford shale to Magellan Midstream's Corpus Christi condensate splitter.
- The BridgeTex pipeline, a joint venture with Occidental Petroleum: 300,000 BPD oil from the Permian Basin to Houston.
Magellan Midstream Partners just met its previous guidance by raising its distribution 20% year over year in 2014, with 15% expected growth in 2015.
Given its track record and $1.6 billion in current and potential backlog projects, Magellan Midstream Partners has the potential for strong distribution growth in the years to come.
Foolish takeaway
America's oil and gas boom is likely to last for decades, and long-term income investors can rest assured that ONEOK Partners and Magellan Midstream Partners are three excellent choices to profit from this megatrend. These companies' long track records of growth, through accretive acquisitions and organic expansion projects, combined with their impressive current backlogs, give me confidence that their distributions are set to grow for many years to come.


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November 4th
Annie and I finished the cake this morning. I'm not totally happy with it but happy it's done.
Annie took a nap while I ran on the treadmill. She is such a doll.
Nick came over again and the boys played football for hours. Ethan got to play at the Brimhall's with Duke and Avery came over to play with Emmy.
We even brought Avery with us to Betsy's 1st birthday party. Betsy is just too adorable ALL. THE. TIME.
We came home and the boys were still out playing night games. The girls played Just Dance. Westin and Parks came over for a second to grab Ethan and Annie for a late night.
It was a fun-filled, busy night. Then these cuties had a movie night, sleep-over.


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So now you have made the smart decision about your local move and are going to use a great moving company, Midsouth Moving and Storage, obviously, let us talk a bit about what happens next. Our trusted movers will take great care in loading all of your items onto our moving trucks. Once we have delivered them across town to your new home Germantown's best moving company will begin the unloading process and will place all of your belongings in your new home will great care. We will even help move and set up your furniture to help that empty house or apartment full of boxes start to feel like a home. One of the many services provided by Midsouth Moving and Storage. We take pride in being the best moving company in Germantown Tennessee. Give us a call and let us prove that to you. Not all moving companies are created equal.
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A political commentator I most certainly am not, but I do try to follow the goings on as much as my sleep deprived little brain will allow and yesterday's budget has left me rather bemused to say the least. As a self employed parent with a fledgling business, some of Philip Hammond's announcements have a huge impact on me and my family.
We've known for a while that there would be 30 hours per week childcare funding for 3- and 4-year-olds of working parents. This is bittersweet in that I think anything that helps parents who want to work be able to is good, but there is a deficit in the funding the government pays to childcare providers, meaning nurseries will end up either closing or hiking their prices up. With Martha starting at Toby's nursery once he gets his allowance, we would then be paying more for her place. That is, of course, if we are even considered eligible for the 30 hours.
You see the eligibility criteria is that both parents (or the lone parent in a single parent household) must be earning at least minimum wage for 16 hours a week, which as of April 2017 will mean £120 per week. For employed parents this simply means having a 16+ hours a week job, but for those of us who are self employed it means earning £120 per week come what may. It's not a huge sum, however new businesses don't make a whole load of money when they first start and the business owners work every hour they can to try and be successful. The upshot of this is that Toby goes to nursery twice a week at the moment and Martha not at all, I'm working my bum off to build Apples & Pips (more than 16 hours a week!) but my actual income is negligible because it's a start up and whilst my lovely customers are placing orders and loving their products, it takes a while to actually make money.
I've stepped back from a lot of my freelance work in order to focus on my shop, so basically in order to achieve the £120 per week needed to get Toby into nursery for 30 hours a week during the term time, and afford to pay top-up charges for his food and out of term hours, and pay for Martha to go to nursery at least a couple of days a week, I will have to either hope I find a lovely long-term freelance contract, lots of short-term freelance work, or get a part-time job. Any of those things mean either stepping back from Apples & Pips or working additional hours to also continue to grow the business. Needless to say that those 16 hours become 70 very quickly, but for the same money.
Then there's National Insurance. I pay Class 2 voluntary contributions in order to get my state pension and maternity allowance (no more kids, don't read into that, but it meant I got MA after having Martha!). Mr Hammond has announced that with the scrapping of Class 2 National Insurance Contributions (NICs) in 2018, the Class 4 contributions for self employed people earning above £16,250 will see a 1% increase in their NICs next year to 8% and a further 1% in 2019. Those who don't earn above the threshold and currently pay Class 2? Who knows. If I'm not paying my Class 2 because it's been scrapped, but am not earning enough to pay Class 4, do I still get a state pension and the other associated benefits?
What the Chancellor has neglected to factor in, with his proclamations to make things fairer, is that for most self employed people the very reason we need the lower NICs, the additional childcare allowance etc is because we work well above full time hours for well below minimum wage, without sick pay or holiday pay. For myself and other small business owners, being off sick or having a holiday means either shutting up shop or paying someone to cover for us – both resulting in a loss of earnings.
Tory MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, had this to say:
"It impacts people who are putting themselves at risk, their houses on the line, to create new growth. It's the wrong way round and sends a very poor message."
I'm not an expert and I'm sure that there are other details that I've either not read about or don't understand. If you do have a more in-depth knowledge and can clarify anything I've said here then please do so.
All I know for sure is that right now I'm feeling somewhat disheartened. I'm unsure how I'm meant to put the additional hours required into building Apples & Pips, whilst also working 16 hours a week at minimum wage (or earning the equivalent) so that we can get the help with childcare. The alternative is Toby having the 15 hours that everyone gets for 3- and 4-year-olds, then paying the top-up fees and a couple of days for Martha, which would still leave us out of pocket versus what we pay now without me yet earning the additional money.
How does yesterday's budget impact on you and your family? Can you give me any greater insight to it all? Please do comment below or get in touch on Facebook or Twitter.


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Saba To Go
Saba To Go creates fresh, Saba restaurant quality dishes to take-away from Rathmines, Deansgrange and Windy Arbour.
Order fresh, restaurant quality dishes, pick up a delicious bottle of wine or why not indulge in one of our homemade desserts for the perfect night in!
At Saba To Go, it's important to the team that everybody can enjoy the dishes they create. The Saba To Go website has a detailed allergen and intolerance guide. As all food is made fresh to order, the menu is very accommodating and our dishes can be changed to suit all diets.
2017 was a great year for the Saba To Go team as they were awarded 'Best Takeaway In Ireland' at the Irish Curry Awards. They announced the launch of their hugely popular Saba Thai Spice Bag. It was even more exciting that they had the opportunity to launch it at Electric Picnic. The response they received was fantastic.
Not only did they launch our Saba Thai Spicebag at Electric Picnic but they also launched their brand new Saba Street Kitchen. We're sure that 2018 is going to be another amazing year for Saba To Go.
Stay updated with all the Saba To Go news on their blog.
Sanook! [Enjoy!]
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Written by tpeterson on February 9, 2018 — 4 Comments
By Tim Peterson (El Monte) – Emilio Alvarez scored 21 points to lead Mt. View to a 70-61 win over Gabrielino Friday night in the regular season finale at home.
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Surely not all the bells and whistles are defensible, college officials concede, but given the expectations of students who have grown up with DVD players in their own rooms, any campus without, say, a nightclub and a food court is as obsolete as an eight-track cassette.
"These are not frills," said Daniel M. Fogel, president of the University of Vermont. "They are absolute necessities."
The University of Vermont plans to spend up to $70 million on a new student center, a colossal complex with a pub, a ballroom, a theater, an artificial pond for wintertime skating and views of the mountains and Lake Champlain. —Greg Winter (registration; will expire) —Jacuzzi U.? A Battle of Perks to Lure Students (NY Times)
And people wonder 1) why students can't find time to do their homework and 2) why college tuition is skyrocketing. Note that no single college has every one of the extravagant luxuries mentioned in this article — the overall feeling of pandering to the whims of potential students is exaggerated because the author has chosen to focus on the most extravagant luxuries he found. Still, it is amazing. Via Arnzen's PEDABLOGUE, where I posted a relevant quote from Malcolm X.