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Although mathematically simple, taking a company's price and dividing it by its earnings can tell an investor a great deal. The P/E ratio, as it is called, shows how much investors are willing to pay for a dollar of earnings. So, if a company has a stock price of $20 and earnings of $1.00, its P/E would be 20.0. Each dollar of earnings is worth $20 to the market. If that same company, trading at $20 per share, earned $0.50, however, the P/E would be 40—investors would be paying $40.00 for each dollar of earnings.The price to earnings ratio is a valuation metric, helping to decipher if a stock is expensive or not. Although some use absolute metrics (a P/E over 20 is expensive, for example), P/E is most useful on a relative basis, comparing one company to its historical norms, to another company, or to an industry or market average. It is a way to measure that voting machine mentality of Wall Street about which Benjamin Graham wrote. The thought is that growth and momentum investors are willing to pay more for a dollar of today's earnings to invest in a quickly growing company. A value investor, meanwhile, would prefer to wait until a company is "on sale" and trading at a low P/E multiple.
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Rackspace was founded in 1998 and is based in San Antonio, Texas. The company offers cloud computing services, and manages web-based IT systems, websites, applications and other needs for its 200,000+ customers worldwide. It has data centers in Dallas, Chicago, Virginia, London, Hong Kong and Sydney, and is actively rolling out cloud capabilities in all of those regions. Its products include customer management portals, as well as cloud servers for computing, storage, and applications (including email, collaboration, file back-ups, and hybrid hosting). Most of its services are sold via direct sales teams, third-party channel partners, and online ordering. The company currently boasts around 100,000 servers and has over 5,000 employees. Its "hybrid model" supports public clouds, private clouds, and dedicated physical infrastructure.
Once a high flying stock, Rackspace has come down to earth somewhat since mid-February 2013, losing approximately 40% of its value in that time. Obviously, this caused its price-to-earnings multiple to tumble dramatically. In 2011 and 2012 that metric averaged astonishingly high levels of 71.4 and 74.2, respectively, compared to the current 53.3, which is still quite high.
We think one of the primary reasons for the fall from grace has been concerns over increased competition and the "commoditization" of cloud computing. Indeed, the stock experienced some selling following Amazon's (AMZN) announcement that it would be making price cuts to some of the products offered via Amazon Web Services. We are not overly concerned because the products in question only compete with a small portion of RAX's business.
In general, we do not completely agree with the viewpoint that cloud computing offerings are becoming commoditized. Differences remain in the core offerings and performance. Further, Rackspace has become adept at talking with customers and custom tailoring architecture to meet their individual needs. We believe Rackspace differentiates itself with its top-notch service and support offerings.
While cloud computing should continue to grow and may cannibalize "managed hosting", we also think demand for dedicated servers will be vibrant. There is evidence that certain "big data" and legacy applications work better in these environments. Thus, Rackspace's hybrid offering, OpenStack, should stay in demand for the foreseeable future.
This hybrid approach brings the best of the public, private and dedicated hosting worlds. Public clouds are economical, efficient (because users only pay for what they use), and can easily scale. Private clouds are best for security and reliability, while dedicated hosting space is best for performance.
The OpenStack platform will help the European CERN laboratory with its ''Openlab'' project. Other big deals have been inked with Fidelity Investments (FIS) and Mazda North America.
Overall, we think the shares offer a solid risk-and-reward scenario at recent price levels. Although the stock is far from cheap, those willing to take on some risk may be rewarded with price-to-earnings multiple expansion in the coming months. Notably, the company reports earnings on August 8th.
At the time of this article's writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.


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November 18, 2004
Mr. Matthew J. Pepper
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Dear Mr. Pepper:
This is in response to your November 5, 2004, inquiry in which you ask about the applicability of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) to the release of student level records to researchers. You state that the Tennessee Department of Education (TDE) routinely receives requests from researchers for student level data and you are attempting to develop a policy to allow the release of these records. You state that you plan to encrypt the records by changing a student's social security number to a unique student identifier. You state that the "crosswalk" between the social security number and unique student identifier will not be released to researchers. You also ask about the release of small data cells where an individual can be identified by the research. This Office administers FERPA and is responsible for investigating complaints and providing technical assistance to ensure compliance with the statute and regulations. 20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34 CFR Part 99.
As you know, FERPA generally provides that an educational agency or institution may not have a policy or practice of releasing a student's education records, or personally identifiable information contained within those records, without the prior written consent of the student's parent or parents. 20 U.S.C. § 1232g(b)(1). According to the Department's regulations implementing FERPA, "personally identifiable information" includes a personal identifier, such as the student's social security number or student number. See 34 CFR § 99.3. Education records may be released without consent if all personally identifiable information has been removed.
In addition to FERPA, Congress has also recognized that scientifically valid educational research, including applied research, basic research, and field-initiated research, can provide parents, educators, students, researchers, policymakers, and the general public with reliable information about educational practices that improve academic achievement. Such research can also provide important information about the effectiveness of Federal and other education programs. See sections 102(20) and 111(b) of the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002. In particular, academic accountability is a central focus of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and high-quality research is one of the ways to show whether the achievement gap is closing. A key component of such research is the use of longitudinal studies in which individual student performance is evaluated over a period of time.
To provide appropriate access to data for such studies, and consistent with the privacy protections of FERPA, the Department intends to promulgate regulations in the future defining this type of non-personally identifiable (anonymous) data, thus allowing disclosure, without parental consent, but with appropriate privacy safeguards. While the Department affirms FERPA's requirements, data that cannot be linked to a student by those reviewing and analyzing the data are not "personally identifiable." As such, the data are not "directly related" to any students. Accordingly, a document containing only non-personally identifiable data, even when originally taken from a student's education record, is not a part of the student's education records for purposes of FERPA. Thus, because the document – established or created under the requirements below and given to a researcher – contains no personally identifiable information, it does not constitute a disclosure proscribed by the regulations. However, it should be noted that the establishment or creation of such a document by a district or State is voluntary. Nothing in this letter or the pending regulatory process should be construed to require that such a document be established or created.
Beginning immediately and during the pendency of our rulemaking process, the Department will refrain from any enforcement action under FERPA under circumstances where an educational agency or institution has established or creates an anonymous data file for the purpose of education research, and in which a student is identified only by a non-personal identifier and the following requirements are met:
1. the non-personal identifier itself –
a. is not a scrambled social security number or student number, unless such identifiers are protected by written agreements reflecting generally accepted confidentiality standards within the research community; and
b. cannot be linked to an individual student by anyone who does not have access to the linking key;
2. the anonymous data file is populated by data from education records in a manner that ensures that the identity of any student cannot be determined, including assurances of sufficient cell and subgroup sizes; and
3. the linking key that connects the non-personal identifier to student information is itself an education record subject to the privacy provisions of FERPA. In other words, the linking key must be kept within the agency or institution and must not be shared with the requesting entity.
These requirements do not limit or otherwise modify the FERPA exception for non-consensual disclosure of personally identifiable information from education records to organizations conducting studies for or on behalf of educational agencies or institutions under 34 CFR § 99.31(a)(6).
Please note that if this Office receives a complaint containing specific allegations that the above requirements have not been met and the allegations give reasonable cause to believe that a violation of FERPA has occurred, this Office will initiate an investigation into the matter.
As a reminder, in reporting information, if cell size or other information
would make a student's identity "easily traceable," that information
would be considered "personally identifiable." See 34 CFR § 99.3.
The educational agency or institution should use generally accepted statistical
principles and methods to ensure that the data are reported in a manner that fully prevents the identification of students. If that cannot be done, the data must not be reported.
The Department remains strongly committed to enforcing the requirements of FERPA and ensuring that personally identifiable information is protected. Anonymous data procedures will ensure that the data are not traceable to individual students. In addition, the regulations we intend to issue will provide parameters and safeguards to protect the rights of students and parents. In short, the Department's regulations will ensure academic accountability in a framework that protects the identity and privacy of students.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about FERPA in general or this issue in particular.
LeRoy S. Rooker
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Monday was Alex's kindergarten parent-teacher conference (they got delayed two months due to Sandy) and something his teacher told us made me tear up…
I was feeling a little nervous and a little excited (and a little old—how can I have a kindergartner already?!) as we rolled up. We were told at back-to-school night early in the school year that if there was a problem, we'd hear about it. We haven't heard a peep so we weren't expecting bad news, per se, but Alex is spirited and energetic and a tad handsy with his friends so we just weren't sure what she'd tell us. Well, the conference couldn't have gone better. His teacher said he is a sweet kid with a great heart, great manners and that he is such a good friend to the other kids in the class and a big helper (if anyone drops their books or needs help cleaning up, he steps in). It was just what we wanted to hear.
Then she said that when the class is out on the playground, if Alex sees a kid not playing with anyone, he'll ask the kid to play with him and the others. She said that that means so much to her and I couldn't help but tear up. I think Nick did, too. Honestly, it made me happier and prouder than any of the great academic reports he got*. With all the crazy bullying and terrible mean-kid stories you hear, this was the best feedback I could have gotten. We know our kid can be rambunctious and even the teacher said his good heart and concern for others sometimes equals too much talking, but we are just so happy that he's a nice, compassionate human. Who cares if he writes his 7s and Js backwards?
Have you had your parent-teacher conferences yet? I know this is just kindergarten and we have many more to go and I know they will get more intense (and likely not always be so positive), but for now I'm breathing a sigh of relief. And I'm feeling very proud.
*Because Alex sometimes writes a few of his numbers backwards (so not a big deal I know; no one is concerned) the teacher said we could create a number bar and have him look at it when he writes his numbers. It's a great idea and it's on my to-do list. In the meantime…this morning when Nora and I got back from the bagel store (it was that kind of morning) we saw Alex sitting at the breakfast table writing out his numbers and guess what Nick gave him to use as a guide? The TV clicker. Classic.


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Roots alum Malik B featured in Noisey TV video "Live in the Streets" (free download)
It's the return of M-illa-tant! Roots alum Malik B was featured in Noisey TV's Live From the Streets video series yesterday, making his first appearance in a solo music video (and releasing his first rap since 2008's Rising Down). In the video, beatmaker Mr. Green and director Sam Lipman-Stern visit Rittenhouse Square to chat with traveling street musician Kevin Brown, make a backing track from one of his songs, and bring it to Malik B to add a verse. You can hear the resulting song, "Live in the Streets," in the video below, and grab a free download of it here.


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Yes, I also agree, and I want to say that I made this thread just to check that samurai were not seen as the ideal Zen Buddhists.Astus wrote: "Does Buddhist practice have anything to offer someone - like a police officer, a soldier, a government official - whose work involves the use of force or its authorization?"
Of course, and that depends on the individual's level of interest. I don't think that Buddhism should appear as some sort of judgement of character. It is an open market. People take and use whatever they want. One can be a soldier, a banker, an office clerk or even a criminal, and at the same time Buddhist. There is no such thing as excommunication from the religion. Only monastics can lose their robes, but not the refuge they take.
I wasn't demonizing them. They were human like anyone else and had their virtues and talents in addition to their negative qualities.


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Big City Fishing & River WorkshopsYes you can fish in the Hudson River and its better than ever at Hudson River Park. Rods, reels and bait are provided. PIER 46, Charles St. & the Hudson River. Weekends thru Labor Day; Tues. Sun. in July & August from 10:30am 5pm.
Get Ready for SummerRegistration for summer classes at the 14th Street Y is now available. Classes offered in the arts, parenting, fitness, aquatics, Jewish culture & education and more. 14TH STREET Y, 344 E. 14th St. 212-780-0800 x 221. www.14StreetY.org.
Greenwich Village and How It Became FamousA walking tour of the essentials of the Village, including history, theater, culture, tragedy and more. Sun., July 1 at 1pm. Joyce Gold History Tours of New York, meet at WASHINGTON ARCH, 5th Ave. south of 8th St. 212-242-5762. www.joycegoldhistorytours.com. $15.
Holistic Stress Management ProgramFree services include ear acupuncture, massage and energy work modalities. Tues. & Thurs. from 5-7pm. ST. VINCENTS HOSPITAL, OToole Building, 203 W. 12th St., corner of 7th Ave., 6th floor, small conference room. No appointment necessary. 212-345-2582.
Hot!The 16th annual NYC celebration of Queer culture featuring theatre, dance, music, literature, performance art, puppetry and homoeroticism for the whole family. July 2 Aug. 25. DIXON PLACE, 258 Bowery, bet Houston & Prince Sts. 212-219-0736. www.dixonplace.org. $0-15.
Italian FlingA Salmagundi Club old timers & new members get-together featuring entertainment and Italian cuisine. Fri., June 29 at 6pm. Piano music 6-8pm. SALMAGUNDI CLUB, 47 5th Ave., bet 11 & 12 Sts. 212-255-7740. www.salmagundi.org. $20, includes prix fixe buffet.
LGBT Youth Summer CampThe LGBT Community Centers YES program offers a free summer camp to all LGBT youth ages 13-21. For more information, visit www.gaycenter.org/YES or call 212-620-7310.
Meditation GatheringSatsanga is a Sanskrit word that means to associate with the Truth, with Divinity. Kirtana is to associate with the Divine through the chanting of His holy names. This is an open invitation to a gathering of prayer, devotional songs and meditation to all spiritual seekers, in an atmosphere of peace and love. Ongoing. Fri., Sat. & Sun. at 8:45pm. RAMAKRISHNANADA YOGA VEDANTA MISSION, 96 Ave. B bet 6th & 7th Sts. 646-436-7010. www.ramakrishnananda.com. Free.
On the Rocks with Danny LearyA New weekly stand-up and musical variety show. Mondays at 8pm. ROSES TURN, 55 Grove St., bet 7th Ave. & Bleecker. Call for a reservation, 212-366-5438. www.myspace.com/ontherockscomedy. $10 plus 2 drink min.
Summer in the SquareThe annual entertainment series in Union Square Park featuring a variety of music, dance and theatrical performances as well as yoga and childrens reading groups. Wednesdays, June 27 - August 15. Main acts at 12:30pm & 6pm with an improvisational theater troupe performing on select evenings at 5pm. OM yoga will host a free class at 3pm. Takes place on the center lawn of Union Square Park. www.unionsquarenyc.org. Free.
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Mary Johnston (November 21, 1870 May 9, 1936) was an American novelist and women's rights advocate.
The daughter of an American Civil War soldier who became a successful lawyer, Mary Johnston was born in the small town of Buchanan, Virginia. A small and frail girl, she was educated at home by family and tutors. She grew up with a love of books and was financially independent enough to devote herself to writing.
Johnston wrote historical books and novels that often combined romance with history. Her first book Prisoners of Hope (1898) dealt with colonial times in Virginia as did her second novel To Have and to Hold (1900) and 1904's Sir Mortimer. The Goddess of Reason (1907) uses the theme of the French Revolution and in Lewis Rand (1908), the author portrayed political life at the dawn of the 19th century.
To Have and to Hold was serialized in the The Atlantic Monthly in 1899 and published in 1900 by Houghton Mifflin. The book proved enormously popular and according to the New York Times was the bestselling novel in the United States in 1900. Johnston's next work titled Audrey was the 5th bestselling book in the U.S. in 1902, as was Sir Mortimer in 1904. Beyond her native America, Johnston's novels were also very popular in Canada and in England.
Three of Johnston's books were adapted to film. Audrey was made into a silent film of the same name in 1916 and her blockbuster work To Have and to Hold was made into a silent film in 1918 and again in 1922. Pioneers of the Old South was adapted to film in 1923 under the title Jamestown.
During her long career, in addition to twenty-three novels, Johnston wrote a number of short stories, one drama, and two long narrative poems. She used her fame to advocate women's rights, strongly supporting the women's suffrage movement.
On her passing in 1936, Mary Johnston was interred in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
The tobacco-roller and his son pitched their camp beneath a gum tree upon the edge of the wood. It was October, and the gum was the colour of blood. Behind it rolled the autumn forest; before it stretched a level of broom-sedge, bright ochre in the light of the setting sun. The road ran across this golden plain, and disappeared in a league-deep wood of pine. From an invisible clearing came a cawing of crows. The sky was cloudless, and the evening wind had not begun to blow. The small, shining leaves of the gum did not stir, and the flame of the camp-fire rose straight as a lance. The tobacco cask, transfixed by the trunk of a young oak and drawn by strong horses, had come to rest upon the turf by the roadside. Gideon Rand unharnessed the team, and from the platform built in the front of the cask took fodder for the horses, then tossed upon the grass a bag of meal, a piece of bacon, and a frying-pan. The boy collected the dry wood with which the earth was strewn, then struck flint and steel, guarded the spark within the tinder, fanned the flame, and with a sigh of satisfaction stood back from the leaping fire. His father tossed him a bucket, and with it swinging from his hand, he made through the wood towards a music of water. Goldenrod and farewell-summer and the red plumes of the sumach lined his path, while far overhead the hickories and maples reared a fretted, red-gold roof. Underfoot were moss and coloured leaves, and to the right and left the squirrels watched him with bright eyes. He found the stream where it rippled between banks of fern and mint. As he knelt to fill the pail, the red haw and the purple ironweed met above his head.
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Crusaders defend 9-A crown, beat Falcons, 4-2
BRADFORD – The Elk County Catholic Crusader baseball team successfully defended their District 9 Class A championship Thursday by defeating the Coudersport Falcons by a 4-2 score in a game played at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.All the runs scored in the game came in the fourth inning as ECC scored four in the top half of the inning and the Falcons scored two in the home half of the inning."That was another great high school baseball game," said ECCHS coach Father Eric Vogt. "All the runs came in one inning.""We played good defense and Ben (Daghir) pitched a heckuva of a game," he added.Daghir went the distance on the mound for the Crusaders, giving up five hits, walking two and striking out 10. Tim McCusker started on the mound for Coudersport and worked 3 1/3 innings, giving up six hits and striking out two. Nick Jolley worked 3 2/3 innings, giving up three hits and walking one."Coudersport is a well-coached team. We wish them luck in the playoffs," Vogt said."This is our second title in a row. Now the younger kids have something to shoot for. States start Monday. A new season. We have to go out and have fun. It's a lot of fun now. Now we have to keep the season going."The Crusaders had nine hits in the contest, led by Ben Daghir's triple and single. Kyle Schneider had two singles and Jake Cortina doubled. Ricky Pearsall, Brock McCullough, Joe McLaughlin and Pat Brennen all singled.The Crusaders only sent three batters to the plate in the top of the first inning. Coudersport went down in order in the home half of the inning.Elk went down in order in the second inning. Brian Kane led off the home half of the inning with a double. However, he was picked off as catcher Luke Daghir connected with shortstop Ricky Pearsall to get Kane leaning at second. A strikeout and ground out followed.The Crusaders left two runners in the top of the third while the Falcons went down in order.With one out in the top of the fourth, Ben Daghir led off with a triple. A single by McCullough scored Daghir. Cortina doubled, scoring McCullough. McLaughlin singled, scoring Cortina, and wound up at second on an error. A single by Brennen scored McLaughlin, giving Elk the 4-0 lead. Coudersport responded with two runs in the home half of the inning on a walk, a single, a double and a sacrifice fly, cutting Elk's lead to 4-2.Elk Catholic left two runners on base in the top of the fifth while Coudersport stranded one.With two outs in the top of the sixth, Pearsall reached second on an error but was left stranded. The Falcons left a runner on base in the home half of the inning.The Crusaders threatened in the top of the seventh, but a double play ended their threat. Mike Miller singled for Coudersport to open the home half of the seventh inning. The next batter flew out, then Daghir struck out the next two as the Crusaders won the District 9-A title.Elk Catholic will enter the PIAA Class A tournament on Monday with an 18-3 record. The Crusaders will meet Serra Catholic at a time and site to be announced. Serra Catholic is the third-place team out of District 7. They defeated California 12-0 in five innings on Wednesday in the District 7 consolation game.ECCHS – 4Ricky Pearsall (ss) 3-0-1, Eric Wehler (cf) 3-0-0, Luke Daghir (c) 3-0-0, Ben Daghir (p) 4-1-2, Brock McCullough (dh) 3-1-1, Sam Schneider (2b) 0-0-0, Jake Cortina (1b) 4-1-1, Joe McLaughlin (lf) 3-1-1, Pat Brennen (3b) 3-0-1, Kyle Schneider (rf) 3-0-2. Totals 29-4-9.Coudersport – 2Kevin Wolfinger (ss) 2-1-0, Pat Valenti (2b) 3-0-0, Tim McCusker (p/ss) 3-1-1, Brian Kane (rf) 2-0-2, Vince Marzo (1b) 3-0-1, Mike Miller (3b) 3-0-1, John Rigas (ss/lf) 3-0-0, Garrett Russell (dh) 3-0-0, Nick Jolley (lf/p) 0-0-0, Caden Whitmore (c) 2-0-0. Totals 24-2-5.Score by innings RECCHS 000 400 0 - 4Coudy 000 200 0 - 2


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ISA established its Chile study abroad program in 1996, a time when this South American nation was first becoming a country of choice among U.S students looking to study abroad in the Spanish-speaking world. The allure of Chile for American students can be attributed to numerous factors. Among these are Chile's incredible topography (mountains and beaches are equally accessible), Chile's rich literary and cultural heritage, and the most beautiful sunsets you have ever seen!
The fact that Nobel laureates Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda are both Chilean seldom goes unnoticed among students and connoisseurs of Hispanic literature and culture. Also significant is the fact that Chile has continued to be a prominient player in the global economy, enjoying excellent political relations with the United States.
Chile is also one of the most prosperous Latin American countries and the benefits of this prosperity include an excellent educational system and a multitude of distinguished universities. One of these universities, the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, serves as the academic anchor of ISA's Chile study abroad programs. Students will be able to take courses in Spanish language and Latin American studies with international students, as well as many electives with local Chileans. The other school, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, is in Viña del Mar, just 15 minutes up the coast. Students will focus on international business courses in English or electives with locals.
Southern South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean, between Argentina and Peru
Northern Chile is best identified by the Atacama Desert which is considered to be the driest desert in the world and is an area of extreme temperature fluctuations.
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Dorm that Dripped Blood, The (US - BD)
Gabe views extra frames of HD head drilling, bludgeoning and coed stew...
Besides the joy of general availability of once (legally) unavailable films, the most exciting thing for horror fans about the digital home video age is the discovery of uncut prints of previously censored films. Though uncut prints of various MPAA cut features had been available on the bootleg VHS market for decades, these copies were ugly messes, and rarely presented in original widescreen, and every once and a while something genuinely unavailable is discovered. Since the inception of DVD previously lost uncut prints of From Beyond, My Bloody Valentine, The Wicker Man and Dario Argento's Phenomena have been released. We can now add former 'Video Nasty' The Dorm that Dripped Blood (aka: Pranks) to that list. For years, slasher fans assumed the various DVD releases of Dorm that Dripped in Blood were the entirely uncut version of the film, when out of the blue Synapse Films discovered a new, longer, gory cut entitled Death Dorm. Like My Bloody Valentine, Dorm that Dripped Blood isn't a great film, or one we needed to rediscover, but it's very good for its type, and the gore quotient is the main reason to see it, so the promise of more red stuff is certainly reason for celebration.
The Dorm that Dripped Blood (not to be confused with Amicus' The House that Dripped Blood or The House on Sorority Row) is fun because it sits in that wonderful no man's land between utter amateurism and effective horror filmmaking. Slasher films tend to work best when it feels like we're in the hands of a director that doesn't appear to have much in the way of scruples. In these situations, the audience can giggle at the shortcomings, but still worry a bit about how far the violence may go. Unfortunately, in this case the amateurism far outweighs the prospective danger. The photography is maddeningly dark (as opposed to effectively, or creepily dark), the cutting is awkward, and none of the actors are good enough to overcome the limits of their dialogue and characters. Like most '80s slashers the problem here is in the unsympathetic and disinteresting characters, and the parts of the plot that don't feature grotesque murder. Directors Jeffery Obrow and Stephen Carpenter (who'd go on to work together on The Power and the 1987 film The Kindred ) attempt to stretch their thin, generic script into 88 minutes by half-heartedly developing romantic relationships between characters that are almost impossible to tell apart, and sadly languishing in the non-suspense between killings. The title also hints at, or at least implies the possibility of a lot more T & A than we're given (exactly one pair of boobs in a scene that was added after final cut). The majority of the characters aren't even coeds, let alone naked, pillow-fighting sex pots. Obrow and Carpenter score minor points for not making the killer's identity entirely obvious, but lose a few for a heavy-handed red herring.
I haven't seen the original released cut more than once, so I'm unable to compare the extended gore to the censored gore. What I can say is that The Dorm that Dripped Blood is an especially brutal slasher that certainly crosses the lines of the 1980's R-rating. Some of the violence is quite prolonged (like the sequence in which a man is bludgeoned for a solid minute), while others are left to our imagination, likely out of budget constraints (like the following beat where a girl is crushed with a car). The pieces that aren't left to our imaginations feature some pretty convincing make-up effects, though the illusion is often lost when the director's attempt to incorporate the real actors in wider shots. The drill to the back of the head kill is certainly the show stopper, and according to most accounts the reason the film was originally banned by the BBFC. Other nasty bits include a celebrated death by industrial pressure cooker, the after effects of which don the cover of most home video releases, and a thoroughly mutilated corpse.
'This transfer was created from the only existing 35mm answer print of the original director's cut', states the back of the box. That's the good news. The other good news is that this print looks way better than the 1.33:1, non-anamorphic UK Vipco DVD release (which somehow found its way into some American stores in the form of a NTSC version). The rest of the news isn't great. I believe Synapse that this print was the best they could possibly manage given the materials, but also have a sneaking suspicion that a certain other company that specializes in cult horror releases might have put a little more money into cleaning things up. The directors even mention on the commentary track that the 16mm release looked better than the 35mm blow-up. Film grain is heavy, heavier than I've seen on a Blu-ray release yet, but the bigger problem is the flicker and occasional chunks of dirt that go along with the grain. It's difficult to believe that the film was shot on 16mm, rather than Super 8. The image is very dark, though it is easier to discern the nighttime stalking and slashing here than the Vipco DVD, which often appears to have no image at all. Another problem is colour quality, which appears too blue for what I'm assuming was intended. The film is generally unattractive, and I'm pretty sure that blue gels weren't utilized to create mood. The non-blue hues bleed and run into each other during the darker scenes, or are washed out entirely during the lighter ones. Even at a relatively un-wide 1.66:1 framing the film looks a little too tight, especially headroom, but I'm going to assume that this is just a symptom of less than impressive filmmaking, especially since imdb.com lists the original theatrical framing at 1.85:1. Fans left to deal with older releases will find reason to celebrate, but based on Synapse's pedigree, and their Vampire Circus and Embodiment of Evil releases, I'm considering this one a disappointment.
Before the release the Synapse blog gave a warning and description of their remastering process, which can be read here.
There are no frills or fuss on this DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono track, but there are also no signs of compression, damage, or distortion either. Dialogue is consistently clear, and relatively natural. Even the lip-sync matches the vast majority of the time, despite likely being recorded as ADR. Folley and other sound effects work runs hot and cold, from the natural and heightened, to the obviously canned and phony, but again, there was no point that things became distorted or showed any signs of damage. The one element that keeps The Dorm that Dripped Blood from languishing in obscurity, aside from its temporary banned status in the UK, is Christopher Young's effective and moody score. This was Young's first notable film score, and actually shows signs of the composer's eventual greatness with films like Hellraiser, Wonder Boys and Drag Me to Hell. The music, which is also featured isolated from the rest of the soundtrack on an alternate track, sounds warm, crisp and full-bodied despite the lack of stereo separation or LFE support.
Extras begin with a lively and entertaining commentary from directors Jeffrey Obrow and Stephen Carpenter. Here we learn that The Dorm that Dripped Blood was basically an elongated graduate school project created while the directors were still buzzing off of their first viewing of John Carpenter's Halloween. Well, I actually already knew that because I read books about this crap, but the specifics of the production haven't been this thoroughly filled-in for public consumption before this recording. Great moments include a brief argument concerning exactly whose grad thesis the film was (neither director wants to take credit), a tale about gambling away 'points' while playing cards with the cast and crew, the story of Carpenter learning the film was banned in the UK, and several notations of how much walking around there is in the film.
'My First Score' (8:10, HD) is a brief interview with composer Christopher Young, who doesn't really remember any about his actual The Dorm that Dripped Blood score, but recalls the facts of getting the job, working with the directors, and the difficulty of putting together such a long series of cues at that early point in his career. 'My First Slasher' (9:30, HD) is a follow-up interview with make-up effects creator Matthew Mungle, who discusses his work at Joe Blasco's make-up school, his relationship with the directors, his budget, and the MPAA cuts. This interview also features some behind the scenes photos, and a brief comparison between the cut and uncut drill shot. Extras end with two trailers, one under the title The Dorm that Dripped Blood and one under the title Pranks (note: neither title really makes any sense).
This newly discovered uncut release of The Dorm that Dripped Blood is reason to celebrate for slasher and Video Nasty enthusiasts, but the rest of you will probably want to skip this college project-turned-feature length release. I'm sorry to say that even considering the loose critical terms set forth by the slasher genre, this is just a generally bad movie, and sadder yet, a boring one. The 1080p HD video quality isn't very impressive either, though the DTS-HD Mono soundtrack sounds great, and the directors' commentary track is pretty darn entertaining. The only reason I'd suggest a blind buy is that it could be considered an investment in Synapse's upcoming Hammer Blu-ray release which we all want to look like a million bucks (and which might feature commentary from Kim Newman?).
*Note: The images on this page are taken from the included DVD copy, and do not represent the Blu-ray image quality.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 26th April 2011
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.66:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Directors Commentary, My First Score, My First Slasher, Trailers, Isolated Musical Score, DVD Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Jeffrey Obrow and Stephen Carpenter
Cast: Daphne Zuniga, Laurie Lapinski, Stephen Sachs, David Snow, Pamela Holland
Genre: Horror
Length: 88 minutes
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'Zero Motivation,' 'Point and Shoot' top Tribeca
NEW YORK (AP) — A film about a self-documenting man amid the Libyan revolution and a dark comedy about female Israeli soldiers have taken top honors at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Awards handed out Thursday at the New York festival were led by best narrative feature winner "Zero Motivation," a portrait of young female soldiers at a remote desert base in Israel. The category's jury hailed the directorial debut of Talya Lavie as the emergence of "a new, powerful voice."
Marshall Curry's "Point and Shoot" won best documentary. The film follows a shy Baltimore native who joined up with Libyan rebels in 2011. He films himself through much of his adventures, including a six-month stint in solitary confinement.
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German Mills Meadow & Natural Habitat
Located in the German Mills community – south of John Street and west of Leslie Street – within the City of Markham, the German Mills Meadow and Natural Habitat is located on the former Sabiston Landfill Site. This Landfill Site (A - 10 hectares) which includes the East Fill Area (B - 16 hectares), covers a total of 26 hectares.
After the Site was capped, Markham purchased the land in October 1983, and is responsible for its ongoing maintenance and monitoring.
The City installed a gas collection system in 1985, a methane gas monitoring program in 1999 and an environmental monitoring program in 2003. This program currently includes:
- Gas monitoring at the north, west, and south boundaries of the site
- Seven surface water monitoring stations in German Mills Creek
- Groundwater monitoring
- 10 locations with 10 wells
- 2 piezometers next to the creek
The Groundwater monitoring process compares samples taken from various locations on the site:
- Background / up-gradient of the landfill
- Within the landfill and east-fill areas
- Next to German Mills Creek
- Down-gradient of the landfill area
Current Situation
Results of the City's ongoing monitoring program have indicated:
- Landfill is still producing leachate
- Groundwater quality down-gradient of the Site has higher concentrations of leachate contaminants compared to background/up-gradient levels
- The following contaminants are present at levels that exceed the Ministry of the Environment (MOE) Regulatory Requirements:
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It is unknown how far the groundwater impacts have travelled down-gradient of the Site or deeper into the aquifer. As a result, the City's consultant has recommended the installation of 11 new groundwater monitoring wells in eight locations on the Site to assess groundwater conditions down-gradient and in the deeper aquifer. This installation work will begin in late February or early March 2014 and will take about three weeks to complete.
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WASHINGTON - In November, 1983, The Day After, was aired, a Cold War-era made-for-TV movie that featured the nuclear destruction of Kansas City, was aired.
A month later, the city of Takoma Park, Md., passed an act to make the city a nuclear free zone.
Almost 30 years later, the city finally allowed the purchase of Hewllett-Packard computers -- but only due to a waiver from the city council.
The local legislation prohibits Takoma Park from purchasing goods and services from a list of contractors connected to U.S. nuclear weapons production.
HP is on the list because of its defense contracts, as are some other large tech vendors and that has created a problem for the city.
In April, the city library purchased new Linux-based systems from its longtime vendor, Userful Corp., in Calgary, for its computer learning center
Although Userful had submitted "Certification of Non-Involvement in the Nuclear Weapons Industry," as part of its contract, the document did not cover the HP hardware it was using.
It was only when the new computers were delivered "that we realized we had been sent HP computers," wrote Ellen Arnold-Robbins, the library director, to the city council.
The Takoma Park council was told that there wasn't any alternative to this system, which uses open source apps and had the ability to support over 30 languages simultaneously.
The council, this week, approved a waiver to allow the library to use the systems.
Takoma Park is making its IT vendor decisions off a dated list developed by Nuclear Free America, which today is inactive. It hasn't produced a new list of vendors connected with the nuclear arms industry since 2004.
Richard Torgerson, who was president of the group when the last list was produced, said the Bush administration ended disclosure of weapons procurement codes it needed to track suppliers. At that point, Nuclear Free America "stopped being able to report on information it couldn't obtain," he said.
Today, Torgerson said it is difficult to determine whether a company is connected to U.S. nuclear weapons production.
"Most municipalities will err on the side of assuming - in the absence of concrete information otherwise - that a company is not a nuclear weapons maker," said Torgerson.
Nonetheless, Torgerson supports Takoma Park's decision to continue to use the 2004 list. "It's the last available reliable information that's possible to obtain," he said.
Abel Castillo, Takoma Park's IT manager, said IBM and Motorola are some of the other companies on the list. But the city, he said, has not had problems in finding suppliers.
Castillo said the city now buys Acer clients.
Ray Bjokulund, a vice president and chief knowledge officer at GovWin, a consulting firm, said the nuclear free initiative is a noble position for Takoma Park to take, "but it is very hard to draw those lines" about who is connected with a nuclear program and who isn't.
"The IT industry has become so diverse and so global that it is extremely hard to track not only where these parts come from and are assembled, but it is also very hard to track how they are used by the government and entities involved in nuclear weapons," said Bjokulund.
Jay Levy, who heads the Nuclear Free Takoma Park Committee, which advises the city council, said the city has only granted three waivers in the 29-year history of the nuclear free zone act. His committee opposed the library waiver.
He believes waivers should only be given in matters of public safety and health.
Takoma began discussing becoming a nuclear free zone before The Day After, but he said the movie was influential in bringing the issue to attention and winning passage.
There are about 130 communities with similar nuclear free ordinances, but not all of them are as aggressive as Takoma Park in dealing with suppliers.
"We feel it's important to make a stand against what we consider to be a potentially destructive force for the whole planet," said Levy.
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My sister is pregnant and she asked me to sew some maternity clothes (expecially shirts) for her! It's so satisfying!
Here is the first shirt!!!
I took the pattern from an old number of the italian pattern magazine La Mia Boutique and modifyed it a bit to make room for the belly (the shirt was not intended to be a maternity one).
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Sleeveless shirt with loose neckline and draping on the front to host a growing belly.
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Awesome or Atrocious? 4 Bizarre Car Accessories that Used to Be Cool
Automakers have always strived to put the latest and greatest gadgets in the cars they make. If you're old enough to remember a tape deck or an eight-track player in your car's dash, you know that cutting-edge technology doesn't always stand the test of time. These innovative features may have wowed the public when they were new, but just like the acid-washed jeans in the back of your closet, you see fewer of them on the street today.
Pop-up Headlights
The first car that could wink its lights at you was the Cord 810, which was introduced in 1936. Each of the Cord's headlights had a hand crank on the dash, which had to be turned to pop the lights out of the front fenders.
In the 1960s, pop-up headlights became increasingly popular on sports cars because they provided unique styling cues, but they also allowed automakers to get around headlight height regulations. The last mass-produced cars with pop-up lights were the 2004 Chevrolet Corvette and 2004 Lotus Esprit, and while retractable headlights could come back into style, the introduction of LED headlamps, which are brighter and smaller in size, means that concealed headlights are no longer necessary to maintain a car's exterior style.
Record Player
Most of us don't spend much time listening to vinyl anymore, but just like that DJ spinning records in a trendy nightclub, there was a time when you could cue up some 45s in your Chrysler. In 1956, you could get an optional record player in Chrysler, DeSoto, Dodge and Plymouth vehicles.
The system featured a slide-out turntable under the dash, which could be turned on with the flip of a switch. However, as drivers hit potholes or cruised down an imperfect stretch of road, it was likely that the records would skip. In-car record players were a long way from the USB/iPod connections we see in cars today, but they did pave the way for new in-dash entertainment options.
Third Headlight
The 1948 Tucker Sedan pushed the boundaries of car tech in its day. And although only 51 cars were ever made, the Tucker's third headlight pioneered some of the features found on today's high-end cars. Known as the "Cyclops Eye," the Tucker Sedan's third, middle headlight would swivel with the steering wheel to improve visibility around corners.
While an extra light seems like it would improve safety, at the time it was introduced 17 states had laws against vehicles having more than two headlights. As a result, Tucker made a cover to conceal the center light to keep the sedan legal in those states.
Hidden Gas Caps
Years ago, automakers used to hide gas caps in stealthy locations. Cars like the '56 Chevy Bel Air had the gas cap hidden behind a taillight, which would swivel out of the way, while numerous cars from the 60's and 70's had their fuel fillers located behind the license plate.
Hiding the gas cap in a trick location streamlined the exterior style of these cars, but eventually, it was decided that fuel fillers that pointed to the rear could be dangerous. The problem was that if you got rear-ended, just a small bump could create a gas leak by breaking the pipe or ramming it into the gas tank. As a result, today's gas caps are generally located behind a fuel filler door on your car's side.
Automakers have to think outside the box in order to develop new features. While the novelties on these cars may not have stood the test of time, the creative force behind them ultimately helped hone the cars that we park in our driveways today.
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December 31, 2013Harrisonville License Office contract up for bid
JEFFERSON CITY - The Missouri Office of Administration is now accepting management contract bids for the Harrisonville License Office. Interested individuals and groups must submit their bids to operate the Harrisonville License Office by Jan. 27, 2014.
A copy of the Request for Proposal (RFP) bidders are required to use to develop their bids can be viewed here. Prospective bidders may also tour the Harrisonville office from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Jan. 13 to gain perspective on how a license office is operated.
In fiscal year 2013, more than 60,000 transactions were conducted at the Harrisonville office, generating $216,303 in agent processing fees.
The Missouri Department of Revenue oversees 182 license offices which are each operated by independent agents. All of the license offices were put out for bid under the competitive procurement process in 2009. Contracts were awarded for one year with three one-year renewal options. The move toward a competitive procurement process of the license offices overhauled the way local motor vehicle and driver license offices are awarded and was one of the first actions of Gov. Jay Nixon's administration.
Bids will be evaluated on areas such as expertise of the personnel proposed, methods proposed for performing the services and whether the individual or entity is a not-for-profit, political subdivision, a Missouri Certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), a Women Business Enterprise (WBE) or a Missouri Service-Disabled Veteran Enterprise.
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The Carolina Beach Town Council continues to work toward getting back to business as usual in the wake of three sudden vacancies that happened following a regular meeting last week.
The Carolina Beach Town Council continues to work toward getting back to business as usual in the wake of three sudden vacancies that happened following a regular meeting last week.
Because only three council members remain on the elected board, two of them discussing town business would constitute a quorum and be subject to the open meetings law. Therefore, they have decided to hold special meetings at 5:30 p.m. every Tuesday until they fill the two vacant elected seats.
At this week's meeting, council went into closed session to discuss personnel matters but made no decisions when it resumed. Mayor Pro Tem Steve Shuttleworth, who is currently acting as mayor, said council talked to an individual about filling in as interim town manager.
On Nov. 13, Town Manager Tim Owens as well as Mayor Ray Rothrock and Councilman Lonnie Lashley resigned, leaving open the top staff position as well as two elected seats. The three remaining council members on Nov. 14 appointed Ed Parvin, director of planning and development, to temporarily act as interim town manager until they can find a longer-term, outside interim solution and ultimately a permanent replacement for Owens.
As for the elected seats, council is asking that all eligible voters of the town seeking appointment submit a letter of interest to include name, address, contact information, qualifications and experience they feel would be beneficial to the community. A resume is not necessary. Letters of interest will be accepted until noon Nov. 30 and should be mailed or delivered to Carolina Beach Human Resources Officer, 1121 N. Lake Park Blvd., Carolina Beach, NC 28428. Call (910) 458-9530 with questions.
After the deadline, council plans to narrow the group of applicants to about six people for questioning during the Dec. 4 special meeting before making an ultimate decision at the next regular meeting on Dec. 11. All proceedings for filling the elected seats must be done in open session.
Carolina Beach resident and business owner Jerry Bigley told council members Tuesday he hopes they will only consider people who have not previously been on the board.
"I think we need some new, live, fresh blood," he said. "I'm tired of it."
Both open seats expire on Dec. 10, 2013, but if the council appoints one of its current members to fill out the mayoral seat then he would have to resign his current seat before being appointed mayor. Councilwoman Sarah Friede said she is not interested in becoming mayor, while Shuttleworth and Councilman Bob Lewis said they would decide by next week. Lewis' term expires in December 2013, while Shuttleworth's ends in December 2015.
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As a parent, you are preparing your child for a world vastly different from the one in which you grew up. Our increasingly technological society will need citizens who have received far more advanced instruction in science and technology than most of us received when we were in school. Even children who don't want to become physicists, chemists, engineers or computer technicians will need some knowledge of science and technology just to conduct their everyday lives. Every citizen needs to be scientifically literate in order to make informed decisions about health, safety and citizenship. Our children need our help and guidance to prepare for the world that awaits them.
Scientific knowledge is cumulative: To learn new things, you must build on what you already know. So, it's important that your child start learning earlyand at home. A good way for you to begin the learning process is by sharing your own interest in science. How you view and talk about science can influence your child's attitudes toward scienceand how she [ 1 ] approaches learning science. It's easy to undermine a child's interest and attitudes by saying things such as, "I was lousy in science, and I've done OK," or "I always hated science when I was in school. It's boring." Although you can't make your child like science, you can encourage her to do so, and you can help her to appreciate its value both in her everyday life and in preparing for her future.
In everyday interactions with your child, you can do many thingsand do them without lecturing or applying pressureto help her learn science. Here are a few ideas:
- See how long it takes for a dandelion or a rose to burst into full bloom.
- Watch the moon as it appears to change shape over the course of a month and record the changes.
- Look for constellations in the night sky.
- Bake a cake.
- Solve the problem of a drooping plant.
- Figure out how the spin cycle of the washing machine gets the water out of the clothes.
- Take apart an old clock or mechanical toyyou don't need to put it back together!
- Watch icicles melt.
- Observe pigeons, squirrels, butterflies, ants or spider webs.
- Go for a walk and talk about how the dogs (or birds or cats) that you see are alike and different.
- Discover what materials the buildings in your community are made of. Wood? Concrete? Adobe? Brick? Granite? Sandstone? Steel? Glass? Talk about the reasons for using these materials.
Learning to observe carefully is an important step leading to scientific explanations. Experiencing the world with your child and exchanging information with him about what you see are important, too.
Finally, encourage your child to ask questions. If you can't answer all of her questions, that's all rightno one has all the answers, not even scientists. For example, point out that there's no known cure for a cold, but that we do know how diseases are passed from person to personthrough germs. Some of the best answers you can give are, "What do you think?" and "Let's find out together." Together, you and your child can propose possible answers, test them out and check them by using reference books, the Internet, or by asking someone who is likely to know the correct answers.
How to Use This Booklet
This booklet makes available to you information that you can use to help your child to learn science. It includes:
- Some basic information about science;
- Activities for you and your child to do, both in the home and the community;
- Practical suggestions for how to work with teachers and schools to help your child succeed in science; and
- A list of science-related resources, including federal sources of information, publications for parents, science-related children's magazines and books, and information about science camps.
- Please note: In this booklet, we refer to a child as "he" in some places and "she" in others. We do this to make the booklet easier to read. Please understand, however, that every point that we make is the same for boys and girls.


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The importance of screwing up
I screw up all the time. Yes that's right. Sometimes my mistakes go unnoticed and sometimes, hopefully not too often, they are big screw-ups that affect others.
As we are near the end of 2010, the mind invariably turns to a retrospective of the year. In any aspect of our life, whether it be work, recreation, family, friendships, volunteering, faith, or anything else, we can ask ourselves what went well and what didn't go well? More specifically, what worked well in order to achieve success, and what led to failure or results that didn't meet expectations?
I am very interested in the study of screwing up. In the Jazz Process book, I wrote about various aspects of making and recovering from mistakes but there are many books that provide more detailed coverage of the topic. I recently finished reading Why We Make Mistakes by Joseph Hallinan. I was delighted to find that Hallinan begins by covering many of the same things I raised in my book such as the importance of awareness and the need to understand one's own biases. Hallinan's book is very well researched. He quotes many fascinating studies that provide ample evidence of the multitude of ways in which we can misstep and misjudge without intention. It's well worth a read.
I'm now reading another book on the subject, Bozo Sapiens co-authored by Michael Kaplan and his mother, Ellen Kaplan. The Kaplans's book is not as academic as Hallinan's work and it focuses more on why making mistakes is a human trait. However it's just as fascinating and informative as Hallinan's book and you may find it an easier read.
Understanding why we make mistakes is important to avoid repeating them or even making them in the first place. However it's also important to understand that to err is human and mistakes don't always have to be fatal. On the other hand we shouldn't discount the cost of mistakes in certain situations. Clearly, we want to avoid mistakes that lead to the loss of life. The tolerance for mistakes varies and this is where the notion of quality comes in. Is 99.9 percent good enough? If 100 musicians in a symphony orchestra each play 1000 notes in a performance then 99.9% means they still play 100 bad notes and even just one of those might just ruin an otherwise perfect performance or recording take. The United States Postal Service delivered 667 million pieces of mail each day in 2008. 99.9% means they would have lost 667,000 packages each day.
Yet in many fields, mistakes are more tolerable. It's great to strive for perfection, but not at the cost of all else. Many software products are released with known defects. Some defects are tolerable because their impact is negligible or can be worked around while others are critically serious. Zero defects is a meaningful target, but it is far more important for a missile guidance system than for a word processor. Mistakes in sports are common, but defeating your opponent is usually more important than simply playing an error-free game. In many fields, including improvised jazz, it's not so much making mistakes that is the issue but rather how you recover from them. If you listen to the classic Miles Davis album, Kind of Blue, you can hear many "mistakes." However these are simply incorporated into the performance and the musicians used these unexpected events as jumping-off points to further evolve the music. Every piece but one on the Kind of Blue album was the first take. Even when they had the opportunity, the musicians (or at least Miles) didn't feel the need to redo the takes despite the "mistakes."
It's easy to avoid making mistakes. Simply don't do anything where you just might possibly screw up. The problem is that the cost of doing nothing or doing only safe things can be greater than the cost of not trying and potentially failing. Many organizations aspire to innovate yet their culture does not permit the possibility of failing. This has the effect of stifling innovation. Google's culture of innovation accepts mistakes as a normal part of the research and development process. According to Eric Schmidt, Google's chairman and CEO, "The way you say this is: 'Please fail very quickly—so that you can try again.'" Larry Page, president and co-founder of Products, said to one employee upon hearing from her that she had cost the company several million dollars, "I'm so glad you made this mistake. Because I want to run a company where we are moving too quickly and doing too much, not being too cautious and doing too little. If we don't have any of these mistakes, we're just not taking enough risk." In the book Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos that she co-authored with Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Professor of Strategy and Organization at Stanford University, Google's Senior Vice-President of Business Operations, Shona Brown, known as the company's "Chief Chaos Officer," wrote: "Mistakes occur because systems at the edge of chaos often slip off the edge. But there is also quick recovery and, like jazz musicians who play the wrong note, there is the chance to turn mistakes into advantages."
I hope you'll learn from the mistakes you made in 2010 but I also hope that you'll leave room to make more (although perhaps different ones) in 2011 in the interest of achieving great things.
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source: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=7389Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7, a security and stability update to the flagship Mozilla browser, is now available for download. Fixes are included for the international domain name (IDN) link buffer overflow vulnerability and the Linux command line URL parsing flaw. There are also other security and stability changes, including a fix for a crash experienced when using certain Proxy Auto-Config scripts. In addition, some regressions introduced by previous 1.0.x security updates have been resolved.
The Mozilla Foundation previously issued a patch for Firefox 1.0.6 that protected users against the IDN link buffer overflow flaw at the expense of removing support for IDNs. Firefox 1.0.7 has a more permanent solution that does not involve disabling IDN functionality and any users who installed the patch will find that IDN support is restored when they upgrade.
Firefox 1.0.7 can be downloaded from the Firefox product page or the Firefox 1.0.7 directory on ftp.mozilla.org. The Firefox 1.0.7 Release Notes have more details about this upgrade and we expect the Mozilla Foundation's list of known security vulnerabilities to be updated soon.
An equivalent update to the Mozilla Application Suite, Mozilla 1.7.12, is expected shortly.


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The celebration started with a thwack on a drum set and a gospel choir singing loudly.
The celebration started with a thwack on a drum set and a gospel choir singing loudly.
The Terrebonne Parish NAACP's celebration of Martin Luther King Day felt as much like a church service as a ceremony. A wailing keyboard and "hallelujahs" and "amens" from the crowd that packed the Dumas Auditorium in Houma punctuated a series of speeches by community leaders.
Several of the speakers tied the holiday, which commemorates the birthday of the legendary civil rights activist, to the second inauguration of President Barack Obama, which also took place Monday.
"To see that many people, the white, the black, the rich, the poor, all there to watch a black man be inaugurated president — in the same place where 50 years ago we had to get thousands of people and march to," said Gregory Harding, a School board member and the local NAACP chapter's vice president, "well, I don't know how you can look at that and not be moved."
Keynote speaker Dennis Hebert, pastor of Beacon Light Baptist Church in Hammond, said in a fiery sermon that the inheritors of King's legacy couldn't afford to let the movement he started run out of steam.
"The man is not the movement, but the man is born to serve the movement so that it may live beyond him," Hebert said. "We have a monument to Dr. King, the man, that now stands on the mall in Washington, D.C. But while a monument is fitting for a man, the movement was never intended to be a monument."
Hebert said the crisis to which King and his contemporaries rose may be less pressing now, but the black community has a host of other crises, like employment rates higher than the rest of the country, sky-high inner city murder rates and worrying numbers of absentee fathers.
"We won't ever stop looking behind us, because we're not going to lose the story. We're not going to forget where we came from," Hebert said. "But we can't just look behind us; we've got to look at what's right here in front of us."
NAACP Chapter President Jerome Boykin had a more localized challenge he said the black community should face. He said the NAACP would push again this year to create a minority judgeship in Terrebonne Parish.
An effort to redraw voting district lines to create a minority district failed in the Legislature last year. Opponents argued there had not been enough study of how the changes would affect voters and that there was insufficient time for public comment.
"They stopped the bill just like George Wallace stepped up in front of the door when black schoolchildren tried to enter," Boykin said. "We're going to keep going after this. And when we call on you, we're going to need all your support."
Staff Writer Matthew Albright can be reached at 448-7635 or at matthew.albright


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With their lead single from their fifth studio album, The E.N.D., the Black Eyed Peas achieved a feat they hadn't accomplished before – they topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. The song spent an amazing 12 weeks atop the charts – but it was only the beginning. The Peas didn't have to wait long for their next #1 – the album's follow-up single, "I Gotta Feeling," followed "Pow" into the pole position, giving the Peas the rare distinction of knocking themselves from the top. "Feeling" proved even more successful, holding on to #1 for 14 weeks – giving the Peas a full six-month lock on #1!
All four members – Will.i.am, Fergie, Taboo, and apl.de.ap – have solo raps in the futuristic-sounding, auto-tuned song. Boston Globe described the song and others from the album as "substance-free, grammatically suspect dance floor jams" which were nonetheless "booty-shaking pleasures." WK Digital Spy's Nick Levine called it "a fairly ridiculous robopop stomper" but also said, "Frankly who cares? Right now this just sounds cracking." WK Rolling Stone said it was "an assault on the senses, and on good taste. And it's the best thing The Black Eyed Peas have ever recorded." WK
Will.i.am acknowledge the song's unusual and repetitive nature when he told Rolling Stone, "It has one note. It says 'Boom' 168 times. The structure has three beats in one song. It's not lyrics – it's audio patterns, structure, architecture." SF He told Billboard the song "was made for underground clubs. Like, if I would've thought that was gonna be a radio song, I would've made it different…'Boom Boom Pow' is proof that if something's dope, regardless of if it has that sprinkled radio vibe, that it should be played on the radio and the people are gonna like it." WK
People definitely liked it. They watched the video on YouTube more than 100 million times WK and scooped up 6 million copies of the song in the U.S. and another 2.5 million internationally. It was the best-selling song on iTunes in 2009. It was a big seller right out of the gate, hitting 465,000 downloads in its first week, making it the highest sum which had been achieved at that point by a group in one week. SF
Boom Boom Pow
- one of the top 1000 songs of all time
- one of the top 100 song of the 21st century
- Biggest #1 Pop Songs in U.S. Chart History
- one of the world's best-selling songs
- Billboard Song of the Year
Resources and Related Links:
- DMDB page for "Boom Boom Pow"
- Black Eyed Peas's DMDB Music Maker Encyclopedia entry
- DMDB page for The E.N.D.>
- DMDB blog post: The Black Eyed Peas Knock Themselves from #1: July 11, 2009 (7/11/11)
- SF Songfacts.com
- WK Wikipedia.org


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text: Gilad, Gilad Shainer wrote: > My apologizes. I meant the MPI includes an option to collect several MPI > messages into one network message. For applications cases, sometimes it > helps with performance and sometimes it does not. OSU have shown both > cases, and every user can decide what works best for him. Please, point me to a document/paper/report that shows that message coalescing improves real applications. Even from Panda, that's fine. > As long as you use the same code and the same benchmark (and the same > platform), you can use any benchmark to compare between different > network devices. You can claim that if you want to count the network > messages and not the MPI messages, using this way to do it will give you > the wrong number, but if you want to compare between 2 interconnects, > this is valid. The message rate micro-benchmark tries to measure the capacity of the interconnect to send messages to a large number of nodes, a large number of local processes (multi-core), or both. In short, it tries measures the gap between two messages on the wire (if you don't know about the LogP model, read a book). If the MPI implementation changes the intent of the micro-benchmark, and abuse the fact that it runs on 2 nodes only to be convenient, then it makes the metric irrelevant because it cannot be used to estimate the performance at scale. If you want to compare, do it with Open-MPI then, it does not yet implement message coalescing. Same benchmark, same platform, same MPI. That should work, no ? > This becomes personal now... :-) you don't need to be angry all the > time. Bad for your health. I could have replay back mentioning all the People often mistake anger for passion. I have to say, your case (marketing abusing technical info) is a very special treat. I handle it very much like chocolate: a little bit at a time, only once a week. Don't worry for my health, though I appreciate your concern. > FUD and misleading information you provide wherever you go, and we saw > couple of examples just few weeks ago, but I wont. I guess you are referring to the technical panel at the IDC forum in Norfolk and my correction about the (in)compatibility between iWARP and IB. If so, please explain how the last-byte-written-last semantic in iWARP and IB are the same. Please, give me a sweet one, with something chewy/gooey in the middle. I just love those :-) Patrick


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Talihina basketball girls seek another 20-win season as they open season tonight at Heavener
The Talihina Lady Golden Tigers basketball team went 22-6 last season and were LeFlore County Tournament runners-up. They expect much the same this season, which will begin with a 6:30 p.m. contest tonight against the Heavener Lady Wolves in Heavener.The Lady Golden Tigers return two key players who saw a lot of starts a season ago — senior guard/forward Tara Hawkins (7.1 points, 6.8 rebounds a season ago) and senior forward Jazmin Humphreys (4.0, 3.3).Editor's note — No preseason information on the Talihina boys have been received yet. Once the information on the Golden Tigers, as well as other LeFlore County teams, has been received — and their season openers approach — look for their season-preview stories to appear. Any coach which needs a questionnaire sent to them, call sports editor David Seeley at (918) 647-3188 or e-mail to email@example.com.


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Macee Nielson won two events and was third in another to pace the Buckaroos. Macee finished first in the 3200 meter race, third in the 1600 meter race and anchored the medley relay team to a first place finish.
Emmanuelle Reay claimed the high jump title late in the day to help clinch second place for the Buckaroos. Reay came into the meet with the fifth highest qualifying jump, but picked the right time to peak and claimed the championship by besting the competition. She also finished seventh in the long jump.
Ashley Dowell closed a successful high school athletic career second place finishes in the javelin and the discus. She also is listed on the academic all state team.
Shantel Musselman contributed to the score in three events, running a leg on the winning medley relay team, a sixth place finish in the 4x400 meter relay and a 5th place finish in the 400 meters.
Miriam Reay was on the winning medley relay team, the fifth place 4x100 medley team and was sixth in the 200 meter race.
Janessa Bowring was on the winning medley relay team and was eighth in the 200 meter race.
Loren Randall was fifth in 800 meters and was on the sixth place 4x400 relay team.
Other members of the fifth place 4x100 relay team are Elisabeth Coisman, Ashley Moore and Jessica Hail.
Other members of the sixth place 4x400 relay team are Nichole Freestone and Anja Hochreutener.
Other members of the team include Marci Nielson, Aleesha Wells, Bettina Benally, Annie Anderson, Lisanne Metselaar, Jennifer Toomey, Jacque Anderson, Kara Rogers, and Jennifer Mantz.
For the Buckaroo boys, Adam Butler led the way by placing in three events. Butler was fifth in the 300 meters, sixth in 1600 meters and anchored a seventh place finish in the medley relay.
Aaron Butler was a member of the medley relay team and the sixth place 4x100 relay team and finished seventh in the 200 meter run.
Kelvin Curtis was sixth at 400 meters, followed closely by Devin Wright in seventh. Other members of the medley relay team are Josh Anderson and Joseph Weatherford. Other members of the 4x100 relay team are Kevin Anderson, Connor Frost and Ivan Rodriguez. Other members of the Buckaroo team are Dallin Duncan, Jesse Barton and David Boyle.
Hope Johnson led the Monument Valley girls with a fifth place finish in the javelin. She was joined by teammates Mariah Taylor, Lois Leber, Crystal Cly (eighth in discus), Sabina Leber (eighth in javelin) and Tyna Black.
Deidra Jensen was the lone athlete from Navajo Mountain.
Joshua Nelson led the Monument Valley boys with a third place finish in the long jump. He was joined by teammates Danner June, Adrian Deal, Von Drew Denny, Kendricks Chee and Devon Denny.
Representing Whitehorse High School are Josiah Begay (seventh in javelin), Joshua John (eighth in discus), Lance Tohtsonnie, Kenny Whitehair and Brandon Harrison.
San Juan's Katie Hiatt finished seventh in the 1600 meter race in the 2A meet. Megan Macdonald also competed for the Lady Broncos.


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Bridgeport man gets 57 months for trying to run over FBI agent
It was a typical spring day.
A line of students prepare to exit their bus before entering Trumbull's Frenchtown Elementary school.
Their chatter is interrupted by the squealing tires of unmarked police cars, which attempt to box in a nearby vehicle.
That driver slams his transmission into reverse, smashing into one of the car's, then guns it forward, nearly striking two FBI agents, who dive out of the way even as an agent manages to fire several rounds.
The shots miss, the driver flees and horrified school officials impose a lockdown.
Sounds like a scene cut from a crime thriller movie.
Except it was real and took place May 24 at the intersection of Old Town Road and Oman Street in Trumbull.
And against that background, Jeffrey Thomas, the 21-year-old driver, was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison by Senior U.S. District Judge Warren W. Eginton this week.
He pleaded guilty Aug. 14 to assault on a federal agent.
Thomas was arrested after federal agents found his car crashed in a nearby wooded area. He was found hiding in a house on Bridgeport's Voight Street; agents found crack cocaine and heroin in the car.
"Jeffrey made a spontaneous, albeit dreadful decision, to try and evade these armed men," Michael O. Sheehan, Thomas' lawyer told the judge.
The defense lawyer previously said he had a witness who claims the law enforcement officers never identified themselves or ordered Thomas to stop.
The lawyer said the school bus' recorders captured the incident on video.
Thomas, who initially was not a suspect, was arrested as part of an investigation into drug dealing, illegal gun sales and shootings, one of which involved the killing of Kaqwan Glen in May.
Eight others were arrested in connection with the other charges. Six have pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing.


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NY's Finger Lakes: big city thrills, mountain town charm
When you think of little towns in Appalachia, it's easy to make assumptions.
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A Loeb Classical Library Reader (Loeb Classical Library), edited by Jeffrey Henderson. Oxford University Press, 2006; 234 pages; $9.95 (paperback).
This selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from 33 of antiquity's major authors includes poetry, dialogue, philosophical writing, history, descriptive reports, satire, and fiction -- giving a glimpse at the wide range of arts and sciences, thought and styles, of Greco-Roman culture. The selections span 12 centuries, from Homer to St. Jerome. The texts and translations are reproduced as they appear in Loeb volumes.
The Loeb Classical Library is the only existing series of books which, through original text and facing English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. A Loeb Classical Library Reader (Loeb Classical Library) offers a unique sampling of this treasure trove.
A complete list of works in the Loeb Classical library is available from Harvard University Press and at www.hup.harvard.edu/loeb .
Los Angeles Times: The ancient bards, the scene suggests, are out of place in the modern world, their language too stilted and gilded to be of any use. But A Loeb Classical Library Reader begs us to reconsider, begs us in the same way Homer begged for inspiration from the muses. Here are 12 centuries packed into 234 bilingual pages: Short passages extracted from all those exquisite little red and green hardbacks that only a scholar -- or an interior designer with bookshelves to fill -- ever used or needed.Until now.
Ignore the bad rap the ancients might get from traumatized former high school Greek and Latin students. Jump in. Feel the shift in energy and tone from Aristophanes on sex to Xenophon on stranded mercenaries in Babylon. It's a little like reading the sexual encounter with a piece of liver from Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint followed by a page from David McCullough's biography of John Adams. It's that same abrupt change between subjects and voices, a sense of diversity and velocity that is everywhere in this book.
The Times (London): Here you will find old friends; Odysseus planning to dangle underneath a ram as he escapes the Cyclops or Plato (this translation from 1914) reporting Socrates' last words in an Athenian jail hours before the "corrupter of the youth" drinks hemlock at the state's behest: "Socrates sat up on his couch and bent his leg and rubbed it with his hand, and while he was rubbing it, he said, 'What a strange thing, my friends, that seems to be which men call pleasure! How wonderfully it is related to that which seems to be its opposite, pain, in that they will not both come to a man at the same time, and yet if he pursues the one and captures it, he is generally obliged to take the other also, as if the two were joined together in one head...when one of them comes to anyone, the other follows after.'"
This paperback Loeb reader indeed does fit in pocket or purse. I asked Professor Henderson, the Loeb Library's editor and also editor of Aeschylus's Lysistrata, how Oxford University Press happened to put this small volume together. He said, describing the volume, "We were looking for something for the trade, something that bookstores might want to stock with other Loeb volumes, to familiarize readers with the series. The press said, 'Why don't we just publish it and sell it for a very nominal fee? Just so people don't think that it's not worth anything. And see what happens?' So far, it's been a bit of a hit among the people that like classical literature and want to know more about it."I said, "This must be a fairly new translation of Aristophanes's Lysistrata. I can't imagine young boys at prep schools with that translation in their jackets."
"The Aristophanes was done between 1998 and 2002, I believe. And, it's the first straight translation ever of the comedies. We had an earlier edition, by Benjamin Bickey Rogers, who was a very, very brilliant Victorian translator, but of course, he couldn't translate it straight. The Rogers had been in print for oh, about 75 years. Until the new one came along.
"You don't get the raucous, obscene, colloquial, sexy kinds of stuff in the older translations. It was illegal to publish a straight translation of Aristophanes until the late 1960s. When the Supreme Court decision -- the Potter-Stewart obscenity -- distinguishing artistic obscenity from pornography, there was that famous line of Justice Stewart, that he couldn't establish a 'standard differentiating the two, but I know it when I see it.'
"The Loeb Library in the 1970s began to replace some of the older translations with modern ones that could be straight translations. And there's quite a lot of sexy, classical literature, explicit classical literature that needed to be replaced in the old editions and we've been doing that along the way, as we can. It always depends upon finding the right author for these things because not everybody is a good translator, and not everybody can do the Latin, or Greek text and the English translation at the same time. We don't split the tasks. It's always the same person that does both the Latin or Greek and the English. So, sometimes it takes decades to find the right person to do one of these."
"Did you do one of these translations?"
"I did the Aristophanes. I'm going to do a couple more in the next few years, if I can find the time. We want to finish up Greek novels. There are several wonderful novels."
"I didn't know that."
"Yes. People don't know that the novel actually began among the Greeks, and we have half a dozen really good ones. They, again, are a genre that hasn't been translated, or it wasn't considered very important for classical literature for a long time. They were in the Renaissance when people imitated them to create picaresque novels and romances. But classical scholars sort of shied away from them as being trivial kinds of literature. I'm doing a volume of two of them; that'll be fun."