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Friday, April 14, 2017, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
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It is recommended that adults perform strength training activities 2-3 times per week. Stay Strong, Stay Healthy provides older adults an opportunity to do muscle strengthening exercises in a safe environment where they can progress at their own rate.
Strength training has several health benefits including improved strength, flexibility, balance, and mobility. Strength training also helps improve self-esteem and quality of sleep.
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Author Notes: My sister got married in Greece this summer and my favorite part of the trip was the food. Last night we recreated our favorite Greek dishes we enjoyed on vacation. I was I'm charge of making the thin, light, and crispy zucchini strips we enjoyed at so many restaurants. I doubt they use beer in the batter in Greece, but I couldn't resist adding a touch more flavor to this already delicious treat. —meganvt01
Serves: 6 as an appetizer
Medium zucchini, ends removed and sliced lengthwise into 1/8th inch thin (a mandolin really helps)
teaspoons Salt
cup All purpose flour
cup Lager beer (preferably Greek if you can get it)
Olive oil for frying
tablespoons Dill, minced.
lemon, cut into wedges
- In a bowl, toss the zucchini strips with 1 teaspoon of salt. Let sit for 30 minutes. Drain.
- In another bowl, combine the remaining teaspoon of salt and the all purpose flour. Whisk in the beer.
- Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium high - the depth should be about 1/2 to 3/4 inch deep.
- Working in batches, dip the the zucchini strips into the batter and let the the excess batter drip off. You don't want it to be thick like tempura - more like a very thin coating. Place the strips into the oil and cook for about 2 minutes on each side, until golden brown and crispy.
- Drain the zucchini strips on a paper towel, sprinkle with sea salt and a bit of minced dill and a squeeze of lemon.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Recipe with Zucchini or Summer Squash
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Recipes with 5 Ingredients or Fewer
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text: Dr. King delivers this sermon at Ebenezer Baptist church in Atlanta, Georgia. He references the statement Representative Julian Bond made regarding the Vietnam War and discusses the responsibility of Christians to be morally noble instead of socially respectable. He references multiple biblical figures and explains the importance of not conforming to society.


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"Whole societies also go into states of shock when there's a crisis, like when there's a terrorist attack, or a huge natural disaster, or a huge economic crisis," said Klein. "Something happens, people don't know what's going on, and they'll kinda do whatever people in authority want them to do."
Klein continued: "They use shocks to enrich themselves and their friends... People are becoming shock resistant, which is wonderful because they remember the way this administration used the shock of Sept. 11 to build the Homeland Security industry; How Rudy Giuliani went into that industry himself as soon as he left office. They remember how the war in Iraq was used to privatize the government."
TVNL Comment: They did not just use the shock of 9/11...they created it. They wrote about it. It was the "new Pearl Harbor" that they wrote about! But nobody is allowed to say this on any TV network! Not even Comedy Central!


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Acer predicts end of cheap PC era
Consumers get bitten in the ASP
PC buyers, especially small businesses, should get used to paying more for their kit, after Acer predicted that ASPs would rise this year, for practically the first time in PC industry history.
Walter Deppeler, senior corp vice president of the Taiwanese PC giant, said that the company saw a revival in the PC business in the second half of last year after the turmoil of 2008 and early 2009.
"One year ago we were in the middle of the tunnel," he said. "One year on, we can start to see the future starting to look much better."
He expected this to pick up steam this year, helping Acer realise its ambition of becoming a $30bn company by 2012. This will require the company to grow by 15 per cent a year between now and then.
This in part will come from expansion in growing markets, as well as new segments in mature markets. The firm expects mature markets to see continued growth as new demographics, including the old, children and women, start to spend more money - though not necessarily their own - on technology.
Deppeler said the small businesses would "come back this year" if only because they had to replace increasingly aged kit.
However, PC buyers will play their part by having to fork out more money for PCs. Deppeler said that after a decade of dollar weakness, the greenback was now strengthening again, and this would help put a floor under prices.
At the same time, the firm did not see oversupply in the components markets, further checking what had seemed like a natural decrease over time in tech prices. Finally, consolidation in the components, vendor and channel markets would help drive prices up.
The crunch could be particularly hard in the Eurozone, as the parlous condition of Greece, Spain and other countries drives the currency down. Deppeler said that in the short term, prices could be 10 to 12 per cent higher than they were in last year's holiday buying season.
Acer has of course played its part in this, swallowing up the likes of Gateway and Packard Bell over recent years.
However, it's increasingly clear that it's going to be a long time till British consumers see a 2 to 1 exchange rate against the dollar.
And those companies who pared to the bone during the recession, and had the resources to pick at the corpses of rivals who didn't make it are no doubt going to make hay as soon as the sun starts to shine again. ®


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Blogs Get Whited-Out by Bic
The Ad-Rag advertising blog got white-out slathered on it for posting unauthorized Bic ads.
After posting the mockups, the TBWA ad agency and Bic demanded Ad-Rag remove the images advertising a certain brand of corrective fluid. Furthermore, they required the blog to scrub out all mentions of a trademarked brand name from all the posts and even the comments. Full info here at Ad-Rag.
More of the offending images which you should steal and spread around the net before we're sued, after the jump…
Creatives will often mock up ads "on spec," that is, speculatively and without being in a client's pay, to try out ideas or demonstrate their skills. Here are three such ads exploring what would happen if we used White-Out on important historical events.
As commentors and Bic and TBWA later pointed out, this isn't really on-brand for Bic. Ads these days often dramatize one singular product benefit.
What's the benefit here? That white-out type products are good for censorship?
While visually dramatic and certainly shocking, the ads fail to communicate the product's real power. But we don't think Bic should be so heavy-handed in silencing the fine advertising blog, Ad-Rag.
Perversely, gagging Ad-Rag enacts the very anti-free-speech associations Bic feared the spec ads created.
(Thanks to Klaus!)
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text: A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is an excellent expectations-managing mechanism, but it's important to manage your own expectations of what an SLA can realistically accomplish. Just those three words "Service" "Level" and "Agreement" is often an attention turn-off I know: SLAs are to infrastructure bods what documentation is to developers. Yet, when considering taking up cloud and utility services many consider that the SLAs offered aren't reliable, if they exist at all. So the SLA becomes the blocker – 'If I move services out of my data centre, how will I guarantee availability and performance'.


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We all have our little itches that need scratching. This is a narrative on one particular itch that I scratched this past week: POE::Filter::SimpleHTTP.
HTTP. If the criss crossing interconnecting highspeed networks across the world were roads, HTTP would be the unkempt, ball cap wearing truckers transporting our goods.
Now I had a need for such a transport. Specifically I needed to support HTTP in a POE::Filter that could easily be inserted into POE::Filter::Stackable. There were some other solutions out there, that ultimately didn't do what I wanted them to do: POE::Filter::HTTPD only covered things from a server context and only HTTP/0.9, and POE::Component::Client::HTTP was too complex to use when I only needed a filter (Sure I could have ripped the filters out for use, but then the project would have a dependency on the whole distribution when I only wanted the filters). So I guess it was time to write one.
Can't be too hard right? I mean, the world goes 'round with web browsers, and servers, right? So I pull up the RFC and start reading. This is doable I thought to myself. There are some quirks when it comes to Transfer-Encoding, but nothing I couldn't handle.
But I should back up a little bit and give a bit more context on what I am writing, what tools I am using, and what the ultimate goal is.
POE is a framework for creating event-driven cooperative multitasking programs in Perl. It is quite possibly one of the best things invented since hand sanitizer dispensers that are triggered via motion. POE is Perl's answer to other languages' event driven frameworks (Twisted, for example, in the Python world). POE makes it trivial to write large, complex, applications that touch a number of domains. No more dumb select loops. No more event dispatch tables (by hand this is). No more wondering how to merge multiple Net::* modules each with their own event loops. Take look at the evolution of a POE server for what I mean.
POE also provides a number of abstractions that are sweet, sweet sugar. POE::Filter is one of those. POE::Filter defines a simple API for taking in data and churning out transformations, objects, and whatever else you can imagine. And once you have one these awesome little contraptions, you can plug it into a POE::Wheel (which defines the common semantics of setting up IO watchers, etc), and out pops your filtered data.
The idea is to implement your protocol abstractions inside Filters, stack them (via POE::Filter::Stackable [which is a filter itself with the same API]), and plug them into the framework.
Okay, so POE is Mecca. What else am I using? Moose. It is a bit unorthodox at the moment especially in the POE world, but the world view is slowly being adjusted through exploration. Moose is a postmodern object system for Perl 5 that takes the tedium out of writing object-oriented Perl. It borrows all the best features from Perl 6, CLOS (LISP), Smalltalk, Java, BETA, OCaml, Ruby and more, while still keeping true to its Perl 5 roots. It pretty much takes your bland oatmeal and turns into mouth melting awesomeness unbound by the universal awesomeness maximum. There are efforts[ 1 , 2 ] right now to bring Moose to POE in a meaningful way to hide some of the inherent complexity in using POE. And I guess I am now part of the revolution.
And finally to make my trifecta of standing on the shoulders of giants complete, I rely on a few modules from LWP, such as HTTP::Status, HTTP::Request, and HTTP::Response. These are pretty much key, as it means I don't have to implement my own objects to represent HTTP constructs.
And ultimately, this HTTP filter will be only a small part of the greater whole of an XMLRPC client/server implementation. I have a good chunk of the other pieces complete (POE::Filter::XML, POE::Filter::XML::RPC, POE::Component::PubSub), and what was left was the HTTP transport.
So I cracked open the RFC and started digging in. Now, in the POE::Filter context, your only goal is to turn line noise into something meaningful. That means that any socket manipulation should be left for another layer of your application. That said, HTTP/1.1 defines some behavior for dealing with keep-alives, etc which are beyond the scope of the Filter. And so I pretty much ignored it for the Filter implementation.
The RFC defines an army of BNF expressions that represent the textual formation of the protocol itself. BNF is pretty clean, even if you have to jump around a lot in the document to follow a chain of symbols down to the root symbol. I chose to convert, by hand, the BNF to Perl regular expressions. Talk about a great mental exercise. BNF as a grammar has a number of simlarities to Perl regular expressions anyhow, so it wasn't much of a stretch, but there are enough quirks to make it interesting.
As a side note, someone needs to write an Augmented BNF to Perl compatible regular expression translator.
Just to give a taste of some of the regex involved, take a look at the Regex module. Essentially, I built up my tokens and combined them into larger expressions making judicious use of non-capturing groups, character generators, and character exclusions via function.
One special thing to note is that I took a shortcut when it came to URIs and made use of the Regexp::Common::URI module. Only I introduced a bug when I did. I failed to make notice that the Request-Line could take not only an HTTP URI, but also an absolute path. Regexp::Common::URI didn't include this (which I think is a bug), and so I had to implement, specifically, absolute paths from the URI RFC.
But once the regex is complete, the rest of the module is mostly stepping through chunks of data deliniated by network newlines (\x0d\x0a) and keeping track of where we are in the parsing process. That is until we get to the Transfer-Encoding header processing.
The RFC is helpful in that it provides a skeleton of pseudo-code for processing transfer encodings. And that was a great starting point. Something that my Filter does that other don't is the processing of compression in the transfer encoding not just dechunkifying. Unfortunately, this filter is rather simple for this first version, and so the data isn't spooled to disk to avoid OOM exceptions, but will likely happen down the road.
Once we have all of the content decompressed (if it was compressed in the transfer), we store it into the appropriate HTTP::Message subclass and send it on its way.
So where does Moose fit into all of this? The Filter is actually a Moose::Object. And provides a number of attributes for use during runtime for configuration. Also, because it is Moosy, my constructor is generated automagically for me based on what attributes I have defined. No more argument processing. It rocks.
Now here is where it gets cool. Astute readers will have noticed that if I use this Filter unmodified in an XMLRPC stack with the XML parsing filter directly after this one, it won't work. Filter::XML is expecting raw XML, not an HTTP::Message object. So we will have to inject a shim to strip the content out of the message, right? Not with Moose. With Moose, in my stackable implementation, I can subclass SimpleHTTP and apply advice around get_one() and put() to do just that. I don't have to write a container class to call the parent filter or deal with calling SUPER methods that may not resolve correctly if someone else subclasses me or whatever. So many headaches disappear.
But with great magic comes some quirks. Mainly, Stackable has a horrible bug that uses UNIVERSAL::isa as a function to determine that Filters subclass from POE::Filter. Well in the Moose world, I can't get a magical inline constructor if my parent has a constructor defined. And POE::Filter defines a silly constructor. So what do we do?
First, install UNIVERSAL::isa from the CPAN and use it. Second, provide our own isa() implementation that says, yes, we are a proper POE::Filter subclass. Now all of our automagical goodness works as expected.
Throw in some tests that cover our error states, double check the attributes, and make sure our dechunkifying works, write some pod, and push to the CPAN.
And that was it. A new release is on the horizon largely to fix the POD (it's ugly, I know), and to add some more tests (can't have enough of those, right?).
You can follow development of POE::Filter::SimpleHTTP here.
The second link on the Moose + POE effort was supposed to link to Evan Carroll's MooseyPoopoe on github (http://github.com/EvanCarroll/MooseyPoopoe/tree/master)
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Perl Iron Man
Perl is my language. Has been since I first expressed interest in programming. It fits my mental model. I proudly have the Llama, Camel, Black Leopard, Wolf, Cheetah, Mouse, [insert other animal], O'Reilly books sitting on my bookshelf next to me right this very instant. My regular expression-fu is strong. I've written Perl code on multiple major revisions. I contribute to the CPAN. I write patches. I subscribe to mailing lists, have an account on perlmonks, attend conferences, and have been known to run a local Perlmongers group. Perl has landed me jobs, even if those jobs had nothing to do with Perl. I've spent time developing JAPHs, marveled at Perl golfing, and done things with Perl that others never thought possible. Others say my language is dying. Others think we only write CGI scripts and live in the 90s. I say to hell with them. I write distributed, event driven, asynchronous, applications. I write pluggable protocol abstractions. I write XMPP communication components. And I am not alone.
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Interior of Santa María Cathedral in Vitoria. Álava.
Imagine the thrill of walking along scaffolding 16 metres above the ground and looking inside a Gothic cathedral. If that experience appeals to you, you can try it in Vitoria. That's because the Santa María cathedral is organising guided visits to view the restoration works currently taking place in the building so you can see its enormous arches and columns in a completely new and original light.
But you'll also discover that Vitoria is a city made for strolling. You'll love wandering through the old town, climbing to the top of the city wall, seeing the Renaissance mansions all around you... and if you want to see the city in more comfort, you can take the tourist train. The first Saturday of each month you'll also find a market in this part of town where you can buy antiques, gastronomic products…
Vitoria also looks to its visitors like one big garden. You can relax in large urban parks like the Florida or stroll around the green belt surrounding the city, where you may see animals such as stag or mink.
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Saturday, April 04, 2009
What Would Ignatius Do?
7 comments:
- aaronandbrighid said...
When I saw the title of this post, I thought the reference was to Ignatius Reilly. We all know what the latter would do: write an extremely nasty letter, threatening 'the sting of the lash' and referring to the administration as 'mongoloids', signed with an extremely phony pseudonym.
- Saturday, April 04, 2009 8:46:00 PM
- Joseph Fromm said...
"Nah, I went to all the trouble of becoming a Catholic, why would I want to change?"
It's that bit o' truth that hurts so much!
- Saturday, April 04, 2009 11:34:00 PM
The state of our Catholic universities is a shame. We must be grateful for the new initiatives that are out there for new institutes of higher learning. When everything has been on the side of dissent and neo-paganism for so long, the best we can hope for is that a new administration might be able to stem the tide for a while or even halt it.
Georgetown has become a neo-Pagan institution with the odd Jesuitical leaning. And many, many other schools have trod that path.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2009 9:47:00 AM
- Janette said...
Ah- there is Creighton and a few other "eastern Proivice" universities that are still conservative. Do not write off Jesuit Education yet! They are excellent at what they do. They just need a bit of centering! The Holy Spirit will bring them back if we pray hard enough.
Glad I cruised by this morning. Haven't been here in a LOOOOONG time!
- Monday, April 27, 2009 7:38:00 AM
orrr.... how about some Benedictine College action? :)
- Sunday, May 10, 2009 7:42:00 PM
The Jesuits were founded to fight against Protestantism just as the Dominicans were started to combat the Albigensian heresy. Ever met an Albigensian?
- Friday, July 31, 2009 1:32:00 AM
....and the!!!!
....there's Notre Dame!
- Thursday, September 17, 2009 8:59:00 PM


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Game Preview: Erskine College vs. Cobras
Game Date: February 2, 2011
Tip-off Scheduled for 5:30 p.m.
Live Webcast: http://coker.nmtvsports.com (Caleb Dunlop – Play by Play, Todd Caughlin – Color)
Live Stats: www.cokercobras.com
HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker Cobras women's basketball team will play conference foe the Erskine Flying Fleet, Wednesday as they look to bounce back from their last game.
Coker at Pfeiffer: 48-83 (L)
Lees-McRae at Coker: 61-37 (L)
Coker at Queens: 49-71 (L)
Coker College
Home: 2-4, 2-3
Road: 0-9, 0-5
Neutral: 0-1
2009-10 vs. Erskine: 0-2
Avg. points per game (Home): 60.2
PPG: Jasmine Alston (11.8)
RPG: Jasmine Alston (6.4)
Assists: Megan Thomas (51)
Steals: Megan Thomas (30)
FG%: Maija Castren (49.4)
FT%: Jasmine Alston (67.9)
In Coker's last outing they lost to Queens University of Charlotte 49-71. Junior Jasmine Alston (Sumter, SC) continues her great season, scoring 12 points in the Cobras last game. Alston is the team leader in points and points per game.
Coker's has been successful at home this season. The Cobras beat conference foes St. Andrews (67-58) and Limestone (61-59).
Home: 3-2, 2-2
Away: 3-7, 2-3
Neutral: DNP
2009-10 vs. Coker: 2-0
Avg. points per game (Road): 61.3
PPG: Porsha Morgan (15.5)
RPG: Neci Allen (5.7)
Assists: Porsha Morgan (57)
Steals: Porsha Morgan (30)
FG%: Neci Allen (42.1)
FT%: Elizabeth Tatum (68.1)
Erskine will be well rested entering Wednesday's game, as their last game on Monday was cancelled due to weather. The Fleet are looking for a chance to jump back into the action and heat things back up against Coker.
Tip-off is scheduled for 5:30 pm at the Timberlake-Lawton Gymnasium in Hartsville, S.C.


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Mary P. Perry
Mary P. Perry, 88, a lifetime resident of Jamestown, passed away peacefully on Nov. 18, 2011. She was the beloved wife of the late Joseph P. Perry and the daughter of the late Manuel and Marian (Andrade) Phillips.
She worked as the office manager for Stearns Farms Insurance until her retirement in 1990. Mary was blessed to have had youthful looks, clarity of thought, good health, and strength of will as well as the love of her family and friends.
She is survived by son Michael J. Perry and wife Donna of Jamestown; daughter Lauren A. Norton and husband John Norton of Virginia Beach, Va.; and her four cherished grandchildren, Jessica Norton, Rachael Perry, James Perry and Julianne Norton. Mary was the sister of Thelma Albright of North August, Ga.
A Mass of Christian Burial was in St. Mark Church and burial was in St. Mark Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made in Mary's name to St. Mark Church, 60 Narragansett Ave., Jamestown, RI 02835.


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Four graded stakes for three-year-olds, From Queens to Arcadia and from Tampa to this address, there are four graded stakes for the sophomore class and this doesn't reflect a copy of non-graded trials at Fair Grounds and Laurel Park.
A few notes before looking at the results. This week, the Jockey Club released its weights for the Experimental Free Handicap which every February ranks the accomplishments of the previous year's juvenile class.
Always fun to look at, this exercise had its 15 minutes as Kentucky Derby predictor that is, of course, if you ranked within 10 pounds of the highweight, in this case Shanghai Bobby at 126 pounds. (Filly champion Beholder was the high-weighted filly at 123).
If you did, or were a champion from another land, and if you qualified on Dosage, a measure that calculates distance-running aptitude--that quota being below 4.0—that horse became known as a Dual Qualifier. That notion, like the Experimental Free Handicap itself, has come to be regarded as anachronistic.
And maybe that's true, inasmuch as it was true when it was taken very seriously a few decades ago. But the system always is fun to peruse; good for the soul of a Thoroughbred racing fan, a different kind of X's and O's.
One more note. We're on record as being pro-Kentucky Derby points system for eligibility; indeed lobbied for it here a few years back. A work in progress, as the Churchill Downs folks said it would be from the outset, here are some early impressions:
It's working because media and fans are talking about it; it's working because now you hear quotes you never heard before, such as "it's not the end of the world if we don't make the race; there's always the Preakness."
The points tally is getting more coverage at this early stage than the former graded earnings standard. Also reiterating, either the Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner and/or two-year-old champion, deserves to be seeded into the event.
Finally, the guesstimate as to the number of points required to gain entrance into the Louisville starting gate keeps growing, now thought to be around 50. Now, no one knew that last week's Holy Bull would come up as strong as it did, but no matter.
Off the top, two turn races in the "Derby Prep" rounds should have their point values bumped up to 25 for the winner of a graded two-turner. This gives more relevance to Tier 1 races and gives horsemen more valuable prep options. Besides, if you, say, sweep Gulfstream's Holy Bull and Fountain of Youth, you still can still be out-pointed by the Florida Derby winner. This seems reasonable, yes?
As does putting the Illinois Derby back into the prep mix. The game has enough issues without having (capital-p) politics interfere with how the game traditionally has been played. And the city of Chicago should be somewhere on the road to Louisville.
Parenthetically, moving the Hawthorne event back two weeks makes all the sense in the world.
TODAY'S PREPS: Before looking at those with names attached, the winning allowance performance of Verrazano was first rate and then some. As track announcer Larry Collmus intoned of the lengthy winner; "he won from Staten Island to Brooklyn"
The crowd actually took a late rip against the favorite, betting Gunderson down to 5-2 into the 2-5 favorite before blowing out to 7-2 ante post, and the Mark Casse trainee took it to Verrazano from the get-go.
There was, of course, no panic from John Velazquez, content to stalk in hand until getting the More Than Ready colt midway of the far turn.
The colt labored some to push passed the challenger but, that done, was mildly encouraged to draw off by 16-1/4 lengths at the end of a mile in 1:34.80. By way of comparison, three-year-old maiden allowance winner Doherty raced the distance in 1.37.24.
By way of a top class measure, Itsmyluckyday, one of the fastest of his generation, won the Gulfstream Park Derby in 1:34.40; not too shabby. The question now becomes where does he get those Derby qualifying points next time? Right now, he has none.
"We're just going to have to figure it out," Todd Pletcher said of the scenario. "This was about as impressive as you'll see one run. We were encouraged going into [the race] and even more so coming out."
Pletcher's stock knows no bounds. At Aqueduct, Revolutionary took the Grade 3 Withers but unlike Verrazano, the War Pass colt at no time looked like he would justify his odds.
Credit the Winstar colt, and Gulfstream's leading rider, Javier Castellano, who made the trip north worthwhile by winning his third stakes of the afternoon and second for Pletcher- the other being the Busher with impressive Princess of Sylmar.
But it was Castellano's confidence and patience that was absolutely the difference at the finish, waiting for room in deep stretch, getting a seam, bursting into breach to come away with a narrow victory over the game runnerup, Escapefromreality.
Revolutionary flashed laudable acceleration but needs to improve his gate manners. However, his gallop out around the clubhouse turn was eye-catching. He has class or he would not have won the Withers. Of course, the waters will get much deeper from here.
Before the race, Pletcher was concerned about the race shape. "The key will be for him to break cleanly and put himself in a good stalking position. The main thing is we want him to get away cleanly and get into a nice rhythm." That didn't happen; only the result turned out to be predictable.
A HITCH IN THE HUTCH: The new Derby points system might have claimed its first victim in the Hutcheson. The Grade 2 sprint was worth $90,000 of graded money to the winning Honorable Dillon, but nary a point, since the race was less than a mile.
"We'll talk to the owner and come up with a plan," said winning trainer Eddie Kenneally. "It's a shame that these Grade 2 stakes aren't worth any points for the Kentucky Derby. I think it's wrong."
Kenneally, of course is entitled, but every trainer with a live three-year-old knows what the rules are going in.
"Can he [go farther than a mile]? He's bred to go farther than seven-eighths of a mile. We'll find out when we try."
The colt certainly won like a horse that won't mind a little more distance, which also might be the case for runnerup Forty Tales, which any decent race observer will tell you that, as the race was run, he was "probably best."
Shuffled back from the rail slip going 7 furlongs—never a bargain but especially so at Gulfstream—he was hard to conceive he would get anything approaching headstretch.
But, as one of the few horses that closed strongly in the middle of the track all day, he came within a half-length of giving Pletcher his third viable Derby winner of the day.
Pletcher also had the winner of the G3 Endeavour with Brazilian import Old Tune, an impressive winner of her U.S. debut.
And, so, what might be next for Honorable Dillon? "The Swale is a definite possibility."
That would be the seven furlong Grade 3 on March 2nd, yes?
BAFFERT GOES 1-2 IN THE LEWIS: But buzz horse Flashback, an impressive maiden-debut winner at Betfair Hollywood in December, moved up in class and distance--albeit against three rivals, one of which was stablemate and eventual runnerup, Den's Legacy—won the Grade 2 race that catapulted I'll Have Another to prominence last year in a dominating performance.
But it's hard to know what to make of the effort. What is one supposed to make of a front-running score at the Great Race Place after waltzing through an opening gambit of :24.17?
In fact, Daily Racing Form reported that the half mile of 48.69 seconds was the slowest half-mile fraction of the meet at the distance. But he drew off in push-button style by 6-1/4 lengths in a very solid 1:42.95 for 1 1/16 miles on a fast track.
"He's still a little green but it was an easy race," said jockey Julien Leparoux. "He's going to improve off this race."
"We were hoping he'd do something like that," said Baffert, and agreed that "he'll get something out of the race."
All will know more when and if he gets to the Santa Anita Derby April 6. "The last prep is so important," Baffert added. "It's still pre-season right now. As he goes on, he's going to have to run against better horses."
THE SKY IS FALLING…THE SKY IS FALLING…That was almost the refrain as G3 Sam F Davis Memorial winner Falling Sky got a bigger scare from the stewards than he did from most of his rivals.
Those eight rivals included favorite My Name Is Michael who checked in a fairly well beaten third, the loss preventing Joel Rosario from sweeping the three graded stakes on the Tampa Bay Downs program.
Making his first start for trainer John Terranova, he was hustled to the lead by Luis Saez, who also made the drive north on Route 75 to ride the third horse that was exiting a preliminary allowances at Gulfstream on December 15.
The anxious moment came approaching headstretch when Speak Logistics got through on the rail but was forced to steady when caught in close quarters on the rail. The stewards took a look and apparently determined that Saez and Falling Sky held their position and did not veer into Speak Logistics, which faded to fourth in the drive.
Falling Sky, Revolutionary and Flashback all earned 10 graded Derby eligibility points for their efforts, placing all three in a 10-way tie for fourth on the list. Shanghai Bobby and Goldencents are tied for the lead at 24. Oxbow is alone in third with 11.


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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's continued defiance to international calls to wind up its nuclear enrichment program has already cost the country heavily, as the United Nations last week placed its fourth set of sanctions on Iran, while Australia imposed Tuesday new sanctions on an Iranian bank, a shipping company, as well as a man connected to a construction firm owned by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Wednesday, the United States added Iranian individuals and firms to a blacklist.
European leaders, who have gathered in Brussels Thursday for a summit, expressed their "deepening concerns about Iran's nuclear program."
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A belated Merry Christmas and a happy new year to everybody!
We've been quiet in our news section recently as we've been busily working away on the site redesign and Vortex development, but the new year brings the perfect chance to update you on what happened last year and what we're working on in 2018.
2017 in numbers
We welcomed 1,612,142 new users to Nexus Mods in 2017, or to put it another way, a new member joined Nexus Mods every 20 seconds. We now support mods for 493 different games, up 80 on 2016. In that time users have uploaded 27,891 new mods to the site and all of you have downloaded 601,609,165 files between you, which means that 19 new downloads were started on Nexus Mods every second of 2017.
While traffic on the site has declined slightly on 2016's figures due to the initial buzz of Fallout 4's release dying down, you're all downloading way more than you used to, up 22% on last year's 491,161,244 downloads.
We got an office
Starting 2017 I was becoming unhappy with the remote working conditions at Nexus Mods. Since I hired the first staffer back in 2011, every position has been remote and we've had employees living in England, Scotland, Italy, Germany and the United States. However, it's become increasingly evident over the years that no matter what software or hardware companies bring out to bridge the gap between office workers and remote workers, nothing, and I mean nothing, replaces the sheer efficiency (and comradery) of individuals working in the same room together towards a common goal.
So while most companies try and open themselves up more to remote and flexible working, I decided to go the complete opposite direction and in May 2017, we setup a Nexus Mods office that myself, an existing member of staff and two new site programmers would be the first to fill.
From time to time Tom, our head of Programming and Paul, director of content, would come down and work a few days in the office as well.
I was dubious about the changes at first as this would be the first time in my life I'd be working in an office rather than from home, but any doubts I had quickly left me and I'm extremely happy with how the office has panned out.
Now I know it was the right thing to do, I'm about to put pen to paper on a new office that will be the Nexus Mods staff home for the next few years. Any new staff positions we fill will, most likely, be office based from our home here in Exeter in the UK.
Staff changes
We've welcomed some new faces this year and said goodbye to some long-standing staff as well.
As already mentioned, back in May we brought in two new site programmers working from the office and in November we welcomed Kit, our designer, to fill a brand new role in the team.
We've said goodbye to Fabio and Luca, who were the team behind the Nexus Mod Manager, as we look to consolidate as many staff positions as possible into the new office environment. Paul, whose absence you might have noticed from our news section in recent months, has also moved on to new pastures. We wish them all the best.
The site redesign
In November we pushed out our new site redesign, first as a public beta for testing and feedback, and just recently, into a full launch. The old design can still be accessed from http://old.nexusmods.com but will soon be switched off.
We're very happy with it, not just how it looks and works, but also the underlying changes made to the framework and logic make it far more efficient for a team of programmers (which is what we have now) to work on it.
Naturally, the redesign has had a polarizing effect, and indeed, in 16 years of running these sites I haven't launched a redesign without it doing just that. I'm not sure any established site does. But nevertheless, we've received a treasure trove of feedback from which we can work from, some very helpful, some not so helpful and some plain rude, but we know how to filter the helpful feedback from the rude stuff and just get on with it, and that's what we're doing.
With help from users reporting bugs on our GitHub tracker, we've squashed hundreds of bugs and refined several areas of the site from the original design already. We'll continue to iterate on it moving forward based on the feedback being provided.
The old design will go down soon. While many users have asked for us to keep the old design up, it's simply not feasible as our code base moves further and further away from it. We can neither afford to continue paying for the old hardware the old design is on, nor can we afford to maintain code/design parity with any new and future functionality we add moving forward. It's not cut out for the amount of data we're having to store now, nor is it cut out for a larger team of programmers to work on it. It's simply put, not fit for purpose any more and separating the design from the logic would be a futile task for us.
Allllllllmoooooost there.
I had a little play around with Tannin's latest version yesterday and I'm really happy with how it's looking, how it's working, and all the exciting things we'll be able to do with it looking into the future.
It's touch and go whether we're going to hit that January deadline, but if we don't, it'll simply be for polish and fixing any last minute bugs the focus group bring up. We'll update you once we know for sure and if we can't hit January, we'll release some pictures and more information to tide you over.
Social media
Some of you don't care for social media, but a lot of us do and use it regularly. We brought Terrorfox onto the team back in 2016 to spearhead our external focus, past the Nexus Mods community, and as a part of those efforts, he's created a thriving social media presence for Nexus Mods.
On both Facebook and Twitter, Terrorfox releases a steady stream of popular mods and hidden gems you might never have seen or heard of before every couple of hours, that are all available on Nexus Mods. Mixed in with a few retweets or shout-outs to what mod authors are doing and talking about around social media, I can honestly say that it's a rather nice way of being informed about new mods in the community and what's being talked about on social media.
No clickbait here, just straight up "here's a mod, here's what it does, check it out". If that's of interest to you, give us a follow or a like so you can keep up to date with what's being posted there.
Looking forward to 2018 on the website
We've got a fight on our hands in 2018.
Our work on the redesign over these past two years has revealed some looming future issues in our backend that we need to rectify. Nexus Mods has obviously grown at an astounding rate since we first built the new framework for the site in 2011 and our needs back then were very different to our present needs.
You need only look at the download figures quoted above, which are increasing at an almost alarming rate, to understand the data sets we're talking about. In 28 months our download database alone has doubled in size (which means that our users have downloaded more since September 2015 than they did from June 2005, when our records in their current form began, to August 2015). Now, with 2.4 billion downloads in our system that we rely on for a number of different features on the site, we're in "big data" realms and we need to work hard and fast to accommodate this.
As a result, a lot of our time is going to be spent completely rebuilding all the backend logic and framework, from the ground up, to move us into more of a big data mindset. It's very boring talk for people like you and me, but it has very serious implications for the future of Nexus Mods if we do nothing, or if we don't get it right.
It was our hope that we'd be able to rectify these issues as part of the redesign process but all it has done is highlight the need for a complete ground up rehaul of our systems. That doesn't mean a new redesign, or rather, it does, but a redesign of our databases, server infrastructure, framework and so on. Basically, the stuff you don't see but can sometimes "feel", like when the site is slow or unresponsive. Recently announced functionality like our Mod Author Donation System will form a part of these new systems.
As such, the work we've done on the redesign, which has already involved some significant refactoring of our code, has given us a little room to breathe while we work on some pretty big stuff into 2018 and beyond.
While a number of our programmers will be focusing on these efforts, a separate team are going to continue working their socks off iterating on our redesign and taking on the feedback we're getting from all of you.
We've still got some speed improvements to make that should make browsing the new site faster and Kit continues to push changes to the design based on the feedback she's reading on the forum and in the news comments. That's an ongoing process that is never truly going to end.
Looking forward to 2018 with Vortex
First, we've got to release it.
Vortex is obviously going to be released in an alpha state and we're only going to recommend people use it, to begin with, if they want to help us actually test the software and aren't shy about potential bugs or issues that might come from completely changing your mod management software. During this phase, if you're a 500+ mod load order person who has everything delicately sorted to perfection and don't want anything messing with that then you're likely not the right person for the initial release of Vortex unless you want to help us test getting it all ported over and working correctly in Vortex!
Tannin will be eagerly awaiting feedback and bug reports and will no doubt work hard to resolve them all as quickly as possible.
Naturally, we have no idea how long that process is going to take, but we're confident we've learnt from the mistakes of the past on this one and don't want to be in a perpetual alpha state!
Looking to the future, we've been keenly watching developments unfold in the community recently in regards to mod packs. It's something we've explored for Nexus Mods and NMM in the past, so much so that we were mere weeks away from launching a full fledged mod pack system before I mothballed it. If you're interested in how that came about, the technicalities behind it and the reason why it was mothballed I wrote a rather extensive breakdown on Reddit about it recently.
I've tentatively spoken with Tannin briefly on the subject and, while we've got a to-do list that's years in the making, mod packs are something we'll likely explore again in the not too distant future. Naturally, we'll consult with mod authors extensively about our plans and what feedback they have during the design and implementation stage.
In finishing
I want to send a big thank you to the often unsung heroes of this community, our moderation team, who diligently volunteer their time to help moderate these sites and deal, often times, with some sickeningly awful individuals on the internet. Without them, Nexus Mods wouldn't be Nexus Mods. I can sit here and talk about "big data" this and "Vortex" that, but all of that is utterly moot if the community collapses in on itself (or doesn't exist at all) due to idiots who just want to act like dicks and ruin it for everyone else.
Also, obviously, a thank you to the mod authors who continue to create and share their content on Nexus Mods, without whom all of this is similarly pointless!
I wish you all a great 2018.


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It was March 2009 when the British-born siblings Gillian Ison and John Graham Watson met at Zermatt, a resort in the shadow of Switzerland's Matterhorn. There, with family members, they indulged a passion for skiing: Watson, an alpine expert, loved running the fall line, the steepest and fastest route down the slope. A traveler, an adventurer, the 64-year-old relished high-performance sports as much as he did his career with pharmaceutical and biotech firms. Balancing business and play had made his life storybook-successful. The self-made Watson had just retired, a multimillionaire.
The odd thing his sister Gillian Ison recalled about the trip to Zermatt was her brother's "friend." The man, a financial planner named Kent Thomas Keigwin, showed up with his daughter Parisa, surprising John. It was true the two had met in San Diego. And, according to Keigwin, Watson had invited him skiing. No, he hadn't, Watson told his sister. Keigwin had invited himself. "He was," she remembered, "nothing like he made himself out to be."
Ison found Keigwin offensive right away. On the aerial tram and in front of his daughter, he told dirty jokes. He bragged about a "serious girlfriend" he had in America for whom he'd bought "a boob job and a face-lift." On skis, the barrel-chested man, clearly out of shape, was awkward at best, staying far behind the group. Ison and Watson were aghast watching Keigwin fall. She said he "embarrassed" her brother. That evening, the siblings met him and Parisa for a quick drink. Otherwise, they spent no more time with him, and Keigwin and daughter soon flew home.
Who, Ison asked her brother, was this faker?
Watson said Keigwin came to Zermatt to show his daughter that he had rich friends who spent their vacations in luxury. (Keigwin roomed in a cheap pension, far from the resort.) Without doubt, Watson was wealthy, although few of his friends knew just how wealthy. The Brit's road to millions began when the Cambridge-educated economist and marketer came to America to work in the pharmaceutical industry. His executive career, always vertically progressive, had taken him to Johnson & Johnson and Wyeth Laboratories, and then, specializing in biotech, to Vestar, Biotech Consulting, CarboMed, and, finally, Ionian Technologies in San Diego, where he was president and chief executive. In his professional life, Watson helped launch products for people with HIV, inflammatory diseases, and spinal cord injuries, among other ailments. When he retired from Ionian in 2008, he joined Tech Coast Angels, a nonprofit organization of wealthy people who invest in worthy start-ups. Watson was quickly elected to the board.
An associate of Watson's, Charlie Grebenstein, said of him, "John was rollicking good company. Quick wit, cultured, broadly read, passionately devoted to his adopted country. He valued being an American because America provided opportunity. He loved California for that reason, plus the freedom to innovate and the endless opportunities to play."
Arriving in San Diego in late 2007, Watson met Anna Sorriso and joined her in the Action Ski Club. He, Sorriso, and others enjoyed hikes, beach walks, dances, and skiing. "He liked active people," a friend recalled. At La Jolla Shores, Watson rented an apartment in a boxy building at 8111 Camino del Oro. The two-bedroom pad suited his lifestyle: travel and working out — swimming, tennis, inline skating, wind surfing, running — "two hours or more every day," said another friend. Watson liked sailing, too, which was how he met Keigwin.
Rarely opening up, Watson was guarded about his wealth. But he did have a penchant for discussing stocks. Keigwin did as well. Born in 1950, he was a certified public accountant. His brother Jim said that during the 1970s, Keigwin was hired by the Shah of Iran to establish an accounting system for the government. When that ended with the Iranian revolution, he returned to America with an Iranian Jew whom he married and with whom he had a daughter. A financial advisor, Keigwin counseled clients first at UBS, then at Morgan Stanley in La Jolla. But, his sales performance fell off at Morgan Stanley, and he was let go. In April 2010 he hired on with Wedbush Securities, working on commission. Keigwin sold annuities as well as life, accident, and health insurance on behalf of New York Life and other companies. At Wedbush, Keigwin fattened his contact list, dozens of well-heeled individuals like Watson whom Keigwin targeted as potential clients.
Watson and Keigwin, Sorriso said, sailed once or twice but developed no friendship. At best, Keigwin was in a group who received "jokey" emails from Watson. One day in 2008 she noticed Keigwin's name had been dropped from the CC line. Watson told her that he'd become "disenamored" of him. He was angry that Keigwin had lied to him about an investment property for sale. He also told her that Keigwin was in "dire financial straits." Watson said he no longer wished to "associate with that turd ball."
Still, wishing the opportunist away doesn't get rid of him. In November 2009, a woman with Citibank phoned Watson about his new credit card application. Watson said he hadn't applied for a card. But, she asked, hadn't he just opened an account using his Social Security and phone numbers? Absolutely not, Watson said. He realized he'd been hacked and notified police. Two months later, a manager from E-Trade called Watson to welcome him as a new client. Same as before — the online applicant had used Watson's Social Security and phone numbers. Watson was livid. It wasn't he who had applied. Who had? Neither E-Trade nor Citibank knew. Watson notified police again.
"Perfectly Posed"
In May 2010, Watson and Dr. Barry Kassar, a fellow board member at Tech Coast Angels, put the final touches on their "Quick Pitch" event for June 8 at 6:00 p.m. At these confabs, start-up executives made presentations, hoping to lure new money. Up first on June 8, a Tuesday, was a 3:30 Angels board meeting. Watson, always hands-on and on time, didn't show. When he failed to arrive for happy hour at 5:00, Kassar "got suspicious." He phoned him twice and left messages.


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Keene State College opens $1.2m Nursing Simulation Lab
By MEGHAN PIERCE
Union Leader Correspondent
— Expanding on the Nursing Program Keene State College started in 2011, the institution opened its new Nursing Simulation Lab last month.
The $1.2 million facility includes five patient areas and a nurses station set up just as they would be in current hospital environments.
Before the lab was opened Jan. 21, Keene State College nursing students used a lab at River Valley College in Claremont, said Dr. Mary Ellen Fleeger, director of nursing at Keene State College.
This new lab is state of the art and cutting edge in every way, Fleeger said Tuesday.
The lab includes two intensive care rooms that are monitored from a common control room where professors can observe student reacting to a created simulation through a one-way mirror.
A high-tech mannequin known as "METIman" is used to test the students on different patient scenarios. The METIman can be programmed for up to a hundred different health care scenarios.
Professors in the control room can also affect his or her reaction — the mannequin can be adjusted to be male or female — to what the patients are doing.
"They can make it convulse," said Jessica Morissette, Keene State College nursing student and junior, set to graduate in 2015.
Cameras are also used to capture the simulations so students can watch their mistakes as well as triumphs as part of the learning process.
Tuesday students in the lab were trained on a ceiling lift.
Using mechanical lifts help nurses avoid the physical injuries that come with the job, Assistant Professor Cynthia G. Cahoon told her students Tuesday morning.
Each student took a turn operating the left as well as being in the lift.
"You need a turn at being a patient," Cahoon said.
Morissette said the simulations and training with the equipment they will encounter in real health care situations gives her confidence. "We can say I do know how this feels like and don't worry I won't let you fall," Morissette said of using the lift.
These new nursing students won't have contact with real patients till March when they will begin learning in area nursing homes.
Until then METIman can stand into have IV and catheter insertions, and have his pulse, body temperature and blood pressure taken.
"The lab is amazing. Iit is so high tech, and there are so many things around that we have to learn how to do and learn how to use it. I've never seen another lab like it," Morissette said. "It's like you're working with a real human beings without being afraid of hurting someone or getting something wrong."
Nursing lecturer Ashley Richmond said the new nursing students are holding a naming contest for METIman, so he/her will likely take a new name before the end of the semester.


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Rivalry? What rivalry?
The Ignacio High School boys basketball team turned the raucous Pine River rivalry into a placid blowout of Class 3A Bayfield on Tuesday night at BHS.
Ignacios Clayton Jefferson scored 19 points, Justin Carver added 14 more, and the Bobcats ripped through the opening minutes of their second half to hush the rowdy Bayfield crowd with a 67-42 final score and complete the sweep of their Pine River rivals.
We just outpowered them, Jefferson said. Hit our shots, and we caught fire.
The Class 2A Bobcats, ranked 6th in Colorado by The Denver Post, built a modest 30-18 lead by the halfway break before really heating up.
Then, they scored six unanswered points on three Bayfield turnovers to embark on an 11-2 run to open the second half, churning through points in transition.
The previously proud Bayfield gymnasium deflated like a gold and purple balloon. Even the student section, which normally stands throughout play, sat down.
At that point, I thought it was done, IHS coach Chris Valdez said of the scoring spree.
Our transition in the second half, I think, was the nail.
Bayfields Trevor Gabbard, who scored seven points behind Preston Hardys nine and Dillon Hoseltons eight, thought those turnovers sealed the coffin, too.
Coming out down by 12, then instantly down by 18 ... it was just everybody trying to do things that their skill level didnt let them do, Gabbard sid. We didnt play to our ability.
Valdez said the Bobcats superior speed gave them an edge on both offense and defense, allowing guards such as Jefferson to find passing lanes and space to shoot. Jefferson sliced through the paint in the second half to tip in lay-ups and knocked down two 3-pointers to go toward Ignacios eight total 3s.
Just got to have confidence when shooting the ball, Jefferson said. Just let them fly.
Ignacio led by as many as 29 points at 59-30 in the fourth quarter, then the Wolverines hit some solid shots to close the gap by a couple of points.
Still, Valdez said he was pleased with his team, which has had trouble closing out games this year, for making some shots of their own and mostly maintaining the difference.
Good to get a win against a rivalry team, Jefferson said.


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I have noticed from websites, and international opinion that Americans and America itself is looked at like were all fat-ass arrogant little *****s. The rest of the world envys America for it's greatness, I am assuming. Why is it that a country that supports independence and freedom on such a level, looked down upon? Is it our foreign policy? Are we not giving enough money and rations to the starving nations? Did we not create somewhat of a "freedom" in Afghanistan, by destroying the Taliban? Did we not send in the troops to Somalia, when the people were being starved?
Why is it that when 9-11 first when down, all these European nations claimed they had our backs...Germany gifted our government with a few tanks painted red, insinuating their Support in a military action. But as soon as Bush went over there to call to arms, Germans didnt want anything to do with it. Grant it, we dont really want Germany having an army anyways...(Sarcastic, has been playing Medal Of Honor) but I am tired of people saying something and doing the opposite.
Is this the type of behavior that has lead America to its reputation? Or is it that America is simply the most powerfull country in the world and the world has become envious of her power? Or is it because we support Isreal, and the world simply hates the Jews or what ?
I would be most interested in Negative's responce...you seem to hate Americanism more than anyone here...


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A simple socket set is useful for securing and releasing nuts and bolts. It includes a range of different socket sizes which can be attached to a fixed rod or ratchet.
Every fixing requires a specific nail, clip, screw or bolt - often in combination with matching plugs, washers and nuts. If you keep them sorted in storage drawers, they'll always be easy to find when you need them. Many tool boxes have combination tool trays, compartments and drawers. Tool boxes (or bags, belts or trays) make it easier to carry and protect your tools. Be particularly careful how you store cutting edges in a tool box - keep and use the plastic guards that are usually fitted to new saw and chisel blades.
A secure working surface is essential for many tasks. A portable workbench allows you to establish a solid platform in the house or garden.
This can be used for measuring as well as marking angles of 90° or 45°. Combination squares usually feature a small spirit bubble for levelling – plus a scribe for marking.
Buy a robust retractable tape measure – you'll need it more often than you think for a huge variety of tasks.
A good-quality spirit level shows you a true horizontal or vertical – essential when lining up shelving or cabinets on a wall. Spirit levels come in a variety of lengths, although for more ambitious projects, a laser level will also prove invaluable.
Use a 300mm steel rule for accurate line drawing and measuring. When marking out over greater dimensions, use a wooden batten as a straightedge.
Ideal for knocking things together and apart, a claw hammer will drive in all but the smallest nails. Made a mistake? No problem. The curved claw opposite the hammer head can also be used to pull out nails.
When you need to drive home lots of small nails – for instance, when securing hardboard to a floor – use a Cross Pein or Warrington hammer.
A sturdy chisel with a synthetic handle you can hit with a wooden mallet is essential for a range of woodworking jobs. Key to fitting doors and many joinery projects, chisels will need constant sharpening with a sharpening stone – so never use one to open a tin of paint.
A saw comes in useful for many jobs. The panel saw type is the most versatile, cutting sheet materials and timber well. As with all saws, the fewer teeth per inch (TPI) the more aggressive the cut – while the more teeth, the smoother the cut.
A good hacksaw will cut any metal. It takes different blades, with different numbers of teeth per inch (TPI). Use 24 TPI to cut a thin metal sheet, or 16-18 TPI for coarse metals.
This can be used to cut many different materials. The simplest versions store spare blades in the handle. For safety in your tool box, choose a knife with a retractable blade.
A pair of lightweight plastic sawhorses will support materials while you cut them. Inexpensive and easy to store, they're a simple evolution of the traditional carpenter's wooden sawhorse.


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Muiris Dans Bar and Accommodation is the ideal location situated in the heart of Dingle. Why not come in and enjoy a pint with Dingle\'s most decorated Kerry Gaelic Footballer, 5 time All Ireland medal winner, Tommy Griffin, who is your host, or take a stroll around town and enjoy the craic in the many pubs restaurants and shops.
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text: Audience is key to successful mobile website By Amy Schade. Published on April 09, 2012. BtoB: Would you suggest an app or a mobile website for b-to-b companies looking to establish a mobile presence? Amy Schade: It depends on what the goal is. Pretty much every company out there is going to benefit from having a mobile-optimized site because at this point it is expected, and you never know who might be coming to the site—and from what device—to find some quick information. You need to think about apps in terms of who they are appropriate for. They are probably not going to be aimed at customers you are trying to acquire but (instead) are going to be more for existing customers—whether it be support for the existing products or services that they buy from you, accessing account information or getting technical help. And so there is no clear build-a-site or build-an-app. It is more thinking about a site as a must-have for everybody. [With] an app, you really need to think about the intended audience and the functionality that you want it for. BtoB: What are common mistakes that b-to-b companies make when creating mobile websites? Schade: A lot of times the complaints that we hear from users are that the sites are too limited; that when people think, "OK, I am going to create a mobile-optimized site," they will just have a few pages of content. It is true that people are not doing hugely complex tasks on their mobile devices; but they might be doing a little bit of research. They might be looking for a little bit of in-depth information, and they can be disappointed if a mobile site is too sparse or too limited. They want to see edited and streamlined content, but not a completely limited view of what they could have experienced on the desktop site. But there are also users who do prefer to see the full desktop site, even on their mobile devices. And so, another important element that we often see missing is that you want to be able to link users from the mobile site to the full desktop site. M Most Popular In this article: BtoB


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Morning Five: 11.02.11 EditionPosted by rtmsf on November 2nd, 2011
- Last night was supposed to be the start of the NBA's 2011-12 season, but because of that lockout thing, doors were shuttered and the lights were off at the nation's largest multi-purpose arenas. You know how we could tell? In the span of 30 minutes during last night's Sportscenter, we saw not one, not two, but THREE separate highlight packages involving Top 25 teams playing in games of exhibition nonsense. Yes, the WWL is just as starved for live hoops as we are, and they're willing to show it in the form of exhibition nonsense. For those of you wondering, the three teams involved were Syracuse, Kansas, and Arizona. All three won handily.
- If this really had been the NBA's debut evening, none of those games would have been on anyone's radar in Bristol, but it begs the question whether NBA fans will make room for college basketball during their winter of discontent. In a piece assessing the possibility, Dana O'Neil argues that the impact on attendance was virtually nil when the league was last locked out in the 1998-99 season . While true, she doesn't address the likeliest area where NBA-turned-temporary-college fans would see any increase: television ratings. Interest in a sport can take many forms, but from our view, John Q. NBA is more likely to start watching marquee college matchups in November and December than he is to travel through the cold to catch a garbage game at Local State U. Whereas in previous years he may have been busy watching the Lakers vs. the Nuggets on his flat screen the week of Thanksgiving, he might instead this year be satisfied watching Duke vs. Michigan in Maui.
- Grantland is back this week with what they're calling their Preseason All-America awards (shameless plug: our preseason AAs went live yesterday). Their writer, Jay Caspian Kang, seems to have a sufficient grasp of the sport and its key players (even if he runs a little UNCentric), but we need to put in a call to Gary Parrish this morning, because Kang did the unthinkable in choosing the Carolina floor general, Kendall Marshall, for a spot on the 1st team over the more heralded star of the Tar Heels, Harrison Barnes (2d team). If you want to get technical about it, he actually chose four players — Marshall, Jeremy Lamb (Connecticut), Anthony Davis (Kentucky), and John Jenkins (Vanderbilt) — over the smooth-as-silk Barnes (Ohio State's Jared Sullinger is the only true post on his first team). Again, it doesn't bother us all that much — if someone had left Shaq off the 1992 or Duncan off the 1997 teams, we'd be more outraged — but it is peculiar given what he writes about Barnes as someone lacking in "elite-level skills." Worth watching…
- It's not every day that a Congressman makes news for trashing the NCAA (that's usually left to the likes of people like us), but Illinois representative Bobby Rush (D-IL) went on record Tuesday at a congressional forum of college sports in comparing the NCAA to "Al Capone and the Mafia." The 64-year old who represents the largest majority-minority district in the House of Representatives (the South Side of Chicago) also holds the distinction as the only elected official to have defeated Barack Obama in an election (the Democratic primary for his seat in 2000). He infamously said at the time that the now-president "went to Harvard and became an educated fool," and it's clear that the irascible politician has not learned to better hold his tongue from controversial statements in the intervening decade. The context of his comments related to injuries sustained by athletes while playing college sports and his anger with how the NCAA handles its medical hardship cases.
- He's baaaaaack. Luke Winn's first edition of the Power Rankings is back, just in time for you to enjoy over your morning latte. Winn once told us that he sometimes spends upwards of 20 hours on these articles, which we all know is a complete and utter lie (he has most of it in his head already). Still, his weekly PR is something that you need to spend some time with, so put your office phone ringer on mute, close out any instant messages you have going, and get to work figuring out what he's talking about when he refers to such elusive yet fascinating concepts as possession poundage or Marcus Camby with a unibrow. When you're done with that, spend the next half hour trying to come up with a name for his Thomas Robinson comparison at #12 — we have one name in mind ourselves, but aren't sure about its validity. You?


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Damian Lewis his wife Helen McCrory lean in a for a kiss while continuing their vacation on Thursday (August 15) in Ibiza, Spain.
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Esquire Network's lineup will include original programming including cooking and travel shows and a series about professional horse race handicappers and another about American breweries. It also will air reruns, including "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" and "Parks and Recreation."
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Traffic snarls after 18-wheeler loses load on Interstate 12 near Covington
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