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new Penryn
based Xeon models with a higher front-side bus speed – 1600
MHz. The three new 1600 MHz front-side bus processors are available
in dual-core and quad-core models. Quad-core Xeon E5472 and E5462 are
the first quad-core models to receive the 1600 MHz front-side bus
treatment.The Xeon E5472 features a 3.0 GHz clock speed while
the E5462 features a 2.8 GHz clock speed. These models feature
80-watt thermal ratings as designated with the E moniker. Intel plans
to release these 1600 MHz front-side bus processors in Q4 2007 with
the rest of the Penryn family. Pricing for the 1600
MHz front-side bus processor starts at $797 for the E5462 and $958
for the E5472, per processor, in 1,000 unit quantities. As far as
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more versatile platform seemed like a given.
After a pretty expansive
leak earlier this month, Amazon is officially taking the wraps of its
Android-based Kindle Fire today. Fortunately, Bloomberg jumped the gun a bit early and
revealed that the Kindle Fire indeed will feature a 7" IPS display (1024 x 600), and it
checks in at a low $199 (you can pre-order today, but your Kindle won't ship until November 15), which undercuts Apple's entry-level iPad by $300.
To reach that price point, the Kindle Fire forgoes 3G
access, a microphone, and the usual bevy of cameras that come on
today's tablets. However, the Kindle Fire does include Wi-Fi (802.11n) and a free 30-day
trial of Amazon Prime (an Amazon Prime membership normally runs $79/year). The Kindle Fire weighs 14.6 ounces and features a dual-core processor. Amazon says that the Kindle Fire provides up to 8 hours of continuous reading or 7.5 hours of video playback (Wi-Fi disabled). The devices fully recharges within 4 hours via its USB 2.0 port.While the Kindle Fire has 8GB of internal storage, apps from the Amazon Appstore, music, magazines, and Kindle Books will all be stored on Amazon's Cloud Drive service which makes having a large amount of onboard storage unnecessary.
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I am very very sad to see him go. We have had players force there way out, players lie about wanting to stay then jetting and leaving us with nothing. Jose wanted to play, he gave it everything he had, never asked to leave, and did everything he could to make this team a winner.
I hope that Jose goes to a real good team and gets the ring and respect around the league he deserves. He is my favorite raptor of all time and I wish him and his new team the best.
I hope we play out the season with the PG's we have and sign Jose back as a free agent next year. I would like nothing more then to see his jersey retired and hanging from the rafters.
Good luck Jose wherever you go ... you will always be a raptor to me.


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Jeter's setback another hit in Yankees' tough spring
Club will open season with key players on disabled list rather than playing
By Richard Justice / MLB.com
TAMPA, Fla. -- If Derek Jeter was almost any other player, we'd have huge questions about his ability to continue to play at the level we've come to expect from him. Never mind when he'll be back at shortstop for the Yankees. What will he look like when he returns? Is he still capable of greatness?
After all, he's 38 years old and attempting to come back from a gruesome ankle injury. At the moment, he doesn't seem comfortable doing the simplest things. For instance, running from home to first.
He's probably a long way from being able to play short for a full nine innings, much less for a string of nine-inning games. The Yankees are still cautiously confident he'll return in April, but that's just a guess.
Since the moment we saw him lying on the ground last October at Yankee Stadium, we've all assumed he'd fly through his rehabilitation. As Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said the other day, Jeter has always been superman in terms of durability and toughness.
Bumps and bruises were a nuisance. He didn't spend much time in the training room, and even less time discussing whatever was bothering him. He simply wanted his name written on the lineup card and to be evaluated by how he played.
Even if he was completely healthy, even if he'd done all the things he normally does to prepare for a season, there would be legitimate questions about his ability to continue to produce at a high level.
One spring late in his career, Randy Johnson chided reporters for asking about his age.
"If you guys keep writing that I'm washed up, one of these years you'll be right," he said.
Indeed, even the greatest players eventually reach the end of the line, and that's what we don't know about Jeter. It's just that for the first time he seems vulnerable in a way he never did before.
He probably couldn't save the Yankees at this point. With Alex Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira, Curtis Granderson and Jeter all sidelined, the Yankees will open the season with $84 million of their $210-million payroll on the disabled list. That $84 million is higher than the total payroll of 15 teams in 2012.
They're relatively confident what they're going to get from second baseman Robinson Cano and center fielder Brett Gardner. Every other spot, including right field (Ichiro Suzuki) and third base (Kevin Youkilis), is a question mark.
As for left field (Brennan Boesch), first base (Juan Rivera), designated hitter (Travis Hafner), shortstop (Eduardo Nunez) and catcher (Francisco Cervelli), Cashman will be looking for upgrades as teams make their final cuts.
Yes, the Yankees will be looking for help among the castoffs. After two decades when they seemed virtually bullet-proof to the kinds of things that brought other franchises to their knees, the Yankees have gotten bad news.
If they were any other franchise, they'd be penciled in for last place. But they've still got a very good rotation and a potentially excellent bullpen. They also have a chance of getting Granderson, Teixeira, Jeter and Rodriguez back at some point this season.
There's also an aura about them, and that's probably something easy to oversell. There's still a feeling around baseball that the Yankees will stay close and that Cashman will do something to shore up the lineup.
Still, at the end of a nightmarish few weeks, it's Jeter who is the center of attention in these final days of Spring Training. His presence in the lineup would provide comfort to a franchise that could use some right now.
Instead, he may be a reminder that nothing lasts forever, that even the great ones have an expiration date. The Yankees won't have Mariano Rivera after this season and understand that Jeter and Andy Pettitte are nearing the end.
Once upon a time, the Yankees hoped that Jeter, Pettitte and Rivera would provide a bridge to the next generation of greatness. Instead, they're a reminder of how extraordinary this run has been. And that nothing last forever.
Richard Justice is a columnist for MLB.com. Read his blog, Justice4U. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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rise to the top in the latest round of console wars was nothing sort
of shocking. When the brand suffered through the Gamecube era,
many people wrote the company off. However, with the launch of
the Wii and Nintendo DS, Nintendo flattened
the competition in terms of profitability and console
sales.Now, at Nintendo's annual E3 keynote, the company has
unveiled an upcoming lineup that's nothing short of stunning.
Leading the way is the Nintendo
3DS. The 3DS reinvents the handheld. Why has 3D TVs
and gaming failed to catch on? "It's the glasses, "
complains Reggie Fils-Aime.There are no glasses to be seen
with the 3DS. Gorgeous visuals for a handheld, falling between
the PS2 and PS1 in quality (plus 3D added on top), greeted viewers of
the keynote. The top screen is 3.5-inch display, while a
smaller bottom screen does touch input. There's new sensors
including a gyroscope and a side slider to adjust the depth of the 3D
effect. The unit supports Wi-Fi (according to Nintendo it
communicates "without you evening know it") for
internet-enabled gameplay.Nintendo has assembled an arsenal
of A-list launch titles and upcoming games. Leading the way are
Kingdom Hearts 3D, Resident Evil Revelations, Assassins creed, Metal
Gear Solid. And Nintendo is chipping in Kid Icarus 3D and
Nintendogs 3D (which will also feature kittens!).The handheld
even comes with a 3D
camera, which uses two lenses on the back of the unit. That
means that the device may even see use beyond the regular gaming
workload.Meanwhile, the company plans to continue its
campaign of dominance on the Wii by expanding its list of titles.
The keynote kicked off with the introduction Zelda Skyward Sword.
This title allows you to utilize the nunchuk as a shield and the Wii
Motion Plus as a sword for freeform combat. It brings back
popular Zelda weapons -- the slingshot and bow -- and introduces new
ones, like a whip. It will air early next year.Also
coming up is Goldeneye 007 -- the long awaited successor to the
best-selling Nintendo 64 title. The game will feature 16 gaming
modes for multiplayer mayhem and eight Bond characters -- just in
case you find Daniel Craig annoying and want to get you Connery
groove on. The game will launch in November.Other top
titles include Metroid: Other M, starring everyone's favorite
Nintendo vixen Samus, and Donkey Kong. The new Metroid launches
August 31. The new Donkey Kong title, complete with Diddy and
Donkey Kong playable, will launch during the holiday season.Other
announced titles include Wii Party, an NBA JAM exclusive version for
Wii, Madden, MLB 2K, mario Volleyball, Hockey, Mario Sports Mix 2011,
Just Dance 2, Disney: Epic Mickey and Dragon Quest 9.Even the
old homely DS -- the best
selling console of all time -- received some love, with the
gorgeously animated Kirby's Epic Yarn. Also upcoming for the DS
is Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, the latest in a line of popular mobile
RPGs. The title will feature real time combat and dual screen
boss battles.Nintendo boasted some impressive numbers -- 22
million copies of Mario Kart for Wii sold internationally, a vast
lead in global console sales, and, according to NPD, the distinction
of being the console most desired to be purchased. Also
according to the recent NPD study people spend more time playing
their Wiis than any other console.Maintaining a sufficient
volume of quality game titles has been Nintendo's weak point in
recent years. High
profile titles have pleased, but have been far too
infrequent. If E3 is any indication, that should soon change.
And even with Microsoft's
motion sensing Kinect (Project Natal), Xbox
360 Slim, and $149 Xbox 360 Arcade edition -- plus whatever
Sony pulls out later today -- it looks to be the star of E3 2010's
console war. We're guessing that within a year or so they're
going to be trying to cook up 3D handhelds of their own, but for now
Nintendo is yet again placing itself on the bleeding edge of gaming.


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Pennies for Patients: Slide Show
The $433 million, 39,3000-member Honor Credit Union offered up the use of its Berrien Springs, Mich., branch and chipped in some itself as a group of area high school students raised $2,000 by bringing in more than 180,000 pennies for a Pennies for Patients fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
"Honor is proud to support the collaborative effort of these students by counting their pennies and even donating a few of our own," said Kellie Eldridge, manager of the Berrien Springs branch for the St. Joseph, Mich.-based credit union.
From left, Emily Morris of Coloma High, Honor CEO Scott McFarland, Luisa Aburo of Covert High and Michigan Works Community Relations Director Megan McCausland pitch in to get the pennies ready to go through the coin counting machine.
From left, Travis Hargan, JAG Instructor, Coloma High School; Kellie Eldridge, Berrien Springs Branch Manager; Sarah Spitzke, Coloma High; Emily Morris, Coloma High; Luisa Aburo, Covert High; Marbella Ruiz, Covert High; Lindsey Ledyard, JAG Instructor, Covert High; and Scott McFarland, Honor CEO.


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Onsite Coverage: Ex-Motorcycle Marketer Says Humanize the Message
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Ken Schmidt, former communication strategist for Harley-Davidson Motor Co., outlined for credit union executives attending Card Services for Credit Unions' 2013 conference the way the need to change their communication with members to motivate them into loving their credit unions.
The problem with the financial service industry is that so many institutions are, as far as the consumer is concerned, essentially the same and the ways that credit unions so often use to communicate their difference to the public is by appealing to logic with facts about interest rates and fee policies.
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- CEO Hackney Sounds Alert on Payments Change
- CU Execs Gather for 25th CSCU Annual Meeting
"People almost never make decisions based on logic and facts. That's not the way the world works," Schmidt said Thursday in his session at the Vinoy Renaissance. "People make decisions based on emotions. I like you or I don't like you. I want that or I don't want that. I trust you or I don't trust you," he said.
Credit unions instead need to focus on humanizing their interactions with the public, not treating them as customers or even members, but treating them first as human beings – and that means noticing them and listening to them.
Schmidt outlined how Harley-Davidson had fallen from market dominance to the verge of bankruptcy in 1986 when analysts said the company had stood by and let Japanese manufacturers like Honda eat the iconic American motorcycle maker's lunch.
Schmidt disagreed with that. "We didn't let them eat our lunch," he said, "we stood there and fed them our lunch," he said.
Backing away from that brink and coming back to a strong market position again, even with a product that is priced more expensively than competitors, meant that Harley-Davidson had to learn what exactly it was that its customers were buying when they bought a Harley and how important it was to let their customers tell them that.
"How many of you are going to fill out the little, 15-question customer feedback survey in your rooms before you leave," he asked, barking, "don't lie, you know you won't" at the few people who raised their hands.
But if a hotel staff person, face to face, were to ask some of the same questions, almost everyone would answer them, he said. "Why is that," Schmidt asked.
Because asking the questions filled what has become the largest unmet emotional need in the U.S. right now, the need and desire to be noticed and reassured that we matter to someone else, he argued.
He used Facebook as an illustration, contending that Facebook's success was built upon a human failure. Facebook has succeeded because it has enabled people in a digital way to find the notice and affirmation in at least a digital way that they are unable to find face to face, he said.


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Thibodeau: "In all my years in this, one thing has never changed: You win with serious, tough-minded players. That never changes"
Bargnani fits this bill perfectly.
This isn't on the players. The players are as advertised.
This is on Colangelo:
You want tough minded players? You go get tough minded players.
What you do not do is try to turn soft players into something they're not. I think this should be well established here now.
It's great to have self motivated tough minded players but the Coach preaching and teaching toughness is what makes THE big difference. Even Bargnani can be tough under Thibodeau.
Attitude Is A Choice.
Wait a second, didn't they just hire a "tough coach"? You bring Thibodeau here and suddenly the luster rubs off when he's given a bunch of square pegs and a round hole.
If possible, I'd love to hear an example of this happening -- a coach preaching toughness and a player who started out with a "soft" reputation actually becoming tougher as a result.
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I hate bringing up Vince because it can sometimes derail a thread but Vince Carter is a prime example of no one being able to teach "toughness" or instill "toughness". The player has to want it, he has to be motivated. He has to appreciate what it takes and why it's worth it. Leaders offer encouragement but they can't make a player "want it", that comes from within. It can mean the difference between Vince Carter and Kobe Bryant or for that matter, Andrea Bargnani and Arvydas Sabonis.
If a Coach had Vince and Kobe on his team, Kobe need not be taught 'toughness' because he teaches himself. Vince on the other hand is not self-motivated. It(motivation) needs to come from outside. Now, will Vince at any point of time be as good as Kobe? Of course not but the Coach can ensure that he's tougher than his natural self.
Attitude Is A Choice.
I disagree, I don't think toughness can be taught but I'm open minded. I think it was jimmie who asked for someone to present examples...
I do not believe mental toughness can be taught, it's all on the individual, I actually have Lowry's attitude, and this past season, it cost me a starting spot (I was the starter all year until coach got tired of me pulling out, or not pushing through), and I became a 6th, 7th guy off the bench, and quite frankly I was very pissed. For the record, I did earn some recognition and awards, but I ended off the season poorly because of it.
I have been trying to become a mentally stronger individual, trying to finish runs without stopping to walk, giving 100% effort for the time you are practicing, etc, etc. I rely too often on motivation from others, and that means I'm dependent upon others to help my mind want me to be successful.
Motivation, and coaches words are ways that help you want to get that goal, but it's really all up to you to get used to it, or just put aside all the pussying out, and bitching and just do the damn job.
Maybe you have been taught by a coach, or a significant other to have mental toughness, but this is just my experience. Other's words are nothing but guidelines to me, my decisions is what shows whether I'm learning it.
Twitter: @ReubenJRD NBA, Raptors writer for Daily Hive Vancouver, Toronto.
Exactly. A coach's job doesn't involve motivating. I think some people are confusing motivation with encouragement. Motivation is desire and a willingness to do something. A coach can't make you want it, he can only encourage you to want it and to try and teach you why it is important to want it and to do what is required to fully commit.
A good coach gets the most out of his players but even the best coach can't will someone to want it. That's why you rarely see the best of the best actively seeking out really troubled players. They sometimes take a flier, but taking a flier tends to involve little risk(ie: no CBA related penalties if they cut him; no guarantees.).
The Spurs, for example, rarely take missteps in the the character category. Stephen Jackson was a misstep but nobody is perfect...
I find if I really enjoy something I'm more likely to pursue it aggressively. There are other things that motivate me but enjoyment is the strongest.
Here's an example to put this into context:
Bargnani doesn't enjoy banging in the paint, that's clear. So he's not motivated to do it. Coaches have reasoned with him, presenting logical reasons why it's important but he clearly dislikes doing the dirty work and so he's not motivated to do it. This leads to highly inconsistent play in the paint for him. Coaches can't make him enjoy it and so I'm afraid he's not been reached and never will. It's on him and him alone now. All that can be reasonably done has been done.
Last edited by Apollo; Tue Apr 23rd, 2013 at 11:14 PM.
Its like teaching a guy to have a motor it cant be done. If we could simply make Bargnani intense like Amir it would have been done already. I'd also like to add whoever a players coach is entering the NBA shapes him his entire career, Bargnani was molly coddled If casey had him from the Go I think he would be a much better player today.
Last edited by Apollo; Tue Apr 23rd, 2013 at 11:25 PM.
To be honest with you, my other teammates always communicated with me, they always had something to say. "Hey, c'mon, just keep pushing! We're almost there." Something like that or similar, but at one point, it sounded like a broken record to me. They always had to kind of, lift me up, or sort of, drag me to play and practice with just as much effort.
I think my attitude comes off as:
"I'm a really good player, so since I'm better than all of these guys, I'm going to get my spot, minutes, play calls, opportunities, etc."
I've always had trouble in earning it, playing and working hard for every, single, thing. I always lacked putting in the work when it was time to individually, I didn't want to do it, mainly because it's going back to me thinking I'm the best. When I did not get what I wanted, I would not work hard, or earn it back. I knew what their drives were, some of them just want to be the best, some of them are just naturally born to work hard, and some don't complain, talk, and just do what's told of them. Me? I'm a rebel at times, I will get in trouble with the coaches, but it's all in good intention, just it might not be the proper way, fundamental way, etc. I wanted things to be seen through my eyes.
To your point about doing something because you like it, doesn't necessarily match up with me, I love defending, I get joy stripping the ball out of player's hands, shot clock violations, I think of myself as a very good defender as well, I take pride in opposing teams/players not scoring on me, or on the team in general. Rebounding, getting elbows in the face, etc. I like getting into the middle of things, I might actually be in the middle of things far too often. I lead the school district in technical fouls, too many altercations (smack-talk), and got too offended if I thought an opposing player was disrespecting my teammate. Quite frankly, I have a bad attitude, and this type of toughness is different to mental toughness.
It's just, when I get tired, and or I'm not defending him right, or in the right spot offensively, and I've got the coaches yelling in my ear, I get upset, and or I just lose the effort and focus I originally had. I rarely ever regain it, and that's why I got benched.
I have to learn to be more coachable, not come off so selfish, and put excuses aside and just get the job done. My attitude has always been - and my coaches tell me - the reason why my full potential/production isn't consistent. I'm too selfish and I wanted everything handed on a silver platter.
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Passion/Desire and Mental toughness are two different things. The former has to do with 'Love for something' and the later has to do with 'Attitude'.
Passion is a deep LOVE for a certain thing. For example, Basketball is Lebron's passion.
Mental Toughness is a 'never say die' ATTITUDE. For example, Lebron settled for a jump shot as the tough/persistent defender did not allow him to attack the basket.
Some Coaches set very high standards of 'toughness'. They do not tolerate 'lukewarmness' and are very demanding. Players who play for them are expected to raise the level of their game. Popovich and Thibodeau are good examples. Other Coaches have different approaches. Phil Jackson is a good strategist, Mike D'toni is offence oriented and so on. The point is, they don't rely on 'toughness'.
The above is stated to make my point and not to play 'teacher'. Please excuse me if I sound like one.
Attitude Is A Choice.
Attitude Is A Choice.
Ettore Messina was pretty tough and Bargnani thrived under him.
I don't think Bargnani LOVES the game of basketball and I think he needs someone to push him. Coddling in Toronto turned him in to a jellyfish.... and not one of those badass most poisonous creatures in the world jellyfish.
You see examples of it all the time, whether it's in little league or professional sports. Player A has more talent, but less desire. Player B has less talent and more desire. Both players have the same coach, receiving the same motivation. Quite often Player B will wind up being the 'better' player, because relentless determination can make his lesser talent more impactful and provides him with more beneficial intangibles. All major sports have seen very talented players wash-out of the league because they didn't have the desire to be the best.
When you talk of 'toughness' and the coach's ability to influence it, I personally think that's actually 'effort'. A coach can motivate a player to put in more effort in short bursts, for a time, but I don't believe a coach can change a player's underlying attitude/passion/commitment/dedication/desire.
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That's statement aptly describes the history of this base. It has been responsible for untold trolls and fanboys. In all ages, well-intention people like the moderators have tried to establish a more just society were just constanly foiled by greed and corruption. Why is that so? Is it possible to be honest in this base?
Although our imperfect nature and the world we live on affects us. We get great pressure. In such an environment like this, some people find it hard to be different. Driven by selfish ambition, they become power hungry. They also have a strong desire for the more people that fall victim. Safely they are willing to behave in a dishonest way to achieve there goals. Rather then resisting influences such people follow the crowd. "We wish to conduct ourselves honestly in all thing" - Hebrews 13:18 "Man has dominated his injury" - Ecclesiates 8:9
Will we get to see the light? Or will we be covered by darkness that shatters hope?


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Honda first brought the hybrid vehicle to the U.S. with its Insight, which
was far from a sales success. The Insight sold only 2,000 units in 2005 and in
2006 -- its last year of production -- Honda only moved 1,000 Insights.
LeftLane News reports that Honda is gearing up to bring the
Insight hybrid back as a 2010 model. The new Insight will use a 1.3-liter
Integrated Motor Assist system that is similar to the one found in the current
Honda Civic Hybrid. DailyTech reported in July of 2008 that Honda has
refined its hybrid system and that future versions would be 50%
less expensive to build than the current system.
The Insight will use the new, refined hybrid system. Thanks to the cheaper
hybrid drive system LeftLane News reports that the new 2010 Insight will
sell for $18,500 -- significantly cheaper than the Toyota Prius. The new
Insight is based on the Honda Fit, though reports say that it will be three
inches longer and about one inch wider than the Fit.
Fuel economy for the Insight is reported to be as high as 71 miles per
gallon. If the Insight fuel economy comes anywhere close to that number at the
$18,500 MSR, Honda will have a hard time keeping up with the demand for the
Insight when it hits Honda showrooms in mid or late 2009.
Honda says it will build 200,000 Insights annually and expects to sell half
of that amount in America. The Insight seen in the photo here is a development car;
the car is expected to be officially introduced at the Paris Motor Show or the
L.A. Auto Show.


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Beauty built by hand
Have you ever walked into a music shop, say, Maple Leaf Music in Brattleboro, looked at the guitars hanging in long, self-possessed rows, and felt like you'd found heaven?
When you gather your courage and ask to play one of the gleaming instruments, you hold it in your lap first. You turn it over, look at the back, feel the wood's subtle convex curve, lean close to see the miniscule inlay around the sides. You lightly touch the silver tuning pegs and the ebony bridge pins.
You know you've never held any object so beautiful before. Then you close your eyes and play.
At the Whetstone School of Lutherie on Birge Street in Brattleboro, director and teacher Scott Hausmann lifts up a guitar resting on one of the clean, well-lit workshop benches. It's a "Small Jumbo" design, patterned after a 1952 Gibson J-185. The heavy-gauge strings look kinetic and alert.
"This one, this is one of my favorites that I've made here," he says. He pulls a pick from his pocket and strums a D chord. The bass string is tuned down to a D note, making the already enormous sound as rich as real hot chocolate.
He plays a few bars of Neil Young's "Harvest Moon." The run of harmonics is almost too perfect and playful to be believed.
Scott smiles. "I do love this one," he says. "But it's headed up to Maple Leaf to be sold."
He runs his hand down the neck before setting the guitar carefully back in its stand. "The amazing thing is, in the entry-level workshop, students build guitars similar to this in 12 days."
If possible, his quiet smile gets even wider. "I'm proud of this school, and what we've been able to do here for our students."
Since 2010, novice and experienced luthiers have come from across the country -- and one from Wales -- to the Whetstone School of Lutherie to learn how to build guitars, banjos, mandolins and ukuleles. ("Lutherie," from the French, means the manufacture of stringed instruments.)
In groups of three, occasionally four, the students work with Sitka spruce and mahogany, rosewood and herringbone. They learn how to use precision machinery to measure, cut and sand pieces of wood to impossible thinness and curve. They learn how to assemble the delicate yet powerful woods, and how to bind it all together to make an instrument they're proud to play.
"It's a real immersion into woodworking," says Scott. He sits at his simple desk in the workshop classroom tucked behind the Estey Organ buildings.
It's a remarkably clean, orderly space. On shelves to his right are stacked bins labeled "Tuners, "Tape," "Finishing," "Bulbs," "Spring Clamps," and, more mysteriously, "LMI." Just beyond the classroom is the equally clean and calm machine room, where a jointer and planer and a mortise machine and a drill press and an oscillating spindle sander, and much more, sit like docile dragons.
"Not only that, guitars are a really archetypal object," he continues, speaking with the same thoughtfulness, care and expertise revealed in his teaching and in his instruments. "People have a strong connection to what their guitar means about them. And they come with a lot of assumptions, and sometimes doubt, about their ability to do this work."
During the eight-hour days of the course, Scott guides the students through both the woodworking skills they need to learn and the mental and emotional strengths they need to build up.
"The fact is, every student is going to make mistakes. This is hard work. The pace is intense. I am going to make mistakes as I build a guitar along with them, and I've been doing this for more than 35 years," he says. "You have to learn how to learn from those mistakes, and one of the best ways is to pay attention to the experience, to how you react to the mistake. Eventually you ratchet back your expectations enough to relax and have fun."
He is quiet for a moment, until another smile resonates from his heart. "I have so much admiration for these students. They choose to spend their vacation doing this rewarding and rich and really challenging course -- and in the end they get an amazing instrument that they built themselves."
He shakes his head. "This teaching thing." He assembles his well-turned thoughts, binds them together. "It's the hardest and most satisfying work I've ever done."
Scott had taught at various places before the Whetstone School in 2010, including Anderson Ranch Arts Center, The Center For Furniture Craftsmanship and The Putney School Summer Programs. But when he first moved into the Birge Street space in 2006, the idea for a school didn't even exist.
"I'd been shopless for a couple of years back then," he remembers. "I needed a shop. This space came up, a big empty room, and I hired four guys and two trucks and we just moved over all my equipment and put it in a pile on the floor. I had no idea what would happen."
Over the next couple of years, Scott pondered the possibilities. He had a wealth of knowledge and experience crafted over decades, beginning with his instrument-building classes at Marlboro College in the early 1970s. His time at Gurian Guitars, formerly located in Hinsdale, N.H., and Froggy Bottom Guitars in Chelsea, Vt., further honed his skills, as did his furniture-making business and his work as a product engineer.
All of these strands come together in teaching students to build high-quality instruments. With the success of the school, Scott has a chance to pass on all that he's learned about woodworking. He can use his engineering skills in precisely constructing an effective curriculum and workflow for a short timeframe. He helps create more beautiful instruments. He is doing purposeful, valuable work.
Beyond that, Scott has seen the school contribute to the Brattleboro area as a thriving small business.
"It's gratifying to realize the impact that bringing students to town can have on the economy," he says. "They come, they pay for lodging and food and entertainment. The numbers really add up."
He's also formed a strong collaboration with Maple Leaf Music. The two businesses promote each other's work, and the shop exclusively carries the guitars Scott makes in class, under the Whetstone Guitars label. Maple Leaf owner Christian Glines and Scott even worked together to design a soprano ukulele.
Scott picks up a recently built soprano uke and holds it gently in his arms.
"This school is a great way to finish up my career," he says. "I'm delighted. I am proud. I'm here to the end."
He strums a tune on the beautiful little instrument, jaunty and mellow in the way of ukuleles. The music fills the room. Eyes closed, he cannot help but grin.
To learn more about the Whetstone School of Lutherie, visit whetstoneschooloflutherie.com or call 802-579-1661.
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"You and me baby ain't nothing
but mammals..." - Bloodhound Gang
Scientists may have just found mankind's oldest relative -- the
"Jurassic mother from China", Juramaia sinensis.
The fascinating beast fills in crucial missing details in the fossil
record of history's evolutionary tree.
I. A Tiny Rat, A Giant
The skeleton of the rat-like creature was discovered in Liaoning Province,
a northern province of China that borders North Korea. The skeleton was
then analyzed by Zhe-Xi Luo, a Carnegie
Museum of Natural History paleontologist; Chong-Xi
Yuan and Qing-Jin Meng, Chinese
Academy of Geological Sciences researchers; and Qiang Ji, a paleontologist at the Beijing
Museum of Natural History.
The fossil including impressions of soft residual tissues like hair, an
incomplete skull, and a partial skeleton. The skeleton contained the
forepaw bones (the "hand" bones in a mammal paw) and the skull
contained a full set of teeth -- both valuable in identifying the creature's
Examining those bones allowed the researchers to identify the mammal as a
eutherian, a group of extinct mammals. Furthermore, they establish that
the creature was a placental-eutherian.
Placental-eutherians are distinguished for having a placenta when
pregnant -- similar to man and most other modern mammals. The placenta is
a special organ in the uterine wall that handles resource exchange with the
developing fetus. Marsupials ("metatherians") -- such as
kangaroos and opossums -- do not have a placenta when pregnant.
II. Discovery Resolves
Evolutionary Discrepancy
The discovery solves a puzzling mystery. Advanced modern genetic
analysis had indicated that the placental-eutherian clade had diverged from
marsupial-eutherians approximately 160.7 million years ago. But until now
the oldest placental-eutherian was the "dawn mother" Eomaia -- a 125
million year old rat found in China. Now the genetic evidence and fossil
record are in agreement.
The fossil was dated using the 40Ar/39Ar method on sanidines -- high temperature feldspars -- in
the local sediment. That dating method was accurate to place the age to
within a +/- 400,000-year range.
Man's ancestor was more fur than fight, though. It weighed around
one pound soaking wet and its specially adapted paws allowed it to scurry
around in tree avoiding the numerous dinosaur predators that stalked the
ground. Its sharp teeth indicate that it feasted primarily on a diet of
Professor Luo comments, "The divergence of eutherian
mammals from marsupials eventually led to placental birth and reproduction that
are so crucial for the evolutionary success of placentals. But it is their
early adaptation to exploit niches on the tree that paved their way toward this
In an interview with MSNBC, he
adds, "I imagine this animal to be a shrew-sized insectivorous mammal that
hunted insects and was capable of being active in the trees."
The work is published [abstract] in one of science's top peer-review research journals, Nature.
III. Work is Lauded as
Groundbreaking Discovery
Often critical studies such as this one draw a great deal of debate and
criticism as not all experts are convinced. In this case, however, the
community of paleontology experts seems virtually unanimous in their praise of
the work, which they say is a vital leap for the field.
States Gregory Wilson, an assistant professor in the University
of Washington's Department of Biology, "This new specimen is a real
jewel among the spectacular treasure chest of the Chinese fossil record,"
Wilson said. "The exquisitely preserved anatomical details leave little
doubt that we're looking at the earliest eutherian yet known not quite a
placental yet but on the line to placentals."
"This significantly pulls several major branches of the mammalian
phylogenetic tree even farther back into the Age of Dinosaurs, providing better
understanding of the context of mammalian evolution. This work will grip the
attention of paleontologists, molecular systematists, and anyone interested in
their ancient forebears."
The brave little rat would thrive and flourish in the Chinese woodland
eventually giving way to newer eutherians like Eomaia. After the mass extinction of the dinosaurs --
which occurred about 95 million years after the Jurassic mother rat -- they
would descend from the trees, conquering the empty domain that dinosaurs left behind. Over the next
65 million years a host of new mammal species evolved including -- eventually
-- mankind.


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Mass. Merger: Hanscom FCU Takes in North Shore Manufacturers FCU
The $5 million, 1,049-member North Shore Manufacturers Federal Credit Union in Beverly, Mass., has merged with the $1 billion, 48,671-member Hanscom Federal Credit Union in Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass.
NSMFCU merged with Hanscom FCU because it was becoming increasingly difficult for the very small credit union to compete, the credit unions said. It also struggled financially over the past few years.
In 2012, the credit union posted a net income loss of $86, 925 following a loss of $11,816 in 2011, according to NCUA financial performance reports. Even though NSMFCU had a net income gain of $10,188, in 2010, it lost $85,652 in 2009. NSMFCU ended 2012 with a net worth of 7%, but it posted a ROAA of -1.59%, according to NCUA financial performance reports.
"In this time, when many smaller credit unions struggle to survive, NSMFCU had the foresight to seek out a merger partner that can continue to provide a stable, strong platform," said Paul Marotta, chair of the board of directors for Hanscom FCU.
Hanscom FCU serves members across the country and overseas through 16 branches.
"In this competitive landscape, we wanted to ensure our members continue to receive first-rate service from a strong credit union," said Gary Prendergast, president of NSMFCU's board of directors.
"We chose Hanscom FCU because it offers a wide range of products and services and has an excellent reputation for high service levels. In addition, Hanscom FCU already serves employees at highly technical organizations, such as employees on Hanscom AFB and other locations, so we feel they will be a great fit for our members," Prendergast said.
NSMFCU has served manufacturing industry employees for more than four decades. It was founded on Nov. 15, 1967 and posted $867 in deposits from 88 members by February 1968.
The credit union was opened to offer financial services to employees at Varian/Bomac, a developer and manufacturer of microwave tubes and components. It grew to serve several employer groups along Massachusetts' north shore.
The merger took place on April 1.


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The context
About half of all Indonesians live on less than two dollars a day. Employment growth has been slower than population growth. Public services remain inadequate by middle-income standards, and health indicators are poor. The island is also one of the most disaster-prone nations in the world.
Our work
- Economic opportunity: Providing technical assistance, training and financial services to microfinance institutions throughout the country and helping spice farmers earn more income
- Health: Raising awareness and supporting mothers to practice and promote exclusive breastfeeding
- Water: Improving sanitation and hygiene in crowded urban areas with a mobile sludge removal service
- Disaster preparedness: Identifying and mapping areas at risk and helping those communities plan, train and practice how to respond when disasters occur
- Emergency response: Maintaining a response team ready to quickly deploy and provide immediate relief to survivors during the critical first months after a disaster strikes
All stories about Indonesia
Indonesia: Mercy Corps Mobilizes Relief Effort
Indonesia: Priceless Water
Indonesia: Helping Flood Survivors
Indonesia: Hope, Optimism and Tofu Making
Indonesia: A Package for Little Rafli
Indonesia: The Blue and Red Buckets
Indonesia: Keeping Life Above Water
Indonesia: Preparing for the Worst, Hoping for the Best
Padang Pariaman, Indonesia - At 10:00 a.m. on a sunny morning exactly two years after the Indian Ocean tsunami, the squall from a siren defeated the noise from a bustling market. Immediately, the town's streets were choked with citizens - many of them laughing.
Indonesia: Disaster Preparedness
Indonesia: Precious Seedlings


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China successfully launched its Shenzhou VII spacecraft into orbit last night, with three Chinese astronauts ready to carry out the country's third manned space mission.
During the scheduled three-day mission in space, China ground officials expect the taikonauts to carry out the ambitious space program's first space walk. Furthermore, a different astronaut will wear a reported $4.4 million space suit that was designed and manufactured in China with no help from foreigners.
The taikonauts will share a 14-cubic-meter workspace while in space, which will be the same amount of cramped space two taikonauts shared during the Shenzhou 6 space mission.
The Chinese government is investing billions of dollars into a space program that has developed quickly and has had three manned launches in the past five years. China plans to create its own space station by 2020, and hopes to put a man on the moon shortly thereafter.
The military-operated space program last year launched a lunar probe, which was the first step of a three-part operation for China to head to the moon. NASA also has plans to return to the moon by 2020, although uncertainty over the development of Orion has made observers question if the United States will be able to make it back to the moon in 12 years.
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin previously admitted China is more likely to return to the moon before anyone else.
The United States and Russia remain the only two nations to conduct spacewalks, and China joining the list will be historic, government officials said in a prepared statement.


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Oriole Park, Team Shop, Season Tickets. Oh my.
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The title says it all.
Oriole Park. Team Shop. Season Tickets. Oh my.
This is a three-part entry.
First section will be about Oriole Park, 2nd will be about
the team shop at OPACY, 3rd will show some pictures of the new
season tickets.
Last time I reported at Oriole Park, it was at Fanfest and
the place was covered in snow.
Between then and now, I have been back at least 8 times or
so, whether passing through, picking up tickets, or going to specifically visit
it. I knew the weeks leading up to Opening
Day that there would be changes to see, so I wanted to see them firsthand. So for now, I am just going to go through
what I have seen at Oriole Park over the last few weeks. The photos are scattered from four different
visits, so if continuity-wise something does not match up, that would be why.
Part 1: Oriole Park
at Camden Yards
One time at the park, I saw an odd site. A jeep was randomly driving onto Eutaw
Street. Not like a work vehicle. Just a random civilian going the wrong way.
Boog's BBQ stand is being set up. Or at least the frame. So are a few of the other stands, but this is
the most notable one.
Workmen were still tearing up different parts of the yard,
presumably to replace parts and make things better.
The orange seats were FINALLY put back in (if you look at
the photo from Fanfest above, you will see that the orange seat is not
There was some photo shoot happening in the Orioles
dugout. My zoom made this blurry, but I
couldn't even figure out what was going on really.
Now when I went to Oriole Park just today, Eutaw Street was
closed (looked like construction):
So I made it a point to walk laps around the park to look
for other changes.
If anybody remembers that the food service provider is
different at Oriole Park this year. It's
now Delaware something Foods. The name
is irrelevant. Point is, I remember
earlier in the off season that they were looking into new foods and such.
So, here are the new look concession stands.
So those look nice.
In my opinion, I think they really brighten the place up a
bit by giving the signs some color and brightness. Now, those were the ones I saw. There was also a Boardwalk Fries, which is
old news, and then a few spots where there are no signs up yet as to what the
places will be, so I should have an update on those next week once they are put
up. I will also try to get a glimpse at the menus/pricing as soon as it goes up.
Some other sights from my day there today.
I could have taken a fryer with me:
Or even walked into the park, but I didn't want to start
pissing off the workers:
Though at every fence part of the park, there were NO
TRESPASSING signs. Damn.
They were testing random clips on the Jumbotron. You can see here one of the logos of the Red
Sox vs. the O's, a new middle of the inning promo where you text in to say
which Oriole history video clip you want them to play, and lastly… clouds.
Oh, yes. And Adam
Jones is now the official Orioles icon.
He has taken over BOTH sides of the back of the scoreboard.
And a few other random sights:
And to transition us to part two of the entry, I will show
you this:
There is a new feature of the shop. Seems like a little kiosk on Eutaw Street
right outside of the team shop that will be selling the official team
hats. I guess. I don't know.
It looks quite odd and space consuming.
And the picture of the two people on the side is quite awkwardly close.
Part 2: Orioles Team Shop
Now I could show you a few random shots I took of the Oriole
team shop when it was empty and there were signs up saying that it would
re-open in March, but I much prefer showing a few shots I took today in the
store, it's first day being open.
The workers were new.
None of them had heard of Guerrero or Reynolds when I asked. They had to ask a manager when I asked if
they had either jersey. The answer was
no, and neither did the Sports Legends Museum shop. You would think they would want to have all
of the new highly hyped guys supplied in the newly renovated shop. Guess not.
The only other major change I saw was that the back sales
counter was completely removed, and a second was added in the front. The bottom left picture shows where the old counter
was in the back of the store, and in the bottom right (cick to make larger),
you can see a more expanded check out area in the front. Otherwise, the kids stuff is still in that
awkward separate room on the side. As
for the stuff there. They definitely
expanded the line of shirts/hats and other apparel, and cut down on the random
trinket and memorabilia around. I guess,
as of now, they feel like the clothing stuffs sell more.
When I stopped into Sports Legends to see if they had a Vlad
shirt (not that I'm looking to buy, was just curious), I saw these two
hilarious shirts:
In case it's too dark to see, the left one says "Buck the
past!" and the right one is an Alex Ovechkin jersey shirt that says
Part 3: Season
Season tickets came in last week. Last year I was a 13 game holder, but after
two straight years of 40+ games, I figured it was worth it to upgrade to the 29
game plan. Not only are there a few
added benefits like auto day and such, but the tickets come in an epic package.
So the big envelope came, and inside was an EPIC box, which contained everything:
I know I am going to cherish the box. My account rep said that the boxes have been
a huge hit, which is a good sign. They
are really awesome.
So in there were some ads:
The Orange Carpet Member card, which gives season ticket
holder a LOT of power for ticket sales and more:
Then the pages of tickets.
On top was a welcome page with the huge Opening Day ticket, then 7 subsequent
pages of tickets.
And I have a 13 game plan in the mail coming to me, so it should be interesting seeing the differences in the two packages.
So that's that.
Opening Day at Oriole Park is two weeks from today. And I can't wait.
And as for my random photos of the post.
We have Charlie Sheen's bracket, which is mainly awesome
because he picked Akron to win it all (though they lost in the first round):
And here we have facepalm madness from the Louisville game when they lost to Morehead State (thank you to


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World Council Seeks Contributions for Kenya Project
As part of its work with the Busia Compassionate Centre in Kenya, the Madison, Wis.-based World Council of Credit Unions launched a campaign earlier this year to build a new orphanage in the AIDS-struck community in rural western Kenya.
To provide a safe and stable environment for the children, the orphanage also provides them with clean water, sanitary living conditions and a small farm for food security.
The orphanage community also created a credit union to provide the Busia community with financial services and a pathway out of poverty, the World Council said.
To complete the new orphanage facilities and its credit union operations, the World Council is seeking donations to purchase the following items:
- Water pumps, rainwater collection tanks and plumbing to provide clean water through the orphanage: $300.
- Beds, school desks, office furniture, shelves and lighting to furnish the orphanage: $150.
- Infirmary medicine and equipment: $75
- Fencing, stall and pens for farm animals that offer food security: $25
- PDAs to conduct credit union business: $400
- Financial empowerment and outreach training modules for employees: $300
- Hand-held printer for transaction receipts: $200
- Bicycle for loan officers to reach remote members: $100
- Internet access and mobile phone airtime to carry out member service transactions: $50
The World Council began working with Busia Compassionate Centre in 2006 through a U.S. Department of Agriculture program attempting to mitigate the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in western Kenya.
One of the program's goals was to provide educational grants to children of HIV/AIDS-affected households through the area's savings and credit cooperatives or credit unions.
At Busia Compassionate Centre more than one-third of the children are HIV-positive and many have lost their parents due to the disease, the World Council said.
Donations to the holiday campaign can be made online.


text: What bothers me the most is the ocassional fans i talk to either at work, or see on facebook. The true fans of the organization understand just how committed Jose was to the team. There are not many raptors (I still think Mo Pete/JYD are also two to name a few) that really cared about the city/franchise. Jose deserves more form the fans. I hope he gets a standing ovation when he returns and I really hope detroit smokes the raptors. This trade is just another "save my job" BC move.


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About the Book
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320 Pages
- Publish Date May 20, 2008
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NCUA Announces LICU Summer Intern Grants
The NCUA on Friday announced a $4,000 grant for low-income credit unions interested in hiring student interns over the summer.
The agency said it has earmarked a total of $80,000 for the program, enough for 20 awards.
"The Student Internship Grant Initiative provides the next generation with the opportunity to gain professional experience, enhance job skills and learn more about the credit union industry," said NCUA Board Chairman Debbie Matz.
"Additionally, this initiative allows low-income credit unions to find and groom the industry's future leaders. The infusion of new and diverse talent will assist credit unions to continue to improve their member services," Matz said.
The NCUA said in its announcement that eligible credit unions must have a low-income designation, be financially viable, and may only use these grants for a student internship. And, credit unions that received a student internship award in 2012 are not eligible for funding this year.
The NCUA will accept applications between May 1 and 20, and said awards will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis until the funds are exhausted.
NCUA has provided funding under the Student Internship Grant Initiative to low-income designated credit unions since 1998. In 2012, the agency awarded 24 credit unions with nearly $106,000 under this program.
Funding for the internship grant initiative is provided by the Community Development Revolving Loan Fund.


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Extracorporeal Shockwave Lithotripsy (ESWL)
ESWL is used to remove a stone that:
- Does not pass after a reasonable period of time and causes constant pain
- Is too large to pass on its own
- Blocks the flow of urine
- Causes ongoing urinary tract infections
- Damages kidney tissue or causes constant bleeding
During this procedure, the doctor uses a special machine to direct shock waves at the stone. The waves pass through the soft tissues of the body. They shatter the hard stone on contact and pulverize it into smaller particles that can be passed in the urine more easily. A sedative or anesthesia is used to prevent pain during the procedure. ESWL takes anywhere from 45-60 minutes to complete. You will probably resume normal activities in 1-2 days. You may need to have several of these procedures before your stone is small enough to pass.
Some factors that may increase the risk of complications include:
- Bleeding disorder or taking medicine to reduce blood clotting
- Obesity
- Skeletal deformities
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Today, June 28th is the final day to purchase Founder and CEO early admission tickets for the 14th Founder Showcase. Limited quantity available.
The Founder Showcase is a quarterly startup pitch and networking event that gathers over 300 top technology CEOs, investors, and seed-stage companies in Silicon Valley to hear talks from leading CEOs, and help launch a promising startup to greatness.
The 14th edition of the Founder Showcase is scheduled for Wednesday, July 17th at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View. Guests will be treated to an entertaining Pitch Competition featuring 6 promising seed-stage companies, as well as talks by Phil Libin (CEO, Evernote), Nir Eyal (Acclaimed Author and Speaker), and Joe Abraham (CEO & Founder, BOSI Global). Appetizers and drinks will also be served in a networking hall full of other hot startups demoing their wares in the Demo Table Competition.
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Hardware has come across more details of AMD's upcoming RD790 chipset. The RD790 is the successor to AMD's previously
released 580X chipset, formerly known as CrossFire Xpress 3200.
This time around AMD is only releasing a new north bridge. The upcoming RD790
is expected to pair with the existing SB600 south bridge.
Nevertheless, the RD790 has plenty of PCI Express lanes to go around.
AMD has equipped the RD790 with 42 PCI Express lanes for plenty of expansion
capabilities. Thirty-two PCI Express lanes are dedicated to two PCIe x16 slots
for CrossFire operation. These lanes can be further divided to deliver four
PCIe x8 slots as well. PCI Express 2.0 will be supported as well.
There will still be plenty of PCIe lanes for other devices or even more PCIe slots.
As the two PCIe x16 or four PCIe x8 slots only take advantage of 32 PCIe lanes,
there are ten remaining lanes with six lanes used for PCIe x1, x2, x4 slots and
integrated PCIe devices and another four lanes used for the south bridge
As far as processor support goes the RD790 supports HyperTransport 3.0
and Socket AM2+. Socket AM2+ will be the new socket used by AMD's upcoming
Stars core based processors.
It is unknown when RD790 will make its official debut; however, AMD has
been shipping reference boards to manufacturers. There are two reference boards
available: Mako and Wahoo. Mako is the single processor
reference board with support for socket AM2 and AM2+ processors. It will
consist of the RD790 coupled with the SB600. The PCI Express lane configuration
for Mako is as follows: two full-speed PCIe x16 slots, one physical PCIe
x16 slot with four lane signaling for physics, one physical PCIe x4 slots with
two lanes shared between Gigabit Ethernet and SATA and one PCI slot.
Wahoo is the new 4x4 reference board powered by a combination of
the RD790 and SB600. It will support socket 1207+ processors. Wahoo
will feature a slightly different PCIe lane configuration. There will be one
dedicated full-speed PCIe x16 slot while the secondary slot can be configured
for x8 or x16 signaling. The third physical PCIe x16 slot will have eight PCIe
lanes. Lastly it will have one PCIe x1 and one PCI slot.
All PCIe slots on RD790 based motherboards will be compatible with the
PCI Express 2.0 specification.


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Consumer Expenditure Survey, 2011: Diary Survey Files (ICPSR 34442)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) program provides a continuous and comprehensive flow of data on the buying habits of American consumers including data on their expenditures, income, and consumer unit (families and single consumers) characteristics. These data are used widely in economic research and analysis, and in support of revisions of the Consumer Price Index.
The CE program is comprised of two separate components (each with its own survey questionnaire and independent sample), the Diary Survey and the quarterly Interview Survey (ICPSR 34441). This data collection contains the Diary Survey data, which was designed to obtain data on frequently purchased smaller items, including food and beverages (both at home and in food establishments), gasoline, housekeeping supplies, tobacco, nonprescription drugs, and personal care products and services. Each consumer unit (CU) recorded its expenditures in a diary for two consecutive 1-week periods. Although the diary was designed to collect information on expenditures that could not be easily recalled over time, respondents were asked to report all expenses (except overnight travel) that the CU incurred during the survey week.
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The FMLY files contain CU characteristics, income, and summary level expenditures; the MEMB files contain member characteristics and income data; the EXPN files contain detailed weekly expenditures at the Universal Classification Code (UCC) level; the DTBD files contains the CU's reported annual income values or the mean of the five imputed income values in the multiple imputation method; and the DTID files contain the five imputed income values. Please note that the summary level expenditure and income information on the FMLY files permits the data user to link consumer spending, by general expenditure category, and household characteristics and demographics on one set of files.
The three processing files enhance computer processing and tabulation of data, and provide descriptive information on item codes. The three processing files are: (1) an aggregation scheme file used in the published consumer expenditure tables (DSTUB), (2) a UCC file that contains UCCs and their abbreviated titles, identifying the expenditure, income, or demographic item represented by each UCC, and (3) a sample program file that contains the computer program used in Section VII. "MICRODATA VERIFICATION AND ESTIMATION METHODOLOGY" of the Diary User Guide. The processing files are further explained in Section III.F.6. "PROCESSING FILES" of the same User Guide documentation. There is also a second user guide, User's Guide to Income Imputation in the CE, which includes information on how to appropriately use the imputed income data.
Demographic and family characteristics data include age, sex, race, marital status, and CU relationships for each CU member. Income information, such as wage, salary, unemployment compensation, child support, and alimony, as well as information on the employment of each CU member age 14 and over was also collected.
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United States Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Consumer Expenditure Survey, 2011: Diary Survey Files. ICPSR34442-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-11-05. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34442.v1
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- 2011
- 2011
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Get in the Savings Habit Early, New York Credit Union Program Teaches
The $58 million, 11,052-member Southern Chautauqua Federal Credit Union in Lakewood, N.Y., has significantly expanded its Kid's Credit Union program at community schools in the past year.
The program helps students save money, including an end goal to graduate from high school with more than $10,000 in their credit union accounts.
Southern Chautauqua FCU established Kid's Credit Union in 2005 and introduced the program in two elementary schools. The credit union now works with six area elementary schools, each of which is located in low-income designated areas within the community. What's more, Southern Chautauqua FCU has 40% more students participating in the Kid's Credit Union program than the previous year.
To cover the costs of the materials for this growing project, Chautauqua FCU received a grant from the National Credit Union Foundation, which awards grants to programs that make a positive impact in communities and empowers consumers to achieve financial freedom through credit unions.
The Kid's Credit Union project provides financial education to second-graders in Southern Chautauqua FCU's community schools and follows these students until they graduate from high school. There are yearly goals for the students to meet with the end goal to graduate with a balance in their accounts of over $10,000.
"The vision of the credit union is to strengthen these students' financial position so they will have a positive impact in the workforce after high school and become the community's bright future," said John Felton, president/CEO at Southern Chautauqua FCU. "The best way to affect the future is to teach a child the value of saving money and rewarding them for their efforts."
A major difference in the Kid's Credit Union program over a standard savings account is in the structure of it. A schedule is given to each student, allowing them to see how their money will grow if they continue saving through the 10-year process.
As the end of the school year nears, reminders are given to students of the amount in their accounts with the amount needed to achieve their goal for that year. Every student receives a certificate of completion at the end of each school year.
"Educating youth on the importance of saving and being financially savvy is critical," said Lois Kitsch, national program director at the NCUF. "Southern Chautauqua FCU's Kid's Credit Union program is a great mix of financial education with an attractive savings product."


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A number of U.S. universities expressed interest in plans for a "music tax," where students would pay a flat fee as part of their tuition in return for the promise of no lawsuits from the RIAA.
The plan, spearheaded by Warner Music's Jim Griffin, would essentially free up copyright enforcement resources in place at the RIAA and universities in favor of a "blanket license" of sorts – even though the actual language of the plan simply grants a promise not to sue.
Money collected will be dispersed to artists through a means that has yet to be determined.
Griffin, a long-time cheerleader of "music surcharge" proposals, says the plan is still in its early stages. Despite that, however, he tells TechDirt that he is "actively engaged with universities and other parties to seek a constructive resolution to a complex issue," and that his plan is "exactly the type of solution that several universities and their associations have been asking for."
The anonymous tipster reports that interested schools include Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, University of Washington, MIT, University of Colorado, University of Michigan, Cornell, Penn State, University of California at Berkeley and the University of Virginia. Further supporting his claims is a PowerPoint presentation pitched to universities and signed by Mark Luker of EDUCAUSE .
The presentation, which Griffin says "belongs to someone outside [Warner Music] and represents that individual's interpretation of… meetings held several months ago," says the plan is designed to:
TechDirt notes that the idea is an adaptation of a larger surcharge suggested for all U.S. ISPs, where they would simply "add an additional fee to everyone's internet access, have that money go into a pool that the recording industry would be responsible for paying out."
"This is a bad idea for a variety of reasons," writes TechDirt's Mike Massnick. "It's basically a music tax – allowing the record industry to be lazy. Someone else gets to go out and collect all this money and hand it over to the industry to distribute … It effectively sets the business model of the recording industry in stone, and harms better, more innovative business models by inserting the recording industry (and not the musicians) into a role where they don't belong."
"We recognize that there are many different potential solutions to this issue, and we are determined to continue to think creatively and cooperatively with other parties in order to find the best ones," replies Griffin. "At this early stage, many ideas may be discussed and discarded, but efforts to prematurely label or criticize the process only hinder achievement of constructive solutions."


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Badger Campus Credit Union to Merge Into Landmark Credit Union
Badger Campus Credit Union of Madison, Wis., is merging into the $2.1 billion Landmark Credit Union of New Berlin, Wis., pending regulatory approval and a vote by the Badger Campus members.
Badger Campus and Landmark boards of directors have already approved the merger. This is Landmark's second merger deal in just over two months. In November, the $52 million Dodge Central Credit Union in Beaver Dam, Wis., agreed to merge with Landmark.
The $13 million Badger Campus CU has lost more than $450,000 since 2009, according to NCUA financial performance reports.
In a press release, Landmark President/CEO Jay Magulski indicated Badger Campus CU's six employees would become Landmark employees.
The merger adds a branch location in Madison and widens Landmark's charter to include two counties. Badger Campus CU also operates a branch inside one of the Forest Product Lab buildings in Madison.
The target date for the merger is March 31 with the merging of Badger Campus' member accounts into Landmark's computer system this summer, Landmark CU said.


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The context
About half of all Indonesians live on less than two dollars a day. Employment growth has been slower than population growth. Public services remain inadequate by middle-income standards, and health indicators are poor. The island is also one of the most disaster-prone nations in the world.
Our work
- Economic opportunity: Providing technical assistance, training and financial services to microfinance institutions throughout the country and helping spice farmers earn more income
- Health: Raising awareness and supporting mothers to practice and promote exclusive breastfeeding
- Water: Improving sanitation and hygiene in crowded urban areas with a mobile sludge removal service
- Disaster preparedness: Identifying and mapping areas at risk and helping those communities plan, train and practice how to respond when disasters occur
- Emergency response: Maintaining a response team ready to quickly deploy and provide immediate relief to survivors during the critical first months after a disaster strikes
All stories about Indonesia
Indonesia: Sticking With Rice
Indonesia: Don't forget to wash your hands
Indonesia: A new path to the school and market
Indonesia: Healthy places, prosperous people
Indonesia: Resilience and Hope
Editor's note: Anita Bekenstein is a Mercy Corps board member who in March joined a Mercy Corps delegation to Indonesia to assess the organization's community-led and economic development projects.
Indonesia: Promoting 'Early and Exclusive' Breastfeeding
Tugu Utara, Jakarta — Little Efa lives in one of the poorest and dirtiest sections of Indonesia's crowded capital, but she's as happy and healthy as any 5-month-old girl you'd meet. That may be partly because she is breastfed.
Indonesia: Aceh: Rising from War and Disaster
The Indian Ocean tsunami quite literally shook the world. The magnitude 9.3 earthquake that spawned its catastrophic waves was the second most powerful on record. The waves traveled with such force that, seven hours after the earthquake, they killed almost 300 people on Somalia's coast.
Indonesia: Empowerment Through Gardening
The women of Mirik Lamreudup village are not only winning awards for their organic agriculture, but sharing their newfound success with other women in the area. Most of them are survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami. All of them have made great strides in the last three years.
Indonesia: Making Way for Tomorrow
Indonesia: Rebuilding Peace by Piece
Hunut village, Maluku, Indonesia - Tjak Tohata was getting used to staying in a barn. For almost eight years, the 62-year-old man, his wife and their five children lived in a small shelter that was formerly to house cows.


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AllTray is a program you can use on UNIX and UNIX-like systems, such as GNU/Linux or FreeBSD, running the X Window System. It is used to "dock" application software into the system tray (also known as the "notification area"). AllTray aims to be standards-compliant and work with any desktop environment/window manager+system tray combination that is also standards-compliant.
Capstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community. Running on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris, it can disassemble ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), MIPS, PPC, and x86 architectures. Capstone provides rich details about disassembled instructions along with useful semantic information.
Collax Business Server is an all-in-one Linux server for small- and medium-sized businesses. It delivers all the important network services within a heterogeneous business environment for communication, infrastructure, compliance, groupware, and storage, all in a reliable and secure way which is easy to manage. It also provides essential security functions such as firewalling and virus and spam filtering, to protect against hacker attacks, viruses, and unsolicited email messages.
The Collax Security Gateway is a Unified Threat Management (UTM) Solution for small- and medium-sized businesses. It includes an easy to configure stateful inspection firewall, email security features including anti-spam and anti-virus, Internet access control, Internet SSL interception, Internet networking optimization tools, Internet network fault tolerance, clientless VPN technology, and remote administration.
A C library providing HTTP server functionality.
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Since when does any county sheriff have legal discretionary authority to set aside, overlook or otherwise subvert state law? Since when is a rural county sheriff the sole legal arbiter of what is or is not constitutional according to his own personal whims, political agendas or religious beliefs?
What if a sheriff should decide he doesn't like the state's new marijuana laws and declares the "evil weed" in any amount shall remain illegal in his juridsiction? What if a sheriff should decide the state's motor vehicle code is unenforceable ? What if he should decide the state's game laws are unconstitutional and that state game wardens have no authority in his jurisdiction?
What if he should decide anything about state laws he dang well pleases?
Dennis Spruell has stepped in a couple of legal cowpads since his election. In my opinion, if he cannot in all good conscience administrate and enforce the laws of the State of Colorado with a steady and even hand, he should have the courage of his convictions and resign.
H. C. Petley
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Hi, I'm new to the forum and I wanted to make a contribution, so if there are any skilled HTML coders here (not me) I want to suggest two things. I use another forum which is also on Tapatalk. It's a forum for football (soccer) team Bayern Munich (doubt any of you heard of them) and they have a couple of good things in their forum that I wanted to suggest here.
1) Live chat - This is a thing where the admins can make a chat room and open it during games so that users can discuss the match on live chat. This could be pretty useful here.
2) Thanking - This can be used when you read a post and really like or respect it and decide to show your appreciation towards the post you can "thank" it. People can have thanks given to them tallied up and put next to their name on posts. This will encourage useful posting.
I hope this inspires someone, and I hope I have contributed well.
Thanks for reading!


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Japanese General Social Survey (JGSS), 2002 (ICPSR 4214)
Principal Investigator(s): Tanioka, Ichiro, Osaka University of Commerce; Iwai, Noriko, Osaka University of Commerce; Nitta, Michio, University of Tokyo. Institute of Social Science; Sato, Hiroki, University of Tokyo. Institute of Social Science
This survey was designed to solicit political, sociological, and economic information from people living in Japan. Respondents were queried on crime and the judicial system, and more specifically, on issues such as the death penalty, juvenile punishment, and whether respondents were victims of various crimes within the last year. Questions on family issues covered topics such as divorce, the health of respondents' marriages, the roles of each spouse, and issues involving children. Questions on finances included the state of respondents' finances during the last few years and compared to other Japanese families both past and present, whether the income tax rate was high, and the ease of improving one's standard of living in Japan. Political questions addressed government spending, the responsibility of the government, and whether respondents would vote for a female gubernatorial candidate. Also, respondents were asked to rate their political views on a scale from conservative (1) to progressive (5). In terms of health, questions were asked on the health of respondents and their spouses, the topic of euthanasia, donation cards, and the frequency of smoking and alcohol consumption. Quality of life questions addressed the frequency with which respondents read the newspaper and watched television, the amount of satisfaction respondents received from life, and how often respondents participated in leisure activities like fishing, jogging, and mahjong. Respondents were asked to give their opinions concerning extra-marital affairs, sexual relations between two adults of the same sex, pornography, and prostitution. Information gathered on religion included the extent of their participation in a particular religion, whether respondents believed in life after death, and views on burial. Respondents were polled for information regarding their social status and whether respondents were members of any groups including religious, trade, or social service organizations. Demographic information included age, sex, employment status, marital status, household income, and religious orientation.
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Study Description
Tanioka, Ichiro, Noriko Iwai, Michio Nitta, and Hiroki Sato. Japanese General Social Survey (JGSS), 2002. ICPSR04214-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-03-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04214.v2
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan)
- Osaka University of Commerce (Japan)
- University of Tokyo. Institute of Social Sciences
Scope of Study
Subject Terms: alcohol consumption, capital punishment, career history, child care, crime, death, demographic characteristics, divorce, domestic responsibilities, education, euthanasia, family history, foreigners, gender roles, government, homosexual relationships, income, job satisfaction, labor unions, leisure, life satisfaction, marriage, morality, political affiliation, prostitution, religion, social classes, taxes, voting behavior, workplaces
Geographic Coverage: Global, Japan
- 2002
- 2002-10-20--2002-11-30
Unit of Observation: individual
Universe: Men and women aged 20-89 living in Japan with the right to vote.
JGSS data and the supporting documents are provided both in English and Japanese for convenience for users of either language. The JGSS is conducted in the Japanese language. The English version of the questionnaires and datasets have been constructed for the convenience of researchers. This is to remind all users of the English version of the JGSS datasets and questionnaires that the nuanced meanings conveyed in the original language may not be contained in the English version of the questionnaires and datasets.
This survey was produced by the Osaka University of Commerce, Office of Japanese General Social Survey, 2004, Osaka, Japan.
More information about Japanese General Social surveys can be found on the Japanese General Social Survey Web site.
Sample: Two-stage stratified random sampling, stratified by six regional blocks and population size, in 13 major cities, other cities, and towns and villages.
Weight: A weight variable with two implied decimal places has been included and must be used in any analysis.
Mode of Data Collection: personal interview, self-enumerated questionnaire
Response Rates: The response rate was 62.3 percent.
Presence of Common Scales: Several Likert-type scales were used.
Original ICPSR Release: 2005-10-26
- 2007-03-30 The Stata dictionary and system data files for datasets 1 and 2 were corrected to set the storage type as double for numeric variables with more than nine significant digits.
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Hmmm ... I'm not too sure about that. Hollinger does give Andrea an honorable mention, but I'm thinking he should be in that mix somewhere at least.
Source - Click here12. Jason Thompson, Sacramento Kings
11. Marreese Speights, Philadelphia 76ers
10. Greg Oden, Portland Trail Blazers
9. Andrew Bogut, Milwaukee Bucks
8. Kendrick Perkins, Boston Celtics
7. Joakim Noah, Chicago Bulls
6. Al Horford, Atlanta Hawks
5. Marc Gasol, Memphis Grizzlies
4. Brook Lopez, New Jersey Nets
3. Al Jefferson, Minnesota Timberwolves
2. Andrew Bynum, L.A. Lakers
1. Dwight Howard, Orlando Magic


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Here's Why:
Vitamin B6 is involved in many functions in the body. It helps your immune system and nervous system, and it aids in the metabolism of essential nutrients. It is also found in many foods and will be easy to fit in your diet if you need to increase your intake.
Here's How:
- Sprinkle garbanzo beans on a salad.
- In the morning, opt for a fortified breakfast cereal.
- Slice a banana into your oatmeal, cereal, or yogurt.
- Have fish for dinner a few times a week.
- Choose brown rice instead of white. Mix lentils with the rice.
- For a different sandwich, try peanut butter and banana.
- If you take a vitamin supplement, make sure it contains vitamin B6—but no more than 100% of the RDA. Also, talk to your doctor before starting a new supplement.
- Reviewer: Michael Woods, MD
- Review Date: 12/2015 -
- Update Date: 12/14/2015 -