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Ne-Yo is best known to fans for moody tracks like "Closer" and "Miss Independent," but some of his biggest successes have actually come from his work as a songwriter for other artists.
The crooner co-penned Beyonce's 2007 hit "Irreplaceable," and is now speaking out on his latest work with Bey for her upcoming fifth studio album, expected this year.
"I'm still putting stuff together for Beyonce's album," he told Billboard. "They're still trying to figure out what they want that to be, which I'm not mad at."
Bey has reportedly been working on the record since last summer when she met with the likes of Ryan Tedder, The-Dream and Sia in the Hamptons to collaborate on potential album material. While the effort is months in the making and remains unscheduled for release, Ne-Yo says it will be worth the wait.
"Beyonce's the kind of artist where you're not gonna see it till it's right," he said in the interview. "And her fans — they love her so they'll be patient."
No official single has been released, but fans have had a taste of what to expect with new tracks appearing in recent Pepsi and H&M commercials, along with a contribution to animated movie Epic's soundtrack, "Rise Up."
Read more about what Ne-Yo's doing with Bey and her hubby Jay-Z at Radio.com

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"Our descendants may look at us and say, 'God, these were the most gullible people who ever lived.'"
Celebrities: they're in ads! That's because celebrities tend to sell stuff to people, according to the New York Times, which broke this story wide open with an epic piece in yesterday's paper. There are three clear points that you, the educated consumer, must understand: Companies are run by starry-eyed celebrity hound white guys who will pay any price to hang out with a cool rapper or have their umbrella endorsed by Rihanna; many celebrities are themselves sheep, convinced that their endorsement deal is a meaningful attempt by a corporation to plumb the depths of their soul (it's really not! surprisingly); and finally, all of this is the fault of dirty gossip websites just like this one!
Half of the celebrities in the story, like Jay-Z and Puffy, demand that companies give them partial ownership and allow them to design products, and other requests that seem excessive. You can't blame them for asking, though. More nilla celebrities, however, seem way too nice to play this game well:
"It's flattering that companies think of you and they want to work with you," [Ellen DeGeneres] says, adding that she is working with American Express because she liked earlier ads the company did with Jerry Seinfeld.
Ha, sure! And what do you say, borderline Grey's Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey?
"I wear my cologne all of the time," says Mr. Dempsey, whose fragrance will be introduced by Avon Products in November. "This is a whole different experience and a real education for me, and it has been something that I've been involved with every step of the way."
Hopefully these celebrities are just lying, rather than actually being that naive. The story notes that people don't actually trust celebrities, but they buy their products anyhow. The reason? YOUR INSATIABLE APPETITE:
First has been the emergence of Web sites and magazines that chronicle the mundane, daily activities of stars on a 24/7 basis. A voracious public eager to peek at Hollywood celebrities shopping for shoes and buying coffee wanted, in turn, to buy those shoes and drink that coffee themselves.
There's also plenty of info on Rihanna's umbrella endorsements! But the most honest paragraph in the whole story is this one:
"The reality is people want a piece of something they can't be," says Eli Portnoy, a branding strategist. "They live vicariously through the products and services that those celebrities are tied to. Years from now, our descendants may look at us and say, 'God, these were the most gullible people who ever lived.' "


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Original post made by amy, Del Prado, on May 21, 2009
Excellent essay. Many won't understand it. Some of us do. Others do, but will ignore the message, or put down the messenger.
Hmmmm, Cholo's comment says it all. LOL!
Why are so many of you afraid to touch this subject?
The truth,
We're not afraid - it is for the same reason that we don't need a sign in our front yard or a pep rally to vote No on G. We live our convictions every day and I don't think it will help to "pick a fight" with anyone on this blog.
Ms. Wortham's piece was masterful.
She speaks in grand measure what many of us think quietly.
Amy, thanks so much for this post. It was absolutely comforting to have someone so aptly put to words our emotions.
My point was not to pick a fight, just to get people talking. There are too many of us quietly seeing our once great nation change into something the we may not recognize over the next eight years.
Well the reason I cannot comment on it is for some reason I cannot get to the link as it gets picked up by the internet police here at work. What are the contents of the article?
We need to be careful as in 8 years the way our government is taking away our civil liberties we may not even have the right to vote. The way things are going our next best hope is to take back our government in next years elections. Whoever is up for election who is an incumbant I am voting out.
I just read this article and think it's beautifully written; however, there are some flaws in the argument she's making:
1) She claims that she is not conscious of race; However, she makes the assumption that everyone who voted for Obama - black or white - was motivated by race in that decision. I think many people voted for Obama as a referendum on the Bush Administration, which has very little to do with race and more to do with disatisfaction with the status quo at the time (remember that the economy started to unravel in Oct/Nov under Bush, not Obama).
2) She asserts that Obama = end of capitalism. The insinuation is that he has an agenda to turn us into a socialist or communist country. Yes, he has an agenda for socialized medicine and has had to take on a more activist role in the economy as a result of the bank failures, etc. but he's no Karl Marx. I don't think that private property or the ability to become an entrepreneur are going to vanish because of Obama.
Finally, I find it interesting that the author belongs to the Hoover Institution. The Republican presidents of the 1920s (Harding, Coolidge and Hoover), like many current Republicans, believed in lasseiz faire capitalism. Know what happened as a result of that? No government regulation of the stock market, over speculation, and the Great Depression! Adam Smith's invisible hand did not take into consideration the fact that unchecked greed eats the economy from the inside out. There needs to be government oversight... and there needs to be a middle class or no one buys the products those capitalists are making! In that sense, economic prosperity does come from the bottom up.
I know I'll get flamed, called a raging liberal, and told I don't understand. I understand the situation very well, as I've studied these subjects for the last 15 years. I am also not particularly liberal. I just think the author's stance is rather myopic.
She is NOT Black or African American.
At the bottom of the posters comments is a weblink, in case you missed it. Click on that. If not, I will cut and paste the text here...
No He Can't" by author Anne Wortham
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Anne Wortham wrote the following article ten days after the election of Barack Obama. I have put her brief bio at the end.
"No, He Can't"
By Anne Wortham | Published 11/14/2008
Fellow Americans,
Please know: I am black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul's name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a black president to love the ideal of America.
I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human flourishing and survival–all that I know about the history of the United States of America, all that I know about American race relations, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician.
I would have to deny the nature of the "change" that Obama asserts has come to America. Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century. I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend.
I would have to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared "progressive" whites who voted for him because he doesn't look like them. I would have to wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill posts in his administration–political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
I would have to believe that "fairness" is equivalent of justice. I would have to believe that man who asks me to "go forward in a new spirit of service, in a new service of sacrifice" is speaking in my interest. I would have to accept the premise of a man that economic prosperity comes from the "bottom up," and who arrogantly believes that he can will it into existence by the use of government force. I would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of living of the masses can be improved by destroying the most productive and the generators of wealth.
Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the scene of 125,000 screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park, Chicago, irrationally chanting "Yes We Can!" Finally, I would have to wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits, journalists, editorialists, bloggers, and intellectuals declare that capitalism is dead–and no one, including especially Alan Greenspan, objected to their assumption that the particular version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with their own version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to capitalism.
So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a black man to the office of the president of the United States, the wounded giant of the world. The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over–and that Fonda won. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern must be very happy men. Jimmie Carter, too. And the Kennedys have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like.
The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a black person. So, toast yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black America. Shout your glee, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley. You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a black man who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to–"Do Something!" You now have someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine–what little there is left–for the chance to feel good. There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness
Anne Wortham bio;
Anne Wortham is Black, an Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University and continuing Visiting Scholar at Stanford University 's Hoover Institution. She is a member of the American Sociological Association and the American Philosophical Association. She has been a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, and honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the Year by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education. In fall 1988 she was one of a select group of intellectuals who were featured in Bill Moyer's television series, "A World of Ideas." The transcript of her conversation with Moyers has been published in his book, A World of Ideas. Dr. Wortham is author of The Other Side of Racism: A Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness which analyzes how race consciousness is transformed into political strategies and policy issues. She has published numerous articles on the implications of individual rights for civil rights policy, and is currently writing a book on theories of social and cultural marginality. Recently, she has published articles on the significance of multiculturalism and Afrocentrism in education, the politics of victimization and the social and political impact of political correctness. Shortly after an interview in 2004 she was awarded tenure.
I think you spell it, "Whoa". BTW, would you like to be referred to as "a white"?
I am not 'less free' since Obama became president.
This guy is an inexperienced disaster and we all know it. The sad part is that I was dumb enough to vote for him and I fear my freedom.
Look at the white folk, gathered round the black, educated Republican. Watch them stare and point. They didn't know such a thing existed in their little white world. "Whoa, lookie that! Is it real? Someone poke it!"
Sorry, she is NOT black, negro, or African American. She is dark skinned but she is not what one generally thinks of as African American. In other words, she can pass as black.
Wow, Cholo, thank you for your insightful views...did you know that was your "outside" voice?
Tom...please don't call yourself dumb. We all make mistakes. Voting for Obama was indeed a big mistake...but count yourself in with the rest of us that have fallen for an infomercial and when they got the equipment, it didn't work as advertised.
Granted, an infomercial mistake doesn't usually cost us TRILLIONS, but hey, let's get this train back on track in November 2012! :)
Are you the kind of person that likes to collect injustices? Hmmmmmmm...?


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Rachel Scott was terrified. Late in the night someone she didn't know was trying to get into her house, and he kept trying, shaking the door, trying to break it open.
The intruder left, and the police did come, but Scott says there was very little follow-up. Until she went to city hall and pushed, no one had offered to take her statement, and Scott thinks she knows why.
"They don't have the staff. We have an excellent police force, but they are not given the resources that they need," said Scott. "We need a crime unit that can follow up on these crimes, and my crime is nothing compared to the crimes of women who have been raped and haven't even been interviewed."
Sexual assault investigations have been slow, according to Candice Harshner, Director of the Program for Aid to Victims of Sexual Assault. A five person police investigative team is short two positions.
"What I know is that it is taking much longer for investigators to actually get to speak to victims. And that that's - and that's concerning, in terms of the impact on the victim after a sexual assault. And that's not the fault of the police," said Harshner. "They, I do believe, are doing the best that they can, and they're very committed to finding another investigator for the unit. But, they're very short staffed."
City statistics show total crime increased 6 percent from 2005 to 2006, the latest numbers available. The number of murders declined but rapes and assaults increased. Police officials say they do have to prioritize, and property crimes take lower priority. They're trying to fill open positions in the sexual crimes unit.
With 140 cops, the department staff is ten positions below what the city authorizes, and according to Police Union President Sergeant Jon Haataja, it's 30 below what's ideal. Haataja says that has to have an effect on crime fighting.
"Our call load has done nothing but increase over the last decade. Even longer. And we're just constantly trying to keep up," said Haataja.
Duluth police have been hit by a combination of retirements and a hiring freeze that lasted several years. There's been some trouble getting new recruits.
So now the city is considering freeing up money for more cops by sharing functions with the city's firefighters. It's something that's been done in places like Kalamazoo, Mich. There, the fire rigs have minimal staffs, and the police are expected to show up and pitch in at firefighting.
While it's unclear how a merger would work, Sergeant Haataja says it could help crime fighting.
"Police departments would benefit, because it is putting more officers on the street to respond to police calls," said Haataja. "The flip side to that is they are going to respond to police calls as well as fire calls, so it's kind of a two edged sword in that regard."
He admits it's not an idea everyone is warming to. Many police officers, he says, never intended to be firefighters. And firefighters would have to become licensed to do police work.
"And so, to now train them, with our state requirements of a two year degree, and licensing requirements; training period in the squad car; it's a huge hurdle," explained Haataja.
A panel will consider how to blend the departments and just how much firefighting cops should do and vice versa. But it's worth considering, according to Duluth Deputy Police Chief John Beyer.
"I think everybody is aware that the budget is tight, and we need to learn to work smarter and better together," said Beyer. "And I really believe that everybody in this case is open minded to take a hard look at it and see, what can we do to differently; how could we save money; how could we improve services; how could we work collaboratively on more things."
Duluth Mayor Don Ness says the goal is collaboration between police and firefighters, and not necessarily full integration. And Ness says the idea can be studied without spending a lot of money, by tapping sources like the Internet, rather than expensive travel.


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I am using Thunderbird (TB) email client. There are 12 emails that some are POP3 or IMAP. 3 monts ago one of my POP3 email started rolling back to old days. Old emails were reappearing new ones were deleting. First I thought it was because of plugins. I disabled. Problem still existed. Then I thought it was because of compacting problem. No it wasn't.
After I understood that the problem is out from TB, I backed up and deleted the content of Inbox. I monitored inbox file of the email with "Prosess Monitor". What I see is vsmon.exe is writing on that file. That way I found the problem is coming from ZA. When I check ZA folder I found "C:\ProgramData\CheckPoint\ZoneAlarm\Data\avsys\ba ckup" have the copy of my Inbox file which is the same size and modified date.
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Heart Rate's Effect on Equine Performance
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Not only was heart rate generally higher in the novel environment than in the home environment and it was a good indicator of how the individual horses would perform in the show ring, as heart rate increased, performance quality decreased.
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A new show ring and a new environment can equate to stress--and even poor performance--for your horse. Because according to Danish equitation scientists, the faster a horse's heart rate in a new environment, the more likely he is to perform poorly.
New places are also not the ideal environment for teaching your horse a new trick, added Janne Winther Christensen, PhD, from the faculty of science and technology at Aarhus University in Tjele, during the presentation of her study at the 2011 International Society for Equitation Science (ISES) Conference, held Oct. 26-29 in Hooge Mierde, The Netherlands. As she and her colleagues discovered, not only do horses tend to perform better at home, they also tend to learn better.
Studying 25 Danish Warmblood geldings (aged 2 to 3 years) all pastured together, Christensen and her fellow researchers compared heart rates when the horses were being taught something new at home, and when they were being taught the same task again in a novel, competitionlike environment a month later. At both sites, the horses were trained to sidepass (crossover) when the handler cued the horse with a whip.
Before training started at each site, the researchers gave the geldings a basic "fearfulness test," in which they noted and rated the horses' behavioral reactions in response to a surprise object. They also checked the basic cortisol (the "stress" hormone) level in the horses' droppings while they were at pasture and observed their social rankings within their group to determine if that had any impact on learning and performance ability.
The researchers determined that not only was heart rate generally higher in the novel environment than in the home environment (65 versus 53 beats/minute), but it also was a good indicator of how the individual horses would perform in the show ring, as performance quality (in reference to performing the sidepass) decreased as heart rates increased, Christensen said.
However, individual heart rate wasn't related to how the horses performed at home, she said. Neither was their basic level of fearfulness.
Performance in the new environment was significantly associated with the basic level of fearfulness, with individual performance levels the lowest for the horses determined to be the most fearful. "Performance in a stressful environment may be predicted by a fear test in the home environment," Christensen said.
That being said, performance in the show ring cannot be predicted by performance at home. "There was no correlation between performance in the home environment and in the novel environment, meaning that horses that performed well in the home environment did not necessarily perform at the same level in the novel environment," added Christensen.
A horse's basic stress level and social ranking had no effect on performance at home or away, Christensen said. But an interesting side finding was that the basic stress level was clearly related to the social ranking in this study: the higher the social rank, the lower the basic stress level.
About the Author
Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA
Christa Lesté-Lasserre is a freelance writer based in France. A native of Dallas, Texas, Lesté-Lasserre grew up riding Quarter Horses, Appaloosas, and Shetland Ponies. She holds a master's degree in English, specializing in creative writing, from the University of Mississippi in Oxford and earned a bachelor's in journalism and creative writing with a minor in sciences from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She currently keeps her two Trakehners at home near Paris. Follow Lesté-Lasserre on Twitter @christalestelas.
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The Florida Bar News
August 1, 2010
A story in the July 15 News noting that Judge Ronald N. Ficarrotta of Tampa had been reappointed chair of the Court Interpreter Certification Board by Chief Justice Charles Canady incorrectly stated Judge Ficarrotta serves in the Ninth Circuit. He does not. Judge Ficarrotta is a 13th Circuit judge.
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Baseball enriched by 1973 Draft class
Historic talents find various degrees of success in Majors
By Jack O'Connell / MLB.com
Clyde, a left-handed pitcher from Houston, became the prime example of a player moving up too fast. The Rangers were in their second year in Texas after the Washington Senators franchise moved to Arlington after the 1971 season, and the selection of an 18-year-old Texan in the amateur Draft put dollar signs in the eyes of owner Bob Short, whose decision it was to place Clyde on the Major League roster.
Short saw in Clyde not only a talented pitcher of unlimited potential, but also a box-office draw. Clyde was 18-0 as a senior at Westchester High School, where he allowed only three earned runs in 148 innings (0.18 ERA) and pitched five no-hitters, two of them perfect games. He received a $125,000 signing bonus and began earning it immediately.
The original plan was for Clyde to make two starts for the Rangers and then be farmed out. Clyde's debut on June 27, 1973 attracted a crowd of 35,698 to Arlington Stadium. He lasted five innings and was credited with the victory as the Rangers beat the Twins, 4-3.
Clyde won his second start as well, pitching seven solid innings in a 5-4 victory over the Tigers. That convinced Short to keep Clyde with the Rangers for the remainder of the season. It worked well at the gate, as Texas, which finished last in the American League West that year with a 57-105 mark, drew more than 20,000 people to each of Clyde's starts, but at year's end his record was 4-8 with a 5.01 ERA.
After posting a 3-9 record in 1974, and losing his first start in 1975, Clyde finally wound up in the Minor Leagues. Traded to the Indians in 1978, Clyde was 11-15 in two combined seasons in Cleveland and was finished at age 26 with a career record of 18-33 with a 4.63 ERA.
Yount was also only 18 when he opened the 1974 season as the shortstop for the Brewers, who had taken him as the third overall pick in the '73 Draft. Like Texas, Milwaukee was a struggling franchise at the time, but there was no pressure placed on Yount to draw fans as there was on Clyde. The Brewers wanted Yount to concentrate on defense and let the offense gradually come. It did, some 3,142 hits worth by the time he retired in 1993 with two American League Most Valuable Player Awards in tow and a ticket to Cooperstown, N.Y., ready to be punched.
Winfield, who had also been drafted by the National Basketball Association's Atlanta Hawks, the American Basketball Association's Utah Stars and the National Football League's Minnesota Vikings (even though he did not play football in college), was taken by the Padres as the fourth overall pick and joined the San Diego outfield later that month. A pitcher and an outfielder at the University of Minnesota, Winfield, a St. Paul native, was the Most Valuable Player of the College World Series.
He also was a strong rebounding forward of the Gophers' basketball team that won its first Big 10 championship in 53 years.
"There was never any doubt in my mind which sport I was going to play professionally," Winfield said. "I chose baseball, because to me baseball is the best game of all."
The Phillies had the second overall pick in '73 and used it to select John Stearns, who was a baseball outfielder and a football defensive back at the University of Colorado. Stearns played in one game for Philadelphia in 1974 and was part of an offseason trade to the Mets that sent Tug McGraw to the Phillies.
Other first-round selections that year who went on to some measure of success in the Majors were infielder Johnnie LeMaster (Giants), outfielders Gary Roenicke (Expos) and Lee Mazzilli (Mets) and catchers Steve Swisher (White Sox) and Steve Nicosia (Pirates).
The Red Sox chose University of Southern California outfielder Fred Lynn in the second round with the 41st pick. Two years later, Lynn became the first player in history to win the MVP and Rookie of the Year Awards in the same season.
Yount and Winfield weren't the only future Hall of Famers to come out of the 1973 Draft. Switch-hitting first baseman Eddie Murray of Locke High School in Los Angeles was picked in the third round by the Orioles with the 63rd selection.
Others taken in the third round were pitchers Len Barker (Rangers) and Floyd Bannister (A's) and outfielders Mitchell Page (Pirates) and Ruppert Jones (Royals).
Pitcher LaMarr Hoyt, the 1983 American League Cy Young Award winner with the White Sox and the 1985 All-Star Game MVP with the Padres, was selected in the fifth round by the Yankees. Another future AL Cy Young Award winner, Mike Flanagan, was a seventh-round pick by the Orioles.
Outfielder Jack Clark, who went on to hit 340 home runs in the Majors, wasn't drafted until the 13th round by the Giants with the 294th pick. Relief pitcher Jeff Reardon was a 23rd-round pick by the Expos, but did not sign and instead attended the University of Massachusetts. He eventually signed with the Mets as an amateur free agent and was traded to Montreal in 1981, beginning a long career of success as a closer.
The Cardinals used their 25th-round selection (No. 567) to choose Yale University shortstop Dick Jauron, who was also a defensive back and a fourth-round NFL pick of the Detroit Lions. Jauron decided to make football his game and is now head coach of the Buffalo Bills.
Other mid- to late-round choices in '73 included pitchers Matt Keough, Bob Stanley, Mike Krukow, Brian Kingman and Jay Howell; infielders Wayne Gross, Garth Iorg and Butch Hobson; outfielders Dwayne Murphy, Billy Sample and Ken Landreaux and eventual hitting-coach guru Rudy Jaramillo.
One of the last selections of that year's Draft to go on to carve out a decent career in the Majors was pitcher Bryn Smith. The Cardinals chose Smith in the 49th round with the 741st pick. He did not sign with them, and a year later signed with the Orioles as a Minor League free agent. The right-hander compiled a 108-94 record over 13 seasons with the Expos, Cardinals and Rockies.
Jack O'Connell is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Toward Conversational Human-Computer Interaction
The belief that humans will be able to interact with computers in conversational speech has long been a favorite subject in science fiction, reflecting the persistent belief that spoken dialogue would be the most natural and powerful user interface to computers. With recent improvements in computer technology and in speech and language processing, such systems are starting to appear feasible. There are significant technical problems that still need to be solved before speech-driven interfaces become truly conversational. This article describes the results of a 10-year effort building robust spoken dialogue systems at the University of Rochester.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v22i4.1590
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This thread is about this guy:
His name is Yuukimaru.
He has a special power, the power to have a form of control,
on the 3-tails, Isobu.
Yuukimaru shows a striking resemblance with this guy:
They have the same color hair.
They same type of hair, only Yagura has it shorter than Yuukimaru.
They have the same purple eyes.
Both of them have controlling powers, for the 3-tails Isobu (who has
purple eyes as well btw).
Both of them, have a flower theme.
Yagura with the flower on his weapon.
Yuukimaru, and the Camelia.
and the Isobu, the 3-tails, has a flower theme as well.
It is coral.
Remember Gaara his father, talking about needing a child that is compatible for Shukaku?
The third child, Gaara, was the first compatible one.
Meaning Kankurou and Temari were not.
In Gaara's father and/or mother their family, apparently is a power, that makes one compatible with Shukaku.
I believe that Yagura and Yuukimaru, come from a family that has a similar connection to the 3-tails Isobu,
as Gaara's family has, with the 1-tails Shukaku.
I have considered bringing the Uzumaki into this thread, but that seems to be difficult (more or less no arguments exist for that, or I would have to say, the the red purplish eyes of Yuukimaru and Yagura, is the Uzumaki haircolor trait, but in their eyes instead of their hair or something and that the white camelia's turned red, cause of his mother's blood, but that doesnt really cut it tbh).
Yuukimaru and Yagura are probably closely related i think.
Maybe brothers even.
And to those who complain about Yuukimaru being an anime character, you can go suk ma balls. I didnt put it in the anime section for nothing :D.


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Got the Pak-Meister seat this week and put it together for my BMW R1200 GS.
I needed a saddle solution-- badly-- and have also been on a tight budget
lately. Enter the Pak-Meister! I can't remember how I found it *(could not
find reviews on any forum...) but wow-- I am really glad I did. Everyone
knows BMW engineers absolutely awesome, strong, elegant, etc bikes-- in all
ways remarkable machines except, perhaps for seats. Let me say I have been
riding 35 years, and my skinny, boney butt has never found any OEM seat *any
good, really. Anyway, 20M miles on my original 1200 seat was enough for me.
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Virotec International Ld
31 October 2003
Appendix 4C
Quarterly report
for entities admitted
on the basis of commitments
Name of entity
Virotec International Ltd
ABN Quarter ended ('current quarter')
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004 801 398 30 September 2003
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Consolidated statement of cash flows
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Current Year to
quarter date
Cash flows related to operating activities $A'000 (3 Months)
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1.1 Receipts from customers 216 216
1.2 Payments for (a) staff costs (278) (278)
(b) advertising and marketing (49) (49)
(c) research and development (413) (413)
(d) leased assets - -
(e) other working capital (685) (685)
1.3 Dividends received - -
1.4 Interest and other items of a similar nature 75 75
1.5 Interest and other costs of finance paid - -
1.6 Income taxes paid - -
1.7 Other (mining interests costs) (57) (57)
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Net operating cash flows (1,191) (1,191)
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1.8 Net operating cash flows (carried forward) (1,191) (1,191)
Cash flows related to investing activities
1.9 Payment for acquisition of: - -
businesses (item 5) - -
equity investments - -
intellectual property - -
physical non-current assets (72) (72)
other non-current assets - -
1.10 Proceeds from disposal of:
businesses (item 5) - -
equity investments - -
intellectual property - -
physical non-current assets 1 1
other non-current assets - -
1.11 Loans to other entities (61) (61)
1.12 Loans repaid by other entities - -
1.13 Other (provide details if material) 23 23
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Net investing cash flows (109) (109)
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1.14 Total operating and investing cash flows (1,300) (1,300)
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Cash flows related to financing activities
1.15 Proceeds from issues of shares, options, etc. 8,507 8,507
1.16 Proceeds from sale of forfeited shares - -
1.17 Proceeds from borrowings - -
1.18 Repayment of borrowings - -
1.19 Dividends paid - -
1.20 Other (share issue costs) (288) (288)
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Net financing cash flows 8,219 8,219
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Net increase (decrease) in cash held 6,919 6,919
1.21 Cash at beginning of quarter/year to date 6,454 6,454
1.22 Exchange rate adjustments to item 1.20 - -
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1.23 Cash at end of quarter 13,373 13,373
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Payments to directors of the entity and associates of the directors
Payments to related entities of the entity and associates of the related
1.24 Aggregate amount of payments to the parties included in 193
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1.25 Aggregate amount of loans to the parties included in -
item 1.11
1.26 Explanation necessary for an understanding of the transactions
Director fees: $32,160
Consultancy fees $160,715
Non-cash financing and investing activities
2.1 Details of financing and investing transactions which have had a material
effect on consolidated assets and liabilities but did not involve cash
2.2 Details of outlays made by other entities to establish or increase their
share in businesses in which the reporting entity has an interest
Financing facilities available
Add notes as necessary for an understanding of the position. (See AASB 1026
paragraph 12.2).
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Amount available Amount used
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3.2 Credit standby arrangements - -
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Reconciliation of cash
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Reconciliation of cash at the end of the quarter Current Previous
(as shown in the consolidated statement of cash quarter quarter
flows) to the related items in the accounts is as
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4.1 Cash on hand and at bank 223 148
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4.2 Deposits at call 13,150 6,310
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4.3 Bank overdraft - -
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4.4 Other (provide details) - -
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Total: cash at end of quarter (item 1.22) 13,373 6,458
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Acquisitions and disposals of business entities - N/A
Compliance statement
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When the Houston Dynamo take the field on Wednesday in the Knockout Round playoff match, there will be a familiar face in the middle of the pitch. It was announced on Sunday, that Baldomero Toledo will be the center referee for the match against the Chicago Fire. Frank Anderson and Ian Anderson will patrol the sidelines, while Jorge Gonzalez will be the fourth official.
This will be the fifth Dynamo game of 2012 that Toledo has officiated. Houston is 0-1-3 in the previous four matches, including draws against the New England Revolution (5/19), Toronto FC (8/20) and Sporting Kansas City (9/14), and a loss to the Seattle Sounders (3/23).
In his career, Toledo has officiated 146 MLS games. He has averaged 25 fouls called per game and 3.4 yellow cards per game. Toledo has issued 48 red cards in his career and has given 52 penalty kicks.
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Discussion in 'Science Fiction & Fantasy' started by Forbin, Feb 22, 2013.
sisko's hair situation is totally stolen from garibaldi
I'm envious of the Chase Masterson flirting. Suzy Plakson did that with me at a Creation Con in NJ, and I almost hyperventilated.
Good point about the DS9 anniversary being all but forgotten. I've been rewatching it lately (just finished S5), and apart from the unbearable Ferengi comedy episodes, it still holds up as a great show.
I was waiting for someone to say that.
Another thing people aren't mentioning (it may be later in the thread) is the serial nature of the DS9 story. Trek was really a bottle-type of show where the universe was largely the same after as before. B5 was designed with one long "arc". Some episodes could stand alone and had little "arc" material, but those tended to be the weakest. The innovation, the "draw" of B5 was the "arc" and that is what DS9 started to do more and more as the series went on, where you really had to tune in each week to follow what was happening. So my feeling is that DS9 saw how B5 was earning, if not ratings, at least critical praise for the "arc" and how it made B5 feel "epic" and decided to make the serial story format more prominent.
And sure enough, later on serial-type stories like Lost, Battlestar Remake, etc... are the standard rather than the exception with A-list 1-hour dramas.
As many similarities as there are between the two shows, I'd wager that after the development of the pilot the DS9 writers had absolutely no knowledge of anything concerning B5.
I think there's bound to be some similar moves in the story by sheer coincidence, like both shows getting a tiny powerful warship in the third season premiere.
The trend for serialized A-list drama begins in the 80s with shows like Hill Street Blues, St Elsewhere and LA Law. It was a trend that Star Trek was already behind on. I think those shows had a bigger impact on the people behind DS9 going for serialized story telling than B5 did.
Hold on ... didn't Dukhat come later in B5? I thought he was retconned into B5 early history in the movie In The Beginning.
I know that we think of it has a "bottle" show now, but at the time TNG was heavily praised for showing character development and referencing details from previous episodes, like Picard's flute or Worf's relationship with the Klingon empire.
DS9 and Voyager to a lesser extent, just pushed the envelope a little farther.
Not at all. He was mentioned as early as 'Soul Hunter', episode 102, and again in several other episodes (A Voice in the Wilderness, A Late Delivery from Avalon, Severed Dreams, Babylon Squared and Atonement).
That is one drawback for DS9 and all of the other Star Trek spinoffs. Their identity is somewhat subsumed within the overall franchise. So when we have a 40th anniversary or 50th anniversary for Star Trek as a whole, the spinoffs get some recognition as part of that, but rarely as their own independent entities, separate from the rest of the franchise.
True, though because of the 1 year delay in the production for B5 Season 1, "Soul Hunter" wasn't produced until well after the character Dukat appeared in DS9's premiere.
So much so that rather than wait for The Next Generation to finish they came out two years early.
Just in case Babylon 5 was any good.
(I personally don't care about the scenario, I'm just sayin'..)
^ Eh, that's not so unusual for spinoffs. See: Angel, Xena, Torchwood, various procedurals for example.
This is such a dumb "feud."
I'm pretty sure Dukhat was part of the original proposal of B5 so he was created in the mid 80s.
But in DS9, he was really only called Dukat to avoid paying royalties for using a previously used gul names.
Oh, jms freely admits that as his main inspiration. LotR and, I think, Arthurian legend. Or was it Greek mythology
This. DS9 is my favourite Trek and JMS's effort to turn television in to a more literary medium was astonishing. Both are 2 of the best TV shows anybody could watch and the world is richer for both being around.
Better 2 complex, thoughtful shows about space-stations than a million reality shows about singing aimed at morons.
You know, I've never read the Lord of the Rings series, but with all the comparisons to B5, a sci-fi universe I love second only to Star Trek, you guys are making a VERY convincing argument in it's favor.
Well, you should read LOTR anyway as it's an amazing read (Also check out The Silmarillion!) but people aren't exaggerating when they say B5 took a lot from it.
Started an S1 rewatch of B5 earlier. Michael O'Hare has such a wonderful voice for a science-fiction saga. Miss that guy a lot.
Lord of the Rings is just one of many influences on Babylon 5. I would bet that Joe has read and watched more stories than a majority of the audience watching the show. There's a lot more to discover than Tolkien in there. Even in B5's original conception notes (http://www.cafepress.com/b5books/6587738) he also mentions Foundation, Lensman, Dune, as well as several movies.
Anybody that writes a large scale sci-fi which which doesn't take influence from Dune is doing something wrong. That book sparked my imagination in a few few have.
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iTunes' time has run out
iTunes 11 did not arrive on time. Apple had promised to deliver the next version of its music-management program in October. Then the company said the release would slip to November because it needed extra time "to get it right".
This week The Wall Street Journal, citing "people who have seen it," reported that the real cause of the delay was "engineering issues that required parts to be rebuilt".
I suspect both explanations are euphemisms for what's happening in Cupertino in California. I picture frazzled engineers growing increasingly alarmed as they discover that the iTunes code base has been overrun by a self-replicating virus that keeps adding random features and redesigns. The coders can't figure out what's going on – why iTunes, alone among Apple products, keeps growing more ungainly.
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One morning the crew hears a strange clanging from iTunes' starboard side. Scouts report that an ancient piston – something added for compatibility with the U2 iPod and refashioned dozens of times – has been damaged while craftsmen removed the last remnants of a feature named Ping whose purpose has been lost to history.
The old engineer dons his grease-covered overalls and goes to check it out. Anxious minutes pass. Then the crew is shaken by a huge blast. A minute later, they hear a lone, muffled wail. They send a doctor but it's too late. The engineer has been battered by shrapnel from the iOS app management system, which is always on the fritz. His last words haunt the team forever: she can't take much more of this. Too. Many. Features.
So iTunes 11 finally hit the internet this week. If you start downloading it immediately, you might have it up and running by the time the ball drops over Times Square. People wonder why this is, why a simple music player weighs about 90 megabytes and requires many long minutes to install and "prepare" your library before it becomes functional.
Don't ask questions: this is what you get with iTunes. Each upgrade brings more suckage into your computer. It makes itself slower. It adds three or four more capabilities you'll never need. It changes its screen layout in ways that are subtle enough to make you throw your phone at the wall. And it adds more complexity to its ever-shifting syncing rules to ensure the next time you connect your device, you'll have to delete everything and resync.
At this point, you shake your fists and curse this foul program to the heavens: iiiiiiiiiiiiiTuuuuuuuuuuunes!!!
Apple's marketing material describes iTunes 11 as "completely redesigned. For your viewing, listening, browsing and shopping pleasure." That sums up the software's problem. In 2001, Apple launched iTunes as a simple desktop music player for the Mac. It was great because while it didn't have all the features more advanced software had, it was very simple to use. In 2003, when iTunes was released for Windows, it seemed like something truly novel – a great-looking, easy-to-use program for PC users. It was, as Steve Jobs put it, "like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell".
In the decade since, Apple has added arsenic to the water, drip by drip. What's iTunes for now? As its unpithy tagline says, it's for everything. It's for music, movies, TV shows, books, podcasts, university lectures, apps and, most of all, shopping.
There were legitimate reasons for Apple to add these features. As its devices morphed from music-playing iPods into do-everything gadgets such as the iPhone and iPad, iTunes had to grow to accommodate their capabilities. Eventually iTunes became less a music player than a sync-master – the software you used to set up and manage your iGadgets. Indeed, until a couple of years ago, the only way to get a new iPhone or iPad up and running was to plug it into iTunes first.
Apple's "post-PC" machines still needed a PC to work and, specifically, they needed a big, honking piece of bloated software.
The problem wasn't that Apple added so much to iTunes. It was that it seems to have done so indiscriminately, without much thought to design or performance.
The bigger iTunes became, the slower it felt, each new feature seeming to add more weight to its ageing foundation. Now, every time I open iTunes, whether on a Mac or a Windows machine, I expect delay.
So even if the new iTunes is an improvement, it's not a permanent solution. The only way for Apple to fix it would be to throw it out and start again. Perhaps, as Macworld's Jason Snell has suggested, iTunes should be split into multiple programs: one to play your media, one to sync your devices and one to buy or subscribe to stuff from Apple. Or maybe it could be replaced altogether with a quicker, lightweight web-based system.
Whatever Apple does, it shouldn't aim merely to fix iTunes but to come up with a new system better suited to our age.
iTunes 11 is enough. Please don't let there be an iTunes 12.
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Hoyer Exploring Bid for Democratic Whip
For Immediate Release:
November 5, 2010
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WASHINGTON, DC – House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement regarding his intention to explore a bid for Democratic Whip:
"Speaker Pelosi has announced that she will be running for Democratic Leader in the next Congress. In the days since the election, I have received an outpouring of support from Democratic colleagues who have told me that I should remain in our party's leadership, so that our Caucus can hit the ground running with a strong, tested leadership team. Over the next several days, I will continue to speak to my colleagues about serving our Caucus as Democratic Whip, and I will announce a decision after I have consulted with them."


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While that is troublesome enough, the real story is the overall two-year projected increase. As student enrollment continues its steady decline, the increase in education spending over the next two years is projected to be $150 million (an 11% increase). This will result in an increase in the property tax rates of 11 cents (residential) and 12 cents (non-residential) by FY 2015.
Indeed, the tax increase called for in this bill is mainly a result of the projected local spending decisions. But the fact is, the situation in which we now find ourselves is a direct result of our repeated failure in Montpelier to address the underlying problem of the funding system. Year after year, we have watched as property taxes on Vermonters have escalated and the system becomes more and more unsustainable. Yet, we have merely picked around the edges of Act 60/68 to make minor adjustments.
The time for minor adjustments is over. And the time for placing the blame on school boards and local communities is over. It's time for Montpelier to stand up and show some leadership. We put the system into place and we should take responsibility for the fact that it is broken and needs to be reformed.
The Vermont House had an opportunity to do just that, when I put forward an amendment that would have required an actual commitment on our part. It would have required that a new education funding system be developed and in place for the 2015-2016 academic year.
While the proposal seemed to have solid support initially, unfortunately, the legislative majority balked once again. Instead of a commitment to reforming the system for the 2015-2016 academic year, we now await yet another report to be published next year.
Make no mistake, my proposal was a thoughtful proposal. It was a proposal that took into consideration the time required to bring stakeholders and people of all political stripes together to develop a better system - a system that would provide for greater opportunities for our children and better educational outcomes, at a price and in a way Vermonters can afford.
The General Assembly would have had this entire biennium - two years - to develop such a proposal. And, if legislation was put into place by June 30, 2014, our state would have had an entire year to transition to the new system come July 1, 2015.
Vermonters are struggling and asking Montpelier to do something. They deserve action on our part, and instead are getting the runaround.
So as Vermonters head to Town Meeting Day, I encourage them to take this opportunity to inquire of their legislators where they stood on this issue last week. Did your representative support ensuring a real reform takes place, or did he/she vote simply to require another report to be delivered next year?
After all, in order to make real change, people throughout the state must stand up and be heard.
Heidi E. Scheuermann is a state representative from Stowe
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Man given probation for false murder reports
James Eaton Jr., 52, pleaded no contest on Sept. 4 to a felony charge of identity theft. The state dropped two misdemeanor charges of giving false information to a police officer, and false alarm. He was arraigned on those charges in November 2011 and has been held since.
Eaton's sentence, which was handed down Monday by Judge Cortland Corsones, involves a two- to three-year suspended sentence with 15 months to serve, which he has been given credit for. His probation period will be for three years, during which time he must follow the directions of mental health professionals.
According to police, in November 2011 Eaton called them saying he was another man and claimed to have killed his wife and their two young children. He directed police to the home of the man in question, who told police he had no children and his wife was not home. The man said he was not the one to call police and report anything.
The man told the Banner in an interview that he was placed in handcuffs by police, had their weapons pointed at him, and was held for about 20 minutes while they determined nothing was wrong.
Police investigated further and determined it was likely Eaton who made the call. He told police he often has periods where he does not remember his actions but admitted the voice on the recorded call sounded like his.
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"Remington Park Cares" and promoting responsible gaming for all of our guests is of serious importance to Remington Park and Global Gaming RP, LLC. It is a cornerstone in maintaining our continued respect within the community and our commitment to good faith operational integrity.
We would like everyone who gambles at our Racetrack-Casino to fully and responsibly enjoy their experience. Having fun and enjoying the excitement of horse racing and casino games should be considered just one more additional quality option to your entertainment choices. It should be a planned, budgeted and well considered choice, similar to an evening at the theater, attending a stage play, or dinner & dancing. When gaming is but one considered choice in your entertainment repertoire, and not a singular compulsive necessity, you can feel good about enjoying this uniquely diverse entertainment option. However, we understand that for some, gambling responsibly is no longer an option. When gambling stops being "FUN" and becomes a compulsion, it is time to stop gambling.
In addition to providing problem gambling help resource information and contacts, we offer a dignified "Self-Exclusion" process to those who know they need a little more help staying away from our gaming property. Guests may fill out a "Self-Exclusion Request Form" through any of our Security Supervisory Staff. By filling out and signing this form, the guest will have voluntarily restricted their gaming privileges at Remington Park. These restrictions include the denial of check cashing privileges, removal from all Remington Park Marketing & Club Remington mailing lists, and restriction from all play privileges.
If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, call 1-800-522-4700 or 405-801-3329 to reach the Oklahoma Association of Problem and Compulsive Gambling crisis counseling help and referral line, for appropriate services assistance.
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Remington Park would like to provide a fun, exciting environment for all of our guests. We want all of you to enjoy your stay at our racetrack, food venues and casino. Parent/guardian accompanied children are welcome in all Racing and public areas, except on the Casino Floor. But, it's important to remember that just like in any other public place; children should never be left alone or unattended. This means that parents must be responsible for supervising their children at all times in all of our public areas. Remington Park works hard to provide the highest quality safety for its guests and their children. However, the ultimate responsibility for children and minors who are at this property lies first and foremost with their parents and guardians. Remington Park has a zero tolerance for guests who fail to maintain appropriate responsibility for their children. It is never allowed for parents/guardians to leave children (or pets) in their vehicle, unattended, while visiting our gaming facility. Any violation of this policy will lead to an immediate ejection and a potential "Ban" of the parent or guardian from future visits to Remington Park property.
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Nitto Dune Grappler Desert Terrain Tire - Dual Sport Shredders
Nitto Expands its Off-Road Tire Lineup for Desert Duty With the Dune Grappler Tire
Those of you who live in the Southwest are probably aware of the fact that off-roading for us consists primarily of haulin' butt through hard-packed dirt, sand, and silt in terrain that is relatively flat but with a lot of deep whoop sections. We don't receive much rain out here, but we do receive tons of wind, which sculpts our terrain rather than drowning it. Although there is mountainous terrain available to romp through in your sport truck, desert racing is where it's at for many of us here. The reason we like desert racing so much is because it combines two things we dig: off-roading and speed. There's nothing like blasting across a rough section of dirt as fast as your truck's suspension will allow. A great suspension system is important for a fun trip to the dirt, but you also have to have adequate grip. A good set of tires is paramount for maximum grip in the dirt.
A few years ago, the folks at Nitto approached us for input on a tire design they came up with for the lifted-truck, off-road market. The tire would be aimed squarely at the type of truck owner who wanted good looks as well as high performance in the dirt. The result of the brainstorming session between Nitto and Sport Truck is the Dune Grappler Desert Terrain tire, a bitchen addition to the hugely successful Grappler Series.
The Dune Grappler's construction began with a computer simulation that aided in designing a tread pattern that isn't noisy on the street, which we really like, but at the same time offers an aggressive look and excellent traction in the dirt. You can see our input in the flame design on the sidewall of the Dune Grappler. We figured why not add some flash since this is a tire built for the guys who care as much about how their trucks look as they do about how they perform. Few of us will ever get to do any real racing, but with a decent suspension lift and a set of Dune Grapplers, we can at least pretend on the weekends.
The new tire is offered in higher load range ratings of D and E in certain sizes. These higher load ratings make the Nitto Dune Grappler Desert Terrain capable for use with heavyweight trucks, such as Ford Super Dutys and GM Heavy Dutys, as well as other large and midsize trucks on the road today. LT sizes are available with a three-ply sidewall construction for increased puncture resistance. The Dune Grappler Desert Terrain tires also feature Nitto's Bead Block technology, a rim-protector feature designed to offer increased protection to your valuable wheels when you're sliding sideways through the dirt. You don't want to scuff up those new rims against a rock, now do you? At press time, the Dune Grappler is available from 15- to 22-inch wheel sizes, with additional sizes coming soon.
The tire certainly looks cool, but how does it really perform? To find out, we strapped a set of 285/60R18 tires onto a set of 18x8.5-inch American Racing Fuel 8 Teflon-coated wheels and bolted them onto a Dodge Ram 4x4 for a thrash session. The Fuel 8 wheels are from AR's ATX-Series lineup of off-road wheels and are built just for heavy trucks. The eight-spoke design is strong, and the Teflon-coating resists UV-fading and will stand up to the harsh off-road environment. Here's what Mike Kim had to say:
"The Nitto Dune Grapplers are very quiet on the highway. There is very little road noise that can be heard in the cab. The tire's sidewall feels fairly rigid, so spirited driving is no problem even in a nearly 4-ton truck. Even under heavy cornering, the tire doesn't fold on itself, which is a testament to the strength of its sidewall construction. The tires have good traction during hard acceleration and braking, as well. Only when the pavement gets wet do the tires tend to slip a bit.
In off-road situations, the tires provide good traction on hard-pack surfaces, which make up much of the off-roading that I do. Braking and accelerating on hard pack inspires confidence as well as cornering. Since these tires were not designed for driving in deep mud, they tend to clog up a bit as soon as you hit muddy sections of dirt. Traction in deep sand was adequate, and the tires are more than capable of getting you from Point A to Point B, with smooth application of the gas pedal. Overall, these are great tires for street driving as well as the occasional off-road excursion."
So, there you have it. Nitto's Dune Grapplers look cool and get the job done in the dirt, no matter if you run through sand or hard pack. This is also a tire you can commute to work on because you'll still be able to hear your favorite MP3s without cranking the stereo to 99. These tires are extremely quiet, and when you spend 98 percent of your time on the freeway and not the dirt, that characteristic suddenly becomes very important. And this combination of American Racing's Fuel 8 wheel and Nitto's Dune Grappler tire looks damn good, even if you play in the dirt or on the street.


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If you're convinced you'll never be able to learn bird calls, start with the Gray Catbird. Once you've heard its catty mew you won't forget it. Follow the sound into thickets and vine tangles and you'll be rewarded by a somber gray bird with a black cap and bright rusty feathers under the tail. Gray Catbirds are relatives of mockingbirds and thrashers, and they share that group's vocal abilities, copying the sounds of other species and stringing them together to make their own song.
Male Gray Catbirds sing a long, halting series of short notes collected into "phrases," which combine to make a song. One whole song can last many minutes. Sounds include whistles, squeaks, gurgles, whines, and nasal tones. The notes often are imitations of other birds as well as of frogs and mechanical sounds. The series of sounds is random, but certain notes are often repeated. While mockingbirds tend to repeat phrases three or more times, and Brown Thrashers typically sing phrases twice before moving on, Catbirds usually don't repeat phrases. Females sing infrequently, and when they do, their songs are sung more quietly.
The most common call is a raspy mew that sounds like a cat. Catbirds also make a loud, chattering chek-chek-chek and a quiet quirt.
To attract Gray Catbirds, plant shrubs in areas of your yard near young deciduous trees. Catbirds also love fruit, so you can entice them with plantings of native fruit-bearing trees and shrubs such as dogwood, winterberry, and serviceberry.
Listen for the distinctive mew call of the Gray Catbird, or for its imitation of several species during a long, seemingly improvised series of notes. When the male is singing, look for him at the top of a dense, tangled thicket. Gray Catbirds will also often come to investigate if you make a "pishing" sound when they are in the area.
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text: Dear V4L/DVB guys, We are proud to announce that we are doing some important steps to improve v4l/dvb development. Currently, the projects use a very old SCM (Source Configuration Management), based on RCS files (CVS). Although it was good in the past, now newer concepts were introduced to SCM that allows better models of development. It brings several advantages over CVS like: 1) Capable of being decentralized. Each developer may have its own local copy, with local commits; 2) Atomic commits. on rcs based systems, you have a separate control for each file, not for the patchset. On newer SCMs, the patchset is stored as an unique unit; 3) Better handling for conflict resolution; 4) Commit undo And others. For a better description of Mercurial, you should look at http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/. They have also an IRC channel on freenode (#mercurial). >From now, cvs access are marked as not to be used, since hg is available. You can retrieve hg via: http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb The same URL is used for both web view of the tree and web access. With Mercurial, to retrieve a dynamic generated tarball from latest stuff (as well as for any part of the tree). To get the tarball of the latest version you can do: 1) Open http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb on your favorite browser; 2) go to Tips line and click on it; 3) It will open a view of current tags. Click on manifest at the tip line; 4) A tree graph will be showed. You will see near the top an option to get a <gz> or <bz2>. Click on one of these and you will receive a tarball with the latest version. To install mercurial, some distros already have it. If not available, you can Download a binary version (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/BinaryPackages) or retrieve a source file (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/Download). The source file URL contains some instructions to install it. Basically: 1) extract the tarball; 2) cd mercurial* 3) perl setup.py install python-2.3 or upper is required. After having mercurial installed: hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb This will create a new dir, called v4l-dvb, and put all stuff there. To update to the latest version on tree (inside v4l-dvb dir): make update (this is an alias for hg pull -u http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb) There is a readme file at v4l-dvb called README.HG that contains some basic instructions for people that wants to generate new patches. Cheers, Mauro.


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Trending on HGTV.com: How to Paint Furniture
- We've seen a spike in the number of online readers searching for tips on how to paint furniture. It's a quick, inexpensive way to give old pieces a dramatic new look, which can transform an entire room.
Designer Tyler Wisler says, "Painting is always the easiest and quickest way to give any outdated piece of furniture an instant makeover, but the key to all of it, regardless of the color choice, is to prep. Prep, prep, prep those pieces correctly! Just grabbing a can of paint and having at it will inevitably end in cracked and peeling paint in no time. A good once over with a fine grit sandpaper, then a thorough wipe down with a damp cloth to get rid of any dust particles, is the simplest way to get the paint to stick to the piece and will last so much longer!"
If you want to give it a try, follow these "8 Simple Steps on How to Paint Furniture."
After you've done the prep work, get creative!
The October/November 2012 issue of HGTV Magazine featured DIY projects using inexpensive mini sample jars of paint.
If you're going for a vintage look, check out our step-by-step guide on "How to Distress Furniture."


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A reader from Ohio writes:
I live in Ohio and my husband and I went to a strip club recently called Palace in the Pines. The front half is bikini and the back half is full nudity. Before we came I called and found out that women weren't allowed in the back, which angered me greatly.
So while in the front half I went to double confirm this info with the bartender who was female. The bartender had no idea women weren't allowed in the back and didn't even seem to care. I was so mad that I confronted the man who seemed to be the owner of the joint and he wouldn't give me a reason why nor would he give my husband one. I was so furious for being told that I couldn't do something because I was a woman.
I went to the club because I'm bi and enjoy strip clubs, and then I get told I, a paying customer, is not allowed [into part of the club because of her gender]. Is there anything I can do? [Is there] anyone that can help me? I thought the women on your staff would be interested in knowing what a crappy place that is incase they're ever traveling in the area and were interested in checking it out.
[Unfortunately we don't have a correspondent in Ohio. Perhaps there is someone out there who will volunteer for the job. -Ed.]
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