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Will D-Block allocation have to wait until 2012?
With just about two weeks left in the year and only a handful of days left in Congress' scheduled session, there is now just a glimmer of hope that our early-2011 optimism on D-Block allocation was well placed
As we began the year 2011, many of the public safety professionals — and their ardent advocates among politicians and private citizens — were becoming downright optimistic that "this would be the year" in which Congress would allocate D-Block spectrum to public safety and provide sufficient funding to realize a nationwide, interoperable Public Safety Broadband Network. This would be, after all, the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and creating such an interoperable communications system was the only remaining "to do" from the list of security improvements recommended by the bipartisan 9/11 Commission.
We weren't even a month into the New Year when President Obama made clear reference to the D-Block issue, and indicated his Administration's strong support for the interests of public safety. Even in the days leading up to that Presidential State of the Union Address — which included magic words like "public safety" and "broadband" in close proximity — there had been rumblings that behind-the-scenes meetings were taking place on Capitol Hill and its environs (read: K Street) that led observers to conclude we might finally be on a path toward imminent allocation to public safety of the so-called D-Block of 700MHz wireless broadband spectrum.
"How could it not get done this year?" we had collectively asked. Even I — a man who notoriously awakens in the morning cynical and pessimistic, remaining in that state until returning to dreamland again that night — had a feeling that enough momentum had been obtained for this issue to be finally resolved in a way that supported police officers, firefighters, and EMTs. Well, with just about two weeks left in the year and only a handful of days left in Congress' scheduled session, there is now just a glimmer of hope that our optimism was well placed.
Where Are We Now?
The issue of D-Block allocation (and funding) has been added onto at least two pieces of last-minute legislation which are to be voted upon before our elected officials return home to shake babies and kiss hands during the Christmas break. Speculation continues that it could be added to a variety of other bills, although as days dwindle that possibility becomes more and more remote.
Late last week, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) added to his proposed bill which would extend the payroll tax cut and also provide some $5 billion for the buildout of a nationwide LTE network for first responders. One week prior to that, Representative Greg Walden (R-Ore.) proposed similar legislation, with the potentially show-stopping stipulation that public safety return its 700 MHz narrowband spectrum to the FCC. Most of us who support D-Block allocation are not particularly pleased with the idea of that narrowband giveback being attached to such a vital piece of legislation.
"Make no mistake. Public safety continues to have serious concerns with some aspects of the legislation being proposed, especially with respect to the proposed giveback of critical existing narrowband spectrum, and a troubling governance model" stated my friend Harlin McEwen in a written statement following news of the Walden bill being voted upon by the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Communications and Technology.
"However," continued McEwen in that same document, "we are united like never before in our shared commitment to work constructively with all Members of Congress and their collective leadership in both Houses of Congress to finally advance a workable solution that meets both the political realities in Washington DC, and the mission-critical operational realities throughout the nation. This is a critical time for all of us in this process, and none of us can afford to accept any attempts to minimize or politicize the level of unity that our nation's first responders, state and local officials, and other stakeholders have on these issues at this important time."
Let us not forget that both of these recent legislative moves come in the wake of the much-publicized failure in late November of the "Super Committee" to resolve the National Debt problem — their final drafts had included language supportive of allocation to public safety of the D-Block as well as funding necessary to build out the LTE network.
Where Are We Going?
Earlier this month, my friends over at the Public Safety Alliance issued a pair of press releases indicating continued hopefulness that we will finally witness enactment of legislation to allocate that 10MHz of D-Block spectrum and provide up to $6.5 billion for construction of a 20MHz nationwide, interoperable public safety broadband network for our nation's first responders.
"Like all Americans, we recognize and appreciate our nation's current fiscal and economic realities," opined Sheriff Paul Fitzgerald, President of the National Sheriffs' Association in one of those written statements. "That is why it is so important that Congress complete action on comprehensive spectrum legislation this year to spur the economy, create jobs, ensure competitiveness in the marketplace, and provide public safety and first responders with the mission-critical broadband capabilities desperately needed to efficiently and effectively protect, mitigate and respond to emergencies each and every day, everywhere in the country, whether in the most rural outposts or the most urban, congested settings."
If a person were to read the tea leaves on both of the abovementioned recent legislative proposals, they would have to conclude that neither last-ditch effort stands much of a chance of passage — both of them also have language supporting the buildout of a controversial oil pipeline from Canada to Texas, a proposal steadfastly opposed by many Democrats which has been essentially stonewalled by the Obama Administration for a year or more.
Frankly, it's my opinion that such a failure might not end up being such a bad thing. As much as passage before the year's end is appealing, getting it done "right" is better than getting it done "right now."
I'm reminded of the Contractor's Credo: "We can build it inexpensively, build it well, and build it quickly... now choose two of those because you cannot have all three."
Most of us who have followed this issue closely for a long time remain supportive of S.911, also known as the Public Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act of 2011. That bill had been introduced by Democrat Jay Rockefeller, who serves as Commerce Committee Chairman, and had been strongly supported by Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison, Ranking Commerce Committee Member. As you will recall, S.911 moved out of committee in June with an overwhelming majority (21-4) of Republican and Democratic members of the committee and appeared at the time to be on a fast track toward a full vote prior to the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
This, as we now know, was not to be. Regardless, S.911 remains a very viable bill for reintroduction in early 2012, and it has continued to have the support of a number of heavy-hitters on both sides of the aisle. Here are some other key provisions of the Public Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act:
• Allocate 10 megahertz of spectrum known as the "D-Block" to public safety
• Establish a framework for the deployment of a nationwide, interoperable, wireless broadband network for public safety
• Direct the FCC to establish standards that allow public safety officials, when not using the network, to lease capacity on a secondary, but pre-emptible basis to non-public safety entities.
• Provide the FCC with incentive auction authority, which allows existing spectrum licensees to voluntarily relinquish their airwaves in exchange for a portion of the proceeds of the commercial auction of their spectrum. This provides new incentives for efficient use of spectrum. In addition, the funds from these incentive auctions, in conjunction with funds from the auction of other specified spectrum bands, and funds earned from leasing the public safety network on a secondary basis, will be used to fund the construction and maintenance of the nationwide, interoperable, wireless broadband public safety network
• Direct the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Standards and Technology to conduct research into transformative wireless technologies
• Surplus revenue from spectrum auctions, estimated to be more than $10 billion, will be directed to the U.S. Treasury for deficit reduction
One Final Word...
Most of my sources indicate to me that if this Congressional session ends without passage of a bill allocating the D-Block to public safety, Senators Jay Rockefeller and Kay Bailey Hutchison will put S.911 back into the mix in 2012. Further, if past is prologue, we may see similar bills introduced by people such as Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), Congressman Peter King (R-NY), and Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (D-CA).
We must be cognizant of the fact that we're entering an election year — in case you hadn't heard — and that in addition to selecting the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, we will choose one third of all Senators and the entire House of Representatives.
If the ability to communicate with other first responders in your area is at all important to you, please consider taking some manner of action which would let your elected officials know your opinion on the matter. You can bet I will.
Stay safe my friends.


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With that said, I would strongly suggest the Mods delete the posted personal information. Vigilanteism, even of the e-variety, puts this site and the site owner Sean at potential risk.
I understand the desire, but the Mods cannot allow it, no mater how much they (like I) might want to.


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This is a dramatization of the story. I have neither read nor listened to the original story.
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October 12, 2009
Woah - Nikki Out-Takes?!
It's about time ;) Nikki needs to do more shoots.
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- Lorabell
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I adore ladies with beauty moles, especially ones on the right side of their faces.ReplyDelete
Maybe that is why I love myself so much - HA!
- AnonymousOctober 12, 2009 at 1:57 AM
I too have been wondering where Nikki has been. But I'm not liking these pics for some reason. She doesn't look as attractive as I remember.ReplyDelete
These are not at all attractive she should sue. Though I don't think she is anywhere near as attractive as either Kristen, Ashley or Elizabeth she really was trashed by these photos.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 12, 2009 at 4:42 AM
These pictures are perfect....besides the blurry one.ReplyDelete
Obviously, they aren't glamour shoots.
To me, they represent the real Nikki and also represent real women. She's not dressed up to look sexy or attractive, just real.
I'm sure if they wanted to, they could have easily made her look "attractive".
Props to Nikki for doing this photoshoot.
- AnonymousOctober 12, 2009 at 9:15 AM
she's not attractative like Ashley, Kristen or Rachelle but she's kinda cute. Even all dressed up she's just cute.ReplyDelete
Sorry Wen, I don't think you get it. Nikki is wearing hardly any makeup in these photos. She is barely modeling. She's just hanging out. She's beautiful, they just haven't dolled her up as much as they usually do, because she's being casual. She looks really cute. And when she's got lots of makeup, she's really gorgous.ReplyDelete
@ IvyReplyDelete
Truly beauty/cuteness is in the eye of the beholder and Nikki to me is just not in the same class as the other gorgeous woman of the Twilight Saga.
- AnonymousOctober 12, 2009 at 5:25 PM
i get what you mean Ivy but she is NOT a natural beauty so she looks not attractive without make up and all like in these pictures.ReplyDelete
And even when she has make up, she's not attractive.
She's just not beautiful.
- AnonymousOctober 12, 2009 at 9:52 PM
i think she looks absolutely stunning here!ReplyDelete


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He was born March 3, 1930, in Booneville to Charles Oscar and Nellie May Hardin Dempsey. He and Joyce Micklewright were married in 1953 while they were students at Arkansas Tech University. They both later obtained graduate degrees from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Don was an All-American linebacker at ATU in 1954, and coached at Mountain Home High School from 1955 to 1958, where he was inducted into the Sports Hall of Honor in 2012. He moved back to Russellville to coach at Arkansas Tech in 1959, and became the head coach from 1967-1975. He was also ATU's Athletic Director from 1974-1976, and was inducted into the ATU Hall of Distinction in 1995. Don continued at Tech as a professor until his retirement in 1996.
He served in the U. S. Army during the Korean Conflict in the 1950's, remaining with the Army Reserves at Camp Robinson in Little Rock until 1990, retiring as a Colonel in the reserves.
Don served on the Russellville School Board and was a former member of the Russellville Country Club where he was an avid golfer, was a member of the American Legion, the Green and Gold Club at Arkansas Tech and the First United Methodist Church.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Joyce Micklewright Dempsey; a daughter, Sheryl Houston; and several brothers and sisters.
Survivors include his children, Doris Nelson of Houston, Texas, Donna Gwaltney and husband, Frank, of Russellville and Chuck Dempsey and wife, Tracy, of Scottsdale, Ariz.; grandchildren include Brent Houston and his wife, Holly, of Chicago, Ill., Cheyne Houston and wife, Candice, of Winslow, Lindsay Kurs and husband, David, of Marina Del Rey, Calif., Megan Anderson of Houston, Texas, Jeff Gwaltney and wife, Lynnsey, and Kevin Gwaltney, both of Fayetteville, and Anna and Lauren Gwaltney, both of Russellville; and great-grandchildren are Sol, Aley, Ivy and Arlo Houston, all of Winslow.
The funeral service will begin at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 2, 2013, at First United Methodist Church, officiated by the Rev. Gail Brooks. Private burial will be in Brearley Cemetery at Dardanelle, by Shinn Funeral Service of Russellville. The family will receive friends from 4:30-6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, at the funeral home.
The online obituary and guestbook are available at www.shinnfuneral.com.


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Quote:I think Mr Davies and Shantungbs probably spend their time training in arts that are "too deadly" to compete with, would I be right?
Quote:If someone decides to fight a guy wielding a knife and gets cut, what's to comment on? The only decision should have been NOT to engage. The fact that he only got cut eight times would to me seem like a victory, but I can't comment on this because I've not seen it. Provide a link perhaps?Question for you though Kimo, what "should" he have done?
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Quote:Makes for an interesting session that was rigged from the start.
Quote: Quote:Makes for an interesting session that was rigged from the start. Well, I can't disagree with you, maybe tyhe reality is that Jason just played his part and let himself get stabbed because it was in the script. But for sake of the thread I assumed he was trying to defend himself.
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text: This is probably gonna be one of the more obsessive threads, but what the frunk? I was wondering if anyone else is hankering for an honest to god accurate release of Trek on Blu-Ray? I mean, as close to original "Night of Broadcast" as possible, like The Twilight Zone Definitive Edition was. What we have at this point is pretty spotty. The picture is gorgeous, but there are a lot of video and sound issues that I would love to see fixed, such as: 1. Actually including the true mono broadcast track. What we have is sometimes right, most times not. Comparing the sound mix of the Blu-Rays to the DVDs and laserdiscs brings up myriad changes. The Enterprise engine rumble in the exterior shots was very inconsistent in the original prints. After a while, it was dropped entirely, but on the discs, it is ever-present. Only a very few episodes or scenes omit the sound. Even on the "mono broadcast track," it's there. In the first season, a few episodes (like Miri) have the rumble up excessively loud, drowning out the captain's logs. In the final two seasons, there was originally no rumble at all. Starting with the DVDs, it was put in and remains in the "original broadcast" track. 2. The opening credits of The Man Trap and Charlie X originally Gene Roddenberry's "created by" credit. These were missing from the syndicated prints starting in the 80's and restored for the DVDs. They were missing again on the Blu-Rays. 3. The electric violin theme was used only in the first 8 episodes, I believe. The DVDs restored it well past that, but never fixed the end credits, which all had the cello theme (aside from WNMHGB). The Blu-Rays kept a couple of violin versions (specifically The Corbomite Maneuver), but returned the rest to the cello theme. 4. A couple of episodes on the Blu-Rays have the new CGI credits no matter which option you choose. 5. The Menagerie part 2 uses music from The Doomsday Machine and the Fred Steiner Charlie X rerecording in place of the original tracks. Now that all of the music was beautifully preserved on album, this can be fixed. Other music issues (unrelated to copyright) are scattered across the three seasons. 6. The cross fade in the final act of WHMHGB (after Kirk calls the Enterprise) is now a jump cut. Yeah, big deal, but again, not "night of broadcast." There are more, but I'm being anal as it is. I'm just surprised there are as many non-copyright alterations as there are. I'd love to know what prompted some of them, aside from making it "surround sound." I understand that stuff, which explains what goes on in the Hi-Fi track. Other things would be lovely to have such as the previews back in their proper place, the pilots in the first season set, network ID tags and sponsor billboards and the various network and syndication promos. All of these could be stuck in as a seamless branching option. Music only tracks would be amazing, but with the CD set, that may be redundant. I'm a huge fan of preserving the feel of what TV was like in the 50's and 60's, and having Trek put out with the extras would be sweet. But I would be happy with the sound and video issues addressed.


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OCEAN CITY – An Ocean City man arrested on several felony charges related to the construction and use of explosives at and near his resort residence last fall, followed by a threat of retaliation against a witness who assisted in the investigation, was convicted in U.S. District Court on Tuesday and was sentenced to 30 months in jail followed by three years of supervised probation.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Norman Arnold, 21, of Ocean City to 30 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised probation for constructing pipe bombs at his residence on 138th Street last September. According to the guilty plea, prior to his arrest last Sept. 11, Arnold bought PVC piping, end caps and large amounts of fireworks, which he used to fashion improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.
Arnold used the materials to make several pipe bombs in a shed located in his backyard. According to court reports, he would place a fuse in the end of the pipe and blow it up. At different times, Arnold was reported to have blown up sections of the beach as well as trash receptacles on the beach near his residence on 138th Street.
The Ocean City Fire Marshal's Office, assisted by the OCPD, executed a search and seizure warrant on Arnold's 138th Street residence. The Fire Marshal's Office had obtained an arrest warrant for Arnold after receiving a complaint the suspect threatened to set fire to or blow up a vehicle belonging to another person dating back to an incident in July 2008.
While serving the warrant on Arnold, members of the Fire Marshal's Office Bomb Squad found and confiscated materials used to manufacture destructive devices. The materials confiscated included PVC pipes with affixed end caps that were filled with gunpowder and pre-drilled for a possible fusing system, a one-gallon container of gunpowder, several lengths of PVC pipe, an additional pre-drilled end cap and a spool of hobby fuse.
Investigators at the time were not certain what Arnold's intentions were for the confiscated explosive devices, although he had used several already, according to a release from the U.S. District Attorney's Office. He was taken into custody and charged with one count of threat of arson by setting fire and one count of threat of arson by exploding a destructive device, both felonies that carried a maximum sentence of 10 years in jail.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW — A man trying to start a fire in his fireplace early Sunday sparked a blaze that went out of control and destroyed his home, authorities said.
Firefighters received a call of flames in a single-family home in the 700 block of Sonia Way around 3:30 a.m. and arrived on scene approximately five minutes later to find the house completely ablaze, said Mountain View Fire Department spokeswoman Jaime Garrett.
The resident managed to escape and was not injured, but by the time firefighters knocked down the fire just before 4 a.m., the home was totally gutted. No dollar estimate of damage was immediately available.
Garrett said the resident tried to start a fire in the fireplace, which spread to items inside the house. She said the tragic case is a reminder for people to take special care with heat sources in the winter. One tip is to keep a three-foot space between heaters or fireplaces and flammable materials.
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Q. Hi Dear Oracle. Hope everything's ok over there ;)
I got excited reading that Life Of Pi won as Best Soundtrack at Oscars 2013... so is it true that Paradise is part of it? If yes I'll be more excited. actually! And you? Thanks a lot xxx MC
No, Paradise was used as a trailer for the film but the Oscar was given to Mychael Danna for the Best Original Score.


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Discussion in 'Doctor Who' started by Pindar, Aug 29, 2012.
The perfect Brigadier line.
And that is PRECISELY why we're making sure our kids see the classics!
I saw Hartnell and Troughton in the UK as a child, then moved back to the States and only caught the occasional Tom Baker and Peter Davison stories on PBS. Netflix has given me the opportunity to catch up on all that I missed as well as being a source for dependable entertainment that we can share with our (now) 17 & 20-year olds. Alas, it came too late for the 28 year old. He's not yet converted to Whovian. But he's a lifelong Trekkie, so I don't feel that we've failed entirely!
"The War Games", Patrick Troughton's last serial (well, as the full-time Doctor, anyway). Possibly a bit padded over 10 parts, but it's 10 parts featuring Troughton so who cares? Very enjoyable stuff.
It's depressing, but hardly surprising, that there are people who are unaware of or don't care about the existence of classic Who. Such is life, I suppose.
The War Games is fantastic, we need more 10 partners.
It is depressing, but usefull to know who these people are so they can be monitored.
Genesis of the Daleks...Up to part 3.....After AOTD last week i'm now in a classic Dalek mood.
I'm watching a fair bit of Cybermen stories, I watched the rise of the Cybermen two parter recently and I had forgotten how annoying ten and Rose were.
In anticipation of the new series episode I watched Invasion of the Dinosaurs. Pretty enjoyable really. Interesting premise and message with the dinosaurs as more of a fun plot element rather than sole focus.
I like the first episode quite a bit with empty desolate London. Funny how anachronistic just trying to hitch a ride seems these day or a place being dead on Sundays. Pretty gory death scene there especially now in color. Thought the TRex smashing through the house was legitimately cool. People knock the dodgy effects but I would've loved them as a kid and still do in large part. Probably could've done without the extended dino clashing.
Love the Doctor here with his mugging for his mug shot, the retrotastic Whomobile looking awesome and loads ( too much? ) of Venusian martial arts. Could anyone get away with pinky rings and cloaks like Pertwee? Plus he actually saved the day in this one by reversing the polarity.
Peter Wyngarde could pull of that look.
Tomb of the Cybermen, just to remind myself why I like Patrick Troughton as the Doctor so much.
Time Flight, good example of how quickly the Doctor can move on after losing a companion.
Looks like I have time to fit in the 5 Doctors this afternoon, think I'll listen to the Davey T commentary.
I got through parts 1 & 2 of "Spearhead from Space" last week. It's actually the very first Doctor Who I ever watched back when my aunt loaned me some DVDs back in 2004. I'd say I certainly like this story a lot more now that I actually understand what the hell is going on and who all these people are.
Even then, it feels kinda like a different show than even most of the other Pertwee serials. But the whole thing looks amazing on film. It's a shame most of the rest of the show wasn't shot on film too.
Oh, he was always looking for a graceful way to ditch Tegan. I mean, do you see how excruciating he finds the prospect of her joining up with them again at the end of "Arc of Infinity"? He hates that idea even more than Tegan & Nyssa hate the idea of the Doctor inviting Turlough along with them at the end of "Mawdryn Undead."
Well, if you've seen all of the ones that do still exist, I call that a good faith effort. You can still claim "all" by that point. In fact, I don't even think episodes should count against one's total until they've been released on DVD. So you're off the hook for "Reign of Terror," "The Tenth Planet," "The Ice Warriors," "The Ambassadors of Death," "The Mind of Evil," "Terror of the Zygons," "Airlock," & "The Underwater Menace, Part 2." (What about "Planet of the Giants"? Is that out yet?)
Yes, it's pretty good too.
Parts 3 and 4 were cut together to to make it a shorter runnig time so the whole thing comes in about the same length as a modern episode.
Yeah, which is odd given I liked Rose with Nine, and I liked Ten with anyone else. It's just together they went all school-girly for some reason!
Earthshock was the last one I saw, it's always been one of my favorites, the fifth Doctor's catch phrase came from this one, the Cybermen stuck halfway though the door was awesome and I LOVED Tegan's "Mouth on legs" line. But for me my favorite part of the story was the end of part three where the screen is split three ways and you can see the revived Cyberman army, Malcolm Clarke's music was awesome thoughout but especially in that scene.
Pulled finger and watched The Daleks Masterplan 2, The Web of Fear 1 and bit of Inferno.
For shits and giggles I turned the chroma down on the telly: Inferno suddenly became more moody and atmospheric!
I nearly watched Earthshock on Sunday, going through my dvd's I find my copy of the Twin Dilemma has gone missing.
It's pretty annoying as I have all the dvd's that have been released so far.
They were in a mess so I neatly reordered my shelves and it's gone.
Can't quite bring myself to buy it again, but I probably will.
Wait, the 5th Doctor had a catchphrase?
I just finished parts 3 & 4 of "Spearhead from Space" last night. Liz Shaw is absolutely adorable! (It was weird though. Throughout part 4, I kept feeling like I was watching part 5 of 6, not part 4 of 4. I kept waiting for the next cliffhanger and all I got was a resolution.)
I thought Brave Heart Tegan was his catch phrase.
Yes it was and Earthshock was where it started as an ad-lib at that.
I watched The Krotons over he weekend.
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"The Schumann Toccata here is, of course, an enormously demanding work and Wild plays through it with note-perfect accuracy and brilliance. Wild negotiates the thorny difficulties of the Études Symphoniques with great ease but the Fantasie is the highlight of this CD."Fanfare


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Jamie Moyer is 49 years old, but he believes he can still get Major League hitters out.
The soft-tossing lefty, who missed all of last season after undergoing Tommy John surgery, has signed a minor league deal with the Colorado Rockies, according to Fox Sports' Jon Morosi. Moyer will go to spring training with the big club, with a shot at making the roster.
Moyer expects to be at 100 percent health when camp opens next month. In 2010, before his injury, he posted a 4.84 ERA and 1.10 WHIP in 111 2/3 innings for the Phillies.
Moyer, a veteran of 24 Major League seasons, has a 4.24 career ERA and 1.32 career WHIP. time went.
"I don't think that I'm old," Moyer said two years ago, when he was already by far the oldest player in the league. "Regardless of what people think or say I still feel like I can go out and compete, and that's my ultimate job."
There have been older players in the Major Leagues, but few whose best years came when their peers were retiring. That's the difference with Moyer: He won 20 games - the benchmark for pitchers - for the first time at age 38, then did it again at 40. He won just 34 games in his 20s, but has piled up 112 in his 40s. He now has 267 victories for his career, and insists he has no immediate plans to go off into the sunset.
Here are some other baseball players who have stuck around long after hitting the big 4-0:
- Hoyt Wilhelm - Like Moyer, his best years came after his 30th birthday. In fact, he was 29 when he first pitched in the majors, in 1952. Unlike Moyer, Wilhelm, who stuck around until he was 16 days shy of 50, tossed less physically taxing knuckleballs. But those floaters got him to the Hall of Fame after a stellar career as a starter and reliever.
- Phil Niekro - Another knuckleballer who came into his own after turning 30, Niekro pitched until he was 48, piling up 318 wins and making it to the Hall of Fame.
- Nolan Ryan - The exception that proves the rule that only lobbers can last, Ryan was still throwing well over 90 miles per hour when he retired in 1993 at age 46. With 324 career wins, he was elected to the Hal of fame in his first year of eligibility.
- Satchel Paige - All of his best years came in the Negro Leagues, when blacks were barred from the majors. But Paige, who famously said, "Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter." finally got his chance in 1948 at age 41. He pitched for five years before coming back for a three-inning stint in 1965 at age 59. The Red Sox managed just one hit off of him.
- Julio Franco - bona fide superstar at shortstop in the 1980s and early 1990s, Franco used a grueling fitness regimen to prolong his career well into his 40s, finally retiring from a pinch-hitter role with the Mets in 2007 at age 49.
- Minnie Minoso - He retired from a stellar career at age 38 in 1964, but was brought back by the White Sox as a pinch hitter in 1976 at age 50 and again in 1980 at age 54. Call it a stunt, but he can say he played in the major leagues in five different decades.


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Business continuity can depend on old-school record retention.
This Opinion piece looks at how human nature and technology can combine to increase or decrease data security at your credit union.
This Opinion piece looks at disaster recovery and data backup from the homefront.
This Opinion piece looks at how intertwined our work lives can be with our personal lives, technologically speaking.
As credit unions slowly tackle the emerging mobile question, one thing has become certain: members both young and old are requiring ever increasing access to financial products and services to fit their hectic lifestyles.
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A reminder about our vulnerability to the unforeseen, and some practical steps an organization can take.


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The sketches.......I have various techniques for sketching William. A quick pen outline ~ sometimes I will take a photo and work from that ~ or, when he stands still long enough, I'll do a completed drawing.
I draw what he gets up to, no matter what the finished drawing looks like. I hope you enjoy seeing them......ann
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With a quarter of the 2012-2013 season finished and in the books this is how the numbers stack up.
At 15-5, the Knicks have the best record in the Eastern Conference, our best 20 game start since 95-96.
They say it's not how you start but how you finish. In fact, "finish" is a big mantra by another team in town, the New York Giants. The Giants have 2 Superbowl titles in the last 5 years and both have the common factor of finishing strong in the face of adversity. The Knicks should understand that there is still room for improvement.
We have a league leading 6 wins by 20 or more points.
Hiring Coach Woodson full time was a topic of controversy since his takeover of the lifeless Knicks. The old Knicks lacked defensive intensity and cohesion among other things. Using the same exact roster with limitations apparent, Coach Woodson has turned water into wine. The roster and tweaks made over the off-season have reflected the changes Coach Woodson wanted and the team needed. We had potential, but as time has told us, we needed the right coach.
18-1 at home since Coach Woodson took over.
Can you believe that stat? There was a time when teams would fear coming to the Garden. That all changed when instead of teams staying awake at night with the impending rugged Knick team in wait, teams began staying awake at night partying and living it up knowing those Knicks had no chance. The Garden became the enemy's stage to show off. That has all changed.
The Knicks are ranked better offensively than defensively. They are ninth in points allowed and fifth in scoring average.
Part of the formula for success in any league is to rank amongst the best in offense and defense. Teams have won without being the very best, but one compliments the other. There was a time when arguments over what the high offensive rating meant in relation to the Knicks poor defense and rebounding. Just as coach Woodson proved he was the better answer, so too have the stats proved, no matter how many low percentage shots were taken and made in seven seconds or less; it means absolutely nothing without the defense. Hello?!
The Knicks have whipped the Heat twice, and won a rugged road game in San Antonio. They have soared 10 games over .500 for the first time since the end of the 2000-01 season, are the NBAs lone unbeaten team at home and own the best record in the Eastern Conference at 15-5.
With 20 games in, this is no fools gold. As per the winning formula, win the majority of home games and go at least .500 on the road has been preached by Coach many times. Those wins against the top teams helps put things into perspective. When the Knicks beat the Sixers twice in back to back games early in the season, there was the observation that the Sixers were short staffed missing Bynum. What has happened since added validity to who the Knicks are. In other words, Bynum probably wouldn't have helped much.
They're No. 2 in the league in offensive efficiency behind only the Oklahoma City Thunder.
When I think of efficiency I think of our leaders Chandler, Kidd, and Melo. All have contributed to the efficient manner in which the Knicks go about their business. Part of this is due to coach Woodson intentionally slowing down the offense and designing plays that showcase our strengths- size and IQ. We are versatile which is something no one saw but many fans have dreamed about. We can go P & R, or we can shoot the lights out. It's pick your poison, and you can't spell that (unless you add the e) without poise. Jason Kidd and co. are cool calm and collected.
Entering play Monday, Kidd had the second-best assist to turnover ratio in the NBA and the second-highest 3-point field goal percentage (50%). He also had the best true shooting percentage (a percentage that accounts for free-throws and 3-points) among NBA guards.
We had the fewest turnovers in the league and the top assist to turnover ratio guards with Kidd and Felton. Turnovers will kill any team, and I for one was tired of us beating ourselfs.
Tyson Chandler The All-Star candidate is now averaging a fraction off a double-double 12.8 and 9.9 rebounds while shooting 71 percent.
I recall imploring our old coach to use our assets like Tyson Chandler more. Unfortunately it was a rookie point guard that figured this out and not our coach. Maybe that was because he was from Harvard.
Anthony ranks third in the NBA in scoring at 26.8 points per game, and his 56.9 true shooting percentage -- a measure of shooting efficiency that takes into account field goals, 3-point field goals and free throws -- is a career-high, according to ESPN Stats & Information.
Melo as any star was open for criticism, he couldn't do enough. Although myself and others reminded detractors of him being the only talent who wasn't afraid to show up when it counted, that didn't matter. The biggest knock on Melo was his isolation prowess that some claimed interfered with the offense and his inefficient play with inferior teammates. Well thanks to coach Woodson and his influence in bringing in new qualified talent as well as molding Melo into a better leader; Melo is now a bona fide MVP candidate.
Yes Knick fans the time has come to put the league on notice, our wait is over. I won't predict a chip or go overboard, and really to be in the hunt for a chip is all a fan could ask for. Thanks go out to our Coach and front office.
I want to also thank Coach D'antoni... if anything he made it so obvious what we needed. So much so that it couldn't be ignored. We still have a ways to go and still haven't added everyone to our formula. There is no doubt Coach Woodson can and will achieve meshing our entire squad. To question that after our 1/4 season accomplishment, is just foolish.
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Photo Flash: First Look at Remy Bumppo's YOU CAN NEVER TELL
When Shaw saw The Importance of Being Earnest, he decided to show Oscar Wilde how to really write comedy. The result was You Never Can Tell, loaded with dazzling wit and pointed jabs at turn of the century British society.
Set in an English seaside resort, a young penniless dentist is swept up into the delightful world of a formidable feminist authoress and her three eccentrically-raised children, none of whom know the identity of their father. Invited to lunch, the dentist instantly falls in love with the elder daughter and must now negotiate a maze of family dramas, lawyers, and long-lost fathers, aided and abetted by a kindly old waiter. Shaw's beloved combination of dazzling wit and clear-eyed social critique makes this romantic comedy of mismatched parents and children a perfect holiday treat for the whole family.
Will lovers unite? Will the children ever learn who their father is? Will parents' wills prevail? Will the twins ever shut up? And will these men survive Shaw's "woman of the 20th century"? You never can tell.
Shawn Douglass, who directed the theatre's acclaimed presentation of Earnest, is back at the helm, and Greg Matthew Anderson back on the boards, in this multi-generational romp of mistaken identity and ever-changing relationships at a seaside resort.
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We are Columban priests and lay missionaries, called to be a missionary presence in Britain and work for Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation. Climate Change is a priority issue, and indeed is seen as a challenge to be missionary in a new ways in the 16 countries where Columbans work.
Commitment for Life - United Reform Church
Commitment for Life is the world development programme of the United Reformed Church. It encourages participating churches to take action, pray and give for people across the world but especially in our four partner countries of Bangladesh, Jamaica, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory and Zimbabwe. We work in partnership with Christian Aid and The World Development Movement raising over half a million pounds a year from contributing churches.
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Concern Universal is an international development organisation tackling poverty from the grassroots. We create opportunities for people around the world to improve their lives and shape their own futures. By building skills and connecting people at all levels in society, we help communities deliver practical solutions with long term impact. Working with partner organisations, we support community projects that improve livelihoods, promote greater equality and reduce vulnerability. To achieve this, we also influence policy, pioneer business partnerships and engage public support for our approach.
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Discussion in 'Science and Technology' started by RAMA, Apr 7, 2012.
You have one false assumption. Exponential technology.
What history books are you reading? The United States has been at war pretty much continuously since its inception. Sixty five percent of our GDP is military spending, as is eighty percent of our national debt. We spent the first decade of the twenty first century involved in not one but TWO major land wars and are peripherally involved in four others.
"Relatively" peaceful? If so, it's only because most of the major world powers are currently getting along with each other -- for the most part, anyway -- and so the only major conflicts involve either small countries or organizations butting heads in regional conflicts or very large countries bombing the piss out of smaller ones for no coherent reason.
Yes, which means the WiFi network is that much easier to take out, since only a handful of targets need to be struck to disable it entirely. This is a fairly different case from, say, cable communications with its many redundant lines or conventional radio which can only be blocked by jamming or precision targeting of all possible transmitters; you could produce a pretty effective WiFi blackout in a given area just by bombing a half dozen base stations whose locations are already well known.
And with that, the ability of immature people to wield power irresponsibly. This is the point of technology you're not getting: just because somebody invents a better device doesn't mean the USERS of that device will be better people. For every RAMA that finds personal enlightenment on the internet there are ten Jihadist wackos who use the internet purely for downloading porn, stolen credit card numbers and bomb-making manuals (usually in that order) plus three guys on 4chan posting animated gifs of David Hasselhoff farting on Kim Katrel's face.
The technology alone doesn't change the agendas of the people who currently hold all the social and political power in the world; it hasn't, and it won't. The same technology that allows some peasants in Rwanda to learn CNC machining can just as easily be used by the Rwandan government to selectively exclude them from the workforce and keep the existing social order in place.
It's not the growth that they would attempt to stop, though. In fact, they're probably not interested in curbing that growth anyway, they might even wish to accelerate it.
What they would and will seek to prevent is the use of that technology to benefit their social/political competitors, anyone who threatens the existing power structure.
To use a concrete example: they don't have to prevent the invention of online universities or educational software, and they probably wouldn't bother. They COULD, however, pass laws that devalue educational certifications obtained by online programs or strip the accreditation of institutions that depend on that newer educational software. Politicians can easily pretend there's a legitimate political reason for it, but in the end they would be motivated purely by the desire to protect the massive financial investments in traditional universities whose founders may or may not be bribing the fuck out of them.
Nobody's disputing that. The question is whether or not these new technologies will produce a radical change in the existing power structure in these countries. I'm telling you that it won't, because all of these programs depend on the cooperation of local governments and trans-national organizations. For many of these governments, there is a point where the people could become TOO empowered, and most of them are just insecure enough to undertake some kind of harsh draconian measures long before they ever get to that point.
A few of them already have.
That doesn't make the WORKERS more competitive, which is my point. The American worker cannot reasonably compete with the Chinese family unless they are willing to accept a slightly lower standard of living that their international competitors are used to. That's the origin of the phrase "race to the bottom", a very real and persistent economic problem.
Of course. They have a choice between lowering their standard of living to below those of a third-world worker, or retraining for a career with twice the technical requirements and twice the educational investment just to keep their PRESENT standard of living. The greater the technical requirements for an honest living, the fewer people are able to MAKE a living with the knowledge they have, and the people who DO have those greater skills find their knowledge is less and less valuable as time goes on.
It's enough to sat, the point at which your workers have to have a PhD in computer science just to run a cash register is the wrong time to wonder if the globalist economy isn't all it's cracked up to be.
That's like saying "Just because the Earth orbits the sun doesn't mean it always will." There isn't much reason to believe this will change any time soon.
Voice Recognition technology as primary input (instead of keyboard/mouse) by 2020
Artificial intelligence for children to interact with when no friends or siblings 2020
NFC/RFID Readers in mobile phones RFID chips in many retail products changing retail industry completely 2015-2020
Fiber-to-The-Home in the rural & suburban areas of the USA delivering Internet access as well as HD Video-on-demand services. Including state legislation that all commercial and residential new structures be prewired/cabled for fiber to every unit.
Self-driving cars around 2025
The violence of our age is generally over-represented in the media. We have a tendency to turn the past into a golden age, but it's not really so:
Social evolution tends to lag behind, but I would argue that it still moves at least parallel with technological development. Aside from the above Steve Pinker links, we can see the world reaction to wars and events since the 60s, protests and so on. Such points of view were not to be found in earlier wars to any great degree. Same thinkg with nuclear proliferation. According to Hans Rosling, social/health/organizational changes help increase influence more before wealth does. Developing countries that gain wealth and influence solve social problems first to a great degree.
As far as the singularity goes, this is a totally different animal. I've already shared some thoughts on it, I feel we will perceive the world totally different after that point, and a transhuman transition period beforehand will make us more enlightened.
Not alone it doesn't but more than ever it provides tools to do so. The people and gov't that don't change agendas will be left behind. The use of these tools isn't supposition, it's already in evidence around the world.
Such AI already exists! SIRI for example.
Voice recognition can be used everyday by the avg person. I have it on my phone but rarely use it. I was in a cell phone store yesterday and the software translated everything spoken in the demo perfectly.
I'm wondering just how much fiber optics are going to be used as wi-fi penetrates our life further.
Plenty of evidence to the contrary:
"Accelerating returns" then...which goes beyond the original "Moore's Law" (as the extract and graph shows, Moore's law was the fifth paradigm of exponential growth in computing...the next generation is almost here already...http://www.kurzweilai.net/images/chart03.jpg). The greatest criticism to exponential growth is that it comes to an end, in fact it does, but only for the next paradigm to follow.
A quote from my own post on another thread about the subject:
Yes! The artistic, engineering and tech strides of modern times is actually underestimated...in past centuries, there were often only a handful of humans involved with expanding the frontiers of human creativity and knowledge, sometimes their rarity (Like Da Vinci, Galileo, etc) makes their artistry and science even more noteworthy and valuable, but as you suggest, today there are not only more people involved with these endeavors, the ratio is much higher. Another reason: not just sheer numbers, but when one culture builds upon the developments of another, there is where the increased pace(exponential) ignites.
Ah ah ah. Don't move the goal posts. The point was about war, not violence.
fiber-optic cable has a large potential capacity.
There is one more technology in the next 25 years that will take off but not be mainstream:
I will never underestimate the the influence of sex in technology. Although the definition of sex, or even what it will be after a potential singularity would be anyone's guess...but before that, sure, it'll be as pervasive as it ever was, or even moreso.
Which is one of the first things talked about in the video...
The video is also conflating violence with war. still moving the goal posts. Not everything T.E.D. is great or correct.
That's true, but in this case Pinker is one of the most respected men in his field. His qualifications are impeccable. But this is nothing new, because of our limited lifespans, we always think our age is the most violent, the most damaging, the end of times. The facts show the reverse, but no amount of yelling is going to change the mind of the doomsayers and pessimists. Pinker isn't the only one with the statistics, simply do a search and Google and the results will agree that war deaths per conflict have dramatically reduced. Industrialized nations no longer routinely fight each other as in the centuries before WWII, leaving the conflicts to smaller scale civil wars and the like. The greatest pall to hang over the world was the Cold War, and that for all intents and purposes is over. Instant world destruction is less likely.
Who said anything about the media? I'm talking about HISTORY. I live in a country that exists the way it does specifically because it fought a series of extremely violent wars against the native population of the Americas, punctuated by an extremely violent CIVIL war, followed by an equally violent war against Spain, followed by the occupation of the Philippines (which lasted until WW-II and was arguably more contentious than the occupation of Iraq), and that's just the first half of its history BEFORE involvement in two world wars and the subsequent Cold War (which includes Korea, Vietnam and a dozen different proxy wars).
The most you can say is that global military competition is no greater today than it was 200 years ago, but only insofar as there are fewer participants wielding far greater power.
Indeed: if our history books were written only slightly differently, the battle against Hitler and the Axis powers would have been labelled "World War VI".
It's significant, though, that these massive global wars tend to happen every hundred and fifty years or so and usually come in threes, with each one being significantly more violent than the last one. The same technology you're advertising as the savior of humanity has masked the fact that we are now unleashing more firepower in smaller conflicts and inflicting greater damage in a shorter amount of time than ever before in history; indeed, we are fast approaching a time when we will not even need nuclear weapons to lay waste to entire cities.
Here you're assuming that social evolution -- or ANY form of evolution -- is inherently progressive. That is a false assumption in the extreme.
Evolution takes any number of shapes, for better or for worse, whichever new form is best suited to its environment. A society where aggressive/dishonest/selfish people are more successful tends to proliferate in those characteristics. Introducing new technologies to that society won't change that balance unless it is intentionally distributed to individuals with different traits; in a free market scenario, it's more likely that the people who are already prospering under the existing order will adopt that technology first and they will drive the next phase of its development to their own advantage.
In other words: in a world ruled by tigers, the invention of gunpowder probably won't benefit the zebras.
Because we all know Henry David Thoreau spent a night in jail to protest the Vietnam war.
True as that is, we're discussing technology, not social/healthcare/organizational progress. Technology is developing at a fairly rapid pass, and the developing world is accumulating large pockets of material wealth. They are NOT, however, making any headway with their social/health/organizational problems, and adding new technology isn't going to change that.
We're already beyond the singularity with respect to our pre-industrial ancestors. On some level we know this, which is why we tend to prefer to the period of the late 17th and 18th centuries as "the Enlightenment."
A new social order did indeed emerge from that transitional period, and compared to their forebearers they were extremely enlightened. They were SO enlightened that they subsequently reduced 4 million people to chattel slavery and ethnically cleansed an entire continent of its technologically inferior population before laying claim to the land themselves.
Let's not loose sight of the very real possibility that the "transhumanist movement" could be dominated by an elitist clique of technocrats that see the rest of the human race as a clan of backwards primitives who are better off being enslaved or at least tightly contained if only for their own good. In that sense, the dire predictions of science fiction (The Terminator/The Matrix et al) make a lot more sense when the Evil Machines are actually former human beings who have used technology to transcend their own humanity.
And who would we be to argue with them, anyway? They are the "enlightened" trans-humanists, which is really just another way of saying "Too smart to care what the primitives think."
That's my point. Many of those oppressive governments will (and have) change their agendas in order to remain relevant, and they will grasp that very same technology in order to do it.
Indeed. Here's one really good example.
Technology makes EVERYTHING easier, and it doesn't pick and choose who it benefits. When oppressive governments and militaries decide to invest in technology, their oppressive agenda becomes that much easier to implement. Those who oppose them have to grasp the same technologies in order to be relevant at all; those without access to those advanced technologies might as well be gun-toting apes that their enemies can bomb with impunity and even the media no longer notices or cares what happens to them.
Beyond any singularity event, ultimately "Enlightenment" means never having to say you're sorry for massacring savages.
Not for the Russians it wasn't. It's important to note that as far as the Soviets were concerned, the United States posed a far less existential threat than Nazi Germany or even China, the former of which cost them $20 million lives and sacked several of their major cities.
The Americans went through the Cold War with this concept of "Mutually Assured Destruction," the assumption that the Russians could be convinced not to attack the United States because any attempt to do so would cause the total end of their civilization. The Russians never really got that concept; THEIR idea of nuclear war was "Nuke em till they stop shooting back." IOW, in their view getting nuked by the United States was hardly the end of the world; in some ways, it was no worse than what the Nazis did to them decades earlier, except that this time the Russian counterattack would immediately inflict identical damage to the United States and give them time to rebuild.
Have you ever seen interviews of Russian scientists, politicians, generals on documentaries from long after the cold war's end? I have. You've never seen a more extreme group of paranoid delusional people in your life. They thought the US was just as much an evil empire as Reagan thought of them. They really thought the US was planning a first strike! Even down to the day and minute in some cases, when they went on high alert. However, their strategy was an overwhelming first strike. They thought they could win a nuclear war simply by minimizing damage from the US, not by fighting a full blown war. In reality, such a war would have been won by no one, and certainly the clear thinkers on either side realized this.
Here I would argue that social evolution must follow intelligence, and since intelligence is linked to technology as well they are intertwined. The human brain builds upon itself, older parts still exist in it and some suggest this is responsible for some of our baser instincts. As we learn, we see our world differently, technology seen at a linear rate influences us very little, at exponential rate, it influences us in dramatic and very real ways, such as early adoption/market penetration in the modern world. Enlightenment in a transhuman world may mean differences between cultures rendered almost meaningless, many of the old evolutionary drives that tell us outsiders are bad will be rendered moot. Minus such biases, man can be free to see the world in a new light, perhaps as a unified whole. This is just one example of the myriad possibilities.
In terms of evolution, one thing people tend to forget about is that it's not "survival of the fittest" (as the simplistic Nazi style notion would have it, or what many people still believe it is) but survival of the best adapted, this also means cooperation and not just conflict. If the technologically inclined and upwardly mobile inhabitants of nations ride the wave created by this exponential technology access (don't forget 3 billion people will have internet who did not have it by 2020) then they can wind up better adpated to it than the ones making the laws, including dictators...as the statistics demonstrate from the links, after WWII 20% of countries were democracies, today it's 80%, I believe we are seeing evidence already in Africa and the Arab world their technological and political backwardness is ending. Stay tuned..
I'm not so sure. From the interviews I've seen, the Russians believed that the key to victory was to inflict the maximum amount of damage on the U.S. in the shortest possible time, minimizing as much as possible their counterattack and their ability to continue in combat. Taking massive damage in the opening volley was basically a foregone conclusion, but as I said, in their minds it was hardly the end of the world.
In the end, IMO the Russian idea was probably more accurate as far as military realism. After all, it wasn't as if U.S. nuclear arsenal was specifically targeted against the Russian population or even the Russian industrial base; both sides were maximally concentrated on each other's military facilities, with the idea being not so much to annihilate the other's population, but to remove their ability to make war. U.S. thinkers never really understood this and let themselves get dazzled by the horrific implications of nuclear warfare in general. Truth is, a nuclear war is perfectly winnable, so long as you have a very strict definition of victory.
It doesn't, though. Social evolution follows the complexities of human interaction on a small and large scale and is influenced by many things, most significantly religious, economic and environmental circumstances. It has nothing much to do with intelligence, except insofar as intelligent people tend to do better economically and their social status reflects this. On the other hand, intelligent people are not the ONLY ones who do better economically; naked ambition and selfishness can also contribute, especially for people who are pre-positioned to take full advantage of those traits.
Some of us, yes. But not everyone is interested in learning OR seeing the world differently, nor is everyone even capable of doing so. Unfortunately for your theory, many of the willfully ignorant/hyper-ambitious nutjobs running around today are in positions of high political influence.
Assuming that cooperation IS the best adaptation for all situations. On the small scale, this is not always the case.
That's exactly what I mean. The exponential technology access works BOTH ways; don't forget, the dictators want to survive too, and they too have an opportunity to adapt. The difference between the dictators and the "upwardly mobile inhabitants of nations" is that the dictators can more easily marshal the resources needed to protect their position and can ultimately deploy that very same technology against their own populations to eliminate potential competitors.
3 billion more people will have internet access by 2020; the dictators who rule them will be getting access to UCAVs and satellite surveillance around the same time.
When the list of democracies includes such nations as Maldives and Liberia, I don't think it matters all that much. Technically, even Somolia is still a democracy.
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Earlier I wrote a blog post about SQL SERVER – Move Database Files MDF and LDF to Another Location and in the blog post we discussed how we can change the location of the MDF and LDF files after database is already created. I had mentioned that we will discuss how to change the default location of the database. This way we do not have to change the location of the database after it is created at different locations.
The ideal scenario would be to specify this default location of the database files when SQL Server Installation was performed. If you have already installed SQL Server there is an easy way to solve this problem. This will not impact any database created before the change, it will only affect the default location of the database created after the change.
To change the default location of the SQL Server Installation follow the steps mentioned below:
Go to Right Click on Servers >> Click on Properties >> Go to the Database Settings screen
You can change the default location of the database files. All the future database created after the setting is changed will go to this new location.
You can also do the same with T-SQL and here is the T-SQL code to do the same.
USE [master]
EXEC xp_instance_regwrite N'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE', N'Software\Microsoft\MSSQLServer\MSSQLServer', N'DefaultData', REG_SZ, N'F:\DATA'
EXEC xp_instance_regwrite N'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE', N'Software\Microsoft\MSSQLServer\MSSQLServer', N'DefaultLog', REG_SZ, N'F:\DATA'
What are the best practices do you follow with regards to default file location for your database? I am interested to know them.
Reference : Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)
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Very nice… easy way to change path…..
Good overview, but unfortunately you haven't tried to set the DB and Log location to an other than the system drive. In our situation I've configured the DB and Log location during the setup to point to S:\MSSQL\DATA and L:\MSSQL\LOGS respectively. Directories are indeed created, but when I put a mdf and ldf in the correct directory and want to attache that DB, I can only brows the c:\ drive.
The MSSQLSERVER account and the account the SQL service is running with do have "Full control" on the S and L drive.
I've not seen any post about others having the same probelem. Any suggestions?
Dear, I have the same problem, find a solution to the problem?
Thanks for your help
Here's an interesting little change that Microsoft made to the Backup/Restore wizard with respect to default file naming (it's not related to default file path, but since we are relating to the backup/restore wizard in this post, I thought of adding my 2 cents :))
MS Connect Case #668566 –
Changes to backup/restore wizard:
good info…….
Good Info….
How to get the same information through query, please help
Thanks for this article. It seems to imply that all FUTURE databases created after this setting will go to this new location. However I want to move all the existing databases to this new location as I am running out of disk space on the C drive partition. Do you know how this can be done? Can I simply copy everything over to the new location?
Just use DETACH, then move the physical files (.mdf and .ldf) then use ATTACH to reattach the database from its new location.
In my machine i have sql server 2005 in C drive,now i want chage that total Instance into D drive.Anyone plz tell me how to change sql server 2005 instance "Root directory" from C drive to D drive.
You can detach and attach the database from C to D.
For complete movement, you need to uninstall and reinstall SQL.
I'm trying to install 2014 Standard edition (64bit) and dont seem able to prevent it from installing most of the application on the c drive – which runs out of space during the installation, how can i force SQL to install everything to the d drive?
you can't force EVERYTHING on d drive because C is system drive. Unless you make d drive as system drive, it won't be possible.


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Personally, I'm not quite sure how I would feel. It would definitely feel bittersweet. I would be happy that he finally found his touch, but at the same time really bitter that he couldn't do this when he was here...
Personally, I'm not quite sure how I would feel. It would definitely feel bittersweet. I would be happy that he finally found his touch, but at the same time really bitter that he couldn't do this when he was here...
Fine. They're a better team. We always said he might thrive off the bench. He never really got the chance to do it here. As long as it's not against us. Then again....maybe that would be ok #wiggins
First, define "played really well". For Bargnani, that could mean just about anything if you mean relative to his performance with Toronto. I'd probably feel not much since he wasn't playing "really well" here. Bad fit, bad player, whatever. Hypothetically, I'd probably give the Knicks credit for putting him in a position to succeed, hope the Raptors do well with their draft picks from the trade and move on.
You mean like, average 10 and 5?
Wouldnt care in the slightest, Bargnani just never fit over here. He deserves a new life in the NBA, Id be more than happy to see him succeed.
I'm so tired of you guys with yourcolangelo bashing. The guy is gone, let it go... plus, I would put money that you were all praising him at the beggining like you do with ujiri.
If Your Uncle Jack Helped You Off An Elephant, Would You Help Your Uncle Jack Off An Elephant?
Sometimes, I like to buy a book on CD and listen to it, while reading music.
+1 on Colangelo bashing.
just thinking out loud we all complain about how with demar and gay on the floor the floor isnt spread. a starting lineup of Lowry, Demar, Rudy, Novak and JV i think spreads the floor just fine. This also puts Amir back on the bench which he plays as hard as he can no matter start or bench which alot cant. I think its a realistic lineup and Amir will still get starters like minutes and just be our 6th man.
Yet another writer confused about what the Knicks thought they were accomplishing.
Just an excerpt:
Plus, while Bargnani profiles as a stretch four in today's NBA, meaning his addition would seem to jive (to some degree) with the small-ball identity the Knicks fashioned last year, if the addition of another power forward winds up pushing Anthony down to small forward more often, that would seem to run counter to the Melo-at-the-four plus one big and three shooters/playmakers strategy. So while the Knicks might not have given up much on-court value in the swap, they might not have added much, either.
And then, of course, you think about the future.
The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority. - Martin Luther King
If this(Lee) is true, I wish MU had done it. I'd love to see Lee here. I'm sure MU had his reasons not to do it.
Attitude Is A Choice.
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