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The 9mm UZI Submachine Gun was the "IT" gun of the 1980s and into the 1990s. Its popularity and iconic status exploded immediately following the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan on March 21, 1981.
It was then a photograph showed a U.S. Secret Service Agent with his UZI subgun drawn and held at, shall we call it, a "Hollywood High Ready" position. The muzzle was up by his head. It was a very dynamic photo shot at a moment of national crisis. Until that time most of us didn't realize that the Secret Service had this weapon in inventory. It became the dream weapon of nearly every cop I knew, rivaling the cool factor of Dirty Harry's .44 Magnum.
I had my first encounter with one, the real full-auto deal at just about the same time. I was an auxiliary deputy, just starting out with a central Ohio sheriff's office. I had just come in to work one of my first paid special duty details (for a whopping $11 per hour at the time) at an area drag strip during national competitions.
It had been a bad year weather wise at the track, races had been delayed and a tornado had passed near the campground area during the previous evening. Needless to say, the natives were restless. I arrived at the office to pick up my radio when the departments firearms instructor, a sergeant, asked me to help him load the department's UZI.
"UZI? We have an UZI?!" Of course I jumped at the chance! But why were we loading the UZI? It was then I noticed another sergeant checking out the department 37mm gas launcher and gear. I hadn't seen that little number before either. The firearms instructor told me that there were a bunch of outlaw bikers out at the track and there was a potential for trouble. And while outlaw bikers might not listen to a cop armed with a .38, they did understand UZI. Cool. I went out to the track, and had just arrived at my duty post when we got a call that all deputies were needed in the campground.
When I got there I saw the aforementioned sergeant stick a mag in the UZI, cock it, and hold it at the same position I saw the Secret Service Agent hold his in. He then walked up to the bikers who seemed to be in a rather foul mood. Seems that some drunken idiot drove his car past their bikes and tents and splattered them with mud.
When this aroused their ire, the surrounding crowd, which looked to be mostly average race fans, started chanting for the bikers to kill the car driver. We had to end up arresting the car driver because he didn't want to leave. This was after the sergeant had secured his release from the angry bikers with the UZI. In the end as we left, we discovered that the crowd was mad because they lost out on their entertainment.
This caused them to throw dirt clods and bottles at us as we left with our "prize"! A most interesting experience, and I'm glad the UZI and the gas gun were there. I never saw the weapon after that. I should have gotten it for our drug raids when I was on the same agency's drug unit a year after that. Even though I never saw it again, I was hooked on the UZI design.
A little historical background on the UZI carbine is in order:
The UZI is a related family of open-bolt, blowback-operated submachine guns. Smaller variants are considered to be machine pistols. The UZI was one of the first weapons to use a telescoping bolt design which allows for the magazine to be housed in the pistol grip for a shorter weapon, a design not seen since the Japanese Type II machine pistol.
The first UZI submachine gun was designed by Major Uziel Gal in the late 1940s. The prototype was finished in 1950; first introduced to IDF special forces in 1954, the weapon was placed into general issue two years later.
The UZI has found use as a personal defense weapon by rear-echelon troops, officers, artillery troops and tankers, as well as a frontline weapon by elite light infantry assault forces.The UZI has been exported to over 90 countries. Over its service lifetime, it has been manufactured by Israel Military Industries, FN Herstal, and other manufacturers. From the 1960s through the 1980s, UZI submachine guns were sold to more military and police markets than any other submachine gun ever made.
If you want all the intrinsic details on this weapon and its history you can find plenty at Wikipedia. In fact the picture at the Regan assassination attem I referred to can be found on the Wikipedia web page. The UZI design is good enough that it was kept in front line service by the Israeli Defense Service until 2003.

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DescriptionLittle Shop: World Traveler is the sixth entry in the hidden object series by GameHouse. As the main protagonist, the player has to go on trips around the globe to find and acquire assorted items for several clients. The main interface is very similar to the one in the previous titles: a static scene showing the location is presented with several objects discreetly placed over certain parts of the scenery. The objective is to search and click on all the items listed at the bottom of the screen, with a minimum of ten objects to complete the level, and a maximum of fifteen to receive a gold star.
Besides the required list entries, each scene has special power-ups that are activated when clicked. Cameras of any type make the screen all bright with their flash lamps, making the list objects stand out from the white background for a few seconds. Thermometers create a layer of icicles or a wall of fire on each visible list entry, becoming hotter or colder when the cursor is near or far from them. ? marks give extra hints, while ! points activate a power-up related to the location. In the forest, this specific power is a compass whose needle spins faster when near one of the list objects. A trophy is received after collecting all suitcases and passport stampers.
The Shake-It mini-game at the end of each trip is a new addition to the formula, where a box filled with several small items is shown from a top view, and the player has to drag and shake it to uncover some key objects. In some rounds, the goal is to find several instances of the same object. In others, the objective is to find items like dices and cards that add up to a specified sum. All the locations completed in the main mode can be replayed in the Blitz Mode, where the objective is to find all the objects from a scene as fast as possible, to achieve a high score.
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What's a modern, unattached man looking for love to do? Former Bachelor star Ben Flajnik has quietly graduated from rose ceremonies into the realm of online dating, he revealed on Twitter last week.
The San Francisco-based winemaker, who headlined the 16th season of The Bachelor in January 2012, has recently begun to use online dating app Tinder, a fan revealed on Wednesday, Jan. 30.
"Haha did this just happen? Hit me up on tinder," a Texas coed tweeted at Flajnik, 30, along with a screenshot of the bachelor's Tinder profile. Friendly Flajnik gamely tweeted back a few minutes later: "tinder is hilarious."
The former reality show star has been keeping a low profile since ending his engagement to fiancee Courtney Robertson, 29, who competed (and won) on his season of the ABC dating show. The couple were engaged for 11 months after Flajnik dropped to one knee during the finale of the show in Switzerland, but ultimately decided to call it quits on their relationship in October 2012.
"In many ways, I felt brainwashed," Robertson, an L.A.-based model, told Us Weekly of the show's process late last year. "You're so closed off!"
Additionally, just four months after proposing to Robertson, Flajnik was photographed smooching several women in exclusive images obtained by Us. The resulting fallout left the pair with a shaky relationship at best.
"I've never experienced heartache like this," Robertson told Us. "We had baby names picked out! I put up with more than I should." Ironically, immediately following the show, Flajnik had assured fans that he and Robertson wanted to have a long courtship away from reality TV cameras.
"We kind of looked back at some of the other Bachelor relationships that didn't work out and the reason for that is you have so much pressure to move in together and set a date and all this kind of stuff," he mused. "Let's figure out who we are together before we do any of that and take the pressure off."
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Your 10-year-old isn't outgrowing her fear of lightning. What's wrong?
Parent advice from our panel of staff contributors
Probably nothing. But I think knowledge cancels out fear, and happily there's plenty you can teach your 10-year-old about lightning. Show her cool photos and videos; teach her the safety steps that ensure lightning can't hurt her. Heck, judging by social media posts, if you can teach her that the word isn't spelled "lightening," she'll be way ahead of the game.
When we were small, our father would gather the kids on the porch as a storm approached, then we'd sit there, as a family, and watch it hit. Lightning, thunder, wind … scary stuff to a kid on his own. But in the company of the family — laughing, talking, learning about what causes lightning and thunder, maybe taking some photos — there was nothing to fear. We did the same thing with our kids, and they (and we) still enjoy watching a good storm roll in.
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"A child who has been generally anxious or fearful for her whole life needs your help finding signs of safety," says clinical psychologist Lawrence J. Cohen, author of "The Opposite of Worry: The Playful Parenting Approach to Childhood Anxieties and Fears" (Ballantine Books). "The anxious brain is biased for danger. It sees signs of danger much better than signs of safety."
Rather than waiting for her to outgrow the fear (which may or may not happen eventually), patiently help her put her perfectly valid fear of lightning, which is capable of causing real harm, after all, in perspective.
"Parents often fall too far to one side or the other," Cohen says. "Either, 'Oh, no! I don't want you to be upset! We'll make sure we never go outside when there's a chance of thunderstorms. You don't have to go to camp.' Or, 'Don't be such a baby. It's not going to hurt you.'
"In between is, 'I can see you're scared and I want to help you.'"
Then tackle the fear as a project, Cohen says, rather than something you will solve overnight.
"You can start by saying to your child, gently, 'Look at me and really see my eyes and see whether I'm worried about this,'" he says. "Start drawing them out of that stuck, scared place."
Inch her closer and closer to a window or porch where she can safely watch and hear the thunderstorm. It may take several storms before your daughter makes it all the way to the viewing spot.
"It's time consuming, but it's really worth it," Cohen says. "When a child lives in fear, they operate at either zero or 100. Either they've avoided the thing altogether — the spider, lightning, the pool — and they're at zero. Or they're anywhere near the fear and they're flooded, and they're immediately at 100."
You want to get her used to operating at a midpoint between the two. She's aware of the lightning, but she isn't flooded with fear.
"You don't want to find yourself saying, 'You never have to play outside,'" Cohen says. "You need to give them a gentle push and tackle the fear one small step at a time."
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Random stuff that's bugging me lately.
1. Emails from newbie authors asking if I want to review their book.
Look, I'm a writer. I know how hard it is to get reviews. In years past, I've asked readers who follow me on Goodreads if they'd like to review my books. I may have even asked readers who have signed up for my newsletter if they were interested in reviewing me.
But I don't spam people.
I don't know what list I got on (Maybe because I used to be an Amazon Vine reviewer? Maybe someone compiled a list of top Amazon reviewers?) but I get asked to review free books every day.
You might not think it's spam because you're offering a free read, but if it is unsolicited, if I have no idea who you are, if I never followed you on Twitter or Facebook or Goodreads, then it's spam. If it annoys me, it most certainly annoys others, and if you keep doing this you're going to get some really unflattering reviews. Not from me; I don't cut down my peers' books, and I pretty much stopped reviewing on Amazon. But a friendly word of warning; some reader is going to get annoyed and the only person you can blame is the one in the mirror.
2. James Patterson's Masterclass.
Maybe it's awesome and helpful and will teach a whole new segment of writers how to write a 60,000 word novel in just 150 chapters. Maybe, if you pay extra, you can co-write Jim's next blockbuster. I don't like a lot of the stupid things Patterson says in public, but I don't begrudge him his success, and if he can buy another summer home in Languedoc-Roussillon with the extra money he makes from this endeavor, more power to him.
But get out of my cookies, man!
For those who don't know what I'm talking about, your browser stores data known as cookies which can carry info from one website to the next. So I click on Patterson's class once, and see ads for it everywhere I go, unless I delete the cookies or use an ad blocker. Which annoys me.
To recap: I'm not mad that Patterson is getting even richer selling hope to the clueless, I'm ticked he paid for a website that infects my browser with his face every time I try to surf porn.
Also, my free advice to newbies; writing tips, books, websites, and classes can help you become a better writer. But they don't beat reading and writing. When I taught writing, I always told my students they should be home, writing, instead of being in class.
3. Amazon sales figures.
In a previous blog post about KU 2.0, I wrote about Amazon sharing sales data with authors (this carried on into the comments). Amazon knows where readers stop reading, if they ever pick the book up again, how many borrows per pages read, and other figures that authors could really benefit from, but they aren't sharing.
They don't have to share that stuff, and I'm not going to reiterate that debate. But I would like to have access to cumulative sales figures, which is a much more reasonable and rudimentary request. This hit home the other day where I wanted to see how many unit sales, and how much money, a particular title of mine had accrued over the years, and I realized I had to add it up month by month myself.
Come on, Amazon! I should be able to press a button and generate a spreadsheet that lists all the sales data for a title for any given time period. Can we have that option, please? I've been asking since 2009. It irritated me that I couldn't just pull up those figures. It's not like they're top secret, or that it would require a lot of work for you to do. Just let me know how many damn ebooks I've sold.
4. Pinheads who claim ebook sales have plateaued.
I shouldn't care about this, because one person's misconceptions are another person's opportunities, but I admit that it irks me whenever some publisher or survey or periodical crows about how ebook sales aren't growing. Even ignoring the burgeoning global market, ebook sales are destined to grow. Younger generations have learned to read without paper, and they're going to consume nearly 100% of the written word electronically as they age. My generation will be retiring in 15 to 25 years, and we grew up reading novels. We're going to defer to them when we have more free time.
Technology keeps getting better, and cheaper, and we still haven't tapped the hidden potential of ebooks as a unique, and superior, storytelling device. I'm working to do some tech stuff with my new horror thriller, WEBCAM, that should enhance the reading experience and make it more fun because ereaders can do more stuff than dead trees. Plateaued? Ebooks haven't even gotten started yet.
Okay, rant over. Now stop reading blogs and go write something.
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To promote his new film Taken 2, actor Liam Neeson went on ESPN and was interviewed by SportsCenter anchor Mike Hill.
Neeson wasn't aware that the inteview was live, though, so when he was stumped by Hill's first question about football and the New York Jets, the actor asked if they could start the interview over.
"Okay, we better start again," Neeson said. "Can I? Are we live?"
Realizing that the interview was indeed live, Neeson blurted out an uncensored "Oh s***" before admitting to not knowing much about American football.
Hill then followed up with a question about Tim Tebow -- because everyone must have an opinion on the controversial quarterback, right?
"You're speaking ancient Arabic to me buddy," responded Neeson.
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Pietersen has refused to give any assurances over his Test career beyond the match at Lord's, having talked about ''obstacles'' that needed to be overcome in order for him to continue after the drawn second match of the series at Headingley earlier this week.
But Botham would like to see the matter sorted out ahead of the final clash with the Proteas.
''Those sort of things should be dealt with in private between the people involved, not in the open in the run-up to a huge Test match,'' Botham wrote in his column in the Daily Mirror.
''It reflects poorly on the team, poorly on the game and poorly on everyone involved. It must be sorted out like grown-ups.''
Botham added: ''They should not be airing their dirty linen in public.''
But Angus Porter, chief executive of the Professional Cricketers' Association, believes Pietersen may not be able to solve his differences with the ECB.
''I can't see any immediate prospect of a rapprochement. He's likely to play next week but it becomes an issue with the next contracts in September,'' Porter told the Independent.
With Pietersen and many other international players drawn by the riches of the Indian Premier League, Porter believes the status of Test cricket within the game continues to be eroded.
''The primacy of Test cricket is well-intended but the practicalities are that the trend does not support that,'' he said.


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Forum and Standard films really stuck it to the dwindling economy Friday night in San Diego. In the face of other company's cutbacks, these guys premiered their films together at the swank and supersized Balboa Theatre, a venue built for Broadway shows rather than snowboard flicks.
Forum Forever showed first, and had the 800 attendees cheering right away as Pat Moore opened the video with his usual hard-core musical accompaniment with The Sword. The youngbloods, also keeping with Forum movie trends, were all pretty standout too, Cam Pierce and Niko Cioffi especially. Only one season after their last movie, Peter Line, Joni Malmi and Jake Blauvelt kept the crowds talking them up over free beers during the break.
Standard's Black Winter capped off the night, and did so in style. Torstein Horgmo opened with a part for the ages and had possibly the longest line of tricks ever filmed. Mark Landvik killed it in the backcountry and made us wonder why all his parts aren't filmed exclusively with a helmet cam. Seb Toots, Andrew Geeves, and Halldor Helgason expanded the scope of jibbing past rails with wallrides and rooftops galore before Lonnie Kauk's mind-blowing ender. This well-rounded film is truly shelf-worthy, especially if you want to learn double corks by watching the best.
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COLUMBUS -- An appeals court judge with ties to the Mahoning Valley was named by Gov. John Kasich to the Ohio Supreme Court Thursday.
Judge Judith L. French, a Sebring native currently seated on the 10th District Court of Appeals in Columbus, will take over for retiring Justice Evelyn Lundberg Stratton.
French was one of more than a dozen people considered for the post and one of three finalists.
"She's going to be a great judge and a great addition," Kasich said. "I also think she'll be a strong candidate when the time comes for her to run. She's got a lot of fire in her."
French has served on the 10th District bench since 2004, initially appointed and then elected twice. Prior, she was chief legal counsel to former Gov. Bob Taft.
Her legal career includes stints as deputy director for legal affairs at the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and as chief counsel for former Attorney General Betty Montgomery.
French has appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court on two occasions, including the successful defense of a Cleveland school voucher program.
French earned her law degree from Ohio State University. She and her husband and two children live in the Columbus area.
French said, as a new justice, she would "move justly and fairly to interpret Ohio law strictly, to always remember that my role as a judge is limited and to serve all of Ohio -- the Mahoning Valley, central Ohio, all of Ohio -- and give it my very best."
Kasich touted her Mahoning County ties during Thursday's press conference.
"Those Mahoning values of common sense, which are exactly the values that we had in McKees Rocks -- blue collar, fear of God, common sense, love your neighbor, come to help whenever the time was necessary -- those kinds of values are the values to me that are so important to the bedrock of our country and our state," Kasich said. "So I was delighted to find out that she's from that Mahoning Valley."
Kasich also said he was pleased "we have such a qualified woman" for the seat.
"I like picking a woman," he said. "I just like it. I love to have that point of view on the court."
He added later, "I think that women a lot of times are the leaders in fighting for principle."
Marc Kovac is the Dix Capital Bureau Chief. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com or on Twitter at OhioCapitalBlog.


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Rihanna Kicks Off Diamonds Tour, But Develops Laryngitis
Rihanna kicked off her Diamonds tour on Friday, March 8 in Buffalo, NY, but the fun didn't last for long.
The pop diva was forced to postpone her Boston show, scheduled for March 10, due to the fact that she developed a case of laryngitis. That's certainly the kiss of death for a singer and a concert. Her Beantown show will be rescheduled and as of press time, no further cancelations have been announced.
Despite that setback, fans can enjoy a preview of what she is offering on the tour, as footage of the first date has popped up online, thanks to fans from the Rihanna Navy and the wonders of the web! You can watch a sampling below.
Additionally, rumors popped up that the singer might be taking a year off. She will write and record her eighth album, the follow up to last year's 'Unapologetic,' but she won't rush to release it, since that would mean she'd have to dive right back into promoting it, touring behind it, doing interviews and other stuff that's required of her.
Apparently, Rihanna needs a break and some time to recharge the batteries, which is fair, since she is always working and on the go.
She also should step away from the spotlight for a minute, so fans have time to miss her and want her back.
RiRI doesn't want to overexpose herself, and we're not talking about flashing her boobs via topless Instagram photos, either.
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The photo accompanied a recruitment ad for volunteer pollwatchers that said, "Pollwatchers Needed. Because these guys will be there too!"
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FreeCandy44 wrote:How did you score front row Mr Cerv?
During Raw on Monday they had a presale for people who attended the event only. No internet or competition anywhere else. I bailed on the Raw show half way through to stand in line. Some of the seats were held back that night for the purposes of general public and presale dates according to the usher. I was like 10th in line. Most of the people in front of me were not interested in paying $500 a ticket so I was in good shape I thought.
Just looked on stubhub. Front row tickets are being priced right now for $3,000 a piece. Wow, If I see those seats get sold it's something to consider, but then again I always said if the Rumble came to Pittsburgh I would do what it takes to get in the front row.


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With her ABC political drama Scandal in its third and most successful season, Kerry Washington seems to be covering practically every magazine these days. The 36-year-old appeared on Ebony's March 2013 cover, Elle Magazine's June 2013 cover, Vanity Fair's August 2013 cover, Glamour Magazine's October 2013 cover, Essence's November 2013 cover, and now Lucky's December 2013/January 2014 cover.
But this most recent image makes Washington's face practically unrecognizable. The Django Unchained star's eyes seem to be narrower and the lighting on her face appears to have distorted her features.
Washington's hair was cut in an edgy, shoulder-length style with bangs, and she wore a white and purple two-piece ensemble covered with a sheer, patterned dress.
But if Washington is concerned by her cover look, she's not saying so publicly. Less than an hour after the cover was unveiled, she tweeted the image with the caption, "WOOO HOOO!" and even made the cover her Twitter avatar.
The recent Saturday Night Live host has plenty to celebrate these days. Us Weekly broke the news in late October that Washington was pregnant with her first child after secretly marrying NFL player Nnamdi Asomugha in June 2013.
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We had a gorgeous Tuesday night at home last evening, and dinner out on the patio again. I was dying for a big ol' cheeseburger on the grill and decided to make one of my all time favorite burger recipes.
These Jalapeno Cheeseburgers (jcb's for short) are the BEST!! They were featured in the grill issue of Bon Appetit one or two years ago, and have become a summer tradition for me. I was feeling like lightening them up a bit though, and I tried them with turkey for the first time. I swear, they were just as good.
The original recipe calls for a coffee glaze that you brush over the burgers while they're grilling, but I've never bothered with that. Seems a little bit too putzy for me; besides, with bacon, cheese, grilled onions, and the amazing spicy ranch sauce, 'coffee glaze' might be a little overkill!
Don't be afraid of the jalapenos; my kiddos gobbled these up and even had seconds! Wish my husband hadn't taken the leftovers to work for lunch....I could go for one of these right now. Have a great day, everyone!


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So you wanna buy a SSD? Read this first.
So you have decided to get a Solid State Drive (SSD)? Congratulations! Just be warned very few people who buy one, ever go back to using Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) for their boot drive. Before you buy your first SSD there are (at least) TEN major questions you need to ask yourself and then answer before buying any SSD.
Before I begin, please do NOT take all this as gospel (I am not God and have more than "feet of clay"). It is mostly my opinion and as the old saying goes YMMV. What this should be is a good place for you to START your journey. All I hope is that after reading this you know what questions to ask and thus can formulate your own opinion on certain topics I go over in this sticky.
When in doubt make a new thread (sticky's dont always show up in "new posts" searches) and we all here at HWC can help you out!
1) what is my budget
2) what size do I really need for my Os drive
3) what operating system will I be using
4) do I want to RAID them or do I want one SSD
5) What are the main mfgers of SSDs and what parts are important to look at
6) What are the best controller makers?
7) When looking at SSD performance what numbers are the most important
8) What speeds should I expect from my SSD?
9) What things do I need to do in order to get the most from my SSD and keep it fast
10) What are the common phrases enthusiast use when talking about SSDs
TLDR; answers are:
1& 2) expect to pay at least $100 and look for 40Gb or bigger SSDs. If you can afford more than that $150 will get you a very good drive. I usually recommend 60/64GBers for most first time users. YMMV
3) If its Windows 7 you have not many worries. Only earlier OS users need worry. BUT even windows 7 users need to make sure of a couple things to get TRIM.
4) When in doubt buy ONE SSD. Get the biggest you can afford.
5) The controller is all that really matter. SandForce, Intel, Marvel, JMicron, Toshiba, Samsung are the makers of SSD controllers. The label on the outside of the drive doesnt mean jack. That is just the company RMAs need to go through.
6) {SF, Intel, Marvel > Indilinx > Toshiba, JM > Samsung} right now.
7) Small file 4K read/write is the most important. Sequential Speed means jack
8) there is no short answer for this one besides: a heck of a lot more than a HDD can provide!
9) Not much. Out of the box with no tweaking you will get most of the performance from it. BUT you man shorten the life of the drive without tweaks.
10) there is no short answer for this one.
Long version:
1 & 2)
You should budget at least $100 plus tax and shipping for your SSD. If you can not afford this, you really should hold off buying one until you can. The absolute minimum most people can get by with for their OS drive is 32GB, but 40GB is a better safe minimum. With SSDs the 120/128GB drives are the sweet spot between price and performance, but they cost upwards of $200+ and provide only a moderate increase in real world performance compared to the smaller versions. A good 60/64GB drive will last you years and will provide amazing performance compared to even a velociRaptor. As with anything in life the more you can afford the more room you can get, the more speed you will get but the 60/64s have most of the performance of their bigger brothers.
If your OS is Windows 7 it will make no difference which SSD you pick as all modern SSDs are TRIM aware. Just make sure to be in AHCI mode and using either Intel RST drivers, AMDs latest drivers OR the default MS ACHI drivers. The ONLY caveat is with AMD. AMD (unlike Intel) were late to the SSD party and only added TRIM support to their 8xx series SB controllers (e.g. 890FXA). This means earlier AMD boards will NOT pass on TRIM. If you do not understand what AHCI mode means...it will be explained in section 10.
IF you are using an older OS that is NOT TRIM aware. I would recommend staying away from SandForce and Intel drives. They have less than optimal ITGC and as such are not great first time users drives. With that being said I would still recommend Intel as they are drives and the Intel Toolbox does a manual TRIM that will keep it fast. This makes Intel a better choice than SF. With all that being said a SandForce drive in a degraded state is still more powerful than ANY tier two clean drive. If you want to be safe and not worry about things Marvel based drives have very good ITGC and if you let them idle for a couple hours a week will be extremely fast even under XP. Please understand that "idle" does not mean "sleep" (sleep mode will in most instances not let "ITGC" do its magic). It means leaving the system up and running and walking away from it. The couple hours a week does not need to be done at once, "ITGC" is cumulative and even 20 minutes a day will be more than enough for most people.
YMMV but for XP:
Crucial or Intel > SF > Indilinx > Toshiba > everything else
Raiding SSDs should only be done if you understand the downsides. The upside is increased performance (not double however). The downside is lack of TRIM support. You will have to rely on ITGC to keep your drives fast. The latency of your raid array will also be a lot higher than what the individual SSDs will be I recommend getting the biggest, fastest single SSD you can afford and then if you dont think its fast enough .get a second later on and use it as an application drive for apps that couldnt fit on the first one! To be honest, for most peoples needs RAID is not worth the hassle when it comes to SSDs, unless you are willing to go to at the very least three and preferably four SSDs. YMMV and this is only personal opinion, but anything less than that is not worth the effort or hassle. It is worth noting that you can (with Intel and Intel RST drivers at least) have RAID array of Hard Drives and a single SSD and still get TRIM support. It is only when dealing with RAID'ed SSDs that you lose TRIM.
A typical SSD is made up of 4 main parts. A Printed Circuit Board (PCB), a controller chip, flash NAND chips, and maybe a RAM chip. For all intents and purposes a PCB is a PCB and doesnt not matter. Ram can be important but not all newer SSDs use one nor need them. The ones that do, usually do so for a reason. The reason is simple: the controller needs an external buffer to stick I/O requests while it churns through the commands it already has. Without the RAM the drive would stutter or pause. A rule of thumb with SSDs and RAM is the larger the RAM cache needed the less powerful the controller chip is.
The NAND used is also important, but this too is only secondary to the controller chip. In a perfect world ALL SSDs would use only the highest grade NAND possible. Sadly the cheaper models do not. This difference is getting smaller and really does not need to be looked at. SandForce has proven that if your controller is powerful enough, the quality of NAND is not as important as it was. We can only imagine what a SF drive using highest grade NAND would do on write speed (read speed is about the same for all NAND).
This brings us to the single most important part of the SSD: the controller chip. This chip is the brains of the SSD and has a dramatic impact on how fast the SSD is. There is not many SSD controller makers out there and the label on the SSD does not mean squat. Right now you have Samsung (though sammy seems to have moved away from the consumer niche lately), JMicron, Toshiba (basically tweaked JM controllers built in Toshibha factories), Intel, Indilinx, Marvel and SandForce.
Stickied as many new and current members will find this very informative and we don't want this very helpful information being lost to the pages below.
Here I am: here I remain
Thanks AGK and fore sticky
I will studdy this hard before purchase :)
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Thx! this will be very helpfull for many people over time! Good work!
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Sadface about the C400 tho, wish i had been even more patient, lol. My C300s arent even set up yet lol
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Voted Excellent.
Now I have no worries when I want to buy SSD!
Very good write up. Hopefully this will help out all those new to the SSD world. I know I can't go back, now I just need to get a bigger one, 120 is just to small once you involve steam.
"Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong."
Thanks guys. It is a work in progress and based on members feedback I hope it will grow into a GREAT resource for first time SSD buyers.
BootLegUsher....sorry but you are screwed. AMD only added TRIM support to their 8 series SouthBridge...so your 7 series will NOT pass on TRIM. You will have to rely on "ITGC".
I'll update the original post now with more information. So you and other peeps will know where I am coming from WRT "TRIM" :)
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Emily Zurrer is headed to the London Olympics, and the fact it wasn't a direct route makes it all the more meaningful.
"It was definitely a different road than I thought it was going to be," said Zurrer, the tall 24-year-old from the Cowichan Valley. "It wasn't the road I would have chosen initially, but I think it's definitely make me stronger.
"I've had to work my ass off to get to where I am now."
John Herdman, coach of Canada's women's soccer team, named his 18-player roster for the Games on Monday.
Zurrer is part of it, unlike in January when she was left off Herdman's 20-player list for the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament in her home province.
"A huge shock," she said at the time. "I was extremely devastated."
Zurrer assumed the role of Superfan as Canada beat Mexico in the semifinals at B.C. Place to qualify for London.
Now she's back battling for the starting position on the left side of central defence with Mississauga, Ont.'s Carmelina Moscato.
Vancouver's Shannon Woeller, picked over Zurrer for the qualifiers, is not in the Olympic mix.
The position is one that Herdman has agonized over ever since he took over the pro-gram from Carolina Morace in September. He wanted someone with a good left foot to play alongside one of Canada's constants, Candace Chapman.
In October, he even asked for volunteers to try the position and midfielder Kaylyn Kyle gave it a brief go. Woeller, who is only 22, played well at the qualifiers but wasn't ready for the speed of the Americans, and Alex Morgan in particular, in the CONCACAF final.
Zurrer, like Moscato, isn't naturally leftfooted, but she's worked tirelessly this year to improve it. And the fact she's 5-foot-10 has obvious benefits.
"As much as anything, it's a mindset change to use your left more," said Zurrer. "I'm more confident. I have that balance."
Herdman used the phrase, "If you always do what you've always done, then you'll always get what you've always got."
"I've certainly thrown the gauntlet down and asked certain players to step up in certain areas, and Emily's been fantastic," he said. "She took a hit around the qualifiers and she's bounced back.
"She's worked so hard on the possession side of the game. She's worked hard on her left foot to a level it wasn't at prior, and that's given us great flexibility in the back four."
Herdman's roster is an experienced one. Chapman is one of six players with 100-plus caps, and 12 players competed for an Olympic medal in Beijing in 2008, where Canada lost to the U.S. in extra time of the quarterfinals.
Six players have made their first Olympic roster, including Kyle, one of several team members who have played for the Vancouver Whitecaps over the years.
Zurrer, who competed at the Beijing Olympics and 2011 Women's World Cup in Germany, is one of five players from B.C. on the roster (see box).
The Canadian squad is in Sandy, Utah, this week preparing to face the U.S. in a Saturday "friendly." The players will then have three days with their families before regrouping in Switzerland on July 4 for an Olympic warm-up tournament.
Canada will face New Zealand, Colombia and Brazil in Switzerland.
Their Olympic group features reigning world champion Japan, fourth-ranked Sweden, and 61st-ranked South Africa.
Midfielder Sophie Schmidt said it was sad to see Woeller cut, but it's been great having Zur-rer back in the mix.
"Just to have that determination every day to prove herself has helped the team," Schmidt said. "She's a great personality off the field and a fighter on the field."
Getting back to the Olympics was a tougher fight than Zurrer had imagined. In hind-sight, though, she's grown more in the last six months than ever before, and she wouldn't change a thing.
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The Carol M. White Physical Education Program (PEP grants), part of the No Child Left Behind Act, will award nearly $69 million in grants to various school districts, YMCAs and other community-based organizations across the nation. The program provides grants to initiate, expand or improve physical education programs, including after-school programs, for students in grades K-12.
U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige announced the 237 grants during a visit to North Ride Elementary School in Raleigh, N.C. where he presented a grant check to the Wake County Public School System for its research-based program to encourage students' lifelong physical fitness and good nutrition. The system is slated to receive more than $1.3 million over three years.
"We commit a great disservice against our children when we ignore their physical well being and growth," Secretary Paige said in the announcement. "Our children need to exercise, now!"
Other Cabinet members and senior members of the Bush administration also announced grants. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson spoke to 4th and 5th graders in Philadelphia. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman visited an elementary school in Woodbury, MN. Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona visited a grantee in Cleveland, OH. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Julie Gerberding visited a new program in DeKalb County, GA.


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Case Study: How To Have Fun Connecting With Fans Like A Superstar DJ
from the take-that,-management dept
deadmau5 (pronounced 'dead mouse') is a great example for artists that want to make it in the music business. He is famed for his great production and unique style, which helped get him noticed and separated from the crowd. That's a good thing, because then it's worth talking about. What's remarkable about deadmau5 stretches further than his unique production style and performances (he wears this huge mouse-mask on his head). His level of engagement with his ecosystem (or fanbase, if you will) is exemplary.
Minecraft has been talked about before on Techdirt. Back in November, deadmau5 set up his own server for this sandbox-game in which players can craft their own world. His fans love it, and deadmau5 regularly pops in to hang out with them in 'mau5ville.' In a way, both deadmau5 and his fans emerge themselves in fan art. There are tons of videos of mau5ville online, so you can take a tour. One user even used the game's tools to make a cover of a song by deadmau5, which deadmau5 then shared with over 2 million of his fans. Other artists sometimes prefer to go the way of a takedown notice when a fan puts his energy into making fan art -- but deadmau5 prefers to promote it. You can see both videos below:
However, deadmau5 is not like other artists, and recently he showed this by buying about 20 Minecraft accounts and posting the gift codes on his Facebook page. He understands that having fun with your fanbase and spending a little money on it can be much more important than telling them to buy your music. He listens to his fans, and he informs them when they can buy new music, because that's what his fans want. But it's about more than just pushing what you have to buy.
In the beginning of December, deadmau5' marketing team decided they should get involved in communicating to his fans.
Apparently deadmau5 didn't like the fact that his management was disturbing the trust and rapport he had built up with the ecosystem, because those status updates were followed by deadmau5's:
Then he checked the backend of his Facebook page…
Excellent choice, in my opinion. This is the best thing he could do to earn back the trust of the ecosystem, because you really don't want to get on the bad side of the ecosystem. The ecosystem can reject you, the ecosystem can move on, the ecosystem doesn't need YOU in order to survive.
And the cool thing is, he wasn't thinking about marketing or self-preservation or strategy in the process of making his choices. It's just him, genuinely. And I guess the status update he posted 1 minute later shows just that:
It looks like deadmau5 recognizes his fans have more value than just a few purchases. Instead of complaining that his fans should buy his album for 15 euros, he is actually buying them Minecraft accounts for 15 euros a piece. This might be hard to understand for his management and a lot of other people in the industry, because if fans are free, how can they have value?
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Howdy. I'm looking for a spam filtering application that will play nice with Pocomail. Anyone have any good experiences with one?
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You're right, Gary. It belongs to Email Hall.P.S. Perhaps this belongs in the Junk Mail filtering topic, or in the E-mail related forum?
Eric wrote:I've used all of them in the past, except Popfile, but I no longer need them. Even my Spam Blackout has been put out of service. Strict Bayesian in Poco is doing an excellent job with my spam.
Here it goes:speerga wrote:All right, Eric. It probably isn't going to help me to ask this, as I've tried every idea anyone on these forums has mentioned (if I understood them?), but here goes: What are your settings in Pocomail's Junk Mail Filter to get those great results??
I don't know much about this Bayesian stuff, but if you set the good mail bias higher, you'll get more chance to classify junk as good mail, I think.speerga wrote:EDITED TO ASK: I note Eric's good mail bias is at 3.0 and tribble's is at 2.0.
Can you explain what this means? How it works? Why the differences? What should I try for mine? And how much difference will the 2.0 or 3.0 make? Thanks.
You'll have to play a bit with it, until you find the setting which works for you.Help | Contents wrote:Good Mail Bias is also used internally during calculation of word probabilities. It will multiply the probability of any good words by the set value to give good words more power over junk words. This is another way to minimize false positives
J-Mac wrote:I say I feel somewhat disappointed because I keep reading posts from you and several others who claim to get 98%+! I must not have my K9 setup for optimum performance.
It's currently trained with over 29,000 good words and 13,500 spam words. I have it configured to add [Spam] to the start of the subject, so I can then let Pocomail filter it to the Junk Mail folder. While I have PM's Junk Mail Filters disabled, I set up a regular filter to look for [Spam] in the subject line and move it to the Junk mail folder. I don't have a "Whitelist" or "Blacklist" set up, but I do have the "Use a DNS blackhole list to help identify spam" checked, and it's using the default sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org list server, and the "Days to cache IPs" is set at 5. I have no other "Tweaks" or features enabled.
Is there anything else I can do to creep up toward that 98% figure?
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NEW YORK — Bono is afraid of Alicia Keys.
While Keys talked about being pregnant and empathic when filming her documentary about AIDS in Africa, the U2 singer chimed in and said: "She's scary, isn't she? She's scary."
Bono went on to say that Keys has "lioness energy" and that her role as a new mother won't allow her to "let other mothers suffer."
He made the comments at the premiere of "Keep a Child Alive with Alicia Keys," a documentary which followed a visit to South Africa during last year's World Cup with a pregnant Keys and five Americans. It airs on Showtime on Dec. 1, which is World AIDS Day.


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Fox Ironically Supports "Spirit Day" After Months Of Attacking Anti-Bullying Efforts
A number of Fox News personalities showed their support for Spirit Day [1] by wearing purple on Friday, despite the fact that the network's coverage of anti-LGBT bullying has only served to worsen the problem.
Several Fox News personalities and reporters dressed in purple on air Friday, ostensibly to show their support for Spirit Day - an event during which millions of Americans wear purple to stand against anti-LGBT bullying.
A spokesperson from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) -- the organizer of Spirit Day -- confirmed that Fox News was sent information about Spirit Day in advance. The network called GLAAD to thank them for the information to participate and said that they would pass it along to News Corp, which owns the Fox network.
Fox's history of covering [2] the issue of anti-LGBT bullying, however, has been dismal. The network has depicted the bullying problem among youth as an exaggeration, ignored bullying-related teen suicides, condemned tolerance and diversity lessons in schools, and aggressively criticized anti-bullying efforts. Even a number of Fox's employees have used their national platform to demonize and bully LGBT people.
Here are a few of the Fox News personalities wearing purple today:
Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade, who has previously joked about "the one part of Chaz [Bono] that hasn't been operated on [3]":
Happening Now anchor Jenna Lee and Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge:
The Five co-host Bob Beckel:
Fox News senior national correspondent John Roberts:
Fox News contributor Julie Roginsky:
It's encouraging that Fox News is at least giving a nod to opposing anti-LGBT bullying, but its history of lobbying against anti-bullying efforts says a lot more about the network's stance on the issue than a few pastel neckties ever could.
UPDATE: Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee also donned purple on Spirit Day:
Though Huckabee has publicly condemned [4] schoolyard bullying in the past, he remains one of Fox's most virulently anti-LGBT [5] personalities.
He's suggested that AIDS patients should be quarantined [6] and has called homosexuality "unnatural" and "sinful." He's cited child molestation as a justification for upholding the Boy Scouts' ban [7] on gay troop leaders. He's called same-sex marriage a threat to "stable society [8]" and stated that his opposition to marriage equality is partly based on the "ick factor [9]."
In April, Huckabee criticized a Kansas non-discrimination ordinance by suggesting that predators would use the law to commit sexual assault [10].
Huckabee was also the mastermind behind Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day [11] earlier this year, which aimed to support the fast food giant despite its donations [12] to anti-gay groups.
Earlier this year, Huckabee called the Family Research Council (FRC), "one of the most respected family organizations [13] in America," even though the group has been labeled as an anti-gay hate group [14]. He also hosted FRC president Tony Perkins on his radio show to condemn "It Gets Better" founder Dan Savage as "an apostle of division and intolerance [15]."
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Research & Analysis by Glenn R. Springstead
Proposed Revisions to the Special Minimum Benefit for Low Lifetime Earners
Social Security's special minimum benefit is declining in relative value, does not provide a full benefit equal to the poverty threshold, and reaches fewer beneficiaries each year. Members of Congress and other key policymakers have proposed several methods for revising the special minimum benefit, either as part of reforming Social Security more broadly or as stand-alone policy options. Most of the new options would index the benefit to wages, helping ensure its sustainability into the future. The options differ in how they define a "year of coverage," how many years of coverage are required to be eligible for any benefit increase, and how much the full benefit increase should be. Those choices will determine who will receive the benefit increase and how adequate their benefit will be.
Distributional Effects of Accelerating and Extending the Increase in the Full Retirement Age
This policy brief compares two options set forth by the Social Security Advisory Board to increase the full retirement age (FRA), the age at which claimants may receive unreduced Social Security old-age benefits. One option would raise the FRA from the current target of 67 years to 68 years; the other would raise the FRA to 70 years. The brief examines the effects of both options on the level of benefits of Social Security beneficiaries aged 62 or older in 2070 using Modeling Income in the Near Term (MINT) projections, and on Trust Fund solvency using estimates from the Social Security Administration's Office of the Chief Actuary. The brief finds that both options would reduce benefits, improve solvency, and slightly increase the poverty rate. Within each option, effects on benefits are relatively uniform across beneficiary characteristics, although some surviving spouse and disabled beneficiaries would be shielded from benefit reductions.
Distributional Effects of Reducing the Social Security Benefit Formula
A person's Social Security benefit, or primary insurance amount (PIA), is 90 percent of the lowest portion of lifetime earnings, plus 32 percent of the middle portion of lifetime earnings, plus 15 percent of the highest portion of lifetime earnings. This policy brief analyzes the distributional effects of three options (the three-point, five-point and upper) discussed by the Social Security Advisory Board to reduce the PIA. The first option would reduce the PIA by 3 percentage points; the second would reduce it by 5 percentage points; and the third would reduce the 32 and 15 percentages of the PIA to 21 and 10 percent, respectively. The third option would exempt about one quarter of the lowest earning beneficiaries, while reducing benefits by a median average of 19 percent in 2070. None would eliminate Social Security's long-term fiscal imbalance, although the third option would eliminate more (76 percent) of the deficit than the three-point (18 percent) and five-point (31 percent) options.
Estimated Retirement Benefits in the Social Security Statement
Alternate Measures of Replacement Rates for Social Security Benefits and Retirement Income
Replacement rates are common and useful tools used by individuals and policy analysts to plan for retirement and assess the sufficiency of Social Security benefits and overall retirement income. Because the calculation and meaning of replacement rates differs depending on the definition of preretirement earnings, this article examines four alternative measures: final preretirement earnings, constant income payable from the present value of lifetime earnings (PV payment), wage-indexed average of lifetime earnings, and inflation-adjusted average of lifetime earnings (CPI average). The article also calculates replacement rates for Social Security beneficiaries aged 64–66 in 2005.
Participation in Voluntary Individual Savings Accounts: An Analysis of IRAs, 401(k)s, and the TSP
This article compares participation rates in three existing voluntary individual account-type plans—individual retirement accounts (IRAs), 401(k)s, and the federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP)—in an effort to analyze who might participate in a voluntary individual account system.


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The Museum would like to thank WFAA and the Frisco CVB for the wonderful piece that aired on today's Good Morning Texas show. The segment highlighted local artist Sonya Terpening's beautiful, original work of art featuring the Museum's "Big Boy" steam locomotive #4018. This celebrated locomotive all but comes to life in Ms. Terpening's creation, conveying the machine's strength, beauty, and immense presence. Thank you Sonya and Mark for your wonderful work to help raise awareness and funds for the Frisco relocation project.
Prints of "Steaming Up for Final Run" are available in the Museum of the American Railroad's train store at 6455 Page Street, Frisco, TX 75034. Big Boy t-shirts are also available for purchase. Proceeds benefit the Museum.
Our thanks also to volunteer Dick Thompson for has participation in the segment as the head of the Museum's Steam Crew.


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September 9, 2011
Bruce Sutphin
Theme: "Losers" — Familiar phrases have the letters RS removed (they "lose" RS, get it?) to create new wacky phrases.
Theme answers:
- 17A: Village with very little gardening equipment? (ONE-HOrsE TOWN).
- 27A: Entrance purchases for a conditioning program? (FIrsT-CLASS TICKETS).
- 44A: What Ruth forgot to bring to pool night? (CUrsE OF THE BAMBINO).
- 57A: Like calls between drudges? (PErsON-TO-PErsON).
- 66A: Failures (and in another way, a hint to 17-, 27-, 44- and 57-Across) (LOSERS).
I really enjoyed this theme. I like that it wasn't super simple to figure out each theme answer, but that it was possible with some brain work. If ONE-HOE TOWN wasn't the seed entry for this puzzle, I'll eat my hat. (Remember how we had BREAST and then BOOB in successive puzzles this week and I asked what was next? Well, this is what was next!)
I had two write-overs today. I tried ALUM where AUNT was supposed to go (11D: Reunion attendee) and SLS for SLA (25D: Radical '70s group). SLS is … something, right? Other than that, my problems were mostly brain lapses. For example, with the SQUA in place for [10D: Gripe], the only word I could think of was SQUALL and I knew that wasn't right. Couldn't get SQUAWK to appear for what seemed like forever. Also had trouble with MARCO (36A: Pool game call). That's an awesome clue. I didn't understand that we were talking about a swimming pool (and not billiards) until every single letter had been filled in through crosses. D'oh!
Sparkliest entry in today's puzzle? CUTIE PIE (39D: Honey). It's been used in the L.A. Times puzzle a few times, but the most recent appearance was more than three years ago, so I declare it fresh and sparkly.
- 24A: Jacket label letters (ISBN). Book jacket, that is.
- 42A: "__ it Art?": Kipling (BUT IS). Hey, even the ugly partial gets a fun clue today!
- 47A: Morgan Freeman won its 2011 Life Achievement Award: Abbr. (AFI). I'm gonna guess this stands for American Film Institute, but I don't feel like looking it up.
- 6D: Pistons' place (THE NBA). I used to pay a lot of attention to pro basketball back in the 80s, so the Pistons are definitely not on my list of favorite teams. Isiah Thomas, Bill Laimbeer, Coach Chuck Daly … ? Not much to like there.
- 31D: Nice compliment (TRES BIEN). Okay, I admit it. This clue tricked me. "Nice" in this case refers to the city of Nice. Which is in France. Where they speak French. (French!) Putting Nice at the beginning of the clue where it's automatically capitalized is a common trick and I was pretty sure I was at the point where I could spot it a mile away. But no.
- 33D: Happy Meals toy, e.g. (TIE-IN). Because CRAP wouldn't fit.
- 42D: Ones who've got your back, in Internet shorthand (BFF'S). Just yesterday, PuzzleDaughter said to me (try to imagine this in a 10-year-old girl bossy voice), "I don't get BFF's. I mean, BFF means Best Friends Forever. But BFF's? That's like saying Best Friends Forevers. That doesn't make sense." That's my girl.
- 50D: Food in a memorable "Seinfeld" episode (SOUP). The thing that cracks me up about the Soup Nazi is that the character was based on a real person and I had heard about the real guy before the character ever appeared on the show. PuzzleDad used to go to the soup place for lunch and he mentioned more than once how weird it was. He's like "Some days you get bread. Some days, you don't. Once in a while, I'll get back to my office and there's a banana in the bag. You just don't ever really know what you're going to get with this guy."
- 58D: Lascivious leader? (ELL). The word "lascivious" begins with the letter L, which would be spelled out as ELL (if anyone ever really spelled out letters).
Everything — 1A: Gung-ho response (I'M ON IT); 7A: Delay (LAG); 10A: Evans of country (SARA); 14A: Buff (POLISH); 15A: Farm female (EWE); 16A: Left (QUIT); 17A: Village with very little gardening equipment? (ONE-HOE TOWN); 19A: The NCAA's Runnin' Rebels (UNLV); 20A: Lab, for one (DOG); 21A: Reject (NIX); 22A: Sends (ELATES); 24A: Jacket label letters (ISBN); 26A: Get off the shoulder, say (TOW); 27A: Entrance purchases for a conditioning program? (FIT-CLASS TICKETS); 35A: Actor Milo (O'SHEA); 36A: Pool game call (MARCO); 37A: Tiny beef (NIT); 38A: Fly on a line (LURE); 39A: Gives credit where credit is due (CITES); 40A: On the safer side (ALEE); 41A: Rational ending? (-IZE); 42A: "__ it Art?": Kipling (BUT IS); 43A: 1955 UN joiner (SPAIN); 44A: What Ruth forgot to bring to pool night? (CUE OF THE BAMBINO); 47A: Morgan Freeman won its 2011 Life Achievement Award: Abbr. (AFI); 48A: Morning talker (IMUS); 49A: Fly over the equator? (TSE-TSE); 52A: Pleased cry (YES); 53A: Droid, e.g. (PDA); 56A: Slip through the cracks? (OOZE); 57A: Like calls between drudges? (PEON-TO-PEON); 61A: Run well (PURR); 62A: Unsound (ILL); 63A: Like Napoleon (EXILED); 64A: Relaxing locales (SPAS); 65A: The Hartford logo (ELK); 66A: Failures (and in another way, a hint to 17-, 27-, 44- and 57-Across) (LOSERS); 1D: Tune carrier (IPOD); 2D: One-track (MONO); 3D: Couturier Cassini (OLEG); 4D: Med. research agency (NIH); 5D: Bar opening? (ISO-); 6D: Pistons' place (THE NBA); 7D: Last non-priest to be named pope (LEO X); 8D: "Isn't that cute?" ("AWW"); 9D: It involves mapping (GENETICS); 10D: Gripe (SQUAWK); 11D: Reunion attendee (AUNT); 12D: Stir up (RILE); 13D: Off-rd. rides (ATV'S); 18D: Worker with light metal (TINSMITH); 23D: Bonkers (LOCO); 24D: Slush Puppie maker (ICEE); 25D: Radical '70s group (SLA); 27D: __ acid: vitamin B9 (FOLIC); 28D: Amigo on the road (ISUZU); 29D: Crowd starter? (THREE); 30D: "Socrate" composer (SATIE); 31D: Nice compliment (TRES BIEN); 32D: Zhou __ (EN-LAI); 33D: Happy Meals toy, e.g. (TIE-IN); 34D: Writer of short letters (STENO); 39D: Honey (CUTIE PIE); 40D: NYPD notices (APB'S); 42D: Ones who've got your back, in Internet shorthand (BFF'S); 43D: Future George W. Bush Presidential Library site (SMU); 45D: "Hondo" et al. (OATERS); 46D: Dutch brewery (AMSTEL); 49D: A-one (TOPS); 50D: Food in a memorable "Seinfeld" episode (SOUP); 51D: Pound of verse (EZRA); 52D: White partner (YOLK); 53D: "__ Eterno": 2004 sports documentary (PELE); 54D: Active sort (DOER); 55D: Addenda (ANDS); 58D: Lascivious leader? (ELL); 59D: Big name in kitchenware (OXO); 60D: Tecs (PIS).


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SINGAPORE, December 3, 2010 – New research from Jones Lang LaSalle's Capital Markets Bulletin reveals that investment volumes are increasing in the region. Direct commercial property transaction volumes for Asia Pacific amounted to USD 18.2 billion in 3Q10. Singapore was the top market mover in the third quarter recording a huge rise of 358% growth in investment volumes on several large transactions in 3Q10 and was the third biggest market behind Japan and Australia in terms of total investment volumes.Further improvements in business and investor confidence during the quarter supported capital values growth which increased in most of the monitored Asia Pacific markets. The Hong Kong (Central) and Beijing (CBD) markets posted increases of 8.7% q-o-q and 8.6% q-o-q respectively.
In Shanghai and Beijing investor sentiment remained buoyant with Asian buyers active in the market, underpinned by rental growth. Most Asian markets saw office market yields compress slightly by up to 30 basis points, with increased investment activity in Australia supporting tightening investment yields in both Sydney and Melbourne.
Stuart Crow head of Asia Pacific capital markets said, "as the market continue to stabilise, we are seeing more and more investors looking to pursue transactions. We will continue to see a further increase in these volumes to the end of this year, but the number of buyer's versus sellers is likely to come back to more realistic levels next year."
The report states that investors are likely to continue to be attracted to assets that offer good inflation protection by allowing continuous re-pricing of income streams, hotels and residential assets. Retail assets have been popular with investors in 2010, usually accounting for around 17% of total investment deals but this year reaching about 22%, this may be expected to continue into next year.
Dr Megan Walters head of research for Jones Lang LaSalle capital markets said, "we are seeing a rising interest from inter-regional investors who are looking at the differential in growth rates between Asia Pacific and the rest of the world. However, the constraint to increasing Asian investment volumes will be the limited availability of investment-grade assets. This is in part from the restrictions on land ownership place in some countries in Asia, for example on foreign ownership, and in part from existing investors unwilling to part with their hard-won Asian assets at a price buyers want to pay."
"The outcome may be continued upward pressure on pricing up in major Asian cities, as yields become compressed compared to what one can achieve in mature markets such as London. The alternative for investors in Asia will be to look at the emerging markets and second tier cities. Next year's investment volumes for Asia Pacific are estimated at around US$88bn, broadly 15% above the likely 2010 total volumes." She said.
Nicole Worthington
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I recognize the culturally pervasive "ick factor," as I call it, in the way the media and most young and even middle-aged folks view the idea of the older generation still having and enjoying sex. I think it's important to create a respectful dialogue whenever possible, so I'm delighted when a young person contacts me to convey a sincere interest in senior sexuality.
"C4bl3Fl4m3" (see photo), who tells me I can call her "CableFlame," is 25 years old. She writes,
Human sexuality is my main professional and academic interest, and I'm always particularly interested in parts of sexuality that aren't addressed very much. And one never hears about sex after 50 or after 60. Especially not at my age. Heck they never even mentioned that in my "comprehensive" sex ed class in school. All they teach us is what they think we need to know right then, for sex at the time as a teenager. We're not given the tools we need to make choices as adults or as seniors. Our sexual knowledge needs change as we get older, enter committed relationships, enter into casual sex relationships, get married or enter into a civil or holy union, (some of us) enter into polyamorous relationships, leave our relationships, and generally age.
So I'm interested in sex in general and sex while aging is part of that. I do recognize that just because people get older, they don't stop having sex. It's uncomfortable for a lot of younger people to think about, but it's part of life.
I'm curious what it might be like for me when I get older. I like going into things prepared, and so I'm curious about older sexuality. I'd love to read an article or have you talk some on your blog about kink/BDSM and aging. I'm sure there are plenty of older people who enjoy it (especially as the Baby Boomer kinksters are reaching retirement age) and it would be interesting to see how it's the same and different for them, both in terms of desire and in terms of what's physically safe and what has to change.
I welcome your comments about CableFlame's questions, and I'd also like to know what you'd like young adults to understand about senior sexuality. It's up to us to talk out loud about our attitudes, if not our activities, if we're going to make a dent in the sound barrier surrounding older-age sex!


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OW Holmes wrote:Perhaps it is time to bring WT101 and a couple of other forums over here - like the travel forum that includes all the info on NiagaraCool.
I have never been able to log on from work, except for a short period of time I was ahead of our techies and could disable security long enough to log in. I cannot do that anymore so I don't post there at all. I look in only to see what the plans are for NiagaraCOOL.
Robin, are you listening????
I'm listening, OW, and surprised to notice this morning that I apparently didn't reply to this.
I'm definitely looking long and hard at the Netscape Forum and this one and trying to discern a way to competently discharge both my commitment to Netscape and my personal commitment to this august body in a way that will benefit both. (How's that for weasel-wording? ) I might make some changes in the Netscape Forum to differentiate it more clearly from WLDG; and I think there's a very good chance that as a part of that process, we'll complete the move of WT101 from Netscape to this forum. We're already trying to run it in both places, but obviously that's been confusing to folks. Expect some fluidity during an interim month or two, but I'm listening ... and looking for help.


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Perth man responds to racist remarks with random act of tea
In a world where racist outbursts are more likely to be captured and uploaded, the 'kill them with kindness' approach can seem pretty uncommon – almost unusual.
Perth man Jarred Wall, of Aboriginal descent, had been out to lunch at a Fremantle café when he overheard a conversation.
"… we inadvertently heard two elderly ladies, seated next to us, chatting about aboriginals," Mr Wall's Instagram post read.
"The conversation was less than distasteful with words like assimilation thrown around willy nilly."
Mr Wall said that while he could have "unleashed a tirade of abuse", he admitted it wouldn't have helped.
"Instead, I did something nice and bought them a pot of tea and left a little note on the receipt."
The note read: Enjoy the tea! Compliments of the 2 aboriginals sitting next to you on table 26 :)
Mr Wall signed off his post, which has been shared more than 2300 times on Facebook, optimistic that the ladies would be "a little wiser and think before they speak. Hopefully there won't be a next time!"
Nailed it.


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The other day Evan & I went to Wal-mart to get the dog food for Tiki.
As we were walking in, I realized that he's getting really tall. (5'9" at the last check).
Sometimes it feels like it was just yesterday when he was that 4 year old holding my hand and looking both ways.
Now he's a 14 year old who won't let me touch him in public.
Of course in the summer when he's home all the effing time and driving me crazy it feels like it will never end. :-)
I'm proud of the son I have, I'm just nostalgic for the little Hunny Bunny I used to have too.


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Glow Run 5-k Race attracts field of 73 runners and walkers and raises over $1,300 for SKCTC Scholarship Fund
The Glow Run 5-k Race, held in conjunction with the 49th Kingdom Come Swapping' Meetin,' attracted a field of 73 runners and walkers and raised over $1,300 for the SKCTC Scholarship Fund. The winner, (male), was Donavan Johnson with Alyssa Jackson as the top female finisher. Dillard Day was the male grand master with Julia Johnson, female grand master. Other winners include: 15 and under, Justin Moyers; 16-19, Donavan Johnson; 20-29, Tyler Cornett; 30-39, Michael Hatfield; 40-49, James Maggard; 60 and older, Tom Vicini; female 15 and under, Makayla Whitaker; female 20-29, Alyssa Jackson; female 30-39, Elaine Ison; female 40-49, Beth Pennington; and female 50-59, Julia Johnson. Event directors are Kristen Simpson and Chris Hockenberry.


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PG&E Apologizes for Smart Meter Problems, but Some Aren't Satisfied
PG&E on Monday issued an apology along with 45 reports dating back to August 2006 detailing reviews, monitoring, testing, and corrections identified in the company's SmartMeter program.
"While 99 percent of our SmartMeter devices are installed and working properly, we recognize that even having less than 1 percent of meters with issues is still 50,000 customers, and that's too many," said Helen Burt, senior vice president and chief customer officer of the San Francisco-based utility that serves much of Northern and Central California. "We pledge to address customer service issues better than we have been, more quickly, and more aggressively."
SmartMeters are advanced utility meters that wirelessly communicate usage information to customers and utility companies. The California Pacific Utilities Commission approved PG&E to install the newer, smarter meters because, they said, the meters would give customers detailed information about their own energy usage, encouraging them to cut down.
But since PG&E began sporadic installation of the SmartMeters throughout the state in November 2006, the CPUC, PG&E, and various consumer advocacy groups have received numerous complaints about overcharging and other concerns.
Specifically, the CPUC said they have received approximately 600 complaints in PG&E's service area since January 2009, compared to 10 in Edison's service area in Southern California and 15 in the San Diego Gas and Electric Company's service area.
As a result of the complaints - many of which came from consumers in the San Joaquin Valley during the summer of 2009 - and pressure from legislators like Senator Dean Florez, D-Shafter, the CPUC launched an investigation into the company in March of this year.
PG&E spokesman Paul Moreno said the company has received roughly 1,000 complaints, and he also confirmed that there have been some 23,000 cases since 2006 in which a piece of equipment called the "gas module" was incorrectly installed, many of which resulted in an incorrect gas bill.
But Moreno said that nearly all of those situations have been rectified with customers and others preempted. He said the company expects all of their customers to have SmartMeters installed by 2012.
"We're installing about 15,000 per day," he said.
After issuing their apology on Monday, PG&E outlined some of the steps they are taking to address consumer complaints, including expanding testing, increasing the number of customer service "answer centers" and adding more customer service representatives, among others.
But Mindy Spatt, spokeswoman for the consumer advocacy group The Utility Reform Network, said the company should stop installing the meters altogether until the CPUC has completed their investigation.
The CPUC stated that it nixed the moratorium idea because the number of complaints compared to the total number of installations doesn't validate it. "There are millions of SmartMeters operating around the globe with no complaints," it said.
In the meantime, customers like Larry Chang, who is a small business owner in Oakland, have decided to refuse the SmartMeters by posting signage on their meters.
Chang said the company has not provided enough information about the benefits to the customers to warrant the installations. Although the company has touted that the technology will allow customers to track their energy usage, Chang said he would have to buy all new "Smart" appliances if he really wants to use SmartMeters as a personal energy auditing system.
Chang was one of 50 community members in Oakland who agreed to refuse SmartMeter installations in a neighborhood meeting focused on the potential benefits and detriments of the technology held last Tuesday. He plans to keep a sign on his old utility meter that reads "Don't even think about installing a 'SmartMeter' here," until PG&E caves.
"If I could find a way to get off of PG&E Service, I might very well do that at some point," said Chang.